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Speaker 1: Football is about the Jimmy's and Joe's and x'es and o's.

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Speaker 2: Check New York VOTOO Baker, Bruce.

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Speaker 1: It's time to get out the chockboard and diagram some plays.

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Speaker 1: Here's what all starts right here. That's play Jay Money Christmas.

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Speaker 1: This is Inside Football with former Colts and NFL coach

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Speaker 1: Rick Venturie. The Colts notched a huge win on the road,

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Speaker 1: a twenty five to twenty four victory and epic come

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Speaker 1: from behind win for the Colts to beat the New

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Speaker 1: England Patriots. So now the Colts are six and seven

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Speaker 1: and they're finally on the by and finally have a

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Speaker 1: chance to heal up, rest up, and get recharged for

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Speaker 1: the final four games of the regular season. Welcome to

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Speaker 1: the Inside Football podcast here on the Colts Audio Network.

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Speaker 1: I'm Matt Taylor inside the Indiana Union Construction Industry Radio Studio.

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Speaker 1: Joined today of course by Rick Venturrey on the by week,

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Speaker 1: but he's still here to talk to some ball. With

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Speaker 1: thirty years of NFL coaching under his belt, Rick, how

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Speaker 1: are we doing on this early parts of your week

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Speaker 1: off here?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, basically we're you know, we're kind of

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Speaker 2: tying up the football ends, and uh, you know, we

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Speaker 2: had an opportunity. I took a little peak nap yesterday

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Speaker 2: afternoon and ended up standing up and watching that that

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Speaker 2: Denver game last night. I didn't like how it ended,

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Speaker 2: but it was a terrific football game to watch, a

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Speaker 2: lot like our game, our game Sunday really just you know,

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Speaker 2: just a bang bang game. And so you know, I'll

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Speaker 2: get finish up on them tomorrow. I've got Wednesday slated

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Speaker 2: for for that and then we'll chill out a little bit,

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Speaker 2: but really looking forward to it. Like you know, you

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Speaker 2: and I've talked about this. I mean, you know, when

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Speaker 2: you look at the season, you say, it's the worst

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Speaker 2: part possible, you know, date for a bye week, for

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Speaker 2: a bye week, but you know the way the season

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Speaker 2: is gone, and just how long it is with this.

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Speaker 2: People don't realize that seventeenth game, and maybe it's just

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Speaker 2: because our comfort zone was sixteen, but it just seems

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Speaker 2: to really stretch it, you know, and you have the

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Speaker 2: two weeks between the preseason.

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Speaker 1: I think that right there, that's what is so that's

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Speaker 1: what elongates the season so much as you have basically

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Speaker 1: you know, ten days to two weeks between the end

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Speaker 1: of the preseason and the regular season.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, I'm with you on that totally, and I

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Speaker 2: was never used to that, and it does it really

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Speaker 2: does it, and then you have to kind of refire.

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Speaker 2: But anyway, anyway, we got Big four ready to go.

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Speaker 1: Indeed, absolutely all right. So Rick, here we said the

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Speaker 1: Colts are six and seven. They've won two of their

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Speaker 1: last three, and those two wins are one point wins

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Speaker 1: on the road against the Jets and the Patriots, and

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Speaker 1: both games featured game winning drives orchestrated by Anthony Richardson.

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Speaker 1: So with the week off here, the remaining schedule features

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Speaker 1: So we thought during the bye we talk about all

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Speaker 1: or at least that's what I have in my mind.

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Speaker 1: Here you talk about the major positives, right, and the

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Speaker 1: areas of improvement needed. So you got positives and negatives,

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Speaker 1: and then we're gonna find out how much juice is

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Speaker 1: the season. So we'll talk about some impact players as

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Speaker 1: well within all three of these phases. But let's begin

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Speaker 1: first with the offensive pluses. And I just call this

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Speaker 1: the the Anthony Richardson restart, because since he was benched,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, there's no question about it, and I think

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Speaker 2: You know, we had kind of put some clamps, some

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Speaker 2: And then I think the other big thing is a

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the governor is off right, they're worried about him anymore.

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Speaker 2: Exactly. That's exactly what I was going to say. They

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Speaker 2: this kid is I don't even know how to evaluate him.

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Speaker 2: He's a power forward. As a matter of fact. He's

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Speaker 2: him statistically different. I think at this point in his career,

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Speaker 2: I don't think we ought to worry too much about it.

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Speaker 2: And if I would worry about anything, I would say,

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Speaker 2: what you want to evaluate him on statistically is QBR

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Speaker 1: Can you explain to those that don't know the difference,

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Speaker 1: like how is QBR it?

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Speaker 2: What it does is it takes into account all the

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Speaker 2: you know, fourth and three conversions, those things all get

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Speaker 2: And I think at this stage, you know, QBR is

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Speaker 2: three weeks. This is a special guy, and there's two

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Speaker 2: the reason that I think he will only get better

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Speaker 2: not just athletics skills. He's got a really good delivery,

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Speaker 2: I mean we've had balls dropped. I mean that he's

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Speaker 2: other thing psychologically that he really has. These are immense

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Speaker 2: about all the time. He really does have selective amnesia. Quarterbacks,

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Speaker 2: you got to forget it and get into the next play.

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Speaker 2: He threw the interception a Gonzalez wasn't a good throw

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Speaker 2: And we know now and he's established a two out

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Speaker 2: of three weeks. He's a finisher. Matt the guy is

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Speaker 2: punch time. I don't know what it is. It brings

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Speaker 2: out the best in him. And that's what I said.

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Speaker 2: Those are immeasurable qualities. Those are you know, the physical

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Speaker 2: think they're teaching. I think you kind of have them

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Speaker 1: That's Rick Venturi. This is inside football. I'm Matt Taylor.

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Speaker 1: Other offensive pluses here at the bye week, let's talk

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Speaker 1: about the offensive line and the depth there, because the

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Speaker 1: Colts have had to use six different offensive line combinations

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Speaker 1: and last week, Man, the depth was really put to

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Speaker 1: the test. You had a third string center and Danny Pinner.

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Speaker 1: You had essentially a third string right guard in Mark Lewinski,

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Speaker 1: and we'll see if the Colts decide to stay with

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Speaker 1: see how that plays out. You also had a second

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Speaker 1: at left tackle but not at right tackle. But within

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Speaker 1: that they haven't allowed a sack in each of the

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Speaker 1: last two games, despite a lot of different players up front. So, Rick,

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Speaker 1: how impressed have you been with the Colts offensive line

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Speaker 1: this season? Through twelve games and a lot of moving

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Speaker 1: and shaking and a lot of different parts within that unit,

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Speaker 1: guys that have had to step up, and they've played

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Speaker 1: well for the most part.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they really have. I mean, they really have. I

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Speaker 2: remember when we drafted Bordolini and Gonzalvez, I said, I

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Speaker 2: really like these guys in the future and hope they

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Speaker 2: never have to play a snap. Yeah. Yeah, remember we talked.

