Carrying Cord: A USF Football Pod
Carrying Cord: A USF Football Pod
The Goat (Navy Preview)
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Find out the origin story of Navy's goat. Also the guys talk football. Like will USF beat Navy? And you can't forget about K's expert gambling picks. What are you waiting for?
Long ago in a time of naval superiority, sailors traveled with goats across the high seas so they could use them for food and to eat trash well. The Navy being the navy lost a goat and a commander said, ENS preserve the skin of that goat. When we return to port, we will. Immortalize this goat who served us so well. Those incenses, taking their job seriously, returned to port and decided with the skin that they would stop by a US Navy football game. They did. And at halftime, one of the incidents turned to the other and said, I think I should wear this skin. The other incident said, you won't. And the first instance said, bet he put on the skin, wore it, and US Navy midshipmen went on to win the football game. Ever since then, US Navy midshipmen have had a goat mascot on the field. Also, it inspired Silence of the Lambs
Track 1:A wonderful tale. Completely true.
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:Completely true. except for one small aspect.
Track 1:The silence of the Lamb's part. Now, does the goat that they have on the field, is it a real goat now or do they just have an enson dressed up as a goat still?
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:That's the thing. You're never gonna know.
Track 1:I also have one other question. When you said the Navy likes to travel with the goats for food and trash or whatever, they also fucked the goats, right?
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:Oh, it's Gary Cord, and I bet you learned something today. I'm Puka.
Track 1:And I'm red.
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:And you know who else is about to learn
Track 1:Who? Puka.
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:Navy. They're gonna learn to never underestimate A four point dog at home. Let's do this thing baby.
Track 1:Woo.
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:Woo.
Track 1:All right. First things first.
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:did you learn something in that intro? That's true. That's true. By the way
Track 1:yeah, sure.
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:I also learned what a midshipman is.
Track 1:Is that not like a rank or something?
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:Yeah. I didn't know. I'm like, why the fuck did they call'em midshipman? It's the name of a cadet,
Track 1:yeah.
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:or as we called them, cates. Yeah.'cause when you're actually active duty and you're an officer, you don't respect the cadets, even though a lot of them came up as cadets. It's a hazing thing. Hazings bad, but the military still does it. You know what else is bad? Retractions and tidbits and things that we missed.
Track 1:We didn't say anything wrong, but our loyal listeners at the Bulls Pen, a big group of them who listened to our last episode, pointed out that we missed an easy one on. You got cream segment.
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:I thought we were missing one. I honestly, but I didn't want to correct you because I have low self-confidence.
Track 1:That would be the first time you've never wanted to Correct me in your life. You're usually chomping at the bit over there.
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:I'm good with it When I'm convinced I'm right, but I was just like, I was like this nagging feeling. You know, and I just, yeah. So they corrected us Outlaw and Dave Glaser, Glasser half full. Yeah. They were on there saying we had missed that one and we did.
Track 1:Yeah. Trammell Logan blew that guy up on The goal line. Run. Stop. For sure.
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:So poor guy that got blown up. You got creamed,
Track 1:Great.
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:creamed.
Track 1:Also just a little bit of news before we jump into things. Byron Brown got named the offensive player of the week, so good for him.
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:How is, how did my boy Simmons, who I've always been behind and thought as the greatest wide receiver on this team, how did he only make American Honor Roll. Yeah.
Track 1:'cause there's only one offensive player of the week, man. And they gotta decide to. Simmons, all of his production was from Byron Brown. Byron Brown did other things without Simmons, he always better without the X, you know?
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:you always hurt the ones you love. But here's the thing, they don't have it for every position.
Track 1:No.
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:Oh,
Track 1:Yeah.
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:so they should for that performance.'cause that was U S F Record setting performance. Sorry, my boy Simmons. That's like when you score the highest points. In your fantasy league, except for the person you played that week, right?
Track 1:Yep.
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:That's like you would've beat anyone else except for the week you fucking played. The guy who busted out 210 points. Who started that one running back from Miami after they put up 70 on the Broncos?
Track 1:Speaking of which, you know who's three and oh in the Bulls Pen Fantasy Football League,
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:Tell us,
Track 1:your boy red.
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:woo. Look at that.
Track 1:But yeah. So similar to the Dayday Evans player of the week. It's been years since we had an offensive player of the week as well, who've thought. Newsflash, if you haven't been following us football, we sucked for the last five years.
