1 00:00:03,400 --> 00:00:07,120 Speaker 1: Football is about the Jimmy's and Joe's, and x's and o's. 2 00:00:09,880 --> 00:00:15,040 Speaker 1: Check New York vote banker Bruce, It's time to get 3 00:00:15,040 --> 00:00:18,239 Speaker 1: out the chockboard and diagram some plays. Here's what it 4 00:00:18,320 --> 00:00:24,360 Speaker 1: all starts right here. Let's why Jay money Christmas. This 5 00:00:24,480 --> 00:00:29,920 Speaker 1: is Inside Football with former Colts and NFL coach Rick Venturi. Hey, 6 00:00:29,960 --> 00:00:33,560 Speaker 1: welcome back to Inside Football with Rick Venturi. The intro 7 00:00:33,680 --> 00:00:36,520 Speaker 1: get you to hype every single time for some football talk. 8 00:00:36,560 --> 00:00:40,200 Speaker 1: Despite no game this weekend for the Indianapolis Colts, week 9 00:00:40,280 --> 00:00:43,280 Speaker 1: number eleven, and the Colts have an off week to buy. 10 00:00:43,400 --> 00:00:46,479 Speaker 1: The Colts have hit that covied week off. Ten games in. 11 00:00:46,600 --> 00:00:49,040 Speaker 1: They're five and five thanks to back to back wins 12 00:00:49,400 --> 00:00:51,959 Speaker 1: over the Panthers and the Patriots, and now they get 13 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:54,880 Speaker 1: ready for the home stretch. Seven games left, and we're 14 00:00:54,880 --> 00:00:57,040 Speaker 1: breaking down how the Colts have looked so far this 15 00:00:57,160 --> 00:01:00,320 Speaker 1: season with Rick Ventury, who is back again here on 16 00:01:00,360 --> 00:01:02,400 Speaker 1: the podcast. Rick, how are we doing today? Man? How 17 00:01:02,520 --> 00:01:05,880 Speaker 1: is that Germany experience back in the States here for you? 18 00:01:06,240 --> 00:01:09,160 Speaker 2: Actually, Casey and I had a blast. We really did it. 19 00:01:09,160 --> 00:01:12,720 Speaker 2: It all went well watching it on one hand, listening 20 00:01:12,760 --> 00:01:15,840 Speaker 2: to you guys, you guys did a great job at 21 00:01:15,840 --> 00:01:20,160 Speaker 2: the game. Really and truly, I do think that that 22 00:01:20,200 --> 00:01:23,479 Speaker 2: we caught the we caught the feeling, the vibe of 23 00:01:23,480 --> 00:01:25,800 Speaker 2: how cool it was. As a matter of fact, I 24 00:01:25,959 --> 00:01:28,680 Speaker 2: missed it in that sense, yes, and how cool it was. 25 00:01:28,720 --> 00:01:31,640 Speaker 2: And obviously when you win it it makes it even cooler. 26 00:01:31,640 --> 00:01:34,280 Speaker 2: But you could just sense the you know, the the 27 00:01:34,319 --> 00:01:37,679 Speaker 2: oneness of the game. You know, the the the only 28 00:01:37,760 --> 00:01:40,920 Speaker 2: game in town. I mean, all eyes and ears of 29 00:01:40,959 --> 00:01:43,320 Speaker 2: the world is essentially on you and that game. That 30 00:01:43,360 --> 00:01:45,800 Speaker 2: game is getting better ratings than people think. I mean, 31 00:01:45,840 --> 00:01:49,720 Speaker 2: people wake up, you know, looking forward to it. I 32 00:01:49,760 --> 00:01:52,480 Speaker 2: thought the fact that it was you know, it was 33 00:01:52,520 --> 00:01:54,800 Speaker 2: a musk game for us, and and Shane did not 34 00:01:54,920 --> 00:01:58,400 Speaker 2: back away from that. I think the Belichick made it 35 00:01:58,640 --> 00:02:01,480 Speaker 2: thing even more interesting. And then the fact that it 36 00:02:01,560 --> 00:02:04,400 Speaker 2: was such a dog fight, you know, I mean some 37 00:02:04,440 --> 00:02:07,120 Speaker 2: people don't like it. As a defensive guy, I loved it. 38 00:02:07,160 --> 00:02:09,960 Speaker 2: I mean it was a dog fight right down to 39 00:02:10,040 --> 00:02:15,000 Speaker 2: the last play. I mean, you know Blackman's interception. You know, God, 40 00:02:15,320 --> 00:02:17,720 Speaker 2: what a play, What a play saved our season again. 41 00:02:18,400 --> 00:02:20,920 Speaker 2: So you know, I think that that was you know, 42 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:24,040 Speaker 2: to be cherished and you don't want to linger on it. 43 00:02:24,080 --> 00:02:27,640 Speaker 2: Too long, you know, and I think particularly wins that 44 00:02:27,720 --> 00:02:31,400 Speaker 2: become big wins, it's now it's probably good time for 45 00:02:31,440 --> 00:02:34,920 Speaker 2: a break because you get that break, you know, you 46 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:37,600 Speaker 2: get to you get to to take a deep breath. 47 00:02:38,200 --> 00:02:41,320 Speaker 2: But I'm sure Shane has you know, has told those 48 00:02:41,320 --> 00:02:45,359 Speaker 2: guys and instructed that when you walk back in this building, man, 49 00:02:45,560 --> 00:02:49,000 Speaker 2: it is now a sprint a Monday night, when when 50 00:02:49,040 --> 00:02:52,239 Speaker 2: we started back in July, it's a marathon, and now 51 00:02:52,240 --> 00:02:54,800 Speaker 2: it's a sprint to the finish. And we have to 52 00:02:54,840 --> 00:02:58,920 Speaker 2: have a great sense of urgency. This is something we 53 00:02:58,960 --> 00:03:02,880 Speaker 2: can do. The future doesn't have to be twenty four 54 00:03:02,960 --> 00:03:06,760 Speaker 2: twenty five, in my opinion, getting back to five and 55 00:03:06,880 --> 00:03:11,080 Speaker 2: five and what I see ahead. We totally control this 56 00:03:11,200 --> 00:03:14,200 Speaker 2: twenty three season. And so I mean, I think you 57 00:03:14,320 --> 00:03:16,640 Speaker 2: got to put the emphasis on every game now is 58 00:03:16,639 --> 00:03:18,920 Speaker 2: like a playoff game, right, And I think Shane he 59 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:21,400 Speaker 2: doesn't back away from that. It's one thing I really 60 00:03:21,440 --> 00:03:23,160 Speaker 2: like about I mean, a lot of coaches will give 61 00:03:23,160 --> 00:03:26,320 Speaker 2: you that, oh it's just another game. No, none of 62 00:03:26,320 --> 00:03:29,560 Speaker 2: them are another game now. And you know my book 63 00:03:29,560 --> 00:03:32,000 Speaker 2: has always been the futures. Now, you know, I'll worry 64 00:03:32,040 --> 00:03:35,280 Speaker 2: about next year. Next year, you go out to play 65 00:03:35,320 --> 00:03:38,240 Speaker 2: every game. I mean, for me for twenty seven years, 66 00:03:38,320 --> 00:03:40,320 Speaker 2: whether I was good or bad, or the next game 67 00:03:40,440 --> 00:03:43,160 Speaker 2: was a super Bowl for me. So I mean I think, 68 00:03:43,240 --> 00:03:46,560 Speaker 2: you know, you say, right now, the futures now we're 69 00:03:46,560 --> 00:03:49,160 Speaker 2: in control if we do the right things and we 70 00:03:49,160 --> 00:03:49,680 Speaker 2: play well. 71 00:03:49,800 --> 00:03:51,680 Speaker 1: No, you're exactly right. I mean, like we talked about 72 00:03:51,680 --> 00:03:54,600 Speaker 1: on Monday night, the Colts, they squarely find themselves right 73 00:03:54,640 --> 00:03:56,000 Speaker 1: in the mix. I mean, if you want to talk 74 00:03:56,040 --> 00:03:58,400 Speaker 1: about if you want one word to describe the AFC 75 00:03:58,480 --> 00:04:02,000 Speaker 1: right now, Rick, it's parody because there are eleven teams 76 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:04,680 Speaker 1: in the AFC that are five and five or better. 