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

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Speaker 4: Good course, fuck there picks up a live football and

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Speaker 4: races the other way for.

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Speaker 5: A score picked off by the Colts from the near sideline.

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Speaker 5: Kenny Moore racing for the into ten five touchdown.

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

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Speaker 2: Hey, good evening, everybody.

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Speaker 5: dot com. We are here every Monday night of the

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Speaker 5: regular season until seven o'clock, and tonight we're talking about

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Speaker 5: a win for the Colts, a twenty one to sixteen

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Speaker 5: victory over the Chicago Bears in Week three and coming

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Speaker 5: up in just a few minutes here on this opening segment,

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Speaker 5: we'll be joined by head coach Shane Steichen and then

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Speaker 5: starting on segment two, will bring you some roundtable conversation

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Speaker 5: of the Colts with former Colts coach Rick Finn Turrey

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Speaker 5: and former Colts offensive lineman Joe Wrights. But the Colts

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Speaker 5: are now one in two and they avoid that dreaded

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Speaker 5: oh and three start. The game wasn't pretty on Sunday,

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Speaker 5: far from it, but the Colts outlasts and the Bears

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Speaker 5: won an ugly game that was dominated by the Colts

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Speaker 5: up front and the offense provided some big plays. The

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Speaker 5: defense made some timely stops, and they come home with

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Speaker 5: a season nine three takeaways. So let's talk about the

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Speaker 5: game in more detail. It's time now for the game rewind.

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Speaker 5: Both teams got off to very slow starts offensively, but

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Speaker 5: the Colts finally broke through with that twenty nine yard

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Speaker 5: touchdown run by Jonathan Taylor in the second quarter. The

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Speaker 5: Colts let at halftime seven to nothing, but on the

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Speaker 5: opening play of the third quarter, Anthony Richardson sale to

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Speaker 5: pass over the head of Michael Pittman Junior, and it

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Speaker 5: was picked off by Chicago when it was the second

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Speaker 5: interception of the game thrown by Richardson, who also threw

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Speaker 5: one of the end zone in the first half that

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Speaker 5: cost the Colts six points, but on the next drive,

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Speaker 5: the Bears threw it right back to the Colts with

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Speaker 5: the second Jalen Jones interception of the day. Jones had

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Speaker 5: his best day as a professional, as those two picks

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Speaker 5: would score a touchdown on the ensuing drive thanks to

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Speaker 5: across the goal line by Anthony Richardson in a cavalcade

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Speaker 5: of offensive linemen who helped in the effort that put

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Speaker 5: the Colts up fourteen to three. Late in the third quarter.

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Speaker 5: The Bears would then go on a long thirteen play

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Speaker 5: end zone with a roam a Donza catch from fellow

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Speaker 5: rookie Caleb Williams. Chicago would go for two, but they

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Speaker 5: in the fourth quarter, the Bears got the ball back

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Speaker 5: down by one score, but rookie defensive end la tu

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Speaker 5: Latsu for the Colts made the biggest play of his

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Speaker 2: Lead then twenty one to nine.

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Speaker 5: Chicago would score one more touchdown to bring the score

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Speaker 5: grind it out the clock for their first win of

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Speaker 5: the season. Jonathan Taylor iceed the game with a thirteen

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Speaker 5: He's been over the century mark the last two weeks,

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Speaker 5: the first time he's done that since week sixteen and

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Speaker 5: seventeen of the twenty twenty one season, and his two

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Speaker 5: Anthony Richardson was uneven again, completing ten of twenty passes,

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Speaker 5: Colts gashed the Bears defense for five plays over twenty yards,

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Speaker 5: and the longest Colt streak since at least nineteen eighty seven.

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Speaker 5: Coming up on segment two will be joined by Colts

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Speaker 5: analyst Rick Venturi and Joe Writs, and they're gonna take

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Speaker 5: your social media questions a little bit later on tonight

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Speaker 5: the questions and thoughts for head coach Shane Steichen, who

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Speaker 5: joins us now on this first segment tonight. This conversation

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Speaker 5: head coach of the Colts joins us in studio right now. Coach,

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Speaker 5: congrats on that first win of the season. How good

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Speaker 5: does it feel to get off the schneid celebrate with

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Speaker 5: the guys in side the locker room after all the

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was great to get the first win.

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Speaker 6: Obviously, the work that goes into it Monday through Saturday

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Speaker 6: was huge for the guys. Guys played their tail off. Obviously,

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Speaker 6: getting the takeaways on defense was good. The run defense

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Speaker 5: I know you talked with the media earlier today, but

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Speaker 5: injuries at the end of that game was crazy. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: Quitty goes down, Kenny goes down, Dallas Flowers. Any updates

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Speaker 5: up on Wednesday, all right. In terms of the win,

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Speaker 5: how did you feel about the team's overall fight? You know,

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Speaker 5: the oh and two start, everybody's talking about the team

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Speaker 6: You know what, you always stick to the process and

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Speaker 5: They gave up only sixty three yards to the Bears.

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Speaker 5: But how about this, in the last three halves, the

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Speaker 5: Colts have given up only eighty seven rushing yards. Can

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Speaker 5: you pinpoint how the defense has responded after that first

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Speaker 3: Yeah, no, they they definitely responded.

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Speaker 6: I think stopping the run is a mentality, and those

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Speaker 5: Also, some clutch plays from the defense strip sacks, the

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Speaker 6: Heck, yeah, it was huge obviously to get that goal

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Speaker 5: Then on offense, the five explosive plays, the five plays

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Speaker 5: Anthony Richardson continues to settle in at quarterback.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I think they're big. You know, when we create

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Speaker 6: we hit the big one to grantson down the sideline,

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and like you said earlier, for Anthony Richardson, it's

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Speaker 5: still working through as a guy that's relatively young here

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think just seeing different looks, you know what

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Speaker 6: Obviously the league they're going to show you different looks

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Speaker 6: pre snap all those things, and working through those things,

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Speaker 6: and you know, just staying you know, having a good

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Speaker 6: You know, he can complete those big time plays and

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Speaker 6: we got to just keep doing that.

