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Speaker 1: Welcome to Colts Roundtable Live on ninety three to five

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Speaker 2: On a quarterback draw. He's at the ten, he's at

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Speaker 2: the five, untouched in the end zone. Michael Pittmitt Junior

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Speaker 1: We're talking Colts and recapping the action.

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Speaker 3: Good Forest Buckner picks up a live football and races

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Speaker 3: the other way for a.

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Speaker 4: Score picked off by the Colts.

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Speaker 2: From your sideline, Kenny Moore racing for the inZone ten

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Speaker 1: Indeed, why now Here's the voice of the Colts. Matt

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Speaker 1: Taylor from the Indiana Union Construction Industry Radio Studio.

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Speaker 2: Hello, Welcome the Colts Round Table Live tonight. This is

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Speaker 2: Matt Taylor. Welcome inside the Indiana Union Construction Industry Radio

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Speaker 2: stud Studio tonight and Colts Roundtable Live is with you

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Speaker 2: until seven o'clock, breaking down the Colts through fifteen games

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Speaker 2: and the Colts also coming off a thirty eight to

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Speaker 2: thirty win over the Tennessee Titans on Sundays. The Colts

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Speaker 2: sweep the season series with their rivals from Nashville, and

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Speaker 2: that win for the Colts improves their record to seven

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Speaker 2: and eight on the season with two games to play,

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Speaker 2: and it also keeps them mathematically alive and in the

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Speaker 2: hunt for a playoff spot in the AFC. We've got

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Speaker 2: a busy show tonight coming up. We'll start it off

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Speaker 2: with our weekly chat with Colts head coach Shane Steiken

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Speaker 2: coming up in just a moment, and then starting on

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Speaker 2: segment two after we break, analyst rick Vin Turrey and

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Speaker 2: Joe Writs will join me to break down the game

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Speaker 2: film from Sunday's win and all the impressive components that

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Speaker 2: went into the victory over the Titans. At one point

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Speaker 2: in the game, the Colts led by thirty one points,

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Speaker 2: but the Titans scratched their way back in to pull

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Speaker 2: with some key plays late and capped off a historic

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Speaker 2: day rushing the football. So let's recap if the action

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Speaker 2: on the game rewind.

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Speaker 5: Well.

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Speaker 2: The Colts trailed early seven to nothing as the Titans

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Speaker 2: but the Colts would then rattle off twenty four straight

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Speaker 2: and they wouldn't stop there. Halfway through the third quarter,

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Speaker 2: the lead for the Colts would balloon up to thirty

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Speaker 2: eight to seven and represent the largest lead for the

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Speaker 2: team all season long. The Colts gashed the Titans all afternoon.

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Speaker 2: On the ground, the Colts set a new single game

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Speaker 2: One hundred and eighty four of that total came in

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Speaker 2: the first half, which would then represent a new season

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Speaker 2: high for the Colts. The Titans had no answer, none

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Speaker 2: at all for the Colts ground game, as Indianapolis ran

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Speaker 2: fifty times at a game where they ran just sixty

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Speaker 2: and Sunday mark just the fourth time in franchise history

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Speaker 2: the Colts piled up three hundred plus rushing yards. The

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Speaker 2: Taylor became the first Colt with two touchdown runs of

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Speaker 2: the win keeps the Colts playoff hopes mathematically alive with

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Speaker 2: two games to play. And up next for the Colts

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Speaker 2: they've also lost a franchise record ten straight games. All right, again,

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Speaker 2: by analyst Rick vn Turiy and Joe Wrights. We're gonna

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Speaker 2: Citizens Energy Group. Coach always appreciate the time. Great win

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Speaker 2: over the Titans, historic in terms of the rushing total

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Speaker 2: three hundred and thirty five yards on the ground. How

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it was huge bounce back.

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Speaker 6: Obviously, they go get a win at home against a

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Speaker 5: It was great for our team.

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Speaker 2: What gave you confidence in the running game? You know,

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Speaker 6: I think you always want to have success going in

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Speaker 2: Like we said, you'd run all over them. It wasn't

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Speaker 6: I think it always goes back to preparation. You know,

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Speaker 6: So I think those guys were just playing together. The

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Speaker 2: How much did did yesterday prove that Jonathan Taylor's still

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Speaker 2: not to overharp on the running game yesterday, but but

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Speaker 6: Yeah, absolutely, I think you know, yesterday was a rare day.

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Speaker 6: And with those two guys in the backfield, it brings

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Speaker 5: Obviously, splitting double teams has been.

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Speaker 2: Big last thing on the game. Crazy game in the

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Speaker 2: They scored twenty three straight, they get some two point conversions.

