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

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Speaker 1: down we're talking cold San recapping the action YO sixty

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

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Speaker 1: I'm Matt Taylor with you until seven o'clock tonight. What

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Speaker 1: a monster win on Sunday for the Colts. They topped

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Speaker 1: the Jaguars thirty four to twenty seven for their first

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Speaker 1: win inside the AFC South. The Colts are now three

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Speaker 1: two and one and on a two game winning streak,

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Speaker 1: and the offense showed up in a big way. They

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Speaker 1: scored a season high thirty four points and Matt Ryan

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Speaker 1: was sensational, completed two of fifty eight passes to seven

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Speaker 1: different targets. The forty two completions were a franchise record

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Speaker 1: and a personal best, and the fifty eight attempts were

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Speaker 1: the most in a game for him since twenty thirteen.

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Speaker 1: For the first time this season, the Colts did not

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Speaker 1: allow a sack and they didn't turn the football over.

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Speaker 1: That's because the Colts primarily employed an up tempo, quick

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Speaker 1: rhythm passing game that neutralized the Jaguars pass rush and

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Speaker 1: their ability to scheme up blitzes. Michael Pittman Junior led

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Speaker 1: the team with a career high thirteen catches for one

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Speaker 1: hundred and thirty four yards. It was his fifth career

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Speaker 1: one hundred yard receiving game, and Dion Jackson posted a

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Speaker 1: personal best ten catches for seventy nine yards, playing running

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Speaker 1: back for the injured Jonathan Taylor. It marked the first

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Speaker 1: time the Colts had two players with at least ten

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Speaker 1: catches in a game since Reggie Wayne and Jacob Tammy,

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Speaker 1: who did it back in Week nine twenty ten. At Philadelphia.

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Speaker 1: The Colts trailed early fourteen to three, but then they

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Speaker 1: rallied back as they always do. They took the lead

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Speaker 1: but then the Jaguars went on an eighteen play eighty

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Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence hit Christian Kirk on a four yard completion

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Speaker 1: and then the Colts answered again. They drove the ball

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Speaker 1: Frank Reich dialed up a pass play and Matt Ryan

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Speaker 1: threw a beautiful pass down the near side line to

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Speaker 1: Alec Pierce for the game winning touchdown. And for Pierce,

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Speaker 1: it was his first career touchdown as a rookie and

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Speaker 1: Matt Ryan orchestrated his forty fifth fourth quarter comeback and

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Speaker 1: this season, Ryan has now led four fourth quarter comebacks

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Speaker 1: in six starts. Ryan also threw for three hundred and

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Speaker 1: in a game since twenty fourteen, but they made huge

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Speaker 1: plays throughout the course of a game, four sacks, all

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Speaker 1: of those coming in the first half, and a season

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Speaker 1: stop on a fourth down and Colts territory. The Colts

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Speaker 1: now have to regroup and refocus a huge game coming up.

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Speaker 1: The Tennessee Titans are up next, and a rematch of

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Speaker 1: a game played earlier this month where the Titans one

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Speaker 1: twenty four to seventeen. First place is on the line

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Speaker 1: in Week seven with the Titans rested on the buy

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Speaker 1: and the Colts will be looking to stop a four

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Speaker 1: game losing streak to the rivals from Nashville. Coming up,

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Speaker 1: we'll recap the win over the Jags in more detail

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Speaker 1: with former Colts Rick Venturi and Joe Wrights. They'll join

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Speaker 1: me starting on the next segment. And we're also taking

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Speaker 1: your question tonight, as we always do. If you have

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Speaker 1: a thought or a question on the Colts, tweeted in,

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Speaker 1: tweeted in using hashtag Colts Roundtable, and we'll start to

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Speaker 1: use those questions now. As the head coach of the Colts,

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Speaker 1: Frank Reich, is here with us in studio, brought to

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Speaker 1: you by Citizens Energy Group. First of all, coach, big

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Speaker 1: congratulations on that win and six over the Jaguars. After

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Speaker 1: You know, Matt obviously Matt Ryan had a tremendous day,

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Speaker 1: this audience, what went into your play call there? Third

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Speaker 1: a pass call that had short options, right, I mean that, hey,

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Speaker 1: Kicked the field goal, you know, to win the game.

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Speaker 1: But it also did have the option if Alec Pierce

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Speaker 1: and um, and that's what happened, and that's what Matt

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Speaker 1: You made another switch to along the offensive line. Matt

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Speaker 1: You know you could tell he was comfortable in there,

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Speaker 1: work that out. Yeah, but that that group sort of galvanized,

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Speaker 1: I mean, going back to the fifty eight attempts, fifty

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Speaker 1: that's that's a good accomplishment. What was your message to

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Speaker 1: that group, that unit after they They've taken a lot

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Speaker 1: of heat so far this season. This is one of

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Speaker 1: stat to me. It's great. Excuse me, greatest in cults history,

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Speaker 1: So just great performance by the old line. All right,

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Speaker 1: Before we let you go. Coach talked about Matt Pryor,

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Speaker 1: so we'll skip that one. Let's go down to Paul's question.

