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Speaker 2: Off and running out of Monday Morning there, Mark, how

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Speaker 3: Well, this is inspired by Kevin talking about Joe Rule

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Speaker 3: and Nelly last week, and I was like, well, Nelly,

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Speaker 3: he's got some bangers. I don't know about Jow Rule.

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Speaker 4: As someone said, Jay Kwan made an appearance.

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Speaker 3: Jay Kwan saying tipsy and then lest what she did?

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Speaker 4: What do you do? Well? I mean, what more do

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Speaker 4: you need to say? That time you go?

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Speaker 3: I couldn't stand that song.

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Speaker 5: I was waiting for Kevin Paul out the band aid

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Speaker 5: right there and put it on his cheek all right.

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Speaker 2: Time to move on to the Indianapolis Cults in preseason

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Speaker 2: game number two on the broadcast, Joe Wright's joining us

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Speaker 2: now on the Payless Liquors hotline. We all know Joe,

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Speaker 2: former Colts player and very popular guy here in the area.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Joe, how are you doing? Are you a

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Speaker 2: big jaw Rule guy?

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Speaker 6: Big jaw Rule guy? I was maybe at you know,

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Speaker 6: seventeen or eighteen, but probably stopped about nineteen. But yeah, no,

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Speaker 6: he had a big concert with Nelly last and they

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Speaker 6: were rocking there over at Ruoff. There you go, Yeah,

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Speaker 6: a little jew everybody use little juice on Monday mornings, right,

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Speaker 6: A little bit tired, yes, a little bit sweepy rolling in.

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Speaker 6: So I do love Monday mornings though, because you got

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Speaker 6: to bring that high juice to start.

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Speaker 2: The week off right, no question about that. So I'll

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Speaker 2: ask you the same thing I asked each of our

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Speaker 2: Steam colleagues here, Kevin Bowen and James Boyd a moment ago,

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Speaker 2: where are you at on quarterback one right now?

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Speaker 6: Well, watching the game and calling it with Matt Taylor.

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Speaker 6: I thought both guys had one really good drive. And

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Speaker 6: you saw that drive and said, okay, this is what

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Speaker 6: the quarterback position should look like for the Indianapolis Colts. Now,

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Speaker 6: they both had a couple of moments you'd like that back.

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Speaker 6: I think, you know Jones early on that quarterback center exchange,

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Speaker 6: which you rarely see, I think that rattle him a

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Speaker 6: next time. And then after Richardson had just a great

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Speaker 6: he was a little bit behind on a couple passes

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Speaker 6: going there. So in my opinion. Both guys did good things,

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Speaker 6: but neither guys separated himself against the Green Bay Packers.

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Speaker 6: But if you listen to Shansteigen's comments postgame, you know

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Speaker 6: it sounds like he's close to making a decision. And

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Speaker 6: I don't think the game first, say, on Saturday afternoon,

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Speaker 6: sort of it's a gut decision. It's you're taking everything

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Speaker 6: know about Jones, and you experienced in the preseason from

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Speaker 6: OTAs through camp on a day to day process, and guys,

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Speaker 6: I still say that, you know, there's so much stuff

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Speaker 6: as fans. Right we see camp, we see the preseason games,

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Speaker 6: the joint practices. We're not sitting on the meetings when

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Speaker 6: they're going through film. They're talking through schemes and what's

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Speaker 6: And everybody keeps asking me, when do you need to

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Speaker 6: know as a player, I'm like, you need to know

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Speaker 6: you got. But I think the good thing is there's

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Speaker 6: and I do think that's raised both guys because you know, hey,

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Speaker 4: Forty four career starts plus three in the playoffs. Show

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Speaker 4: rights with us here and then you heard him, of

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Speaker 4: course with Matt Taylor over the weekend on the Colts

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Speaker 4: Radio Network. Joe, you mentioned behind the scenes, and that

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Speaker 4: is probably a really good thing to point out. And

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Speaker 4: I know you can't really boil it down to this

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Speaker 4: obviously you didn't really deal with quarterback competitions, But as

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Speaker 6: That's a hypothetical question, and so I don't really have

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Speaker 6: I mean, he has so much talent and there's things

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Speaker 6: And you know, Shame said it's going to be a

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Speaker 6: It's different than if your head coach is a defensive

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Speaker 6: But you know, if anybody's going to have a beat

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Speaker 6: to look like, it's going to be somebody that's got

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Speaker 5: Joe beyond the quarterback play. One of the biggest developments

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Speaker 5: unfortunately for Blake Freeland that involved a serious ride leg injury. Obviously,

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Speaker 6: Yeah, first off, you feel horrible for Freeland because you

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Speaker 6: the game moves on. And I do think that Jalen Travis,

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Speaker 6: of set it up. He was patient a little bit,

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Speaker 6: So again, Uh, it's early in terms of the twenty

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Speaker 6: day after people give draft game draft grades. It's like,

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Speaker 6: how do you know this team? These guys are gonna

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Speaker 5: Hey, Joe, you know I love my post draft grades,

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Speaker 5: my mock draft that are always wrong. This is you

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Speaker 5: know this, this is what you know. Keep the lights

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Speaker 6: What was your grade?

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Speaker 5: I have no idea I can even tell you what

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Speaker 5: we do it. But in all seriousness, going back to

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, he dominated college, but I think his

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Speaker 6: And just how fluid he is route running. He's just

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Speaker 6: running routes. I mean, you know, the Colt's tight end

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Speaker 6: I think Will Mallory has had a quiet, really good

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Speaker 6: fully expected to led by number eighty four.

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Speaker 2: Always good to talk to you, Joe. Great job this

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Speaker 2: past weekend. We appreciate your thoughts and hope things go

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Speaker 2: well for you all week long.

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Speaker 6: All right, sounds good. Well, thanks for having me on fellas.

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Speaker 2: There you are. He might be might at one point

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Speaker 2: biggest jar roof in Indianapolis.

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Speaker 4: Right now, I could see Joe Wright's having a time

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Speaker 4: or two up at Deer Creek back in the day.

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Speaker 5: I just love how he said he was a jaw

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Speaker 5: wu fran for all of like eighteen months.

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Speaker 4: Seventeen year old, fifteen years old is what he went

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Speaker 4: with there. Yes, one final job roll party before you're

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Speaker 4: off the Western Michigan.

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Speaker 2: That's exactly how it works. Anything that he said that

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Speaker 5: There, I agree with the DJ Giddens assessment. I think

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Speaker 5: And then next up they have Minnesota at home, they

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Speaker 2: All right, Uh, we've been talking about Stephanie White and

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Speaker 8: I'm so proud of you, guys. I know that sometimes

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Speaker 8: And it's a tribute to you. It's a tribute to

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Speaker 8: God damn big. Put us on your back, Oh big

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Speaker 8: Gotash your activity all and that's what it's gonna take.

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Speaker 8: We gotta play free, we gotta.

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Speaker 2: Good morning and welcome into the Fan Morning Show, Kevin Bowen,

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Speaker 2: James Poyd, I'm Jeff Rickert along with Mark Dyketon, and

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Speaker 2: But Kevin, I'll say for those just joining us, and

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Speaker 2: Listening to those comments by Shane Steike, and it sounds

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Speaker 5: to hear anything? What do you do? Just sit in

434
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Speaker 5: your like living room and just with the lights off

435
00:19:33,320 --> 00:19:35,280
Speaker 5: and just think about, Oh my gosh, it all comes

436
00:19:35,320 --> 00:19:36,480
Speaker 5: down to this. So what do you do? Do you hang

437
00:19:36,480 --> 00:19:38,359
Speaker 5: out with your family? Do you tell everybody leave me alone?

438
00:19:38,400 --> 00:19:39,920
Speaker 4: Show up a Shane's house playing with those kids?

439
00:19:39,920 --> 00:19:41,680
Speaker 5: And yeah, you know, is there anything else?

440
00:19:41,920 --> 00:19:42,399
Speaker 4: I'm serious?

441
00:19:42,440 --> 00:19:44,879
Speaker 5: But do you know of anything else you could.

442
00:19:46,840 --> 00:19:47,399
Speaker 4: Throw the football?

443
00:19:47,880 --> 00:19:49,879
Speaker 5: Do you kidnap a couple of the wide receivers and

444
00:19:49,920 --> 00:19:52,639
Speaker 5: say hey, let's go do something together and then if

445
00:19:52,640 --> 00:19:53,920
Speaker 5: you don't get the job, you tell them, well you

446
00:19:53,920 --> 00:19:56,119
Speaker 5: can walk back? Or how did that go?

447
00:19:56,400 --> 00:19:58,199
Speaker 2: I think the correct answer is you go home, you

448
00:19:58,240 --> 00:20:01,000
Speaker 2: watch film, and you take no and study the playbook

449
00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:02,920
Speaker 2: and get ready for your next practice, right, and.

450
00:20:03,480 --> 00:20:05,920
Speaker 5: Yeah you probably have to, but it is I'm very

451
00:20:05,960 --> 00:20:07,800
Speaker 5: curious to hear, and I think Anthony has been more

452
00:20:07,840 --> 00:20:11,760
Speaker 5: open about it. Just the nature of that, you know,

453
00:20:11,880 --> 00:20:14,240
Speaker 5: the the duality of having to be a good teammate

454
00:20:14,480 --> 00:20:17,320
Speaker 5: had to be ready, but also realizing that man if

455
00:20:17,359 --> 00:20:19,560
Speaker 5: I don't get this opportunity. I'm gonna be very disappointed.