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:God. What is this feeling we're experiencing? You know what also feels good? Telling jokes about Navy. We got a couple.
Track 1:should we spread these, should we go all three at once or should we spread'em out throughout? Just do little interludes in between our different segments.
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:I think let's spread'em out. I like it.
Track 1:Our first Navy joke, just to get everybody in the mood for beat Navy weak here. Beat Navy doesn't roll off the tongue the same way as Beatriz does.
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:No, it doesn't, but Navy.
Track 1:But Navy, what did the ugliest girl in the world tell the second ugliest girl in the world? Puka.
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:what Red
Track 1:Good morning shipmate.
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:do? Beautiful. Fantastic. You know who else are our shipmates? The Bulls Pen folks.
Track 1:We are on a big ship. U S F fandom
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:for a while it was a bus, right? That Willie Taggart was driving off the cliff until he wasn't. So maybe it's the ghost ship.
Track 1:Now Gole has got us on a submarine, nuclear submarine'cause he is Russian. No, too much of a stretch.
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:I mean there, Russia's never been big on the naval superiority. They're just not.
Track 1:I guess the movies just really make them look better. Like hunt for red. October. Really made of Navy Look good for Russia, but I guess they, they caught the
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:Yeah that's that jingoistic bullshit of you know,
Track 1:The Aku class up.
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:when really like Russia's Navy
Track 1:It's like a fucking tin can clinking away in the fucking ocean
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:exactly. It's one dude in a 50 gallon drum with a bicycle and he's like just pedaling away at that shit. But they do have nukes, so let's we do need to take them seriously. Anyway, we got a lot of friends on the ship over at the Bulls pen and we got some feedback, didn't we?
Track 1:One guy from the Bulls pen. You know, we kind of lumped a lot of stuff into here in Got a lot of friends all over the world but hm 1 0 1, he had a little post on there with the the old Coley Matrix rankings. You know, fuck those rankings, the ones that gave U C F there, fake national championship bullshit. But those rankings have all the way up to 83 after our big win. Against Rice and only two teams above us in those rankings, which are Memphis, which makes sense. And Temple, oddly enough.
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:Yeah.
Track 1:but so that was a nice little post, and they had some other rankings and stuff like that. There's also a post in there. I didn't see who posted about different bowl game predictions for us now. McMurphy's guys going to a bowl game. Couple other people have us go into a bowl game. Again, the real, the tides really swing back and forth a lot after a loss or a win. Here is what I'm realizing.
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:it's
Track 1:A long time since we won, so I didn't realize how much people get on the fucking bandwagon after one win,
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:We're going to the Super Bowl, baby We did it. We're running the table, which I mean It's understandable when you've lost as bad as this team has lost, you see a little bit, you get a little bit of whiff of winning, and you're like, yeah, we're running this table.
Track 1:Yeah. Speaking of overreaction, I don't even know if you know this, but Jim Levitt does a little weekly radio show now here in the Bay Area and
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:I used to like him, but now he's competition.
Track 1:Oh, to us I was like, competition to U S F. I'm confused, Our budgeting platform over here. Yeah.
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:Oh. We try.
Track 1:But he says U S F could run the table, so
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:I mean, yeah, a meteor could hit earth. I could go outside and find a thousand dollars. Is that necessarily happening? I had this, I mean, I had us finishing the season seven and five. That's not running the table, but that's bowling.
Track 1:also the guy who wanted to kick Nam Simmons off the team
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:And look at what that did for us.
Track 1:so who's gonna be this week then?
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:I don't know. Oh, actually I do know who it's gonna be. RJ Perry and Donovan Jennings. If you all don't get your shit together out there, if you don't start sealing that edge, giving us some more time in the pocket and stop taking fucking holding penalties, you're done. You're done. I'm gonna find some of those little like parking barriers and just put those out there. Those big kind of like stone pegs. That are in the ground. There's a name for'em. I don't know. But we will just put those out there and they'll do a 10 million time better job than you will, and they won't take any penalties.
Track 1:You could just put a cone out there. I don't think you even gotta go with the stone barrier and they'll do a better job, but,
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:I mean, come on. So you two, you are on the carrying cord, kicked off the team radar. Let's see a fucking game from y'all against Navy. It's doable. They don't have an amazing defense.
