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

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Navy and Air Force. This is Yards and Stripes Service

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

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Steve Carney.

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Speaker 2: All right, we're back with another episode of Yards and Stripes.

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You're home for Service Academy Football. He is Steven Carney.

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I'm Price Atkinson. Boy. We got a lot to talk about, Steven.

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I mean, we got a lot to cover tonight. Some

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unexpected some curveballs throwing us this weekend, among many other things. Yeah,

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I was throwing a few t Swift curveballs in Indianapolis.

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What a show, What a time? We got games to

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get into a Commander and show c I C Commander

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Chief Trophy leg to talk about. We got our Travis

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Meaning Foundation Honor Roll segment. We got we got a

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ton to do here, Steven, How the hell are you?

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Speaker 3: I'm great. My voice sounds a hell of a lot

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better than yours. But as you had mentioned, you went

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and saw Taylor Swift in Indianapolis. Her American leg of

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the Era's tour is now over, so you got to

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see one of the last shows that she's going to

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do so for at least a while here in the

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United States. So if anybody wants to go see Taylor Swift,

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you got to go overseas to see her now.

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Speaker 2: But uh, not overseas, you got to go north of

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the border to Canada.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you gotta go. You gotta go elsewhere. You got

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to get a passport out. You got to get your

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passport out to go see t Swizzle. Uh from from

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here on out. But as as a non Taylor Swift aficionado, uh,

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you know, obviously your daughter a huge swiftye. But you

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you know, obviously the dad of the swifty. Uh. I'm

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curious to hear from you what what the concert was like.

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I'm obviously you enjoyed yourself. You probably screaming your ass off.

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Speaker 2: It was. It was. I'll just say this, I'll tell

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you a lot of things, and then we'll get to

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the football, because I know that's what our listeners really

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want to hear as football. But I that the vibe

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before we even got there was awesome. Everybody there having

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a great time. I mean the whole bracelet trading. Yes,

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I had my arm full of bracelets. I was an

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icebreaker for my daughter going up to random people trading

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with cops on the street and firemen. I mean, it

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was just it was like a festive party. But then

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when you get inside and you know, that show cranks up.

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Like you said, i am not a you know, a

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swifty you know, I'm not a a wasn't a fan

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I am now because when you can get up on

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that stage and go for three and a half hours

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and I'm talking NonStop three and a half hours, it

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is incredible to watch. And it's not just an easy

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three hours. It is going strong. I mean you're going

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like fifteen eighteen years of music. So she earned a

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new fan in me. And just the the show, you know,

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forget the music, just the show that was put on

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was just incredible with the lights and it's just something

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to behold. So, I mean, my daughter, obviously it was

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a dream come true for her to see her smile

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and see her tear up as she came on set. Mean,

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it was awesome. It was a great weekend. It was

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worth it to drive, you know, basically nine hours up

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on Friday and then nine back one Sunday, and it

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was really really incredible. It was all about her daughter,

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and so I'm certainly glad we did it, but I'm

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glad I saw it because I had she earned. I

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got a mad amount of respect for that woman, a

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mad amount absolutely.

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Speaker 3: One one more follow up question before we get into

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what we're actually here for. Did you see Travis Kelsey

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because he was in attendance.

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Speaker 2: We did, so my daughters thought she spotted him down

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there with Mama Swift, and we're like, I don't know,

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because you saw a bunch of people going crazy down there,

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but you couldn't see what they were who they were

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going crazy for, because there were a bunch of selebrities,

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you know, that were down there, and you just you know,

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weren't that high up. But my daughter, you know, said

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she could spot him and she thought she saw him,

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and then sure enough we saw, you know, on Twitter

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video surfacing when we got back to the hotel the

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next morning that he he was in the house. So,

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you know, we knew if he was going to be there,

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it was probably going to be Saturday night, the night

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we went having Monday night football against your Tampa Bay Bucks.

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But yeah, he was. He was definitely in the house

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because you know that he is there when in the

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last and see, I learned a whole lot of swift,

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useless information this weekend. Steven Soda when she sings that

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Karma song and that's the last song that she sings,

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and when she says, if she says Karma, what is it?

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Karma is on the Chiefs there as a player on

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the Chiefs. When she says that, she only says it

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if he's in attendance. Otherwise she goes with the regular lyrics.

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And somewhere earlier in the show, I think they said

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us like the nineteen ninety eighty nine album, if she's

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wearing a red tinted outfit, that means he's in attendance,

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And she did that earlier in the show. So interesting, Yeah,

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useless things that you didn't need to know. I did

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not know that I learned through the course of a weekend.

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So I got a lot more where that came from.

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If anybody wants more of it, you can hit me

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up on Twitter at Bryce Atkinson.

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Speaker 3: All right, now, with that, with that out of the way, yes,

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let's let's talk about the other curveball that that came

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our way that we found out after we taped last

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last Wednesday. Yep, because we were we were ready for

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Army or for Navy and Rice and we were talking

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about you know what we call was gonna happen with

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the Midshipman against the Owls and then life through everybody

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in the Navy family occur. When we found out that

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the voice of Navy football and Navy athletics in general,

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Pete Medhurst, had been diagnosed with a brain tumor and

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was going to undergo surgery. We found that out, I

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believe Thursday morning was when we was when we found out,

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and it started to leak out sometime Thursday afternoon, things

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started to become public knowledge that that Pete had been

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diagnosed with this tumor, and you know, I was, I

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was thinking about it, and I was like, you know,

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I'm going to go back and I want to listen

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to some of our old episodes and you can do

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that on College Gridiron, Coast to Coast and The Last

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Word on sports dot Com Slash Podcast. You can go

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back in our archives. We've had Pete on a number

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of times here on the show, and you know, you

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know Pete a lot better than I do. I've met

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him a few times and I was looking forward to

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seeing him this week and obviously that's not going to happen.

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But when when when you when you let me know,

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because obviously you found out, you found out first, and

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let me know in the morning that that this had happened.

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I was devastated for Brendan the family. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I got a call from one of my colleagues

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that I worked with in the Navy Sports Information Office station.

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Sean picked up the phone and called me because she

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knew that we were MED and I were we were friends,

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and she had called to tell me because she wanted

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me to know about it and that it had you know,

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really the family had just was starting to make it public,

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and she had said that he had been having a

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little bit of trouble. Had looked good, but he was

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having problems with like one of his legs. But it

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was it was I think it was Monday or Tuesday evening,

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maybe Monday evening. I think she mentioned where they had

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to call ambulance where he was having trouble walking. And

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then it kind of led to something that was completely

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unexpected that nobody, nobody could fathom, and so Pete did

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go undergo, you know, surgery to remove the brain tumor

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on Friday, late Friday morning. All accounts from his wife

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that she's posted everything I've heard. It was a success.

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He's now undergoing rehabilitation. They're going to start, you know,

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the radiation. Where it goes from here, we don't know.

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you said, devastated was you know, I can't think of

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a you know, more apropos word, you know, from when

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I got it, just because me. Med has always been

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such a great friend to me, and I know you

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as well. Anytime, anytime I've ever texted him about coming

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on the show, let me know what time, and he

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always makes it work.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, one of one of the really great class

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acts in college football because and And does more than

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just you know, Navy athletics. I mean, he is known

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for Navy athletics. But you know it was does Baltimore

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Ravens uh stuff We did stuff with the with the

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Washington Commanders and on uh uh on one O six

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seven the fan uh in Washington, d C. So obviously, uh,

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you know they've they know him very well in Washington.

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You know his boss, uh, you know, Chuck's appienza, the man,

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the myth, the legend at UH in Baltimore. UH used

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to work in Washington. I know Chuck UH pretty well.

