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Speaker 1: Need to get your football fix on all things Army,

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Navy and Air Force. This is Yards and Stripes, Service

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Academy Football. Now here are your hosts, Pryce Atkinson and

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Steve Carney.

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Speaker 2: Yards and Stripes. You're home for Service Academy Football, Army, Navy,

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and Air Force. That is what we do and that

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is Stephen Carney and I am Pryce Atkinson. We welcome

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you into another edition here of Yards and Stripes as

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we have got a lot to get to. A losing

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street snapped and a rematch goes the other way. We're

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going to get into that in more. Two games to recap.

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We got one only one game. One game on the

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doct this week, we'll talk about it. We've got a

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Travis Mening Foundation on a roll segment. We got picks,

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game balls to give out. We got a lot here

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as we always set the table recapping the previous week

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and getting you ready for the college football weekend as

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we are part of the College Gritter and Coast to

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Coast podcast network also available and last Word on sports

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dot Com. Steven getting out of the gate. We're back

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to a Tuesday night. Poppy's Pizza Report is a go

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what we got.

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Speaker 3: It most certainly is tonight. Prise, Yes, so it's too

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days damn right about that. It is a Tuesday night

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in the carnealhousehole that means it is Papa Yon's Pizza night,

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and it is already it has already been destroyed. Both

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both my lovely wife Emily and I we missed lunch. Uh,

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so we got the Poppa Yan's pizza and absolutely destroyed

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one that was half pepperoni and half pepperoni and banana

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pepper because it's my wife, she loves banana peppers, and

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that means that there are going to be banana peppers

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on the pizzas. So obviously I am absolutely full. It's

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satiated and ready to go here on this college football

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getting ready for Week nine and a huge matchup coming

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up that will get but we got to get to

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these first two games from week eight.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, let's do it. Let's start in the big easy

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because as we mentioned last week, talked about a lot

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and as I mentioned, they were at the outset the

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rematch between last year's American Conference Championship game and the

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two most recent the last two American Conference champions That

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would be Tulane An Army doing battle in the big

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easy and it's Tulane coming back to get a twenty

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four to seventeen win and a really exciting game as

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the Green Wave now six and one, three zero in

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the American Army dropping to three and four two and

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three in the American. But this was a game where Army,

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if you watched it and you took it in like

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we did, this was a game where Army dominated their opponent.

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I mean to the tune of almost forty minutes a

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time of possession. They just did not make enough plays

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in the end, so stinking close. You can look back

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to a lot of different spots, but if this had

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been different, could this have changed the outcome? And you

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can do that in almost any football game. But in

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the end, it was Jake Rhetz Laugh who rose up

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above everybody two touchdown passes in the final two minutes,

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the second of which was to Shas Preston from twenty

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six yards out with twenty seven seconds left that gave

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to Lane the victory and Army I don't want to

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say that they're a road team this year, but they

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certainly seem to rise up when it's a game on

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the road versus at Mikey but coming up short and

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one that was right there for the taken man at

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the very end. Just got a feel for Jeff Unkin

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and his kids in this one.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you certainly do. Price. We were talking about this

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before we started the show. If this game had gone

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fifty eight minutes, Army would win the game. This game

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had gone sixty two minutes, I think Army ends up

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winning this game. That's how close this was at the end.

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But yeah, credit Jake Rhetz laugh. I mean, you know,

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you could imagine what he would be like if he

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had stayed at BYU, who, by the way, is seven

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and zero on the season so far without him. But

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you know, he was the Mount West quarterback of the

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Year last year. I mean he was. He was an

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absolute monster at BYU and in the Big twelve last year.

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So I really do think that with you know, the

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way that he finished this game, you saw why he

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is considered one of the best quarterbacks in all of

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college football. Because without him, obviously, Tulane has very little

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to show for in this contest, and Army I think

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wins this one pretty handily. And you know, this is

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a seventeen to three game with any other quarterback other

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than Jake Retz laugh. But for me, the word that

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I would use for Army in this game, I was

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impressed by them.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 3: I thought that they played about as hard of a

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team and a team that most of the pundits believe

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will be in the American Conference Championship game again this year,

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just because of the schedule that they have and the

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fact that they don't have to play a lot of

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the big names in the conference. You know, they do

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have to play Memphis and that's pretty well and I

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believe they also play Navy, but you know, they don't

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have to play North Texas, they don't have to play

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South Florida, you know, so they they have a really

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you know, easy schedule comparatively to the rest of the conference,

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you know, the other big names in the conference. And

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I think Army took them absolutely to their limit. And

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I think they showed other teams what it takes to

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beat Tulane and and I think that, you know, if

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I'm Jeff Monkin, yes, you absolutely feel for the kids

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because they did everything possible apart from you know, basically

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one or two plays you know, going the other way.

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that you have to take this as a learning moment

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and and understand that with this game, you can hang

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with just about anybody in this conference.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, And you know, after Army knocks off Kansas State,

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who was in by a lot of people's mind the

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preseason picked to win the Big Twelve and you know,

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taking Tulane to the to the bitter end, a team

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that's been a mainstay, you know, in the in the

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America in the last several years. Obviously, Army knocked him

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off last year in the conference. Chamiship didn't knock him

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off dominated him at Mikey in December or the conference

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title game, but you know, came close to doing it again.

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And you know one thing I was, you know, watching

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the game too, is I was just thinking, God, I

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wish Kate Helems was a sophomore set of a junior,

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because how much he's just come into his own you know,

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I mean, carries darn here forty times one hundred fifty

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yards and two touchdowns and then he throws for one

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twenty five too, to keep that defense fairly loose. Just

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I wish that Kate Hellams had that was a sophomore

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because if we might be having some serious conversations, it

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could be different. Not to look ahead too far, but

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you know, if he had two more years of eligibility

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versus just one, I don't know what you know, there's

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turnbacks and all kinds of other things that happened every

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now and then Service Academy football with certain programs more

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than others. But I just wish that Hellam's, you know,

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had that chance to play two more seasons because a

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lot of times, you know, it's it's it's a kid

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that you know, they they're cycled through their backup and

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then they don't take the reins until basically like what

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we're seeing right here at Kate Hellams in his junior year,

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or maybe it's the senior year before they come into

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their own. So Blake Corbath is a little bit, a

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little bit different where you know, he's been playing since

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he was a sophomore, even as I think as he

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was playing good bit as a freshman, but certainly as

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a sophomore he was a mainstay, you know, under center

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for the Midshipman while they were still going you know,

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playing some musical chairs at quarterback his sophomore year. But

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I just you know if Hellam's had one more season,

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because Kyala he is really, you know, been dynamite. I

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was trying to look for the stat here. Let me

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see if I could find it it was about Hellams.

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So I don't. I thought I had it right in

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front of me. I don't. But the big thing is

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is that he kept them in the ball game. And

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the Army defense, you know, they they stood up but

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were fantastic until Jake red Slap just rose above it

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all and you were you were pumping Jake red slaugh socks,

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you know, last week on the show and before we

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started recording, just you know, talking about how good the

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guy is and the mistakes that BYU did to even

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let him leave pro vote.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, and and to think and like I said,

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you know, b YU is now is one of these

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teams that a lot of people think is going to

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end up in the college football Playoff as representative of

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the Big twelve. Here this year, you know, there's seven

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and they're not even they're not playing who was their

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best quarterback, you know, who had eligibility and because of

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the off the field stuff that went on there, you know,

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they were talking about possibly suspending him for a number

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of games, and he was like, well, screw that, I'm

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just gonna go take my way someplace else. And he

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finds himself now in the driver's seat for another conference

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title in Tulane with with the American Athletic Conference.

