09-03-2021, 11:34 AM
(09-03-2021, 10:02 AM)winflop Wrote: After two full years in the program, how does McKee not "know the playbook" by now? Either the playbook really is too complex or McKee is having comprehension issues - or both.
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C'mon guys, don't make the situation worse than it is.
Last year was McKee's first in the program, and it was hardly a "full" year. The two years before that he didn't play football at all. Kevin Hogan had a full year in the program and still wasn't deemed ready at the start of 2012, so I'm not reading too much into McKee not getting the start. If anything, the coaches are showing more faith in McKee than they showed in Hogan by stating that Tanner will play tomorrow versus a Power 5 foe. We'll see if he's up to the task.
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)