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Speaker 1: He's trek down from behind down to the nineteen yard line.

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

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Speaker 2: Ten to five, but touchdown for the Colts. How found

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Speaker 2: Coming up in just a few minutes.

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Speaker 3: We're gonna be joined by head coach Shane Steichen recapping

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Speaker 3: the wind over the Titans and starting on segment two,

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Speaker 3: I'll be joined by Colts analyst Rick vn Turrey and

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Speaker 3: Joe Wrights, and we'll dive into all the big areas

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Speaker 3: that made the game on Sunday a successful one for

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Speaker 3: the Colts. The Colts were winners in Week five, knocking

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Speaker 3: off the Tennessee Titans twenty three to seven team, and

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Speaker 3: the victory ends a streak of five consecutive losses to

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Speaker 3: the Titans and seven straight home losses dating mack October

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Speaker 3: of last season for the Colts. It was also the

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Speaker 3: first time the Colts knocked off the Titans at Lucas

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Speaker 3: Oil Stadium since twenty eighteen. The Colts played complimentary football throughout,

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Speaker 3: as they dominated both sides of the line, especially when

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Speaker 3: the game was on the line. In the fourth quarter,

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Speaker 3: the Colts gashed the Titans for one hundred and ninety

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Speaker 3: one hundred and sixty five yards on twenty three carries

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Speaker 3: in two touchdowns. Tennessee's defense came into the game giving

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Speaker 3: offensive line took care of that, though. They all the

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Speaker 3: which was the longest play from scrimmage this season for

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Speaker 3: The defense also beat the Titans at their own game

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Speaker 3: with an enormous degree of physicality. The Colts held Tennessee

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Speaker 3: a game since twenty eighteen and seven previous games against

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Speaker 3: the Colts, Derrick Henry averaged one hundred and twenty one

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Speaker 3: one that all decided the game. Zire Franklin, with a

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Speaker 3: Colts took over the football with eight minutes remaining. The

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Speaker 3: Matt Gay kicked a twenty eight yard field goal to

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Speaker 3: safety Julian Blackman picked off Ryan Tannehill to seal the

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Speaker 3: Veteran Gardner Minshew was called in action for the fourth

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Speaker 3: On the season, the Colts racked up four hundred and

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Speaker 3: we said, head coach Shane Steikin's gonna join us here

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Speaker 3: mailbag segment. Shane Stikeen's gonna do that as well, coming

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Speaker 3: Colts Roundtable, and we'll squeeze in as many of those

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Speaker 3: lead off the show with our weekly chat with head

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Speaker 3: coach Shane Stiken, presented by Citizens Energy.

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Speaker 2: Group here on a Monday night.

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Speaker 3: Coach, Congratulations, huge win for the Colts. Every part of

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Speaker 3: the team stepped up. It was a complete team win.

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Speaker 3: How satisfied were you after the game on Sunday evening

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Speaker 3: going back and watching the film and just knowing that

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Speaker 3: the Colts took care of business against Tennessee.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, there's a lot of good on that tape on

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Speaker 4: both side, all three phases, special teams. Defensively, Offensively, defense,

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Speaker 3: Before we go further again, I know you talked about

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Speaker 4: Coming up one shoulder. He has an ac injury. He

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Speaker 4: will miss some time. How much of how much time?

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Speaker 4: I don't know that at this point right now, until

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Speaker 3: So everybody around town, everybody at the water cooler today

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think you know, it's it is part of

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Speaker 3: I know I've asked you this question before, but Gardner, minshew,

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Speaker 2: How does he just so.

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Speaker 3: Calmly come into these games and lead an offense to

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Speaker 4: Yeah, he's just he's he's like I said before, you know,

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Speaker 4: and we just got to continue that tra.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you've already said he's going to start this upcoming

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Speaker 3: him very very well. You've gone into plenty of battles

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Speaker 4: No, it's just having those conversations, you know, throughout the

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Speaker 3: back to the offense, Zach Moss, I mean, what can

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Speaker 3: you say one hundred and sixty five yards? How impressive

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Speaker 4: I think it's all three of those things you said.

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Speaker 4: The work ethic, the durability, the professionalism, the way he

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Speaker 4: goes about it. You know, he's just he's calm, he's smooth,

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Speaker 4: he's running hard right now, he's taking care of the football.

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Speaker 4: You know, he had some big time runs obviously in

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Speaker 3: Last one for me? And again I talked about it

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Speaker 3: at the top, the physicality. Your team answered the bell there.

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Speaker 3: How much did you stress that this week you beat

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Speaker 3: Tennessee at their own game, You out tighten the Titans,

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Speaker 3: if you will. Great culture there under Mike Vrabel. How

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Speaker 3: much did you stress we have to be the more

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we knew obviously division games and you know, splaying Tennessee,

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Speaker 4: And you know, to make that big time fourth down

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Speaker 4: make that play. Oh yeah, and then offensively, you know,

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Speaker 4: the end, was he indeed?

