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Speaker 1: This is instant game Reaction, an immediate look back at

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Speaker 1: the Colt's latest game and trying to make it. Ajustment

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Speaker 1: of the ball is by cal Pepany catch it how.

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Speaker 2: He rubbles across the doll line.

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Speaker 3: Touchdown.

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Speaker 1: I'm forty two young strike airing out down Bill down

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Speaker 1: In d Why now here's your host, JJ Stankovitz from

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Speaker 1: Colts dot com.

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Speaker 2: What's up?

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Speaker 1: Everyone?

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Speaker 3: Welcome into another episode of Instant Reaction here on the

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Speaker 3: Colts Audio Network. I'm JJ Stankovitz, joined every week by

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Speaker 3: Colts Ring of Honor wide receiver Bill Brooks.

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Speaker 1: Bill.

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Speaker 3: Today we are talking about the Colts ending a losing

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Speaker 3: streak to the Tennessee Titans. A twenty three to sixteen

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Speaker 3: win over Tennessee at Lucas Oil Stadium on Sunday that

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Speaker 3: snaps a five game losing streak to the Titans. It's

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Speaker 3: the Colts' first home win in nearly a year, and

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Speaker 3: their first home win over the Titans since twenty and eighteen. Bill,

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Speaker 3: I think the first place I want to start, and

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Speaker 3: there are like a billion different ways we can go

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Speaker 3: with this. We will get into Anthony Richardson's injury, we

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Speaker 3: will get into Jonathan Taylor's return, Zach Moss's big day.

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Speaker 3: I think this was the first time that the Colts

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Speaker 3: out toughed the Titans in at least and I started

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Speaker 3: here in twenty twenty one, so this is the first

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Speaker 3: time I've seen the Colts beat the Titans. This is

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Speaker 3: the first time the Colts were easily the tougher team

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Speaker 3: on the field in this game. What just stood out

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Speaker 3: Bill about the way that the Colts were able to

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Speaker 3: use that toughness to their advantage over the course of

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Speaker 3: four quarters today.

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Speaker 2: Well, I think what they did is, you know, of

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Speaker 2: course they knew the Titans want to come out and

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Speaker 2: play a physical style of football and physical game because

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Speaker 2: that's who they are. They want to play physical and

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Speaker 2: take after the head coach Mike Brabel. But the you know,

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Speaker 2: from a defensive standpoint, the Coats are very physical team themselves,

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Speaker 2: and the Zaire shows that almost every time he goes

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Speaker 2: out there and plays football. So the defense did a

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Speaker 2: nice job of being physical. And of course, anytime you

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Speaker 2: can hold Derek Henry to forty three yards in the game.

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Speaker 2: That's saying a lot about your defensive line and your

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Speaker 2: defensive linebackers and the whole defense in general. So they

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Speaker 2: played well. And then give our offensive line a lot

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Speaker 2: of credit for just going out there and just making

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Speaker 2: running hard. So I think, you know, the Coats were

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Speaker 2: and they went out there and played hard and played physical.

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Speaker 2: And I like that about this team because this team's

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Speaker 3: This bill, I thought, was another just shining moment for

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Speaker 3: Shane Stikeen and starting there that the team is taking

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Speaker 3: on the pillars that he has, yes and the message

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Speaker 3: to go make that play, Go make it yourself. Zire

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Speaker 3: Franklin and DeForest Buckner made the play of the game

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Speaker 3: where the culture in their six man front. It's fourth

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Speaker 3: Bill encapsulated it as the biggest play of the game.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that was a big play by the defense and

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Speaker 3: bill had not allowed a running back to go over

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Speaker 2: Yes, for Zak to rushed the ball for twenty three

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Speaker 2: You know, the Titans defensive line is pretty good. You know,

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Speaker 3: Zire Franklin gets the stop on Derrick Henry, yes, and

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Speaker 3: Hammer's home a style of complimentary football that I wrote

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Speaker 3: you get the turnover on downs. You're up by four

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Speaker 3: Moss rushes nine times for thirty seven yards. He catches

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Speaker 3: a huge play on that drive. But then Gardner Midshew

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Speaker 3: Gardner Minshew the best quarterback in the NFL? Shane just goes, yeah,

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Speaker 3: stuff like that where you're you're talking about a team

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Speaker 3: that's taking on the persona of their coach that is tough.

