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Seg 3 - FB Show 10-21 w Jason Candle · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back, UConn Football Coaches Show on the radio, and
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  Speaker 1: Friday Night Lights coming up this week at the Rent.
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  Speaker 1: UMass coming in 4-3, lost three in a row after
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  Speaker 1: a 4-0 start. They're 1-3 in the MAAC, a conference
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  Speaker 1: there that Jason Candle came from, so you know all
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  Speaker 1: about the competitiveness of that league. They're coming off a loss, Buffalo,
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  Speaker 1: in overtime, a game that UMass probably could have won
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  Speaker 1: very easily, but they didn't. And they've also lost to
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  Speaker 1: Eastern Michigan and a one-pointer against Miami, Ohio, another one
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  Speaker 1: they could have won. So big picture looking at a
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  Speaker 1: rival like that. And you're just getting into this first
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  Speaker 1: year at UConn. But UMass is right there. They're a
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  Speaker 1: few miles up the road on I-91. They're a border
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  Speaker 1: team that we played many years over the course of time.
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  Speaker 1: And when you get in those kind of battles... uh,
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  Speaker 1: how do you sell that to the team or do
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  Speaker 1: you have to sell it? I mean, this is a
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  Speaker 1: roster full of new guys that you have, but they're
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  Speaker 1: playing a team that's right in your backyard.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I think for me, you, you, you, you
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  Speaker 2: got to shed some light on it just from the
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  Speaker 2: importance of, you know, all the things that you just mentioned. Um,
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  Speaker 2: but not more light than what you shed on making
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  Speaker 2: sure that you go out there and you play really
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  Speaker 2: good football and your videotape looks the way it's supposed
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  Speaker 2: to look. Um, That's a week-to-week battle for every college
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  Speaker 2: football team across the country. We're no different there than
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  Speaker 2: anybody else. There's upsets every Saturday in college football. There's
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  Speaker 2: teams that are punching above their weight. There's other ones
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  Speaker 2: that are punching below their weight. You want to be
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  Speaker 2: the first case study there. You want to make sure
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  Speaker 2: that you're playing at your best. I think that there's
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  Speaker 2: a part of it that there's a little external motivation,
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  Speaker 2: but I've never been a coach and I've never been,
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  Speaker 2: you know, asked the coach, you know, you know, asked
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  Speaker 2: our teammates, our team, any team I've been a part
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  Speaker 2: of to just rely on external motivation because that comes
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  Speaker 2: and goes and the ebbs and flows of a college
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  Speaker 2: football season. You can, if you live in that world, man,
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  Speaker 2: oh man, like you can, you're setting yourself up for
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  Speaker 2: a lot of disappointment in my opinion. So, uh, messages
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  Speaker 2: still remain the same. You got a job to do.
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  Speaker 2: You got things that you got to handle and you
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  Speaker 2: got to be at your best. Um, who cares who
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  Speaker 2: you're playing and where you're playing them, you know, have
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  Speaker 2: a good week of practice and go play.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Shamar Porter talks about that a little later in
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  Speaker 1: the show. Obviously, you don't take any opponent for granted.
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  Speaker 1: You don't know about Pop Watson, their quarterback. He started
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  Speaker 1: out his career at UMass. He was transferring. He's their QB.
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  Speaker 1: He had a great start, but he's been hurt. He's
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  Speaker 1: been out a little bit. If you face him or
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  Speaker 1: you face Logan Inagawa, who's the quarterback, a sophomore, had
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  Speaker 1: a pretty good day against Buffalo. Is it really the
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  Speaker 1: same every week in terms of what you've got to
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  Speaker 1: try to do against the opposition's QB?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think this situation is a little different. Pop's
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  Speaker 2: a great player, you know, led his team to probably
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  Speaker 2: arguably the best winning college football this year in that
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  Speaker 2: opening game over Rutgers. Max Warner, the offensive coordinator, worked
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  Speaker 2: for us last year at Toledo. So I know he's
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  Speaker 2: an ace and he's going to do a great job
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  Speaker 2: putting together a plan around the quarterback, whoever that is,
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  Speaker 2: that will allow him to be successful. you know, you
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  Speaker 2: hone in on the key concepts that you think that
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  Speaker 2: they're going to, they're going to put out and bring
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  Speaker 2: out to the table. And then from there, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it becomes a, you know, what can you do once
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  Speaker 2: the game starts to make the proper adjustments to make
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  Speaker 2: sure that you, you know, limit the explosive plays and,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and hopefully try to turn them over a
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  Speaker 2: couple of times.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. They got a couple of good running backs, Elijah
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  Speaker 1: Faulkner and Curtis Kimmons. He's got four touchdowns on the season.
