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Now Here are your hosts, Bryce Atkinson and Steve Carney the.
Speaker 2: Arts and Stripes your home for Service Academy Football, episode seven.
As we are part of the Last Word on Sports
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Speaker 3: I am Pryce Atkinson.
Speaker 2: More importantly, he is Stephen Carney, and we and I say,
we are in the dog days of hurricane season.
Speaker 3: And let me tell you some folks, it is not fun.
Speaker 2: As Stephen carried the ship last week without me, as
I was recovering without power and from Hurricane Helen. In
the previous week we recorded while I was watching the rain,
Stephen was watching the rain. We were waiting for Helene
to come roaring in. And now tonight, as we sit
here on Tuesday evening, Stephen is on the precipice of
a monster in Hurricane Milton coming shore in central Florida
long the Tampa coastline. Steven, I'll know is to say,
after seeing that baby, when I see meteorologists crying on television,
when I see who is it? The mayor say, if
you're an evacuation zone and don't leave, you will die.
And I see other things of that kind of totality
where meteorologists or like speechless.
Speaker 3: And those kind of things.
Speaker 2: I add those things up to say, holy cow, this
is gonna be a big.
Speaker 4: En Yeah, this is gonna be one that's gonna go
down to the record books for sure. And thankfully this
thing is starting to track a little further south than
what they had initially expected. So for both of us
in the Tampa region, that's good news because we should
be on the north end of this storm. That may
be where all the rain is, but the storm surge
is what's going to be the doozy for this one.
You know, you're looking at ten to fifteen feet of
storm surge, is what they're saying if you're on the
southern edge of this, and that's going to be Our
friends a little further south in Sarasota and in Port
Charlotte and even down into Fort Myers should have some
have a doozy of storm search here coming up here
the next day or two. But as for me, I'm
lucky that my mother has this condo. It is in
a non flood, nonivag zone. It's forty six feet above
sea level and we're three stories above that. So it's
worked out well that the four of us are going
to be hunkered down, and it's a good thing. I'm
going to get to do this one here this week
because they're saying that if the power goes out, it
might be a week or so before we get power back.
You know all about that, So I'm going to get
to live through that here probably coming up to the
next day or so.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it certainly was not fun. But let me just
first say number one, thank you, thank you for last
week and flying solo, because I know it's you know,
doing talk radio podcasts never always the easiest thing to
fly solo, but I know when you got a lot
to say in a lot of opinions, especially on these
three topics Army, Navy, and Air Force, it's a little
bit easier to do. However, I just appreciate you, you know,
going the extra mile as you are the producer, extraordinary
co host many many other things on the Last Word
on Sports podcast Network. And let me take it a
step further just to say god speed, because certainly anybody
that's anybody has got an eye open knows what's kind
of what's what's heading this way.
Speaker 3: With Milton.
Speaker 2: So we're praying for you and your family, and just
thank god you've got a secure place to be down
there in your mom's condo, which is you know, I
would I think you had told me is one of
the highest elevation points above sea level in the greater
Tampa area.
Speaker 3: So godspeed, friend.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm gonna We're gonna need it, that is for sure.
But hopefully you know they're in some of these storms,
like with Helen that came through a couple of weeks ago.
We didn't lose power, which is always a good thing
when you want to watch football, and we I at
least got a chance to watch a couple of very
very good matchups put in on two different televisions between
Army and Tulsa, and of course the first leg of
the Commander in Chief Trophy series between Navy and Air Force.
A couple of incredible matchups and a couple of very
big wins. As I was joking with somebody, you know,
if you're if you're a fan of meat loaf, the
last couple of weeks have been really good because when
it comes to the service academies, it's been two out
of three winners and as meet LOFs likes, as Metloaf
likes to say, that ain't bad, and we got that
opportunity here this week. We'll start with, of course Army
with a huge win over Tulsa forty nine seven as
they go to Oklahoma and emerge with the victory to
get to five and zero in the American or five
and overall four to zero in the American And you
know what, I don't know how many more times priced
we're gonna be able to talk about just how incredible
Bryson Daily is because he had just another whale of
a game. You know you're looking at in the air,
a perfect day through the air, five of five, one
hundred and forty yards and two touchdowns. Oh yeah, and
then by the way, also ran the ball thirteen times
for one hundred and ten yards and two more scores.
