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UCFB Coach's Show Aug 24 -Seg 5 · Coaches Corner

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  And we're live in the Duncan Music Lounge here in our headquarters in Hartford with
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  Jim Moore, the head coach of the Yukon Huskies. The toughest position you
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  I think you may have said this before. Were you a defensive back?
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  First of all? Yes? I was. Okay, So that's the toughest
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  position in football, isn't it. There's been some tough dudes to play that
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  position. You know, my favorite player of all time Ronnie Lott. He
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  was a pretty good player. So yeah, but I wouldn't want to them.
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  Okay, that was pretty average. I'm not sure I could have covered
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  you. You might want to think about that for a second. Well,
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  let's get to the safeties. Durante Jones. Yeah, he might be my
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  favorite football player that I've ever met. The dude is up here in his
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  energy level, in his want to and if I was playing football at that
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  level and could play football, I want that guy standing next to me.
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  Yeah. I can't disagree with you. You know, he has a special
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  place in my heart. I mean, I love all our players, but
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  the passion, the energy intensity, Uh like this, this drive he has
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  to be great and to know everything. It's it's it's unique. It's rare,
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  you know, and Uh, you love being around guys like that.
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  You know, that's what you want as a coach. You want men like
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  Durante and unfortunately we've got a lot of those guys. But this guy,
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  there's something extra special about him. And uh, man, you want to
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  fight beside a guy like that. Yeah, Malik Dixon Williams. I like
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  him. He's got two names. I like that. I wish I had
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  two names, but I only have one. I love his intelligence, I
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  love his range, I love his athleticism, his ability to catch the football,
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  his versatility, and his personality. You know, Durante is hyped up
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  and and just full of intensity, and Malik is a little bit more calm
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  and focused and uh does a tremendous job of communicating. So we're lucky to
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  have two pretty darn good safety The cornerback position is you're on an island.
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  We all know that it's the hardest thing to do as you're gonna go single
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  up coverage with guys. Tell us about the corners now, Chris Sharon,
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  it's going to see some time. Obviously, Chris got burned in that NC
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  State game last year. I'm sure Yeah, in his mind, he's going,
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  I can't wait to play these guys. Well, well, I'm not
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  going to put him in that coverage again, I can tell you that.
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  But Chris is really Chris is you know, Chris is a nickel for us.
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  He's more of a safety nickel guy. Uh, he works with the
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  safeties, but he's a really good nickel, you know, which is your
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  inside kind of slot corner. I like him a lot. And then you
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  know, we've got some new guys that are like, uh, you know,
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  Amarni Archer who's a transfer, and Torrian White who's a good player.
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  He's a transfer. And then Demon Brnson stepped up, and Mumu has come
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  in from West Virginia and he's a transfer and he's a good player. And
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  then Malcolm Bell's a returner. So there's some there's some depth there. Uh.
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  That position has really not yet sorted itself out in terms of who the
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  starter is going to be. I think there'll probably be a little rotation there,
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  depending on who we're playing, what we want to feature that week in
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  terms of our scheme. But I think we've got a good group there,
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  and I know they're very well coached by Dalton Hilliard. All right, we're
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  gonna go to quick break back to wrap it up with Jim Mora. This
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  is the Yukon Football Coaches Show, Live from Hartford