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

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Speaker 1: the debut episode for the twenty twenty four season here

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Speaker 1: on the Colts Audio Network and on YouTube. Finally, what

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Speaker 1: everyone's been looking for. You can see Bill Brooks's face

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Speaker 1: and my face as we talk about the latest Colts game.

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Speaker 1: As always, I am joined by Colts Ring of Honor

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Speaker 1: wide receiver Bill Brooks as we break down the Colts'

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Speaker 1: latest game.

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Speaker 2: Bill.

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Speaker 1: On Sunday, the twenty twenty four preseason got underway with

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Speaker 1: a thirty four to thirty loss to the Denver Broncos.

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Speaker 1: I say this every year. That's the only time we're

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Speaker 1: going to mention the score is in the open that

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Speaker 1: we have here for the podcast, because it doesn't matter.

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Speaker 1: Doesn't matter that the Colts lost this game. What matters, Bill,

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Speaker 1: first and foremost is that Anthony Richardson, for the first

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Speaker 1: time in three and eight days, put on a Colts jersey,

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Speaker 1: You put on a Colts helmet. He took some snaps,

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Speaker 1: He played seven total snaps on Sunday at Lucas Oil Stadium.

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Speaker 1: Let's start here, Bill, what did you see out of

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Speaker 1: Anthony Richardson? And the answer could honestly be like it's fine.

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Speaker 3: Well, what I saw Anthony Richardson is like, you know,

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Speaker 3: I don't think it's anything great. It wasn't anything bad.

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Speaker 3: I think he did a nice job out there when

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Speaker 3: he had opportunity to go out there and play.

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Speaker 2: You know, he was what two for four.

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Speaker 3: And then also the one play that I really really

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Speaker 3: liked was the passway through the Moyley cox as.

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Speaker 2: On time he threw it right where Moiley.

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Speaker 3: Could catch it and also away from the defender to

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Speaker 3: get Moyalley to turn up the field to gain about

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Speaker 3: nineteen yards on that play. So I like what he

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Speaker 3: did on that play. And he looked calm, He looked

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Speaker 3: he didn't have any look like he had any jitters

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Speaker 3: or anything for missing that much time from last year

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Speaker 3: coming into this year, playing his first game, getting back

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Speaker 3: in the coach you form, playing out there with his teammates.

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Speaker 3: So he looked good, not bad, not great or anything.

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Speaker 3: So I think it was a good performance by him.

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Speaker 3: Hopefully next time he goes out there he will be better.

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Speaker 3: But I think what you'll see is you'll see a

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Speaker 3: lot of him. If you go up to Grand Park

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Speaker 3: in his joint practice against Arizona Cardinals.

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Speaker 1: I mean, look, Bill, like we know this about preseason.

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Speaker 1: You're not showing anything right, Like, I mean, think think

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Speaker 1: about last year, how that first game against Jacksonville, some

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Speaker 1: of the run packages the Colts put in for Anthony,

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Speaker 1: just some of the plays, Like I think about that

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Speaker 1: completion to ogle Tree, the one to downs, just like

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Speaker 1: that stuff's not being put on film during the preseason.

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Speaker 1: And then you think about Week two, those two rushing

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Speaker 1: touchdowns Richardson had against Houston. There is no shot the

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Speaker 1: Colts are gonna put any of that on film in

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Speaker 1: the preseason. So you're going out there, you're kind of

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Speaker 1: shaking the rust off a little bit. You're going through

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Speaker 1: your pregame routine and you're running this very vanilla offense. Now,

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Speaker 1: I will give Anthony some credit in that. After the game,

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Speaker 1: he said, it doesn't really matter Bill, Like what's being called,

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Speaker 1: if it's basic whatever, you still want to go out

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Speaker 1: and execute the play exactly. And he thought they left

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Speaker 1: some stuff out there that The first incompletion he threw

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Speaker 1: was an unblocked pressure on Richardson's right. He threw right

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Speaker 1: at it, but he threw incomplete to Michael Pittman, I guess, Bill,

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Speaker 1: I want to get your thoughts on this, Like when

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Speaker 1: when players talk about going through their pregame routine and

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Speaker 1: it before, what is the value of doing that in

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Speaker 1: a preseason game with regards to not just Anthony Richardson,

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Speaker 1: junior Quinton Nelson. Some of these guys who you think, yeah,

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Speaker 2: I think the value to them is, you know, athletes

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Speaker 3: They like to create a habit of knowing what's going

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Speaker 3: game starts, you get into the huddle, you hear the

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Speaker 3: For me personally, I would like I like to get

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Speaker 3: it's very important that the starters got out there and played.