I mean, you know we're gonna be talking about when
when we're looking at the scoring leaders in major in
FBS college football this year, I think that you know,
Daily is probably gonna end up being one of the
top two or three players in college football this year
when it comes scoring wise, with all of the touchdowns
he's scoring.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Steven, You're totally right.
Speaker 2: Bryce and Daily just continue to spectacular play, accounting for
four touchdowns I mean, five for five on through the air,
two scores, ran thirteen times for one ten two touchdowns.
Speaker 3: I mean.
Speaker 2: Army now off to his best start since nineteen ninety
six and has the longest winning streak in the nation
after Missouri Throttles A and M. But you know, as
much as you know Blake Horvath is getting a lot
of ink for what he's doing for the Naval Academy
under center boy Bryson Daly has been every single bit
is good so far in this young season as Army
throttles themselves Tulsa forty nine to seven five and zero,
four and zero in their first season in the American
I don't know what more you can expect, but Bryson
Daily is sure. He is the straw that is stirring
that drink and the reason why Army is off to
this incredible start.
Speaker 3: Stephen, unbelievable.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they really are. And you think about, you know,
all of the pundits when they start looking at the
the the strength of the group of six, uh, you know,
and when they when they go okay, who's the strongest
of these group of six teams when you are looking
at possibilities in the college Football Playoff, and right up
at the top of every single one of them that
I've seen over the last two weeks, you have seen
Army and that that's a that's a testament to Todd
Mounkin and everything that he's been able to do to
get his team going. Uh and have such this strong
start in the American this year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, it's well, we'll start obviously Army and Tulsa.
We'll get to Navy and Air Force in a second,
the first leg of the c I see trophy. But
let's knock Army in Tulsa out because you know Army, look,
Rice and daily is the reason.
Speaker 3: But how about this Army defense.
Speaker 2: They haven't given up more than two touchdowns in a
single game all season. And it continues with a throttling
of Tulsa forty nine to seven again this time it's
on the road, and you know, just spectacular play offensively
but also by the Army defense. They're doing it both ways,
front way, sideways, forward offense defense. There's really nothing that
Army is not doing well right now. And you've got
a credit Jeff Munkin. You know, in the turnaround, I
guess if you want to call it a turnaround, you know,
and certainly you know Navies going through their own but
you know, especially a turnaround when they're in the conference
for the first time and they can't really control that
schedule that they've done so well over the last few seasons.
But my goodness, you know, forty nine to seven, you know,
they hop on them, you know, early, and they don't
look back, especially after a seven to seven quarter. They
score two touchdowns in the in the second and then
build on it in the third, and that's where it
came to end. But you know the fact that Army
was so efficient in this one, you know, only having
eight third downs, you know, that's not something you see
very often. Were an option team only has eight third downs,
they converted half of them, and plus they converted on
their one four down. But just amazing, really, especially they're
only having the ball thirty five minutes. That tells you
what quick strike in big plays. You know, Army was
all about this game. Stephen, Yeah, you.
Speaker 4: Think about it normally if you look at college football
in the same way as college basketball. You know, Bob
Knight used to say at Indiana he wanted to make
as many free throws as his opponents attempted. And you
think about it, Tulsa, you know, converted eight of their
third downs out of seventeen, so you know, the Golden
Hurricane had plenty of time on offense. But you look
at what Army was able to do. They out passed Tulsa,
which is an incredible stat to see one hundred and
sixty hundred and nine. But they're rushing for the Black
Knights out they outrushed the entire offense for Tulsa, both
rushing and passing. Uh, So there was there was a
really an incredible efficiency I think it's the right word
for this, uh to to Armi's offense. You know, not again,
not a whole lot of long drives, uh. You know,
throughout the game they only had I think one or
two drives that were in double digits again this week,
but they were able to put the ball in the
end zone pretty much every time they touched it. And
that's a that's a credit to coach Monkin's offense and
and really uh the play calling there they were. They
were really fantastic again this week.
Speaker 3: Yeah, an efficient name of the game.
