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Speaker 1: What's up everyone, I'm JJ Sankbiz. Welcome into another episode

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Speaker 1: of Instant Reaction here on the Colts Audio Network and

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Speaker 1: on the Colts YouTube page. Joined every week by Colts

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Speaker 1: ring evander wide receiver Bill Brooks, as we break down

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Speaker 1: the Colts' latest game. Bill, the Colts lose in Week two,

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Speaker 1: sixteen to ten to the Green Bay Packers up at

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Speaker 1: Lambeau Field in Wisconsin. A lot to get into with

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Speaker 1: this game from the nitty gritty of it, but I

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Speaker 1: want to start just kind of big picture Bill, this

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Speaker 1: idea of complimentary football, because that's something Shane Stiken talked

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Speaker 1: about after the game, where the Colts were not able

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Speaker 1: to play the kind of complimentary football on offense and defense.

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Speaker 1: Where the defense, once they kind of settled things down

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Speaker 1: after a rough start to the game, gave the ball

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Speaker 1: back to the offense. The offense was not able to

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Speaker 1: do anything with it really until late in the game,

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Speaker 1: late in the game when it was almost too little,

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Speaker 1: too late. But the flip side of it, Bill, is

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Speaker 1: the Packers coming into this game with Malik Willis starting

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Speaker 1: at quarterback. He arrived there a couple weeks ago via

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Speaker 1: trade with the Tennessee Titans for them to start the

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Speaker 1: game off with a field goal, defense getting a three

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Speaker 1: and out, a touchdown defense getting a three and out.

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Speaker 1: What do you think that did for Green Bay's confidence?

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Speaker 1: Just getting their feet under them in this game, playing

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Speaker 1: the kind of complimentary football that the Colts wanted to play.

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Speaker 2: Well, right, think it did for them and gave them confidence.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you have a quarterback that just got there

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Speaker 2: twenty days. It has been twenty days as of today,

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Speaker 2: the game that he's been there, and then he goes out,

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Speaker 2: he executes the game plan and I'm sure it's a

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Speaker 2: condensed game plan because he doesn't know the offense that well.

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Speaker 2: And then you move the ball down the field, you

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Speaker 2: run the ball, and they know they were going to

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Speaker 2: run the ball, and the Coats did, and they run

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Speaker 2: the ball successfully, go down, get points. Defense of the

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Speaker 2: stop the Colts, and then the Coats, i mean, the

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Speaker 2: Packers go down again after that, get a touchdown, and

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Speaker 2: then you just have so much confidence if you're Green

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Speaker 2: Bay Packers. You have a new quarterback in there that's

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Speaker 2: taken over for Jordan Love who's injured, and he's executing

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Speaker 2: the offense and he's moving the ball down the field.

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Speaker 2: The defense sees that the Packers are moving the ball

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Speaker 2: down the field meeting the Packers defense, and they feel

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Speaker 2: good about what they're doing. They're trying to put that

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Speaker 2: quarterback in good position by making sure they stop the

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Speaker 2: Colts and get the ball back to their offense. And

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Speaker 2: the offense is running the ball, eating up clock, making

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Speaker 2: the Coats defense stay out there on the field and

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Speaker 2: try to stop them, and driving down the field. So

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Speaker 2: the Packers have a lot of confidence now knowing that hey,

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Speaker 2: our quarterback, this new quarterback can move the ball against

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Speaker 2: this defense and we could do a good job of

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Speaker 2: stopping them. So they have all the confidence in the

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Speaker 2: world that, you know what, if they continue to do that,

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Speaker 2: they should win the football game. And they did do

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Speaker 2: that the most part of the first half, and then

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Speaker 2: the second half it changed a little bit, but it

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Speaker 2: was a little bit too late for the Colts to

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Speaker 2: come back. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I mean, the flip side of it, Bill is when

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Speaker 1: the Colts were, you know, when they're going three and

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Speaker 1: out and then they can't stop the run and they

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Speaker 1: can't stop the Packers from scoring on those first two drives.

