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Speaker 1: We're talking Colts and recapping the action.

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Speaker 1: Indeed, why now Here's the voice of the Colts Matt

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Speaker 3: Citizens Energygroup dot com. I'm Matt Taylor. Great to be

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Speaker 3: with you this evening inside the Indiana Union Construction Industry

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Speaker 3: Radio Studio and Colts Roundtable live with you until seven

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Speaker 3: o'clock tonight, a full hour talking Colts football. Unfortunately, the

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Speaker 3: Colts are coming off a disheartening thirty one to thirteen loss.

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Speaker 3: To the Broncos yesterday. That loss drops the Colts to

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Speaker 3: six and eight on the season and keeps them on

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Speaker 3: the outside looking in on the playoffs. Inside the AFC,

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Speaker 3: we got a busy show tonight, per usual. We're gonna

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Speaker 3: start things off with our weekly chat with Colt's head

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Speaker 3: coach Shane Steich and that's coming up in just a moment,

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Speaker 3: and then starting in segment two, analyst Rick Venturi and

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Speaker 3: Joe Writs will join me to break down the game

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Speaker 3: film from Sunday's loss in the Mile High. But it

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Speaker 3: was a game for the Colts that saw them get

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Speaker 3: off to a fantastic start. They blitzed out to an

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Speaker 3: the action as we lead off with the game rewind.

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Speaker 3: The Colts started fast. They led ten to nothing in

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Speaker 3: the first half by scoring a touchdown of their first

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Speaker 3: drive of the game with an Anthony Richardson twenty three

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Speaker 3: defense picked off Broncos quarterback Bow Knicks with a Zaiir

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Speaker 3: with an interception by Samuel Wollmack, the second of three

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Speaker 3: went downhill quickly. The game featured several turning points, and

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Speaker 3: the first occurred when Jonathan Taylor ripped off a forty

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Speaker 3: one yard run that would have essentially put Denver in

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Speaker 3: but Taylor made a critical mistake, dropping the ball before

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Speaker 3: a touchdown that would have put the Colts up twenty

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Speaker 3: a third quarter that was beyond choppy for both teams.

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Speaker 3: There were nine total possessions in that quarter, and then

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Speaker 3: the fourth quarter with the bow Knicks touchdown pass. With

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Speaker 3: the Colts were driving near midfield and they called for

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Speaker 3: but Mitchell's pass backfired when linebacker Nick Benito read the

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Speaker 3: and Benito's score was technically a fumble recovery that set

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Speaker 3: questions for head coach Shane Steichen, who joins us here

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Speaker 3: on this first segment tonight, and this conversation now brought

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Speaker 3: to you by Citizens' Energy Group. Coach. In a game

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Speaker 3: like that in Denver last night, there's a lot of

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Speaker 4: I think there's a few things, obviously, I mean, but

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Speaker 4: the big biggest thing is the turnovers in general. You know,

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Speaker 4: you get five turnovers in a football game, you're not

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Speaker 4: got to get that fixed.

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Speaker 3: Well, I know you will talk about the full sixty

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Speaker 3: That's exactly what you guys did. Touchdown in the opening

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Speaker 3: You're up ten to nothing early in the second quarter.

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Speaker 3: How pleased were you with the team's energy and the

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Speaker 1: It was phenomenon.

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Speaker 4: I don't think we could have started any better, you know,

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Speaker 4: trying to go up twenty to seven there in that situation, right,

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Speaker 4: But yeah, our guys started great.

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Speaker 3: a teaching moment, but but you already do those things.

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Speaker 3: And it's just an unfortunate thing by a guy that's

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean he obviously, I mean the body language either,

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Speaker 5: Yeah, no, he's he's doing he's doing all right with it.

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Speaker 4: Obviously obviously it hurt, uh in the in that in

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Speaker 4: go through tough times, and that's obviously a tough one,

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Speaker 4: a huge one there. But again we gotta you know,

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Speaker 3: Next one, you know, another turning point in that game

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Speaker 3: was the double pass Anthony or excuse me, ad Mitchell

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Speaker 3: back to Anthony Richardson, what what is a d reading

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it was a double pass.

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Speaker 4: You know, we hit one against Jacksonville earlier in the

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Speaker 4: throwing it to Anthony this time, and we're trying to

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Speaker 4: get some momentum there. And I don't fault them, you know,

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Speaker 4: it's all me as the play caller. You know, obviously

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Speaker 4: the guy sniffed it out and made the play. He

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Speaker 3: the defense played great. They racked up a season high

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Speaker 3: three interceptions. They hold the Broncos under two hundred yards

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Speaker 3: of total offense. What did you make of the defense

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Speaker 3: after watching the game film back again today?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, they're phenomenal. I thought it was their best out

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Speaker 4: end of the year. Like you said, the three takeaways

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Speaker 4: to hold them to one hundred and ninety seven total yards.

