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Segment 1 - FB Show Sept 3 - Mora · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Yukon Football Coaches Show. We get together
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  Speaker 1: with Jim Moore every Tuesday and we kind of recap
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  Speaker 1: what happened on the weekend and look ahead to what's
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  Speaker 1: coming up on the weekend ahead of us. Merrimack is
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  Speaker 1: the team that will provide the opposition of the home
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  Speaker 1: opener for Yukon as Huskies will go into that one
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  Speaker 1: oh and one and a coach. We got to recap
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  Speaker 1: what happened on the weekend. That Maryland club, out of
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  Speaker 1: the Big ten, has had two or three real good
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  Speaker 1: years in a row, and they seem to have a
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  Speaker 1: lot of momentum and they got off to a great
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  Speaker 1: start and I think when that happens and your home boy,
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  Speaker 1: that's a big boost for the opposition, isn't it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? It is. They're a good football team and they've
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  Speaker 2: they've done a really good job of building that roster.
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  Speaker 2: They're big, and they're physical, and they're fast, and they
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  Speaker 2: know what they're doing and they're you know, last year,
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  Speaker 2: they had I thought maybe a little bit some discipline
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  Speaker 2: problems and coach Loxley's done a great job of fixing
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  Speaker 2: that in terms of I don't mean discipline, discipline players.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you know, some penalties that hurt them and
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  Speaker 2: they didn't hurt themselves. And when you go on the
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  Speaker 2: road and the opponent gets momentum early, it's tough to
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  Speaker 2: stop it. And that's something that you know, we have
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  Speaker 2: to be better at. But I was really impressed with them.
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  Speaker 2: I was not impressed with us, and I want to
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  Speaker 2: be impressed with us, and I'm looking forward to getting
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  Speaker 2: back out on the field on Saturday and playing better football.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. One of the things leading up to the opener
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  Speaker 1: that you talked about during camp and everything. You got
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  Speaker 1: all these new players, fifty one new players, twenty eight transfers,
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  Speaker 1: is it going to be? I guess work in progress
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  Speaker 1: would be the best way to describe it in terms
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  Speaker 1: of developing chemistry with players that haven't really played with
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  Speaker 1: each other in games at high speeds.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean new players and new schemes offensively and defensively.
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  Speaker 2: But that doesn't matter. You know, there's a lot of
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  Speaker 2: teams in the country that are dealing with that, and
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  Speaker 2: so we just have to deal with it better than
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  Speaker 2: we have. I didn't feel, Mike like those were big
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  Speaker 2: issues for us on Saturday. I felt like the issues defensively,
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  Speaker 2: as we didn't tackle well. Some of our angles were poor,
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  Speaker 2: whether it be on our run fits or down the field.
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  Speaker 2: And on offense, you know, early in the game, we
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  Speaker 2: had a couple of chances to convert some third downs
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  Speaker 2: that we didn't get converted, so we couldn't sustain drives.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I think Chris Freeman's a hell of a kicker.
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  Speaker 2: Him missing that kick, you know, putting some boards up
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  Speaker 2: or some points on the board a little earlier would
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  Speaker 2: have helped us. So there's just a lot of things.
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  Speaker 2: And like I'm not pointing anyone individual a lot. I
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  Speaker 2: only point Chris out because he's the kicker. He did
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  Speaker 2: a great job on kickoffs. It's just, you know, we
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  Speaker 2: just all gotta we've all got to do better. We've
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  Speaker 2: all got to play up to our potential. We all
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  Speaker 2: got to stay in the moment and play the player
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  Speaker 2: we're playing. And I believe, and you know, these are
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  Speaker 2: going to be empty words I would say to anyone
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  Speaker 2: that's listening, but I believe this is going to be
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  Speaker 2: a good football team. We have to go out and
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  Speaker 2: prove it, though.
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  Speaker 1: Right long way to go. Obviously, one week in the books,
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  Speaker 1: you got eleven games seven at home, starting with Merrimac
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  Speaker 1: Nick evers, your QB won the job, and I thought
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  Speaker 1: three the ball, well, I mean he moved the ball
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  Speaker 1: down the field here and there, but then he got hurt.
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  Speaker 1: What's the status with him? What do you know? And
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  Speaker 1: do you have hope that he might be able to
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  Speaker 1: play this weekend?
