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Speaker 1: Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex.
Speaker 2: This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield.
Speaker 3: He's got my add hands in the playoffs.
Speaker 4: What is up, Dolphans And welcome to the Draft Time Podcast.
Speaker 4: I am your host, Travis wing fielded. On today's show,
Speaker 4: we welcome in the Colts perspective with Colts dot Com
Speaker 4: writer JJ's Tekovitz will also pick the week seven games.
Speaker 4: You boy went fourteen and oh this week to improve
Speaker 4: the mark to seventy two percent winning percentage, which is
Speaker 4: the exact goal we're going for this year. I know
Speaker 4: it was a chalky week, but it's always good to
Speaker 4: stack some dubs as we did from the Baptist Hell
Speaker 4: Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex.
Speaker 2: This is the Draft Time Podcast.
Speaker 4: Our guest today is a writer for Colts dot Com,
Speaker 4: also part of the Colts Audio Network, JJ Stankovic. JJ,
Speaker 4: how are we doing out there in the beautiful Midwest?
Speaker 5: My friend doing great. Thank you for having me on here, Travis.
Speaker 4: So, speaking of the Midwest, you know myself, like many
Speaker 4: other people in these positions, I make the annual trek
Speaker 4: to Indianapolis for the scouting Combine every single year, and
Speaker 4: please never move it.
Speaker 2: Please don't take it to Los Angeles or Las Vegas.
Speaker 4: Keep it in Indeed, so I was curious, you know,
Speaker 4: what's it like when there's not hundreds of personnel from
Speaker 4: all thirty two teams descending upon your city. My question
Speaker 4: is does Indianapolis still exist when the combine's not going on?
Speaker 5: Yeah, because there are so many other conventions that come
Speaker 5: through the city. I mean, it's a constant flow of conventions.
Speaker 5: You know, you're breaking down the combine and you've got
Speaker 5: probably like a like a medical professionals convention. There are
Speaker 5: cheerleading competitions seemingly every weekend downtown, and so we are
Speaker 5: a great convention city. And that's why I too hope
Speaker 5: the NFL Combine never moves. The person who really hopes
Speaker 5: the NFL Combine never moves, though, is my wife. So
Speaker 5: she wouldn't have to be like, You're going to la
Speaker 5: for five days while I'm home with the kids. So's
Speaker 5: just so for her case that the combine never moves.
Speaker 2: And for the wingfields, it's the same thing.
Speaker 4: It's like kind of a nice little vacation for dad
Speaker 4: to get away for a few nights and have uninterrupted
Speaker 4: sleep for a few nights.
Speaker 2: It's always always a good thing.
Speaker 4: But yeah, it's funny, man, because like every time, you know,
Speaker 4: you make the trek from the ballroom upstairs where the
Speaker 4: media workroom is, and you walk past all those different
Speaker 4: convention rooms and there's like, like to your point, there's
Speaker 4: like an office supplies convention going on. There's always something
Speaker 4: in those various rooms happening. And man, we love going
Speaker 4: out there because one, the city is just such a
Speaker 4: fun walking city, and two I said, it's a nice
Speaker 4: little trip away from.
Speaker 2: Daily life as it is every single day.
Speaker 4: So that's before the podcast, before the game on Sunday.
Speaker 4: It's actually been since twenty nineteen. The Dolphins were last
Speaker 4: in Indy. The Colts came down here in twenty twenty
Speaker 4: one and beat the Dolphins in a game that featured
Speaker 4: a backup quarterback.
Speaker 2: You get the exact same thing this Sunday.
Speaker 4: But I want to go ahead and start here with
Speaker 4: your quarterback situation. You know, for the Dolphins, they've played
Speaker 4: four quarterbacks this year. Hopefully QB one on the mend
Speaker 4: here very soon. But for the Colts, a one in
Speaker 4: three team under Anthony Richardson two and zero with Joe
Speaker 4: Flacco start in games, and it sounds like it'll be
Speaker 4: ar for Sunday's game, you know, barring any setbacks and
Speaker 4: JJ I want to just go ahead and make this
Speaker 4: like disclaimer. I'm a big believer in Anthony Richardson where
Speaker 4: I think his development can take him. I think that
Speaker 4: he has a lot of things that he does really
Speaker 4: well from a playing instructure standpoint that I think a
Speaker 4: lot of folks kind of gloss over. So I don't
Speaker 4: want this to be taken as a slight, but I'm
Speaker 4: curious because when you have those two competing dynamics with
Speaker 4: the veteran quarterback who's what is it eight consecutive games
Speaker 4: with two touchdown passes for Joe Flacco. I'm just curious
Speaker 4: what the vibe is, the feeling around Richardson v. Flacco
Speaker 4: and how the team approaches that entire thing.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean it, Everyone in this building knows Anthony
Speaker 5: Richardson's this team's QB one. There's not a discussion about
Speaker 5: do we need to go to Joe Flacco. It's how
Speaker 5: can we support Anthony and give him the best shot
Speaker 5: to establish himself as one of the better quarterbacks in
Speaker 5: the NFL. He's got work to do, but he's the
Speaker 5: Colt Sky going forward. And maybe it's not the same
Speaker 5: but similar ish to what you guys went through with
Speaker 5: Tua and Ryan Fitzpatrick right where you know Fitzpatrick, it
Speaker 5: was a little bit different. Right, Fitzpatrick's winning some games.
