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Jim Mora Postgame - Ga State · Coaches Corner

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  In the locker room. You just came out. What was the message the
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  team in there? The message was, that's not the football team that I
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  see every day in meetings at practice. But unfortunately that's the team we are
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  right now. Because the scoreboard tells the story of who you are. We're
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  known for two football team that just got beat was it thirty five to fourteen?
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  Okay by Georgia State. We were pitiful on offense, we weren't good
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  enough on defense. Uh, we turned the ball over. So the reality
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  is is that's the football team we are right now. That's not the football
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  team that I hope we become. But in order for us to get better,
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  everybody has to look right here. Nobody can do that. Everybody has
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  to do that, and uh, we have a lot of soul searching to
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  do. And uh that's really it's really the message. Takeawan takes over in
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  the second half at quarterback. Was there something out of him that you liked
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  what you saw? Well? I mean, I you know, first of
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  all, you know, Joe, Joe got hurt, and we lost Joe
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  and we lost Alex and uh, but yeah, I mean I thought Tae
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  Kwon brought us good energy. You know, I mean, look at his
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  stats. I mean I'm not a big stack guy, but you know he
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  was nineteen to thirty, two hundred and sixteen to two touchdowns. But to
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  me, you know that's in Those are empty I'm not I'm not talking about
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  take one now, I'm talking about the stats. Those are empty yards like
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  those are just those are empty yards. The game was you know, I
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  mean we were fighting, but it was a struggle. They they changed the
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  way they played defense. So yeah, I mean yeah, I mean he
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  he competed. I love the fact that he competed. It's hard for me
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  find any positives right now. Was playing before he left the game, Well,
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  we asked him to run the ball. You know, I saw all
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  those those players where you know, design runs or RPOs or zone reads.
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  I thought he was playing okay, But when you're not moving the ball,
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  unfortunately, a lot it comes back to the to the quarterback. You know,
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  I saw some guys open and that he didn't see open, like every
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  one of us, like every single one of us. It's gonna get on
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  that airplane tonight, are you guys getting on the airplane? Okay? We
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  all got to be better, We all got to be better. We all
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  got to be better, and it just you don't just show up on Saturday
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  and be better. It starts, It starts, it's already started. It
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  has to start already. It has to have already started. What do you
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  think contribute to the run game struggling all the way they did? If I
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  knew that answer, it's hard to First of all, they they played really
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  hard and they tackled really well. But that's no excuse for us to run
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  the ball, like I said, uh, twenty one thirty one times for
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  fifty yards. I mean, you know, you'd have thought we were playing
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  the freaking eighty five Bears or something out there. Okay, so give first
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  of all, give them credit because they did a hell of a job.
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  But we didn't execute, you know, and we didn't call the right plays,
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  and we didn't call the right plays at the right time, or we
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  didn't practice the right looks and practice because we didn't script right. So you
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  know it, it's it falls on all of us to do better. With
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  Alex going down, can you shine a little light obviously he's new to the
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  program on the kind of person that he is. Oh, he's you know,
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  he's a gonna be a really good player for us. You know,
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  he's really kind of new to football, but he's big, and he's physical
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  and he's athletic. Went over there and uh almost lost to his He he
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  dissocated his knee cap. So his knee cap was over here and it was
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  kind of ugly. And when they went to straighten his leg, they were
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  able to get it back. So this is not it doesn't appear like it's
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  a surgical thing. You know, it could be a three, four or
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  five week type of deal. We need him. He's already fought through one
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  kind of knee injury for us. So you know, the great thing about
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  Alex is that he will be fully vested, fully invested in getting himself back
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  onto the field as quickly as you can. He's that type of person.
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  What did you see on that first long touchdown run that they had, You
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  know, what was the breakdown there? Going up the middle. It seemed
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  like he was untouched. Yeah, it was, it was I'm thinking it
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  was a it was a quarterback. It was his own read. Quarterback,
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  it was not his own read. They weren't empty, okay, and they
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  ran We caught inside zone quarterback inside zone, and we got out of our
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  gap, and when you can't get out of your gap, when you're playing
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  a quarterback like that. The guy has really good speed. I mean he
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  can he can flat fly straight. He's not as shifty as a guy we
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  saw it last week, but he's streaking fast and he's six four two twenty
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  five. So it's discouraging, you know, I mean the last touchdown.
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  You know, when you when you when you're playing defense, it takes all
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  eleven to be on the same page every play for it to work. And
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  when you're not on the same page and you're playing a team like that,
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  or someone gets out of their gap, you get exposed. And they exposed
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  us tonight. So it's very discouraging, and we got to find a way
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  to fight back,