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

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and Air Force. This is Yarns and Stripes Service Academy Football.

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Now Here are your hosts, Pryce Atkinson and Steve Carney.

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Speaker 2: In pre Christmas edition of Yards and Stripes, your home

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for Service Academy Football, the Bragging Rights. They are coming

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back to Annapolis, the Naval Academy and the Midshipman. They

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win a thriller to capture the Commander in Chief Trophy again.

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We got two bowl games for preview, one team playing

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and one of the most tradition rich bowl games, while

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the others playing one of the most unique bowl games.

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We'll talk about that. We've got scores, we got a

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Travis Manian Foundation Honor Roll segment. We got a college

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football playoff that's underway that we're going to talk about

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a little bit later. Got some news and notes to

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pass along. But the most important thing he is Steven

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Carney and I am Price Atkinson. But even more important

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than that, folks, and the Commander in Chief Trophy has

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been settled for another year, Steven, and it was yet

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another thriller. And just when you think you've seen seen

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them all play out the way they can play out

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a number twenty two Navy and Army another game unlike

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any other. And it sure was in that fourth quarter

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because Army was controlled in this baby for three solid quarters.

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And next thing, you know, the number twenty two Midshipman

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they score seventeen to sixteen win over Army. As they

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are now ten and two, Army drops to six and

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six as we now officially head into the postseason. Before

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we get into all that, Steven, how the hell are you, brother?

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Speaker 3: I am fantastic, price very very excited after what was

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an incredible game a couple you know, a couple of

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saturdays ago. Now, you know, you and I talked about

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this before we started recording this show that it seems

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like every time you say, I think I've seen everything

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that can be done in a you know, in a

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series of games that's been going back, you know, one

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hundred and twenty six of them. Now you think you

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would have seen it all, and sure enough, the Midshipman

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and the Black Knights do something that just makes you, oh,

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oh my god, I can't believe this has happened. And

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you know, congratulations to Navy. You know, Michael Kelly, the

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athletic director at the Naval Academy is an old friend

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of mine. I've known him for a very long time,

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and you know, he is very happy to talk. And

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you know, I actually saw him. We're taping this on Monday.

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I talked to him yesterday. He is here in town.

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The Navy women's basketball team was at the Ynglings Center

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taking on the University of South Florida women's team basketball team.

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By the way, Navy's women's basketball team, I know, we

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don't do women's basketball. This is football. This is a

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football program. That women's basketball team is incredible. Like I'm

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telling you the Patriot League better watch out for the Mids.

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But you know, he's so proud of the football team.

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You know, getting to ten wins in back to back

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seasons for the first time and it's one hundred and

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forty five year history is just it's an incredible moment.

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And you know, it's kind of like how we talked

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with Joe Miller before the game. You know about what

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the legacy of these seniors is going to be in

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Navy football, and you know they're gonna be mentioned up there.

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You know, Blake Horvath is going to be because of

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what he's done. You know, he did something that you know,

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Keenan Reynolds has never done. He did something that Malcolm

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Perry has never done. He did something that Roger Staubach

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has never done. You know, he led the Midshipman to

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back to back ten win seasons. And you know, I

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know we're going to get into it here a little bit,

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but I'm I'm so I'm happy for Navy. You know,

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I felt Army showed itself in incredibly well to get

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ready for things, and you know what, I'm really excited

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for the ball season and then I'm so pumped as

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to what these teams are going to look like in

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twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't wait too. You know, well, let's let's

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just go ahead and get into it, because you know

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it was Steve. It was a combination that's worked like

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a charm all season for Navy. Blake Corbath, you know,

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to Eli Heidinriich in some shape or form. This time

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it was from eight yards out on a fourth in goal.

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Was six thirty two left for the win. But man

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coverage across the middle, Horrebath threws an absolute strike to Horbath.

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Like I said, in man coverage and the go ahead

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score and ultimately the win. But it was honestly, it

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was almost a touchdown pass that that never came to pass,

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because you know, every now and then the ball will

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bounce your way, and that happened twice with Blake Corbath

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in this game, recovering two of his own fumbles, one

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of which on what second and goal from the one

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or he lost the ball wall tempt the tush push

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and you know, Army linebacker had had a chance to

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scoop it up Eric Ford, but Alex Tesca he reaches

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over and prevents it. You know, as Heidenreich was the

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one that recovered the football. Believe it was heiden Wright,

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not Tesca recovering the ball.

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Speaker 4: At the eight.

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Speaker 2: Next play, horbast Is almost sacked, you know, ball falls

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incomplete on a pass to Tesca, which if he had

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caught it, it would have been a loss on the

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on the play of about you know, six seven yards.

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But in the end it made that fourth down play

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a little bit more palatable, you know, to go for

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it on fourth and goal, and sure enough, there's the

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touchdown strike.

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Speaker 4: It's game set matches.

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Speaker 2: Navy gets its second straight win over Army and winning

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the Commander in Chief Trophy for the second straight season.

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The Black Knights have not beaten the Navy team that

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was ranked now by the AP since nineteen fifty five.

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Speaker 5: Steve, Yeah, it's been a lot long time coming.

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Speaker 3: And you know, I thought through through most of this game,

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especially the first half. You know, we talked about before

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the game, you know, and you know I've had I asked,

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I had people ask me all the time. You know,

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how is Army win this game? You know, Ken, Army

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win this game. And I'm just like, absolutely, Army can

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win this game. They had to do what Navy did

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to Army last year. It basically you and I talked

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about this. The shoe was on the other foot, so

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to speak. You know, you had a very strong Navy

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team that had dominated this year, and people thought, well,

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it was going to dominate again in this game. And

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you had an upstart Army team with a hungry quarterback

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in cal Hellum's and I thought that, you know, if

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they could have stood up there, punched Navy in the mouth,

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and if Navy shrunk away or flinched, Army was going

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to Army. Army had a chance. But that was the

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only that was the only opportunity that they were going

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to have. That if they punched it in the mouth

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and Navy flinched and shrank back. You know, I thought

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Navy kind of shrank back a little bit.

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Speaker 2: I was gonna say they did. They punched the mouth,

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and I thought they did shrink a little bit.

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Speaker 3: But but you know, after they they took a step back,

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but they gathered their wits. It took them a while

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to gather their wits, especially because you think about it,

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and the first quarter was two drives total.

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Speaker 5: They both were thirteen.

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Speaker 3: Plays, seventy five yard drives that ended with a quarterback

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in the end zone. So you know, I was like,

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I was like, oh, there's you know, once they got

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the three and out, when Army got the three and

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forced them to go three and out and then went

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and took the lead, and then you saw the first fumble,

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you know, in the second quarter and Army.

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Speaker 5: The only thing that.

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Speaker 3: That helped Navy was the fact that Army was getting

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kicks and not putting the ball in the end zone.

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If they you know, if they take one of those

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the three and out or the fumble in the second

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quarter and put it in the end zone for seven.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think that. I think this game looks totally different.

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Speaker 2: And he talked Jeb Munkin talked about that before the game,

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about not settling for threes, and that's what Army did.

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They did settle for threes. That was something he talked

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about in the press conference this week.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, absolutely. I mean I think, you know, Army

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had that. Army had that same you know feeling in

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the in the first drive. But but you know when

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they when they ended up going for the touchdown. But

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after that, I thought, I thought Army seld for kicks

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and Navy didn't want to settle for kicks. They wanted

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to put the ball in the end zone. And and

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credit to them, you know, they they did that on

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two different occasions, and and Army only did it once.

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Speaker 2: You know, it was Army's ball game for three three quarters.

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I mean, leading sixteen to seven midway through the third,

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you know, but Army failed to get another first down

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on its last three possessions of the game. Kate helems

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thow in the interception, which was another play that was

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like that gave Navy the ball in midfield midway through.

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Speaker 4: The fourth quarter.

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Speaker 2: It was another time, Steve, when we talked about it

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a couple episodes ago.

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Speaker 4: What was it?

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Speaker 2: Was it in the Tulane game Tulsa? I think everything

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was the Tulsa game, you know, And there was another

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game that was at home. Was it Tarlet I think

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it was Tarlaton too. And then in one of the

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first games of the season where you know, Narvi, Army

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decided to pass the throw the ball and I.

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Speaker 4: Was like, what are they doing?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, run the football and they were up six, you know,

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why not run the football? Was seven minutes left, but

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they decided to go back and throw the football and

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you know, it's picked. You know, it happened against Tulsa.

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It happened again. It happened early in the season against Tarlatan.

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This time Philip Hamilton picks it off and you know,

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game changing interception. I don't know what Army was thinking

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yet again, you know on that play call, you know,

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I know we can all armchair quarterback it and you

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complete the pass and you look like a genius. But

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it was bewildering to say the least, especially I guess,

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you know, the only thing I can think of is

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when they were failing to get gain first downs and

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move the football on the ground, they were trying to

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just figure out some way, you know, to keep possession.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and it really is the the the I think

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that point. They they figured, uh, at that point, you know,

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Navy's uh, Navy's offense had had the ball after the

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first drive, they had had the ball five times, punt, lost, fumble, interception,

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and then the field goal and then another punt. And

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at that point they're thinking, Okay, it's sixteen ten. At

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this point, we need we need we need to get

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another score. We need to make this a two score

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game again. And so I think that maybe you think

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to to maybe change things up, maybe throw you know,

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throw something out there that they haven't seen before. But

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maybe you've seen that before. Yeah, And you know, all

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you had to do is go back and look at Yeah.

