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Welcome to another podcast from insidecarolina.com, the independent voice of UNC Sports.

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Welcome to the Inside Carolina podcast. John Siegley here with Mike Ingersoll and E.J. Wilson for our weekly in the trenches podcast.

We are sponsored as always by

Giant T-shirt and Giant T-shirt.com. Your place to go for Carolina Gear. So this week, guys,

UNC is playing Mercer. It's a game that the heels should win. However, I think it's a good opportunity.

I mean, come on now. If they don't win by at least 14, I think there are some issues.

Well, I thought you were going to stop the question at their heels are playing Mercer this week.

It's a game.

I could have, honestly.

I mean, it's, you know, it's one of those things where it provides us with, I think, a good opportunity to kind of look back at the season at this point.

Because, you know,

against Mercer, the heels should be able to play their depth. They should win this game convincingly.

And I don't think there's really a whole lot of analysis that goes into it. But I do think it's

interesting to get your guys' perspective. The state game is the week after next.

So, Mike, since you went ahead and spoke up on that, I'll start with you for this week, man.

Looking into this Mercer game as a player, I mean, how do you even mentally approach this type of game?

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