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Seg 3 - FB Show w Jim Mora Nov 25 · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: Back with coach Mora here on the Yukon Football Coaches Show.
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  Speaker 1: We've got some basketball for you. On Wednesday, the guys
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  Speaker 1: are at the Maui Invitational and I'm doing the show
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  Speaker 1: for the Bahamas with the Yukon Women. They take on
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  Speaker 1: Old Miss tomorrow night, seven o'clock on the pregame here
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  Speaker 1: on the Yukon Sports Network, the Varsity Network app, and
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  Speaker 1: the Varsitynetwork dot com. Speaking of Gino, I know you
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  Speaker 1: spoke eloquently of him last week at your press conference.
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  Speaker 1: He had a rant. I don't know if i'd call
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  Speaker 1: it a rant, but somebody asked him back in twenty
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  Speaker 1: sixteen at the Final Four about player engagement and body
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  Speaker 1: language and you can see this video on YouTube. And
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  Speaker 1: I bring this up because Victor Rose's role has changed
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  Speaker 1: significantly this year because of nagging injuries not only in
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  Speaker 1: the preseason but early in the season, but then the
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  Speaker 1: other three guys having really good years at the running
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  Speaker 1: back position. It's a change. I know it might be
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  Speaker 1: tough for him, but you see him every day in practice.
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  Speaker 1: How has he handled this new role on the football team.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's been really hard on him. Victor's prideful guy
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  Speaker 2: and wants to contribute, and uh, you know, just its
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  Speaker 2: been one of those years. We're just he's nagging. Injuries,
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  Speaker 2: as you said, have kind of held him back. But
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  Speaker 2: you know, Victor's red shirt in this year, so uh,
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  Speaker 2: he's going to get this year back. You know, he
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  Speaker 2: played in his fourth game on Saturday against Syracuse and uh,
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  Speaker 2: so he's preserved his eligibility. We won't play him this week.
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  Speaker 2: He's preserved his eligibility going forward, which is something he
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  Speaker 2: and I talked about. You know, early in the season
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  Speaker 2: we started having these injuries. So uh, it's always been
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  Speaker 2: the it's been the plan since early in the season
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  Speaker 2: when he was you know, dinged up with the hamstring
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  Speaker 2: and then you know, having the surgery on his finger,
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  Speaker 2: that that he would red shirt.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, just a clarification here, Could he play in the ballgame?
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  Speaker 1: Does that affect the red shirt at all?
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  Speaker 2: As far as I know right now, he could. I
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  Speaker 2: believe the rule in place right now is if you
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  Speaker 2: make a ball game and you've played in four games,
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  Speaker 2: you can play in the ball game and still made teen,
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  Speaker 2: you red shirt eligibility. But I'm not sure if that'll
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  Speaker 2: be the case once we get there. You know, the
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  Speaker 2: rules in college football change pretty fast, so as far
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  Speaker 2: as I know right now, yes, which would be fantastic
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  Speaker 2: for him.
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  Speaker 1: Jim, are there any young guys that you would consider
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  Speaker 1: even giving them a chance to play if if the
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  Speaker 1: opportunity arose on Saturday that have put in some hard
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  Speaker 1: work this season or you're just basically sticking with your
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  Speaker 1: core group right now.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're set. I'm not gonna know. I mean, listen,
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  Speaker 2: we just want to win the football game. We ever
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  Speaker 2: to win the football game, this football game. We're not
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  Speaker 2: thinking down the road. I'm not thinking about the ball.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not thinking about next year. I'm not thinking about
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  Speaker 2: spring ball. I'm not thinking about you know what young
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  Speaker 2: guys are going to help us next year. I mean
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  Speaker 2: that all sort of self out worried about right now
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  Speaker 2: is how do we play the best football we can
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  Speaker 2: on Saturday and put ourselves in position to get a win.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, defense, let's go over there for a moment here.
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  Speaker 1: The linebacker spot. Jaden McDonald's been fantastic, the outstanding maturity
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  Speaker 1: of two for me to Brown's been good, and Lengthston
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  Speaker 1: hardy is Is that position better than you thought it
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  Speaker 1: would be at the beginning of the year. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know what your expectations were at the linebacker spot.
