WEBVTT - Drive Time: Colts Perspective with JJ Stankevitz 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:06.040 To remove Darlan Deep Speedless Peast peas d from the 0:00:06.080 --> 0:00:10.400 Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. 0:00:10.920 --> 0:00:14.680 This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield. 0:00:16.200 --> 0:00:27.800 He's got my add hands in the playoffs. 0:00:28.400 --> 0:00:32.640 What is up, Dolphans And welcome to the Draft Time Podcast. 0:00:32.960 --> 0:00:35.480 I am your host, Travis wing fielded. On today's show, 0:00:35.520 --> 0:00:38.960 we welcome in the Colts perspective with Colts dot Com 0:00:38.960 --> 0:00:43.120 writer JJ's Tekovitz will also pick the week seven games. 0:00:43.760 --> 0:00:46.280 You boy went fourteen and oh this week to improve 0:00:46.320 --> 0:00:49.440 the mark to seventy two percent winning percentage, which is 0:00:49.479 --> 0:00:51.879 the exact goal we're going for this year. I know 0:00:51.960 --> 0:00:53.760 it was a chalky week, but it's always good to 0:00:53.800 --> 0:00:56.560 stack some dubs as we did from the Baptist Hell 0:00:56.640 --> 0:00:59.200 Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. 0:00:59.240 --> 0:01:03.200 This is the Draft Time Podcast. 0:01:06.000 --> 0:01:08.199 Our guest today is a writer for Colts dot Com, 0:01:08.200 --> 0:01:11.280 also part of the Colts Audio Network, JJ Stankovic. JJ, 0:01:11.319 --> 0:01:13.640 how are we doing out there in the beautiful Midwest? 0:01:13.680 --> 0:01:16.960 My friend doing great. Thank you for having me on here, Travis. 0:01:17.480 --> 0:01:21.559 So, speaking of the Midwest, you know myself, like many 0:01:21.600 --> 0:01:24.240 other people in these positions, I make the annual trek 0:01:24.240 --> 0:01:27.319 to Indianapolis for the scouting Combine every single year, and 0:01:27.400 --> 0:01:28.200 please never move it. 0:01:28.280 --> 0:01:30.520 Please don't take it to Los Angeles or Las Vegas. 0:01:30.560 --> 0:01:33.400 Keep it in Indeed, so I was curious, you know, 0:01:33.720 --> 0:01:36.679 what's it like when there's not hundreds of personnel from 0:01:36.720 --> 0:01:39.880 all thirty two teams descending upon your city. My question 0:01:39.959 --> 0:01:43.280 is does Indianapolis still exist when the combine's not going on? 0:01:43.840 --> 0:01:46.199 Yeah, because there are so many other conventions that come 0:01:46.240 --> 0:01:49.880 through the city. I mean, it's a constant flow of conventions. 0:01:49.880 --> 0:01:52.720 You know, you're breaking down the combine and you've got 0:01:52.760 --> 0:01:56.080 probably like a like a medical professionals convention. There are 0:01:56.760 --> 0:02:01.040 cheerleading competitions seemingly every weekend downtown, and so we are 0:02:01.080 --> 0:02:05.160 a great convention city. And that's why I too hope 0:02:05.200 --> 0:02:07.480 the NFL Combine never moves. The person who really hopes 0:02:07.480 --> 0:02:10.000 the NFL Combine never moves, though, is my wife. So 0:02:10.040 --> 0:02:11.680 she wouldn't have to be like, You're going to la 0:02:11.800 --> 0:02:15.160 for five days while I'm home with the kids. So's 0:02:15.240 --> 0:02:17.880 just so for her case that the combine never moves. 0:02:18.200 --> 0:02:20.000 And for the wingfields, it's the same thing. 0:02:20.320 --> 0:02:22.079 It's like kind of a nice little vacation for dad 0:02:22.120 --> 0:02:24.919 to get away for a few nights and have uninterrupted 0:02:24.919 --> 0:02:25.720 sleep for a few nights. 0:02:25.720 --> 0:02:26.960 It's always always a good thing. 