CFB 2021 Week 15 - Army/Navy

[Awesome Fossum]

All times ET. Line from ESPN.

Friday, December 10
7:00 Montana @ James Madison, ESPN2 | FCS Quarterfinals

Saturday, December 11
12:00 ETSU @ North Dakota State, ESPN | FCS Quarterfinals
2:00 South Dakota State @ Villanova, ESPN+ | FCS Quarterfinals
3:00 Army (-7.5) vs. Navy in East Rutherford NJ, CBS
8:30 Montana State @ Sam Houston State, ESPN+ | FCS Quarterfinals

 

[Awesome Fossum]

Uniforms:

I imagine it will be tough sledding for the Midshipmen. The defense has been pretty good this year, and I expect they'll be able to keep Army more or less under control. The offense has been very not good since they missed all that practice time during lockdown (slash Malcolm Perry graduated), and although they've shown signs of life, the option teams generally play each other very tough. Something like 13-3 Army is my feel. But maybe the football gods are still seething over the botched goatnapping of Bill.

Go Navy, Beat Army

 

[jacklamabe65]

I bet Bill Belichick shows up the for the game. Bye week. Go Navy!

 

[canderson]

Go Army, beat Navy!

 

[Ale Xander]

Go Naval Academy (Navy and Marines), beat Army

Semper Fi.

 

[Preacher]

Go America!

 

[barbed wire Bob]

Go America!

Go Navy, beat Army.

 

[scottyno]

I bet Bill Belichick shows up the for the game. Bye week. Go Navy!

Navy can just copy his playbook from monday night

 

[Saints Rest]

Navy can just copy his playbook from monday night

Navy can just use their own playbook now that Bill has returned it to them.

 

[Awesome Fossum]

Army has 85 pass attempts on the season; Navy has 91. First and second fewest attempts the nation. Navy would kill for a 67% completion percentage though.

 

[bakahump]

Go Army! Beat Navy!

Pre Superbowl Superbowl!

 

[Preacher]

My office is covered with stupid tape lines and pieces of paper taped on the floor with various exercises to complete if you step in the taped area (push-ups, burpees, pull-ups, planks, etc). It’s some type of stupid encouragement to get my pumped up for Army to beat Navy. I went to University of Illinois for undergrad. I don’t give a shit about this game and I don’t need to drop and do push-ups or planks when I walk around the office. At this point, I’m rooting for Navy because whoever put this shit on the floor needs a bad day (plus, my grandfather went to the Annapolis).

 

[Awesome Fossum]

At the risk of being too dramatic, that might be it for Navy. If they are going to have a chance, the defense needs to be lights out.

 

[Al Zarilla]

Christian Anderson (no Hans) goes 56 yds. Fast quarterback.

 

[Catcher Block]

That was an incredibly dirty play from 54 on Navy. Haven't seen an ankle hold like that since the old WCW days.

 

[Al Zarilla]

That was an incredibly dirty play from 54 on Navy. Haven't seen an ankle hold like that since the old WCW days.

Even by N. Suh? Actually, he would do the stomping on the opposing player, as on Aaron Rodgers.

 

[Bob Montgomerys Helmet Hat]

At the risk of being too dramatic, that might be it for Navy. If they are going to have a chance, the defense needs to be lights out.

Too dramatic

 

[Ale Xander]

At the risk of being too dramatic, that might be it for Navy. If they are going to have a chance, the defense needs to be lights out.

Just turned it on. I’m very confused now

 

[Al Zarilla]

Game got boring. Even UNH games when I went there were more exciting.

 

[Bob Montgomerys Helmet Hat]

Love the fake by Navy. Ballsy

 

[Al Zarilla]

Weak on the halfback pass by Army.

 

[Ale Xander]

Weak on the halfback pass by Army.

This game needs more Air Force

 

[Al Zarilla]

This game needs more Air Force

Nice, and it doesn't matter what the records of these two teams are going in. Not predictable.

 

[Philip Jeff Frye]

Great game from the Navy defense.

 

[Ale Xander]

I also hope army still has the receipts for the uniforms, and it’s within the return window Guessing west end made them? Maybe crate and barrel?

 

[Awesome Fossum]

What a win. So happy for the staff, considering all they've been through.

 

[shawnrbu]

That was a terrific football game.

 

[Preacher]

I also hope army still has the receipts for the uniforms, and it’s within the return window Guessing west end made them? Maybe crate and barrel?

I like the callback to the three color desert camo. Very Iraq 2003.

 

[Ale Xander]

So the Heisman is at the Lincoln Center, huh?

 

[Awesome Fossum]

Apparently the fake punt was a garbled protection check.

Senior Diego Fagot, an all-American Athletic Conference inside linebacker and the Midshipmen’s best all-around player, is an up blocker on the Navy punt team, positioned to the left side of the formation and just behind the blocking wall. One of Fagot’s jobs is to scan the alignment and call the blocking protection scheme.

“That’s basically an overload, so we checked the protection,” he explained. “When I checked it, I guess the snapper didn’t hear me correctly.”

Freshman long snapper Ethan Nguyen admitted after the 17-13 win that he could not hear Fagot as the roar of 82,282 fans drowned out the sound of the field. Navy’s coaching staff had installed a fake punt play into the game plan, so Nguyen simply assumed that was what Fagot was calling for.

“It got really loud and I couldn’t hear. I saw [Fagot’s] mouth moving, and only knew one other check to do, so I snapped it to him,” Nguyen explained later.

https://www.capitalgazette.com/sports/navy/ac-cs-army-navy-2021-fagot-fake-punt-20211212-bqou7yavlvfadmckfnu6f6bwpy-story.html