77 00:04:05,080 --> 00:04:08,160 Speaker 1: You've got Kansas City, you got the Ravens. Those teams 78 00:04:08,160 --> 00:04:10,440 Speaker 1: are maybe a cut above right now. To this point 79 00:04:10,480 --> 00:04:12,960 Speaker 1: in the season, both of those teams have six victories, 80 00:04:13,320 --> 00:04:15,520 Speaker 1: but that's it. Those are the only two teams in 81 00:04:15,560 --> 00:04:18,719 Speaker 1: the conference that have above six wins. Even that the 82 00:04:18,720 --> 00:04:21,880 Speaker 1: Denver Broncos at four and five and fourteenth place in 83 00:04:21,960 --> 00:04:24,120 Speaker 1: the conference. They're not out of the woods yet either, 84 00:04:24,200 --> 00:04:26,400 Speaker 1: so that they can still make a push, just like 85 00:04:26,440 --> 00:04:29,039 Speaker 1: the Colts. Here, So seven games left, you're exactly right, 86 00:04:29,240 --> 00:04:31,840 Speaker 1: these last seven, you know, you kind of define the 87 00:04:31,880 --> 00:04:34,760 Speaker 1: season into three parts. You got the beginning, the middle, 88 00:04:35,120 --> 00:04:38,000 Speaker 1: and the end, and the playoff push I think starts now. 89 00:04:38,040 --> 00:04:40,960 Speaker 1: And you have to have that mentality these last seven 90 00:04:41,040 --> 00:04:43,840 Speaker 1: games because every game from here on out has a 91 00:04:43,880 --> 00:04:47,120 Speaker 1: ton of magnitude win or loss about them the rest 92 00:04:47,120 --> 00:04:47,520 Speaker 1: of the way. 93 00:04:47,960 --> 00:04:49,960 Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I mean I think if you take 94 00:04:50,440 --> 00:04:53,240 Speaker 2: you know, because even Baltimore came back to Earth, we've 95 00:04:53,240 --> 00:04:56,480 Speaker 2: beaten Baltimore head up. I mean, if you take out 96 00:04:56,600 --> 00:05:00,200 Speaker 2: I would say this the teams that have knocked me out, 97 00:05:00,240 --> 00:05:05,560 Speaker 2: either on tape or in person, Philadelphia, San Francisco, in 98 00:05:05,680 --> 00:05:08,240 Speaker 2: Kansas City, Okay, you take those three out out of 99 00:05:08,279 --> 00:05:10,640 Speaker 2: the mix, and then you you know, you've seen some 100 00:05:10,720 --> 00:05:13,600 Speaker 2: bottom feeders. We've played two in a row. Let's say 101 00:05:13,640 --> 00:05:16,120 Speaker 2: you take three out of that mix, you know, and 102 00:05:16,160 --> 00:05:18,360 Speaker 2: then you put twenty six of us in there, and 103 00:05:18,760 --> 00:05:22,560 Speaker 2: you shake a blanket on whoever he is hot. I 104 00:05:22,600 --> 00:05:25,480 Speaker 2: totally believe that, to be honest with you. And even 105 00:05:25,480 --> 00:05:27,920 Speaker 2: though I think the seven games are desirable, you could 106 00:05:27,920 --> 00:05:30,560 Speaker 2: win all seven or lose all seven, it's not you know, 107 00:05:30,600 --> 00:05:33,159 Speaker 2: it's not like college where you're you know, Nick is 108 00:05:33,160 --> 00:05:37,440 Speaker 2: playing Chattanooga this week. I mean, we don't have that advantage. 109 00:05:37,480 --> 00:05:40,919 Speaker 2: You don't win anywhere in the NFL without your a game, 110 00:05:41,160 --> 00:05:43,760 Speaker 2: you know, And I give you know, we'll get into this, 111 00:05:44,120 --> 00:05:46,880 Speaker 2: but you know, I give Shane Stike and some credit 112 00:05:46,920 --> 00:05:49,719 Speaker 2: for something that nobody's thinking about right now, I think 113 00:05:49,760 --> 00:05:53,000 Speaker 2: you are, is his improvement as a game manager. Since 114 00:05:53,040 --> 00:05:56,800 Speaker 2: Cleveland was really instrumental in these two games, even though 115 00:05:57,240 --> 00:06:01,520 Speaker 2: statistically they're not beautiful, but he did and subjugated his 116 00:06:01,560 --> 00:06:05,480 Speaker 2: own ego on offense to not turn it over. And 117 00:06:05,560 --> 00:06:08,520 Speaker 2: he knew you could sense. We could all sense in 118 00:06:08,600 --> 00:06:11,000 Speaker 2: both of these last two games. You never know going in, 119 00:06:11,440 --> 00:06:13,680 Speaker 2: but we could sense right away that we could stuff 120 00:06:13,720 --> 00:06:16,840 Speaker 2: their offenses. Yeah, and so it was, you know, the 121 00:06:16,880 --> 00:06:20,240 Speaker 2: best path to victory was don't give them anything to 122 00:06:20,520 --> 00:06:23,920 Speaker 2: cling to. Don't don't don't turn it over, give them 123 00:06:23,960 --> 00:06:27,400 Speaker 2: a short field, you know, you know, don't do any 124 00:06:27,440 --> 00:06:29,560 Speaker 2: of that, and we're gonna We're gonna win the game. 125 00:06:29,800 --> 00:06:31,640 Speaker 2: Bill tried to come out and win the game nine 126 00:06:31,680 --> 00:06:33,760 Speaker 2: to seven. That's all he was doing. He was and 127 00:06:33,800 --> 00:06:35,839 Speaker 2: I said that in the pregame he was gonna he 128 00:06:35,920 --> 00:06:37,880 Speaker 2: was going to shorten the game, which he did. They 129 00:06:37,920 --> 00:06:41,200 Speaker 2: won eleven minutes. They were eleven minutes plus in time 130 00:06:41,240 --> 00:06:43,960 Speaker 2: of possession. He was going to run the ball. You know, 131 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:46,240 Speaker 2: they got one hundred and sixty seven yards and he 132 00:06:46,320 --> 00:06:49,080 Speaker 2: was going to try to win the game somehow. Now 133 00:06:49,160 --> 00:06:52,680 Speaker 2: where we did a better job than he anticipated, because 134 00:06:52,720 --> 00:06:54,359 Speaker 2: I think he was he thought he could win in 135 00:06:54,360 --> 00:06:56,719 Speaker 2: the red zone. And that's where we won the game. 136 00:06:57,200 --> 00:06:58,599 Speaker 2: We won the game in the red zone. I mean, 137 00:06:58,640 --> 00:07:01,760 Speaker 2: because there was really three in the second half. We're 138 00:07:01,839 --> 00:07:05,440 Speaker 2: sixty yards plus, but they got nothing out of them 139 00:07:05,480 --> 00:07:08,200 Speaker 2: in the red zone but field goals and that's you know, 140 00:07:08,720 --> 00:07:11,040 Speaker 2: and they missed one. But I mean that was the difference, 141 00:07:11,880 --> 00:07:13,520 Speaker 2: and that was an area they were pretty good on 142 00:07:13,560 --> 00:07:15,880 Speaker 2: both sides, and we won that and we won that 143 00:07:15,960 --> 00:07:16,840 Speaker 2: in that won the game. 144 00:07:17,440 --> 00:07:19,640 Speaker 1: All right, Rick, Well, let's you know, we've put the 145 00:07:19,680 --> 00:07:22,560 Speaker 1: Patriots game to bed. It's Wednesday here at this point 146 00:07:22,920 --> 00:07:25,800 Speaker 1: recording this podcast on the week off here for the 147 00:07:25,840 --> 00:07:28,600 Speaker 1: Indianapolis Colts. Let's talk about both sides of the ball 148 00:07:28,680 --> 00:07:32,560 Speaker 1: ten games in and Rick, let's discuss reasons for optimism, 149 00:07:33,120 --> 00:07:36,560 Speaker 1: reasons for concerns, and then discuss where the Colts kind 150 00:07:36,560 --> 00:07:39,080 Speaker 1: of need to self scout heading into the last month 151 00:07:39,120 --> 00:07:40,960 Speaker 1: and a half here of the season. So let's begin 152 00:07:41,040 --> 00:07:44,960 Speaker 1: on offense and start with reasons for optimism because the 153 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:48,360 Speaker 1: Colts have scored twenty offensive points in eight of ten 154 00:07:48,440 --> 00:07:50,840 Speaker 1: games this season, with the last two games being the 155 00:07:50,840 --> 00:07:53,680 Speaker 1: outliers here ten games end of the year. As a 156 00:07:53,720 --> 00:07:55,880 Speaker 1: head coach, Shane steik And as you talked about, he's 157 00:07:56,120 --> 00:07:59,200 Speaker 1: he's shown a really good knack for game plans and 158 00:07:59,520 --> 00:08:02,440 Speaker 1: they createivity to move the ball against any defense, the 159 00:08:02,440 --> 00:08:04,560 Speaker 1: way he did against Tennessee, the way he did against 160 00:08:04,560 --> 00:08:07,040 Speaker 1: Cleveland and New Orleans, all of those teams you know, 161 00:08:07,160 --> 00:08:11,320 Speaker 1: top ten defenses. Jonathan Taylor is he's back in the 162 00:08:11,360 --> 00:08:15,320 Speaker 1: sense that he's taken over the primary running back position 163 00:08:15,480 --> 00:08:18,040 Speaker 1: and looks like his old self in terms of burst 164 00:08:18,440 --> 00:08:21,640 Speaker 1: and physicality and health being the most important thing there. 