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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: Steven, we have come to the best week of the year.

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It is Army Navy Week. Here on Yards and Stripes

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your home for Service Academy Football. I'm Pryce Atkinson and

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he more importantly is Stephen Carney, the producer co host.

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And we have got a lot to do this week.

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Like I said, it is the best game of the

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entire college football season annually. That would be Army versus

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Navy this Saturday. We've got an Army Navy Previews special

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that we're going to deliver. We got some champions to celebrate,

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we got bold news. We got a lot to get into, Steven.

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But before we do that, as always, we got to

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have a Papa Yon's report.

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Speaker 3: What is on the pie tonight?

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Speaker 4: The pie is full on meet this tonight.

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Speaker 5: It is full on Meet a coupon. So so I'm

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all I'm always about, you know, trying to get the

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pizza when I can, when I'm not having to pay

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you know, sixteen or eighteen bucks for it.

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Speaker 4: So we got.

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Speaker 2: What you're telling me is when we wrap up the

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recording that the papaians is going to be knocking on

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the door.

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Speaker 4: Oh, it's it's here.

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Speaker 5: It's here, and it's it's it's sitting on the other

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side of my monitors, all right, on the other because

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my kitchen is just on the other side. I'm on them.

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I'm in the alcove. The kitchen is over there. It

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is sitting in the kitchen. It is calling my name

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right now, Price, But you know, you know what else

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is calling my name. The greatest college football week.

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Speaker 4: Of the year.

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Speaker 5: This is my birthday and Christmas and Pizza night all

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rolled into one. When we talk about Army Navy, and

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we'll get to that in just a second there, but

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you mentioned it.

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Speaker 4: We've got champions.

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Speaker 5: We've got champions to salute today and and I think

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we're both very, very excited for the fact that Army

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is now one for one.

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Speaker 3: Boy. We are pumped. We we are pumped.

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Speaker 2: And yes, I had meat lovers tonight too, except everybody.

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I got two slices and it was gone.

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Speaker 5: Because that's because you have three other people that are

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huge pizza fans in your house.

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Speaker 4: I only have one, and so I'm able.

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Speaker 5: I'm able to kind of scurry off with a couple

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and and and make sure that everything is okay.

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Speaker 2: Yes, yes, you're Yeah. When you got three others you

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got to fend off. It's gonna be hard because they

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three against that one is not a fair fight, especially

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when it comes to good pie. Let's get to it because,

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like I said, look, this is celebration week because we

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love Army and Navy week. It is the best, and

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we're celebrating even harder this week because Army wins the

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American Athletic Conference Championship game.

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Speaker 3: We're gonna talk about that.

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Speaker 2: We're obviously going to preview the game Saturday, the one

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hundred twenty fifth Army Navy Game game presented by USAA.

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Speaker 3: We're going to get.

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Speaker 2: Into all of it picks, We've got our Travis Manning

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Foundation Honorall Segment. I mean, we're gonna go the whole

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nine yards, but we want to get out of the

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gate just really quickly. Obviously, Army and Navy have had

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great seasons. The bowl games were announced last weekend on Sunday.

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We'll go ahead and just report those right now. For

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those who are under a rock Yes, Navy's going bowling.

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Speaker 3: Army is going bowling.

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Speaker 2: Navy's going to be taking on the Oklahoma Sooner six

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and six and the lockeed Martin Armed Forces Bowl Stephen.

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That's going to be a Friday, December twenty seventh affair

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at twelve noon Eastern Standard time, Navy's twenty fifth Bowl

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appearance all time, because they will be playing the Sooners

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in the twenty second Armed Forces Bowl and Amon G.

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Carter Stadium there on the campus of TCU and Fort Worth.

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The first time that Navy has played an SEC team

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in a bowl game since nineteen fifty four when Navy

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nine of old miss twenty one ozerh Army. They obviously

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yes the champs. They beat Tulane over the weekend on

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Friday night and then Sunday they are announced as one

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of the participants in the Radiance Technologies Independence Bowl Stephen.

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Number nineteen Army taken on the fun Belt champs of

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the Marshall Thundering Herd who are ten and three. This

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is a Saturday, December twenty eighth kickoff at nine to

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fifteen Eastern Standard time in the forty eighth annual Independence

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Bowl there in Shreveport. Ironically, this could be the very

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first matchup in the Independence Bowl of a pair of

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conference champions since the very first Independence Bowl back in

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nineteen seventy six, as both obviously Army and Marshall won

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their respective league. So Army's been in this Bowl game

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once before. It was in nineteen ninety six when they

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lost by field goal to Auburn. So I think we

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say congratulations to both our me and Navy on these

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postseason versts because they're gonna be a lot of fun

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to watch them match up in two which would be

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two really good games.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, you think about it. Navy is going

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to get an opportunity to take on an Oklahoma team. Yes,

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there's six and six, but that Oklahoma team beat Alabama,

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and Alabama is going to be here where I live

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in Tampa for the Reliaquest Bowl on New Year's Eve

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taking on Michigan, so I'm gonna get to see both

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sides of that situation. So with Navy taking on a

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six and six Sooner team and then obviously seeing an

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American Sun Belt championship matchup in the NFL, I love

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that idea. I love the fact that the American champion

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if it's not going to be part of the twelve

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team college Football Playoff gets another championship team.

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Speaker 4: And that way you can kind of say, all right.

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Speaker 5: Which one of these teams do you think should have

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gotten this opportunity because you you can imagine that you know,

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Boise State and Boise State extremely well deserved that they

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are in the twelve team uh playoff as the group

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of five champion. In fact, they get a first round

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by yeah in it because uh.

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Speaker 4: They've they performed so well all year long. Uh. But

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you know with with Army, you know, they're certainly of

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the mindset that you know, we we thought we belonged

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as well.

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Speaker 5: You know, they only had one loss, it was a

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bad loss at Yankee Stadium to Notre Dame. Notre Dame

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wipe the floor with both service academies this year. But

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other than that, they really they really held their own.

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And you know, you can only play who's on your schedule,

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So you know, I give I give all credit to

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the Black Knights. You know, they go undefeated in conference play,

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they only have that one loss and a and a

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neutral site. You know, certainly a fantastic season that's going

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to be capped with a with an Independence Bowl going

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to going down to Tim Brando Land in Shreveport, Louisiana.

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Uh for this, for this game that that'll be a fun,

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fun matchup and it's one that I know I'll be

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I'll be certain to be watching as well.

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Speaker 2: Don't ever say anything bad about the Independence Bowl because

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Tim Brando will find out and he will let you

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know about it.

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Speaker 5: Would never say anything wrong about Tim Brando and the

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Independence Bowl and the beautiful area that is known as Shreveport, Louisiana.

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Speaker 4: Even though I've never.

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Speaker 3: Been a December twenty eighth the fair in Shreveport. You don't.

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That doesn't get your jolly's going? Man? Come on, Stave.

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Speaker 5: You know what would would would is if does does

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it come with a crawfish boil? If I if I

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get a boil to go along with that with the

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Bowl in Shreveport, Louisiana, I would certainly I would certainly

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be less averse to it.

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Speaker 2: All Right, as we continue on here in Yourgs and Stripes,

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as we were part of a word on Sports podcast Network, Steven,

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we got to celebrate because Army did just that last

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Friday night, capping a historic twenty twenty four season. Then

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obviously it's not over. But capping that first season in

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the American Athletic Conference at Mikey Stadium, the Black Knight's

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first year, they end that first season absolutely perfect. They

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run the table in the regular season, and they win

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the conference championship game to capture their first ever conference

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title in one hunt in their one hundred and thirty

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four year history of playing football is Army defeats Visiting

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to Lane thirty five to fourteen, and a game that

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really honestly seemed like it was over almost from the jumpy,

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as Army improved eleven to one, to Lane dropping to

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nine and four. They jumped on tou Lane, who was

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shaky from the get go, batching a couple of field

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goal attempts on their first two drives, fumbling a kickoff,

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and then having a pass intercepted in their own territory

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on the next. I mean, it was just uncharacteristically sloppy play.

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Speaker 3: By two Lane.

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Speaker 2: I think that you would probably agree with me, maybe not,

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but I think the weather had a lot to do

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with that. Is it was cold, it was windy, and

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it was obviously elements that Tulane had not played in.

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As the third you know, obviously, this was the only

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the third game ever played in the month of December.

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Speaker 3: At Mikey Stadium.

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Speaker 2: Is Bryson Daily rushing for a team high twenty five

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times one hundred and twenty six yards, four touchdowns and

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tie the American Athletic Converge Championship Game record to complete

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that perfect season. But it was cold. It played right

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into Army's hands, and like I said, it just seemed

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like this baby was over from you know, seconds after

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, think you think about it. We talked

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about it last week. I said that it was going

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to be tough for these New Orleans boys because we

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knew it was going to be cold. I mean, we

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knew it last week when we when we talked that

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the game was gonna be it was gonna be in

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the mid twenties. It was gonna be breezy. The feel

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like temperatures were going to be in the mid teens.

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it on the on the broadcast on ABC, Darien Mensa,

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it only I don't think it ever played a game

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where it was less than forty five degrees out, so uh,

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and you know, the Green Wave certainly looked like they

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were frozen.

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Speaker 4: I mean from from from from the get go.

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Speaker 5: I mean, everything that could have gone wrong for the

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Green Wave and the first half went wrong. I mean

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the first drive, they go down, they botched the field goal,

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so it's basically a turnover. On downs, Army goes scores

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a touchdown. Second time in, they get down even closer

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and missed the field goal wide right.

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Speaker 4: Army goes down, scores another touchdown.

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Speaker 5: Then on the ensuing kickoff, Tulane fumbles the football. Army recovers,

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they get down there, they go for it inside the

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f and don't and don't make it. So Tulane finally

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gets the ball inside the you know, inside the five,

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and then they throw an interception and Harvey goes down

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and scores another touchdown.

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Speaker 4: I mean the first half.

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Speaker 5: You know, I'm sure you know, uh Summer all coach

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Sumrawl was going where are the chicken bones?

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Speaker 4: You know, who's cursing us? Who's got the voodoo.

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Speaker 5: Dolls that are poking they're poking the needles in the

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voodoo dolls here? Because everything that could have gone wrong

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for Tulane in the first half went.

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Speaker 2: Wrong, absolutely, that sure did and then you know, when

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obviously trailing big what was it twenty eight seven at halftime?

