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Seg 2 - FB Show Sept 17 Jim Mora · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: A Saturday, under the lights Bratton Whitney Stadium, the football
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  Speaker 1: Huskies open their six game homestand against the Owls of FAU.
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  Speaker 1: Kickoff slated for seven o'clock. Tickets available Yukontickets dot com.
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  Speaker 1: If you can't be at the game, our radio coverage
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  Speaker 1: begins from Gate C. Bob Joyce is there at the
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  Speaker 1: KLOTA Farmers Doghouse at four on the Flagship Network. Pregame
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  Speaker 1: at five thirty. Ben Darnell will be along with me
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  Speaker 1: and Adam Jardino, and we'll have the game broadcast here
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  Speaker 1: along the Yukon Sports Network, the Varsity Network GAP and
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  Speaker 1: the Varsitynetwork dot Com. And we're with Jim Moore as
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  Speaker 1: we are every Tuesday, to talk about what happened on
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  Speaker 1: the weekend and what's coming up with FAU. We get
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  Speaker 1: a lot to talk about there. But first, Coach, you
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  Speaker 1: said something in the press conference on Tuesday morning which
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  Speaker 1: I thought was pretty interesting, something about losing small. All right,
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  Speaker 1: you lost the close game over the weekend. You had
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  Speaker 1: a chance, you were leading in the fourth quarter, but
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  Speaker 1: sometimes you have to go through that to win big.
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  Speaker 1: Can you give me more on that, because I'm trying
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  Speaker 1: to understand that from the perspective of the broadcaster and
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  Speaker 1: the player.
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  Speaker 2: Well, if losing small becomes acceptable, you're never gonna win big.
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  Speaker 2: And sometimes a program like this it's struggled. They accept
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  Speaker 2: a small loss as a moral victory. Well, it's a loss.
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  Speaker 2: There's no moral victories in sports. You either win or
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  Speaker 2: you lose. That's period, and that's just the way. That's
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  Speaker 2: just fact. So if you start accepting small losses, you're
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  Speaker 2: doom for failure, you know. But at the same time,
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  Speaker 2: it's you know, you do have to acknowledge progress. You
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  Speaker 2: do have to acknowledge progress, but you cannot making progress
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  Speaker 2: is not the ultimate goal. The ultimate goal is to
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  Speaker 2: have success, which in sports is winning. And so I
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  Speaker 2: don't want our players to feel like a small loss
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  Speaker 2: is in any way considered a victory of any kind.
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  Speaker 2: It's not. It's not. And so being able to break
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  Speaker 2: through that is really important to us. I'd rather, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to lose small. I want to win big,
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  Speaker 2: you know, And that's what I want them to think too.
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  Speaker 2: But at the same time, yeah, we're getting we're getting better.
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  Speaker 2: But the ultimate objective is to win football games.
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  Speaker 1: Well, the Huskies did a lot of good things on
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  Speaker 1: the weekend. Let's talk. Let's go on the defensive side
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  Speaker 1: for a few minutes. Here. Jaden McDonald's a guy that
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  Speaker 1: came from Troy this year and he's your leading tackler
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  Speaker 1: right now. He's been involved in a lot of what's
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  Speaker 1: going on out there. And two for me and A
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  Speaker 1: Brown is going to be on the show with us
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  Speaker 1: a little bit later on. Those two guys had good days,
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  Speaker 1: I felt, and I'm just curious how you view a defense.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, in baseball, they say you got to
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  Speaker 1: be good up the middle, right, you got to have
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  Speaker 1: a good shortstop, good second basement, good center fielder. Is
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  Speaker 1: that similar to what you see in football?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it is, but you better be damn good on
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  Speaker 2: the edges too. I mean, you know, if you were
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  Speaker 2: to build the perfect defense, you'd start at corner and
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  Speaker 2: pass rush. You know, those are the premium positions. But
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  Speaker 2: if you're not salty as hell up the middle with
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  Speaker 2: guys like Jilani and Dal and Jaden and Tooey and
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  Speaker 2: Durante and guys you know, Malchi McClain, then you're not
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  Speaker 2: going to be very good either. So yeah, I would
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  Speaker 2: subscribe to that, but I also it's a probably very
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  Speaker 2: simplistic approach. But those two guys, you know, Twoey now,
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  Speaker 2: for you know, a year and three games, has just
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  Speaker 2: made progress every week, and it's really fun to watch
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  Speaker 2: him do that. Become a really dependable, good football player
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  Speaker 2: who's a playmaker that understands the scheme, that understands the game,
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  Speaker 2: that cares about being a good player. And then to
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  Speaker 2: bring in someone like Jaden who you know, as you said,
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  Speaker 2: he came from Troy, they really good defensive football team
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  Speaker 2: he was in, really been really well coached. Comes here well,
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  Speaker 2: he made a quick pit stop in Indiana spring ball,
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  Speaker 2: then he came here. He loves football and he just
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  Speaker 2: plays with a passion and tons of emotion and he's
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  Speaker 2: violent and he's physical and he's playing well right now.
