Speaker 1: Need to get your football fixed on all things Army, Navy,
and Air Force. This is Yards and Stripes Service Academy Football.
Now here are your hosts, Pryce Atkinson and Steve Carney.
Speaker 2: All Right, welcome into another edition of Yards and Stripes,
your home for Service Academy Football. He is Steven Carney.
He is the one that keeps us going on Price
Akinson episode nine. So we have liftoff here. So we
are part of the last word on sports podcast network. Army,
Navy and Air Force, and that is what we do.
And two of those teams, Boy, they keep on truck,
and that is Army and Navy. Stephen, Army now up
to number twenty three in both the AP and Coaches poll,
Navy sitting one spot behind him in both poles at
number twenty four. I mean, just they just keep on
truck and we'll get to the games because two big
wins for both teams. But damn it. Good to see
a friend. How is your weekend, Steven?
Speaker 3: Yeah, weekend was good other than the fact that on
on Monday night I saw the two biggest parts of
my of my professional football team that I uh that
I tend to cover, uh, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers go
down in heaps and Mike Evans and Chris Godwin certainly
not fun, uh, watching Lamar Jackson run around on on
the bucks. But Lamar Jackson remembered he was Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 2: It was fun. If you're a Ravens fan like me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm sure. I'm sure I didn't get I didn't
get a text from you. I got text from all
my other Ravens fans, and hey, let Lamar score a
little bit so I can get some points in fantasy.
Speaker 2: I was like, shut up, let me, let me just
let me be be in full disclosure here. I've sold
the Panthers, like I quit the Panthers last year. David
Tepper has ruined the franchise, so as long as he
is there, I will never be a Panther fan again.
I used to go to lot of Ravens games when
we when I lived up in in Annapolis. The Ravens
were great people. They've got a great front office. We
did a lot of Navy games over there through the years.
A Notre Dame, you know, are obviously army Navy great people. Uh,
just a great front office and always you know, kind
of developed a soft spot for the Ravens when I
lived up there, so I've always kind of considered them
kind of my second team, if you will. So I'm
not like going to go full frontal and like start
dogging people out because Johnny come lately Ravens fan. I'm
not going to act like that. But it was I was,
it was pumped, I was. It was cool to see
Lamar just run wild. And you know, now, I think
it's funny how they're talking about he's a three to
three tool player now after the downfield block. You know
that he gave Derrick Henry on that long run. But
I believe that there.
Speaker 3: All I know is that, uh, the Ravens were down
ten to nothing in the first quarter, and I was
sitting I was sitting there doing my stats work for
the National Football League, and I'm thinking to myself, this
isn't something doesn't feel right, Like did did Lamar Jackson
like take like a sleeping pill or did you know,
did did he like not set his alarm clock? Because
this didn't that didn't look like Lamar Jackson early. And
then something happened in the middle of the first quarter
and Lamar Jackson remembered he was Lamar Jackson. It was like, Oh,
I'm gonna start running around here. And when he started running,
the Bucks defense kind of got off kilter, and then
they started to focus on Lamar and that's when Derrick
Henry started started breaking off, you know, eighty one yard
runs and I was like, oh God, here we go.
And and at that point it was like, all right,
this is bad. And then Mike Evans hurts his hamstring
and he's gonna be out through what I believe their
head coach Todd Bull said the week eleven by, so
we're not gonna have him. And then at the very
end of the fourth quarter because Evans is out with
the hamstring injury, Chris Godwin is in there at the
end of the game and he gets he's a victim
of a hip drop tackle and breaks his ankle and
he had to have surgery today and he's done for
the year. So I don't know what the Bucks are
gonna do from here on out. This is this is
not wretty well.
Speaker 2: I hope what they'll do is they'll resign firm and
wide receiver Ryan Miller that was on the practice squad
last year. That's that's that's my personal biased hope so
I know that we are doing a lot of good
for now.
Speaker 3: We're we're hoping, we're hoping that they trade for Cooper
cop here.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Uh, DeAndre Hopkins was on the move today. But
let's let's get this thing back to college football, because
I know that's what everybody came here. You and I
can have fun and talk football, high school, college, NFL,
whatever it is. We just put us up at the
end of the bar, put a beer in front of us,
and we could just go for hours. Yeah, we will
talk Army, Navy, and Air Force here because that is
what we do on the Last Word on Sports podcast Network.
