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

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Speaker 1: and one oh seven five the Fan Taylor Big Run.

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Speaker 1: He's inside the Red Song.

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Speaker 2: He's trek down from behind down to the nineteen yard line.

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

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Speaker 2: Ten good five but touchdown for the Colts. How foun

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Speaker 2: an Indian Apple's cars on a plot cut settles influence

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Speaker 2: a downfield and it is clicked off by the Colts.

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Speaker 3: We're running the.

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Speaker 4: Other way with it.

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Speaker 5: Now.

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Speaker 1: Here's the voice of the Colts, Matt Taylor from the

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Speaker 1: Indiana Union Construction Industry Radio Studio.

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Speaker 2: Good evening, Thanks for joining in tonight. This is Colts

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Speaker 2: you until seven o'clock tonight. Coming up in just a

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Speaker 2: few minutes, I'll be joined by head coach Shane Steichen

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Speaker 2: to recap the big win over the Raiders, and we'll

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Speaker 2: also look ahead to the win and in week eighteen

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Speaker 2: game against the Houston. That's a Saturday night game, by

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Speaker 2: the way, And also I'll be joined by Colts analysts

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Speaker 2: Rick Venturi and Joe Wrights later on in the program.

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Speaker 2: They'll take your social media question tonight as well, using

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Speaker 2: But the Colts were victorious on Sunday. They knocked off

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Speaker 2: the Raiders twenty three to twenty to improve to nine

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Speaker 2: and seven, and the Colts have now won six of

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Speaker 2: their last eight and they are assured a winning record

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Speaker 2: here in twenty twenty three with a victory in week seventeen.

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Speaker 2: The game is more than forty eight hours old, so

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Speaker 2: we don't need to spend a lot of time recapping

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Speaker 2: all the details. But the Colts topped the Raiders by

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Speaker 2: playing some clean football. The Colts had no turnovers, they

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Speaker 2: allowed only one sack for the game in Indianapolis used

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Speaker 2: some big plays to open up some things on offense.

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Speaker 2: Gardner Minshew completed two passes of at least fifty yards,

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Speaker 2: including a fifty eight yard touchdown to Alec Pearce in

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Speaker 2: the second quarter, which was his longest reception of his career.

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Speaker 2: Jonathan Taylor carried the ball twenty one times for a

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Speaker 2: season high ninety six yards found the end zone the

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Speaker 2: first drive of the game. That touchdown for Taylor meant

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Speaker 2: that he passed Edgern James and Lenny Moore for the

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Speaker 2: fifth most points by a Colts player in their first

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Speaker 2: four seasons. Michael Pittman Junior returned after missing the week

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Speaker 2: before in Atlanta with a concussion. He came back caught

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Speaker 2: five passes for forty six yards, and in the process,

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Speaker 2: he eclipsed one hundred catches for the season and established

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Speaker 2: a new single season career high. He also became the

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Speaker 2: fourth player in franchise history to catch one hundred passes

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Speaker 2: in a season, joining Dallas Clark, Marvin Harrison, and Reggie Wayne.

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Speaker 2: And he's also the first Colts player at itally one

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Speaker 2: back in twenty twelve. On defense, Sire Franklin racked up

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Speaker 2: some milestones. Two he notched his twenty first career ten

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Speaker 2: plus tackle game that's good for the third most in

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Speaker 2: most ten plus tackle games in a single season in

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Speaker 2: the season, and he also passed his own record for

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Speaker 2: the most tackles in singles season franchise history. Last year,

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Speaker 2: he had one hundred and sixty six tackles in seventeen games.

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Speaker 2: This year, he's over that mark and only fifteen games played.

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Speaker 2: So the win for the Colts sets up a huge

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Speaker 2: win and you're in lose and go home game against

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Speaker 2: the Texans on Saturday Night. If the Colts win, they're

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Speaker 2: assured at least a wild card spot. However, the Colts

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Speaker 2: on Sunday. The Colts cannot make the playoffs with a loss.

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Speaker 2: There's no scenario that puts the Colts in the postseason

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Speaker 2: makes the big game essentially a playoff game. The winner

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Speaker 2: week two in Houston. All right, we are stocked in

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Speaker 2: Shane Stichen, presented by Citizens Energy Group, and we recorded

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Speaker 2: the following conversation on Monday in New Year's Date, despite

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Speaker 2: started the talk asking coach Stike and how pleased he

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it was huge coming off a loss like that

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Speaker 4: a you know, must win situation and just to see

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Speaker 4: the fight, like you said, from our players, to find

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Speaker 4: a way to win that game was big.

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Speaker 2: You had two big plays on offense to spark things,

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Speaker 2: two fifty yard completions, including a fifty eight yarder for

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Speaker 2: and what do those completions do to open up the

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they were big.

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Speaker 4: I mean, anytime you can create the explosive plays in

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Speaker 4: third and one to Aleck hitting that shot there was huge.