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Speaker 4: It was just a phenomenal effort by them.

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Speaker 3: And you know, that game had serious playoff implications, but again, mathematically,

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Speaker 3: you still have three games to play. You're still alive.

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Speaker 3: And regardless of that, you still have three games to play.

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Speaker 3: You yourself, everybody within that locker room is a total pro,

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Speaker 3: and you have to answer the bell regardless of what's

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Speaker 3: at stake here. So with that in mind, what was

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Speaker 3: your message to the guys after a game like that

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Speaker 3: that obviously, you know, kind of stings a little bit. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: Shoot, we're all professionals, and we got to keep the

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Speaker 4: faith and we got to keep the belief, and you know,

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Speaker 4: it's like, hey, what's the motivation going forward? Well, the

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Speaker 4: that's our motivation. And we all got a job to do,

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Speaker 4: and we got to show up and grind away. Like

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Speaker 4: you said, we're not out of this thing. Obviously, we're

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Speaker 4: gonna need some help, but we're gonna attack it the

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Speaker 3: Let's take a few questions from the fans to close

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Speaker 3: out here. As always, submit those with the hashtag Colts

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Speaker 3: Roundtable on X Let's go to cal he's asking coach,

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Speaker 3: how can we get Anthony Richardson to steady out a

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Speaker 3: little bit in the passing game in these final three

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Speaker 3: games of the season And how big are they for

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Speaker 3: him to close out strong personally?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, no, it's gonna be huge for his growth, you know,

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Speaker 4: these next three weeks for sure. Obviously, you know, we

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Speaker 4: got a division opponent at home. But again, I think

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Speaker 4: he's been making strides since coming back in, you know,

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Speaker 4: and there's gonna be ups and downs too every once

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Speaker 4: in a while, but you know what, he's attacking it

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Speaker 4: the right way every single week. We just want to

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Speaker 4: continue to see that progression every week.

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Speaker 3: Manny's question is next, what it made it so difficult

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Speaker 3: to cover Marvin Mims And how much do we miss

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Speaker 3: Ashton Dulan as a gunner on special teams?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Mems is a hell of a returner. I think

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Speaker 4: he was averaging I don't know, over fourteen yards of return.

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Speaker 4: He's an explosive player with great speed, and obviously, you know,

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Speaker 4: not having Ashton, you know, he's one of the best

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Speaker 4: gunners in the league. You know cover and so you

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Speaker 4: know that's a blow when you lose one of your

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Speaker 4: best guys. In that situation. But you know, he did

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Speaker 4: a good job of creating the cutback lanes and creating space,

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Speaker 4: and we just got to do a better job of

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Speaker 4: you know, leveraging and tackling, you know, on those punts.

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Speaker 3: All right, we got time for one more. Let's go

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Speaker 3: to Wendell. He's asking coach, we're calling a lot more

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Speaker 3: design runs. It seems like with Anthony Richardson, is he

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Speaker 2: just really you could see it. He was uncomfortable almost

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Speaker 2: from day one. He looked like he did at Auburn.

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Speaker 2: I mean, and that was right from the beginning, because

436
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Speaker 2: he threw that pick on the second series, forced him

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Speaker 2: to three turnovers, holding him under two hundred. I think

438
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Speaker 2: it was the best performance of this regime, and it

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Speaker 2: was really led by the ferocious Franklin with thirteen tackles,

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Speaker 2: you know, and I thought Jones did a really good

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Speaker 2: job on it on the week's side. You know, the

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Speaker 2: game definitely turned into a slug fest for a while

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Speaker 2: in that second quarter and into that third quarter till

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Speaker 2: that twelve minute mark, and then the second half nightmare began.

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Speaker 2: You know, the careless fumble going in was I think

446
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Speaker 2: the psychological lift that they needed. They were dead in

447
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Speaker 2: the water. They weren't stopping us. We were doing what

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Speaker 2: we wanted to do. We were shutting them out. They

449
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Speaker 2: couldn't make a first down, and basically instead of going

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Speaker 2: up twenty to seven, I think where you owned them,

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Speaker 2: all of a sudden they have a psychological lift to

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Speaker 2: go on. But in the end, really and truly the

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Speaker 2: fourth quarter, the twenty one to nothing really just we

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Speaker 2: came unraveled in everywhere. And I think the two plays

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Speaker 2: the catastrophic plays. Of course, he had three impressive returns,

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Speaker 2: but the catastrophic one was the sixty one yard returned

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Speaker 2: by Mems, which totally turned the you know, tip the scales,

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Speaker 2: gave him a short yardage touchdown to go from disaster

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Speaker 2: to a head. And then within seconds it seemed like,

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Speaker 2: you know, the ill fated double pass, the play by

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Speaker 2: Benito that he takes it back all the way from

