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Segment 1 - FB Show w Jim Mora Nov 21 · Coaches Corner

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  Sam from the Yukon Football Coaches Show Here on lear Field Mike Crispino joined by
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  Jim Moore as the Huskies get set for the finale up in Amherst against U
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  Mass on the weekend. Jim let's review a little bit of what happened last
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  weekend as the Huskies got back in a win. Callum, you take out
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  sacred heart, you hold them without a touchdown. I mean, wins a
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  win no matter what happens. Is it good for the team and the well
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  being almost to get a victory and kind of pay off a little bit of
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  that hard work you've been putting in. Absolutely, you know these guys have
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  They've they've worked their tails off and they've kept a great attitude and you know
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  they've just stayed in rather than you know, some guys going half in,
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  half out, and I'm proud of them for that. And so they get
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  a win. You know, it's obviously a good feeling for him, and
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  you know it's an in state team. I think that adds a little bit
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  to it. And you always come back with a little bit, probably a
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  little bit more energy after a win. But having said that, you come
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  back a little more energy after win. I've been so proud of where guys
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  have come back every week regardless of winner loss. Yeah, later in the
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  show, we talked to Kylie Hicks and Jackson Mitchell and all your guys have
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  that same approach, which I love. They just go, we're going one
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  and zero this week. That's it. That's what we're aiming for. And
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  I'm assuming that comes from you and the coaching staff, but it certainly is
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  absorbed by the players. That's been my experience over the weeks. We just
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  try to have a consistent message and a consistent approach each week with regards to
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  our mindset and come back, you know on a Sunday night or Monday,
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  when we get back to work on an ext opponent with that one and no
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  mentality those guys mentioned and so you know, you telling me that you've heard
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  that tells me that the message's getting through and they're absorbing it and they're bleeding
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  in it. And uh, I think that's what you have to you have
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  to do, you know when you're when you're striving to build something or you're
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  even striving to maintain something. And uh so it's good to know that our
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  players are understanding of that. Philosophy, you're more with us and the U
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  COM football coaches show coach big picture for a minute here. When you took
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  the job, you knew where the program was. I mean only four wins
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  and three years, a lot of routes, wasn't competitive, all that stuff.
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  What what was your thought process in terms of what you would you know,
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  try to accomplish and how long it would take and what kind of progression
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  you could make. Because today's football in colleges is like year to year almost
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  is very difficult to build programs because guys are moving in and out of programs
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  all the time. Yeah, you know, I mean it's become become difficult
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  as you just mentioned, uh, and then it's not going to get any
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  easier. It's something we all have to adjust to and we are My expectations,
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  I can't really define them for you. You know, I'm kind of
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  a I think, like our players said, you know, I'm a one
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  to O kind of guy, and I want to win the one that we're
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  playing. And so I know that it was a call task. I think
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  that, you know, maybe to a certain extent, we exceeded expectations that
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  first year and maybe a little cold reality hit us this year, but I
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  do see us moving in the right direction. I think it's always dangerous when
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  you say that and you're sitting there at two and nine, because it seems
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  like you're making an excuse up or it's an empty statement. But I look
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  at the day in and day out progress of the football team independent of the
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  score, and I see a better team. I see a more consistent team.
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  I see a more disciplined team. So we now need to take the
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  next step, which is, you know, we win some games early last
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  year, we struggled to win games early. Should we struggle to win games
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  early? And then we've got to have a consistency of performance every week.
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  And you know, I use the way word performance because I think that when
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  you use the word play for a level, consistent level of play, you're
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  putting the onus, all on the players, and really it's all of us
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  involved in this program that have to make it successful. So to me,
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  performance is a better better word to use in that case. And having said
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  that, there have been some interesting and good developments. I think individually on
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  the field, you have a better take on it, I'm sure. But
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  let's begin with the quarterback. Take Kwan Robson twenty two for thirty five.
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  Last week, he's thrown for over two hundred yards now six times. He
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  gets four touchdown passes and no interceptions, and that's certainly an improvement in that
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  category after the previous two weeks. We've been talking about them pretty much every
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  week. You always talk about quarterbacks. What are you seeing? Where is
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  he right now? Ten games in now under your tutelagion, Well, a
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  games in really in his kind of his college career as a starter, because
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  he didn't play a lot prior to coming here. He won the job last
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  year, started that first game that got hurt. So what I see is
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  tremendous improvement. And the encouraging thing is I see tremendous potential for improvement beyond
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  what he's done so far. He had four touchdown passes the other day,
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  and you know he missed he missed some throws that maybe could have been big
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  ones as well, and you know every quarterback is going to miss some throws.
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  But I just see a guy that works hard every week, is very
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  anxious to improve every week, does the things that are asked him every week,
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  and becomes more and more consistent. And so that's exciting for us.
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  Yeah, I'm just guessing here a little bit watching him play now over the
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  last ten weeks. If there's an area to improve on quarterbacks now in the
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  game College and NFL two. Got to be accurate throwing on a run.
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  That's hard to do. What do you do to prove that? I mean,
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  is that a practice thing? Is that a game learning experience? What
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  is that? I think it starts with practice, you know, putting him
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  on the move and practice and you know, just like you know, you
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  used to have a three step, a five step of seven step drop,
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  you know, and it's very defined. Now the game's a little bit more
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  unpredictable in terms of throwing you know, out of the pocket or what do
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  they call it, off off balance or you know, off platform throws.
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  So you have to drill it, you know, you have to just drill
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  it and drill it and drill it and drill it and get a guy comfortable
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  doing things with his body that don't necessarily feel natural and take one as an
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  athletic guy, you can do that. So it's just continuing, like I
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  said, just to grow as a player and to put him in situations that
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  maybe he's not comfortable with initially, but he'll become comfortable with them as he
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  as he experiences him, and that'll help him become a better player, and
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  that's a better team. Yeah real. I like the development of Take One,
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