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Speaker 1: But we got plenty for you tonight to at least

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Speaker 1: at it on Monday. How about a little Tarad Taylor, Yes,

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Speaker 1: exclusive one on one with Mark Vannimir and myself. We'll

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Speaker 1: David Culley and linebacker Kamu Grugier Hill. Now on Monday,

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Speaker 1: He sat down with Mark Vandermer, and it's always a

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Speaker 1: Harris with you. Well, welcome to the Texans, Tyrod, and

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Speaker 1: at that position. Also, all right, I flip it over

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Speaker 1: to the defensive side of the ball and no longer

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Speaker 1: with a coach, but with a player. Linebacker Camu Grugier

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Speaker 1: Hill also met with the media, and of course you

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Speaker 1: gotta ask you when he's coming to Houston, why are

433
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Speaker 1: you coming to Houston. Here's what he had to say.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I love it out here, man. It's It's

435
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Speaker 1: funny because I told him my agent when I was

436
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Speaker 1: a young player, I was like, if I ever get

437
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Speaker 1: a chance to play for a Texas team, I'll take it. Um,

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Speaker 1: I don't know. It's just you know, the hospitality around

439
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Speaker 1: here and and just the love that I feel from

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Speaker 1: the people. It's definitely very similar to back home. So

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm loving it back here. That man is

442
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Speaker 1: from Hawaii and saying he loves being in Texas. How

443
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Speaker 1: about that? That's pretty darn cool. Now he is coached

444
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Speaker 1: by not only Lovey Smith, but at the linebacker position,

445
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Speaker 1: he's coached by lovely son Miles Smith. So here's what

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Speaker 1: he had to say on Lovey's style of coaching compared

447
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Speaker 1: to Miles lovely sons style of coaching. It's hard not

448
00:22:47,680 --> 00:22:51,760
Speaker 1: to see Miles in Lovey and Miles, you know, but um, like,

449
00:22:52,200 --> 00:22:53,960
Speaker 1: I think they're they're a little different. They definitely have

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Speaker 1: their own coaching styles. Um, coach Love, He's a legend.

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Speaker 1: You know, he's been doing this a long time, so

452
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Speaker 1: he has his own way and you can see that.

453
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Speaker 1: Miles is definitely trying to do his own his own

454
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Speaker 1: style too. So UM, but it works and UM, you know,

455
00:23:06,520 --> 00:23:09,760
Speaker 1: we got a great um camaraderie in our room right now. Um,

456
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Speaker 1: the linebackers are real tight already, and I like where

457
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Speaker 1: we're going. Although he spent the majority of his career

458
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Speaker 1: with the Philadelphia Eagles, mu Grugier Hill was drafted by

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Speaker 1: the New England Patriots, and somewhat important in that was

460
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Speaker 1: Nick Cassario. Here's what Kamu had to say about working

461
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Speaker 1: under Nick Cassario and the certain standard that Nick requires

462
00:23:33,800 --> 00:23:36,720
Speaker 1: of none of these players, but everybody in the organization. Yeah,

463
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Speaker 1: you know, I can get that question a lot. Is it,

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Speaker 1: you know, a Patriot connection? I truthly think, you know,

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Speaker 1: God God has really had his hand and his grace

466
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Speaker 1: over my entire life, and um, you know, I've been

467
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Speaker 1: fortunate to play in this league for a while now,

468
00:23:47,560 --> 00:23:49,600
Speaker 1: and honestly, that's just kind of just how the league works.

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Speaker 1: You know, you you see familiar faces. You know, I

470
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Speaker 1: have guys on this team that I played in Philly with. UM,

471
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Speaker 1: there's there's all kinds of different connections Miami. So UM,

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Speaker 1: I think that's just really how the league work. But UM,

473
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Speaker 1: I think the way I'm very happy with how things

474
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Speaker 1: are being around here and and the way things are

475
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Speaker 1: you know going. I know that you know last year whatever,

476
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Speaker 1: there was a different um perception to that, but you know,

477
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Speaker 1: coming in this year, I can I think I speak

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Speaker 1: for a lot of guys saying that, Um, we love

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00:24:17,040 --> 00:24:19,760
Speaker 1: the culture and we love um you know, just just

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Speaker 1: kind of the the leadership and the way things are

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Speaker 1: being around here. And of course we're linebacker steps to

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Speaker 1: the podium. You know, somebody's gonna sneak in an access

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Speaker 1: and nose questions. So here is KGH on how linebackers

484
00:24:33,640 --> 00:24:35,920
Speaker 1: can help with coverage. Oh, I mean I think that's