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Speaker 3: All right, that's Shane Steich And let's go to the

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Speaker 3: with us on the show tonight and every Monday night.

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Speaker 3: Let's go to Andy. He's up first, coach, how long

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Speaker 3: will Jonathan Taylor be on a pitch count? And how

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Speaker 3: difficult will be to scale the workload back for Zack

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Speaker 3: Moss considering how well he's playing.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well, we'll work through those things. Obviously, we'll ramp

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Speaker 4: we'll go from there.

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Speaker 4: In that situation, we were just we were gonna we

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Speaker 2: Well, you had the right play called.

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Speaker 3: It was just you know, they blitzed right to you

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Speaker 3: All right, let's got time for two more quick ones here.

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Speaker 3: Lewis is asking coach in what ways have you seen

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Speaker 2: All right.

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Speaker 3: Last one from the fans, Anderson is asking who do

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Speaker 4: Know, I celebrate with my family, my wife and my

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Speaker 4: I don't know, thirteen years. We get some pizza and

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Speaker 4: I'll go to the tape and watch our game and

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Speaker 2: Tape just like it should be.

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Speaker 3: That's great stuff right there, Head coach Shane sticking with

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Speaker 3: us tonight on Colts Round Table Live. Coach again, Congratulations

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Speaker 4: All right, thank you.

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Speaker 3: It's time to welcome in the fellas. Rick Venturi is here,

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Speaker 5: So Baby raisin Hell today. Okay, you want to go

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Speaker 5: up bang bang, player bang bank, keep.

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Speaker 2: The hammer down, keep talking to one another.

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Speaker 6: Minute, clean it up.

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Speaker 7: Get ready, get ready, yeah yeah.

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Speaker 2: Tail the tape time, Joe, let's start with you. You

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Speaker 7: Man as an offensive lineman, I couldn't be more fired

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Speaker 7: we beat Tennessee up. We beat him up on the

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Speaker 7: I thought that was the best game some of our

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Speaker 7: And I thought our offensive line above all deserves the

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Speaker 6: we out tightened the Titans, you know, on offense, Joe's

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Speaker 6: They got up and got it. I mean we you know,

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Speaker 6: eight minutes of the game, you know, from what we

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Speaker 6: if we don't make that fourth and one stop and

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Speaker 6: they go and score, now it's a different game. And

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Speaker 6: we make this you know Buck and you know Buck

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Speaker 6: and Franklin, you know, two guys who are just elite

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Speaker 6: players in this league. Right now, they make the play,

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Speaker 6: We go on the time consuming, yard consuming, time out

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Speaker 6: consuming and then we score on that tremendous drive, the

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Speaker 6: big eater, you know. And then at the end of

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Speaker 6: the game. I really liked it after we got the score,

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Speaker 6: we got up a big seven, and then I liked

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Speaker 6: the way that we put an explanation point on the

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Speaker 6: game with the interception, and that was set up by

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Speaker 6: Buckner's pressure. So again it was you know, the stop,

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Speaker 6: the drive and the explanation point. And it just was

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Speaker 6: a thrilling victory because I think we beat them at

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Speaker 6: their own game. We set the tone now for twenty three.

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Speaker 6: We said Tennessee rules no more. And now we regain

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Speaker 6: the home field advantage as we go to Jacksonville, which

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Speaker 6: is now you know, an early season championship game.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, both teams are three and two, and just like

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Speaker 3: you said, it was the first time the Colts yesterday,

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Speaker 3: first time all season the Colts held a team scoreless

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Speaker 3: in the fourth quarter, primarily and thanks to the offensive

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Speaker 3: contributions with that epic seven minute drive that Colts got

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Speaker 3: a field goal to go up by a touchdown late

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Speaker 3: in the game. Colts fans, remember the weather authorities are

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Speaker 3: the tale of the tape. Rick Venturion Joe Wrights their

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Speaker 3: initial reactions after the Colts win over the Tennessee Titans.

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Speaker 3: After this quick time out, we're coming right back with

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Speaker 3: a segment we're calling pulling your weight. These two guys

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Speaker 3: do that every single Monday night. But we're gonna focus

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Speaker 3: on the complete performance for the Colts over Tennessee, some

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Speaker 3: of the units on the team that did their job,

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Speaker 3: and then some in the big victory that's coming up

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Speaker 3: next here on Colts Roundtable Live. We're back in just

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Speaker 3: a moment on ninety three to five and one oh

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Colts Roundtable Live on ninety three to

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Speaker 3: Now for a segment we're calling pulling your Weight. As

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Speaker 3: the coltspeed the Tennessee Titans, thanks in part to the

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Speaker 3: entire team chipping in doing their job. Wasn't an easy

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Speaker 3: win by any stretch, but it was a team win

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Speaker 3: with everybody contributing to a hard fought victory. So let's

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Speaker 3: discuss some players and units that pull their weight in