165 00:08:22,240 --> 00:08:25,040 Speaker 1: Michael Pittman junior, he ranks ninth in the NFL, and 166 00:08:25,160 --> 00:08:29,760 Speaker 1: catches are really reliable target and key situations. Josh Downs 167 00:08:29,840 --> 00:08:32,120 Speaker 1: is way ahead of schedule as a rookie. He's on 168 00:08:32,200 --> 00:08:35,760 Speaker 1: pace for a thousand yard season. And then the offensive line, 169 00:08:35,840 --> 00:08:39,080 Speaker 1: the old line collectively has bounced back after a disappointing 170 00:08:39,080 --> 00:08:42,520 Speaker 1: season last year. Bernard Ryman has emerged rick as a 171 00:08:42,559 --> 00:08:45,640 Speaker 1: cornerstone left tackle that the Colts can build around. So 172 00:08:45,679 --> 00:08:49,240 Speaker 1: what are your other reasons for optimism surrounding the Colts 173 00:08:49,280 --> 00:08:51,959 Speaker 1: offense in these final seven games of the season. Being 174 00:08:52,040 --> 00:08:54,880 Speaker 1: able to build upon those things that I just mentioned 175 00:08:54,920 --> 00:08:56,720 Speaker 1: that are positive for this team so far. 176 00:08:57,360 --> 00:08:58,560 Speaker 3: Well, you know, I go back. 177 00:08:58,640 --> 00:09:00,800 Speaker 2: Really, I think you have to look back to go forward. 178 00:09:01,160 --> 00:09:04,480 Speaker 2: I think that I have so much faith in Stike 179 00:09:04,600 --> 00:09:09,000 Speaker 2: and going forward. Doing this self scout this week, I 180 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:11,520 Speaker 2: think he really means it. I don't think that's he's 181 00:09:11,520 --> 00:09:13,480 Speaker 2: just going to take a look at it. He is 182 00:09:13,679 --> 00:09:18,040 Speaker 2: very open to change. He's not afraid to self check himself. 183 00:09:18,600 --> 00:09:20,679 Speaker 2: I mean, this is a guy that came in here 184 00:09:21,080 --> 00:09:24,920 Speaker 2: and brought cutting edge football with Richardson, got us way 185 00:09:24,920 --> 00:09:27,360 Speaker 2: off to a good start. We looked right, we looked 186 00:09:27,360 --> 00:09:30,320 Speaker 2: early in the season, you know, much further ahead, much 187 00:09:30,320 --> 00:09:31,400 Speaker 2: further on schedule. 188 00:09:31,440 --> 00:09:33,360 Speaker 3: With the rookie quarterback, you. 189 00:09:33,280 --> 00:09:36,320 Speaker 2: Know, he loses him, he goes with his backup, who 190 00:09:36,360 --> 00:09:39,440 Speaker 2: now has played in nine games, and you know, it 191 00:09:39,480 --> 00:09:42,720 Speaker 2: was a seamless transition. Now we'll get into some of 192 00:09:42,760 --> 00:09:45,120 Speaker 2: the negatives because I knew and I said it back 193 00:09:45,160 --> 00:09:48,360 Speaker 2: then there's going to be a point where people catch 194 00:09:48,480 --> 00:09:51,240 Speaker 2: up with this offense, which they have and we got 195 00:09:51,280 --> 00:09:53,920 Speaker 2: to go forward. But we're still you know, ninth in 196 00:09:53,960 --> 00:09:58,520 Speaker 2: the league and scoring seventh in the red zone, thirteenth total. 197 00:09:58,760 --> 00:09:59,000 Speaker 3: You know. 198 00:09:59,200 --> 00:10:01,480 Speaker 2: And then I think one of the key things, one 199 00:10:01,520 --> 00:10:04,400 Speaker 2: of the key things, and I think our offensive line 200 00:10:04,600 --> 00:10:06,800 Speaker 2: is played very very well. 201 00:10:07,320 --> 00:10:08,040 Speaker 3: They have. 202 00:10:08,160 --> 00:10:10,600 Speaker 2: They're up against it on the running game right now. 203 00:10:10,960 --> 00:10:14,400 Speaker 2: But it's not because they're not playing hard. They're playing tough, 204 00:10:15,040 --> 00:10:19,760 Speaker 2: they're moving people, they're protecting really really well. You know, 205 00:10:19,800 --> 00:10:22,760 Speaker 2: we're still number ten in the league and few of sacks. 206 00:10:23,280 --> 00:10:27,760 Speaker 2: And I give them extra credit here. It's a plus 207 00:10:27,760 --> 00:10:28,920 Speaker 2: and a minus. 208 00:10:29,240 --> 00:10:30,760 Speaker 3: Is they're having to hold the protection. 209 00:10:30,920 --> 00:10:33,240 Speaker 2: I mean we're not you know, we were early in 210 00:10:33,240 --> 00:10:36,520 Speaker 2: the season, but now we're no longer getting free quick 211 00:10:36,760 --> 00:10:40,160 Speaker 2: access and so that ball is either held a little 212 00:10:40,160 --> 00:10:42,880 Speaker 2: bit longer or he will move out of the pocket 213 00:10:42,920 --> 00:10:46,720 Speaker 2: because he doesn't feel it. And you know, but it 214 00:10:46,760 --> 00:10:48,679 Speaker 2: isn't because the protection. 215 00:10:48,440 --> 00:10:49,160 Speaker 3: Is breaking down. 216 00:10:49,200 --> 00:10:53,280 Speaker 2: Really our protection has been really good. So I have 217 00:10:53,400 --> 00:10:57,000 Speaker 2: great faith there. I have great faith in Jonathan. Jonathan 218 00:10:57,120 --> 00:10:59,840 Speaker 2: is running against the stone wall most of the time, 219 00:11:00,400 --> 00:11:03,160 Speaker 2: but he looks as good as aver to me. I mean, 220 00:11:03,520 --> 00:11:06,080 Speaker 2: you know, some of his some of his runs, even 221 00:11:06,080 --> 00:11:09,559 Speaker 2: those three and four yard runs versus that bearfront where 222 00:11:09,559 --> 00:11:12,640 Speaker 2: he's just cutting and banging, and you know, if he 223 00:11:12,760 --> 00:11:15,319 Speaker 2: ever gets the ball in space, he looks tough as 224 00:11:15,360 --> 00:11:18,200 Speaker 2: half buck he scored on the screen two weeks ago. 225 00:11:18,320 --> 00:11:22,040 Speaker 2: So in my opinion, we still have a great runner, 226 00:11:22,080 --> 00:11:25,000 Speaker 2: and we have as good a player as there isn't 227 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:28,360 Speaker 2: a league at running back whose full strength. If anything, 228 00:11:28,400 --> 00:11:32,240 Speaker 2: he's probably fresher and is ready to make a run here. 229 00:11:32,760 --> 00:11:35,520 Speaker 2: I think we've got a premium offensive line. I think 230 00:11:35,520 --> 00:11:38,040 Speaker 2: they're playing that way. It's no longer a myth and 231 00:11:38,160 --> 00:11:42,800 Speaker 2: talking about their contracts. And we're fully healthy again, uh, 232 00:11:43,400 --> 00:11:46,120 Speaker 2: which is great. Now, there's other things we got to do. 233 00:11:46,240 --> 00:11:50,640 Speaker 2: But I think the combination of those things, and you know, 234 00:11:50,760 --> 00:11:53,440 Speaker 2: I think they give us you know, and the and 235 00:11:53,480 --> 00:11:56,680 Speaker 2: the third thing. And you know this this I give 236 00:11:56,720 --> 00:11:59,560 Speaker 2: credit to Shane and in some cases, you know, in 237 00:11:59,600 --> 00:12:02,320 Speaker 2: some case is in the last two weeks, it may 238 00:12:02,360 --> 00:12:05,960 Speaker 2: be a situation where it's actually cost us some numbers 239 00:12:06,480 --> 00:12:09,560 Speaker 2: and some glamour on offense. But we've really cut down 240 00:12:09,559 --> 00:12:12,400 Speaker 2: that turnover. We're back to plus one and we started 241 00:12:12,440 --> 00:12:15,120 Speaker 2: in a hole there. And so I would say, well, 242 00:12:15,440 --> 00:12:20,440 Speaker 2: we have a great runner, we have a premium offensive line, 243 00:12:21,040 --> 00:12:24,120 Speaker 2: we've stopped turning the ball over. And I can get 244 00:12:24,120 --> 00:12:26,920 Speaker 2: into this as we go I think Minshew's underrated. I 245 00:12:26,960 --> 00:12:29,679 Speaker 2: know people are out there wh he's holding the ball. 246 00:12:29,800 --> 00:12:33,720 Speaker 2: That's that's such a media cop out. You have to 247 00:12:33,880 --> 00:12:37,560 Speaker 2: understand why is