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Seg 2 - FB Show Oct 17 Jim Mora · Coaches Corner

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  Up next for the football Huskies the home game homecoming game at Pratt and Whitney
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  Stadium this weekend against the USF Bulls. Network covers begins at two of the
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  Hard Auto Group Countdown to kickoff. Bob Joyce will be hosting that of course,
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  and then Bob, Wayne and Adam will have the game broadcast at three
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  thirty here along the Yukon Sports networking online via the Varsity Network app and varsited
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  Network dot com. Mike chris Pino back with the Jim Mora Tae Kwon Roberson.
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  First three games of play for him went forty seven for ninety a little
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  over fifty percent. Last two though, Jim thirty eight for fifty one,
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  four touchdowns, averaging two thirty five in the year. I mean, this
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  offense is starting to look like an offense that can move it both on the
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  ground and through the year. That's got to be a nice, nice feeling
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  for the coaching staff. Yeah, I think that it is. I think
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  that everyone's gaining confidence, and success breeds confidence. Hard work breads confidence,
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  you know, hard breeds confidence. Experience you know that take once getting down
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  games, you know, I think sometimes that and we've brought this up.
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  But I think sometimes we forget that he hasn't played a lot of snaps in
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  college football, and the snaps that he has played have been kind of few
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  and far between. So that consistency of play in competition, which is really
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  what helps you improve the quickest, hasn't been something that he's been able to
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  find in his career. Now he's getting that. And we've always known he
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  was talented, but I think at that position, probably more than any position,
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  getting repetitions in a game are what help you improve. And we're seeing
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  that improvement. And you know, it's a kid that's desperate to be desperate
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  to be a great player. I mean, he he works at it constantly.
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  It's it's very important to him, and you know he's not done.
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  You know, he's still improving every week, and it's fun to watch that
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  happen. That's that's what you really love about coaching, is watching players make
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  the improvements that you know they're capable of. Yeah, it's got to be
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  an inspiration to you. I mean you've been you've been everywhere on every level
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  and you've seen the great ones. To see a guy like him, yeah,
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  QBR rating of one thirty one I don't put a lot of stock in
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  that stuff, but it says that he's a pretty good quarterback right now,
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  Tae Kwon Roperson, that's going to be to you. There's got to be
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  some satisfaction in that. Yeah. I don't know what even that, what
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  those numbers mean, Like I know the NFL rating system, I don't know
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  the college one, but it sounds pretty good. And uh, you know,
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  we want to see that continue to go up. And it just it
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  gives you, It gives me more confidence. And I know for sure it
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  gives Nick more confidence just kind of dial it up. He doesn't have to,
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  uh, you know, worry that the kid's going to make the wrong
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  decision. You know, he has more confidence when he calls a play that
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  it's going to work and if it's if it's not exactly like it looked like
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  in practice, that the take one is going to figure it out based upon
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  the experience that he has. So it's a good feeling. We're gonna keep
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  doing it. You know, we got we got to keep rolling. We
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  got we can't can't sit here and say, oh, we've made it.
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  I mean we're not even close. You know, we got a ton of
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  work to do. Oh yeah, no, no question, no question.
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  A little bit later in the show, we'll talk to Chase on one of
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  your offensive tackles and he's going to say to me, I'm sure, Well,
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  we're a running team, you know, and you're I know you've been
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  saying that. Obviously, running football and everything else comes with it. But
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  the team now averaging a little over one hundred and thirty two yards a game
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  last year one hundred and ninety. But you're moving up in the right direction.
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  I want to ask you about your offensive line coach, Gordon Samus.
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  I love watching him work on the sidelines with his unit and the things he
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  says to the guys and the way he coaches them up. Uh. I
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  know you're on the defensive side more often, but you got to oversee the
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  whole thing. What's your you of what Gordon Samus brings to the table.
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  He's incredibly smart. He's just a very well rounded man. He coaches those
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  guys really hard, but he loves him harder. I mean, he gets
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  into him, and yet he does it in a manner that lets them know
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  that it's always about them and never about him. He's very precise in his
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  coaching points. He's He's a guy that's always trying to find the best way
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  or a better way to do something. He invests heavily in his players.
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  He cares about him as men. I can't say enough good things about him.
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  I mean, I love him to death, and I have him speak
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  to the team frequently because he's a history buff and he's able to relate lessons
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  in history. You know where we are at points in time in the season
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  of the offseason, and I just really feel pretty dumb are lucky that he's
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  on our staff, And I know our players are benefiting from it because you
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  see the improvement they're making. You know, you're going to talk to Chase
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  and you know, you see what Christian's doing, and Yakari and Noel and
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  Val. I mean, they just they're consistent week in and week out,
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  regardless of the numbers in the run game have gone down. I mean,
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  you know, every year is gonna be a little bit different. And I'm
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  going to say we're running team when we're running the ball, but if we're
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  throwing it, we're a passing team. So I think what matters to us
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  is just getting the ball down the field and getting it in the paint.
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  Yeah, it's interesting you say that he's a Gordon Samu's the history buff,
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  so am I I'm constantly reading history stuff. We got to talk more about
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  that. He was at William and Mary. They averaged over two hundred yards
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  running. They led the CAAA, So he's got some history there. He
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  knows what he's doing. I've been really fortunate in my career to be around
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  some of the best, the most recognized offensive line coaches in football. You
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  know, guys like Alex Gibbs and I mean just he's probably the most the
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  most well known of him. But I've been around a lot of really,
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  really, really really good offensive line coaches, starting with the Chargers through the
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  forty nine ers with Bob McKittrick and the Saints, and this guy, he's
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  just different, you know. He's like those guys. He sees the game
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  a certain way. He's meticulous in his detail. He's a great communicator to
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  his players. He's demanding, as players respect him immensely. They hang on
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  every word he says. He's kind of I don't think he ever mastered your
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  craft, but he's constantly working to master his craft. And it's just great
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  to be around a guy like that. You know, you're right, it's
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  inspiring. He knows how to run outside zone, you know, I mean,
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  that's that's his play. He knows about how to run duo. That's
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  his play. And if it's a play that we want to install that he's
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  not an expert at he becomes an expert pretty darn quickly. Yeah, Gordon
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  Samu is a real valuable part of that coaching staff. You gotta call him
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  Gordy now, Gordy, Okay, you call him Gordon. I don't know
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  if he responds to that. The only guys by Gordy. All right,
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  good to know. Yeah, he probably wouldn't answer me if I yelled to
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  him Gordon. Yeah, all right, Well thanks coach. I appreciate.
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  That's why we do these shows. So I pick up on this stuff.
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  We're always learning, aren't we. He we are? You better be or
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  else life passes you by. Jim Moura with us and we'll return with more
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  of the Ukon Football Coaches Show. We got to talk about usf they're coming
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  up here. They light it up. They like to score a lot of
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  points. Jim, of course, the DC and the guy that's got to
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  stop him. We'll find out about that, and we return here onlear Field