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Seg 2 - FB Show 9-29 w Jason Candle · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to UConn Football Coaches Show. Jason Candle with us.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Mike Crispino. Coach Jason, Caleb Osborne in this game
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  Speaker 1: against Miami, Ohio. Let's talk about that touchdown run first.
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  Speaker 1: You had the bird's eye view of it. I thought
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  Speaker 1: that was a great fake on the RPO and he
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  Speaker 1: sprints down the right sideline for a touchdown. That was
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  Speaker 1: an electrifying play.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I think you're in one of those
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  Speaker 2: situations where Yeah, it's fourth and one. You're trying to
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  Speaker 2: get the first down unless the extra defender gets nosy
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  Speaker 2: and puts his face in, you know, somewhere where it
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  Speaker 2: shouldn't be. And, you know, you pull the ball out
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  Speaker 2: of there and that's the result of it, right? And
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  Speaker 2: credit him to, you know, a really good fake and
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  Speaker 2: a good, really just a little bit of a slow
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  Speaker 2: turn in the mesh point there to grab that defender's
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  Speaker 2: attention and then, you know, create the space. And obviously,
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  Speaker 2: you know, when he gets out there, he's really hard
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  Speaker 2: to tackle. So, yeah, big play for there, especially at
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  Speaker 2: that time and, you know, being at fourth and one.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, 38-yarder for the score and a 14-0 lead. The
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  Speaker 1: offense with Osborne under a little pressure having to throw
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  Speaker 1: in that game, how does that impact a guy like him? Now,
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  Speaker 1: he's got some games under his belt, obviously, at Toledo
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  Speaker 1: last year and now here with UConn. A quarterback under
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  Speaker 1: pressure is going to make mistakes. It just happens. And
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  Speaker 1: keeping him clean and giving him time to throw, how
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  Speaker 1: far– Are you away from that with your offensive line play,
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  Speaker 1: would you say, based on what you saw this weekend?
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  Speaker 2: I think it's everything, right? I think it's the quarterback's
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  Speaker 2: ability to know when it is required of him to
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  Speaker 2: get it out of his hand. To me, quarterback sacks,
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  Speaker 2: that's a quarterback statistic. That's not an offensive line statistic.
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  Speaker 2: So they've got to understand. He's got to understand where
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  Speaker 2: his protection is at, when he can get it out
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  Speaker 2: of his hand quickly. they as in the offensive line
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  Speaker 2: got to do a better job of understanding when we're
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  Speaker 2: going to ask them to hold in there just a
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  Speaker 2: little bit longer, seeing the twists up front and seeing
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  Speaker 2: the movement that some of these defensive fronts are presenting.
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  Speaker 2: And then, you know, where's the running back piece of it?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, are you trying to get five out in
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  Speaker 2: the route or are you only trying to get three
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  Speaker 2: out in the route and there's really seven man protection?
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  Speaker 2: Like there's a happy medium there and more at bats
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  Speaker 2: we have, the better off we're going to be. But
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  Speaker 2: in the short term, you know, we've got to protect
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  Speaker 2: better and we've got to get the ball out on time.
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  Speaker 2: In the long term, you know, we're going to start
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  Speaker 2: to see more continuity and more rhythmic passing as time
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  Speaker 2: passes by and the more these guys are together with
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  Speaker 2: one another. So, you know, our completion percentage was down
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  Speaker 2: a little bit. You know, success percentage or success rate
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  Speaker 2: in the passing game just wasn't, you know, what it
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  Speaker 2: needed to be. You know, but we threw it 32 times.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you just, you're not, you know, we hit
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  Speaker 2: some explosive, but we weren't ever really in rhythm in
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  Speaker 2: the passing game.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. late in the game, the interception that Caleb threw.
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  Speaker 1: He was running right. He threw back to his left,
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  Speaker 1: as I recall it.
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  Speaker 2: Ill-advised?
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  Speaker 1: How would you describe that? He was trying to make
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  Speaker 1: a play. I understand that. Competitors try to do that.
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  Speaker 1: Is that the kind of thing where you'd rather see
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  Speaker 1: him just get rid of it?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think that's like making a left turn into
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  Speaker 2: oncoming traffic. You know, you may get by one time and...
