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Speaker 5: we're gonna preview that Colts training camp which starts next week.

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Speaker 5: As mate said, we're gonna talk about some juicy storylines

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Speaker 3: All right, thank you, Jeffrey. Randy Mueller is our guest

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Speaker 6: Well, when I looked at the film on Jacksonville, I

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Speaker 3: What is separating Jacksonville from being considered, you know, one

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Speaker 2: Now, when you talk about that, one of the things

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Speaker 6: Well, I think it definitely helps him. And I'm stayed

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Speaker 3: That's Randy Mueller, former NFL GM NFL insider now for

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Speaker 3: the Athletic and the current director of player Personnel for

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Speaker 3: the Seattle Sea Dragons of the XFL. Going around the

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Speaker 3: AFC South a little bit. Let's go to the Colts

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Speaker 3: You have experience with him with the Chargers when you

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Speaker 3: Why does that hire here with Stiken in Indianapolis for

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Speaker 6: Well, I've known him for a while I think he's

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Speaker 6: But what they've done with Jalen Hurts and Philadelphia, I

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Speaker 6: What's the old saying goes, you need to fail forward fast.

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Speaker 3: the Colts and the AFC South going into the season.

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Speaker 3: Check out the podcast. Check him out on Twitter at

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Speaker 3: Randy Mueller. Also muellerfootball dot com for more on Randy's

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Speaker 3: great work. Randy, thanks so much for the time and

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Speaker 3: first time, and I hope he can do it again

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Speaker 6: If you don't mind, I'll look forward to it. Thanks

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Speaker 6: a lot.

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Speaker 5: Matt Is, Matt Taylor, and Casey Valier with Randy Mueller.

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Speaker 5: I like what you guys did there. You bring smart

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Speaker 5: people in. It makes you guys look even smarter. Mate,

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Speaker 5: I've been doing that for twenty years.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you made a living off of that. I can

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Speaker 3: piggyback off of that. But no, Randy is He's obviously

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Speaker 3: has great insight great experience, and he's doing all of

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Speaker 3: the division previews and I think last week he had

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Speaker 3: the AFC South preview. Read it learned a lot. I

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Speaker 3: we were able to make that work and appreciate his time.

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Speaker 5: Check him out at the Athletic and Muellerfootball dot Com.

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Speaker 4: We come back.

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Speaker 5: We're gonna give you the Forum Credit Union question of

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Speaker 5: the week regarding the Colts getting back into the playoffs

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Speaker 5: next season and some long NFL playoff droughts around the league.

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Speaker 5: And I think of a couple teams when I think

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Speaker 5: of who hasn't been in the play and had success

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Speaker 5: one of my old hometown. I like to call it

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Speaker 5: all that's coming up right here on The Last Word

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Speaker 5: ninety three five, one oh seven five.

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Speaker 4: The fan can't get enough football.

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Speaker 1: You are in the right place. This is the off

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Speaker 1: season radio home of the Indianapolis Colts, The Last Word

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Speaker 1: with Jeffrey Gorman and Matt Taylor from the Indiana Union

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Speaker 1: Construction Industry Radio Studio.

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Speaker 5: Matt Taylor got a quick question for you, brother, Okay

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Speaker 5: Law and your work the edge lawn yeah yeah, landscape,

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Speaker 5: oh yeah, yeah yeah. The edge every time, every time,

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Speaker 5: every time. Motorized edger or is it a manual?

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Speaker 3: It's a battery powered really, so you do have some juice.

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Speaker 3: It's it's one of those combo deals. It's a uh

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Speaker 3: it's the weed whacker and then you turn it over

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Speaker 3: on its side with the wheel and then it's an edger.

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Speaker 4: I like that. Yeah. Lather or no lather?

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Speaker 3: Total Dad moved by.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, sure, sure lather. Do you mean last sweating like

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Speaker 4: a pig when you're doing it?

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, oh yeah, you kidding me. I also have

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Speaker 3: I have I have specific lawn shirts, shorts, shoes of course.

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Speaker 5: And a hat your rain man and they're and they're

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Speaker 5: all just that's what you wear when you when you

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Speaker 5: cut what when you do your lawn work, you wear

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Speaker 5: a specific set of wardrobe.

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Speaker 4: Yes, it is kind of a veteran move.

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Speaker 3: It is a veteran move that way. You don't you know,

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Speaker 3: armpit out your new shoes out there, right, new shoes.

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Speaker 3: I've had the same lawn cutting shoes now for five.

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Speaker 5: Years, five years going just green as the pastures that's surrounded.

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Speaker 5: It's covered in green and baloney rings underneath the T

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Speaker 5: shirts from you sweating like I love it. It's that

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Speaker 5: time and time. Hey, we got some hot weather eye here,

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Speaker 5: but the sweat stains in the hat are almost up

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Speaker 5: to the top. Hey, we'll be doing that up at

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Speaker 5: put the hat on may Tacy of what you got,

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Speaker 5: I'm gonna say a couple of words, Barry Sanders, Maybe

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Speaker 5: that'll give you a little bit of a thing. I

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Speaker 5: haven't even seen the question yet, But when it comes

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Speaker 5: to playoff droughts, I like to think the Detroit Lions

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Speaker 5: you go leading that drama. Okay, the Colts haven't made

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Speaker 5: the postseason since the twenty twenty season and haven't won

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Speaker 5: a playoff game since the eighteen season. Last time we

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Speaker 5: made the playoffs, that was led by Phil riverss Right

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Speaker 5: up there in Buffalo's last playoff win was and Houston

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Speaker 5: should have won that stinking one, and last one in

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Speaker 5: eighteen was against Houston. You're right now, may Tay, which

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Speaker 5: NFL franchise holds the current record for longest drought without

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Speaker 5: a playoff win. Don't forget I knew it.

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Speaker 4: I knew it. Don't forget about the great and he

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Speaker 4: played in this game as well.

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Speaker 3: And I think they have a chance to eradicate that

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Speaker 3: this year. Everybody feels very strongly about the Detroit Lions

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Speaker 3: going into this season, the fighting Dan Campbell's Motorcityoff.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think they have rectified some things on the

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Speaker 3: defensive side of the ball. So I'm going Detroit. But

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Speaker 3: I don't know the length.

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Speaker 5: You're right on, right on thirty one years, maybe one

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Speaker 5: thirty one. The last playoff win for the Lions January fifth,

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Speaker 5: nineteen ninety two against Jerry Jones the Cowboys, which was

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Speaker 5: the NFL Playoffs in ninety one. The next closest playoff

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Speaker 5: win drought the Dolphins at twenty two years. Okay, let's

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Speaker 5: go Colts. We don't want to start any sort of records.

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Speaker 5: We're talking about in twenty years.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, four seems like a long time Imagine twenty two

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Speaker 3: and thirty one.

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Speaker 5: at the top of the show. This is the last

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Speaker 5: installment for this year of The Last Word. Our weekly

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Speaker 5: offseason radio show, Colts Happy Hour with JMB, returns next Friday.

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Speaker 5: He'll be all juiced up from six to seven weekend

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Speaker 5: ninety three five and one oh seven five The Fan.

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