Comments on: Football: From the press box

By: MikeD

MikeD — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 05:51:48 +0000

Count me as a NegaTed

By: Woj

Woj — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 07:14:23 +0000

Fact – Stanford fans enjoying their best season in 50 years on the heels of a season that netted them an Orange Bowl. And Cal is playing out the string until Tedford’s contract becomes eat-able or some big blue donor steps up and says enough! Tedford became TedFraud 3 seasons ago. t

No matter what TedFraud says, all that ultimately matter are Wins and losses and there are only 3 winless teams in the Pac12 right now (Utah, Ariz., Cal) and thanks to mediocre or worse head coaching the Bears could easily be the last to win a conference game this year if they win 1 at all.

Its’ always no nice see cal get its doors blown off every 3rd game and it still has a mediocre QB for the 7th year in a row. Enough, GET A NEW HEAD COACH PLEASE, this one’s expiration date passed in 2009.

By: Jim

Jim — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 13:43:26 +0000

same old – same old .. gone are the days of tailback passes and other offbeat plays that got the opposing D off balance … Pappy hit a peak then slid .. afraid it looks the same for Tedford.

And, where is the “speed” on D that was so highly touted? The players are there but where’s the execution?

By: rollonubears

rollonubears — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 13:38:30 +0000

if they bench maynard, he and allen will probably transfer to nc state. they can’t bench him.

By: bobsac

bobsac — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 13:38:17 +0000

I remember watching the Stanford Oregon game last year and Oregon totally controlled a great Stanford team in the 2d half. That can happen. My only suggestion for the coaches is that when it got to 29-14 early in the 3d quarter, it was an obvious time to bring in Bridgford for a couple of reasons. Maynard was having a bad game. There was still enough time to run a balanced offense & give Bridgford an opportunity to get some real playing time in. By the time they did go to him, it was all pass. It looked to me like he ended both fine drives he led with TD passes to Calvin & Jones, who unfortunately made drops instead of catches.

By: Jai

Jai — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 04:38:03 +0000

Pendergast’s coaching, failure to adjust, dropped balls, along with the erratic throwing arse Zach Maynard, lost this game. Up until now, I was giving Maynard a pass on some his accuracy issues because he hadn’t played in two years. But missing wide open receivers down the field, AND in the flat’s?! Cal just had a QB named Kevin Riley who did that for the past two years!

Tedford should scrap the Zach Maynard reclamation project, and bench him. Why? Because there is no way you can consistently win with an inaccurate QB. Tedford of all people should know that. Let’s see what this Bridgford dude can do. It will show fans that Tedford will do what is necessary to spark the team.

It is a fact, that they are already concerned about low attendance. If Tedford doesn’t do something between now and the USC game, attendance numbers will really start to go down. Just sayin

By: House

House — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 01:15:47 +0000

Im not going to bring back the same pro Tedford/hes doing a great job argument. I did not convert because I still believe he’s the right man for Cal, but I agreed that it was on him to make changes. Anyways with all that, doesn’t anyone else feel like the plays and the playcalling were there, we just couldnt exicute? It just feels like on those plays where Maynard missed we had guys open to make a play. Like I said I don’t want to bring up the old arguments, i’ve eaten enough crow and ive grown rather tired of the taste.

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 22:36:12 +0000

Dan – I agreed with you two years ago when you were saying Tedford was Braun, and you are as right now and you were then.

Bobby? BoaltBlue? Last year House finally converted. How many more losses will it take?

By: Juancho

Juancho — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 21:09:20 +0000

I agree with the comment above about needing a coach with some moxie. Our program has lost that swagger. DeSean Jackson took all of it with him when he was blamed for that big collapse years back.

One thing that makes Oregon exciting is they play their top freshman. They don’t make excuses. That showed with that Black Mamba guy yesterday.

We don’t have enough balls to get Bigelow in there for a screen or wheel route? We don’t have the gumption to sit Josh Hill down when he’s not a Pac 12 caliber player.

This season at best will be a mediocre bowl, at worst same as last year.

The coaching staff needs to wake up and thank some of the upperclassmen on the team for their time – but start to get those young guys ready for next year.

Even though they gave up some big runs, liked seeing the youth on Defense. There’s got to be a young receiver who’s fast? Put him in for Calvin and just have him run deep. Gee whiz.

By: DaBairse

DaBairse — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 21:05:09 +0000

play of the game–Galas pounding a duck into the ground
toward the end of the 4th quarter. anyone else see it?