On this episode of the Tar Heels Insider Podcast, beat writer Grant Chachere discusses the team's defensive improvements and explains why defensive coordinator Steve Belichick deserves more recognition for making the Tar Heels a formidable force on defense.
Man, those guys stepped up to the plate. Man, they've been working every day, you know, just just coming to work, you know, understanding that we're down one and next guy up. So they've been balling out as a collective, the whole group, and they've all been improving, and we've all been improving, and they've been showing we've us as a team, been showing it on the field.
He allows us to, you know, play football gives us the tools and tells us what worked, what doesn't work, what we should do here, what we shouldn't do here. So just a great all around defensive coordinator.
You know, at the end of the day, we all come to come together as a collective unit, and it's all about want to, you know what I'm saying? If we want to be great, we can be great. So yeah, coach, Steve's been doing great, and you know, we trust in him what he calls and we're gonna try to execute it to our best ability.
I would say that we've been honing in on the little, the small things, and being able to do, play the basic calls the right way, and just, just starting small and being able to execute, you know, because if you can't execute the little things, you're not going to be able to go to the big things and open it up how you really want to.
So just being able to execute the little things, honing our fundamentals, and just becoming better within the defense. I feel like we're getting better because it was early on in the season, and as you progress and as you keep working, it's only right that you're going to get better. So it's just, it's just a credit to our work, for sure.
I would say just, you know, the ins and outs of our defense. I'm getting better at understanding where everybody else is at on the field and which helps me play faster physically. I feel like I've gotten stronger, gotten faster, and then, yeah, on the football field, I'm just, I'm just honing in on the small things that I got to get better at, and just being able to work at it every day. And yeah, I've been feeling, I've been feeling like a way better player this year than I was last year, and I'm keep getting better going forward for sure.
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