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Speaker 2: He's gonna watch down field picked off by the Colts.

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Speaker 1: The roster is ever evolving, and it's all about finding

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Speaker 1: This is the last Word. The off season home of

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Speaker 1: the Indianapolis Colts.

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Speaker 4: Kick us on its way header, put the up parts, beys.

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Speaker 3: Call twin ball game.

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Speaker 1: Now here's Matt Taylor and Casey Valier.

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Speaker 4: Well, let's get it going. Here the last Word.

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Speaker 2: The off season radio home of the Indianapolis Colts, airing

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Speaker 2: inside the Indiana Unit Construction Industry Radio Studios.

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Speaker 4: We're here every Friday night on ninety three five and

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Speaker 2: I call it a bracket bustin Friday, because I'm sure

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Speaker 4: Yes, some money somewhere is mad they made.

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Speaker 2: But man, a lot of really fun games yesterday. We've

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Speaker 2: and it's exactly what you talked about the other day, Matt,

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Speaker 2: second wave of free agency for the Colts. As we mentioned,

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Speaker 2: they were busy this week. The Colts signed safety's juan

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Speaker 2: here now because we're gonna hear from Rick Van Turrey.

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Speaker 2: So earlier this week, you had a chance to catch

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Speaker 2: up with former Cold coach and radio analyst Rick Van

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Speaker 2: Turrey on that special off season edition of his podcast

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Speaker 2: Inside Football.

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Speaker 4: You check it out now, yeah, everywhere, Colds.

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Speaker 2: Dot com, the mobile app, anywhere you're down with your podcast,

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Speaker 2: and he kind of weighed in on all the moves

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Speaker 2: that Colts have made to this point in free agency,

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Speaker 2: and he really started talking about his thoughts on bringing back,

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Speaker 2: you know, Daniel Jones and Alec Pierce, and he talked

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Speaker 2: about the development of what Alec Pierce has done and

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Speaker 2: why it was so important to bring him back to

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Speaker 2: the Colton free agency.

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Speaker 5: Pierce is a guy that probably has improved as much

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Speaker 5: as any player that I've been around. You know, he

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Speaker 5: came into the league as a guy with vertical speed

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Speaker 5: a lot after that. By year two he really improved

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Speaker 5: you know. And then I think this year he really

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Speaker 5: so you've got a young player who's already achieved a ton,

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Speaker 5: but he still has a ton of upside. Yeah, because

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Speaker 5: he's going to get better.

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Speaker 6: You know.

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Speaker 5: Do I think he's necessarily Chase or Jefferson? Maybe not,

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Speaker 5: but he invaluable to us. Here's the role he plays

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Speaker 5: for us. One, he can take the roof off the defense.

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Speaker 5: I mean he can stretch it. He stretches it with

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Speaker 5: he stretches it with depth, and he's run by the

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Speaker 5: best corners in the league. It's not like this is

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Speaker 5: a fluke. The one thing that I love about yards

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Speaker 5: catch and run. You know. And he's led the league

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Speaker 5: Danny eliminated the ability to push the ball downfield. So

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Speaker 5: in a sense, we not only lost our quarterback, but

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Speaker 5: we kind of really we minimized the Pierce effect and

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Speaker 5: then what did that do? That absolutely stuffed our running game.

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Speaker 5: I mean in the seven losses, you know, we go

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Speaker 5: from averaging thirty points a game in the first ten

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Speaker 5: And a lot of that was that one hundred yard

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Speaker 5: you know, when you throw those three amigos in there,

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Speaker 5: they all are so important to one another. I mean,

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Speaker 5: obviously without a deep throw, without that guy that can

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Speaker 5: then you take the best player on your team and

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Speaker 5: you you minimize his results. So yeah, I was thrilled

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Speaker 5: to death with Pierce, and I think Pierce is only

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Speaker 5: there's a lot of upside yet, and if the improvement

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Speaker 5: think a lot more volume catching. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I think we would both agree that there is still

