This team has a lot of heart. They never stop battling and have won games with offense, with defense and even with simple toughness. The signs of a real football program with staying power continued yesterday. Despite an almost perfect game by the Middies, we made a few key plays at the end and won the game. We had to go 3 or 4 deep on the depth chart to make it happen as the injuries piled up on defense. Again, the great programs play just as well with the 2nd and 3rd string and we saw some of that at the end of the game with scrubs helping to stop the Navy attack.
A BIG tip of the hat to Navy, the offense played to perfection and seemed to always make the right call. When we played the dive, the QB kept it. When we had the QB covered he tossed a perfect pitch. They even killed us with a couple choice passes. Incredibly frustrating to watch because Navy played so well. Not really a lot to be mad about but we could not pull away and the few "moments of truth" went against us with a penalty or turnover. Do not feel either pick was Tommy's fault but they did hurt in a game where every possession has to count.
How about Tarean Folston? Wow! The kid can play. In fact the offense looked fantastic and never had to punt. If we can just get the defense and offense clicking in the same game we good give even Stanford some serious trouble. But the injury report is not good, we lost a couple more players for the season and several guys are nicked up; particularly on defense. It will be hard to play at a high level with so many key players missing. Hopefully we can have some kind of breather game against Pitt but I would not count on it.
You probably saw it, but it is worth another look at the Blue Angel fly over. Six jets in tight formation going South to North. Then they came by again East to West unexpectedly which was super cool. Fly Navy!
GO IRISH! BEAT PANTHERS!
Godfather
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