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Seg 4 - FB Show Sept 10 - Jim Mora · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: We're back with coach Jim Moore. Individual game tickets for
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  Speaker 1: the six remaining Yukon football home games. That's right, six
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  Speaker 1: more can be purchased at yukontickets dot com. Yukon Huskies Football,
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  Speaker 1: get into the game, and we're back with the coach.
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  Speaker 1: More that, we've been talking a lot of offense. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: when you put sixty three points on the board, you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna talk offense. But you gave up a couple touchdowns
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  Speaker 1: big plays against Merrimack. I know the game was on
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  Speaker 1: a hand, I mean, it's human nature. Guys might have
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  Speaker 1: relaxed a little bit. I don't know, second third string
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  Speaker 1: guys playing. Given all that, as you looked at the
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  Speaker 1: defensive performance the other day, obviously first half pretty much
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  Speaker 1: every time Merrimack had the ball, they couldn't do much,
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  Speaker 1: but they ended up with seven big plays coach in
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  Speaker 1: the game, you know, for about two hundred and sixteen
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  Speaker 1: yards most of their offense. So obviously big plays are
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  Speaker 1: an emphasis this week defensively for you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it starts with it's really three things.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's number one, doing your job on a consistent basis,
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  Speaker 2: being consistent and doing what you're supposed to do. So
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  Speaker 2: you're accountable to your teammate and your teammate can trust
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  Speaker 2: it you're going to be there so that they can
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  Speaker 2: do their job. I mean, that's what that's what defense
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  Speaker 2: starts with, is being accountable to doing your job so
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  Speaker 2: your trustworthy and your teammates can trust you. And then
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  Speaker 2: number two, it's it's about the way you enter the
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  Speaker 2: play and leverage the football once the ball has been
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  Speaker 2: declared where it's going, and maintaining the proper leverage inside
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  Speaker 2: or outside or down the middle of the ball. And
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  Speaker 2: then it's about tackling. And we did not do a
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  Speaker 2: good job early of consistently doing our job. We did
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  Speaker 2: not do a good enough job of consistently maintaining leverage,
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  Speaker 2: and we did not do a job of consistently tackling,
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  Speaker 2: especially in space. And we are putting tremendous emphasis on
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  Speaker 2: those things we always have that we're even doubling down
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  Speaker 2: because those are the three things that are holding us
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  Speaker 2: back from on defense. And they are all controllables, they
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  Speaker 2: are all things that we can control. We can coach
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  Speaker 2: them better, and we can execute them better, and we
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  Speaker 2: can practice the harder and we are going to do
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  Speaker 2: that but the big plays like we talked about on offense.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, god, dang, they give you life, right, they
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  Speaker 2: give you a hope. Chunk is chunks of yardage that
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  Speaker 2: you don't have to just fight for every play. You've
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  Speaker 2: got to win the explosive RACI explosive play ratio and
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  Speaker 2: you've got to win the turnover ratio if you want
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  Speaker 2: to win football games consistently. And so we've got to
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  Speaker 2: get a handle on that. On defense, it's been addressed.
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  Speaker 2: The players understand the importance of it. The coaches are
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  Speaker 2: going to work them harder on it. We're going to
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  Speaker 2: re emphasize it, and it's something we've got to get
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  Speaker 2: better on.
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  Speaker 1: I think you, if I remember this right, in your
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  Speaker 1: press conference tuesday, you mentioned shoulder pads tack shoulder pad tackling.
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  Speaker 1: They correct me if I'm wrong on this. And I
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  Speaker 1: was trying to understand it because I actually played defensive
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  Speaker 1: bag of one time in my past life, and I
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  Speaker 1: always thought of my head being in the middle of
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  Speaker 1: a tackle. But explain that to me. You said that
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  Speaker 1: you know we're making too many shoulder pad tackles.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I meant not bringing our arms like trying to
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  Speaker 2: knock a guy down instead of tackling them. Yes, you know,
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  Speaker 2: there's too many players where guys are laying out and
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  Speaker 2: not bringing their arms. You got to if you're a
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  Speaker 2: football player, God gave the arms so that you could tackle.
