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

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Speaker 1: For Jack Doyle, he's got it. Touchdown, come back ten

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Speaker 1: in d Why now Here's the voice of the Colts,

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Speaker 1: Matt Taylor, live from the Power Home Solar Radio Studio.

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Speaker 1: Gonna be with you tonight. I'm Matt Taylor until six

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Speaker 1: thirty Here on ninety three five and one oh seven five.

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Speaker 1: The fan following us tonight are the Pacers. They take

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Speaker 1: on the Washington Wizards tonight at the Field House. The

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Speaker 1: Colts blasted the Texans on Sunday, winning thirty one to nothing.

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Speaker 1: They're back over five hundred at seven and six. The

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Speaker 1: Colts defense was simply dominant as they held the Texans

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Speaker 1: but just one hundred and forty one yards of total offense,

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Speaker 1: the six fewest in the Indie era and the fewest

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Speaker 1: in a game since twenty fourteen. No individual Houston player

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Speaker 1: Jonathan Taylor outgained and outscored the Texans all by himself.

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Speaker 1: The Colts defense recorded two more takeaways. They continued to

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Speaker 1: They've also recorded at least one takeaway in fourteen straight

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Speaker 1: games dating back to last season. That's the longest active

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Speaker 1: streak in the NFL. The Colts were so strong on

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Speaker 1: at home. So the Colts sweep the season series on

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Speaker 1: The Colts offense grinded the Texans down throughout the game.

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Speaker 1: They wrecked up nine carries over ten yards for the

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Speaker 1: It's the third time this season the Colts had gone

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Speaker 1: the last five games they've done him. The Colts have

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Speaker 1: That's now tied for the second most in the NFL

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Speaker 1: a single season in franchise history. Jonathan Taylor had another

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Speaker 1: Taylor's highlights. On Sunday, he eclipsed one hundred points for

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Speaker 1: Energy Group. Coach congrats on the win. Colts win thirty

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Speaker 1: You know, the NFL is just filled with parody. You know.

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Speaker 1: head coach Frank Reich with us here on Colts Roundtable Live.

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Speaker 1: We've been over thirty points in seven of the last

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Speaker 1: their issues. We're gonna talk about that and kind of

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Speaker 1: put in a perspective on what the Colts did on

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Speaker 1: defense yesterday. The Colts Audio Network includes podcasts, radio shows,

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Speaker 1: Let's play Phil on the blank. That's a nice little

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Speaker 1: segue to what you guys talked about there. With the

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Speaker 1: Colts defense, they certainly came ready to play. They came

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Speaker 1: away with two takeaways, held the Texans to just one

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Speaker 1: hundred and forty one scrimmage yards. The Texans average just

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Speaker 1: two point eight yards per snap. They had just forty

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Speaker 1: eight yards in the first half, only three first downs

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Speaker 1: before halftime. Again, the Texans offense, it's not good. It

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Speaker 1: was the fifth time this season they didn't manage to

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Speaker 1: score a touchdown. The Texans are the first team since

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Speaker 1: two thousand and six to be held to five points

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Speaker 1: or a fewer four times in a single season, and

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Speaker 1: they ran just seven plays in Colts territory for the

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Speaker 1: entire game. They never got past the Colts forty yard line.

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Speaker 1: No individual Houston player had over fifty yards, including their

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Speaker 1: two quarterbacks. Houston's wide receivers that the receiving corps. They

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Speaker 1: didn't record a catch until late in the third quarter. Joe,

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Speaker 1: so fill in the blank, kind of help us put

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Speaker 1: it into perspective. Good defense by the Colts, but they're

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Speaker 1: playing a bad Texans offense. The Colts defense on Sunday,

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Speaker 1: Joe was blank dominant, as my word. And the very

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Speaker 1: first play with the Kenny Moore interception, you turn around,

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Speaker 1: you get another turnover. And again, even though the score

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Speaker 1: was only I say, only fourteen nothing a half to him,

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Speaker 1: it felt like it was a lot more. And then

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Speaker 1: when the Colts scored, you know, to start the second half,

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Speaker 1: it's twenty one zero. The game was over. But the

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Speaker 1: stat that I love the most, Houston never got past

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Speaker 1: our forty yard line in an NFL game. Think about that.

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Speaker 1: They did not run a play inside the forty yard line.

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Speaker 1: That's insane. But the Colts did what they needed to do.

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Speaker 1: They dominated a bad offensive opponent. What I really like

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Speaker 1: is the pass rush. Now again, when you're up twenty eight,

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Speaker 1: you can pin your ears back and you know that

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Speaker 1: you're going to throw it. And at the end of

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Speaker 1: the game, I love that we were heating him up

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Speaker 1: and getting sacks. But you know, Komoco Terrey two sacks, really,

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Speaker 1: you know, Mohammed had two as well, but one of

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Speaker 1: mohammed sacks was a product of Terrey kind of beating

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Speaker 1: his guy off the edge. You know, I think in coach,

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Speaker 1: I know you've talked about it before. I mean, he's

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Speaker 1: our most athletic is pure instinctual speed off the edge.

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Speaker 1: As pay continues to get better, you know, and evolve,

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Speaker 1: and then with really Muhammad's effort and buckler on the inside.

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Speaker 1: But if we can continue to get production out of

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Speaker 1: Terray off the edge, that could really change the type

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Speaker 1: of defense we are down the stretches into the playoffs

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Speaker 1: because he can be a difference maker. He just one

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Speaker 1: has to stay on the field. Tony Dungee, the best

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Speaker 1: ability is availability put some games together. But boy, I'm

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Speaker 1: awful excited to see Terray. I thought, really really flash yesterday. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I thought, you know, my word, my word would be stifling.

