Speaker 1: All right, we are back another edition here of Colts
Speaker 1: Corner with myself Kevin Bowen. Unfortunate Eddie Garrison cannot make
Speaker 1: it here on this Wednesday morning, but definitely time to
Speaker 1: check in with you from Colts training camp. Six practices
Speaker 1: in seven to go, big night practice situational scrimmage coming
Speaker 1: up on Thursday night. I know Shane Second's pretty giddy
Speaker 1: about that practice. Really, the first true night practice. I
Speaker 1: guess they're wheeling in some lights or they gotta do
Speaker 1: something up there at Grand Park for the nine o'clock hours, certainly,
Speaker 1: so eight to ten fireworks afterwards, and then you know,
Speaker 1: after those two morning weekend practices, things will shift.
Speaker 2: To Baltimore for the Colts. They'll be there all.
Speaker 1: Next week, just one joint practice in one preseason game,
Speaker 1: but I won't have another practice at Grand Park until
Speaker 1: the following weekend here, so kind of the midway point
Speaker 1: of camp. So we'll go over the offense, go over
Speaker 1: the defense. Good amount of Twitter questions as always, thank
Speaker 1: you guys for sending those in. Continue to do that,
Speaker 1: we will get to them, so, you know, just overall thoughts.
Speaker 1: You know, obviously we will begin with the offense and
Speaker 1: you know, the quarterback position right now, I say, is
Speaker 1: trending towards being a little bit more of a competent
Speaker 1: battle than it was. I thought to start camp. I
Speaker 1: thought it was a really poor start to camp, not
Speaker 1: only for the quarterbacks. I thought the pass catchers had
Speaker 1: some drops and just sloppy, just bad and honestly probably
Speaker 1: what we expect from the Colts passing offense this season.
Speaker 2: But you know, I do think if you.
Speaker 1: Look at it right now and again as we record
Speaker 1: this Wednesday, you know, Richardson and Jones have probably put
Speaker 1: three of the last four practice days together fairly well.
Speaker 1: I didn't think Tuesday was flawless for either, particularly the end,
Speaker 1: but better definitely from those guys. So you know, obviously
Speaker 1: you want to see that at that position, given the
Speaker 1: you know, vital importance. And I guess individually, if we
Speaker 1: start with Richardson, I'd say this quite often when we
Speaker 1: talk about spring practices or camp practices, particularly once in July.
Speaker 1: You know, I'll throw in the caveat of you know,
Speaker 1: I'm talking to you on July thirtieth, so everything is
Speaker 1: with the grain of salt, and that's probably good to remember.
Speaker 1: And you know, I've kind of used the school analogy
Speaker 1: on our morning show with Richardson of, Like, you know,
Speaker 1: I have seen some incremental improvements in his game. I
Speaker 1: would challenge anyone that has watched Anthony Richardson in a
Speaker 1: training camp practice over his three years in the NFL.
Speaker 1: I don't recall a six practice stretch where he has
Speaker 1: had this type of underneath accuracy.
Speaker 2: It's not perfect.
Speaker 1: The bar was very low when I say that thing,
Speaker 1: but it's improved, you know, is it the wider base,
Speaker 1: is it? You know, that footwork element helping him out?
Speaker 1: You know, maybe that is something you can point to it.
Speaker 1: It certainly looks cleaner, But I just don't see the
Speaker 1: egregious missus, the ground balls, the you know, airmails over
Speaker 1: the middle helly, you know, the hitting the roosters that
Speaker 1: you know, you know, thrown it in a way over
Speaker 1: the crossbar or in individual periods like he's had those
Speaker 1: misses and almost daily in years past, and you know
Speaker 1: I watch every Richardson throw. I don't see that to
Speaker 1: that level. Now, Again, this is individual periods. This is
Speaker 1: against your own defense. The red jersey still on. It's
Speaker 1: not real football, but even in non real football, he's
Speaker 1: had issues in those areas, so I don't see the
Speaker 1: amount of egregious misses that maybe we have.
Speaker 2: Seen with him in the past.
