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Message: [QUOTE="gocraz4dasu, post: 3506559, member: 1109"] I'd really like to see us throwing the ball over the middle more. We had a couple of good slants to start off drives but we never really went back to them. I'm unsure if that is a play calling thing or a Devito thing. Dungey did throw a lot of balls to Ervin Phillips or Sean Riley over the middle. Our slot guys have vanished this year and last year, and I think Nykiem and Courtney Jackson have talent. Our receivers dropped too many balls and then Devito missed them when they were open. They just could not get on the same page. I did like what I saw from Queeley and Taj's YAC. Need to see Benson and Hackett used more, as I think they give us solid match-ups in our favor. I hate our run game from the blocking to the play calls. Can we run some sweeps with Jawhar? He has the speed but he is not built to succeed when our interior line is not the strength. I'd have liked to see some delayed screens. I'd also really like to see us pull a guard here or there. And I LOATHE our read option. We have yet to get it right since the start of last year. The red zone read-option was awful today and I was pulling my hair our when we were first and goal and ran the read option twice (both went to Jordan who had no chance to do anything with it). Did we even attempt a play action pass? Any time Devito turns around, and starts running backwards/backpedaling, nothing good happens. Very few quarterbacks can pull that off, like Manziel at A&M. The times when he stepped up in the pocket good things happened. Those step ups had me excited but the backpedaling outpaced the step-ups or roll-outs. A good portion of that is due to our interior lineman not being great. They weren't awful this week but they certainly weren't good (I'd say mediocre). The worry is that UNC's dline is their weakness. Clemson might destroy our interior. Our secondary is legit. Trill was basically not targeted all game. UNC's best plays early came from slipping in the secondary. The 4th quarter the whole defense was gassed and frustrated so I don't hold that against them too much. Garrett Williams and Iffy are definitely an ACC caliber CB pairing based off of today. Coley was the weakest out of the bunch and he still played OK. Our dline had moments of playing well but they weren't fantastic. I'd give them a B, if I had to grade them. Linton and Jonathan on the same side proved to be a lot for UNC to handle though, which I loved to see. The undicsiplined penalties need to be cut out. Still can't believe Szymt missed that 33 yard field goal. I thought he'd still make it but Devito running out of bounds and taking the sack switching hashmarks was a poor decision when he could have easily tossed it out of bounds. Still should be made by the kicker but it was unnecessary. This game was frustrating because we made UNC look very beatable but our offense was a 2 ton weight around our necks all game. The defense gave them GREAT field position multiple times and the O did nothing with it. Had our offense been even somewhat competent, and put together 3 or 4 drives, I genuinely think we win that game. Instead we look like we got smoked at 31-6. It's still a long season and there are reasons to have some excitement. My nervousness is stemming from how we looked weak starting out last year and we do again this year. It took like 8 games last year to figure it out and I really hope it doesn't take the offense that long again to get going. [/QUOTE]

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