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Speaker 1: latest with the Indianapolis Colts. Now here's the voice of

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Speaker 1: the Colts, Matt Taylor. Hey. Week four of the NFL

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Speaker 1: regular season. It starts tonight. It's the Bengals and the

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Speaker 1: Dolphins Thursday Night football in Cincinnati. The Colts have to

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Speaker 1: wait until Sunday to start up their Week four They

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Speaker 1: host the Tennessee Titans at Lucas Oil Stadium. The Colts

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Speaker 1: come in one one and one. The Titans are one

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Speaker 1: and two. They're coming off their first win of the season,

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Speaker 1: just like the Colts in Week number three. Good to

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Speaker 1: be with you tonight. I'm Matt Taylor. I'm joined by

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Speaker 1: JJ Stangovitz from Colts dot Com. Tonight with us on

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Speaker 1: the horn, we're talking Colts football for the next fifteen

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Speaker 1: minutes or so. Jj, how are we doing tonight? Man?

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Speaker 1: What's going on doing? Great? Kid? Got third round of

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Speaker 1: ear tube today. Man. Oh, many parents of since they're

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Speaker 1: paddlers out there, know what we're going through. But little

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Speaker 1: and hopefully this means the end of chronic You're intact, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I know. That's you've been battling that for a while.

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Speaker 1: But he's in good spirits. He's doing all right. Then, Yes,

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Speaker 1: you get stay home with mom and dad and hang out,

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Speaker 1: all right, j J. Well, we'll get you out of here.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna talk to some Colts football because I know

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Speaker 1: you've got some more important things to do. The Colts

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Speaker 1: have an important game coming up on Sunday. It's I

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Speaker 1: know it's listen, it's one of seventeen games, but I

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Speaker 1: still think it's one of the biggest games of the year,

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Speaker 1: considering it's Tennessee. They've been so good in the AFC

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Speaker 1: South lately under Mike Vrabel. They've won eleven of their

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Speaker 1: last thirteen AFC South games. Plus the Colts they've lost

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Speaker 1: three in a row, four of the last five here

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Speaker 1: in the series. Everybody kind of knows what time it is,

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Speaker 1: everybody knows who the opponent is. This weekend. How are

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Speaker 1: the Colts treating this game psychologically, going in trying not

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Speaker 1: this is a big game but still yet one of seventeen. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, and Matt, you know how the Colts approach

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Speaker 1: these things where they try not to get too high

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Speaker 1: it's early in the season. You don't know if that

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Speaker 1: This game carries a lot of importance and a lot

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Speaker 1: You know, everyone kint Like you said, Matt, everyone kind

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Speaker 1: right there from Colts dot Com. I'm Matt Taylor. This

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Speaker 1: is the Colts Daily Update tonight. So on that sideline,

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Speaker 1: the pregame show on Sunday. All right, appreciate you as always, mate,

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