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you know, and and I I would consider us to

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be a part of that because you know, obviously we

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love the service academies. UH and UH, I know I'm

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pulling for Med. Uh. I can't wait until the next

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time Navy comes down here uh in a couple of years,

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because I want to see his ass in that chair.

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Uh and and be able to come come over and

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say hello and into their booth and give him a

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hard time, probably because he's still going to be better

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looking than I am. Even after the surgery. He's still

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better looking than I am. Takes a lot. Med well yeah, yeah.

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if ye prayers are your thing, whatever is your thing,

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just think positive, you know, for a good friend of

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our somebody that, like you said, has given us in

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our listeners so much time over the years here on

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Yards and Stripes since we began, and somehow I'm known

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for now almost twenty I guess twenty four years now.

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So we're mad. We're all pulling for you clearly, indeed

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that's an understatement. We can't wait to have you back on.

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And if there's a guy that can kick this thing's ass,

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we know it's Pete Medhurst because he said, you know,

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seeing his wife's Facebook post, that he was already up

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moving and he's ready to kick this thing's rear in.

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and all will say about it just for the time being,

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is that Pete, we are pulling like hell for you.

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You're a friend and we know you'll do it.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely hashtag Pete strong on that. Sorry. So that's right.

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in navs uh in Navy's world, then they got to

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play a football game, and I know what, well, there's

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there's the other game that I'm I'm sure everybody wants

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to hear about with our with our main air force.

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But let's let's stick with Let's stick with Navy this

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time around here, because they you know, as if losing

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your broadcaster isn't bad enough, then you have to go

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to Houston, Texas and then you have to deal with

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what is you know, just an ungodly uh weather situation

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down there. It was supposed to be a four o'clock game.

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was after eight before they they actually got things kicked off.

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They only played a couple of minutes and then they

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had to go back back into the locker rooms because

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the weather acted up again, and finally they were able

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to get things done. But five hours of weather in Houston,

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Texas will do anything, you know, to a road team.

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even especially you know, the midshipman. I was laughing because

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and you know, we'll we should say that that Navy

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did suffer its first conference loss in the American this year,

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losing to the Owls twenty four to ten. But you know,

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I was I was laughing because I was watching people

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on social media. They're like, why don't they just delay

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this until tomorrow? And I kind of was like, you

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obviously don't understand the Service Academy. They can't do that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, it's not like, yeah, you can't no pun intended,

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you can't pun it till the next day. But after

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twenty four to ten. They fall to the Rice owls

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seen this movie and you've probably heard me mention it

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on this podcast several times over the years. You know,

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I've seen this movie play out time and time again,

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and obviously I think the rain delay probably had some

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effect on this. But watching academy teams, whether it's football, basketball,

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water polo, gymnastics, soccer, I've seen it happened in every

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sport having worked in an academy, and I think the

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demands on the student athletes, the midshipman, it's basically what happens.

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But there's usually at least one time, depending on how

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long the season is, two times where it might be

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a it's usually a very good academy team, but for

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some reason, they just played down to the level of competition.

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And I think it's, you know, the demands on everything

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that they have going on, you know, trying to juggle

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because especially then trying to get up for football games

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on Saturday. It's difficult, but nonetheless, Rice is a team

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that they should have gone down there and hammered. And

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then when you're now stuck in rain delays here and there,

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weather delays, and I know that they did not get

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back I think to the academy until sometime around five

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point thirty in the morning, because I saw Scott Strasmeyer

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mol boss mentioned that he did not get back to

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the office still about five forty five, and then he

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went right into the He literally, you know, pulled his

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stuff up and went right to his office start working

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for ten hours on game notes to get ready for

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this week in South Florida. So it was a long

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night to say the least. But nonetheless EJ. Water was

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the star I guess for Rice. You know, twenty eight

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to forty two thirty nine for touchdown interception while you

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know they're running back. Excuse me, Dean Connors went for

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one oh five as Rice beats Navy for the first time.

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It's two thousand and two. Another fun fact here, I

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was at that game the last time that that Rice

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beat Navy. That was in a Navy Marine Corps Memorial stadium.

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So I was there for that one.

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Speaker 3: That's that's unreal. And yeah, I mean you look at it.

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You know, there wasn't going to be a whole lot

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of offense on either side. I think I think Rice

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had three hundred and forty four yards of total offense.

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Navy only had two hundred and sixty yards of total offense.

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And I just really thought that with the way that

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the weather was playing havoc on things, and then of

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course the late start and then having to you know,

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stop and start and re you know, you know, you start,

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you stop, you restart again, I think that's just too

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much for a clubs on the road. And you know,

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I off Blake Horvath you know, making uh, making mistakes

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that you don't normally see. Uh, you know Horbath made

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I I you know, you saw you know what happened

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with Notre Dame the week prior. But that was that's

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a team that was a much stronger team than Navy.

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I would not say that Bryce is a stronger team

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than Navy, but there were just a lot of mistakes

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that were made. Uh, and Horvath made two big guns,

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you know, two drives ended in interceptions.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it started with everything that was that

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had gone on with the weather delays and everything, and

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nonetheless being Halloween weekend too. It got spooky right from

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the start because on the very first offensive play, Horbath

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is picked off, you know, at the you know, you know,

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with a pass. Obviously they weren't trying to run the ball.

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They were folded on first down, first offensive play of

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the game, and he's picked off. So, I mean it

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started right there, and it just continued down that path.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and you look at the their first half, you

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know plays, you know, their drive schedule. You know, you've

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mentioned the pick on the very first offensive play. Then

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they go four and out and three and out in

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their next two next two series, and by that point,

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Rice is up seventeen to nothing. You know, right at

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that point, NYBE is in scramble mode because they have

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not been able to do anything defensively to hold the

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Owls and they haven't been able to do anything offensively

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because they've only had eight plays total from scrimmage for

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the entire game at that point. And at that point

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you're already into the second quarter. I mean it's you know,

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twelve and a half minutes to go in the first half,

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they've had eight plays and they're down seventeen to nothing.

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Speaker 2: Well, once again, Rice at twenty four to ten winner

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over Navy. I don't think we can not a whole

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lot more to say about this one. Is this just

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one that is you talk about the Notre Dame loss,

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This is one that they really want to flush as

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they get right now to come your way, Stephen and

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Tampa to take on South Florida this Saturday. All right,

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let's get to the biggest game of the weekend, Stephen,

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because leg two of the Commander in Chief Trophy Army

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and Air Force. The Falcons heading into Mikey Stadium for

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the first time. It's what twenty and twenty this game

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being played on campus and number twenty one Army hosting

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Air Force, and they get a twenty to three win

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over Air Force as Army is now eight to no

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for the first time since nineteen fifty. But as we mentioned,

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it got spooky in Houston for Navy. It was spooky

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before kickoff for Army because something we didn't know, if

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anybody else knew. I mean, they're more smarter than or

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in the know than we are, because Bryce and Daily outstanding,

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you know, obviously do it all quarterback for the Black Knights.

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He missed practice all week and he was deemed out

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of action. He did not play. They said it was

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an injury illness. Jeff Munkin and the academy did not

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elaborate any further. I guess they were working to get

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junior Dwayne Coleman ready all week. He got his first

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career start, and he led the Black Knights to a

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big win in that second CiCe matchup and their twelfth

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straight win for the Black Knights, which leads the nation.

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But this now sets up the win for Army twenty

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to three over Air Force, now setting up a winner

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take all Army Navy showdown on December the fourteenth for

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the CIC Trophy. But Army's won four the last five

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against Air Force. Now, and you got to give Dwayne

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Coleman big props. But I think it caught everybody by

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surprise that Bryson Daily was unavailable for this one.

