{"id":349,"date":"2010-10-23T17:33:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-24T00:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsports.us\/?p=349"},"modified":"2010-10-23T17:33:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-24T00:33:00","slug":"defense-continues-to-let-down-duke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=349","title":{"rendered":"Defense continues to let down Duke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Duke&#8217;s demise this season should have been predicted, simply because the Blue Devils don&#8217;t have the talent and toughness on defense they need to compete in the ACC. The offense can&#8217;t make up for the problems on defense, with a poor running game and inexperienced quarterback.<\/p>\n<p>Virginia Tech simply manhandled Duke Saturday, 44-7. The game was over by halftime and the Devils plummeted to 1-6. Duke returned six starters on defense for this season, but they lost the bulk of their defensive front from a year ago and there&#8217;s little on this team that strikes fear into an offensive coordinator. Duke has a long way to go in ACC play &#8230; as this season is reminding the remaining Blue Devil fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Duke&#8217;s demise this season should have been predicted, simply because the Blue Devils don&#8217;t have the talent and toughness on defense they need to compete&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}