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  Speaker 2: but the next time it's going to be fatal. So,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you, you gotta do a good job and
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  Speaker 2: you have to understand, you know, where, what the situation
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  Speaker 2: calls for and what to do with the ball. One
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  Speaker 2: of those times that I think that, Hey, look like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, protection and where my rhythm and where the
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  Speaker 2: timing is, is, is everything. You know, you get into
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  Speaker 2: pressure situations, good defensive coordinators, aren't going to sit and
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  Speaker 2: drop eight on you. They're going to pressure you. So,
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  Speaker 2: you've got to have the proper timing on your drop.
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  Speaker 2: You've got to have the proper footwork there. You've got
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  Speaker 2: to have your eyes in the right place to see,
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  Speaker 2: you know, where the read is going to require you
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  Speaker 2: to take the football. And, again, as I mentioned, the
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  Speaker 2: longer this goes, the better he's going to be prior
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  Speaker 2: to the ball being snapped and the more rhythmic and
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  Speaker 2: the more anticipation you're going to see once the ball
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  Speaker 2: is in his hands. And when that stuff starts to click,
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  Speaker 2: it's going to look really, really good.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a learning process. I mean, I've been following–
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  Speaker 1: sports for almost 50 years, but I remember the Phil
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  Speaker 1: Sims back in the eighties with the giants early on
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  Speaker 1: throwing the ball, trying to make every completion and not
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  Speaker 1: making them, you know, and then Bill Parcells all over
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  Speaker 1: him saying, get rid of it, throw it away. Don't
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  Speaker 1: get us in trouble. And he finally learned it took
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  Speaker 1: Phil like a year, almost two years of, you know,
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  Speaker 1: taking his lumps. But then he became like the guy that,
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  Speaker 1: really never made a bad play as a quarterback. It's,
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  Speaker 1: it's an education process is what I'm getting at.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's a, it's a, it's an education process. It's
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  Speaker 2: like getting in the car and driving without ever taking
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  Speaker 2: the written part of it. Right. I mean, you just,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you got to learn, you know, that's just,
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  Speaker 2: there's no substitute for real football. And unfortunately, you know,
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  Speaker 2: with what, how you practice and how you have to practice,
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  Speaker 2: you don't, you don't get a lot of chances to
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  Speaker 2: hit the quarterback and practice. And, you know, I'd be
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  Speaker 2: the dumbest guy alive to have that guy get hurt
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  Speaker 2: on a Tuesday practice. So, you know, you gotta try
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  Speaker 2: to simulate it the best you can. And then, you know, and,
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  Speaker 2: and along with that comes with some, you know, some
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  Speaker 2: mistakes on Saturday and with that comes some really good
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  Speaker 2: plays too. So, you know, we're trying to eliminate the
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  Speaker 2: negative ones and trying to highlight the positive ones and
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  Speaker 2: try to find out ways to get more of them.
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  Speaker 1: You know, getting back to the game for a quick
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  Speaker 1: second here, coach, uh, Second quarter, Miami, Ohio got their
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  Speaker 1: offense going. David McComb was throwing the ball, and the
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  Speaker 1: Huskies didn't get a lot of pressure on him. I
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  Speaker 1: think there was one quarterback hurry in the game. Was
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  Speaker 1: that part of the turning point of the game in
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  Speaker 1: your mind? Because he got in a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: a rhythm there. He got in a groove, and I
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  Speaker 1: felt like he was just standing around looking for receivers
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  Speaker 1: and finding them all over the place, and that kind
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  Speaker 1: of turned the momentum, it looked like, in the game.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, good quarterback. He's going to make some plays.
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  Speaker 2: The receivers helped them out. You know, there's a couple
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  Speaker 2: extended one-handed catches in there in the second quarter that
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  Speaker 2: I thought were back-breaking plays. But, you know, again, I
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  Speaker 2: still think it's about our response and being able to
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  Speaker 2: overcome those. And, you know, like the interception that wasn't
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  Speaker 2: an interception I thought was a massive play. We're going
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  Speaker 2: to have the ball at the 26-yard line with two
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  Speaker 2: minutes of change left, up seven with the ball going
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  Speaker 2: in before half. And, you know– it goes the other way. They,
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  Speaker 2: they call pass interference and the very next play, we,
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  Speaker 2: we give up an explosive pass. So you, that went
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  Speaker 2: from what could have been for that young man's mental
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  Speaker 2: makeup to man, we caught a break in the very
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  Speaker 2: next play, man, I got, I got positive momentum out
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  Speaker 2: of it. So it goes from potentially being 21 to seven.
