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Seg 2 - FB Show Jim Mora Sept 26 · Coaches Corner

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  Up next for the football Huskies the Aggies of Utah State at Bratton Witney Stadium.
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  Network coverage begins at ten thirty in the morning. That's right, Get
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  up and get ready with Bob Joyce and the Hard Auto Group. Countdown to
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  kickoff. Game is on at twelve noon here along the Yukon Sports Networking online
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  be the Varsity Network app and the Varsity Network dot Com. Back with Jim
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  Mora, a Yukon coming off a loss to Duke forty one seven. Jim
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  in that game and the field position for Duke was tremendous, And I know
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  you get in these games and obviously there's so many factors that are involved in
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  winning and losing, but that one was notable to me. They had three
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  drives at starting at midfield or in Ukon territory. Two of their drives were
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  at their own thirty seven and the forty yard line, and then one,
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  of course, that the Yukon tent. I mean, you put a team
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  in field position like that, a team of that quality, I mean you're
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  asking for trouble. Yeah, it's tough sled when that happened, and then
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  you know they also had a scoop and score touchdown. So yeah, you
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  know we here's what needs to happen is Number one, when we kick the
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  ball or punt the ball, we need to do a better job of placing
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  the ball where it's supposed to be placed, and our coverage units need to
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  do a better job of getting down there making tackles. We're giving up too
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  many yards in our punt return game and in our kickoff return game to be
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  quite frankly, quite frank Number two, we need to do a better job
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  on defense of getting some takeaways and giving our offense field position. And I
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  know you just mentioned their field position, but we can help our offense with
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  field position as well, both through our return game and our defense getting some
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  takeaways. And in number three, we got to sustain some drives and and
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  you know, pin some people back down in there with some really good punts.
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  I think George is a good punter who's able to put it down inside
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  the ten on a regular basis if we can give him a chance, you
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  know, at least get around midfield if we have to punt. So yeah,
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  I mean field position. You know, it's kind of like it's it's
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  a it's a hidden a hidden number at times, but it is so important
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  to winning a football game and then capitalizing on that field position, because when
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  we have good field position, we gotta we gotta be able to put points
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  on the board. And uh, yeah, that's that's a that's an issue.
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  That's an issue. I can't I can't can't sugarcoat it at all.
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  Yeah. Uh, the rush game, one hundred and forty six in the
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  game, but fifty seven yards tackles for loss. That is something that will
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  kind of diffuse your running game. I don't know why it happened. Maybe
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  you looked at all the tape. Obviously you saw some things. How would
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  you explain that, I mean, Duke was getting into the backfield and getting
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  some tax Yeah, here's how it. Here's how I explain it is.
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  Uh, we had the reverse that we fumbled, so that was minus fifteen
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  and then every sack comes off your rush yardage. That was is what I
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  noticed immediately after the game, Mike was one hundred and forty six yards gained,
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  but forty six or like you said, fifty seven yards lost like that,
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  that was that was an outlier to me. I hadn't really been involved
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  in anything like that, and I don't know that that happens very often.
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  So we can't have we can't have negative plays. We can't fumble on,
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  we can't get you know, cop behind the line on a reverse, we
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  can't fumble on the little option to Brian Domino that costs us fifteen yards.
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  So and then, like I said, every set for some reason in college
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  football, and I don't know the answer, I don't really care, but
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  every sack goes against your rush yards rather than your pass yardage in the NFL,
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  and what would make sense if it's a pass play and you get sacked,
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  that should come off your pass yardage, not off your rush yardage.
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  So that one's kind of interesting, but it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter
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  to me. It's just it's interesting thing to me. So you gotta sometimes
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  look beyond the yards and figure out you know exactly what happens, and we
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  know what happened. We had, we had too many negative plays. A
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  couple of guys were banged up. You didn't have DeVante Houston froment of the
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  game, and Eric Watts left with a bit of an injury. Can you
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  get us an update on that? Where are those guys at and are you
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  hopeful they're going to be able to play full time this weekend. Yeah,
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  I'm hopeful, but you know, I mean, we'll see when we get
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  closer to the game, we'll see what transpires. And it's like with all
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  our players, you know, you want them to play. You want to
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  make sure that they're mentally and physically and those things go together prepared to play.