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Speaker 2: YEP, so twenty four to seventeen, Tulane getting the win.

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As now the Black Nights, they will have the weekend

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off before they get ready for the second leg of

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the Commander in Chief Trophy. They will be taking on

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the Air Force Falcons on Saturday, November first. We'll talk

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about that certainly a lot more detail next week, but

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we'll turn the page right now to head out to

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Colorado Springs, where Steve and don't look now a five

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game losing streak snapped gone. The Falcons get their first

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mount Less Conference win of the season, twenty four to

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twenty one over the visiting Cowboys of Wyoming two and five,

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now air Force one and four in the Mount West

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and Wyoming dropping the three and four one in two

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in the Mount West. You and I both had air

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Force winning this game in our picks last week, but

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the least amount. It's amazing what can happen when your

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defense rises to the occasion, and it's the least amount

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of points they have given up all season to an

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FBS team. Liam Sarkas certainly don't overlook him one bit

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because the Air Force quarterback rushing for one forty one

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to a touchdown, also doing a great job through the air.

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The fifth straight one hundred yard rushing game by Sarka

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an Air Force record, as it was Air Force's ninety

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second consecutive game with one hundred yards rushing, the longest

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streak in college football. But two big interceptions by defensive

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backs Roger Jones, a sophomore, Maximus Stella rushman, two underclassmen

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coming up with two big picks in the game, and

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that ultimately was the difference is getting a few stops

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and getting off the field and Air Force is victorious,

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finding the win column. Thank the Lord again, twenty four

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to twenty one over the Cowboys.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and after being outgained by Wyoming four o nine

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to three sixty three. You know their their quarterback there,

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Kayden Anderson had a really good game. Other than the

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two interceptions. They mean he finished you know, twenty three

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of thirty two hundred and eleven yards. He had a touchdown,

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also had the one of those two interceptions. You know,

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they I thought did really well attacking Air Forces defense,

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but the fact is that they had two drives that

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ended up getting nothing because they were turned over and

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Air Force didn't turn the ball over once. And we've

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always said that that is the most important thing for

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a service academy is ball security and being able to

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win the turnover game. If you're if you're plus in

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the turnover ratio, you're gonna find yourself with opportunities to win.

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And Air Force took advantage of that. And as you mentioned,

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you know, another one hundred yard game on the ground

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from Leams Sarka. The Falcons have three hundred and thirty

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yards total of rushing offense. They averaged almost six yards

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per attempt on the ground, you know, and if you're

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doing that, you're gonna find yourself in really good in

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a really good position and not having to take the

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ball to the air. I mean, the Air Forces had

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to allot this year throw the football and Sarka has

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had some really good games through the air, but you know,

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we only had to have you only had to throw

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the ball eight times on Saturday, finished with only thirty

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three yards passing that's not a big deal when you're

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able to do what the Falcons were able to do

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on the ground.

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Speaker 2: Air Force's defense entering the football game allowing forty points

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per game one hundred and thirty fourth worst in the FBS,

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four hundred and ninety six yard total yards of offense

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three hundred and twenty three passing yards per game, both

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the worst in the FBS. Wyoming was well under that

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four h nine, almost one hundred shive of what Air

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the Air Force is given up through the air. Air

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Force only had two eleven, so about one hundred and

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twenty yards lower air So to me, the story of

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this game was Air Force's defense finally showing up and

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taking their ticket to the party, because we've been waiting

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for it all season. We've been waiting for this team.

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You just can't continue to play that awful on defense.

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how you find a win playing as bad as Air

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Force has had, where they can't get off the field.

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of yardage, big plays, even in the even in the

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Loston Navy where they didn't give up that many points,

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which was you know what thirty four shy of the

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forty which they averaged giving up per season, but it

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was still they gave up just hunks of big plays

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in that game.

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Speaker 3: Steven, Well, they're still giving up hunks of yards per

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play in this game. I mean seven yards per attempt passing,

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five and a half yards per rushing attempt on the ground.

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You know, they they got out first downs. You know,

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the Cowboys had twenty five first downs in this game,

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and they were at fifty percent efficiency on third down

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and perfect on fourth down. And so, you know, as

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much as we want to talk about, you know, them

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stepping up, I don't know if it was so much

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of a step up, but it certainly was a bend

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but don't break type of day for Troy Calhoun's defense,

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because they did They certainly didn't bend, but there were

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a couple of times that they were able to come

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up big and not break.

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Speaker 2: Well, that's gonna lead us into our game ball, Steven.

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I'll let you fire first, because that that tease that

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tees me up for a game ball. But I'm always

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liked for royalty to go first. When you pick your

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game ball. So that's why Steven Carney is gonna fire

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away his tradition here in Yards and Stripes.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and I'm and I'm probably taking your h your

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game ball, so you're gonna probably have to figure out

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a new one. I'm going with Roger Jones Junior, the

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sophomore defensive back for air Force. He had the big

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interception of Caen Anderson in the end zone in the

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fourth quarter. He had a game high ten tackles, sixth solo,

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and a tackle for loss in this game to go

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along with that interception. And so I'm gonna go with

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Roger Jones.

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Speaker 2: Well I wasn't gonna go with Roger Jones. I mean

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I could have, but I was just gonna give give

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a game ball to the Troy Callan's entire defensive unit because,

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like I said, we've been waiting for this all season.

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They have not had a pulse on defense. No, we're

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not gonna get you know, say that they did against

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buck Nell because that was, you know, an FCS team,

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But in big boy football, this is the first time

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that they have come to the party. And welcome to it,

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because you made the difference in the football game one

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thing I just wanted to say real quick, not a

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game ball here. But you know, as we mentioned is

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I you know, talked about Kate Hellms, you know, for

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Army just a second ago. Liam Sarka is on the

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other side of that because he is a sophomore and

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provided he decides to come back to the academy next year,

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Air Force has got their starting quarterback for the next

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two seasons. Troy Calhoun would argue that till we're blue

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sitting in front of him having a beer all night. Yeah,

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but you know he would tell us, no, nothing set

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in stone, and I get that, But look, Liam Sarka

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is the guy I've been thoroughly impressed with. The young

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sophomore out of Aurora, Colorado, just six feet tall, but man,

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he is. She seems to be getting better and better.

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He's taking hold of that that starting quarterback job, and

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you know he's doing all he can to put that

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team on his back. But you know he had to

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be taking a couple of guys out on the defense

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for stakes. Probably Roger Jones was one of the guys

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he took to find a nice steakhouse in downtown Colorado.

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Spring Steven all Right, let's we'll get out of here

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and come back and preview some more games. We got

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some picks to make. We only have one game specifically

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to talk about. We will do that. Travis Meanion found

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that Nation Honorable segment with Stephen As. We are part

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of the College Grador and Coast to Coast podcast network.

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We come out weekly as many of our good friends

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and brethren and colleagues do you know, you know, look,

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I'll let you go through them all we've got and

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we've got Florida Football Insight. We've just got something for

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everybody as we've got multitude of podcasts that come out

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every single week to keep any college football band busy

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until Saturday.

