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Speaker 1: This is the Last Word, the off Season Home of

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Speaker 1: the Colts with Jeffrey Gorman and Matt Taylor.

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Speaker 3: Welcome into the Last Word right here in ninety three

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Speaker 3: five one oh seven five fan. This is our weekly

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Speaker 3: off season radio show featuring your Colts every Friday evening

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Speaker 3: right here. We're brought to you by our friends at

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Speaker 3: Panduel Make every moment more. Coming up tonight, Matt Taylor,

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Speaker 3: That's what's coming up tonight, Voice of the Colts, may Tey.

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Speaker 3: And it's a fun weekend because last weekend the NBA

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Speaker 3: invaded Indianapolis, and this weekend and beyond the NFL will

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Speaker 3: be invading Indianapolis. Right great time of the year. And

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Speaker 3: I'm just telling you right now, we're gonna have so

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Speaker 3: many guests, so many guests on this show next week

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Speaker 3: as well as the Colts Audio Network. I mean, we

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Speaker 3: have a lot of NFL royalty coming through town next week.

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Speaker 3: And may tell you myself, Lara Overton, JJ Stankabus, Casey

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Speaker 3: Value included, everybody's gonna talk to about this upcoming season

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Speaker 3: because they're coming through indian after Come on, now, let's go.

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Speaker 3: We're gonna We got, yeah, a nice little list.

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Speaker 4: We've got Daniel Jeremiah visiting with us, Solomon Wilcotts, Jordan

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Speaker 4: Reid from ESPN, We've got Dan Graziano from ESPN, Charles

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Speaker 4: Davis from the NFL Network, Ryan Wilson from CBS. But basically,

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Speaker 4: if you know the draft, you're gonna be sitting down

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Speaker 4: with Colt stock.

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Speaker 3: Hey Field Yates from ESPN is gonna join us in

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Speaker 3: a few He's also gonna be at the NFL Combine,

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Speaker 3: So a touch base on that. But it's gonna heat up, mate,

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Speaker 3: It's coming. It is coming. Three hundred and twenty one

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Speaker 3: draft prospects are gonna flock to Indianapolis. Obviously, the medical

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Speaker 3: players will be running, some of them won't. Some of

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Speaker 3: the top players will be throwing, some of them won't.

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Speaker 3: As far as what we're looking at with the fifteenth

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Speaker 3: overall pick, Shane Stike, in his second year going in

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Speaker 3: obviously has a handle on this offense, and he put

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Speaker 3: up numbers last year. What are we expecting like these

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Speaker 3: the NFL Combine, specifically as far as the front office

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Speaker 3: goes Chris Ballard, Chainstichen and what they're going to do.

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Speaker 3: As far as that fifteenth pick.

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Speaker 4: Well, I want to see and hear how good these

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Speaker 4: quarterbacks are, because the Colts are rooting for quarterbacks galore

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Speaker 4: to go off the board early and often in this draft.

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Speaker 4: As they sit with the fifteenth pick. The more quarterbacks

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Speaker 4: the better non quarterback talent that will be pushed down

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Speaker 4: to number fifteen for the Colts as they build around

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Speaker 4: their quarterback and Anthony Richardson, I've seen up to five

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Speaker 4: quarterbacks go in the top fifteen and looking forward to

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Speaker 4: talking with a lot of the draft knicks who study

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Speaker 4: this stuff every single day. But to me, Jeffrey, that

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Speaker 4: the combine is always the flipping of the page. Right

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Speaker 4: the Super Bowl is over, It's officially now on to

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Speaker 4: next season. Twenty twenty four is here, and now it's

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Speaker 4: about setting up the draft and how you're going to

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Speaker 3: Colts announced earlier in the week that change stike In

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Speaker 3: and general manager Chris Ballard, we'll be speaking to the media.

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Speaker 3: That's the first time since the season loss. Mayte. What

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Speaker 4: Well, with Chris, I mean, he's obviously going to be

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Speaker 4: asked about some of the free agents, and it's a

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Speaker 4: for Michael Pittman Junior to ensure he doesn't hit the

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Speaker 4: curious about curious I should say about how the Colts

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Speaker 4: view the end of the season and how close they

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Speaker 4: feel they are to really contending in the AFC. We've

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Speaker 4: talked about this, jeffreed. The conference has sixteen teams in it,

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Speaker 3: And you talked about the free agents, which is a

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Speaker 3: You hear some of these big deals going down and

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Speaker 3: but the crumbs of big, major deals start at the combine,

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Speaker 3: the hall of different general managers and we're.

