{"id":214,"date":"2010-09-06T10:57:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-06T17:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsports.us\/?p=214"},"modified":"2010-09-06T10:57:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-06T17:57:00","slug":"monday-morning-qb-assessing-the-weekends-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=214","title":{"rendered":"Monday morning QB: Assessing the weekend’s games"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Other than John Blake, did anyone have a worse weekend than Johnny White?<\/p>\n

The UNC senior worked ferociously in the offseason to prove himself at tailback, where he had played before seeing action at a variety of different spots. <\/p>\n

The Tar Heel coaches raved about what they saw, and you knew White would get his chance when Shaun Draughn and Ryan Houston didn\u2019t make the trip to Atlanta. <\/p>\n

Then \u2013 yikes \u2013 he fumbled his first run. White didn\u2019t figure into the game plan much after that, as Carolina shifted to powerful, but non-explosive, Anthony Elzy. White finished with eight carries for 29 yards and Elzy 14 for 46.<\/p>\n

ALONG THOSE LINES \u2026<\/b> can anyone in the Triangle run the football? It\u2019s hard to say after Saturday\u2019s games. N.C. State\u2019s Dean Hayden had 13 carries for 69 yards against Western Carolina, but it\u2019s hard to say how that computes against better competition.<\/p>\n

Duke is making noise about having to run the ball this year, and local product Desmond Scott turned in 77 yards rushing on 15 tries, with a score. But again, that\u2019s against Elon.<\/p>\n

Both State and Duke face watershed games this weekend, with the Pack at Central Florida and Duke at Wake Forest. Both teams got spectacular quarterbacking in their opening wins, but the run game is going to have to be there to support that. <\/p>\n

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N.C. STATE CONTINUED <\/b>to be sneaky about its personnel. Last Monday, the Wolfpack announced a depth chart that surprised everyone with Dean Haynes at tailback \u2013 turns out, he\u2019d been moved from offense to defense two weeks before that.<\/p>\n

That depth chart also included Jake Vermiglio as the starting left tackle and J.R. Sweezy and Markus Kuhn as backups on the defensive line. But all three did not suit up against Western Carolina \u2013 remember, the three had faced drug charges before the season. The charges eventually were dropped. …<\/p>\n


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SATURDAY’S GAMES MARKED <\/b>the debut of two players we may be talking about for a while, N.C. State\u2019s Crisp and North Carolina\u2019s James Hurst. Crisp started at left tackle with Vermiglio out, and at 6 feet 7 and 300 pounds, it\u2019s hard to imagine Crisp standing on the sidelines much.<\/p>\n

Hurst backed up Carl Gaskins at left tackle against LSU and played often. If you watched him closely, you notice he didn\u2019t seem intimidated at all by the magnitude and speed of the game.<\/p>\n

Left tackle is a tough position to play, as the movie \u201cThe Blind Side\u201d pointed out. To see two players contributing there as true freshmen is nothing short of remarkable.<\/p>\n

ROUND OF APPLAUSE FOR:<\/b><\/p>\n

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Carolina\u2019s T.J. Yates. <\/b>The Tar Heel quarterback has his detractors, but he turned in a terrific game in difficult circumstances Saturday night.<\/p>\n

Carolina\u2019s Zack Pianalto: <\/b>He didn\u2019t make excuses for not catching that final ball \u2013 even though it looked like pass interference.<\/p>\n

State\u2019s Russell Wilson: <\/b>The kid skips football for six months and then plays like that? Wow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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