A new episode coming to every single week right here, Spotify,
Apple Podcasts, wherever it is you get your podcasts. Steven,
let's get going to games. Last weekend, both our ranked
teams number twenty three Army starting with them at home
against East Carolina, and it was a drubbing from the
get go Army forty five to twenty eight over the
visiting Pirates. The Black Knights now seven and oh six
and oh in the American best starts, its ninety six
only the third seven to oh start in school history,
is still the longest winning streak in the country at
eleven and it was the Bryson Daily Show once again.
Oh yeah, stop us if you've heard that before. But
holy cow. The senior rush for a career high five
touchdowns while going for a team high one seventy one
on the ground, throwing for one forty seven in a touchdown.
He accounts for six touchdowns in the football game and
the Black Knights they get on the scoreboard first drive
of the game. Armies has scored a touchdown it's opening
drive in every single game this season, the only team
in America to do so, and it was lights out
from there, Steven. But and just another amazing performance from Daily.
The five touchdowns on the ground now breaks Army single
season record of seventeen that was held by three former
outstanding Black Knights and Mike Mayweather, Carlton Jones and Trent Steelman.
Daily now has nineteen the season and the six touchdowns
he accounted for the first Army player was six touchdowns
in a single game since nineteen sixteen. Elmer Oliphant also
breaking the school record for Army touchdowns responsible in a
season now with twenty five. The accolades just don't stop, Stephen.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you think about how important Elmer Oliphant is,
you would You probably don't know this price, but I
have been told that he is the Elber and Elmer's glue.
I always educated kidding, I'm kidding, no, But you know,
every time that Bryson Daily touched the foot last week,
you you had a feeling that something special was gonna
happen and you and all you have to do is
look at the drive summaries for for Army. Uh. You know,
we you mentioned the touchdown and the first drive. As
you mentioned, they're the only team in college football that
has scored a touchdown on each on its opening drive
in every game this season. But then even that, even
after that, you look at the rest of their their drives.
You know, the next drive was fourteen play, almost nine
minute drive that led to a field goal. They had
an eight play drive that led to a touchdown. And
then at that point, you know they're about to They're
about to go and then and then uh, after East
Carolina turn the ball over on downs, they only need
one play to go thirty one yards from Bryce and
Daily to score another touchdown. At that point, you're basically
at the end of the half. Uh, you know, you
think about it, and then they're in the second half, touchdown, touchdown,
They go three and out a couple of times, but
then a touchdown to finish out the game, and then
you know, at that point it's it really just seemed
like they had everything going in the right direction. They
got they were they they they they won the turnover battle.
We talked about that. It seems like at nauseam they
won the turnover battle. They won the battle of the penalties.
They were the the more the better coached because they
only had five penalties. You know, East Carolina had almost
double that. Uh and they almost had the ball for
forty minutes again last week again this week. So they
did everything that you want to see an Army football
team do to win games. And that's how they win games.
That's how they run up the score, and that's how
they stay undefeated. I gotcha.
Speaker 2: I you know, the as good as bright Daily has been,
he has just been outstanding all season. You know, Army's
offensive line, the Black Knights defense also the story of
the game, the Black Knights holding East Carolina. There's just
twenty five yards of total offense in the first half
as Army built a T four to zero halftime lead
behind the two Daily touchdowns. You know, he scores his
third to start the third and makes it thirty one
nothing before the Pirates can get on the board. It
was over from there. But you mentioned, you know, no turnovers.
You know, the Army offense scoring on the opening drive
of every single you know game this season. They're still
haven't played from behind. They're one of two teams them
in Indiana. They have not trailed an opponent all season,
and you know, scoring forty points or more in four
straight games. So for the first time since nineteen forty five,
right now, it's hard to find a team steven you know,
competition notwithstanding, I don't really throw that in there anymore
because when you do it week in and week out,
and here we are at the end of October, I
don't care who you're playing. Army's got it clicking on
pretty much every the game, as good as any team
in America that you will find led by Daily.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you would think that East Carolina is probably
the best team that they've played so far this year.
Uh And they handled them, not just convincingly, but they
bludgeoned them for crying out loud. This is not a
you know, the Pirates are not a team that that
is going to roll over and play dead. This isn't UAB,
this is not Temple h. East Carolina is is was
projected to be in the middle of the Pact and
ahead of both Army and Navy when it came to
the initial predictions to start the year. So they thought
that East Carolina, you know, the pundits thought the East
Carolina was going to be at least a decent football team,
and Army has just proven that they're a much better
UH team than East Carolina.