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Speaker 4: And anytime you can create those close to plays, like

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the touchdown to Pierce came on a third and

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Speaker 2: the deep shot? Dial that up to Alec Pierce.

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Speaker 4: the call that we had up and we got to

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Speaker 2: Good, no doubt about that. And you also ran the

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think we just you know, we found some holes,

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Speaker 4: found some creases, and you know, the line blocked well.

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Speaker 4: Backs ran hard. J T ran hard, Tray ran hard,

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think just the consistency that he brings to

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Speaker 2: Yeah, switching over to the defense, you mixed up some

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Speaker 2: All right, let's go back to the offense. You seem

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Speaker 2: touchdowns on the opening possession, hearing back to back games,

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Speaker 2: forty eight points on your opening possessions this season. How

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Speaker 2: There and ran it good all right elsewhere. Braden Smith

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Speaker 1: It was awesome.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the defense did a really good job both in

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Speaker 2: How did you feel the defense bounce back in terms

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Speaker 4: They did a really, really good job. You know, we shoot,

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Speaker 4: we held in the thirteen points all the way until

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Speaker 4: you know, that final drive, which was really awesome to see.

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Speaker 4: I think when you do that and you got to

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Speaker 4: You know, obviously they get pass in some passing situations.

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Speaker 4: But I thought the defense stepped up big for us defensively.

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Speaker 2: I know you don't like to talk about individual guys

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Speaker 2: a lot, but if I can just talk about Taekwon

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Speaker 2: Lewis a little bit. He had a sack, he had

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Speaker 2: a tackle for loss. He is an incredibly efficient player

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Speaker 2: in that he doesn't get a lot of run. I

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Speaker 2: think he's he's playing about forty percent of the snaps

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Speaker 2: this year, but he's just always making a big impact

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Speaker 2: whenever he's on the field. How much of this team's

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Speaker 2: success is built on players like Taekwon Lewis.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, No, it's awesome to have Taekwon what he's been

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Speaker 4: he's made this year. Just that veteran leader that we

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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, Week eighteen winning you're in lose and go home.

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Speaker 2: It's now time to welcome in Rick vent Turrey, and

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Speaker 2: Joe writes to the program on this January second, Joe,

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Speaker 3: Likewise, happy New Year, and it's an exciting day, Colts fans.

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Speaker 3: We with the Flex game Saturday. You think about this

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Speaker 2: That's right, the next time the Colts lose or the

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I want to congratulate the coach. Really yesterday on

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Speaker 5: I mean, we pounded it out. You know. JT was

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Speaker 5: four to six and sermon, you know, did really well

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Speaker 5: when he came in. You know, Taylor's a premier player

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Speaker 5: and he showed it. Minshew has so overproduced expectations. We

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Speaker 5: would not be in this position without him. There's no

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Speaker 5: doubt in my mind. He's gone from a game manager

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Speaker 5: to a playmaker. His athleticism and escapability is outstanding. The

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Speaker 5: two plays to downs and really the play to Pierce

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Speaker 5: is also big time from beginning to end, you know.

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Speaker 5: And again those explosive plays not only led to the

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Speaker 5: touchdowns and points, but they also loosened up the Raiders

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Speaker 5: for that running game, you know. And again right now

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Speaker 5: today he is number eleven in the league in QBR,

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Speaker 5: So I don't want anybody to tell me that he's

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Speaker 5: a backup quarterback, you know. And then I'm going to

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Speaker 5: give a shout out to two guys up front. I

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Speaker 5: thought Nelson was tremendous. I thought in that you know,

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Speaker 5: when we get in that four minute drill, we put

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Speaker 5: that ball to our left. And then Moe ali Cox

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Speaker 5: was really special in this one. A great job to

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Speaker 5: those two guys.

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Speaker 1: Mo.

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Speaker 5: They used him a lot of different ways. We ran

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Speaker 5: leads with grants and we ran whams with him, power traps,

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Speaker 5: we tossed, cracked it to get outside. We did a

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Speaker 5: lot of the things that Joe and I have been

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Speaker 5: talking about and not forcing that ball inside all day,

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Speaker 5: and it was excellent. The defense. The best thing I

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Speaker 5: can say is they did enough. They did enough, and

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Speaker 5: they did do the number one thing. There's two components

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Speaker 5: you had to stop. Basically, they did the first one.

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Speaker 5: They controlled the running game at eighty four to three,

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Speaker 5: you know, eighty four yards and three point four and

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Speaker 5: that was a huge component. And then number two, as usual,

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Speaker 5: they made a king out of Adams thirteen catches one

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Speaker 5: twenty six, which is a little bit mind boggling to me.

