With the Bear offense looking this good do you think it means the team will be in every game this season? With so many talented receivers, the backs running hard, and the O-Line playing solidly even if Goff throws out a clunker it seems the team will still score. Yet, at this point I would be shocked to see a Goff poor game! He just looks in command!
I didn't expect being in every game after last year.
I expect that Kaufman and Burns will get the D trending positively, but shootouts seem like they will be pretty common. A scary thought is that the O was scoring too quickly. I imagine the team was praying for a 15 play 7 minute drive like they have put out in the first 2 games!

89Bear;842364222 said:

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With the Bear offense looking this good do you think it means the team will be in every game this season? With so many talented receivers, the backs running hard, and the O-Line playing solidly even if Goff throws out a clunker it seems the team will still score. Yet, at this point I would be shocked to see a Goff poor game! He just looks in command!
I didn't expect being in every game after last year.
I expect that Kaufman and Burns will get the D trending positively, but shootouts seem like they will be pretty common. A scary thought is that the O was scoring too quickly. I imagine the team was praying for a 15 play 7 minute drive like they have put out in the first 2 games!

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We'll be in every game if and only if we do our best to put 70 points on the scoreboard every game. The team on offense seems to go into hibernation once we have a lead of more than 20 points. I place this as a coaching issue. Once we have a lead that the coaches appear to feel is "safe" they turn the playbook over to a spare sheet of "plays we should never run, but which might make the Tony Franklin System look really smart." its either that or "Plays to run so future opponents have no film of our offense in action." The truth is that if I was a defensive coach for one of Cal's future opponents I would not watch any moment of the 3rd quarter of any Cal game this season. It's such a huge departure from our normal offense and the offense self destructs so obviously in every drive that I'd learn nothing about what I needed to prepare for.

89Bear;842364222 said:

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With the Bear offense looking this good do you think it means the team will be in every game this season? With so many talented receivers, the backs running hard, and the O-Line playing solidly even if Goff throws out a clunker it seems the team will still score. Yet, at this point I would be shocked to see a Goff poor game! He just looks in command!
I didn't expect being in every game after last year.
I expect that Kaufman and Burns will get the D trending positively, but shootouts seem like they will be pretty common. A scary thought is that the O was scoring too quickly. I imagine the team was praying for a 15 play 7 minute drive like they have put out in the first 2 games!

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It's going to be tough. Based upon what I saw from Anu Solomon, we need to improve drastically prior to seeing Mariotta, Connor Halliday, Mannion. We don't even know how good we are at defending the run as of yet (Stanford, USC).

mvargus;842364225 said:

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We'll be in every game if and only if we do our best to put 70 points on the scoreboard every game. The team on offense seems to go into hibernation once we have a lead of more than 20 points. I place this as a coaching issue. Once we have a lead that the coaches appear to feel is "safe" they turn the playbook over to a spare sheet of "plays we should never run, but which might make the Tony Franklin System look really smart." its either that or "Plays to run so future opponents have no film of our offense in action." The truth is that if I was a defensive coach for one of Cal's future opponents I would not watch any moment of the 3rd quarter of any Cal game this season. It's such a huge departure from our normal offense and the offense self destructs so obviously in every drive that I'd learn nothing about what I needed to prepare for.

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Cal fans are crazy... We slow down our offense rather than continue to pour it on, we should have wasted more clock... We waste more clock, we went into hibernation

Well even taking quarters off the team is scoring over 40! Imagine not taking quarters off. And yes the defense might continue to give up a bunch but but don't you think Goff and Co keep the game in the balance until the end? Coming off of 1-11 that is pretty good progress in a short amount of time. I would imagine Manion and Halladay are wondering if their own defenses will ever stop Goff and Co! They probably feel the same way about their defense as you do of Cal's, right?

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bigcocoon007;842364234 said:

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It's going to be tough. Based upon what I saw from Anu Solomon, we need to improve drastically prior to seeing Mariotta, Connor Halliday, Mannion. We don't even know how good we are at defending the run as of yet (Stanford, USC).