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Speaker 2: How much did you have to approach the game? Change

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you never want that to happen. You know, definitely

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Speaker 6: And you know, you go back and you got you

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Speaker 5: But obviously we were able to finish it out, which

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Speaker 2: Let's go rapid fire here. Jake is asking how much

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Speaker 6: Yeah, a very athletic player, you know, a great get

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Speaker 2: All right, Michael is up next. Did the commitment to

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Speaker 2: No doubt about it. Yeah, everybody has to play this

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Speaker 4: You guys ready for the big holiday.

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Speaker 6: I'll be home Christmas morning, see what Santa brings the kids,

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Speaker 2: No doubt about it. Yeah, it never stops. That's that's

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Speaker 2: Stiking with us Colts Round Table Live coach, appreciate the time.

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Speaker 2: Congratulations on the win over Tennessee and all the best

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Speaker 5: All right, appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back to Colts Round Table live this evening. I'm

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Speaker 1: Joe.

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Speaker 4: Good evening.

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Speaker 2: How are you feeling on this Christmas Eve eve?

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Speaker 4: Well, this is the time, Matt.

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Speaker 2: All right, So Joe for you, what do you have

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Speaker 7: I've been there, brother, I've been there.

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Speaker 4: How about you, Rick?

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Speaker 4: Raising hell today.

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Speaker 3: I was kind of wondering, are we having one of those?

439
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Speaker 3: And then we got right, and we got right in

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Speaker 3: a big way. So hats off to the players, Hats

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Speaker 3: off to the coaching staff for coming out and doing

442
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Speaker 3: what you're supposed to do. They dominated a team that

443
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Speaker 3: had been struggling. They kept the losers losing, as reggu

444
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Speaker 3: Wayne likes to say, And I know we kind of

445
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Speaker 3: let them get back into it late, but you know,

446
00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:55,920
Speaker 3: you go up thirty eight to seven right there. I mean,

447
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Speaker 3: the game was over and it was great to see

448
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Speaker 3: the Colts just so so, especially running the football.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, you know, to me, the first forty minutes of

450
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Speaker 7: the game was just glorious for a Colt wifer like myself,

451
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Speaker 7: I mean, it was it was total total physical domination

452
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Speaker 7: of a division rival. Offensively, I agree, the Colts defined

453
00:20:18,560 --> 00:20:23,080
Speaker 7: themselves defined an identity, and they shredded the number two defense.

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Speaker 7: That wasn't a bad defense, that's the number two defense.

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Speaker 7: You know, with four hundred and fifty eight yards, the

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Speaker 7: record setting three hundred and thirty five rushing, and of

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Speaker 7: course JT two hundred and eighteen and seven point five.

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Speaker 7: Vince Lombardi would be proud. The left side of our

459
00:20:40,400 --> 00:20:45,520
Speaker 7: offensive line just absolutely road graders. I thought Nelson could

460
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Speaker 7: have been arrested for assaulting their defensive line. I've just

461
00:20:48,840 --> 00:20:52,960
Speaker 7: never seen any more vicious playing so well, and really

462
00:20:52,960 --> 00:20:56,520
Speaker 7: our defense for forty minutes, you know, completely stuffed them.

463
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Speaker 7: They only got sixty five yard rushing. We had the

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Speaker 7: two big picks, the biggest one obviously being Kenny before

465
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Speaker 7: the half, because they gave us a score in that

466
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Speaker 7: last two minutes, which is everything, you know, and at

467
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Speaker 7: one time, you know, with six fifty to go in

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Speaker 7: a third quarter, you know, we led thirty eight thirty

469
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Speaker 7: eight to seven. But you know, the reality, once again,

470
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Speaker 7: the last twenty minutes proved that the lead is there

471
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Speaker 7: is no lead that is safe with the Colts defense,

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Speaker 7: There's no question about it. Twenty three unanswered points and basically,

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Speaker 7: if we don't convert those two first downs at the end.

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Speaker 7: It's gonna be really interesting, you know, because they were.

475
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Speaker 7: They made it nerve racking at the end. Maybe the

476
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Speaker 7: Colts learn a lesson. I don't know what it is,

477
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Speaker 7: but you know, they haven't been it had multi possession leads,

478
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Speaker 7: but they took their foot off the gas. If you

479
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Speaker 7: look at the tape, it's both soft coverage and miss tackles.

480
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Speaker 7: They missed five tackles alone on one check down to Spears,

481
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Speaker 7: you know, and they allowed them to make it a game.

482
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Speaker 7: They allowed Rudolph to come back and go twenty three

483
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Speaker 7: or thirty four and make it a game. Thankfully, ar five,

484
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Speaker 7: as he has done three times in the last five weeks.

