Regarding Paul Shelton's comments about the offense, he indicated.that the two returning tackles seemed established but that they had competition in the interior line. This surprised me some because I expected Povey to be established at center after starting there all.last.season but he said they had young guys competing there. The young.guy he mentioned was someone who saw no action last year likely a walkon.

Why don't they give each position coach 5 minutes for these videos? For some reason they make them the length of a top 40 song and split it between two coaches.

The video discusses 3 players, Why do they make these so short? Someone besides the three starters will be impact players, and deserve a mention.

I'm hoping the team gets back to averaging about 40 points like we did in 2022.
They don't have to recreate the 2018 offense to be successful.

In 2022 Hastings was an all conference QB for a team that scored 40+ points a game, so you wouldnkt think the move to make is to bring in someone.
This year Hastings is coming off a less impressive year and Hastings will be gone next year. Even if they leave Hastings as number 1, they should work someone else in situationally if they think he’s got ability.
Our Freshmen and redshirt freshmen probably have more talent than JC QBs unless they are in JC due to academics.

Nice video. Apparently part one of a series.
Davis has rare continuity of the football program for 50+ years, I hope Plough has enough success to stay here a long time.
The test for Plough is to show he can have a productive offense without a pro level QB, which had as an offensive coordinator at NAU and his last stop here. He went to Boise before the Hunter Rodigues, Hastings, Tompkins year. What would he have done with that crew in 2021? Not that the 2021 spring and fall team was bad, the Tulsa game was amazing, but it was a different offense adapted to the personnel.

My comment on the preview of offensive lineman last season was meant to convey that they shouldn’t do the previews to early in training camp because they don’t have much to say about the newcomers. What is the rush?
Apparently the NCAA keeps the stats and they have yet to fix the stats issues from last year. They burned the redshirt year of two of our top freshmen last year with a game I don’t think they played in,

Isn’t it a little much to expect a player to have a “understanding of the playbook” on day 1 of camp? This is in relation to Carter Vargas. I think its foolish to even publish a position preview at the start of camp, give the new players a bit of time before talking about them. Last year in the offensive line preview they didn’t mention a guy who started the first game.

Jalen Harris is not on the roster, the page for him was deleted.
According to 247 he was our top recruit ever, not that that means much.

They didn’t really burn Jordan Fisher’s redshirt year last year did they??
His fifth game is listed as Northern Arizona where he had no attempts, no receptions. i think the stats are wrong.

Gadget players like Carson Crawford and a host of other high school quarterbacks

What device do you use?
If you have an apple iPhone or iPad it has Apple Pocasts already installed.
If you have a non apple device then you can install the Spotify app.
If either of those apps are installed you can search for the podcast by putting UC Davis Football podcast.
Spotify app for me on a Kindle Fire is both video and audio.

Great to hear your opinions about the last few years.
I hope the listeners caught the distinction that there was only one medical student playing football
[simultaneously. Has anyone else done that ever? The extra Covid year might make it more possible for someone else.
Davis had two football players go on to Medical School in the early 2000 if I recall the time frame correctly both playing defensive line, one to UCSF and one to UCLA. Their playing years overlapped and the first was an inspiration to the second.

Lan Larison is now listed at 215 lbs. That is up from the 199 in the roster prior 2 years.
He weighed 208 in the data from the combine drills prior to last season.

A lot of the players added weight. Some of these guys probably have gained weight over two seasons, as the team is hit or miss in updating the roster.

Even Bearden is now 300 lb. Up from 251
Zach Kennedy is now 275 lb up from 251
Princeton Toki is now 375 lb up from 356

A 2024 freshman defensive lineman Mayo who was 285 on signing day is 320lb.

Davis had two transfers show up at fall camp and both started, Simonson in every game and Shamburger in many. Simonson never got his name in the stats due to confusion on who wore #70.He is the invisible man here after never seeing action at Nebraska.
LB Tattersall and Smalley transferred from Cal and UCLA and each started but didn’t play much in their first year, likely due to injury in Tattersall’s case. Semaj Verner from Boise played frequently last year and is a grad student this season.

No question Meyer is the top.addition.. Not.only was he outstanding at this level, but he plays the position we.need to fill. The LB from Cal may be as good but he hasn't played as much at the higher level.
Wright was apparently someone Plough saw potential in at Boise, and might have had more of a career there if Plough hadn't been fired. He was returning kick-offs.for them too. Now he .ends up here, coincidence..?

Perhaps the best of them just showed up on the roster this week. Four guys who are likely to get some playing time. We had a couple in that category before announced on during signing days.

David Meyer now on Davis Roster
- Graduate transfer (1 year eligibility)
- 6’2 230lbs LB
- All Conference LB
The above info is from David's X account..Roster has him as.a redshirt.junior

2022 video, Plough talks about Cole Wright getting playing time at Boise. Wright is now on the Davis roster.

Ask Plough :
Was he surprised that a few of the offensive assistants he worked with in his prior time here were still around? Most of the assistants are new to him, but he retained a number of them. What are his impressions of the staff?
Is he going to be able to spend some time coaching the QBs? Lots of young QBs being added this year and next.