Duke defensive end Chris Rumph II knows the Blue Devils have to work on mistakes from the opening game, but he wants to keep things in perspective.
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00:00All the names on the line is great, like you said, they're experienced on the line.
00:05But our defense line did a great job today.
00:07Derek Teslow and Ben Fry, Dwayne Carter and Gary Smith did an incredible job
00:12coming in and helping us stop the run, which we had trouble with last year.
00:16So those guys playing as well as they did, I couldn't be any more prouder.
00:21And as overall D-line, we were getting after them.
00:24We got there a couple times, we got to finish.
00:27Like I said, we're a good D-line, they're a good O-line, it was a good battle,
00:29it was a good game.
00:32Yeah, definitely a lot of things we could be proud of.
00:34The second day, they did an incredible job today,
00:36giving us time to get back there to the quarterback.
00:39Ian Book did an incredible job being savvy, moving around in the pocket.
00:44So overall, as a defense line, we got to finish better.
00:48But overall, you got to give them credit for the plays they made.
00:50We got to roll with the punches, but I'm proud of our defense and
00:52how we played today.
00:53I'm pretty sure it was 67 going into halftime, so, and
00:57number 10 team in the nation.
00:59So I'm pretty proud of our guys, and we were fighting and clawing and
01:03scratching the whole time, all 60 minutes.
01:07The recap is we just got to be locked in mentally.
01:09They made those conversions, which were big in the game,
01:12especially a close game like it was.
01:13So when we get back home, we're gonna have to watch the film, and it's week one.
01:18There's no time to panic.
01:19That was number 10 team, they're a great team.
01:21You got to give them credit for the win.
01:22But we're gonna definitely get better from now on.
01:25We're gonna learn from our mistakes, and
01:27we're gonna prove a lot of people wrong this year.
01:31No, that was on us.
01:33You got to give them credit for making that call and converting.
01:37But at the end of the day, we all got to be locked in mentally.
01:41We're defense, we're supposed to stop, stop the offense.
01:43That's our job.
01:44And it doesn't matter if it's two seconds left or
01:47if they just got the ball back.
01:49At the end of the day, we have to stop them.
01:50So that's on us, you can't say anything else about that.