September 24, 2024 • 16 mins
Coach Mora meets the media ahead of the Huskies matchup with Buffalo Saturday at Pratt & Whitney Stadium (12noon Kick on Fox Sports 97-9 & The UConn Sports Network)
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Everybody coach most thoughts on Buffalo beat.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Excited to get a chance to play a really good
Buffalo team. They're three and one, they just beat twenty
third ranked NIU who beat Notre Dame. When you're watching
play on film, they're physical, they're tough, they're gritty, they're disciplined.
They play really hard on both sides of the ball
and in special teams. So it'll be a really good
challenge for us to go against an established team, and
(00:30):
we're excited for the challenge, excited to have another chance
to play at home in front of our fans, and
you know, hopefully build on some of the success that
we've been having and improve on things that we need
to improve on. You went back and watch the film
from last week.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
It wasted.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Positively as we played with good intensity the entire game.
You know, we didn't have any letdowns save that long
run at the end where I didn't think we played
that very well. I guess you could call it, you know,
something that you not necessarily positive but can turn into
a positive.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
As we left a lot out there.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
You know, we had some things even in the run
game where we had a lot of success that just
weren't clean. And if we can clean that stuff up,
which we have to, you know, because we're playing a
really good defense this week, really good defense. But if
we can clean some of that stuff up, then we've
got a chance to improve, you know.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
So we're working hard on that.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
We had a good practice this morning and guys are
locked in and focused and they understand, you know, what
we need to do to get better, and that's always
a positive. Continue to work on our passing game, certainly,
you know, we didn't have to throw it much last week.
When we did, we were pretty effective. But you know,
just we just want to continue to grow every week,
you know, and you take the mistakes you made in
(01:45):
a game and you fix them and you play and
going forward and you hope you learn and get better.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Line, but go ahead.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
The offensive line is so good last week and with
that running performances, a starter on the offensive line, and
by the way, it was his status for his team, well,
the offensive line was was okay.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
They were they were, they weren't great.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
When I talked about some of the things that need
to be better, I was talking about the offensive line.
Running the ball is not in our system. It's not
just the offensive line. It's the tight ends, it's the
receivers blocking down field, it's the backs obviously knowing when
to make their cut, and it's certainly the quarterback, you know,
making great decisions in the run game.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
So I think when we we just we.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Just take it down to those five offensive linemen that
we're not accurate. So we all need to play better.
But the offensive line in general has played well, especially
given that there's three new starters on the inside and
then last week, you.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Know, and having.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Not having been you know, and having Kyle and those
guys you know rotate inside. But there's a continuity there
there there. They care, they're smart, they're very well coach,
they take the coaching.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
So, uh, it's a it's just as a whole, it's
a it's a really good group.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
You know, when a guy like Brady Webern who's been
here for a while and he's had some injury problems
and stuff, but he can just hang in there and
keep growing and step in for his first start and
play the way way he did, it says a lot
about what you're you know, what you're trying to grow here.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
How's your advantage after you guys rush eure the game.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Have you know a few guys.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
What's your fanciers are?
Speaker 2 (03:32):
It's it's big, yeah, And I feel like we have
five because I think we have you know, once Victor
comes back, we've got Victor and then we've got a
quarterback who can run the ball. So weapons, you know, right,
we got to have weapons. And uh, that room's full
of guys that can. You know, they're all a little
bit different too, right, they all they all have a
little bit different style, which I think is good.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
You know.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
You know we saw last week that just the kind
of a vast difference between mel and Durrell and what
they can do, and they're both very effect of doing it.
We know that, you know, we've seen what Cam can do.
You know, Cam's a hammer. People don't want to tackle Cam.
And then Victor is to me, just you know.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
He is.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
He He's just got tremendous versatility.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
So it's a good room.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
And then you know, in this day and age in
college football, having a quarterback that can do things with
his legs and the run game is a great advantage
to you because it forces a defense to you know,
maybe play some different coverages or be a little bit
slow on the back side, which helps you run game
on the front side. I think anytime you have two
athletes going opposite ways and the defense has to figure
out where the ball is, that's a good thing. Is
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if you have a pass that decided he's going to
get the ball.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Are you trying to get one guy in the rhythm?
Where you looking at this what happens early in the game.
It's all those things.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
You know, there's particular plays you want particular players to run.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Who's hot? Uh, you know you don't.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
You don't necessarily I want to take a guy who's
hot out of the game. Spreading carries around, you know,
making sure that you're doing the best you can to
keep guys fresh and healthy as the game goes on.
