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Miami vs UNC: Tar Heels Have SCARY Plan for Hurricanes? Will it WORK? · ACC Football Addiction (Atlantic Coast Conference)

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  Speaker 1: We are going to stay in the ACC for Miami
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  Speaker 1: and North Carolina presented by prize picks. The Canes go
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  Speaker 1: to a Halloween night game in Chapel Hill against a
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  Speaker 1: team that is probably slightly better than we were expecting
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  Speaker 1: this year. Like we looked at last year's schedule and
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  Speaker 1: thought like, Oh, this is easy. They'll win a lot
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  Speaker 1: of games. And then we looked at the, and they didn't,
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  Speaker 1: then we looked at this year's schedule and and said, dude,
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  Speaker 1: they're losing to TCU. Can they find their way to
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  Speaker 1: four wins? I think their Vegas over-under was like three
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  Speaker 1: and a half or four and a half. They've already, essentially,
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  Speaker 1: they're going to beat that, right? I guess they haven't
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  Speaker 1: beat it if you got it on the four and
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  Speaker 1: a half line. North Carolina's been surprisingly better than I
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  Speaker 1: thought this year. And they took down Duke. They've got
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  Speaker 1: some wins. They shoot. They had the lead against Clemson
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  Speaker 1: and blew that, but they played well enough in that game.
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  Speaker 1: Like I'm not trying to hype North Carolina as a
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  Speaker 1: real team, like that's going to go out, but they've
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  Speaker 1: been better than expected. So shout out to Belichick and
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  Speaker 1: them for, for all the off season drama, getting things
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  Speaker 1: turned around and at least winning more games than you're
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  Speaker 1: losing at this point. I don't expect them to win
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  Speaker 1: this game, but if they can make it competitive, maybe
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  Speaker 1: Miami's in a little bit of a look ahead spot
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  Speaker 1: after the game against Florida state after beating pit. Um,
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  Speaker 1: and then clearly, you know, what's next week, right? A
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  Speaker 1: top five matchup on the road. Maybe North Carolina can
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  Speaker 1: make this game competitive. So Miami clear and apart the
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  Speaker 1: best team in the country right now. So, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not trying to sell you on, Oh, is this
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  Speaker 1: an upset possibility? I guess every week's an upset possibility
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  Speaker 1: in college football this year, but, um, Shout out North Carolina, man,
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  Speaker 1: for at least making me care about this game a
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  Speaker 1: little bit. Maybe that's what I'm most excited about is
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  Speaker 1: before the season, I thought, oh, no chance this matters.
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  Speaker 1: I think it matters a little bit now.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that defensive line has been playing out of
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  Speaker 2: its mind for North Carolina.
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  Speaker 3: That's the one positive that you can say in every game.
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  Speaker 2: And Billy Edwards, when he doesn't turn the football over,
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  Speaker 2: is a competent, low tier game manager that doesn't give
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  Speaker 2: you anything.
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  Speaker 3: But he also doesn't put the ball in harm's way.
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  Speaker 2: But he does put the ball in harm's way a lot. Regardless,
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  Speaker 2: I'm salty because I don't like Bill Belichick coaching college football.
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  Speaker 2: That's not the point here. The point is that, TJ,
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  Speaker 2: you're not wrong.
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  Speaker 3: This is a look-ahead spot.
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  Speaker 2: Think about it like how a team like Georgia a
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  Speaker 2: couple weeks ago when they played against Auburn. 99% of
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  Speaker 2: the time, Georgia's going to win that football game. And
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  Speaker 2: Georgia was up 14-0, and they're like, oh, well, we're
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  Speaker 2: supposed to win because it's Auburn, and we always beat
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  Speaker 2: them in the deep south's oldest rivalry. So we just
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  Speaker 2: get into the bye, and we coast, and we're still undefeated.
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  Speaker 2: And Auburn said, not today.
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  Speaker 3: We're going to make you make mistakes.
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  Speaker 2: And even when they did, you know, even when Georgia
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  Speaker 2: shots up on the foot, Auburn capitalized. So knowing that
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  Speaker 2: you have the Notre Dame game on the horizon, that
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  Speaker 2: is the game to where I would say at this point,
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  Speaker 2: if you win that one, you feel pretty confident that
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  Speaker 2: you're going to go undefeated the rest of the year.