485
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Speaker 1: pretty self expanitaory. You know, you got faster guys, you

486
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Speaker 1: get a tighter coverage. UM, and you know our d

487
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Speaker 1: line is is great right now. UM we got we

488
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Speaker 1: brought in a bunch of dbs that that looked like

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Speaker 1: they can strap up. So UM, I'm excited. That's only

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Speaker 1: really phrase I can I can say right now is

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Speaker 1: that I'm excited for for all of it. Now. I'm

492
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Speaker 1: not the podium credit that Landry Locker is, but I

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Speaker 1: love to listen to our guys at the podium. I

494
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Speaker 1: think David Culley and Kymu Grugier Hill getting a plus

495
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Speaker 1: is over here. And yes, Figgy hit that Texans Radio button. Yeah,

496
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Speaker 1: no doubt. All right, we get back. It's time to

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Speaker 1: go men behind the mics with our own Mark Vanimir.

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Speaker 1: This week it is Indianapolis Colts play by play man

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Speaker 1: Matt Taylor joining us to finish out this Friday show

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Speaker 1: on Texans All Access. We got one f segment to

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Speaker 1: this Friday nition to Texans All Access from the the

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Speaker 1: Texans Radio studio. I'm your host, John Harris Football, I

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Speaker 1: al side the reporter, glad to be with you, and

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Speaker 1: it's time for a guy that used to be in

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Speaker 1: my position silent reporter for ant of the team obviously,

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Speaker 1: who is now a play by play voice for his team.

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Speaker 1: He's made that climb up and the play by play

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Speaker 1: voice of our team. So all worlds are colliding with

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Speaker 1: this one, but he's a good friend of ours. Matt

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Speaker 1: Taylor play by play Voice of the Indianapolis Colts, the

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Speaker 1: men behind the mics, Matt Taylor with our own Mark

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Speaker 1: Vandamir Mark take it away, joining us right now. Matt Taylor,

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Speaker 1: the Voice of the Indianapolis Colts. Matt, So here we are,

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Speaker 1: coming out of COVID into OTAs. How's it been going

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Speaker 1: for you and Indianapolis. It's going well. The Colts were

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Speaker 1: one of the teams that had an abbreviated offseason workout program.

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Speaker 1: You know, normally you have in years past, you know,

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Speaker 1: non COVID years, if you will, Mark, you have you know,

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Speaker 1: the thirteen OTA periods and three days of minicamp in June.

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Speaker 1: You know, the Colts were one of those teams that

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Speaker 1: adapted this year. And the coaches and the and the

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Speaker 1: and the players got together and came to a little

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Speaker 1: bit of a compromise and said, give us two weeks

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Speaker 1: and we won't do anything rigorous on the field. We're

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Speaker 1: going to do, you know, mostly h walk through uh

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Speaker 1: you know, playbook install stuff for the younger guys so

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Speaker 1: they can get up to speed mentally. As you know, Mark,

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Speaker 1: there's only so many things you can really grasp and

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Speaker 1: get accomplished on zoom. So the Colts thought it was

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Speaker 1: a good idea to get at least, you know, some

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Speaker 1: on the field work done and you know, with position

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Speaker 1: groups and doing some individual stuff. They didn't have any

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Speaker 1: seven on seven or eleven on eleven full ghost stuff

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Speaker 1: that you normally see during OTA periods. But I thought,

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Speaker 1: really it was really important for the Colts to get

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Speaker 1: on the field, especially having some new coaches at some

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Speaker 1: really important position groups, if you will, on the coaching staff.

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Speaker 1: You've got a new quarterback in Carson Wentz. You're gonna

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Speaker 1: have a new left tackle with Anthony Costanzo deciding to

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Speaker 1: retire this offseason. So I thought it was important for

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Speaker 1: the Colts to at least have two weeks of on

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Speaker 1: field work activity, even though it wasn't strenuous this offseason.

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Speaker 1: All right, so let's start there with the left tackle situation.

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Speaker 1: So the running game does change here, but it was

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Speaker 1: really good last year and Taylor had a really nice debut.

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Speaker 1: You get Mac back, right, So tell us a little

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Speaker 1: bit about what's going on up front and the ground attack. Well,

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Speaker 1: I think on paper, the Colts could have the best

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Speaker 1: running back group in the NFL. I mean, as you said,

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Speaker 1: Marlon mack is back. He was a free agent signing

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Speaker 1: and he missed basically all of twenty twenty minus two

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Speaker 1: quarters because he tore his achilles in Week one in Jacksonville.

