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Speaker 1: We're talking cold san recapping the action y sixty two

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Speaker 1: yards Now. Here's the voice of the Colts, Matt Taylor. Hey,

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Speaker 1: And the Colts suffered another heartbreaking loss on Monday Night

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Speaker 1: Football last night, falling to the Steelers twenty four to seventeen,

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Speaker 1: as the Colts dropped down to four seven and one

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Speaker 1: on the season after twelve games. Indianapolis has now lost

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Speaker 1: five of the last six. They're now four four and

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Speaker 1: one on the season and one score games. The Colts

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Speaker 1: got off to a very slow start last night, for

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Speaker 1: the second time this season. They had no yards on

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Speaker 1: offense in the first quarter, and the Colts had five

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Speaker 1: drives in the first half and managed just twenty two

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Speaker 1: gained the Colts two thirty two to seventy one of

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Speaker 1: was able to get points on four of its first

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Speaker 1: five first half drives, giving itself at sixteen to three

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Speaker 1: cushion at the break. The third quarter was a different story, though,

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Speaker 1: for the Colts. On the opening kickoff of the second half,

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Speaker 1: the Steelers one forty six to seventeen, had over twelve

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Speaker 1: minutes a time of possession, and outscored Pittsburgh fourteen to nothing,

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Speaker 1: and actually took the lead seventeen sixteen heading into the

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Speaker 1: fourth quarter. The Steelers offense went three and out twice

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Speaker 1: The fourth quarter, though belonged to the Steelers. They took

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Speaker 1: the Colts got the ball down by seven with just

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Speaker 1: line into the Colts hopes. The Colts turn it over

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Speaker 1: two more times on Monday, as they continued to leave

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Speaker 1: and they had other mischances. They had a block fuel

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Speaker 1: they finished just three for twelve on third down. The

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Speaker 1: on the night. Pittsburgh racked up one hundred and seventy

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Speaker 1: the night, and unique in Goackway accounted for two of

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Speaker 1: road in three of their next four games, playing four

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Speaker 1: teams all currently in the playoffs. Up next a Sunday

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Speaker 1: night game against the Cowboys before their buy in week

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Speaker 1: number fourteen. We're loaded up with Colts content and conversation

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Speaker 1: all night long here on Colts Roundtable Live. Starting on

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Speaker 1: night with Rick and Joe and with interim head coach

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Speaker 1: Jeff Saturday here Momentarily. You can tweet in your questions

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Speaker 1: in as many of those as we can tonight. Again,

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Speaker 1: as promised, Jeff Saturday, interim head coach of the Colts,

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Speaker 1: Jeff certainly another tough loss for the Colts on Monday night.

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Speaker 1: What are the game boiled down to against the Steelers?

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Speaker 1: Some areas that proved to be the different in this game. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: He's asking, how have you helped Bernard Ryman grow at

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Speaker 1: as always. Joe, how was your Thanksgiving with family? How

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Speaker 1: that you're not as well rested as a defense, but

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Speaker 1: let's be real, there's a mental there's an emotional toll

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Speaker 1: that you kind of want the offense to carry their weight.

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Speaker 1: And coach can probably speak on this more, but I

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Speaker 1: felt like the defense, you know, might have just been

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Speaker 1: a little bit downtrodden because of the offense. I'm not

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Speaker 1: gonna say they're you know, upset, you know, pissed off, whatever,

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Speaker 1: but you just don't have the same juice when your

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Speaker 1: offense isn't equally carrying that bucket of water. And I've

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Speaker 1: been on teams when I felt that. I felt like

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Speaker 1: that watching the game last night, Yeah, you know, I

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Speaker 1: this one was really really hard for me to take.

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Speaker 1: You know, Philadelphia was gut wrenching, you know, losing a

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Speaker 1: tight game to a really good team. This one. I

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Speaker 1: felt like that this was not only winnable, that we

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Speaker 1: should win it, you know, to me, losing to the

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Speaker 1: three and seven Steelers twenty eighth and scoring twenty sixth

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Speaker 1: points given up to me was really devastating, not just

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Speaker 1: for what it happened to us on prime time in

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Speaker 1: a game that we needed to win, but really it

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Speaker 1: puts the season on life supports. To tell you the truth,

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Speaker 1: there's there isn't any question about it, and it's you know,

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Speaker 1: Joe kind of mentioned that I look at it a

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Speaker 1: little different way, but you know, to me, it's it's

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Speaker 1: been basically a twelve game narrative. I mean, you know,

