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Speaker 1: What's up? Everyone? Welcome into a special edition of Instant

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Speaker 1: Reaction here on the Colts Audio Network. I'm JJ Sankovitch,

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Speaker 1: joined by Bill Brooks. Bill. Usually we do these after

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Speaker 1: Colts games, but what a momentous occasion for the Indianapolis

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Speaker 1: Colts franchise tonight. The Colts draft Anthony Richardson, quarterback from Florida,

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Speaker 1: with the fourth overall pick in the twenty twenty three

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Speaker 1: NFL Draft. Bill, you got a big grin on your face.

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Speaker 1: I got a big grin on my face. This is

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Speaker 1: a this is an exciting time, yes here in Indianapolis

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Speaker 1: with a young quarterback, the youngest quarterback now coming in.

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Speaker 2: Yes, the young quarterback coming in that people hope that

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Speaker 2: will be some stability at the quarterback position right now

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Speaker 2: for years to come for a young guy that has

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Speaker 2: all this athletic ability and athletic talent, and just excited

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Speaker 2: to see what Shame Stikin can do with this man

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Speaker 2: with all this talent, physical talent and getting out there

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Speaker 2: on the football field for the Indianapolis Colts.

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Speaker 1: All right, so let's get in to it. The Colts

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Speaker 1: selected Anthony Richardson with a fourth pick in the NFL

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Speaker 1: Draft there's one other quarterback who's considered to be in

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Speaker 1: Will Levis.

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Speaker 2: C J.

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Speaker 1: Stroud went number two to the Houston Texans. Bryce Young

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Speaker 1: went number one to the Carolina Panthers. Richardson's the guy

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Speaker 1: instead of Will Levis. The if you believed a lot

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Speaker 1: of the speculation before the NFL Draft, it was all

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Speaker 1: connecting the Colts to Will Levis, but Anthony Richardson the

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Speaker 1: upside and what he can be. You mentioned it Bill

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Speaker 1: in Shane Steiken's offense that was so great that you

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Speaker 1: can't pass on this guy almost. And our social team

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Speaker 1: and our production department put out this great video of

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Speaker 1: you know, kind of hyping up Anthony Richardson, but in

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Speaker 1: it Morocco Brown is in there. The Colts chief personnel

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Speaker 1: officers saying there's not gonna be a talent like him

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Speaker 1: that's going to come around in the next fifty years.

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Speaker 1: I mean, we haven't seen a talent like Anthony Richardson.

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Speaker 1: And then, by the way, Bill, on top of that,

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Speaker 1: he's twenty years old. He's the first quarter back who's

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Speaker 1: under the age of twenty one to be drafted since

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Speaker 1: nineteen fifty how do you balance Richardson the upside that

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Speaker 1: he has with the inexperience of him being only twenty

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Speaker 2: Well, you look at it, and you see a young man,

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Speaker 2: a twenty year old man with all this talent and

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Speaker 2: all this ability, and you look at your locker room,

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Speaker 2: look at your coaches, the coaching staff, and say, Okay, yes,

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Speaker 2: we do have a young individual that's going to be

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Speaker 2: a quarterback for the Indianapolis coach But we have people

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Speaker 2: here in the locker room that can mentor him, work

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Speaker 2: an individual and of course as a football player. So

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Speaker 2: I think them knowing our locker room, them knowing what

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Speaker 2: type of people we have in the locker room, the

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Speaker 2: coaching staff, and just saying, seeing that this guy has

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Speaker 2: this much ability, what we can do with this young

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Speaker 2: man and put pieces around him to help him grow personally,

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Speaker 2: but more so put pieces around him to help this

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Speaker 2: team win football games. I think you know, with Anthony Richardson,

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Speaker 2: like you said, I'm excited about the young man all

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Speaker 2: the talent that this young man has shown and what

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Speaker 2: he can do. Yes, he does have things he needs

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Speaker 2: to work on. We all know that we are. Every

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Speaker 1: So if you look at the athletic testing comparisons between

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Speaker 1: Anthony Richardson and other prospects who have come through the

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Speaker 1: NFL combine, there's literally not a comparison to him at quarterback.

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Speaker 1: If you go to mock draftable dot com, they plugs

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Speaker 1: in all of his testing numbers as measurements. The closest

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Speaker 1: comparison to him is Dante Culpepper. He's a sixty nine

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Speaker 1: to make any comparisons Anthony Richardson. He is unique in

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Speaker 1: a way that the word unique bill it annoys me

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Speaker 1: You're just you're the You're either unique or you're not.

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Speaker 1: Anthony Richardson is unique as a quarterback. As an athlete,

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Speaker 1: Is Khalil Mack one of the best pass rushers in

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Speaker 1: The level of athlete he is is insane. But you're

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Speaker 1: He had a forty and a half inch vertical one

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Speaker 2: And you take his arm strength, you take his speed,

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Speaker 2: of days ago, I was thinking about, you know, who

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Speaker 2: He of course compares himself to Cam Newton. But those

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Speaker 2: what's going to have to happen. He's gonna have to

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Speaker 2: But I believe that people in this building will get

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Speaker 1: His running ability, I think Bill raises his floor in

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Speaker 1: rattling off some of his numbers. Last year. He had

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Speaker 2: And that's what and that's what I'm not saying, Shaan's

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Speaker 2: one way you can do as far as Hey, look,

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Speaker 2: we're gonna take this guy's running ability one of his

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Speaker 2: that he can run the ball. And oh, by the way,

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Speaker 2: Backfield's pretty nice. It's pretty nice combination back there with

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about the completion percentage though it was low,

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Speaker 1: Does that completion percentage when you hear that thrown out there,

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Speaker 2: No, it does not worry me because it's something that

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean Chris Ballard said the Colts drafted him

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Speaker 1: I mean, look, we're all really excited about this. Chris

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Speaker 1: The scouts have done their work, They've put in unbelievable hours,

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Speaker 2: Ye sure.

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Speaker 1: But if Anthony Richardson forces the issue and say, you know,

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Speaker 2: I agree with. You can get him on the field,

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Speaker 1: That's great, that's great. Let's just get ahead. Let's get

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Speaker 1: Reaction with you here on the Cold Audio Network. Colt's

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