Track 1:They've got a pretty good collective defense, but not an amazing star studded athlete defense, like they're, we'll get to it later, but their best defensive player, like a 260 pound nose guard.
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:We just
Track 1:It's hard to be a real big fat guy in the Navy, I feel
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:yeah, they don't take big people in the Navy. It's kind of a thing. Any of the military services, they kick you out. And you know, nobody's wanting to really join up. You mean I gotta go to war? I don't one wanting to do it, even though the Navy doesn't really, I don't know. There's probably some Navy listeners.
Track 1:What else do we need to talk about before we get into our preview here? I. Our season predictions. You were more right than me. Again, I won't say I was wrong, but I mean, preseason, you did have the rice win.
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:Uhhuh.
Track 1:you're on track with your predictions there. I had the loss,
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:So you're already
Track 1:I'm behind.
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:the sticks.
Track 1:Yeah. And I, similarly, I did predict a loss in Navy while you had a win against Navy preseason. And looking at kind of the You know, we talked about the Cooley Matrix, also looking at SP plus rate rankings. Those are little more neutral. There's four teams below US, Navy, temple, Yukon, and Charlotte, and four teams below us, and four teams above us. So you go four and four, we're going bowling. We moved up a little bit from like one 15 to 1 0 5. So things are looking up still in the overall big picture of everything from a season perspective,
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:Yeah,
Track 1:one third of the way through.
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:it's interesting. One I'm beating you in the predictions I'm looking at next week and I've got a loss to U A b. I wanna take that back. I wanna change that.
Track 1:You can't change the pre, you can change your weekly prediction, but you can't change it in the preseason predictions, we're measuring two different things.
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:I'm calling shenanigans. All right. Whatever. I'll go with it, but I do have a wind coming this week. You have a loss. Does that, is that still where you stand? What does Navy bring to the table?
Track 1:Yeah, we will find out if I still think we're gonna lose or not tell you what
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:Tell
Track 1:history against Navy we're one and two all time oh and two on the road. We are going on the road again this week in case that anybody was confused about that. 2019. We lost. That's the most recent game. 35 to three on the road, pretty fucking ugly.
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:Yeah.
Track 1:Malcolm Perry ran all over us. Our offense, couldn't do anything. Just kept giving him the ball back. And once you get behind the Navy, that's a bad recipe. They just get to grind it out, running the football, and
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:Yeah. If you're not careful, they will take time of possession and just roll with it.
Track 1:you all of a sudden you're getting one possession per half over there and you're like, what the fuck just happened to this game?
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:how do I do this,
Track 1:2016, we won 52 to 45. However, even in victory, this was probably one of my most painful moments as a U S F fan, And quite frankly, a lot of people aren't gonna this story.
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:Oh. Oh, I didn't know this story was
Track 1:alert. I completely understand. I know in the depths of my brain that I'm being unreasonable on this, but I don't fucking care and I will go to my grave. of it.
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:Yeah.
Track 1:In case you don't remember, 2016 against Navy, U S F is putting together one of the greatest performances my eyes have ever seen. I'm tearing up in the stands because it's the most beautiful football besides Rudy that just has ever been conceived.
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:Yeah. Yeah.
Track 1:gone a perfect six for six on offensive drives in the first half. Touchdowns every time.
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:Okay.
Track 1:literal perfection.
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:crushing it.
Track 1:We get the ball back with two minutes left in the half with the opportunity to go seven for seven, complete the pass. We're driving down the field and one Mitchell Wilcox catches the ball on a corner route. He's going towards the pylon. He reaches out. Never reach out towards the pylon. Simple rule of football. He fumbles.
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:Oh.
Track 1:Navy recovers, thus ruining perfect football for me forever.
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:This has really stuck with you.
Track 1:And while I already didn't like Mitchell Wilcox because of his performance in one U C F game, which another key fumble that day, I swore him off for good.
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:That was, where is it? That was the last straw
Track 1:I know Mitchell Wilcox is a fan favorite for a lot of people. He's in the N F L. Good for him. To me. He's a fucking nobody.
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:he's dead to me. Damnit man. Show me where Mitchell Wilcox hurt you.
Track 1:I just told you where he
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:Yeah. That's brutal. How dare he take away seven For seven against Navy, the powerhouse. We gave up 45 points to
Track 1:Yeah. So after that, Navy gets some confidence coming outta the half and we fucking go to sleep in the second half. And all of a sudden it's an uncomfortably close game to end after being up
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:Yeah.
