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Seg 4 - FB Show Nov 7 Jim Mora · Coaches Corner

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  We're back with Jim Moore of the Yukon Football Coaches Show. Mike Chrispino here
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  coming up, jm you, it's James Madison. The Dukes Harrisonburg Virginia Huskies
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  will hit the road again before coming back to play Sacred Heart. This team
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  is nine and oh, Jim, five and zero in their league. I'm
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  sorry, five one score games they've been involved in, and they won them
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  all, five wins by twenty one points, by a margin of four points
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  a game. I don't know. I don't think you're going I don't think
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  you're lucky when that happens. But boy, they've got they've escaped a few
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  times in some of these victories. Well they're damn good and they have a
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  level of confidence that comes to the success that they've had in those tough games
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  to be able to close people out. Anytime you can run the ball the
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  way they run the ball and play defense the way they play defense, you've
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  got a chance and they've capitalized. And they are an outstanding football team.
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  I said earlier in the show. They lead the country and run defense,
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  they get after the passer. They lost their best pass rush. The guy
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  have fifteen and a half sacks and they lost him for us. It's a
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  good thing for them and for him. It's you know, you never want
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  to see that as a great player like that get hurt. But boy,
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  they are, you know, they're they're pretty special. Yeah, they've kept
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  eleven straight opponents under one hundred yards rushing, so it's gonna be hard to
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  run the ball. They've got a quarterback, Jordan McLeod. He wears number
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  two. He's an Arizona transfer, twenty four years old. What a day
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  he had against Georgia's State the other day, twenty eight to thirty six touchdowns,
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  ran for two. So you've been looking at these running quarterbacks all year
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  long. What do you make of him? He's really good. He's a
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  mature young man. He doesn't make mistakes. It's not like he's looking to
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  run the ball. But when he decides that he wants to, he can,
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  and he's very successful doing it. And he can extend plays. And
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  when he extends him he can either get yards with his legs or he can
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  make throws when you come off a coverage. He's got really good running backs
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  that open things up in the run game, and he's got receivers that are
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  sure handed and long, and they go out and get the ball, and
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  they've got speed. They don't have any weaknesses as a football team. You
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  know, I look at them there as a complete a football team as we've
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  faced now. I don't know how they compare to Tennessee in terms of talent.
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  Need to see him on the field on Saturday, but in terms of
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  being like a complete football team, they're as good as you get. Yeah,
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  this is a team that's in the midst of transitioning from FCS to FBS,
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  and they've had some success. Obviously the game against Georgia State, they
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  put up forty two in that game. They have a tight end, which
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  I love tight ends. I've always been a fan of tight ends. But
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  anyway, Zach Horton, number forty four, he had six catches the other
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  day. He's six foot four, had a couple of touchdowns, So obviously
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  he's a threat when they get in the red zone. Height end for them
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  is a he's good player, I mean really good player, and they use
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  them in a multitude of ways. You know, they use them in the
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  back of the as a locker, they split him out wide as a you
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  know, a fourth wide, and a fourth wide spot. They motion him,
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  they get him the ball in all different kinds of ways in the past
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  game, and he's a very talented player. Their defense, we were talking
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  about as far as stopping the rush, very good. Jalen Walker is one
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  of their linebackers. He's gotten in the backfield three and a half tackles for
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  loss. What's the strength of their defense? Is it the front seven or
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  how is their secondary? They're they're just good. They're you know, they've
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  got they've played in the system. They they play well together. There's veterans.
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  I think it always you know, defense typically starts up front. You
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  know, if your ability, if you can stop the run and make people
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  throw the ball to the beach, and you got the ability to rush the
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  passer, then you know, things usually work out for you on defense.
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  And that's what their formula is. They do a great job of stopping the
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  run. When they put their guys in single coverage, whether it's three D
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  zone or man and you know, some guys are isolated. They win when
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  they get you the third and longer. They come after you. They don't
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  make many mistakes, they don't give up big plays. They're great tacklers.
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  They're physical, They attack the line of scrimmage. You know, they play
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  defense the way defense was meant to be played, and that's fast and physical
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  and with a lot of confidence in getting after people. Yeah. Credit their
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  head coach to Kurt Signetti got there in twenty eighteen. His dad was a
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  coach too, Jim Frank twenty years a head coach and they actually had Nick
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  Saban on his kind of staff for a while. So Kurt is kind of
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  an offensive minded guy. And yet he's put together a pretty good defense here
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  as you get ready to play them. Yeah, I mean a head coach
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  to the head coach, he's got to be responsible off phases as the team.
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  But he's had good defensive coordinators. They've got good players. I mean,
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  we have a great recruiting base. You know the area that they're would
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  recruit from their local and you know in the immediate area is an area that's
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  got a lot of talent. They know what they want, they go get
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  the guys that they want. They're able to attrack them to their school.
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  It's a tremendous school in uh. You know, I've heard that it's a
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  great place to go if you're a young person and enjoy yourself, and you
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  know, they've just done a really good job of creating the culture that they
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  want to create and managing it. Yeah, they're in that area of a
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  Virginia, West Virginia. You know, it's football country there, Pennsylvania,
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  so they've been able to recruit very well. Coach, We appreciate it,
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  thanks so much. Looking forward to this weekend. Let's let's pull a major
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  upset. Let's knock these guys off. And no one goes undefeated in college
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  football, no one goes undefeated in the pros. So they got to go
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  down this weekend. Okay, with you? With you? All right?
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  Thanks? You listen. Every week the goal is to win every week.
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  The objective as we prepare is to win. Every time we step on the
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  field. We got to believe we're going to win and uh and we always
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  we always do. It doesn't matter who we're playing. That's that's the heart
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  of a competitor, and we've got some competitors on this team. Yeah,
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  there's no question about it. All right, looking forward to it. That's
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  jim moa coming up. We talked to new i rollis the placekicker, Vallentin
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  and the offensive tackle as well. We continue with the Yukon Football Coaches Show
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  on lear Field.