Speaker 2: Noah Short He catches three of the five Brice and
Daily passes, you know, the slot back three catches one
hundred and twenty one yards. Two of those three catches
were for touchdown. Steven and then Kanye Udo he leads
the way on the ground. He only carried it six times,
but for one thirty seven and two scores. Boy, that's
getting it done, Steven.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that that is certainly getting it done. When you're
averaging twenty two yards per carry, you want to you
would hope that you would get twelve or fifteen carries
and not just six. But you know, even with six carries,
you're you're close to one hundred and fifty yard mark
when you're doing that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like you said, you know, there's a lot of
people now that are looking at Army and Navy maybe
as the two group of five teams, like, you know,
are these going to be?
Speaker 3: Could could these be?
Speaker 2: You know two of our two of our teams that
we're looking at on New Year's Day? Because you know,
when you look at the polls right now, you got
Army or at least Nay right now is sitting twenty eighth.
If you're counting the votes, you know, in the ap pole,
and Army is right behind them at twenty nine, and
you flip it vice versa, Army's twenty eight in the
coaches poll while Navy's just behind them at twenty nine
in the coaches pole. So right now, boy, these two
teams are really setting themselves up for, you know, something big,
and I know everybody, the storyline just continues to kind
of grow Steven a little bit more and more. And yes,
I've said it right here, it's not going to happen.
And I will stand by it that Army and Navy
will not playing back to back weeks. I just still
don't think they'll play both play against each other in
the American Athletic Championship Game and then have to come
back the following weekend in a regular season game in
the Army Navy game. I just don't see it. But
my god, how fascinating would that be if it transpired.
I mean, it would be one of the all timers
in college football if we do get it.
Speaker 3: But I'm just saying.
Speaker 5: If, yeah, it's a it's a huge If Navy's schedule
is a lot tougher than Armies because Army doesn't have Tulane.
Speaker 4: Army didn't have Memphis, Army doesn't have us F, And
I think those are gonna be three really tough matchups
for the midshipmen. That are all. You know, they were
able to get past Memphis, but they still have to
play Tulane, they still have to play us F, and
that's before the conference championship game. So I think it's
gonna be really tough for Navy, maybe a little less
so for Army because I think the toughest remaining games
on their schedule are of course the non conference game
against noorded Dame, and I think they play UTSA, and
I think I think those that's it for Army. I
think army schedule certainly lends them to having a better
shot at this than Navy does.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think definitely Navy's win over Memphis right
now is without a doubt, the best win between the
two teams. But as you said, both are gonna play
Notre Dame. Yes, it's going to be out a conference,
it's not a conference game. I mean, theoretically it likely
doesn't knock either of them out because they likely both
lose to Notre Dame.
Speaker 3: We don't know that.
Speaker 2: I mean, especially the way Navy and Army are playing,
they could both you know, get a win in that
game and you know, really shock the world as they
barrel down the stretch with that.
Speaker 4: You know, Vanderbilt could beat Alabama.
Speaker 2: Absolutely well, one hundred percent absolutely what we saw with that, anything,
anything is possible. All right, Steven, Let's pivot to the
first leg of the Commander in Chief Trophy, because, as
we've been talking and alluding to, Army and Navy now
both five and oh for the first time together since
nineteen forty five. And that's because obviously Army beat Tulsa
forty nine to seven. Well, maybe they go to Colorado
Springs and they beat the Falcons thirty four to seven.
Maybe now five and oh, two and oh in the
American Air Force just dying looking for a win anywhere
after that Merrimaca win and the opener, they've lost four
straight Air Force now one and four.
Speaker 3: Navy wins it.
Speaker 2: And this is kind of hard to believe, but the
Navy wins its first CIC game, Steven, since what twenty
twenty one. Now they're five and oh for the first
time in two thousand and since twenty seventeen, and this
was the first win in Colorado Springs for Navy since
twenty twelve. Stephen, But you know, after you know, both
these teams feel each other out three and out three
and oh sorry, three and outs on their first possession.
Maybe then revs it up on that next possession, and
you know, maybe really honestly did not look back from theirs.
They went on to cruise thirty four to seven, and
just Air Force had no answer for the midshipman offensive attack,
and honestly they had no answers after a week off
to try and get their offense jump started. There was
nothing there offensively for the Falcons either in Navy's win.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm curious to get your thought on this price.