Speaker 1: You know, I would also point out, and probably should
Speaker 1: have done this at the start, the fact that we're
Speaker 1: talking six practices in and he's thrown the amount of
Speaker 1: balls he has thrown definitely stands out to me. I
Speaker 1: did not think we'd be a week into camp and
Speaker 1: he would have this much workload in the eleven on
Speaker 1: eleven sessions. Yes, he dials it back a little, not
Speaker 1: that much really, but he definitely dials it back in
Speaker 1: the individual periods, which is fine. I think it's a
Speaker 1: great plan. The Colts have to get him all the
Speaker 1: team reps as possible. But you know, he's practiced six
Speaker 1: straight days and you know the four days last week
Speaker 1: that they had in a row to start camp. It's
Speaker 1: not like his volume change there in the eleven on
Speaker 1: eleven So I would say, all things considered, it's been
Speaker 1: a good first week for Richardson when you consider where
Speaker 1: he was at walking into Grand Park, the unknown of
Speaker 1: the spring, and you know, now the arrow pointing in
Speaker 1: a better direction. You know, everything with him has to
Speaker 1: have context around it. You can't compare him to a
Speaker 1: normal NFL quarterback, Yes, at some point you need to,
Speaker 1: but you just can't given his background. So I think
Speaker 1: it's what makes the evaluation of Richardson so difficult. But
Speaker 1: you know, he said, you know, after the Tuesday practice,
Speaker 1: I feel like I have more control of the ball.
Speaker 1: And you know when he said that, I kind of
Speaker 1: thought to myself, Yeah, I I I feel like that
Speaker 1: is correct. You know, the deep ball maybe hasn't been
Speaker 1: as abundant or as accurate as it usually is, but
Speaker 1: he the underneath stuff pretty good. So you know he's
Speaker 1: passing a lot of these tests right now. Will he
Speaker 1: passed them against real teams? All of that stuff. But
Speaker 1: you know, he's changed his diet and again I definitely
Speaker 1: notice the wider base and I get, you know, some
Speaker 1: of his comments of probably frustrating to a degree when
Speaker 1: he says after practice, you know, I've got to do
Speaker 1: more and you know I can't be slacking anymore, and
Speaker 1: you want to just be like, wait, why did it
Speaker 1: take you three years in the NFL to.
Speaker 2: You know, get to that point.
Speaker 1: And that's fine, I mean I totally get why fans
Speaker 1: would react in that manner, as they should, but This
Speaker 1: is what happens when you take a risk like the
Speaker 1: Colts did at the fourth overall pick, and they probably
Speaker 1: honestly mis evaluated him a little bit off the field,
Speaker 1: and you know how much growth was needed in that area.
Speaker 1: So better be now or it's going to be never.
Speaker 1: And so that's probably how you have to look at
Speaker 1: it so far.
Speaker 2: With Richardson.
Speaker 1: So, you know, Daniel Jones, I think also is probably
Speaker 1: the arrow pointing a little bit more up with him.
Speaker 1: You know, with Jones, he can be more accurate than Richardson.
Speaker 1: Certainly he definitely can be steadier than Richardson.
Speaker 2: I will say there are times.
Speaker 1: I feel like he's just a tad late. Is that
Speaker 1: in a new offense? Is that just kind of him
Speaker 1: as a quarterback? You know, if you're a tad late
Speaker 1: in a comfortable camp setting. I don't like what that
Speaker 1: could mean for the regular season. But I thought, for example,
Speaker 1: yesterday was a really strong day from Jones. You know, again,
Speaker 1: factoring in the bar, I don't have a super high
Speaker 1: bar for him.
Speaker 2: You know, it is primarily a lot of dink and
Speaker 2: dunk stuff with him.
Speaker 1: You know, there have been some second level throws in
Speaker 1: the last couple of days that I think he's hit
Speaker 1: on and just in general, we probably talk so much
Speaker 1: about Richardson we don't acknowledge Jones enough.
Speaker 2: But you know, there are times where I see kind
Speaker 2: of the Gardner.
Speaker 1: Minshew ish, you know, comps that makes some sense, you know,
Speaker 1: I know from a deep ball standpoint, he definitely showed
Speaker 1: a little bit more I think in the spring in
Speaker 1: the team sessions, and I've seen so far here. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm curious how that will evolve a camp moves along.
Speaker 1: But you know, to summarize where I'm at, kind of
Speaker 1: quarterback wise, a weekend, you know, you hear Stichen's words,
Speaker 1: and I think he's more open to giving Daniel Jones
Speaker 1: a chance. I hear Ballard's words, and I feel like
Speaker 1: it's a little bit more like no, no, no, we
Speaker 1: got to be patient with Anthony.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: That's kind of where I'm going to go on that.
