My Game Obsevations

First of all I think Carolina(SC) completely controlled the game from the very beginning and I feel like spurrier knew this. Once Scar got up 17-0, it was a very vanilla performance. We could have ran the ball and threw off of play action all night cause UNC had no answer for either. The offensive line looked really good in the running and somewhat shaky in pass coverages, but mostly just against blitz packages. They did seem to struggle in recognizing blitzes but you can def tell this is the most physical o line  since spurrier has been in Columbia I thought the backs looked good, and as bad as is this may sound, don't think there will a ton of a drop off without Latt. Receivers I thought as a group looked decent. Downfield blocking doesn't appear to be as good as in the past but they all seem to be open and very quick. Outside of the Roland drop in the endzone, pretty decent performance. Shaw looked a little gun shy at times, as I think he still has that "run first" mentality but he's a winner so ill take it. Still needs to learn to slide on scrambles. 

Defensively, I was impressed with the over all team speed. This Carolina team is by far the fastest I've ever seen in my lifetime. They're not the biggest but extremely athletic. As far as Clowney is concerned, I think he went "too hard" early in the game and burned him self out. He was chasing plays from behind on the other side of the field, not to mention taking on 2, sometimes 3 blockers. I don't care who it is, when you are constantly getting doubled and tripled its gonna take its toll. Of course he took plays off, he was exhausted. Also an article up on yahoo stating that he suffered from a stomach virus, take it for what it's worth. When clowney is rested you can see the freak that he is. Not worried about this defense at all. We only rushed 4 all night, Quarles didn't even play in the first half, and UNC only td drive should've never happened because of the phantom face mask. So overall I give the defense a B. 

One quick note here, ACC officials are absolute trash. Not gonna take the time to indulge into all the bad calls or no calls but it was an extremely poor officiated game. Thank God we are done with acc clowns the rest of the year. Sad part is, SEC officials prob won't be any better.