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Speaker 3: week number five. Let's start first with Gardner. Minshew comes

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Speaker 3: into the second quarter. We know about Anthony Richardson going

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Speaker 3: down Joe. He completes eleven of fourteen passes for a

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Speaker 3: buck fifty five a rating of one to twelve. Now

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Speaker 3: for the season, he's fifty seven of eighty three for

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Speaker 3: five point fifty three, two touchdowns, a quarterback rating of

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Speaker 3: ninety five point one and most importantly, Joe no turnovers

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Speaker 3: on the season. When he comes into these ballgames, does

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Speaker 3: how does he do it? How impressed have you been

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Speaker 3: with Minshew to this point, Joe? And how did he

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Speaker 3: pull his weight on Sunday for the Colts?

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Speaker 5: Yeah? I think one.

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Speaker 7: Minshew he's a consummate professional. He's a starter in this league.

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Speaker 7: He's been a starter, and Matt we always said in

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Speaker 7: the locker room there's a difference between being a starter

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Speaker 7: and being at that level and starting in the NFL.

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Speaker 7: And just because he's not starting doesn't mean he's not

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Speaker 7: a capable starter. And he knows that, the team knows that.

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Speaker 7: And so one, you got to give a credit to Minshew.

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Speaker 7: It's now three games he's come in, he's led the team,

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Speaker 7: he's led him to victories, and he's done great. The

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Speaker 7: accuracy he throws the ball with, he gets it out quick,

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Speaker 7: he's decisive, he runs the operation and then coach hit

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Speaker 7: on a good point earlier. You got to give credit

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Speaker 7: to Shane Stike and Jim Bob and that offensive staff

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Speaker 7: because it's a switch of game plans and you have

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Speaker 7: a Richardson game plan, you have a Minshew game plan,

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Speaker 7: and that's not easy to all of a sudden on

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Speaker 7: a dime shifted. So you got to give credit to

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Speaker 7: the coaching staff for having him ready to go each week.

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Speaker 7: And then I think what we're seeing with this team

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Speaker 7: is we're starting to develop an identity, and our identity

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Speaker 7: is back to we're going to rely on those five

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Speaker 7: guys up front. We're going to run the ball with

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Speaker 7: Moss and I know Taylor played less than ten snaps,

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Speaker 7: but now you've got Jonathan Taylor back in the fold,

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Speaker 7: who's an absolute game breaker all pro. We are going

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Speaker 7: to grind it out, we are going to be physical,

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Speaker 7: and Minshew's going to do what he does. And I

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Speaker 7: think just I couldn't say enough about him and game

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Speaker 7: ball to Minshew as well as the old line for

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Speaker 7: just coming in again and leading the team down but

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Speaker 7: being decisive in everything he does.

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Speaker 5: And the last thing for Minshew, he hasn't turned the

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Speaker 5: ball off, no turnovers.

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Speaker 7: I mean that's awful impressive, and we're doing a great

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Speaker 7: job as a team in terms of ball security and

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Speaker 7: turning the other teams over to be plus you know,

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Speaker 7: turnover differential on the season compared to last year when

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Speaker 7: we were you know, bottom five in the league. That's

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Speaker 7: a huge difference in the NFL.

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Speaker 3: I mean, Rick, I mean, this is really really impressive

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Speaker 3: stuff from Gardner Minshew. And as I said, he's not

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Speaker 3: the last couple of weeks with Anthony Richardson back in

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Speaker 3: the fold. He's not getting first team run and reps

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Speaker 3: and practice leading into these games. What is your level

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Speaker 3: of confidence with Minshew for the foreseeable future as the

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Speaker 6: Yeah, my confidence in him is really really high. Now

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Speaker 6: it's gonna be it is a different challenge the more

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Speaker 6: he plays full games over a period of time. You know,

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Speaker 6: I commented to you during the game, is that as

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Speaker 6: the game where or on you could see Tennessee sitting

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Speaker 6: on routes and you're going to see more of that,

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Speaker 6: and so it's going to be really important for him

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Speaker 6: to still establish himself with some deep balls. And I

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Speaker 6: don't think you have to be afraid of that fifty

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Speaker 6: to fifty ball to Pittman or get that ball downs

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Speaker 6: has now established himself as a star as well. But

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Speaker 6: you know, I can't say enough about it, this seamless

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Speaker 6: transition between him and the coaching staff. You know, his

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Speaker 6: lack of turnovers is documented. I mean his career and

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Speaker 6: believe me, he played with some bad teams is still

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Speaker 6: I say it. Every week is forty six touchdowns and

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Speaker 6: only fifteen interceptions. I mean, this is for real. I

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Speaker 6: kid about one thousand paper cuts, but I say that complimentary.