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Speaker 2: some untapped potential in Alec Pierce. And that's the big

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Speaker 2: reason why this was a necessity for the Colts, because

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Speaker 2: I feel like they seen the same thing and now

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Speaker 2: you give him that volume, you can really see what

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Speaker 4: Rick and I have been pretty much saying the same

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Speaker 4: things and have a similar stance when it comes to

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Speaker 4: free agency. You got to have those game effectors, as

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Speaker 4: he calls them, and those are the guys that play

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Speaker 4: the quarterback spot and Alec Pierce at receiver. And when

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Speaker 4: you have Jones and Pierce and Taylor. He makes a

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Speaker 4: great point. When you have all those guys on the

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Speaker 4: nature puts the ball where it should go. It's on point,

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Speaker 4: it's accurate. Pierce takes the lid off the defense and

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Speaker 4: provides the big plays. But his threat of those big

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Speaker 4: of scrimmage, which helps the running game. So I know

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Speaker 4: I'm talking in like big picture generalities there, but that's

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Speaker 4: what it is. And to Rick's point, Casey, the Colts

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Speaker 4: didn't have two of those three elements last year when

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Speaker 4: when Daniel Jones went out of the lineup.

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Speaker 2: That's exactly right, and that's what is kind of the

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Speaker 2: next thing I want to talk to about. Rick, when

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Speaker 2: you're balancing all of these things in free agency, the

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Speaker 2: importance of those difference makers. Sometimes it means you got

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Speaker 2: to balance bringing them back, but you also lose five starters. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: for what the Colts did, and in the importance of

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Speaker 5: You know, you take Jalons and you take Pierce off

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Speaker 5: can't you just cannot let game changers, game effectors. You

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Speaker 5: can't let those guys walk, and you're gonna have casualties now,

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Speaker 5: just offensively. You know we didn't, we haven't made a

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Speaker 5: we did lose also Braden Smith. I mean, the amazing

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Speaker 5: very well, we're gonna need a program for a while

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Speaker 5: here when we change oil with so many guys, and

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Speaker 5: you know. And so when you talk about losing those

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Speaker 5: they're not game effectors. And we have gone out. We'll

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Speaker 5: get into that. We brought a lot of guys in

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Speaker 5: to replace those guys. You know, when you lose those guys. No,

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Speaker 5: none of those guys that we're losing on defense have

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Speaker 5: really impacted the game. They really haven't. And I think

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Speaker 5: that the worst guy to me to lose is Cross.

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Speaker 5: I think Cross was the guy whose career was going upward,

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Speaker 5: and I think you'll see it continue to grow now

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Speaker 5: you know, time will tell on that. But in terms

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Speaker 5: gotten you know, some safety depth. We've gotten a lot

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Speaker 5: of defensive line depth. You know, it's a lot like

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Speaker 5: changing oils when you're talking about core players. Core for

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Speaker 5: core It's not like the oilers. Changing makes you any better,

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Speaker 5: but it prevents you from getting worse. And I think

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Speaker 5: that really the impact really will come from guys that

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Speaker 5: And then the two corners that we've invested in, Ward

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Speaker 5: and Sauce. I mean, those are the guys. If they

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Speaker 5: come back, they will be the impact players. You know,

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Speaker 5: some of the guys that you've brought in, you know,

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Speaker 5: those guys are role players, but they may be upgrade.

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Speaker 5: Those guys I think are upgrades in terms of backup

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Speaker 5: defense line. You know a lot of that, a lot

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Speaker 5: of that is transition. It's again, it's like changing oil.

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Speaker 5: It's yeah, you know, it's it's one guy for another.

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Speaker 5: But the critical guys are really the I mean, the

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Speaker 5: game changers are the guys that were here, Buckner, Sauce

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Speaker 5: and Ward, if you want to know the truth, and.