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Speaker 3: Oh absolutely. And it started on Monday with This Week

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in the ACC as Jeff and Matthew are always first

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up every single week, and of course their big topic

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this week Louisville upsetting Miami, the Hurricanes no longer being unbeaten.

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That causing chaos in the ACC. And of course the

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big question of is Mike Norvel's tenure in Tallahassee maybe

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coming to an end? He got the dreaded vote of

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confidence after the loss to Stanford. So those guys definitely

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going about things in the ACC. Matt Zemaic has get

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off my pylon talking West Coast college football coaching chickups

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going on out there, obviously, Jay Norvell being let go

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at Colorado State this week, that of course a big one,

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and of course the rise of UCLA in the post

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to Shaun Foster era and causing the firing of James Franklin.

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Big ten Paradigm talking about how USC is still struggling

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to play a full sixty minutes after their loss to

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Notre Dame and Nebraska being knocked from the top twenty five,

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but that conference is one and two in both of

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the polls this week with Ohio State and Indiana, and

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of course Big Pigskin and Burnt Ends talking all things

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Texas football. Did you know that there's only one SEC

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team that is still unbeaten and that's Texas A and

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M and IndyCar Tim gets into that and plenty more

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later on this week, we're gonna have Florida Football Insiders

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and of course the Big twelve SEC Breakdown with Tyler

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Jones and Thomas Bridges. So we've got seven shows every

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single week for you to be able to digest everything

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Speaker 2: And that, my friends, is why Steven M. Carni is

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the best podcaster in the business. Do not look any further.

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They do not come any better. Not just podcast producer,

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Speaker 1: The latest with Navy, Army and Air Force on Yards

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Speaker 2: Moving right along Steven Carney my co host, I'm Pryce Atkinson.

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We are Yards and Stripes as Stephen and I bring

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That's what we do here. We'd love having you listen.

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Appreciate you dialing us in, tuning in to get caught

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up and get you ready. For the weekend, and we

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this weekend we only have one game because it is

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not very often we're in the heart of college football

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where we only have one weekend or one game at

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the week but that's where we are. Because Army and

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Air Force are ironically both off before they face each

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other next weekend, so it will be the Naval Academy.

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The only game on the Saturday docket is they will

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host Florida Atlantic on homecoming Saturday in Annapolis Saturday three

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point thirty, kickoff on the CBS Sports Network three and

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four Atlantic six, and Oh Navy the Midshipman Florid oh

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in the America in Florida Atlantic two and two. Stephen,

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you just saw the owls. We'll talk about them in

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a minute, but maybe giving fifteen and a half points

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in this game. The over under is sixty two and

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a half as they will meet for the first time

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as Conference fos and the third time overall on Saturday.

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As I mentioned homecoming, maybe forty five and twenty eight

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all time in homecoming games, including fifty one to seventeen

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one over Charlotte last season, but Navy leading the all

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time series against FAU two to zero. The last defeating

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the Owls in Annapolis in twenty twelve, twenty four seventeen,

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and then I remember the game that they won FAU

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forty two to nineteen in twenty seventeen, in the game

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that I think had about eight different lightning delays and

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took yeah, forty hours to play because it was I

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think in that game, if I remember right, twenty seventeen,

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I think that they I don't think that they ended

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up finishing all sixty minutes. I think they ended up

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calling it and coach Kendy and Motilolo said, let's just

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go ahead and get out of here as long as

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you're cool with it, and that's what they did because

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the game had taken so long. But maybe nonetheless sit

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one of just six unbeaten teams left in college football,

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joining BYU, Georgia Tech, Indiana, Ohio State, and Texas A

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and m AS. The Meds have one nine consecutive games

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dating back to last year, tied with BYU for the

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second longest streak in the country behind Ohio State's eleven

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game winning streak steven Here we go on what should

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be a awesome homecoming in a homecoming Saturdays in Annapolis,

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especially when they're in October. Boat Show is in town.

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It's just a place to be.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Florida Atlantic playing the perennial homecoming queen here this season.

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They are Navies obviously homecoming opponent this week. Last week

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they were here in Tampa to be South Florida's homecoming opponent.

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They lost forty eight to thirteen to the nineteenth ranked

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Bulls at the time. Here's the thing about Florida Atlantic.

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the Tom Herman style of Florida Atlantic that you've seen

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in the last couple of years. They definitely love to

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throw the football. They're starting quarterback Caden Velcamp. Last week

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against South Florida through the ball fifty times and overall

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because Jordan Magwood came in when things got out of

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hand in the fourth quarter and basically ran the last

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couple of series for Florida Atlantic. They finished with fifty

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eight passing attempts against South Florida, and normally when that happens,

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and they were forty one of fifty eight, it's not

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like they were, you know, thirty of fifty eight or

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twenty eight of fifty eight. This is a group that completed,

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you know, close to seventy five percent of their passes,

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and they still only threw for two hundred and eighty

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nine yards. It was only five yards in attempt by

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Florida Atlantic. So they love, they love to throw the checkdowns.

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teams from the early two thousands that really didn't have

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a running game and used their short passing game as

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their running game. Because Florida Atlantic, I mean, they went

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quite a long time into the game in negative numbers

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for rushing. In fact, I remember in the middle of

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poor rushing. They they don't run the ball, uh very well,

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and I think that's really going to hamper them here

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this week. But that being said, they they have they

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do have a very tall Caan Bell Camp is a

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very tall quarterback.

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over the offensive line and especially if you're undersized like

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that he's gonna have an opportunity to pick out the

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00:26:36,319 --> 00:26:38,680
passing lanes. And I think it's really going to be

481
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incumbent for Navy secondary to play press defense. I know

482
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that sometimes they'll want you think that being undersize, you

483
00:26:46,799 --> 00:26:49,440
want to back off. And they've got some really good

484
00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:54,000
UH receivers uh Easton Messer Uh was was I was

485
00:26:54,039 --> 00:26:58,240
an impressive UH wide receiver that I saw aside was

486
00:26:58,319 --> 00:27:01,920
seem uh basically or they're nonumber one and number two guys.

487
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And Messer also doubles as their punt and kick returner,

488
00:27:05,160 --> 00:27:06,839
So he's a guy that you're definitely going to see

489
00:27:07,319 --> 00:27:11,640
a lot of here this week in Annapolis. But for

490
00:27:12,759 --> 00:27:16,160
NAVS Secondary, I think it's going to be imperative for

491
00:27:16,359 --> 00:27:21,559
them to play up close and really try and stop

492
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the timing plays that Florida Atlantic likes to run, because

493
00:27:25,720 --> 00:27:28,519
they like to run those little five yard three yard

494
00:27:28,680 --> 00:27:32,200
checkdowns and try run and try and move the football

495
00:27:32,599 --> 00:27:37,799
in little increments and really love to use the clock

496
00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:40,799
and run a lot of plays. I mean, in the

497
00:27:40,920 --> 00:27:45,960
first drive of the day for Florida Atlantic last week

498
00:27:46,279 --> 00:27:48,599
South Florida, I had to call time out in the

499
00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:51,359
middle of it on defense because they'd run like twelve

500
00:27:51,480 --> 00:27:54,319
or thirteen plays and they had just gotten into the

501
00:27:54,359 --> 00:27:56,920
red zone. And they were like, we need we need

502
00:27:57,000 --> 00:27:59,400
a breather here so we can try and stop them,

503
00:27:59,440 --> 00:28:02,920
and thank the Bulls did and it did. They did

504
00:28:03,799 --> 00:28:06,000
hold them to a field goal, but they still it

505
00:28:06,079 --> 00:28:08,519
was still like a fifteen play drive at that point

506
00:28:08,880 --> 00:28:11,519
for three points. And it was all these little check down,

507
00:28:11,640 --> 00:28:14,519
dinking dunk passes that that I think is going to be.

