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Seg 2 - FB Show 9-30 w Jim Mora · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: Back with Jim Morrow. The Yukon Football Coaches Show continues
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  Speaker 1: here on lear Field Coach. We have Chris Freeman a
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  Speaker 1: little bit later on on the show. I want to
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  Speaker 1: talk about him for a moment eight of nine on
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  Speaker 1: the season. You know, I was looking back at his
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  Speaker 1: career here his first year. Yet last year he missed
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  Speaker 1: the field goal on each of his first three games,
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  Speaker 1: and since then he's twenty eight to thirty two. So
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  Speaker 1: I mean it's safe to say he's improving at his craft.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and even when he missed a couple early last year,
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  Speaker 2: I never had any doubt about who he was and
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  Speaker 2: what he would what he would end up doing here.
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  Speaker 2: He's just a very mature, thoughtful, conscientious, serious person. You know,
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  Speaker 2: he really works hard at his craft. I've been fortunate
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  Speaker 2: to be around, you know, some pretty good kickers. I
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  Speaker 2: was able to twice coach a guy named Morton Anderson,
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  Speaker 2: you know, had him in New Orleans, had him in Atlanta.
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  Speaker 2: Who's the leading scorer in NFL history, is in the
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  Speaker 2: Pro Football Hall of Fame. And I'm not saying that,
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  Speaker 2: you know, Chris is headed to the Hall of Fame.
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  Speaker 2: But their approach to their craft is very very similar.
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  Speaker 2: You know, the intention that they had and what they
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  Speaker 2: did on a daily basis to make sure that they
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  Speaker 2: are mentally and physically prepared to go out there on
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  Speaker 2: a Saturday is very, very similar. So he's impressed me
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  Speaker 2: since day one. He impressed me on his visit, just
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  Speaker 2: his approach to not only football but his personal life.
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  Speaker 2: He's just a hell of a good kid.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, right now, you mentioned Morten Andersen. I just think
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  Speaker 1: of him and every time I'd see him trot on
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  Speaker 1: the field, I'd say, well, there's three points, didn't matter
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  Speaker 1: where they were. That guy was amazing. He was Let's
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  Speaker 1: talk about Joe Ferinnano for a moment here. Now. He's
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  Speaker 1: had a good season obviously, but the last game he
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  Speaker 1: ran six times for sixty four yards, coach a thirty
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  Speaker 1: eight yarder, which was fabulous, and he's been doing that
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  Speaker 1: a little bit more of these last two games. Has
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  Speaker 1: that been a designed thing? Are you trying to get
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  Speaker 1: more involved in that level or is it the way
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  Speaker 1: people are playing against you.
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  Speaker 2: It's a combination, Mike. I mean there's some plays that
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  Speaker 2: he you know, there's kind of a handoff run pass option,
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  Speaker 2: and then there's a couple of plays where things weren't
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  Speaker 2: there and he scrambled. And then I think the most
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  Speaker 2: important thing is that Joe has a really great understanding
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  Speaker 2: in space of when to get down, how to absorb
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  Speaker 2: a hit, you know where the opening is going to be.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he doesn't run reckless, and I'm not gonna
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  Speaker 2: say he runs carefully, but he runs very smart and
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  Speaker 2: he does a good job of protecting the ball. If
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  Speaker 2: you watch him, anytime someone comes near, he's getting to
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  Speaker 2: five points of pressure and he's protecting the football. So
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  Speaker 2: those are very important things. But anytime your quarterback can
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  Speaker 2: be a threat as a runner, it makes your offense
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  Speaker 2: harder to defend. And that doesn't mean he has to
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  Speaker 2: run every down. But if it presents itself and he
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  Speaker 2: can go get us five or six yards or seven
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  Speaker 2: yards and break a big one like he did, then
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  Speaker 2: then we'll take it. We'll take it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just another thing for defenses to have to
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  Speaker 1: be concerned with. I want to mention Oliver Lundberg Coleman.
