WEBVTT - Best of JMV 8/18/26 0:00:10.480 --> 0:00:13.520 And where we go here? 0:00:13.520 --> 0:00:17.599 Anything you have a chance against us, mister cowboy gay mood? 0:00:17.920 --> 0:00:20.320 What you like to do? Oh, I don't know. 0:00:20.560 --> 0:00:22.520 Play chess school. 0:00:23.040 --> 0:00:24.240 When there's play chess. 0:00:24.040 --> 0:00:26.360 They give off that. Jonathan Taylor Chuck cunning its way 0:00:26.440 --> 0:00:31.120 cooking the goal line. He's in there, puts down and dye. 0:00:31.560 --> 0:00:34.440 Why Jonathan Taylor whailer. 0:00:34.280 --> 0:00:39.920 Finds here's haliber into the front board, mishandled it. 0:00:40.040 --> 0:00:43.320 Mcgins ay shot. He forfeits it. 0:00:43.720 --> 0:00:47.199 John, I have never been bedroom to be on the 0:00:47.240 --> 0:00:50.120 air with you here in Indianapolis, a place where so 0:00:50.159 --> 0:00:51.680 many of my dreams have come true. 0:00:51.800 --> 0:00:54.959 The ride with jmv on ninety three five and one 0:00:55.000 --> 0:00:58.080 oh seven five, the fan Alright, he's twenty four years old. 0:00:59.040 --> 0:01:03.800 It was necessary, and you wonder if he stays healthy, 0:01:04.760 --> 0:01:07.319 what he can do. Is it gonna be compromle numbers 0:01:07.319 --> 0:01:10.280 to that of Michael Pittman junior to where you felt compelled. 0:01:10.319 --> 0:01:12.399 A lot of you suggested, Hey, it's okay if this 0:01:12.520 --> 0:01:16.880 guy leaves, it's okay. If we trade him, it's okay 0:01:16.880 --> 0:01:19.800 if he ends up someplace else, because he's not impactful. 0:01:22.920 --> 0:01:29.440 Thirty four years of age, Keenan Allen, I look at 0:01:29.480 --> 0:01:30.039 it this way. 0:01:31.319 --> 0:01:32.160 It was a have to. 0:01:33.880 --> 0:01:43.920 An absolute something that without any other knowledge, without knowing what. 0:01:44.000 --> 0:01:44.959 Is going to be the future. 0:01:45.000 --> 0:01:47.200 You sit here right now and you understand fully that 0:01:47.400 --> 0:01:49.880 they had to get somebody. 0:01:52.040 --> 0:01:54.240 So I view it this way. Keenan Allen. 0:01:54.280 --> 0:01:57.480 By the way, nothing official as of yet, but widely 0:01:57.560 --> 0:01:59.800 reported throughout the course of the morning and then mid 0:01:59.840 --> 0:02:02.800 day and in the afternoon that he is going to 0:02:02.800 --> 0:02:05.520 be a member of the Colts again. Reunited him with 0:02:05.800 --> 0:02:10.280 Shane Steichen so they can bounce offensive philosophies off of 0:02:10.320 --> 0:02:13.280 one another. The guy Keenan Allen, has been really good. 0:02:14.080 --> 0:02:18.120 He has been solid, he has been consistent. Holy hell, 0:02:18.200 --> 0:02:20.280 that's exactly what you would want to be looking for 0:02:20.360 --> 0:02:24.440 around here. The only thing that I can look to 0:02:25.400 --> 0:02:32.399 as problematic is you are forced to do this because 0:02:32.960 --> 0:02:37.120 you're all a lot of options, no other options, and 0:02:37.160 --> 0:02:43.360 because you need it. It's not one of those situations 0:02:43.400 --> 0:02:49.680 where you are playing from in front and you measure 0:02:49.720 --> 0:02:53.880 this out as you know, because you've got so much 0:02:53.919 --> 0:02:55.760 you can count on, you can go ahead and do 0:02:55.880 --> 0:02:59.720 something like this. If it works, great, If it doesn't, hell, 0:02:59.800 --> 0:03:05.600 what ever, Well, in this case, you have to have 0:03:06.040 --> 0:03:12.880 a threat. Keenan Allen has to be a threat, if 0:03:12.880 --> 0:03:16.280 for nothing else. Michael Pittman Jr. Has explained over and 0:03:16.360 --> 0:03:20.959 over again, was a guy that opposing defenses and coordinators 0:03:20.960 --> 0:03:23.840 and coaches would have to like write, Okay, well, we 