508
00:28:15,079 --> 00:28:17,680
I think this is going to be a real test

509
00:28:18,279 --> 00:28:22,720
of endurance and conditioning, especially for Navy secondary.

510
00:28:24,880 --> 00:28:31,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I keep waiting, Stephen, I talk about

511
00:28:31,240 --> 00:28:34,160
this every year, but we see it happen time and

512
00:28:34,279 --> 00:28:39,160
time again with academy teams where it's so hard to

513
00:28:39,240 --> 00:28:41,960
get up every single week in college football, which it

514
00:28:42,119 --> 00:28:44,200
just seems like the games are just so good now,

515
00:28:44,759 --> 00:28:47,799
conferences are so big, you're playing tough opponents every single week.

516
00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:51,240
Not everywhere, but by and large, service academies is a

517
00:28:51,279 --> 00:28:54,400
little bit different because the whether you're a midshipman cadet,

518
00:28:54,759 --> 00:28:56,759
it doesn't matter the academy you're at. The demands are

519
00:28:56,839 --> 00:28:59,720
just they're just different, right. We all know that school

520
00:29:00,279 --> 00:29:03,839
military commitments, Uh, you know, personal, it's just it's just

521
00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:06,079
there's so much more on these on these kids and

522
00:29:06,160 --> 00:29:10,880
these student athletes, and every single year, without a doubt,

523
00:29:11,079 --> 00:29:15,440
you just see an egg laid by And I've seen

524
00:29:15,519 --> 00:29:19,160
it in all sports. It's not just football, basketball, at soccer.

525
00:29:19,279 --> 00:29:23,440
It's across the athletic spectrum where it's just you know,

526
00:29:23,680 --> 00:29:26,240
it might be exam week, you know, where the kids

527
00:29:26,279 --> 00:29:29,640
are just they're just mentally, they're toast. They don't have it.

528
00:29:29,720 --> 00:29:32,720
They're done physically and mentally. But my point, what I'm

529
00:29:32,720 --> 00:29:36,480
getting to is you see an egg that's laid oftentimes

530
00:29:36,839 --> 00:29:39,599
by a team of one of these academies, especially when

531
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they're really good. We're good and bad, we're you know,

532
00:29:41,920 --> 00:29:43,160
it might be a meal. I mean, I used to

533
00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:45,200
see it all the time. Baseball is a little bit

534
00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:47,960
of not the best example because you usually throw a

535
00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:50,119
lot of different arms, but you would you would like

536
00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:52,119
maybe play like a cop and state or you go

537
00:29:52,119 --> 00:29:54,319
over play the U NBC in the middle of the week,

538
00:29:54,440 --> 00:29:58,039
and you know teams that you should just you should

539
00:29:58,160 --> 00:30:00,400
handle if it were you know, a weekend seer. But

540
00:30:00,559 --> 00:30:02,519
like it's you know, it's almost like an afterthought during

541
00:30:02,559 --> 00:30:06,279
the week. Getting back to my point, is this the

542
00:30:06,359 --> 00:30:09,119
week that maybe Navy lays an egg. I don't think

543
00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:11,960
it is but you just never know when it's gonna happen.

544
00:30:12,079 --> 00:30:14,640
Sometimes it's an egg and it's laid and you can

545
00:30:14,720 --> 00:30:17,119
overcome it because you're just that much better than who

546
00:30:17,160 --> 00:30:20,240
you're playing. Sometimes it's look, you're in a dog fight

547
00:30:20,279 --> 00:30:22,960
and there's just nothing else you can do, and it's

548
00:30:23,039 --> 00:30:25,519
gonna bite you. Is this the week? I'm not saying

549
00:30:25,559 --> 00:30:28,000
it is. I'm just I'm kind of right now. The

550
00:30:28,079 --> 00:30:30,799
reason I'm bringing this up is because and maybe it's

551
00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:33,599
six and oh, the chance to get to seven and oh.

552
00:30:33,759 --> 00:30:35,440
Let me just hit on this real quick. A win

553
00:30:35,559 --> 00:30:37,759
over FAU would give maybe a seven and oh record

554
00:30:37,839 --> 00:30:39,799
for just the fifth time in school history. It'd be

555
00:30:39,839 --> 00:30:42,519
the first time they'd start seven and oh since nineteen

556
00:30:42,599 --> 00:30:45,759
seventy eight time. This would also tie the second best

557
00:30:45,799 --> 00:30:47,920
start in school history, because the other Navy teams to

558
00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:50,880
start seven to oh was nineteen sixty when Joe Blino

559
00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:54,000
won the Heisman. In the nineteen thirty four when they

560
00:30:54,559 --> 00:30:56,720
started seven to oh, finished eighty one and earned a

561
00:30:56,759 --> 00:30:58,839
share of the national championship. Now this is different than

562
00:30:59,599 --> 00:31:01,960
nineteen thirty four, Well, they started in nineteen thirty four,

563
00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:04,319
they started seven to oho finish eight one. In nineteen

564
00:31:04,359 --> 00:31:06,720
twenty six is when excuse me, they earn a share

565
00:31:06,720 --> 00:31:09,640
of the national championship. My point is is that yes,

566
00:31:09,799 --> 00:31:12,119
those were different times in college football than where we

567
00:31:12,160 --> 00:31:14,839
are now, but still this would be some rarefied era

568
00:31:14,920 --> 00:31:17,519
that if Navy can get to seven to zero, I'm

569
00:31:17,599 --> 00:31:20,200
just as the wins mount up and as they stay

570
00:31:20,319 --> 00:31:23,559
one of these six undefeated teams in college football, how

571
00:31:23,720 --> 00:31:27,079
long can Navy hang on to that that undefeated mantle

572
00:31:27,119 --> 00:31:29,680
because it just seems like inevitably there's going to be

573
00:31:29,799 --> 00:31:30,720
a trip upcoming.

574
00:31:31,279 --> 00:31:35,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, the pressure obviously is going to ratchet up on

575
00:31:35,640 --> 00:31:39,680
the midship and players as the as the number in

576
00:31:39,799 --> 00:31:43,279
the L column stays zero. You know you mentioned it.

