It was ugly early on during the Notre Dame-Cal game on Saturday afternoon. And I mean very, very ugly. Nearly a full hour elapsed before a first down from either team was made. The Irish offense especially came out seriously disheveled with quarterback Drew Pyne playing like the moment was far too big for him. Look, it was dark for a while.
Things would get better. Both sides eventually started playing some competent football highlighted by Notre Dame playing up to its potential on both sides of the lines. The Irish got back to basics running the ball often and never forcing Pyne into any really difficult throws as the defense stepped up to slow California just enough for the win.
Stats Package
| STAT | IRISH | BEARS |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 24 | 17 |
| Plays | 64 | 68 |
| Total Yards | 297 | 296 |
| Yards Per Play | 4.64 | 4.35 |
| Conversions | 3/12 | 5/18 |
| Completions | 17 | 16 |
| Yards/Pass Attempt | 6.52 | 4.97 |
| Rushes | 41 | 31 |
| Rushing Success | 48.7% | 45.8% |
| 10+ Yds Rushes | 3 | 8 |
| 20+ Yds Passes | 2 | 1 |
| Defense Stuff Rate | 26.4% | 21.8% |
It was a big sigh of relief for Marcus Freeman who has been going through all of the emotions on the sidelines and should be glad to pick up his first victory at Notre Dame. At least the team showed some base competency in a lot of areas on Saturday. It’s something to build on but this team is far from out of the woods and will have to fight hard for a bowl game.
Offense
QB: C-
RB: B
TE: B+
OL: B
WR: ?
The game started so poorly for the offense that it had the strange feeling of knowing something so rank and absurd simply could not last. Despite the punt fest, the 1st quarter also dragged on for a long time too, extending the pain. Through Notre Dame’s first 5 drives the offense ran 14 plays for 16 yards. Five drives in a quarter for 16 yards!
That wonderful streak ended with a Drew Pyne fumbled snap leading to a short field and 1 of California’s 2 touchdowns in the game.
To start, Pyne looked rattled, nervous, and entirely too tense. That’s why I reflect on a performance that had nowhere to go but up, it was that bad without throwing a boat load of interceptions. Luckily, the Irish found a little bit of success on the ground and eventually got Pyne into a rhythm being the ultimate game manager.
To his credit, Pyne didn’t fold and finished the game completing 13 out of his last 14 passes. Now, I don’t think any of those attempts went further than 8 yards downfield outside of the Tyree touchdown pass but still!
The best news of the game was Notre Dame’s offensive line finally playing pretty well. California had a couple sacks but Pyne was largely comfortable in the pocket and the pass protection held up. Even better, the Irish found a serviceable run game. While the numbers aren’t great by any means (39 carries for 152 yards with sacks removed) it felt like a more impressive effort knowing Notre Dame wasn’t going to be doing a ton through the air–and California knew it too.
The calls to give the ball more to Chris Tyree were answered, while Logan Diggs was relegated to the bench. Tyree finished with 66 rushing yards and caught all 5 passes thrown his way while leading the team in receiving, including that vertical route out of the backfield finishing in a touchdown. Audric Estime also played well with a game-high 9 successful carries.
Rushing Success
Tyree – 8 of 17 (47.0%)
Estime – 9 of 18 (50.0%)
Pyne – 2 of 4 (50.0%)
Can we judge the receivers? They finished with a combined 10 targets for 7 receptions and 53 yards. There really wasn’t much of an attempt to make big plays through the air with everything extremely safe and meant to do no self-inflicting damage.
Notre Dame faced 12 opportunities on 3rd down and only threw the ball 7 times, converting only twice among completions of 6, 5, 6, and 1 yard. Dink and dunk.
Defense
DL: B+
LB: D
DB: C+
I’m usually one to nitpick what in recent years has been a strong Notre Dame defense. They’ve had their struggles this season, however, I thought this was a very good performance overall.
If the Irish offense was at least average I’m sure this would’ve been a comfortable win based on the play from the defense. For one, Cal’s running game was stifled all day. Running backs Jaydn Ott and DeCarlos Brooks had long runs of 13 and 24 yards respectively, but just 39 yards on their other 17 carries for 2.2 yards per rush.