Track 1:huge in the first half.
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:When And
Track 1:it's a little deceptive'cause to get to 52, 45. They scored a touchdown on literally as time expired, so it was still a two touchdown game As the clock was running out. So we weren't ever in danger. But for U Ss F fans, we were still, I'm in danger.
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:I mean, I wasn't comfortable, like I said, until the clock hit zero in this last game and we were winning by a couple touchdowns. So a couple scores?
Track 1:Last game against Navy to recap. 2015, we lost 29 to 17 on the road. This one you may remember, Rodney Adams returned the opening kickoff for a touchdown. A lot of back and forth in that game. We had the lead or tie going into the fourth quarter, I think. Navy took the lead and then we fumbled the ensuing kickoff right after that and they just didn't give us the ball back, essentially. And just despite losing that game, you know, It actually really cost us the division championship that year and a shot at the A C title game.'cause even though we beat Temple later, I think even the next week, and they ended up being the East Division Champions, we had two losses. They only had one even though we had beat them, so we never, we lost. Yeah.
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:we got a chip on our shoulder. Navy chip. We got a ship on our shoulder.
Track 1:a ship on our shoulder.
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:got a ship on our shoulder. Oh,
Track 1:Ah, so that's your Navy history and why? Why Brad's fired up for this one. Hopefully Mitchell Wilcox doesn't show his fucking face in Navy,
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:you better not come around, Mitch.
Track 1:although he is a N F L player. I'm not gonna be talking shit to him in person.
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:Yeah. No, don't. Let's be real
Track 1:with my crew of 10 carrying Cord boys behind me
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:I'm a bitch, so don't count on me. I'm running. Oh.
Track 1:Okay If that's Navy in the past, let's talk about Navy today. They're favored by four over under 54 and a half. We haven't won a road game in forever. As our friend Kay likes to say, we haven't won a road game this decade,
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:He is
Track 1:decade's only a couple years old, so it's, I don't really don't like that saying. Sorry, bro.
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:he's all about the deceptive, but whatever. Yeah, but it was 2019 last time we won a road game, so
Track 1:We won two road games that year, Hey, can be done.
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:yeah.
Track 1:We beat V C U in Yukon that year on the road.
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:Okay.
Track 1:Play Yukon on the road this year, so hey maybe.
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:We're due for one
Track 1:Yep. We've been due for one for a while though, so I don't know if that really
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:Yeah, that's, yeah. It means something. Eventually we're gonna say we're due for one, and then we'll get it and we'll be like, see, told you we're due for one. We got it.
Track 1:That's how that works.
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:Who knows if it's gonna be this one? Maybe. So they're, they are one and two.
Track 1:They're one and two. Yeah. They've only played three games. They've had a lot of rest. Especially'cause that first game, if you remember, was week zero
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:Yeah they had to play Notre Dame. Yeah.
Track 1:lost to Notre Dame over in, was it Dublin? I don't remember.
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:I'm not sure.
Track 1:It was somewhere over the ocean.'cause of their navy. And they exactly. that's why they had so much rest that they had to actually take a ship
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:Yeah. They had to take a boat. Some say they're still sailing to this day,
Track 1:Yeah.'cause they lost their fucking goat
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:Yeah. Where's the goat? The Sen's wearing it. So they did lose on national television, epic fashion. That was kind of, they hung with them for a little bit at the beginning, but then it became an ass
Track 1:Yeah. Yeah.
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:Yeah.
Track 1:And then they came back from that and beat Wagner in a unsatisfying performance that was like 24 to three or something like that. Nothing exciting.
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:But Wagner is, that's where I think Navy stats are kind of skewed.'cause Wagner's kind of trash.
Track 1:Correct, correct.
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:think they're oh and two or oh and three or something at this point. They're just, yeah they're not great Bob.
Track 1:But then the surprising Navy performance was, even though they lost to Memphis, that was a surprisingly good effort and we will play Memphis coming up here in a weeks, and that's probably maybe our toughest game on the schedule remaining. It was weird to see Navy hang with them, but I guess that's just kind of when you get to conference play, different animal comes out. I mean they could have even won that game and they were a 12 point dog going into it. I dunno if you saw that one. It was I think it was like Thursday night football or something like that.
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:Yeah, I watched the highlights of it.
