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Speaker 1: What's up everyone? Welcome into another episode of Instant Reaction

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Speaker 1: here on the Colts Audio Network and on the Colts

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Speaker 1: YouTube page. We are presented by Sony and I'm joined

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Speaker 1: every week by my friend Bill Brooks to break down

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Speaker 1: the Colts' latest game. Bill, the Colts win thirty eight

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Speaker 1: to thirty over the Tennessee Titans on Sunday at Lucas

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Speaker 1: Oil Stadium. They improve to seven and eight. They remain

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Speaker 1: very much in the hunt for the NFL playoffs. They

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Speaker 1: still need a lot to go their way. We are

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Speaker 1: here to talk about this game, though we'll leave the

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Speaker 1: playoff prognostications for a later podcast. I'm sure we'll talk

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Speaker 1: about that this week on the Official Colts podcast. Some

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Speaker 1: are some of the other podcast offerings we have. Bill,

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Speaker 1: I want to start here, and it's with the redemption

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Speaker 1: arc for Jonathan Taylor, for him to have the game

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Speaker 1: he had today, which was remarkable twenty nine carries, two

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Speaker 1: hundred and eighteen yards, three touchdowns, touchdowns of sixty five

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Speaker 1: and seventy yards in this game. Built for him to

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Speaker 1: have such a low, like a career low against Denver,

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Speaker 1: dropping the football before he gets in the end zone

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Speaker 1: to come out of that and then put up this game.

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Speaker 1: I think, to me, that speaks a lot about the

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Speaker 1: resiliency he possesses, the mentality he possesses, And with that context,

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Speaker 1: I thought, this is one of the most impressive games

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Speaker 1: of Jonathan Taylor's career.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's very impressive when you see what he is,

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Speaker 2: what he did last week, and what happened to him,

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Speaker 2: the unfortunate thing where he dropped the ball before he

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Speaker 2: got into the end zone. For him to go through

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Speaker 2: the whole week and that playing on his mind and

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Speaker 2: thinking about it, I'm sure he wanted to get back

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Speaker 2: on the field right away, to go back out and

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Speaker 2: play a game. But then for him to wait the

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Speaker 2: whole week to try to put that out of his

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Speaker 2: mind and prepare this upcoming game against the Tennessee Titans,

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Speaker 2: and then for him to go out there and run

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Speaker 2: the ball the way he did and the fashion he did,

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Speaker 2: how hard he did, and have success he did on

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Speaker 2: his mental makeup, him going out there wanting to, uh,

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Speaker 2: not so much prove anything to anybody, but just go

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Speaker 2: out there and kind of say, Okay, what happened in

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Speaker 2: the past that did happen and more unlikely it's not

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Speaker 2: going to ever happen again to him. But I want

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Speaker 2: to show people what I can do, and not to

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Speaker 2: show people what he can do, but just go out

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Speaker 2: there to perform for his teammates for himself, and he

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Speaker 2: did that for the Midnapolis coach today, have very impressive

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Speaker 2: day today in running with football.

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Speaker 1: So let's talk about these two long touchdown runs because

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Speaker 1: I think what we always need to remember with these

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Speaker 1: So on this first run, Colter and Pistol, they motioned

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Speaker 2: Last Yes speak because they've kind of used.

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Speaker 1: Him, right, is that not necessarily a fullback, but almost

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Speaker 1: That's an adjustment the Colts have made with their run game.

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Speaker 1: And on this one, JT takes the handoff, Drew seals

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Speaker 1: then Jonathan Taylor this cutback he makes where he's in

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Speaker 1: An awesome, awesome play right there. But again, Bill, it

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Speaker 2: It takes everyone on the field to make a play

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Speaker 2: Usually when you have a big run in the National

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Speaker 2: as you said, JJ, it takes everyone doing their job

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Speaker 2: no long touchdown. Without the tight ends making the blocks

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Speaker 2: And for Jonathan's vision to be able to make those

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Speaker 1: All right, let's talk about everyone on the other long run.