0:03:24.000 --> 0:03:26.280 got to account for this guy. 0:03:27.160 --> 0:03:27.359 Now. 0:03:27.360 --> 0:03:29.880 He may not be Jerry Rice anytime soon, but we 0:03:29.960 --> 0:03:35.320 have to account for him. And that's what you get 0:03:35.360 --> 0:03:41.080 with Keenan Allen. I will say this you are going 0:03:41.120 --> 0:03:43.920 to get, hopefully, and we've been down the path to 0:03:43.960 --> 0:03:47.440 where and everybody brings up Andre Johnson. We've been down 0:03:47.480 --> 0:03:52.440 this path before where it hasn't worked out. The only 0:03:52.560 --> 0:03:55.880 drawback to this is the fact that it is a 0:03:56.000 --> 0:04:01.000 have to. It's not like you're working ahead. Your reactionary. 0:04:01.080 --> 0:04:05.160 I hate it when your teams are reactionary because they 0:04:05.200 --> 0:04:09.960 have to. I want teams dictating terms. That's what I 0:04:09.960 --> 0:04:13.040 love about basketball. In the case of the Pacers and 0:04:13.040 --> 0:04:14.880 the Fever by the way which play later off tonight, 0:04:14.920 --> 0:04:19.000 I love it when both dictate the terms. I mean, 0:04:19.040 --> 0:04:21.680 you could tell and I will say this, the Colts 0:04:21.720 --> 0:04:24.520 offensively the first eight weeks or so of the season, 0:04:24.600 --> 0:04:27.400 they did dictate the terms. There's nothing wrong with that. 0:04:27.400 --> 0:04:30.480 That's exactly what I look for. That's what you should 0:04:30.480 --> 0:04:34.360 look for. We're gonna go out and we're gonna play 0:04:34.400 --> 0:04:37.239 this style, We're gonna play this brand, and it's gonna 0:04:37.240 --> 0:04:39.320 be your ass that has to match up with it. 0:04:41.000 --> 0:04:42.760 We're I worry about matching up with you. 0:04:43.400 --> 0:04:43.520 It. 0:04:43.839 --> 0:04:47.279 I hate to hear or I would hate to hear. 0:04:47.480 --> 0:04:51.400 My team when the play by play man or the 0:04:51.400 --> 0:04:54.720 color analyst says, well, you can see right now that 0:04:55.120 --> 0:05:00.480 Team X is matching up with Team Y. Yeah, I 0:05:00.480 --> 0:05:03.200 don't like that. I like it when they're matching up 0:05:03.240 --> 0:05:06.320 with it. You're doing something that they have to catch 0:05:06.400 --> 0:05:11.559 up with. And one of my favorite phrases of all time, 0:05:12.800 --> 0:05:14.680 and I'm going to go ahead and take full credit 0:05:14.720 --> 0:05:24.760 for it, dictating terms. You are dictating the terms, and 0:05:24.800 --> 0:05:28.720 the Colts offense did that a variety of times before 0:05:28.839 --> 0:05:32.400 Daniel Jones was injured and then was injured and done 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:36.040 for the season, and then basically the terms and other 0:05:36.080 --> 0:05:38.200 teams for that matter, dictated them. 0:05:40.400 --> 0:05:42.040 You had to have this. 0:05:42.400 --> 0:05:46.320 So the only drawback, and again it is it is 0:05:46.360 --> 0:05:49.440 a flaw with this team that you're really not going 0:05:49.480 --> 0:05:51.400 to get passed or you're not going to iron out 0:05:51.480 --> 0:05:57.040 until you actually see them play, and that is making up, 0:05:58.640 --> 0:06:02.680 making up for what you feel is necessary. 0:06:02.839 --> 0:06:07.560 This is still not a team that has a lot of. 0:06:09.040 --> 0:06:12.520 For example, built in for me, for you, for others, 0:06:12.800 --> 0:06:14.880 believe things are going to be okay. 0:06:14.880 --> 0:06:16.240 There's so much proven. 