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Speaker 3: I'm sure Jonathan felt good just to get hit. I mean,

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Speaker 3: hearing the next play, and getting ready for the next

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Speaker 2: So I think that's the.

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Speaker 3: Value in going out there, playing in a preseason game

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Speaker 3: and going through all the things you need to go through.

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Speaker 2: To get ready for the game.

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Speaker 1: I do think for you know, for Anthony he talked

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Speaker 1: probably feels that. But again, to go back to it,

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Speaker 1: it's been three hundred and eight days since he last

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Speaker 1: was probably a little bit of a benefit for him

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Speaker 1: to overemphasize that game, but like, that's a big game

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Speaker 1: you can say it didn't look very good whatever, I

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Speaker 1: don't think the results of this mattered to the extent

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Speaker 1: that just the process of playing matter. And then I

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Speaker 1: do want to bring this up, Bill, he did run

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Speaker 1: that was great. That was great. He had a kind

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was great for him to get out of bound.

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Speaker 3: Build some habits. Hey, I think I think it was

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Speaker 3: first down, if I'm not mistaken. He scrambled and looked

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Speaker 3: I'm not taking any unnecessary hits. I'm not throwing the

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Speaker 3: That was something that I'm smart and for him to do.

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Speaker 3: I don't think it was anything. I mean, people talk

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Speaker 3: you'll see a lot more. I think, like I said

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Speaker 3: in the joint practices, what those guys can do everything

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Speaker 3: for these guys, it was great to get out there.

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Speaker 3: And you know, he said he felt some jitters, maybe

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Speaker 2: When I played, I.

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Speaker 3: Play a whole season. The next season, the first time

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Speaker 3: I get out there, I have jitters also. Yeah, so

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Speaker 3: and I still had jitters when I got back out

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Speaker 1: This is why I like having doing this podcast with you, Bill,

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Speaker 1: because you can speak from a player experience. If it

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Speaker 1: was just me. I would just be like, I totally

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Speaker 1: had Jitters doing my first read this year. I was

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Speaker 1: get tackled on this play. That's totally totally different experience.

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Speaker 2: A little bit different. It's a little bit, just a

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Speaker 1: Another thing I wanted to dig in with you here

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Speaker 1: That's something that we saw in practice on Friday with

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Speaker 1: Shane Stikeen would not put a timetable on it when

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Speaker 1: but if Downs has to miss time during the preseason,

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Speaker 1: The Colt's getting ad Mitchell some work in the slot.

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Speaker 1: I had a conversation with ad and I after the

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Speaker 1: But it's totally different as a guy who's used to

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Speaker 1: put it, I thought was great. He said, in the slot,

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Speaker 1: for a wide receiver to make that transition. I don't

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Speaker 1: think I really understand how difficult it might be to

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Speaker 1: go from the outside to the inside. How difficult a

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Speaker 1: transition is that. And what about Ady Mitchell's skill set

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Speaker 1: Bill could allow him to be an option there if

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Speaker 3: Good question, j J. The difference is pretty much going

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Speaker 3: from the outside of the inside.

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Speaker 2: He was correct. On the outside, there's a lot of

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Speaker 3: There's some zone sometimes, but you also might get double

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Speaker 1: good player at number fifteen overall in the NFL Draft.

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Speaker 2: Yes, I did. They got a real good player.

