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UConn FB Coach's Show - Sept 5 - Segment 3 · Coaches Corner

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  Football Husky's all open at three game homestand a week from Saturday, kick off
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  three thirty against FIU Florida International. Tickets available for the game at all remaining
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  home games at ukon tickets dot com. Yukon Huskies Football get in on the
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  reload. Mike Christino back with head coach Jim Moore as Huskies gets set for
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  Georgia's State the Panthers down at Center Park Stadium, the old Turner Field seats
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  twenty five thousand. They played ure in their opener and a forty two thirty
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  five win over one of the best teams in the FCS RI at top twenty
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  five FCS team Jim. First of all, their quarterback Darren Granger completed fourteen
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  straight passes. That's not easy. I don't care where you play, I
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  don't care if it's in the sandlot. He completed fourteenth straight in that game.
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  So he's got to be a pretty good quarterback. I think he's a
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  really good quarterback. I have watched, you know, the game that he
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  played the other night, and then all these games last year, and I
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  think he's really impressive. I think he's poised in the pocket. I think
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  he reads coverages very very well. I think he works through his progressions.
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  I think he knows where to go with the football in every every defense you
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  play has a strength and weakness, and he knows where to go with the
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  football. He knows where you're gonna, you know, be challenged defensively.
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  And he's got the ability to run. You know, he's a big guy.
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  He's a six ft three twenty five pounder, maybe six foot four.
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  He can run with power. He's fearless and uh, you know, he
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  poses a big threat because he can sling it. He throws a tremendous fade
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  ball, he throws a tremendous post. He throws a tremendous fade stop out
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  on the boundary. He can throw from one hash to the other sideline.
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  You know, I think he's a really really good football player. Hey,
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  where's number three four of the Panthers? And they run the ball well,
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  I mean they did last week two hundred thirty one yards. Gavin Pringle twenty
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  three times one hundred and eighty four. He's a transfer from Bucknell. He
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  works number three and number twenty three. Marcus Carroll scored three touchdowns and we
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  talked with Durante Jones about this, and you'll hear later in the show he
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  played against this guy in high school. The dude is five ten, two
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  ten. He scored three touchdowns. So they can run to football pretty well
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  well. They were I think fourteens in the country last year running the football.
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  And sometimes when you think of these teams that spread it out a lot
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  and go really fast like these guys, do you think of a team that
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  throws it well. And they do throw it well, but they also run
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  it very very well, and you know not besides their running backs and their
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  quarterbacks are run threats. So you know, I think with most with most
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  football games that I've been involved with in my life, is if you can
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  get the run under control, you got a shot. If teams are running
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  wild on you, they've got you both ways, and that that makes it
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  tough. So we have to do a great job of stopping not only their
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  design runs that are run plays, but also designed quarterback runs, quarterback draws,
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  and any scramble plays. They The Panthers against QRII Rhode Island allowed five
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  hundred twenty yards four hundred and eight through the air. I'm sure Nick Carlton
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  is like licking his chops right now saying let's go, let's put it in
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  the air, as he talked to you about this yet No, I mean,
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  look, we just want to have a good game plan for what they
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  do. Our objective every week is you get the hand in the ball in
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  the hands of our playmakers and hopefully they can make some plays. Put them
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  in a position where they you know, they have some open space and they
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  can make some plays. You know, every week's a different proposition. Just
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  because they struggled, you know against the past last week, maybe they put
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  extra emphasis on it and practice this week and push up some run stuff.
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  So you know, you're go into a game of the plan and then you
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  adjust that plan as the game goes. I would like to see our offense
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  be more explosive this week than we were last week, just like I'd like
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  to see our defense tackle better. So you know, for us, it's
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  about just trying to go out and really execute. And I know every coach
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  says that you gotta go execute, you gotta go execute. Well, it's
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  the truth. You know, you prepare all week for your opponent, but
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  on game day you're playing against your standard. You're playing you know, you
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  don't know what you're going to see. So you're you're you know, you're
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  trying to stick to your rules, and you're trying to play with great technique
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  and fundamentals and great effort and great focus, and when you get a chance
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  to make a play, you want to go make a play. Having said
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  that, I'm not as big as stat guys who may think. But as
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  you're watching, knowing what ball game, and you're gonna probably dispute this,
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  but as you're watching that football game with NC State, I know, looking
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  going going forward against Georgia State, third down conversions by NC State that kept
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  the ball in their hands a little too much for my liking. And on
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  your side of the ball, you want to keep the ball and keep drives
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  going. So is that one of the keys you think to this game coming
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  up? Yeah, for sure. I think it's a key to any game.
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  You know, I think there's some stats that are relevant. You know,
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  your critical variables. Turnover ratio is a huge critical variable to winning a
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  football game. You know, winning on third and fourth down that ratio is
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  a huge critical variable to winning a football game. Quarterbacks sacks huge critical variable
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  to winning a football game. So you know we're winning in the red zone.
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  With the red zone ratio is a huge critical variable to winning a football
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  game. And you know, we didn't win the third down battle, we
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  didn't win the turnover battle. The red zone battle was even. So you
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  know, they won two of the three most critical variables in the game and
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  they won the game. So it's always very, very important that you do
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  all you can to win those situations. You're running backs. You had a
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  group playing in the game, and Victor Rosa had the long touchdown round ninety
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  six yards or whatever he had. Overall, you went with Demante Houston,
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  Brian Brewton a lot. Jayleen Mitchell didn't get a lot of reps in that
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  game. Is that because he's still kind of learning what's going on? Or
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  what do you what do you how do you factor in in as you go
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  forward? He played, but he didn't carry the ball. I don't believe
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  you know, those are our three primary backs right now. Jalen is certainly,
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  you know, in the rotation. He's part of the part of the
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  you know, the guys, the group that we depend on. He just
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  didn't get his opportunities in that game. I think you know part of it,
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  Mike, like you said, is that we were a little bit limited
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  in how many plays that we had offensively, you know, not staying on
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  the field on third down, We're not getting them off the field on third
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  down on defense and giving our offense another possession, you know. So I
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  think that affected his his chances with the ball in his hands. But you'll
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  see more and more of him as you know, as we get into games
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  where we get more offensive plays and we're running the ball more effectively, you're
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  gonna see Jalen all right, that's good news. We'll take a quick time
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  out with the Jim Moore. We're gonna discuss California football high school style versus
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  Georgia, versus Texas versus Florida. We'll find out what the coach thinks about
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  that. You're listening to UK Football and the Coaches Show on Liarfield.