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Speaker 2: a touchdown just absolutely broke our back, you know. And

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Speaker 2: in the middle of that fourth quarter, we got a

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Speaker 2: Pittman fumble, we got four penalties, you know, we got

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Speaker 2: two pass interceptions. Just really, you know, with the exception

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Speaker 2: of the defense just absolutely fell apart. You know, it

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Speaker 2: just reminded me that Don McLean sign just the you know,

468
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Speaker 2: the Sunday, the day the music died. And my last

469
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Speaker 2: thought though, really in watching this team since July twenty fifth,

470
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Speaker 2: is at the end of the day, this is another

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Speaker 2: for two twenty four. This is another in the string

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Speaker 2: of eight losses where the Colts literally found ways to

473
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Speaker 2: lose a game. And it's been different from day one.

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Speaker 2: I can point to a million different things. But until

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Speaker 2: this team and this franchise can play smart and hard

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Speaker 2: and play for sixty minutes of really good football, then

477
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Speaker 2: you know we're going to be sitting there watching the

478
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Speaker 2: playoffs from the couch. Now the next three games, I mean,

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Speaker 2: if you lose any of those, it's a disgrace, Honest

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Speaker 2: to god. You got you know, you got Rudolph de

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Speaker 2: Vito and mac Jones, mac Jones coming up. But you know,

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Speaker 2: in reality, you eventually, you know, you eventually have to

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Speaker 2: play with somebody that's pretty good and good.

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Speaker 3: focus on with three games to play for the Indianapolis

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Speaker 3: Colts or the playoffs and long shot mathematically absolutely, but

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Speaker 3: there's still three games left and chances to get better

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Speaker 3: and grow as a team, and we'll break those down

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Speaker 3: the Indianapolis Colts. Back here on the show, I'm Matt

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Speaker 3: Taylor with Rick Venturrey and Joe Wrights. Tonight with you

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Speaker 3: until seven o'clock Talk and Colts Football here on Colts

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Speaker 3: Roundtable Live. And the Colts have three games remaining on

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Speaker 3: the schedule. There's still a chance to grow and develop

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Speaker 3: despite the team's playoff chances taking a big hit with

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Speaker 3: the loss to the Broncos on Sunday. So let's focus

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Speaker 3: on the top three biggest things to hone in on here,

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Speaker 3: I should say, in the final three games of the season,

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Speaker 3: and Rick obviously the big one, especially following Sunday's game

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Speaker 3: is the passing game. Anthony Richardson finishes seventeen for thirty

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Speaker 3: eight for one sixty eight, no touchdowns, two picks. After

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Speaker 3: three pretty promising performances coming back from his benching, this

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Speaker 3: was the lowest performance since his return, and he has

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Speaker 3: a fifty or lower completion percentage and eight of his

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Speaker 3: ten starts here in twenty twenty four, and his passer

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Speaker 3: rating on Sunday was a career low thirty six point three.

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Speaker 3: So what can the Colts focus on in these final

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Speaker 3: three games of the season when it comes to the

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Speaker 3: passing game to get it to a better level before

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Speaker 3: the twenty twenty four season concludes for the Colts.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the one problem, the master problem, is not going

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Speaker 2: to be solved in the next three weeks. It'll be

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Speaker 2: solved in time with an offseason of practice, much like

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Speaker 2: three point shooters doing basketball. Is his mid raine accuracy

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Speaker 2: is just not there. It's just not at an NFL level.

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Speaker 2: But that's not something that you're going to be able to,

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Speaker 2: you know, to take care of here in a week.

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Speaker 2: I think the coach have done a good job since

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Speaker 2: he's come back of really finding an identity for this

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Speaker 2: offense with him at the controls. And by that, I mean,

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Speaker 2: you know, they've done a good job with JT back

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Speaker 2: at the pistol now, which has made him better. We

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Speaker 2: even had ogle Tree in there for several snaps at

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Speaker 2: the full back to run search plays, which I've been

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Speaker 2: talking about for years. You know, basically, the zone reads,

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Speaker 2: the counters, the quarterback. The combination of those two guys,

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Speaker 2: you know, is keeping you at one hundred and fifty

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Speaker 2: yards a game. And so that has got to be

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Speaker 2: goal number one. And the problem is is that we're

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Speaker 2: kind of a two trick pony in the sense, and

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Speaker 2: it has to evolve is number one. Everything is either

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Speaker 2: at the line of scrimmage. By that, I mean it's

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Speaker 2: a run to eight to Richardson, or it's a run

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Speaker 2: to JT. Or it's a screen pass. Okay, it's like

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Speaker 2: one of those things. But everything is at the line,

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Speaker 2: and if it's not at the line, it's a heavy

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Speaker 2: play action and it's a downfield it's either taking a

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Speaker 2: shot or a deep race route or something like that.

