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Seg 3 - FB Show Jim Mora 10-28 · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: We're back with Jim Moore of the Yukon Football Coaches Show.
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  Speaker 1: A couple of quick, big picture things Jim around the country.
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  Speaker 1: I am a little disturbed at how many coaches have
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  Speaker 1: been fired mid season on the college football scene. I
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  Speaker 1: mean eight of them. I know they're owed all kinds
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  Speaker 1: of money one hundred and sixty nine million dollars something
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  Speaker 1: like that, but why is this happening? And I don't
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  Speaker 1: think it's good for the football programs at these places.
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  Speaker 1: I don't see why people are changing coaches in midstream.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, and very good coaches, right Brian Kelly among others.
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  Speaker 1: It just got fired at LSU. I mean, this is
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  Speaker 1: something we have not seen in college football.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, it's just it's it's kind of the
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  Speaker 2: new world of football college football. You know, there's a
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  Speaker 2: lot of money involved, and there's a lot of money involved.
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  Speaker 2: There's high expectations, you know. I don't like to see
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  Speaker 2: it happen either. I think it's very disruptive for the program.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's disruptive for the kids on a football team.
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  Speaker 2: You know, the loss of ability in their lives it crucial,
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  Speaker 2: a crucial point in their lives makes it tough, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I just I feel for the coaches, their families. I
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  Speaker 2: know that there's you know, huge payouts and so people
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  Speaker 2: are where they're getting paid a lot. The head coach is,
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  Speaker 2: the assistants aren't, and the assistants are going to have
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  Speaker 2: to move, and families are gonna have to move, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, the kids are gonna have to leave the
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  Speaker 2: schools and the friends that they're in now and go
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  Speaker 2: to other ones. And that's common in our world. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's not just football. It happens, but it's
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  Speaker 2: just it doesn't make it fun. So yeah, I don't
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  Speaker 2: I'm not a fan of it, but I know I'm
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  Speaker 2: not privy to why they're happening, why those things are
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  Speaker 2: happening to each school. And quite frankly, I while I
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  Speaker 2: feel bad for those people, my focus has to be
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  Speaker 2: on this football team right here, and so that's that's
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  Speaker 2: where I spend the majority of my energy is thinking
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  Speaker 2: about this football team and not what's happening elsewhere in
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  Speaker 2: the in the country.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, of course, Joe Finnano had another big day thirty
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  Speaker 1: two throught ball forty eight times three forty four three touchdowns.
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  Speaker 1: He continues to be you know, error free on a
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  Speaker 1: lot of levels. That is something that we don't see
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  Speaker 1: very often. I mean, quarterbacks throw the ball that much.
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  Speaker 1: Someone picks it off once in a while, but he
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  Speaker 1: has been really clean in that category. I don't think
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  Speaker 1: he'd asked for much more from a QB.
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  Speaker 2: Can you I like how you carefully worded that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I think can we ask for more? Yeah, We're gonna
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  Speaker 2: always ask for more. Okay, Joe's playing at a high
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  Speaker 2: level right now. And the reason that Joe's playing at
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  Speaker 2: a high level is because he works very hard at it.
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  Speaker 2: He studies the game, he's smart, he's experienced. He has
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  Speaker 2: a lot of trust in the calls coming in from
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  Speaker 2: coach Samus, and he has a lot of trust in
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  Speaker 2: the way he's coached by coach Tracy. And he has
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  Speaker 2: tremendous trust in his offensive line and the guys he's
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  Speaker 2: throwing the ball to. So, you know, as long as
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  Speaker 2: he continues to work hard and we do a good
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  Speaker 2: job of supporting him and trying to best we can
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  Speaker 2: to put him in a position to be successful, then
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  Speaker 2: then he will play well. And you know, with Joe,
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  Speaker 2: you don't have to worry about him being prepared and
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  Speaker 2: him working hard. That's just his personality and it's really
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  Speaker 2: fun to see a guy who's having success just keep
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  Speaker 2: driving to be better and better and better. And that's
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  Speaker 2: what Joe's doing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what you want your players to do. Overtime,
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  Speaker 1: they started at the twenty five yard line. I always
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  Speaker 1: wonder it looks like people try to run the ball.
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  Speaker 1: Different teams first try to set it up like a
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  Speaker 1: normal let's get a first down, get closer to the
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  Speaker 1: end zone. But does it become more more of a
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  Speaker 1: more pressure and a sense on the QB and the
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  Speaker 1: offense to put it in the end zone. Because a
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  Speaker 1: couple of times this year syrahcuse this one against Rice,
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  Speaker 1: you had to settle for field goals and that ended up,
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  Speaker 1: you know, turning the game around in overtime. So I'm
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  Speaker 1: just getting I guess my question is, what's the philosophy.
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  Speaker 1: What do you try to accomplish in overtime or double
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  Speaker 1: overtime when you get the ball score touchdowns?
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  Speaker 2: You hit it on the head is you have to
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  Speaker 2: score touchdowns in the red zone and specifically in overtime,
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  Speaker 2: and when you don't, you put yourself at risk of
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  Speaker 2: losing the game and that's what happened to us. So
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  Speaker 2: you know, we put tremendous amount of emphasis on red
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  Speaker 2: zone offense and defense, and we've got to get better
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  Speaker 2: at it, and we will just continue to work out
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  Speaker 2: it and we will get better at it.
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  Speaker 1: Is that I got to get this one in because
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  Speaker 1: I saw North Carolina played Virginia. They're a ranked team
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  Speaker 1: last weekend. They went to overtime. Bill Belichick when they
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  Speaker 1: scored went for two points to try to win the game.
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  Speaker 1: Is that something that crosses your mind when you get
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  Speaker 1: in that situation. I don't know why he did it,
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  Speaker 1: but they failed. They missed by half a yard and
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  Speaker 1: lost the game. But I wonder sometimes going for two
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  Speaker 1: is that the way to end this thing?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? I mean I thought about it. You always think
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  Speaker 2: about it. There's just a lot of variables that turn
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  Speaker 2: and whether or not you want to do that. And
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  Speaker 2: I've had several people ask me why didn't you go
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  Speaker 2: for two when you scored on the first one to
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  Speaker 2: end it? Well, because I thought we could stop on
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  Speaker 2: defense and score again. And that's why, you know, and
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  Speaker 2: I didn't want to. We're a five and two football
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  Speaker 2: team that's playing really good on offense and I didn't
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  Speaker 2: want it to come down to one play. You know,
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  Speaker 2: in retrospect, would I do do the same thing, Yes,
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  Speaker 2: I would, you know, and people can argue that it's
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  Speaker 2: right or wrong. I just feel like it was the
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  Speaker 2: right decision, and I'd make the same decision again. I'd
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  Speaker 2: hope for a different result, but I'd make the same decision.
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  Speaker 2: But I do understand, like with coach and I'm not,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not. I don't. I don't know what Coach Belichick did.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't see the game, you know, I didn't even
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  Speaker 2: know it came and went to overtime. But I I think,
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  Speaker 2: you know, if I were to have a take a guess,
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  Speaker 2: I'd say, well, he's a team that's struggling. Was a
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  Speaker 2: game at Virginia? Was it?
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  Speaker 1: You at North Carolina at home?
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  Speaker 2: And you're a struggling football team playing a ranked team.
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  Speaker 2: Help with it. Let's go, let's go get it right now.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go try to win this game right now.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, I like that thought definitely. All right, back
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  Speaker 1: with the Jimura, we continue one final segment on the
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  Speaker 1: Yukon Football Coaches Show on liar Field