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Speaker 1: is the Last Word, the off Season Home of the

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Speaker 1: Colts with Jeffrey Gorman and Matt Taylor. Welcome to the

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Speaker 1: Last Word Tonight, the off season radio home of your

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Speaker 1: I'm Jeffrey Gorman, Matt Taylor, Voice of the Colts is here,

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Speaker 1: and don't get sick of us, because it's gonna be

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Speaker 1: a lot of Me and a lot of Matt, and

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Speaker 1: we're gonna be trying to answer some questions that are

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Speaker 1: coming at us from everybody. Matt, the postman itself, the

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Speaker 1: person who sells bread at the market, your cousin from

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Speaker 1: New Hampshire. They all want answers. So we're trying to

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Speaker 1: give them what's going on in the off season. Because

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Speaker 1: it stinks. We want to be playing right now. Obviously

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Speaker 1: we're instill in that mindset of disappointment, but the wins

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Speaker 1: of change are coming. We've got playoff football for other teams.

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Speaker 1: This weekend and Matt Taylor, don't forget we do have

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Speaker 1: a season to look forward to, and I know it's

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Speaker 1: a long look ahead, but there are some wins of

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Speaker 1: change going on in the Colts operation right now on

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Speaker 1: fifty six Street. Absolutely so did last weekend watching football?

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Speaker 1: Did it kind of make the the end of the

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Speaker 1: sweet because you go, hey, we're one day closer to

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Speaker 1: this is you know, you know, you beat yourself up

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Speaker 1: hearing him talk to people about it. Everybody is taking

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Speaker 1: their time processing this disappointment of twenty twenty one and

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Speaker 1: you know, the last two weeks in particular, Matt. But

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Speaker 1: time to talk about what the Colts are going to do.

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Speaker 1: And some of the ideas that we think they're going

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of fired up people and quite frankly,

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Speaker 1: with seven Pro Bowlers on this roster, it's a hell

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Speaker 1: of a football team and a hell of a coaching staff.

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Speaker 1: Matt Taylor. There are other people in the NFL, other

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Speaker 1: the latest you have on Ed Dodds. Oh, yeah, he's

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Speaker 1: coordinator Matt Eberflus is being considered by the Jaguars and

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Speaker 1: got a couple of interviews there, Matt, A couple of callbacks.

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Speaker 1: will the pass rush come? From in twenty twenty two

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Speaker 1: and Chris Ballard talked about, you know, maybe he should

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Speaker 1: the attitude does the reliance on takeaways of this Colts

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Speaker 1: ina sized we have to be an elite team, one

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Speaker 1: somebody that stresses and teaches and underscores the ability to

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Speaker 1: take the football away. And again, that's why the Colts

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Speaker 1: have been pretty good in scoring defense is because of

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Speaker 1: their takeaways. They've given up yards, but the takeaways has

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Speaker 1: the defense is taught to strip the ball, attack the ball.

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Speaker 1: I mean, where would this defense be without the maniac

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Speaker 1: always going to be taught. It's gonna be accented whether

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Speaker 1: still got questions, Like the one thing I'll give our

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Speaker 1: players a lot of credit for is they they are

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Speaker 1: well connected, you know, with the organization, and they care

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Speaker 1: about the organization and they care about, you know, the

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Speaker 1: of Indianapolis. So I do believe there's a guilt and

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Speaker 1: think it runs through all of us of how this

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Speaker 1: thing ended and you know, finding out and figuring out

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Speaker 1: why and moving forward and not letting it happen again.

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Speaker 1: That's Colts GM Chris Ballard on the message he's getting

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Speaker 1: from players following this season. Again, that's from the Colts

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Speaker 1: Official podcast. You can listen to the entire podcast with

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Speaker 1: Chris right now on Colts dot Com, the Colts Mobile app,

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Speaker 1: and Colts Audio Network anywhere you download your podcast. The

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Speaker 1: Welcome back. This is the last word. I'm Jeffrey Gorman,

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Speaker 1: Matt Taylor, Voice of the Colts is here. We are

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Speaker 1: Forum Credit Union Question of the Week. A couple of

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Speaker 1: old timer's coming from me. That's pretty funny, But a

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Speaker 1: couple of NFL old timers like Jack Doyle and t

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Speaker 1: Y Hilton, they're content playing retirement this offseason. Mate. Drafted

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Speaker 1: in two thousand and twelve, Ty Hilton is the longest

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Speaker 1: tenured Colt. Jack Doyle, an undrafted free agent in two thirteen.