456
00:20:19,840 --> 00:20:23,440
Speaker 4: Did you think Anthony sided or reserved after the game

457
00:20:24,600 --> 00:20:28,560
Speaker 4: Saturday to like, I don't think I have this job?

458
00:20:28,800 --> 00:20:31,080
Speaker 4: Am I reading way too much in Anthony Richardson's words

459
00:20:31,119 --> 00:20:31,560
Speaker 4: post game?

460
00:20:32,600 --> 00:20:34,320
Speaker 5: I think so. I think he's kind of been like

461
00:20:34,320 --> 00:20:37,640
Speaker 5: that since he honestly was bench last year. Since he's

462
00:20:37,680 --> 00:20:39,680
Speaker 5: come back, he's been a lot more, in my opinion,

463
00:20:39,920 --> 00:20:43,960
Speaker 5: from that down to earth and sort of grounded in

464
00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:45,679
Speaker 5: a sense that he wasn't before. And I'm saying he

465
00:20:45,720 --> 00:20:47,439
Speaker 5: was like super arrogant before, but I think that there

466
00:20:47,520 --> 00:20:51,119
Speaker 5: is a sense of humility and a sense of mortality

467
00:20:51,160 --> 00:20:54,800
Speaker 5: where it's like, oh, everything isn't necessarily in my fingertips

468
00:20:54,840 --> 00:20:56,919
Speaker 5: all the time when I wanted to be. So I

469
00:20:56,920 --> 00:20:59,440
Speaker 5: think that he just he's taking like the more mature

470
00:21:00,520 --> 00:21:04,640
Speaker 5: I've learned some things approached, But deep down I think

471
00:21:04,680 --> 00:21:06,200
Speaker 5: he knows, you know, I want to be the guy

472
00:21:06,560 --> 00:21:07,400
Speaker 5: and I need to be the guy.

473
00:21:07,520 --> 00:21:09,920
Speaker 4: There is part of me. It sits here and you know, again,

474
00:21:10,160 --> 00:21:13,280
Speaker 4: it sounds like a decision is very eminent, and we

475
00:21:13,440 --> 00:21:16,600
Speaker 4: just watched the last three weeks unfold. Anthony Richardson did

476
00:21:16,600 --> 00:21:19,920
Speaker 4: not miss a single team practice session. Yes, he did

477
00:21:19,920 --> 00:21:22,360
Speaker 4: obviously leave the Baltimore game early, but didn't miss a single.

478
00:21:22,160 --> 00:21:25,080
Speaker 2: Team also wanted back in no too right, say it again,

479
00:21:25,160 --> 00:21:26,520
Speaker 2: he wanted back into that game too.

480
00:21:27,200 --> 00:21:29,119
Speaker 4: I don't really think that that matters too much, but

481
00:21:29,760 --> 00:21:32,320
Speaker 4: you know, again his fault for the injury leading to

482
00:21:32,359 --> 00:21:34,399
Speaker 4: him exit the game. He doesn't miss a single practice.

483
00:21:34,440 --> 00:21:38,280
Speaker 4: Wrap of the two quarterbacks, he led the only touchdown

484
00:21:38,359 --> 00:21:41,920
Speaker 4: drive in the preseason, and the touchdown drive he led

485
00:21:42,640 --> 00:21:44,560
Speaker 4: I thought was the exact type of drive you want

486
00:21:44,560 --> 00:21:48,960
Speaker 4: to see from him. Twelve plays, ninety yards, methodical, right arm,

487
00:21:49,119 --> 00:21:50,119
Speaker 4: you know, just boom.

488
00:21:50,200 --> 00:21:52,359
Speaker 5: He kept it going amid a couple of penalties too,

489
00:21:52,400 --> 00:21:53,240
Speaker 5: that brought him back right.

490
00:21:53,359 --> 00:21:55,400
Speaker 4: Yeah, he played from behind the chains a few times,

491
00:21:55,520 --> 00:21:57,439
Speaker 4: five or six on the drive. I would argue the

492
00:21:57,440 --> 00:22:00,080
Speaker 4: one in completion probably wasn't even his fault, just you know,

493
00:22:00,280 --> 00:22:02,080
Speaker 4: a genial vashion deal and thought the ball was coming

494
00:22:02,720 --> 00:22:06,760
Speaker 4: or what so. And yet I sit here right now

495
00:22:07,680 --> 00:22:10,640
Speaker 4: and I think Shane Steichen's gonna pick Tangel Jones, which

496
00:22:10,680 --> 00:22:11,200
Speaker 4: is got it good?

497
00:22:11,560 --> 00:22:15,240
Speaker 5: Can you elaborate on that? And is okay? So I've

498
00:22:15,240 --> 00:22:17,200
Speaker 5: heard you say this, and I was talking to Stephen

499
00:22:17,240 --> 00:22:19,639
Speaker 5: Holder about this after the game as well, and he

500
00:22:19,720 --> 00:22:22,080
Speaker 5: has me thinking that man could say, you really choose

501
00:22:22,119 --> 00:22:25,639
Speaker 5: Daniel And one of his reasons was because of the

502
00:22:25,720 --> 00:22:29,199
Speaker 5: comments made after the game about the operational part of

503
00:22:29,240 --> 00:22:31,720
Speaker 5: being a quarterback And is that part of why you

504
00:22:31,840 --> 00:22:36,480
Speaker 5: think he might lean in that direction because a lot

505
00:22:36,480 --> 00:22:39,080
Speaker 5: of it isn't just pure throwing. If that makes sen.

506
00:22:39,119 --> 00:22:41,800
Speaker 4: Yeah, I thought Chane emphasized that a couple of different

507
00:22:41,840 --> 00:22:44,800
Speaker 4: times post game. And again, James, what is the one

508
00:22:44,840 --> 00:22:46,280
Speaker 4: word he's used since March?

509
00:22:47,119 --> 00:22:47,840
Speaker 5: Consistency?

510
00:22:48,160 --> 00:22:51,439
Speaker 4: That has been the word he has always come back to.

511
00:22:51,880 --> 00:22:54,240
Speaker 4: And you know, we had Joe wrights On a little

512
00:22:54,240 --> 00:22:57,080
Speaker 4: bit ago. You know, I asked Joe, Okay, what would

513
00:22:57,119 --> 00:22:59,640
Speaker 4: you prefer as a player? Would you want the quarterback

514
00:22:59,680 --> 00:23:01,359
Speaker 4: that off you a little bit of a higher floor

515
00:23:01,600 --> 00:23:03,880
Speaker 4: or would you want the quarterback that offers you more

516
00:23:03,920 --> 00:23:08,160
Speaker 4: of the ceiling? And it seems like when they drafted

517
00:23:08,200 --> 00:23:12,000
Speaker 4: Anthony Richardson it was all about the latter. For the Colts.

518
00:23:12,040 --> 00:23:14,840
Speaker 4: It was, Yeah, you got to create big plays and

519
00:23:14,880 --> 00:23:17,879
Speaker 4: you need someone that can offer, you know, the stuff

520
00:23:17,880 --> 00:23:19,800
Speaker 4: you can't drop on a white board and when everything

521
00:23:19,840 --> 00:23:22,000
Speaker 4: breaks down, can you make that play? I eve Anthony

522
00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:26,560
Speaker 4: Gould throw that Anthony had on Saturday, but now it

523
00:23:26,680 --> 00:23:31,199
Speaker 4: seems like it is shifted towards No. We've done that

524
00:23:31,240 --> 00:23:34,440
Speaker 4: song and dance, and right now I need a quarterback

525
00:23:34,480 --> 00:23:38,439
Speaker 4: that I can largely trust. And I think that Baltimore

526
00:23:38,480 --> 00:23:42,760
Speaker 4: play of how Anthony Richardson got hurt, I could just

527
00:23:42,760 --> 00:23:45,240
Speaker 4: see that mattering a whole lot to Shane Stige, and

528
00:23:45,280 --> 00:23:48,359
Speaker 4: I don't have a strong conviction, to be clear either way.

529
00:23:48,440 --> 00:23:50,679
Speaker 4: I would start Richardson. I think you need clarity and

530
00:23:50,800 --> 00:23:52,680
Speaker 4: you need to stop with all the excuses and figure

531
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Speaker 4: out if you got something or not. That's the path

532
00:23:54,640 --> 00:23:58,080
Speaker 4: I would go down. But in Shane's eyes, he just

533
00:23:58,119 --> 00:24:02,480
Speaker 4: has always talked like more the Jones guy, I think

534
00:24:02,520 --> 00:24:04,480
Speaker 4: throughout this offseason, and maybe I'm reading too much of

535
00:24:04,520 --> 00:24:07,199
Speaker 4: a man who says very few words, but that's how

536
00:24:07,240 --> 00:24:09,000
Speaker 4: I felt. Do you not feel that way, James?

537
00:24:09,080 --> 00:24:09,399
Speaker 2: Would you?

538
00:24:09,880 --> 00:24:11,680
Speaker 4: Do you think Shane Stichen will say who I guess

539
00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:14,720
Speaker 4: to just put it blown, I think he'll say Anthony Richardson.

540
00:24:14,720 --> 00:24:15,679
Speaker 4: Do you think he'll be Richardson?