he holding the ball, which I'll get 248 00:12:37,600 --> 00:12:41,000 Speaker 2: into as we go on. But I think that's the 249 00:12:41,120 --> 00:12:46,079 Speaker 2: critical aspect. I think Minshew is underrated. I think Jonathan 250 00:12:46,080 --> 00:12:48,200 Speaker 2: Taylor is our best player, but I think Minshew has 251 00:12:48,240 --> 00:12:51,120 Speaker 2: been our most valuable player on offense. Okay, they get 252 00:12:51,200 --> 00:12:54,560 Speaker 2: us to five and five, Okay, you also you kind 253 00:12:54,559 --> 00:12:57,160 Speaker 2: of know your receiver corp. And I do think if 254 00:12:57,160 --> 00:12:59,760 Speaker 2: I have suggestions, which I'll get into, I think Shane 255 00:13:00,280 --> 00:13:03,559 Speaker 2: has to get used to this. He had Davante you know, 256 00:13:03,600 --> 00:13:06,679 Speaker 2: he had Davonte Smith and AJ Brown and they could 257 00:13:06,760 --> 00:13:09,839 Speaker 2: play a stationary game in Philly. We can't do that. 258 00:13:10,320 --> 00:13:14,560 Speaker 2: We have to create free now. Obviously Downs can create it, 259 00:13:14,600 --> 00:13:17,360 Speaker 2: but his knee is slowing him down. Downs is in 260 00:13:17,440 --> 00:13:19,920 Speaker 2: a class by himself as separation, and I'll get into 261 00:13:19,960 --> 00:13:23,400 Speaker 2: all those things, but I think he's got to feel 262 00:13:23,480 --> 00:13:27,480 Speaker 2: those receivers and how how we can utilize Pittman, who's 263 00:13:27,520 --> 00:13:31,840 Speaker 2: a tough, hard worker. You use the term reliable, does 264 00:13:31,880 --> 00:13:35,040 Speaker 2: the dirty work. How can we get in freer access quicker? 265 00:13:35,080 --> 00:13:39,880 Speaker 2: Because Minshew thrives on quick, free access. He likes that 266 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:42,520 Speaker 2: quick passing game, and they're taking it away from us. 267 00:13:42,559 --> 00:13:46,120 Speaker 2: But those other things are there. That running back is tremendous, 268 00:13:46,440 --> 00:13:50,679 Speaker 2: that offensive line is premium. We've cut down our turnovers. 269 00:13:51,040 --> 00:13:54,160 Speaker 2: I think Minshew is playing better than anybody's given him credit. 270 00:13:54,200 --> 00:13:57,920 Speaker 2: He's number twelve in the league in QBR. You know, 271 00:13:58,120 --> 00:14:02,120 Speaker 2: it's it's almost staggering, number twelve. We just played the 272 00:14:02,160 --> 00:14:04,959 Speaker 2: thirty first and twenty eighth. On the other side, if 273 00:14:04,960 --> 00:14:06,920 Speaker 2: you want to look at it the other way, I mean, 274 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:09,080 Speaker 2: I think he's done really well. So I mean, I 275 00:14:09,120 --> 00:14:10,600 Speaker 2: think those are the pluses. Matt. 276 00:14:11,040 --> 00:14:14,040 Speaker 1: All right. Meanwhile, let's go reasons for concern here at 277 00:14:14,120 --> 00:14:17,719 Speaker 1: the bye. On offense the last two games, only two 278 00:14:17,800 --> 00:14:21,960 Speaker 1: offensive touchdowns. Yeah, only three offensive touchdowns in the last 279 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:24,600 Speaker 1: five halves for the Colts. And like we talked about 280 00:14:24,640 --> 00:14:27,720 Speaker 1: on Monday, Rick, the blueprint to beat the Colts, I mean, 281 00:14:27,840 --> 00:14:30,720 Speaker 1: just generally speaking, I mean, if you're talking about, you know, 282 00:14:31,200 --> 00:14:33,840 Speaker 1: if you're any other opponent playing this team, how do 283 00:14:33,880 --> 00:14:36,840 Speaker 1: you stop the Colts? Offense. It's probably gonna be you know, 284 00:14:36,920 --> 00:14:39,760 Speaker 1: on Sunday night Monday morning. Let's talk about how we 285 00:14:39,800 --> 00:14:43,040 Speaker 1: can stack the line of scrimmage, slow down Jonathan Taylor, 286 00:14:43,400 --> 00:14:46,360 Speaker 1: Darek Gardner, Minshew to make some throws because the Colts 287 00:14:46,360 --> 00:14:48,160 Speaker 1: have rushed for less than one hundred yards and back 288 00:14:48,160 --> 00:14:51,200 Speaker 1: to back games, and when Minshew has has let it 289 00:14:51,280 --> 00:14:54,040 Speaker 1: rip down the field, there's been picks when he's been 290 00:14:54,120 --> 00:14:56,160 Speaker 1: careful with that. The Colts just haven't been able to 291 00:14:56,400 --> 00:14:59,000 Speaker 1: move the ball as efficiently as they have in the past. 292 00:14:59,040 --> 00:15:02,040 Speaker 1: So what other concerns do you have for the Colts 293 00:15:02,040 --> 00:15:03,920 Speaker 1: offense heading in the last seven games. 294 00:15:04,440 --> 00:15:08,680 Speaker 2: Well, you know, this thing all changed initially with the 295 00:15:08,760 --> 00:15:13,040 Speaker 2: loss of Anthony. Okay, with Anthony in the game, Okay, 296 00:15:13,120 --> 00:15:14,880 Speaker 2: I have to go back history to go to now. 297 00:15:15,600 --> 00:15:18,120 Speaker 2: With Anthony in the game, even if you gave us 298 00:15:18,160 --> 00:15:23,200 Speaker 2: a bear front, Okay, it was played differently. There was 299 00:15:23,320 --> 00:15:27,800 Speaker 2: much more concerned, much more caution on the edge. So 300 00:15:28,120 --> 00:15:31,640 Speaker 2: it was a bearfront inside, but on the edges it 301 00:15:31,720 --> 00:15:35,160 Speaker 2: was very controlled because they had to worry about that zone, 302 00:15:35,240 --> 00:15:40,240 Speaker 2: read that option run, those designed runs off tackle, and 303 00:15:40,280 --> 00:15:42,920 Speaker 2: so you had that going the other thing and I'm 304 00:15:42,920 --> 00:15:45,000 Speaker 2: making these points because I'm gonna come back to them. 305 00:15:45,400 --> 00:15:47,600 Speaker 2: The other thing that you got with Anthony is people 306 00:15:47,680 --> 00:15:50,000 Speaker 2: did not want to play a ton of man demand 307 00:15:50,080 --> 00:15:50,840 Speaker 2: against Anthony. 308 00:15:51,040 --> 00:15:51,320 Speaker 3: Don't. 309 00:15:51,840 --> 00:15:54,280 Speaker 2: You don't want all your players with their backs turned 310 00:15:54,280 --> 00:15:57,560 Speaker 2: to the ball. So you got less press and you 311 00:15:57,680 --> 00:16:01,320 Speaker 2: got more soft zone because everybody, when you play a 312 00:16:01,360 --> 00:16:04,080 Speaker 2: guy like that, you got to have vision on him. 313 00:16:04,080 --> 00:16:07,080 Speaker 2: You can't lose vision with people because he can turn 314 00:16:07,080 --> 00:16:10,520 Speaker 2: a scramble into a punt return. Okay, so now early 315 00:16:10,560 --> 00:16:14,400 Speaker 2: in the season, when people hadn't made the transition. 316 00:16:14,040 --> 00:16:17,240 Speaker 1: To Gardner, yeah defense, yeah, yeah. 317 00:16:17,120 --> 00:16:20,000 Speaker 2: Yeah, that zone defense, that soft zone. Well you know, 318 00:16:20,040 --> 00:16:23,560 Speaker 2: I called it the thousand paper cut offense. And Gardner 319 00:16:23,560 --> 00:16:25,440 Speaker 2: could take you right down the field. I mean, he 320 00:16:25,600 --> 00:16:28,440 Speaker 2: was so efficient. And we've seen that with him before 321 00:16:28,480 --> 00:16:31,040 Speaker 2: because he used to play against zones versus the Colts. Yeah, 322 00:16:31,160 --> 00:16:33,960 Speaker 2: and he what was he nineteen for twenty that one game. 323 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:36,520 Speaker 2: If you if you play soft zone against him and 324 00:16:36,560 --> 00:16:39,160 Speaker 2: give him those first level throws and get him in 325 00:16:39,280 --> 00:16:42,320 Speaker 2: quick rhythm where he even gets more confidence, then he 326 00:16:42,480 --> 00:16:42,960 Speaker 2: kills you. 327 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:43,280 Speaker 3: Well. 328 00:16:43,560 --> 00:16:45,800 Speaker 2: I even said it back then, and once we lost 329 00:16:45,800 --> 00:16:48,840 Speaker 2: Anthony for the season, I just said, just beware now 330 00:16:48,880 --> 00:16:51,680 Speaker 2: because you know people are going to come up with 331 00:16:51,760 --> 00:16:55,000 Speaker 2: this once they establish who they are and they know 332 00:16:56,240 --> 00:16:58,760 Speaker 2: that we have an absolute great running back and really 333 00:16:58,760 --> 00:17:01,600 Speaker 2: a great number two. So the first thing you're going 334 00:17:01,640 --> 00:17:03,800 Speaker 2: to do as a defensive coordinator, you're going to say, 335 00:17:04,040 --> 00:17:06,879 Speaker 2: we are going to deny the run, and they're not 336 00:17:07,280 --> 00:17:10,000 Speaker 2: real variable in the running game, so we're going to 337 00:17:10,040 --> 00:17:12,560 Speaker 2: line up in that bear. I call it the Jacksonville plan, 338 00:17:12,680 --> 00:17:16,480 Speaker 2: and Belichick did his best imitation after that first series. 