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Seg 2 - FB Show Coach Mora Sept 12 · Coaches Corner

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  Up next for the Football Husky he's a start of a three game homestand with
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  the FIU Panthers, they come to Pratt Whitney Stadium Saturday afternoon. Network coverage
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  begins at two with the Bob Joyce and the Heart Auto Group countdown to kickoff
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  game time three thirty. Here along the Yukon Sports networking online via the Varsity
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  Network app and the Varsity Network dot Com. Jim Morra with us and coach.
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  We were talking about Taekwon robertson what a you know, what a strange
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  twist for him. Last year he wins the job, he gets hurt in
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  the first game, he's out for the year. Then this year he's kind
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  of the incumbent, but he gets beaten out for the job. Now he's
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  back in the job. So, first of all, playing without playing,
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  you know, in live action for a guy like him for a year,
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  what's that like? And how do you expect he's going to adapt to getting
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  back in the flow. Well, unfortunately, and fortunately he got plays last
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  week. You know, he got more than a half of playtime, you
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  know, And I say unfortunately because Joe got hurt and you never want anyone
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  to get hurt, but it did give take On a chance to go out
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  there and throw the ball around, and I thought he did a really nice
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  job. So I think that he'll respond well. He's a guy that has
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  always paid attention and done the extra work, even when he wasn't starting the
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  first two weeks. You know, he did the extra work, and I
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  think that'll pay off for him. So I'm excited to see him play.
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  And at the same time, like I said, it's a catch twenty two
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  because you know, you hate what happened to Joe. You hate what happened
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  to Joe. Take Kwon Robertson was nineteen to thirty and as you mentioned,
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  and I agree with you that you it was some empty yardage. There was
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  a twenty eight nothing game. But I felt like it was maybe the one
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  positive that came out of that thing. He got a chance to get some
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  reps. He threw the ball down the field, He connected with Brett Buckman
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  a few times, cam Ross. He looked comfortable to me, and I
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  got to feel like for the coaching staff and Nick Charlton, you obviously everybody
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  else, that has to get me a pretty good feeling going forward here In
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  the next weekend. Yeah, I think you're right, Mike. I mean,
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  just getting those reps having success throwing the football, building that confidence,
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  you know as a quarterback, you know, throwing the ball and having success.
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  I mean, that's just going to build build confidence. And uh,
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  you know, kind of getting a little rapport going with with Brett Buckman there.
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  I think that's very helpful. And uh, you know, I have
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  all the confidence in the world that take Kuan to go out and play well,
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  and we've got to do a good job of supporting him. And you
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  know, one of the things we have to do to help take Kuan is
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  we've got to we've got to run the ball better. You know, we've
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  got to find a way on defense to get some takeaways and and uh,
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  you know, give give our offense field position. We did it one time
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  last week we missed a field goal, but we got to do it more
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  so. Yeah, you kin, last year we did a nice job of
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  turning other teams over. They're about dead even in the turnover battle so far.
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  These first two games are minus three and it feels like, you know,
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  things haven't gone your way in a sense when you've gotten first downs.
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  The other night at Georgia's state. Two penalties killed those a fumbled punts put
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  the other team in great field position. These are things that get you behind
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  the eight ball a little bit. And I'm sure you're you've got to be
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  thinking, let's stop doing that stuff, and I think we'll be okay.
