“I don’t know how much you tell about a game like that. I thought early on, we came out, started out the game and played fairly well and were trying to execute what we were doing, and then, as the game wore on in the second half, we were just trying to make sure that we didn’t lose anybody for next week.”
— Georgia Tech coach Paul Johnson
“I think it’s a big game, and it’s a game that we haven’t played particularly well the last couple years, and we need to play better.”
— Johnson on the Georgia game
“It was kind of what we thought. They have a good football team. We came out and played as hard as we could, but they jumped on us really fast at the beginning. We knew their offensive attack would be hard to defend. You have to be disciplined, and we made a few mistakes on it. We didn’t get our offense going at the early outset. Again, they’re a very good football team, very good.”
— Alabama A&M coach Anthony Jones
“That was about as bad a beating as I’ve had in a football game. We improved a lot from that game against Georgia to the ACC Championship game, and hopefully going year to year from last year to this year, we can find a lot that we can clean up and try to refine when we get ready to play them Saturday.”
— Offensive lineman Will Jackson on last year's Georgia game
“Hopefully I should be able to build on it. Staying healthy makes a difference, so staying healthy along with team chemistry with the O-line and quarterback should make a big difference.”
— B-back Broderick Snoddy
“I was just out there trying to get into a groove, make sure I got my reads down and get comfortable with the guys out there on the field. I felt like it went well today. Everybody played well, and everyone did what they were supposed to do to win.”
— Quarterback Justin Thomas
“Well, you know, quitting would have been the easy way out. I’ve never quit anything in my life that I can think of. I care about this team more than anything. I wanted to see this all the way through, and I wanted to do this as long as they let me.”
— Defensive lineman Ben Keith on his career as a walk-on
“I’ve had a big role on special teams this year, and I feel like that’s helped me for playing in the game on defense.”
— Linebacker Tyler Marcordes
“It’s definitely fun. Everybody works hard during the week in practice and the whole season. To see everybody get a chance to go out and play in front of all the fans out there was fun to watch and see people make plays.”
— A-back Robert Godhigh
“Similar. Georgia does a lot of I-formation, a lot of one-back stuff (also). It’s definitely going to prepare us going into the next game.”
— Linebacker Jabari Hunt-Days on the Alabama A&M and Georgia offenses
“We just wanted to focus on ourselves, make sure that we came out and did the little things. The whole thing this week was we wanted to make sure when we came in to watch film on Monday, we’d like what we saw on film.”
— B-back David Sims
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