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Speaker 1: Need to get your football fixed 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 Episode three. We are taking flight Army,

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Navy and Air Force. That is what we do here.

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And he is Stephen Carney and I am Pryce Ackinson.

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And we appreciate you for tuning in this week as

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we had a big weekend of college football last weekend,

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we got one of only one of our teams. Two

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of them are have buys this weekend. One will be

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an action we'll preview that game. We'll recap all the

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action from this from this past weekend. We've got our

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Travis Manian Foundation on a roll segment. We also have Boy,

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we got a blast from the past Stephen Mike love All,

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former co host here a Yards and Stripes a couple

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of seasons ago. He's a West Point alum. He's a

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contributor to last Word on sports dot Com. He is

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our good friend, and he joined you a little bit

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earlier today to talk about Army and FAU this past weekend.

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What he's seen, how the Black Knights in the past

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few games. There are two games to open the twenty

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twenty four season. But before we get to all that, Steven,

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how are you? What's going on? I live to survive Montreal.

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Speaker 3: You did, I saw, I got the pictures from McGill University.

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You gotten to see the Alouettes and the BC Lions

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and some Canadian football where they only play three downs

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and have the rouge. As I like to joke with

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my longtime friend, the late great Jim McKean, who was

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a quarterback and a punter in the CFL back in

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the sixties, I used to tell him, Jimmy, what the

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hell is a rouge? Then he used to and which

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would always make him laugh. But it was great to

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see that you had a good time in Montreal. A

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lot of good work was done in that time as well.

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And you know what, we had three really really good

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games to watch, although unfortunately only two of the Service

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Academy teams started the year two and out.

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Speaker 2: You know, it was funny and talking with so many

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people north of the border this past weekend, including at

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the game, especially one of my good Saskatchewan Roughrider fellow fans.

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Now they just we all lamented how the rouge has

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got to go. That's the one change that Canadian football

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really needs to make.

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Speaker 4: It's not to add a fourth down, is to get

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rid of the rouge. I won't start.

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Speaker 2: Trying to explain it to our American audience here because

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it's obviously irrelevant to what we're talking about here. But nonetheless,

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it was a fun trip. And boy I missed that

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poutine already. My blood in cholesterol does not, But boy

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it was good. All right, Steven, big weekend of college

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football last weekend. I think we pretty much nailed these.

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But let's get into recapping all three games. Let's start

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at the Naval Academy, the Midshipman now two and Oh

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Stephen getting a thirty eight to eleven win over visiting Temple.

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The Midge jumped on owls from the get go, going

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up fourteen to oh Blake Corvath at quarterback, who was

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ended up being named the American Athletic Conference Offensive Player

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of the Week, absolutely outstanding two hundred and thirty four

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yards at total offense and four touchdowns. It's been a

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while since we've seen two fairly consistent performances out of

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a Navy quarterback, in one that is putting the kind

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of production on the field and taking care of the

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football like Karvath is doing. That's a big reason why

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the Midshipmen are two to zero to start the season.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, you look at it. They were plus one

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in the turnover or I should say in the fumbles,

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and then they also forced two interceptions, so technically they

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were plus three in the turnover ratio against Temple. And

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this was, you know, thirty eight to three going into

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the fourth quarter, and Navy kind of took their foot

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off the gas, so to speak. But yeah, Horvath certainly

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deserved being the American Athletic Conference Player of the Week.

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Not only the two hundred and thirty four yards of offense,

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but three touchdowns on the ground. Navy ran for almost

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three hundred yards as a team, and I really thought that,

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you know, apart from the you know, the work that

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they did on offense. You know, we've taught I don't

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know how many more times we can talk about Colon Ramos.

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I mean, we sound like a broken record. Yeah, you

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look at it. Fifteen tackles, six of them were solo.

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He had a half of a tackle for a loss.

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fantastic day defensively for the mids as well, So the

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midshipman had had a great day at home to start

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to and zero. Really, it takes a lot of the

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bad feelings that Midshipman fans have had over the last

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couple of years and it kind of washes them away.

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I mean, this is a great feeling.

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 3: If you're a Navy fan, you've got uh, you've got

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a two and oh start uh and now uh and

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included one of those being uh in conference play, you're

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one and zero conference play now and now you start

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to look at, uh, the the rest of the you know,

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the schedule as they move forward, They've got a really

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tough stretch now here for the next uh you know,

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three or four weeks. Uh, when they get back into

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action here after they're by this week, they've got they've

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got three really tough games in a row, including two

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of these on the road.

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Speaker 5: Uh.

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Speaker 3: You know, and you start counting, Okay, that's two you

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need six to make a bowl game. You know, where

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can they you know, pull out four wins the rest

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of the way and maybe not counting the Army game,

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of course, because by that point, the the Bulls matchups

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are already announced. So you need four wins out of

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the last seven or six games seven games of the

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season to try and get yourself Bowl eligible. Where do

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they find those?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, And like you mentioned, Navy, they have got

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a bye week next week, so they're going to be

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off and then they come back to play a team

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in the Memphis Tigers that that has been one of

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the AAC you know problems, if you will, for Navy

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since at least in the last probably four or five years.

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I mean, they played some high, high scoring games, but

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that is a team that has had Navy's number time

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and time again, and if they can obviously, you're going

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into the bye week flying high, feeling really good about yourself.

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Speaker 4: The you know, level of competition.

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Speaker 2: Notwithstanding let's let's acknowledge that buck Nell and Temple aren't

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you know, any kind of teams that are going to

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be playing on New Year's Day, But you know that nonetheless,

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you've taken care of business and you've looked good doing it,

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playing fairly mistake free football, and that it, Brent me,

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Brian Newberry, is exactly what you want to spend as

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you go into that bye week where you're working on

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cleaning up a few things, maybe, you know, putting a

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few more things in, but really trying to dial in

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and zero inal Memphis, because if you can get this

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win against Memphis coming up out of that bye week,

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now you're starting to cook with gas a little bit

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moving forward.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, absolutely, But but again it's all about counting,

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counting wins here and looking looking at you, Ken, where

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do you where do you think they can get to

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six wins by the thirtieth of November. You've got this

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stretch Memphis, and then the next two weeks after that

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are at UAB which is a winnable game, but you

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know you're going to Birmingham and the Blazers are tough

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at home. And then you've got a game at Air

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So that's a that's going to be a tough one

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to deal with an Air Forces at Navy's number the

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last four or five years. Yeah.

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Speaker 5: Uh.

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Speaker 3: Then you also have games against Notre Dame, who is

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you know, even though they lost in Northern Illinois, you

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know they're still going to be a formidable opponent. USF

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is expected to be a very good team this year,

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Tulane was one of the top two teams in the

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in the preseason poll. So you've got Charlotte, Rice and

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East Carolina that you probably can say those are three

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very winnable games. The question is which one of these

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games that are fifty to fifties can they get to

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go their way and get themselves the sixth win.

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Speaker 2: Well, you hear me with the phrase sample size, you

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know several times over the last many years, if you've

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listened to the podcast, and you know, Steven that I've

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always thought that it's really a minimum of three games

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before you start really kind of learning and who a

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team is, what they're really made of. Almost the month

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of September, you know, and I think it's hard to

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really put, you know, kind of finger on maybe what

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Navy is, what Army is right now, and honestly air

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marks they kept came into the season with. But you know, nonetheless,

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thirty eight to eleven over Temple, we will see what

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Navy really is made of. Are they could they be

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better than we are even thinking or giving them credit

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for it. We will find out, which lets me pivot

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to Army because Army gets a twenty four to seven

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win at Florida Atlantic Steep and I'm going back to

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this sample size thing, and you know, maybe they're not

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who we thought they are. Maybe they're more than who

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we think they are. Had an Army fan hit me

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up over the weekend, you know, saying, I think that

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we can go to AC championship game. This looks like

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it might be a clear path. And I just said, whoa, whoa,

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pump the brakes hold on, I mean Army two and

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oh and again I'm not raining on Armies. What I'm

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trying to do is have a little perspective. Clearly, I'm

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excited that Armies two is two and oh don't get

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me wrong, but the two wins you've got over to

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terrible teams. So you know, again, by the time you

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get to mid end of September, you're usually st and

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to flavor up your schedule where you might have a

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cupcake in there, you might have, you know, a conference opponent,

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you might have a one of your upper level conference opponents.

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And right now what I'm seeing Army made of is

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something pretty darn good.

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Speaker 4: Because they take the field.

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Speaker 2: Steve in their very first American Athletic Conference game as

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a member of the conference in the Black Knights getting

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that win, and again like Navy, they do it in

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fairly solid fashion, jumping up on Florida Atlantic early en

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route to the twenty four to seven victory.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, and they do it in Army style. Seven yards

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per carry on the ground, they ran for four hundred

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and five yards as a team. Noah Short had I

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think one hundred and thirty two of them at the

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break at the half there, so he had a huge

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first half. You know. Really the only mistake that you

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could say that was made by Army, especially in that

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first half, was late in the first half when Kanye

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Judo fumbled and Florida Atlantic recovered and turned the turn

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that into seven points. So you know, it could have

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been twenty one nothing at the half. And that's something

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that I know that when I talked to Mike love All,

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he pointed that out that you know, that's a fourteen

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point swing, and you really credit the Black Knights for

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coming out after the half after they've had that fourteen

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point swing and not laying off. They They were just

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as crisp and just as strong against the Owls in

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the second half as they were in the first half.

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how they looked on on Saturday, because that was not

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a team that looked very good. I was saying, you know,

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maybe you know it's Michigan State, it's big ten that

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their first loss, it was by it was by less

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than a touchdown. You know, let's let's hold off now.

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of shocked with how bad FA you looked, especially in

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that second half. They looked like the team that was

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coming down from New York and didn't and couldn't handle

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the heat. Not an army.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the Black Knights. They really didn't look like they

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missed many beats steven because four hundred and five yards

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of a rushing offense. The one pass play that Bryson

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Daily hits was an over the top touchdown pass to

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Casey Reynolds, a beautiful, you know, really over the top,

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down the middle, forty four yard touchdown pass. They're late

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in the first quarter to make it fourteen to nothing.

