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Speaker 1: with Jeffrey Gorman and Matt Taylor. Hello again, everyone, and

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Speaker 1: caught up on everything going on in Colts Land and

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Speaker 1: includes Naive Hines. He will be coming up on the show.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna hear from the shifty running back. Don't forget

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Speaker 1: Frank Reich has said if you play fantasy football, mate,

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Speaker 1: make sure you have Naive Hines on your roster. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: So yeah, tonight it's going to be all about Naim Hines,

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Speaker 1: You know, the burning questions for Jonathan Taylor naim the

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Speaker 1: and then recapping week two of Colts OTAs in the

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Speaker 1: We're gonna break that down. May Tab was in New

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Speaker 1: time that you can see such revered you know instruments

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Speaker 1: He's basically sharing it with everybody that's willing to come

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Speaker 1: five The Fan will be back right after this. Welcome

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Speaker 1: back to the Last Word, the offseason Radio Home of

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Speaker 1: the Colts with Jeffrey Gorman and Matt Taylor. Welcome back

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Speaker 1: the Last Word right here in ninety three five one

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Speaker 1: make every moment more of you are listening to what

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Speaker 1: is that Nirvana? That is a song called Breed. Yes,

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Speaker 1: I like it because you know what I'm doing with

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Speaker 1: this thing. We're talking a lot about the earth Sake

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Speaker 1: collection because he's just knocking out of the park last

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Speaker 1: night in New York City. It's gonna be coming to Indianapolis,

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Speaker 1: Colts fans. It's down the road a little bit. It

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Speaker 1: could be in football season, could be at Lucas Oil Stadium, free,

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Speaker 1: open to the public. It'll be a heck heck of

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Speaker 1: an eating Bubbalini that's coming around to Indianapolis. So I'm

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Speaker 1: bringing it up real quick because Kurt Cobain, who you

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Speaker 1: Erse got the Cobain lefty. It's a Fender And the

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Speaker 1: reason I'm bringing it up is if everybody remembers smells

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Speaker 1: like teen sparits, so then the videos and stuff like

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Speaker 1: that was his guitar. That was one of the one

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Speaker 1: banging on. Okay, so it became the Cobain Uh you know,

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Speaker 1: Thought it would be way too low of a bid.

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Speaker 1: He ended up getting the guitar and that's part of

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Speaker 1: the collection last night. So hey, big full circle there, Mattay.

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Speaker 1: I like what you're playing over there with breeding Nirvana. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and the Cobain family donated a portion of the sale

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Speaker 1: to the Colts Kicking Stigma Magma Larness campaign. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think it's a win win all around, no question about.

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Speaker 1: It's incredibly cool. Man. That is Matt Taylor, the Voice

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Speaker 1: of the Colts. I am the gore Man and friendly reminder.

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Speaker 1: You can download the weekly Official Colts podcast featuring the

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Speaker 1: latest news, analysis, insight and interviews regarding the Colts. This week,

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Speaker 1: we talked about the early impressions of the Colts during

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Speaker 1: OTA's early thoughts on the starting lineups heading into training, camp.

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Speaker 1: We also had an interview in studio with Ashton Duel

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Speaker 1: and the Speed Merchant. He's gonna play a big role

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Speaker 1: in this offense. Remember I said it, Ashton Dueling. Check

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Speaker 1: that out right now on Colts dot Com, the Colts

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Speaker 1: Mobile app, and the Colts Audio Network anywhere you download

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Speaker 1: your Colts podcast. Can I get back on a podcast soon? Please? Taylor? Anytime?

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Speaker 1: Can I please get back on a podcast? Just let

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Speaker 1: us know your availability. Man, It's that easy, all right.

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Speaker 1: Stop laughing at me, will you please? I will be back.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna get you ready for this. Sing but here.

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Speaker 1: Earlier this offseason, Mata, Casey Valier, JJ Stank Events from

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Speaker 1: Colts dot Com the senior writer, not me, but all

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Speaker 1: the rest of those guys, Matt Taylor, Casey Valia and JJ.

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Speaker 1: They had a chance to log in with naim Hines.

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Speaker 1: Check in see how he's doing this offseason. They are

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Speaker 1: going to be discussing how good it feels to be

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Speaker 1: back with this team in the off season in the

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Speaker 1: program after missing the playoffs last year. Taken away Naim Hines,

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Speaker 1: you know us, we're always we've always high energy and

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Speaker 1: uh always ready to work. So it's been great. You know,

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Speaker 1: obviously having a new quarterback, things are different. There's some

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Speaker 1: different faces in here, obviously, personnel wise and coaches wise.

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Speaker 1: We've had a lot of changes. But everybody here is

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Speaker 1: excited to be here, happy to be back, and we're

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Speaker 1: really trying to build on last year. We've put that

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Speaker 1: gonna do this year. Matt Bryan has been, you know,

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Speaker 1: playing for a decade and a half. He's been around,

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Speaker 1: He's played with a number of players, you know, Julio Jones,

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Speaker 1: Roddy White in Atlanta, and I'm sure you've known who

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Speaker 1: he is from afar, But what have you got to

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Speaker 1: know about him since he got back in the building,

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Speaker 1: And actually it's some face to face conversations with him.