541
00:24:15,680 --> 00:24:18,840
Speaker 5: And I think it will be Richardson. And I think

542
00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:21,480
Speaker 5: that because again I go back to not necessarily what

543
00:24:21,520 --> 00:24:24,200
Speaker 5: he's his words have been because I, like you said,

544
00:24:24,240 --> 00:24:26,280
Speaker 5: trying to pars through Shane Stichen's words, there are not

545
00:24:26,320 --> 00:24:28,000
Speaker 5: many of them, and I feel like whenever I do that,

546
00:24:28,040 --> 00:24:31,159
Speaker 5: I could talk myself either way. But my general thinking

547
00:24:31,280 --> 00:24:33,240
Speaker 5: is kind of along the lines of what I think

548
00:24:33,320 --> 00:24:35,160
Speaker 5: me and Jeff and really all of us have said

549
00:24:35,359 --> 00:24:37,119
Speaker 5: throughout these last two weeks on the show is that

550
00:24:37,160 --> 00:24:40,240
Speaker 5: if it's close, you would think you leaned towards the

551
00:24:40,240 --> 00:24:43,400
Speaker 5: guy you drafted number four just a few years ago,

552
00:24:43,520 --> 00:24:46,280
Speaker 5: because in my opinion, Daniel Jones has done nothing to

553
00:24:46,400 --> 00:24:48,880
Speaker 5: win the job. Now I won't say that he's done

554
00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:52,840
Speaker 5: like anything to lose the job necessarily, but Ty goes

555
00:24:52,880 --> 00:24:54,360
Speaker 5: to the runner. Ty goes to the guy you had

556
00:24:54,400 --> 00:24:55,120
Speaker 5: here already.

557
00:24:55,119 --> 00:24:57,560
Speaker 2: In my opinion, yeah, I go back and it didn't

558
00:24:57,600 --> 00:25:02,320
Speaker 2: count because my guy Mitchell messed it up. But the

559
00:25:02,359 --> 00:25:05,240
Speaker 2: play that he made it just it's tantalizing.

560
00:25:05,359 --> 00:25:05,600
Speaker 6: Right.

561
00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:08,360
Speaker 2: He is big and strong and athletic enough to get

562
00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:11,040
Speaker 2: away from a sack and then he put the ball

563
00:25:11,320 --> 00:25:14,720
Speaker 2: on the money. What thirty thirty five yards downfield?

564
00:25:14,800 --> 00:25:17,919
Speaker 5: Right the thirty game they got negated by Adie Mitchell

565
00:25:18,040 --> 00:25:18,760
Speaker 5: being off sides.

566
00:25:19,119 --> 00:25:21,440
Speaker 2: Yes, I don't know. Can Daniel Jones do that.

567
00:25:23,240 --> 00:25:26,040
Speaker 5: I think he can in some instances. I'm not saying

568
00:25:26,040 --> 00:25:27,560
Speaker 5: that throw in particular.

569
00:25:27,119 --> 00:25:29,919
Speaker 4: But Daniel Jones ain't making that that play.

570
00:25:30,240 --> 00:25:31,720
Speaker 5: You know, I meant like just to down the field

571
00:25:31,760 --> 00:25:33,679
Speaker 5: stuff like we saw him pushing down the field for

572
00:25:33,680 --> 00:25:39,000
Speaker 5: example with Tyler Warren. But again, you say that Daniel

573
00:25:39,080 --> 00:25:41,199
Speaker 5: Jones ain't making that play, which I'm not arguing that,

574
00:25:41,240 --> 00:25:42,800
Speaker 5: but like, do the Colts think they need need their

575
00:25:42,840 --> 00:25:43,439
Speaker 5: quarterback to make that?

576
00:25:43,640 --> 00:25:45,480
Speaker 4: Well, that's kind of what I was getting at, is

577
00:25:45,560 --> 00:25:49,840
Speaker 4: what like Jeff brings up that play. I would think

578
00:25:49,840 --> 00:25:52,840
Speaker 4: the thing that resonates more Shane Styke and leaving Saturday though,

579
00:25:52,920 --> 00:25:56,680
Speaker 4: is Anthony Richardson did lead again a very methodical touchdown drive.

580
00:25:57,240 --> 00:26:00,400
Speaker 4: Like that's where you want to see growth that play

581
00:26:00,440 --> 00:26:03,960
Speaker 4: he made Anthony Gould. We know Anthony Richardson can do that.

582
00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:07,439
Speaker 4: He has done that in the NFL. It's more of

583
00:26:08,520 --> 00:26:10,919
Speaker 4: the reverse of it. I thought, honestly, one of the

584
00:26:10,920 --> 00:26:13,320
Speaker 4: things I was struck by postgame two and James, you

585
00:26:13,359 --> 00:26:17,600
Speaker 4: asked Daniel Jones's question, James, what Daniel Jones has spoken

586
00:26:17,600 --> 00:26:19,720
Speaker 4: to the media. What do you think eight times here

587
00:26:19,760 --> 00:26:21,760
Speaker 4: in his Colt career six times in his Colts career.

588
00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:24,040
Speaker 4: I don't think I've walked away one time thinking wow,

589
00:26:24,040 --> 00:26:30,359
Speaker 4: that was interesting. And then postgame he says this and like,

590
00:26:30,560 --> 00:26:32,520
Speaker 4: I don't know if he meant it in this manner,

591
00:26:33,160 --> 00:26:34,959
Speaker 4: but James and corigt me are wrong. You asked him

592
00:26:34,960 --> 00:26:36,560
Speaker 4: something to the effect of like, hey, what do you

593
00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:37,720
Speaker 4: think you've done to earn the job?

594
00:26:38,280 --> 00:26:40,400
Speaker 5: Yeah? You know, I basically said, what do you think

595
00:26:40,440 --> 00:26:43,200
Speaker 5: you've shown the coaches to make an argument? To be

596
00:26:43,320 --> 00:26:46,160
Speaker 5: qb one? I mean, because he keeps tap dancing around

597
00:26:46,840 --> 00:26:49,119
Speaker 5: the competition. Every time we ask him directly about it.

598
00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:50,720
Speaker 5: He's just like, Oh, I'm just here to compete and

599
00:26:50,720 --> 00:26:51,400
Speaker 5: be a good teammate.

600
00:26:51,600 --> 00:26:52,119
Speaker 4: Bomped that.

601
00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:54,760
Speaker 5: I'm like, I'm not trying to hear that anymore. You

602
00:26:54,840 --> 00:26:57,520
Speaker 5: came here to take somebody's job. Have you done enough

603
00:26:57,520 --> 00:26:57,879
Speaker 5: to do that?

604
00:26:58,880 --> 00:27:01,840
Speaker 4: On more money Minnesota? For say exactly, that was my question.

605
00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:04,480
Speaker 4: Here's what he had to sell. And just one more

606
00:27:04,520 --> 00:27:09,880
Speaker 4: additional thing for context. Here his answer. It almost sounded

607
00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:13,720
Speaker 4: like he was literally saying, what are Anthony Richardson's weaknesses?

608
00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:17,120
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, let me say that out loud. And here's

609
00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:18,120
Speaker 4: Daniel Jones.

610
00:27:19,080 --> 00:27:22,159
Speaker 9: Just tried to show up every day and improve grow

611
00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:25,520
Speaker 9: in my understanding of the offense, and and make good

612
00:27:25,560 --> 00:27:29,399
Speaker 9: decisions consistently. I think that's been something I've I've always

613
00:27:29,400 --> 00:27:33,239
Speaker 9: tried to do and uh, and we'll continue to work on.

614
00:27:33,359 --> 00:27:37,480
Speaker 9: But I think consistent decision making and uh, you know,

615
00:27:37,720 --> 00:27:41,280
Speaker 9: throwing the ball accurately accurately, I think that's a huge

616
00:27:41,320 --> 00:27:43,880
Speaker 9: part of playing the positions. You know, that's something I've

617
00:27:43,880 --> 00:27:44,320
Speaker 9: tried to do.

618
00:27:44,640 --> 00:27:48,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's an undeniable asset in the National Football League.

619
00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:51,480
Speaker 2: There's no question consistent decision making, throwing the ball accuracy

620
00:27:51,640 --> 00:27:56,160
Speaker 2: accurately is a huge part of playing the position. If

621
00:27:56,200 --> 00:27:58,280
Speaker 2: you had to sit there and say, what are two

622
00:27:58,320 --> 00:28:02,399
Speaker 2: things you have questions about with Anthony, you would say, well,

623
00:28:02,520 --> 00:28:05,919
Speaker 2: inconsistent decision making and throwing the ball inaccurately.

624
00:28:07,640 --> 00:28:07,880
Speaker 5: Right.

625
00:28:08,359 --> 00:28:10,800
Speaker 1: I just when Daniel Jones said that out loud of like,

626
00:28:11,720 --> 00:28:14,159
Speaker 1: that is unbelievable that I don't know if he was

627
00:28:14,240 --> 00:28:17,679
Speaker 1: trying to do that, but he's not, Like he's not

628
00:28:17,800 --> 00:28:19,119
Speaker 1: wrong in the answer.

