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Seg 4 - FB Show Sept 2 Jim Mora · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Yukon Football Coaches Show on the
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  Speaker 1: Yukon Sports Network.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Mike chrispino Jima with us every Tuesday.
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  Speaker 1: We spend an hour. We meet some of the players,
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  Speaker 1: get to know where they're coming from. And uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to talk to Melo Brown here in a
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  Speaker 1: few moments, coach. Uh, he came from a small school too.
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  Speaker 1: I've been impressed with what your recruiting department and your
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  Speaker 1: staff has done with finding guys that are you know,
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  Speaker 1: not big ten transfers or other you know, power for
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  Speaker 1: conference transfers. You got You've got a lot of them, right,
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  Speaker 1: and that's not always going to be easy because you're
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  Speaker 1: trying to project a guy up a level. Right Can
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  Speaker 1: he do it here at Yukon? What he did at
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  Speaker 1: Gardner Webb?
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  Speaker 3: You know, kind of goes back what we're talking about
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  Speaker 3: earlier about kind of the profile, you know, you know,
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  Speaker 3: high weight, speed, the measurables, and then what you see
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  Speaker 3: on film and and you know, fortunately you can find
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  Speaker 3: enough film when you're watching just about any player in
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  Speaker 3: the country of them playing against good competition, so you
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  Speaker 3: can get a feel for who they are as a player.
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  Speaker 4: Pretty quickly. We're not afraid.
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  Speaker 3: You know, listen, there's a lot of guys that are
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  Speaker 3: at smaller schools that are just damn good football players
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  Speaker 3: that haven't been recognized yet, or maybe they developed a
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  Speaker 3: little bit later in the recruiting process so they were
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  Speaker 3: forced to go to a smaller school. You know, you
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  Speaker 3: go to smaller school and you're pretty damn well coached,
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  Speaker 3: because those smaller school coaches, in my opinion, are outstanding
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  Speaker 3: football coaches. So fundamentally your sound. You understand what it
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  Speaker 3: takes in terms of work, ethic and all the other intangibles.
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  Speaker 3: And so we're not afraid to go get guys like
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  Speaker 3: you said, like Devin Pringle or Mel Brown, you know,
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  Speaker 3: if they fit our profile, and those guys do, and
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  Speaker 3: you know, Mel's kind of like Devin. They don't say
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  Speaker 3: a lot, they just work. They came highly recommended. You know,
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  Speaker 3: maybe people overlooked them, maybe they developed a little bit later,
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  Speaker 3: but for whatever reason, you know, they're here now and
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  Speaker 3: they're being productive for us. And we've just got to
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  Speaker 3: cantinue to look high and low, and near and far
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  Speaker 3: and under every rock for any.
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  Speaker 4: Player that can come in here and help us as
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  Speaker 4: a program.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, another guy that was impressive. I thought number twenty
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  Speaker 1: four MJ. Flowers. He's a junior running back six one,
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  Speaker 1: two twenty. That's a load right there. Two twenty came
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  Speaker 1: out of Eastern Illinois. He's a Cincinnati kid, obviously football country.
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  Speaker 2: I really liked what I saw from him.
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  Speaker 3: I've liked everything I've seen him since day one. Number one,
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  Speaker 3: he's a great kid. I mean, he's top notch. He's humble,
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  Speaker 3: he's serious, he has intensity, high character. At number two,
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  Speaker 3: he's a big, powerful runner with speed. He's really starting
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  Speaker 3: to learn our scheme.
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  Speaker 4: Well.
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  Speaker 3: I thought he played well on Saturday. You're going to
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  Speaker 3: see more and more of him. He's a he's a
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  Speaker 3: good player.
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  Speaker 1: And one other thing about you developing players too. Obviously
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  Speaker 1: you got to fill a roster with talent. You got
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  Speaker 1: to coach him up. You got to do everything to win.
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  Speaker 1: You guys are doing that. The kid from ave On
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  Speaker 1: Old Farms, Jackson Harper five catches, had a nice punt
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  Speaker 1: return twenty yarder.
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  Speaker 2: You know he didn't play much last year.
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  Speaker 1: A little special team's action A little bit by a
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  Speaker 1: little bit, kind of worked himself into the rotation. That's
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  Speaker 1: got to be gratifying for the coaching staff to see
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  Speaker 1: that kind of development as well.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's such a credit to Jackson. You know,
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  Speaker 3: he's a really hard working kid. He's very serious, he's conscientious.
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  Speaker 3: It's important to him. His teammates trust him. We have
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  Speaker 3: a lot of faith in him now as a punt returner.
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  Speaker 3: We don't have any problem putting him in on offense
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  Speaker 3: and letting him go because he's going to make plays,
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  Speaker 3: He's going to do the right thing.
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  Speaker 4: He's shown toughness.
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  Speaker 3: It's always fun to see players that you recruited that
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  Speaker 3: have stuck it out and not transferred turned into really
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  Speaker 3: good players. You know, you think about Victor, and you
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  Speaker 3: think about Cam and you just mentioned Jackson, and there's
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  Speaker 3: many many others that you know came in here young,
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  Speaker 3: they're from this state, and they've developed themselves into really
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  Speaker 3: good football players. I think that serves us well when
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  Speaker 3: we recruit, and I think that it serves us well
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  Speaker 3: when we go out and play on Saturdays.
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  Speaker 1: We got about a minute left, coach, we have to
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  Speaker 1: mention Skyler Bell. I mean, this guy one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: thirty five yards and catches a career high touchdown. Two
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  Speaker 1: of them in the end zone. That catch he made
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  Speaker 1: man on the out on the sideline one handed, was like,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what you call that world class or something,
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  Speaker 1: but when he does stuff like that, that's got to
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  Speaker 1: really get the sidelines juiced up.
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  Speaker 4: Everyone's excited to watch Skyler play.
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  Speaker 3: You know, when he caught that little bubble on his
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  Speaker 3: eighty one yard touchdown or however far that he ran.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we all knew that if he made one
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  Speaker 3: guy miss that he was gone. And he made one
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  Speaker 3: guy miss and he was gone. The most impressive play
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  Speaker 3: to me of the whole game for Skyler was the
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  Speaker 3: very first play of the game when he freaking went
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  Speaker 3: in there and dug out a dB on a block.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, no one will see it.
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  Speaker 3: No one will see it, you know what I mean
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  Speaker 3: as you're watching the ballcarrier. But you put that play
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  Speaker 3: together with the third down catch over the shoulder, and
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  Speaker 3: that shows who Skyler Bell is. He's a dependable, hard nosed, tough, conscientious, caring,
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  Speaker 3: team oriented player. Because the first play of the game,
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  Speaker 3: I can go back and look at he goes and
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  Speaker 3: blasts a guy, and you know you're not gonna get
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  Speaker 3: a lot of receivers that go and sell out the
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  Speaker 3: way he did, and we expect our guys to do it.
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  Speaker 3: And Skyler he didn't put himself against above any of
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  Speaker 3: the dirty work, and that's why he's so ill respected
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  Speaker 3: on this team.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you can't have enough of him, that's for sure.
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  Speaker 2: Guys like him.
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  Speaker 1: All right, coach, we appreciate it. We're gonna see you
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  Speaker 1: on the weekend against the Qus. The Orange is the
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  Speaker 1: next opponent and you kind of looking to go to
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  Speaker 1: and oh. Thanks to Jim Mora and Ukon Football. We
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  Speaker 1: continue with more of the Yukon Football Coaches Show, Mel Brown,
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  Speaker 1: Devin Pringle coming up next