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Speaker 1: Are we at our best when we played like we

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Speaker 1: much did yesterday's game plan help with our explosive plays

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Speaker 1: and yards after the catch? On offense? It did a

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Speaker 1: out quick? So a lot of catching run stuff. Pittman

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Speaker 1: ten catches for you know, seventy nine yards. So that's

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Speaker 1: the way you can help help the offensive line get

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Speaker 1: Let's go to Mike's question, what led to the switch

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Speaker 1: with your backup quarterback with Sam Ellinger and will that

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Speaker 1: be a permanent switch? I mean it wasn't because you know,

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Speaker 1: out here in practice. But this is more of a

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Speaker 1: philosophical thing like when we had Philip Rivers and Jacobe

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Speaker 1: maybe have a package of plays. It's a different style

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Speaker 1: a great job, not so much getting opened but catching

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Speaker 1: the ball with people hitting him and playing really physical,

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Speaker 1: you know, inside, and then by that time it up

431
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Speaker 1: being just one on one on the corner. And once

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Speaker 1: we got outside and we got Pierce lined up over

433
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Speaker 1: there on Griffin, it was really exactly what we wanted.

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Speaker 1: But I don't think there's any question that that had

435
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Speaker 1: a big impact, and I think we have to stay

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Speaker 1: with it again. I think identity is not critical. It's

437
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Speaker 1: what you do per Saturday, and it's going to be

438
00:22:21,040 --> 00:22:23,760
Speaker 1: important when Jonathan comes back that we don't feel like

439
00:22:23,800 --> 00:22:25,960
Speaker 1: we have to run the ball forty times. I think

440
00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:29,320
Speaker 1: we've fallen into that trap ever since that game last

441
00:22:29,400 --> 00:22:32,960
Speaker 1: year where Frank got so much criticism about the consecutive throws.

442
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Speaker 1: Yeah that was a Tampa Bay game, Yeah, Tampa Bay game.

443
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Speaker 1: We have to do what it takes to win that day. Now,

444
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Speaker 1: there may be some teams that are double high safeties

445
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Speaker 1: that you are going to run the ball thirty times,

446
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Speaker 1: but you have to be flexible and you just can't

447
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Speaker 1: say this is our identity and this is what we're

448
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Speaker 1: gonna do. So I think it's it's sustainable. I think

449
00:22:51,520 --> 00:22:54,880
Speaker 1: we found something there. Certainly helped our offensive line into

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Speaker 1: their credit. They did a good job, but it really

451
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Speaker 1: helped them. So yes, I'm all four. Yeah, I agree.

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Speaker 1: I love playing tempo offense when you're an offensive lineman

453
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Speaker 1: because bottom line, a tired O lineman is gonna beat

454
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Speaker 1: a tired D lineman ten out of ten times. And

455
00:23:08,200 --> 00:23:11,040
Speaker 1: we saw that as the game went on. You throw five, six,

456
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Speaker 1: seven quick passes in a row, Guess what those defensive

457
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Speaker 1: tackles and end start doing. They stop rushing hard because

458
00:23:16,720 --> 00:23:18,720
Speaker 1: they realize they're not going to get home. And there

459
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Speaker 1: were a couple plays early in the game when we

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Speaker 1: had lineman get beat and guess what, the ball was

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Speaker 1: out of his hands before they could even touch Matt

462
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Speaker 1: Ryan and I remember talking to Robert Mathis about that

463
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Speaker 1: how hard it was to play against Peyton and Brady

464
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Speaker 1: because you would beat a defense, you'd beat an offensive

465
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Speaker 1: tackle clean, and the balls already gone by the time

466
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Speaker 1: you get there, it's hard for those guys to continue

467
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Speaker 1: to rush play after play after play. And I think

468
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Speaker 1: the nice thing about up tempo you don't have to

469
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Speaker 1: go two minute, you don't have to go lightning fast,

470
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Speaker 1: but you have that sugar huddle, that no huddle will

471
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Speaker 1: you huddle around the line, and you can call the

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Speaker 1: plays from the line of scrimmage and guess what the

473
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Speaker 1: defense can't sub. So you keep them on the field,

474
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Speaker 1: you wear them down as the game goes on, and

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Speaker 1: then all of a sudden in a third and fourth quarter,

476
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Speaker 1: it's easier to pass tech, it's easier to pop some runs.

477
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Speaker 1: And I agree with coach. I think when Taylor comes back,

478
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Speaker 1: it'll be interesting to see how we continue to dial

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Speaker 1: things up. And to me, you know, there weren't a

480
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Speaker 1: ton of RPOs and zone reads for Matt Ryan. He

481
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Speaker 1: was dropping back, he was finding the open guy, he

482
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Speaker 1: was getting rid of the ball, and then we were

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Speaker 1: running it. We were running it, and I felt like,

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Speaker 1: you know, still run game. We struggled sixteen for forty five,

485
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Speaker 1: but a couple of those plays that we popped, you know,

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Speaker 1: one we had Quintin Nelson pulling around there on a

487
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Speaker 1: one back power. I love seeing that. I still love

488
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Speaker 1: seeing the different trap plays in the misdirection and either

489
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Speaker 1: you can get to in a case and we did

490
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Speaker 1: this with Andrew a lot. You spread it out, you

491
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Speaker 1: got four guys that can catch the ball. You get

492
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Speaker 1: a cover two shell, or you get a six man box.

