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Seg 2 FB Show w Jason Candle Oct 6 · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: Jason Campbell, the football coach, obviously headed to Temple this weekend.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to talk about the Owls in a minute.
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  Speaker 1: They had a great win at South Florida, and they
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  Speaker 1: are 2-3 as well. But, Coach, we're going to talk
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  Speaker 1: to Sincere Bowers here in a couple minutes, and what
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  Speaker 1: a breakout game he had to transfer from West Virginia.
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  Speaker 1: Played 10 games there last year. He gained 249 yards.
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  Speaker 1: But in this one against Syracuse, 16 carries, 163. a
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  Speaker 1: 71 yard touchdown. I got to ask him about that one.
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  Speaker 1: That was a huge hole on the right side. That
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  Speaker 1: was a big play for the Huskies. And it looked
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  Speaker 1: like he really picked up the slack with Kenji Christian
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  Speaker 1: unable to go.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, credit that kid and his preparation and him,
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  Speaker 2: you know, knowing he's one play away from being the
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  Speaker 2: premier guy. He's got valuable experience. He's first four or
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  Speaker 2: five games. And yeah, it's obvious to see what he
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  Speaker 2: can do when the ball's in his hands and we've
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  Speaker 2: got to continue to find creative ways to get it
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  Speaker 2: to him and And, you know, but those guys did
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  Speaker 2: a really good job up front the whole entire second
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  Speaker 2: half of really neutralizing that front. And our ability to
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  Speaker 2: run the football helped. But there was a lot of
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  Speaker 2: really good give and take when it came to the
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  Speaker 2: run game and being able to set up some good
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  Speaker 2: play action passes because our ability to run the football.
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  Speaker 2: And a lot of that credit goes to, you know,
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  Speaker 2: obviously sincere, but the guys up front as well.
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  Speaker 1: You go into halftime, you're down, well, you're down 27-7
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  Speaker 1: with a couple minutes left at halftime. Before halftime, how
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  Speaker 1: important is it to get on the scoreboard? I felt
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  Speaker 1: like that was a big deal because at least you
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  Speaker 1: have momentum. Now you're back within two scores. There's a
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  Speaker 1: ball game to be played in those last 30 minutes.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you don't want to be down 20 and not
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  Speaker 2: have the first possession out of the half, right? I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you're only going to get so many opportunities in the
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  Speaker 2: second half and you have to take advantage of it.
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  Speaker 2: I felt like we were going to get probably six
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  Speaker 2: possessions in the second half and we had to produce
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  Speaker 2: some type of points on four of them, preferably touchdowns
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  Speaker 2: on all of them if we were going to have
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  Speaker 2: a chance to win the football game. And, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we made the most of most of our opportunities there. And,
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  Speaker 2: you know, credit our kids for just hanging in there
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  Speaker 2: and competing. And, you know, and we, like I said,
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  Speaker 2: when we were able to, you know, get some, you know,
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  Speaker 2: some positive runs. I mean, the big explosive plays, they happen.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm talking about the fives, six and sevens. and
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  Speaker 2: continuously being able to stay ahead of the sticks that
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  Speaker 2: really allowed us to continue to stay, you know, a
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  Speaker 2: little bit more rhythmic offensively than even though the scoreboard
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  Speaker 2: was not in our favor most of the time. Usually
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  Speaker 2: when a scoreboard gets like that, you get into pass
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  Speaker 2: happy mode and you really, it's feast or famine and
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  Speaker 2: it can shut you down pretty quickly. So credit our
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  Speaker 2: players and our coaches for just hanging in there and executing.
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  Speaker 1: So when you came out of the locker room to
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  Speaker 1: start the third quarter, it looked like at least like
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  Speaker 1: you were going to, make a sustained effort to run
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  Speaker 1: the football regardless. The scoreboard said you were down, you know,
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  Speaker 1: two scores, but I thought that showed great patience and
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  Speaker 1: a lot of confidence in the ability to run the
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  Speaker 1: ball because you got back in it like that, I thought.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you can, you know, you can only do what
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  Speaker 2: the defense gives you. I mean, we're not going to,
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  Speaker 2: it's bad coaching to ask offensive linemen, you know, five
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  Speaker 2: offensive linemen to block six defenders or, you know, seven-man
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  Speaker 2: blocking front to block eight defenders and vice versa. I mean, it's, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we want to pass. We want to get back in
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  Speaker 2: the game. But the defense knows that, and they know
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  Speaker 2: they're playing with a big lead. So, you know, you
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  Speaker 2: got to take what they give you if you want
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  Speaker 2: to be effective moving the football. And look, like, it's
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  Speaker 2: not going to all come back to you in one play, right?