Speaker 1: But I I would call Richardson the slight leader in
Speaker 1: my mind kind of a week into it, you know,
Speaker 1: I think Jones has got to outplay him noticeably. And
Speaker 1: weirdly both have been good on the same day or better,
Speaker 1: or both have been bad on the same day. It's like,
Speaker 1: we haven't had two wins of the spectrum for the
Speaker 1: two quarterbacks on a given day. So you know, we'll
Speaker 1: see how this continues to play out because we are
Speaker 1: going to get into some bigger evaluation periods. But yeah,
Speaker 1: right now, I would give it to Richard just because
Speaker 1: you know, he obviously can bring quite the dynamic run element.
Speaker 1: You know, Jones is definitely definitely has ability to make
Speaker 1: place with his legs. There's no doubting that, but it's not,
Speaker 1: of course, at the Richardson level there. So yeah, I
Speaker 1: think that's everything from a quarterback standpoint. You're kind of
Speaker 1: moving over to other items in the offense obviously, Bernard
Speaker 1: Rhyman contract excension, you know, arguably the biggest news item
Speaker 1: so far off camp. To me, that was a no brainer.
Speaker 1: I don't care what your future is at GM. I
Speaker 1: don't care what your future is at head coach. I
Speaker 1: don't care what your future is at quarterback. Bernard Ryman
Speaker 1: needs to be a left tackle. It's a great story.
Speaker 1: So for me, I just thought the rhyming thing again
Speaker 1: made you know, really total sense.
Speaker 2: And you know, it's.
Speaker 1: A wonderful Chris Ballard draft pick. It's finding a premium
Speaker 1: position in the middle of round three. You just I mean,
Speaker 1: look at the best left tackles.
Speaker 2: In the league. You just don't find these guys where
Speaker 2: Baler found him.
Speaker 1: Obviously, the Kastanza thing I think took a little while,
Speaker 1: a little longer then it should have, just to get
Speaker 1: a little bit of semblance at that position. Uh. But
Speaker 1: again you got to give credit to you know, finding
Speaker 1: a franchise piece.
Speaker 2: Uh. With that third round pick seventy nine, I want to say,
Speaker 2: it's kind of sticking out to me. I don't know,
Speaker 2: maybe that's Ryman's.
Speaker 1: Number, maybe that was popping it into my head, but
Speaker 1: you know, middle of round three, I think it was
Speaker 1: back in that twenty twenty two draft. And you know,
Speaker 1: I was curious because you know, as that Rymand thing
Speaker 1: played out, and you know, he opped on our neon
Speaker 1: to three show with Jay Query and you know, expressed
Speaker 1: that his team had said they were kind of wide apart.
Speaker 1: You know, maybe it was the Rashawn Slater domino that
Speaker 1: need to get started for kind of value to set in.
Speaker 1: But you know, there's a little part of me it's
Speaker 1: kind of curious, like you knows, Carl ersa Gordon at all.
Speaker 1: Look at that and think, oh boy, this is the
Speaker 1: first extension under my watch. I don't want the thought
Speaker 1: to be, oh, we don't pay people or we don't pay.
Speaker 2: Quality left tackles.
Speaker 1: Like you know, when Rymond said there's a disagreement on
Speaker 1: positional value, I'm thinking onself, wait, what a minute, Chris
Speaker 1: Ballard has paid running backs, he's paid linebackers, he's paid guards.
Speaker 2: He's not going to pay a left tackle.
Speaker 1: That makes no sense to me whatsoever there So I
Speaker 1: think got ryman contract will age really well and quality
Speaker 1: quality player and great to hear that. Braden Smith, to
Speaker 1: quote him, is in a spectacular place. I mean, I
Speaker 1: was struck by brain Smith. First off, his willingness to
Speaker 1: want to speak. You know a lot of times you
Speaker 1: can see stories like that. He obviously had to tell
Speaker 1: all with Joeli Erickson. That's kind of the one time
Speaker 1: and then any other time I'm gonna tk, I'm gonn
Speaker 1: talk a little bit more football. But you know, his
Speaker 1: willingness to speak and be so vulnerable. I commend him
Speaker 1: for that. You know, I was really struck, really kind
Speaker 1: of hit me when he said at some point, you know,
Speaker 1: I was just trying to be alive and that was
Speaker 1: Oh boy, that that really struck me, you know when
Speaker 1: he said that describing where he was at last year
Speaker 1: and you know, on the field with Brayden. You know,
Speaker 1: before he left the team right before Thanksgiving, he had
Speaker 1: played every snap but won last year.
