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Seg 4 - FB Show w Jim Mora Nov 5 · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: Stay with us.
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  Speaker 2: A player interviews are coming up after we talk with
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  Speaker 2: Jim Moore. One more segment here Jadon McDonald, Lewis Hanson.
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  Speaker 2: As we continue on the Yukon Football Coaches Show, we
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  Speaker 2: talked about Lou Hanson, Jim and now it's Jaden McDonald.
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  Speaker 1: Man.
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  Speaker 2: He's this guy's one of my favorite players. Six foot two,
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  Speaker 2: thirty five. He came from Troy. The numbers to me
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  Speaker 2: are impressive. Seven and a half, you know, tackles for loss,
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  Speaker 2: two and a half sacks. He's been getting loose on
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  Speaker 2: some blitzes that were dialed up by Matt Brock. I
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  Speaker 2: like the quarterback hurry stat. I don't know, maybe some
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  Speaker 2: people don't, but I think that's a pretty good stat.
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  Speaker 2: If you're doing that, you're making the quarterback do something
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  Speaker 2: that he doesn't want to do.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's getting him off his spot, taking
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  Speaker 3: him out of his rhythm. I think that Matt has
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  Speaker 3: done a really good job of putting our guys in
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  Speaker 3: a position to do what they do best, kind of
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  Speaker 3: like we're talking about with Brad and Gordy on the
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  Speaker 3: offensive side.
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  Speaker 1: It's the same type of thing, and.
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  Speaker 3: You start to learn what a player is really good
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  Speaker 3: at and you try to get him doing that as
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  Speaker 3: much as you can. And you know, Jaden's done a
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  Speaker 3: great job of just assimilating into this program, becoming a leader,
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  Speaker 3: become a dependable, hard worker, smart, understands the scheme. He's
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  Speaker 3: a playmaker, great energy, loves to play football, always got
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  Speaker 3: a smile on his face.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he's a real pleasure to be around.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's a really respectful guy to a lot. A
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  Speaker 2: lot of the players that we've visited with on the
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  Speaker 2: Yukon Football Coaches Show this year have been impressive and
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  Speaker 2: the way they just to deliver their messages and the
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  Speaker 2: way they you know, interact with us and everything. We
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  Speaker 2: appreciate that. I think that's a big part of developing
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  Speaker 2: a program. You have to have guys that are capable
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  Speaker 2: of that, and you seem to have been able to
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  Speaker 2: hit on a bunch of them, certainly in this transfer portal.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you can see the talent on film, and
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  Speaker 3: you know, you get to see talent against like talent,
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  Speaker 3: not high school talent, you know, so you have a
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  Speaker 3: better feel for who the player is at this point
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  Speaker 3: in his career, rather than projecting what a high school
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  Speaker 3: player is going to be the one thing that you
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  Speaker 3: don't get to know is the person very well. It's just, uh,
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  Speaker 3: that's just the nature of the of the of the portals.
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  Speaker 3: You don't have as much time with them like you
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  Speaker 3: do in in high school recruiting. But we have always
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  Speaker 3: emphasized character and we have some really high character kids
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  Speaker 3: that came in and you know what, I think part
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  Speaker 3: of that was us doing our dual diligence, but most
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  Speaker 3: of it was luck in you know, just having the
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  Speaker 3: ability to follow our gut feelings about kids or young
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  Speaker 3: men and them being who we thought they were, because
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  Speaker 3: every every transfer we brought in brought something to this
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  Speaker 3: team more than just their football ability. And that's their
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  Speaker 3: football character, that's their personal character. That's their selflessness, that's
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  Speaker 3: their toughness, that's their you know, their ability to check
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  Speaker 3: their ego and be about the team. And I don't
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  Speaker 3: think that everyone gets that lucky, but we got lucky.
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  Speaker 3: And to me, it's a credit to our staf and
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  Speaker 3: it's a credit to the players that we're here saying hey,
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  Speaker 3: this is the way we do things here. And it's
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  Speaker 3: the credit that the kids came in saying hey, I
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  Speaker 3: want to be part of something special and I'm willing
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  Speaker 3: to maybe sacrifice a little bit of my individual glory
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  Speaker 3: for the glory of the team.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a it's an attitude we see on the
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  Speaker 2: hoop court, you know, with baseball, now with football. It's
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  Speaker 2: just a great a great sensibility to have in sports
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  Speaker 2: if you can establish that, and you're certainly doing that.
