September 23, 2025 • 7 mins
Coach Mora & Mike Crispino on the Huskies four games into the season
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well back with Jim morro the Yukon Football Coaches Show
on Mike Chrispin or The other thing coach I wanted
to mention on offense was all the wide receiver screens
that we were seeing in the game against ball State. Obviously,
Skyler Bell made a bundle of catches, I think one
shy of his career high in a game. There was
a lot of that. Does that go into the idea
of like maybe spreading out the defense as well and
(00:23):
opening up some opportunities for Skyler Bell to run after catch?
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Yeah, for sure. You know, it's kind of like I
said in the last segment, when you can spread a
team vertically and horizontally, it's going to be to your
advantage as an offensive team, making them cover as much
space as they can. And then we've got some guys
out there that are willing to block, you know, out
on the perimeter, which is not something you see out
(00:49):
of every team in football. And it's a selflessness that
I really appreciate. And then we've got some guys that
can make people miss and get yards out there. So
and then another thing, Mike, is some of that stuffs
an RPO game, you know, a run pass option game.
You know, if there's a certain look, you're going to
give the ball, and if there's a different look, you're
going to throw it out there and just try to
get five or six, seven, eight yards. So it's a
(01:11):
big part of our offense and it's really become something
that you see a lot in college football. You know,
that ability to kind of spread the field, run the
ball one way if it's there, and if not, pull
it and throw it the other way to you know,
to space where you have numbers.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Defensively, Now, you mentioned it after the game, you weren't
happy with the two minute defense. Late in the game.
They drove it down and we're able to score and
we'll talk about that touchdown in a second, but that
you get kind of caught in between. I'm thinking as
a defensive unit, knowing you've got a two touchdown lead,
there's very little time for the opposition to put anything
(01:47):
together to come back and steal the game from you.
But you're kind of caught in between. How do we
play that, Do we play prevent, do we play aggressive?
What do we do? And boll State took advantage and
they drove it down the field and put point on
the board late in that game. I know you weren't
pleased with that.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
No, it wasn't And we don't have a prevent defense.
It's like that word to me, it's always been a
really bothersome word to me as a defensive coach, you know,
is like prevent defense. The only the only prevent defense
you have is like when they're going to throw that
hail Mary and you're back, then you're trying to knock
it down. Otherwise you're just playing your defense. And I
think the important thing is that when you get in
(02:26):
situations like that is that nobody freelances. You know that
the call comes in and we all commit to playing
the call to the best of our ability on that down.
And what has happened too many times is that we
have had I would call them mental breakdowns, you know,
little things that have hurt us in a big way,
and that's something that has to get fixed. It's it's
(02:49):
we work on it constantly. Our players understand that. I
think it's a form of confidence or it's an indicative
of confidence, maturity, trust, all of those things. And those
things grow oh through the season, especially when you're putting
together a new group, and I expect this to be
better this week. You know, one thing I know is
that our guys, I've said this a million times, they
(03:09):
take it very very seriously. Our players do. I don't
have to worry that it bothers them. I know it
bothers them. I don't have to worry that they're not
going to own it. I know they're going to own it.
And that's all well and good. And now we have
to make sure that we get it corrected. We're very
very close, but close doesn't really matter. You got to
(03:30):
get it done.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
That's an horseshoes, by the way, closer.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Yeah, I was trying to figure out what that was.
I remember the old cliche saying, but I don't know.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
You've got a few of them that you bring out.
I like it. We're going to talk to Ben Smiley
a little bit. He actually mentioned that same thing that
you just talked about. All these new people on defense
nine new starters, it takes a while and to develop.
I'm going to use that word chemistry. It's probably overused,
but what has to happen with a new group of
(03:59):
people playing together on the defensive side to the point
where they go, okay, I know exactly what he's doing
what this man to my left's doing. They're more in sync.
It's been four games. The last two have been up
and down defensively, So I'm just curious what you think
about that. I mean, is there a coming together on
defense that we're going to see here as we go forward.
(04:20):
We're only four games in. There's eight games to play yet.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
I hope so, and I believe so. I think that
the last thing I ever want to do is make excuses.
I will say that it is about, you know, consistently
having the same guys on the field doing things over
and over so that they developed that bond and that trust.
