Speaker 1: Need to get your football fixed on all things Army,
Navy and Air Force. This is Yards and Stripes Service
Academy Football. Now here are your hosts, Pryce Atkinson and
Steve Carney.
Speaker 2: Steven, we have come to the best week of the year.
It is Army Navy Week. Here on Yards and Stripes
your home for Service Academy Football. I'm Pryce Atkinson and
he more importantly is Stephen Carney, the producer co host.
And we have got a lot to do this week.
Like I said, it is the best game of the
entire college football season annually. That would be Army versus
Navy this Saturday. We've got an Army Navy Previews special
that we're going to deliver. We got some champions to celebrate,
we got bold news. We got a lot to get into, Steven.
But before we do that, as always, we got to
have a Papa Yon's report.
Speaker 3: What is on the pie tonight?
Speaker 4: The pie is full on meet this tonight.
Speaker 5: It is full on Meet a coupon. So so I'm
all I'm always about, you know, trying to get the
pizza when I can, when I'm not having to pay
you know, sixteen or eighteen bucks for it.
Speaker 4: So we got.
Speaker 2: What you're telling me is when we wrap up the
recording that the papaians is going to be knocking on
the door.
Speaker 4: Oh, it's it's here.
Speaker 5: It's here, and it's it's it's sitting on the other
side of my monitors, all right, on the other because
my kitchen is just on the other side. I'm on them.
I'm in the alcove. The kitchen is over there. It
is sitting in the kitchen. It is calling my name
right now, Price, But you know, you know what else
is calling my name. The greatest college football week.
Speaker 4: Of the year.
Speaker 5: This is my birthday and Christmas and Pizza night all
rolled into one. When we talk about Army Navy, and
we'll get to that in just a second there, but
you mentioned it.
Speaker 4: We've got champions.
Speaker 5: We've got champions to salute today and and I think
we're both very, very excited for the fact that Army
is now one for one.
Speaker 3: Boy. We are pumped. We we are pumped.
Speaker 2: And yes, I had meat lovers tonight too, except everybody.
I got two slices and it was gone.
Speaker 5: Because that's because you have three other people that are
huge pizza fans in your house.
Speaker 4: I only have one, and so I'm able.
Speaker 5: I'm able to kind of scurry off with a couple
and and and make sure that everything is okay.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, you're Yeah. When you got three others you
got to fend off. It's gonna be hard because they
three against that one is not a fair fight, especially
when it comes to good pie. Let's get to it because,
like I said, look, this is celebration week because we
love Army and Navy week. It is the best, and
we're celebrating even harder this week because Army wins the
American Athletic Conference Championship game.
Speaker 3: We're gonna talk about that.
Speaker 2: We're obviously going to preview the game Saturday, the one
hundred twenty fifth Army Navy Game game presented by USAA.
Speaker 3: We're going to get.
Speaker 2: Into all of it picks, We've got our Travis Manning
Foundation Honorall Segment. I mean, we're gonna go the whole
nine yards, but we want to get out of the
gate just really quickly. Obviously, Army and Navy have had
great seasons. The bowl games were announced last weekend on Sunday.
We'll go ahead and just report those right now. For
those who are under a rock Yes, Navy's going bowling.
Speaker 3: Army is going bowling.
Speaker 2: Navy's going to be taking on the Oklahoma Sooner six
and six and the lockeed Martin Armed Forces Bowl Stephen.
That's going to be a Friday, December twenty seventh affair
at twelve noon Eastern Standard time, Navy's twenty fifth Bowl
appearance all time, because they will be playing the Sooners
in the twenty second Armed Forces Bowl and Amon G.
Carter Stadium there on the campus of TCU and Fort Worth.
The first time that Navy has played an SEC team
in a bowl game since nineteen fifty four when Navy
nine of old miss twenty one ozerh Army. They obviously
yes the champs. They beat Tulane over the weekend on
Friday night and then Sunday they are announced as one
of the participants in the Radiance Technologies Independence Bowl Stephen.
Number nineteen Army taken on the fun Belt champs of
the Marshall Thundering Herd who are ten and three. This
is a Saturday, December twenty eighth kickoff at nine to
fifteen Eastern Standard time in the forty eighth annual Independence
Bowl there in Shreveport. Ironically, this could be the very
first matchup in the Independence Bowl of a pair of
conference champions since the very first Independence Bowl back in
nineteen seventy six, as both obviously Army and Marshall won
their respective league. So Army's been in this Bowl game
once before. It was in nineteen ninety six when they
lost by field goal to Auburn. So I think we
say congratulations to both our me and Navy on these
postseason versts because they're gonna be a lot of fun
to watch them match up in two which would be
two really good games.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, you think about it. Navy is going
to get an opportunity to take on an Oklahoma team. Yes,
there's six and six, but that Oklahoma team beat Alabama,
and Alabama is going to be here where I live
in Tampa for the Reliaquest Bowl on New Year's Eve
taking on Michigan, so I'm gonna get to see both
sides of that situation. So with Navy taking on a
six and six Sooner team and then obviously seeing an
American Sun Belt championship matchup in the NFL, I love
that idea. I love the fact that the American champion
if it's not going to be part of the twelve
team college Football Playoff gets another championship team.
Speaker 4: And that way you can kind of say, all right.
Speaker 5: Which one of these teams do you think should have
gotten this opportunity because you you can imagine that you know,
Boise State and Boise State extremely well deserved that they
are in the twelve team uh playoff as the group
of five champion. In fact, they get a first round
by yeah in it because uh.
Speaker 4: They've they performed so well all year long. Uh. But
you know with with Army, you know, they're certainly of
the mindset that you know, we we thought we belonged
as well.
Speaker 5: You know, they only had one loss, it was a
bad loss at Yankee Stadium to Notre Dame. Notre Dame
wipe the floor with both service academies this year. But
other than that, they really they really held their own.
And you know, you can only play who's on your schedule,
So you know, I give I give all credit to
the Black Knights. You know, they go undefeated in conference play,
they only have that one loss and a and a
neutral site. You know, certainly a fantastic season that's going
to be capped with a with an Independence Bowl going
to going down to Tim Brando Land in Shreveport, Louisiana.
Uh for this, for this game that that'll be a fun,
fun matchup and it's one that I know I'll be
I'll be certain to be watching as well.