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Speaker 2: All right.

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Speaker 5: You wanna take some fan questions here. Let's go all right,

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Speaker 5: here we go fan questions here for head coach Shane

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Speaker 5: Stike and submit those in tonight and every Monday night

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Speaker 5: using hashtag Colts Round Table. Let's go to Allen. He's

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Speaker 5: up first. He's asking with Anthony Richardson, what are some

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Speaker 5: things we can do to get ar into the game

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Speaker 5: quicker in terms of rhythm and confidence?

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Speaker 6: I think obviously just getting completions early obviously, and those

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Speaker 6: big plays get him going as.

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Speaker 3: Well too, whether it's j T running it or him

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Speaker 3: running it.

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Speaker 6: Those big plays help our offense in a hole get going,

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Speaker 6: and it'll help him as well too.

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Speaker 5: All right, another question here from Roy, What was the

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Speaker 5: explanation you got from the refs on why they're roughing

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Speaker 5: the punter wasn't overturned what clearly looked like Tyler Goodson

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I didn't get one.

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Speaker 3: That's just what they rule, they said.

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Speaker 6: The replay ruled that they didn't see enough.

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Speaker 3: To return it.

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Speaker 5: All right, fair enough, Okay, Jamie's asking what can we

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Speaker 5: do to stick on the field a little bit longer

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Speaker 5: and avoid those boomer bus drives?

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Speaker 6: This week will be big for our football team.

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Speaker 2: No doubt about it.

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Speaker 5: here on segment number two of Colts Roundtable Live. Joe,

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Speaker 5: evening wasn't pretty for the Colts getting that win over

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Speaker 4: Yeah you don't. You don't get any points for style.

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Speaker 5: Absolutely so a lot to get into. The Colts are

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Speaker 1: Keep the hammer downright, keep talking to one another, man

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Speaker 4: down the tubes if we don't really get this, and

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Speaker 4: as a bonus, the Texans get blown out, you know,

441
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Speaker 4: everybody's going to lose in the AFC besides US South,

442
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Speaker 4: and so all of a sudden, you know, the division

443
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Speaker 4: stays really tight. I think the important thing is we

444
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Speaker 4: came out and we really had to do the things

445
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Speaker 4: that we needed to do to win. The rigo, as

446
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Speaker 4: Joe said, was really special. I mean five kicks that

447
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Speaker 4: means five drives start, and with a team like the Bears,

448
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Speaker 4: you know, for them to go eighty five ninety yards,

449
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Speaker 4: that's not going to happen. You know. The defense did

450
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Speaker 4: stop the bleeding on the run and particularly on the edge.

451
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Speaker 4: We were so substantially better on the edge. I really

452
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Speaker 4: liked Grover and Davis in there together. That helps us. Inside.

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Speaker 4: We pressured the heck out of the quarterback, you know,

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Speaker 4: versus the worst defensive line I've seen in decades, and

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Speaker 4: we did turn it over three times. So that was

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Speaker 4: really what we set out. That was my first three

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Speaker 4: months of the game, and we did it. You know.

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Speaker 4: I thought that the second thing on the offensive side

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Speaker 4: of the ball, we pounded the Bears. The one area

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Speaker 4: the Bears were mediocre. I said it in the pregame

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Speaker 4: to Joe was the running game, and we really took advantage.

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Speaker 4: I thought our offensive line played angry again they came out.

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Speaker 4: I thought they. I thought Kelly may have had the

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Speaker 4: best run blocking game of his career, and we just

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Speaker 4: sometimes just control the line of scrimmage, you know, we

466
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Speaker 4: got him over one hundred and then I thought we

467
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Speaker 4: used you know, Richardson judiciously. You know, I've said that

468
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Speaker 4: all along. Where you want to use him is when

469
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Speaker 4: you get in that orange and red zone, you know, now,

470
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Speaker 4: where you add the extra guy to it. And I

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Speaker 4: think it's really important for Shane to be able to

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Speaker 4: find that balance. That's not as easy as it looks.

473
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Speaker 4: You have to find the balance of how you use

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Speaker 4: those two things. And I think nothing is more satisfying

475
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Speaker 4: the play that Joe's talking about. Nothing is more satisfying

476
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Speaker 4: than you. They know you're gonna run it and you

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Speaker 4: finish a game with a big run to run the

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Speaker 4: clock out. That's just that that I call that an

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Speaker 4: explanation point. Now, I don't think this is a time

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Speaker 4: to gloat, you know, or you know, to have a

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Speaker 4: victory parade. I mean, this is the time now, you

482
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Speaker 4: know you could you know, as one of our presidents

483
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Speaker 4: used to say, trust, but verify, You're gonna have to

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Speaker 4: verify this performance, and I think this is the time

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Speaker 4: that great coaches keep it real. The best time to

486
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Speaker 4: correct and to get after a football team's ass is

487
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Speaker 4: after a win, because when you look at it, there

488
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Speaker 4: are certain things that are hanging out there that are

489
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Speaker 4: not going to make winnings susceptible. Still time of possession, right,

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Speaker 4: you know, still ten minutes on the other side, inconsistent

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Speaker 4: quarterbacking penalties, a lot of first down penalties. Now you

492
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Speaker 4: don't want to be first and fifteen. They designed the

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Speaker 4: game to be first and ten, not first and fifteen.