Speaker 5: It's competitive, but we got to see what we have
Speaker 5: in Tua. Like for the Colts, they've been on this
Speaker 5: veteran quarterback hamster wheel for ever since Andrew Luck retired.
Speaker 5: It was Philip Rivers and it was Carson Wentz, Matt Ryan.
Speaker 5: You got to get off that at some point, and
Speaker 5: you don't get off it by going to a thirty
Speaker 5: nine year old Joe Flacco. Even if Joe Flacco, even
Speaker 5: if you feel like which I don't know if people
Speaker 5: in this building feel this way, but let's say you
Speaker 5: feel like Joe Flacco gives you a better chance to
Speaker 5: win games right now, Anthony Richardson gives you a better
Speaker 5: chance of winning games for the long term. So you
Speaker 5: got to figure out what you have in him. You
Speaker 5: got to give him a chance to play and play consistently.
Speaker 5: Flacco has done some good things in his two starts
Speaker 5: for the Colts, but nothing that you know, he is
Speaker 5: going to dissuade the Colts from playing Anthony Richardson when
Speaker 5: he is healthy, and that looks like that will be
Speaker 5: Sunday against the Dolphins.
Speaker 4: That's exactly how I feel because again going back to Florida,
Speaker 4: just four hundred dropbacks and last year has the rookie
Speaker 4: year kind of shortened by the injury.
Speaker 2: Like, you got to play the guy, right he needs.
Speaker 4: Those snaps are the one thing to me that's preventing
Speaker 4: him from taking that next step. And we've seen the
Speaker 4: flashes of brilliance. Man, it's fun to watch when he's
Speaker 4: cranking there. And that offense has had you know, it
Speaker 4: seems like the league in general right now has a
Speaker 4: bunch of injuries that every team's dealing with, and the
Speaker 4: Colts are you know, they're not impervious to that. But
Speaker 4: we saw a couple of guys play on Sunday, or
Speaker 4: I should say one guy, Michael Pittman. Can you give
Speaker 4: us an update on Pittman on JT on Ryan Kelly.
Speaker 4: Where's the Colts offense from a hell standpoint right now?
Speaker 5: So let's start with pitt That was one of the
Speaker 5: most remarkable games I've seen a player play, and he
Speaker 5: only had three catches for thirty five yards, but he
Speaker 5: caught the game winning touchdown by he was singled up
Speaker 5: the Titans ran cover zero. He singled up against Lagerius Sneed,
Speaker 5: who was one of the most physical cornerbacks in the NFL,
Speaker 5: and he out jumps him, wrestles the ball away from
Speaker 5: him on the ground to come up with what was
Speaker 5: turned out to be the game winning touchdown. And then
Speaker 5: later in the fourth quarter, he caught a sixteen yard
Speaker 5: pass from Joe Flacco where he again out physicals Lagarious
Speaker 5: Sneed for the ball and that essentially seals the game
Speaker 5: for the Colts. So for him to do that while
Speaker 5: dealing with a back injury that I don't think it
Speaker 5: was necessarily inaccurate reporting that the Colts were thinking about
Speaker 5: potentially putting him on reserve. But he Pitt said Thursday night,
Speaker 5: so he did practice Wednesday. He didn't practice Thursday. Thursday
Speaker 5: night of last week, he said, I think I'm going
Speaker 5: to give this a go. He practices in full on Friday,
Speaker 5: listed as questionable, he plays, He plays eighty percent of
Speaker 5: the snaps. He was not super limited in terms of
Speaker 5: what the Colts were asking him to do in the game,
Speaker 5: and you know, we'll see how he comes out of it.
Speaker 5: But Joe Flacco, who's played in the league for seventeen years,
Speaker 5: said Pit's one of the toughest dudes I've ever been with.
Speaker 5: So Joe Flacco's a guy who's played with you know,
Speaker 5: An Kwon Bolden and Frank Gore and just some of
Speaker 5: the absolute toughest guys who have ever played on offense
Speaker 5: in the NFL. So that's Pitt. Jonathan Taylor, he's missed
Speaker 5: the last two games with an ankle injury. He's told
Speaker 5: us he's making progress. He said last week he feels
Speaker 5: way better. He still has yet to practice as we're
Speaker 5: recording this on Tuesday, so his status were going to
Speaker 5: keep an eye on this week. And then Ryan Kelly
Speaker 5: had a cafe injury. Shane Stikin said he's doing better.
