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Speaker 1: Our next guest has won more polls than any driver

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Speaker 1: in the history of the NTT IndyCar Series. He also

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Speaker 1: has won forty three races, the majority of those with

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Speaker 1: Roger Penske and Team Penske, but he would like to

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Speaker 1: add to that total because of course he now is

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Speaker 1: no longer with Team Penske, but stays in the series.

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Speaker 1: That news in the fact that will Power is now

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Speaker 1: a member of Andretti Global and will drive the number

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Speaker 1: twenty six car that most recently was piloted by Colton

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Speaker 1: Herda and he joins us now on the always busy

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Speaker 1: and available for your company to sponsor guest line, will

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Speaker 1: How are you?

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Speaker 2: I'm doing well? Thank you? How are you?

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Speaker 1: I am good? And you know what, I'll tell you.

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Speaker 1: Part of the reason that I'm good is because and

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Speaker 1: I feel bad about it. You know, at the end

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Speaker 1: of the year in Milwaukee and in Nashville, I think

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Speaker 1: every time that we interviewed you, you know, everybody is

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Speaker 1: wanting to know the question of what's going to go

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Speaker 1: on with will Power. We had pretty good indication of

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Speaker 1: what was going to go on with Willpower, and yet

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Speaker 1: we've got to ask it. Knowing that you can't necessarily

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Speaker 1: say what's going on with willpower? So how relieved are

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Speaker 3: It was a weight off my shoulders. Sure, it's actually

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Speaker 3: the go kart trail and there right now just having fun.

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Speaker 2: But I just felt a bit of a release.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, it was probably subconsciously weighing.

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Speaker 2: On me, and I.

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Speaker 3: Was getting a lot of questions about it and just

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Speaker 4: Exactly how is this going to play out?

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Speaker 3: Is it going to go easily? You know, the transition,

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Speaker 3: and it has gone very smoothly. So yeah, you know,

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Speaker 3: I'm very very excited for the future.

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Speaker 1: We did this will I mean, obviously this domino felt

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Speaker 1: quick and we knew it was going to And then

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Speaker 1: it was not long after the announcement from Team Penske

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Speaker 1: that you would not return, that you were announced friend

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Speaker 1: Ready Global. So when when did this all kind of

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Speaker 1: get underway? When was the first time that you thought

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Speaker 1: And when was the first conversation you had with n Ready.

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Speaker 3: Well, it's it has been let's say, you know, definitely

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Speaker 3: from May onwards, I was starting to, you know, think, well,

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Speaker 3: been there seventeen years. I have had great success. I

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Speaker 3: love the team, the people, Roger. Roger's been great to me.

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Speaker 3: And you know, I think after the conversation that I

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Speaker 3: I'm not saying that you won't be in the car,

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Speaker 3: and actually, you know, I'm a allowing.

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Speaker 2: You to see what's out there.

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Speaker 3: So at that point, you know, when he said that,

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Speaker 3: I thought, okay, you know they're looking at going in

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Speaker 2: There's a chance here that I'm not going to go

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Speaker 3: so yeah, and then the whole process went very smoothly.

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Speaker 2: So and that you know, when we spoke about.

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Speaker 3: It, when I signed up to A fourteen management at

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Speaker 3: But you know, but the ideal place to end up

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Speaker 3: So that's yeah, I agree. They're a great team. You

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Speaker 1: Actually, So Dan Twis, by the way, is who Will

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Speaker 1: Was that offered to you? Was there the possibility from

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Speaker 3: I was offered to fly up and we never got

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Speaker 3: and you know, and I basically he said, look, I'm

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Speaker 3: You know, I've made the decision of my mind.

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Speaker 2: And I kind of went from there.

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Speaker 3: And Roger called me a day later and said, yeah, look,

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Speaker 3: He he was. And I said, you know, I kind

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Speaker 2: And also, you know, I got the feeling that.

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Speaker 3: You're only going to offer me one year, and he said, yeah,

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Speaker 3: So yeah, there was a chance to go back, but

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Speaker 1: Will power my guest here, who will be having Friendreddi

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Speaker 1: who will be in car number twenty six, Well, I

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Speaker 1: You and your wife, Liz, both I think, have been

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Speaker 3: My thinking was, look, I'm late enough in my career

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Speaker 3: Just didn't seem like it seemed like that. You know,

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Speaker 1: Did some of the things that happened within the team

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Speaker 2: I would almost guarantee that will be a difference.

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Speaker 5: So that wasn't a dumb question.

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Speaker 2: That wasn't That wasn't a dumb question.

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Speaker 5: But I've had some dumb questions, right yeah.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you know, this whole interview has kind of

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Speaker 2: good questions. They have been. I've I've definitely had some

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Speaker 1: So all right, so you're gonna go out and you're

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Speaker 3: Well there's actually name's David day four A. He's Italian.

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Speaker 2: It's like a five time world chance.

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Speaker 3: I thought I'd come out and run around with him

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 3: Quality definitely a top level job is a bit of

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Speaker 5: There you go.

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Speaker 1: I mean that's that is different than the way most

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Speaker 1: know it's been a busy and flurry of activity here,

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Speaker 1: a busy time for you, and I certainly appreciate not

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Speaker 1: only the time, Will but also the explanation from all

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Speaker 1: good stuff.

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Speaker 2: Man, looking forward to it. It's going to be great.

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Speaker 5: Much appreciate it, will enjoy it.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: That is Will Power joining us on the program today.

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Speaker 1: The games now count starting on Sunday, starting tonight really

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Speaker 1: But now we take the first of what will be

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Speaker 1: I'm going to get right to this, and that is

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Speaker 1: the Dolphins are one that from afar lots of talent.

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Speaker 2: Oh?

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Speaker 6: Boy? First of all, let me just say I've lost

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Speaker 6: I love I love to hear references to that place.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a great place, man, it is a great place.

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Speaker 6: Expectations for the Dolphins are mixed, you know, I've picked

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Speaker 6: They have Devon a Chan and he's good as a small,

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Speaker 6: It's gonna be a mixed bag. I'm not really sure

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Speaker 6: To me, that's more mediocrity and it's not good to me.

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Speaker 6: The goal for the season should be they have to

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Speaker 1: Chris, It's interesting because you talk about the running game,

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Speaker 6: It is And I'll give you some numbers about the

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Speaker 6: The reason why is because it's a one dimensional offense.

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Speaker 6: The good teams are able to shut down that passing game.

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Speaker 6: You play the two shell safety, the two high safeties,

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Speaker 6: There's no run game. There's nobody respects the run game.

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Speaker 6: But yeah, for the Dolphins, the run game is the

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Speaker 1: Chris Perkins is our guest. He's what the sun settinely

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Speaker 1: covers the Miami Dolphins down there, I think, if I'm

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Speaker 1: not mistaken, he also gets a lifetime of charitable benefit

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Speaker 5: I think, yeah, yeah, I think that yet. Yeah, I

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I haven't heard that name in a while.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I wish I had neither. Mac and I

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Speaker 6: So the Dolphins were number four in total defense last year,

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Speaker 6: Zack Steeler, defensive tackle who's coming off of back to

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Speaker 6: I'll tell you this. The cornerback situation is an absolute

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Speaker 6: maybe three or four weeks ago. So the corner of

436
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Speaker 6: that situation is a disaster. You know, they got Minka

437
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Speaker 6: Fitzpatrick in the Jalen Ramsey trade, so he's one safety.

438
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Speaker 6: The other safety will probably be Ashton Davis who comes

439
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Speaker 6: over from the Jet. That could be if E Melon

440
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Speaker 6: fun Wu. But the secondary is a work in progress

441
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Speaker 6: and those corners can be had, so the front seven

442
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Speaker 6: has to do good work and those edge rushers have

443
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Speaker 6: to be able to take some pressure off of the

444
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Speaker 6: corners and put pressure on Daniel Jones.

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Speaker 7: Of course, they also added Juju Brentz, former Colts cornerback

446
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Speaker 7: after he was waived by Indianapolis. And Storm Duck is

447
00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:25,640
Speaker 7: a terrific name. I love that name.

448
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Speaker 4: One of the best names in the league I know.

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Speaker 7: And ironically, Jake he played for a school that was

450
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Speaker 7: a bird.

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Speaker 5: Real yeah, Louisville, Louisville, the Cardinals, Cardinals.

