So I still can't get caught up, but at least I can avoid falling further behind. Usual disclaimers apply. Also, went up to 21 plays this week, just because I wanted to finish the last series. That seems like a good policy—hence the name change.
UW received the opening kickoff and started at its own 24 yard line.
Play #1
Down & Distance: 1st & 10 at the -24
Formation: I-Strong 2TE
Play: Power Off-Tackle to #1 Chris Polk
Gain: +2 yards
Thoughts: Seferian-Jenkins in motion as an H-back and gets a good kick-out block, but Porter get shoved backward into the path of the puller (Tanigawa). This forces a cutback and Polk falls forward for 2.
Play #2
Down & Distance: 2nd & 8 at the -26
Formation: Shotgun 2TE Twins R
Play: Throwback Screen to #2 Kasen Williams
Gain: -3 yards
Thoughts: UW motions Hartvigson but he doesn't get out to block his DB quickly enough and Cal blows it up. UW's scissors, Cal's rock.
Play #3
Down & Distance: 3rd & 11 at the -23
Formation: Shotgun Twins L
Play: Pass to #9 Devin Aguilar
Gain: +28
Thoughts: Cal blitzes and the Huskies pick it up; Price has all day. Strong throw hits Aguilar in-stride on a dig route, which enables some YAC. Price a little late but throw was on the money.
Play #4
Down & Distance: 1st & 10 at the -+49
Formation: Pistol Spread
Play: Zone Read Dive
Gain: +2 yards
Thoughts: Cal DBs way off the UW receivers at the snap; Price should check to a bubble screen but doesn't; Atoe is destroyed by Cal DT; Cal LB #40 in backfield, Price hands off and LB #40 tackles. UW's paper, Cal's scissors.
Play #5
Down & Distance: 2nd & 8 at the +47
Formation: Pistol?
Play: ? Run to #1 Chris Polk
Gain: +1 yard
Thoughts: Late cut to the action; Washington runs some kind of trap with Tanigawa pulling again (or maybe just a power that got blown-up by the Cal front). Cal LB #30 is a free hitter and tackles at the LOS.
Play #6
Down & Distance: 3rd & 8 at the +46
Formation: Shotgun 2-back Twins L
Play: Screen to #23 Johri Fogerson
Gain: 0 (Inc.)
Thoughts: UW tries a play-fake to Kearse on the field side, which fools no one. Price then flips to the boundary and throws a screen to Fogerson. But the O-line cannot block Cal's linebackers and they annihilate Fogerson. UW's rock, Cal's Paper.
UW's next possession begins after Cal completes a 90-yard pass play for a TD. Score: 0-7 Cal, 10:00 1st Q
Play #7
Down & Distance: 1st & 10 at the -34
Formation: Shotgun 2TE Twins R
Play: Sprint Draw to #1 Chris Polk
Gain: -2 yards
Thoughts: Once again Cal has invited the bubble screen, leaving the slot receiver wide open, and once again Price declines to check. Instead they run a sprint draw, which the WLB quickly diagnoses and stuffs for a TFL. Schaefer crushed on the play by the Cal NT.
Play #8
Down & Distance: 2nd & 12 at the -32
Formation: Ace Trips L, motion to I-form
Play: Broken Play
Gain: +57 yards
Thoughts: UW runs play-action but Polk goes to the wrong side of Price. Price scrambles, then chucks a bomb on the run to Aguilar, who brings it in at the Cal 11. Backyard football.
Play #9
Down & Distance: 1st & 10 at the +11
Formation: Shotgun Empty, Bunch R
Play: Pass to #88 Austin Seferian-Jenkins
Gain: +11 yards TD
Thoughts: Pressure forces Price to scramble. Seferian-Jenkins
had run a curl, but then just gets open. Price finds him late for the score.
UW's next possession begins at their 35 yard-line after a Cal punt. Score: 7-7,
Play #10
Down & Distance: 1st & 10 at the -35
Formation: Ace 2TE
Play: Fumbled Snap (penalty)
Gain: -5 (Penalty)
Thoughts: UW motions Aguilar behind Price at the snap for the possible end around but all hell breaks loose. Procedure penalty probably helps the Huskies by saving the down.
Play #11
Down & Distance: 1st & 15 at the -30
Formation: Shotgun Empty
Play: Quick Hitch to #2 Kasen Williams
Gain: +3
Thoughts: Cal gives UW the easy pitch & catch and UW takes it, but Cal allows no YAC. Okay.
Play #12
Down & Distance: 2nd & 11 at the -34
Formation: I-Strong
Play: Power to #1 Chris Polk
Gain: 0
Thoughts: Once again, way too much penetration by the Cal D-line forces Polk to dance. Tanigawa fails to block the EMLOS, so he holds him instead—but doesn't draw a flag. Amosa misses the MIKE. UW just lucky not to lose yardage here.
Play #13
Down & Distance: 3rd & 11 at the -34
Formation: I-Form Twins L
Play: PA Scramble by #17 Keith Price
Gain: +13
Thoughts: Kohler annihilated off the ball and Price pulls it down. Fantastic individual effort by Price to pick up the first.
Play #14
Down & Distance: 1st & 10 at the -47
Formation: Shotgun Twins R
Play: Sprint Draw to #1 Chris Polk
Gain: +9
Thoughts: Cal all over this again but Polk! UW bailed-out by its athletes on two consecutive plays.
Play #15
Down & Distance: 1st & 10 at the +44
Formation: Shotgun Twins R
Play: Power to #24 Jesse Callier
Gain: +5 yards
Thoughts: UW tries running power in the opposite direction this time, and voila! Great kick-out block eliminates the WILL and Callier goes for 5.
Play #16
Down & Distance: 1st & 10 at the -+39
Formation: Shotgun Twins L
Play: Offsides
Gain: +5 (penalty)
Thoughts: We'll take it.
Play #17
Down & Distance: 1st & 5 at the +34
Formation: Ace Spread Tight, motion to I-Form
Play: Out to #88 Austin Seferian-Jenkins
Gain: 0 (incomplete)
Thoughts: Kohler gets away with another hold
Play #18
Down & Distance: 2nd & 5 at the +34
Formation: Shotgun Twins R, motion to Trips
Play: Offsides
Gain: +5 (penalty)
Thoughts: Cal blitzes and Callier picks it up, but Price has to scramble and eventually dumps it off to Kasen Williams for minimal yardage. But, Cal flagged for offsides again.
Play #19
Down & Distance: 1st & 10 at the -+29
Formation: I-Form Twins R
Play: Toss Sweep to #1 Chris Polk
Gain: +13
Thoughts: UW finally plays the rock on Cal's scissors here. Early motion gets Polk a wall to the boundary side and UW ignores the backside pursuit. This gives Cal LB #43 a chance to shut the play down early but Polk just turns on the jets and outruns him, then finishes the run like a boss.
Play #20
Down & Distance: 1st & 10 at the +15
Formation: Ace 2TE
Play: Post to #15 Jermaine Kearse
Gain: +13 (Penalty)
Thoughts: Kearse gets inside his defender and Price finds him for the TD. Cal DB has no choice but to interfere. UW really using its athletes on this drive.
Play #21
Down & Distance: 1st & G at the +2
Formation: Goal Line
Play: ? Toss L
Gain: +2 TD
Thoughts: Late cut to the play shows Polk walking into the end zone on the toss. Nice drive.
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