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Speaker 2: And so what's really lacking and where your percentage just dies.

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Speaker 2: I mean, he's at forty seven for the year. A

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Speaker 2: part of that is accuracy, but part of that is

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Speaker 2: we don't do anything quick rhythm drop back in that

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Speaker 2: first level and in that short second level, that ten

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Speaker 2: yard area. And by that, I mean you know that

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Speaker 2: real Basically, if you're under center, it's five steps, if

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Speaker 2: if you're in the gun, it's one step. But just

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Speaker 2: quick hooks, quick drags to the tight ends, quick throws

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Speaker 2: to the to the to the backs underneath things that

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Speaker 2: teams do against us. Classically. We lack that intermediate passing game.

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Speaker 2: And you know that, that quick and intermediate passing game.

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Speaker 2: And I know there's only so many things you can

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Speaker 2: get good at in a hurry, but I think if

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Speaker 2: you're gonna get good in the next three weeks, that

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Speaker 2: has to be the third factor. Again, everything with us

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Speaker 2: right now is at the line of scrimmage or play

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Speaker 2: action deep, and that's the area that you know, I

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Speaker 2: think we could get some things going, you know, very

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Speaker 2: quickly to downs and the Pittman and our tight ends,

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Speaker 2: but it's got to be underneath, and it's got to

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Speaker 2: be quick, and it's got to be dropped back.

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Speaker 3: That's Rick fin Terry. Joe Wrights is along as well tonight.

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Speaker 3: I'm Matt Taylor. This is Colts Roundtable Live tonight on

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Speaker 3: ninety three to five and one oh seven five the

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Speaker 3: Fan taking a look at the top three things for

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Speaker 3: the Colts to focus in on with three games to play.

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Speaker 3: That's number one. How about number two, Joe? Third downs

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Speaker 3: on offense and defense, the Colts struggled to move the

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Speaker 3: ball and stay on the field yesterday that they started

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Speaker 3: off reasonably well on third down to begin the game.

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Speaker 3: You and I both talked about those third down conversions

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Speaker 3: of ten plus yards on the first drive of the

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Speaker 3: game for the Colts, but they didn't move the chains

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Speaker 3: on their last ten third down conversions to end the game. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 3: on defense, the Colts did a reasonably good job against

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Speaker 3: Bo Nixon, But for the entire season in totality, the

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Speaker 3: Colts have still allowed a forty five point three percent

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Speaker 3: conversion rate on third down, and they've allowed eighty one

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Speaker 3: third down conversions on the season, that's the most in

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Speaker 3: the NFL. So what what can the Colts do, if anything,

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Speaker 3: to be better on third down on both sides of

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Speaker 3: the ball in these final three games of the season.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and we started out really well on third down, Matt,

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Speaker 5: like you said, and I thought it was some strategic

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Speaker 5: play calls where we're running in against an obvious passing situation.

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Speaker 5: But you know, as we got into the second half,

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Speaker 5: and you know, especially after the the JT fumble and

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Speaker 5: the punt return, you know, Denver was winning first down

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Speaker 5: and they were winning second down. We went through a

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Speaker 5: stretch where we had third and fifteen one drive, third

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Speaker 5: and fifteen, the next drive another third and ten. Those

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Speaker 5: are just hard downs. Those are defensive advantageous possessions and plays.

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Speaker 5: And part of it was penalties. I mean, we had

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Speaker 5: that rash of holding penalties. It seemed like every other

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Speaker 5: snap they were calling a hold. And you know, you'd

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Speaker 5: negate a five yard run second and five brings you

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Speaker 5: back to first and twenty, and that's just a huge

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Speaker 5: difference maker. So I thought a lot of it was

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Speaker 5: we hurt ourselves early on first and second down. And

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Speaker 5: then I think what you saw Denver do as the

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Speaker 5: game went on against our offense is they were not

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Speaker 5: gonna let Richardson run the ball or US run the ball,

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Speaker 5: and they started bringing pressure. They were bringing safeties, they

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Speaker 5: were bringing nickels, they were bringing guys off the edge,

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Speaker 5: they were running the linebackers through and they were just

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Speaker 5: trying to kind of condense that pocket and make Richardson

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Speaker 5: beat us from back there and not be able to

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Speaker 5: get out on the edge and beat us with his feet. So,

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Speaker 5: you know, on offense, I think there's a lot of

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Speaker 5: different things that we can clean up. But you know,

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Speaker 5: third and three, third and four, that's a big difference

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Speaker 5: than third and ten and third and fifteen, and that

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Speaker 5: all comes back to winning first down. And on the

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Speaker 5: defensive side of the football, I thought we did that.

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Speaker 5: I mean, one of the keys Matt was was limit

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Speaker 5: them on first down. Their running backs did nothing all day,

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Speaker 5: and we were tackling machines, especially Franklin and Speed. I mean,

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Speaker 5: they had twenty rushes for fifty five yards between their

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Speaker 5: three running backs and Nick's got loose a little bit early.