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Speaker 7: On the offensive side of things, there's no it's no

453
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Speaker 7: secret how much drama there has been around Tyreek Hill

454
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Speaker 7: dating back to last year. What is his relationship like now,

455
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Speaker 7: I know he's not a captain for Miami with Tua

456
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Speaker 7: and with the rest of the Miami team.

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Speaker 6: Uh, I think it's fine. I really do think it's fine.

458
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Speaker 6: You know, as I always say, Tyreek's done a Tyreek

459
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Speaker 6: you know, he look. I think Tyreek is hitted to

460
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Speaker 6: the Hall of Fame if he continues doing what he's done.

461
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Speaker 6: You know, with the exception of last year, when I

462
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Speaker 6: think he slacked off to well, not slacked off, slumped

463
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Speaker 6: down to nine hundred and forty nine yards receiving or

464
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Speaker 6: whatever it was to a miss six game. So that

465
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Speaker 6: was a big reason why. But you know, with Tyreek,

466
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Speaker 6: you know that guy produces on the field. You know,

467
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Speaker 6: I think the first year he had this is his

468
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Speaker 6: fourth year with the Dolphins. First year, I believe with

469
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Speaker 6: seventeen hundred and ten yards. Second year seventeen ninety nine,

470
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Speaker 6: and he was, you know, unpaid for two thousand until

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Speaker 6: he got a horse collar tackle against Tennessee late in

472
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Speaker 6: the season that slowed him down late. You know, with Tyreek,

473
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Speaker 6: he's a lead by example guy. And when you talk

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Speaker 6: about Tyreek not being a team captain, I think it's

475
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Speaker 6: a The story there is the Dolphins have a team

476
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Speaker 6: vote for team captains. Seen captains aren't a pointed team

477
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Speaker 6: captains are voted on by players, and I think it's

478
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Speaker 6: more of a statement that the players decided, no more

479
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Speaker 6: of this stuff, no more of this Tyreek nonsense. We're

480
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Speaker 6: not going to tolerate him as a team captain when

481
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Speaker 6: he's doing all of these things. You know, Tyreek's off

482
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Speaker 6: the field behavior. He started last season before the opener

483
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Speaker 6: being detained by the police outside of hard Rock stadium.

484
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Speaker 6: He ended the season and the finale against the Jets

485
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Speaker 6: with the you know what we call the I'm out speech,

486
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Speaker 6: where he said, I can't do this anymore. I might

487
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Speaker 6: need to be traded. I can't you know, be around here.

488
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Speaker 6: We're not gonna be be making the playoffs and winning

489
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Speaker 6: playoff games. I thought it was a good thing for

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Speaker 6: the other players to draw the line in the sand

491
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Speaker 6: and say we're not going to tolerate this. So Tyreek's

492
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Speaker 6: relationship with them is good. And I think the real

493
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Speaker 6: story there is that maybe the team is saying no

494
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Speaker 6: more of this foolishness. But Tyreek can lead by example.

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Speaker 6: He doesn't need that sea on his jersey.

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Speaker 5: Like he said yesterday, how did storm Duck not go

497
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Speaker 5: to Oregon? Oh?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, that's a good one.

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Speaker 1: Or Miami or I was yeah, I mean you gotta

500
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Speaker 1: be a hurricane of cyclone or at Duck, right, I mean,

501
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Speaker 1: it's got to be one of those three, all right, Chris.

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Speaker 1: Last thing before we let you go. You know South

503
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Speaker 1: Florida traffic. I mean we all know about South Florida traffic,

504
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Speaker 1: and you got you know, six lanes wide and it's

505
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Speaker 1: always backed up. But let's imagine the AFC. I want you, Chris,

506
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Speaker 1: to think about the AFC in like late November. You

507
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Speaker 1: got a six lane interstate. The teams that are on

508
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Speaker 1: their way to the fast track to the playoffs are

509
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Speaker 1: all in the left lane, and we anticipate that's probably

510
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Speaker 1: going to be Kansas City and Buffalo, and you know.

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Speaker 5: Those teams are in the left lane.

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Speaker 1: Ye, it feels like right now that Miami. The Indianapolis

513
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Speaker 1: perspective would be that Miami and India are probably in

514
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Speaker 1: the same lane and they're both trying to merge over.

515
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Speaker 1: And it's like, well that that car there, I'm not

516
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Speaker 1: going to let him over.

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Speaker 5: That kind of thing.

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Speaker 1: When you look at it, you see the Indianapolis Colts.

519
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Speaker 1: I want the outside Indianapolis perspective. You see the Colts

520
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Speaker 1: being the majority of this season in what lane of

521
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Speaker 1: this Innerscy state and how close to getting their way

522
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Speaker 1: into the left lane?

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Speaker 6: Oh boy, probably second or third lane trying to merge over.

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Speaker 6: I'm looking at the Colts. Probably they were eight wins

525
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Speaker 6: last year. If I'm not mistaken, I'm looking at the

526
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Speaker 6: same thing from the Colts this year. Maybe they get

527
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Speaker 6: to nine wins. I don't see them as a playoff

528
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Speaker 6: team at this point. And so I see both the

529
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Speaker 6: Dolphins and the Colts going into December around five hundred

530
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Speaker 6: whatever that number would be, what six and six may be,

531
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Speaker 6: or you know, seven and six, whatever it would be.

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Speaker 6: For the Dolphins, you know, one of their big problems

533
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Speaker 6: is they don't play well in December and January, and

534
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Speaker 6: so they've got a pretty full schedule the Dolphins do

535
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Speaker 6: in December and January. They're playing Pittsburgh at Pittsburgh on

536
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Speaker 6: Monday Night, They're playing Tampa Bay, They're playing Cincinnati, and

537
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Speaker 6: so it's gonna be rough for them down the stretch.

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Speaker 6: I don't know what Indie schedule is down the stretch,

539
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Speaker 6: but I see them both at five hundred ishes just

540
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Speaker 6: trying to merge over into that left lane going into

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Speaker 6: December and January. Injury they're going to be a factor.

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Speaker 6: Schedule is going to be a factor. I don't know

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Speaker 6: how it turns out for either of them. But I've

544
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Speaker 6: got the Dolphins of a nine win team and Indy

545
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Speaker 6: as an eight win.

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Speaker 1: Team, okay, and both of them are looking at the

547
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Speaker 1: ways about the car that's broken down.

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Speaker 5: That's Cleveland, that's right.

549
00:28:23,920 --> 00:28:27,200
Speaker 6: You gotta from Cleveland, New Orleans.

550
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Speaker 5: New Orleans. Yeah, New Orleans was a couple exits back,

551
00:28:30,560 --> 00:28:35,680
Speaker 5: but yes, yeah, Mills back right, that's right, hey man.

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Speaker 1: We appreciate the time as always. All right, certainly enjoy

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Speaker 1: the slipper noodle.

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Speaker 4: If you're going to be in town, all right, I'll

555
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Speaker 4: try to get make a visit down there. Thanks guys.

556
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Speaker 1: All right, much appreciated, much appreciated. Chris Perkins joining us

557
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Speaker 1: from South Florida Colts Dolphins Sunday Lucas Oil Stadium. You

558
00:28:51,320 --> 00:28:55,240
Speaker 1: can hear that game, of course on this radio station,

559
00:28:55,320 --> 00:28:58,440
Speaker 1: and when doing so, you will be hearing the dulcet

560
00:28:58,480 --> 00:29:00,600
Speaker 1: tones of Matt Taylor describing me and the action. He

561
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Speaker 1: joins us now on the always Busy and Available to

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Speaker 1: be sponsored guest line. Matt, I'm going to begin with

563
00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:09,720
Speaker 1: a question that I was just posing to Eddie. Allow

564
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Speaker 1: me to lay down for you the groundwork have said question,

565
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Speaker 1: and then we want the Matt Taylor answer.

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Speaker 5: Are you ready?

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Speaker 2: Let's do it?

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Speaker 1: Okay, if you were to take every season ticket holder

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Speaker 1: in the NFL, Let's say there's roughly one point three

570
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Speaker 1: million people that have season tickets to their respective cities

571
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Speaker 1: NFL franchise, and you were to simply say to all

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Speaker 1: of those people, you get to select five road games

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Speaker 1: to attend, not to see your team, but just five

574
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Speaker 1: NFL franchises to go and see a home game in

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Speaker 1: that team's stadium, not based on a place that you

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Speaker 1: think would be a fun city, not based on the weather,

577
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Speaker 1: but simply based on what you would believe to be

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Speaker 1: the best in game experience in a stadium, and just

579
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Speaker 1: a legendary must do sports bucket list item in the NFL,

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Speaker 1: what do you believe would be the five franchises that

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Speaker 1: would tabulate the highest number of votes of season ticket

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Speaker 1: holders within the NFL saying I want to see a

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Speaker 1: game there.