Speaker 5: We'll see if he's able to go. If he's not
Speaker 5: able to go, though, the culture getting really good play
Speaker 5: out of rookie Tanner Bordalini, who started in weeks four
Speaker 5: and five and came out of those games playing really well,
Speaker 5: especially in terms of pass protection. So on that side
Speaker 5: of the ball. The injuries have not hit as hard
Speaker 5: as they have on defense, and.
Speaker 4: We'll come back to that here in one second. Good
Speaker 4: teaser for the second half of the interview. Here, I
Speaker 4: do want to follow up with you there on the
Speaker 4: Ryan Kelly point because you know, and again with we
Speaker 4: talk about Richardson's experience or lack thereof in the NFL
Speaker 4: as well as his college reps and Ryan Kelly. I mean,
Speaker 4: I can't speak more highly of a player in terms
Speaker 4: of just what he means for a team with not
Speaker 4: just the physical abilities, but what he does from a
Speaker 4: mental standpoint.
Speaker 2: Do you is there?
Speaker 4: I don't want to say concern, but what do you
Speaker 4: think about the concept of rookie center like you talked about,
Speaker 4: who's playing well in an absence of Ryan Kelly, with
Speaker 4: a quarterback that has limited experience for getting protection calls
Speaker 4: lined up against an Anthony Weaver defense that is so
Speaker 4: rich and diverse and what it can do from a
Speaker 4: pure standpoint, Is that something you concerned You're concerned about
Speaker 4: with the Colts on Sunday compared to what it was
Speaker 4: with Kelly and Flacco in the fold?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean that that's a legit thing to think
Speaker 5: about here that you know, Anthony Richardson, if he does
Speaker 5: start Sunday, it's only his ninth career start, and doing
Speaker 5: it with a rookie center is a little more concerning
Speaker 5: when you're facing a defense that is going to run
Speaker 5: some exotic pressures like the Dolphins are. But you know,
Speaker 5: I had a conversation with Tanner Bordolini last week just
Speaker 5: about communication and identifying stuff, and he said, like the
Speaker 5: vets in the Colts line room are so good about
Speaker 5: doing whatever they can to get him ready even if
Speaker 5: he's not playing that week. Just you know, hey, I
Speaker 5: see it this way. You know, if you're gonna if
Speaker 5: you get in this spot, here's how you can make
Speaker 5: the call against this.
Speaker 2: Look.
Speaker 5: Now, Ryan Kelly has seen everything and he can help
Speaker 5: you out. It certainly is a difference going from a
Speaker 5: veteran center with over one hundred career starts to a
Speaker 5: rookie with three career starts. If Bordolini does go on Sunday,
Speaker 5: But you know, Bordolini's a smart guy. He's he's played
Speaker 5: well when he's been in there. Now he has played
Speaker 5: in there with Joe Flacco, not Anthony Richardson, So you
Speaker 5: do have that quarterback who can help get the protections
Speaker 5: right too. But ultimately, you know that's gonna be something
Speaker 5: that maybe is a sneaky issue for the Colts, but
Speaker 5: not one that I'm super worried about, just because I've
Speaker 5: seen really good things out of Borderlini and his mindset
Speaker 5: seems to be really good. He seems to be a
Speaker 5: really sharp guy back there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that sounds like it'll be a fun matchup with
Speaker 4: Zach Sealer and Kaloyas Campbell, who have been very, very
Speaker 4: good for the Dolphins up front this year. One more
Speaker 4: question on the offense before our first break and get
Speaker 4: to the defense and the injuries you allude to there
Speaker 4: on that side of the football, because you know, I
Speaker 4: love breaking down on Mike McDaniel offense. It's one of
Speaker 4: the more fun exotic looks you get in this league.
Speaker 4: To take a look at the on the All twenty two.
Speaker 4: But I also hear a lot about Shane Steichen and man,
Speaker 4: he's he's a fun one to watch as well. You
Speaker 4: hear about the quarterback friendly nature of it, how great
Speaker 4: the scheme is. Can you maybe like take us through
Speaker 4: a quick one on one through our Dolphins audience here
Speaker 4: about maybe the identity of the offense structure, maybe what
Speaker 4: it is that makes it so special.
Speaker 5: I think the cool thing about Shane is that, you know,
Speaker 5: he doesn't come from one of these trees, the Shanahan
Speaker 5: McVeigh tree that's in vogue and it works. Like I'm
Speaker 5: not saying that in jest, Like, if you have a
Speaker 5: Shanahan McVeigh guy, your offense is going to be good.