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Speaker 6: He may beat you with a pocket knife, but at

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Speaker 6: the end of the game, you're dead. It really doesn't

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Speaker 6: matter if it was a Howardz thrower a pocket knife,

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Speaker 6: he'll get it done. I tell you who really reminds

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Speaker 6: me of this season, and I'm gonna give him being

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Speaker 6: a big compliment here. He really reminds me of Drew Brees.

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Speaker 6: I mean he is you know, it's not the big arm,

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Speaker 6: but it's terrifically accurate in the first two levels. He

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Speaker 6: moves in the pocket better than you think he does.

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Speaker 6: He can extend, and he extended and made a couple

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Speaker 6: good throws the other day. Now when he had to

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Speaker 6: zip it, he had an out to eighty five. He

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Speaker 6: had an out to eleven and the completion to Pierce

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Speaker 6: in the third and twelve. Joe talked about that first

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Speaker 6: third down on the drive, which was huge, but the

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Speaker 6: other third down on the drive was third and twelve

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Speaker 6: and he threw an aspen tablet in there to Pierce

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Speaker 6: to make that first down, to eat another first down

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Speaker 6: think the other thing the guy carries and most backups

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Speaker 6: don't carry it. Most teams like their second guy, they

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Speaker 6: like him, but Minshew carries a swagger, he carries a

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Speaker 6: confidence level. And I think our team is as confident

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Speaker 6: in as him as they are with Richardson, and they're

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Speaker 6: confident in both guys. Both guys have leadership qualities in

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Speaker 6: two different ways. But that's a real odd thing. Joel

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Speaker 6: will tell you. When you have confidence in your backup

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Speaker 6: quarterback and you look at him as a starter, that

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Speaker 6: is a huge deal. That is a I'm not going

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Speaker 6: to say it's a luxury because it's a necessity right now,

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Speaker 6: but my goodness, does that matter.

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Speaker 7: I would agree with that, coach, And it reminds me

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Speaker 7: a little bit when we had Matt hasselback and you

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Speaker 7: had a guy that's been a starter, proven, he had

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Speaker 7: that swagger. And you know the year that Andrew Luck

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Speaker 7: missed a bunch of games, we were five and three

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Speaker 7: with hassleback, and you know what the biggest difference was,

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Speaker 7: as coach you mentioned on and Hasselback stepped into the huddle.

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Speaker 7: He had swag. He settled everybody down. He said, you

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Speaker 7: know what, guys, we're gonna win this game. And everybody

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Speaker 7: believed it and rallied around him. And you're right, coach,

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Speaker 7: that's such a unique thing for the backup to have

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Speaker 7: that level of competence in himself, and you can see

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Speaker 7: that permeate throughout the rest of the team.

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Speaker 3: All right, let's pick up there the run defense talking

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Speaker 3: about pulling their weight. My gosh, the defense held Tennessee

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Speaker 3: to only eighty nine yards rushing, which is the fewest

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Speaker 3: the Titans have had against the Colts in a game

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Speaker 3: since the twenty eighteen season. Derrick Henry only had forty

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Speaker 3: three yards rushing, a far cry from what is used

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Speaker 3: to against the Indianapolis Colts. Rick, how did the Colts

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Speaker 3: defense slow him down? Was it all just about mindset

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Speaker 3: and physicality? How did that front seven pull their weight

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Speaker 3: against King Henry to under fifty yards on the ground.

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Speaker 6: Well, it was physicality and it was scheme. It was

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Speaker 6: a little bit of everything. I thought it was just

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Speaker 6: terrific defense. You know, before the game, I said, if

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Speaker 6: we can hold him to three to nine, we can

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Speaker 6: hold him under four, we're gonna win it. Well they

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Speaker 6: held him to three three. I mean, who would have

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Speaker 6: really seen that coming. I think, first of all, I

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Speaker 6: think what I think, getting Stuart and Buckner back full

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Speaker 6: time is all the difference in the world. We can

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Speaker 6: rotate ends. I mean, I don't see much difference between

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Speaker 6: Dio and pay and all the guys that you know

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Speaker 6: in the Abu Khan lewis all those guys. To me,

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Speaker 6: it doesn't make much difference there, but it makes a

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Speaker 6: huge difference in the interior. And when we have Buckner

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Speaker 6: and we have Stuart, it's all the difference in the world.

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Speaker 6: We definitely loaded the box, like I knew we were

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Speaker 6: going to. We played the eight man front all day,

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Speaker 6: so we had numbers. But and then I thought Gus

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Speaker 6: did a good job. He used a little bit more movement,

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Speaker 6: he used some pirates, some line stunts which he hasn't

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Speaker 6: been doing. He's been soul vanilla, and I think that helped.

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Speaker 6: But I think our line certainly held his own. Buckner

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Speaker 6: was doubled all day, which makes everybody better, our linebackers.