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Speaker 1: I mean basically they stifled every single thing that the

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Speaker 1: Texans try to do, you know upfront dominated you know,

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Speaker 1: never let a run get going. I can't even remember

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Speaker 1: running play. Tell you it's true. They just basically stuffed them,

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Speaker 1: you know, third and fourth downs. If you put them together,

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Speaker 1: they're three of fifteen. One was a scramble I think,

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Speaker 1: you know, those two turnovers early just set the tone.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you go into a depressed stadium with a

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Speaker 1: depressed team and you get two turnovers, what did you

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Speaker 1: say in the first five players or something. You know,

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Speaker 1: Kenny's was a great interception to get it started. I

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Speaker 1: think he startled everybody with that pick, to be honest

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Speaker 1: with you, you know, And so the two turnovers, which

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Speaker 1: keeps that going, the four sacks, all those things are

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Speaker 1: really good. I really do agree with Joe on something here,

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Speaker 1: and I don't know. I don't know if it's one

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Speaker 1: game because he tends to tease us, but I have

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Speaker 1: always said that basically, Toorey has the best, the fastest

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Speaker 1: four step takeoff on our football team. Faster than pay,

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Speaker 1: faster than anyone, and really and truly, when you look

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Speaker 1: at guys who actually be guys or saff there's effort sacks,

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Speaker 1: there's second wave coverage sacks, and then there's guys that

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Speaker 1: just beat people. Okay, Buckner has that bill and he

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Speaker 1: Buckner can get on a guy's shoulder and if he

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Speaker 1: doesn't get doubled, you know, he can run. He had

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Speaker 1: a big quarterback hit where he just ran by the

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Speaker 1: guard you know. Now the only other guy that is

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Speaker 1: doing that is Toorey. When he's in there, I mean,

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Speaker 1: he can run by guys, he can come under him.

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Speaker 1: He has that jet of a four speed and I'm

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Speaker 1: telling you he could be so valuable in this last

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Speaker 1: month because one of the reasons that we've struggled against

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Speaker 1: good teams is really the lack of the lack of

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Speaker 1: the four man rush and the fourth quarter and that's

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Speaker 1: when you have to have the ford man rush. When

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Speaker 1: you want to cover tight but you want to get

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Speaker 1: after the quarterback, you might now want to blitz in

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Speaker 1: that situation, and that's where one of the reasons we've

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Speaker 1: really been lacking with that, you know, that bottom feeder

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Speaker 1: rating there, So I think that's key. The other thing

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Speaker 1: that I really enjoyed is three of my favorites on

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Speaker 1: this team, not favorites because I you know, I like

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Speaker 1: him as people. I don't even really know them, but

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Speaker 1: obviously too Ray is one of them because I love

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Speaker 1: his talent. The other guy that had a significant playing

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Speaker 1: time in the game was E. J. Speed. He played

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Speaker 1: quite a bit at the SAM when we were in

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Speaker 1: the base defense, you know, and he's just so active.

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Speaker 1: I just think that guy has such an upside. And

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Speaker 1: then the guy I think is getting better every week

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Speaker 1: is Rogers. I mean, Rogers is tight on the covers,

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Speaker 1: and I thought that was something that we've been better

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Speaker 1: at lately and we've got to carry it into the

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Speaker 1: New England game. Is our corners have been much more sticky.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you know, Rhodes was sticky. Kenny. Kenny's just phenomenal.

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Speaker 1: I mean he was sticky. And then I thought Rogers

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Speaker 1: there early. You know, we had a couple of blitzes

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Speaker 1: and that really brought people. It was great, I'll tell

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Speaker 1: you it was great to have Willis back. Willis is

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Speaker 1: a guy that kind of goes unknown around here, but

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Speaker 1: he gives you a lot of things. That safety position,

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Speaker 1: he could cover a tight end, He's tough on the run.

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Speaker 1: He made a great tackle on that option. And then

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Speaker 1: they were bringing him quite a bit. They were bringing

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Speaker 1: him into the fifth guy in the rush lane. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: all those things were really good. But I really like

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Speaker 1: those three young kids, Rogers and Speed and tore I

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Speaker 1: love to see them get to REPS because I just

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Speaker 1: think they have big roles in our future. That's Rick

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Speaker 1: fin Terry with Joe writes, I'm Matt Taylor. This is

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Speaker 1: Colt's Roundtable Live tonight, as always with you here on

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Speaker 1: ninety three five and one oh seven five the Fan,

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Speaker 1: and we're playing Phil on the blank, guys, let's skip

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Speaker 1: down to Kenny Moore. Let's talk about his game. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: he was the centerpiece of both of those takeaways on Sunday,

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Speaker 1: and Houston finished the game with four tackles, two passes

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Speaker 1: defense to pick, and a force fumble. He's tied a

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Speaker 1: career high with four interceptions on the season. Yesterday marked

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Speaker 1: the second time in his career that he logged a

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Speaker 1: pick and a force fumble in the same game. On

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Speaker 1: the year, seventy six tackles, four picks, eleven passes defense,

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Speaker 1: a sack, four tackles for loss. I mean, the guy

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Speaker 1: is amazing and he's just three tackles shy of matching

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Speaker 1: his career high from last year, and he ranked second

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Speaker 1: in the NFL this season in tackles among all cornerbacks. Joe,

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Speaker 1: we'll start with you as a slot corner. He's played

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Speaker 1: more than ninety eight percent of his snaps this season,

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Speaker 1: So fill in the blank, Joe. If Kenny Moore doesn't

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Speaker 1: make the Pro Bowl. It's blank be censored. Travesty would

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Speaker 1: be the right word. I could put a four letter

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Speaker 1: word in front of the fact that he got snubbed

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Speaker 1: last year when he clearly had a Pro Bowl case,

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Speaker 1: the fact that he's played. You know, I think better

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Speaker 1: in a lot of ways this year. Now. I do

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Speaker 1: think he got off to a bit of a slow start,

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Speaker 1: but the last six eight games, boy, he's been awful,

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Speaker 1: awful good. And you know, I've heard Kenny say, you know,

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Speaker 1: don't call me a slot corner, just call me a corner.

