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Speaker 1: This is Instant Game Reactions, an immediate look back at

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Speaker 1: the Colt's latest game. He's at the five looking for

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Speaker 1: the pylon. Touchdown, Jonathan Taylor or run up twenty three

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Speaker 1: yards to Pater. They'll walk it up field. It's intercepted,

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Speaker 1: picked off by the Colts and it's Darius Leonard Winston

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Speaker 1: rows up the field end of the end zone. Sack, fast, touchdown, touchdown. Hide.

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Speaker 1: Why now here's your host, JJ Stankovitz from Colts dot Com. Hey, everyone,

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Speaker 1: welcome into another edition of Colts Instant Reaction here on

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Speaker 1: the Colt's Audio network. I'm JJ Stenkovitz, joined by Colts

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Speaker 1: Ring of Honor remember Bill Brooks, to break down the

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Speaker 1: colts twenty seven to seventeen win over the New England Patriots.

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Speaker 1: One of the biggest wins we've seen here at Lucas

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Speaker 1: Oil Stadium in a really long time. And Bill, I

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Speaker 1: want to start here because you and I were talking

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Speaker 1: about this before we've we started recording that Frank Wright,

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Speaker 1: he and his coaching staff out coached Bill Belichick and

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Speaker 1: the New England Patriots coaching staff. And that is not

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Speaker 1: a slight at Bill Belichick and what the Patriots do.

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Speaker 1: That is about as big of a compliment as you

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Speaker 1: can possibly give a head coach in the NFL today

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Speaker 1: that hey, you went toe to toe with Bill Belichick

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Speaker 1: and you came out on the other side having a

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Speaker 1: better game schematically. Between Frank Reich, Marcus Brady, Matt Eberflus,

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Speaker 1: the Coats. I mean, they did a phenomenal job this

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Speaker 1: whole week. I guess maybe probably just say the bye

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Speaker 1: weekend this week to get ready for the New England

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Speaker 1: Patriots last night, and they did a phenomenal job, as

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Speaker 1: I said, and just schematically doing something to keep the

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Speaker 1: Patriots off balance. The Papriots never could figure out from

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Speaker 1: a defensive standpoint what the coach were doing offensively. I start,

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Speaker 1: I looked at the start of the game, and the

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Speaker 1: coach came out with three tight ends, kind of cameo

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Speaker 1: something different that the coach don't do a lot of

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Speaker 1: They have done the pass, but something different. So then

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Speaker 1: they had to make adjustments. Then the coach come back

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Speaker 1: so they gave them some different looks each and every time.

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Speaker 1: They gave him some jet sweeps. Of course, they pounded

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Speaker 1: did things where they lined up like they were going

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Speaker 1: to come after mac Jones, but they would drop off

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Speaker 1: and they only rushed three, or they would rush four,

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Speaker 1: And you know, Bill Belichick is known for making adjustments

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Speaker 1: and they did a nice job. And you know, yes,

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Speaker 1: New Engham Patriots at bay. I thought this was really

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Speaker 1: interesting Bill after the game. You know, Frank Reich, Frank

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Speaker 1: Reich doesn't he does. He's not one to praise himself

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Speaker 1: after these games, like you know, pretty much all coaches,

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Speaker 1: I asked him, Hey, when did Bubba Ventrone call that

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Speaker 1: it's like every week that the Colts make a play

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Speaker 1: the Colts coaching acumen. He said, quote, really, all three

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Speaker 1: running the ball. We stuck to the game plan, ran

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Speaker 1: mac Jones pitched the shout out in the first for

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Speaker 1: start there with Jonathan Taylor's day. I mean the sixty

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Speaker 1: So he didn't make some plays. You know, he didn't

430
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Speaker 1: make some plays down down the field. But I'm sure

431
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Speaker 1: he would want to get those plays back. But like

432
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Speaker 1: you said, the good thing is the Coats beat the

433
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Speaker 1: number one definitive team in National Football League, and they

434
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Speaker 1: beat the New England Patriots, who had the best record

435
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Speaker 1: in the AFC, and they beat him by ten points.

436
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Speaker 1: So I mean, and you had your quarterback five or

437
00:22:53,600 --> 00:22:57,960
Speaker 1: twelve or fifty seven yards, So I mean if when

438
00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:01,080
Speaker 1: teams see that, it's like, wow, they have to be good.

439
00:23:01,240 --> 00:23:03,840
Speaker 1: They running game has to be good. And this we

440
00:23:03,920 --> 00:23:06,040
Speaker 1: know how good Carson Wentz is, and we know how

441
00:23:06,080 --> 00:23:09,800
Speaker 1: good the Colts can play when they're passing the ball

442
00:23:09,920 --> 00:23:13,920
Speaker 1: extremely well and extremely efficient. This is a good team.

443
00:23:13,920 --> 00:23:16,800
Speaker 1: And here's the thing. That passing attack. It's still there.