629
00:28:19,440 --> 00:28:23,359
Speaker 4: No. I just found it hilarious that the guy that

630
00:28:23,440 --> 00:28:27,160
Speaker 4: again has not said anything interesting for six months says

631
00:28:27,280 --> 00:28:31,480
Speaker 4: that seemingly forty eight hours before we're about to get

632
00:28:31,560 --> 00:28:34,320
Speaker 4: this quarterback decision.

633
00:28:34,280 --> 00:28:39,200
Speaker 2: And again it seems to be high ceiling but low

634
00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:44,120
Speaker 2: floor versus high floor and low ceiling. It feels like

635
00:28:44,200 --> 00:28:47,280
Speaker 2: that's that's your choice right now, James.

636
00:28:47,720 --> 00:28:52,520
Speaker 5: Fun time, I was gonna say, I don't know what

637
00:28:52,600 --> 00:28:55,280
Speaker 5: else to really, you know, Okay, here's my other thing

638
00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:56,280
Speaker 5: I wanted to get into.

639
00:28:56,880 --> 00:28:57,360
Speaker 2: This is a.

640
00:28:58,840 --> 00:29:01,200
Speaker 5: I don't know if I'm just bored in the media

641
00:29:01,280 --> 00:29:03,560
Speaker 5: because I get sick of people, you know, giving you

642
00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:06,200
Speaker 5: these cliche answers. Oh, Anthony, it's not up to me.

643
00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:08,760
Speaker 5: I get the job, thank god, if I don't got

644
00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:11,400
Speaker 5: to keep working. Yeah, but like you want the job?

645
00:29:11,800 --> 00:29:15,240
Speaker 5: And so do you think either quarterback would have been

646
00:29:15,320 --> 00:29:18,400
Speaker 5: a little bit more definitive in their answers? But why

647
00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:20,440
Speaker 5: they we should about why they should be the starter?

648
00:29:21,080 --> 00:29:23,880
Speaker 5: If they had done more to be the starter, Like

649
00:29:23,920 --> 00:29:25,920
Speaker 5: do you think we would have gotten anything else? Because

650
00:29:25,920 --> 00:29:28,480
Speaker 5: I feel like both guys are saying, like, you know,

651
00:29:28,680 --> 00:29:30,600
Speaker 5: I knew I didn't do a whole lot to maybe

652
00:29:30,640 --> 00:29:33,360
Speaker 5: impress you, but like I'm not even better than that guy, right,

653
00:29:33,520 --> 00:29:35,560
Speaker 5: Like again, that's not like.

654
00:29:35,960 --> 00:29:40,120
Speaker 4: Go to in dating that guy, right.

655
00:29:40,520 --> 00:29:43,640
Speaker 2: Aaron Tuxson says that he pictures Shane Stikeen as the Bachelor,

656
00:29:43,680 --> 00:29:45,080
Speaker 2: wondering who to give the Blue Rose to.

657
00:29:45,920 --> 00:29:48,080
Speaker 5: I'm serious though, but like, will we have gotten some

658
00:29:48,080 --> 00:29:51,840
Speaker 5: more definitive kind of like from either guy? Because either

659
00:29:51,880 --> 00:29:53,680
Speaker 5: guy is like, well, you know, I'm just trying to

660
00:29:53,680 --> 00:29:55,240
Speaker 5: get better every day, and I'm like, well, have you

661
00:29:55,280 --> 00:29:56,200
Speaker 5: gotten any better.

662
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Speaker 4: To play the bachelor? Sort of analogy there, that's Daniel

663
00:29:58,800 --> 00:30:00,960
Speaker 4: Jones grabbing shaanesychings, Hey can we go out to the

664
00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:03,800
Speaker 4: fire just one last time? I got one more thing

665
00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:06,240
Speaker 4: I need to say, And hey, can I steal you

666
00:30:06,280 --> 00:30:07,440
Speaker 4: from a minute's ways?

667
00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:09,080
Speaker 2: Do you know what's really going on right there?

668
00:30:09,400 --> 00:30:11,320
Speaker 4: Can I take you to Ralston's for a date on

669
00:30:11,480 --> 00:30:13,120
Speaker 4: mass Ave? And you know I'm gonna I'm gonna throw

670
00:30:13,160 --> 00:30:15,760
Speaker 4: these comments and like that. That's what it felt like.

671
00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:19,360
Speaker 4: I'm jotting this downmore having Daniel Jones say those comments.

672
00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:22,560
Speaker 4: What what do you guys think of? Again the question

673
00:30:22,600 --> 00:30:27,160
Speaker 4: that I threw, Joe writes internally in that locker room,

674
00:30:27,160 --> 00:30:29,800
Speaker 4: what do they want? The higher floor of the higher ceiling.

675
00:30:31,360 --> 00:30:34,800
Speaker 4: If you were a player in that locker room, Let's

676
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Speaker 4: say you're Jonathan Taylor, would you rather have the higher floor?

677
00:30:40,520 --> 00:30:44,960
Speaker 4: Theoretically in Jones or the higher ceiling theoretically and Richardson.

678
00:30:46,160 --> 00:30:49,200
Speaker 2: I feel like I'd want the guy who has the

679
00:30:49,320 --> 00:30:53,520
Speaker 2: chance to have the higher, higher ceiling to again, who

680
00:30:53,560 --> 00:30:55,840
Speaker 2: hasn't had a ton of opportunities, A lot of reasons

681
00:30:55,880 --> 00:30:58,440
Speaker 2: why not getting into that, But I feel like I

682
00:30:58,480 --> 00:31:00,480
Speaker 2: want to roll with Anthony Richardson, and well, it just

683
00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:03,160
Speaker 2: becomes untenable before it's two la. I mean, you don't

684
00:31:03,160 --> 00:31:06,840
Speaker 2: go three four games, But do you see if he's

685
00:31:06,840 --> 00:31:08,360
Speaker 2: made don't you want to see if he's made a

686
00:31:08,400 --> 00:31:11,480
Speaker 2: step forward at some point with as much as you've

687
00:31:11,520 --> 00:31:14,440
Speaker 2: invested him in and everything else. And again, Shane Steigen

688
00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:16,200
Speaker 2: might feel like his job's on the line. I gotta

689
00:31:16,240 --> 00:31:18,560
Speaker 2: I can't worry about this guy's future. I gotta worry

690
00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:21,920
Speaker 2: about my future and the immediate future. And again, we

691
00:31:22,160 --> 00:31:24,320
Speaker 2: look at a team that was eight and nine last year,

692
00:31:25,200 --> 00:31:28,640
Speaker 2: that probably led a couple of games slip away James

693
00:31:29,560 --> 00:31:31,800
Speaker 2: and better decision making and taking care of the football

694
00:31:31,800 --> 00:31:35,440
Speaker 2: in certain situations may and maybe some better field goal

695
00:31:35,520 --> 00:31:37,640
Speaker 2: kicking and some key points. Maybe that makes you all

696
00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:40,000
Speaker 2: of a sudden, you go from eight to nine to

697
00:31:40,040 --> 00:31:41,760
Speaker 2: either nine and eight or ten and seven. Do you

698
00:31:41,760 --> 00:31:43,800
Speaker 2: look at it that way with some of the additions

699
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Speaker 2: and upgrades you've made on defense.

700
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think that's part of it. That's certainly in

701
00:31:48,320 --> 00:31:53,360
Speaker 5: the conversation. Man. I think if I'm in that locker room,

702
00:31:53,480 --> 00:31:56,440
Speaker 5: I probably want ar mainly because one, he's been there longer,

703
00:31:56,560 --> 00:32:01,640
Speaker 5: I have layship with him, and you've seen glimpses of

704
00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:03,560
Speaker 5: what it looks like when it clicks. And I go

705
00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:07,120
Speaker 5: back to the Jets game last year. If there's any

706
00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:10,120
Speaker 5: Ar truthers out there, they're gonna look at that game

707
00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:11,880
Speaker 5: and say, you really want to pass? Do you really

708
00:32:11,880 --> 00:32:14,440
Speaker 5: want to pass this up? When's the last time Daniel

709
00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:16,000
Speaker 5: Jones had a game like this? And it probably goes

710
00:32:16,040 --> 00:32:17,400
Speaker 5: back to twenty twenty two when he had one of

711
00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:23,120
Speaker 5: those games against the Colts ironically, But I also wonder too, though,

712
00:32:23,680 --> 00:32:26,200
Speaker 5: when it comes to Anthony, like after he got his

713
00:32:26,240 --> 00:32:30,760
Speaker 5: finger messed up in the preseason opener, how many guys

714
00:32:30,760 --> 00:32:32,680
Speaker 5: in that locker room thought, you know what, this guy

715
00:32:33,320 --> 00:32:34,120
Speaker 5: always gets hurt.

716
00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:36,960
Speaker 4: Well, that would be the counter to it, James, is

717
00:32:37,040 --> 00:32:39,000
Speaker 4: if you're a guy in the locker room, and let's

718
00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:42,000
Speaker 4: just speak to that play for a second, you're one

719
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Speaker 4: of those guys that was out there. DJ Giddens on

720
00:32:43,880 --> 00:32:45,920
Speaker 4: that play, or Tyler Warren on that play, or you know,

721
00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:47,280
Speaker 4: probably I should go with a little bit more of

722
00:32:47,320 --> 00:32:52,880
Speaker 4: a veteran. You did everything right on that play. Ten

723
00:32:52,960 --> 00:32:54,960
Speaker 4: of you were on the same page. One of you

724
00:32:55,560 --> 00:32:58,760
Speaker 4: made the mistake, and it could if that's a real game.