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Speaker 1: There's honestly been a pleasure so far. He walks in

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Speaker 1: and greets all the guys. He's very, very passionate and

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Speaker 1: intense when it's time to work. We've golf together and

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Speaker 1: he's a great guy outside of that, but when when

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Speaker 1: lot of us are like that. So we've liked how

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Speaker 1: how he's handled the business. He's a pro. He's obviously

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Speaker 1: his name, honestly, and we expected that of him, and

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Speaker 1: he's just that and more. How has he been just

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Speaker 1: want to route run, stuff like that. You know, the

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Speaker 1: coolest thing about him is, honestly, he talks about himself too,

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Speaker 1: Like obviously when you're a receiver are running back and

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Speaker 1: to be at. But then he also the coolest thing

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Speaker 1: about him he talks about his accuracy and he makes

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Speaker 1: that up important, like hey, I have to put the

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Speaker 1: ball right here. You expect the ball here, and that's

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Speaker 1: where he throws it. So I think that's one of

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Speaker 1: the things. And then even his detail like where the

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Speaker 1: supposed to run a route, Like he'll say, Chess bought

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Speaker 1: me on certain passes or certain things like that. So

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Speaker 1: it's super super excited to see like the detail with

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Speaker 1: more things to question in the air. That's what I'll

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Speaker 1: tell you. You know, you'd lose that final game in Jacksonville,

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Speaker 1: and you know it's kind of doom and gloom around

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Speaker 1: here everybody was when you looked at that, What was

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Speaker 1: something that you took from, you know, just your year

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Speaker 1: where are you in that? Yeah, that's true. It was tough.

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Speaker 1: Um Honestly, at the Jacksonville I didn't honest I didn't

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Speaker 1: or two, Like, I didn't even want to look at football.

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Speaker 1: But uh, it's just too hard. M It was disappointing,

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Speaker 1: just how it was disappointing. How you know we you know,

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Speaker 1: back to put ourselves in a position to get in

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Speaker 1: the playoffs, and then we didn't execute and we had

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Speaker 1: one of two games and winning we won either. So

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Speaker 1: that was hard and I think truly for me, honestly,

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Speaker 1: just the biggest thing I've worked on is really just

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Speaker 1: handling the adversity of things. Obviously, you know, we all

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Speaker 1: I just tried to mentally just work on not failure,

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Speaker 1: but when things bad happened, just self positive talks like

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Speaker 1: you're gonna have go out there and drop a ball,

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Speaker 1: that bad things are gonna happen, and just having a

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Speaker 1: great mental and self positive talk, you know. I mean,

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Speaker 1: obviously on the field, I've tried to do a lot

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Speaker 1: of things, work on the route tree and h get

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Speaker 1: my body stronger. But like I think, really the biggest

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Speaker 1: thing I did this off season was worth mentally. That's

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Speaker 1: not he hinds with US Colts running back and a

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Speaker 1: lot has been made this offseason, at least within the media,

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Speaker 1: not from you. But you know your catch numbers from

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Speaker 1: two thousand and twenty to two thousand twenty one. Does

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Speaker 1: it matter for you who the quarterback is for you personally?

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Speaker 1: How much does that matter for your game? I don't

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Speaker 1: really care who throws me the ball. I just pray

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Speaker 1: his right arm likes me. But honestly, you know, each

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Speaker 1: year's all, it's been a little bit a little bit different,

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Speaker 1: even having five quarterbacks to play. Callings a little bit

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Speaker 1: different every year, And truthfully, um with the catches and things,

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Speaker 1: I think it's an opportunity. I mean, I know my role.

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Speaker 1: I'm JT. We have JT T Fee. We have a

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Speaker 1: lot of the guys who just get in. But uh,

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Speaker 1: I pray, you know, I'll just keep going and UH

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Speaker 1: make it so, you know, I just keep being a

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Speaker 1: mismatch nightmare. And when I have the opportunity, I make

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Speaker 1: the most of it. And when I make the most opportunity,

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Speaker 1: I know the ball will continue to come. But with

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Speaker 1: with five different quarterbacks in five straight years, it's hard

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Speaker 1: on everybody. For you, how how challenging has that been

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Speaker 1: for you, adapting to new guy every off season. Um,

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Speaker 1: it's a little bit challenging, But I mean we're pros.

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Speaker 1: I mean yeah, honestly, truthfully, when it comes to a quarterback,

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Speaker 1: I feel like he has the harder job because he

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Speaker 1: has to. I mean, I'm running a route. It doesn't matter.

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Speaker 1: You could throw me that five yard slant. So I

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Speaker 1: mean I think with that, I think it's been It's

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Speaker 1: been an adjustment for me. But I have to go

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Speaker 1: out there and the ball comes a little bit different

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Speaker 1: from each guy. But you know, at the end of

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Speaker 1: the day, for me, I have to go catch the ball.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't matter who it is. So you know, obviously

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Speaker 1: some quarterbacks throughout our time here, some quarterbacks though to

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Speaker 1: running backs more than others, and that might just be

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Speaker 1: a tailor tape for each quarterback. Hey, we're just talking

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Speaker 1: before he came on, just about the draft and the

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Speaker 1: rookies coming in. You'll get to know him in a

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Speaker 1: couple of weeks here. But over the course of your career,

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Speaker 1: and obviously you had a successful rookie season, what are

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Speaker 1: some things that you've seen successful rookies have to be

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Speaker 1: successful right out of the gate. Oh, they gotta have

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Speaker 1: a short a short memory. I know one thing I

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Speaker 1: did not have after my first game was a short memory,

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Speaker 1: and now that's one thing that you have to have.