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Speaker 2: When you think about the depth that he talked about with,

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Speaker 2: you know, replacing some of those guys on the defensive line,

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Speaker 2: Rick really dove into if the Colts past rush has

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Speaker 2: been upgraded so far this because you talk about Quitty

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and so here's the thing, I mean, you gotta

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Speaker 4: have you got to have those difference makers. And so

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Speaker 4: you're paying Daniel Jones now, and when you're paying Alec

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Speaker 4: all of those guys. So the Colts bottom line, they've

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Speaker 4: lost good players. They've brought in good players, but you

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Speaker 4: just can't can't sacrifice losing your difference makers. And those

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Speaker 4: And if you don't have those guys, as Rick said,

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Speaker 4: I mean, Jonathan Taylor just didn't do too much in

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Speaker 4: And so that's the nature of the beast in the NFL.

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Speaker 4: And the Colts have done, I think a pretty good

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Speaker 4: job because it's been quantity, you know, a large wave

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Speaker 4: The Colts lost in that first wave when you had

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Speaker 4: to make tough decisions on letting deceptively expensive veteran free

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a really great breakdown that you had

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Speaker 2: with Rick about forty minutes of just raw inside Football

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Speaker 2: from Rick Ventura. I know everybody wants to hear it.

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Speaker 2: You can go check that out at Colts dot com,

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Speaker 2: It is time for the MJ Company's Rookie Report, and

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Speaker 2: I want to ask you, Matt, how does the return

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Speaker 2: of Alec Pierce and then now the addition of Nick

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Speaker 4: Great question, you know, I don't think it does too much.

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Speaker 4: Or let me double back. I don't think it's going

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Speaker 4: to be too severe. Okay, because naturally, like like Rick

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Speaker 4: just said right there, you know, Pierce is gonna be

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Speaker 4: I don't think the Colts are gonna take Pierce away

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Speaker 4: more So in saying that, I don't think Pierce is

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Speaker 4: hundred and forty one hundred and fifty targets. I just

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Speaker 4: think his role is going to be more pronounced. But

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Speaker 4: Pittman's high volume of targets that I think case he's

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Speaker 4: going to be more spread out between everybody else, between

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Speaker 4: Warren and Downs and Westbrook, Akine, et cetera. So I

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Speaker 4: mean Down to still your slot receiver. He's your possession

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Speaker 4: type guy with those possession type routes. Westbrook Akeena is

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Speaker 4: a guy that can win in the middle of the

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Speaker 4: field like Pittman. Yeah, he's got some deep ball go

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Speaker 4: routes in him as well. But I just think the

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Speaker 4: Colts are going to continue to feature Warren in the

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Speaker 4: same ways. Put him at tight end, put him in

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Speaker 4: the slot, use him in the backfield, use him as

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Speaker 4: an h pack in the running game. I just think

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Speaker 4: the Colts have to do more things to get the

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Speaker 4: football into the hands of their best players, and so

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Speaker 4: I don't think Warren's role is going to be drastically changed,

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Speaker 4: but I think he's going to be more heavily utilized.

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Speaker 4: With his versatility that he showed on display last year

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Speaker 4: as a rookie, I just think you're going to see

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Speaker 4: more of that because he's just that good of a

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Speaker 4: football player.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you talk about give hing the ball to your

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Speaker 2: best players, He's definitely one of the Colts' best players

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Speaker 2: and best options on offense. And that's your Rookie Update,

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Speaker 2: presented by MJ Companies, your Future in Focus. It's signed

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Speaker 2: for our final time out we come back. We're gonna

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Speaker 2: give you the Forum Credit Union question of the week,

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Speaker 2: which is what are your favorite t Y Hilton moments

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Speaker 2: of all time? And we will rank his top four

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Speaker 2: best moments. Bracket Style and our NCAA tournament happening this weekend.

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Speaker 2: Style of the t Y Hilton Congratulations on his retirement.

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Speaker 5: That's all.

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Speaker 2: We return right here to the Last Word on ninety

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Speaker 2: three five and one oh seven five the fan Home Up.

