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

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Navy and Air Force. This is Yards and Stripes Service

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

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Steve Carney.

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Speaker 2: All right, here we go another episode of Yards and Stripes, Army,

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

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how about a surprise in week one Steven to kick

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things off as we get underway an episode two here

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of Yards and Stripes. He is Stephen Carney and I

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am Price Atkinson. Appreciate you tuning in with us this

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week as we recap the weekend, we get you ready

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for the week ahead. We've got our Travis Mannion Foundation

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Honor Roll segment. We got game balls to give out.

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We got picks to make for the week ahead, two

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games to be exact. We will talk about those in

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just a little bit. But Steven, damn good to see

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you on a Labor Day edition as we were recording

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on Monday evening, getting ready for yet another week in

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a college football but before we put one foot in

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front of the other. Damn it, how was opening weekend?

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Did it feel like Christmas morning? I know it did.

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Here at the app cons to the State.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, It certainly did here with us here in Tampa

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as well, and it really started on Thursday with the

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University of South Florida beating Boise State at Raymond James

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Stadium thirty four to seven, and it really never stopped

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from that point on. I'm sure that Navy Athletics director

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Michael Kelly, who we had on last week, of course,

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go back and listen to that conversation if you want

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here in the College Gridiron Coast to Coast podcast network Feed.

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I know Michael was very happy to see that because

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it's another step forward in a group and a group

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of people that he led down here before going to Annapolis.

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But then watching an entire weekend, you know, getting a

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game on Fry, two games on Saturday to watch was

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just awesome and had had everything lined up. It didn't

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matter if I was working baseball games or if I

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was here at the crib. There was college football on

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on some device, whether it was my television, my iPad,

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my phone, it didn't matter. There was going to be football,

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and it was. It was a lot of fun for sure.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, as the weekend is still literally opening weekend, it

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is finishing off tonight as TCU and U and C

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are on the field right now. But before we go

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any further and we talk about what are the surprises.

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I don't want to call it a shocker because I wasn't,

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you know, shocked, you know, a little bit surprised. I

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thought would be the closest game of the week. But

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we'll get to that in a second. As Army falls,

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Navy and Air Force get victories first, like we have

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to do every single week. Steven a poppy Yon's pizza report.

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We got to know Labor Day evening, we threw up

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the grill up here at the Atkinson now tonight with

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some burgers and dogs. What did Steven and his lovely bride?

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How was that? Pabian's this evening? Give me the toppings?

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Speaker 3: You know, usually on Mondays we have burgers. Okay, so

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it's it's pretty funny that you got you got the

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grill out. We usually do burgers on Monday, and we

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usually leave the pizza for Tuesday or Wednesday. But with

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with it being Labor Day, Emily was off from work.

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I didn't have anything uh this afternoon. That was pressing

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for me. So we went and got pizza for lunch

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from a little place right down the street from the

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crib called Slice of the Burg.

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Speaker 4: It's a it's a New York style.

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 3: I hate saying New York style pizza because that is

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pizza to me. But I say New York style in

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the sense that it's uh. You can get it by

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the slice. They they sell it on paper plates. Uh.

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They had all sorts of different uh styles which I

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or I shouldn't say styles, but tops and some very

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cool specialties. Emily got the Sweet Heat, which had pepperoni,

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rakota and mango hobanarow honey on it. So in the sauce,

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which I thought was really neat, I went straight meat lovers,

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because that's if I want to If I.

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Speaker 4: Want to have vegetables on a pizza, I'll order a salad.

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Speaker 3: But what you can get when you can get two slices,

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which is basically half a pie and a drink for

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eight dollars or eight point fifty, it's the perfect lunch

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to have and a great lunch special that they have

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Slice of the Burg in Saint Petersburg, Florida.

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Speaker 4: Definitely check them out.

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm thrown off kilter because we usually don't record

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on Monday evenings, so you know, forgive me for what

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you know, for requesting a Popion's Pizza report. And no

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we're not sollictening or advertising for popyons. They don't pay

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as they are listening for Papa y okay, let right,

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don't I want them to?

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Speaker 4: I want them to sponsor yards and stripes.

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Speaker 2: I do too because I want to give out a

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free pizza coupon to a lucky listener every week and

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then them not claim it and we get to use

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it for ourselves so we can. But you know, I'm

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not that kind of guy. I am a much nicer guy.

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But I'll tell you one thing, Tarleton was anything but nice.

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Steven to the Black Knights in overtime on Friday Night

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as the Texans. They walk into Mike Stadium and they

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pull off a big one in double overtime Tarlatan State

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thirty Army twenty seven and the season opener for the

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Black Knights as Tarlatan State getting their first or second

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ever win over a D one opponent. So obviously a

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big evening for Tarletan State. And I thought, you know,

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when we did our picks last week, I had the

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game you know I picked. I thought it would have

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been close. Thirty twenty four is when I had it.

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You had at thirty three fourteen. I thought it would

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be close for a while. But then in that fourth

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quarter is when Army and their offensive line and playing

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at home, they would just you know, when you when

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you're playing a one double A team or excuse me

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an FCS team, you know usually in the second half

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and in the fourth quarter, that you know, the depth

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starts becoming an issue. It didn't at Mikey on Friday night.