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Speaker 1: And then really just work ethic. If you have a

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Speaker 1: short you work your butt off and just learn, you'll

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Speaker 1: you'll you'll have a way in the NFL, because one

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Speaker 1: thing people will do is respect you. So if you

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Speaker 1: earn people's respecting the building, it'll take you farther than

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Speaker 1: your game, whatever will take you. So I think that's

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Speaker 1: the receivers and the new receiver, the new tight end

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Speaker 1: we talked about all the guys. That's what we just

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Speaker 1: have to do, and that's what I had to do

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Speaker 1: when I came in, just learning a new system, knowing

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Speaker 1: that you don't know everything, and just coming in being humble. Now,

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Speaker 1: one of the things we haven't been discussed from Chris

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Speaker 1: ballor to Frank Riich is that you are one of

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Speaker 1: the core, you know, mismatch nightmares on this offense. Now,

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Speaker 1: they're probably going to utilize you in different areas. Have

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Speaker 1: you Has that been discussed on kind of where you're

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Speaker 1: going to be used this year more? I've heard more

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Speaker 1: in the slot as well. Is that something you've been

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Speaker 1: discussed so far? We've talked about a little bit, but

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Speaker 1: I'm not exactly sure myself. I like to think I'll

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Speaker 1: kind of be everywhere, and I think it just being

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Speaker 1: an opportunity. I'm not exactly sure exactly where I will

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Speaker 1: be at, but I do know that I do know

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Speaker 1: and trust that Frank will put me in a great

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Speaker 1: position to be a mismatched nightmare. And when he doesn't

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Speaker 1: and the ball just comes my way and I have

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Speaker 1: to win, I will win. So that's been my goal.

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Speaker 1: I know they I'm a mismatched nightmare, but it's not

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Speaker 1: even about mismatches anymore. I just know I can win

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Speaker 1: one on one and that's what I'm working on this year.

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Speaker 1: Going along with that, what about YAK, I mean yards

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Speaker 1: after the catch was something that was missing a little

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Speaker 1: bit last year in the offense. With you in this scheme,

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Speaker 1: you know how much of an emphasis being put on

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Speaker 1: that here in the off season. That's what we've talked

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Speaker 1: about a lot. Just first off, we were very, very

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Speaker 1: inefficient in the passing game. A lot of it's been route,

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Speaker 1: some of it was accuracy, So we've talked about that.

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00:29:23,080 --> 00:29:25,680
Speaker 1: In general. YAK one is us having great separation and

636
00:29:25,680 --> 00:29:27,479
Speaker 1: then too a good ball placement so we can run

637
00:29:27,560 --> 00:29:29,600
Speaker 1: out to the ball and on both sides as quarterbacks

638
00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:32,160
Speaker 1: and receivers, we know our parts, so I think it'll

639
00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:34,160
Speaker 1: be great for us. I mean, I like to think

640
00:29:34,160 --> 00:29:36,440
Speaker 1: I'm pretty good in space, so hopefully, you know, I'll

641
00:29:36,440 --> 00:29:39,240
Speaker 1: get some. I like to think you're pretty good in space. Yeah,

642
00:29:39,280 --> 00:29:40,840
Speaker 1: I'd like to think that. You know, hopefully I'll have

643
00:29:40,920 --> 00:29:42,960
Speaker 1: some opportunities to showcase what I can do in space,

644
00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:44,640
Speaker 1: and we have a lot of other great guys who

645
00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:46,960
Speaker 1: will get some YAK as well. You guys brought in

646
00:29:47,200 --> 00:29:49,760
Speaker 1: to find Gilmore when you got a former Defensive Player

647
00:29:49,760 --> 00:29:51,520
Speaker 1: of the Year is won a Super Bowl? Who joins

648
00:29:51,520 --> 00:29:53,959
Speaker 1: your team? What does that do for? Just like the

649
00:29:54,080 --> 00:29:56,600
Speaker 1: vibe this week? Man, let me just tell you guys,

650
00:29:56,600 --> 00:29:58,800
Speaker 1: since not even him just coming in last week and

651
00:29:58,880 --> 00:30:02,480
Speaker 1: sing our whole defense is a vibe. Man, I'm coming

652
00:30:02,520 --> 00:30:07,040
Speaker 1: back looking at DeForest Quitty, Darius Leonard. Then I turned

653
00:30:07,040 --> 00:30:09,640
Speaker 1: around and yeah, yes him about say. We played him

654
00:30:09,640 --> 00:30:11,239
Speaker 1: in two thoy and eighteen. He was he had two

655
00:30:11,320 --> 00:30:13,080
Speaker 1: or three sacks. He played him like seven times in

656
00:30:13,120 --> 00:30:15,400
Speaker 1: the last four years, and every and every time I've

657
00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:18,440
Speaker 1: had to chip him in his game. So I am

658
00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:20,480
Speaker 1: happy he's on our team because I was so happy

659
00:30:20,480 --> 00:30:22,720
Speaker 1: when he loved Jacksonville and then you know all those

660
00:30:22,720 --> 00:30:24,920
Speaker 1: guys and not turned around the Stephon Gilmour's here. He was.