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Speaker 7: There's a lot of things to be critical of him

486
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Speaker 7: when it comes to statistics, but in the last three

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Speaker 7: out of five weeks, he has been outstanding in the

488
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Speaker 7: last two minutes, and believe it or not, he had

489
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Speaker 7: to be. He threw the laser to Pittman for the

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Speaker 7: first down, and he made that key run to kill

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Speaker 7: the clock on that naked boot. Two big time plays.

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Speaker 7: The guy seems to really play and be calm in

493
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Speaker 7: the last two minutes. All in all, my thoughts are

494
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Speaker 7: number one. The no shows. You missed a fun day.

495
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Speaker 7: Those guys that didn't come to the game, you missed

496
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Speaker 7: a really fun game, to be honest with you. And

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Speaker 7: I think, you know, basically, I think again the Colts,

498
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Speaker 7: you know, I think they're doing it weekly. Yesterday was extreme,

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Speaker 7: and that is finding a form to win at this

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Speaker 7: stage in AR five's development. At this stage, you're not

501
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Speaker 7: gonna win with him throwing the ball all over the yard.

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Speaker 7: So they reduced it to eleven and they ran the

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Speaker 7: ball and they got that. And as my dear friend

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Speaker 7: Matt Taylor said during the game, oh oh, Mike, my

505
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Speaker 7: Christmas present was actually watching the Colts use Ogo Tree

506
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Speaker 7: at fullback and actually using the power kickout and search

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Speaker 7: in what amounted to a two back offense. Nothing could

508
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Speaker 7: be better.

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Speaker 2: Joe I told Rick that instead of leaving the cookies

510
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Speaker 2: out for Santa and He's leading out for the fullback

511
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Speaker 2: because my main question, man was hyped with the diversity

512
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Speaker 2: in the running game because of the fullback and all

513
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Speaker 2: the opportunities that opened up for Jonathan Taylor. He was happy.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I think when you think about that and

515
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Speaker 3: you think about the Colts utilizing that fullback. When you

516
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Speaker 3: have a two headed running monster and you got the

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Speaker 3: zone read capabilities with Taylor and Richardson, I mean, it

518
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Speaker 3: makes sense right to add diverse. See, now you got

519
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Speaker 3: three guys in the backfield and the defense doesn't know

520
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Speaker 3: what's going on, and the fullback goes one way and

521
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Speaker 3: Richardson goes it the other way. That just makes it

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Speaker 3: a lot harder for a decordinator, right.

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Speaker 7: Rick, Absolutely, And against all those bear defenses that were

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Speaker 7: stopping our zone runs. Now you can power down, kickout,

525
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Speaker 7: and seal up and through there. And we were doing that.

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Speaker 7: I mean, we didn't do it great, but we were

527
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Speaker 7: doing it pretty well. And that, to me, that's just

528
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Speaker 7: the beginning. And that's huge. I've been begging for that

529
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Speaker 7: for so long. I was. I was thrilled to death.

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Speaker 2: we're rolling out what's more impressive. There was a lot

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Speaker 2: to like about yesterday's performance against the Titans, and we're

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Speaker 2: gonna pick out a few of the top positive areas

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Speaker 2: back here on the show. I'm Matt Taylor, now joined

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Speaker 2: again by Rick Van Turrey and Joe Wrights, and this

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Speaker 2: segment is called What's more impressive? Okay, because the Colts

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Speaker 2: played some really good football for long stretches on Sunday,

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Speaker 2: So let's have some fun and debate which areas were

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Speaker 2: more impressive in the win for the Colts, who again

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Speaker 2: stayed mathematically alive for the playoffs here with two games

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Speaker 2: to play, so let's break it down. Richardson versus Taylor.

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Speaker 2: Anthony Richardson and quarterback Jonathan Taylor at running back. They

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Speaker 2: use those two stars interchangeably in the zodereen Ga, a

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Speaker 2: zone read game, I should say. On Sunday, Richardson ran

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Speaker 2: for a career high seventy and a touchdown, and again

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Speaker 2: in the process, past Mike Pagel for the most single

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Speaker 2: season rushing yards by a quarterback, also past Andrew Lucky

576
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Speaker 2: for the most single season rushing touchdowns by a Colts

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Speaker 2: quarterback in team history. Now with six touchdowns, and we

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Speaker 2: know about Jonathan Taylor's day. The two runs over sixty

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Speaker 2: five two hundred and eighteen yards over one thousand yards rushing,

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Speaker 2: past Tom Maddy for the third most rushing touchdowns and

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Speaker 2: team history, among other milestones on Sundays. So, Joe, I'm

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Speaker 2: gonna I'm gonna lay it out to you, and I

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Speaker 2: know where we're definitely splitting hairs here, But who was

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Speaker 2: more impressive on Sunday? Is it Jonathan Taylor or is

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Speaker 2: it Anthony Richardson? A great problem to have if you're

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Speaker 2: the Colts in terms of how you debate and split

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Speaker 2: these guys up.