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  Speaker 2: And we weren't using our arms. We weren't grabbing cloths,
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  Speaker 2: squeezing our elbows, put our opening up our chest and
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  Speaker 2: putting our chest on people and and rolling our hips
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  Speaker 2: and driving our feet and trying to plant them in
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  Speaker 2: the ground. Now, you don't talk about the head and
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  Speaker 2: tackling except other than you know, put it on one
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  Speaker 2: side or the other, you know, because we're trying to
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  Speaker 2: take the head out of out of football contact out
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  Speaker 2: as much as we can for player safety. But uh, now,
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  Speaker 2: you got to be willing to open up your chest,
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  Speaker 2: man and run through somebody. I mean, that's what you
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  Speaker 2: got to be willing to do to play great defense
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  Speaker 2: and be a great defen player. And we've got to
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  Speaker 2: be better at that. And it's not that our guys
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  Speaker 2: are afraid to do it, because they're not, because they're
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  Speaker 2: tremendously courageous and tremendously tough. We just have to we
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  Speaker 2: have to emphasize more and we're than we are.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's interesting that you watching the Monday night football game,
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  Speaker 1: we're talking about tackling here, the Pros tackled. I mean
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  Speaker 1: people say, well, they you know, they don't tackle like
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  Speaker 1: they used to, blah blah blah. I'm telling you, I
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  Speaker 1: thought the Jets, who gave up a lot of yardige
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  Speaker 1: and all that stuff, they tackled pretty well against the
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  Speaker 1: forty nine ers, and the forty nine ers defense was
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  Speaker 1: pretty darn good at making, you know, a hit and
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  Speaker 1: bringing guys down without extra yardies. I mean, the Pros
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  Speaker 1: really have that kind of aspect down.
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  Speaker 2: Well, if you can't tackle in the NFL, you're not
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  Speaker 2: going to be in the NFL. You're going to be
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  Speaker 2: bagging groceries or running your own business or you know,
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  Speaker 2: doing whatever your degree in college prepared you to do.
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  Speaker 2: But you're not going to be playing in the NFL.
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  Speaker 2: There's no room for guys that don't. It's it's mandatory.
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  Speaker 2: And uh it's mandatory ear too. You know. It's just
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  Speaker 2: that we can't cut guys. You know, in the NFL,
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  Speaker 2: you don't tackle, your ass is getting cut. It isn't
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  Speaker 2: like you used to be because they're trying to take
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  Speaker 2: the head out of it and emphasize player safety, but
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  Speaker 2: they're still violent. They still try to break and inflict pain.
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  Speaker 2: They have great body control, great understanding of leverage and
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  Speaker 2: play intry. They have great athleticism, and while they respect
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  Speaker 2: the hell out of each other as players, they know
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  Speaker 2: that their ability to put food on the table relies
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  Speaker 2: on them being able to tackle and on the other side,
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  Speaker 2: avoid a tackle or break a tackle.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. The foot it's amazing the foot speed of the
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  Speaker 1: of the NFL football players.
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  Speaker 2: People don't even have a clue. Oh my goodness, the
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  Speaker 2: difference in the level of ability between college and the pros.
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  Speaker 2: Like I get a kick out of these people that say, well,
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  Speaker 2: a couple of years ago, if you took Alabama and
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  Speaker 2: put them on the field with I think it was
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  Speaker 2: the Cleveland Browns at the time, the Bama would be Cleveland.
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  Speaker 2: There's there's absolutely positively no shot of that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Shot, there's levels, and the level between college and pros
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  Speaker 2: is outrageously different.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's no doubt about it. Well, we'll looking forward
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  Speaker 1: to Duke in yukon six o'clock down in Durham and
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  Speaker 1: we'll have the pre game at four thirty. Thanks to
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  Speaker 1: coach Jim Morra and we'll be back. Bob Joyce will
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  Speaker 1: join us with a couple interviews with Cam Chadwick and
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  Speaker 1: Alex Hunting as we continue on the Yukon Football Coaches
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