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Speaker 1: Welcome to Colts Roundtable Live on ninety three to five

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Speaker 1: and one oh seven five.

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Speaker 2: The fan gonna take off on a quarterback drawl. He's

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Speaker 2: at the ten, he's at the five, untouched in the

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Speaker 2: into Michael Pitmit Junior takes it seventy five yards.

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Speaker 1: We're talking Colts and recapping the action.

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Speaker 2: Good cost fuck there picks up a live football and

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Speaker 2: race is the other way for a score picked off

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Speaker 2: by the Colts from the near sideline. Kenny Moore racing

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Speaker 2: for the into ten five touchdown.

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Speaker 1: Indeed, why now Here's the voice of the Colts, Matt

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Speaker 1: Taylor from the Indiana Union Construction Industry Radio studio.

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Speaker 2: Good evening, everybody, Welcome to this first installment of Colts

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Speaker 2: filling it up, talking about the Colts and dissecting the

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Speaker 2: latest game. And we are going to routinely hear from

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Speaker 2: Colts head coach Shane Steichen on this program. Coming up

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Speaker 2: in just a few minutes on the first segment. Will

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Speaker 2: also bring you a roundtable chat on the Colts throughout

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Speaker 2: the show with former Colts coach Rick Venturrey and former

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Speaker 2: Colts offensive lineman Joe Wrights. But at Week number one,

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Speaker 2: the Colts fell to the Houston Texans and a nail

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Speaker 2: bier twenty nine to twenty seven, which means the Colts

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Speaker 2: have failed to win on opening day for the eleventh

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Speaker 2: consecutive season, and to make it tougher to swallow the loss,

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Speaker 2: comes of the team that many have pegged as the

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Speaker 2: AFC South favorite and the squad to beat the Colts

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Speaker 2: last year in Week eighteen of the season, also at

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Speaker 2: Lucas Oil Stadium, Indianapolis, oh to one, the Texans are

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Speaker 2: one to zero, and Houston was the only AFC South team,

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Speaker 2: by the way to win on opening weekend. So let's

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Speaker 2: talk about the game in more detail. We'll do that

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Speaker 2: on the game rewind on Sunday. The Colts offense had

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Speaker 2: three completions over fifty yards. That's the most by the

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Speaker 2: team in a single game since at least two thousand

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Speaker 2: and the most exciting play of the game came on

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Speaker 2: a sixty yard strike in the first quarter to Alec

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Speaker 2: Pierce for a touchdown that sent Lucas Oil Stadium into

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Speaker 2: a frenzy. On play action backs to throw, he slips

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Speaker 2: Alec Pearce. He's got that touchdown.

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Speaker 3: Hi bomb sixty yards Anthony Richardson to Aleck Pearce.

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Speaker 2: That's what you're talking about in the deep game. Touchdown,

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Speaker 2: ah D. Why for Aleck Pierce? It was the longest

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Speaker 2: catch of his young career. He had the best day

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Speaker 2: of his career as well, with one hundred and twenty

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Speaker 2: five receiving yards. Pierce hauled in two catches over fifty

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Speaker 2: in the same game for the first time in his

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Speaker 2: career and as the first call to do that since

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Speaker 2: Pierre Garson. In Week four of the twenty eleven season,

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Speaker 2: Anthony Richardson completed nine balls for two hundred and twelve yards.

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Speaker 2: That's an incredible twenty three and a half yards per completion.

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Speaker 2: As the Colt, They're going to be significantly more explosive

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Speaker 2: on offense this year compared to last year. Despite the

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Speaker 2: The Texans also had seven passes defensed on Richardson attempts

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Speaker 2: the Colts. The Texans had a seventy six to forty

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Speaker 2: segment two will be joined by Rick Venturi and Joe Wrights.

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Speaker 2: head coach Shane Steichen, who joins us now on this

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Speaker 2: Citizens Energy Group and coach. Really tough game, very very

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Speaker 2: difficult to swallow what happened in week one? What did

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think just you know, in critical moments, we

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I know, it was phenomenal. The fans came out

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Speaker 2: So it was awesome to be back out there. All right. Also,

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Speaker 2: We'll see how they progress this week. Yeah, keep an

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Speaker 2: Definitely had some up and down moments, but you know,

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Speaker 4: Yeah. Like I said, I think he did some really

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Speaker 2: Are you just like everybody else? I mean when you

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Speaker 4: But yeah, you're kind of like a fan a little

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Speaker 4: holy smokes, you know, yeah, And I never seen anything

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Now, you talked all off season about wanting to

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Speaker 2: How happy are you with the tone you've kind of

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it's big. I think it's huge because

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Speaker 4: So I'm excited about the explosive playability that those guys had,

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Speaker 2: Moving forward, you know, also on the explosive front, the

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it was huge to get him back healthy and

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Speaker 4: Hell of a route by him, hell of a throw

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Speaker 1: For him, all right.

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Speaker 2: Meanwhile, on the defensive side of the ball, they had

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Speaker 2: what was it twelve plays in the second half of

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Speaker 4: Yeah, obviously, you know, credit to Houston. You know they

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Speaker 4: We'll get it fixed on the rush defense because our

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Speaker 2: Can can you pinpoint why the Texans had so much

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Speaker 4: Credit credit to them up front? Really, you know, they

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Speaker 4: did a good job running at Joe Mixon ran hard.

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Speaker 4: You know, our guys in the back end though, Julian

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Speaker 5: Up, all right.

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Speaker 2: Your message to the team, I know the team had

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Speaker 2: a lot of you know, emotional investment going into that

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Speaker 2: first game of the season, right, and I get it.

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Speaker 2: You know, Texans right out of the gate, AFC South,

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Speaker 2: all of that game kind of represented. So what what

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's exactly what it was. I mean, shoot, we

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Speaker 2: Get ready? Yeah, Joe, We begin with you the tale

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Speaker 3: No question, you got to give a game ball, even

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Speaker 5: he let Pierce just outrun the defense and still got

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Speaker 5: it out there, and he was getting pushed to the side.

435
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Speaker 5: I mean, Brayden was on railroad tracks on that bomb.