725
00:32:59,280 --> 00:33:02,240
Speaker 4: Let's say that ball it's yard loose. So ten offensive

726
00:33:02,240 --> 00:33:04,960
Speaker 4: players are on the same page, and yet you just

727
00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:07,080
Speaker 4: had a stripsack in your own territory against a team

728
00:33:07,120 --> 00:33:10,600
Speaker 4: that you're probably a touchdown underdog against. That is disastrous

729
00:33:10,800 --> 00:33:13,240
Speaker 4: when you speak from an NFL game point of view.

730
00:33:13,680 --> 00:33:16,600
Speaker 4: So I could see the locker room, like our our

731
00:33:16,640 --> 00:33:18,880
Speaker 4: poll to start of the camp mark was what eighty

732
00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:23,200
Speaker 4: five percent Colts fans won. Richardson, Yes, that that locker

733
00:33:23,280 --> 00:33:25,600
Speaker 4: room to me would be a lot closer to fifty

734
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Speaker 4: to fifty. Like, yeah, I can hear you, Jeff of like, yeah,

735
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Speaker 4: you know, higher ceiling and you know healthy offseason and

736
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Speaker 4: the play to Anthony Gould, you know Daniel Jones isn't

737
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Speaker 4: making that. Yes, then if you're a part of that

738
00:33:38,960 --> 00:33:42,080
Speaker 4: locker room and you watch the play against Baltimore, you're thinking,

739
00:33:42,080 --> 00:33:44,680
Speaker 4: wait a minute, we all sit in the same meetings

740
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Speaker 4: and ten of us are on the same page, but

741
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Speaker 4: you're not, and that just costs us a football game. Yeah,

742
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Speaker 4: you can.

743
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Speaker 2: Would you be so let me put it to you

744
00:33:52,880 --> 00:33:56,480
Speaker 2: this way, Would you be surprised by the announcement of

745
00:33:56,640 --> 00:33:57,880
Speaker 2: either guy tomorrow?

746
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Speaker 4: No? No, I know either guy. I mean, James, I

747
00:34:02,120 --> 00:34:04,320
Speaker 4: don't know if you've probably done this, but I'll probably

748
00:34:04,360 --> 00:34:06,960
Speaker 4: at some point today. Right, both guys have been named

749
00:34:06,960 --> 00:34:09,759
Speaker 4: the starter articles. So like Kevin at three h five,

750
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Speaker 4: it's one of those situations where like I could see

751
00:34:12,200 --> 00:34:16,920
Speaker 4: it being both ways. Yeah, I definitely could. And for

752
00:34:16,960 --> 00:34:19,839
Speaker 4: those curious about the Colt schedule this week, they will

753
00:34:19,880 --> 00:34:24,200
Speaker 4: practice Tomorrow Wednesday, Thursday. Believe we actually still get to

754
00:34:24,200 --> 00:34:25,840
Speaker 4: watch the full practices, right James.

755
00:34:25,719 --> 00:34:27,760
Speaker 5: Yes, I got that clarified with Colts PR.

756
00:34:28,040 --> 00:34:30,440
Speaker 4: So I put this. They're back at their own facility,

757
00:34:30,680 --> 00:34:34,080
Speaker 4: we get to watch the full practices. And while Shane

758
00:34:34,160 --> 00:34:37,960
Speaker 4: hasn't committed to a date per se, obviously, he said

759
00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:40,640
Speaker 4: on Saturday that he's close to a decision, it wouldn't

760
00:34:40,680 --> 00:34:44,200
Speaker 4: stun me if he announced that tomorrow before their first practice.

761
00:34:44,239 --> 00:34:47,600
Speaker 4: So again, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, off to Cincinnati Friday, and

762
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Speaker 4: we'll await what the preseason finale plan will be against

763
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Speaker 4: the Bengals.

764
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Speaker 3: July twenty third, I tweeted on the show account do

765
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Speaker 3: you want the Colts starting who? Do you want the

766
00:34:54,680 --> 00:34:55,640
Speaker 3: Colts starting quarterback?

767
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Speaker 6: To? Being?

768
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Speaker 4: Twenty twenty five?

769
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Speaker 3: Eighty two point four percent, said Anthony Richardson, You think

770
00:34:59,800 --> 00:35:02,439
Speaker 3: that's any different? Like a little over a month later,

771
00:35:02,880 --> 00:35:05,239
Speaker 3: almost a month later, if I put that tweet out,

772
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Speaker 3: I'd probably say it might be more more in favor

773
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Speaker 3: of AR at this point.

774
00:35:09,640 --> 00:35:14,000
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I don't. I don't think that would change overwhelming. Again,

775
00:35:14,040 --> 00:35:15,400
Speaker 4: I brought it up more from a locker room, so

776
00:35:15,520 --> 00:35:17,080
Speaker 4: like if you asked that same question mark to the

777
00:35:17,120 --> 00:35:20,160
Speaker 4: locker of truth here, you know what would be that

778
00:35:20,280 --> 00:35:23,400
Speaker 4: A I think you would have a heavy divide within

779
00:35:23,480 --> 00:35:27,600
Speaker 4: that room of what they would want. And what does

780
00:35:27,640 --> 00:35:28,759
Speaker 4: that do for the locker room too?

781
00:35:28,800 --> 00:35:33,040
Speaker 3: If like the guy that you prefer doesn't get the like,

782
00:35:33,120 --> 00:35:34,200
Speaker 3: are you gonna play any different?

783
00:35:34,280 --> 00:35:34,480
Speaker 8: Yeah?

784
00:35:34,640 --> 00:35:35,800
Speaker 4: Pissed off? Well part of me?

785
00:35:35,880 --> 00:35:36,000
Speaker 9: Thing?

786
00:35:36,160 --> 00:35:39,080
Speaker 5: Nah, I don't think so. Honestly, I think if you

787
00:35:39,120 --> 00:35:42,319
Speaker 5: are a true professional in that locker room, and let's

788
00:35:42,320 --> 00:35:45,520
Speaker 5: say they pick Daniel Jones and you're an AR person,

789
00:35:45,880 --> 00:35:47,719
Speaker 5: you're probably thinking, well, he had his opportunities and now

790
00:35:47,760 --> 00:35:48,480
Speaker 5: we got to go win.

791
00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:50,880
Speaker 4: Well, and and you got your own freaking job to

792
00:35:50,920 --> 00:35:52,920
Speaker 4: worry about it exactly. If you play defense for the Colts,

793
00:35:52,960 --> 00:35:56,120
Speaker 4: there's you've contributed to Gus Bradley getting fired. And if

794
00:35:56,160 --> 00:35:58,000
Speaker 4: you play the offensive line for the Colts, right now,

795
00:35:58,360 --> 00:36:00,120
Speaker 4: I think you've got a little bit more questions about

796
00:36:00,120 --> 00:36:00,439
Speaker 4: that group.

797
00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:05,600
Speaker 2: Then I thought, oh, now you're speaking my language, Mark Dayton.

798
00:36:08,760 --> 00:36:10,000
Speaker 5: Oh this is the plist.

799
00:36:10,320 --> 00:36:12,600
Speaker 2: This isn't the playlist. I like this, this good stuff.

800
00:36:13,160 --> 00:36:13,560
Speaker 4: All right?

801
00:36:13,800 --> 00:36:14,760
Speaker 5: Thanks for an artist.

802
00:36:15,040 --> 00:36:17,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know if that can but I know

803
00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:18,200
Speaker 2: I listened to it a lot.

804
00:36:18,280 --> 00:36:20,480
Speaker 4: What is it, Mark? Who is it a game?

805
00:36:21,239 --> 00:36:23,960
Speaker 3: Well, this is a fifty unit remix, but yes, i'll

806
00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:26,799
Speaker 3: do the game in fifty But yes, very good.

807
00:36:26,920 --> 00:36:28,480
Speaker 2: A lot of the time I'll hear it with my wife.

808
00:36:28,560 --> 00:36:30,680
Speaker 2: She likes she really likes a lot of that music.

809
00:36:30,960 --> 00:36:32,239
Speaker 2: She'll play it and I'll just prooved it.

810
00:36:32,320 --> 00:36:32,799
Speaker 6: I like it.

811
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Speaker 2: I'll tell you another guy that we grew to. It's

812
00:36:35,400 --> 00:36:37,800
Speaker 2: a victory Monday too for the Indiana Fever. So we

813
00:36:37,880 --> 00:36:40,719
Speaker 2: got another victory Monday. Tony East covers The Pacers and

814
00:36:40,760 --> 00:36:42,600
Speaker 2: the Fever and he joins us now in the Payless

815
00:36:42,680 --> 00:36:45,680
Speaker 2: Liquors hotline. Good morning, Tony East, how you doing today?

816
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Speaker 7: Good morning, I sincerely hope I am not in anyone's playlist,

817
00:36:50,200 --> 00:36:51,000
Speaker 7: but have it here.