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Speaker 1: We're taking a look at the cold offense and examining

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Speaker 2: And what they got going is they got downhill for Taylor. See,

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Speaker 2: You know, that is the sixty four thousand dollars question,

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Speaker 2: Looked like it was. We couldn't even see it from

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Speaker 2: you know, I don't know because this is not Anthony's

431
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Speaker 2: game at this level, and I'm not sure how many

432
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Speaker 2: you know, how many ways you can go. You eventually

433
00:22:37,520 --> 00:22:40,280
Speaker 2: have to be known for something. And right now it's

434
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Speaker 2: JT Anthony and push that ball deep, and you know,

435
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Speaker 2: I think that's who they are at this point in time,

436
00:22:45,920 --> 00:22:48,679
Speaker 2: and I think you have to ride that. So you

437
00:22:48,720 --> 00:22:50,920
Speaker 2: know kind of what they lack and maybe it'll catch

438
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Speaker 2: up with this and eventually we will have to have

439
00:22:53,359 --> 00:22:57,119
Speaker 2: it is the possession game, you know, the quick rhythm,

440
00:22:57,160 --> 00:22:59,760
Speaker 2: this is this is what we don't have. And you know,

441
00:22:59,800 --> 00:23:02,120
Speaker 2: for tight ends to be good, you saw it Sunday,

442
00:23:02,640 --> 00:23:06,679
Speaker 2: you have to be able to throw those quick hooks, slants,

443
00:23:07,480 --> 00:23:11,399
Speaker 2: quickouts which I call sticks options, and it's got to

444
00:23:11,440 --> 00:23:14,359
Speaker 2: be more of a quick rhythm. Get it out into

445
00:23:14,400 --> 00:23:17,600
Speaker 2: the holes of the zone. And that's really, if you

446
00:23:17,640 --> 00:23:19,359
Speaker 2: really look at it, Matt, that's not a part of

447
00:23:19,400 --> 00:23:22,440
Speaker 2: our game right now. And I'm not sure. You know,

448
00:23:22,840 --> 00:23:25,400
Speaker 2: maybe we can improve it, and maybe we can, maybe

449
00:23:25,480 --> 00:23:28,199
Speaker 2: we can't. I don't know, but that is really going

450
00:23:28,280 --> 00:23:31,560
Speaker 2: to be the only way that you're going to improve

451
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Speaker 2: that production. Now. The other thing, the other problem we

452
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Speaker 2: have is we don't have a complete tight end. We

453
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Speaker 2: really don't have that guy. We have a bi committee

454
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Speaker 2: and so it's very difficult. All of a sudden, Grandson's

455
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Speaker 2: in the game. He's the move guy. Moley's kind of

456
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Speaker 2: a secondary outlet. I would only say this if it

457
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Speaker 2: were me. The one guy that I would have in

458
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Speaker 2: on passing downs would be Mallory. I think that when

459
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Speaker 2: it all comes down to it, if you want a

460
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Speaker 2: guy to go get a ball, go catch a ball,

461
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Speaker 2: I think it's Mallory. And I know sometimes he doesn't

462
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Speaker 2: even travel, but he would be my choice. If I'm

463
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Speaker 2: in a passing down and I'm going to play with

464
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Speaker 2: eleven personnel, you know what, I'm gonna have Mallory in there.

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Speaker 1: All right. That's Rick Venturi. I'm Matt Taylor. This is

466
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Speaker 1: Inside Football. We're taking a look at the Colts on

467
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Speaker 1: the bye week here examining things on offense and defense,

468
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Speaker 1: treating it like a battery. Right, you got pluses and minuses,

469
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Speaker 1: and you got juice inside that battery. Here, with four

470
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Speaker 1: games to play, let's go over to the defensive side

471
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Speaker 1: of the ball. Let's talk about some pluses there. And

472
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Speaker 1: you know, I'm just going to tee this up to you, Rick,

473
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Speaker 1: And you know a great deal about this defense in

474
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Speaker 1: terms of what it can do in some of its

475
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Speaker 1: deficiency here late deficiencies, I should say here late in

476
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Speaker 1: the season, the Colts defense ranked sixteenth in the red zone.

477
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Speaker 1: They rank eighth in takeaways, and they're seventeenth in points allowed.

478
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Speaker 1: So where would this Colts team be without their ability

479
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Speaker 1: to take the ball away and do a reasonably good

480
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Speaker 1: job of forcing field goals to keep that point total down.

481
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Speaker 2: No, that's exactly right. And Sunday kind of was a

482
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Speaker 2: microchasm of the good and the bad. I mean, you know,

483
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Speaker 2: the four to twenty two total, the eighty percent completion,

484
00:25:15,840 --> 00:25:18,960
Speaker 2: two hundred yards of rushing, those are the flaws. I mean,

485
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Speaker 2: in the in the end, if you lose, if you

486
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Speaker 2: lose a key game here, it's gonna be because of

487
00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:28,840
Speaker 2: that that completion average right where that quarterback is shredding you.

488
00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:32,240
Speaker 2: And the ability for the other team to keep the

489
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Speaker 2: ball moving. You know, we're thirtieth or thirty first on

490
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Speaker 2: third down, be able and each time of possession and

491
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Speaker 2: keep your offense off the field. That on the downside.

492
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Speaker 2: Now on the upside, the way the Colts are surviving,

493
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Speaker 2: and they're just barely surviving because really, if AR five

494
00:25:50,080 --> 00:25:52,400
Speaker 2: doesn't bail us out in New York and doesn't bail

495
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Speaker 2: us out really in New England, it wasn't it wouldn't

496
00:25:55,200 --> 00:25:56,960
Speaker 2: have been good enough. I mean it was twenty four

497
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Speaker 2: and twenty seven to two bad, bad teams. But where

498
00:26:00,760 --> 00:26:04,480
Speaker 2: we're surviving is this is number one we're and these

499
00:26:04,520 --> 00:26:08,200
Speaker 2: are mediocre statistics, but compared to the rest of it,

500
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Speaker 2: it's given us a chance. Sometimes in the land of

501
00:26:10,600 --> 00:26:13,679
Speaker 2: the blind, the one eyed man is king. First of

502
00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:16,480
Speaker 2: all is scoring defense. You know, we're you know, we're

503
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Speaker 2: keeping we're at seventeen, you know, number seventeen, it's in

504
00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:24,200
Speaker 2: the middle. But we're not you know, despite the volumes,

505
00:26:25,119 --> 00:26:28,400
Speaker 2: we're we're not letting people just get forty forty five.

506
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Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, We're not. The ball is

507
00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:34,320
Speaker 2: still in the circle that way, and I think it's

508
00:26:34,520 --> 00:26:37,960
Speaker 2: if this these are the three factors that are allowing

509
00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:39,920
Speaker 2: us I try to peel the onion back because I

510
00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:41,480
Speaker 2: can give you all the negatives. I can give you

511
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Speaker 2: five negatives, and you'd say this team should be you know,

512
00:26:44,840 --> 00:26:48,800
Speaker 2: two and eleven. Okay, But here's the three elements that

513
00:26:48,840 --> 00:26:51,760
Speaker 2: are keeping us in there. Number one, and this where's

514
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Speaker 2: the microchasm. We are number sixteen, we're right in the middle.

515
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Speaker 2: But whereas we're you know, whereas we're twenty ninth in total,

516
00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:02,960
Speaker 2: we're sixtinct in the red zone. So you know, one

517
00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:06,040
Speaker 2: thing we do and normally a team that plays soft

518
00:27:06,160 --> 00:27:09,119
Speaker 2: zone will be better in the red zone, Matt. And

519
00:27:09,200 --> 00:27:12,679
Speaker 2: that's simply because there's less space to you know what

520
00:27:12,680 --> 00:27:15,000
Speaker 2: I'm saying, You don't you don't have the cracks in

521
00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:17,359
Speaker 2: the zone because the secondary is right on top of

522
00:27:17,359 --> 00:27:21,679
Speaker 2: the linebackers. I know that's an oversimplification, but I always

523
00:27:21,800 --> 00:27:24,440
Speaker 2: use to say, when we played the Greatest show on turf, hell,

524
00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:26,040
Speaker 2: give them the ball on our twenty. We got a

525
00:27:26,040 --> 00:27:28,639
Speaker 2: better chance to stop them there than the fifty. And

526
00:27:28,760 --> 00:27:32,240
Speaker 2: so number sixteen in the red zone is a salvation.

