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Seg 2 - FB Show w Jim Mora Nov 18 · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: We're back with Jim Mora. The Yukon Huskies now eight
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  Speaker 1: and three on the season, wrapping up a six to
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  Speaker 1: oh slate at home, first time Huskies have been undefeated
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  Speaker 1: at home since twenty ten. That's fifteen years. I had
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  Speaker 1: one other undefeated home slate that was in two thousand
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  Speaker 1: and seven. Huskies at that point, we're riding high, struggled
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  Speaker 1: for several years, Jim Moore on the scene and the
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  Speaker 1: Huskies back at it at eight and three. Coach, We've
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  Speaker 1: been talking offense all year because this offense with Joe
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  Speaker 1: Finnano and Cam Edwards and Skyler Bell all vying for
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  Speaker 1: awards as the season progresses here, and we'll get to
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  Speaker 1: that in the second. But your defense has come up
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  Speaker 1: with some big plays. Last play against Duke won the game.
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  Speaker 1: Brian Palm all year has been fabulous, the linebacker Umar Diamonde.
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  Speaker 1: These guys have over one hundred tackles each.
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  Speaker 4: In a season.
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  Speaker 1: I know that you're a defensive guy, and as you
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  Speaker 1: look at that, you're the head coach. Obviously got to
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  Speaker 1: be appreciating what those two guys are doing.
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  Speaker 2: I am, and the people around them that support them,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and the guys up front that take up
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  Speaker 2: blocks so they can make plays. But those two guys,
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  Speaker 2: you know, they're fifth and eighth in the country and tackles,
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  Speaker 2: so there's their impact that's been significant. You know, Brian
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  Speaker 2: is one of the believe he's thirred in the country
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  Speaker 2: in sacks and eighth and tackles for loss, So.
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  Speaker 3: You know, those are big plays.
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  Speaker 2: And you have to have dependable guys in the middle
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  Speaker 2: that are equally adept at defending the run, in the pass,
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  Speaker 2: that are leadership guys that are tough, guys that are
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  Speaker 2: violent that tackle well, those guys do it. You know,
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  Speaker 2: our defense and as a whole, you know, Yeah, there's
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  Speaker 2: been some real challenges. We had a ton of a
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  Speaker 2: ton of changes in the offseason, but just impressive the
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  Speaker 2: way they've come together, their commitment to getting better, which
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  Speaker 2: been has been on display since we started, really since
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  Speaker 2: we started in January. It's nice to just see the
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  Speaker 2: payoff for the hard work and the commitment these young
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  Speaker 2: men have made.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Malachi mc McLain the dB and Cam Chadwick also
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  Speaker 1: been impressive. Malachi seventy three tackles. He had some injury
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  Speaker 1: things set them back a little early in the year.
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  Speaker 1: But he looks to be back in.
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  Speaker 4: Full full swing.
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  Speaker 1: And Cam Chadwick got beat up a little bit on Saturday,
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  Speaker 1: but he's got four interceptions, three breakups. Having DB's that
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  Speaker 1: can come up and be sure tacklers. How important is
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  Speaker 1: that to what defense is? Overall success?
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  Speaker 3: Big?
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  Speaker 2: It's actually important to the team. One thing that we
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  Speaker 2: say here is that the toughness of your team can
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  Speaker 2: be identified by the way your wide receivers block and
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  Speaker 2: your corners tackle. And our wide receivers are tremendous blockers,
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  Speaker 2: and our corners will you know, they'll they'll put their
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  Speaker 2: face in the fan, they will go tackle.
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  Speaker 1: And those guys who were banged up a little bit
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  Speaker 1: on the weekend. I know you had your press conference Tuesday.
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  Speaker 1: Any updates. Do you feel good about everybody being available
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  Speaker 1: for the weekend or do you have to wait and
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  Speaker 1: see as your practice this week?
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  Speaker 3: No, I think we're in really good shape physically.
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  Speaker 2: I think everyone would be back and we'll be ready
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  Speaker 2: to roll.
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  Speaker 4: I was looking at the rush stats.
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  Speaker 1: Jim Yukon this year has run for almost two thousand
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  Speaker 1: yards three hundred and forty four times five point one.
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  Speaker 1: Again a run the opposition is run for more yard
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  Speaker 1: is but they've also run one hundred and fifteen more
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  Speaker 1: times than your team has.