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  Speaker 1: Faulkner's run for almost 400 yards in the opening games.
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  Speaker 1: is it come down to these things defensively that if
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  Speaker 1: you keep a team from getting their running game going
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  Speaker 1: and force them to go up top and throw the
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  Speaker 1: ball more, is that the, is that kind of the formula? Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I think it's probably, you know, I think
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  Speaker 2: everything starts with the line of scrimmage and you want to,
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  Speaker 2: you know, those, the toughness element and then, you know,
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  Speaker 2: all of that stuff. I think that, that wears on you,
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  Speaker 2: but man, you could, You could line all 10 guys
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  Speaker 2: up at the line of scrimmage and keep one guy
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  Speaker 2: back and you watch the ball fly over your head
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  Speaker 2: all day long. And you could call yourself the toughest
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  Speaker 2: team in the world, but that scoreboard is going to
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  Speaker 2: light up pretty quickly. So you've got to be able
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  Speaker 2: to be balanced on defense. You've got to be able
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  Speaker 2: to play zone. You've got to be able to. affect
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  Speaker 2: the quarterback and, you know, the great ones, the great teams,
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  Speaker 2: you got to be able to play some man coverage
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  Speaker 2: and latch on the receiver so you can get the
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  Speaker 2: extra hat and get the extra set of eyes and,
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  Speaker 2: you know, in that run fit. So that's the game
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  Speaker 2: within the game. You know, you're constantly trying to find,
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  Speaker 2: you know, where that is, you know, leading up to
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  Speaker 2: the game. And then ultimately, like I said, you know,
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  Speaker 2: through the course of the game to make the proper adjustments.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Plus two and a turnovers against Temple. Obviously you'd
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  Speaker 1: like to see that every week. creating fumbles. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: there was a couple of them in that game that
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  Speaker 1: were key. Punch outs. If you're a defensive player, is
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  Speaker 1: that something that you could actually practice? I wonder sometimes
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  Speaker 1: because you see guys look like they know what they're
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  Speaker 1: doing when they're punching a ball on them. That's a
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  Speaker 1: legitimate defensive play now, isn't it?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, they don't let you tackle in practice anymore. So,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, this is on as close to on the
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  Speaker 2: verge of flag football as we're ever going to see
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  Speaker 2: in the history of our sport. So you have to
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  Speaker 2: find ways to You know, quite honestly, the practice defense
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  Speaker 2: and because there's so many non-contact practices and, you know,
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  Speaker 2: this has become, you know, an art form to try
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  Speaker 2: to take the football away. And it's showing up at
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  Speaker 2: all levels of football, you know, and, you know, those
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  Speaker 2: days you want to punch it out as many times
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  Speaker 2: as you can, but it's not at the expense of
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  Speaker 2: missing a tackle. And I think that's where, you know,
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  Speaker 2: that's where it comes frustrating a little bit, because You know,
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  Speaker 2: you don't get a chance as many times to practice
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  Speaker 2: tackling as you want to. And then you go to
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  Speaker 2: the games, you miss tackles. And, you know, guys are
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  Speaker 2: trying to punch the ball out, that kind of thing. So,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you get what you teach, you get what
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  Speaker 2: you coach and what you're allowed to coach. So it's
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  Speaker 2: definitely a big part of our game. But like I said,
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  Speaker 2: you just try to make sure it's not the expense
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  Speaker 2: of missing tackles.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm with you on that. All right, Coach Candle
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  Speaker 1: will be back with us. One final segment with him.
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  Speaker 1: We continue on the UConn Football Coaches Show here on
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  Speaker 1: the radio on Learfields.