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Speaker 1: Nearly the first three drives, which we'll get into that

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Speaker 1: seems a lot more difficult to pull out of it. Like,

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Speaker 1: I guess, the thought I had is, well, at least

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Speaker 1: if the offense is doing well, the defense was doing well,

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Speaker 1: you could say, all right, well, at least we have something,

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Speaker 1: and hey, if just one side of the ball fixes

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Speaker 1: what they're doing, were good in this game, but was

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Speaker 1: both sides of the ball had to fix what they

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Speaker 1: were doing from a ten to nothing deficit right off

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's hard when both sides of the ball

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Speaker 2: I'm not playing well. It seems like, man, this is

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Speaker 2: a hard, hard climb for us to get back into

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Speaker 2: the game. If one size not playing well, you hope

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Speaker 2: they can make adjustments, you know, you hope that. Okay,

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Speaker 2: maybe not. We're not getting enough first downs, we're not

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Speaker 2: running the ball, passing ball from an offensive standpoint, but

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Speaker 2: the defense is doing a good job of keeping things

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Speaker 2: first downs or scoring any points. And you figure, okay,

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Speaker 2: we can fix something on offense. Let's see if we

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Speaker 2: can get this going, and then hopefully we can get

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Speaker 2: usually takes one play and then it starts to snowball

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Speaker 2: and you have another big play, then hopefully you can

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Speaker 2: get some momentum and you know, one side of the

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Speaker 2: But today it was like both sides of the ball

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Speaker 2: could not get anything going. Offense couldn't move the ball,

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Speaker 1: So let's start with how this game began with Green

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Speaker 1: Bay asserting themselves on the ground, and like what we

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Speaker 1: were talking about with Malik willis, like you're trying to

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Speaker 1: get him eased into this game. There's no better way

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Speaker 1: to ease a quarterback in who arrived twenty days ago

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Speaker 1: than by running the ball the way the Green Bay

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Speaker 1: siloed it off Bill with the first three drives the

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Speaker 1: Packers had on offense, where they averaged let's see, six

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Speaker 1: they got eleven first downs on the ground, they gained

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Speaker 1: leafleair Bill because he schemed up some funky stuff, some

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Speaker 1: funky looks for green Bay to have success where we

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Speaker 1: all knew, like Kenny Moore the second set after the game,

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Speaker 1: we knew they were going to run the ball early.

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Speaker 1: And I think it's maybe easier said than done to

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Speaker 1: What green Bay did on some of these running plays

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Speaker 1: and Willis fakes it to read and then like whips

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Speaker 1: Reid carrying the ball, so he wasn't able to kind

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Speaker 1: other one, Bill, the one that I thought was a

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Speaker 1: really great play design, was on first and twenty. The

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Speaker 1: one I think Bill that really cemented, hey, green Bay

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Speaker 1: It was on first and twenty green Bay ran outside

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Speaker 1: again on the back side of the play, they had

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Speaker 1: Jaden Reid, whose speed you have to respect, they had

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Speaker 1: him just sprint on what would have been like a

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Speaker 1: have this extra body running at your running back. And

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Speaker 1: I just thought Lafleur did such a good job with

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Speaker 1: his play design that it wasn't just and green Bay

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Speaker 1: won up front. They did, but it wasn't just green

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Speaker 1: Bay winning up front. It was that plus really excellent

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Speaker 1: play design that allowed green Bay to start this game

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Speaker 1: really fast on the ground against this Colts defense.

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Speaker 2: Well give him credit. I mean, he knew how the

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Speaker 2: Colts were going to play defense against their offense. He

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Speaker 2: knew the Colts were geared up to stop the run.

