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three games to recap, We got our Travis mannon Foundation on a roll,
we got some picks to make. As I've just mentioned, the first leg
of the Commander in Chief Trophy is on tap this weekend eight Air Force at
Navy. We have a special guest, the Playboy play voice of the Navy
Midshipman Pete Medhurst is going to join us a little bit to break down the
matchup and talk about the first half of the season for the mid Steve and
it is time to get going. How are you? How is the week
going is? Again? Man, I'm excited about this coming weekend. I
know we got more to do. We got some wins to talk about,
some exciting matchups from last weekend to talk about. But hope all as well,
my friend. Yeah, everything is great on my end. This is
gonna be a bachelor week for me. I sent my wife away for the
rest of the week. She is actually on her way to Edmonton, Alberta,
Canada as we speak, for what is known as the Jasper Dark Sky
Festival, where a bunch of astronomy and space nerds will gather in northern Canada
and look at the sky and speak about things having to do with the space
programs around the world and astronomy. So she is speaking at the event,
and so she left this morning on her way to Alberta. I made sure
she had a winter jacket. It's not something that we normally have here in
Florida, but she certainly is gonna need it there, and so I wish
Emily safe travels. She's on her way to Minneapolis on the first leg of
her trip. So it's been an exciting morning already so far, and it's
just a cap of what was a really exciting week at least for two of
the three programs this past weekend. I don't know so much about Army,
but I certainly think that you know, as Meatloaf said, two out of
three ain't bad. Absolutely well. I hope she has fun in Edmonton.
Boy, I love I love getting up to Alberta. Beautiful country up there,
especially, I've never been the greater Edmonton are. Yeah, it's h
it is beautiful up there. Calgary, I you know, I guess if
you're from Alberta, you know, you typically fall in either of the Edmonton
Calgary camp. I tend to prefer Calgary a little bit more, but that's
just me. But Hockey Central USA, it is north of the border.
Hope she has a safe trip and you have a little fun batching it at
home this week, Steve and I guess it gives us a little bit more
time to talk some Service Academy football. So let's do that right now.
Is we look back on last weekend. First game we'll start with is Navy
getting its second shutout of the season. They go on the road in the
first ever meeting with u n C. Charlotte and Navy punches home a fourteen
to nothing victory, as again the second shut out of the season, but
their second straight win for the Mids is they get to even steven overall and
in the American Athletic Conference, three and three overall, two and two in
the American this season, Charlotte dropping to one in five, zero and two
in the America in their first season. And you know, Steve, It
was no score at halftime, a lot left to be desired offensively, but
two long touchdown runs by Navy backs Eli Heidenreich, the first one sixty nine
yards with twelve thirty left in the third and then Alex Tesca sixty two yards
out with eleven two remaining in the game. That was all the scoring in
this one, and that's all Navy needed en route to the fourteen to nothing
wins. They lost senior quarterback ty Lavatai early with a rib injury. He
did not return, and freshman Braxton Woodson led the Navy offense, completing five
or fourteen passes eighty five yards and tossing in fifty eight yards rushing as the
Mids get their third win of the season. Yeah, it was really good
to see the second half of that game first half, not so much.
I would think that if you're Brian Newberry in company, you would have liked
to have gotten out to an earlier an earlier on on a team like the
forty nine ers Charlotte. Let's face it, they're they're going to be at
the bottom of the American Athletic Conference. They are, They're they're one of
the newer programs in one FBS, and I certainly think that they've got their
work cut out for them playing at a at a higher level of college football
than they're used to coming over from Conference USA. And I thought that,
you know, after losing Lavata early as you mentioned, with the rib injury,
I thought that uh, it took. It took a moment, It
took basically the whole rest of the first half for things to kind of get
ironed out. They go back into the locker room and Brian Newberry's and and
the UH and the coaching staff is able to make the adjustments that they need
to get those two long UH plays that both led to touchdowns, and you
know, they they'll tell you that not everything can be a rembrant. Not
everything's going to be one of these high quality oil paintings. Sometimes you have
to win Jackson Pollock style. It's going to be ugly. But you know
what, there's still three and three and they're halfway to Bowl eligibility. Yeah,
absolutely, and that is really the name of the game is you want
to get you know, postseason eligible. Clearly the name of the game this
week is going to be, you know, that first leg of the Commander
in Chief Trophy. But I digress. We will talk about that in a
little bit. But you know, both teams, you know, exactly two
hundred and sixty five yards of offense. This is you know, if you're
looking for beautiful offensive football, this wasn't the game for you. Nose third
downs we were troubling for both teams. You know, Navy was three of
fifteen on third down, Charlotte a little bit worse, three of sixteen.
But Navy's defense came up with three more turnovers, forcing a fumble and then
picking off Charlotte quarterback Trexler ivy uh And so those those turnovers, you know,
making a pretty big difference there in this one. As Navy again flexes
in, it's the fourteen and oh sometimes they're not pretty. Just as a
matter of getting there, and you're happy for Navy right now if you're a
midshipman fan sitting at three and three overall, Steve at the halfway point,
yeah, absolutely, you want to be at this point, especially with the
schedule that you've got coming up. You know it's not going to be an
easy week for sure. That we'll and we'll talk about that coming up with
Pete Medhurst in a couple of moments here. But you've got you've got a
pretty rough go for the second half of your schedule from a from from a
conference standpoint, I mean, you still have to play SMU, which I
think is going to be a very very difficult game. Of course, Army
is going to be hell on wheels because you know, obviously it doesn't matter
if one team is eleven and oh and the other team is oh to eleven.
That game is going to be a close game. You know, there's
going to be a and and you're gonna play Temple UH the week after Air
Force, and I think that you know it's gonna be it's gonna be tough
for for Navy UH to get to Bowl eligibility, even though they're already halfway
there. Now, I think that the hardest part of their schedule is still
to come. Yeah, I certainly agree with you, but you you know,
you try and find those three wins wherever you can, and you know
it's it's certainly, you know, not out of the question, but you
know, Navy is just gonna have to, uh, They're really gonna have
to dig in with you know. Obviously Air Force is coming weeknd, You've
got Temple and you still have a few more home games after this week.
