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[QUOTE="syracuse95, post: 3506357, member: 860"]
I agree with everything here.  And our line play has been the root cause of our problems for a while now.   But I will say that, even with an above average O-Line, a lot of the inside runs on the zone read weren't going to be successful yesterday.  I can't bring myself to go back and rewatch the game, but I know that multiple times we ran the ball into a 7 man box.  Not only that, but the UNC linebackers were crashing down at the snap.  They were playing run ALL.  THE.  WAY.  And we ran into it anyway.

Now, Tommy made the right read most of the time [I]for the play called.[/I]  The end was playing contain, because there were two linebackers on run blitz to fill the inside gaps.  Tommy properly gave the ball to Jordan, based on reading the end.  But there was no hope of the play going for more than 2 yards, because we had 6 guys to block 7.  It certainly didn't help that our interior OL got blown up and pushed 2 yards into the backfield, but the play was destined to fail regardless.

We are very predictable in certain down/distance situations.  UNC knew what we were going to do, dared us to do it by showing a D that would counter it, and it we did it anyway.

Somebody has to make that pre-snap read and get us out of that play.
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