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It's I mean, it seemed like Tarleton. You know, they

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continued to really get their feet under them, and they

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got stronger as the game went on. But you know,

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regardless of how it transpired, what transpired was a very

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tough opening loss for Jeff Munkin and his team. Uh

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is they had that nine game home winning streak that

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was snapped there at the hands of a Brad Larson's

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thirty seven yard field goal in double overtime. Your reaction,

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because again I don't think we say shocked, just a

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little bit surprised here in this.

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Speaker 3: One, Steve Well, and you have to think that Dwayne

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Coleman left the game in the fourth quarter with a

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while minutes to play, Now, I give their backup Cal

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Helms all the credit in the world. He led the

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Black Knights down the field and into field goal range.

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But when you have a kicker that's in his first

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collegiate game, as Dawson Jones was, you could tell the

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nerves were kind of getting to him, and that's to

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be expected from a true freshman. This is an eighteen

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year old kid that is kicking in Division one football

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for the first time, at home, in front of everybody

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that he knows, and he ends up missing from I believe,

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from forty three with as time expired to send the

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game into overtime instead of giving the Black Knights a victory.

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Speaker 4: Now Jones, I saw he went two for four.

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Speaker 3: He made from twenty four and from forty missed from

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forty three and forty. Here's the thing that really, if

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I'm Jeff Monkin, this is what I harped on on

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Saturday morning when I got the guys into the facility

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and had them watching film early on Saturday morning before

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you gave them maybe the opportunity to go watch some football.

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Army was minus three in the turnover ratio. We've talked

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about this every single year that for service academies to

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be successful, you can't be negative in the turnover ratio

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and two interceptions, they lost a fumble. They all came

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in the second half. You know that that I think

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is huge there that three of their drives ended with

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the ball on the turf and with Tarleton State getting

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an opportunity to go the other way. Never mind the

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missed field goals at the end of regulation and in

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second and in the second overtime that allowed Tarleton State

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to pick up the victory. The the turnovers are what

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Jeff Bunkin is is gonna harp on all this week

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as they get ready for what's going to be a

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much bigger, a much bigger program that they're gonna have

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to go face in Manhattan, that being Manhattan, Kansas gah,

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home of Kansas State.

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Speaker 4: To gotta get that fixed.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Army up twenty four to ten midway through the

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third quarter and did not score again until the Dawson

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Jones forty forty yard field goal in the first overtime

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to force the second overtime. And like you said, you know,

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certainly Dwayne Coleman going out getting banged up late there

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in regulation as cal Hellums came on in relief, you know,

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just you know, not having your your your your signal caller,

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the one that everybody knows, you know, the ones they

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had the game plan for. That's that obviously hurt the

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Black Knights. But you know, nonetheless, you know Coleman was

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pretty darn good in the football game, you know, seven

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twelve throwing the football one hundred and twenty nine yards. Yeah,

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he had two interceptions. You mentioned the turnovers. That's not

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gonna that's not going to make Jeff Munkin happy. But

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he did run for a team high twenty four times

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one hundred yards and a touchdown. So you know, this

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is his team this year. This is not him coming

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in relief for bryceon Daily. If you're an Army fan,

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you're certainly not you know, you're not happy with the loss,

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but you've got to be happy to see Dwayne Coleman

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have that productive you know, have that productive night. And

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as one of our listeners had had sent me a

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note over the weekend, he's you know, he was bummed

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out about it too, Steven Astaborski, who's a loyal listener,

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but he sent me a note and he's dead on.

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He said, look, Army's goals are all still within reach.

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Beat Navy, win the Commander in Chief Trophy, make a

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bowl game, make it to the American Championship game in

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the season ranked again. So I was like, I can't

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argue with you, dude. Yeah, the loss sucks it. I

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don't say it's embarrassing losing to a you know, one

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double AFCs team, but everything's there, still on the table.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the fourth the fourth goal might be a little

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tougher because I can see a lot of college football

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writers and coaches going, I'm not going to give my

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vote to an Army club that lost to an FCS

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team to begin the year. I can just see especially writers,

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maybe not so much coaches, but I can see writers going,

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now they lost to an FCS team, I'm not giving

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them a vote, even if they run the table from

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here on out. There are certainly writers that are out

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there that will say screw that. But I agree, all

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of those goals are still within reach and they're all

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still very attainable. But it's going to start. You know,

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Army is going to now be unfortunately behind the proverbial

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eight ball and maybe with a very likely chance this

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week that they're going to start the euro in two,

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which they did not want to do.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, once again Tarleton's State thirty Army twenty seven and

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double overtime. As the Black Knights now get ready to

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go on the road to Manhattan and then the Little

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Apple to take on k State. That'll be a tough

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one certainly this weekend. But moving on from last weekend,

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Navy fifty two vm I seven, we thought this one

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would be probably over at halftime, and it certainly was.