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Speaker 1: Last year, it was really unfortunate for him because he

554
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Speaker 1: was coming off a one thousand yards season in two nineteen,

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Speaker 1: heading into a contract year and then boom, it's just

556
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Speaker 1: all done. But then Jonathan Taylor was able to emerge,

557
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Speaker 1: and he hit some speed bumps along the way last

558
00:28:23,280 --> 00:28:26,480
Speaker 1: year and he kind of it needed to take himself

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Speaker 1: some time to kind of find out what this NFL

560
00:28:29,680 --> 00:28:31,919
Speaker 1: was all about for him, and you know how the

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00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:35,000
Speaker 1: game and the speed of the game changed coming from Wisconsin.

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Speaker 1: But I'll tell you what, towards the end of the season,

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Speaker 1: really about the halfway point of last year, he really

564
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Speaker 1: came on. I mean, he finished third in the NFL

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Speaker 1: and rushing let all rookies last year in rushing. I

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Speaker 1: mean there was a stretch towards the end of the

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Speaker 1: year where he was averaging over seventy yards rushing per game,

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Speaker 1: and so that that just kind of speaks to his

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Speaker 1: consistency and his ability to kind of figure out this game.

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Speaker 1: But as you said, you know, the offensive line is

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Speaker 1: the same but different, if that makes any sense, because

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Speaker 1: they do have a new left tackle, which arguably is

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Speaker 1: the most important, you know, offensive line position on any

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Speaker 1: football team. But considering that Carson Wentz is now the

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Speaker 1: quarterback of the Colts and he was sacked fifty times

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Speaker 1: last year or the Philadelphia Eagles you know, led the

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Speaker 1: NFL and sacks taken, it's really really important for the

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Speaker 1: Colts to figure that out because what you don't want

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Speaker 1: Carson Wentz to be doing is kind of, you know,

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Speaker 1: looking over his shoulder and wondering, Hey, when am I

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Speaker 1: going to get hit or how am I going to

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Speaker 1: get hit? So it's really really important for the Colts

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Speaker 1: to figure that out. Eric Fisher was signed a couple

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Speaker 1: of weeks ago in free agency, but of course, as

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Speaker 1: we know, he tore his achilles with the Chiefs in

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Speaker 1: the AFC Championship games, so his availability is not going

587
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Speaker 1: to be there. You wouldn't think the first couple of

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Speaker 1: games of the season, and if you look at the

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Speaker 1: first couple of games of the season for the Colts,

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Speaker 1: mark it is it is sort of murderers row. It's

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Speaker 1: sort of like what the Texans faced last year. To

592
00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:03,040
Speaker 1: begin the season, you meet all playoff teams, you know,

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Speaker 1: their first five games, or against teams that won at

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Speaker 1: least ten games last year. And with the AFC being

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Speaker 1: so loaded and being so competitive, every game is going

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Speaker 1: to be so important for the Colts in any team

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Speaker 1: that wants to make the playoffs. I mean, we saw

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Speaker 1: it last year. The Colts were eleven and five but

599
00:30:20,200 --> 00:30:22,960
Speaker 1: barely got in. They were the seventh and final team

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Speaker 1: in the AFC postseason picture. So that means every game

601
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Speaker 1: is so crucial. If you go back to last season,

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Speaker 1: the Colts dropped a Week one game in Jacksonville that

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Speaker 1: I alluded to have. They won that game, you know,

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Speaker 1: they win the AFC South, they win the division, they

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Speaker 1: host a playoff game, and things are a little bit different.

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Speaker 1: So those first five games of the season are going

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Speaker 1: to tell us, you know, how viable the Colts are

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Speaker 1: and kind of the barometer on if this team is

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Speaker 1: a playoff team and if they can kind of navigate

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Speaker 1: that early part of the schedule with a new left

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Speaker 1: tackle and a new quarterback. Matt Taylor, boys, are the

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Speaker 1: Colts joining us? All right? So tell us what you

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Speaker 1: can about Wentz right now? I know there hasn't been

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Speaker 1: a ton of work. So how does he look? I

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00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:06,320
Speaker 1: guess you haven't had a long look at him. But

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Speaker 1: what's the prognosis here, what's the projection of how Wentz

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Speaker 1: is going to be in this offense? Well, what they're

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Speaker 1: talking about right now is sort of reorganizing the playbook

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Speaker 1: for Carson Wentz. It's not changing the scheme, it's not

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Speaker 1: changing the offense. It's the Colts have been as you know, Mark,

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Speaker 1: they've been a team that's sort of had to pivot

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Speaker 1: and adjust on the fly with Andrew Luck deciding to

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Speaker 1: retire and Jacoby Brissette the quarterback, and then a chance

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Speaker 1: to bring in Philip Rivers then he retires. So you're

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Speaker 1: talking about four different starting quarterbacks four years in a row.