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  Speaker 3: You're going to get the number one seed.
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  Speaker 2: You're not going to have to worry about anything when
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  Speaker 2: it comes to college football playoff. Isn't this a spot
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  Speaker 2: to where maybe you're so focused in on what Notre
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  Speaker 2: Dame is going to do against you that you allow
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  Speaker 2: an early touchdown run to Demon June? Or you allow
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  Speaker 2: a big time play to Jelani Thurman for a gain
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  Speaker 2: of 40 because your secondary is not paying attention. And
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  Speaker 2: now here we are going into halftime and you're leading,
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  Speaker 2: but let's say you're leading 21 to 17 and UNC
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  Speaker 2: gets the ball first. And you don't make the corrections
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  Speaker 2: going into the third quarter.
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  Speaker 3: And now they take a 24-21 lead.
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  Speaker 2: And you still come back to win, but it's a
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  Speaker 2: lot bigger of a dogfight than you expected because of
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  Speaker 2: how much you were preparing for a game that is
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  Speaker 2: two weeks away rather than the one that is a
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  Speaker 2: week away. And for still, North Carolina's schedule, the way
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  Speaker 2: that it pans on out, guys, UConn, probably a win,
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  Speaker 2: but not a guaranteed.
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  Speaker 3: Louisville, Virginia, NC State.
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  Speaker 2: You don't need this one to get to bowl eligibility.
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  Speaker 2: but you feel a lot better about winning this one.
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  Speaker 2: You are definitely going to be bowl eligible. And now
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  Speaker 2: you're flirting with maybe seven wins in year two of
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  Speaker 2: the Bill Belichick era.
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  Speaker 1: need to establish the run for this game to be competitive.
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  Speaker 1: you mentioned. I tell you Miami's problems to me. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you three. I'm gonna give you four.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you four Miami problems. Let's just pile on.
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  Speaker 1: Now the Canes fans will agree with all of these
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  Speaker 1: and never disagree with anything that I say. Um, but
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  Speaker 1: number one is the penalties. I'd like to see that improved.
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  Speaker 1: It's still too much. There are a hundred, I think
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  Speaker 1: there are 120th out of 138, 139 teams. They know
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  Speaker 1: they need to fix that secondary. Part of that is health.
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  Speaker 1: Like you can't control the injuries, but secondary has to
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  Speaker 1: get better. It's my biggest worry about them going to
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  Speaker 1: South Bend next week. Um, number three is I think
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  Speaker 1: they're a little Tony dependent. You look at what their
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  Speaker 1: offense just looks like with him on and off the field. And,
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  Speaker 1: and I get it. He, I, he's my vote for
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  Speaker 1: the Heisman right now, right? Like I, Take advantage of
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  Speaker 1: the guy you got. But they have other weapons, too.
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  Speaker 1: And I'd like to see their offense look a little
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  Speaker 1: bit more competent when he's off the field. Not that
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  Speaker 1: he should be off the field a little bit, but
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  Speaker 1: fluky things happen. He got banged up against Pitt, and
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  Speaker 1: I didn't think they were great when he was off
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  Speaker 1: the field. And number four is the offensive line, which
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  Speaker 1: I think has improved. But Pitt got after Mensah quite
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  Speaker 1: a bit. Florida State got after Mensah quite a bit.
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  Speaker 1: you've not seen the same level of dominance in the
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  Speaker 1: trenches that you saw the last season for Miami. So
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  Speaker 1: that North Carolina defensive line, can they wreck the game
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  Speaker 1: enough which they would have to, as good as they've
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  Speaker 1: been called, they'd have to have still the game of
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  Speaker 1: their season because you can wreck the game enough. And
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  Speaker 1: then Malachi, Tony can just beat you in the fourth quarter, right?