Speaker 2: So again there's injury history, but like you know, that
Speaker 2: to me is something.
Speaker 1: But also he was trending to have a really healthy season,
Speaker 1: you know, over seven hundred snaps and he just missed one.
Speaker 1: So you know, center continues to be a competition. I
Speaker 1: would say so far, the O line a little better
Speaker 1: than the D line. The first two practices. I don't
Speaker 1: think there was a lot of like blown dead sacks
Speaker 1: or kind of muddy pockets with the pads on. I
Speaker 1: was talking with Joe Wright's Colts Radio yesterday at practice
Speaker 1: and he mentioned as an offensive lineman, he always thought
Speaker 1: it was easier to block with pads on than it
Speaker 1: was without. So you know, I do think the old
Speaker 1: line has been pretty solid here, even in the run game.
Speaker 2: And again I think the run game.
Speaker 1: Is kind of hard to truly truly evaluate, you know,
Speaker 1: from a wide receiver standpoint, I think it's been a
Speaker 1: very mixed bag from that group. I like what I've
Speaker 1: seen from Alex Pearce. I like what Anthony Gould has
Speaker 1: shown the fifth round pick from two years ago out
Speaker 1: of Oregon State. I mean, he if you add up
Speaker 1: the catches in eleven on eleven, I'd venture to guess
Speaker 1: he's right up there with anybody, including Michael Pittman Jr.
Speaker 2: In terms of catches.
Speaker 1: And you know, it's a lot of the slot stuff,
Speaker 1: but there's been a couple of downfield plays as well,
Speaker 1: and I don't know how the offensive snaw or the
Speaker 1: role maybe gets there for him. But I guess if
Speaker 1: Josh Downs were to go down, I don't see it
Speaker 1: being maybe as big of an issue like last year.
Speaker 2: I think it was big time scramble. Note.
Speaker 1: I think Gould has shown enough where you would at
Speaker 1: least give him the slot opportunity to try and you know,
Speaker 1: band aid that up. If Downs were to miss time, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'd like to see a little bit more from Michael
Speaker 1: Pittman Jr. I think I like to see a little
Speaker 1: bit more from Josh Downs. Those are two guys I
Speaker 1: usually don't say those things about. I think Down's been
Speaker 1: better here the last couple of days. You know, the
Speaker 1: eighty Mitchell experience is just it's just maddening. I get
Speaker 1: why the staff is enamorate with the talent.
Speaker 2: You know, he had a couple one on one moments against.
Speaker 1: Saverious War the other day that you know, he just
Speaker 1: cooked a guy that frankly hasn't been cooked at all
Speaker 1: here during camp. And then you get to these eleven
Speaker 1: on eleven periods and he probably was close to a
Speaker 1: handful of drops and or fumbles so far, and there's
Speaker 1: just such an inconsistency to him. Yet he does the
Speaker 1: hard part, right. I mean, like at times other wide
Speaker 1: outs struggle to get open, that is never seemingly an
Speaker 1: issue with him. And you know, I kind of go
Speaker 1: back to his you know, time in college and you know, okay,
Speaker 1: why was he the tenth or the.
Speaker 2: Eleventh wide out taken?
Speaker 1: Because you know, here's a guy that played five college
Speaker 1: football playoff games and you know, I had a touchdown
Speaker 1: and all five of them. And then you know, you
Speaker 1: get deeper into those games and it's like, wait a minute,
Speaker 1: he only had three catches total in those games if
Speaker 1: you take out the touchdowns, Like, okay, why wasn't there
Speaker 1: more production there? And you know, obviously for the Colts
Speaker 1: you look at that and say, okay, we're going to
Speaker 1: tap into that. You know, he's young, whatever, immature and consistent.
Speaker 1: Everyone to describe it, but you know, with coaching development,
Speaker 1: we're going to get there. So you just like to
Speaker 1: see him string some eleven on eleven stuff together.
Speaker 2: I do think the one.