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Speaker 1: He is the second longest tenured colt Now, if both

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Speaker 1: t Y Hilton said, Hey, I'll base my decision on

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Speaker 1: you know, pretty cute those guys coming in and be

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Speaker 1: a best friends. He says, Hey, if they were to

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Speaker 1: retire this year, And this thing absolutely spun my head

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Speaker 1: when I read this earlier, who would be the longest

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Speaker 1: tenured Colts player in twenty twenty two if indeed t

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Speaker 1: Y Hilton and Jack Doyle retire. Matt Taylor. Oh, okay,

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Speaker 1: so Hilton is in twelve, Doyle undrafted in thirteen. I

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Speaker 1: don't think there's anybody from fourteen. I don't think there's

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Speaker 1: anybody from fifteen. Two thousand and sixteen first round pick

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Speaker 1: was Ryan Kelly in sixteen. And then you know guys like,

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Speaker 1: you know, you could stay there, you could stay there, mate. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's it. That is good. Lo. Ryan Kelly, which I'm like,

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Speaker 1: I remember when he was, you know, just drove in

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Speaker 1: know what I mean. And now this you watch him

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Speaker 1: grow in front of you. It's like, oh my god,

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Speaker 1: I mean that is true, and it is. Ryan Kelly

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Speaker 1: would be the longest tenured Colt in twenty twenty two

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Speaker 1: if t Y Hilton and Jack Doyle were to retire.

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Speaker 1: I tell you what time is a fly and by?

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Speaker 1: regarding your Colts forum credit Union helping members live their

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Speaker 1: financial dreams. Before we bust out the grab bag to

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Speaker 1: close out the show, Matt Taylor, I just want to

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Speaker 1: take a minute a minute to say basically a thank

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Speaker 1: you to Ryan Kelly because we were able to follow

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Speaker 1: this young man and his wife's story this year with

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Speaker 1: you know, their first pregnancy as a couple losing the baby.

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Speaker 1: We saw it up some personal on Hard Knocks, the

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Speaker 1: HBO show that followed the Colts around. The reason I'm

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Speaker 1: bringing up is, you know, there's important things in life,

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Speaker 1: and I know your job and NFL football being one

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Speaker 1: of them is, but boy, to put things in perspective,

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Speaker 1: and you know, a young couple, a young husband like

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Speaker 1: did and then to come back, you know, two weeks

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Speaker 1: later and put your bonnet on and start scrapping heads

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Speaker 1: again and playing this game of football. Man. Oh man,

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Speaker 1: I just I take my head off into him and

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Speaker 1: marvel at the strength of Brian Kelly and his wife.

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Speaker 1: No question about it. The Christmas Day game in Arizona

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Speaker 1: had to have been really, really difficult, and as you said,

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Speaker 1: to come back the final two games of the season,

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Speaker 1: and oh, by the way, play at an incredibly high

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Speaker 1: level the last two games of the season. Sure, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, just an incredible teammate, an incredible person. He's

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Speaker 1: an incredible guy. He really is good guy all the

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Speaker 1: his back and he continues to have the full support

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Speaker 1: and he's a great leader too in the locker room.

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Speaker 1: We see that every year that he's on this roster.

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Speaker 1: Obviously some young guys look up to him. So Ryan Kelly,

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Speaker 1: tip the hat to you, brother Gyle. Done this year.

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Speaker 1: It is now time to end this show. We're going

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Speaker 1: to close it out with the grab bag. Let's go

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Speaker 1: It's time for the NFL grab Bag and a sort

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Speaker 1: talking like this, Matt Taylor, but we talk about it now.

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Speaker 1: I want to start. I want to start with Cincinnati

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Speaker 1: Tennessee is a three and a half point favorite for

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Speaker 1: the first time ever. Matt Taylor. I ask you, who

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Speaker 1: do you like in this game with the spread? Give

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Speaker 1: me the Bengals. Give me the Bengals. I mean, I'm

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Speaker 1: all on the Joe Burrow Cincinnati train right now. Get

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Speaker 1: me the Jungle to pull off the upset. Did you

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Speaker 1: see after their playoff win last week, Zach Taylor, he

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Speaker 1: goes around to all the bars in downtown Cincinnati and

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Speaker 1: it hands out game balls to the bar owners and

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Speaker 1: the fans. I thought that was one of the coolest

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Speaker 1: things I've ever seen. Thirty one years without a playoff victory,

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Speaker 1: So I mean, how the celebration is still going on?

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Speaker 1: And I'm with you. I like the Bengals. I like

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Speaker 1: the high powered offense, Joe Burrows establishing himself as a

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Speaker 1: a half points and Tennessee, you guys ain't fooling nobody.

