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Seg 3 - FB Show Coach Mora Sept 12 · Coaches Corner

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  Football Huskies open a three game homestamp Saturday against FIU kick off three thirty tickets
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  available for the game, all remaining home games as well at ukon tickets dot
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  com Ukon Huskies Football. Join us for the reload. And one other thing
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  about the tickets. You can get these two game flex packs, which I
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  think is a great idea. They get these three great games coming up here
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  in September at home by two tickets, two games worth the tickets and get
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  in back to back weeks. I've had people asking me about that, and
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  I know the ticket office working hard to get, you know, people to
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  get on the bandwagon here and support this team. Had a great crowd for
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  the opener against NC State. Obviously want to bring that same crowd back for
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  FIU. We're with Jammuram, Mike Chrispino. Turnovers. We talked about the
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  penalties, turnovers. They seem to be coming it inopportune times, a fumble
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  punt in that Georgia State game, and obviously when when the result isn't what
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  you're hoping for in terms of winning, those things really stick out. What
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  do you do about it? Though? Can you can you say, well,
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  we got to eliminate them obviously, but I wonder how you practice that
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  stuff. Well, we constantly emphasize ball security. It's the first thing we
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  do at the start of spring your training camp and spring ball as we teach
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  ball security and work on it. You know, the first fumble really hurt
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  us. It was a third and long. We pick up enough yarders get
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  us into fourth and one in scoring position. We'd have gone for it,
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  probably got it. Instead we fumble. They get it. Now, our
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  defense goes out and gets to stop. Actually didn't get a stop. We
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  get the ball back on a fumble, and then we miss a field goal.
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  So you know, we had an opportunity there to at least put six
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  up on the board and we got nothing out of it. And that's not
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  okay obviously. You know Brett, who's very sure handed, muffing that punt
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  is very characteristic. You know, put our defense in a tough spot,
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  but we've got to respond. And then you know, the last one,
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  it's into the game and trying to make something happen and you throw the interception
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  and they got nothing out of that. So we were two for three and
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  sudden change on defense and getting stops after takeaways which is good. The problem
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  is is that every time you get you know, you give the ball away.
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  You know, you're eliminating it possible or a potential for yourselves to get
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  a touchdown or a field goal, or flip the field and field position.
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  You're giving the opponent another opportunity. So you stress ball security, you know,
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  constantly stress ball security. When you're we're in stretch, the running backs
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  have ball in their hand, you know, every drill they do, their
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  balls being punched at, trying to get it out. Defensive players are constantly
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  pulling on the ball, tugging on the ball, emphasizing ball security. Four
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  point actually five points of pressure. And you know what to do when you
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  get in traffic. So you know, you drill it, you emphasize it,
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  you practice it, you emphasize it some more, and and that's really
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  all you can do, you know. I mean, we don't ask our
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  players to take a football back to their room and sleep with it. We're
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  gonna ask our players to carry football around the class. I think that would
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  probably look pretty silly, But you know, every time I look out on
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  the field, there's guys out there getting extra working with a football in their
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  hands. So that's that's a positive. Let's get back to the injury thing
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  for just a minute. Alexhnik Uh knock knocked out of the game making a
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  block down. Feel what's his status? How did he come out of that?
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  Uh, it's still being evaluated. He's out for this week. I
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  don't think they have a clear picture yet because of the swelling. But it's
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  certainly not you know, it's not going to be a quick fix. You
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  know, he's going to be out for you know, an extended amount of
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  time. I can't tell you how long I know this. He's he's you
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  know, he's a guy that's gonna work his butt off to get back on
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  the field. I mean, he's going to live in that training room.
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  But I don't think that they have a clear picture yet. I don't think
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  they can get a clear picture yet of exactly what the damage is in there.
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  So when we get that, then then we'll have a much more clear
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  idea of what, you know, the processes for hitting getting him back on
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  the field. Yeah, good news is you got depth of course in that
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  tight end room. And how about Malik Dixon Williams. He's back out on
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  the field with you and obviously he was on the sidelines. Couldn't play on
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  Saturday night? What do you make of his status? Could he play this
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  weekend? He looked good in practice today, and you know, we just
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  have to see how I progresses during the week. I want to see if
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  he swells up at all tomorrow or he saw tomorrow. But you know,
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  based off what I saw today, you know, I think that there's a
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  chance he'll be available for us, which would be a good thing. The
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  guys are he's a really good player and very dependable and has great hands,
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  and is a good tackler and communicates well on all the things you want safeties
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  to do, little X and O thing here. We're going to talk to
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  Stan Cross a little bit later on. He replaced Malik Dixon Williams in the
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  last game. Free safety versus strong safety. You're a dB by nature.
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  Explain that to our listeners because you know, people ask me, well,
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  what's there's two safeties? Which guy does what job? So can you plain
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  that to us? It's different in every system, you know, Like I've
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  been in systems where the strong safety always lines up to the tight end because
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  that's the run strength. They're the strong safety is the guy that you want
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  down kind of as they say in the box, fitting on the run,
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  and the free safety is more of the you know, the guy that plays
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  the middle and romes back there. I've been in systems where the strong safety
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  lines up to the strength of the formation, the passing strength, and the
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  free safety lines up opposite. You know, I've been in systems where they're
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  just left and right safeties. You know, you call them strong and free
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  just because everyone wants you to call them strong and free. You know,
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  if you look at FIU this week, they call theirselves they got a boundary
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  safety and they got a field safety. So you know, boundary free safety,
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  field strong safety. So you know, it's it's different in every in
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  every system. To me, you just want to have two really good safeties
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  that have versatility, that can cover, that can work on in space.
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  It can come up and tackle. And I think you know you're gonna you
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  said you're gonna talk to Stan. I think Stan kind of fits that Bill.
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  You know, Stan's good back deep, he'd come up and can cover
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  a third wide out, he can cover a tight end, he'll fit well
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  in the run, and he has a lot of versatility, which is one
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  of the things that I've always looked for in the safety is versatility. All
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  right, back with Jim Moore just a moment, we're gonna get into FIU
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  as we continue this the Yukon Football Coaches Show on Learfield