0:06:17.960 --> 0:06:20.240 Then you could say, well, you know, that's around the NFL, 0:06:20.360 --> 0:06:22.920 that's in the NBA, that's in the WNBA, that's in 0:06:23.000 --> 0:06:25.320 Major League Baseball. You're always out there to prove it. 0:06:25.839 --> 0:06:28.760 But there are different variations of that too. There are 0:06:28.800 --> 0:06:32.520 teams you look around the NFL landscape, for example, like 0:06:33.000 --> 0:06:36.800 I'll give you a great example, the LA Rams like 0:06:36.920 --> 0:06:40.200 you're hanging on every word of Aaron Donnell. He's working 0:06:40.240 --> 0:06:42.760 out and he's doing all these drills and you're looking great. 0:06:42.880 --> 0:06:44.400 If he comes back, hey all right. 0:06:44.680 --> 0:06:49.080 If he doesn't, who gives a crap whatever, Because you 0:06:49.080 --> 0:06:51.359 feel good about the rest of your team, You feel 0:06:51.360 --> 0:06:54.960 good about those on either side of the football. 0:06:55.760 --> 0:06:57.120 The Colts had to have somebody. 0:06:57.120 --> 0:07:00.800 You jump in here, and that's somebody, and Keenan Allen 0:07:00.880 --> 0:07:06.000 made the most sense. The Coats used to be able 0:07:06.040 --> 0:07:08.920 to play from that particular angle. It's just been a 0:07:08.960 --> 0:07:14.720 while since they have. But it was a must have. 0:07:15.480 --> 0:07:19.800 It was a must recognize and that's exactly what they did. 0:07:20.640 --> 0:07:26.720 Keenan Allen thirty four years of age. How legit of 0:07:26.760 --> 0:07:32.520 an option do you believe he can be? I believe 0:07:32.520 --> 0:07:35.080 the average was in the neighborhood of eighty six catches 0:07:35.120 --> 0:07:40.600 over the past five years and a year ago eighty 0:07:40.760 --> 0:07:44.040 one with the chargers. So the dude falls out of 0:07:44.040 --> 0:07:52.640 bed catching the ball. But Kenny maintain that pace here. 0:07:56.120 --> 0:07:58.160 I saw my chapel sit this out a little bit earlier. 0:07:58.200 --> 0:08:00.840 The most catches by a wide receiver is thirty four 0:08:00.960 --> 0:08:06.600 years of age or older. Caleb Zuber is in the 0:08:06.640 --> 0:08:11.080 next room trying to figure out who I sound like today? 0:08:11.160 --> 0:08:13.240 Do I sound better? Do I sound worse in the 0:08:13.280 --> 0:08:15.760 first five and a half minutes? Do I sound better 0:08:15.880 --> 0:08:18.840 or worse than yesterday? Believe me, if it's critical, I 0:08:18.880 --> 0:08:19.400 can take it. 0:08:19.400 --> 0:08:19.960 It's okay. 0:08:20.160 --> 0:08:23.160 No, you sound about the same. So we might need 0:08:23.200 --> 0:08:26.320 to get that Jason Hammer Doctor's order. 0:08:26.520 --> 0:08:29.000 Yeah, yeah, I do a little bit of that hour. 0:08:29.400 --> 0:08:32.680 I had Hammers out, so I had to go by myself. Yeah, 0:08:32.800 --> 0:08:33.880 doctor Hammer is. 0:08:33.880 --> 0:08:37.199 Out, Doctor Hamer, What do. 0:08:37.160 --> 0:08:40.360 You think Nigel was so hell? I had to go 0:08:40.440 --> 0:08:41.160 do it myself. 0:08:41.280 --> 0:08:44.520 What do you think doctor Hammer? Like, what what does 0:08:44.559 --> 0:08:45.240 he oversee? 0:08:45.520 --> 0:08:48.040 Yeah, you know what that is stars with the G 0:08:49.280 --> 0:08:53.840 sometimes hard to pronounce in southern Indiana they say gene 0:08:54.360 --> 0:08:55.080 instead of guy. 0:08:55.720 --> 0:08:57.280 So yeah, that's probably where he is. 0:08:57.720 --> 0:09:00.600 So give me see if you can name any of 0:09:00.679 --> 0:09:05.600 the one, two, three, four, five most catches by wide 0:09:05.640 --> 0:09:08.600 receivers thirty four years of age or older. 0:09:10.160 --> 0:09:12.600 Is this in the last certain amount of years? 0:09:12.679 --> 0:09:14.360 This well, it goes all the way back to nineteen 0:09:14.400 --> 0:09:17.600 ninety five. And this is again credit Mike Chapel for 0:09:17.679 --> 0:09:20.640 this that I saw on the social media platform X 0:09:20.679 --> 0:09:21.720 a little bit earlier today. 