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Jim Mora Postgame UAB w Adam · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: A win on the road against UAB. Wins come in
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  Speaker 1: all different shapes and sizes. What's the takeaway from how
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  Speaker 1: the guys pulled one out here today?
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  Speaker 2: Well, when you and I talked after halftime, it didn't
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  Speaker 2: seem like this was a likely result. We didn't have energy,
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  Speaker 2: we weren't executing well. I don't think we were doing
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  Speaker 2: a good job of putting our players in position to
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  Speaker 2: go out and have success. But to the to the
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  Speaker 2: credit of the players is they pulled it together at
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  Speaker 2: halftime and they just you know, I asked them, I,
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  Speaker 2: so you got to go deep within. I said, there's
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  Speaker 2: nothing I can say right now. You got to decide
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  Speaker 2: who you want to be. You know, the work that
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  Speaker 2: you guys have put in this year and through your lives.
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  Speaker 2: You know we're not we can't squander it. We can't
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  Speaker 2: squander it. And guys went out and made plays. You know,
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  Speaker 2: obviously the takeaways were huge, the play by Skyler again
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  Speaker 2: down the sideline, the great throw by Joe to Josiah.
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  Speaker 2: You know, the I think, would we have three takeaways
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  Speaker 2: and no, we're three in the second half, and we
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  Speaker 2: had a we had two fourth down stops, So those
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  Speaker 2: are takeaways as well. So I mean it's just, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's a credit to their resilient their toughness, their mental toughness,
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  Speaker 2: their emotional maturity, all those things. So I'm really proud
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  Speaker 2: of them. They got seven wins. It hasn't done in
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  Speaker 2: a long time. But you know, what we we have
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  Speaker 2: to realize is the job's not done, you know, And uh,
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  Speaker 2: that's the attitude of these guys all the time. So
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  Speaker 2: I'm proud of.
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  Speaker 1: And obviously the subtext to a comeback was that Nick
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  Speaker 1: Evers went out with an injury, so Joe Finiano had
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  Speaker 1: to come in relatively cold off the bench. What does
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  Speaker 1: it mean to have somebody like him that's just ready
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  Speaker 1: to live in a moment like that.
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  Speaker 2: Well we've talked about it a lot, right, you know,
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  Speaker 2: this year in press conferences and on the radio. Is
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  Speaker 2: Joe is is. He's always ready. He's always prepared, no
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  Speaker 2: matter you know what. And I'm sure there's been some
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  Speaker 2: disappointment for him during the year, but he's a real pro,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and he's very mature and he's been very
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  Speaker 2: supportive of Nick, but he's also got himself ready to
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  Speaker 2: play and when we've needed him to go out and play.
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  Speaker 2: He has performed very very well for us, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: that's that's what being a great teammate is and a
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  Speaker 2: great team member, and and we've got a whole lot
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  Speaker 2: of guys like that, but Joe for personifies exactly what
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  Speaker 2: you want in a football player on your football team
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  Speaker 2: as a head.
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  Speaker 1: Coach and defensively, when you talk about the four total
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  Speaker 1: turnovers and the three in the second half, what changes
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  Speaker 1: in order to just get the ball back and just
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  Speaker 1: make those kind of plays?
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  Speaker 2: If I knew, you know, I think it's this, so
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  Speaker 2: the one, you know, we haven't been getting a lot
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  Speaker 2: of takeaways, and it's just continuing to do your job,
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  Speaker 2: don't try to play without outside of the system. You know,
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  Speaker 2: get pressure on a quarterback, hunt the ball, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I mean run to the ball so you're there when
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  Speaker 2: something happens. And you know, I think this is an
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  Speaker 2: old cliche that turnovers coming bunches, but they do. And
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  Speaker 2: thankfully they came in bunches in the second half tonight.
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  Speaker 1: Josiah Gay things last, you know, being the fourth quarter.
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  Speaker 1: It seemed like that was a culmination of a really
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  Speaker 1: strong game for him. So as a guy who's maybe
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  Speaker 1: behind TJ. Sheffield Skyler Bell. What does it like to
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  Speaker 1: have again that kind of depth in your wide receiving cores.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'm going to just correct you politely and say
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  Speaker 2: he is not behind those guys. They are all so good,
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  Speaker 2: you know, they're all they're all really talented, they all
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  Speaker 2: are so competitive. Chsaiah is a passionate competitor and he
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  Speaker 2: works his tail off a practice. It's important to him.
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  Speaker 2: He begs for the ball. He you know, he's just
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  Speaker 2: the kind of guy that you want on your team
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  Speaker 2: in terms of his passion and his ability to make plays.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, he probably feels like you do a
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  Speaker 2: little bit. You know, well why am I Why these
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  Speaker 2: guys getting all the talk and I'm not? And I
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  Speaker 2: think that's a little chip on his shoulder and that's
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  Speaker 2: a good thing as long as it does become too heavy.
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  Speaker 2: So we're lucky to have those three Chamar You know,
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  Speaker 2: Brett Buckman goes in and does a really nice job
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  Speaker 2: for us. We used Ezrayah a lot tonight, and you
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  Speaker 2: know we're down tight ends. We're down another offensive lineman,
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  Speaker 2: Brady Waburn broke his ankle, so you know, we were
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  Speaker 2: without three starters on offense. Tonight, so you know. It
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  Speaker 2: was tough sledding for a while, but we got it
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  Speaker 2: going when you needed to.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for the time, Congrats on the win. We'll talk
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  Speaker 1: to you after the bye week.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. Thanks,