Notre Dame really just needs to clean up some of the longer runs allowed (8 runs of 10+ yards is not cool) and I’d point the finger at the linebackers for that lack of success. Shockingly, quarterback Jack Plummer led California with 6 successful carries and his legs were a huge part in keeping the Golden Bears offense moving down field. Plummer had the sneak for a touchdown, plus 5 other carries go for a combined 80 yards! I’m not even mad I’m impressed.
Stuffs vs. California
Lacey – 3
Cross – 2.5
Ademilola, Jay – 2.5
Foskey – 2
Bertrand – 1.5
Ademilola, Jus. – 1.5
Brown – 1.5
Griffith – 1
Bracy – 0.5
Hart – 0.5
Smith – 0.5
Liufau – 0.5
The Irish defensive line came to play and won the day. They constantly harassed Plummer and didn’t allow him much time to deliver the ball down field. Any time you can get 6 sacks it’s been a good day in the office.
Something appears broken or not working with these linebackers. They are largely invisible. The only exception to that would be JD Bertrand’s insanely stupid targeting penalty to extend California’s final drive in what could’ve been one of the biggest boneheaded mistakes leading to a loss. Can you even imagine?
Here’s a summary of the top 4 Notre Dame linebackers against California:
0 solo tackles
0.5 tackles for loss
0 passes defended
2 combined stuffs
I mentioned in the pre-season that this group really needed Liufau to become a difference maker and that is a million miles away right now. Through 3 games, Liufau has 1 solo tackle, 0.5 tackles for loss, and no sacks.
The secondary played a well-rounded game but with a few too many mistakes. A coverage bust led to California’s far-too-easy first touchdown. A personal foul penalty on DJ Brown prevented a 3rd and long opportunity on California’s other touchdown drive. And, safety Brandon Joseph got way, way, way too greedy trying to intercept the final Hail Mary attempt and nearly costing the game had Jeremiah Hunter held on to the ball in his lap.
Final Thoughts
Watching Lenzy false start on a successful QB sneak on 3rd down–especially in a game like this where confidence and moving the chains was so important early–is one of those plays where there are no words.
On the Jacob Lacey sack in the 1st quarter, defensive end NaNa Osafo-Mensah was pancaked so hard he literally went flying several yards in the air. All’s well that ends well, though.
If Notre Dame doesn’t run for 200 yards in any game the rest of the season what do you think the final record will be? This was a peformance to be expected by Drew Pyne but eventually the passing game will have to open up. Things might be fine next week against the sieve North Carolina defense. After that, it’s going to be tough even with improved offensive line play.
It seems like Notre Dame is blitzing their middle linebackers an inordinate amount of the time. It isn’t working. For example, here’s California’s 2nd longest pass of the game and both Bertrand and Liufau end up on the ground making zero impact on the play.
There has to be a better way.
All 6 sacks came from defensive linemen. Al Washington would like a word.
Tobias Merriweather got a few snaps, at least it’s a start of something.
The green jerseys looked magnificent in the afternoon sun. So many times it looked like a throwback to the late 1970’s out there. We’ve seen these jerseys at night under the lights and I think there’s something funky about that system that makes colors in general look really distorted, at least on television. They need white numbers ASAP. But, the blue lettering has been a school-wide decision for all sports for several years now.
When you saw Pyne throw that little pass in the flat into the turf, be honest, did you think Notre Dame would win?
NBC continued the tradition from last week of bringing in 2 new alum’s from each school to broadcast from the sidelines. My big question is who is coming for the UNLV game? Greg Anthony?
What happened on this “offsides” call in favor of Notre Dame?
A phantom penalty.
It’s possible this is a very different game if the Irish simply miss this field goal. On the next series, Cal picked up a field goal and this could’ve been a 10-0 game approaching halftime. Also, throw in the targeting penalty on a failed 3rd down Pyne throw, too. The Golden Bears have to be kicking themselves for that missed opportunity.
A bit of a weird move for Marcus Freeman not to wear any green on the sidelines.
The Irish had an interception and fumble return (TD, too!) called back and are still without a forced turnover in 3 games. Auburn is the only other Power 5 team to not have a turnover on defense so far.
I found it curious that the offense didn’t really do much checking at the line, or checking to the sidelines, or getting the ball in the run game to anyone outside of the running backs.
Notre Dame is -0.25 in yards per play differential this year with the offense averaging 4.81 YPP and the defense at 5.07 YPP. Unless something miraculously changes with the offense the differential probably isn’t going to get much higher than +0.5 YPP and that probably means several more losses are coming.