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Speaker 1: All, Welcome back to the Last Word, the offseason home

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Speaker 1: of Nicoles with Matt Taylor and Casey Vellier from the

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Speaker 1: Indiana Union Construction Industry Radio Studio.

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Speaker 5: The Kansas City Playoff game to come back.

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Speaker 6: Unreal that.

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Speaker 5: I mean, they still talk about that till today, and

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Speaker 5: it's just it's just crazy that we never gave up.

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Speaker 3: We kept fighting claw.

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Speaker 6: And just kept clawing back, clawing back, And next thing

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Speaker 6: you know, we're in.

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Speaker 1: A ball game, down six, going in to win the

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Speaker 1: game and I split the safeties on a post.

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Speaker 5: Look let it go.

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Speaker 6: I remember before that play was like, oh, Brad, this

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Speaker 6: one's coming. If Andrew's saying that to you, he says

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Speaker 6: like I need you, or like this is it? Like

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Speaker 6: you know, it just gives you that extral man. He

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Speaker 6: was a great leader.

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Speaker 4: Oh great stuff right there.

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Speaker 2: That was the special edition Jack Doyle podcast that released

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Speaker 2: this week.

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Speaker 4: That was him talking again. Jack Doyle's favorite Colts player.

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Speaker 2: He always says, t Y Hilton.

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Speaker 4: You can catch that at Colts dot.

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Speaker 2: Com or anywhere else you're down on your podcast. A

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Speaker 2: celebratory honoring with Jack Doyle giving t Y his flowers

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Speaker 2: of announcing his retirement. The Last Words brought to you

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Speaker 2: by Vivid Seeds. Vivid Seats it's the official fan experience

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Speaker 2: partner of the Indianapolis Colts. Download the app to score

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Speaker 2: great deals on the event you love and as we

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Speaker 2: mentioned right there with t Y Hilton. He did announce

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Speaker 2: his retirement this week, which makes our Forum credit union

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Speaker 2: question very simple.

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Speaker 4: Okay, you ready for this man? Okay.

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Speaker 2: He last played in the NFL twenty twenty two, but

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Speaker 2: he finishes his ten year NFL career ranking third in

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Speaker 2: team history in catches and receiving yards. He also produced

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Speaker 2: five one thousand yard seasons and his fifty three receiving

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Speaker 2: touchdowns are fourth most in Colts history. Dude, So what

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Speaker 2: we're gonna do is, we're just gonna simply rank t

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Speaker 2: Y Hilton's greatest moments in a Colts uniform. And we're

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Speaker 2: gonna do it n C doublea March Madness bracket style

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Speaker 2: with the top four seeds. All right, Okay, so we're

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Speaker 2: gonna start. We're gonna play some highlights for you. So

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Speaker 2: we're gonna start with the one seed, t Y Hilton

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Speaker 2: and just what he was talking about that game against

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Speaker 2: the Chiefs and the playoffs, his sixty four yard touchdown

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Speaker 2: against the Chiefs in that twenty fourteen AFC Wild Card

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Speaker 2: game against the Kansas City Chiefs. Here's lucky the Colts

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Speaker 2: from their own thirty six with a fresh set of

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Speaker 2: downs steps up one look at his call a touchdown.

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Speaker 4: I remember, I remember it like yesterday. That was the

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Speaker 4: loudest moment, yes, in the history of Lucas Oil Stadium,

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Speaker 4: still I think to this day. Obviously you can argue

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Speaker 4: different things, but for my money, I mean, I could

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Speaker 4: not hear myself. It was so loud. It was almost

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Speaker 4: like silent, if that makes sense, right. No, I mean

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Speaker 4: that that moment might be the most quintessential t Y

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Speaker 4: moment that there is. It's gonna be tough to beat

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Speaker 4: that one seed right there, I can tell you that.

