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Seg 1 - FB Show w Jim Mora Nov 25 · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: Hi everybody, and welcome to the Yukon Football Coaches Show,
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  Speaker 1: our last scheduled one of the season as coach more
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  Speaker 1: than the Huskies get set for their season finale on
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  Speaker 1: Saturday at UMass. And first of all, we're going to
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  Speaker 1: look back a little bit at the Syracuse game in
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  Speaker 1: his first segment only and Jim, I would dare say,
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  Speaker 1: and I know some of the comments that you had
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  Speaker 1: afterwards about Kyle McCord, but I would think this is
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  Speaker 1: the best offensive team that you probably played in your
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  Speaker 1: time here. You've seen some good ones, but just the
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  Speaker 1: way Kyle was able to throw the football put your
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  Speaker 1: guys in some tough spots early and throughout the game
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  Speaker 1: for that matter, just made it tough. But you gave
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  Speaker 1: yourselves a chance at the end, and that's all you
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  Speaker 1: could ask for other than a dub.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, in a game like that, you have
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  Speaker 2: to play and perform as a staff pretty well close
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  Speaker 2: to perfect. And you know, Kyle's a really good football player.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 2: After I said that, I thought, you know, we've actually
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  Speaker 2: played JJ mccarth, he's pretty not good, and some others,
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  Speaker 2: but I was just really impressed with the way Kyle
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  Speaker 2: operated and have a lot of respect for him, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and we had to be a little bit more exacting
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  Speaker 2: and everything that we did, and we weren't. But our
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  Speaker 2: guys fight and they will continue to fight and they
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  Speaker 2: will not accept defeat. Like there's nobody that thought, well,
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  Speaker 2: we played them close. You know, we don't have that
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  Speaker 2: type of attitude. There was tremendous disappointment that we weren't
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  Speaker 2: able to finish that game with a win. And that's
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  Speaker 2: what you have to have permeating in your program, and
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  Speaker 2: that's the only way you're gonna you're going to continue
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  Speaker 2: to gain ground and eventually, you know, catch those teams
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  Speaker 2: is by having that mindset, having that attitude. So you know,
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  Speaker 2: that's that's what we've got to keep heading Jim.
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  Speaker 1: The accuracy, you know, makes it an issue too, because
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  Speaker 1: if you know the way they spread the field, it's
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  Speaker 1: man coverage. If you're not taking a good angle as
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  Speaker 1: a defensive back after catch, it becomes an issue. And
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  Speaker 1: that seemed to be something that happened more so earlier
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  Speaker 1: in the game in the first half than the second half.
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  Speaker 1: And it's kind of probably hard to duplicate and practice
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  Speaker 1: that accuracy.
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  Speaker 2: It is, and it's hard to do complicate the speed
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  Speaker 2: of the game and the end take and you know,
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  Speaker 2: you're right, we you know you're going to give up
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  Speaker 2: some catches, but you got to be able to get
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  Speaker 2: him on the ground. And early in the game we
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  Speaker 2: didn't get him on the ground, and that hurt us certainly.
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  Speaker 2: So we just got to keep working at it, and
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  Speaker 2: we will. And you know, our guys take it very
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  Speaker 2: seriously and they never slept anything off. Accept responsibility. We
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  Speaker 2: all do and and you know we have to learn
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  Speaker 2: from it and get better, and I expect that we will.
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  Speaker 1: The Orange truck early then they got the ball back,
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  Speaker 1: thought they had another touchdown offensive pass interference in the
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  Speaker 1: gates that then they miss a field goal. So on
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  Speaker 1: your next drive, you're facing fourth and one at your
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  Speaker 1: own twenty nine and you go for it and it
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  Speaker 1: looks like a simple a gap run, good blocking and
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  Speaker 1: Cam Edwards makes a play.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so you know, we're in a situation where it's
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  Speaker 2: felt like we needed to do something to you know,
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  Speaker 2: to make a statement. And Cam actually cut it back
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  Speaker 2: and they would have an unblocked guy the way you
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  Speaker 2: do that, and he took on the unblocked safety and
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  Speaker 2: he beat him and kind of rolled out of there,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, as Cam will do, he you know
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  Speaker 2: he's going to keep moving his feet and he got
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  Speaker 2: us seventy one yard touchdown, which gave us, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the boost that we needed at that point in time.
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  Speaker 2: Had we not gotten that, you know, they had a
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  Speaker 2: chance with field position to put points up. But have
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  Speaker 2: confidence in our defense to be able to do those things,
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  Speaker 2: and confidence in our offensive line and our quarterback and
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  Speaker 2: certainly our running backs be able to execute those plays,
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  Speaker 2: and we did.
