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Seg 1 - FB Show 9-29 w Jason Candle · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: It's time for the UConn football coaches show. Jason Candle,
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  Speaker 1: of course, with us weekly to rehash what the Huskies
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  Speaker 1: are up to. They come in at two and two
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  Speaker 1: and coach a lot to digest after that tight game
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  Speaker 1: at Miami, Ohio over the weekend. I mean, Huskies couldn't
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  Speaker 1: get off to a better start. I mean, the opening eight,
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  Speaker 1: nine minutes, you were dominant there. And I think when
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  Speaker 1: you get off to start like that, That had to
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  Speaker 1: be a good feeling for your club because you just
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  Speaker 1: never know when you come on the road. Are you
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  Speaker 1: going to play your best to begin with? Are you
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  Speaker 1: going to fall in a hole? Are you going to
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  Speaker 1: get a lead? You did the latter, and that's always
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  Speaker 1: a good thing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's two weeks in a row where
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  Speaker 2: we've got off to great starts. Unfortunately, you're there in
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  Speaker 2: the second quarter after playing a really good first quarter
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  Speaker 2: in all three phases. You got the ball. you know,
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  Speaker 2: in the plus territory at the 40-some yard line with
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  Speaker 2: 12 minutes to go in the quarter. And, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you got first and 10 there and you go into
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  Speaker 2: halftime tied 14-14. So, you know, we hit the wall
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  Speaker 2: in the second quarter. We didn't play very good complementary
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  Speaker 2: football there. And I thought, you know, for, you know,
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  Speaker 2: at times we let one play linger and, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it turned into, you know, a negative one for the next,
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  Speaker 2: you know, two or three plays in some individual cases. So,
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  Speaker 2: We've got to do a better job of flushing the moment,
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  Speaker 2: whether it's a hot start or whether it's not, and
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  Speaker 2: really handling, you know, and having that next play mentality because,
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  Speaker 2: you know, whatever side of the football you're on, you're
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  Speaker 2: in for 70 or 80 snaps of, you know, three
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  Speaker 2: and three and a half hours are really just hard moments.
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  Speaker 2: So getting a young team to consistently buy into that
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  Speaker 2: and to understand that is more of an art than
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  Speaker 2: a science. And that's something we're hard at work trying
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  Speaker 2: to do.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and you said this a week or two ago,
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  Speaker 1: a new team is what you got. And a lot
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  Speaker 1: of coaches like you have the same thing all around
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  Speaker 1: the country. It is a little more difficult, I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to guess here, and I'm going to ask you that question,
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  Speaker 1: to kind of mold a new team with players who
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  Speaker 1: haven't played with each other together to deal with adversity.
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  Speaker 1: Is that an accurate statement?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that, you know, we're, The team we
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  Speaker 2: just played, you know, is a great example of, you know,
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  Speaker 2: what continuity and a head coach being at a place
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  Speaker 2: for over a decade can look like when it gets
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  Speaker 2: to tough moments. Yeah, sure, they have guys in the
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  Speaker 2: transfer portal, too, that came to their program. But at
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  Speaker 2: the end of the day, there's still a– when it
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  Speaker 2: gets really, really hard and those margins are so small,
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  Speaker 2: as you know, you have to really rely on one
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  Speaker 2: another and you've got to hang in there and you've
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  Speaker 2: got to just keep swinging. And credit to them. In
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  Speaker 2: those moments, they made the plays and we didn't. But
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  Speaker 2: I would say this. I do credit our team for,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we had a hot start. We had a
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  Speaker 2: really bad second quarter, and we were just kind of
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  Speaker 2: even in the second half. And, you know, we're in
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  Speaker 2: position at the end of the game where we wanted
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  Speaker 2: to be. We had a chance to win the game
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  Speaker 2: with the ball in our hand, and we just came
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  Speaker 2: up short and didn't execute the plays that we needed
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  Speaker 2: to make in the fourth quarter there in the last drive.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, two early drives for eight play drives, 175 yards
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  Speaker 1: and 184 yards, ended up with touchdowns. one, a key
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  Speaker 1: on two guys there, Javon Brown, who hadn't caught a
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  Speaker 1: lot of balls this year, but had a nice start
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  Speaker 1: to the season was all over the place. Six catches. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: suddenly he was finding himself with some space and making plays.