Speaker 2: Don't ever say anything bad about the Independence Bowl because
Tim Brando will find out and he will let you
know about it.
Speaker 5: Would never say anything wrong about Tim Brando and the
Independence Bowl and the beautiful area that is known as Shreveport, Louisiana.
Speaker 4: Even though I've never.
Speaker 3: Been a December twenty eighth the fair in Shreveport. You don't.
That doesn't get your jolly's going? Man? Come on, Stave.
Speaker 5: You know what would would would is if does does
it come with a crawfish boil? If I if I
get a boil to go along with that with the
Bowl in Shreveport, Louisiana, I would certainly I would certainly
be less averse to it.
Speaker 2: All Right, as we continue on here in Yourgs and Stripes,
as we were part of a word on Sports podcast Network, Steven,
we got to celebrate because Army did just that last
Friday night, capping a historic twenty twenty four season. Then
obviously it's not over. But capping that first season in
the American Athletic Conference at Mikey Stadium, the Black Knight's
first year, they end that first season absolutely perfect. They
run the table in the regular season, and they win
the conference championship game to capture their first ever conference
title in one hunt in their one hundred and thirty
four year history of playing football is Army defeats Visiting
to Lane thirty five to fourteen, and a game that
really honestly seemed like it was over almost from the jumpy,
as Army improved eleven to one, to Lane dropping to
nine and four. They jumped on tou Lane, who was
shaky from the get go, batching a couple of field
goal attempts on their first two drives, fumbling a kickoff,
and then having a pass intercepted in their own territory
on the next. I mean, it was just uncharacteristically sloppy play.
Speaker 3: By two Lane.
Speaker 2: I think that you would probably agree with me, maybe not,
but I think the weather had a lot to do
with that. Is it was cold, it was windy, and
it was obviously elements that Tulane had not played in.
As the third you know, obviously, this was the only
the third game ever played in the month of December.
Speaker 3: At Mikey Stadium.
Speaker 2: Is Bryson Daily rushing for a team high twenty five
times one hundred and twenty six yards, four touchdowns and
tie the American Athletic Converge Championship Game record to complete
that perfect season. But it was cold. It played right
into Army's hands, and like I said, it just seemed
like this baby was over from you know, seconds after
it began.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, think you think about it. We talked
about it last week. I said that it was going
to be tough for these New Orleans boys because we
knew it was going to be cold. I mean, we
knew it last week when we when we talked that
the game was gonna be it was gonna be in
the mid twenties. It was gonna be breezy. The feel
like temperatures were going to be in the mid teens.
And that's exactly what happened. And you know, they said
it on the on the broadcast on ABC, Darien Mensa,
it only I don't think it ever played a game
where it was less than forty five degrees out, so uh,
and you know, the Green Wave certainly looked like they
were frozen.
Speaker 4: I mean from from from from the get go.
Speaker 5: I mean, everything that could have gone wrong for the
Green Wave and the first half went wrong. I mean
the first drive, they go down, they botched the field goal,
so it's basically a turnover. On downs, Army goes scores
a touchdown. Second time in, they get down even closer
and missed the field goal wide right.
Speaker 4: Army goes down, scores another touchdown.
Speaker 5: Then on the ensuing kickoff, Tulane fumbles the football. Army recovers,
they get down there, they go for it inside the
f and don't and don't make it. So Tulane finally
gets the ball inside the you know, inside the five,
and then they throw an interception and Harvey goes down
and scores another touchdown.
Speaker 4: I mean the first half.
Speaker 5: You know, I'm sure you know, uh Summer all coach
Sumrawl was going where are the chicken bones?
Speaker 4: You know, who's cursing us? Who's got the voodoo.
Speaker 5: Dolls that are poking they're poking the needles in the
voodoo dolls here? Because everything that could have gone wrong
for Tulane in the first half went.
Speaker 2: Wrong, absolutely, that sure did and then you know, when
obviously trailing big what was it twenty eight seven at halftime?
Excuse me, twenty one to seven at halftime. They could
hardly even really get their hands on the ball there
in the second half because Army having touchdown drives, eleven plays,
sixteen plays, you know, those drives and commassing six minutes
and thirty seconds and then ten minutes and forty four seconds.
I mean they just bled the clock out. Yeah, and
when you know Tulane needed possessions, they couldn't even get
their hands on it.
Speaker 5: And yeah, this was this was North Texas all over again. Yep,
when it when it came to Army, I mean it
was twenty one. It was twenty one to seven at
the half, and the Black Knights get the ball to
start the second.
Speaker 4: Half and and end up.
Speaker 5: Bleeding the first half of the the third quarter away
as they go down and they score a touchdown, and
then uh, you know, Tulane had it for you know,
a significant period of time for you know, a large
chunk of the third quarter, you know, but they weren't
a but again, weren't able to put the ball in
the end zone, weren't able to get points and then
you know, Army takes the ball at their at their
own sixteen and goes sixteen, plays almost eleven minutes and
scores another touchdown. It's thirty five seven at that point,
you know, it's you know, there's.
Speaker 4: Like six minutes left in the game. You know, there
was nothing.
Speaker 5: That that uh that Tulane could do at that point.
It was you know, it was decided at halftime. I'm
I guarantee you that. You know, the the Green Wave
went in went back into their locker room after thirty
minutes of play and we're like, we're done.
Speaker 4: There is nothing.
Speaker 5: We can't get the ball enough, you know, to to
get back into this game at this point, especially because
they knew the Army was getting the ball to start things.
Speaker 2: And I think the other thing too in the game,
obviously the weather and the elements was a big deal,
but you know the fact that wasn't just the Bryson
Daily Show. I mean, twenty five carries, one hundred and
twenty six yards and four touchdowns. But you know you
throw in Kanye Udo the b back slash fullback, you know,
going for one fifty eight as they ran up three
thirty five on TWU lane. It wasn't just the Bryson
Daily Show, which it's been most of the time this year,
but the fact he had a campadre that was right
there doing as much damage as he was. Yeah, just
gutting tulane right up the middle constantly, over and over.
You know, when Armies got it going like that, mean, shoot,
Daily didn't even come. I mean, he didn't even attempt
to pass in the first half, didn't even have to,
but you know, through two passes and complete them both
in the second half, keep some drives going. But I
mean when when Navy or Armies got it clicking like that,
you know, with the run game, and it's not just
Daily like you know, a thirty eight type of you know,
carries for you know one forty.