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I believe it was the Tulsa game. I don't think

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it was too late. I think it was I think

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it was Tulsa that they had that that they had

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that issue with where they you know, Tulsa was able to,

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you know, get a turnover and turn it into points

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and come out with the victory in that game late

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late in the in the fourth quarter. And at that

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point you're going, you know, when when when Philip Hamilton

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makes that interception of Hellam's and you're going, this is

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the spot. I I don't I don't know about you

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when you when you were watching it. But I was

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sitting on the couch here with my killer pizza me

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massacre for the win. But and I you know, saying

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to no one in particular, because I was at home

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by myself.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and I just.

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Speaker 3: Went, this is the spot, you know, if you're if

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you're going to cement a legacy, this is where you

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do it. You're down six, so a touchdown gives you

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the lead. And if you can, if you can get

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the lead and and get a whole get a stop,

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you're gonna win this game.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Well, a couple of things here, especially looking at the

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playmakers made the plays. And I was on was it

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Vision Radio out of Vegas, I did a hit with

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them on at twelve thirty before the game, and I

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heard it. It was great and they asked me who

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I thought, you know, was gonna win. And I thought,

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at the end of the day, I thought the playmakers

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were at Navy and guys like Hide and Right, Tesca

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and Horvath was going to be the difference. And they

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ultimately were, you know, with with Horbat the Heide and Right.

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But you know that was that was maybe Army's best

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defensive entire effort of the entire season. Held maybe to

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seventeen points. They held them to what two hundred and

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seventy some odd yards total offense. That was a fantastic

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effort by Army's defense. And you could say, well, they know,

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these teams know each other and you know it's typically

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low scoring.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's true.

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Speaker 2: But on the other side of the coin, you know, offensively,

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Kate Helem ran for one hundred yards. The rest of

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Army's offensive backfield I think they managed just twenty twenty

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two yards total on the ground. Got to have something

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more from more from Army than just the Kate Hellum Show.

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Brice and Daily Show last year was a little bit different.

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Kate Hellum Show is not quite.

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Speaker 4: It's not the same thing. But the other thing too

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is you know, offensively, Army failed. They failed to score

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a more.

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Speaker 2: Than off one offensive touchdown for the eighth straight game

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in this rivalry, and that coincides with Brian Newberry's arrival

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in Napolis. He got there in twenty eighteen. Since he

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arrived as defensive coordinator and now obviously his head coach,

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Army has only scored one offensive touchdown in this game.

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That is that you've got to find a way to

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get more offensively than one offensive touchdown. I know that

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Armies had a lot of success stor in that time,

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but that being said, you got to find something more

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than just Kate Hellms. Because Kate Hellms will be back

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year barring something crazy happening. You've got to find him

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some help. But the Army defense, I thought they played

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well enough to win this football game without a doubt.

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Speaker 3: Oh absolutely, I I thought I thought the exact same

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thing and he and you know what it took. It

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took the stones, so to speak of, of of Navy's

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offense on that final drive to finally salt this thing away.

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Speaker 5: And you know, and how and how did they do it?

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Speaker 3: By beating them to death with the run. I mean

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they they just ran right at them you know, Army.

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Army couldn't do that this year, you know, And talking

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with Salador Donado before the game, you know, we talked

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about the fact that you know, without a kanye Udo

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in the backfield, you know, you don't have a bowling

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ball uh that can that can handle the run game,

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and and the pressure of just pounding the other defense

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to death. And I mean look at the look at

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the last drive after they force Army to punt under

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under the you know, with like five minutes to go,

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you know, they're thinking, all right, if we can get

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a stop, we're gonna have a We're gonna have an

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opportunity at this. Yeah, and they just you know, Horvath run,

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Horvath run on third and two to get to third

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and short, Horva hide and Rik run to convert Horvath

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uh Tesca run hide and rig run and then Horrorvath

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like I you and I talked about this before. I'm

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curious to know what Horvath's and and you know, nobody

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talked about it after the game because it because Navy wins.

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But there was definitely something that was not right with

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Blake Horvat's right hand. If you ask me, especially at

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the end. I mean, how you don't you don't see

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Blake Krvath put.

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Speaker 5: The ball on the ground normally.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and he put the ball on the ground a

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couple of times, you know, the the.

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Speaker 5: Tush push thankfully you know, gets saved.

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Speaker 3: And then the one on the final drive where he's

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going the ball, somebody hits his hand, the ball pops.

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Speaker 4: In the air.

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Speaker 5: He grabs the ball out of the air and reaches.

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Speaker 3: To make it forth to make it fourth and one

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and and give Tesca an opportunity to convert.

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Speaker 5: And that ended the game.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there was a game I want to say it

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was last wasn't it last year when Horvath had a

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hurt hand and he kept putting the I.

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Speaker 4: Thought it was I thought it was I thought it.

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Speaker 5: Was Notre Dame. I thought it was the Notre Dame game.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it it made Yeah, it may have been that

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Notre Dame game last year where you know, it was

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clearly playing injured and just that hand wasn't right and

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you couldn't grip the ball to throw it, and was

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was you know, fumbling it and so yeah, I mean

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it definitely is a good observation on your part, you know.

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Speaker 5: I mean it showed his hand.

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Speaker 3: They showed his hand a couple of times, and it

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was bleeding, like the front the front of his hand

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was bleeding. And so I was like, I was like something,

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he must have hit it. So, you know, I don't

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know if if if like a face mask, if you

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got a face mask to his hand, or a helmet

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or someone you know in in the uh you know,

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in the scrums, maybe someone stepped on it. You know,

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I was thinking, you know, something happened with his right

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hand that they didn't want anybody to know about.

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Speaker 2: Well, he did carry the ball thirty four times a game,

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so I mean, this is a game where you know

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it's for the bloody and the bruise, especially when you're

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playing that type of smash mouth football. So whether it's broken,

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I mean, it was clearly not right. He was you know,

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he was playing banged up the boy.

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Speaker 4: I mean, that banged up player.

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Speaker 2: Is as good as whole man. He's better than a

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lot of guys one hundred percent.

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Speaker 5: That's just yeah.

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Speaker 2: You know, and and especially as you're in your in

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your last one, your senior, you're gonna you're you probably

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would have had to take in a crane you know

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National Guard, you know, from Baltimore to get him out

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of there, and there's no way he was going to

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do that. So yeah, you know, I mean, just a

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heck of an effort, and you know, you know, just

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real quick on Army. You know, my thought is, you know, yes,

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there are defensive issues here and there, but I thought

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an Army was very good defensively this year. And there

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were times where you know, they got you know, shredded

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in the secondary. But you know nine of their twelve

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games decided by a touchdown or less, which they won.

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were decided by a touchdown or last those games decided

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by a combined twenty nine points. My thought was, had

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there been a little bit more dynamic ability offensively, I

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think we're having a different conversation about Army season not

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being six and six, but you know, possibly a nine

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win team.

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Speaker 4: I know there's a woulda, should have, could a?

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Speaker 2: You know, you got Kanye Udo, you know, the transfers,

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and is ironic that I was looking up Basically, my

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brother in law said to me tonight. You know, he

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was looking at a transfer list of biggest bust on

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the transfer portal and what was the linebacker defensive end

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that transferred from West Point to Georgia was one of

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the top five listing. You know, then that had me

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want to go look up Kanye Udo stats at Arizona

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State this year. Joy rushfer he didn't even rush for

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I don't think three hundred totally yards for the hundred

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and forty yards rushing and two touchdowns. So, you know, playmakers,

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you know, were certainly not there for Army this year,

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and to me, that was a big, big difference in

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the kind of season.

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Speaker 4: That they could have had.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you're you're absolutely right.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I'm I'm looking at you know some of these, uh,

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some of Udo's numbers.

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 3: He had a big game against Mississippi State in Starkville

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for for Arizona State. He had twenty three carries and

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one hundred and five yards and he has and that

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was that was in that was in early September. And

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he had a game in Colorado where he h in

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November where he had nine nine carries for sixty two yards,

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and no other game this year did he get more

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than seven carries in the game.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, So so he.

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Speaker 3: Wasn't he wasn't used the way that the that he

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you know, if when he's when he is successful, when

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he was successful at Army, when he was being used,

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he was being used, you know, a lot, and he

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did not. He did not get used a lot out

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in Tempe, for sure. That's that's the case.

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Speaker 2: In the end, number twenty two Navy seventeen, Army sixteen,

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and the Midshipmen are going back to the White House

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as they win the Commander in Chief Trophy again for

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a second straight season, taking home the big game against Army.

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All right, we got game balls to get up. Give

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out Steve. Where are you going with our final game

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balls of the season.

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Speaker 3: Well, I think I have to give my game ball

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to the man who saved the Midshipman season, and that

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is Alex Tesca.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, we meant. We mentioned the fumble.

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Speaker 3: That came on the tush push on a on a

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second down at the one at the one yard line

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and the ball comes out and Army has possession of

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the football.

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Speaker 5: I mean they were the linebacker. I think it was Caleb.

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It might have been.

