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Seg 2 - FB Show Oct 14 Jim Mora · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: We're back with Jim More of the Yukon Football Coaches
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  Speaker 1: Show on Mike Crispino. Boston College ahead on the weekend.
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  Speaker 1: An acc opponent. But let's talk coach about the numbers
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  Speaker 1: that the team's putting up. Usually stats, you know, you
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  Speaker 1: can kind of hide behind them a little bit. But
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  Speaker 1: I'm starting to see some nice trends here. One hundred
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  Speaker 1: and eighty three yards on the ground on average, fourteen touchdowns.
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  Speaker 1: Let's talk about your offensive line a little bit, because
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  Speaker 1: those guys are never identified unless you know, referee throws
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  Speaker 1: a flag at him and then he has to announce
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  Speaker 1: their name. I hate that about football. But you've had
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  Speaker 1: to replace, you know, guys like Chase Lund Vallentin Sen.
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  Speaker 1: That's not easy. And it looks like that offensive line
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  Speaker 1: unit is starting to come together.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I believe they're jelling. I think that the repetition
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  Speaker 2: they've had, the working practice, the working games, just the
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  Speaker 2: continuity of the coaching, you know, with Gordi and then
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  Speaker 2: moving to Christian and still having Gordy in the building,
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  Speaker 2: working together, the communication that has to take place, you know,
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  Speaker 2: all that is starting to show results. You know. Now,
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  Speaker 2: I wasn't real happy with our pass protection. Last week,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we gave up three sacks, which is not
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  Speaker 2: typical of us, or it hasn't been typical in the
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  Speaker 2: time that we've been together here, So we need to
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  Speaker 2: make sure that we keep improving that. But I do
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  Speaker 2: see progress and I see depth. I see depth being developed.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we're playing multiple guys at guard. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we've moved some guys through a tackle a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: So Yeah, I like the direction in their head. I
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  Speaker 2: think they're a great group of young men. They work
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  Speaker 2: really hard, They cared tremendously. They're very well coached by
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  Speaker 2: Christian Pace. He's just an outstanding offensive line coach. They
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  Speaker 2: believe in what we're doing. They've got repetition doing it.
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  Speaker 2: We coach it at a high level, and they executed
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  Speaker 2: at a high level. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: One follow up on that, the offensive line. We're talking
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  Speaker 1: to Wes Hoe about this. He started out as Syracuse
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  Speaker 1: playing like some tight ends, some full back, and then
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  Speaker 1: he became a center. Offensive linemen, you know, have to
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  Speaker 1: switch positions sometimes they go from guard to tackle the
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  Speaker 1: other side of the ball to you know, to play
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  Speaker 1: the left side versus the right side. How difficult is that?
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  Speaker 1: Because once in a while because because of injury or
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  Speaker 1: other things, guys have to be very versatile in the
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  Speaker 1: offensive line.
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  Speaker 2: You're right, I mean we and we have some guys
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  Speaker 2: that can move around doing stuff, you know, and that
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  Speaker 2: versatility it really you know what it is, Mike, it's
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  Speaker 2: kind of understanding how all the pieces work. That can
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  Speaker 2: be a form of versatility, you know what I mean,
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  Speaker 2: like understanding how the guy next to you is going
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  Speaker 2: to is going to respond because you understand not just
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  Speaker 2: your position, but the complexity of the whole offensive line,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and that's really important. It's like the secondary
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  Speaker 2: when you got those five guys working together. You know,
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  Speaker 2: if there's one guy that's not on the same page
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  Speaker 2: with the other four, it can be disastrous. And so
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  Speaker 2: just having work together a lot and work through the
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  Speaker 2: communication issues and have the skill set and have the
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  Speaker 2: dedication to the work, that's where you see the progress made.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Jim more whe Us the UKON Football Coaches Show
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  Speaker 1: on Mike Crispino. Nineteen sacks by the defense so far,
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  Speaker 1: they've been able to put pressure on quarterbacks. Matt Hoffman,
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  Speaker 1: one of the guys who plays up there. We're going
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  Speaker 1: to talk to him in a few minutes he was
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  Speaker 1: saying the same thing really about other positions on the defense, right,
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  Speaker 1: having to understand what the guy on the other side
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  Speaker 1: of the defensive line has to do. That's the kind
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  Speaker 1: of thing that that What does that come from? Study?
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  Speaker 1: Does that come from repetition? Is that a practice thing?
