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Speaker 1: Football is about the jimmies and joes and exes and

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Speaker 1: oh's check New York Bos twenty ain't thank you, Bruce.

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Speaker 1: It's time to get out the chopboard and diagram some plays.

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Speaker 1: Here's what it all starts right here. That's why jam

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Speaker 1: money Christmas. This is Inside Football with former Colts and

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Speaker 1: to NFL coach Rick Venturi. Welcome to Inside Football with

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Speaker 1: Rick Ventury. I'm Matt Taylor, and we're coming to you

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Speaker 1: on Friday following the colts twelve to nine slugfest with

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Speaker 1: the Denver Broncos on Thursday Night Football. The Colts winning

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Speaker 1: overtime in Week five and they improved to two two

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Speaker 1: in one on the season. And it was late nine

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Speaker 1: r V. The Colts arrived back in the Circle City

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Speaker 1: about five am. I got to bed around five forty five,

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Speaker 1: six o'clock. How you feel a man, any rest or?

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Speaker 1: Are you still dreaming about punts and sackson? You know

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Speaker 1: three and ounce there? Well? I actually did. I did.

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Speaker 1: I hit my house. I hit my driveway at five thirty,

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Speaker 1: and I did get four hours of uninterrupted sleep, So

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Speaker 1: that's gonna get me through. I'll gas out tonight about

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Speaker 1: six o'clock I'll be watching gun Smoke at seven and

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Speaker 1: go out. Ain't nothing better than a classic rerun of

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Speaker 1: gun Smoke followed by Bonanza followed by Bonanza. I know.

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Speaker 1: But anyway, you know, thank God, thank God for gil Bore.

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Speaker 1: That's all I can say. Yeah, I got a lot

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Speaker 1: to talk about, good and bad. Colts get a win.

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Speaker 1: You never apologize for a win. So yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 1: everybody knows how ugly that game was. I mean, you

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Speaker 1: had seven field goals, you had a dozen punts, twenty

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Speaker 1: five third down stops, you had four picks, six fumbles.

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Speaker 1: It was the first game in NFL history, Rick, I

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Speaker 1: think you talked about this on the plane, first game

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Speaker 1: ever that pitted quarterbacks with at least four Pro Bowl

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Speaker 1: appearances yet featured no touchdowns between Russell Wilson and Matt

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Speaker 1: Ryan led offenses. So you've had close to twenty four

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Speaker 1: hours less than that to think about this win for

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Speaker 1: the Colts, Rick, do you feel better or worse about

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Speaker 1: the performance in Week five? After some reflection? You get

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Speaker 1: a win, but still a ton of things to clean

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Speaker 1: into Week six against the Jacksonville Jaguars. Yeah, and you know,

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Speaker 1: I you know, obviously the analyst in me and the

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Speaker 1: coach and me, I have mixed emotions. Now. My number

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Speaker 1: this was a Stevens season saver. That Thursday night, you know,

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Speaker 1: doesn't really matter, you know, how good it looks. You know,

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Speaker 1: only give you points for the victory. And so in

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Speaker 1: that sense, I'm really elated. I know how hard it

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Speaker 1: the season will pivot on the next two weeks. And

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Speaker 1: with Ryan's clutchness? You know that the Mattie Ice reference

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Speaker 1: We've got five fumbles lost, which is that is the

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Speaker 1: So you know, the good news is, yes, they're selective amnesia,

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Speaker 1: the room. You talk about the sacks. The offensive line

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Speaker 1: I can't. I could easily say, boy, it's not worth it. Damn.

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Speaker 1: lot of it is just physical feel. It's not chalkboard.

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Speaker 1: You know, how do you pick up a tackle and twist?