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Speaker 3: I keep wanting to call him Fournier, but one of

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the linebackers had it picked up and was getting ready

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to secure it and start running the other way, and

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there wasn't anybody in front of him between between him

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and the end the other end zone ninety nine yards away,

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and Alex Teska came out of nowhere and punched the

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ball from behind, out of the linebacker's grip and it

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ends up on the eight yard line, recovered by Eli Heydenrach.

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So without Alex Tesca, that recovery doesn't happen and Navy

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probably loses this game.

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Speaker 5: So my game ball goes to.

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Speaker 2: Alex Tesca, Yeah, I definitely like that. Mine is gonna

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go to Eli Hyden Rake. He catches the you know,

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in that man coverage. He goes up, leaps up, and

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he catches a dart for the game winner, and you know,

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big game for big time players. Six catches, seventy two

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yard That was a lone touchdown in the game. You

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also carried it five times for twenty eight. You got

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to account for him every time, no matter where he's at.

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Speaker 4: On the field.

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Speaker 2: And you know, like Joe Miller said and some others

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that we've had this year, you know, Eli heindin Wright's

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gonna have a chance to play on Sundays. You know,

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when you can make plays like that and people forget too.

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Eli Heinrich's not eight like this little tiny five foot nine,

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one hundred and sixty pound you know player dude's you know,

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six foot.

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Speaker 4: Two hundred pounds.

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Speaker 2: Is he Is he a Mike Evans like size wide

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receiver like from the Bucks. No, he's not that prototypical

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six five kind of receiver.

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Speaker 5: No, who he is. He's Christian McCaffrey.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, where you can line him up in the backfield,

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you can put him and split, you could line him

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at what Look, he is a weapon. He is going

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to have a chance to play on Sunday. But back

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to the point, and yes, he gets my game ball.

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An outstanding way to cap service Academy career as they

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get ready for the bowl game. Now, but Eli hEidin Wright,

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he's getting my game ball. We're going to talk about

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bowl games here in a minute, Stephen, but before we

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get into that, in our next seven segment, as we

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talk about the Fenway Bowl and the Liberty Bowl, tell

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our friends about the College Gridar and Coast to Coast

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Podcast Network, because as we come down the stretch for

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the college football playoff bowl games, this is your place

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, there's no better time to get caught up on

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college football than right now because the bowl season is here,

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the college football Playoff is underway, and you definitely want

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

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Speaker 2: As we rolled down the home stretch Stephen the college

521
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football season, it's hard to.

522
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Speaker 4: Believe that this is the end.

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Speaker 2: It really is the hard to believe that we are

524
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down to the final weeks because it feels like just yesterday.

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We started in August. But I'm Pryce Satkinson. He is

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Stephen Carney, the best co host and producer in the business.

527
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And we're gonna get into some postseason here because we've

528
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had Army Navy now and we luckily we've got two

529
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bowl games. Our teams are playing in Army and Navy

530
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going bowling. Obviously Air Force is not qualify, so they

531
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will be getting ready for the twenty twenty six season,

532
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which I'm sure the Troy Calhoun's team has already begun

533
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to do back.

534
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Speaker 4: There in Colorado Springs.

535
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Speaker 2: We're not going to pour salt in on any of

536
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their wounds as we get you ready for the Wasabi

537
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Finway Bowl. Steve, Yukon and Army nine to three Yukon

538
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Verse six and six Army, this one is going to

539
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be a Saturday, December of the twenty seventh, kickoff at

540
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two point fifteen pm in Boston, Massachusetts. Clearly, this one's

541
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going to be at Fenway Pack. This one's going to

542
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be played on ESPN Right now out Army a eight

543
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and a half point favorite over Under a forty three

544
00:27:04,640 --> 00:27:06,640
and a half after I believe I think Army opened

545
00:27:06,680 --> 00:27:09,039
is maybe a two point favorite. But when you've got

546
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coach that's poached, you've got players that are opting out,

547
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and you've got a whole hodgepodge of players that are

548
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not even going to resemble the Yukon Husky team that

549
00:27:17,839 --> 00:27:21,200
won nine games, that line's going to change. But nonetheless

550
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Army Steve is going to be hungry for a win

551
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to finish with the winning season, while Yukon returning to

552
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the Finway Bowl for the second straight year, you know,

553
00:27:29,960 --> 00:27:34,039
six Bowl win and seven tries under Jeff Munkin that

554
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they'll be going for. And you know, you got to

555
00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:38,039
give the Hussies credit. You know, Jim Morrow off to

556
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Colorado State, but a chance to close out their first

557
00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:45,079
ten win season since moving to the FBS in two thousand.

558
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So you know, not while it's one of these lower

559
00:27:48,160 --> 00:27:51,680
level bowl games. What happens in these lower level bowl games,

560
00:27:51,680 --> 00:27:53,920
it's all about who wants to be there, and this

561
00:27:54,079 --> 00:27:56,079
is one of those cases. Is who really wants to

562
00:27:56,079 --> 00:27:57,839
play in this We will find out.

563
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Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, and you mentioned you know Jim Mora, uh

564
00:28:01,960 --> 00:28:04,960
now he'll get a chance to see Troy Calhoun every year.

565
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You know, Yukon played played Air Force are this year.

566
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So Jim Mora is gonna is already familiar with what

567
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the Falcons can do, and now as the head coach

568
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at Colorado State, he'll be able to do it every year.

569
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And so not only will they not have their head coach,

570
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their their star quarterback. Joe Fonano is going to skip

571
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the Fedway Bowl. He's gonna play in some of the

572
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the All Star balls, like he's gonna he's gonna play

573
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in the East West Shrine Bowl, in the American Bowl,

574
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and in the Hula Bowl instead of playing uh in

575
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the Fenway Bowl for the University of Connecticut as he

576
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looks to get ready for maybe playing on Sundays as well.

577
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This game went from actually Yukon being a three and

578
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a half point favorite, okay to Army to.

579
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Speaker 5: Army being in eight.

580
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Speaker 3: So this this this line has jumped twelve points since

581
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since it opened. Uh because of all of these I mean,

582
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you know, uh, They're not Yukon is not going to

583
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be the Yukon that Air Force saw, you know a

584
00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:15,240
month ago. This this is a much different team. But

585
00:29:15,519 --> 00:29:18,839
you're absolutely right there are you know? I I all

586
00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:20,680
I have to look at.

587
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Speaker 5: Is what happened. You know.

588
00:29:22,279 --> 00:29:26,079
Speaker 3: I worked the Cure Bowl in Orlando for the University

589
00:29:26,079 --> 00:29:29,960
of South Florida and USF had lost their head coach,

590
00:29:30,759 --> 00:29:34,359
Alex Golish went to Auburn. They had lost their quarterback,

591
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their their you know, the their star on offense Byron Brown,

592
00:29:38,400 --> 00:29:42,039
had decided he was going to sit out from the

593
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from the game. He has since announced that he was

594
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going to enter the transfer portal, and I would assume

595
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that he probably follows Golish to Auburn at this time. Uh,

596
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we don't know, you know, the transfer portal opens on

597
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January second, so he hasn't he can't fish be in

598
00:30:01,079 --> 00:30:03,119
the portal yet, but he is going to go into

599
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the portal at this time.

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Speaker 5: But the team that remains.

601
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Speaker 3: Has to has to soldier on and they have to

602
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be able to, you know, pick up the slack. And

603
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you know, even at even at the college level, it's

604
00:30:17,400 --> 00:30:19,880
next man up at this at this point, and you

605
00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:22,880
gotta and you're gonna find out. This is an opportunity

606
00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:26,640
for guys that were number two, number three on the

607
00:30:26,680 --> 00:30:30,119
depth chart UH to begin the year. This is where

608
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guys can become stars. All I look back to is

609
00:30:34,079 --> 00:30:37,920
there was a certain game played here in Tampa. God

610
00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:41,279
must be twelve years ago now, maybe even longer. It

611
00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:46,160
was a certain outback Bowl between the University of Michigan

612
00:30:46,480 --> 00:30:50,200
and the University of South Carolina. And that's when everybody

613
00:30:50,240 --> 00:30:54,599
got introduced to a guy named Jadeveon Clowney. So you know,

614
00:30:55,079 --> 00:30:59,240
it doesn't matter if you're the second string, the third string,

615
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the fourth string.

616
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Speaker 5: You make a play in one of these games and

617
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people will remember you.

618
00:31:05,119 --> 00:31:07,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it will and it will it will follow

619
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you for for upcoming seasons.

620
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Speaker 2: One guy not opting out of this game for Yukon

621
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is star wide receiver Skylar Bell.

622
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Speaker 4: He said he's playing.

623
00:31:16,799 --> 00:31:18,599
Speaker 2: He said he wanted to finish out what he started

624
00:31:18,599 --> 00:31:20,200
with his teammates, and I got a lot of respect

625
00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:25,000
for that outstanding wide receiver. You know, he's playing versus

626
00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:26,839
opting out to get ready for the NFL Draft.

627
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Speaker 4: Going to probably be a top three round pick.

628
00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:35,319
Speaker 2: But a big addition, you know, back for you know,

629
00:31:35,359 --> 00:31:39,480
Gordon Samus who's taking over for Jim Mora junior Nick

630
00:31:39,519 --> 00:31:41,119
Evers transferred for Wisconsin.