577
00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:47,240
There are only six teams left in FBS college football

578
00:31:47,880 --> 00:31:50,480
that are undefeated, and Navy is one of them. And

579
00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:55,119
so I really do think that the pressure is obviously

580
00:31:55,240 --> 00:31:58,880
going to ratchet up. And that's where it becomes incumbent

581
00:31:58,960 --> 00:32:03,559
on Brian Newberry uh to be able to not try

582
00:32:03,640 --> 00:32:07,279
and diffuse the situation. But you got to acknowledge the

583
00:32:07,359 --> 00:32:13,079
pressure obviously that that's something that that Navy has done

584
00:32:13,119 --> 00:32:16,759
extremely well over over the last two years, and know

585
00:32:16,880 --> 00:32:19,559
where the pressure is going to come from every single

586
00:32:19,599 --> 00:32:25,160
week because every team is does something different that you

587
00:32:25,279 --> 00:32:28,559
may not expect. With Florida Atlantic, it's the amount of

588
00:32:28,680 --> 00:32:31,000
guys that they get in on offense. I can tell

589
00:32:31,039 --> 00:32:36,000
you last week that these owls, they Caden Belcamp and

590
00:32:36,119 --> 00:32:43,400
Jordan Magwood threw to thirteen different receivers. Thirteen different players

591
00:32:43,480 --> 00:32:46,400
caught made a catch. Now, yes, it was like so

592
00:32:46,599 --> 00:32:49,799
like Cayden Shields Dutton, who is like their primary running back,

593
00:32:50,240 --> 00:32:55,359
he had he had three catches. You know, Jamari Sans

594
00:32:56,160 --> 00:33:00,240
had four catches. He's their backup running back. Even than

595
00:33:00,319 --> 00:33:04,599
Irvin uh who is like their little scat back, got

596
00:33:04,640 --> 00:33:07,519
a couple of got a couple of catches h as well.

597
00:33:07,839 --> 00:33:11,039
But even taking away those three running backs, I meant

598
00:33:11,319 --> 00:33:16,200
nine different receivers and tight ends caught a pass in

599
00:33:16,279 --> 00:33:19,680
the game against South Florida And and understanding that that's

600
00:33:19,759 --> 00:33:22,119
where the pressure is going to come from this week

601
00:33:22,519 --> 00:33:25,359
with Florida Atlantic, and and that's where the coaches like,

602
00:33:25,359 --> 00:33:28,000
all right, that's where we have to make sure that

603
00:33:28,119 --> 00:33:31,839
we don't. You can you can have mistakes happen, even

604
00:33:31,920 --> 00:33:35,720
at the service academy level. You can make mistakes because

605
00:33:35,759 --> 00:33:39,680
football is a game of mistakes, uh and and and

606
00:33:39,839 --> 00:33:43,119
be able to come out with a victory. But you

607
00:33:43,359 --> 00:33:47,440
can't make a mistake where the other team is best

608
00:33:47,799 --> 00:33:50,160
and and I and I really do think that this

609
00:33:50,400 --> 00:33:52,680
is where the pressure is gonna come from. And it's

610
00:33:52,720 --> 00:33:56,559
gonna land squarely on the shoulders of the secondary, whether

611
00:33:56,640 --> 00:33:59,680
whether it's the defensive backs coach uh you know, or

612
00:33:59,799 --> 00:34:03,119
and and the players themselves, the defensive coordinator. This is

613
00:34:03,359 --> 00:34:06,839
this is something that I'm sure was addressed in the

614
00:34:06,960 --> 00:34:09,920
room this week, and I'm sure it's going to get

615
00:34:09,960 --> 00:34:13,039
addressed in the room every single week as long as

616
00:34:13,079 --> 00:34:18,440
that number stays zero. And they they're in that conversation

617
00:34:19,199 --> 00:34:22,320
for possible college football playoff spot.

618
00:34:22,960 --> 00:34:27,000
Speaker 2: Like the teams that Florida Atlantic has played with any

619
00:34:27,119 --> 00:34:30,639
kind of quality. Maryland they got drilled by thirty two.

620
00:34:31,280 --> 00:34:34,079
Played in Memphis at home, got drilled by j just

621
00:34:34,199 --> 00:34:37,239
shy of thirty, played Ua B it's not very good.

622
00:34:37,239 --> 00:34:39,119
At home, we got beat by twenty. Then you know,

623
00:34:39,280 --> 00:34:42,079
most recently obviously at South Florida mentioned they lost by

624
00:34:42,159 --> 00:34:45,000
thirty five. Anybody that's had a pulse and that's been

625
00:34:45,079 --> 00:34:47,639
a you know, somewhat of any kind of quality has

626
00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:52,840
they've been drilled. You know, maybe we talk a lot

627
00:34:52,920 --> 00:34:56,159
about you know, you know, ball control, converting, converting on

628
00:34:56,239 --> 00:34:58,760
third downs. You got to play a clean game sometimes

629
00:34:58,840 --> 00:35:02,239
when you play the you know, the ball control option style.

630
00:35:02,360 --> 00:35:05,079
I'm just you know, kind of stereotyping here. You know,

631
00:35:05,239 --> 00:35:07,199
it's a game that can keep a team in it,

632
00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:10,679
you know, sometimes maybe a little bit longer versus if

633
00:35:10,679 --> 00:35:13,239
you're a team that's quick striking, can literally score in

634
00:35:13,559 --> 00:35:15,320
seconds every time you get the ball, being able to

635
00:35:15,360 --> 00:35:18,000
throw it up and down the field. So maybe this

636
00:35:18,199 --> 00:35:21,719
is a game where potentially that Florida Atlantic can hang

637
00:35:21,800 --> 00:35:23,960
around for a half, will make some picks in a

638
00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:25,760
little bit. I don't think so. I don't think you

639
00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:26,280
do either.

640
00:35:26,800 --> 00:35:29,360
Speaker 3: No, this is this is a game that you know,

641
00:35:29,519 --> 00:35:32,000
even though Fau likes to throw the ball a lot,

642
00:35:32,239 --> 00:35:33,800
I think there's going to be a limit on the

643
00:35:33,880 --> 00:35:36,679
number of possessions on both sides like that. I really

644
00:35:36,760 --> 00:35:39,000
do think, like you know, this is not going to

645
00:35:39,039 --> 00:35:42,880
be a game where a team is going to get

646
00:35:43,199 --> 00:35:47,239
you know, eleven or twelve possessions on offense. I just

647
00:35:47,280 --> 00:35:48,239
don't see that happening.

648
00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:52,079
Speaker 2: Well, we will find out, because once again, this game

649
00:35:52,280 --> 00:35:55,360
is going to be a three thirty kickoff on Eastern

650
00:35:55,440 --> 00:35:57,760
Standard Time on the CBS Sports Network. Navy again a

651
00:35:57,880 --> 00:36:00,639
fifteen and a half point home favorite over under sixty

652
00:36:00,679 --> 00:36:03,320
two and a half Florida Atlantic at Navy. Can Navy

653
00:36:03,440 --> 00:36:08,159
keep that unbeaten record going? It's six and oh? Can

654
00:36:08,320 --> 00:36:09,159
they get to seven?

655
00:36:09,239 --> 00:36:09,440
Speaker 4: And oh?

656
00:36:09,519 --> 00:36:11,760
Speaker 2: As they are now Bowl eligible, we will find out.

657
00:36:12,199 --> 00:36:14,519
But home coming in in Annapolis on Saturday should be

658
00:36:14,840 --> 00:36:18,599
quite a day there at Navy Marine Corps Memorial Stadium.

659
00:36:18,599 --> 00:36:20,599
All Right, Steven will step away. We got more to do.

660
00:36:20,719 --> 00:36:23,320
We got our Travis Manion Foundation Honorable Segment coming up,

661
00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:26,360
honoring a fallen hero, one that's given the ultimate sacrifices.