Track 1:like Memphis was going in to take, make it a two score game. They fumble on the one yard line. So Navy gets a big stop. Navy then drives the whole field. Fumbles it and you're thinking, oh, it's over for Navy now. And then Memphis immediately throws an interception to give it back to Navy and then Navy just turnover on downs. Can't get the go ahead score in the end.
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:So they're not closers. We want
Track 1:yeah,
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:but they're
Track 1:Yeah they were given like three different chances to close that game out and they couldn't do it.
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:And now Memphis is three and oh or four and Oh, at this point
Track 1:yep. Yep.
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:they're doing pretty well. They're undefeated in conference play like your truly U S F.
Track 1:we are atop the conference with Memphis, both one and oh. That is correct.
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:look at us. Go. So they're one and two. They haven't really, I don't know. I'm liking how we match up. I think their numbers are skewed by that beating Wagner. But they are truly a run first team. Yeah.
Track 1:Oh, of course. I mean, they're still Navy their base attack is the, It's the triple option, right? I think they're, they do have a new head coach this year after 15 years. Coach Ken is out. But they still very experienced. Team 18. Returning starters still kept the same scheme. It's their defense coordinators who they hired. So he knows the team very well, kept pretty much the same. I will say he's bringing a little different offensive focus. I guess. He's open to passing the ball a little bit more. Open to more of the, like outside run east, west versus just north, south. I don't know. At least that's what the pundits say. I haven't really seen that too much. In the three games. They have passed a little more. They're all average. They Navy, they didn't barely pass it all, but against Wagner and Memphis, they had almost 20 passes game. I think so.
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:But that's compared to I think Memphis, they had 50 rushes
Track 1:oh yeah. No, there's still rush focused. But I'm just saying Old Navy would've been Three passes a game. So even 20 is, and for college football standards, that's still low. But for Navy, that's a high number.
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:Sure. So the guy they have under center Thai lava tie,
Track 1:Yeah.
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:is that how
Track 1:QB number one. Yeah. Yep. That's, you got it right. He's a senior. He's started for third three years. He got injured about halfway through last year, though. And they weren't sure he was gonna be the starter coming back. I mean, he's Solid, but he's certainly not as dy dynamic as the guys we mentioned earlier, like Malcolm Perry or Keenan Reynolds just running all over us and getting all a c honors or whatever.
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:I think he only has two passing touchdowns on the season or something like that.
Track 1:yeah, it's, he, they don't, they haven't scored a lot so far this year.
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:Yeah,
Track 1:and mean, overall he's, you know, 190 passing attempts through his three year career, 1500 yards, 12 tds, five in ints.
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:There's nothing phenomenal.
Track 1:But he is perhaps a capable pass. He's no Sean Atkins, let's put it that way.
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:No one. Sean Atkins, thank you very much.
Track 1:But on the, and even on the ground, I mean, he's, he gets a lot of, he's got 300 attempts, but he's only got 800 yards rushing. So that's 2.5 yards per carry. He's not busting off huge ones. 12 tds on the run game too. So same there as he has passing, the one guy I noticed who showed up a little bit especially in the Memphis game, was fullback 46. Alex Texa,
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:Tesh, Tesha, TEXA. Te
Track 1:had a big 75 yard touchdown run. If we're not disciplined in our run gaps, that shit can happen to us too,
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:that's what I'm, that's what I was about to say. That's not gonna happen on every rush. They're going to get it. They're gonna break one that's gonna be lucky. Someone's gonna be outta position or someone's gonna be gassed, and that's where they get that 75 yard touchdown. Like they just grind you down.
Track 1:Yeah. And you mentioned earlier they're not a, they're not a great defense. At least, you know, they're a disciplined defense. They're tough, they're gonna tackle well, but they're not amazing. School athletes out there. I mean, like I said, so Biscuit Bernard D. Tackle number Zero is my favorite defensive player of theirs.
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:is every team we play going to have a food player. We got Kool-Aid, we got biscuit.
Track 1:I believe biscuit's real name is Donald in this case, but
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:Oh.
Track 1:I know it's a little disappointing, but,
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:Yeah I like biscuit.
Track 1:I don't know how, but he's got the nickname Biscuit, but he's only listed as 260 pounds. I feel like if your biscuit, you gotta be at least three 50 plus.
