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Seg 2 - FB Show 9-9 Jim Mora · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: Back on the Yukon Football Coaches Show, Jim Mora was
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  Speaker 1: Yukon goes to Delaware. They play a three o'clock game
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  Speaker 1: on Saturday, pregames at one thirty on the Yukon Sports Network. Jim,
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  Speaker 1: just to follow up on some of the individual efforts defensively.
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  Speaker 1: I'm telling you, and you know you were standing right
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  Speaker 1: down there on the sideline. I could feel some of
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  Speaker 1: the hits being put on by Omar Diamonde, Dumont Brinson,
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  Speaker 1: Brian Parham. I mean, these guys were rocking down there.
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  Speaker 1: Brian param seven tackles, had a sack, a tackle for
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  Speaker 1: loss a Tyrese Mills, whereas number fourteen had a you know,
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  Speaker 1: step in to replace an injured guy. Six tackles and
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  Speaker 1: a force fumble and a tackle for loss. I mean, overall,
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  Speaker 1: defense had seven tackles for loss. I believe in three sacks.
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  Speaker 1: I mean that's a big improvement over week.
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  Speaker 2: One, big improvement, Mike, and that's how we expect to play.
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  Speaker 2: You know, that's that's a Matt Brock defense right there. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: there was a lot of things that were reason to
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  Speaker 2: be encouraged. You know, the physicality we played with, as
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  Speaker 2: you mentioned the violence, the aggression, the tackling was good.
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  Speaker 2: We covered well for the most part. Now what we
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  Speaker 2: have to be able to do is in those critical
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  Speaker 2: moments is once again is calm our mind and do
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  Speaker 2: our job and make the plays that you know we
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  Speaker 2: need to make. And that's got to happen now, and
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  Speaker 2: it's got to happen consistently. And it's up to us
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  Speaker 2: as a staff to make sure that we're putting our
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  Speaker 2: players in the best position to do what they do well.
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  Speaker 2: That's our job. And then the players have to go
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  Speaker 2: out and they've got a performance. So it's all of
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  Speaker 2: us joining together and doing the right things on a
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  Speaker 2: consistent basis that's going to help us become a good
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  Speaker 2: football team.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and you created two turnovers, an interception and a
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  Speaker 1: fumble recovery, and you only allowed a little less than
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  Speaker 1: two hundred yards over the first three quarters. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you had the Orange offense more or less under control.
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  Speaker 1: I guess you know. It always felt like to me
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  Speaker 1: like if you get one more score, that would do it,
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  Speaker 1: that would close the door. But you couldn't get that
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  Speaker 1: final score.
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  Speaker 2: Well, see, there's you're so right, Like you're right, and
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if we'd close the door, but it
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  Speaker 2: would have been a lot harder. And then there's plays
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  Speaker 2: in that game that nobody even remembers that had an
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  Speaker 2: impact on us not being able to get the extra score.
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  Speaker 3: You know, there was a holding call late in the
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  Speaker 3: third quarter.
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  Speaker 2: You know that took us out of field goal range,
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  Speaker 2: and that's three points right there. Obviously. You know we
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  Speaker 2: had the missnap the snap air early in the game.
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  Speaker 2: That was three points right there. You know, we had
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  Speaker 2: to start backed up a couple times once because of
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  Speaker 2: a penalty. You know, that's a play right there that
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  Speaker 2: we can't we can't have. You know, when you're playing
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  Speaker 2: a good football team, you have to minimize the self
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  Speaker 2: inflicted wounds. And we didn't do a good enough job
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  Speaker 2: of that. Now, we were disciplined. We only had four penalties.
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  Speaker 2: That's not a lot, but what matters is when those
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  Speaker 2: penalties occur, you know, and so there's a lot of
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  Speaker 2: good things, but you know, a loss is a loss,
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  Speaker 2: and the most important thing you can do after a
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  Speaker 2: loss is, like I said, you don't rationalize it. You
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  Speaker 2: don't make excuses, you hit ahead on you take responsibility
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  Speaker 2: and ownership, and then you learn those lessons and you
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  Speaker 2: come out and you apply them with determination to resolve,
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  Speaker 2: and you let it fuel you as you get ready
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  Speaker 2: to play the next game.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: One of the things that happened in that game as
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  Speaker 1: well was stopping them on fourth down deep in your
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  Speaker 1: own in your territory. I think the ten yard line twice.
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  Speaker 1: That was impressive because obviously they get a first down
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  Speaker 1: there Syracuse, They're gonna get points for sure, But they
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  Speaker 1: went forward on fourth down and you were able to
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  Speaker 1: stop them. That's not easy on any level, I don't
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  Speaker 1: care if you're playing high school, college or pro football.
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  Speaker 2: Our guys were prepared for that play. You know, we'd
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  Speaker 2: shown them that play. They they were aware, they got
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  Speaker 2: lined up quickly, and they stopped it. We had a
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  Speaker 2: couple of really good shortyard it stops. I thought, you know,
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  Speaker 2: keep points off the board. You know, Tyresi's SACCoS Fumber
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  Speaker 2: covered fumble was nice play.
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  Speaker 3: They were in field goal range, so you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, I think, you know, if you look back last year,
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  Speaker 2: you know we kind of got used to a defense
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  Speaker 2: that was going to rise up and make those plays.