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Speaker 1: I mean, that just doesn't happen, especially at a place

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Speaker 1: like Indianapolis, where you know, this fan base was just

628
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Speaker 1: so used to two decades, if you will, of quarterback

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Speaker 1: stability with Peyton Manning and Andrew Luck. I know Texans

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00:31:52,120 --> 00:31:54,400
Speaker 1: fans don't like to hear about that, but that's what

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Speaker 1: they were used to around here. So you're gonna have

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Speaker 1: a fourth different starting quarterback four years in a row.

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Speaker 1: That's the first time in the history of the Colts

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Speaker 1: franchise that's occurred. So what they're doing right now is

635
00:32:07,400 --> 00:32:11,200
Speaker 1: sort of taking pages from what Andrew Luck did a

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Speaker 1: couple of years ago that maybe in the middle of

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00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:15,880
Speaker 1: the playbook or the back of the playbook, and now

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00:32:15,920 --> 00:32:18,320
Speaker 1: they're bringing those pages in those plays in the front

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00:32:18,320 --> 00:32:21,440
Speaker 1: of the playbook to accommodate Carson Wentz. So, I don't

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Speaker 1: think it's going to be a huge change in scheme

641
00:32:24,040 --> 00:32:26,400
Speaker 1: and a formula to move the ball down the field,

642
00:32:26,720 --> 00:32:28,880
Speaker 1: but I do think it's going to be some subtleties

643
00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:31,760
Speaker 1: here and there, you know, maybe some more RPOs. I mean,

644
00:32:31,760 --> 00:32:34,800
Speaker 1: Philip Rivers Mark was so get the ball out fast

645
00:32:34,960 --> 00:32:39,120
Speaker 1: and insane completion percentage. I mean last year routinely he

646
00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:43,120
Speaker 1: was over seventy percent completion percentage was you know, Sunday

647
00:32:43,120 --> 00:32:46,160
Speaker 1: in and Sunday out. I think, you know, I don't

648
00:32:46,160 --> 00:32:48,960
Speaker 1: know if you can expect that from person Wins. The

649
00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:51,000
Speaker 1: cults would like to have him get the ball out

650
00:32:51,240 --> 00:32:55,000
Speaker 1: and be pinpoint accurate, but he's a little bit more mobile.

651
00:32:55,040 --> 00:32:58,080
Speaker 1: He's deceptively mobile. He's got some speed to his game.

652
00:32:58,120 --> 00:33:00,920
Speaker 1: He's certainly got the arm strength that Andrew Luck had,

653
00:33:01,040 --> 00:33:04,000
Speaker 1: so maybe some more deep shots, traditional deep shots down

654
00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:06,840
Speaker 1: the field get guys going like t Y Hilton and

655
00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:10,120
Speaker 1: Paris Campbell is coming back from an injury from last season,

656
00:33:10,440 --> 00:33:12,000
Speaker 1: so I think they're going to get see your more

657
00:33:12,040 --> 00:33:15,800
Speaker 1: traditional deep shots down the sidelines with those guys, Whereas

658
00:33:15,920 --> 00:33:18,360
Speaker 1: last year the Colts got their chunk plays, but there's

659
00:33:18,360 --> 00:33:21,000
Speaker 1: a lot of yards after the catch, some crossers and

660
00:33:21,120 --> 00:33:23,880
Speaker 1: overs from Rivers who was really good at doing that.

661
00:33:24,440 --> 00:33:26,680
Speaker 1: But I think this offense is going to look more

662
00:33:26,760 --> 00:33:30,040
Speaker 1: like it did with two twenty eighteen when Andrew Luck

663
00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:32,080
Speaker 1: was at the help Well, Matt, we all know t

664
00:33:32,440 --> 00:33:36,200
Speaker 1: Y still can bring it if he's healthy. And as

665
00:33:36,200 --> 00:33:39,600
Speaker 1: you mentioned, Campbell's coming back, and the pundits are saying

666
00:33:39,640 --> 00:33:42,320
Speaker 1: that the Colts are or should be perhaps a target

667
00:33:42,360 --> 00:33:45,320
Speaker 1: for the Julio Jones sweepstakes. Who knows what happens there.

668
00:33:45,560 --> 00:33:49,080
Speaker 1: But do they need more help in the past catching department? Dude?