436
00:19:44,160 --> 00:19:46,639
Speaker 5: I mean, and he got pushed to the side, stepped

437
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Speaker 5: and hit that thing. I mean the way he throws

438
00:19:49,800 --> 00:19:53,359
Speaker 5: that deep ball, you know, the way he threw that rope,

439
00:19:53,880 --> 00:19:56,720
Speaker 5: you know, to dueling coming in there in the second level,

440
00:19:58,080 --> 00:20:00,840
Speaker 5: you know, and then his great ability with his legs,

441
00:20:00,920 --> 00:20:04,280
Speaker 5: I mean nine point three running the ball and it

442
00:20:04,359 --> 00:20:06,639
Speaker 5: was only in six carries. I mean, so it's not

443
00:20:06,840 --> 00:20:09,119
Speaker 5: like we over used him or anything, but you know,

444
00:20:09,280 --> 00:20:12,000
Speaker 5: every time he took the ball on a designed run,

445
00:20:12,560 --> 00:20:14,600
Speaker 5: it was the best looking play we had all day

446
00:20:14,720 --> 00:20:19,240
Speaker 5: because it was schematic. So to me it was exciting

447
00:20:19,760 --> 00:20:22,720
Speaker 5: because that guy really is our future. He's the face

448
00:20:22,760 --> 00:20:26,720
Speaker 5: of the franchise and he has a chance to be generational.

449
00:20:26,840 --> 00:20:30,840
Speaker 5: I think I think number two. I'd say the second

450
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Speaker 5: e is explosive. And we haven't seen this since Joe played,

451
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Speaker 5: when Andrew was here to Hilton. We haven't seen the

452
00:20:38,520 --> 00:20:41,280
Speaker 5: deep ball in the game in so long. You know,

453
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Speaker 5: just the you know, it looked reminded me of the

454
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Speaker 5: old Afl of my youth, you know when people threw it,

455
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Speaker 5: you know, both sidelines and sidelines in vertical, you know,

456
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Speaker 5: just being able to throw it. Now you're going to

457
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Speaker 5: see Pierce flourish because he has that great speed. You

458
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Speaker 5: you hear me talk about speed, call speed will kill

459
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Speaker 5: with this quarterback. I mean he literally Pierce literally, you know,

460
00:21:05,800 --> 00:21:10,040
Speaker 5: ran by Singletary and threw Murray in that quarters coverage

461
00:21:10,440 --> 00:21:12,680
Speaker 5: and just camp running and got it over the top.

462
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Speaker 5: And then the second thing, And this is something I

463
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Speaker 5: noticed in the pregame and I've noticed all preseason. The

464
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Speaker 5: thing that has impressed me most about Pierce in the

465
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Speaker 5: in the training camp was his ability to go get

466
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Speaker 5: the fifty to fifty ball and the second one he

467
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Speaker 5: verified that for me. He went up and got that

468
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Speaker 5: fifty to fifty ball, and you know, with his kind

469
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Speaker 5: of speed, you're going to be confident in throwing a

470
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Speaker 5: lot up there. And then something that was kind of lost,

471
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Speaker 5: which really could have won the game for us, is

472
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Speaker 5: Michelle separates twice for you know, definite six points. And

473
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Speaker 5: that was the worst part of AR five's game is

474
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Speaker 5: not being able to pull the string, not being able

475
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Speaker 5: to really hit the layup on those two. And but

476
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Speaker 5: what you're noticed there is you now have two guys

477
00:22:00,320 --> 00:22:02,399
Speaker 5: that are right about four to three nine that can

478
00:22:02,640 --> 00:22:06,400
Speaker 5: absolutely fly on that outside and you got the guy

479
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Speaker 5: to deliver. And just think about when Josh Downs get

480
00:22:10,080 --> 00:22:12,400
Speaker 5: back because he adds another four to three plus guy

481
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Speaker 5: and then you're really going to be able to go vertical.

482
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Speaker 5: So there's an excitement to me. You know, there's certainly

483
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Speaker 5: an explosiveness that we haven't seen, like I said, since

484
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Speaker 5: the luck days and then but I have to say,

485
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Speaker 5: and I don't use this term very much, but my

486
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Speaker 5: thirty is embarrassment, and I have to say that I

487
00:22:30,680 --> 00:22:35,000
Speaker 5: think our defense embarrassed itself yesterday. I mean, they couldn't

488
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Speaker 5: stop the run, you know, two hundred and sixteen, one

489
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Speaker 5: hundred and fifty nine to mixing five point three. They

490
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Speaker 5: couldn't stop key third downs. The third and fourteen early

491
00:22:47,520 --> 00:22:49,920
Speaker 5: was maybe the play that changed the game, the one

492
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Speaker 5: he got outside on the stunt, got outside through the

493
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Speaker 5: ball across his body. You know, they're three for three

494
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Speaker 5: in the red zone. We don't get a turnover. You know,

495
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Speaker 5: they keep the ball for forty minutes, you know, and

496
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Speaker 5: so we get sacks. Great, I mean we have four sacks,

497
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Speaker 5: but you know, in a sense, there were six elements

498
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Speaker 5: there and you lost all five of them. And I

499
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Speaker 5: thought they just bullied us up front. I really did

500
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Speaker 5: him so disappointed. You know, I didn't think that Buckner

501
00:23:19,280 --> 00:23:22,760
Speaker 5: and and and Stu had their best games. I didn't.

502
00:23:22,880 --> 00:23:25,479
Speaker 5: I thought they played a little lateral. You know, they

503
00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:28,600
Speaker 5: were able to pound our edges, toss the ball but

504
00:23:28,720 --> 00:23:31,399
Speaker 5: get it off tackle. You know, they were able to

505
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Speaker 5: pound it. You know, they'd get in an eye and

506
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Speaker 5: pound with power. They were able to cut back in

507
00:23:36,800 --> 00:23:39,520
Speaker 5: the lanes. You know, they did a good job of

508
00:23:39,640 --> 00:23:42,800
Speaker 5: getting up into the second level on our linebackers. And

509
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Speaker 5: then when we put and I said this for a

510
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Speaker 5: long time and this is our fault. When we put

511
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Speaker 5: those backup guys in there, the Bryans, the Adam Lore

512
00:23:52,880 --> 00:23:56,679
Speaker 5: and Davis and Land and those guys, or put Lewis

513
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Speaker 5: inside on a running down, we have no chance. We

514
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Speaker 5: are not going to stop anybody. We didn't stop anybody

515
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Speaker 5: for six weeks and that was awful. And I thought

516
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Speaker 5: the worst sequence of the game, psychologically, not necessarily game changer,

517
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Speaker 5: was when he missed Mitchell in the second quarter with

518
00:24:12,880 --> 00:24:16,639
Speaker 5: three minutes to go. Then he airmails the interception, and

519
00:24:16,920 --> 00:24:20,440
Speaker 5: then the worst part of the game was you and

520
00:24:20,520 --> 00:24:22,359
Speaker 5: I talked about in the booth. Houston was just going

521
00:24:22,440 --> 00:24:25,280
Speaker 5: to pound it out and kill the clock. They weren't