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  Speaker 2: You know, and stopping a team on short yardage is
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  Speaker 2: really hard. I mean, you're at a serious disadvantage on
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  Speaker 2: defense just because of surge, you know, but I think
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  Speaker 2: coach Brock and that staff they do a great job
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  Speaker 2: of scheming in those situations. But it still comes down
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  Speaker 2: to the players just exerting their force.
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  Speaker 3: And our guys did that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Umar Diamande had a nice game. Where's number thirty two?
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  Speaker 3: Boys?
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  Speaker 1: Did you got to pay attention to him? He had
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  Speaker 1: nine tackles, two tackles for loss of sack, and now
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  Speaker 1: that led to the missfield goal. So I mean, every
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  Speaker 1: little play in these games really if you look back
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  Speaker 1: at and that's what we do on Tuesdays a little bit,
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  Speaker 1: we look back, we find what happened, how did how
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  Speaker 1: did it end up this way? And that you know,
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  Speaker 1: at that point in the game, that could have been
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  Speaker 1: the game right there, big sack, missfield goal, but it wasn't.
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  Speaker 2: You know, sometimes you come out of a game that
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  Speaker 2: you've lost and you go, I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: What just happened? Exactly what just happened?
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  Speaker 2: Like it was crystal clear at what happened to us,
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  Speaker 2: crystal cleared our staff, crystal clear to our players why
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  Speaker 2: we did not win that game. And when you can
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  Speaker 2: define it, then you can address it. And you're going
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  Speaker 2: to address it, and you've got mature players like we
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  Speaker 2: have and they take it seriously, then you can fix it.
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  Speaker 3: So I expected to get fixed.
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  Speaker 1: In a strange way, and we're gonna move on to
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  Speaker 1: Delaware here very shortly, but in a strange Yeah. No,
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  Speaker 1: you're tired of this. But I felt like afterwards, you know,
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  Speaker 1: thinking about it, just generally speaking, could something like this
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  Speaker 1: in the second week of the year be a blessing
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  Speaker 1: in disguise somehow? Could this be something that this team says, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: we saw what happened. We should have won, but we didn't. Now,
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  Speaker 1: how do we make that not happen again? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: is that possible?
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  Speaker 2: It has to be. It has to happen, and that's
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  Speaker 2: It's a mandatory. And I'm not saying I don't want
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  Speaker 2: to necessarily use the blessing in disguise, but it's mandatory
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  Speaker 2: that we see how it happened, why it happened, and
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  Speaker 2: we address it and make sure that we have the
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  Speaker 2: resolve not to let it happen again. That's mandatory. And
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  Speaker 2: all guys understand that. I listen, I'm not a big
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  Speaker 2: blessing in disguise. When you lose kind of guy. You know,
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  Speaker 2: losses are devastating. That was horrible, but failure handled properly
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  Speaker 2: prepares you for success. And I think that you have
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  Speaker 2: to inject that mindset into your players without like I said,
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  Speaker 2: rationalizing the loss, you know. And that's how we try
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  Speaker 2: to approach it, is what can we learn and having
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  Speaker 2: the resolve to apply the lessons going forward to make
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  Speaker 2: sure it doesn't happen again, you know. And then you know,
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  Speaker 2: at the end of the year, if you can look
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  Speaker 2: back and you can say, well, hey, you know, listen,
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  Speaker 2: we learned our lesson right there and we didn't let
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  Speaker 2: it happen again, that's damn right now. I'd like those
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  Speaker 2: lessons to carry over from year to year, though. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we've had some of those around here where we've been
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  Speaker 2: really close against teams that you know, are power for
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  Speaker 2: conference teams, and we've closed out a couple, but we
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  Speaker 2: haven't closed out enough.
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  Speaker 3: And our objective is to close those ones.
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  Speaker 2: Out and not win. We don't want to win. We
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  Speaker 2: don't want to lose close. We want to win.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the way to do it. That's the bottom
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  Speaker 1: line of it. By the way, Husky Nation talked to
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people in the last forty eight hours,
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  Speaker 1: seventy two hours, they're big time behind you. They've had
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  Speaker 1: they had a real good feeling about the game that
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  Speaker 1: you just played. Just bite the loss. I didn't get
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  Speaker 1: a lot of negatives coming from fans that I talked
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  Speaker 1: to at all in the last seventy two hours. So
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you turn that corner. I got you there.
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  Speaker 1: You're one to one. I know you want to be
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  Speaker 1: two and zero, but I think that's that's a positive.
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  Speaker 1: And look at con football in the future.
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  Speaker 2: I think are one of our goals is to get
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  Speaker 2: to a point where if we do lose a game
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  Speaker 2: like that, our fan base is disappointed. That means that
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  Speaker 2: we've made progress, you know what I mean. Like to me,
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  Speaker 2: that means that we've made progress where our fan base
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  Speaker 2: says some bs that we lost that game. You know. Now,
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to hear that, obviously, because I don't
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  Speaker 2: want to lose the game, and it's hard to hear.
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  Speaker 2: But I want our I want us as a program
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  Speaker 2: to reach that point where our fans are they're they're
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  Speaker 2: disappointed that we don't win a game like that, and
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  Speaker 2: I mean disappointing because they believe we're better than that,
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  Speaker 2: so that then I'll feel good about where we're headed,
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  Speaker 2: where we are as a program. I mean I feel
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  Speaker 2: good about where we are. Don't get me wrong, but
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  Speaker 2: you know, I feel like, okay, this is yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: this is this is real.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, all right, we'll be back in just a moment.
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