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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 Yarns and Stripes Service

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Steve Carney.

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Speaker 2: All right, we got left off again on the Yards

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and Stripes here hope for service Academy Football, Army, Navy

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and Air Force. That is what we do. And he

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is Stephen Carney and I and Price Atkinson, and we

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appreciate you tuning in tonight as we are part of

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the College Gridiron Coast to Coast podcast network, also available

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at last Word on sports dot com. We got a big,

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big episode and show this week. Games to recap. We

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got finally Steven. Finally we got all three teams, no

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more bye weeks. We got all three teams back in

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action this coming week in our Travis Manian Foundation Honor roll,

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honoring a fallen hero. We've got some news and notes

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to pass along. We got picks to make at the end,

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all the fun stuff that we do here on Yards

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and Stripes Episode five. As we are rolling along here

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on the twenty twenty five college football season. But it

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is another well it's not a Tuesday, it's a Wednesday night.

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So we're going off kilter a little bit, but we

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still need a Poppy's Pizza report from young Stephen Carney

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to you know, tickle all our fancies into you know,

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make us all salibate with whatever time of day it

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is you're listening to this podcast, because as we all know,

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Stephen Carney loves to devour a good Poppy's pizza. What's

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on the toppings tonight?

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Speaker 3: It is absolutely true, and the Papa Yans is always

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on a Tuesday night, and especially now that hockey season

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has started. For me, baseball season is over, Hockey season

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started the very next day, which is perfect like it was.

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Speaker 4: I could not have thanked.

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Speaker 3: The National Hockey League and Major League Baseball for making

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my life any easier this year. I have no overlaps

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between my two main jobs, and so I was able

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to go straight from from baseball to hockey Tuesday night.

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Speaker 4: Always it's always pizza night.

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Speaker 3: We've got We've got a Papa Yon's right by the arena,

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and so I always go straight meat lovers on on

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Tuesday nights. And so thankfully for some of my partners

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that are with me, especially on road games. I've got

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three other people in the studio with me. I've got

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the the two pregame and postgame show hosts Eric Arlinson

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and and Bobby the Chief Taylor two times Stanley Cup champion,

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and my broadcast assistant Jerry Johnson. It's always about a

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Tuesday pizza night for the four of us. Uh when

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when we're on the road. Uh when when the team's

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on the road. When the team is home, we just

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go with whatever they have there for us because they

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provide the media meal for us. But on the road,

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it's always it's always about pizza Tuesdays, and it's always

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meat lovers because for the four of us, we all say,

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you know, we're all like midwestern types. I'm not from

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the Midwest, I'm from New England. I eat like a Midwesterner.

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My broadcast assistant Jared is from New York, but he

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eats like a Midwesterner. And then Eric is from Minnesota,

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he's obviously a Midwesterner. And Chief is from Western Canada.

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So they are meat potatoes. So we all say, if

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we if we wanted vegetables on our pizza, we'd get

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a salad.

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Speaker 2: All right, So did you get banana peppers? Though that's

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the question.

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Speaker 3: Know, No, banana peppers on my own pizza. I leave

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that for Emily.

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Speaker 2: Make sure EM's ears are closed when you spout that nonsense.

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I hope she's not within.

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Speaker 4: Shouting She is not within shouting distance. All right, that's good.

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Speaker 2: All right, we'll move along from Poppy's. We'll go from

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the pizza to the pig skin, from p to p

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We got games to recap, and we got two of it. Unfortunately,

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it was not the best of weekends for our Service

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Academy teams Army and Air Force, specifically falling at home

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in conference games. Let's start up at West Point, where

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Army was trying to get off the snide, especially when

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it comes to home games and their first conference game

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of the season. Another wild overtime game up there, but

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unfortunately the Black Knights they couldn't find a way. They

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first American loss for Army since twenty twenty three. After

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going undefeated en route to the American Conference Championship trophy

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last year, North Texas get goes in and gets a

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forty five to thirty eight overtime win. North Texas is

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now four and one to oher in the American and

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the Army dropping to one and two in North Texas

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at four and oh mark first time since twenty and eighteen,

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and it was a comeback that was oh so close,

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but Army just couldn't pull it off. But thanks to

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running back Caleb Hawkins, a freshman outstanding thirteen carries ninety

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nine yards for touchdowns, and then a sophomore Mackenzie McGill

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the second nineteen carries for him one hundred and one

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yards and oh yeah, quarterback Drew mesta Maker was pretty

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good to two hundred and forty nine yards and a

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touchdown is un t. They raced out to a big

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twenty one to nothing lead with a minute left in

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the first quarter, largely thanks to two Army quarterback Kate

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Hellam fumbles that the Mean Green converted into a pair

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of touchdowns, and then you and T they convert a

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second quarter Kate Hellum's interception to another score to go

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up twenty eight to seven. Was six thirty five left

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in the half, and then Steven the comeback was on

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Speaker 4: Yeah absolutely, you mentioned it.

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Speaker 3: Down twenty one to nothing, down twenty eight to seven,

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Speaker 4: They were down.

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Speaker 3: Thirty eight to twenty eight with three minutes to go

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in the game that usually is the death now for

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a Service Academy team. But you know, credit credit Hellams

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who came back into the game after being benched.

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Speaker 4: They brought in Dwayne Coleman and he.

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Speaker 3: Was very effective in the second half, but then he

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suffered another leg injury and they had to bring Helms

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back into the game, and Helms led them back down

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on the field twice to get the touchdown and then

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the game tying field goal. Unfortunately, on that final drive,

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they found themselves inside with goal to go and less

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than thirty seconds left to play, and they committed penalty

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and that backs them up and it forces them to

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instead of going for a touchdown and maybe getting the

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win in this game over North Texas, they end up

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having to kick the field goal. They tie the game

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at thirty eight thirty eight, Hawkins goes and scores a

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touchdown in overtime, Army cannot convert on fourth down. That

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proves to be the end of the game and unfortunately

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North Texas comes out with a victory.

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Speaker 4: I mean Army.

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Speaker 3: It's funny they are a one and they're now a

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one and two team, but their two losses are in

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We're both in overtime. By a grand total of ten

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points to teams that are now a combined seven and zero.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, there's nothing, you know, there's nothing to be

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ashamed of. The one thing that you want to be

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that I'm sure that Jeff Munkin is his team is

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ashamed of, is the sixth combined turnovers in those in

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those two losses in overtime, as you mentioned, and both

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at home. And that's what Jeff Munkin has talked about

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already this week, is trying to clean those up. And

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you know, as we all know, in service academy world,

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you cannot put the ball on the ground or give

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it to the give it to the other team like that.

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So you know, obviously that's got to be cleaned up.

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That's got to change. But is I think we saw

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Dwayne Coleman coming back and saying, hey, look you remember me.

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see what happens in terms of the quarterback position moving forward.

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certainly the jump start that Dwayne Coleman gave them throwing

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the ball and running the football. But here's something you

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don't see every day, Steven, You don't see in Granted, look,

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we know when you're a out of me team and

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you're running triple option, there're gonna be a lot of tackles.

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When was the last time you saw in a box

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score you saw four four guys from one team in

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double digit tackles. I don't think I've seen that in

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a very long time. As North Texas had three guys

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with eleven tackles and another with ten. That's a lot

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of freaking stops between four players that forty tackles. Granted

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they were combined, they weren't solo, but still that's not

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something you see every day. But at the end of

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the day, you know Army coming up short, and you know,

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somebody wrote me on Twitter said, look, this was one

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disappointing game because after kind of it felt like you

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handed the Tarletan State game away and then getting that

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big win on the road at Kansas State where you

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were flawless. What's amazing is is that you know they

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were Army was pretty much flawless in that game in

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the Little Apple, but then you come home and they

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were just mistake after mistake, So you know, really straighted

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and I think more of the frustration was the turnovers

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and then you know, losing at home in that first

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conference game first time in two years.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, And and three of those four guys that had

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double digit tackles, you know, Ethan Weslowsky, Patrick Smith, Young

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Shane Whitter all were in the back seven. So that

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meant that the that army was getting through the defensive line.