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Speaker 2: Any coach would think, Okay, you have a quarterback that

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Speaker 2: just got here, he's only gonna be in this system

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Speaker 2: for twenty days. That they know they're going to run

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Speaker 2: in situations where he's gonna have to throw the ball

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Speaker 2: on third and ten. And they did a nice job

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Speaker 2: it did, it put them in an advance pageous position

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Speaker 2: to make some big plays in regards to outflanking certain

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Speaker 2: Jacobson making some nice runs. And also they had the

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Speaker 2: coach defense had to be aware of Willis's ability to

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Speaker 2: run the football himself. So they did a nice job

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Speaker 2: in regards to the Green Bay Packers of skiing up

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Speaker 2: some things to get some big runs. And as I

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Speaker 2: said before, they did a good job of staying on schedule,

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Speaker 2: especially on first and second down, and keeping the third

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Speaker 2: downs very very I want say, easy but manageable so

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Speaker 2: that they can make some first downs. And when you

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Speaker 2: keep it third and four, unless you have an opportunity

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Speaker 2: to run most of what's on your game plan to

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Speaker 2: get first downs. And it kept it very simple for

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Speaker 2: Elik And that's what they did. They did a good

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Speaker 2: job of keeping a simple for Willis and him executing

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Speaker 2: a plan, and they stayed on schedule to make it

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Speaker 2: very manageable on third down.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, here's where, Bill, you mentioned the first down.

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Speaker 1: Here's where green Bay had the most success was on

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Speaker 1: first downs. On those first three drives, green Bay ran

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Speaker 1: the ball thirteen times for one hundred and eighteen yards

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Speaker 1: nine point one yards per carry running the ball on

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Speaker 1: first down. That right there, it doesn't matter how good

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Speaker 1: your defense is on second and third down, you're not

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Speaker 1: gonna have a very good shot at getting off the field.

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Speaker 1: They were given up nine point one yards per carry

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Speaker 1: on first down. Again, four explosive runs on first down alone,

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Speaker 1: and then additionally, again, this is more than just like, hey,

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Speaker 1: the scheme was really good. Green Bay averaged four point

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Speaker 1: five yards after contact on those rushing attempts, So that, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, that tells you they were in there and

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Speaker 1: the Colts offense. Meanwhile, they went three and out, three

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Speaker 1: and out on their first two drives. The game could

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Speaker 1: have turned, though, Bill, It totally could have turned first

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Speaker 1: and goal from the four. On green Bay's third driver,

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Speaker 1: where they they're marching right back down, it looks like

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Speaker 1: it is like fade a complete that it's going to

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Speaker 1: be seventeen to nothing. Josh Jacobs gets through a little hole,

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Speaker 1: slips through Ronnie Harrison, misses a tackle and then Zia

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Speaker 1: Franklin last ditch effort knocks the ball out Layatu Latu

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Speaker 1: recovers it in the end zone. All of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: it's still a ten to nothing game. The Colts get

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Speaker 1: the ball in the twenty. You got some momentum, all right, Hey,

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Speaker 1: it was a rough start to the game. Now let's

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Speaker 1: go down, take advantage of this and score. And that

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Speaker 1: drive for the Colts offense was disappointing. I mean, that

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Speaker 1: was bill. It started off with the Jonathan Taylor getting

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Speaker 1: a nice run that is negated because ad Mitchell was

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Speaker 1: lined up covering up someone. So it was an illegal

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Speaker 1: formation that they threw the flag immediately when the ball

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Speaker 1: was snapped. That negated a run. The Colts didn't get

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Speaker 1: a roughing the passer penalty, so they they're able to

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Speaker 1: move it up to the thirty. They get a fresh

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Speaker 1: set of downs. Anthony Richardson fumbles at the mesh point

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Speaker 1: negates of Richardson, scrambled through to Alec Pearson. Then third

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Speaker 1: got a punch that drive right there, Bill, that felt

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Speaker 1: like a pretty big gut punch in the course of

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Speaker 2: He's a very confident young man. He should be because

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Speaker 2: he has a lot of talent. So I'm not worried

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Speaker 2: about that for a d Mitchell as long as he

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Speaker 2: goes through the fund that the fundamentals, as far as

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Speaker 2: going back through the basics, as far as okay, I

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Speaker 2: need to make sure I look the ball into my

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Speaker 2: hands before I take off or run with it, and

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Speaker 2: he'll be fine.

