We should all give hugs to our foreign readers like LeonPowe and Stanfurd who stayed up into the middle of the night to watch that “game.” Come on over, guys!

I don’t know if I should have voted, for legal reasons.

Its okay I had my girlfriend give me a 15 minute back scratch/massage, It made me feel better.

If the Raiders win tomorrow, I’ll feel much better.

I actually watched 0.0% of the rest of the college football day and went to dinner and the Carvinal. A mental health break is keeping me remarkably sane.

I just finished my poll.

Clearly the AtQ invasion of Friday was a sign of impending doom. Allowing and collaborating with the Quacklings shows a failure of leadership that provides proper grounds for exile.

Monday’s DBD, you’d better be prepared to face the mercy of the CGB Supreme Court. Charges are currently treason, sedition, weakness of leadership, and murder…of Cal’s season. Better prepare with your lawyer, rollonubears.

But does anyone outside the West Coast have a user screenname I could use to remotely access ESPN360? Cal-Oregon is blacked out on here due to local restrictions, and I want to review the game tape to figure out what happened. Email me, I’ll only use it for Sunday.

It’s working now. Hurray I get to rewatch this miserable game!

I see, a new post. How nice. I love the pictures above. I will now proceed to post appropriate pics.

That’s what you get for having John Yoo teach constitutional law in Berkley.

I was there… It was rad.

It is definitely an oddity that not only does he continue to teach, but his classes are very popular. You have to remember, the TV show 24 is still very popular…

Goodnight all, time for some Adult Swim on demand. Damn those adult cartoons r funny. Funny is good. Goodnight…

How excatly is the great DanZing gonna make a highlight video, the fumble recovery and the field goal, maybe the kickoff to the end zone….

I can’t re-watch the game.

But to review, no..would take too much time, to sum up:

1) Missed opportunities early – Shoulda taken that early fumble on the kickoff and shoved it in the end zone. ’Didn’t take advantage of either of their fumbles. (Gave ‘em both back). ’Didn’t take advantage of outstanding field position. College football is a game of momentum, emotion, and morale. We could have put our foot on their throat early and changed the whole complexion of the game.

2) WTF Defense – I know their run is more potent than their pass, but even a blind elephant could have hit the bubble screen for 5 yds on us. We had our corners playing 10+ yds back. It’s almost like we were playing tight with our LB’s, but really soft with our corners like we were afraid of the big pass play. Inexperience in our LB core showed, but I put this one mostly on scheme. Once they got rolling, it didn’t matter any more. I put this fail mostly on the coaches.

3) WTF Offense – Surprisingly vanilla considering their relative inexperience in the secondary and how aggressive they were. Would trying some misdirection have killed us? It’s bad when I know we’re gonna run up the middle every time we do that WR motion into a TE spot. My suspicion is that the play calls weren’t that bad, but we were just killed by missed blocking assignments all over the place. Considering that they were missing their best cover corner after the 1st play, I was really disappointed our WR’s couldn’t take advantage. Not sure if WR’s weren’t getting open, Riley was making poor reads/bad throws, or if Riley just didn’t have enough time. I put this fail mostly on the players.

And I remain hopeful that this team can turn it around in a hurry, beginning this Saturday. I still believe that USC is more as overrated than as Cal, and that the Trojans will be a significantly easier opponent than Oregon was yesterday. Not only is the game in Berkeley, but none of the Trojan quarterbacks are capable of playing the way Masoli did yesterday. The only thing that scares me about USC is Joe McKnight and the “Trojan mystique”.

All that said, I’m really concerned about this Bears team. Yes, even great teams often suffer a bad loss sometime during the year. But great (good?) teams don’t get blown out of the water like the Bears did yesterday, no matter who they’re playing. Instead, they lose because they make mistakes (turnovers, penalties) and give up a few big plays.