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Excuse me, twenty one to seven at halftime. They could

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hardly even really get their hands on the ball there

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in the second half because Army having touchdown drives, eleven plays,

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sixteen plays, you know, those drives and commassing six minutes

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and thirty seconds and then ten minutes and forty four seconds.

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I mean they just bled the clock out. Yeah, and

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when you know Tulane needed possessions, they couldn't even get

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their hands on it.

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Speaker 5: And yeah, this was this was North Texas all over again. Yep,

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when it when it came to Army, I mean it

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was twenty one. It was twenty one to seven at

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the half, and the Black Knights get the ball to

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Speaker 4: Half and and end up.

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Speaker 5: Bleeding the first half of the the third quarter away

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as they go down and they score a touchdown, and

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then uh, you know, Tulane had it for you know,

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a significant period of time for you know, a large

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chunk of the third quarter, you know, but they weren't

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a but again, weren't able to put the ball in

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the end zone, weren't able to get points and then

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you know, Army takes the ball at their at their

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own sixteen and goes sixteen, plays almost eleven minutes and

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scores another touchdown. It's thirty five seven at that point,

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you know, it's you know, there's.

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Speaker 4: Like six minutes left in the game. You know, there

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was nothing.

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Speaker 5: That that uh that Tulane could do at that point.

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I guarantee you that. You know, the the Green Wave

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went in went back into their locker room after thirty

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minutes of play and we're like, we're done.

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Speaker 4: There is nothing.

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Speaker 5: We can't get the ball enough, you know, to to

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get back into this game at this point, especially because

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they knew the Army was getting the ball to start things.

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Speaker 2: And I think the other thing too in the game,

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obviously the weather and the elements was a big deal,

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but you know the fact that wasn't just the Bryson

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twenty six yards and four touchdowns. But you know you

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throw in Kanye Udo the b back slash fullback, you know,

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going for one fifty eight as they ran up three

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thirty five on TWU lane. It wasn't just the Bryson

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but the fact he had a campadre that was right

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there doing as much damage as he was. Yeah, just

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gutting tulane right up the middle constantly, over and over.

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Daily didn't even come. I mean, he didn't even attempt

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to pass in the first half, didn't even have to,

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but you know, through two passes and complete them both

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in the second half, keep some drives going. But I

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mean when when Navy or Armies got it clicking like that,

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you know, with the run game, and it's not just

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Daily like you know, a thirty eight type of you know,

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carries for you know one forty.

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Speaker 3: These were two.

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Speaker 2: Guys that were just gashing them and so it was

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a it was just a complete domination on the ground,

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which you know, really shows why that they were finalists

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for the Joe Moore Award, that offensive line up front,

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the job they did.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and you mentioned Kanye Udo with a you know,

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he had that huge run in the in the second drive.

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or seventy two yards, you know, is finally dragged down

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inside the five and at that point it's like, Okay,

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here comes Bryce and they're gonna give Bryce in the ball.

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Speaker 4: He's gonna find his way into the end zone.

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Speaker 5: Maybe maybe the the best nugget about this game was

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was dragged up by ESPN research. This This I think

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was incredible in the In the in that win over Tulane,

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the Black Knights became the only FBS team in at

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least the last twenty years to not have any turnovers,

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any penalties, or any punts in the game. So zero turnovers,

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zero penalties, zero puns. That that leads I mean, obviously

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that's gonna lead to a win.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I'm gonna I'm gonna bring that up here

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in a little bit because that's gonna be something I'm

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gonna talk about with the Army Navy game coming up.

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Speaker 4: But before we get into.

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Speaker 2: Our previews, because we're certainly gonna break down the game,

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we're gonna preview everything. We're gonna talk about everything that

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can be talked about with the one hundred and twenty

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fifth playing of the Army Navy game. We're gonna do

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that here soon We're also gonna do a Travis Media

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Foundation on a roll segment soon. We're gonna do our

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picks here at the end. But we got game balls

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to give out Stevens.

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Speaker 3: Yes game Bowl.

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Speaker 2: We only got one one game. I mean, I know

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we're both going to Army clearly which way on Army

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you're gonna go offense?

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Speaker 3: Defense? Are you gonna go off the beaten path?

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Speaker 4: I am going off the beaten path today. Bryce.

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Speaker 6: Uh.

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Speaker 4: Here's here's the thing. You know, they always say that

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the kickers do not get enough respect. They don't.

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Speaker 5: Well, I'm giving Trigger a boatload of respect after what

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happened in the game Againstlane. Never mind the fact that

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he was perfect on his kicks, especially when you look

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at you know, Tulane's kicking situation and everything that went

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wrong for them. Everything went right for Trigger not But

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here's the best part. He also was the man who

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forced the fumble on the kickoff that Army took in

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the second quarter down for its third touchdown of the

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of the half to make it twenty one seven, or

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I should eventually to make it twenty one seven. He

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forced the fumble. Army ended up getting stopped inside the five,

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but then ended up scoring after after another turnover, but

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he forced the funnel. How often do you see punters,

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punters or kickers doing that. You don't see them getting

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involved that way. So in fact, tell the last time

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I remember a kicker doing that was Pat McAfee to

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trendon holiday way back in the day. So, uh yeah,

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Tragger and not you get you get my game ball

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this week for a big day with your leg and

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and for punching the ball out with your arm.

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Speaker 3: All right, I like it.

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Speaker 2: I'm going I'm going defense this week because offense was

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the name of the game, putting up the points, the

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thirty five points with.

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Speaker 3: Udo and daily. But we've talked a lot about them

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all year.

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Speaker 2: Here's another guy, somebody that kind of comes from you know,

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not named Caleb Foster or you know, one of the

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other leaders on defense Steven for the Black Knights. And

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in Thomas the linebacker, the junior out of Liberal Hill, Texas.

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He has a team high eight tackles, one and a

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half tackles for a loss. But then he has an

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interception there in Tulane in Tulane Territory, returns at sixteen yards.

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effort by the Army defense. It continues to be I

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feel like that we're the defense is for these academies,

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especially Army in the last couple of years, has just

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been overshadowed because you know, we are always taking about

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trouble option. When you have some guy like Daily leading

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the way or like a you know on my Bradshaw

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or somebody like that, you're talking about him just because

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they're keeping the football for so dang long and the

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defense and on the field. But the numbers in what

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Army's defenses does again and again every single week, and

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they did it again this time it was just spectacular.

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And so it was Andon Thomas this time that was

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leading the way, not Caleb Foster, one of the other

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standouts on the Army defense for a defensive coordinator, Nate Woodie.

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So he gets my game ball this suite and in Thomas.

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All right, let's step away because we got a lot

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more to do here. Steven, Well, we're part of the

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Last Word on Sports podcast Network as we're on the

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Army Navy Previews special. But tell everybody, if this is

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our first time listening here to the Arts and stripes,

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what else can they find? On the Last Word on

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Sports podcast network.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, we've got everything college football here this week, all

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of the shows here on the college gridiron, coast to

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coast feed on Last Word on Sports is definitely looking

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at the conference championships and of course the first twelve

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team playoff this week in the ACC talking about Clemson's

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upset of SMU, but the Mustangs getting into the twelve

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team field over Alabama that was a huge That's a

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huge one and on the other side of the coin,

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you've got it just means more football and coffee those

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guys for the SEC. They also break down the Big

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ten and Big twelve sides of the twelve team playoff.

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We've got to get off my pylon with Matt Zemk.

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He looks at the fact that three of the teams

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that are getting buys are out on the West coast Oregon,

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Arizona State, and Boise State all getting buys, and so

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he breaks down the bracket from a West Coast perspective.

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Speaker 4: We've got us.

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Speaker 5: Obviously, the Florida football insiders will certainly be looking at

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where the Gators are going to the Gasparilla Bowl. They'll

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be in that game. Of course, the RelA Quest Bowl

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I mentioned is going to be Alabama and Michigan here

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in Tampa. That's certainly a big one. And then of

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course you'll have the big twelve sec breakdown later this.

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Speaker 3: Week real quickly.

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Speaker 2: And I don't want to dwell on this at all,

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but how in the world is Alabama and Michigan playing

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Because I thought Michigan barely got Bowl eligible at like

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six and six and Alabama finished nine and three.

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Speaker 3: How in the world is that a Bowl matchup?

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Speaker 2: I know it's completely off topic, but something just does

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not seem right there.

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Speaker 5: Well, knowing Jim McVay, who has been the head of

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that that Bowl committee for many, many many years back

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when it was the Outback Bowl, and now the folks

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that rely on Quest taking it over. Usually it is

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the it's historically it's been the number two, number two

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or three SEC team against the number two or three

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Big Ten team. Okay, So, and then with with all

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of these teams now in in the twelve team playoff,

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you know, so you can't have Ohio State, can't have

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Penn State, can't have Oregon. Obviously, you've got to get

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somebody from the from the Big ten. Uh, and you

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can't get Indiana, So obviously it's probably going to it

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would probably end up being there's going to be Alabama

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or possibly Oregon.

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Speaker 4: I'm sorry, oh Lahoma at that point.

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Speaker 5: And then on the SEC side, you know you're not

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gonna get Tennessee, You're not gonna get Georgia. Uh, you

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know you're not gonna get any uh, you know, any

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of those teams. So and then Alabama is a is

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definitely a sexy pick.

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Speaker 6: Uh.

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Speaker 5: And I'm sure that there's gonna be a lot of

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folks in red the drive down. And uh, I know,

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my boss with the Lightning Radio Network is a big

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Michigan fan. He's real excited that he's going to get

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a chance to see the Michigan Wolverines one more time.

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Speaker 3: I maybe you're wrong in this one, but I think

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that's going to be the most lopsided Bowl game of

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them all.

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Speaker 2: Oh, you think, to me, there is no question that

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is going to be an utter blood letting. But I

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would say, I would say I would agree, I would

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agree with you. But this Alabama team is also also

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known to you know, it's got two losses to six

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and six teams already this year, including one where they

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getn't score a touchdown against Oklahoma.

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Speaker 3: All right, fair enough, fair enough.

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Speaker 2: We will debate more football here on the other side

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as we continue on our Army Navy Preview specials. We're

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gonna get into the game. We're gonna make some picks.

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We have a foundation on a roll segment.

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Speaker 3: We're gonna do all that.