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the second who had ten tackles, he's a defensive lineman.

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h by his name, you know, a guy I think

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they call him the Slender. But uh yeah, but those

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those other three guys, and you mentioned you know, forty

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one tackles combined, you know, but they had was it

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for fourteen sixteen solo tackles between the between the four

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of them as well?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, it's h frustrating for the Black Knights, you know,

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you know, you're going to go through a few bump

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in the road after losing a couple guys to the

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transfer portal and obviously Captain America you know, Bryce and

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Daily gone. You know, it's still early, It's only three games,

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you know, like you said, you know, you got two

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teams that are combined seven to zero and you lost

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to them in overtime at home. So we'll see what

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happens as Armies back in action this weekend. But Army

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does fall forty five to thirty eight and overtime to

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North Texas Army now one and two oh to one

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in the American Let's move out west to Colorado Springs

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where Boise coming off a bye week, Boise State taken

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on air Force in Boise State's first mount Less Conference game.

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This was a second for air Force, but Air Force

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comes up short in this one, and really an incredible

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high scoring affair one that Air Force hung around for

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a while. They just gave up big too many big

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plays in this game. Steven. It was seemed like it

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was a big play after big play that did Air

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Force in as Boise State got a forty nine to

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thirty seven to win over the Falcons Boise State two

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to one one and ozer in them out less and

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air Force just like Army one and two overall, except

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there now zero and two in the league. But you know,

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air Force did taste, did taste the lead early in

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the game, jumping out to a seven to nothing start,

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but that was the only time they led. Is Boise

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State race passed the Falcons, thanks in large part to

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Broncos running back Dylan Riley five touchdowns. Ashton Gent's replacement,

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the sophomore Dylan Riley was outstanding. Nineteen carries one hundred

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and seventy one hundred and seventy one yards, four touchdowns

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on the ground and one through the air. As air

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Force they played keep up, but in the end it

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was just a little too much.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, in a seventy five yard touchdown pass that he

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got through the air from Maddox Madson and I had

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said before that game that I thought that Boise State

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would go as Madson went, and he had. He had

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a very serviceable game. I mean, thirteen of twenty three.

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He threw for two hundred and seventy six yards, He

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had the two touchdowns, did throw and interception. But he

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the third quarter, so I mean they were they were

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holding their own. It's just that the the talent side

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of Boise started to show at you know, as the

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game war on, you could tell they were deeper, they

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were more talented, and they ended up pulling away at

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that point. The one thing that I was really impressed

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with when it came when it or or I shouldn't

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Speaker 4: Too many penalties in this game.

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Speaker 3: You look at it, you know, most times you want

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to see the discipline show up when it comes to

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one interception, you know that that leads to that leads

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to trouble and six penalties for forty five yards I think.

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way more penalties than they did. I mean, twelve penalties

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for one hundred and seven yards. You know they have

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the talent to overcome that, and I don't think Air

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Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Liam Sarky getting his first career start thirteen to eighteen,

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two hundred and forty six yards and two touchdowns with

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a pick and then Dylan Carson throws in one hundred

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and nine yards on the ground, but it wasn't enough.

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And Kate Harris also you know another you know another

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big plays for air Force. I mean, they did the

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job offensively, but you got to get off the field

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and you got to get stops. Which is something that

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they did not do. Is is Boise was seven of

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ten seventy percent conversion rate on third downs. Got to

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get off the field on third down and that was

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one of the big undoings for air Force. But Air

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Force they do fall forty nine to thirty seven. Destroy

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Calhoun just like Jeff Bunkin trying to get this thing

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jump started this week, because you don't want to get

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in too big of a hole, especially early in the season.

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We know what happened last year with the Air Force

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when they finally dug it out, but that doesn't happen

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very often. Steven, gameball time. Let's pivot and give out

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game balls. And this is something I feel bad doing

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this man, because we usually like to keep it in

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house and keep it in the family. And I know

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there were some directions that we could go, but I

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just couldn't do it. I had to go with an

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opposing team, and I had to go with Dylan Riley

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because the Boise State running back, the sophomore taken over

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Ash and genty. When you put up five touchdowns in

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a football game and do it the way he did,

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which was just all world. One hundred and seventy one

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yards on the ground, eighty four yards receiving, including the

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seventy five yard touchdown pass that he caught, four on

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the ground, one through the air. You gotta tip your cap, man,

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and I gotta tip my cap to Dylan Riley because

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he was so dark good.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I was thinking of going with Caleb Hawkins for

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for the same reason. You know, thirteen carries ninety nine yards.

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He averaged almost eight yards of carry, he had the

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four touchdowns.

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Speaker 4: But I'm gonna pivot. I'm gonna pivot.

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna actually go into the same game with you,

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and I'm gonna go on the other side of the football.

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I Am gonna go with Kate Harris, the five eight

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senior from South Weber South Weaver, Utah uh. He had

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eight catches one hundred and seventy seven yards in this game,

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did not find the end zone, but did have a

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seventy four yard catch in this game. He's closing in

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on the amount of catches, yards and the like that

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he had last year combined. He only had twenty three

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catches last year in the season for three hundred and

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sixty eight yards. He's got thirteen catches now for three

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hundred and twenty three yards.

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Speaker 4: Wow, in three games.

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Speaker 3: So I don't I think that's that's pretty good a

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guy who's not very big. He's only five foot eight,

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So you know this is not a guy that's gonna

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Moss Moss guys. Uh but uh, but I love the fact.

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I love the grit and the tenacity that that he shows.

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 3: And so I'm gonna I'm gonna pivot from from what

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we talked about before the broadcast started, and I'm gonna

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go with Kate Harris. So We're both gonna go for

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the for that game between air Force and Boise.

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Speaker 2: And I'm a bad guy for doing it.

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Speaker 4: I feel like, no, five.

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Speaker 3: Five touchdowns is five touchdowns, So I think I think

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of Jamal Charles when I think of five touchdown games,

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and so, h no, no, you have to go.

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Speaker 4: You have to he had to be recognized.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you almost roll it. You're just shy of

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six hundred yards of total offense. And he was the

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the train driving the locomo. I mean he was the

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one doing it, so.

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Speaker 4: Ye, I don't know, he was the conductor.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no doubt. So I had to go with uh,

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I gotta go with Dylan.

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Speaker 4: Riley, No, we gotta. He certainly deserves it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, we got a lot more to do here, Steven.

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We've got three games to preview, we got picks, Travis

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Manning Foundation on a roll segment. We'll step away really quickly,

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but first let's tell our friends about the College Gridiron

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Coast to Coast Podcast Network, because whether it's Pig Skin

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and burt Ins, get off my pylon, Big ten paradigm big.

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I mean, look, there is something for everybody here at

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the College Gridiron Coast to Coast Podcast Network. Steven as

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the producer, as the MVP of this entire network, you

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gotta let everybody else know what's there because it's college

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football fans, which we are all are. If you're listening

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and we are producing and putting this thing together, there

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is something here for everybody in your family.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, and this week is a big one, of course,

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for a lot of these teams across the country. I mean,

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you've got some you've got some incredible games, on the

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slate here this week. I will tell you that so

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far this week with the folks, Big Ten Paradigm were

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first up this week. Obviously some huge, some huge games

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that went through last week. Of course Indiana beating the

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tar out out of Illinois, Michigan dominating Nebraska, and of

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course the big matchup Oregon and Penn State coming up

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as well, that is so.