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  Speaker 2: And so when you have a couple of tough dudes
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  Speaker 2: in the middle like that that you can depend on,
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  Speaker 2: then it's certainly certainly helpful. Now we ask our linebackers
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  Speaker 2: do a lot of things. You know, they're not always
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  Speaker 2: in the middle. You see them out in space and
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  Speaker 2: you see him rushing. Jayden had the sack the other day.
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  Speaker 2: But those are two veteran football players that have played
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  Speaker 2: a lot of snaps and you have to put a
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  Speaker 2: premium on that experience.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you held Duke to one hundred and forty two
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  Speaker 1: on the ground in forty tries or thirty nine tries.
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  Speaker 1: So when you look at defensive efforts and you're going
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  Speaker 1: to face a very balanced team here this weekend on
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  Speaker 1: Saturday night, Florida Atlantic throws it well, they run it well.
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  Speaker 1: They got this Kidzamori Mobley. I watched their game with FIU. Man,
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  Speaker 1: that guy is dangerous. So as a running back, so
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  Speaker 1: as you view this game coming up, do you start
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  Speaker 1: by saying we got to stop the run? Or is that?
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  Speaker 1: Is that just a cliche that I'm throwing at you.
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  Speaker 2: No, it's not a cliche. It's the genesis of playing
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  Speaker 2: good defensive football is you have to be able to
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  Speaker 2: stop the run and try to make a team one dimensional.
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  Speaker 2: And now you're exactly right, and I don't think it.
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  Speaker 2: You know, even if you're playing a run and shoot
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  Speaker 2: team in the old days, you know you have to
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  Speaker 2: stop the run. You can't let him have it both ways.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, you talk about Zuare and C. J.
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  Speaker 2: Campbell and then you know they're their quarterback runs the ball.
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  Speaker 2: I mean he's there leading rusher right now. Is their
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  Speaker 2: quarterback at least if you don't count sacks. So they
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  Speaker 2: have the capability of running the football. And anytime you've
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  Speaker 2: got a quarterback in the run, you know, puts tremendous
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  Speaker 2: stress on the defense and on the defensive signal callers.
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  Speaker 2: So we have to stop the run, right you know.
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  Speaker 2: We have to come out and we have to stop
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  Speaker 2: the run, and we have to put pressure on the
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  Speaker 2: quarterback and when he tries to scramble, we got to
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  Speaker 2: get him to the ground and we got to make
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  Speaker 2: plays in the past game as well. But if you
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  Speaker 2: can stop the run, then you got you got a chance.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Cam Fancher a guy that we're familiar with. We
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  Speaker 1: saw him at the Myrtle Beach Ball when he played
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  Speaker 1: for Marshall. He's got forty three runs and one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and eighty two yards scored a touchdown this year for
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  Speaker 1: Florida Atlantic, who was one and two coming into the game.
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  Speaker 1: We'll be talking about your quarterback when we return. Nick
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  Speaker 1: Evers did some running of the football very well in
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  Speaker 1: the game at Duke, so that's coming up as we
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  Speaker 1: continue with Jim or the Yukon Football Coaches Show on
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  Speaker 1: lear Field