I hope Notre Dame comes out with nameplates on the white jerseys next week. We’re headed to Chapel Hill!
The first quarter was laughable. bad false starts, the drive where pyne short arms the flat then air mails an open mayer, then styles has a big third down drag play and ball literally goes through his hands. turned it off for most of the rest of first half somewhere around there.
Think freeman has really struggled figuring out when to be aggressive and when to be conservative. Fees like EVERY pre halftime possession has been handled Incorrectly. Why didn’t they try a hail mary today?
Lastly collinsworth and garret are so bad. I mean so bad. Like nbc is being punished with a bad nd team because of these tires. Garrett just spews every cliche no matter what. heading to the 4th losing he states nd o line has allowed nd to take control of the game. When nd punted into the end zone with a minute left collinsworth said that will bring the ball to the 25. I mean this is basic rules stuff that they get wrong beyond just sounding terrible. oh well at least no nbc games for 3 weeks
Somewhere towards the end of the 1st it got dark and I was thinking 0-5 start, 2-10 season. but 6-6/7-5 pretty feasible. win one of next 2 and 7 wins seems much more likely
Your feeling is correct; every pre-halftime game situation *has* been handled incorrectly:
Really gives credence to the “coaches need to play more video games” school of thought.
Marshall had both. Got the ball with like 11 seconds left and out of sheer frustration got aggressive and actually had lenzy open for a 75 yard td. Insane they were that aggressive and then that he was turned loose. miss it so they go conservative and run a rb right Into the line to go to half. I hate the second part. Just take a knee if you’re not gonna try and score. a rb dive has no upside
Rees and Freeman’s communication with each other appears to be very poor.
I know it’s a typo but I very much like referring to Garrett and Collinsworth the Younger as tires.
Last week I felt the coaches shouldered a lot of the blame for their poor game plan and playcalling. So, credit where credit is due: the game plan and the playcalling, especially from Rees, were much, much better. They weren’t executing it in the 1st quarter, but the plays and reads seemed good.
Lenzy probably deserves the bench. That false start on the 3rd and short sneak made me lose my mind. What is it you say you do here?
Could we just build the entire defense our of the DLine and DBacks? I’m not entirely kidding, it probably can’t be worse than what our LBs bring
Lenzy may deserve the bench, but there is almost literally no one else to bring in!
Hopefully Kollie and Sneed starting getting some snaps as the season goes on.
2 TE sets with Tyree in the slot all game?
Guy Fieri rolls up in his Camero
Flo Rida performs “Low” at halftime.
Edit: I’m changing my prediction to “My House.”
So, with the LBs looking as bad as they do, why don’t we see Sneed?
Sneed is apparently teeny and the II guys are unanimous that he’s not ready. To me, the more interesting thing is Kollie (who is not small) not getting reps. Is he just a recruiting dud? I have a very hard time imagining he is a worse football player than JD Bertrand.
I don’t understand where they all are. We’ve heard since Freeman got here, hell even before that, that we have some young stud LBs, and they literally never play. Instead it’s Bo Bauer falling for obvious pump fakes, Marist Liufau running directly into blockers and JD Bertrand making colossally stupid decisions over and over again.
If those guys can’t even get on the field over that dreck, even for spot duty, then I’m not sure what future we’re supposed to believe they have.
Junior Tuihalamaka did get 4 snaps this game and Bo Bauer was down to 10 (though could that be because of injury?).
But yea, you’d expect Kollie to be getting some PT if not Sneed.
Who will take over for Betrand in the first half next week? That’s got to lead to some snaps for someone younger, no? Maybe more for Junior?
I don’t think Bauer played again on defense after his laughable missed tackle attempt on a Plummer scramble.
I know Kiser is the starting rover, but he’s by far the most effective LB when he’s in the game, he should lead the team in LB snaps even if we’re frequently in nickel, and the snaps of the other three veterans need to be split between them and the younger guys based on effectiveness.
In the spirit of positivity given the win, I’ll say something positive: your DB grade seems pretty harsh! I think they played reasonably well overall.
Also, always good to pull out a win between two evenly matched teams! (It felt like those two teams were equals in real time, but I didn’t realize it was literally just a one yard differential until reading this.)
Only mood:
We don’t need refs throwing a flag for this celebration, either. Forgot to mention this.
