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Seg 1 - FB Show w Coach Jason Candle 9-15 · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: Welcome aboard everybody. It's time for the UConn Football Coaches Show.
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  Speaker 1: Jason Candle is with us. I'm Mike Crispino. We rehash
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  Speaker 1: what happened on the weekend, look ahead a little bit
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  Speaker 1: to Southern Miss, talk about some big college issues perhaps.
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  Speaker 1: We get some time with the coach every week and
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  Speaker 1: we kind of gets you to where you need to
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  Speaker 1: be as far as UConn football is. Jason, this Maryland
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  Speaker 1: team came in. UConn struck first on the weekend, 7-0 lead.
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  Speaker 1: It was all good. From that point, in your view,
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  Speaker 1: after looking at everything over the last 24 hours or so,
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  Speaker 1: how did the game play out if you analyze it?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, obviously, I think we got off to
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  Speaker 2: a decent start. There were some opportunities there that maybe
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  Speaker 2: we could have you know, accelerated our success a little
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  Speaker 2: bit earlier than maybe what it, than what had happened.
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  Speaker 2: But we were able to, you know, play a pretty
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  Speaker 2: even first quarter. And then the second quarter, we just,
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  Speaker 2: we just weren't, weren't very good in the second quarter.
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  Speaker 2: And then in the third quarter, you know, we had
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  Speaker 2: that first drive coming out of half. And I thought that,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it was critical that we produced some points
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  Speaker 2: there and we didn't, you know, and then, you know,
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  Speaker 2: give credit to Maryland and that quarterback. I mean, he
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  Speaker 2: hit 11 of 11 passes in the third quarter. I
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  Speaker 2: thought he was excellent. And the receivers made some really
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  Speaker 2: tough contested catches and, Um, you know, that kind of
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  Speaker 2: pushed the lead out to where, you know, we got
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  Speaker 2: a little one sided and had to throw it every
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  Speaker 2: play and that's just not who we are. So, um,
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  Speaker 2: kind of recipe for disaster there in the second half. But, uh, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we've got to figure out how to sustain
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  Speaker 2: success and we're playing a really top flight opponent like
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  Speaker 2: we were, um, You know, and this is a young
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  Speaker 2: team going through some growing pains in the young part
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  Speaker 2: of a season. So you can find a way to
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  Speaker 2: really highlight the good things that we did and then
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  Speaker 2: do a really good job making sure that we hammer
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  Speaker 2: home the points where we weren't maybe having the success
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  Speaker 2: that we wanted to have.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess, I mean, you look at the first quarter,
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  Speaker 1: the offense produced 71 yards, seven points. Next three quarters,
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  Speaker 1: 85 yards. Was it something that Maryland was able to
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  Speaker 1: do to kind of, you know, stuff the Huskies offense
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  Speaker 1: and keep them from getting any momentum?
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's a good defensive front, you know, and then
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  Speaker 2: you add the fact that we have the element of
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  Speaker 2: a quarterback that can run, so you get another defender
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  Speaker 2: down there consistently, so it makes it a little bit
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  Speaker 2: harder to run the ball. And it really challenges us
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  Speaker 2: at the line of scrimmage and challenges us to throw it,
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  Speaker 2: and we weren't able to do it at a high level.
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  Speaker 2: So we weren't very good on third down, which then
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  Speaker 2: ultimately leads us to figure out why that was, and,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we just weren't really good to start the drive. So,
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  Speaker 2: and again... And we had, you know, we got to
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  Speaker 2: give a couple sacks and just some things that just
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  Speaker 2: didn't go our way, just not real efficient offensively the
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  Speaker 2: rest of the game.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Huskies ran 31 times for 67 yards. You mentioned
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  Speaker 1: third downs, three of 11. And a lot of, you know,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of coaches will say third down, obviously, you know,
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  Speaker 1: converting is big, but you got to gain yards on
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  Speaker 1: first down too, right?
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  Speaker 2: 100%, right? I mean, you're in those scenarios where, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you want to be able to, to move it a
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  Speaker 2: little bit and get some productive plays early in the
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  Speaker 2: down sequence. And, you know, I think that helps you
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  Speaker 2: getting towards, you know, midfield and putting yourself in a
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  Speaker 2: position where you can utilize fourth down as another down,
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  Speaker 2: regardless of the score. So, but when you get behind
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  Speaker 2: the sticks, it kind of takes that element off the
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  Speaker 2: table and you get a little bit of, you know,
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  Speaker 2: predictable and one-sided there. And that happened to us a
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  Speaker 2: few times.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you mentioned Malik Washington, their sophomore quarterback. He's excellent.