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Speaker 4: Can I make it a tie? Matt? I mean, I

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Speaker 4: want to know what I'm saying. I would say though, if

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Speaker 4: I if I.

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Speaker 3: Had to pick just one, I think I'm gonna take

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Speaker 3: Taylor just because I felt like it was vintage JT.

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Speaker 3: You know that first touchdown run, You know you got

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Speaker 3: two three guys in the hole and he jump cuts

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Speaker 3: and jump cuts again, and he's off to the races,

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Speaker 3: and that top end speed was there.

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Speaker 4: And I know he had an ankle, you know.

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Speaker 3: Earlier in the season, you know, and wonder if that,

599
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Speaker 3: you know, was just limiting him a little bit. But

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Speaker 3: that was that was as good as performance as I

601
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Speaker 3: can remember. Jonathan Taylor watching and again credit to the

602
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Speaker 3: offensive line, credit to Shane and Jim Bob and dialing

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Speaker 3: up all the diversity in the running game.

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Speaker 4: But I just like that we had the attitude that.

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Speaker 3: We're going to run the ball, and we're going to

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Speaker 3: run the ball with twenty eight and we're going to

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Speaker 3: run the ball with five, and it doesn't matter what

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Speaker 3: defense you run, We're.

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Speaker 4: Gonna do it anyway.

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Speaker 3: And when you think about Anthony Richardson, I think he

611
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Speaker 3: is most dangerous when we get him on the edge.

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Speaker 4: I know he's a power runner, but when.

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Speaker 3: He gets out in space, when we can get him

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Speaker 3: outside the tackles, either with a pin and poll scheme

615
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Speaker 3: or blocking everybody down and kicking him out and having

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Speaker 3: either you know, a receiver out in front of him

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Speaker 3: or a tight end or Quinton Nelson or whoever it is,

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Speaker 3: he is so dangerous because of how quick he can

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Speaker 3: get to his top end speed too. And you know,

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Speaker 3: I really think that identity that we've talked about, it's there.

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Speaker 3: And it was really great to see both of those guys.

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Speaker 3: And it's a tough defense to stop, especially when you

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Speaker 3: have a lot of diversity within all the different schemes

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Speaker 3: that we were running, because whatever you're going to do

625
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Speaker 3: on defense is wrong. And again credit to both those

626
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Speaker 3: guys use great individual effort.

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Speaker 2: But if I had to pick one, I'm gonna lean

628
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Speaker 2: j Yeah, definitely splitting hairs like I said, Rick, But

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Speaker 2: Jonathan Taylor and Anthony Richardson are in the ring together.

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Speaker 2: Which one you going with in terms of their performances yesterday?

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Speaker 7: Well, in terms of the performance, you have to go

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Speaker 7: with JT. Based on the two to eighteen, based on

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Speaker 7: the one hundred and thirty one yards and two plays,

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Speaker 7: I mean his signature moments and he showed the home

635
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Speaker 7: run ability. I think that was number one that sended.

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Speaker 7: But it's very hard to separate the two because they

637
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Speaker 7: really compliment one another totally. I mean that is that

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Speaker 7: is a nightmare on defense and you saw you see

639
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Speaker 7: how important even though it was only seventy yards. You

640
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Speaker 7: get a red zone touchdown, you get that critical scramble,

641
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Speaker 7: you get that critical naked boot at the end to

642
00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:52,440
Speaker 7: win the game. Richardson keeps popping up in those critical situations,

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Speaker 7: you know. And Richardson really is a running back. He

644
00:29:55,840 --> 00:29:58,520
Speaker 7: isn't a true quarterback. He's, like somebody said to me,

645
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Speaker 7: one of the really good football guys in the league

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Speaker 7: we were talking the other day, said, when you play

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Speaker 7: against Richardson, it's like playing against wildcat. It's not really

648
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Speaker 7: like playing against a finesse quarterback back there. So I mean,

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Speaker 7: you know, you got two two real elements and somebody's

650
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Speaker 7: gonna have to put eight or nine up there and

651
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Speaker 7: force you to throw it to stop it. But you know,

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Speaker 7: I'm shooting my goal has been and they've been right

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Speaker 7: at it. One hundred and fifty between them. I think yesterday,

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Speaker 7: I don't believe you'll be able to match that. I

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Speaker 7: don't think you're going to get seventy yard runs and

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Speaker 7: sixty one yard runs, although I predicted that. I knew

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Speaker 7: their back end can't tackle, but you're not going to

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Speaker 7: get that. But I may, I may up that to

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Speaker 7: two hundred between the two of them, the way the

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Speaker 7: way they're doing it.