444
00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:20,800
Speaker 1: Oh definitely, it hasn't gone away. It hasn't gone anyway,

445
00:23:20,840 --> 00:23:22,840
Speaker 1: and it won't go away either, right, I mean, Frank

446
00:23:22,880 --> 00:23:24,520
Speaker 1: frank Reich, if he needs to lean on it in

447
00:23:24,560 --> 00:23:26,639
Speaker 1: the playoffs, he trusts he can lean on it. By

448
00:23:26,680 --> 00:23:28,879
Speaker 1: the way, build that stat that I was I was

449
00:23:28,920 --> 00:23:33,000
Speaker 1: trying to conjure up. This is. This is since twenty seventeen,

450
00:23:33,119 --> 00:23:36,800
Speaker 1: the most fourth and one conversions for a first down

451
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Speaker 1: in the NFL. The top five. You ready, number five,

452
00:23:39,880 --> 00:23:43,840
Speaker 1: Jacobe Berset his ten, number four, Lamar Jackson is thirteen,

453
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Speaker 1: number three, Josh Allen has fourteen, number two, Ezekiel elliotts fifteen,

454
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Speaker 1: and number one. Carson Wentz has twenty one. I mean,

455
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Speaker 1: he's he's legitimately really good at this. So Frank Wright

456
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Speaker 1: calling for all those fourth and one conversion or fourth

457
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Speaker 1: and one plays where it's a quarterback sneak. He's not

458
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Speaker 1: doing that in a vacuum. He's doing that knowing that

459
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Speaker 1: this is a skill that Carson Wentz has. And you know,

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Speaker 1: chuckle all you want at it. But when you have

461
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Speaker 1: a coach like Frank Reich who trusts analytics guys John

462
00:24:19,640 --> 00:24:22,760
Speaker 1: Park and George Lee and is going to be aggressive

463
00:24:22,760 --> 00:24:24,800
Speaker 1: on fourth down and knows that they're going to pick

464
00:24:24,800 --> 00:24:27,359
Speaker 1: it up, you know, you can't do much better than that.

465
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Speaker 1: By the way, Jonathan Taylor in that same span has

466
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Speaker 1: nine rushes for a first down on fourth down. So

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Speaker 1: that's pretty good for a guy who entered the league

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty. That that is very good. And then like,

469
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Speaker 1: but Carson Wentz, I mean, you know, Carson went to

470
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Speaker 1: a smart individual. Frank Wright's a smart individual. When you

471
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Speaker 1: have a guy that's as tall as Carson Wentz and

472
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Speaker 1: as big as Carson Wentzon, as strong as Carson Wentz,

473
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Speaker 1: then you put that together with Quentin Nelson as your

474
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Speaker 1: left guard and Fisher as your tackle, and then you

475
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Speaker 1: know Kelly or Pinter at your center, you have a

476
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Speaker 1: pretty good combination of players there and individuals that can

477
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Speaker 1: make plays that should be able to get one yard

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Speaker 1: for you. On fourth and one or fourth and inches.

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Speaker 1: So it doesn't surprise me that Carson Wentz is at

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Speaker 1: the top of the list, because, like I say, he's

481
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Speaker 1: a big young man, he's strong, he can move, he

482
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Speaker 1: can help move the pile. And it doesn't hurt to

483
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Speaker 1: have Quentin Nelson and Pinter and Kelly and those guys

484
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Speaker 1: out there being able to push the pile. Wait to

485
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Speaker 1: get that one yard, all right, So let's let's spend

486
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Speaker 1: some time talking about the Colts defense here. First time, Bill,

487
00:25:32,920 --> 00:25:35,639
Speaker 1: in ninety nine games, the New England Patriots did not

488
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Speaker 1: score a point in the first three quarters of a game.

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Speaker 1: This was, more than anything, the Colts took Mac Jones

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Speaker 1: out of his game. And you know, Mac Jones had

491
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Speaker 1: been playing at a really high level coming into this game.

492
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Speaker 1: I know, you know he had the game against Buffalo

493
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Speaker 1: were only through three passes. Whatever Mac Jones was, he

494
00:25:58,880 --> 00:26:03,120
Speaker 1: was processing in ormation so well entering this game, you know,

495
00:26:03,560 --> 00:26:07,760
Speaker 1: like just picking apart defenses. Against Atlanta, he completed eighty

496
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Speaker 1: five percent of his passes. That followed up a game

497
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Speaker 1: against New England in which he completed eighty two percent

498
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Speaker 1: of his passes. He had only thrown two interceptions in

499
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Speaker 1: the Patriots seven game winning streak, just two interceptions in

500
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Speaker 1: that span. Colts picked him off twice on Saturday night.

501
00:26:24,760 --> 00:26:27,359
Speaker 1: The defense was playing with a level of energy and

502
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Speaker 1: focus that was just absolutely incredible, Probably their best effort

503
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Speaker 1: of the season, maybe even better than that Buffalo game,

504
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Speaker 1: just given the circumstances, given how long they were able

505
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Speaker 1: to sustain this against a good Patriots offense. What did

506
00:26:45,040 --> 00:26:48,639
Speaker 1: you see from just how the Colts were able to

507
00:26:48,680 --> 00:26:51,000
Speaker 1: kind of make mac Jones make some mistakes, whether it

508
00:26:51,040 --> 00:26:54,240
Speaker 1: was throwing outside the numbers where he's not as accurate,

509
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Speaker 1: or I mean that interception to Darius Leonard where the

510
00:26:57,320 --> 00:26:59,560
Speaker 1: TV cameras caught mac Jones as soon as he as

511
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Speaker 1: soon as the ball hit Darius hands, he kind of

512
00:27:01,840 --> 00:27:04,119
Speaker 1: puts his hands on his head like, oh no, Like

513
00:27:04,119 --> 00:27:06,480
Speaker 1: like a pitcher who just tug a curveball and you

514
00:27:06,560 --> 00:27:09,399
Speaker 1: just saw, you know, Luis Robert hit it five hundred

515
00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:13,680
Speaker 1: feet like, oh no. I mean that he looked kind

516
00:27:13,680 --> 00:27:17,199
Speaker 1: of rattled against this Colts defense. Yeah, I think he

517
00:27:17,240 --> 00:27:18,959
Speaker 1: was rounded. He didn't see him. He didn't see him

518
00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:22,119
Speaker 1: dropping back Darius Lynn dropping back out there into that

519
00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:24,520
Speaker 1: area is trying to hit Hunter Henry coming across the

520
00:27:24,560 --> 00:27:26,760
Speaker 1: field there in the red zone there, and he did

521
00:27:26,800 --> 00:27:29,920
Speaker 1: not see him. And then when the bar came out

522
00:27:29,920 --> 00:27:32,680
Speaker 1: of his hands, he realized, oh, there's a blue jersey there.

