Seg 3 - FB Show Nov 11 w Jim Mora

Keeping focus after such an emotional win with Air Force in Saturday

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Back on the Yukon Football Coaches Show with Jim Moore.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
We're just talking about Joe Ferano on Saturday against Duke,
and he's had a fabulous year. Uh, Jimmy started to
run the ball a little bit. He's taken off and
going downfield.

Speaker 1 (00:12):
Some of that is decision making by him.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
Obviously, you got to you got to make a call
when you have the ball in your hands and you
have to see the field. And Joe ran for sixty
or so yards and they were big ones. And you
talked about the two point conversion, which was a very
big part of the game. Uh, that's a difficult thing,
is it for a guy that's pretty much a pocket passer,
but he's able to pull the ball down and get

(00:36):
some key yardage running the ball.

Speaker 3 (00:38):
I mean he puts a puts an added burden on
the defense. When your quarterback can get out and run,
you have to pay a little bit more attention to
him than if it's just a pure pocket passer that's
going to get stuck inside. And Joe has the ability
to extend plays and still throw it.

Speaker 4 (00:53):
And now he's showing more and more win win it.
He's not he's not reckless which I really appreciate.

Speaker 3 (00:59):
But when when the situation calls for it, you know,
he's done a good job with his legs and getting
us yards. And you know, the second that he breaks
the line of scrimmage and starts to run, I just
start yelling.

Speaker 4 (01:10):
Get down, get down, get down, you know, because I don't.

Speaker 3 (01:12):
Like quarterbacks, any quarterbacks taking hits, but especially the quarterback
that I get to coach.

Speaker 1 (01:18):
So yeah, really, but he's.

Speaker 3 (01:21):
Done a really good job with that. Really, And you
mentioned decision making. He's an outstanding decision maker, and that's
part of making good decisions is knowing when.

Speaker 4 (01:28):
To pull it and how far to run before you
get down.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
We saw Skyler Bell last night at the Yukon basketball game,
and he got a great round of applause from the crowd.
There eleven catches seventy one yards after the catch. I
don't know, Well, I'm running out of stuff to say
about this guy, but I just I'll take I'll talk
every day about him, the catches he made in the game.

(01:53):
I mentioned it to Lou Hanson. Actually we're gonna hear
from him in a little bit. I said, fifty to
fifty balls, Bell comes up with them all the time
he goes, they're not fifty to fifty balls.

Speaker 1 (02:02):
When they throw them towards him. And I've heard that.
I thought that was a great comment.

Speaker 3 (02:06):
I'd never heard. I've never heard of put that way.
You know, Skyler. Listen, Skyler's got talent.

Speaker 4 (02:13):
We all know that.

Speaker 3 (02:15):
I think what separates him and why he's having a
good year is his attitude and his work ethic and
the way he comes out every single day, whether it's
a practice of walkthrough with great intention to get better.
And he worked very very hard this offseason on his
body and getting bigger and more physical, and it's paying off.
He you know, I looked out Thursday last Thursday at

(02:37):
about six thirty and you know, I look over the
indoor and Skyler was out there with his helmet on
catching the jugs, the jugs machine, you know that the
machine that throws the ball to him. And he was
out there for about a half hour catching on the jugs.
So it doesn't just happen on Saturday without the work
that he puts in, you know, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,
Friday and Sunday. And I just applaud him for maintaining

(03:01):
his focus and the commitment to the work ethic that
he has.

Speaker 2 (03:06):
No coaches talk about leadership quite a bit. We're talking
to Jim Moore, Yukon football coach. That word's thrown around
quite a bit. But I always feel like when you
have a guy like Skyler Belt doing the things he
does at practice, and his teammates have told me this,
they feed off that they feed off his work ethic
and and that kind of stuff. We've seen that in

(03:26):
basketball with Andre Jackson and other players over the years,
with Yukon recently. You can't discount how important that is,
can you.

Speaker 4 (03:36):
No people talk about leadership.

Speaker 3 (03:38):
Leadership comes in all forms, like Skyler is not a
big talker, Joe's not a big talker. Cam Edwards isn't
a big talker. Wes Hose not a big talker.