Speaker 2: Daily just every time he touches the football, I mean,
it's a quarterback. I just still think you feel like
he's a running back playing quarterback, only because he just
runs with such a purpose. It's it's not one of
those quarterbacks that's trying to dance around, that's trying to
he just does not look like the typical option quarterback
that we've seen in an academy. There's just something different
about Daily.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and and he went seven for ten throwing the
football too, So it's it's not that he is a
running back. He has a method to his madness and
is been very efficient when it comes to throwing the
football as well. Is he gonna throw for three hundred
yards in the game, Absolutely not, But he's gonna he's
gonna make sure that the ball is taken care of
and he is going to make the smart decision when
throwing the football. And you saw that, and you saw
it this week.
Speaker 2: And the big thing is, like you said, he is
a capable thrower. And when you're up near sixty percent
completion percentage last year, he was at fifty for the year.
He's already equal the number of touchdown pass he threw
last year at seven. The big difference that I nt
column last year he threw six picks. He doesn't have
a single interception this year. So when you're this side,
when they do decide to throw it and sling it
and like, let's make no mistake, these aren't like dink
and dunk here and there. There are a few of those,
but when the academy s throw the ball, and this
goes for Army this year, when they're throwing it, they're
usually for big plays. Hence the thirteen point four you
know yards per completion percentage on daily this year. So
just incredible right now in the Heisman buzz I mean,
it just continues to grow by the week. But I'm
with you, Steven. I think until they play Notre Dame
and you beat Notre Dame, that's when it really swells
to a new level. But it was, you know, Army
twenty number twenty three, Army forty five to twenty eight
over East Carolina. The Black Knights now seven to h
six to oo in the American, East Carolina falling to
three and four one and two in the American. Let's
move to Annapolis. We're on home coming Saturday. Navy welcome
Charlotte and they bludgeon the visit forty nine ers fifty
one to seventeen in a game you and I I
thought it was going to be much closer than this.
It was anything but, as Navy improved to six to
OHO for the first time since nineteen seventy nine, the
Navy defense forcing five Charlotte turnovers, led by defensive back
to Shaun Peel's two pick sixes, and these weren't small.
Sixty one yards taken for a score in the second,
eighty four yards return for score and the third unbelievable effort,
and then of course Blake corback what Bryson Daly's doing.
You look at Annapolis every single week or wherever Navy's playing.
Blake Horback isn't doing too bad either, Steven.
Speaker 3: No and I laughed when that game was going on,
I sent you a text message and I said, so
much for us thinking that this game was going to
be closer than people thought. I mean, they jumped out
it was. It was twenty four to nothing. Before you
got in your seat for crying out loud. It was that.
The way that the midshipman offense handled the football in
the first quarter. It was mind boggling how well that
they they played. And you mentioned all of the turnovers,
four picks, including the two pick sixes. They also recovered
a fumble as well. There was plenty that went on
in that first quarter, or in that first half. You
had the not just the the the pick six, but
you also had one of the other you had two
of the other interceptions. In fact, you look at Charlotte's drive,
summary punt in the first half, punt, pick, fumble, pick,
pick six. That was their first five possessions. When when
that happens and it's thirty one nothing in the second quarter,
And I said to my friend Eric Earlinson, who is
one of the lightning play by one of the pre
and post game show analysts. I was sitting there with him,
just showing on like like this team is ridicted, and
like I know that nobody likes to pick Army and Navy.
It's part of the reason why they're stuck at twenty
three and twenty four in the standings because they're not pretty.
You know, some people were talking about, you know, we
talked about last week. You know, should Bryson Daily and
or Blake Horvath have more Heisman consideration than they're getting.
The answer is, of course they should, and Daily obviously
is going to get more after his performance this past
week with six touchdowns. You know, every time anytime you
score six touchdowns, people will sit up and take notice.
But right now, they're not pretty. Neither of these teams
play pretty football. It's why Boise State gets looked at.
It's why Colorado gets looked at. It's why Alabama gets
looked at. It's why Georgia gets looked at, it's why
Tennessee gets looked at. You know, those teams play what
the pundits like to call pretty football. You know, the
the service academies don't play pretty football. They played grinded out,
in your face football. That the that the people that
want pretty football, the beautiful game, you know, like the
Brazilians in soccer, they don't play that. And so that's
why I said last week that you want to really
make the national media sit up and take notice, beat
Notre Dame. M h.
Speaker 2: Yeah, without a doubt. And we'll get to that in
a second, because Navy is the only one that's going
to be on the dock in the field this week,
and that will be against Notre Dame. But you know,
the midshipman making quick work Steven in this one. It
wasn't like Navy rolled up a ton of yards. I mean,
they only had two hundred and eighty eight yards of
total offense in this game. It's because they kept getting
set up and that's why Navy was up thirty eight
to nothing with ten minutes left in the first half.