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Speaker 2: Saying GM's agents.

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Speaker 3: You got a receiver, I need a receiver, et cetera.

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Speaker 3: You got a defensive tackle. I want a defensive tackle.

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Speaker 3: That's what I'm looking forward to get the juices flowing

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that would qualify as tampering, but I think there's

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Speaker 2: Right, because that.

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Speaker 4: Trade last year with Carolina and Chicago happened the week

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Speaker 4: after the combine. So don't sit here and tell me

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Speaker 4: that you didn't have whispers of that here in Indianapolis

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Speaker 4: That all happened here in the Circle City the crumbs,

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Speaker 4: as you said.

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Speaker 3: Fair enough, It's all happening next week and again the

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Speaker 3: Colts Audio Network is going to bring you a lot

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Speaker 3: of interviews talking about your Colts with some of the

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Speaker 3: the NFL big heads around the league that are gonna

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Speaker 3: Colts Audio Network as well as Colts dot Com. We

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Speaker 3: come back more combine talk. We're gonna do that with

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Speaker 3: ESPN NFL insider Field Yates. We're gonna get his thoughts

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Speaker 3: on the Coats potential for twenty twenty four, Anthony richardson

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Speaker 3: coming back for a sophomore season and what he thinks

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Speaker 3: of this AFC South and the rich quarterback play that

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Speaker 3: we're seeing that we haven't seen for years. On end, Hey,

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Speaker 3: here we go, Field Yates coming up after this. This

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Speaker 1: This is the last words with Jeffrey Gorman and Matt

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

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Speaker 3: Matt Taylor a closet rock set of fan. No no, no, no, no, no,

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Speaker 3: no, no no no. Welcome back, folks.

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Speaker 4: I heard this at the Dentis office this week buying groceries.

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Speaker 3: You hear about set This is their last word.

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Speaker 3: Hey you sing along? Everybody knows a terrible song. Not

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Speaker 3: going to see Rocks at this weekend if they're in town.

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Speaker 3: And that's just me though. Hey, we're the last word,

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Speaker 3: every moment more coming up now, I tell you why

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Speaker 3: I like this guy. We're gonna bring in Field Yates

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Speaker 3: because Field you look like you're having fun. That's why

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Speaker 3: I like cover our following you and all the coverage

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Speaker 3: you give up the NFL because you absolutely just you

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Speaker 5: Oh.

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Speaker 6: I appreciate you saying that very kind. And I tell

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Speaker 6: for a living. No doubt we can't have fun that

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Speaker 6: I think we're doing things the wrong way because football

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Speaker 6: and that means that every day on the calendar we

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Speaker 3: You're absolutely right. Let's continue to enjoy ourselves. The mock

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Speaker 3: at number one. You've got the Bears taking Caleb Williams

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Speaker 3: from usc What does that mean in your eyes for

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Speaker 3: Justin Fields as far as where he can end up.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I think it means he's traded. And I think

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Speaker 6: of like the Sam Darnold deal a few years ago

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Speaker 6: not saying that deal aged well for Carolina, but you're

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Speaker 6: looking for sort of a real estate comparison, and that's

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Speaker 6: one of the closer ones for this Justin Field situation

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Speaker 6: right now. If it happens after the draft has begun

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Speaker 6: we need an option at quarterback, and Justin might be

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Speaker 6: our best option. But you guys also are very unlikely

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Speaker 6: to carry Justin and Caleb Williams going forward. As a

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Speaker 3: That's Field the eights from ESPN. I want to jut down.

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Speaker 3: Let's go to the middle of the draft. The Indianapolis

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Speaker 3: Colts your pick, and I've got to ask you a

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Speaker 3: mock draft comes out, and I said, what big offensive

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Speaker 3: weapon does Field have us taken? With Anthony Richardson in

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Speaker 3: the mix, and it comes up, it's Terry and Arnold,

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Speaker 3: a cornerback from Alabama? Do we not Field? Don't you

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Speaker 3: think that this hierarchy here. This front office wants to

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Speaker 3: put some of those shiny, big offensive pieces around someone

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Speaker 6: Yeah, it certainly would help. And it's an interesting sort

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Speaker 6: of dilemma here, debate here, because, as you know better

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Speaker 6: need to be careful because the schedule the Colts faced

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Speaker 6: as far as quarterbacks are concerned, last year was different

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Speaker 6: because you know, there are so many good quarterbacks in

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Speaker 6: that Terry and Arnold would help fortify that secondary for

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Speaker 6: a long long time. A terrific fast rising player from

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Speaker 6: this past season had five interceptions twelve past breakups, kind

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Speaker 6: of has the proverbial nose for the football very tough

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Speaker 6: And Terry and Arnold for playing for Nick Saban, your

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Speaker 4: What about Gardner Minshew? What's he looking at in free agency? Because,

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Speaker 3: Let's go up to New England for a second second question. First,

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Speaker 2: Is that what's.