669
00:33:49,120 --> 00:33:52,760
Speaker 1: They like what they have currently, And I guess this

670
00:33:52,840 --> 00:33:55,320
Speaker 1: is a loaded question. It's all predicated on health, right

671
00:33:55,360 --> 00:33:58,480
Speaker 1: I mean, if everybody's healthy, you could be okay, sure,

672
00:33:58,600 --> 00:34:01,040
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, You've got a lot of options right now.

673
00:34:01,480 --> 00:34:03,560
Speaker 1: And to be honest, with you. I really don't know

674
00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:08,759
Speaker 1: where the Julio Jones stuff comes from, because you know,

675
00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:12,040
Speaker 1: I mean, if that's true, then you know, I mean

676
00:34:12,040 --> 00:34:14,839
Speaker 1: every team would like to add playmakers. But I mean,

677
00:34:14,960 --> 00:34:16,640
Speaker 1: the Colts are a team if you look at kind

678
00:34:16,640 --> 00:34:19,440
Speaker 1: of how they won games last year and how they

679
00:34:19,520 --> 00:34:22,040
Speaker 1: operated their offense from a season ago, they were a

680
00:34:22,160 --> 00:34:27,719
Speaker 1: very high volume offense in terms of getting people involved.

681
00:34:27,840 --> 00:34:30,239
Speaker 1: Every Sunday, I mean every single game last year, at

682
00:34:30,320 --> 00:34:33,960
Speaker 1: least seven different pass catchers caught a ball. So they're

683
00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:36,279
Speaker 1: they're they're they're a team that definitely likes to get

684
00:34:36,320 --> 00:34:39,239
Speaker 1: their tight ends involved. And that's where Kyl and Grant

685
00:34:39,280 --> 00:34:41,000
Speaker 1: soon or they draft in the fourth round out of

686
00:34:41,200 --> 00:34:43,920
Speaker 1: SVU comes into play. They think he can kind of

687
00:34:43,920 --> 00:34:47,200
Speaker 1: be that Trey Burton or Eric Ebron hybrid role or

688
00:34:47,360 --> 00:34:50,640
Speaker 1: if you go back to Frank Reich's tenure in Philadelphia,

689
00:34:50,719 --> 00:34:54,280
Speaker 1: kind of that zach Ertz, you know, red zone, third

690
00:34:54,320 --> 00:34:57,640
Speaker 1: down type of role. So they've got that. They've still

691
00:34:57,680 --> 00:35:00,560
Speaker 1: got mo Ali Cox and Jack Doyle. We already talked

692
00:35:00,560 --> 00:35:02,960
Speaker 1: about all the running backs with Jonathan Taylor and Marlin

693
00:35:03,080 --> 00:35:06,680
Speaker 1: mack naim Hines, who is a sort of a third

694
00:35:06,719 --> 00:35:10,480
Speaker 1: down specialist. You know, he can line up in the slot,

695
00:35:10,520 --> 00:35:12,640
Speaker 1: he can be a running back, he can even split

696
00:35:12,680 --> 00:35:15,239
Speaker 1: him out wide a little bit. So they like his versatility.

697
00:35:15,600 --> 00:35:18,359
Speaker 1: And then t Y Hilton coming back, Michael Pittman, who

698
00:35:18,360 --> 00:35:21,040
Speaker 1: they think can eventually be that number one wide receiver

699
00:35:21,960 --> 00:35:25,040
Speaker 1: after t Y Hilton his tenure with the Colts comes

700
00:35:25,040 --> 00:35:27,839
Speaker 1: to an end. So they've they've got a lot of

701
00:35:27,880 --> 00:35:30,920
Speaker 1: options and they've got some playmakers, but they just need

702
00:35:30,960 --> 00:35:34,000
Speaker 1: to stay healthy. You know, Mac last year, Campbell last year,

703
00:35:34,120 --> 00:35:36,480
Speaker 1: t Y Hilton has been banged up, you know, two

704
00:35:36,480 --> 00:35:38,839
Speaker 1: out of the last three years. So yes, it does

705
00:35:38,920 --> 00:35:42,239
Speaker 1: make sense on the surface to always kind of see

706
00:35:42,280 --> 00:35:44,680
Speaker 1: what's out there on the open market. But you've got

707
00:35:44,800 --> 00:35:47,160
Speaker 1: enough playmakers to move the ball and have a successful

708
00:35:47,200 --> 00:35:50,239
Speaker 1: offense based on what you're returning and bringing in from

709
00:35:50,239 --> 00:35:52,640
Speaker 1: one offseason to the next. Matt, give me something. On

710
00:35:52,680 --> 00:35:56,879
Speaker 1: the defense, how's it looking for twenty twenty one? Yeah, defensively,

