"...it’s two distinctively different offenses."

Excerpts from Duke press conference with head coach Ted Roof and wide receiver Eron Riley. It is interesting that coach Roof admits that the Noles offense is different when Weatherford is QB. :

Duke Head Coach Ted Roof:
On what the team has been focusing on:
“What we have learned is that when we execute, we’re usually successful. We can’t go 10 of 11 people doing what they’re supposed to do on a certain play because when that happens many times there is a breakdown. The efficiency of our operation has to improve and we’ve been focusing a lot on execution.”

On the running game:
“When we handed the ball off as opposed to sack yardage, as the season has progressed we’ve improved. But, we need to get the sacks out of that. Certainly it’s an area that we’ll keep pecking and pecking and see if there are some things we can do to help ourselves. I think there are. It’s going to come back to execution; it’s not scheme, it’s how we execute.”

On the defensive scheme for Saturday versus Florida State:
“Even though it’s the same team, it’s two distinctively different offenses. They do things with [Xavier] Lee that they don’t do with [Drew] Weatherford and they do things with Weatherford that they don’t do with Lee. Of course there is some common ground there. Based on the comments we’ve heard, I expect Lee to come off the bench at some point so we have to work on all of it, which is a pretty broad scope, but I think we’d be fools if we didn’t.”

Wide Receiver Eron Riley:
On the relationship between him and quarterback Thaddeus Lewis:
“We have a good relationship. When he came on his official visit as a senior in high school, he immediately was a cool guy to be around as a friend on the football field. He’s just a great guy and a good team player, so we have a great relationship. I think his development as a passer helped me a lot to become a better receiver. It goes 50-50, so I think it’s pretty good.”

On what challenges Florida State presents on the defensive side of the ball and how Duke’s receivers have prepared for it:
“They play a really good man-to-man coverage and they have a fast defense that they’re known for. As receivers, we just have to run good routes and make sure we know what we’re doing it. We need to read coverages because a lot of our plays are based off of reading their coverages.”