You have U A B and East Carolina come into Annapolis before you do not
sleep on U A B. Do not sleep on U A B. I
saw I saw U A B up close and personal here uh with with the
University of South Florida. Trent Dilfher's team is a hell of a lot tougher
than their than their record uh indicates. And so they've they've they've had a
very tough schedule, and that is a very tough team. Well they've you
know, you got three of the four worst teams I say worse just going
by standings and record in the American Left. So it's out there. You
can do it, but you're gonna have to continue to get better. And
that's what Navy seems like they're doing although it's been a revolving door at quarterback
with three guys taking snaps under center for the men's mids. But they do
get that fourteen. Nothing went at Charlotte on the road to get to three
and three overall up at Mikey, Steve, you know it's not as a
total radio show this week in rustin Louisiana previewing Army and LSU. You know,
it's not uncommon to see an academy team lay an egg, you know,
and I'm not talking just football. I'm talking, you know, across
all sports, just with the demands that they have on them as student athletes
and you know, everything that they have going on. But boy, Army
really laid one a little one on Saturday last weekend at Mikey as they lost
nineteen to zero. As Troy comes in there and shuts out the Black Knights
for the first time at home since September of twenty two thousand and three,
when USF came in there and shut out the Black Knights twenty eight to nothing.
It was the first time the Army had been held scoreless since September twenty
fourteen, when they lost thirty five oz at Stanford. But I didn't see
this one coming. I thought Army might would win a close one. But
the nation's leading rushier Comanie the doll. We gave you the statistics last week.
When he goes over one hundred yards, they usually win seventy to five
to eighty percent of their games. He went for one sixteen as Troy used
four field goals by Scott Taylor Renfrow to hand Army its third straight loss.
It's second straight at home, as Army drops to two and four overall,
now Troy five and two. Yeah, And I think the big, the
big when you look at all of the statistics, you look at the box
score. The thing that will stick out like a sore thumb on this is
the fact that Army committed four turnovers in this game. They fumbled them and
lost the ball three times. They threw an interception as well. They ended
up minus three on the turnover ratio. And when you're a service academy,
you can't do that and expect to win against any other team. It doesn't
matter if it's a Service Academy, it doesn't matter if it's LSU coming up
this week. If you're minus three in the turnover ratio. You're gonna you're
gonna end up losing games, and you're gonna end up losing games, usually
pretty poorly. And that's exactly what happened here. They got obviously you mentioned
Kamani Vidal's numbers there. They got out rushed as a team two hundred and
twenty two to one hundred and seventy seven. So that's not that's not a
normal outing for a Service Academy team. And this that's a that's a game
that I know that Jeff Monkin is Yeah, yeah, I don't. I
don't know if you can really learn too much from a game like this.
This is a game that I bet if you were to uh to talk to
the coaching staff privately, they're gonna tell you, look, we're gonna throw
this one right in the circular file, uh, because there is really not
much that we can learn from this game other than the fact that if we
turn the ball over, it's gonna bite us in the rear end. Yeah,
no question about that. And you know the story of the game,
the Trojans defense holding Army to one seventy seven rushing. You know, third
down mentioned that being a problem in that Navy Charlotte game. Well, it
was a problem, you know, on Saturday for Army. Two of thirteen
on third down, one a five on fourth down. You know, you
add those two together, that's three of eighteen and that's gonna, you know,
certainly not help you in time of possession, which Troy had the advantage
in. But just like in the Navy game, Army starting quarterback bryceon daily
Heat goes down in the second corner, did not return, and freshman Champ
Harris from Miami played for Saint Thomas Aquinas this time last year, the powerhouse
out of the South Florida, Miami area. He leads the Black Knights the
rest of the way, going six to thirteen sixty three yards through the air
in a late interception, and you know, Army just can't get anything going.
When you got a punt, you better be efficient at it, and
Army wasn't very efficient there, averaging only thirty yards per punt. And you
know, honestly, Steve, I think that score could have been much worse
because for all the big plays that Troy made offensively, they could make a
key third down in the game when they needed to. Having to settle for
threes instead of Stevens. This thing could have gotten a lot worse for Army,
you know, thank goodness it didn't. I mean, nonetheless, I
mean, no matter if it's close, you know, ugly, I mean,
a loss is a loss. But like you said, you know,
Jeff munkinsoning on the execution side, we got you know, quote need to
block and sustained blocks with good fundamentals. We got to get off the blocks
with good fundamentals. We gotta tackle better with good fundamentals end quote. He
just stressed fundamentals, fundamentals, fundamentals, over and over in the postgame press
conference. Yeah, he sounded exactly like John McKay did down here for the
Tampa Bay Buccaneers back in the early days of that franchise, when you would
get some of the greatest comments from a head coach. Ever, he would
say things like, we didn't block, but we made up for it by
not tackling either, And when asked about the execution of his team, McKay
once said that quote, I'm all for it. So I'm sure that I'm
sure that Jeff Munkin probably felt the same way. Because if you're if you're
at this point of the season and you're still having distress fundamentals. I think
something is something could be wrong, and I think that's not a good sign
for the Black Knights for sure. Yeah, no it is not. And
again, you know, Army falling nineteen zero at home, now two and
four overall five and two. Is Troy now moves in one big bright spot?
I know for Army fans freshman Kanye Udo, who only had fifty two
yards on fourteen carries entering the game those first five games of the season,
he went for one hundred and twenty four on eighteen carries. And so a
big day for kanye Udo. Might they have found a new budding star in
that freshman running back and that is certainly a deep position for Army this season.
