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Seg 3 - FB Show Sept 19 Jim Mora · Coaches Corner

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  Join us for the reload. Jim Mora with us. I want to point
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  out a couple other guys who had pretty good days on Saturday. Price Yates
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  number ninety. I mean, if you're a football fan, you come to
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  the stadium this weekend, what's that guy? Three and a half tackles for
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  losses? Coach, I get excited when defensive guys do stuff like that.
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  I think that I'm so glad you brought his name up, Mike, because
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  he he's been special and it's his work ethic and his commitment that makes him
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  special and helps him get in position to make those plays. There's one play
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  he made that It was actually the second to last defensive play of the game,
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  and we had him pinned down there and it was second down play and
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  they threw the ball and he came flying out of the stack and made a
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  first down saving tackle. Where he make that tackle, they get the first
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  down, the game's over in our offense doesn't even get the ball back,
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  you know, unfortunately we got the ball back to their offense. Was pretty
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  damn good field position. I gotta give Price a lot of credit for that.
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  But nobody. Nobody works harder, nobody plays harder, nobody takes better
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  care of their body. A lot of guys do it really, really well.
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  Just nobody does it better. And you know, if you're looking for
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  an example of hard work paying off and great attitude paying off and relentless effort
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  paying off and just watching number ninety because it's paying off for the guy.
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  Yeah, attitude is a word that coaches and broadcasters use a lot. I
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  mean this club. I talked to a couple of guys yesterday and we're gonna
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  we're gonna have their their conversations. Johnnie Stafford a little bit later on,
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  still confident, still positive, coming in there. Forget what the record is.
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  You got another game this weekend. Let's see what happens. You know,
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  third down. I thought the defense did a nice job the other day.
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  Three thirteen FIU was and it did that. What Malik Dixon Williams available?
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  What's his status? Because we all love him as a player. He's
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  been or he's injured. We want to see him back where do you think
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  he's at in terms of getting back on the field. Well, he played
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  last week on special teams a little bit, which was a good first step,
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  you know, being able to see him run down on kickoffs. I
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  don't think it's you know, I don't think he made any tackles or anything
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  like that, but at least he got some action, which I think really
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  helped his confidence with his knee, and we needed to see that. And
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  you know, he's ready to go now. He practiced and he's ready to
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  go. And you know, I think Stan Cross has done a really good
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  job in that spot. But you know, Malik's he's pretty damn good players
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  we know, you know, makes plays on the ball, gets people lined
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  up. Really good compliment to Durante back there. So it'll be good to
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  have him back on the field. Well, a lot of close games,
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  not only in college obviously in the pros. Ten of the sixteen in the
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  NFL schedule one score games last week and the Giants were down big I gotta
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  bring this up because you were down Big two and Brian Dable, their head
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  coach, got in the blocker room and he went off. I'm sure he
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  said some things, but I love what he said coming out of the locker
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  room. He said, Okay, what are you guys gonna do about it?
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  I'm curious what you said at halftime, because you went in down and
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  things look bleak, but you turned it around and played a solid second half
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  and probably could have tied the ball game up if not propenaltly in that last
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  sequence. Well, what I said, Mike would be x rated, So
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  we can't go there. But I figured, you know, listen, I
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  love football, I love competing. I love the guys on this team.
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  I want success for them so badly. I didn't feel like we were playing
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  with enough emotion, enough passion, enough energy, enough effort, and we
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  weren't executing at the level that we're capable of. And so I feel like
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  they at times they need to be told the truth. You know, you
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  don't go in there and you don't you don't baby him, you don't bsm.
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  You gotta you gotta let them know what's real and and and what has
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  to happen. And you know, here's a great thing. So I I,
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  uh, you know, I do my spiel with him, and I
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  was pretty hot coming off the field. I was very disappointed, not not
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  in the players in US. You know, in US, in US,
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  it's always an US thing. It's never them and us and them thing.
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  It's always all of us. And uh so I did my thing, and
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  then when I came back out to address and again before we go out on
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  the field, Christian Haynes had the whole team up already. So when when
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  it's a player driven, it's so much more. It's so much stronger than
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  coach driven. You know, I'm not a big player only meeting guy.
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  I think that those are very negative. But in a moment like that,
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  and it wasn't a player meeting, but when you're when your leaders are bringing
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  up and they're talking about the expectations, what needs to happen, and they're
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  showing passion, it's just so much more impactful than when it comes from a
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  coach. So that's another reason I have hope is because we have guys like
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  Christian, and we have guys like Jackson, we have guys like Durant,
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  and we have guys like you know, I mean, the list goes on
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  and on and on. We just have to you know, we have to
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  execute better and we have to play with better effort. And if we do
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  that, we'll give ourselves a chance and if we don't, then it'll be
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  tough. Yeah, second half I thought was the best. The team is
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  played on a lot of levels. And from your perspective on the sideline,
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  what did it look like? Did it look like the Yukon that you're used
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  to seeing what you saw last year and what you saw for parts of this
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  year. Did it give you an optimistic feel for what this team can do?
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  Yeah? I did. And there's more our sideline energy too, you
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  know, our guys, like guys like Kyle Jergens, you hadn't played backup
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  offensive lineman was getting everyone hype, and you are players on the field feed
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  off the energy and the stands and they feed off the energy in the sideline.
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  But yeah, I did. I saw things that I liked, you
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  know. Unfortunately, you know it's hidden by the result that it was twenty
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  four to seventeen. You know, we couldn't we we had a chance there
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  at the end to at least tie it, you know, or we went
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  out, we got to stop and we had good field position, we executed.
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  We got ourselves down there where we had a chance and Justin makes an
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  amazing catch, you know, off a great throw by Ta Kwan and unfortunately
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  they called that. Yeah, I you know, kind of a questionable hold
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  on our right tackle and so you know, we didn't get it done.
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  But there was a lot of a lot of positives that you can clean from
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  that second half if you can find a way to look past the final result.
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  Yeah, I got you all right, Quick time out back to wrap
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  it up with the Jim Moore in a moment. This is the Yukon Football
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