Speaker 5: Like that's just kind of been proven over the last
Speaker 5: couple of years, and obviously you sprinkle in your own
Speaker 5: stuff that The stuff Mike McDaniel's doing with speed is
Speaker 5: just awesome to watch. I love watching the Dolphins. But
Speaker 5: what Shane does is he runs a lot of simple
Speaker 5: concepts that are dressed up differently, so you're you might
Speaker 5: get the same sale concept out of a two x
Speaker 5: two look an eleven personnel as you get out of
Speaker 5: a three x one and eleven personnel, but it's different
Speaker 5: and they're little tweaks, but it's the same concept. So
Speaker 5: he's able to do that, and I think that keeps
Speaker 5: defenses on their toes a little bit where you you
Speaker 5: maybe don't have as many, like you know, what sort
Speaker 5: of concepts the Colts are going to run, but they
Speaker 5: dress them up so differently that you don't always know
Speaker 5: what's coming out of given play. And then in the
Speaker 5: run game, culture primarily a zone running team, but they
Speaker 5: are able to do some funky stuff in terms of
Speaker 5: tight end blocking and getting Quinton Nelson he's a special player, obviously,
Speaker 5: They're able to do some different stuff with him. Bernard
Speaker 5: Ryman at left tackle, same thing. He's very scheme versatile
Speaker 5: and concept versatile and what you're able to do. So
Speaker 5: they're primarily inside outside zone, but they will sprinkle in
Speaker 5: some gap stuff here and there. On offense.
Speaker 4: There was a wrap I think it was Sunday where
Speaker 4: Quinton had a pancake and then finish it by just
Speaker 4: like laying on the guy. And he does that so
Speaker 4: many times. He's one of my fair players to watch,
Speaker 4: and I don't see that about many left guards in
Speaker 4: the league. So special talent is the right way to
Speaker 4: characterize him. And I'm really excited about that chess matchup
Speaker 4: between not just Stichen and Weaver, but like Ramsey and
Speaker 4: Downs and Pittman, and it's a good matchup on the
Speaker 4: outside for the Dolphins defense against the Colts offense. Let's
Speaker 4: go ahead, and take a break real quick, flip it
Speaker 4: over to the other side of the ball. We'll talk
Speaker 4: about this Colts defense against Tyler Hunting the Dolphins offense.
Speaker 4: That's next on the Draft Time Podcast. My guest today,
Speaker 4: JJ Stankovitz Here on the Draft Time Podcast, Travis Wingfield,
Speaker 4: brought to you by AutoNation, picking things back up here
Speaker 4: with my guests from Colts dot Com the Colts Audio Network, Jjstankovitz,
Speaker 4: talking about Colts defense versus Dolphins offense here, and you
Speaker 4: had alluded to this earlier in the show about the
Speaker 4: injuries the Colts have dealt with on defense. Just go
Speaker 4: ahead and get us caught up on the latest here
Speaker 4: before we get to our first practice report later on today.
Speaker 5: All right, how long you got hey man.
Speaker 2: That's been the last three years for us. We're very
Speaker 2: used to that as well.
Speaker 5: All Right, so here, here's where the Colts are at.
Speaker 5: Let's start with guys who are on injured reserve. DeForest
Speaker 5: Buckner is eligible to come back this week, the All
Speaker 5: Pro defensive tackle. I don't know if he will or not.
Speaker 5: We'll see on Wednesday if the Colts open his practice
Speaker 5: window to potentially come off ir for Week seven. He
Speaker 5: is eligible again. I don't know if he's gonna play,
Speaker 5: but he's been on IR since we week three. Juju
Speaker 5: Brents at cornerback has been on IR since week two,
Speaker 5: So Colts are down a guy on the outside at
Speaker 5: that position. The defensive line, though, has been decimated by injuries.
Speaker 5: You've got Buck as I mentioned on IR, Taekwon Lewis,
Speaker 5: who is kind of a glue guy for this defensive line,
Speaker 5: a really good player. He's on injured reserve. When he
Speaker 5: went on IR dial with Dango, one of our dns
Speaker 5: told me, it's kind of like losing a guy at
Speaker 5: every position because he could go in and he could
Speaker 5: play everywhere from the nine tech to the one tech
Speaker 5: on a defensive line. And then at the start of
Speaker 5: training camp, Samson Ebacom, who's the Colts leading sec guitar
Speaker 5: in twenty twenty three, sustained an achilles injury. He's on
Speaker 5: injured reserve. Maybe is a shot to come back late
Speaker 5: in the season, but nothing guaranteed there. So you're down
Speaker 5: three really good defensive linemen. The Colts just got Quitty
Speaker 5: Payback last week, the defensive end who is just a
Speaker 5: really solid football player. So you got Quitty back. That's good.