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Speaker 6: I thought that you know, Franklin in speed, that combination

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Speaker 6: right now, I'm gonna tell you what, they are so

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Speaker 6: much better than people realize. And I thought even Stewart

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Speaker 6: went in there did a pretty good job. But they

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Speaker 6: played downhill. In other words, when they read run, they

655
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Speaker 6: attacked the line of scrimmys. They didn't play anything laterally

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Speaker 6: they got really the whole front eight played down hill.

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Speaker 6: And what they did is they also and the back

658
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Speaker 6: end no breakouts. You know, normally he gets he'll get

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Speaker 6: that one hundred and thirty yards, but normally there's one

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Speaker 6: breakout in the game.

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Speaker 2: His longest rush was only eight yards, Yester deaar guy.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, he didn't get any. And you know the fourth

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Speaker 6: and one set at all. Really, you know the fourth

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Speaker 6: and one, which was a game changer, without question, there's

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Speaker 6: no doubt about that. I mean Buckner that we got

666
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Speaker 6: into our goal line defense. Buckner pierced the double, went

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Speaker 6: out there, got that first hit, and then Franklin came

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Speaker 6: up and made a front up tackle and backed him off,

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Speaker 6: you know, to set up the win, no question about it.

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Speaker 6: I think the return of Stuart and Buckner full time

671
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Speaker 6: makes us very, very formidable. But attitudinally we were ready,

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Speaker 6: we knew what we had to do. We did it

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Speaker 6: on defense, We played it on their side of the

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Speaker 6: line of scrimmage. Really impressive, and you know, it just

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Speaker 6: proves that even though Tannehill had a lot of yards passing,

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Speaker 6: at the end of the day, the folkrum the launch

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Speaker 6: point is twenty two and if you stop him and

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Speaker 6: you control their running game, you're going to get the best.

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Speaker 5: Of them, no question.

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Speaker 7: And how Tennessee really got yards in the second half

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Speaker 7: they had to go to play action on first down

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Speaker 7: and that's how Hopkins got all those yards. But what

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Speaker 7: that tells me is they knew they couldn't run the

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Speaker 7: ball against us. And I think against Henry you got

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Speaker 7: to hit him early and often, you got to get

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Speaker 7: his feet stopped, and for him to not have a

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Speaker 7: rush over ten yards is awfully impressive. And then the

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Speaker 7: other thing, I think, just overall, game plan wise, we

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Speaker 7: were ahead of the chains. I mean, we were ahead

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Speaker 7: on the scoreboard, and when you get up seven or

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Speaker 7: ten on Tennessee, that's like being up fourteen or seventeen

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Speaker 7: on somebody else. Yeah, the same thing is when you

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Speaker 7: get down and you know, the last three four years

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Speaker 7: Tennessee's came in, they've got a couple quick scores, they've

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Speaker 7: been up ten or fourteen, and then they dictate the

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Speaker 7: play call. Well, it was one to eighty flip yesterday

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Speaker 7: being ahead against the Titans team, and then we dictate

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Speaker 7: what they have to do.

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Speaker 5: I thought that was so big.

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Speaker 7: And again, credit to everybody all across the defense. That's

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Speaker 7: really really impressive. When you hold a guy to forty

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Speaker 7: three rushes in his longest run of the afternoon was

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Speaker 7: eight yards.

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Speaker 3: That's Joe Wright's right there. Rick van Teri's along as well.

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Speaker 3: I'm Matt Taylor. You're listening to Colts Round Table Live

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Speaker 3: Tonight with you every Monday night from six to seven.

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Speaker 3: Here on ninety three to five and one oh seven

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Speaker 3: to five fan. This segment's called pulling your weight, and

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Speaker 3: Zach Moss and the old line did that for sure.

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Speaker 3: The Colts ran for a buck ninety three against a

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Speaker 3: Tennessee defense that coming into the game was giving up

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Speaker 3: only two point nine yards per carry. They had a

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Speaker 3: street going of ten consecutive games without allowing the opposition

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Speaker 3: to reach one hundred rushing yards.

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Speaker 2: And we've talked about it, Joe.

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Speaker 3: The Colts were certainly the more physical against the Mike

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Speaker 3: Vrabel squad that had kind of pushed the Colts around

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Speaker 3: since twenty twenty. Moss goes for a career high one

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Speaker 3: sixty five and two touchdowns. He's been the heart and

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Speaker 3: soul of this offense now with a team high four

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Speaker 3: hundred and forty five yards on the ground his last

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Speaker 3: eight games, deading back to last season, one hundred and

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Speaker 3: fifty eight carries seven hundred and seventy nine yards rushing

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Speaker 3: for Zach Moss. Joe, how does Zach Moss do it?

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Speaker 3: And how do the O line pull their weight on

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Speaker 3: Sunday against the Tennessee Titans.

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Speaker 5: Well, I mean Zach Moss. I mean, man, he's been

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Speaker 5: a godsend.

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Speaker 7: And that trade when that happened last year, you know,

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Speaker 7: I think it kind of just got swept under the

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Speaker 7: rug a little bit. But he's been just absolutely impressive.