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As the two headed monster at quarterback for Navy. You know,

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it's funny now starting to see, you know, some of

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that depth you know Navy, you know, last couple of years,

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you know, before Blake Corbath really took the bull by

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the horns last year, played a lot of quarterbacks over

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the last couple of seasons. Now that might be starting

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to pay off a little bit. Yes, it was vm I,

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but you know, Blake Corbath comes in, is the starter,

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one of you know, considered one of the top quarterbacks

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certainly in the American throws six to seven, nearly perfect

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sixty six yards, those eight to beautiful eighteen yard touchdown

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passed to Eli Heiden right before they bench him and

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put Braxton Woodson in you know who, a senior who

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you know started has had his moments starting under center.

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He had one hundred and eighty yards rushing what on

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just seven carries, a seventy four yard touchdown run, a

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sixty eight yard touchdown run the second half as Navy

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rolled up fifty five hundred and fifty six yards of

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total offense four hundred and sixty four on the ground.

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Navy could do no wrong. But it was all started

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by those two quarterbacks, Blake Corbath with throwing the football

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it was it was interesting to see how the dynamic

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changed between the quarterbacks, and it gives Navy a little

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bit of a wrinkle that teams are gonna have to

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start preparing for. It's like, okay, are we going to

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see Blake Corbath doing his thing? And he can run

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the ball, he can throw the football, and then Braxton

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Woodson with the amazing way that he was able to

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get through into a second into the VMI secondary and

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get down the field and into the end zone twice.

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I saw this note at Woodson's one hundred and eighty

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yards on seven carries is the most yards on seven

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carries since Clyde Edwards. Hilaire when he was at LSU

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had one hundred and eighty eight yards on six.

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Speaker 4: Carries, which I think about that.

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Speaker 3: I mean, you're averaging over thirty five yards of gary.

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Speaker 4: You know, that's an incredible number.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, I do like the fact that now Brian

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Newberry has these two different facets that he can show

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out there, and you when you have two facets, you

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technically have.

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Speaker 4: Four because you can go the other way. And I

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really like that.

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Speaker 3: It's gonna make Navy even harder for opposing defensive coordinators

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to script against.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this won't get I'm not prisoner, you know, I'm

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not a prisoner of the moment kind of god. I

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always like to temper expectations, especially when you're playing a

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one double a team, a much lesser opponent in week one.

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the podcast here many times I'll say it again. It usually, really,

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to me, takes a month to really learn, you know,

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what a team is, who their identity is, what their

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strengths are, because again, the opponents are usually so varied

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in that first month of the season. So you know,

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for everything that we say about Army just a few

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minutes ago, and we'll say about Navy right now, and

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certainly air Force, you know, there's a lot of season ahead.

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and air Force and Navy one big. But how much

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can you really learn about beating up on vm I?

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your foot on your foot on the throat when you

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got them down, and they did. And you know, a

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team that like vm I, that has struggled mightily in

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the success category every up and down the stat sheet.

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Navy holding vm I to less than one yards rushing

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per game. Don't care who you are, that's gonna win

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you a football game most anytime you play.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it certainly will.

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Speaker 3: And uh when you look at especially see the time

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of possession, uh, and and all of the all of

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the team stats that that you that you tend to

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look at there. Yeah, I know that you know, maybe

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you would like to have seen the time of possession

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be a little higher. But when you're when you're going

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down the field as quickly as they were, you know

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that's going to be something that you don't have to

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that that you kind of have to take with a

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with a grain of salt. I loved the fact that

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they were ten for thirteen on third downs. I loved

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the fact that they had zero turnovers. And and again

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I will, I will harp this until the cows come home.

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Speaker 4: Price. Uh.

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Speaker 3: That that is exactly how a service Academy puts in.

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Speaker 4: It puts up a victory.

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Speaker 3: It doesn't matter if it's against the Key Dets, it

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doesn't matter if it's against cod Debts, it doesn't matter

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if it's against Wildcats. You know, it's exactly what a

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Service Academy should be known for when it comes to

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their football program.

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Speaker 2: And the other thing, too is when you have got

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the returning cast of characters like Navy does. And I

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say that with all with all respect and everything, but

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when you return the playmakers in the kind of weapons

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that Navy has, especially on the offensive side of the ball,

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you want to see him get going early and you

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don't want to have to wait, well, where has so

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and so been? You know, after a couple of games

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that wasn't the case. Blake Corvath showed out played great

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now Alex Tesca led the team with you know, fifteen carries.

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He had eighty nine yards, just shy of six yards

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of carry. Of course, Eli heiden Wright did his thing.

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He had seventy yards on the ground and a touchdown

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then also caught a touchdown pass six receptions for sixty

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five yards. All your studs, you know, in playmakers for Navy,

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they were showing, they were showing out and show themselves

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in that very first game. And that's what you like

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to see is once again they beginning that fifty two

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to seven win over VMI to prove to one to

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zero as B and I dropped to oh to one

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on the season. All right, last game of the weekend,

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Stephen out in Colorado Springs the Air Force Academy. They

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bounce back and get a forty nine to thirteen win

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over But now when I say bounced back, obviously I'm

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referring to the tough season last year. But now nineteen

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straight wins to open the season and a fifth straight

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win dating back to last year. Because as we've talked

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about last week previewing the season, you know, it's tough

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of a season the Air Force did have last year.