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Speaker 5: But outside of that, you know, they were really shut down.

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Speaker 5: So I thought our defense, you know, hold them six

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Speaker 5: to seventeen on third down. You know, that's pretty good,

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Speaker 5: But obviously an area of focus, given like you said

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Speaker 5: that we've given up the most third down conversions in

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Speaker 5: the NFL. You've got to be tighter on third down.

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Speaker 5: But really comes back to first and second down. And

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Speaker 5: you'll go back to the New England game. If they're

653
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Speaker 5: getting six yards a rush, that's a lot better for

654
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Speaker 5: the offense because they can dictate what they do on

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Speaker 5: third down. So I think it all ties in together,

656
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Speaker 5: you know, at the end of the day. But you know,

657
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Speaker 5: I give our guys credit on defense because I thought

658
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Speaker 5: they really played their tails off, and you know, it

659
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Speaker 5: just was kind of going, going, going, and then you

660
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Speaker 5: know that water just kind of burst and the dam

661
00:31:35,920 --> 00:31:37,400
Speaker 5: burst there at the end of the game. You know,

662
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Speaker 5: that really gave Denver the momentum there. Like you mentioned

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Speaker 5: for that twenty one point fourth quarter.

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Speaker 3: That's Joe Wright's right there, along with Rick vent Turi too.

665
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Speaker 3: I'm Matt Taylor, the last one Rick Special teams volatility.

666
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Speaker 3: The Colts lost on Sunday partly because of the Broncos

667
00:31:52,480 --> 00:31:56,680
Speaker 3: punt return game. They completely flipped field position a couple

668
00:31:56,760 --> 00:32:01,280
Speaker 3: of times with great returns, specifically by Harvin Mims Junior,

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Speaker 3: but then a sixty yard return in the fourth quarter

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Speaker 3: down to the Colts fifteen yard line. I should say

671
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Speaker 3: for the game, he totaled ninety seven pont return yards.

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Speaker 3: That was a dagger for the Colts. So what needs

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00:32:15,120 --> 00:32:17,120
Speaker 3: to happen in the final three to clean that up,

674
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Speaker 3: prevent the third phase of the game from letting the

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Speaker 3: Colts down here in the final month of the season,

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Speaker 3: to make sure they close out with three straight wins.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I would say that one of the real strengths

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Speaker 2: of our team this season, One of the real strengths

679
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Speaker 2: has been, you know, the kicking game. The kickers, you know,

680
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Speaker 2: as Gay has come back and done really well and

681
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Speaker 2: Rigo our kicking has been really good. But what really

682
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Speaker 2: got away from us this week was the coverage. And

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Speaker 2: we've been a really good coverage team. You know, I

684
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Speaker 2: thought he out kicked the coverage a little bit, but

685
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Speaker 2: more importantly, we did not do a good job. And

686
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Speaker 2: of course, you know, Mims is the premiere return guy

687
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Speaker 2: in the He's the premier guy. And so basically you

688
00:33:04,320 --> 00:33:07,560
Speaker 2: really have to be disciplined in your lanes and you

689
00:33:07,760 --> 00:33:10,120
Speaker 2: have to be able to go down, but there has

690
00:33:10,240 --> 00:33:14,040
Speaker 2: to be a breakdown in getting ready to tackle. I mean,

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Speaker 2: even though you're running full speed, you have to come

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Speaker 2: under control. Basically, he was able to cut back inside

693
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Speaker 2: under the gunner and then work it back to the

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Speaker 2: other side of the field. And if you look at it.

695
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Speaker 2: There's just a ton of mistackles, guys just over extending,

696
00:33:33,080 --> 00:33:38,160
Speaker 2: not keeping him cupped. And it was not our typical performance.

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Speaker 2: But you know, it's like everything else on this team.

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Speaker 2: When you're playing an elite player, you have to rise

699
00:33:45,360 --> 00:33:49,760
Speaker 2: to the occasion, both schematically and technically. There's no doubt

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Speaker 2: about it. The other thing that really hurt was the

701
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Speaker 2: penalty on the short return. I mean, you know, hitting

702
00:33:56,600 --> 00:33:59,520
Speaker 2: a guy out of bounds and a lot of those

703
00:33:59,600 --> 00:34:01,800
Speaker 2: penalties it goes you know that we had in that

704
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Speaker 2: second half. You know, the penalties also led to those

705
00:34:05,680 --> 00:34:08,560
Speaker 2: third and fifteens that Joe was talking about, and it

706
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Speaker 2: also led to field position. And I don't think there's

707
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Speaker 2: any questions about it that the the the long return,

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Speaker 2: the sixty one yard return, absolutely turned the game around. Now,

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Speaker 2: I don't see anybody the rest of the way that

710
00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:26,319
Speaker 2: has a MIMS, but this should be a wake up

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Speaker 2: call for the coverage guys that you know they haven't arrived.

