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Speaker 1: What's up?

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Speaker 2: Everyone? Welcome into another episode of Instant Reaction, presented by

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Speaker 2: Sony here on the Colts Audio Network and on YouTube.

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Speaker 2: I'm JJ Stankowitz, joined every week by Colts Ring of

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Speaker 2: Honor wide receiver Bill Brooks to break down the Colt's

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Speaker 2: latest game bill. This week, the Colts are twenty four

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Speaker 2: to six losers to the Detroit Lions. They fall to

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Speaker 2: five and seven on the season, a game bill that

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Speaker 2: to me, was defined first and foremost by the Colts

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Speaker 2: being penalized ten times for seventy five yards against the Lions.

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Speaker 2: Bill that's too much to overcome, you know, against any

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Speaker 2: team that amount of penalties, the stuff those penalties wiped out,

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Speaker 2: which we will get into, is a lot to overcome.

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Speaker 2: But against the Lions team that is ten to one,

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Speaker 2: they look like they are rolling to the NFC number

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Speaker 2: one seed. You can't. You cannot win against the Lions

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Speaker 2: being penalized that many times.

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Speaker 1: No, you can't.

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Speaker 3: If you're gonna get penalized that many times, you're gonna

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Speaker 3: incur a self inflict the wounds. It's tough to win

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Speaker 3: any game in the National Football League when you have

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Speaker 3: that many penalties. But then when you're playing a team

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Speaker 3: like the Detroit Lions, who are a solid team, a

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Speaker 3: good team that plays a full sixty minutes in the

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Speaker 3: National Football League. It's tough to win those games. And

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Speaker 3: then when you have an opportunity to make some plays,

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Speaker 3: you know, you get into the red zone, and then

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Speaker 3: you have penalties or you're backed up in your own

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Speaker 3: end and then you get out, but then you have

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Speaker 3: a penalty to bring the ball back. That makes it

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Speaker 3: very tough to sustain drives and move down the field.

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Speaker 1: And Detroit is just too good of a team to.

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Speaker 3: Give those guys more opportunities to make plays and to

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Speaker 3: stop you. And you knew that you're gonna have to

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Speaker 3: score some points in this game, and then when you

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Speaker 3: don't score points makes it tough. And then that's because

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Speaker 3: of the self influt, the wounds that you incurred because

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Speaker 3: of penalties.

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Speaker 2: So Bill, I want to start here with the penalties

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Speaker 2: and not necessarily what they resulted in, but what they

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Speaker 2: wiped out. So one of them was a nineteen yard

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Speaker 2: run by Jonathan Taylor that would have been his longest

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Speaker 2: run of the game that was wiped out by a

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Speaker 2: holding penalty on Dalton Tucker. Anthony Richardson on plays on

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Speaker 2: which there were a penalty went four of five for

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Speaker 2: seventy nine yards in this game. That penalties wiped out

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Speaker 2: completions of seven, twenty one, twenty one, and thirty yards

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Speaker 2: in this game, that thirty yard aer being the completion

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Speaker 2: to Josh Downs down the far sideline that they called

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Speaker 2: back for offensive pass interference on Alec Pierce Bill on

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Speaker 2: that one specifically, what did you see that led to

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Speaker 2: the flag coming out on Alec on that play?

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Speaker 3: Well, I think on that play what you saw was

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Speaker 3: Alec trying to run his route, but he needed to

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Speaker 3: sell it a little bit more like he was actually

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Speaker 3: running a route. It looked like he was trying to

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Speaker 3: from not rubbing or picking the guy, and instead of

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Speaker 3: selling it like he was running a route, with the

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Speaker 3: official thought, Okay, he's running a route.

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Speaker 1: He's not trying to pick the guy. That might have

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Speaker 1: made it easier.

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Speaker 3: For the referee to say, Okay, he was running his route.

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Speaker 3: He wasn't trying to rub the guy, picked the guy.