527
00:27:32,840 --> 00:27:36,960
Speaker 2: The other thing is number eight in takeaways because if

528
00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:39,520
Speaker 2: you take the ball away, you know, I said at

529
00:27:39,560 --> 00:27:42,200
Speaker 2: one time, for every takeaway, you take forty yards off

530
00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:45,000
Speaker 2: the volume. And you know the fact that you can

531
00:27:45,119 --> 00:27:48,320
Speaker 2: take it away. And even though things look tough, you know,

532
00:27:48,359 --> 00:27:50,840
Speaker 2: we you know, we're down there on the ten yard line.

533
00:27:50,840 --> 00:27:53,760
Speaker 2: They're just shredness, you know, and they throw it looks

534
00:27:53,800 --> 00:27:58,119
Speaker 2: like a ball down to the one of Zaire comes in,

535
00:27:58,240 --> 00:28:00,359
Speaker 2: gets his hands in the middle of the guy's goblin

536
00:28:00,480 --> 00:28:04,600
Speaker 2: just enough care him's up. Big interception, big takeaway, and

537
00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:06,840
Speaker 2: at that stage of the game it was not only

538
00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:09,800
Speaker 2: critical as the red zone stop. Probably if they score,

539
00:28:09,920 --> 00:28:11,800
Speaker 2: they may just round us. To tell you the truth,

540
00:28:11,840 --> 00:28:15,760
Speaker 2: So I think red zone takeaway and the other thing

541
00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:17,920
Speaker 2: that we're not bad at and these are again these

542
00:28:17,960 --> 00:28:21,680
Speaker 2: are mediocre statistics, but it shows that we can do it.

543
00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:25,760
Speaker 2: Is we're number seventeenth in the league in sacks, number seventeen.

544
00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:30,040
Speaker 2: So I mean, I think those three things are really

545
00:28:30,560 --> 00:28:32,719
Speaker 2: you know, I mean, those are the good news things

546
00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:34,959
Speaker 2: that are keeping us in games defensively.

547
00:28:35,119 --> 00:28:37,240
Speaker 1: And before we get into, obviously some of the things

548
00:28:37,240 --> 00:28:39,960
Speaker 1: that are more concerning, let's talk about Nick Cross because

549
00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:42,480
Speaker 1: I think he's one of the the bigger positives on

550
00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:45,920
Speaker 1: defense this year when you peel back the onion, I

551
00:28:45,920 --> 00:28:49,000
Speaker 1: mean he has started every game. He ranks second in

552
00:28:49,040 --> 00:28:51,280
Speaker 1: the NFL and tackles. Now, I know that's a big

553
00:28:51,320 --> 00:28:53,680
Speaker 1: product of the Colts, you know, as a team not

554
00:28:53,800 --> 00:28:55,920
Speaker 1: being able to be as good against the run as

555
00:28:55,920 --> 00:28:58,000
Speaker 1: they want to be. I mean, they've got three players

556
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Speaker 1: in the top five I think in total tackle in

557
00:29:00,280 --> 00:29:03,680
Speaker 1: the NFL. But Rick, how did Nick Cross regain the

558
00:29:03,720 --> 00:29:07,400
Speaker 1: trust of the Colts coaching staff after a rocky start

559
00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:11,320
Speaker 1: to his career in twenty twenty two in twenty twenty three, Yeah.

560
00:29:11,120 --> 00:29:15,520
Speaker 2: It's amazing. I think that Nick is the I think

561
00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:19,000
Speaker 2: he's the defensive version of Alec Pierce. I think he

562
00:29:19,120 --> 00:29:24,440
Speaker 2: is the most improved and it's not even close most

563
00:29:24,520 --> 00:29:28,560
Speaker 2: improved defender. And you're right, he's had to overcome a

564
00:29:28,560 --> 00:29:31,640
Speaker 2: lot of stuff. The game didn't come easy for him.

565
00:29:31,680 --> 00:29:35,000
Speaker 2: He didn't process it easy. You know, they were always

566
00:29:35,040 --> 00:29:38,600
Speaker 2: moving him around, which I think was difficult, and he

567
00:29:38,760 --> 00:29:41,400
Speaker 2: just didn't respond. And then, if you want to know

568
00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:44,479
Speaker 2: the truth, it's a little bit like Richardson. He actually

569
00:29:44,600 --> 00:29:47,000
Speaker 2: hit bottom in training camp when he was in the

570
00:29:47,040 --> 00:29:50,400
Speaker 2: middle of that injury to downs, and you know a

571
00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:52,240
Speaker 2: lot of people thought he would be on the next

572
00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:57,120
Speaker 2: bus out and he accepted it, and it just seemed

573
00:29:57,160 --> 00:30:01,840
Speaker 2: to me like two things came together one. I think

574
00:30:01,880 --> 00:30:04,960
Speaker 2: the staff finally realized, let's lead, let him play the

575
00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:08,800
Speaker 2: strong safety and just leave him there, don't move him around.

576
00:30:08,880 --> 00:30:11,280
Speaker 2: Let Blackman be the guy you want to move around,

577
00:30:12,120 --> 00:30:14,680
Speaker 2: let him play and let him stick in that position.

578
00:30:15,320 --> 00:30:17,680
Speaker 2: And then what I think is, first of all, then

579
00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:19,840
Speaker 2: he kind of got it. It just and I've been

580
00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:23,520
Speaker 2: I've seen players, they come at different levels, their progresses

581
00:30:23,520 --> 00:30:27,320
Speaker 2: at different levels. I think it just basically fit with him,

582
00:30:27,680 --> 00:30:30,160
Speaker 2: and I think from the moment on when he hit

583
00:30:30,240 --> 00:30:33,080
Speaker 2: bottom on that Piers thing, not the Peers thing, the

584
00:30:33,160 --> 00:30:35,959
Speaker 2: Downs thing in the print in the summer, I just

585
00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:37,920
Speaker 2: saw a guy on a mission from that day and

586
00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:40,400
Speaker 2: it went. It started with the first preseason game, if

587
00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:42,760
Speaker 2: you remember it. I mean, he went from that kind

588
00:30:42,760 --> 00:30:46,520
Speaker 2: of the depths and he showed what he could do

589
00:30:46,560 --> 00:30:49,680
Speaker 2: from day one, and he is one of the most

590
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Speaker 2: physical players. He is probably now at this point, the

591
00:30:55,040 --> 00:30:58,080
Speaker 2: best tackler on the team, not just in numbers, just

592
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Speaker 2: I'm talking about being able to do it. I'm talking

593
00:31:00,400 --> 00:31:05,239
Speaker 2: about in technique, financials, just an impact guy and you know,

594
00:31:05,760 --> 00:31:09,480
Speaker 2: just amazed sometimes why we struggle so much on defense,

595
00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:12,560
Speaker 2: because when you look at that, when you look at

596
00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:17,040
Speaker 2: that front four and actually a couple backups, you look

597
00:31:17,080 --> 00:31:20,080
Speaker 2: at those two inside linebackers, you look at Kenny at

598
00:31:20,080 --> 00:31:23,440
Speaker 2: the nickel and now Cross. I mean, that is a

599
00:31:23,760 --> 00:31:27,520
Speaker 2: formidable I'm amazed when we give up running players tell

600
00:31:27,520 --> 00:31:30,040
Speaker 2: you the truth because that he has just made that

601
00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:33,640
Speaker 2: you'd to complete. But absolutely right, you know, hats off

602
00:31:33,680 --> 00:31:36,840
Speaker 2: to Cross. He yeah, he hit bottom, I think psychologically,

603
00:31:36,920 --> 00:31:40,080
Speaker 2: but he rebounded. Coach did a good job of finding

604
00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:42,520
Speaker 2: just putting him in a position and letting him go.

