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Seg 2 - FB Show Nov 7 Jim Mora · Coaches Corner

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  Back on the Yukon Football coaches. So a little later on we'll talk to
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  no Way rules the place kicker, moalains and Sand the offensive tackle joins us,
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  and we're back with Jim Mora coach a game at Tennessee. We're going
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  to talk about couple of things here. That first and goal. You guys
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  had early the chance to tie the game. You're a little unlucky, lose
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  the center injured and now you got the backup guy coming in. There were
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  a couple of snaps there that went a little bit of wry and you have
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  to settle for a field goal. I thought that was a little disappointing because
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  you would put the ball down there inside their five chance to score tie this
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  thing up, but it didn't work out. Yeah, that was a tough
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  one. You know, our offense moved the ball fairly well. We struggled
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  when we got into the fringe area, you know, outside the red zone.
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  But we did have that chance in the red zone and Kari went out
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  with the ankle and then we, like you said, we had a couple
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  of snaps that were you know, not perfect or mishandled and it backed us
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  up. Then we had another chance because they had the penalty and we couldn't
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  punch it in and you know, been nice to get on the board early
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  like that and with a seven rather than a three. That game, to
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  me, though, it came down a few things. It came down to
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  u in the big plays they got against our defense, three huge plays actually,
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  and then some self inflicted you know, wounds we gave ourselves on offense.
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  I thought on special teams we played very well, which is you know,
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  was a real positive for us because we've struggled a little bit. So
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  you know, it was overall it was another I guess you got caught another
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  learning experience. Yeah. Well, they you know, they came as advertised
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  against the rush. I mean, they held you guys to minimal yardage and
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  and you know when you're when you're unable to run, and you've been saying
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  this for weeks, it's difficult to run your whole offense. That's the way
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  you're kind of this is the way you play. You're going to run to
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  set up to pass, and those guys just stuffed the run all day and
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  that makes it that much harder to really move the ball. Well, they
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  were I think number seven in the country running the foot against the run and
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  six and sacks. Now, we ran the ball not well. Obviously we
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  dug out what we could get. We did protect pretty well. But you
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  know, I, like you said, I think you have to be able
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  to run the ball no matter what. So that was that was a little
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  disappointing. You know, we pride ourselves on being a team that can run
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  the ball regardless of who we're playing. We're gonna get another chance this week.
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  You know, we play the number one ranked rushing team in the country
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  this week, so rushing defense. I'm started rushing defense in the country.
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  So you know, hey, we just got to keep pounding away and you
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  know, adding to our staple of running backs. You know, right now
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  it's tough because we're relying really on one guy in cam and he's doing a
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  tremendous job. I mean, he's really risen to the challenge. I think
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  he's shown what he's made of and what he's capable of. He gets better
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  every week. But you know, Victor wasn't one hundred percent. He gave
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  it a go. We needed to be judicious and how we used him for
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  his long term health and welfare. So there's some things that went in do
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  it besides them just being an outstanding run defense. But you know, we're
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  gonna we're gonna keep working to get better. Yeah, the good news I
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  thought was Jalen Mitchell got a shot. I think he had eight care he's
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  thirty two yards if I'm right on this in a long run of eleven.
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  I mean, he showed some stuff. He looked like a guy that it
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  might be able to help you here down the stretch. Well, he needs
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  to, you know, he needs to be able to help us. Like
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  we said, we're light at that position. And you know, I think
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  Victor is getting closer and closer to being one hundred percent, which is great,
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  but he's not quite there yet. Until he's back, then Jalen needs
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  to pick up the slack. And I've seen him get better every time he
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  touches the ball. He's done a good job with ball security, you know,
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  which was something that was kind of an issue earlier in the season with
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  him, and I think he's he's really taking it on himself to clean that
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  up. I think that, you know, he's also doing a really good
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  job on special teams for us. So you know, we just have to
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  weather the storm and he's got to go in there and do what he did
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  on Saturday, and that's give us some plays. Now. That was another
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  thing the team did pretty well special teams because Tennessee pretty good on that area
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  and pump returns kick returns at center, but didn't really break anything in the
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  game. Justin Jolie eight catches, Jim fifty yards after catch. I love
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  that stat. And and Brett Buckman had six catches too, So you got
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  a couple guys there. Jolie's had a really good year and I just love
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  when he catches the ball because he not going down right away. Yeah,
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  he's really good after the catch, and they put a lot of zone on
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  us. And one of the things that he's really good at is using his
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  body, his size, his arm length to get himself open in zones and
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  then people are having to try to tackle him when they've got to run at
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  him, and you know, he's got those big, powerful legs and he
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  just doesn't go down easy. He's a tenacious runner after the catch. We've
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  seen that on multiple occasions his two years here. And you know, I
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  think I think Justin made them feel him a little bit, you know,
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  And I was really proud of that kid. You know, it was a
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  time late in the game where shoot, he was almost in tears because he
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  didn't feel like he was doing enough. And trust me, he is.
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  You know, Shoots, you watched it. He was doing everything that he
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  could to help his team win. And that's the kind of man you want,
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  you know, on your tea. You want that attitude on your team.
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  And I think we all love the kid, you know, we all
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  love him. Yeah, you got to have that. You got to have
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  a lot of guys like that. Oh, that's for sure. Takekwan Roberson
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  the QB twenty four for forty two eighteen, so he went over two hundred
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  yards in passing for the third time this year. I mean, unfortunately,
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  those two picks six is kind of you know, turned the game into a
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  route. And I'm just curious when you look back at that and you look
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  the tape of that, how much we the Because I'm looking at it in
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  real time, I'm seeing their dbs jump the routes that looked like I don't
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  know if they were taking a chance, they were guessing, but they turned
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  it into six twice and that really hurt well, the plays that hurt us
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  offensively. Of the ones that stand out is obviously the fumble that they picked
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  up and they scored three touchdowns on defense. That's inexcusable. Obviously we got
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  to do a better job with ball security there. You know, the two
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  throws by take one that they returned, you know, there's some circumstance in
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  there with the route or the timing, some pressure, and quite frankly,
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  I think that the take one was just really trying to make something happen.
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  You never want that to happen. What You never want your quarterback to throw
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  a pick six. But it wasn't your typical Oh I just threw a pick
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  It was man. We were fighting our asses off, we were down,
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  we were backed up, we were trying to do everything you could. And
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  I know this is this sounds just crazy, but it was almost to me
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  showed his competitive spirit. Now he knows that he can't he can't do that,
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  he knows that. The growth he showed that game I think was really
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  overshadowed by those two plays because he stood in the pocket, he wasted the
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  pressure. He threw some darts. Of course, not every throw was perfect.
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  He had to throw in some tight windows and zone. I'm really impressed
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  with the way he's improving. Yeah, Roberson is going to be a good
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  player for this team down the road here hopefully in the Husk he's come up
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  with a couple of wins back in a moment, we have Jim Morrow with
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  us. A little later on, Vallentin Sen, the offensive tackle spending some
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  time in no Way rule is the place kicker. This is the Yukon Football
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