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Speaker 3: But I think Alex could have sold it a little

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Speaker 3: bit bitter as he was running his route. He kind

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Speaker 3: of sold it more like he was trying to rub

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Speaker 3: the guy. So that's what I saw on it. Just

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Speaker 3: Alc grew a little bit more acting, so to speak,

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Speaker 3: to sell that you know what, I'm running a route,

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Speaker 3: so don't throw the flag on me.

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Speaker 1: But Josh Dowens was so open on.

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Speaker 3: That play that the referee probably thought, you know what,

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Speaker 3: something's fishy here and I'm going to throw the flag.

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Speaker 2: Do you think And I don't know, I kind of

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Speaker 2: had this thought in the moment Bill that after Josh

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Speaker 2: wide open, they ran the scissors concept and Alec ran

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Speaker 2: into the corner and that was that was not a pickplay.

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Speaker 2: That was just they ran into each other. That other

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Speaker 2: coaches have maybe gone to the refs and said, hey,

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Speaker 2: that in that situation where it that that's not like

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Speaker 2: your traditional pick play, right, Yeah, it's two routes that

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Speaker 2: quicker to throw those flags against the Colts. I don't

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Speaker 2: tinfoil hat theory. But in that moment, I you know,

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Speaker 2: when I rewatched it, I was like, I don't think

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Speaker 2: this is like your traditional pick play where you know,

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Speaker 2: it gets called because the wide receiver puts his hands

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Speaker 2: But I do wonder if officials are maybe a little

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Speaker 3: Now, well, I'm sure that other coaches on other teams

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Speaker 3: have seen these play and seeing the coach run those plays,

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Speaker 3: and they probably make aware to the officials that hey,

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Speaker 3: this rub route on this type of play. So I'm

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Speaker 3: sure the referees are aware of it, and the other

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Speaker 3: coaches are aware of it as well because they've watched

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Speaker 3: the film and they've seen it.

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Speaker 1: But I just think when you run those plays, you.

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Speaker 3: Have to really sell it like you're running a route

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Speaker 3: and not look like you're trying to, you know, possibly

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Speaker 3: get an advantage by bumping into somebody. Sell like you're

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Speaker 1: All you need is a second or.

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Speaker 3: Two seconds for Josh downs in this case, or another

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Speaker 3: receiver just to get open to make them that open.

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Speaker 3: So maybe Alex could have done a better job of

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Speaker 3: selling your route.

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Speaker 2: That one in that moment their Bill where Detroit's up

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Speaker 2: fourteen to six and it's you're kind of midway ish

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Speaker 2: through third quarter, nine minutes to go, but it had

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Speaker 2: just come on a drive that it was like like

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Speaker 2: fifty seconds of game time previously. Another play that was negated,

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Speaker 2: that was the seven yard or two Josh downs negated

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Speaker 2: by I think that was the hands of the face

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Speaker 2: on Quinton Nelson. You were able to overcome that with

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Speaker 2: a completion to Michael Pittman Junior. And then you get

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Speaker 2: this other one and Bill like, as a player, when

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Speaker 2: you get these chunk plays and then you turn around

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Speaker 2: and you see laundry on the field, how deflating is that?

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Speaker 2: How difficult is it to kind of get mentally back

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Speaker 2: you know, and you're backed up in your own territory

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Speaker 2: asposed to first and ten in opponent territory.

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Speaker 1: It's defling.

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Speaker 3: It's deflating because you know what could have been in

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Speaker 3: regards to the play that you could have made if

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Speaker 3: that wasn't a penalty. So it is defloating at the moment,

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Speaker 3: but you really have to forget about it and move

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Speaker 3: on to the next play to try to hopefully make

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Speaker 1: So at first it's deflating, but you really have to just.

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Speaker 3: Forget about it and move forward and get ready for

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Speaker 3: the next play because you're gonna have a next play.

