Duke coach David Cutcliffe said that the 0-3 start has been wearing on the players and causing stress. He's urging the team to pull together to get through.
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00:00 >> Well, I think it's hard, sure.
00:02 I mean, there's nothing about being 0-3 that this team dreamed it would be.
00:10 This team has, like all teams around the country, been through a lot.
00:15 And I've got to do a better job of helping them.
00:20 And again, the only way that you can do that,
00:24 the team psyche is to help your teammate.
00:27 And that's one of the things I pleaded with them.
00:29 I said, we need to think about each other, not about ourselves.
00:33 And when you do that, that's probably the best healing process I know.
00:37 That's what families do at tough times.
00:40 You think about other family members.
00:43 And if we'll take that approach, then we can heal ourselves and
00:47 we can turn this thing around.
00:50 Well, he's a big tall player and
00:52 I thought they protected the quarterback a little better than we did.
00:56 And so he had time to hold the ball.
00:59 When you get a big guy like that down the field and you make an accurate throw,
01:04 he's got a chance to go up and get it.
01:07 There's a lot of contact.
01:09 And when you have a big old body like that and you're throwing it up kind of for
01:14 grabs, guy like that's gonna win a bunch of them.
01:17 Well, I think that's certainly a part of what we're all battling.
01:22 I mean, their stress levels have been high since they've been back.
01:28 Their stress levels were high when they were home.
01:31 These guys were away 129 days in a row with no organized workout.
01:37 So certainly I'm looking at that.
01:39 I want them to have fun at practice with hard work.
01:45 It can be fun.
01:46 I want them to play free.
01:47 I want them to be able to take the field confident and prepared.
01:52 And that's my job.
01:53 That's where all of that lives.
01:55 Do we need to stay on sides?
01:57 Absolutely.
01:58 People are gonna use cadence like that.
02:02 Those little things that come through spring practices and
02:06 scrimmages didn't occur.
02:09 We had one scrimmage in our camp and then now we have played three games.
02:14 So what we're doing, we're doing all for the fourth time live full speed.
02:20 That's the cards we've been dealt.
02:21 So they've got to understand that our discipline level in all aspects has to be
02:26 better.
02:27 And again, number one, that rides 100% with me.