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Football
vs NC State
Quotes: Georgia Tech 49, Duke 21
11/18/2006 12:00:00 AM | Football
Duke Coach Ted Roof
About Calvin Johnson's Play:
They protected Reggie. He threw some balls that only one person could catch. Calvin certainly made a couple of great plays. He just went up and got them, like I said, where only one person could catch it. I would have liked to see us get more pressure, that's certainly an element where we have to find a way get better this week, along with some other things.
About the 80 yard drive ? 1st quarter:
After the first play from scrimmage we come out and get a pick, have a scoring opportunity and then come free on a route, but when we dropped it, we missed an opportunity there, and then we missed a field goal, which we had a chance to gain some momentum there after getting a take away on the very first play. We didn't finish the drive and they came back, blocked well, ran well, and took
it down the field.
About T. Choice and momentum
He's a good player, good back. We had a guy that was getting ready to score a touchdown, and again, a missed opportunity and we've got to find a way to make those plays. There's no excuse and that certainly wasn't the reason we lost the ball game. Have to give GT credit and turnovers; we can't turn the ball over on our end of the field. We've got one more week, our team has played together thus far, and I'm sure that's going to happen this week. We'll put everything we have, get ready to play UNC, and we're down to one opportunity. We've got to put everything we have into this opportunity.
About the kicking change
Moving forward, I don't know what we're going to do. We wanted to give Randy a chance. I thought we made the first one, but I guess we missed by a foot; that's what the officials told me. I thought the kick got up, and got out of there, he just pushed it a little bit. I thought we'd just give Randy an opportunity. We'll see what we're going to do moving forward.
About the play of the Duke corners
We did some good things, and they made some plays too, and that happens in most every games. Things that we've got to do, is when we get our hands on the ball, is make sure the other guys don't catch it. We've got to finish the play with the ball in our possession. A couple of things were disappointing, but a couple of things I thought we did real well.
About momentum
Football is a game of momentum. We gained it early, and then lost it, and in the first half, we never re-gained it. We scored at the end of the half, which gave us some life going into halftime, but too many big plays and too many turnovers.
About playing GT ? Alma matter
There's familiarity with this school and with all the people associated with it. There are so many guys that either played here or coached here. You always want to play good. They've certainly done a good job here and have a very opportunistic football team.
About next week against UNC
We're disappointed right now, obviously didn't get it done. We've got one opportunity left and have to devote everything we have and get ready to play UNC. This is it; there are no more after this.
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