That’s not what happened yesterday. Cal was dismantled. Cal was disemboweled. There were a few penalties, to be sure, but none really turned the momentum of the game, and Oregon made just as many. There were a couple fumbles, too, but rather than giving an opportunity to the Ducks, both simply deleted an opportunity that had just been handed to the Bears. Of the two teams, it was actually the Ducks that made the potentially game-changing mistakes. Quite frankly, Cal probably should have lost 55 to 0, but for Oregon’s first-quarter miscues.

I haven’t given up on this team yet, and I hope this was just the bad day to end all bad days. But I’m more worried about the prospects for the rest of the season than I ever have been during the Tedford era.

I have to work today, the Bears got killed, McNabb and Westbrook are out today, I don’t even get to see the game broadcast here and I’d need to go drop 20 dollars at a bar to watch them.

FML.

I can’t remember a worse loss. Maybe when we lost to Nebraska 45-0, but that was during the Holmoe era and nobody expected anything from us. Yesterday was the worst performance by a Tedford team to date, obvi. I’ve never seen a Tedford team just lie down and quit like that. Even the Udub game of 2007 was better than this.

Luckily, I got my hug from Twist in person yesterday. Thanks, buddy. Eases the pain.

P.S. Where’s the angry hobo pic?

I must watch every game. I must. But yesterday I had other things to tend to. I’m slightly happy right now, maybe relieved is a better adjective….not to have been able to watch what was maybe one of the worst games in a while. I tivo’d it. But I think I’ll have to delete it. Couldn’t have picked a better game to miss!

Thanks to Twist and CalBandGreat (and others I met who may or may not post here?) for making the 2nd half bizarrely entertaining. If I were at home I might have paid attention to the damned thing, and we all know what a mistake that would have been.

Also, I glanced at the post-game discussion, and it was significantly more rational than I anticipated, other than some misplaced anger towards Duck fans and a little ‘Fire Tedford!’ overreactions. That was a pleasant surprise!

Cal falls to 24th (AP) and 19th (coaches). Oregon didn’t get a single vote in the AP poll. That has to be a mistake. They’re 25th in the coaches poll.

So Cal-USC will be a regional ABC telecast, likely confined to the West Coast.

Doesn’t that rule out Lsu V dogs for game day though?

But Gameday at Berkeley is the least of my worries. I’m just getting tired of hearing every year how “this team is different”, that “we have the talent to compete for the Pac-10”, that “we’ve been more focused than ever”, etc. when we look the same year after year after year. Any time we face a team that has a glaring weakness, we turn it into a massive strength. Any opposing player who is struggling during the year, we make them look like a Heisman candidate. Any phase we should dominate, we look like ass. Any game of serious consequence, we look like we had just learned the game of football two days ago. And yet, here I am, getting sucked in again and again. I really thought the stars were aligning this year with the schedule getting progressively more difficult, USC and Oregon looking weaker, coming through in the clutch at Minnesota. An yet, once again, we go splat on the road when it really matters. I would have loved to have been on the inside last week, watching the prepping for the Oregon game and seeing if there was a subtle undercurrent of fear being spread throughout the team. So, until proven otherwise, I’m assuming a loss for every Pac-10 road game.

Thanks for letting me vent.

The LA Times laughed at us today. Basically outlined many of the things that other posters have said. Some questioning of whether Tedford is the man to take us to the Rose Bowl, outlined our historic football failure to get there, and basically suggested that there is a culture of unreliability at Cal. Ouch. Hard to argue with much of it. We are going to find out what Tedford teams are made of next week. Blowout = Tedford on notice, good fight = status quo, win = Tedfordisgodagain. (Well, maybe hes just a new messiah and God per se if he wins)

On a positive note, maybe USC is only half as good as people think since they didn’t exactly cover the spread against WSU

Did anyone really think we’d get through the Oregon, USC, UCLA stretch without a loss?

Like Aaron Rodgers told me in my dream: it’s just one game.

Those Oregon throwback uniforms were sick.

One loss out of the stretch would have been fine, its the way we lost that is the big concern

Ow, my head :(

Florida State at Boston College????!!!