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Speaker 1: Let's get the podcast started.

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Speaker 3: Welcome into the Official Colts Podcast, presented by Win las Vegas.

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Speaker 3: I'm Jeffrey Gorman, late LERA Overton here, JJ Stankovitz.

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Speaker 2: Here, fully caffeinated here.

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Speaker 3: Yes, and these are fun times we were talking about

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Speaker 3: before we started rolling. We love It's been a while

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Speaker 3: for wind streaks around here. It's been a while. Plus

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Speaker 3: we got the home victory. Love to hear it. Love

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Speaker 3: loved hearing you after the game, as we were talking about,

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Speaker 3: when you talk about one with one of the top

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Speaker 3: players on the team that had a great day after

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Speaker 3: a victory. I love hearing your interviews. You can find

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Speaker 3: it on a Colt's Audio network, but it's always better

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Speaker 3: when you went around here and I'll shut up after this.

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Speaker 3: On top of that, one of my favorite moments is

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Speaker 3: and we spoke on it a little bit last week,

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Speaker 3: and loving the fans who were loving him on top

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Speaker 3: of a great victory. That was a special moment.

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Speaker 4: What a classy move all around. Shaq wanted to be

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Speaker 4: there for his teammates. His teammates wanted him there, wanted

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Speaker 4: to have that opportunity to celebrate him by playing the

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Speaker 4: tribute video in stadium, and for all the fans to

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Speaker 4: be able to celebrate him and what he has meant

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Speaker 4: to this organization. So good to see him there with

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Speaker 2: It was a really good moment.

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Speaker 4: And then also you have to feel like that manifested

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Speaker 4: like a very fitting moment to have Shaq Leonard there.

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Speaker 1: He was playing will linebacker who made the move to

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Speaker 1: Great story and also, by the way, rarely rarely do

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Speaker 1: no hard feelings type thing between the Colts and Shaquille Leonard,

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Speaker 1: and that moment on Sunday, I think really cemented it.

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Speaker 1: Shack will always be welcome back here in Indianapolis. You've

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Speaker 1: got a legacy here that is it goes beyond football.

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Speaker 3: We may be rooting him on in the playoffs as

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Speaker 3: well as our colts, sir.

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Speaker 1: On the other side, if you if you look at

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Speaker 3: Yeah, good for him, good man, great moment, great win.

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Speaker 3: Obviously a seven point win beating Baker Mayfield. We're onto

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Speaker 3: this thing now that everybody's talking about, and it's the

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Speaker 3: playoff picture. Where we're at right now with six games left.

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Speaker 3: What's it going to take to find our way in.

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Speaker 3: I've heard many people say, if this team gets a

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Speaker 3: I don't know if I believe that or not, because

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Speaker 3: I've seen some crazy things in the last couple of years.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not a lock. But basically, if you get

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Speaker 3: How many you gotta win? We got six left flair.

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Speaker 1: If you're going to lose a game. If the Colts

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Speaker 3: Just do you like the path of this team right now?

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Speaker 4: I like it right now because of the innovation we're

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Speaker 1: I just want to think, what do you think?

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Speaker 3: Really? What did you think? Did you think he was

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Speaker 4: No, I thought that he was getting block for Jonathan

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Speaker 4: But you put big forty four up there, because who's

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Speaker 2: Right?

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Speaker 4: I know his zire joked too, he said, all right,

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Speaker 4: next time I need a pass held. He told Shane that, Like,

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Speaker 4: I mean, obviously, that's the guy who's willing to do

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Speaker 1: My favorite part of that play was mo to sell

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Speaker 1: Like every single part of that play sold it, and

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Speaker 1: he goes kind of one step toward Devin White, just

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Speaker 1: so Devin went out of his peripheral. All right, I

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Speaker 1: Servasier Dennis, the linebacker on the right side. And by

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Speaker 1: the way, I would like to apologize to Servasier Dennis.

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Speaker 1: I mispronounced his name for like half the game, would

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Speaker 1: you Servasier Daniels. I got his first name right, which

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Speaker 1: wrote it as Daniel's not Dennis. So I'm sorry, survivor.

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Speaker 3: and I'm sure there's not many of you. He is

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Speaker 3: calling the game, which this comes up, everybody is held accountable.

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Speaker 3: We're going to go back and listen to your call

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Speaker 3: on that and if there is some wrong name calling,

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Speaker 3: you could get fined.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well I'll take the fine you will. Uh, that

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Speaker 3: I thought you were going to say it was Crevasier.

