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Jason, I'll start with you here since you got into the room first.

Carolina loses at White Forest 24 to 18 in a game that did not get close until the end, your overall thoughts on what you saw

Friday night out of Winston. Well, I mean, first of all, if I'd known Jason Strowbridge wasn't

going to play in this game, I wouldn't have picked North Carolina to win it. I mean, we all thought

it was going to be a close game. And we talked about how the primary thing that they needed was that North Carolina

would need to be able to win up front against that funky option game that they have,

that funky RPO game that they have.

And, well, you know, they especially early, able to to win up front, especially on the, on the

interior where they were able to, you know, grind out four, five, six yard gains early on,

exactly where Strobridge would have been. So I think that was a factor, a big factor in this game is their

ability to run the football against Carolina using that scheme that they have. And it goes to show

something that we talked about earlier this year at the very beginning of the season that, you know,

if Crawford and Strobridge aren't of the season that, you know, if Crawford

and Strobridge aren't on the field, that that defensive line is not the same. And the defense is

going to have some trouble when those guys aren't playing a bunch of reps. But, you know,

last week that Miami game was a physical game. They came out pretty banged up.

And I think that cost them kind of across the board.

I mean, you saw this, you saw some sluggishness, I think, on, on offense as well.

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