818
00:36:51,120 --> 00:36:54,000
Speaker 2: Well, you're here today, You're on our playlist. We appreciate that,

819
00:36:54,360 --> 00:36:57,440
Speaker 2: you know. We we we saw in a Fever come

820
00:36:57,480 --> 00:37:00,600
Speaker 2: from behind win over a team that's not all that good,

821
00:37:00,640 --> 00:37:03,640
Speaker 2: but they match up apparently well with the Fever because

822
00:37:03,640 --> 00:37:05,640
Speaker 2: they give them fits every time they come up with

823
00:37:05,680 --> 00:37:09,200
Speaker 2: an overtime win over Connecticut ninety nine ninety three. They

824
00:37:09,200 --> 00:37:11,279
Speaker 2: were twenty one points down and we saw a very

825
00:37:11,320 --> 00:37:15,440
Speaker 2: emotional Stepphannie White post game in the locker room. And

826
00:37:15,480 --> 00:37:18,520
Speaker 2: I would imagine that that emotion comes from perhaps another

827
00:37:18,560 --> 00:37:21,440
Speaker 2: big injury coming. We'll find out today to Sophia Cunningham.

828
00:37:21,719 --> 00:37:24,359
Speaker 2: But Caitlin Clark's been out for fourteenth straight games. We've

829
00:37:24,360 --> 00:37:28,000
Speaker 2: had injury after injury after injury. What did you make

830
00:37:28,040 --> 00:37:29,719
Speaker 2: of her postgame remarks?

831
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Speaker 7: Yeah, it was not surprising, I suppose, but I just

832
00:37:34,600 --> 00:37:37,440
Speaker 7: it did strike me that how emotional she was after a.

833
00:37:37,440 --> 00:37:37,800
Speaker 4: Game like that.

834
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Speaker 7: I mean, the sun, the sun stink, right, And I

835
00:37:40,120 --> 00:37:42,520
Speaker 7: think that that the fact that she came to the

836
00:37:42,560 --> 00:37:46,359
Speaker 7: presser with that, you know, intense passion after a win

837
00:37:46,480 --> 00:37:48,080
Speaker 7: like that, it says a lot about the state of

838
00:37:48,120 --> 00:37:50,919
Speaker 7: affairs for the team that I mean, they just keep

839
00:37:51,040 --> 00:37:52,120
Speaker 7: dropping like flies.

840
00:37:52,160 --> 00:37:53,800
Speaker 6: That would be their fourth ball.

841
00:37:53,600 --> 00:37:58,200
Speaker 7: Handler from this season that is out if Cunningham's going

842
00:37:58,239 --> 00:38:00,560
Speaker 7: to miss any time, Like that's like all the right,

843
00:38:00,600 --> 00:38:03,640
Speaker 7: It's just Kelsey Mitchell left basically, and obviously they filled

844
00:38:03,640 --> 00:38:06,880
Speaker 7: them more now. So to be in that situation where

845
00:38:07,239 --> 00:38:09,440
Speaker 7: you know, she's she's telling us she was like swearing

846
00:38:09,520 --> 00:38:12,520
Speaker 7: internally when when Sophie goes down and they have whatever

847
00:38:12,600 --> 00:38:16,120
Speaker 7: thirty one points halfway through the third quarter and then win,

848
00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:19,400
Speaker 7: like you know that that's a coal like everything coalesces

849
00:38:19,480 --> 00:38:22,360
Speaker 7: to to finally play the way they hoped they could

850
00:38:22,480 --> 00:38:26,040
Speaker 7: for whatever that was, to close the game seventeen minutes,

851
00:38:26,080 --> 00:38:27,880
Speaker 7: and you know, it could not have come at a

852
00:38:27,880 --> 00:38:30,479
Speaker 7: better time. Like they looked really bad at home last

853
00:38:30,480 --> 00:38:32,400
Speaker 7: week again, some not great teams, the Sun or the

854
00:38:32,400 --> 00:38:33,680
Speaker 7: worst team in the league.

855
00:38:33,440 --> 00:38:33,879
Speaker 4: By a record.

856
00:38:33,920 --> 00:38:36,680
Speaker 7: They're not like a terrible worst team, but they're pretty bad.

857
00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:38,560
Speaker 7: You know, they needed to find a way to do

858
00:38:38,640 --> 00:38:41,319
Speaker 7: that and for the players to respond the way they

859
00:38:41,320 --> 00:38:43,640
Speaker 7: did and play the way if you hope they can

860
00:38:43,719 --> 00:38:45,960
Speaker 7: without Clark like they have at times this season, Like

861
00:38:46,280 --> 00:38:48,040
Speaker 7: that's what a coach hopes to see her team do.

862
00:38:48,120 --> 00:38:51,320
Speaker 7: And obviously it took Kelsey Mitchell super heroics, but it

863
00:38:51,719 --> 00:38:54,680
Speaker 7: was awesome to see you know how much that that

864
00:38:54,760 --> 00:38:57,799
Speaker 7: win meant, especially on the day when everything else went

865
00:38:57,800 --> 00:38:59,680
Speaker 7: their way standings wise, So that I mean, that was

866
00:38:59,719 --> 00:39:02,640
Speaker 7: a huge, huge, huge day for the Fever, despite them

867
00:39:02,680 --> 00:39:05,040
Speaker 7: beating a team that everybody thought they should beat anyway.

868
00:39:05,160 --> 00:39:10,720
Speaker 4: Tony hat tip, I thought the mother bleeping adjective used

869
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Speaker 4: in a tweet to describe Kelsey Mitchell yesterday was very needed.

870
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Speaker 4: So great work with that. I won't say it here

871
00:39:16,960 --> 00:39:18,479
Speaker 4: to save my John.

872
00:39:19,600 --> 00:39:22,680
Speaker 7: I save that word for like once a year, so

873
00:39:22,760 --> 00:39:24,920
Speaker 7: you know it means something when it comes out, like,

874
00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:27,680
Speaker 7: oh yeah, thirty seven point a half for w player

875
00:39:27,800 --> 00:39:29,680
Speaker 7: is crazy. That was unreal.

876
00:39:29,800 --> 00:39:32,160
Speaker 4: You met the moment like she did with that tweet.

877
00:39:32,200 --> 00:39:35,680
Speaker 4: So great work by Tony East on that. Okay, Caitlyn

878
00:39:35,719 --> 00:39:38,560
Speaker 4: Clark update, nothing today, nothing tomorrow. On the floor Wednesday

879
00:39:38,640 --> 00:39:41,600
Speaker 4: Thursday practice, Stephanie White says the hope is she will

880
00:39:41,600 --> 00:39:44,080
Speaker 4: be back before the end of the regular season. I

881
00:39:44,280 --> 00:39:46,720
Speaker 4: start to get nervous. If we get through this week

882
00:39:46,760 --> 00:39:49,600
Speaker 4: and there's nothing on the floor, would you be nervous too.

883
00:39:50,600 --> 00:39:53,080
Speaker 7: I would agree with that, Like I don't necessarily know that,

884
00:39:53,120 --> 00:39:56,080
Speaker 7: I would say, oh, she's gotta play by this week,

885
00:39:56,560 --> 00:39:58,320
Speaker 7: you know, for whatever reason, I'm.

886
00:39:58,160 --> 00:40:00,000
Speaker 4: Not saying playing to be clear, I'm saying she needs

887
00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:00,640
Speaker 4: I think.

888
00:40:00,600 --> 00:40:03,640
Speaker 7: Yes, totally agree like they and this is the time,

889
00:40:03,760 --> 00:40:08,400
Speaker 7: right because you know they have four days to to

890
00:40:08,480 --> 00:40:11,400
Speaker 7: have the on ramp kind of happen towards you know,

891
00:40:11,440 --> 00:40:14,200
Speaker 7: we finally hear three on three or five on five

892
00:40:14,440 --> 00:40:17,040
Speaker 7: or just something where a basketball is being drible and

893
00:40:17,120 --> 00:40:18,239
Speaker 7: she's wearing a fever kit.

894
00:40:18,640 --> 00:40:19,400
Speaker 4: You know, at.

895
00:40:19,200 --> 00:40:23,160
Speaker 7: Practice would because you have a chance to really do it,

896
00:40:23,239 --> 00:40:25,319
Speaker 7: Like this is a big league for them to work

897
00:40:25,360 --> 00:40:27,400
Speaker 7: in Odyssey Simms. And if they get another hard to

898
00:40:27,400 --> 00:40:29,400
Speaker 7: player because the gun hand, that's great, But like Clark

899
00:40:29,560 --> 00:40:32,160
Speaker 7: is the thing to focus on in practice this week

900
00:40:32,200 --> 00:40:34,680
Speaker 7: if they can, and like they have a lot of

901
00:40:34,719 --> 00:40:36,759
Speaker 7: road games to close their season. Obviously they play the

902
00:40:36,840 --> 00:40:38,879
Speaker 7: leagu's at home this week, but you know that they

903
00:40:38,880 --> 00:40:41,520
Speaker 7: have Seattle like the following weekend and a couple of

904
00:40:41,560 --> 00:40:43,319
Speaker 7: other home games. Were's like maybe this is the time

905
00:40:43,360 --> 00:40:45,959
Speaker 7: it makes sense if it's going to happen, and would

906
00:40:45,960 --> 00:40:48,040
Speaker 7: you have a random like They've played I think the

907
00:40:48,080 --> 00:40:49,479
Speaker 7: most games of any team in the league.

908
00:40:49,480 --> 00:40:50,360
Speaker 4: I'd have to double check that.

