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Seg 3 - FB Show Jim Mora Sept 26 · Coaches Corner

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  Football Husky's taken on the Aggies of Utah State this Saturday high noon. Tickets
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  available for this game all remaining home games as well at ukon tickets dot com,
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  Yukon Husky's Football, tailgating and fun. That's a great combination. Jim
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  Moore back with US coach, let's talk kicking field goal maybe competition this week.
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  If I'm reading between the lines and your press conference on Tuesday. Yeah,
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  you know, Joe's had a long road back from a tough injury,
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  and I think Joe's a really good kicker. As a matter of fact,
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  I was just out on the field with him shagging some kicks for him after
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  practice, trying to, you know, lighten things up a little bit for
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  him in terms of the pressure he's putting on himself. The fact of the
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  matter is is though that he needs to make those kicks. We need to
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  do everything can to support him. But we also have a very good kicker
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  in no way, and so just like at all positions on our football team,
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  there's competition, and you know, we're very fortunate to have two good
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  kicks and we need them to make kicks when you know, it's a reasonable
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  expectation dependent upon yardage and wind and all those things, and you know we're
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  not consistent enough yet. So just because its competition doesn't mean anyone's lost any
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  faith in Joe. I certainly haven't. But I think just in the spirit
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  of what we try to do around here, it's important that there's competition at
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  that position to see who's gonna who's gonna take the kicks on Saturday. And
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  you know we need we need one or both of those guys to really become
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  dependable for us. Yeah, it should be an interesting competition in the next
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  few days. Hey, at quarterback, you have two players. You've got
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  a depth shart that's two and so far Takemon Robertson's had a couple opportunities starting
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  through for one hundred and fourteen on the weekend. What's your thought there?
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  Are you going to continue to make that a competition or are you gonna stick
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  with Takewan? And hopefully he grows into this because he hadn't had a lot
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  of experience only playing college football quarterback. Really, of the three, Joe
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  take Kwan and Zion Takekwan has had the least experience. He's throwing the least
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  the fewest passes, but He's a very talented young man and I see him
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  growing, I see him becoming more and more comfortable out there. But you
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  know, yeah, Mike, there's competition in every position every single day,
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  and they're expect to come out and perform, and we're expect to come out
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  and coach the heck out of him and put him in the right position.
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  And so from that standpoint, you know, you never say never. I
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  think I've told you this before, and I think at that position, at
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  the quarterback position, it's so important that the player planning that position feels the
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  support of the of the head coach and the coaching staff. And you know,
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  so that's what I'm gonna do with take Kwan. I got to give
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  him all my support and I want to give him all my support, and
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  he needs to feel all my support. So in terms of talking about replacing
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  him, that's not something that I philosophically believe you should you should talk about.
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  You know, I don't think that's the right thing to do. Yeah,
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  I agree with you on that one. A couple of quick thoughts here
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  on guys that got into action on the weekend. James Burns caught a couple
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  of passes he's a transfer from Austin Pete. Kylish Hicks at a catch as
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  well, the redshirt fresh from from Pikesville, Maryland. What did you like
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  about what just all with those guys? Well, James has speed. We
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  love that we gave him the ball on the reverse and we blocked the wrong
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  guy downfield or you know, he would have had an opportunity to show everybody
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  that speed. And then I just think Kyleish is a talented kid, and
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  uh, you know, he's got to continue to learn this offense and make
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  sure that he's consistent with his with his assignments. But he's tough, he's
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  physical, he's fast, he catches the ball, and you know, I
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  want to see him out there playing more. I like him a lot,
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  I always have. And I also think he's a guy that if we ever
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  needed him, you can come over and play some dB too. So every
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  everybody likes those guys who can go both ways cats. Yeah, you're right,
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  there's spots for guys like Cam Edwards. You know, there's spots for
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  guys like Kylie's. There's you want fighters, man, you want competitors,
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  you want gritty guys, and you talk about Kylish and Cam you're talking about
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  a couple of gritty guys right there. Yeah, it's like having utility players
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  in baseball. All right. Back with coach Jim Mora, we're going to
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  get to the day in the life because you're not gonna believe some of the
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  stuff this guy does before a football game. That's coming up next on the
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  Yukon Football Coaches Show on Liarfield