Seg 4 - FB Show Oct 14 Jim Mora

Mike & Coach Mora talk Coaching influences of Jim

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Back on the Yukon Football Coaches Show Mike, Chris Pino,
Jim Mora. Every Tuesday, we'll talk with Wes ho and
Matt Hoffman a little bit. Coach, I want to ask
you a little bit about your background. I mean, you've
been around a lot of folks. Know what you've done
in the NFL, head coach, assistant, all the jobs you've had.
But I'm really interested in some of the people you've
worked with over the years. I mean, Mike Hombring comes

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to mind. Tell me about that guy, because I mean,
as an opposing fan watching his teams, I always knew,
uh oh, these guys are going to bring something to
the table that we don't know about. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
I got to coach against him for a long time,
and then I got to be on his staff, which
is really cool. He's incredibly smart, and he's just got
this great combination of being demanding of the players and
yet you know, being a fatherlike figure to him at
certain times. He's a great play caller. I mean, he

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really keeps you off balance as a play caller, and
you know, he's around some great ones and obviously learned
and he develop up his own system. But I loved
being around my congrin I really kind of learned a
lot from him about how to manage a team, you know,
and not saying too much and saying just enough, and
because sometimes coaches can get away with the raw ross stuff,
and Mike just did a really good job of being

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hard on the guys and demanding and yet keeping perspective.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
Yeah, that's that's funny you say that, I would have
guessed something like that, but I didn't know. Dick Formeal
one of my favorites of all time. That guy. It
seemed like when he would give you something at a
press conference or whatever after practice, you'd feel like glued
to him because you knew he was being genuine. I
love that about him.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
Yeah. So, I mean, my relationship with Coach for Meal
is different than a lot of those guys because I've
known him since I was a kid. My dad and
coach Vermeil coach together at UCLA when I was like
twelve years old. And so interesting to go from a
twelve year old looking up to Coach for Meal to
playing against him when he was the head coach of
the Kansas City Chiefs and I was the head coach
of the Atlanta Falcons. You know, like wow, but we're

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still very close. You know, when you think of coach
for Meal, it's just his passion, his emotion, his love
for the game, and his love for the players that
he coached, you know, And he's just like that in life.
You know, Kathy and I were in Napa this summer
and coach for mel You know, he has a winery
and I sent him a picture from the winery. Next thing,

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you know, he's got me talking to the GM about
trying to you know, get into a special dinner. And
I mean, you know, he's one of those guys that's
just he's always given of himself to other people.

Speaker 1 (02:32):
And quick final thought, yeah, you mentioned this in your
press conference, Bobby Bethard, because now you're almost a coach
slash general manager. The college form is now almost pro like,
so a guy like him must have left an impression.

Speaker 2 (02:46):
Oh yeah, and he was. He was really the He's
the second general manager I worked for. And Bobby was
a great personnel guy like he he could find the
hidden gems, you know, like he never counted a guy out.
You know, some some people might say, well, he doesn't fit,
you know, he's a little too short, he's a little
too light, or maybe he's not quite fast enough. And Bobby,
instead of looking for the reasons a guy couldn't play,

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he was looking for the reasons a guy could play.
And Bobby had great energy. He was always upbeat and positive,
great family guy, just a huge workout guy, stayed in shape.
I mean, you know, and he's you know, rest in
peace Bobby's past. And just just like I think back
and I go, how freaking fortunate were you to be

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able to learn from some of these guys, you know,
and really get an understanding what it looks like when
the best are doing it, and to strive to be
that way every day, and you know, falling short every
day of some of these greats there in the Hall
of Fame, but still knowing what it looks like. I
was really really lucky.

Speaker 1 (03:44):
Yeah, man. And I feel the same thing about your
players in watching you work at what you're doing right now.
Your background, your experience, all that stuff. Really you know,
if players absorb it, it's gonna help them. It's going
to help them get better and have great lives and
great careers all that stuff. So it all comes it's
part of your whole background, and it comes out in

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what you do, and we all appreciate it and want
to let you know that.

Speaker 2 (04:07):
Thank you. All right, Well, that's I think one of
the great things about college football is you get that opportunity,
you know, to affect young men's lives in a positive
way based on the experiences you've had. And as I said,
I've been so fortunate, so blessed to be around so
many really good people that were really good at what
they did in this business, whether it's coaches, players, or

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general managers, presidents, owners or otherwise. And so to just
think that maybe you can just pass along a little
bit of what you learn from them is pretty dang awesome,
you know. And most of these guys aren't going to
get a chance to go do this for a living.
Hopefully as many as we can get to the NFL,
we do. But it's more about how you affect their
life in a positive way.

Speaker 1 (04:49):
Well, it's all showing, coach, we appreciate it. We'll talk
to you good luck. On the weekend. We'll be back
with more of the Yukon Football Coaches Show on liar
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