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Speaker 1: Just like again, these little things, these little details in

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Speaker 1: and he kept saying over and over again, everyone's gonna

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Speaker 1: But it takes all eleven guys. It takes everyone been

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Speaker 1: I thought that was interesting because Simmons is a good player,

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Speaker 1: he's right. He's absolutely right. When you give up two

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Speaker 1: the defensive line, it's not just the linebackers. It's not

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Speaker 1: those Colts players making plays against those guys that lead

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Speaker 2: Exactly like you said, you know what, sometimes it doesn't

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Speaker 2: All you need to do is get in the defender's way,

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Speaker 2: in the football game, it takes the whole team. When

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Speaker 1: Another play where I thought this stood out Bill was

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Speaker 1: late in the second quarter, and when Richardson threw this ball,

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Speaker 1: on this play, a Moni hooker kind of takes a

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Speaker 1: But then the thing I noticed is Ady Mitchell blocking

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Speaker 1: Shadobi a Woozya, and he's able to engage with him

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Speaker 1: want to highlight Ady Mitchell here real quick, because he's

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Speaker 1: You don't expect it to look pretty from a wide receiver,

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Speaker 1: I think I'm more impressed with that from Ady Mitchell

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Speaker 1: but you like seeing that competitiveness that physicality, and I

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Speaker 2: Oh by far. You want to be a complete receiver,

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Speaker 2: and a complete receiver means running your routes even though

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Speaker 2: you're not getting the ball, and also not just running

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Speaker 2: Mitchell getting in the way doesn't have to pancake anyone.

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Speaker 2: All you have to do is getting away. Josh Downs

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Speaker 2: And that's all Josh Downs needed was just a little

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Speaker 2: see the end result. They're going to see just Josh

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Speaker 2: Downs made a big play. But you look at it,

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Speaker 2: as you said, it takes other people to make these

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Speaker 2: successful plays, and Ady Mitchell made a big play by

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Speaker 2: Josh Downs can have an opportunity to make a big play.

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Speaker 1: I love that you brought up that completion to Pittman, Bill,

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Speaker 1: Huge play in this game where if that pass is airmailed,

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Speaker 1: that play right there, Bill, You're right to bring that

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Speaker 1: the Indianapolis Colts. All right, Bill, So let's talk about

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Speaker 1: on their first nine in this game. So that right there,

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Speaker 1: I think the Colts need to look at, you know,

435
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Speaker 1: take a hard look at that and say, hey, we

436
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Speaker 1: had this game in our control, we let Tennessee back

437
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Speaker 1: into it. How do we make sure over these final

438
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Speaker 1: two games that we don't leave this thing to chance

439
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Speaker 1: that if we do get a big league lead, we

440
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Speaker 1: kind of put our thumb on it and we make

441
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Speaker 1: sure that that opponent does not get to come back

442
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Speaker 1: in the game and of a shot to win it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you want to put them away. You want to

444
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Speaker 2: put a team away so they don't have a chance.

445
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Speaker 2: And I think there was a one point in the

446
00:22:21,080 --> 00:22:23,800
Speaker 2: game where the Coats had an opportunity to go up.

447
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Speaker 2: I think it would have been forty one to fifteen.

448
00:22:26,280 --> 00:22:28,280
Speaker 2: They had a chance for a fifty yard field fifty

449
00:22:28,280 --> 00:22:31,560
Speaker 2: five yard field goal, they missed the field goal, and

450
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Speaker 2: Tennessee got the ball in good field position at the

451
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Speaker 2: at their own forty five yard line. So when they

452
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Speaker 2: got the good field position, they went down and scored

453
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Speaker 2: and it changed to me. It changed the game a

454
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Speaker 2: little bit at that point. So the Coats have to

455
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Speaker 2: figure out a way to make sure that Hey, look,

456
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Speaker 2: if they don't make the field goal, the defense has

457
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Speaker 2: to come up big and stop them from scoring a touchdown.

458
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Speaker 2: Because Tennessee went down, had a good field position that

459
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Speaker 2: I said, and scored a touchdown to make it thirty

460
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Speaker 2: eight I think at that time. So it was a

461
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Speaker 2: big play for the Tennessee Titans, a big swing right there.