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  Sometimes guys coming off injuries, you know, there's a mental hurdle that
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  they have to get over in order to play, you know, especially at
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  this age when they're still learning their limitations. So we just have to be
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  really smart with all of our players that are nicked up in terms of may
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  can sure that we make the right decision for them. And we have a
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  tremendous medical staff, tremendous athletic training group, and I rely heavily on them
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  and trust what they tell me in terms of if a guy's ready to play
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  or not a little later in the show, we're gonna talk with defensive back
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  Mumu bin Wahadu. I had to sit out the first half of the Duke
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  game, played in the second half, and I'm going to talk to him
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  about that targeting penalty that took him out of a game. For Yukon,
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  and we had another one in the duke game with the Jackson Mitchell and that
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  took some of the air out of the balloon, I thought, because obviously
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  he's such a lynchpin player on defense. I don't know what to say about
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  it. On the air, I said some terrible things, and I know
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  you were set. I kind of lost it, but it was it was
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  beyond befuddling that at first it was not targeting, and then someone somewhere called
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  the referee on the field and told him to look at it again and then
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  told him to turn it into targeting and disqualify a player. I mean,
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  I get upset when I see stuff like that. Yeah, me too.
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  I think that it would be great if the NCAA could look at the way
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  that that rule is interpreted and the penalties that are attached to it. I
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  think if it's an egregious air, if a player is obviously you know,
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  going in there and launching and dropping his head and hitting someone on the crown
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  of his helmet hard, then the consequences should be, you know, they
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  should be harsh. But I think if it's just a football play, like
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  mum, that was just a football play, Jackson, that was just a
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  football play. I think that kicking a young man out of a game at
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  this point in his career, where his opportunities to play are so limited and
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  when it's just a football play, I think that's a little harsh. You
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  know, enforced the penalty if you must, but don't kick him out if
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  it's The NFL didn't kick guys out of the games anymore for that stuff.
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  They penalize them, and they find them. We can't find college players obviously,
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  although maybe we can now that the Nils and effect. I don't know,
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  we'll see how that works. But I just think eliminating a guy for
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  what's just really a common football play is a little bit harsh. So,
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  you know, it's my hope that the decision makers at the NCAA level listen
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  to coaches, you know, men that have played the game, have coached
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  the game, that are around these young men every day, and take our
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  advice in terms of what should be an ejection and what should just be a
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  penalty and continue to play. But I don't know that that will happen or
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  not. I hope it does. Yeah, having been on the officiating side
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  of things myself and a couple other spwards, yeah, baseball and basketball.
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  But I know a lot of football officials too, And one thing I have
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  noticed, you know, it's a little bit political the way these officials are
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  assigned to think. So my feeling is sometimes officials make calls based on they
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  don't want someone to not be happy about what they did on the fields,
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  who might be assigning them the following ten weeks. So I feel like there's
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  extra pressure on officials sometimes to do things by the book or whatever you want
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  to call it. But having said that, coach, I watched twenty games
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  this weekend. I saw hits like Jackson Mitchell's, like moving bin Wahad.
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  I saw that ten times at least in the twenty games that I watched this
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  weekend, and none of those were flagged. Yeah, those are just football
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  plays, you know, And like the officials, it wasn't the officials.
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  If it's close, they got to drop the flag. That's their job.
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  It's when they take the game off the field, they take it to the
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  replay booth, and then they take it to you know, the conference office,
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  and then they they they kind of foul up the procedure in the office
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  for whatever reason, and they have their reasons. That's when it's frustrating,
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  you know. Now, the director of officials for the ACC is a guy
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  named Al Riveron, who I have tremendous respect for and I think he's really
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  good. He was in the NFL for a long time and you know,
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  he officiated mini games that I've you know, been a part of, and
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  I think he's really really good. I think they just, you know,
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  from a mechanic standpoint, they didn't get it right, and it's unfortunate,
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  you know, but I can tell you this, it really honestly, you
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  can't say that it had a huge impact on the game. If it was
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  late in the game and the guy that came in for him didn't play,
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  well, then that'd be one thing. But you know that wasn't the case.
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  So we just gotta we just gotta make sure that we're doing it exactly
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  right and that we're aware that the burden lies on the defensive player. And
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  that is the fact. The burden does lie on the defensive player. So
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  without saying the word, we have to be careful. We have to be
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  aware of how things are being called, and we have to adjust because at
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  this point in time, right now, the NCAA is not going to adjust
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  to us. They're not going to now. Maybe they will in the future,
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  but right now, they're not going to. Yes, it's it's a
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  tough play for any defensive player running forty yards and four seconds, trying to
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  make a decision in the last split second. I'm I hit a guy.
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  I mean almost said that. He'll say that to us later in the show,
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  and I think it's a tough spot to put a defensive player in.
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  All right, we'll take a quick time out back with the Jim Moore Yukon
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  Football Coach. We'll get to kicking and quarterbacking and day and the life stuff
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  to talk about. So stay with us. This is the Yukon Football Coaches
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