662
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We do every single week. A couple of quick notes

663
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and then we'll make We'll make one pick. It shouldn't

664
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take too long. As we get out of here, we

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are yards and stripes. See Stephen Carnea on Price Sackets

666
00:36:36,920 --> 00:36:38,280
and don't go anywhere. We got more to do.

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Speaker 4: In two thousand and seven, Mariene First Lieutenant Travis Mannion

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was killed in Iraq after saving his wooted teammates. Travis's

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legacy lives on through the words he spoke before his

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Speaker 2: All right, welcome back into the yard and stripes. You're

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hoping for service academy football and you know we've come

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to that time in the podcast. It's time for a

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Travismannian Foundation Honor roll segment or honor remember a fallen

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hero one that has given the ultimate sacrifice and in

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the words of Travis himself that he spoke before deploying

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on that final time. If not me, then who? And

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the Travismnian Foundation is connected led by veterans and families

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And this week we're going to honor remember a member

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of the United States Marine Corps, Lieutenant Colonel David S. Green.

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Lieutenant Colonel David Green was killed on July the twenty eight,

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two thousand and four, when the Cobra helicopter he was

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flying in was hit by small arms fire on the

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al Abar Province in western Iraq. Lieutenant Green was a

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reservist assigned to the Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron seven

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seventy five, based out of Marine Corps Air Station in Miramar, California.

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He was born August the twelfth, nineteen sixty four. He

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was a native of Raleigh, North Carolina, and went on

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to graduate from the United States Naval Academy in nineteen

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eighty six. He is described by Major Randy Parker, one

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of his colleagues, as quote he was a star. The

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Marines who worked for him loved him end quote. He

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has survived by his wife and children, and Lieutenant Colonel

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Green was honored through the Travis Mannion Foundations Character Doesn't

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Matter Program presented through the usn A Summer Seminar and

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USNA STEM program in camp for rising eleventh graders. And

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so we take this time to honor remember our heroes

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like Colonel David S. Green, Lieutenant Colonel David S. Green,

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who gave the ultimate sacrifices because we all know our

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freedom is not free. It's folks that are protecting us

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here at home and around the globe.

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Speaker 5: Travis Mallon Foundations Nine to eleven Heroes run five k

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Speaker 1: The latest with Navy, Army and Air Force on Yards

724
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and Stripes Service Academy Football.

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Speaker 2: All right, Stephen, only one thing left to do. I

726
00:40:06,719 --> 00:40:08,679
got it right that time. It's to pick a game.

727
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We only got one game. We got one game. We

728
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just talked about it a few minutes ago. But just

729
00:40:13,079 --> 00:40:16,000
want to shout out Travis Manon Foundation. Again, as I

730
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mentioned there during that last segment, there's an array of

731
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programs you can get involved with at Travismannon dot org.

732
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Go check them out online. Certainly, their tickets are on

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sale right now for the Army Navy tailgate, those go quickly.

734
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It's a heck of a party right there at at

735
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the stadium, so you don't want to miss out on that.

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But check that out at Travismanan dot org. Steven just

737
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real quick. Navy's offensive line named to the Joe Moore

738
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Award mid season watch list. That one coming out this week,

739
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and I didn't have many other things. Yes, I have two.

740
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Speaker 3: I have two things and they both involved Air Force.

741
00:40:55,280 --> 00:40:58,519
Right Roger Jones Junior, who I mentioned for my game Ball,

742
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was named Mount West Defensive Player of the Week here

743
00:41:02,679 --> 00:41:06,079
this week. Ten tackles, as I mentioned, six of them solo,

744
00:41:06,440 --> 00:41:08,559
a tackle for a loss and an interception in the

745
00:41:08,639 --> 00:41:12,039
end zone that kept Washington all right, that kept Wyoming

746
00:41:12,079 --> 00:41:15,800
excuse me, from getting back on the board, and actually

747
00:41:15,880 --> 00:41:18,760
I believe that would have prevented them from getting within

748
00:41:18,920 --> 00:41:21,880
three points at that point. He kept the game twenty

749
00:41:21,960 --> 00:41:26,719
four fourteen, and also kicker Reagan Tubbs was named Mount

750
00:41:26,800 --> 00:41:29,400
West Special Teams Player of the Week, just to second

751
00:41:29,480 --> 00:41:32,559
ever start for the Falcons. He went three for three

752
00:41:32,639 --> 00:41:35,199
on field goals of thirty two to twenty nine and

753
00:41:35,320 --> 00:41:38,960
forty yards and also converted his only extra point attempt.

754
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So congratulations to both of them.

755
00:41:42,079 --> 00:41:45,239
Speaker 2: Well, there you go, well done, Steven. He's not the

756
00:41:45,280 --> 00:41:47,960
best producer and co hosting the business for anything, folks.

757
00:41:49,239 --> 00:41:53,599
All right, let's get to it. We both aced the

758
00:41:53,679 --> 00:41:56,440
test last week, Steven, Yes, we did, and it's going

759
00:41:56,480 --> 00:41:58,639
to be pretty easy to ace the test this week

760
00:41:58,679 --> 00:42:04,519
because it's one game. You miss it. He nothing. But nonetheless,

761
00:42:04,679 --> 00:42:08,880
maybe in at Florida or Florida Atlantic. At Navy, you

762
00:42:08,960 --> 00:42:13,320
and I both I think are lating Navy. The question

763
00:42:13,480 --> 00:42:16,440
is by how much leading leading? I am.

764
00:42:16,800 --> 00:42:20,119
Speaker 3: I am fully falling over on that side. Uh No,

765
00:42:20,320 --> 00:42:22,840
I I really do. Yeah, this is this is a

766
00:42:22,920 --> 00:42:25,880
certain this is past fail. U. So you make the

767
00:42:26,039 --> 00:42:28,880
right make the right call, you pass. You don't make

768
00:42:28,920 --> 00:42:31,360
the right call, you fail. And obviously for me, the

769
00:42:31,480 --> 00:42:34,760
right call is nyvy by a bunch. And I know

770
00:42:34,880 --> 00:42:39,360
this is a two score uh line. You know it's

771
00:42:39,440 --> 00:42:42,800
fifteen and a half. Uh So, uh, I think it's

772
00:42:42,800 --> 00:42:44,559
gonna be I think it's gonna be higher than that.

773
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So I have I I really do think that. You know,

774
00:42:50,039 --> 00:42:52,599
both of these teams, I think one. I think one

775
00:42:52,639 --> 00:42:54,639
of them is gonna I think Nyvy's gonna get eight

776
00:42:54,719 --> 00:42:58,199
possessions for the game. And I think then FA is

777
00:42:58,239 --> 00:43:02,320
going to get seven. Okay, And I think here's here's how,

778
00:43:02,719 --> 00:43:06,400
here's how. I can't wait con this is going confident

779
00:43:06,519 --> 00:43:10,079
I am in Navy's offense compared to Fau's. I have

780
00:43:10,239 --> 00:43:12,800
Navy winning this game forty one to thirteen.

781
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Speaker 2: Okay, forty one to thirteen. All right, Well, I mean

782
00:43:16,679 --> 00:43:19,079
I see you and I think too much alike.

783
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Speaker 3: I know you know.