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Speaker 1: Matt Taylor. By the way, By the way, we talked

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Speaker 1: about quarterback play and how important quarterback play is to

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Speaker 1: you know, your success and your viability inside the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: Have you seen have you just kind of like stepped

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Speaker 1: back and looked at the matchups this week in Jeffrey.

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Speaker 1: I mean, this is probably the best slate of playoff

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Speaker 1: divisional games we've had in you know, five six years.

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Speaker 1: I mean there's not a bad team or there's no

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Speaker 1: if you look at it, the eight quarterbacks left according

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Speaker 1: to QBR, all right, those guys rank first, second, fourth, fifth, sixth, eighth, eleventh,

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Speaker 1: and thirteenth. All right, so there is not a pretty

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Speaker 1: another way, of the eight quarterbacks left, five we're taking

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Speaker 1: among the first ten picks of the draft, right, and

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Speaker 1: then you've got MVPs from twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen, twenty twenty,

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Speaker 1: and obviously it's gonna be either Brady or Rogers that

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Speaker 1: this just in, man, if you have good yeah, if

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Speaker 1: you have good quarterback play, you could be successful in

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Speaker 1: the NFL. I mean this fat In fact, just brought

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Speaker 1: in Matt Taylor, Jeffrey Gorman. This is the last word.

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Speaker 1: We're going around the NFL slate. We're picking games the

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Speaker 1: forty nine ers. For some reason, nobody wants to play them.

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Speaker 1: They are on the road at lambeau Field against the Packers.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be cold. Green Bay is a six point favorite. Matt,

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Speaker 1: who do you like? Yeah, give me, give me the Packers.

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Speaker 1: Green Bay's back in the NFC title play. A lot

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Speaker 1: of talent on the Rams, a lot of talent on

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Speaker 1: the Buccaneers. A few tighty little injuries though in the

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Speaker 1: Buccaneers camp. Can't wait for this game. Sean McVay taking

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Speaker 1: on Bruce Arians. What do you like Tampa Bay? They

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Speaker 1: are at home, They are a three point favorite. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: give me the Rams. I mean, give me the Rams.

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Speaker 1: I like them. I think they're playing at a high

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Speaker 1: too much. I think they come in and they dethrone

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Speaker 1: braiding the Bucks thunder god Tom Brady, you better watch

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Speaker 1: out Matt Taylor because he will reign lightning on you

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Speaker 1: if you're not in his camp. I like the Buccaneers

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Speaker 1: and Topa Bay to take care of business and go

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Speaker 1: to the NFC Championship game. Finally, the Bills at the Chiefs.

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Speaker 1: Cannot wait for this game. It's a I mean, Matt,

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Speaker 1: it's basically a pick them game, and they are at

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Speaker 1: Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City. But the Bills are getting

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Speaker 1: two points on the road. What do you like, I'm

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Speaker 1: saying the Bills, man, They're playing some elite level football

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Speaker 1: right now. No punts, no field goals, no turnovers. Last

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Speaker 1: this is a rematch of last year's AFC title game.

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Speaker 1: The Chiefs are good, but they don't they don't blow

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Speaker 1: on to the AFC Championship game. Two favorite weekends in

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Speaker 1: Jeffrey Gorman. This is a last Word on ninety three

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Speaker 1: five and one h seventy five the Fan. I promise

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Speaker 1: Roster changes included front office changes, coaching staffs. There will

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Speaker 1: be some changes going on. We're just gonna keep you

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Speaker 1: up to date on it and talk about it. Remember,

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Speaker 1: Colts dot com, you can listen to some of Matey's

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Speaker 1: greatest calls and some of the great podcasts that Matt

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Speaker 1: We do it every week on Friday, right here on

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Speaker 1: the Last Word. We have great guests coming up. I

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Speaker 1: In the meantime, enjoy this frigid weekend. Matt Taylor, I

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Speaker 1: mean get that. I know you're doing house repairs. That's

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Speaker 1: what people do in February and January when they're not

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Speaker 1: playing NFL football. So best to look with the upkeep

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Speaker 1: what are those pouches like that you wear around your

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Speaker 1: waist that have nails in it on the left side? There?

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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. I could see you doing that.

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Speaker 1: Matt Taylor calling every calling, every plate too. Yeah, where's

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Speaker 1: Matt Taylor with a hammer throw? I love it mate.

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Speaker 1: Best of luck on the weekend, have fun, best of

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Speaker 1: luck doing the remodeling at the house and folks, again,

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Speaker 1: we do it every Friday right here on the last word,

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Speaker 1: thanks to a great leading this uh this Friday from JMV. Everybody,

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Speaker 1: have a great weekend. We will talk to you next week.