Not to derail the thread, but....
Gorman (LV) plays Cedar Hill this Saturday night.
Martell popping off on social media.
Chill got speed. I'm not sure I'd mouth off if I was him.
Ags gonna be glad ol Tate decommited, OSU is gonna say ooops.
GW, the answer is Shane Beuchele
with all due respect for a guy who posts as clowncar, i'm yet again hearing Swoopes will start from a different source.
What does starting mean other than relieving pressure on the second semester freshman? I'd assume we wait til at least the 2nd drive for Buechele. If Swoopes somehow leads a TD drive then I imagine we'll stick with him for a bit, but if not I expect the training wheels will come off real quick...
It makes sense, try to take the spotlight off of the kid as much as humanly possible when we've been starved for a QB since the 2009 season, but I'm not sure that's doable. Also not sure if Charlie has the brains to think this far ahead, but I hope the new OC does or maybe someone else got in his ear and convinced him.
I'm expecting a standard Charlie Strong, conservative game plan trying to milk the clock as much as we can from the opening kickoff. Swoopes begins then gives the reins to Buechele with a fair amount of Heard coming in to run the Wildcat (especially if the two QBs struggle), but I'm also unsure the game plan will change if we are getting blown out because we don't really have a high-flying option. Maybe under? Think we're gonna have to start fast with a stop on defense, which we did last year only to get rocked, but the terrible punt on our first possession put us in a really tough spot.
Think the mortgage should go on ND receiving the opening kickoff. Not sure about either coach's tendencies, but Kelly has got to want to get his offense on the field to kill our spirit and Strong should want to use as little Swoopes as possible after that experiment hasn't worked for years (thanks Mack!)
with all due respect for a guy who posts as clowncar, i'm yet again hearing Swoopes will start from a different source.
What does starting mean other than relieving pressure on the second semester freshman? I'd assume we wait til at least the 2nd drive for Buechele. If Swoopes somehow leads a TD drive then I imagine we'll stick with him for a bit, but if not I expect the training wheels will come off real quick...
It makes sense, try to take the spotlight off of the kid as much as humanly possible when we've been starved for a QB since the 2009 season, but I'm not sure that's doable. Also not sure if Charlie has the brains to think this far ahead, but I hope the new OC does or maybe someone else got in his ear and convinced him.
I'm expecting a standard Charlie Strong, conservative game plan trying to milk the clock as much as we can from the opening kickoff. Swoopes begins then gives the reins to Buechele with a fair amount of Heard coming in to run the Wildcat (especially if the two QBs struggle), but I'm also unsure the game plan will change if we are getting blown out because we don't really have a high-flying option. Maybe under? Think we're gonna have to start fast with a stop on defense, which we did last year only to get rocked, but the terrible punt on our first possession put us in a really tough spot.
Think the mortgage should go on ND receiving the opening kickoff. Not sure about either coach's tendencies, but Kelly has got to want to get his offense on the field to kill our spirit and Strong should want to use as little Swoopes as possible after that experiment hasn't worked for years (thanks Mack!)
Good luck. I like the mizzou bet and will likely be joining you on that. Only thing that sucks is Brady was booted from team and he was one of our top pass rushers last year. Just like the idea of getting an SEC team with athletes and catching those points vs a big 12 team. Concerns would be can mizzou keep up offensively. I expect Lock to progress a lot this year. Guy is too talented not to progress a lot this year. Good thing is he's very athletic and he'll need it with the brutal offensive line we are going to put on the field.
FWIW, since I mentioned it another thread about liking mtsu a lot this year .. they have suffered some not so bueno attrition. Have to drop them pretty significantly in pr. Shame. I was almost sure to be on them against Vanderbilt (assuming line came what I expect them to make it) before but now probably will avoid.
Pretty sure we are playing fast this season. You can play hurry-up and still make conservative calls but I think Texas plays faster and more open than we have in a long, long time. I don't think Gilbert (BGSU and Tulsa) knows another way. Even dating back to his time at Eastern Illinois it was fast and aggressive.