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Speaker 4: Green Bay, Kansas City, Yep, probably Dallas because of the

585
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Speaker 4: magnitude of the facility.

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Speaker 5: Yep.

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Speaker 4: Right in the big scoreboard, that's three.

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Speaker 5: Right, I think undoubtedly the Big three. Right. I think

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Speaker 5: that's almost undoubtedly the Big three.

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Speaker 4: And then I think you're going to have people that

591
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Speaker 4: are I know you're asking people not to do this,

592
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Speaker 4: but I think inevitably people will. They'll just pick whether

593
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Speaker 4: so they'll pick Tampa Bay or Miami or Arizona or La.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think La would be up there because that

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Speaker 1: kind of has same level of venue intrigued, does it not?

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Speaker 4: Yeah? It does. Yeah, And selfishly I'm excited to go there.

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Speaker 4: We go there twice this year in a span of

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Speaker 4: like six weeks, so I'm excited to kind of cross

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Speaker 4: that one off my bucket list. I would put Soldier

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Speaker 4: Field up there, but I've never been there. I swear,

601
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Speaker 4: I've been doing this car for fourteen years and I've

602
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Speaker 4: never been to Soldier.

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Speaker 5: Here's what's interesting about Soldier Field. I went.

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Speaker 1: I've not been to a football game there, but I've

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Speaker 1: been to the venue. I saw guns and roses at

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Speaker 1: Soldier Field a couple of years ago. And one of

607
00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:29,400
Speaker 1: the things, this sounds ridiculous. One of the things I noticed.

608
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Speaker 1: You don't realize with super old stadiums until you go

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Speaker 1: to them. This is true of Wrigley, It's certainly true

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Speaker 1: of Fenway. You realize that one hundred years ago every

611
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Speaker 1: American was five nine and one hundred and thirty five pounds. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like the walkways are, the

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Speaker 1: concourses are narrow. The I mean the seats, obviously they've

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Speaker 1: changed them to an extent, but if you're in some

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Speaker 1: of the original ceded areas, you're like, Holy cow. I

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Speaker 1: mean it's amazing, you know, it just is not It's different.

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Speaker 1: Now you've been to Los Angeles the city correct, Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean I love LA and the weather's fabulous. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think Green Bay, Kansas City, and Dallas would be

620
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Speaker 1: probably almost undoubtedly the top three in that.

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Speaker 7: Okay, Matt, I tossed in Buffalo because of Bill's maffiam.

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Speaker 1: Buffalo's there too, I think, yeah.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, but Buffalo, I mean, I like the stadium, but

624
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Speaker 4: there's not as much like history in Buffalo. There's like

625
00:32:33,040 --> 00:32:36,600
Speaker 4: there's charm in Buffalo, but like there I mean, lambas Lambo,

626
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Speaker 4: you know what I mean.

627
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Speaker 1: Like, but I think Matt that Buffalo has a little

628
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Speaker 1: bit of the same intrigue that Green Bay has in

629
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Speaker 1: the fact that it just represents tough as day's blue

630
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Speaker 1: collar football, you know what I mean. Just the fans

631
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Speaker 1: are just it's there's just something about when you watch

632
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Speaker 1: a game in Buffalo, you think to yourself, that's a

633
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Speaker 1: fan base with a dedication that goes to depth I

634
00:33:00,280 --> 00:33:02,160
Speaker 1: can't grasp, you know what I mean.

635
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Speaker 4: Without a that I mean, and when you're in Buffalo,

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Speaker 4: I mean, to your point, Bill I mean, you can't

637
00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:11,160
Speaker 4: escape the bills. There's bill stuff everywhere. Every bar, every

638
00:33:11,240 --> 00:33:14,640
Speaker 4: restaurant is just decked out and bills, and every person

639
00:33:14,680 --> 00:33:17,240
Speaker 4: at the bar, every person at the table is probably

640
00:33:17,280 --> 00:33:20,560
Speaker 4: having some sort of conversation about either the current team

641
00:33:20,760 --> 00:33:25,200
Speaker 4: or nostalgia or you know, bills of of you know, yesteryear.

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Speaker 4: But I don't know, Like, they're building a new stadium

643
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Speaker 4: right next to the existing stadium right now.

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Speaker 5: I was just there. Yeah, I was just there like

645
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Speaker 5: a month ago.

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Speaker 4: So I mean, that's going to be a big time upgrade.

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Speaker 4: Whereas Lambeau they would never think to build a new stadium.

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Speaker 1: Well, you and I might have talked about this. What

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Speaker 1: is the awkward teenage years of a stadium? In other words,

650
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Speaker 1: what how long does a stadium have to go being

651
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Speaker 1: a dump before then it becomes retro cool.

652
00:33:57,880 --> 00:34:00,760
Speaker 4: That's a good question, you know, because I'm sure Wrigley

653
00:34:00,880 --> 00:34:04,280
Speaker 4: was outdated and antiquated at some point, and now it's

654
00:34:04,320 --> 00:34:06,480
Speaker 4: like a destination whereby has to cross it off their

655
00:34:06,520 --> 00:34:11,960
Speaker 4: list because of how historically Yeah, yeah, exactly, I don't know.

656
00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:12,760
Speaker 2: That's a good question.

657
00:34:14,040 --> 00:34:16,640
Speaker 4: I think Market Square Arena was probably on its way

658
00:34:16,680 --> 00:34:20,080
Speaker 4: there to becoming I mean, it was antiquated, but it

659
00:34:20,120 --> 00:34:22,799
Speaker 4: was also like to it was it was it was

660
00:34:22,840 --> 00:34:24,239
Speaker 4: our place, you know what I mean, Like it was

661
00:34:24,320 --> 00:34:28,240
Speaker 4: our small arena. You know, it kind of represented the city.

662
00:34:29,080 --> 00:34:31,760
Speaker 4: But at the same time, like there was no place

663
00:34:31,760 --> 00:34:34,680
Speaker 4: to build suites, there was no place for modern amenities

664
00:34:34,760 --> 00:34:38,040
Speaker 4: and scoreboarders and things like that, so it had to go,

665
00:34:38,200 --> 00:34:40,280
Speaker 4: but you know, it was on its way to becoming

666
00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:42,160
Speaker 4: you know, classic Matt.

667
00:34:42,200 --> 00:34:45,240
Speaker 1: You know what's fascinating. I think about this a lot

668
00:34:45,239 --> 00:34:46,960
Speaker 1: with Market Square and then I want to get to

669
00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:49,400
Speaker 1: the Colts Dolphins game obviously coming up on Sunday. But

670
00:34:49,440 --> 00:34:52,440
Speaker 1: I think about this a lot with Market Square. And

671
00:34:52,520 --> 00:34:56,000
Speaker 1: I've mentioned it a few times, but we don't think

672
00:34:56,040 --> 00:34:58,600
Speaker 1: about this. But if you think about the fact that

673
00:34:58,640 --> 00:35:01,680
Speaker 1: Market Square Arena was an elevated arena that had Market

674
00:35:01,719 --> 00:35:04,480
Speaker 1: Street running just below it, four stories above it, but

675
00:35:04,880 --> 00:35:06,960
Speaker 1: you literally you could drive underneath it. I mean, I

676
00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:09,280
Speaker 1: think the road was closed during games, but the bottom

677
00:35:09,360 --> 00:35:12,759
Speaker 1: line being you could get directly underneath it. When you

678
00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:15,840
Speaker 1: think about the world, and I don't mean this to

679
00:35:15,880 --> 00:35:20,719
Speaker 1: be trivial, but after particularly nine to eleven, and then

680
00:35:20,760 --> 00:35:23,600
Speaker 1: I guess Oklahoma City, even though when you think about

681
00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:26,680
Speaker 1: those aspects of the world that we live in today.

682
00:35:27,320 --> 00:35:28,960
Speaker 1: There's no way they would have been able to have

683
00:35:28,960 --> 00:35:29,960
Speaker 1: live events there anymore.

684
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:33,200
Speaker 4: Right, man, I never have thought about that.