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loan score just before halftime with a short pass play

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inside the ten yard line. But how about the think

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play that a lot of people are talking about.

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Speaker 4: The fake field goal. Beautiful.

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Speaker 2: This is two weeks in a row now that Jeff

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Munkins pulled out the bag of tricks on special teams.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Absolutely, And do it get late in the games

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as kind of a statement. You know, the fake punt

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came early against Lehigh, This win came late in the

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game and really allowed them to put things away. At

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that point, it's twenty to seven, it's still a two

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score game. At this point, you get the fake field goal,

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it's now twenty four to seven, it's now three scores,

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no matter how you look at it. And that basically

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spilled the end. And so Matthew Rhodes, you know, you

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get a lot of credit because you know, you can

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screw that. There are many ways you can screw that up.

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And he did not screw it up. He was able

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to find the hole, made a cutback and ended up

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in the end zone with it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was just a straight option basically a straight

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option read and he takes it around left side and

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like you said, made a perfect reed and one cut

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and bam into the end zone. Statement game set match

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twenty four to seven. You know, Army with the win

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over FAU and going on the road and getting a

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road conference whin I mean not only their first American

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Athletic conference when you do it on the road. So

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that's got to give this team, Jeff Unkins team a

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lot of confidence to two and oh going into the

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bye week, just like the Navy Midshipman are all right

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our other game to start or.

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Speaker 4: At least, you know, to end week two.

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Speaker 2: That Florida I'm sorry air Force Falcons welcoming San Jose

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State into the Springs and boy Ken Neamatalolo his Spartans,

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all the action happened in the first quarter, and the

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San Jose State Spartans they come in and get a

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seventeen to seven win over air Force. Now two and

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oh and one and oh in the Mountain West Conference.

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Now air Force dropping to one in one overall and

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oh to one in the Mountain West. It was a

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pretty uh I think maybe say boring would be how

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you put it, Stephen, after you got past the first quarter,

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because I mean literally.

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Speaker 4: That's where all the fireworks were in the springs. Was

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early in the football game.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, lackluster is probably another term that I probably we

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would use after that first quarter and EMMITTT. Brown, after

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throwing for nearly four hundred yards against Sacramento State the

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week before for San Jose State comes out two hundred

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and sixty two yards. A lot of that early early on,

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including two first quarter touchdowns he threw. You know, he had,

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you know a number of different guys come up with

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multiple receptions, led by Nick Nasho had seven catches for

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ninety yards and a score. Jackson Canan's most of his

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damage came on one fifty eight yard touchdown. But you know,

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I really thought that this was going to be a

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game that if San Jose State was going to win,

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they were going to have to abuse air Force's secondary,

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and they did so early and they were able to

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hold hold on for it because Air Force's offense really

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didn't have much to show for it. We talked about

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seven yards per carry on the ground for Army. Air

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Force had just three point one yards per carry, only

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one hundred and forty three yards rushing. That's not going

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to cut it. If the Falcons want to keep winning.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, it's not going to cut it. I mean

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that that's not going to cut it at all. Nor's

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turning the ball over two times at John Bouchet that

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you know, the starting quarterback for air Force, you know,

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throws the two interceptions, and that's the two turnovers that

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the Falcons had in the football game. You know, seven

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to twenty throw in the ball for fifty four yards

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and he ran it eight times for sixteen yards. If

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you're doing the math, I'll help you do it real quickly.

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That's two yards of carry. That is not good enough.

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Speaker 4: Simply put.

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Speaker 2: Air Force has got to find ways to execute. They've

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got to find ways to unlock this offense. Troy Calhoun,

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we know that he likes to roll the dice. Might

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he roll it going into Baylor this weekend? Because I

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can't expect he's liking a whole lot what he's seen,

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although you know, we've talked about a lot of new

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parts here, a lot of new faces. But when something

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is not working, he is quick to make a change.

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Shoot any college football coaches, but Troy Calhoun, he will

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roll the dice. When we at least expected to say,

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get ready to go to Baylor this weekend, but nonetheless,

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seventeen to seven, they fall at home in the second

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game of the season to San Jose Stephen, you know,

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Air Force. Right now, I think they're just we knew

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there were question marks going into the season. I think

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we're still left with as many question marks almost as

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we had to start the season as we are here

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sitting it basically going into week three.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, I mean you look at what what what is?

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What are the Falcons you know right now? And the question,

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the answer to that question is we don't know. You know,

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they they were able to put away a Division one

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FCS school, but then lost to a team that they

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had their way with the last couple of years in

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the Mountain West Conference. You know, in this Mountain West

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Conference is going to be a little different this year.

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They're gonna have to play Oregon State later on in

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the year. You know, you look at Boise State, They're

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not going to have to play during the regular season,

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nor will they have to play unl V. Those are

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the two monster teams right now in the Mountain West.

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Those are the two teams that most people believe are

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going to be there when the dust settles. Boise State

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was obviously the first, the number one in the preseason polling,

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but with their loss to Oregon, it kind of puts

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them behind the eight ball. But I look at it,

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you know, those three teams are the ones that are

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going to be the ones that most people are going

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to be looking at at the end, and not air Force.

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Speaker 2: I still think it's you know, with where air Force

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is at right now, I think the next four games,

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or you can even maybe go five, but the next

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four games.

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Speaker 4: Are gonna be really critical. I mean, they're going to Baylor.

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Speaker 2: That's gonna be a tough one non conference, you know,

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big twelve opponent, But then you've got two of your

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next three the conference games, and they're on the road

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at Wyoming at New Mexico. I know, both those teams

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are zero and two, and then Sandwich in the middle

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of that is Navy. Uh So even though that you

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you're gonna be going on the road to play to

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you know, I want to say bottom of the league,

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you know, Mount West Commerce teams and and in Wyoming

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in New Mexico, you still got to do it on

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the road.

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Speaker 4: And it winning on the road.

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Speaker 2: In college football is not easy. So I think Troy

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Calhoun's a teammate. They've got their work cut out for

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them before. These next couple of weeks are really going

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to tell. I think what postseason fate might or might

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not be there for Air Forces or Steve. All right,

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let's give out our game balls. Uh, Steve, you want

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to fire first this week? Which way you want to

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go with your your game ball?

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Speaker 3: You know I I had plenty of choices this week.

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It was kind of amazing, uh to see Uh, you know,

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I was looking at that that Army game. Noah Short

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had an amazing first half. Bryceton Daily had a very

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good day on the ground as well. He had one

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hundred and seventeen yards. But my game ball goes to

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mister Matthew Rhodes. I said it before. You know, in

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a fake field goal, almost anything and everything can happen,

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and most of it is not good. But Matthew Rhodes

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was able to take the snap, get up, make the

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make the read, make the cut, and make his way

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into the end zone for that fake field goal. And

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for that he gets a tip of the cap to

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me from me and a game ball. How about you price, Yeah,

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I'm gonna go.

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Speaker 4: Boy.

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Speaker 2: It was hard not to want to go Coloramos. Did

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I go Coloramo's last week for Navy. I can't remember

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if it was you did. I think it was me

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and it was Kylee. It's hard not to want to

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go Coloramos again. But man, I'm gonna pivot a little

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bit this week. And not because, you know, because it's

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Navy for any reason. I just think Blake Corvath what

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he did on Saturday. Steve with a career day all

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the way around, you know, run for a career high

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one hundred and twenty two yards, had three touchdowns on

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fifth team Cares completed five to nine through the air

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for a career high one hundred and twelve yards in

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a touchdown.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 2: The junior was named the American Athletic Quarterback Offensive Player

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of the Week, A junior sixth to junior from Hilliard, Ohio.

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According to ESPN Stats and Info HORVAP, this is the

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first Navy player to throw for three touchdowns in the

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first two games of the season. So Navy off to

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the first two too start since twenty nineteen and just

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the tenth time in the last thirty one years, and

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a boy a big reason for that. Steven as we

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mentioned during the during the recap is the play of

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that junior quarterback Blake Horvath, And it's been a while

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since they've had that kind of consistent play under center.

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All right, let's get out of here and take a break.

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moment for Army football as they got their first American

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Athletic Conference win. This week down in Boca Ratone is

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our old friend Mike Loveall, former co host of this

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First off, Mike, it is great to see you. We've

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Speaker 5: Stevid Price, It's great to be back on YOURDS and

479
00:24:47,319 --> 00:24:50,680
stripesent Retirement's treat me well. That the best part is

480
00:24:51,480 --> 00:24:53,880
a little bit more time to go see a little

481
00:24:53,880 --> 00:24:56,240
bit more football. We were fortunate enough to be down

482
00:24:56,279 --> 00:25:00,720
in Boca ratone for Army's first AAC com Prince game

483
00:25:01,279 --> 00:25:04,359
in this new era of Army football, and it did

484
00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:07,640
not disappoint. Looking forward to many years of Army coming

485
00:25:07,640 --> 00:25:10,720
to the Sunshine State Bokery Tone Tampa for USF here

486
00:25:11,119 --> 00:25:14,519
here where you and I both live. So excited about

487
00:25:14,519 --> 00:25:17,000
that Army should be down here. I think I did

488
00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:20,279
the math three out of every four years based on

489
00:25:20,319 --> 00:25:24,359
how the AAC does their rotation. So super excited about that.

490
00:25:24,880 --> 00:25:28,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm curious, after seeing Army as an independent for

491
00:25:29,119 --> 00:25:31,960
so long, does it take a little bit of time

492
00:25:32,079 --> 00:25:34,440
to think of the Okay, now we've got a conference

493
00:25:34,440 --> 00:25:37,519
schedule that we've got to look at. I mean, as

494
00:25:37,559 --> 00:25:40,279
a fan, that's got to be kind of interesting because

495
00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:43,359
Army always had what I thought would be a really

496
00:25:43,759 --> 00:25:46,559
good strong line. I mean, going to LSU. They've always

497
00:25:46,559 --> 00:25:50,559
had a chance to play some really big, strong schools

498
00:25:50,559 --> 00:25:52,839
throughout the year, and now they really can't do that

499
00:25:52,960 --> 00:25:56,880
because of the fact that they've got an AAC schedule

500
00:25:56,920 --> 00:25:57,839
that they've got to maintain.