Speaker 1: On ones, even the seven on seven's a little bit
Speaker 1: better here the last couple of days. So we'll see
Speaker 1: about the eleven on eleven's Tyler Warren moves around a
Speaker 1: whole lot. They move him around a ton. The catch
Speaker 1: radius is very evident. He had a couple of fifty
Speaker 1: to fifty moments it didn't go his way the other day.
Speaker 1: That was pretty rare to see. Great play by Justin
Speaker 1: Wally climbing the ladder for one and it goes awesome
Speaker 1: to Jake he had had another wad a linebacker.
Speaker 2: But they will move worn around a lot.
Speaker 1: Shifting gears the defense, I also think well Mallory has
Speaker 1: had a nice camp so far Shifting gears the defense though.
Speaker 1: Traveri's ward very good, just anticipates really well. The sticky coverage. Boy,
Speaker 1: he talks, he really talks. But I think he's got
Speaker 1: a very clear goal of wanting to get back to
Speaker 1: being an all pro corner and was in such a
Speaker 1: dark place last year in San Francisco, and you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think he feels like he's got something to kind
Speaker 1: of prove to himself to get back there. And I
Speaker 1: think those three corners are starting to emerge. And I
Speaker 1: would have said that before the unfortunate injury to Jayalen Jones.
Speaker 1: That's been the one notable in practice injury so far
Speaker 1: where he went down yesterday and he was in a
Speaker 1: world of hurt and had to get helped onto the
Speaker 1: cart before he was carted off. They said hamstring injury
Speaker 1: for him, So we'll see how long his absence is.
Speaker 1: And you know, the Colts, I think we're starting to
Speaker 1: build some real depth at corner. I mean, if you
Speaker 1: look at Jones as your fourth and Juju Brents is
Speaker 1: your fifth and Samuel Willmack is your sixth, I mean,
Speaker 1: at one point last year those three were all playing
Speaker 1: huge minutes for you. So, you know, I just think
Speaker 1: Wally competes and competes. He had a beautiful teach tape
Speaker 1: rap against Michael Pittman JUNR on Tuesday, you know, isolated
Speaker 1: in man dig route giving up all that size, picture
Speaker 1: perfect technique, you know, gets right in front of him
Speaker 1: for the past deflection, doesn't get that right hand, you know,
Speaker 1: tugging on the on the jersey as he tries to.
Speaker 2: Go around him.
Speaker 1: Just great stuff from Justin Wally. So yeah, I look
Speaker 1: at Ward, I look at More and I look at
Speaker 1: Wally and think that those are your three corners if
Speaker 1: you're gonna go play tomorrow. And you know, we'll see
Speaker 1: about the health of Jones. Juju Brents also makes I
Speaker 1: don't know if I saw Ju do a practice also
Speaker 1: missed yesterday with the hamstring injury. So again we'll see
Speaker 1: how all of that continues to play out. So waiting
Speaker 1: on the practice debut of Zira Franklin, it looks to
Speaker 1: be soon. I mean, he certainly is working up a
Speaker 1: big old' lather on that adjacent practice field, so I
Speaker 1: don't it doesn't look.
Speaker 2: Like something that's going to last too too much longer
Speaker 2: with him. I do think some of the linebackers have really.
Speaker 1: Made a nice impression in the passing game. Joe Bachi
Speaker 1: for sure, coming on from Cincinnati. I've noticed him a
Speaker 1: good amount camera groan this yesterday due to injury, but
Speaker 1: you know he's been factoring into it as well.
Speaker 2: Kind of quiet for Jailing Carlis.
Speaker 1: He had a pass deflection late in camp yesterday, late
Speaker 1: in that hour forty five minute practice, so that was
Speaker 1: good to see, but probably been a little bit on
Speaker 1: the quieter side for him. And again in D line,
Speaker 1: I just maybe haven't noticed the activity from that rush
Speaker 1: unit as much the first couple of days in full pads.
Speaker 1: There's good one on one moments, but you know, again
Speaker 1: when they get in the team sessions, haven't noticed.
Speaker 2: As much of that. You know.
Speaker 1: Kicker wise, we've seen them kick twice in front of us.
Speaker 1: Both of them have done a decent job. They both
Speaker 1: missed two kicks on their first day and then they
Speaker 1: both were perfect this week. It sounds like Thursday will
Speaker 1: be a big kicking point for both of those guys.
