The pandemic has made everything a little crazy for the past few months, but, once football starts, Duke's David Cutcliffe thinks we might reach a new level. He discusses running out of players and switching opponents mid-week
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00:00 We've talked about it a lot from a standpoint in our board meetings as trustees.
00:08 We've talked about it within the ACC.
00:11 There's no magic number, but you get close to, you gotta have eight offensive linemen,
00:18 but you can also look at some potential two-way play.
00:21 It's gotta be done safely.
00:23 But eight offensive linemen, kind of the number for me has been 47-48, where you're too deep
00:29 hopefully on both sides of the ball and you have your specialist, a snapper, place kicker,
00:34 punter.
00:36 We're practicing really focused on our entire team because you could get short.
00:43 We don't know who we're gonna necessarily play with.
00:46 I think one of the more unique stories that you guys could look at is that when you're
00:51 doing the COVID testing, you're practicing for an opponent and then all of a sudden mid-week,
00:57 an opponent you're going to play has to opt out of that week.
01:01 And you're suddenly finding yourself maybe on Thursday, Friday playing someone else.
01:07 So we've given that some thought as we've gone through as to how we're approaching putting
01:12 our offense and defense together, the strategy, the X's and O's, as well as the kicking game.
01:18 So from a coaching standpoint, the strategy, it's a unique challenge and we're trying to
01:23 give it a little bit of a unique perspective.
01:26 And I want all our young people to believe that they matter anyway, but certainly everybody
01:31 matters right now.
01:32 Their progress and their development is important to our program.