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They ended the season on a four game winning streak.

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So you wrap it around, that's now fifth or five

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straight wins for the Falcons in a game that had

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a weather delay there in the third quarter. You know,

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that took about not quite an hour and then they

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end up playing a twelve minute fourth quarter there with

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both coaches agreeing to it. But I think one of

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the biggest things is you saw Josh and it was

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a revolving door quarterback. Last year for Air Force, you know,

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they didn't even have a single quarterback throw multiple touchdown

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passes in a single game last year. He did it

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with two touchdown passes. In this game, he only had

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four compleations, but two of them were for touchdowns one

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hundred and twelve yards. It was great to see Josh

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Johnson get to get going again opponent, notwithstanding a win.

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And this is exactly how you want to start it

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to get it going for the Falcons.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and they were.

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Speaker 3: Able to stretch the field on those on those touchdowns.

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One of them was a forty yarder to Quinn Smith,

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and then Kate Harris, who had two rushing touchdowns, also

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had the sixty six sixty two yard touchdown pass as well.

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So I like the fact that they were able to

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try and stretch things down the field, made like easier

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for them on the ground, and they did. I thought

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a good job on the ground, you know, rushing the

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rushing the football, you know, two hundred and sixty seven

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yards rushing Buckdal had just two hundred and sixty six

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total yards. So I love that that look there, and

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I loved that they were able to get plus turnover wise,

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whereas you know, Army was minus, Navy was even, air

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Force was plus. They got they picked up a fumble,

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they they got an interception, so two of the Bison

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drives ended with the ball going the other way.

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Speaker 4: And I and I.

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Speaker 3: Think that's a huge boost of confidence to a defensive

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squad who found that a very hard thing to do

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last year.

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Speaker 2: And another thing that was hard to come by for

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Air Force last year, which you don't usually it's not

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the case, especially when you talk triple option football and

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service academies, because you know, typically big plays that are

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going to come Those big plays weren't in abundance last

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year for the Falcons. But they started with a big play,

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a forty yard touchdown pass Josh Johnson to Quinn Smith

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to open the game, and then another big, a big

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touchdown pass from Josh Johnson Decaid Hair sixty two yards

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to end the first half up twenty eight to seven.

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That's got to give you a lot of confidence. Again,

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you know, a Bucknell opponent notwithstanding, but you know, one

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thing that you can do in a game like this

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is you can start strong. And you're younger guys and

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some first time starters, guys that may not have played

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a lot. You can give them a taste of success,

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and that's something that can carry you a long way.

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Especially when you get that kind of momentum and you

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get that taste of success early. That's a good sign

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for air Force and Troy foul Troy Calhoun's team because

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it just was not in abundance, especially those big plays.

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They just continually lacked the home run, big hitter.

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Speaker 3: Last year, Steve, Yeah, and I looked at last year

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Navy got that first bit of success in their schedule,

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putting up forty nine points against Bucknell. This year, it's

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all your air Force has turned to nearly hang a

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fifty nine or a fifty burger on the Bison. So

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maybe I you know, I I'm not saying that those

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can be related, but I do like the fact that

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they were able to do a very similar sort of

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outing as what Navy was able to do last year

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with this club, and will that lead to similar success

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this year?

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Speaker 4: Who knows.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean that's why they play these games. Yeah,

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on the field and not on paper. But it's certainly

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a very positive piece that Troy Calhoun and company can

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point at and go, Okay, guys, now you know what,

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You've got this feeling underneath you, and now we start

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to move on from here because things are going to

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start getting harder after our bye week this week.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, a really clean game played by the Falcons. They

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were also seven to ten on third and fourth down combined,

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and you know, four hundred and twenty six yards offense

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is something that in an area they struggled with last year.

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So the big plays were certainly a welcome site and

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good to see as air Force gets that forty nine

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to thirteen win over. But now to open the season,

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all right, let's give out some game balls, Steven, because

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I'm gonna let you go second, because you got a

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special one, and so I'm gonna fire away first. And

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as we just mentioned, air Force, Josh Johnson a quarterback.

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He is gonna get my game ball because coming back

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after a season where Air Force just struggled offensively to

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find any kind of identity. You know, there were times,

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you know they thought throwing the football might be their ticket. No,

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Josh Johnson came in and you know, won the job

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this summer, the junior out of New Orleans and played

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a strong football game four seven, one hundred and twelve yards. Again,

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he threw what two touchdowns? And you need to have

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some consistency at quarterback, and Troy Calhoun has been notorious

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Steve we know of playing even a revolving door at quarterback,

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not being happy with some guys for whatever reason. Boss

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Johnson can play in lock down the spot. He's got

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a lot of the physical tools we will see. It

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obviously is gonna get a lot harder against against Kansas State.

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But the job he did in settling his team and

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getting that those big plays in the first half huge

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in my book, especially for Air Force to get back

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to their winning ways and build on that four game

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win streak. Josh Johnson gets my game ball, the junior

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quarterback from air Force.