523
00:27:33,320 --> 00:27:35,159
Speaker 1: I made a mistake. So he put his hands on

524
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Speaker 1: his head and he knew he had made a mistake

525
00:27:37,040 --> 00:27:39,359
Speaker 1: and he just didn't see him. And give credit to

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Speaker 1: the coach defense and as we would talk about earlier,

527
00:27:42,480 --> 00:27:45,800
Speaker 1: give credit to ebrafluence for the schemes that he had

528
00:27:45,880 --> 00:27:49,080
Speaker 1: up in the plays that he designed to get the

529
00:27:49,160 --> 00:27:51,840
Speaker 1: rookie confused. Anytime you have a rookie quarterback back there

530
00:27:52,080 --> 00:27:54,720
Speaker 1: is it is a big adjustment when you're coming from

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00:27:54,760 --> 00:27:57,600
Speaker 1: college to the National Football League, where you have to

532
00:27:58,720 --> 00:28:01,880
Speaker 1: look at defenses. You have to look at the front,

533
00:28:01,920 --> 00:28:03,200
Speaker 1: you have to look at the secondary, you have to

534
00:28:03,240 --> 00:28:05,240
Speaker 1: look at where the linebackers are. You have to understand

535
00:28:05,240 --> 00:28:06,840
Speaker 1: where you are on the field. You have to understand

536
00:28:06,840 --> 00:28:08,520
Speaker 1: your personnel you have in the game. You have to

537
00:28:08,600 --> 00:28:11,120
Speaker 1: understand what personnel they have in a game. So all

538
00:28:11,160 --> 00:28:12,760
Speaker 1: this is going through your head. Then you have to

539
00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:14,200
Speaker 1: play that. You have to get ready to run and

540
00:28:14,240 --> 00:28:16,280
Speaker 1: then you have to think, okay, is this play success?

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Speaker 1: Is going to be successful? Not or maybe have to

542
00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:21,200
Speaker 1: do something where I need to check out of it. Well,

543
00:28:21,440 --> 00:28:22,960
Speaker 1: all those things are running through your head and you

544
00:28:22,960 --> 00:28:25,679
Speaker 1: don't have so much time to to actually get the

545
00:28:25,720 --> 00:28:29,560
Speaker 1: playoff and run the play. So I think Eberflust is

546
00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:32,840
Speaker 1: a good job of getting him confused. He act like

547
00:28:32,840 --> 00:28:34,640
Speaker 1: he's going to give some pressure at times, and then

548
00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:37,480
Speaker 1: he dropped people out, and then sometimes he looked like

549
00:28:37,520 --> 00:28:39,960
Speaker 1: he's going to drop people out then gave him some

550
00:28:39,960 --> 00:28:43,320
Speaker 1: pressure from the safeties or off the slot with not

551
00:28:43,600 --> 00:28:46,320
Speaker 1: I mean not Kenny Moore coming off the slot and

552
00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:49,920
Speaker 1: uh Carrie Willison also coming down there. So they did

553
00:28:49,960 --> 00:28:52,280
Speaker 1: some things to confuse him. And you know, he made

554
00:28:52,440 --> 00:28:54,760
Speaker 1: he made some mistakes out there, and that one I

555
00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:56,840
Speaker 1: think was a mistake that he wanted to get back

556
00:28:56,880 --> 00:29:00,160
Speaker 1: when Darius Lennon had that pick. But I think the

557
00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:03,560
Speaker 1: other than exception he through give it Bobby karro Cake

558
00:29:03,600 --> 00:29:06,600
Speaker 1: with credit. That was like a great exception. That was

559
00:29:06,680 --> 00:29:11,640
Speaker 1: I mean that great hands going to the ball, catching

560
00:29:11,640 --> 00:29:13,960
Speaker 1: the ball while he's diving to the ground and holding

561
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Speaker 1: onto the ball. That was gift. I'm not gonna blame

562
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Speaker 1: Mac Jones for that one. I'm gonna say give Bobby

563
00:29:20,560 --> 00:29:22,800
Speaker 1: Karrocake a lot of credit for that one. He made

564
00:29:22,800 --> 00:29:25,520
Speaker 1: a great play. I'm picking that off, but there were

565
00:29:25,600 --> 00:29:28,920
Speaker 1: other players that you know, Mac Jones had that he

566
00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:32,600
Speaker 1: was confused and the sack that Barkner had he had

567
00:29:32,640 --> 00:29:34,600
Speaker 1: just dropped down there because he didn't have any way

568
00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:39,320
Speaker 1: to go. And so give the defense credit. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you look at the defense and as I mentioned earlier,

570
00:29:42,280 --> 00:29:47,680
Speaker 1: they pitched a shutout for three quarters. They played extremely

571
00:29:47,680 --> 00:29:50,760
Speaker 1: extremely well, got the two turnovers, they converted the one

572
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Speaker 1: turnover to three points and actually the one turnover that

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Speaker 1: they got with with Darius Slint there, No, they didn't

574
00:29:58,480 --> 00:30:00,719
Speaker 1: convert to points where they got points, but to me,

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Speaker 1: I think they stopped the Patriots from getting three points

576
00:30:03,080 --> 00:30:05,960
Speaker 1: or seven points right there, right before the half when

577
00:30:05,960 --> 00:30:08,480
Speaker 1: they were getting the ball back to start the second exactly.