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  Speaker 1: Like they're, you know, it's, it's a very tall task
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  Speaker 1: to think that they can actually win this game, but
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  Speaker 1: can they get it to the second half? Can they
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  Speaker 1: get into the fourth quarter in a weird, you know,
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  Speaker 1: Halloween night type game in, uh, North Carolina possibly, but that,
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  Speaker 1: that defensive line, can they go like Dylan Stewart level, uh,
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  Speaker 1: of games, record game changer. Can they go Jared verse
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  Speaker 1: level against Louisville in the ACC championship? Can't, can they
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  Speaker 1: play that high up? And can Miami's offensive line respond
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  Speaker 1: to that challenge? Can I trust Dawson to kind of scheme,
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  Speaker 1: scheme things up? Miami does a great job. I saw
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  Speaker 1: somebody called Tony, a screen merchant. And I'm like, okay,
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  Speaker 1: that's fine. But when he goes 65 yards after catching
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  Speaker 1: a screen, like so be it right. Throw him the
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  Speaker 1: ball behind the line of scrimmage. And when you have
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  Speaker 1: three guys that he makes look silly on his way
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  Speaker 1: to the end zone, and he's looking back at him
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  Speaker 1: as he goes into the end zone and then crushing
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  Speaker 1: you with the Heisman pose after screen merchant, all you want, right?
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  Speaker 1: Like whatever it takes, I, you know, it's, it's one
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  Speaker 1: thing to, to, to call somebody a screen merchant. It's
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  Speaker 1: another thing to watch what he does on a consistent basis.
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  Speaker 1: So Yeah, that defensive line-offensive line matchup is, for the
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  Speaker 1: issues that Miami has, that's the one that I'm watching
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  Speaker 1: the most this weekend. Obviously, if they go out and
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  Speaker 1: have another 10-penalty game, if they go out and Tony
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  Speaker 1: gets banged up and they were too dependent on him,
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of different factors. But it's the offensive
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  Speaker 1: line for Miami against the defensive line for North Carolina
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  Speaker 1: to me. Tom? I've talked about this before.
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  Speaker 4: We discussed this in terms of recapping Miami last week is...
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  Speaker 4: they're still going to score on minimum five possessions a game.
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  Speaker 4: And I don't think UNC does anything different with that.
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  Speaker 4: The least that they scored all season was 33, and
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  Speaker 4: that was at Wake Forest. They're putting up ungodly offensive numbers.
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  Speaker 4: I have belief in what Fletcher and Mallory can do
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  Speaker 4: running the football. If it is a situation where the
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  Speaker 4: pass rush is getting to Mensah, and it is kind
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  Speaker 4: of slowing things down and mucking things up, within the
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  Speaker 4: pass game. But kind of the best recipe to negate
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  Speaker 4: a pass rush is to run the football effectively. And
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  Speaker 4: that is something Miami is capable of, to the points
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  Speaker 4: that you've said. Is this the best offensive line they've had?
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  Speaker 4: Not necessarily. Will this defensive line put up a fight?
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  Speaker 1: For sure.
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  Speaker 4: I think this is a bit of a stalemate in
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  Speaker 4: the first half. I'd certainly look at team totals and
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  Speaker 4: first half unders if you guys are on prize picks
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  Speaker 4: regarding this game. But I think Miami's offense is inevitable.
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  Speaker 4: So I'm going to take Miami in this one. I
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  Speaker 4: think North Carolina puts up a fight in the first half.
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  Speaker 4: I think Mensah has done a better job getting the
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  Speaker 4: ball out quickly. And part of that is that screen
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  Speaker 4: game that you talked about, that bubble screen game. Because, yeah, the, quote,
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  Speaker 4: screen merchant thing, you just need to get him the
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  Speaker 4: ball physically.
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  Speaker 1: That's it.
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  Speaker 4: And it's the same conversation we were having about Jeremiah
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  Speaker 4: Smith's skill set versus Malachi Toney's skill set. You just
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  Speaker 4: need to give him a little bit of a crease,
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  Speaker 4: a little bit of a window, and Tony's gone. And
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  Speaker 4: there's nobody in the country that can really keep up
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  Speaker 4: with him. Even Bill Belichick himself was recently quoted saying, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: even double teaming the guy doesn't really seem to do it.
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  Speaker 4: So I don't think UNC is the personnel to slow
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  Speaker 4: down Miami from a Malachi-Tony standpoint. And if Miami comes
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  Speaker 4: into this really dedicated to running the football consistently, just
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  Speaker 4: wearing down UNC, it won't be a blowout in the
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  Speaker 4: first half, but just Give it time. I think Miami
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  Speaker 4: salts this one away.
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  Speaker 2: UNC ranks 48th, I believe, in scoring defense. They rank
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  Speaker 2: 84th in total yards allowed.
