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UConn FB Coach's Show Sept 5 - Segment 2 · Coaches Corner

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  Up next for the Football Husky is the road opener at Georgia State, coming
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  up Saturday night under the lights in Atlanta. Coverage with Bob Joyce and the
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  Hard Auto Group count out a kickoff five thirty. Then Wayne Norman Adam Jardina
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  will join me for the game at seven. Here along the Yukon Sports Network
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  online by the way, via Varsity Network app Gotta Have It and Varsity Network
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  dot com if you're around your computer. We're back with Jim mora Yukon football
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  coaching show A little bit back on NC State. Jim, I thought,
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  you know, the game of football is momentum, and like any sport,
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  I feel you scored first, and then NC State answered and you referenced it
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  in the first segment of the show. The quick score that they were able
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  to come up with, I thought, you know, took away some of
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  your momentum, and they did that again by scoring late and a half with
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  that three point field goal. How much did you think that impacted the overall
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  game? Well? Big, I mean, you know, if you if
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  sans or butts and you know, would have could have should But you know
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  in football, if you go down and you score first, you know statistics
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  say you have a better chance of winning the game, but it's only if
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  you can get off the field on defense. We couldn't get off the field.
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  That would have been a huge momentum boost for us had we been able
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  to get that done. We weren't able to get it done into the first
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  half. You know, anytime you in the first half by taking a lead
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  with the last play, touchdown or kick, you know, it takes you
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  into the locker room with a different mindset than if you're the team that gave
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  up the kick or the touchdown. There's just a different energy that's produced.
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  And so that was big for them, you know. But I think the
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  key things for us were, you know, the two PI penalties when we
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  had them backed up, you know, George kicks at fifty eight yard or
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  down to the nine yard line. They threw the flag on Mumu, which
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  you know, you can argue either way that it was a good call or
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  bad call. In my opinion, Movemo played it very very well, but
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  they threw the flag, you know, and that's going to happen and you
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  gotta reach on. And then the fourth down stop in the end zone where
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  they threw the flag, you know, that was a big one. And
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  then you know the kickoff after after Victor's run. You know, Victor,
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  Victor knows better than to do what he did, but we got to cover
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  better. We gave up a forty yard return on a kick that we kicked
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  off from our own twenty and then on top of that, we had,
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  you know, we had an immature or emotional mistake that led to a fifteen
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  yard penalty. Now they take over on the twenty seven. So to me,
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  that was kind of the series there of events that really affected this game
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  the most, Coach, the plays run by both teams NC State at fifty
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  six. You count thirty six in that game and for the most part last
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  season. And I'm gonna look back too much, but your ground game kept
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  the ball in your hands quite a bit. And some of these games that
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  you won, the upsets you pulled at home, and you know, getting
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  the six wins. It's how important are how many plays do you run and
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  how often or how long you have a football in a football game. I
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  know turnovers changed things and a lot of things changed the results, but that
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  one stuck out to me. They ran twenty more plays than you can do
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  well you're saying they had how many plays and we had how many? They
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  had fifty six? Who had thirty six? According to what I'm reading here,
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  Yeah, that's not accurate, but they really doesn't. Well that doesn't
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  matter, Mike, that that's not accurate. What is accurate is there there
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  is this disparity between how many they had and how many we had. There
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  was you know, whether it was thirty six to fifty six or seventy six
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  to fifty six, it was what you're seeing is exactly correct. It matters
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  if you end drives with points. You know, I think time of possession
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  can sometimes be a really good indicator, but I think sometimes could be a
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  misleading indicator. I think it depends on how you end those drives. You
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  know, I think on Saturday night it was an accurate indicator for sure.
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  You know, they were able to stay on the field on third down,
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  the sustained drives or not even get the third down, just go first second,
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  first second or first first, and we weren't and uh and so on
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  Thursday night that was certainly an indicator. And you know, that's one of
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  the areas of the game that you want to control if you can, is
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  time of possession. But if you're you know, scoring on a seventy one
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  yard run, you know, and you're doing that over and over again,
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  and then that's gonna scw it a little bit. So it's all circumstance based
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  the quarterback. This is the last time I'm gonna mention this guy's name.
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  He's drold me nuts Brendan Armstrong. He's that over nine thousand yards of his
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  career. He's twelfth in FBS history. As I'm watching the game, I'm
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  saying to myself, these are not designed runs by him. It looked like
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  he'd pulled the ball down, go back, looking to pass and feel what
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  was going on defensively and turn it into something offensively running the football. Is
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  that particularly what he was trying to do or what ends the state was thinking
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  about, because it looked like they were certainly effective doing it in the game.
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  Yeah, those weren't designed runs. Those were those were him Armstrong.
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  Uh, he's kind of a one read and run guy. You know.
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  For my first reason not there, I'm gonna take off and go and I'm
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  gonna give him a lot of credit because he deserves a lot of credit.
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  You know, he made us miss in the open field. We had guys
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  assigned to him, and he made us miss. He found he found the
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  cracks in the pass rush. He has really good lateral quickness and he's tougher
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  in hell. Uh. You know you mentioned his passing yards. You know,
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  he didn't really throw the ball that much. I mean not he did
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  throw well, he didn't have to throw it out much. But you know,
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  I had a lot of respect from him coming into the game and more
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  respect for him coming out of the game. Dolphin Yano got his first start
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  as the Hukon quarterback. Jim More of the Ukon football coach, I'll Mike
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  Chrispino. You know, Joe ran the ball pretty well, I thought,
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  I mean, I didn't expect that. But overall, as you review what
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  you saw in the game, what what did you see from him and what
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  kinds of things do you hope he will improve on as the week's open here,
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  as the season goes on. I was pleased with Joe and the way
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  Joe played, and I thought he was poised. I thought he made good
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  decisions. You know, there's a couple of plays he'd like to have back.
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  I just expect him to continue to get comfortable with our offense and comfortable
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  with them in that he's throwing the football too, you know. But I
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  think what you see in terms of his poise and then his ability to run
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  the football. You know, we we knew he could run. And he's
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  tough. You know, he's a tough kid. When he runs the ball,
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  you know, he's not afraid to stuff it up in there and take
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  a hit. So I was very impressed with Joe and I just I'm excited
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  watching him continue to get better. Yeah, it's interesting. Before the game,
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  I go down on the field to watch warmups and he didn't have his
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  pads on yet. He's a big dude. He's bigger you think, you
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  know when you look at him from where we sit up in a broadcast booth,
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  but standing on the sideline, he's got good size for a QB.
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  He's sixty three two hundred twenty five two hundred twenty six pounds, you know,
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  so he's not a little guy. He can see over things, you
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  know, he can bring it when he wants to run, he can he
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  can shed off you know, pass rush guys. You know what. I
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  when one of the things that was impressive to me was under pressure, his
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  ability to keep his eyes up and still look down field and keep a play
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  alive, and whether he was keeping it alive by you know, running getting
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  a position to throw the ball, or running and using his legs get you
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  know, get yards. I thought that was impressive. All right, coach,
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  We're gonna talk about Georgia State next. They played Uri last week.
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  They were nine hundred and forty four yards a total office seventy seven points,
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  So this could be an interesting game coming up on Saturday night. Jim Morra
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  with us. You're listening to the Yukon Football Coaches Show on Learfield