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Speaker 1: we start terribly, you know, we started just in in

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Speaker 1: reverse on offense, and you know, defensively we were hanging

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Speaker 1: in there. But because they were able to run the

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Speaker 1: ball and because Pickett got going early, I think that's

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Speaker 1: huge psychologically, particularly with a young quarterback, because they came

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Speaker 1: in here not confident, but they were able to gain

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Speaker 1: a high degree of confidence, you know, right off of

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Speaker 1: the bat. So again it was it was another really

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Speaker 1: really bad start. Um, you know, I mean, you know,

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Speaker 1: hundred and thirty two yards to seventy one, sixteen to thirteen,

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Speaker 1: and really if pick It throws the ball accurately to

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Speaker 1: pick Ins there in the red zone at the end there,

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Speaker 1: it's it's really twenty to three. So you know, they

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Speaker 1: definitely dominated that one. And then when it came down

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Speaker 1: to it, and this is the other this is the

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Speaker 1: other narrative in the in the twelve in the twelve

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Speaker 1: game season is at crunch time, we can't finish, you know,

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Speaker 1: we give up as good as good as we play

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Speaker 1: a lot. But this is now the third time in

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Speaker 1: five weeks that somebody's able to drive it with the

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Speaker 1: game on the line seventy five yards aided by a

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Speaker 1: stupid penalty. But in the end, they drive seventy five yards,

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Speaker 1: get the seven, you know, get the touchdown, and then

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Speaker 1: add the two point which was huge. You said that

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Speaker 1: at the time back because that made it now you

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Speaker 1: had to score a touchdown to time hi, you know.

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Speaker 1: And then on offense, you know, we're driving, you know,

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Speaker 1: but basically we get sacked. We had to me the

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Speaker 1: terrible game management from that standpoint and then just not

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Speaker 1: playing technically, and you know that again that scenario that

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Speaker 1: that third and that third and two was crazy and

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Speaker 1: that's game management right there to me, you know. And

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Speaker 1: in the end, I mean, you just have to give

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Speaker 1: they were better prepared coming in and they ended up

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Speaker 1: getting out of there with a with a win. I

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Speaker 1: think if there's anything to be gained from this, and

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Speaker 1: I hate to look at it this way, but I

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Speaker 1: think I have to is if there's a positive in this,

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Speaker 1: I think the Steeler game yesterday was a real reality

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Speaker 1: check on this football team. I think were we to

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Speaker 1: slop around and get a couple victories over bad teams,

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Speaker 1: there would be a tendency to I think come to

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Speaker 1: some real false conclusions of where we are. You know,

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Speaker 1: we're a long way off in a lot of spots.

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Speaker 1: This is not a team that you know, just takes

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Speaker 1: a two week cure. There. Your record at this point

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Speaker 1: in time, your statistics basically tell the tale of who

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Speaker 1: to take a gigantic makeover to get back in contentions.

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Speaker 1: So I guess if there's a positive in losing a

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Speaker 1: game like this, it's that it is a reality check

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Speaker 1: and it forces you to look at your team very

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Speaker 1: critically as to where we really are. Yeah, that's definitely

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Speaker 1: the reality of the situation. At four seven and one,

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Speaker 1: the Colts have lost now five of the last six

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Speaker 1: and come up short against a team that they probably

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Speaker 1: should have beaten. You know, another team that was struggling

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Speaker 1: and you got him at home and you still can't

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Speaker 1: close them out in the fourth quarter. Celebrate what the

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Speaker 1: free app and beat dubs when the Colts get a

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Speaker 1: defensive takeaway. It's valid at participating Indianapolis locations. Free appetizer

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Speaker 1: tale of the tape. Here on Colts Roundtable Live again

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Speaker 1: realities of this season, some burning questions surrounding this team.

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Speaker 1: After twelve games four seven and one, the playoffs are

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Speaker 1: looking more and more difficult to make with every passing week.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk about the reality of the season when we

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Speaker 1: a moment. Welcome back to Colts Roundtable Live on ninety

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Speaker 1: Live tonight with Rick Venturry and Joe Wrightson as promise,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about some burning questions. As the Colts

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Speaker 1: sit four seven one on the season, they're currently in

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Speaker 1: tenth place in the AFC playoff standings, and as you

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Speaker 1: look ahead at the schedule, they're now on the road

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Speaker 1: for three of their next four, playing four teams currently

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Speaker 1: in the playoff field. So let's talk about some burning

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Speaker 1: questions on the reality of this Colts team five games

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Speaker 1: to play. The Cowboys are up next on the road

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Speaker 1: Sunday Night Football. They're eight and three. So the first

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Speaker 1: burning question, Joe, I'll pose it to you. For the

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Speaker 1: eighth time this season, the Colts failed to reach twenty

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Speaker 1: points in a game on Monday Night seventeen points. The

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Speaker 1: run designs for Jonathan Taylor, they're almost all between the tackles.

