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Segment 4 - UConn FB Show DEF 8-24 · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: Hi, welcome back the live audience, still eating pizza and
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  Speaker 1: Sharon beverages with the coach, Jason Kandell. We we got
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  Speaker 1: a roster full of players. Most of the folks here
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  Speaker 1: remember you know a good year this team had last year,
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  Speaker 1: People like Skyler Bell, I mean, coach. The numbers were impressive.
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  Speaker 1: E twelve hundred and forty yards receiving. He's now with
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  Speaker 1: the in the NFL. Joe Fignano the quarterback, sixty nine
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  Speaker 1: percent completions, twenty eight tds, one interception, Cam Edwards a
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  Speaker 1: running back over twenty six hundred yards in three years.
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  Speaker 1: So my understanding, and you're going to explain this to
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  Speaker 1: me now, is when you get a roster together, you
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  Speaker 1: need to have depth. It's football. People get banged up,
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  Speaker 1: they get hurt, they can't play. As you started to
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  Speaker 1: put this roster together, is that what you were thinking.
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  Speaker 1: I need two or three running backs. I need wide
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  Speaker 1: outs that can give us, you know, several reps during
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  Speaker 1: a game and on every position in football.
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  Speaker 2: Isn't that part of it? Read that quarterback stats again,
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  Speaker 2: it's ridiculous.
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  Speaker 1: Twenty eight and one, twenty eight touchdowns, one interception.
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  Speaker 3: That's playing high level football. Right there, and he's doing
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  Speaker 3: it right now in the preseason too. So I mean
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  Speaker 3: all those guys you mentioned, I think you know, those
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  Speaker 3: guys are tremendous players, and you you want to put
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  Speaker 3: together a team that has you know, highlighted guys, and
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  Speaker 3: you want to have top flight players at every position.
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  Speaker 3: But you're right, you know the depth and is critical,
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  Speaker 3: you know, And I think number one, yeah, you you
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  Speaker 3: want to have a backup player, but you really want
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  Speaker 3: to have great competition in those meeting rooms and you know,
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  Speaker 3: the intercompetition within your organization and your team just to
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  Speaker 3: get better as a as an individual player. You you
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  Speaker 3: know that the Cooper Flag kid got drafted and he said,
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  Speaker 3: you know, in the NBA draft. I remember his quote
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  Speaker 3: was like his mom told him like, if you're the
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  Speaker 3: best player in the gym, you're in the wrong gym, right.
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  Speaker 2: So if you if you.
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  Speaker 3: Go to practice every day and it's really easy for
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  Speaker 3: you at football practice, and we probably don't have a
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  Speaker 3: very good team, right, So you know, you want to
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  Speaker 3: be very competitive. You want to put as many good
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  Speaker 3: players in those rooms as you can, and you know, whoever,
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  Speaker 3: you know, fights their way out of that. Ultimately, he
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  Speaker 3: is gonna, you know, get the most reps, but you
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  Speaker 3: want to be you want to be at full strength
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  Speaker 3: because this is not this is a there's a kicking
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  Speaker 3: element to this, there's a special teams element to this.
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  Speaker 3: There's a lot of different things and a lot of
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  Speaker 3: different ways you can impact the game in today's game.
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  Speaker 1: Let's talk about some individuals. Let's begin with Kveon Sherman.
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  Speaker 1: Where's number zero. He's a senior linebacker. Came from Toledo
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  Speaker 1: six three two forty, so you know him. Well, how
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  Speaker 1: would you describe him to our fans here that never
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  Speaker 1: saw him play football?
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  Speaker 3: Well, if I'm a traditionalist football guy, you're this is
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  Speaker 3: right up your ally. This guy's gonna gonna give you
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  Speaker 3: a headache out there. I mean, he's gonna hit you
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  Speaker 3: the entire game. This is not a finesse. You know,
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  Speaker 3: wear a long towel, cover you in the flat, and
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  Speaker 3: you know, celebrate all the time. This guy's gonna he's
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  Speaker 3: gonna strap it up and go hit you. So I
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  Speaker 3: think there's a physical element to that, and I think
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  Speaker 3: that's a tone center for you know, everybody else when
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  Speaker 3: it comes to what practice looks like and what game
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  Speaker 3: day is gonna look like that kind of thing. And
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  Speaker 3: you know, he came to us from junior college to
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  Speaker 3: Toledo and you know, he you know, kind of made
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  Speaker 3: his way. You know, just started off very very productive
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  Speaker 3: on special teams and it had an amazing season last year,
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  Speaker 3: and then I think it's prime to have a great
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  Speaker 3: senior season.