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Speaker 2: So putting that into context, that touchdown gave the Colts

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Speaker 2: their first lead of the game with just four minutes

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Speaker 2: and twenty one seconds left in the fourth quarter. Hilton

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Speaker 2: had two hundred and twenty four receiving yards, spearheading that

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Speaker 2: massive twenty eight point comeback for the Colts, the second

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Speaker 2: largest in NFL playoff history. So it goes up against

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Speaker 2: the fourth seed, which is the Dagger against the Chargers.

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Speaker 2: A sixty three yard game winning touchdown against the Chargers

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Speaker 2: in Week three of the twenty sixteen seasons.

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Speaker 4: Inside holds two. That's its touch time, sixty three yards.

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Speaker 2: I mean, does it make ye, it might make it

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Speaker 2: better too than Kevin Harlan. Thell to give that gives

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Speaker 2: it even more, gives it some juice for sure. So

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Speaker 2: Andrew Luck right there throws a slant at t Y

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Speaker 2: near midfielder. He spun out of a tackle. Yeah, broke free,

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Speaker 2: and he the rest of the way to the end zone,

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Speaker 2: and uh, you know it just t Y oh Man,

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Speaker 2: You know you ain't kidding there, buddy, if you had

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Speaker 2: to rank him right there, who are you going the one.

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Speaker 4: Of the four? Listen, it's it's a close game. It

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Speaker 4: gets down to the last four minutes. But yeah, t

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Speaker 4: Y Hilton against the Chiefs and the playoffs they pull

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Speaker 4: ahead for like a double digit win against ah you know,

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Speaker 4: a formidable four seed. But you know the one is

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Speaker 4: moving on into the final, the final game, if you will,

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Speaker 4: absolutely so.

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Speaker 2: The other matchup here in the final four, the two

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Speaker 2: the two seeds. T Y Hilton torches the legion of boom.

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Speaker 2: You gotta go all the way back to that two

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Speaker 2: thous in thirteen season. T Y Hilton's seventy three yard

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Speaker 2: touchdown against the Seahawks in Week five that twenty thirteen season.

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Speaker 5: He's gonna air it out he's.

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Speaker 1: Got his.

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Speaker 4: T oh yeah, three yards in the game.

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Speaker 5: Oh yeah.

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Speaker 4: The Colts were down bid to start that game. They're

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Speaker 4: down two scores in the first quarter, and you're thinking,

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Speaker 4: all right, this this Seattle team, it's one of the

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Speaker 4: best in the NFL. I think they went on to

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Speaker 4: win the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 6: There it is.

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Speaker 4: Yes, that's exactly right, and I can just see it still.

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Speaker 4: I mean torching Richard Sherman in the secondary against that

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Speaker 4: legion of boom to get I mean over two hundred

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Speaker 4: yards receiving in that game. It was epic by t Y.

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Speaker 2: That was the first loss of the season too, that

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Speaker 2: Seattle handed So oh yeah, that legion of boom was

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Speaker 2: pretty impressive defense, but not for team.

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Speaker 4: US Bradley, right, Gus Bradley, that is that is right.

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Speaker 2: So it goes up against the three seed and I

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Speaker 2: don't know where to go on this one because we

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Speaker 2: had to throw t Y in Houston does have to.

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Speaker 5: So this is a three.

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Speaker 2: Touchdown game against the Texans in NRG Stadium in Week

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Speaker 2: nine of twenty thirteen.

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Speaker 3: Oh out blitz and the pass is caught for a

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Speaker 3: touchdown by t Y. Hilton look hangs in going indeed,

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Speaker 3: then It's caught on the run by t Y Hilton

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Speaker 3: for a touchdown to the outside to the right side

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Speaker 3: and a great move by t Y Hilton's to keep

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Speaker 3: it inside and take it into the end zone.

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Speaker 4: Trifecta at NRG Stadium. We said those words a lot

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Speaker 4: touchdown t Y on the road against the Texans.

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Speaker 6: Case.