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Speaker 3: You got to try to make up that yard, yeah, somehow,

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Speaker 1: But it is it is difficult at first.

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Speaker 2: So the Colts in this game bill, they had ten

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Speaker 2: plays on which they were fifteen or more yards shy

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Speaker 2: low percentage plays that are really difficult, especially against a

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Speaker 2: in those situations, it's really hard just to even move

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Speaker 2: those plays I mentioned with Richardson the four completions he

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Speaker 2: all ended in a punt on those four completions that

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Speaker 2: were called back for a penalty. So you're only going

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Speaker 2: to get so many bites of the apple against this

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Speaker 2: Lions team, and when they don't count, it's really really

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Speaker 2: difficult to overcome that against the team as good as

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Speaker 2: the Detroit Lions.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it is.

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Speaker 3: It's very difficult to overcome that, and they knew that

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Speaker 1: In regards to the coach, knowing that, you know.

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Speaker 3: What, you're gonna have to play a full sixty minutes

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Speaker 3: ball downfield. You can't beat yourselves by having penalties. It's

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Speaker 3: tough enough to play the Lions. They play hard, as

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Speaker 3: I mentioned earlier, for full sixty minutes, and to go

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Speaker 3: against this team, you have to make sure that you're

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Speaker 3: hopefully when you get in the red zone you score

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Speaker 1: But when you have these your first and.

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Speaker 3: makes it tough to convert those into first downs.

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Speaker 1: And you know when the Coats were what three or.

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Speaker 3: Twelve on third down, that makes it very difficult to

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Speaker 3: sustain drives, and you know part of that. We've talked

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Speaker 3: about this before weeks before this game about time possession.

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Speaker 3: I mean, you can't get first downs on third down,

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Speaker 3: time possession is going to go down, which puts more

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Speaker 3: score points because one of the things you want to

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Speaker 3: to score points, and when they have more opportunities, eventually

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Speaker 3: they're going to score some points.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean the Colts to start this game off,

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Speaker 2: Bill did have those opportunities to go down and score

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Speaker 2: on two of their first three possessions that got into

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Speaker 2: execution things pop up on those two drives that I

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Speaker 2: think Bill could have set a tone that hey, you

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Speaker 2: know we're here, we can match your physicality. We've come

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Speaker 2: to play in this game. We know you're gonna score

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Speaker 2: some points, but we can score two and that first one.

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Speaker 2: So the Colts win the opening coin toss and they

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Speaker 2: elect to receive and they go right on downfield. Anthony Richardson,

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Speaker 2: I mean, you talk about matching the lines physicality. Anthony

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Speaker 2: Richardson's blown it out of the water on that first drive,

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Speaker 2: but the way he was running the football, Shane Styken

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Speaker 2: kind of got in his bag a little bit with

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Speaker 2: some of the play calls there. He got a little

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Speaker 2: pop pass to Josh Downs that got some good yards.

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Speaker 2: Colts get down to a second and two at the

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Speaker 2: four yard line and this is where things go haywire.

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Speaker 2: They hand it off to Jonathan Taylor, he does not

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Speaker 2: gain anything. Then on third and two you run an

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Speaker 2: RPO that kind of gets blown up. Anthony Richardson tries

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Speaker 2: because it's an RPO, Bill Quintin Nelson's already downfield, so

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Speaker 2: he gets flagged for an eligible man downfield. That leads

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Speaker 2: to a third and seven that Anthony Richardson just does

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Speaker 2: and that right there, Okay, you have to settle for

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Speaker 2: three points when you have the ball in the four

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Speaker 2: That second drive, Bill that you mentioned, that ended in

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I thought that was good by Anthony what he said.