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  Speaker 1: Let's talk about UAB.
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  Speaker 2: They're out of the AAC Jalen kitting that took over
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  Speaker 2: as the QB about I think four games ago, complete
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  Speaker 2: sixty one percent of his passes thrown for ten touchdowns.
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  Speaker 2: He's got a pretty good arm. He's got some real
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  Speaker 2: weapons out there, doesn't he.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I mean he's the son of an NFL quarterback, John Kittna.
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  Speaker 3: He's coached by a Super Bowl champion quarterback, Trent Dilfer.
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  Speaker 3: He is big, tall, long, physical, he can move, he
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  Speaker 3: can throw on the run, he has swag, athletic arrogance.
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  Speaker 3: He's a handful and he's a really good player. And
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  Speaker 3: he's got a bunch of guys that he can spread
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  Speaker 3: it out to. I mean, they've got a really talented
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  Speaker 3: skill group.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, junior quarterback, where's number seventeen? Lee B b juniors
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  Speaker 2: are running back only a sophomore number twenty nine. He's
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  Speaker 2: run for over five hundred yards three touchdowns. But well,
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  Speaker 2: it's also impressive he's got eighteen catches out of the backfield.
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  Speaker 2: I always love to see backs who can catch and
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  Speaker 2: run out of the backfield. They're dangerous.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you said that same thing last week. They remember
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  Speaker 3: the guy who played in Georgia State. I think he
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  Speaker 3: had forty one catches, and we talked about that, which
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  Speaker 3: is how hard it makes you to defend that guy,
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  Speaker 3: you know who Sometimes he's a check down, sometimes he's
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  Speaker 3: the main guy in the route. How do you match
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  Speaker 3: up to him? You put a linebacker on him, you
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  Speaker 3: try to put zone around him. But you know, these
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  Speaker 3: guys want to take the ball down the field, but
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  Speaker 3: they've got a guy they can get it to. You know,
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  Speaker 3: want a checkdown that can make some yards too, So
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  Speaker 3: they're hard to defend. You know that he gets the
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  Speaker 3: ball out of his hand quickly.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 3: I think that that Trent has a great offensive mind,
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  Speaker 3: and he does a really good job of getting his
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  Speaker 3: guys in position to make plays.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and they're uh, they got a dangerous punt returner
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  Speaker 2: and a wide receiver. This dude does Cam Shanks, young
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  Speaker 2: kid freshman forty one, catches twelve yards per four touchdowns.
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  Speaker 2: But coach, the punt return is gonna I'm sure you're
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  Speaker 2: spending a ton of time on repunt coverage this week.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we always do for one thing.
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  Speaker 3: It's just got to be a different emphasis this week
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  Speaker 3: because we're talking about, you know, the leading punt return
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  Speaker 3: in the country yards per return, and he's special and
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  Speaker 3: quite frankly, he had a touch you know, another touchdown
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  Speaker 3: last week that got called back, which would have made
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  Speaker 3: him even you know, his his yards per return would
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  Speaker 3: have been off the charts, which they already are. He's
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  Speaker 3: already over twenty five yards return. But man, you better cover,
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  Speaker 3: you better stand your lane, you better leverage. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: he's a guy that can give give ground to get
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  Speaker 3: around the corner and get ground.
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  Speaker 1: Hopefully we don't have to punt too much.
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  Speaker 3: You know, that's a big thing because you don't want
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  Speaker 3: this guy to have the ball in his hands too
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  Speaker 3: often because he will make he will make something happen.
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  Speaker 1: He's really special.
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  Speaker 2: So you would be the challenge in Birmingham one o'clock pregame,
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  Speaker 2: two thirty to kick off thanks to Jim Moore. Coming up,
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  Speaker 2: it's Lou Hanson, Jaden McDonald coach will see you on
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  Speaker 2: the weekend and Yukon Football Coaches Show continues. In just
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  Speaker 2: a moment, we're here on Lear Field.