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Speaker 4: Given up volumes of yardage. I mean, we can talk

495
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Speaker 4: about the good things, but three ninety five to that

496
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Speaker 4: offense who is averaging one to seventy seven. I mean,

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Speaker 4: those things just cannot happen. And as I said, it

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Speaker 4: won't be sustainable for winning against the you know, the

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Speaker 4: top tier teams in the NFL. So it's really a

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Speaker 4: great day. We needed to win badly. You get that

501
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Speaker 4: first pickle out of the jar, but stay realistic and

502
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Speaker 4: make sure that we correct to go forward.

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Speaker 2: I like that pickles in the jar. Baby, good reference

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Speaker 2: right there.

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Speaker 5: the Colts have played three games. What's the foundation like right?

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Speaker 5: What's the ceiling and the roof for this team? Are

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Speaker 5: there any other repairs the Colts need to make going

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Speaker 5: into a big game against a Steelers defense coming up

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Speaker 5: o'clock tonight on Colts Round Table Live. And you know,

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Speaker 5: every time you buy a house, it's always good practice

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Speaker 5: to get the new place inspected. Have a professional inspector

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Speaker 5: take a look at it. See what holds your potentially

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Speaker 5: stepping into. Now, the Colts have played three games, so fellas,

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Speaker 5: let's take that same idea and see if the Colts

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Speaker 5: need to make any repairs to the structure after their

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Speaker 5: one and two start to the season. So let's start first,

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Speaker 5: Rick Ventury with the offensive foundation. The offense through the games,

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Speaker 5: it's proven to be reliant on the big play. So

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Speaker 5: far this year, the Colts have had fifteen possessions that

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Speaker 5: have lasted less than two minutes. But despite the win

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Speaker 5: on Sunday, the Colts still lost time at possession by

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Speaker 5: ten minutes. They've yet to have the ball for thirty

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Speaker 5: minutes in a game. Anthony Richardson he's completing less than

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Speaker 5: fifty percent of his passes on the season six picks,

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Speaker 5: but the Colts have five gains on the year over

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Speaker 5: forty yards they had five gains over twenty on Sunday

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Speaker 5: and excuse me, over half of the Colts total offense

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Speaker 5: against Chicago yesterday came on those five big plays. So

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Speaker 5: let's take a look at the Colts offense on the

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Speaker 5: foundation part of it. Rick, is it on solid footing?

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Speaker 5: What repairs need to be made? Can the Colts rely

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Speaker 5: on those big plays and expect to win weekend and

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Speaker 5: week out?

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Speaker 2: Here?

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Speaker 4: Now going forward, well, I think we got a couple

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Speaker 4: of rolls of brick in there. I do. Yeah, I

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Speaker 4: feel good about a couple of things. But we need

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Speaker 4: to club. We need some better windows. I think as

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Speaker 4: we get going it, you know number one, I really

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Speaker 4: think that we really found the running foundation again. And

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Speaker 4: that's going to be critical. I mean, we have to

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Speaker 4: feed the beasts. You have to give it to JT

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Speaker 4: both running the ball. He made the big play on

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Speaker 4: the screen. We've been clamoring for that. You know, different

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Speaker 4: kinds of runs, and you got to run in four quarters.

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Speaker 4: I said it during the game. Great running backs are cumulative,

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Speaker 4: meaning that they build as the game goes on and

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Speaker 4: they beat you from the middle of the third quarter

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Speaker 4: at the end of the game. What JT did and

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Speaker 4: then I think the complimentary part there that we found

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Speaker 4: about the right balance I think with Richardson in certain

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Speaker 4: situations to complement that. And I thought our offensive line

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Speaker 4: now they got to play like that every week. They

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Speaker 4: mauled them. They mauled a pretty good defense over there,

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Speaker 4: and that's I think really critical. And obviously the big

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Speaker 4: plays are coming. We're a combination of running and explosiveness,

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Speaker 4: and I think that's the formula that we're going to

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Speaker 4: have to score points now. The things that we get

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Speaker 4: here's where the foundation needs to be built on a

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Speaker 4: little bit. The three areas to me that they're most concerned.

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Speaker 4: Number one, time of possession catches up with you, okay,

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Speaker 4: giveaways number twenty eight in the league, and third down

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Speaker 4: number twenty six in the league, and that's those things

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Speaker 4: lead a you know, to giving that ball up and

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Speaker 4: to losing the time of possessions if you don't, if

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Speaker 4: you don't if you don't convert on those third downs,

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Speaker 4: those are the things that got to get better. And

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Speaker 4: I think we can get better. I think we continue

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Speaker 4: to take shots, but I think we always have to

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Speaker 4: build in an outlet for Richardson. If it's not there,

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Speaker 4: give him a checkdout. You know, he's forcing the deep

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Speaker 4: ball sometimes, particularly the second level ball, not the deep ball,

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Speaker 4: the second level I think, continue to move him a

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Speaker 4: little bit more bootlegs, a little bit more sprints, get

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Speaker 4: him out on the edge for some better, easier possession stuff.

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Speaker 4: Increase the possession games to downs on the outside. When

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Speaker 4: Downs is in there, you can run those options, easy completions,

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Speaker 4: move the football. And then finally continue to work JT

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Speaker 4: on the screen game. Between those short possessions to downs

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Speaker 4: and the screen games, to JT, that's a way to

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Speaker 4: get his percentage of more confidence and move the ball.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I would agree with coach, and I think, Matt,

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Speaker 7: you're talking about building a foundation. You know, I have

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Speaker 7: some family that they own their own masonry business. Shout

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Speaker 7: out himmelgar and masonry, you know. But we got the bricks.

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Speaker 7: We need to fill it in with the mortar. And

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Speaker 7: so for me, my bricks. Jonathan Taylor in this offensive

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Speaker 7: line running the football, Anthony Richardson running the football either

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Speaker 7: on design runs or when the play breaks down and

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Speaker 7: he's really tough to beat. And then Richardson throwing the

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Speaker 7: deep ball. I mean those three things when I think

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Speaker 7: about our identity. That's what we do really really well.