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  Speaker 1: That was good to see. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Javon's a guy that continues to improve. Um, you know,
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  Speaker 2: he dealt with a little, you've been dealing with a
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  Speaker 2: little bit of an ankle there for the last, you know,
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  Speaker 2: a couple of weeks here. So, you know, just getting
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  Speaker 2: him to, you know, healthy and getting him feeling great. Um,
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  Speaker 2: you know, getting him out there. He's a massive target
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  Speaker 2: for Caleb and does a really good job making sure
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  Speaker 2: that he's really strong at reception point. I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I thought he had the one at the end there
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  Speaker 2: in the last drive, you know, at the goal line area,
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  Speaker 2: the guy kind of grabbed his arm and held onto
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  Speaker 2: him a little bit. You know, I think he probably
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  Speaker 2: would like to fight through contact there a little bit too.
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  Speaker 2: And I'd like to see a flag there, but didn't
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  Speaker 2: get it. And, you know, he should, you know, he
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  Speaker 2: wants to catch the ball. We want to make that play,
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  Speaker 2: but he's going to continue to get those opportunities because
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  Speaker 2: he's earned them. And, He's done a really good job
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  Speaker 2: having a good camp and a good start to the season.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you got to step ahead of me on that
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  Speaker 1: last play. I was lamenting that and I was upset
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  Speaker 1: about it for the next couple hours because I saw
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  Speaker 1: the replay and I just kept saying to myself, if
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  Speaker 1: you're going to be an official and you're getting paid
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  Speaker 1: to do that job, that's part of your job. Identify
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  Speaker 1: what happened there. And what happened is his arm, he's
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  Speaker 1: got two of them, but the one that would help
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  Speaker 1: him catch a ball was held up. That's a penalty
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  Speaker 1: nine out of 10 times, is it not?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, you know, look, there's human error in
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  Speaker 2: all of this. I mean, I'm the guy that hates
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  Speaker 2: the digital strike zone in baseball. So I think that,
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  Speaker 2: you know, that's part of the game. But, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we ask young people and young players to tighten up
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  Speaker 2: in tight moments and then you know, be the best
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  Speaker 2: version of themselves. I don't think that's unfair for the adults,
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  Speaker 2: whether they're coaches, officials, or anybody else in the arena
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  Speaker 2: to do the same thing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I think the problem in college, maybe in pro
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  Speaker 1: officiating is the guys are weekend warriors. They're not full-time guys.
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  Speaker 1: They got regular jobs. Then they come to work on
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  Speaker 1: Saturday and they do that job once a week. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: that's tough when, you know, guys livelihoods like you and players,
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  Speaker 1: potential livelihoods are kind of on the line. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It's a hard job. It's hard to ask, um, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and like I said, they're not always going to go
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  Speaker 2: your way. You know, you're going to get some that
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  Speaker 2: shouldn't go your way as well. That's part of the game.
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  Speaker 2: And I totally understand that. And I get that. And,
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  Speaker 2: you know, what I'm looking for is just clear communication
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  Speaker 2: on maybe what, what was, what was seen and what wasn't,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I mean, we go back to the Maryland game.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we get a, we get a face mask
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  Speaker 2: caught on us on the minus two on a two
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  Speaker 2: yard line going into score and they're left the right tackle,
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  Speaker 2: ripped our helmet, the helmet off of our defensive end.
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  Speaker 2: And then the center judge comes over and, you know,
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  Speaker 2: next drive and says, Hey coach, I missed that one.
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  Speaker 2: I've announced it wrong. I didn't, you know, I didn't
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  Speaker 2: have it right. I can respect that. I can live
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  Speaker 2: with it.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I get the honesty. It's part of it.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I call some bad plays and I'm the
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  Speaker 2: first guy that admits that. So, you know, you, you
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  Speaker 2: got to take the accountability for it and it is
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  Speaker 2: what it is. You move on. But in that situation,
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  Speaker 2: that's first down. We still got to, we got to
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  Speaker 2: get ahead of the sticks. We got to put our position,
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  Speaker 2: our solvent position. We're at minimum, we have a game
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  Speaker 2: time field goal and, we didn't do that, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and we failed to get the first down and fourth
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  Speaker 2: and 10.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I just look back and I say, Javon Brown
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  Speaker 1: with two hands makes that catch. That's all I got
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  Speaker 1: for you. Two hands. He makes the catch. We win.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to talk about Caleb Osborne and his game.
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  Speaker 1: We come back, Jason candle with us, the Yukon football
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  Speaker 1: coaches show on Learfield.