Demetris Robertson had a 74-yard touchdown catch in Cal's scrimmage Saturday that wrapped up the third week of training camp
BERKELEY – Cal continued to emulate its in-season game week routine during the third week of its 2017 training camp that wrapped up Saturday with a competition day as the Golden Bears held a scrimmage of approximately 95 plays at California Memorial Stadium. Cal will be off Sunday before returning to practice Monday. Highlights from a busy third week including Saturday's scrimmage are captured in reverse chronological order below.
Saturday
• Cal continued to change up its Saturday competition day routines to plan for different game-like scenarios with a third different practice start time
• The Golden Bears took their emulation of gameday routines a step further by spending the previous night in the team's home gameday hotel and going through their pre-game routine including a Saturday morning bus ride to the stadium as a team before kicking off the scrimmage
• The defense continued to come up with takeaways at a high rate with five during the scrimmage on four interceptions from Marloshawn Franklin,
Quentin Tartabull and
Raymond Davison III, who returned his for six points, as well as a fumble recovery by
Jordan Kunaszyk when
Gerran Brown caused
Demetris Robertson to cough up the football
• In addition to the five turnovers the defense recorded six sacks led Russ Ude's 2.0, while
Hamilton Anoa'i, Brown,
Devante Downs,
Chris Palmer and
Tevin Paul each had 1.0
• The defense held the offense scoreless on 13 of 19 possessions while allowing four touchdowns and two field goals
• The defense did not allow a point on each of the first seven possessions of the scrimmage and without a touchdown for each of the first 10 series before
Ross Bowers found
Kanawai Noa for an 18-yard score on the 11th possession
• The offense scored for a second straight possession when Bowers hit
Demetris Robertson for a 74-yard touchdown pass three plays after he found Noa that was the longest play of the scrimmage three plays after he found Noa
• Bowers finished the scrimmage 8-of-12 for 162 yards with the two passing touchdowns and picked up another score on his feet with a 1-yard TD run
• McIlwain and
Jeremiah Hawkins connected for a 14-yard touchdown on the final play of the scrimmage for the other score
• McIlwain finished the scrimmage 13-of-21 for 119 yards and the scoring throw
• Noa (8-88, TD), Robertson (4-86, TD) and Hawkins (4-63, TD) were the team's top three receivers
•
Gabe Siemieniec (37 yards) and
Chris Landgrebe (31 yards) each made a field goal while Siemieniec also missed one from 47 yards
• The Cal football video department captured the day's top highlights
• Head coach
Justin Wilcox, Davison and Noa spoke to the media after practice
• Robertson was featured in the San Francisco Chronicle
• #ProBears C.J. Anderson (Denver), Jared Goff (Los Angeles Rams),
Marvin Jones (Detroit) and Aaron Rodgers (Green Bay) were all involved in touchdowns during the second week of the NFL's preseason while Marshawn Lynch made his debut for his hometown Oakland Raiders Social Ads – Looney interrupting Davison
Friday
• The Bears loaded the buses for a short trip to their team hotel after a light practice followed by a walk-through
• Freshmen and newcomers held a meet and greet session with members of the media
Thursday
• The Bears had their lightest practice of the week • #ProBears Mychal Kendricks (Philadelphia) and Lorenzo Alexander (Buffalo) had takeways in preseason NFL games
Wednesday
•
Chris Landgrebe was the hero of the day and had the week's second-most liked tweet, while
Justin Wilcox jokingly had some ideas for the media to join the fun for competition
• Our very own Kate Scott made history
• The world got to meet Siu
•
Justin Wilcox chatted it up with Tom Tolbert and John Lund after practice on KNBR 680 and 1050 AM http://www.knbr.com/tolbert-lund-podcast/
Tuesday
• This was cool
• Texas honored one of its own
Monday
• The Bears started the week off right on the field after a day off Sunday
•
Justin Wilcox,
Jaylinn Hawkins and
Jordan Veasy talked about the start of the third week after practice
• The team got some advice from financial expert David Hollander at its nightly team meeting