0:09:21.800 --> 0:09:23.440 Okay, Jerry Rice has gotta be. 0:09:23.440 --> 0:09:25.120 One of them. Boom, Jerry Rice is on there. One 0:09:25.160 --> 0:09:27.360 oweight um. 0:09:28.280 --> 0:09:31.080 Um. It was just in the Hall of Fame. Just 0:09:31.160 --> 0:09:33.480 inducted into the Hall of Fame this past weekend. 0:09:35.600 --> 0:09:37.480 There was a ball boy back in the day. 0:09:37.480 --> 0:09:43.520 Became a pass fierce pass catcher who. 0:09:43.200 --> 0:09:45.280 Moe and Curly would have been. 0:09:47.320 --> 0:09:51.560 He makes the trio Larry Larry fitzger Oh yeah, okay, 0:09:51.760 --> 0:09:59.240 Larry Fitz Jerry Rice right a former. Once upon a time, 0:09:59.600 --> 0:10:04.160 his late coach Buddy Ryan said, well, all he does 0:10:04.280 --> 0:10:06.160 is catch touchdown passes. 0:10:06.600 --> 0:10:08.360 So he's a Philadelphia Eagle. 0:10:08.200 --> 0:10:12.480 Former most probably most notably making his mark with the Vikings. 0:10:12.760 --> 0:10:15.040 Oh okay, on the other side of Randy Moss. 0:10:15.559 --> 0:10:16.720 Oh Chris Carter. 0:10:16.880 --> 0:10:19.760 Chris Carter, And this is true too. 0:10:19.960 --> 0:10:22.800 In nineteen eighty seven, I think it was eighty six 0:10:22.880 --> 0:10:26.480 or eighty seven, caught a touchdown pass for Ohio State 0:10:26.800 --> 0:10:29.000 from Jim Carsondos, the quarterback. 0:10:29.720 --> 0:10:31.480 I was in the end. 0:10:31.480 --> 0:10:34.120 Zone at the time at Memorial Stadium in Bloomington. Caught 0:10:34.120 --> 0:10:37.280 a touchdown pass. And that was back when they had 0:10:37.280 --> 0:10:41.400 a chain link fence that separated the crowd in the 0:10:41.520 --> 0:10:44.079 end zone from the end zone and the players itself. 0:10:45.080 --> 0:10:48.000 He did a and I'm assuming it was eighty six 0:10:48.120 --> 0:10:50.160 or eighty seven because this would have been the reason 0:10:50.200 --> 0:10:53.040 why he did it, the peewee Herman dance. After he 0:10:53.120 --> 0:10:56.200 caught the touchdown pass from Jim Carsados and spiked it 0:10:56.240 --> 0:10:59.520 and it came right to me doing wow, and I 0:10:59.520 --> 0:11:01.240 get it. You had to give it back. Came right 0:11:01.280 --> 0:11:05.280 to me. He did the pewee Herman dance, and he 0:11:05.320 --> 0:11:06.480 did that, and Spike did it. 0:11:06.559 --> 0:11:07.240 He came right to me. 0:11:09.600 --> 0:11:14.199 Jim Casado's to Chris Carter. And then you have two 0:11:14.240 --> 0:11:18.480 former Colts also in this category, and again credit Mike 0:11:18.559 --> 0:11:20.280 Chappell for that information. 0:11:22.400 --> 0:11:26.440 One is in the Hall of Fame, the other everybody 0:11:26.440 --> 0:11:27.720 believes should be on the Hall of Fame. 0:11:27.720 --> 0:11:31.480 It's actually coaching up the group of wide receivers Reggie 0:11:31.520 --> 0:11:38.480 wayns one and Marvin Harrison. Yeah, so that's your group 0:11:38.559 --> 0:11:39.000 right there. 0:11:39.520 --> 0:11:41.920 Seriously, though, you don't have to have that level. 0:11:41.920 --> 0:11:44.400 That'd be great if Keenan Allen supplied that level, but 0:11:44.480 --> 0:11:46.360 you had to have somebody else. You had to have 0:11:46.400 --> 0:11:48.480 somebody else that was fall back, somebody else that wasn't 0:11:48.520 --> 0:11:52.480 DJ Montgomery, somebody else that wasn't you know, Chase Claypool 0:11:52.840 --> 0:11:56.840 or or Josh Reynolds or any of these dudes that 0:11:56.880 --> 0:12:01.160 they brought in. You gotta have somebody else. So somebody 0:12:01.160 --> 0:12:03.240 else that is a well he's on this team because 0:12:03.240 --> 0:12:04.439 he made it on special teams. 0:12:04.480 --> 0:12:05.800 Well, my ass was special teams. 