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Speaker 4: Huge over in the ACC.

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Speaker 3: Obviously, Miami is the talk of the town this week

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in the ACC talking about that, but also about Virginia

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Tech and their struggles as well.

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Speaker 4: Get off my pylon.

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Speaker 3: Well they talk about the West coast, so it's a

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lot about Oregon and of course their matchup against Penn State.

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Pig Skin burnt ends covering Texas Texas Tech.

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Speaker 4: I don't I.

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Speaker 3: Didn't expect them to go into Utah and get the

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victory that they got this week, but they certainly did

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so a lot about that. And Arch Manning had himself

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an actual college football game this week, but you know,

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is it too early to say that he's back.

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Speaker 4: It was against Sam Houston State after all.

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Speaker 3: And then of course Florida Football Insiders the hot seat

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in Gainesville with Billy Napier and of course they might

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have the most brutal roads of the schedule coming up

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because they face They've got like Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, and

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Florida State coming up, and so yeah, they're I think

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Billy Napier is in big trouble and Jason Powers breaks

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that down this week.

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Speaker 2: I don't know who's in bigger trouble, Florida or Oklahoma

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with the schedule they got, with the schedules they have,

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in opponents they have remaining because they're both brutal. Check Out,

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record at ten o'clock on a Wednesday evening. God, he's

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making me hungry talking restaurants and pizza and Italian I

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just can't take it anymore. I'm gonna have to go

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raid the kitchen here before I go to Bedstea.

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Speaker 4: Sorry, madam.

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Speaker 3: It's the beauty of living in one of the greatest

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cities in the United States. I absolutely love Saint Pete,

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Florida for this, for this very reason. They've got great

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craft beer, They've got great restaurants. They've got just some

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awesome little dives and holes in the wall that you

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never would expect. And when you find them, you hold

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on to them and you just clutch as hard as

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you can and you say, this is mine. And so

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we were talking about certain pizza joints and Italian markets

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and Jewish delis during the break and yeah, so now

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I think we're both free.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna trade Greenville, South Carolina in and head

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down to Saint Pete here.

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Speaker 3: Hell, I don't know if you can trade Greenville, South Carolina.

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But you know, I, my my lovely bride has been

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to Greenville, South Carolina. I have not, and so and

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she raves about how great Greenville, South Carolina is. So

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maybe maybe you'll you may have to come come visit,

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but I'm gonna have to come visit that way as well.

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Speaker 2: All Right, I got some hot spots for you, you

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got hot spots for me. We'll do a fair trade

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because I do think we could scratch each other's back

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and be even Steven, no pun intended by the time

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we finished the food trade off. All right, Steven, let's

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get to some games because we got to do it quickly.

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And the reason being is we got a game tomorrow night,

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being Thursday night, and that's Army at East Carolina. Army

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one and two again oh to one, looking for their

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first American Conference win. Is East Carolina two and two,

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but this is their first conference game seven thirty kickoff

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on Thursday on the Big Network ESPN. East Carolina is

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a four and a half point favorite. Over under is

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fifty three and a half. Thursday Night football for the

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Black Knights in Greenville, North Carolina is Sports Center Campus

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will be on site broadcasting from downtown Greenville in the

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afternoon while I understand it's country night in the student sections.

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Army is looking to try and go six to oh

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in their sixth straight appearance on esp They're six and

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zero in the last or five and oh in their

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last five games on ESPN. But they're gonna have to

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get past East Carolina, who fell last weekend to BYU

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at home thirty four to thirteen. Two costly turnovers late

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in the first half swung the momentum with the score

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six to three, but Blake Carroll's guided the Pirates to

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a seven and three marks that's taking over last October,

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including a five and one finish last season.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know this, This East Carolina team kind of

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I kind of scratched my head about it because their

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two wins were definitely statement pieces. I mean, they gave

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up a combined three points and their two wins. Now,

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their two wins are against Campbell, which is not a

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Division one FBS school, and Coastal Carolina, which if Jamie

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Chatwell was still there might might be a little more impressive,

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but he isn't, so you know, coastal is not the

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coastal of you know, two or three years ago. So

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I look at those two wins and you kind of

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have to take them with a with a grain of salt,

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so to speak. But there are two losses. I didn't

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think we're that bad of losses either. And they lose

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in Raleigh to NC State. You know, NC State is

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00:25:19,240 --> 00:25:23,400
not uh, you know Miami uh, and it's not Florida State.

479
00:25:23,480 --> 00:25:28,119
But but it's still a power for conference school that

480
00:25:28,200 --> 00:25:33,920
you went into and you lose by a touchdown.

481
00:25:31,839 --> 00:25:34,319
Speaker 2: And you saw the end of it. If you saw

482
00:25:34,319 --> 00:25:35,880
the end of that game, real quick stephen, not to

483
00:25:35,920 --> 00:25:39,079
interrupt you. They were driving, I believe it was in

484
00:25:39,359 --> 00:25:41,599
They were definitely inside the twenty. I want to say

485
00:25:41,640 --> 00:25:43,960
they may have even been inside the ten yard line

486
00:25:44,200 --> 00:25:46,240
of the wolf Pack when they had a four down

487
00:25:46,279 --> 00:25:48,599
and I think they got called for a holding and

488
00:25:48,640 --> 00:25:52,519
that it was a personal foul, it was something. It

489
00:25:52,559 --> 00:25:55,559
was a live ball penalty and it was a turnover

490
00:25:55,720 --> 00:25:58,680
and NC State took over and survived. Please continue.

491
00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:02,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then you mentioned the loss at home UH

492
00:26:02,559 --> 00:26:06,240
to b YU last week. So you know this this uh,

493
00:26:06,519 --> 00:26:10,960
this team, this Pirates team being from the wrong Greenville.

494
00:26:11,720 --> 00:26:14,279
Speaker 4: As as I like to call Greenville North Carolina.

495
00:26:14,720 --> 00:26:17,000
Speaker 3: But you know they've had they've got They've got some

496
00:26:17,079 --> 00:26:22,039
pretty decent UH players on this team. Katean Houser, their

497
00:26:22,119 --> 00:26:26,119
quarterback has already thrown for over twelve hundred yards in

498
00:26:26,279 --> 00:26:30,400
four games. You know they've got they've got some pretty

499
00:26:30,440 --> 00:26:33,279
good wide receivers. I think that's going to be a

500
00:26:33,319 --> 00:26:36,240
tough matchup for the Black Knights is going to be

501
00:26:36,279 --> 00:26:38,599
out wide. I think that's where their struggle is going

502
00:26:38,640 --> 00:26:39,119
to come from.

503
00:26:39,279 --> 00:26:42,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, last season, if you remember, this was a big

504
00:26:43,319 --> 00:26:46,000
I mean it was a big watermark on the on

505
00:26:46,039 --> 00:26:49,559
the Army Black Knights season defeating East Carolina forty five

506
00:26:49,599 --> 00:26:52,279
to twenty eight because Bryce and Daily that historic performance.

