This game will come down to the matchup of Enos vs Jay Bateman.
They're not going to load the box & bring 5-6 rushers, they're going to sit back in Zone & allow their Safeties to jump routes & survey the field trying to collapse everything underneath.
Enos will do Jarren & himself a favor by utilizing lots of Zone buster concepts & working the shallow cross heavy.
UNC relies heavily on their LB group to bring pressure, out of the 3 sacks they got against South Car only 1 of them actually came from a DLineman, the rest was from Blitzing LB's.
Their entire secondary is predicated on the Safeties making the reads, the CB's are weak IMO & simply there to just be a placeholder while the S's read the QB's all day.
I'm not seeing the tough matchup that everybody else is seeing, I think there's a clear gap in talent between the 2 teams & to me it comes down to can Enos not be so adherent to sticking with a pre-scripted game plan & make adjustments on the fly to give the Offense a chance to survive.
If Enos is willing to be aggressive vs Bateman we'll do the same thing Boise St did to FSU & force them to make the decision of if they have enough heart & gas in the tank to keep up. If we play conservative we'll play right into UNC's hands & make this game much harder than it needs to be.
What I wanna know is how far is Enos willing to go to win this game? How much will he go unconventional & be willing to call plays that aren't predictable & easily schemed against? After the UF game he said he knew everything they were doing Defensively & that their secondary played a lot more soft Zone than he expected. What I'm waiting to see is if he's the kind of coach that will simply stick with doing the same thing over & over again regardless of the outcome or will he switch it up & be willing to throw the kitchen sink at a Defense if that's what the game calls for. Is he a "the play sheet is always right" kinda coach or is he a "fck it lets go with what works" in the moment type?
I think people forget that South Car was winning the game 20-9 going into the 4th quarter, this wasn't some dominant performance by UNC, they came back & won because 1) Muschamp is a corch & because 2) they essentially let them comeback & win.
This game IMO is all about the Coaches; if they can motivate our boys to play ****ed off Football & walk into Chapel Hill with the unrelenting mentality that we're not leaving with a Loss, then we'll be fine, if we show up with this timid ultra conservative afraid of our own shadow type attitude then not only will we lose but it's gonna be a long long season to follow.