Cam's fine, I mean, he's he's fine. So, you know,
my concern is getting Victor back. Hopefully we'll get him back.
I think we'll know tomorrow if he's going to be
able to play this week. He's out there working hard,
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and we just have to make sure that we're smart.
You know, he's got long term health that we've got
to be concerned with. But if we can get Victor back,
that'd be a good thing for us. All, but I
guess you have to be aware of where he is.
I mean he's a great player. I mean he's really
fun to watch. I mean he he plays with tremendous motor.
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I mean he runs and goes and he's smart and
he anticipates well. But that's how they play on defense.
I mean their whole defense plays like that. But that
young man really stands out to you, but you can't.
You have to be aware of him.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
But you don't change anything, you know, you just have
to do what you do. You have to.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
You have to anticipate that he may react faster than
guys that you're seeing in practice or you've seen weeks before,
and you've just got to make sure that you're technically
sound and fundamentally sound and assignment perfect.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Sure, yes, sir.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Do you think the US.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Making you better faster than m.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Yeah, certainly, and I think but I think it's that
way for everybody, but it, you know, just specific to us.
It's been an amazing tool to utilize, and you know,
it all goes towards the people that have made the commitment,
you know, outside of this building, in particular to helping
us have a chance in the portal you know, not
(06:44):
only our our athletic administration, but you know the people
that have donated to our nil efforts, and it's made
a huge difference. I think all you have to do
is look at some of the guys that have come
in here in the first four weeks and produced from Skylar,
you know, todj to Nick to Mail, to Durrell, you know,
(07:05):
to to Jaden McDonald to uh, you know, uh, Jordan
Wright to to I mean, I could keep naming guys,
you know, some guys up front that you don't necessarily
see a lot. It's uh, it's been a huge help
for us. And and uh, you know, there's a lot
of uncertainty in in terms of you know, how this
thing is going to play out with the NCAA and
(07:26):
some of the lawsuits. Hopefully we'll get some clarity soon.
But it's a chance to bring in veteran players that
have played a lot of games, have a physical maturity
to them as well as uh, you know, an emotional
maturity and get and get better quickly. So but once again,
none of that would would happen without you know, guys
(07:48):
like Mike Burton and and Dennis Naden and and I
mean I I, you know, John Malfont, I always say
his name wrong, but I'm gonna get it right here,
and uh, you know, and many many, many many many others,
so you know, appreciate all of them come to investors.
(08:11):
I think that every competitor always feels like they have
something to prove. But I think, yeah, when you you
leave somewhere for a particular reason, you hope that it's
not just to chase money, you know, you hope it's
to you know, because you want to maybe prove something
or have a little bit better opportunity part of something special.
So I think the further along you get in your career,
(08:35):
you know, the more apt you are to invest more
of yourself into your career just because it's coming to
an end potentially or you see a future beyond college.
But what I've been impressed with is the guys that
have joined this program are high character individuals. And that's,
as I've said many times, the risk in the portal
(08:58):
is you don't know these guys as well, and you're
taking a chance on uh, disturbing what you're trying to
build in your culture, your environment or the way you
do things. And our guys that we brought in have
all just they've enhanced it rather than detracted from it.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Both of the season is not regard at all.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
They beat a team that beats over what is the
the you know three?
Speaker 1 (09:24):
What makes you do?
Speaker 2 (09:26):
They're they're they're extreme, extremely disciplined. They play like y
they play square, they play like you know, they they
they're up on their toes leaning into it. You know,
they're not on their heels, they're not getting turned. They
they they manage the line of scrim as well. They
tackle very well. You know, they hit you with their chests.
They uh they catch the ball and they're supposed to
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they don't. They don't turn it over. Uh, they get takeaways.
They're just they're very very very very sound. They know
who they want to be. They know what they want
to do, and they do it well.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
You know.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
And and when you watch a team like that, it's
hard to find weaknesses in 'em. You know, you see
a bunch of guys that completely understand how they want
to play football and they commit to it as a
West Coast guy and you're just.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Like the bass on like that.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
I I I I don't even I don't pay any
attention to what's going on out there. I mean, I
see some headlines every once in a while, but I
don't know. I mean, I I grew up a PAC
twelve guy, obviously, but yeah, I I I'm I got
I got enough to take care of right here that
I don't.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
I don't spend a lot of time on that.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
I mean this just a if if I were to
spend time thinking about conference realignment, I don't, I wouldn't
have time to think about anything else because it's just,
you know, it's all over the news and who knows
what's going on.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
One of these things in.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Twenty name, huh is that you're a big It doesn't matter.
