While it’s difficult to figure out counters when your offensive line is overmatched, the pass scheme seemed to rely heavily on short passes without any concepts to start testing Wazzu in the intermediate game. The offensive line has logged its third bad performance in four games, and these shellackings are the primary difference between 3-2 and 5-0.īill Musgrave is similarly in a tough spot. While he has brought a little nice recruiting lift in 2020 and a few nice saves at the end of the 2021 cycle, the concerns about his overall coaching that dogged him at UCLA have followed him to Cal. There were two obvious targets of his ire: An offensive line that returned to looking like five guard monte, and a offense that made mistakes throughout the entire game.Īngus McClure is definitely in trouble. Justin Wilcox was peeved after Saturday’s performance, and you could see all of that going in every direction. Both found the vulnerable areas on Cal’s line and exploited them to maximum gain, mostly due to great talent, but also due to poor adaptation and adjustments from Cal.įootball is still a line game, and if one side enjoys any sort of significant advantage upfront, they win. Head coach Jake Dickert (DC at Wazzu last year) and defensive coordinator Brian Ward (DC at Nevada last year) seemed to combine forces to replicate the results from two of Cal’s most embarrassing offensive efforts last year. Eventually they even activated the run on the clinching drive, Cal could not tackle in space well enough, and the Bears were toast.
By the second half the Cougars were humming away, running a ton of empty set to spread out Cal’s defense and negate pass rush. Washington State ran a similar scheme early on to Cal with a lot of short throws, but Cam Ward had far better protection, a nd you can’t give Cam Ward that much time. On the defensive end, Washington State was held in check for most of the first half, the defensive line held up better than they did in previous weeks by getting early pressure.īut by the second half, they were worn out, and soon the rest of the defense followed suit. The Bears got some quick passes out but the pressure was so great that Plummer’s accuracy wavered, leading to very little YAC on short and interemdiate passses. Cal attempted wide receiver screens to soften the middle and Wazzu’s corners blew up the WR blocks, leading to minimal gains. Cal went three-and-out five times.Ĭal ran a bunch of power plays to try and unleash the defense, and WSU found its way into the backfield on what felt like two of every three possessions, or stuffed the line for minimal gain.
Plummer managed only three rushes for four yards.
#Hold the line year plus#
Thanks to that, plus some pretty solid Cougar special teams, Cal only crossed the Washington State 45 twice today (which happened on both of their scoring drives). That meant no long scrambles for Jack Plummer, and no toss plays for Jaydn Ott to really break the perimeter. Keep everything contained between the hashes. Washington State proved to be smarter than Notre Dame in one respect though-no outside gaps. Cal lost to Washington State in hapless fashion for the second straight year, and the formula was pretty similar in both games- the relentless Cougars front disrupted the Cal offensive line with often only six in the box, used their speed on the edge to overwhelm the Bears before they could really get their offense moving, plugging gaps with four man and occasional five man pressure, and letting the backline win with heavy tackling in the sticks.
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