631
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Speaker 4: He will likely be the starter. But you mentioned air Force.

632
00:31:44,680 --> 00:31:46,599
Speaker 2: You know, this is a team that you know, Yukon

633
00:31:46,720 --> 00:31:49,359
was able to keep in check that second last game

634
00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:53,079
of the season. So obviously they're you know, service academy tendencies,

635
00:31:53,119 --> 00:31:55,599
you know, not the same. But you know that that

636
00:31:55,640 --> 00:31:58,920
preparation will at least serve at least Yukon fairly well

637
00:31:59,119 --> 00:32:01,119
because it was not that long ago that they prepare

638
00:32:01,160 --> 00:32:03,599
for them. But you know, the biggest is just the

639
00:32:03,599 --> 00:32:06,079
biggest pieces of the puzzle they're they're they're going to

640
00:32:06,119 --> 00:32:08,680
be gone. It starts with the coaching staff and you know,

641
00:32:09,519 --> 00:32:15,000
quarterback gone, numerous other players that are transferring probably going

642
00:32:15,079 --> 00:32:18,920
to follow, you know, Jim Mora to to Colorado State

643
00:32:19,319 --> 00:32:22,599
that remains to be seen. But a high powered offense

644
00:32:22,640 --> 00:32:25,319
that may not be is high powered, but a game

645
00:32:25,359 --> 00:32:27,920
that I think ultimately is probably going to be more

646
00:32:27,960 --> 00:32:30,559
one sided than close. I know we'll make our picks

647
00:32:30,559 --> 00:32:33,000
in our final segment, but I would expect this one

648
00:32:33,119 --> 00:32:35,119
to be kind of a runaway train, which is what

649
00:32:35,160 --> 00:32:37,599
the Finway Bowl has really kind of been. He's been

650
00:32:37,759 --> 00:32:39,759
very low scoring or it's been a runaway train.

651
00:32:40,240 --> 00:32:44,839
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's great for the folks in Boston and

652
00:32:44,880 --> 00:32:48,119
in New England. You've got you've got two really good

653
00:32:48,240 --> 00:32:50,000
I mean, this is a this is a good, a

654
00:32:50,039 --> 00:32:50,839
good matchup.

655
00:32:51,240 --> 00:32:51,400
Speaker 2: Uh.

656
00:32:51,480 --> 00:32:54,240
Speaker 3: You know, it's not it's not like you're having to

657
00:32:54,319 --> 00:32:58,119
travel to Honolulu to play in the Hawaii Bowl if

658
00:32:58,119 --> 00:33:02,680
your army uh oh, could you imagine trying to get

659
00:33:03,200 --> 00:33:06,519
the corps of Cadets to Hawaii. It's it's really really

660
00:33:06,519 --> 00:33:09,559
smart that that they said, you know, just take the

661
00:33:09,640 --> 00:33:13,720
train up to Boston from from from Penn Station to

662
00:33:14,079 --> 00:33:17,240
uh to Boston and you'll be and you'll be good

663
00:33:17,319 --> 00:33:20,519
to go for this game. And you know, even without

664
00:33:21,319 --> 00:33:24,680
Joe Finano, you know, Skyler Bell's got one hundred and

665
00:33:24,720 --> 00:33:27,599
one catches this year. You can't tell me that he

666
00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:29,640
doesn't want to get to like one hundred and ten

667
00:33:29,759 --> 00:33:33,759
catches in his in his season for for Yukon, even

668
00:33:34,519 --> 00:33:37,400
depending on what he wants to do next. Uh you

669
00:33:37,440 --> 00:33:40,880
know when where when it comes to playing on Sundays.

670
00:33:41,200 --> 00:33:45,359
But you know, I love guys that that put pride

671
00:33:45,359 --> 00:33:47,440
in their work, and Skyler Bell is one of them.

672
00:33:48,119 --> 00:33:48,319
Speaker 4: Well.

673
00:33:48,319 --> 00:33:52,119
Speaker 2: Sabby Finnway Bowl Yukon and Army, Saturday, December the twenty seventh,

674
00:33:52,160 --> 00:33:56,160
at two point fifteen from Boston, Massachusetts on ESPN. Army

675
00:33:56,200 --> 00:33:58,960
given eight and a half points in this one. We

676
00:33:59,039 --> 00:34:03,240
will see what how maybe lopsided this one becomes, but

677
00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:04,119
nonetheless we.

678
00:34:04,079 --> 00:34:04,759
Speaker 4: Will be watching.

679
00:34:04,799 --> 00:34:07,799
Speaker 2: We'll also be watching the AutoZone Liberty Bowl with number

680
00:34:07,799 --> 00:34:10,920
twenty two Navy nine or ten and two for Cincinnati,

681
00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:11,960
seven and five.

682
00:34:11,760 --> 00:34:14,039
Speaker 4: Out of the Big twelve Friday.

683
00:34:14,119 --> 00:34:17,480
Speaker 2: This one of Friday January the second four to thirty

684
00:34:17,519 --> 00:34:21,800
pm kickoff there from Memphis on ESPN. Navy giving seven

685
00:34:21,840 --> 00:34:24,400
points fifty three and a half is the over under

686
00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:28,159
and one of the oldest bowl games in the country,

687
00:34:28,280 --> 00:34:32,119
seventh oldest college football game, one of the most patriotic

688
00:34:32,199 --> 00:34:36,360
bowl games in America too, the AutoZone Liberty Bowls. Navy's

689
00:34:36,400 --> 00:34:38,119
going back to Memphis. This is gonna be the second

690
00:34:38,159 --> 00:34:40,360
holiday they're going to spend there this season. You know,

691
00:34:40,440 --> 00:34:43,960
they were just there defeating the host for That's Giving. Yeah,

692
00:34:44,159 --> 00:34:46,360
that's twenty eight to seventeen on Thanksgiving. Now they're gonna

693
00:34:46,360 --> 00:34:48,840
be back to ringing the new year against the Cincinnati Bearcat.

694
00:34:48,960 --> 00:34:51,800
So this one should be a fun one, I think

695
00:34:51,840 --> 00:34:55,199
what will be a very high scoring AutoZone Liberty Bowl

696
00:34:55,559 --> 00:34:58,800
on January the second Steve and Navy's twenty six bowl

697
00:34:58,840 --> 00:35:02,440
appearance all time. They are thirteen eleven and one in

698
00:35:02,559 --> 00:35:05,639
bowl games. Their third appearance in the Liberty Bowl.

699
00:35:05,840 --> 00:35:07,639
Speaker 5: Yeah, it should be should be a fun one.

700
00:35:07,679 --> 00:35:10,679
Speaker 3: You know, Cincinnati is making a bowl game for the

701
00:35:10,679 --> 00:35:14,559
first time in a couple of years, so Scott Saderfield's

702
00:35:14,559 --> 00:35:17,079
got the Bearcats going in the right direction for the

703
00:35:17,119 --> 00:35:20,760
first time. Would not be surprised to see guys that

704
00:35:20,960 --> 00:35:26,559
used to play with for the Bearcats maybe in attendance,

705
00:35:27,360 --> 00:35:31,480
Maybe some guys that people know about, Maybe some guys

706
00:35:31,559 --> 00:35:35,199
named Kelsey might be there, especially because it looks like

707
00:35:35,400 --> 00:35:37,880
the you know, the obviously the Chiefs aren't making the

708
00:35:37,880 --> 00:35:41,320
playoffs this year for the first time in forever. So

709
00:35:41,840 --> 00:35:44,000
maybe he can go to a bowl game, and maybe

710
00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:47,480
he'll bring his his better half with who knows, and

711
00:35:47,599 --> 00:35:50,480
maybe and maybe his brother who's now retired. We'll get

712
00:35:50,519 --> 00:35:52,519
we'll get a chance to go. I can I can

713
00:35:52,639 --> 00:35:55,440
see this. You know, it's a it's a real easy

714
00:35:55,519 --> 00:36:00,679
trip from Cincinnati to Memphis. You know, so obvious. You

715
00:36:00,760 --> 00:36:04,639
know the Bearcats are gonna travel travel well, uh to Memphis.

716
00:36:04,960 --> 00:36:08,840
Obviously Navy is very familiar. H you get another round

717
00:36:08,840 --> 00:36:12,559
at the rendezvous. Uh. But I'm really I'm really excited

718
00:36:12,559 --> 00:36:15,400
for this one, and especially because you know, for us,

719
00:36:15,440 --> 00:36:18,159
it's nice we don't have to worry about the transfer

720
00:36:18,239 --> 00:36:21,719
portal or guys opting out of bowl games. You know,

721
00:36:21,840 --> 00:36:25,320
if they're if they're healthy, they're gonna play. And and

722
00:36:25,400 --> 00:36:29,119
I certainly can see uh Navy really taking advantage of that.

