Guys. Yeah, I mean, first of all hats off the Clemson again, you know, that's a tremendous program and that's still not lost on anyone in this building in a lot of ways at times, they really outplayed us tonight and we were able to make enough plays to win. Thank you to Duke and to the students and to the fans. What an amazing atmosphere that was for Duke football. I think that carried us at the times when we were having to really dig our heels in and find ways to make plays. Having that stadium look like that and having those people look like that is something that continues to drive us. And so thank you all for coming out. We need you guys all year. We need you to continue to support this team and then to our team. I just told them this in the locker room. It's a testimony to what you can accomplish if you put yourself together and you're willing to give a lot to an organization. These kids work so hard, they put so much into this thing and they just continue to fight and come together to be successful and so really, really happy for those guys, really happy for what they accomplished, really happy for this night and I'll finish like you guys will expect to that. That's one win and we still got a lot more to play. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You know, I don't know that we slowed him down at times. It didn't feel like it. I felt like we were very resilient. Um Felt like, you know, we got on our heels quite a bit in the second half. Um But we kept battling, you know, and we talk a lot about red zone touchdowns and playing red zone defense and how important that is to winning football games. And we did, we just kept fighting on a lot of those drives in the second half and we got to stop and I don't know if we altered the field goal or what happened on the miss after watch the tape, we had two turnovers down there which were critical and then the one we were able to scoop up and flip the field. And so, you know, in a half where I felt like we were a little bit on our heels, you know, we were able to pitch a shot, right. And that's just a testimony to the character of our kids and how much they continue to battle the second half the first. Yeah, I think just relax and, you know, I think that was the biggest, the biggest fear coming into this game was, you know, that team plays on this stage 89 times a year, our kids have not played on that stage one time in their career. And that was probably the biggest thing for me from an, a standpoint coming in was just trying to get them to relax. And we spent a lot of time on that trying to talk them through that all week to just come out and play their game. And I think maybe at times in the first half we got away from that and I think coming in at half time and just regrouping and feeling like, ok, we're in this, we can play with these guys. You know, this is going to be a back and forth type of game. I think it just settled them in and they were able to come out and execute a little bit cleaner in the second half. Yeah, I mean, it's what that kid continues to do. Right. It's his ability to elevate at the right moment at the right time when we need him and we called the play. I don't think we blocked it real good. I think they were in a really good look and he breaks the tackle and he scores a touchdown. Right. And that's just what that kid does. He's such a competitor. He puts his team on his shoulders and he drives him forward and he'll come in and tell you there's a lot, he's got to clean up too. But man, when it's time to step up and make plays, that kid has done it since the day I got here. No, I mean, we put a huge emphasis on it this off season because I thought we were really bad at it last year. And so it was something we really emphasized a lot was we had to be better. So I don't know that we necessarily felt like there was a weakness from them. We just felt like we had to be much better at that. And so it was good to see us go out and execute something that we had spent an awful lot of time on this off season, the red zone defense. And were you anticipating being that dominant whenever Clemson got it inside that inside the red zone, were you anticipating? You guys force the turnover at the field goal and all that? No, I was hoping we wouldn't be in the red zone defense. I was hoping we'd stop them before they got down there. But no, I mean, we spent a lot of time on situational football and, you know, we talk about having to continue to play and fight, right? And that was one of the big things that people asked me when I got here was, will this team compete? Will this team fight? Will this team play hard for four quarters? Like, absolutely, yes, they will not lay down. And that's what they're trained to do. And so we believe in our conditioning, we believe in our physicality. We believe that we know how to execute in those areas of the field. We certainly would prefer not to be down there as much as we were. But um you know, those players ultimately won us a football game. This is a historic upset the first time since 89. You guys top 10 team. Well, I say the word upset watching it. It didn't feel like it looked like you guys were just better. I mean, how do you compartmentalize what just happened in regards of what people are going to talk about this game? Yeah, I mean, we, we all this outside stuff is for you guys. It really is. I don't mean that in any kind of bad way, but like we certainly didn't come into this game talking about an upset. We didn't come into this game talking