605
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Speaker 1: Well, that's a good transition into obviously some of the

606
00:31:46,360 --> 00:31:49,360
Speaker 1: parts of the defense that need you know, examined here

607
00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:52,320
Speaker 1: as we are at the bye week here positives and

608
00:31:52,600 --> 00:31:55,200
Speaker 1: negatives for the Colts on defense, and we talked about,

609
00:31:55,440 --> 00:31:57,440
Speaker 1: you know, some of the areas that are the saving

610
00:31:57,520 --> 00:32:00,920
Speaker 1: graces of this defense. You know, you look at it,

611
00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:03,560
Speaker 1: you know, going back to last Sunday against the Patriots,

612
00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:06,360
Speaker 1: the Colts allow the Patriots to say, rack up over

613
00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:10,120
Speaker 1: four hundred yards of offense, two hundred yards rushing. In fact,

614
00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:12,760
Speaker 1: New England had two hundred passing yards and two hundred

615
00:32:12,840 --> 00:32:15,320
Speaker 1: rushing yards in a game for the first time since

616
00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:18,680
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen. The Colts have allowed at least four hundred

617
00:32:18,720 --> 00:32:23,400
Speaker 1: yards six times to opponents this season. Also, third downs

618
00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:25,640
Speaker 1: have killed the Colts. They've allowed a league most eighty

619
00:32:25,680 --> 00:32:29,000
Speaker 1: one third down conversions, which of course has led the

620
00:32:29,080 --> 00:32:31,640
Speaker 1: Colts defense to spend a lot of time on the field.

621
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Speaker 1: They average almost thirty four minutes of time on the

622
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Speaker 1: field per game. So we talked about the red zone, Rick,

623
00:32:38,720 --> 00:32:40,560
Speaker 1: and the Colts are doing a pretty good job there.

624
00:32:40,600 --> 00:32:43,440
Speaker 1: But how can the Colts calm down the big yards

625
00:32:43,480 --> 00:32:45,720
Speaker 1: they give up between the twenties in the last four

626
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Speaker 1: games of the season.

627
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Speaker 2: You're right, what's really killing us as volumes? You talk

628
00:32:50,080 --> 00:32:53,840
Speaker 2: about the twenty ninth on total defense. Not to paint

629
00:32:53,840 --> 00:32:56,480
Speaker 2: the bad ditches. This is just the reality, you know,

630
00:32:56,640 --> 00:33:00,680
Speaker 2: and at thirteen games, obviously the reality matters. The statistics

631
00:33:00,880 --> 00:33:03,480
Speaker 2: kind of tell you who you are, you know, thirtieth

632
00:33:03,520 --> 00:33:07,120
Speaker 2: and third down, thirtieth in rush a little bit better

633
00:33:07,200 --> 00:33:10,000
Speaker 2: per which is more important twenty sixth in the past,

634
00:33:10,600 --> 00:33:12,720
Speaker 2: you know, and the worst statistic to me, and this

635
00:33:12,800 --> 00:33:15,040
Speaker 2: has just been here for three years is I'm not

636
00:33:15,080 --> 00:33:17,960
Speaker 2: going to belabor it, but is number thirty one on

637
00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:21,880
Speaker 2: past percentage against. That's seventy percent seven out of ten.

638
00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:24,560
Speaker 2: Every time they throw ten balls, they hit seven. You know,

639
00:33:24,600 --> 00:33:27,640
Speaker 2: we've had two guys go over eighty this year. And

640
00:33:27,960 --> 00:33:30,040
Speaker 2: I know from a four a fact. You can tell

641
00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:33,720
Speaker 2: me what matters and what doesn't matter. But past percentage

642
00:33:33,720 --> 00:33:38,840
Speaker 2: against in the NFL over time is a huge statistic

643
00:33:39,400 --> 00:33:41,520
Speaker 2: of where you're at because if you can bleed. I

644
00:33:41,560 --> 00:33:43,880
Speaker 2: said going into the game, the only way New England

645
00:33:43,920 --> 00:33:46,880
Speaker 2: hangs in there is if they can throw high percentage

646
00:33:46,960 --> 00:33:50,160
Speaker 2: quick against our zone. And damned if they didn't, and

647
00:33:50,240 --> 00:33:53,440
Speaker 2: so you know that has got to change now. I

648
00:33:53,440 --> 00:33:56,320
Speaker 2: think the things that hurt us is, you know, and

649
00:33:56,720 --> 00:33:59,080
Speaker 2: I don't know if you can change it in the

650
00:33:59,080 --> 00:34:02,040
Speaker 2: next four weeks. I mean, you're two and almost three

651
00:34:02,120 --> 00:34:05,480
Speaker 2: years into the program. I think what hurts us. I'll

652
00:34:05,480 --> 00:34:07,600
Speaker 2: tell you what hurts us and what the solutions are.

653
00:34:08,200 --> 00:34:11,360
Speaker 2: Number One, we're pretty much a blackboard front. If you can,

654
00:34:11,680 --> 00:34:14,400
Speaker 2: you can take a game out of three years ago

655
00:34:14,960 --> 00:34:16,480
Speaker 2: and you can look at it and it won't look

656
00:34:16,480 --> 00:34:19,320
Speaker 2: any different than today. Almost we're almost in an over

657
00:34:19,440 --> 00:34:22,680
Speaker 2: straight over with Grover at the nose and Buckner at

658
00:34:22,680 --> 00:34:26,680
Speaker 2: the three almost every single down. I mean, there's no variance.

659
00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:31,560
Speaker 2: And then number two, we are really soft in zone coverage.

660
00:34:31,600 --> 00:34:34,960
Speaker 2: We don't play matchup, we don't play a lot of man,

661
00:34:35,640 --> 00:34:39,160
Speaker 2: so we're never really taking people away. We're sitting back

662
00:34:39,200 --> 00:34:42,200
Speaker 2: in zones trying to read the quarterback. And that's what

663
00:34:42,360 --> 00:34:46,480
Speaker 2: leads to that really high percentage. We're not even when

664
00:34:46,480 --> 00:34:49,439
Speaker 2: we play two. We don't collision it. We don't take

665
00:34:49,520 --> 00:34:52,520
Speaker 2: receivers out, and you can't when you're playing that kind

666
00:34:52,520 --> 00:34:57,759
Speaker 2: of coverage. You're covering air, and it's Belichick used to say,

667
00:34:57,800 --> 00:35:01,960
Speaker 2: don't cover air, cover receivers. Quarterbacks don't throw it the air.

668
00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:05,360
Speaker 2: And then I think the third thing is we've tried

669
00:35:05,400 --> 00:35:08,960
Speaker 2: to blitz more this year. There's been more effort to blitz,

670
00:35:09,400 --> 00:35:12,080
Speaker 2: but we don't play hard behind it. We don't get

671
00:35:12,160 --> 00:35:15,239
Speaker 2: up and press, get in your mess kits. So good

672
00:35:15,320 --> 00:35:18,840
Speaker 2: quarterbacks that see it coming they always have a quick

673
00:35:18,840 --> 00:35:20,799
Speaker 2: outlet to throw too if you want, If you want

674
00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:22,960
Speaker 2: to know the truth, and I think what it comes

675
00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:26,480
Speaker 2: down to is quarterbacks in hell. You can look at

676
00:35:26,480 --> 00:35:29,719
Speaker 2: it statistically. I don't have to belabor it. Quarterbacks come

677
00:35:29,719 --> 00:35:32,439
Speaker 2: in and they just are kings against us because they're

678
00:35:32,480 --> 00:35:35,320
Speaker 2: always very comfortable. They get comfortable early in the game

679
00:35:35,719 --> 00:35:38,919
Speaker 2: because they have too many gimmeis So if you're gonna

680
00:35:38,960 --> 00:35:41,760
Speaker 2: get better, all right, if you're gonna get better, here's

681
00:35:41,800 --> 00:35:45,200
Speaker 2: the solutions. Now, again, this has to do with system.