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Speaker 3: Steven, Yeah, it certainly caught me by surprise because I

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think that if we had known that Bryson Daily wasn't

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going to play when we made our predictions last week,

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I don't think either of us would have had such

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a wide margin of victory, and we both thought that

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Army was going to win handling, and honestly they did.

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I mean, a seventeen point win in a Commander in

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Chief Trophy leg is impressive. You know, that doesn't normally happen,

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you know, even against a team as bad as the

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Falcons are this year. But I think that we both

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would have taken a second look at things if we

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had known that it was going to be Dwayne Coleman

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and not Bryson Daily that was going to be under center.

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We both found out very very late in the week.

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I mean I find out Saturday morning when they said,

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oh yeah, Daily undisclosed injury illness, will not play for Army.

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I went, uh oh. And then the first thing I

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thought was, well, there goes the streak, because Army was

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the last team in Division one FBS college football to

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score a touchdown on the first drive of every game

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so far this year. They came close, They got in

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the red zone in their first drive, but it dies out,

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uh just inside the fifteen. They have to settle for

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a field goal. But they have now they keep the

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streak of scoring on their first drive going. It just

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was not a touchdown. They would end up getting two

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second half touchdowns from Kanye Udo in this game, which

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was a huge plus. But uh, you know, this was

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six nothing at the half. If this, if Bryson Daily

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is understander, this is not even closed to six nothing

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at the half. And we might have seen Dwayne Coleman

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in the second half anyway. But but now given an

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extra week to try and get healthy, we hope that dailyn't.

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I have not seen whether Jeff Bunkin has said yet

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that Daily will uh you know, what his status is

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for this week's game. We'll get to that in just

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the in just the little bit. But I would think

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that if you're the Army coaching staff, not having Bryson

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Daily for Air Force is one thing. Not having Bryson

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Daily for North Texas is something completely different.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, we will talk about Jeff Munkin has updated

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the status for Bryson Daily for this weekend. We'll talk

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about that yet just a little bit. But coach Munkin.

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Speaking of Coach Munkin, he said he thought it was

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really the first time that his team has faced real

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adversity this season. And you probably have to agree with him,

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because they haven't traded, they still have not trailed in

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a game all season long, so you know, adversity or not.

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I think this the injury in his absence certainly galvanized

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his team or his teammates, because you know, I read

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where Kanye Youdo had told him in the uh the

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team hotel the night before that look, we got you

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because last year I think it was Udo had to

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miss maybe that I think it was the Air Force game,

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this exact game, and so Bryson Daly had told him

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the same thing, and so it really seemed like it

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was a spirited you know, Army for to rally around

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Rice and Dally, who obviously didn't play. But I thought Coleman,

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you know, did a really admirable job playing turnover free football,

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despite the fact that Army had a season low in

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points with twenty in total yards of offense at two

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fifty five. He ran the team. He did what he

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was supposed to. He didn't turn it over. And obviously

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when you got guys like Kanye Udo and some others

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to help on the ground attack, I mean, you know

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how to had one fifty eight and two touchdowns seven

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and seven point two yards per carry and then throw

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in the defense because Army's defense just just continues to

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be underrated. You know. They they had Quin Hayes, the

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Air Force starting quarterback Josh Johnson came in and played,

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but whenever the Air Force was forced to throw or

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opted to throw, they were under duress all night. I

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mean Hayes was picked off, you know twice in the game.

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You know, could just Army only giving up three points.

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They only gave up three plays inside the red zone

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in this entire football game. So just another outstanding job,

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not just by Coleman filling in, but especially that Army

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deef that's standing tall once again, Stevid.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, and you look at it. They had, you know,

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six sacks of of Air Forces quarterbacks, ten total tackles

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for lost in this game. You know, I I really

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think that, you know, it makes a lot of sense

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that you get that that feeling, that feeling of adversity,

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because you're right, Army had not seen a lot of

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that this year, not having trailed in a game so

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far this year. You know, the combined winning percentage of

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Armies opponents is really not very good. I think it's

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like three forty is what the combined winning percentage is.

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You know, that's gonna go up this week. But but

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I I really do think that, you know, you get

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that feeling like, Okay, I've been punched in the mouth now,

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I know, you know, because I always used the old

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Mike Tyson line, everybody's got a plan until you get

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punched in the face. Yeah, And so this is this

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was a punch punching the gut for Army not having

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their main weapon on offense. What are you going to

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do about it? Well, they went out, they played mistake

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free football and they win by seventeen points.

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Speaker 2: Now bel once again twenty to three. Army now eight

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and zero on the season. Air Force one in seven

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is the Black Knights, now eight to o for the

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first time since nineteen fifty and this win sets up

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again the all winner, take all Army Navy game on

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December of the fourteenth with the Commander in Chief Trophy.

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All Right, Steven, let's give out some game balls brother

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before we look ahead to this coming week. We got

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a Travis Madian foundation on a roll segment. We got

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more to do. Who are you get in your game ball?

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Speaker 3: Well, obviously the guy who carried the load for Army

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in this game was Kanye Udo. He had the two

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second half touchdowns for the Black Knights, finished with one

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hundred and fifty eight yards on the ground. He's going

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to get my game ball, though, I do want to

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mention the defensive secondary for the Black Knights that had

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three interceptions, including a seventy one yard return from Max Dominico,

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So I definitely want to mention those guys as well.

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But Udo gets the game ball for getting the getting

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the football into the end zone twice in the second half.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll folle in a linebacker there and Caleb Portner

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who had seven tackles in the game, including two and

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a half tackles for a loss. So another another standout

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effort on defense. But I'm gonna get my game ball.

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Stephen to Dwayne Coleman because while they reported on the broadcast,

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you know he had all week to get ready. Still,

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you know, the junior from Selma, Texas, he gets thrown

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into the mix his first ever start. It's an Academy game.

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Sure it helped being at home, but you know, it's

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still a difficult Academy games. As Jeff Munkin said, we

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all know academy games are the biggest games for all

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three of these programs to come in and make your

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first career start when you know your Heisman Trophy candidate,

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you know, teammate is out, it's just a little bit

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different and you know you're going to shoulder that much

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more of the load and the pressure. But I thought

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the way he did it, you know, was effective. You

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know at times, you know, he only had forty two

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yards on the ground. They completed five to eight passes.

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But the biggest thing is he played turnover free football.

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Army could once again played a clean game. They didn't

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put the ball on the ground, they didn't throw it

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to the other team. You know, taking care of the

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ball and these type of offenses predicated on ball possession

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is what it's all about. And he continued to do

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that from the first quarter to the end. And so

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I thought Dwayne Coleman being thrust into that role, that's

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he's going to get my game ball this week. Stephen,

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all right, let's get out of here because we got

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a lot more to do. As we're part of the

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Last Word on Sports podcast Network. Real quick, Stephen, tell

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everybody what they can get to tickle their college football fancy.

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Speaker 3: Oh, there is definitely a lot this week on the

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on College Gridiron Coast to Coast, part of the Last

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Word on Sports podcast network. Of course, whatever you may

504
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be in, whatever conference you might be a fan of

505
00:28:08,119 --> 00:28:10,640
when it comes to college football, we've got you covered

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this week in the ACC which comes out on Mondays.

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Those guys talked with Ethan More of Louisville Cardinals live.

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Of course, Louisville got a big win over Clemson this week,

509
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so big breakdown on the Cards there this week in

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the ACC and the SEC, We've got it just means

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more football and coffee.

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 3: Those guys actually put out two shows this week with

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looking at you know, with LSU and Alabama coming up.

515
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They definitely give a good breakdown of that. But they

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also gave a reaction of the college football playoff rankings.