All right, final game of the weekend last Saturday, a big one,
first place, the lead and the Mountain West Conference on the line in
Colorado Spring Steve and Air Force welcoming Wyoming to Falcon Stadium and the Falcons get
a thirty four to twenty seven win tie game. Late in the ballgame after
John Hoyman missed a what fifty two yard field goal that would have put Wyoming
up three, Falcons taking control with less than two thirty to go when John
Lee Elders, the third, took a pitch around the right side and then
took it to the house fifty eight yards, game winning touchdown is Wyoming couldn't
do anything and turn the ball over on downs after that. A massive win
as Troy Calhoun's team now is six and o four to and o in the
Mountain West Conference, leading the way, and most importantly, they are inside
the top twenty five now on both the AP and the Coaches polled, finishing
this coming out this week as the twenty seventh right, excuse me, the
twenty second team in the polls in both the AP and the Coaches. Paul
I really loved the way that they were able to take control of the game
with the with the running game. I mean, obviously that's what the Falcons
do. They are what are they first or second again in the country in
rushing yardage. They had three hundred and fifty six more yards on the ground
on Saturday for an average of almost seven yards to carry. They were efficient
on third downs seven of ten on third downs. You couldn't have asked for
a better performance from the running back corps and from Zach Larrier, and obviously
Larier dealing now with an injury, and now that it looks like he's not
going to play this week for Air Force against Navy. That'll be a big
one that we'll get into here in just a little bit. But the Falcons
now are in the driver's seat. They've gotten past the big hurdles that trip
them up last year, you know, going to US State and also beating
Wyoming. They had problems with both of those teams last year. They get
victories in those games here this year, and now they find themselves, as
I mentioned, in the driver's seat for a chance at a Mountain West Championship
appearance. In the championship game, you know, all you've got to do
is keep the nose to the grindstone and keep on going. Yeah, yeah,
no doubt about it. You're certainly setting up for the second half of
the season really really well. If you're an Air Force fan, I mean
four and oh in the league right now, atop the standings, and you're
one of only two undefeated teams left in the league, along with UNLV who
is two games back. At just two and oh, they've got a lot
left. Everything else left they have this season is in the Mountain West.
But Air Force right now, you know they fall behind in this one fourteen
oh. The Cardiac Cowboys jump out to a fourteen oh lead before Owen Burt
cuts the lead and half late in the first quarter. But like you said,
the Air Force running game a massing three hundred and fifty six yards despite
Zach Larrier going down with a second half injury. We'll talk about that a
little bit later, as Jensen Jones came in the senior to relieve the injured
Larrier. Larrier who led the way before the injury, twenty carries one hundred
and eleven yards and a touchdown. And Emmanuel Michelle he was a workhorse,
carrying twenty two times for ninety seven yards. But it was probably the difference,
no doubt about it. That big play on the option pitch by Eldridge.
It was just his third carry of the game as he went for sixty
five and Air Force getting a massive, massive win over Wyoming to stay top
the Mountain West standings thirty four to twenty seven over Wyoming. Now six to
four to zero in the Mountain West. All right, Steve time to give
out some game balls man fire away with which direction you want to go this
week. Well, I'm known for going defense, and I am going to
go defense again this week, as I just thought, Navy's defensive output against
Charlotte is exactly what the doctor ordered, and so I'm gonna go right to
the top to Will Harber, who was mentioned the American Athletic Conference on roll
this week. Eleven tackles against the forty nine ers, three of them solo.
He had a half a sack tackle for loss. He led the way
for Navy's defense, and it seemed like his name was being called all the
time on the broadcast. So it was good to see Will take care of
that, the senior out of Frisco, Texas, and so he gets a
game ball from me. All right, my game ball is going to go
to John Lee Eldridge, third, because his fourth touchdown of the season is
only one of the game against Wyoming there with less than three minutes to go.
My goodness, was it a big play when air Force needed it,
especially with your starting quarterback out. I think they're gonna lean heavily on Eldridge
this coming weekend at Navy with Larrier likely out now a few weeks. We'll
get into that with Pete Medhurst, the Navy play by play voice coming up
next, but Eldridge to the third with a fifty eight yard touchdown run taking
that option pitch from Jensen Jones down the right side, making a few guys
miss to the house. Game set match. As air Force stays undefeated and
now moves into the national rankings at number twenty two. We will talk a
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Yards and Stripes Service Academy Football. All right, welcome back in Yards and
Stripes. Continuing on Bryce Atkinson, Steve Carney. But the man of the
hour is our good friend, the Playboy play Voice of the Navy Midshipman.
That's Pete Medhurst. You can follow him on Twitter at Pete Medhurst. The
Voice of the Navy Midshipman is Navy and Air Force getting ready to square off
in Annapolis on Saturday at twelve noon. Med I hope you're doing well.
It's been a crazy season, exciting season, I know, so far highs
and lows going into the you know, the first CIC matchup hosting Air Force
on Saturday. You know, Mids are riding a high two game winning streak,
you know, just encapsulate the first half of the season for Navy.
And you know, head coach Brian Newberry his first season, his first half
of the season at least on the job. But I think, you know,
I've got huge respect for Brian, have had many conversations with him one
on one, you know, and through the years, and his football acumen
is off the charts. I mean, that's not even a discussion. You
know. He modified the staff a little bit. Grant Chestnut has brought in
some modifications to the offensive system. They've certainly not ditched the option by any
stretch of the imagination. They're still running it, they're doing it in a
different form, and you know, I mean, I think, look,
progress is being made. I mean, the team's results were not where they
wanted them to be, despite you know, great effort by a lot of
people the last couple of years. Coming out of COVID, it's been a
tough time, and I think we're finally starting to see the kids turn the
corner a little bit. Look, defense was awesome last year, and I
think that was the thing that was so puzzling early in the season, was
maybe a little bit of the inconsistency there. But even that group now through
some trial and error, I think with the coaches and some personnel, and
we found some playmakers on that defensive side. And I think that's the most
encouraging thing because look, coming into this game, you got two teams in
the top forty four in defensive stop rate. Last year was a slug fest,
and I think this year is probably gonna be more of the same because
Army Navy is intense as hell. Don't get me wrong, but let me
tell you, there's I think there's hatred when Army and Air Force and Navy
and Air Force play each other. And we'll see what happens coming up here
on Saturday. No, of course, you want to kick your little brother
while he's down. That's that's how it works. I mean, I mean,
well, I think we all I think we all have siblings, and
that's that's what happens. You mentioned the defense peat and all of the pieces
that have been so good this year, so I would assume that would probably
make this question hard. But who, then, who is your defensive MVP
for this year? There's six weeks. It's got to be ray On Lane.