It's thirty eight to nothing with ten minutes to go
in the second quarter. You know, and one streak that
did come to an end. You know, Navy had been
a perfect twenty for twenty inside the red zone at
scoring touchdowns. Well that one came to an end there
late in the first quarter, when Nathan Kirkwood had to
kick a short twenty two yard field goal to make
it twenty four to nothing with three minutes left in
the first But outside of that, that was probably about
the only thing that did not go right on Homecoming Saturday.
And you know Blake Corvath throwing three touchdown passes in
the game now ten this season, just three, shy of
Ricky Dobbs school record of thirteen set in twenty ten.
And Alex Tusca, let's not forget about him. Tesca scores
three touchdown. How about he scores him in the first quarter,
and they were Navy's first three touchdowns of the game.
A forty six yard touchdown pass, a twelve yard run
in a two yard run. The dude has three touchdowns
before you had even played ten full minutes of action.
Speaker 3: Stephen, Yeah, it was. It was incredible watch. And I
was sitting there with CBS Sports Network on and just
watched in amazement, like, Oh my god, I can't believe
that this is happening. And I thought I thought Alex
Tesca was gonna score six touchdowns on his own because
this has become Army and Navy this year. You know,
coach Monkin has made up a lot of comments over
the last couple of weeks, first against Air Force, now
against Navy. Anytime somebody brings up one of the other
service academies, he's like, who, I didn't even know they're
playing football. I mean, obviously that's going to happen. There's
always gonna be the needling going back and forth between
between the service academies. But it seems like the these
two service academies here on the East Coast have been
playing anything you can do, I can do better all
year long. Oh you're gonna play. You're gonna beat up
U A B. I'm gonna beat up you a B.
You're gonna beat up Temple. I'm gonna beat up Temple.
You're gonna beat up You're gonna You're gonna run for
six touchdowns. We're gonna have six touchdowns. It's unreal, Like
this is where did this come from?
Speaker 2: Price?
Speaker 3: This never happens in service academy football.
Speaker 2: It does not, And it's a thing of beauty right now.
It's just something incredible, incredible to behold. And you know,
I know we got one more game to get to
But you know, one of our listeners send me a
note today actually, and it was talking about the College
Football Playoff Committee. I mean, we're about to turn to
November and team, these teams are undefeated, and with that
being the case, I mean, yes, Navy's got to get
through Notre Dame this week, so that could tamper some
of this talk right now. But as we sit here
on the precipice of getting to one of the final
months of this entire season, you're starting to creep in
and think about what the College Football Playoff Committee will
do and what they've said. And they've said they will
not consider the Army Navy game when putting and slotting
teams into a playoff, which just think about that for
a second. Think about you know, if you're going to
I don't want to say you have to make a decision,
but let's, for all intents and purposes put it on
the table. You've got two undefeated Service capademy teams. You're
gonna play an Army Navy game that the committee says
is meaningless to them. What game is it means? What
do you think what would mean more to you, especially
if you're an academy grad. If you're a if you're
you know, if you attend one of the academies, if
you're a player, to say, okay, what means more getting
into that national championship tournament or the Army Navy game.
I think ninety percent of everybody would say the Army
Navy game.
Speaker 3: Yeah. And it's funny. I was on I was on
the radio in Fort Myers this week and we were
talking about the uh, you know, the possibility and that
there could be a conference championship game between Army and Navy.
That doesn't that doesn't mean the Army Navy game and
then the Army Navy game the next week. And if
i'm if I'm the service academies, this is where you're
gonna stroke the check. You gotta go. You gotta go
to the federal government and go, hey, we're not playing
in a conference championship game. Make the conference championship game
next week at Army Navy and tell the College Football
Playoff whichever one wins is in and you could hold
the spot. I know they're like, oh, it doesn't matter, no, no, no, no.
If they are the two highest ranked group of six
at the end of the year, let's say Boise State loses.
I think they play UNLV this week, so they could
lose this week to UNLV, and UNLV could lose in
a couple of weeks to whoever. But if Army and
Navy are the two highest ranked group of six teams,
one of which is going to get a shot in
the twelve and the Service Academies go to the College
Football Playoff Committee and say, no, no, no. You may say
this doesn't matter, this matters, and we're gonna play this
game and you're gonna take the winner of it. I
would love to see the Service Academies, you know, just
out that one. That would be that would be fun
to watch.