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Speaker 7: He's a cumulative runner, he's a power runner. He bashes

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Speaker 7: you inside and I think when you look at the stats.

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Speaker 7: We threw for over two hundred and we almost rushed

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Speaker 7: for two hundred. If you do that in the NFL,

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Speaker 7: it's really really hard to lose, especially if you have

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Speaker 7: zero turnovers.

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Speaker 5: And so Moss was phenomenal.

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Speaker 7: Again, I talked about, you know, schematically, just how advantageous

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Speaker 7: I thought we were in all day with Shane Steichen.

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Speaker 7: But again credit to those five linemen up front, because

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Speaker 7: they got after guys.

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Speaker 5: I thought, you know, Nelson has been really.

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Speaker 7: Really good, and when we run left our backside combination,

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Speaker 7: so Will Fries and Braden Smith. I mean, we were

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Speaker 7: just rolling their three technique out of there. We were

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Speaker 7: getting up to the linebacker. Those linemen are really working

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Speaker 7: in concert with each other, and not only are we

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Speaker 7: not missing blocks, but we're getting a lot of movement

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Speaker 7: a at the point of attack. But probably what's more

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Speaker 7: important be on the backside. Our scoop blocks, those double

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Speaker 7: team combo blocks.

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Speaker 5: Were really really good.

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Speaker 7: They were as good as I've seen in a long time.

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Speaker 7: And again I think you're starting to see this identity

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Speaker 7: of this Colts team come that we're going to be

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Speaker 7: able to pound you in the running game. And Coach

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Speaker 7: mentioned it too, We're not just running zone. You know,

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Speaker 7: We're running all different kinds of plays, power counter, we're

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Speaker 7: blocking guys down, we're getting people on the perimeter. I

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Speaker 7: think schematically the variation in our running attack as opposed

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Speaker 7: to the last couple of years is really good and

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Speaker 7: and it gives defensive coordinators a lot more that they

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Speaker 7: have to game plan for weekend and week out.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I thought it was the best performance. I thought

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Speaker 6: our offensive line was just dominating, not just good. I

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Speaker 6: thought it was dominating. I thought they got off on

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Speaker 6: the ball. I thought they pushed. I thought they steered,

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Speaker 6: you know, on the on the long run. I mean,

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Speaker 6: Kelly steers here guy his guy, Nelson steers his guy out.

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Speaker 6: And then and and as Joe said, we're cutting off

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Speaker 6: that backside on the left. You know, I thought Freeland

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Speaker 6: did his job. And I'm just so impressed. And this

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Speaker 6: isn't the first time I've said this, but the evolution

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Speaker 6: of the running game, you know, the addition of the

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Speaker 6: power t the power g the counter oy, the whams,

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Speaker 6: the flips were not just a simple lineup and run

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Speaker 6: zone team which everybody in the league can stop. And

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Speaker 6: what that does is make you work on that thing,

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Speaker 6: and indirectly it makes your zone better.

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Speaker 5: You know.

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Speaker 6: I always thought, you know, offensive line is one design,

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Speaker 6: two TA technique and three attitude. And right now you

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Speaker 6: can check every box and the other thing that Tony

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Speaker 6: has got across to these guys, I haven't seen it

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Speaker 6: since Google's here, to be honest with you, and he

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Speaker 6: does it in a different way. But these guys come

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Speaker 6: with an attacking attitude. I mean they came to control

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Speaker 6: that line of scrimmage. It is a beauty to watch now. Moss,

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Speaker 6: to me, has come out of nowhere. I think he

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Speaker 6: was a lot better player. He just needed opportunity. As

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Speaker 6: you say all the time. Mat to me, when he runs,

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Speaker 6: he's not only downhill and tough. Again, he reminds me

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Speaker 6: of Frank Gore and in Frank's prime, but he is

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Speaker 6: He's just a guy.

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Speaker 1: To me.

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Speaker 6: Just the style is inspirational. I said it last week.

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Speaker 6: There's something about that eight yard game that he's just

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Speaker 6: pushing people and spinning. He's just an inspirational guy. And

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Speaker 6: he had a couple key runs on that fourth in

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Speaker 6: that fourth quarter drive. Yeah, that were just terrific plays.

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Speaker 6: So you know, and I thought we used Jonathan just

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Speaker 6: perfect we got him enough touches to get him battle ready,

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Speaker 6: you know, to get him you know, to rust off

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Speaker 6: and to get him ready. And man, when you get

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Speaker 6: Jonathan back with Moss, I'm going to quote my partner

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Speaker 6: on game Day. Oh my, but I am gonna say this,

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Speaker 6: And I implied this when they made all the hullabaloo

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Speaker 6: about Jonathan coming back, and I implied this last week.

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Speaker 6: I said we were two and two on a positive

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Speaker 6: note because of Moss, not in spite of him.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there's no doubt about that. Zach Moss. What a year,

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Speaker 2: What a game.