0:02:27.280 --> 0:02:29.120 But yeah, it's funny, man, because like every time, you know, 0:02:29.560 --> 0:02:32.639 you make the trek from the ballroom upstairs where the 0:02:32.760 --> 0:02:35.640 media workroom is, and you walk past all those different 0:02:35.639 --> 0:02:37.959 convention rooms and there's like, like to your point, there's 0:02:37.960 --> 0:02:40.680 like an office supplies convention going on. There's always something 0:02:40.960 --> 0:02:43.519 in those various rooms happening. And man, we love going 0:02:43.520 --> 0:02:45.560 out there because one, the city is just such a 0:02:45.560 --> 0:02:48.200 fun walking city, and two I said, it's a nice 0:02:48.240 --> 0:02:50.160 little trip away from. 0:02:50.200 --> 0:02:52.040 Daily life as it is every single day. 0:02:52.080 --> 0:02:55.440 So that's before the podcast, before the game on Sunday. 0:02:55.600 --> 0:02:58.400 It's actually been since twenty nineteen. The Dolphins were last 0:02:58.440 --> 0:03:00.880 in Indy. The Colts came down here in twenty twenty 0:03:00.880 --> 0:03:03.160 one and beat the Dolphins in a game that featured 0:03:03.160 --> 0:03:04.000 a backup quarterback. 0:03:04.000 --> 0:03:05.639 You get the exact same thing this Sunday. 0:03:05.760 --> 0:03:07.760 But I want to go ahead and start here with 0:03:08.200 --> 0:03:10.800 your quarterback situation. You know, for the Dolphins, they've played 0:03:10.800 --> 0:03:13.840 four quarterbacks this year. Hopefully QB one on the mend 0:03:13.840 --> 0:03:16.320 here very soon. But for the Colts, a one in 0:03:16.440 --> 0:03:19.120 three team under Anthony Richardson two and zero with Joe 0:03:19.200 --> 0:03:22.200 Flacco start in games, and it sounds like it'll be 0:03:22.600 --> 0:03:25.960 ar for Sunday's game, you know, barring any setbacks and 0:03:26.280 --> 0:03:28.080 JJ I want to just go ahead and make this 0:03:28.120 --> 0:03:30.880 like disclaimer. I'm a big believer in Anthony Richardson where 0:03:30.919 --> 0:03:33.640 I think his development can take him. I think that 0:03:33.680 --> 0:03:35.160 he has a lot of things that he does really 0:03:35.200 --> 0:03:37.920 well from a playing instructure standpoint that I think a 0:03:37.920 --> 0:03:40.440 lot of folks kind of gloss over. So I don't 0:03:40.440 --> 0:03:41.960 want this to be taken as a slight, but I'm 0:03:41.960 --> 0:03:45.240 curious because when you have those two competing dynamics with 0:03:45.280 --> 0:03:48.200 the veteran quarterback who's what is it eight consecutive games 0:03:48.240 --> 0:03:50.960 with two touchdown passes for Joe Flacco. I'm just curious 0:03:51.040 --> 0:03:55.680 what the vibe is, the feeling around Richardson v. Flacco 0:03:56.000 --> 0:03:57.720 and how the team approaches that entire thing. 0:03:58.360 --> 0:04:02.640 Yeah, I mean it, Everyone in this building knows Anthony 0:04:02.720 --> 0:04:07.320 Richardson's this team's QB one. There's not a discussion about 0:04:07.440 --> 0:04:10.160 do we need to go to Joe Flacco. It's how 0:04:10.200 --> 0:04:13.480 can we support Anthony and give him the best shot 0:04:13.640 --> 0:04:16.760 to establish himself as one of the better quarterbacks in 0:04:16.800 --> 0:04:20.120 the NFL. He's got work to do, but he's the 0:04:20.160 --> 0:04:24.159 Colt Sky going forward. And maybe it's not the same 0:04:24.640 --> 0:04:27.520 but similar ish to what you guys went through with 0:04:27.640 --> 0:04:32.520 Tua and Ryan Fitzpatrick right where you know Fitzpatrick, it 0:04:32.560 --> 0:04:34.960 was a little bit different. Right, Fitzpatrick's winning some games. 0:04:34.960 --> 0:04:36.880 It's competitive, but we got to see what we have 0:04:36.960 --> 0:04:40.400 in Tua. Like for the Colts, they've been on this 0:04:40.839 --> 0:04:45.400 veteran quarterback hamster wheel for ever since Andrew Luck retired. 0:04:45.760 --> 0:04:49.040 It was Philip Rivers and it was Carson Wentz, Matt Ryan. 0:04:49.760 --> 0:04:51.520 You got to get off that at some point, and 0:04:51.560 --> 0:04:53.600 you don't get off it by going to a thirty 0:04:53.680 --> 0:04:57.440 nine year old Joe Flacco. Even if Joe Flacco, even 0:04:57.480 --> 0:05:00.880 if you feel like which I don't know if people 0:05:00.880 --> 0:05:03.320 in this building feel this way, but let's say you 0:05:03.400 --> 0:05:05.400 feel like Joe Flacco gives you a better chance to 0:05:05.440 --> 0:05:08.120 win games right now, Anthony Richardson gives you a better 0:05:08.200 --> 0:05:11.000 chance of winning games for the long term. So you 0:05:11.080 --> 0:05:12.360 got to figure out what you have in him. You 0:05:12.400 --> 0:05:15.200 got to give him a chance to play and play consistently. 