He’s at least one more pump away from a penalty. I count one, maybe 1.5 pumps.
Yeah, the refs were terrible. Do they still use the visiting team’s conference as the on-field refs, because them being PAC12 refs would explain a lot
They were actually ACC refs, which struck me as weird. Power 5 vs Power 5 interconference games are almost always officiated by the visiting team’s league.
The LB blitzes were heinous, it’s like they were trying to run straight into blockers. Towards the end of the 4th there was one where I think Bertrand came on what I presume was a delayed blitz, or he was spying the QB and decided to blitz, but he just ran straight into Cal’s center who wasn’t blocking anyone yet and immediately got stuffed at the line. Cal’s QB then managed to roll out left and run for a nice gain.
Speaking of Bo Bauer and pump fakes, here’s my warm take: Vegas was right. We’ve been a 7-9 win team for the last 4 years, and it’s finally catching up to us. Last real 10 win team we had was 2017.
The only thing that’s saved us was three years of Ian Book, and some luck last year. Ian was an elite decision maker as far as when to run, and where and how to run. He had excellent pocket presence. Just watch the highlights of Kyren pass blocking in the Clemson win and you’ll notice how often Book slides juuuuuust far enough away from the guy Kyren is blocking to stay upright but keep his feet under him and his eyes downfield.
He obviously didn’t have elite running talent like Lamar Alexander or Tebow. But how many times did we watch Ian pump fake an average P5 linebacker and pick up a first down? It’s the sort of thing a really good running QB can do all day long against average defenses. Just like Plummer did to Bauer. Problem is when you face an elite team that isn’t gonna work against athletes like Will Anderson or, I don’t know, JOK.
If Ian Book doesn’t have that particular set of skills and plays closer to his star rating, and our schedule isn’t unexpectedly weak last year, then we are looking at 7-9 wins four years straight.
I don’t agree. ND was not a lucky team from 2018-2021. On the contrary, we were incredibly consistent — beat every team we were favored over and lost every game in which we were underdogs. We also did it in almost the exact same way every time — get up two scores and then drain the clock quickly. How were four teams in a row not “real” 10 win teams? It’s one thing to say that our schedules weren’t very good, but come on. This also completely discounts the role that our excellent defenses played during that run.
Kelly was a very good coach who hired excellent DCs after Van Gorder. It wasn’t just the Ian Book show.
I wasn’t clear, I agree with you in large part. With Ian Book, this was a ten win team. With Ian Book, you beat a lot of teams you’re supposed to, because being able to scramble for first downs against average P5 LB and DL talent covers up a lot of problems. Having the other team worry you can scramble also opens up a lot of short and intermediate passing, which Book was very good at, because linebackers have to worry about Book taking off.
The luck was that Ian Book, 3 star .8681 recruit, played much better than his ranking. If he really turned out to be the middling 3 star he was ranked, we end up 7-9 during his playing years thanks to the D.
Drew Pyne is a four star rated .9164. He is not playing like it. Imagine the three Book years with Pyne. Tommy Rees and Bryan Kelly got really lucky.
And last year? With zero wins against ranked teams and somehow surviving Florida State and Toledo? Put that team against this year’s schedule, don’t think they make 10 wins. 8 or 9, but not ten.
I remember some decent Davie and even Willingham defenses too. But some of those teams absolutely could not score. I think it was the Arnaz Battle game against USC when we had to put a receiver at QB, held USC in the teens, and couldn’t win because zero offense. Also something something Matt LoVecchio/Andrew Hendrix. You’ll beat mediocre teams that way, but not enough of them to get to 10 wins.
ETA: my fondest wish is that Drew Pyne can overcome his nerves and becoming 80% of Ian Book: accurate short to medium range and able to pick up some first downs with his legs, while being durable as heck so we don’t have to find out how ready the third string guy is.
Is 5’8″ the ideal quarterback height? The answer may surprise you!
All right, well, we kind of look like a normal football team, sort of! A very poorly coached and undisciplined team, but a team nonetheless. Two wholly unrelated thoughts:
-Tommy Rees has no business screaming at anybody. Yeah, I know that’s how Kelly treated him and Pyne was playing like crap. I don’t care; Tommy is an upjumped intern. I don’t want to see booth shots like that ever again.