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Speaker 3: Gardner Minshew making that throw, Alec Pierce making that catch,

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Speaker 3: the kind of toughness that Zaire Franklin showed and DeForest

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Speaker 3: this is really exciting the way the Colts are playing

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Speaker 2: I'm glad you brought that up because I was going

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Speaker 2: to mention that in regards to that play by Garden

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Speaker 3: And on that last drive, you know, this isn't Tennessee's

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Speaker 3: on that last drive was Ryan Tannehill dropped back seven times.

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Speaker 3: That Okay, throughout this game, DeAndre Hopkins was getting it.

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Speaker 3: I mean he was getting his in this game.

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Speaker 2: Yes he was.

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Speaker 3: DeForest Buckner said after the game that was because the

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Speaker 3: Colts committed so many resources to stopping Derrick Henry, knowing

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Speaker 3: with a win and a game where this team like

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Speaker 3: this is Anthony Richardson's team. There is no questioning that

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Speaker 3: Gardner Minshew made that very clear in his postgame press conference.

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Speaker 3: They love Gardner Minshew and absolutely they should for what

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Speaker 3: he's done with his team this year.

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Speaker 2: Exactly, they love they love Gardner. Knowing that Gardener's gonna

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Speaker 2: go out there and he's not going to put you

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Speaker 2: in bad situations. He's not going to go out there

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Speaker 2: and do something that he's not comfortable doing. And you know,

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Speaker 2: turn the ball over. He hasn't done that thus far,

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Speaker 2: so you feel confident that when he does go out

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Speaker 2: there that he's going to put you in situations to

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Speaker 2: be successful. You know what, he's going to stand in

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Speaker 2: the pocket and take a hit if he has to

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Speaker 2: get the ball out to get a first down, like

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Speaker 2: you said to play to Alec Pearce. So those are

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Speaker 2: big plays. You know he's gone for the ball, he's

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Speaker 2: going to get to the right people. It might not

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Speaker 2: be a fifty yard pass, it might be a two

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Speaker 2: yard pass. But if he gets the ball in the

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Speaker 2: playmaker's hands like he got into Zach Moss and Zach

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Speaker 2: Moss makes a big run down the sideline, those are

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Speaker 2: big plays for you. So he knows what he can do.

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Speaker 2: He's know what he's capable of doing. He understands the

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Speaker 2: offense and he knows that he knows where to go

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Speaker 2: with the ball, he knows what defenses are trying to

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Speaker 2: do to him. And he's tough and he's physical. So

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Speaker 2: those are the things that you like in the quarterback,

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Speaker 2: especially someone that has commanded the offense and is going

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Speaker 2: to be under control and he doesn't look rati every

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Speaker 2: time he goes out there. He's like, hey, look, you

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Speaker 2: know what, I'm in the back You're playing with my buddies.

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Speaker 2: I'm going out here playing a game, being in a

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Speaker 2: structured system, but I'm having fun out here, like I'm

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Speaker 2: a little kid in the backyard.

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Speaker 3: So last thing to get to here. Jonathan Taylor's debut.

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Speaker 3: The Colts ran sixty one plays. Zach Mooss was on

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Speaker 3: the field for forty nine. Jonathan Taylor was on the

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Speaker 3: field for ten. Trey Sermon was on the field for two.

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Speaker 3: That was the breakdown at running back and before the game,

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Speaker 3: Shanstike and told Lara Overton, our own Lara Overton, that

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Speaker 3: you know, Jonathan was going to be on a bit

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Speaker 3: of a pitch count. They're going to be smart with

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Speaker 3: his usage. It kind of feels like, though Zach Moss

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Speaker 3: was the hot hand, and like why get him off

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Speaker 3: the field, that you still had Zach Moss taking a

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Speaker 3: heavy percentage of the snaps, because why would you do

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Speaker 3: anything otherwise when he was running the way he was.

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Speaker 3: JT got in there. You know, he had six carries

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Speaker 3: in this game. He gained eighteen yards on them. He

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Speaker 3: also had a reception for sixteen yards. Kind of nice,

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Speaker 3: little screenplay that they ran designed up for him. I

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Speaker 3: don't think anyone's worried about you, Nathan Taylor. This is

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Speaker 3: you know he's coming back. You'd only had two practices

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Speaker 3: coming into this game, and Zach Moss carried the load today,

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Speaker 3: and I think they're gonna be games or Jonathan Taylor

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Speaker 3: carries the load. They're gonna be more games or Zach

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Speaker 3: Moss carries the load. It may not please fantasy football

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Speaker 3: managers unless you're Gardner Minshew and you have Zach Moss

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Speaker 3: and your shared with the media after the game, but

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Speaker 3: it's it's probably gonna be this way until you know

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Speaker 3: JT really gets kind of his his football shape back.