You just put the ball down and you play. I
I just I'm one of those guys that doesn't think
the surface matters at all. You know, I'm not gonna
bring it up to our players. They don't care, you know.
I mean, that's their deal. I I I doubt their
coach is saying one word about it. You know, field
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turf is just like grass now, so I don't th
I think those are just throwaways to me. Fall is
there a player or like a one batter or that
is a lot of kids about wind? It's I'd have
to go back through my memory bank. UH reminds me
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of UH a guy, a coach named jeff Oldbrick, jeff
Oldbrick who's now the Deems. According to the New York Jets,
I had br I had Brick for eight years or
seven eight years in the seven years I think in
uh San Francisco. Then he was my defensive coordinator at UCLA.
Now he's names coordinator of the Jets. Same type of player,
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you know, just always getting to the ball, very smart,
high energy, you know, doesn't miss tackles, has long arms,
can get his hand on the ball, about the same size,
you know, about six one two thirty. Just tough as hell,
smart as hell. Guy that you can trust as a
play caller. You know, Jeff Brick Olbrich was a guy
that you know, I let him call defenses at times.
(12:30):
You know, he had the option to change defenses if
he saw something. Now I'm not saying that this kid
does the same things, but I mean, you know, the
first thing I did is look to see you know,
why hadn't I heard of him before? You know, he's
a grad you know, but I just haven't. I just
I pay more attention to our team than other teams.
But I mean, he's a heck of a football player,
really really fun to watch on film, probably not as
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fun to watch in person. When you're on the other sideline,
that's cool.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
You get out of balance, and how.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
How typical says to do when you're coming off a
running game, like you have to say, let's throw the
ball on you. Well, balance is critical, but balance to
me is not numbers. Balance means when you have to
run the ball, you're able to run it. And when
it comes time that you are in a game where
you have to throw it, then you can throw it.
That to me is balance. Balance isn't attempts, and balance
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isn't yards. Balances ability. So balance means if we're't a
game that demands we run the football, then we've been
be able to run the football. You know, if it's
the end of the game, we need to put the
put the game, you know, put the game away. Running
the football, we have to be able to do it. Conversely,
if we are in a game that demands that we
throw it, we can throw it effectively.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
So that's how I define balance.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
I don't find balance by by run attempts, pass attempts,
rush yards or pass yards. It's probably a pretty good
thing because when you have sixty six rush attempts, right
and most of the world wouldn't see that as balance,
but I don't. That's not how I look at balance
a team. Oh yeah, yeah, we've got to prove it
still in the past game. But I see it, Yeah,
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I see it. I don't even know if that makes
sense to you. That's to me, that's always how every
every football coach I've ever been around. That's how football
coaches define balance. Not by numbers, necessary numbers when it counts,
you know, but not overall numbers numbers. Yet so many
pieces players really feel like when you kind of stuff,
(14:30):
I still don't you know. To me, it's every week proposition.
You know, you you hope that you're growing.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
You know.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
A lot of it is evidence in in how we practice.
You know, are you up and down as a practice
team right now? There's a consistency to the way that
we practice that indicates that we can make progress. But
you've got to go out every week and you've got
to you know, you've got to improve and you've got
to prove it every week if you want to.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Continue to grow. So I still don't know who we are,
you know, I don't. I don't yet.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
I think the more you play that, you know, the
the more apparent it becomes to who to you as
to who you have a chance to become.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
But it's all about the work.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
So you know, based on today's practice, you know, we
mad we made progress today, but the progress made today
doesn't mean anything unless we make more progress tomorrow. And
that's the attitude that we have to take as a
program in everything that we do.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
What do you do balance? Because you see those white
papers on offense? Well, I believe we're balanced because we are.
I mean, when we had to throw the ball the
other night, we threw it effectively. We just didn't have
to throw it a lot because we ran it.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
You know, when we played Merrimac, when we decided to
throw the ball, we threw it effectively. So when we
played Duke, you know, we were okay, not great but
great defense. So like I said to me, I mean, however,
you wanted to find balance, you that's your business. You
can define it by numbers or whatever. I'm just telling
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you how football coaches define balance. Okay, thanks, thank you,
Everybody coach most thoughts on Buffalo beat.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Excited to get a chance to play a really good
Buffalo team. They're three and one, they just beat twenty
third ranked NIU who beat Notre Dame. When you're watching
play on film, they're physical, they're tough, they're gritty, they're disciplined.