Speaker 5: I think that helped a little bit last week. But
Speaker 5: getting to Forrest Buckner back, that's the one that you
Speaker 5: kind of have circled. And if he comes back, whether
Speaker 5: it's in this week or later in the season, that
Speaker 5: to me, Travis is going to make a huge impact
Speaker 5: on the Colts defense.
Speaker 4: Do you kind of feel like the run defense or
Speaker 4: the pass rush has been more impacted by those losses,
Speaker 4: because I mean, you just cannot get the same level
Speaker 4: of production. I assume the laugh is because maybe a
Speaker 4: little bit of both. But the reason I ask is
Speaker 4: because the Dolphins are you know, they maybe maybe found something.
Speaker 4: I don't want to say it's a trend going forward,
Speaker 4: but they ran for two hundred yards in the last game.
Speaker 2: I guess I'm just curious.
Speaker 4: Is it something to look forward to for the Dolphins
Speaker 4: run game to get going against the Colts defensive line that,
Speaker 4: like you mentioned, that's three really good players are down man.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean it. I kind of made a face
Speaker 5: because I think it's both in terms of the run
Speaker 5: defense of the pass rush. What teams are doing against
Speaker 5: the Colts is they're just running away from Grover Stewart,
Speaker 5: who's one of the best run defenders on the interior
Speaker 5: in the NFL. But if you look at if you
Speaker 5: go watch the Titans tape, there were a number of
Speaker 5: plays where Groves lined up as like a two eye
Speaker 5: shade and they have the right tackle just kind of
Speaker 5: like block, like not even like it felt like they
Speaker 5: weren't even trying to block on some of these plays,
Speaker 5: but they're just running it away from him. So it's
Speaker 5: like Grover's a great player, but he needs Buckner in
Speaker 5: there as a run defender to really shore this whole
Speaker 5: thing up. So getting buck back in terms of run
Speaker 5: defense is big. The Colts are also bottom five in
Speaker 5: the NFL in pass in a pressure rate, and that's
Speaker 5: another area where to forrest Buckner being in there can help.
Speaker 5: They haven't got a whole lot out of Layoutu Latu,
Speaker 5: the first round pick he's he's been. You know, he
Speaker 5: had a stripsack against Chicago that was a really big
Speaker 5: play in Week three, but other than that, hasn't had
Speaker 5: a ton of splash plays. You're getting good play out
Speaker 5: of Dio Dango and Quity Pay, but the depth there
Speaker 5: definitely has been challenged at the end. Getting buck back
Speaker 5: in there, though, I think creates more one on one
Speaker 5: opportunities for pay Latu o'dangbo that they can take advantage of.
Speaker 5: So it's really it's everything, and DeForest Buckner getting back
Speaker 5: for this defense really feels like a massive missing piece
Speaker 5: for them.
Speaker 4: We'll have that injury report for you guys probably right
Speaker 4: when this podcast comes out, because we'll have this drop
Speaker 4: on Wednesday, and we'll hear from the Colts coaching staff
Speaker 4: on on who practiced on Wednesday. So a big deal
Speaker 4: there for DeForest Buckner. Just a real quick aside. Grover
Speaker 4: Stewart is my favorite players in the entire league. And
Speaker 4: I say that for his production, but I just get
Speaker 4: the sense that he's one of those like super mean
Speaker 4: on the field guys, but I almost want to guarantee
Speaker 4: he's like the nicest guy off the field.
Speaker 2: Am I am? I on base on that.
Speaker 5: You nailed it. Grove's the kind of guy who like,
Speaker 5: if you like, if you ask him, like, what do
Speaker 5: you love about playing football, he'll just be like man
Speaker 5: cracking some skulls, and then you'll get like him just
Speaker 5: being super goofy. He's got like this incredible infectious laugh. Yeah,
Speaker 5: you nailed that. One.
Speaker 2: Sounds like Zack Seiler in a certain sense, the guy
Speaker 2: we love very similar.
Speaker 5: Ye're very similar.
Speaker 4: Yeah, dominant, strong men's men, and then they're nicest hell
Speaker 4: off the field. Let's let's go ahead and go back
Speaker 4: to the secondary here and close up with this before
Speaker 4: the I guess sort of the prediction part of the podcast.
Speaker 4: You do get Kenny Moore back last weekend, And Dolphins
Speaker 4: fans know that name well because when he was an
Speaker 4: unrestricted free agent, I brought him up all the damn
Speaker 4: time on the podcast. Is one of my favorite slot
Speaker 4: cornerbacks in the league. And I also mentioned to you
Speaker 4: off air a player that not many fans may mean
Speaker 4: know about in Samuel Wollmack, who's had a nice year
Speaker 4: so far for the Colts. Just gonna take us through
Speaker 4: with that secondary. It looks like with getting more back
Speaker 4: you mentioned Juju Brents has been down.
Speaker 2: He's a fun player to watch too.
