September 9, 2025 • 8 mins
Coach Mora & Mike Crispoino on the defensive pressure taking a big step forward at Syracuse
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Back on the Yukon Football Coaches Show, Jim Mora was
Yukon goes to Delaware. They play a three o'clock game
on Saturday, pregames at one thirty on the Yukon Sports Network. Jim,
just to follow up on some of the individual efforts defensively.
I'm telling you, and you know you were standing right
down there on the sideline. I could feel some of
(00:20):
the hits being put on by Omar Diamonde, Dumont Brinson,
Brian Parham. I mean, these guys were rocking down there.
Brian param seven tackles, had a sack, a tackle for
loss a Tyrese Mills, whereas number fourteen had a you know,
step in to replace an injured guy. Six tackles and
(00:41):
a force fumble and a tackle for loss. I mean, overall,
defense had seven tackles for loss. I believe in three sacks.
I mean that's a big improvement over week.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
One, big improvement, Mike, and that's how we expect to play.
You know, that's that's a Matt Brock defense right there. Yeah,
there was a lot of things that were reason to
be encouraged. You know, the physicality we played with, as
you mentioned the violence, the aggression, the tackling was good.
(01:13):
We covered well for the most part. Now what we
have to be able to do is in those critical
moments is once again is calm our mind and do
our job and make the plays that you know we
need to make. And that's got to happen now, and
it's got to happen consistently. And it's up to us
as a staff to make sure that we're putting our
players in the best position to do what they do well.
(01:34):
That's our job. And then the players have to go
out and they've got a performance. So it's all of
us joining together and doing the right things on a
consistent basis that's going to help us become a good
football team.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Yeah, and you created two turnovers, an interception and a
fumble recovery, and you only allowed a little less than
two hundred yards over the first three quarters. I mean,
you had the Orange offense more or less under control.
I guess you know. It always felt like to me
like if you get one more score, that would do it,
that would close the door. But you couldn't get that
(02:05):
final score.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Well, see, there's you're so right, Like you're right, and
I don't know if we'd close the door, but it
would have been a lot harder. And then there's plays
in that game that nobody even remembers that had an
impact on us not being able to get the extra score.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
You know, there was a holding call late in the
third quarter.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
You know that took us out of field goal range,
and that's three points right there. Obviously. You know we
had the missnap the snap air early in the game.
That was three points right there. You know, we had
to start backed up a couple times once because of
a penalty. You know, that's a play right there that
we can't we can't have. You know, when you're playing
(02:46):
a good football team, you have to minimize the self
inflicted wounds. And we didn't do a good enough job
of that. Now, we were disciplined. We only had four penalties.
That's not a lot, but what matters is when those
penalties occur, you know, and so there's a lot of
good things, but you know, a loss is a loss,
and the most important thing you can do after a
(03:06):
loss is, like I said, you don't rationalize it. You
don't make excuses, you hit ahead on you take responsibility
and ownership, and then you learn those lessons and you
come out and you apply them with determination to resolve,
and you let it fuel you as you get ready
to play the next game.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
One of the things that happened in that game as
well was stopping them on fourth down deep in your
own in your territory. I think the ten yard line twice.
That was impressive because obviously they get a first down
there Syracuse, They're gonna get points for sure, But they
went forward on fourth down and you were able to
stop them. That's not easy on any level, I don't
care if you're playing high school, college or pro football.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Our guys were prepared for that play. You know, we'd
shown them that play. They they were aware, they got
lined up quickly, and they stopped it. We had a
couple of really good shortyard it stops. I thought, you know,
keep points off the board. You know, Tyresi's SACCoS Fumber
covered fumble was nice play.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
They were in field goal range, so you.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Know, I think, you know, if you look back last year,
you know we kind of got used to a defense
that was going to rise up and make those plays.
