I honestly just think Dontae was not fully healthy and ready to play until this week. My guess is last week he was healthy enough but the coaches wanted to just give him a couple plays since he had been out so long. Just enough to get his feet wet before they let him loose this week. I think a Haynes/Smith rotation is a solid backfield.
There was a comment in the broadcast that the team was excited to have him back this game. Hope he stays on the field because you’re right, they make for a great duo
Yea, not good when the LB with the most tackles is only 4th most on the team, and the rest of your LBs have 2 tackles or less. Those guys are taking themselves out of the play constantly.
It’d be either borderline medical malpractice or a massive coaching error to consider a player to not be healthy enough to participate essentially at all in one game, to seven days later being so healthy that you’re getting the bulk of the carries. In the biggest game of the season. Including five straight at one point which caused him to be physically exhausted.
Called it. Derrick Allen recorded no stats for UNC either, not sure if he played though - doesn't look like he's done much for them this season.
Me personally, I’d rather guess that the coaches didn’t put the right players in the right positions on the field. A common phrase people say after bad losses. Rather than jumping to a player’s mental being the potential issue and why he’s not playing.
When your *** is on the line, sometimes you tolerate a bit of crap from your star players, I get it, he wanted more carries and they were being given to a guy that was clearly less capable. Who know why that happened? It pissed him off & he got labeled as "not buying in". It's what inexperienced leaders do when they're threatened, but they also normally have have a survavl instinct also. It kicked in tonight, a bit later that we all had hoped but they finally got it. I think we'lbe good from here on out. They saved face and can move along. Lesson learned, I hope.
He did that last year.
. Hope he knows what he's talking about.Great, fun win. We have a shot at Clemson, maybe 20-25%. Our shot at UGA, probably < 1-2%. Right now I would guess the lines would be E to -3 vs Virginia, -10 to -14 versus Clemson, E to +3 versus Syracuse, -24 to -28 versus UGA.
