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A lot have complained about a month long road trip to start the season. But what does it say when we cant draw 24k for Rice at 2-0. And we will have a full house for Lafayette? We never draw well in Sept so its hard to fault Boo for back loading home games if that is in fact what hes trying to do. I'm also more unsure then ever who the fan base is. Our viability in FBS going fwd will be predicated on media contracts and revenue. As far as I can tell Boo is doing a good job there but the economic information is hard to come by.

Hey fans, let's hear your comments and thoughts surrounding Army's 2nd defeat of the season, as the Black Knights are now 3-2, as they fall to Duke, 13-6.

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Come inside our weekly Monday Morning QB series as GBK Sr. Writer Gordon Larson breaks down the Army-Duke game.

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With 2:56 left in the game, the ball on our on 17 yard line and on first down Ahmad Bradshaw ran for 12 yards. So now we have 1st & 10 at our 29 yard line.

The next play, OC Brent Davis calls for Bradshaw to pass and he's intercepted at the Duke 41 yard line and they take over with 2:17 remaining in the game.

#HorribleDecision by Davis and worse decision by Jeff Monken to allow the play to be run.

My observation/opinion about our offensive coaches: They tend to stick with the 'established' pecking order too long and at the expense of developing players with more potential. Last year they started Matt Ghiachinta all season and he rarely had a productive game. Darnell Woolfolk barely got into any games last year but clearly he is a better player at FB than Ghiachinta ever was. If we had not lost Kemper and Harris last spring would Andy Davidson have been converted from LB? Perhaps not given this tendency I am noticing.

Last year QB Bradshaw won the starting job over AJ Schurr (who was injured in camp). But then Bradshaw got hurt and/or played poorly and cost us several chances to win games. Only the injuries to Bradshaw and/or AJ Schurr opened up the possibility for Chris Carter to start the final two games. And in those games he started last year CC was statistically our best QB in my opinion. His appearance in games and 'discovery' was mostly due to necessity and not good player development.

This year Chris Carter seemed to have the edge in spring camp. But then he pulled his hamstring in the summer. So starting Bradshaw in the early games made sense. So did giving 3rd possession snaps to Chris Carter. At this point I have to observe that Carter has looked like the better player for the snaps he has had in our games. Why are we not considering starting Chris Carter or at least playing him more? Why have we not planned to transition to Carter once he got healthy and caught up on practice?

Bradshaw is not a come from behind QB. He makes poor decisions under pressure when the game is on the line. Earlier this season he was making consistently good reads on the option. Recently not so much. There were a few plays today when he made the wrong read and failed to give the ball to the FB and then got creamed in the backfield.

I would prefer to see Carter come into games when we are not playing well or need to come from behind. Eventually I would like to see Carter be the starter this season. I think Bradshaw is the QB to finish games where we are ahead and want to eat the clock. I think Bradshaw plays better with a lead than he does when there is time pressure to win at the end of a game.

It can be difficult for a coach to get outside of his bubble and see more than the next game in front of him. I hope that the next two games at home allow some experimentation with players who have the potential to be better than the person starting ahead of them.

Anyone know? I think it's been a minute or two.

Fumbles, missed FG's, 4th qtr meltdown, penalties....

COVER-IT-LIVE: Army Black Knights vs. Duke Blue Devils

Location: Durham (NC)

Game Time: Saturday (10/8) @ 3:30pm EST

GBK Cover-It-Live Opens: Saturday (10/8) @ 3:30pm EST

TV: ACC Network

Historically, our Cover-It-Live would be housed on the front page of our GBK site, which would take you the our CIL content page and you would be allowed to link right in the the Live Chat.

Since the Rivals conversion, Cover-It Live is only available on our forums.

For the Army-Duke game or until further notice, you will have to enter the LIVE CHAT through our message boards .... Non-Premium (CLICK HERE - Army Black Knights Football) or Premium (CLICK HERE - The 12th Knight) door!

Before Saturday’s contest ... perhaps you have missed some of our coverage this week leading up to the showdown between the Black Knights & Blue Devils, so please checkout the following links below for a few of our GBK articles:

GBK Weekly Recap

Not a subscriber to GBK? There’s no better time than now, as the Black Knights kick-off of the 2016 Army football season with a 3-1 start.

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I know they were leading in the 4th quarter.

COVER-IT-LIVE: Army Black Knights vs. Duke Blue Devils

Location: Durham (NC)

Game Time: Saturday (10/8) @ 3:30pm EST

GBK Cover-It-Live Opens: Saturday (10/8) @ 3:30pm EST

TV: ACC Network

Historically, our Cover-It-Live would be housed on the front page of our GBK site, which would take you the our CIL content page and you would be allowed to link right in the the Live Chat.

Since the Rivals conversion, Cover-It Live is only available on our forums.

For the Army-Duke game or until further notice, you will have to enter the LIVE CHAT through our message boards .... Non-Premium (CLICK HERE - Army Black Knights Football) or Premium (CLICK HERE - The 12th Knight) door!

Before Saturday’s contest ... perhaps you have missed some of our coverage this week leading up to the showdown between the Black Knights & Blue Devils, so please checkout the following links below for a few of our GBK articles:

GBK Weekly Recap

Not a subscriber to GBK? There’s no better time than now, as the Black Knights begin the kick-off of their 2016 Army football season with a 3-1 start.

CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE!



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High school teams in Washington are forfeiting rather than play school with NFL-sized talent

Honestly speaking, and if that be the case, Army should forfeit every single game minus the other two academies that we have played over the past 30-40 years!

Army 28
Duke 21

Our defense leads the charge this game.