Speaker 2: That would out note. That would be an out Notre
Daming move, right, that would that would totally be an
out Notre Daming move because Notre Dame has always been
the ones that get everything they want when it comes
to college football, which is why we I think we'd
all love to see Navy and then Army just absolutely
take them to the woodshed. But we'll take one game
in a time. Well, let's look at the other. We
got a third game, Steven, Let's get to that one first,
because we got a lot more to talk about here
with Air Force welcoming Colorado State to the Springs, the
ramfoul con Trophy on the line, and for the first
time since two thousand and two, Colorado State goes into
the Springs and gets the dub twenty one to thirteen
over Air Force, Colorado State four and three, two and
one the Mount West air Force now at one and six,
zero to four in league, still looking for that conference win.
And after Colorado State jumps up twenty one to nothing,
Steven dare I say it, but maybe it was a
fire that was lit under desperation under Troy Calhoun's team,
and they score thirteen points, all of them in the
fourth quarter, but it was just a little too late
as they come up a touchdown in two point conversion
shy of knocking off j Norbel's rams twenty one to thirteen.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and really, you look at the big play that
took place in this game was in the second quarter,
Caleb Goody leaps up, grabs a pass from Braden Fowler
Nicolosi with one hand at the at midfield and realizes
that the defender has fallen down and all of a
sudden he's got nothing but green grass between himself and
the end zone ends up going for an eighty five
yard touchdown. I think really at that point in the
third quarter, that's when you ended up seeing Troy Calhoun
look at his guys and you go, are you gonna
let them make fun? You know, are you gonna make
them let them ridicule you on your own home turf?
And finally you saw some life out of the falcons.
It's something we haven't seen at all this year. Uh,
not against New Mexico, not against uh Wyoming. You know,
you really can say that you didn't even see it
really much in against Merrimac. But the fact of the
matter is that finally it looked like something clicked on
offense in that fourth quarter. And maybe it was Colorado
State maybe taking the foot off the accelerator on defense,
But that's the feeling that fourth quarter is what this
team needs to concentrate on going forward and going that's
what we need to see out of these out of
out of each and every one of you on this
team going forward. I mean, they've got Fresno State, Uh,
They've got Army coming up in a couple of weeks,
and then from no status they get back to the
Mountain West Conference schedule going forward, they can't finish with
a with a winning record in the conference. Uh, you know,
it would be basically, uh, they can get to five hundred,
but they've got to win out. So they're one loss
away from being under five hundred with a losing record
this year. You've got to have that feeling from the
fourth quarter go forward.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but some things you don't see very often in
this game. Air Force passing for more yards than they
rush for. Yeah, one seventy five to one seventy three.
And it's not often you see a team go through
a game without a single penalty, which air Force did.
But again, three turnovers was big. Two interceptions, you know
the one you mentioned, you know that was taken back
for a score, and then you know, a fumble. It's
just continued to be the same same story for air
Force most of the season. It's just miscues and once
again musical chairs at quarterback. As John Bouche gets to
start after it was Quinton Hayes last week, he is relieved.
Josh Johnson, you know, gets a little bit of time there.
But you know, Troy Calhoun just trying to push and
punch any button he Can at this point, but the
Falcons give it up to Colorado State. The ram falcontroll
be going to for Collins this season twenty one to
thirteen the final and this one is air Force again
one in six, zero to four in the Mountain West
steven game ball time. Do we need to just name
this the twenty twenty four Bryce and Daily game Ball?
You know of the week? Or you know? Are we
gonna both shock the world and go with something different?
Speaker 3: Slap another sticker on mister Daily's helmet, my friend, because
he's getting my game ball. You you throw, you are you?
You score six touchdowns, you account for thirty six points
in a game. You're getting a game ball for me. So,
mister mister Daily, you certainly get my accolades on this one. So, yes,
he gets my game ball.
Speaker 2: Well I should do the same thing, but I gotta
be different as good as Daily was. I'm going to
go with Navy defensive back to Sean Peel because he too,
said a little bit of history on Saturday, becoming the
first Navy players and mentioned to ever return two interceptions
for touchdowns in the same game, only the second AAC
player to ever do it, but the first from the
Naval Academy, as he was named the American Athletic Defensive
Player of the Week for those two interceptions return one
hundred and forty five yards in return yards in the game.
As Navy has now won three of the last four
AAC Defensive Weekly honors. So the Shawan Peele, the senior
defensive back, he's getting my game ball, Steven, All right,
we got more to do here on Yards and Stripes.
We've certainly got our Travis Manning Foundation Honor Roll segment.