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:I mean, that is biscuit for the military, they probably like extra biscuit. Dude, I'm interested to see
Track 1:he's a three year starter biscuit, so I mean, he's been, he's experienced, he knows what he is doing out there. I'm sure he'll give our interior line some fits
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:Yeah, we will see. I'm just now, I'm excited to see u a b all star Swiss cake roll, Reynolds I'm just excited about who who's next,
Track 1:I'll have to highlight that as a, so far it's just been coincidence. I'm gonna have to highlight this now as an ongoing segment.
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:who's got the food names because it kept me hungry and go to ihop. But do you know what I want to see? What do we wanna see? What do we wanna see from U S F to win this game? I'm, I'm I'm saying we match up pretty well on paper. I'm thinking we do. What do we need to see
Track 1:Oh, that was a question for me. Now, I you talked to yourself for 15 seconds there of what do we wanna see? I know what we wanna see, what do we wanna see? And I didn't know if I was meant to come in there at some point, so I
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:I was just excited. Yeah. no,
Track 1:So what do you, what do we wanna see? You're now posing that to me. I gotcha. This. We're new to this whole podcasting thing. Still
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:It's only been a season and a half I
Track 1:offensively carry over from last week, right? Especially the second half. Keep the momentum rolling. Keep cooking. I do wanna see a better run game, especially if Navy adjusts after seeing some rice tape and says, Hey, we're not just gonna man up our corners and load up the box. We're gonna play a more. Traditional defense and back off a little bit, then I wanna see us take advantage of that. Also, we were looking at some numbers. I wanna see some more early down success. We've been pretty horrible on first and second down
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:Yeah.
Track 1:per as terms of yards per play and getting behind the six. So I wanna see us, you know, get some chunks, get some first, you know, third down and fourth down. We've had a decent conversion rate, but I wanna see us not even get to third or fourth down. Just keep the chains rolling on first and second down. That's a big. Indicator of how your offense is doing so
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:I mean, the rush game wasn't going pretty well against Rice. And it wasn't going that well against Al Alabama, at least at first. And so I. Like those are your early downplays, Right.
Track 1:But it was good against Western Kentucky you know, there is some
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:well now team's got us on film.
Track 1:Yeah. On the defensive side of the ball, we. There's only one thing that matters against Navy, really stop the run. Especially on, again, the early downs. Get Navy behind the sticks, so they're in third and long. I mean, even in third and long they'll be aggressive. No, they're gonna do it for four downs and be like, we just gotta get half of this on third down and we'll get the other half on fourth down. So you can never count them out from running the football. So stay disciplined. Make those stops. It's interesting how you play an option team too, back in were playing West Virginia often. They were a team we really schemed hard against for option defense and some critical games back in the day. We'd always just treat Wally Byon would have his treat, basically every option as having the ball. We wouldn't even use a ball a lot of the times during walkthroughs and the
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:Yeah.
Track 1:team and just you're tackling everybody,
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:just hit everyone. No one don't get fooled. Watch your man. And hit The corners, the outside linebackers the edges. Y'all are gonna get some work in this game. Be ready for it. Stay home. Hold your man
Track 1:But then the other thing is you can't cheat. You can't say, you can't beat the block and dive into the tackle and then realize, oh shit, it's a pass play.
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:Pass.
Track 1:Hey. Yep. Hey, you're yelling that out is a joke. But hey, especially in a road atmosphere, the sidelines gotta help the D out. They all gotta be yelling over there. You know, you got 50 other eyes over on the sideline who can help diagnose what you're seeing,
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:exactly.
Track 1:out there. So hopefully they're all communicating well and talking out there.
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:My my useless addition to football games is I will scream, run, and pass from home. Like watching on the tv or maybe it's just got used to being on the sideline and doing that or something. But even the stands, I'll do it at home Pass. No one could fucking hear me. No, but I'm still doing it.
Track 1:sure your girlfriend loves
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:Yeah. Pass It doesn't understand it, but I don't need her to
Track 1:Okay,
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:Say something. Say something shitty red. I know you wanna say something Shitty
Track 1:least you've got a girlfriend,
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:That's okay. I don't see the dog around there somewhere. Hey, there's a goat. There'll be a goat
Track 1:if they do inevitably hit a pass on us,'cause they're tricky motherfuckers. Just fucking tackle. I thought we did a pretty good job of it against Rice, except for the 180 yard play. Even that one we were hustling after his ass. Still there was no loafing. But even on the big plays, they hit make a tackle, make'em do the extra play to get in the end zone. Don't just too much of last year was just one play touchdowns all over the place.
