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Speaker 1: Welcome to Know your Foe on Colts dot Com and

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Speaker 1: end death book at the upcoming matchup. Here are your

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Speaker 1: hosts Casey Valier and former Colts wide receiver Bill Brooks.

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Speaker 1: Welcome in to know your foe right here on Colts

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Speaker 1: dot Com. I'm your host, Casey Valley. I'm also joined

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Speaker 1: by Culturing of Honor member Phil Brooks. Another AFC South

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Speaker 1: showdown this week between the Colts and the Titans, the

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Speaker 1: first of the two game series, this time at Lucas

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Speaker 1: is Tehran Davenport, who covers the Titans for ESPN. Turn

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Speaker 1: really appreciate the time. How are you doing, Hey, I'm

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Speaker 1: doing really well, man. I appreciate you guys having me on.

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Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to coming out there on Saturday against

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Speaker 1: on shrimp Cocktail. There you go understand that completely well.

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Speaker 1: But before we talk in about shrimp cocktails and all that,

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Speaker 1: let's get let's dive into Sunday. Both teams kind of

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Speaker 1: coming off different starts to the year. I think high

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Speaker 1: expectations for both the Titans and the Colts, but week

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Speaker 1: three they both get their first win. So I kind

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Speaker 1: of want to dive into it from a Titans perspective,

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Speaker 1: what was kind of that reason to the sluggish start

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Speaker 1: before getting their first victory. It's very detailed, it's complicated,

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Speaker 1: and we'll say it that way. I think the main

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Speaker 1: thing is just that that first game, the second half performance,

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Speaker 1: they just kind of they let it go and they

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Speaker 1: didn't put their keep their foot on the gas and

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Speaker 1: put the Giants away when they had the opportunity to

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Speaker 1: running the football. They gave up two on the thirty

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Speaker 1: eight yards rushing. Say Quon Barkleys just had his way

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Speaker 1: in the second half. We look at the Bills game,

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Speaker 1: that one was just you know, just a yeah, just

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Speaker 1: there's a common thread through those two games, and it's

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Speaker 1: the explosives that they're giving up. They gave up a

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Speaker 1: sixty eight yard run to say Quon Barkley to set

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Speaker 1: up the first touchdown. There was a miscommunication on a

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Speaker 1: And then you look at Stefan Diggs. He got a

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Speaker 1: multiple times. He had three touchdowns, one of which was

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Speaker 1: a forty six yardist. So it's the explosives, and there's

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Speaker 1: various reasons there. Communication. Sometimes you know, guys are just

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Speaker 1: flat out getting beat, which is what Diggs did on

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Speaker 1: his touchdown. So it's a variety of things. Now, one

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Speaker 1: of the things you alluded to there in the first

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Speaker 1: game of the second half blunders, it almost looked like

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Speaker 1: it was going to be another taste of that. Last week.

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Speaker 1: They didn't score in the second half, but they did

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Speaker 1: just enough to get the victory over the Raiders. Do

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Speaker 1: you think that is just a kind of a deep

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Speaker 1: breath for the team. Yeah, there was another explosive in

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Speaker 1: the second half, you know, fourth and fifteen and you

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Speaker 1: give up Terrence Mitchell game with a forty eight yard

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Speaker 1: That's you know, it's something that they have to fix

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Speaker 1: the second half. Whatever is going on. They did make

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Speaker 1: first drive of the second have, which is something they

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Speaker 1: So there's progress there. But yeah, I mean that's something

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Speaker 1: put games away, whereas before they would just keep feeding

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Speaker 1: and feeding and feeding Derrick Henry and it will work.

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Speaker 1: Now you talk about Derek Henry there, and that's goes

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Speaker 1: in this twenty twenty two seasons. Well, they managed him

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Speaker 1: a little bit differently during training camp whereas you didn't

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Speaker 1: Now move them to the wide receiver position, the skill

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Speaker 1: what A J. Brown and you guys know from watching

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Speaker 1: I talked to the rookie trailing Burke's about it. He said,

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Speaker 1: he takes that personally, and it's it's you take it personal,

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Speaker 1: that's one of the things that was discussed pretty heavily

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Speaker 1: long term at their left tackle spot, Yeah, that's something that,

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Speaker 1: We saw the impact that Harold Landry's going to have

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Speaker 1: Because his twelve sacks, seven of those came a third down,

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Speaker 1: him definitely hurts things, and he's a guy who played

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Speaker 1: they got to do some things like that. This week,

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Speaker 1: to Ron, you talked about the defense of the Titans

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Speaker 1: missing Harold Landry. Now, last year, the Titans had one

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Speaker 1: of the best run defense in the National Football League,

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Speaker 1: and this year they have struggle against the run. What

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Speaker 1: has been the reason for the struggle of the Titans

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Speaker 1: defense against the run this year? Yeah, I think it

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Speaker 1: comes down to basic things that make run defense good, Right,

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Speaker 1: much for the time and enjoy it on Sunday. Thank you,

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Speaker 1: appreciate you guys. This Sunday, the Colts welcome in the

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Speaker 1: Titans to Lucas Oil Stadium for another AFC South showdown.

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Speaker 1: They'll have a quick turnaround next week as they traveled

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Speaker 1: get us up today on the Broncos, we're gonna talk

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Speaker 1: But this Sunday, another AFC South matchup between the Colts

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Speaker 1: and the Titans for Bill Brooks, I'm Casey Valier. Go Colts.