FB: Duke 21, North Carolina 20

A curated roundup from @ICMeltdown:

“I'm content to lose out. Get in a new conference and get a real staff.”

“Kenan will be a ghost town AND SHOULD BE......SEND THE MESSAGE WITH YOUR SEAT EMPTY.”

“Fire Mack and make him apologize for the poor product, poor position that he put us in.”

“Soft as the baby blue we wear. Okay like toddlers”

“Change the locks and don’t let him or any other coach back in the building”

“We deserved to lose for keeping Mack for another game.”

“Mack needs to walk home.”

“That’s it for me this year. Can’t wait for basketball to start. We are a basketball school and that’s where our money needs to go. We are wasting time and money on football.”

“At least we will get a good draft pick”

“Burn it down and start from scratch”

“Two years two late. Washed up, zero leadership, program ruiner, paycheck thief. GO AWAY!”

“I hope no one shows up to the next game. I am so sick of Mack - the biggest fraud HC I have ever seen”

“I don’t trust the [powers that be]. I think they’re fat and happy having Mack. It’s pathetic.”

“Brown burned his bridges when he thought he was on par with Dean Smith. He wasn't.”

“Honestly I don’t see another win on the schedule.”

“They're wusses. Poorly coached wusses, but still wusses.”
There's some classic stuff in there, no doubt. They appear to be a sad lot, which in turn saddens me.................................................none. :D
 
A curated roundup from @ICMeltdown:

“I'm content to lose out. Get in a new conference and get a real staff.”

“Kenan will be a ghost town AND SHOULD BE......SEND THE MESSAGE WITH YOUR SEAT EMPTY.”

“Fire Mack and make him apologize for the poor product, poor position that he put us in.”

“Soft as the baby blue we wear. Okay like toddlers”

“Change the locks and don’t let him or any other coach back in the building”

“We deserved to lose for keeping Mack for another game.”

“Mack needs to walk home.”

“That’s it for me this year. Can’t wait for basketball to start. We are a basketball school and that’s where our money needs to go. We are wasting time and money on football.”

“At least we will get a good draft pick”

“Burn it down and start from scratch”

“Two years two late. Washed up, zero leadership, program ruiner, paycheck thief. GO AWAY!”

“I hope no one shows up to the next game. I am so sick of Mack - the biggest fraud HC I have ever seen”

“I don’t trust the [powers that be]. I think they’re fat and happy having Mack. It’s pathetic.”

“Brown burned his bridges when he thought he was on par with Dean Smith. He wasn't.”

“Honestly I don’t see another win on the schedule.”

“They're wusses. Poorly coached wusses, but still wusses.”
Thank you for aggregating. Like the one about walking home. The mental image of Mack having to slump down 15-501 as punishment makes me laugh haha
 
A curated roundup from @ICMeltdown:

“I'm content to lose out. Get in a new conference and get a real staff.”

“Kenan will be a ghost town AND SHOULD BE......SEND THE MESSAGE WITH YOUR SEAT EMPTY.”

“Fire Mack and make him apologize for the poor product, poor position that he put us in.”

“Soft as the baby blue we wear. Okay like toddlers”

“Change the locks and don’t let him or any other coach back in the building”

“We deserved to lose for keeping Mack for another game.”

“Mack needs to walk home.”

“That’s it for me this year. Can’t wait for basketball to start. We are a basketball school and that’s where our money needs to go. We are wasting time and money on football.”

“At least we will get a good draft pick”

“Burn it down and start from scratch”

“Two years two late. Washed up, zero leadership, program ruiner, paycheck thief. GO AWAY!”

“I hope no one shows up to the next game. I am so sick of Mack - the biggest fraud HC I have ever seen”

“I don’t trust the [powers that be]. I think they’re fat and happy having Mack. It’s pathetic.”

“Brown burned his bridges when he thought he was on par with Dean Smith. He wasn't.”

“Honestly I don’t see another win on the schedule.”

“They're wusses. Poorly coached wusses, but still wusses.”
I have to admit the line about getting a good draft pick was pretty good. 😂
 
Caught part of Mack’s presser. “We made a 1st down in 3rd quarter but they took it away with a holding call. Cost us 4 points as we had to kick the FG.” Cheat fans gonna love that one.
 
