calumnus;841947575 said:

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Our expectations for the program SHOULD be higher. I am just saying don't take it out on the players.

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Amen. Don't take it so personally. Every player out there is playing as well as they can.

Zack is out on field taking hard hits while trying to win games wearing the Blue and Gold. I do not have to climb into an ice bath after the games having taken similar hard shots to the body. As a result, I will be rooting for Zack, while hoping that our Coach and Athletic Director can get their own well-paid acts together.

Our Domicile;841947829 said:

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Your post (#61) seems to be addressed to no one in particular and it does NOT reference another Poster or another quote so I replied to it. Go see for yourself. It seemed like a stand-alone observation made by some random poster.




[SIZE="7"]OMG! See all that emotion pouring out of you? That's what I was talking about! Oh my.....you're acting just like our starting QB! What an explosion by a typical Cal Fan! I rest my case -- the comparison fits. Thanks! [/SIZE]

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I want to thank you guys for the font sizes. I'm getting older and sometimes the smaller fonts are difficult to read. I can read your fonts loud and clear though. It's MUCH better and I don't need to go get my glasses to read the latest hijinks on Bear Insider. Thanks!!

SkyBear;841947776 said:

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Yelling at your own coach is positively normal?

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It happens, in the heat of battle, sometimes much more emotionally than what we saw between Maynard and Tedford (and it looked like Tedford was doing more of the yelling and jersey grabbing)....

Even Tom Brady...

ducktilldeath;841947363 said:

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Vjzb94x_Os&t=2m40s

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The only thing anyone needs to know about Maynard.

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@3:11 - Look Maynard talking something at JT and walking away disgusted. What a prick. That's not what I would expect from Cal student athletes (no matter how good/bad they are).

calumnus;841948278 said:

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It happens, in the heat of battle, sometimes much more emotionally than what we saw between Maynard and Tedford (and it looked like Tedford was doing more of the yelling and jersey grabbing)....

Even Tom Brady...

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He would have a lot more to worry about on 12/16.

TarzanaBear;841947674 said:

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Perceived by whom to have a stupid fan base? Ted miller has reguraly said we have the smartest fans in the PAC 12.


And Maynard doesn't go into funks? :rollinglaugh::rollinglaugh:

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Is that you, Drunk?

ducktilldeath;841947384 said:

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He's a weak link. I don't really see how it could be soundly argued otherwise. OL play and play calling aside, he's wildly inaccurate. You simply can't have a QB who fails to make routine plays several times a game and expect to be good. Unforced errors at the QB position are a killer.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Vjzb94x_Os&t=3m20s

Every QB has throws that get away. But with ZM these are not flukes, they are almost routine. If a QB is so wildly inconsistent with routine throws, he shouldn't be a QB. I would be hard pressed to think of a worse performance than what he had vs Oregon last year. Throw after throw after throw to wide open receivers in the flat on 3rd down and they were in the dirt or 4 yards wide or 4 yards high. Just awful.

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Okay the scary things about this are, first, it's spot on and, second, you could replace "Maynard" with "Riley," "Bridgford," "Mansion," "Ayoob," or "Longshore post 2007 injury" and this is JUST as accurate.

That's a LOT of Cal QBs who can't do the basics.:cry:

mvargus;841947633 said:

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The pointing at his arm is a great exanple. Even fans on this board keep saying that Maynard is a weak QB who can't throw the long ball accurately. Yet, on that pay he threw a 35+ yard bomb to Treggs and dropped the ball between 2 defenders. His pointing at his arm was a way of saying "I can beat you with my arm." to the Nevada defenders. It's a subtle but often effective form of intimidation.

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@mvargus I generally agree with the gist of the rest of your above post but I think you've lost objectivity in your defense of Maynard, possibly because you've been challenged on it and you need to maintain ground. Doing the finger pointing on the play above may be passable and to me it still would be met with the rolling of the eyes. You've never heard of the "act like you've been there before" line of thinking? This comes from people who played on all levels of football. Are these guys so off because they would compromise the intimidation aspect of the game?

However, it goes further than that. It's the finger pointing to your left arm (which will never be compared to Boller's or Vick's) after a 15 yard loft to your 5'7" RB Sofele who had to make an acrobatic play to catch the ball. Pointing to your left bicep and shaking your head like your boasting is just flat out ridiculous -- esp. on THAT play. He can do it all he wants but it's embarrassing. I don't see Barkley, Price or anyone else with much stronger arms doing that. And they have more game to do it than Maynard does. Aaron Rodgers does his belt thing but he's Aaron Rodgers and he still doesn't point to any part of his body. The inexplicable thing about Maynard is that his arm is the least potent of his game. I would say his running (which is not that great) and ability to scramble and find someone on the run -- are better attributes. It just seems absurd for him to call attention to his popcorn arm. It's barely stronger than Justin Vedder's. This kind of stuff has nothing to do with intimidation. It's purely high school. I wish he would stop doing it.