522
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Speaker 5: even going to try to score, and they just ran

523
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Speaker 5: the ball down our throat. It started with our twos,

524
00:24:31,160 --> 00:24:33,520
Speaker 5: then it started we had a sub package in there,

525
00:24:33,960 --> 00:24:36,240
Speaker 5: and before you know it, if they don't botch the

526
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Speaker 5: field goal, they go all the way from the what

527
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Speaker 5: the minus ten to kick a field goal and they're

528
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Speaker 5: not even trying. But I think what that did was

529
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Speaker 5: it gave them the psychological vision that we can run

530
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Speaker 5: it down these guys' throats, which they did in the

531
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Speaker 5: second half. YEA, the final three drives of the game,

532
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Speaker 5: including the iicer. They just run it down our throats,

533
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Speaker 5: so you know, it's the three e's for me. And

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Speaker 5: like I said, I don't like to use that embarrassed,

535
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Speaker 5: but I'm going to on that one.

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Speaker 2: Give it to us one more time, Rick, excitement in bear.

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Speaker 2: What's what are the other.

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Speaker 5: Two explosiveness that we had? Those are the good things

539
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Speaker 5: and defensive embarrassment.

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Speaker 2: It's good stuff. We'll remember those throughout the course of

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Speaker 2: the evening. Here again with you until seven o'clock. That's

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Speaker 2: the tale of the tape with Rick Ventury and Joe Wrights.

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Speaker 2: I'm Matt Taylor. All right, when we come back, we're

544
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Speaker 2: gonna roll out the good. We're gonna roll out the bad.

545
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Speaker 2: Also discuss the ugly from yesterday's tough loss to the Texans.

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Speaker 2: We'll discuss all of those sensational highlights in the passing game, uh,

547
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Speaker 2: the sluggish Colts running game. Then of course what Rick

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Speaker 2: is alluding to the run defense that allowed over two

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Speaker 2: hundred yards on Sunday. That's all coming up next and

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Speaker 2: we come back. Rick Ventury, Joe Wrights, I'm Matt Taylor.

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Speaker 2: are continuing on talking about the Colts lost to the

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Speaker 2: Texans on Sunday, a heartbreaker that seemingly had everything fellas

568
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Speaker 2: good moments, bad moments, and some aspects of the game

569
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Speaker 2: that were just downright ugly. So let's break it all down, good,

570
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Speaker 2: bad and the ugly and more detail. The good is

571
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Speaker 2: the offense in terms of it being way more explosive

572
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Speaker 2: at least in a short sample size one game compared

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Speaker 2: to last year, Colts had three completions over fifty That's

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Speaker 2: the most by the team in his single game since

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Speaker 2: at least two thousand. Richardson's nine completions yesterday averaged twenty

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Speaker 2: three and a half yards per completion. And then on

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Speaker 2: top of that, the Colts actually missed out on some

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Speaker 2: more opportunities to be explosive. They missed out on a

579
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Speaker 2: d Mitchell a couple of times on some deep shots

580
00:27:16,040 --> 00:27:19,280
Speaker 2: that probably would have gone for touchdowns. Joe, how impressed

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Speaker 2: were you with the Colts quick strike ability in the

582
00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:25,280
Speaker 2: passing game after last year again they finished twenty fourth

583
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Speaker 2: in passing plays over twenty yards.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, no question. That was the highlight for me. And

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Speaker 3: I'll talk a lot about Richardson in this segment because

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Speaker 3: I did feel like there was a lot of good

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Speaker 3: with him. You know, there were some bad and there's

588
00:27:36,040 --> 00:27:38,680
Speaker 3: some things he needs to improve on. But you know, Matt,

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00:27:38,800 --> 00:27:41,560
Speaker 3: I felt like watching the game, it felt like twenty

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00:27:41,720 --> 00:27:44,520
Speaker 3: twelve to twenty sixteen, meaning Andrew Luck was back in

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Speaker 3: the building. Because we haven't seen somebody throw the ball

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Speaker 3: like that, have the downfield threat forced the defense to

593
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Speaker 3: cover a fifty sixty yard bomb. I mean really since

594
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Speaker 3: he retired, and I think that's gonna cause so much

595
00:27:57,680 --> 00:28:01,200
Speaker 3: conflict for defensive coordinators, especially now that's on tape. I

596
00:28:01,280 --> 00:28:03,920
Speaker 3: think Alex Pierce, you know, deserves You know, you don't

597
00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:05,679
Speaker 3: give out game balls for the loss, but if we did,

598
00:28:05,720 --> 00:28:07,359
Speaker 3: he would get one for sure. And I know Shane

599
00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:09,800
Speaker 3: Steiken talked about how he had as good as camp

600
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Speaker 3: as anybody, and it's really good to see the fruits

601
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Speaker 3: of his labor pay off. But you know that throw

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00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:17,439
Speaker 3: Richardson had when he slipped off his back foot sixty

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Speaker 3: five yards through the air. I mean, you know, there's

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Speaker 3: probably less than a handful of guys that could ever

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Speaker 3: make that throw in the history of the NFL. And

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Speaker 3: I just think he has that type of explosiveness. And

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Speaker 3: then when he's running the football, I think about that

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Speaker 3: fourth and goal play from the three. I don't know

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Speaker 3: there's another quarterback in the NFL that gets in there,

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Speaker 3: and that's such a tremendous weapon. As he continues to improve,

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00:28:40,440 --> 00:28:43,120
Speaker 3: that's just going to be so exciting, Like coach mentioned,

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Speaker 3: to watch his growth and evolution. But Shane talked about

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Speaker 3: explosive plays. We want to have explosive plays, push the

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Speaker 3: ball downfield. We certainly did that in the past game

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00:28:52,080 --> 00:28:54,320
Speaker 3: for me. Now now it's taking that translating that into

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Speaker 3: the running game as well, because that was lacking a

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Speaker 3: little bit.

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Speaker 2: But boy it was.

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Speaker 3: It's fun to watch, and it's a new brand of football.

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Speaker 3: It's an exciting brand of football, and it's something that

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Speaker 3: I think will continue to only grow and get better

622
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Speaker 3: as Richardson gets more experience and we get more on

623
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Speaker 3: the same page with those wide receivers.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I've got a bunch of calls this morning from

625
00:29:15,120 --> 00:29:18,560
Speaker 5: my guys in the league, football guys that really know it.

626
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Speaker 5: And I tell you what, I got a lot of

627
00:29:20,760 --> 00:29:24,840
Speaker 5: wiles on Richardson. I mean, the league is gonna take notice.