0:05:15.520 --> 0:05:18.760 Flacco has done some good things in his two starts 0:05:18.760 --> 0:05:22.120 for the Colts, but nothing that you know, he is 0:05:22.160 --> 0:05:25.440 going to dissuade the Colts from playing Anthony Richardson when 0:05:25.440 --> 0:05:27.240 he is healthy, and that looks like that will be 0:05:27.279 --> 0:05:28.400 Sunday against the Dolphins. 0:05:28.760 --> 0:05:31.560 That's exactly how I feel because again going back to Florida, 0:05:31.600 --> 0:05:33.960 just four hundred dropbacks and last year has the rookie 0:05:34.000 --> 0:05:35.800 year kind of shortened by the injury. 0:05:35.839 --> 0:05:38.120 Like, you got to play the guy, right he needs. 0:05:38.200 --> 0:05:41.000 Those snaps are the one thing to me that's preventing 0:05:41.080 --> 0:05:42.760 him from taking that next step. And we've seen the 0:05:42.760 --> 0:05:45.360 flashes of brilliance. Man, it's fun to watch when he's 0:05:45.400 --> 0:05:48.880 cranking there. And that offense has had you know, it 0:05:48.920 --> 0:05:51.839 seems like the league in general right now has a 0:05:51.839 --> 0:05:53.960 bunch of injuries that every team's dealing with, and the 0:05:53.960 --> 0:05:58.279 Colts are you know, they're not impervious to that. But 0:05:58.400 --> 0:05:59.960 we saw a couple of guys play on Sunday, or 0:06:00.040 --> 0:06:02.040 I should say one guy, Michael Pittman. Can you give 0:06:02.120 --> 0:06:04.960 us an update on Pittman on JT on Ryan Kelly. 0:06:04.960 --> 0:06:07.240 Where's the Colts offense from a hell standpoint right now? 0:06:08.120 --> 0:06:11.520 So let's start with pitt That was one of the 0:06:11.560 --> 0:06:15.800 most remarkable games I've seen a player play, and he 0:06:15.839 --> 0:06:18.400 only had three catches for thirty five yards, but he 0:06:18.520 --> 0:06:22.000 caught the game winning touchdown by he was singled up 0:06:22.080 --> 0:06:25.799 the Titans ran cover zero. He singled up against Lagerius Sneed, 0:06:25.800 --> 0:06:28.240 who was one of the most physical cornerbacks in the NFL, 0:06:28.600 --> 0:06:31.400 and he out jumps him, wrestles the ball away from 0:06:31.480 --> 0:06:34.280 him on the ground to come up with what was 0:06:34.520 --> 0:06:36.920 turned out to be the game winning touchdown. And then 0:06:37.240 --> 0:06:39.640 later in the fourth quarter, he caught a sixteen yard 0:06:39.680 --> 0:06:43.279 pass from Joe Flacco where he again out physicals Lagarious 0:06:43.279 --> 0:06:46.400 Sneed for the ball and that essentially seals the game 0:06:46.520 --> 0:06:49.600 for the Colts. So for him to do that while 0:06:49.600 --> 0:06:53.480 dealing with a back injury that I don't think it 0:06:53.560 --> 0:06:58.640 was necessarily inaccurate reporting that the Colts were thinking about 0:06:58.680 --> 0:07:03.640 potentially putting him on reserve. But he Pitt said Thursday night, 0:07:03.880 --> 0:07:06.440 so he did practice Wednesday. He didn't practice Thursday. Thursday 0:07:06.560 --> 0:07:09.520 night of last week, he said, I think I'm going 0:07:09.560 --> 0:07:13.120 to give this a go. He practices in full on Friday, 0:07:13.520 --> 0:07:16.160 listed as questionable, he plays, He plays eighty percent of 0:07:16.200 --> 0:07:19.720 the snaps. He was not super limited in terms of 0:07:19.760 --> 0:07:22.760 what the Colts were asking him to do in the game, 0:07:23.440 --> 0:07:25.800 and you know, we'll see how he comes out of it. 0:07:25.840 --> 0:07:29.040 But Joe Flacco, who's played in the league for seventeen years, 0:07:29.640 --> 0:07:32.160 said Pit's one of the toughest dudes I've ever been with. 