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Speaker 2: Well, we're talking about what's more impressive. Here on Colts

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Speaker 2: Round Table Live, I'm Matt Taylor, Rick Vinterry and Joe

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Speaker 2: Wrights are long as well tonight on ninety three five

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Speaker 2: go to the defensive side of the ball. Let's debate

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Speaker 2: this guy, DeForest Buckner versus Jalen Carlies on Sunday. Buckner

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Speaker 2: was an absolute game wrecker, stuffing a quarterback sneak on

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Speaker 2: the first drive of the game. He batted down a

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Speaker 2: ball that led to a missfield goal, had consecutive quarterback

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Speaker 2: hits later in the first half, finished the game five tackles,

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Speaker 2: a tackle for loss, a pass defense, and he has

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Speaker 2: five consecutive games with a tackle for loss that's currently

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Speaker 2: tied for the third longest active streak in the NFL.

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Speaker 2: And then you've got Jalen Carly's, the rookie coming off

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Speaker 2: of ir playing in his first game since Week seven,

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Speaker 2: started the game for the injured e J. Speed, compiled

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Speaker 2: a single game career highs and tackles with ten, also

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Speaker 2: had one tackle for loss, and Carlis helped shut down

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Speaker 2: the Titans running game. The Colts gave up just sixty

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Speaker 2: five yards on the ground and less than three yards

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Speaker 2: per carry for the afternoon to the Tennessee Titans. So, Rick,

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Speaker 2: I know you're the defensive guy and again split in hairs,

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Speaker 2: But who was more impressive on Sunday for the Colts,

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Speaker 2: Buckner or Carli's the rookie.

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Speaker 7: No, no, you're giving us really nice problems to have. Yeah,

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Speaker 7: this was a really nice day, tempoate. Really, I really

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Speaker 7: enjoyed these things. And from Carli's standpoint, he did a

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Speaker 7: terrific job. And you know what I saw it in

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Speaker 7: training camp. I think that he is going to become

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Speaker 7: one of the great draft steals. You know, he was

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Speaker 7: basically a safety. Uh. They saw the linebacker in him. Uh.

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Speaker 7: And basically I think he's gonna end up being an

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Speaker 7: outstanding linebacker. I think he's maybe the best space tackler

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Speaker 7: of all those linebackers, even though they have high volume tackles.

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Speaker 7: He is the he saw that yesterday in space. He's

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Speaker 7: the one guy that can really get you down. He's

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Speaker 7: going to make it interesting with speed as we go forward.

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Speaker 7: To tell you the truth, So you know, I like

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Speaker 7: him a lot, but yesterday belonged to Buckner. Yesterday belonged

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Speaker 7: to the running game on offense, but the defense, it

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Speaker 7: belonged to Butler Buckner. I don't believe I've ever seen him.

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Speaker 7: I've seen him with more sacks in a game, but

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Speaker 7: I've never seen him more dominant from the beginning until

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Speaker 7: the end. I mean, I've just never seen him more dominant.

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Speaker 7: I mean, you mentioned it, you every part of it.

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Speaker 7: Third and one stop. He played the game in their backfield.

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Speaker 7: You know, he had key quarterback hits, knocks balls down.

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Speaker 7: I mean, the only time they moved the ball running

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Speaker 7: is when he's not in there. That's the only time

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Speaker 7: they move it is when he's not in there. I

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Speaker 7: just think that he played at such a great high level,

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Speaker 7: as did all our investment players. But I thought he

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Speaker 7: was just tremendous yesterday. I just was so impressed.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they were both outstanding, and I just think, you know,

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Speaker 3: our linebacking play has been tremendous all year. You know, Franklin,

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Speaker 3: then the speed Stuart when he's been in there. But yeah,

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Speaker 3: the Carlisles and coach mentioned that that ability to tackle

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Speaker 3: in space, right, that ability when somebody's coming at you

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Speaker 3: and you're coming to them, and you're the only two

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Speaker 3: guys in that little circle.

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Speaker 4: Can you get the guy down?

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Speaker 3: And he has a tremendous knack and ability to just

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Speaker 3: you know, get the ball carrier and take him to

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Speaker 3: the ground with those solo tackles. And so but I

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Speaker 3: with Coach, I'm with you on Buckner, and you mentioned

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Speaker 3: everything he did yesterday.

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Speaker 4: I mean, he's set the.

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Speaker 3: Tone on that third and one with that sneak when

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Speaker 3: he just mean blasted through the line and they couldn't

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Speaker 3: block him. But you know, just hats off to him

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Speaker 3: as a leader, as a presence in that locker room,

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Speaker 3: somebody that shows up every day, somebody that works that

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Speaker 3: he doesn't make excuses and he just goes out there

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Speaker 3: and produces and produces and produces. In a game like

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Speaker 3: that yesterday, when again you could be deflated coming off

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Speaker 3: to that loss and what do we have going and

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Speaker 3: our odds and make the playoffs are really really low,

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Speaker 3: he showed what professionals do and he went out and

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Speaker 3: he played his tail off. He dominated the game, and

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Speaker 3: he set the tone not with his words, but with

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Speaker 3: his play snap in and snap out, and you know,

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Speaker 3: those are those type of you know, high football character

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Speaker 3: guys that you got to have in the locker room.