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Speaker 1: We've talked about this. The rhythm on offense, it's hard

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Speaker 1: to find outside of end of halves or the end

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Speaker 1: of game situations, you know, sort of those two minute drills.

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Speaker 1: So the burning question is, Joe, this Colts offense at

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Speaker 1: this point in the season, it's just it's too simple

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Speaker 1: and it needs an overhaul in the off season. Like

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Speaker 1: Rick alluded to in segment number one, what do you

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Speaker 1: say to that burning question on the offense through twelve games? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I agree. I think it needs an overhaul really in

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Speaker 1: two categories. One, you know, personnel, and then two schematically.

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Speaker 1: And when you look at personnel, you know, you just think,

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Speaker 1: do we have enough dynamic playmakers on offense? Is our

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Speaker 1: offensive line what we need it to be? And I

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Speaker 1: mean it starts with a quarterback. This is a quarterback

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Speaker 1: driven league. And I think when you watch the game

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Speaker 1: last night and rewatch it this morning, you know Pickett

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Speaker 1: was able to get out of the pocket dynamically, he

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Speaker 1: hurt us with his legs, and more importantly, he keeps

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Speaker 1: you honest in that aspect running for first downs, being

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Speaker 1: able to allude a rush when all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: you know, a defensive end takes an inside route and

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Speaker 1: all of a sudden he scampers around the edge and

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Speaker 1: picks up the first down. We just don't have that

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Speaker 1: at the quarterback position. I think when you think about

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Speaker 1: the modern NFL, you know, outside of Tom Brady, who's

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Speaker 1: been doing at a high level but a struggling this year,

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Speaker 1: almost every quarterback really has that ability to get you

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Speaker 1: with his legs, you know, And Matt Ryan doesn't have that.

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Speaker 1: I think we've seen that as the season's gone on,

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Speaker 1: you know, the pocket's gotten smaller, condensed. He seems less

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Speaker 1: and less comfortable, you know, and not able to deliver

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Speaker 1: the ball and really get the ball downfield. You know,

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Speaker 1: all of our passes we're you know, seven yards and

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Speaker 1: in front. We never stretched the field offensively. So I

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Speaker 1: think that was the biggest difference when I watched it.

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Speaker 1: And then again, you know, schematically, you know, I think

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Speaker 1: you know, Coach and I have talked about it. We

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Speaker 1: just seemed just behind in the run game, just very vanilla,

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Speaker 1: just to line up and say, hey, we're gonna move

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Speaker 1: Cam Hayward back, and we're gonna move Wat back, and

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Speaker 1: we're gonna move these three hundred pound beast back just

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Speaker 1: by our sheer will. We got to get better schematically

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Speaker 1: and open up more lanes for Jonathan Taylor. He had

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Speaker 1: eighty six last night and twenty carries, and you know,

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Speaker 1: his long mistake was that fumble, which rewatched and I

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Speaker 1: think was more on him. But you know, it just

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Speaker 1: when I watched the rest of the NFL and then

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Speaker 1: I watch our Colts teams, it just it's disappointing offensively,

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Speaker 1: just really where we're at and the lack of improvement

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Speaker 1: in my mind, from game one, you know, to Game

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Speaker 1: twelve last night. Yeah, I think Joe is right on

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Speaker 1: and I do believe it is a combination of scheme

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Speaker 1: liabilities on offense. I think Joe chronicled them. You know,

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Speaker 1: I think it starts at quarterback. I think this is

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Speaker 1: an era of movement movement quarterbacks. I think, you know,

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Speaker 1: Pickett is a rookie who has had his struggles, but

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Speaker 1: he gives them hope. I mean, he gives them hope.

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Speaker 1: He looked very very good yesterday. He got off to

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Speaker 1: a good start, he never turned it over, made some plays,

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Speaker 1: and so I think you've got to look in that direction.

