It took five weeks, but Duke posted its first win of the season over Syracuse. Coach David Cutcliffe talked about the elusive victory and the prospect of facing the toughest schedule in Duke history
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00:00Well the first thing I want to do is say congratulations to our players,
00:06congratulations to our coaches for the hard work, the continuation of hard work through all this
00:14difficult time. I also want to say congratulations to our players that aren't here. It's a part of
00:22football, people forget that sometime. I know they're back home feeling better and I also want
00:28to thank all the people that are involved in letting us do what we love doing. Bob Wiseman
00:36and his team and Duke Athletics, Dr. White and his leadership, his team, Nina King. It's really
00:43been an amazingly inspirational time for me to see so many people care for others and that's what
00:51you want to see in difficult times and man has it been, it's tough, it's a pandemic and things
00:57don't go well but nobody jumped ship and really, really appreciative of all the people that are
01:04involved in Duke football and with that said just the difference today is thank goodness we won,
01:10we won the fourth quarter in the second half for the first time. We answered scores with our
01:17offense, we haven't done that. We won third downs as a team in a big way and we physically dominated
01:26the line of scrimmage. That gives us a chance to grow and build. We've got to take care of the ball
01:33better at quarterback and on offense in general. That's a job that obviously I'm not doing well
01:41enough but we have some playmakers, really proud of those guys and if we continue to work well as
01:49a team and prepare then we'll have a shot. That's all you can ask for is to try to have a shot
01:55week in and week out and what's going to prove to be, you know, the toughest schedule any Duke
01:59football team's ever had to play. 10 power five games, 10 ACC games, so I hope our players realize
02:06that each week it's going to be the same type of effort challenge and the same challenge to play well.