September 24, 2024 • 7 mins
The Texas native is getting comfy the more reps he gets running the UConn RPO
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Individual game. Tickets for the five remaining Yukon football home
games can be purchased at yukontickets dot com. Yukon Huskies
Football get into the game. But we got Nick evers
whether us. We talked to Chris Fieman a few moments
ago and Jimore of course as well on the Weekly Show.
Uh So, Nick, welcome and as a guy that's getting
his feet wet here in college football, I gotta I
(00:22):
gotta know, you seem like a pretty cool customer. And
where does that come from because you're now you're kind
of in the frying pan here now at Yukon.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Yeah, no, I mean, you know, first of all, it's
a blessing of being a situation that I'm in right now.
You know, I wouldn't want to be playing for any
other team. You know, I'm trounded by a great group
of guys, great group coaching staff that really set sets
me up for success, really makes my job easier. You know,
I think a lot of the confidence and everything just
comes through preparation. You know, we work extremely hard throughout
the week to get down the p's and q's, and
(00:55):
I'm a firm believer there's a confidence in preparation and
so by game time, I feel like our team is
one hundred ready to just go out there and go play, lose,
play free.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Yeah. So I think what you're saying is you don't
want to be thinking too much, but you do want
to be thinking about what you got to do. And
that's a tough part with football because you've got twenty
two people moving in different directions.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Yeah. Yeah, absolutely, absolutely, this is.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
A team right now, that is two and two. We're
talking to Nick Evers, the quarterback of the Huskies. That
you're Dallas, Texas guy, just nearby Flower Mound, Texas. I
know folks from the Northeast maybe don't know about Texas
that much as far as football, but we do know
the reputation of high school football in Texas. So just
(01:41):
give me a little insight into what that's like being
a high school football player in Texas.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Yeah. You know, for the people that aren't too familiar
with the landscape of high school football down south and
especially in Texas, it's a completely different experience from any
any other state.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Really.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
You know, everybody gets behind the football team. Everybody's extremely
passionate about football. The game of environments are second to none,
So being able to be a part of that. Being
able to experience some of the more chaotic high school
environments really kind of set me up for.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
College, you know, just being able to.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Kind of block out all the all the crowd noise
and everything like that, being able to play play my game.
But it's it's a different animal down there.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Yeah, no doubt about it. When the lights go on,
the lights really go on on Friday nights down there.
Where you were under the lights Saturday night this past weekend.
Tell me about that experience, because that was your first
night game, I believe on the college level.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
So what was that like?
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Yeah, you know, the uh that that game was fun?
Speaker 2 (02:46):
It was fun, you know, just being able to do
everything we wanted in the run game, being able to
set records. Couldn't be more proud of my guys, especially
my front front five, my linemen, the guys that you know,
are the core of this entire thing. You know, without them,
none of this would have been possible, you know. Just
really proud of how physical we played all four quarters.
(03:06):
You know, that's something that we really made an emphasis
on after the Duke game. Just being able to finish
at close games, and I think we did that and
and our running backs, you know, made my job a
whole lot easier just running the ball into en zone.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Well, football games, you know, can't be won in the
first quarter, the second quarter. You got to play four quarters.
You've got to go sixty minutes. And you guys did
that on the weekend. Thirty two first downs by your
team on the weekend. That's a big number. Four hundred
and twenty two yards on the ground. I mean, I
guess you never get tired of handing it off the
guys when you see holes in front of them and
(03:39):
they can run through.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
No doubt, no doubt.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
It was, it was.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
It was a very very successful game in the run game.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
And I think you know that's that's something that you
know that we really made an emphasis on all week
establishing the run game early and early and often. And
coach Sammus has done an amazing job with with the
O line, just you know, helping set a mindset of
how we need to attack this game. And I think
our entire team had that mentality that we just wanted
(04:07):
to go and punch the opponent in the mouth from
snap one to the last snap of the game.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Yeah, Nick, ever's with us the Yukon quarterback. You ran
eighteen times seventy nine yards on Saturday night. Longest wrong
was ten yards. So when you run the RPO, which
is the run pass option for people that weren't up
to it, you know, that's a tricky thing to me.
When do you decide, how do you decide when I'm
going to hand it one, I'm going to keep it?
(04:35):
Where are your eyes? Are you looking at the linemen?
Are you looking at eleven people? How do you kind
of get yourself in that position to decide.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
What to do with a handoff?
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Yeah, you know, the the RPO game is it can
get complicated at times. You know, you you as a
quarterback have your keys. That's your key. It's typically you
know you're can two or three defenders for the pass
or the run or even the pool on the QB run.