909
00:40:50,440 --> 00:40:52,319
Speaker 7: I believe that there are ten games left with the

910
00:40:52,320 --> 00:40:55,680
Speaker 7: fewest of anybody, And so that does and in theory

911
00:40:55,800 --> 00:40:58,279
Speaker 7: now give them a chance to have practice time, which

912
00:40:58,320 --> 00:41:00,440
Speaker 7: is so rare this late in the season, and they

913
00:41:00,560 --> 00:41:03,320
Speaker 7: have to use it to if they can get Clark

914
00:41:03,520 --> 00:41:06,040
Speaker 7: some practice time on the floor so her return and smoother.

915
00:41:06,120 --> 00:41:08,440
Speaker 7: And so I agree that if we hear nothing of

916
00:41:08,480 --> 00:41:11,680
Speaker 7: the sorts of you know, on the hardwood dribbling doing

917
00:41:11,719 --> 00:41:14,320
Speaker 7: something throughout three, five and five, that's when I'd do that. Huh.

918
00:41:14,640 --> 00:41:17,319
Speaker 7: Maybe that hope is just hope. But if something does

919
00:41:17,400 --> 00:41:19,720
Speaker 7: come up, then then that'd be great for them because

920
00:41:19,760 --> 00:41:22,759
Speaker 7: they've been everybody this year. At some point they they're peak.

921
00:41:22,760 --> 00:41:24,279
Speaker 7: Shows they have a chance, but they needed to play

922
00:41:24,320 --> 00:41:25,040
Speaker 7: to have that chance.

923
00:41:26,080 --> 00:41:28,360
Speaker 5: Tony, how big was that win yesterday? And I'm not

924
00:41:28,360 --> 00:41:30,440
Speaker 5: saying that as a cliche because of the fashion in

925
00:41:30,480 --> 00:41:32,759
Speaker 5: which they did it, but just knowing where they are

926
00:41:32,800 --> 00:41:36,120
Speaker 5: in the standings and who's up next on the docket, Yeah,

927
00:41:36,320 --> 00:41:36,640
Speaker 5: I mean.

928
00:41:36,560 --> 00:41:38,880
Speaker 7: They're they're scheduled the rest of the way. If you

929
00:41:38,960 --> 00:41:42,560
Speaker 7: check you Tankathon has remaining strength to schedule. They have

930
00:41:42,600 --> 00:41:46,080
Speaker 7: the hardest strength of schedule by like five percentage points

931
00:41:46,120 --> 00:41:49,719
Speaker 7: of opponent win percentage, Like it's much harder than anybody

932
00:41:49,719 --> 00:41:52,440
Speaker 7: else's And that's why this whole this last four games

933
00:41:52,440 --> 00:41:55,320
Speaker 7: they played, they played the worst four teams in the

934
00:41:55,400 --> 00:42:00,399
Speaker 7: league by record. They played DC, Connecticut, Dallas, and I'm

935
00:42:00,400 --> 00:42:02,640
Speaker 7: missing one for the Chicago, Like they needed to clean

936
00:42:02,719 --> 00:42:04,719
Speaker 7: up in that stretch. They did not do great, but

937
00:42:04,800 --> 00:42:06,799
Speaker 7: that's why they needed that win so bad, like to

938
00:42:06,880 --> 00:42:10,360
Speaker 7: get any sort of cushion before their schedule gets harder,

939
00:42:10,440 --> 00:42:13,160
Speaker 7: like this week they just play the Leaks and Colliers

940
00:42:13,360 --> 00:42:16,399
Speaker 7: status is improving, and that's the best team in the league,

941
00:42:16,480 --> 00:42:17,400
Speaker 7: Like buy a good amount.

942
00:42:17,400 --> 00:42:18,319
Speaker 6: They're amazing, and.

943
00:42:18,239 --> 00:42:20,239
Speaker 7: They play lots of good teams the rest of the

944
00:42:20,280 --> 00:42:23,839
Speaker 7: way if they're gonna hold off other teams or even

945
00:42:23,960 --> 00:42:26,920
Speaker 7: keep up. Like it's so hard to talk about what

946
00:42:26,960 --> 00:42:29,480
Speaker 7: their goals should be because they're kind of equidistant from home

947
00:42:29,480 --> 00:42:31,719
Speaker 7: court advantage and just straight up missing the playoffs. But

948
00:42:31,960 --> 00:42:33,680
Speaker 7: I think their goal should be to make it first

949
00:42:33,719 --> 00:42:35,840
Speaker 7: and foremost. If they're going to do that, they need

950
00:42:35,920 --> 00:42:38,360
Speaker 7: to win games. They need to win probably twenty three games,

951
00:42:38,360 --> 00:42:40,919
Speaker 7: twenty two games would be my guess, and winning five

952
00:42:40,960 --> 00:42:43,640
Speaker 7: of their last ten would be like pretty impressive given

953
00:42:43,640 --> 00:42:47,280
Speaker 7: how challenging their schedule is, and so giving themselves an

954
00:42:47,360 --> 00:42:50,600
Speaker 7: extra win before that was just so huge already, and

955
00:42:50,640 --> 00:42:53,280
Speaker 7: they got every result they needed yesterday. The Valkyries lost,

956
00:42:53,560 --> 00:42:56,480
Speaker 7: the Storm lost, the Sparks somehow lost in the Mystics,

957
00:42:56,560 --> 00:43:00,359
Speaker 7: joining the Fevers trend from Friday, So the perfect time

958
00:43:00,400 --> 00:43:02,239
Speaker 7: to get a win like that in terms of like

959
00:43:02,680 --> 00:43:05,440
Speaker 7: confidence and as we saw with Stephanie might postgame like emotion,

960
00:43:06,400 --> 00:43:08,560
Speaker 7: combining it with the losses front of the teams, the

961
00:43:08,600 --> 00:43:11,360
Speaker 7: Fever upcoming schedule, like they really really needed it and

962
00:43:11,400 --> 00:43:13,360
Speaker 7: they got it, and now they have four days to

963
00:43:13,440 --> 00:43:15,439
Speaker 7: kind of regroup and hope some of those teams lose again.

964
00:43:15,960 --> 00:43:18,759
Speaker 2: Tony Aast host the Locked On Pacers podcast. You can

965
00:43:18,840 --> 00:43:23,799
Speaker 2: also see his work in Forbes, ESB Nation, Bleacher Report, WTHR,

966
00:43:24,760 --> 00:43:28,560
Speaker 2: other various publications. He covers both the Pacers and the Fever.

967
00:43:28,640 --> 00:43:30,480
Speaker 2: Move on to the Pacers real quick. I think we

968
00:43:30,520 --> 00:43:32,600
Speaker 2: talked about this just for a minute last week, but

969
00:43:32,640 --> 00:43:35,720
Speaker 2: as tyrese Haliburton moving on without crutches in the scooter

970
00:43:35,800 --> 00:43:36,600
Speaker 2: at this point in time.

971
00:43:37,600 --> 00:43:39,960
Speaker 7: Yeah, he sure said it. He did a great job

972
00:43:40,000 --> 00:43:43,080
Speaker 7: of making his He's the only guy who would make

973
00:43:43,120 --> 00:43:48,399
Speaker 7: his no crutch, no boot picture of Puma thing. But yeah,

974
00:43:48,440 --> 00:43:51,200
Speaker 7: he's got his new shoes, he's got no crutches. I

975
00:43:51,200 --> 00:43:53,440
Speaker 7: will miss seeing him scoot around. It was quite funny

976
00:43:53,440 --> 00:43:53,920
Speaker 7: to see.

977
00:43:54,400 --> 00:43:55,360
Speaker 4: But that's good news.

978
00:43:55,400 --> 00:43:57,719
Speaker 7: I mean, that's where the recovery kind of should be

979
00:43:58,080 --> 00:44:01,040
Speaker 7: at this point, and on your feet and moving. It

980
00:44:01,120 --> 00:44:03,160
Speaker 7: was funny to hear him talk about how challenging the

981
00:44:03,200 --> 00:44:07,319
Speaker 7: most random tasks are at his house. But yeah, on

982
00:44:07,360 --> 00:44:09,520
Speaker 7: the men, that's good, even though he's not gonna play

983
00:44:09,520 --> 00:44:12,080
Speaker 7: this year obviously, any sort of recovery update from him

984
00:44:12,080 --> 00:44:14,880
Speaker 7: that's positive and moving in the right direction, that's goodness, Tony.

985
00:44:14,920 --> 00:44:18,160
Speaker 4: Anything you care about schedule release wise, we saw it

986
00:44:18,200 --> 00:44:21,440
Speaker 4: come out last Thursday. Anything stand out to you from

987
00:44:21,440 --> 00:44:23,799
Speaker 4: a Pacers standpoint, as we're still a little over a

988
00:44:23,800 --> 00:44:24,919
Speaker 4: month away from training camp.