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Speaker 1: So the the good things that the Colts did in

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Speaker 1: this game there, it wasn't a complete disaster, like let's

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Speaker 1: just let's be totally clear about that. Jonathan Taylor in

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Speaker 1: a really good day. When he touched the ball, you

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Speaker 1: felt like something was gonna happen. He ran with patience,

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Speaker 1: with vision, and then with the explosion that we have

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Speaker 1: become accustomed to seeing from Jonathan Taylor. He had a

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Speaker 1: very good game with the ball in his hands. Alec Pierce,

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Speaker 1: once again the connection he has with Anthony Richardson is

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Speaker 1: really good. The only one where you're sort of like,

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Speaker 1: you know, maybe you wish you had back. It looked

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Speaker 1: like he fell down on that ball down the near cell.

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Speaker 1: Then he slipped a little bit. Yep, tough to pin

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Speaker 1: that on him. I would say, do you slip on

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Speaker 1: the turf. But another another really good day for Alec

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Speaker 1: Pierce and you know, you like to see that you

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Speaker 1: can build on that. And then the offensive line, another

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Speaker 1: good day for the offensive line where they they for

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Speaker 1: the most part, they kept pressure out of Anthony Richardson's face.

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Speaker 1: This is a you know, a good Packers front. They've

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Speaker 1: got some good players up there like Rashaun Gary, Kenny Clark.

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Speaker 1: Didn't feel them make a huge impact on this game.

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Speaker 1: So not all bad on offense, but the mistakes and

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Speaker 1: the things that killed drives have to be cleaned up,

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Speaker 1: and they got to be cleaned up in with the

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Speaker 1: same urgency that the Colts have to clean up their

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Speaker 1: run defense on that side of the ball.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you can't. First of all, you can't have penalties

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Speaker 2: and coocial situations. You got to make sure you stop

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Speaker 2: that and you don't have any penalties that can hurt

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Speaker 2: you and put you behind the eight ball on a

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Speaker 2: drive or in a game. And you know, as you said,

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Speaker 2: you know, I think JT played well. You ran hard.

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Speaker 2: I really like how he ran in regards of running

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Speaker 2: with patience. A lot of times there were you know,

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Speaker 2: he was waiting for the hole to come, but he's

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Speaker 2: still moving and then all of a sudden he sees

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Speaker 2: that crack and he goes. So I think jt ran Hard,

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Speaker 2: I think he ran extremely extremely well tonight and this

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Speaker 2: afternoon should say he had over one hundred yards, so

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Speaker 2: that was very good. And you're talking about eight point

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Speaker 2: six yards per carry, so that's that's very good for

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Speaker 2: anybody running the football. And you know what, Alec Pearce,

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Speaker 2: I think we saw what he We saw what he

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Speaker 2: was doing in training camp, and you know, he looked

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Speaker 2: very comfortable. And for me personally looking at Alec, he

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Speaker 2: looked like he was playing with more confidence this training

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Speaker 2: camp and then it's carried over to the games. He

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Speaker 2: looks like he's playing with a lot of confidence. Now.

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Speaker 2: I played with confidence last week, made some nice catches,

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Speaker 2: and also today he played with confidence. He feels comfortable

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Speaker 2: with Anthony and the Anthony on the ball, and looks

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Speaker 2: like Anthony feels comfortable with him getting the ball in

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Speaker 2: his hands so he can make a play.

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Speaker 1: A couple of things to keep an eye on on

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Speaker 1: defense going forward to Forrest Buckner leaves the game with

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Speaker 1: an ankle injury. You know, hopefully you know, he can

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Speaker 1: be back at some point sooner rather than later, But

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Speaker 1: we don't know what the severity of it is. Cult

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Speaker 1: are gonna have to hold it down on the interior though,

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Speaker 1: as long as Buckner is not out there. Layatu Latu

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Speaker 1: also left this game with a hip injury, so two

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Speaker 1: guys will keep an eye on this week on the

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Speaker 1: injury report.