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Speaker 1: You just dial it and run it, and you got

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Speaker 1: the numbers advantage. And if they're going to pack the

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Speaker 1: box like Jacksonville did, then you might throw it ten

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Speaker 1: twelve times in a row. But guess what ten twelve

497
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Speaker 1: passes in a row when you're not in a five

498
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Speaker 1: seven step drop and the defense doesn't know it's coming,

499
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Speaker 1: it's completely different than when we did. And that's how

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Speaker 1: you come up with an offensive line had fifty eight

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Speaker 1: pass attempts, zero sacks, And when you think about that game,

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Speaker 1: just thinking about the Colts, they're struggles this year, protecting

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Speaker 1: the quarterback, protecting the football. We had no sacks, we

504
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Speaker 1: had no turnovers, and that's the direct result why you

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Speaker 1: have thirty four points on the board. And again in

506
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Speaker 1: a game that you had to have it, had to

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Speaker 1: have it. We's had three second half possessions and we

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Speaker 1: had three touchdowns, and I can't underestimate how important and

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Speaker 1: how great that was to see no doubt. Hey, stay

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Speaker 1: right there, that's a great point by Joe Rights again

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Speaker 1: Rick Vinteria along as well. I'm Matt Taylor Colts Round

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Speaker 1: Table live tonight here on ninety three five and one

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Speaker 1: oh seven five of the fan. Another I popping stat

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Speaker 1: the one you just alluded to. Fifty eight dropbacks, zero sacks.

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Speaker 1: And to start the game you had your third different

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Speaker 1: offensive line combination in the last three games. It was

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Speaker 1: Bernard Ryman starting at left tackle. Then around the third

518
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Speaker 1: drive of the game on offense, the Colts insert Dennis

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Speaker 1: Kelly for the first time all season and he plays

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Speaker 1: out the rest of the game at left tackle, while

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Speaker 1: you had Matt Pryor started right guard. Joe, and again,

522
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Speaker 1: it was by far the best offensive approach and offensive

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Speaker 1: protection by the offensive line. Now, I know that the

524
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Speaker 1: ball was getting out quicker yesterday, obviously, but the results

525
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Speaker 1: are what they are. So is this the offensive line

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Speaker 1: the Colts need to stick with now going forward? Joe,

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Speaker 1: I would, and I know what they were doing. They

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Speaker 1: played Ryman for two series than Kelly, and then they

529
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Speaker 1: were going to kind of stick with a hot hand,

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Speaker 1: and you know that third drive of the game, the

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Speaker 1: Colts had a long drive, got a field goal, and

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Speaker 1: Kelly played well and they stuck with him. And to me,

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Speaker 1: you know, that's your best lineup right now, and I

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Speaker 1: would stick with that and let Ryman continue to get better.

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Speaker 1: But I thought, you know, kudos to Kelly, first real

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Speaker 1: playing time of the year, and he took advantage of

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Speaker 1: the opportunity. But what's nice about when you're in that

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Speaker 1: kind of rhythm that the Colts were in, there were

539
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Speaker 1: still a couple of plays that guys got beat and

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Speaker 1: guess what that's gonna happen when you throw the ball

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Speaker 1: fifty eight times a game. But credit Matt Ryan because

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Speaker 1: he stood in there and took some shots. On that

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Speaker 1: last play of the game, that touchdown to Pierce, which

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Speaker 1: I mean that was a that was a big time call,

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Speaker 1: That was a big time throw and that was a

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Speaker 1: big time catch. And there's a lot of big time stones,

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Speaker 1: if you know what I mean. That goes around to

548
00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:09,399
Speaker 1: everybody involved there. He took a shot in the legs

549
00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:11,840
Speaker 1: on that play prior got beat inside, but he stood

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Speaker 1: tall in the pocket. He stood tall early in the pocket,

551
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Speaker 1: got hit on his arm on a key third down.

552
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Speaker 1: But guess what, when you haven't taken those hits all game,

553
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Speaker 1: you're more likely as a quarterback to be able to

554
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Speaker 1: stand in there and take him, if that makes sense.

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Speaker 1: And I felt like, coach, you know, curious your opinion.

556
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Speaker 1: I felt like Matt Ryan really looked comfortable in the pocket.

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Speaker 1: He really felt command you felt like he was at

558
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Speaker 1: peace in there in the pocket during the game. And

559
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Speaker 1: I felt like that was really the first time all

560
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Speaker 1: year that he's looked and felt like that. Yeah, I agree,

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Speaker 1: And I thought he played excellent on the times that

562
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Speaker 1: he was pressured, and especially on the last play. That's

563
00:27:46,280 --> 00:27:49,760
Speaker 1: exactly right. He didn't flinch and he got cut down

564
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Speaker 1: on that last throw, and he didn't flinch, and he

565
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Speaker 1: made several throws even though they may have just been

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Speaker 1: checked downs, but he avoided the fumble or the sack.