Speaker 2: I still think Spencer Schrader, Oh bless Me is the
Speaker 2: is the favorite for that kicking battle.
Speaker 1: But yeah, that's probably kind of where I stand offense
Speaker 1: defense wise. I updated some position battles up on our website,
Speaker 1: so you can check that out. One of seventy five
Speaker 1: the fan dot Com If you want to head over there,
Speaker 1: you'll get a look exactly where things kind of stand.
Speaker 2: As again we reached the midway point of camp.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get to about a half dozen Twitter
Speaker 1: questions here, as always, thank you for sitting these in.
Speaker 1: First one here from Cato. I was really hoping that
Speaker 1: the revamps secondary would give law to a lot to
Speaker 1: the extra time to become the disruptor. We hoped his
Speaker 1: pick would warrant. How does he looked so far in camp?
Speaker 1: What can you tell is the word that they think
Speaker 1: he can take the next step. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: they're very high on him from a word standpoint. I
Speaker 1: would say I haven't noticed a ton from him in
Speaker 1: the eleven on eleven stuff. Again, just two days of
Speaker 1: full pads so far. And you know, when you think
Speaker 1: about it, the Colts do have two quality tackles that
Speaker 1: are opposite him. I'd say Quity Pay probably definitely probably
Speaker 1: is a definite starter opposite him. And then yeah, I
Speaker 1: think Samson Ebukam has started to rotate a bit with
Speaker 1: LAT two in those starting reps as he returns to
Speaker 1: that torn Achilles. So again we'll continue to see. Obviously
Speaker 1: you rotate a lot there. I called JT two amloau
Speaker 1: a little bit more Antai Kwon Lewis more of rotational guys.
Speaker 2: They move around a little bit more.
Speaker 1: Even the inside to Maloaut notice him a decent amount
Speaker 1: late yesterday and practice made a couple of plays in
Speaker 1: the passing game. So again, I think it's important to
Speaker 1: start to get truer evaluations on those trench guys. This
Speaker 1: from Jamie Braden Smith plays sixteen games and earns a
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl in twenty twenty five. Does he get extended,
Speaker 1: franchised or become a free agent?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 1: I the thing with Braidon Smith is I didn't get
Speaker 1: the vibe from him when he met the media earlier
Speaker 1: this week that like, this is a dude walking up
Speaker 1: the eighteenth hole or you know, I don't know. I
Speaker 1: don't know if you come back just to play one
Speaker 1: year and call it quits. But then again, anytime he's
Speaker 1: dealt with, you know, the obsessive compulsive disorder that he did,
Speaker 1: I you know, it's probably a bit unfair to also
Speaker 1: just be like, oh, yeah, he's gonna play for you
Speaker 1: for the next five six years, so you maybe need
Speaker 1: to tread lightly. They are high on the ceiling of
Speaker 1: Jalen Travis as the backup there. But if you play
Speaker 1: sixteen games, is you get extended franchise become free agency?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean the franchise tag.
Speaker 1: Actually, I hadn't even thought about that, you know, another
Speaker 1: year to kind of let Travis grow a little bit there.
Speaker 1: That's not the I don't think that's the craziest idea
Speaker 1: in the world. And again, you know he played all
Speaker 1: those snaps but one last season. I mean that's right
Speaker 1: before he got right right before we left the team,
Speaker 1: and I mean we're talking north of seven hundred snaps there.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I would say, you know, the franchise tag,
Speaker 1: a shorter term deal. I think all that makes makes
Speaker 1: some sense here. This from Blopa. He wants to make
Speaker 1: three statements and know if I agree or disagree to them.
Speaker 1: And why statement number one Last year's defensive back ceiling
Speaker 1: is the.
Speaker 2: Floor this year's dB room. H I like that. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: I could see that. Yeah. I think there's some real
Speaker 2: potential with the secondary.
Speaker 1: Now. I do worry about the depth, especially at safety.
Speaker 1: I think you're asking, you know, buying them. I have
Speaker 1: noticed kind of getting back to him that Cross maybe
Speaker 1: not the most active playmaking camp so far, but I've
Speaker 1: definitely noticed buying him, you know, a few times, and
Speaker 1: for the most part, really it hasn't been anything deep
Speaker 1: completed against these guys number two. Here, the improvement on
Speaker 1: the perimeter has a multiplier effect that makes the whole
Speaker 1: team improved. Yeah, I definitely if you're better on the perimeter,
Speaker 1: it can help me out of time. I mean, this is
Speaker 1: a perimeter league and that Yes, trench play is important,
Speaker 1: but the league has grown significantly in being a perimeter game.