0:12:05.800 --> 0:12:07.640 You got to worry about somebody being a thread out 0:12:07.640 --> 0:12:09.959 there that you can scheme, you can coach up against 0:12:10.000 --> 0:12:13.560 and have a plan because he is good enough that 0:12:13.720 --> 0:12:17.480 you have this person in mind. Again, I'm not suggesting 0:12:17.520 --> 0:12:20.079 he's going to be Jerry Rice, but you had to 0:12:20.400 --> 0:12:23.720 have that. And the best part about it is it 0:12:23.800 --> 0:12:28.199 does fit, the shoe does fit. It's like weird with 0:12:28.520 --> 0:12:31.079 Andre Johnson. He kind of wondered if the shoe fit. 0:12:31.200 --> 0:12:34.000 And there's really no reason as to why I'm making 0:12:34.000 --> 0:12:37.080 the comparison here, but a lot of you have suggested, well. 0:12:36.960 --> 0:12:39.920 Remember when they did that. Well, I've remember when they've. 0:12:39.760 --> 0:12:44.480 Done a lot of things. But the only compelling reason 0:12:44.520 --> 0:12:49.040 as to why I would look at this at all negatively. 0:12:49.880 --> 0:12:51.800 And again, most of it is positive because it was 0:12:51.840 --> 0:12:55.000 a have to, But the only negative is because it's 0:12:55.040 --> 0:12:59.160 a haf to because it's not like the rams. You go, well, 0:12:59.160 --> 0:13:01.679 this guy can play or come back, or unretire or 0:13:01.720 --> 0:13:05.760 stay retired or do whatever. This guy wants to continue 0:13:05.760 --> 0:13:08.760 to run drills and be shown in videos. If he 0:13:08.800 --> 0:13:12.800 comes back, that's great, But if he doesn't, that's also great. 0:13:13.640 --> 0:13:16.400 That's I think what you want. 0:13:16.640 --> 0:13:19.680 Those are the situations where you want to be making 0:13:19.760 --> 0:13:24.040 decisions like this from you know, not decisions as they 0:13:24.120 --> 0:13:26.439 made late in the season to say, well, this guy 0:13:26.480 --> 0:13:29.280 hadn't played in four years and he's a grandpa. Let's 0:13:29.280 --> 0:13:31.200 go ahead and pull him off the couch and then 0:13:31.240 --> 0:13:34.520 he's going to be our starting quarterback. Yeah, that's not 0:13:34.600 --> 0:13:39.360 playing with an advantage. But you're doing something that you 0:13:39.440 --> 0:13:48.560 absolutely positively had to do, no doubt. Elvis says, fire 0:13:49.040 --> 0:13:52.520 Caleb for not figuring out Larry. No, that was tough, 0:13:52.520 --> 0:13:55.520 though he don't know anything about the three stages. I'm 0:13:55.760 --> 0:13:59.800 I agree, that's even out of my rage demographic kinda. 0:14:00.240 --> 0:14:01.520 I deserve to be fired for that. 0:14:01.600 --> 0:14:04.720 There used to be a place now and there still 0:14:04.760 --> 0:14:07.080 are maybe a handful, and mostly you can find them 0:14:07.120 --> 0:14:10.080 in gas stations. Do you ever go to Noble Romans 0:14:10.120 --> 0:14:13.200 pizza place? No, Noble Romans, that's not part of your 0:14:13.600 --> 0:14:16.839 don't like. We grew up a lot of us out there, 0:14:16.840 --> 0:14:18.640 and I think the first one was down in Bloomington 0:14:19.040 --> 0:14:24.360 off of Third Street. But Noble Romans, and there may 0:14:24.400 --> 0:14:26.480 still be one. Somebody can correct me if I'm wrong, 0:14:26.560 --> 0:14:28.880 over off of tenth Street. Tenth Street over by Ben 0:14:28.960 --> 0:14:34.720 Davis West Side. But a dine in Noble Romans. You 0:14:34.720 --> 0:14:38.760 would go in there, true story, and you would watch 0:14:38.800 --> 0:14:40.360 them throw the dough up, and you know, they'd have 0:14:40.360 --> 0:14:42.160 a little step and you can watch in the window 0:14:42.240 --> 0:14:44.560 and they're making you know, the pizza dough and all that. 0:14:45.160 --> 0:14:47.800 But they would always have on a loop the Three 0:14:47.800 --> 0:14:51.840 Stooges show one, and you'd go in there and you'd 0:14:51.920 --> 0:14:55.280 order whatever your Sicilian pizza