We got a preview the one game we have coming
up next week that's Navy and Notre Dame. We got
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and we'll do that as we roll ahead on Yards
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Speaker 1: The latest with Navy, Army and Air Force on Yards
and Stripes Service Academy Football.
Speaker 2: All right, rolling along here on Yards and Stripe. He
is Stephen Varney, I'm Bryce Sackinson. We are Yards and Stripes,
your home for a service Academy football. And boy, we
got a big game on tap this weekend. We will
talk about it, we will preview it, we will pick
it here just a second. But appreciate the Travis Manning
Foundation for working with us again this season to honor
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So once again, thank you to TMF as we continue
here on Yards and Stripes, and if you news and
notes just to pass along real quickly. We've raved about
bryceon dally yet again, and why shouldn't we. He keeps
bringing in the hardware. Steven named an AP National Player
of the Week for his performance last week in the
win over East Carolina, also the third straight week being
honored as the American Athletic Conference's Offensive Player of the Week.
Also takes in the Davey O'Brien National Quarterback of the
Week and the Manning Award QB of the Week for
the second time, so certainly congratulations since Bryce and Daily
is the awards are rolling in for him. Army sophomore
offensive guard Pallo Generelli, the sophomore who did not let
how about this, does not even see action in any
games last year. He has started all seven for the
Black Knights and is a big reason why they are
seven to zero, as he won the Outland Trophy National
Player of the Week last week. Stephen leading the way
with two one hundred yard rushers, had an eighty eight
point five grade from blocking grade from Pro Football Focus,
the highest of all FBS offensive guards last week and
the fifth highest among all offensive linemen last week. So
Pallo generally being honored by the Outland Trophy. Moving over
to Navy, Navy's game at Rice on Saturday, November the
second next weekend that's was announced as a four pm
Eastern Standard time kickoff. That one going to be on
ESPN two, and obviously the game Army and Air Force
doing Battle up at West Point that's the same day.
We know that's a twelve new kick on CBS. But
Navy at Rice Saturday November the second four pm Eastern
Standard time on ESPN two mentioned to Sean Peel being honored,
but Nyvy senior safety Rayon Lane the third he was
named Sporting News as mid season All American Team. So
a lot of things, you know, starting to when when
you're sitting there with a goose egg Stephen in the
lost column right now, you're going to be noticed for
the things you're doing right, and certainly players from both
these two academies doing a lot of things right as
they are seven to oh and six and oh respectively
between Army and Navy. Speaking of Navy, steven, we have
talked a lot about it. We have said, basically, you
leave the charge. Once one of these teams can knock
off Notre Dame. That's when some eyes and heads are
gonna turn. Well, guess what, the Naval Academy, you're on deck,
not on that ship deck, but you're on deck. Proverbally,
this weekend is Navy and Notre Dame gonna do battle.
The number twelve, Irish six and one, the number twenty
four midshipman six and oh, this one a national TV
kickoff on ABC twelve noon Eastern Standard times. Stephen, right now,
the last I've seen the Irish are giving up thirteen
over under and this one is fifty two and a
half as the Mental will be looking for their first
seven and oh start since nineteen seventy eight.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I laughed because, you know, all of the
people who are supposed to be smart in football have
been have been talking and raving about, you know, the
way that Notre Dame has played since the Northern Illinois game.
Of course, they're only lost of the year, and you know,
outside of their game against Louisville. You know, I don't
think that Notre Dame schedule has been much tougher than Navies.
For crying out loud, they played you know, a Georgia
Tech team last week that, let's face it, isn't very good.
They've played Miami of Ohio. They're they're no good produce stinks.
You know, Stanford is, you know, in its first year
in the American in the accuh so of course they're
still trying to get used to being in a new conference.
You know, I don't think that there's much you could
say about Notre Dame that tells me that this that
this team is that much better than the than the
Navy team. Like to me, I don't understand why this
game is a thirteen point spread. I understand the total.
I don't. I don't understand the spread. I think that
the way that Navy plays is the way that you
beat Notre Dame. On the ground. They're forty second in
the nation in rush defense, they're third in the nation
and past defense. You don't want to throw the football
against the Irish. You want to run the football. Well,
what does Navy want to do? They want to run
the football. They want to control the line of scrimmage,
they want to control time of possession, and as long
as they don't make stupid penalty. You know, they don't
take stupid penalties and they don't make mistakes putting the
football on the ground. I think that they've got a
decent shot at this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I totally agree. I mean, I'm shocked that it's
nearly two touchdowns and you know the line, I don't
think it's going to be a two touchdown difference, But
you know, what do we know? And I'm right there
with you. I mean, you know Notre Dame has not
played any kind of juggernaut of a schedule. Yeah, they've
got wins over a couple of top twenty teams, But
what else is on there that that you know strikes
any kind of fear into your heart? To me, there's
not much. Obviously there's the loss at home to Northern
Illinois sixteen to fourteen. But you know in a series where,
especially right now, Navy playing as well as they are,
I know that Notre Dame leads overall series eighty two
to the thirteen and one is one six straight. But
you know this is a dangerous Navy team, especially because
they're not just simply one dimensional Steven. You know, we
just see that academies so many times over the years,
which it's it's no knock on them that are more
one dimensional, but that's because you got to be different.