501
00:25:58,400 --> 00:26:01,680
Speaker 5: Well, I actually think it's easier. You know, I follow

502
00:26:01,759 --> 00:26:04,839
two teams, Army and of course Tennessee, so I'm used

503
00:26:04,880 --> 00:26:08,200
to kind of the conference uh, the SEC being the

504
00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:10,519
Conference of Conferences. You know, I don't want to get

505
00:26:10,519 --> 00:26:12,839
too parochial about it, but you know where the conference

506
00:26:12,920 --> 00:26:15,559
drives everything. Uh So, so I'm kind of used to

507
00:26:15,599 --> 00:26:18,240
the rotational format of the scheduling, so it's I think

508
00:26:18,279 --> 00:26:21,559
it's a little bit easier under this current athletic director.

509
00:26:21,680 --> 00:26:24,400
Army has done a good job of being very formulaic

510
00:26:24,480 --> 00:26:26,880
about their schedule as well. F c S kind of

511
00:26:26,880 --> 00:26:30,519
some regional teams they like to schedule plus one big

512
00:26:30,599 --> 00:26:32,839
name on the road, uh, you know, to kind of

513
00:26:32,920 --> 00:26:35,880
to give the players the experience of playing at Norman

514
00:26:36,039 --> 00:26:38,920
or in an arbor or in Baton Rouge at night.

515
00:26:39,440 --> 00:26:42,559
You know, Elis, you know they you know, Army was

516
00:26:43,839 --> 00:26:45,839
successful in getting l s U to schedule that game

517
00:26:45,839 --> 00:26:48,000
at night instead of a new game, because I don't

518
00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:49,279
know if you've ever been to Baton Rouge, but a

519
00:26:49,359 --> 00:26:53,440
night game there is materially different, materially different than a

520
00:26:53,480 --> 00:26:57,640
new game for sure. So so under the under the

521
00:26:57,759 --> 00:27:00,000
leadership of the current athletic director, they've done a great job.

522
00:27:00,079 --> 00:27:03,880
The COVID year getting teams scheduled to play football was

523
00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:07,440
very successful. I don't think it's that much different. I

524
00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:10,720
think it's actually easier and it's a little bit more predictable,

525
00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:14,559
So I think for fans who like to travel, it'll

526
00:27:14,599 --> 00:27:17,240
be a little bit easier, although you'll probably miss out

527
00:27:17,599 --> 00:27:21,119
on some of those special trips and Arbin Norman, Baton

528
00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:26,319
Rouge of course, and so different. I don't know that

529
00:27:26,359 --> 00:27:28,880
it's any better or worse. I think it's easier, but

530
00:27:29,319 --> 00:27:32,079
you know, self interested, I'm super excited. The Army is

531
00:27:32,079 --> 00:27:34,440
going to be in the state of Florida three or

532
00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:37,720
four years out of every five years, so I'm excited

533
00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:40,519
kind of. I'm kind of excited about the conference. It

534
00:27:40,559 --> 00:27:43,960
gives Armies win total every year a little bit more legitimacy.

535
00:27:44,839 --> 00:27:47,200
So you know, if they get to six wins every year,

536
00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:48,960
particularly if they get to seven wins every year and

537
00:27:49,039 --> 00:27:51,759
year they're locked into a bowl. So that's very positive.

538
00:27:51,759 --> 00:27:54,480
And I think it's the bottom line is Army had

539
00:27:54,480 --> 00:27:57,079
to go to a conference, so it doesn't really matter

540
00:27:57,799 --> 00:27:59,680
how I feel about it. They did what they had

541
00:27:59,680 --> 00:28:03,440
to do going forward to secure the future of Army

542
00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:05,960
football at the FBS level, So so I'm excited about

543
00:28:05,960 --> 00:28:08,839
it being in a conference. Army looks competitive getting that

544
00:28:08,880 --> 00:28:11,319
first win. If you look around the AAC. You look

545
00:28:11,359 --> 00:28:16,039
at Tulsa Temple as well. You know, it looks like

546
00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:19,559
Armies should be able to get several wins this year

547
00:28:19,559 --> 00:28:21,720
in conference in their first year, which is which is

548
00:28:23,640 --> 00:28:27,160
not altogether expected. I think I think they're going to

549
00:28:27,200 --> 00:28:29,880
have a much stronger first year in the conference than

550
00:28:29,920 --> 00:28:31,079
many people thought they would.

551
00:28:31,559 --> 00:28:34,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, I certainly agree. And you know, while they can't

552
00:28:34,519 --> 00:28:37,839
go to Baton Rouge at night, they do get to

553
00:28:37,839 --> 00:28:40,160
go to Yankee Stadium to play Notre Dame this year,

554
00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:42,920
and that's gonna be a fun one that we'll talk

555
00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:47,839
about later on in the season. Let's get to what

556
00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:51,400
Boca Ratone and this game specifically. I want to want

557
00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:55,079
to get your thought on the atmosphere at FAU. Now

558
00:28:55,559 --> 00:28:58,519
I've gotten a chance to go there a couple of times.

559
00:28:58,559 --> 00:29:02,160
I know that USF played in the Boca Ratone Bowl

560
00:29:02,359 --> 00:29:07,519
last year where there was a veritable cricket crowd of

561
00:29:07,559 --> 00:29:11,880
crickets uh for their for their shutout win over Syracuse.

562
00:29:12,319 --> 00:29:12,519
Speaker 5: Uh.

563
00:29:12,599 --> 00:29:16,519
Speaker 3: But when when a service academy comes to town, you know,

564
00:29:16,759 --> 00:29:19,720
people show up normally. So I definitely would love to

565
00:29:19,880 --> 00:29:23,920
hear what you thought of the experience overall in in

566
00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:24,680
Boca retown.

567
00:29:25,160 --> 00:29:27,279
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, aren't Army travels well. Not not the

568
00:29:27,359 --> 00:29:29,920
largest fan base, you know, it's it's not It's not

569
00:29:29,960 --> 00:29:33,039
the Pittsburgh Steelers, you know, not, not some of the

570
00:29:33,079 --> 00:29:36,119
other big time programs. But Army travels well, particularly in

571
00:29:36,160 --> 00:29:39,160
Florida and Texas, places where there's quite frankly, a large

572
00:29:39,160 --> 00:29:43,160
military contingent and large alumni associations. Uh for those who

573
00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:46,319
aren't necessarily familiar with the academy, the alumni network is

574
00:29:46,440 --> 00:29:51,519
very active, very cohesive, very strong. Information flows very efficiently.

575
00:29:51,839 --> 00:29:54,240
So you know, you got a large military presence in

576
00:29:54,240 --> 00:29:57,720
Miami with Homestead Homestead and command down there. Of course,

577
00:29:57,759 --> 00:30:00,279
Tampa is only three hours away. We have US com

578
00:30:00,519 --> 00:30:02,720
US so com here in Tampa a lot of military

579
00:30:02,759 --> 00:30:05,599
and Jacksonville not necessarily army, that's kind of a Navy town.

580
00:30:06,079 --> 00:30:07,400
But the bottom line is there was a lot of

581
00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:10,759
Army people retired in both the Tampa area and the

582
00:30:10,839 --> 00:30:13,599
Miami so the Army contingent traveled well to Boca. I

583
00:30:13,640 --> 00:30:17,599
was pretty impressed. I think the Bokery tombull. I think

584
00:30:17,640 --> 00:30:20,039
I think Schnellenberger Field in late December is probably a

585
00:30:20,079 --> 00:30:23,319
lot better than early September or I guess late September.

586
00:30:24,079 --> 00:30:28,240
September it was pretty hot. Most of the fans, particularly

587
00:30:28,279 --> 00:30:32,960
the FAU fans, watched it from the concourse. So the

588
00:30:33,119 --> 00:30:36,960
Army experience, Army fans traveled well. Uh they represented well,

589
00:30:37,079 --> 00:30:40,279
cheered hard, cheered well, the team played well. So so

590
00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:43,839
from an Army fan experience, uh, it was it was

591
00:30:43,880 --> 00:30:46,240
a good day. It was hot, but you know, the

592
00:30:46,279 --> 00:30:50,119
fans soldier through. I think we showed I think we

593
00:30:50,160 --> 00:30:53,440
showed ourselves as a quitted ourselves as a solid fan

594
00:30:53,519 --> 00:30:55,640
base and all in all, you know, it's it's ten

595
00:30:55,680 --> 00:30:58,880
degrees cooler when you win in uh so, so that

596
00:30:58,880 --> 00:31:00,559
that makes it a little bit more better when you're

597
00:31:00,599 --> 00:31:02,240
up seventeen points with a couple of minutes to go

598
00:31:02,279 --> 00:31:03,720
in the fourth quarter for sure.

599
00:31:04,079 --> 00:31:06,359
Speaker 3: Yeah, and the beer definitely tastes better when you're winning

600
00:31:06,559 --> 00:31:10,200
as well. So let's get into the game itself. Bryce

601
00:31:10,279 --> 00:31:13,559
and Dally, who Pryce and I have talked about, you know,

602
00:31:13,920 --> 00:31:19,599
being probably the most well known player when it comes

603
00:31:19,640 --> 00:31:21,759
to any of the Service Academy teams this year. The

604
00:31:21,759 --> 00:31:25,119
guy that most guys, most people will go, okay, we

605
00:31:25,160 --> 00:31:28,200
recognize that name. I thought he had a fantastic game,

606
00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:31,160
you know, he only needed to complete one pass through

607
00:31:31,200 --> 00:31:33,240
the air it did go for a touchdown, also at

608
00:31:33,240 --> 00:31:37,240
eighteen carries for one hundred and seventeen yards on the ground.