was or whatever Noble Romans 0:14:55.280 --> 0:14:58.760 pizza was, and you would have a constant loop of 0:14:58.800 --> 0:15:05.200 the Three Stooges. Yeah, there were Larry Mo and Curly, 0:15:05.320 --> 0:15:08.280 but you also had Shimp that was sometimes in there, 0:15:08.720 --> 0:15:12.480 and then the really bad ones had Joe. Joe looked 0:15:12.480 --> 0:15:15.600 like he was probably doing your taxes back in nineteen 0:15:15.680 --> 0:15:19.280 thirty seven. Yeah, you had like three different ones that 0:15:19.600 --> 0:15:22.120 played or had the substitute for Curly back in the day. 0:15:22.160 --> 0:15:24.680 So why was that the show that they I have 0:15:24.760 --> 0:15:25.280 no idea. 0:15:25.520 --> 0:15:27.680 Yeah, it's weird. I don't know. It was just kind 0:15:27.680 --> 0:15:30.080 of the thing back back in the eighties. It was. 0:15:30.200 --> 0:15:33.280 It was weird, so kind of the thing. 0:15:33.480 --> 0:15:37.120 It's funny back when I started going to back, you know, 0:15:37.200 --> 0:15:40.880 with the fake and then started really going to the bars. 0:15:41.000 --> 0:15:45.400 In those situations, they would put in on different televisions 0:15:45.400 --> 0:15:48.360 I'm assuming at the time have different VCRs where you 0:15:48.400 --> 0:15:52.280 would plug in great eighties movies and it would roll 0:15:52.560 --> 0:15:55.400 around the bar. It'd be a different eighties movie, a 0:15:55.440 --> 0:15:57.240 different you know, fun loving. 0:15:56.920 --> 0:15:58.480 Movie of some sort. Everywhere. 0:15:58.560 --> 0:16:01.400 Yeah, and now obviously all this is piped in you 0:16:01.400 --> 0:16:02.640 can do whatever you want a. 0:16:02.680 --> 0:16:03.600 Lot different. 0:16:06.000 --> 0:16:08.920 Meantime of the Andy Moore Automotive Group potline. You guys 0:16:08.960 --> 0:16:12.480 ask for it every single year, and we deliver from 0:16:12.640 --> 0:16:16.040 both the Colts Radio network and of course the preseason 0:16:16.200 --> 0:16:21.080 television broadcast. It's the former NFL coach and most notably, 0:16:21.200 --> 0:16:23.880 our good friend Rick Venturi joins us. 0:16:23.880 --> 0:16:24.840 Hello, Rick, how are you? 0:16:25.280 --> 0:16:27.520 What do you say? Good friend? How you doing? You 0:16:27.560 --> 0:16:30.440 are the busiest man in show business, I'll tell you 0:16:30.520 --> 0:16:33.760 that and the best. So good to be on with you. Man. 0:16:34.000 --> 0:16:36.760 Well, people ask me wherever I go. You got to 0:16:36.760 --> 0:16:39.720 get Rick on? When's Rick coming on? What's the story on? 0:16:39.880 --> 0:16:40.080 Rick? 0:16:40.280 --> 0:16:43.640 And you know what, We've decided to put you on 0:16:43.760 --> 0:16:46.120 here today with a good one in mind. Let's say, 0:16:46.120 --> 0:16:49.800 for example, yesterday we would have this news today had 0:16:49.840 --> 0:16:50.640 you been on with me. 0:16:51.160 --> 0:16:53.600 But today we could implement. 0:16:53.280 --> 0:16:56.920 A little dialogue regarding Keenan Allen, the veteran thirty four 0:16:57.000 --> 0:17:01.440 year old wide receiver with the Colts allegen reportedly being 0:17:01.520 --> 0:17:05.400 signed today. What does he bring to the table, at 0:17:05.480 --> 0:17:08.320 least from your angle for this Colts offense moving forward 0:17:08.400 --> 0:17:08.879 this season? 0:17:09.080 --> 0:17:11.680 Well, I think you know, I think we all kind 0:17:11.720 --> 0:17:14.560 of felt this was an inevitability that it was just 0:17:14.600 --> 0:17:17.800 a matter of when it was really going to happen. 