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Speaker 5: It is mind boggling. I agree with Joe that O'Connell

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Speaker 5: can throw for four eight yards last week and a

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Speaker 5: fifty passer rating and can come up and throw for

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Speaker 5: two ninety nine two, you know, and two tds and

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Speaker 5: just shred us. I mean, the only thing that's scary

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Speaker 5: to me is that in the last four weeks we've

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Speaker 5: been shredded in terms of we've just given up volumes

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Speaker 5: of yardage. Uh, you know, with three guys that are

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Speaker 5: definitely backup quarterbacks definitely not Lway, Marino and Manning. And

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Speaker 5: that is concerning. And I'm gonna just touch on it

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Speaker 5: one more time. If we continue to give free access

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Speaker 5: to receivers, that means no press, let guys open, and

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Speaker 5: no match zones underneath, you're gonna concede volumes of yardage

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Speaker 5: and you're gonna make average, which we have average QB's monster.

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Speaker 5: You know. The irony is when we played press coverage,

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Speaker 5: we had like five PBUs and Brent's really was great.

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Speaker 5: He had three of them. And Brents's two plays in

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Speaker 5: the red zone with five minutes to go, he makes

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Speaker 5: two plays on Adams, of which he gets PBUs and really, Matt,

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Speaker 5: that's the ballgame because he forced three points there. If

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Speaker 5: they get seven, they're knocking at the door. Again. They

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Speaker 5: were game savers. And I'm just bringing it up because

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Speaker 5: I don't believe for one second that we have a quarterback,

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Speaker 5: that we have a cornerback narrative, that we can't do

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Speaker 5: things because they're young. That's crap. Give these kids a chance.

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Speaker 5: You know, if stubborn us, stubborn us in this past

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Speaker 5: concession scheme is going to put a ceiling on us

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Speaker 5: if we're not careful. Joe mentioned it before. Stroud will

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Speaker 5: be challenging to say the least he was. He was

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Speaker 5: seventy five percent last week. You know. He completed thirty

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Speaker 5: for three eighty five against us in game one, you know,

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Speaker 5: and we're now number twenty seven in points giving up

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Speaker 5: and number twenty four total defense. That is the reality.

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Speaker 5: And yet we have excellent talent there. I'm not saying

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Speaker 5: that to hurt anybody. I'm saying that to be helpful.

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Speaker 5: Fix that indeed.

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Speaker 2: and always they're burning reactions after the Colts beat the

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Speaker 2: Raiders on Sunday to jump up to nine and seven.

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Speaker 2: And when we come back, we're gonna talk about those

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Speaker 2: areas that have to show up for the Colts on

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Speaker 2: Saturday night in a week eighteen, have to have type

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Speaker 2: of game against the Houston Texans, it's a must win game.

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Speaker 2: And what areas must show up for the Colts in

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Speaker 2: the regular season finale in order to make the playoffs.

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Speaker 2: Matt Taylor. We're back in just a moment here on

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Speaker 2: I'm Matt Taylor, and we're gonna talk about gotta have

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Speaker 2: it areas for success in a gotta have it game

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Speaker 2: for the Colts in Week eighteen. The Colts can still

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Speaker 2: win the AFC South by beating the Texans next Sunday

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Speaker 2: or Saturday night, i should say, and the Jaguars losing

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Speaker 2: to Tennessee on Sunday. Now, the Colts cannot make the

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Speaker 2: playoffs with the loss to the Texans. So that means

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Speaker 2: the playoffs start Saturday night for the Colts because the

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Speaker 2: next time they lose, this season is over. So let's

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Speaker 2: discuss some areas that have to show up against Houston

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Speaker 2: in order to win, and let's rate them by degree. Fellas,

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Speaker 2: you have three options, all right, You've got roasting, which

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Speaker 2: means it has to show up. You've got lukewarm, which

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Speaker 2: means it would be nice to have, and then you

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Speaker 2: have at room temperature and that equates to Yeah, you

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Speaker 2: don't necessarily need it. So let's lead off with playing

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Speaker 2: clean football. Against the Raiders, the Colts had no turnovers

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Speaker 2: for the fifth time this year. The Colts are five

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Speaker 2: to zero in those games Indianapolis, by the way, eight

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Speaker 2: and three this season when they have one or fewer

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Speaker 2: turnovers on offense. Meanwhile, the Texans, they're plus eight in

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Speaker 2: the turnover differential this season, which is tied for fourth

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Speaker 2: going into this game in Week eighteen. So Joe rate

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Speaker 2: it for us the importance of Gardner Minshew and the

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Speaker 2: Colts offense playing a clean game next weekend and week eighteen?

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Speaker 2: Are you roasting lukewarm or room temperature? Where are you at?

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Speaker 3: Oh, it's roasting for sure. We got to play clean football.

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Speaker 3: That's the identity of this team. We're not the most

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Speaker 3: offensively explosive team, and I think when we play complimentary

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Speaker 3: football we don't turn the ball over, we're gonna put

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Speaker 3: ourselves in a really good chance to win. No turnovers.