609
00:31:37,960 --> 00:31:42,519
I certainly thought that he really showed himself well in

610
00:31:42,559 --> 00:31:45,720
his first conference game against a team that I thought

611
00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:48,720
would have come out a little better. I was kind

612
00:31:48,759 --> 00:31:52,880
of you know, they they lose. They lose to Michigan

613
00:31:52,920 --> 00:31:57,359
State in East Lansing the first week, and people go, wells,

614
00:31:57,440 --> 00:32:00,000
you know, Michigan State's not that good this year. I said, well,

615
00:32:00,079 --> 00:32:02,839
there's still a Big ten team, you know. But they

616
00:32:03,319 --> 00:32:07,160
certainly showed that, maybe if not quite as good as

617
00:32:07,559 --> 00:32:10,119
as we thought they would were. But I thought Bryson

618
00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:13,039
Daily showed that he was every bit as good as

619
00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:15,440
any quarterback in this conference right now.

620
00:32:16,559 --> 00:32:19,279
Speaker 5: Yeah, for sure, I'm not super haven't seen the film

621
00:32:19,319 --> 00:32:21,359
on some of the newer quarterbacks, and of course I'm

622
00:32:21,359 --> 00:32:24,559
not super familiar with the AAC. But to your point,

623
00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:27,599
I think Bryson Daily probably one of the top twenty

624
00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:31,200
running backs potentially in the country, and just as a

625
00:32:31,240 --> 00:32:34,119
pure running back, I don't know anybody in the AAC

626
00:32:34,279 --> 00:32:39,200
that's better. The thing with Bryson is he made real

627
00:32:39,279 --> 00:32:44,000
good decisions on Saturday. Of course, with le High last week,

628
00:32:44,039 --> 00:32:46,039
he made better decisions than last year, but he still

629
00:32:46,079 --> 00:32:48,839
had the one questionable decision a couple of times last year.

630
00:32:49,480 --> 00:32:53,319
You know, the decision making needed to be improved. Did

631
00:32:53,359 --> 00:32:55,880
not make a poor decision at all on Saturday. Did

632
00:32:55,920 --> 00:32:58,640
what had to be done. Manage the offense. Had like

633
00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:02,400
you said, had the one very pass the playfake on

634
00:33:02,519 --> 00:33:06,720
that was pretty sweet as well. Not to take anything

635
00:33:06,759 --> 00:33:09,599
away from Bryce and Daily or Noah Short who had

636
00:33:09,599 --> 00:33:12,839
a great game, or Kanye Udo who had a great game.

637
00:33:13,079 --> 00:33:16,160
But to your second point about Fau, I'm just going

638
00:33:16,240 --> 00:33:18,759
to tell you, Steve and Price, I'm going to tell

639
00:33:18,799 --> 00:33:21,920
you very unimpressed with the coaching on that team. That

640
00:33:21,920 --> 00:33:26,240
team was unprepared to play. That team made no adjustments

641
00:33:26,799 --> 00:33:29,599
on offense. Particularly. I think they only had two passes

642
00:33:29,599 --> 00:33:32,480
that were in the air longer than ten yards. If

643
00:33:32,519 --> 00:33:35,119
you're you know, if it's me and you're playing an

644
00:33:35,279 --> 00:33:38,079
army defense, you want to stretch the field. You want

645
00:33:38,079 --> 00:33:41,119
to leverage your strength. Almost every team we play is

646
00:33:41,160 --> 00:33:44,559
going to be a little bit more purely talented, faster receivers,

647
00:33:44,640 --> 00:33:47,759
taller receivers. I don't know why you wouldn't stretch the field.

648
00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:51,039
They made no adjustments on defense. The FAU defense in

649
00:33:51,079 --> 00:33:53,759
the second half played the exact same game plan as

650
00:33:53,799 --> 00:33:56,240
the FAU defense in the first half. The other thing

651
00:33:56,359 --> 00:33:59,359
is just questionable clock management there at the end ten

652
00:33:59,440 --> 00:34:02,400
forty in the fourth quarter, they're down by seventeen, so

653
00:34:02,559 --> 00:34:05,400
three scores, even with two two point conversions, now by

654
00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:08,000
three scores, they go forward on fourth down, I think

655
00:34:08,039 --> 00:34:11,079
at their own twenty six, right, so it's a forty

656
00:34:11,159 --> 00:34:13,960
yard field goal. Even if you convert the fourth down,

657
00:34:13,960 --> 00:34:16,400
which they did, you're still gonna lose one to two

658
00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:20,079
minutes on the clock down seventeen. You have to have

659
00:34:20,119 --> 00:34:23,400
a field goal anyway. The chart says kick the field goal,

660
00:34:23,480 --> 00:34:26,599
save yourself. Two minutes of time. You're playing army. You

661
00:34:26,679 --> 00:34:29,079
know what you're gonna get. You're gonna get three yards

662
00:34:29,079 --> 00:34:31,320
and then cloud of dust and three minutes were gonna

663
00:34:31,320 --> 00:34:33,360
come off the clock. They went forward and fourth ended

664
00:34:33,400 --> 00:34:35,599
up not getting a touchdown, not getting any points, which

665
00:34:35,639 --> 00:34:39,599
meant the game was over at that point. So just

666
00:34:39,719 --> 00:34:44,760
not just very questionable leadership. Team was unprepared, made no

667
00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:48,360
real adjustments schematically in the second half, really on offense

668
00:34:48,480 --> 00:34:51,400
or defense, offense never really stretched the field, and then

669
00:34:51,400 --> 00:34:53,920
the end end game management with particularly with the clock,

670
00:34:54,760 --> 00:34:58,559
was not good. So my big walk away wasn't necessarily

671
00:34:59,400 --> 00:35:03,159
you know, Bryce Daily or Noah Short being a better

672
00:35:03,280 --> 00:35:05,960
athlete than some of the some of the people on FAU.

673
00:35:06,199 --> 00:35:08,960
It was the value of Jeff Monkin to this Army team.

674
00:35:09,400 --> 00:35:12,920
You saw that team. They came in black uniforms, they

675
00:35:12,920 --> 00:35:17,079
were motivated that the heat seemingly didn't bother them at all.

676
00:35:17,199 --> 00:35:19,760
I think maybe we had one player go down with cramps.

677
00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:24,840
They were excited, they were prepared, They made adjustments against

678
00:35:24,920 --> 00:35:29,360
Fau's offense, particularly on the defensive side, and you just

679
00:35:29,480 --> 00:35:33,840
you don't see you don't see Jeff Munkin putting his

680
00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:38,159
players in tougher situations than they need to be, like

681
00:35:38,199 --> 00:35:41,039
you saw with Fau's coaching staff on Saturday. So, to me,

682
00:35:41,639 --> 00:35:45,199
the big walk away is, and we've known this Army

683
00:35:45,199 --> 00:35:47,559
fans have known this for several years, is that we

684
00:35:47,679 --> 00:35:52,760
have a high we Army has a high caliber coach.

685
00:35:53,079 --> 00:35:56,480
They're managing the sideline. And it was to me it

686
00:35:56,559 --> 00:36:00,840
was plainly evident sitting in the stands that one coaching

687
00:36:00,840 --> 00:36:04,760
staff on that field was materially better than the other coaching.

688
00:36:04,440 --> 00:36:08,280
Speaker 3: Staff, and that that tends to you know, that makes

689
00:36:08,320 --> 00:36:12,320
me scratch my head because Tom Herman is a big

690
00:36:12,440 --> 00:36:16,760
time coach. He's coached at Texas Texas, he was.

691
00:36:17,199 --> 00:36:21,440
Speaker 5: The offensive coordinated to Ohio State. I mean, I don't

692
00:36:21,440 --> 00:36:25,039
get it. I was you, I was talking about this

693
00:36:25,079 --> 00:36:27,719
in the stand. It's simple arithmetic. You're down by seventeen.

694
00:36:28,199 --> 00:36:30,800
That's that's three. That's three scores, one of which is

695
00:36:30,800 --> 00:36:32,960
a field goal. Right, So you kick the field goal,

696
00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:35,719
you take the points, and you still have ten minutes

697
00:36:35,719 --> 00:36:39,519
and thirty seconds to get two touchdowns.

698
00:36:39,719 --> 00:36:39,920
Speaker 3: Yeah.

699
00:36:40,440 --> 00:36:43,639
Speaker 5: Again, obviously it's far more successful than me. But to me,

700
00:36:43,719 --> 00:36:45,719
it's arithmetic. It really is.

701
00:36:46,360 --> 00:36:49,719
Speaker 3: Yeah. I know that the next time that I'm on

702
00:36:49,760 --> 00:36:51,960
the sidelines coach in a college football game will be

703
00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:56,280
my first. But yeah, it does. It does mean simple arithmetic.

704
00:36:56,320 --> 00:36:58,039
You brought up Noah Short. Yeah. I thought he had

705
00:36:58,079 --> 00:37:01,880
a great first half. You know, I would not have

706
00:37:02,800 --> 00:37:04,320
said that he would have had it was at one

707
00:37:04,400 --> 00:37:07,800
hundred and forty yards on the ground in the in

708
00:37:07,840 --> 00:37:10,840
the first half of the game. But I thought I

709
00:37:10,880 --> 00:37:14,599
thought he looked fantastic. I thought that the rushing game overall,

710
00:37:14,639 --> 00:37:17,920
I mean they put four n five yards on the ground,

711
00:37:17,960 --> 00:37:21,639
which is just I mean, it's it's almost twice as

712
00:37:21,719 --> 00:37:26,440
much as the FAU team had a combined offense, and

713
00:37:26,480 --> 00:37:28,760
so it was ridiculous for sure.

