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Speaker 1: Welcome back inside the Indiana Union Construction Industry radio studio.

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Speaker 1: I'm Matt Taylor with JJ Stangovitz, and it's our pleasure

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Speaker 1: right now to be joined inside the studio with the

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Speaker 1: newly named offensive coordinator for the Indianapolis Colts. Joining us

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Speaker 1: is Jim Bob Cooter, coach. Welcome to Indianapolis. How are

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Speaker 1: you appreciate it? Doing good? Man, doing good. Glad to

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Speaker 1: glad to be here, Glad to be back. You are

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Speaker 1: back right. We were just talking off the air before

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Speaker 1: we hit the record button on this. The building and

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Speaker 1: the hallways and the practice field and the indoor facility,

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Speaker 1: it's the same, but I'm sure it looks a little

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Speaker 1: bit different from the last time you were here. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the foundation's the same, but I've been a lot of

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Speaker 1: are different. There's different different different parts of the building

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Speaker 1: are moved around, you know. All right, Well let's get

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Speaker 1: into it. What attracted you to come over to the

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Speaker 1: Colts and accept this position with Shane Steike and and

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Speaker 1: be the offensive coordinator here. Yeah, great opportunity to work

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Speaker 1: with coach Steyke and somebody I really respect and to

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Speaker 1: get to work with these players who you know, there's

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of players I'm excited to get to

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Speaker 1: a really exciting opportunity in a lot of different ways,

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Speaker 1: great memories here and hope to hope to get this

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Speaker 1: thing going go in the right direction. Where were your

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Speaker 1: your first impressions of Coach Stiken when you worked with

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Speaker 1: them in twenty twenty one. You're consultant with the Eagles

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Speaker 1: Za Correcton and Shane was then the offensive coordinator that year.

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Speaker 1: So what was your relationship like that year and what

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Speaker 1: were impressions of them? Yeah? Really intelligent, Uh, high energy,

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Speaker 1: high integrity, high intelligence. Like I said, um, you know,

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Speaker 1: just locked in Love's football. Uh, you know, was able

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Speaker 1: get to learn from them and sort of, like I said,

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Speaker 1: see how they work, see how they went about their business,

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Speaker 1: and how they ultimately had success doing it. What about

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Speaker 1: your your experience you mentioned seeing them do different things,

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Speaker 1: but you know the people you've worked for, the people

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Speaker 1: you've worked with over your time. Now you get a

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Speaker 1: chance to be an offensive coordinator again. What are you

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Speaker 1: excited about bringing all those experiences and some of those

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Speaker 1: concepts together to help coach Steiken build out this offense? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I mean I think in this, in this coaching profession,

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Speaker 1: just being around a ton of good coaches. Um, you know,

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Speaker 1: and then last year Doug Peterson, Press Taylor, those guys

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Speaker 1: you get your game better as a coach. And then also,

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Speaker 1: like I said, as we go through this this coaching career,

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Speaker 1: hope to do that. That's offensive coordinator for the Indianapolis Colts,

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Speaker 1: Jim Bob Cooter is in studio with us with JJ

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Speaker 1: Stango and signed Matt Taylor and you just kind of

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Speaker 1: talked about it a little bit. Coach. I mean, you've

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Speaker 1: With that said, however, evolving is the profession of being

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Speaker 1: They're doing that to us. But that's that's That's one

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Speaker 1: All right, Well, I know you haven't been on the

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Speaker 1: But when you look at the playbook, or maybe not

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Speaker 1: right now, Coach, what excites you about this offense and

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Speaker 1: the players you have coming back? Yeah, Excited to get

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Speaker 1: You know, I was in the division last year. We

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Speaker 1: From an outside perspective, you know, this was a team

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Speaker 1: we had some ups and downs last year, but boy,

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Speaker 1: this is our third down plan, there's our red zone plan,

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Speaker 1: them all together. What excites you about that opportunity? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: know it, we all know it. These games are all close, right,

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Speaker 1: JJ Stangovitz. I want to double back. You talked about

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Speaker 1: Jim Caldwell several times right working with him. Your first

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Speaker 1: two thousand and nine to two eleven as an offensive assistant.

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Speaker 1: What do you remember about those first days with the Colts,

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Speaker 1: working with Peyton Manning the way that you did, and

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Speaker 1: So Jim Calwell, Uh, great coach, great leader, better man,

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Speaker 1: because you're gonna learn so much. You sit in the

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Speaker 1: progressions and defensive coverages. Uh, you know, you better learn

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Speaker 1: let's not forget what uh what Jim Calwall might have

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