784
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Speaker 2: In podcast, listeners would like to say, I want to

785
00:43:22,280 --> 00:43:24,519
hear fighting. I want to hear arguments. I want to

786
00:43:24,559 --> 00:43:26,840
hear you guys, tay, I want to hear you rip

787
00:43:26,880 --> 00:43:29,960
somebody's head off. Because I think Navy two. I think

788
00:43:30,039 --> 00:43:32,199
Navy is going to score exactly forty one points as

789
00:43:32,239 --> 00:43:35,199
you did. Because we don't compare numbers before the game

790
00:43:35,559 --> 00:43:39,760
before we podcast. I just think Florida Atlantic is going

791
00:43:39,840 --> 00:43:41,880
to score a lot more than thirteen. I think Navy's

792
00:43:41,920 --> 00:43:43,719
gonna win. I think it's gonna be a comfortable win,

793
00:43:43,840 --> 00:43:45,440
but I think it's gonna be by the tune of

794
00:43:45,639 --> 00:43:48,519
you know, two touchdowns, So I'm I'm saying something along

795
00:43:48,559 --> 00:43:52,239
the lines of forty one to twenty eight. So I

796
00:43:52,320 --> 00:43:55,159
don't know if Florida Atlantic you have seen them more

797
00:43:55,199 --> 00:43:58,000
than I have, so probably end up trusting your thirteen

798
00:43:58,079 --> 00:44:01,440
more than my twenty eight. But nonetheless trust Navy more

799
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than we to trust Fort Atlantic because Navy is gonna

800
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score more points and that, by folks, is the name

801
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of the game in college football.

802
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Speaker 3: Absolutely steved.

803
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Speaker 2: What else you looking forward to this weekend before we

804
00:44:12,760 --> 00:44:16,679
get out of here around the horn in college football

805
00:44:16,800 --> 00:44:18,719
with as we hit the mid I mean, we're really

806
00:44:18,760 --> 00:44:21,280
at the mid season point. As midseason all Americans come

807
00:44:21,360 --> 00:44:24,119
out and a lot of mid season watch list are

808
00:44:24,199 --> 00:44:28,719
being readjusted. Any big thing that's on your radar this week,

809
00:44:28,880 --> 00:44:31,159
especially some for late star folks that College Grin and

810
00:44:31,199 --> 00:44:32,159
Coast to Coast podcast not.

811
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Speaker 3: Well obviously for for us and for me specifically, Uh

812
00:44:37,960 --> 00:44:40,119
we had we had a big game this week Memphis,

813
00:44:40,840 --> 00:44:45,199
as the University of South Florida travels to UH mister TJ.

814
00:44:45,400 --> 00:44:49,039
Reeves alma mater, the Memphis Tigers coming off of a

815
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loss to to U A B and the formerly fighting

816
00:44:53,400 --> 00:44:56,800
Trent Delfers. Uh, they got they get the win. I

817
00:44:56,840 --> 00:44:59,039
guess I'm gonna have to start calling the fighting Mortz

818
00:44:59,719 --> 00:45:03,039
as Alex Mortenson, the son of the late ESPN broadcaster

819
00:45:03,159 --> 00:45:06,199
Chris Mortenson, has taken over as interim coach, and all

820
00:45:06,239 --> 00:45:08,679
he does is beat Memphis and knock them from the

821
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ranks of the unbeaten in his first game as coach.

822
00:45:13,159 --> 00:45:15,159
Speaker 2: Let's get a bonus pick here, because I think South

823
00:45:15,199 --> 00:45:17,719
Florida wins. How much do you think South Florida wins

824
00:45:17,800 --> 00:45:18,719
by Yeah?

825
00:45:18,800 --> 00:45:22,800
Speaker 3: I think you know Byron Brown, their quarterback does not

826
00:45:22,960 --> 00:45:25,920
get the respect that some of these and he is

827
00:45:26,679 --> 00:45:29,960
one of the most three dimensional. I mean, you want

828
00:45:30,000 --> 00:45:31,840
to talk about a guy that could run the ball,

829
00:45:31,960 --> 00:45:35,079
that can throw the ball as tough as hell. I

830
00:45:35,519 --> 00:45:38,599
do think that that USF gets A gets a pretty

831
00:45:38,639 --> 00:45:41,679
good win in this and I'm gonna say it's probably.

832
00:45:42,079 --> 00:45:46,400
I mean, they've scored, they've scored well, they've scored forty

833
00:45:46,519 --> 00:45:49,599
five or more points in each of their last five games.

834
00:45:49,880 --> 00:45:52,239
I don't think they get to forty five points, but

835
00:45:52,360 --> 00:45:54,480
I think it's thirty eight to twenty eight. I think

836
00:45:54,480 --> 00:45:56,480
they get a ten point win over over Memphis.

837
00:45:56,559 --> 00:45:59,920
Speaker 2: WHOA. I think Alex Scholess should be being talked about

838
00:46:00,039 --> 00:46:02,360
as national coach of the Year. I'm not saying he's

839
00:46:02,400 --> 00:46:05,920
the favorite right now, but he should be. Let's just

840
00:46:06,000 --> 00:46:09,599
say say Signetti in Indiana. That's gonna get all that. Yeah,

841
00:46:10,119 --> 00:46:13,360
the difference between Signetti as Signetti made the playoff last year.

842
00:46:13,440 --> 00:46:16,800
And when I look, everybody's got their criteria on. You know,

843
00:46:16,880 --> 00:46:19,559
when it comes to like the Heisman, is it most valuable,

844
00:46:19,679 --> 00:46:22,360
is it most outstanding? I think it's most outstanding, not

845
00:46:22,639 --> 00:46:25,199
you know, the best player, best team. When I look

846
00:46:25,199 --> 00:46:27,719
at coach of the year stuff, I always look at, okay,

847
00:46:28,000 --> 00:46:31,960
what's the adversity, Like what did they do last year? Sure, look,

848
00:46:32,239 --> 00:46:34,360
I got I've got no problem giving it to a

849
00:46:34,400 --> 00:46:37,119
guy like Kurt Signetti. I have to go back and

850
00:46:37,199 --> 00:46:39,119
look and see kind of what he lost off last

851
00:46:39,199 --> 00:46:42,719
year's team going into this year. But there are just

852
00:46:42,800 --> 00:46:45,320
certain factors, you know, if they've had success last year.

853
00:46:45,440 --> 00:46:48,320
I'm not as quick to maybe hand a Coach of

854
00:46:48,320 --> 00:46:51,000
the Year trophy. I'm a lot quicker to hand it

855
00:46:51,119 --> 00:46:53,440
to a team or to a coach that is in

856
00:46:53,519 --> 00:46:57,480
a place where it's parentally very difficult to win. And

857
00:46:57,760 --> 00:46:59,800
when they you know, flip the script from one year

858
00:46:59,840 --> 00:47:02,199
to the next. I just think what Alex Golesh has

859
00:47:02,280 --> 00:47:04,639
done in year, you know, this year at South Florida

860
00:47:04,719 --> 00:47:08,079
is magical because as we know, Jeff Scott had that

861
00:47:08,239 --> 00:47:09,960
program in the toilet Bowl.

862
00:47:10,599 --> 00:47:15,920
Speaker 3: Well and it really started with uh, it started even

863
00:47:16,000 --> 00:47:18,119
before before Jeff Scott.

864
00:47:18,639 --> 00:47:18,760
Speaker 4: Uh.