661
00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:28,800
Speaker 1: There's a lot of accolades he had, So we built

662
00:30:28,800 --> 00:30:30,000
Speaker 1: on that side of the ball. And every time I

663
00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:31,680
Speaker 1: look at that defense, I know that practice is going

664
00:30:31,720 --> 00:30:34,160
Speaker 1: to be hard. So I'm super excited to go up

665
00:30:34,160 --> 00:30:36,680
Speaker 1: against those guys. One additional thing you also added is

666
00:30:36,720 --> 00:30:38,920
Speaker 1: Reggie Wayne to the wide receiver crew. How cool is

667
00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:41,880
Speaker 1: that seeing eighty seven as the coach? Now, man, I'm

668
00:30:41,920 --> 00:30:44,640
Speaker 1: just waiting for eighteen to walk back in. We might

669
00:30:44,680 --> 00:30:48,560
Speaker 1: get both of them to suit up, But all jokes aside.

670
00:30:48,560 --> 00:30:50,920
Speaker 1: Man Scotty Montgomery was a great addition to us last

671
00:30:50,960 --> 00:30:53,200
Speaker 1: year to help me, to help me personally build me

672
00:30:53,240 --> 00:30:55,160
Speaker 1: as a receiver. And then I've been trying to just

673
00:30:55,200 --> 00:30:57,239
Speaker 1: build and learn as a receiver. And now that Reggie's here,

674
00:30:57,280 --> 00:31:00,479
Speaker 1: I'm super super excited. Um in every round and Scottie

675
00:31:00,560 --> 00:31:02,320
Speaker 1: Reggie are there talking to me and coaching me. So

676
00:31:02,640 --> 00:31:05,160
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna be really good for not just me,

677
00:31:05,280 --> 00:31:07,600
Speaker 1: but everybody. And it's always great when you have a

678
00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:10,120
Speaker 1: coach who who's all over the walls, so you've seen

679
00:31:10,760 --> 00:31:12,880
Speaker 1: his work. So one thing is we'll respect his work

680
00:31:12,920 --> 00:31:14,800
Speaker 1: and everything he tells me, and all of us were

681
00:31:14,800 --> 00:31:16,959
Speaker 1: definitely gonna be looking and trying to correct. Yeah, that's

682
00:31:17,040 --> 00:31:20,760
Speaker 1: Naim Hines with us Colts running back. A few more things. Nah,

683
00:31:21,040 --> 00:31:24,440
Speaker 1: you are as casey said. Chris Ballard mentioned you as

684
00:31:24,520 --> 00:31:27,320
Speaker 1: a top playmaker on this offense. Another guy in that

685
00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:30,240
Speaker 1: vein is Jonathan Taylor. Um, what was it like from

686
00:31:30,240 --> 00:31:32,680
Speaker 1: your vantage point to get a front row seat to

687
00:31:32,840 --> 00:31:35,320
Speaker 1: Jonathan taylor season last year? How did you see his

688
00:31:35,880 --> 00:31:38,680
Speaker 1: season sort of balloon and take off week after week

689
00:31:38,760 --> 00:31:43,280
Speaker 1: like it did. Wow. Wow, it was honestly it was.

690
00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:45,000
Speaker 1: It was cool to watch, and then when we got

691
00:31:45,040 --> 00:31:47,959
Speaker 1: to like week we probably like ten or eleven, it

692
00:31:48,040 --> 00:31:50,440
Speaker 1: was like, geez, every week, JT's running for like one,

693
00:31:50,560 --> 00:31:54,520
Speaker 1: twenty one, fifty two hundred. It was. It was really impressive.

694
00:31:54,560 --> 00:31:56,440
Speaker 1: And even last year just how we ended it was

695
00:31:56,520 --> 00:31:58,920
Speaker 1: like obviously, we don't make it, we don't make it

696
00:31:58,960 --> 00:32:01,440
Speaker 1: about us individual rules and things, but it was like jeezus,

697
00:32:01,480 --> 00:32:03,480
Speaker 1: like last year, like I was one thing that hurt me. Yeah,

698
00:32:03,560 --> 00:32:05,800
Speaker 1: like JT season, he deserved to be in the playoffs

699
00:32:05,800 --> 00:32:07,360
Speaker 1: store I wanted the world to see what he could do,

700
00:32:07,480 --> 00:32:08,920
Speaker 1: you know, against the best of the best teams, and

701
00:32:08,920 --> 00:32:11,400
Speaker 1: even that we let him down on that. So it

702
00:32:11,440 --> 00:32:13,360
Speaker 1: was really really amazing and it was a privilege and

703
00:32:13,400 --> 00:32:15,400
Speaker 1: a pleasure to work with JT every day. And when

704
00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:17,840
Speaker 1: he has a great year like when he did this year,

705
00:32:18,040 --> 00:32:19,440
Speaker 1: we hope to be in the playoffs so he can

706
00:32:19,440 --> 00:32:21,920
Speaker 1: share his talents everywhere. And he's a special guy on

707
00:32:21,920 --> 00:32:24,200
Speaker 1: the field, but he's also a he's probably more special

708
00:32:24,240 --> 00:32:26,400
Speaker 1: off the field in terms of his character and maturity

709
00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:29,080
Speaker 1: and things like that. Have you ever seen him do

710
00:32:29,200 --> 00:32:33,120
Speaker 1: anything that where he's drawing attention to himself. I mean,

