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Turnovers helping Duke turn page

Turnovers helping Duke turn page

The No. 2 area for Duke’s football team to excel in each game is special teams, and Jaylen Stinson’s 67-yard kick return to open Saturday night’s game against North Carolina A&T was certainly a boost. Not to diminish that or anything else Duke does on special teams; but the No. 1 area is turnovers and given where this program was in that regard for the last couple of seasons, that’s what jumps off of the page. Elko and his staff targeted turnovers not simply because it was a weakness in the last couple of seasons, but because that’s proved to be the quickest way to turn around a program’s success under a new staff.