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00:30:08,520 --> 00:30:12,040
Speaker 1: So to me, that was a huge, huge, huge turnover

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Speaker 1: for the coach to get that. So that was huge,

580
00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:17,400
Speaker 1: and you know that goes a long ways, and that

581
00:30:17,480 --> 00:30:20,280
Speaker 1: keeps the momentum going, and that does a lot to

582
00:30:20,520 --> 00:30:23,680
Speaker 1: hurt an imposing team. When you're about to score and

583
00:30:23,760 --> 00:30:26,040
Speaker 1: you turn the ball over in the red zone, that

584
00:30:26,120 --> 00:30:27,840
Speaker 1: hurts a lot. And especially knowing that you were going

585
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Speaker 1: to get the ball back at the beginning the second half,

586
00:30:30,080 --> 00:30:32,920
Speaker 1: and so that was that makes it that much harder

587
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Speaker 1: for you as a team to come back from that.

588
00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:36,920
Speaker 1: So give the coach defense a lot of credit. And

589
00:30:37,040 --> 00:30:39,320
Speaker 1: they just they flew around, they were they were playing

590
00:30:39,480 --> 00:30:42,960
Speaker 1: extremely fast last night, and give the crowd a lot

591
00:30:43,040 --> 00:30:45,480
Speaker 1: of credit for giving those guys some juice to go

592
00:30:45,520 --> 00:30:48,520
Speaker 1: out there and play extremely fast and extremely hard. Yeah,

593
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Speaker 1: Remander is Stevenson and Brandon Bolden, new England's two running

594
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Speaker 1: backs combined for fourteen carries for thirty nine yards. You know,

595
00:30:55,760 --> 00:30:58,160
Speaker 1: New England maybe missed Damien Harris a little bit, he

596
00:30:58,200 --> 00:31:01,520
Speaker 1: missed this game with a hamstring injury. But I mean

597
00:31:01,560 --> 00:31:04,120
Speaker 1: that the Colts came into this game saying, we got

598
00:31:04,120 --> 00:31:06,400
Speaker 1: to stop the run. This is our what our defense

599
00:31:06,480 --> 00:31:08,280
Speaker 1: is built around. We've got to prove we can do it.

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Speaker 1: And man, they went out and proved it. Romander Stevenson's

601
00:31:10,560 --> 00:31:13,800
Speaker 1: a good running back. They shut they shut him down

602
00:31:14,360 --> 00:31:17,400
Speaker 1: in this game. And you know, yes, yes, the Patriots

603
00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:19,280
Speaker 1: had to play from behind quite a bit. So Mac

604
00:31:19,360 --> 00:31:22,440
Speaker 1: Jones attempted forty five passes, but they had to play

605
00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:25,280
Speaker 1: behind quite a bit because they couldn't get anything going

606
00:31:25,320 --> 00:31:28,360
Speaker 1: in the first half, and they kind of got taken

607
00:31:28,480 --> 00:31:31,640
Speaker 1: out of their game plan, which you know probably was

608
00:31:31,680 --> 00:31:33,800
Speaker 1: going to be let's run the ball, hit some play

609
00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:37,080
Speaker 1: action with mac Jones, make things easy for him because

610
00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:40,240
Speaker 1: even on that you know that Bobby interception. Mac Jones

611
00:31:40,320 --> 00:31:43,200
Speaker 1: is a guy. He doesn't have the arm strength that

612
00:31:43,320 --> 00:31:46,560
Speaker 1: of you know, the other the rookie quarterbacks you know

613
00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:49,120
Speaker 1: in this year's draft, whether it's Justin Fields or Trevor

614
00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:51,920
Speaker 1: Lawrence or you know, Trey Lancer, those guys. But he's

615
00:31:51,920 --> 00:31:56,680
Speaker 1: so good at processing and the Colts diminished his ability

616
00:31:56,720 --> 00:31:59,040
Speaker 1: to process. And then when he needed to put some

617
00:31:59,120 --> 00:32:02,200
Speaker 1: zip on throws, Bobby o'caacka is going in, they're diving

618
00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:06,440
Speaker 1: to make an interception. It was such great defensive football

619
00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:12,160
Speaker 1: from a schematic standpoint, from an execution standpoint, and you know, yes,

620
00:32:12,240 --> 00:32:15,040
Speaker 1: New England was able to make that comeback late, but

621
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Speaker 1: it and while it was nervy, I'm not gonna lie,

622
00:32:18,480 --> 00:32:21,600
Speaker 1: it was nerve wracking. You know, when you hold a

623
00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:24,160
Speaker 1: team to no points through the first three quarters of

624
00:32:24,160 --> 00:32:26,440
Speaker 1: a game, you do have a little more wiggle room

625
00:32:26,480 --> 00:32:29,400
Speaker 1: when things get tight late. And the Colts earned that

626
00:32:29,920 --> 00:32:32,120
Speaker 1: with how well they played defensively over the first forty