711
00:32:33,680 --> 00:32:35,960
Speaker 1: somebody that puts up those kinds of numbers can easily

712
00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:37,920
Speaker 1: just walk in the locker room and shine the spotlight

713
00:32:37,960 --> 00:32:40,040
Speaker 1: on himself. But that's just not him. Man. The only

714
00:32:40,040 --> 00:32:42,560
Speaker 1: time he's ever put anything on himself, which isn't even him,

715
00:32:42,600 --> 00:32:45,680
Speaker 1: he shouts out of his high school, So shout out

716
00:32:45,720 --> 00:32:48,360
Speaker 1: Salem City in New Jersey. Right, So, no, JT has

717
00:32:48,360 --> 00:32:51,160
Speaker 1: never put any attention on himself. He's always been really

718
00:32:51,240 --> 00:32:53,040
Speaker 1: great with, you know, telling us what he sees and

719
00:32:53,080 --> 00:32:57,560
Speaker 1: celebrating with his team and shoot. Honestly, Jonathan's been very,

720
00:32:57,640 --> 00:33:00,600
Speaker 1: very instrument in our offense and shoot a lot of credit,

721
00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:02,400
Speaker 1: but he always deserves more and he's been great with

722
00:33:02,440 --> 00:33:04,720
Speaker 1: how he's handled his success. Yeah. I mean we've talked

723
00:33:04,760 --> 00:33:07,600
Speaker 1: to some folks who have said that JT he isn't

724
00:33:07,640 --> 00:33:09,560
Speaker 1: you know, it's not just that he hasn't changed, it's

725
00:33:09,560 --> 00:33:11,080
Speaker 1: that he's working even harder. I mean, this is a

726
00:33:11,120 --> 00:33:13,360
Speaker 1: dude who led the league in rushing like five hundred yards.

727
00:33:13,720 --> 00:33:15,800
Speaker 1: I mean that like that gap hadn't happened in like

728
00:33:15,880 --> 00:33:18,400
Speaker 1: over ten years between the number one and the number

729
00:33:18,400 --> 00:33:20,800
Speaker 1: two rusher. But he still is working and pushing. He's

730
00:33:20,840 --> 00:33:23,120
Speaker 1: not just resting on what he did last season. Oh No,

731
00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:25,440
Speaker 1: he's working hard. Man. He's he's a great guy man.

732
00:33:25,520 --> 00:33:27,760
Speaker 1: Even like shoot, even the linebackers, we always you know,

733
00:33:27,760 --> 00:33:29,840
Speaker 1: we have one on ones. We have we have junk

734
00:33:29,880 --> 00:33:31,760
Speaker 1: talking and JT doesn't even talk johnk I'm the one

735
00:33:31,760 --> 00:33:34,960
Speaker 1: talking to John. I'm not j But that's that's what

736
00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:37,320
Speaker 1: I'm saying. It's it's been fun to work with him

737
00:33:37,320 --> 00:33:39,320
Speaker 1: and you know, having that, and I think JT is

738
00:33:39,320 --> 00:33:41,720
Speaker 1: starting to see where he can go because yeah, he

739
00:33:41,720 --> 00:33:43,200
Speaker 1: did have a good year last year, but we all

740
00:33:43,200 --> 00:33:44,800
Speaker 1: think he can do it again this year. And that's

741
00:33:44,800 --> 00:33:46,560
Speaker 1: how you become great, because he did have a good year.

742
00:33:46,600 --> 00:33:48,200
Speaker 1: But I think JT knows where he wants to go

743
00:33:48,320 --> 00:33:50,440
Speaker 1: and his greatness and where he has to be. To

744
00:33:50,520 --> 00:33:52,240
Speaker 1: be great, he has to continuously do that, and I

745
00:33:52,280 --> 00:33:54,880
Speaker 1: think that's what he's working towards. Love Naim Hines, Love

746
00:33:54,920 --> 00:33:57,480
Speaker 1: what he brings to this Colts offense. Love his family.

747
00:33:57,520 --> 00:34:00,280
Speaker 1: Don't forget he's a twin. His sister comes out to

748
00:34:00,320 --> 00:34:02,680
Speaker 1: all the games. That's an off the field little subject

749
00:34:02,680 --> 00:34:05,720
Speaker 1: that not many people know about. N Hines is a twin.

750
00:34:05,760 --> 00:34:07,480
Speaker 1: But on top of that, he's one heck of a

751
00:34:07,480 --> 00:34:09,640
Speaker 1: football player. I'm just telling you, Frank Breich says, if

752
00:34:09,680 --> 00:34:12,120
Speaker 1: you guys play fantasy football and you bet better get

753
00:34:12,200 --> 00:34:14,560
Speaker 1: number twenty one on your roster, that's saying something from

754
00:34:14,600 --> 00:34:16,719
Speaker 1: a head coach in the NFL. Mate, We're gonna take

755
00:34:16,719 --> 00:34:18,520
Speaker 1: a time out. We're gonna give you the Forum Credit

756
00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:22,280
Speaker 1: Union question of the week regarding Jonathan Taylor's possibly joining

757
00:34:22,320 --> 00:34:25,120
Speaker 1: some elite company when it comes to Colts running backs,

758
00:34:25,160 --> 00:34:28,200
Speaker 1: it's just in newsflash, he's already there. We're also going

759
00:34:28,239 --> 00:34:32,120
Speaker 1: to discuss it if the Titans should extend Derrick Henry

760
00:34:32,200 --> 00:34:35,320
Speaker 1: this offseason. Boy, we're gonna meddle in other themes rosters.