714
00:37:28,800 --> 00:37:30,840
Speaker 5: And if Noah Short can continue to have success on

715
00:37:30,840 --> 00:37:34,519
the outside and pull or at least make the linebackers hesitate,

716
00:37:34,639 --> 00:37:37,519
that opens up the middle run game for kanye Udo.

717
00:37:38,039 --> 00:37:40,599
And once Udo got going, And the thing I love

718
00:37:40,639 --> 00:37:43,519
about kanye Udo is is the game goes along, he

719
00:37:43,639 --> 00:37:49,840
gets better. He just wears down the middle interior linebackers

720
00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:52,880
and the interior defensive line for teams. So when you

721
00:37:52,880 --> 00:37:55,920
saw Noah Short having success on the edge in the

722
00:37:55,960 --> 00:37:58,559
first and second quarters, they kept going back to kanye

723
00:37:58,639 --> 00:38:00,960
Udo sometimes on second third downs to get those two

724
00:38:00,960 --> 00:38:03,760
and three yards they needed. You just had a feeling

725
00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:08,599
that FAU defense was eventually going to break. Udo did

726
00:38:08,599 --> 00:38:13,400
have the fumble, keep Key pointing the game, Armies driving

727
00:38:13,440 --> 00:38:16,039
with about two minutes to go in the half, he fumbles.

728
00:38:16,039 --> 00:38:18,760
Instead of twenty one zero at halftime, turns out to

729
00:38:18,800 --> 00:38:23,320
be fourteen to seven at the half. I was really

730
00:38:23,360 --> 00:38:25,320
impressed with how the team came back out in the

731
00:38:25,320 --> 00:38:29,360
second half and closed it out instead of letting that

732
00:38:29,480 --> 00:38:34,679
fourteen that you know, theoretical fourteen point turn affect affect

733
00:38:34,719 --> 00:38:38,760
their disposition. So another another illustration of the quality coaching

734
00:38:38,760 --> 00:38:43,400
on that coming out, not letting that swing affect them

735
00:38:43,440 --> 00:38:45,800
too much, and coming out and just getting right back

736
00:38:45,840 --> 00:38:48,280
to business on the first drive of the second half

737
00:38:48,480 --> 00:38:52,360
instead of letting that letting that fumble kind of turn

738
00:38:52,480 --> 00:38:54,360
the tide of the fortune in the game.

739
00:38:55,039 --> 00:38:57,519
Speaker 3: Absolutely and then and then the last player that I

740
00:38:57,599 --> 00:39:00,400
want to talk to you about is of course coach

741
00:39:00,440 --> 00:39:04,719
Bunkin breaking out the trickeration early with Matthew Rhodes with

742
00:39:04,800 --> 00:39:07,880
the fake field goal run in for for a touchdown.

743
00:39:08,239 --> 00:39:10,840
Not something you see very often from an army team,

744
00:39:10,880 --> 00:39:13,519
but it just goes to show you that when they

745
00:39:13,599 --> 00:39:16,239
need to to reach into the bag of tricks, they've

746
00:39:16,239 --> 00:39:19,000
got them. It's it's not like they can't pull off

747
00:39:19,039 --> 00:39:20,880
the fake punt or the fake field goal.

748
00:39:21,320 --> 00:39:21,519
Speaker 4: Uh.

749
00:39:21,559 --> 00:39:24,360
Speaker 3: And they they did it at the right time, and uh,

750
00:39:24,440 --> 00:39:27,159
you know to a team that was uh, you know,

751
00:39:27,320 --> 00:39:33,159
obviously not not you we mentioned the the poor coaching,

752
00:39:33,480 --> 00:39:37,320
they probably were all very very tired and and had

753
00:39:37,360 --> 00:39:40,119
the the effects of the of the heat, you know,

754
00:39:40,159 --> 00:39:41,920
a lot more so than what Nate Uh than what

755
00:39:42,079 --> 00:39:44,239
Army showed uh in that game as well.

756
00:39:45,039 --> 00:39:47,360
Speaker 5: Yeah, for sure. And you saw the fake punt last

757
00:39:47,400 --> 00:39:51,039
week against Lehigh. You know this coaching staff is playing

758
00:39:51,039 --> 00:39:53,760
to win games. You like to see that early on,

759
00:39:53,800 --> 00:39:57,800
they're putting stuff on film. So oftentimes, particularly when you're

760
00:39:57,800 --> 00:40:00,519
playing a team like Lehigh, you'll you'll run something like

761
00:40:00,559 --> 00:40:04,119
that to get it on film, and you know there's

762
00:40:04,119 --> 00:40:05,679
a couple of reasons why you do it. I think

763
00:40:05,679 --> 00:40:08,400
in that that game was early, you got to think

764
00:40:08,440 --> 00:40:10,800
it wasn't a momentum thing against Leehigh. You gotta think

765
00:40:10,840 --> 00:40:13,000
it was a putting something on film, or establishing a

766
00:40:13,039 --> 00:40:17,280
team identity, establishing a team culture, letting the future opponents

767
00:40:17,280 --> 00:40:19,119
know that you got to be ready for anything with

768
00:40:19,159 --> 00:40:22,840
this team on first, second, third, or fourth down. I

769
00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:25,960
like the timing. I'm not sure I like the timing

770
00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:27,519
of the fank punt in the Lehigh game. That was

771
00:40:27,840 --> 00:40:31,159
really early in that game to do that, but you're

772
00:40:31,199 --> 00:40:33,280
playing probably with a little bit of house money there.

773
00:40:33,559 --> 00:40:36,760
Love the timing of the fake field goal in FAU

774
00:40:36,960 --> 00:40:39,960
and to see ninety nine get that touchdown that that

775
00:40:40,079 --> 00:40:44,079
was It was both a very well called well timed

776
00:40:44,079 --> 00:40:47,119
but it was also great to see the player get

777
00:40:47,159 --> 00:40:47,840
to the end zone.

778
00:40:48,519 --> 00:40:51,679
Speaker 3: Oh absolutely, and to see it on all of the highlights,

779
00:40:52,400 --> 00:40:55,280
you know, I saw it on ESPN nice. You know,

780
00:40:55,360 --> 00:41:00,440
every college football highlight page on YouTube had that play,

781
00:41:00,559 --> 00:41:03,239
so it was it was great to see one more

782
00:41:03,280 --> 00:41:06,639
thing before we let you go here. Mike Pryce and

783
00:41:06,679 --> 00:41:10,639
I talked about this last week, the Mikey Stadium preservation project.

784
00:41:11,159 --> 00:41:16,280
I said that I understand why it's happening, but I

785
00:41:16,280 --> 00:41:19,559
I hate the fact that if you're in the West

786
00:41:19,679 --> 00:41:23,440
stands now on the home side, you're not gonna you know,

787
00:41:23,480 --> 00:41:26,599
once this is uh, once this project is done and

788
00:41:26,639 --> 00:41:30,920
they've rebuilt the east the East stands and they're gonna

789
00:41:30,960 --> 00:41:33,199
be a lot bigger than they are, uh, you know

790
00:41:33,480 --> 00:41:36,039
have been historically, you're gonna have a hard time seeing

791
00:41:36,039 --> 00:41:38,280
the river. And I always thought that is the one

792
00:41:38,320 --> 00:41:40,920
of the coolest parts of Mikey Stadium is that you're

793
00:41:40,920 --> 00:41:43,760
sitting in the West stands, You're looking out to the east,

794
00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:46,360
You're seeing the river there, and you're not gonna be

795
00:41:46,400 --> 00:41:49,039
able to see that. I'm curious about what you think

796
00:41:49,079 --> 00:41:52,880
of the preservation project and uh, how how excited you

797
00:41:52,920 --> 00:41:55,920
are to see that? You know, Mikey is going to

798
00:41:56,119 --> 00:41:59,320
be around for much much longer because of this project.

799
00:42:00,119 --> 00:42:01,960
Speaker 5: Yeah, so it kind of goes back to the conference

800
00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:04,679
conversation we had we had earlier. It's not really something

801
00:42:05,320 --> 00:42:08,800
it's really something that Army had to do. If you

802
00:42:08,880 --> 00:42:11,840
look at you know, Army has clearly made the decision

803
00:42:11,920 --> 00:42:14,840
that they want to be in at big time football

804
00:42:14,880 --> 00:42:17,480
so FBS football, and part of that is having the

805
00:42:17,519 --> 00:42:21,400
facilities to get uh FBS caliber players there and to

806
00:42:21,480 --> 00:42:23,440
get revenue from your fan base.

807
00:42:23,960 --> 00:42:24,079
Speaker 6: Uh.

808
00:42:24,400 --> 00:42:27,840
Speaker 5: The the West Stands preservation project is is very nice.

809
00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:31,400
They're going to have UH suites up there and you'll

810
00:42:31,440 --> 00:42:34,360
be able to use them for graduation as well. Uh

811
00:42:34,400 --> 00:42:36,239
that the core is going to look great in those

812
00:42:36,280 --> 00:42:38,920
new stands right behind the sideline. It's it's going to

813
00:42:38,960 --> 00:42:40,960
be very nice. But it's something they had to do

814
00:42:41,320 --> 00:42:45,880
to improve the in game stadium experience. You know. That

815
00:42:45,880 --> 00:42:47,639
that was something else that was I was kind of,

816
00:42:47,880 --> 00:42:49,760
to be honest with it, this was my first time

817
00:42:49,760 --> 00:42:54,880
at f AU as I was kind of, I guess

818
00:42:54,920 --> 00:42:58,320
surprised at uh that that the stadium, you know, having

819
00:42:58,559 --> 00:43:00,000
a team that had Lane Kiff in a couple of

820
00:43:00,079 --> 00:43:02,840
years ago and now Tom Herman. I was just a

821
00:43:02,840 --> 00:43:06,119
little bit, uh surprised with that. You know, you've seen

822
00:43:06,119 --> 00:43:09,679
the plans for the new USF Stadium on campus. That's

823
00:43:09,679 --> 00:43:11,559
gonna look really nice. Of course, you and I have

824
00:43:11,639 --> 00:43:15,159
both traveled to different multiple different college stadiums across the country.