They play really hard on both sides of the ball
and in special teams. So it'll be a really good
challenge for us to go against an established team, and
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we're excited for the challenge, excited to have another chance
to play at home in front of our fans, and
you know, hopefully build on some of the success that
we've been having and improve on things that we need
to improve on. You went back and watch the film
from last week.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
It wasted.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Positively as we played with good intensity the entire game.
You know, we didn't have any letdowns save that long
run at the end where I didn't think we played
that very well. I guess you could call it, you know,
something that you not necessarily positive but can turn into
a positive.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
As we left a lot out there.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
You know, we had some things even in the run
game where we had a lot of success that just
weren't clean. And if we can clean that stuff up,
which we have to, you know, because we're playing a
really good defense this week, really good defense. But if
we can clean some of that stuff up, then we've
got a chance to improve, you know.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
So we're working hard on that.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
We had a good practice this morning and guys are
locked in and focused and they understand, you know, what
we need to do to get better, and that's always
a positive. Continue to work on our passing game, certainly,
you know, we didn't have to throw it much last week.
When we did, we were pretty effective. But you know,
just we just want to continue to grow every week,
you know, and you take the mistakes you made in
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a game and you fix them and you play and
going forward and you hope you learn and get better.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Line, but go ahead.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
The offensive line is so good last week and with
that running performances, a starter on the offensive line, and
by the way, it was his status for his team, well,
the offensive line was was okay.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
They were they were, they weren't great.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
When I talked about some of the things that need
to be better, I was talking about the offensive line.
Running the ball is not in our system. It's not
just the offensive line. It's the tight ends, it's the
receivers blocking down field, it's the backs obviously knowing when
to make their cut, and it's certainly the quarterback, you know,
making great decisions in the run game.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
So I think when we we just we.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Just take it down to those five offensive linemen that
we're not accurate. So we all need to play better.
But the offensive line in general has played well, especially
given that there's three new starters on the inside and
then last week, you.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Know, and having.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Not having been you know, and having Kyle and those
guys you know rotate inside. But there's a continuity there
there there. They care, they're smart, they're very well coach,
they take the coaching.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
So, uh, it's a it's just as a whole, it's
a it's a really good group.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
You know, when a guy like Brady Webern who's been
here for a while and he's had some injury problems
and stuff, but he can just hang in there and
keep growing and step in for his first start and
play the way way he did, it says a lot
about what you're you know, what you're trying to grow here.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
How's your advantage after you guys rush eure the game.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Have you know a few guys.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
What's your fanciers are?
Speaker 2 (03:32):
It's it's big, yeah, And I feel like we have
five because I think we have you know, once Victor
comes back, we've got Victor and then we've got a
quarterback who can run the ball. So weapons, you know, right,
we got to have weapons. And uh, that room's full
of guys that can. You know, they're all a little
bit different too, right, they all they all have a
little bit different style, which I think is good.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
You know.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
You know we saw last week that just the kind
of a vast difference between mel and Durrell and what
they can do, and they're both very effect of doing it.
We know that, you know, we've seen what Cam can do.
You know, Cam's a hammer. People don't want to tackle Cam.
And then Victor is to me, just you know.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
He is.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
He He's just got tremendous versatility.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
So it's a good room.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
And then you know, in this day and age in
college football, having a quarterback that can do things with
his legs and the run game is a great advantage
to you because it forces a defense to you know,
maybe play some different coverages or be a little bit
slow on the back side, which helps you run game
on the front side. I think anytime you have two
athletes going opposite ways and the defense has to figure
out where the ball is, that's a good thing. Is
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if you have a pass that decided he's going to
get the ball.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Are you trying to get one guy in the rhythm?
Where you looking at this what happens early in the game.
It's all those things.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
You know, there's particular plays you want particular players to run.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Who's hot? Uh, you know you don't.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
You don't necessarily I want to take a guy who's
hot out of the game. Spreading carries around, you know,
making sure that you're doing the best you can to
keep guys fresh and healthy as the game goes on.
