Yes, the new Cal QB was the most impressive I ever seen a freshman in his first game. But Oregon State is absent, seriously absent, of talent. O-Line blocking was poor, receivers cannot get open, (When a Walk-On White guy is best WR? Yikes) run defense was poor...geez.

By contrast, I was astounded at the depth of talent at Oregon yesterday, as Beavis would love to start some of our third-stringers. I believe an inter-squad scrimmage would be tougher than both Montana State, and Oregon State.

For those who watched the game--agree?

Oh yeah, I watched the whole thing.

I was going into this game just stunned by local Beaver Nation that really thought they had everything figured out and had this game penciled in as a W. Oregonian writers borderline gushing and nearly unanimous in picking Beavis for this game because “Cal had a lot of turnover”. The day and age of returning players being the primary indicator are loooong gone. If you go 5-7 against a terrible schedule and no one wants any of your players, that’s not a good thing.

Their miracle QB? Turns out Duke didn’t want him for whatever reason and he was desperate to find a team late in the game. Beavis thought they were being a pimp selecting whatever players they wanted from a P4. Surprise!

I predicted 7-5 was their upside, but that may be optimistic. Teams like Houston and AP State might just bushwhack them. This was their roster at full strength and it’s not good. The starters are pretty bad and I’m guessing the backups are atrocious. Coaching is also pretty bad. They should have hired the Idaho guy.

The new PAC launch is going to be scintillating next year.

Edited 4 hours ago4 hr by JabbaNoBargain

If the Beavos were that bad (and from the stat board it certainly looks like it), I'd probably take Cal's offensive performance with a grain of salt. They barely cleared 360 yards of total offense after all.

I think the only ones spinning Cal as being good are Beavis fans in denial. Cal will be lucky to go 6-6, I think. Their QB s promising, but didn’t really do THAT much after the 1st quarter. Cal destroyed OSU last year and still had a bad season.

Edited 2 hours ago2 hr by JabbaNoBargain

"Omigosh ... The Beavers Looked BAD."

Really? Didn't they just look like the Beavers???