I feel as if several times, Longshore told a player to go to another place. Either he was doing some sort of audible or the players were lining up incorrectly. If Tedford wasn’t going to play Slocum, meaning the entirety of the running was on Vereen and he didn’t want to tire out Vereen (which unfortunately DID happen), then we were going to throw a lot. Clearly, Tedford trusts Longshore to run the offense more than Riley and I think Tedford was proven correct there.

Hydro does that for stupid people amongst us. Like me!

It lets us know he’s talking about the offense. Otherwise, he would’ve had to say “10 personnel and 1 pain train.”

I’m sorry, I guess I haven’t explained this before, but when I say “11 personnel” I don’t mean 11 people on the field.

Personnel packages are given numbers which correspond to how many RBs, TEs, or WRs, are on the field.

The first digit corresponds to how many RBs are on the field. The second digit corresponds to how many TEs are on the field. The number of WRs is implied. Thus 11 personnel = 1 RB (first digit), 1 TE (second digit), (3 WRs implied). 12 personnel = 1 RB, 2 TEs, (2 WRs implied). And so on…

When Cal is on defense, you can see the coaching assistant put up a yellow card with such numbers alerting the defensive players on the field of the offensive substitutions.

Clearly, Longshore is the 4th Manning brother!

I don’t really follow pro ball but I’ve really liked the Mannings.

Longshore turns left and tells the SE WR to run a quick in. Longshore turns right and tells the twin FL WRs to run comebacks. That’s it.

Longshore does not tell the twin FL WRs he changed the route on the other side of the field because they know it because they saw (and heard) it. All the WRs presumably know what each other is running because they can see (and hear) the hand signals.

I sign in to him “1”, and sometimes I also tell him that he should run the “11” package….which I sign with one digit from each hand.

You could be right. The names of RB routes are different than WR routes. I was merely applying the WR route name to the RB route since I am not privy to the names of the RB routes. This website calls Vereen’s route a “replace” route – although Cal assuredly uses a different name for it.

Who would genuinely enjoy saying “I told you that Cal would lose”?

Maybe Tedford is already running a two-QB system and you just don’t know it because we never trailed at the ASU game.

I don’t want Longshore thinking independently

Why imply editorializing when none is there?

What exactly do you mean by playing with ‘passion’? I’m willing to listen to a variety of Longshore vs. Riley arguments either way, but random guessing at their emotional levels during the game and the impact is has isn’t going to be convincing anyone.

Also…Nate didn’t lose this game in the 4th quarter…

I’m not sure if you’re being sarcastic or not.

Let me reiterate for the 293984th time, just in case you aren’t being sarcastic, that I really don’t care who is the Cal QB. I just want wins. I do admit I spent a lot of time defending Longshore last year, but I was defending him from a lot of misguided and misplaced anger. What happened last year was somewhat Longshore’s fault, but also not entirely his fault – yet people were more than willing to just place 100% of the blame on Longshore.

The purpose of this post isn’t to secretly pump up Longshore over Riley. The purpose of this post was to point out something which I noticed. I cannot help it if the first QB I see creating his own play at the LOS is Longshore. I did not email Tedford and ask him to let Longshore be the first QB to do that so I can make a post about it to secretly endorse Longshore.

As for the whole 4th quarter INT thing… that argument is riddled with flaws that I have debunked many times on our prior site. I need not go into the argument again but will merely say that people who believe that for some reason Longshore becomes epically worse in a matter of a minute when the 3rd quarter ends and the 4th quarter starts, need to really look elsewhere for reasons why Longshore’s INT rate went up in the 4th qtr (closer games, must-pass situations, QB/WR miscommuncations… etc.).

You’re one of those who want a BLOWOUT every time Cal plays, eh?
And if they don’t have a blowout, it’s a sure sign that the offense is flailing and we’ll lose our next game.

lolk

I’m not sure what happened to Morrah. He is completely off the screen.

Hydro IS Longshore. Longshore IS Hydro. Think about it: Have you seen Longshore post to his blog since this mysterious “HydroTech” person started posting here? No.

Done and done.

That calling for Riley now after his playing like JaMarcus Russell would make you a Riley apologist. But who’s counting?

You really really missed my reference when I said “Longshore doing a Peyton Manning?” You really really really missed the reference.

I am not saying Longshore is as great of a QB as Peyton Manning. I don’t think anybody has made that argument or is willing to make that argument.

In case you don’t know this about Peyton Manning, but he often changes the play at the LOS and is known to literally create his own plays at the LOS. That is what I was referencing when I said “Longshore doing a Peyton Manning?”

I hope this clears things up.

I think he was comparing him to Peyton Manning solely because of all that jibbering (and also the jabbering) that Manning does up at the line of scrimmage.

Again, I think some people are missing the tree for the forest here. This is just about this one play here. Hydro’s overarching point seems to be that Longshore made these changes at the line here and that iit might show that Tedford might trust Longshore more. This doesn’t really have anything to do with 2007 or even the MSU game. Or even Riley versus Longshore.

More that just something interesting occurred in the game. Longshore made a change at the LOS, which is apparently rare, and it worked. It would have been JUST as interesting had Longshore made the change and it failed. That’s the key here. It’s not whether Longshore succeeded or not, but that he even tried in the first place!