339 00:17:16,520 --> 00:17:19,680 Speaker 2: They getting that bear, and see now they can play 340 00:17:19,680 --> 00:17:22,560 Speaker 2: their hands aggressive because they're not worried about that outside 341 00:17:22,560 --> 00:17:25,720 Speaker 2: so they can pinch it down. They're bringing that eighth 342 00:17:25,760 --> 00:17:28,119 Speaker 2: guy in the box with the free safety in the middle. 343 00:17:28,160 --> 00:17:31,520 Speaker 2: So essentially you have nine guys on inside the edge, 344 00:17:31,560 --> 00:17:33,879 Speaker 2: I mean from the edge in you got nine guys, 345 00:17:34,560 --> 00:17:39,719 Speaker 2: and it's impossible to sustain a zone running game. I'm 346 00:17:39,720 --> 00:17:43,840 Speaker 2: saying this for a reason. It's impossible to sustain a 347 00:17:43,960 --> 00:17:47,399 Speaker 2: zone running game against that defense. This has been proven 348 00:17:47,480 --> 00:17:50,840 Speaker 2: for thirty years, and so you know, I am a 349 00:17:50,840 --> 00:17:53,000 Speaker 2: little critical and that we keep trying to do it, 350 00:17:53,040 --> 00:17:55,199 Speaker 2: and we did it in the first drive, but a 351 00:17:55,200 --> 00:17:58,560 Speaker 2: lot of it was just Jonathan twisting and turning and 352 00:17:58,600 --> 00:18:02,600 Speaker 2: making nothing into four, but then it settles in and 353 00:18:02,640 --> 00:18:03,400 Speaker 2: they got you. 354 00:18:03,560 --> 00:18:03,960 Speaker 3: Okay. 355 00:18:04,080 --> 00:18:07,800 Speaker 2: So I think that the negative aspects of it are one. 356 00:18:08,520 --> 00:18:12,119 Speaker 2: Now we're getting that bear plan from everybody, and it's 357 00:18:12,200 --> 00:18:14,800 Speaker 2: stifling one of the best runners in football. I mean, 358 00:18:14,880 --> 00:18:17,960 Speaker 2: you know when he gets stifled, where Mosque gets stifled, 359 00:18:18,320 --> 00:18:20,719 Speaker 2: that means they're doing it with numbers they got they 360 00:18:20,760 --> 00:18:24,399 Speaker 2: got numbers in there to do it. And then equally 361 00:18:24,400 --> 00:18:29,000 Speaker 2: as tough is they No Gardener is a first level 362 00:18:29,200 --> 00:18:32,280 Speaker 2: quick rhythm when he's at his best, and so what 363 00:18:32,359 --> 00:18:35,800 Speaker 2: they're doing is they're denying. They have no respect for 364 00:18:35,920 --> 00:18:39,880 Speaker 2: our receivers when their standstill, so they're pressing the heck 365 00:18:39,880 --> 00:18:43,560 Speaker 2: out of us so that there's no quick releases, no 366 00:18:43,760 --> 00:18:46,920 Speaker 2: quick free access. And then what Belichick did a little 367 00:18:46,960 --> 00:18:50,520 Speaker 2: bit different. He added in his zone defense, everything was 368 00:18:50,520 --> 00:18:53,440 Speaker 2: a matchup. So as soon as you came inside the zone, 369 00:18:53,480 --> 00:18:56,640 Speaker 2: player has you man to man like basketball, and same 370 00:18:56,680 --> 00:18:58,720 Speaker 2: thing on the edges. If Pittman ran a smash, that 371 00:18:58,760 --> 00:19:00,960 Speaker 2: corner came right down with it, right down, even though 372 00:19:00,960 --> 00:19:03,560 Speaker 2: it was his own defense, and so there's really no 373 00:19:03,920 --> 00:19:07,720 Speaker 2: you know, there's really you deny the quick access to him. 374 00:19:07,960 --> 00:19:10,000 Speaker 2: And then if you get us third and longest come 375 00:19:10,040 --> 00:19:13,080 Speaker 2: after us with the house and you go from there. 376 00:19:13,119 --> 00:19:16,960 Speaker 2: So you know, those those three issues have to be 377 00:19:17,160 --> 00:19:21,200 Speaker 2: solved here in the in the in this in this interim, 378 00:19:21,240 --> 00:19:24,200 Speaker 2: those those are the key issues. We talked about the strength, 379 00:19:24,600 --> 00:19:27,600 Speaker 2: but those are the key issues we have to overcome. 380 00:19:27,400 --> 00:19:29,960 Speaker 1: Rick vent R. Right there, that's a look at the 381 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:33,560 Speaker 1: offensive overview with this team. Reasons for optimism and then 382 00:19:33,600 --> 00:19:36,480 Speaker 1: reasons for concern on that side of the football. Let's 383 00:19:36,520 --> 00:19:38,040 Speaker 1: go to the other line of scrimmage here when the 384 00:19:38,040 --> 00:19:40,399 Speaker 1: Colts are on defense. Rick, let's talk about reasons for 385 00:19:40,480 --> 00:19:44,399 Speaker 1: optimism at the buy ten games in seven games left. 386 00:19:44,680 --> 00:19:46,639 Speaker 1: You know, on this two game winning streak here, as 387 00:19:46,680 --> 00:19:48,720 Speaker 1: you said, the Patriots and Panthers, they're not going to 388 00:19:48,720 --> 00:19:52,320 Speaker 1: be confused with the best offenses in the NFL. But 389 00:19:52,359 --> 00:19:55,560 Speaker 1: the Colts have allowed just one touchdown only four field 390 00:19:55,600 --> 00:19:58,800 Speaker 1: goals over the last two games. The pass rush is 391 00:19:58,800 --> 00:20:01,200 Speaker 1: coming on. They've racked up nine sacks in the last 392 00:20:01,240 --> 00:20:04,440 Speaker 1: two dio Enangbo has taken over the team lead there 393 00:20:04,480 --> 00:20:07,480 Speaker 1: with six sacks on the season. Kenny Moore and Julian 394 00:20:07,520 --> 00:20:10,520 Speaker 1: Blackman in the back end, Rick, they're playing like potential 395 00:20:10,560 --> 00:20:13,320 Speaker 1: pro bowler zire Franklin is backing up what he did 396 00:20:13,359 --> 00:20:16,960 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two with an even better season this year. 397 00:20:17,760 --> 00:20:20,879 Speaker 1: They've also received some really good performances in the secondary 398 00:20:20,920 --> 00:20:24,240 Speaker 1: from Darryl Baker Junior and Jalen Jones the last two 399 00:20:24,280 --> 00:20:27,600 Speaker 1: games at the outside corner spots. And then DeForest Buckner 400 00:20:27,640 --> 00:20:30,000 Speaker 1: is still you know, he's the Forest Buckner. He's still 401 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:33,160 Speaker 1: the focal point of that Colts pass rush on the inside. 402 00:20:33,200 --> 00:20:35,879 Speaker 1: So what is your level of optimism in the Colts 403 00:20:35,920 --> 00:20:37,440 Speaker 1: defense in the final seven here? 404 00:20:38,119 --> 00:20:40,960 Speaker 2: Yeah, I have optimism if we just do a couple 405 00:20:40,960 --> 00:20:43,359 Speaker 2: of things and we continue to do them. You know, 406 00:20:43,680 --> 00:20:47,320 Speaker 2: there's no question. I guess if you would have to 407 00:20:47,359 --> 00:20:50,399 Speaker 2: look at us just statistically, you'd say the offense is 408 00:20:50,440 --> 00:20:54,320 Speaker 2: descending a little bit and the defense is descending a 409 00:20:54,359 --> 00:20:58,160 Speaker 2: little bit. Now I'm careful with that. Yeah, because these 410 00:20:58,240 --> 00:21:02,960 Speaker 2: last two games we are home, resident may resumey enhancers. 