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Speaker 2: Bill.

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Speaker 1: Just the the last thing here is the culture row

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Speaker 1: in two. And you know, I thought Zira Franklin hit it.

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Speaker 1: You know, he hit a lot of the right notes

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Speaker 1: after the game, like Zee usually does when you talk

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Speaker 1: to him, right Like he's got great perspective on all this.

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Speaker 1: He's been through so much in his career, good seasons,

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Speaker 1: bad seasons, slow starts, fast starts, whatever it may be.

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Speaker 1: And he said, you know, we know we're better than

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Speaker 1: zero to two, but ultimately we're not better than oh

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Speaker 1: and two because we are oho in two. So as

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Speaker 1: a as a player, when you're you're on that plane

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Speaker 1: ride back, you're coming in Monday to get your corrections

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Speaker 1: and get your grades, what sort of mindset do you

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Speaker 1: need to.

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Speaker 2: Know?

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Speaker 1: You have to have the urgency to turn it around

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Speaker 1: sooner rather than later. But remain confident that hey, we

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Speaker 1: may be ohing too, but we are not an OHO

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Speaker 1: and two team. Like, how do you balance that out

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Speaker 1: as a player, Well.

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Speaker 2: You balance it out as a player by first saying, Okay,

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Speaker 2: I know that this is a good team. I know

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Speaker 2: my teammates are good. I know they're good athletes. I

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Speaker 2: know they're good players. I know they're good teammates, so

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Speaker 2: I know they're going to work hard. I know all

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Speaker 2: of us are gonna work hard. And also when I

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Speaker 2: go into this film room, I have to be open

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Speaker 2: to take the criticism that the coach gives me or

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Speaker 2: another teammate gives me and take it as corrective criticism

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Speaker 2: and that you know what, I have to get better

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Speaker 2: and if you can do that, And knowing that I

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Speaker 2: can do the job that the coaches want me to do,

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Speaker 2: I can perform as they would like for me to do,

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Speaker 2: and I trust the coaches to put me in situations

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Speaker 2: where I can succeed, then you know what, you should

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Speaker 2: feel good and don't get down on yourself or your teammates.

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Speaker 2: And right now they're going to need one another. Those

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Speaker 2: guys in the locker room, they need one another. It's

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Speaker 2: they're one to two. There's fifteen games left that you

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Speaker 2: know you're going to play this regular season, and you

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Speaker 2: just have to say, okay, we only have one game.

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Speaker 2: That game right now is the Chicago Bears. What do

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Speaker 2: I have to do to get better to help this

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Speaker 2: team win this football game this week against the Chicago Bears.

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Speaker 2: And if you do that, and you know, just remember

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Speaker 2: how you feel right now after being open too, and

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Speaker 2: go on to this week, work hard and just listen

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Speaker 2: to the coaches, and then work hard on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday,

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Speaker 2: Friday and be ready to play come Sunday. You know what,

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Speaker 2: you should come out of there with a win. But

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Speaker 2: you really want to go in the game and say, okay,

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Speaker 2: I want us to play well, and if we can

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Speaker 2: play well, then winning will take care of itself if

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Speaker 2: you do that. And that's the bottom line. So just

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Speaker 2: go out there, play well, play hard and physical, which

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Speaker 2: they always do. I'm not worried about that part of it.

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Speaker 2: But play well and do your assignment and worry about

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Speaker 2: your assignment only and do that, the team should be okay.

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Speaker 1: Well, we'll see if the Colts can follow through on that.

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Speaker 1: We will talk to you next week after the Colts

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Speaker 1: play the Chicago Bears at Lucas Oil Stadium. We'll be

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Speaker 1: back with another episode here on Instant Reaction. Until then,

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Speaker 1: week Colts and Bears, we'll have Instant Reaction following that

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Speaker 1: game next Sunday Night. For Bill Brooks, I'm JJ Stankowitz.

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Speaker 1: Talk to you next week