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Speaker 5: I believe he picked up right where he left off

629
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Speaker 5: and then some again. As Joe mentioned, as I mentioned before,

630
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Speaker 5: the big arm is there. You know, he brought that

631
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Speaker 5: with him from Florida. He's a natural deep ball thrower.

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Speaker 5: He can throw it as far as you can go,

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Speaker 5: and he can throw it with he can throw that

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Speaker 5: deep ball with accuracy, you know. Again, along with that

635
00:29:50,600 --> 00:29:52,920
Speaker 5: to get big plays, I think we're gonna have guys

636
00:29:53,040 --> 00:29:56,280
Speaker 5: now that can go get it. Pierce has always had

637
00:29:56,320 --> 00:29:59,880
Speaker 5: that speed. We've really lacked the ability to get him

638
00:30:00,120 --> 00:30:03,040
Speaker 5: the ball deep because we haven't had really the deep

639
00:30:03,120 --> 00:30:07,480
Speaker 5: ball throwers since you know, going back to Andrew again,

640
00:30:07,560 --> 00:30:11,440
Speaker 5: where his improvement has been is competing for that fifty

641
00:30:11,480 --> 00:30:14,720
Speaker 5: to fifty ball which finishes him because he's going to

642
00:30:14,760 --> 00:30:16,440
Speaker 5: get over the top or he's going to get at

643
00:30:16,520 --> 00:30:19,400
Speaker 5: least even so you're going to be confident in throwing

644
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Speaker 5: the ball. And then a guy who only had one

645
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Speaker 5: catch for one yard in my book when I study

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00:30:25,680 --> 00:30:29,400
Speaker 5: the tape became a big threat, and that's Mitchell. Because

647
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Speaker 5: Mitchell also showed that he can get right on top

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Speaker 5: of you. So you've got two guys there, you know

649
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Speaker 5: you got downs coming back. You got three guys that

650
00:30:38,720 --> 00:30:41,720
Speaker 5: can really smoke it and get down in there. And

651
00:30:41,920 --> 00:30:45,200
Speaker 5: then you know, you add the ability to move like

652
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Speaker 5: he can. And he looked good on every designed run.

653
00:30:49,120 --> 00:30:52,080
Speaker 5: He looked good. He looked good on the scramble upfield.

654
00:30:52,080 --> 00:30:54,560
Speaker 5: I knew it would be there because they're undisciplined on

655
00:30:54,760 --> 00:30:57,320
Speaker 5: the rush. I had mentioned that Lamar Jackson had heard

656
00:30:57,360 --> 00:30:59,960
Speaker 5: them in the playoffs, and man, he stepped up until

657
00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:04,200
Speaker 5: that big gain up inside. You know, played smash mouth

658
00:31:04,280 --> 00:31:07,600
Speaker 5: on the goal line. I mean, it's it's the complete package,

659
00:31:07,640 --> 00:31:10,200
Speaker 5: the most The biggest thing that he's going to have

660
00:31:10,320 --> 00:31:14,440
Speaker 5: to do is relax some on the intermediate game. On

661
00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:17,920
Speaker 5: the intermediate game, and they'll get a little bit more

662
00:31:18,120 --> 00:31:21,560
Speaker 5: poised there. Don't hurry it and just stay a little

663
00:31:21,600 --> 00:31:24,880
Speaker 5: bit more under control, don't airmail balls, and in some

664
00:31:25,080 --> 00:31:27,720
Speaker 5: respects just make the layups. I mean, you know, he

665
00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:29,880
Speaker 5: does the hard stuff, they'll make the layups.

666
00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:30,320
Speaker 4: You know.

667
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Speaker 3: The other thing that he reminded me about Andrew is

668
00:31:33,160 --> 00:31:35,280
Speaker 3: he gets better as the game goes on, and in

669
00:31:35,360 --> 00:31:38,120
Speaker 3: the fourth quarter, and then the fourth quarter coach knows this.

670
00:31:38,280 --> 00:31:40,640
Speaker 3: It's about guys making plays. You throw out the schematic,

671
00:31:40,720 --> 00:31:43,400
Speaker 3: you're throwing out what your call sheet was. He reminds

672
00:31:43,440 --> 00:31:45,280
Speaker 3: me of Andrew and that Andrew didn't always play his

673
00:31:45,360 --> 00:31:47,800
Speaker 3: best quarter one, two, three, but it was in the

674
00:31:47,840 --> 00:31:49,960
Speaker 3: fourth quarter and when you're out there just trying to

675
00:31:50,040 --> 00:31:51,800
Speaker 3: make plays. And I think that's just because of his

676
00:31:51,880 --> 00:31:54,960
Speaker 3: tremendous physical gifts. Richardson took that ball game over and

677
00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:56,400
Speaker 3: that's why I really felt like, had we had the

678
00:31:56,440 --> 00:31:58,840
Speaker 3: ball again, no question we or go down and score.

679
00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:00,760
Speaker 3: I love to see that out of him. When the

680
00:32:00,840 --> 00:32:03,000
Speaker 3: chips were down and he had to make plays, he

681
00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:05,120
Speaker 3: continued to make him which I think was a great sign.

682
00:32:05,800 --> 00:32:08,560
Speaker 5: I made mention of this on the air. You know,

683
00:32:08,920 --> 00:32:12,720
Speaker 5: he just before the throw to Duelin it became a touchdown.

684
00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:15,720
Speaker 5: He missed Mitchell. I mean he missed him. He missed

685
00:32:15,800 --> 00:32:18,880
Speaker 5: him for a touchdown. But he has also what Andrew has,

686
00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:20,720
Speaker 5: he has selective amnesia.

687
00:32:20,880 --> 00:32:21,840
Speaker 1: It didn't bother him.

688
00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:24,400
Speaker 5: He went to the next one and he threw that

689
00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:26,800
Speaker 5: rope in there that you know, the dueling took to

690
00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:29,560
Speaker 5: the house bit. I like all that stuff about him.

691
00:32:29,760 --> 00:32:32,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, no question about that. Was able to compartmentalize and

692
00:32:32,400 --> 00:32:35,600
Speaker 2: still bounce back and provide a lot of explosive plays.

693
00:32:35,680 --> 00:32:38,400
Speaker 2: That's the good, the bad, and the ugly. Specifically, what

694
00:32:38,520 --> 00:32:40,240
Speaker 2: we just heard that was the good. Let's go to

695
00:32:40,320 --> 00:32:44,440
Speaker 2: the bad. Something that wasn't explosive yesterday was the run game. Rick.

