Is Estime a star in the making? Kid has looked really good the past two weeks. Runs hard, north south runner, and tough to bring down. Quicker than I thought too. Really trying to temper expectations here, but damn, thinking about him as a Junior and Senior you gotta be pretty excited!
Bad loss...they ain't going to the playoffs.
But....if these guys have balls they will keep doing this.
They got smacked in the mouth early on but what I saw today was pride and Tude.
Fuck USC
GO IRISH
Bettis was a one of a kind talent, having legit 4.59 speed in the 40, along with an amazing initial burst of speed, while tipping the scales at almost 250 lbs.
He also had excellent hands in the passing game, and ran very good routes.
His pass blocking and run blocking made it as if we had another lineman in the backfield.
Estime seems to be able to do all of the above, and I think that by the next season, he'll be about 240 lbs of solid muscle, with maybe a tad bit more explosiveness as well. He seems very comfortable in the passing game as well, both blocking and receiving.
Seeing him plow over the defense in the 4th quarter reminded me of the old Holtz era in 1991, where opposing defenses hated having to tackle Bettis, Culver, and Tony Brooks, where Culver and Brooks were both about 220 lbs, and could hit the line of scrimmage very quickly as well.
You could see UNC's defense looking battered and bruised in that last quarter. I only wish that Estime had held onto that ball for a TD instead of fumbling it in the endzone. If we were up 52-26, we could have had more of the 2nd and 3rd stringers getting some PT.
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Just run their asses over lol
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The offensive line play was sloppy, and Drew Pyne would have gotten hammered.
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A lot of the people claiming that Buchner was wrong for this team don't realize that the offensive line stank during the first two games. It's a shame that it took multiple games for them to gel together decently.
That being said, the run blocking was excellent today, for sure.
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Barring injury Shipley will be a very good to great pro.
Shipley isn't exactly chopped liver. There was one play in that game against WFU where he was able to balance himself on one hand, and then twist into the end zone because of that great balance.
Still, I'm pretty pleased at the stable of running backs we have, and that doesn't even take into account that Payne is available to play.