0:07:32.520 --> 0:07:35.560 So Joe Flacco's a guy who's played with you know, 0:07:36.640 --> 0:07:40.600 An Kwon Bolden and Frank Gore and just some of 0:07:40.600 --> 0:07:43.640 the absolute toughest guys who have ever played on offense 0:07:43.640 --> 0:07:47.440 in the NFL. So that's Pitt. Jonathan Taylor, he's missed 0:07:47.440 --> 0:07:49.640 the last two games with an ankle injury. He's told 0:07:49.680 --> 0:07:51.840 us he's making progress. He said last week he feels 0:07:51.880 --> 0:07:54.320 way better. He still has yet to practice as we're 0:07:54.360 --> 0:07:57.160 recording this on Tuesday, so his status were going to 0:07:57.200 --> 0:07:58.920 keep an eye on this week. And then Ryan Kelly 0:07:59.360 --> 0:08:02.080 had a cafe injury. Shane Stikin said he's doing better. 0:08:02.160 --> 0:08:04.360 We'll see if he's able to go. If he's not 0:08:04.520 --> 0:08:07.280 able to go, though, the culture getting really good play 0:08:07.280 --> 0:08:10.480 out of rookie Tanner Bordalini, who started in weeks four 0:08:10.560 --> 0:08:14.760 and five and came out of those games playing really well, 0:08:14.880 --> 0:08:17.880 especially in terms of pass protection. So on that side 0:08:17.880 --> 0:08:20.680 of the ball. The injuries have not hit as hard 0:08:21.200 --> 0:08:23.040 as they have on defense, and. 0:08:23.040 --> 0:08:24.640 We'll come back to that here in one second. Good 0:08:24.640 --> 0:08:26.600 teaser for the second half of the interview. Here, I 0:08:26.600 --> 0:08:28.040 do want to follow up with you there on the 0:08:28.120 --> 0:08:31.080 Ryan Kelly point because you know, and again with we 0:08:31.120 --> 0:08:34.199 talk about Richardson's experience or lack thereof in the NFL 0:08:34.240 --> 0:08:36.679 as well as his college reps and Ryan Kelly. I mean, 0:08:36.840 --> 0:08:38.679 I can't speak more highly of a player in terms 0:08:38.720 --> 0:08:40.600 of just what he means for a team with not 0:08:40.640 --> 0:08:42.440 just the physical abilities, but what he does from a 0:08:42.440 --> 0:08:43.280 mental standpoint. 0:08:43.559 --> 0:08:44.320 Do you is there? 0:08:44.440 --> 0:08:46.080 I don't want to say concern, but what do you 0:08:46.160 --> 0:08:49.360 think about the concept of rookie center like you talked about, 0:08:49.360 --> 0:08:52.120 who's playing well in an absence of Ryan Kelly, with 0:08:52.200 --> 0:08:55.240 a quarterback that has limited experience for getting protection calls 0:08:55.360 --> 0:08:57.640 lined up against an Anthony Weaver defense that is so 0:08:58.480 --> 0:08:59.839 rich and diverse and what it can do from a 0:08:59.840 --> 0:09:02.600 pure standpoint, Is that something you concerned You're concerned about 0:09:02.640 --> 0:09:05.200 with the Colts on Sunday compared to what it was 0:09:05.280 --> 0:09:06.959 with Kelly and Flacco in the fold? 0:09:07.520 --> 0:09:09.640 Yeah, I mean that that's a legit thing to think 0:09:09.640 --> 0:09:11.960 about here that you know, Anthony Richardson, if he does 0:09:12.000 --> 0:09:14.720 start Sunday, it's only his ninth career start, and doing 0:09:14.760 --> 0:09:18.480 it with a rookie center is a little more concerning 0:09:18.480 --> 0:09:20.240 when you're facing a defense that is going to run 0:09:20.280 --> 0:09:23.560 some exotic pressures like the Dolphins are. But you know, 0:09:23.640 --> 0:09:26.400 I had a conversation with Tanner Bordolini last week just 0:09:26.440 --> 0:09:30.280 about communication and identifying stuff, and he said, like the 0:09:30.679 --> 0:09:34.360 vets in the Colts line room are so good about 0:09:34.760 --> 0:09:36.880 doing whatever they can to get him ready even if 0:09:36.880 --> 0:09:39.160 he's not playing that week. Just you know, hey, I 0:09:39.200 --> 0:09:41.320 see it this way. You know, if you're gonna if 0:09:41.360 --> 0:09:43.439 you get in this spot, here's how you can make 0:09:43.440 --> 0:09:44.679 the call against this. 0:09:44.720 --> 0:09:44.960 Look. 