865
00:47:18,840 --> 00:47:21,000
Speaker 3: You know, Charlie Strong didn't didn't do a lot to

866
00:47:21,079 --> 00:47:24,719
help this this program either, So you know, but this

867
00:47:24,840 --> 00:47:28,840
is a this is you know, a program that lost

868
00:47:28,880 --> 00:47:31,639
out on its chance at being in a power conference

869
00:47:32,159 --> 00:47:35,639
because of what happened with Charlie Strong and with Jeff Scott,

870
00:47:35,679 --> 00:47:38,960
and they allowed and and and you know it's sad

871
00:47:39,039 --> 00:47:42,800
to say this, but you know U s F uh,

872
00:47:44,159 --> 00:47:47,599
you know, got got the nod over over us F

873
00:47:48,039 --> 00:47:51,119
because people thought, you know, people in the Big twelve

874
00:47:51,199 --> 00:47:54,679
thought that, you know, that U c F was going

875
00:47:54,760 --> 00:47:57,599
to be the the better program to take. Now it

876
00:47:57,719 --> 00:48:00,119
turns out that that obviously was not the case. And

877
00:48:00,480 --> 00:48:04,360
anybody with you know, two brain cells understood that. And

878
00:48:04,760 --> 00:48:09,239
so I laugh now looking at where they are in

879
00:48:09,360 --> 00:48:11,400
the Big twelve, or or as I call it now,

880
00:48:11,480 --> 00:48:16,159
the Little twelve because without Texas and Oklahoma, that conference

881
00:48:16,280 --> 00:48:19,559
is obviously a lot smaller than it should be.

882
00:48:20,119 --> 00:48:20,280
Speaker 2: Uh.

883
00:48:20,519 --> 00:48:22,920
Speaker 3: You know, when when BYU is the is the cream

884
00:48:22,960 --> 00:48:24,920
of the crop, you know, you you know there's something

885
00:48:24,960 --> 00:48:28,559
that's going wrong there. But you know, I I really

886
00:48:28,599 --> 00:48:31,599
do think that, you know, if if Alex Golesh gets

887
00:48:31,960 --> 00:48:35,239
you know, some Coach of the Year talk, that's fine.

888
00:48:35,639 --> 00:48:38,440
I just want him going to one of these other programs.

889
00:48:38,480 --> 00:48:41,719
I want him to stay, you know. But obviously his

890
00:48:41,880 --> 00:48:43,760
name is going to be bandied about for all of

891
00:48:43,880 --> 00:48:47,559
these programs that are now looking for coaches, whether you're

892
00:48:47,639 --> 00:48:51,840
talking about Billy Napier in Florida or James Franklin at

893
00:48:51,920 --> 00:48:55,679
Penn State or over at u c l A. You know,

894
00:48:55,760 --> 00:48:57,599
I'm sure that they would love to have an Alex

895
00:48:57,679 --> 00:49:01,079
Golesh in that, you know, and and having him in

896
00:49:01,400 --> 00:49:04,599
the Big ten would be certainly something would that would

897
00:49:04,639 --> 00:49:08,360
be a site to behold. But you know, talking to

898
00:49:08,519 --> 00:49:10,639
him this week, he has said that, you know, he's

899
00:49:10,719 --> 00:49:14,559
not chasing any any program. That doesn't mean that other

900
00:49:14,639 --> 00:49:19,199
programs aren't chasing him. But I think that they've got

901
00:49:19,280 --> 00:49:21,920
a really good thing here and the culture that that

902
00:49:22,159 --> 00:49:26,800
started when he came here is just so important, uh

903
00:49:27,039 --> 00:49:29,519
for this, for this team, and now, uh, they're going

904
00:49:29,599 --> 00:49:31,840
to be in the driver's seat I think, you know,

905
00:49:32,000 --> 00:49:34,679
waiting for Uh. They've got Navy in a couple of

906
00:49:34,760 --> 00:49:38,239
weeks up there in Annapolis, and if they were to

907
00:49:38,360 --> 00:49:42,159
somehow get through the three hardest games on their schedule,

908
00:49:42,239 --> 00:49:45,639
all on the road, with victories at North Texas, at Memphis,

909
00:49:45,679 --> 00:49:47,800
and at Navy, you you would have to say that

910
00:49:48,039 --> 00:49:50,480
they are the team that's in the driver's seat for

911
00:49:50,519 --> 00:49:52,239
the college football player from the group of six.

912
00:49:53,119 --> 00:49:55,119
Speaker 2: Yeah, just real quick before we get out the door mention,

913
00:49:55,239 --> 00:49:58,280
we're talking. You know, Memphis South Florida the game probably

914
00:49:58,320 --> 00:50:00,760
the game of the week in the American I think

915
00:50:00,800 --> 00:50:01,800
probably the game of the weekend.

916
00:50:02,079 --> 00:50:05,119
Speaker 3: Probably should have had College Game Day if UAB didn't

917
00:50:05,519 --> 00:50:06,519
do what it did.

918
00:50:07,360 --> 00:50:07,559
Speaker 2: Yeah.

919
00:50:08,760 --> 00:50:11,039
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're like, you're like, oh, we can't go to Memphis,

920
00:50:11,119 --> 00:50:12,400
Let's go to Nashville instead.

921
00:50:12,840 --> 00:50:16,079
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, you know, Vanderbilt people are they're salivating over

922
00:50:16,119 --> 00:50:19,119
the Vanderbilt story. But San Diego State and Fresno State

923
00:50:19,159 --> 00:50:21,679
probably the game of the week and the Mountain Less Conference,

924
00:50:22,159 --> 00:50:24,280
the San Diego State five and one, two and oh

925
00:50:24,320 --> 00:50:26,400
in the mountain Less versus Fresno State five and two

926
00:50:26,480 --> 00:50:29,079
overall two and one the mount Less. So with that

927
00:50:29,199 --> 00:50:31,599
we will bid you a douce Stephens, we get ready

928
00:50:31,679 --> 00:50:35,559
for another outstanding Saturday. You are freaking the best. Brother.

929
00:50:36,159 --> 00:50:38,960
Cannot say thank you enough for your time every week

930
00:50:39,039 --> 00:50:41,920
and the amount of energy you give, not to just

931
00:50:42,239 --> 00:50:44,960
this show, what you do for the College grid our

932
00:50:45,079 --> 00:50:47,679
Coast to Coast podcast network, because as we mentioned in

933
00:50:47,760 --> 00:50:50,960
that first segment, we have got something for everybody. Whether

934
00:50:51,039 --> 00:50:53,400
we're your cup of tea, a cup of tea or not,

935
00:50:53,960 --> 00:50:56,639
we have got things that you can sip on all

936
00:50:56,760 --> 00:51:00,840
day long. Whether it's sec, acc tech, it doesn't matter.

937
00:51:00,960 --> 00:51:04,599
We've got something for you. But appreciate all you do, Steven,

938
00:51:04,679 --> 00:51:07,440
and we will get back at it next weekend. Fire

939
00:51:07,480 --> 00:51:08,320
away one last.

940
00:51:08,159 --> 00:51:11,280
Speaker 3: Thing, Absolutely, enjoy the games. We'll talk to you next

941
00:51:11,320 --> 00:51:12,519
week here on Yards and Stripes.

942
00:51:14,039 --> 00:51:17,840
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943
00:51:17,920 --> 00:51:21,599
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944
00:51:21,920 --> 00:51:24,679
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