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Speaker 3: And you know what, for Anthony to come out and

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Speaker 1: And I think that was a good thing and a

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Speaker 1: But that was a good thing. So it's good to

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Speaker 2: All right, more on the Colts Lions game right after

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Speaker 2: a beat with Sony headphones. All right, Bill, So the

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Speaker 3: and then we'll try to get some pressure on Anthony

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Speaker 3: when he's back there in the pocket, you know, it

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Speaker 3: makes the team, the Coats, one dimensional, and it puts

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Speaker 3: more pressure on Anthony, and that's makes it makes it

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Speaker 3: very difficult to win football games when you're in your

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Speaker 3: one dimensional from an offensive standpoint, and you can't run

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Speaker 3: the ball, which can set up your play action pass,

447
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Speaker 3: which can set up some other plays down the field.

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Speaker 3: You want to get everyone involved, and JT's too valuable

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Speaker 3: of a player to not have involved in an offense

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Speaker 3: and not make those big plays because he can make

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Speaker 3: those big exposive plays at any time. You want to

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Speaker 3: be able to have that in your in your game plan.

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Speaker 3: So hopefully that you know the Coats can get the

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Speaker 3: running game going in regards to Jonathan Taylor or the

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Speaker 3: running back, and then just add to Anthony Richison running

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Speaker 3: the ball as well, and then that will help the

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Speaker 3: passing game and then the offense can be clicking on

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Speaker 3: all cylinders.

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Speaker 1: And that's what you want, especially playing teams.

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Speaker 3: That are good and like Detroit lines, but even moving forward,

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Speaker 3: you just want to play well. The part of playing

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Speaker 3: well is having all parts of the offense working effectively

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Speaker 3: and being able to move the ball down the field

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Speaker 3: to score points.

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Speaker 2: One last thing on the offense bill that was really

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Speaker 2: good to see is Michael Pittman Junior in this game

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Speaker 2: six catches for ninety six yards on seven targets. He

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Speaker 2: went out briefly with I think it was a maybe

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Speaker 2: a shoulder or something where but he was able to

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Speaker 2: come right back into the game and didn't look any

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Speaker 2: worse for the wear. I mean, this game from pitt

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Speaker 2: was kind of what we've been waiting for. This year,

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Speaker 2: I think like, yeah, we know he's banged up. We

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Speaker 2: know he is not one hundred percent Michael Pittman, might

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Speaker 2: not even be ninety or eighty percent Michael Pittman. But

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Speaker 2: you can still get a game like this out of

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Speaker 2: number eleven. That's really encouraging for this offense going forward. Bill.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, Pitt's going to grit it out. He's

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Speaker 3: going to be out there, he's going to play hard.

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Speaker 3: He's gonna do what he can to help this football

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Speaker 3: team win, whatever it takes, if it's blocking, if it's

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Speaker 3: going downfield, catching the ball in a.

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Speaker 1: Crowd and making a play, and what he did today.

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Speaker 3: So it's good to see Pitt, you know, have this

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Speaker 3: type of game where he caught what six passes for

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Speaker 3: ninety six yards on seven targets.

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Speaker 1: Good game for Pitt, played hard, played physical.

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Speaker 3: Just hope you know he can recover and be ready

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Speaker 3: to play next week going up to New England.

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Speaker 2: Defensively for the Colts, Bill in this game, that they

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Speaker 2: hold the lines to five point four yards per play,

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Speaker 2: that's the second lowest yards per play rate Detroit's had

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Speaker 2: all year. Lion score twenty four points, that is tied

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Speaker 2: for their third lowest point output, which is just ridiculous,

495
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Speaker 2: their third lowest point output of the year. But Detroit

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Speaker 2: was able to kind of control possession of this game.

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Speaker 2: They converted a number of like third in mediums by

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Speaker 2: just handing the ball off to David Montgomery or Jamior Gibbs.

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Speaker 2: Those were those are killers I think for this This

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Speaker 2: Colts defense, Jared Goff was efficient twenty six to thirty

501
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Speaker 2: six for two sixty nine. He only put the ball

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Speaker 2: into Harm's way twice. One time he almost got picked

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Speaker 2: off by Sam Wollmack the third towards the end of

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Speaker 2: the first half, and then Layoutu Latu had a strip

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Speaker 2: sack of him that the Lions were able to recover.