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Speaker 2: Plus, I got another food question to ask Steven, and

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I got to give you a hint right now. It

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has nothing to do with Poppy's what he's going to

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eat for dinner here later, tell you about it here

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when we come back on Yards and Stripes, your home

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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 Yards.

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Speaker 2: Of Stripes says we continue here on our Army Navy

482
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Previews special. He is Stephen Carney and I'm Price Atkinson.

483
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Appreciate you tune in is We're gonna break down our game,

484
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the Big Game, the one hundred and twenty for one

485
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hundred and twenty fifth playing of the Army Navy Game

486
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presented by USAA is this Saturday at Northwest Stadium in Landover, Maryland.

487
00:25:14,359 --> 00:25:16,960
Feels weird, it's coming back to Landover. Feels like it's

488
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either a New York, Philadelphia or a Baltimore type of fair.

489
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But it is going to be at the home of

490
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the Commanders outside.

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Speaker 3: Of d C.

492
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Speaker 2: So it'll have certainly a huge If you think there's

493
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brass involved, there will be more brass. And you can

494
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shake a stick at on Saturday with everybody at the

495
00:25:35,279 --> 00:25:37,680
Pentagon just close by and so many million.

496
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Speaker 5: You know, you know everybody, everybody's gonna have the shiner,

497
00:25:40,759 --> 00:25:45,200
the the brasso were ready to shine things up. By

498
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the way, Yeah, Josh Harris, the owner of the Commander's

499
00:25:48,720 --> 00:25:52,680
Big is a big reason why this game is in Landover.

500
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Speaker 4: Obviously.

501
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Speaker 5: You know Harris is also the owner of the Philadelphia

502
00:25:56,200 --> 00:25:59,960
seventy six ers, and you know, so he certainly knows

503
00:26:00,160 --> 00:26:04,279
why this game is so important. So he definitely was

504
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instrumental in making sure that this game was in Landover.

505
00:26:07,440 --> 00:26:09,039
Speaker 2: So before we get to the game, I gotta ask

506
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Steven another question about food, because we always come back

507
00:26:12,160 --> 00:26:13,680
to food here on the show, or at least we

508
00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:17,039
are lately. So Steven, I got to get your opinion

509
00:26:17,119 --> 00:26:19,319
on something because I think I'm going to take the plunge.

510
00:26:19,359 --> 00:26:23,680
It's been many, many years since I've had one. But

511
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I've got to ask where do you stand on it?

512
00:26:27,720 --> 00:26:30,359
Because I've seen it pop up on a lot of

513
00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:37,319
my social media feeds in the last week, Facebook, Instagram.

514
00:26:37,240 --> 00:26:41,960
Speaker 3: Twitter or x whatever. Sure, how do you feel about

515
00:26:41,960 --> 00:26:43,400
a mcgrib sandwich?

516
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Speaker 4: You know, God said let there be light and then

517
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he made the McRib.

518
00:26:55,440 --> 00:27:01,480
Speaker 5: Because that's how that's how long those shaped hatties can last.

519
00:27:02,799 --> 00:27:06,880
Speaker 4: Before before going back. I am not. I'm actually not

520
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a fan of the make grib sandwich.

521
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Speaker 3: WHOA, I did not.

522
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Speaker 4: I there's just something about it. I'm not.

523
00:27:13,759 --> 00:27:17,200
Speaker 5: I'm not like I love barbecue, you know, don't get

524
00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:20,880
me wrong. I love pulled pork sandwiches. I love anything

525
00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:24,960
that has to do with with barbecue. Yeah, I'm not like,

526
00:27:25,079 --> 00:27:28,279
it's just something about it, Like I don't know if

527
00:27:29,119 --> 00:27:31,599
if I it's not like there are some people that's

528
00:27:31,680 --> 00:27:34,559
like I've never had a make. I've had a McRib sandwich,

529
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so but I'm I'm not like, for me, the McRib

530
00:27:40,680 --> 00:27:44,799
sandwich is not like the end all be all. Now,

531
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if I didn't have barbecue, you know, close by, maybe

532
00:27:50,519 --> 00:27:54,079
maybe it's different. But you know, I've got like three

533
00:27:54,160 --> 00:27:58,160
or four different barbecue joints, you know, within a within

534
00:27:58,240 --> 00:28:02,000
a you know reason distance. Yeah, like that that I

535
00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:05,839
that I would much rather eat, yeah, rather than spend.

536
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Speaker 4: You know whatever.

537
00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:11,079
Speaker 5: The twelve ninety five it is for the for the

538
00:28:11,119 --> 00:28:15,279
McRib value menu value meal at McDonald's, So I will

539
00:28:15,680 --> 00:28:18,960
so if someone's going to give it to me, I

540
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might eat it. But I it's not like some people

541
00:28:22,480 --> 00:28:24,799
are like, oh my god, it's the McRib. It's you know,

542
00:28:25,319 --> 00:28:27,920
it's the it's the end all be all of their

543
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of their food season.

544
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Speaker 3: You know.

545
00:28:30,680 --> 00:28:32,559
Speaker 5: It's kind of like it's kind of like the Army

546
00:28:32,640 --> 00:28:35,119
Navy game is to us, the McRib is to some people,

547
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but not to me.

548
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Speaker 2: All right, Well, thanks for steering us back, because I

549
00:28:38,160 --> 00:28:40,319
haven't had one of those in about fifteen years, But

550
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I have had an Army Navy game that was last year,

551
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and I'm hoping this year is going to be just

552
00:28:44,799 --> 00:28:48,240
as good. But the one hundred and twenty fifth playing

553
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as we mentioned on Saturday three o'clock kickoff on each

554
00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:56,640
on CBS three pm Eastern Standard time. Right now, Army

555
00:28:56,680 --> 00:28:59,880
giving six and a half points, the over under is thirty.

556
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Speaker 3: Nine and a half. Funny ist sitting at thirty nine

557
00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:02,559
and a.

558
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Speaker 2: Half because the point total hasn't been pushed past forty

559
00:29:05,440 --> 00:29:09,279
since two thy and thirteen. So if you're going over under,

560
00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:11,519
always let me just give you a better tip.

561
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Speaker 3: Always go the under in this game.

562
00:29:13,880 --> 00:29:17,039
Speaker 5: Yeah, in fact, in fact, uh, it was twenty twenty two,

563
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so a couple of years ago. It was the first

564
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time that the the over hit in seventeen years and

565
00:29:24,319 --> 00:29:27,519
last and last year of course, remember it was seventeen eleven,

566
00:29:27,519 --> 00:29:30,000
the over under was twenty eight, so it was so

567
00:29:30,079 --> 00:29:32,480
it was a push. So you have a push and

568
00:29:32,519 --> 00:29:34,279
you had and you have an over in the last

569
00:29:34,319 --> 00:29:38,359
two years, but you had under the previous seventeen years

570
00:29:38,400 --> 00:29:38,920
before that.

571
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Speaker 2: Yep, go with the under. That's what the tradition says.

572
00:29:42,759 --> 00:29:45,559
And it's not just tradition, it's it's what the facts

573
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tell you. But Navy leading the all time series sixty

574
00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:51,400
two to fifty five to seven, they're one to zero

575
00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:55,400
against Army and the only previous meeting in Northwest Stadium.

576
00:29:55,400 --> 00:29:59,079
But Army's won two straight and six of the last eight.

577
00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:02,559
But Steve this Saturday, this is the first time since

578
00:30:02,599 --> 00:30:07,039
twenty seventeen that both Army and Navy can win the

579
00:30:07,039 --> 00:30:10,279
Commander in Chief Trophy heading into the Army Navy game.

580
00:30:10,319 --> 00:30:12,279
And it's just the eight time ever, which is kind

581
00:30:12,279 --> 00:30:14,200
of hard to believe if you ask me, this is

582
00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:18,160
the only eighth time ever seventy seven, seventy eight, ninety six,

583
00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:22,000
two thousand and five, twenty twelve, and twenty seventeen that

584
00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:24,960
both Army and Navy go into this game with the

585
00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:28,799
ability to win the CIC Trophy. To me, that's incredible,

586
00:30:28,839 --> 00:30:30,839
and I'll take it a step further. Army and Navy

587
00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:33,720
entered this game with a combined record of nineteen and four.

588
00:30:34,160 --> 00:30:37,240
That's the most wins ever combined coming into an Army

589
00:30:37,319 --> 00:30:37,759
Navy game.

590
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Speaker 3: Are the stakes high Saturday? Boy? I sure think so.

591
00:30:41,240 --> 00:30:44,839
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know they are, And you know I said

592
00:30:44,839 --> 00:30:47,920
this on social media that you know, it seems like

593
00:30:48,079 --> 00:30:52,759
every year one of the national outlets takes it upon

594
00:30:52,799 --> 00:30:56,039
itself to take a look at this game and do

595
00:30:56,160 --> 00:31:00,240
a deep dive profile of what it's like to be

596
00:31:00,319 --> 00:31:03,519
a player at one of the service academies at either

597
00:31:03,559 --> 00:31:06,200
at Army or at Navy. This year it was Heather

598
00:31:06,279 --> 00:31:10,960
Dinnick and Chris Low of ESPN who did a fantastic

599
00:31:12,880 --> 00:31:15,200
piece on what it was like.

600
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Speaker 6: Uh.

601
00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:20,000
Speaker 5: You know, one followed uh Daba Fafanna and one followed

602
00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:23,759
caleber Fortner. Uh so they got you got a chance

603
00:31:23,799 --> 00:31:27,279
to take a look at both sides of this game

604
00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:31,240
in in this uh in this feature piece on ESPN

605
00:31:31,319 --> 00:31:35,160
dot com and it's on my social media at Steve

606
00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:37,440
Carney if you want to take a look at it.

607
00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:44,480
It's really really extremely well done. Obviously, this game means

608
00:31:44,680 --> 00:31:47,160
a lot to these players, and and it means a

609
00:31:47,200 --> 00:31:51,039
lot every single year. This year, I think it's more

610
00:31:51,079 --> 00:31:54,160
than most because it's been you know, for for so

611
00:31:54,240 --> 00:31:56,839
many years. It was Navs. You know, it was all

612
00:31:56,880 --> 00:32:00,119
about Navy, you know when when they were winning you know,

613
00:32:00,200 --> 00:32:03,440
twelve in a row, thirteen in a row at that point,

614
00:32:03,480 --> 00:32:07,319
and you know, you went through so many classes at

615
00:32:07,359 --> 00:32:10,880
West Point that had never even gotten an opportunity to

616
00:32:11,039 --> 00:32:14,160
sing second. Well, now the pendulum has swung back the

617
00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:18,400
other way. You know, Army has won the last three

618
00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:19,200
or four.