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  Speaker 2: You got to be able to, you know, really, you
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  Speaker 2: got 30 minutes. You don't have to do it all
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  Speaker 2: in 38 seconds. So, yeah, credit our kids for hanging
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  Speaker 2: in there. And like I said, our coaches were putting
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  Speaker 2: a good plan together and executing it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, coming back from 20 twice in that game. We're
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  Speaker 1: going to get to overtime in a second because that's
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  Speaker 1: crazy anyway. But fourth downs, Coach, lots of fourth downs
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  Speaker 1: in that game. And the conversion rates by both teams
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  Speaker 1: were really good. You mentioned there, too, I mean, that
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  Speaker 1: were just backbreaking. But you had to do things on
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  Speaker 1: fourth down as well. I mean, when you look at
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  Speaker 1: that as the guy calling plays, does the playbook, like,
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  Speaker 1: open up a certain direction? Because you only get one
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  Speaker 1: shot at getting that first down on fourth.
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  Speaker 2: To me, it goes back to how you view the
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  Speaker 2: other downs. I mean, to me, it's do or die
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  Speaker 2: on every down, right? So first and 10, you, you
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  Speaker 2: have to, there's a progression you want. You want to
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  Speaker 2: stay ahead of the sticks and you want to make
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  Speaker 2: sure the right play happens. And if you're, if you're
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  Speaker 2: process oriented that way and you, you emphasize, you know,
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  Speaker 2: what a successful play looks like in all the situations,
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  Speaker 2: then fourth down shouldn't, you know, be the end of
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  Speaker 2: the world to you. If you view first and second
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  Speaker 2: down as a waste down, you know, I mean, view
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  Speaker 2: it as baseball, right? I mean, You know, there's there's
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  Speaker 2: elite hitters are really good on a three to count
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  Speaker 2: because they take that just as serious as they take
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  Speaker 2: the first pitch of that bat. Right. So, you know,
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  Speaker 2: where's your energy at? Where's your where's your focus at?
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  Speaker 2: And if you can do that and be really good
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  Speaker 2: in the early downs on, you know, focus on what
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  Speaker 2: you need to do, you should be good in the
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  Speaker 2: conversion piece of it. So I think it all comes
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  Speaker 2: back to your philosophy on how how you view the downside,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the down sequencing and what that's going to
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  Speaker 2: look like.
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  Speaker 1: Coming back like you did and making it a game
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  Speaker 1: and then getting the lead, big picture. You mentioned Miami, Ohio.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe you didn't see that same kind of stick-to-itiveness, but
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  Speaker 1: I thought that was the case against Syracuse. How did
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  Speaker 1: you view that? Did you say, okay, we lost this game,
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  Speaker 1: but we battled back from some serious deficits to get
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  Speaker 1: a lead in the game. I mean, that has to
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  Speaker 1: be something you can build on going forward.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you're guaranteed 12 opportunities to play a game. And,
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  Speaker 2: you know, roughly each one of those games are three
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  Speaker 2: to three and a half hours. You're looking anywhere between
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  Speaker 2: 36 and 40 hours of football in a season. A
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  Speaker 2: young man's guaranteed to play. And if we're going to
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  Speaker 2: make all of our assumptions based off of a year's
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  Speaker 2: worth of work and 30, you know, 36 hours, like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I mean, man, there's more times than not,
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  Speaker 2: that's going to be an empty feeling. So I think
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  Speaker 2: that you got to find the silver lining. You know,
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  Speaker 2: like I said, I don't, there's no moral victories in football.
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  Speaker 2: You want to win every game. And I do too. Um,
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  Speaker 2: but I, you know, I need our kids in our,
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  Speaker 2: in our locker room to believe that, you know, we,
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  Speaker 2: we have a really good team and, you know, maybe
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  Speaker 2: right now it's not showing that when you just pick up,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the box score and you look at the
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  Speaker 2: record right now, but we got, um, we've got a
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  Speaker 2: good group, you know, are we young?
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Are we fighting through some tough things and some adverse moments? Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: But man, oh man, a lot, a lot to be
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  Speaker 2: proud about in that game. Um, not acceptable to accept,
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  Speaker 2: accept defeat, but, uh, not acceptable either to, you're going
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  Speaker 2: to feel like it's an indictment of your character because
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  Speaker 2: you lost a football game by one point in overtime.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Bill Parcells once said, you are what your record
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  Speaker 1: says you are. But in this case, you're 2-3 to me.
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  Speaker 1: You could be 4-1. It wouldn't be that impossible to
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  Speaker 1: say something like that. We'll take a quick timeout back
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  Speaker 1: with Jason Candle. We'll talk a little bit about the
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  Speaker 1: upcoming opponent, Temple. A little bit about Hayden Pegg, a
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  Speaker 1: guy who walked on and has been around UConn for
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  Speaker 1: a few seasons, getting a shot to play now. with
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  Speaker 1: the Huskies. It's coming up next on Learfield.