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Seg 2 - FB Show Nov 11 w Jim Mora · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: We're back with Jim Moore of the Yukon Football Coaches Show.
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  Speaker 2: Huskies go to.
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  Speaker 1: Seven and three with air Force at home Senior Day
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  Speaker 1: on the weekend Saturday Coach. Early in the season, we
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  Speaker 1: talked about this, Yukon hadn't been taking them all away,
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  Speaker 1: hadn't turned it over all year, which is a fabulous number.
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  Speaker 1: Only one fumble, but the takeaway category starting to be
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  Speaker 1: a factor now pretty much every week. Interceptions, fumble recoveries,
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  Speaker 1: and that combined with the home field, the juice that
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  Speaker 1: gets into a stadium, the energy from stuff like that
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  Speaker 1: is something you can really carry around with you can't you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, listen, I'm not typically cognizant of the
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  Speaker 2: crowd during a game because your focusing so much on
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  Speaker 2: what's happening on the field. But when your defense gets
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  Speaker 2: a big stop on fourth down, or they get a
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  Speaker 2: takeaway or there, you know, the offense is about our
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  Speaker 2: opponent's about to snap the ball, and the crowd comes
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  Speaker 2: to life because they recognize it's an important situation. I mean, listen,
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  Speaker 2: that's what home field advantage is, you know. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it's it's partnering with the crowd to make the environment
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  Speaker 2: really really difficult for your opponent and then take an
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  Speaker 2: advantage of it, you know, and then the energy that's
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  Speaker 2: created when you do get a stop or you do
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  Speaker 2: take the football away, and just how the crowd noise
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  Speaker 2: elevates and the excitement in the stadium increases and your
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  Speaker 2: players feel it. It's a partnership, you know. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it's me sound crazy, but it really is. And so
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  Speaker 2: just a fun environment. But you know, Bob, Bob, sorry, Mike, Mike,
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  Speaker 2: it's the number one critical variable to winning football games
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  Speaker 2: is turnover ratio, you know, and so you have to
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  Speaker 2: you have to hold the ball and hold on to
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  Speaker 2: the ball, and you have to try to take it away.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, that's just always a point emphasis for us.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it came to mind because that last play was
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  Speaker 1: a defensive stop and a turnover, because you lost three
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  Speaker 1: times on the road and I felt like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: their home crowd, even though Rice didn't have a lot
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  Speaker 1: of folks there, Delaware had a pretty good crowd and
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  Speaker 1: Syracuse too. I mean, it matters you have those home
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  Speaker 1: fans behind you, and then you get a little momentum
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  Speaker 1: and you're the visitor. It's tough to overcome that. I
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  Speaker 1: thought dude had trouble with that because they had the
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  Speaker 1: lead so many times in the game, but they couldn't
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  Speaker 1: finish it.
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  Speaker 2: I think they did. I think that, I think, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and I don't know how they feel, but I know
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  Speaker 2: how I feel is that as you went through that game,
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  Speaker 2: and like I said, I can't concentrate on the crowd
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  Speaker 2: per se, but you do feel them. Is like, I
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  Speaker 2: never felt like our players and I never felt like
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  Speaker 2: our crowd had any doubt. And I felt like our
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  Speaker 2: crowd realized that they were helping us win, they were
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  Speaker 2: helping us overcome, like you said, the deficits that we
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  Speaker 2: were facing in the second half, and that was pretty
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  Speaker 2: freaking awesome. Okay, I mean that was pretty freaking awesome,
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  Speaker 2: and it really matters, you know, And I tell you
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  Speaker 2: this that you know, after the game, we were driving
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  Speaker 2: home and Kathy said, I can't even believe the crowd
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  Speaker 2: and I go, yeah, they really came alive there at
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  Speaker 2: the end of the game. And he goes, she goes,
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  Speaker 2: you're crazy. She goes, they were incredible the whole game. Incredible.
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  Speaker 2: She goes, the band, the band was incredible the whole game.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, they were so into it, and I'm like, god,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I just I kind of noticed it that
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  Speaker 2: last drive. But she always, she always kind of gives
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  Speaker 2: me the vibe of the game, and she was like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, she said, it couldn't have been any better.
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  Speaker 2: It couldn't have been.
