It sounded almost like a replay with North Carolina State trying to straighten out its defense after two Atlantic Coast Conference football games.

Changes after a loss to Wake Forest will be followed by more changes after the Duke game.

“There’s holes in everything,” coach Tom O’Brien said. “But you have to understand where the holes are. … You have to go back, evaluate everything you did.”

But at this point, the finger pointing isn’t coming from the offense. Those players will leave it to the defense to sort out the shortcomings prior to Saturday’s game at Boston College.

“The defense will take care of themselves,” Owen Spencer said.

Of particular concern is the secondary, which has been torched the last two games.

O’Brien said the safeties did an acceptable job against Duke, but too many receivers were already running loose.

“They didn’t have to make tough catches,” said O’Brien, who praised the accuracy of Duke quarterback Thaddeus Lewis. “They were all on the money.”

Safety Clem Johnson the Wolfpack defenders are starting to ask more questions of the coaching staff in an effort to solve the problems.

“Get a better grasp of where we’re supposed to be and what the coaches want us to do,” Johnson said. “We’ve been kind of inconsistent when it comes to tackling.”


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