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  Speaker 2: I always have hope. And he was out of practice today.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't do a lot, but he was out there
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  Speaker 2: tuned in to what we were doing and involved in
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  Speaker 2: the game plan. Joe and Tucker and Cole got most
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  Speaker 2: of the reps, did a good job. You know, that's
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  Speaker 2: one of those things that our medical staff will decide
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  Speaker 2: on game day whether or not he's he's able to play.
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  Speaker 2: I know for a fact that he'll do everything he
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  Speaker 2: can to get ready to play. I know he'll be
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  Speaker 2: mentally prepared to play. He'll know the game and if
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  Speaker 2: he's if he's cleared, he'll go out and he'll play great.
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  Speaker 2: And if he's not cleared, I feel like we you know,
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  Speaker 2: we hand the ball to Joe and he's going to
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  Speaker 2: do a great job. And you know, if he gets
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  Speaker 2: to Tucker he gets the cold, they'll do a great
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  Speaker 2: job as well.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, one thing about Nick Evers he hadn't played a game,
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  Speaker 1: and you mentioned it afterwards. We have to remember it's
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  Speaker 1: been a couple of years since he's actually been in
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  Speaker 1: a game for you know, multiple multiple snaps. So as
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  Speaker 1: you viewed what he did his body of work in
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  Speaker 1: game one, how would you describe what you saw?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think it's significant what you said is that
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  Speaker 2: he really hasn't played in a football game since he
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  Speaker 2: was in high school. I mean, he took some snaps
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  Speaker 2: at Oklahoma against Texas, but they weren't real snaps. They
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  Speaker 2: weren't competitive, you know, in the game snaps. So that
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  Speaker 2: was his first real action since high school. And what
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  Speaker 2: impressed me was his demeanor, his ability to come to
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  Speaker 2: the sideline and tell us what he was seeing. I
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  Speaker 2: thought that he did a really good job with his
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  Speaker 2: decision making. He protected the football for the most part,
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  Speaker 2: even that interception at the end of the first half.
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  Speaker 2: You know, as a staff, we're not putting that all
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  Speaker 2: on Nick. You know, we could have run a better route. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: could have you know, done some other things better. There,
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  Speaker 2: could have had a better call. H could executed better
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  Speaker 2: at all positions. But uh, I'm I'm very encouraged with Nick.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I love the way he handled the game
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  Speaker 2: even when we got down, and I think there's a
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  Speaker 2: lot of really great things on the horizon for him.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. The tough thing to Jim, isn't it when you
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  Speaker 1: when you fall behind any team, doesn't matter if you
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  Speaker 1: had a veteran quarterback. The quarterback almost feels like he's
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  Speaker 1: got to do something to get some momentum back to
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  Speaker 1: his team, and that kind of forces the issue. That's
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  Speaker 1: that's a tough situation to put your QB in, especially.
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  Speaker 2: If it's a good defense like Maryland. You know, Uh,
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  Speaker 2: they were one of the better defenses in college football
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  Speaker 2: last year. Uh statistically, they returned the lot of guys.
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  Speaker 2: They're big, they're physical, they're fast, they can cover, they
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  Speaker 2: tackle good tacklers. But we were within reach, you know.
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  Speaker 2: I mean it started ugly, getting down fourteen or nothing,
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  Speaker 2: and then twenty, but still even at twenty and nothing,
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  Speaker 2: we were within range. And that's why we decided that
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  Speaker 2: at the end of the first half that we try
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  Speaker 2: to get a go and use our timeouts and maybe
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  Speaker 2: see if we get at least a three on the board.
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  Speaker 2: But that kind of backfire and they got a three
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  Speaker 2: on the board instead. Yeah, but I mean, listen, you
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  Speaker 2: know Nick can handle pressure, Joe can handle pressure, Tucker
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  Speaker 2: can handle pressure, Cole can handle pressure. They're all guys
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  Speaker 2: that And when I say pressure, I don't mean blitzer is.
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  Speaker 2: I mean the pressure of the game environment. And it
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  Speaker 2: was good for us, I believe, and good for Nick
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  Speaker 2: to see how he would respond to pressure. And he
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  Speaker 2: responded well, which should give him confidence and it certainly
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  Speaker 2: gives us confidence.
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