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Speaker 7: What can we get better at? First penalties? You know,

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Speaker 7: first play the game, we come out, Richardson's on the move,

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Speaker 7: f lift it up to Doulan. It's a bit of

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Speaker 7: a disjointed play that was gonna be an eight yard game.

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Speaker 7: We get a penalty that brings us back. We can't

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Speaker 7: have these drive killing penalties. Especially offensively. We're not good enough.

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Speaker 7: And you know, our quarterback is still young and he's

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Speaker 7: not accurate enough to third and twelve, third and fifteen.

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Speaker 7: You know, fit the ball in these tight windows. And

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Speaker 7: I agree with coach on moving the pocket. I think

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Speaker 7: Richardson's fastball is so good, but it's so fast. Sometimes

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Speaker 7: you know he's throwing a ten yard dig route across

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Speaker 7: the middle or in an out route on the sideline.

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Speaker 7: Where is he missing We're seeing him airmail it right.

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Speaker 7: It's because his arm is so strong, and I think

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Speaker 7: he's excited he wants to put on him. But when

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Speaker 7: you move and when you're running with your feet, you

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Speaker 7: have the tendency to not throw the ball as hard,

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Speaker 7: if that makes sense, and you just kind of fit

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Speaker 7: it in there with a little bit more touch. So

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Speaker 7: I think he's good when we're moving the pocket offensively,

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Speaker 7: and then I really like when we're taking deep shots,

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Speaker 7: and I like when we're going fast and it's a

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Speaker 7: catch twenty two because if you go no huddle right

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Speaker 7: out of the gate and you go three and out,

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Speaker 7: you're on the field for thirty seconds. But you got

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Speaker 7: to get those first downs. And he and I think

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Speaker 7: the combination of Richardson's arm in terms of defensive coordinators

641
00:29:04,840 --> 00:29:06,480
Speaker 7: are going to be scared that he's just going to

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Speaker 7: take the top off and he's just going to throw

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Speaker 7: up to Piers for sixty yards. That's got to be

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Speaker 7: in the back of everybody's mind. Don't give up the

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Speaker 7: big play, don't give up the shot. So I think

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Speaker 7: that's going to allow more room for us to potentially

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Speaker 7: maybe get in some more no huddle stuff, get a

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Speaker 7: little bit faster, keep their defense on the field. We

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Speaker 7: would always say, as an offensive line, if the D

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Speaker 7: line's tired, it's a good thing, because the defensive line

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Speaker 7: is always more tired than the O line. And so

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Speaker 7: those are some things I think can get better at. Obviously,

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Speaker 7: the interceptions. You got to cut down on that interception

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Speaker 7: down there in the red zone. That's just that's a

655
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Speaker 7: young rookie mistake in terms of just throw the ball

656
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Speaker 7: into the stands, take three points and move on. You know,

657
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Speaker 7: you can't have those kind of game changing interceptions like

658
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Speaker 7: we've had. So, I mean, you could cut that down

659
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Speaker 7: from two to one all of a sudden, now you're

660
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Speaker 7: plus two and turnover and it's a different story for Richardson.

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Speaker 7: So I think we'll continue to get better. But I'm

662
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Speaker 7: glad coach talks about the offensive line. Agree with him.

663
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Speaker 7: I think from a run blocking perspective, that may be

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Speaker 7: as good as I've seen kind of those five guys

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Speaker 7: against a pretty formidable Bears front. They got some big

666
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Speaker 7: dudes in there inside, and I thought we really played well.

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Speaker 7: I thought the offensive line was kind of the heartbeat

668
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Speaker 7: all day. But to me, that's the formula.

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Speaker 5: Joe Wright's right there, Rick Van Terry Long, I'm Matt Taylor.

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Speaker 5: This is Colts Roundtable live here on ninety three to

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Speaker 5: five and one oh seven five the fan. We're taking

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Speaker 5: a look at the Colts home inspection, if you will,

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Speaker 5: after three games. So Joe, stay right there, let's talk

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Speaker 5: about the defense. Go to the other side of the ball.

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Speaker 5: They gave up four to seventy four on the ground

676
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Speaker 5: of the first two games of the season, but on

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Speaker 5: Sunday against Chicago they gave up just sixty three yards

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Speaker 5: to the Bears. It's the fewest amount of rushing yards

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Speaker 5: for Chicago in a game since the twenty twenty one season.

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Speaker 5: Three takeaways on Sunday for the Colts after they got

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Speaker 5: just one turnover in the first two weeks, and the

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Speaker 5: clutch plays were there. You had a goal line stand,

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Speaker 5: you had tackles for loss, you had four sacks, you

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Speaker 5: had strip sacks, you had you know, the three takeaways.

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Speaker 5: So Joe on defense, are we good? Are we good

686
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Speaker 5: to tell the home buyers that the Colts defense doesn't

687
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Speaker 5: need any repairs? Or is the home inspector going to

688
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Speaker 5: find a few cracks still in the Colts defense?

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Speaker 2: After three games?