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Speaker 3: And then just to show he just showed his athleticism

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Speaker 3: out there in the football field. You know, like you said,

438
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Speaker 3: pretty much, if you're routing a guy upfield and the

439
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Speaker 3: quarterback sees that and a good quarterback is going to

440
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Speaker 3: step up, well you might think, oh well, Lot two

441
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Speaker 3: didn't get to him, Well, if he steps up and

442
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Speaker 3: Grover's coming up the he's gonna he's gonna run into

443
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Speaker 3: Big Grove. And I like our chances with Big Grove

444
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Speaker 3: tackling someone. But also with a lot of two, like

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Speaker 3: you said, those hips, that just shows how much athleticism

446
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Speaker 3: he has as far as to get upfield, flip his

447
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Speaker 3: hips and still come that motor we talked about, that motor,

448
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Speaker 3: still get after the quarterback, still try to get the quarterback.

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Speaker 3: So he's going his athleticism and the assets he has

450
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Speaker 3: is going to help this team out because I can

451
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Speaker 3: see that he might not get the sacks, okay, but

452
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Speaker 3: he's going to funnel that quarterback into guys that will

453
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Speaker 3: get sacks. The Forest Grove, whoever's up front, and maybe

454
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Speaker 3: he might force him out the other side, and it might

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Speaker 3: be Quitty, it might be dire, or whoever might be

456
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Speaker 3: on the outside, Taekwon, whoever might get his sacked. So

457
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Speaker 3: having a lot of two out there and showing what

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Speaker 3: he can do, and I'm just happy that he took

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Speaker 3: practice to the game, and that to me means a

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Speaker 3: lot for a young guy to do that because a

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Speaker 3: lot of times in practice you're comfortable after the first

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Speaker 3: couple of practices and then when you get to the

463
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Speaker 3: and you know, talk about the jitters are being anxious

464
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Speaker 3: out there, you might not play as well or you

465
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Speaker 3: might not play as fast.

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Speaker 2: I didn't see that from him today. I saw what

467
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Speaker 2: he did in practice carrying over to the game.

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Speaker 1: One other thing here on the defense, Bill another rookie

469
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Speaker 1: who took advantage of the opportunity presented in front of him.

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Speaker 1: Mikah Abraham the play the strip that he had where

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Speaker 1: Shane Stikeen described it, where he's on the other side

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Speaker 1: of the field, right, this is on the far side

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Speaker 1: of the field, and he's looking and there's just this

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Speaker 1: like kind of pile over there, and all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: there goes thirty three down the field with the ball

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Speaker 1: in his hands. Like that kind of play where you

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Speaker 1: just sort of have this this nose for the football.

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Speaker 1: The thing that I the first thing I thought about

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Speaker 1: Bill is that looks like a guy who has takeaways

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Speaker 1: in his bloodlines. Like Abraham's father, Donnie Yes led the

481
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Speaker 1: NFL in interceptions. I think it was year two thousand.

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Speaker 1: He was a two time Pro Bowl safety for the Buccaneers.

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Speaker 1: Is uncle Tim Jennings a former Colts draft pick led

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Speaker 1: the NFL in interceptions with the Chicago Bears, and I

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Speaker 1: believe twenty twenty two or twenty twelve, excuse me, this

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Speaker 1: guy just t he's got like playmaking in his bloodies.

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Speaker 1: He in college at Marshall, he had more interceptions I

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Speaker 1: believe than any other player in FBS over the last

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Speaker 1: two seasons. This guy just like he's got something to

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Speaker 1: him and he maybe, you know, maybe a little undersized.

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Speaker 1: Maybe that's why he went in the sixth round, but

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Speaker 1: like he just makes plays in today, right off the bat,

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Speaker 1: we saw Mike Abraham go out there and make a play.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, takeaways must be in his bloodline there, because you

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Speaker 3: know what, he did a nice job today. And when

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Speaker 3: I saw the play I saw I didn't see the takeaway. Actually,

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Speaker 3: I just saw people running down the sideline. I thought, okay,

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Speaker 3: maybe someone made a big play, a big hit or

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Speaker 3: something like that. And I didn't know he had the

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Speaker 3: ball at first. And then I see him running. I say,

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Speaker 3: guy's chasing him. I said, oh no, he must have

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Speaker 3: took the ball away from someone. So nice play by

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Speaker 3: the young man. Is nice to see young players make

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Speaker 3: plays because when you're out there as a young player.

