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UConn FB Coach's Show Seg 3 - Aug 21 · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: It's time to kick it off. We're here with Jim
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  Speaker 1: Moore on, Mike Crispino and coach. We were talking about
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  Speaker 1: transfers and let's get a little specific here. You've got
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  Speaker 1: a kicker coming from Indiana who who's got a great leg,
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  Speaker 1: Chris Freeman. And it's interesting because special teams are really meaningful.
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  Speaker 1: They matter, they can win your game. I mean, making
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  Speaker 1: that call that had to be a tough one. And
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  Speaker 1: when you got a guy like him coming in, now,
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  Speaker 1: how does that kind of elevate your offensive approach in
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  Speaker 1: the sense that you got to score more points obviously,
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  Speaker 1: but now you've got a guy with a big leg
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  Speaker 1: like that that could really be helpful.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we hope that he's only trotting out there to
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  Speaker 2: kick extra points, right and kickoffs, that's kind of the goal.
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  Speaker 2: But it's always nice to have a kicker. It has experience,
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  Speaker 2: you know, in front of big crowds and pressure situations
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  Speaker 2: against great opponents that you can rely on that's got
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  Speaker 2: a strong leg and uh, you know we've had in
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  Speaker 2: my opinion, with Joe and Noay, we had a couple
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  Speaker 2: of good kickers. Yeah, they just had you know, Joe
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  Speaker 2: went through the knee injury and no way. You know,
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  Speaker 2: he decided to transfer and we were really lucky to
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  Speaker 2: bring Chris in, who's an experienced guy, and he's a
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  Speaker 2: grad transfer. He's very mature, it takes his craft very seriously,
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  Speaker 2: and he's been a great addition to our team.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, quarterbacks are important.
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  Speaker 2: It's crazy that you asked me about a kicker before
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  Speaker 2: you even ask me why.
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  Speaker 1: Well I didn't. I didn't.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, no offense to Chris, but most like that's well,
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  Speaker 2: you can tell him.
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  Speaker 1: You can tell him tomorrow. Hey, I was on this
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  Speaker 1: show last night and first question asked me about was
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  Speaker 1: the place kicker. But obviously I was delaying the quarterback question.
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  Speaker 1: But Nick Evers comes from a Big ten program. He
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  Speaker 1: is a guy that's got a lot of talent. You know,
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  Speaker 1: just listening to some of the other players talk about
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  Speaker 1: the QBS, they're all very respectful, you know, no one's
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  Speaker 1: going to say, well, this guy's better than that guy.
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  Speaker 1: And Joe Fagnano was the guy that won the job
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  Speaker 1: last year then got hurt right away. So as you
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  Speaker 1: look at QBS, I mean, you listen to talk radio
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  Speaker 1: around the country, at all they talk about is quarterbacks.
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  Speaker 1: We ought to know who the quarterback is. I don't
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  Speaker 1: expect you're going to tell me tonight, But what are
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  Speaker 1: you looking for from that position? When you look at
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  Speaker 1: the guys who are throwing.
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  Speaker 2: The football, Well, number one is taking care of the football,
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  Speaker 2: not turning it over to the other team. That's you know,
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  Speaker 2: that's that's the number one variable in winning and losing
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  Speaker 2: football games is turnover ratio. So he's got to make
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  Speaker 2: great decisions with the football in his hand. You you know,
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  Speaker 2: I think in today's college game, having the ability to
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  Speaker 2: run is a real bonus, you know, because it puts
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  Speaker 2: tremendous stress on a defense and a defensive coordinator when
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  Speaker 2: you know you've got everything covered up perfectly down the field,
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  Speaker 2: and all of a sudden, the quarterback takes off and
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  Speaker 2: he gets the first down or he gets a big,
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  Speaker 2: you know, big chunk. I think he obviously to score points,
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  Speaker 2: you have to be able to throw the football, you know,
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  Speaker 2: with accuracy, you have to be able to throw at velocity,
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  Speaker 2: you have to throw a touch on deep balls. And
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  Speaker 2: I think that we've got a room of four guys,
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  Speaker 2: notwithstanding the two walk ons. You know when you talk
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  Speaker 2: about Joe, who was, you know, the starter at the
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  Speaker 2: start of last year and then had the unfortunate shoulder
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  Speaker 2: injury against Georgia State, came out against n C State
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  Speaker 2: in Week one and let us down the field and
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  Speaker 2: then you know, they were a good defense and we
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  Speaker 2: stalled a little bit at win all and Joe bringing
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  Speaker 2: in Nick Evers, who is you know, he was an
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  Speaker 2: elite eleven guy, who was a top ten and lead
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  Speaker 2: eleven guy, which is, you know, the number one quarterback
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  Speaker 2: competition in the country for high schoolers. Went to Oklahoma
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  Speaker 2: and then Wisconsin. He's one of those guys that was,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the victim of coaching changes and not having