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Speaker 4: It's funny, are you know?

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Speaker 2: We we always talk about how we're really close friends

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Speaker 2: with you know, Mark VanderMeer and John Harris who on radio.

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Speaker 4: Calls fank you stagger in the heart.

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Speaker 2: They oh man, they are just anytime t Y Hilton

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Speaker 2: is mentioned, they just like get shiverrous because of what

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Speaker 2: they started twitching.

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Speaker 5: Oh man.

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Speaker 4: So that is the three seed going up against the

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Speaker 4: two seed. I don't know.

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Speaker 2: That's a tough one there, Matt. What are you going there?

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Speaker 4: You know what, I'm just going quantity. So I'm going

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Speaker 4: up here. I'm going three over the two. Give me

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Speaker 4: the three touchdown. Huge comeback performance for the cold spearheaded

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Speaker 4: by t Y Hilton in that game on the road

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Speaker 4: against the Texans. So I'm picking that game because of

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Speaker 4: what it represents. Yeah, see, absolutely terrorizing the Texans, you know,

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Speaker 4: no matter where they played but specifically throughout the course

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Speaker 4: of his career at NRG Stadium. That's why I give

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Speaker 4: the nod to the three seed advancing on there. All right,

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Speaker 4: So before we dive.

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Speaker 2: Into that three versus the one, I'm gonna put some

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Speaker 2: context into what you're saying. Twenty three games against the Texans,

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Speaker 2: Hilton caught over one hundred passes for over eighteen hundred

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Speaker 2: yards and eleven touchdowns. But at NRG Stadium, Matt he

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Speaker 2: averaged over one hundred yards receiving per game, one hundred

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Speaker 2: and eight yards per game receiving.

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Speaker 4: Against the Tech against the Texans.

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Speaker 2: At NRG Stadium, seventeen percent of his career receiving yards

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Speaker 2: came against the Houston Texans. So you have to talk

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Speaker 2: about Ty against a fifth I always love when you

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Speaker 2: know the Wikipedia page put you know who is the

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Speaker 2: owner of Energy Stadia.

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Speaker 4: Those are great.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, those him and the clown mask and all of it.

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Speaker 2: Oh man, I love t Y Hilton versus Houston. So

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Speaker 2: we're gonna do number three seed t Y Hilton's three

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Speaker 2: touchdowns against Houston against the one seed and that Chiefs.

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Speaker 4: Playoff game where you're going, Matt, Well, I'm just gonna

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Speaker 4: spin I'm gonna pick the specific moment. I still think

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Speaker 4: it's t Y Hilton. You know that that that game.

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Speaker 4: I think, you know, NFL Films just did a whole

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Speaker 4: documentary about that game, and I think the documentary for

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Speaker 4: t Y Torch and the Texans. I think that's coming

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Speaker 4: one day at least. Yeah, it's kind of like winning time,

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Speaker 4: you know, t Y against the Texans. But yeah, I

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Speaker 4: think if I have to pick gun to head, t

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Speaker 4: Y Hilton against the playoffs, that was a signature Colts moment,

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Speaker 4: signature Andrew Luck moment, Chuck Pagano moment, and just that

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Speaker 4: era of Colts. That's what that era was defined by.

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Speaker 4: Just still the loudest moment in the history of Lucas

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Speaker 4: So Oil STATEIU.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, and that's where I would go too,

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Speaker 2: because you talk about that little nugget the loudest moment.

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Speaker 2: You think about the two loud moments that we've occurred,

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Speaker 2: I think the two loudest would be that and then

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Speaker 2: maybe the Manning return game.

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Speaker 4: But I still think that one maybe was louder. I meant,

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Speaker 4: it's a playoff game.

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Speaker 2: The magnitude of all of it was just incredible, and

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Speaker 2: it's just you know, we don't have enough words to

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Speaker 2: continue to talk about t Y Hilton, but man, what

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Speaker 2: lot of fun with t Y Hilton when he was

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