825
00:43:15,559 --> 00:43:18,480
I was just just a little bit surprised that fau's

826
00:43:18,800 --> 00:43:21,559
facility there. So it's it's something they've got to do

827
00:43:21,679 --> 00:43:25,599
at Mikey. It's gonna be nice, it's gonna get it's

828
00:43:25,639 --> 00:43:28,239
going to get the donors into the stands, you know,

829
00:43:28,360 --> 00:43:31,960
multiple games a year, and it's it's being well done. Deliberate.

830
00:43:32,440 --> 00:43:35,639
Uh again, I think they I think both the football

831
00:43:35,679 --> 00:43:38,039
team and the athletic department are in really good hands

832
00:43:38,360 --> 00:43:41,760
up there. So it was a deliberate decision. It kept, Uh,

833
00:43:42,199 --> 00:43:43,840
it kept. I think I think it's going to keep

834
00:43:43,880 --> 00:43:47,320
the essence of Mikey Stadium the same. I don't. It

835
00:43:47,400 --> 00:43:50,199
might block the view maybe for the lower east stands,

836
00:43:50,440 --> 00:43:51,960
but I think still in the upper deck in the

837
00:43:51,960 --> 00:43:53,880
press box, I think you're still going to have a

838
00:43:54,000 --> 00:43:56,960
view of the river. But even if it blocks a

839
00:43:57,000 --> 00:43:58,519
little bit of the view of the river, you're still

840
00:43:58,559 --> 00:44:01,280
going to have the Hudson high there. It's still going

841
00:44:01,320 --> 00:44:03,559
to be nestled right next to Lusk Reservoir. It's still

842
00:44:03,559 --> 00:44:05,199
going to be a beautiful walk up the hill to

843
00:44:05,239 --> 00:44:07,320
the stadium. It's gonna be a beautiful walk down the

844
00:44:07,400 --> 00:44:08,360
hill to the stadium.

845
00:44:08,719 --> 00:44:08,920
Speaker 1: Uh.

846
00:44:09,000 --> 00:44:12,880
Speaker 5: You know, on those October and November fall saturdays. Even

847
00:44:12,920 --> 00:44:15,480
from a guy growing up in sec country, there is

848
00:44:15,559 --> 00:44:19,840
not many more more beautiful places to catch a college

849
00:44:19,840 --> 00:44:22,280
football game than Mikey Stadium right there on the Lusk

850
00:44:22,400 --> 00:44:26,440
Reservoir in October and Novembers in the fall.

851
00:44:27,280 --> 00:44:29,239
Speaker 3: It should be it should be a blast, that is

852
00:44:29,280 --> 00:44:30,519
for sure. I'm I know that.

853
00:44:31,039 --> 00:44:31,280
Speaker 2: Uh.

854
00:44:31,360 --> 00:44:34,119
Speaker 3: Price and I have talked about that's that's one of

855
00:44:34,159 --> 00:44:36,400
the bucket lists, at least on my on my end,

856
00:44:36,400 --> 00:44:39,840
there are there aren't many places that I am saying

857
00:44:39,960 --> 00:44:42,599
I have to go and watch a game, But but

858
00:44:42,679 --> 00:44:46,519
Mikey Stadium is on that short list still. Maybe maybe

859
00:44:46,559 --> 00:44:49,960
one of these days I'll get them into into West

860
00:44:49,960 --> 00:44:51,480
Point and we'll see what happens.

861
00:44:51,559 --> 00:44:53,320
Speaker 5: Steve, let me know, Steve, let me know. We'll go

862
00:44:53,400 --> 00:44:55,280
up there, we'll catch a cadet review, we'll go to

863
00:44:55,320 --> 00:44:58,639
a game and uh and you'll you'll get to see

864
00:44:58,920 --> 00:45:00,480
exactly how nice it is up there.

865
00:45:00,639 --> 00:45:02,760
Speaker 3: I I I will. You don't temp me with a

866
00:45:02,760 --> 00:45:03,599
good time, my friend.

867
00:45:04,000 --> 00:45:06,480
Speaker 5: Well, I mean, you know, at some point in the

868
00:45:06,519 --> 00:45:09,239
next five years USF will have to fly up there

869
00:45:09,320 --> 00:45:11,679
and play a game there. So so what do you say,

870
00:45:11,719 --> 00:45:14,519
Let's book it now, USF at mike Y Stadium, Steve,

871
00:45:14,679 --> 00:45:15,800
Steve and Mike on the road.

872
00:45:16,079 --> 00:45:18,440
Speaker 3: I will, I will be all for that. That that

873
00:45:18,599 --> 00:45:20,719
is for sure. Mike. It is great to see you,

874
00:45:21,159 --> 00:45:25,679
uh continue to success in your retirement. Uh. I know

875
00:45:25,760 --> 00:45:28,920
that that you are still basically in the same gig,

876
00:45:29,519 --> 00:45:31,679
you know, just not having to Yeah, you can, you

877
00:45:31,679 --> 00:45:33,800
can uh let the let the facial hair grow.

878
00:45:33,840 --> 00:45:37,039
Speaker 5: That's always nice in the morning every day.

879
00:45:37,639 --> 00:45:38,280
Speaker 3: Absolutely.

880
00:45:38,280 --> 00:45:40,639
Speaker 5: Well, just I'm just I'm just trying to look like you, Steve,

881
00:45:40,679 --> 00:45:41,039
that's all.

882
00:45:42,039 --> 00:45:43,840
Speaker 3: Your just looks a hell of a lot better than mine.

883
00:45:43,880 --> 00:45:46,920
That's that's for sure. Mike. It's great seeing you, and

884
00:45:46,920 --> 00:45:48,239
we'll have to do this again soon.

885
00:45:48,400 --> 00:45:49,800
Speaker 5: Yes, sir, thanks for having me on.

886
00:45:50,519 --> 00:45:53,159
Speaker 3: It's always good to see Mike love all and to

887
00:45:53,199 --> 00:45:56,840
hear his voice and to get his perspective on army

888
00:45:57,039 --> 00:46:00,760
and f A. You still got plenty to come here

889
00:46:00,960 --> 00:46:04,199
on Yards and Stripes, you've got our Travis Manian Foundation

890
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895
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899
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909
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913
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917
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that Travis's and himself spoke, If not me, then who?

918
00:47:36,760 --> 00:47:39,119
And this week is we all stop as a nation

919
00:47:39,280 --> 00:47:43,840
to pause and remember those fateful events the transpire on

920
00:47:44,280 --> 00:47:45,920
September the eleventh, two.

921
00:47:45,800 --> 00:47:49,039
Speaker 4: Thousand and one. We're going to honor and.

922
00:47:49,119 --> 00:47:52,480
Speaker 2: Stop and pause because heroes obviously come in many different

923
00:47:52,719 --> 00:47:55,920
sizes and shapes, and certainly we know they wear many

924
00:47:55,960 --> 00:47:59,519
different uniforms, and not just of the military variety, but

925
00:47:59,599 --> 00:48:01,880
our hero on nine to eleven, many of them were

926
00:48:02,239 --> 00:48:06,400
were policemen, local firefighters, first responders, so many people that

927
00:48:06,920 --> 00:48:11,039
gave that ultimate sacrifice on that faithful day where our

928
00:48:11,119 --> 00:48:13,719
nation was attacked, our freedoms were attacked, everything that we

929
00:48:13,760 --> 00:48:17,000
stood for in America was attacked. And it was the

930
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people that responded to those calls that were trained and

931
00:48:20,840 --> 00:48:24,239
they did exactly what they were trained to respond to

932
00:48:25,400 --> 00:48:29,880
crisis situations and certainly seeing things that we know our

933
00:48:29,880 --> 00:48:33,679
eyes many eyes would never even think or want to see.

934
00:48:34,360 --> 00:48:36,280
Speaker 4: But they were the heroes on that day.

935
00:48:36,719 --> 00:48:40,599
Speaker 2: Many of them unfortunately gave that sacrifice ultimate sacrifice on

936
00:48:40,679 --> 00:48:43,679
September the eleventh, two thousand and one, and many others

937
00:48:43,719 --> 00:48:48,320
it was days later, folks that were you know, you know,

938
00:48:48,760 --> 00:48:52,480
as bestos related they got in their lungs. Things that

939
00:48:52,599 --> 00:48:56,440
happened as a result of that fateful day on September

940
00:48:56,480 --> 00:48:58,480
the eleventh, two thousand and one, in New York City

941
00:48:59,119 --> 00:49:03,639
at the Pentagon and then in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. But we

942
00:49:03,679 --> 00:49:05,840
do want to stop and pause and honor our heroes

943
00:49:06,360 --> 00:49:11,039
this week, many that were involved knee deep in the

944
00:49:11,079 --> 00:49:14,880
situation and in the first responders that were there responding

945
00:49:14,960 --> 00:49:19,159
to that horrific acts of violence on our nation on

946
00:49:19,760 --> 00:49:22,440
September the eleventh. So I know we all stop and

947
00:49:22,519 --> 00:49:26,480
pause and remembered that day. Depending on who you how

948
00:49:26,480 --> 00:49:28,599
old you are, you know what you were doing where

949
00:49:28,639 --> 00:49:31,039
you were that day. Some were too young, but for

950
00:49:31,159 --> 00:49:33,360
many of us at pain is still real and the

951
00:49:33,360 --> 00:49:36,280
events that transpired that day. So again the Travis Media

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

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Speaker 2: All right, welcome back in the Yards and Stripes. I'm

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Pryce Akinson. He is Steven Carney and our man Mike

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you to talk Army football boy? How do we love

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Mike here our former co host and as I mentioned,

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dot com. And you know always love having our having

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our friends back on here Steven And speaking of friends,

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we are friends at the Travis Mannon Foundation. Want to

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thank them as well. I really appreciate them for supporting

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So make sure you visit them online find out ways

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one game this week, one loan game. It's kind of weird,

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00:50:57,440 --> 00:50:59,320
we got bye weeks, you know, coming this early. It

979
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seems like Air Force is always one of the teams

980
00:51:01,280 --> 00:51:04,000
that you know, had one of these early buys, but

981
00:51:04,079 --> 00:51:06,679
that is not the case. It's Army and it's Navy,

982
00:51:06,880 --> 00:51:09,079
and both those two teams obviously sitting at two and

983
00:51:09,119 --> 00:51:11,119
oh so they're kicking back, feet up and they're going

984
00:51:11,199 --> 00:51:13,480
to be watching some football, enjoying, you know, the off

985
00:51:13,480 --> 00:51:16,920
weekend this weekend. But the Air Force Falcons hitting the road.