989
00:44:25,880 --> 00:44:27,600
Speaker 7: Yeah, this is this is a cool thing in the

990
00:44:27,600 --> 00:44:30,000
Speaker 7: schedule this year. They don't randomly go to Europe for

991
00:44:30,040 --> 00:44:32,040
Speaker 7: a week in the middle of it, so that's that's

992
00:44:32,080 --> 00:44:34,400
Speaker 7: a lot better than last year. But they all the

993
00:44:34,440 --> 00:44:37,960
Speaker 7: same Pacers the advantages they usually get, right, They traveled

994
00:44:37,960 --> 00:44:41,200
Speaker 7: the fewest miles of any team because they're so close

995
00:44:41,239 --> 00:44:43,759
Speaker 7: to their division opponents, and they have the fewest back

996
00:44:43,800 --> 00:44:46,000
Speaker 7: to backs, and I think they have tied for the

997
00:44:46,000 --> 00:44:50,319
Speaker 7: fewest rest disadvantage games this year, like their opponents in

998
00:44:50,360 --> 00:44:53,920
Speaker 7: them will be even in terms of how they're feeling

999
00:44:53,960 --> 00:44:56,399
Speaker 7: and traveling at worse for much of the season, which

1000
00:44:56,440 --> 00:44:58,279
Speaker 7: is good, right if you're a team that is going

1001
00:44:58,320 --> 00:45:00,560
Speaker 7: to be scraping by and trying to make you know,

1002
00:45:00,719 --> 00:45:03,000
Speaker 7: the play in At least on paper it looks like.

1003
00:45:02,960 --> 00:45:03,680
Speaker 6: And that's good.

1004
00:45:03,719 --> 00:45:06,160
Speaker 7: You want all those vintages built in. But no, nothing

1005
00:45:06,280 --> 00:45:10,400
Speaker 7: super standoutish. They play eighty games, and they play the

1006
00:45:10,440 --> 00:45:12,759
Speaker 7: eighty teams that everybody thought they'd play. They're only weird

1007
00:45:12,800 --> 00:45:15,440
Speaker 7: part of their schedules that like mid January through mid

1008
00:45:15,480 --> 00:45:17,640
Speaker 7: February rush with the trade headline in the middle of it,

1009
00:45:17,680 --> 00:45:20,640
Speaker 7: where it's like a baseball schedule five road games, four

1010
00:45:20,640 --> 00:45:23,560
Speaker 7: home games, six road games consecutively. But outside of that,

1011
00:45:23,640 --> 00:45:27,080
Speaker 7: it's it's nothing so shocking or different than any normal year.

1012
00:45:27,760 --> 00:45:31,560
Speaker 5: Tony, which Pacers player will be the best Colts quarterback?

1013
00:45:32,440 --> 00:45:33,200
Speaker 7: Oh Man.

1014
00:45:35,360 --> 00:45:37,319
Speaker 2: Didn't see that one coming, did you No.

1015
00:45:37,360 --> 00:45:39,919
Speaker 7: I'm used to the opposite, like which Colts play would

1016
00:45:39,880 --> 00:45:42,200
Speaker 7: be the best on the Pacers? Which is Moiley Cox

1017
00:45:42,239 --> 00:45:43,920
Speaker 7: is still on the Colts, right, It's always him, it's

1018
00:45:43,920 --> 00:45:46,400
Speaker 7: the answer. Yeah, yeah, he's always the answer for the inverse.

1019
00:45:47,320 --> 00:45:48,560
Speaker 7: I can't believe I didn't know if he was still

1020
00:45:48,560 --> 00:45:50,600
Speaker 7: on the team or not. The best football player.

1021
00:45:50,760 --> 00:45:52,840
Speaker 4: You said quarterback specifically.

1022
00:45:52,520 --> 00:45:54,640
Speaker 5: Yes, quarterback. There are the compeences are going on. I'm

1023
00:45:54,640 --> 00:45:57,320
Speaker 5: just thinking if we got to go across the street

1024
00:45:57,360 --> 00:45:59,840
Speaker 5: to game Bridge to pick up a quarterback to start

1025
00:46:00,280 --> 00:46:01,760
Speaker 5: about week one, who are you picking?

1026
00:46:02,719 --> 00:46:02,960
Speaker 4: What's like?

1027
00:46:03,360 --> 00:46:06,200
Speaker 7: What's the typical Yeah, I was gonna say, Halburn's got

1028
00:46:06,200 --> 00:46:08,319
Speaker 7: a lot of the trades, right, what's the typical quarterback hip?

1029
00:46:08,440 --> 00:46:10,120
Speaker 7: Like six four? Right about?

1030
00:46:10,320 --> 00:46:10,520
Speaker 2: Yeah?

1031
00:46:10,520 --> 00:46:12,440
Speaker 5: About six four? I would say, I think you can

1032
00:46:12,440 --> 00:46:13,920
Speaker 5: meet a little bit more weight than Halibird.

1033
00:46:14,040 --> 00:46:17,960
Speaker 7: No, he might be too thin for I'll.

1034
00:46:17,760 --> 00:46:21,040
Speaker 5: Tell you who I think would actually turnovers, but but

1035
00:46:22,040 --> 00:46:23,839
Speaker 5: you know what, he might make the tackle on all

1036
00:46:23,920 --> 00:46:27,279
Speaker 5: ten turnovers. My pick personally might be mathering, but I'm

1037
00:46:27,280 --> 00:46:29,120
Speaker 5: seeing where your mind's going.

1038
00:46:30,200 --> 00:46:32,880
Speaker 7: Cam Jones feels like he'd be really he's got the

1039
00:46:32,880 --> 00:46:35,799
Speaker 7: five right, Yeah, he'd be really slithery. He's got the

1040
00:46:35,880 --> 00:46:38,000
Speaker 7: lefty stuff. He'd be a kind of quarterback that I

1041
00:46:38,160 --> 00:46:40,120
Speaker 7: like watching. You know, you can come along with it.

1042
00:46:41,880 --> 00:46:45,080
Speaker 7: That's a fair Matherin was a good answer. So I

1043
00:46:45,400 --> 00:46:47,000
Speaker 7: just zagged a little bit because you guys took the

1044
00:46:47,040 --> 00:46:47,920
Speaker 7: best look, Tony.

1045
00:46:47,960 --> 00:46:49,840
Speaker 4: Have you ever stuck your hand in a porter body?

1046
00:46:50,960 --> 00:46:51,520
Speaker 5: It's like my.

1047
00:46:51,560 --> 00:46:55,600
Speaker 4: Hand in a No what you're you're not a father?

1048
00:46:55,719 --> 00:46:56,120
Speaker 2: Are you?

1049
00:46:56,120 --> 00:46:57,280
Speaker 4: You never dropped anything?

1050
00:46:58,560 --> 00:47:00,319
Speaker 7: I no, no, no, no, no, uh.

1051
00:47:00,880 --> 00:47:03,359
Speaker 4: Any close calls they need to Yeah.

1052
00:47:03,440 --> 00:47:03,640
Speaker 5: Yeah.

1053
00:47:03,719 --> 00:47:07,040
Speaker 7: I in my old life of working a job, like

1054
00:47:07,080 --> 00:47:09,040
Speaker 7: a corporate job, I did a lot of like had

1055
00:47:09,040 --> 00:47:11,040
Speaker 7: to go to construction sites kind of things, and so

1056
00:47:11,239 --> 00:47:13,920
Speaker 7: I spent many minutes in one one company that I

1057
00:47:14,400 --> 00:47:16,800
Speaker 7: was in the port, they had one of those grabber

1058
00:47:16,880 --> 00:47:17,560
Speaker 7: things in there.

1059
00:47:18,600 --> 00:47:19,920
Speaker 2: Really smarter.

1060
00:47:20,080 --> 00:47:21,719
Speaker 7: Wow, yes, I know.

1061
00:47:21,920 --> 00:47:24,960
Speaker 2: Apparently that works out a problem. They finally had to

1062
00:47:24,960 --> 00:47:25,319
Speaker 2: fix it.

1063
00:47:25,640 --> 00:47:26,319
Speaker 4: Interesting.

1064
00:47:26,440 --> 00:47:26,680
Speaker 5: Wow.

1065
00:47:26,760 --> 00:47:30,120
Speaker 4: Okay, well maybe invest in that last year.

1066
00:47:31,400 --> 00:47:34,080
Speaker 2: Driver there, honey, can you get the I dropped my

1067
00:47:34,120 --> 00:47:36,480
Speaker 2: sunglasses in there on Saturday night.

1068
00:47:36,640 --> 00:47:41,200
Speaker 4: I instinctually, I just I just grabbed them out.

1069
00:47:42,040 --> 00:47:43,360
Speaker 7: I have no comment.

1070
00:47:43,600 --> 00:47:44,080
Speaker 4: Are they there?

1071
00:47:44,080 --> 00:47:44,600
Speaker 2: Are they gone?

1072
00:47:44,680 --> 00:47:44,880
Speaker 3: For you?

1073
00:47:45,040 --> 00:47:46,600
Speaker 4: Are you really going to judge me that hard. I

1074
00:47:46,600 --> 00:47:47,680
Speaker 4: thought you and I were friends.

1075
00:47:48,320 --> 00:47:49,239
Speaker 7: Oh, I'm not judging you.

1076
00:47:49,320 --> 00:47:53,040
Speaker 4: I have no comment. Is it no comment? A comment?

1077
00:47:53,719 --> 00:47:55,160
Speaker 4: Is that what they say in PR class?

1078
00:47:55,640 --> 00:47:57,080
Speaker 2: Is that what you say to all the coaches who

1079
00:47:57,080 --> 00:48:04,120
Speaker 2: say no comment? There's nothing there also no comment? All right, Tony,

1080
00:48:04,440 --> 00:48:06,960
Speaker 2: thanks for stopping by this morning. We appreciate you.

1081
00:48:07,680 --> 00:48:08,319
Speaker 6: Thanks having me