Game went south for Charlotte as Mark Cannon said last week "as soon as toe met leather", 13 seconds later it was already 7-0 Manatee and then 52 seconds later it was 9-0 Manatee. This was the type of evening it was going to be for Charlotte, I want to say all 36 first half points Manatee scored was done with Manatee being gifted a short field.
Manatee offense played perhaps its worst game of the year as it came away multiple times with zero points despite starting with a short field and despite the final score....... some of the credit needs to go to the Charlotte defense as it played the entire game with a collective major chip on its shoulder!
Regarding a certain player on defense, he played only 1 half. That 1st half of play saw him get 5 total tackles, 1 solo tackle and 4 assisted tackles...(2 of those assisted tackles came on special teams play). He was also pancaked 3 times in the 1st half, 1 of those resulted in him being called for a unsportsman like conduct penalty, as on that particular pancake he didn't care for the manor which the Charlotte Offensive lineman introduced him to the turf....the other 2 pancakes were done by #33, the Charlotte TE.
Charlotte has some things it has to figure out personnel wise, on Charlotte's final drive of the night it scored and it seemed several of the players that I had seen on defense for Charlotte most of the night were now playing offense? On that series I thought the Charlotte offense play rather fluidly. Now they were going up against mostly JV players that had played the night before in its 41-0 win against the Southeast JV at that point, but I thought #4 for Charlotte displayed nice vision and speed on that drive and he also got some nice blocks on the perimeter as well!