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Speaker 1: And he can be really the full package in terms

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Speaker 1: of being elite as a cover guy, as a run

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Speaker 1: support defender. You know, you saw that with him the

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Speaker 1: force fumble. But he's really really good at setting the

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Speaker 1: edge for somebody that's not as big as he has

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Speaker 1: and then blitzing off the edge. He's as good as

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Speaker 1: any nickel in the game. And so a lot of

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Speaker 1: corners can be an elite cover guy or maybe a corner,

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Speaker 1: you know, just a big, strong guy, kind of a

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Speaker 1: liability and coverage, but he can really stick in the

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Speaker 1: run game. Kenny can kind of do it all. He's

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Speaker 1: a pillar player, and he's a tone center. He's a leader,

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Speaker 1: you know, along with Darius Leonard, along with Buckner that

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Speaker 1: I think these guys look too on the defense to

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Speaker 1: set the tone early in the game. And nothing better

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Speaker 1: than just making a tremendous play yesterday and you know,

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Speaker 1: picking the pass off. It's like people were still getting

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Speaker 1: into their seats, you know, and there are a lot

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Speaker 1: of people that weren't in their seats at all ed

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Speaker 1: Houston yesterday, But it was like it was like a

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Speaker 1: kind of man, yeah, they're they're sitting down there looking

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Speaker 1: up and you're realizing, wait, did he just intercept that?

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Speaker 1: You know, And I felt like even the Colts were

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Speaker 1: kind of stunned on their sideline. But you know, what

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Speaker 1: a game for Kenny, what a season he's putting together.

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Speaker 1: And again, if he does not make the Pro Bowl,

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Speaker 1: it's a travesty. Yeah, my my word would be injustice.

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Speaker 1: I mean, this is a terrific football player. For some reason,

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Speaker 1: he hovers under the radar. Why. I really don't know.

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Speaker 1: You know, slot corner is kind of a vague position

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Speaker 1: to people. They really don't know necessarily how did define it.

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Speaker 1: Certainly the players in the league should know. I noticed

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Speaker 1: that Brady went up to him after the game and

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Speaker 1: really congratulated him on his career. I thought they caught

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Speaker 1: that on hard knocks and I was that kind of

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Speaker 1: touched me. I like that, you know, because he started

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Speaker 1: there as kind of an undrafted free agent and Joe,

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Speaker 1: you know, Joe defined it. I mean, he can do

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Speaker 1: it all. He is an outstanding one of our best tacklers,

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Speaker 1: if not best tackler. He's one of our toughest players.

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Speaker 1: At times, he plays tougher than our linebackers off that edge.

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Speaker 1: He can protect the edge. He is a real factor

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Speaker 1: in the nickel fires coming off the edge. There's not

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Speaker 1: any doubt about that. And he can shut down a slot.

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Speaker 1: He can play, which is a talent. I mean, you

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Speaker 1: know a lot of guys can play outside. I've coached

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Speaker 1: him and can't necessarily come in and handle the quickness

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Speaker 1: of the slots that you see in the league. Slots

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Speaker 1: are usually quicker than fast. But he can wipe out

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Speaker 1: a slot. If you need a slot defended and taken

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Speaker 1: away because you have to double somewhere else, you can

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Speaker 1: count on that. And he's just as good on the outside.

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Speaker 1: I've always thought sometimes when we were struggling, we're doing

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Speaker 1: a little bit better now, but when we were struggling

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Speaker 1: on the outside that you know, sometimes it'd be better.

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Speaker 1: I'll leave him out there, and because sometimes you can

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Speaker 1: get by with a lesser guy at the nickel. But

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Speaker 1: he is, he is just a tremendous football player. You know,

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Speaker 1: you can argue who's the best. You know, Buckner has

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Speaker 1: an impact inside. Leonard makes strips. I'm not sure Kenny

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Speaker 1: hadn't the best player to play in play out with

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Speaker 1: everything he's asked to do, and as I said, it

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Speaker 1: would be an injustice if he doesn't make it. All right,

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Speaker 1: that's Phil in the blank here on Colts Roundtable Live.

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Speaker 1: When we come back, Rick fin Terry Joe writes on

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Speaker 1: Matt Taylor, we'll get into the mail bag. We'll talk

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Speaker 1: about the Colts pass rush and more depth and what

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Speaker 1: they need to accomplish on the bye week with some

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Speaker 1: A lot to choose from a lot of folks got

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Speaker 1: in early. Let's go to Nigel. He's up first. He's

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Speaker 1: asking is our pass rush coming along? Pay with three

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Speaker 1: sacks lately, and then Terray and Muhammad each with two yesterday, Rick, ventory,

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Speaker 1: what do you think of the overall pass rush for

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Speaker 1: the Colts late in the season? Here, Yeah, I can't,

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Speaker 1: I can't define that if it's coming along, And I'll

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Speaker 1: explain what I mean by that. First of all, Sunday yesterday,

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Speaker 1: and I said this in the pregame, I said this

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Speaker 1: in the muss and all this. We were going against

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Speaker 1: the worst offensive line I think that I've ever seen

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Speaker 1: in the National Football League's It ranks with the bottom

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Speaker 1: feeders of all times. You know, they got backups at tackles,

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Speaker 1: swing guys. Their interior can't block me. So it's very

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Speaker 1: hard to make too many judgments about yesterday. And then,

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Speaker 1: to be honest with you, you're gonna flip it in