761
00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:38,799
Speaker 1: I love it. And the NFL TV broadcast carousel has

762
00:34:38,840 --> 00:34:41,200
Speaker 1: come to a stop, Mate and I are going to

763
00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:44,440
Speaker 1: talk about which network has the best lineup in the booth.

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Speaker 1: This is the Last Word, one oh seven five. The

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00:34:47,600 --> 00:34:53,840
Speaker 1: Fan will be back with Moore right after this. We

766
00:34:53,960 --> 00:34:56,600
Speaker 1: now returned to the off season home of the Colts

767
00:34:56,640 --> 00:35:00,160
Speaker 1: The Last Word with Jeffrey Gorman and Matt Taylor's I'm

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00:35:00,200 --> 00:35:05,080
Speaker 1: a Powerhome Solar Radio Studio. Nicely done. They tape coming

769
00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:07,680
Speaker 1: back with some Jimmy and Dricks. I love it. A

770
00:35:07,680 --> 00:35:11,160
Speaker 1: couple of lefty guitarists that we featured today. Kurt Colbain

771
00:35:11,239 --> 00:35:14,040
Speaker 1: originally would breed earlier on the show, and then you

772
00:35:14,120 --> 00:35:16,200
Speaker 1: just got you just finish it up with Jimmy Hendricks.

773
00:35:16,239 --> 00:35:19,239
Speaker 1: A couple of heavyweights hitting Haymaker. I didn't even think

774
00:35:19,239 --> 00:35:21,640
Speaker 1: about that. That's a good connection to the left handed

775
00:35:21,960 --> 00:35:24,600
Speaker 1: the players there on the guitar. No, there's not, No,

776
00:35:24,719 --> 00:35:28,480
Speaker 1: there's not. Yeah, crosstown traffic, this is uh, in the

777
00:35:28,560 --> 00:35:31,520
Speaker 1: spirit of just all of the today night many all

778
00:35:31,560 --> 00:35:35,360
Speaker 1: the construction around town, I mean down downtown for sixty

779
00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:37,560
Speaker 1: five is that way you did that. I know you

780
00:35:37,600 --> 00:35:40,360
Speaker 1: haven't been back in town here recently, Jeffrey, but everywhere

781
00:35:40,400 --> 00:35:43,560
Speaker 1: you go, get prepared to wait and sit because there's

782
00:35:43,560 --> 00:35:47,120
Speaker 1: a lot going on construction wise around town. So everybody's

783
00:35:47,160 --> 00:35:49,399
Speaker 1: gonna do their part in the Cone Zone, as they say.

784
00:35:49,440 --> 00:35:51,839
Speaker 1: But let's get all this construction done by the end

785
00:35:51,840 --> 00:35:54,360
Speaker 1: of the summer so we can get on and do

786
00:35:54,520 --> 00:35:57,560
Speaker 1: some more efficiency when it comes to travel around town. Well,

787
00:35:57,600 --> 00:36:00,480
Speaker 1: if it ain't potholes this time of year, struct from

788
00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:03,080
Speaker 1: traffic that time of year, let's go Indie. But if

789
00:36:03,080 --> 00:36:05,000
Speaker 1: you are stuck in that traffic, here's what you do.

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00:36:05,280 --> 00:36:07,799
Speaker 1: Single game tickets for the Colts twenty twenty two home

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Speaker 1: So grab your phone in that traffic when you're sitting

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Speaker 1: in the parking lot with you will and you can

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Speaker 1: log on go get you what do you need? Go

795
00:36:16,920 --> 00:36:19,320
Speaker 1: see these Colts at Lucas Oil Stadium. You've got regular

796
00:36:19,360 --> 00:36:23,040
Speaker 1: season matchups against all the AFC South rivals and meetings

797
00:36:23,040 --> 00:36:26,680
Speaker 1: with watch this Mahomes no Big Ben. But the Steelers

798
00:36:26,680 --> 00:36:30,279
Speaker 1: are coming in. Okay, the Chargers, the Eagles, the Commanders.

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Speaker 1: You can get your tickets head to Colts dot com,

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Speaker 1: slash tickets or ticketmaster dot com. Matt Taylor Voice of

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00:36:36,440 --> 00:36:38,680
Speaker 1: the Coach. My name is Jeffrey Goreman. We're gonna give

802
00:36:38,680 --> 00:36:41,319
Speaker 1: you the Forum Credit Union question of the week. It's

803
00:36:41,320 --> 00:36:43,480
Speaker 1: you're thinking caps on may tell you ready to roll?

804
00:36:43,640 --> 00:36:46,520
Speaker 1: Let's go here we go. Last season, JT broke the

805
00:36:46,560 --> 00:36:50,000
Speaker 1: Colts single season rushing record and tied the club record

806
00:36:50,040 --> 00:36:53,720
Speaker 1: for rushing touchdowns in a single season. He has rushed

807
00:36:53,719 --> 00:36:56,280
Speaker 1: for over a thousand yards in each of his first

808
00:36:56,280 --> 00:37:00,040
Speaker 1: two seasons. And he can become the fourth player in

809
00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:04,640
Speaker 1: franchise history to hit that mark in three consecutive seasons.