You know, and stopping a team on short yardage is
really hard. I mean, you're at a serious disadvantage on
defense just because of surge, you know, but I think
coach Brock and that staff they do a great job
(04:24):
of scheming in those situations. But it still comes down
to the players just exerting their force.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
And our guys did that.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Yeah, Umar Diamande had a nice game. Where's number thirty two?
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Boys?
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Did you got to pay attention to him? He had
nine tackles, two tackles for loss of sack, and now
that led to the missfield goal. So I mean, every
little play in these games really if you look back
at and that's what we do on Tuesdays a little bit,
we look back, we find what happened, how did how
did it end up this way? And that you know,
at that point in the game, that could have been
(04:55):
the game right there, big sack, missfield goal, but it wasn't.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
You know, sometimes you come out of a game that
you've lost and you go, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
What just happened? Exactly what just happened?
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Like it was crystal clear at what happened to us,
crystal cleared our staff, crystal clear to our players why
we did not win that game. And when you can
define it, then you can address it. And you're going
to address it, and you've got mature players like we
have and they take it seriously, then you can fix it.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
So I expected to get fixed.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
In a strange way, and we're gonna move on to
Delaware here very shortly, but in a strange Yeah. No,
you're tired of this. But I felt like afterwards, you know,
thinking about it, just generally speaking, could something like this
in the second week of the year be a blessing
in disguise somehow? Could this be something that this team says, Okay,
(05:49):
we saw what happened. We should have won, but we didn't. Now,
how do we make that not happen again? I mean,
is that possible?
Speaker 2 (05:57):
It has to be. It has to happen, and that's
It's a mandatory. And I'm not saying I don't want
to necessarily use the blessing in disguise, but it's mandatory
that we see how it happened, why it happened, and
we address it and make sure that we have the
resolve not to let it happen again. That's mandatory. And
all guys understand that. I listen, I'm not a big
(06:20):
blessing in disguise. When you lose kind of guy. You know,
losses are devastating. That was horrible, but failure handled properly
prepares you for success. And I think that you have
to inject that mindset into your players without like I said,
(06:41):
rationalizing the loss, you know. And that's how we try
to approach it, is what can we learn and having
the resolve to apply the lessons going forward to make
sure it doesn't happen again, you know. And then you know,
at the end of the year, if you can look
back and you can say, well, hey, you know, listen,
we learned our lesson right there and we didn't let
(07:02):
it happen again, that's damn right now. I'd like those
lessons to carry over from year to year, though. You know,
we've had some of those around here where we've been
really close against teams that you know, are power for
conference teams, and we've closed out a couple, but we
haven't closed out enough.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
And our objective is to close those ones.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Out and not win. We don't want to win. We
don't want to lose close. We want to win.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Yeah, that's the way to do it. That's the bottom
line of it. By the way, Husky Nation talked to
a lot of people in the last forty eight hours,
seventy two hours, they're big time behind you. They've had
they had a real good feeling about the game that
you just played. Just bite the loss. I didn't get
a lot of negatives coming from fans that I talked
to at all in the last seventy two hours. So
(07:49):
I mean, you turn that corner. I got you there.
You're one to one. I know you want to be
two and zero, but I think that's that's a positive.
And look at con football in the future.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
I think are one of our goals is to get
to a point where if we do lose a game
like that, our fan base is disappointed. That means that
we've made progress, you know what I mean. Like to me,
that means that we've made progress where our fan base
says some bs that we lost that game. You know. Now,
(08:21):
I don't want to hear that, obviously, because I don't
want to lose the game, and it's hard to hear.
But I want our I want us as a program
to reach that point where our fans are they're they're
disappointed that we don't win a game like that, and
I mean disappointing because they believe we're better than that,
so that then I'll feel good about where we're headed,
where we are as a program. I mean I feel
good about where we are. Don't get me wrong, but
(08:42):
you know, I feel like, okay, this is yeah, yeah,
this is this is real.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
So yeah, all right, we'll be back in just a moment.
