Officially we ran the ball 50 times and threw it 31. I realize maybe 5 or 6 of those “runs” were not intended to be and Max took off with it, but I don’t know what you watched. We ran the ball a lot. I’m not crazy about the QB runs just because I don’t want MD to get beat up, but they are effective at times and MD is a good runner.
Gameday Thread: TCU vs Cal
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Officially we ran the ball 50 times and threw it 31. I realize maybe 5 or 6 of those “runs” were not intended to be and Max took off with it, but I don’t know what you watched. We ran the ball a lot. I’m not crazy about the QB runs just because I don’t want MD to get beat up, but they are effective at times and MD is a good runner.
Peacefrog
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With 7 home games this year, and no increase in ticket prices, the Duquesne game was free. But, I too would like a better game than that in most years. This year with 7 home games I’ll give it a pass. I’m willing to bet if that game was against another P5 the season ticket prices would have gone up accordingly.
Peacefrog
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People seem to see what they want to see at times. If we had run more it would have been Miller and Foster. Small chance Evans was getting 25-30 carries in a game.
I have to agree, we didn't start the first quarter with our strength, instead we went to a less viable alternative. Believe Kill straightened out Meach after that and we know what happened.
With regard to the above in the 1st. quarter, I thought we came out flat , offense and defense, except for Max if you went by his facial expression, he was wired real tight. In the defense against the Dukes, we were hyped up and appeared to me to be real fast and quick. Not so to begin this game. No pressure and long bombs to uncovered receivers shows that the coaches did not have the players ready to play a power 5 opponent.
Moose Stuff
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You’re having a difficult time separating poor play calling from poorly executed plays. Also, I’m gonna focus on the last three quarters that were really good and not the first one that wasn’t. You do you though.
ticketfrog123
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2nd quarter sucked too. Zach evans bailed out this team with a monster run to end the half
flyfishingfrog
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so why don't you list our the QBs that won last weekend with 4 great quarters with no down quarter?
It won't take you more than 2 mins to make a list because its a really short list....
Moose Stuff
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We scored 14 points in the second quarter and part of that “monster run” was the fact that Meach called the play (a play Cal clearly wasn’t looking for). 2 out of 4 good quarters… 3 out of 4 good quarters… either way it’s a much better percentage than your good posts.
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LVH
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Its funny how many people are whining about the offense still.
Here is a list of the Top 10 offensive games so far this season in terms of offensive drive efficiency(adjusted for opponent strength):
1 1 Alabama Miami 2.912 -0.563 2.350 W 44-13
2 1 Cincinnati Miami (OH) 2.756 0.215 2.971 W 49-14
3 1 Auburn Akron 2.583 1.486 4.069 W 60-10
4 2 Purdue Connecticut 2.050 1.937 3.987 W 49-0
5 2 Coastal Carolina Kansas 1.733 0.465 2.198 W 49-22
6 2 Virginia Illinois 1.614 0.615 2.229 W 42-14
7 2 Memphis Arkansas State 1.571 0.467 2.039 W 55-50
8 2 Western Kentucky Army 1.565 -0.068 1.497 L 38-35
9 2 TCU California 1.560 -0.261 1.299 W 34-32
10 1 Ohio State Minnesota 1.520 0.774 2.294 W 45-31
I am guessing having the 9th best game of any team this year offensively is unacceptable to many here, we need to occupy spots 1 through 10 this season or the offense sucks.
Moose Stuff
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Here’s the reality…. We have quite a few posters on here that don’t have the slightest clue what they’re looking at and so when we don’t perform up to their expectations they just go straight to something that people have complained about in the past (in this case the offense). Things worth complaining about in that game….
1) Max’s deep ball
2) Coverage in the secondary
3) Kell’s brutal FG attempt
4) Minimal pressure on the Cal QB
Our play calling/overall offensive performance aren't anywhere close to this list.
ticketfrog123
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ticketfrog123
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zach evans and QJ won this game.
max was just there and arguably almost lost the game for TCU. Thankfully cal can’t make extra points
I have no idea. Hopefully it is.
But they played well Saturday, as basically every statistic indicates, and you're still complaining. We ran for 271 yards and had over 500 yards of total offense. I think some of that had to do with the OL playing a pretty good game. You know, it's not going to be just a march up and down the field every possession, our opponents have scholarships to play football too.
flyfishingfrog
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that is your opinion - we are all aware of it because you are the Maniac of Duggan beating.....over and over and over and over
but 234 yds, 3 tds isn't a bad outing even with the lack of ability to hit the deep ball.
and his running ability made some plays that a lot of other QBs would not have made including the final 1st down.
And he made those throws to QJ - QJ used his running ability to get away from defenders for sure - but he also didn't win many of his battles in the air for the ball, so he needed a QB to hit him for him to shine after the catch.
Evans is a beast no doubt and over came some bad blocking to pick up major yards - however you dismiss the affect of the fact that other defenses have to keep a spy on Duggan every play to keep him from running when you say Evans did it all without Max.
Paul in uhh
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I agree regarding Q1 but his play was also a big factor in us winning the latter three quarters. You don’t suck your way into 4 TDs and a combined 300 yards. A younger QB might’ve let the beginning ruin his whole day.
LVH
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Many on this board circlejerk over Sonny Dykes and SMU's offense and what he is doing... for comparison their game against North Texas was the 137th best offensive performance of the season in terms of drive efficiency. But I guess that is better than 9th.
Paul in uhh
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I hesitate to put a number on it so early in the year but I will counter with this: Cal knew from the third quarter on that we would run the ball as much as possible. They loaded up against us and still couldn’t stop it.
We likely won’t finish in the top 10 offenses statistically because our scoring drives take 4-7 minutes. But if they know what we are doing and can’t stop it, that’s good, no?
cal defense isn’t Bama but it’s light years ahead of Duquesne.
ticketfrog123
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you sound like a closet racist.
QJ didn’t win his battles? He was overthrown 10 yards then underthrown 5 yards - clearly remember him breaking up an interception
Evans needs to give max some credit? Absolutely not. Max barely ran much yesterday - by obvious design. Evans absolutely “did it all” without max
flyfishingfrog
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an interception he had to break up because he waited on the ball and when he went up, the DB starting going in front of him. and he had another play that the ball got knocked out of his hands because he didn't go high point the ball and let the DB get a hand in despite being a foot taller than the DB.
He can be great and when he has a step - Duggan needs to learn to hit him in stride and great things happen. But he is not Doctson in the air by any means yet - he is not winning the battle above the turf but feel like he has a lot of room to improve only being a Sophomore.
Max had a ton of runs yesterday - he rushed 19 times and actually gained over 100 yds on the ground. Anyone who can't acknowledge that a running QB benefits the RB crew is just not knowledgeable about football or blinded by hate. It would be like saying the RPO doesn't help the passing game.
Mean Purple
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If you want poor play calling, Cal going for 2 on the pick six, again, was not a good idea. put them going for 2 at the end. fortunate for us.