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Speaker 2: Right in the money right there. That's Joe Wright's Rick

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Speaker 2: Venturrey along as well. I'm Matt Taylor. This Colt's Roundtable

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Speaker 2: Rick Venturier. Here again, I'm Matt Taylor. It's time now

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Speaker 2: sports teams across the Midwest. All Right, William speaks for

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Speaker 2: a lot of Colts fans. He wants to know simply,

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Speaker 2: what are the playoff odds and scenarios for the Colts

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Speaker 2: after the win against the Titans. So let's talk quickly

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Speaker 2: about this with two games left, the playoff odds and

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Speaker 2: there's a lot of different things, a lot of different models,

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Speaker 2: if you will. New York Times has won, the Athletic

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Speaker 2: has one, NFL dot Com has one, so on and

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Speaker 2: so forth. All Right, So take this with a grain

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Speaker 2: of salt, but the New York Times has the Colts

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Speaker 2: playoff odds at nineteen percent, So the Colts are out

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Speaker 2: of the playoffs if they lose to either the Giants

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Speaker 2: or the Jaguar. So all of these playoff scenarios are

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Speaker 2: dependent upon the Colts winning out winning against the Giants

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Speaker 2: and Jacksonville in their last two games of the season.

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Speaker 2: So to make the playoffs, the Colts will have to

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Speaker 2: win their final two and have the Chargers lose both

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Speaker 2: of their final two games. They have to play at

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Speaker 2: Patriots at Raiders. That's the simplest formula. A more complicated

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Speaker 2: scenario involving the Colts is winning their last two games,

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Speaker 2: the Broncos losing their last two in either the Dolphins

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Speaker 2: and or the Bengals winning their final game. So again,

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Speaker 2: I know that's kind of complicated. It's tough to follow.

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Speaker 2: That's kind of the bed the Colts have made for themselves.

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Speaker 2: That's where they have to lay in these last two weeks.

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Speaker 2: They need a lot of help outside of the organization here. Joe,

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Speaker 2: I know you've kind of looked at this the last

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Speaker 2: couple of days. Where are you most optimistic, Joe, in

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Speaker 2: terms of the Colts getting some help and making the playoffs.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Matt, you laid that out perfectly in great question. William,

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Speaker 3: you're speaking my language. I was up early this morning

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Speaker 3: crunching numbers. Here's what I think is gonna happen. I

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Speaker 3: don't see the Chargers losing their both two games. They

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Speaker 3: play at the Patriots, they play the Raiders, They're gonna

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Speaker 3: win at least one of those. So that leaves you

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Speaker 3: Denver in the Denver's final two games at Cincinnati on Saturday,

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Speaker 3: and then they host the Chiefs. I really think that

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Speaker 3: Denver is going to lose out and I think it's

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Speaker 3: an if Colts fans got a cheer for the Steelers

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Speaker 3: on Christmas Day because if they beat the Chiefs, now,

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Speaker 3: the Chiefs got to win that last game to get

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Speaker 3: the number one seed because Buffalo's got the tiebreaker and

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Speaker 3: they're hot on their.

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Speaker 4: Heels, and that's good for the thing about this, Yeah, yep, exactly.

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Speaker 3: So you think the Steelers beat the Chiefs and then

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Speaker 3: on Saturday, the Broncos got to play at Cincinnati. They

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Speaker 3: lose that game, and the Broncos then they lose to

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Speaker 3: the Chiefs and they're nine and eight, And if we

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Speaker 3: get to nine and eight with either the Dolphins or

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Speaker 3: the Bengals, right, either one of those teams and the

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Speaker 3: Colts at nine and eight, we win the three way tiebreaker, right,

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Speaker 3: and the Dolphins they host the Browns, they play at

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Speaker 3: the Jets in week eighteen. So bottom line, I know

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Speaker 3: we're at eighteen percent, twenty percent, whatever it is. But

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Speaker 3: if the Broncos lose at CINCI on Saturday, which I

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Speaker 3: think they win, and then the Dolphins win, now all

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Speaker 3: of a sudden, you're at like a fifty chance going

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Speaker 3: into the last week. And I really do think Denver's

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Speaker 3: gonna lose out. And so that means if Denver loses

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Speaker 3: out and the Colts went out, we just need either

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Speaker 3: the Bengals or the Dolphins to win their final two

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Speaker 3: and we could sneak in because of our conference record.

