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Seg 2 - FB Show - Jason Candle 10-28 · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: We're back with Jason Candle on the UConn Football Coaches
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  Speaker 1: Show a little bit later on. We'll talk to Josh
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  Speaker 1: Mickens and also Xavier Watson, the tight end, about UConn's
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  Speaker 1: win over UMass and also the game coming up with
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  Speaker 1: the Air Force. A couple other notes, Coach, on the
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  Speaker 1: win over UMass. The linebacking crew was all over the place.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, Hayden Pegg, seven tackles, Akavion Sherman, six, John Lista, six.
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  Speaker 1: It seemed like every time I would call a play
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  Speaker 1: that was a positive defensive play. Those guys were involved.
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  Speaker 1: How active were they on Friday night?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, those guys are high energy, high level players that,
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  Speaker 2: you know, when they're flying around like that, that brings
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  Speaker 2: energy to the entire defense. And then, and really if
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  Speaker 2: we're being truthful to the entire football team, they all three,
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  Speaker 2: you know, play a high role in special teams and they,
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  Speaker 2: you know, they, they have the ability to impact the
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  Speaker 2: game in a major way. And, you know, they can
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  Speaker 2: do that from because they're very smart players, they're veteran
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  Speaker 2: guys and, you know, they dissect plays pretty fast. So,
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  Speaker 2: you know, they bring a physicality to them. They're what
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  Speaker 2: a linebacker in court should look like. And Coach Jacobs
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  Speaker 2: has done an unbelievable job with development of that and
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  Speaker 2: really the communication that those guys have. It's been really
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  Speaker 2: on par these last few weeks.
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  Speaker 1: In a previous segment, you were talking about skill players
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  Speaker 1: and I was standing with David Benedict on the field,
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  Speaker 1: the athletic director, and we were looking at the team's
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  Speaker 1: warm-up and he just said something like, boy, I like
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  Speaker 1: the way our team looks. We look good. We've got
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  Speaker 1: some athletes. And I want to bring that up because
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  Speaker 1: the play that Caleb Osborne made to J.D. Willoughby, that
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  Speaker 1: touchdown pass. Now, I saw you warming up with Caleb
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  Speaker 1: a little bit, him throwing you the ball during some
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  Speaker 1: of the warmups. So you know what that thing feels like.
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  Speaker 1: That guy, Osborne, he's pretty accurate. You know, in that range,
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  Speaker 1: I thought that was one of the great throws I've
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  Speaker 1: seen all year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I would go back a few weeks ago and
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  Speaker 2: you know, everybody was talking about him being able to
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  Speaker 2: stretch the defense and run with his legs. And I
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  Speaker 2: just reminded everybody to be careful putting this guy in
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  Speaker 2: a box because he's going to shred you with his
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  Speaker 2: arm if you give him the chance and put him
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  Speaker 2: in one-on-one situations. So those are the throws I see
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  Speaker 2: every day of practice. Those are the things that he
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  Speaker 2: can do at a high level. We got to continue to,
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  Speaker 2: you know, get him confident and making them consistently. But,
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  Speaker 2: you know, that's only going to come with time with
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  Speaker 2: his routine and his at-bats during games. So, Very proud
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  Speaker 2: of his effort Friday night. No catastrophic mistakes, turnovers, that
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  Speaker 2: kind of thing, and did a good job putting them,
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  Speaker 2: you know, when the guy's got one-on-one situations and he
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  Speaker 2: could get him the ball, he got him the ball.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Caleb Osborne's only a sophomore. It's learning on the job,
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  Speaker 1: isn't it? I mean, you've been doing this many, many years,
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  Speaker 1: but 10 years at Toledo. When you see quarterbacks and
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  Speaker 1: they're young guys and they're younger classmen, do you get
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  Speaker 1: to a point where you say, oh, he's made that
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  Speaker 1: leap now? Now he's kind of in the next level.
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  Speaker 1: Is that something that happens when you're looking at quarterbacks?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think there's different levels to it. I think there's,
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  Speaker 2: at some point in time, there's a transformation process that
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  Speaker 2: goes from how do I play my position really well
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  Speaker 2: to I play my position so well that everybody else
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  Speaker 2: is just impacted, you know. and my presence is just
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  Speaker 2: felt when I get out there on the field. So
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  Speaker 2: that's pre-snap rhythm. That's post-snap operation. That's, you know, RPO reads,
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  Speaker 2: that's run game checks. That's knowing where the, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the movement keys are in the passing game. There's just
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  Speaker 2: so many things that go into that where, you know,
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  Speaker 2: that guy can play at an optimal level. And we've
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  Speaker 2: got some great ones along my time and, you know,
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  Speaker 2: conference players of the year and that kind of thing.
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  Speaker 2: And got draft pick at quarterback. Like, These guys, they
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  Speaker 2: all develop at their own pace, and you have to
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  Speaker 2: be patient, and you have to understand as the head
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  Speaker 2: coach and as the play caller that it's not really
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  Speaker 2: what I know. It's what he knows and what he
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  Speaker 2: can go execute, and sometimes that process of getting from
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  Speaker 2: today until game day what he can do really, really well,
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  Speaker 2: that's more of an art than it is a science.
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  Speaker 1: And so when Caleb Osborne faces Air Force this weekend–
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  Speaker 1: He's going to see a defense that may be a
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  Speaker 1: little bit different than what he's seen. He's going to
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  Speaker 1: have less time to work because they're going to have
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  Speaker 1: the ball a lot. What do you talk to him
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  Speaker 1: about this week in terms of his patience level and
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  Speaker 1: his seeing the field and not trying to force anything?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I think it always comes back to
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  Speaker 2: the same thing, right? Like, can you have a really
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  Speaker 2: good pre-snap process so you can perform at the level
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  Speaker 2: you want to perform at once the ball's snapped? And
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  Speaker 2: you know, everybody makes such a big deal about what
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  Speaker 2: happens when the ball gets in his hands. It's not that.
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  Speaker 2: It's not from get it in your hands to when
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  Speaker 2: it leaves your hand. It is, you know, prior to,
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  Speaker 2: you know, when you get the call and how you
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  Speaker 2: process that and how you get everybody on the same
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  Speaker 2: page and you orchestrate the whole thing. Because if you
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  Speaker 2: can do that, you know, once the ball is in
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  Speaker 2: your hands, you have the confidence just to go play
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  Speaker 2: football like you've been playing since you were a little kid.
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  Speaker 2: You know, if that process prior to that happening, slows
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  Speaker 2: down and all of a sudden there's a little bit
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  Speaker 2: of anxiety. You start to hold the ball a little
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  Speaker 2: bit longer. Now the offensive line is not holding up
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  Speaker 2: like you think they should. The receivers are coming out
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  Speaker 2: of the breaks. You're not getting the ball in time.
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  Speaker 2: And you just, that's where the choppy play comes. So,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we've got to keep progressing him, continue to
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  Speaker 2: pour into his process and what that looks like. And,
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  Speaker 2: you know, when you say somebody's football IQ needs to
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  Speaker 2: continue to improve, that's not an indictment of somebody's character.
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  Speaker 2: That's just, this is a really hard job. This is
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  Speaker 2: a really tough thing we're asking him to do. And
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  Speaker 2: For him to go to where he wants to go,
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  Speaker 2: we've just got to continue to pour into that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think people tend to oversimplify with QBs, just
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  Speaker 1: talk about stats, but there's so much going on when
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  Speaker 1: the ball gets in a guy like Caleb Osborne's hands.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Jason Candle with us. We have more of
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  Speaker 1: the UConn Football Coaches Show in a moment on Learfield.