NC State & UNC Football fans: Don’t overreact to season opener wins

it's early season college football we had games last night NC States Wake Forest UNC no particular order there just start times uh here's and delays and with the Lays kind of sorted itself out even more you could kind of watch them in stages today is a test for us yesterday was a test for for those teams today will be a test for Duke we'll talk about it but today is also a test for us and when I say us I mean the media I mean the fan bases I mean the Casual fans I mean everyone that's paying attention we've been waiting for something real to talk about in college football for so long and and we finally have it today's test is is a test in our self-control it's a it's a test in our ability to to think calmly take a couple deep breaths go for a walk get a glass of water right do the things that that um can bring us down to earth from overreaction you see this is good Tim or Tim because I've never been more excited to see you in studio since yesterday when you were out car Stadium it was a little toasty I was also back here holding things together with the glue and tape just like NC State's offense and defense was doing for majority of the game last night so I feel like this is much needed for a lot of our listeners there will be temptation to smash Panic buttons for UNCC there will be Temptations to to smash Panic buttons as well and maybe even Wake Forest right I know they won by a bunch but it wasn't the smoothest thing in the world but I am resisting I am taking a deep breath and I am not smashing the panic button first of all and and this is the most important part they all won State Wake UNC they all won so despite the Temptation for State fans to to run to this show or run to their friends or run to the message boards or run to Twitter or run to their uh buddies that are also fans of the team and and say the offensive line what the heck was that you have Anthony Belton who's a future Pro you have Zeke Carell who's a Notre Dame transfer don't do that as much as much as you are tempted to say Grayson McCall missed on some throws that he needs to be automatic with that will allow The Playmakers to flourish in ways that NC State hasn't seen in a while don't do that I'm not going to sit here and say that at times yesterday NC State's offense reverted back to last year's pattern of boring play on first down boring play on second down I hope casy concepion can us out on third I'm not going to talk about that see what I'm doing here I'm kind of talking about it without talking about it I'm I'm I'm saying don't let that be the only story I'm not going to say about UNC that after one game it appears the cliche of if you have two quarterbacks you actually have no quarterbacks has has quite a bit of uh truth behind it but I'm not going to say that because it's too early to say that and when you escape with a win it it gives you time to figure it out and in Wake forest's case obviously it appears as if they rolled out the the wrong quarterback first Michael Kern was out there wouldn't even say he played bad would just say the offense wasn't clicking under his control and it was under HW Hank BM much more it it it's and then obviously they didn't just escape with a win they won by a whole bunch but there's there's elements in all of these games that were silver linings the not not the smallest of which being they won the game you escaped from from catastrophe if any of those three three teams lost those games I think today and played the same way they played I think today we'd come in here and you'd have to re-evaluate goals you'd have to talk about all right are they chasing Bowl eligibility are they chasing an ACC Championship are they chasing certain win totals and and and you'd have to reevaluate all of your big and lofty lofty goals are still on the table after week one well after the first quarter you would have thought that the lofty goals that were expected of NC State this season were already out the window after you got doing your life show you went up to the Press Box where you usually sit at Carter fin stadium for NC State Games I had the pleasure of being outside in the thick of it and Tim I thought we were gonna have to just open up the phone lines when we started this show I mean when Western Carolina was up by three there was two comments that stuck out to me by some State fans one there's a reason why the center for n State this season transferred from Notre Dame zek Carell and then two after Jordan Waters bobbled the football fumbled the football they were lucky that he recovered it sent him back to Durham I mean those are some of the comments you were getting early on in the game when things were not going well for the wol pack the irony and and shout out to uh Cory Smith he he's the the Tweet covers the team pack Pride I believe um he was the tweet that I saw that that said this Jordan Waters had 333 carries with Duke yep no fumbles never fumbled was it first quarter of of his first game for NC State uh the ball pops out and it's not even like a bone crushing hit it just kind of squirted out like a like a uh cartoon banana peel or something like just slipped out and and flipped back a couple couple yards and correct me if I'm wrong that was after Grace Mcall threw the first interception in which Western Carolina scored was that the next draw that first quarter was such a blur of of maybe not great execution that you know there's a penalty mixed in there there was the fumble there was the pick there was injection there was the injection there was the dropped interception uh by NC State's defense to open the game I don't exactly recall the timeline so I don't know what which one went first but I I don't even like you know you're you're sitting there saying like I thought we're going to have to open up the lines I was still at that point going haha what a slow start this is going to be hilarious not unlike Wake Forest right Wake Forest started very slow uh and then they ended up winning by plenty and it looked like a domination and all that NC State never got there right they needed it to wake up quote unquote in their fourth quarter just to win by a a basic margin okay so there's a temptation to look at that and based on where preseason expectations were to what you saw to to to freak out but es especially I mean we talked about it with State that's kind of of a preseason game for them so I'm kind of treating it like you know if the Chiefs went 0 and three in the preseason I'm going wow I'm glad they ironed out all the I'm glad Andy Reid figured out what he needs to to polish up before the real action starts next week Tennessee next week for state that's the real action that's the real action now I I wish the everyone was able to like I wish Max Johnson didn't get hurt and threw for 300 300 yards for UNC I wish that NC State didn't have to lean so heavily on Casey concepion in a game against Western Carolina I wish that that Wake Forest offense started faster under whoever was playing quarterback sure in a perfect world all of that would happen we're not in a perfect world so week one there's an element of learning what your team does best learning what they do poorly and figuring out how to fix it I mean that's the thing I always say week zero the example of Georgia Tek Florida State across the pond last weekend and then week one it's where anything can happen well here's because you've been so used to hitting each other in practice and then once you finally go up against a real opponent that's where you really see What You're Made Of and where mistakes can happen uh you bring up the Florida state Georgia Tech game and and I I like that this show reacted a particular way to that game because now we can apply it to these games without being hypocritical right it's not like we're being soft on the teams in the Triangle that maybe underwhelms in in week one because after that Florida state Georgia Tech game you can go back and find it on the podcast find it in YouTube I said that game Florida State lost to Georgia Tech I said it proves that at least one of three things are true this is the reaction to to Florida State and Georgia Tech at least one of three things are true one of them Florida state was a fraud the other Georgia Tech's a legit Contender and the third you can't take anything from the first games of the year you can't take anything from week zero and it's it's there's no correlation between how they play in week zero and how they'll play the rest of the year if you take that same logic and apply it to these games after watching NC State struggle with Western Carolina we'll use that one as the example one of three things are true State not as good as we thought the other Western Carolina is the best FCS team we've seen in a long time yep or the third you can't take much away from those first games and there might not be a correlation between how you play in week one versus is how you play the rest of the season because the first week is so much about getting to know each other