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Speaker 3: Yesterday we did have the fumble with Taylor, but Pittman boy,

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Speaker 3: he was on it, and we haven't mentioned his name

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Speaker 3: yet today. I know we had five catches, but just

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Speaker 3: his presence out there right there getting on the football,

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Speaker 3: his blocking on the perimeter here, that big block on

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Speaker 3: the Sermon run. I mean, it was so great that

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Speaker 3: Pittman back. But yeah, Matt, I agree, it's roasting for

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Speaker 3: us to play a clean game. And penalties too. We

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Speaker 3: only had five now, but we had that killer fourth

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Speaker 3: and fifteen on the punter, roughing the punter that gave

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Speaker 3: him that first down. Those are the type of plays

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Speaker 3: that'll come back and those things will bite you in

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Speaker 3: a football game, especially in the playoffs.

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Speaker 2: All right, so Joe's going roasting. Where are you at Rick?

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Speaker 5: Oh Man, I'm roasting to death here. You know, there's

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Speaker 5: no doubt about it. I mean, first of all, do

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Speaker 5: you know in my history, there's only been one team

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Speaker 5: that has won a championship with a you know, with

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Speaker 5: a negative turnover ratio, and that was the showing turf

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Speaker 5: the rams. That's an anomaly. It just doesn't happen. Championship

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Speaker 5: teams take care of the football and take it away.

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Speaker 5: And you know, when you look at this game, agree

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Speaker 5: with Joe. We're not gonna get forty and we're gonna

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Speaker 5: give up points. So this is gonna be a tight,

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Speaker 5: one possession game. That is gonna come down to the end,

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Speaker 5: and it's gonna be the team that plays clean, that

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Speaker 5: doesn't give the other guy an opportunity. And then, as

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Speaker 5: Joe asked me before the game, the team and this

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Speaker 5: goes along with that penalty. It's always turnovers and special

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Speaker 5: teams in game and championship games like this that makes

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Speaker 5: the difference. The team that stays in advantage and doesn't

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Speaker 5: give the other team any advantage at all.

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Speaker 2: All right, stay right there, Rick Venturi, Joe Wright, sim

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Speaker 2: Matt Taylor. We're talking about gotta have it aspects of

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Speaker 2: the Colts and Texans, and I gotta have type game

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Speaker 2: and Week eight team with the playoffs on the line

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Speaker 2: between Indianapolis and Houston, let's talk about the deep show

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Speaker 2: against the Raiders. The Colts completed three passes of at

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Speaker 2: least twenty, including two of at least fifty. The biggest

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Speaker 2: play was the fifty eight yarder to Alec Pierce in

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Speaker 2: the second quarter for a touchdown, but Gardner Minshew ended

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Speaker 2: up completing fifteen of twenty three passes for two twenty four.

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Speaker 2: But the two big throws made the biggest difference in

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Speaker 2: that game. Now the Texans, they've allowed fifty six pass

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Speaker 2: plays over twenty which is tied for the sixth most

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Speaker 2: in the NFL going into this last game of the season.

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Speaker 2: So rick for you. The importance of the Colts getting

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Speaker 2: their chunk plays against the Texans, or at least dialing

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Speaker 2: them up to change what the Texans want to do

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Speaker 2: on defense. Are we talking roasting lukewarm or room temperature

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Speaker 2: going into the regular season finale?

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Speaker 5: I am roasting until I've burned the house down here,

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Speaker 5: and I've been talking about it all year. I mean,

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Speaker 5: you have to be able to win on the outside,

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Speaker 5: and they're you know, I think Atlanta was the closest,

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Speaker 5: to be honest with you, And in terms of having

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Speaker 5: two three shutdown corners on the outside, I think Atlanta

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Speaker 5: was the best we've seen. Everyone has at least one

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Speaker 5: in some cases like this week that we played. You know,

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Speaker 5: they had two corners that you could get after, and

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Speaker 5: basically you have to get after him. You have to

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Speaker 5: take your shots. Joe will tell you it's next to

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Speaker 5: one possible to consistently drive eighty yards without a mistake,

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Speaker 5: without something happening, to be flawless, without getting behind the point.

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Speaker 5: You've got to be able to get chunk plays. We

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Speaker 5: got not only seventeen, we actually not only fourteen. On

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Speaker 5: two plays we ended up finishing with three a key

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Speaker 5: three on the pass interference to Pittman. So three plays,

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Speaker 5: three plays really got us twenty three twenty three points,

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Speaker 5: I mean seventeen points out of the twenty three. And

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Speaker 5: then the other thing, the hidden value is it loosens

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Speaker 5: them up all of a sudden, the safety's got to stretch.

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Speaker 5: Guys got to come off now, they got to get

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Speaker 5: out of it.

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Speaker 2: The running game.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, once you do.

