No. Just no.
Did you even watch the Cal game? They looked atrocious. It was probably the ugliest P4 game you’ll see all season. Don’t be fooled just because it was a close game; both teams sucked and played like ****. If they had put up the same quality of play against a better team, it would have been another blowout.
I agree their most recent game was their best showing of the season so far, but I always say it speaks volumes when a team thumps their chest over a game they “kept close” instead of, you know, actually winning.
Yes, just yes.
I did in fact watch the Cal game. Because of your post, I figured I must have missed something so I re-watched the game yesterday and I stand by my previous post. The results (wins) aren't there but UNC is getting better as the year goes on. Cal had trouble with drops in the UNC game, but they have had trouble with drops all season. It cost them the VA Tech game last week. But Cal is not a bad team, and UNC gifted them with a red zone fumble on the first play from scrimmage. After that UNC played them even and as I stated, could have won if not for a punch out fumble going into the end zone to take the lead late in the fourth. The Cal CB made a heads up play and saved the game for them.
I'm not saying Cal is the second coming of 2021-22 Georgia bulldogs but they are a decent team with a great freshman QB. They are currently 5-3 with VA and Louisville coming up. We will see how they do. As I stated in my post, UNC started the season looking great their first drive against TCU and then the wheel, tires, brakes, transmission and everything else you can think of fell off. They were in no way even competitive. They won their next 2 games against 2 cupcakes, 20-3 and 41-6 but in no way did they look efficient and sharp.
UCF blew their doors off. Then they had a bye, so I was hoping maybe, they could straighten things out on the week off. On the first play from scrimmage, Clemson scored on 75 yard trick play that UNC was obviously not ready for and the rest of the game was more of the same. I was thinking BB had definitely lost it. I didn't know what was worse, the offense, defense, ST's, coaching or what.
I had a night free so I stayed up late to watch the Cal game (I'm old) and although it wasn't Alabama vs Ohio State, I was very surprised by how competitive it was. I was expecting another game like UCF-UNC. The line actually made some holes, the QB looked OK, RB's ran hard, etc. In the TCU, UCF and Clemson games, UNC rushed for 50, 63 and 57 yards, Against Cal they ran for 120(as well as passing for 167). All in all, I thought they least showed up. I keep using the word, but they were competitive. It surprised me to be honest. After the first five weeks, UNC didn't look like they would be competitive with 1916 Cumberland,
Since UNC looked okay against Cal, I decided last week, I would see if they would do anything against number 16 Virginia. I know the game has a history so if VA had a chance, I thought they might try to beat up on UNC. Again, I was pleasantly surprised. UNC actually played well. They outgained VA 353-259 with 145 yards on the ground. I'm still not a Gio Lopez fan but he is looking better, the whole offense looks like are starting to gel. Even the OL looked decent. UNC had a chance to win. BB went for 2 for the win and came up a couple inches short (shades of Kevin Faulk)
Bottom line, UNC has improved the last couple weeks. They no longer look like a smoking train wreck out there. Will anyone confuse them with Ohio State? No. But as I stated, they could win the rest of their games. There are no Ohio States or Texas A&M's on the schedule. They also could revert back to their earlier season performance and lose them all. But we've all seen what BB can do once the players all buy in. I believe it was Paul Zimmerman, Dr. Z who said the Pats were the worst team in football going into 2001 and we saw how that turned out. I have nothing invested in UNC and only care about them because of Belichick but I think if they keep showing improvement, UNC would be smart to bring him back.