723
00:36:29,760 --> 00:36:32,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, this was a seven and one Cincinnati team. You know,

724
00:36:32,480 --> 00:36:34,199
we talk about who wants to be there. We'll find

725
00:36:34,199 --> 00:36:37,360
out how much Cincinnati really wants to be there, because

726
00:36:37,679 --> 00:36:40,280
they were seven and one steven at one point before

727
00:36:40,320 --> 00:36:42,519
they lost their last four you know, they lost to

728
00:36:42,800 --> 00:36:46,280
uh uh Utah on the road and then they lost

729
00:36:46,280 --> 00:36:49,320
at home to Arizona number eleven VYU, then at TCU,

730
00:36:49,519 --> 00:36:51,679
So you know, a couple of those games were close,

731
00:36:51,800 --> 00:36:55,400
but you know they they ended obviously on a very

732
00:36:55,440 --> 00:37:00,519
sour note. You know, did Scott Soaderfield's team? But the

733
00:37:00,599 --> 00:37:06,119
one big caveat here Sali the African elephant from the Bazoo.

734
00:37:06,760 --> 00:37:09,400
Speaker 4: She made her annual picks. Do you know who she picked.

735
00:37:09,159 --> 00:37:12,519
Speaker 5: Stephen, I'm guessing she did not pick Cincinnati.

736
00:37:12,920 --> 00:37:17,559
Speaker 2: She did pick the Bearcats. Really she did pick the Bearcats, Yes,

737
00:37:17,880 --> 00:37:22,360
yes she did. So this what will be the seventh

738
00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:26,119
meeting all time between the two teams, with both teams

739
00:37:26,199 --> 00:37:29,559
winning three. Last meeting back in two thousand and two,

740
00:37:29,960 --> 00:37:33,039
which was an American Conference game, the Bearcats won twenty

741
00:37:33,079 --> 00:37:36,599
to ten in Cincinnati, so they do actually have a

742
00:37:36,639 --> 00:37:39,760
three game winning streak against the Midshipman. Their mids last

743
00:37:39,760 --> 00:37:42,360
win over Cincinnati came in twenty seventeen when they knocked

744
00:37:42,360 --> 00:37:45,480
off the Bearcats forty two to thirty two at Annapolis.

745
00:37:45,480 --> 00:37:47,679
But a couple key matchups. You know, the mids first

746
00:37:47,760 --> 00:37:50,719
ranked offense in the country two hundred and eighty nine

747
00:37:50,800 --> 00:37:52,360
yards per game. They're going to be up against the

748
00:37:52,400 --> 00:37:56,360
pretty poorest defense in terms of where they ranked in

749
00:37:56,360 --> 00:38:00,119
their allowing rush yards per game, ninety ninth in the country,

750
00:38:00,400 --> 00:38:03,960
allowing just over one seventy three. So that's certainly gonna

751
00:38:03,960 --> 00:38:07,039
be something to watch. Steven is the way Navy's able

752
00:38:07,079 --> 00:38:10,760
to run the football probably all day on the Bearcat stee.

753
00:38:10,920 --> 00:38:14,360
Speaker 3: Oh, absolutely, it'll be a it should be. You know,

754
00:38:14,519 --> 00:38:16,519
this is this is one of those games where Alex

755
00:38:16,559 --> 00:38:19,599
Tesca is you know, bound to have you know, a

756
00:38:19,639 --> 00:38:22,559
bunch of a bunch of yards, and all I keep

757
00:38:22,599 --> 00:38:26,320
thinking of is the game against South Florida where you know,

758
00:38:26,440 --> 00:38:28,920
all of a sudden, like the middle of the field

759
00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:33,480
opens up and and Tesca can like run untouched for

760
00:38:33,599 --> 00:38:37,719
seventy five yards for a touchdown and and really really

761
00:38:37,719 --> 00:38:40,599
put it on the Bearcats. I think that the the

762
00:38:40,760 --> 00:38:45,440
Navy offense can can put uh can put offense on

763
00:38:45,760 --> 00:38:50,440
teams that would surprise most pundits. They think, oh, you know,

764
00:38:50,480 --> 00:38:53,639
it's a service academy. You know they're small, they run

765
00:38:53,679 --> 00:38:56,880
the option. You know, you you bring, you bring the

766
00:38:57,480 --> 00:39:00,239
you bring size, and you bring and and you can

767
00:39:00,239 --> 00:39:02,440
overwhelm them. You can overwhelm this Navy team.

768
00:39:02,719 --> 00:39:06,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, the Bearcats so actually averaged eight yards per pass

769
00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:09,960
attempt twenty first in the FBS, while Navy gives up

770
00:39:10,480 --> 00:39:13,360
eight point two yards per pass one hundred and nineteenth,

771
00:39:13,719 --> 00:39:16,280
you know, in college football. But another thing that Cincinny

772
00:39:16,320 --> 00:39:18,360
can do pretty well is they can run the football.

773
00:39:18,840 --> 00:39:21,199
Speaker 4: They averaging just under six yards of carry.

774
00:39:21,280 --> 00:39:25,119
Speaker 2: You know ty Taywee Walker, guy that ran for seven

775
00:39:25,199 --> 00:39:29,239
oh nine this year five point nine. Quarterback Brendan Soresby

776
00:39:29,239 --> 00:39:32,000
obviously has been you know, dual threat throwing the football

777
00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:34,880
with twenty seven touchdowns, but also averages five and a

778
00:39:34,960 --> 00:39:37,920
half yards per carry than Evan Pryor, their third leading

779
00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:41,239
rush over five hundred yards on the season, six point

780
00:39:41,360 --> 00:39:44,360
nine yards per carry. So some big play, big, big

781
00:39:44,440 --> 00:39:46,400
hitting ability, which is the reason why I think that

782
00:39:46,440 --> 00:39:48,639
a lot of people will, including me, think this is

783
00:39:48,639 --> 00:39:49,960
going to be a pretty high scoring affairs.

784
00:39:49,960 --> 00:39:53,000
Speaker 5: Steve, Yeah, I tend to I tend to agree with you.

785
00:39:52,800 --> 00:39:56,960
Speaker 3: You know, you know, Sowarsby is a guy that you know,

786
00:39:57,199 --> 00:40:01,480
obviously was played played it a couple really bad Indiana teams

787
00:40:01,480 --> 00:40:06,119
because he was there before Kurt Signetti showed up and transferred.

788
00:40:06,639 --> 00:40:10,119
When when Signetti came over from James Madison, but really

789
00:40:10,400 --> 00:40:13,440
has taken the reins with the Bearcats.

790
00:40:13,840 --> 00:40:15,360
Speaker 5: And this year, I.

791
00:40:15,320 --> 00:40:18,119
Speaker 3: Mean, you know, you look at him, you know, his

792
00:40:18,360 --> 00:40:23,000
completion percentage over sixty one percent, you know, averaging as

793
00:40:23,119 --> 00:40:27,079
you mentioned, eight point three yards in attempt, twenty seven

794
00:40:27,159 --> 00:40:31,760
touchdowns only five interceptions, did a really good job of

795
00:40:31,800 --> 00:40:36,039
being able to to keep the ball safe when he's

796
00:40:36,079 --> 00:40:40,360
throwing the ball. And then you also, you know, eighteen

797
00:40:40,519 --> 00:40:44,360
touchdowns on the ground over the last two years, so

798
00:40:44,679 --> 00:40:48,159
you know, he certainly he certainly is aware of what

799
00:40:48,199 --> 00:40:49,639
he can do on the ground as well.

800
00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:52,719
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, it should be a good one again.

801
00:40:53,079 --> 00:40:56,880
Speaker 2: Navy and Cincinnati will probably be a pretty high scoring game.

802
00:40:57,000 --> 00:40:59,239
Watch this thing be played in the teams, the whole

803
00:40:59,320 --> 00:41:03,199
game the autos on Liberty Bowl on Friday, January the second,

804
00:41:03,239 --> 00:41:05,920
four to thirty pm Eastern Standard Time from the Liberty

805
00:41:05,920 --> 00:41:11,440
Bowl in Memphis, ESPN four thirty kickoff, Navy giving seven points.

806
00:41:11,079 --> 00:41:12,719
Speaker 4: Over under fifty three and a half.

807
00:41:12,840 --> 00:41:14,719
Speaker 2: All right, Steven, real quick, before you get out the door,

808
00:41:15,519 --> 00:41:17,079
we got some picks to make. We got our Travis

809
00:41:17,119 --> 00:41:19,280
Mendon Foundation Honorall segment, we got some news and notes

810
00:41:19,320 --> 00:41:20,960
to pass along. But real quick, we just saw the

811
00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:24,280
first weekend of the college football playoff, come and go.

812
00:41:25,920 --> 00:41:28,599
We get to see the fun Belt, we get to

813
00:41:28,599 --> 00:41:32,039
see the American We get James Madison in two lane,

814
00:41:32,480 --> 00:41:37,719
you know, group of five entrants. Both absolutely got taken

815
00:41:37,760 --> 00:41:38,440
to the woodshed.

816
00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:39,199
Speaker 5: Yeah.

817
00:41:39,840 --> 00:41:44,800
Speaker 2: Is this I get your take real quick, because I

818
00:41:44,840 --> 00:41:46,800
think this is what's going to continue to happen.

819
00:41:47,840 --> 00:41:49,400
Speaker 4: I like the little guy having.

