Cal Football Video: `If We're Not Getting Better We're Going to Lose Games'

Evan Weaver had another Evan Weaver game on Saturday. The senior linebacker collected 21 tackles - one shy of his career-high - including two sacks.

But Cal lost its third straight game, 21-17 to visiting Oregon State, and Weaver was the first to say (in the video above) that the Bears must improve if they hope to turn things around.

Cal is now 4-3 overall, 1-3 in the Pac-12 and plays Saturday at nationally ranked Utah, which is 6-1 and has outscored its past three opponents by a margin of 111-23.

Cal coach Justin Wilcox was critical of the Bears' defense on three long OSU scoring drives, and made it clear that everyone - starting with himself but also including the uber-productive Weaver - must sharpen his game.

Without argument, Weaver is assembling ridiculous stats.

He now has 105 tackles this season - 20 more than any other player who has played in seven games, as Weaver has. His 15.0 tackles-per-game mark also leads the NCAA.

Weaver has four games this season of at least 15 tackles - more than any FBS player. He had a career-high 22 tackles at Ole Miss and 18 at Washington. Over the past two seasons, he has accumulated double-digit tackle totals 16 times.

And he's climbing Cal's all-time charts.

Weaver is No. 6 in career tackles with 335, just one behind 1983 All-American Ron Rivera. Also within reach is Mike Mohamed, who totaled 340 tackles from 2007-10. No. 4 is as high as Weaver will ascend on the list.

But if he maintains his current pace of 15 tackles per game, Weaver would finish the season with 180 tackles and crush Hardy Nickerson's Cal single-season record of 167 set in 1985.