462
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Speaker 2: So the Coasts have to figure out how they can

463
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Speaker 2: put teams away. You want to put teams away. When

464
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Speaker 2: you get teams down, you don't want to give them

465
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Speaker 2: any life at all. You just want to put them away. So,

466
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Speaker 2: you know what, it's an easy coast to the end

467
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Speaker 2: of the game. It won't be easy, but you won't

468
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Speaker 2: be stressed like the Coats were today where Tennessee Titans

469
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Speaker 2: came back, they made it a one score game and

470
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Speaker 2: having a chance to possibly tie the game if things

471
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Speaker 2: didn't go the way they went today, and the Coast

472
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Speaker 2: didn't make the plays they needed to make in that

473
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Speaker 2: last drive and then some other plays earlier.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that. I think that this is kind

475
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Speaker 1: of another one of those games to the Colts defense

476
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Speaker 1: where they played awesome for call it forty minutes forty

477
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Speaker 1: five minutes of this game, and I think they're gonna

478
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Speaker 1: they're gonna think more about the last fifteen to twenty

479
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Speaker 1: minutes of this game than they are the first forty. Now,

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Speaker 1: having said that, Kenny Moore the second had another awesome game.

481
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Speaker 1: He gets two picks, including the one that seals the game, which,

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Speaker 1: by the way, I want to if anyone in the

483
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Speaker 1: stadium notice this, I want to hand up apologize. I

484
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Speaker 1: thought Will Levis was in the game. I'm looking at

485
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Speaker 1: I didn't have binoculars on, and I'm looking at I'm thinking, Oh,

486
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Speaker 1: they're gonna put Levis in because he's got a bigger

487
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Speaker 1: arm for you know, the last second play of the game.

488
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Speaker 1: So I actually announced that Kenny Moore picked off Will

489
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Speaker 1: Levis to end the game or the PA It was

490
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Speaker 1: not Will Levis. I'm very sorry to Will Levis. He's

491
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Speaker 1: thrown a lot of picks this year, that was not

492
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Speaker 1: one of them, so full on apology hand ups. Screwed

493
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Speaker 1: that one up. But shout out to Kenny. He had

494
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Speaker 1: a really good game today. Sam Wollmacket's an interception, He's

495
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Speaker 1: got picks and consecutive games. That's really neat to see

496
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Speaker 1: for him. But yeah, game that I think the defense

497
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Speaker 1: is probably gonna be a little just not fully celebrating

498
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Speaker 1: given that. I think they feel like they should have

499
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Speaker 1: won this game by multiple scores.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they're happy that they won, but I'm sure that

501
00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:08,040
Speaker 2: they look at it hey and look and say, hey, look,

502
00:25:08,080 --> 00:25:09,720
Speaker 2: there are some things that we could have done better

503
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Speaker 2: out there. There's some things that we probably could have

504
00:25:12,680 --> 00:25:14,600
Speaker 2: done better to maybe ice the game a little bit

505
00:25:14,600 --> 00:25:18,120
Speaker 2: earlier and get off the field and give the ball

506
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Speaker 2: back to the offense. But unfortunately that didn't happen. And

507
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Speaker 2: you know, they have to learn from that, learn from

508
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Speaker 2: it going forward and just hopefully don't make those same mistakes,

509
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Speaker 2: but hopefully get off the field a little bit earlier

510
00:25:29,680 --> 00:25:32,159
Speaker 2: and those things are going to happen. It's tough to

511
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Speaker 2: win football games in the National Football League, and it's

512
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Speaker 2: tough very really do you see blowouts in the National

513
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Speaker 2: Football League. These players are competitive, they have pride, they

514
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Speaker 2: want to go out and they don't want to be

515
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Speaker 2: embarrassed out there in the football field. So they're going

516
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Speaker 2: to do their best to try to close that gap.

517
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Speaker 2: So it doesn't look the score doesn't look that bad.

518
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Speaker 2: So give it Tennessee Tighten some credit for what they

519
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Speaker 2: did to come back to try to try to tie

520
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Speaker 2: the game up. And you know, probably they want to

521
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Speaker 2: go into over time and see if they can win

522
00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:04,719
Speaker 2: it in overtime. But the Coast did enough just to

523
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Speaker 2: win the game, and that's all you want to do.

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Speaker 2: You want to win the game. But there are things

525
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Speaker 2: that Coats are going to need to clean up. You

526
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Speaker 2: want to play betty, you want to play good football.

527
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Speaker 2: They want to clean up, need to clean up some

528
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Speaker 2: things moving forward, and definitely want to do it this

529
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Speaker 2: week in preparation for the New York Giants.