Speaker 4 (03:48):
You know.

Speaker 3 (03:48):
I'm kind of going through some guys that I think
that our players see as leaders. But they demonstrate every
single day what our standard is, and they live it
and they enforce the caulture and people want to want
to emulate them, and they hold people to a high standard,

(04:08):
and that's that's what being a good leader is. But Skyler,
you know, when your teammates recognize your work ethic and
your commitment. That's what makes your leader, that's what that's
what makes you stand out. That's what people want to follow.
That's who what people want to be like.

Speaker 2 (04:22):
And it's contagious, isn't it. I Mean that's the part
of team sports when you get guys like that and
they rub off on.

Speaker 3 (04:29):
Everybody big time, big time. Yeah, I totally agretting. It's
really contagious. I mean everyone too. I'm going to if
Skyler's doing it, I'm going to do it.

Speaker 4 (04:37):
You know, I'm going to do it.

Speaker 2 (04:39):
Romelo Murphy had a nice game, five catches, one hundred
and ten yards seventy after catch. Boy, what a what
a second fiddle that guy is. I mean, you got
Part A with Belle, you got Part.

Speaker 1 (04:51):
B with him.

Speaker 2 (04:51):
And I'm not categorizing so much, but it's just nice
to have depth. And I mentioned that on the broadcast
over the weekend. You've been able to develop quality depth
on this roster and that's so key to success.

Speaker 4 (05:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (05:03):
I mean having options is important offensively in your pass
game and your run game because it gives you a
wider variety of plays that you can call the people
that you can feature. If they're trying to take somebody away.
And then you know, depth at the receiver position, depth
at the running back position, depth at the defensive line position.

(05:24):
You know that's critical if you wanted guys to be
fresh and full go.

Speaker 4 (05:29):
Late in the game.

Speaker 3 (05:31):
You know, you need to be able to substitute guys
in and not have any type of drop off. And
you know, we've been able to do that largely because
there's people in this community that have made a commitment
to Yukon football in this new age where you know,
finance has become a factor and we've been able to
add some really good players that either start or give

(05:53):
us depth. And so it's been a group effort. In
that group is everybody that supports Yukon football.

Speaker 2 (06:01):
Got to ask you this coach, this is semantics. Now
you mentioned it in your press conference. You said we
got to sweep the corners.

Speaker 1 (06:08):
What does it mean exactly?

Speaker 4 (06:10):
So I heard that term long ago.

Speaker 3 (06:17):
Just you know, you think about when you're in the
kitchen as a kid and you know you want to
sweep the dirt in the corner because you don't really
want to reach down and you know, get every grain
out and you hope your mom doesn't see it, but eventually,
you know, eventually they noticed it. So to me, sweeping
the corners just taking care of every little detail. It's
getting every little grain of sand off the floor, it's

(06:40):
getting down on your knees, and it's you know, putting
your finger in the corner and making sure that you
pull everything out of that corner so that the floor
is absolutely perfectly clean. And I actually stole it from
Herm Edwards. I heard HERM say it. I'll probably say fifteen,
maybe twenty years ago. I heard HERM say you got
to sweep the corners and I asked him about it,

(07:01):
and I'm sure he doesn't remember it, and I've just
used it since. You know, it's just a metaphor for
taking care of the details.

Speaker 2 (07:09):
That's great. And my dad was in the grocery business.
I worked for him for a while before I got
into broadcasting. He used to say stuff like that and
I didn't know what he was talking about. Now I'm
getting it years later. I mean, it really builds confidence
in a team because they know we got the details covered.

Speaker 1 (07:24):
There's nothing you know that we're not going to know
about when we get in this game.

Speaker 3 (07:28):
When you go on the field, knowing that you've done
everything humanly possible to prepare yourself to win, you can
cut it loose and you can play with confidence and
you can play fearless and so every week that's our goal.

Speaker 1 (07:43):
And more with us, a couple more minutes with him.
Got to take a time out.

Speaker 2 (07:48):
We'll be right back with more of the Yukon Football
Coaches Show on lear Field.