0:17:18.840 --> 0:17:23.080 I think he's a really good fit for two reasons, 0:17:23.200 --> 0:17:26.159 I think, and I'll get into it here when I 0:17:26.200 --> 0:17:29.400 get into the evaluation, but I think that he fits 0:17:29.640 --> 0:17:33.320 and he kind of fills the bill for what for 0:17:33.400 --> 0:17:37.040 the things that Pittman did. He they're not exactly the same, 0:17:37.160 --> 0:17:41.359 but they function in very much the same way. You know, 0:17:41.440 --> 0:17:45.840 he's he's got a back relationship with Steichens, so he's 0:17:45.880 --> 0:17:48.720 going to be an immediate fit and he'll be up 0:17:48.720 --> 0:17:51.720 to speed in no time. I don't think there's any 0:17:51.800 --> 0:17:56.280 question about that. What he brings to you, First of all, 0:17:56.320 --> 0:18:01.240 he brings reputation, and he's a big body. Received reputation 0:18:01.440 --> 0:18:03.720 means a lot, believe it or not, because even when 0:18:03.720 --> 0:18:07.120 you're slipping a little, and even when you're up in age, 0:18:07.359 --> 0:18:11.040 teams tend to respect you, tend to commit people to you, 0:18:11.400 --> 0:18:14.240 and tend to play you like you did as a rookie. 0:18:14.320 --> 0:18:16.719 Ted Marchibrod he used to say, if you get a 0:18:16.760 --> 0:18:20.320 reputation in the NFL to be an early riser, damn, 0:18:20.359 --> 0:18:23.800 you can sleep till noon. And there's there's something to that, 0:18:24.320 --> 0:18:27.040 and so I think he brings kind of a respect 0:18:27.080 --> 0:18:30.000 to your offense and a respect to the position. You know, 0:18:30.040 --> 0:18:32.840 when you when you really look at him, you know, he's, 0:18:32.880 --> 0:18:36.840 like I said, big body. He's always been a big, high, 0:18:36.920 --> 0:18:40.359 high volume catcher. You know, he's got you know, a 0:18:40.880 --> 0:18:43.679 way all over a thousand catches in the league, and 0:18:43.720 --> 0:18:47.680 he's got seventy touchdowns. So he's been really effective around 0:18:47.720 --> 0:18:50.480 the around the red zone. He's not a fast guy, 0:18:50.960 --> 0:18:55.520 you know. He does it more with size, range and smarts. Okay, 0:18:56.280 --> 0:18:58.960 very much like Mike. Mike wasn't a Mike wasn't a 0:18:59.000 --> 0:19:02.000 real you know, real fast guy either. He you know, 0:19:02.440 --> 0:19:05.679 he's never been fast, so it's really not a big 0:19:05.760 --> 0:19:11.199 big factor. He's been good in situations where size and 0:19:11.320 --> 0:19:15.879 experience matter more than speed. Been really good on third down, 0:19:16.359 --> 0:19:19.960 particularly on those third and money downs that four to seven, 0:19:20.480 --> 0:19:22.560 you know, which is kind of fifty to fifty who 0:19:22.560 --> 0:19:26.560 has the advantage. He's been good in those situations. Been 0:19:26.640 --> 0:19:29.200 really good in the red zone again, those areas where 0:19:29.680 --> 0:19:33.240 speed and twitch aren't really that important, where you're looking 0:19:33.320 --> 0:19:38.119 for for the size in the in the big body range. Again, 0:19:38.160 --> 0:19:40.720 he's going to catch a lot of balls, not going 0:19:40.800 --> 0:19:43.640 to have not going to have a lot of yak or. 0:19:44.080 --> 0:19:48.480 He's not a creative guy again, very much like Mike. Mike, 0:19:48.760 --> 0:19:51.760 you know, caught a bunch of volume and wasn't in 0:19:51.800 --> 0:19:54.800 the top one hundred in terms of yards per catch. 