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Speaker 1: He avoid did those things and and and through, you know,

568
00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:06,440
Speaker 1: and some really went in some contorted positions. He really did.

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Speaker 1: But I think stylistically, h we were going to protect

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Speaker 1: that offensive line a little bit, and I think that

571
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Speaker 1: quick rhythm this was so much more like Bill Walsh's

572
00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:20,439
Speaker 1: West Coast system, where again the ball comes out on

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Speaker 1: rhythm and things like that, and I thought the offensive

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Speaker 1: line really battled. Um. I think it is important that

575
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Speaker 1: we at some point settle The Colts will rotate lineman

576
00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:36,000
Speaker 1: on the offensive line more than any team I've ever seen. Um. Again,

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Speaker 1: I think the I think Kelly ended up doing a

578
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Speaker 1: good job. I think he was solid um and I

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Speaker 1: think you know, they felt that. You know, sometimes you

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Speaker 1: have to go with your gut. I'm sure they were

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Speaker 1: going to go in a rotational situation, but they felt

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Speaker 1: good the way the ball was moving, and I think

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Speaker 1: that's a good thing. Sometimes just go with your gut,

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Speaker 1: go with your feel um. You know. I think Prior

585
00:28:58,040 --> 00:29:01,040
Speaker 1: had his moments. He missed a tech game, but you know,

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00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:03,680
Speaker 1: that's just not playing together. And see, eventually you have

587
00:29:03,720 --> 00:29:07,160
Speaker 1: to solidify that. And if it's close, just stay with

588
00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:09,840
Speaker 1: the guys that you're playing with, unless you really have

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Speaker 1: a superior guy that you're going to change. Because, as

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00:29:12,640 --> 00:29:14,760
Speaker 1: I said, the offensive wine and Joe knows it is

591
00:29:14,800 --> 00:29:18,280
Speaker 1: better than anything anybody. So much of picking up stunts

592
00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:22,400
Speaker 1: and blitzes and adjustments is feel off of one another,

593
00:29:22,480 --> 00:29:26,240
Speaker 1: and that's why you eventually have to get some continuity.

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Speaker 1: You know. I think obviously with prior, you know, he's

595
00:29:30,360 --> 00:29:33,160
Speaker 1: better in there, there's no doubt about it. When he

596
00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:36,000
Speaker 1: doesn't have to climb out on space, he's better in

597
00:29:36,080 --> 00:29:40,600
Speaker 1: confined areas and so he's not as noticeable. I still

598
00:29:40,640 --> 00:29:43,840
Speaker 1: think that the left tackle and right guard will continue

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00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:47,480
Speaker 1: to be an adventure as we go on, but we'll

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Speaker 1: just see. But it was beating a great step forward

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Speaker 1: and I got to take my head off to Dennis

602
00:29:53,280 --> 00:29:56,960
Speaker 1: Kelly again. Came in, was hurt, didn't get much action,

603
00:29:57,400 --> 00:30:00,680
Speaker 1: and went in there and played very solidly. Rick Venturi

604
00:30:00,760 --> 00:30:03,960
Speaker 1: and Joe Wrights here on Colts Roundtable Live. I'm Matt Taylor.

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Speaker 1: Some eye popping stats are last one in regards to

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Speaker 1: the receivers. They all contributed and stepped up in a

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Speaker 1: big way. Michael Pittman junior single game career highs and

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Speaker 1: catches and receiving yards he had thirteen for one thirty four.

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Speaker 1: The only thing he didn't do is find the end

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Speaker 1: zone on Sunday, and that wasn't his fault. And you

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Speaker 1: had Alec Pierce, as Rick poetically said back in segment

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Speaker 1: number two, had the game winning thirty two yard touchdown

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Speaker 1: with under thirty seconds to play and if you look

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Speaker 1: at his last couple of games, the last four for

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Speaker 1: him eighteen catches for two seventy one and a touchdown.

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Speaker 1: And then you had Paris Campbell single game career high

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Speaker 1: seven catches for fifty seven yards and a touchdown his

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Speaker 1: first of the season. So what do you think, Rick,

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Speaker 1: I mean that that position group, those guys, they've taken

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Speaker 1: a lot of heat in the off season. Are the

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Speaker 1: knocks on the Colts wide receivers? Are those over? Do

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Speaker 1: those need to stop here? Now? No, that group is

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Speaker 1: coming and it's coming fast, and it's a it's kind

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Speaker 1: of a collective deal. I actually think that it started

625
00:31:06,560 --> 00:31:10,520
Speaker 1: with getting the ball out to jackson on those swings,

626
00:31:10,520 --> 00:31:13,960
Speaker 1: on those sways, on those screens, and again getting it

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00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:17,160
Speaker 1: out quick, throwing it outside, just quick hitches and things

628
00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:20,640
Speaker 1: like that, which all of a sudden got Jacksonville off

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Speaker 1: balance because the rush was frustrated. Then you come to

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Speaker 1: the big two. Then once they started jumping that outside stuff,

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Speaker 1: Frank started scheming, and he schemes extremely well with Pittman inside.