So it's it's it comes with a lot of preparation
throughout practice and you know, our team has really made
(05:08):
an emphasis on trying to get as many rest as
possible in practice. So when we when it is game
time and the lights there do come on, it's it's
more instinct and it's not so much of a reaction.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
You kind of just feel it.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Yeah, I think a little appreciated skill for quarterbacks is
ball handling and handing the ball off and faking and
all that. If you do it well, I mean, you're
fooling me all the time up in the broadcast booth,
I can tell you that. Uh so tell me about that,
because you know, I think it looks to me like
you really emphasize that how you're going to how you
handle the ball can really change the way the play runs.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Yeah, you know, you know, first, first of all, I
just want to give credit to the coaching staff really
just make an emphasis on practice. Really just trying to
make every rep look the same. That puts defenders in
a bond. You know, sometimes when I hand the ball
off and sell a good fake, it can grab one
or two defenders. That makes it easier for the O
(06:03):
lineman and the running back to hit holes, make holes bigger.
And that's something that that I always try to work
on on a week, week to week basis, something that
I definitely just want to continuously improve, just keep on
getting better at. But but yeah, just trying to make
everything look the exact same each and every play, just
so we can set our team up for success.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
That was really a watching I was watching the Aaron
Rodgers work like that. He's good at that. He can
make a handoff look like a handoff and then make
a pass look like a handoff, and he's really good
at that. That's kind of stuff that can really carry
a long way. Quick thoughts, Buffalo, you're two and two,
You've had two great games at home. How do you
how do you view it mentally? What do you look
(06:45):
at this week as you get ready for this game?
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Yeah, you know, I think the biggest thing right now
is putting what happened in the past in the past
and moving on to the future or moving out to
moving on to the present. You know, just having that
one to O mindset this week, just trying to have
a great Tuesday practice tomorrow. I'm really just pushing the
guys to continuously be hungry for success. And you know,
(07:09):
at the start of every week, you know, coach Moore
always says, you know, you have twenty four hour rule
for a game, whether you win or lose, you know,
dwell on it or celebrate it for twenty four hours
and then once that's twenty four hours up, you know,
just get ready for Buffalo, and that's what we're going
to do, and just looking forward to a great week
of practice.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
We'll be looking forward to it certainly noon on Saturday.
Nick Evers, thanks for the visit. Stay hungry, my man,
because we're all hungry. We want the Huskies to have
a great year. And I think step by step, you
guys have a chance.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Yes sir, yes, sir, I appreciate it. All right.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
That's Nick Evers and thank you. Thanks again to Chris
Freeman and a Jim Moore who joins us weekly on
the Yukon Football Coaches Show. I'm Mike Chris Pino. Will
see you on the weekend twelve noon. Don't be late
on lear Field.
Individual game. Tickets for the five remaining Yukon football home
games can be purchased at yukontickets dot com. Yukon Huskies
Football get into the game. But we got Nick evers
whether us. We talked to Chris Fieman a few moments
ago and Jimore of course as well on the Weekly Show.
Uh So, Nick, welcome and as a guy that's getting
his feet wet here in college football, I gotta I
(00:22):
gotta know, you seem like a pretty cool customer. And
where does that come from because you're now you're kind
of in the frying pan here now at Yukon.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Yeah, no, I mean, you know, first of all, it's
a blessing of being a situation that I'm in right now.
You know, I wouldn't want to be playing for any
other team. You know, I'm trounded by a great group
of guys, great group coaching staff that really set sets
me up for success, really makes my job easier. You know,
I think a lot of the confidence and everything just
comes through preparation. You know, we work extremely hard throughout
the week to get down the p's and q's, and
(00:55):
I'm a firm believer there's a confidence in preparation and
so by game time, I feel like our team is
one hundred ready to just go out there and go play, lose,
play free.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Yeah. So I think what you're saying is you don't
want to be thinking too much, but you do want
to be thinking about what you got to do. And
that's a tough part with football because you've got twenty
two people moving in different directions.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Yeah. Yeah, absolutely, absolutely, this is.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
A team right now, that is two and two. We're
talking to Nick Evers, the quarterback of the Huskies. That
you're Dallas, Texas guy, just nearby Flower Mound, Texas. I
know folks from the Northeast maybe don't know about Texas
that much as far as football, but we do know
the reputation of high school football in Texas. So just
(01:41):
give me a little insight into what that's like being
a high school football player in Texas.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Yeah. You know, for the people that aren't too familiar
with the landscape of high school football down south and
especially in Texas, it's a completely different experience from any
any other state.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Really.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
You know, everybody gets behind the football team. Everybody's extremely
passionate about football. The game of environments are second to none,
So being able to be a part of that. Being
able to experience some of the more chaotic high school
environments really kind of set me up for.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
College, you know, just being able to.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Kind of block out all the all the crowd noise
and everything like that, being able to play play my game.
But it's it's a different animal down there.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Yeah, no doubt about it. When the lights go on,
the lights really go on on Friday nights down there.
Where you were under the lights Saturday night this past weekend.
Tell me about that experience, because that was your first
night game, I believe on the college level.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
So what was that like?
