“After looking at the video, I credit Duke; they played an excellent football game. They kept field position on us in the second half. I did like in the fourth quarter when we needed to get something done our offense moved the ball down the field and got the field position changed around. Defensively, I thought we made some great plays and Duke had some good plays called at times and by good execution on our part I thought we held on and that’s kind of again what we did in the ball game. I’m proud of our effort, I’m proud of the way we hung in there, the offense moved the ball late in the fourth quarter, Duke did a good job kicking the ball and getting field position and so I give them a lot of credit.
On the player’s schedule for this off week…
They’re going to get their lifts in, but they’re free until Wednesday we’ll have a 3:15 meeting and we’ll go over the Duke game at that time and have game plans by coaches on Wednesday. The coaches will be out recruiting for the next couple of days. Then we’ll start back and have practice on Thursday and Friday and then our game week starts on Saturday.
On using bye week to scout…
Yeah, I think you always do that, I think you need to know what the other team knows. So they’ll be some of that going on too.
On having 10 days in between a very important ACC game…
I think in this case, you like it. Georgia Tech has a unique offense, a very different offense and a good offense so I think the more time you have to prepare for that the better. So from that standpoint I like it.
The key to defending Georgia Tech offense…
They know what they’re doing. They’re fast, they block in different ways, first option hits you very quickly so there’s a lot of unique things to it and a lot of good things to it.
On the dirty play (mentioned by David Wilson and James Gayle) by Duke’s players…
No I didn’t see that happening and I think you credit Duke by playing an excellent football game. I thought their defense was very good, very tough and I thought they played well. I think that’s what you credit Duke for, and I think if you’re having problems you need to tell the officials we have good officials in our league and so you need to tell them during the game and get it solved that way.
On David Wang being able to play in November…
That’s a wait and see thing, right now we’re not planning on him playing. The prognosis was eight to ten weeks so there’s some flexibility in there.
On watching the Georgia Tech-Clemson game and the impression received from that game…
We were back in time where we could see it. I thought they played fast, played extremely well, very sharp and what we’ve come to expect out of Georgia Tech.
On the bye week coming at the perfect time with injuries…
Yeah it’s a good time because it’s been a grind. Every week has been a grind for both player and coaches. I think a rest both mentally and physically will be good for our football team.
Is the team where you would like it to be? And how they’ve developed…
I think we’ve done well. We’ve had to overcome some things. We’ve seen some good things. I think if you look at the football team and where we are, who we’ve played and the injuries we’ve had, I think we’re fortunate to be where we are and I credit our players and coaches for getting us there.
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Chris Graham