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Those came out on Tuesday, and so they did a

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live reaction with Tony Siracusu's the managing editor of Last

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Word on College Football, So definitely check those out. Get

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off the pylon. Matt Zemmick is making the case this

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week for Boise State to be in the college Football

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Playoff as the Group of Five invite t and how

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they might get a how they might get a by

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how they could get a bye if teams like BYU

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and Miami start to slip. We all know that that's

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not going to happen. It's going to be a Service

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Academy that makes the college football Playoff this year and

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out Boise State. So so, but you definitely want to

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check that out. We've got Florida Football Insiders and the

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Big twelve sec breakdown. Those come out later on this week.

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Speaker 2: We can tell you really quickly on our way out

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the door, speaking of college football Playoff rankings, Army and

533
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the first set of rankings that came out, Army checked

534
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in at number twenty five. So let's hope the Black

535
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Knights just keep on climbing from there. All right, We're

536
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going to climb even higher and get you ready for

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this weekend's three games. All three of our teams are

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in action Army, Navy, and we'll tell you all about

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it coming up next here on Yards and Stripes, your

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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: Right continuing on here on the Yards and Stripes, you're

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HEP for Service Academy and Football, Army, Navy and Air Force.

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He is Stephen Carneirom Price Actinson. Appreciate you tuning in

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this week. We got a big slate of action this weekend,

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all three teams. Steven. It feels like forever since we've

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had all three teams in action on the same weekend.

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But that is exactly what we've got. And let's talk

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about because Navy's going to start us off. They're traveling

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right there into the city that Steven M. Carney built,

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that would be Tampa. Floor Florida. Has Navy taken on

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the South Florida Bulls a twelve noon kickoff ESPN two

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gonna have this one for six and two, Navy four

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to one in the American for South Florida four and

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four overall, two and two in the AAC. Navy a

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two and a half point favorite on the road over

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under in this one is fifty seven and a half

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as the South Florida Bulls Stephen looking for their third

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straight win. Getting this thing kind of turned around now

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as they are going to be playing on Homecoming Saturday,

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and this was actually supposed to be Homecoming Saturday a

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few weeks ago, but Hurricane Milton chains those plans. But

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it will be Hurricane or it will be Homecoming Saturday

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for South Florida there at Raymond T. James Stadium.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's definitely an interesting matchup. You mentioned the Bulls

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have won two straight. They beat the Fighting Trent Dilfers

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of UAB at home thirty five twenty five, and then

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had a very contentious game against FAU last week in

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Boca Ratone. I don't know, for for anybody that did

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not see the postgame handshake between South Florida's head coach

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Alex Golesh and fau's head coach Tom Herman, those two

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guys are not going to be exchanging Christmas cards. Let's

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just put it that way. No, they are goleish Is.

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I'm still upset that last year with FAU, they were leading,

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I want to say it was like fifty six twenty

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one late in the fourth quarter, and the Owls decided

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they wanted an on side kick, which did not sit

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very well with Golesh. So they kind of ran the

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score up this week, and then when Tom Herman came

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over to say something about it, Golesh kind of just

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gave him the low five and then kind of dismissed him.

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And so those two guys, like I said, there will

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not be exchanging of Christmas cards between I mean Tampa

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and Boca Ratone, at least not this year. Byron Brown,

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who was, you know, the USF quarterback the last couple

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of years, and you know, had a huge year last year,

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helping the Bulls make it to their first bowl game

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in what seems like forever. I think it's twenty eighteen

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was the last time they had gone to a bowl

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game before last year. And then they beat Syracuse forty

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five nothing in Boca Ratone. By the way, he has

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not played the last couple of weeks, and so Bryce Archie,

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their backup, has has played the last couple of weeks

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and has looked pretty good. Yeah, and so I think

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this is going to be a very interesting He's a

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he's a different type of quarterback than Brown. Brown is

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known more, I would say, for for scrambling. Archie is

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more of a of a pocket type of passer than

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than Brown. Brown kind of likes that that moving pocket.

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But you don't see that a whole a lot uh

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when it comes to you know, Bryce Archie, so you

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you you will see a lot more of basically the

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the standard type of UH of offense. But they've got

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some really good receivers, their their defense is strong, and

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they've got great special teams players, including UH, their kicker

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who happens to be the son of Martin Grammatica, who

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kicked of course at Raymond James Stadium. His son is

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now the kicker at USFU. They have a long history,

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do the the Grammatica family with the University of South Florida,

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and it goes back to Jim Levitt, the original head

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head coach at USF. He played it, he was the UH.

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He was an assistant at Kansas State when Martin and

638
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Bill Grammatica both were there, and then their their younger

639
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brother Santiago Grammatica, kicked for Levitt at USF and now UH,

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Martin Martin's son is now the kicker as well.

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Speaker 2: And speaking you mentioned Bryce Archie, you know it arguably

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put up probably his best performance of the season last

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weekend in Boca, with two hundred and six yards passing

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and two touchdowns without a pick. So, you know, it

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kind of feels like he's coming into his own. But

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I think another thing to maybe watching this game Steven

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is obviously the Bulls trying to run the football. Because

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taking a look at some of the statistics for USP

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this year, in their four wins, they've averaged two hundred

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and sixty eight yards per game on the ground. In

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their losses, they've gained only seventy nine and a half yards.

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I think that might be something to take keep an

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eye on to see how well and effectively they can

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run the ball on Navy.

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Speaker 3: Well, a lot of that came because they fell behind

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early in some of these games. I mean, you know,

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against Miami they ran a lot early, but then the

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Hurricanes were able to pull away in that game, and

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so they ended up being forced to run to pass

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a lot more than they certainly wanted to in that game.

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Same thing can be said for Tulane. They got behind

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real early in New Orleans. They end up losing that

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game forty five tenths. There's a lot of throwing and

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not a lot of running in that game. Memphis does

665
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a lot of the same, even though the score was

666
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a lot closer, it was still twenty one to three,

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and they spent a lot of the second half throwing

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the football.

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Speaker 2: Well, it is the month of November. We're turning for

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home now, so starting to look ahead at the end

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game and USF with four wins, they're trying to get

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Bowl eligible, so they need two more wins, while maybe

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they're trying to stay in the hunt to play for

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an American Athletic Conference championship, where Army has the inside track.

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Right now, again, this is a twelve noon kickoff between

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Navy and South Florida there in Tampa, maybe at two

677
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and a half point road favorite on ESPN two. All right,

678
00:37:52,559 --> 00:37:55,079
let's speaking of Army. Let's move to the Black Knights next,

679
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because number eighteen, yes, number eighteen, They are up to

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number eighteen and number nine nineteen in the respective polls.

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This week. Stephen the number eighteen Black Knights, still undefeated

682
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at eight No, six to zero in the American Hit

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heading to Denton, Texas to take on the Mean Green

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from North Texas, who's five and three, two and two

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in the American This is a three point thirty kickoff

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on ESPN two. Army is a five and a half

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point road favorite over under sixty three and a half

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is Army is going to have a chance to really

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take command of the AAC and arguably punch a ticket

690
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to the title game if they can get a win

691
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on Saturday. But look, this is likely going to be

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maybe the toughest game and team that Jeff Mounkin has

693
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faced this season in the Mean Green, especially having to

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go on the road. We can tell you that coach

695
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Munkin said this week that he's hopeful bryceon Daily will

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be able to practice, which then would allow him to

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play on Saturday. But right now, as of I believe today,

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earlier today, Bryson Daily is listed somewhere between questionable probable

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according to coach Jeff Bunkin, And that's.

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Speaker 3: A huge plus. I said in the last segment that

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you know, missing Bryson Daily for Air Force is one thing.