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Speaker 3: The tiebreaker is conference record, and we would have the

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Speaker 3: highest of everybody. So while the playoffs seemed really nil

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Speaker 3: and doom, you know, when we were doing the pregame

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Speaker 3: show yesterday, the way things unfolded yesterday and kind of

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Speaker 3: digging in a little bit more, I really think the

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Speaker 3: Colts have a fighting chance to get in the playoffs,

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Speaker 3: and man, that would be great to see here. So

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Speaker 3: still a lot on the line for the Blue and

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Speaker 3: White heading in here to the last two games.

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Speaker 2: But again, nothing else matters. If the Colts don't win

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Speaker 2: out that has to happen. They have to beat the

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Speaker 2: Giants and the Jaguars, and so they have to go

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Speaker 2: on a three game winning streak here at the end

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Speaker 2: of the season in order to give themselves at least

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Speaker 2: a chance to get some help outside of what they

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Speaker 2: can control. All right, well done, right there, Joe Wrights.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you were like an air traffic controller right there.

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Speaker 2: My head's still spinning it. I think I understand where

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Speaker 2: you're optimistic. But bottom line this week, root for the Steelers. Yep,

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Speaker 2: root for the Bengals, and root for the Dolphins.

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Speaker 3: And if those three things happen, I'm gonna feel really

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Speaker 3: good heading into week eighteen.

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Speaker 4: There you go.

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Speaker 2: All right, let's go to Rick. THEO is up next,

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Speaker 2: I should say, again with the submission on X with

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Speaker 2: the hashtag Colts Roundtable. With this question, THEO is asking, Hey, Rick,

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Speaker 2: why are we still having so much trouble tackling this season?

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Speaker 2: And also stopping tight ends from eating us live in

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Speaker 2: the middle of the field.

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Speaker 7: Well, I'm going to address the tackling thing first. Obviously,

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Speaker 7: you know, I made a living both at college and

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Speaker 7: pro football by either tackling or not tackling. So I've

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Speaker 7: studied this thing through because you know, when you get

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Speaker 7: to the NFL level, you usually have good enough athletes

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Speaker 7: that they can tackle and they've had to tackle their

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Speaker 7: whole life, and you know, at our level, it's always

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Speaker 7: why does that happen? Well, you know, in studying over

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Speaker 7: the years, you know, there's about four things to me

873
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Speaker 7: that really come into play. Number one is a team

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Speaker 7: is not ready to play. You can always tell if

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Speaker 7: a team is not ready to play, and I'm talking

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Speaker 7: about at their a game, that top level, that sharpness,

877
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Speaker 7: that razor sharpness. You can always tell because they misstackles,

878
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Speaker 7: they're flat, they're not ready to go. And I think

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Speaker 7: some of that crept into that fourth quarter Sunday. I mean,

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Speaker 7: we were definitely ready to play the game and played

881
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Speaker 7: it really hard for a long time. But part of

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Speaker 7: letting up, you know, and part of getting off the

883
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Speaker 7: gas is just there's an emotional letdown with that big lead,

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Speaker 7: and I think that was part of the mistackles Sunday.

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Speaker 7: I think number two you can have scheme issues. We

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Speaker 7: can all have scheme issues. And what that is is

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Speaker 7: if you allow too many uncontested passes and a lot

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Speaker 7: of catch and run plays where there's space. Because if

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Speaker 7: you cluster running backs in the NFL or receivers, you'll

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Speaker 7: get them down. But if you let them out there

891
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Speaker 7: and they get a lot of one on ones like spears,

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Speaker 7: they will make you miss. And so when you're playing

893
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Speaker 7: area zone and you're not squeezing people and they get

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Speaker 7: the ball. And that's one of the reasons on Conquo

895
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Speaker 7: caught so many balls. It's just uncontested balls in zone,

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Speaker 7: but catching run plays kill you. Then I think number

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Speaker 7: three is poor discipline in pursuit angles, and we're really

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Speaker 7: guilty of that. We're fundamentally really bad. We fly around,

899
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Speaker 7: but we don't fly around with purpose. In many cases

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00:42:43,040 --> 00:42:46,600
Speaker 7: in space, we never come to control. You know, you

901
00:42:46,680 --> 00:42:48,759
Speaker 7: have to run hard and run hard, but when you

902
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Speaker 7: get to the point of tackling, there's a point of

903
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Speaker 7: just throttling down just a bit, you know, to make

904
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Speaker 7: that play and cup that ball. Cupping the ball used

905
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Speaker 7: to be a big code point to all of us

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Speaker 7: keeping the ball inside in front. It's a lost art today.

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Speaker 7: And then the fourth thing is just poor space talent.