0:09:44.960 --> 0:09:49.960 Now, Ryan Kelly has seen everything and he can help 0:09:50.000 --> 0:09:52.400 you out. It certainly is a difference going from a 0:09:52.480 --> 0:09:55.480 veteran center with over one hundred career starts to a 0:09:55.600 --> 0:09:59.040 rookie with three career starts. If Bordolini does go on Sunday, 0:09:59.720 --> 0:10:02.800 But you know, Bordolini's a smart guy. He's he's played 0:10:02.840 --> 0:10:05.520 well when he's been in there. Now he has played 0:10:05.520 --> 0:10:08.679 in there with Joe Flacco, not Anthony Richardson, So you 0:10:08.720 --> 0:10:10.800 do have that quarterback who can help get the protections 0:10:10.880 --> 0:10:14.360 right too. But ultimately, you know that's gonna be something 0:10:14.360 --> 0:10:17.280 that maybe is a sneaky issue for the Colts, but 0:10:17.760 --> 0:10:20.000 not one that I'm super worried about, just because I've 0:10:20.000 --> 0:10:23.160 seen really good things out of Borderlini and his mindset 0:10:23.200 --> 0:10:24.680 seems to be really good. He seems to be a 0:10:24.679 --> 0:10:25.840 really sharp guy back there. 0:10:26.040 --> 0:10:27.599 Yeah, that sounds like it'll be a fun matchup with 0:10:27.679 --> 0:10:29.760 Zach Sealer and Kaloyas Campbell, who have been very, very 0:10:29.800 --> 0:10:31.920 good for the Dolphins up front this year. One more 0:10:32.000 --> 0:10:34.079 question on the offense before our first break and get 0:10:34.120 --> 0:10:35.959 to the defense and the injuries you allude to there 0:10:36.240 --> 0:10:38.160 on that side of the football, because you know, I 0:10:38.440 --> 0:10:40.640 love breaking down on Mike McDaniel offense. It's one of 0:10:40.679 --> 0:10:43.720 the more fun exotic looks you get in this league. 0:10:43.760 --> 0:10:45.840 To take a look at the on the All twenty two. 0:10:46.080 --> 0:10:48.040 But I also hear a lot about Shane Steichen and man, 0:10:48.280 --> 0:10:50.480 he's he's a fun one to watch as well. You 0:10:50.480 --> 0:10:52.680 hear about the quarterback friendly nature of it, how great 0:10:52.720 --> 0:10:55.000 the scheme is. Can you maybe like take us through 0:10:55.040 --> 0:10:58.319 a quick one on one through our Dolphins audience here 0:10:58.320 --> 0:11:00.960 about maybe the identity of the offense structure, maybe what 0:11:00.960 --> 0:11:02.240 it is that makes it so special. 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:06.240 I think the cool thing about Shane is that, you know, 0:11:06.400 --> 0:11:10.120 he doesn't come from one of these trees, the Shanahan 0:11:10.200 --> 0:11:12.400 McVeigh tree that's in vogue and it works. Like I'm 0:11:12.400 --> 0:11:14.520 not saying that in jest, Like, if you have a 0:11:14.520 --> 0:11:17.319 Shanahan McVeigh guy, your offense is going to be good. 0:11:17.760 --> 0:11:20.439 Like that's just kind of been proven over the last 0:11:20.440 --> 0:11:22.480 couple of years, and obviously you sprinkle in your own 0:11:22.480 --> 0:11:26.160 stuff that The stuff Mike McDaniel's doing with speed is 0:11:26.240 --> 0:11:29.160 just awesome to watch. I love watching the Dolphins. But 0:11:29.360 --> 0:11:32.760 what Shane does is he runs a lot of simple 0:11:32.840 --> 0:11:37.440 concepts that are dressed up differently, so you're you might 0:11:37.600 --> 0:11:41.600 get the same sale concept out of a two x 0:11:41.640 --> 0:11:45.480 two look an eleven personnel as you get out of 0:11:45.480 --> 0:11:48.040 a three x one and eleven personnel, but it's different 0:11:48.080 --> 0:11:51.000 and they're little tweaks, but it's the same concept. So 0:11:51.520 --> 0:11:54.520 he's able to do that, and I think that keeps 0:11:54.559 --> 0:11:57.880 defenses on their toes a little bit where you you 0:11:57.960 --> 0:12:01.720 maybe don't have as many, like you know, what sort 0:12:01.720 --> 0:12:03.719 of concepts the Colts are going to run, but they 0:12:03.800 --> 0:12:05.920 dress them up so differently that you