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Missing Bryson Daily for North Texas is a whole different

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can of worms, especially because you know, you look at

704
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at Armies schedule, you know this is pretty much it.

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You know, when it comes to the American Athletic Conference,

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you know, I look at you know the rest of

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the rest of their schedule. You know, they've got North

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Texas this week, They've got Notre Dame the week after that,

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and then they've got one more conference game in Utsa.

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So basically, you win this game, you have clinched a

711
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spot in the American Athletic Conference Championship, no matter what

712
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happens the rest of the way, because you would be

713
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seven to zero and the worst you could is seven

714
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and one. You know, Tulane could be uh, could be

715
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eight or seven and oh or seven and one.

716
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Speaker 2: Uh.

717
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Speaker 3: But everybody else has at least a loss. So and

718
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you know Navy they're not going to play you know,

719
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Navy until after the conferences. Uh, you know, season is over. Uh.

720
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And everybody else they they would have the type pretty

721
00:40:26,119 --> 00:40:29,039
much have the tie breaks over. So I look at

722
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you know, you this is a huge one for the

723
00:40:32,679 --> 00:40:37,760
Black Knights. You've got an opportunity here to do what

724
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what all the experts didn't think could happen, and that

725
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is get into the conference championship in year one.

726
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Speaker 2: Yeah, one hundred percent. And I think so much of

727
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this is going to ride on Bryce and Daily clearly,

728
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But you know, the last time. The last time these

729
00:40:53,599 --> 00:40:56,599
two teams played, it was back in November of twenty

730
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seventeen when Army won or excuse me, North Texas won

731
00:40:59,800 --> 00:41:02,320
a shootout fifty two to forty nine. They're in Denton.

732
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The over under in this one is sixty three and

733
00:41:04,440 --> 00:41:05,920
a half. I don't think we're going to be pushing

734
00:41:05,920 --> 00:41:08,239
one hundred total points in this one, Steven, But I

735
00:41:08,280 --> 00:41:10,000
do think this one is going to be an up

736
00:41:10,079 --> 00:41:12,599
and down the field kind of game. And let me

737
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tell you, if they don't have bryceon daily, I don't

738
00:41:15,320 --> 00:41:18,440
know if the Army offense can go and score in

739
00:41:18,519 --> 00:41:21,880
a shootout all afternoon with the Mean Green led by

740
00:41:21,920 --> 00:41:25,280
quarterback Chandler Morris, who that name sounds familiar. It should

741
00:41:25,320 --> 00:41:27,920
because he started at Oklahoma, then he went to TCU

742
00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:32,440
before settling in You at North Texas. And you know,

743
00:41:32,480 --> 00:41:36,000
in addition to Morris, they've got three very capable running backs,

744
00:41:36,039 --> 00:41:38,440
obviously some receivers. This is a full this is a

745
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very very good offensive.

746
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Speaker 3: Team, Steve. Yeah. Absolutely. You look at Morris has almost

747
00:41:43,719 --> 00:41:47,960
three thousand yards passing, yeah so far this year and

748
00:41:48,199 --> 00:41:52,000
last I checked. You know, they're not playing sixteen games

749
00:41:52,199 --> 00:41:56,960
in college football at least not yet. You know, they've

750
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played eight and he's got he's got close to three

751
00:42:00,400 --> 00:42:04,079
yards and twenty six touchdowns through the air. So they

752
00:42:04,639 --> 00:42:08,119
this is a team that certainly knows how to score

753
00:42:08,239 --> 00:42:11,880
points through the air. And I really do think that,

754
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you know, this is going to be a huge test

755
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for for the Black Dates and there's there's no doubt

756
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about it.

757
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Speaker 2: Yeah, one hundred percent. There. They've lost two straight, but

758
00:42:22,519 --> 00:42:24,800
those two losses have basically been by a touchdown. The

759
00:42:24,840 --> 00:42:27,840
two of the better teams excuse me in the league

760
00:42:28,039 --> 00:42:30,599
in Memphis in two lane. But again, this is a

761
00:42:30,599 --> 00:42:35,000
three thirty kickoff on ESPN two from Ditton between number

762
00:42:35,000 --> 00:42:37,800
eighteen Army and North Texas Army, a five and a

763
00:42:37,800 --> 00:42:38,639
half point favorite.

764
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Speaker 3: Yeah, before before we get into the third game, it's

765
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important to note those two losses to Memphis and to

766
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two Lane. What are those two teams have in common?

767
00:42:51,239 --> 00:42:55,519
Army isn't playing them this year? Yeah, so it's you

768
00:42:55,519 --> 00:42:58,280
you can go and look at at some of the uh,

769
00:42:58,559 --> 00:43:02,920
you know, the common opponentonents that these two teams have.

770
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You know, you look at Tulsa, North Texas one fifty

771
00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:11,440
to twenty, Army one forty nine to seven. They both

772
00:43:11,480 --> 00:43:16,000
played FAU North Texas barely pulled out a win over

773
00:43:16,039 --> 00:43:18,880
the Owls in Boca Ratone. Army had a much easier

774
00:43:18,920 --> 00:43:25,320
time against against the h against the Owls. You know, Temple,

775
00:43:25,639 --> 00:43:28,519
they both played, they both played. You know, they've they've

776
00:43:28,559 --> 00:43:30,880
they've played a lot of these say these same teams,

777
00:43:31,280 --> 00:43:33,559
you know, they've had a lot of the same success.

778
00:43:33,840 --> 00:43:37,960
The big difference is no Memphis, no Tulsa, no Tulane

779
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on Army side of the schedule. So this is going

780
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to certainly be the the measuring test right now for

781
00:43:45,440 --> 00:43:48,679
the Black Knights, with a much bigger measuring day coming

782
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next week.

783
00:43:50,159 --> 00:43:54,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, what very well said. Certainly Army avoiding the

784
00:43:55,239 --> 00:43:58,559
you know proverbial you know, top teams in this league

785
00:43:58,840 --> 00:44:02,079
in year one in the AC. All right, our last

786
00:44:02,119 --> 00:44:05,159
game of the day, this one is gonna be in

787
00:44:05,280 --> 00:44:09,280
Colorado Springs as Air Force hosting Fresno State five and four,

788
00:44:09,800 --> 00:44:12,519
Fresno overall three and two in the Mount West. Clearly

789
00:44:12,599 --> 00:44:15,599
air Force, we know, still looking for that first win

790
00:44:16,360 --> 00:44:18,519
in conference play zero to four in the Mount West

791
00:44:18,559 --> 00:44:21,239
one and seven. That lone win was against Merrimack in

792
00:44:21,280 --> 00:44:22,920
the opener. And this is going to be a nine

793
00:44:22,960 --> 00:44:26,880
to forty five pm Eastern Standard time kickoff on Fox.

794
00:44:27,280 --> 00:44:30,119
Why this game is on Fox is beyond me. And

795
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I'm not saying Fox one or Fox two. This is

796
00:44:32,360 --> 00:44:35,519
evidently this one is on the main Fox channel. But

797
00:44:36,159 --> 00:44:38,639
you can watch Fresno State and Air Force at nine

798
00:44:38,800 --> 00:44:41,400
forty five on Saturday night Eastern Standard time right now.

799
00:44:41,440 --> 00:44:43,639
Fresno giving ten and a half in this one over

800
00:44:43,719 --> 00:44:47,320
under forty and a half points is the Bulldogs. They

801
00:44:47,320 --> 00:44:50,920
are trying to get Bowl eligible after a narrow twenty

802
00:44:50,960 --> 00:44:53,559
one to twenty loss to Hawaii last week when they

803
00:44:53,559 --> 00:44:56,079
gave up the game winning touchdown pass with just fifteen

804
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seconds remaining.