712
00:34:30,400 --> 00:34:32,880
Speaker 2: They better learn how to keep those lanes tight, and

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Speaker 2: they better learn how to go down and space tackle.

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Speaker 3: Rick Venturry right there, Joe writes along as well, I'm

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Speaker 3: Matt Taylor. That's the big three for the final three

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Speaker 3: here for the Colts, the top three areas to focus

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Speaker 3: the Midwest. Let's go to Aaron. He's up first tonight,

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Speaker 3: and this is a good question for both of you guys,

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00:36:16,520 --> 00:36:19,840
Speaker 3: Rick Venturi and Joe Wrights. He's saying, as former players

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00:36:19,880 --> 00:36:22,719
Speaker 3: and coaches, how do you guys handle the next three

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Speaker 3: weeks when you know the playoffs are going to be

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Speaker 3: hard to come by for the Colts? Rick, why don't

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00:36:27,560 --> 00:36:30,600
Speaker 3: you tackle that first? As a former coach, how would

752
00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:32,800
Speaker 3: you handle these next three games for the Colts?

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00:36:33,520 --> 00:36:33,719
Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: And the first thing is is this is where it's

755
00:36:35,800 --> 00:36:39,000
Speaker 2: really important that you really have a locker room where

756
00:36:39,040 --> 00:36:41,880
Speaker 2: you have really quality guys like Joe. Right, So you

757
00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:45,480
Speaker 2: have to have guys that really are high character, guys

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00:36:46,400 --> 00:36:49,560
Speaker 2: that are really that have great pride, and you know,

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00:36:49,719 --> 00:36:52,319
Speaker 2: basically also who played for the love of the game.

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Speaker 2: If that sounds corny, I think it's really important at

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00:36:56,160 --> 00:36:58,360
Speaker 2: this thing. The thing I used to preach, to be

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Speaker 2: honest with you, is that basically you are a professional.

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Speaker 2: You know what is a professional. A professional football player

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Speaker 2: is a guy who will play anywhere, any time, any place.

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Speaker 2: I used to emphasize, there's nowhere in your contract where

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00:37:18,840 --> 00:37:22,880
Speaker 2: the language says you can play only when you're in

767
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:27,279
Speaker 2: the playoff race or you feel good and everything, you're

768
00:37:27,320 --> 00:37:30,440
Speaker 2: on a wind streak. There's absolutely none of that. Just

769
00:37:30,560 --> 00:37:34,000
Speaker 2: remember there's no opt out here in the NFL. No,

770
00:37:34,640 --> 00:37:39,080
Speaker 2: there's no transfer portal. And basically, as a pro and

771
00:37:39,160 --> 00:37:43,800
Speaker 2: as a man, you know, basically you owe it to

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Speaker 2: your teammates and you owe it to the franchise basically

773
00:37:48,560 --> 00:37:51,360
Speaker 2: to go out and play with your very very best

774
00:37:51,880 --> 00:37:54,279
Speaker 2: and make sure that everybody knows that you're made of

775
00:37:54,320 --> 00:37:58,080
Speaker 2: the right stuff. And I used to always quote, I'm

776
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Speaker 2: a history major. I always used to quot the great

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Speaker 2: Thomas Payne, and I used to tell him, basically, this

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Speaker 2: is always winter time when it happens is what he's

779
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Speaker 2: what what Washington said at Valley Forge to the troops

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Speaker 2: is this is not the time for the Sunshine Patriots.

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Speaker 2: This is the time for the Winter Warriors.

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Speaker 3: And I love that man, great perspective that was. That

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Speaker 3: was beautiful.

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Speaker 2: Rick.

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Speaker 3: I don't even know how to to move on from that.

786
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Speaker 3: But but I guess, Joe, how would you tackle that question? Uh?

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Speaker 3: As a former player, From a former players perspective.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, first, coach, I know you're a history major. You

789
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Speaker 5: sounded like a poetry major right there. That was poetic.

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Speaker 3: I was like William was Washworth stuff.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, that was beautiful. But yeah, I think from a

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00:38:40,880 --> 00:38:43,760
Speaker 5: player perspective two things. One, I mean, the Colts are still,

793
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Speaker 5: you know, mathematically alive. Again, we don't control our own destiny.

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00:38:47,280 --> 00:38:49,759
Speaker 5: A lot's got to happen. Colts fans got to go

795
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Speaker 5: from Bronco haters to cheer and for him to try

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Speaker 5: to beat the Chargers Thursday night. But I think as

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Speaker 5: a player, when you're still alive, you know, there's still

798
00:38:57,480 --> 00:38:59,320
Speaker 5: everything is to play for. But you know, believe me,

799
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Speaker 5: I've been on team. You know, I was on the team, Matt.