Speaker 1: That's just how football has evolved, especially over the last
Speaker 1: five or ten years. So the Colts have not been
Speaker 1: good enough out there on the perimeter. I can't say
Speaker 1: the wide outs though I would label his strong camp
Speaker 1: so far. I don't you know, the drops have gone
Speaker 1: down here in the last couple of days, but still
Speaker 1: I can't ignore what it's talking of the first three
Speaker 1: or four days with that. But yeah, I mean when
Speaker 1: you look at the secondary, you know, definitely, Lastly, if
Speaker 1: it works, could this be an impressive change of direction
Speaker 1: in Chris Ballard's career, Well sure, yeah, I mean it
Speaker 1: definitely would be. I'd argue it needed change of direction
Speaker 1: in Chris Boward's career, and yeah, could very well keep
Speaker 1: his job obviously, just like people hear Anthony Richardson's answers on, Hey,
Speaker 1: you know, I need to do more and I need
Speaker 1: to stop slacking, And people say, well, why in the
Speaker 1: world did it take you three years to figure that out?
Speaker 1: People say the same thing about Chris Bward in nine
Speaker 1: years on his resume. Why did it take you so
Speaker 1: long to you know, try and find, you know, position
Speaker 1: improvements and not be so hesitant in free agency and
Speaker 1: not be so reliant and strench it on, you know,
Speaker 1: run it back, and you know, build from within and
Speaker 1: you know, ignore free agency largely to the level that
Speaker 1: they did from outside of the building. Guys, Josh wants
Speaker 1: to know a short segment checking in with all the
Speaker 1: rookies would be great. He goes focused on the quarterback
Speaker 1: has been understandable, but some other guys interested in have
Speaker 1: been lost in the shuffle. Okay, so he wants a
Speaker 1: little draft pick run down. Here, we've touched on Warren.
Speaker 1: He's gonna play a ton, he's gonna move all over,
Speaker 1: catch raise is great.
Speaker 2: Just yeah, I just yeah, everything.
Speaker 1: That you would want in him to him all awhile again,
Speaker 1: you know, not a ton of crazy production. I did,
Speaker 1: like I said Saul A little bit of it the
Speaker 1: other day, moving around a bit. I would call him
Speaker 1: kind of rotational defensive end, playing with probably a little
Speaker 1: bit more power than speed. At this point, i'd call
Speaker 1: Justin Waally, you know, third corner starter. I think I
Speaker 1: hit on that. I'd call Jalen Travis probably the lead
Speaker 1: on that second tackle. I did actually notice him playing
Speaker 1: a little guard the other day too, So clearly, you
Speaker 1: know there's a thought there of you know, hey, can
Speaker 1: you get him ready.
Speaker 2: For game day?
Speaker 1: You know he's got no guard on the resume there,
Speaker 1: So that was something that did strike me. You know,
Speaker 1: I'll be curious if DJ Ginton gets that second running
Speaker 1: back spot.
Speaker 2: I mean, I do think Khalil Herbert and even Tyler
Speaker 2: Go I've.
Speaker 1: Noticed as well, especially as a special teamer and you know,
Speaker 1: trying to make the team as a fourth running back.
Speaker 1: You know, I continue to like what Giddens has shown.
Speaker 1: Roley Leonard's a project he did on cork one the
Speaker 1: other day, beautiful deep ball to d J Montgomery. But
Speaker 1: you know he has been you know, an accurate, inefficient,
Speaker 1: you know, look like you know the guy we saw
Speaker 1: at Notre Dame. So no real surprised there. You know,
Speaker 1: Tim Smith rotates in occasionally, Eric Johnson, they brought back
Speaker 1: the defensive tackle, and then they did sign uh the
Speaker 1: twuo Po dude who played with lou Ana Romo a
Speaker 1: lot in Cincinnati, an older defensive tackle. And you know,
Speaker 1: there was a point in the off season where I
Speaker 1: mentioned this, I think on this pot of like, you know,
Speaker 1: one thing about an Rumo in Cincinnati, he had a
Speaker 1: lot of big fat dudes on his defensive line, and
Speaker 1: the Colts really haven't been that, like al Woods might
Speaker 1: be a name you throw out there, but they really
Speaker 1: haven't been that a lot in the last handful of seasons.