805
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Speaker 3: Stephen, Yeah, and this is a Fresno State team that

806
00:45:01,039 --> 00:45:05,199
is not known for being one of the best when

807
00:45:05,199 --> 00:45:10,159
it comes offensively. You know, Mikey Kean, their quarterback, is

808
00:45:10,800 --> 00:45:13,480
a good quarterback. He's a serviceable quarterback. He has thrown

809
00:45:13,519 --> 00:45:16,360
a lot of interceptions so far this year, He's got

810
00:45:16,400 --> 00:45:20,400
twelve touchdowns and ten picks, so you know, he throws

811
00:45:20,440 --> 00:45:23,719
for he throws a lot. He completes about, you know,

812
00:45:23,880 --> 00:45:28,119
just under seventy percent of his passes. But he's he

813
00:45:28,239 --> 00:45:32,559
definitely is what powers the Bulldogs. But He also what

814
00:45:32,679 --> 00:45:36,760
causes Fresno State to short out sometimes the interceptions. He's

815
00:45:36,800 --> 00:45:41,719
been sacked nineteen times as well, which is definitely not

816
00:45:41,800 --> 00:45:44,840
what you want to see. And when when that happens,

817
00:45:45,199 --> 00:45:49,599
it takes things away from whatever sort of rushing attack

818
00:45:49,679 --> 00:45:52,960
you can try and get. If you're the Bulldogs, their

819
00:45:53,039 --> 00:45:55,920
rushing attack has not been very good. They've averaged just

820
00:45:56,039 --> 00:46:00,000
over three yards to carry. Their leading rusher, Elijah Gilliam,

821
00:46:00,079 --> 00:46:03,119
only has four hundred and forty yards on the ground,

822
00:46:03,239 --> 00:46:06,119
is that and is averaging less than four yards carry,

823
00:46:06,360 --> 00:46:08,280
But he gets a lot of the goal line touches.

824
00:46:08,320 --> 00:46:12,400
He's got seven touchdowns on the season. You know, this

825
00:46:12,480 --> 00:46:16,480
is this is about the Bulldogs getting down the field

826
00:46:16,599 --> 00:46:19,239
and trying to score from in close. They don't do

827
00:46:19,320 --> 00:46:22,519
a whole lot that that is you know, you know,

828
00:46:22,679 --> 00:46:25,559
long bombs for the most part. You know, King does

829
00:46:25,599 --> 00:46:29,119
have a couple this year. But I think that you know,

830
00:46:29,360 --> 00:46:33,400
this is going to be a pick part type of

831
00:46:33,440 --> 00:46:36,440
game if if you're Fresno State, that's what you're gonna

832
00:46:36,440 --> 00:46:38,920
want to do. You want to pick apart defenses. And

833
00:46:39,000 --> 00:46:42,159
they've got another They've got an opportunity this week against

834
00:46:42,199 --> 00:46:46,039
a very, very be leaguered defense in air Force.

835
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and mikey Kan doesn't average, you know, it's not

836
00:46:48,639 --> 00:46:51,320
like looking down the field for big plays. No, he's

837
00:46:51,320 --> 00:46:54,400
only averaging seven and a half yards per completion, Steaven.

838
00:46:54,639 --> 00:46:56,840
I mean that is not very much, especially when you've

839
00:46:56,840 --> 00:46:59,599
thrown for all just shy at two thousand and two

840
00:46:59,679 --> 00:47:02,239
hundred yards on the season, twelve touchdowns. But he's also

841
00:47:02,280 --> 00:47:05,760
got ten picks. You're not looking to wing it all

842
00:47:05,800 --> 00:47:07,559
the way down the field. This is really more, like

843
00:47:07,599 --> 00:47:09,800
you said, kind of a dink and dunk pick apart,

844
00:47:09,920 --> 00:47:12,320
you know, kind of passing offense. And if they can

845
00:47:12,320 --> 00:47:15,079
get any kind of running game going against Air Force,

846
00:47:15,159 --> 00:47:17,119
air Force is going to be in for a long

847
00:47:17,280 --> 00:47:18,920
evening at home there in Falcon Stadium.

848
00:47:18,960 --> 00:47:23,320
Speaker 3: Steve, Yeah, absolutely, and they and they basically go to

849
00:47:23,360 --> 00:47:27,039
the same four guys, so they are really going to focus.

850
00:47:27,079 --> 00:47:29,800
They've got three wide receivers that they take a look at.

851
00:47:29,920 --> 00:47:32,840
Raylan Sharp is leading the way in receptions. He has

852
00:47:32,880 --> 00:47:37,400
forty two. Macdalena has forty catches and is kind of

853
00:47:37,440 --> 00:47:41,400
a further down down the field threat. He's averaging almost

854
00:47:41,480 --> 00:47:45,719
eighteen yards a reception. That's pretty good. And he's the

855
00:47:45,719 --> 00:47:49,920
guy that's got the seventy five yard touchdown from Mikey Kean.

856
00:47:50,360 --> 00:47:56,239
But other than Dealena Sharp, Jalen Moss and Gilliam, they're

857
00:47:56,280 --> 00:48:00,239
running back. They don't throw a lot to It's not

858
00:48:00,280 --> 00:48:02,639
like they're going to throw four or five wides out

859
00:48:02,679 --> 00:48:06,079
there very often. You know, they've got a few guys

860
00:48:06,079 --> 00:48:08,320
that they go to. But it's it's going to be

861
00:48:08,400 --> 00:48:10,599
like once or twice a game that you're going to

862
00:48:10,639 --> 00:48:12,320
see that you're going to see a lot of three,

863
00:48:12,760 --> 00:48:15,440
a lot of three wide with a tight end and

864
00:48:15,519 --> 00:48:17,679
Gilliam in the backfield, and that's pretty.

865
00:48:17,480 --> 00:48:21,719
Speaker 2: Much it again. Air Force and Fresno State said to

866
00:48:21,800 --> 00:48:24,159
kick it off at nine forty five pm on Fox

867
00:48:24,280 --> 00:48:27,280
Presno at ten and a half point. Favorite is air

868
00:48:27,320 --> 00:48:30,039
Force desperately trying to get back into the win. Colin

869
00:48:30,159 --> 00:48:31,800
Steven all right, when we come back, we got our

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Travis Manion foundation on a roll segment. We had some

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picks to make. We're gonna do that on the other

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side when we come back here on Yards and Stripes.

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Speaker 4: In two thousand and seven, Mareene First Lieutenant Travis Manion

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

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legacy lives on through the words he spoke before his

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remember Paul Severson. Major Paul R. Severson, the third from

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the United States Army. He was thirty two years old

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operations officer for the fifth Special Forces Group, Airborne Division

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in nineteen ninety three following graduation from the Virginia Military Institute,

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where he earned a bachelor's degree at International Relations. He

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the Special Forces Qualification Course it was assigned to the SFG.