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  Speaker 1: Had a great freshman year, too. that it was kind
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  Speaker 1: of like a dink and dunk offense for them. It
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  Speaker 1: felt like they were throwing everything in the flat, you know,
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  Speaker 1: five yards up across the line of scrimmage and then
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  Speaker 1: see what happens. And most of the time you was
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  Speaker 1: able to, you know, come up and make plays. But
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  Speaker 1: if you don't make a play, if you miss a tackle,
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  Speaker 1: that's when it turns into more than like little paper cuts,
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  Speaker 1: doesn't it? Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's a glaring, glaring thing that showed up
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  Speaker 2: in the tape in the second half is we didn't
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  Speaker 2: tackle very well in the second half, but, um, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we got to work on that and we got to
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  Speaker 2: prove there, but also too, like we have to play
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  Speaker 2: better team football where our defense isn't out there so
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  Speaker 2: many plays and so many snaps. So, um, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you can't, can't put it all on those guys. You gotta,
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  Speaker 2: you gotta do your part offensively and you gotta make
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  Speaker 2: sure that, you know, you're, you're playing complimentary ball, as
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  Speaker 2: I mentioned. So, um, yeah, early in the year, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you see a lot of, all of it,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of it all over college football, you know,
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  Speaker 2: perimeter plays and things like that. And, really challenging guys
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  Speaker 2: to continue to tackle at a really high level.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they ran 78 plays, UConn 52, so that's to
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  Speaker 1: your point. You got to get your defense off the
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  Speaker 1: field when you can because, I mean, fatigue does come
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  Speaker 1: into play, doesn't it, for a unit? I mean, it
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  Speaker 1: was a nice day there. The sun was out. The
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  Speaker 1: temperatures were reasonable, but still, 78 plays, a long time
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  Speaker 1: to be out there on defense.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a lot, especially in the second half where
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  Speaker 2: you're needing critical stops, so But I think our guys,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, for the most part, handled it well. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: a few guys were really high in rep counts. Other
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  Speaker 2: guys were, you know, that we had a couple of
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  Speaker 2: really good, solid, you know, rotation things going where, you know,
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  Speaker 2: some guys that are typically, you know, in that second
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  Speaker 2: unit got in there and made some really, really good
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  Speaker 2: plays and really helped, you know, our cause and really
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  Speaker 2: helped their own cause and maybe even earned some more
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  Speaker 2: opportunities down the road. But, yeah, good team that challenged
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  Speaker 2: us in all three phases. And, you know, we got
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  Speaker 2: to just play better team football.
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  Speaker 1: Jason Candle with us, UConn head football coach, UConn Football
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  Speaker 1: Coaches Show. Coach, for our listeners that don't really know
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  Speaker 1: the ins and outs of what you've got to do
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  Speaker 1: after a game in the next 24 hours to kind
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  Speaker 1: of figure out what's going on, what's your schedule like?
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  Speaker 1: Do you go in a dark room and start looking
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  Speaker 1: at every piece of tape you can find? What do
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  Speaker 1: you have to do in those 24 hours after a
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  Speaker 1: game to kind of figure out what just happened?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, I think with today's technology, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you get to see a lot of the plays on
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  Speaker 2: the sideline throughout the course of the game on the iPad.
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  Speaker 2: So you have a you have a little bit of
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  Speaker 2: knowledge of what went wrong because you're trying to ultimately
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  Speaker 2: fix these things in game, you know, and at the
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  Speaker 2: halftime and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: So.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I think you got a good idea
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  Speaker 2: what's up, but there's a there's a fine line there
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  Speaker 2: of making sure you get back and you fix and
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  Speaker 2: you cut up the tape and you're you got a
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  Speaker 2: good way to present the problems and the issues and
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  Speaker 2: make the corrections to your team. You know, and then
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  Speaker 2: ultimately there, you know, from there, you got to get
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  Speaker 2: moving on the next opponent because, you know, the week
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  Speaker 2: starts starts over pretty quickly. So there's not there's not
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  Speaker 2: much time to, you know. dwell on the past, whether
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  Speaker 2: it's really, really good or really, really bad, you've got
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  Speaker 2: to kind of move forward. So, yeah, make the corrections,
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  Speaker 2: show the guys what they need to fix, and, you know,
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  Speaker 2: maybe point out some of the good that maybe happened
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  Speaker 2: throughout the course of the game that we can build
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  Speaker 2: on and gain momentum from, you know, and turn your
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  Speaker 2: page to the next opponent.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Jason Candle with us, back with more after
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  Speaker 1: a break. This is the UConn Football Coaches Show on Learfield.