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Speaker 1: Now see that. But that's like the stupid thing is

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Speaker 4: Back to the point of Yeah, back to the point

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Speaker 4: hin though, I think that and this is something I

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Speaker 2: Be creative with your play calling.

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Speaker 4: I think that that is part of the benefit of

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Speaker 4: opportunity to do that self scout to further examine, all right,

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Speaker 4: there's these are situations that we can capitalize on.

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Speaker 2: We can roll the dice a little bit.

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Speaker 4: We've found enough offensive continuity that we're doing the basics

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Speaker 4: well that we can start to create more and more wrinkles.

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Speaker 2: I mean, there was something that I thought this was interesting.

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Speaker 4: Shane was asked about yesterday in media availability that past

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Speaker 4: breakup if you will, that Alec Pierce had that avoided

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Speaker 4: an interception. That was a situation that Jim Bob had

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Speaker 4: the Friday meetings. Hey, if this situation comes up, basically

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Speaker 4: looked at some other games across the league. So I

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Speaker 4: as an example and it ends up coming to fruition

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Speaker 4: that you needed that play on Sunday, And I don't

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Speaker 4: know if maybe that was a play that you would

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Speaker 3: Hey how about this, guys, And I want both opinions

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Speaker 3: when I say he, I mean Shane stiking like this,

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Speaker 3: like he's not alone across the league like this, like

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Speaker 3: this is a this is a new This isn't a

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Speaker 3: new wrinkle, like this is oh okay, Well it's fourth down

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Speaker 3: this auld go forward situation that's becoming commonplace.

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Speaker 1: It is, And it's because you look at those situations

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Speaker 1: and the like Shane talks about, it's all on feel

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Speaker 1: like Shane is not a heavy The analytics say to

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Speaker 1: do this, so I'll do that. He's okay, maybe the

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Speaker 1: analytics say this, but you know what, we practice these

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Speaker 1: That is so honestly exhausting that we've gone through over

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Speaker 2: Know about that.

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Speaker 2: That was his addition.

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Speaker 4: Shane told me it was like something that was kind

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Speaker 2: That Tom Manning implemented last week.

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Speaker 3: I love it. I'm just saying Tom Manning you're talking about.

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Speaker 4: We had a fun conversation with Tom right when he

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Speaker 2: Like do people think you this is a prank call?

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Speaker 3: Like I would totally I mean, right, would you not

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Speaker 3: At that point, they just kind of call the manager

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Speaker 3: So hey, all right, let's do it type place we're

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Speaker 3: Be culture in a three game win streak. And we're

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Speaker 2: That means we're having fun. That's what that means.

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Speaker 1: Now, Okay, hold on JJ starting with me on this.

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Speaker 3: If you look at it, take a step back and

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Speaker 3: For the ten games, that's like nobody's done that and

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Speaker 3: Shane Stiken finishes double digit wins ten on your side,

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Speaker 1: Right, It's like a big hit Coach of the year.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely.

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Speaker 3: We talk about this offense a lot, and I'm guilty

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Speaker 4: Oh It's significant because you also have to think too.

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Speaker 3: I mean we sometimes throw out some game balls here

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Speaker 3: sometimes I mean pit's doing pit stuff. I mean double

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Speaker 3: digit catches, double digit yards, pitch doing pit stuff downs

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Speaker 3: And we understand, you know, he's coming off the knee

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Speaker 3: thing stuff like that, But I'm talking about playmakers, and

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Speaker 3: you guys both will I know both of you will

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Speaker 3: just overflow with praise for We don't talk about him enough.

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Speaker 3: Samson abucom oh yeah, and and Lara tell me, like

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Speaker 3: obviously late in the game and his heroic send. But

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Speaker 3: that's a can asistant Kat that's doing some stuff. And

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Speaker 3: the coach got him for, you know, in the off season,

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Speaker 3: not for a great, big, huge free agent signing, but

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Speaker 3: an important one.

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Speaker 2: It was. It's been huge for what they have been

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Speaker 2: able to do.