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  Speaker 2: How about is Sean Carter.
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  Speaker 1: He is a fifty year guy, defensive tackle, six three,
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  Speaker 1: ninety two, Detroit guy, Toledo guy too. I've never seen
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  Speaker 1: him play in a game.
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  Speaker 3: You have, very physical with the point of attack, a
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  Speaker 3: guy that can you know, play in multiple schemes. He
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  Speaker 3: could play in a two gap system or hold his
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  Speaker 3: you know, sit in there and anchor in there and
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  Speaker 3: hold his gap. And you know, and I think when
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  Speaker 3: you have really good athletic linebacker play, you know, those
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  Speaker 3: guys tests at the table for the whole thing. So
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  Speaker 3: I think you're gonna see a style of defense where
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  Speaker 3: they're more up the field and they're more aggressive this
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  Speaker 3: year than maybe, you know, we we were last year
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  Speaker 3: at Toledo. So I'd say his production is probably gonna
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  Speaker 3: is going to go way up from a you know,
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  Speaker 3: tackles for loss and a sack you know, stam point
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  Speaker 3: of things. But an All League player last year for us,
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  Speaker 3: A great kid, you know, just one of those guys
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  Speaker 3: that does does all the right stuff and when he
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  Speaker 3: gets out there on Saturday, he makes his presence.
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  Speaker 1: Felt, are we going to see three down linemen for
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  Speaker 1: the most part? Are you gonna mix and match?
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  Speaker 2: What are you going? Four down? Four down? Okay?
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  Speaker 1: Renique Doriles, He's a guy that came from Rutgers sophomore dB.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes those guys are hard to hard to really figure
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  Speaker 1: when they're moving from one place to another.
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  Speaker 2: Are they going to fit in with you? What's he
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  Speaker 2: been like? Well?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I think coming from what we just what
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  Speaker 3: we just left at Toledo, we left a secondary then
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  Speaker 3: in two years, three draft picks and six total pros. Right, So,
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  Speaker 3: fair or unfair, whatever guy comes into playing this secondary
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  Speaker 3: is being held under a microscope and a different light.
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  Speaker 3: So and I say that just to say that these
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  Speaker 3: guys that are in the secondary have done a great job.
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  Speaker 2: They really have.
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  Speaker 3: And it's a high standard because I think for us,
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  Speaker 3: if you can't cover, you can't win, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: the D line can't do what they need to do.
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  Speaker 3: If you can't cover, you know, there's no you can
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  Speaker 3: blitz all day and you can do all those things,
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  Speaker 3: but if you can't cover, it's going to be a
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  Speaker 3: long afternoon. So today's game is much different than what
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  Speaker 3: it was twenty years ago. As everybody knows, this is
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  Speaker 3: a you know, fifty three and a third. They're stretching
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  Speaker 3: the field sideways, they're stretching the field vertically. You gotta
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  Speaker 3: have great cover guys, and you got to have guys
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  Speaker 3: that are attention to detail. And you know, Renie's been
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  Speaker 3: really good. You know, he's coming in here with a
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  Speaker 3: great mindset and a great attitude to go compete, and he,
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  Speaker 3: like a lot of other guys are you know, are
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  Speaker 3: fighting for you know, what they think is theirs and
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  Speaker 3: that's to be the number one cover guy.
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  Speaker 2: More man to man or zone defense back there.
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  Speaker 3: I think it'll be a multitude of things, really. I
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  Speaker 3: mean I think that you know, you you know, you
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  Speaker 3: match a lot of routes. So in theory, you're playing
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  Speaker 3: a lot of man. But if you can't in today's football,
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  Speaker 3: if you can't play any man, it's going to be
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  Speaker 3: a long afternoon.
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  Speaker 2: You have to be able to man. There's a lot
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  Speaker 2: of gaps in those Zons, all right.
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  Speaker 1: Coach Jason Campbell back with us at a moment, we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna get to the offense. This is the Yukon Football
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  Speaker 1: Coaches Show on the Yukon Sports Network.