11-09-2020, 12:25 PM
(11-09-2020, 10:49 AM)SamuelMcF Wrote: <snip>
Clearly Shaw was mailing it in with the 4th q fades. He thought we had already lost and was just giving the QB of the future some reps at that point. <snip>
I don't think it's clear at all that Shaw was mailing it in with the fades. He called the plays that, in his opinion, had the greatest chance of resulting in a TD given what Oregon's defense was showing. He was wrong. That's not the same as giving up.
If there's one thing people have learned in Berkeley, it's that you can't put "Cal football" and "Rose Bowl" in the same sentence. The words just don't fit. You'd be better off linking "covered wagons" with "Mars travel." (Bruce Jenkins, Cal '70, SF Chronicle, Nov. 11, 2017)