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Seg 3 - FB Show Sept 24 Jim Mora · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: Individual game. Tickets for the five remaining Yukon football home
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  Speaker 1: games can be purchased at yukontickets dot com. Ukon Huskies
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  Speaker 1: Football Get into the game. Coming up, we'll be talking
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  Speaker 1: to Nick Evers and the quarterback and the placekicker, Chris Freeman,
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  Speaker 1: Jim Mooora, the head coach with US and coach thirty
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  Speaker 1: two first downs. I don't pay a lot of attention
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  Speaker 1: to stats usually, but when you're putting up thirty two
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  Speaker 1: first downs, that means you're doing some good things on offense.
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  Speaker 1: Running the ball, we know about that over four hundred
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  Speaker 1: on the ground, but you also completed passes when you
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  Speaker 1: needed them and great catch by Shamar Porter for a
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  Speaker 1: touchdown as well.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, controlling the football, if you look at time of possession,
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  Speaker 2: you know that was critical. And that's just the function
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  Speaker 2: of running the ball in my extension. When you look
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  Speaker 2: at that game, we didn't really hit any big chunk
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  Speaker 2: plays in the run until the second half, and then
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  Speaker 2: we had a bunch of them, and that's just trying
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  Speaker 2: to wear somebody down. But you know, everyone wants to
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  Speaker 2: get everyone loves to play. But when your defense can
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  Speaker 2: be on the sidelines resting, that's very helpful. So they
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  Speaker 2: go out fresh, and our offense gave our defense a
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  Speaker 2: chance to do that this week by the way they
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  Speaker 2: control the ball and got first downs, you know, and
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  Speaker 2: converted fourth downs. I think we were two for two
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  Speaker 2: on fourth down as well. So, you know, being able
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  Speaker 2: to maintain drives, keep your defense fresh, wear an offense out,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, those are those are the things that good
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  Speaker 2: football teams do, and we have to learn how to
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  Speaker 2: do that on a consistent basis.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you con was five for ten on third down conversions,
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  Speaker 1: and I mentioned earlier they held fau to one for eight.
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  Speaker 1: Of this Buffalo team coming up on the weekend, third
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  Speaker 1: down conversions numbers were a little low. I thought they're
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  Speaker 1: under thirty percent. They're fourteen to fifty four. They are
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  Speaker 1: kind of a balanced offensive team. But again, we talk
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  Speaker 1: about third down conversions pretty much every week, But isn't
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  Speaker 1: it really about what you can do on first down
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  Speaker 1: defensively or second down to put somebody in a tough
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  Speaker 1: third and long.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean if you can get to if you
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  Speaker 2: can get a third and manageable on offense, then it's
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  Speaker 2: much easier than being a third and you know, twelve nine,
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  Speaker 2: fifteen whatever. Conversely, on defense, if you know you're facing
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  Speaker 2: third and two, third and three all the time, it's
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  Speaker 2: really hard to come up with a play a defense
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  Speaker 2: to call because they've got you either way, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the offense could decide to run it or throw it.
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  Speaker 2: So those early downs are so important. And that's again,
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  Speaker 2: that's you know, the efficiency in the past game and
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  Speaker 2: the efficiency in the run game on those early downs
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  Speaker 2: sets you up for success on third down. So we
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  Speaker 2: have to we have to just continue to focus on that,
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  Speaker 2: concentrate on it, work on it, and emphasize it every
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  Speaker 2: single day. The importance of early down success to being
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  Speaker 2: able to stay on the field, like you just said,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and have time of possession advantage and run
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  Speaker 2: a lot of plays. But you know, getting thirty two
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  Speaker 2: first downs isn't just because you were good on third down.
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  Speaker 2: It means you were good on first and second down.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Hey, Durel Robinson got thirty five carries now almost
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  Speaker 1: three hundred yards eight and a half a carry. He
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  Speaker 1: got three touchdown Mel Brown, those two guys were workhorses.
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  Speaker 1: Gained a buck fifty each on the weekend. And Cam
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  Speaker 1: Edwards has been a horse, a workhorse up until this week,
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  Speaker 1: didn't carry it much this week. But now that's three
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  Speaker 1: guys and we're not even talking about Victor Rosa, he's
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  Speaker 1: been out a couple of games. Tell me about those
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  Speaker 1: three guys now and having depth in that running back room,
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  Speaker 1: how important that is.
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  Speaker 2: It's huge. You know, all four of those guys are
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  Speaker 2: guys we can count on. They're all a little bit different,
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  Speaker 2: but they all understand our scheme. You got Cam who's
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  Speaker 2: just a you know, he's a he's a tough one
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  Speaker 2: to tackle, he's physical, he runs hard, he runs through people.
