Shooting From the Hip: Cal 45, Texas 44

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Offense

It’s a really good show.

Heard put on a four quarter performance that was part high wire act, part live-wire electricity, part freshman mistakes, part preternatural poise and all you could hope to see from a nascent spread stallion. You expected to see him show off some sweet feet, but he quickly put paid to the notion that his sideline deep shot to John Burt against Rice was any kind of a one-off. Texas was attacking downfield constantly,…