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Speaker 1: about twelve days. You're gonna play one of the best

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Speaker 1: offensive lines in football. So you know we're gonna find

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Speaker 1: that out here. Here's what I see, and I kind

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Speaker 1: of mentioned this before. There's two guys on this team

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Speaker 1: that I think have extraordinary talent rushing the passer. I

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Speaker 1: think Butler certainly he's not Aaron Donald, but he certainly

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Speaker 1: has the ability to beat guys one on one, the

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Speaker 1: ability to beat a guy at the line scrimmage. Joe

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Speaker 1: knows what I mean. You get fall off sacks or

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Speaker 1: you get a guy that can erase that edge and

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Speaker 1: get to the quarterback the other guy, I believe it

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Speaker 1: or not, is the guy that teaches us all the

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Speaker 1: time is two right, you saw it. He had two sacks,

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Speaker 1: plus he created the sack from Mohammed who Mohammed is

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Speaker 1: a really effort guy, but he gets those fallback sacks.

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Speaker 1: He gets that, he gets those effort sacks. Now in

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Speaker 1: that in that sense, you've got those two guys. I

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Speaker 1: don't think Quitty just because he's gotten three sacks, has

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Speaker 1: really gotten that much better. I see most of his sacks.

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Speaker 1: The strip sack was a falloff sack. The one he

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Speaker 1: got last week was a fallback sack. You know, his hits,

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Speaker 1: two of them, nobody touched them. They were schematic. So

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Speaker 1: I just feel like they have to turn him loose more.

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Speaker 1: He's still he's getting back into that power rush mode,

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Speaker 1: you know, particularly against mac Jones. Let's turn it loose,

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Speaker 1: let's go, let's get upfield and go, or give it

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Speaker 1: that quick counterback inside because he's not gonna kill you rushing.

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Speaker 1: But that is critical, and I think that is you know,

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Speaker 1: that is an area that if we're not better in

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Speaker 1: this last month, it could really matter because as I

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Speaker 1: said earlier, and I make this big point, when you're

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Speaker 1: in that fourth quarter and you don't necessarily want a

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Speaker 1: blitz with the LEADU. I mean sometimes you do, sometimes

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Speaker 1: you don't. But let's say that you don't because you

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Speaker 1: need some coverage. You've got to have an effective four

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Speaker 1: man rush. I'll tell you the guy that we lost

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Speaker 1: in Nobody talks about him because you live in the

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Speaker 1: moment is Lewis. Lewis was really off to a really

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Speaker 1: good start, both at the edge and moving inside at

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Speaker 1: the three. I thought our best rush plan going in

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Speaker 1: starting in the summertime was two Ray and Pay on

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Speaker 1: the edges and then Lewis and Buckner inside with the

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Speaker 1: idea that maybe Dao would come on late and be

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Speaker 1: another inside guy. He's he's okay, he's flashing athletics, but

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Speaker 1: he's not He's not doing anything right now to be

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Speaker 1: honest with you. So but that is going to be

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Speaker 1: really critical. Like I said, Ray would be a shot

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Speaker 1: in the arm if he can do it here in

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Speaker 1: the last month. Yeah, And to add on to coach,

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Speaker 1: I think the two ways that we can most improve right.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's not like guys who are going to

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Speaker 1: get bigger or faster or stronger here in the last

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Speaker 1: month of the season. You know, one it's about execution.

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Speaker 1: And two, the guy that's got the biggest ceiling is

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Speaker 1: still you know, Terray, and I think you know, Coach,

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Speaker 1: you hit on all those things. He's a guy that

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Speaker 1: can be a difference maker on the edge, that could

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Speaker 1: just line up there and just you know, in a

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Speaker 1: playoff game when you're in the third or fourth quarter,

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Speaker 1: just straight get off the ball quicker than somebody get

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Speaker 1: around or left or right tackle and get a sack

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Speaker 1: fumble and be a game changing type play. He has

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Speaker 1: that ability. One thing schematically, you know. One, I think

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Speaker 1: the more we blitz down the stretch, the better, you know,

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Speaker 1: and just to sit back, you know, kind of like

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Speaker 1: we did in the second half against Tampa Bay and

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Speaker 1: rush for and you know, let them just kind of

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Speaker 1: pick us apart. That that's not going to work in

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Speaker 1: my opinion against playoff teams. So if you're just going

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Speaker 1: to rush four guys, I think you can get more

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Speaker 1: creative in that. You know, the Colts haven't really shown

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00:37:02,200 --> 00:37:04,480
Speaker 1: a spinner look, but I always thought that was really

757
00:37:04,560 --> 00:37:06,759
Speaker 1: hard to block as an offensive lineman. What I mean

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00:37:06,800 --> 00:37:09,040
Speaker 1: by that is you've got three guys with your hands

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Speaker 1: on the ground and then you got a fourth guy

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Speaker 1: that's a spinner that's just kind of walking around, and

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Speaker 1: is he going to rush the A gap the B gap?

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Speaker 1: Is he gonna be on the right or left side?

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Speaker 1: Are they going to run some pick stunts with him

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Speaker 1: off the ball and get some creativity? And to me,

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Speaker 1: you could use a guy like Mohammed, you know, who's

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Speaker 1: a power rusher, you know, and somebody on the inside

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Speaker 1: and put terray and Pay on the edges, put Buckton

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Speaker 1: with his hand on the ground somewhere and walk Muhammed

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Speaker 1: around and do some different creative things kind of scheme

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Speaker 1: wise or game wise, when really we can maximize. So

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Speaker 1: I'll be interested to see, you know, do we do

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Speaker 1: we any type of different looks here coming down the

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Speaker 1: stretch and some creative different pass rush if we're just

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Speaker 1: only gonna have four guys humming at the quarterback? All right,

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Speaker 1: let's go back to the mail bag. Rick VN Terry

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Speaker 1: and Joe writes along. I'm met Taylor Colts Roundtable Live

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Speaker 1: Table to submit your questions for us here on the show.

