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Seg 3 - FB Show Sept 23 Jim Mora · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: Well back with Jim morro the Yukon Football Coaches Show
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  Speaker 1: on Mike Chrispin or The other thing coach I wanted
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  Speaker 1: to mention on offense was all the wide receiver screens
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  Speaker 1: that we were seeing in the game against ball State. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: Skyler Bell made a bundle of catches, I think one
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  Speaker 1: shy of his career high in a game. There was
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  Speaker 1: a lot of that. Does that go into the idea
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  Speaker 1: of like maybe spreading out the defense as well and
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  Speaker 1: opening up some opportunities for Skyler Bell to run after catch?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure. You know, it's kind of like I
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  Speaker 2: said in the last segment, when you can spread a
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  Speaker 2: team vertically and horizontally, it's going to be to your
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  Speaker 2: advantage as an offensive team, making them cover as much
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  Speaker 2: space as they can. And then we've got some guys
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  Speaker 2: out there that are willing to block, you know, out
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  Speaker 2: on the perimeter, which is not something you see out
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  Speaker 2: of every team in football. And it's a selflessness that
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  Speaker 2: I really appreciate. And then we've got some guys that
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  Speaker 2: can make people miss and get yards out there. So
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  Speaker 2: and then another thing, Mike, is some of that stuffs
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  Speaker 2: an RPO game, you know, a run pass option game.
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  Speaker 2: You know, if there's a certain look, you're going to
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  Speaker 2: give the ball, and if there's a different look, you're
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  Speaker 2: going to throw it out there and just try to
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  Speaker 2: get five or six, seven, eight yards. So it's a
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  Speaker 2: big part of our offense and it's really become something
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  Speaker 2: that you see a lot in college football. You know,
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  Speaker 2: that ability to kind of spread the field, run the
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  Speaker 2: ball one way if it's there, and if not, pull
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  Speaker 2: it and throw it the other way to you know,
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  Speaker 2: to space where you have numbers.
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  Speaker 1: Defensively, Now, you mentioned it after the game, you weren't
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  Speaker 1: happy with the two minute defense. Late in the game.
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  Speaker 1: They drove it down and we're able to score and
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  Speaker 1: we'll talk about that touchdown in a second, but that
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  Speaker 1: you get kind of caught in between. I'm thinking as
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  Speaker 1: a defensive unit, knowing you've got a two touchdown lead,
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  Speaker 1: there's very little time for the opposition to put anything
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  Speaker 1: together to come back and steal the game from you.
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  Speaker 1: But you're kind of caught in between. How do we
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  Speaker 1: play that, Do we play prevent, do we play aggressive?
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  Speaker 1: What do we do? And boll State took advantage and
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  Speaker 1: they drove it down the field and put point on
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  Speaker 1: the board late in that game. I know you weren't
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  Speaker 1: pleased with that.
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  Speaker 2: No, it wasn't And we don't have a prevent defense.
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  Speaker 2: It's like that word to me, it's always been a
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  Speaker 2: really bothersome word to me as a defensive coach, you know,
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  Speaker 2: is like prevent defense. The only the only prevent defense
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  Speaker 2: you have is like when they're going to throw that
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  Speaker 2: hail Mary and you're back, then you're trying to knock
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  Speaker 2: it down. Otherwise you're just playing your defense. And I
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  Speaker 2: think the important thing is that when you get in
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  Speaker 2: situations like that is that nobody freelances. You know that
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  Speaker 2: the call comes in and we all commit to playing
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  Speaker 2: the call to the best of our ability on that down.
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  Speaker 2: And what has happened too many times is that we
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  Speaker 2: have had I would call them mental breakdowns, you know,
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  Speaker 2: little things that have hurt us in a big way,
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  Speaker 2: and that's something that has to get fixed. It's it's
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  Speaker 2: we work on it constantly. Our players understand that. I
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  Speaker 2: think it's a form of confidence or it's an indicative
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  Speaker 2: of confidence, maturity, trust, all of those things. And those
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  Speaker 2: things grow oh through the season, especially when you're putting
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  Speaker 2: together a new group, and I expect this to be
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  Speaker 2: better this week. You know, one thing I know is
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  Speaker 2: that our guys, I've said this a million times, they
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  Speaker 2: take it very very seriously. Our players do. I don't
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  Speaker 2: have to worry that it bothers them. I know it
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  Speaker 2: bothers them. I don't have to worry that they're not
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  Speaker 2: going to own it. I know they're going to own it.
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  Speaker 2: And that's all well and good. And now we have
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  Speaker 2: to make sure that we get it corrected. We're very
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  Speaker 2: very close, but close doesn't really matter. You got to
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  Speaker 2: get it done.
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  Speaker 1: That's an horseshoes, by the way, closer.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I was trying to figure out what that was.