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00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:38,200
Speaker 1: Pittman is a good inside drive runner, inside smash runner,

633
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Speaker 1: over route runner, with play action. He owns the inside

634
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Speaker 1: of the field because he's physical, he can take the hit.

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Speaker 1: And then I cannot tell you. I can't tell you

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Speaker 1: as a defensive coordinator what Pierce means to this football team.

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Speaker 1: Pierce has given us something that we haven't had since

638
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Speaker 1: Hilton's early days, and that is a guy that can

639
00:32:00,960 --> 00:32:04,280
Speaker 1: flat win and he is winning and he won the

640
00:32:04,320 --> 00:32:09,160
Speaker 1: game on that. Outside of the numbers, this now because

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00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:12,520
Speaker 1: is going to make defenses have to worry about this.

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Speaker 1: He has that great speed, that ability to make the catch.

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Speaker 1: And then what Frank did a good job of using

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Speaker 1: other guys in their roles, Granson catching run, quick option routes,

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Speaker 1: eighty Woods, red zone jump ball, you know. And then

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Speaker 1: the guy that's coming on slowly now is Paris Inside

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Speaker 1: catching run stuff. So what I think we're getting now

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Speaker 1: is we're finding the roles for everybody and we actually

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Speaker 1: are really heavy good one too. And the other thing

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Speaker 1: I think Joe said this or I'm going to say

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Speaker 1: it is really the other advantage of the quick rhythm

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Speaker 1: passing and getting it out quick to guys is you

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Speaker 1: saw more yak in this game. You saw more yards

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Speaker 1: after the catch. I mean Jackson's running through tackles. We're

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Speaker 1: not even talking about that Grandson's running through tackles, you know,

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Speaker 1: certainly a Pittman always does, and then you're starting to

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Speaker 1: see it with Paris Campbell. But a lot of that

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Speaker 1: is because we're getting them the ball quick and what

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Speaker 1: I call catching run players, and if we continue to

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Speaker 1: do that, they're growing. But this receiver Cord looks really

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Speaker 1: good right now. Yeah, I would agree, coach, And I

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Speaker 1: think that when you talk about catching run, guess who

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Speaker 1: else is really good doing that? Niheem Hinz and Jonathan Taylor,

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Speaker 1: and you can get them the ball out quick in space.

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Speaker 1: And to your point, I was really impressed with Granson too.

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Speaker 1: He had a couple of big, big, really nice catches

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Speaker 1: and yards after the catch. Pittman was dominant on the

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Speaker 1: inside in between the hashes. I mean, they couldn't cover him.

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Speaker 1: They didn't want to tackle him. And I agree with

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Speaker 1: you though, Pierce has really got a unique dimension outside.

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Speaker 1: Let's really keep in mind after that first game he

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Speaker 1: dropped a touchdown. He misses game too. He's really on

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Speaker 1: about a four game. You know, experience with Maram you

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Speaker 1: can tell how much Matt Ryan trusts him. He's now

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Speaker 1: thrown him the ball twice and must have its situations

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Speaker 1: last Sunday for the touchdown. And then if you remember

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Speaker 1: before in that Chiefs game they had cover zero, he

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Speaker 1: threw them the ball. They didn't make the catch, but

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Speaker 1: he has a lot of trust and Pierce and I

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Speaker 1: think it was really nice to see all those receivers

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Speaker 1: step up. And I love seeing it for Paris Campbell,

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Speaker 1: to a guy who's been through so many injuries to

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Speaker 1: step up and have seven catches, some big ones. He

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Speaker 1: got that touchdown on that great play extending the ball,

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Speaker 1: had a huge third down late in the game. There

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Speaker 1: were a lot of big performances from our receiving corps

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Speaker 1: people that have taken a lot of heat. And I

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Speaker 1: think the coach's point, the most important thing is that

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Speaker 1: role definition. Guys are starting to get defined into roles. Hey, Jilani,

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Speaker 1: go in there, catch touchdowns in the red zone. You know, Pittman,

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Speaker 1: be an animal across the middle. Nobody can touch you.

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Speaker 1: Thirteen catches on sixteen targets. That's really really good. Grandson,

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Speaker 1: show up when your opportunities called, you know, Jackson, etc.