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  Speaker 2: an opportunity. But he's a very talented young man. Hasn't
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  Speaker 2: played in games a lot. I think he's only had
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  Speaker 2: a few snaps when Oklahoma played Texas and the whatever
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  Speaker 2: they call it down there. Yeah, I don't know. This
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  Speaker 2: is Red River Showdown. Or something something like that. And
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  Speaker 2: then you know Tucker McDonald, who was with us last
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  Speaker 2: year as a freshman, a red shirted who was having
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  Speaker 2: a really good camp, hurt his knee and his hamstring
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  Speaker 2: and his shoulder all at once, basically, and you know
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  Speaker 2: that's kind of held him back, but he's he's picking
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  Speaker 2: it up. And then we've got a young man named
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  Speaker 2: Cole Oliver who was a pretty highly recruited kid. TEXA,
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  Speaker 2: A and M came in on him late and he
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  Speaker 2: decided to stick with his commitment to us, and he's
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  Speaker 2: you know, he's this big six seven guy who's got
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  Speaker 2: a rifle arm. But they all have the qualities that
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  Speaker 2: they're all very smart, they're all team guys. They all
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  Speaker 2: got really good arm talent, and they all can run,
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  Speaker 2: even Cole. You know, you take guy six fot seven,
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  Speaker 2: can he run? He can run enough. You know, he's
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  Speaker 2: not he's not my vic out there, but he can
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  Speaker 2: run enough. So I feel like the quarterback room in
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  Speaker 2: its entirety is the best that it's been since I've
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  Speaker 2: been here. For sure. You know, now we've got to
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  Speaker 2: go out and perform, certainly, but there's four guys that
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  Speaker 2: we feel as a staff that could go in and
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  Speaker 2: if they are going right, and if we're running the
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  Speaker 2: ball and playing good defense, that any of them could
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  Speaker 2: go in and we'd have a chance to win the game.
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  Speaker 1: You know, let's talk about it every two years ago,
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  Speaker 1: you ran the ball really well top I think thirty
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  Speaker 1: third in the country something like that. That was a real,
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  Speaker 1: really good reason why you went six and six and
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  Speaker 1: got the team to a bowl game. And you got
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  Speaker 1: Victor Rosa coming back. And you got Cam Edwards who
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  Speaker 1: was a surprise running back because of out of necessity
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  Speaker 1: with all your injuries. Those two guys are really experienced
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  Speaker 1: running back. So I mean, you got a good start
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  Speaker 1: in the running back room with those two. And do
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  Speaker 1: you do you feel like you need more in terms
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  Speaker 1: of depth in that running back area.
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  Speaker 2: No, well, no, I shouldn't say no. You always need more.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, we brought in Mel Brown, who's he's
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  Speaker 2: a lights out player. You know, we brought in Drel
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  Speaker 2: Robinson from Charlotte who's a red shirt freshman. He's a
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  Speaker 2: six foot to two hundred and ten pound guy who
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  Speaker 2: can really run. I mean, we've got really good depth
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  Speaker 2: right now, at least compared to what we've ever had,
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  Speaker 2: and we found out last year we needed it because
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  Speaker 2: you know, we had a bunch of guys go down,
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  Speaker 2: which necessitated Cam stepping up. Cam is, you know, one
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  Speaker 2: of the most improved players from year one to now
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  Speaker 2: going into three that I've ever had in my career.
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  Speaker 2: The thing, the way that he's matured as a young
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  Speaker 2: man as a person and become a leader, become very
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  Speaker 2: dependable running the football, pass protection, catching the football, his attitude,
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  Speaker 2: his work ethic, He's really become exemplary. And I didn't
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  Speaker 2: foresee that when he was a freshman. You know, he
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  Speaker 2: was like a lot of I mean, why you have
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  Speaker 2: to give these guys time. You remember they're coming from
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  Speaker 2: high school, you know. But that's a good room. You know,
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  Speaker 2: Victor's been hurt the last couple of weeks. He hasn't
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  Speaker 2: done much. He should be ready for Maryland. But there's
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  Speaker 2: there's there's a lot of production in that room, in
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  Speaker 2: Victor and Cam and then in mel And we really
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  Speaker 2: like Drell.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Cam Edwards, Norwalk Connecticut guide obviously, so we love
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  Speaker 1: the local thing. We're going to get to the offensive
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  Speaker 1: line because you got to have guys that can block
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  Speaker 1: for those guys and We're going to go defense because
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  Speaker 1: Matt Brook's doing a heck of a job so far
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  Speaker 1: with this three three five thing, which you got to
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  Speaker 1: explain to me. We'll be back Jimour with us live
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  Speaker 1: at iHeartMedia headquarters here in Hartford and a good crowd
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  Speaker 1: on hand with us. This is the Yukon Football Coaches
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