And I said this in last week show that you know,
if I'm Mayby, I had to going into this game.
You looked back at what happened last year between the
Air Force and Army. You know, air Force came into
that game eight to oh at home. They were they
were certainly flying high. They certainly felt like they were
going to be in the driver's seat for the Mountain
West Championship at that point. And Army came into Colorado
springs and beat them up and basically punched them in
the mouth and said, no, no, little brother, you're you're
not You're not coming out of here nine and zero.
And they end up with a huge win in that
game and really sent air Force into a downward spiral
for the rest of their regular season. They basically fell apart,
didn't get another win into their bowl game against James Madison.
And so I'm curious that I would I would love
to have been able to ask coach youuber, if that game,
even though it didn't involve maybe if they looked at
that and said, does it matter that we're four and
oh and air Force one in three? You can't take
them lightly. You've got to go in there to their
house and punch them in the mouth. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And that's what Navy did, because boy, I mean
it was they punched him in the mouth. And you know,
Nybe goes up fourteen to oh in that first quarter,
and that was it. You know, maybe just looked like
a really well oiled machine. They didn't look like they
missed any single beats. And obviously, you know Troy Calhoun Stephen,
he tried to pull a few strings there with the
off week and starting Quintin Hayes, the sophomore out of Alabama,
who had really played sparingly competed, completed five or six
for one hundred and fifteen and a touchdown.
Speaker 3: But that was it.
Speaker 2: I mean that that was simply all she wrote. And
his air force could only muster one hundred and fifty
eight yards on the ground, and you know, had a
lot of guys carry the football. But you know, maybe
they outgained the Falcons big time four sixty three. The
two seventy three time of possession was pretty even. But
Navy again played turnover free football. They had a few mistakes,
you know, here and there. But Eli heiden Wright, first
Navy player and this is hard to this is hard
to believe. And I know it was reported after the
game that it had happened before, but Scott Strasmayer, the
Navy sid uh, he correct everybody. I think it was
Monday this week. Eli heiden Wright, the Naval Academy receiver,
first Navy player ever in school history to go over
one hundred go over one hundred yards rushing and receiving
in the same game.
Speaker 3: And to me, that's kind of hard to believe that
it's never.
Speaker 2: Happened once before, especially with a lot of the slot
backs and the explosive offenses that Navy and has had
over the years. Like I would you know think a
guy like you know, even like a like a Malcolm
Perry before he got moved to quarterback may have done
it or somebody like that. But nonetheless it has not
happened until uh, Eli heiden Wright did it you know
this past weekend and did it in a CIC game.
Speaker 3: Is Navy now has the.
Speaker 2: Leg up and steven for those scoring at home for
when Navy has gone on to win, you know, a
win over Air Force for Navy, they've then gone on
to win the Commander in Chief Trophy eleven of the
last twelve times.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was very surprised to hear that Phil McConkey
had never done it. The Napoleon McCallum had never done it.
You know, You've looked at some of these guys that
have played at the at the highest level of football going,
you know, even at the professional ranks. You would think
they would have done that in college. And the fact
that you know, you go back to eighteen ninety and
they've never done that's that's an incredible incredible feat to
have done. So definitely you get a Bravo Zulu for
me on that.
Speaker 2: Well, Navy thirty four to seven over Air Force in
the first leg of the Commander in Chief Trophy Nybe
five and zero A for now one and four desperately
searching for a win. Stephen game balls before we get
to the upcoming games. This next weekend, we got a
Travis mannon Foundation on a roll segment.
Speaker 3: We got some picks to make. But you know, in
terms of game ball, which way you want to go
with yours?
Speaker 4: Well, I've said all along that you could give a
game ball every week to Brace and daily, you can
give a game ball every week to Blake Corvat. This week,
I am going to go with Kanye Udo for his
twenty two and a half yards on average six carries,
one hundred and thirty seven yards and two touchdowns in
the Black Knights win over Tulsa.