711
00:35:57,160 --> 00:35:59,640
Speaker 1: you no longer have Justin Houston and you no longer

712
00:35:59,640 --> 00:36:02,560
Speaker 1: have to Eco Autry. Houston's still a free agent. He's

713
00:36:02,560 --> 00:36:05,799
Speaker 1: well over the age of thirty. Autry was lost in

714
00:36:05,880 --> 00:36:09,000
Speaker 1: free agency to the Tennessee Titans when you talk about

715
00:36:09,040 --> 00:36:11,319
Speaker 1: those first the first five games of the season mark

716
00:36:11,360 --> 00:36:13,680
Speaker 1: the Colts will really rolling the dice on a lot

717
00:36:13,719 --> 00:36:18,200
Speaker 1: of young players and guys that have been sort of

718
00:36:18,320 --> 00:36:21,879
Speaker 1: rotational guys that haven't produced to the level that they

719
00:36:21,960 --> 00:36:24,920
Speaker 1: need them to starting next season. They drafted Quitty pay

720
00:36:24,960 --> 00:36:28,440
Speaker 1: in the first round, edge player out of Michigan, but

721
00:36:28,520 --> 00:36:31,120
Speaker 1: he's a rookie. They think long term, this is gonna

722
00:36:31,160 --> 00:36:32,680
Speaker 1: be a great pick. It's going to be a home

723
00:36:32,760 --> 00:36:35,680
Speaker 1: run selection. He's going to be hopefully turns into a

724
00:36:35,719 --> 00:36:38,279
Speaker 1: guy like a Robert Mathis or a Dwight Freeney that

725
00:36:38,360 --> 00:36:41,880
Speaker 1: Colts fans are used to seeing. But it's twenty twenty

726
00:36:41,880 --> 00:36:44,400
Speaker 1: one and you got to play games in the immediate future,

727
00:36:44,840 --> 00:36:48,520
Speaker 1: and you know, just pass rushers coming out early. It's

728
00:36:48,560 --> 00:36:52,560
Speaker 1: hard to get ten, eleven, twelve sacks as rookie players.

729
00:36:52,600 --> 00:36:55,680
Speaker 1: So you look at that. You have guys like Isaac Rischelle,

730
00:36:55,719 --> 00:36:59,720
Speaker 1: who they've brought over from the Chargers. Al KaDee Muhammad

731
00:36:59,760 --> 00:37:02,719
Speaker 1: has been a rotational player, played about fifty percent of

732
00:37:02,760 --> 00:37:06,520
Speaker 1: the snaps last year. They need more from Komoco Terrey,

733
00:37:06,920 --> 00:37:09,239
Speaker 1: a former second round pick from a couple of years ago.

734
00:37:09,280 --> 00:37:11,960
Speaker 1: He's heading into a contract year. It's been banged up

735
00:37:11,960 --> 00:37:14,840
Speaker 1: the last two years with a really bad ankle injury.

736
00:37:15,120 --> 00:37:17,480
Speaker 1: They really need more out of him. They need more

737
00:37:17,520 --> 00:37:20,000
Speaker 1: out of Ben Vanago. And they also have dial At

738
00:37:20,080 --> 00:37:23,480
Speaker 1: Dangbo who they draft in the second round at a Vanderbilt.

739
00:37:23,520 --> 00:37:26,640
Speaker 1: But just like Eric Fisher, he's coming off in Achilles,

740
00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:29,400
Speaker 1: So when is he going to be on the field.

741
00:37:29,440 --> 00:37:31,320
Speaker 1: And when he does get on the field, he's a rookie.

742
00:37:31,400 --> 00:37:34,680
Speaker 1: What can you expect production wise, So they just need

743
00:37:34,719 --> 00:37:38,880
Speaker 1: more consistency. They need more production in terms of pressures

744
00:37:38,960 --> 00:37:42,319
Speaker 1: and sacks and getting after opposing quarterbacks. That to me

745
00:37:42,400 --> 00:37:44,759
Speaker 1: is gon is what's going to separate this team from

746
00:37:44,760 --> 00:37:47,520
Speaker 1: a good defense to a great defense a part of

747
00:37:47,520 --> 00:37:50,120
Speaker 1: a playoff team. You know, last year they were somewhere

748
00:37:50,120 --> 00:37:53,040
Speaker 1: in the forties in terms of getting getting sacks, but

749
00:37:53,880 --> 00:37:56,719
Speaker 1: they would get five or six one game and then

750
00:37:57,000 --> 00:37:59,040
Speaker 1: one or zero the next. They just need to be

751
00:37:59,080 --> 00:38:02,840
Speaker 1: somewhere around that two to three sack neighborhood for consistency.