986
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They're going to Waco, Texas to play Baylor Bears, both

987
00:51:21,239 --> 00:51:23,360
teams one in one. This is gonna be a Saturday

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00:51:23,400 --> 00:51:26,840
night kickoff at seven thirty pm Eastern Standard time on

989
00:51:26,960 --> 00:51:30,159
Fox Sports one. Right now as we see it, Baylor

990
00:51:30,440 --> 00:51:33,039
according to the oddsmakers, that what we're looking at fifteen

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and a half point favorite over under at forty two

992
00:51:35,400 --> 00:51:38,039
and a half right now, Steven as this going to

993
00:51:38,079 --> 00:51:41,199
be the first This begins a new two game series

994
00:51:41,239 --> 00:51:44,079
with Baylor for the Falcons. The Bears will visit Falcons

995
00:51:44,079 --> 00:51:48,480
Stadium on September eighth, September the eighteenth in twenty twenty seven,

996
00:51:49,039 --> 00:51:51,400
but this will be the first time these two teams

997
00:51:51,480 --> 00:51:54,840
meet in the regular season since nineteen seventy seven, which

998
00:51:54,880 --> 00:51:57,920
resulted in a twenty eight to seven win for the

999
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Baylor Bears.

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Speaker 4: However, the last.

1001
00:52:00,079 --> 00:52:03,079
Speaker 2: Time these teams two teams played step that was in

1002
00:52:03,119 --> 00:52:06,599
the twenty twenty two Armed Forces Bowl in Fort Worth, Texas,

1003
00:52:06,960 --> 00:52:09,840
where Air Force they got a thirteen or thirty to

1004
00:52:09,840 --> 00:52:14,840
fifteen win, a really dominating win in a very If

1005
00:52:14,880 --> 00:52:18,239
you remember how cold it was, yes, I do, so

1006
00:52:19,320 --> 00:52:22,079
that's that's my last real memory of these two teams

1007
00:52:22,119 --> 00:52:24,480
seeing the field And what was the I think, if

1008
00:52:24,480 --> 00:52:26,599
I have it right, and I think I do, it

1009
00:52:26,719 --> 00:52:30,119
was the coldest bowl game of the entire Bowl season.

1010
00:52:30,119 --> 00:52:32,239
When was that fridgid night that we were lucky to

1011
00:52:32,239 --> 00:52:33,559
be watching on television.

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00:52:33,960 --> 00:52:35,639
Speaker 3: I'll tell you what I was glad not to be

1013
00:52:35,679 --> 00:52:38,519
in Fort Worth that night. It was thorough boyeen degrees

1014
00:52:38,559 --> 00:52:44,039
at kickoff in that Armed Forces Bowl game in Fort Worth.

1015
00:52:44,079 --> 00:52:46,519
And yeah, that was the last time that these two

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00:52:46,599 --> 00:52:49,239
teams saw each other. This is going to be an

1017
00:52:49,280 --> 00:52:53,920
interesting game. It is Baylor's Salute a Service game. They're

1018
00:52:53,960 --> 00:52:56,159
going to have a pregame flyover with a pair of

1019
00:52:56,239 --> 00:53:00,119
F sixteen's. Each of them will be piloted with alum

1020
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from each school, So one will be an Air Force

1021
00:53:02,719 --> 00:53:06,320
Academy graduate, one will be a Baylor University graduate, which

1022
00:53:06,320 --> 00:53:09,400
is which is going to be very interesting. Also, Baylor

1023
00:53:09,480 --> 00:53:13,559
is going to welcome back their Southwest Conference championship team

1024
00:53:13,599 --> 00:53:17,880
from nineteen seventy four, which is always known as the

1025
00:53:17,920 --> 00:53:22,199
Miracle on the Brazos team. So, but this is a

1026
00:53:22,199 --> 00:53:26,719
Baylor team that was doubled up last week by Utah.

1027
00:53:26,760 --> 00:53:30,440
The Utes used a return field goal block for a touchdown,

1028
00:53:31,000 --> 00:53:34,039
and a fumble recovery on the three yard line, all

1029
00:53:34,079 --> 00:53:37,159
in the first half. So Baylor had a couple of

1030
00:53:37,159 --> 00:53:40,760
mistakes early and Utah was able to take advantage of it.

1031
00:53:40,800 --> 00:53:43,480
I certainly think that Air Force is going to have

1032
00:53:43,559 --> 00:53:47,800
to do something similar to have an opportunity to pull

1033
00:53:47,840 --> 00:53:50,280
out the victory in this game. You know, I'm not

1034
00:53:51,000 --> 00:53:56,159
trying to disparage the Mountain West Conference or the you know,

1035
00:53:56,239 --> 00:54:00,159
the caliber of the competition in the Mountain West, but

1036
00:54:00,239 --> 00:54:01,960
there is a lot there is a lot more they

1037
00:54:01,960 --> 00:54:05,679
can be said about Baylor playing Utah than air Force

1038
00:54:05,760 --> 00:54:07,920
playing Merrimac in San Jose State.

1039
00:54:09,000 --> 00:54:10,800
Speaker 4: Well, yes, you're absolutely right.

1040
00:54:11,119 --> 00:54:13,679
Speaker 2: If if there's something you're looking for a silver lining

1041
00:54:13,719 --> 00:54:15,920
for air Force, no matter how the season's gone, you

1042
00:54:15,920 --> 00:54:18,079
can go back to a little history. You know, air

1043
00:54:18,119 --> 00:54:21,480
Force has won five straight games against teams from Power

1044
00:54:21,519 --> 00:54:25,039
five conferences, and so while this will be the first

1045
00:54:25,079 --> 00:54:26,920
Power five team the air Force has played in the

1046
00:54:26,920 --> 00:54:31,599
regular season since they hosted Colorado back in I think

1047
00:54:31,639 --> 00:54:35,760
Week two of twenty twenty two at Falcons Stadium, you know,

1048
00:54:36,280 --> 00:54:39,639
the Falcons have had success against Power five conference opponents

1049
00:54:39,639 --> 00:54:42,360
and most of those have been you know, in the postseason.

1050
00:54:42,440 --> 00:54:44,639
But this is going to be a fairly daunting task.

1051
00:54:44,679 --> 00:54:47,920
They're going to obviously McClean Stadium there one of the

1052
00:54:47,920 --> 00:54:51,440
most i think one of the more beautiful stadiums in

1053
00:54:51,480 --> 00:54:55,000
college football. For the seven thirty pm Eastern Standard time kickoff.

1054
00:54:55,039 --> 00:54:58,039
And you know, Dave Randa, the head coach at you know,

1055
00:54:58,039 --> 00:55:01,159
at Baylor, a lot of people were, I mean he

1056
00:55:01,400 --> 00:55:04,199
was he was a big time get when Baylor hired

1057
00:55:04,239 --> 00:55:06,639
him away as what he was at LSU for a

1058
00:55:06,679 --> 00:55:09,639
while as defensive coordinator, and it was a big hire

1059
00:55:09,719 --> 00:55:10,920
when when Baylor had him.

1060
00:55:11,159 --> 00:55:13,719
Speaker 4: It's weird that how quickly things can change. One have

1061
00:55:13,760 --> 00:55:14,719
you done for me lately?

1062
00:55:15,840 --> 00:55:16,039
Speaker 3: You know?

1063
00:55:16,159 --> 00:55:18,000
Speaker 2: I feel like that it's kind of fallen on some

1064
00:55:18,039 --> 00:55:20,599
hard times for Dave Randon. Now he's under some fire

1065
00:55:20,760 --> 00:55:23,519
very quickly. But nonetheless, this is going to be a

1066
00:55:23,599 --> 00:55:25,400
very talented Baylor team. You're gonna have to go in

1067
00:55:25,400 --> 00:55:27,559
there and play it at night, you know, like most

1068
00:55:27,880 --> 00:55:30,159
times when service academies go on the road, it's a

1069
00:55:30,199 --> 00:55:33,920
military appreciation type theme, and obviously that's what will get

1070
00:55:34,239 --> 00:55:37,039
on Saturday night when Baylor and Air Force take the field.

1071
00:55:37,039 --> 00:55:40,800
Speaker 3: Steven, Yeah, absolutely, And I think the reason why Dave A.

1072
00:55:40,880 --> 00:55:45,360
Randa is under such fire, you know, his seats getting

1073
00:55:45,400 --> 00:55:48,039
a little warm in Waco is the fact that the

1074
00:55:48,079 --> 00:55:51,840
Big twelve is very much different than it was even

1075
00:55:51,880 --> 00:55:55,599
a year ago. You look at it. I've been joking

1076
00:55:55,719 --> 00:55:58,360
that they need to start calling the Big twelve the

1077
00:55:58,400 --> 00:56:02,320
Little twelve now that in Oklahoma or in the SEC.