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  Yeah, here, I'll give you some. I'll give you a couple real
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  quick. So you're talking about, you know, last last week there was
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  really some significant things in terms of you know, self inflicted wounds and that
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  really hurt our ability to sustained drives. You know, we have five penalties
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  on offense and if you look at those penalties, I'm getting my notes out
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  of here. Here's what happened is uh, you got a second hang in
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  there with me for a second, there hanging there's fourteen penalties, by the
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  way, in the first two games. I know you can't be happy with
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  that. Uh, I'm not happy with that at all. I'm not happy
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  with any penalties. But you know so well, I can just tell you
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  this. They were they You know, we run the ball for I think
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  sixteen yards and have a hold. So now instead of first and ten,
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  I think it's second and seventeen. Then becomes third and sixteen, we have
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  to punt, and we have I can't find it right now. We have
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  some other things that there's penalties. They're killers. They're killers, especially when
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  you're fighting for your life the way we're fighting for our lives. So,
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  you know, we've just got to make sure that when we're detailed and and
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  better with our hands and better with our technique and uh, you know,
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  penalties are a lot of times a function of not putting yourself in a good
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  position, and so you have to reach your grab, uh you know,
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  or try to cheat cheat your way out of the play, and we can't
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  let that happen. Yeah, the running game you mentioned first first week against
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  NC State, a one hundred and sixty yards with seventy one on one touchdown
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  run. The running game just wasn't there against George's State. And I don't
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  know, you know, I'm sure you're pouring over at the tape trying to
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  figure out how why can't we open more holes here? I mean, last
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  year random balls so well, but the last year's last year you got four
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  offensive linemen back from that group. You know, I thought that would be
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  the unit you could really depend on again. But at least against Georgia's state
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  that was in the case. What did you see on tape when you looked
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  at that, Well, I think it's it's it's it's the it's my responsibility
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  to make sure that we're doing the things that our players do best and putting
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  them in the best position, doing things that they've perfected through repetition, and
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  then going out and practicing the looks that we're going to see in demanding excellence
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  in practice, and then reviewing the tape and correcting any any mistakes that we
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  make and going out and repeating it so that we're working more towards perfection and
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  being exact. And I would say that the player's job is then to take
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  that and transferred onto the field on Saturdays, I would say that none of
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  us have done a good enough job of doing that. We haven't necessarily put
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  our players in the best position, and they haven't necessarily executed up to their
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  to their ability. And so you just keep emphasizing that, working towards it,
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  demanding it in practice, demanding it in meetings, and because we have
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  a group of young men that really care, you expect that there will be
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  results. And I expect that there will be results. You know, the
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  defensive side of the ball. Against NC State, no big plays by them
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  for the most part. They had a couple of three drives that worked for
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  the Wolfpack. But this week against Georgia State, there were a number of
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  big plays yardage wise. How deflating is that for the defense and how do
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  you prevent that? I mean, that's not something obviously you want to see,
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  and that's really one of the reasons that Georgia State was successful the other
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  night. Yeah, it's interesting because explosive play ratio is one of the key
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  critical variables to victory, and we were plus one in explosive plays. We
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  had six on offense and we only gave up five on defense. The problem
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  is is when they came, and it's a little bit misleading. So you
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  know, we saw the sixty five yard touchdown run, we saw the twenty
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  six yard quarterback run on third and long, the thirty nine yard run up
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  the middle, there's another twenty one yard run, there's one one pass.
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  But on offense, we only had one explosive in the first half. We
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  had one in the third quarter, and the other four all came in the
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  fourth quarter when the game was a little bit different, being played a little
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  bit differently. So even though the statistically we had more big plays in them,
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  their big plays came at cheam moments, and ours came, you know,
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  kind of when the game was in a different, different state of affairs.
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  And so defensively, a couple of things. Number one, the sixty
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  five yard run, we gotta we gotta be disciplined in our gap, better
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  gap control. The twenty six yard run by the quarterback to get him a
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  first down and third and long was squarely on me who called a certain defense
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  and then got stubborn and didn't get out of it when they audibled. The
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  thirty nine yard touchdown was a linebacker not being in the gap that he's supposed
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  to be in. You know, when we we had we had our backups
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  in there trying to get them some work, and a guy didn't get where
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  he was supposed to be. So, as you said, you know,
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  you give up big plays on defense, man, it's it's hard to overcome,
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  especially on the road, and we've got to be better at that,
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  and you know we will be. We were we have been, but we
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  certainly weren't the other night, and that's just not acceptable. Our huskis getting
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  another chance. Againt step by you coming up on Saturday. More on that,
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  we're with Jim Moor. This is the Yukon Football Coaches Show on Learfield