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Speaker 3: And I think that's okay because the Colts won this

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Speaker 3: game and Zach Moss averaged seven point two yards per carry,

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Speaker 3: so you can you don't need Jonathan Taylor to be

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Speaker 3: Jonathan Taylor like right off the bat in this game.

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Speaker 2: No, you really don't. And I know we've talked about

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Speaker 2: this before, is I think it's very important to have

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Speaker 2: good depth on the team, and if you have two

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Speaker 2: guys in the backfield like Zach Moss and Jonathan Taylor,

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Speaker 2: you can feel comfortable about whoever's in the game that

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Speaker 2: you know what, they're gonna do a good job. Now,

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Speaker 2: it's gonna take j T a little while to ramp up,

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Speaker 2: and they're gonna them up to get back to, you know,

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Speaker 2: being able to play a full game or play close

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Speaker 2: to a full game. But you feel good with Zach

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Speaker 2: Moss back there and the way he's running and how

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Speaker 2: hard he's running and the things that he's doing out

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Speaker 2: there in the football field and being very physical and

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Speaker 2: very tough. And you know what, the guys like block

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Speaker 2: them for Zach Moss. So if they can continue to

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Speaker 2: play that like that and play that hard, you know

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Speaker 2: that that's good for the team. And having two running

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Speaker 2: backs back there that you can feel confident in that's

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Speaker 2: going to be successful back there, that's a good thing

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Speaker 2: for the Colts. So I think the Cults are in

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Speaker 2: a good position with two of those guys back there,

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Speaker 2: and Zach Moss and Jonathan Taylor. Then you know, you

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Speaker 2: hope Anthony Richardson is healthy. Then you have another guy

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Speaker 2: back there that can do some dangerous things out there

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Speaker 2: with the ball in his hands.

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Speaker 3: All right, Well, we'll have plenty more updates on Anthony

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Speaker 3: Richardson's status this week here on the Colts Audio Network

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Speaker 3: to also keep it locked in to the Colts App

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Speaker 3: and the Colts social media channels for more updates on

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Speaker 3: aar status this week on the cult So Audio Network.

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Speaker 3: This week, though, we are gonna have Colts Roundtable Live

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Speaker 3: on Monday, Matt Taylor will host that. He will be

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Speaker 3: joined by head coach Shane Steichen as well as Rick

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Speaker 3: Ventury and Joe Writes to break down Sunday's win over

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Speaker 3: the Tennessee Titans. On Tuesday, the Official Colts Podcast is back.

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Speaker 3: I'll be on that with Lara Overton and Jeffrey Gorman.

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Speaker 3: On Wednesday, Inside Football with Rick Ventury that will have

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Speaker 3: blueprints to beat the Jaguars in week six as we

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Speaker 3: shift our attention to a huge game in the AFC

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Speaker 3: South on Sunday in Jacksonville. That'll be with Rick Ventury

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Speaker 3: and Matt Taylor on Wednesday. On Thursday, Bill, you will

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Speaker 3: be joined by Mayte and Casey Valier for a sea

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Speaker 3: A game preview excuse me of the Colts game against

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Speaker 3: the Jaguars. And we've been doing these overtime podcasts over

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Speaker 3: the weekend because there's been big news on Anthony Richardson's status,

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Speaker 3: on Jonathan Taylor's status. We'll see if we do another one,

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Speaker 3: because we'll see what Anthony Richardson's status is. So keep

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Speaker 3: it locked in. Subscribed to the Colts Audio Network wherever

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Speaker 3: you get your podcast to get your late your latest

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Speaker 3: breaking news an analysis of it if we do need

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Speaker 3: to have it this weekend anyways. For Bill Brooks, I'm

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Speaker 3: JJS Tankobitz. Thank you so much for listening to this

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Speaker 3: episode of Instant Reaction here to the CLTS out a Network.

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Speaker 3: We'll talk to you next weekend. After the cults faced

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Speaker 3: the Jacksonville Jaguars