Davy's built a little bit different right now in the
fact that Blake Corbath can throw the football when he
needs to. He's got Eli hEidin Reich, and I know
you don't want to throw it against Notre Dames past defense.
But you know, there's there's obviously some some areas of
weakness in there, and I think this is going to
be a much closer football game, Steven than the Las
Vegas things. I know that Vegas knows usually a lot
more than you and me. But boy, there's something I'm
just not seeing that they are.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I I do like Notre Dames quarterback
Riley Leonard, the duke transfer. He's got sixteen touchdowns so
far this year, ten on the ground, six through the air.
But I really think that, you know, this is going
to be the ultimate test for guys like Deshaun Peel,
like Raywan Laying the third. You know, they're gonna have
their opportunities. They're gonna want to throw the football and
you're gonna have an opportunity to make plays in the
defensive backfield. And if they can do that, Like I said,
I I cannot believe that this game is thirteen. You know,
I know that that that there are so many people
that think that Notre Dame is, you know, the going
to be the team to beat outside of the Power
for conferences. You know, they're the non conference team that
people need to look at. I don't see it from
the from the Irish, I really don't.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't either. I know it could get out
of hand really quickly if if turnovers and things snowball,
but maybe does not turn the football over. You know,
they've only got what a hand they I mean, I
don't think they fumbled the ball all what. I don't
think they've lost a fumble all year, have they? I
don't think so.
Speaker 3: And Blake Carvath only has one interception.
Speaker 2: Yeah, two is a team, so he's got one, and
there's one other in there by one of the backups.
But that Navy takes care of the football. Notre Dame
has had trouble getting off the field or or at
least converting on third downs. They convert, They rank ninety
second in the country at thirty seven point seven percent
on converting on third downs. Third down defense has been
pretty good. But you know it's Navy's not a turnover
team this year. They have not been turnover prone. Are
they waiting on a big game where they could the
floodgates can open? It could happen against Notre Dame. This
is definitely without a doubt. I don't care who anybody
is pulling for in this game. This is a step
up in competition for the Naval Academy. This is an
opponent like they have not seen this year. So could
this thing goes sideways? It could. I just think that
what we're seeing out of Navy's playing just really good football.
I don't think they're going to roll over. I think
this is going to be a dog fight down to
the fourth quarter. Stephen Yep, I agree.
Speaker 3: I think that this is going to be what everybody
thought that Navy and Memphis was going to be. I
think that Navy and Notre Dame takes that to even
the next level. I think that there's there's there's a
there's every chance that one of these teams gets out
to a lead to But I'm not saying as big
of a lead as Navy did with Memphis. But I
certainly think you could get to a two score lead
sometime in the second in the second half and watch
the other team come back and even tie the game.
I think that this is gonna come down to the
very end. And you know, I think when we talk
about maybe the most exciting game that we see this year,
you're probably looking at one of the two. I think
both both of the Service academies against Nerdame, we're gonna
end up saying outside of the Army Navy game is
probably gonna be the most exciting games that we see.
Speaker 2: I agree, Navy and also Army just two of the
ten remaining unbeaten teams in the FBS this season? Does
it stay that way after Saturday? Come about three point
thirty four o'clock, we will find out. But maybe one
of three teams to win every single game by double figures.
I don't think that's going to continue if they do,
in fact knockoff Notre Dame, but we'll find out for
those scoring at home. Navy's last win over Notre Dame
came back in twenty sixteen when they knocked off the
Irish twenty eight to twenty seven in Jacksonville. So another
neutral site game for this one on Saturday. Steven, all right,
let's go ahead and make our picks, because we've kind
of rolled through everything. Want to save this one game
for last. Certainly Army and Air Force they are off
this weekend as they get ready to face each other
at West Point next weekend. But Navy Notre Dame. Which
way are you going to pick this one? Steven?
