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Speaker 1: Back here in the Colts Radio studio with JJ Stangovitz

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Speaker 1: across the way. I'm Matt Taylor and we are joined

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Speaker 1: in studio. Great pleasure to be with linebackers coach for

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Speaker 1: the Indianapolis Colts, Richard Smith is with us. Coach Smith,

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Speaker 1: what's going on? How are you not? Much? Very good?

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Speaker 1: Thank you for having welcome to Indianapolis. Take us through

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Speaker 1: this opportunity. How did it come about to join Gus

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Speaker 1: Bradley once again on his staff here with the Colts? Okay? Uh,

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Speaker 1: you know we were at the Raiders and then everybody

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Speaker 1: understands what happened there with coach Cruden. And so when

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Speaker 1: the year was over, you know, brand new head coach,

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Speaker 1: and when that thing does happen, you know, opportunities create

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Speaker 1: themselves elsewhere. And so you know we've been together, you know,

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Speaker 1: you know Ron Milas and myself and and uh, Coach

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Speaker 1: Bradley had been together about six years. So, um, what

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Speaker 1: he did he was fortunate to, you know, get the

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Speaker 1: come with. And I came in and met with Frank

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Speaker 1: What about Gus Bradley, you know, has has led to

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Speaker 1: such a strong relationship between you and him and obviously

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Speaker 1: coach Milis as well. You know, you haven't thirty something

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Speaker 1: years of coaching experience been now spending the last six

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Speaker 1: with Gus. What about him? You know kind of bonds

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Speaker 1: you guys. Well, you know years ago when I first

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Speaker 1: met him, M yeah, I was at Atlanta Falcons and

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Speaker 1: called and said I'd like coming for a visit an interview,

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Speaker 1: and I did that and Gus Bradley was there, and uh,

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Speaker 1: he's a unique person. You know, if you met him yet,

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Speaker 1: you know, you know what I'm talking about. There's not

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Speaker 1: a guy that I've ever met in the coaching profession

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Speaker 1: that's like him. And so it's a matter of fact,

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Speaker 1: I was supposed to stay one day, but I decided

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Speaker 1: he was such a great person. You know, we had

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Speaker 1: didn't like us coming in there. So you know, when

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Speaker 1: know a lot about that person. So we started a

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Speaker 1: bond that way, and and I think we're really good

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Speaker 1: And uh, you know, it's very fortunate that we're all together.

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Speaker 1: It's not like you're coming in learning a brand new system.

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Speaker 1: I understand what the system is, or we understand what

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Speaker 1: a great thing that we've had, you know, fortunate to

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Speaker 1: think we've been together a ten or eleven years now.

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Speaker 1: That's very rare that you find a secondary coach and

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Speaker 1: So uh, once again, we understand how each other works,

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Speaker 1: a it's a pretty good marriage that we have going on.

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Speaker 1: Coach JJ mentioned, you know, ten different NFL teams, seen

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Speaker 1: the way Gus has us plan for when they get

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Speaker 1: Now it's you know, we're you know, much more comfortable.

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Speaker 1: guys who were ex players. Okay, and that also not

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Speaker 1: only ex players, but they were ex players that were

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Speaker 1: trust me, he will grow from this experience. Last one

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Speaker 1: for me, coach, and then we'll cut you loose because

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Speaker 1: we know your your time is very valuable. So we

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Speaker 1: very much appreciate this visit. But what do you want

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Speaker 1: training camp. Well, I think it's it's very important. You know,

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Speaker 1: first of all, our plan and really, Gus, we've done

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Speaker 1: this enough times that we have a very good plan.

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Speaker 1: First of all when the guys come in, is that

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Speaker 1: we've made you know, point of attack tapes on our

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Speaker 1: and then you know, rather than get on the phone

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Speaker 1: want to do this in person. So once they come

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Speaker 1: it's a procedure, how we go through so now that

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Speaker 1: I know, not only you get to know the player,

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Speaker 1: bond that he knows that you do care about him, Okay,

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Speaker 1: and then also we're trying to get him better. Every

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Speaker 1: and so that's the first thing and then the other

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Speaker 1: thing is we teach a little bit differently here. We're

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Speaker 1: not going to come in and the first day and

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Speaker 1: start putting in a certain defense. We're going to talk concepts.

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Speaker 1: This is how we teach three deep. And let me

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Speaker 1: show you why we don't even say the words. We

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Speaker 1: teach in them concepts. When we pressure, we teach concepts.

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Speaker 1: So once you start to install a defense, it all

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Speaker 1: makes sense, okay. And it is absolutely critical because they

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Speaker 1: haven't been in this system. The language will be new, okay,

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Speaker 1: the techniques will be new. Some of the things that

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Speaker 1: you might demand that maybe the other staff thought differently of,

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Speaker 1: you know. In the whole thing is that them getting

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Speaker 1: to believe in you, you getting to believe in them.

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Speaker 1: Don't find out what their strengths and weaknesses are, and

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Speaker 1: let's just see if we can get this thing better

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Speaker 1: than it was a year ago. Absolutely, that's the plan.

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Speaker 1: That's Richard Smith, Linebackers coach now for the Indianapolis Colts coach.

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Speaker 1: Really appreciate the time and the inside. It's great to

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Speaker 1: meet you, Okay, same here, guys. Thank you