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Speaker 6: So if I'm New England, my approach is this, whichever

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Speaker 6: because this is about opportunity cost. Teams hope to have

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Speaker 2: Doubt about that.

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Speaker 2: There.

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Speaker 4: What about in the AFC South, you had the Jaguars

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Speaker 6: Is not to pay them thirty million dollars per year, Right,

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Speaker 6: That's not what Trevor Lawrence would sign for. We're talking

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Speaker 3: at field Yates on Twitter X. Can't wait to see

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Speaker 3: you next week down at the Combine and again, keep

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Speaker 3: up the great work. You're one of the best in

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Speaker 6: Field, Hey, taking this all good by me. I look

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Speaker 6: forward to seeing you next week there in Indy and.

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Speaker 3: App you heard it, they say, you're gonna make me smarter.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, Field Yates for joining us.

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Speaker 2: Hey, I played arize your stuff. How about that? We'll

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Speaker 2: see you next week.

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Speaker 3: Just come out and say it to him rather than

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Speaker 3: just say hey, did you Hey, don't forget. You can

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Speaker 3: listen to that as well as a whole lot more

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Speaker 3: of the latest off Coult's information on the Colts Audio Network,

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Speaker 3: featuring the weekly Official Colts podcast. While you're there, check

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Speaker 3: out the free agency previews. These are great done it

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Speaker 3: with several key in house free agents the Colts have

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Speaker 3: such as Gardner, Minshew Grover Stewart, Kenny Moore, and Michael

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Speaker 3: Pittman Junior. Have you guys seen this Michael Pittman Junior thing.

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Speaker 3: He's a farmer. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I had no idea. I saw it on social media.

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Speaker 4: He tough forklift out the Yeah, yeah, he's feeding the

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Speaker 4: hogs and the horses pitman.

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Speaker 2: I is tough.

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Speaker 3: No idea that he had that in him. I was like,

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Speaker 3: my gosh, it's a working farm he's got out there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he loves his horses, man, Okay.

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Speaker 3: And some livestock out there. Anyway, we're talking about the Colts.

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Speaker 2: Audio and he's out there early too.

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Speaker 4: The sun is not even up and it's cold out

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Speaker 4: there this time about after it's in Indianapolis.

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Speaker 3: What about this. He has a one o'clock game. They

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Speaker 3: get done about four thirty. He's home by five. He

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Speaker 3: some yard work.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's got a tough schedule, man, he really does.

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Speaker 3: Edmond June, Jack of all Trades, great job. Tip of

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Speaker 3: the hat, t You did not know you had that

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Speaker 3: in you. Anyway. It's at the Colts Audio Network. Everything's

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Speaker 3: to give you the Forum Credit Union Question of the Week,

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Speaker 3: and we are going to bring in mister Casey Value

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Speaker 3: for this segment we love to call come on, Casey.

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Speaker 3: He's got a bunch of useless facts and he's gonna

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Speaker 3: try and stump us all that and a whole lot

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Speaker 3: more right here on ninety three five and one oh

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Speaker 3: seven five the fan.

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Speaker 7: Well, I think it starts with the partnerships that we

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Speaker 7: have here locally with visiting the IU Health, the Crown Plaza,

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Speaker 7: and then really aside from that, what the city has

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Speaker 7: done to develop the infrastructure downtown. You know, the ability

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Speaker 7: for thirty two teams and three hundred and twenty one

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Speaker 7: players in sixteen hundred media to come into Indianapolis stay downtown,

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Speaker 7: but to be able to access the venues inside. You know,

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Speaker 7: we've got great restaurants and the city just continues to

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Speaker 7: impress with their developments. You know, we have a new

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Speaker 7: construction project going on downtown with the hotels, which might

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Speaker 7: make this year a little bit dusty, but down the

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Speaker 7: road we're going to have even more space to do

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Speaker 7: more things with the event. So there's a reason that

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Speaker 7: we've been here since nineteen eighty seven, and you know,

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Speaker 7: we're excited to that the league committed to twenty twenty

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Speaker 7: five in Indianapolis with an option in twenty six and

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Speaker 7: we all know there'll be other cities coming in to

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Speaker 7: look at the event and bid the event, but I

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Speaker 7: won't be surprised if it stays in Indianapolis for another

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Speaker 7: thirty years.

