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Inside the Playbook: USC 28, Arizona State 0

After starting the season on a fairly upbeat note, the Arizona State offensive line has again crumbled into a jumbling mess, giving up ten sacks in its last three games and turning Rudy Carpenter into the Incredible Human Punching Bag. One has to wonder where exactly ASU’s pass protection is going for the second straight […]

Posted by: Avinash on Monday, October 13th, 2008

Arizona State at Cal Torrent & Highlights

Torrent for downloading here. Highlights here: Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV.

Posted by: Avinash on Monday, October 6th, 2008

Cal Torrents & Highlights: Maryland and Colorado State

Maryland 35, Cal 27 Torrent link here. Highlights: Part I and Part II. Music mashup below. [vimeo 1736002] Cal 42, Colorado State 7 Torrent here. Highlights here: Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV. Click “watch in high quality” for the best version. Thanks as always goes to chicagoaubear.

Posted by: Avinash on Sunday, September 28th, 2008

Cal-MSU and Cal-Wazzu Torrents and Highlights

Cal 38, MSU 31 Torrent here. Highlights here. [vimeo 1651551] Cal 66, Wazzu 3 Torrent here. Highlights here, here, here, here.

Posted by: Avinash on Monday, September 8th, 2008

The OC (Frank Cignetti at Fresno State, Part II)

After about a month’s break since publishing Part I of the series, we’re going to dive back into the basic tenets of what we can expect from our new offensive coordinator Frank Cignetti. You’re getting all the nice political answers from Frank at Ted Miller’s blog, but here we’re going to dive into the trenches […]

Posted by: Avinash on Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

How Cal Lost in The Rose Bowl, Part IV

Click to read Part I, Part II, and Part III of the Rose Bowl series. And now, for the last part in our series, we move onto the crucial play, the Verner interception return. Here Cal has Hawkins and Jackson lined up to the top, and two running backs, fullback lined up on the weak […]

Posted by: Avinash on Thursday, June 5th, 2008

How Cal Lost in The Rose Bowl, Part III

Click to read Part I and Part II of the Rose Bowl series. As the game progressed, DeWayne Walker seemed to take into account the adjustments Cal was making to his UCLA defense. Here you can see him revert from the Cover 4 and go back to the Cover 2. In a Cover 2 set, […]

Posted by: Avinash on Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

How Cal Lost in the Rose Bowl, Part II

(Continued from Part I) Today we look at particular examples of how Cal would attack the UCLA’s Cover 4. If you recall from yesterday’s post, two particular ways to attack the Cover 4 were to work the outside routes. I’m not going to go into too much exposition, just show pictures of how Coach Tedford […]

Posted by: Avinash on Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

How Cal Lost in the Rose Bowl, Part I

Note before you start: This is an extensive, abstract, three part piece. Better grab some popcorn and chow down. Summer might be around the bend, but here at Bears Necessity it’s school time, football fanatics. Parts II and III coming later this week. UCLA 30, Cal 21. While the Oregon State game was a mixture […]

Posted by: Avinash on Monday, May 12th, 2008

Outsmarting the Enemy (Three Fake Handoff, Cal at UCLA)

Last week we went over attacking the Cover 2 scheme, which is to look for the mismatch on the field (read where the safeties will bite to) and to attack where the safeties aren’t in a position to make a play on the ball or the receiver. Today’s post is a little more of a […]

Posted by: Avinash on Wednesday, May 7th, 2008