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:I mean, loafs and guys missing tackles, bad angles, bodies all over the place. Make the tackle, make the don't loaf. I wonder if they still do gassers for loafs.
Track 1:I'm sure. I'm sure.
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:an awesome part.
Track 1:Finally final point here, big one, we gotta win
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:We gotta win, baby. We got to win.
Track 1:All of the next four games are winnable.
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:you think?
Track 1:E S P N may say we're underdogs, but they're winnable. Especially, you know, we're underdogs against rice. Rice is still ranked higher than us in some metrics and shit like that.
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:Yeah. You want'em to be though? I like that'cause,
Track 1:you like the underdog mentality? I mean, especially the next two on the road. Like we said, we've had some road struggles. Gotta get that monkey off the back. Next,
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:We got the f p s monkey off our back. Now let's get the road monkey off our back. We got a lot of monkeys.
Track 1:didn't even talk about spanking the monkey either.
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:No, that's just you. You got a lot of pent up stuff over there, don't you? don't you read a lot of stuff?
Track 1:Let's just say I'm excited to share a hotel room with all you guys.
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:Yeah. We gotta figure out room assignments. Who's with who? God, I hope I'm not with you. You know what? That takes me to? K's pumper dump,
Track 1:that's what I meant by spanking. You thought I was talking about, no, I was talking about case pump or dump, obviously.
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:obviously. Yeah. No, obviously I can't. Yeah, obviously. Case pump or dump. Pump. Pump. Pump. Pump or dump.
Track 1:He's been pumping a lot lately too. He is two and one back on the hot street.
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:Hey, look at him. We are living rent free in Kay's head. I think it used to be he just made the picks and now he's got a whole process. He goes through like
Track 1:He is very official in his submission this week too. He gave us the game times and the fucking location and all what sports network was gonna be on, like who the announcers are gonna be. He was bugging
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:he did a lot of shit. He's trying to find all the things we talk shit about and, but we're like water. We find the path of least resistance. We will find a way to fuck with. Kay.
Track 1:We may fuck with you, Kay, but we never lie on the results. You were two in one last week, so well done. You hit on U N C, they won. You knew what you were talking about. When it came to best Christians in Texas, they, T C U S M U hit the under.
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:Yeah.
Track 1:Unfortunately he did get a little hyped on Dion with the rest of the country.
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:Ugh. Sorry man. Fell for the Dion hype and Oregon just boat raced him.
Track 1:Yeah. That's nice to see.
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:Yeah. Love to see it.
Track 1:this week, Kay has got South Carolina at Tennessee. He says, take the under of 62 and a half.
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:He is always taking the under on some cocks Cocks. That is yeah.
Track 1:yeah. You go with what you know,
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:He's gonna be so pissed.
Track 1:he then goes on to interesting game, Utah State minus six and a half at Yukon, and he says, fuck Yukon. Hate those bitches. He's got, he was there on part of some of those bad memories at Ucomm with you.
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:He was there when Yukon beat us, the week after we lost to Rutgers in 2007, it was raining and some dude walked up, dressed like fucking long John Silver and started talking shit. And I mean, trying oh, I I've seen Kay mad but I've never seen a net man. I was
Track 1:what we're saying is Kay may be a little biased in this pick against Yukon,
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:Yeah,
Track 1:not his luck of the week.
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:no I wouldn't. I don't know that I'm with him on this one, but Cool. Whatever. I'm with it.
Track 1:is pretty shitty right now. They lost a quarterback and they were kind of good last year, I guess, ish.
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:It's Yukon.
Track 1:yeah, his third game is he's got Utah covering minus two and a half at Oregon State. Ah, fuck. I thought that was Oregon again. I was gonna lead this into Kay just hating on him'cause they beat Colorado and Dan la He's got all this hate for Dan Lanning, but it's the beavers, not the ducks. So I'll let you take away this one of why Utah's gonna cover against Oregon State.
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:Because Kay hates beavers. I mean, it's pretty, he's going
Track 1:Cox, hates the beavers.
