
{"id":27122,"date":"2012-07-26T10:11:48","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T14:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=27122"},"modified":"2012-07-26T10:11:48","modified_gmt":"2012-07-26T14:11:48","slug":"individuals-turn-to-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2012\/07\/26\/individuals-turn-to-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Individuals turn to team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Eddy Landreth<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Staff Writer<\/em><br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20318\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20318\" style=\"width: 100px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2011\/08\/18\/support-the-players-by-filling-kenan-stadium\/landreth-mug-30\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20318\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/landreth-mug1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"landreth-mug\" width=\"100\" height=\"134\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/landreth-mug1.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/landreth-mug1-84x113.jpg 84w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/landreth-mug1-74x100.jpg 74w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20318\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eddy Landreth<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nGREENSBORO \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Players often talk about how they are working harder during their current summer workouts than in years past, but there is no doubt the Tar Heels mean it when they are discussing 2012 versus previous seasons.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Workouts are going real great,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d senior linebacker Kevin Reddick said during the annual ACC Kickoff in Greensboro. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153This is as big a change and difference as I have ever seen. Guys want to work out. It has been different, just the atmosphere, guys wanting to work. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve had guys miss workouts in previous years. We had guys miss workouts every day. Cats not wanting to come and work out. Now we don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have that anymore.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Everybody is there. Everybody is on time. The coaches put fear in them. That is a good thing when your coaches put fear in you and your players put fear in you. You don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to miss a workout because of the consequences.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Reddick said this year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s defense will be more cohesive.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We have a lot smarter guys,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Reddick said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re more of a team now. We had guys with big names, great guys, great players; they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re in the NFL now. We don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have too many names like that on defense anymore.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s more about the Carolina defense. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not about Quinton Coples, the Zach Browns, the Marvin Austins, the Robert Quinns. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not about those guys anymore. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s about the Carolina defense. I think we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re going to be bonded well as a team, smarter, faster.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153And we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re going to know what to do. That is the whole thing with us. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re going to know what to do and be in the right spot.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Reddick said that in the past it was too much about individuals trying to promote themselves rather than the team.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It was egocentric,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Reddick said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153just trying to single out people. I think that was a problem at times. We had more individuals. Now we have more of a team.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Quarterback Bryn Renner said that the new coaching staff, and head coach Larry Fedora in particular, deserves much of the credit for the new attitude.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s so disciplined,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Renner said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Seeing him on a daily basis and how he acts with our team, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s really impressive. He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a guy you can look to for energy and support. He always makes you be on your toes.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Renner echoed Reddick, saying that he saw the changes that occurred during the spring continue to develop during summer workouts.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153This has been one of the hardest-working summers since we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been here,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Renner said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We needed it, honestly. We need to get in shape. And I think we have done that. The workouts we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been going through, we can honestly say when we get to the fourth quarter we will be in better shape than last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The workouts have been so strenuous that we are almost ready to have training camp come,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Renner said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re really looking forward to it. We have a stable coach. This time last year we had a lot of things going on off the field that kind of distracted us from playing football.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Renner said the team has worked hard to become the closest, best team it can be and not dwell on the past.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s totally different from last year to this year,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Renner said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153So this year we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re just focused on being football players and enjoying that. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve kind of tried to leave the past in the past. We don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t run the same offense or the same defense.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re starting fresh with coach Fedora. I think he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s done a great job of coming in and getting us into that mode.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tar Heels mean it when they are discussing working harder in 2012 versus previous seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":20318,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[431],"class_list":["post-27122","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\/27122","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=27122"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27124,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27122\/revisions\/27124"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}