507
00:26:52,359 --> 00:26:56,440
If you remember Steven six touchdowns, he scored six, five

508
00:26:56,519 --> 00:26:58,920
on the ground and threw for one to break the

509
00:26:58,960 --> 00:27:03,160
program single season and records for rushing touchdown and total

510
00:27:03,279 --> 00:27:07,480
touchdowns responsible for with the first six touchdown game by

511
00:27:07,599 --> 00:27:11,599
Black Knights. It's nineteen sixteen. So can they do it

512
00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:14,640
against East Carolina? We'll find out. But that game is

513
00:27:14,640 --> 00:27:16,559
tomorrow night. We won't have to wait long to see

514
00:27:16,559 --> 00:27:21,480
what will transpire. Army at ECU Thursday seven thirty ESPN

515
00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:24,640
East Carolina giving four and a half points over Under

516
00:27:24,680 --> 00:27:26,960
fifty three and a half. All right, let's pivot to

517
00:27:27,279 --> 00:27:30,200
the Naval Academy on Saturday. This one's going to be

518
00:27:30,240 --> 00:27:33,720
a three thirty kickoff Eastern Standard Time on the CBS

519
00:27:33,759 --> 00:27:38,519
Sports Network. Rice three and one steven, three and one

520
00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:42,680
one in zero in the American taking on Navy, which

521
00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:44,680
is three and oh two and oh in the American

522
00:27:44,720 --> 00:27:47,640
coming off the bye week. And if you know anything

523
00:27:47,799 --> 00:27:51,119
about Rice football, you know that this is one of

524
00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:55,400
the toughest jobs in all of America to win at.

525
00:27:55,960 --> 00:27:58,960
Is it doable, yes, but it is one of the

526
00:27:59,079 --> 00:28:02,720
hardest to get it done at. And Rice will try

527
00:28:02,759 --> 00:28:06,000
and do just that, get it done at Navy, as

528
00:28:06,039 --> 00:28:10,039
they're off to a great start this year. It's best

529
00:28:10,079 --> 00:28:13,279
start actually three and one since two thousand and one.

530
00:28:13,720 --> 00:28:16,039
And I believe that was in a game where Rice

531
00:28:16,119 --> 00:28:18,680
and Ken Hatfield came to Navy when I was still

532
00:28:18,680 --> 00:28:24,119
employed by the Naval Academy Athletic Association, So I do

533
00:28:24,200 --> 00:28:26,920
remember that Rice team. But Rice leads to all time

534
00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:30,359
series against Navy seven to six, including a twenty four

535
00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:33,720
to ten win in the last meeting November second of

536
00:28:33,799 --> 00:28:35,799
last year in a game that was marred by three

537
00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:39,319
lightning delays, almost three inches of rain for a total

538
00:28:39,359 --> 00:28:42,680
of five hours and six minutes, including two hours and

539
00:28:42,720 --> 00:28:44,880
twenty five minutes to start the game. But the Mids,

540
00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:47,720
they're two and two and gets Rice in games played

541
00:28:47,759 --> 00:28:52,119
in Annapolis, including a fourteen to thirteen win in their

542
00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:55,359
last meeting, which was way back in two thousand and four.

543
00:28:55,440 --> 00:29:01,119
But Navy trying to continue this outstanding start and under

544
00:29:01,119 --> 00:29:04,640
Brian Newberry, after getting it turned around last year, can

545
00:29:04,680 --> 00:29:06,839
they make it four and oh steven, Yeah.

546
00:29:07,079 --> 00:29:09,640
Speaker 3: And you look at what Scott Abell has been able

547
00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:13,119
to do for the Owls here in his first year

548
00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:16,319
as the head coach at Rice. And this is a

549
00:29:16,359 --> 00:29:21,000
guy that has come from the lower levels of college football.

550
00:29:21,079 --> 00:29:24,440
I mean, he spent six seasons as the head coach

551
00:29:24,480 --> 00:29:27,559
at Washington and Lee, which I believe is a Division

552
00:29:27,640 --> 00:29:32,359
two school, and then Davidson in you know, so the

553
00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:35,799
fight in Steph Curry's they actually do have a football team,

554
00:29:35,839 --> 00:29:38,960
and he was their head coach before there before coming

555
00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:42,160
to Rice this season. And what he is, what he

556
00:29:42,240 --> 00:29:46,359
is instilled in this OWLS team, They look very much

557
00:29:46,440 --> 00:29:48,640
like a Service Academy team because.

558
00:29:48,319 --> 00:29:50,799
Speaker 4: They like to pound the rock.

559
00:29:51,160 --> 00:29:54,599
Speaker 3: This is a team that is averaging almost two hundred

560
00:29:54,720 --> 00:29:57,119
and fifty rushing yards a game.

561
00:29:57,160 --> 00:30:00,240
Speaker 4: They are in the top fifteen in the country in.

562
00:30:00,240 --> 00:30:05,400
Speaker 3: Rushing yards, and they know how to control the line

563
00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:08,759
of scrimmage, they know how to control time of possession.

564
00:30:09,279 --> 00:30:13,000
This is going to be a real, real fun game

565
00:30:13,039 --> 00:30:17,559
to watch. And if you like smash mouth football, the

566
00:30:17,880 --> 00:30:20,480
old school three yards and the cloud of dust Woody

567
00:30:20,519 --> 00:30:22,359
Hayes style, I think you're going to see it in

568
00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:22,880
this game.

569
00:30:23,319 --> 00:30:25,759
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree with you. I totally agree with you,

570
00:30:25,839 --> 00:30:29,400
and yes, you're right. Well, actually, Washington Lee, where my

571
00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:32,920
sister got her law school degree or a law degree,

572
00:30:33,079 --> 00:30:36,640
they are, I believe a Division three team for football.

573
00:30:36,680 --> 00:30:40,160
I think they're non scholarship. But the Owls twenty six

574
00:30:40,240 --> 00:30:43,000
transfers on their roster and as you mentioned, they love

575
00:30:43,079 --> 00:30:46,359
to ground and pound. With Quinton Jackson and Dalen Alexander,

576
00:30:46,880 --> 00:30:49,359
the two headed monster is Rice is fifteenth in the

577
00:30:49,400 --> 00:30:51,720
country and rushing with two hundred and forty six point

578
00:30:51,759 --> 00:30:54,720
three yards a game, and like you said, they control

579
00:30:54,839 --> 00:30:58,039
the time of possession. They control the clock because Chase

580
00:30:58,319 --> 00:31:02,839
Chase Shenkins Red sh or the sophomore quarterback. It's done

581
00:31:02,839 --> 00:31:06,519
a great job this fall, completing thirty five of forty

582
00:31:06,519 --> 00:31:08,759
eight passes, which is not very much when you think

583
00:31:08,799 --> 00:31:10,559
about it, but he can beat you with his legs.

584
00:31:10,839 --> 00:31:14,279
But the big thing is Rice completing seventy four percent

585
00:31:14,279 --> 00:31:17,359
of their passes, six best in the FBS. They've only

586
00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:21,039
thrown one interception, and in terms of holding on to

587
00:31:21,160 --> 00:31:24,000
the football, they rank twelfth in the country. All just

588
00:31:24,079 --> 00:31:26,839
shy up. Thirty four minutes a game. Oh yeah, they've

589
00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:30,079
only turned it over two times. Two times too, Steven.

590
00:31:30,400 --> 00:31:33,400
That's a recipe for winning some pretty a lot of

591
00:31:33,440 --> 00:31:35,759
football games and being able to run it to get

592
00:31:35,799 --> 00:31:37,680
off the field on third down and being able to

593
00:31:37,720 --> 00:31:39,440
control the clock without turning it over.

594
00:31:39,640 --> 00:31:42,240
Speaker 3: And you are absolutely right. Washington LEEUE is a Division

595
00:31:42,319 --> 00:31:45,759
three school. Abell has gone to the playoffs five times

596
00:31:45,759 --> 00:31:49,960
as a head coach, which is so impressive for a

597
00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:53,160
guy that grew up as a baseball player. I mean,

598
00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:56,400
he was a pro baseball player that turned around and

599
00:31:56,440 --> 00:31:59,079
went into college and went into football coaching for a

600
00:31:59,319 --> 00:32:02,680
high school level, then to D three, then to FCS,

601
00:32:02,680 --> 00:32:05,920
and now finds himself at the top level. Granted, you

602
00:32:05,960 --> 00:32:08,799
know Rice's as you said, it's one of the hardest

603
00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:13,920
programs to be the head coach of because of the

604
00:32:14,039 --> 00:32:17,200
lack of success the Owls have had at this level.