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Speaker 1: This is your weekly fix on Colts football, The Last

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Speaker 1: Word with Jeffrey Gorman and Matt Taylor from the Indiana

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Speaker 1: Union Construction Industry radio studio.

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Speaker 3: We just heard from Jeff Foster, president of National Football Scouting,

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Speaker 3: the man who puts on the NFL Combine, on why

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Speaker 3: Indianapolis continues to host the NFL Combine. May Te as

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Speaker 3: long as it is going, he's going to stay right here.

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Speaker 3: They do it right downtown. The medical staff included, the

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Speaker 3: host committee, everything you want to throw into it. There'll

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Speaker 3: be no better city to host this NFL Combine.

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Speaker 2: Talk about that right here.

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Speaker 4: You talk about convenience, it's non cumbersome. You know, bigger

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Speaker 4: markets cannot duplicate what Indianapolis does. And Jeff mentioned the

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Speaker 4: buy in, the community involvement to make it work.

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Speaker 3: of your Indianapolis Colts and proud sponsor of hundreds of

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Speaker 3: local sports teams across the Midwest. Time now for the

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Speaker 3: Forum Credit Union question of the week, and we also

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Speaker 3: bring in our friend Casey Value for this one. The

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Speaker 3: NFL franchise tag. Are you doing today, by the way,

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Speaker 3: I'm doing good.

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Speaker 8: You're good, I'm good. Thanks for having me again.

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Speaker 3: Sell bring a little life to me.

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Speaker 8: Try it.

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Speaker 5: I'm trying. You already told me before. Hey, you look

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Speaker 5: like you're dead somorrow. I'm trying to bring it up.

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Speaker 2: Friday nights.

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Speaker 3: Good. It's always looking good. Okay, here we go. NFL

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Speaker 3: Franchise Tag window it is open, remains open through four

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Speaker 3: pm on March the fifth is when it'll close. In

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Speaker 3: that time, teams are allowed to place franchise tag on

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Speaker 3: the player whose scheduled become an unrestricted free agent when

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Speaker 3: the new NFL league year begins on March thirteenth. The

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Speaker 3: last time the Colts use a franchise tag we say

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Speaker 3: this every year twenty thirteen. It was with McAfee the punter.

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Speaker 3: The Colts have had the second longest streak of not

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Speaker 3: using the franchise tag in the NFL. They are second

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Speaker 3: behind which NFL team as far as the longest street

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Speaker 3: of not using the franchise time.

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Speaker 8: I'm gonna go ahead and pass on to that on

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Speaker 8: this one.

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Speaker 3: Good call, Casey.

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Speaker 2: The Patriots.

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Speaker 3: No, no, it's funny. I'm telling you. There's one team

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Speaker 3: and I'll tell you what. Shane Steiken knows them very well.

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Speaker 3: It's those Philadelphia Eagles. They last used it in twenty

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Speaker 3: twelve to tag this wide receiver and I'll.

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Speaker 8: Just say Sean Jackson.

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Speaker 3: There it is speed Merchant by Sean Jackson twenty twelve.

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Speaker 8: Now top tier receivers at that time.

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Speaker 3: Good call case.

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Speaker 2: Like that Silver Linings playbook over there, remember that movie.

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Speaker 4: That's all I can remember from that movie is DeShawn

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Speaker 4: Jackson taking one of the house against the cowboy Bradley.

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Speaker 3: Cooper and everyone.

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Speaker 2: Good call Case.

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Speaker 3: Visit forum credit Union fan forum section at colts dot com.

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Speaker 3: Interact with other fans online, post a topic, participate in

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Speaker 3: discussions regarding your Colt's forum credit Union helping members live

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Speaker 3: their financial dreams. Casey, I love this segment. It's called

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Speaker 3: come on, Casey, what are you talking about? What are

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Speaker 3: you talking about?

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, who cares?

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Speaker 3: Casey? Make this good because if we don't get it,

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Speaker 3: here's the bad news and good news. If we get this,

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Speaker 3: which I think we're going to maybe get this thing

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Speaker 3: and say I heard that before and be honest, Mayte,

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Speaker 3: then you have to buy Shapiro's next week while we're downtown.

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Speaker 2: Oh man, I mean the line.

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Speaker 8: I mean, at least we're getting Shapiro's.