682
00:35:45,320 --> 00:35:47,960
Speaker 2: So whether or not you can get it done, you know,

683
00:35:48,200 --> 00:35:51,840
Speaker 2: under pressure here, I don't know. First of all, you

684
00:35:52,040 --> 00:35:54,839
Speaker 2: have to change up that front. You can't. You know,

685
00:35:54,880 --> 00:35:58,440
Speaker 2: we're too good talent wise. You cannot tell me that

686
00:35:58,560 --> 00:36:02,520
Speaker 2: our front seven in front, count and Cross is in

687
00:36:02,560 --> 00:36:05,799
Speaker 2: a position to be number thirty against the rush. I

688
00:36:05,880 --> 00:36:09,440
Speaker 2: just you cannot justify that to me. But if you

689
00:36:09,440 --> 00:36:13,000
Speaker 2: play static front all day, eventually now we're a little

690
00:36:13,040 --> 00:36:15,880
Speaker 2: weak when our backup interior comes in, when Buckner and

691
00:36:16,880 --> 00:36:19,279
Speaker 2: Grover go out. There's no question. Now that's the one

692
00:36:19,360 --> 00:36:22,399
Speaker 2: talent issue that we have. But we're playing ninety nine

693
00:36:22,440 --> 00:36:25,319
Speaker 2: and ninety a lot more now we realize that. But

694
00:36:25,480 --> 00:36:28,480
Speaker 2: number one, we have to move that front and we

695
00:36:28,600 --> 00:36:29,759
Speaker 2: have to bring pressure on this.

696
00:36:30,160 --> 00:36:31,640
Speaker 1: What do you mean for those that don't know, what

697
00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:33,760
Speaker 1: do you mean by move the front?

698
00:36:33,960 --> 00:36:36,400
Speaker 2: Okay? You know, I think sometimes what you have to

699
00:36:36,440 --> 00:36:39,799
Speaker 2: do is Okay, so we line up in over, but

700
00:36:39,920 --> 00:36:42,680
Speaker 2: you slant a defensive end, or you run what we

701
00:36:42,760 --> 00:36:45,080
Speaker 2: call a pirate, which is the end in tackle come

702
00:36:45,160 --> 00:36:48,280
Speaker 2: in and so you shut down the inside, you shut

703
00:36:48,320 --> 00:36:50,960
Speaker 2: down the cutbacks, and you have to tie it in

704
00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:53,440
Speaker 2: with your coverages, which they have the coverages to tie

705
00:36:53,480 --> 00:36:55,640
Speaker 2: it in with, so that if the ball pops out,

706
00:36:55,640 --> 00:36:58,520
Speaker 2: there's somebody there. And then I think you have to

707
00:36:58,520 --> 00:37:00,640
Speaker 2: bring that fifth guy and what we call more of

708
00:37:00,760 --> 00:37:03,799
Speaker 2: run blitzes on first down, Like, for instance, if you're

709
00:37:03,800 --> 00:37:06,360
Speaker 2: in an over and all of a sudden, you slant

710
00:37:06,400 --> 00:37:08,759
Speaker 2: the defensive end, let's say on the right side that

711
00:37:08,760 --> 00:37:11,759
Speaker 2: would be Dial. Let's say Dial slants underneath. But then

712
00:37:11,800 --> 00:37:14,279
Speaker 2: you bring speed off his off his outside. So now

713
00:37:14,280 --> 00:37:16,799
Speaker 2: all of a sudden you got a bear on the run.

714
00:37:16,840 --> 00:37:19,640
Speaker 2: You got what I'm saying. Or sometimes you just line up,

715
00:37:19,719 --> 00:37:21,600
Speaker 2: walk up in the bear and give them a chance.

716
00:37:21,640 --> 00:37:25,880
Speaker 2: But when you never do that stuff over four quarters,

717
00:37:25,920 --> 00:37:28,759
Speaker 2: they just it's it's like, you know, I mean, I'd

718
00:37:28,800 --> 00:37:32,320
Speaker 2: like to play somebody when I that everything I practice

719
00:37:32,360 --> 00:37:35,000
Speaker 2: is right there on Sunday, and I think that's a

720
00:37:35,120 --> 00:37:38,279
Speaker 2: failure that we have to do it. Number two, we

721
00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:41,880
Speaker 2: have to just match receivers better. We can't you know,

722
00:37:41,960 --> 00:37:44,120
Speaker 2: we you know tight ends. I mean, we can't stop

723
00:37:44,160 --> 00:37:46,080
Speaker 2: a tight end, and all they're doing is running down

724
00:37:46,120 --> 00:37:49,600
Speaker 2: and hooking. And it's simply because they're finding holes in

725
00:37:49,680 --> 00:37:53,640
Speaker 2: his own Bud Carson, one of the greatest defensive coordators

726
00:37:53,680 --> 00:37:55,560
Speaker 2: who I learned from right off the bat in my

727
00:37:55,600 --> 00:37:58,319
Speaker 2: first two years, used to say, Rick, you go take

728
00:37:58,360 --> 00:38:01,439
Speaker 2: away receivers. If you watch the quarterback, all you're gonna

729
00:38:01,440 --> 00:38:03,360
Speaker 2: do in this league is watch him complete about a

730
00:38:03,400 --> 00:38:07,600
Speaker 2: million passes because there's too many uncovered non cover zones.

731
00:38:07,680 --> 00:38:10,680
Speaker 2: So and it doesn't mean you can't play zone defense

732
00:38:10,719 --> 00:38:14,160
Speaker 2: on the outside, but instead of area zone, this is

733
00:38:14,239 --> 00:38:16,560
Speaker 2: I mean, I have to make a big differentiation here.

734
00:38:16,920 --> 00:38:20,320
Speaker 2: There are some teams that play zone, but they match receivers.

735
00:38:20,360 --> 00:38:23,080
Speaker 2: As soon as the receiver gets close to your zone,

736
00:38:23,200 --> 00:38:25,759
Speaker 2: you clamp him. You know, you may pass him off

737
00:38:25,760 --> 00:38:28,520
Speaker 2: with the other guy after they're running crosses, but overall,

738
00:38:28,600 --> 00:38:31,359
Speaker 2: you're never letting anybody just sit down and hook on you.

739
00:38:31,440 --> 00:38:34,280
Speaker 2: So I think that's important. I think we can play

740
00:38:34,800 --> 00:38:37,359
Speaker 2: a lot more man coverage than we do. I think

741
00:38:37,400 --> 00:38:41,759
Speaker 2: our corners are holding up better than expected with Lomac

742
00:38:42,760 --> 00:38:45,919
Speaker 2: and with Jones. I actually think we can. I think

743
00:38:45,920 --> 00:38:49,320
Speaker 2: we can play much more man in there and bring five,

744
00:38:50,400 --> 00:38:52,920
Speaker 2: you know, and just and get some pressure on the quarterback.

745
00:38:53,480 --> 00:38:55,960
Speaker 2: But if we don't do that, you're looking at that again,

746
00:38:56,080 --> 00:38:59,200
Speaker 2: the worst statistic we have, trust me, and nobody looks

747
00:38:59,200 --> 00:39:01,840
Speaker 2: at it like I do, is that is that number

748
00:39:01,880 --> 00:39:05,680
Speaker 2: thirty one in past percentage against. And then I think

749
00:39:05,719 --> 00:39:09,920
Speaker 2: when we blitz, which I think he's attempting to blitz more.

750
00:39:09,440 --> 00:39:13,440
Speaker 2: There are more blitzes, particularly on passing downs, but we

751
00:39:13,640 --> 00:39:16,919
Speaker 2: tend to play what we call fire zone coverage rather

752
00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:19,960
Speaker 2: than mayn coverage. And you know, sometimes if you just

753
00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:22,200
Speaker 2: get up and press and you bring a good blitz,

754
00:39:22,719 --> 00:39:25,000
Speaker 2: you know you'll disrupt that wide receiver sit there is

755
00:39:25,120 --> 00:39:27,320
Speaker 2: no hot if you press them. You follow what I'm saying.