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Speaker 4: All Right, my game ball goes.

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna go a little different for this first game

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ball of the year, I'm gonna go with Army sophomore

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defensive back Larry Pickett Junior.

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Speaker 4: And I know what some people.

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Speaker 3: May say, Okay, if you don't know Cadet Pickett, he's

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on special teams. He did get a tackle in the

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loss to Tarlton State. But it's not so much what

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he did on the field that which is why he

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gets the game ball, But it is what ha happened

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off the field with Larry Pickett Junior. As on early

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Sunday morning, the cadet who was with his father, Larry

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Pickett Senior, from Raleigh, North Carolina, they pulled an elderly

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man from a burning car outside of West Point, just

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outside of West Point on Route nine W and Fort Montgomery,

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and so just after midnight ran towards a burning vehicle

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anuring the down power lines crackling around it, and pulled

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a man to safety just just before the car really

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caught fire. And in which case, who knows what would

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have happened to that driver and our Army ad Tom

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Theodoracus wrote on x that Pickett's conduct is quote exactly

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what we strive to develop leadership, courage, and selfless service.

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So to Cadet Pickett, who I gave a Bravo zulu

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to on social media.

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Speaker 4: He gets my game ball for this week.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, just incredible heroic stuff. And like you said,

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that's what you're training leaders to be at the at

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the United States Military Academy. So just incredible stuff from

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Larry Pickett, you know, putting others before themselves. Amazing. All right,

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we're gonna come back here in a second. We've got

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more games to preview. We've got our Travis Manian Foundation

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on a roll segment where on our fallen hero that's

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given the ultimate sacrifice. We get some picks to make.

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But first we are part of the College Gridiron Coast

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to Coast podcast network, available on last Word on sports

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dot com. Get off my pylon. I mean, we have

486
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got a litany of shows college football that will scratch

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your itch on the College Griddar and Coast to Coast

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podcast network, including a new one this week, Steven.

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Speaker 4: That's right.

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Speaker 3: We've got Tim ham and who's taking over the Pig

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Skin and Burnt Ends podcast where we talk football and food.

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Speaker 4: Sounds like probably one that we should have been doing.

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Speaker 3: But although we only talk three three different schools, so

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it might be a little tougher, but certainly Pigskin and

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burnt Ends will start this week. Of course, we have

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this week in the ACEC and Big ten Paradigm, which

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come out on Mondays this week. Nor Drury, who is

498
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the host of Big ten Paradigm, talking a lot about

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Ohio State and their statement victory over then number one

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ranked Texas and so he's got that going. Of course,

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get off my pylon talks about the West Coast. We've

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got Florida football insiders talking about college football here in

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the Sunshine s a big week for college football here

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in Florida because Florida one, Florida State one, Miami one,

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USF one, and UCF one off played Jacksonville State.

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Speaker 2: That doesn't really count.

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Speaker 3: But the first four certainly do, especially USFS win over

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a top twenty five RANC team for the first time

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since twenty nineteen, I believe when they beat Navy. But

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that's another story for another time. But plenty of stuff,

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plus the Big twelve and SEC Breakdown with Tyler Jones

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and Thomas Bridges coming up later this week. So again

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college Gridiron Coast to coast on social media at Gridiron

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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: Army, Navy and Air Force. That's what we do here

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on Yards and Stripes. See Steve Carnegie Price Atkinson. As

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we continue on rolling along on episode two, we've got

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two games this week. We just recap the ones from

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weekend one. Now we got week two on tap and

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let's start Steven with our first game of the day.

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Going in order as far as kickoffs, Navy hosting UAB

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Alabama Birmingham coming to Navy Marine Corps Memorial Stadium for

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a Saturday three point thirty pm kickoff on CBS Sports Network,

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as it will be the American Conference opener for both

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teams and a series that Navy leads two to nothing

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right now. Navy a twenty one and a half point

564
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favorite over under in this one right now as we

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sit on Labor Day evening fifty nine and a half points.

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Navy welcoming the Blazers after a big forty five point

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win over vm I maybe's largest margin of victory and

568
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a season opener since nineteen forty five, and a team

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that went on to go seven to one and one.

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You know, like I said, this these team, this is

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a young series, Steven has Navy won the game last

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00:31:35,799 --> 00:31:38,839
year in Birmingham forty one to eighteen, and then won

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the year before in Annapolis thirty one to six. We'll

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pick the games here in just a few minutes in

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the next segment, but you gotta like Navy at home

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in this one. Even with ten first time starters in

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the opener, whis tied with Fresno for the most in

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the country.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and UAB is not an an inexperienced group this year.

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And you know last year, you know, having a having

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a new quarterback transferring in in Jalen Kittna, you know,

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you could go Okay, Now he's had a he's had

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a full year with the with Trent Dilfer, and I

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I really do think that that's a that's a big plus.

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Speaker 4: Uh.

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Speaker 3: He had two hundred and forty seven yards in uab's

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win in Week one, So I don't think that that

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he's going to be anything to write home on to

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write home to. But I really do think that, you know,

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Navy's defense is going to be in for a much

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tougher standard this week than than they were against v M.