0:19:54.840 --> 0:19:57.400 I mean, people don't realize that, but he doesn't. He's 0:19:57.440 --> 0:20:00.320 not gonna he's not going to stretch the feel. But 0:20:00.480 --> 0:20:03.920 even at thirty four, he's gonna give us, I think 0:20:04.000 --> 0:20:09.359 situational play that you need opposite Pierce. I do think 0:20:09.840 --> 0:20:12.879 we still have to mix doing in there on the 0:20:12.880 --> 0:20:16.280 outside because I think we need to be able to 0:20:16.320 --> 0:20:20.520 stretch the field away from Pierce and not to say 0:20:20.560 --> 0:20:23.439 how important Pierce is. My goodness, we got to have 0:20:23.560 --> 0:20:26.639 him back because if you don't have him back, then 0:20:26.640 --> 0:20:28.560 they're gonna sit on you. They're gonna sit on War 0:20:28.600 --> 0:20:31.199 and they're gonna sit on Allen, and they'll sit on 0:20:31.320 --> 0:20:34.840 Jonathan Taylor. So you know, I'll be really happy when 0:20:34.880 --> 0:20:37.199 I see him. I know the reports are good, but 0:20:37.280 --> 0:20:39.240 I'll be happy when I see him working out. 0:20:39.080 --> 0:20:39.840 With my own eyes. 0:20:40.000 --> 0:20:43.080 Well is Ray Venturi of course from the preseason TV 0:20:43.320 --> 0:20:45.480 and with us on the Colt pre game huddle and 0:20:45.560 --> 0:20:50.479 on the Postgame Show now too, which is absolutely incredible stuff. 0:20:50.600 --> 0:20:54.120 He joins us on the Eddy Moore Automotive Group potline. 0:20:54.320 --> 0:20:55.360 I mentioned this this way. 0:20:55.560 --> 0:20:59.320 There's no negativity surrounding the signing of Keenan Allen at all. 0:20:59.359 --> 0:21:00.280 The only thing that I. 0:21:00.240 --> 0:21:03.879 Can view is I would rather, and I think everybody 0:21:03.880 --> 0:21:07.080 would rather the Colts one of these days again be 0:21:07.320 --> 0:21:09.080 like the Rams. I'll give you a great example, like 0:21:09.119 --> 0:21:12.560 Aaron Donald. This guy can jack around, I can retire, 0:21:12.600 --> 0:21:15.000 I can come back. I'm working out, I can come back, 0:21:15.160 --> 0:21:17.680 And it really doesn't make any difference to them. They'll 0:21:17.680 --> 0:21:19.560 be better with them, I'm sure, but they'll be just 0:21:19.600 --> 0:21:23.200 fine without him. But this was a have to situation 0:21:23.400 --> 0:21:26.359 for the Colts and a position where you would rather 0:21:26.720 --> 0:21:30.280 not find yourself in if you were them, right. 0:21:30.880 --> 0:21:33.240 There's no question about that. I mean, and you know 0:21:33.359 --> 0:21:37.480 it isn't that, you know, it isn't the dueling and 0:21:37.600 --> 0:21:41.200 Akina haven't you know, haven't done a decent job. I mean, 0:21:41.240 --> 0:21:43.960 they've they've been solid, they haven't you know, they haven't 0:21:43.960 --> 0:21:49.040 done anything to just absolutely disappoint. But you know, when 0:21:49.119 --> 0:21:52.760 you really look at it, most of Jones's completions in 0:21:52.880 --> 0:21:56.440 training camp really have been inside out. I mean they've 0:21:56.440 --> 0:21:58.719 really been inside out. They've been to Warren, they've been 0:21:58.800 --> 0:22:03.240 to Downs, a lot of throws to the backs, very 0:22:03.520 --> 0:22:07.600 very little production on the outside. And of course, you know, 0:22:07.680 --> 0:22:10.600 without Pierce, you've lost your deep threat, you know, and 0:22:10.640 --> 0:22:14.600 then you've lost your really number two outside and so yeah, 0:22:14.640 --> 0:22:17.840 to put it mildly, you know, it can only make 0:22:17.920 --> 0:22:18.399 us better. 0:22:19.240 --> 0:22:24.800 Yeah, Rick Venturia with us, Daniel Jones. So there is 0:22:24.880 --> 0:22:28.760 so much that has been mentioned about the progress and 0:22:29.040 --> 0:22:31.240 being in a position that not a lot of people 0:22:31.280 --> 0:22:33.760 felt other than Daniel Jones, I guess and the Colts 0:22:33.800 --> 0:22:36.679 moving forward here to be ready for the start of 0:22:36.760 --> 0:22:39.400 the season. But really, the proof is going to be 0:22:39.640 --> 0:22:43.200 when guys are really coming after you with a reason 0:22:43.560 --> 0:22:46.359 and a focus. How do you feel about that? For example, 0:22:46.400 --> 0:22:48.680 let's fast forward to week number one. Do you feel 0:22:48.680 --> 0:22:51.480