627
00:32:32,120 --> 00:32:35,360
Speaker 1: five minutes. Yeah, yes they did earn that. But also,

628
00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:38,240
Speaker 1: you know, we talk about mac Jones. All you really

629
00:32:38,280 --> 00:32:40,680
Speaker 1: want to do for a young quarterback is to make

630
00:32:40,760 --> 00:32:43,800
Speaker 1: him think, make him hold the ball an extra second,

631
00:32:43,840 --> 00:32:46,960
Speaker 1: extra two seconds longer than what he normally does, give

632
00:32:47,160 --> 00:32:50,760
Speaker 1: hopefully give your defensive line of time to get to

633
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Speaker 1: the quarterback. Which that's probably something that I'm sure the

634
00:32:53,760 --> 00:32:56,040
Speaker 1: Colts probably wanted to do a little bit better, get

635
00:32:56,040 --> 00:32:58,680
Speaker 1: more pressure, to get more sacks on mac Jones. But

636
00:32:59,040 --> 00:33:01,200
Speaker 1: it was enough to confuse him where he didn't know

637
00:33:01,240 --> 00:33:03,760
Speaker 1: exactly where to go or with the ball, or should

638
00:33:03,760 --> 00:33:06,320
Speaker 1: he go certain places with the ball. So I think

639
00:33:06,320 --> 00:33:09,200
Speaker 1: the coach did enough and did a good job of

640
00:33:09,520 --> 00:33:12,400
Speaker 1: confusing the young man. And and you know, Matt Jones,

641
00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:14,400
Speaker 1: he's got to get better. He's he is. He's a

642
00:33:14,480 --> 00:33:18,640
Speaker 1: talented quarterbacks. He has the arm. He doesn't have the

643
00:33:18,720 --> 00:33:21,480
Speaker 1: armor strength, but he has enough of armor strength where

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Speaker 1: if he anticipates the throw he can get there and

645
00:33:24,320 --> 00:33:27,680
Speaker 1: get there with some accuracy. Um, he's a very accurate quarterback.

646
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Speaker 1: So he's good. But I think Matt Uberflus just confused him.

647
00:33:34,760 --> 00:33:38,560
Speaker 1: Enough to get the coach defense opportunities to make plays.

648
00:33:38,560 --> 00:33:41,640
Speaker 1: And the coach defense made plays and they put the

649
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Speaker 1: players in position to make those plays. And such as

650
00:33:44,600 --> 00:33:47,440
Speaker 1: Darius Lennon and Barbara Kerry Kay and and all the

651
00:33:47,480 --> 00:33:50,040
Speaker 1: guys up there, they played well, and they played fast,

652
00:33:50,120 --> 00:33:52,200
Speaker 1: and they played physical. But you have to do against

653
00:33:52,240 --> 00:33:54,080
Speaker 1: the New England Patriots team. You have to play physical

654
00:33:54,080 --> 00:33:57,760
Speaker 1: against a team like this, because that's Bill Belichick's calling

655
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Speaker 1: card to play physical and and also to trying to

656
00:34:00,280 --> 00:34:03,760
Speaker 1: confuse you as individual and make you play, as we

657
00:34:03,840 --> 00:34:07,880
Speaker 1: said earlier, play with your weekend. So, Bill, one of

658
00:34:07,920 --> 00:34:09,759
Speaker 1: the reasons why I love doing this podcast with you

659
00:34:09,840 --> 00:34:12,120
Speaker 1: is because you bring something up from your experience of

660
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Speaker 1: playing and your ability to look at a game and

661
00:34:14,880 --> 00:34:16,560
Speaker 1: say these things, and now I can kind of take

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Speaker 1: it and throw some numbers behind it. So you mentioned

663
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Speaker 1: Mac Jones holding out of the ball a little bit more, right,

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Speaker 1: So Mac Jones in this game he attempted he had

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Speaker 1: more dropbacks your twenty one dropbacks where he had more

666
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Speaker 1: than three seconds to throw. That was his highest total

667
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Speaker 1: of dropbacks with more than three seconds to throw. So

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Speaker 1: that's him hanging onto the ball a little bit more

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Speaker 1: that was his highest total since Week three against the

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Speaker 1: New Orleans Saints and mac Jones the season. You know,

671
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Speaker 1: if we're looking for a way to kind of get

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Speaker 1: to him, his passer rating is seventy two point one

673
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Speaker 1: when he has three or more seconds to throw. When

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00:34:54,160 --> 00:34:57,160
Speaker 1: he has three or fewer seconds to throw, so he's

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Speaker 1: getting the ball out quick. His passer ratings at ninety

676
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Speaker 1: eight point and the Colts did a really good job

677
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Speaker 1: making him hold onto the ball a little bit longer

678
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Speaker 1: where he can you know, if he's not making a

679
00:35:09,320 --> 00:35:12,520
Speaker 1: mistake on an interception, he maybe is you know, not

680
00:35:12,760 --> 00:35:15,840
Speaker 1: seeing things as well, not as accurate as he usually is.

681
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Speaker 1: Just an absolutely tremendous game by the Colts defense, And

682
00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:21,880
Speaker 1: that's another way to do it. Look, if you make

683
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Speaker 1: him hold onto the ball a little bit more, he

684
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Speaker 1: still has a rookie quarterback in a loud, charged up environment.