Speaker 3: These were two.
Speaker 2: Guys that were just gashing them and so it was
a it was just a complete domination on the ground,
which you know, really shows why that they were finalists
for the Joe Moore Award, that offensive line up front,
the job they did.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and you mentioned Kanye Udo with a you know,
he had that huge run in the in the second drive.
You know when he goes seventy you know, seventy one
or seventy two yards, you know, is finally dragged down
inside the five and at that point it's like, Okay,
here comes Bryce and they're gonna give Bryce in the ball.
Speaker 4: He's gonna find his way into the end zone.
Speaker 5: Maybe maybe the the best nugget about this game was
was dragged up by ESPN research. This This I think
was incredible in the In the in that win over Tulane,
the Black Knights became the only FBS team in at
least the last twenty years to not have any turnovers,
any penalties, or any punts in the game. So zero turnovers,
zero penalties, zero puns. That that leads I mean, obviously
that's gonna lead to a win.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I'm gonna I'm gonna bring that up here
in a little bit because that's gonna be something I'm
gonna talk about with the Army Navy game coming up.
Speaker 4: But before we get into.
Speaker 2: Our previews, because we're certainly gonna break down the game,
we're gonna preview everything. We're gonna talk about everything that
can be talked about with the one hundred and twenty
fifth playing of the Army Navy game. We're gonna do
that here soon We're also gonna do a Travis Media
Foundation on a roll segment soon. We're gonna do our
picks here at the end. But we got game balls
to give out Stevens.
Speaker 3: Yes game Bowl.
Speaker 2: We only got one one game. I mean, I know
we're both going to Army clearly which way on Army
you're gonna go offense?
Speaker 3: Defense? Are you gonna go off the beaten path?
Speaker 4: I am going off the beaten path today. Bryce.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 4: Here's here's the thing. You know, they always say that
the kickers do not get enough respect. They don't.
Speaker 5: Well, I'm giving Trigger a boatload of respect after what
happened in the game Againstlane. Never mind the fact that
he was perfect on his kicks, especially when you look
at you know, Tulane's kicking situation and everything that went
wrong for them. Everything went right for Trigger not But
here's the best part. He also was the man who
forced the fumble on the kickoff that Army took in
the second quarter down for its third touchdown of the
of the half to make it twenty one seven, or
I should eventually to make it twenty one seven. He
forced the fumble. Army ended up getting stopped inside the five,
but then ended up scoring after after another turnover, but
he forced the funnel. How often do you see punters,
punters or kickers doing that. You don't see them getting
involved that way. So in fact, tell the last time
I remember a kicker doing that was Pat McAfee to
trendon holiday way back in the day. So, uh yeah,
Tragger and not you get you get my game ball
this week for a big day with your leg and
and for punching the ball out with your arm.
Speaker 3: All right, I like it.
Speaker 2: I'm going I'm going defense this week because offense was
the name of the game, putting up the points, the
thirty five points with.
Speaker 3: Udo and daily. But we've talked a lot about them
all year.
Speaker 2: Here's another guy, somebody that kind of comes from you know,
not named Caleb Foster or you know, one of the
other leaders on defense Steven for the Black Knights. And
in Thomas the linebacker, the junior out of Liberal Hill, Texas.
He has a team high eight tackles, one and a
half tackles for a loss. But then he has an
interception there in Tulane in Tulane Territory, returns at sixteen yards.
You know, just a big pick there, just another big
effort by the Army defense. It continues to be I
feel like that we're the defense is for these academies,
especially Army in the last couple of years, has just
been overshadowed because you know, we are always taking about
trouble option. When you have some guy like Daily leading
the way or like a you know on my Bradshaw
or somebody like that, you're talking about him just because
they're keeping the football for so dang long and the
defense and on the field. But the numbers in what
Army's defenses does again and again every single week, and
they did it again this time it was just spectacular.
And so it was Andon Thomas this time that was
leading the way, not Caleb Foster, one of the other
standouts on the Army defense for a defensive coordinator, Nate Woodie.
So he gets my game ball this suite and in Thomas.
All right, let's step away because we got a lot
more to do here. Steven, Well, we're part of the
Last Word on Sports podcast Network as we're on the
Army Navy Previews special. But tell everybody, if this is
our first time listening here to the Arts and stripes,
what else can they find? On the Last Word on
Sports podcast network.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we've got everything college football here this week, all
of the shows here on the college gridiron, coast to
coast feed on Last Word on Sports is definitely looking
at the conference championships and of course the first twelve
team playoff this week in the ACC talking about Clemson's
upset of SMU, but the Mustangs getting into the twelve
team field over Alabama that was a huge That's a
huge one and on the other side of the coin,
you've got it just means more football and coffee those
guys for the SEC. They also break down the Big
ten and Big twelve sides of the twelve team playoff.
We've got to get off my pylon with Matt Zemk.
He looks at the fact that three of the teams
that are getting buys are out on the West coast Oregon,
Arizona State, and Boise State all getting buys, and so
he breaks down the bracket from a West Coast perspective.
Speaker 4: We've got us.
Speaker 5: Obviously, the Florida football insiders will certainly be looking at
where the Gators are going to the Gasparilla Bowl. They'll
be in that game. Of course, the RelA Quest Bowl
I mentioned is going to be Alabama and Michigan here
in Tampa. That's certainly a big one. And then of
course you'll have the big twelve sec breakdown later this.
Speaker 3: Week real quickly.
Speaker 2: And I don't want to dwell on this at all,
but how in the world is Alabama and Michigan playing
Because I thought Michigan barely got Bowl eligible at like
six and six and Alabama finished nine and three.
Speaker 3: How in the world is that a Bowl matchup?
Speaker 2: I know it's completely off topic, but something just does
not seem right there.
Speaker 5: Well, knowing Jim McVay, who has been the head of
that that Bowl committee for many, many many years back
when it was the Outback Bowl, and now the folks
that rely on Quest taking it over. Usually it is
the it's historically it's been the number two, number two
or three SEC team against the number two or three
Big Ten team. Okay, So, and then with with all
of these teams now in in the twelve team playoff,
you know, so you can't have Ohio State, can't have
Penn State, can't have Oregon. Obviously, you've got to get
somebody from the from the Big ten. Uh, and you
can't get Indiana, So obviously it's probably going to it
would probably end up being there's going to be Alabama
or possibly Oregon.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, oh Lahoma at that point.