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Speaker 1: three weeks. But we are getting beat bad physically and

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Speaker 1: becomes the double coverage guys. And I think what happened

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Speaker 1: with Cross is he's so young, he's twenty. I think

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Speaker 1: he's a little overwhelmed by all that. I eventually he'll

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Speaker 1: get out of that. And then when you have really

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Speaker 1: a really solid player, underrated player in Rodney McCleod, you'll

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Speaker 1: just stay with that. You know what I'm saying now,

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Speaker 1: you're if you don't have that guy, You're like, if

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Speaker 1: you don't have a guy that's good enough at left tackle,

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Speaker 1: you got to play your young kid, whether he's ready

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Speaker 1: or not. Because eventually the skill level just isn't there.

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Speaker 1: That's why, again going back to prior, I don't like

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Speaker 1: him on the edge. So this is, like I said, surprised, yes,

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Speaker 1: at the level and the amount that he's playing. And

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Speaker 1: of course the Blackman injury opened the door. But you know,

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Speaker 1: that's that's going to be one of our real, really

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Speaker 1: top draft picks in the future. That's Rick vent Terry.

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Speaker 1: I'm Matt Taylor. This is Inside Football. A couple more

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Speaker 1: before we close out and sort of put the game

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Speaker 1: to rest. As the Colts winning overtime on Thursday Night

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Speaker 1: Football twelve to nine over the Denver Broncos. Let's go

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Speaker 1: to special teams and the start of the show. The

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Speaker 1: game ball on and you know, on that phase of

447
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Speaker 1: the game, you gave it to Chase McLoughlin for obvious reasons,

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Speaker 1: four for four made from forty eight, fifty one and

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Speaker 1: fifty two and he's only missed one kick, you know,

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Speaker 1: since Week two when the Colts made that switch at kicker.

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Speaker 1: And to put him his night into perspective, last night,

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Speaker 1: Rick Rodrigo Blankenship made just two for seven kicks from

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Speaker 1: forty eight yards or longer in his entire time in Indianapolis.

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Speaker 1: So have the Colts found their guy? Have they found stability?

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Speaker 1: And Chase McLoughlin at kicker? Now, Man, I feel good

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Speaker 1: about him. I'll be honest with you. As we were

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Speaker 1: sitting there coming back, it just kind of hit on

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Speaker 1: me and I said to myself, as you know, if

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Speaker 1: we have Chase, if we somehow had him to start

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Speaker 1: the season, you were three one. You know, we're three

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Speaker 1: and three one and one. Yeah, three one in one

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Speaker 1: right now because we missed that initial chip shot to

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Speaker 1: you know, to lose a game. And so you know,

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Speaker 1: I am very confident, I mean, honest to god, under

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Speaker 1: pressure kicks like that, you know he can make the

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Speaker 1: long one he's kicking off. Well, yeah, I'm just really

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Speaker 1: pleasantly shocked because essentially you have to make the switch

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Speaker 1: both at punter and at place kicker right in the middle,

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Speaker 1: in mid stream, and they have become a strength and

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Speaker 1: Bubba has that team plan really well. Blocked field goal

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Speaker 1: coverage on Washington was terrific with a bunch of young guys.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, I feel really really good. I am booming

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Speaker 1: with confidence. I'm at that point now. And remember to me,

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Speaker 1: the storyline or the barometer for your place kicker is

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Speaker 1: if he misses the forty yard field goal to win

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Speaker 1: the game, are you shocked or not shocked? And you

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Speaker 1: know right now I would be shocked if he missed it.

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Speaker 1: So that's the best endorsement I can get him. I

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Speaker 1: feel really, really good again about defense and special teams.

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Speaker 1: All Right, the Colts have the weekend off. They've got

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Speaker 1: a little bit of time here to self scout and

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Speaker 1: correct some mistakes and be critical of some things that

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Speaker 1: they're doing and not doing heading into week number six

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Speaker 1: and up next or the Jacksonville Jaguars. Rick they have,

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Speaker 1: of course top the Colts in the last two meetings.