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  Speaker 1: He's been getting a few reps lately. The running back
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  Speaker 1: from from Europe five carries thirty one yards, he had
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  Speaker 1: an eleven yarder. He runs hard. This guy, I mean
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  Speaker 1: I was, you know, he seems like the kind of
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  Speaker 1: guy that is a real football player, and obviously you
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  Speaker 1: want as many of those as you can find.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's like a he's a battering ram, he's a
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  Speaker 2: bowling ball. He's a great kid. He loves football. He's sweetish.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you just don't, you know, you know, stereotypically
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  Speaker 2: you think, you know, sweetish, really really nice, and he
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  Speaker 2: is really really nice when he gets the ball in
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  Speaker 2: his hands. He runs violent and he he tries to
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  Speaker 2: run through people. And you know when you have backs
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  Speaker 2: like that, which we have a bunch of them, it
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  Speaker 2: energizes your team, you know, I mean it really does.
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  Speaker 2: It's just you know, you see him run over a safety,
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  Speaker 2: run over a corner man. The next rep that corner
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  Speaker 2: doesn't want to hit him again. So you know, having
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  Speaker 2: Cam having victor having MJ having having Alie. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: those are you know guys that they're not easy to tackle.
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  Speaker 2: They're big, physical guys.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and you're not going to get you know, one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and twenty yards every game from Cam Edwards. So
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  Speaker 1: you'd like to get that, but sometimes you don't. And
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  Speaker 1: then I mean when you throw a kind of a
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  Speaker 1: curveball at the other team, and that's kind of a positive.
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  Speaker 1: I would think you got a few options that the
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  Speaker 1: defense has to be concerned with.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, in the old days, you know, you could play
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  Speaker 2: with one really good running back, but with the tempo
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  Speaker 2: football and the number of plays that you're running now
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  Speaker 2: in modern football, you've got to have you know, you've
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  Speaker 2: got to have a pretty good stable of running backs,
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  Speaker 2: and we're fortunate to have that. You know, we lost
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  Speaker 2: mel who obviously has you know, been a damn good
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  Speaker 2: player around here, so, you know, feeling comfortable with the
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  Speaker 2: four I mentioned, and then also being able to put
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  Speaker 2: Terrence back in there, you know, and let him to
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  Speaker 2: carry the ball once in a while as a speed
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  Speaker 2: change up has been a good thing for us.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. On the wide out scene, Skyler Bell continues to
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  Speaker 1: do great things. Six catches in that game, thirty yards
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  Speaker 1: after catch, that's the part I like. And that touchdown
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  Speaker 1: he scored. When you when you made the completion, Joe
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  Speaker 1: Finano made the throw, you figured it, okay, that's a slant. Well,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we'll move it down the field a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: But he turned that into six and with a burst,
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  Speaker 1: and that was impressive.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know the way he caught it, and the
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  Speaker 2: way he caught it, you thought, hey, he's gonna he's
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  Speaker 2: gonna get tackled. But you know, besides him being a
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  Speaker 2: really elusive oatenfield runner, Juice got down and made a
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  Speaker 2: really nice black block. Schamar got down and made a
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  Speaker 2: really nice block. Cam got down and made a really
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  Speaker 2: nice block. So that, to me is just an indication
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  Speaker 2: of unselfish players. You know, guys that are saying, hey,
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  Speaker 2: I didn't get the ball, but let me go get
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  Speaker 2: my friend into the end zone. And to me, that's
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  Speaker 2: really good team football. You love him when the ball's
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  Speaker 2: in Skyler's hands, and you love it even more when
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  Speaker 2: guys like Cam and Juice are down there and making
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  Speaker 2: sure he gets into the end zone unhit.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and Jamar porter at three catches in the game too,
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  Speaker 1: a thirteen yard are included. All right, we'll be back
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  Speaker 1: quick time out. Jim Morrow with Us is the Yukon
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  Speaker 1: Football Coaches show on Learfield.