Speaker 5: And then on the SEC side, you know you're not
gonna get Tennessee, You're not gonna get Georgia. Uh, you
know you're not gonna get any uh, you know, any
of those teams. So and then Alabama is a is
definitely a sexy pick.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 5: And I'm sure that there's gonna be a lot of
folks in red the drive down. And uh, I know,
my boss with the Lightning Radio Network is a big
Michigan fan. He's real excited that he's going to get
a chance to see the Michigan Wolverines one more time.
Speaker 3: I maybe you're wrong in this one, but I think
that's going to be the most lopsided Bowl game of
them all.
Speaker 2: Oh, you think, to me, there is no question that
is going to be an utter blood letting. But I
would say, I would say I would agree, I would
agree with you. But this Alabama team is also also
known to you know, it's got two losses to six
and six teams already this year, including one where they
getn't score a touchdown against Oklahoma.
Speaker 3: All right, fair enough, fair enough.
Speaker 2: We will debate more football here on the other side
as we continue on our Army Navy Preview specials. We're
gonna get into the game. We're gonna make some picks.
We have a foundation on a roll segment.
Speaker 3: We're gonna do all that.
Speaker 2: Plus, I got another food question to ask Steven, and
I got to give you a hint right now. It
has nothing to do with Poppy's what he's going to
eat for dinner here later, tell you about it here
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Speaker 1: The latest with Navy, Army and Air Force on Yards
and Stripes Service Academy Football Yards.
Speaker 2: Of Stripes says we continue here on our Army Navy
Previews special. He is Stephen Carney and I'm Price Atkinson.
Appreciate you tune in is We're gonna break down our game,
the Big Game, the one hundred and twenty for one
hundred and twenty fifth playing of the Army Navy Game
presented by USAA is this Saturday at Northwest Stadium in Landover, Maryland.
Feels weird, it's coming back to Landover. Feels like it's
either a New York, Philadelphia or a Baltimore type of fair.
But it is going to be at the home of
the Commanders outside.
Speaker 3: Of d C.
Speaker 2: So it'll have certainly a huge If you think there's
brass involved, there will be more brass. And you can
shake a stick at on Saturday with everybody at the
Pentagon just close by and so many million.
Speaker 5: You know, you know everybody, everybody's gonna have the shiner,
the the brasso were ready to shine things up. By
the way, Yeah, Josh Harris, the owner of the Commander's
Big is a big reason why this game is in Landover.
Speaker 4: Obviously.
Speaker 5: You know Harris is also the owner of the Philadelphia
seventy six ers, and you know, so he certainly knows
why this game is so important. So he definitely was
instrumental in making sure that this game was in Landover.
Speaker 2: So before we get to the game, I gotta ask
Steven another question about food, because we always come back
to food here on the show, or at least we
are lately. So Steven, I got to get your opinion
on something because I think I'm going to take the plunge.
It's been many, many years since I've had one. But
I've got to ask where do you stand on it?
Because I've seen it pop up on a lot of
my social media feeds in the last week, Facebook, Instagram.
Speaker 3: Twitter or x whatever. Sure, how do you feel about
a mcgrib sandwich?
Speaker 4: You know, God said let there be light and then
he made the McRib.
Speaker 5: Because that's how that's how long those shaped hatties can last.
Speaker 4: Before before going back. I am not. I'm actually not
a fan of the make grib sandwich.
Speaker 3: WHOA, I did not.
Speaker 4: I there's just something about it. I'm not.
Speaker 5: I'm not like I love barbecue, you know, don't get
me wrong. I love pulled pork sandwiches. I love anything
that has to do with with barbecue. Yeah, I'm not like,
it's just something about it, Like I don't know if
if I it's not like there are some people that's
like I've never had a make. I've had a McRib sandwich,
so but I'm I'm not like, for me, the McRib
sandwich is not like the end all be all. Now,
if I didn't have barbecue, you know, close by, maybe
maybe it's different. But you know, I've got like three
or four different barbecue joints, you know, within a within
a you know reason distance. Yeah, like that that I
that I would much rather eat, yeah, rather than spend.
Speaker 4: You know whatever.
Speaker 5: The twelve ninety five it is for the for the
McRib value menu value meal at McDonald's, So I will
so if someone's going to give it to me, I
might eat it. But I it's not like some people
are like, oh my god, it's the McRib. It's you know,
it's the it's the end all be all of their
of their food season.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 5: It's kind of like it's kind of like the Army
Navy game is to us, the McRib is to some people,
but not to me.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, thanks for steering us back, because I
haven't had one of those in about fifteen years, But
I have had an Army Navy game that was last year,
and I'm hoping this year is going to be just
as good. But the one hundred and twenty fifth playing
as we mentioned on Saturday three o'clock kickoff on each
on CBS three pm Eastern Standard time. Right now, Army
giving six and a half points, the over under is thirty.
Speaker 3: Nine and a half. Funny ist sitting at thirty nine
and a.
Speaker 2: Half because the point total hasn't been pushed past forty
since two thy and thirteen. So if you're going over under,
always let me just give you a better tip.
Speaker 3: Always go the under in this game.
Speaker 5: Yeah, in fact, in fact, uh, it was twenty twenty two,
so a couple of years ago. It was the first
time that the the over hit in seventeen years and
last and last year of course, remember it was seventeen eleven,
the over under was twenty eight, so it was so
it was a push. So you have a push and
you had and you have an over in the last
two years, but you had under the previous seventeen years
before that.
Speaker 2: Yep, go with the under. That's what the tradition says.
And it's not just tradition, it's it's what the facts
tell you. But Navy leading the all time series sixty
two to fifty five to seven, they're one to zero
against Army and the only previous meeting in Northwest Stadium.
But Army's won two straight and six of the last eight.
But Steve this Saturday, this is the first time since
twenty seventeen that both Army and Navy can win the
Commander in Chief Trophy heading into the Army Navy game.