And you know, we've had some injuries at times in
the games or you know, so far early in the
season that have kind of hurt our ability to keep
everyone out there at the same time. But that, like
(04:46):
I said, you know, that's an excuse. But I believe
that the more you see our guys play together, the
better you'll see them play. It's desperately important for them
to them that they play well, and that is step
number one. If you you have a group that cares
and is willing to put into the work, you've always
got a chance. If you've got a group that is
indifferent and it's looking for excuses and ways out, and
(05:08):
then you don't have a chance. And we have guys
that care and want to put in the work. But
it's got to happen, you know. It's like, it's got
to happen. We got we can't just keep waiting on it.
It's like there's got to be an urgency to make
it happen like now.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
And meanwhile, I mean, the pressure on quarterbacks that you're
facing has been good. You've been getting tackles behind the
line of scrimmage, you've been getting sacks. It's kind of
a I don't want to use the word feast or
famine because that's not really correct. But sometimes you look
at it and go, wow, we're in their backfield, we're
sacking their quarterback, we're throwing them for losses, and then
they're running something off tackle for twenty four yards. It
(05:44):
doesn't compute for me.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Well, I'm gonna give you an interesting one, but I
don't think Matt Brock will really be happy with me
giving this stat out. And you know, we're not necessarily
big stat guys, but there are some stats that matter.
Because you just stated that I'm gonna tell you this,
So in the last three games, we define an explosive
play offensively or defensively as a twelve play or twelve
yard run or sixteen play pass. I'm not going to
(06:08):
give you the exact numbers, but I'll tell you that
almost half the yards that we've given up on defense
this year have come on thirty one plays versus two
hundred and fifty fifty five other plays given up very few.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
It's kind of what you say, a little bit of
feast or famine, and we need more feast famine. And
I think as our guys become more confident in each
other and trusting in each other, which they are, that
you'll see us be much better in that area.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Yeah, I mean, I just go back to those first
fifty five minutes against Syracuse where you basically put them
on their heels the entire time and just couldn't finish
the job. But anyway, it was.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
The same thing Saturday, Mike, right. I mean, we went
fifty fifty three minutes and thirty eight seconds of giving
up ten points execuse and in the last six minutes,
you know it kind of we struggled.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
So that's scared.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
We're aware of it.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Yeah, I gotcha. All right, back to the coach. We're
going to talk a little bit about Buffalo Bulls football
in a moment here on lear Field.
Well back with Jim morro the Yukon Football Coaches Show
on Mike Chrispin or The other thing coach I wanted
to mention on offense was all the wide receiver screens
that we were seeing in the game against ball State. Obviously,
Skyler Bell made a bundle of catches, I think one
shy of his career high in a game. There was
a lot of that. Does that go into the idea
of like maybe spreading out the defense as well and
(00:23):
opening up some opportunities for Skyler Bell to run after catch?
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Yeah, for sure. You know, it's kind of like I
said in the last segment, when you can spread a
team vertically and horizontally, it's going to be to your
advantage as an offensive team, making them cover as much
space as they can. And then we've got some guys
out there that are willing to block, you know, out
on the perimeter, which is not something you see out
(00:49):
of every team in football. And it's a selflessness that
I really appreciate. And then we've got some guys that
can make people miss and get yards out there. So
and then another thing, Mike, is some of that stuffs
an RPO game, you know, a run pass option game.
You know, if there's a certain look, you're going to
give the ball, and if there's a different look, you're
going to throw it out there and just try to
get five or six, seven, eight yards. So it's a
(01:11):
big part of our offense and it's really become something
that you see a lot in college football. You know,
that ability to kind of spread the field, run the
ball one way if it's there, and if not, pull
it and throw it the other way to you know,
to space where you have numbers.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Defensively, Now, you mentioned it after the game, you weren't
happy with the two minute defense. Late in the game.
They drove it down and we're able to score and
we'll talk about that touchdown in a second, but that
you get kind of caught in between. I'm thinking as
a defensive unit, knowing you've got a two touchdown lead,
there's very little time for the opposition to put anything
(01:47):
together to come back and steal the game from you.
But you're kind of caught in between. How do we
play that, Do we play prevent, do we play aggressive?
What do we do? And boll State took advantage and
they drove it down the field and put point on
the board late in that game. I know you weren't
pleased with that.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
No, it wasn't And we don't have a prevent defense.
