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Seg 3 - FB Show 9-29 w Jason Candle · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: We're back on the UConn Football Coaches Show with Jason
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  Speaker 1: Candle and Mike Crispino. Let's talk about D, Coach. Huskies
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  Speaker 1: had the 14-0 lead. We've been talking about Miami, Ohio.
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  Speaker 1: In the secondary for your team, you've got young guys.
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  Speaker 1: We talked about a little bit last week. You have
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  Speaker 1: three sophomores who play quite a bit. How much experience
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  Speaker 1: or how do you gain experience week to week with
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  Speaker 1: those guys so they're not going to make mistakes or
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  Speaker 1: they're going to be in places where they ought to
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  Speaker 1: be you know, as much as possible because it's a
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  Speaker 1: different game, right? You're playing football these days in college
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  Speaker 1: against 50 year guys, a lot of seniors, a lot
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  Speaker 1: of older guys. And then, you know, the, the young
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  Speaker 1: guys are kind of behind the, the eight ball a
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  Speaker 1: little bit.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think those, some of those guys stepped up
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  Speaker 2: and did a great job. I mean, Tyler McKinstry played
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  Speaker 2: his tail off Saturday, both at corner and at safety.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we've been without Zion the last two weeks
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  Speaker 2: and coming out of Maryland, I thought, you know, he
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  Speaker 2: was our best cover guy. Um, You know, now the
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  Speaker 2: Maryland receivers made a couple of plays that he'd like
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  Speaker 2: to have back. But for the most part, he was
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  Speaker 2: step for step with them guys the entire day. You know,
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  Speaker 2: then he rolls his ankle practice. We don't have him
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  Speaker 2: for Southern Miss. We don't you know, we didn't have
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  Speaker 2: him Saturday. And I don't know if we'll have him
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  Speaker 2: this weekend either. But, you know, some guys have been
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  Speaker 2: forced into positions where they haven't been before in the
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  Speaker 2: sense that they just haven't had those moments. And, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you're upset with some guys because they didn't handle it well.
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  Speaker 2: But you're also very proud of some other guys that
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  Speaker 2: did a really, really good job.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Seven tackle for losses, 21 yards. I love the
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  Speaker 1: one on fourth and inches. I mean, you got to
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  Speaker 1: stop there to turn the ball over in that game.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that was deep in your territory. That was awesome.
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  Speaker 1: A tackle behind the line of scrimmage. Boy, that was
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  Speaker 1: a good one.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, you know, really good job by the
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  Speaker 2: big boys in the center there. And obviously, when you
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  Speaker 2: give KV on Sherman a place to run through and
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  Speaker 2: make plays, he's going to find it. So, Um, he's
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  Speaker 2: 235 pounds. So, you know, when he comes through there
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  Speaker 2: at a full head of steam, there's not many running
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  Speaker 2: backs that are just going to gain and push forward
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  Speaker 2: for the extra yard and this quote unquote, second effort
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  Speaker 2: on that guy. So, uh, good scheme and a great
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  Speaker 2: individual performance.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Hayden Pegg gets eight tackles. Braden Moore had seven, uh, tackles, uh,
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  Speaker 1: pressuring the QB. I think there was one quarterback hurry
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  Speaker 1: in that game. Dave McCollum had a pretty good game,
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  Speaker 1: as you say, is good passer. Um, Going forward, if
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  Speaker 1: you don't get what you need pressure-wise up your front
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  Speaker 1: four defensively, what's the thought process? How do you generate it?
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  Speaker 1: How do you force these quarterbacks? Steve Angeli's coming in
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  Speaker 1: here from Syracuse. He's a quality guy. How do you
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  Speaker 1: force him off his marks?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I think there's– when you pressure, give up,
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  Speaker 2: you know, extra eyes and bodies and coverage, you know,
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  Speaker 2: happy balance there. Where is that? What does that look
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  Speaker 2: like week to week? I think it'll change based on
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  Speaker 2: who the quarterback is as it pertains to Syracuse. I
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  Speaker 2: think that, you know, he's, you know, whichever quarterback they play.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I think that, you know, both of those
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  Speaker 2: guys are very capable. They're a little bit different style.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you got a runner type of body that
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  Speaker 2: if you blitz him and you pressure him and he
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  Speaker 2: gets out, it's going to look like that 38-yard touchdown
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  Speaker 2: that Caleb had. on Saturday. If it's the guy that's
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  Speaker 2: the drop back passer, you might not get home to
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  Speaker 2: the quarterback, but you got to make sure that you
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  Speaker 2: get your hands up at the line of scrimmage and
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  Speaker 2: you get some batted balls at the line. Um, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we are a high pressure rate against Southern Miss and
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  Speaker 2: we knocked a lot of passes down at the line
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  Speaker 2: of scrimmage. So, um, it made it really hard for
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  Speaker 2: that guy to see through some of those windows, you know,
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  Speaker 2: today's day and age of, Hey, you got a quarterback
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  Speaker 2: that looks over top of the offensive line. Like that's,
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  Speaker 2: that's a myth that doesn't exist. Um, so you want
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  Speaker 2: to make sure that you close those sight lines the
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  Speaker 2: best you can and, you match the hand with the
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  Speaker 2: hand when he gets ready to release that football.
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  Speaker 1: You're playing at home this week off a couple of
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  Speaker 1: roadies in a row. So is that a good feeling?
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  Speaker 1: Is that helpful? You're going to feel like, okay, emotionally,
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  Speaker 1: we had a tough one last week, but we're home now.
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  Speaker 2: Hell, I don't know. I mean, I, you know, I'm
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  Speaker 2: trying to, you know, make sure that we have a
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  Speaker 2: really good Monday and worry about what has to be
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  Speaker 2: done for us to get a productive Tuesday. So, So
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  Speaker 2: is it great to be at our home field?
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Do I love being in front of our fans? Absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: Does that make the team that we're playing any easier
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  Speaker 2: to defeat this weekend?
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't.
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  Speaker 2: You know, hopefully that, you know, we can have a
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  Speaker 2: really good week and we can put a really good
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  Speaker 2: product on the field that matches a great environment in
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  Speaker 2: the stands. And we owe it to our fans to
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  Speaker 2: do that. And, you know, like I said, I hope
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  Speaker 2: our fans come out and really support us and make
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  Speaker 2: that home field a real home field advantage like it
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  Speaker 2: can be.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the reports are going to be a great crowd
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  Speaker 1: on hand for Saturday. All right, back with more. Jason
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  Speaker 1: Candle with us, the UConn Football Coaches Show on Learfield.