Time out on the Yukon Football Coaches Show on lear
Field
Back on the Yukon Football Coaches Show, Jim Mora was
Yukon goes to Delaware. They play a three o'clock game
on Saturday, pregames at one thirty on the Yukon Sports Network. Jim,
just to follow up on some of the individual efforts defensively.
I'm telling you, and you know you were standing right
down there on the sideline. I could feel some of
(00:20):
the hits being put on by Omar Diamonde, Dumont Brinson,
Brian Parham. I mean, these guys were rocking down there.
Brian param seven tackles, had a sack, a tackle for
loss a Tyrese Mills, whereas number fourteen had a you know,
step in to replace an injured guy. Six tackles and
(00:41):
a force fumble and a tackle for loss. I mean, overall,
defense had seven tackles for loss. I believe in three sacks.
I mean that's a big improvement over week.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
One, big improvement, Mike, and that's how we expect to play.
You know, that's that's a Matt Brock defense right there. Yeah,
there was a lot of things that were reason to
be encouraged. You know, the physicality we played with, as
you mentioned the violence, the aggression, the tackling was good.
(01:13):
We covered well for the most part. Now what we
have to be able to do is in those critical
moments is once again is calm our mind and do
our job and make the plays that you know we
need to make. And that's got to happen now, and
it's got to happen consistently. And it's up to us
as a staff to make sure that we're putting our
players in the best position to do what they do well.
(01:34):
That's our job. And then the players have to go
out and they've got a performance. So it's all of
us joining together and doing the right things on a
consistent basis that's going to help us become a good
football team.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Yeah, and you created two turnovers, an interception and a
fumble recovery, and you only allowed a little less than
two hundred yards over the first three quarters. I mean,
you had the Orange offense more or less under control.
I guess you know. It always felt like to me
like if you get one more score, that would do it,
that would close the door. But you couldn't get that
(02:05):
final score.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Well, see, there's you're so right, Like you're right, and
I don't know if we'd close the door, but it
would have been a lot harder. And then there's plays
in that game that nobody even remembers that had an
impact on us not being able to get the extra score.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
You know, there was a holding call late in the
third quarter.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
You know that took us out of field goal range,
and that's three points right there. Obviously. You know we
had the missnap the snap air early in the game.
That was three points right there. You know, we had
to start backed up a couple times once because of
a penalty. You know, that's a play right there that
we can't we can't have. You know, when you're playing
(02:46):
a good football team, you have to minimize the self
inflicted wounds. And we didn't do a good enough job
of that. Now, we were disciplined. We only had four penalties.
That's not a lot, but what matters is when those
penalties occur, you know, and so there's a lot of
good things, but you know, a loss is a loss,
and the most important thing you can do after a
(03:06):
loss is, like I said, you don't rationalize it. You
don't make excuses, you hit ahead on you take responsibility
and ownership, and then you learn those lessons and you
come out and you apply them with determination to resolve,
and you let it fuel you as you get ready
to play the next game.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
One of the things that happened in that game as
well was stopping them on fourth down deep in your
own in your territory. I think the ten yard line twice.
That was impressive because obviously they get a first down
there Syracuse, They're gonna get points for sure, But they
went forward on fourth down and you were able to
stop them. That's not easy on any level, I don't
care if you're playing high school, college or pro football.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Our guys were prepared for that play. You know, we'd
shown them that play. They they were aware, they got
lined up quickly, and they stopped it. We had a
couple of really good shortyard it stops. I thought, you know,
keep points off the board. You know, Tyresi's SACCoS Fumber
covered fumble was nice play.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
They were in field goal range, so you.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Know, I think, you know, if you look back last year,
you know we kind of got used to a defense
that was going to rise up and make those plays.