Speaker 4: What's been kind of the challenges in that defensive backfield
Speaker 4: and how does Kenny Moore kind of alleviate some of that?
Speaker 5: Yeah, hevin Kenny in there is so critical for preventing
Speaker 5: explosive plays. Like it's not anything like analytical or that,
Speaker 5: but like talking to guys after the game against Tennessee.
Speaker 5: They all just said, like Hevin Kenny in there settles
Speaker 5: everyone down and him being in the slot when the
Speaker 5: Colts are in base he'll go to outside. They'll take
Speaker 5: Womack off the field when they're in base the but
Speaker 5: Jam carlis a rookie linebacker from Miszoo, he'll go on
Speaker 5: the field there. But Kevin Kenny in there just kind
Speaker 5: of brings everything together with this defense on the back end.
Speaker 5: And you saw really good play out of Sammy Wollmack
Speaker 5: against the Titans. He's got five pass breakups already this year.
Speaker 5: His PFF grade is like off the charts. I think
Speaker 5: it's like top three or four among cornerbacks with one
Speaker 5: hundred coverage snaps this year. And that matches the tape,
Speaker 5: by the way, like the tape on Womack is good.
Speaker 5: He's been playing really good football. The Colts that have
Speaker 5: had a lot of communication issues on the back end,
Speaker 5: Like they're getting good individual play from Kenny, from Womack,
Speaker 5: from Jalen Jones, Nick Cross has done some good things
Speaker 5: against the run, Julian Blackman on the back end, but
Speaker 5: they've had these communication breakdowns that have led to Brian
Speaker 5: Thomas running free for an eighty five yard touchdown, or
Speaker 5: you know, George Pickens going for a ton of yardage
Speaker 5: in Week four. That still they need to be cleaned
Speaker 5: up and they need to be better at that. But
Speaker 5: like individually, I think the Colts have five pretty good
Speaker 5: players on their back end. Then they've risen to the
Speaker 5: challenge that they've faced over the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 5: I mean, they got challenged in Tennessee. Will Levis was
Speaker 5: limited in what he's able to do in that game,
Speaker 5: but Tennessee had to throw the ball to win late
Speaker 5: in the game, and the Colts cornerbacks came through and
Speaker 5: shut down DeAndre Hopkins and Calvin Ridley. So different kind
Speaker 5: of challenge this week, obviously with Hill and Waddle, but
Speaker 5: one that I do think these corners are going to
Speaker 5: be up for individually. It's just got to be more
Speaker 5: of a collective thing because, as anyone listening to this
Speaker 5: podcast knows, if you blow a coverage against Tyreek Hill
Speaker 5: or Jalen Waddle, it will be a seventy yard touchdown.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you gotta showing your tall lights when that happens
Speaker 4: every single time. And I think this matchup has a
Speaker 4: lot of intrigue for what you just talked about, because
Speaker 4: you know Huntley coming off the bye week and McDaniel
Speaker 4: spoke about his ability to kind of get more grasp
Speaker 4: of the offense in terms of the footwork and the
Speaker 4: timing that has with the routes and the concepts they
Speaker 4: run in the passing game. So to me, it's one
Speaker 4: of the more fascinating matchups of the week and we'll
Speaker 4: see if that plays out on Sunday.
Speaker 2: Ja Ja, I got to ask you this.
Speaker 4: I ask every single guest we have on the show,
Speaker 4: and I ask it from your perspective, the Colts will
Speaker 4: win this game if where are some of the things
Speaker 4: they have to do to win this game and get
Speaker 4: them over over five hundred.
Speaker 5: I think you got to keep Raheem mostert and you know,
Speaker 5: depending on if a Chan plays and Jalen right, I
Speaker 5: think you got to keep him under four point two
Speaker 5: yards per carry like just baseline, you know, And that's
Speaker 5: no easy task. You can't allow the explosives on the
Speaker 5: ground and then generate pressure on Tyler Huntley when you
Speaker 5: do get opportunities to rush the passer, because and when
Speaker 5: you get those opportunities You got to hit home. You
Speaker 5: can't just generating the pressure against this Miami team is
Speaker 5: almost not enough. You got to make sure that you
Speaker 5: hit Huntley. The Colts have not had a sack now
Speaker 5: in two games. They've got to get some sacks. They've
Speaker 5: got to get some quarterback hits and stop the run
Speaker 5: to actually get those opportunities. So that's where it starts
Speaker 5: on defense, and then on offense. I think it's hit
Speaker 5: some explosives, which Anthony Richardson has been very good at,
Speaker 5: but then limit the turnovers. Richardson does have six interceptions
Speaker 5: this year. That's been a little surprising. You only had
Speaker 5: one last year as a rookie. So keep the turnovers down,
Speaker 5: hit some explosives, and then again on defense, just try
Speaker 5: to shut down that Dolphins run game and then getting
Speaker 5: into some third and longs and hit home as a defense.