don't always know 0:12:05.960 --> 0:12:07.559 what's coming out of given play. And then in the 0:12:07.640 --> 0:12:11.080 run game, culture primarily a zone running team, but they 0:12:11.120 --> 0:12:13.840 are able to do some funky stuff in terms of 0:12:14.240 --> 0:12:19.280 tight end blocking and getting Quinton Nelson he's a special player, obviously, 0:12:19.360 --> 0:12:21.800 They're able to do some different stuff with him. Bernard 0:12:21.880 --> 0:12:25.280 Ryman at left tackle, same thing. He's very scheme versatile 0:12:25.559 --> 0:12:27.839 and concept versatile and what you're able to do. So 0:12:28.120 --> 0:12:31.400 they're primarily inside outside zone, but they will sprinkle in 0:12:31.440 --> 0:12:33.240 some gap stuff here and there. On offense. 0:12:34.040 --> 0:12:35.600 There was a wrap I think it was Sunday where 0:12:35.640 --> 0:12:37.840 Quinton had a pancake and then finish it by just 0:12:37.840 --> 0:12:39.240 like laying on the guy. And he does that so 0:12:39.280 --> 0:12:41.240 many times. He's one of my fair players to watch, 0:12:41.280 --> 0:12:42.719 and I don't see that about many left guards in 0:12:42.720 --> 0:12:45.199 the league. So special talent is the right way to 0:12:45.559 --> 0:12:49.400 characterize him. And I'm really excited about that chess matchup 0:12:49.400 --> 0:12:52.200 between not just Stichen and Weaver, but like Ramsey and 0:12:52.280 --> 0:12:54.680 Downs and Pittman, and it's a good matchup on the 0:12:54.679 --> 0:12:57.480 outside for the Dolphins defense against the Colts offense. Let's 0:12:57.520 --> 0:12:59.160 go ahead, and take a break real quick, flip it 0:12:59.200 --> 0:13:00.560 over to the other side of the ball. We'll talk 0:13:00.600 --> 0:13:03.320 about this Colts defense against Tyler Hunting the Dolphins offense. 0:13:03.520 --> 0:13:05.720 That's next on the Draft Time Podcast. My guest today, 0:13:05.800 --> 0:13:09.360 JJ Stankovitz Here on the Draft Time Podcast, Travis Wingfield, 0:13:09.440 --> 0:13:14.880 brought to you by AutoNation, picking things back up here 0:13:14.880 --> 0:13:18.760 with my guests from Colts dot Com the Colts Audio Network, Jjstankovitz, 0:13:18.960 --> 0:13:21.760 talking about Colts defense versus Dolphins offense here, and you 0:13:21.800 --> 0:13:24.320 had alluded to this earlier in the show about the 0:13:24.360 --> 0:13:26.560 injuries the Colts have dealt with on defense. Just go 0:13:26.559 --> 0:13:28.240 ahead and get us caught up on the latest here 0:13:28.280 --> 0:13:30.720 before we get to our first practice report later on today. 0:13:31.200 --> 0:13:34.240 All right, how long you got hey man. 0:13:34.080 --> 0:13:35.880 That's been the last three years for us. We're very 0:13:35.960 --> 0:13:36.800 used to that as well. 0:13:37.000 --> 0:13:39.360 All Right, so here, here's where the Colts are at. 0:13:39.440 --> 0:13:43.160 Let's start with guys who are on injured reserve. DeForest 0:13:43.160 --> 0:13:45.920 Buckner is eligible to come back this week, the All 0:13:45.960 --> 0:13:49.280 Pro defensive tackle. I don't know if he will or not. 0:13:49.480 --> 0:13:52.640 We'll see on Wednesday if the Colts open his practice 0:13:52.640 --> 0:13:55.960 window to potentially come off ir for Week seven. He 0:13:56.040 --> 0:13:57.920 is eligible again. I don't know if he's gonna play, 0:13:57.960 --> 0:14:01.360 but he's been on IR since we week three. Juju 0:14:01.400 --> 0:14:04.480 Brents at cornerback has been on IR since week two, 0:14:05.000 --> 0:14:07.800 So Colts are down a guy on the outside at 0:14:08.400 --> 0:14:12.440 that position. The defensive line, though, has been decimated by injuries. 