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Speaker 2: That was a big moment in the game where you know,

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Speaker 2: if the Colts can take over possession there, maybe they

508
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Speaker 2: were able to go go down and flip the momentum

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Speaker 2: in the game. But just kind of felt like a

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Speaker 2: game where Detroit was able to keep the Colts at

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Speaker 2: arm's length, even if they were not the you know,

512
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Speaker 2: ruthlessly efficient and ruthlessly explosive unit that we've seen at

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Speaker 2: times this year.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, you know, there a team that has

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Speaker 3: averaged thirty three points a game from an offensive standpoint,

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Speaker 3: and then you know, Cole tell them to twenty four points.

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Speaker 3: So when you do that, you know you can you

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Speaker 3: figure that, Hey, going into this game, you can hold

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Speaker 3: the Detroit Lions twenty four points. You feel pretty good

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Speaker 3: about yourself in regards to the Coast coming out winning

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Speaker 3: this football game. But you know what the Lions did

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Speaker 3: just enough to say, hey, look know what, we have

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Speaker 3: this game under control. We know what we're doing. We

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Speaker 3: probably have two of the best running backs in the

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Speaker 3: National Football League as far as a dual tandem in

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Speaker 3: the National Football League. And when they need to run

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Speaker 3: the ball, they ran the ball and they need to get.

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Speaker 1: A big first down.

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Speaker 3: You know, they had Aman Ross Saint Brown and then

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Speaker 3: they have Reporter, so they got the ball to them.

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Speaker 1: They got the ball to Gibbs outside.

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Speaker 3: So they did a nice job of spreading the ball

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Speaker 3: around and kind of getting the ball to the outside

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Speaker 3: and letting those guys run in some space to run

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Speaker 3: by getting the ball to them outside. So give the

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Speaker 3: Lions credit. They had a game plan and they execute

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Speaker 3: their game plan. And you know what the Colts defense

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Speaker 3: they they did. Okay, let's just say that they did. Okay,

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Speaker 3: you know, hold them the twenty four points I thought

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Speaker 3: was good. But unfortunately, the unfortunately the Lions just you know,

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Speaker 3: they knew what they had to do and they did it,

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Speaker 3: and they you know, they ran the ball pretty well today.

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Speaker 1: Give them credit, all right.

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Speaker 2: So I want to end this podcast with just a

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Speaker 2: bit of a reality check of where the Colts are

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Speaker 2: in the AFC. So they're currently sitting ninth at five

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Speaker 2: and seven, behind the Miami Dolphins who are at five

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Speaker 2: and six, and then the number seven seed Denver Broncos

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Speaker 2: they're seven and five. The Baltimore Ravens are at seven

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Speaker 2: and four. I think Baltimore is a pretty good team.

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Speaker 2: I'm probably not looking at the Colts catching Baltimore down

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Speaker 2: the stretch back. Could be wrong about that. We'll see.

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Speaker 2: So the Colts. The most important things here for the

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Speaker 2: Colts are they are four and four in the AFC.

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Speaker 2: So today's loss, it's stunk, but it's an NFC loss.

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Speaker 2: You can it's good of a loss as you're gonna

557
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Speaker 2: get is losing to the NFC. The Colts have a

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Speaker 2: head to head tie breaker against the Miami Dolphins, so

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Speaker 2: that's good. And they played the Denver Broncos in Week fifteen.