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Speaker 3: That's pulling your weight, and look at some of the

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Speaker 2: You know the drill.

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Speaker 3: Norman is up first tonight, Rick, I love Josh downs

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Speaker 3: in our offense. That's Norman speaking, and I know you

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Speaker 3: love Josh Dowens as well. How can we get him

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Speaker 6: Areslutely absolutely, Norman, I totally share your value.

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Speaker 2: Over you and Norm need a cup of coffee. I think.

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Speaker 6: I tell you what I think what's happened is, and

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Speaker 6: I can see it what you see with Stiching, because

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Speaker 6: he's so bright. You see evolution every week in design,

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Speaker 6: in player usage, in clock management and different things. And

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Speaker 6: what I think he's getting a grasp for right now

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Speaker 6: lately is he's really getting a grasp for who his

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Speaker 6: receivers are and how he can properly lose use them.

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Speaker 6: For instance, he realizes now that Pittman is that reliable,

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Speaker 6: tough possession guy, you can work him inside. He'll go

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Speaker 6: in and get it. He's going to battle his butt off.

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Speaker 6: And then I think what he's starting to get confident,

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Speaker 6: and I think this is really important for Minshew is

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Speaker 6: the fifty to fifty ball. Let him go up and

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Speaker 6: get it. He got the PI on my guy Fulton

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Speaker 6: Sunday because that was a fifty to fifty ball and

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Speaker 6: he battle. So I think he's found that role for Pittman.

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Speaker 6: And now what I think he's found is he's found

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Speaker 6: that role for downs and downs to me, you know

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Speaker 6: it's taken a while as a rookie, but this kid

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Speaker 6: is the game changer. Not to be biblical as you

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Speaker 6: kid me, but he is the creator, okay.

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Speaker 2: And basically basically let from Josh downs.

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Speaker 6: You want to use him in three ways and we're

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Speaker 6: starting to see it. Number one, on third down, you

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Speaker 6: want to use them inside in the slot on Nichols,

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Speaker 6: on linebackers, on dimes, on those one to one routes.

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Speaker 6: Those jerks those options, they can't cover. Number two, and

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Speaker 6: this is what I think we have to add now

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Speaker 6: a little bit like they got to Hopkins, only this

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Speaker 6: kid is faster. Is on first down, don't be afraid

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Speaker 6: to use him at the Z instead of Piers. Go

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Speaker 6: play action and use him on those over routes because

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Speaker 6: he can get from numbers to numbers in a second,

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Speaker 6: and he will be in that second level and then

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Speaker 6: third when you're getting all this cover four and four

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Speaker 6: read you can absorb that outside corner and get him

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Speaker 6: one on one with the safety. He's given the option

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Speaker 6: a post or corner, and I think you know you're

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Speaker 6: gonna get more and more big plays. I mean we

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Speaker 6: hit it. We hit our first third and long Sunday,

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Speaker 6: what was it, third and sixteen, and Richardson threw a

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Speaker 6: rope to him downfield on the corner route. So I mean,

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Speaker 6: I think you know, there's no question about different ways

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Speaker 6: to use him, but he is the next big thing

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Speaker 6: for us in the passing game.

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Speaker 2: Indeed.

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Speaker 3: Okay, let's go to Kyle Joe. Kyle is asking in

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Speaker 3: what ways do you think the Colts are ahead of

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Speaker 3: schedule this year? Can we be Legit Division contenders?

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Speaker 7: Great question, Kyle, and I think we can be. In

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Speaker 7: this game in Jacksonville's going to be huge coming up

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Speaker 7: on Sunday. But I think three things. One, we have

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Speaker 7: a belief in the team. You can tell this team

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Speaker 7: enjoys being around each other. They got a great spree

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Speaker 7: to corps. They're playing hard, they're playing physical, and I

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Speaker 7: think that's come from number two, which is Shane Stiken.

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Speaker 7: I think there's a belief in him as a coach

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Speaker 7: that this guy is the real deal. He knows what

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Speaker 7: he's doing. And I think third, we're playing great, complimentary football.

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Speaker 7: Our offense is doing what they need to do, our

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Speaker 7: defense is playing just lights out at certain times, and

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Speaker 7: our special teams has been solid. Matt Gay that addition

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Speaker 7: right there, when you have true complimentary football and you

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Speaker 7: don't just have a great offense or a great defense

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Speaker 7: that's really hard to beat week in week out in

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Speaker 7: the NFL, you combine that with not turning the ball over,

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Speaker 7: and so I think you know, just the complimentary football

917
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Speaker 7: that we're playing in all three phases. We're really working

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Speaker 7: together as a unit, and I think you're seeing that

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Speaker 7: show up on the scoreboard.

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Speaker 3: All right, let's go to Jordan. We got to go

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Speaker 3: quick here. Kind of up against it here. Rick Jordan

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Speaker 3: to close out is asking how important is DeForrest Buckner

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Speaker 3: to our defense. We seem to be able to stop

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Speaker 3: the run at a completely different level when he's out there.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, and that's a good question, and I answered it

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Speaker 6: a little bit before. I'll go very quick on this.

