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#UNC coach Bill Belichick press conference after loss at Wake Forest
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just not good enough in any area. Uh
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offense, defense, special teams, um
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coaching, playing, we just we just
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didn't we just didn't have a good night
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and um you know, certainly wasn't enough
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here. So, um let's go back to work this
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week and and uh you see we get back on
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track, but
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we're we're a better team than what we
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were tonight, but we just weren't very
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good.
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Go ahead, N.
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Hey, Bill, can you elaborate a little on
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the decision to take a timeout there at
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the end of the game? It looked like they
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were ready to take an E. And then D. Can
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you just elaborate on that decision?
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Just trying to keep a game alive. I know
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what they're going to do. Block field
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goal, make a stop. I mean,
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keep
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it looked like they were going to take a
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knee on that one at the end and they
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still had one more snap to take. So,
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what were your instructions to your team
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and what was them thinking about that in
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addition?
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I just say we're trying to stop them.
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Yeah. game one over and I don't know
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what they were going to do.
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In addition to that, when coach Dicker
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came out after the game, looked like it
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was a very quick exchange. What did he
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say to you? What did you say to him?
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Congratulations.
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Hey coach, uh there was two blocked
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field goals tonight. What kind of
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happened that led to those blocked field
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goals?
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Uh one of a lot of penetration. The
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other one I said, well, the timing
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execution of the kick was obviously bad
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on our part. There was five times you
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guys got inside the 30 yardd line and
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you guys weren't able to score a
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touchdown. Uh what you guys need to work
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on to keep finishing those drives
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because that was a big factor tonight.
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Yeah, it sure was. We need to finish
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those drives. We got the ball down there
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and just didn't have enough show.
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On the left Shelby,
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just I guess going on that um or off of
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that rather talked a lot about just kind
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of red zone struggles for you guys this
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season. What was maybe the issue tonight
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that you didn't allow you guys to reach
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the the
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multiple things. It was several drives,
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a lot of different plays, but in the
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end, we didn't get it done. So, it's
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it's not good enough.
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Far right, Adam.
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Bill, as the game wore on and got later,
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did you ever consider maybe not trying
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some of those field goals and trying to
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get the ball in the end zone since since
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you were struggling to score in and
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their league?
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Yeah, man. We've been fourth and short.
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We did that. We went for a couple fourth
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and shorts maybe a fourth and 10 made it
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a 10-point game and with I don't know
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whatever it was still in the middle of
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fourth quarter so thought it was in
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reach we kind of get the ball back so
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the right coach
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yeah Bill believe it was the second
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quarter you guys uh had opportunity had
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a legal shift to you know kind of accept
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that penalty I know you ended up
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declining it scored a touchdown you kind
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of deciding between the yardage play
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versus the downs play and just kind Can
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you take us to make a decision?
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Second and eight or first and 15.
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It's about the same.
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You kind of prefer, I guess, to limit
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their downs at that point versus the
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Yeah, I mean it's it's about the same
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whichever one you do. I don't think
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there's a huge advantage one way or the
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other. So,
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so we took the down, but it's the end of
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the half. I thought we make a stop and
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give us a little more time to get the
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ball back, which we didn't do. So, well,
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we did it. But it was, you know, after
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the I think they got a first down after
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that. So, yeah,
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those can go either way. First and 15,
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second and nine, second and 10. It's
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statistically about the same.
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Back middle co
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after this game has come up eligible.
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Um, what do you need to do today or what
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do you need to to fix from today to to
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get there?
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Yeah, we need to do a better job in
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every area.
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I guess um you kind of spoke on this um
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you know earlier this week and in the
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past just about again your continued
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confidence in Gio again obviously
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offense you guys don't score a touchdown
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today. Just what gives you confidence in
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him as your quarterback you know moving
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into the last two years of the season?
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Yeah, just preparation play
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I thought he did a pretty good job
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tonight. He's under a lot of pressure
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for I don't know couple hundred yards
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more than that. I don't know whatever it
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was but he was under a lot of pressure.
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Thought he hung in there, made some good
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throws, dropped a long pass, you know,
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so
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far left right next to a coach.
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Bill, after the last two weeks, a couple
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of wins, and you guys seemingly been
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improving, do you take today or tonight
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as a step back? Um, or how do you take
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how you guys performed today as opposed
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to what you've been building?
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Do the same thing after every game. Take
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a look at it, make corrections, make
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adjustments that we feel like will help
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us. and get ready for the next game.
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Last one, Noah.
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With the seconds winding down there at
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the end of the third quarter, you called
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time out, I think, with 5 seconds left
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and had Reese go on and take a field
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goal. What was the idea behind that just
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to get that done in the third quarter
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rather than the fourth or what was the
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decision there?
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I thought the wind was definitely a
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little bit of a factor. Um, so kicking
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it with the win, you know, I thought I
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had the timeout with about 8 seconds.
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They didn't give it to us until 5, so
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that could have helped us on the
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kickoff, too. Although I don't know
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really needed that, but it was um you
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know trying to get that field goal, you
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know, with the win at the end of the at
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the end of the third quarter and trying
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to get the kickoff behind it, which we
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didn't get, but we got the field goal.
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Thank you. Hey.