685
00:35:33,320 --> 00:35:35,120
Speaker 1: I know that that's a really dark thing, but I

686
00:35:35,200 --> 00:35:37,239
Speaker 1: was like, gosh, you know what, Like, it's amazing to

687
00:35:37,280 --> 00:35:40,440
Speaker 1: think that you had immediate access directly underneath it, with

688
00:35:40,560 --> 00:35:42,000
Speaker 1: eighteen thousand people above you.

689
00:35:42,600 --> 00:35:42,839
Speaker 2: Yeah.

690
00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:44,440
Speaker 4: No, I mean to your point though. I mean I

691
00:35:44,760 --> 00:35:48,800
Speaker 4: remember going to games as a kid and parking around

692
00:35:48,800 --> 00:35:51,560
Speaker 4: the block and walking, you know, to that door right

693
00:35:51,600 --> 00:35:53,480
Speaker 4: at Market Square or Market Street.

694
00:35:53,560 --> 00:35:55,080
Speaker 5: Yeah, going up the steps.

695
00:35:55,080 --> 00:35:57,279
Speaker 4: Going up the steps, going up through the stairs, and

696
00:35:58,040 --> 00:36:00,400
Speaker 4: I could just I don't know, just things about your

697
00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:03,280
Speaker 4: childhood you can appreciate this, Like I remember you walked

698
00:36:03,280 --> 00:36:05,719
Speaker 4: you you open up the door that led into the

699
00:36:05,719 --> 00:36:08,440
Speaker 4: concourse at Marcus Square Arena, and I think, if I

700
00:36:08,440 --> 00:36:10,799
Speaker 4: if I stop and close my eyes and think real hard,

701
00:36:10,840 --> 00:36:12,879
Speaker 4: I can still smell it. Oh you know what I mean.

702
00:36:14,120 --> 00:36:17,040
Speaker 4: The stickiness of the concourse.

703
00:36:19,040 --> 00:36:22,600
Speaker 5: Was Kent cigarettes, right.

704
00:36:22,080 --> 00:36:25,520
Speaker 4: Yeah, that that was definitely baked into the walls for sure. Yeah,

705
00:36:25,520 --> 00:36:27,800
Speaker 4: you know, it's just I mean I used to beg

706
00:36:27,960 --> 00:36:31,000
Speaker 4: my dad, my dad, you know, he worked in an

707
00:36:31,040 --> 00:36:33,960
Speaker 4: office where that he would get pacer tickets thrown his

708
00:36:34,080 --> 00:36:36,600
Speaker 4: direction a couple of times a year, and then obviously

709
00:36:36,960 --> 00:36:38,719
Speaker 4: the better they got, the harder it was to get

710
00:36:38,719 --> 00:36:42,120
Speaker 4: tickets and freebies. But I mean when we did, I

711
00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:43,680
Speaker 4: just felt like you were on top of the world.

712
00:36:43,719 --> 00:36:44,320
Speaker 5: And totally.

713
00:36:44,680 --> 00:36:47,480
Speaker 4: I always remember those moments and how special they were

714
00:36:47,480 --> 00:36:49,560
Speaker 4: going to games with him, and you know, the whole

715
00:36:49,600 --> 00:36:51,319
Speaker 4: experience getting to our seats, Matt.

716
00:36:51,360 --> 00:36:54,560
Speaker 1: It's what I said when they were in the finals.

717
00:36:54,560 --> 00:36:57,040
Speaker 1: This year is all of that reawakened for me, right

718
00:36:57,080 --> 00:36:59,920
Speaker 1: going down to see Wayman Tisdale and John Long and

719
00:37:00,040 --> 00:37:02,719
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, step Bo and all right,

720
00:37:02,719 --> 00:37:05,239
Speaker 1: So for kids, obviously today in twenty twenty five, those

721
00:37:05,239 --> 00:37:07,200
Speaker 1: memories are going down to Lucas Oil. It's to watch

722
00:37:07,239 --> 00:37:10,120
Speaker 1: the Colts. It's to see this time of year when

723
00:37:10,200 --> 00:37:12,719
Speaker 1: hope spring's eternal and there's optimism. And I've said I

724
00:37:12,760 --> 00:37:15,520
Speaker 1: do like the roster. I know the quarterback position is

725
00:37:16,160 --> 00:37:18,800
Speaker 1: one that is of intrigue, but I like the roster

726
00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:21,959
Speaker 1: in general. But from what you have been able to tell,

727
00:37:22,040 --> 00:37:24,560
Speaker 1: we just talked about it with Chris down in Miami.

728
00:37:24,600 --> 00:37:28,719
Speaker 1: From your perspective, the thing about the Dolphins that the

729
00:37:28,760 --> 00:37:31,200
Speaker 1: Colts might be able to take advantage of or is

730
00:37:31,239 --> 00:37:33,680
Speaker 1: this even matt at this time of year. Are they

731
00:37:33,719 --> 00:37:37,600
Speaker 1: even game planning of breaking down film on what they

732
00:37:37,640 --> 00:37:39,719
Speaker 1: think Miami's going to do, or do you just in

733
00:37:39,760 --> 00:37:41,919
Speaker 1: week one kind of push in on who you are

734
00:37:42,640 --> 00:37:44,680
Speaker 1: and wait to see what the opponent does.

735
00:37:46,080 --> 00:37:48,200
Speaker 4: Yeah, I still think you can gain plan based on

736
00:37:48,280 --> 00:37:52,480
Speaker 4: personnel in tendencies of coordinators and things like that. Defensively,

737
00:37:52,520 --> 00:37:56,320
Speaker 4: they still have the same coordinator from last year, Anthony Weaver,

738
00:37:56,960 --> 00:37:59,480
Speaker 4: and you know, this was a top ten defense last

739
00:37:59,560 --> 00:38:02,439
Speaker 4: year across the board and front seven wise, it's still

740
00:38:02,480 --> 00:38:04,480
Speaker 4: pretty good and they still have a lot of the

741
00:38:04,480 --> 00:38:08,960
Speaker 4: core guys that were really really stingy in twenty twenty four.

742
00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:12,359
Speaker 4: But the back end is completely different, and I think

743
00:38:12,400 --> 00:38:14,759
Speaker 4: you can exploit it. I mean guys like I mean,

744
00:38:14,880 --> 00:38:17,480
Speaker 4: Mika Fitzpatrick is back and so like I think he's

745
00:38:17,520 --> 00:38:19,920
Speaker 4: one of my favorite safeties in the league. But he's

746
00:38:19,960 --> 00:38:21,920
Speaker 4: only been there for about a month. You know, he

747
00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:27,000
Speaker 4: was traded right before traded from Pittsburgh right before training

748
00:38:27,040 --> 00:38:30,880
Speaker 4: camp started. But I mean the other names Rasul Douglas

749
00:38:30,920 --> 00:38:33,839
Speaker 4: and a Fadi melifon Wu and you're gonna love this guy.

750
00:38:33,880 --> 00:38:35,920
Speaker 4: From Louisville Storm Duck, remember him.

751
00:38:35,760 --> 00:38:38,680
Speaker 5: Coming to Oregon. That's what I was saying.

752
00:38:39,120 --> 00:38:42,640
Speaker 4: I mean completely marketing dropped the ball right there. But

753
00:38:43,239 --> 00:38:45,960
Speaker 4: I think defensively, you know, the Colts can get some

754
00:38:46,040 --> 00:38:49,000
Speaker 4: things done. I think personnel wise against that secondary now

755
00:38:49,040 --> 00:38:52,120
Speaker 4: obviously way easier said than done, but at least on paper,

756
00:38:52,440 --> 00:38:54,560
Speaker 4: that is going to be the weakness of that defense,

757
00:38:54,600 --> 00:38:57,880
Speaker 4: whereas being able to stop the run and putting pressure

758
00:38:57,920 --> 00:39:01,799
Speaker 4: on Daniel Jones at least initially is their strength. But

759
00:39:01,840 --> 00:39:03,640
Speaker 4: I think if guys on the outside can win their

760
00:39:03,680 --> 00:39:06,440
Speaker 4: one on one matchups and pittman and downs and certainly

761
00:39:06,480 --> 00:39:08,799
Speaker 4: pierce to get some of those big plays that you

762
00:39:08,880 --> 00:39:12,320
Speaker 4: have to have to expedite scoring, I think the secondary

763
00:39:12,440 --> 00:39:14,560
Speaker 4: can be had in this game. But again, like you said,

764
00:39:14,800 --> 00:39:17,480
Speaker 4: it's week one, not a ton of film on these

765
00:39:17,520 --> 00:39:20,600
Speaker 4: guys playing together within this game, and you know, in

766
00:39:20,840 --> 00:39:24,600
Speaker 4: this defense under Anthony Weaver. But I think it's exciting

767
00:39:24,680 --> 00:39:28,040
Speaker 4: to think about, you know, the yards after the catch

768
00:39:28,080 --> 00:39:30,640
Speaker 4: and the screens and the over routes and exploiting the

769
00:39:31,160 --> 00:39:33,680
Speaker 4: middle of the field that we've talked agnauseum all off

770
00:39:33,680 --> 00:39:37,120
Speaker 4: season about from Daniel Jones that could be on display

771
00:39:37,200 --> 00:39:39,000
Speaker 4: prevalent early on in week one.