619
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Speaker 4: Of these in a row.

620
00:32:19,799 --> 00:32:22,799
Speaker 5: I mean, it's you know, you can say that, you know,

621
00:32:22,839 --> 00:32:27,200
the senior class I don't believe is beaten Army. So

622
00:32:28,039 --> 00:32:32,960
you know, they they are certainly going to have that

623
00:32:32,960 --> 00:32:36,079
that hunger and they're gonna have a sense of Okay,

624
00:32:36,559 --> 00:32:39,839
you know, it's now we're it's now, We're never. You know,

625
00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:42,480
if we don't win this year, I'm going to go

626
00:32:42,559 --> 00:32:45,960
into my military career and I'm going to go around

627
00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:48,200
for the rest of my life knowing that I spent

628
00:32:48,279 --> 00:32:52,000
four years the United States Naval Academy. We never beat Army.

629
00:32:52,400 --> 00:32:54,599
You know, I never got a chance to sing second.

630
00:32:54,839 --> 00:33:00,160
So you know that those those seniors in Annapolis are

631
00:33:00,599 --> 00:33:05,079
going to be, you know, feeling the pressure. On the

632
00:33:05,160 --> 00:33:08,480
other side, the seniors at West Point are going to

633
00:33:08,519 --> 00:33:10,880
be feeling the pressure because they want to sing second

634
00:33:11,240 --> 00:33:15,160
all four years. Yeah, and they've got that opportunity here

635
00:33:15,799 --> 00:33:19,079
this year. So yeah, there there's there's plenty of pressure

636
00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:22,759
on both sides of this game. And it's and it

637
00:33:22,960 --> 00:33:27,839
just makes everything so much, so much more delectable.

638
00:33:27,880 --> 00:33:28,480
Speaker 3: It makes sense.

639
00:33:28,559 --> 00:33:32,960
Speaker 5: It's such a meaty, im meaty feel to this to

640
00:33:33,039 --> 00:33:38,680
this game. You know, you feel that that uh, you know,

641
00:33:38,799 --> 00:33:42,119
that tension from from these from these upper classmen and

642
00:33:42,119 --> 00:33:43,960
then the underclassmen that wanna.

643
00:33:43,880 --> 00:33:47,559
Speaker 4: That want to push the the the upper classman. It's

644
00:33:47,599 --> 00:33:48,160
gonna be great.

645
00:33:48,480 --> 00:33:51,079
Speaker 2: With a win, Army would capture his twelfth victory of

646
00:33:51,160 --> 00:33:53,119
the season. That would be the most ever in a

647
00:33:53,160 --> 00:33:57,519
single season in program history. If Army reaches thirteen wins,

648
00:33:57,519 --> 00:33:59,359
it would be the most ever in a season best

649
00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:01,759
Service Cap team. So obviously Army would have to win

650
00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:05,599
Saturday and then win their bowl game against Marshall. The

651
00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:09,159
Jeff bunkin the Black Knights twelve and four in his

652
00:34:09,400 --> 00:34:12,480
last sixteen Service Academy games dating back to the Army

653
00:34:12,519 --> 00:34:15,480
Navy game in twenty sixteen, and Army enters the game

654
00:34:15,480 --> 00:34:17,639
on a roll. I mean clearly they're you know, coming

655
00:34:17,639 --> 00:34:20,400
off the AC Championship game. Is there going to be

656
00:34:20,440 --> 00:34:21,199
a letdown?

657
00:34:21,360 --> 00:34:22,039
Speaker 3: I don't think so.

658
00:34:22,119 --> 00:34:24,039
Speaker 2: I don't know how you could come out flat in

659
00:34:24,079 --> 00:34:26,239
an Army Navy game, I don't. I don't think I've

660
00:34:26,280 --> 00:34:29,440
ever seen it in my many years being part of

661
00:34:29,440 --> 00:34:31,519
the game. But you know, Navy did lose three or

662
00:34:31,519 --> 00:34:33,800
four down the Strets before they you know, kind of

663
00:34:33,840 --> 00:34:38,039
throttled East Carolina there in the fourth quarter, but you.

664
00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:39,440
Speaker 3: Know, turnovers.

665
00:34:39,920 --> 00:34:42,480
Speaker 2: I mean, I'll kind of get to key my keys

666
00:34:43,079 --> 00:34:44,800
on the game here in a minute. But if you're

667
00:34:44,840 --> 00:34:47,280
going to the game, uh, the march on for the

668
00:34:47,320 --> 00:34:50,000
core Cadets is at twelve ten. The brigade will march

669
00:34:50,039 --> 00:34:52,719
on thirty minutes later at twelve forty, and then the

670
00:34:52,760 --> 00:34:56,800
flyovers are scheduled for three h seven eight would kickoff

671
00:34:57,000 --> 00:35:00,320
at three ten Pregame coverage will begin on this CBS

672
00:35:00,360 --> 00:35:04,239
Sports Network Stephen at twelve pm. So you're going to

673
00:35:04,320 --> 00:35:06,400
have the way I mean, you're going to be able

674
00:35:06,480 --> 00:35:09,559
to wet your whistle on this one all morning. As

675
00:35:09,559 --> 00:35:11,239
I believe Game Day I think Game Day is going

676
00:35:11,280 --> 00:35:13,760
to be back there again too. But you know, CBS

677
00:35:13,760 --> 00:35:16,039
Sports Network having all the coverage and then before they

678
00:35:16,039 --> 00:35:19,239
flip over to main CBS. One of the biggest and

679
00:35:19,320 --> 00:35:22,400
best things about this game obviously clearly is the game itself.

680
00:35:23,159 --> 00:35:26,639
But because this is and we forgot to mention, you know,

681
00:35:27,440 --> 00:35:30,000
the both schools just signed a ten year extension with

682
00:35:30,159 --> 00:35:32,719
CBS to keep the game I believe through is it

683
00:35:32,800 --> 00:35:37,639
twenty twenty eighty eight, yep, So this this is this

684
00:35:37,719 --> 00:35:39,159
is a Super Bowl.

685
00:35:39,039 --> 00:35:41,159
Speaker 3: Esque game for CBS.

686
00:35:41,320 --> 00:35:45,320
Speaker 2: This is basically like this rank's really close up there

687
00:35:45,320 --> 00:35:47,400
with Super Bowl Masters.

688
00:35:50,039 --> 00:35:52,719
Speaker 3: What's the other game with March Madness. March Madness.

689
00:35:53,480 --> 00:35:56,480
Speaker 2: This is in that echelon for CBS and so one

690
00:35:56,519 --> 00:35:58,960
of the best parts you can watch of this game.

691
00:35:59,320 --> 00:36:02,440
My favorite part art is when the coverage comes on CBS,

692
00:36:02,480 --> 00:36:05,480
the intro that they spend three, four or five minutes,

693
00:36:06,239 --> 00:36:09,280
it's it's it's hair raising to see the to see

694
00:36:09,280 --> 00:36:11,519
the intro on CBS when they come on the air,

695
00:36:11,800 --> 00:36:16,039
because it is it is they put so much into

696
00:36:16,079 --> 00:36:18,199
that and it's all about the emotion.

697
00:36:18,719 --> 00:36:20,480
Speaker 3: I make sure that I don't miss it.

698
00:36:20,519 --> 00:36:23,159
Speaker 5: Every year, Yeah, it's a it's a marquee event for CBS.

699
00:36:23,320 --> 00:36:26,960
There's no doubt when they when they look and every

700
00:36:27,039 --> 00:36:29,960
year when they when CBS Sports goes to you know

701
00:36:30,039 --> 00:36:32,960
these these television you know, conventions and stuff like that,

702
00:36:33,280 --> 00:36:35,039
and then and they want to show people, you know,

703
00:36:35,119 --> 00:36:38,800
what they've got this year. Every year, you know, CBS,

704
00:36:39,039 --> 00:36:42,519
you can guarantee CBS Sports talks about the Masters, they

705
00:36:42,519 --> 00:36:46,000
talk about March Madness, and they talk about the Army

706
00:36:46,079 --> 00:36:48,039
Navy Game. You know, the Super Bowl they don't have

707
00:36:48,159 --> 00:36:51,639
every year, but uh, but they definitely talk about those

708
00:36:51,760 --> 00:36:54,920
other three events, which are the three biggest events that

709
00:36:54,960 --> 00:36:58,320
they have on their schedule every single year. And so

710
00:36:59,079 --> 00:37:02,840
uh I and you're right that that video package that

711
00:37:02,880 --> 00:37:07,880
they do that that open is some of the best.

712
00:37:08,079 --> 00:37:11,079
It's some of the best videography, you know, the videography

713
00:37:11,079 --> 00:37:14,840
that they do, you know, the cinematography, the the way

714
00:37:14,880 --> 00:37:17,559
that they they put this put it together. Every year.

715
00:37:17,920 --> 00:37:21,159
Every year it's different. Every year it gets better. You know,

716
00:37:21,199 --> 00:37:23,119
you think, oh god, you know, I remember the one

717
00:37:23,119 --> 00:37:25,519
from last year. There's no way that they can make

718
00:37:25,559 --> 00:37:28,320
it better this year. They always find a way. They

719
00:37:28,360 --> 00:37:32,199
always find an angle that they that you don't think about,

720
00:37:32,239 --> 00:37:35,280
and it's like, oh, look at that, and and you go,

721
00:37:35,760 --> 00:37:40,000
they did it again, those bastards and CBS they did

722
00:37:40,039 --> 00:37:40,559
it again.

723
00:37:40,639 --> 00:37:42,000
Speaker 4: They hooked me even harder.

724
00:37:42,400 --> 00:37:46,239
Speaker 5: And uh and and I also love when they when

725
00:37:46,239 --> 00:37:49,920
they do the shots of the uh of the service

726
00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:53,239
members you know that are overseas watching the game, whether

727
00:37:53,320 --> 00:37:58,159
it's in Afghanistan or in Germany, or in Koree in

728
00:37:58,239 --> 00:38:01,519
South Korea and Japan, or you know, in the in

729
00:38:01,559 --> 00:38:04,480
the Middle East, wherever they are around the around the

730
00:38:04,519 --> 00:38:05,679
world watching this game.