It's like that word to me, it's always been a
really bothersome word to me as a defensive coach, you know,
is like prevent defense. The only the only prevent defense
you have is like when they're going to throw that
hail Mary and you're back, then you're trying to knock
it down. Otherwise you're just playing your defense. And I
think the important thing is that when you get in
(02:26):
situations like that is that nobody freelances. You know that
the call comes in and we all commit to playing
the call to the best of our ability on that down.
And what has happened too many times is that we
have had I would call them mental breakdowns, you know,
little things that have hurt us in a big way,
and that's something that has to get fixed. It's it's
(02:49):
we work on it constantly. Our players understand that. I
think it's a form of confidence or it's an indicative
of confidence, maturity, trust, all of those things. And those
things grow oh through the season, especially when you're putting
together a new group, and I expect this to be
better this week. You know, one thing I know is
that our guys, I've said this a million times, they
(03:09):
take it very very seriously. Our players do. I don't
have to worry that it bothers them. I know it
bothers them. I don't have to worry that they're not
going to own it. I know they're going to own it.
And that's all well and good. And now we have
to make sure that we get it corrected. We're very
very close, but close doesn't really matter. You got to
(03:30):
get it done.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
That's an horseshoes, by the way, closer.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Yeah, I was trying to figure out what that was.
I remember the old cliche saying, but I don't know.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
You've got a few of them that you bring out.
I like it. We're going to talk to Ben Smiley
a little bit. He actually mentioned that same thing that
you just talked about. All these new people on defense
nine new starters, it takes a while and to develop.
I'm going to use that word chemistry. It's probably overused,
but what has to happen with a new group of
(03:59):
people playing together on the defensive side to the point
where they go, okay, I know exactly what he's doing
what this man to my left's doing. They're more in sync.
It's been four games. The last two have been up
and down defensively, So I'm just curious what you think
about that. I mean, is there a coming together on
defense that we're going to see here as we go forward.
(04:20):
We're only four games in. There's eight games to play yet.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
I hope so, and I believe so. I think that
the last thing I ever want to do is make excuses.
I will say that it is about, you know, consistently
having the same guys on the field doing things over
and over so that they developed that bond and that trust.
And you know, we've had some injuries at times in
the games or you know, so far early in the
season that have kind of hurt our ability to keep
everyone out there at the same time. But that, like
(04:46):
I said, you know, that's an excuse. But I believe
that the more you see our guys play together, the
better you'll see them play. It's desperately important for them
to them that they play well, and that is step
number one. If you you have a group that cares
and is willing to put into the work, you've always
got a chance. If you've got a group that is
indifferent and it's looking for excuses and ways out, and
(05:08):
then you don't have a chance. And we have guys
that care and want to put in the work. But
it's got to happen, you know. It's like, it's got
to happen. We got we can't just keep waiting on it.
It's like there's got to be an urgency to make
it happen like now.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
And meanwhile, I mean, the pressure on quarterbacks that you're
facing has been good. You've been getting tackles behind the
line of scrimmage, you've been getting sacks. It's kind of
a I don't want to use the word feast or
famine because that's not really correct. But sometimes you look
at it and go, wow, we're in their backfield, we're
sacking their quarterback, we're throwing them for losses, and then
they're running something off tackle for twenty four yards. It
(05:44):
doesn't compute for me.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Well, I'm gonna give you an interesting one, but I
don't think Matt Brock will really be happy with me
giving this stat out. And you know, we're not necessarily
big stat guys, but there are some stats that matter.
Because you just stated that I'm gonna tell you this,
So in the last three games, we define an explosive
play offensively or defensively as a twelve play or twelve
yard run or sixteen play pass. I'm not going to
(06:08):
give you the exact numbers, but I'll tell you that
almost half the yards that we've given up on defense
this year have come on thirty one plays versus two
hundred and fifty fifty five other plays given up very few.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
It's kind of what you say, a little bit of
feast or famine, and we need more feast famine. And
I think as our guys become more confident in each
other and trusting in each other, which they are, that
you'll see us be much better in that area.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Yeah, I mean, I just go back to those first
fifty five minutes against Syracuse where you basically put them
on their heels the entire time and just couldn't finish
the job. But anyway, it was.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
The same thing Saturday, Mike, right. I mean, we went
fifty fifty three minutes and thirty eight seconds of giving
up ten points execuse and in the last six minutes,
you know it kind of we struggled.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
So that's scared.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
We're aware of it.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Yeah, I gotcha. All right, back to the coach. We're
going to talk a little bit about Buffalo Bulls football
in a moment here on lear Field.
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