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I I think, you know, Jalen Kittna is obviously the

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son of John Kittna, uh, the former NFL quarterback. So

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I think that that's gonna be that's gonna be a

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really good test for for this Navy defense.

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Speaker 4: I think you're absolutely right.

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Speaker 3: You know, this is not a game that should be

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in doubt, especially if NAY plays like they did last week.

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I think that they're going to have a way to now,

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you know, make it a real easy victory. But I

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really do like the challenge. I like the step up

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in competition that they're going to.

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Speaker 4: Get this week.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I do too. And UAB coming off at fifty

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two to forty two win over Alabama State on Thursday

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night last week, Blazers putting up thirty five points in

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the second half, and they mentioned Florida transferred Jalen kitting

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at eighteen to twenty three two hundred and forty seven

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yards and two touchdowns. But it was really an outstanding

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ground game led by Javon Jackson, a red shirt senior

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who used to play or transferred Austin p and utep

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one hundred and sixty six yards on seventeen carries, two touchdowns,

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while Solomon Bebe, saphomore, he tossed in two touchdowns with

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fifty one yards on eight carries. So a big, you

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know effort on the ground, but also getting it done

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through the air. But you know, again, this is gonna

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be a step up for both Navy and UAB, you know,

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after playing you know FCS opponents last week, much much different,

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especially with a first American Conference game on the line.

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Speaker 3: Stephen, Yeah, absolutely, and you know, I love the fact

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that that Navy's getting the conference play started this early.

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And you know, you mentioned Kittner, you mentioned Jackson. Of

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course you've got their their main wide receiver, Corey Milner,

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who is a sophomore from Alexandria City, Alabama, So a

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very young wide receiver, not you know, not not the

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biggest guy in the world. He is six foot two,

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so he is going to be bigger than Navy's defensive backs,

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but still not the biggest wide receiver that these guys

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will see. But a guy that can certainly run and

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had a pretty good outing here to start things. He

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had five catches, almost one hundred yards through the air,

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did have a forty nine yard excuse me, forty nine

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yards is the long end of twenty six yard touchdown.

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So I really do think that that's gonna be big

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for Like I said, I think this is gonna be

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huge for the for the defense and especially the defensive backs.

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Speaker 2: All right, once again, Navy and UAB a three point

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thirty kickoff on Saturday CBS Sports Network. Is Navy's a

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big twenty one and a half point favorite against UAB.

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Moving on through the day, our second game, Army is

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gonna be hitting the road heading to the Little Apple

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to take on number seventeen Kansas State. The Wildcats one

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in one overall obviously Army zero to one, losing their

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season opener. This is a Saturday seven pm Eastern Standard

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Time kickoff. This is gonna be on ESPN. The main

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ESPN is Army right now is getting seventeen and a

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half in a game with over under his forty six

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and a half. Right now, Army does lead the overall

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00:35:52,199 --> 00:35:56,760
series two to nothing. And you know, Case State obviously,

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we know they went to Ireland and farm again that

651
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first one, you know, coming up short to Iowa State

652
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to you know, put it mildly, and then they had

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to come from behind again steven last week to get

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that thirty eight to thirty five win over North Dakota,

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a pretty darn good team out of uh you know,

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from the FCS level. Uh, but they did get it done.

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And now they got to turn their attention to Army

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coming to the Little Apple.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: And and Avery Johnson their quarterback, uh, you know, five

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touchdowns through two games, no interceptions, and really you got

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to give credit to the Wildcat offensive line. They have

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kept him upright for the most parties. He's only been

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sacked twice in two games, so not a lot of

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pressure has gotten to Johnson. Would love to see the

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Black Knights try and you know, take a couple of

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chances against Kansas State. You've got to get to Avery

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Johnson in order for for you to have that opportunity.

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Speaker 4: And I really do think that they it's going to

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be very, very difficult.

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Speaker 3: You saw, you know, North Kotda is a much better

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FCS team than Tarleton State. You know, North Dakota is

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always in the FCS Final four or in the championship game.

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They're not getting ousted in the second round like Tarletson

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State was. Now, could Tarlaton State take that next step

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and could they take that next step this year?

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Speaker 4: Sure?

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, But I really do think this is going to

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be about Avery Johnson getting and getting pressure on Johnson

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to make sure that he can't go through his progressions.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely. And you know in two games right now,

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the k State defense holding opponents to less than two

683
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or less than three yards per rush on seventy nine attempts,

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also sixteen tackles for a loss in seven sacks, which

685
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ranks twenty fourth nationally. So, right, now kse State getting

686
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the job done against you know, teams trying to run

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the football, which we obviously know that's what Army's going

688
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to do. In quarterback, Avery Johnson set to make his

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seventeenth career start under center with a pass efficiency of

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one fifty seven and a half and throwing for a

691
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completion percentage of sixty seven percent as he enters the

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week fourteenth in the country and passyards per game just

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shy of three hundred and sixteenth nationally and completions at

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twenty four and a half. So, you know, Chris climb

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and this is a coach and a team. You know

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that I've become a big, big fan of Chris Climban

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ever since that he got highed there in the Little Apple.