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Speaker 1: If you go back to Week eighteen last year, they

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Speaker 1: beat the Colts the last two times out by a

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Speaker 1: combined score of fifty to eleven. So let me ask you,

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Speaker 1: are the Jacksonville Jaguars for real? And where do the

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Speaker 1: Colts have to improve to be victorious this go around

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Speaker 1: against Jacksonville? Yeah? I think they're for real to a point. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know, I think they're talented for real, Matt. I

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Speaker 1: you know, um, I said after you know, after the

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Speaker 1: butt kicking that we took in Jacksonville, that you know,

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Speaker 1: in week seventeen of last week, I thought it was

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Speaker 1: an outlier. I thought it was a fluke. They rode

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Speaker 1: the wave and we just were it was Karmen. It

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Speaker 1: wasn't going to happen. I felt like after game two

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Speaker 1: when we played them there in Jacksonville, that their team

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Speaker 1: is better than our team. I'm not gonna go that

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Speaker 1: far yet, because I have watched them since and there's

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Speaker 1: a couple of flaws that they have that can be

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Speaker 1: um you know, I think they can be exploited. But

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Speaker 1: they are very, very talented. I mean, they went out

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Speaker 1: and got receivers you know that have really made their

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Speaker 1: offense so much better in Zay Jones. You know, Kirk

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Speaker 1: has been outstanding for him with Marvin Jones. And now

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Speaker 1: the guy that's playing really well again is Agnew who's

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Speaker 1: kind of their spot hybrid guy. Robinson continues to run

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Speaker 1: with Etn. I mean, so in their offensive line, where

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Speaker 1: they help themselves with two players is a lot better. Defensively,

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Speaker 1: where they scare me is their two edge guys are

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Speaker 1: probably combined with Walker and Alan, probably right with Chubb

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Speaker 1: and Browning from yesterday. So and they play a very

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Speaker 1: similar double sinc scheme really to get after you. They've

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Speaker 1: been able to really kick our butt up front in

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Speaker 1: the last eight quarters. I know if I were Frank,

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Speaker 1: I would have that fifty to eleven. I would have

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Speaker 1: that posted everywhere. I would just I would want that

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Speaker 1: as I would be so angry by the time we

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Speaker 1: got to next Sunday. I would that we'd be chewing

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Speaker 1: nails to get out there. I really would. Now, here's

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Speaker 1: what I've seen. Here's what I think they have a

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Speaker 1: little problem. And I think they're very well coached, both

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Speaker 1: by you know, Peterson on offense and might call well

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Speaker 1: on defense. But I saw them last Sunday in watching

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Speaker 1: the tape. They came unraveled at Philadelphia and the guy

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Speaker 1: that came unraveled as the quarterback. And I think that's

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Speaker 1: the key to Jacksonville. He is a guy I think

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Speaker 1: at this stage in his career he's still hit or miss.

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Speaker 1: He's capable of the really good game, and we've seen

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Speaker 1: it twice so he's killed us. And a lot of

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Speaker 1: that is because we let him get going. I think

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Speaker 1: whatever we have to do, clamp down Blitz, we have

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Speaker 1: to take him and disrupt his game early, because when

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Speaker 1: it doesn't go well early. You know, he had a

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Speaker 1: fumble six the other day to start the game on

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Speaker 1: a boot like he's dropped the ball, Philly picked it up,

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Speaker 1: went for touchdown. Then he ended up with four funnels.

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Speaker 1: He ended up with the worst game in his career,

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Speaker 1: you know, after two weeks ago, the best game in

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Speaker 1: his career. So I think that's who he is right now.

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Speaker 1: Superior talent, superior athlete. But I think he's a guy

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Speaker 1: that can get the deer in the headlight look and

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Speaker 1: you have to take him out of it. And I

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Speaker 1: think that right now is the biggest issue with Jackson Joe.