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Speaker 1: Let's go quickly here. We're kind of up against it

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Speaker 1: on this segment, so let's go quick on this one

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Speaker 1: because I want to get in some more questions on

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Speaker 1: the next segment, Joe, what are the odds? This is

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Speaker 1: from Chris, by the way, what are the odds we

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Speaker 1: can run the table with four games to play. Our

786
00:38:14,400 --> 00:38:17,040
Speaker 1: offense is putting up thirty points per game lately, and

787
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Speaker 1: the defense has shown it can stop people but needs

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Speaker 1: more consistency. It'll be tough, and it would be tough

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Speaker 1: because the next two games really are the too hard.

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Speaker 1: You got New England at home. You know we're coming

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Speaker 1: off a bye, they're coming off a bye. I think

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Speaker 1: we get them at a right time because it's in

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Speaker 1: between two Buffalo games, which are more important to them

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Speaker 1: obviously with a division on the line. But then Arizona

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Speaker 1: is playing awful good football, and so my opinion, really

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Speaker 1: our playoffs is going to come down to the next

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Speaker 1: two weeks, and again, if you're gonna lose one, I

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Speaker 1: think the Arizona games okay, because I still think ten

799
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Speaker 1: and seven is gonna get in, especially if we win

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00:38:49,760 --> 00:38:52,520
Speaker 1: our last three, that put our conference record at nine

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00:38:52,560 --> 00:38:55,239
Speaker 1: and three, and that would almost guarantee you're gonna win

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00:38:55,239 --> 00:38:58,640
Speaker 1: all those tie breakers when it comes down to conference record. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, I agree. I think you know, when I

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Speaker 1: when we when we went into that final seven, I said,

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Speaker 1: we've got to get to ten. We got to get

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Speaker 1: to ten wins, and we got to win five out

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Speaker 1: of seven, and so we're really not off off guard there,

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00:39:12,280 --> 00:39:14,600
Speaker 1: but it really means now we really have to win

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Speaker 1: three out of four. Um, you will win Jacksonville, you

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00:39:18,360 --> 00:39:21,839
Speaker 1: should win it. Raiders and Joe's Wright. It's the next two.

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Speaker 1: I would say, arguably Arizona is the best team. It's

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00:39:26,040 --> 00:39:29,640
Speaker 1: the most talented team. I think that the Patriots are

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Speaker 1: like a lot of Bill's team. I think the hole

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00:39:32,360 --> 00:39:35,160
Speaker 1: is greater than the parts. But when I say that,

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Speaker 1: I do believe that they're very beatable. Uh if you

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00:39:38,640 --> 00:39:40,840
Speaker 1: if you play really well for sixty minutes, but you

817
00:39:40,920 --> 00:39:43,399
Speaker 1: got to play really well for sixty minutes. The kid

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00:39:43,520 --> 00:39:45,799
Speaker 1: is still a rookie no matter how good he's playing

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Speaker 1: at quarterbacks. So you know, I think this one coming

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Speaker 1: up is just the game of the year. Just gotta

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Speaker 1: get it and again then then I think, if you

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Speaker 1: can get this one, you know, I feel, you know,

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Speaker 1: you're gonna get Jacksonville. He didn't lose to those guys,

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Speaker 1: and I see the Raiders as we should win really

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Speaker 1: at home. All right, let's take a quick time out.

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Speaker 1: When we come back, we'll dive into the Twitter mail

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Speaker 1: bag and we'll talk about if the Colts have enough

828
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Speaker 1: depth that wide receiver for the Patriots and the rest

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Speaker 1: of the season. We'll do that, and we'll also talk

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Speaker 1: about what's in store for the Colts in terms of

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Speaker 1: the AFC playoff standings as it relates to some of

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Speaker 1: the teams that the Colts need to lose and win

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Speaker 1: coming up in week number fourteen. We'll talk about all

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Speaker 1: of that when we come back on Colts Roundtable Live

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Speaker 1: on ninety three five and one oh seven five the Fan.

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Speaker 1: We now return to Colts Round Table Live once again.

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Speaker 1: Here's Matt Taylor from the Power Home Solar Radio Studio

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Speaker 1: back again on Colts Roundtable Live. Thanks for sticking with us.

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Speaker 1: We'll take another couple of mailback questions here before we

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Speaker 1: close out again. The Pacers take over the airwaves at

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Speaker 1: six thirty. They take on the Washington Wizards tonight at home.

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Speaker 1: Let's go back to the mailbag. Ryan is asking, do

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Speaker 1: we have enough wide receiver depth for the last couple

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Speaker 1: of games. Pittman is our go to guy, but we

850
00:41:20,680 --> 00:41:22,920
Speaker 1: don't have a clear cut number two. What are the

851
00:41:22,920 --> 00:41:27,200
Speaker 1: odds Ashton Doulon can emerge as the second consistent option?