Speaker 2: How about you, Well, it's like we just talked about,
it's hard to go against Eli Heinrich setting some kind
of history like he did with carrying the ball six
times for one hundred yards and catching five passes for
one hundred and one in the first leg of the
Commander in Chief Trophy and Hide and Wright doing some
special things for the Naval Academy this year, as it
was Navy's first win over Air Force since twenty nineteen
and their first in the spring since twenty twelve, the
most points they had scored in Colorado spring since nineteen
seventy eight. But you know, Heidenich named the Paul Horning
National Award, you know, Player of the Week was also
named the Naval Academy Athlete of the Week at the
DC Touchdown Club College Player the weak, I mean, the
accolades just don't in there, Steven, because heiden Reich is
you know, he's doing at all for Navy, and you know,
just get the man the dagum ball. So Eli heiden Wright,
the junior, he gets my game ball this week. And
like you said, I'm with you. You can almost give
a game ball every week to Blake Corbath or Bryce
and Daily for what they're doing and you know, just
outstanding stuff. Jackson Campbell too, I'll just throw this in there.
Not is an honorable mention, but he receiving some national accolades.
You know, this past week he had a big game
for the Naval Academy in the center of that defense.
As let me pull it up right here. He was
named the American Athletic Defensive Conference Week yep two Sacksted. Yeah,
I mean Jackson Campbell was big time. So you don't
want to just always go offense every week, and I
know we don't do that, but just bears repeating that.
You know, especially these two teams, they're not just doing
it on offense. Both these teams defensively are getting it done.
We'll give you some of those statistics probably next week,
because I think that's when things will really start settling in,
you really get an idea of how good a team is,
especially with some national rankings. But Stephen, when come back,
we got two games to look at. Navy is going
to be off this week, they have their bye week
coming up. We got our Travis Manning Foundation hon a
Roll segment. We're gonna make some picks, man for our
two games. We'll do it here just as second as
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you're working overtime, man. You got Hurricane Milton barreling down,
but you're still getting shows out. Get off my pylon.
We got so much more on the last word on
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Speaker 1: The latest with Navy, Army and Air Force on Yards
and Stripes Service Academy Football.
Speaker 2: All right, welcome back in as we wrap up episode
seven of Yards and Stripes. You're home for Service Academy Football.
Stephen Carney out Price Sackinson. Thanks to Travis Mannon Foundation,
we're working with us again. This season as we highlight
fallen heroes who have given the ultimate sacrifice. And speaking
of ultimate sacrifices, I don't know it was not the
ultimate sacrifice, Stephen, but will you and I just sacrificed
about an hour of time on both of our parts,
combined with the negative upload speed, the awful upload speed,
trying to do this from hot spots as we are
recovering from Hurricane Helene and you were preparing for Hurricane Milton.
So let's just call this the hurricane episode. That was
a painful upload, and our listeners will not even begin to.
Speaker 3: Understand what the last hour was like for us.
Speaker 2: But you know what we deliver on the show, and
we delivered in a big way for that first opening
segment of the show. Yep.
Speaker 4: And not only that, we're gonna be able to go
about two hundred miles an hour through this Cat five style,
Yes we are.
Speaker 2: So we've got two games this coming week and we're
gonna pick them both right now without further ado. Our
first one UAB at Army on Saturday at twelve noon
kickoff on the CBS Sports Network UAB one and four
OHO and two in the American Army obviously, we told
you earlier five and oh four to oh in the
American Army a twenty five and a half point favorite.
Steve over under in this one is fifty five and
a half. I don't think you see Army losing at home.
I sure as heck don't see him losing to the
fight Trent Dilphers.
Speaker 4: No, not at all. You've got a team that got
beat up by Navy forty one eighteen two weeks ago
at home. This week they've got to go on the
road to West Point. I think that while the fighting
Trent Dilphers as we like to call them, might be
a little more prepared for what a service academy style
offense looks like, there is absolutely no way that they
can hang with this team. Trent Dilfer is like one
bad game away from being fired as the head coach
in Birmingham. It really is that bad right now for
the Blazers, and I have a feeling that this game
might be it for him. I think that there is
every chance that Army hangs a fifty burger or more
on them. I would say this is probably fifty two
to seven that Army wins this game. Wow, they are
that bad and Army is that much better than they are?
Speaker 3: Dude. We were very very close.
