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Speaker 1: All you need to know about the Colts in one place.

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Speaker 1: The Colts Daily Update starts now from the Power Home

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Speaker 1: Soul Or Radio studio. Here's the voice of the Colts,

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Speaker 1: Matt Taylor. Well, hello and welcome into the Colts Daily Update.

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Speaker 1: Right here on ninety three five and one oh seven five.

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Speaker 1: The fan in for Matt Taylor. My name is Casey Valier.

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Speaker 1: I guess Matt has already started his bye week, but

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Speaker 1: he left me. JJ Stakavit, Senior writer of Colts dot Com. Jj,

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Speaker 1: thanks for joining me, and I got to ask to start,

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Speaker 1: how the birthday go? Well? One only one of the

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Speaker 1: the two children were stick my twin boys, and only

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Speaker 1: one of them was fighting off in your infection. So

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Speaker 1: they're having a little delayed birthday celebration at their daycare today.

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Speaker 1: They turned two yesterday, gotcha. Well, as you know, my

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Speaker 1: similar birthdays on ages. And I'm not trying to rub

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Speaker 1: it in mine. He's perfectly healthy. He's been healthy for

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Speaker 1: for weeks, so I didn't have to worry about any

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Speaker 1: of that. Don't say it. Oh, yeah, you're probably right.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna wake up on Saturday with a

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Speaker 1: sick kid. You're right now, exactly. Yeah, So a little

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Speaker 1: delayed birthday at the daycare. Do they got anything planned

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Speaker 1: for this weekend? Yeah, having a little birthday celebration with

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Speaker 1: some friends and family, um, you know, getting them their

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Speaker 1: didn't really get to do anything last year for their

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Speaker 1: in quarantine. So hopefully this year, uh you know, weekend

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Speaker 1: Agreed completely. We're doing a little small gathering this this

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Speaker 1: weekend too. And it just like you, I mean, last

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Speaker 1: make do with what with what happens. So let's get

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Speaker 1: to the football field here. The cults are on their

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Speaker 1: bye week, and I think they enter the bye playing

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Speaker 1: bad time. No, not at all, casey. I think the

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Speaker 1: Darius Leonard and DeForest Buckinger specifically those two guys, but

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Speaker 1: probably dealing with something a little bit nagging. So while yes,

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Speaker 1: the Colts have some momentum here, the most important thing

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Speaker 1: You know, you heard Carson Wentz after the game on

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Speaker 1: and you know, there hasn't been a buy this late

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Speaker 1: of Colts dot Com. That kind of brings me to

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Speaker 1: because it's going to be a really fun last four

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Speaker 1: As we mentioned, the Colts are on there bye week,

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Speaker 1: they'll return next Saturday at home against the New England Patriots.

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