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Speaker 1: That is a tough thing to be in, a tough

686
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Speaker 1: place to be. Yeah, you know, I don't think he's

687
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Speaker 1: probably played in a stadium that loud. Well, I should

688
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Speaker 1: say that you want to tea Yeah, he probably played

689
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Speaker 1: in a professional stadiation maybe that loud, because the Coast

690
00:35:41,480 --> 00:35:44,000
Speaker 1: Dame was loud, I know he's he's been very successful

691
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Speaker 1: on the road as a professional quarterback, but I think,

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Speaker 1: you know, hold on a second, hold on a second.

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Speaker 1: Build though I just realized he want to Alabama. But

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Speaker 1: last year it was the pandemic, and I don't think

695
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Speaker 1: crowds are as live as they usually work where maybe

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Speaker 1: this is the list atmosphere Matt Jones ever played in.

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Speaker 1: It could it couldn't have been that is right, then

698
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Speaker 1: think about that. But if he did play in the

699
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Speaker 1: Alabama and say he played in the loud stadium, in

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Speaker 1: a professional stadium as loud as it was, and the

701
00:36:15,320 --> 00:36:19,359
Speaker 1: players were playing fast and giving them different looks, it

702
00:36:19,400 --> 00:36:20,840
Speaker 1: was a little difficult for him and it was a

703
00:36:20,840 --> 00:36:22,520
Speaker 1: little difficult for him. So it's something that he's going

704
00:36:22,600 --> 00:36:25,239
Speaker 1: to have to, you know, get better at, and I

705
00:36:25,320 --> 00:36:28,879
Speaker 1: think he will get better at as far as as

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Speaker 1: time goes on. But give the coachs credit. They've put

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Speaker 1: some pressure on the young man. Confused a young man

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Speaker 1: um so he couldn't get the ball out. And if

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Speaker 1: I'm not mistaken, and the statue is rolled off there

710
00:36:42,080 --> 00:36:44,279
Speaker 1: in regards to him throwing holding the ball for three

711
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Speaker 1: point second, I think in the other game, you said

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00:36:46,640 --> 00:36:49,439
Speaker 1: was New Orleans, if I'm not mistaken, and I think

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Speaker 1: in that game, I think that's the game he had

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Speaker 1: three interceptions as well. He did have three interceptions in

715
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Speaker 1: that game. That was in Week three and the Patriots

716
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Speaker 1: lost twenty eight to thirteen exactly. So so it shows

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00:36:59,719 --> 00:37:01,279
Speaker 1: there that you know, when you can do some things

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Speaker 1: where he can hold them along a little bit longer

719
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Speaker 1: and get him to think more than just react, it's

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Speaker 1: going to give him some trouble. So that's you know,

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Speaker 1: one thing that I'm sure you'll see teams going forward

722
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Speaker 1: trying to do to Matt Jones. And I was reading

723
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Speaker 1: some of the transcripts of the following this game, and

724
00:37:19,239 --> 00:37:21,720
Speaker 1: they talk about, you know, teams, this is a copycat league,

725
00:37:21,719 --> 00:37:24,120
Speaker 1: so they're gonna be teams are gonna take what Matt

726
00:37:24,280 --> 00:37:28,000
Speaker 1: Verflus did to the Patriots and see if they can

727
00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:31,440
Speaker 1: try to copy that and do that to confuse them.

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Speaker 1: But you know, they have to have the personnel that

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00:37:33,440 --> 00:37:35,279
Speaker 1: the Colts have. We don't know if they have a

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Speaker 1: team that can move as fast and do the things

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Speaker 1: that the Coats can do. But more likely the Patriots

732
00:37:40,719 --> 00:37:42,600
Speaker 1: are going to see that again. So Matt Jones is

733
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Speaker 1: gonna have to learn from it, and hopefully, you know,

734
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Speaker 1: for him, they'll get better, but if we see them

735
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Speaker 1: later on the playoffs, hopefully not that much better. So

736
00:37:49,719 --> 00:37:51,839
Speaker 1: we can beat them again. I mean, that's the thing

737
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Speaker 1: the Colts. To get where they want to go, they

738
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Speaker 1: might have to beat the Patriots again this season. One

739
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Speaker 1: last thing here, Bill, before we get out of here.

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Speaker 1: I mean, Bubba Ventrone's special teams absolutely incredible. If three

741
00:38:02,600 --> 00:38:06,360
Speaker 1: touchdowns on punts this season and none of them have

742
00:38:06,440 --> 00:38:08,600
Speaker 1: been a return, you had Ashton duel In recovering that

743
00:38:08,719 --> 00:38:11,799
Speaker 1: muff where it kind of the la snapped it off

744
00:38:11,800 --> 00:38:15,520
Speaker 1: the up back in Week two, EJ. Speed recovering Zire

745
00:38:15,600 --> 00:38:20,759
Speaker 1: Franklin's block against Jacksonville. And now EJ. Speed again recovering

746
00:38:20,800 --> 00:38:23,799
Speaker 1: a block punt, this time by Matt Adams who came unblocked.

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Speaker 1: Bill Belichick just I mean, classic Bill Belichick quote here

748
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Speaker 1: After the game, he was asked what happened on the

749
00:38:31,200 --> 00:38:33,839
Speaker 1: blocked punt, and he said, we didn't block that guy.