605
00:32:17,279 --> 00:32:20,359
And really it has a lot to do with the

606
00:32:20,640 --> 00:32:24,400
admission requirements that they that they ask for. It is

607
00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:27,640
almost like a service academy school. It's it's that hard

608
00:32:27,640 --> 00:32:30,079
to get into Rice, and a lot of football players

609
00:32:30,359 --> 00:32:33,599
don't make the cut academically to get into Rice. So

610
00:32:33,680 --> 00:32:37,000
to have the success that he is having with the

611
00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:40,680
Owls is a great sign. And the fact is that

612
00:32:40,960 --> 00:32:43,799
he ain't a spring chicken. So if you're an if

613
00:32:43,880 --> 00:32:46,920
you're a fan of Rice football, you're probably gonna have

614
00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:49,160
this guy for a little while because I don't see

615
00:32:49,480 --> 00:32:51,799
some of these big programs going out and getting a

616
00:32:51,960 --> 00:32:54,720
fifty guy who's going to be fifty six years old

617
00:32:55,480 --> 00:32:58,000
to be a first time coach in a in a

618
00:32:58,039 --> 00:32:59,160
power for conference.

619
00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:02,640
Speaker 2: Can Navy keep it going? We will find out Saturday

620
00:33:02,680 --> 00:33:05,279
at three point thirty on the CBS Sports Network. Rice

621
00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:08,359
and Navy Navy a fourteen and a half point favorite

622
00:33:08,359 --> 00:33:11,519
there at Navy Marine Corps Memorial Stadium, moving out to

623
00:33:11,599 --> 00:33:16,119
Colorado Springs, where Hawaii is making the trip too. Air

624
00:33:16,160 --> 00:33:18,640
Force Hawaii three and two oh to one in the

625
00:33:18,640 --> 00:33:21,039
Mountain West. Air Force is one and two looking for

626
00:33:21,079 --> 00:33:23,680
their first conference win at oh and two. This is

627
00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:27,440
a four to ten Eastern Standard time kickoff on Fox

628
00:33:27,480 --> 00:33:30,160
Sports one. Air Force is a six and a half

629
00:33:30,160 --> 00:33:33,440
point favorite fifty three and a half or fifty three

630
00:33:33,480 --> 00:33:37,079
and a half over under air Force and Army meeting

631
00:33:37,119 --> 00:33:40,480
for the twenty fourth time overall. Twenty second is conference

632
00:33:40,519 --> 00:33:44,880
bos are. Air Force leading the overall series or fourteen

633
00:33:44,880 --> 00:33:48,359
to eight and one, including thirteen seven and one in

634
00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:52,400
the league. Air Force is also six and two against

635
00:33:52,440 --> 00:33:56,200
the Rainbows at home, but Hawaii did defeat Air Force

636
00:33:56,240 --> 00:33:59,240
in their last meeting twenty seven to thirteen in November

637
00:33:59,279 --> 00:34:04,440
of twenty three. You know, going across the country, we'll

638
00:34:04,440 --> 00:34:06,480
make our picks here in a little bit. You know.

639
00:34:07,279 --> 00:34:10,599
It's Hawaii just seems like a jeckel in Hide kind

640
00:34:10,639 --> 00:34:13,039
of Team Steven when they're not at home, when they

641
00:34:13,079 --> 00:34:15,599
have to hit the road and travel and obviously make

642
00:34:15,960 --> 00:34:19,599
these long trips. It's just as it's just kind of

643
00:34:19,599 --> 00:34:22,920
a it feels as you get a different football team.

644
00:34:23,079 --> 00:34:23,320
Speaker 4: Yeah.

645
00:34:23,400 --> 00:34:27,559
Speaker 3: Not only that, but unfortunately for Timmy Chang and the

646
00:34:27,639 --> 00:34:32,920
Rainbows this year. They are not a very good offensive team.

647
00:34:32,960 --> 00:34:35,599
There have been years that they have had, you know,

648
00:34:35,719 --> 00:34:38,320
the great passing attack. You know, you can go all

649
00:34:38,360 --> 00:34:41,639
the way back to when Chang was the quarterback at

650
00:34:41,679 --> 00:34:45,480
Hawaii back in the early nineties, you know, and when

651
00:34:45,599 --> 00:34:48,280
June Jones was there, and you would and you would

652
00:34:48,280 --> 00:34:51,239
have you know, it was so much funn and gun

653
00:34:51,480 --> 00:34:55,119
uh this year during those years, and and they've had

654
00:34:55,199 --> 00:34:58,760
that passing attack on and off over the over the years.

655
00:34:59,039 --> 00:35:03,119
This year is one of the off years unfortunately for Hawaii.

656
00:35:03,199 --> 00:35:07,079
They find themselves they're not scoring a lot of points

657
00:35:07,119 --> 00:35:10,280
in games. They are currently one hundred and first in

658
00:35:10,400 --> 00:35:14,800
Division one FBS College football in points scored per game.

659
00:35:15,440 --> 00:35:18,559
It's just over twenty two or just i should say,

660
00:35:18,599 --> 00:35:21,440
just under twenty three points per game, and they're giving

661
00:35:21,559 --> 00:35:24,840
up about as many. So, you know, and they find

662
00:35:24,880 --> 00:35:29,960
themselves near on the other side, near the top of FBS,

663
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:33,320
in the top sixty when it comes to points allowed

664
00:35:33,639 --> 00:35:37,760
in this game or in this season. So Hawaii, you know,

665
00:35:38,440 --> 00:35:41,719
they they've shown they really have a tough time stopping guys.

666
00:35:41,840 --> 00:35:45,239
They're having a hard time getting in the end zone themselves.

667
00:35:45,639 --> 00:35:48,280
They're having to settle for a lot more kicks than

668
00:35:48,320 --> 00:35:51,639
they are with touchdowns in the red zone. I think

669
00:35:51,679 --> 00:35:53,920
this is going to be very, very difficult. You saw

670
00:35:53,960 --> 00:35:58,000
what happened, you know, when Fresno State went out to

671
00:35:58,639 --> 00:36:02,079
Honolulu this week. They come away with a twenty three

672
00:36:02,159 --> 00:36:05,400
to twenty one victory in that game. This will be

673
00:36:05,719 --> 00:36:09,920
their biggest tests so far on the road and this year.

674
00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:13,679
And I really do think that, you know, apart from

675
00:36:13,920 --> 00:36:17,159
their game against Arizona, this might be the toughest opponent

676
00:36:17,199 --> 00:36:18,519
they have the rest of the season.

677
00:36:18,760 --> 00:36:23,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, air Force leading the Mountain lessons, scoring offense, rushing yards,

678
00:36:23,480 --> 00:36:27,599
yards per completion, third down percentage, and red zone offense.

679
00:36:27,639 --> 00:36:30,400
But I don't know if you knew this. I couldn't

680
00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:33,440
remember this until I saw this. But these two teams

681
00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:37,639
they played for the General Lawrence Couter Trophy. I don't

682
00:36:37,639 --> 00:36:39,239
know if I've got that if I'm saying that right.

683
00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:43,719
Cooter Cutter Ku T. E. R. Who is named the

684
00:36:43,760 --> 00:36:47,440
trophy is named after the first Pacific Coast Air Force Commander.