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  Speaker 2: So now it's 14 to 14 and you you're, you're
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  Speaker 2: in for all you can ask for. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. That, It's interesting how a 60-minute game with all
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  Speaker 1: those plays, 150 snaps, and one little play or penalty
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  Speaker 1: that gets called and turns something around can change the momentum.
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  Speaker 1: And we're going to talk a little bit later to
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  Speaker 1: Matt Reagan, the tight end, about that and player response
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  Speaker 1: to that stuff. Is that something that you think about
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  Speaker 1: when you're working with your team this week and All right, guys,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to have adversity. How are we going to respond?
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  Speaker 1: Because you've got a big game coming up. You've got
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  Speaker 1: a regional rival coming in here from the ACC in Syracuse.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's everything. And I don't really care if it's
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  Speaker 2: good or bad. I mean, I don't want to paint
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  Speaker 2: the picture that I'm complaining about penalties and making excuses
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  Speaker 2: about penalties or things that aren't. That has nothing to
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  Speaker 2: do with it. It has everything to do with the response.
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  Speaker 2: You know, an official throws a flag, he's not going
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  Speaker 2: to pick it up, put it back in his pocket
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  Speaker 2: and say, sorry. It is what it is. So play
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  Speaker 2: the next play. Yeah. Play the next play, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and move on. And I'm talking about coaches, too. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you know, that interception, it was an interception. You look
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  Speaker 2: at our sideline and, you know, we got everybody in
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  Speaker 2: our programs like arms up in the air like, man,
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  Speaker 2: I can't believe he called that. Well, he did. And
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't matter. So, you know, we can sit and
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  Speaker 2: put our head, you know, where we can get back
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  Speaker 2: to the line of scrimmage and get a call, play
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  Speaker 2: the play and make it right, because you're going to
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  Speaker 2: have plenty of opportunities to make it right, whether the
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  Speaker 2: last one was good, bad or ugly.
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  Speaker 1: Before we take a break and go to talk about
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  Speaker 1: Syracuse and other things, the special teams, we talked a
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  Speaker 1: lot about that before the game. And we're going to
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  Speaker 1: talk to Tommy Warner, your punter, a little bit later
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  Speaker 1: on about that. That was pretty important, the way you
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  Speaker 1: kept the ball away on the kickoffs, the way he punted.
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  Speaker 1: It kind of kept Miami, Ohio's special teams not being
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  Speaker 1: a factor.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's an organization that prides themselves on being really
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  Speaker 2: good in the kicking game. And, you know, if it
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  Speaker 2: wasn't for the kickoff out of bounds and the penalty
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  Speaker 2: on the, you You know, whatever. If you don't have
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  Speaker 2: the kickoff out of bounds, you probably win the hidden
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  Speaker 2: yardage battle by a good margin. And that's the only
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  Speaker 2: really way to say, hey, you won the game in
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  Speaker 2: the kicking game. You look at the hidden yardage, and
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  Speaker 2: as long as there wasn't any explosives either way, you know.
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  Speaker 2: So in a long story short, that unit did what
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  Speaker 2: it needed to do to help us win the game.
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  Speaker 2: Would I wish we'd have made the field goal at
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  Speaker 2: the end of half? Yeah. You know, but they missed
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  Speaker 2: one to hit the crossbar, too. You know, it's just
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  Speaker 2: kind of back and forth.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: You know, if you can play that part of it
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  Speaker 2: even and your defense only gives up 24 points in
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  Speaker 2: today's day and age, in my opinion, you should win
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  Speaker 2: the football game. Score more points. Right.
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  Speaker 1: No, listen, I think I've been saying this for a
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  Speaker 1: few seasons now. You've got to hit the 30. If
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  Speaker 1: you get the 30, you pretty much can win every week.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Jason Candle with us. We're back with more.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to talk about Syracuse, that upcoming game this weekend.
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  Speaker 1: That's a big one, noon kick at the rent when
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  Speaker 1: we continue with the UConn Football Coaches Show on Learfield.