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Speaker 1: We're inside the Colts Radio studio. I'm Matt Taylor and

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Speaker 1: right now we're joined by Colts kicker having a fantastic season,

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Speaker 1: Chase McLoughlin is with us. Chase, thanks for the time, man,

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Speaker 1: great to see you. Welcome to the studio here. Absolutely,

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Speaker 1: thank you for having me. I'm so excited for you

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Speaker 1: in the season that you're having. You are twenty two

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Speaker 1: for twenty seven on the season, but I think you're

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Speaker 1: having a great year. I know you're a perfectionist. How

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Speaker 1: do you think the year has gone so far for you?

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Speaker 1: Back in Indianapolis for the second time. Yeah, I think

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Speaker 1: it's going well. We're super excited to be back in Indianapolis,

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Speaker 1: and overall, obviously there's some some place here and there

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Speaker 1: that would like to have back, but at the grand

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Speaker 1: scheme of things, I think it's going pretty good. Yeah. Alright.

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Speaker 1: Doubling back to last week, a bye week, how did

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Speaker 1: you spend the bye week kind of a quasi week off.

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Speaker 1: I know you don't completely detach, but how did you

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Speaker 1: use the week off to your advantage? Just sometime do

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Speaker 1: a relax get away, spend time with the family, which

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Speaker 1: was really nice, and I just try to take a

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Speaker 1: breath and get ready to come back again for the

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Speaker 1: last four games. And you're a family man, right, talk

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Speaker 1: it up. You've got a ten month old daughter and

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Speaker 1: also one on the way, right, yep, absolutely fantastic river

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Speaker 1: and one on the way and what you find out

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Speaker 1: see what he or she is, and uh, we're very excited.

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Speaker 1: I don't know how people do that, I gotta know,

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Speaker 1: but but good for you. That's that's really exciting. So

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Speaker 1: in the spring, right, that'll be announced in the spring

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Speaker 1: in April. Fantastic all right. Also within this season, you

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Speaker 1: are seven for ten over fifty yards. Your seven makes

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Speaker 1: in fact over fifty yards this season ties a franchise

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Speaker 1: record with Adam Vinati. What's your confidence level right now

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Speaker 1: when you go out to attempt a fifty yard fuel goal?

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Speaker 1: What's that confidence level in yourself to go out there

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Speaker 1: and get the job done in that regard? Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: mean it's it's a confidence in myself, but mainly it's

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Speaker 1: a confidence just in our operation. We've got a great

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Speaker 1: snap and hold and Matt and Luke to a great

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Speaker 1: job with that. So honestly, going over fifty, it's to me,

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Speaker 1: it's just like any other kick. You're just going out

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Speaker 1: there for one goal, to make the kick in whatever

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Speaker 1: way possible. Not like you said, you came here in

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Speaker 1: week two. That synergy between snapper and holder, Matt Hawk

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Speaker 1: the holder, Luke Rhodes the snapper. How long does that

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Speaker 1: take to feel really comfortable and in sync with with

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Speaker 1: will want a pat or a field goal, Yeah, absolutely,

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Speaker 1: it's It's a big part of it for sure. I'd

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Speaker 1: say overall takes a few weeks. But um, they've done

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Speaker 1: a fantastic job here, so even a week one, Um

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Speaker 1: felt confident going into into Jacksonville the first week, so

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Speaker 1: they did a great job making feel comfortable. I've worked

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Speaker 1: with Luke before, is my first time meeting Matt, so yeah,

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Speaker 1: felt comfortable. Felt super comfortable being back in endy two

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Speaker 1: Chase McLoughlin is with us Colts kicker. I know you've

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Speaker 1: probably answered this question before, but whenever I get a

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Speaker 1: them for you, what is the definition of a perfect hold?

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Speaker 1: It's a different for every guy. That's some guys like

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Speaker 1: to make it a good hold. Yeah. Absolutely, Yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 1: Obviously the kickers get a lot of attention on that,

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Speaker 1: but we all know that it's it's not just one

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Speaker 1: whole operation. Going back to those fifty yard fuel goals,

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Speaker 1: you mean, ninety nine point nine nine nine percent of

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Speaker 1: our audience will never know the adrenaline or the feeling

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Speaker 1: of hitting a big fifty yard fuel goal. What is

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Speaker 1: same routine for the kick. Nothing really changes there. If

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Speaker 1: so you can aim if you're farther away a little

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Speaker 1: be good from fifty five. That's Chase McLoughlin with US

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Speaker 1: Colts kicker. By the way, Chase is the first Colts kicker.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you knew this or not, but

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Speaker 1: you are the first Colts kicker to make a fifty

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Speaker 1: But do you have a range before every game? Like,

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Speaker 1: where I feel really good today in terms of distance. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: And I'm so fascinated by this because kickers are obviously

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Speaker 1: something like that. You're you're planting really hard on one

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Speaker 1: There you go. I like to hear that. And you've

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Speaker 1: talked openly about this before. You've had quite the NFL

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Speaker 1: journey right since you've broken into the league in twenty nineteen,

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Speaker 1: You've been cut eight times in three seasons. Prior to

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Speaker 1: How hard has that been on you and your family?

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Speaker 1: For those that don't really realize the harshness of the

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Speaker 1: and continue to chase this career. Yeah, it's been a

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Speaker 1: And Yeah, after we were here in Indy, it just

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Speaker 1: It certainly is a fun, crazy story because, like you said,

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Speaker 1: after Indianapolis in twenty nineteen, you had stops in Minnesota, Jacksonville,

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Speaker 1: In fact, during training camp, the culture literally practicing what

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Speaker 1: you've kicked in Minnesota couple of times, in fact, each

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Speaker 1: and yeah, it's fun to go in there and come

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Speaker 1: home with the win. Yeah, you talked about a little bit.

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Speaker 1: But when you're kicking indoors versus outdoors, how does that

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Speaker 1: flying that day and just played off of that. Absolutely.

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Speaker 1: Chase McLoughlin with us again. He is twenty two for

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Speaker 1: twenty seven this year on fuel goals, hasn't missed a

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Speaker 1: Pat knock on wood. I know you're going to continue

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Speaker 1: to knock those down, and seven for ten this year

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Speaker 1: thanks so much for coming down today. I appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: Continued success and happy holidays, absolutely, Mart Christmas, and thanks

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