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Speaker 5: That, that running game, and if you look at every

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Speaker 5: one of our best performances, they come with chunk plays

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Speaker 5: that usually happened early in the middle of the game,

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Speaker 5: and then the fourth the fourth quarter becomes devastating, like

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Speaker 5: it did. And you made a good point, and I

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Speaker 5: wonder I will say this later this week. The Texans

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Speaker 5: have always been shaky in giving up chunk plays, both

651
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Speaker 5: over the top because they're weak it right corner, and

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Speaker 5: then they don't they don't have good pursuit angles. They're

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Speaker 5: good defensive team right now, but they don't and they

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Speaker 5: give up a lot of big plays. So it is

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Speaker 5: it is so important to be able to loosen that

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Speaker 5: defense up Saturday night.

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Speaker 2: All right, hell hot are we Joe?

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Speaker 3: We're roasting too, Yeah, Coach. When I think about the Texans,

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Speaker 3: I think about t Y Hilton just running through the

660
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Speaker 3: back of that fence and that's throwing it over the top.

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Speaker 3: And I know it's a different team and different coach,

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Speaker 3: but I still think we can have that same type

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Speaker 3: of success. You know, Houston's giving up three point three

664
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Speaker 3: a carry. You can bet they're gonna Demico Right's gonna

665
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Speaker 3: try to load the box, and Taylor's not gonna beat us.

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Speaker 3: I agree, take some shots ear in the game. If

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Speaker 3: you hit him, awesome. If you don't, at a minimum,

668
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Speaker 3: at least you're loosening them up a little bit so

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Speaker 3: you can go and you could run the ball more effectively.

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Speaker 3: So I thought that, you know, Shane dialed up some

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Speaker 3: beautiful plays early on the game. The reason we were

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Speaker 3: up fourteen three and a half was those two big

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Speaker 3: pass plays. And as creative as an offensive mind as

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Speaker 3: he is, you know he's got some plays in his

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Speaker 3: back pocket too that he's saving for the right time,

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Speaker 3: and Saturday night prime time seems like a good time

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Speaker 3: to pull those puppies out.

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Speaker 2: Indeed, all right, we're talking gotta have it. Areas for

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Speaker 2: success for the Colts Week eighteen, Colts in Texans. Joe

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Speaker 2: Wright's rick Venturi. I'm Matt Taylor. This is Colts Round

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Speaker 2: Table Live Tonight, ninety three to five and one oh

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Speaker 2: seven five the fan. Let's close out by talking about

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Speaker 2: d line havoc as the Colts. They only had two

684
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Speaker 2: sacks on Aidan O'Connell on Sunday, but they were a

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Speaker 2: factor all game long against the Raiders. DeForrest Buckner was

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Speaker 2: dominant in the first half. He got to the quarterback

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Speaker 2: three times, sacked him once, and got plenty of help

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Speaker 2: from teammates. Sam an Ebacom utility man Taekwon Lewis had

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00:33:03,080 --> 00:33:05,080
Speaker 2: a great game. He had a sack and a tackle

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Speaker 2: for loss in that ball game. Now, that unit also

691
00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:11,040
Speaker 2: held the Raiders to just three and a half yards

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Speaker 2: per carry in under one hundred yards rushing after they

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Speaker 2: were gashed by the Falcons the week before. Joe, we

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Speaker 2: don't need to get into that, but that's the reality

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Speaker 2: of it here. So for you, Joe, the importance of

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00:33:21,680 --> 00:33:26,520
Speaker 2: a disruptive defensive line against the Texans this week Again,

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Speaker 2: your choices are roasting lukewarm or room temperature on how

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Speaker 2: important that is to show up in week eighteen for

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Speaker 2: the Colts.

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Speaker 3: No, this one's on fire. Crank the oven up as

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Speaker 3: hot as you can get it. Reality is Matt Stroud.

702
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Speaker 3: Stroud is a really good player and he's a really

703
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Speaker 3: accurate passer, and coach mentioned he was seventy five percent

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Speaker 3: last week. You know, he threw for almost four hundred

705
00:33:49,200 --> 00:33:52,840
Speaker 3: against us the first time. And the reality is we

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Speaker 3: got to be able to shut down their run game

707
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Speaker 3: just like we did AGAs Vegas, but then get after

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Speaker 3: the quarterback. We had six sacks the first time we

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Speaker 3: played him, and let's reintroduce ourselves to mister Stroud. I

710
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Speaker 3: think since that game, I know Houston's gotten better, but

711
00:34:05,480 --> 00:34:08,879
Speaker 3: so if we Dio is a completely different player, Abucom's

712
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Speaker 3: got even more confidence Taekwon Lewis, I mean, how good

713
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Speaker 3: was he? He just produces when he gets in the game,

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Speaker 3: and hats off to that kid everything he's overcome. And

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Speaker 3: so I think we can get after their offensive line too.