756
00:39:27,560 --> 00:39:30,640
Speaker 2: So it's it's really kind of those three things that

757
00:39:30,760 --> 00:39:35,680
Speaker 2: I think are more controllable schematically than talent. I mean,

758
00:39:35,719 --> 00:39:38,600
Speaker 2: I just and I may be wrong. I don't know.

759
00:39:38,680 --> 00:39:41,200
Speaker 2: I just come I just grew up in a totally

760
00:39:41,320 --> 00:39:44,399
Speaker 2: different school of thought, you know, where you know, if

761
00:39:44,400 --> 00:39:47,440
Speaker 2: you didn't challenge a pass, you know, you you challenge everything.

762
00:39:47,520 --> 00:39:50,320
Speaker 2: You don't you know, you like you give a checkdown,

763
00:39:50,840 --> 00:39:54,319
Speaker 2: just uncovered checkdown to a good running back. He's got

764
00:39:54,360 --> 00:39:55,480
Speaker 2: eight yards.

765
00:39:55,560 --> 00:39:58,040
Speaker 1: It's not right or get a first name.

766
00:39:58,120 --> 00:40:01,160
Speaker 2: You stay on schedule exactly. And a lot of it

767
00:40:01,200 --> 00:40:03,279
Speaker 2: is you have to choke them on first down. And

768
00:40:03,280 --> 00:40:05,799
Speaker 2: that's what smart teams do against us. They just they

769
00:40:05,840 --> 00:40:07,920
Speaker 2: come out, they know we're gonna be vanilla on first

770
00:40:07,960 --> 00:40:11,040
Speaker 2: down and go. So, I mean, those are the issues

771
00:40:11,160 --> 00:40:14,160
Speaker 2: right there. You know, we talked about the good, the bad,

772
00:40:14,200 --> 00:40:18,440
Speaker 2: and the ugly. To me is the pass protection past percentage, right.

773
00:40:18,320 --> 00:40:21,400
Speaker 1: Rick vent Terry right there, that's inside football. I'm Matt Taylor.

774
00:40:21,400 --> 00:40:23,399
Speaker 1: We're taking a look at both sides of the ball.

775
00:40:23,800 --> 00:40:26,680
Speaker 1: Positives negatives like a battery. How much juice is left

776
00:40:26,680 --> 00:40:28,880
Speaker 1: here for the Colts with four games to go, just

777
00:40:28,920 --> 00:40:31,240
Speaker 1: want to spend a half full of minutes on special

778
00:40:31,280 --> 00:40:33,440
Speaker 1: teams and fortunately here for the Colts, it's a lot

779
00:40:33,440 --> 00:40:35,640
Speaker 1: of positive and a lot of juice left in that battery.

780
00:40:35,960 --> 00:40:38,880
Speaker 1: You got Rego Sanchez. He ranks eighth and both punting

781
00:40:38,920 --> 00:40:42,560
Speaker 1: average at fifty and net average at forty three point six.

782
00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:45,680
Speaker 1: He's also ranking tight for seventh as of right now,

783
00:40:45,840 --> 00:40:48,160
Speaker 1: twenty two punts inside the twenty yard line, so he

784
00:40:48,200 --> 00:40:51,840
Speaker 1: does a really good job of controlling field position. Meanwhile,

785
00:40:51,880 --> 00:40:54,000
Speaker 1: Matt Gay in the kicking game, He's made twenty two

786
00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:56,840
Speaker 1: out of twenty five field goals, including twenty one of

787
00:40:56,840 --> 00:41:00,440
Speaker 1: his last twenty two kicks. So I think, again, Rick picture,

788
00:41:00,440 --> 00:41:02,680
Speaker 1: the Cults are getting some solid contributions out of their

789
00:41:02,719 --> 00:41:04,000
Speaker 1: two specialists on the season.

790
00:41:04,200 --> 00:41:07,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's no doubt about it. I think special teams wise,

791
00:41:07,440 --> 00:41:11,440
Speaker 2: we've really been elite. You know, the specialists themselves, as

792
00:41:11,440 --> 00:41:15,759
Speaker 2: you just chronicled, our coverage teams mean it. I mean,

793
00:41:15,920 --> 00:41:18,680
Speaker 2: you know, very seldom do they give up much. They

794
00:41:18,719 --> 00:41:21,880
Speaker 2: come down and they hit you. You don't, you don't have

795
00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:24,600
Speaker 2: many yards against. We got a bunch of tacklers and

796
00:41:24,640 --> 00:41:28,280
Speaker 2: tough guys. I think we're well coached in that sense.

797
00:41:29,239 --> 00:41:33,120
Speaker 2: I go back to Rigo. He is he really helps

798
00:41:33,160 --> 00:41:36,400
Speaker 2: our defense. I mean he you know, he is a big,

799
00:41:36,520 --> 00:41:40,160
Speaker 2: big factor in keeping the games close because you know,

800
00:41:40,200 --> 00:41:43,640
Speaker 2: when you have that many kicks inside the twenty, I

801
00:41:43,640 --> 00:41:46,680
Speaker 2: mean that first in ninety is a long way to go.

802
00:41:47,320 --> 00:41:50,359
Speaker 2: And you know, he is spectacular. I've seen him. I've

803
00:41:50,400 --> 00:41:53,960
Speaker 2: seen him turn games around by tilting the field time

804
00:41:54,080 --> 00:41:57,400
Speaker 2: and time and time. Again. I'm we're just very fortunate

805
00:41:57,440 --> 00:41:59,759
Speaker 2: to have him and and Gay has you know, you

806
00:41:59,800 --> 00:42:02,799
Speaker 2: said it last week, two weeks ago. He's figured it out.

807
00:42:02,840 --> 00:42:05,600
Speaker 2: You know, He's gone from wide left, whatever he did,

808
00:42:05,640 --> 00:42:08,719
Speaker 2: whatever correction he made. You know, at this point now

809
00:42:08,800 --> 00:42:11,319
Speaker 2: I'm really confident, you know, if he has to come

810
00:42:11,320 --> 00:42:14,040
Speaker 2: in and win us game. Uh, you know, I totally

811
00:42:14,080 --> 00:42:16,120
Speaker 2: believe that that he's going to be able to do

812
00:42:16,160 --> 00:42:19,839
Speaker 2: it whatever, whatever mechanics he worked out, he looks to

813
00:42:19,880 --> 00:42:22,120
Speaker 2: me like the top tier guy he was supposed to be.

814
00:42:22,239 --> 00:42:25,560
Speaker 2: So yeah, you know again, special teams is a huge,

815
00:42:25,680 --> 00:42:28,480
Speaker 2: huge asset, you know, and for and and that's so

816
00:42:28,520 --> 00:42:30,960
Speaker 2: important for a team that just doesn't score a ton

817
00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:31,520
Speaker 2: of points.

818
00:42:32,200 --> 00:42:34,799
Speaker 1: All right, my friend, we got final four thoughts here.

819
00:42:34,880 --> 00:42:37,160
Speaker 1: Final four games coming up for the Colts, like we

820
00:42:37,200 --> 00:42:40,120
Speaker 1: talked about, three of them are against teams that are

821
00:42:40,400 --> 00:42:43,880
Speaker 1: well under five hundred. So let's talk about this Broncos

822
00:42:43,920 --> 00:42:46,120
Speaker 1: game for just a few minutes before we close out here.