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Speaker 1: You obviously have to shore up your offensive line. I

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Speaker 1: think dynamic players again is an issue, you know, all

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Speaker 1: you have to do. Again, I said that record and

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Speaker 1: statistics at this point define you. You know, at this point,

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Speaker 1: Matt thirtieth fifteen point eight, you know, in scoring and

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Speaker 1: here maybe the worst thing, Number thirty two and giveaways.

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Speaker 1: So you know, if you if you're giving it away

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Speaker 1: And the things that I see, I see three major issues,

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Speaker 1: I totally believe this. You cannot survive the way the

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Speaker 1: defenses are evolving with inside zone alone, and Joe Joe

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Speaker 1: just said it. I mean, you can't be a vanilla team.

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Speaker 1: We have zero creativity and if anything, we've gone backwards

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Speaker 1: on it. I mean we and and to me, it

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Speaker 1: is a waste of a great runner. I mean that's

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Speaker 1: what's so mind boggling about it. And we hired a

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Speaker 1: impact one, you know, you know number two. And I

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Speaker 1: think this goes with dynamic players, you know, and you

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Speaker 1: know Pierce will show it and then he disappears. He's

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Speaker 1: like on third down, and you know, I think we

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Speaker 1: who really was gaining separation on his own was Jelani Woods,

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Speaker 1: and that is encouraging because he looks like maybe one

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Speaker 1: guy that looks like he can win some big time

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Speaker 1: one on one battle. And then you know, you go

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Speaker 1: back to the quarterback and I'm not going to be

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Speaker 1: labor it, but you've got an immobile quarterback who really

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Speaker 1: who really can't move very well, and then you have

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Speaker 1: serious protection issues and some of those are scheme. I

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00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:44,600
Speaker 1: mean we you know, and Joe can talk about this.

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Speaker 1: We have had blitz coordination problems, you know, since day one.

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00:31:48,760 --> 00:31:51,400
Speaker 1: I mean free blitzers off the edge, walk it up.

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Speaker 1: And then we have a severe issue at left tackle.

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Speaker 1: We have it at right guard two, but at left

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Speaker 1: tackle it's so dramatic, you know, And when the game

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Speaker 1: was on the line, we protected better. I thought Brandon

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Speaker 1: Smith did a great job on the right side. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: great job, to be honest with you. We can even

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Speaker 1: play after play, but when it was crunch time on

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00:32:12,760 --> 00:32:15,000
Speaker 1: the left side, you know, we get a sack by

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Speaker 1: high Smith. And then on the last play of the game,

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00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:19,440
Speaker 1: they do what I would do every day. They just

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00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:22,880
Speaker 1: crunched the pocket. They crunched dryman and he tried to

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Speaker 1: escape to the outside and the tackle compensated. Looked out

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Speaker 1: there he can't move and all of a sudden, there

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Speaker 1: you're doubled in the back end and there's really nothing there.

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Speaker 1: So again this is this is where I say this

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Speaker 1: is a major makeover, and I think it's combination makeover

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Speaker 1: personnel wise and scheme wise. That's Rick vent Terry. I'm

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Speaker 1: Matt Taylor. Joe writes along as well. This is Colts

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Speaker 1: Roundtable Live, ninety three five and one oh seven five

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Speaker 1: The Fan. We're with you every Monday night, or in

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Speaker 1: this case, Tuesday night following Monday Night football for the

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Speaker 1: Colts six to seven. Again here on ninety three five

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Speaker 1: and one h seven five The Fan, twelve games in.

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Speaker 1: We're talking about burning questions, Joe, I want to scroll

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Speaker 1: down to our second burning question and just talk about

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Speaker 1: the effect of Jeff's Saturday on Monday Night. Another poor start.

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00:33:10,880 --> 00:33:13,600
Speaker 1: They didn't complete their first pass until about the seven

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Speaker 1: minute mark of the second quarter. No yards in the

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Speaker 1: first quarter. The Colts did find some life in the

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Speaker 1: third quarter, but couldn't close it out there. In the

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Speaker 1: fourth quarter, so Joe to you. The burning question here

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Speaker 1: is there was no early game spark for the Colts

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Speaker 1: like we saw against Las Vegas and Philadelphia. It was

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Speaker 1: another slow start that's been consistent with this team for

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Speaker 1: much of the twenty twenty two season. Is the newness

686
00:33:38,120 --> 00:33:41,200
Speaker 1: of an interim coach wearing off. That's the burning questions

687
00:33:41,200 --> 00:33:45,040
Speaker 1: surrounding slow starts and the lack of finish. Well. I

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00:33:45,080 --> 00:33:47,520
Speaker 1: think there's a natural bump and we talked about that