about we had to do this and that to pull this amazing thing off. We just talked about playing duke football and I think people have a really hard time understanding that a group of kids can really come together and work extremely hard and change who they are and change what they're all about. And that's what these kids have done and that doesn't show up in stats or whatever causes us to be a major underdog or whatever else. This was about a major upset. Um And so we believe that we do the things we need to do to give ourselves a chance to win every game we play and, and that's now, what, 15 games or 14 games, that, that's been the case. We've had an opportunity in every game. This team has gone out there to win the football game and we certainly didn't anticipate tonight would be any different, like Dion after the penalties. How do you process the side of this? Um, yeah, that we want to know and we got a lot of things to get better at before we play another game and we don't have a lot of time to do it. I mean, that's honestly how I processed tonight. You know, we came into this game believing we could win the football game, we came into this game believing that if we played the way we were capable of, we would get the result that we wanted and we did. And now, you know, some of the biggest improvement that happens in college football is between game one and game two and a lot of teams in the country get seven days to do that. A lot of teams get nine days to do it. We get five and I'm pretty sure we're not going to get a ton of sleep tonight. And so, you know, we're gonna have a challenge, getting us back together and getting ourselves ready to go and, um, getting back on the field. And because we got a lot of things that we have to clean up for this team to get where we want to go first. Let me ask you about, he makes a big mistake in the first half. Has a huge second half. You mentioned Brazil, you talk about his resiliency, the confidence that your coach has had in giving the ball to him, put his hand to give it a chance to make, he didn't fumble, Jack fumbled at the end of the half. But we have confidence in all those guys. We have confidence in all those guys and you know, Jaleon is our returner. He's going to continue to be our palm returner. We need him to make a better decision and pick that up clean. Jacque has got to take care of the ball. Samir Hagan has got to take care of the ball, but we don't lose faith in who we are, who our guys are just when they make mistakes, we just got, we got to clean that stuff up and play better where you want to take this. Yeah, I mean, I think, I think it's important on the outside. It's important on the outside because I think it makes people believe a little bit more of what we've been saying since I got here, right? What we've been saying internally is this is what Duke Football is capable of. We've never ever wavered from that at all. I think what it says now to people on the outside is they get a little validation that is possible. And in this day and age we got to find ways to validate what we say and that's what it is. I promise you internally we want to know. And that's honestly where we're at as a football program. That's the first field storming at. Well, for a long time being on the field. I mean, from the beginning when we came out of the tunnel, you know, we asked our students to get there early, we asked them to be rowdy, we asked them to be involved. We talked about trying to turn this into a Cameron type environment in the fall. And man, were they awesome tonight? I mean, they were absolutely awesome. And so to see them awarded getting to storm the field, I mean, that's a moment in a memory. That's what college football should be about, right? And I don't know if we're going to get fined for that one or not. But, you know, that's just one of those things that, that's what college football on Saturday should be. It should be a great gathering place for university. It should be a great environment. It should be a great place where everybody can come and enjoy football and that's coming at Duke. And so we were really excited. Did you think that they were going to get a first down out of that initially? And then when it was adjudicated Yeah. Yeah, I was, I was relieved because it's funny we had the same play last year against Georgia Tech and they didn't call it a dead ball. And so I guess what they, what they deemed was he was down and it was a dead ball. And so it happened pretty quick though, once, once they came over, they kind of explained that that's what it was and the review was targeting or no targeting. So we knew we had the ball. It just was a matter of whether or not CAM was going to be in the game. You from the very beginning, you prioritized conditioning, your don't feel an awful lot today and brutally hot conditions is, does this validate that emphasis on conditioning that would stay on there make this place? Yeah, I mean, it's, it's why you train the way we train. It's why we do the things that we do in the summer. And I think the other thing that I hope people noticed was how much we rotated. I think everybody keeps talking about our depth and, and how come we don't have enough of this or enough of that? We rotated bodies as much as those guys did tonight. And we rotated 89 guys across the defensive line. We rotated four linebackers. We had probably 89 guys play in the secondary. We were able to rotate enough and I think that played a big role as well because we were able to keep our