You know he's got he's got three interceptions, he's got game changing plays,
and you know, now you're starting to see a PJ Volker walk him
up near the line of scrimmage, bring him up there, and you know
I mean that, Look, I'm not surprised. I mean, a kid's
very talented player. That's why he started as a freshman. You knew he
had the goods then, and he's just continued to get better. Obviously,
Prian was coaching safeties, you know when he when you know, ray got
here, So you know you've had one of the best tutors that you could
possibly have in that category, and you know now they're just continuing to take
it to an even greater level. And I think that's that's the thing this
week question is for a guy like him, you know, he is so
aggressive and this is one of those weeks where your eyes have got to be
in the right place. Troy Calhoun is the master of formations, motions,
running the same stuff, he just runs it out of a different jar every
time. And if your eyes are in the wrong place just one time,
they usually get you. And that's the key I think Foray this week is
just to make sure reading your keys, keeping that eye discipline, then exploding
on the play once you see what's happening, because he's definitely a difference maker
on the defensive side of the ball, and I think the honorable mention in
that category would have to be Luke Piris. He's starting to give them the
production that John Marshall gave them last year, and that was missing in the
first few games. But I mean, look, I mean John Marshall is
an exceptional football player. Dude's catching passes from Caleb Williams in high school before
he gets to the Naval Academy. It's a tremendous athlete. But you you
just had to wait for someone to develop. And Luke's only sophomore, so
you're gonna have this dude for you know, hopefully two more seasons after this
and hopefully he can dup locate because he's showing a lot of the great effort
that John played with, and he's doing it with even more size. And
I think that's the impressive thing right now is the player development by this Navy
defensive staff. As we continue in Navy play by play of voice Pete Medthurst
again follow him on Twitter at Pete Medhurst. Also the voice of Rosecroft Raceway
works on the Nationals and Ravens radio network. He does it all, folks.
There is nothing he cannot and does not do you know, stability on
defense, Pete? I mean, Navy is you know, that's really kind
of the bread and butter. But for years, obviously we know it's all
about offense, you know, the triple option. There's been instability there,
and certainly it's been at quarterback. Ty Lavataie obviously came got hurt Saturday in
the win over UNC Charlotte Braxton Woodson, the freshman came in relief after Blake
Horvath got the start the previous week, you know, at home, and
then Lavati relieves him in that comeback victory. I guess the musical chairs at
quarterback starting there. What's the situation. Do you think lavata is gonna be
able to go? Do you think we'll see the freshman Woodson that I know
the coaching staff has been high on, but he missed some of what summer
spring practice? What is the quarterback situation for Navy heading into Saturday? Well,
I mean, I don't think there's any question. You know this.
I mean Price, you worked up here, you saw it on a daily
basis. I mean, quarterback is everything in this offense, and instability at
the quarterback position in any offense is something that drives And I asked, I
asked Grant, that's the question our offensive cordertor yesterday. I mean they go
into spring thinking Teddy Gleeton and other sophomore is gonna be the guy, and
you know, unfortunately circumstances have dictated that he's not playing right now. So
you start going through the other metrics. You have experienced guys like love a
Tide, our line, you had inexperienced guys like Warvaf and Woodson. You
go watch practice and you see Horvaf option chops are awesome. Certainly needs to
continue to develop as a passer. Woodson has all the tools, but he's
a freshman, so you know, you lean on your experience guys. At
that point, you know Tye has battled his body somehow he made it back
on a really quick timetable from a torn acl from last year. The young
man's character is spectacular. If you're gonna have a son, marry your daughter,
we've got daughter's price. You know that ty lovetties your guy and he
gives everything he has, but his body just continues to betray him. Right
now, he has not been ruled out for this week yet, So that's
the important thing, because experiencing a game of this magnitude man means everything.
You need somebody who can keep the heartbreat down a little bit. But in
terms of physical skills, Braxton Woodson's got He's got all the skills. The
toolbox when he shows up as the repair man is full, so he can
repair your appliance with anything in his toolbox. But again, freshman, young
young player. I will remind you, though, a freshman entered in Colorado
Springs in the fourth quarter of a game several years ago, and that young
man went on to rewrite the record books at the Naval Academy. I'm not
saying that's the case here because every player is different, but part of it
isalent price. And if you've got talent, you got a chance. Braxton.
Woodson has the talent obviously, with Ti though not being ruled out yet.
You don't know if Ty's's gonna get to start in Braxton at this point,
but you certainly love what you see. I mean, a young man
through an absolute missile to Eli hyden Wreich last week, and I will say
this, because of his arm you can take advantage of what I think is
maybe the most team speed we've had at the skill positions overall in a while.
