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Seg 2 - FB Show Jim Mora Oct 3 · Coaches Corner

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  Up next for the Football Husky's a trip to Houston on a date with the
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  Rice Owls. Coverage beginning at three thirty with Bob Joyce, the Hard Auto
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  Group countdown to kickoff. Then Wayne Norman, Adam Giardino and myself bring the
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  game broadcast to you at five pm Eastern here along the Yukon Sports Network and
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  online via the Varsity Network App and the Varsity Network dot Com. Mike Chrispino
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  back with the Jim Mora and coach Tae Kwon. Roberson looks to be improving
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  week to week here. I'm curious to get your take on it. Twenty
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  three for thirty two and a couple of touchdowns. He also ran the ball
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  pretty well. I see him, you know, taking a step forward here
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  and that could mean a lot to this team in the second half of the
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  season. Yeah, you and I've talked about this is it. You know,
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  he hasn't played a lot of football at this level. You know,
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  he's yeah, he's got some years in college football, but in terms of
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  taking snaps, he hasn't played a lot, you know, And he's at
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  a guy and regardless of your talent level, you still have to have experience
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  you need snaps, especially at that position. It's just a position that takes
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  time to learn, and the best way to learn is to take competitive snaps
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  in the game. So when you have talent, you work hard, and
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  you get those snaps, then all of a sudden, you see improvement.
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  And that's what we're seeing out to Take one, and you know, he
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  had a relatively good day. You know, he did a great job overcoming
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  the first interception and not going in the tank and just fighting his way through
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  that. You know, he completed over seventy percent of his passes for over
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  two hundred and fifty yards, which hasn't been done here since two thousand and
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  seventeen. So that was a real positive. And now what he's got to
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  do is just continue to do the work, put in the time and keep
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  going out and performing, and he'll just keep getting better and better and better.
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  And we've got to do a good job of supporting him. So when
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  you can run the ball the way we ran the ball early, that's always
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  going to help your quarterback. When you can get him some takeaways, it's
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  always going to help your quarterbacks. So I see tremendous growth out of Take
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  one, and I believe that we would once he's you know, he started
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  getting those reps. Makes you wonder, you know, if he, if
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  he hadn't got hurt last year, where we'd be with him right now?
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  Yeah, that's that's a good point. Miss the entire year after that first
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  quarter injury at Utah State. Let's talk about him running the football. Now.
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  It's easy for me sitting up in the broadcast boot to say, well,
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  why didn't he pull it down and run? There were a couple of
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  plays where he was in between trying to figure out can I run for a
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  first down? Or should I throw it? And that to me is going
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  back to what you just said in terms of experience being on the field,
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  seeing the field reps. Did you see that as well when you looked at
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  the tape, whether a couple of times where maybe okay, I pulled it
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  down, we get the first down, I get out of bounds and that's
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  a good play for us. I didn't really notice that, No, I
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  didn't. Every play has a read, whether he gives it or keeps it,
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  whether he throws it or runs it. They're called zone reads and RPOs.
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  And so he made really good decisions actually, And you don't want to
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  give up on every play I thought, I thought his decision making was good.
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  Well that's good. That's good to hear for sure, Cam Ross.
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  We're gonna talk to him a little later in the show. I mean,
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  you talk about courage and the sticktuitiveness that guy two years of injuries starting around
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  into the shape that we saw from him as a freshman when he caught sixty
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  balls, seven catches, seventy yards. What do you what do you assess
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  when you look at a wide receiver? What are you looking for in terms
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  of having a great day? Number One, catching the foot, not dropping
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  it, getting some yards after the catch, being effective in the run game
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  as a blocker, and then coming up with the key catch when you need
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  to make the key catch. And Cam did that. And it's really fun
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  to see him after all the adversity, and you saw more of it than
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  I did, although I saw my fair share of it the last couple of
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  years that he's been through. It's good to see him experienced success out there,
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  and he's just got to keep building on that. And I believe you
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  know that having a game like that, even though the outcome wasn't what we
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  wanted gives a guy like Cam the confidence that he needs to keep ascending as
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  a player. So I'm you know, look at you. You're you're devastated
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  by any loss, but in any loss, you're able to find some things
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  that that keep your rowing, that give you hope, that you're excited about.
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  And you know, we just talked about two guys that make you feel
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  that way. Take Kwan and Cam, who've overcome a whole lot and they're
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  still fighting and uh man, that's what it's all about. Yeah, there's
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  still staying the course, which I know we all appreciate. Just a quick
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  thought on the wide receivers for Utah State before we leave that game behind us.
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  You took Terrell Vaughan, a guy that came in had thirty eight catches,
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  and I think we had one catch for no yards. Yet Jail and
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  Doyle's broke loose. It's so difficult when you're facing the team that's got not
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  one, but two kind of game breaking wide receivers. How did that happen
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  where you're able to control one guy but the other guy gets loose. Well,
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  we it wasn't by it wasn't by plan that we were working on taking
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  one guy away and trying to get him to focus on the other It all
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  depends on the coverage that you're playing and how it's played, and the formation
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  they give you and the route that they run. And the other guy got
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  loose. You know, we we busted two coverages. One of them was
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  not a good defensive call, which comes back to me. You know,
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  we got blocked once. It was easy catch and run for a long touchdown,
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  and we lined up a little bit incorrectly with one of the linebackers,
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  and then you know, we got beat on one, which is that's gonna
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  happen at times. You know, you're gonna get beat at times. Right,
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  You're gonna You're just gonna get beat in the secondary at times. The
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  ones that kill me are the ones where you blow it. You know,
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  either you blow the call, or you blow the execution, or you blow
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  the assignment. Those are the ones you can't have. So you know,
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  there's we didn't have a plan to take away one guy and another guy got
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  free. We just we just made some some mistakes that are just not acceptable.
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  You know. It's life in the secondary, is I told Dalton Hilliard
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  when I came in Sunday morning, I saw him. So you want to
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  be a DV coach? Huh, because you V coach. In my career
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  and I've had many of those games, you just go, oh my god,
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  just what just happened? You know, you play that or your coach
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  or play that position where one air, there's nobody behind you to save you.
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  You know, when you're a defensive lineman or linebacker, there's someone behind
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  you that can save you. There's nobody to save you when you're back there.
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  So it's it's no fun sometimes being being in that position. Yeah,
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  That's that's why they say you're on an island, and they you really mean
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  that. You're on an island, man, and you got to you gotta
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  deal with the heartbreak of it. And the successes you have are kind of
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  like you're supposed to do that, and then when something goes along. It's
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  got to be tough on a dB without a doubt. All Right, we'll
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  with Jim Moore. This is the Yukon football coaches Shaw Mike Rispino back in
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  a moment onlearfield