Speaker 4: You can find his work on Colts dot Com, also
Speaker 4: part of the Colts Audio Network. JJ Stankovitz at jj
Speaker 4: Stankovitz on Twitter. Appreciate your time today, man, We got
Speaker 4: smart about the Colts. Looking forward to the matchup on Sunday.
Speaker 4: Best of luck to you then, maybe not so much then,
Speaker 4: but the rest of the season. I appreciate your time today, man,
Speaker 4: it was really good.
Speaker 5: Thanks for Travis, good stuff, and.
Speaker 2: Away he goes. Man.
Speaker 4: We've been finding some good guests this year on the podcast.
Speaker 4: That was very informative about the Colts, their entire operation,
Speaker 4: who they are. And we're gonna get on Sunday with
Speaker 4: Anthony Richardson and hopefully, you know, a still pretty banged
Speaker 4: up Colts team that can kind of offset our losses
Speaker 4: as well.
Speaker 2: That's my hope.
Speaker 4: Let's go ahead and take our last break break there,
Speaker 4: come back and try to keep things rolling. I believe
Speaker 4: I wanted the prime time games as well back in
Speaker 4: Week five.
Speaker 2: Let's pull that up real quick.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the Week five primetime games were Kansas City over
Speaker 4: New Orleans and Dallas over Pittsburgh. The last game your
Speaker 4: boy lost and picks was the Seahawks losing to the
Speaker 4: Giants and the Cardinals beating the Niners as well as
Speaker 4: the Raiders and Broncos back in Week five. But fourteen
Speaker 4: and zer last week, I mean sixteen consecutive wins here.
Speaker 4: Let's go ahead and try to make it seventeen and
Speaker 4: much much more with Week seven. That's next Draft Time Podcast.
Speaker 4: Your host Travis Wingfield brought to you by Auto Nation.
Speaker 4: Kind of happy to be back in the saddle here doing,
Speaker 4: you know, getting ready for a game because the bye week,
Speaker 4: as much as it was fun to monologue and kind of,
Speaker 4: you know, commiserate my own misery with the way things
Speaker 4: have gone this year and just kind of flesh things out,
Speaker 4: it's nice to get back into the flow of things.
Speaker 4: And you guys have heard the tone you've heard the
Speaker 4: podcast over the last month plus. If the Dolphins beat
Speaker 4: the Colts and we get a the announcement of a
Speaker 4: QB one returning to the lineup for the Cardinals, You're
Speaker 4: gonna get the same energy you got for Week one.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna be fired up. I'm gonna be excited about
Speaker 4: where this team can go this year. I do think
Speaker 4: the AFC East is open for business. I think Buffalo
Speaker 4: is probably gonna get fat here the next couple of
Speaker 4: games against Tennessee and Seattle. Hopefully one of those teams
Speaker 4: can pick off the Bills as Miami hopefully gets back
Speaker 4: to their winning ways, and the Jets now have Devonte Adams,
Speaker 4: so they're probably gonna be a better football team. I
Speaker 4: still think they're right in that kind of seven to
Speaker 4: eight to nine win range. I digress. They are two
Speaker 4: and four right now, which means the Dolphins, your Miami Dolphins,
Speaker 4: are in second place in the AFC East. Let's go
Speaker 4: ahead and cue the music and pick the game. Sixty
Speaker 4: six and twenty six coming in. It's a seventy one
Speaker 4: point seven win percentage. We're trying to go for seventy two.
Speaker 4: Last year hit seventy one. The goal is always seventy two.
Speaker 2: That's what we're trying to hit. Let's go ahead and
Speaker 2: pick these games.
Speaker 4: It kicks off with I think the TNF schedule just
Speaker 4: takes a turn after last week with the early season
Speaker 4: divisional match. Now they're going for like these QTc like
Speaker 4: you know what could be type of games, and that's
Speaker 4: what we get here this week with.
Speaker 2: With Saints and Broncos.
Speaker 4: Like why I guess next week is Vikings and Rams,
Speaker 4: which is pretty good. After that Texans and Jets, so
Speaker 4: it stays, it stays pretty good after this, But this
Speaker 4: week Broncos and Saints.
Speaker 2: I just couldn't care less about that game.
Speaker 4: But I will take the Saints at home despite the
Speaker 4: fact that I think Spencer Ratler cannot play the guitar
Speaker 4: as it were.
Speaker 2: But I also think he's going up against a quarterback that.
Speaker 4: Also can't play the guitar and bo Nick, so fun
Speaker 4: matchup probably gonna be like seventeen to fourteen in that game.