And it's just the eight time ever, which is kind
of hard to believe if you ask me, this is
the only eighth time ever seventy seven, seventy eight, ninety six,
two thousand and five, twenty twelve, and twenty seventeen that
both Army and Navy go into this game with the
ability to win the CIC Trophy. To me, that's incredible,
and I'll take it a step further. Army and Navy
entered this game with a combined record of nineteen and four.
That's the most wins ever combined coming into an Army
Navy game.
Speaker 3: Are the stakes high Saturday? Boy? I sure think so.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know they are, And you know I said
this on social media that you know, it seems like
every year one of the national outlets takes it upon
itself to take a look at this game and do
a deep dive profile of what it's like to be
a player at one of the service academies at either
at Army or at Navy. This year it was Heather
Dinnick and Chris Low of ESPN who did a fantastic
piece on what it was like.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 5: You know, one followed uh Daba Fafanna and one followed
caleber Fortner. Uh so they got you got a chance
to take a look at both sides of this game
in in this uh in this feature piece on ESPN
dot com and it's on my social media at Steve
Carney if you want to take a look at it.
It's really really extremely well done. Obviously, this game means
a lot to these players, and and it means a
lot every single year. This year, I think it's more
than most because it's been you know, for for so
many years. It was Navs. You know, it was all
about Navy, you know when when they were winning you know,
twelve in a row, thirteen in a row at that point,
and you know, you went through so many classes at
West Point that had never even gotten an opportunity to
sing second. Well, now the pendulum has swung back the
other way. You know, Army has won the last three
or four.
Speaker 4: Of these in a row.
Speaker 5: I mean, it's you know, you can say that, you know,
the senior class I don't believe is beaten Army. So
you know, they they are certainly going to have that
that hunger and they're gonna have a sense of Okay,
you know, it's now we're it's now, We're never. You know,
if we don't win this year, I'm going to go
into my military career and I'm going to go around
for the rest of my life knowing that I spent
four years the United States Naval Academy. We never beat Army.
You know, I never got a chance to sing second.
So you know that those those seniors in Annapolis are
going to be, you know, feeling the pressure. On the
other side, the seniors at West Point are going to
be feeling the pressure because they want to sing second
all four years. Yeah, and they've got that opportunity here
this year. So yeah, there there's there's plenty of pressure
on both sides of this game. And it's and it
just makes everything so much, so much more delectable.
Speaker 3: It makes sense.
Speaker 5: It's such a meaty, im meaty feel to this to
this game. You know, you feel that that uh, you know,
that tension from from these from these upper classmen and
then the underclassmen that wanna.
Speaker 4: That want to push the the the upper classman. It's
gonna be great.
Speaker 2: With a win, Army would capture his twelfth victory of
the season. That would be the most ever in a
single season in program history. If Army reaches thirteen wins,
it would be the most ever in a season best
Service Cap team. So obviously Army would have to win
Saturday and then win their bowl game against Marshall. The
Jeff bunkin the Black Knights twelve and four in his
last sixteen Service Academy games dating back to the Army
Navy game in twenty sixteen, and Army enters the game
on a roll. I mean clearly they're you know, coming
off the AC Championship game. Is there going to be
a letdown?
Speaker 3: I don't think so.
Speaker 2: I don't know how you could come out flat in
an Army Navy game, I don't. I don't think I've
ever seen it in my many years being part of
the game. But you know, Navy did lose three or
four down the Strets before they you know, kind of
throttled East Carolina there in the fourth quarter, but you.
Speaker 3: Know, turnovers.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'll kind of get to key my keys
on the game here in a minute. But if you're
going to the game, uh, the march on for the
core Cadets is at twelve ten. The brigade will march
on thirty minutes later at twelve forty, and then the
flyovers are scheduled for three h seven eight would kickoff
at three ten Pregame coverage will begin on this CBS
Sports Network Stephen at twelve pm. So you're going to
have the way I mean, you're going to be able
to wet your whistle on this one all morning. As
I believe Game Day I think Game Day is going
to be back there again too. But you know, CBS
Sports Network having all the coverage and then before they
flip over to main CBS. One of the biggest and
best things about this game obviously clearly is the game itself.
But because this is and we forgot to mention, you know,
the both schools just signed a ten year extension with
CBS to keep the game I believe through is it
twenty twenty eighty eight, yep, So this this is this
is a Super Bowl.
Speaker 3: Esque game for CBS.
Speaker 2: This is basically like this rank's really close up there
with Super Bowl Masters.
Speaker 3: What's the other game with March Madness. March Madness.
Speaker 2: This is in that echelon for CBS and so one
of the best parts you can watch of this game.
My favorite part art is when the coverage comes on CBS,
the intro that they spend three, four or five minutes,
it's it's it's hair raising to see the to see
the intro on CBS when they come on the air,
because it is it is they put so much into
that and it's all about the emotion.
Speaker 3: I make sure that I don't miss it.
Speaker 5: Every year, Yeah, it's a it's a marquee event for CBS.
There's no doubt when they when they look and every
year when they when CBS Sports goes to you know
these these television you know, conventions and stuff like that,
and then and they want to show people, you know,
what they've got this year. Every year, you know, CBS,
you can guarantee CBS Sports talks about the Masters, they
talk about March Madness, and they talk about the Army
Navy Game. You know, the Super Bowl they don't have
every year, but uh, but they definitely talk about those
other three events, which are the three biggest events that
they have on their schedule every single year. And so
uh I and you're right that that video package that
they do that that open is some of the best.
It's some of the best videography, you know, the videography
that they do, you know, the cinematography, the the way
that they they put this put it together. Every year.
Every year it's different. Every year it gets better. You know,
you think, oh god, you know, I remember the one
from last year. There's no way that they can make
it better this year. They always find a way. They
always find an angle that they that you don't think about,
and it's like, oh, look at that, and and you go,
they did it again, those bastards and CBS they did
it again.
Speaker 4: They hooked me even harder.
Speaker 5: And uh and and I also love when they when
they do the shots of the uh of the service
members you know that are overseas watching the game, whether
it's in Afghanistan or in Germany, or in Koree in
South Korea and Japan, or you know, in the in
the Middle East, wherever they are around the around the
world watching this game.
Speaker 4: Because you know, the whole world, and the military world.
Speaker 5: Stops, with the exception of the Air Force, because you know,
somebody's somebody's gotta somebody's got to do the janitorial work.