852
00:41:27,320 --> 00:41:29,880
Speaker 1: Rick vent Terry, what do you think here? Yeah, good question,

853
00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:32,920
Speaker 1: really good question. And I think it's critical to whether

854
00:41:33,040 --> 00:41:34,840
Speaker 1: or not we get through. Just like we just talked

855
00:41:34,840 --> 00:41:38,839
Speaker 1: about pass Rush, I can predict that Sunday night, when

856
00:41:38,840 --> 00:41:42,000
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick meets with his defensive staff, he is going

857
00:41:42,080 --> 00:41:46,440
Speaker 1: to give them two demands. One twenty eight doesen't beat us,

858
00:41:46,640 --> 00:41:49,040
Speaker 1: and eleven doesn't meet us, and he'll tell them and

859
00:41:49,080 --> 00:41:50,719
Speaker 1: he'll finish it with and I don't want to have

860
00:41:50,800 --> 00:41:54,480
Speaker 1: this discussion on Sunday. So that means basically, that doesn't

861
00:41:54,480 --> 00:41:56,719
Speaker 1: mean that they can't beat him, because you can do

862
00:41:56,800 --> 00:41:58,839
Speaker 1: things to get them the ball. But it also means

863
00:41:59,160 --> 00:42:01,960
Speaker 1: when you play it like that, some of your others

864
00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:04,719
Speaker 1: have to play really well. Now, the guy that I

865
00:42:04,719 --> 00:42:06,800
Speaker 1: see is showing life, believe it or not, it's Hilton.

866
00:42:07,000 --> 00:42:09,400
Speaker 1: I thought Hilton ran the best comeback. He's running a

867
00:42:09,440 --> 00:42:12,600
Speaker 1: long time now. We haven't utilized him very much. But

868
00:42:12,719 --> 00:42:14,719
Speaker 1: that's a guy that can turn and burn and get

869
00:42:14,760 --> 00:42:17,439
Speaker 1: on a number two corner because you know he's gonna

870
00:42:17,440 --> 00:42:20,600
Speaker 1: stop Pittman. He may overlean it to get there. And

871
00:42:20,640 --> 00:42:23,400
Speaker 1: then the other thing is Doyle's coming along Jack is

872
00:42:23,520 --> 00:42:26,120
Speaker 1: Jack's playing very well. He and that right side of

873
00:42:26,120 --> 00:42:28,080
Speaker 1: the offensive line. You know, I gave a game ball

874
00:42:28,120 --> 00:42:30,200
Speaker 1: to the right side of that offensive line, and I

875
00:42:30,239 --> 00:42:32,640
Speaker 1: should have given up to Doyle as well. Those guys

876
00:42:32,680 --> 00:42:36,120
Speaker 1: are blocking the run like crazy. But you know, and

877
00:42:36,200 --> 00:42:38,640
Speaker 1: the other guy that's kind of sneaking in. I noticed

878
00:42:38,680 --> 00:42:40,640
Speaker 1: they throw to him twice on a third down and

879
00:42:40,800 --> 00:42:43,560
Speaker 1: was Grandson. And then my favorite, the guy that I

880
00:42:43,600 --> 00:42:45,440
Speaker 1: think should be in there at number three and we

881
00:42:45,480 --> 00:42:47,960
Speaker 1: should be using him a lot more. I was. I

882
00:42:48,200 --> 00:42:51,239
Speaker 1: know that Pascal blocks and all that, but I'm gonna

883
00:42:51,239 --> 00:42:53,439
Speaker 1: tell you what that Dueling is a guy that can

884
00:42:53,480 --> 00:42:56,520
Speaker 1: make plays so you know, I don't know if we're

885
00:42:56,560 --> 00:42:59,040
Speaker 1: good enough, but I still know that Hilton can do

886
00:42:59,120 --> 00:43:01,719
Speaker 1: some things, and then those other guys, somebody's gonna have

887
00:43:01,760 --> 00:43:04,760
Speaker 1: to step up here a week a week from Saturday. Yeah,

888
00:43:04,800 --> 00:43:07,680
Speaker 1: and I think Coach you mentioned two guys. I think

889
00:43:07,719 --> 00:43:10,600
Speaker 1: t Y and Jack, you know, are two old veterans,

890
00:43:10,600 --> 00:43:13,719
Speaker 1: the wily guys. They're really playing the best ball of

891
00:43:13,800 --> 00:43:15,920
Speaker 1: the season. Obviously, you know t Y coming back from

892
00:43:15,920 --> 00:43:18,480
Speaker 1: the injury, getting his explosive us back. But Jack, you know,

893
00:43:18,480 --> 00:43:20,759
Speaker 1: I think you've kind of seen, you know, Wentz and him,

894
00:43:20,800 --> 00:43:23,080
Speaker 1: you know, kind of come off Moale a little bit

895
00:43:23,120 --> 00:43:25,759
Speaker 1: and back to just old reliable Jack Doyle. But the

896
00:43:25,800 --> 00:43:28,960
Speaker 1: other wild cartoon to throw in here is Hines, and

897
00:43:29,000 --> 00:43:31,080
Speaker 1: he did some great things yesterday. And I love when

898
00:43:31,080 --> 00:43:33,400
Speaker 1: we have Pitt and Hines on the field together. I

899
00:43:33,480 --> 00:43:36,239
Speaker 1: just think schematically lining them both up in the backfield,

900
00:43:36,480 --> 00:43:38,479
Speaker 1: you see what the other team's gonna do personnel wise,

901
00:43:38,520 --> 00:43:40,600
Speaker 1: But then you can easily split him out, have him

902
00:43:40,680 --> 00:43:43,319
Speaker 1: run routes out of the backfield. I think again, when

903
00:43:43,320 --> 00:43:45,080
Speaker 1: we look at you know, next Saturday night and play

904
00:43:45,080 --> 00:43:47,320
Speaker 1: in New England, I think that Hines is somebody that

905
00:43:47,360 --> 00:43:49,839
Speaker 1: could have a really big game, especially if they're gonna

906
00:43:49,840 --> 00:43:52,200
Speaker 1: be committed to putting an extra defender in the box

907
00:43:52,239 --> 00:43:54,920
Speaker 1: to stop twenty eight. Hey. Tonight's shows brought to you

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913
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Speaker 1: As we close out, taking a look at the week