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  Speaker 2: I remember the old cliche saying, but I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: You've got a few of them that you bring out.
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  Speaker 1: I like it. We're going to talk to Ben Smiley
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  Speaker 1: a little bit. He actually mentioned that same thing that
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  Speaker 1: you just talked about. All these new people on defense
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  Speaker 1: nine new starters, it takes a while and to develop.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to use that word chemistry. It's probably overused,
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  Speaker 1: but what has to happen with a new group of
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  Speaker 1: people playing together on the defensive side to the point
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  Speaker 1: where they go, okay, I know exactly what he's doing
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  Speaker 1: what this man to my left's doing. They're more in sync.
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  Speaker 1: It's been four games. The last two have been up
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  Speaker 1: and down defensively, So I'm just curious what you think
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  Speaker 1: about that. I mean, is there a coming together on
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  Speaker 1: defense that we're going to see here as we go forward.
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  Speaker 1: We're only four games in. There's eight games to play yet.
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  Speaker 2: I hope so, and I believe so. I think that
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  Speaker 2: the last thing I ever want to do is make excuses.
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  Speaker 2: I will say that it is about, you know, consistently
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  Speaker 2: having the same guys on the field doing things over
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  Speaker 2: and over so that they developed that bond and that trust.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, we've had some injuries at times in
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  Speaker 2: the games or you know, so far early in the
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  Speaker 2: season that have kind of hurt our ability to keep
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  Speaker 2: everyone out there at the same time. But that, like
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  Speaker 2: I said, you know, that's an excuse. But I believe
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  Speaker 2: that the more you see our guys play together, the
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  Speaker 2: better you'll see them play. It's desperately important for them
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  Speaker 2: to them that they play well, and that is step
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  Speaker 2: number one. If you you have a group that cares
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  Speaker 2: and is willing to put into the work, you've always
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  Speaker 2: got a chance. If you've got a group that is
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  Speaker 2: indifferent and it's looking for excuses and ways out, and
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  Speaker 2: then you don't have a chance. And we have guys
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  Speaker 2: that care and want to put in the work. But
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  Speaker 2: it's got to happen, you know. It's like, it's got
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  Speaker 2: to happen. We got we can't just keep waiting on it.
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  Speaker 2: It's like there's got to be an urgency to make
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  Speaker 2: it happen like now.
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  Speaker 1: And meanwhile, I mean, the pressure on quarterbacks that you're
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  Speaker 1: facing has been good. You've been getting tackles behind the
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  Speaker 1: line of scrimmage, you've been getting sacks. It's kind of
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  Speaker 1: a I don't want to use the word feast or
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  Speaker 1: famine because that's not really correct. But sometimes you look
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  Speaker 1: at it and go, wow, we're in their backfield, we're
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  Speaker 1: sacking their quarterback, we're throwing them for losses, and then
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  Speaker 1: they're running something off tackle for twenty four yards. It
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  Speaker 1: doesn't compute for me.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'm gonna give you an interesting one, but I
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  Speaker 2: don't think Matt Brock will really be happy with me
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  Speaker 2: giving this stat out. And you know, we're not necessarily
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  Speaker 2: big stat guys, but there are some stats that matter.
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  Speaker 2: Because you just stated that I'm gonna tell you this,
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  Speaker 2: So in the last three games, we define an explosive
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  Speaker 2: play offensively or defensively as a twelve play or twelve
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  Speaker 2: yard run or sixteen play pass. I'm not going to
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  Speaker 2: give you the exact numbers, but I'll tell you that
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  Speaker 2: almost half the yards that we've given up on defense
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  Speaker 2: this year have come on thirty one plays versus two
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  Speaker 2: hundred and fifty fifty five other plays given up very few.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: It's kind of what you say, a little bit of
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  Speaker 2: feast or famine, and we need more feast famine. And
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  Speaker 2: I think as our guys become more confident in each
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  Speaker 2: other and trusting in each other, which they are, that
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  Speaker 2: you'll see us be much better in that area.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I just go back to those first
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  Speaker 1: fifty five minutes against Syracuse where you basically put them
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  Speaker 1: on their heels the entire time and just couldn't finish
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  Speaker 1: the job. But anyway, it was.
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  Speaker 2: The same thing Saturday, Mike, right. I mean, we went
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  Speaker 2: fifty fifty three minutes and thirty eight seconds of giving
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  Speaker 2: up ten points execuse and in the last six minutes,
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  Speaker 2: you know it kind of we struggled.
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  Speaker 1: So that's scared.
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  Speaker 2: We're aware of it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I gotcha. All right, back to the coach. We're
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  Speaker 1: going to talk a little bit about Buffalo Bulls football
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  Speaker 1: in a moment here on lear Field.