696
00:32:44,480 --> 00:32:47,200
Speaker 2: I'll start with you first on this. Jonathan Taylor finished

697
00:32:47,240 --> 00:32:50,800
Speaker 2: with just forty five yards on fourteen carries. That's less

698
00:32:50,800 --> 00:32:53,280
Speaker 2: than three and a half yards per carries. The Colts

699
00:32:53,360 --> 00:32:55,320
Speaker 2: ran for over one hundred yards. Yes, as a team,

700
00:32:55,400 --> 00:32:58,440
Speaker 2: but you know, Richardson added a single season career high

701
00:32:58,520 --> 00:33:01,840
Speaker 2: of fifty six. So big picture question there on the

702
00:33:01,960 --> 00:33:04,760
Speaker 2: bad Why why did the running game not produce many

703
00:33:04,800 --> 00:33:07,800
Speaker 2: big runs on Sunday like they had routinely done in

704
00:33:07,960 --> 00:33:10,120
Speaker 2: years past games passed against the Texans?

705
00:33:10,720 --> 00:33:13,160
Speaker 5: Well, first of all, I think the Texans brought their

706
00:33:13,320 --> 00:33:16,000
Speaker 5: a game up front. I mean they attacked us in

707
00:33:16,120 --> 00:33:19,320
Speaker 5: the front. They made our line block. Laterally, if you

708
00:33:19,360 --> 00:33:21,960
Speaker 5: look at a lot of our runs, our lines, shoulders

709
00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:24,959
Speaker 5: are lateral to the sidelines and then there and then

710
00:33:25,240 --> 00:33:29,880
Speaker 5: they're linebackers attacked. They really attack downfield. Now there's a

711
00:33:29,960 --> 00:33:32,560
Speaker 5: reason for that, and I think we're falling into the

712
00:33:32,600 --> 00:33:36,240
Speaker 5: same trap we did at mid season last year with Jonathan.

713
00:33:36,640 --> 00:33:40,680
Speaker 5: We are too vanilla. When we're running Jonathan. Every single

714
00:33:40,880 --> 00:33:43,080
Speaker 5: run was some kind of zone run. We may have

715
00:33:43,200 --> 00:33:46,360
Speaker 5: wrapped the tight end, but there was no whams, there

716
00:33:46,480 --> 00:33:50,080
Speaker 5: was no leads, there was no powers. With Jonathan, everything

717
00:33:50,280 --> 00:33:52,560
Speaker 5: was a zone run. And when you know that's all

718
00:33:52,600 --> 00:33:55,120
Speaker 5: you're going to have to defend, you set the edge,

719
00:33:55,560 --> 00:33:58,760
Speaker 5: You drive hard with your defensive line, and you attack

720
00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:02,400
Speaker 5: with your linebacker because you're not worried about anything else

721
00:34:02,520 --> 00:34:05,320
Speaker 5: at that point in time. And so the only counter

722
00:34:05,560 --> 00:34:07,480
Speaker 5: is to give richardson the ball. But you can't do

723
00:34:07,680 --> 00:34:10,600
Speaker 5: that all day. So I think it's really important that

724
00:34:10,680 --> 00:34:13,239
Speaker 5: we get a lot more creative. We've got to get

725
00:34:13,360 --> 00:34:15,920
Speaker 5: somebody here that can block inside. I've been preaching that

726
00:34:16,040 --> 00:34:18,880
Speaker 5: we should have a fullback. Nobody wants to listen to me,

727
00:34:19,239 --> 00:34:22,040
Speaker 5: but we've got to get somebody like Stover did a

728
00:34:22,160 --> 00:34:24,600
Speaker 5: really good job for the Texans in the second half

729
00:34:25,040 --> 00:34:27,400
Speaker 5: getting that. You know, he's a tight end slash fullback

730
00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:29,680
Speaker 5: from Ohio State. They put him back in the eye.

731
00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:32,320
Speaker 5: He kicked out on the powers, which gave them a

732
00:34:32,360 --> 00:34:35,480
Speaker 5: whole nother look into the three technique, into the bear

733
00:34:35,960 --> 00:34:39,120
Speaker 5: and it was altogether different, you know. And until we

734
00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:42,240
Speaker 5: do that with Jonathan, we're running him into a stone

735
00:34:42,280 --> 00:34:44,680
Speaker 5: wall and it's a waste of a great player.

736
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree with coach. I think schematically, everything Taylor

737
00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:50,000
Speaker 3: did was in between the tackles and you know, no

738
00:34:50,200 --> 00:34:53,960
Speaker 3: toss cracks. He wasn't targeting the past game. He's obviously

739
00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:56,480
Speaker 3: been very effective in the screen game throughout his history,

740
00:34:56,880 --> 00:35:00,480
Speaker 3: but doing things differently versus just that inside zone and

741
00:35:00,520 --> 00:35:02,960
Speaker 3: from a lineman when you're always trying to block the

742
00:35:03,040 --> 00:35:04,920
Speaker 3: inside zone, and you're just trying to take a man

743
00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:06,799
Speaker 3: and push him forward against his will.

744
00:35:07,200 --> 00:35:07,920
Speaker 2: That's tough to do.

745
00:35:08,080 --> 00:35:10,960
Speaker 3: Sometimes it's easier when you create angles and you block down,

746
00:35:11,080 --> 00:35:13,400
Speaker 3: you pull a guard around, you run some sort of

747
00:35:13,640 --> 00:35:16,360
Speaker 3: wham play, which means you don't block the three technique

748
00:35:16,440 --> 00:35:18,800
Speaker 3: or the nose, and you let them cut up field

749
00:35:19,160 --> 00:35:20,839
Speaker 3: and then you have a tight end kick them out

750
00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:23,080
Speaker 3: and there creates a running lane there. And then I

751
00:35:23,120 --> 00:35:25,840
Speaker 3: think the other thing, and this really from both sides.

752
00:35:26,440 --> 00:35:28,120
Speaker 3: The Colts, we did not do a great job on

753
00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:30,840
Speaker 3: our combo blocks about getting up to the linebackers, and

754
00:35:30,920 --> 00:35:32,520
Speaker 3: what that means is that there's a guy in the

755
00:35:32,600 --> 00:35:36,480
Speaker 3: gap between let's say, you know Ryan Kelly and Quintin Nelson.