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Speaker 7: Solid foundation, But we still got a few cracks. And

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Speaker 7: for me, the biggest thing. We had four huge impact plays,

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Speaker 7: two interceptions, lat too, stripsack you know, really to close

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Speaker 7: the deal. And then that goal line stand went with

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Speaker 7: four straight plays and they ran that speed option there

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Speaker 7: at the end and lost twelve yards on fourth and

696
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Speaker 7: goal from the one. So I thought that was huge

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Speaker 7: that the defense stepped up in big moments when they

698
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Speaker 7: needed to. I liked our run defense. It was much

699
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Speaker 7: better their interior with Grover and Davis. I thought Davis

700
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Speaker 7: played well despite the absence of Buckner. I wouldn't mind

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Speaker 7: us seeing on early downs bring Dio over to defensive end,

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Speaker 7: you know, even when buck gets back, and bring him

703
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Speaker 7: over there and kind of have a heavy front because

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Speaker 7: you know, clearly teams are going to realize they can't

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Speaker 7: run inside. They're going to try to pound the edges

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Speaker 7: like Green Bay did, but we shut him down. I

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Speaker 7: thought Zayer Frank would control the game from the mic position,

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Speaker 7: you know, after two games where I say he was average,

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Speaker 7: I thought he was special on Sunday, and then I

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Speaker 7: liked what we did in some of the blitz package.

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Speaker 7: And again, the bears ol line is not good, you know,

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Speaker 7: so let's not you know, act like we beat you know,

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Speaker 7: the the old Washington Hogs, you know, when we were

714
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Speaker 7: sacking Caleb Williams. But I like when we brought those

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Speaker 7: five man pressures and we brought you know, a lineback

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Speaker 7: around on a blitz. We were living in their backfield

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Speaker 7: all day. So I think we can continue to get better.

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Speaker 7: The thing that I still don't like is we gave

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Speaker 7: up too many chunk plays. You know, third and eight,

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Speaker 7: third and ten, guys are wide open, you know, because

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Speaker 7: I understand, you know, a guy catches the ball, but

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Speaker 7: you missed one tackle. They dive forward, they're getting that

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Speaker 7: first down. You know, Comet was wide open on that

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Speaker 7: touchdown at the end of the game, of the game

725
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Speaker 7: still in the balance. So I still think we need

726
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Speaker 7: to clean some things up on the back end. We'll see, Matt.

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Speaker 7: You know, the injury report. I know, unfortunately got some

728
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Speaker 7: guys dinged up, But you know, we got to continue

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Speaker 7: to have some more continuity in the secondary because we're

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Speaker 7: going to face a lot better quarterbacks than we played yesterday.

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Speaker 5: All right, Rick Venturi, what about you? What is the

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Speaker 5: home inspector going to say about the Colts defense? How

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Speaker 5: critical will it be after three games?

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna hold that inspector off a couple of weeks,

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Speaker 4: all right. I want I'm going back to that trust.

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Speaker 2: But verified the insurance will cover?

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Speaker 4: Is that it? Yeah? I think, you know, I mean,

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Speaker 4: I think you have to keep it real, you know, Yes,

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Speaker 4: you know, we came out with great intensity, and that's

740
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Speaker 4: number one in our defensive line battled, our linebackers played

741
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Speaker 4: downhill as opposed to the first game. Four hundred and

742
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Speaker 4: seventy four yards and two games and then you get

743
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Speaker 4: down to sixty three. Now, remember the Bears running backs

744
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Speaker 4: came into the game at two point three rushing average.

745
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Speaker 4: So again, as Joe said, we weren't playing the we

746
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Speaker 4: weren't playing the hogs of Washington. But you know, we

747
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Speaker 4: did do what we set out to do. We stopped

748
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Speaker 4: their runs. I thought we were ten times better prepared

749
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Speaker 4: on the edge. I thought our defensive ends hit it.

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Speaker 4: We fit much much better. All those quick screens they

751
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Speaker 4: tried and in some ways to repeat the edge green

752
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Speaker 4: the edge package that Green Bay used, and we shut

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Speaker 4: it down. So we got better. We learned from that.

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Speaker 4: You know, we pressured again the offensive line, terrible offensive line,

755
00:34:13,440 --> 00:34:16,280
Speaker 4: but doesn't matter. We enclosed him. We did a good job.

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Speaker 4: You know, the four sacks in two tremendous plays. I

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Speaker 4: agree with Joe. I think the game changing plays for

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Speaker 4: our defense because we gave up volumes of yards, which

759
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Speaker 4: still is mystifying to me. But we had that great

760
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Speaker 4: goal line stand, great goal line stand, and then a

761
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Speaker 4: lot too made his first game changing play at six

762
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Speaker 4: forty one to go in the game. At that point,

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Speaker 4: we were losing momentum. I mean, they had scored, they

764
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Speaker 4: had stopped us. You know, they they had momentum at

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Speaker 4: what was it fourteen to nine in that you know

766
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Speaker 4: that play. Trying to block him over there, Now, that's

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Speaker 4: stupid of the Bears trying to have Comet blocked him.

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Speaker 4: But he's showed what he can do. And that was

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Speaker 4: a game changer. So you know, the pressure and the

770
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Speaker 4: overall turnovers. You know that one the two interceptions, and

771
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Speaker 4: of course Cross had a lot to do with that

772
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Speaker 4: first one. He knocked that ball out for Jones and

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Speaker 4: then Jones had a great break on the other one.

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Speaker 4: So we did that. I still, you know, I think

775
00:35:21,960 --> 00:35:24,440
Speaker 4: the reason I'm going to hold off trust but verify

776
00:35:25,160 --> 00:35:27,799
Speaker 4: is again, I know the offense we were playing, and

777
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Speaker 4: we still three hundred and ninety five to them, three

778
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Speaker 4: hundred and thirty two yards passing is just it's really

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00:35:35,080 --> 00:35:38,040
Speaker 4: not acceptable, to be honest with you, but it'll and

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Speaker 4: you don't. You can't whitewash that, and that's easy to

781
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Speaker 4: do when you win. And you got to make sure.

