Didn't see any of the game. Too many threads to go through. Can anyone give me a non bull**** synopsis of 3 or 4 sentences of what happened today? No trolls, just honest breakdown.
We played hard for about 7 minutes. Then we made a mistake, the floodgates opened, and the team (or at least the defense) quit. We're also horribly undisciplined -- lots of BS penalties by the refs today, but we definitely don't play sharp or smart out there. At one point, we had more yards than UNC, but they were up 31-0 because of penalties, turnovers, poor special teams, short fields given to their offense, and a defense that doesn't do a single thing even remotely well.
That last part is what has bothered me so much. Some defenses are strong against the pass but weak against the run. Others load up to stop the run, but you can beat them deep. Some are good in the middle and you have to use speed to beat them on the edges. Our defense doesn't take ANYTHING away from the opposing offense. We line up in our normal formation (when we actually get lined up on time), play our normal conservative coverage, maybe bring a poorly disguised blitz that's easily picked up, and then let the other team gash us doing whatever they want to. QB runs out of the option? He goes 10 yards before he's touched. Passes down the middle of the field? The zone is so soft that there isn't anyone within 5 yards of the receiver when he catches it. It boggles the mind how bad this defense has been for years, and it all rests on the shoulders of Golden and D'Onofrio. Their system depends on the other team to shoot themselves in the foot in order to be effective. When going up against a decent team, it just flat out doesn't work.