810
00:37:04,880 --> 00:37:07,120
Speaker 1: I want to know who the other three running backs are.

811
00:37:07,280 --> 00:37:09,960
Speaker 1: Jonathan Taylor is gonna join that group. But there are

812
00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:12,880
Speaker 1: three great running backs in front of them, three straight years,

813
00:37:12,920 --> 00:37:16,399
Speaker 1: one thousand yards each year. Who are the other three Colts? Runnings? Back?

814
00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:18,879
Speaker 1: And Matt Day? We talked about Edger and James Enough

815
00:37:18,880 --> 00:37:22,440
Speaker 1: earlier on the show. That's one of them, right there, James?

816
00:37:22,680 --> 00:37:25,400
Speaker 1: All right, So I need two more, yes, sir, Go

817
00:37:25,480 --> 00:37:28,279
Speaker 1: back to late eighties, Go back to mid seventies. There's

818
00:37:28,360 --> 00:37:30,600
Speaker 1: hint and hint all right, late eighties has to be

819
00:37:30,760 --> 00:37:34,239
Speaker 1: Eric Dickerson, big big man, the Hall of Famer Eric Dickerson.

820
00:37:34,320 --> 00:37:38,279
Speaker 1: Also three consecutive one thousand rushing yards, Give me one more,

821
00:37:38,440 --> 00:37:42,799
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy five, seventy six, and seventy seven. This man

822
00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:46,000
Speaker 1: ran for a thousand yards three consecutive seasons. Who is it?

823
00:37:46,360 --> 00:37:48,680
Speaker 1: Lenny Moore was probably done playing by then, was he not?

824
00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:53,080
Speaker 1: You are correct? You are correct? Was Alan Amici? Alan?

825
00:37:53,120 --> 00:37:56,439
Speaker 1: I'll go Alan Emichi send a mechi at me from

826
00:37:56,480 --> 00:37:59,560
Speaker 1: that great game, I mean, the NFL Championship Game. That's

827
00:37:59,600 --> 00:38:02,160
Speaker 1: the story. But no it wasn't alan EMICI may take

828
00:38:02,239 --> 00:38:04,879
Speaker 1: good pull good try. He was done playing by then

829
00:38:04,880 --> 00:38:06,680
Speaker 1: as well, right, yeah he was that. He's a little

830
00:38:06,719 --> 00:38:10,160
Speaker 1: bit earlier Lydell Mitchell. Old Colts fans and old NFL fans,

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00:38:10,200 --> 00:38:13,400
Speaker 1: you remember, Widell Mitchell. These guys are the only players

832
00:38:13,400 --> 00:38:16,840
Speaker 1: in Colts history with three consecutive one thousand yard seasons,

833
00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:20,000
Speaker 1: and Jonathan Taylor is gonna do it this year. Here

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00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:22,960
Speaker 1: we go, fans. Every week you can log on to

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00:38:23,040 --> 00:38:25,880
Speaker 1: the fan forum section of Colts dot com and you

836
00:38:25,920 --> 00:38:28,840
Speaker 1: can interact and say hello to other fans online. You

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00:38:28,960 --> 00:38:32,920
Speaker 1: post a topic in various discussion groups regarding your Colts

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Speaker 1: and off and running. You go Forum Credit Union helping

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Speaker 1: Meyer Meyer, the official supercenter of the Indianapolis Colts and

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Speaker 1: out sponsor of hundreds of local sports teams across the Midwest.

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Speaker 1: Let's go. Let's talk about broadcasters in the NFL. Matt Taylor,

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Speaker 1: in my opinion, the best radio play by play announcer

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Speaker 1: in the NFL. We are lucky to have you, Maytay,

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Speaker 1: but we're gonna talk. We're gonna talk some TV teams,

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Speaker 1: all right. They have switched place a little bit. Here

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Speaker 1: it goes. Fox Sports announced earlier this week that Greg Olson,

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Speaker 1: the former tight end, is gonna he's gonna be on

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Speaker 1: their lead NFL as the analyst, joining Kevin Burkhard. The

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Speaker 1: duo replaces Joe Buck and Troy Aikman. They got big

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Speaker 1: shoes to fill. They're gonna call Monday Night Football this

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Speaker 1: season on ESPN. Alright, Al Michaels, who had been on

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Speaker 1: NBC Sunday Night Football since two thousand and six, he's

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Speaker 1: gonna team up with Kurt's Herb Street on Prime Video's

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Speaker 1: inaugural season, and that is Thursday Night Football. If you

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Speaker 1: want to watch Thursday Night Football, mate, you gotta have

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Speaker 1: Prime Video, Okay. Mike Tarico, he'll call Sunday Night Football

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Speaker 1: on NBC with Chris Collins. We're taking the role of

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Speaker 1: Al Michael and Jim Nance and Tony Romo. They're going

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Speaker 1: to remain in the top slot for CBS's NFL coverage. Mate,

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Speaker 1: this is a fun topic. Take the contracts out of it, okay,

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Speaker 1: because there's stupid money being thrown around in the NFL

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Speaker 1: boost right now, and I mean stupid money for these

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Speaker 1: guys are getting I just told you about the three

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Speaker 1: of the new groups. Who do you like the best

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Speaker 1: out of that? I think they're all good, to be

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Speaker 1: honest with you, I think may come on. I really

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Speaker 1: like Greg Olsen, you know that that. I know he

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Speaker 1: hasn't been a full timer, but he's just a natural,

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Speaker 1: very intelligent. He communicates the game well, he sees it well,

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Speaker 1: says a lot in a short amount of time, very succinct,

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Speaker 1: which is very hard to do. I think it'll be

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Speaker 1: interesting to see Kirk Herbstreet go from college to the NFL,

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Speaker 1: and he's going to be doing both. He is great.