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  Speaker 1: Adam had Cam on the pregame last week and they
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  Speaker 1: talked about a barefoot routine that Cam has. Do you
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  Speaker 1: know about this where I guess he goes out and
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  Speaker 1: dura warmups, goes bare feet and just kinds to get
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  Speaker 1: him so familiar with the.
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  Speaker 2: I think they call that grounding. I know there are
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  Speaker 2: people that really believe in that. I didn't know Cam
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  Speaker 2: was one of those guys that did that. It just
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  Speaker 2: I've read about it. You know, it's just kind of
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  Speaker 2: feeling the earth and it's called grounding, And yeah, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I know there's a lot of players that do things
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  Speaker 2: like that. I didn't know Cam was one of them,
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  Speaker 2: but you know, it makes sense.
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  Speaker 1: Of your other players that have quirky pregame rituals.
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  Speaker 2: I don't love. I don't pay attention to that. Really,
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  Speaker 2: I have my own rituals that are routines. I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: call them routines. I think that we're a very routine
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  Speaker 2: oriented team. I encourage our guys to have a routine
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  Speaker 2: to get themselves mentally, emotionally and physically prepared for kickoff
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  Speaker 2: every week, something that they follow as closely as they
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  Speaker 2: can week in and week out. I think that that's
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  Speaker 2: important to performing at a high level. And I'm sure
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  Speaker 2: that they all have something that you know, they're able
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  Speaker 2: to kind of hang their hat on that gets them
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  Speaker 2: in the right frame of mind. So we encourage it.
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  Speaker 2: We talk about it, but I don't necessarily go around
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  Speaker 2: and ask them what it is.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure, you're down twenty one to seven. Last
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  Speaker 1: driver of the first half. Offense is spunter a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: Joe wasn't on target on some plays. But then you
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  Speaker 1: need somebody to step up, and Skyler Bell certainly did
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  Speaker 1: that with a beautiful catch down the left sideline for
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  Speaker 1: thirty yards, makes another big one on third down. This
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  Speaker 1: up the touchdown. But sometimes it's all you.
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  Speaker 2: Need, you know, right, it's we were sputtering. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we were off a little bit. We weren't running as
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  Speaker 2: well as as we needed to, we weren't converting in
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  Speaker 2: the past game making third downs, and then it came
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  Speaker 2: to that drive you're talking about, and all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 2: you know, Skyler makes Joe throws it up there, Skyler
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  Speaker 2: makes a heck of a catch and he comes back
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  Speaker 2: the next play and he kind of bobbles up he
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  Speaker 2: catches it, and you know, I think that gives everyone confidence.
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  Speaker 2: It certainly gives the quarterback confidence you can just put
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  Speaker 2: it near you and you're gonna get it, which we've
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  Speaker 2: seen out of all our receivers this year. But I
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  Speaker 2: had a lot of I was encouraged by the way
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  Speaker 2: Joe handled himself in that game. You know, when we
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  Speaker 2: needed to make a play at the end of the
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  Speaker 2: first half, when we needed to make a play go
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  Speaker 2: down at the end of the game and you know,
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  Speaker 2: get ourselves back in contention, he was at his best
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  Speaker 2: and his receivers were there for him and we made plays.
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  Speaker 2: And so we have to be able to build on that,
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  Speaker 2: and that's a focus this week.
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  Speaker 1: You know, all the touchdown the hands and on that
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  Speaker 1: drive that was a run pass option played correct. You
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  Speaker 1: had two guys in the backfield. I thought Joe ran
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  Speaker 1: that pretty well.
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  Speaker 2: He did. You know, there's keys that he has to
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  Speaker 2: read and if they played a certain way, you run it.
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  Speaker 2: If they played another way, you throw it. And you
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  Speaker 2: know you have to trust your quarterbacks going to read
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  Speaker 2: it right and make a play. And he did.
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  Speaker 1: So.
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  Speaker 2: You know, that's really pretty common in college football. A
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  Speaker 2: lot of people, you know, the run pat rpo type
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  Speaker 2: of stuff they do. Everyone does it different ways, but
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  Speaker 2: you're seeing it every week. It puts a lot of
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  Speaker 2: stress on a defense. I know defensively for us, some
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  Speaker 2: we have to work on constantly and it's, you know,
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  Speaker 2: something that can be really effective if if operated at
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  Speaker 2: the you know, in the right way offensively.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Just to start up things here on the
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  Speaker 1: Yukon Football Coaches Show. Later we'll have both number sevens
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  Speaker 1: on Malakai MacLean and mel Brown Junior more with Jim
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