Speaker 1: So I don't know, maybe that's a sign of like
Speaker 1: it's an area that they want to train, get into it.
Speaker 1: You know, maybe you whatever keep that dude on the
Speaker 1: practice squad and you bring him out when you play
Speaker 1: some run heavy teams. You know, maybe that you know,
Speaker 1: you kind of elevate him for those sorts of games.
Speaker 1: But yeah, Tim Smith kind of rotating in, and you know,
Speaker 1: I still think he's got, you know, to do something
Speaker 1: to probably cement himself on the team. And then lastly
Speaker 1: on Hunter Wooller, you know, as we touched on when
Speaker 1: he was drafted. What a great spot for a seventh
Speaker 1: round pick to be drafted into the Colts need safety help,
Speaker 1: and yeah, I mean I look at Wahler as kind
Speaker 1: of a pretty consistent second unit guy.
Speaker 2: Daniel Scott's got a big special team's presence.
Speaker 1: But yeah, right now, I think it's trending as Wooler
Speaker 1: to make the team, which for seventh round picks saying
Speaker 1: that on July thirtieth, it doesn't happen very often, So
Speaker 1: kudos to him and the right depth chart drafted him.
Speaker 2: Low end theorist. I haven't heard much about joelannie Woods.
Speaker 2: Is he practicing? How does he look?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think he's missed a practice. Noticed him
Speaker 1: in a couple seven on seven rep one day. Haven't
Speaker 1: noticed him too much out of that.
Speaker 2: I don't know where he makes a team.
Speaker 1: To be honest, here's part of me of like, if
Speaker 1: he shows anything, you would probably keep him around just
Speaker 1: because you don't want a former third round pick who
Speaker 1: you've waited this long to see, you know, blossom elsewhere.
Speaker 1: But I'm like, who you cutting? You're not cutting Worn,
Speaker 1: You're not cutting Moiley Cox. I don't think you're cutting
Speaker 1: Drogatry or Will Mallory, So I don't Yeah, maybe practice squad,
Speaker 1: can you kind of sneak him through there? But again,
Speaker 1: I don't think I've seen enough of an impression from
Speaker 1: him that would make me, you know, want to keep
Speaker 1: him necessarily, you know, without any debate whatsoever. Uh, last
Speaker 1: one here from Will. If you have to pick one,
Speaker 1: who do you want to start under center for the Colts?
Speaker 1: Not who you think will start, but as a fan,
Speaker 1: who do you want? I'm sitting here after watching all
Speaker 1: the inconsistencies, all the bs that has come with Anthony Richardson,
Speaker 1: and yet I'm so fired up to see him take
Speaker 1: snaps in a game setting versus Daniel Jones.
Speaker 2: Screw the floor being higher with Daniel Jones. I want
Speaker 2: the chance at the ceiling.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, you and I on the same boat, man,
Speaker 1: And even if you don't bank of the high ceiling,
Speaker 1: at least you get closer to the final answer. Plus,
Speaker 1: I want to know if the healthy offseason did anything. Again,
Speaker 1: I have seen incremental improvements. Maybe it's the kid that
Speaker 1: didn't show up the classes now showing up the class.
Speaker 1: Should I really compliment him for that? That's fair? I
Speaker 1: can understand where people are coming from with that, but
Speaker 1: I do feel like I've seen some growth there. But again,
Speaker 1: what happens when you face the Ravens, Packers, Red Jersey
Speaker 1: off real settings, and even if all that hits, even
Speaker 1: if all of it hits, we still have the health question.
Speaker 1: And that's what makes it. Richardson thing just so difficult
Speaker 1: to gauge. But yeah, you guys know where I stand.
Speaker 1: It's hardly ever the band aid, and in the AFC
Speaker 1: in today's day and age, it's definitely not the band aid.
Speaker 2: So give me the higher ceiling and go with that.
Speaker 2: That's how I look at it.
Speaker 1: I think, get stuck in the middle of the NFL
Speaker 1: purgatory with whoever you know, Daniel Jones would whatever he
Speaker 1: would deliver for you.
Speaker 2: No thanks, no thanks.
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