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While assigned to the fifth SFG, he served in a

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Army Commendation Medal, Army Achievement Medal, and so many others

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for his service. Captain excuse me, Major Paul R. Severson

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the third survived by his wife Jackie, his son Paul,

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and his daughter Amy Elizabeth. He was honored during the

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two thousand and two New Orleans expedition that the Travismanian

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as leadership, humility, and kindness, and once again we want

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Speaker 2: Right, final segment here on the Yards to strike your

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Roll for working with us again this season he is

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Stephen Carney, Iron Price Ackinson, and I would like to

934
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know what Steven had on his poppy on tonight, because

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last week, if you remember, he was just downing piping

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hot pepperoni and sausage pizza. What's on the dish tonight.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the dish tonight. There is a chain here in

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Florida called Miller's Alehouse that is right down the street

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from the crib. They do wing Wednesdays, and my lovely

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better half was in the mood for some chicken wings,

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so I went and got her some chicken wings, and

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I got myself what they call the Zinger Mountain Melt,

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which is chicken bonus wings and fries with bacon and

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cheese on them. You know, obviously it's something that any

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growing boy, and for me, I'm growing out and not

946
00:53:05,320 --> 00:53:09,320
so much up anymore, would certainly love to have. So

947
00:53:09,880 --> 00:53:12,719
finished just finish it up here during the break and

948
00:53:13,199 --> 00:53:14,559
was quite delicious.

949
00:53:15,039 --> 00:53:17,760
Speaker 2: Well, we always love a good Steven dinner report. Now

950
00:53:17,800 --> 00:53:22,199
after his uh yeah, started with his poppy yawns last week,

951
00:53:22,239 --> 00:53:24,519
now it's down to some boneless wings and frusture.

952
00:53:24,559 --> 00:53:30,119
Speaker 3: I'm sure my mother is gonna love hearing this. A salad.

953
00:53:30,159 --> 00:53:35,280
Speaker 2: Boy, Hey, I I ate the salad for both of

954
00:53:35,360 --> 00:53:38,519
us yesterday, which I had a Zaxby salad, not a salad,

955
00:53:38,559 --> 00:53:41,039
but I said, this one was one of the worst

956
00:53:41,079 --> 00:53:43,079
they've ever made. And I had really one of those

957
00:53:43,079 --> 00:53:45,440
times where I've been craving one of those Buffalo Blue

958
00:53:45,480 --> 00:53:47,719
salads and it could not have been worse. It's a

959
00:53:47,760 --> 00:53:50,400
bummer when you're craving something and you just get a dud.

960
00:53:50,519 --> 00:53:52,960
You know, all right, I'm not gonna go further with

961
00:53:53,000 --> 00:53:54,800
any kind of more food talk because it's making me

962
00:53:54,880 --> 00:53:57,960
hungry here late at night, Stephen. Let's get to our

963
00:53:57,960 --> 00:54:00,400
three games before we do, just real fast, Just one

964
00:54:00,480 --> 00:54:03,119
quick note to pass along. Navy's home game on Saturday,

965
00:54:03,280 --> 00:54:05,920
November the sixteenth, that's a big one against Tulane. That

966
00:54:06,000 --> 00:54:09,039
one has been announced as a twelve noon kickoff now

967
00:54:09,079 --> 00:54:13,440
on ESPN two. So Navy and Twulane next Saturday at

968
00:54:13,480 --> 00:54:18,400
twelve noon on ESPN two steven. Three games to get to.

969
00:54:18,679 --> 00:54:21,039
We will obviously start with Navy because we went and

970
00:54:21,400 --> 00:54:24,719
chronological order as far as when kickoffs are during the day.

971
00:54:25,199 --> 00:54:27,920
Navy's up first at South Florida, a two and a

972
00:54:27,960 --> 00:54:30,480
half point favor over under fifty seven and a half.

973
00:54:30,960 --> 00:54:32,280
Which way you play in this one?

974
00:54:33,400 --> 00:54:36,639
Speaker 3: You know, I you know, this is the toughest game

975
00:54:36,639 --> 00:54:39,760
of the year for me. You know, whenever Navy and

976
00:54:39,920 --> 00:54:43,280
South Florida play. You know, I'm I'm a Navy veteran,

977
00:54:44,039 --> 00:54:47,400
I'm a South Florida lum. So this is this is

978
00:54:47,440 --> 00:54:50,960
gonna be a very, very tough one for me. I

979
00:54:50,960 --> 00:54:52,760
am gonna have to sit on my hands in the

980
00:54:52,760 --> 00:54:58,000
press box here on Saturday and try and not say

981
00:54:58,079 --> 00:55:00,599
a word because I'm sure like any word that comes

982
00:55:00,599 --> 00:55:03,039
out of my mouth is going to be bad for

983
00:55:03,199 --> 00:55:09,280
everybody concerned. That being said, I would love to see

984
00:55:09,320 --> 00:55:13,679
Blake Horvath bounce back from what has been two rough

985
00:55:13,719 --> 00:55:20,440
games in a row. This team is better than Rice, obviously,

986
00:55:21,719 --> 00:55:24,599
you know USF is better than Rice. So I think

987
00:55:24,639 --> 00:55:28,480
it is going to be quite the challenge for the midshipman.

988
00:55:29,199 --> 00:55:32,159
That being said, I do think it's probably a field goal.

989
00:55:32,480 --> 00:55:38,880
I'm going to say, I'm gonna go with twenty eight twenty.

990
00:55:40,199 --> 00:55:44,360
I'll go twenty eight to twenty four. That Navy wins

991
00:55:44,760 --> 00:55:47,599
to get to seven and two in five and one

992
00:55:47,679 --> 00:55:52,280
in the American and keep their hopes alive for a

993
00:55:52,320 --> 00:55:55,320
Berth in the conference championship game.

994
00:55:56,039 --> 00:55:59,519
Speaker 2: We're really pretty close on our predictions. I was off

995
00:55:59,639 --> 00:56:01,480
about a field goal of what you went with. I

996
00:56:01,519 --> 00:56:03,519
went with Navy just a little bit bigger of margin.

997
00:56:03,599 --> 00:56:05,920
I've got Navy winning thirty one to twenty one, and

998
00:56:05,960 --> 00:56:07,960
I think this is going to be, you know, a

999
00:56:08,000 --> 00:56:09,880
fairly tight game most of the way. But I think

1000
00:56:09,960 --> 00:56:12,079
Navy's got enough. I think they're going to turn it around.

1001
00:56:12,119 --> 00:56:14,719
I think Blake Corbeth is going to play turnover free football.

1002
00:56:15,199 --> 00:56:18,920
And I've just got a sneaking suspicion that Navy is

1003
00:56:18,960 --> 00:56:20,920
going to get this thing turned around and they're going

1004
00:56:21,000 --> 00:56:23,159
to go get the road win that they need this weekend.

1005
00:56:23,440 --> 00:56:26,440
All right, next big game of the weekend, and this

1006
00:56:26,480 --> 00:56:29,719
is a biggie for Army number eighteen. Army heading to

1007
00:56:29,880 --> 00:56:33,840
North Texas in Dientton three point thirty kickoff. Army a

1008
00:56:33,920 --> 00:56:36,639
five and a half point favorite over under sixty three

1009
00:56:36,679 --> 00:56:39,400
and a half. What sayee on this one?

1010
00:56:39,800 --> 00:56:42,199
Speaker 3: Yeah? I know that this is not going to be

1011
00:56:42,280 --> 00:56:46,000
one hundred point game. I mean, now, the last time

1012
00:56:46,039 --> 00:56:48,840
these two teams played, they went for one hundred and

1013
00:56:48,840 --> 00:56:51,679
one points. It was the first time that Army had

1014
00:56:52,239 --> 00:56:56,519
played the game that had a total of triple digits

1015
00:56:56,559 --> 00:56:59,400
in almost twenty years. You got to you had to

1016
00:56:59,400 --> 00:57:02,320
go all the way back in nineteen ninety nine against

1017
00:57:02,320 --> 00:57:05,360
Louisville to find the last time that Army had played

1018
00:57:05,360 --> 00:57:08,039
in a game where the total eclipse to one hundred points.

