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Speaker 1: Hello Colts fans, and welcome into this week's episode of

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Speaker 1: the Two Minute Drill Podcast. As always, I'm Amanda Foster,

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Speaker 1: this week joined once again by Casey valet Boom, back

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Speaker 1: again ahead of the Colts Week eight game against Tennessee Titans. Colts, obviously,

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Speaker 1: first thing, we have to talk about our six and

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Speaker 1: one with the best record in the whole NFL, not

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Speaker 1: just the AFC firm grasp on first place in the

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Speaker 1: AFC South given the way the last few weeks have

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Speaker 1: shaken out for the rest of the division. But I mean,

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Speaker 1: as we head into this game against the Titans, even

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Speaker 1: if even though the Titans are struggling right now, you

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Speaker 1: can't sugarcoat it. This is the division game. And this

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Speaker 1: you know, they say that division games count double they're

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Speaker 1: they're even more important, and so even with kind of

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Speaker 1: where both teams are at at this point in this season,

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Speaker 1: this is a very like the Colts are taking this

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Speaker 1: one seriously, oh.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, and ultimately with the NFL, the amount of parody

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Speaker 2: and then it's always wild you think about it. Ultimately

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Speaker 2: outside of I would say probably eight players at the

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Speaker 2: top of everybody's roster. The rest of those guys they're

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Speaker 2: all about the same level. So from a talent discrepancy standpoint,

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Speaker 2: there's not a whole lot of room for air. Like

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Speaker 2: the margin of air is right there. It's a pretty

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Speaker 2: level playing field. And you know, from a Titan standpoint,

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Speaker 2: I'm not necessarily saying this is the same magnitude. But

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Speaker 2: Colts fans remember the Jacksonville game a handful of years

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Speaker 2: ago where the Jags, I mean, they were in line

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Speaker 2: to get the first overall pick. All you gotta do

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Speaker 2: is go in and beat the Jags and you're in

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Speaker 2: the playoffs. And Jacksonville heard all the noise, they knew

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Speaker 2: what was at stake. And I don't know necessarily because

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Speaker 2: it's not like it's Week eighteen and this is the

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Speaker 2: final game, so I don't know if it has the

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Speaker 2: same implication. But for the Titans, they've heard all week,

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Speaker 2: this is the best team in football. Beat you by

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Speaker 2: twenty one at your house. You've got a whole bunch

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Speaker 2: of injuries, you're not very good, you fired your coach,

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Speaker 2: you got nothing to play for. You're gonna be getting

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Speaker 2: the first overall pick. They hear all that noise, you know,

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Speaker 2: the outside stuff. It trickles in like they can talk

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Speaker 2: about how they don't listen to it, you don't read it,

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Speaker 2: but it finds a way to get in. So from

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Speaker 2: a Titans perspective, I don't know necessarily if this is

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Speaker 2: fair to say it's similar to like a super Bowl

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Speaker 2: for them. This is their opportunity to really go out

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Speaker 2: and you know, this is.

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Speaker 1: If you want to prove something now, you want.

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Speaker 2: To eat exactly. And for all of these guys at

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Speaker 2: the end, they're all NFL players right.

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Speaker 1: Well, and that's the thing. It's, Oh, all you have

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Speaker 1: to do is go beat this team on Sunday. You're

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Speaker 1: playing another NFL team.

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Speaker 2: Right And the way I look at it too, especially

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Speaker 2: with you know, Brian Callahan being fired, for a lot

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Speaker 2: of these guys on the Titans, this is their opportunity

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Speaker 2: from now through the rest of the year to prove, hey,

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Speaker 2: I deserve a spot on this team. So this is

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Speaker 2: just another way to show it. And you look at

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Speaker 2: it against the best opponents that you going to play

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Speaker 2: and how you perform in those games. And for the Titans,

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Speaker 2: this is the best team on their schedule because it's

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Speaker 2: the best team in football in Indianapolis Colts right now.

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Speaker 2: So this is not a game at all, I don't.

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Speaker 2: I kind of side with Shane, especially the way that

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Speaker 2: he talked on Wednesday with every week is a challenge,

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Speaker 2: and I completely agree with that because we see it

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Speaker 2: every single week happen. Yeah, like one of the things

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Speaker 2: I always talk about with with sports betting and it's

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Speaker 2: a wonderful thing. There's two sides of this coin, like

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Speaker 2: it's a wonderful thing that I can't bet on it

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Speaker 2: because I would lose a lot of money, but also

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Speaker 2: I don't know, I don't understand the ins and the outs.

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Speaker 2: But I literally I always say why do you bet

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Speaker 2: on it? Because there's so you have no control over it,

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Speaker 2: and every week something happens, You're like, how do that

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Speaker 2: team be that team? Because it's the NFL and that

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Speaker 2: is one thing heading into this weekend, you really hope

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Speaker 2: it doesn't happen for the Colts because this is a

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Speaker 2: game on paper that you should go out and you

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Speaker 2: should be able to win. But you cannot take it

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Speaker 2: lightly because one, it's a divisional games, so they've got

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Speaker 2: it circle. They want to come into your house, they

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Speaker 2: want to beat you, they want to make you look bad,

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Speaker 2: they want to get all these national pundits who are

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Speaker 2: you know, starting to really dive in on the Colts

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Speaker 2: to be like, oh, hold on, maybe not. This is

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Speaker 2: what it is for the Titans. They get the chance

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Speaker 2: to be that underdog We've got everybody against us kind

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Speaker 2: of storyline. So it's going to be it's one of

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Speaker 2: those games. Absolutely, Like you said, you do not overlook

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Speaker 2: this at all.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, and that's where I think, you know, the

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Speaker 1: mindset of this Colts locker room and the coaching and

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Speaker 1: everybody and everything that we've heard, you know, through the