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Speaker 1: They're a talented enough team to be in the hunt

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Speaker 1: to be a playoff team, but whether or not they

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Speaker 1: can be, I think is really based on how the

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Speaker 1: quarterback players. So again, you know, we've we've taken it

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Speaker 1: from him enough this week, this coming, not this Sunday,

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Speaker 1: but next Sunday and the Sunday after. You know, basically

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Speaker 1: our season and a lot of a lot of jobs

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Speaker 1: and livelihoods spin on those two Sundays, those eight quarters.

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Speaker 1: Because you have Jacksonville in Tennessee, it's either put up

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Speaker 1: or shut up, you know, And again we owe Jacksonville one.

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Speaker 1: As I said, I think they're for real talent wise,

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Speaker 1: roster wise, but I'm not sure they're for real from

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Speaker 1: an experience and from a quarterback standpoint, even though he

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Speaker 1: has killed us, if you followed I'm saying, I think

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Speaker 1: he's still at that stage where you get like kind

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Speaker 1: of like Alan was as a rookie. He's at that

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Speaker 1: stage where you can force the bad game. But if

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Speaker 1: you let him get hot, which we've done two times

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Speaker 1: in a row, then you're in for a long day,

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Speaker 1: Rick Venturi. Inside football, the Cults are back to the

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Speaker 1: grind of the AFC South and the next two games,

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Speaker 1: one of Lucas Oil Stadium and then on the road

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Speaker 1: in Nashville against the Tennessee Titans. My friend, what are

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Speaker 1: you up to this weekend? I know you're gonna be

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Speaker 1: watching the gun Smoke later on tonight. Yeah, we got

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Speaker 1: all deld Westerns are back on the TV. But you

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Speaker 1: got a couple of days to recharge. What do you

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Speaker 1: got going on here? Well? Yeah, today today I'm kind

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Speaker 1: of in the fog, so there won't be any motorcycling

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Speaker 1: today in the fog. I don't want to do that.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to put my life at risk. Once

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Speaker 1: I get a good night's sleep tonight, we'll be back

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Speaker 1: in it. I got a big Grinder playoff game tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: I'd and Beaver Stadium in Noblesville. The grandson as I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna actually help him on the streaming of the game.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, so I'm really looking forward to seeing O

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Speaker 1: Austin play in that game. And then you know, Sunday,

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Speaker 1: we might have a normal civilian Sunday. I don't even

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Speaker 1: know what to do on that. Oh boy, Rick's gonna

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00:31:11,320 --> 00:31:12,840
Speaker 1: be like in the garden. You're gonna do a little

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00:31:13,240 --> 00:31:15,560
Speaker 1: long action out there. Rick's gonna be put to work

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Speaker 1: as how. You got a honeyde list, I know it,

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Speaker 1: but I guarantee you if the weather's in the sixties,

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Speaker 1: that motorcycle will find off a lot of country roads

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00:31:25,360 --> 00:31:28,600
Speaker 1: in the northern Indiana put some miles on it. I

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Speaker 1: appreciate you, Rick, Hey, go back to slate man. We

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Speaker 1: really appreciate the time at the breakdown following a long

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Speaker 1: game and a long night for you. So talk to

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Speaker 1: you next Wednesday. We'll get back to the blueprints for

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Speaker 1: the Colts and Jaguars. Have a great weekend, Rick and

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Speaker 1: we'll talk to you soon talking more ball. All right, Matt,

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Speaker 1: great call last night, great finish. I've heard it on

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Speaker 1: ESPN about ten times and it was just great listening

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Speaker 1: to it, being right next to your great job. I

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Speaker 1: appreciate your brother. That's Rick vent Urry. I'm Matt Taylor.

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Speaker 1: And that'll do it for the post game edition of

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Speaker 1: Inside Football again. We'll be back next week for the

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Speaker 1: blueprint breakdown Colts and Jaguars that'll drop on Wednesday next week.

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Speaker 1: Until then, have a great weekend off, Enjoy college football Saturday,

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Speaker 1: Enjoy NFL Week five on Sunday, and we'll do it

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Speaker 1: again next week on Insight Football here on the Colts

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Speaker 1: Audio Network. So on,