Speaker 4: I'll take the Jags over the Patriots in London. Does
Speaker 4: that save Doug Peterson's job? I imagine if he loses
Speaker 4: that game, he also loses his job. But the Patriots
Speaker 4: I don't think can beat anybody right now, So I'll
Speaker 4: take Jacksonville on that one. Give me Buffalo over the Titans.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna take the Colts tomorrow. Spoiler on the preview podcast,
Speaker 4: I refuse to pick Miami until they show more than
Speaker 4: they have really all year long, or until QB one
Speaker 4: gets back. Maybe both of those things coincide together. I'll
Speaker 4: take the Seahawks over the Falcons in hot Atlanta. I
Speaker 4: think think Seattle's do for a win. I think Atlanta's
Speaker 4: due for a loss. Just kind of seems like those
Speaker 4: things match up right here, and the Seahawks get back
Speaker 4: on track with a big win in a dome environment
Speaker 4: where I think that Geno Smith can kind of go
Speaker 4: off in that game. Maybe the game of the week
Speaker 4: is Texans and Packers. I'm taking the home team, the
Speaker 4: Packers in that one to UPBND the Texans. I think
Speaker 4: Houston's very good, but I think they've been kind of
Speaker 4: playing with fire the last few weeks. They blew out
Speaker 4: the Patriots, but everyone blowed the Patriots out except for
Speaker 4: us last week. But I think that the Texans are
Speaker 4: right for the picking right here. I think the Packers
Speaker 4: are starting to kind of get in the flow of
Speaker 4: things much like they did last season. I'll take the
Speaker 4: don't I hate this one. I'm taking the Browns over
Speaker 4: the Bengals. I think that Burrow has always struggled against
Speaker 4: the Browns in his career. I think Cleveland's also due
Speaker 4: for a wins. I'll take Cleveland, but I don't feel
Speaker 4: great about it. I'll take the Eagles over the Giants.
Speaker 4: I'll take the Rams over the Raiders. I think I
Speaker 4: mentioned this on the Tuesday podcast. There's a few teams
Speaker 4: I'm not going to pick the rest of the year.
Speaker 4: The Patriots are one of them, the Raiders are one
Speaker 4: of them. I think the Panthers probably one of them.
Speaker 4: And speaking of that, I'll stick with the Commanders over
Speaker 4: the pan to get a nice cushy win there.
Speaker 2: Give me the Niners over the Chiefs.
Speaker 4: I also feel as though the Chiefs are right for
Speaker 4: the picking, and even though taking a Andy Reid loss
Speaker 4: off of a bye week is kind of silly, I'm
Speaker 4: gonna do it anyway. I don't care watch me do
Speaker 4: it again. I'll do it right now. Niners over the Chiefs,
Speaker 4: as I think San Francisco is about to get rolling
Speaker 4: as well. They also have ten days off going into
Speaker 4: that game. I'll take the Jets over the Steelers on
Speaker 4: Monday Night, especially sorry Sunday Night, especially if they start
Speaker 4: Russell Wilson, which sounds like it's a possibility. I don't
Speaker 4: think the offense is good no matter what. I was
Speaker 4: taking a look at this Deeeler schedule today, I'm like, man,
Speaker 4: this team could be five and two if they be
Speaker 4: a mediocre Jets team on Sunday Night football. I don't
Speaker 4: think they will. But if they do, I was like,
Speaker 4: what are they gonna get some losses? Because they have
Speaker 4: had the cushiest schedule to start the year, and if
Speaker 4: you look at their schedule, it really picks up. So
Speaker 4: they'll probably get to five and two. Here I have
Speaker 4: them losing, but if they get to fined in two.
Speaker 4: I do think they'll eventually go back to Earth and
Speaker 4: start losing more games like I expected, but the Jets
Speaker 4: get the win. I'll take the Ravens over the Bucks
Speaker 4: a fun matchup there, and I'm also going to take
Speaker 4: an upset with the Cardinals over the Chargers and the
Speaker 4: Monday night football.
Speaker 2: Doubleheader, So there you go.
Speaker 4: Hopefully, you know the Dolphins going to want a win
Speaker 4: at one o'clock and we get a chance to watch
Speaker 4: the Jets and Steelers game that night and route maybe
Speaker 4: you want to just to it.
Speaker 2: I don't know, we'll see.
Speaker 4: I never root for them, but I do think that
Speaker 4: Dolphins playoff positioning is obviously the most important thing.
Speaker 2: So there you go.
Speaker 4: Week seven picks. Tomorrow, we are going to preview the
Speaker 4: game and depth. I've been watching the tape on this
Speaker 4: game a little bit more back into it than I
Speaker 4: was last few weeks, so apologize for that.
Speaker 2: We'll go ahead and break that down. On Friday.
Speaker 4: We're gonna have Darryl moose Johnston on the podcast. He
Speaker 4: is on the call on Sunday from Indianapolis.
Speaker 2: We'll also have Kyle.
Speaker 4: Krabs plenty to come your way here on a Draft
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