772
00:39:39,400 --> 00:39:44,160
Speaker 1: When you look Matt at Daniel Jones, and you know,

773
00:39:44,239 --> 00:39:47,360
Speaker 1: I do think that Daniel Jones is a better athlete

774
00:39:47,440 --> 00:39:49,680
Speaker 1: than is given credit. I think that he has some

775
00:39:49,719 --> 00:39:52,160
Speaker 1: wheels about him. But I don't know that you'd design

776
00:39:52,360 --> 00:39:54,799
Speaker 1: plays for him in that area, right, I mean, he can,

777
00:39:55,160 --> 00:39:57,640
Speaker 1: he can extend plays. I don't know that you design

778
00:39:57,760 --> 00:40:01,359
Speaker 1: running plays for him. But the offense that we became

779
00:40:01,400 --> 00:40:05,120
Speaker 1: accustomed to, un excuse me, under Anthony Richardson, will be

780
00:40:05,360 --> 00:40:07,080
Speaker 1: different than under Daniel Jones.

781
00:40:07,120 --> 00:40:10,160
Speaker 5: How I don't think that it will.

782
00:40:10,200 --> 00:40:12,400
Speaker 4: I think the only difference is you may not, to

783
00:40:12,440 --> 00:40:15,520
Speaker 4: your point, see as many design runs. You know, with Richardson,

784
00:40:15,960 --> 00:40:18,399
Speaker 4: towards the end of last year, you've got about five

785
00:40:18,480 --> 00:40:21,759
Speaker 4: or six design runs, depending on the matchup in the game.

786
00:40:22,600 --> 00:40:25,680
Speaker 4: With Daniel Jones, you might see one or two. But

787
00:40:25,800 --> 00:40:28,480
Speaker 4: that's not to say that you know, he can't scramble

788
00:40:28,520 --> 00:40:31,239
Speaker 4: out of the pocket and produce big time with his feet.

789
00:40:31,280 --> 00:40:34,640
Speaker 4: I mean, Jonathon Taylor today talked about just that about

790
00:40:35,600 --> 00:40:37,839
Speaker 4: he tried to use the word deceptive. But I think

791
00:40:37,840 --> 00:40:42,640
Speaker 4: it's inappropriate to talk about Daniel Jones's athleticism because.

792
00:40:42,440 --> 00:40:43,320
Speaker 2: It's not deceptive.

793
00:40:43,360 --> 00:40:46,600
Speaker 4: It's pretty obvious how fast and fleet of foot this

794
00:40:46,680 --> 00:40:48,600
Speaker 4: guy is. I mean, he's got the sixth most rushing

795
00:40:48,680 --> 00:40:52,479
Speaker 4: yards among quarterbacks since twenty nineteen. He's averaging five point

796
00:40:52,560 --> 00:40:55,720
Speaker 4: six yards per carry for his career, and he's actually

797
00:40:55,760 --> 00:40:58,960
Speaker 4: got the Giants all time rushing record for a single

798
00:40:59,040 --> 00:41:02,359
Speaker 4: season back twenty twenty two when he was over seven

799
00:41:02,480 --> 00:41:05,399
Speaker 4: hundred yards for that season. But like I said, it's

800
00:41:05,440 --> 00:41:08,080
Speaker 4: not a lot of design runs, just a couple. But

801
00:41:08,120 --> 00:41:11,280
Speaker 4: I think that's important to display those to a certain

802
00:41:11,360 --> 00:41:15,000
Speaker 4: degree because it will keep defensive ends honest in the

803
00:41:15,080 --> 00:41:18,160
Speaker 4: red zone game. It will, you know, keep those linebackers

804
00:41:18,200 --> 00:41:19,840
Speaker 4: sucked up in the line of scrim a is just

805
00:41:19,880 --> 00:41:22,560
Speaker 4: a hair. I mean, the NFL is all about timing

806
00:41:22,640 --> 00:41:26,160
Speaker 4: and you know, milliseconds of you know, angles to be

807
00:41:26,160 --> 00:41:29,440
Speaker 4: able to get footballs into in the passing game. That's

808
00:41:29,480 --> 00:41:32,920
Speaker 4: why play action is important for defenses to respect the

809
00:41:33,520 --> 00:41:37,360
Speaker 4: running ability from from Daniel Jones. So yeah, again, I

810
00:41:37,400 --> 00:41:40,600
Speaker 4: don't think you're gonna see aesthetically a ton of difference

811
00:41:40,680 --> 00:41:44,120
Speaker 4: between Richardson Richardson led team or a Jones led team.

812
00:41:44,600 --> 00:41:46,919
Speaker 4: Just think you're probably not going to call as many

813
00:41:46,960 --> 00:41:49,279
Speaker 4: design runs as you would with Richardson, but that's not

814
00:41:49,360 --> 00:41:52,360
Speaker 4: to say the Colts won't prioritize that with Daniel Jones.

815
00:41:52,520 --> 00:41:57,560
Speaker 5: Matt, you've ever seen the movie Bad Santa.

816
00:41:56,160 --> 00:41:56,879
Speaker 2: With Billy Bob.

817
00:41:57,000 --> 00:42:00,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, when I say this is probably going to offend you,

818
00:42:01,040 --> 00:42:03,160
Speaker 1: but we've known each other a long time now. When

819
00:42:03,160 --> 00:42:04,680
Speaker 1: I think of the kid in that movie, you know,

820
00:42:04,760 --> 00:42:06,160
Speaker 1: the kid in Bad Santa.

821
00:42:07,239 --> 00:42:09,000
Speaker 5: Yeah, the kid.

822
00:42:09,080 --> 00:42:11,040
Speaker 1: The look on that kid's face to the majority of

823
00:42:11,040 --> 00:42:15,520
Speaker 1: that movie, and just his overall stature, that's I kind

824
00:42:15,520 --> 00:42:18,320
Speaker 1: of think of, like nine year old Matt Taylor finding

825
00:42:18,320 --> 00:42:20,759
Speaker 1: out that he can't go to the Pacer game as

826
00:42:20,840 --> 00:42:22,240
Speaker 1: that kid wearing tough skins.

827
00:42:22,360 --> 00:42:23,080
Speaker 5: Is that about right?

828
00:42:24,120 --> 00:42:26,319
Speaker 4: Yeah? I mean if I had a mirror at the time,

829
00:42:26,520 --> 00:42:28,279
Speaker 4: you know, dad comes home and got shut out on

830
00:42:28,360 --> 00:42:30,640
Speaker 4: tickets is probably what it looks like.

831
00:42:30,640 --> 00:42:30,759
Speaker 6: Like.

832
00:42:31,120 --> 00:42:33,280
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not saying that you were a portly kid,

833
00:42:33,360 --> 00:42:35,920
Speaker 1: because you're not now, but you're a bigger bone guy, right,

834
00:42:35,960 --> 00:42:38,480
Speaker 1: your a football stature. Were you a portly kid?

835
00:42:39,960 --> 00:42:43,680
Speaker 4: No? No, I mean I was. I actually didn't really

836
00:42:43,719 --> 00:42:46,799
Speaker 4: fill out until I got to college. I had a

837
00:42:46,800 --> 00:42:48,640
Speaker 4: hard time keeping on weight, to be honest with you,

838
00:42:48,840 --> 00:42:52,200
Speaker 4: So me, I was yeah, yeah, I mean, I probably

839
00:42:52,760 --> 00:42:55,480
Speaker 4: weighed under two hundred and twenty pounds until I was

840
00:42:55,520 --> 00:42:56,920
Speaker 4: a junior in college.