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Speaker 1: What else do you want him to say? We didn't

751
00:38:36,040 --> 00:38:39,400
Speaker 1: block that guy. But Bubba Ventrone, I mean, the impact

752
00:38:39,520 --> 00:38:43,560
Speaker 1: that his special teams have on the Colts, we cannot

753
00:38:43,640 --> 00:38:46,319
Speaker 1: understate it. I mean, you've got Ashton duel In leading

754
00:38:46,320 --> 00:38:50,120
Speaker 1: the league in special team stops. You got EJ Speed

755
00:38:50,200 --> 00:38:55,160
Speaker 1: having two touchdowns this season. EJ Speed two touchdowns, and

756
00:38:55,840 --> 00:38:58,480
Speaker 1: you know guys like Asiah Rogers making plays in the

757
00:38:58,520 --> 00:39:02,239
Speaker 1: return game, just keeping you know, Rigo Sanchez having a

758
00:39:02,239 --> 00:39:06,799
Speaker 1: really solid season pinning guys deep the way the Cults

759
00:39:06,840 --> 00:39:09,960
Speaker 1: are playing on special teams, like when you're looking for

760
00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:13,719
Speaker 1: these little edges when you get into December in January,

761
00:39:14,080 --> 00:39:16,279
Speaker 1: special teams is a really good one to have in

762
00:39:16,320 --> 00:39:19,520
Speaker 1: your back pocket. And the Colts absolutely have that thanks

763
00:39:19,520 --> 00:39:21,840
Speaker 1: to the work the Bubba Intron, and every single player

764
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Speaker 1: who contributes on special teams is putting in by far.

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Speaker 1: I know people look at special teams as oh man,

766
00:39:26,920 --> 00:39:29,239
Speaker 1: there's special teams something that we have to do, but

767
00:39:29,360 --> 00:39:32,560
Speaker 1: we definitely do it. No. Special teams are a vital

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00:39:32,719 --> 00:39:34,960
Speaker 1: part of the football of a football team. When you

769
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Speaker 1: have a special teams that can make plays and that

770
00:39:37,080 --> 00:39:40,399
Speaker 1: can turn games around, you can flip the field. Now,

771
00:39:40,400 --> 00:39:43,759
Speaker 1: if you can say you pin someone back and keep

772
00:39:43,800 --> 00:39:47,000
Speaker 1: them back in there their own territory and give your

773
00:39:47,040 --> 00:39:50,280
Speaker 1: offense good field position, it makes it easier for the

774
00:39:50,320 --> 00:39:53,000
Speaker 1: officers to drive down the field, and when you get

775
00:39:53,080 --> 00:39:58,200
Speaker 1: the plays where you block punts, are you create a

776
00:39:58,200 --> 00:40:00,440
Speaker 1: turn and make a big return on a par return

777
00:40:00,560 --> 00:40:04,960
Speaker 1: or kickoff return, those things play pay big dividends in

778
00:40:05,040 --> 00:40:08,200
Speaker 1: a game, and you want to take special teams series,

779
00:40:08,239 --> 00:40:11,520
Speaker 1: and it was great to see the coaches make a

780
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Speaker 1: big play on special teams against the Patriots because the

781
00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:17,480
Speaker 1: Patriots are known for making big plays on special teams

782
00:40:17,480 --> 00:40:20,600
Speaker 1: with now with Slater there who's been in a league

783
00:40:20,640 --> 00:40:23,840
Speaker 1: for a long time making plays on special teams for

784
00:40:23,880 --> 00:40:26,799
Speaker 1: a long time with the Patriots, so we know that

785
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Speaker 1: Bill Belichicks puts a lot of emphasis on a special team.

786
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Speaker 1: So when you can go out there and now play

787
00:40:33,480 --> 00:40:36,800
Speaker 1: the Patriots and special teams, that's saying a lot about

788
00:40:37,080 --> 00:40:39,520
Speaker 1: not just the players out there, but also the coach,

789
00:40:39,719 --> 00:40:44,520
Speaker 1: Bubba Ventrone, for how he looks at a game, how

790
00:40:44,560 --> 00:40:47,759
Speaker 1: he's trying to create advantage for the special teams to

791
00:40:47,840 --> 00:40:50,239
Speaker 1: make players, to put them in a position to make plays.

792
00:40:50,520 --> 00:40:52,279
Speaker 1: And that's what we've talked about it earlier. That's what

793
00:40:52,280 --> 00:40:55,080
Speaker 1: the coaches want to do. They want to put these

794
00:40:55,120 --> 00:40:57,960
Speaker 1: athletes in positions to make plays so that they can

795
00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:01,200
Speaker 1: take their strengths, make these plays so they can be

796
00:41:01,520 --> 00:41:04,879
Speaker 1: advantageous to the Coats and of course the team you're

797
00:41:04,880 --> 00:41:09,759
Speaker 1: playing for. So give Bob Ventron credit. And on that play, yes,

798
00:41:09,880 --> 00:41:12,719
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick said the guy wasn't blocked. He's absolutely right,

799
00:41:12,760 --> 00:41:14,920
Speaker 1: the guy wasn't blocked. But I tell you what, the

800
00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:17,759
Speaker 1: guy tried to grab Adams shirt and hold him on

801
00:41:17,800 --> 00:41:19,839
Speaker 1: that play. Because as Adams was getting buying the guy,

802
00:41:19,920 --> 00:41:22,759
Speaker 1: you saw adam shirt kind of pull away from his body.