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Speaker 4: And then also to have rotation with the guys who

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Speaker 4: you're bringing in upfront, and I think that it's a

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Speaker 4: huge indication of his presence when not only is it

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Speaker 4: the plays that he's making, but that's also creating opportunities

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Speaker 4: for guys like Quidy and Dio to step in and

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Speaker 4: be more significant contributors than they have in the past

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Speaker 4: as well. Also Nate Alie d Nate what he has

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Speaker 4: done with that group, especially when there has been very

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Speaker 4: little drop off, I mean very little drop off after

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Speaker 4: you know Grover Stewart. I mean you have seen teams

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Speaker 4: play run heavy and really test that defensive front because

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Speaker 4: of that loss. But when you have the guys who

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Speaker 4: have stepped in, Eric Johnson, Tavin Bryan Taekwon Lewis, you know,

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Speaker 4: all those different guys who have stepped in in the

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Speaker 4: middle of that defensive line, like, it's been huge and

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Speaker 4: it's a huge credit to Nate.

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Speaker 2: But yes, say is he? I mean that is certainly.

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Speaker 4: I think one of when you look at most significant

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Speaker 4: offense or not offense, most significant off season signings, and

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Speaker 4: you think about Matt Gay, huge, right, and what he's

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Speaker 4: been able.

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Speaker 3: To do is the doint, the doint and Samson is

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Speaker 3: for fifty nine yards on the doint. I'm sorry to interrupt,

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Speaker 3: but bla, I wanted to and you're right, Matt Gay,

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Speaker 3: yes we need them going.

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Speaker 4: But yeah Samson Samson as well. I mean, he's been incredible.

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Speaker 1: Do you know where the Colts rank in sacks this season,

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Speaker 1: either of you? I do not sixth, sixth correct thirty

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Speaker 1: six sacks. That's pretty good. They're on pace right now.

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Speaker 1: I have over fifty sacks this season. And you also

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Speaker 1: want to know where the Colts rank in strip sacks?

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Speaker 3: Ooh, that's a one. I don't know for fourth center,

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Speaker 3: in front of six, I'm going to say in front

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Speaker 3: of sex first.

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Speaker 1: Wow, most strip sacks in the NFL, most takeaways off

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Speaker 1: strip sacks in the NFL. Hey speak, speaking of too

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Speaker 1: strip sacks?

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Speaker 4: How about Dwight Freeney and Robert Mathis semi finalists for

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Speaker 4: the Pro Football Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Right?

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Speaker 1: That was announced on Tuesday, A walk with Reggie Wayne?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, along with Reggie Wayne? Like, okay, let's go. Can

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Speaker 2: I have a quick ring?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: Please?

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Speaker 1: Quick quck aside? What are we waiting for? We know

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Speaker 1: Dwight Freeny's a Hall of Famer, we know Reggie Wayne's

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Speaker 1: a Hall of Famer. Maybe you can debate Robert Mathis.

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Speaker 1: I think he's a Hall of Famer.

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Speaker 3: I mean he's got more sex and free What.

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Speaker 1: Are we waiting for? What are we waiting for? And

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Speaker 1: getting these guys into the Hall of Fame?

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Speaker 2: Bring the heat all of this.

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Speaker 1: Let's go Hall of Fame process of We're gonna have

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Speaker 1: five guys come in every year and you gotta wait

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Speaker 1: your turn, and we have a logjam of wide receivers

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Speaker 1: who cares just put him in? What are we doing?

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Speaker 3: I gotta share a story with it from our guy.

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Speaker 3: I did not see Tom Moore before the game, the

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Speaker 3: former coach assistant coach. I said, I know. I said,

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Speaker 3: I know Tom, and I know what he does. And

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Speaker 3: he goes in a halftime and he comes out about

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Speaker 3: He comes out before the kickers do and after the

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Speaker 3: halftime started the third quarter, so he comes out early.

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Speaker 3: So I did my halftime stuff at the stadium and

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Speaker 3: I went behind the bench and I saw him walking

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Speaker 3: over there and I give him that and he's like,

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Speaker 3: I felt horrible. I fell horrible, and I'm sharing this

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Speaker 3: with you. He goes, hey, brother, good to see. He goes,

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Speaker 3: I never heard from you, And I said, what are

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Speaker 3: you talking about. He said, I got inducted into the

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Speaker 3: Canton Football Hall of Fame with the Award of Excellence

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Speaker 3: back in with Dante Scarneki had had it as well

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Speaker 3: in one other guy, and he goes, you never congratulated

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Speaker 3: me on it. And I felt horrible in the middle

524
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Speaker 3: of a game with this offensive genius coming over to me.