I'm kidding air Force folks, I'm kidding. But you know,
the entire military world stops to watch. I remember being
on ship on the US's Theodore Roosevelt and if it
wasn't if if you weren't on watch, you were watching
that game, they would bring out they would bring out
the huge They bring us down and this is an
aircraft carrier there just like five thousand people. You know,
they would clear one of the hangers, they would push
all of the all of the planes, they either move
them up to the flight deck or move them into
the other Because there are three hangars on a Nimitz
class aircraft carrier, they would move them all into two
and they would put up the huge screen. You know,
they didn't do that very often. They did it for
the Super Bowl, but they did it for Army Navy
every single time that I was I was out, Uh,
when we were on deployment and you went up there
and you watched, and they and the mess personnel, you know,
they made popcorn and they made wings and you know,
they they made sure that that you were that you had,
you were gonna feel it was gonna feel a little
bit more like home. You were still you know, basically
standing on non skid uh in your in your coveralls
watching this game. But you're it was. It was the
Army Navy game. And everything stops when it happens.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's you know, I tell people all the time
that haven't been to the game. You know, they look
at me like I'm crazy. They're like, come on, you
don't want to do the Iron Bowl? You know, Ohio
State Michigan. No, there's no rivalry in sports in my opinion,
like Army Navy. And it's it's not simple why But
I didn't get it till I went to my first one,
til I worked my first one. But there's no other,
at least when it comes to college. But there's no
other game in football or any other that you can
find where you've got literally the entire student body of
one school in one corner, in the entire student body
of the other school in the other corner, going at
it all games. And then, like you just said, servicemen
service women active duty in every corner of the globe,
doesn't matter the time of day, whether it's three in
the morning, three in the afternoon. People are glued to
Armed Forces Network, CBS, radio, TV, whatever.
Speaker 3: They can get.
Speaker 2: They are glued into this game. There is no other
game that is anywhere like this one. And you cannot
even try and convince me. Just don't even try.
Speaker 4: Now you can.
Speaker 5: People people talk about Alabama Auburn, or Michigan, Ohio State
or USC or and U C.
Speaker 4: L A.
Speaker 5: They're all great rivalries, they're you know, they're they're all
worthy rivalries.
Speaker 4: None of them are Army Navy.
Speaker 5: Now there's not there's not a single uh, there's not
a single rivalry in any sport. And and I will
say it's you know, I don't care if it's Celtics, Lakers,
Red Sox, Yankees, Bears, Packers, I don't care. It's Army Navy.
That's that's it. That's the list, that's that's at the
top of the heap. And I don't care what anybody says.
By the way, by the way, my you, you mentioned
your key uh being being the turnovers.
Speaker 4: Uh. As we as I try and steer things back.
Speaker 3: I've got three why I think one team will win
here in.
Speaker 5: Okay, okay, I I will say, you mentioned your first
key being turnovers. My my first key is penalties. You know,
I think that that's I think the team that finds
itself behind the sticks more is going to be the
team that ends up, uh, that ends up on the
losing end of this game. And and I don't think
there's gonna be a lot of penalties, but I I
do think that you could certainly see that one team
is probably going to end up with more penalties than
the other. They're going to end up behind the sticks
more often, and it's going to be a lot tougher
that for them to win.
Speaker 2: All Right, I'll give you my three keys of the game,
and I think these are three keys why I think
it's advantage Army.
Speaker 3: And I'll let you tell me if I'm wrong.
Speaker 2: Coach Brian Newberry, you know, said this week, head coach
at Navy. You know, it's all about controlling your emotions,
and the team that makes the fewest mistakes wins. And
he's right. The team that does make the fewest mistakes wins.
And that's why I think Army has got the advantage
because they've largely been flawless most of the season.
Speaker 3: You gave out the.
Speaker 2: Stat you know earlier that ESPN came up with, or
you know that in the last twenty years, they're the
only FBS team to have no turnovers, no penalties, and
no plints in a single game, and they did it
in their conference championship game.
Speaker 3: No less.
Speaker 2: But you know, Army has only given the ball away
five times all season at twelve games. Navy's turned it
over twelve times in the last five game games.
Speaker 4: Okay, I was going to say they turned it over
six times in one game.
Speaker 5: To Notre Dame.
Speaker 2: You know, Armies first nationally in time of possession, third
and fewest penalties, while Navy hasn't been great on third down.
There's a little bit more there, but you know, Armies
just they don't make many mistakes.
Speaker 3: Red zone.
Speaker 2: I think red zone is my second biggest key. You know,
Navy was thirty to thirty five in the red zone
this season, with twenty eight trips resulting in touchdowns. Navy's
for twenty red zone trips on the season, they score
touchdowns before that field goal against Charlotte. They're number two
in the country in red zone percentage.
Speaker 3: Just behind Indiana.
Speaker 2: Army's fourth at seventy six or seventy seven percent. Army
is first in the country in red zone defense at
fifty four and a half percent. To me, that is
going to be one of the biggest areas to watch.
The third key, while I think it's advantage Army. And again,
you tell me if I'm wrong on these three keys.
Besides mistakes, fewest mistakes, red zone and the third key,
his name is Captain America, Bryce and Daily, the best
player in Service Academy football this year. You know, I
can hear coloramos from Navy, you know, the linebacker. But
what Daily has done. I mean twenty nine rushing touchdowns,
you know, just two behind Keenan Reynolds FBS record for
by a quarterback in a single season. You know, he's
eleventh in the country in all purpose yards. I'm not
going to go down. You know the list, you know,
but literally is Captain America. He's done it all for
this team. That to me is why I think Army
has the advantage in this game.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I will.
Speaker 5: I will agree with you on on all three of
those aspects. When you're looking at mistakes, when you're looking
at red zone efficiency when you're looking at Bryce and daily,
I will add the the health of Navy is always
going to be a question mark. They've had two weeks now,
but is it going to be Blake Horvath? Well, you know,
is Blake har Bath healthy enough to be a worthy
contributor or do they have to go with Braxton Woodson again?
You know, I think that's a that's a huge question
mark and one that I'm sure is going to be
answered here before too long. But you know, but even still,
even if even if Horvath is healthy enough to go
in this game, having had two weeks off, you know,
now you've now you've got to be like, Okay, now
he's got to get back into the swing of things.