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Speaker 6: Buckner and Stuart are their value is immeasurable. I mean,

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Speaker 6: Buckner has immeasurable value. He gets doubled all the time,

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Speaker 6: pass and run. But when you double him all day long,

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Speaker 6: then it opens up the things for all the linebackers

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Speaker 6: and the nose tackle. I just think those guys the

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Speaker 6: reason and starting with Buckner, but I'll add Stuart because

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Speaker 6: they're a pair. To me, Yea. The biggest reason that

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Speaker 6: what they give us is the drop off between them

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Speaker 6: and the backup into your guys is much greater than

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Speaker 6: it is at defensive end. And so having those two

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Speaker 6: guys in there for seventy five percent of the game,

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Speaker 6: that makes us a ten times better football player. And

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Speaker 6: I did think that Gus did a really good job

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Speaker 6: this week. For the first time, he got creative with

941
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Speaker 6: Buckner on third down. Buckner played in, he played the three,

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Speaker 6: They twisted him in side with overloads they and really

943
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Speaker 6: he got a lot of pressures. Even though statistically it

944
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Speaker 6: doesn't look like a game, he got a lot of pressures,

945
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Speaker 6: including the last one on the interception.

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Speaker 2: No doubt about that. Well said.

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Speaker 3: That is a look at the Colts mail Bag with

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Speaker 3: Rick Venturion Joe Wrights, part of Colts Roundtable Live Tonight.

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Speaker 3: we come back, we'll close out the show. We'll talk

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Speaker 3: about the AFC South, you know, first place on the

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Speaker 3: line type of game coming up on Sunday Week six,

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Speaker 3: the three and two Jaguars, the three and two Indianapolis Colts.

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Speaker 3: now for those closing arguments from Rick Venturi and Joe Wrights,

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Speaker 3: and Joe kind of putting a bow on that big

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Speaker 3: win for the Colts over the Titans. I thought it

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Speaker 3: was maybe the most impressive win for the Colts since

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Speaker 3: Christmas Night twenty twenty one. Kind of a statement win

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Speaker 3: that night for the Colts against the Arizona Cardinals.

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Speaker 2: How can the.

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Speaker 3: Colts build off of this win? And how important is

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Speaker 3: this next game against the Jacksonville Jaguars on the road,

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Speaker 3: a place the Colts have not won since twenty fourteen.

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Speaker 7: Here, no question, there's wins in the NFL, and there's

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Speaker 7: wins that are a huge team and confidence boosters. And

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Speaker 7: I really think this was we got the Tennessee monkey

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Speaker 7: off our back. We beat them at their own game

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Speaker 7: in terms of physicality, and now, Matt, you're setting up

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Speaker 7: a huge showdown in a game that I love because

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Speaker 7: it's a revenge game.

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Speaker 5: They got us week one. Don't forget we were ahead.

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Speaker 7: Most of that game going into the fourth quarter before

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Speaker 7: the two quick scores, And so hopefully Jacksonville is a

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Speaker 7: little bit jet lagged coming back from London.

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Speaker 5: But Coach, what do you see from the Jags?

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Speaker 7: What do we got to do differently to beat them

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Speaker 7: down there at their place coming up on Sunday?

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Speaker 6: Well, Joe, they had to go to London to get

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Speaker 6: their annual fix, which they got in London, and then

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Speaker 6: they're back. What I see is a very talented team,

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Speaker 6: a good team, but still young. And very beatable. They

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Speaker 6: still have their real ups and downs. This is going

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Speaker 6: to be another, as we said this week, another neighborhood shootout.

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Speaker 6: Really and this is an early season championship. This is

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Speaker 6: a battle for the league. I don't think you know,

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Speaker 6: I thought maybe going into the opener that they were

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Speaker 6: clearly better than we were talent wise. I'm not sure

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Speaker 6: about that now. I don't think that that's true. I

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Speaker 6: think this is a very winnable game. And then looking

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Speaker 6: at that first tape, just like you said, that game

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Speaker 6: was our game. We were dominating, we were gonna get

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Speaker 6: them down on the five yard line, and Agnew had

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Speaker 6: that freaky return. Yeah, and then it changed. So yep,

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Speaker 6: we know our guys know this year's teams know that

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Speaker 6: they can play head up to head up, and when

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Speaker 6: you go in there like that, you can go get.

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Speaker 2: It all about belief.

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Speaker 3: That's all the time we've got tonight, though, Rick and Joe,

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Speaker 3: fantastic job per usual. As I said before, this is

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Speaker 3: always a very enjoyable show. I love talking to you

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Speaker 3: guys so much, especially after a Colts win makes everything

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Speaker 3: better again. My thanks to head coach Shane Steichen, who

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