Positional comparisions for UT-CAL

#153
#153
I don't know. But my point was that your two OGs and C were the biggest reasons we won that game. Every jailbreak, every guy shooting the gap, etc, came right up the middle. There's a play on the California Heartbreak video where we blitz and Alex Mack blocks .... nobody.
 
#154
#154
Well, do you buy into the whole notion that the Bears were somewhat disoriented playing at Neyland last year? Or is that just a bunch of crap? I mean how else can you explain the #9 team in the country so thoroughly melting down to a #24 team? Personally, I find it somewhat realistic to think many of the Cal kids were a little overwhelmed in such a hostile and electric environment, the likes of which they had never seen.
 
#156
#156
Teddyhead said:
Well, do you buy into the whole notion that the Bears were somewhat disoriented playing at Neyland last year? Or is that just a bunch of crap? I mean how else can you explain the #9 team in the country so thoroughly melting down to a #24 team? Personally, I find it somewhat realistic to think many of the Cal kids were a little overwhelmed in such a hostile and electric environment, the likes of which they had never seen.
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Excuses are for losers, and I've heard a ton of them out of you, Seth.
 
#157
#157
I am not worried about our OL this time around. I am more worried about our DL getting pressure on Ainge. If Ainge has time to throw, it will negate Cal's WR advantage...
 
#158
#158
Teddyhead said:
Well, do you buy into the whole notion that the Bears were somewhat disoriented playing at Neyland last year? Or is that just a bunch of crap? I mean how else can you explain the #9 team in the country so thoroughly melting down to a #24 team? Personally, I find it somewhat realistic to think many of the Cal kids were a little overwhelmed in such a hostile and electric environment, the likes of which they had never seen.
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Just because a team is ranked #9 doesn't mean that they actually are #9. That's one plausible explanation that undercuts your whole argument. Do you need any other help today?
 
#159
#159
Teddyhead said:
Well, do you buy into the whole notion that the Bears were somewhat disoriented playing at Neyland last year? Or is that just a bunch of crap? I mean how else can you explain the #9 team in the country so thoroughly melting down to a #24 team? Personally, I find it somewhat realistic to think many of the Cal kids were a little overwhelmed in such a hostile and electric environment, the likes of which they had never seen.
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A true #9 team in the country does not get intimidated by that. Face it, your team has been over-hyped for a while now. They made the step into big time CFB and got embarrassed. The SEC teams are used to it. Players come to these schools because they want to play in this atmosphere. If you take a recruit to a UT gameday and a Cal gameday and ask him to choose, he'll be moving into Gibbs by fall.
 
#160
#160
Teddyhead said:
Well, do you buy into the whole notion that the Bears were somewhat disoriented playing at Neyland last year? Or is that just a bunch of crap? I mean how else can you explain the #9 team in the country so thoroughly melting down to a #24 team? Personally, I find it somewhat realistic to think many of the Cal kids were a little overwhelmed in such a hostile and electric environment, the likes of which they had never seen.
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Well...I would explain it by saying that pre-season hype is a bunch of crap that amounts to nothing. Show me one post-season, final poll that was anything like the pre-season poll that year...you'll have a hard tiem findnig it

And on another note....when it comes to Mack...I'm not sure if it was always Mack but I remember watching that game and thinking "Justin Harrell is destroying whoever is trying to block him". And when I say destroy I don't mean he was shooting a gap or part of some fancy blitz that freed him up...I mean he was one-on-one, mano-e-mano whipping whoever was in front of him for most of the game. He was consistently pushing the man infront of him 3-4 yards into the backfield

Before you say we don't have Harrell anymore keep in mind that Mapu and Bolden are almost as big and just as strong and fast as Harrell was.
 
#161
#161
Teddyhead said:
Well, do you buy into the whole notion that the Bears were somewhat disoriented playing at Neyland last year? Or is that just a bunch of crap? I mean how else can you explain the #9 team in the country so thoroughly melting down to a #24 team? Personally, I find it somewhat realistic to think many of the Cal kids were a little overwhelmed in such a hostile and electric environment, the likes of which they had never seen.
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uhhh... simple reason... Cal was largely overrated?
 
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