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Speaker 3: If if you if we don't get it, which is

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Speaker 3: probably gonna happen, don't worry, I'll buy you Shapiro's.

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Speaker 5: Okay, So we're getting Shapiro's. That's you know, hey, I'm

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Speaker 5: sure with it.

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Speaker 4: Jeff winner loss, he's getting a ham On right regardless,

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Speaker 4: they're gonna win win case.

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Speaker 3: What do you got for?

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Speaker 5: So this one is for Jeffrey Matt and I remember

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Speaker 5: this earlier this week. You came in and your countdown

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Speaker 5: was already ready for the Olympic Games.

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Speaker 8: You know how excited you are. They start in July.

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Speaker 5: So they're in Paris. It'll be the third time it'll

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Speaker 5: be in Paris. They're the second modern city to host

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Speaker 5: the Olympics for three times.

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Speaker 8: Can you name the other?

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Speaker 7: Shit?

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Speaker 3: Third time Paris is hosting it? And what's in another

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Speaker 3: country that's hosted it?

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Speaker 5: So London previously they were the other city to host

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Speaker 5: this three times. But I want to take you back

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Speaker 5: to one of the first times Paris hosted nineteen hundred,

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Speaker 5: they had two debut events that went one time and

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Speaker 5: were gone.

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Speaker 8: You tell me if they should have stuck around?

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Speaker 2: Okay, oh wow, here we go.

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Speaker 3: Okay.

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Speaker 8: So the first one, this might be my favorite.

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Speaker 2: Something no mule throwing.

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Speaker 5: It's called plunge for distance. So competitors stood on outside

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Speaker 5: of a pool. They dove in and they were supposed

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Speaker 5: to be as calm as they could to see how

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Speaker 5: far they would drift in the pool.

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Speaker 8: And whoever drifted the furthest.

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Speaker 3: One colds you take, I mean asleep.

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Speaker 4: So it's like a it's holding your breath, hold your

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Speaker 4: breath and any how long your drift will go.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, who's watching it?

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Speaker 2: Who thought of that? Right?

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Speaker 3: It's a very And you know underwater kicks were everywhere.

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Speaker 3: They didn't have.

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Speaker 2: Any cameras are kicking. There was no go pro in

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Speaker 2: like a pool.

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Speaker 5: Come on, what's another one? So the other one, it

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Speaker 5: is another sort of swim related. It's called the obstacle swim.

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Speaker 5: This was in the Olympics, the Olympics in nineteen hundred.

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Speaker 5: So what you had to do is you had to

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Speaker 5: climb over poles and boats and then you had to

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Speaker 5: jump into the water and swim under those boats and

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Speaker 5: poles for two hundred meters, so much like some people

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Speaker 5: would be doing after the Slippery Noodle.

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Speaker 2: It sounds like the four.

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Speaker 5: That's That's what I'm getting at is I think the

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Speaker 5: guy who came up with both of those, he was

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Speaker 5: a drunk guy who's like, here's a great.

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Speaker 2: Idea that's better than speed walking. Speed Walking is still.

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Speaker 8: Break Dancing makes its debut this year.

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Speaker 3: And Brake Dance Shimmer forer dead one of the leaders

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Speaker 3: in three out of three he is their favorite.

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Speaker 2: So Gus Macker is now.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, bring back up. I loved Gus Mack.

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Speaker 3: Bring back man.

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Speaker 2: That's honest.

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Speaker 3: Hey, coach fans, don't forget NFL Combine coming up. Here's

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Speaker 3: a little tidbit for you. Go to nfl dot com

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Speaker 3: slash Combine Access. You can get tickets to go down

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Speaker 3: there and see the NFL Combine in person. May take

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Speaker 3: give me a final thought on the weekend, will you.

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Speaker 2: I'm gotta go girl, boy girl, may see what do

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Speaker 2: you got?

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Speaker 8: I got nothing? Clearly, Jeffrey's ready to go home. May

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Speaker 8: what do you say?

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Speaker 4: We're done at seven girls basketball? Tomorrow I'm on the

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Speaker 4: three A game on radio.

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Speaker 3: Are you going, Oh that a boy? Listen to our

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Speaker 3: burial Mate Boys and the Colts. He's everywhere. Appreciate the

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Speaker 3: fun guys. Thanks to Field Yates and Jeff Foster. Today

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Speaker 3: we do it every Friday night, and don't forget check

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Speaker 3: us out all next week on Colts dot Com and

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Speaker 3: the Colts Audio Network, bringing you the tidbits and things

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