Duke's David Cutcliffe on being game ready
Duke coach David Cutcliffe said the team has left eight touchdowns on the field due to little things going wrong. He blames it on not being "game ready"
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00:00Well, I don't tie anything into the last year and this year, Jim, there's really no
00:06connection with a lot of different players in a different circumstance.
00:10I think with us is what I just described. You really, you have a difficult time
00:16knowing right where we are. We have had one scrimmage in the fall camp and that was it.
00:24We had no scrimmages from spring, which obviously we didn't get a spring. So trying to get a team
00:32game ready, and that's one of the things I've critiqued myself as a play caller,
00:37when you see things or you try things, you better know what's game ready. And I'm not
00:43going to blame a player if it's not executed just like it should have been if we haven't put it in
00:49a circumstance where it's game ready. So it kind of goes back to all of those challenges. Now,
00:55taking care of the football, what I call staying belly down. I don't want to see people carrying
01:01the ball with turning their belly up. Those are going to be fumbles. People have to finish
01:08catches and runs. Quarterbacks have to be accountable where they put the ball. Receivers
01:14have to be accountable where they are on the field. And if that sounds like coaching, it is
01:20on my part. And you have to coach all of those little things to take care of a football and put
01:26yourself in position to put touchdowns together. And reality is this, we've probably left
01:35eight touchdowns on the field in two games. And we know we turned it over five times in this past
01:41ball game. And when you do that, you're not going to win. Can you fix it? Yes,
01:45you've got to go fix it out there on the practice field.