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Speaker 3: The one thing I was always taught when I first

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Speaker 3: got in the league.

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Speaker 2: Make plays.

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Speaker 3: So the coaches notice you every time you go out there,

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Speaker 3: every time in practice, make a play. So like they say, wow, okay,

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Speaker 3: that guy in a play today. The next day, Wow,

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Speaker 3: he made another play today. And that's what Michael is

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Speaker 3: doing right now, making a play in a game to

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Speaker 3: make the coaches notice him that Hey, I can make

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Speaker 3: plays out here. And the guy say, I'm sure. He's

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Speaker 3: a limit nervous first game, but he understands the game.

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Speaker 3: He hasn't in his bloodlines to talk about his dad

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Speaker 3: and talk about other relatives of his He is going

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Speaker 3: to be okay, I think as far as that's concerned.

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Speaker 3: So now all he has to do is go out

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Speaker 3: there and execute, learn from the guys around him, learn

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Speaker 3: from the veterans around him, the Kenny moorees that will

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Speaker 3: help him.

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Speaker 2: And I know Kenny's talked.

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Speaker 3: To him and helped him out, and you know, make

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Speaker 3: sure that he's in the right position and doing the

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Speaker 3: right thing. So I think he'll be fine. As long

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Speaker 3: as he continues to make plays, he'll be okay.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, another really good story. Go ahead and read it

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Speaker 1: on Colt ste about Mike Abraham, specifically with the relationship

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Speaker 1: he has with Kenny Moore the second and some thoughts

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Speaker 1: Kenny had on Micah. That was written again by my

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Speaker 1: colleague Amanda Foster. Go check that out on colts dot

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Speaker 1: com or right, one last thing build to get us

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Speaker 1: out of here. We got to talk about the new kickoffs.

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Speaker 1: So this is like a little inside baseball, but I'm

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Speaker 1: up there in the PA booth, and there were some

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Speaker 1: kickoffs that I couldn't get everyone out because usually it's

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Speaker 1: like okay, kicking off for the Colts, number seven, Matt

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Speaker 1: Gay back deep to receive for the Broncos, number one

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Speaker 1: treymont Smith and number thirty Eighthlia McLoughlin. I got to

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Speaker 1: announce two guys back there. The Colts did break one,

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Speaker 1: though we saw Anthony gold ripoff a real significant return.

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Speaker 1: He got to the forty nine yard line on that play.

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Speaker 1: By the way, I don't know if if you saw

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Speaker 1: the replay Bill, but Tyree Cleveland number twelve, the Colts

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Speaker 1: wide receiver blocked his guy into another guy, so he

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Speaker 1: basically blocked two guys at once to spring it to

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Speaker 1: the outside. I had a conversation with Anthony after the

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Speaker 1: game in the locker rooum or he said, you know, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it felt good, but we're still kind of working out

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Speaker 1: how this is all going to work. He said, we

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Speaker 1: didn't really know what Denver was going to do with

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Speaker 1: their their coverage team, how they were going to play it,

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Speaker 1: how we should block it. So I think it's this

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Speaker 1: is still very much a kind of push and pull,

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Speaker 1: you're feeling everything out type of thing, and teams aren't

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Speaker 1: really showing anything. I mean, you saw kind of the usual,

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Speaker 1: the high arching kicks. You didn't see anything that was

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Speaker 1: kind of funky in terms of trying to get something

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Speaker 1: hit a you know, hit a line drive into the

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Speaker 1: landing zone. I think these joint practices this week are

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Speaker 1: going to be big with Arizona to figure that out.

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Speaker 1: But just in general, I think you saw Anthony Gould.

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Speaker 1: The acceleration and then the long speed he has really

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Speaker 1: show up on that play. That's one of the reasons

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Speaker 1: why the Colts are so excited about the guy.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think you saw skilly has and trying to

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Speaker 3: turn to kick offs with that young man of speed.

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Speaker 3: He has the quickness, the elusiveness that he has so

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Speaker 3: you know that hopefully will benefit the Coles on kick

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Speaker 3: go off returns. You want to get good field positions.

