Duke coach David Cutcliffe remembers last season's 48-14 loss at Virginia. To avoid that again, the Blue Devils need to avoid turnovers. "Last year, we wrapped up gifts and gave it to them"
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00:00 They're really a good defensive systematic team.
00:04 I think they're as intricate defensively as anybody we play.
00:10 They've done a good job of recruiting players.
00:12 Their players are well prepared.
00:14 I've known Bronco for a long, long time.
00:17 They've had some good fortune with some guys.
00:19 Bryce Perkins coming in there made a huge difference.
00:22 They were Coastal Division champions for a reason a year ago, and
00:27 they've got a lot of players back that return.
00:29 So they're challenging for a lot of people.
00:33 And certainly we hadn't played as well as we would like against them.
00:36 And Virginia was a team we had been playing well against.
00:39 So we've got to turn that worm and
00:42 we just got to go out and do the things that you do to win football games.
00:45 First of all, as Coach Bryant used to say, more games are lost than won.
00:50 We can't go out there and lose the game with turnovers.
00:52 And a year ago, we wrapped up gifts and gave it to them a year ago.
00:58 I don't like openers, period.
01:00 I think it's the craziest thing I've ever been through.
01:02 I doubt this has ever happened in college football, where a team had three openers.
01:08 Three games you play where you have no film to study.
01:12 We know a lot about Virginia, but
01:14 you're still not looking at the 2020 version of Virginia.
01:18 Any changes that they've made, exactly what they're gonna be.
01:22 So it's been challenging.
01:24 Our players are a little irritable about it, to be real honest with you.
01:28 It's a unique setting.
01:29 It's what we've been given.
01:31 So we have to deal with it and just move forward.
01:34 >> They have a new quarterback, so
01:37 potentially a change in how they look offensively.
01:41 Does that only add to the challenge?
01:43 >> Yeah, there's no question it does.
01:44 And they're very, as I said, intricate defensively.
01:48 You don't know if they're gonna be three down, four down,
01:51 what their approach even or odd fronts offensively.
01:55 Their staff has been there.
01:57 We have older tape before Bryce.
02:00 We're not sure, though, what they're gonna do.
02:03 They'll have some different skill people.
02:05 But the Virginia team will be a balanced team.
02:09 And we've gotta line up and play them regardless on either side of the ball or
02:13 the kicking game what they do.