You know, and stopping a team on short yardage is
really hard. I mean, you're at a serious disadvantage on
defense just because of surge, you know, but I think
coach Brock and that staff they do a great job
(04:24):
of scheming in those situations. But it still comes down
to the players just exerting their force.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
And our guys did that.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Yeah, Umar Diamande had a nice game. Where's number thirty two?
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Boys?
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Did you got to pay attention to him? He had
nine tackles, two tackles for loss of sack, and now
that led to the missfield goal. So I mean, every
little play in these games really if you look back
at and that's what we do on Tuesdays a little bit,
we look back, we find what happened, how did how
did it end up this way? And that you know,
at that point in the game, that could have been
(04:55):
the game right there, big sack, missfield goal, but it wasn't.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
You know, sometimes you come out of a game that
you've lost and you go, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
What just happened? Exactly what just happened?
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Like it was crystal clear at what happened to us,
crystal cleared our staff, crystal clear to our players why
we did not win that game. And when you can
define it, then you can address it. And you're going
to address it, and you've got mature players like we
have and they take it seriously, then you can fix it.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
So I expected to get fixed.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
In a strange way, and we're gonna move on to
Delaware here very shortly, but in a strange Yeah. No,
you're tired of this. But I felt like afterwards, you know,
thinking about it, just generally speaking, could something like this
in the second week of the year be a blessing
in disguise somehow? Could this be something that this team says, Okay,
(05:49):
we saw what happened. We should have won, but we didn't. Now,
how do we make that not happen again? I mean,
is that possible?
Speaker 2 (05:57):
It has to be. It has to happen, and that's
It's a mandatory. And I'm not saying I don't want
to necessarily use the blessing in disguise, but it's mandatory
that we see how it happened, why it happened, and
we address it and make sure that we have the
resolve not to let it happen again. That's mandatory. And
all guys understand that. I listen, I'm not a big
(06:20):
blessing in disguise. When you lose kind of guy. You know,
losses are devastating. That was horrible, but failure handled properly
prepares you for success. And I think that you have
to inject that mindset into your players without like I said,
(06:41):
rationalizing the loss, you know. And that's how we try
to approach it, is what can we learn and having
the resolve to apply the lessons going forward to make
sure it doesn't happen again, you know. And then you know,
at the end of the year, if you can look
back and you can say, well, hey, you know, listen,
we learned our lesson right there and we didn't let
(07:02):
it happen again, that's damn right now. I'd like those
lessons to carry over from year to year, though. You know,
we've had some of those around here where we've been
really close against teams that you know, are power for
conference teams, and we've closed out a couple, but we
haven't closed out enough.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
And our objective is to close those ones.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Out and not win. We don't want to win. We
don't want to lose close. We want to win.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Yeah, that's the way to do it. That's the bottom
line of it. By the way, Husky Nation talked to
a lot of people in the last forty eight hours,
seventy two hours, they're big time behind you. They've had
they had a real good feeling about the game that
you just played. Just bite the loss. I didn't get
a lot of negatives coming from fans that I talked
to at all in the last seventy two hours. So
(07:49):
I mean, you turn that corner. I got you there.
You're one to one. I know you want to be
two and zero, but I think that's that's a positive.
And look at con football in the future.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
I think are one of our goals is to get
to a point where if we do lose a game
like that, our fan base is disappointed. That means that
we've made progress, you know what I mean. Like to me,
that means that we've made progress where our fan base
says some bs that we lost that game. You know. Now,
(08:21):
I don't want to hear that, obviously, because I don't
want to lose the game, and it's hard to hear.
But I want our I want us as a program
to reach that point where our fans are they're they're
disappointed that we don't win a game like that, and
I mean disappointing because they believe we're better than that,
so that then I'll feel good about where we're headed,
where we are as a program. I mean I feel
good about where we are. Don't get me wrong, but
(08:42):
you know, I feel like, okay, this is yeah, yeah,
this is this is real.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
So yeah, all right, we'll be back in just a moment.
Time out on the Yukon Football Coaches Show on lear
Field
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