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Speaker 3: You get good field position, and then you have the

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Speaker 3: offense that the coaches have with AR and the back

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Speaker 3: there with JT, and then the weapons outside. You know,

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Speaker 3: it makes it a little bit easier to go down

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Speaker 3: and make some big chunk plays and school a little

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Speaker 3: bit easier if you get good field position off of

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Speaker 3: kickoff return.

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Speaker 2: So I think, as you.

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Speaker 3: Said, JJ probably won't see a lot of different things.

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Speaker 3: You probably see things that's going to be very vanilla,

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Speaker 3: one because people don't want to show anything, and two

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Speaker 3: because people are still learning. Everyone's still learning, all the

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Speaker 3: teams are still learning how this is going to play out.

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Speaker 3: But once you figure it out, then that's what you're

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Speaker 3: going to see, These exciting plays, the big plays. So

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Speaker 3: at first it might be it's good that you have

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Speaker 3: a kickoff return now, but it might not be something

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Speaker 3: that you're really excited about. But I think as the

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Speaker 3: season goes along and the special team coaches figure things

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Speaker 3: out and figure out what works best for them, I

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Speaker 3: think you'll see some exciting plays on the kickoff return.

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Speaker 3: And I expect Google to have a big year this

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Speaker 3: year in returning some kickoffs.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, it's going to be a copycat league

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Speaker 1: with this thing. I think once you get to week one,

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Speaker 1: you're going to see some funky stuff, you know, And

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Speaker 1: once you get to week eight, you might see a

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Speaker 1: completely different strategy from some team that another team goes.

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Speaker 1: Let's give that a shot with our personnel, and then

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Speaker 1: by week fifteen, seven teams in the league are doing

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Speaker 1: the same thing and it's all given them a bit

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Speaker 1: of an advantage.

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Speaker 2: I mean.

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Speaker 1: Just prayers, thoughts and prayers to Brian Mason, the Cult

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Speaker 1: Special team coordinator, because I don't know how he is

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Speaker 1: going to be able to sleep this year at the

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Speaker 1: amount of film there is to watch on this Him

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Speaker 1: and Joe Hastings and is He Dias have their hands

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Speaker 1: full this year. But Cults are in really good hands,

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Speaker 1: by the way, with those those three coaches. You know,

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Speaker 1: Brian Mason's a really creative guy coming from Notre Dame.

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Speaker 1: Joe Hastings was doing it for a while. Is He Diaz.

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Speaker 1: The Cults really value her input on special teams as well.

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Speaker 1: All right, well, I's going to do it for us

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Speaker 1: here on this episode of Instant Reaction here on the

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Speaker 1: Cults Audio Network and on YouTube. We'll be back next

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Speaker 1: week with a probably Sunday morning. I don't think Bill,

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Speaker 1: you and I are going to stay up late for

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Speaker 1: a preseason game. No, sorry, sorry to the Arizona Cardinals

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Speaker 1: in that game. I don't think that's gonna be a

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Speaker 1: two am taping of Instant Reaction. We'll be back on

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Speaker 1: Sunday morning, though, with our recap of that game again

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Speaker 1: on the Could Todio network and on YouTube. Until then,

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Speaker 1: tune in to us here on the Cold Tudio Network.

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Speaker 1: A new episode of the Official Cults Podcast will drop

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Speaker 1: on Tuesday. That is on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, wherever

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Speaker 1: you get your podcasts. Inside Football Rick Venturrey on Wednesday.

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Speaker 1: The two Minute Drill podcast that I do with Amanda Foster.

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Speaker 1: That'll be out on Thursday on the Cold Audio Network.

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Speaker 1: Until then, Bill, it is a joy to be back

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Speaker 1: with you here on Instant Reaction. That's the fourth season

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Speaker 1: of this podcast. I love doing every one of these,

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Speaker 1: even if we're spending thirty minutes talking about a preseason game.

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Speaker 1: It is a blast doing this with you.

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Speaker 2: Very fun and very knowledgeable. Thank you. Jaj I enjoyed

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Speaker 2: doing with you as well.

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Speaker 1: All right, well, we will talk to you next week

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Speaker 1: here on instant reaction on the Cold Audio Network. So

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Speaker 1: long