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Speaker 1: This is Instant Game Reaction, an immediate look back at

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Speaker 1: the Colts latest game and trying to make it. Adjusting

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Speaker 1: on the fall, they spot called climboty catch it and

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Speaker 1: they rubbles across the door line. Touchdown up forty two yards,

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Speaker 1: Taylor he said touchdown in d Why Jonathan Taylor. Now

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Speaker 1: here's your host, JJ Stankovitz from Colts dot Com. Everyone.

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Speaker 1: Welcome into another episode of Colts Instant Reaction here on

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Speaker 1: the Colts Audio Network. I'm JJ Stankovitz, joined every week

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Speaker 1: by Colts Ring of Honor. Remember Bill Brooks as we

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Speaker 1: break down the Colts latest game. Bill this one. In

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Speaker 1: Week seventeen, a thirty eight to ten loss to the

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Speaker 1: New York Giants. The Giants clinch a spot in the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: The Colts head back to Indianapolis with a four eleven

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Speaker 1: and one record. You know, talking to guys after the game,

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Speaker 1: there are a lot of just guys who they're not

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Speaker 1: beaten down by the season because the effort is still good,

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Speaker 1: but you know, I almost felt bad Bill going back

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Speaker 1: I feel like I've talked to after every game, you know,

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Speaker 1: Zaire Franklin, Paris Campbell, Ryan Kelly, these guys who have

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Speaker 1: been absolute pros in talking to the media and answering

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Speaker 1: questions after games that have been just kind of confoundingly

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Speaker 1: poor for this team. Just the starting point here in

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Speaker 1: this game, Bill, I think, is, you know, the Colts

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Speaker 1: offense again, they they have plays that you know, they

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Speaker 1: something bad happens. You know, there's a turnover, there's a

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Speaker 1: an incompletion, something that gets them off schedule. This team

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Speaker 1: just has not found an offense of rhythm really since

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Speaker 1: I think probably that first half in Dallas of that game.

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Speaker 1: But it's just it's it's been so difficult for this

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Speaker 1: it feels like one more game left, maybe that's an

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Speaker 1: for this team in twenty twenty two. Yeah, it might not.

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Speaker 1: I mean, as you've talked about their how the offense

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Speaker 1: the next drive pick six interception, So they couldn't get

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Speaker 1: it's hard to win football games that way because you're

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Speaker 1: not consistent. And you know, we've talked about this before.

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Speaker 1: When you have eleven guys out there and one guy

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Speaker 1: it makes it very difficult to go down there and

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Speaker 1: He's one game away from that. He's only played fewer

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