This story originally ran in the 11.9 Issue of GoDuke, the Magazine – April 2020
After seeing their streak of four consecutive bowl appearances come to end in 2016, David Cutcliffe and his Blue Devils had plenty of optimism heading into the fall of the following year.
Daniel Jones would be in his second year as the starting quarterback, and this time he had an entire offseason to prepare for that reality, as well as lessons learned from an initial campaign that saw unparalleled individual achievements juxtaposed with collective disappointment.