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Speaker 3: So I really think from a specific unit, our defensive

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Speaker 3: line at home with the crowd noise could be a

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Speaker 3: unit Saturday night that controls and wins this game, and

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Speaker 3: we got to have it.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, there's no doubt in my mind about this, no

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Speaker 5: doubt about roasting this one to a crisp Okay. First

722
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Speaker 5: of all, going into the game, we're number five in

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Speaker 5: the league in sacks and they're number twenty four in

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Speaker 5: the league in sacks giving up. So just statistically, you

725
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Speaker 5: have a better chance here. But I think what's really

726
00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:51,960
Speaker 5: important though, we have to give the rush a chance. Okay,

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Speaker 5: and I think it starts with the covers. I'm going

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Speaker 5: to sound like a broken record, but I'm saying this

729
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Speaker 5: because if you don't, if you let Stroud out stay

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Speaker 5: in rhythm, he will shred you and you won't get there.

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Speaker 5: So I think it's going to start number one with

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Speaker 5: contested coverages. Okay, do not let him have that rhythm throw.

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Speaker 5: We want to contest them like Atlanta contested us. We

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Speaker 5: want to gain advantage by not letting them get any

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Speaker 5: running game. They got one hundred and eleven last week.

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Speaker 5: No running game, make them one dimensional because other than Tunsel,

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Speaker 5: their offensive line is Swiss cheese. The other thing that's

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Speaker 5: really important, you just got to know Stroud Stroud if

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Speaker 5: in rhythm. Well, first of all, he's going to be

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Speaker 5: rookie the year anyway, but in rhythm he is a

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Speaker 5: tremendous player. I did not give him enough love coming out,

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Speaker 5: but there's no question historically into this year. Under pressure,

743
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Speaker 5: when he's blitzed, when he's pressure, when the pocket is dirty,

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00:35:53,760 --> 00:35:58,480
Speaker 5: efficient efficiency falls off drastically. So pass rush is going

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00:35:58,560 --> 00:36:01,640
Speaker 5: to be key. But it's not just pass us. Everything

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Speaker 5: else has to give it a chance.

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Speaker 2: All right. That is a look at gotta have it

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Speaker 2: areas for success Colts and Texans heading into week eighteen again,

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Speaker 2: So the first one up tonight is from Miles and

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Speaker 2: he's asking Rick, what did you guys make of us

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Speaker 2: changing up the lineup in the secondary? Nick Cross and

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Speaker 2: Ronnie Harrison were playing safety and the Colts not using

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Speaker 2: Rodney Thomas as much.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it was pretty interesting. I didn't see it coming

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Speaker 5: back after as I watched the game. It kind of unfolded, why,

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Speaker 5: you know, And I think it really you know, and

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Speaker 5: I can be critical schematically, but one thing I think

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Speaker 5: you really have to give Ronnie Miles credit this year

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Speaker 5: for bringing those two young corners along. You know, Luman

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Speaker 5: came out of nowhere and had to play the nickel

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Speaker 5: in about one day preparation and actually hung in there.

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Speaker 5: And then this safety thing moving them around. I think

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Speaker 5: he's done a great job with these young kids. To

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Speaker 5: be honest with you, they're all talented, but it's still

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00:38:49,360 --> 00:38:51,960
Speaker 5: you have to bring them along. I think the change

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Speaker 5: it's confluence of three things. I think number one, I

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Speaker 5: think just Cross was just out playing Thomas. You know,

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Speaker 5: I was saying that for weeks. There's you know, there's

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Speaker 5: no question that he was more of a playmaker. He's

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Speaker 5: a great athlete. He saved us Sunday they ran a

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00:39:08,200 --> 00:39:12,080
Speaker 5: double move on Jones and and and Adams had it

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Speaker 5: and Cross came out of the middle and broke it

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Speaker 5: up over there on the sidelines. And I think there

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Speaker 5: was a talent issue. Thomas has really struggled after a

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Speaker 5: good rookie year, he's really struggled in this second year.

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Speaker 5: So I think the first check, you know, the first

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Speaker 5: piece on the chess board was crossed for Thomas on talent.

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Speaker 5: And then I think the loss of Blackman was difficult

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Speaker 5: because Blackman is our hybrid. He was a guy who

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Speaker 5: was not only a good safety, but you bring him

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Speaker 5: up on you know, on that edge, on that weak

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Speaker 5: side or that inside, and he was like a linebacker.

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Speaker 5: And Thomas is not going to get you that kind

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Speaker 5: of force. But Harrison kind of is the perfect hybrid.

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Speaker 5: I don't think he's as good as back end guy,

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Speaker 5: but he comes down in the box on the weak side,

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Speaker 5: and again he's half a linebacker, half a safe. So

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Speaker 5: I think it took a little courage to make that move,

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Speaker 5: but it really looked good to me as the game

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Speaker 5: went on. So, you know, I think it's Cross's ascension.