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Speaker 1: And then Buck and Aikman give Monday Night Football some

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Speaker 1: more cashe and I actually like last year's crew as well,

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Speaker 1: with Greasy and Lewis Riddick. So I think we're sort

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Speaker 1: of getting into the golden age of TV booths because

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of name recognition and a lot of

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Speaker 1: good football people doing play by play and doing the

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Speaker 1: color analyst. I think there's home runs across the board here.

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Speaker 1: Don't forget. There's a lot of switches going on Thursday

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Speaker 1: Night football included. You better get prime video for that. Okay, mate,

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Speaker 1: now it's time. I love this. Now we get Caddy.

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Speaker 1: Now we go talking the little boys in little girl's

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Speaker 1: And we're talking about other people. And this is what

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Speaker 1: we do on the show. We talk about other people

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Speaker 1: on the show. Let's go down to Tennessee. Let's talk

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Speaker 1: about Nashville. That's going on with Derrick Henry. What's that

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Speaker 1: contract all about? It's two years away from expiring, mate.

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Speaker 1: The Titans are reportedly considering giving him extension before that. Now,

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Speaker 1: Derrick Henry signed a four year deal before the twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty season. It was worth fifty million. The reason we're

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Speaker 1: talking about another team is because we have to play

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Speaker 1: him twice a year. This twenty eight year old running

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Speaker 1: back was on his way to a third consecutive NFL

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Speaker 1: rushing title before his foot injury last October. It cost

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Speaker 1: him the final half of the twenty twenty one regular season.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about the Titans, Mate, What are the pros

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Speaker 1: give me the cons of extending Derrick Henry this early.

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Speaker 1: Don't forget he's a running back. A lot of guys

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Speaker 1: and gms and stuff say running backs come and go

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Speaker 1: in the NFL. Is Derrick Henry one of those guys? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the pros are. I mean, if you signed him early,

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Speaker 1: it would give you, you know, short term cap relief.

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Speaker 1: An extension could benefit their current cap situation, not immediately

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Speaker 1: impact the future with a deal that loads up, you know,

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Speaker 1: the dead cap charges in the first couple of years.

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Speaker 1: The cons are as you said. Unfortunately, we've seen this

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Speaker 1: to be true. Running back age and wear and tear.

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Speaker 1: It comes for every player at that position. And he's

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Speaker 1: been given a lot of carries over the years, and

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Speaker 1: his injury last season was concerning, and you wonder if

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Speaker 1: those injuries might start to grow as he ages, despite

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Speaker 1: the fact that he's still relatively young and he takes

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Speaker 1: great care of his body, just like Jonathan Taylor does.

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Speaker 1: It might be unfair, but the clock moves faster for

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Speaker 1: running backs, as we all know. But his motivation to

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Speaker 1: get an extension done could be pretty high. It's not

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Speaker 1: a certainty for him he would make the same money

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Speaker 1: in free agency in a few years that he would

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Speaker 1: get in an extension this offseason from the Titans. I

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Speaker 1: can't hear the Titans fans right now. Don't worry about

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Speaker 1: your own roster, don't worry about ours. Well, hey, guess well,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about your roster all right, Derrick Henry

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Speaker 1: Morra will be revealed. I hate facing him twice a year,

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Speaker 1: but one of the best and whatever he's asking for,

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Speaker 1: he's worked it. That's a machine at you know, two

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Speaker 1: hundred and fifty five pounds doing what he does are

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Speaker 1: rare running back in the NFL. Mattey, I enjoyed this.

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Speaker 1: Matt Taylor Voice of the Colts. My name is gore Man.

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Speaker 1: This is the last word ninety three five one oh

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Speaker 1: seven five the fan. You can find out all the

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Speaker 1: latest information at Colts dot com and the Colts app.

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Speaker 1: We do this every Friday. And big thanks to JMB

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Speaker 1: for warming everybody up for us. Mattay, have a great weekend.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate you weekend and week out. A great season to

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Speaker 1: look forward to. Grand Park is coming up right around

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Speaker 1: the corner. And I say it weekend and week out. Hey,

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Speaker 1: this is a good football team. Matetey, thanks a lot.

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Speaker 1: Lou Holtz, not yet. I'll bring out the Lou Holtz

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Speaker 1: in a couple of weeks. I'm still trying to get

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Speaker 1: over my Natalie Merchant imitation. Yeah. Well, at one at

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Speaker 1: a time, that's all. We can take. Days for Matt Taylor,

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Speaker 1: that big days to everybody. Casey valleijj stakomits earlier work

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Speaker 1: in the show. My name is Jeffrey Burman. You are

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Speaker 1: listening to us here on ESPN Radio ninety three five

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Speaker 1: one oh seven five the Fan. Coming up next ESPN

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Speaker 1: Radio with Spain and Bits. We'll talk to you next

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Speaker 1: week days.