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Speaker 3: It was the first thing out of his mouth, and

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Speaker 3: I'm like, oh, Tom, I'm so sorry, and I told

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Speaker 3: him flat out I had no idea. I had no

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Speaker 3: idea that the award of excellence, which is not wearing

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Speaker 3: a gold jacket, but you are in the Hall of Fame,

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Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying for these extra contributors to

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Speaker 3: the game. Anyway, just I was like, oh, my guy.

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Speaker 3: I wanted to give him a big hug and tell

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Speaker 3: him I'm sorry.

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Speaker 2: You send Tommy something.

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Speaker 3: Already talked I did. I wrote a note to the

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Speaker 3: front office front office and said, hey, we need to

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Speaker 3: do something special for Tom Moore.

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Speaker 1: So tip of the hat another game ball.

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Speaker 3: Will always give coach game balls because he's Every offense

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Speaker 3: in the league run now is running a variation of

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Speaker 3: a Tom More offense. So anyway, I wanted to just

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Speaker 3: have a minute to say that.

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Speaker 1: So, by the way, the you know that Tom More

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Speaker 1: quote of like you know, if eight team goes down,

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Speaker 1: we're aft and we don't practice at done. How many

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Speaker 1: teams have dealt with that this year around the NFL.

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Speaker 1: The Colts also and are right here in the playoff conversation.

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Speaker 3: Here we go, and one last thing, not aft. One

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Speaker 3: last thing. Adam Schefter, who we all read, had a

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Speaker 3: very interesting look into his you know is what do

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Speaker 3: they call that thing, you know, crystal ball by saying

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Speaker 3: he's expecting seven or more head coaches. Saw that changes

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Speaker 3: in the NFL this year. Obviously we saw one earlier

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Speaker 3: intes in two. Yeah, you're right, Frank Reich and Josh McDaniel.

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Speaker 3: Josh McDaniels was gone in Vegas. So he's saying seven

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Speaker 3: to ten. I'm like, my gosh, who are like what

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Speaker 3: I mean?

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Speaker 2: Ten is a third of the league.

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Speaker 1: That's that? Yeah, Hey, good year, good year to feel

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Speaker 1: pretty good about your head coach.

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Speaker 3: That's right. And yeah you got here in Shane and

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Speaker 3: and Jim, Bob and the rest of the staff that

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Speaker 3: we do. Hey, I got a couple of announcements here

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Speaker 3: real quick coming up this week on the Colts Audio Network,

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Speaker 3: Inside Football with Rick Venturi's gonna be out on Wednesday,

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Speaker 3: Blueprints as always to beat the Titan. You're going to

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Speaker 3: hear that in week thirteen. Another episode of the Official

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Speaker 3: Coats podcast going to drop Thursday on Apple, Spotify, and YouTube,

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Speaker 3: with Matt Taylor, Casey Valier, Bill Brooks, and a two

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Speaker 3: B TBD colch player joining the pod to preview Colts

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Speaker 3: Titans instant reaction with JJ and Bill Brooks out Sunday night.

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Speaker 3: That's a good one. Be sure to catch it breaking

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Speaker 3: down the Colts week thirteen trip to Nashville to face

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Speaker 3: the Titans. As always, keep it locked in on the

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Speaker 3: Colts Audio Network, Coats dot com, and Coach Mobile app

576
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Speaker 3: for all your breaking news. Analysts read him, watch and

577
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Speaker 3: listen to her that are the best in the business.

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Speaker 3: Will get you behind. It's a six week tournament. The

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Speaker 3: way that I'm looking at this right now, we came

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Speaker 3: up with four out of six, potentially five out of

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Speaker 3: six from here on out. I love the way that

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Speaker 3: this place is rolling right now. The fan base getting

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Speaker 3: a huge home win for the first time in a

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Speaker 3: long time. How important that is. So, guys, final thoughts

585
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Speaker 3: right here before we start this journey of six weeks

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Speaker 3: that could really be a special, special time for a

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Speaker 3: team that nobody had any interest in at the start

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Speaker 3: of the year.

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Speaker 1: I just want to kind of close on this. The

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Speaker 1: fact that the Cults are even playing meaningful games in

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Speaker 1: December right now is impressive when you zoom out on

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Speaker 1: this season. That the Colts are entering December as the

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Speaker 1: seventh seed and are going to play big games against Pittsburgh,

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Speaker 1: against Cincy, you know, maybe to end the season against Houston.