731
00:38:05,719 --> 00:38:10,119
Speaker 4: Because you know, the whole world, and the military world.

732
00:38:10,039 --> 00:38:12,880
Speaker 5: Stops, with the exception of the Air Force, because you know,

733
00:38:12,960 --> 00:38:16,000
somebody's somebody's gotta somebody's got to do the janitorial work.

734
00:38:17,800 --> 00:38:22,199
I'm kidding air Force folks, I'm kidding. But you know,

735
00:38:22,280 --> 00:38:25,519
the entire military world stops to watch. I remember being

736
00:38:26,039 --> 00:38:30,239
on ship on the US's Theodore Roosevelt and if it

737
00:38:30,320 --> 00:38:34,119
wasn't if if you weren't on watch, you were watching

738
00:38:34,159 --> 00:38:36,480
that game, they would bring out they would bring out

739
00:38:36,480 --> 00:38:38,840
the huge They bring us down and this is an

740
00:38:38,880 --> 00:38:42,360
aircraft carrier there just like five thousand people. You know,

741
00:38:42,440 --> 00:38:45,119
they would clear one of the hangers, they would push

742
00:38:45,199 --> 00:38:47,239
all of the all of the planes, they either move

743
00:38:47,280 --> 00:38:49,440
them up to the flight deck or move them into

744
00:38:49,639 --> 00:38:52,559
the other Because there are three hangars on a Nimitz

745
00:38:52,599 --> 00:38:55,280
class aircraft carrier, they would move them all into two

746
00:38:55,760 --> 00:38:58,519
and they would put up the huge screen. You know,

747
00:38:58,559 --> 00:39:00,360
they didn't do that very often. They did it for

748
00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:03,760
the Super Bowl, but they did it for Army Navy

749
00:39:03,880 --> 00:39:06,800
every single time that I was I was out, Uh,

750
00:39:06,840 --> 00:39:08,880
when we were on deployment and you went up there

751
00:39:08,920 --> 00:39:12,960
and you watched, and they and the mess personnel, you know,

752
00:39:13,079 --> 00:39:16,280
they made popcorn and they made wings and you know,

753
00:39:16,360 --> 00:39:19,440
they they made sure that that you were that you had,

754
00:39:19,480 --> 00:39:22,039
you were gonna feel it was gonna feel a little

755
00:39:22,079 --> 00:39:24,840
bit more like home. You were still you know, basically

756
00:39:24,880 --> 00:39:28,920
standing on non skid uh in your in your coveralls

757
00:39:29,639 --> 00:39:32,119
watching this game. But you're it was. It was the

758
00:39:32,280 --> 00:39:34,760
Army Navy game. And everything stops when it happens.

759
00:39:34,920 --> 00:39:37,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's you know, I tell people all the time

760
00:39:38,039 --> 00:39:39,760
that haven't been to the game. You know, they look

761
00:39:39,760 --> 00:39:42,039
at me like I'm crazy. They're like, come on, you

762
00:39:42,039 --> 00:39:43,880
don't want to do the Iron Bowl? You know, Ohio

763
00:39:43,960 --> 00:39:47,920
State Michigan. No, there's no rivalry in sports in my opinion,

764
00:39:48,079 --> 00:39:52,159
like Army Navy. And it's it's not simple why But

765
00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:54,159
I didn't get it till I went to my first one,

766
00:39:54,280 --> 00:39:56,800
til I worked my first one. But there's no other,

767
00:39:56,800 --> 00:39:59,480
at least when it comes to college. But there's no

768
00:39:59,559 --> 00:40:03,639
other game in football or any other that you can

769
00:40:03,679 --> 00:40:06,519
find where you've got literally the entire student body of

770
00:40:06,559 --> 00:40:10,119
one school in one corner, in the entire student body

771
00:40:10,159 --> 00:40:13,280
of the other school in the other corner, going at

772
00:40:13,280 --> 00:40:16,880
it all games. And then, like you just said, servicemen

773
00:40:17,119 --> 00:40:21,519
service women active duty in every corner of the globe,

774
00:40:21,679 --> 00:40:24,039
doesn't matter the time of day, whether it's three in

775
00:40:24,079 --> 00:40:27,199
the morning, three in the afternoon. People are glued to

776
00:40:27,320 --> 00:40:31,719
Armed Forces Network, CBS, radio, TV, whatever.

777
00:40:31,280 --> 00:40:31,920
Speaker 3: They can get.

778
00:40:32,079 --> 00:40:35,079
Speaker 2: They are glued into this game. There is no other

779
00:40:35,239 --> 00:40:39,679
game that is anywhere like this one. And you cannot

780
00:40:39,719 --> 00:40:42,559
even try and convince me. Just don't even try.

781
00:40:42,639 --> 00:40:43,199
Speaker 4: Now you can.

782
00:40:43,639 --> 00:40:47,199
Speaker 5: People people talk about Alabama Auburn, or Michigan, Ohio State

783
00:40:47,280 --> 00:40:48,519
or USC or and U C.

784
00:40:48,719 --> 00:40:49,039
Speaker 4: L A.

785
00:40:49,519 --> 00:40:53,559
Speaker 5: They're all great rivalries, they're you know, they're they're all

786
00:40:53,719 --> 00:40:55,440
worthy rivalries.

787
00:40:56,239 --> 00:40:57,880
Speaker 4: None of them are Army Navy.

788
00:40:57,920 --> 00:41:00,880
Speaker 5: Now there's not there's not a single uh, there's not

789
00:41:00,880 --> 00:41:03,519
a single rivalry in any sport. And and I will

790
00:41:03,559 --> 00:41:06,440
say it's you know, I don't care if it's Celtics, Lakers,

791
00:41:06,800 --> 00:41:11,360
Red Sox, Yankees, Bears, Packers, I don't care. It's Army Navy.

792
00:41:11,519 --> 00:41:15,159
That's that's it. That's the list, that's that's at the

793
00:41:15,199 --> 00:41:18,159
top of the heap. And I don't care what anybody says.

794
00:41:18,480 --> 00:41:20,440
By the way, by the way, my you, you mentioned

795
00:41:20,480 --> 00:41:24,440
your key uh being being the turnovers.

796
00:41:24,960 --> 00:41:27,880
Speaker 4: Uh. As we as I try and steer things back.

797
00:41:27,880 --> 00:41:31,320
Speaker 3: I've got three why I think one team will win

798
00:41:31,360 --> 00:41:31,639
here in.

799
00:41:31,840 --> 00:41:35,280
Speaker 5: Okay, okay, I I will say, you mentioned your first

800
00:41:35,360 --> 00:41:41,360
key being turnovers. My my first key is penalties. You know,

801
00:41:41,440 --> 00:41:44,199
I think that that's I think the team that finds

802
00:41:44,239 --> 00:41:48,760
itself behind the sticks more is going to be the

803
00:41:48,800 --> 00:41:51,920
team that ends up, uh, that ends up on the

804
00:41:51,960 --> 00:41:54,280
losing end of this game. And and I don't think

805
00:41:54,320 --> 00:41:57,000
there's gonna be a lot of penalties, but I I

806
00:41:57,039 --> 00:42:00,199
do think that you could certainly see that one team

807
00:42:00,239 --> 00:42:02,760
is probably going to end up with more penalties than

808
00:42:02,800 --> 00:42:04,840
the other. They're going to end up behind the sticks

809
00:42:04,880 --> 00:42:06,800
more often, and it's going to be a lot tougher

810
00:42:06,840 --> 00:42:07,719
that for them to win.

811
00:42:08,400 --> 00:42:10,639
Speaker 2: All Right, I'll give you my three keys of the game,

812
00:42:10,800 --> 00:42:13,079
and I think these are three keys why I think

813
00:42:13,119 --> 00:42:14,400
it's advantage Army.

814
00:42:14,880 --> 00:42:16,599
Speaker 3: And I'll let you tell me if I'm wrong.

815
00:42:17,880 --> 00:42:20,559
Speaker 2: Coach Brian Newberry, you know, said this week, head coach

816
00:42:20,599 --> 00:42:23,880
at Navy. You know, it's all about controlling your emotions,

817
00:42:24,559 --> 00:42:27,119
and the team that makes the fewest mistakes wins. And

818
00:42:27,159 --> 00:42:30,519
he's right. The team that does make the fewest mistakes wins.

819
00:42:30,559 --> 00:42:33,039
And that's why I think Army has got the advantage

820
00:42:33,079 --> 00:42:36,320
because they've largely been flawless most of the season.

821
00:42:36,360 --> 00:42:37,079
Speaker 3: You gave out the.

822
00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:41,519
Speaker 2: Stat you know earlier that ESPN came up with, or

823
00:42:41,719 --> 00:42:44,039
you know that in the last twenty years, they're the

824
00:42:44,039 --> 00:42:47,239
only FBS team to have no turnovers, no penalties, and

825
00:42:47,280 --> 00:42:49,000
no plints in a single game, and they did it

826
00:42:49,039 --> 00:42:50,440
in their conference championship game.

827
00:42:50,480 --> 00:42:50,880
Speaker 3: No less.

828
00:42:50,880 --> 00:42:53,559
Speaker 2: But you know, Army has only given the ball away

829
00:42:53,760 --> 00:42:57,519
five times all season at twelve games. Navy's turned it

830
00:42:57,559 --> 00:43:00,360
over twelve times in the last five game games.

831
00:43:00,440 --> 00:43:02,159
Speaker 4: Okay, I was going to say they turned it over

832
00:43:02,280 --> 00:43:03,920
six times in one game.

833
00:43:03,800 --> 00:43:04,480
Speaker 5: To Notre Dame.

834
00:43:05,000 --> 00:43:07,920
Speaker 2: You know, Armies first nationally in time of possession, third

835
00:43:07,960 --> 00:43:11,000
and fewest penalties, while Navy hasn't been great on third down.

836
00:43:11,039 --> 00:43:13,920
There's a little bit more there, but you know, Armies

837
00:43:14,119 --> 00:43:16,079
just they don't make many mistakes.

838
00:43:17,079 --> 00:43:17,679
Speaker 3: Red zone.