guys fresh and not let them wear us down. How much difference did you transfer? That sounds hard to say, you see from the timeline, Steve, I mean, obviously we got a lot of confidence in those guys. They've become really good players, you know, Jeremiah Lewis showed up and made a bunch of plays as well tonight. And so, you know, I got to go back and watch the tape to say specifically how much they impacted the game. But certainly that's three contributors that made big plays tonight at different times. You know, Miles made the play on the post. Al made the last break up for sure. Al brought some pressure. I know he got some Russian on the quarterback, Jeremiah Lewis made a couple of plays and then he ran down on the breakout run, ran the kid down and that was able to get us in a situation where they missed the field goal. And so all three of those guys certainly had impactful plays. How much time you probably. No, no, it's a joke a little bit. You know, it's, it's a really cool thing. It's great for our kids. I'm really, really happy for that because they need this, they need to know that what they're doing and everything that they're pouring into this thing is going to get them the results right. And for them to do what they do and have done it since the day, I got here results help that, it helps get them continuing to go and continuing to roll. I'm a football coach, I'm a football coach and I know we got another game coming Saturday and so I'm happy for them. I'm happy for their moment. That's where we're at. Getting back to the defense a little bit. How happy were you, Tyler in his first game as a, you know, full time coordinator. Yeah, I thought he was great inside the 10 and not as good between the twenties now. I mean, Tyler's awesome. I mean, Tyler's awesome. I mean, he, you know, to see the amount of work that he put into this plan. I mean, we watched, he watched three years worth of Garrett Riley, um, because we didn't really know know what that was going to look like. You know, some of that offense was Garrett Riley SMU his first year, his second year. And so I think we had our kids really well prepared for what we were going to see without really, truly knowing what that was really going to be about because you didn't know how they were going to piece that offense together. And so, yeah, I mean, he's awesome. Is that three years just for context. So I understand, I'm trying to understand it seems like a lot, but it's probably a lot. Yeah, despite your guys miscues, you won the turnover battle again. It seems, do you feel like the defense has gotten better at forcing turnovers since last year. And is that, is that still like, so important to, to what? Yeah, I mean, I mean, just look at it right in the, in the first half. We got down there twice. We didn't score touchdowns. We lost the turnover battle two nothing and you go into halftime and we're losing. Then the second half comes around, we win the turnover battle. We don't allow them to score touchdowns in the red zone. We score touchdowns in the red zone and we win the second half, what, 22 to nothing, right? And so those things that we talk about are the things that win football games. That's where we spend all of our time emphasizing and that doesn't mean that you're going to always get it right. I mean, we didn't emphasize fumbles any more or less between the first half and the second half, but that execution and the critical piece of that in the game is what ultimately wins and loses football games. And so we spend so much time on it because if we get those things right, that's ultimately the formula for winning coach. Can you talk about the collaboration with the basketball program? Uh It just seems like you've really embraced it rather than resent it our time here and, and from the helmets tonight that they've had that script before Jeff Bilas, talking to the team, uh, you know, Shire showing up to the team that Derek lively tonight was leading the student section and basically standing in front, came back to do that. Can you just talk about what that's meant? Yeah, I, I said it from the day I got here, we have a phenomenal basketball program and, and that's not anything to shy away from. Like, I, I love going to Cameron and I love watching games. I'm honored that coach K got a chance to meet him and spend some time with him. I'm excited that I've got a great relationship with John Shire and Kara Lawson. Like we don't, we're Duke, we're Duke athletics and everything I've said since the day I got here was we have a lot of excellent programs. We just need to elevate football to get to that level. And so, you know, we look at Cameron as what we want Wallace Wade to be. We look at their program as what we want our football program to be. And for me, it's a path to success, right? When you can look at an athletic departments, OK? This program has figured it out, this program has figured it out, you know, and it takes commitment, it takes commitment from the university and we got that and it takes commitment from the administration and alignment and all of those things that are so critical. But when you see what those programs are capable of, it allows you to believe that that's what we can do in football as well. Just curious coach, are you picking up the tab if you guys do get fined for the? Well, I don't know, we'll talk and we'll see how that goes. We'll see how that goes. But I appreciate you guys. I appreciate you guys coming out. Thank you for coming. Congratulations. Thank you, Adult.