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Speaker 1: Joining us now in the Colts radio studio. I'm Matt Taylor.

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Speaker 1: But our special guest is Colts running back Zack Moss

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Speaker 1: in his third year. He just got traded to the

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Speaker 1: Colts a few weeks back from the Buffalo Bills. We'll

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Speaker 1: talk about that more in a second. But Zach, it

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Speaker 1: is finally good on my end to meet you and

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Speaker 1: talk to you for the first time. How are you doing.

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Speaker 1: I'm doing good, my man, I'm doing good. Can't complain

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Speaker 1: absolutely so for you. You're now the featured back right

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Speaker 1: the injury to Jonathan Taylor, You're now the colts number

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Speaker 1: one primary back. Got twenty four carries a couple weeks

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Speaker 1: ago against the Minnesota Vikings. You were the main man

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Speaker 1: toting the rock against the Chargers the other night. What's

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Speaker 1: it been like to be the featured back within this

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Speaker 1: offense or within an offense? I should say something that

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Speaker 1: you're definitely accustomed to. It feels good. I mean, just

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Speaker 1: getting an opportunity to go back out there and just

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Speaker 1: every down basis just kind of puts me back, you know,

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Speaker 1: kind of gives me memories of back in college. Sure,

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Speaker 1: you know, being at every down back, being at Bill

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Speaker 1: a great opportunity to do my first few years in Buffalo.

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Speaker 1: But so when I got traded, I was super excited

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Speaker 1: just for the opportunity to know I'd come here and

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Speaker 1: get some runs in. And sure, you know, unfortunately the

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Speaker 1: giving me a chance to kind of do some things

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Speaker 1: Let's go back to that trade. What what was it

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Speaker 1: like to be traded to me? When you found out?

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Speaker 1: How did you accept that? How did you compartmentalize, know

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Speaker 1: when you're gonna be on the move team the team

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Speaker 1: in the middle of the season. I mean, for me,

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Speaker 1: you know, really we kind of felt something was going

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Speaker 1: But we kind of felt like, you know, that my

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Speaker 1: So when it did happen, literally a few minutes before

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Speaker 1: two K Is that right? Yeah, I'm home playing two

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Speaker 1: when you just come up to the to the office.

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Speaker 1: So I'm like, okay, usually don't get a call on

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Speaker 1: you know, but those guys, you know, got a lot

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Speaker 1: um On how to handle it and putting me in

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Speaker 1: a great opportunity, give me some more chances to do

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Speaker 1: something else. Sure, that's Zack Moss with us and something

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Speaker 1: that you just said you had a feeling. Why why

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Speaker 1: I'm I'm running back right, you know, I'm a guy

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Speaker 1: I mean, just just life. I mean, for those that

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Speaker 1: But you know, I think the main thing, even with

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Speaker 1: One team is going to make the playoffs, another team's not.

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Speaker 1: it's been different for sure. I mean my first few

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Speaker 1: But you know, I had a lot of good vets

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