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Speaker 4: I mean, the three things to me, we're not playing

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Speaker 4: the pass well in the red zone. We've given up

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Speaker 4: three gimmis on either rub routes to the number two

785
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Speaker 4: receiver in the flat. We hit another one, and then,

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Speaker 4: as Joe said, Comet was wide open. You know, we're

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Speaker 4: still twenty five, you know, you know, twenty fifth in

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Speaker 4: the league in pass percentage as quarterbacks, all three guys,

789
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Speaker 4: and we haven't we haven't played the great ones other

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Speaker 4: than the opener seventy percent against us and twenty fifth

791
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Speaker 4: and passer rating one hundreds. I mean, that's you know,

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Speaker 4: that worries me more than the running game. I thought

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Speaker 4: the running game would be fixed. I thought that was

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Speaker 4: an anomaly that we could fix. And we did some

795
00:36:22,840 --> 00:36:25,879
Speaker 4: good things. We changed up a little bit. We did

796
00:36:25,920 --> 00:36:28,759
Speaker 4: play a little bit hard too on the edge. We

797
00:36:28,840 --> 00:36:32,080
Speaker 4: did bring some outside pressure with Carlisles in the base.

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Speaker 4: I thought the combination of ninety eight is outstanding. I agree.

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Speaker 4: I thought that I think Dao was really coming. I

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Speaker 4: don't think he was in shape to start the season.

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Speaker 4: He's really coming. I would probably I would start him.

802
00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:47,239
Speaker 4: I don't know what we're gonna get out of pay

803
00:36:47,320 --> 00:36:49,839
Speaker 4: that didn't look good, but I would start those two

804
00:36:49,920 --> 00:36:52,760
Speaker 4: guys along with ninety and ninety eight in run defense

805
00:36:52,960 --> 00:36:56,880
Speaker 4: all the time, and that edge pressure. I thought our linebackers,

806
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Speaker 4: I agree, our linebackers particularly, I was downhill all day

807
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Speaker 4: and I'll tell you three guys that really played good

808
00:37:05,080 --> 00:37:08,840
Speaker 4: on the edge were Kenny and cross Is playing his

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Speaker 4: tailoff and Blackman. I mean that really shored up a

810
00:37:13,600 --> 00:37:16,320
Speaker 4: lot of that edge run and it goes unnoticed because

811
00:37:16,360 --> 00:37:19,479
Speaker 4: you don't really see it. It's not spectacular. But those

812
00:37:19,520 --> 00:37:22,359
Speaker 4: guys were really great. So you know, again, you know,

813
00:37:22,480 --> 00:37:24,680
Speaker 4: we'll talk about Pittsburgh at the end. It's a very

814
00:37:24,719 --> 00:37:27,120
Speaker 4: similar game coming up in terms of what we have

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Speaker 4: to do. But you know, really liked it. We came

816
00:37:29,920 --> 00:37:31,879
Speaker 4: out and did what we had to do. Now let's

817
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Speaker 4: clean up the rest of it.

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Speaker 2: All right.

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Speaker 5: That's the home inspection on the Colts on offense and defense,

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Speaker 4: Well, you know, you know, every time I get a

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Speaker 2: I know it for a fact.

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Speaker 5: He's asking Leatu Latsu got his first sack on Sunday? Rick,

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Speaker 5: is that a sign of good things to come? Based

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it's It's really a great sign. I

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Speaker 4: mean we've seen the skill that this kid has. This

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Speaker 4: kid has terrific get off. He can he can get

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Speaker 4: that's an art form. I mean a lot of guys

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Speaker 4: will just run the hula hoop and you can wash

868
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Speaker 4: them by, but he knows how to cut. He has

869
00:40:10,480 --> 00:40:13,600
Speaker 4: good slap hands, he has quick hands. You saw it

870
00:40:13,680 --> 00:40:16,279
Speaker 4: on that really Comet had no chance on him. That

871
00:40:16,440 --> 00:40:19,600
Speaker 4: was a total mismatch. And then the thing that he

872
00:40:19,719 --> 00:40:21,960
Speaker 4: has that I love about him, and this is why

873
00:40:22,520 --> 00:40:24,600
Speaker 4: you just want to see him play more and more,

874
00:40:25,239 --> 00:40:29,360
Speaker 4: is he has a tremendous motor. And great pass rushers

875
00:40:29,560 --> 00:40:34,040
Speaker 4: have to have great motors, They have to be relentless.

876
00:40:34,520 --> 00:40:36,759
Speaker 4: I would say the biggest thing is if we can

877
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Speaker 4: stop people cold on first down, which we did better Sunday,

878
00:40:42,560 --> 00:40:45,239
Speaker 4: then we can get him on both second and long

879
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Speaker 4: and third and long and move him around. I think

880
00:40:49,200 --> 00:40:52,480
Speaker 4: when you get the third down, you find the mullet

881
00:40:52,840 --> 00:40:56,279
Speaker 4: on that defense, on that offensive line, and that's your

882
00:40:56,400 --> 00:41:00,440
Speaker 4: first matchup on the edge, which tackle can't hand. You

883
00:41:00,480 --> 00:41:03,719
Speaker 4: know we're going to play Pittsburgh. They're struggling at right

884
00:41:03,840 --> 00:41:06,640
Speaker 4: tackle because their rookie got hurt. He's out for the season.

885
00:41:07,239 --> 00:41:09,239
Speaker 4: You know you might want him a little bit more

886
00:41:09,320 --> 00:41:12,680
Speaker 4: on that right tackle who can't play in space. Also,

887
00:41:12,880 --> 00:41:15,360
Speaker 4: the Colts moved him inside a few times in what

888
00:41:15,480 --> 00:41:18,719
Speaker 4: I call the delta as the spinner, and believe it

889
00:41:18,840 --> 00:41:21,160
Speaker 4: or not, he doesn't have the body build of an

890
00:41:21,239 --> 00:41:24,040
Speaker 4: inside guy. But if you look at him in college

891
00:41:24,480 --> 00:41:27,440
Speaker 4: and you get that guard in a Manda Man situation

892
00:41:27,600 --> 00:41:30,759
Speaker 4: that can't handle quickness, he can be really good in there.