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  Speaker 2: You got Drel who's a slasher. You got Victor, he's
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  Speaker 2: incredibly versatile. And then you got Mel who's like a joystick,
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  Speaker 2: you know, like boom boom. He's all over the place
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  Speaker 2: and he's got great open field ability making miissibility. And
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  Speaker 2: then we got a quarterback who contributed over seventy yards
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  Speaker 2: rushing as well. So, you know, having five guys that
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  Speaker 2: we feel confident with the ball in their hands in
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  Speaker 2: the run game in some way is I think it's
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  Speaker 2: kind of rare, Mike, you know, to have that many
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  Speaker 2: guys now once again, you know, I want to just
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  Speaker 2: temper everything I say with the you know, you got
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  Speaker 2: to keep doing it. Man. It can't ever just be Hey,
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  Speaker 2: we did it, so we're going to do it again. No,
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  Speaker 2: we did it. We have to work to do it again.
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  Speaker 2: And that's just something that we really have to stay
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  Speaker 2: focused on.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the sense we got in the locker room
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  Speaker 1: after the game the other night that the players are
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  Speaker 1: enjoying the heck out of winning. Right, you win at home,
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  Speaker 1: you put on a good show. He's goore one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and eleven points and two home games. Haven't won on
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  Speaker 1: the road yet, but winning it makes everybody feel better.
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  Speaker 1: But there's always you got to be smart about it, right.
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  Speaker 1: You got to know, if we play like this, we
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  Speaker 1: got a shot every weekend against anybody. I don't care
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  Speaker 1: who we play. But yeah, if you let your guard
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  Speaker 1: down just a little bit, then something bad can.
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  Speaker 2: Happen, and it can happen real quick, and it spoils
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  Speaker 2: all the good work and all the good will. And
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  Speaker 2: we're not gonna let that happen, you know. I Mean,
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  Speaker 2: we had a good practice Tuesday, better than we've had
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  Speaker 2: the last couple of weeks. And but you know, once again,
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  Speaker 2: Wednesday is another deal. Boy, you got to attack Wednesday
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  Speaker 2: and then you gotta attack Thursday, they get to attack Friday,
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  Speaker 2: then Saturday you gotta go out and you got to perform,
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  Speaker 2: you know, to the to the level that you work
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  Speaker 2: during the week, and just maintaining a very narrow focus
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  Speaker 2: on those things right there. You know, like I said earlier,
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  Speaker 2: you know, do the work, pay attention to details, create
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  Speaker 2: the right mindset. You know, we don't need to get
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  Speaker 2: off topic and start talking about a bunch of other stuff.
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  Speaker 2: We just got to commit to those things. And if
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  Speaker 2: we commit to those things, I mean, really really commit
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  Speaker 2: to them, then then we'll always have a chance as
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  Speaker 2: well anybody. I mean that those are the fundamental of competition.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, I think our guys right now believe that,
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  Speaker 2: and they should believe that, and I think they're seeing
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  Speaker 2: the results of their belief and they have to continue
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  Speaker 2: to work that way.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's Husky seven of eight in the red zone,
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  Speaker 1: ten or fourteen on the season. Nick ever is gonna
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  Speaker 1: be with us in a few moments. Coach quick thought
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  Speaker 1: on him. We're gonna probably do a little more about him.
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  Speaker 1: But he ran the ball a bunch the other day
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  Speaker 1: eighteen times, gained seventy nine yards and I mean his
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  Speaker 1: ball handling. I'm going to talk to him about it.
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  Speaker 1: His ball handling's pretty good. He hides it well, you
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  Speaker 1: don't know what he's doing. That's big.
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  Speaker 2: He's got quick hands and he's a quick decision maker,
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  Speaker 2: and those are two important things when you're doing the
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  Speaker 2: stuff that we're doing with in the run game with him.
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  Speaker 2: And then you know, I think he's a good scrambler.
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  Speaker 2: He can stay alive in the pocket. People have to
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  Speaker 2: pay attention to him. They have to have rush Land
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  Speaker 2: integrity or he's going to make him pay. It gets
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  Speaker 2: a little harder to play man a man when you've
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  Speaker 2: got a quarterback that can scramble. You know, my concern
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  Speaker 2: will always be for his you know, certainly, we wanted
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  Speaker 2: to run and we want to win, and we want
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  Speaker 2: to utilize that. But I want to make sure that
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  Speaker 2: we keep him healthy as well, so encouraging him to
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  Speaker 2: not take hits, to get out of bounce, to get
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  Speaker 2: to the deck. And certainly there's gonna be times where
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  Speaker 2: he's got to drop his shoulder like he did the
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  Speaker 2: other night and Beryl into the end zone. I was
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  Speaker 2: just happy it was his left shoulder, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: but I mean he's he's a freaking competitor. Man. He's
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  Speaker 2: He's only played like ten quarters of college football, you know,
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  Speaker 2: so there's a ton of room for growth there. But
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  Speaker 2: you see it. We knew he had potential. We also
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  Speaker 2: knew he just needed a chance. And the more opportunities
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  Speaker 2: he gets, the better he's going to become.
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  Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, we can't forget. These guys are football players.
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  Speaker 1: The goal line in their sight. Nick Evers dropped his
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  Speaker 1: shoulder and got six for the Huskies. All right, back
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  Speaker 1: with Jim Mora and we'll continue. This is the Yukon
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