Yes, been discussed. For whatever reason. Murphy runs only when trying to avoid a sack. Zero RPO game. Zero bootleg. I like the kid, but it’s an issue.
He's the absolute least mobile, worst running, worst scrambling QB I think I've ever seen. It is a BIIG issue. I think Jurgenson and Kilmer were better with the George Allen Skins. Okay, maybe not that....but it is tremendously limiting. Where we used to wonder "how did Riley Leonard do that" I know wonder "how did Malik NOT do that?"

I love that we're 5-0 and that we beat the Cheats...but at least four of our wins are against really bad teams. Two terrible quarters in almost every game so far.
 
He's the absolute least mobile, worst running, worst scrambling QB I think I've ever seen. It is a BIIG issue. I think Jurgenson and Kilmer were better with the George Allen Skins. Okay, maybe not that....but it is tremendously limiting. Where we used to wonder "how did Riley Leonard do that" I know wonder "how did Malik NOT do that?"
Oddly, I recall researching his speed, and it was pretty good. 🤷‍♂️
 
Let's Go Duke! Wow. Top 5 atmosphere in my 35+ years at the Wade, and top 5 home win too.

The Good:

- "The road to easy street runs through the sewer" - David Feeley. That's three fourth quarter comeback wins. Those wins are built in the offseason. I love the culture that Feeley has brought to this program.

- We found a running game! I thought we had almost no chance of outrushing them, win or lose. We did on all fronts. Rushing yards: 185-156. Yards per carry: 4.5 to 3.9. Star Thomas outrushed their future pro 166-103. Manny said UNC surprised us with the way the defended early, and we made halftime adjustments to our blocking scheme. I'm not sure what changed, but we started blocking the hell out of them. And our backs ran harder as the game went on.

- Star Thomas warrants his own bullet point. In a game that was crying out for inspiration on offense, he delivered. That sideline TD dash changed the game. We need to use him more in the passing game going forward.

- Defense delivered when we needed them. There was no margin for error once it was 20-0, and they came through. Hampton had to earn his yards. Then the pass rush won the game in the 4th quarter. Loved seeing Jaylen Stinson get the key pressure and Tre Freeman get the pick. Two program guys who have stayed the course for us.



The Bad:

- Special teams. Yikes. Mistakes happen. But this was a poorly coached unit last night. The long UNC punt return and the blocked punt fiasco just cannot happen.

- Maalik had by far his worst game. His accuracy was off all night. Thankfully, he avoided any turnovers.

- I did not find myself overly impressed with the ACC officials. UNC DBs were holding our receivers on every single pass play. I mean every single one. They quite literally could have been called for holding/DPI 25 times. Thankfully, the refs helped us out with that double penalty to UNC after we turned it over on downs.


The statistical:

- We're 5-0 for the first time since 1994

- This was the biggest comeback in series history and second biggest in Duke history. #1 was a 21-0 deficit against GT in 1954.

- We're now 2-0 all time against that lot in September.
 
One thing I noticed on re-watch: On the last Carolina possession, Duke was primarily rushing four (once, even just three) and putting loads of pressure on Criswell on every play. I think just the first and last plays of the possession were blitzes. I can't recall a game, since maybe the McGee days, when the D-line could put that much pressure on a standard pass rush. The Duke D-line pretty much owned the second half ... and I don't think the O-line was any too shabby either.
 
Oddly, I recall researching his speed, and it was pretty good. 🤷‍♂️
Jurgenson was an incredible athlete. He easily outran Roman Gabriel in Superstars competition and Billy Kilmer in Redskin wind sprints. No measure of speed, of course. NC tennis champ. Coach Bradley wanted Sonny to play hoops at Duke.
 
Jurgenson was an incredible athlete. He easily outran Roman Gabriel in Superstars competition and Billy Kilmer in Redskin wind sprints. No measure of speed, of course. NC tennis champ. Coach Bradley wanted Sonny to play hoops at Duke.
yes he was, but that was long gone by the days of Kilmer /Jurgenson.......
 
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