823
00:42:46,120 --> 00:42:48,480
Speaker 1: We've been circling this game for a long time. We've

824
00:42:48,480 --> 00:42:51,440
Speaker 1: we've kind of understood that this might be the the

825
00:42:51,640 --> 00:42:55,640
Speaker 1: wild Card or Bus Bowl, uh, considering you know how

826
00:42:55,680 --> 00:42:58,719
Speaker 1: much magnitude it would it would hold for for both

827
00:42:58,719 --> 00:43:01,359
Speaker 1: of these teams, and I don't know, Rick, I think

828
00:43:01,400 --> 00:43:03,600
Speaker 1: it might be a race to see which of these

829
00:43:03,640 --> 00:43:06,440
Speaker 1: two teams can get to ten wins. That might be

830
00:43:06,560 --> 00:43:08,800
Speaker 1: the difference in terms of one team getting into the

831
00:43:08,840 --> 00:43:11,759
Speaker 1: playoffs and the other team missing out on the postseason.

832
00:43:12,160 --> 00:43:14,640
Speaker 1: You look at the Colts, They've got the Broncos coming

833
00:43:14,719 --> 00:43:16,759
Speaker 1: up after the bye. By the way, the Broncos are

834
00:43:16,760 --> 00:43:19,319
Speaker 1: on the bye this week too, so those teams will

835
00:43:19,320 --> 00:43:22,160
Speaker 1: play each other coming up next Sunday, and then after

836
00:43:22,200 --> 00:43:25,439
Speaker 1: that the Broncos have to play at the Chargers, at

837
00:43:25,480 --> 00:43:28,680
Speaker 1: Cincinnati and then home against Kansas City, so some difficult

838
00:43:28,719 --> 00:43:32,440
Speaker 1: games coming up. Meanwhile, the Colts have the easiest strength

839
00:43:32,480 --> 00:43:35,480
Speaker 1: of schedule in the NFL in the final four games

840
00:43:35,480 --> 00:43:38,799
Speaker 1: of the season, which includes the Broncos games. So just

841
00:43:38,880 --> 00:43:41,279
Speaker 1: big picture, how do you see this shaking out here?

842
00:43:41,320 --> 00:43:44,400
Speaker 1: In the importance and the magnitude of that game coming

843
00:43:44,480 --> 00:43:46,040
Speaker 1: up after a week off for the Colts.

844
00:43:46,480 --> 00:43:48,839
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's you know, it's do or die. They're all

845
00:43:48,880 --> 00:43:50,839
Speaker 2: do or die, but this one is a little bit

846
00:43:50,880 --> 00:43:54,880
Speaker 2: different because of who you're actually playing and that you

847
00:43:54,920 --> 00:43:57,720
Speaker 2: know what the standings really are. That was a huge

848
00:43:57,760 --> 00:44:00,279
Speaker 2: win for them last night. I didn't think they would

849
00:44:00,280 --> 00:44:04,200
Speaker 2: get by Cleveland, you know, but they got some critical turnovers.

850
00:44:05,120 --> 00:44:07,640
Speaker 2: You know, Jamis again he throws one to his team

851
00:44:07,640 --> 00:44:10,440
Speaker 2: and one to the other team. I just amazed at that, kids.

852
00:44:10,520 --> 00:44:12,759
Speaker 2: I like him a lot. But you know, they were

853
00:44:12,800 --> 00:44:15,640
Speaker 2: able to they gave up what five hundred some yards,

854
00:44:15,680 --> 00:44:19,160
Speaker 2: but they you know, they had three big turnovers to

855
00:44:19,360 --> 00:44:22,239
Speaker 2: save it. Nick's had a couple of big plays. They

856
00:44:22,320 --> 00:44:24,360
Speaker 2: ran it a little bit better than normal. But the

857
00:44:24,400 --> 00:44:27,200
Speaker 2: biggest issue is they went from seven to five to

858
00:44:27,280 --> 00:44:30,120
Speaker 2: eight and five. So you know, I think their schedule

859
00:44:30,200 --> 00:44:32,480
Speaker 2: is tough. I there'sn't any question about it. But they're

860
00:44:32,880 --> 00:44:34,920
Speaker 2: you know, if they get this one, they're at nine.

861
00:44:35,120 --> 00:44:37,719
Speaker 2: So you know, this is pretty much you know, we

862
00:44:37,719 --> 00:44:41,160
Speaker 2: always talk about single elimination. You know, you can almost

863
00:44:41,200 --> 00:44:45,160
Speaker 2: believe this is single elimination because just because of the

864
00:44:45,200 --> 00:44:47,600
Speaker 2: fact that if we fell back and they go to nine,

865
00:44:47,880 --> 00:44:51,759
Speaker 2: that's going to be difficult. You know, I said, you

866
00:44:51,760 --> 00:44:55,000
Speaker 2: know a week ago, you know, basically I looked at

867
00:44:55,000 --> 00:44:58,800
Speaker 2: the season as a five step stairwell, yeah to seven,

868
00:44:59,040 --> 00:45:02,680
Speaker 2: five to seven, seventh seed, and you know, I think,

869
00:45:02,760 --> 00:45:05,520
Speaker 2: obviously this is the biggest one. This is the biggest

870
00:45:05,560 --> 00:45:09,520
Speaker 2: step there out in Denver, and it's the only thing

871
00:45:09,560 --> 00:45:12,600
Speaker 2: that matters. The only thing that matters is the next step.

872
00:45:13,680 --> 00:45:17,680
Speaker 2: The Denver Broncos are eight and five, But in reality,

873
00:45:18,360 --> 00:45:20,520
Speaker 2: I think Shawn deserves to be Coach of the Year.

874
00:45:20,600 --> 00:45:24,399
Speaker 2: I think this team is overachieving, which is good news

875
00:45:24,440 --> 00:45:27,680
Speaker 2: in one sense, and that they're playing well, well knit together.

876
00:45:28,200 --> 00:45:31,160
Speaker 2: But in another sense, it makes them very, very beatable

877
00:45:31,200 --> 00:45:33,440
Speaker 2: because in reality they may not be as good as

878
00:45:33,480 --> 00:45:37,120
Speaker 2: their record. And so, you know, this is a respirator

879
00:45:37,160 --> 00:45:39,680
Speaker 2: game today. I mean we you know, we're now on

880
00:45:39,840 --> 00:45:43,920
Speaker 2: the respirator. We're still alive, but we can't let somebody

881
00:45:43,920 --> 00:45:46,160
Speaker 2: come in here and pull the cord. So, you know,

882
00:45:46,400 --> 00:45:50,040
Speaker 2: when it's all said and done, you know, you know,

883
00:45:50,160 --> 00:45:52,680
Speaker 2: I think I think the thing we have going is

884
00:45:52,719 --> 00:45:56,560
Speaker 2: that I think our offense is founding that has found

885
00:45:56,600 --> 00:45:59,040
Speaker 2: the formula. I think there's a formula.

886
00:45:59,160 --> 00:46:02,280
Speaker 1: Identity, right, they have found that since Anthony Richardson's return.

887
00:46:02,880 --> 00:46:06,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's even in the first even, Yes, I

888
00:46:06,080 --> 00:46:10,120
Speaker 2: think Sunday was the clearest indication because of how they

889
00:46:10,200 --> 00:46:14,760
Speaker 2: use JT. I think I think that that combination, along

890
00:46:14,840 --> 00:46:18,600
Speaker 2: with taking the wraps off AR five and creating that

891
00:46:18,719 --> 00:46:21,360
Speaker 2: running game which Stan opens up that deep ball that

892
00:46:21,440 --> 00:46:24,440
Speaker 2: he throws well, right, and those two combinations I think

893
00:46:24,440 --> 00:46:28,120
Speaker 2: we're finding ourselves. The biggest key is defensively. We just

894
00:46:28,160 --> 00:46:30,120
Speaker 2: have to find a way to cut it down. We

895
00:46:30,200 --> 00:46:33,040
Speaker 2: just we just have to find a way to cut

896
00:46:33,080 --> 00:46:36,080
Speaker 2: down the volume in that regard. Now, the good thing

897
00:46:36,080 --> 00:46:39,400
Speaker 2: we have going, I had said Monday night there was

898
00:46:39,480 --> 00:46:42,959
Speaker 2: no one that had a better offense than number twenty three.

