The only member of the three-way Duke quarterback battle who took snaps for Duke last season is Chris Katrenick, who started preseason camp with the first team
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00:00 I think it's different for everyone. I say for me just the speed of the game
00:05 and live football you know it doesn't matter what you do at home it's not with
00:08 everyone that's out here so I think it depends for everyone I feel like we're
00:12 making progress every day and that's kind of our focus so not looking too
00:16 far ahead just trying to get get better each day increase practice each day and
00:21 all those things but no I feel feel really good it's great to be out here
00:25 yeah I mean I'll say the first thing is that we're all making each other better
00:29 and that's kind of cliche but it's really come to life here you know we
00:34 haven't really discussed any details but like I said we're just making each other
00:39 better we're getting along great having a lot of fun you know coaches on the
00:43 field just playing a position of quarterback and that's kind of it our
00:46 focus right now but I feel like everyone feels really well and probably playing
00:51 better than then we have in the past as a unit so feel really good I think the
00:56 comfort comes from preparation you know we didn't have a spring ball obviously
00:59 so we're trying to catch up play a little catch up there but as in terms of
01:04 you know I haven't had a had a start yet I know that but I know that practice
01:08 should be harder than the game and we're really trying to make that happen out
01:11 here and it really does help having guys you know beneath you or above you that
01:15 you're competing against so I think the preparation is going to help with the
01:20 comfort level and that's kind of what I feel like everyone on this team is
01:24 trying to accomplish I think the only decision was whether to opt out or play
01:29 my focus has just been playing this season and this year you know nobody
01:34 knows anything for sure so you were trying to control we can that's kind of
01:38 my mindset and right now I just want to look at this season and give everything
01:42 I got because like I said nobody really knows what's ahead so I think you know
01:49 just being a college football player at Duke we have a standard and I think that
01:53 this is just a different circumstance that the standard applies to it is hard
01:57 it's not easy and I don't think anyone on the team thinks it's easy but it's
02:02 really just about you know not letting the guy next to you you know down and
02:06 that that's pretty powerful so that's kind of how we've handled it and in
02:11 terms of other schools that's the challenging part we got to control what
02:15 we can we can't control everyone so you know we're just we're focusing on how we
02:19 can be great teammates first yeah I think well first of all I love having
02:26 him out there and he's always been around and active on offense but we're
02:31 as an offense we're playing really fast and you know I think that's a great
02:35 thing coming off of a long break to get guys just playing fast and we want to
02:40 think fast and slow at the same time and I think that you know every day like I
02:46 said we're just trying to get a little better each day he's really helped keep
02:49 our focus pretty narrow and not get too far ahead of ourselves so it's been
02:53 great. It's been great.