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Jim Mora Postgame FAU · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: And exhale a smile. What else are you feeling right
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  Speaker 1: now after coming away with the win?
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  Speaker 2: I feel like a proud papa. That was That was
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  Speaker 2: the ultimate life lesson right there. Capsulized in the last
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  Speaker 2: minute forty six seconds. And it wasn't about the minute
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  Speaker 2: forty six seconds. It's about what led to the minute
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  Speaker 2: forty six seconds where we went and won the game.
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  Speaker 2: And it's the work that these guys have put in,
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  Speaker 2: the commitment that they've made, the bond that they've built,
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  Speaker 2: the confidence had grown. And what I told them is
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  Speaker 2: that that's not a football moment, that's a life moment.
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  Speaker 2: Don't ever let anybody tell you what you can't do
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  Speaker 2: ever ever, you know. And we've had probably three four
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  Speaker 2: hundred two minute drives this year in practice, and we
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  Speaker 2: had great confidence that we could go down and get
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  Speaker 2: the get the ball on the end zone. Got a
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  Speaker 2: little nervousery at the end, but I was thinking if
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  Speaker 2: we went four overtimes, yeah, yeah, it was right that
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  Speaker 2: the odds had to be with us though, So it
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  Speaker 2: was good.
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  Speaker 1: So on that final drive, you had talked at halftime saying, hey,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna throw the ball as much do what we
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  Speaker 1: have to do, run it, throw it. What did you
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  Speaker 1: make of it? We haven't talked about Gordi enough this year.
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  Speaker 1: What about the play calling and just the ability for
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  Speaker 1: him to draw stuff up?
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's Gordian, it's the staff, it's he's one of
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  Speaker 2: the best offensive coordinators in all college football. And that
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  Speaker 2: is not even in dispute. I mean, nobody can dispute
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  Speaker 2: that he's brilliant. I've said it all year. He's a
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  Speaker 2: great play caller, he is a great football mind. He's
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  Speaker 2: one of the best football coaches I've ever been around
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  Speaker 2: in my life, and I've been around Hall of famers,
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  Speaker 2: and yeah, Gordy samus is he's special. He's special, and
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  Speaker 2: that staff is special. But it all comes down to
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  Speaker 2: the players going out and making it happen. And the
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  Speaker 2: players went out and made it happen.
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  Speaker 1: And there's so many guys we could talk about. I'll
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  Speaker 1: start with Finnano Joe, who's up to twenty eight touchdowns
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  Speaker 1: one interception this season. Somehow saved his best performance for
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  Speaker 1: last with almost four hundred and fifty yards today. What
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  Speaker 1: steadying hand does he have as that seventh year guy.
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  Speaker 1: Just on that final drive, it just encapsulated his whole
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  Speaker 1: college career.
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  Speaker 2: It felt like, yeah, that's a great way to put it.
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  Speaker 2: I think it reminds me of us saying calm is contagious,
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  Speaker 2: and that's a Navy Seal thing. Calm is contagious, and
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  Speaker 2: Joe is so calm all the time, and so that
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  Speaker 2: just permeates the offensive group. You know, they go out
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  Speaker 2: there and it's natural to feed off a quarterback. When
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  Speaker 2: your quarterback is calm and he's cool, he's collected, it's contagious,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, he just never doubts himself. He has
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  Speaker 2: great confidence in the people around him. Twenty eight touchdowns
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  Speaker 2: and one interception. I'm sure there's some kind of record
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  Speaker 2: that that broke. I mean, you know he listen, Joe Fiano.
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  Speaker 2: I haven't said this, Joe. He's not on the stage
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  Speaker 2: in New York with the final three for the Heisman.
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  Speaker 2: Then it is a crying shame with what he's done
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  Speaker 2: this year. And you can say we're a group of
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  Speaker 2: five team. Let me tell you something. There's there are
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  Speaker 2: us in TWU Lane are the only group of five
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  Speaker 2: teams that have played three Power Conference teams. No other
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  Speaker 2: group of five team has played three. Only to Lane
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  Speaker 2: and US we're the only two that have beat two
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  Speaker 2: and Joey Figiano has a lot to do with it.
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  Speaker 2: So all that group of five stuff, Joey Figiano should
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  Speaker 2: be in the Heisman contention. He should be in the
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  Speaker 2: final three. He should be sitting on the stage in
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  Speaker 2: New York City when they announced the Heisman period.
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  Speaker 1: And the only thing that's left is we've got a
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  Speaker 1: couple of weeks before an eventual Bowl game. What do
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  Speaker 1: you want to see out of this group over the
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  Speaker 1: next couple of weeks, just in terms of enjoying time
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  Speaker 1: to gather down the stretch.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to see him for a week. A
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  Speaker 2: lot of them are leaving from here. I want him
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  Speaker 2: to go home. I want him to enjoy Thanksgiving with
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  Speaker 2: their family, and they'll come back a week from Monday
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  Speaker 2: and then we'll see what we do. We'll probably get
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  Speaker 2: a little work in, but I want him to go
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  Speaker 2: shut it down. They've earned that. I'm not to say
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  Speaker 2: that they've earned it different than deserving it. They've earned it,
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  Speaker 2: and I want them to go enjoy great time with
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  Speaker 2: their family.
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  Speaker 1: You got a year older on Wednesday, and you got
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  Speaker 1: one more year older today.
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  Speaker 2: I think, no, no, no, no, no, I didn't get a
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  Speaker 2: year older. I get younger every time I do this.
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  Speaker 2: This is this is what I do, This is who
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  Speaker 2: I am. The age is a freaking number and it
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  Speaker 2: does not even exist in my world. I challenge anyone
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  Speaker 2: to come come climb a freaking mountain with me.
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  Speaker 1: If you think