756
00:35:36,520 --> 00:35:38,520
Speaker 3: You're blocking that guy up to the lineback of the

757
00:35:38,560 --> 00:35:41,000
Speaker 3: linebacker goes outside, q comes off and takes him. If

758
00:35:41,040 --> 00:35:44,400
Speaker 3: he goes inside, Ryan Kelly takes him. Their big guys

759
00:35:44,440 --> 00:35:46,759
Speaker 3: inside did a good job eating up two blockers, which

760
00:35:46,800 --> 00:35:50,239
Speaker 3: allowed their linebackers to run downhill fast, and that's where

761
00:35:50,280 --> 00:35:51,920
Speaker 3: we had a couple of those two yard losses in

762
00:35:51,960 --> 00:35:55,120
Speaker 3: the backfield. No game plays from Taylor. On the flip side,

763
00:35:55,440 --> 00:35:57,560
Speaker 3: Houston did a really good job all game of getting

764
00:35:57,600 --> 00:36:00,399
Speaker 3: up to those linebackers and sealing off the back side,

765
00:36:00,719 --> 00:36:02,800
Speaker 3: which is why they had a lot more big runs

766
00:36:02,840 --> 00:36:05,560
Speaker 3: and big cutback runs than we did for the Colts.

767
00:36:05,840 --> 00:36:08,600
Speaker 2: All right, that's the bad. Here's the ugly. We've talked

768
00:36:08,600 --> 00:36:11,120
Speaker 2: about it with, you know, the defense unable to slow

769
00:36:11,200 --> 00:36:13,520
Speaker 2: down the running game. Joe Mixon had one hundred and

770
00:36:13,600 --> 00:36:16,680
Speaker 2: fifty nine on the ground a touchdown. He had thirty carries.

771
00:36:17,239 --> 00:36:19,520
Speaker 2: That was the most damage done by a back against

772
00:36:19,520 --> 00:36:21,879
Speaker 2: the Colts since Dereck Henry had a Bucks seventy eight

773
00:36:21,920 --> 00:36:25,239
Speaker 2: and twenty twenty. As a team, the Texans piled up

774
00:36:25,239 --> 00:36:28,520
Speaker 2: two thirteen, the second highest total they've ever recorded against

775
00:36:28,520 --> 00:36:31,920
Speaker 2: the Colts, and that inability to deal with the running

776
00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:35,480
Speaker 2: game led to a staggering seventy six to forty three

777
00:36:35,640 --> 00:36:39,439
Speaker 2: edge in total plays Texans over the Colts. It also

778
00:36:39,520 --> 00:36:42,520
Speaker 2: figured into time of possession big time. The Texans doubled

779
00:36:42,600 --> 00:36:45,160
Speaker 2: up the Colts in that regard forty minutes to twenty

780
00:36:45,640 --> 00:36:47,719
Speaker 2: and like we talked about in segment one, out of

781
00:36:47,760 --> 00:36:50,480
Speaker 2: the thirty minutes in the second half, the Texans had

782
00:36:50,520 --> 00:36:54,000
Speaker 2: the ball for twenty four of that time. Rick, So

783
00:36:54,080 --> 00:36:56,920
Speaker 2: how concerned are you that the Colts. They couldn't stop

784
00:36:57,000 --> 00:36:59,160
Speaker 2: that running game on the edges on Sunday, and you

785
00:36:59,239 --> 00:37:01,200
Speaker 2: know it's a copy that league, and until they get

786
00:37:01,239 --> 00:37:02,920
Speaker 2: that fixed, they're going to see it on Sunday in

787
00:37:02,960 --> 00:37:03,440
Speaker 2: Green Bay.

788
00:37:03,880 --> 00:37:06,160
Speaker 5: Well, I'm just shocked, honest to goodness. I mean, you know,

789
00:37:06,320 --> 00:37:08,640
Speaker 5: this was a team that you know, as long as

790
00:37:08,760 --> 00:37:11,560
Speaker 5: Grover was there, I didn't worry about the run. Now,

791
00:37:11,600 --> 00:37:14,360
Speaker 5: the six weeks that he wasn't there, we looked like

792
00:37:14,520 --> 00:37:17,480
Speaker 5: that more than you think. You know, I knew that

793
00:37:17,600 --> 00:37:20,239
Speaker 5: they would be improved. They were twenty ninth a year ago.

794
00:37:20,760 --> 00:37:23,480
Speaker 5: I knew Mixed would improve him. But I mean yesterday

795
00:37:23,560 --> 00:37:25,880
Speaker 5: he looked like Jim Brown or Eric Dickerson. I mean,

796
00:37:25,960 --> 00:37:29,720
Speaker 5: it was unbelievable the way they man handled this up front.

797
00:37:30,160 --> 00:37:32,640
Speaker 5: You know, they did a good job on Grover and Buckner.

798
00:37:32,719 --> 00:37:35,600
Speaker 5: They did a lot of doubling on Buckner and pushing

799
00:37:35,719 --> 00:37:36,120
Speaker 5: him back.

800
00:37:36,200 --> 00:37:36,719
Speaker 1: A lot of that.

801
00:37:37,480 --> 00:37:40,560
Speaker 5: Grover wasn't himself. You know, I thought they handled our

802
00:37:40,719 --> 00:37:43,279
Speaker 5: edge guys. They did a lot of stretching us, but

803
00:37:43,400 --> 00:37:46,880
Speaker 5: taking it off tackle. Those tosses you know, went off tackle.

804
00:37:47,080 --> 00:37:50,400
Speaker 5: The powers were there. Mixing did a great job on

805
00:37:50,520 --> 00:37:53,279
Speaker 5: the cutback and like Joe said, they did a good

806
00:37:53,400 --> 00:37:55,800
Speaker 5: job of getting up. They getting a lineman block and

807
00:37:55,960 --> 00:37:58,400
Speaker 5: up and on our linebackers. And then I believe this,

808
00:37:58,560 --> 00:38:02,200
Speaker 5: We're going to rotate players. They're gonna rotate themselves out

809
00:38:02,239 --> 00:38:05,640
Speaker 5: of a job because I'm telling you those we talk

810
00:38:05,680 --> 00:38:09,960
Speaker 5: about defensive line depth, there is no interior depth besides

811
00:38:10,080 --> 00:38:13,279
Speaker 5: Buckner and Stuart. As far as the run game go,

812
00:38:13,680 --> 00:38:16,680
Speaker 5: we have a busload of rushers, there's no doubt about that.

813
00:38:17,440 --> 00:38:19,640
Speaker 5: But you have to earn the right to rush the passer.