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Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago. Whenever there's a change, and

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Speaker 1: especially with Saturday, his energy, his enthusiasm, his juice. But

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Speaker 1: at the end of the day, you know, Matt, it

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00:33:55,040 --> 00:33:58,160
Speaker 1: reverts back to the mean in terms of your personnel,

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Speaker 1: your x's and o's, and your execution. And Bruce arians

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Speaker 1: used to talk about that in game. He'd say, hey,

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00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:05,480
Speaker 1: you know, snot bubbles and tears are great, but after

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00:34:05,520 --> 00:34:07,440
Speaker 1: the first drive, it comes down to x's and o's

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00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:10,359
Speaker 1: and who's going to make plays. And I think on

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00:34:10,360 --> 00:34:13,600
Speaker 1: a grander scale, we're feeling that in terms of how

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00:34:13,640 --> 00:34:15,719
Speaker 1: the game ended in Philly and then leading up to

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Speaker 1: the disappointment last night, was there a hangover from a

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Speaker 1: game against a team with the best record in the NFL,

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00:34:20,520 --> 00:34:23,440
Speaker 1: you should have beat Probably could we have been overconfident,

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00:34:23,480 --> 00:34:25,799
Speaker 1: I'd like to think no. But I also think that

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00:34:25,880 --> 00:34:29,479
Speaker 1: we weren't as prepared emotionally as Pittsburgh was coming into

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Speaker 1: that game. And maybe it's because we gave the game

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Speaker 1: against Philly. Maybe it's because it's a four and seven

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00:34:34,239 --> 00:34:35,960
Speaker 1: team not a ten and one team coming on. But

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Speaker 1: that was disappointing to me that I felt like the

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Speaker 1: team wasn't ready emotionally and then offensively, just the same

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Speaker 1: issues when you throw a pick on your first drive

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Speaker 1: and then you have two three and outs again, boom boom,

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Speaker 1: boom boom. It's just it was the same old story

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Speaker 1: in terms of being down ten and then now you

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Speaker 1: have urgency and you're fighting and you're clawing back. So

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Speaker 1: I think obviously it was the most disappointing game of

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Speaker 1: Jeff's three game tenure. And now it's about looking inward.

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00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:03,839
Speaker 1: It's about looking outward and figuring out how can we

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Speaker 1: try to right the ship and get some wins and

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00:35:06,239 --> 00:35:09,040
Speaker 1: just play better football and execute at a higher level

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Speaker 1: over these last five games of the season. Yeah, you know,

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Speaker 1: I I thought, you know when you know and I

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00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:17,719
Speaker 1: said this, Um, and Joe and I talked about this

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Speaker 1: on that pregame when when he took over, and I

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Speaker 1: and I said, if you, if you, if you look

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Speaker 1: at interim head coaches records, overall, they're not very good

726
00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:32,080
Speaker 1: for obvious reasons, but normally they jump started. Normally, the

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Speaker 1: best performance is the first one. And you know, when

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00:35:36,040 --> 00:35:40,520
Speaker 1: Jim decided to bring Saturday in, he wasn't bringing in

729
00:35:40,560 --> 00:35:44,560
Speaker 1: a scientist. Now, he wasn't bringing in a football you know,

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Speaker 1: condition guy that really knows in depth NFL football, not

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Speaker 1: surface NFL football. And so you know what happens is

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Speaker 1: in time. Now, this is not a developmental league. This

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Speaker 1: is not a developmental league for both players and coaches.

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Speaker 1: And to me, you see over the long haul, you

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Speaker 1: can you get a long way cheerleading in the beginning,

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Speaker 1: I mean, you can do all that stuff early and

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00:36:11,960 --> 00:36:15,840
Speaker 1: that'll help you emotionally. But then in the end, here's

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Speaker 1: to me, the three things that a head coach, a

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Speaker 1: non play calling head coach is responsible for. And you

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Speaker 1: can evaluate this Sunday on how that turned out. Number one,

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Speaker 1: A head coach is responsible for the big pitcher tactically

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Speaker 1: and emotionally, having his team ready to start the game,

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Speaker 1: because you have in this league, it's so important to

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Speaker 1: start the game and set the tone and then of

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Speaker 1: course finish the game. That those are the two biggest issues.