1019
00:57:08,280 --> 00:57:12,079
It's not gonna happen this time. But that being said,

1020
00:57:12,480 --> 00:57:14,719
I definitely think that there are going to be quite

1021
00:57:14,760 --> 00:57:18,639
a few points scored in this game. I don't think

1022
00:57:19,360 --> 00:57:21,159
that it's gonna be I think it would be tough

1023
00:57:21,199 --> 00:57:24,000
for Army. Now, I'll just say I think it's gonna

1024
00:57:24,000 --> 00:57:27,159
be tough for Army to cover in this game. I'm

1025
00:57:27,159 --> 00:57:31,199
gonna go thirty five thirty one Black Knights as they

1026
00:57:31,239 --> 00:57:32,000
stay unbeaten.

1027
00:57:33,039 --> 00:57:36,079
Speaker 2: All right, I'm also going Army. I'm going fairly close

1028
00:57:36,119 --> 00:57:39,119
to what you did. I had Army forty to thirty three.

1029
00:57:39,199 --> 00:57:40,880
I think it's gonna be a little bit higher scoring.

1030
00:57:40,880 --> 00:57:43,840
I do think it's gonna hit the over, but I

1031
00:57:43,840 --> 00:57:47,639
think it's gonna be a of course, predicting Bryce and

1032
00:57:47,719 --> 00:57:50,559
daily plays therefore, that's why I'm going with the Army

1033
00:57:50,760 --> 00:57:53,280
forty to thirty three prediction. Because if I did not

1034
00:57:53,400 --> 00:57:57,039
think he was playing, I would be taking North Texas

1035
00:57:57,079 --> 00:57:59,039
in this game. But I do think Bryson Daly is

1036
00:57:59,079 --> 00:58:01,320
going to be back in the dice and goal with

1037
00:58:01,360 --> 00:58:04,679
the Black Knights, that he is healthy enough to get

1038
00:58:04,840 --> 00:58:08,239
Army the win and get to nine to no overall.

1039
00:58:08,719 --> 00:58:13,159
All right, Our third and final game, Stephen of the Day, Saturday,

1040
00:58:13,679 --> 00:58:16,719
Air Force in Fresno, State, nine forty five at home.

1041
00:58:17,360 --> 00:58:19,920
They're in the Springs, Fresno at ten and a half

1042
00:58:19,920 --> 00:58:23,119
point favor over under forty and a half. Which way

1043
00:58:23,159 --> 00:58:24,400
are you leaning on this one?

1044
00:58:24,679 --> 00:58:27,559
Speaker 3: Yeah? Obviously they're playing this game at nine forty five

1045
00:58:27,760 --> 00:58:30,880
because Saturday Night Live must be in a rerun this week.

1046
00:58:31,639 --> 00:58:36,800
No Chapel Roan or Sabrina Carpenter to speak of playing

1047
00:58:38,079 --> 00:58:43,159
for SNL this week. You know, I really do think that, unfortunately,

1048
00:58:43,320 --> 00:58:47,360
this is going to highlight the struggles that Air Force

1049
00:58:47,400 --> 00:58:50,000
has had in its secondary. I think that they're gonna

1050
00:58:50,119 --> 00:58:53,000
You're gonna see a lot of passing in this game

1051
00:58:53,039 --> 00:58:57,239
from Mikey Keane. Don't be surprised if he throws the ball,

1052
00:58:57,639 --> 00:59:00,599
you know, somewhere in the vicinity of forty to forty

1053
00:59:00,639 --> 00:59:04,719
five times and struggles to get over three hundred yards.

1054
00:59:04,880 --> 00:59:07,960
I really do think that this is going to be

1055
00:59:08,000 --> 00:59:12,039
a game that is going to be very I'm not

1056
00:59:12,039 --> 00:59:14,159
going to say it's going to be low scoring, but

1057
00:59:14,639 --> 00:59:17,039
I definitely think that you're it's going to be the

1058
00:59:18,239 --> 00:59:20,760
I guess you could say the early to mid two

1059
00:59:20,800 --> 00:59:24,679
thousand's New England Patriots style of game where they used

1060
00:59:24,679 --> 00:59:28,039
the short passing game when they didn't have a running game.

1061
00:59:28,119 --> 00:59:30,519
I think that that's going to end up being a

1062
00:59:30,519 --> 00:59:34,199
big piece for this for this game. But I'm gonna

1063
00:59:34,199 --> 00:59:37,480
go with Fresno State thirty one to ten over air

1064
00:59:37,519 --> 00:59:40,840
Force as the Falcons just can't get off the schneid

1065
00:59:40,960 --> 00:59:41,599
in conference.

1066
00:59:42,239 --> 00:59:44,960
Speaker 2: All right, You you like Fresno bigger than I do.

1067
00:59:45,320 --> 00:59:50,079
I like Fresno to keep air Force unfortunately winless in

1068
00:59:50,159 --> 00:59:53,760
the mount Less Stephen. I think that air Force still

1069
00:59:53,880 --> 00:59:57,280
just has no identity on offense. Coach truck Courte Troy

1070
00:59:57,320 --> 01:00:00,800
Calhoun has tried three quarterbacks. He cannot find any consistency

1071
01:00:00,880 --> 01:00:04,039
with either Josh Shanzon, Quintin Hayes, or John Bouchet. And

1072
01:00:04,079 --> 01:00:07,039
I think that's going to continue as air Force desperately

1073
01:00:07,079 --> 01:00:08,880
trying to get back on the board. But I think

1074
01:00:08,880 --> 01:00:12,079
it's going to be a lower scoring game. I think

1075
01:00:12,159 --> 01:00:14,320
somewhere Fresno is gonna be in the neighborhood of a

1076
01:00:14,360 --> 01:00:19,400
twenty four to nine victory. Steve, all right, let's go

1077
01:00:19,440 --> 01:00:21,440
ahead and get out of here, because we have been

1078
01:00:21,480 --> 01:00:23,719
at it for a while. Once again, want to thank

1079
01:00:23,760 --> 01:00:27,119
all our listeners for tuning in and investing their time

1080
01:00:27,159 --> 01:00:30,199
with us. This week. I want to thank Steven M. Carney,

1081
01:00:30,320 --> 01:00:34,400
the best producer co host in the entire podcast lands.

1082
01:00:34,440 --> 01:00:37,320
So thank you to Steven, and certainly from Steve and

1083
01:00:37,360 --> 01:00:39,119
I both and I and we want to shout out

1084
01:00:39,119 --> 01:00:42,920
Pete Madehurst again and our good friend who fighting as

1085
01:00:42,960 --> 01:00:45,519
we'd mentioned earlier as we started the show, had a

1086
01:00:45,519 --> 01:00:48,000
brain tumor removed maybe play by play an outs or

1087
01:00:48,039 --> 01:00:50,960
a good friend of us. Both we serted out send

1088
01:00:50,960 --> 01:00:53,440
out all our best wishes and prayers to Pete that

1089
01:00:53,920 --> 01:00:55,679
we can get him back on his speed and get

1090
01:00:55,760 --> 01:00:57,639
him back on here on the podcast with us, because

1091
01:00:57,639 --> 01:01:00,480
I would love nothing more than to get talk with

1092
01:01:00,599 --> 01:01:04,960
Pete again, especially about some Navy and Service Academy football.

1093
01:01:04,559 --> 01:01:06,639
Speaker 3: Stead Absolutely, I'm all for that.

1094
01:01:07,480 --> 01:01:09,559
Speaker 2: All right, enjoy the games this weekend. We will be

1095
01:01:09,599 --> 01:01:12,159
back next week and until then, have a great weekend.

1096
01:01:12,199 --> 01:01:17,039
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1097
01:01:17,320 --> 01:01:20,559
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1098
01:01:20,639 --> 01:01:24,239
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1099
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