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And Jean Taylor, a friend of mine who we work

699
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together at Navy, now the athletic director at Kansas State.

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Jean's done a great job since he took over the

701
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job at Kansas State, getting Chris climbing from believe it

702
00:38:41,239 --> 00:38:44,360
was North Dakota State, and obviously getting their basketball program

703
00:38:44,400 --> 00:38:48,320
turned around with the Jerome tang And you know, there's

704
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a lot of big things happening there in the Little Apple.

705
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But I'd love I'm just a huge fan of Chris

706
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Climbing and the job he's done there at k State

707
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since he entered the Big Twelve.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think, you know, Kansas State is a

709
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is definitely a program that most people are certainly aware

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of their success when it comes to football. You mentioned,

711
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you know, getting the basketball program turned around. They've got,

712
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you know, plenty of other sports that they're obviously very

713
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very good at, and so credit to Gene Taylor on that.

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The other thing that I think Army is gonna have

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to worry about when it comes to their offense is

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you got to watch out for the guy we're.

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Speaker 4: In forty four.

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Speaker 3: Toby Osen saw on me a six foot three junior

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defensive end. Iowa State didn't have him marked, and he

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got a couple of sacks in that game. He also

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had six tackles in the in the victory over in

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North Dakota.

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Speaker 4: So this is the guy who's got you.

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Speaker 3: Know, ten tackles, seven solos, and three sacks so far

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through two games. If you if you don't know where

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forty four is in the is on the field, it

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doesn't matter if it's Dwayne Coleman. If it's Cale Helms

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or if it's you and I under center for Army,

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they're going to go down and then it's not going.

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Speaker 2: To be pretty interesting. I mentioned that the series, Army

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leads the series two to nothing. This is going to

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be the seventh meeting and program history for the Wildcats

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facing one of the service academies, and interesting enough, they're

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all either they're one sided rivalries as Army leads the

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series two to oh, but KSE State in three meeting

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against Air Force. They're three to oh all time against

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the Falcons. But KSE State's only meeting against Navy came

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in the twenty nineteen Liberty Bowl if you remember, just

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one of the fantastic games of Bowl season that was

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a twenty to seventeen loss to the midship mid So

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it's kind of feast or famine in a little bit

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of a way. And just the seven meetings against service academies,

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which will be it'll be the seventh on Saturday, but

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nonetheless should be an outstanding matchup and I love the

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fact that it's going to be on ESPN. Army getting

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some major play in airtime with this one again kicking

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off from the Little Apple seven o'clock Eastern Standard time,

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Army ginning seventeen and a half in this game against

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Kansas State, Steve, what we got more to do? We got?

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We got a Travis Manion Foundation Honorall segment coming up

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in the very next segment, we got some picks to

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make on the way out the door. Let's go ahead

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and do that here on Yards and Stripes, your home

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or Service Academy Football.

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

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Speaker 2: Welcome back into the Arts and Stripes. Now it's time

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for our Travis Mannon Foundation Honorale segment, where honor and

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remember a fallen hero one that has given the ultimate

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sacrifice for our nation and for our freedoms. And here

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this week we're gonna honor. Remember I remember the United

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States Navy one Andrew sharpened Tear from Great Falls, Montana,

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who gave the ultimate sacrifice on July the twenty third,

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two thousand and nine.

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Speaker 4: He was described as.

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Speaker 2: An amazing person full of love, curing, generosity, talent life.

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He made an impact on many lives will never be forgotten,

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and throughout his life he exemplified many strengths such as kindness, humor,

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and bravery. When Andrew completed his schooling to be an

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aircraft electronics technician, he was offered the chance to go

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to Guantanamo Bay, not the place where he could use

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his education, but rather a high risk opportunity that he

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chose to take because he knew he would be helping

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to keep watch over those detain who might ultimately want

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to harm his family and his country. So rather than

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choosing what it might have been the safer route, he

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chose to go to the place where he could keep

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his family safe. He always wanted to share what he had.

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While station of pensacolat Chriss Time, he took an entire

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paycheck and purchase gifts for needy children. It was something

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he felt very positive about. Andrew Sharpenteer always wanted to

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give his siblings nice gifts, one he could afford. He

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was caring, considerate, and helped other people any chance he got.

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He enjoyed life, and he always wanted to be silly

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and make others laugh. He had a playful sense of humor,

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which brought great joy to the lives of his family

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and friends. His outlook was positive and he was able

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to spread this to others around him. People liked being

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around him, gaining him many many friends. So we take

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the time to take a step back and remember falling

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heroes like Andrew Sharpenteer from Great Falls, Montana that gave

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the ultimate sacrifice on July the twenty third, two thousand

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and nine. It's important to take this step back from

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the games, the results, wins, losses, what happens on the field,

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and remember what really matters, and that's our falling heroes

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and ones that are serving in combat every single day

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and here at home places around the globe to keep

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us safe and our freedoms free.

