Maybe next year. As someone who is 6’4” I can attest that height doesn’t necessarily imply athletic ability.

There certainly were some challenging completions in the mix. The receivers didn’t drop any which isn’t always the case..

I’ve got to defend Hastings on the bated passes. One was a totally unblocked linebacker on a screen play where the play is designed for him to throw over that guy. The guy is just long and quick,
Others are because the pocket collapses. As mentioned Hastings is not as mobile as Rodrigues so the offensive line has to do a better job of maintaining a pocket. Hastings is as mobile as most Davis QBs of thie last decade. The disadvantage of our short QBs is that it’s harder to throw over guys.

Dartmouth lost 19-0 to Columbia today.
Funny coincidence that Dartmouth uses two quarterbacks, one a runner. But he’s a big guy.

If I watch the game again I’ll look more closely, but he wasn’t dressed to play. Not sure what he had on his legs but.not uniform pants.

If these stats are correct, the only completion failures of the night were thrown toward Harrell. Amazing that seven guys caught everything thrown to them.

UC Davis Receiving
# PLAYER NO YDS TD LNG AVG TGT C%
87 CASTLES,M 6 65 0 14 10.8 6 100
34 GILLIAM,JR 5 34 0 19 6.8 5 100
0A HUTTON,CJ 4 22 1 10 5.5 4 100
9 VAUGHN,KHRIS 4 19 0 8 4.8 4 100
2 HARRELL,JARED 3 42 0 28 14 8 38
1H TOMPKINS,TRENT 2 13 0 8 6.5 2 100
5 THORPE,BLAKE 2 12 0 8 6 2 100
6 CRAWFORD,C 2 3 1 2 1.5 2 100
8 RECEIVERS 28 210 2 28 7.5 33 85

I saw Lamson on the sidelines, it didn’t look like we’ll be seeing him back in two weeks.

It would have been nice to see us put the ball away with a ground game, like Tulsa or Weber games, I don’t think Cal Polys D is better than those teams.

Gilliam had at least three significant loss carries in the first half, I don’t recall seeing that before. Larison and Tompkins also struggled more than usual. Probably due to injured linemen.

Well,
On the bright side, they got their number 1 QB back, and scored 13 points.
And we played our backup qb and scored 24 with two second string linemen.

I wonder how much our two missing linemen affect our run issues.
We were able to put games away on the ground against Tulsa and Weber

Who will be the QB?

Smalley is having a good game.

that’s what his Ouija board is telling him

Wow how metaphysical

Worse than that the think they know what everyone’s thinking.

I think that was Smalley on the pop

I know it’s harder than it used to be because of everyone’s leg strength and the inability to put old fashioned hits on guys, but every play they go five yards after contact.

They say will Venable all the time

Good here

We have to tackle better. Their TD drive was kept alive by guys including the quarterback not going down

That Hastings guy can’t play