Three Weeks - What Did We Do With It?

[hiangle6]

I hope we are under center.
I hope we dominate between the guards.
I hope we never throw a single pass.
I hope we have zero negative plays.
I hope we have zero punts.
Hell I hope we never see a 4th down.
I hope there are no turnovers on either side.
I hope there are no penalties on either side.
I hope we run the fullback and 40 times (trap, dive, midline).
I hope we run QB power about 15 times.
I hope we run a true triple with a pitch about 12 times each side.
I hope we mix is up with about 10 counter plays.
I hope we only have four total drives and each one is 12 minutes long.
I hope Navy gets two possessions per half and they are 3 minute 3 and outs.
I hope our defense never loses their breath and has clean uniforms.
And I hope we beat them exactly 28-0.

Pure simple domination is what I hope for. No gifts from navy. No magic plays from us. Just an old fashioned ass whooping that their whole team just has to sit and watch. Along with all their fans.

This would be an almost ideal game for me. Then again I know all to well what I learned from Gen Sullivan about Hope!!

Realistically, I think we will go under center and run the ball and mix it up to try to gain some advantage. But we did that last year two and it made no difference because we executed both on the line and the throwing and catching part atrociously. Go back and watch the YouTube video of last year's game. We ran a good bit of gun. Almost exclusively the first two series and it wasn't any better.

Maybe, just maybe we line up like we did vs Coastal and just take control. Impose our will. Give everything we have for 60 minutes.

I expect this will be a hard fought game and the most desperate team has the best shot to win. I think that is us. These games are great because those young men give everything. Almost always that way.

Seven and a butt....

PD

The great thing about your scenario is that the game will be over in about an hour and a half, and we will be able to celebrate that much long. Beat Navy.

[3seconddelay]

The great thing about your scenario is that the game will be over in about an hour and a half, and we will be able to celebrate that much long. Beat Navy.

Not with the media time outs. They’ll be damned not to get all the commercials in.

[PrideandDream]

I hope the coaching staff keeps in mind our offensive performance against Navy the past several years. The Navy D absolutely stoned the Army O in those games…as an earlier post pointed out…when we are gaining less than 150 yards on the ground, it’s not a good day.

We won last year due to special teams and a great performance in OT.

The 23 points against AF this year shows the value and potential the new offensive scheme can provide against some of our opponents, notably the other academies.

We caught CC by surprise. Navy won’t be surprised and has a very good D who also largely shut down AF’s attack earlier this season. If you think we can line up in last year’s offense and somehow magically dominate Navy, pass the pipe you’re smoking brother because that’s some strong stuff lol.

I hope we will mix it up a bit, but I think we need to focus on something close to what proved successful against AF.

Let's be clear about the AF win. 6 Turnovers and two 4th down stops. We didn't win because of the new system we won because of turnovers and defense. we kicked 3 FGs on a short field because we couldn't move the ball. Anyone that thinks we just dominated AF and that our system worked great that day isn't paying enough attention.

I don't disagree that Navy will be prepared. Probably some sort of mix might be best but we will just have to see. Maybe the answer is Special Teams again and a Navy turnover or two.

PD

[gabn92]

True…no denying the turnovers were huge in that win vs AF.

But also true is the fact the team jumped to an early lead, the D was playing well…and the coaches decided on a super conservative approach on Offense for a good portion of the game. I don’t think it’s clear that AF was going to completely shut down the new O. We abandoned much of it for most of the game to minimize the chance of a turnover by Army. It worked…so I guess it was the right call. But that was the best the Army O has looked against AF (or Navy) in several years.

[RABBLE]

We run gun, we lose by 15.
We run under center, we win close.