893
00:41:30,880 --> 00:41:33,920
Speaker 4: So again, a lot of it is we got to

894
00:41:33,960 --> 00:41:36,840
Speaker 4: play good situation ball on first down so that he

895
00:41:37,200 --> 00:41:40,359
Speaker 4: is in the game even more and more. And then

896
00:41:40,440 --> 00:41:44,960
Speaker 4: I think creativity with him based on the opponent and

897
00:41:45,080 --> 00:41:47,400
Speaker 4: where to move him and where to use him. And

898
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Speaker 4: I'm confident that you know, he'll just get better and better.

899
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Speaker 5: All right, let's go back to the mailbag here. This

900
00:41:53,000 --> 00:41:55,399
Speaker 5: is more of a big picture question. This is coming

901
00:41:55,440 --> 00:42:00,360
Speaker 5: from Titus. He's asking, Joe, is our season saved for

902
00:42:00,480 --> 00:42:03,480
Speaker 5: the time being? Oh and three would have been disastrous?

903
00:42:03,840 --> 00:42:07,719
Speaker 5: And that's that's Titus saying that, And he's right. If

904
00:42:07,760 --> 00:42:11,239
Speaker 5: you go back to two thousand and twenty one when

905
00:42:11,239 --> 00:42:14,359
Speaker 5: the NFL moved to a seventeen game schedule, Joe, all

906
00:42:14,480 --> 00:42:18,120
Speaker 5: eleven teams that started oh and three since then have

907
00:42:18,239 --> 00:42:21,080
Speaker 5: missed the playoffs. So yesterday was big on a lot

908
00:42:21,120 --> 00:42:22,360
Speaker 5: of different fronts for.

909
00:42:22,520 --> 00:42:25,440
Speaker 7: Sure, and you start oh and three, it's just not

910
00:42:25,560 --> 00:42:28,080
Speaker 7: good for anything anything. So just the optics from one

911
00:42:28,120 --> 00:42:31,080
Speaker 7: to two versus oh and three are huge. You're still

912
00:42:31,120 --> 00:42:34,440
Speaker 7: in it. Like coach said, we'll see what Jacksonville does tonight,

913
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Speaker 7: but most likely you can be sitting with a division

914
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Speaker 7: that's two and one, one and two and oh and three,

915
00:42:39,320 --> 00:42:41,120
Speaker 7: oh and three if they lose to the Bill. So

916
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Speaker 7: it sets up Matt a really really big game against

917
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Speaker 7: Pittsburgh because you start looking our schedule after this Pittsburgh game,

918
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Speaker 7: we got four of the next five on the road,

919
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Speaker 7: three division opponents. You're going into some tough sledding potentially

920
00:42:54,040 --> 00:42:56,759
Speaker 7: in October. So get into one and two gives you

921
00:42:56,840 --> 00:42:58,239
Speaker 7: the chance to get back to two and two, and

922
00:42:58,320 --> 00:43:01,399
Speaker 7: you're two and two after four games. You're continuing to grow.

923
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Speaker 7: And this Colts team, because of our young quarterback only

924
00:43:04,719 --> 00:43:07,360
Speaker 7: starting a seventh game in the NFL, We're going to

925
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Speaker 7: be so much better in December than we are in September.

926
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Speaker 7: That's what's exciting to me. You're watching a team with

927
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Speaker 7: Aaron Rodgers right now. Yeah, they might get a little

928
00:43:15,160 --> 00:43:16,960
Speaker 7: bit better than Jets, but he is who he is,

929
00:43:17,480 --> 00:43:19,560
Speaker 7: right and so we're only going to get better, I

930
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Speaker 7: think as this young team grows as we get late

931
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Speaker 7: in at the season. So that's why it's important to

932
00:43:23,920 --> 00:43:26,239
Speaker 7: stack as many wins as you can early on and

933
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Speaker 7: then get yourself on a run to the end of

934
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Speaker 7: the season.

935
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Speaker 2: Yeah, great points, right there, no doubt about that. Hey.

936
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Speaker 5: This message is brought to you by Meyer, the official

937
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Speaker 5: Supercenter of the Colts, proud sponsor also of hundreds of

938
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Speaker 5: local sports teams across the Midwest. That's the mailbag segment tonight.

939
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Speaker 5: Thanks to everybody for getting those in. I know we

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Speaker 5: only got to a couple, but always appreciate all the

941
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Speaker 5: submissions which we had more time right there. Again, the

942
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Speaker 5: Pittsburgh Steelers are up next. They're three to oh. How

943
00:43:50,920 --> 00:43:53,080
Speaker 5: are they doing it? They've got a great defense, They've

944
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Speaker 5: got justin Fields at quarterback. We'll also discuss a little

945
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Speaker 5: bit more in detail when we come back on some

946
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Speaker 5: final thoughts with Rick Venturry in Joe Wrights. I'm Matt

947
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Speaker 5: Taylor back in just a few minutes here on the

948
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Speaker 5: last segment of Colts Round Table Live tonight on ninety

949
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Speaker 5: three to five and one oh seven five the Fan.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Colts Round Table Live on ninety three

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954
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958
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Speaker 5: closing arguments with Rick Van Turi and Joe Wrights on

959
00:44:41,640 --> 00:44:43,680
Speaker 5: the final thoughts for the Colts and their big win

960
00:44:44,160 --> 00:44:46,400
Speaker 5: against the Bears in week number three. I guess the

961
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Speaker 5: big one, Joe is the defense bounced back in a

962
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Speaker 5: big way. The offense relied on Jonathan Taylor, and now

963
00:44:52,200 --> 00:44:54,560
Speaker 5: the Colts get a really good challenge in Week four

964
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Speaker 5: against the surprisingly undefeated Pittsburgh Steelers. The attention now for

965
00:45:00,080 --> 00:45:02,560
Speaker 5: the calls has to be on dealing with that, but

966
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Speaker 5: also Joe having to deal with a slight bit of

967
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Speaker 5: success now that they've won their first football game of

968
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Speaker 5: the season, no question.

