Cal-Arizona Thoughts
- Dodged a bullet with the weather today. I love football, but standing in the rain for 3 1/2 hours is hardly my idea of fun.
- Forsett turns in another fabulous game. Hardly worth mentioning anymore.
- Hawkins continues to come up huge. What I like is how he continues to find space over the middle for some big first downs, taking shots but popping right back up. On a day when DeSean was pretty quiet, he came up with some big third down conversions.
- People have been jumping all over Longshore lately, including myself, but I thought Longshore looked good today. Surprised to find that he only went 16 for 30. One ill-advised interception, but a lot of those other incompletions were either dropped passes or balls thrown away on purpose. Craig Stevens had a noticeable pair of drops in the second half.
- Antoine Cason was as advertised, mostly shutting down DeSean Jackson and picking Longshore off once. He’ll be in the league next year, thank god.
- Our defense did a good job keeping Arizona’s passing attack in front of them. With virtually no running game, Willie Tuitama set school records for passes attempted and completed, but Cal avoided giving up the big play. You may not like "bend but don’t break", but so far, we’re undefeated.
- This team really needs to work on its kickoff coverage. We keep giving teams great field position to start drives, and it’s really not fair to our defense (especially the sort of "bend and don’t break" defense that we have).
- My other concern from this game : penalties. I’m always skeptical of Pac-10 officiating, but 14 penalties for 121 yards is entirely unacceptable, and I’m sure Tedford will let his team know that. Too many personal fouls and offsides and other boneheaded penalties kept Arizona in the game for far too long. Make them earn it, guys!
- Despite all the complaining we’ve been doing, we’re 4-0! Go Bears! Bring on the Ducks!