Speaker 2: We were a field goal off because I'm going Army
fifty five to ten. That is incredibly close, especially in
a very lopsided game. So we like Army a lot
to a little. All right, let's barrel through to our
next one, Steven to save the brevity of life on
upload speed and getting this last segment uploaded into the
queue and you producing this for our outstanding listeners. Air
Force at New Mexico both these teams one and four overall.
Air Force zero to two in the Mountain West. New
Mexico is oh to one in the Mountain West. This
one is a Saturday seven pm Eastern Standard Time kickoff
on True TV. Yes, March Madness fans, you're gonna if
you want to go find True TV once again. If
you're an air Force fan, you better start looking on
your dial because I think this might be the only
time in the sports calendar outside of March Madness you've
got something decent on True TV.
Speaker 3: New Mexico is giving six and a half.
Speaker 2: Points over Under fifty four and a half is the
fright the fight in Bronco.
Speaker 3: Menden Halls.
Speaker 2: They got to win in their last time out against
rival New Mexico State fifty to forty in a game
steven that had over a thousand yards of total offense.
Speaker 4: Yeah, man, and I have a feeling that this game
could probably rival that, at least on one side. I mean,
the New Mexico New Mexico State game, as you mentioned,
was rather even when it came to offense, it was
I think it was like six hundred to four hundred,
so that the Lobos had over the Aggies. I have
a feeling that New Mexico can get this as six hundred.
I don't see how air Force can picked the four
hundred in this game, but I do think it's probably
going to be less than the ninety points that were
put up in that game. I do see a big
day though from the Lobos. I'm gonna say forty to fourteen.
I think they beat I think they beat air Force.
And really, for Troy Calhoun, it's another it's gonna be
another weekend. We're just gonna have to scratch his head
and we wonder how he's gonna devise an offense.
Speaker 2: Well, it's a headline I saw. I don't remember where
I saw it. But has Troy Calhoun run out of
his magic Colorado Springs? And certainly those kind of questions
get brought up when a team is struggling, it doesn't
matter where you are, but especially when you've had incredible
success with the longevity that Troy Calhoun has had in
the Springs. And I'm like you, I don't think that
air Force is going to find a way to win
get a win in this one. I think brockomenden Hall
and his team, coming off the win over the rival
of New Mexico State, I think they're going to continue it,
especially this game being played in Albuquerque. You like forty
two to fourteen, I'm thinking, you know, maybe a touch
tighter thirty five to thirteen. I just don't see where
air Force. Where the points are going to come from
from air Force in this game. They haven't shown the
ability to run the football with any kind of consistency
all season, much less score and go score for score
with anybody. So I just don't see any way that
the Falcons can go into Albuquerque.
Speaker 3: And pull off a win.
Speaker 2: But then again, you reminded me earlier Vanderbilt did it
to number one Alabama, So look in this world right
now that we're living in with college football, anything is possible.
Just ask a Commodore fan, Steven. Let's get out of here.
All I'm gonna say is godspeed, God be with you
and your family. With Hurricane Milton on the way, you
or will be in all.
Speaker 3: Our thoughts and prayers. Man, just hang tough and hang
in there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I appreciate it, and hopefully you know, at least
for us here in the Tampa Bay region, usually our
our power comes on after a couple of days, you know.
I think the longest I was without power, I think
was six days, and that was in Hurricane Jean back
in two thousand and four, I believe. So it's been
it's been a while since we've lost power for a
significant amount of time, like more than a week. So
we hope that doesn't happen here this time. I want
to watch some football on Saturday. I certainly want to
watch Army and Air Sports this weekend, and I hope
that are our listeners enjoy the games as well.
Speaker 2: Absolutely well, look hang in there, buddy, We care about you.
Speaker 4: Know.
Speaker 2: There's nobody better than you on this side the last
word on Sports podcast Network. You are the best there is,
and we're certainly hoping for the best for you, for everybody,
and continue prayers for Western North Carolina because those people
are going through an awful lot and certainly know there's
a whole lot to come.
Speaker 3: For hopefully on a minimal scale.
Speaker 2: The folks there in Tampa with you, Steven, so.
Speaker 3: We will get out of here. We will say good luck,
thank you.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, enjoy the games this week, and stay safe if
you're anywhere in harm's way. We're just praying for all
our friends, all our listeners, and enjoy the games and
we'll talk to you next week.
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