841
00:42:57,000 --> 00:43:00,000
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah enough, all right, Matt Taylor, by the way,

842
00:43:00,080 --> 00:43:02,320
Speaker 1: the voice of the Colts, our guest, Colts and Dolphins

843
00:43:02,360 --> 00:43:05,200
Speaker 1: coming up Lucas Oil Stadium here in week number one.

844
00:43:05,239 --> 00:43:06,960
Speaker 1: It is a fun time of year because you just

845
00:43:07,560 --> 00:43:09,880
Speaker 1: you look at it and you start kind of trying

846
00:43:09,880 --> 00:43:12,400
Speaker 1: to figure out where the wins are gonna come, what

847
00:43:12,480 --> 00:43:14,759
Speaker 1: games are going to be tough. I just look at it, Matt,

848
00:43:14,760 --> 00:43:16,879
Speaker 1: and I want your thought on this. I think these

849
00:43:16,960 --> 00:43:21,200
Speaker 1: first two games are so important, not just because they're

850
00:43:21,200 --> 00:43:22,799
Speaker 1: at home and you want to get off on a

851
00:43:22,840 --> 00:43:26,440
Speaker 1: good start, but because they are two teams that I

852
00:43:26,600 --> 00:43:29,480
Speaker 1: look at and say, if the Colts were to hit

853
00:43:29,560 --> 00:43:32,399
Speaker 1: their ceiling this year, these are two teams that are

854
00:43:32,400 --> 00:43:34,400
Speaker 1: going to be kind of hanging around their neighborhood the

855
00:43:34,400 --> 00:43:34,839
Speaker 1: whole time.

856
00:43:34,960 --> 00:43:37,040
Speaker 5: You agree with that, I could.

857
00:43:36,960 --> 00:43:38,719
Speaker 4: Agree with that more. I mean, you look at the

858
00:43:38,760 --> 00:43:42,279
Speaker 4: AFC East with the Dolphins and their representation. Buffalo's won

859
00:43:42,360 --> 00:43:45,000
Speaker 4: that division five years in a row. Here comes the

860
00:43:45,000 --> 00:43:48,520
Speaker 4: Broncos in Week two. You know they're in the AFC West.

861
00:43:48,560 --> 00:43:51,440
Speaker 4: The Chiefs have won that division you know, nine years

862
00:43:51,440 --> 00:43:53,920
Speaker 4: in a row, so they definitely have some you know,

863
00:43:54,040 --> 00:43:58,399
Speaker 4: road blockages to winning their division historically, and so you thought,

864
00:43:58,400 --> 00:44:01,560
Speaker 4: you start thinking about wild card amplifications right out of

865
00:44:01,600 --> 00:44:03,960
Speaker 4: the gate, and you know, these head to head matchups

866
00:44:04,000 --> 00:44:06,799
Speaker 4: are going to I think, just hold a kind of

867
00:44:06,800 --> 00:44:09,760
Speaker 4: weight and hold a lot of magnitude when you start

868
00:44:09,760 --> 00:44:12,799
Speaker 4: getting out the tie breaker situations like we always do

869
00:44:12,920 --> 00:44:17,400
Speaker 4: inevitably towards the end of the season, you know, weeks fifteen, sixteen,

870
00:44:17,480 --> 00:44:20,640
Speaker 4: seventeen and so on and so forth. So it's really

871
00:44:20,719 --> 00:44:24,640
Speaker 4: really important for that. But I just think it's really

872
00:44:25,920 --> 00:44:28,800
Speaker 4: you know, the whole Jim Mersey component for Sunday matters,

873
00:44:29,280 --> 00:44:31,080
Speaker 4: the whole We have a one a week, one game

874
00:44:31,160 --> 00:44:34,920
Speaker 4: since twenty thirteen that matters. I mean, it doesn't, but

875
00:44:34,960 --> 00:44:38,279
Speaker 4: it also does just because the fans know about it,

876
00:44:38,360 --> 00:44:40,440
Speaker 4: and the fans are jaded, and the fans want to

877
00:44:40,480 --> 00:44:43,279
Speaker 4: see results and trying to make the playoffs for the

878
00:44:43,280 --> 00:44:45,520
Speaker 4: first time in four years. Why is this year going

879
00:44:45,600 --> 00:44:48,879
Speaker 4: to be different? Why should we believe in Daniel Jones? Right,

880
00:44:48,920 --> 00:44:53,120
Speaker 4: We've had eleven different quarterbacks start a game since twenty nineteen.

881
00:44:53,200 --> 00:44:55,280
Speaker 4: Why is this going to be different? Why is Daniel

882
00:44:55,360 --> 00:44:58,520
Speaker 4: Jones gonna you know, produce big time results. Like I

883
00:44:58,560 --> 00:45:02,120
Speaker 4: totally understand all of that. And so just from a

884
00:45:02,920 --> 00:45:05,840
Speaker 4: I guess from a marketing angle and from you know,

885
00:45:05,880 --> 00:45:08,359
Speaker 4: a team locker room angle that's tired of hearing about

886
00:45:08,400 --> 00:45:11,880
Speaker 4: all those things, those things can all go away just

887
00:45:11,920 --> 00:45:14,240
Speaker 4: by winning, you know, just by putting your best foot

888
00:45:14,280 --> 00:45:16,560
Speaker 4: forward and all of those things. It's like a big

889
00:45:16,600 --> 00:45:19,480
Speaker 4: domino effect. If you win, all of those things just

890
00:45:19,520 --> 00:45:22,280
Speaker 4: sort of take care of themselves and naturally just go away,

891
00:45:22,680 --> 00:45:25,600
Speaker 4: and people start to pay attention more, and people start

892
00:45:25,600 --> 00:45:28,319
Speaker 4: to believe a little bit more and buy into, you know,

893
00:45:28,360 --> 00:45:31,439
Speaker 4: the plan here. So it's a it's a results driven league.

894
00:45:31,480 --> 00:45:33,279
Speaker 4: It's put up or shut up time. And that's why

895
00:45:33,320 --> 00:45:36,759
Speaker 4: I'm excited about Sundays because you know, since March when

896
00:45:36,800 --> 00:45:40,120
Speaker 4: there was a quarterback battle announced between Anthony Richardson and

897
00:45:40,200 --> 00:45:43,640
Speaker 4: Daniel Jones, and you know, we were going to kind

898
00:45:43,640 --> 00:45:46,279
Speaker 4: of reset things in terms of consistency and all of

899
00:45:46,280 --> 00:45:49,759
Speaker 4: that stuff. It's just been talked, it's been conjecture. You know,

900
00:45:49,840 --> 00:45:52,640
Speaker 4: things have progressed a little bit obviously during training camp

901
00:45:52,680 --> 00:45:57,120
Speaker 4: and the preseason, but we talked about this last week.

902
00:45:57,239 --> 00:46:00,920
Speaker 4: You simply do not know until you start playing regular

903
00:46:00,960 --> 00:46:04,520
Speaker 4: season games. Like things you think you are confident in

904
00:46:04,840 --> 00:46:07,080
Speaker 4: that are going to be strengths of your team, you

905
00:46:07,280 --> 00:46:08,920
Speaker 4: just do not know how those things are going to

906
00:46:09,040 --> 00:46:12,000
Speaker 4: unfold and still you start playing regular season games. So,

907
00:46:12,040 --> 00:46:15,560
Speaker 4: like from a personally, I'm really excited for Sunday because

908
00:46:15,600 --> 00:46:18,760
Speaker 4: we're going to get some concrete answers to some questions

909
00:46:18,760 --> 00:46:20,799
Speaker 4: that we've been debating and kind of kicking around for

910
00:46:20,840 --> 00:46:23,120
Speaker 4: the last you know, five or six months.

911
00:46:23,200 --> 00:46:25,520
Speaker 1: There has been you know, one of those questions, Matt

912
00:46:25,640 --> 00:46:28,040
Speaker 1: is that of when are we finally going to see

913
00:46:28,600 --> 00:46:31,560
Speaker 1: Ady Mitchell show why he was drafted where he was

914
00:46:31,600 --> 00:46:34,360
Speaker 1: and why there has been belief in him. And my

915
00:46:34,560 --> 00:46:39,160
Speaker 1: concern would be that now schematically they do things that

916
00:46:39,200 --> 00:46:42,920
Speaker 1: are not necessarily there to showcase Ady Mitchell.