So I think that's the thing that is enticing about the Navy offense potential
with Woodson. But you also have to live with the growing pains of a
freshman as well. Yeah, and success is talent meeting opportunity, obviously,
mad I want to ask about talent and opportunity at the upback position. We
all have seen what alec Teska has done so far this year, but I
think that it's kind of it comes at the expense. I hate to say
the term that it comes at the expense, but devil Fafuna, who was
so good last year as taking a step back. What do you think has
led to ffun and not being as effective on the ground this year as he
was last year. And how does Tesca's emergence help mitigate that? Well,
I think the big thing with Tesca, I mean, and I kind of
call it a thunder and lightning type deal. Doubt Daba runs with a little
more thunder. Alex clearly runs with lightning, because I mean, you saw
what happens. I mean, he burst through the line the other day and
it was over I mean fifty yards. He's spreading away from guys. That's
the you know, Memphis, He's running away from guys. And that's that's
the only difference. They're both exceptional football players, they just do it in
a different way. And I don't think it's as much Daba has taken a
step back. I just think the explosiveness of Tesca is something the coaches are
leaning on a little bit more. And you know, the great thing about
Daba another I mean, just another ridiculously great kid, well rounded, plays
the cello like go he could go play in an orchestra tomorrow if he had
to. That's how well rounded this young man is. But it's more it's
become more of a thunder and lightning combination. But let's face it, you
in sports, particularly in football, if you have an explosiveness to your game,
you're gonna get on the field. And when you put the ball in
Alex Teska's hands, that dude can go fifty in the blank of an eye.
That's what he's given them. So I don't think it's as much anything
Daba has done from a step back. I just think it's the explosiveness of
Alex, which has earned him in many cases, maybe a few more carries
each game. But I think they're both still very valuable. And look,
this is gonna be a this is gonna be a trench warfare game. Dob
was gonna have some big carries on third and short coming up in this game.
I know it. I can feel it, and I know forty five
is can be ready to go. All right, ned the home team nine
and one in the last ten meetings. I believe the only blemish there is
when Air Force came to Annapolis the last time, what twenty twenty one,
when they got a twenty three to three win. You know, Navy's just
one in five in SIC games over these last three years. What's got to
change on Saturday for Navy to shot this number? Twenty two Air Force team.
Well, first of all, navs, pre snap penalties have got to
stop. Uh you know they get I mean, look, Joe Miller broke
it down this week, best analyst in all of college football. You know,
you look at our first down production. Based on our first down production
price, we should be rolling the ball down the field. The problem is
we get six on first down. We've been giving five of it back on
second down because of pre snap penalties. So that's the thing that must absolutely
must stop this week. You know, we we we've gone from being one
of the least penalized teams and over the last three games it seems like we
can't do enough to allow the officials to put themselves on TV and announce penalties.
Man. So that's the key. We've got to stay on schedule.
I really believe our defense is gonna rise to the occasion. The other night,
Air Force lost their quarterback, Larrier Calhoun says he's not gonna play.
You know, Jones came in the first two drives Price he put the ball
on the carpet. Wyoming. Wyoming should have won the game. I mean
Air Force gift wrap two turnovers inside the thirty and Wyoming only got three points
out of it. And that's the if you're wyoming, you got to be
kicking yourself. But here's the thing that makes Troy Calhoun so good. He
usually will add a wrinkle. You're gonna see a trick play somewhere along the
way. He's an expert play caller, and you've got to be You've got
to be ready for it. And you know he is to Air Force what
Paul Johnson was to Navy. The man is just an offensive guru. I
mean, I don't know if i'd stop it at genius, but look the
consistency of that offense and running what they run, and the brilliance and consistency
of the program is what it is. So you've got to have eye discipline
on defense. But for Navy, to me, the number one thing is
stop the pre snap penalties. So second and four remains second and four because
I don't know, my public school math tells me four is less than nine.
If I've only got to get four, I got a better chance to
get a first down. All right, man, last question for you before
we let you get out of here. You know, obviously Saturday is gonna
be an outstanding scene environment sold out crowd. Navy Marine Corps Memorial Stadium there
for Navy and number twenty two maybe number twenty two Air Force first leg the
se ic Trophy. You know, two Navy greats, former quarterback Roger Staubach
being honored, as well as former head coach Paul Johnson, who's named of
the College Football Hall of Fame class at twenty twenty three. I know,
as a broadcaster, these are the kind of moments that you love. You
pinch yourself for this. You know what's building for Saturday? You know what
talk about the excitement, the chance to call one of these games. You're
gonna have some crazy, awesome guests in the booth. You know, you'll
have a ton of former players back in the house. What's Saturday going to
be like for you as a broadcaster behind the mic? Yeah? I mean,
look, even after all these years, I get goosebumps still, man,
because it means something to me. I mean, being the voice of
Navy football means everything to me. And it's these types of games and the
fact that we're honoring Roger and Paul with what they've meant to Navy football.
It's it's extraordinary. I don't think people realize where Navy football was. When
chet Gladshaw came in as the A D and he hired Paul Johnson as the
football coach, we weren't in a really good place. I mean there were
there were there were a lot of people that wondered if we could you know,
uh win quite frankly, you know, at the Division one Double A
level and compete with those top teams at the time. What Paul did was
extraordinary and that's and there was such a directness about Paul, and that that's
what I loved about the man. You knew where you stood. There was
no there was no gray area when it came to Paul Johnson, and the
results clearly beared that out, as the Georgia Tech people found out, uh
you know after you know, unceremoniously really trying to railroad him out the door.
You saw what happened after he left. It was very hard times.
So the man is an exceptional football coach. He's a great guy. And
let's face it, Roger staubacks one of the greatest football players we've ever seen.
I had a chance to do an event with him and Doug Williams at
the Naval Academy a couple of years ago, and you know, just just
a fabulous man. And you know what he's done in business after football has
even dwarfed what he did on the football field. You know what some of
his countries have done for for veterans and and and people that have served our
country. Just extraordinary. I mean, you're talking about a man of impeccable
character and glad we're able to honor him on Saturday. As again, I
mean that what both men have meant to Navy's football history. You put him
Mount Rushmore together. There's a likelihood both of those guys are on it right
now, you guys, you and Joe Miller, the color analysts. Obviously
Keith Mills will be on the sideline, Scott whykeoff in studio. You guys
will have the pregame coverage starting at eleven am on the Navy Radio Network,
special commentary from John Feinstein to call at obviously twelve noon, and then you
guys will have the thirty minute post games show afterwards. Med We cannot thank
you enough for the time today. Always great catching up with you and talking
to little Navy football man. Good luck on Saturday and have a lot of
fun appreciating you, Matt with you. Thank you all right. Once again,
that's Navy play by play voice Pete Medhurst. Always appreciate med for giving
us his valuable time here on Yards and Stripes. He is a man that
is always on the move. All right. We got a lot more to
do here on this episode. We're going to give some picks for our upcoming
games this weekend. Also our Travis Manion Foundation Honorall segment honoring a fallen hero.