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Yeah, you know, the uh that that game was fun?
Speaker 2 (02:46):
It was fun, you know, just being able to do
everything we wanted in the run game, being able to
set records. Couldn't be more proud of my guys, especially
my front front five, my linemen, the guys that you know,
are the core of this entire thing. You know, without them,
none of this would have been possible, you know. Just
really proud of how physical we played all four quarters.
(03:06):
You know, that's something that we really made an emphasis
on after the Duke game. Just being able to finish
at close games, and I think we did that and
and our running backs, you know, made my job a
whole lot easier just running the ball into en zone.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Well, football games, you know, can't be won in the
first quarter, the second quarter. You got to play four quarters.
You've got to go sixty minutes. And you guys did
that on the weekend. Thirty two first downs by your
team on the weekend. That's a big number. Four hundred
and twenty two yards on the ground. I mean, I
guess you never get tired of handing it off the
guys when you see holes in front of them and
(03:39):
they can run through.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
No doubt, no doubt.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
It was, it was.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
It was a very very successful game in the run game.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
And I think you know that's that's something that you
know that we really made an emphasis on all week
establishing the run game early and early and often. And
coach Sammus has done an amazing job with with the
O line, just you know, helping set a mindset of
how we need to attack this game. And I think
our entire team had that mentality that we just wanted
(04:07):
to go and punch the opponent in the mouth from
snap one to the last snap of the game.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Yeah, Nick, ever's with us the Yukon quarterback. You ran
eighteen times seventy nine yards on Saturday night. Longest wrong
was ten yards. So when you run the RPO, which
is the run pass option for people that weren't up
to it, you know, that's a tricky thing to me.
When do you decide, how do you decide when I'm
going to hand it one, I'm going to keep it?
(04:35):
Where are your eyes? Are you looking at the linemen?
Are you looking at eleven people? How do you kind
of get yourself in that position to decide.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
What to do with a handoff?
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Yeah, you know, the the RPO game is it can
get complicated at times. You know, you you as a
quarterback have your keys. That's your key. It's typically you
know you're can two or three defenders for the pass
or the run or even the pool on the QB run.
So it's it's it comes with a lot of preparation
throughout practice and you know, our team has really made
(05:08):
an emphasis on trying to get as many rest as
possible in practice. So when we when it is game
time and the lights there do come on, it's it's
more instinct and it's not so much of a reaction.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
You kind of just feel it.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Yeah, I think a little appreciated skill for quarterbacks is
ball handling and handing the ball off and faking and
all that. If you do it well, I mean, you're
fooling me all the time up in the broadcast booth,
I can tell you that. Uh so tell me about that,
because you know, I think it looks to me like
you really emphasize that how you're going to how you
handle the ball can really change the way the play runs.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Yeah, you know, you know, first, first of all, I
just want to give credit to the coaching staff really
just make an emphasis on practice. Really just trying to
make every rep look the same. That puts defenders in
a bond. You know, sometimes when I hand the ball
off and sell a good fake, it can grab one
or two defenders. That makes it easier for the O
(06:03):
lineman and the running back to hit holes, make holes bigger.
And that's something that that I always try to work
on on a week, week to week basis, something that
I definitely just want to continuously improve, just keep on
getting better at. But but yeah, just trying to make
everything look the exact same each and every play, just
so we can set our team up for success.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
That was really a watching I was watching the Aaron
Rodgers work like that. He's good at that. He can
make a handoff look like a handoff and then make
a pass look like a handoff, and he's really good
at that. That's kind of stuff that can really carry
a long way. Quick thoughts, Buffalo, you're two and two,
You've had two great games at home. How do you
how do you view it mentally? What do you look
(06:45):
at this week as you get ready for this game?
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Yeah, you know, I think the biggest thing right now
is putting what happened in the past in the past
and moving on to the future or moving out to
moving on to the present. You know, just having that
one to O mindset this week, just trying to have
a great Tuesday practice tomorrow. I'm really just pushing the
guys to continuously be hungry for success. And you know,
(07:09):
at the start of every week, you know, coach Moore
always says, you know, you have twenty four hour rule
for a game, whether you win or lose, you know,
dwell on it or celebrate it for twenty four hours
and then once that's twenty four hours up, you know,
just get ready for Buffalo, and that's what we're going
to do, and just looking forward to a great week
of practice.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
We'll be looking forward to it certainly noon on Saturday.
Nick Evers, thanks for the visit. Stay hungry, my man,
because we're all hungry. We want the Huskies to have
a great year. And I think step by step, you
guys have a chance.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Yes sir, yes, sir, I appreciate it. All right.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
That's Nick Evers and thank you. Thanks again to Chris
Freeman and a Jim Moore who joins us weekly on
the Yukon Football Coaches Show. I'm Mike Chris Pino. Will
see you on the weekend twelve noon. Don't be late
on lear Field.
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