411 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:05,000 Speaker 2: To be honest with you, if you're if you're gonna 412 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:07,800 Speaker 2: play good defense, you're gonna do it against More, You're 413 00:21:07,840 --> 00:21:11,359 Speaker 2: gonna do it against Young gives us two touchdowns and 414 00:21:11,560 --> 00:21:13,919 Speaker 2: Jones gives us the one at the end where the 415 00:21:13,920 --> 00:21:16,880 Speaker 2: guys open in the end zone. But I would say 416 00:21:16,880 --> 00:21:19,080 Speaker 2: that what I like about the defense, what I think 417 00:21:19,119 --> 00:21:23,400 Speaker 2: our defense has gotten better at. I'm gonna point out 418 00:21:23,440 --> 00:21:25,760 Speaker 2: four things. There's a lot of things you could you 419 00:21:25,800 --> 00:21:30,200 Speaker 2: can point out, and obviously point total is critical. I'm 420 00:21:30,240 --> 00:21:32,520 Speaker 2: not I'm not even counting that because that's just kind 421 00:21:32,520 --> 00:21:36,840 Speaker 2: of assumed. You know, when you give up, what is it, 422 00:21:36,960 --> 00:21:39,440 Speaker 2: nineteen points in two weeks, you're not gonna lose many 423 00:21:39,480 --> 00:21:43,000 Speaker 2: games one touchdown in two weeks, So you know that 424 00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:46,800 Speaker 2: that's definitely far and above everything else. But peeling the 425 00:21:46,840 --> 00:21:49,920 Speaker 2: onion a little bit, here's where I think we've really 426 00:21:49,920 --> 00:21:53,280 Speaker 2: improved because these things, these four things I'm going to 427 00:21:53,359 --> 00:21:56,240 Speaker 2: talk about, all got away from us in twenty two, 428 00:21:56,760 --> 00:21:59,439 Speaker 2: and they got away from us in that three weeks 429 00:21:59,480 --> 00:22:01,960 Speaker 2: prior to this, where we gave up thirty five points 430 00:22:02,400 --> 00:22:06,359 Speaker 2: and absolutely got collaborated by Cleveland and New Orleans and 431 00:22:06,520 --> 00:22:11,160 Speaker 2: Jacksonville on defense just got absolutely torn apart. Well, here's 432 00:22:11,160 --> 00:22:14,040 Speaker 2: where I think, and these these aren't glamorous, but they're 433 00:22:14,320 --> 00:22:19,280 Speaker 2: they're they're really gradually coming up. First of all, the 434 00:22:19,400 --> 00:22:22,400 Speaker 2: red zone. Okay, we were down in the bottom five 435 00:22:22,480 --> 00:22:25,840 Speaker 2: at the end of twenty two. Okay, we're up to eighteen. 436 00:22:26,520 --> 00:22:27,600 Speaker 3: Now, how big was that. 437 00:22:27,720 --> 00:22:30,320 Speaker 2: I've always said the red zone is I used to 438 00:22:30,359 --> 00:22:33,240 Speaker 2: tell our players the most important thing you do as 439 00:22:33,280 --> 00:22:36,320 Speaker 2: a Saint or a Colt or a Brown is you 440 00:22:36,400 --> 00:22:38,600 Speaker 2: play in red zone. They used to call me God 441 00:22:39,480 --> 00:22:42,960 Speaker 2: family in red zone, and I always used to say, 442 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:46,760 Speaker 2: not necessarily in that order for coach, and I mean, 443 00:22:46,800 --> 00:22:50,720 Speaker 2: when you here's here's the deal Sunday, here's the reality. Okay, 444 00:22:51,359 --> 00:22:56,240 Speaker 2: we gave up three sixty yard drives. You forget that, 445 00:22:56,640 --> 00:23:01,200 Speaker 2: three sixty yard drives in the second half. 446 00:22:59,800 --> 00:23:01,399 Speaker 3: But they didn't get anything out of it. 447 00:23:02,040 --> 00:23:05,159 Speaker 2: We have kept both teams. In the last two weeks, 448 00:23:05,520 --> 00:23:08,919 Speaker 2: we have had five red zone stops out of six. Okay, 449 00:23:09,520 --> 00:23:13,960 Speaker 2: because the ball will always move twenty to twenty. Almost 450 00:23:14,040 --> 00:23:18,320 Speaker 2: no one is incapable of moving the ball from twenty twenty, 451 00:23:18,520 --> 00:23:21,280 Speaker 2: so it really comes down to who can make that 452 00:23:21,440 --> 00:23:22,600 Speaker 2: final twenty yards. 453 00:23:22,600 --> 00:23:23,359 Speaker 3: Who wins that? 454 00:23:23,640 --> 00:23:23,840 Speaker 1: Yeh. 455 00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:26,639 Speaker 2: And I've always called that the will over skill area 456 00:23:26,680 --> 00:23:30,840 Speaker 2: because now you're not defensing depth. It's all about toughness, 457 00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:34,639 Speaker 2: tight coverage, tight rush. So I think the fact that 458 00:23:34,680 --> 00:23:38,920 Speaker 2: we've moved up to eighteenth there takeaways. We always talk 459 00:23:38,960 --> 00:23:43,119 Speaker 2: about the importance of takeaways Shane has said it all week. 460 00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:46,680 Speaker 2: We won the turnover battle. In five games. We've won 461 00:23:46,800 --> 00:23:50,119 Speaker 2: five games. We didn't in five we lost five games. 462 00:23:50,160 --> 00:23:53,760 Speaker 2: And if you look that over time, with possibly a 463 00:23:53,760 --> 00:23:59,000 Speaker 2: couple anomalies, really over decades, that will always be. And 464 00:23:59,040 --> 00:24:02,879 Speaker 2: so now we're creeping up. We're at number eleven, so 465 00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:05,520 Speaker 2: we're kind of getting back to where we were when 466 00:24:05,560 --> 00:24:09,800 Speaker 2: we played really good defense and takeaway's mask. Like I 467 00:24:09,840 --> 00:24:12,919 Speaker 2: told you the other day, for every takeaway you take away, 468 00:24:13,080 --> 00:24:15,720 Speaker 2: we used to say, you know, you take away fifty 469 00:24:15,800 --> 00:24:19,200 Speaker 2: yards at least off the other team's totals. I think 470 00:24:19,240 --> 00:24:21,680 Speaker 2: the other thing and this is huge because I've been 471 00:24:21,720 --> 00:24:25,080 Speaker 2: a monitor on this forever and we have lived at 472 00:24:25,080 --> 00:24:28,960 Speaker 2: thirty one and thirty two, and we've done it this year. 473 00:24:29,040 --> 00:24:34,440 Speaker 2: Early is our fourth quarter defense now has moved from 474 00:24:34,440 --> 00:24:39,240 Speaker 2: that bottom feeder up to sixteen. And so you know, 475 00:24:39,400 --> 00:24:42,600 Speaker 2: we did we did have to put an explanation point 476 00:24:42,760 --> 00:24:45,399 Speaker 2: even on the last two weeks, and we really had 477 00:24:45,440 --> 00:24:47,840 Speaker 2: to put one on Sunday because they were driving, they 478 00:24:47,840 --> 00:24:50,520 Speaker 2: had the momentum they had, they were down there near 479 00:24:50,560 --> 00:24:52,959 Speaker 2: the red zone, they had a chance to win it, 480 00:24:53,320 --> 00:24:56,280 Speaker 2: and we finished it. And I just think, you know, 481 00:24:56,320 --> 00:24:58,080 Speaker 2: We can talk about all the other things, but as 482 00:24:58,119 --> 00:25:01,679 Speaker 2: a great defense, you have have to finish games. And 483 00:25:01,720 --> 00:25:05,040 Speaker 2: then the other obvious thing is with Sachs. 484 00:25:05,440 --> 00:25:08,199 Speaker 3: You know, we've moved up to number nine, and I 485 00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:09,040 Speaker 3: think part of. 486 00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:14,200 Speaker 2: That, part of that is really get settling on the rotations. 487 00:25:14,760 --> 00:25:16,800 Speaker 2: You know, I can get into the negatives because we're 488 00:25:16,840 --> 00:25:19,840 Speaker 2: really struggling against the run. That one we haven't figured out. 489 00:25:20,400 --> 00:25:23,840 Speaker 2: But what we've really figured out is passing down rotations. 