We got a lot more to do here on this episode of Yards and
Stripes, Your Home for Service Academy Football, the latest with Army and Air
Force on Yards and Stripes Service Academy Football. Moving down the field here on
Yards and Stripes, your Home for Service Academy Football again Pryce Atkinson. He
is Steve McCarney, and we have got two big games coming up this weekend,
including the first leg of the Commander in Chief Trophy. It is on
the line coming up Saturday in Annapolis. But let's start first because we'll save
that one for last, Steve, because that is the biggie. But it's
going to be a biggie for the Black Knights and a biggie test I should
say, as the Black Knights are going into Baton Rouge to take on Number
nineteen LSU on homecoming. It is a night time tilt at seven thirty pm
from Tiger Stadium, going to be broadcast live on the SEC network. Is
Army two and four doing battle with Number nineteen LSU. It is five and
two and only the second ever meeting between these two teams, Army actually winning
the very first meeting twenty to zero at West Point Back all the Way in
nineteen thirty one. But this will be the second time Jeff Mounkin and Brian
Kelly have matched up as head coaches. Notre Dame won that meeting forty four
to six in twenty and sixteen. And boy to say that the Black Knights
have their work cut out for him this week, Steve, I think that
would probably be a massive understatement, especially when you consider Bryce and Dally who
got hurt last weekend unsure of his return. Will it be Champ Harris,
the true freshman from Miami getting his first career starts under the lights at Tiger
Stadium on homecoming and obviously Army having lost three straight. They're better ways that
you could be going into this one or feel better about it, certainly if
you were Army, but a monumental task, but certainly one that will be
an unforgettable experience for every Black Knight that's going to take the field and be
there on Saturday night and Tiger Stateium at LSU. Yeah, I mean most
of these Black Knights players have played in some pretty big stadiums, you know,
obviously having played an Army Navy if unless you're a true freshman, you
know you've been in one of the one of the most amazing moments in all
of college football. But to be under the lights at Tiger Stadium in Baton
Rouge, I think is going to be quite the feeling for this Black Knight's
team. I really do think that it is going to come down if it
is if it is Champ Harris that's going to be under center here this week.
If Bryson Daily can't go, I really do think that, you know,
having played in Miami, playing football in a powerhouse of a city like
Miami as a high schooler, I think that he's actually going to be less
rattled than a lot of people think. And I think that it could lead
to some good things because if he's able to throw the football and if Isaiah
Austin is able to to make catches uh, because that was the one the
one person you didn't hear his name last week against Troy UH. I would
love to see Isaiah Austen UH being able to take take control of this game
UH for Army and be able to go up against uh An Lsu secondary that
is UH. Let's face it, it's not as good as it's been in
years past. I think that it is. I think that they are gettable.
I think they're gettable through the air. The question is is how much
does Army want to throw UH through the air and will they be able to
throw through the air. Yeah, that's a big question mark. And you
know, certainly with a with a true freshman quarterback, I don't think you
want to try and rely on that arm you know, in a situation like
this. But you know, if they you know, like you said,
their fences get a ball, you can move the football on him. And
we know, look, there have been times when an Army in years pass
has gone into some of these big games against Power five opponents and you know,
almost shocked the world in twenty fifteen. They you know, they lost
by six to Penn State in twenty eighteen. A lot of people remember that
one, taking Kyler Murray and then number five Oklahoma to overtime before losing twenty
eight twenty one. And you know, the following year they took number seven
Michigan to double overtime before losing by a field goal. But Army's last went
over a non Service Academy ranked team was back in nineteen sixty eight when they
beat number sixteen Cow ten to seven. But bryceon dally having him available,
I mean, I don't know if that's going to be a difference maker.
I don't think so, Jeff munkinsaying this week he seemed to be doing,
you know, better than anticipated. I was here for practice on Sunday and
got treatment on the day off. But he's hopeful that he'll be ready.
But you know, you know, when it's you know, triple option football
at the Academy's you know, it's it's in a lot of ways a plug
and play situation because it's the system, not so much the player. But
having Bryson daily would be a big shot in the arm as you go up
against the second best offense in the country led by you know, quarterback Jaden
Daniels, who's first in the nation pass efficiency third and passing yards with over
twenty four hundred and you know, a bona fide Heisman Trophy candidate. That
LSU offense can move the football on anybody. It's their defense. It's been
the problem. Just what can army do? What wrinkles can they throw?
You know, might they catch LSU you know, napping for a while and
next thing you know, they wake up and they're in a game in the
second half. Yeah. And not only that, but you you figure the
best way to keep their offense and to keep Daniels from going after your own
defense is to keep them on the sideline. And so that's where I think
the running game becomes so important. And the question, uh, as I
mentioned, becomes how much of a wrinkle do you show the Tigers? Uh?
You know, how much can you how much can you show without getting
out of you know, staying in your lane. You've got to be able
to, you know, if you're a service academy, uh to win football
games. Uh As, as they say on Nick Cannon's Wild and Out,
stay in her lane. Stay in her lane. So, uh, I
think you're gonna I think they're gonna have to stay in their lane. They're
gonna have to be able to run the run the football with some sort of
efficiency. Uh. Make the Tigers come up and put eight guys uh in
the box or even nine guys in the box and find and then find a
way to get Isaiah Austen in some one on ones and be able to exploit
that. If you can do that and and be efficient in the passing game,
I think you're gonna find yourself in good shape. Uh. Maybe not
to win the game, but I'll tell you what. This game is thirty
right now, that's where that's where the sharps have it, and don't I
don't think I'm going to surprise anybody when I'm saying that I'm not laying thirty
against Army. Yeah. Yeah, As you mentioned, LSU a thirty point
favorite. Over under is fifty seven and a half for Army and LSU.