685
00:36:47,559 --> 00:36:50,360
It's a tribute to the friendship between Hawaiian Air Force

686
00:36:50,760 --> 00:36:54,119
and the cooperation between the people of Hawaii and their

687
00:36:54,159 --> 00:36:56,840
air force, and the trophy was conceived by the University

688
00:36:56,880 --> 00:37:00,440
Hawaiian sponsored by the Pacific Air Command in the Air

689
00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:04,320
Force Academy helped design the trophy that goes to the

690
00:37:04,360 --> 00:37:07,880
winner of the game between these two schools. Obviously, Hawaii

691
00:37:07,920 --> 00:37:10,639
holds the trophy from that twenty seven to thirteen win

692
00:37:11,079 --> 00:37:15,199
in Honolulu in twenty twenty three. But if this game

693
00:37:15,239 --> 00:37:16,760
could come down to a field goal, which I don't

694
00:37:16,800 --> 00:37:22,280
know if it will, Hawaii's kicker Kinsai Matt Suzawa leads

695
00:37:22,320 --> 00:37:25,559
the nation in field goal percentage. He's thirteen for thirteen,

696
00:37:26,880 --> 00:37:29,159
first in the mount Less and third nationally and with

697
00:37:29,320 --> 00:37:32,519
two and a half field goals per game. Air Force

698
00:37:32,519 --> 00:37:34,280
has got a couple streaks on the line. We'll see

699
00:37:34,280 --> 00:37:36,480
what happens. They've recorded at least two hundred and fifty

700
00:37:36,519 --> 00:37:40,320
yards rushing in three touchdowns in a mountain Less record

701
00:37:40,440 --> 00:37:44,159
seven straight games. And they extended the nation's longest active

702
00:37:44,199 --> 00:37:47,039
streak of one hundred yard rushing games to eighty eight

703
00:37:47,480 --> 00:37:51,239
with two hundred and sixty nine against Boise. So a

704
00:37:51,239 --> 00:37:53,880
couple of small streaks on the line. But we'll make

705
00:37:53,920 --> 00:37:55,440
some picks here in a little bit. Steven, what do

706
00:37:55,440 --> 00:37:56,039
you think.

707
00:37:56,400 --> 00:38:01,880
Speaker 3: You mentioned the Cooter Trophy and you mentioned the kicker there.

708
00:38:02,280 --> 00:38:06,719
The last time that this matchup between Air Force and

709
00:38:06,800 --> 00:38:10,440
Hawaii was DEI was decided by a field goal.

710
00:38:10,880 --> 00:38:12,920
Speaker 4: You have to go all the way back to nineteen

711
00:38:13,559 --> 00:38:14,559
ninety two.

712
00:38:14,840 --> 00:38:18,960
Speaker 3: Wow, when Hawaii beat Air Force six to three at

713
00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:24,920
Falcon Stadium in September of nineteen ninety two. This game

714
00:38:25,159 --> 00:38:29,920
either way is never close. You know, it's usually two

715
00:38:29,960 --> 00:38:33,719
touchdowns or more. Obviously, these two teams played two years

716
00:38:33,760 --> 00:38:39,960
ago in Honolulu. The Rainbow Warriors won that one twenty

717
00:38:40,039 --> 00:38:43,119
seven thirteen. And then you go back to before the

718
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pandemic to twenty nineteen. Air Force went to Honolulu and

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won by thirty in that game. The only other game

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since nineteen ninety two that was decided by a touchdown

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or few or less was in twenty sixteen, also in

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Colorado Springs, Hawaii beat Air Force thirty four twenty seventy

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in double overtime.

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Speaker 2: One thing that karindeed, Stevens, is this game is always

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about some points on the board.

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Speaker 4: I love it. That's what's gonna make this one so

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much fun.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I love the fact that it's at four to

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ten and not at twelve ten.

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Speaker 4: Am.

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Speaker 2: I could not agree with you Hawaii at Air Force

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four ten Eastern Standard time on Fox Sports one. Air

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Force is six and a half point favorite. All right,

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we got the Travis Mannon Foundation Honorall segment. We got

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to do that when we come back, honoring a fallen hero.

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Got a few news and notes to pass along. We've

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got some picks to make here as we roll along

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here on yards and stripes, Army, Navy and Air Force.

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That's what we do. We'll do it more when we

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come back.

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Speaker 5: In two thousand and seven, Mareen First Lieutenant Travis Manion

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

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legacy lives on through the words he spoke before his

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final deployment. If not me, then who Words that today

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fuel the spirit of Travis Mannion Foundation and through TMF

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these words can live in you too. Show the world

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what you're made of, because character is invisible until it's not.

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Find out how you can strengthen the character of your

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community alongside empowered veterans, families of the fallon, and inspired

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civilians at Travismannan dot Org.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back in the Arts and Stripes, your home for

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Service Academy Football would come to our Travismannan Foundation Honor

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Role segment where if you've listened to the podcast before,

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you know this is where we honor a fallen hero

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one that he has given the ultimate sacrifice. And then

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the words of Travis mann and himself. If not me,

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then who those words he spoke before deploying on his

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final time. And you can find out a lot more

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about the Travis Mannen Foundation online at Travismannan dot org

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as they are working to carry on the legacy of

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commitment and service of loved ones across the country through

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service projects in many other ways. In this week on

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the Travis Manning Foundation Honor Role, we're gonna remember Sergeant

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first Class Sean Dosti from the US Army. Sergeant first

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class Dawsty gave the ultimate sacfice on December of the thirtieth,

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two thousand and five, when he was killed by an

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ied in Iraq while clearing a main supply route into Baghdad.

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Dosti was born in Rumford, Maine on January seventh, nineteen

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seventy three. Graduate of Lewiston High School, he received his

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criminal justice degree from Troy University. During his fourteen years

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of service to the United States Army. Shawn's assignments took

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him to Germany, Italy, Fort Benning, Georgia, and three assignments

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to Fort Campbell in Kentucky before giving the ultimate sacrifice

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in Iraq in two thousand and five. Dosty's awards include

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the Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart, Army Commendation Medal with

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two oak leaf clusters, Army Achievement Medal with one oak

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leaf cluster, Humanitarian Service Medal, National Defense Service Medal, and

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many many others. In addition, he earned the Combat Infantry Badge,

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Expert Drill Sergeant's Badge, Parashoot His Badge, and many other badges.

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He loved his country, the Army, and those he served with,

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but most of all, he loved his friends and family,

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especially his children, Cameron and Bailey. He is remembered for

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his energy, his sense of humor, and his contagious smile.

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Sergeant Dosty's service and sacrifice was honored by his family

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during the twenty fifteen Travis Mannon Foundation West Virginia Expedition,

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and it's important to take the time to remember our

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fallen heroes like Sergeant first Class Sean Dosty and so

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many others who, as we all know, freedom isn't free,

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and those that protect us here at home around the globe.

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We can never say thank you enough, but this week

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we just want to take the time to honor all

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our fallen heroes, including Sean.

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

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and Stripes Service Academy Football.

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Speaker 2: Picks are locked and loaded and we're about to fire

801
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away as we got three games to pick. Stephen Carney

802
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and I'm Pryce Atkinson. Final segment here on Yards and Stripes,

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Episode five. If you're counting or scoring at home, a

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couple of news and notes to pass along to you. Stephen, Big, big,

805
00:43:34,119 --> 00:43:36,920
big honor that the Army Navy Game received last week.