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00:39:01,920 --> 00:39:04,680
Speaker 5: We were two and fourteen. We lost our thirteen first

801
00:39:04,719 --> 00:39:07,040
Speaker 5: thirteen games of the season. You know you ain't making

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00:39:07,120 --> 00:39:09,960
Speaker 5: the playoffs, but I always felt like a player. Two things. One,

803
00:39:10,520 --> 00:39:13,759
Speaker 5: I feel like you're playing for yourself in terms of

804
00:39:13,920 --> 00:39:15,880
Speaker 5: I want to be on this team next year. And

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00:39:16,080 --> 00:39:19,360
Speaker 5: generally you know the when you don't make the playoffs,

806
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Speaker 5: and when you have a season when you were two

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Speaker 5: and fourteen, certainly you know changes are going to come.

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Speaker 5: And I was playing to let the organization know that

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Speaker 5: I'm going to play hard no matter what, whether we're

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Speaker 5: thirteen and oho or zero and thirteen, and I want

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Speaker 5: to be a part of this franchise moving forward. So

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Speaker 5: I think that you're playing for yourself and wanting to

813
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Speaker 5: be a part of this group moving forward. But then

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Speaker 5: the second one is you play for your brothers, and

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Speaker 5: you play for those guys in the locker room, and

816
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Speaker 5: you play I think, especially as an offensive lineman, you

817
00:39:43,200 --> 00:39:45,200
Speaker 5: know all those guys, the blood, sweat and tears and

818
00:39:45,239 --> 00:39:47,600
Speaker 5: everything you've gone through in the offseason and training, camping

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Speaker 5: up and down, and I think you play for those

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00:39:49,920 --> 00:39:51,960
Speaker 5: other fifty two guys in the locker room, and you

821
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Speaker 5: say it is I am doing you a disservice if

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Speaker 5: I do not give my best effort, you know, And

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Speaker 5: if I care about you, and I care about my teammates,

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Speaker 5: and I care about this team, I'm gonna go out

825
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Speaker 5: and give everything that I got and I'm gonna play

826
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Speaker 5: for the other fifty two men in that locker room.

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Speaker 5: And so I think that's really where the motivation comes from,

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Speaker 5: you know, really twofold when you're a player, and if

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Speaker 5: you're out of the playoffs, you know, officially and mathematically,

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Speaker 5: those are the two things that come to mind for me.

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Speaker 3: And was well said too, Joe, Well done by you

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Speaker 3: as well. We've got time for one more Joe. Hang

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Speaker 3: tight right there. I'm gonna go right back to you.

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Speaker 3: This is coming from Matt in regards to the offensive line.

835
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Speaker 3: Matt wants to know, with Braiden Smith done for the

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Speaker 3: season with his personal matter, do we have to look

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Speaker 3: into possibly replacing that position in the offseason or is

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Speaker 3: Matt Gonzalvez, a rookie, a suitable option in the long

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Speaker 3: run for the Colts.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, And I think obviously with respect to Braiden, and

841
00:40:45,719 --> 00:40:48,320
Speaker 5: don't want to speculate on what's going on, but you know,

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Speaker 5: he's out for the season now, and you got to

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Speaker 5: think that Gonzolvez is, you know, going to get these

844
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Speaker 5: next three games at right town.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I think that question is more about you know, Matt's

847
00:40:56,480 --> 00:41:00,239
Speaker 3: viability more so than speculating on Braiden's deal. I think

848
00:41:00,280 --> 00:41:01,960
Speaker 3: you're right to do that, absolutely, Yeah.

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Speaker 5: But but I think Gonzalvez, I think he's most naturally

850
00:41:04,440 --> 00:41:06,560
Speaker 5: shooted as a right tackle. He's a big guy, he's

851
00:41:06,600 --> 00:41:08,839
Speaker 5: a physical guy. He gets after in the run game.

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00:41:08,920 --> 00:41:10,520
Speaker 5: We saw some of that yesterday and some of those

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Speaker 5: good runs. I think he's got to get a little

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Speaker 5: bit better in space like we all do his offensive

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Speaker 5: lineman and just the speed and get off you know

856
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Speaker 5: of how good these pass rushers are. But you know,

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Speaker 5: I've been impressed with Gonzalvez. I think he's a tough kid.

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Speaker 5: I think he's a worker. I think he's got high

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Speaker 5: football character, which is why the Colts drafted him there.

