{"id":106,"date":"2010-07-28T06:16:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-28T13:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsports.us\/?p=106"},"modified":"2010-07-28T06:16:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-28T13:16:00","slug":"de-robert-quinn-causing-problems-for-unc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=106","title":{"rendered":"DE Robert Quinn causing problems … for UNC"},"content":{"rendered":"
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How good is defensive end Robert Quinn? So good the UNC coaching staff essentially had to tell him to \u201ctake a knee\u201d in the spring football game, coach Butch Davis said. Quinn was so dominant the Tar Heels couldn\u2019t block him, which meant they couldn\u2019t practice their offense.<\/p>\n

Quinn, a junior, ripped off 11.0 sacks in 2009, and if you watched Carolina play at all you couldn\u2019t help but be stunned by his development. He came into the spring even better. \u201cHe wanted to dominate every drill,\u201d Davis said with a smile that suggested he had seen something special.<\/p>\n

Quinn is an unusual player. He survived brain surgery as a high school senior and you figured it was a cool story that he was in college and playing at all. He also has an almost childish exuberance when you\u2019re around him. Hewore four SillyBandz on his wrist to the ACC Football kickoff this week, and it\u2019s not often you see 270-pound NFL prospects wearing the same bling as elementary school kids. <\/p>\n

That gentle off-the-field nature belies a player who could be one of UNC\u2019s best. He doesn\u2019t have the nasty streak of Lawrence Taylor but he has a burst and overall game that reminds you of that former Tar Heel great. Taylor had 16.0 sacks as a senior in 1980, which remains a school record. But it was how he got those sacks that made Taylor so great \u2013 he didn\u2019t just come around the edge, he roared around it with an intent to destroy. <\/p>\n

Quinn says he wants to get 20 sacks this season, a figure that makes you want to chuckle \u2013 at least until you hear Butch Davis talk about him. You can be confident Quinn won\u2019t be taking a knee against Carolina opponents this fall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How good is defensive end Robert Quinn? So good the UNC coaching staff essentially had to tell him to \u201ctake a knee\u201d in the spring…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}