752
00:38:03,239 --> 00:38:07,440
Speaker 1: That way they can continue as continuously altered games and

753
00:38:07,560 --> 00:38:10,920
Speaker 1: get in the face of quarterbacks to help that that secondary,

754
00:38:11,160 --> 00:38:14,160
Speaker 1: which was picked apart by elite quarterbacks down the stretch

755
00:38:14,480 --> 00:38:17,560
Speaker 1: particularly because they just didn't get enough pass rush up front.

756
00:38:17,760 --> 00:38:19,960
Speaker 1: A couple more for you, Matt, Matt Taylor, Voice of

757
00:38:20,040 --> 00:38:23,040
Speaker 1: the Cults with us level of excitement when they picked

758
00:38:23,120 --> 00:38:26,680
Speaker 1: up Rivers versus level of excitement for the fan base

759
00:38:26,760 --> 00:38:30,480
Speaker 1: and everybody involved when they made the trade to get

760
00:38:30,520 --> 00:38:33,279
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz. And I got to imagine with Wentz, at

761
00:38:33,320 --> 00:38:34,840
Speaker 1: least you're getting a guy whos going to be around

762
00:38:34,840 --> 00:38:36,879
Speaker 1: for a few years. You knew Rivers was short term

763
00:38:36,920 --> 00:38:39,800
Speaker 1: at best. Yeah, I mean, I think that's the difference here.

764
00:38:39,840 --> 00:38:42,439
Speaker 1: It's a it's a thirty seven, thirty eight year old

765
00:38:42,480 --> 00:38:46,720
Speaker 1: acquisition versus a twenty eight year old acquisition, and both

766
00:38:46,760 --> 00:38:49,840
Speaker 1: were met with you know, it's it's hard to speak

767
00:38:49,840 --> 00:38:51,680
Speaker 1: for the entire fan base, but if I can just

768
00:38:51,760 --> 00:38:54,040
Speaker 1: kind of paint with the broad stroke, both were met

769
00:38:54,080 --> 00:38:58,840
Speaker 1: with a little bit of, you know, trepidation because Rivers

770
00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:02,920
Speaker 1: is older. You're talking about a quarterback that's you know,

771
00:39:02,960 --> 00:39:05,080
Speaker 1: plays on the West Coast, and he had some history

772
00:39:05,160 --> 00:39:07,680
Speaker 1: there with the Colts in the playoffs where he took

773
00:39:07,760 --> 00:39:09,960
Speaker 1: them out of the postseason and kind of running his

774
00:39:10,080 --> 00:39:12,359
Speaker 1: mouth and Colts fans didn't like that, so they had

775
00:39:12,600 --> 00:39:15,720
Speaker 1: to kind of get over that aspect of Rivers because

776
00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:18,279
Speaker 1: he was just you know, in a Charger uniform for

777
00:39:18,320 --> 00:39:21,399
Speaker 1: so many years. And then with Carson Witz, it's kind

778
00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:23,440
Speaker 1: of like a wait and see type of thing because

779
00:39:23,600 --> 00:39:26,320
Speaker 1: he's coming off a season where you know, fifty seven

780
00:39:26,360 --> 00:39:30,680
Speaker 1: percent completion percentage led the NFL and sacks taken interceptions.

781
00:39:31,040 --> 00:39:32,759
Speaker 1: So they're like, Okay, how is this going to go?

782
00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:36,120
Speaker 1: Why do the Eagles want to get rid of them

783
00:39:36,280 --> 00:39:38,560
Speaker 1: to the point where they took on all of that

784
00:39:38,680 --> 00:39:42,640
Speaker 1: dead money. So there's a there's kind of cautiously optimistic

785
00:39:43,280 --> 00:39:45,600
Speaker 1: the section of the fan base that wants to see

786
00:39:45,600 --> 00:39:49,399
Speaker 1: how this goes. But again, I think everybody's a little

787
00:39:49,400 --> 00:39:53,480
Speaker 1: bit optimistic because of the Frank Reich connection with both

788
00:39:53,760 --> 00:39:57,160
Speaker 1: Rivers and wins and prior connections with the Chargers and

789
00:39:57,200 --> 00:39:59,920
Speaker 1: the Eagles. Finally, Matt, did you go to the five hundred?

790
00:40:00,239 --> 00:40:02,479
Speaker 1: What was it like for the city to have such

791
00:40:02,520 --> 00:40:07,080
Speaker 1: a massive crowd bring that huge event back following COVID?

