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Seg 1 - FB Show Sept 19 Jim Mora · Coaches Corner

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  Welcome to the Yukon Football Coaches Show on the Yukon Sports Network. I'm Mike
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  Chrispino. We're joined by Jim Moore every Tuesday at six pm. We thank
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  you for joining us, and coach it's Duke. This week we're gonna get
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  to them. We're gonna talk about what happened last weekend at Wrenchler Field against
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  FIU. First, I feel at this point in the season, you guys
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  are own three. We know that that's a fact, but I feel like
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  a couple of things could have gone your way in the fi U game,
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  maybe the NC State game. I mean, this club could be two and
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  one at this point. I don't know what you think about that stuff.
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  I was gonna give you the all could have, should have, would could
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  have, could have, would have, should have h but but it hasn't.
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  Yeah, I mean we're close, but close didn't count. We're an
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  improved team, but it hasn't reflected itself in the record. I think it's
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  come down to some simple things, and I think, uh, you know,
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  simple doesn't mean easy, but we were not executing at the level that
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  we need to execute at and we haven't played with the energy and the passion
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  and the effort that we need to play at, play with and h and
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  we gotta we got to make sure that we do a better job of coaching
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  these guys up so they know exactly what they've got to do. We got
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  to make sure we put them in a position where they're doing what they do
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  well and keeping them out of out of positions where we're asking to do things
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  that they, you know, maybe struggle with. And then we got to
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  coach them up and give them great looks and practice and then when they cross
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  out wide in line, they got to go out and execute and play with
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  great efforts. So if we can do those things, then you know those
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  things you used talking about about being close, you know they we won't be
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  close anymore. We'll get it done. Yeah, they the trends, there
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  were some trends in the FIU game that I liked them. And you ran
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  more plays than them seventy two to sixty. You rushed for one hundred and
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  seventy three forty carries, hell them to eighty yards on the ground thirty three
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  carries. I mean, you know, football games, there's so much involved.
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  But they fumbled the ball four times. You can didn't come up with
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  it at all. I mean, if you get one of those, maybe
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  two of them, that really changes the whole game, doesn't it. Without
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  a doubt. You and I have talked about this before. You know,
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  turnover ratio is the most important stat in terms of winning and losing because it
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  determines, you know, amount of possessions, field positions, so many things.
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  And we have not we have not taken the ball away but for one
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  time against Georgia State, and so you know that's certainly a point emphasis.
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  But I think you know, you start taking the ball away and you start
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  getting those fumbles. Your talk about when you when you execute properly and you
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  play with great effort, efforts going to help you make a lot of plays
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  and efforts going to help you get near the ball when it pops out.
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  And so you know, we focus on those things with the thought that if
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  we do those things, then the takeaways they'll come. But it's time for
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  them to start coming. Yeah, penalties all we obviously change things in these
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  games. I mean the first drive that you can't had trying to answer that
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  touchdown by fi you no past interference in the end zone, I felt like
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  I'm a long way away. I'm two hundred yards away, you're on the
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  sideline. What was your view with that? Because to me it looked like
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  past interference that keeps the drive going. Maybe you get it in the end
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  zone, tie the game at seven. Instead you had to settle for a
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  field goal. Yeah. Well, the rule is is that the defensive back.
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  You know, there's no such thing as face guarding. You know,
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  people say, well, he's face guarding. There's no such thing as face
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  guarding. That's an old time rule. But you have to make an attempt
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  to play the ball, you know, if you're if you're going to initiate
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  any contact. And so I felt like their defensive back played through the receiver
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  without playing the ball. So I would agree with you on that. But
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  we also have to understand that officials are going to make the calls that they
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  make and see it the way they see it, and we can't ever use
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  that for an excuse. You know. I think there's one penalty that that
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  bothered me more than any It was the targeting call on Mumu because I did
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  not think that was a justifiable call and I still don't, and I peeled
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  it to the NCAA and they rejected it, and I think that, you
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  know, it's good that we're putting an emphasis on player safety, and I
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  think it's a real positive that we're concerned with hits to the heads and concussions.
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  I think those are those are very very important initiatives in college football.
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  However, that being said, I think that you know, with with Mumu,
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  it's such a drastic penalty for something that wasn't intentional. I mean,
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  he was just trying to make a good angle tackle. As a matter of
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  fact, if I was teaching someone how to make an angle tackle, that's
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  what I teach him. Yet this young man has to sit out the first
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  half of this game really for just making a tackle. So you know that
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  that that bothers me. There's nothing I can do about it, obviously,
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  not not you know, maybe we can adjust address that issue in the off
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  season with the NCAA legis LA. But you know, I just think it's
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  a drastic penalty for a college kid who gets twelve games on a play that
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  you know, there was no intention of doing anything egregious. So that's someone
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  that bothered me the most, and we lose him for the first half this
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  week. So yeah, yeah, And coach, you are a defensive guy,
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  yourself, defensive back, etc. What can a guy do differently?
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  I mean, he go, You're heading toward the runner, trying to make
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  a play, he drops his head. You're trying to go low. You're
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  not hitting his head, You're not trying to hit him in the head.
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  And it's almost I don't want to say accidental, but I think we're asking
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  the defensive guys and a play like that, we're asking too much of them
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  to make a split second decision when the running back makes his move like that.
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  Yeah, I mean, you know, I don't know that it's it
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  was certainly wasn't intentional, right, we know it wasn't intentional, and he
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  didn't use the crown of his helmet. I guess we gotta go take knees
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  out, you know, And and none of you hope that you're not blowing
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  out a knee, you know, because I don't think any any player goes
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  out on that field intentionally trying to hurt somebody. And I don't think any
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  coach everyone wants to teach a technique that's going to hurt an opponent. But
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  I do know this that you know, as we lower the target which I
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  think is important to do because the head should never be a target. If
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  we may make it so that an offensive player can dip their shoulder and dip
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  their head and initiate contact on a defensive player who's trying to go low,
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  and the defensive player gets gets a fifteen yard targeting penalty and gets kicked out
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  of the game and can't play the next game. The next thing, you're
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  gonna, you're gonna you're gonna have to teach your guys what you got.
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  You gotta go take his you gotta go take his knees out, and you
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  don't do that with the thought that you want to blow his knee out.
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  But I don't know whether the choice you have, you know, like,
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  oh, I could tell Mumu is you gotta go lower. And the only
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  place lower on that play was a young man's knees. And I don't want
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  to see head injuries and I don't want to see blown out knees. I
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  want to see good, clean football. And I thought Mumu's play was a
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  good clean football player. I think it happens all the time, So you
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  know, I can understand the conundrum that the NCA is in, But I
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  think we gotta we gotta find a way to change that rule, or at
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  least adjust it a little bit. Yeah, I'm with you on that.
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