{"id":7465,"date":"2014-09-03T08:34:01","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T12:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=7465"},"modified":"2014-09-03T09:44:35","modified_gmt":"2014-09-03T13:44:35","slug":"dukes-coach-cutcliffe-weekly-news-conference-transcript","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=7465","title":{"rendered":"Duke’s Coach Cutcliffe weekly news conference transcript"},"content":{"rendered":"

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David Cutcliffe.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\u201cIt appropriately may have been our hottest day of practice. When you\u2019re going to Troy, Alabama you certainly are going to a little bit different climate than what we have in North Carolina, so that was good for our squad. We kind of pushed through it. We had some live, physical contact. We could have been better from a contact standpoint than what we were in the Elon game. I really thought we tried to address that today.<\/p>\n

\u201cTroy is a well-coached, well-run football program. Their first game didn\u2019t turn out as well as they would have liked. Our first game kind of sounded in reverse. The reality is you\u2019ve got to look at the tape and see what you\u2019re doing well and what you\u2019ve got to do better. They\u2019re doing the same thing as we\u2019re doing regardless of result.
\n\u201cLarry Blakeney is one of the best football people I know. I\u2019ve known him and his staff a long time. We will have to have a great week of preparation. We\u2019re going to have to tomorrow challenge our team to have ourselves ready. I know we\u2019re going into a circ umstance on a Saturday evening in Troy, Alabama where it\u2019s going to be serious football and it will be a great test for our team.\u201d<\/p>\n

[On last season\u2019s 5-0 road record]<\/strong> \u201cThe best peer leadership I\u2019ve been around. Your team is controlled more by its teammates than you do on the road in actuality. I thought our seniors a year ago were the best core group of leaders and the best peer leaders I\u2019ve been around. And so I think we had a maturity level where you understood what you had to do.<\/p>\n

\u201cDavid Helton has just been as steady as a rock. That\u2019s a thing that\u2019s based upon his ability to step in and play mike backer when he\u2019s never had to do it for any extended period of time. He was better today in practice because of what he got accomplished in the game. David br ought it. He\u2019s been a tremendous leader.\u201d <\/p>\n

[On QB Thomas Sirk]<\/strong> \u201cI think he is a tremendous young man and fierce competitor. He is extremely tough, extremely tough. But I want him to remember that you can be fast and tough, so play fast and use his speed a little bit more sometimes than using his power.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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