914
00:44:11,200 --> 00:44:15,000
Speaker 1: fourteen AFC standings, the Patriots or eight are at eight

915
00:44:15,040 --> 00:44:17,840
Speaker 1: and four. They lead to the conference. If the playoffs

916
00:44:17,880 --> 00:44:20,399
Speaker 1: started today, they would be the number one seed, the

917
00:44:20,440 --> 00:44:23,279
Speaker 1: Titans at eight and four at number two, Ravens at

918
00:44:23,280 --> 00:44:25,520
Speaker 1: eight and four at number three, and the Chiefs at

919
00:44:25,520 --> 00:44:28,160
Speaker 1: eight and four at number four, So all of the

920
00:44:28,200 --> 00:44:31,399
Speaker 1: division winners as of right now have identical records at

921
00:44:31,400 --> 00:44:34,120
Speaker 1: eight and four. The Bills at seven and four they

922
00:44:34,160 --> 00:44:37,440
Speaker 1: play tonight on Monday Night Football against the Patriots, The

923
00:44:37,640 --> 00:44:40,560
Speaker 1: Chargers at seven and five the number six seed, and

924
00:44:40,680 --> 00:44:43,600
Speaker 1: the Bengals at seven and five are the number seven

925
00:44:43,640 --> 00:44:47,040
Speaker 1: seed that last wildcard spot. The Steelers are at eight

926
00:44:47,080 --> 00:44:49,400
Speaker 1: at six to five and one because they got no

927
00:44:49,480 --> 00:44:51,560
Speaker 1: help or the Colts got no help from the Ravens

928
00:44:51,960 --> 00:44:54,560
Speaker 1: last night, and the Colts are at number nine at

929
00:44:54,600 --> 00:44:57,759
Speaker 1: seven and six. So, Joe, as we kind of turned

930
00:44:57,800 --> 00:45:00,480
Speaker 1: the page and focus on the buy, it's obviously the

931
00:45:00,560 --> 00:45:03,279
Speaker 1: latest buy in the history of the franchise. The team

932
00:45:03,280 --> 00:45:06,480
Speaker 1: has played thirteen straight games. They get their first extended

933
00:45:06,520 --> 00:45:10,160
Speaker 1: time off since late July. As a player, Joe, what

934
00:45:10,239 --> 00:45:12,560
Speaker 1: are these guys going through health wise and what a

935
00:45:12,600 --> 00:45:15,200
Speaker 1: players need to do on the bye to get right

936
00:45:15,320 --> 00:45:18,040
Speaker 1: mentally and physically well? First off, the bye week always

937
00:45:18,080 --> 00:45:19,960
Speaker 1: feels like you blink twice and you're right back in

938
00:45:20,000 --> 00:45:22,440
Speaker 1: the building. But January, what will happen? As you know today,

939
00:45:22,719 --> 00:45:25,000
Speaker 1: you know they probably brought the guys in watch the film,

940
00:45:25,040 --> 00:45:27,239
Speaker 1: get a lift or run in, and then I would

941
00:45:27,280 --> 00:45:28,840
Speaker 1: guess this late in the season, they're gonna get the

942
00:45:28,840 --> 00:45:31,000
Speaker 1: whole week off and then you come back Monday and

943
00:45:31,040 --> 00:45:33,120
Speaker 1: you're ready to go and get going on New England.

944
00:45:33,160 --> 00:45:35,840
Speaker 1: So but I think the most thing is as important

945
00:45:35,840 --> 00:45:38,279
Speaker 1: as it is physically, and it is especially guys are

946
00:45:38,320 --> 00:45:40,600
Speaker 1: banged up, and guys that are hurt will continue to

947
00:45:40,640 --> 00:45:44,440
Speaker 1: get treatment around the facility. It's important to recharge mentally

948
00:45:44,480 --> 00:45:46,759
Speaker 1: and just know it's been a grind. We've been going

949
00:45:46,800 --> 00:45:49,040
Speaker 1: at this for four months straight. I want to get

950
00:45:49,080 --> 00:45:51,040
Speaker 1: away from football for a couple of days. I don't

951
00:45:51,080 --> 00:45:53,600
Speaker 1: want to look at want to watch film. But then

952
00:45:53,600 --> 00:45:55,640
Speaker 1: what I always did is just take two three days

953
00:45:55,640 --> 00:45:59,080
Speaker 1: and do absolutely nothing, and then maybe by Friday this week,

954
00:45:59,360 --> 00:46:01,480
Speaker 1: you know, you get a workout in, you start to

955
00:46:01,480 --> 00:46:03,600
Speaker 1: watch the film on New England, and you get yourself back.

956
00:46:03,640 --> 00:46:06,280
Speaker 1: I think it's really important to just completely unplug for

957
00:46:06,280 --> 00:46:08,839
Speaker 1: forty eight seventy two hours mentally and recharge and then

958
00:46:08,880 --> 00:46:11,799
Speaker 1: say take one big deep breath and say now it's on.

959
00:46:11,960 --> 00:46:15,080
Speaker 1: And we're hoping that the season doesn't last another four weeks.

960
00:46:15,280 --> 00:46:18,000
Speaker 1: We're hoping that this season lasts another eight weeks. And

961
00:46:18,040 --> 00:46:20,919
Speaker 1: that's what we're preparing ourselves for mentally, is another two

962
00:46:20,920 --> 00:46:23,680
Speaker 1: months of football, not one month. Indeed, all right, Rick,

963
00:46:23,719 --> 00:46:26,080
Speaker 1: we got about a minute left. We're up against the

964
00:46:26,120 --> 00:46:28,920
Speaker 1: Patriots once again, one of the best teams in the AFC.

