Duke had a big day running the ball against Syracuse. Deon Jackson discusses his 169 yard day and the team's first win of the season.
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00:00Once we come off the field, after drives that we're on, we always pick at each other.
00:04I just did this, I just did that, blah, blah, blah.
00:06But it's always jokes, and we definitely feed off of each other.
00:09Once we see each other break a long run or run through somebody or
00:12get a first down or something like that, we always feed off of each other.
00:15Once the next person comes in the game, we're just ready to replicate that.
00:19Honestly, I learned from my mistakes from the past.
00:23Usually, if I fumble or something like that, or if I make a mistake,
00:26sometimes I tend to harp on it for a while.
00:28But this time, once I came to the sideline,
00:30I just told everybody that it was my fault, it won't happen again.
00:33And I just put it in the back of my head, and I just forgot about it.
00:36And I just tried to play my game, and do what I can do to help the team win.
00:39I don't even know if I can just single one out.
00:41It's kind of funny you said that, because as soon as I came back to the locker room,
00:44I looked at my phone, and the first text from my mom was,
00:47you and Mateo owe the linemen wings, so that's kind of funny.
00:50So I mean, honestly, we might do something for all of them, to be honest.
00:54And along with the linemen, the wide receivers also blocked their butts off
00:57today, and they did a good job of holding up DBs, and safeties, and linebackers.
01:02And just making sure that we have clear holes to run through.
01:05Just going throughout the week, we're pretty confident, I would say, me and
01:08Mateo.
01:09So we feel like we can run on any team that we play against.
01:12And we just kept that mindset coming into this week.
01:14And we just encouraged everybody on the offense.
01:17We all came in with a determined mindset that we were gonna be physical.
01:20We were gonna run it down their throat.
01:21So we were just gonna try and go out there and just do what we game plan for.
01:26And we came out there and accomplished that.
01:28The morale and the confidence of the team is definitely boosted.
01:31This is definitely something that we needed.
01:33The feeling of a win is great, and we just wanna build on that and
01:37carry it on to next week.
01:39It didn't even feel like 30 carries.
01:41I wasn't that fatigued, I would say, but it's kind of crazy I had 30 carries.
01:45Cuz I've never had 30 carries in my life, high school or college.
01:48So it was kind of crazy to see that at the end of the game that I actually
01:52carried it that many times.
01:55For the most part, one of the main things that we were being told is just make sure
01:59that we protect the ball and keep the ball in our hands.
02:02I feel like that's something that we're trying to focus on a lot and
02:05trying to eliminate.
02:05And that was something that Coach Cutler was really big on.
02:08Just making sure we take advantage of our opportunities and
02:10not give it away to the other team.
02:13Yeah, it definitely feels great.
02:15We're just looking to build on this win and
02:16carry it over to next week and the coming weeks.