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cocoon, I think two wins and a hard fought close loss to a team we were underdogs to by 9-17 points has shifted you over to being too positive and then getting upset when they don't perform. Look at the QBs you have chosen---the best in the league. Remember, most BearBackers picked this team for 3-4 wins at best preseason. So relax a bit. This is a work in progress. Saturday night was a spear in the heart, but it was not by any stretch last year. How about thinking positive, giving positive vibes to the players and the coaching staff, and enjoy the ride as much as you can. We far exceeded expectations in Tucson for 59 plus minutes (even though the second half showed chinks in our armor), by any measure. So why do you choose to be so negative?

jamonit;842364241 said:

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Cal fans are crazy... We slow down our offense rather than continue to pour it on, we should have wasted more clock... We waste more clock, we went into hibernation

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Jamonit,

If you looked at the time of possession for the failed drives, most were under 2 minutes long. I wouldn't mind if we had failed drives of 6-8 plays that chewed 4 minutes of clock because we were running the ball and then allowing the play clock to run down, but that's not what we were seeing. There was no clock wasting involved in the offensive hibernation against Arizona.

OdontoBear66;842364247 said:

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cocoon, I think two wins and a hard fought close loss to a team we were underdogs to by 9-17 points has shifted you over to being too positive and then getting upset when they don't perform. Look at the QBs you have chosen---the best in the league. Remember, most BearBackers picked this team for 3-4 wins at best preseason. So relax a bit. This is a work in progress. Saturday night was a spear in the heart, but it was not by any stretch last year. How about thinking positive, giving positive vibes to the players and the coaching staff, and enjoy the ride as much as you can. We far exceeded expectations in Tucson for 59 plus minutes (even though the second half showed chinks in our armor), by any measure. So why do you choose to be so negative?

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Maybe the "negative" simply comes from being ahead the entire game and sensing a win and going 3-0..Losing as we did was an arrow in the heart for all of us..We had the game won.

I'm still pissed that we lost! However, I have had 3 games of Cal basically winning and being right there. That is a long way from last year's feelings! And I expect a W this weekend. I'm trying to look at the big picture.

89Bear;842364222 said:

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... A scary thought is that the O was scoring too quickly. I imagine the team was praying for a 15 play 7 minute drive like they have put out in the first 2 games!

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HORRORS ... scoring too soon.
New rules for WRs and RBs ... after gaining 20 yards, FALL DOWN. Some fans don't want us to score too soon.
If players can't restrict their gains to <20 yards, they'll be replaced with guys who can't gain 20 yards.

too funny (pathetic), 89Bear.

SonOfCalVa;842364257 said:

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HORRORS ... scoring too soon.
New rules for WRs and RBs ... after gaining 20 yards, FALL DOWN. Some fans don't want us to score too soon.
If players can't restrict their gains to <20 yards, they'll be replaced with guys who can't gain 20 yards.

too funny (pathetic), 89Bear.

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You know I'm not really complaining about scoring too quickly, right? You're smarter than that, right? Did you understand my point or do you want me to explain it in a different way?

I expect most critics of this game have less of an issue with the loss than with the way it came about.

89Bear;842364381 said:

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You know I'm not really complaining about scoring too quickly, right? You're smarter than that, right? Did you understand my point or do you want me to explain it in a different way?

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You said: "A scary thought is that the O was scoring too quickly." Sure comes across as a complaint.
Scary, for sure, that Lasco and Treggs scored so quickly. Toss in all those other quick TDs.
Scary

89Bear;842364222 said:

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With the Bear offense looking this good do you think it means the team will be in every game this season? With so many talented receivers, the backs running hard, and the O-Line playing solidly even if Goff throws out a clunker it seems the team will still score. Yet, at this point I would be shocked to see a Goff poor game! He just looks in command!
I didn't expect being in every game after last year.
I expect that Kaufman and Burns will get the D trending positively, but shootouts seem like they will be pretty common. A scary thought is that the O was scoring too quickly. I imagine the team was praying for a 15 play 7 minute drive like they have put out in the first 2 games!

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What investments do you have where you wouldn't be happy with a doubling of last year's performance? The team has 9 more games to improve. Sure a I was disappointed with the outcome, but not to be distracted from the improvement.
Go Bears

I don't know why folks are jumping on 89. I didn't see anything in his posts that sounded critical or negative. Scary could be interpreted as scary good.