Mack Brown was proud of the Tar Heels' ability to bounce back against Duke after a tough loss at Virginia. He said it's important that team not let a loss beat them twice
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00:00 It's really important.
00:01 They're such good players, all-around players.
00:05 Michael caught two or three balls on fourth down
00:07 in the flat that led to touchdowns.
00:09 And, I mean, yeah, Michael.
00:11 But both of them can pass protect.
00:14 I was proud that as good as the pass rush is at Duke,
00:17 I think we only had one sack today.
00:20 And I think we had five.
00:22 We gained five.
00:24 But those two guys can run.
00:26 They have patience.
00:28 They can run with power.
00:30 They can protect.
00:31 They're really good route runners,
00:32 and they both catch the ball well.
00:33 So they're the all-around player.
00:36 You can't let a loss beat you twice.
00:40 We have to go back to work.
00:41 And it's really, really important,
00:43 as hard as losses are on all of us,
00:46 that we figure out what we need to fix, we correct it,
00:51 and we go right back to work to make sure
00:53 that we don't have that bad feeling again the next week.
00:57 So you can't ever let one loss beat you twice.
00:59 And a lot of people do because they just let the -
01:02 they let the negatives be out there so much
01:05 that it beats you down another week.
01:07 So I applaud the staff and these players.
01:12 As negative as things can get in their lives outside of football
01:16 and with the distractions of the election this week
01:18 and changing schedule, they really did a tremendous job
01:23 of preparing to play and playing well today.
01:25 It's one of the most important things,
01:27 is that you end up playing really hard every week.
01:31 And I challenged them even at halftime.
01:34 We were down 31 to 7 at Florida State
01:36 and came back and had a chance to win.
01:37 So I said, if you stand around now,
01:40 you can get back in the ballgame.
01:42 So are we emotionally at a point where we can play a full game
01:47 and not have the ups and downs?
01:48 And we did that much better today than we've been doing.
01:51 So hopefully we're making some progress
01:54 of playing hard the entire game.
01:55 And hopefully we'll - after a win,
01:59 that they'll be bragged on this week,
02:01 they can go ahead and prepare themselves
02:04 to play well next week.