917
00:46:43,000 --> 00:46:43,640
Speaker 5: Am I wrong?

918
00:46:47,760 --> 00:46:47,960
Speaker 2: No?

919
00:46:48,000 --> 00:46:52,720
Speaker 4: I mean last year, last year, schematically A. D. Mitchell

920
00:46:53,120 --> 00:46:56,680
Speaker 4: was very much involved in this offense and for him,

921
00:46:56,719 --> 00:46:59,960
Speaker 4: getting open was never the problem. It was just finishing routes,

922
00:47:00,600 --> 00:47:05,120
Speaker 4: interpreting defenses, and finishing the play. I mean his catch

923
00:47:05,200 --> 00:47:08,640
Speaker 4: rate last year was like forty seven percent, you know,

924
00:47:08,680 --> 00:47:11,040
Speaker 4: like that was one of the worst catch rates in

925
00:47:11,080 --> 00:47:13,440
Speaker 4: the league. I think actually it was based on the

926
00:47:13,480 --> 00:47:17,440
Speaker 4: requirements that you have to be to qualify for for

927
00:47:17,480 --> 00:47:22,080
Speaker 4: that that measurement. So him, his playmaking ability has never

928
00:47:22,160 --> 00:47:26,759
Speaker 4: been the question. It's just him trying to mature and

929
00:47:26,880 --> 00:47:30,680
Speaker 4: grow and finish those plays that you know, he's doing

930
00:47:30,719 --> 00:47:33,480
Speaker 4: a nice job of setting himself up for success by

931
00:47:33,920 --> 00:47:37,759
Speaker 4: his athleticism, his speed, his route running ability. He's just

932
00:47:37,760 --> 00:47:39,879
Speaker 4: got to finish them off. So I mean to say

933
00:47:39,920 --> 00:47:45,000
Speaker 4: that a d Mitchell is not a emphasis to to

934
00:47:45,120 --> 00:47:47,359
Speaker 4: draw up going into the season. I don't. I don't.

935
00:47:47,800 --> 00:47:51,120
Speaker 1: I don't at all, because I think of him as

936
00:47:51,120 --> 00:47:53,960
Speaker 1: a behind the defense guy. Maybe he's maybe he is

937
00:47:54,000 --> 00:47:57,560
Speaker 1: a little bit more like a quick down and out guy,

938
00:47:57,560 --> 00:47:59,319
Speaker 1: but I think of him as more like the deep

939
00:47:59,440 --> 00:48:02,880
Speaker 1: ball home run threat, like an Alec Pierce is sure

940
00:48:03,120 --> 00:48:06,440
Speaker 1: and then and that's what I mean is does Daniel Jones?

941
00:48:06,640 --> 00:48:09,680
Speaker 1: Will they set those kinds of plays for Daniel Jones

942
00:48:09,719 --> 00:48:10,799
Speaker 1: to take advantage of that?

943
00:48:11,520 --> 00:48:14,040
Speaker 4: Yeah? Good, good point. And I think they have to,

944
00:48:14,320 --> 00:48:16,640
Speaker 4: I really do. I mean, I've talked about this a lot.

945
00:48:16,719 --> 00:48:20,080
Speaker 4: I mean, Jonathan Taylor is going to be the focal

946
00:48:20,120 --> 00:48:22,719
Speaker 4: point of the offense and every defense is going to

947
00:48:22,800 --> 00:48:25,800
Speaker 4: sell out to, you know, take him away first and foremost.

948
00:48:26,160 --> 00:48:29,840
Speaker 4: But in order for Jonathan Taylor to reach his full potential,

949
00:48:29,880 --> 00:48:31,520
Speaker 4: if that's the right way to put it within the

950
00:48:31,560 --> 00:48:34,879
Speaker 4: offense is you got to have more in the passing game, right,

951
00:48:34,920 --> 00:48:38,239
Speaker 4: I mean twice in his career, Jonathan Taylor's been over

952
00:48:38,280 --> 00:48:40,520
Speaker 4: fourteen hundred rushing yards and the Colts haven't made the

953
00:48:40,520 --> 00:48:43,360
Speaker 4: playoffs in either one of those seasons. They have to

954
00:48:43,400 --> 00:48:45,560
Speaker 4: have more in the passing game, and they have to

955
00:48:45,600 --> 00:48:49,239
Speaker 4: have more in the explosive passing game where Mitchell and

956
00:48:49,400 --> 00:48:53,080
Speaker 4: Pierce specifically, you know, are accentuated. And it's just hard

957
00:48:53,120 --> 00:48:56,160
Speaker 4: to score on drives when you're going ten to twelve plays.

958
00:48:56,160 --> 00:48:58,399
Speaker 4: It just is a lot of things can screw it up.

959
00:48:58,719 --> 00:49:00,520
Speaker 4: You know, you can get a pre snap, you can

960
00:49:00,560 --> 00:49:02,880
Speaker 4: get sacked, and all of a sudden you're behind the chains.

961
00:49:03,440 --> 00:49:06,120
Speaker 4: So you got to have the threat of those big

962
00:49:06,160 --> 00:49:09,720
Speaker 4: plays to widen up the box and then to also

963
00:49:09,920 --> 00:49:12,799
Speaker 4: widen out the defense so that they respect what you're

964
00:49:12,840 --> 00:49:16,080
Speaker 4: going to do on the outside, big play potential outside

965
00:49:16,120 --> 00:49:19,520
Speaker 4: the numbers, so that you can then take advantage of,

966
00:49:19,800 --> 00:49:21,720
Speaker 4: you know, the defense in terms of how it reads.

967
00:49:21,760 --> 00:49:24,680
Speaker 4: Then to run Taylor, you know, on the downs where

968
00:49:24,680 --> 00:49:27,760
Speaker 4: it's appropriate. So yeah, I mean for his career, Daniel

969
00:49:27,840 --> 00:49:32,000
Speaker 4: Jones is like six point eight yards per attempt and

970
00:49:32,080 --> 00:49:34,120
Speaker 4: for those that don't know, like a good yards per

971
00:49:34,160 --> 00:49:37,719
Speaker 4: attempt number is like seven point five, seven point eight

972
00:49:37,760 --> 00:49:40,840
Speaker 4: somewhere in there. So he's I mean, Shane Styken I

973
00:49:40,840 --> 00:49:44,319
Speaker 4: think is definitely stressing that to Daniel Jones that hey,

974
00:49:44,320 --> 00:49:46,479
Speaker 4: we got to hunt those completions, like we've talked about,

975
00:49:46,520 --> 00:49:49,439
Speaker 4: you got to be consistent. But also this offense has

976
00:49:49,480 --> 00:49:53,280
Speaker 4: to have those big plays to help mitigate scoring. And

977
00:49:53,480 --> 00:49:55,760
Speaker 4: you know, for this offense to reach its full potential

978
00:49:55,760 --> 00:49:58,120
Speaker 4: with all the weapons, you know, Taylor in the running

979
00:49:58,160 --> 00:50:00,799
Speaker 4: game over the middle of Tyler Warren and and then

980
00:50:00,800 --> 00:50:03,239
Speaker 4: on the outside, we have to be able to incorporate

981
00:50:03,520 --> 00:50:06,320
Speaker 4: Pierce and Mitchell, you know, to stress the defense fully.

982
00:50:06,600 --> 00:50:09,719
Speaker 1: Okay, lastly, Matt, here we go. I want you to

983
00:50:09,719 --> 00:50:11,439
Speaker 1: get me. I think we did this last year as well.

984
00:50:12,400 --> 00:50:14,200
Speaker 1: I want you to give me two names. You can

985
00:50:14,239 --> 00:50:16,160
Speaker 1: do three if you'd like, but give me a name,

986
00:50:16,360 --> 00:50:20,880
Speaker 1: a couple of names on this Colt roster that you

987
00:50:20,960 --> 00:50:23,439
Speaker 1: need to introduce people to it and prepare them now

988
00:50:23,560 --> 00:50:25,480
Speaker 1: because you're going to be saying their name a lot

989
00:50:25,480 --> 00:50:28,200
Speaker 1: this year, and people might not be familiar with them,

990
00:50:28,239 --> 00:50:29,840
Speaker 1: they might not heard the name. They may it's a

991
00:50:29,880 --> 00:50:32,000
Speaker 1: new face, it's a new name, it's a new scheme,

992
00:50:32,440 --> 00:50:34,319
Speaker 1: whatever it might be. But when you look at it,

993
00:50:34,360 --> 00:50:37,560
Speaker 1: you go, yeah, I better. You know you're you're sitting

994
00:50:37,600 --> 00:50:39,600
Speaker 1: around the house going, I gotta practice saying this guy's

995
00:50:39,680 --> 00:50:41,160
Speaker 1: name because they're going to be saying it a lot.