839
00:43:17,960 --> 00:43:22,400
Speaker 2: I think red zone is my second biggest key. You know,

840
00:43:22,519 --> 00:43:24,920
Navy was thirty to thirty five in the red zone

841
00:43:24,920 --> 00:43:28,800
this season, with twenty eight trips resulting in touchdowns. Navy's

842
00:43:28,800 --> 00:43:31,360
for twenty red zone trips on the season, they score

843
00:43:31,400 --> 00:43:34,440
touchdowns before that field goal against Charlotte. They're number two

844
00:43:34,480 --> 00:43:36,199
in the country in red zone percentage.

845
00:43:36,239 --> 00:43:37,199
Speaker 3: Just behind Indiana.

846
00:43:37,360 --> 00:43:42,119
Speaker 2: Army's fourth at seventy six or seventy seven percent. Army

847
00:43:42,239 --> 00:43:45,000
is first in the country in red zone defense at

848
00:43:45,119 --> 00:43:48,320
fifty four and a half percent. To me, that is

849
00:43:48,599 --> 00:43:51,039
going to be one of the biggest areas to watch.

850
00:43:51,559 --> 00:43:54,199
The third key, while I think it's advantage Army. And again,

851
00:43:54,280 --> 00:43:56,079
you tell me if I'm wrong on these three keys.

852
00:43:56,079 --> 00:44:00,559
Besides mistakes, fewest mistakes, red zone and the third key,

853
00:44:01,000 --> 00:44:03,639
his name is Captain America, Bryce and Daily, the best

854
00:44:03,679 --> 00:44:07,079
player in Service Academy football this year. You know, I

855
00:44:07,079 --> 00:44:10,960
can hear coloramos from Navy, you know, the linebacker. But

856
00:44:11,079 --> 00:44:14,159
what Daily has done. I mean twenty nine rushing touchdowns,

857
00:44:14,280 --> 00:44:18,559
you know, just two behind Keenan Reynolds FBS record for

858
00:44:18,679 --> 00:44:21,000
by a quarterback in a single season. You know, he's

859
00:44:21,039 --> 00:44:23,639
eleventh in the country in all purpose yards. I'm not

860
00:44:23,639 --> 00:44:26,599
going to go down. You know the list, you know,

861
00:44:26,719 --> 00:44:29,960
but literally is Captain America. He's done it all for

862
00:44:30,039 --> 00:44:32,599
this team. That to me is why I think Army

863
00:44:32,679 --> 00:44:34,280
has the advantage in this game.

864
00:44:35,599 --> 00:44:36,760
Speaker 4: Yeah, I will.

865
00:44:36,800 --> 00:44:39,559
Speaker 5: I will agree with you on on all three of

866
00:44:39,599 --> 00:44:43,880
those aspects. When you're looking at mistakes, when you're looking

867
00:44:43,960 --> 00:44:47,039
at red zone efficiency when you're looking at Bryce and daily,

868
00:44:48,039 --> 00:44:52,599
I will add the the health of Navy is always

869
00:44:52,599 --> 00:44:55,119
going to be a question mark. They've had two weeks now,

870
00:44:56,119 --> 00:44:59,199
but is it going to be Blake Horvath? Well, you know,

871
00:44:59,400 --> 00:45:04,239
is Blake har Bath healthy enough to be a worthy

872
00:45:04,280 --> 00:45:07,719
contributor or do they have to go with Braxton Woodson again?

873
00:45:08,239 --> 00:45:10,519
You know, I think that's a that's a huge question

874
00:45:10,679 --> 00:45:12,960
mark and one that I'm sure is going to be

875
00:45:13,039 --> 00:45:18,639
answered here before too long. But you know, but even still,

876
00:45:19,199 --> 00:45:22,679
even if even if Horvath is healthy enough to go

877
00:45:22,760 --> 00:45:27,159
in this game, having had two weeks off, you know,

878
00:45:27,599 --> 00:45:29,480
now you've now you've got to be like, Okay, now

879
00:45:29,519 --> 00:45:31,800
he's got to get back into the swing of things.

880
00:45:31,840 --> 00:45:35,400
And uh, you know, I know that that Brian Newberry

881
00:45:36,360 --> 00:45:40,199
doesn't normally have a number of hard practices in a row.

882
00:45:40,800 --> 00:45:44,639
The ESPN article, you know, he talked about you know,

883
00:45:44,840 --> 00:45:48,159
Newberry doesn't do more than two uh two days of

884
00:45:48,159 --> 00:45:50,599
hard practices in a row because of all the other

885
00:45:50,679 --> 00:45:54,159
things that you have to do, uh, you know, when

886
00:45:54,159 --> 00:45:58,360
it comes to your commitment, uh, your military commitments in Annapolis.

887
00:45:58,400 --> 00:46:02,559
So you know, trying to get Blake Corvath back into

888
00:46:02,599 --> 00:46:05,920
the swing of things is going to be uh, something

889
00:46:06,000 --> 00:46:08,679
that Army doesn't have to worry about. You know, they

890
00:46:08,679 --> 00:46:11,920
haven't had that that time off, so you don't have

891
00:46:11,960 --> 00:46:15,119
to worry about guys getting I don't want to say rusty,

892
00:46:15,519 --> 00:46:19,559
but you know, a little complacent. And I think that's

893
00:46:19,679 --> 00:46:23,519
probably why you won't see Army come out flat. You know,

894
00:46:23,639 --> 00:46:26,119
you said, you know you normally don't see these guys

895
00:46:26,159 --> 00:46:29,159
come out flat. You're definitely not going to see Army

896
00:46:29,159 --> 00:46:33,119
coming out flat because they're they're they're they've they've they

897
00:46:33,119 --> 00:46:36,360
haven't had any time off. Yeah, so I think that's

898
00:46:36,400 --> 00:46:40,800
a that's another huge advantage for Army. Even though they

899
00:46:40,840 --> 00:46:43,639
haven't had the time off, there's still there's still i

900
00:46:43,679 --> 00:46:46,679
would say.

901
00:46:45,360 --> 00:46:47,400
Speaker 4: Relatively much healthier than Navy is.

902
00:46:47,719 --> 00:46:49,400
Speaker 5: Yeah.

903
00:46:49,559 --> 00:46:52,039
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean that's a good question. That's a great point.

904
00:46:52,119 --> 00:46:54,760
Speaker 2: You know, having that time off, Navy gets healed, you know,

905
00:46:54,880 --> 00:46:56,760
does that keep you know, Army, you.

906
00:46:56,719 --> 00:46:58,039
Speaker 3: Know, clicking on all cylinders.

907
00:46:58,039 --> 00:47:00,760
Speaker 2: Although they have not been beaten up quite as bad

908
00:47:00,800 --> 00:47:03,239
maybe as Navy has. You know, you still got to

909
00:47:03,239 --> 00:47:06,280
come back up and get up again after a conference

910
00:47:06,360 --> 00:47:08,679
championship game. And I remember what happened with Navy when

911
00:47:08,679 --> 00:47:12,000
they played Temple, you know, in their first AAC game,

912
00:47:12,039 --> 00:47:13,920
and they were they were flat as you know can be.

913
00:47:14,159 --> 00:47:16,000
Of course, they've got flat for that next week. But

914
00:47:17,360 --> 00:47:20,199
it's just gonna be interesting to see clearly, you know,

915
00:47:20,360 --> 00:47:23,119
everything is interesting. The chess match with the coaches because

916
00:47:23,119 --> 00:47:25,800
they know all the players in personnel so well, recruiting,

917
00:47:25,880 --> 00:47:28,480
you know, most of the same kids. It's just gonna

918
00:47:28,480 --> 00:47:30,559
be it's just gonna be fascinating as it always is.

919
00:47:31,320 --> 00:47:33,480
All right, Stephen, let's let's break away, because we got

920
00:47:33,480 --> 00:47:35,719
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Afghanistan on January the twentieth, twenty fourteen, as he was

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assigned to the headquarters of troop to the Cavalry Regiment

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Division and support of operation and enduring freedom. His fellow

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soldiers describe Chief Warrant Officer Bali as an outstanding leader.

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He was a person with a kind heart and a

953
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smile who aimed to please those who he worked with.

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He was very motivated who loved his job as an

955
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Unmanned Aerial Systems Operations officer platoon leader, providing eyes in

956
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the sky for those soldiers on the ground. Edward Bally

957
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was recognized for his unwavering commitment to his family and

958
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his country, and on behalf of his son surviving son Michael,

959
00:49:50,480 --> 00:49:52,800
he wrote, my dad taught me to appreciate beauty, especially

960
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in nature. He would often wake up wake us all

961
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up at zero dark thirty to pile all of us

962
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into the family car for road tree without telling us

963
00:50:00,880 --> 00:50:03,760
where we were going. He would always say, quote, don't

964
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worry about it.

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Speaker 5: End quote.

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Speaker 2: To this day, I don't think he ever knew where

967
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he was going. We would end up at some amazing

968
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places like Yosemite, Redwood National Force, or some random state park.

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It caused us to take pause and enjoy the beauty

970
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of nature and the company of loved ones. And Edward

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Bali was honored during the to the Travismanien Foundations twenty

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twenty three New Orleans Expedition and so on. This week

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of the Travismanden Foundation, we honor remember Chief Warrant Officer

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Edward Bali, who gave the ultimate sacrifice on January the twentieth,

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twenty fourteen. And we continue to remember many many heroes

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just like Edward boy who serve our nation and gave

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that ultimate sacrifice here at home or in places around

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the globe. And you can go to the Travismanien Foundation

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online at Travismannion dot org to support families who are

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continuing the legacy of commitment and service on behalf of

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line ones in local communities throughout the season.

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

989
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and Stripes Service Academy Football.

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00:51:29,280 --> 00:51:31,760
Speaker 2: All right wrapping up here on our Army, Navy previews

991
00:51:31,800 --> 00:51:34,800
special Yards and Stripes on Price Atkinson and he is

992
00:51:34,800 --> 00:51:35,639
Stephen Carmis.

993
00:51:35,679 --> 00:51:37,960
Speaker 3: We are getting you ready for America's.