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Speaker 1: first seven weeks of not accepting complacency, not taking your

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Speaker 1: foot off the gas. We've heard time in and time out,

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Speaker 1: how you know, dedicated Daniel Jones is to making sure

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Speaker 1: that everybody's on the same page. We've heard that from

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Speaker 1: lou Ana Rumo in terms of making sure his defense

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Speaker 1: knows what he needs them to do, and they've come

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Speaker 1: through the last few weeks and coming up big and

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Speaker 1: so everything like that. I think that is really helping

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Speaker 1: everybody's mindset this week of like this has been enforced

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Speaker 1: through the first seven weeks. No matter who you play,

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Speaker 1: you have to go out and play really well. And

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Speaker 1: so I don't think kind of like you mentioned with

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Speaker 1: Shane and everything that we've heard from everybody this week

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Speaker 1: is that they have the right mindset for this game,

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Speaker 1: because they have the right mindset every week.

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Speaker 2: Right, and to that there's evidence behind it, right, because

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Speaker 2: that mindset is the same that every week they've gone

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Speaker 2: into a game where they have been favored, they should win.

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Speaker 2: They have done that, and they've done it at a

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Speaker 2: very wide margin. I mean, you don't beat teams in

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Speaker 2: the NFL by twenty and they've been it a couple

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Speaker 2: times three times this year. So those kinds of things

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Speaker 2: don't happen often. But this Colts team seemingly every week

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Speaker 2: that challenge of where is the mentality are you going

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Speaker 2: to be able to be up for this game? They've

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Speaker 2: been able to kind of answer the bell every single time.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, So you mentioned injuries. Got to get into that first.

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Speaker 1: I want to start with the Titans. You mentioned some

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Speaker 1: of the Titans injuries a couple of days ago, placed

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Speaker 1: Lagerius snead On Ir did that on Thursday, promoted Joe Bachi. Yes,

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Speaker 1: the fifty three man roster who of course started out

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Speaker 1: the season with the Colts, played for Luanna Romo Cincinnati

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Speaker 1: for a little bit, so he's familiar with this team.

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Speaker 1: They're also familiar with him. Wide receiver Calvin Ridley and

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Speaker 1: out what happened in the Titans practice on Friday, but

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Speaker 1: it seems like the chances of either one being available

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Speaker 1: you know, all three of those guys are really big hits,

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Speaker 1: especially I mean you think about Jeffrey Simmons and what

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Speaker 1: the NFL in the last century is that, you know,

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Speaker 1: when you put it like that, Yes, so some big

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Speaker 2: Right with Jeffrey Simmons. Mike McCoy said on Wednesday that

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Speaker 2: it's kind of a week to week injury. So I'm

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Speaker 2: assuming typically when you say week to week, you're more

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Speaker 2: than likely going to miss that first week, and it's

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Speaker 2: a hamstring, and you know, Jeffrey Simmons has a lot

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Speaker 2: So yeah, I can't. I can't claim it it was.

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Speaker 2: We talked to Ret Bryan, our guy down in Nashville,

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Speaker 2: and those are kind of words that he used. But

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Speaker 2: you know, Jeffrey Simmons is a force we have. We

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Speaker 2: have the beauty in Indianapolis to have DeForest Buckner and

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Speaker 2: Grover Stewart, But if you look outside of Indianapolis and

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Speaker 2: you look at different defensive tackles around the league, you

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Speaker 2: don't go far to find one of the guys who

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Speaker 2: was on par with what guys like Toforest Buckner and

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Speaker 2: it's gonna be a big loss if he cannot go

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Speaker 2: this week. I'm kind of leaning more towards he will not.

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Speaker 2: You talked about Lugerius need being on ir This is

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Speaker 2: a guy they targeted last offseason. He was a free

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Speaker 2: this point they were expecting him to be that number

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Speaker 2: little bit of a break with him not being out there,

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Speaker 2: because when this guy's right and when this guy's playing,

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Speaker 2: You talked about Calvin Ridley. That's a hamstring. We're not

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Speaker 2: sure where that's going to be. Didn't practice the first

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Speaker 2: couple of days. But then also they released Tyler Locketty

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Speaker 2: this week. You know, he had asked for his release.

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Speaker 2: He's a savvy veteran. He's a receiver who's been around

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Speaker 2: I know we have the injury concerns, but to and

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Speaker 2: Andre Sweat, the big defensive tackle they drafted last year.

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Speaker 2: He is back, so he would play alongside with Jeffrey

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Speaker 2: So Simmons will be out, but Sweat will be in there.

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Speaker 2: Sweat's a good little player. The big player, you know,

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Speaker 2: what you want to watch out for him. But then

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Speaker 2: with with Lockett and Ridley, expect a lot out of

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Speaker 2: Elik Amanor and then she Marie DK, who kind of

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Speaker 2: as a as a returner. Here's a little nugget for you.

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Speaker 2: I know, I know, typically JJ comes with the numbers,

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Speaker 2: but I'm gonna I'm gonna throw some numbers your way.

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Speaker 2: So DK, who's now gonna be a little bit see

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Speaker 2: kind of slide where Tyler Lockett was as a returner.

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Speaker 2: He leads the NFL in kick return yards and total

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Speaker 2: made a really big name for himself and then all

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Speaker 2: purpose yards. Right now he has the most in the NFL.

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Speaker 2: So that is that is return yards, that is receiving yards.

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Speaker 2: He's been used a little bit in you know, some

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Speaker 2: know they aren't doing returning. So that definitely, you know,

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Speaker 2: elevates that number a little bit. But it is shown

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Speaker 2: what this guy can do. He's electric at the ball

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Speaker 2: guy to really watch for. Last week he had his

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Speaker 2: be a nice little addition. Now if they don't have

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