803
00:41:22,920 --> 00:41:27,600
Speaker 1: But he kept on going and he was pitture perfect

804
00:41:27,760 --> 00:41:30,720
Speaker 1: on the technique and blocking that punt. When you're blocking

805
00:41:30,719 --> 00:41:33,560
Speaker 1: a punt like that, you want to go for where

806
00:41:33,600 --> 00:41:36,080
Speaker 1: the kicker or the partner's going to be, where it's

807
00:41:36,120 --> 00:41:38,080
Speaker 1: what's going to be. You don't want to die. You

808
00:41:38,080 --> 00:41:39,919
Speaker 1: really don't want to leave your feet, and you want

809
00:41:39,960 --> 00:41:42,799
Speaker 1: to extend your hands out there and kind of take

810
00:41:42,880 --> 00:41:45,640
Speaker 1: the ball off his foot. And that's what Adam did.

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Speaker 1: You already heard is two thumps bump on the ball

812
00:41:48,520 --> 00:41:50,960
Speaker 1: being kicked and then the ball hitting Adam's hand and

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00:41:51,000 --> 00:41:54,120
Speaker 1: then after that, you know, great, the A EJ. Speed

814
00:41:54,160 --> 00:41:57,680
Speaker 1: to be covering for him to get two touchdowns in

815
00:41:57,760 --> 00:42:00,560
Speaker 1: a season, that's remarkable. I mean a lot of these

816
00:42:00,560 --> 00:42:02,440
Speaker 1: guys don't get a lot of these special teams, players

817
00:42:02,440 --> 00:42:04,560
Speaker 1: that play a lot wouldn't get too touched down in

818
00:42:04,640 --> 00:42:07,920
Speaker 1: their career. Huh ye for that, So for him to

819
00:42:07,960 --> 00:42:11,680
Speaker 1: get too touchdown in one season, that's remarkably. That's great

820
00:42:11,719 --> 00:42:13,279
Speaker 1: that that young man's in the right place at the

821
00:42:13,360 --> 00:42:17,880
Speaker 1: right time to recover those U block punts for touchdowns.

822
00:42:17,920 --> 00:42:21,239
Speaker 1: So give the coach credit. Um, you know, that's one

823
00:42:21,280 --> 00:42:25,560
Speaker 1: thing that when going forward, whoever plays the Coats, they

824
00:42:25,640 --> 00:42:27,480
Speaker 1: gotta have to be on the toes and when they

825
00:42:27,560 --> 00:42:31,560
Speaker 1: when they have make kicking plays, punt kicks, whatever they do.

826
00:42:31,640 --> 00:42:34,160
Speaker 1: But special teams was going to be a big park

827
00:42:34,880 --> 00:42:37,319
Speaker 1: going forward for the Coast to make big plays. Yeah,

828
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Speaker 1: you better be ready to come play the Colts because

829
00:42:40,120 --> 00:42:42,200
Speaker 1: this is the I think we can say the Colts

830
00:42:42,200 --> 00:42:45,640
Speaker 1: are the team no one wants to play come January.

831
00:42:45,800 --> 00:42:48,399
Speaker 1: And right now, the Colts control their own destiny as

832
00:42:48,440 --> 00:42:52,120
Speaker 1: the AFC number five seed. H well sort of do

833
00:42:52,400 --> 00:42:55,080
Speaker 1: I guess we have to. We're potting this before a

834
00:42:55,080 --> 00:42:58,640
Speaker 1: bunch of games happened with Baltimore their tiebreakers. Let's just say, Bill,

835
00:42:58,719 --> 00:43:01,080
Speaker 1: the Colts control their own desk. Any for the AFC

836
00:43:01,239 --> 00:43:03,279
Speaker 1: number five seed, maybe if some results go their way,

837
00:43:03,320 --> 00:43:05,560
Speaker 1: we could still be talking about them winning the division,

838
00:43:05,600 --> 00:43:08,040
Speaker 1: but that a lot of carts have to go before

839
00:43:08,080 --> 00:43:11,839
Speaker 1: a lot of horses before we get into that. Yeah,

840
00:43:12,000 --> 00:43:14,040
Speaker 1: that's so. But right now, let's just enjoy this win.

841
00:43:14,640 --> 00:43:17,080
Speaker 1: Enjoy your Sunday, Enjoy your Monday. If you're listening to this,

842
00:43:17,800 --> 00:43:21,080
Speaker 1: we will be back again after the Colts play the

843
00:43:21,120 --> 00:43:24,920
Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinals on Christmas Day, a Boxing Day edition of

844
00:43:25,120 --> 00:43:28,319
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845
00:43:28,360 --> 00:43:30,200
Speaker 1: with us this week, though, we are going to have

846
00:43:30,280 --> 00:43:32,960
Speaker 1: plenty more coming to you here on the Colts Audio Network.

847
00:43:33,000 --> 00:43:36,720
Speaker 1: The Colts Official Podcast with myself, Lara Overton, and Jeffrey Gorman.

848
00:43:36,800 --> 00:43:40,160
Speaker 1: That'll be out on Tuesday. Inside Football with Rick Ventury,

849
00:43:40,200 --> 00:43:42,719
Speaker 1: the great show that Matt Taylor and coach Rick Ventury do.

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00:43:43,160 --> 00:43:45,520
Speaker 1: That'll be out Wednesday. No Your Foe. That'll be with

851
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Speaker 1: Bill Brooks and Casey Valier previewing Colts and Cardinals on

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Speaker 1: point five. And we are going to be back again

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Speaker 1: after the Colts play the Arizona Cardinals one week from well,

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Speaker 1: I guess yesterday. I don't know what day it is,

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Speaker 1: Bill anymore. The four thirty bedtime you got to bet

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Speaker 1: at four, I got to bet at four thirty. I

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Speaker 1: don't know what dat is. I do know we should

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Speaker 1: end the podcast right here though, So anyways, four Bill Brooks,

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