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  Speaker 2: What is that? All of those really it comes from
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  Speaker 2: the first thing you have to do is you have
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  Speaker 2: to understand your position right, and you have to master
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  Speaker 2: your position. But that, you know, we always talk about
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  Speaker 2: it's so important to understand concepts, you know, and how
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  Speaker 2: concepts work, and how you fit into the big picture
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  Speaker 2: of the concept and what the guy next to you
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  Speaker 2: is doing, so that you can do your job better
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  Speaker 2: he does his job. You know, everyone's got a job
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  Speaker 2: to do. But if you understand each other's roles in
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  Speaker 2: the concept, then you can be more cohesive as a unit.
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  Speaker 2: And then there's there's in our defense, there's a lot
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  Speaker 2: of crossover training, Mike, Like, you see a lot you
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  Speaker 2: see linebackers blitzing. You have Brian Parms, one of the
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  Speaker 2: leading sackers in the country, he's a linebacker. You see
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  Speaker 2: defensive lineman dropping. So I think just that crossover training
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  Speaker 2: helps our guys have like a big picture awareness of
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  Speaker 2: what we're doing conceptually, you know, scheme wise, and I
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  Speaker 2: like that our guys have taken a real interest in
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  Speaker 2: kind of learning about football, you know, not just memorizing
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  Speaker 2: their position, but understanding schemes and how people are trying
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  Speaker 2: to attack you and how we're trying to attack people
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  Speaker 2: and situational football. We're really lucky at to school like
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  Speaker 2: Yukon because we have smart young men and we have,
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  Speaker 2: as you and I know we talked about all the time,
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  Speaker 2: we got some blue collar guys that aren't entitled. They
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  Speaker 2: just want to work. And you know that's a coach's
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  Speaker 2: greatest freaking gift is a bunch of guys that want
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  Speaker 2: to be coached.
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  Speaker 1: It's a dream scenario, it really is. These guys. You know,
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  Speaker 1: speaking of the linebackers, I mean your most effective tacklers,
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  Speaker 1: is that always the case? I mean, you've been around
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  Speaker 1: defense your whole life, but parum Umar Dimonde, Taekwon King
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  Speaker 1: they're your leading tacklers. Is that the way it's supposed
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  Speaker 1: to be on the defense. I'm assuming, but I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I want to ask you that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it is. I mean, you know, your your defensive linemen.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of times they're eating up blocks so that
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  Speaker 2: your linebackers can get free and make plays. And typically
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  Speaker 2: your linebackers, you're leading tacklers, maybe your strong safety. I
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  Speaker 2: always want to worry about a corner that's got a
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  Speaker 2: lot of tackles that that usually means he's giving up
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  Speaker 2: a lot of catches, you know, and he's tackling the
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  Speaker 2: guy after the catch. But yeah, it's typically your linebackers. Now,
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  Speaker 2: I don't think it's typical to have your linebackers being
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  Speaker 2: your leading sackers, you know, But I think that just
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  Speaker 2: shows the versatility of our defense. And I also think
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  Speaker 2: it shows the selflessness of our defensive line because sometimes
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  Speaker 2: they're the pond. Sometimes they're the you know, they're the
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  Speaker 2: decoy to allow a linebacker to get the rush that
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  Speaker 2: we're looking for.
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  Speaker 1: Just to follow up on the defense turnovers, finally Huskies
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  Speaker 1: get some boy. What's it like on the sideline for
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  Speaker 1: the you know, for the rest of the team when
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  Speaker 1: that happens. You can say the guys on the field
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  Speaker 1: are jumping for joy, obviously, but there's something that goes
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  Speaker 1: on when a turnover happens and you come up with it.
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  Speaker 1: I think that is unique in terms of sports because
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  Speaker 1: the ball is so important. They've got it and now
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  Speaker 1: you have it. That's big.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's the number one you know, probably
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  Speaker 2: variable in winning or losing football games. It's turnover ratio,
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  Speaker 2: you know. So taking the ball away and protecting the
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  Speaker 2: ball is so critical. But the energy of the enthusiasm
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  Speaker 2: that that a takeaway creates on the sideline is infectious,
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  Speaker 2: you know. And and then it's it's like sharks in
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  Speaker 2: the in the water, in the bloody water, like I
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  Speaker 2: want more, I want more, I want more. You know,
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  Speaker 2: you're on the attack because you want to. You want
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  Speaker 2: to recapture that feeling, and you build momentum that way.
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  Speaker 2: And so we finally we were able to get some.
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  Speaker 2: And I believe that the reason that we got some
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  Speaker 2: is that our guys they did their jobs, they played
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  Speaker 2: with discipline, they trusted each other, they played fearless. They
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  Speaker 2: didn't play reckless, but they played fearless. And then when
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  Speaker 2: the chance came to make a play, they made the
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  Speaker 2: play because they were in the right position.
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  Speaker 1: They cut it loose. That's that's borrowing a term from you,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, loose back with more. Jim Moore and
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  Speaker 1: the Yukon football coaches showing a moment on lear field