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UConn FB Coach's Show Seg 5 - Aug 21 · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: From the Duncan Music louds here in Hartford I or
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  Speaker 1: Heart Radio, home of our flag ship, Fox Sports Radio
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  Speaker 1: ninety seven nine. Zach Glynnfield back in the studio in
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  Speaker 1: Carolina with us. We appreciate him and Jamoor, of course
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  Speaker 1: we appreciate him. Third year coaching the Huskies, we were
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  Speaker 1: talking little D and down lineman. We know a lot
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  Speaker 1: of familiar names there, but you get two week familiar
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  Speaker 1: brown back.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that guy can play football.
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  Speaker 1: And you've got a lot of new people in the secondary.
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  Speaker 1: Do you have a sense of who might be the corners,
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  Speaker 1: who might be your safeties or is it just going
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  Speaker 1: to be eight guys rotating every game?
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  Speaker 3: You know what you're going to see guys rotating. And
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  Speaker 3: I think that's because we've got pretty good depth and
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  Speaker 3: the amount of plays that you play now in college football,
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  Speaker 3: with the hurry up offenses and the o'huddle, you've got
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  Speaker 3: to have depth. You've got to be able to rotate
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  Speaker 3: guys through there. And so you know, unfortunately for us,
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  Speaker 3: we lost a couple guys early in camp for the season.
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  Speaker 3: We lost the safety and we lost a corner that
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  Speaker 3: we were kind of counting on. They were both transfers
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  Speaker 3: to come in Ingram, whose dad, Bobby was a receiver
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  Speaker 3: with the Seahawks when I was coaching there, so Penn
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  Speaker 3: State Bobby was Yeah, Dean came from Wisconsin. And then
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  Speaker 3: there was another kid who blew out his knee this
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  Speaker 3: second day of practice. So we were counting on those guys.
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  Speaker 3: But a bunch of these young guys have stepped up,
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  Speaker 3: and I feel good about our secondary. We don't have
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  Speaker 3: a lot of depth, but we've got enough to at
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  Speaker 3: least play, you know, seven eight nine guys. And you
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  Speaker 3: mentioned Tooey coming back. You know, his his development since
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  Speaker 3: I got here two years ago. Just to watch him
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  Speaker 3: grow and just grasp the game and become, you know,
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  Speaker 3: a leader and dependable and consistent, has really been fun.
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  Speaker 3: He's a good inside linebacker. And we brought in some
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  Speaker 3: transfer guys. We brought it in a junior college guy
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  Speaker 3: last year named Amir Renwick, who's done it. He came in.
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  Speaker 3: He's about two oh five, he's a two hundred and
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  Speaker 3: twenty five pounder now, and you know, he's pretty nasty,
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  Speaker 3: which you like, and so.
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  Speaker 2: There's an interview with him. He sounds nasty.
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  Speaker 3: Well, he's a great kid.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you know when you talk to a guy
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  Speaker 1: and he goes, yeah, dude, I don't want to be
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  Speaker 1: on the field facing you.
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  Speaker 3: No, yeah, he didn't say a lot. Yeah, he's uh,
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  Speaker 3: he's a great kid though. I mean he's you know,
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  Speaker 3: he came from you know, he's made something of his
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  Speaker 3: life and he's still making something of his life when
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  Speaker 3: a lot of people would have given up. So it's
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  Speaker 3: a good group of linebackers. But I still think the
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  Speaker 3: strength of our defenses is up front, you know it is.
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  Speaker 3: You've got you talked about dow And and Price and Gilawnie,
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  Speaker 3: and then we brought in some guys that are really
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  Speaker 3: good players as well. So we've got to be strong
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  Speaker 3: up there. You know, you've got to be good on
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  Speaker 3: the defensive line.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you got five men in the defensive backfield.
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  Speaker 1: You mentioned three safety's generally speaking, Deronte Jones. He's changed
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  Speaker 1: his name Dronte. Now I didn't know that. No, No,
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  Speaker 1: I used to.
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  Speaker 2: Be Derante when I first met him. Now it's Ronte.
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  Speaker 3: Does he call himself Ronte?
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  Speaker 2: That's what he gets.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I still call him Durrante, So that's news to me.
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  Speaker 2: Wait a minute, So he does answer to Dorante.
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  Speaker 3: Well, he answers to me when I call him other people.
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  Speaker 3: He's a great kid. I mean, you talk.
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  Speaker 2: About an awesome kid and legit football player.