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Speaker 1: This is this season is a really great foundation for

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Speaker 1: what Shane Stychen can do here. Make the playoffs, don't

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Speaker 1: make the playoffs. I'm feeling great about twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 1: Get Anthony Richardson back, get some more pieces in here,

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Speaker 1: keep some of the guys you have here. I feel

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Speaker 1: like you've got the head coach, You've got the quarterback.

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Speaker 1: Got to stay healthy, obviously, but you got you got

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Speaker 1: the two most important spots. And you got some dudes

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Speaker 1: on this team who the head coach is getting the

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Speaker 1: most out of. Got guys playing at their highest level.

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Speaker 1: That foundation could get you to the playoffs next year.

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Speaker 1: I can't wait to see where.

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Speaker 3: It goes above and beyond and Learra It's like I

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Speaker 3: just next man up. We talked about that earlier in

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Speaker 3: the show and stuff like that. Is going to take

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Speaker 3: fifty three men to make this thing run. If somebody

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Speaker 3: goes down, somebody has to step up for this six

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Speaker 3: week run.

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Speaker 2: No question.

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Speaker 4: And what I like is that, Like I was talking

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Speaker 4: to Shane about these three wins in this win streak,

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Speaker 4: you know, the stack of wins that you have had

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Speaker 4: backpack games on the road, a game at home. Now

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Speaker 4: you're going back on the road for two games. But

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Speaker 4: in those wins, they've all been different types of wins.

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Speaker 4: You've had to win in different ways. It's like, what's

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Speaker 4: been the common threat and he was like taking care

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Speaker 4: of the football, win and turnover battles.

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Speaker 2: Like what it is and what.

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Speaker 4: I like is that this team has found ways to

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Speaker 4: win that have not been sexy or flashy or all

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Speaker 4: that excitings. They've figured out these like kind of dog fight,

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Speaker 4: ugly win type of games. But then you have also

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Speaker 4: had games win your offense has been really exciting and

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Speaker 4: really fun to watch, like what we saw last week

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Speaker 4: at Lucas Oil Stadium. And so I think that that's

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Speaker 4: something for me. I'm not even thinking about Okay, oh yeah,

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Speaker 4: we're building a great foundation.

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Speaker 2: Like right now, this is a fun team to watch.

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Speaker 4: Because of what they are able to do with a

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Speaker 4: lot of different combinations of guys who have stepped up

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Speaker 4: in significant opportunities to find ways to win. It is

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Speaker 4: the fact that this team just over the course of

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Speaker 4: the season already has found ways to win when quite frankly,

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Speaker 4: in certain situations maybe they shouldn't have, yet they've gotten

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Speaker 4: the job done.

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Speaker 2: Because it's always been close matchups.

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Speaker 4: Aside from that game down in Jacksonville, it has been

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Speaker 4: really close games. And what Divorce Buckner said coming out

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Speaker 4: of the bye week is these home games, we just

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Speaker 4: had to find.

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Speaker 2: Ways to close them out.

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Speaker 4: And when you were coming looking at the losing streaks

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Speaker 4: that you've had at home or the losses that you've

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Speaker 4: had at home, and they've all been in a fashion

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Speaker 4: in which you haven't played the final fifteen minutes in

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Speaker 4: the fashion that you've wanted. They figured it out on Sunday,

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Speaker 4: and to me, that's something that should be a very

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Speaker 4: scary factor.

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Speaker 2: For the teams that they're facing in this December night.

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Speaker 3: Buckle up. It's going to be a fun run at

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Speaker 3: Lara Overton on Twitter x at JJ Stankowitz and find

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Speaker 3: them on colds dot com. You want the latest and

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Speaker 3: greatest on your team, go to colds dot com and

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Speaker 3: follow these two are the best in the business. Great job,

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Speaker 3: by the way up in the big booth at the

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Speaker 3: Live ef your extra energy. I picked up a little

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Speaker 3: bit extra energy out of you on some stuff like this.

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Speaker 3: You're getting in the playoff mode right now, you should

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Speaker 3: be getting in the playoff mode. I know you're always

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Speaker 3: in playoff mode, so listen. Let's have a fun next

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Speaker 3: six weeks. We'll come back next week and do the

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Speaker 3: same thing. We'll discuss it, we'll dissect it and find

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Speaker 3: out ways to keep winning. The playoffs are right around

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Speaker 3: the corner. Fingers crossed. Have a great week. We'll talk

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Speaker 3: to you in a bit