Dyami Brown led all UNC receivers with six catches for 94 yards against Syracuse. His longest catch was late in the fourth quarter for 38 yards, and came after he ran ten yards and dragged across the field left-to-right after Sam Howell stepped up into the pocket to escape pressure. This is not how Phil Longo usually gets chunk plays from Dyami and Sam Howell. When Dyami caught the ball, there were two Syracuse defenders between him and the endzone. He wasn’t able to get vertical all game long.
Syracuse’s 3-3-5 defense was ideally suited to stopping this explosive element of Carolina’s offense.