
{"id":13615,"date":"2010-11-04T08:49:16","date_gmt":"2010-11-04T16:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=13615"},"modified":"2010-11-04T08:49:18","modified_gmt":"2010-11-04T16:49:18","slug":"nothing-personal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2010\/11\/04\/nothing-personal\/","title":{"rendered":"Nothing personal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2010\/08\/19\/greetings-sports-fans\/landreth-mug\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12005\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/landreth-mug-e1282244749712.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"landreth-mug\" width=\"100\" height=\"133\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-12005\" \/><\/a><em>By Eddy Landreth, Columnist<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Carolina\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s best may not be good enough on Saturday at 3:30 p.m. before a packed house in Florida\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s capital city of Tallahassee. And that is if the Tar Heels can locate their best game.<\/p>\n<p>FSU can reasonably be expected to bring its best to the game. The Seminoles lost their last time out against N.C. State in Raleigh, blowing an early lead to lose 28-26, so they have some business to take care of themselves.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153They may be a little [ticked] off, but that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just going to make for better competition in the game,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d UNC quarterback T.J. Yates said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153A lot of guys on this team took the game we just played as a loss, as well, because we didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t play as well as we wanted to and didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t come out like we should have. So we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re itching to get back out there and start a game off like we want to and just get back on track like we know how to play.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, well, the problem is the competition is a superior team this time around. There was a time when that might not have been true. But after all the suspensions and the injuries that are accumulating in Chapel Hill, Carolina is finding it harder to put a team with any experience on the field.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Obviously, this will be a legitimate challenge this week,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Coach Butch Davis said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153When you turn on the film, it doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t take long to get a pretty good respect for Florida State. At 6-2, they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re playing well. I think I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve watched Florida State since 1984, going to Miami as an assistant coach, and some things historically refuse to change. They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve always got very fast, athletic kids.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153This year, in particular, I think they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re playing with two dynamite linebackers. One of the biggest differences I see in their defense this year from a year ago is their ability to put pressure on the quarterback.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The two defensive tackles really collapse the pocket well and the defensive ends come off the edge. They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve always had good corners, guys that have been able to jump up in people\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s faces and press guys, play press bump-and-run, so that when they do blitz they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got a real presence at the corner position.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/>\nThen there is the QB position. Christian Ponder is an excellent collegiate quarterback. On any given Saturday, he can post numbers that can rival anyone in the nation.<\/p>\n<p>He put together a game like that a year ago in leading the Seminoles from behind to defeat Carolina on its home field.<\/p>\n<p>But don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think this is going to be about UNC owing FSU from that loss a year ago. Sure, the Tar Heels want to win; but that has more to do with Carolina just trying to survive this nightmare of a season, not trying to rectify any negatives from the past.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think a lot of guys take it very personally,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d H-back Ryan Taylor said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Once you start getting personal with wins and losses, you lose sight of just playing football. So I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think a lot of guys are looking at it as a revenge game.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Obviously, we were up last year and would have liked to have pulled that one out, but I think a lot of guys are just focusing on the goals that we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve made and trying to come back and win this game.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carolina\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s best may not be good enough on Saturday at 3:30 p.m. before a packed house in Florida\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s capital city of Tallahassee. And that is if the Tar Heels can locate their best game.<br \/>\nFSU can reasonably be expected to bring its best to the game. The Seminoles lost their last time out against N.C. State in Raleigh, blowing an early lead to lose 28-26, so they have some business to take care of themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":12005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[431],"class_list":["post-13615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13615"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13624,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13615\/revisions\/13624"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}