My source isn't a player or coach but it is a pretty solid source with ties there. I mean we can talk semantics of who plays the first drive but I am pretty sure Beuchele takes a majority of the snaps in that game. I tend to agree with your philosophy, it is easier to start Swoopes and then bring in beuchele. Harder to go back the other way, imo... unless the choice is pretty clear.
Two articles I was reading (a few minutes ago) were stating that there is concern about Beuchele's size and ability to take hits. shrug.
Should be a fun game .. looks like Strong is being pretty coy about who will be the actual starter but I am sticking by Shuttlesworth as far as who will be starting.
fair and you know his track record far better than I, but I hope he's smart enough to realize that we're not winning a 45-35 type of game. Running a hurry up to punt, Chip Kelly style, sounds like a disaster that'll push me to Netflix far earlier than I want
It will be our most productive offense in years.
42-0 works for me if it works for you.
FSU/OM under 57 seems solid. Looks like a 27-20 type game. More I think, seems like 23-17 | 23-20
I think that everything that deserved to win, won tonight in the opener. Over winner was deserved, Cal ml winner was deserved, hawaii plus the pts winner was deserved, both team totals over the number were deserved. Grats if you had any of it.
A few takeaways,
1. California is going to struggle for a variety of reasons this year:
A. They have bad line play on both offense and defense. Defensively they got pushed around by Hawaii all night. They were without a key lineman tonight on offense though.
B. Their tackling is just very bad. No two ways about it.
C. They had no pass rush
D. They lost too much at the WR position. The lack of real playmakers was noticable. Some of the big plays tonight were just screens that were poorly defended by hawaii. good luck in conference play with that.
E. Outside of a hard hitting safety, I wasn't impressed with the secondary.
F. No running game to support their passing game.
Offensively, they are trying to hide their offensive line with bubble screens where Webb doesn't have to hold it long and trying to wear down the opposing D by playing really fast between snaps.
Webb will be ok but he was a little bit lost in the offense in my opinion. He missed some throws early but settled down and played better as the game went. BUT they didn't ask anything of him.
Hawaii
I thought they were generally better looking than a year ago. The QB made good decisions and threw a decent ball most of the night. The offensive line will be a strength all year for them. They just mauled the Cal DL. Ball carriers still haven't learned to protect the football. it has been an ongoing problem there and cannot be considered a fluke anymore. Basically, everything about their team (other than their secondary tackling- coverage was ok) was pretty average looking to me which means they should win a few games this year and be competitive in some others we might not think they should be.
Special teams really hurt the warriors too. The biggest play of the game was the penalty on the punt. Undeniably huge as it set up the fumbled kickoff too. Had a few other turnovers and gave away a lot of yards early with the onside kick. They also didn't cover kickoffs well. Punter played well when given the chance. Warriors also failed to make the big play on several fourth down plays.
Cal is better than Hawaii but not three td better over a large subset, i don't think.
Kickers were good. something like 14-14 or thereabouts in the kicks which was amazing given they slipped on several kickoffs.
You better have some big numbers backing cal in conference and even then you better make sure they are playing a backdoor open opponent.
Great thoughts. I fell asleep after the first quarter (even dosed off during the opening quarter). Was excited for first game, didn't last long. Terrible game
Totally agree on the onsides. Hawaii coach has to give his team a chance and really put them in a hole with that one. To me that's the same as a TO. Leaping penalty was indeed a game changing play as Hawaii had gotten very few stops and was competitive there - huge blow to the D and think they only stopped Cal once after that. It was the right call though I think the Hawaii kid was just kind of goofing around as he wasn't even close. Bad coaching again as I doubt he knew the rule there. Yeah, I was crapping my pants that whole last drive - but think you're right about what Dykes was doing. On the last play Hawaii actually run blitzed and the RB still almost made it in from the 5 - Hawaii's D was totally gassed. But still think Dykes has to take the Victory formation there at the end. Not a class act. I looked up Cal's schedule after the game and man it's brutal. I can see them winning 3 games this year. Oh, saw you in BA's thread on the other site - you both are must reads. Again, thanks.
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