Cam's fine, I mean, he's he's fine. So, you know,
my concern is getting Victor back. Hopefully we'll get him back.
I think we'll know tomorrow if he's going to be
able to play this week. He's out there working hard,
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and we just have to make sure that we're smart.
You know, he's got long term health that we've got
to be concerned with. But if we can get Victor back,
that'd be a good thing for us. All, but I
guess you have to be aware of where he is.
I mean he's a great player. I mean he's really
fun to watch. I mean he he plays with tremendous motor.
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I mean he runs and goes and he's smart and
he anticipates well. But that's how they play on defense.
I mean their whole defense plays like that. But that
young man really stands out to you, but you can't.
You have to be aware of him.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
But you don't change anything, you know, you just have
to do what you do. You have to.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
You have to anticipate that he may react faster than
guys that you're seeing in practice or you've seen weeks before,
and you've just got to make sure that you're technically
sound and fundamentally sound and assignment perfect.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Sure, yes, sir.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Do you think the US.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Making you better faster than m.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Yeah, certainly, and I think but I think it's that
way for everybody, but it, you know, just specific to us.
It's been an amazing tool to utilize, and you know,
it all goes towards the people that have made the commitment,
you know, outside of this building, in particular to helping
us have a chance in the portal you know, not
(06:44):
only our our athletic administration, but you know the people
that have donated to our nil efforts, and it's made
a huge difference. I think all you have to do
is look at some of the guys that have come
in here in the first four weeks and produced from Skylar,
you know, todj to Nick to Mail, to Durrell, you know,
(07:05):
to to Jaden McDonald to uh, you know, uh, Jordan
Wright to to I mean, I could keep naming guys,
you know, some guys up front that you don't necessarily
see a lot. It's uh, it's been a huge help
for us. And and uh, you know, there's a lot
of uncertainty in in terms of you know, how this
thing is going to play out with the NCAA and
(07:26):
some of the lawsuits. Hopefully we'll get some clarity soon.
But it's a chance to bring in veteran players that
have played a lot of games, have a physical maturity
to them as well as uh, you know, an emotional
maturity and get and get better quickly. So but once again,
none of that would would happen without you know, guys
(07:48):
like Mike Burton and and Dennis Naden and and I
mean I I, you know, John Malfont, I always say
his name wrong, but I'm gonna get it right here,
and uh, you know, and many many, many many many others,
so you know, appreciate all of them come to investors.
(08:11):
I think that every competitor always feels like they have
something to prove. But I think, yeah, when you you
leave somewhere for a particular reason, you hope that it's
not just to chase money, you know, you hope it's
to you know, because you want to maybe prove something
or have a little bit better opportunity part of something special.
So I think the further along you get in your career,
(08:35):
you know, the more apt you are to invest more
of yourself into your career just because it's coming to
an end potentially or you see a future beyond college.
But what I've been impressed with is the guys that
have joined this program are high character individuals. And that's,
as I've said many times, the risk in the portal
(08:58):
is you don't know these guys as well, and you're
taking a chance on uh, disturbing what you're trying to
build in your culture, your environment or the way you
do things. And our guys that we brought in have
all just they've enhanced it rather than detracted from it.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Both of the season is not regard at all.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
They beat a team that beats over what is the
the you know three?
Speaker 1 (09:24):
What makes you do?
Speaker 2 (09:26):
They're they're they're extreme, extremely disciplined. They play like y
they play square, they play like you know, they they
they're up on their toes leaning into it. You know,
they're not on their heels, they're not getting turned. They
they they manage the line of scrim as well. They
tackle very well. You know, they hit you with their chests.
They uh they catch the ball and they're supposed to
(09:48):
they don't. They don't turn it over. Uh, they get takeaways.
They're just they're very very very very sound. They know
who they want to be. They know what they want
to do, and they do it well.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
You know.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
And and when you watch a team like that, it's
hard to find weaknesses in 'em. You know, you see
a bunch of guys that completely understand how they want
to play football and they commit to it as a
West Coast guy and you're just.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Like the bass on like that.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
I I I I don't even I don't pay any
attention to what's going on out there. I mean, I
see some headlines every once in a while, but I
don't know. I mean, I I grew up a PAC
twelve guy, obviously, but yeah, I I I'm I got
I got enough to take care of right here that
I don't.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
I don't spend a lot of time on that.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
I mean this just a if if I were to
spend time thinking about conference realignment, I don't, I wouldn't
have time to think about anything else because it's just,
you know, it's all over the news and who knows
what's going on.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
One of these things in.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Twenty name, huh is that you're a big It doesn't matter.