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Speaker 1: And I like that guys are starting to settle into

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Speaker 1: their roles, and it seems like everybody's getting comfortable with

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Speaker 1: the quarterback. And again, when you throw it fifty eight times,

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of room to spread it around. But

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Speaker 1: what I like, it doesn't seem like there's any ego

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Speaker 1: from these skill positions in terms of if next week,

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Speaker 1: all of a sudden, Pittman doesn't only gets four targets

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Speaker 1: down in Tennessee, He's not going to be complained and

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Speaker 1: throwing his helmet like you see, you know, around a

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Speaker 1: lot of the NFL. And that's a bigger issue, I

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Speaker 1: think than people realize. You don't really talk about egos

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Speaker 1: issues guys being selfish players until it's a problem, and

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Speaker 1: I don't see that anywhere on this Colts offense, including

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Speaker 1: Jonathan Taylor, the best running back in football, which is

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Speaker 1: a really good thing moving forward. Yeah, you both discuss this,

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Speaker 1: but I think it's so key. It's it's the moments

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Speaker 1: for Alec Pierce so far. I mean, he's got he

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Speaker 1: had the three big catches on the last drive of

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Speaker 1: regulation last Thursday night in Denver, you know, for that

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Speaker 1: game tying field goal to set that up, and then

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Speaker 1: obviously the thirty two yard touchdown on a third and

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Speaker 1: thirteen under thirty seconds. So it's the catches plus the

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Speaker 1: moments and playing well beyond. You know that that rookie

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Speaker 1: Now for the mailbag, send in your questions via Twitter, tweet,

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Speaker 1: amand using hashtag Colts a Roundtable. We've got a plethora

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Speaker 1: of questions to get into. We're taking the best ones

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Speaker 1: here up first. In that regard, Nigel is asking Rick

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00:37:31,400 --> 00:37:34,920
Speaker 1: what was up with our rushing defense? The Colts allowed

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Speaker 1: two hundred and forty three rushing yards to the Jaguars.

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Speaker 1: Why did we get gashed on the ground by the Jags?

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Speaker 1: You know, after a great performance a week ago, this

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Speaker 1: was woful by the defense. I mean, you know, he's

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Speaker 1: exactly right, Nigel is right, seven point eight a rush

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Speaker 1: at two forty three, and then the quarterback was twenty

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Speaker 1: of twenty two. I mean he didn't have tons of yardage,

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Speaker 1: but he again one hundred and thirteen passer rating. We

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Speaker 1: really didn't stop anything. And I think the most discouraging

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Speaker 1: thing was the eighteen play drive in the fourth quarter

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Speaker 1: where we've been so good and they basically eight the

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Speaker 1: clock and went down and scored when they needed it.

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Speaker 1: I thought a couple of things here. I thought that,

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Speaker 1: first of all, Jacksonville, and I think Joe would agree

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Speaker 1: with me, was very, very sharp and creative with the

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Speaker 1: running game. Okay, they gave us some situations that we

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Speaker 1: did not adjust to. I call that getting beat on

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Speaker 1: the blackboard. They did some things. They reset their tight ends,

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Speaker 1: they start them one way and shift them the other way.

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Speaker 1: A couple of times we didn't move at all and

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Speaker 1: opened up big gash holes. The long touchdown to hasty,

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Speaker 1: they got in an unbalanced loaded formation. We didn't make

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Speaker 1: a move. They gapped everybody down, and it just like

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Speaker 1: I said, you know, miss Sherry could have gained five.

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Speaker 1: She wouldn't have got sixty, but she could have gained

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Speaker 1: five on that one. Come on, now's that you know?

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Speaker 1: And then toss cracks. I thought their wide receivers did

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Speaker 1: a really really good job. You know, they mixed it up.

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Speaker 1: They had a reverse, big reverse to agnew um you know.

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Speaker 1: Then and then the quarterback, keyyards on designed runs, not

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Speaker 1: big yard is games, but key games. We just did

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Speaker 1: not adjust the defense to what they were doing. And

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Speaker 1: then they attack, They attack Buckner's side in a little

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Speaker 1: bit different way than we've been seeing. I mean, they

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Speaker 1: they doubled team, they powered and gapped down on the three.

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00:39:33,520 --> 00:39:36,799
Speaker 1: They whammed him early on a big run. Um. You know,

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Speaker 1: we didn't do a good job in the secondary of

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Speaker 1: of uh, you know, face on miss two critical tackles

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Speaker 1: in the game. Um, we didn't cup the ball. So

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Speaker 1: you know, maybe plays that were should have been maybe

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Speaker 1: a ten yard game, you know, go out the gate

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Speaker 1: for what forty and sixty um. And so it just

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Speaker 1: wasn't a good performance really from time to bottom, from

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Speaker 1: a structural standpoint and a physical standpoint. And obviously that

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Speaker 1: has to change when we see you know, that running

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Speaker 1: game next week in Nashville. Rick to piggyback off that,

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Speaker 1: and I want to transition into a new question here,

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Speaker 1: but about thirty seconds, I mean, if you look at

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Speaker 1: it the last three games here for the Colts, they're

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Speaker 1: giving up one hundred and sixty five rushing yards per

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Speaker 1: game in that stretch, which is twenty ninth in the

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Speaker 1: NFL after being so dominant or so good, it's stopping

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Speaker 1: the run in the first couple of games. Is this

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Speaker 1: starting to become concerning for you? Yeah, it is. And

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Speaker 1: you know what, I was concerned with it in Joe

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Speaker 1: and I and you talked about this. I was a

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Speaker 1: little concerned with it into preseason. I didn't think that

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Speaker 1: we did a really good job of stopping our own team,

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Speaker 1: and it was kind of under the radar and not noticed.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, you have a you have a game like yesterday,

