We’ve seen two versions of #13 QB A. Brown this season: in the first three games, he’s been an effective game manager with a good command of the RPO offense and a lot of pocket presence, but with limitations to his passing accuracy and an inability to hit the deep ball. After sitting out the second half of the third game, he returned for the fourth and fifth games and we saw another version: the passing accuracy issues remained, but now with frequent read errors and misunderstanding playcalls.
Against Cal, the version of Brown was much closer to the first than the second.