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Segment 3 - FB Show w Jim Mora Nov 21 · Coaches Corner

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  Our Thanksgiving weekend begins Friday with the basketball twin Bills Yukon Men and Manhattan meet
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  at the XL Center. One point thirty is the pre game. Then the
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  Yukon women against UCLA and a top ten duel to play in the Cayman Islands
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  at seven o'clock. So all here on the Yukon Sports Network and online via
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  the Varsity Network app in the Varsitynetwork dot com. We're back with Jim Moore.
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  Let's let's talk Thanksgiving. I mean, the life of a coach.
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  You're all wrapped up and what you got to do? Now? You got
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  to play a game a couple of days after Thanksgiving? How does it go
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  for you and your wife? And you say you got your family around you,
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  where do you fit it in to have a little bit of a you
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  know, family get together. Yeah, I mean that's something I've been dealing
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  with my whole life, you know, being the son of a coach and
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  then a coach myself. Thursdays. You know, I've played, actually,
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  you know what, I've played a couple of those Thanksgiving Day games in the
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  NFL and those are always fun. But you know what we what we'll do
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  is we'll we'll get as much work as we can on done on Wednesday night
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  that we typically do on Thursday. We'll come in a little bit earlier on
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  Thursday after after practice, we'll have a Thanksgiving brunch with our players, and
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  then, uh, you know, we'll be pretty set for Friday. Once
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  we're off the practice field on Thursdays, so guys can get home and get
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  with their families. We'll invite you know, some of the people around here
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  that aren't from here and don't have a place to go over at our house.
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  Our players will go to their coaches houses if they don't have a place
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  to go, and we'll take a breath. I'm sure we'll, you know,
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  because we're football junkies, will sit there and watch football all day long
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  and into the night. But uh, you know, it's really interesting holidays,
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  birthdays, when you're in this business, you really you really have to
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  force yourself to stop and acknowledge them, because it's way too easy to just
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  move past them because you're in this You're in this, uh, this routine,
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  this grind of the season where every day kind of feels like groundhog days.
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  So for us to be to take time on Thursday is really important and
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  give thanks for all the blessings that we all have. Yeah, we all
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  know how important family is to what what we do it lets us do it.
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  So you're right, you got to acknowledge and you got to you know,
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  say thanks for for everything your family does to back you up. You
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  know, speaking of watching games in the NFL and watching these in college all
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  the time, even the greats Jim make mistakes, Pat Mahomes Monday Night,
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  Travis Kelsey, red zone turnovers, those guys. I always feel like they
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  score every time to get in the red zone. But even those guys make
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  mistakes. It's crazy this game. Yeah, and they even drop them off,
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  right, So it's a it's a you know, you're never going to
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  have a perfect football game. It's it's we're always after and it's what we
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  work towards. But the reality of it is, it's a human game.
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  It's humans out there playing and there's unpredictability, and your opponents are going to
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  do things that you didn't expect them to do, and uh, you know,
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  people are going to make mistakes and you know, so so often success
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  is dictated by your level of consistency, you know, and your ability to
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  minimize mistakes and capitalize on your opponent's mistakes. And so you know, that's
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  what we try to do. And you know, it's a process and we're
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  getting there and we're not there yet, but I think, you know,
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  I'll go back to kind of the first segment when you talked about what our
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  players say. Sounds to me like they get it. And if they get
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  it and they understand what we're after, then we have a really great chance
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  of getting there as a program. Yeah, you're definitely making strides regardless of
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  what the numbers say this year. I think, uh, you know,
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  we're going to talk to Jackson Mitchell in a few minis is why we're talking
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  about takeaways with him? And are they coincidence? Do you create them?
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  What is it? Because I'm watching the Giants the other day and they got
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  six takeaways against Washington they end up springing an upset when no one thought they
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  could win another game in the NFL schedule. So and Jackson was saying,
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  well, it's a combination of both. I mean, you're trying to create
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  these things, but sometimes things fall in your lap a little bit. Yeah,
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  I mean, and you know what, I think a lot of its
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  effort, you know, you're all the time effort to get to where the
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  football is because good things happen at the football and you'll see times when a
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  player might take you know, half a step, a step off in terms
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  of just as a burst towards the football and he ends up being a half
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  a step or a step off from making an interception. You're getting a fumble
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  recovery. So you know, it is luck at times. It's being in
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  the right place. At times, it's getting yourself to the right place.
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  At times it can also make a difference. And then you know, it
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  kind of goes back to what you said about running the football off in the
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  run. If you can stop the run and make them throw it, you
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  know, the more times of balls in the air, I think, the
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  more chances you have to make plays, and the more times the quarterback has
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  to drop back, the more times you have a chance to get a sacks,
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  strip and scoop and score. And so for us, it's about just
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  consistency of our performance and then consistency of our effort. And we think we
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  do those things and we'll put ourselves in position to have a chance for takeaways,
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  and then we got to capitalize and we got to get that ball.
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  We're going to talk about you messing the next segment with Coach. One final
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  thing on Jelanie Stafford. He's been playing him in the backfield. He's running
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  the ball. He's scored a bunch of touchdowns. And it's not a gimmick,
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  is it. I mean, it's legit. It works. And when
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  people ask me from other teams, you know, broadcast as the center,
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  what's up with that? I'm saying, the dude can get in our yard
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  or two pretty much anywhere he is. So when how did that develop?
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  How did that start? You know what? You say that and it's like
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  he got stopped the other day, which was, Oh, I couldn't believe
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  it. I couldn't either, because I was kind of standing right on the
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  on the line the game because I knew we'd go for it on fourth down,
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  and I was kind of expecting this to be first down, Austin Sport
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  down. But we came up with that. It's because you know, we
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  wanted to be able to hammer the ball up inside with a big man that
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  had power and leg strength, and Gilanni had done that in high school and
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  UH played running back and we're always looking for guys that have some versatility on
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  our team that can play multiple positions. You have to be really careful how
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  often you do it, who you do it with, because you don't want
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  to take away from you know, what they do best. And for Jelanna
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  that's play defensive tackle. But if you can find guys on your team that
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  can be, you know, two way players or play important roles, then
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  you then you capitalize on it. Jilani is one of those guys. And
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  I give Nick a lot of credit, and I give Jilanni great credit for,
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  you know, really sinking his teeth into it and knowing what to do
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  and doing his best every day to kind of master something that's not necessarily natural
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  to him anymore. Yeah, he was great in the post game with us.
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  He is such a such a good kid, such a good player too.
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  We appreciate him. Back with Jim Moore in a second, we got
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  to talk about UMass. That's the date coming up on Saturday, and we'll
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  do that in a moment. Is the Yukon Football Coaches Show on Learfield