1078
00:56:03,239 --> 00:56:07,039
Most of that is to of course disparage my friends

1079
00:56:07,079 --> 00:56:11,280
who are fans and alumni of the University of Central Florida,

1080
00:56:11,320 --> 00:56:15,239
who I like to call Winter Park Community College but

1081
00:56:15,880 --> 00:56:19,079
it is. But it's true that yea, you know, there's

1082
00:56:19,559 --> 00:56:23,960
a lot less firepower in the Big Twelve this year

1083
00:56:24,039 --> 00:56:27,679
than there have been in years past, and so you know,

1084
00:56:27,800 --> 00:56:32,480
Baylor was certainly thinking, and the boosters and the fans

1085
00:56:32,480 --> 00:56:35,400
were certainly thinking that, you know, this could be an

1086
00:56:35,480 --> 00:56:40,079
opportunity for the Bears to move themselves into you know,

1087
00:56:40,400 --> 00:56:42,880
I'm not saying that they would have had an opportunity

1088
00:56:42,880 --> 00:56:45,639
at the Big Twelve championship game, but you would think

1089
00:56:45,679 --> 00:56:48,360
that they might have had an opportunity to play in

1090
00:56:48,480 --> 00:56:53,000
a much higher caliber bowl game than say the Armed

1091
00:56:53,079 --> 00:56:56,000
Forces bull like they did two years ago. I think

1092
00:56:56,000 --> 00:56:58,280
that they thought that this was going to be a

1093
00:56:58,360 --> 00:57:01,159
year that they could really push and we'll see if

1094
00:57:01,199 --> 00:57:04,000
they can. You know, they've only had that the one

1095
00:57:04,119 --> 00:57:08,239
loss against Utah so far this year, so you know,

1096
00:57:08,320 --> 00:57:13,079
they're their Their conference season is not over by any

1097
00:57:13,159 --> 00:57:16,320
sense of the imagination, but they've got to win this

1098
00:57:16,480 --> 00:57:17,960
game and get to two.

1099
00:57:17,760 --> 00:57:20,639
Speaker 2: And One's funny mentioned not over. I was just thinking,

1100
00:57:21,159 --> 00:57:23,360
you know, the reason why I'm not pushing the panic button,

1101
00:57:23,360 --> 00:57:25,440
and I don't think a lot of fans should at

1102
00:57:25,440 --> 00:57:28,719
this point. Whoever your team is, the season is not

1103
00:57:28,880 --> 00:57:31,079
over no matter what it is, because with the college

1104
00:57:31,119 --> 00:57:33,880
football playoff now expanded, not saying that either of these

1105
00:57:33,880 --> 00:57:35,880
two teams, air Force or Baylors, is going to find

1106
00:57:35,880 --> 00:57:38,280
their way into it, but boy, you've got margin for

1107
00:57:38,320 --> 00:57:38,800
air now.

1108
00:57:38,920 --> 00:57:39,079
Speaker 3: Now.

1109
00:57:39,119 --> 00:57:41,239
Speaker 2: Some teams have less of it, especially when you come

1110
00:57:41,239 --> 00:57:44,639
from a non Power five, but you know you've got

1111
00:57:44,800 --> 00:57:47,000
chances to stub your toe and still put the band

1112
00:57:47,039 --> 00:57:50,039
aid on and recover. And that's what these two teams

1113
00:57:50,039 --> 00:57:52,039
have the chance to do on Saturday night. And so,

1114
00:57:52,400 --> 00:57:54,880
you know the game has changed, certainly, the conference landscape

1115
00:57:54,920 --> 00:57:57,559
has changed, but you know, obviously the institution of the

1116
00:57:57,599 --> 00:58:00,360
twelve team playoff that's made things a lot done different.

1117
00:58:00,920 --> 00:58:02,920
Like it or dislike it. I know we all have

1118
00:58:02,960 --> 00:58:06,639
opinions on it, but what we don't have an opinion

1119
00:58:06,719 --> 00:58:08,760
on is these two teams will take the field at

1120
00:58:08,800 --> 00:58:12,599
seven thirty on Fox Sports one. Baylor's a fifteen point

1121
00:58:12,599 --> 00:58:14,639
fifteen and a half point favorite over Under forty two

1122
00:58:14,639 --> 00:58:16,880
and have We're not going to a break. We're going

1123
00:58:16,960 --> 00:58:19,360
to plow through here, Steven. Let's go ahead to our picks.

1124
00:58:19,400 --> 00:58:21,079
We only got one game. Which way are you going

1125
00:58:21,119 --> 00:58:21,920
to go in this one?

1126
00:58:22,199 --> 00:58:25,679
Speaker 3: Yeah? For me? Unfortunately, for air Force. I think that

1127
00:58:25,800 --> 00:58:28,920
this is going to be a tough, a tough loss.

1128
00:58:28,960 --> 00:58:30,760
I think that this is going to be another one

1129
00:58:30,800 --> 00:58:34,239
of these close games. I think Baylor uh pulls it

1130
00:58:34,280 --> 00:58:38,400
out late. I think that as unless there's a turnover

1131
00:58:38,480 --> 00:58:40,639
in the fourth quarter, I think the Falcons are going

1132
00:58:40,719 --> 00:58:43,119
to come up short. I'm going to say that that

1133
00:58:43,199 --> 00:58:48,280
Baylor wins this game twenty one to thirteen.

1134
00:58:49,559 --> 00:58:51,679
Speaker 4: You go a little bit closer than I am.

1135
00:58:52,320 --> 00:58:54,599
Speaker 2: I too, I do agree with you. I think Baylor

1136
00:58:54,679 --> 00:58:57,760
is going to be shown the better team. I think

1137
00:58:57,800 --> 00:59:00,159
they will be the better team on Saturday Night. I

1138
00:59:00,239 --> 00:59:02,039
like the bayel of Bears to the tune of maybe

1139
00:59:02,719 --> 00:59:06,360
twenty seven to ten a little bit more comfortably. I

1140
00:59:06,400 --> 00:59:08,760
guess I've got so many questions about this Air Force

1141
00:59:08,800 --> 00:59:13,000
offense right now. What can they do, especially David andwho

1142
00:59:13,000 --> 00:59:15,599
specializes in defense. Clearly they don't have a week off

1143
00:59:15,599 --> 00:59:17,519
to prepare, but you know that they've spent some time

1144
00:59:17,639 --> 00:59:20,000
during the off season, like most every team does. When

1145
00:59:20,079 --> 00:59:22,039
you know you're getting ready to play a service academy,

1146
00:59:22,360 --> 00:59:24,760
you usually have a couple of triple option days where

1147
00:59:24,800 --> 00:59:28,039
you work on that in the spring. So they saw

1148
00:59:28,039 --> 00:59:29,760
it just a couple of years ago, so it's not

1149
00:59:30,440 --> 00:59:33,199
that foreign to them. But I, like you said, I too,

1150
00:59:33,280 --> 00:59:36,360
like Baylor, I'm going twenty seven to ten. All right, Stephen,

1151
00:59:36,400 --> 00:59:38,159
let's get out of here before we do just you know,

1152
00:59:38,159 --> 00:59:40,079
as I mentioned during the TMF on a roll segment

1153
00:59:40,119 --> 00:59:43,639
obviously September of the eleventh, this week, you know, we

1154
00:59:43,760 --> 00:59:48,280
all stop and pause. You know, heroes, you know, come

1155
00:59:48,320 --> 00:59:51,440
in many different uniforms, not just military, as I mentioned

1156
00:59:51,519 --> 00:59:54,719
during TMF, but so many people that played such a

1157
00:59:54,760 --> 00:59:59,039
vital role in our nation's history that day, especially if

1158
00:59:59,039 --> 01:00:03,000
you're in New York, Pennsylvania, the Pentagon, other places. But

1159
01:00:03,320 --> 01:00:06,280
I know it, you know, somebody knew that served in

1160
01:00:06,280 --> 01:00:09,079
the military, Steve and so many others protecting our freedom.

1161
01:00:09,760 --> 01:00:11,280
This is this is a time, and this is a

1162
01:00:11,280 --> 01:00:13,199
week where we all just stand and pause. No matter

1163
01:00:13,199 --> 01:00:16,239
how far away it gets, it still feels like yesterday

1164
01:00:16,280 --> 01:00:17,079
for a lot of us.

1165
01:00:17,920 --> 01:00:20,719
Speaker 3: Yeah, it certainly does. It's amazing to think that it's

1166
01:00:21,320 --> 01:00:26,639
now twenty three years, almost almost a quarter of a

1167
01:00:26,679 --> 01:00:31,039
century since that day, and you know, for some people

1168
01:00:31,679 --> 01:00:35,280
it's it's certainly a very fresh experience in their minds,

1169
01:00:35,360 --> 01:00:38,320
and for those of us that we're serving at that time.

1170
01:00:38,599 --> 01:00:40,880
It's certainly day that none of us will forget either.

1171
01:00:41,320 --> 01:00:44,360
Speaker 4: Absolutely well, said Stephen. Well, we appreciate all of you.

1172
01:00:44,440 --> 01:00:47,920
Speaker 2: We appreciate Mike Lovell, our friend, our former co host

1173
01:00:47,920 --> 01:00:51,039
here at Yards and Stripes, Army alum. I appreciate you,

1174
01:00:51,159 --> 01:00:53,599
Steve for catching up with him and bringing us that

1175
01:00:53,679 --> 01:00:56,800
interview this week. Appreciate all the hard work you do

1176
01:00:57,719 --> 01:01:00,159
putting this thing together. And appreciate all our listeners obviously

1177
01:01:00,199 --> 01:01:02,960
for investing their time. Whether you're Army, Navy, Air Force fan,

1178
01:01:03,119 --> 01:01:05,880
parent alum, one of the schools, just a fan of

1179
01:01:05,920 --> 01:01:09,000
college football, we appreciate you. Tell a friend, let them

1180
01:01:09,039 --> 01:01:11,400
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1181
01:01:11,440 --> 01:01:14,239
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1182
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1183
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1184
01:01:16,880 --> 01:01:20,480
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single week. All right, Steven, let's do it man, Let's

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enjoy the game. I know we got a lot of

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others dot in the schedule. It will be college football

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wall to wall this weekend, but great to talk to you.

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We will do it again next week.

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Speaker 4: My friend.

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