994
00:51:37,360 --> 00:51:39,480
Speaker 2: Game, the one hundred and twenty fifth playing of the

995
00:51:39,559 --> 00:51:43,559
Army Navy Game, presented by USAA in Landover, Maryland this

996
00:51:43,760 --> 00:51:48,440
Saturday at three o'clock on CBS eight and three Navy

997
00:51:48,519 --> 00:51:51,599
versus number nineteen Army, who is eleven to one and

998
00:51:51,960 --> 00:51:57,480
American Athletic Conference champion. Steven, really quickly before we get

999
00:51:57,519 --> 00:52:00,880
to our picks for Saturday, I want to let you

1000
00:52:00,880 --> 00:52:02,519
know if you are going to the game mentioned the

1001
00:52:02,599 --> 00:52:05,079
kind of the timeline there, looks like it's going to

1002
00:52:05,119 --> 00:52:09,559
be low to mid forties, most sleep or partly sunny.

1003
00:52:09,599 --> 00:52:12,119
So weather's looking good. Just going to be obviously chilly,

1004
00:52:12,159 --> 00:52:15,440
so typical football weather here in mid December. It's going

1005
00:52:15,519 --> 00:52:17,079
to be great. Wish we were going to be there.

1006
00:52:17,360 --> 00:52:19,000
Hopefully next year we're going to be able to make

1007
00:52:19,039 --> 00:52:22,679
this happen. Steven as we get up to Baltimore in

1008
00:52:22,880 --> 00:52:24,800
M and T Bank Stadium, But a couple of news

1009
00:52:24,840 --> 00:52:27,000
and notes to pass along to Je Monk and a

1010
00:52:27,039 --> 00:52:30,440
candidate for what was a candidate at vacancies at un

1011
00:52:30,519 --> 00:52:34,480
C in West Virginia, a finalist for the ed Eddie Robinson.

1012
00:52:34,079 --> 00:52:34,920
Speaker 3: Coach of the Year Award.

1013
00:52:35,280 --> 00:52:37,840
Speaker 2: Obviously, Bill Belichick was hired at un C and now

1014
00:52:37,880 --> 00:52:42,559
tonight Bill rich Rodriguez he's going back to West Virginia

1015
00:52:42,639 --> 00:52:47,480
for a seven time So Army dodges a proverbial bullet.

1016
00:52:47,559 --> 00:52:49,360
I don't want to use that kind of analogy, but

1017
00:52:49,760 --> 00:52:51,480
you know, as if they were looking to hold on

1018
00:52:51,519 --> 00:52:53,840
to their football coach, they definitely did it because I

1019
00:52:53,840 --> 00:52:55,840
thought there could be some smoke. It's sounded like there

1020
00:52:55,880 --> 00:52:59,760
was some interest that Munkin had definitely talked to UNC,

1021
00:53:00,719 --> 00:53:02,440
but they get their man in Bill Belichick.

1022
00:53:02,519 --> 00:53:05,239
Speaker 5: So yeah, I mean, I mean, I I think I

1023
00:53:05,280 --> 00:53:09,039
think that any coach worth this saualt is going to

1024
00:53:09,760 --> 00:53:14,119
explore his options. And we were talking before the segment

1025
00:53:14,519 --> 00:53:18,599
about these, you know, especially because with Bill Belichick now

1026
00:53:18,639 --> 00:53:21,719
going to North Carolina, uh, you know, and all the

1027
00:53:21,880 --> 00:53:24,039
all the jokes that have been made on on social

1028
00:53:24,079 --> 00:53:28,480
media about Belichick staying in his girlfriend's dorm room. Now

1029
00:53:29,360 --> 00:53:32,519
you see maybe maybe one of the funniest jokes I

1030
00:53:32,559 --> 00:53:36,840
had heard about about this. But you know, I think

1031
00:53:36,920 --> 00:53:42,800
Jeff Monkin loves the situation that he's in at West

1032
00:53:42,840 --> 00:53:45,519
Point because you know, if this was a couple of

1033
00:53:45,599 --> 00:53:48,239
years ago, I would say he would probably be very

1034
00:53:48,280 --> 00:53:52,599
interested in leaving and trying to you know, test it.

1035
00:53:52,719 --> 00:53:54,400
You know how good of a coach he can be

1036
00:53:55,239 --> 00:53:58,599
at a larger program. The problem with these larger programs

1037
00:53:58,639 --> 00:54:03,440
now is you have NIL, and you have the transfer

1038
00:54:03,519 --> 00:54:06,639
portal that you have to deal with every single year,

1039
00:54:06,880 --> 00:54:10,519
and you know, recruiting gets harder and harder every single year.

1040
00:54:10,760 --> 00:54:13,760
I mean, it's the reason why coaches, you know, are

1041
00:54:13,880 --> 00:54:18,400
starting to leave, both in football and in college basketball.

1042
00:54:19,079 --> 00:54:22,280
You know, some of the old school guys are are staying.

1043
00:54:22,559 --> 00:54:24,639
You know, I don't want to deal with this anymore.

1044
00:54:24,840 --> 00:54:26,800
You know, I don't want to deal with NIL. It's

1045
00:54:26,840 --> 00:54:30,199
why Nick Saban is at ESPN now. It's why you know,

1046
00:54:30,360 --> 00:54:33,440
some of these guys have decided now we're going to

1047
00:54:34,039 --> 00:54:35,519
what we're going to move on.

1048
00:54:36,440 --> 00:54:38,320
Speaker 4: He doesn't have to deal with that at West Point.

1049
00:54:38,360 --> 00:54:40,039
Speaker 5: You know, he doesn't have to deal with NIL. He

1050
00:54:40,079 --> 00:54:42,880
doesn't have to deal with the transfer portal. It's very

1051
00:54:42,920 --> 00:54:45,880
old school. I bet if you asked, you know the

1052
00:54:46,360 --> 00:54:50,800
rest of the Division one FBS coaches, I think you

1053
00:54:50,840 --> 00:54:53,079
know there's one one hundred and twenty of them. I

1054
00:54:53,400 --> 00:54:56,599
bet one hundred and seventeen of them would say I

1055
00:54:56,599 --> 00:54:59,639
would love to have a situation like they have at

1056
00:54:59,719 --> 00:55:02,360
Army right now. And the only the only three that

1057
00:55:02,400 --> 00:55:05,880
would say no, the are the three that have it. Yeah,

1058
00:55:06,000 --> 00:55:09,360
Monk and Brian Newberry and uh Troy Calhoun at air Force.

1059
00:55:09,480 --> 00:55:11,679
Speaker 4: You know, those guys don't have to deal with an il.

1060
00:55:11,800 --> 00:55:14,000
Speaker 5: They don't have to deal with the transfer portal for

1061
00:55:14,039 --> 00:55:19,360
the most part. So you know, it's it's old school

1062
00:55:19,400 --> 00:55:21,360
college football where the.

1063
00:55:21,280 --> 00:55:24,400
Speaker 4: Coach is the the end all be all.

1064
00:55:24,559 --> 00:55:28,159
Speaker 5: He is the judge, the jury, and the proverbial executioner

1065
00:55:28,280 --> 00:55:33,079
of a program. And so I don't see why if

1066
00:55:33,239 --> 00:55:36,440
if you love that, and obviously he does. We've talked

1067
00:55:36,440 --> 00:55:39,960
to him multiple times on this show, why would you

1068
00:55:40,000 --> 00:55:42,960
want to leave? And and so I I certainly, and

1069
00:55:43,000 --> 00:55:45,320
I'm sure he would if if we had asked him

1070
00:55:45,360 --> 00:55:49,440
about that here, uh, you know, over the last forty

1071
00:55:49,440 --> 00:55:52,840
eight hours, he'd be like, I don't want to leave this.

1072
00:55:52,840 --> 00:55:53,559
Speaker 4: This is great.

1073
00:55:53,920 --> 00:55:56,559
Speaker 5: I've got I've got a conference, I'm you know, I'm

1074
00:55:56,559 --> 00:56:00,199
gonna have a great schedule moving forward that I don't

1075
00:56:00,199 --> 00:56:03,000
have to worry about, you know, putting things together every

1076
00:56:03,079 --> 00:56:06,440
year like they did as an independent. And so now

1077
00:56:07,079 --> 00:56:09,360
he just gets to focus on the football. And yeah,

1078
00:56:09,519 --> 00:56:11,039
you get to do that at West Point.

1079
00:56:11,199 --> 00:56:14,119
Speaker 3: Go mess with happiness. No, mess with happiness.

1080
00:56:14,320 --> 00:56:14,400
Speaker 7: No.

1081
00:56:14,559 --> 00:56:17,239
Speaker 5: And it's the land, it's the and as he likes

1082
00:56:17,280 --> 00:56:20,039
to say, it's they're the last of the hard and

1083
00:56:20,440 --> 00:56:23,119
you know there's that that you don't have that in

1084
00:56:23,159 --> 00:56:25,679
other places. I think I think he would he would

1085
00:56:25,719 --> 00:56:27,519
find that out that he would.

1086
00:56:27,320 --> 00:56:29,679
Speaker 4: Have to change.

1087
00:56:29,199 --> 00:56:33,239
Speaker 5: His you know, his approach if he were to go

1088
00:56:33,320 --> 00:56:35,320
somewhere else. And he doesn't want to do that.

1089
00:56:35,920 --> 00:56:38,159
Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree.

1090
00:56:38,760 --> 00:56:42,119
Speaker 2: Naval Academy announced in this week that they have agreed

1091
00:56:42,119 --> 00:56:46,519
to an extension on their official partnership with under Armor

1092
00:56:46,800 --> 00:56:51,719
is the official outfitter of Maybe's varsity intercollegiate athletic program,

1093
00:56:51,800 --> 00:56:54,480
so that continues since twenty and fourteen.

1094
00:56:54,760 --> 00:56:58,519
Speaker 5: Yeah, Kevin slag Maryland guy. So that's not a surprise, Yep,

1095
00:56:58,840 --> 00:56:59,440
not at all.

1096
00:57:00,079 --> 00:57:03,239
Speaker 2: And also the Mount West Conference announcing its matchups for

1097
00:57:03,320 --> 00:57:07,880
next season. Dates to be forthcoming, but air Force is

1098
00:57:07,920 --> 00:57:10,760
twenty twenty five home games. They will be against two

1099
00:57:10,840 --> 00:57:14,880
time defending champ Boise State, New Mexico, Wyoming, and Hawaii,

1100
00:57:15,599 --> 00:57:18,840
while the Falcons will travel to Colorado State, Utah State,

1101
00:57:19,000 --> 00:57:23,519
San Jose State, and UNLV. They will open the season

1102
00:57:23,559 --> 00:57:28,000
at home though, on Saturday, August the thirtieth, against Bucknell.

