"I think you have to give Duke credit, especially defensively. They played their tails off. I thought they were pretty good going in the game, and they didn't disappoint me. But it's like I told our team, you're not going to win the game when you snap it over your punter's head, give up a kickoff for a touchdown, give up a punt return for a touchdown and then are anemic on offense the way we were. We're just not a very good offensive football team right now." — Georgia Tech coach Paul Johnson
"We ran one trap play. We had to run it five times before we got it right. And when you do that against a team that's pretty good, it's not going to be very good." — Johnson
"I thought they played really well in the second half. That's probably as good as a defense has played since I've been here, in the second half. They played great. They gave us every chance in the world to win the game." — Johnson on the Tech defense
"He gets frustrated. He couldn't drop back to throw without three guys right around him. So it was frustrating." — Johnson on Tech quarterback Justin Thomas
"I'm not shocked. I told you two weeks ago. You guys might be shocked, I'm not. I'm disappointed that we didn't play better, but we weren't playing great in the first two weeks. We had people overmatched. There's no secret formula. There isn't anything you can do if you cannot block people and you cannot execute and go to the right people. And sometimes the young guys aren't always going to go to the right people. They're not going to be perfect. So the guys that have played have got to be better, and the defense has got to carry those young guys a little bit until they can. Now, in the second half, they did. They gave them every opportunity, so that's what you take and try to build on." — Johnson
"We've just got to go out there and compete. We've got play harder. We've got to make plays, all around the board, me included. We've just got to go and keep working." — Thomas
"The play was supposed to go to me, but I was double-covered, so I just scrambled back inside and Justin, being a mobile, great quarterback, he hit me in the hole." — wide receiver Ricky Jeune on his touchdown reception
"We just had to stop worrying about what they were doing and just focused on doing what we had to do the right way. I know sometimes when you're playing, you can just think, 'Oh, I'm expecting them to do this,' but you can't just go off of what you expect. You just have to play and do your job." — defensive end KeShun Freeman on improvement after the first quarter
"We aren't doing what we are supposed to be doing. It's simple. We have to execute. We've played a lot of games. We have to go back to the drawing board and prepare for the rest of the season." — Tech center Freddie Burden
"Our attitude of the day was, 'Take the fight to them.' We really took the fight to them, and they had a really tough time with us." — Duke defensive tackle A.J. Wolf
"Right now, our defense is playing at as high of a level as we've seen since we've been here, and maybe one of the highest levels I've seen a team play." — Duke coach David Cutcliffe
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