814
00:38:19,680 --> 00:38:22,520
Speaker 5: I used tell my guys and basically our backup guys

815
00:38:22,680 --> 00:38:27,360
Speaker 5: cannot play the run. And if we keep rotating, rotating, rotating,

816
00:38:27,400 --> 00:38:29,400
Speaker 5: you're going to see more and more of it. And

817
00:38:29,719 --> 00:38:33,200
Speaker 5: it's really it's really disgusting in that sense that they

818
00:38:33,280 --> 00:38:35,600
Speaker 5: can come in here and as you said, hold the

819
00:38:35,680 --> 00:38:38,799
Speaker 5: ball forty minutes, you know, one hundred and fifty nine

820
00:38:38,880 --> 00:38:41,839
Speaker 5: to mix and five point three, you know, I mean,

821
00:38:42,239 --> 00:38:44,000
Speaker 5: you know, and then if you think that isn't great,

822
00:38:44,120 --> 00:38:46,640
Speaker 5: then the quarterbacks still had one hundred and fifteen passer

823
00:38:46,760 --> 00:38:49,880
Speaker 5: rating and Collins killed us again, So you know, this

824
00:38:50,160 --> 00:38:53,200
Speaker 5: wasn't a very good day in any way. On defense.

825
00:38:53,600 --> 00:38:55,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I agree, I think you got to give

826
00:38:55,200 --> 00:38:56,840
Speaker 3: some credit to Houston because they came in here with

827
00:38:56,920 --> 00:38:58,960
Speaker 3: a game plan. Their game plan was to run the ball,

828
00:38:59,040 --> 00:39:01,759
Speaker 3: probably a lot more than everybody thought, including me, and

829
00:39:01,840 --> 00:39:05,000
Speaker 3: they executed it well. And I think outside of Tunsul,

830
00:39:05,040 --> 00:39:07,919
Speaker 3: who he's a premier left tackle, the rest of their line,

831
00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:09,800
Speaker 3: you know, I wouldn't say that they jump off the

832
00:39:09,880 --> 00:39:11,680
Speaker 3: charts in terms of talent, but they did a really

833
00:39:11,719 --> 00:39:15,160
Speaker 3: good job blocking together well. I thought schematically, they did

834
00:39:15,200 --> 00:39:16,440
Speaker 3: a good job in terms of a lot of those

835
00:39:16,520 --> 00:39:19,000
Speaker 3: quick pitches when they was getting a full head of

836
00:39:19,080 --> 00:39:21,400
Speaker 3: team from mixing, and mixing showed why you know he

837
00:39:21,520 --> 00:39:23,360
Speaker 3: was a premiere back so many years in Sinsey. That

838
00:39:23,520 --> 00:39:26,520
Speaker 3: was a signing. I think everybody talked about Digs for Houston,

839
00:39:26,640 --> 00:39:29,280
Speaker 3: but obviously yesterday, I know Diggs had the two touchdowns

840
00:39:29,320 --> 00:39:31,080
Speaker 3: down in the red zone, but you know, that mix

841
00:39:31,160 --> 00:39:33,360
Speaker 3: and signing kind of flew under the radar. But I

842
00:39:33,400 --> 00:39:36,160
Speaker 3: think what they did is they did a good job

843
00:39:36,239 --> 00:39:39,160
Speaker 3: stretching us on the front side getting downhill. Like Coach mentioned,

844
00:39:39,239 --> 00:39:41,799
Speaker 3: they captured our edge. We didn't set the edge as

845
00:39:41,840 --> 00:39:43,840
Speaker 3: well as we need to, which means you just have

846
00:39:44,120 --> 00:39:46,160
Speaker 3: a stone wall right there and you forced the ball

847
00:39:46,239 --> 00:39:48,719
Speaker 3: to go back inside and then on the backside, they

848
00:39:48,760 --> 00:39:51,520
Speaker 3: were getting up to our linebackers Franklin and speed and

849
00:39:51,600 --> 00:39:53,520
Speaker 3: they were doing a good job of cutting off our

850
00:39:53,560 --> 00:39:56,520
Speaker 3: backside rushers, which that's where those big gains come from.

851
00:39:56,640 --> 00:39:59,000
Speaker 3: You know, oftentimes they stretched on the front side, you

852
00:39:59,080 --> 00:40:00,759
Speaker 3: put your foot in the ground, cut back side. If

853
00:40:00,800 --> 00:40:03,040
Speaker 3: you have that backside sealed off, that's when a three

854
00:40:03,120 --> 00:40:05,880
Speaker 3: yard run goes for six or nine or twelve. And

855
00:40:05,960 --> 00:40:08,000
Speaker 3: I do think the cumulative effect just wore is down.

856
00:40:08,080 --> 00:40:10,680
Speaker 3: Anytime you dial forty rushes in a game, you have

857
00:40:10,840 --> 00:40:13,560
Speaker 3: the ball for forty minutes. Again, some of our three

858
00:40:13,600 --> 00:40:15,920
Speaker 3: and outs early in the first half. That's as well.

859
00:40:15,960 --> 00:40:17,680
Speaker 3: The offense needs to get better, but that's you know,

860
00:40:17,800 --> 00:40:20,479
Speaker 3: another eight play drive for Houston, a nine play drive,

861
00:40:20,880 --> 00:40:23,080
Speaker 3: more time on the field, and our guys just wore

862
00:40:23,160 --> 00:40:24,040
Speaker 3: down in the second half.

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Speaker 2: hashtag Colts round Table. Let's go to Porter's question. Porter

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Speaker 2: is asking, Hey, the last three seasons, it seems like

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Speaker 2: our defense never makes enough fourth quarter plays, Rick, why

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Speaker 2: can we seemingly never get over the hump with that?

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Speaker 5: Well, Porter has really got something there, And that's a

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Speaker 5: thirty first in fourth quarter points. Last year we moved

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Speaker 5: Sunday again, Sunday again with fourteen points and the closing

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Speaker 5: explanation point drive. So and that brings us back to

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Speaker 5: thirty two. We did a lot of chirpin' on defense,

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Speaker 5: but we led the league in rushing given up in

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Speaker 5: fourth quarter points, so you know we need to do that,

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Speaker 5: There's no question about it. Joe made some good points

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Speaker 5: and the fourth quarter. It's really not a lot about scheme.

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Speaker 5: disciplined myself to do that's something that they hadn't seen

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Speaker 5: and stay aggressive. But it really comes down in the

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Speaker 5: fourth quarter. Do you have good enough players to make

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Speaker 5: the play? And number two, number two, it's conditioning. Are

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Speaker 5: you really ready? We died with the forty minutes of

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Speaker 5: the forty minutes of ball control absolutely killed us in that.

