Wake Forest’s second day of fall camp brought a clear message from Jake Dickert: the standard has to keep climbing.
After day two with the Demon Deacons, Dickert said the focus was on sharpening the team’s habits and raising the overall level of execution. He pointed to the film from the first two sessions and liked what he saw early, especially the way the group responded from session one to session two.
"I think the biggest thing is today in day two, we're just trying to elevate the level and the standard of how we maintain. I thought our guys, even yesterday when you watched the film between session one and session two, just as far as the team, they ramped it up.
Thought we started that way and then we started to get a little sloppy towards the end once we got into more situational football on third down. So a lot of great learns once again, tomorrow's padded day.
Excited to see our O-line who's done a good job to start camp, what it looks like when pads come on. So it's going to be physical.
It was ultra competitive today and proud of our team."
Dickert also noted that the team’s energy dipped a bit late once the work shifted into third-down situations, but he framed that as part of the learning process. With pads set to come on the next day, he said he was eager to see how the offensive line handles the added physicality after a solid start to camp.
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