Speaker 3: You know, it's funny. I think that the one person
that probably is going to cause as much, be as
much of a difference as anybody in this game is
Riley Riichman. You know, it's funny to talking about the punter.
You know, I think that if they need to use him,
he's the type of guy that can flip a field
and really put pressure on an opposing team's offense to
try and get out from under their own shadow. So
I really do think that if they if he's used
correctly and as long as there's no mistakes, this is
going to be very, very close. I unfortunately think that
Navy does fall from the ranks of the unbeaten this week.
I think it's twenty seven to twenty four. I think
Notre Dame pulls it out in the end.
Speaker 2: Wow, you almost stole the exact score that I went
with originally, but I changed it. I changed it before
you came out and gave your twenty seven to twenty
four pick of Notre Dame. I think this is like you.
I think we're you and I are lockstep, and I
like when we think differently on things just because it
makes it more fun. But I'm just right there with you.
I think this is going to be one that comes
down to almost to the bitter end. I don't know
if it's going to be a Nathan Kirkwood field goal
that makes the difference in the final minutes, but I'm
going out on a limb this one, and I'm going
to pick Navy twenty four to twenty three over Notre Dame.
I know it's unconventional. Let's just call it a feeling.
And when I get those feelings, that gut feeling isn't
always right. But something tells me that Notre Dame is
going to go down. I think. I think I'm still
stuck on. And I know it was kind of an
anomaly coming off the win over Texas A and M,
but I'm still stuck on watching what doing what Northern
Illinois did in South Bend to Notre Dame. I still
got that in the back of my head and I
can't get rid of it because Northern Illinois, with all
due respect to the Huskies, they're not what Navy is
this year. And you know, you know that midshipman, those
kids having you know, you and I have been there,
we worked with them. You know, they circle. This is
one of those games you circle because they were always
told they were too small, not big enough, too short
to play major college football. And this is the one
time where they get to show anybody and everybody if
they're a five eight defensive back, if there are a
six ' one, two hundred and fifty pound offensive lineman,
that they are indeed worthy of playing D one football.
Speaker 3: Well, and you and I will and I'm going to
use this term that if they be Notre Dame Marcus
Freeman is getting to kill haul in the one of
the one of the best nautical terms of all time. Uh,
if you have to ask, you don't want to know
what a kill hauling is, but uh, I can certainly
see that. If that, if that, if Nathan Kirkwood kicks
the winning field goal at MetLife Stadium to give Navy
a win over Notre Dame, Marcus Freeman's getting a kill
haul in when he gets back to South Bend. They
don't even have water there.
Speaker 2: Man, it is gonna be fun. I can't wait. Again.
We only have one game, but boy, that game should
be a good one. We hope it's a good one.
But we hope you've enjoyed this episode of Yards and
Strip's Army, Navy, and Air Force. That is what we do, Steven,
tell everybody what we got the last word on Sports
podcast Network.
Speaker 3: No, there's plenty this week on the Last Word on
Sports podcast Network. Again, It's last Word on sports dot Com.
Slash pot cast we've got this week in the ACC
the guys are talking with Tim Thomas of Tech Lunch Pale,
where they're going in deep into the Hokies are our
friends that it just means more football and coffee. Of course,
a lot about Tennessee and their upset win over Alabama.
Get off my pylon, just talking about why can't USC
finish football games this year. Matt Deemick's got a great
bit there at Jason Powers with Florida Football Insiders. There's
another team that's undefeated that he's talking about. That would
be the Miami Hurricanes. He's got their play by play voice,
jo Joseph Ghaki. I'm gonna say his name right one
of these days. Joseahaki is the is the voice of
the Miami Hurricanes with him this week. So plenty to
talk about this week Last Word on Sports dot Com,
Slash Podcasts.
Speaker 2: And Josephaki is awesome, but it's awesome being with everybody
here this week. Preciate her by giving us their time investing.
Preciate Steven Carney, the all star producer, co host everything
that he does. There is nobody better in radio podcasting
world than Stephen Carney, I promise you that, and I'm
not just buttering them up waiting for a check in
the mail that ain't coming, just because I love them.
Speaker 3: In the great Jade, my wife, You've made my wife
and my mother very happy saying.
Speaker 2: That, well, enjoy the games this weekend. We will catch
up with you certainly next week, because obviously next week
we will recap what transpires up at the Meadowlands as
a neutral site game whichween Navy and Notre Dame taking
place in New York, and we got to get you
ready for the second leg of the Commander in Chief
Trophy next week, which you're good, Air Force and Army.
Absolutely we will do it. Then, have a great weekend,
enjoy the game.
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