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Segment 6 - FB Show w Jackson Mitchell Nov 21 · Coaches Corner

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  Up next, you got UMass Saturday twelve noon and Amherst ten point thirty.
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  The pre game, the Hard Auto Group come down to kick off long dupon
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  Sports Network and online via the Varsity Network App and Varsitynetwork dot Com. We
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  wrap up the show with Jackson Mitchell, one of the Huskies captains, as
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  Yukon goes back to Amherst and Jax, I know you were a part of
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  it last time the Huskies were in Amherst and they celebrated, ran all over
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  the field, storm the field because they hadn't won in so long. I
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  don't want to bring back a bad memory, but man, that was a
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  bad memory for me. I gotta say, yeah, it definitely sucked.
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  I remember that game because you know, that year we were struggling. Also,
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  you know, coach Etzel had left and we had our interim coach,
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  and so the year was already going tough for us, and then to lose
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  a game that we thought we were going to win. I think that was
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  gonna be our first wing. That was right before the Yale game, so
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  that definitely hurt. I do remember them storming the field and the band was
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  playing like until we got on the buses. And left they were still playing.
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  So definitely want to go in there and win this game because it's a
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  big game for you know, the Northeast, but also just us and then
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  kind of play every year and go back and forth. You never want to
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  lose that game. Yeah, the images like of those things, they just
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  stick in your mind sometimes Jackson Mitchell with us. Where's number eight? Of
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  course? Six two two thirty five. One thing I want to ask you
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  about that two thirty five is the listed weight for you? Do you lose
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  weight as the season goes on or how does that work? Yeah? Definitely
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  two thirty five is probably like when I show up and report for camp at
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  the beginning of the season, so way back at the beginning of August.
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  By this time of year, like I'm probably down to two thirty maybe like
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  two twenty eight, twenty nine. But you definitely try to keep your your
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  weight up and your muscles up, especially as you get later in the season
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  and try to go further. Yeah. One of the things about you is
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  you're always available, I mean, playing every game of the season. That's
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  that's important as a football player in my mind, and obviously for the coaching
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  staff, they love to know they got you, You're gonna be there in
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  the middle of everything. Do you pride yourself on that kind of thing?
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  Yeah, I learned early on as a young guy, like it's important to
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  take care of your body, not just after you play a game or anything,
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  but during the week and do prehab to make sure that you're preventing injuries
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  from occurring. And obviously we play a violent game, so like things are
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  gonna come up, You're gonna be soorry, you're gonna be banged up throughout
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  the season, but doing your best to just get treatment and take care of
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  your body so you can be there and play on the field and perform.
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  Yeah, it's important obviously to be availed to be able to play. And
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  also the role is captain. I mean you you're out there, they're taking
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  to coin tosses, but you're also amongst your players every day, practice,
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  game time, halftimes. Do you feel like there's a sense of need in
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  some ways for you to be speaking up on certain terms and certain issues when
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  things come up with your team. Uh, yeah, I think so.
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  I think there's a time and the place for talking. I try to lead
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  with my actions one hundred percent of the time and when things you know,
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  you can kind of get a feel, especially when you've been around a team
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  for so long and kind of you're the leader of the team. You have
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  a good hand on the post kind of of what the team is going like,
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  and you can kind of feel when things are off and something needs to
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  be said, or you can just tell the way people are acting that maybe
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  something needs to be said. But I really try to limit how much I
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  talk because I feel like guys will listen more. But you know, the
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  less you talk is when you speak up, it just means more. Yeah,
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  I agree with you. Last year Buckets Awards semi finalists, New England
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  Football Writers All New England Player for you and then this year the Chuck Bednark
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  and the Bucks watch List. When you're recognized like that, is there extra
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  responsibility in some ways for you to like bring it one hundred and ten percent
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  every single time because you know everyone's watching. Yeah, definitely. I think
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  just for this team to be successful and for the defense to be successful,
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  you know, like the best players got to perform and play well, which
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  at times I feel like we might have struggled with this year. But it's
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  important that like the guys, especially the guys are starting and getting you know,
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  I play every step on deepfense, so it's important that I'm performing at
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  the best of my ability because I'm on the field, you know, for
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  every snap, and it helps defense the more I perform, get turnovers,
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  make tackles, that type of thing. So so it's definitely an extra responsibility,
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  but it's something you're not trying. You don't try to think about too
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  much. Yeah, you bounce back. The team held the Sacred Heart out
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  of the end zone after a couple tough weeks. That's been part of the
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  difficult season you've had. You've had all those close games. It could have
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  gone your way. I mean, theoretically, you could be playing for a
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  bowl game here. I mean to me, you could have five wins,
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  but you don't. So what's the motivation going into this last game? What
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  are you trying to prove here as a Yukon football team. I think the
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  first thing is just like U Mass, you know, they we compete with
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  them all the time, We put them every season, like I said,
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  and you know, we want to make sure that you know we know where
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  we stand with them, and that you know we can we win the game.