And uh, you know, I know that that Brian Newberry
doesn't normally have a number of hard practices in a row.
The ESPN article, you know, he talked about you know,
Newberry doesn't do more than two uh two days of
hard practices in a row because of all the other
things that you have to do, uh, you know, when
it comes to your commitment, uh, your military commitments in Annapolis.
So you know, trying to get Blake Corvath back into
the swing of things is going to be uh, something
that Army doesn't have to worry about. You know, they
haven't had that that time off, so you don't have
to worry about guys getting I don't want to say rusty,
but you know, a little complacent. And I think that's
probably why you won't see Army come out flat. You know,
you said, you know you normally don't see these guys
come out flat. You're definitely not going to see Army
coming out flat because they're they're they're they've they've they
haven't had any time off. Yeah, so I think that's
a that's another huge advantage for Army. Even though they
haven't had the time off, there's still there's still i
would say.
Speaker 4: Relatively much healthier than Navy is.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean that's a good question. That's a great point.
Speaker 2: You know, having that time off, Navy gets healed, you know,
does that keep you know, Army, you.
Speaker 3: Know, clicking on all cylinders.
Speaker 2: Although they have not been beaten up quite as bad
maybe as Navy has. You know, you still got to
come back up and get up again after a conference
championship game. And I remember what happened with Navy when
they played Temple, you know, in their first AAC game,
and they were they were flat as you know can be.
Of course, they've got flat for that next week. But
it's just gonna be interesting to see clearly, you know,
everything is interesting. The chess match with the coaches because
they know all the players in personnel so well, recruiting,
you know, most of the same kids. It's just gonna
be it's just gonna be fascinating as it always is.
All right, Stephen, let's let's break away, because we got
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Speaker 1: The latest with Navy, Army and Air Force on Yards
and Stripes Service Academy Football.
Speaker 2: All right wrapping up here on our Army, Navy previews
special Yards and Stripes on Price Atkinson and he is
Stephen Carmis.
Speaker 3: We are getting you ready for America's.
Speaker 2: Game, the one hundred and twenty fifth playing of the
Army Navy Game, presented by USAA in Landover, Maryland this
Saturday at three o'clock on CBS eight and three Navy
versus number nineteen Army, who is eleven to one and
American Athletic Conference champion. Steven, really quickly before we get
to our picks for Saturday, I want to let you
know if you are going to the game mentioned the
kind of the timeline there, looks like it's going to
be low to mid forties, most sleep or partly sunny.
So weather's looking good. Just going to be obviously chilly,
so typical football weather here in mid December. It's going
to be great. Wish we were going to be there.
Hopefully next year we're going to be able to make
this happen. Steven as we get up to Baltimore in
M and T Bank Stadium, But a couple of news
and notes to pass along to Je Monk and a
candidate for what was a candidate at vacancies at un
C in West Virginia, a finalist for the ed Eddie Robinson.
Speaker 3: Coach of the Year Award.
Speaker 2: Obviously, Bill Belichick was hired at un C and now
tonight Bill rich Rodriguez he's going back to West Virginia
for a seven time So Army dodges a proverbial bullet.
I don't want to use that kind of analogy, but
you know, as if they were looking to hold on
to their football coach, they definitely did it because I
thought there could be some smoke. It's sounded like there
was some interest that Munkin had definitely talked to UNC,
but they get their man in Bill Belichick.
Speaker 5: So yeah, I mean, I mean, I I think I
think that any coach worth this saualt is going to
explore his options. And we were talking before the segment
about these, you know, especially because with Bill Belichick now
going to North Carolina, uh, you know, and all the
all the jokes that have been made on on social
media about Belichick staying in his girlfriend's dorm room. Now
you see maybe maybe one of the funniest jokes I
had heard about about this. But you know, I think
Jeff Monkin loves the situation that he's in at West
Point because you know, if this was a couple of
years ago, I would say he would probably be very
interested in leaving and trying to you know, test it.
You know how good of a coach he can be
at a larger program. The problem with these larger programs
now is you have NIL, and you have the transfer
portal that you have to deal with every single year,
and you know, recruiting gets harder and harder every single year.
I mean, it's the reason why coaches, you know, are
starting to leave, both in football and in college basketball.
You know, some of the old school guys are are staying.
You know, I don't want to deal with this anymore.
You know, I don't want to deal with NIL. It's
why Nick Saban is at ESPN now. It's why you know,
some of these guys have decided now we're going to
what we're going to move on.
Speaker 4: He doesn't have to deal with that at West Point.
Speaker 5: You know, he doesn't have to deal with NIL. He
doesn't have to deal with the transfer portal. It's very
old school. I bet if you asked, you know the
rest of the Division one FBS coaches, I think you
know there's one one hundred and twenty of them. I
bet one hundred and seventeen of them would say I
would love to have a situation like they have at
Army right now. And the only the only three that
would say no, the are the three that have it. Yeah,
Monk and Brian Newberry and uh Troy Calhoun at air Force.
Speaker 4: You know, those guys don't have to deal with an il.
Speaker 5: They don't have to deal with the transfer portal for
the most part. So you know, it's it's old school
college football where the.
Speaker 4: Coach is the the end all be all.
Speaker 5: He is the judge, the jury, and the proverbial executioner
of a program. And so I don't see why if
if you love that, and obviously he does. We've talked
to him multiple times on this show, why would you
want to leave? And and so I I certainly, and
I'm sure he would if if we had asked him
about that here, uh, you know, over the last forty
eight hours, he'd be like, I don't want to leave this.
Speaker 4: This is great.
Speaker 5: I've got I've got a conference, I'm you know, I'm
gonna have a great schedule moving forward that I don't
have to worry about, you know, putting things together every
year like they did as an independent. And so now
he just gets to focus on the football. And yeah,
you get to do that at West Point.
Speaker 3: Go mess with happiness. No, mess with happiness.
Speaker 7: No.
Speaker 5: And it's the land, it's the and as he likes
to say, it's they're the last of the hard and
you know there's that that you don't have that in
other places. I think I think he would he would
find that out that he would.
Speaker 4: Have to change.
Speaker 5: His you know, his approach if he were to go
somewhere else. And he doesn't want to do that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 2: Naval Academy announced in this week that they have agreed
to an extension on their official partnership with under Armor
is the official outfitter of Maybe's varsity intercollegiate athletic program,
so that continues since twenty and fourteen.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Kevin slag Maryland guy. So that's not a surprise, Yep,
not at all.