-lol of course Marshall lost to Bowling Green
Hard disagree; there’s a solid chance that Rees yelling at Pyne to do his f’n job/the whole f’n team is counting on you might be the highlight of this entire season.
Just, in fairness, any random ND fan should have the right to scream that at Tommy Rees whenever they see him out recruiting.
Coaches screaming normally doesn’t bother me but Rees has no credibility. Why are we in this dire QB situation in the first place? Who recruited and developed these guys?
I am immensely tired of his shit.
I thought it was dumb too, although in postgame Pyne said he told Rees to yell at him and that he responds well to that stuff. So idk. But yeah, Rees’ credibility is nonexistent.
Is this true?
I guess that’s a bit of hyperbole, but what exactly has he done that should make anyone feel good about him? He hasn’t elevated QB recruiting since getting on campus (let’s not count the CJ Carr chicken until it hatches please). He hasn’t coached a particularly impressive offense. The weaknesses we had last year haven’t been improved upon one bit. The dude refuses to adapt to modern playcalling tendencies (hates play action, loves to run on 2nd and long, etc.). If he leaves this offseason, I will not be sad in the least.
As ACS said, screaming at somebody to “do your effing job” is pretty hilarious coming from that guy.
I wasn’t really concerned with a State of the Offensive Coordinator™ just that in this case, he screamed at Pyne and the QB ended up turning things around and doing his job.
That incident would suggest *some* credibility.
Pyne threw the ball on average 3 yards downfield. Truly inspiring work from Rees.
Well, for someone noted as a terrible recruiter and coaching a D-427 level QB talent I’d say it was some inspiring work.
Heh I just had the very sad thought that I don’t think ND’s current starting QB would start for Marshall, who just beat us before losing to BG. I suppose I’ll just be happy with any wins we get the rest of the season.
Well to be precise, Rees isn’t a terrible recruiter; he seems to be slightly-below-average-to-OK at recruiting the guys he wants. The problem is that he appears to be terrible at evaluation.
I was about to reply back to ACS about not rushing to a judgment on the screaming. Kids react differently and need different motivations. We don’t know TFR & Drew Pyne’s relationship, we don’t know Drew Pyne as a kid and his personality. If we start seeing TFR screaming at everyone, that’s a bigger issue.
Fair enough. I think it was the actual message that made my blood boil. “Do your f-ing job” after the last two weeks, good god.
Some positive thoughts:
-Blitz pickup by the RBs was good and effective. Pyne is pretty good at zipping the ball into the space vacated by a blitzing defender, so this is an effective way to punish teams that are trying to sack him every play.
-Drew Pyne: Kind of mobile! I think he had 2 first downs with his legs. I probably wouldn’t design runs for him, but this is a handy thing to have in our back pocket. Great way to pick up cheap yards, which we need.
-We were going after Cal’s punts hard all day and came close to blocking several of them. I like this idea — we don’t really return punts, so let’s try to block one and get the offense field position that way.
-Still no turnovers from the defense, but we’re getting close. I think we’ll get an INT or two from UNC.
I love this site because it gives me therapy. This team is definitely more 2007 and not 2016. We have no offense. I was ecstatic that we won but it still doesn’t feel like a win. We had a ghost offsides that led to, in my mind, the season saving drive because Pyne was able to sustain a drive for a TD and give us hope and give him much needed confidence. Angeli should see some quality time this year. The booing, while warranted, was sickening. I want to stay positive after a win, so I loved seeing Tommy lose it. “Do your F’ng job” was the highlight of the game.
That being said, It was very noticeable that everyone felt the weight on their shoulders to win this game. It’s tough when you open against OSU and can’t build any confidence. Unfortunately, we just aren’t that good. No chemistry, and lacking leadership. Fitting that Te’o was on hand because I can’t think of a better leader than him in the last ten years. I was always indifferent on Book, but he clearly maximized his potential and was a leader. Who are the leaders on this team?
On the ghost offsides — I can only see 10 Cal players in the photo, so maybe the 11th was running onto the field and was offsides. That’s just a guess, though. NBC was too busy showing Drew’s stressed out dad to bother figuring out what happened on that critical play.
I thought the same thing, but went back and looked, and the 11th defender isn’t in the picture because he’s even deeper, in a safety position. Truly baffling. (Of course they did miss 2 pass incompletions against that led to Cal scores. Overall just atrocious day for the zebras.)