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Speaker 5: So I definitely think that, you know, he can be

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Speaker 5: you know, he's going to get these last three games

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Speaker 5: really work. There's nothing like game reps and there's nothing

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Speaker 5: and and hope that he provides some solutions for the

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Speaker 3: It's time now for the closing arguments as we wrap

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Speaker 3: up the show and talk about the final thoughts on

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Speaker 3: a very difficult loss for the Indianapolis Colts losing to

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Speaker 3: the Denver Broncos on Sunday. But Joe, now it's all

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Speaker 3: about closing the season strong, went out, You're gonna see

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Speaker 3: none of that matters if you don't take care of

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Speaker 3: business in these final three games the season, all winnable

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Speaker 3: thoughts tonight following that disappointing outing and that trip out

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Speaker 3: west for the Colts on Sunday.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, no question. Again, tough to turn the page. But

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Speaker 5: you know, as a player, it's easier than a fan

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Speaker 5: because you know you're going back to work and you're

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Speaker 5: watching the corrections you know earlier today and you're getting

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Speaker 5: moved on and watching film on Tennessee and getting rolling

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Speaker 5: for that game, so you stay in just your normal

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Speaker 5: weekly schedule. But you know, for me, the colts next

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Speaker 5: three games are all very winnable. We should win all

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Speaker 5: three of them, you know, And whether you make the

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Speaker 5: playoffs or not finish in nine and eight, it just

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Speaker 5: sounds a lot different and it's a lot better than

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Speaker 5: finishing eight and nine in terms of having a winning record.

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Speaker 5: You know, within the season and for the franchise, and

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Speaker 5: so you just focus on what you can control. How

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Speaker 5: can I be the very best that I can be

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Speaker 5: this week against Tennessee? How can I keep my process?

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Speaker 5: How can I prepare to win Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.

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Speaker 5: Really just be processed, driven, and then you go out

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Speaker 5: and you want to get a good performance. You're back

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Speaker 5: at home. It's right before Christmas. This is a team

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Speaker 5: that we should beat, and we should beat handily in

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Speaker 5: my opinion. And so it's as again as tough as

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Speaker 5: it was yesterday in Denver. It's all steam ahead for Tennessee. So, coach,

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Speaker 5: when you watch the Titans, I know they've had some

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Speaker 5: quarterback issues and Levis got pulled yesterday, but what are

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Speaker 5: you expecting to see Tennessee? And maybe how different are

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Speaker 5: they when we played them earlier in the season down

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Speaker 2: Well, remember it took a tend to oh fourth quarter

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Speaker 2: to beat them, and we had to come from behind

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Speaker 2: to beat them. You know, not too many things have

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Speaker 2: changes except this season. Losing, you know, has just wore

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Speaker 2: them down. I mean, everybody wants the quarterback fired, the

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Speaker 2: head coach and special teams coach fired. They all want

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Speaker 2: them fired. And I think it looks to me like

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Speaker 2: Levis is out of Mayo there. They benched him. He

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Speaker 2: was awful, he was awful yesterday. They benched him for

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Speaker 2: Mason Rudolph, and I think in a way it makes

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Speaker 2: them better because Mason is the consummate game manager. You know,

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Speaker 2: he is not gonna win the game for him, but

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Speaker 2: he's also not gonna lose it like Levis does. And

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Speaker 2: there's some interesting dichotomies. I mean, they're number two there.

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Speaker 2: This is a diconomy of dichotomies. They're twenty eighth in scoring,

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Speaker 2: and in total offense, they're way down and and they're

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Speaker 2: bad in scoring defense, but they're number two in total defense.

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Speaker 2: And they've got a really good front in Landry and

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Speaker 2: Sweat and Simmons and Key. I mean, if you you

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Speaker 2: And then on offense, I like Ridley and Pollard. Pollard's

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Speaker 2: they got enough, like I said, we you know, they

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Speaker 2: So you know, I think the move to Rudolph actually

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Speaker 2: it and throw quick and play defense. So you know, again,

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Speaker 2: like you said, you, we have to rally immediately because

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Speaker 2: there's no one even though we're probably playing the three

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Speaker 2: worst teams in the league, but there's no one in

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Speaker 2: the NFL that can't beat you on a Sunday, no.

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Speaker 3: Doubt about that. Will Levis at a Mayo. We'll see

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Speaker 3: how it all unfolds this week here for the Indianapolis Colts.

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Speaker 3: In terms of the opposition at QB, that's all the

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Speaker 3: time we've got tonight. We're up against it. Rick Ventury

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Speaker 3: Joe writes, great job tonight here on the program, and

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Speaker 3: thanks to head coach Shane Steichen, who joined in on

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Speaker 3: that first segment tonight for his thoughts following the loss

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Speaker 3: in Denver. If you missed any of the program, it's

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Speaker 3: back on demand on your time. We'll be talking about

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Speaker 3: the week sixteen matchup with the Tennessee Titans all week long,

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Speaker 3: and we'll be back next Monday night breaking it all

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Speaker 3: down again when Colts Roundtable Live returns a week from tonight.

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Speaker 3: Again for Rick Ventury and Joe Wrights, I'm Matt Taylor.

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