0:14:12.480 --> 0:14:16.320 You've got Buck as I mentioned on IR, Taekwon Lewis, 0:14:16.320 --> 0:14:18.880 who is kind of a glue guy for this defensive line, 0:14:18.880 --> 0:14:22.080 a really good player. He's on injured reserve. When he 0:14:22.240 --> 0:14:24.680 went on IR dial with Dango, one of our dns 0:14:24.720 --> 0:14:26.400 told me, it's kind of like losing a guy at 0:14:26.400 --> 0:14:28.880 every position because he could go in and he could 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:30.840 play everywhere from the nine tech to the one tech 0:14:31.120 --> 0:14:33.440 on a defensive line. And then at the start of 0:14:33.480 --> 0:14:36.720 training camp, Samson Ebacom, who's the Colts leading sec guitar 0:14:36.760 --> 0:14:39.960 in twenty twenty three, sustained an achilles injury. He's on 0:14:40.080 --> 0:14:42.760 injured reserve. Maybe is a shot to come back late 0:14:42.760 --> 0:14:45.680 in the season, but nothing guaranteed there. So you're down 0:14:46.240 --> 0:14:50.480 three really good defensive linemen. The Colts just got Quitty 0:14:50.520 --> 0:14:54.520 Payback last week, the defensive end who is just a 0:14:54.520 --> 0:14:58.560 really solid football player. So you got Quitty back. That's good. 0:14:58.600 --> 0:15:01.120 I think that helped a little bit last week. But 0:15:01.480 --> 0:15:04.120 getting to Forrest Buckner back, that's the one that you 0:15:04.200 --> 0:15:07.400 kind of have circled. And if he comes back, whether 0:15:07.440 --> 0:15:09.360 it's in this week or later in the season, that 0:15:09.520 --> 0:15:11.840 to me, Travis is going to make a huge impact 0:15:11.840 --> 0:15:12.720 on the Colts defense. 0:15:13.120 --> 0:15:15.400 Do you kind of feel like the run defense or 0:15:15.440 --> 0:15:18.000 the pass rush has been more impacted by those losses, 0:15:18.000 --> 0:15:20.760 because I mean, you just cannot get the same level 0:15:20.800 --> 0:15:23.120 of production. I assume the laugh is because maybe a 0:15:23.160 --> 0:15:25.240 little bit of both. But the reason I ask is 0:15:25.280 --> 0:15:29.400 because the Dolphins are you know, they maybe maybe found something. 0:15:29.400 --> 0:15:30.880 I don't want to say it's a trend going forward, 0:15:30.920 --> 0:15:32.760 but they ran for two hundred yards in the last game. 0:15:32.960 --> 0:15:33.960 I guess I'm just curious. 0:15:34.160 --> 0:15:35.960 Is it something to look forward to for the Dolphins 0:15:36.080 --> 0:15:38.160 run game to get going against the Colts defensive line that, 0:15:38.240 --> 0:15:40.960 like you mentioned, that's three really good players are down man. 0:15:41.760 --> 0:15:43.960 Yeah, I mean it. I kind of made a face 0:15:44.000 --> 0:15:46.280 because I think it's both in terms of the run 0:15:46.320 --> 0:15:49.360 defense of the pass rush. What teams are doing against 0:15:49.360 --> 0:15:52.800 the Colts is they're just running away from Grover Stewart, 0:15:52.800 --> 0:15:55.360 who's one of the best run defenders on the interior 0:15:55.400 --> 0:15:57.320 in the NFL. But if you look at if you 0:15:57.320 --> 0:15:59.600 go watch the Titans tape, there were a number of 0:15:59.600 --> 0:16:03.160 plays where Groves lined up as like a two eye 0:16:03.280 --> 0:16:06.480 shade and they have the right tackle just kind of 0:16:06.520 --> 0:16:09.320 like block, like not even like it felt like they 0:16:09.320 --> 0:16:12.440 weren't even trying to block on some of these plays, 0:16:12.480 --> 0:16:15.600 but they're just running it away from him. So it's 0:16:15.640 --> 0:16:18.960 like Grover's a great player, but he needs Buckner in 0:16:19.000 --> 0:16:22.480 there as a run defender to really shore this whole 0:16:22.480 --> 0:16:24.640 thing up. So getting buck back in terms of run 0:16:24.680 --> 0:16:27.560 defense is big. The Colts are also bottom five in 0:16:27.600 --> 0:16:30.600 the NFL in pass in a pressure rate, and that's 0:16:30.640 --> 0:16:33.320 another area where to forrest Buckner being in there can help. 0:16:33.560 --> 0:16:35.760 They haven't got a whole lot out of Layoutu Latu, 0:16:35.800 --> 0:16:39.080 the first round pick he's he's been. You know, he 0:16:39.120 --> 0:16:41.360 had a stripsack against Chicago that was a really big 0:16:41.400 --> 