KoreAmBear;841948577 said:

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The inexplicable thing about Maynard is that his arm is the least potent of his game. I would say his running (which is not that great) and ability to scramble and find someone on the run -- are better attributes. It just seems absurd for him to call attention to his popcorn arm. It's barely stronger than Justin Vedder's. This kind of stuff has nothing to do with intimidation. It's purely high school. I wish he would stop doing it.

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Agree. Someone should send a tweet or something to Maynard to suggest that he point rapidly to his skinny legs against Ohio State instead. That's sure to show those B1G pretenders who's got the mojo working and should help quiet down the 100,000+ crowd at the Horseshoe.

Also, I have to say that your memory must be getting a bit fuzzy because Justin Vedder couldn't make a 10 yard pass to save his life. He makes Maynard look like John Elway.

In Maynard's defense, however, at least he didn't continue with the arm pointing false bravado in the Southern Utah game. I would like to see it return for the OSU game though. It could give Cal just the edge it needs to eke out a close victory over the Buckeyes.

OskiMD;841948587 said:

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He makes Maynard look like John Elway. .

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OskiMD, this where I draw the line! I'm ok with poking fun at Maynard's skinny legs and the biceps of an ostrich, but any insinuation that he looks like John Elway with those crazy horse teeth chicklets, just goes too far!

TheSouseFamily;841948600 said:

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OskiMD, this where I draw the line! I'm ok with poking fun at Maynard's skinny legs and the biceps of an ostrich, but any insinuation that he looks like John Elway with those crazy horse teeth chicklets, just goes too far!

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Yeah, I guess crossed the line there a little bit...

TarzanaBear;841948684 said:

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No. Why do you think that?

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Drunk spelled regularly just like you did....he may have had an extra L but very similar. :p

KoreAmBear;841948577 said:

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... It's the finger pointing to your left arm....I wish he would stop doing it.

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Since he didn't do against SoUtah, it seems that he DID stop doing it.

Why are you still reliving the Nevada game in your head?

SkyBear;841948541 said:

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No one questions that it happens. I was questioning the statement that it was "positively normal."

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Stop whining, already.

Here's the full statement I made on post #64 -- "As much as Cal Fans whine on the Internet, I found ZM's reaction to be positively normal."

positively/ˈpzətivlē/
Adverb:
In a positive way, in particular.
In a constructive or affirmative way.
Synonyms:
certainly - definitely

normal/ˈnrməl/
Adjective:
Conforming to a standard; usual, typical, or expected.
Noun:
The usual, average, or typical state or condition.
Synonyms:
adjective. regular - standard - ordinary - common - usual
noun. normality - normalcy - perpendicular

SiniCal;841947866 said:

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.. just 8 more posts and your left boundary poster attribution spelling changes from "Real bear" to "Loyal bear" for being > 2499 yackety yackets.

hmmm, you've pretty much done 8 in this thread alone, probably break thru by lunchtime. (in my experience flame threads work best)

#that is all

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Wasn't really keeping count, but right on!


#BroFist #Sinical truly original poster #Honored

Let's face it, Maynard is our QB. There are three possible reasons why:

1) The backups are horrendous. Kline, Boehm, Bridgeford and Hinder are vastly overrated. Maynard clearly is superior to them.

2) Tedford is not the QB guru we had hoped that he would be.

3) JT fears that a switch would irreparably divide the team.

We have a great group of student-athletes on our team. Please, Jeff, do right by them.

GO BEARS

TarzanaBear;841948544 said:

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Brady is a well known asshole to his teammates. They put up with it because he is really really good. I doubt Jay Cutler would get the same slack.

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Conjecture. Have you ever met Brady?

Our Domicile;841948831 said:

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Wasn't really keeping count, but right on!

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Surprised, didn't expect a blindside wolfman / spidey fist bump coming back, congrats Domicle.

My personal fave (Dr H) never tolerated nemesis Captain Hammer / Corporate Tool's presence a'tall, nervous uncontrollable blinky-blink the main reaction.

#DrH latest catch-phrase: "I've got a P-h-D in Horrible-ness"



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