1103
00:57:27,679 --> 00:57:28,800
Speaker 3: At Falcon Stadium.

1104
00:57:28,920 --> 00:57:32,280
Speaker 2: So that is what we got for some news and

1105
00:57:32,360 --> 00:57:35,599
nuggets to pass along, Stephen, as we get now to

1106
00:57:36,639 --> 00:57:38,079
our favorite segment.

1107
00:57:37,760 --> 00:57:39,039
Speaker 3: Our kissuse.

1108
00:57:39,079 --> 00:57:41,440
Speaker 2: We both had Army last week. You had Army twenty

1109
00:57:41,480 --> 00:57:44,039
one to nine. I had Army twenty three to twenty.

1110
00:57:44,400 --> 00:57:46,519
So we both nailed it.

1111
00:57:47,159 --> 00:57:47,480
Speaker 3: Margin.

1112
00:57:47,639 --> 00:57:47,920
Speaker 6: I was.

1113
00:57:48,119 --> 00:57:51,880
Speaker 5: I was convinced that that Tulane wasn't getting into the

1114
00:57:52,000 --> 00:57:55,000
end zone. After after the two botched shield goals, I was.

1115
00:57:54,960 --> 00:57:57,199
Speaker 4: Like, I was like, They're not look at this. I'm

1116
00:57:57,280 --> 00:57:58,480
looking like a genius.

1117
00:57:59,639 --> 00:58:02,519
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, you definitely had the larger margin than

1118
00:58:02,519 --> 00:58:04,039
I did. I thought it was going to be closer,

1119
00:58:04,079 --> 00:58:07,440
but boy, that weather, I think it played havoc with Tulane.

1120
00:58:07,440 --> 00:58:10,920
Even with Tulane stopping on Friday and practicing outside at

1121
00:58:10,960 --> 00:58:14,960
the Giant Stadium on their way up, didn't.

1122
00:58:14,639 --> 00:58:15,760
Speaker 3: Do a lick of good.

1123
00:58:16,039 --> 00:58:20,119
Speaker 2: Nope, all right, I may have tipped my hand which

1124
00:58:20,159 --> 00:58:23,840
way I'm going this week. Army and Navy again, the

1125
00:58:24,280 --> 00:58:27,480
hundred and twenty fifth meeting on Saturday three ten is

1126
00:58:27,519 --> 00:58:31,320
when it will technically kick off Commander in Chief Trophy

1127
00:58:31,360 --> 00:58:35,599
on the line for the first time since twenty seventeen, where.

1128
00:58:35,440 --> 00:58:37,880
Speaker 3: The winner of this game either one will win the

1129
00:58:37,920 --> 00:58:42,400
CIC Trophy. Stephen, which way are you picking?

1130
00:58:43,119 --> 00:58:45,480
Speaker 4: This game is always close and it doesn't matter.

1131
00:58:46,000 --> 00:58:49,519
Speaker 5: You know what the records of these two teams are,

1132
00:58:49,599 --> 00:58:54,199
because we've seen it multiple times. You know over the

1133
00:58:54,280 --> 00:58:57,239
years where Navy has been very good, Army has been

1134
00:58:57,360 --> 00:59:00,679
very bad. And this game is still you know, a

1135
00:59:00,679 --> 00:59:04,239
field goal game or a touchdown game at the worst.

1136
00:59:05,039 --> 00:59:07,480
So you know this is this is going to be close.

1137
00:59:08,079 --> 00:59:10,599
You mentioned how many times that the under is hit

1138
00:59:11,559 --> 00:59:16,360
in this game. I think that they're pretty much dead

1139
00:59:16,400 --> 00:59:19,719
on when it comes to this game.

1140
00:59:20,360 --> 00:59:23,199
Speaker 4: I really do. Obviously. I think that this.

1141
00:59:23,159 --> 00:59:27,119
Speaker 5: Comes down to Captain America wanting to finish his career

1142
00:59:27,239 --> 00:59:30,320
off at West Point the way that he started it,

1143
00:59:30,679 --> 00:59:33,800
and that is by singing second. And I hate saying

1144
00:59:33,800 --> 00:59:36,960
this as a Navy guy. I have Army twenty three,

1145
00:59:37,199 --> 00:59:38,760
maybe seventeen.

1146
00:59:38,760 --> 00:59:44,920
Speaker 2: All right, ironically we've got the exact same margin of victory.

1147
00:59:45,079 --> 00:59:49,599
But I will say that I'm also going with Army,

1148
00:59:49,880 --> 00:59:53,480
except I like a lower scoring game. I like Army

1149
00:59:53,840 --> 00:59:57,559
nineteen to thirteen because like you, I do think Captain

1150
00:59:57,599 --> 01:00:02,119
America is the difference. And you know, can Navy's passing

1151
01:00:02,159 --> 01:00:06,119
game get uncourt to obviously you know, strike some balance

1152
01:00:06,159 --> 01:00:08,920
and get the Army defense and moving side to side

1153
01:00:08,960 --> 01:00:12,480
and you know, have them guessing more. We'll see, you know,

1154
01:00:12,559 --> 01:00:14,639
I think that's kind of one of the you know,

1155
01:00:14,679 --> 01:00:16,639
a big key for Navy to win the game is

1156
01:00:16,639 --> 01:00:18,559
to be able to get a passing game on court.

1157
01:00:18,639 --> 01:00:20,480
Not that they've got to throw it forty times a game,

1158
01:00:20,760 --> 01:00:23,360
but if you're going to throw it, you know, a

1159
01:00:23,400 --> 01:00:26,480
dozen times, it's got to be effected. Because if you

1160
01:00:26,480 --> 01:00:29,239
can effectively throw the football, you can open up some

1161
01:00:29,280 --> 01:00:30,519
pass or some running lanes.

1162
01:00:30,639 --> 01:00:32,480
Speaker 5: You get you get a you get an end around

1163
01:00:32,519 --> 01:00:36,400
for to hide and Reich or a or a pass early.

1164
01:00:37,199 --> 01:00:37,320
Speaker 2: Uh.

1165
01:00:37,920 --> 01:00:40,760
Speaker 5: You know, if you're if you're Braxton Woodson or your

1166
01:00:40,760 --> 01:00:43,360
Blake Corbath, you know you're you're not throwing the ball

1167
01:00:43,440 --> 01:00:47,039
forty times. You may not even throw the ball twenty times.

1168
01:00:47,320 --> 01:00:49,760
But if you're throwing the ball fifteen times, and you're

1169
01:00:49,840 --> 01:00:54,599
say eleven or twelve for fifteen and you've got hide

1170
01:00:54,599 --> 01:00:58,000
and right, getting an end around that goes for forty yards.

1171
01:00:58,480 --> 01:00:58,840
Speaker 4: Early.

1172
01:00:59,440 --> 01:01:01,679
Speaker 5: I saw this against I saw that against us F.

1173
01:01:02,360 --> 01:01:06,079
You know, you know Navy, UH used hide and wright early,

1174
01:01:07,000 --> 01:01:11,920
and I was able to get him in situations where

1175
01:01:13,199 --> 01:01:18,719
the bulls defense couldn't handle him. He got outside, got out,

1176
01:01:19,079 --> 01:01:21,920
you know, got around the edge, got outside, and all

1177
01:01:21,960 --> 01:01:24,880
of a sudden he's going for sixty yards and a score.

1178
01:01:25,400 --> 01:01:28,559
You know Navy does that. I think they've got a

1179
01:01:28,719 --> 01:01:32,440
they've got a shot. Uh, you know, to to do

1180
01:01:32,519 --> 01:01:37,000
something here, but that's got to come early. You've got

1181
01:01:37,039 --> 01:01:40,559
to punch if your Navy the first the first thing

1182
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on your on your list is to punch Army in

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the mouth early. Don't take the first punch. You got

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to give the first punch. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I can't wait, dude, I cannot wait. It's gonna be awesome.

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Speaker 4: I'm so excited.

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Speaker 5: I have I I of course have the the great

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doubleheader of NCAA college basketball where the University of let

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me tell you, I'm so excited, the University of South

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Florida this year is going has gone to one of

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the places that I've been dying to go to. And

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on Saturday, They're going to the other place in college basketball,

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that I've been dying to go to. Last Saturday, they

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went to the Joe Genteel Arena in Chicago to see

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Loyola the Fighting Sister Jeans My play by play guy's

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got a picture with Sister Jean Oh wow, who is

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of course one hundred and five and is still going

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to every home game.

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Speaker 4: And this week they're.

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Speaker 5: At Utah State, so they're at the d Glen Spectrum

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on Saturday. So I'm I've that's another place that I've

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been dying to go to for college basketball, and my

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01:02:51,559 --> 01:02:53,320
guys are going there, and then I have a West

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Coast Lightning game after that.

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Speaker 2: So what do you have your menu and snacks picked out?

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At least that you can have during the game.

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Speaker 4: Oh you kidd me, there's there.

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Speaker 5: They're gonna be They're gonna be wings and maybe maybe

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a maybe.

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Speaker 4: A pie slice or two.

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 5: They've they've got they've got like a New York style

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uh pizza by the sliced place across.

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Speaker 4: The street from Emily Arena.

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Speaker 5: That okay, I probably I think it's called like three rounds,

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but uh, we'll well, we'll roll run over there, maybe

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grab a slice.

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Speaker 2: There is no Stevens Sports Saturday without wings. I'm smart

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enough to know that I've been around the block or

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two with Stephen carry, so I do know, I do

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know what tickles his fancy. When it comes to food,

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it's Poppy's and it's wings.

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Speaker 4: Wings.

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Speaker 2: All right, everybody, enjoy the game. The one twenty fifth meeting.

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We can't wait. I know you can't wait. It's a spectacle.

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It's gonna be fun. We're gonna talk about it all

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next week. We're gonna preview the bowl games more in depth.

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Next week is is Obviously, both Army and Navy are

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going bowling, as we told you earlier, Navy and the

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Lockey Mark Armed Forces Bowl versus Oklahoma, and then number

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nine teen Army in the Independence bowle versus Marshall. We're

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going to get into all that next week, including America's game,

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But until then, have a great weekend. Enjoy the game, Stevens,

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you can't wait to do it again.

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