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Speaker 1: and you show on the you show the rest of

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Speaker 1: the league that you're not adjusting to unbalanced or to

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Speaker 1: shifts and things like that, and you know you're you're

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Speaker 1: going to see it till you stop it. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's a concern of mine, particularly going to Tennessee. Who

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Speaker 1: does know how to run it? Derrick Henry had ninety

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Speaker 1: nine rushing yards in the first half against the Colts

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Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago. All right, let's go to

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Speaker 1: another question here on our mailbag segment again hashtag Holt's

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Speaker 1: Roundtable to interact with us on this segment and every

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Speaker 1: Monday night here on this show, Joe Chad is asking

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Speaker 1: why is Alec Pierce so good right away against press

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Speaker 1: coverage as a rookie. You know, I think a couple

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Speaker 1: of things. One, he's a big body. Two, you know,

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Speaker 1: he's a four or four one guy's fourty yard dash,

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Speaker 1: so he has that speed. But what most impresses me

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Speaker 1: his ability to get quick off the line of scrimmage,

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Speaker 1: use his big body to get past the cornerback and

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Speaker 1: then stack him. And what that means is you get

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Speaker 1: by a cornerback then all of a sudden kind of

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Speaker 1: like think Indy Car right where you get your car

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Speaker 1: right in front of the car that's behind you, and

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Speaker 1: you stack that guy and you shield him off with

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Speaker 1: that big body. And I think he's really evolved to

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Speaker 1: that Reggie Wayne is helping him out. But probably the

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Speaker 1: last thing too, is you can tell he likes the

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Speaker 1: one on one matchup. He wants that one on one

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Speaker 1: They paid him big dollars down there in Jacksonville, you know,

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Speaker 1: and he was abusing him all day. I really feel

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Speaker 1: like he likes that moment he likes the one on

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Speaker 1: one him in the dB, and he can go up

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Speaker 1: and get it. He's got that big frame. He can

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Speaker 1: win those fifty fifty balls and high point it. So

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Speaker 1: he has all the makings. And again he's still six

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Speaker 1: games him. You know, let's not crown him too much.

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Speaker 1: He's got a lot of ways to go. But he

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Speaker 1: has the chance really to be kind of that star,

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Speaker 1: that guy to coach his point as a defensive coordinator,

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Speaker 1: that could be an ambient player he's shifting into and

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Speaker 1: keeps you up at night. All right, we can get

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Speaker 1: in one more if we go quick kind of up

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Speaker 1: against it. On this segment, Rick Aaron is asking is

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Speaker 1: it time to stop messing around with Brandon Facon and

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Speaker 1: play Isaiah Rodgers and Nickel packages? Again? Those are his words. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and Aaron, I'm gonna I'm agree with you total, and

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Speaker 1: I've agreed with you since the first week of training camp. Now,

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Speaker 1: I understand that initially the defensive coaching staff coming from

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Speaker 1: Vegas was very comfortable with face on and his ability

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Speaker 1: to know the defenses to be in the right spot

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Speaker 1: to be an adequate third corner. But in my opinion,

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Speaker 1: you know, you have such a playmaker in Rogers. Is

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Speaker 1: he perfect No? I mean sometimes he makes plays from recovery,

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Speaker 1: but he is a playmaker. He is a guy that

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Speaker 1: can turn it over. He's a better tackler than he looks,

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Speaker 1: even though he isn't big. He knows how to tackle

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Speaker 1: low and really face on has becoming a liability. He

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Speaker 1: gave up the big run to Henry by jumping inside

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Speaker 1: a week ago. He gave up the big run yesterday

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Speaker 1: by missing the tackle in the open field. And then

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Speaker 1: late in the game on the play to the new

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Speaker 1: Jones number fifteen, he flatt missed the tackle on a

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Speaker 1: route in front of him. And so you know, to me,

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Speaker 1: at some point familiarity has got to be over and

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Speaker 1: you got to go with the better player. Yeah, that

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Speaker 1: would be Tim Jones, who got his first catch of

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Speaker 1: the season against the Colts. You know one thing I

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Speaker 1: do want to add to what Joe said before about Pierce. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think what's amazing to me is his ability to

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Speaker 1: hand fight. I think Reggie really has helped him. And

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Speaker 1: I think something else too, because that was a slant

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Speaker 1: called and if they got pressed, they were going to

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Speaker 1: adjust it, and so you really got to give him

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Speaker 1: and the quarterback credit on that. But the other thing

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Speaker 1: I think we forget sometimes is he had to work.

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Speaker 1: He had to work against Gilmore every single day in

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Speaker 1: preseason and that's accelerated his development, no doubt about. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: He talked about that, how beneficial that was going up

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Speaker 1: against a you know, an All Pro player or in

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Speaker 1: this case, a defensive player of the Year in twenty nineteen,

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Speaker 1: and ask Courtland Sutton how it feels. Yeah, I had

889
00:44:55,080 --> 00:44:57,560
Speaker 1: to be shut down by a guy. Listen, it happens

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Speaker 1: right amen. Hey. Colts Round Table five is brought to

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Speaker 1: Indianapolis Colts. When we come back, we'll close out the show,

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Speaker 1: we'll take a look at the AFC South standings after six,

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Speaker 1: and we'll preview the matchup with Tennessee a rematch on Sunday.

