Duke offensive lineman Jacob Monk discussed the team's play for replacing injured center Jack Wohlabaugh. Even though Monk has taken snaps at center, he'll be playing guard with Will Taylor stepping in to snap.
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00:00 So, and during the summer, what I did was worked on like pretty much everywhere,
00:07 right side, left side, center, because I knew that that's what Coach Fry had told
00:14 us in the spring, you know, in the short period of time that we were here.
00:16 So, really just trying to work on each and every spot and adjusting the jack.
00:22 We've moved Graham Barton inside and he's looking really good.
00:27 And everyone's getting more snaps in and yeah, looking really, really good with Graham.
00:35 Last season, I just knew that there would be ups and downs.
00:38 You can never get too high, you can never get too low.
00:41 I feel like that was a great learning point that I learned, or point that I learned from
00:46 last season.
00:47 And taking that into this year, just working, working each and every day.
00:51 And, you know, I might have bad days, I might have good days, but just staying level-headed
00:55 through it all.
00:58 I can say that there's competition along the whole offense, you know.
01:01 Chase, Chris, Gunner, they're all looking amazing back there, you know.
01:06 It's amazing blocking for them.
01:07 And as far as the offensive line, like Casey's looking amazing.
01:13 Devery looks great, like really great.
01:17 Patrick looks really good coming off of injury.
01:19 And before you know, Jack had an untimely season-ending injury.
01:24 He was looking amazing.
01:25 But I can say, at the guard spots, there's a lot of competition between, you know, myself,
01:32 Rokavious Chambers, Maurice McIntyre, Robert Crailing.
01:36 We're all, you know, battling for a starting spot right now.
01:40 And I think it's making us all better.
01:42 Yeah, Will Taylor will be our starter.
01:45 He's very good.
01:48 You know, he was told, you know, after his injury his freshman year, that he would never
01:53 play football again.
01:54 Never run again.
01:55 But, you know, here he is.
01:56 He's battled through all the odds and is now a starter at Duke football for the second
02:00 year in a row.
02:01 And I can really see, like, how much he has grown, like, since fall camp last year until
02:07 him being a starter last year until now.
02:09 I mean, he's really embraced a leadership role and also just being, just the leadership
02:16 role leading by example.
02:17 So yeah.
02:18 Deion Jackson is a playmaker.
02:21 Chase Bryce can just put it where he wants it to, under pressure or anything.
02:27 Those two guys are big playmakers as well as, like I said before, the other quarterbacks.
02:31 I mean, everyone we have right now can play and there's a lot of competition.
02:35 And there will continue to be competition throughout the year, I believe.
02:38 I mean, I love it.
02:39 This is my dad's, my dad went to school.
02:43 And pretty much since birth I knew I would be a Blue Devil.
02:46 I came to every game since I was young.
02:48 Really, I'm just living the dream right now at my dream school.
02:52 And it's everything that I imagined and more.
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