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  And you know, just play. Being in the Northeast and a team
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  that plays every year, you know, you kind of want to win that
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  game and make sure they know where they stand and where we stand. Then
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  just as an individual, I think, you know, this is my last
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  college game ever, so you definitely want to go out on a high note
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  with a win and remember, you know, your last game being a win
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  and just you know, continuing on and understanding that like through adversity, that
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  doesn't mean you kind of can just give up for the team, you know,
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  like you got to keep fighting and try to win those games regardless of
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  the record. Yeah, that's a great example to set, no question.
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  But one of my highlights this year was your fumble recovery run back against Rice.
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  I didn't even think it was a fumble. I thought it might have
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  been a forward pass. But I guess that's the classic. You got to
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  play until you hear a whistle, Is that right? Because you picked it
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  up and you knew and you ran all the way you know, down a
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  field and I'm thinking, man, it looked like a forward pass, but
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  anyway, good news, he's in the end zone. Yeah. I never
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  really know on those types of things because it happened against UMass last year actually
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  too, and when that happens, I kind of did run and try to
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  pick it up. Like this week, in very sacred heart, I tried
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  to do the same thing. I fumbled around with it, but I got
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  on it. But you know, you just try to scoop it up,
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  and in practice, that's something that you practice every week, Like, if
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  the ball's there, just scoop it up, no matter what, because you
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  never know what the rest are gonna call, you know, so just scoop
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  it up and run and if there's no whistle, just keep you going running,
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  yeah, and then start celebrating. Right In high school, you had
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  the ball in your hands a lot. I mean we've talked about this before.
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  You had eighty catches as a junior at fourteen touchdowns, so you're used
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  to having the ball in your hands. That's a little unusual as a linebacker.
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  Yeah, it is. I wouldn't say I feel like I lost my
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  touch a little bit. You know where I was, you know, getting
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  the ball every single almost every single play in high school. So definitely it
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  feels a little bit different now getting the ball. But I just try to
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  fly around to the ball and you know that's that's how you win the game.
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  You're getting your offense more positions and stopping them from scoring. So just
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  fly around to the ball. If the ball is on the ground, try
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  to get on it. And if you just run to the ball, you'll
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  get turnovers for sure. Yeah, that's one of the keys. When you
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  guys have gotten turnovers this year in the rice game perfect example, four of
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  those are turnovers. I don't want to say happenstance, but they do.
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  They happen coincidentally when you're playing good positional football or is there luck involved in
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  it? I think it's both. I think when you're playing really really hard,
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  you know, flying around, being physical, that's when the ball will
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  come out because multiple guys are in on the tackle. Then someone can kind
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  of punch the ball out and that's just kind of effort. And then you
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  know there there will be times where you do make a good play and maybe
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  you think you can jump around and you make a good break on the ball
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  and the dB can jump around and get an interception. That type of thing.
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  So I think it goes both ways. But also knowing your keys and
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  being prepared, it happens, you know, starting Monday, where you're watching
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  a lot of film and you know what's happening, so when the game comes,
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  you kind of know what's coming. And that's kind of where you can
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  get those fumbles or those big hits that cause the you know, the fumbles,
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  and then it's a big part of the game, there's no question.
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  But well, I got to tell you there's been a pleasure covering you over
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  the last few years. We love the way you're playing, and we're going
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  to be there Saturday, and when we work walking off that field with a
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  victory, I'm gonna be celebrating. Give you up here in recovering somewhere,
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  all right, I appreciate it. Thank you very much. That's Jackson Mitchell
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  and thanks to Coach Gimore and Kyrie Chicks and Well for joining us on this
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  week suggestion to the Uton Football Coaching show, Husky's going at it with UMass
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  and Amber Well. Noon kicked. Let's get some Husky fans up there in
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  the stands ten to thirty the three game of the Hard Older Good you content
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  to kick off. I'm Mike Rispino. Thanks to Jackson Mitchell and the rest
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  of the crew for joining us this weekend. We will talk to you Saturday
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  at UMass beginning at ten thirty for the three game. See you then,