Duke coach David Cutcliffe said the team has left eight touchdowns on the field due to little things going wrong. He blames it on not being "game ready"
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00:00Well, I don't tie anything into the last year and this year, Jim, there's really no
00:06connection with a lot of different players in a different circumstance.
00:10I think with us is what I just described. You really, you have a difficult time
00:16knowing right where we are. We have had one scrimmage in the fall camp and that was it.
00:24We had no scrimmages from spring, which obviously we didn't get a spring. So trying to get a team
00:32game ready, and that's one of the things I've critiqued myself as a play caller,
00:37when you see things or you try things, you better know what's game ready. And I'm not
00:43going to blame a player if it's not executed just like it should have been if we haven't put it in
00:49a circumstance where it's game ready. So it kind of goes back to all of those challenges. Now,
00:55taking care of the football, what I call staying belly down. I don't want to see people carrying
01:01the ball with turning their belly up. Those are going to be fumbles. People have to finish
01:08catches and runs. Quarterbacks have to be accountable where they put the ball. Receivers
01:14have to be accountable where they are on the field. And if that sounds like coaching, it is
01:20on my part. And you have to coach all of those little things to take care of a football and put
01:26yourself in position to put touchdowns together. And reality is this, we've probably left
01:35eight touchdowns on the field in two games. And we know we turned it over five times in this past
01:41ball game. And when you do that, you're not going to win. Can you fix it? Yes,
01:45you've got to go fix it out there on the practice field.