820
00:41:49,159 --> 00:41:52,559
Speaker 2: A seat at the table, just because I don't think

821
00:41:52,599 --> 00:41:56,880
anybody should be shut out. But that being said, this

822
00:41:56,960 --> 00:41:59,320
is not the NCAA basketball tournament. And when you see

823
00:41:59,320 --> 00:42:02,559
teams repeat league getting blasted by fifty and sixty points

824
00:42:02,599 --> 00:42:04,519
in the what's supposed to be in you know, a

825
00:42:04,519 --> 00:42:07,679
playoff for the national championship, to me, that shows they

826
00:42:07,679 --> 00:42:11,480
don't belong. And to me, that's this is going to

827
00:42:11,559 --> 00:42:14,199
keep happening. I mean, obviously there will be that one

828
00:42:14,239 --> 00:42:17,480
team out of maybe one hundred two hundred games that

829
00:42:17,559 --> 00:42:20,519
are played that finally, you know, says see it can happen.

830
00:42:21,199 --> 00:42:23,639
I'm just up the sound in mind body that this

831
00:42:23,800 --> 00:42:26,159
is we're kind of getting back to the haves and

832
00:42:26,199 --> 00:42:28,159
have nots, where you know, we had one A and

833
00:42:28,199 --> 00:42:30,320
we had one double A and that's where you know,

834
00:42:30,360 --> 00:42:32,840
the app states and the James Madisons and the Georgia

835
00:42:32,880 --> 00:42:36,000
Southerns and the Marshalls of the world. That's where they

836
00:42:36,039 --> 00:42:38,079
need to be because you go eleven and one. Now,

837
00:42:38,199 --> 00:42:42,320
traditionally you're probably end up a burning Birmingham or you know,

838
00:42:42,639 --> 00:42:43,880
in the Bahama Bowl.

839
00:42:43,719 --> 00:42:44,519
Speaker 4: Or something like that.

840
00:42:44,639 --> 00:42:46,559
Speaker 2: I don't know how that excites a fan base when

841
00:42:46,599 --> 00:42:49,440
you can almost go in defeeder eleven and one and

842
00:42:49,480 --> 00:42:51,800
that's the reward you get. I just think when it

843
00:42:51,800 --> 00:42:54,599
comes to college football playoff this has gotten to the

844
00:42:54,599 --> 00:42:56,320
point kind of ridiculousness.

845
00:42:56,880 --> 00:42:59,440
Speaker 5: Yeah, I agree with you.

846
00:42:59,440 --> 00:43:03,119
Speaker 3: You know, there are a lot of people and I

847
00:43:03,159 --> 00:43:07,159
have been working for close to twenty years on what

848
00:43:07,280 --> 00:43:14,960
I think is the perfect solution to college football's playoff conundrum.

849
00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:16,239
Speaker 5: And this I mean this.

850
00:43:16,559 --> 00:43:19,719
Speaker 3: I started working on this back when there was the BCS,

851
00:43:20,039 --> 00:43:23,400
So this is long before they started doing four teams

852
00:43:23,480 --> 00:43:26,199
and then and then going to twelve. You know, this

853
00:43:26,360 --> 00:43:28,599
was back when they were when there were two teams

854
00:43:29,079 --> 00:43:32,480
that were playing in the BCS. And I have always

855
00:43:32,559 --> 00:43:39,239
said that instead of having a season that you know,

856
00:43:39,599 --> 00:43:43,239
unless you're in the SEC or the Big Ten, really

857
00:43:43,320 --> 00:43:49,320
means nothing because you know these you know, these group

858
00:43:49,360 --> 00:43:53,760
of group of five teams, you know, you know, I

859
00:43:54,239 --> 00:43:57,079
live in a city where we have a group of

860
00:43:57,119 --> 00:43:59,719
five team and that group of five team beat and

861
00:43:59,800 --> 00:44:03,400
a s CC team on the road this year, and there,

862
00:44:03,679 --> 00:44:05,840
you know, I would I was thinking that if there

863
00:44:05,920 --> 00:44:08,320
was going to be a team from the group of

864
00:44:08,400 --> 00:44:13,159
five that could have won a first round matchup this year,

865
00:44:13,760 --> 00:44:17,880
it would have been USF with Byron Brown and Alex Golish,

866
00:44:17,920 --> 00:44:20,760
just because that's the sort of player that group of

867
00:44:20,840 --> 00:44:24,519
that that power five teams, noah, you know, they have

868
00:44:24,719 --> 00:44:28,840
those guys as as as their signal callers, and USF

869
00:44:28,920 --> 00:44:33,360
had one this year. Unfortunately, you know, stumbled a little bit,

870
00:44:33,480 --> 00:44:38,320
did not get into the American Championship Game, and obviously

871
00:44:38,480 --> 00:44:41,199
was not able to be a part of the College

872
00:44:41,239 --> 00:44:46,119
Football Playoff. But you know, I have I have worked

873
00:44:46,119 --> 00:44:51,519
on on this concept now for yeah, like ten fifteen years,

874
00:44:52,840 --> 00:44:55,079
you know, and going all the way back, maybe even twenty.

875
00:44:55,320 --> 00:44:56,800
I may have started it in like two thousand and

876
00:44:56,840 --> 00:44:59,960
five or two thousand and six, you know, thinking about

877
00:45:00,159 --> 00:45:03,280
what to do, how to fix college football, and it

878
00:45:03,320 --> 00:45:07,920
will never happen because college you know, colleges and especially

879
00:45:07,960 --> 00:45:11,880
the power colleges, you know, they they're They're like power hoards,

880
00:45:11,920 --> 00:45:13,239
you know, They're like, no, we.

881
00:45:13,199 --> 00:45:14,599
Speaker 5: Must have all the power.

882
00:45:15,159 --> 00:45:18,360
Speaker 3: You know, we have the big we have the our

883
00:45:18,400 --> 00:45:21,559
president has the biggest house on campus, and we have

884
00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:25,199
the best, the best fans, the best tailgates, and we

885
00:45:25,280 --> 00:45:27,559
have this and you know they don't want to They

886
00:45:27,559 --> 00:45:33,599
don't want to make it better for the sport in general. Uh,

887
00:45:33,679 --> 00:45:37,400
you know, because what what would what would help the

888
00:45:37,440 --> 00:45:41,199
sport in general is for everybody to be able to

889
00:45:41,960 --> 00:45:45,920
say I have a chance every once in a while.

890
00:45:46,440 --> 00:45:48,119
Speaker 5: You know, I may you know, I may not.

891
00:45:48,280 --> 00:45:50,679
Speaker 3: I may not be able to win a championship, but

892
00:45:50,719 --> 00:45:53,760
at least I'm I'm competing for it. And right now,

893
00:45:54,119 --> 00:45:57,639
the group of five teams, they can't do it right now,

894
00:45:57,679 --> 00:46:01,119
they just can't. And until they figure out how they

895
00:46:01,119 --> 00:46:03,679
can do it, you know, this is what we're gonna get.

896
00:46:03,679 --> 00:46:04,039
Speaker 4: Every year.

897
00:46:04,039 --> 00:46:07,440
Speaker 3: We're gonna get Paul fine Bomb, you know, crapping all

898
00:46:07,440 --> 00:46:10,000
over anybody that's not in the SEC. We're gonna get

899
00:46:10,039 --> 00:46:12,800
Kirk kurb Street crapping on everybody who's not in the

900
00:46:12,800 --> 00:46:19,960
big ten, and and Notre Dame crying that nobody likes us.

901
00:46:20,719 --> 00:46:22,719
Speaker 5: So we're just gonna opt out.

902
00:46:23,039 --> 00:46:27,360
Speaker 3: Uh until until we until until college football gets its

903
00:46:27,360 --> 00:46:28,320
head out of its rear end.

904
00:46:28,400 --> 00:46:29,320
Speaker 5: This is what we've got.

905
00:46:30,039 --> 00:46:32,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not anti little guy at all.

906
00:46:32,639 --> 00:46:33,639
Speaker 4: Like I'm not not either.

907
00:46:33,880 --> 00:46:36,519
Speaker 2: I think that the little guy should have, you know,

908
00:46:36,559 --> 00:46:39,000
a pathway and a chance, you know, if that's deemed

909
00:46:39,000 --> 00:46:41,480
that one that one of these teams is worthy enough

910
00:46:41,519 --> 00:46:44,960
to do it. I just we see this every year,

911
00:46:45,400 --> 00:46:49,360
and it's just I know, one year we got was

912
00:46:49,400 --> 00:46:52,280
it did we get a Cincinnati upset over Georgia And

913
00:46:52,320 --> 00:46:54,280
it wasn't playoff, but it was, you know, like a

914
00:46:54,280 --> 00:46:57,280
New Year six situation. I have to go back and look,

915
00:46:57,320 --> 00:46:59,320
it was a good, really good Cincinnati team.

916
00:46:59,719 --> 00:47:04,440
Speaker 5: You got you got UCF over Auburn in.

917
00:47:04,400 --> 00:47:09,320
Speaker 3: Twenty fifteen, you know, and yeah, you know, an undefeated,

918
00:47:09,519 --> 00:47:13,800
an undefeated UCF team playing against an Auburn team that

919
00:47:13,840 --> 00:47:15,480
didn't want to be in the in the Chick fil

920
00:47:15,480 --> 00:47:15,760
A Bowl.

921
00:47:16,159 --> 00:47:17,320
Speaker 5: They didn't want to be there.