The Tigers ranked number nineteen, and both the coaches and the ap pole seven
thirty pm kickoff there on the SEC network is Army at number nineteen. LSU
on Saturday night, all right, our other game save the big one for
last, number twenty two Air Force. Air Force twenty two now in both
the coaches in the ap Pole, undefeated at six and zero, traveling to
Annapolis to take on three and three Navy. This one a twelve pm Local
Eastern Standard time kickoff on CBS the main CBS, and air Force is a
ten and a half point favorite over Unders thirty six and a half. As
you know, we just heard from Navy play bluff playboys Pete Medhurst about the
first leg of the Commander in Chief Trophy gonna you know, be played there
at Navy Marine Corps Memorial Stadium on Saturday. Air Force leading this series thirty
three to twenty two overall, the home team having won nine of the last
ten. That only time blemish in the last ten years was when Navy or
Air Force came to Navy the last time back in two thousand and twenty one
and got a twenty three to three win. But the story of this one
steve no question about it. Health of the quarterbacks, Who's it going to
be? And we've heard from Troy Calhoun already this week, you know,
saying that quote Zach Larrier starting quarterback quote, likely will be out for a
while with a knee injury. As the senior from Youngstown Youngstown, Ohio,
has been the only person that has attempted a pass I believe this season for
the Falcons. Second on the team with four hundred and seven three yards rushing,
but has been more than instrumental in helping our air force off to the
six and zero start four and zero in the Mountain West Conference. And then
certainly ty Lavataie. We don't know his status. Blake Corbath is probably out
for a little while. Is it going to be the freshman Braxton Woodson.
We don't know what the situation is for quarterbacks on either side, and that
is going to be a major factor in what happens in the outcome of this
game. Steve Yeah, and it's gonna make air force very one dimensional.
As you mentioned, Larrier is the only quarterback that's strowing to pass this year
for the Falcons. I think that's gonna be a big piece uh for Navy.
UH. And that's gonna help out the midshipman. Is the fact that
you know, it doesn't matter who uh Troy Calhoun puts under center, the
next time that they step back and try an attempt to pass will be the
first time for anybody. Uh. And so I think that, uh,
you know, that's gonna allow me to step up. I think it's gonna
allow them. We mentioned with Army and LSU about you know, when will
the Tigers put nine men in the box? Uh and start going the way?
I would not be surprised if Navy doesn't start with nine men in the
box because Uh, I think that you're gonna have to control the running game
of air Force obviously with what John Ley Eldridge has done, with what Emmanuel
Michelle has done. Uh, you know you want you're gonna you need to
stop both of those guys. Make the quarterback that's that's out there beat you.
Uh and if he and if he can do it, you tip your
cap to him. Uh, you give him a hand salute and uh and
and you move on. But I think that the way that the only way
that Navy can win this game is by is by loading the box and making
that quarterback beat you. Yeah. Navy's rush defense ranks seventy ninth in the
country, giving up at just over one hundred and forty eight yards the game,
while air Force is rush defense is ranked fifth in the nation, giving
up seventy seven yards per game, but total defense is a different story.
Air Force third nationally giving up two hundred and forty yards of total offense,
while Navy is sixty eight giving up three hundred and seventy five yards of total
offense. And you know, Navy, as I mentioned, you know,
the home team has won nine out of the last ten, but Navy is
won is twelve and nine all time against air Force at Navy Marine Corps Memorial
Stadium. It's the first time that air Force has been ranked going back since
the two thousand and nineteen season. But this Air Force team, really you
mentioned defense third nationally in total defense, while they leave the nation in rushing
and in yards per completion throwing the football. They're also first in the country
in third down conversions and fewest tackles for a loss. I mean, they're
a pretty darn good complete team, Steve on both sides of the football.
All. You know, Matthew Dpoor, if you've got to give an edge
at kicker, I probably would certainly give it to the poor an Air Force.
YEA, they're maybe not in the punting game, but you know,
if you've got to kick and you've got one on the line, that might
be the place. You know, you're gonna look and say that Air Force
kicker, I got more faith to do it than the other guy. But
you know, still, once again, I think this one is gonna come
down to who has the healthier quarterback, Which quarterback if you have to in
relief, which quarterback can make the plays or maybe not even make the plays,
not lose the game for you. Yeah, you're absolutely right. It's
it's exactly what you're gonna have to be looking for, and especially if you're
the Falcons, because you mentioned all of these numbers, you know, the
the amount of rushing yards that have been allowed, the efficiency in the most
yards per completion, you know, all all this stuff offensively, that air
Force can do it all. It all runs. You know, the first
person to touch the football is the quarterback, and so Larier has been involved
in every single play and now that's going to change and this week and now,
uh, it doesn't matter if you if you're using uh A Jensen,
Jones or whoever it's gonna be, it's gonna be different. And I think
that that that's something that Navy's gonna have to capitalize on early is the fact
that they've only had, you know, this week of practice uh to to
get ready uh for the midshipman defense. And so with someone new under center,
it's it's totally different. And I think that Navy can, If Navy
can capitalize that on that early, I think that uh, that they've got
themselves to shot. The problem is that I don't think that they I don't.
I think that air Force is much too talented overall, and their talent
level is much higher than than what we have in Annapolis. And so I
think that air Force still comes out with a victory in that once again,
number twenty two air Force six and zero at Navy three and three. This
one a twelve noon kickoff Eastern Standard time on National CBS. The Falcons giving
ten and a half over under thirty six and a half is the first leg
of the Commander in Chief Trophy will take place in Annapolis. We got more
to do here. We got our Travis Manion Foundation Honor Roll segment coming up.