490 00:25:24,359 --> 00:25:26,520 Speaker 2: You know, you have Abu Khan on the one side, 491 00:25:26,960 --> 00:25:30,240 Speaker 2: you have Quitty on the other side, and then what 492 00:25:30,440 --> 00:25:34,359 Speaker 2: you're really seeing is, you know, Buckner is a great player. 493 00:25:34,480 --> 00:25:39,119 Speaker 2: I mean, you mentioned those guys Buckner, More Blackman and 494 00:25:39,320 --> 00:25:41,400 Speaker 2: and I'm and I would say Franklin, and I would 495 00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:44,119 Speaker 2: say speed. If he plays ever down, which I'm advocating, 496 00:25:44,160 --> 00:25:47,400 Speaker 2: he plays every down, those five guys will come. They 497 00:25:47,440 --> 00:25:50,240 Speaker 2: will bone you, they will come after you. But Buckner 498 00:25:50,320 --> 00:25:55,439 Speaker 2: demands Bunkin's ambient. He demands a special game plan. And 499 00:25:55,560 --> 00:25:58,760 Speaker 2: what that's allowed is for the emerging star on this team. 500 00:25:58,880 --> 00:26:02,399 Speaker 2: Dio A Dingbo could really just be a monster. I mean, 501 00:26:02,440 --> 00:26:06,160 Speaker 2: he lost that Sal kid, the guard that Sal's still 502 00:26:06,160 --> 00:26:06,719 Speaker 2: looking for him. 503 00:26:06,760 --> 00:26:08,400 Speaker 3: He has no idea where he went. 504 00:26:09,280 --> 00:26:13,680 Speaker 2: I mean, and he is just he's a versatile guy 505 00:26:13,760 --> 00:26:16,639 Speaker 2: that's coming into his own and I think the biggest 506 00:26:16,640 --> 00:26:19,520 Speaker 2: thing with him is he had to get healthy. He's 507 00:26:19,560 --> 00:26:22,679 Speaker 2: a great athlete, and the Colts had to really find 508 00:26:22,760 --> 00:26:24,560 Speaker 2: the role for him, and I think they're doing that, 509 00:26:24,600 --> 00:26:26,640 Speaker 2: and I think they could play him every down because 510 00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:30,240 Speaker 2: I think he's a really good run player outside, but 511 00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:32,720 Speaker 2: inside he's a star. I said this last week on 512 00:26:32,760 --> 00:26:37,480 Speaker 2: the podcast. I think he's he's definitely, you know, potentially 513 00:26:37,640 --> 00:26:41,520 Speaker 2: a double digitsat guy, and he's getting really close to that. 514 00:26:42,240 --> 00:26:44,840 Speaker 2: And so our past rush when we get into second 515 00:26:44,840 --> 00:26:47,320 Speaker 2: and longs and third run and third and lungs now 516 00:26:47,960 --> 00:26:51,560 Speaker 2: is really formidable. There's no doubt in my mind that is. 517 00:26:51,920 --> 00:26:54,520 Speaker 2: It is a tough deal to go and you know 518 00:26:54,520 --> 00:26:56,760 Speaker 2: where you really need that even this is why you 519 00:26:56,840 --> 00:26:59,600 Speaker 2: have to arrest Buckner some during the game, is you 520 00:26:59,640 --> 00:27:02,280 Speaker 2: got to have that in that fourth quarter because you know, 521 00:27:02,320 --> 00:27:04,760 Speaker 2: in the fourth quarter when you know they're going to pass, 522 00:27:05,200 --> 00:27:07,400 Speaker 2: you've got to have a four man rush that can 523 00:27:07,440 --> 00:27:10,280 Speaker 2: get after him and really destroy. And we can talk 524 00:27:10,320 --> 00:27:12,520 Speaker 2: about the amount of pressure we should be bringing, but 525 00:27:12,560 --> 00:27:15,280 Speaker 2: still in the fourth quarter, I think it comes down 526 00:27:15,560 --> 00:27:16,720 Speaker 2: more than that, So. 527 00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:17,520 Speaker 1: Just gotta have that. 528 00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:19,920 Speaker 2: I'm really pleased with those four things. 529 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:22,479 Speaker 1: Yeah, the Colts are definitely, you know, turning into a 530 00:27:22,480 --> 00:27:25,399 Speaker 1: formidable threat up front, dio a dang ball on the 531 00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:29,520 Speaker 1: inside and also on the outside considering some of these situations. Now, 532 00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:32,280 Speaker 1: you talked about some of the reasons for concern, and 533 00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:35,480 Speaker 1: you know where I'm going, And I knew what you 534 00:27:35,520 --> 00:27:38,360 Speaker 1: were going to talk about there, because Sunday in Germany, 535 00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:40,680 Speaker 1: another tough day against the run for the Colts from 536 00:27:40,680 --> 00:27:44,600 Speaker 1: Andre Stevenson and Ezekiel Elliott. They they bullied their way 537 00:27:44,720 --> 00:27:47,200 Speaker 1: for one hundred and thirty two yards on twenty eight 538 00:27:47,280 --> 00:27:50,480 Speaker 1: carries combined. And the Colts have allowed over one hundred 539 00:27:50,480 --> 00:27:52,960 Speaker 1: and fifty rushing yards and three of their last four 540 00:27:53,240 --> 00:27:56,120 Speaker 1: and one hundred and thirty eight rushing yards in all 541 00:27:56,200 --> 00:27:59,359 Speaker 1: four games that Grover Stewart has missed, and you know 542 00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:02,080 Speaker 1: they're gonna have two more games without him, and they've 543 00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:03,960 Speaker 1: given up an average of one hundred and fifty four 544 00:28:04,040 --> 00:28:07,680 Speaker 1: rushing yards on the ground in their last four without him. 545 00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:11,000 Speaker 1: The Browns, the Saints, the Panthers, and the Patriots. What 546 00:28:11,160 --> 00:28:13,960 Speaker 1: is your level of concern with the Colts inability to 547 00:28:14,040 --> 00:28:17,280 Speaker 1: stop the run at least for the next two games 548 00:28:17,320 --> 00:28:19,720 Speaker 1: with Grover Stewart, who's still going to miss two games 549 00:28:19,800 --> 00:28:21,240 Speaker 1: during his six game suspension. 550 00:28:21,240 --> 00:28:23,520 Speaker 2: There, Yeah, you know, there's no question. 551 00:28:23,640 --> 00:28:24,680 Speaker 3: I have a big concern. 552 00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:28,200 Speaker 2: And the thing about it is is we know Clover's out. 553 00:28:28,320 --> 00:28:31,000 Speaker 2: I mean it's it's like there wasn't any question about it, 554 00:28:31,040 --> 00:28:34,119 Speaker 2: and we haven't really you know, And if I'm the 555 00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:36,200 Speaker 2: head coach, this is how I'm talking to my assistance. 556 00:28:36,200 --> 00:28:38,840 Speaker 2: You haven't done one thing. You haven't done one thing 557 00:28:38,880 --> 00:28:41,600 Speaker 2: to try to, you know, come up with an idea, 558 00:28:41,680 --> 00:28:44,480 Speaker 2: come up with a plan, come up with an alternate thing. Hell, 559 00:28:44,560 --> 00:28:47,720 Speaker 2: I've given you three or four podcasts. I mean, it 560 00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:50,440 Speaker 2: isn't like it's rocket science. I mean, you know he 561 00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:52,960 Speaker 2: was going to be gone. I think we're averaging giving 562 00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:55,200 Speaker 2: up one hundred and fifty four and four point seven 563 00:28:55,320 --> 00:28:59,200 Speaker 2: right since he was there Sunday was really discouraging because 564 00:28:59,280 --> 00:29:02,760 Speaker 2: really you knew Bill knowing Bill, I said it last 565 00:29:02,760 --> 00:29:04,680 Speaker 2: week in a podcast. He is going to try to 566 00:29:04,800 --> 00:29:07,560 Speaker 2: jam it down your throat with the two best players 567 00:29:07,560 --> 00:29:12,080 Speaker 2: on his team, Stevenson, you know, and Zek he was 568 00:29:12,120 --> 00:29:14,480 Speaker 2: going to do it. So you know, it's coming and 569 00:29:14,520 --> 00:29:17,440 Speaker 2: they end up with one hundred and sixty seven four 570 00:29:17,440 --> 00:29:22,480 Speaker 2: point six. They got eleven minutes plus in time of possession, 571 00:29:22,840 --> 00:29:26,320 Speaker 2: and if the guy doesn't throw a ridiculous pass at 572 00:29:26,320 --> 00:29:28,360 Speaker 2: the end, they probably come away with a win with 573 00:29:28,440 --> 00:29:32,240 Speaker 2: a terrible football team. So I would say, yeah, it's 574 00:29:32,320 --> 00:29:33,720 Speaker 2: a real, real problem. 