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Speaker 5: I think it's the loss of Blackman and then kind

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Speaker 5: of the find of Harrison, who is truly a hybrid.

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Speaker 5: Everything we've asked him to do, he's done it pretty well.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, like we said, I mean, he went from really

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Speaker 2: no offers in the NFL and just trying to stay

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Speaker 2: in the league, get a chance to keep getting a

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Speaker 2: paycheck playing football and asked to play linebacker moving from safety.

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Speaker 2: Now he was asked to go from linebacker back to

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Speaker 2: safety and he handled it pretty well in a pinch,

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Speaker 2: So congratulations to him on that. Let's go to Larry.

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Speaker 2: He's asking Joe how big was Braden Smith returned and

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Speaker 2: slowing down Max Crosby into the Texans have any edge

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Speaker 2: rushers that can potentially wreck the game coming up on

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Speaker 2: Saturday night?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, great question. First, Braden Smith played well. It was

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Speaker 3: great to see him back again. Just having a guy

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Speaker 3: that you know and trust can go out there and

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Speaker 3: maybe not every snap shut somebody down, but I have

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Speaker 3: confidence to go one on one.

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Speaker 5: Thought.

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Speaker 3: He did a nice job on Crosby, and Ryman did

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Speaker 3: a nice job on Coons. Coons didn't sniff the quarterback

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Speaker 3: on the other side. But your question about Houston, they

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Speaker 3: got a good pass rush. Now they got forty five

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Speaker 3: sacks on the year. You know, Greener didn't play last week,

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Speaker 3: but he's got twelve and a half. He's had five

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Speaker 3: and a half the last three weeks. Will Anderson, the

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Speaker 3: rookie from Alabama who they traded up for us, continued

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Speaker 3: to get better. And then you know a guy inside

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Speaker 3: that I think is pretty good, Sheldon Rankins. You know,

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Speaker 3: he's had a couple injuries, he is in his eighth

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Speaker 3: or ninth year now, but he's got some twitch inside too. So, Matt,

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Speaker 3: when I look at this game, you know, I was

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Speaker 3: obviously the turnovers are important in terms of who's gonna win,

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Speaker 3: you know, third down, red zone. But my secret stat

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Speaker 3: or my stat to this game is going to be sacks,

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Speaker 3: because I really think the defensive line that does the

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Speaker 3: better job about controlling that other offensive front is going

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Speaker 3: to win this game. Saturday night, and our offensive line

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Speaker 3: is better than Houston's is, so this has got to

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Speaker 3: be an area that we're plus an advantage for us

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Speaker 3: to win this football game.

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Speaker 2: All right, good stuff, Joe Wrights and Rick Venturi. That's

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Speaker 2: the mailbag segment tonight. As always, submit your questions in

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Speaker 2: on X using hashtag Colts Roundtable. When we come back,

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Speaker 2: we'll close out in the show. We'll take a look

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Speaker 2: at all the standings and again everything that's on the

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Speaker 2: line in the regular season finale Week eighteen. You're listening

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Speaker 2: to Colts Roundtable Live. We're going to close it out

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Speaker 2: when we come back in just a moment here on

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Speaker 2: ninety three five and one oh seven five the Fan.

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

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Speaker 1: Indiana Union Construction Industry Radio Studio. Here's Matt Taylor, the

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Speaker 1: voice of the Colts one.

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Speaker 2: More time here to nine on Colts Roundtable Live. Thanks

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Speaker 2: for sticking with us. We're brought to you by Citizens

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Speaker 2: local sports teams across the Midwest. We'll go through this

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Speaker 2: as quickly as we can. In terms of the AFC

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Speaker 2: playoff standings, with one game to play, the Ravens are

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Speaker 2: thirteen and three. They're gonna be the top seed in

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Speaker 2: the AFC. We do know that the Dolphins are eleven

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Speaker 2: and five, sitting there at number two. They've clinched a

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Speaker 2: playoff spot. The Chiefs are ten and six. They clinched

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Speaker 2: the AFC West for the eighth straight season, so they're

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Speaker 2: gonna be hosting a playoff game on the first round

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Speaker 2: of the playoffs. The Jaguars are nine and seven, and

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Speaker 2: again at the moment, they lead the AFC South. The

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Speaker 2: Browns are eleven and five. They've clinched a wild card berth,

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Speaker 2: so only two wild card spots up for grabs. The

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Speaker 2: Bills are ten and six. If the playoffs ended today,

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Speaker 2: they would be the sixth seed. The Colts would be

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Speaker 2: at nine and seven. The Texans and the Steelers on

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Speaker 2: the outside looking in on the playoffs as of right now,

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Speaker 2: but they are nine and seven as well, just like

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Speaker 2: the Colts and every other team in the AFC has

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Speaker 2: been eliminated from the playoff. So in Week eighteen, there

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Speaker 2: are five teams competing for three playoff spots with one

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Speaker 2: game to play. All right, let's close it out here,

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Speaker 2: Rick Venturi and Joe Wrights. You're closing arguments here heading

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Speaker 2: into the regular season finale. And Joe, for you as

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Speaker 2: a player, you've played in some Monster games before, but

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Speaker 2: what is this week of practice like and how do

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Speaker 2: you make sure you kind of stay within yourself all week?