922
00:47:17,360 --> 00:47:20,880
Speaker 3: They thought they deserve to be in the in the

923
00:47:20,920 --> 00:47:24,199
fourteen playoff and they were left out. And then so

924
00:47:24,360 --> 00:47:26,280
nobody wanted to play in that in that game in

925
00:47:26,320 --> 00:47:31,199
Atlanta against UCF, Yeah.

926
00:47:30,679 --> 00:47:33,760
Speaker 4: I love it. Oh my goodness.

927
00:47:33,800 --> 00:47:36,400
Speaker 2: All right, well, well we will get out of here

928
00:47:36,440 --> 00:47:38,400
on that note, because we got a Travis Manning Foundation

929
00:47:38,480 --> 00:47:40,719
Honor roll segment coming up, and we got some news,

930
00:47:41,559 --> 00:47:43,559
a few notes fast along and some piction make We're

931
00:47:43,559 --> 00:47:45,159
going to do that for the final time here on

932
00:47:45,239 --> 00:47:47,719
Yards and Stripes this season. When we come back here

933
00:47:47,719 --> 00:47:49,760
on yourg and stripes, see is Stephen Carney and Price

934
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Ackinson can't wait to continue with you in just a moment.

935
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936
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home for service gadgy football, and you know we've come

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to our Travismanian Foundation honorall segment where we honor and

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remember a fallen here one that he's given the ultimate

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sacrifice within the words that Travis himself spoke before deploying

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for that final time. If not me, then who In

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the Travismnion Foundation is character continuing on the legacy of

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character in commitment and service by their by loved ones

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and communities across the country. And you can find out

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a lot more about Travismanion about the Trabsmanning Foundation online

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at Travismanion dot org. And this week we're going to

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honor remember on the TMF Honerable Staff Sergeant Brandon Ford

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Eggleston from the US Army. Staff Sergeant Brandon Eggleston gave

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the ultimate sacrifice when his vehicle was struck by an

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ied during patrol on April twenty six, twenty twelve, in

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Gosni Province, Afghanistan. A Staff Sergeant Eggleston was assigned to

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Company B with fourth Battalion, third Special Forces Group out

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of Fort Bragg, North Carolina, was deployed in support of

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Operation and during Freedom. A native of Rayford, North Carolina,

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in two thousand and five, graduate of Western Carolina University,

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enlisted in the Army in July of twenty of two

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thousand and six. Upon completion of basic training and following

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on individual training, he attended a Special Forces Assessment Selection course.

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He completed the Special Forces Qualification Course in March twenty

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nine of two thousand and nine and was assigned his

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unit at Fort Bragg. Eggleston was on his third deployment

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at the time of his death. He was awarded numerous

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service medals, including the Army Good Colonel Medal, National National

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Defense Service Medal, so many other Broadze Star Medal, Meritorious

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Service Medal, Purple Heart, so many other things. At the

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time of his death, he was survived by his wife, Kieren,

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two daughters, his mother, a sister, Erica, and other relatives.

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Speaker 4: And in August of.

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Speaker 2: Twenty thirteen, Brandon's wife, Kieren, participated in the Travis Mannon

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Foundations Survivors Retreat in honor of her husband. And again

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we take this time to remember our fallen heroes like

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Staff Sergeant Brandon Eggleston, who gave the ultimate sacrifice. Because

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we all know freedom isn't free. We have so many men,

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brave men and women serving our country here at home

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and abroad, and so we always want to remember those

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fallen heroes who gave that ultimate sacrifice so they are

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never ever forgot.

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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, final segment of our final show of twenty

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twenty five this outstanding college football season. We want to

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thank I know Steven will do it here at the end,

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but just want to thank all of our listeners for

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investing time in us again this year. Hope you've enjoyed

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every step of the way, every week of the way

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with us here in Yards and Stripes as we follow Army, Navy,

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and Air Force do it.

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Speaker 4: Like nobody else does.

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Speaker 2: I guess this was I went back in count of

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what eight nine years now of doing this podcast, so

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hope it's become a mainstay for many of you as

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it has been for us to deliver Army, Navy, and

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Air Force Service Academy football that we love talking about

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every single week, which we will continue to do moving forward,

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and we will do that here marching forward, Steve. Before

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we get out of here, because a couple of notes

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to pass along, a few postseason things have come up

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before we make our picks here West Point announcing that

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the Black Knights they will face Bryant for the first

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time on Saturday, September fifth.

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Speaker 4: Time hasn't been.

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Speaker 2: Announced, but the reason this one is important, Well, it's

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going to open the twenty twenty sixth season and celebrate

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the opening of the rebuilt one hundred and eighty million

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dollars Eastern Stand renovation project at Mikey Stadium. So that's

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gonna be pretty exciting September fifth, when Army opens against

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Bryant there at Mikey.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: The Briant Bulldogs. They're from my old neck of the woods.

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They're from Smithfield, Rhode Island.

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Speaker 2: YEP, can't wait. That's gonna be awesome to see. So

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we're not looking just stone for like we have the

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last two seasons. When we look across the way over

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there at the visitors side.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Also Army announced that they will face a lat Tech,

1031
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Louisiana Tech, and rustin next season. That was going to

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be on October the third, So Army schedule come together

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for next season with those two big announcements. Also regarding Army,

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it looks like safeties coach Danny Verpolli he's gonna be

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off joining Mike hartline staff there at USF steven. So

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that news breaking via Black Knight Nation and Salanderdonado's folks

1037
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here just a.

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Speaker 4: Couple of days ago.

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Speaker 2: Air Force they're twenty twenty six opponents and ounced by

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the Mount West. At home, they will take on Northern Illinois,

1041
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they will have San Jose State, UNLB and UTEP. Their

1042
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road opponents will be Hawaii, Nevada, New Mexico, and Wyoming.

1043
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So that coming out of Colorado Springs. And then finally

1044
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for the Naval Academy Outstanding Defensive Tackle Landon Robinson, who

1045
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is the American Defensive Player of the Year, had been

1046
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invited to the East West Shrine Game. Also named a

1047
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first team All American by the Football Writers Association of

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America and the second team All American by the Sporting News.

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So congratulations him getting some more postseason accolades that are

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rolling in all right, Stephen, our final time to make

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some picks this season. We both had Navy winning the

1052
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Army Navy game. Last week you had twenty eight Twenty

1053
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had twenty four to twenty, so we both had Navy.

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What are we doing this week? I guess let's start

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with Army in the Wasabi Fenway Bowl. Army and Yukon.

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As we talked about earlier, Yukon losing a whole lot

1057
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of players and a whole lot from that coaching staff,

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is they're gonna try and get to ten wins for

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00:54:26,119 --> 00:54:29,159
the first time since they came back to the FBS

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in two thousand.

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Speaker 4: Can they do it?

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Speaker 2: Or can Army get that seventh win to finish went

1063
00:54:32,880 --> 00:54:35,280
with another winning season, Steve, which way are you going

1064
00:54:35,280 --> 00:54:35,719
in this one?

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: I think it's gonna be really tough without Joe Fernano

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for Yukon to be able to do much of anything.

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And so I actually had even with Fanado playing, I

1069
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had Army winning this game twenty three to twenty, but

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with Fernando not playing, I actually moved my score for

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Yukon down Oil. So I went, I have Army winning

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this game, and I have them winning twenty three to ten.

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Speaker 2: Okay, we're not too far apart, but a little bit

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I've got I think it's gonna be I think it's

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gonna be a runaway.

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Speaker 4: I've got a.

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Speaker 2: Much bigger margin. I like Army thirty five to ten.

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00:55:15,960 --> 00:55:18,000
I think they're gonna be able to run the football day.

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00:55:18,039 --> 00:55:19,840
I think Kate Ellams is going to have a big day.

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And I just think the defections from Yukon, they're just

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00:55:23,639 --> 00:55:25,400
not going to have the horses to run with Army.

1082
00:55:26,400 --> 00:55:28,480
And then again, we've talked about the Fenway Bowl. This

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has really not been let's just call it, it has not

1084
00:55:32,000 --> 00:55:35,559
been must see TV from a viewing standpoint really since

1085
00:55:35,599 --> 00:55:37,320
I think the inception of this bowl, what was it,

1086
00:55:37,320 --> 00:55:38,639
Steve maybe five years ago?

1087
00:55:38,760 --> 00:55:41,079
Speaker 4: Maybe? Is this the sixth maybe installment of this?

1088
00:55:41,320 --> 00:55:44,840
Speaker 3: I think this is the sixth Fenway Bowl, and you know,

1089
00:55:45,159 --> 00:55:47,079
for for a lot of it, you know, they they

1090
00:55:47,119 --> 00:55:50,440
had some really good matchups in this game. You know,

1091
00:55:50,519 --> 00:55:52,679
I think I didn't Notre Dame play in this game

1092
00:55:53,360 --> 00:55:55,360
the first the first year that it was that it

1093
00:55:55,400 --> 00:55:57,920
was opened, so obviously would have been would have been

1094
00:55:57,960 --> 00:56:00,639
a really good one. I have not seen what the uh,

1095
00:56:01,599 --> 00:56:05,119
what the forecast looks like in that in that game.

1096
00:56:05,239 --> 00:56:09,639
But I can imagine that it's definitely going to be

1097
00:56:10,559 --> 00:56:12,119
whether that both of these teams.