969
00:45:09,560 --> 00:45:11,360
Speaker 7: And Matt, to me, the three biggest takeaways we need

970
00:45:11,440 --> 00:45:14,239
Speaker 7: to bring the next week. Continue to build that offensive identity,

971
00:45:14,760 --> 00:45:19,080
Speaker 7: like we talked about, defensive playmaking ability, game changing plays,

972
00:45:19,480 --> 00:45:21,920
Speaker 7: and then again, special teams often not talked about but

973
00:45:22,120 --> 00:45:24,719
Speaker 7: very important. We won the special team's battle, which is

974
00:45:24,760 --> 00:45:26,359
Speaker 7: going to be key and it's going to be key

975
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Speaker 7: against Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh's coming into three and zero with Justin Fields?

976
00:45:30,440 --> 00:45:32,840
Speaker 7: What was the knock on Justin Fields in Chicago? Not

977
00:45:32,960 --> 00:45:35,239
Speaker 7: an accurate passer? Well, guess what is fifty five to

978
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Speaker 7: seventy five on the year, completing seventy three percent of

979
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Speaker 7: its passes. And as you expect with Pittsburgh, Matt, here's

980
00:45:40,440 --> 00:45:44,239
Speaker 7: the real key. They have one turnover, one turnover on

981
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Speaker 7: the year through three games. That's how they're beating people.

982
00:45:46,719 --> 00:45:49,400
Speaker 7: They're playing solid football in all three phases. They're not

983
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Speaker 7: turning the ball, and they're second over all in the

984
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Speaker 7: NFL and turnover differential. Right now, But coach, I know

985
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Speaker 7: you've probably watched a bunch more tape than me. So

986
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Speaker 7: what are your thoughts on the Black and Gold coming

987
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Speaker 7: into Lucas Soil on Sunday?

988
00:46:01,960 --> 00:46:04,200
Speaker 4: No, that's a that's a pretty good lead up right there.

989
00:46:05,040 --> 00:46:09,000
Speaker 4: You know, it's it's not totally in general, much different

990
00:46:09,040 --> 00:46:12,359
Speaker 4: than playing the Bears. This is except their lights out

991
00:46:12,400 --> 00:46:15,279
Speaker 4: on defense. As Matt said, they're number one. I mean,

992
00:46:15,360 --> 00:46:17,480
Speaker 4: depending on what happens to night, but they're number one

993
00:46:17,560 --> 00:46:20,880
Speaker 4: in scoring defense and number one in total defense. You

994
00:46:20,960 --> 00:46:24,080
Speaker 4: can't get better than that. But they're twenty fourth in

995
00:46:24,200 --> 00:46:27,360
Speaker 4: scoring and twenty fourth in total offense, So it's a

996
00:46:27,760 --> 00:46:31,480
Speaker 4: you know, it's a defensive centric team, and what they're

997
00:46:31,480 --> 00:46:33,480
Speaker 4: trying to do on offense is run it and not

998
00:46:33,640 --> 00:46:38,680
Speaker 4: make mistakes, which they are accomplishing in that respect. You know,

999
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Speaker 4: I think two things that they're superior to the Bears

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Speaker 4: on is Number one, they're a little bit more unorthodox.

1001
00:46:46,400 --> 00:46:49,120
Speaker 4: You know, they're an under based team, Joe, which almost

1002
00:46:49,239 --> 00:46:52,840
Speaker 4: no one is anymore under base, with the you know,

1003
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Speaker 4: the two d's on the edge, two defensive ends rushing

1004
00:46:56,440 --> 00:46:59,080
Speaker 4: quite a bit, the two outside linebackers. You know, they

1005
00:46:59,239 --> 00:47:03,080
Speaker 4: possess you know, maybe the best defensive player in the league.

1006
00:47:03,080 --> 00:47:06,279
Speaker 4: He's at ninety nine and one half sacks. He will

1007
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Speaker 4: and that's t J. Watt. He will be the first guy,

1008
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Speaker 4: the fastest guy ever to one hundred sacks in the

1009
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Speaker 4: history of the NFL. You know, he was Defensive Player

1010
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Speaker 4: of the Year. And then I think number two. You know,

1011
00:47:19,560 --> 00:47:22,799
Speaker 4: they're led by one of the best coaches in our

1012
00:47:22,880 --> 00:47:26,239
Speaker 4: lifetime in Mike Tomlin. I mean, he maximizes the team.

1013
00:47:26,760 --> 00:47:30,040
Speaker 4: He knows how to use it. They're maximizing feels right now.

1014
00:47:30,600 --> 00:47:33,719
Speaker 4: The guy has never had a losing season. But the

1015
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Speaker 4: irony of it is the Colts hit the high water

1016
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Speaker 4: mark last December against them. We actually beat the hell

1017
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Speaker 4: out of them, and we actually mauled them on offense

1018
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Speaker 4: and actually ran the ball right down their throats, so

1019
00:47:47,760 --> 00:47:51,520
Speaker 4: they'll remember that they're coming in riding high. Just can't wait.

1020
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Speaker 4: This is gonna be one heck of a Sunday.

1021
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Speaker 5: Yeah, big time tests for the Colts. And that's all

1022
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Speaker 5: the time we've got tonight. Rick Venturry, Joe Wright's always

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Speaker 5: a pleasure with you guys on Monday nights recapping all

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Speaker 5: the action. Thanks again to head coach Shane Steikin who

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Speaker 5: joined in on that first segment tonight for his thoughts

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