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  Speaker 2: Well, length is not really a linebackers, it's a hybrid position, right, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: So our linebackers are two and Jaden and there. I
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  Speaker 2: knew they were both really good players going into the year,
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  Speaker 2: and they've proven to be so they've been consistent. I
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  Speaker 2: think one of the things that's so impressive about Jaden
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  Speaker 2: is that you know, and you know this, but I'm
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  Speaker 2: not sure everyone listening knows, is he's playing with the
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  Speaker 2: torn rotator cuff. He tore his rotator cuff and a
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  Speaker 2: scrimmage during fall camp, and it's something that you know,
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  Speaker 2: everyone recommended he surgically gets surgically repaired, and that he
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  Speaker 2: would have missed the year and his college eligibility would
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  Speaker 2: have run out, and he decided to just strap it
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  Speaker 2: up and play. And that's incredibly, incredibly impressive to me
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  Speaker 2: that this means so much to him that he's willing
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  Speaker 2: to go through the pain that he goes through every
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  Speaker 2: single time he strikes somebody to play this game for
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  Speaker 2: this team. And I love him for that, and too
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  Speaker 2: he you know, we've seen his growth year after year
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  Speaker 2: after year after year. He just keeps getting better and
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  Speaker 2: better and better. So we are really lucky to have
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  Speaker 2: those two guys. We play a couple guys behind them
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  Speaker 2: in spot roles that that have helped us. And then
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  Speaker 2: you know you mentioned you mentioned Langston. He you see
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  Speaker 2: him drop a little bit, but he's really It's like
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  Speaker 2: I said, it's kind of a specialty positioned. We don't
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  Speaker 2: consider it a linebacker. We don't really consider a D lineman.
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  Speaker 2: It probably leans a little bit more towards D line
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  Speaker 2: than linebacker. So but I listen talking about Langston, I
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  Speaker 2: think he's become a heck of a football player. You know,
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  Speaker 2: whatever he's doing, whatever position you want to call it, linebacker,
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  Speaker 2: D line, football player, Langston Hardy is a good football player.
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  Speaker 2: It's been fun to watch him, watch him stay healthy.
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  Speaker 1: And I know from from being here recording your coaches
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  Speaker 1: shows with Mike, I know you were high on Cam
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  Speaker 1: Chadwick early in the season. And Ronte was the other
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  Speaker 1: pregame guest last week and Adam asked him about him,
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  Speaker 1: and Ronte thinks that that Cam is the next good
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  Speaker 1: one here. He loves the way he plays. And I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure you can echo that sentiment.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I think he's I think he's going to be
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  Speaker 2: a really good football player. He's just got to keep
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  Speaker 2: getting reps. He's very competitive, he's got good size, he's
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  Speaker 2: very athletic, plays the ball well in the air, has confidence.
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  Speaker 2: It's just a matter of him continuing to get, you know,
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  Speaker 2: game reps, and getting better in that way, and getting
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  Speaker 2: challenged and rising up and learning from his mistakes and
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  Speaker 2: learning from his successes. But yeah, we really like Cam.
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  Speaker 2: I think he's a good football player. I've really enjoyed
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  Speaker 2: watching him this work this year. He's just a great kid, tremendous,
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  Speaker 2: tremendous young man.
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  Speaker 1: Jim, Is there a player or two, or maybe a
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  Speaker 1: handful that have really taken a big, big step from
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  Speaker 1: say preseason to now, maybe even beyond your expectation.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we just talked about Cam. He'd be one. I
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  Speaker 2: mean I think that, you know, I didn't know what
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  Speaker 2: we had in those running backs other than Cam Carston Cassidy.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I think he's a guy that's taken a
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  Speaker 2: big step up. He hadn't started a lot, but when
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  Speaker 2: he's had to go in there and play, he's done
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  Speaker 2: a really good job. You know, I don't know, I
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  Speaker 2: don't know I mean I see progress out of all
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  Speaker 2: of them every single day. You know, at Langston, Donovan Branch,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you know, even guys that you know, Matt Hoffman,
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  Speaker 2: who we don't see a lot. There's a lot of
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  Speaker 2: guys that are doing things behind the scenes that you
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  Speaker 2: know haven't necessarily showed up on game day yet. But
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  Speaker 2: the improvement they make on a daily basis just the
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  Speaker 2: testament the way they work and how much they care.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Branch of the big fourth down tackle by the way,
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  Speaker 1: in the third quarter in the game against Syracuse on Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: Final segment with Jim will preview you maass and maybe
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  Speaker 1: getting a little game day prep when we continue here
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  Speaker 1: on the Yukon Football Coaches Show from lear Field.
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  Speaker 2: Stay with us