We got a few notes to pass along, and then we got a
few games to pick two of them to be exact. And we'll do that
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information online at travismannon dot org. Ways that you can get involved in a
community near you, and a couple of notes to pass along mentioned to you
before as we talked to Pete Medhurst and preview the game. The Navy Air
Force game is sold out this weekend. Navy will honor Rogers Staubach and then
former head coach Paul Johnson prior to a Saturday's game, so I'm sure Navy
fans will want to be in their seats early with everything all the pageantry that's
going to take place there. Junior punter for the Midshipman Riley Riithman named the
American Athletic Conference Special Teams Player of the Week after punting eleven times for five
hundred and nine yards that's four hundred or that's forty six point three yards per
clip last week against Charlotte. Four of those eleven punts were down inside the
twenty and two of them inside the ten yard line. Is He is averaging
a school record forty five point two yards per punt this season with the longest
sixth the Joe Moore Award, leasing releasing their most outstanding offensive line units in
college football this week their mid season honor roll coming out Air Force. No
surprise there, they are named one of the twenty three units named to the
mid season Honor Roll for the Joe Moore Award, which is given out annually
to the most outstanding offensive line unit in college football. And then finally,
Troy Calhoun named to the Paul Bear Bryant Coach of the Year watch List award
is twenty six active head coaches make up the American Heart Associations twenty twenty three
Coach Bryant Coach of the Year Award List as that is given out to the
top honor or, the top honor given out to the top head coach in
college football that sponsored by the American Heart Association. So those news and notes
just to pass along to you real quick. Let's get to some picks here,
Steve. We got Navy versus Air Force. We got Army at LA
Which way you want to go? Let's start with Army at LSU. Yeah.
The fact that this is a thirty point spread should scare Tigers fans.
I know that that means that there, you know, Vegas wants a whole
lot of money to come in on Army, because that's that even in college
football, when when you're looking at two teams like this, that's a boatload
of points. And so I probably would take the thirty points. I'm more
interested in the under fifty seven and a half. I think that that's more
likely to hit because if it's forty three nothing or something like that, that
LSU is winning this game, that's still under fifty seven and a half.
So I probably would take the under before I would take the points, but
I would still take the points. I hear you. I did go a
little bit of an opposite direction. No, I'm not gonna take Army to
win the game. I think LSU's gonna win the game. I think they're
gonna cover the thirty points spread. I just think Jayden Daniels right now putting
up just massive numbers. I don't think they're gonna be out there to embarrass
Army by any stretch of the imagination, even though Brian Kelly might like to
do that from time to time to certain teams. I don't think that they're
going to be out specifically to do that, but they're certainly going to be
out to win a homecoming football game as they get ready to go into their
bye week, and I think that LSU is handily going to win this,
especially with questions at quarterback. We don't know bryceon Dally's gonna play, or
if it'll be Champ Harris or Mike Jeff Munkin and the company have something or
somebody else up their sleeve. We will find out, but I think that
LSU wins big. I do think they cover the thirty points all right,
the big one first leg of the Commander in Chief Trophy, Steve Air Force
and Navy. Which way are you gonna go? Are you gonna go with
an upset? No, I'm not gonna go with an upset. As much
as I would love to go with an upset this week, being a Navy
guy, I would I would certainly love to see the midshipman be able to
leave the first leg of the Commander in Chief Trophy with a victory. I
don't see it happening. I just think that I mentioned the running game for
the Falcons is just too strong, even with a even with a new quarterback
under center, I think it's just going to be too much of a of
an ask for for this for this Navy team. So I'm gonna say it's
going to be air Force twenty three Navy thirteen. All right. I'm not
gonna go upset either. I think that I think the complexion of this game
has changed drastically without Zach Larrier, with him being announced this week he's gonna
be out for a while with a knee injury. Jensen Jones going to be
in for air Force. You know, like like Pete Medhurst said, you
know, Troy Calhoun's got some of his sleeve, always does. Might he
have something up his sleeve at quarterbacks? Somebody we hadn't seen. It's not
uncommon for Troy Calhoun and the Air Force staff to roll somebody out that is
unexpected. But that could be the case. But I think with Larrier out,
I think that certainly makes this a more winnable game, if you will,
for Navy. I think the difference in the end is air Force has
got more playmakers offensively, especially Emmanuel Michelle and John Lee Eldridge. You know,
the two most outstanding playmakers and explosive athletes you know in this game.
They can break it in any time. But I think probably ultimately the difference
is going to be Air Force's defense. I think Air Force's defense is just
it's just much better. You know, They're kind of in a category.
I know they playing play in the Mountain West Conference, you know, but
to be third in the nation in total defense at this point, that's no
fluke halfway through a season. We know what they did last year, and
they have built off that defensively AUEA in this year. So I think that
the Air Force defense is gonna be the difference. I'm going to go something
in the neighborhood of I think it'll be fairly close. I'm gonna go Air
Force with a twenty four to twenty win on Saturday in Annapolis to take the
first leg of the Commander in Chief Trophy. Steve, Yeah, I can
certainly see that happening. Like I said, I'm a little, I'm a
little. I think it's gonna be a little wider of a margin. I
think it's gonna be on the other side of a touchdown. But I do
think that it is going to be a lot closer than most people think that
this game is going to be. Well, it's going to be exciting,
nonetheless, because when academies match up, fun things happen. Of course,
you know, this could be low scoring, like many of these matchups are,
and boy, we could have a first half that's played under an hour
if it weren't for TV timeouts on CBS, you might even be able to
play it in like forty five minutes because they move the ball and you know,
first down so quickly. But it'll be fun. In Annapolis on Saturday
is Air Force and Navy matching up, and of course are me at LSU
on Saturday. But enjoy the games this weekend. Have a great week.
Enjoy wherever it is you're spending your college football Saturday. Hopefully it might be
at Tiger Stadium or in Annapolis. But we will do it again next week
here on Yards and Stripes for Steve Carney, I'm Price Atkinson. We'll talk
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