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Speaker 7: You got guys that you know, play really good in

909
00:43:11,880 --> 00:43:14,600
Speaker 7: phone booths, but if they get out in space, I

910
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Speaker 7: mean as good as Franklin as he misses a lot

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Speaker 7: of tackles in space. I mean, you know speed the

912
00:43:19,640 --> 00:43:23,080
Speaker 7: same way. Speed comes really hard, but he never breaks down.

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Speaker 7: He does a lot of block tackling, and so you know,

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Speaker 7: sometimes you get out of there. But yesterday, I mean,

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Speaker 7: the one play that was so dramatic was the checkdown

916
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Speaker 7: to Spears and he broke five ankles on that play.

917
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Speaker 7: So all those things come in to play in terms

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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back. This is the final time tonight on

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Speaker 2: Venturi and Joe wrights Er Here. It's time now for

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Speaker 2: the closing arguments from the felas, putting that Titans game

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Speaker 2: to bed and looking ahead to the final two. In

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Speaker 2: the first of two begins with the New York Giants.

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Speaker 2: And I tell you what, Joe, it's it's hard times

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Speaker 2: right now in the Big Apple. They were destroyed yesterday

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Speaker 2: thirty four to seven in Atlanta. They're now two to

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Speaker 2: thirteen in the running for the number one overall pick

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Speaker 2: coming up in April. They've lost ten straight games, a

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Speaker 2: franchise record, by the way, this is a franchise that's

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Speaker 2: been around for one hundred years. The infancy dates back

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Speaker 2: to nineteen twenty five. So, Joe, the Colts close out

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Speaker 2: the season with two of the worst teams in the NFL,

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Speaker 2: trying to keep their faint playoff hopes alive with some wins.

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Speaker 2: As you said, they got to get some help outside

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Speaker 2: of the building, but nothing else matters if you just

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Speaker 2: flat out don't take care of business against two bad

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Speaker 2: football teams to close out the season.

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Speaker 3: No question, this is a three game stretch that we

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Speaker 3: should win everyone, and we checked the box yesterday, you know,

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Speaker 3: did it in a large part of the game in

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Speaker 3: dominant fashion. And now you got some momentum to build

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Speaker 3: on here, Matt, these last couple of games and you're

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Speaker 3: facing a New York team that has been all kinds

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Speaker 3: of disaster and you know, you watch that game yesterday

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Speaker 3: and you think, when have they quit?

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Speaker 4: And are they shutting it down?

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Speaker 3: And they're thinking about vacation here coming up, you know,

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Speaker 3: January sixth, the coach, as you and I both know,

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Speaker 3: every game on Sunday is unique. Any team can beat

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Speaker 3: anybody else. And you know, do you see a path

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Speaker 3: that the Giants can upset the Colts? You know this

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Speaker 3: week coming up on Sunday? And what maybe things? Are

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Speaker 3: they still doing well? If any as you look at

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Speaker 3: them on tape.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean the day they sent Daniel Jones pack

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Speaker 7: and they doomed the season and they told their team

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Speaker 7: that they're playing for the draft pick. They're playing for

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Speaker 7: Sadir Sanders, that's really what they're playing for. And it

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Speaker 7: would be a real stretch to see how they could

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Speaker 7: win a game right now. Thirty two to one offense,

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Speaker 7: twenty five on defense. You know, the quarterbacking is a mess,

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Speaker 7: but we know, strange things happen in December, you know,

993
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Speaker 7: just when you think you can't do it, it happens.

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Speaker 7: I would just say there's two guys to really look for.

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Speaker 7: Despite having a really bad team. The Tracy kid who's

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Speaker 7: from Iowa Purdue is really having a good year as

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Speaker 7: a running back with a bad team, you know, at

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Speaker 7: four point six. And the great one I'll tell you

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Speaker 7: the kid is going to be just great is Neighbors,

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Speaker 7: the lottery receiver from LSU. He has on a terrible

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Speaker 7: team with terrible quarterbacking. He has ninety seven catches and

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Speaker 7: he's just short of a thousand yards I mean three

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Speaker 7: hundred and twenty seven yard yards of yak. I mean,

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Speaker 7: he is going to be what we thought he was

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Speaker 7: gonna be. So you know, again, they have a couple

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Speaker 7: of weapons, just like everybody else.

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Speaker 2: Bingo, that's all the time we've gotten tonight, Rick vent

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Speaker 2: Terry right there, Joe writes as well, Colts Round Table Live,

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Speaker 2: and we're up against it, so fella's great job. As always,

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Speaker 2: Merry Christmas to you both and thanks to head coach

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Speaker 2: Shane Stike and you join it in the first segment

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Speaker 2: for his thoughts following that big win over the Titans.

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Speaker 2: we'll be talking about this week seventeen matchup with the

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Speaker 2: Giants all week long, so come back for more and

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