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00:56:11,920 --> 00:56:15,599
Speaker 2: Are familiar with and that's always a wild card. I

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00:56:15,599 --> 00:56:18,880
think I remember watching the thin Way Bowl a couple

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of times. Right now, it looks like, I think twenty

1101
00:56:20,760 --> 00:56:25,519
seven degrees and maybe partly sunny, but again that's we're still,

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you know, several days out. I just remember, I think

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I remember watching this game one year.

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00:56:29,320 --> 00:56:30,079
Speaker 4: I don't remember it was.

1105
00:56:30,039 --> 00:56:33,639
Speaker 2: Freezing rain or sleate or if it was just playing

1106
00:56:33,760 --> 00:56:37,400
nasty like fog rain. It was awful, awful weather. It

1107
00:56:37,440 --> 00:56:39,280
was several years ago. It was not last year when

1108
00:56:39,400 --> 00:56:41,280
Yukon and you and Seed did battle.

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00:56:41,280 --> 00:56:50,239
Speaker 3: But apparently on on the twenty seventh, they're expecting snow showers, so.

1110
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Speaker 5: So it should be it should be a should be

1111
00:56:50,760 --> 00:56:53,599
a little sporty, if you know what I mean. In

1112
00:56:53,679 --> 00:56:54,159
that game.

1113
00:56:54,440 --> 00:56:57,559
Speaker 2: Yep, all right, we're both going with army big in

1114
00:56:57,599 --> 00:57:00,159
this one. All right, final one, our final pick of

1115
00:57:00,159 --> 00:57:03,360
the season. We've got Navy and Cincinnati doing battle on

1116
00:57:03,440 --> 00:57:06,920
January the second Auto Zone Liberty Bowl four thirty kickoff

1117
00:57:06,920 --> 00:57:09,840
there and Memphis on ESPN Navy a seven point favorite.

1118
00:57:10,760 --> 00:57:13,639
Can Navy close this one out with an eleventh win

1119
00:57:13,840 --> 00:57:15,239
of the season, Steve.

1120
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Speaker 3: For the first time ever getting an eleventh an eleventh win,

1121
00:57:20,039 --> 00:57:23,199
And I'm going to make Michael Kelly very very happy

1122
00:57:23,599 --> 00:57:28,239
because I am saying that Navy will indeed get its

1123
00:57:28,239 --> 00:57:32,679
eleventh win on January second, twenty twenty six, with a

1124
00:57:32,719 --> 00:57:35,519
twenty eight to twenty one victory over the Bear Captains.

1125
00:57:35,519 --> 00:57:36,960
Speaker 4: Oh, you're going a lot closer than me.

1126
00:57:37,079 --> 00:57:40,000
Speaker 2: Well, I'm fairly close, but I just thought it was

1127
00:57:40,320 --> 00:57:42,880
more high scoring. You're going seven point margin, I'm going

1128
00:57:42,960 --> 00:57:46,639
six point margin. I'm going with Navy forty to thirty four.

1129
00:57:46,719 --> 00:57:49,800
I think this one is going to be really high scoring.

1130
00:57:49,840 --> 00:57:51,320
I think these teams are going to get up and

1131
00:57:51,360 --> 00:57:54,599
down the field and we're going to see a scoreboard

1132
00:57:54,639 --> 00:57:57,400
lit up there in the Liberty Bowl. So we're both

1133
00:57:57,440 --> 00:58:00,119
going with Army and we're both both going with Navy.

1134
00:58:00,760 --> 00:58:03,800
Should be exciting. It's been an exciting season. Steven cannot

1135
00:58:03,840 --> 00:58:06,880
thank you enough for everything that you've done to keep

1136
00:58:06,960 --> 00:58:11,360
us straight, to produce this show, to keep us running

1137
00:58:11,400 --> 00:58:15,840
every single week that we've done, even with trials, tribulations,

1138
00:58:15,960 --> 00:58:17,639
no hurricanes this year, thank.

1139
00:58:17,480 --> 00:58:18,519
Speaker 4: Goodness, thank God.

1140
00:58:19,079 --> 00:58:23,360
Speaker 2: No no, no crazy snowstorms or anything like that, and

1141
00:58:23,360 --> 00:58:25,400
not we would have that in the fall. But we

1142
00:58:26,239 --> 00:58:28,840
got through this one fairly unscathed. I know we had

1143
00:58:28,880 --> 00:58:31,719
a lot of help from you know, Poppy Yohn's in

1144
00:58:31,760 --> 00:58:33,639
the first half of the season and then Killer Pizza

1145
00:58:33,679 --> 00:58:36,079
who helped carry you through you know, the month of

1146
00:58:36,119 --> 00:58:38,800
November since you found them. But the big thing is

1147
00:58:38,880 --> 00:58:41,039
just to say thank you to you because without you

1148
00:58:41,079 --> 00:58:42,199
this would not be possible.

1149
00:58:42,199 --> 00:58:43,559
Speaker 4: And you think I joke when I.

1150
00:58:43,559 --> 00:58:45,760
Speaker 2: Say the best coast and producer in the business. I

1151
00:58:45,800 --> 00:58:47,800
don't say that lightly. I mean that from the bottom

1152
00:58:47,840 --> 00:58:49,880
of my heart, dude, So you are the best.

1153
00:58:50,320 --> 00:58:53,639
Speaker 3: I appreciate it, my friend. I have to thank you

1154
00:58:53,159 --> 00:58:57,960
for being the brains behind this whole, this whole outfit.

1155
00:58:58,039 --> 00:59:01,840
So I appreciate that. Obviously, we have to thank the

1156
00:59:01,880 --> 00:59:05,880
Travis Manion Foundation for for all of the work that

1157
00:59:05,960 --> 00:59:08,920
they do. I know that they had a great time

1158
00:59:08,920 --> 00:59:12,800
in Baltimore, so because I saw the because I saw

1159
00:59:12,840 --> 00:59:18,559
the pictures. So but yes, uh so thank you to

1160
00:59:18,559 --> 00:59:21,119
to to TMF and and all the hard work that

1161
00:59:21,159 --> 00:59:24,320
they do. And we're we're so happy that we can

1162
00:59:24,360 --> 00:59:28,280
be a part of that and and keep the keep

1163
00:59:28,360 --> 00:59:31,119
their uh their name in the in the forefront, uh

1164
00:59:31,280 --> 00:59:34,639
for for all of these weeks. So UH, definitely thanks

1165
00:59:34,719 --> 00:59:37,880
to them, Thanks to you, Thanks to the listeners, uh obviously

1166
00:59:38,000 --> 00:59:41,400
anybody that uh will put up with with listening to this.

1167
00:59:41,360 --> 00:59:45,599
Speaker 5: Voice, uh seventeen times a year.

1168
00:59:46,280 --> 00:59:49,119
Speaker 3: I I gotta you know, I can't canonize you, so

1169
00:59:49,199 --> 00:59:50,119
I can only thank you.

1170
00:59:50,360 --> 00:59:53,159
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, so many times you and I have gone

1171
00:59:53,159 --> 00:59:56,800
through long days with a lot of stuff before we

1172
00:59:56,840 --> 00:59:58,719
sit down to do this. But like I was thinking

1173
00:59:59,400 --> 01:00:01,519
on my way ho tonight from a Christmas event, I

1174
01:00:01,559 --> 01:00:03,920
was like, you know, I am dead tired tonight, but

1175
01:00:04,360 --> 01:00:06,320
damn I look forward just to having a good time

1176
01:00:06,440 --> 01:00:10,079
laughing and smiling and giggling and flat out talking college

1177
01:00:10,079 --> 01:00:12,199
football with you, because this is one of my favorite

1178
01:00:12,199 --> 01:00:13,880
times every single week when we get to do this.

1179
01:00:14,000 --> 01:00:15,199
Speaker 4: That's the God's honest truth.

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Speaker 2: So, like you said, appreciate to our listeners. Thank you

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to everybody that's listened to one episode, that's listened to

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every single episode.

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Speaker 4: We just can't thank you enough.

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Speaker 2: The reason why we do this, because this is a

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labor of love that we just do because we just

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enjoy it, and we enjoy Army, Navy, and Air Force.

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So we thank the teams, we thank the coaches, we

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thank everybody for delivering some great moments for us to

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talk about here during the season. So we will bid

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you a final farewell. Happy holidays, Merry Christmas.

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Speaker 4: Merry Christmas, you know, happy New Year. Wherever it is.

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Speaker 2: Hope you guys are safe and sound on the roads.

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Hopefully you have a great, great new year. And it's

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starting to twenty twenty six, because we will be with

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you again next year. Steve, so anything on the way

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out the door, my friend.

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Speaker 3: No, absolutely, absolutely, a very merry Christmas and a happy

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holiday season to you and your family to the listeners.

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I'm really excited about twenty twenty six. As I said,

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you know, the end of the twenty twenty five season

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just has me so geeked for what's in store in

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twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 5: So I look forward to being back with you all

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in August.

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Speaker 4: Well, said friend.

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Speaker 2: We will let you enjoy the games, We will enjoy

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the end of the season, and we will talk with

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you again next year in twenty twenty six. Here on

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Yards and Stripes, you're home for Service Academy Football.

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

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Academy Football. To get more on all things Service Academy Football,

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like Yards and Stripes on Facebook and follow them on

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