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Speaker 1: But a head coach is responsible for that emotional start

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Speaker 1: to the game. Number two, and this is things I

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Speaker 1: wonder about, is an NFL head coach, even though he

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Speaker 1: may not be a play caller, has to have enough

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Speaker 1: in depth X and X and O knowledge to push

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00:37:05,920 --> 00:37:09,960
Speaker 1: the right buttons and fix the problems. You know, whether

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00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:14,680
Speaker 1: it's schematically or technically. He may not have to take

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Speaker 1: you from A to Z, but he's got to be

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Speaker 1: the guy that can fix problems overall. And then the

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Speaker 1: third thing, and one of the most important things, and

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Speaker 1: one of the most underrated things, you know, is game

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00:37:28,239 --> 00:37:31,680
Speaker 1: management in the game, feeling the tune of the game,

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00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:34,480
Speaker 1: whether you go for a field goal or go for

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Speaker 1: it on fourth down. And then of course late in

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00:37:37,320 --> 00:37:40,120
Speaker 1: the game, and the NFL is a one possession game.

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00:37:40,560 --> 00:37:42,960
Speaker 1: We know that week in and week out, and so

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00:37:43,200 --> 00:37:47,359
Speaker 1: game management in the last four to five minutes is

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Speaker 1: really really superb, you know. And I thought on all

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Speaker 1: three of those, you're not getting a very good grade

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Speaker 1: this week. All right, that's a look at some of

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Speaker 1: the burning questions surrounding this Colts team again after twelve games.

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Speaker 1: It's Rick Ventury, Joe writes along as well. I'm Matt

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Speaker 1: Taylor coming up. We're gonna take your Twitter questions. The

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Speaker 1: mailbags open, send the men. Use hashtag Colts Roundtable on

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Speaker 1: Twitter and we'll take a few of those and the

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Speaker 1: best ones when we come back. You're listening to Colts

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Speaker 1: Let's go straight to Matt's question. Rick, I know you

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Speaker 1: kind of talked about this on the last segment there

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Speaker 1: on the Burning Questions. Matt's asking, what was your take

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Speaker 1: on the management at the end of the game and

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Speaker 1: the last drive on offense for the Colts? Why did

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00:39:11,080 --> 00:39:13,560
Speaker 1: we not take timeouts to save time and scheme up

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00:39:13,600 --> 00:39:17,239
Speaker 1: better plays on third and fourth down. Jeff Saturday talked

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Speaker 1: about that in segment number one. He also broached the

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Speaker 1: topic with the media today in his press conference. He

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Speaker 1: would like to have some of those play calls back.

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Speaker 1: He'd like to take a timeout going into that third

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Speaker 1: and two call. But Rick, your overall thoughts on the

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00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:33,920
Speaker 1: game management there under four minutes to go on offense

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Speaker 1: for the Colts, Yeah, not very good. There's any question

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Speaker 1: about it, And you know, and I'm glad that he

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00:39:38,920 --> 00:39:40,799
Speaker 1: admitted it. The last thing you want to do is

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00:39:40,880 --> 00:39:44,080
Speaker 1: try to spend that. You know. I thought that moving

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00:39:44,080 --> 00:39:47,000
Speaker 1: the ball sometimes without the tight end, keeps the defense

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00:39:47,080 --> 00:39:50,120
Speaker 1: or without a timeout at some point does keep the

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00:39:50,239 --> 00:39:53,080
Speaker 1: defense on its heels. It really does, you know, and

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00:39:53,400 --> 00:39:57,600
Speaker 1: prevents substitution get them locked in. I wasn't. I wasn't

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00:39:57,800 --> 00:40:00,919
Speaker 1: upset with that. I where I got up that where

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Speaker 1: I thought the game was really given away, and from

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Speaker 1: a time management standpoint, was on the third and two

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Speaker 1: after the scramble, you know, and we'd lost a lot

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Speaker 1: of time in between, but after the scramble there was

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Speaker 1: still with three timeouts, there's still plenty of time. And

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Speaker 1: at third and two there that's when you take the

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Speaker 1: time out because in that situation at third and two,

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Speaker 1: you want to make sure now that you have your

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Speaker 1: best calls, and with three time outs, it really the

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Speaker 1: rest of it doesn't matter. You have to have your

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Speaker 1: best call available right now. And we ended up letting

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Speaker 1: the clock run, and then we were actually in a

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Speaker 1: hurry and we made a hurried call that was really

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Speaker 1: a giveaway. They came with a pirate versus an inside

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Speaker 1: zone on an open formation, which really, I mean, you'd

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Speaker 1: want to have that call back ten times out of ten.