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Speaker 1: First place is on the line. You're listening to Colts

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Speaker 1: Roundtable Live. We're back in a moment on ninety three

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Speaker 1: again is Matt Taylor, the voice of the Colts, back

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Speaker 1: for segment number five. The last segments Night on Colts

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Speaker 1: at the AFC South quickly. Tennessee is three and two.

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Speaker 1: They had to buy. They're on a three game winning

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Speaker 1: streak after they started the season oo and two. The

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Speaker 1: Colts have climbed their way back into it. They're three

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Speaker 1: two and one. Jaguars now at two and three, they've

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Speaker 1: lost three in a row. Check that they're two and four.

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Speaker 1: I beg your pardon. The Texans are one three and

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Speaker 1: one as they had to buy this last weekend as well.

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Speaker 1: Time now for the closing arguments Joe the floor as

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Speaker 1: yours your final thoughts on that Colts Jaguars game. So

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Speaker 1: momentum building here for the Colts and look ahead to

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Speaker 1: the challenge and week seven against the Titans, a rematch

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Speaker 1: and first place on the line here in the South.

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Speaker 1: To close the book on the Jags. It was a

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Speaker 1: great win, and again it was great in the way

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Speaker 1: that we did it in terms of the offense dominating.

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Speaker 1: Now shifting the page to Tennessee. Can't wait. You think

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Speaker 1: three weeks ago we played Tennessee. When the game starts,

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Speaker 1: it will be three weeks and the Colts, I thought,

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Speaker 1: you know, three turnovers, you gave them two short fields

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Speaker 1: as a defense, and that was the twenty four points.

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Speaker 1: But the defense played really well. If you're the Colts,

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Speaker 1: the Titans have now beat you four times in a row,

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Speaker 1: and you got to be chopping at the bit because

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Speaker 1: bottom line, when it's January tenth and the season's over

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Speaker 1: and the AFC South has decided, it's gonna be the

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Speaker 1: Colts with the Titans, right, it's gonna be one of

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Speaker 1: those two teams. And I truly believe whoever wins this

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Speaker 1: game is going to win the division. Because if you're

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Speaker 1: the Colts and you drop it, it's really hard to

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Speaker 1: overcome a two game deficit and the tiebreaker, but you

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Speaker 1: beat them, you're sitting there at four to two and one.

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Speaker 1: You've now beat Tennessee in their stadium and you've got

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Speaker 1: Washington coming in the next week at home. You should

943
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Speaker 1: have a ton of confidence. We talked about this season's

944
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Speaker 1: really gonna boil down to the Jags and the Titans.

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Speaker 1: You got step one done, But to me, there's no

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Speaker 1: time to celebrate that victory. You got to move on

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Speaker 1: to Tennessee. And again, just like we talked about coach

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Speaker 1: putting up the bulletin boardman two about the Jags. This

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Speaker 1: team has beat you four straight times. They have punched

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Speaker 1: you in the mouth, they have bullied you. We turn

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Speaker 1: the ball over three times last game. Bottom line, we

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Speaker 1: don't do that. We win. Can't wait to watch us

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Speaker 1: play Sunday at one o'clock down there in Nashville. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: this is the game of the year, the game of

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Speaker 1: the year year. I think this is the rivalry. We've

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Speaker 1: got to do something to make it a rivalry. I

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Speaker 1: think the three key elements to Tennessee when you look

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Speaker 1: at what has happened why we have failed. One we

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Speaker 1: have to win the turnover battle. Two, we have to

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Speaker 1: defeat them in the red zone, which is a big challenge.

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Speaker 1: They are very, very good and four and number three,

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Speaker 1: we have to win that fourth quarter. According to my

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Speaker 1: Matt Taylor Stats Incorporated last week, Rabel has won twenty three.

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Speaker 1: He's one twenty three and lost eleven in one score games.

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Speaker 1: So you're gonna be in a tight game and you're

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Speaker 1: gonna have to find a way to win that thing

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Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter. So I'm with Joe, can't wait.

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Speaker 1: Nothing like Tennessee coming after Jacksonville. To keep you on

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Speaker 1: a high level. You're talking about two teams so far

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Speaker 1: this year that are getting it done in crunch time

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Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter when the game's on the line.

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Speaker 1: We gotta run tonight, gentlemen, Rick Venturi and Joe Wrights

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Speaker 1: want to thank Coach Rich for joining the show as

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Speaker 1: he always does. And segment number one. We're loaded on

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Speaker 1: the Holts all week long going into this pivotal matchup.

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Speaker 1: We've got Colts Daily updates Tuesday through Thursday. The Colts

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Speaker 1: official podcast drops tomorrow Inside Football with Rick with the

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Speaker 1: Blueprints to beat the Titans that will drop on Wednesday.

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Speaker 1: next Monday. Colts Roundtable Live back at it at six

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