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Speaker 2: That is also good if the Colts. If the Colts

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Speaker 2: can win out, or even if they win for their

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Speaker 2: last five and they beat Denver, this team still is

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Speaker 2: a really good shot at making the playoffs. That's the

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Speaker 2: reality of this team. It may not feel like it

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Speaker 2: right now, but the Colts remaining games are. They're not

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Speaker 2: playing the Lions down the stretch. Let's just say that

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Speaker 2: they go to New England, they get the bye, they

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Speaker 2: go to Denver. That's the big one right there. Home

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Speaker 2: against Tennessee, at the New York Giants who lost thirty

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Speaker 2: to seven today, and then home against the Jacksonville Jaguars.

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Speaker 2: So look, anything can happen. I mean, the Titans just

572
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Speaker 2: went to Houston and they won that game. Yes, vision

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Speaker 2: the division, the AFC South is not settled yet, even

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Speaker 2: though the Colts are effectively three games behind Houston with

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Speaker 2: five to play. But look, Colts go to New England

576
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Speaker 2: and they win that game, and they go into the

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Speaker 2: by at six and seven with a crack at Denver.

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Speaker 2: Don't count this team out. That You're seeing enough encouraging

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Speaker 2: things from Anthony Richardson that I'm not going to count

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Speaker 2: out the Colts just yet. They got to clean some

581
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Speaker 2: stuff up. You cannot have these penalties. You've got to

582
00:28:26,600 --> 00:28:30,920
Speaker 2: be able to get Jonathan Taylor going. But this team

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Speaker 2: is not buried yet. They are not done yet, Bill,

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Speaker 2: and I'm still gonna sit here on November twenty fourth

585
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Speaker 2: and say this team could make a run between Thanksgiving

586
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Speaker 2: and Christmas. That could set them up to play some

587
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Speaker 2: really important games in week seventeen, in Week eighteen.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the season's definitely not over with yet. I mean,

589
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Speaker 3: there's still a lot of football to play. And you know,

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Speaker 3: the Coast can go out there and just just focus

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Speaker 3: on what they need to do, focus on the things

592
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Speaker 3: they need to clean up, focus on things they need

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Speaker 3: to go out there and next cute. As far as

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Speaker 3: a game plan, and you know, don't look at you know,

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Speaker 3: don't look at the picture as far as making the playoffs,

596
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Speaker 3: look at look at it as we need to play better.

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Speaker 3: And if we play better and we go out there,

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Speaker 3: next cute and we win these games what.

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Speaker 1: You want to do.

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Speaker 3: But you also want to win the games by playing

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Speaker 3: well in all three phases.

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Speaker 1: If you can do.

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Speaker 3: That, then at the end of the season, you look

604
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Speaker 3: at the standings and say, okay, hey, look, you know what,

605
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Speaker 3: we made it to the playoffs. But you're not only

606
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Speaker 3: made to the playoffs, but you're playing good football going

607
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Speaker 3: into the playoffs, and that's what you really want. You

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Speaker 3: want to be playing good football going into the playoffs.

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Speaker 3: So the coach just focus on what they need to

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Speaker 3: focus on and just not worry about trying to win

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Speaker 3: all these games. Don't get me wrong, you want to

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Speaker 3: win the games that that is the most important thing.

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Speaker 1: But what will help is playing well. That gives you

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Speaker 1: a little bit more confidence as you.

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Speaker 3: Go into the stretch at the end of this season

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Speaker 3: and then hopefully going to the playoffs with confidence knowing

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Speaker 3: that hey, we're playing so good football and we're gonna

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Speaker 3: be a tough out.

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Speaker 1: Once we get into the playoffs.

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Speaker 3: So the Coast definitely have a good chance of making

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Speaker 3: the playoffs and getting in, but they have to clamp

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Speaker 3: the stuff that they messed up on today, mistakes they

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Speaker 3: made today, and moving forward, just play their game and hopefully,

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Speaker 3: hopefully things by the end of season will work out.

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Speaker 1: So the Coasts are playing in the playoffs, all right.

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Speaker 2: a Colts win to go into the bye week with

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Speaker 2: a little bit of momentum for Bill Brooks, I'm JJ Stankowitz.

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