899
00:46:43,440 --> 00:46:45,879
Speaker 2: You know, Denver went up a little bit to twenty one,

900
00:46:46,440 --> 00:46:50,239
Speaker 2: but in reality the last four you got nobody in

901
00:46:50,360 --> 00:46:54,000
Speaker 2: twenty or better offensively, So you know, there's there's reasons

902
00:46:54,000 --> 00:46:56,080
Speaker 2: to believe that you can shore it up here in

903
00:46:56,120 --> 00:46:56,839
Speaker 2: the last month.

904
00:46:57,440 --> 00:47:00,200
Speaker 1: Let's see how it goes. That's Rick Ventury and that say,

905
00:47:00,280 --> 00:47:03,480
Speaker 1: complete breakdown of the Colts in all three phases here

906
00:47:03,520 --> 00:47:06,920
Speaker 1: on the bye week. Fantastic job er usual Rick here

907
00:47:06,960 --> 00:47:10,080
Speaker 1: on inside Football. What do you have planned the rest

908
00:47:10,120 --> 00:47:11,640
Speaker 1: of the week here with a couple of days off,

909
00:47:11,680 --> 00:47:14,040
Speaker 1: as you said towards the later part of the week,

910
00:47:14,800 --> 00:47:16,000
Speaker 1: you know, for me just.

911
00:47:15,920 --> 00:47:17,759
Speaker 2: To get out of this and I'm sure sure this

912
00:47:17,920 --> 00:47:21,040
Speaker 2: way too, you know, because with us and people don't

913
00:47:21,080 --> 00:47:23,160
Speaker 2: realize that. They think we just wake up on Sunday

914
00:47:23,200 --> 00:47:25,480
Speaker 2: and do the game. But you know, for both of

915
00:47:25,560 --> 00:47:30,080
Speaker 2: us it is a seven day operation. Every day must

916
00:47:30,280 --> 00:47:33,239
Speaker 2: you have to meet certain parameters. With me, it's a

917
00:47:33,239 --> 00:47:36,800
Speaker 2: lot of tape viewing, putting down ideas on paper, game

918
00:47:36,840 --> 00:47:39,319
Speaker 2: planning as if I was a coach, you know, all

919
00:47:39,360 --> 00:47:41,880
Speaker 2: those type of things. And if you fall behind the

920
00:47:41,960 --> 00:47:45,160
Speaker 2: day you're dead. You can't catch up. So, as you

921
00:47:45,360 --> 00:47:47,919
Speaker 2: very well know, we are structured seven days a week,

922
00:47:48,040 --> 00:47:52,840
Speaker 2: so a couple days of unstructure will really be welcome.

923
00:47:53,000 --> 00:47:55,200
Speaker 1: Rick, I can't tell you how much I'm looking forward

924
00:47:55,280 --> 00:47:58,080
Speaker 1: to not sitting in front of the computer and doing

925
00:47:58,120 --> 00:48:01,799
Speaker 1: spotting charts for about nine hours every day. I know,

926
00:48:02,000 --> 00:48:04,440
Speaker 1: I am so excited to not do that for just

927
00:48:04,480 --> 00:48:06,120
Speaker 1: a couple of days. Now, I'll be excited to get

928
00:48:06,160 --> 00:48:08,640
Speaker 1: back to it because we all love ball. But just

929
00:48:08,680 --> 00:48:11,359
Speaker 1: a handful of days of a quick respite is it's

930
00:48:11,360 --> 00:48:12,040
Speaker 1: gonna be awesome.

931
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Speaker 2: Now.

932
00:48:12,200 --> 00:48:13,040
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie.

933
00:48:13,280 --> 00:48:16,399
Speaker 2: No, there's no question about it. You know. I have

934
00:48:16,480 --> 00:48:23,239
Speaker 2: tomorrow reserved for finalization of Denver tape. No, all the

935
00:48:23,360 --> 00:48:27,240
Speaker 2: Denver tape will be finalized tomorrow and then Thursday morning

936
00:48:27,280 --> 00:48:29,279
Speaker 2: I will write it all up. We'll have it in

937
00:48:29,320 --> 00:48:32,359
Speaker 2: the can ready to go and then we're just gonna

938
00:48:32,440 --> 00:48:34,120
Speaker 2: chill out a little bit here like the week and

939
00:48:34,160 --> 00:48:36,399
Speaker 2: hopefully I get a little bit of good weather. Maybe

940
00:48:36,520 --> 00:48:39,080
Speaker 2: check Austin out on the basketball court or something like that.

941
00:48:39,120 --> 00:48:41,400
Speaker 1: Sure, yeah, and hang out with Miss Sherry, all right.

942
00:48:41,400 --> 00:48:43,400
Speaker 1: Don't forget about her, all right. She's the glue to

943
00:48:43,440 --> 00:48:44,240
Speaker 1: the whole operation.

944
00:48:45,080 --> 00:48:47,680
Speaker 2: She is the glue. I mean, you know, actually our

945
00:48:47,680 --> 00:48:50,919
Speaker 2: anniversary is coming up on the sixteenth. I think, yeah,

946
00:48:51,000 --> 00:48:52,920
Speaker 2: I think we might be on the road the sixteenth.

947
00:48:52,960 --> 00:48:57,719
Speaker 2: But that's gonna be fifty seven years, my man. That

948
00:48:57,840 --> 00:49:00,640
Speaker 2: lady's seen a lot of kickoff question, but I.

949
00:49:00,560 --> 00:49:02,759
Speaker 1: Mean, there's not enough metals in the in the chest

950
00:49:02,840 --> 00:49:04,400
Speaker 1: for her to get to hang out with you for

951
00:49:04,440 --> 00:49:06,320
Speaker 1: fifty seven years. My goodness.

952
00:49:07,000 --> 00:49:09,040
Speaker 2: You got that right, my man, you got that right?

953
00:49:09,120 --> 00:49:12,120
Speaker 1: All right? Rick, Well, hey, congratulations on a great season

954
00:49:12,200 --> 00:49:14,799
Speaker 1: so far. Always appreciate all the all that you do

955
00:49:14,840 --> 00:49:17,120
Speaker 1: with the time and the film and the breakdown. Have

956
00:49:17,200 --> 00:49:19,279
Speaker 1: a great rest of the week, and we will talk

957
00:49:19,280 --> 00:49:21,239
Speaker 1: to you next week breaking down the broncos.

958
00:49:21,560 --> 00:49:23,200
Speaker 2: Oh can't wait, can't wait? Man?

959
00:49:23,280 --> 00:49:25,799
Speaker 1: All right? Rick vv turry right there, and that's going

960
00:49:25,880 --> 00:49:27,960
Speaker 1: to do it for the bye week edition. Here of

961
00:49:28,040 --> 00:49:31,200
Speaker 1: Inside Football again. No game on Sunday for the Colts,

962
00:49:31,200 --> 00:49:32,839
Speaker 1: so we're going to be back at it next week

963
00:49:32,880 --> 00:49:36,840
Speaker 1: for our normal Wednesday edition of Inside Football. On the

964
00:49:36,880 --> 00:49:40,120
Speaker 1: week fifteen matchup against the Broncos again a pivotal one

965
00:49:40,160 --> 00:49:42,560
Speaker 1: coming up for the Colts. But until then, have a

966
00:49:42,560 --> 00:49:45,399
Speaker 1: great week everybody. Thanks for listening in here. I'm Matt

967
00:49:45,440 --> 00:49:47,839
Speaker 1: Taylor and this is Inside Football with a great Rick

968
00:49:47,920 --> 00:50:00,520
Speaker 1: fin Turrey right here on the Colts Audio Network. It

969
00:50:00,880 --> 00:50:09,240
Speaker 1: was building a serious and started sides stand and stay