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Speaker 1: Thirty eight points Bill is the most point scored by

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Speaker 1: the Colts in the game since last year in Week

532
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Speaker 1: seven or eight when they lost to the Cleveland Week

533
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Speaker 1: seven when they lost to the Cleveland Browns thirty nine

534
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Speaker 1: to thirty eight. It is their highest point total in

535
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Speaker 1: a win since they went and beat the Buffalo Bills

536
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Speaker 1: back in twenty twenty one.

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Speaker 2: That was the.

538
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Speaker 1: Jonathan Taylor five touchdown game. So it's been a little

539
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Speaker 1: bit since the Colts have scored the points and left

540
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Speaker 1: the stadium feeling pretty good about themselves. Hopefully again, Bill,

541
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Speaker 1: you're right, you take that momentum into New York next week.

542
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Speaker 1: The Giants are two to thirteen. They got boat raced

543
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Speaker 1: by the Atlanta Falcons today, a team that is having

544
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Speaker 1: some real issues this year. They are competing for the

545
00:27:01,359 --> 00:27:03,840
Speaker 1: number one overall pick next year, if you can call

546
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Speaker 1: that competing. By the way, shout out to the Las

547
00:27:06,920 --> 00:27:10,800
Speaker 1: Vegas Raiders. They won their game nineteen to fourteen over

548
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Speaker 1: the Jaguars. So now actually the Giants have sole possession

549
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Speaker 1: of the number one overall pick, if that is something

550
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Speaker 1: that anyone on that Giants team is so concerned about.

551
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Speaker 1: But Bill, just real quick, but before we get into

552
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Speaker 1: that game, like you've been on teams that have been

553
00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:27,720
Speaker 1: you know, in that realm right of how are we

554
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Speaker 1: gonna get the number one overall pick or not? Players

555
00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:33,360
Speaker 1: don't care about that, right, That's not something that you're

556
00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:35,760
Speaker 1: like discussing in the locker room of like, hey man,

557
00:27:35,800 --> 00:27:37,359
Speaker 1: we lose this game, We're about to get a really

558
00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:39,200
Speaker 1: good player to come in and take someone else's job

559
00:27:39,240 --> 00:27:41,679
Speaker 1: on this team. Like that, I can't imagine that's something

560
00:27:41,720 --> 00:27:43,200
Speaker 1: that's really talked about a whole lot.

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Speaker 2: No, the guys aren't thinking about the draft next year

562
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Speaker 2: in twenty twenty five. The guys are thinking about the

563
00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:52,320
Speaker 2: game they have to play coming up against the New

564
00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:54,359
Speaker 2: York Giants. That's what they're thinking about. They want to

565
00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:56,960
Speaker 2: go out there, they want to compete. These guys are competitors.

566
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Speaker 2: They've been competing for a long time in their lives.

567
00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:02,159
Speaker 2: So they want to go out and make sure that

568
00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:04,720
Speaker 2: they put out a good product on the football field,

569
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Speaker 2: show people that, hey, look we are a good football team.

570
00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:09,919
Speaker 2: We want to go out and play well, and we

571
00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:11,880
Speaker 2: are going to try our best to play well. So

572
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Speaker 2: they're not thinking about the draft position, They're not thinking

573
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Speaker 2: about getting a good pick or anything like that. They're

574
00:28:19,119 --> 00:28:23,840
Speaker 2: thinking about going out playing what well, playing hard. They

575
00:28:23,840 --> 00:28:26,000
Speaker 2: set a stand up for themselves how they want to play,

576
00:28:26,160 --> 00:28:27,960
Speaker 2: and they want to try to meet that standard when

577
00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:29,919
Speaker 2: every time they go out there and play on the

578
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Speaker 2: football field. So that's what that's what those guys are

579
00:28:32,280 --> 00:28:35,359
Speaker 2: thinking about, not thinking about anything else, not thinking about

580
00:28:35,680 --> 00:28:40,720
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five, what draft picks are going to Coats

581
00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:43,840
Speaker 2: are going to get because they don't know, and a

582
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Speaker 2: lot of things can happen between now end of the

583
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Speaker 2: season and the draft next year in April. So the

584
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Speaker 2: guys are only concerned about right now, and they're concern

585
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Speaker 2: is celebrate today's when tonight, then tomorrow it comes time

586
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Speaker 2: to get ready to prepare for the Giants. That's where

587
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Speaker 2: their mind is and that's where they're focused on.