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Speaker 1: So you know, that was a big failure yesterday. All right,

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Speaker 1: let's go to next question. Joe, did Gialannie Woods show

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Speaker 1: us he can be the matchup nightmare? We thought he

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Speaker 1: was going to be season I think so. And when

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Speaker 1: you drafted Gilanni Woods. You know, coach, I remember we

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Speaker 1: talked about us in the draft show. You know, he

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Speaker 1: has unique traits and really freakish athletic ability, and with

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Speaker 1: eight catches last night one his natural size and frame

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Speaker 1: just creates separation with how big he is, but he

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Speaker 1: also has some pretty good wiggle for somebody with that size.

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Speaker 1: And really in the second half, it kind of became

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Speaker 1: the Gilanni Woods show, and he was the one guy

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Speaker 1: that was getting open. And what I like about him

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Speaker 1: Matt is as a rookie, he's not afraid to make

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Speaker 1: the tough catches and he's got stronger hands than I thought,

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00:41:31,160 --> 00:41:33,000
Speaker 1: and so he's somebody that I think, really you can

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Speaker 1: trust more in a tight window. He's got that big

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Speaker 1: body go box him out there in the red zone

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Speaker 1: to make the catch. And clearly red zone is an issue.

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Speaker 1: We're thirtieth in the league, we've struggled. He could be

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Speaker 1: a unique game changer in the red zone for US. Coach,

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Speaker 1: what are your thoughts on big Gilanni Woods. Yeah, And

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Speaker 1: we talked about red zone extensively in the pregame, and

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Speaker 1: I thought we did two things that we kind of

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Speaker 1: talked about. I think, you know, number one, after the return.

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Speaker 1: We actually scored twice in the red zone. And the

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Speaker 1: first thing we did is we established Jonathan. We established

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Speaker 1: the running game on the off tackle zone plays, you

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00:42:07,760 --> 00:42:10,920
Speaker 1: know that we're very effective. And then we established the

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Speaker 1: outside fade game. And those are two things I think

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Speaker 1: you gotta have. You gotta have your best runs and

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Speaker 1: you've got to have an outside fade game. We inevitably

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Speaker 1: hit Pittman. But I do think that Gilani down there

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Speaker 1: is going to be the toughest matchup because he's so

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Speaker 1: big and athletic, and Edmunds just had to go through

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Speaker 1: him on the PI. I mean the PI then set

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Speaker 1: up the other fade. But I think he's really going

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Speaker 1: to give us that. I think he's a real matchup

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Speaker 1: problem at four six one. He can separate and he's

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Speaker 1: not there yet, but he potentially is a very very

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Speaker 1: good blocker. I saw that in the spring, So yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think we really have one there. I think, you know,

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Speaker 1: I think him being out there for three weeks has

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Speaker 1: really hurt us. Yeah, he had that shoulder injury, but

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Speaker 1: last night had these second most receptions in a single

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Speaker 1: game by a Colts rookie tight end since your guy

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Speaker 1: Rick Charles R. Buckle back in nineteen ninety two, and

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Speaker 1: then the most receiving yards by a Colts rookie tight

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Speaker 1: So well done, Jilanni Woods ninety eight yards receiving on

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Speaker 1: look at the AFC playoff picture, where are the Colts

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Speaker 1: factory in on that? And the upcoming game against the

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Speaker 1: Cowboys on Sunday Night Football and Big D Dallas eight

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Speaker 1: and three on the season. We'll close it out when

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Speaker 1: on ninety three five and one oh seven five The Fan.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Colts Round Table Live on ninety three

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Speaker 1: Colts Breakdown. Here's Matt Taylor, the Voice of the Colts.

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Speaker 1: We are back final time on Colts Roundtable Live tonight

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Speaker 1: with Rick Venturry and Joe Writs for the final time,

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Speaker 1: I'm Matt Taylor. AFC playoff picture looks like this. The

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Speaker 1: Chiefs are nine and two, Dolphins at eight and three

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Speaker 1: with the number two spot, Titans at seven and four,

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Speaker 1: Ravens at number four at seven and four. Your wild

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Speaker 1: card teams if the playoffs started today, the Bills at

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Speaker 1: eight and three, the Bengals at seven and four, and

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Speaker 1: the Jets would be the number seven seed, also at

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Speaker 1: seven and four. Record wise, the Colts currently sit in

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Speaker 1: tenth place at a record of four seven and one.