I think the culprit – and we’ll never know because we still haven’t seen a shot down the LOS – is the guy all the way on the right of the defense or possibly the guy inside him, on the end of the line grouping. The flag came out immediately on the snap, so whoever threw it pretty clearly saw (or thought he saw) someone in the neutral zone.
Also, Cal had two extremely iffy catches that weren’t reviewed and got away with at least two massive play-affecting holds on 3rd down Plummer scrambles. I think the Cal faithful who are upset about that call would do well to remember that it’s sometimes too easy to assign to malevolence that which can be explained by incompetence.
Also, Adam Rittenberg can go poop in a hat.
Seriously, Rittenberg needs to shut up about all these coaches who claim to have been screwed at ND. By far the most famous blown call at Notre Dame Stadium this century was the Bush Push (and the much-too-close-to-the-goal-line spot of the ball after the fumble the play prior), which in retrospect cost ND a trip to the national championship game. Don’t hear anyone playing small violins for us on that one.
I know fans by nature remember blown calls against them more than calls in their favor, but other than Pitt 2012 (bad 4th-down PI call that looked like PI in real time but not on replay, then the two-#2s fiasco) and MSU 2013 (I don’t remember any bad calls but I guess there must have been some; still, when you play ‘they can’t call everything’ pass defense, that’s what you get sometimes), I can’t even remember any particular games in our favor that generated a hint of controversy. (I should add ‘deserved controversy’; Stepfan Taylor didn’t score and even if he did there wasn’t indisputable video evidence he did, and everyone knows that and just wanted us to lose.)
What about David Shaw and the phantom whistles that no other coach has ever heard?
CAN THE FANS PLEASE STOP BEING SO LOUD I AM SCARED
Here here.
The Bush Push was blatant, but the fumble spot was way worse and never gets much air time because of the Bush Push. By rule a fumble forward out of bounds is spotted where the player last had control of the ball. Dude fumbled the ball at I believe the 5, ball spotted at the 1.
Like… What?!? You will no doubt shocked, SHOCKED, to learn that Rittenberg is another Medill grad. I swear the ESPN staff is 95% Northwestern and Michigan alums.
Medill school of journalism nepotism.
What if they did spot the ball at the 5, ND wins the game, goes to the NC game. We would still be paying Charlie Weis.
Hey, don’t forget Syracuse (or as they pronounce it, Zerragyooz) alums!
While beating SC in that game would have been glorious, picturing the 2005 defense dealing with Vince Young does not make me feel so good.
pshhhhh victor abiamiri has had no issue with him in my NCAA 06 dynasties!!!!!!!
I have to correct this, because it’s actually even worse than giving them the ball at the 1 instead of the 5.
What actually happened was Leinart got hit at the one and fumbled the ball backwards out of bounds. Where the ball crossed out of play is easily debatable (probably not back to the 5), but what isn’t debatable is that the ball was going backward. That means the clock should have kept running, and the game should have ended (the fumble happened with 7 seconds left and they never could have gotten another snap off). ND fans rushed the field, and they were right to do so.
FSU 2014? Probably the one I remember the most.
the bitching by cal fans online was really odd
like i don’t think i’ve ever seen anything like it
Agree: this probably will be the worst ND team since 2007, but we may still hopefully end up with 2 or 3 more wins than 2016 (/knocks furiously on wood).
-Liufau needs to be benched, or the LB blitz needs to turn into a QB spy. He runs straight at blockers every time and has no moves, just run real hard headfirst. It’s awful.
-I saw that Pyne’s average throw was something like 3 yards downfield. We’re going to have to find a way to take a few shots, or defenses are going to be able to make his life absolute hell. Not sure who is the guy who can stretch the defense, but it sure would be nice if Lenzy could have a game or two where he looks like he’s played football before.
-D Line has a lot of dudes. Really hope we can keep rotating aggressively there, because I feel good about so many of those guys in the 2 deep.
-Bracy running that fumble back was the first time I’ve been mad at him all year, and that’s only because he almost cost me the over! I’ve been really impressed by his play this year; I thought there was a chance he might get passed over early. Good for him.
The Chicago Bears front office just got hard reading that.
He almost cost me Cal +13. Until that moment, looked like the easiest money I’d ever made in my life.
NBC should bring in Larry Johnson for the UNLV game imvho
Would prefer Grandmama, TBH
NDNation when they see a dude in grandma clothes on the halftime show