806
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I don't know if you saw this. The Army Navy

807
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Game will be honored as the recipient of the twenty

808
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or twenty twenty five National Football Foundations distinguish American Ward

809
00:43:47,840 --> 00:43:51,119
in conjunction with the College Football Hall of Fame. It's

810
00:43:51,119 --> 00:43:56,519
a pretty prestigious award recognizing an outstanding person or entity

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who has maintained a lifetime of interest in the game

812
00:43:59,599 --> 00:44:04,639
over a long period of time, has exhibited inevitable leadership qualities,

813
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and made a significant contribution to the betterment of amateur

814
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football in the United States. It is one of those

815
00:44:11,039 --> 00:44:14,800
very big, prestigious awards, and it's really cool to see

816
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the Army Navy game get recognized and put on yet

817
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another pedestal. A pedestal I think you and I agree

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00:44:20,920 --> 00:44:23,000
without a doubt belongs by itself.

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Speaker 4: Well, let me think about it here.

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Speaker 3: You've got the length of time, let's see. I think

821
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one hundred and thirty five years definitely counts. And then leadership, well,

822
00:44:36,159 --> 00:44:39,239
I don't think you can find any better leaders than

823
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you can at the United States Military Academy in the

824
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United States Naval Academy. So yeah, I would say that

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00:44:46,960 --> 00:44:50,760
is completely fitting of this award, and it probably should

826
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have been one of the first ones that it gave

827
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out to.

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Speaker 2: I concur but still cool and nonetheless also Army's game

829
00:44:58,960 --> 00:45:03,159
on Saturday, October the fourth, that game at UAB, that's

830
00:45:03,159 --> 00:45:07,599
gonna be a twelve noon kickoff Eastern Standard Time on ESPNU.

831
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And then Air Forces regular season finale at Colorado State

832
00:45:11,079 --> 00:45:14,000
on Black Friday. That one's gonna be at November twenty eight,

833
00:45:14,760 --> 00:45:18,000
that will be a three pm Eastern Standard Time kickoff

834
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on FS one.

835
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Speaker 3: So so I'm curious when when Army gets to play UAB,

836
00:45:25,840 --> 00:45:28,159
will Trent dilferd still be the head coach there?

837
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Speaker 4: That's the question.

838
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Speaker 2: That's a great that's a great question because if that if,

839
00:45:32,920 --> 00:45:35,119
if it's I don't I don't know if this is true.

840
00:45:35,360 --> 00:45:38,239
I just saw the headline that he was texting during

841
00:45:38,280 --> 00:45:40,719
a drubbing that they received. I don't know. It was

842
00:45:40,719 --> 00:45:43,840
one of their last couple of games, maybe Tennessee. I

843
00:45:43,880 --> 00:45:45,880
think they've beaten them, you know, pretty badly. That he

844
00:45:45,960 --> 00:45:47,719
was texting during the game. I don't know if that's

845
00:45:47,840 --> 00:45:50,880
legit or true. I don't know how much longer the

846
00:45:50,920 --> 00:45:53,840
Trent Dilfer experiment's gonna go on. I just can't think

847
00:45:53,880 --> 00:45:56,400
it lasts another full season. That's I mean, that's a

848
00:45:56,440 --> 00:45:57,840
basically safe way to go with it.

849
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think. I think you're right.

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Speaker 3: I think that whatever happens here, I think that the

851
00:46:04,039 --> 00:46:08,119
Blazers will have the will find themselves looking for a

852
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new head coach for the twenty twenty six sies.

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Speaker 4: And that's for sure.

854
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Speaker 3: Whether whether or not he is relieved of his duties

855
00:46:15,360 --> 00:46:17,960
here sometime in twenty twenty five is still yet to

856
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be seen.

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Speaker 2: All Right, let's make some picks. Because last week we

858
00:46:21,960 --> 00:46:25,559
both had Army, we both had Boise, so we were

859
00:46:25,559 --> 00:46:28,480
both one and one last week. But will we go

860
00:46:28,559 --> 00:46:30,960
three and o this week? We will soon find out.

861
00:46:31,039 --> 00:46:34,840
But our first game of the weekend, that's on a

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Thursday night, coming up, quick Army at East Carolina. Army

863
00:46:38,199 --> 00:46:41,239
one and two. East Carolina two and two seven thirty.

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00:46:41,280 --> 00:46:44,960
East Carolina is a four and a half point favorite, Steven,

865
00:46:45,360 --> 00:46:46,800
you want to fire first in this one?

866
00:46:46,960 --> 00:46:49,760
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that this is going to be tough

867
00:46:50,199 --> 00:46:54,639
for Army. As I mentioned on the outside of this,

868
00:46:54,800 --> 00:46:57,400
you know you're looking at the defensive secondary. I think

869
00:46:57,440 --> 00:47:00,360
going down the field, I think East Carolina the Pirates

870
00:47:00,360 --> 00:47:02,599
are going to want to try and throw the ball

871
00:47:02,920 --> 00:47:05,079
down the field against the Black Knights. I think they're

872
00:47:05,079 --> 00:47:08,400
going to find themselves with some success in doing so,

873
00:47:09,039 --> 00:47:12,119
and so I think that unfortunately for Army, this is

874
00:47:12,159 --> 00:47:14,519
the one game, and I think that they end up

875
00:47:15,760 --> 00:47:18,639
not being as successful as they have been so far

876
00:47:19,000 --> 00:47:22,199
this year. I have the Pirates beating Army by a

877
00:47:22,239 --> 00:47:24,079
score of thirty four to twenty one.

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00:47:26,280 --> 00:47:28,559
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're pretty close in this one. I've got East

879
00:47:28,559 --> 00:47:32,400
Carolina thirty one to seventeen. I think the short week,

880
00:47:32,519 --> 00:47:35,960
it's just going to be a little tough for Army,

881
00:47:36,199 --> 00:47:38,800
especially trying to come off and correct some mistakes and

882
00:47:38,920 --> 00:47:41,639
with an injury, you know, the injury situation at quarterback

883
00:47:41,679 --> 00:47:44,519
and Dwayne Coleman. Will it be Kate Hellams can hate

884
00:47:44,559 --> 00:47:46,639
if it is Kate Hellams. Can he shake it off?

885
00:47:46,960 --> 00:47:49,280
As Taylor Swift would like to say, get you know,

886
00:47:49,280 --> 00:47:52,199
get that last game out of his head, which you

887
00:47:52,239 --> 00:47:54,840
know played well up until that point in the limited

888
00:47:54,840 --> 00:47:57,480
action he had seen. But we'll find out. I just

889
00:47:57,519 --> 00:47:59,920
think on a Thursday night, you know, Thursday night games

890
00:48:00,079 --> 00:48:02,519
are just kind of quirky. I think East Carolina with

891
00:48:02,639 --> 00:48:04,719
Sports Center coming to town, I think they're going to

892
00:48:04,760 --> 00:48:07,599
be just jazzed and jacked. I like East Carolina like

893
00:48:07,639 --> 00:48:11,280
you do in this one, all right, the Naval Academy

894
00:48:11,360 --> 00:48:15,239
hosting Rice Upstart Rice. The owls are three and one,

895
00:48:15,400 --> 00:48:18,360
Navy is three and zero. A three point thirty kickoff

896
00:48:18,360 --> 00:48:21,559
on CBS Sports Network, maybe fourteen and a half, just

897
00:48:21,599 --> 00:48:24,760
over two touchdowns favored in this one. I don't think

898
00:48:24,840 --> 00:48:26,679
Navy's gonna have any problems, but I think in this

899
00:48:26,719 --> 00:48:29,280
game could be a little bit closer than people think.

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00:48:30,039 --> 00:48:33,159
Speaker 4: Yeah, I tend to agree with you on this case.

