UNC blew out Duke in the battle for the Victory Bell. Coach Mack Brown breaks down the Tar Heel offense, defense and special teams in the big win.
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00:00 Thank you. Really, really pleased with our team.
00:03 This is a very important game
00:04 for the University of North Carolina.
00:07 Started in 1904, I think, in 48 years.
00:10 You've been playing for the Victory Bell,
00:12 and it's really important to keep it
00:14 for your fans and your fan base.
00:16 And I applaud our players and our coaches
00:19 for understanding how important this game is
00:22 and playing so hard.
00:24 And credit Duke.
00:25 They got behind early, and they kept playing hard,
00:27 and David's guys aren't going to quit.
00:29 That's just part of it.
00:31 So, really pleased with the offense.
00:33 We weren't as good in the third quarters.
00:35 We were the first two.
00:37 We had the one interception that hurt us.
00:40 But they were five for five when it mattered
00:43 in the red zone for touchdowns.
00:44 They were rushed for, what, 300 -
00:47 338 yards on 47 carries.
00:51 Made four fourth-down situations
00:53 that were really important in the first half.
00:56 Defensively, I thought we played a lot better.
00:58 We forced some turnovers.
01:01 We stopped the run other than some big runs.
01:05 The two or three runs, we just can't have.
01:07 They're unacceptable.
01:09 But by and large, we played much, much better on defense
01:13 except for giving up the big runs.
01:15 I thought the secondary without Kyler McMichael
01:18 and without Don Chapman played really well.
01:23 They hung in there.
01:25 But too many penalties for sure.
01:27 We had two hands to the face, which we haven't had.
01:31 And then we have two roughing the quarterbacks.
01:35 And I didn't see Tamon's.
01:36 The one on Ray was hit down around his knees,
01:39 and that's called roughing the quarterback
01:42 now differently than it used to be.
01:45 So, those are things that we can correct.
01:48 But we had two really long third-down situations
01:51 that we allowed them to come back
01:53 and make because of penalties.
01:56 So, we got to clean up the penalties.
01:58 We can still tackle a little bit better.
02:00 But we had some fourth-down stops.
02:03 And I thought -- and we got to play a lot of people.
02:06 And that was, other than winning the game,
02:08 probably the most important thing.
02:12 A lot of the third quarter and all of the fourth quarter,
02:14 we're playing a lot of people that haven't played very much,
02:18 and that should really help us down the road.