Post Game Recap: UNC

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Lost the turnover battle 4-0 and only lost by 10 to a top 15 would actually be pretty impressive if you only went by the box score.
This game was 100% decided by the turnover margin. You can't win on the road against a quality opponent with 3 crucial turnovers and forcing none. We had one impactful opportunity to force a TO and our bad luck prevented it.

If Parrish doesn't fumble the score is 24-14 at half. The fumbled snap on a good drive in the 3rd quarter likely took at least 3 off of the board and the TVD pick in our own territory lead to 7 for UNC. That is a 17 point swing right there. The D got gassed and looked checked out after all of those things occurred.

Look across the country at other games and you will see the same result when this happens... Caleb Williams and USC for example, but there are many more.
 
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Well, I can put into words now... First and foremost, we´re not a bad football team. We are talented, but we still have a mixture of lack of talent, bad situational awareness and simply want it too much sometimes. We´re decent, we just are not there yet.

1. CBs need to be a focus in the portal. I dont understand why Porter Jr. didnt cover Walker, as it became evident that Davis cannot do it. Davis had his best game vs the Aggies playing inside in the box as a nickel and we trot him out wide. We do not seem to be comfortable playing either Brown (unless he has an injury, ******* play him) or Richard (Greentree All-American at this point). We need the young talent, sure, but if there is someone who wants to take the final step towards the NFL, throw the kitchen sink at him.

2. We just about made every mistake from a players perspective and at some point, it will catch up. Ironically it was not just the expected ones (Keontra Smith), Matt Lee had bad snaps throughout the whole game, Henry Parrish fumbled in the endzone and TVD had a pick where he simply wanted it too much. Third quarter, after UNCs TD and our fumble, we played tight on offense, essentially repeating the mistakes Mack Brown mentioned at halftime with his team (which was also true). The ironic thing is, we had UNC on the heels, that defense was nowhere to be found. The roster will continue to have players being shuffled out and replaced with new ones and it will happen next year.

3. I have read tons of things in regards to the inability of the TE being included. There are two reasons as to why this happens, 1. Riley Williams is the only legit receiving option that we have here and he is a freshman who simply is not there yet (shocker, very few Freshman TE are) and 2. TVD is playing in a progression read system whilst not making the reads. This is who he is and that wont change, hence why I believe he wont declare for the NFL. However, some of the comments on here regarding his play are downright shocking. The TD pass to George at the end of the second quarter is the best throw I will see from a QB this week, if not this month. I am not sure if any of you are ready to believe that he is the best option we have, but some in here expose their brutal lack of knowledge about offensive football with the comments they have made yesterday.

4. I am not sure why Dawson has scaled down on the diversity of the run game. I dont see the pulling guards, I dont see McCoy being out there, I dont see split zone anymore. Not sure whats happening here, but we had some tremendous success running the ball with moving either TE or OL and that has gone away completely. Might wanna come back to that.



Overall, as I said, this is not a bad team. I get the frustration at this point and it sucks even more given that we beat ourselves yesterday, however, I dont get people going "the season is over", "Cristobal sucks, we need to fire him", "TVD needs to be benched"... like, after 4-0, this fanbase pretended to have the biggest balls in America and two losses were enough to have a mass castration event happening. This team is still in a transitioning period, from a talent perspective, we are not there yet and coaching wise, one change absolutely has to be made (and probably will, I do not see Addae being retained @Memnon after all of the smoke from last year and the Raymond talk the year prior). If the players had the same attitude that a lot of this fanbase would have after a loss, we would quit one loss into the season and just collapse every time some adversity hits.

It is Clemson next week and we either have a loyal fanbase supporting the troops or we have the same sissys that we always have. Its up to you.

So coaching, coaching, coaching, coaching and the fans…
 
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1. Why so much Jaden Davis and so little Jadais/Brown Brothers/Freeney on the outside? They can't be that much worse, could they? The coaches seem to have locked-in on the same three receivers but can't seem to make up their minds in the secondary (Addae? Guidry?). Davis and Couch should always be in the slot.

2. D*MN we're slow! This has been a thing for a while too, I'd say since Manny took over. The players were flying on every other team I watched yesterday while we're plodding around. Stop recruiting snails and get some cheetahs out there.

3. Dawson is starting to worry me. Outside of the A&M game, he's basically been running the same stagnant offense all year. No innovation, no creativity, just the same three receiver sets. I'm glad somebody else is fed up with the screens to Horton and Colby. It worked once! Give it a rest and use Ray Ray, Harrell, or Kirk! Also, the tempo and urgency is downright abysmal at times.

I don't think the GT loss affected the team that much in this game tbh. The inconsistent play has been there all year.
The screens to Horton/Colbie were successful ... what we could use is MOAR screens to include some of the burners. The reality is the larger WRs have the physicality to break tackles and get 1st downs.
 
Tez Walker and Alijah Huzzie came from the portal from Kent St and East Tennessee St respectively.

#evalsbro
Everyone wanted Tez Walker but the only way he was getting approved was to "move closer to his grandmother".

He's been at 4 schools now and shouldn't have even been on the field last night.

We got Kiko, Lee, and Cohen who might be our three best players on the team.

Is what it is.
 
The screens to Horton/Colbie were successful ... what we could use is MOAR screens to include some of the burners. The reality is the larger WRs have the physicality to break tackles and get 1st downs.

Agree that they were good and yes, we needed more screens. But the dogged insistence on the same personnel and lack of a rotation was the difference between a decent gainer (what we had with Horton and young) and a probably long touchdown (if it had been Ray Ray or smith). That’s the point.
 
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Everyone wanted Tez Walker but the only way he was getting approved was to "move closer to his grandmother".

He's been at 4 schools now and shouldn't have even been on the field last night.

We got Kiko, Lee, and Cohen who might be our three best players on the team.

Is what it is.

I appreciate those three, but we can point to other gaps or misses too…

Agreed. Is what it is. But unless we adapt, it’s going to be that way …
 
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We have now reached the part of the season where personnel choices are being questioned and coaches seats are getting hot. It happens every year.

We lost that game along the lines. Our future 1st rounder at DT didn’t do enough. Our other DTs were nonexistent against the run. Our DEs outside of Bain didn’t do a ton either.

On the offensive, 25 worked over both our tackles & 8 was a handful for anyone blocking him allowing UNC to drop 8 into coverage when needed. We are also very banged up at RB and didn’t play CJ even when we needed more speed.

As for Davis, I would have liked to see Brown earlier against the size of UNCs WR with DP on Dez. I also would have liked to see less of Flagg.

If we are questioning DB and DT, the coaching should be questioned, too.
 
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