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  Speaker 1: An It sounded about the rent. I mean, you put
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  Speaker 1: thirty thousand in there. It sounds like fifty. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know why. It's just the way the acoustics are in
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  Speaker 1: that place. The takeaways obviously plus fourteen now number two
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  Speaker 1: in the country. That's valuable. But sometimes, coach, you got
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  Speaker 1: to make a call, and you did with a fake
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  Speaker 1: punch that Alex Hanig took twenty six yards for a
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  Speaker 1: big first down in the game. Is that a split
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  Speaker 1: second decision? I mean, did you sit there and go, oh,
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  Speaker 1: fourth down? All right, now we're going to try to
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  Speaker 1: fake punt. It's got to be a split second kind
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  Speaker 1: of a thought, isn't it.
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  Speaker 2: No. I mean, it's you have to make that decision
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  Speaker 2: in that instance, but you're thinking about it really throughout
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  Speaker 2: the game, Like when is the we know we have
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  Speaker 2: an opportunity here to convert a fake We felt like
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  Speaker 2: we had it if we wanted it. Versus particular looks,
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  Speaker 2: so you're trying to anticipate when they might give you
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  Speaker 2: the look that you want. It's something that we've worked
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  Speaker 2: on really all season, and so our players had a
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  Speaker 2: high degree of confidence that they'd make it work, that
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  Speaker 2: they'd execute, and the time just presented itself perfectly for
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  Speaker 2: us to go ahead and give it a shot. And
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  Speaker 2: our guys executed it. And that's just a credit to
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  Speaker 2: Doug Share, our special teams coordinator, and it's a huge
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  Speaker 2: credit to the players out on the field that made
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  Speaker 2: it happen. Like like I said, they owned that situation
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  Speaker 2: and they made it happen and it was pretty cool.
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  Speaker 2: And then you know, you see six foot six, two
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  Speaker 2: hundred and sixty eight pounds running at you, I don't
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  Speaker 2: think you're really anxious to tackle that. So Alex, Alex
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  Speaker 2: did a great job.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the uh that play was huge. It really was
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  Speaker 1: to me and I said this on the air. It
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  Speaker 1: was like you pushing your chips to the center of
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  Speaker 1: the table and telling the team we're here to win today.
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  Speaker 1: We're not here to play field position now, We're here
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  Speaker 1: to win. And it worked.
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  Speaker 2: It was one of those things, Mike, like you talked
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  Speaker 2: about you know, game management and knowing when I didn't
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  Speaker 2: want the game to get to a two score game,
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  Speaker 2: and I felt like at that point in time, had
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  Speaker 2: we punted, there was an opportunity because they had some momentum.
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  Speaker 2: Their quarterback was starting to play well, he's a damn
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  Speaker 2: good quarterback, but he was starting to really kind of
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  Speaker 2: catch fire. I was like, God, dang, cannot let it
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  Speaker 2: at this point in the game and get to a
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  Speaker 2: two score game. It's going to be really tough on
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  Speaker 2: us if it does. And it's like, okay, let's roll,
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  Speaker 2: and they gave us the look we wanted and executed
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  Speaker 2: it was it was. It was a nice, nice deal.
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  Speaker 1: Your offense we talked about Joe Fernano continues to spread
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  Speaker 1: it around, Jim, that is that's classic. I mean, when
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  Speaker 1: you can do that, that just puts so much pressure
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  Speaker 1: on defenses, doesn't it. Six receivers caught balls as Joe
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  Speaker 1: Fernano completed twenty seven passes.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know that's down for us. I think
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  Speaker 2: Mike you can correct me if I'm wrong, but I
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  Speaker 2: think UAB we had twelve different targets at least, so
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  Speaker 2: you know, six guys catching it. That's pretty good, but
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  Speaker 2: just you know through the year that our ability to
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  Speaker 2: spread the ball around and yet still see Skyler have
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  Speaker 2: the success that he's having. I think it says a
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  Speaker 2: lot about the creativity of the offense. But I also
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  Speaker 2: think it says a lot about Joe. Our offensive line,
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  Speaker 2: certainly our tight ends and backs blocking, but Joe and
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  Speaker 2: our receivers just developing a real chemistry amongst each other
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  Speaker 2: to have the confidence, Joe being able to read through
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  Speaker 2: progression and get it where it's supposed to go.
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  Speaker 1: And he had some pressure on him in that game.
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  Speaker 1: Duke got to him. I think three times it felt
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  Speaker 1: like early. We'll talk about that when we return Quick
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  Speaker 1: Time Out on the Yukon Football Coaches Show with Jim
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  Speaker 1: Moore on Liar Field