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Speaker 1: Cowboys are up next, and if the playoffs started today

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Speaker 1: on the NFC, they would be a wildcard team because

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Speaker 1: they're in the nf the East with the Eagles who

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Speaker 1: are just tearing it up, so they would be a

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Speaker 1: very very good wildcard team at eight and three, coming

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Speaker 1: off an impressive Thanksgiving win over the Giants at home,

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Speaker 1: and they have won four of their last five and

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Speaker 1: playing like one of the best teams in the NFL

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Speaker 1: at the moment. So Rick and Joe your final thoughts,

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Speaker 1: closing arguments here wrapping up the Colt Steelers game on

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Speaker 1: Monday night, and Joe will look ahead to the challenge

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Speaker 1: in week number thirteen against the Dallas Cowboys. The floor

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Speaker 1: is yours to wrap up. Yeah, it's gonna be a

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Speaker 1: big challenge. That's a good football team. Really played well

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Speaker 1: the last two weeks, putting up over four hundred and

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Speaker 1: fifty yards of offense. There. We're on a short week,

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Speaker 1: We're going down to their stadium. You know, I do

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Speaker 1: think a short week, it's nice you get back out

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Speaker 1: there as soon as you can. And hopefully, you know,

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Speaker 1: if I'm a Dallas player, I'm watching that game last night,

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Speaker 1: and maybe they're relaxed a little bit in terms of thinking, well,

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Speaker 1: we're just gonna wake up and we're gonna roll over

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Speaker 1: these guys. So hopefully the Colts can have that underdog

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Speaker 1: mentality and get off the mat. Now. I will say, Matt,

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Speaker 1: I got a bad memory down there the last time

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Speaker 1: the Colts play in Dallas twenty fourteen, I was on

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Speaker 1: the team. We lost forty two to seven. Okay, so

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Speaker 1: let's erase that. Let's let's recorrect that and have a

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Speaker 1: lot better performance than the last time we were down

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Speaker 1: there in Jerry World, no doubt about that. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: remember Tony Romo had a big game that day on

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Speaker 1: offense for the Cowboys. What's the quick skinny on Dallas

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Speaker 1: going into this game? Rick as I said, they're playing

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Speaker 1: like one of the best teams in the NFL right now. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they are. And you know what, just just lately the

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Speaker 1: last few years, it seems like though that kind of

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Speaker 1: team brings out the best in the Colts, whether it's

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Speaker 1: you know, the Eagles or the Chiefs or the Bills.

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Speaker 1: Last year, it seems like we play almost better without

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Speaker 1: a lot of pressure as an underdog. They're very good.

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Speaker 1: They're eight and three, they're very well coached. This year.

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Speaker 1: You know, their number seven in scoring at twenty five,

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Speaker 1: four in number two in scoring defense in seventeen. Oh

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Speaker 1: so you know, number one in sacks. I mean they

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Speaker 1: can get after the passer. I mean they got some

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Speaker 1: areas you can get after. But they're really, you know,

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Speaker 1: they're talented. Elliott and Poward has just turned into a beast,

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Speaker 1: and Ceedee Lamb is obviously one of the deep premier receivers.

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Speaker 1: And then on defense, they got some very very fast guys,

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Speaker 1: and Parsons you know is probably you know, probably argued

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Speaker 1: to be the leading the leads on favorite to be

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Speaker 1: the defensive player of the year. So, as Joe said,

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Speaker 1: it's going to be a real challenge, we'll get into it.

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Speaker 1: I know Mike McCarthy really well. I worked against him

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Speaker 1: for three seasons, so we'll get into it. We'll get

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Speaker 1: into a good blueprint on Wednesday on how to beat

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Speaker 1: these cowboys for sure. All right, that's all the time

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Speaker 1: we've got tonight, Rick Venturry and Joe Ritz Fellas. Great

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Speaker 1: job as always laying out the reality of this Colts

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Speaker 1: team after twelve games. My thanks again to interim head

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Speaker 1: coach Jeff Saturday who joined in the first segment. If

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Speaker 1: you miss any of the show tonight, we're going to

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Speaker 1: course we've got you covered on the Colts all week long.

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Speaker 1: As we always do the Colts Daily updates this week,

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Speaker 1: Wednesday and Thursday. The official podcast that's gonna drop tomorrow

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Speaker 1: this week Inside Football with Rick Venturry, as he just

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Speaker 1: said his blueprints to beat the Cowboys. That's gonna drop

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Speaker 1: on Thursday. Check all of that out again, Colts dot Com,

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Speaker 1: the Colts Mobile app, and the Colts Audio Network wherever

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