Speaker 2: And also the Mount West Conference announcing its matchups for
next season. Dates to be forthcoming, but air Force is
twenty twenty five home games. They will be against two
time defending champ Boise State, New Mexico, Wyoming, and Hawaii,
while the Falcons will travel to Colorado State, Utah State,
San Jose State, and UNLV. They will open the season
at home though, on Saturday, August the thirtieth, against Bucknell.
Speaker 3: At Falcon Stadium.
Speaker 2: So that is what we got for some news and
nuggets to pass along, Stephen, as we get now to
our favorite segment.
Speaker 3: Our kissuse.
Speaker 2: We both had Army last week. You had Army twenty
one to nine. I had Army twenty three to twenty.
So we both nailed it.
Speaker 3: Margin.
Speaker 6: I was.
Speaker 5: I was convinced that that Tulane wasn't getting into the
end zone. After after the two botched shield goals, I was.
Speaker 4: Like, I was like, They're not look at this. I'm
looking like a genius.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, you definitely had the larger margin than
I did. I thought it was going to be closer,
but boy, that weather, I think it played havoc with Tulane.
Even with Tulane stopping on Friday and practicing outside at
the Giant Stadium on their way up, didn't.
Speaker 3: Do a lick of good.
Speaker 2: Nope, all right, I may have tipped my hand which
way I'm going this week. Army and Navy again, the
hundred and twenty fifth meeting on Saturday three ten is
when it will technically kick off Commander in Chief Trophy
on the line for the first time since twenty seventeen, where.
Speaker 3: The winner of this game either one will win the
CIC Trophy. Stephen, which way are you picking?
Speaker 4: This game is always close and it doesn't matter.
Speaker 5: You know what the records of these two teams are,
because we've seen it multiple times. You know over the
years where Navy has been very good, Army has been
very bad. And this game is still you know, a
field goal game or a touchdown game at the worst.
So you know this is this is going to be close.
You mentioned how many times that the under is hit
in this game. I think that they're pretty much dead
on when it comes to this game.
Speaker 4: I really do. Obviously. I think that this.
Speaker 5: Comes down to Captain America wanting to finish his career
off at West Point the way that he started it,
and that is by singing second. And I hate saying
this as a Navy guy. I have Army twenty three,
maybe seventeen.
Speaker 2: All right, ironically we've got the exact same margin of victory.
But I will say that I'm also going with Army,
except I like a lower scoring game. I like Army
nineteen to thirteen because like you, I do think Captain
America is the difference. And you know, can Navy's passing
game get uncourt to obviously you know, strike some balance
and get the Army defense and moving side to side
and you know, have them guessing more. We'll see, you know,
I think that's kind of one of the you know,
a big key for Navy to win the game is
to be able to get a passing game on court.
Not that they've got to throw it forty times a game,
but if you're going to throw it, you know, a
dozen times, it's got to be effected. Because if you
can effectively throw the football, you can open up some
pass or some running lanes.
Speaker 5: You get you get a you get an end around
for to hide and Reich or a or a pass early.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 5: You know, if you're if you're Braxton Woodson or your
Blake Corbath, you know you're you're not throwing the ball
forty times. You may not even throw the ball twenty times.
But if you're throwing the ball fifteen times, and you're
say eleven or twelve for fifteen and you've got hide
and right, getting an end around that goes for forty yards.
Speaker 4: Early.
Speaker 5: I saw this against I saw that against us F.
You know, you know Navy, UH used hide and wright early,
and I was able to get him in situations where
the bulls defense couldn't handle him. He got outside, got out,
you know, got around the edge, got outside, and all
of a sudden he's going for sixty yards and a score.
You know Navy does that. I think they've got a
they've got a shot. Uh, you know, to to do
something here, but that's got to come early. You've got
to punch if your Navy the first the first thing
on your on your list is to punch Army in
the mouth early. Don't take the first punch. You got
to give the first punch. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I can't wait, dude, I cannot wait. It's gonna be awesome.
Speaker 4: I'm so excited.
Speaker 5: I have I I of course have the the great
doubleheader of NCAA college basketball where the University of let
me tell you, I'm so excited, the University of South
Florida this year is going has gone to one of
the places that I've been dying to go to. And
on Saturday, They're going to the other place in college basketball,
that I've been dying to go to. Last Saturday, they
went to the Joe Genteel Arena in Chicago to see
Loyola the Fighting Sister Jeans My play by play guy's
got a picture with Sister Jean Oh wow, who is
of course one hundred and five and is still going
to every home game.
Speaker 4: And this week they're.
Speaker 5: At Utah State, so they're at the d Glen Spectrum
on Saturday. So I'm I've that's another place that I've
been dying to go to for college basketball, and my
guys are going there, and then I have a West
Coast Lightning game after that.
Speaker 2: So what do you have your menu and snacks picked out?
At least that you can have during the game.
Speaker 4: Oh you kidd me, there's there.
Speaker 5: They're gonna be They're gonna be wings and maybe maybe
a maybe.
Speaker 4: A pie slice or two.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 5: They've they've got they've got like a New York style
uh pizza by the sliced place across.
Speaker 4: The street from Emily Arena.
Speaker 5: That okay, I probably I think it's called like three rounds,
but uh, we'll well, we'll roll run over there, maybe
grab a slice.
Speaker 2: There is no Stevens Sports Saturday without wings. I'm smart
enough to know that I've been around the block or
two with Stephen carry, so I do know, I do
know what tickles his fancy. When it comes to food,
it's Poppy's and it's wings.
Speaker 4: Wings.
Speaker 2: All right, everybody, enjoy the game. The one twenty fifth meeting.
We can't wait. I know you can't wait. It's a spectacle.
It's gonna be fun. We're gonna talk about it all
next week. We're gonna preview the bowl games more in depth.
Next week is is Obviously, both Army and Navy are
going bowling, as we told you earlier, Navy and the
Lockey Mark Armed Forces Bowl versus Oklahoma, and then number
nine teen Army in the Independence bowle versus Marshall. We're
going to get into all that next week, including America's game,
But until then, have a great weekend. Enjoy the game, Stevens,
you can't wait to do it again.
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