965
00:46:29,160 --> 00:46:31,000
Speaker 1: How are they doing it? Give us the very quick

966
00:46:31,040 --> 00:46:34,279
Speaker 1: scouting report on New England as we close out here. Well, well,

967
00:46:34,280 --> 00:46:36,360
Speaker 1: I'll get a chance to watch that game tonight and

968
00:46:36,440 --> 00:46:40,160
Speaker 1: that's a huge, huge game there. That's a neighborhood fight

969
00:46:40,239 --> 00:46:44,239
Speaker 1: right there with great ramifications. I would say in the

970
00:46:44,719 --> 00:46:46,719
Speaker 1: tapes that I've looked at here in New England have

971
00:46:46,760 --> 00:46:49,040
Speaker 1: had the opportunity to look at them, is they're kind

972
00:46:49,080 --> 00:46:51,279
Speaker 1: of back, really's and it's kind of I'm calling it

973
00:46:51,320 --> 00:46:54,680
Speaker 1: back to the future, you know, after the experiment with

974
00:46:54,760 --> 00:46:58,680
Speaker 1: Cam Newton and kind of going through attempting to change

975
00:46:58,719 --> 00:47:02,760
Speaker 1: their philosophy. Uh, they're back. And Belichick has done two things.

976
00:47:02,800 --> 00:47:05,680
Speaker 1: One thing that he doesn't normally do. He's normally very

977
00:47:06,200 --> 00:47:09,200
Speaker 1: frugal in the offseason, very much like Chris Ballard. But

978
00:47:09,320 --> 00:47:12,120
Speaker 1: this year, you know, after that bad year last year,

979
00:47:12,480 --> 00:47:14,600
Speaker 1: he went out and spent a lot of money. And

980
00:47:14,600 --> 00:47:17,160
Speaker 1: it's they're paying dividends. You're going to see a lot

981
00:47:17,160 --> 00:47:19,960
Speaker 1: of guys that you you know, you don't relate to

982
00:47:20,000 --> 00:47:22,319
Speaker 1: the PA. To the Patriots, it's a different team. It's

983
00:47:22,560 --> 00:47:27,160
Speaker 1: a it's not a big name recognition team. But offensively,

984
00:47:27,760 --> 00:47:30,200
Speaker 1: you know, he was lucky he sat there at number ten.

985
00:47:30,320 --> 00:47:33,200
Speaker 1: He got the perfect quarterback for his system. If you

986
00:47:33,239 --> 00:47:35,799
Speaker 1: don't look at who's who, they're right back to that

987
00:47:35,920 --> 00:47:39,080
Speaker 1: old fashioned Tom Brady system. It looks like the Patriots

988
00:47:39,080 --> 00:47:43,800
Speaker 1: of ald I formation or spread. It's like they've always

989
00:47:43,840 --> 00:47:46,960
Speaker 1: been a twofold. I'll get into this in the podcast

990
00:47:47,080 --> 00:47:49,919
Speaker 1: next week on breaking them down. I know of them

991
00:47:50,040 --> 00:47:52,640
Speaker 1: very well. They have a two tiered offense and then

992
00:47:52,680 --> 00:47:55,960
Speaker 1: on defense. The irony of it is is they've really

993
00:47:55,960 --> 00:47:58,560
Speaker 1: gone back to the three four. I mean, it almost

994
00:47:58,600 --> 00:48:02,240
Speaker 1: looks like Patriots two thousand and five, really and truly.

995
00:48:02,920 --> 00:48:04,920
Speaker 1: And then with a ton of volume. You know, he

996
00:48:05,000 --> 00:48:08,560
Speaker 1: has all those players that are interchangeable and he uses

997
00:48:08,600 --> 00:48:12,279
Speaker 1: them all over the place. And the biggest acquisition of

998
00:48:12,360 --> 00:48:15,040
Speaker 1: ball was Judon, the kid he got out of Baltimore.

999
00:48:15,360 --> 00:48:17,320
Speaker 1: It gives him that edge guy with ten and a

1000
00:48:17,400 --> 00:48:21,399
Speaker 1: half sacks. So it's like the Patriots of old. Really,

1001
00:48:21,400 --> 00:48:24,279
Speaker 1: it's a it's a return to their base with a

1002
00:48:24,320 --> 00:48:27,120
Speaker 1: lot of names that you don't associate with the Patriots.

1003
00:48:27,120 --> 00:48:30,200
Speaker 1: So we'll have a lot of fun with this next week, Matt, Yeah,

1004
00:48:30,239 --> 00:48:31,960
Speaker 1: we'll have some time to hype it up. It's a

1005
00:48:31,960 --> 00:48:34,560
Speaker 1: big game. We gotta run. That's all the time we have.

1006
00:48:34,719 --> 00:48:37,040
Speaker 1: Tonight we're up against it. My thanks to everybody who

1007
00:48:37,120 --> 00:48:39,680
Speaker 1: joined the show and twittered in their questions. My thanks

1008
00:48:39,680 --> 00:48:42,280
Speaker 1: as well. To Frank Reich, Rick Van Terry, and Joe writes.

1009
00:48:42,600 --> 00:48:45,000
Speaker 1: The Pacers are up next. They take on the Wizards,

1010
00:48:45,239 --> 00:48:47,640
Speaker 1: and the Colts are on the Buy No Colts Roundtable

1011
00:48:47,719 --> 00:48:51,920
Speaker 1: Live next week. This program returns on December twentieth, recapping

1012
00:48:51,920 --> 00:48:54,400
Speaker 1: the Colts and the Patriots. Have a great night, everybody,

1013
00:48:54,440 --> 00:48:56,319
Speaker 1: we'll talk later this week. You're on the Home of

1014
00:48:56,320 --> 00:48:58,680
Speaker 1: the Colts ninety three five and one oh seven five

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Speaker 1: the Fan. Goodnight,