The Cal defense has been holding the Bears together for the last seven games. Saturday night in Utah, they finally got their reckoning.
The Cal defense getting clocked has been in the making for awhile. The dominant unit that erased Washington twice and terrorized offenses last year doesn’t appear to be emerging. The talent deficiencies that are needed to produce an elite unit are getting exploited, and Utah found them all to batter the Bears into submission Saturday night.
Why is Cal’s defense stepping back? A few reasons, all of them cascading.
- Cal does not have a true every-down defensive tackle.