792
00:40:07,440 --> 00:40:09,680
Speaker 1: Oh it was great. I did not go, but my

793
00:40:09,760 --> 00:40:13,680
Speaker 1: wife went. We would normally go together, but just with

794
00:40:13,680 --> 00:40:16,239
Speaker 1: with our family situation, we've got young kids, so I

795
00:40:16,239 --> 00:40:19,560
Speaker 1: stayed back with young kids, watch them build up some

796
00:40:19,680 --> 00:40:22,840
Speaker 1: husband equity if you will let her. Let her go

797
00:40:22,920 --> 00:40:25,799
Speaker 1: to the race. And it was great. She said she

798
00:40:25,840 --> 00:40:29,360
Speaker 1: had a great time. She said it was incredibly normal,

799
00:40:29,520 --> 00:40:32,000
Speaker 1: which was awesome to hear. It was one hundred and

800
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Speaker 1: thirty five thousand people, which sounds like a huge number

801
00:40:36,719 --> 00:40:39,799
Speaker 1: and it is, don't get me wrong, but I mean

802
00:40:39,840 --> 00:40:43,160
Speaker 1: any any Indy five hundred, that's that's a down year

803
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Speaker 1: for a five hundred, because the normal occupancy out there

804
00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:49,640
Speaker 1: in terms of fan attendance is normally in the twos,

805
00:40:49,680 --> 00:40:53,840
Speaker 1: like two thirty or two forty. So it's certainly the

806
00:40:53,960 --> 00:40:58,799
Speaker 1: largest sporting spectator crowd since COVID hit last March. But

807
00:40:59,160 --> 00:41:02,279
Speaker 1: I mean around here from everything I can gather, and

808
00:41:02,320 --> 00:41:04,640
Speaker 1: went off without a hitch. You know, you really haven't

809
00:41:04,719 --> 00:41:07,840
Speaker 1: read stories or heard anything about you know, COVID cases

810
00:41:07,880 --> 00:41:11,279
Speaker 1: blowing up in Central Indiana, which is awesome. So it's

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00:41:11,360 --> 00:41:13,799
Speaker 1: it's it's kind of a return to normalcy around here,

812
00:41:13,840 --> 00:41:17,880
Speaker 1: and it was great to have a huge sporting event

813
00:41:18,520 --> 00:41:21,360
Speaker 1: and not have it be all political and not have

814
00:41:21,480 --> 00:41:25,000
Speaker 1: all this um stuff around it. You know, it's like

815
00:41:25,120 --> 00:41:27,319
Speaker 1: should we be doing this? Should we not be doing this?

816
00:41:27,719 --> 00:41:29,879
Speaker 1: What are the protocols? It was just about the race,

817
00:41:29,920 --> 00:41:33,040
Speaker 1: and it was about celebrating Memorial Day and for what

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00:41:33,120 --> 00:41:36,080
Speaker 1: Memorial Day is all about and what it should be about. Um,

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00:41:36,160 --> 00:41:38,440
Speaker 1: it was a It was a great weekend, great weather

820
00:41:38,520 --> 00:41:41,840
Speaker 1: here and kudos to people in Indiana and in the

821
00:41:41,920 --> 00:41:44,880
Speaker 1: speedway for putting it all together. Got admit it was

822
00:41:44,960 --> 00:41:47,200
Speaker 1: kind of cool to see the Indy five hundred back

823
00:41:47,320 --> 00:41:50,319
Speaker 1: up and running. It's that one of the events said,

824
00:41:50,360 --> 00:41:52,759
Speaker 1: I feel like I just absolutely want to see But

825
00:41:52,920 --> 00:41:55,239
Speaker 1: people that have gone to have said it doesn't matter.

826
00:41:55,400 --> 00:41:59,040
Speaker 1: You love sports, you love events, you will love, love

827
00:41:59,200 --> 00:42:01,800
Speaker 1: love the Indy five hundred. But either way, it was

828
00:42:01,840 --> 00:42:04,200
Speaker 1: a great show. Great for Matt Taylor to stop by.

829
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Speaker 1: I appreciate Mark Vannimer for being here. Thanks to to

830
00:42:06,360 --> 00:42:09,480
Speaker 1: Rod Taylor, David Culley, Camu Grugier Hill. You hear more

831
00:42:09,520 --> 00:42:12,360
Speaker 1: from him on Monday with Drew Doherty. Appreciate you guys

832
00:42:12,360 --> 00:42:14,840
Speaker 1: for listen. We'll see you. I'm gonna have a great,

833
00:42:15,120 --> 00:42:18,719
Speaker 1: safe and hopefully a dry weekend and as always, go

834
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Speaker 1: Texans Axens Axens