Notre Dame opens the season against Duke. Irish head coach Brian Kelly is certainly not overlooking the Blue Devils
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00:00The challenges of getting to this point, but we are here and certainly excited about the
00:06opportunity to play this Saturday at Notre Dame Stadium against a really well-coached
00:13and sound, fundamentally, football team at Duke led by Coach Cutcliffe, who I have a
00:20great deal of respect for as a person, as a man, and certainly as an established head
00:28football coach. We're going to play a team that, first and foremost, we know that they've
00:36handled this pandemic extremely well because they're so similar in terms of the kind of
00:45players that they have at Duke, disciplined, organized, committed with a purpose to being
00:55great student-athletes. So, we understand that and so our preparation needed to be at
01:04that level as well. If you look at this football team, seven starters on both sides of the
01:09ball. Defensively, I think, arguably, it could be one of the best defensive backfields, best
01:18tandem of corners, maybe, that we could see all year. And certainly, off the edge, you
01:25may not find as good a pass-rushing combination that we're going to see with this group. So,
01:33very dynamic off the edge, as I mentioned, corners that can be extremely disruptive.
01:41And then, in offense, it's, again, very creative. They've run everything from no-back to wishbone.
01:49So, you've got to be, in an opener, prepared for virtually everything. And again, with Coach
01:56Cutcliffe calling the offense, we know how accomplished he is as a play caller and managing
02:01games. So, we've got our hands full in terms of making sure that we have answers to a number
02:09of different potential issues on Saturday.