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Seg 1 - FB Show w Jim Mora Nov 15 · Coaches Corner

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  Welcome to the Yukon Football Coaches Show. We get together with Jim Moore every
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  Tuesday following Yukon weekend games. And coach jmu proved to be what they are.
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  They're a top twenty five team. But the Huskies I thought put them
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  in their place a little bit, certainly early. I love the way the
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  defense was getting all the tackle for losses and coming up their running game,
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  and I mean putting them, I thought, in a position where they were
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  in jeopardy. And I have to believe you had to like what you saw
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  in that first half by your defense. I did. They are a really
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  good football team, Mike. And it was a tough one, you know,
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  because the final score was so ugly, and you go back and you
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  look at that game and it kind of illustrates where we need to improve.
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  And I think, so at thirteen to three and a half, so we're
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  down ten, we're in it. We come out in the second and a
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  half, we get a really good kickoff return, one of our better kickoff
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  returns field position wise all year, and then we fumble on the second play,
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  you know, and that's a moment in time where you have to capture
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  that moment take advantage of that field position and go down and put points on
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  the board instead of we fumble and we go out and get we get a
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  stop and they kick a field goal. So now it's sixteen to three,
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  and now the critical drive happens. We again get pretty good field position,
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  We go I think ten plays sixty two yards, we get a third and
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  five I believe in the red zone, and we bust an assignment on a
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  blitz and we have to settle for another field goal. So now I'll send
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  its sixteen to six. Where had we been able to execute, we have
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  a chance to be at sixteen to ten, and now it's a six point
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  game against the top ranked team on the road, and it's a totally different
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  thing, you know. And then really quite frankly, Mike after that,
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  for some reason, the I know I know the reason, but the wheels
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  fell off, and we need to become as a program, and I need
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  you to understand, everyone listening. I'm never a guy that blames players,
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  and I think you hear that in my comments. It's about us. There's
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  a program. We need to become a program that's mentally tougher and is at
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  our best in those moments where we need to capture the moment and we haven't
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  gotten there yet, and we're on a quest to get there, and that's
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  what's disappointing. But it's also a source of motivation. Yeah, the sense
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  that you bottle them up. And their quarterback Jordan McLeod, who was such
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  a good runner and passer, I mean the first half, every time he
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  touched the ball trying to run with it, the Huskies were all over him.
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  I felt like it's a start. Yeah, you know, game plan
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  wise, you guys were in the right places for a lot of that.
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  I mean first thirty minutes or more. Really, I thought that was a
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  real positive they Yeah, it was, and I appreciate you trying to be
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  positive. It's just that we you know, we don't want to be close.
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  It's good teams. We want to beat good teams. We want to
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  beat every team. And so just for for me, for us, it's
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  so important to recognize, like you are that Yeah, there were some good
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  things early, but the key to being a good team is sustaining that.
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  And that's why I'm talking about capturing those moments where you know they're critical moments
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  in a game. It's you know, it's getting the ball in the end
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  zone to make it sixteen to ten, and then it's coming out and getting
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  the defensive stop instead of giving up a big play for a touchdown on you
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  know, those are the differences, and so we have to develop mental toughness.
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  We have to develop that competitive greatness, and then we've got to go
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  populate this team with guys that that that exhibit that that that have that inherently.
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  And you know that, like I said earlier, that's our quest,
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  that's our that's what we're after, and we're not going to stop and we're
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  not going to rest until we get there. And you know, we have
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  an opportunity because of the portal, and in the portal to me, doesn't
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  mean kicking guys out of here. The portal means we got a chance to
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  replace some guys that are going to graduate, some guys that have given a
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  ton to this program. But we got to go out and we've got to
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  be aggressive in the transfer portal and bring in some established players that can help
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  us immediately, that have that mental toughness, that have that competitive greatness.
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  And we talked about it briefly yesterday or last week, but we're in a
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  very much better position this year entering the portal season than we were last year
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  because we've gotten some very generous people that are behind this program that are willing
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  to adapt to the new world of college football, and so that's going to
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  enable us to go out and be competitive for some impact players that can help
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  us down the line. But I do, Mike, like you, I
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  do see the growth. I do see the positives. It's just really a
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  you know, it's tough to to be excited about that when you're one and
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  nine, but yeah, we see it, we acknowledge it, we we
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  we recognize it. But the goal is to is to win, and we
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  got to we gotta be better in those moments when when it really truly man,
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  it's it's all on the line. Yeah, I'm not listen like I
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  said, I'm talking about all of us have to be better in that situation.
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  I'm not talking about a particular player about me. Shoot, it all
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  starts right here, so uh yeah, that's disappointing this team. We're gonna
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  go quick break here in a moment, though, But the team going into
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  a game like that in the position you're in, you know, with the
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  eight losses, et cetera, and they're unbeaten. They haven't lost in a
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  long time. Just give me an idea of what what you guys were doing
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  in the locker room prior to that. I always wonder when you're up against
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  it like that, what do you get? What do you come up with
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  to get these guys thinking today's the day we're going to knock off these guys.
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  We've got a great group of young men that go into every game thinking
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  that they can win it, and they will win it if they execute and
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  play well and we all do what we're supposed to do. We got an
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  amazing group of young men that come back after a loss and and bounce back
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  and come back with a great attitude and a great work ethic and a great
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  mindset to you know, accept the next challenge. I saw that to.
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  You know, coming off the field today, you just feel it like,
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  Okay, they're back, they're ready for the next challenge. They want to
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  get better. You know, there's no hangdog. Look, there's nobody you
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  know with their dabber down. They're working, they're they're enthusiastic, they want
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  to get better. And you know, as a as a coach, when
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  you're around men like that, man, you know you feel this great responsibility
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  to them, and I do. Yeah. I was gonna say it's an
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  inspiration. It's probably a motivation. Not that you need any motivation, but
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  when you're around guys like that who respond despite what the record says, I
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  mean, that's a positive. I gotta feel that you feel like that too.
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  Well. We're going to continue with that. We're gonna talk about Sacred
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  Heart that's coming up on the weekend, the seniors who will be playing their
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  final home game this weekend. We're going to talk about our usual all of
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  the week that got under my skin maybe yours. Two. This is the
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  Yukon Football Coaches Show on lear Field