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  Speaker 3: He just like every day he brings it every single
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  Speaker 3: day is intensity is awesome.
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  Speaker 1: And you get Dixon Williams back. You had some injury
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  Speaker 1: issues that experience.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and so you know you mentioned the secondary. It's
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  Speaker 3: it's like it's not the traditional cornerback safety. You know,
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  Speaker 3: we have a guy we call a dog. We have
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  Speaker 3: a boundary corner and a boundary safety. And you have
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  Speaker 3: a boundary corner, a boundary safety, your boundary corner, and
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  Speaker 3: a field corner, left corner, right corner, usually left and right.
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  Speaker 3: But it's not these it's they're not playing in traditional roles,
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  Speaker 3: although they're doing traditional things that you do and coverage
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  Speaker 3: and run support. So I like what we're doing. Like
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  Speaker 3: I said, I think the most important thing is we
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  Speaker 3: have the right players in the right spots and they
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  Speaker 3: are embracing the things that we're asking to do and
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  Speaker 3: it looks like they're enjoying it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: My question is when you have a three down lineman
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  Speaker 1: pass rush, how do you do it?
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  Speaker 2: How do you get passed? How do you get pressure
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  Speaker 2: on the other corner.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I think it's you have to put out of
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  Speaker 3: your head this thought that there's only three down guys.
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  Speaker 3: You know, there's that the hybrid guy was. It was
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  Speaker 3: a defensive end for us last year. They are all
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  Speaker 3: defensive ends. Now they're just standing up and moving around.
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  Speaker 3: You can bring linebackers, you can bring secondary guys. You know,
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  Speaker 3: there's actually when you're playing this type of defense, it
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  Speaker 3: actually gives you more flexibility to be creative in your
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  Speaker 3: pressure packages. You know, because you've got guys like Donovan
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  Speaker 3: or like Langston Hardy that can drop into coverage when
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  Speaker 3: you know they're assuming a position at the line of
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  Speaker 3: scrimmage that you know indicates they are rushing. So we
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  Speaker 3: call them simulated pressures. You know, you're dropping guys that
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  Speaker 3: would normally rush and rushing guys that would normally drop,
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  Speaker 3: and you're trying to you're trying to create problems for
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  Speaker 3: their protection.
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  Speaker 1: So this isn't really a bend, don't break defense. This
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  Speaker 1: is more of an aggressive if they're going to get
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  Speaker 1: in your face defense.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's fun.
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  Speaker 3: I want it is. You know, the secondary is not
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  Speaker 3: I don't know what Ben, but don't break means like,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know what prevent defense make means Like I've
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  Speaker 3: been coaching for forty something years and those are terms
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  Speaker 3: that I've never heard of coach use. I hear fans
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  Speaker 3: and radio guys use it.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm just trying to set you up here.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, ben, but don't break. I don't know what.
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  Speaker 2: I heard that somewhere. I thought i'd throw it up.
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  Speaker 3: Bob said it. I don't know. Are we ben but
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  Speaker 3: not break? Or I just hope we don't bend too much?
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  Speaker 3: And I hope we never break. You know, That's what
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  Speaker 3: I hope.
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  Speaker 2: But do you think you're going to create more turnovers
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  Speaker 2: this way?
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  Speaker 1: Is this the kind of thing where you're going to
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  Speaker 1: your defense is going to turn into something of an offense?
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  Speaker 3: So I mean that's the plan. I mean, that's the
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  Speaker 3: plan every year on defense. But there's just more. It
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  Speaker 3: feels like there's more opportunities to make big plays than
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  Speaker 3: in a traditional type of defense that a lot of
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  Speaker 3: people get stuck in. It also feels like at times
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  Speaker 3: there's the opportunity to give up some big plays as well,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and a lot of times it seems like,
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  Speaker 3: you know that could be in the run game. You know,
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  Speaker 3: there are some plays that can give you some problems.
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  Speaker 3: Fortunately for us, those are plays that are often specializes in.
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  Speaker 3: So since spring ball, we've had a chance to really
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  Speaker 3: go every day against things that have given this defense
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  Speaker 3: trouble in the past. Yea, so we've been able to
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  Speaker 3: learn how to adjust.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, good, that's good to hear. Actually, all right, Jim
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  Speaker 1: Morra with us. We'll be back in just a moment the.
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  Speaker 2: Yukon Football Coaches Show.
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  Speaker 1: We got a couple of questions from the crowd.
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  Speaker 2: Stay tuned.