901
00:48:33,400 --> 00:48:34,800
Speaker 3: Like I said, I think there's gonna be a lot

902
00:48:34,800 --> 00:48:39,119
of run in the football in this game, so obviously

903
00:48:39,719 --> 00:48:43,559
that's gonna be an interesting aspect of this. I have

904
00:48:43,719 --> 00:48:46,440
Navy coming out with a victory in this I think

905
00:48:46,480 --> 00:48:50,880
they they send Rice back to Houston with a twenty

906
00:48:50,920 --> 00:48:52,880
eight to ten defeat.

907
00:48:53,400 --> 00:48:55,960
Speaker 2: All Right, I like it a lot closer than you do.

908
00:48:56,280 --> 00:49:00,599
I've got Navy twenty four to nineteen in this one.

909
00:49:01,039 --> 00:49:04,360
But will the Levy break, you know, will this finally

910
00:49:04,400 --> 00:49:10,480
be the game where Rice, you know, doesn't put the

911
00:49:10,519 --> 00:49:12,440
ball or does put the ball on the ground because

912
00:49:12,440 --> 00:49:15,039
they've only lost two turnovers to this point. Is this

913
00:49:15,159 --> 00:49:17,159
because you know, a lot of times when teams go

914
00:49:17,920 --> 00:49:20,000
so far into a season where they don't turn it over,

915
00:49:20,079 --> 00:49:23,199
they always have that one game where it's just you know,

916
00:49:23,239 --> 00:49:26,039
it's bad. It's like four or five turnovers. So will

917
00:49:26,079 --> 00:49:27,800
this be the case. I don't know, we'll find out,

918
00:49:27,800 --> 00:49:30,760
but Navy's defense playing awfully good. I just think I

919
00:49:30,760 --> 00:49:32,559
think Rice is gonna hang around for a while, and

920
00:49:32,559 --> 00:49:34,559
I think this could be a slugfest toward the end.

921
00:49:34,840 --> 00:49:37,320
I don't know, we'll find out. But our last game,

922
00:49:37,519 --> 00:49:41,159
air Force, can the academies make it three in a row?

923
00:49:41,360 --> 00:49:45,199
Air Force gonna be a tough one here, but we'll

924
00:49:45,199 --> 00:49:48,199
find out. Against Hawaii. Maybe it's not tough because why

925
00:49:48,199 --> 00:49:51,079
you making that long trip over to Colorado Springs. But

926
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air Force still trying to get that first Mountain West

927
00:49:53,360 --> 00:49:55,920
Conference when I don't want to say nothing's easy when

928
00:49:55,920 --> 00:49:57,840
you're you know, when you go to play in conference.

929
00:49:57,880 --> 00:49:59,639
Speaker 4: Stephen, Yeah, absolutely.

930
00:49:59,760 --> 00:50:04,280
Speaker 3: And this one reminds me, and we mentioned in the

931
00:50:04,480 --> 00:50:07,960
when we were talking about the Cooter Trophy that this

932
00:50:08,039 --> 00:50:11,199
game is usually not close. You know, there's not a

933
00:50:11,199 --> 00:50:14,840
lot of defense that is played in this game. This

934
00:50:15,000 --> 00:50:17,559
is you know, stand in the middle of the ring

935
00:50:18,079 --> 00:50:21,880
like Rocky Balbo and Apollo Creed and just swing at

936
00:50:21,920 --> 00:50:24,440
each other. And I think that these two teams will

937
00:50:24,800 --> 00:50:28,639
try and do that here this weekend. That being said,

938
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I do think that air Force is going to have

939
00:50:32,920 --> 00:50:36,559
a little bit of an advantage because Hawaii is so

940
00:50:37,840 --> 00:50:42,239
struggled this year in trying to get the football down

941
00:50:42,280 --> 00:50:45,800
the field, and when they when they struggle through the air,

942
00:50:46,320 --> 00:50:50,400
they struggle everywhere. I hate to pardon the rhyme there,

943
00:50:50,800 --> 00:50:53,880
but so I have the Falcons winning this game, and

944
00:50:53,960 --> 00:50:56,039
I have them winning it handily. I have thirty five

945
00:50:56,039 --> 00:50:57,280
to thirteen.

946
00:50:57,679 --> 00:51:00,000
Speaker 2: Whoa big one, big one stay.

947
00:51:00,480 --> 00:51:01,719
Speaker 4: They're normally not close.

948
00:51:02,199 --> 00:51:04,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, no, no, you're right. I don't know why I'm

949
00:51:04,960 --> 00:51:07,559
thinking some close games this week. I'm thinking air Force.

950
00:51:07,760 --> 00:51:10,880
I like air Force also, especially with air Force or

951
00:51:11,000 --> 00:51:14,039
Hawaii making the long trip. I just think that air

952
00:51:14,079 --> 00:51:16,840
Force is gonna be too strong, too powerful at home.

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I just think they're a better all around football team, offense, defense,

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special team, especially playing at home, and I think air

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Force is going to get that first conference win. I

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think it'll be thirty eight to twenty eight air Force

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over the Rainbows on What's gonna be should be a magical,

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awesome day steven of college football with some not just

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our games, but some big, big games with college football

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playoff implications. Boy, I can't wait. Man, this feels like

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the first real Saturday of college football.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and for me, I don't have a college football

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game here in town. USF is off this week before

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they have a Friday night game next week when they

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start their conference play against Charlotte. I'm going to get

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a chance to watch a lot of American Conference football

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here early and then of course some Mountain West in

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the in the afternoon on Saturday.

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Speaker 4: I'm very excited about all of that.

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Speaker 2: Well, before we get out the door and shout out

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to Stephen Carney, who is the MVP of the College

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Grider and Coast to Coast podcast network, the best producer,

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best co host anybody could ask for. Cannot thank Steven enough.

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I got to give one more quick shout out to

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one TJ. Reeves for his help in getting a special

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birthday gift pulled together from my daughter from one Ryan Miller,

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Tampa Bay buccaneer, who is her favorite NFL player former

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Firman Paladin receiver number eighty one with the Bucks, a

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surpriser with a little video message and assigned T shirt

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from Ryan. So I got to give our good friend

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uncle TJ a quick shout out on that because it

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made my daughter's thirteenth birthday pretty darn special.

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Speaker 3: Yeah well, Uncle TJ got his own present as well

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this week as he got to fill in doing play

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by play for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers radio networking, got

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himself a doozy of a game between the.

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Speaker 4: Bucks and the Jets.

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Speaker 2: Oh boy.

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Speaker 3: So, and as I have been saying now for a

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couple of weeks, when do we start the petition to

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start building the statue to Baker Mayfield outside of Raymond

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James Stadium.

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Speaker 4: If he keeps doing that, he's gonna get one.

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Speaker 2: Well I'm not the biggest Baker Mayfield fan, but doing

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what he's done so far, what he's done is a

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member of the Tampa Bay Bucks. I can't argue with it. Man,

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He's been just spectacular. But he's gonna have to be

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even more spectacular with Mike Evans out now for a

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couple of weeks with a hamstring.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, no Mike Evans and a banged up offensive line.

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Oh yeah, and they got the Eagles coming this week.

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Speaker 4: Uh oh yeah, I know it.

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Speaker 2: So but go Bucks. That's all we'll say on the

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NFL front, because I think you'll agree with me go Bucks,

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especially beat them Eagles, because anybody but Philadelphia, all right,

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I don't want to turn any Philly fans off, So

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I better stop there, Steven. We'll do it again next week.

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You're the best man. Appreciate all your hard work, all

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your help, your passion and commitment, and certainly to the

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College Regridering Coast to Coast podcast network everybody some great shows.

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Check us out online wherever it is you get your podcasts,

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and we will see you again next week.

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Speaker 1: Join us again next time for Yards and Strikes Service

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