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Speaker 2: Knowing what's on the line Saturday night primetime game with

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Speaker 2: all of the NFL world watching you.

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Speaker 3: It's huge, But Matt, I always felt like you got

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Speaker 3: to control yourself emotionally. You can't play the game till

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Speaker 3: Saturday at eight fifteen, and so you know, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,

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Speaker 3: Friday is all about the physical and the mental prep.

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Speaker 3: But you got to make sure you keep yourself calm emotionally,

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Speaker 3: and then about twenty four hours before the game, you

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Speaker 3: start to ramp yourself up. And it's the playoffs. It's important,

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Speaker 3: but you can't go change your whole routine. You got

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Speaker 3: to do a gotcha there. But I just think being

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Speaker 3: emotionally ready and not getting too too keyed up during

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Speaker 3: the week as importance, you can be at your peak

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Speaker 3: Saturday night. And Matt just think it's so neat for

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Speaker 3: both of these franchises. I mean, last year it was

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Speaker 3: a game, it was a race to the bottom for

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Speaker 3: the draft between these two in the last game of

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Speaker 3: the season. And now you know, two new head coaches.

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Speaker 3: I mean both could be Coach of the Year, two

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Speaker 3: rookie quarterbacks. Ours is obviously, you know, hurt, but Minshew

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Speaker 3: has played unbelievable. It's just a great storyline. Glad the

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Speaker 3: NFL FlexIt so the whole world can watch Saturday at

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Speaker 3: eight o'clock. But coach, I know you've got an extra

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Speaker 3: day on the XES and os. What do we got

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Speaker 3: to do to beat Houston and get ourselves into the tournament?

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Speaker 5: Well, I think in a nutshell. First of all, it's

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Speaker 5: not the team that we played in this second week

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Speaker 5: of the season. There are elements that will be the same,

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Speaker 5: but this is a really confident team now, and really

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Speaker 5: they got everybody back this Sunday. You know, they really

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Speaker 5: didn't look very good for two weeks without Stroud, without Anderson,

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Speaker 5: but they got them all back, they got them all

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Speaker 5: back and pasted, you know, a win, twenty six to three.

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Speaker 5: I think the things you got to know is the

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Speaker 5: rating and you know, thirty for three eighty five against stuff.

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Speaker 5: So this is a rhythm thrower who's gonna definitely be

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Speaker 5: the rookie of the year. They also rush for one

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Speaker 5: to eleven and they had six sacks, so I think

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Speaker 5: if you make that package there, they can throw it

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Speaker 5: all over the yard. They're a little bit better run

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Speaker 5: team than you think they are, and you know they

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Speaker 5: looking at. Just a great showdown, Like you said, uh

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Speaker 5: so much. You know obviously the playoffs on the line,

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Speaker 5: Coach of the Year on the line, you know, just

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Speaker 5: so many things. Just so exciting for everyone here. And

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Speaker 5: as you said, if somebody would have said this was

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Speaker 5: going to be the game for the division championship in July,

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Speaker 5: you know, they'd have thought you were a heretic.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely gentlemen. Great job as always, Happy New Year to you, Joe.

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Speaker 2: I have fun with the family the rest of the

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Speaker 2: week down in Disney World and we'll see on Saturday

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Speaker 2: night for the big game.

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Speaker 3: I'll tell you what with the flex, Matt, We're gonna

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Speaker 3: have to leave Orlando about three am Saturday, so it's

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Speaker 3: gonna be a battle. And then the kids. The kids

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Speaker 3: are gonna get a little doe, some mental toughness, which

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Speaker 3: is good. It can build some character.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what they need now. It's all about perspective.

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Speaker 2: And Rick, we'll talk to you on Wednesday. Man, thanks

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Speaker 2: so much for the time. Happy New Year to you

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Speaker 2: and your family as well.

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Speaker 5: Absolutely all right.

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Speaker 2: Rick Vinteri and Joe Writes, fantastic job. As always, I'm

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Speaker 2: Matt Taylor again. My thanks to those guys and also

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Speaker 2: head coach Shane Steichen who joined in on the first

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Speaker 2: segment tonight. And if you missed any of the show tonight,

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Speaker 2: we were loaded up talking Colts and Texans. It's gonna

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Speaker 2: on the Colts and the Texans and this win. And

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Speaker 2: you're in week eighteen, game all week long. But ESPN

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Speaker 2: Radio's coming up next. Happy New Year everybody again. I'm

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