If you’ve been on board for awhile, especially from Bleacher Report to Stadium to Facebook to Here; you know I love to re-watch games. Today, I started off re-watching last night’s TCU at UNC game.
48-14 final.
Opening script by offensive coordinator Freddie Kitchens was glorious. Led to a score and a long completion to Jordan Shipp. 83 yards, 39 coming on the Shipp completion and a touchdown on the ground from Caleb Hood.
TCU’s opening drive UNC did some unique defensive things including clearly seeing the same things I saw on Josh Hoover’s film; protect the interior. It frustrated TCU into a punt because Kendal Briles couldn’t get out to get back in.
Then for UNC everything just stopped. Truly, the wildest graphic ESPN put up was from 8:15 until 10:20, in real human time, not game time, UNC QB Gio Lopez did not complete a pass.
That’s insane.
Then you get into the other things that have to be worked on:
1-DB Continuity
By my count the Heels played at least 9 different defensive backs and 5 different combos of those 9 players. Not like scrub time vs set starters but in a “Throw Bodies at the problem” type of way. A secondary is about being cohesive and there was not much out there.
Bad run fits from safeties, including guys being swallowed up by tight ends and wide receivers leading to massive runs.
2-Bad Snaps
Speaks for itself. Obviously UNC has battled injuries at center but bad snaps can kill a drive and gave that aggressive TCU front-7 a chance to pin back their ears. That’s practice because if the 1 and 2 can’t go and they’re working to convert someone, get them reps.
3-Shed Blocks
This is ridiculous.
Seriously.
Yes, the secondary struggled with it, but when your linebackers and defensive linemen also can’t do it, strike up the band.
This is some velcro shit right here. These guys have to collision, extend and then shed to make a tackle, not dance with the opposition while the RB blows by them. Throw in some bad angles and voila, TD. More than once.
For those who don’t know this is what is supposed to happen:
Violent hands. Head in gap to deter RB and force cutback. Powerful rip to disengage. Go tackle the football. Shout out to Peter Woods.
4-Play clock and helmet communication
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