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  Speaker 4: You've held the opposition.
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  Speaker 1: To four point four on the grounds as numbers go,
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  Speaker 1: how does that fit? Is that a pretty good number
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  Speaker 1: for a defense to hold an offensive running a game
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  Speaker 1: to four and a half a carry.
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  Speaker 3: It's okay, it's not up to our standard. You know.
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  Speaker 2: One of the things that's affected that is that we've
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  Speaker 2: given up some big plays on defense, and so that
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  Speaker 2: you know, has a tremendous impact.
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  Speaker 3: On your yards per carry.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, no, we're not good enough there yet,
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  Speaker 2: and well we're not good enough anywhere yet. That's if
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  Speaker 2: you start thinking you're good enough in anything, then.
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  Speaker 3: You start going and reverse.
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  Speaker 2: So it's just a constant quest for us every day,
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  Speaker 2: whether it's run defense, runoffense, past defense, pass offense, special teams,
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  Speaker 2: it's just like we're never there, there's no finish line.
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  Speaker 3: We're just gonna keep going.
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  Speaker 1: And you've got to do that all the time with
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  Speaker 1: your team.
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  Speaker 4: You gotta psychologically, you got to build.
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  Speaker 1: Them to feel that way and think that way. Tell
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  Speaker 1: me about that. Is that something you've got to do
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  Speaker 1: every day when you walk into practice and for you
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking about verbally expressed to the team, or is
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  Speaker 1: it something you see on the practice field that tells you,
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  Speaker 1: wait a minute, we're getting sloppy.
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  Speaker 4: We're getting lazy, we're doing this, we're doing that. Whatever.
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  Speaker 1: How do you view that when when you do sense
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  Speaker 1: it when you're on the practice field that the team
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  Speaker 1: might be sliding a little bit in their prep.
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  Speaker 2: Not often, and when I do, I address it, and
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  Speaker 2: I call it being demanding encouraging. So yeah, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: be very very demanding, but try to do it in
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  Speaker 2: an encouraging way. You know, point out that you know
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  Speaker 2: you're better than that, that's not your best. We need
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  Speaker 2: more from you. You're capable of more. That wasn't up
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  Speaker 2: to our standard. Live our standard, you know, said with
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  Speaker 2: different voice inflections all the time and different levels of volume.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm grateful that I get to coach a team
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  Speaker 2: of young men that is driven, and so I don't
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  Speaker 2: have to say I don't have to remind them a lot.
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  Speaker 2: Now I do because I think the consistency of the
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  Speaker 2: message is really important.
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  Speaker 3: They need to keep hearing it, they need.
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  Speaker 2: To have somebody that reinforces it all the time, and
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  Speaker 2: that's my job. But I'm lucky to have a bunch
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  Speaker 2: of guys that that take the message and then they
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  Speaker 2: put it into action.
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  Speaker 1: To that point, We're gonna talk to ar Diamonde in
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  Speaker 1: a few minutes on the show and he mentions playing
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  Speaker 1: for Matt Brock like he's the same every day, and
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  Speaker 1: we know Brock.
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  Speaker 4: You know Matt Brock. I mean that guy.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, if I had the ability to put the
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  Speaker 1: pads on and go out there, I'd run through a
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  Speaker 1: wall for that guy. But he's his his you know,
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  Speaker 1: his guy's on his unit. To a man say the
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  Speaker 1: same thing, and that's got to be one of the
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  Speaker 1: great assets for you as a head.
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  Speaker 2: Coach without a doubt, and coach Samus is the same
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  Speaker 2: way that we all know who they're going to be
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  Speaker 2: every single day. They don't deviate from their their beliefs,
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  Speaker 2: from the standards that they set.
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  Speaker 3: They just refuse to deviate.
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  Speaker 2: They keep the message tight, they keep it in alignment
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  Speaker 2: with what we want to be as a football program.
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  Speaker 2: You know you're not going to sneak one by him.
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  Speaker 2: You know they're not going to criticize you if if
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  Speaker 2: if it's not uh a situation where it's warranted and Uh.
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  Speaker 2: Players like consistency, Coaches like consistency. Players want to be
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  Speaker 2: held to a high standard. Coaches want to live a
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  Speaker 2: high standard. So it's just a nice mix that we've got.
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  Speaker 1: Jimora willis ukon Football Coaches Show continues to take a
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  Speaker 1: time out here on liar Field