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Speaker 5: You know, we try to suck it up for that

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Speaker 5: last drive, but on the on the second drive, on

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Speaker 5: the fourteenth point, the second touchdown, the fourth quarter, we

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Speaker 5: were just leg weary, we were just heavy. We weren't there,

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Speaker 5: so we weren't totally there. But it really comes down

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Speaker 5: to will. Really in that fourth quart it's like the

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Speaker 5: red zone. It's really will OverSkill. At that point, all

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Speaker 5: the garbage, all the craziness is over. It comes down

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Speaker 5: mono mounto and until we get that mentality. You know,

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Speaker 5: we're going to struggle because every game in this league

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Speaker 5: is a one possession game.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and the Colts last year, as we talked about

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Speaker 2: on Sunday, they were six and three in one score games.

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Speaker 2: The Texans were seven and three. Now they're one to

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Speaker 2: zero in one score games as they knock off the

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Speaker 2: Colts yesterday. All right, let's go back to the mail

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Speaker 2: bag again. X is where you can submit your questions

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Speaker 2: tonight in all season long using hashtag Colts Roundtable. Nick

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Speaker 2: is asking Joe, what did you think of the rookies

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Speaker 2: on Sunday? Specifically Liatu Latu. Was he able to impact

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Speaker 2: the game against Laramie Tunsl.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think ad Mitchell really showed that he can

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Speaker 3: be a deep ball threat, and coach mentioned that. I

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Speaker 3: I would say he didn't have a great game. You know,

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Speaker 3: he didn't have any sacks, didn't have any tackles, so

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Speaker 3: he wasn't in the stat sheet. But let's give some

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Speaker 3: credit to Tunsl. Tunsl's a three to four time pro bowler.

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Speaker 3: He's a really really good left tackle. They had us

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Speaker 3: on skates all games in terms of just forty rushes

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Speaker 3: be able to run the ball. But I think what

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Speaker 3: you saw from Law two is he played hard every snap.

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Speaker 3: He just has to figure out when you're going against

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Speaker 3: these elite left tackles, you know, what's your move? What's

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Speaker 3: your counter move? Am I gonna do one or two

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Speaker 3: things early in the game to try to set up

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Speaker 3: my next move? And so there's nothing like baptism by

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Speaker 3: fire and really getting welcome to the NFL against a really,

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Speaker 3: really good player, and he got that. But I do

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Speaker 3: think for him, he'll take away and he'll be tremendously

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Speaker 3: better going into week two. And you know we're gonna

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Speaker 3: play Green Bay and see who's a quarterback for Green Bay.

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Speaker 3: But you know he's gonna be going against Rashid Walker,

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Speaker 3: who's you know, not nearly as decorated in terms of

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Speaker 3: against Laramie Tunseel. So I think that's just something where

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Speaker 3: you learn, you get better. And just like all rookies,

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Speaker 3: the key is don't get too high or low. You

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Speaker 3: don't have a great game. Who cares you have a

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Speaker 3: great game? Twenty four hour rule, wash it away. It's

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Speaker 3: all about getting better week in week out. Continue to

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Speaker 3: build because He's going to have to be a really

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Speaker 3: big part of this defense as we move forward throughout

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Speaker 3: this season.

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Speaker 2: the Midwest. That's the mailbag segment. Rick Vin, Terry, Joe Wrights.

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Speaker 2: I'm Matt Taylor. Again. Thanks to everybody for submitting your

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Speaker 2: thoughts and your questions on X with the hashtag Colts

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Speaker 2: give you some final thoughts, and also give you a

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Speaker 2: quick look ahead to Week two against the Green Bay Packers.

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Speaker 2: Next week. It'll be the first time the Colts play

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Speaker 2: Welcome back. This is the final time on Colts Round

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Speaker 2: arguments from Rick Venturi and Joe Wrights. Their final thoughts

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Speaker 2: on Week one, the loss to the Texans. Joe, I'll

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Speaker 2: tee it up for you. Another heartbreaker for the Colts.

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Speaker 2: But now it's on maybe one of the toughest places

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Speaker 2: to play in the NFL in Week two, lambeau Field.

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Speaker 2: Obviously the Colts don't get to play there very often,

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Speaker 2: once every eight years. But just some things that you

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Speaker 2: think the Colts need to transfer over from Week one

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Speaker 2: to Week two starting on Sunday.

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Speaker 3: No question, I've moved on Matt twenty four hour rule.

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Speaker 3: All steam ahead for the Packers in six days. I

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Speaker 3: think two things. One, we're playing Green Bay in September

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Speaker 3: and not December. The scheduling gods did us a favor there.

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Speaker 3: And then two, with the unfortunate injury to Love, you're

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Speaker 3: going up against Malik Willis as a quarterback. Colts fans

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Speaker 3: will remember. Here's a third round pick of Tennessee in

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Speaker 3: twenty twenty two. I think that tells you all you

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Speaker 3: need to know that Tennessee kind of gave up on

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Speaker 3: him after a couple of years, and he's in Green Bay.

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Speaker 3: So it's definitely an advantage. Trust that we're playing a

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Speaker 3: really young quarterback and no Jordan Love. But the Packers

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Speaker 3: are a really good football team top the bottom, and

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Speaker 3: coach I know you know that from digging into the tape.

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Speaker 3: Outside of their quarterback injury.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, they've got a tremendous amount of skill in receivers Watson, Dobbs,

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Speaker 5: and Reed was tremendous last week. We're going to have

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Speaker 5: to shore up the run defense because Jacobs is their acquisition,

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Speaker 5: very much like mixing a big acquisition at running back.

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Speaker 5: Then they're going to try with Willison quarterback. You know,

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Speaker 5: they're going to try to repeat exactly, you know, basically

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Speaker 5: what happened to us this week. Their defense is really struggling.

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Speaker 5: They change coordinators, but it wasn't very good against Philadelphia

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Speaker 5: thirty four points and four hundred yards. I think we

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Speaker 5: have a lot of advantages. It's a tough place to play,

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Speaker 5: but that was a devastating night, you know, losing love

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Speaker 5: right there in that ballgame, So I look for us

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Speaker 5: to bounce back, be ready to go and get on Sunday.

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Speaker 2: Indeed, all right, that's all the time. We've got tonight,

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Speaker 2: Colt San Packers coming up on Sunday, and you can

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Speaker 2: now as we get ready for week number two and

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Speaker 2: I'll put everything together Rick Vential, we'll be back on

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Speaker 2: the podcast Inside Football on Wednesday breaking down the matchup.

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Speaker 2: That's all the time we've got tonight, Rick and Joe.

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Speaker 2: Wonderful job. As always fun to be back on this

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Speaker 2: show with you guys and looking forward to doing this

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Speaker 2: every single Monday night. My thanks as well to head

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Speaker 2: coach Shane Steichen who joined in on the first segment.

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