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Speaker 1: All right, Well, we're gonna have a lot more answers

589
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Speaker 1: bill about the AFC playoff race the next time you

590
00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:12,280
Speaker 1: and I talk on this podcast. After the Colts played

591
00:29:12,280 --> 00:29:15,080
Speaker 1: the New York Giants next weekend on Saturday, Before the

592
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Speaker 1: Colts play the Giants, you've got two huge games. You've

593
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Speaker 1: got Chargers at Patriots, a game the Colts need the

594
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Speaker 1: Chargers to lose if they have any shot at catching

595
00:29:24,160 --> 00:29:27,800
Speaker 1: Los Angeles. And then you've got Denver at Cincinnati, a

596
00:29:27,840 --> 00:29:31,160
Speaker 1: game that if Denver loses, that Cincinnati wins, all that

597
00:29:31,240 --> 00:29:34,000
Speaker 1: has to happen in quotes is the Colts then beat

598
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Speaker 1: the Giants. Week eighteen would then matter if there would

599
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Speaker 1: be a three way tie. So if Denver would have

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Speaker 1: lose in Week eighteen to the Bengals, the Bank or

601
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Speaker 1: to the Chiefs, excuse me, the Bengals win in the

602
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Speaker 1: Week eighteen, you would have a three way tie of

603
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Speaker 1: teams at nine and eight. If the Colts beat the

604
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Speaker 1: Jaguars in that scenario, the Colts get in the playoffs.

605
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Speaker 1: Same goes if the Miami Dolphins go nine to eight,

606
00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:55,920
Speaker 1: the Broncos go nine to eight, and the Colts go

607
00:29:56,040 --> 00:29:59,240
Speaker 1: nine to eight. So a lot of scenarios still could

608
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Speaker 1: play out. I think all that all that you're hoping for, Bill,

609
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Speaker 1: is that one of those results breaks your way on

610
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Speaker 1: Saturday and the Colts then win Sunday, and that Week

611
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Speaker 1: eighteen game against the Jaguars matters in some way, shape

612
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Speaker 1: or form, whether you know it works out for the

613
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Speaker 1: Colts and you make the playoffs or not having a

614
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Speaker 1: game in Week eighteen that matters, I think is really

615
00:30:20,160 --> 00:30:22,720
Speaker 1: important for this football team and it's something that they

616
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Speaker 1: absolutely will will take at this point in the season.

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Speaker 2: Definitely, and as far as right now, if the coach,

618
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Speaker 2: if you tell the players, hey, week eighteen, you're going

619
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Speaker 2: to have an opportunity to play to get in the playoffs.

620
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Speaker 2: Each player and that team will take that right now

621
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Speaker 2: something that they would want to do, because then it's

622
00:30:42,920 --> 00:30:45,880
Speaker 2: it's pretty much in their hands. And that's what you want,

623
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Speaker 2: a lot of it. You want to have control of

624
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Speaker 2: your own destiny, and right now the Coats don't have that.

625
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Speaker 2: But if they have the opportunity in week eighteen to

626
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Speaker 2: get that as far as have their their destiny as

627
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Speaker 2: far as making the playoffs in their own hands, they

628
00:31:00,760 --> 00:31:03,120
Speaker 2: would take that. And that's what you want. So we'll

629
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Speaker 2: see what happens. Just the Coats have to just worry

630
00:31:06,320 --> 00:31:08,280
Speaker 2: about the Colts right now. They can't worry about what

631
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Speaker 2: other teams are doing or not doing. Just worry about

632
00:31:11,280 --> 00:31:14,200
Speaker 2: the Coats and make sure they put themselves in position

633
00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:17,520
Speaker 2: if the opportunity comes that they can get into the

634
00:31:17,520 --> 00:31:20,560
Speaker 2: playoffs by playing well and wearing the final two games

635
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Speaker 2: of the regular season.

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Speaker 1: We'll still need a lot of help, but they yes

637
00:31:24,880 --> 00:31:28,560
Speaker 1: business on Sunday against the Titans. All right, real quick,

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Speaker 1: of Instant Reaction presented by Sony for Bill Brooks. I'm

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Speaker 1: JJ Stankomitz. We will talk to you next week after

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Speaker 1: the Colts face the New York Giants at MetLife Stadium.

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Speaker 2: So long,