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:Yeah. It's, God, there's just so much subliminal messaging. I'm like, what do you see in this ink blot here? Kay. Oh it's a cocky eating a beaver. Interesting. Interesting. Can I go now? No, you can't, sir. We got the jacket for you right over here. Please
Track 1:Which one of us, I know what you would say, but what would Kay say between the two of us? Which one was the cock and which one's the beaver?
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:I think he definitely thinks I'm the cock And you're the beaver.
Track 1:Yeah, I think so too.
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:Yeah. This is the content people tune in for. This is why people listen to this pod. They wanna know which one of us is the cock and the beaver.
Track 1:In other important news, Kay also has U S F, not just covering the four points against Navy, but he has us winning. So same thing he had last week against Rice, and he was right then. Hopefully he's right again.
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:Yeah.
Track 1:He was very upset about the four point line, or it was three, three and a half point line against Navy. He really felt like something about he thinks the casinos are in cahoots with the mafiaa or something. I don't, there was a lot of conspiracy theories going on there. I didn't really understand what he was saying,
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:he was talking about like the next Q drop coming in. Something about that, I don't know. It's, it was early today. I still hadn't had my coffee yet, so I don't know. He has
Track 1:Any degenerate gamblers out there? If you think the U s F line was as wrong as K, did you let us know in the comments.
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:let us know in the comments. Let us know in on the Bulls pen or on X, we got people starting to engage with the pot on X, but you wanna know what drives engagement a win. And that brings us to our score predictions, what we think is gonna happen.'cause Kay says we're gonna win. E S P N has its dogs. Vegas has its dogs, but not me. We're winning this 1 35, 14 U ss f gets the road win monkey off their back and we come home happy. We u s f another road game next week, but Right.
Track 1:Yeah.
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:Yeah. You
Track 1:They still come home first. It's not like we just fucking stay the night at Navy
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:fuck you. You're just like Your just face was blank of like sometimes I don't know if the shit I'm saying is right, so I look at your face to see if what I'm saying is right when you don't react. I'm like, oh shit, that's wrong. Reg's just fucking with me. But it's not, I knew I was right. I should just go
Track 1:sometimes I just give you the blank face.'cause we talked about that self-confidence thing where you start doubting yourself over there and I just like to see you slide. Slide into doubt.
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:squirming over here. Whatever, 35 14 U S F wins it. What do you got?
Track 1:Not quite there still. Still just can't do it. We got the win against rice against my prediction. I still just don't want, I can't fully trust you. I can't commit. Navy beats us 28 to 27 in a heartbreaker.
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:What,
Track 1:Yeah. Sorry man. We're not ready for that. It's too soon for that much happiness, especially when we're all together. Just, it's just, it's too good to be
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:Holy shit. Fuck you. And your u s f hat and ass red. You You are officially uninvited from the Navy trip. You're out
Track 1:I bought the tickets for the Navy Trip. Asshole
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:Okay. Can you send those to me?
Track 1:Nope.
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:Okay. All right. Then you're re-invited, but you need to get with the program. We are winning this game and we are going to three and two. you heard it here first. It's gonna
Track 1:winning record. Wow. That
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:A winning record the first time in, I don't know how long y'all kick is at 3:30 PM C B s Sports Network. It's on all the like streaming platforms. I'm pretty sure YouTube TV has it. Hulu has it. FUBU has it. Sling has it get on some of those if you don't already have the DirecTV or Spectrum or whatever those places at if you travel to Annapolis, you may have heard us mention we're gonna be there. Say hi. We'd love to chat as long as you're not a weirdo. You got some weirdos in mind over there. I see the kind of Grinch smile coming on We promise not to bite or use anything you say in person on the pod.
Track 1:Yeah.'cause we never tell, just off the cuff, anecdotal stories, you know, on the record and completely unrelated U S F football, nothing like that. At least we edit out most of the really bad stuff, so
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:Yeah, that's wild. To think that the product you all get is a heavily edited product. That's what we should sell. We should sell the uncut version.
Track 1:We've talked about that, the uncircumcised version,
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:the uncircumcised version. We should. You know what's not uncircumcised? The weather. It's gonna be a 74 degree day so it should be another beautiful one for some U S F football. Baby,
Track 1:No turtlenecks out there with the weather this week. Nope.
pookah_1_09-26-2023_164458:Nope. We are coming in. Tanks. Tanks and tanks. Baby. You know where to find us. If you need to go, bulls
Track 1:go Bulls, uncircumcised weather, huh?