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Speaker 6: Travis Mallon Foundation's Nine to eleven Heroes run five kra

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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: All right, here we go, wrapping up by this episode

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of Yards and Stripes Episode two. Don't forget to follow

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us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, wherever it is you get

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your podcast, download, subscribe, listen a new episode coming to

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you every single week. Here on Yards and Stripes is

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once again we are part of the College Gridiron Coast

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to Coast podcast network, available at last word on sports

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dot com. Steven, time for some picks here. We both

822
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went to and one last week, even with that Army loss.

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But we got two games this week. Let's start with

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Navy the one that we talked about first, and we'll

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get to Army in k State. Navy hosting UAB the

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first American Conference game of the season. Which way are

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you gonna go with this one?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I obviously feel and I've said this that I

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thought that Navy's first half of their schedule was a

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much lighter schedule than the FAC half, and so I

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think that this is another game It's gonna be I

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think a little more competitive. But I still think that

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Navy can handily beat the Blazers, especially this game being

834
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at home.

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Speaker 4: I have the Midshipman going to.

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Speaker 3: Two and zero with a thirty eight fourteen win over

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Trent till firstpunge.

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Speaker 2: All right, we're not too far apart. I'm like Navy

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as well. I've got Navy thirty five to twenty. I

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think they two just overwhelmed UAB pretty early. I have

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not been a big fan of Trent will First since

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he got to I think there's been a lot more

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talking than there has been showing me something on the field.

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So we'll be interesting to see what the Blazers and

845
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Trump Bill first team can do in Annapolis on Saturday.

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But I like Navy getting a comfortable win to start

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the American Conference slate. All right, Army and Kansas State

848
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once again ken stayed a big home favorite in the

849
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Little Apple. This one is seven o'clock kickoff on ESPN.

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Any chance whatsoever that Army springs an upset because, as

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we all know, this offense is just not something you

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see every single week. But I did hear Chris climb

853
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and talking about it a couple of weeks ago on

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the radio. You know, like a lot of teams do.

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They will spend time on you know, a service academy

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preparing for them in the spring if they have them

857
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on their upcoming schedule, which is what Kansas State has done,

858
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and get ready and getting ready for Army. Any chance

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the Black Knights, which we know have had a propensity

860
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steven to going into some big time arenas in stadiums

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around the country and pulling off shaker or darn near shockers.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they certainly could. I think there they would need.

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Uh they've got to win the turnover battle, and they've

864
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got to win it handily.

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Speaker 4: I think that.

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Speaker 3: They've if they can force the Wildcats to put the

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ball on the ground, you know once and if they

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get a they get an interception, uh you know one,

869
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you know, a couple of extra turnovers, I think that

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that's where things could certainly go Army's way. That being said,

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you can't you can't account for that, you know, so,

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so obviously I'm taking case State to beat Army. I

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have this game at thirty five thirteen, but I could see,

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you know, Army, you know Armies, if if Jeff Monkin

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has his guys, you know they're going to be prepared.

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You you you know that's that's a given. You know,

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they're a service academy. Of course, they're going to be

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ready to go into a big time college foot environment

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like they have in Manhattan. You know, this is a

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group that you know doesn't isn't afraid going into Tiger

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Stadium and Baton Rouge at night.

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Speaker 4: You know, they don't. They don't mind the big stage,

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and this is going to be a big stage for them.

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Speaker 3: You get it, you get you punch them, you punch

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them a wildcat in the mouth early, You get a

886
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turnover early, you get a turnover late. And if Dawson Jones,

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can you get over his his yips for his first

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game yips? They they could. I think they could actually

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pull off the upset. But I don't have them doing

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it all.

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Speaker 2: Right, I'm like you, I I you know, could happened. Yes, absolutely,

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I think this game might play a little bit closer,

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just at the very beginning. You know how these teams,

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you know, tend to take some time to kind of

895
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get their footing when they're playing against the Service Academy.

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But I really do think that that when it's all

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said done, Case State's gonna pull away. And you had

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thirty five thirteen, I had thirty eight to seventeen. So

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we're really pretty close there, Steven, and both are picked.

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So we both like Navy, we both like Case State

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to win again. Air Force is off this week and

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they will be back next weekend. Don't forget that we

903
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will be back again next week. We will be back

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all season long, Army, Navy, and air Force. Obviously, if

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you've listened to this podcast, you know that's what we

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do here on Yards and Stripes. But we are part

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of the College Grenard Coast to Coast podcast network. We've

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got tons more college football talk all season long on

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the podcast network. Steven something for everybody, for any college

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football fan, and it's going to be just may not

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be the excitement of Week two collectively in college football,

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or it might not be the excitement from Week one

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in week two, but still, nonetheless, I think we're all

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thankful that we got college football back on the tube.

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Speaker 3: Oh absolutely, I'm loving the fact that we're going to

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have football every Saturday, and now with the NFL starting

917
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up this weekend, you're going to have NFL football on

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Sunday as well.

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Speaker 4: So I'm excited. I know you're excited.

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Speaker 3: I know our listeners are loving the fact that football

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is back.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, we will be back next week here on Yards

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and Stripes. Enjoy the games we will see, then.

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

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