0:16:44.000 play in Week three, but other than that, hasn't had 0:16:44.040 --> 0:16:46.080 a ton of splash plays. You're getting good play out 0:16:46.080 --> 0:16:49.040 of Dio Dango and Quity Pay, but the depth there 0:16:49.120 --> 0:16:51.960 definitely has been challenged at the end. Getting buck back 0:16:52.000 --> 0:16:53.960 in there, though, I think creates more one on one 0:16:53.960 --> 0:16:59.160 opportunities for pay Latu o'dangbo that they can take advantage of. 0:16:59.280 --> 0:17:02.760 So it's really it's everything, and DeForest Buckner getting back 0:17:02.800 --> 0:17:06.160 for this defense really feels like a massive missing piece 0:17:06.200 --> 0:17:06.520 for them. 0:17:06.920 --> 0:17:09.040 We'll have that injury report for you guys probably right 0:17:09.080 --> 0:17:11.440 when this podcast comes out, because we'll have this drop 0:17:11.480 --> 0:17:14.240 on Wednesday, and we'll hear from the Colts coaching staff 0:17:14.240 --> 0:17:16.320 on on who practiced on Wednesday. So a big deal 0:17:16.359 --> 0:17:19.440 there for DeForest Buckner. Just a real quick aside. Grover 0:17:19.520 --> 0:17:21.760 Stewart is my favorite players in the entire league. And 0:17:21.840 --> 0:17:24.240 I say that for his production, but I just get 0:17:24.240 --> 0:17:27.080 the sense that he's one of those like super mean 0:17:27.240 --> 0:17:30.440 on the field guys, but I almost want to guarantee 0:17:30.520 --> 0:17:31.760 he's like the nicest guy off the field. 0:17:31.800 --> 0:17:33.040 Am I am? I on base on that. 0:17:33.480 --> 0:17:36.359 You nailed it. Grove's the kind of guy who like, 0:17:36.800 --> 0:17:38.560 if you like, if you ask him, like, what do 0:17:38.600 --> 0:17:40.520 you love about playing football, he'll just be like man 0:17:40.600 --> 0:17:43.760 cracking some skulls, and then you'll get like him just 0:17:43.800 --> 0:17:47.280 being super goofy. He's got like this incredible infectious laugh. Yeah, 0:17:47.320 --> 0:17:48.200 you nailed that. One. 0:17:48.359 --> 0:17:50.360 Sounds like Zack Seiler in a certain sense, the guy 0:17:50.400 --> 0:17:51.679 we love very similar. 0:17:51.760 --> 0:17:52.679 Ye're very similar. 0:17:52.760 --> 0:17:55.560 Yeah, dominant, strong men's men, and then they're nicest hell 0:17:55.600 --> 0:17:57.520 off the field. Let's let's go ahead and go back 0:17:57.520 --> 0:17:59.399 to the secondary here and close up with this before 0:17:59.440 --> 0:18:01.800 the I guess sort of the prediction part of the podcast. 0:18:02.000 --> 0:18:04.440 You do get Kenny Moore back last weekend, And Dolphins 0:18:04.440 --> 0:18:06.119 fans know that name well because when he was an 0:18:06.200 --> 0:18:08.840 unrestricted free agent, I brought him up all the damn 0:18:08.920 --> 0:18:10.720 time on the podcast. Is one of my favorite slot 0:18:10.760 --> 0:18:14.119 cornerbacks in the league. And I also mentioned to you 0:18:14.160 --> 0:18:16.439 off air a player that not many fans may mean 0:18:16.480 --> 0:18:18.480 know about in Samuel Wollmack, who's had a nice year 0:18:18.520 --> 0:18:20.560 so far for the Colts. Just gonna take us through 0:18:20.560 --> 0:18:22.800 with that secondary. It looks like with getting more back 0:18:23.040 --> 0:18:24.920 you mentioned Juju Brents has been down. 0:18:24.960 --> 0:18:26.160 He's a fun player to watch too. 0:18:26.320 --> 0:18:28.639 What's been kind of the challenges in that defensive backfield 0:18:28.800 --> 0:18:30.879 and how does Kenny Moore kind of alleviate some of that? 0:18:31.600 --> 0:18:35.520 Yeah, hevin Kenny in there is so critical for preventing 0:18:35.600 --> 0:18:40.159 explosive plays. Like it's not anything like analytical or that, 0:18:40.280 --> 0:18:42.800 but like talking to guys after the game against Tennessee. 0:18:43.200 --> 0:18:45.280 They all just said, like Hevin Kenny in there settles 0:18:45.320 --> 0:18:48.960 everyone down and him being in the slot when the 0:18:48.960 --> 0:18:51.800