996
00:50:42,280 --> 00:50:42,440
Speaker 2: Well.

997
00:50:42,440 --> 00:50:44,759
Speaker 4: I think on defense, Joe Bachi is going to get

998
00:50:44,760 --> 00:50:47,760
Speaker 4: a tremendous opportunity right now. He's listed as the starting

999
00:50:47,800 --> 00:50:52,000
Speaker 4: linebacker along with Zaire Franklin. And Joe was with lou

1000
00:50:52,040 --> 00:50:54,799
Speaker 4: Ana Rumo for the last four years and Cincinnati was

1001
00:50:54,960 --> 00:50:58,759
Speaker 4: primarily a core special teams guy for the Bengals. I mean,

1002
00:50:59,160 --> 00:51:01,960
Speaker 4: I think last year he only played thirty seven snaps

1003
00:51:02,000 --> 00:51:04,719
Speaker 4: on defense and he's only made two starts in his

1004
00:51:04,800 --> 00:51:07,600
Speaker 4: career on defense. But he was behind some really good

1005
00:51:07,640 --> 00:51:10,040
Speaker 4: linebackers there in Cincinnati, so he really didn't kind of

1006
00:51:10,040 --> 00:51:13,239
Speaker 4: get his chance. But here with the Colts, you know,

1007
00:51:13,360 --> 00:51:16,120
Speaker 4: Jalen Carlile starts the year on IR he's kind of

1008
00:51:16,120 --> 00:51:21,400
Speaker 4: bating for time with guys like Cameron mcgroan and Austin

1009
00:51:21,480 --> 00:51:24,480
Speaker 4: a GK, and he earned that starting job. So you're

1010
00:51:24,480 --> 00:51:26,600
Speaker 4: gonna see number forty eight out there a lot for

1011
00:51:26,640 --> 00:51:30,120
Speaker 4: the Colts. That is Joe Bachi with a Stuttn college

1012
00:51:30,160 --> 00:51:34,000
Speaker 4: at Michigan State AND's really excited about, you know, taking

1013
00:51:34,040 --> 00:51:36,240
Speaker 4: on more of an opportunity here and knows this defense

1014
00:51:36,280 --> 00:51:37,839
Speaker 4: like the back of his hand. Like I said, he's

1015
00:51:37,840 --> 00:51:40,400
Speaker 4: been with Loui an Arumo for the last four years

1016
00:51:40,400 --> 00:51:43,200
Speaker 4: since he broke into the league, so he's been teaching

1017
00:51:43,200 --> 00:51:45,560
Speaker 4: that defense to a lot of guys that are you know,

1018
00:51:45,560 --> 00:51:48,960
Speaker 4: in that first year under this scheme. So I'm excited

1019
00:51:48,960 --> 00:51:51,600
Speaker 4: about his opportunity and what he can add to the defense.

1020
00:51:51,640 --> 00:51:54,759
Speaker 4: Now that being said, Loui an Arumo is also a

1021
00:51:54,800 --> 00:51:58,000
Speaker 4: big sub package guy, so he's gonna play with you know,

1022
00:51:58,080 --> 00:52:02,439
Speaker 4: five cornerbacks or five different defensive back sometimes fix which

1023
00:52:02,480 --> 00:52:05,319
Speaker 4: will then take Botchie off of the field depending on

1024
00:52:05,360 --> 00:52:07,520
Speaker 4: the matchup. So you know, just kind of keep an

1025
00:52:07,520 --> 00:52:10,799
Speaker 4: eye on him in terms of his playing time and fluctuation.

1026
00:52:11,760 --> 00:52:14,560
Speaker 4: And then on offense, I'm still excited about DJ Gettons.

1027
00:52:14,600 --> 00:52:16,719
Speaker 4: He's going to be, at least as of right now,

1028
00:52:17,600 --> 00:52:21,879
Speaker 4: probably the primary backup running back to Jonathan Taylor. Now,

1029
00:52:22,040 --> 00:52:25,879
Speaker 4: right away we've talked about this internally, you know, he's

1030
00:52:25,920 --> 00:52:28,440
Speaker 4: a rookie and Sunday is going to be his first

1031
00:52:28,440 --> 00:52:30,919
Speaker 4: taste of the NFL in the regular season. I would

1032
00:52:31,000 --> 00:52:34,480
Speaker 4: suspect just to hunch or make the assumption that, you know,

1033
00:52:34,600 --> 00:52:37,279
Speaker 4: right away, he's probably not in store for ten to

1034
00:52:37,280 --> 00:52:39,919
Speaker 4: twelve carries. That's asking a lot right out of the gate.

1035
00:52:40,080 --> 00:52:41,479
Speaker 4: I think the colt are trying to kind of steal

1036
00:52:41,600 --> 00:52:43,560
Speaker 4: him out. But you know, in college, he was a

1037
00:52:43,560 --> 00:52:45,799
Speaker 4: thirteen hundred yard rusher in each of the last two

1038
00:52:45,880 --> 00:52:48,840
Speaker 4: years in the Big twelve at Kansas State. Big yards

1039
00:52:48,840 --> 00:52:51,200
Speaker 4: per carry guy and catch the ball out of the backfield,

1040
00:52:51,239 --> 00:52:54,480
Speaker 4: really deceptive, you know, out of the backfield catching the

1041
00:52:54,480 --> 00:52:57,279
Speaker 4: ball too. So he's going to be a big time playmaker,

1042
00:52:57,320 --> 00:52:58,680
Speaker 4: and I think he's going to take on a bigger

1043
00:52:58,760 --> 00:53:01,080
Speaker 4: role as the season goes on. But it's kind of

1044
00:53:01,640 --> 00:53:03,840
Speaker 4: up in the air what we see see out of

1045
00:53:03,920 --> 00:53:05,919
Speaker 4: him on Sunday, just because he's going to be doing

1046
00:53:05,960 --> 00:53:07,880
Speaker 4: it for the first time and there's a lot of

1047
00:53:07,920 --> 00:53:10,480
Speaker 4: trust that kind of goes into that. So it wouldn't

1048
00:53:10,520 --> 00:53:13,880
Speaker 4: surprise me to see Taylor get is typical, you know,

1049
00:53:14,000 --> 00:53:17,080
Speaker 4: eighteen to twenty two, twenty three carries, in this game

1050
00:53:17,160 --> 00:53:19,880
Speaker 4: on Sunday, and then the Colts try to reevaluate just

1051
00:53:19,920 --> 00:53:23,200
Speaker 4: how you know, up to speed. DJ Gidtons is after

1052
00:53:23,200 --> 00:53:25,160
Speaker 4: watching the game field and then a game film, I

1053
00:53:25,160 --> 00:53:28,480
Speaker 4: should say, and then kind of reevaluate his role, you know,

1054
00:53:28,520 --> 00:53:29,840
Speaker 4: weeks two and three and beyond.

1055
00:53:30,280 --> 00:53:35,279
Speaker 5: First concert you saw at Market Square Arena, Tom Petty.

1056
00:53:34,960 --> 00:53:37,000
Speaker 4: And the Heartbreakers in nineteen ninety seven.

1057
00:53:37,200 --> 00:53:40,200
Speaker 5: That's pretty good. That's solid. Yep, solid, hard to beat.

1058
00:53:40,520 --> 00:53:42,279
Speaker 5: That is all right, Matt.

1059
00:53:42,320 --> 00:53:44,760
Speaker 1: We look forward to it coming up Sunday, Colts Dolphins,

1060
00:53:44,800 --> 00:53:45,640
Speaker 1: Lucas Oil Stadium.

1061
00:53:45,680 --> 00:53:46,560
Speaker 5: We'll be listening to it.

1062
00:53:47,360 --> 00:53:48,319
Speaker 4: I appreciate you guys.

1063
00:53:48,360 --> 00:53:50,839
Speaker 5: Be well, all right, Matt Taylor, the Voice of the

1064
00:53:50,840 --> 00:53:51,120
Speaker 5: Colts