You just put the ball down and you play. I
I just I'm one of those guys that doesn't think
the surface matters at all. You know, I'm not gonna
bring it up to our players. They don't care, you know.
I mean, that's their deal. I I I doubt their
coach is saying one word about it. You know, field
(11:21):
turf is just like grass now, so I don't th
I think those are just throwaways to me. Fall is
there a player or like a one batter or that
is a lot of kids about wind? It's I'd have
to go back through my memory bank. UH reminds me
(11:47):
of UH a guy, a coach named jeff Oldbrick, jeff
Oldbrick who's now the Deems. According to the New York Jets,
I had br I had Brick for eight years or
seven eight years in the seven years I think in
uh San Francisco. Then he was my defensive coordinator at UCLA.
Now he's names coordinator of the Jets. Same type of player,
(12:08):
you know, just always getting to the ball, very smart,
high energy, you know, doesn't miss tackles, has long arms,
can get his hand on the ball, about the same size,
you know, about six one two thirty. Just tough as hell,
smart as hell. Guy that you can trust as a
play caller. You know, Jeff Brick Olbrich was a guy
that you know, I let him call defenses at times.
(12:30):
You know, he had the option to change defenses if
he saw something. Now I'm not saying that this kid
does the same things, but I mean, you know, the
first thing I did is look to see you know,
why hadn't I heard of him before? You know, he's
a grad you know, but I just haven't. I just
I pay more attention to our team than other teams.
But I mean, he's a heck of a football player,
really really fun to watch on film, probably not as
(12:51):
fun to watch in person. When you're on the other sideline,
that's cool.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
You get out of balance, and how.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
How typical says to do when you're coming off a
running game, like you have to say, let's throw the
ball on you. Well, balance is critical, but balance to
me is not numbers. Balance means when you have to
run the ball, you're able to run it. And when
it comes time that you are in a game where
you have to throw it, then you can throw it.
That to me is balance. Balance isn't attempts, and balance
(13:22):
isn't yards. Balances ability. So balance means if we're't a
game that demands we run the football, then we've been
be able to run the football. You know, if it's
the end of the game, we need to put the
put the game, you know, put the game away. Running
the football, we have to be able to do it. Conversely,
if we are in a game that demands that we
throw it, we can throw it effectively.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
So that's how I define balance.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
I don't find balance by by run attempts, pass attempts,
rush yards or pass yards. It's probably a pretty good
thing because when you have sixty six rush attempts, right
and most of the world wouldn't see that as balance,
but I don't. That's not how I look at balance
a team. Oh yeah, yeah, we've got to prove it
still in the past game. But I see it, Yeah,
(14:02):
I see it. I don't even know if that makes
sense to you. That's to me, that's always how every
every football coach I've ever been around. That's how football
coaches define balance. Not by numbers, necessary numbers when it counts,
you know, but not overall numbers numbers. Yet so many
pieces players really feel like when you kind of stuff,
(14:30):
I still don't you know. To me, it's every week proposition.
You know, you you hope that you're growing.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
You know.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
A lot of it is evidence in in how we practice.
You know, are you up and down as a practice
team right now? There's a consistency to the way that
we practice that indicates that we can make progress. But
you've got to go out every week and you've got
to you know, you've got to improve and you've got
to prove it every week if you want to.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Continue to grow. So I still don't know who we are,
you know, I don't. I don't yet.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
I think the more you play that, you know, the
the more apparent it becomes to who to you as
to who you have a chance to become.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
But it's all about the work.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
So you know, based on today's practice, you know, we
mad we made progress today, but the progress made today
doesn't mean anything unless we make more progress tomorrow. And
that's the attitude that we have to take as a
program in everything that we do.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
What do you do balance? Because you see those white
papers on offense? Well, I believe we're balanced because we are.
I mean, when we had to throw the ball the
other night, we threw it effectively. We just didn't have
to throw it a lot because we ran it.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
You know, when we played Merrimac, when we decided to
throw the ball, we threw it effectively. So when we
played Duke, you know, we were okay, not great but
great defense. So like I said to me, I mean, however,
you wanted to find balance, you that's your business. You
can define it by numbers or whatever. I'm just telling
(16:04):
you how football coaches define balance. Okay, thanks, thank you,
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