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  Speaker 3: I think they're top 50 in run defense. No, they're not.
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  Speaker 2: They're number 91st in run defense and they're 84th in
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  Speaker 2: pass defense. And you're going up against arguably one of
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  Speaker 2: the best ground games in the ACC. The best passing
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  Speaker 2: attack in the ACC. A quarterback that does not make
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  Speaker 2: mental mistakes like other passers around there, a team that
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  Speaker 2: knows how to be able to win with depth and
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  Speaker 2: can utilize their offensive line to play with tempo. I mean, look,
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  Speaker 2: the other problem with this whole conversation of even if
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  Speaker 2: you have the game of your life from the defensive
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  Speaker 2: side of North Carolina, the offense still has to show
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  Speaker 2: on up. And even with it being a weaker defense
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  Speaker 2: than we expected going into the year, I'm not saying
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  Speaker 2: Billy Edwards is winning this football game. I refuse to
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  Speaker 2: say that Billy Edwards is winning this football game. And
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  Speaker 2: apparently I'm the biggest UNC hater, so I might as
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  Speaker 2: well embrace the heel. I said all those nice things
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  Speaker 2: about you and what you could do in the first
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  Speaker 2: half to make this a four-quarter game before you watch
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  Speaker 2: as Miami pulls away late.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think you get off the bus. I don't
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  Speaker 3: think that you even wake up.
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  Speaker 2: I think that you are out partying and trick-or-treating and
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  Speaker 2: you got Bill's girlfriend that's handing out candy and Snickers
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  Speaker 2: bars and all that nice stuff. And that's what you're
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  Speaker 2: focusing on because if you're not going to be playing
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  Speaker 2: football on Saturday... That's what I say. I really want
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  Speaker 2: to see JV and Mallory have a big game. I
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  Speaker 2: want to see what's got names outside of Malachi, Tony. Because, again,
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  Speaker 2: eventually you are going to need to call on a
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  Speaker 2: Daylon Upshaw to make a big-time play or a Cooper
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  Speaker 2: Barkey to make a big-time play.
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  Speaker 3: And I think they both do.
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  Speaker 2: And honestly, I think this is just another thing that
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  Speaker 2: you check off the box of what makes Miami the
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  Speaker 2: most dangerous team in the college football playoff. Because when
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  Speaker 2: everyone's talking about a trap game, This is far from it.
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  Speaker 3: This just is.
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  Speaker 2: UNC lost to Syracuse. I'm not thinking that you're going
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  Speaker 2: to now pull off an upset against the number one team.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to go big. I'm going to go like 48-10.
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  Speaker 2: I think that you are not getting anything going with
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  Speaker 2: this UNC offense. And maybe for like a quarter, this
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  Speaker 2: defense shows on up. It's like 7-0 after the first.
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  Speaker 2: And then give me straight five scoring drives from Miami
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  Speaker 2: to go.
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  Speaker 1: Put this one away.
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to take Miami 38-20, and I'm also going
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  Speaker 4: to see if Price Picks will let me put down
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  Speaker 4: a bet for Bill Belichick's Halloween costume, because I think
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  Speaker 4: he's going to go as Robert Paulson from Fight Club.
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  Speaker 1: I think it'll work out. Yeah, I like him to
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  Speaker 1: cover the 14.5. I do think it's potentially a little
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  Speaker 1: lower scoring. Like, maybe Miami doesn't hit 40 this time. So, yeah, 35-17.
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  Speaker 1: I think they can get a couple of touchdowns off
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  Speaker 1: against this defense. Some of it could come late. This
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  Speaker 1: could be a situation. Weren't they up like 31-3 or
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  Speaker 1: 31-10 or something against Pitt? This could be a situation
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  Speaker 1: where they get up big and then North Carolina scores
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  Speaker 1: 10 points in the second half to make it look
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  Speaker 1: a little more respectable. I think they roll. There's a
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  Speaker 1: path for North Carolina to keep this a game. There's
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  Speaker 1: no weather. I think that it's just not enough. Like
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  Speaker 1: Miami is just way too talented. I thought they played
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  Speaker 1: a B type of game against Pittsburgh and they scored 50.
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  Speaker 1: So they, they're just too good. Sorry, North Carolina. I
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  Speaker 1: think Miami is going to roll you, but we'll see.