575 00:29:34,440 --> 00:29:35,720 Speaker 3: We can get into all. 576 00:29:35,640 --> 00:29:38,520 Speaker 2: My suggestions, both offense and defense when we finish this, 577 00:29:38,640 --> 00:29:42,520 Speaker 2: but yeah, that is a huge problem right now, and 578 00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:46,120 Speaker 2: I think it could be fatal if we don't fix it, 579 00:29:46,200 --> 00:29:49,400 Speaker 2: because you're going to play some teams that aren't in 580 00:29:49,440 --> 00:29:53,960 Speaker 2: that throwing the ball. You know, Mayfield is not bad 581 00:29:54,760 --> 00:29:57,600 Speaker 2: Joey in three weeks. I mean teams that if they're 582 00:29:57,640 --> 00:29:59,760 Speaker 2: able to run the ball, then they're going to turn 583 00:29:59,760 --> 00:30:04,080 Speaker 2: your corners every way but loose. So that is a concern. 584 00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:07,520 Speaker 2: My other concern is whether or not Gus will continue. 585 00:30:07,560 --> 00:30:10,320 Speaker 2: I thought he did a really good job in the 586 00:30:11,800 --> 00:30:15,400 Speaker 2: in the in the game at at Carolina, I thought 587 00:30:15,440 --> 00:30:17,320 Speaker 2: he did a really good job in two areas. I 588 00:30:17,360 --> 00:30:20,480 Speaker 2: thought he did a really good job of helping the corners. 589 00:30:20,520 --> 00:30:23,520 Speaker 2: You can't you can't play these seven weeks and not 590 00:30:23,600 --> 00:30:26,520 Speaker 2: play the corner. You can't play hawk three for the 591 00:30:26,560 --> 00:30:28,760 Speaker 2: next seven weeks and think you're gonna be in the playoffs. 592 00:30:28,840 --> 00:30:32,520 Speaker 2: You have to have a mixture outside of cover two. 593 00:30:33,040 --> 00:30:35,520 Speaker 3: Roll one way, roll the other way. Man under. 594 00:30:35,640 --> 00:30:39,160 Speaker 2: There's gotta be ways that you protect the corners. And 595 00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:42,920 Speaker 2: then there also has to be a higher pressure ratio. 596 00:30:43,120 --> 00:30:45,520 Speaker 2: It can't be that fourteen percent that we live in. 597 00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:48,080 Speaker 2: It's got to be a much closer to thirty. And 598 00:30:48,160 --> 00:30:50,720 Speaker 2: I think those two things, if we do those things 599 00:30:50,800 --> 00:30:53,440 Speaker 2: will be fine. I'm just it's not his character to 600 00:30:53,480 --> 00:30:55,880 Speaker 2: do them. He did do them there, he didn't He 601 00:30:55,920 --> 00:30:58,720 Speaker 2: didn't have to do them because there were just no 602 00:30:58,840 --> 00:31:01,920 Speaker 2: wide receivers to def in New England. So I'm not 603 00:31:02,160 --> 00:31:05,200 Speaker 2: I don't even count that game, but I'm thinking going ahead. 604 00:31:05,680 --> 00:31:09,959 Speaker 2: You know, those those are my two biggest concern you know, 605 00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:11,240 Speaker 2: from that standpoint. 606 00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:14,720 Speaker 1: Rick Venturry right there with the offensive and defensive overviews, 607 00:31:14,760 --> 00:31:18,000 Speaker 1: the Colts are at the buy seven games left back 608 00:31:18,040 --> 00:31:20,880 Speaker 1: even five hundred and on the season at five and five. 609 00:31:20,920 --> 00:31:23,520 Speaker 1: Before we close out, Rick, let's let's talk about some 610 00:31:23,560 --> 00:31:27,120 Speaker 1: breakout players. We'll stay with that same theme on on 611 00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:29,240 Speaker 1: one on the offensive side of the ball, the other 612 00:31:29,360 --> 00:31:31,320 Speaker 1: on the defensive side of the ball, which player on 613 00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:35,600 Speaker 1: offense is set for a breakout end to the twenty 614 00:31:35,680 --> 00:31:39,320 Speaker 1: twenty three season as a Jonathan Taylor is at Josh Downs. 615 00:31:39,360 --> 00:31:41,400 Speaker 1: I know you're high on Gardner Minshew. Give me the 616 00:31:41,440 --> 00:31:44,719 Speaker 1: one guy that is most poised for a breakout end 617 00:31:44,760 --> 00:31:46,000 Speaker 1: in the final seven games. 618 00:31:46,680 --> 00:31:49,520 Speaker 2: Well, I really hope it's Jonathan, to be honest with you, 619 00:31:49,760 --> 00:31:54,120 Speaker 2: and you know that gets into a little bit of usage. 620 00:31:54,160 --> 00:31:56,080 Speaker 2: I think you know what you got in Pittman. You're 621 00:31:56,080 --> 00:31:59,680 Speaker 2: gonna have that reliability, You're gonna have high valume, but 622 00:31:59,720 --> 00:32:01,520 Speaker 2: you're not going to have big players. You're not going 623 00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:05,320 Speaker 2: to get creativity. You're not getting it. With Pierce, you 624 00:32:05,400 --> 00:32:08,280 Speaker 2: would get it. I would say that Downs will have 625 00:32:08,320 --> 00:32:10,000 Speaker 2: a breakout leak, but I just don't know where that 626 00:32:10,040 --> 00:32:13,040 Speaker 2: knee is. I'm worried about that. I'm worried about Canny 627 00:32:13,120 --> 00:32:15,960 Speaker 2: hold up over seven weeks. When he's in the game, 628 00:32:16,040 --> 00:32:19,880 Speaker 2: he's he's just sensational. It's it's Taylor and Downs that 629 00:32:19,880 --> 00:32:23,400 Speaker 2: that's who make you you better and and Minchew functions 630 00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:26,760 Speaker 2: within those guys. I do think that we're going to 631 00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:29,960 Speaker 2: have to if it's going to be Jonathan, we have 632 00:32:30,040 --> 00:32:33,040 Speaker 2: to alter the running game. We have we know what 633 00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:34,560 Speaker 2: we're going to see the rest of the way, We're 634 00:32:34,560 --> 00:32:36,880 Speaker 2: going to see it week after week after week. And 635 00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:39,840 Speaker 2: I think we got to be a little bit more 636 00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:44,400 Speaker 2: like Tennessee in that we get tight ends in the game, uh, 637 00:32:44,600 --> 00:32:47,680 Speaker 2: tight ends used as fullbacks. I think we have to 638 00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:52,240 Speaker 2: be a little bit more power kick related, sealed down 639 00:32:52,280 --> 00:32:55,920 Speaker 2: against the spare, bang them off tackle, bang them off tackle. 640 00:32:55,920 --> 00:32:58,040 Speaker 2: But do it with seal blocking. Don't do it with 641 00:32:58,160 --> 00:33:00,840 Speaker 2: man or zone blocking, because then you can't get to 642 00:33:00,880 --> 00:33:03,480 Speaker 2: the linebackers. I think you know that part of it's 643 00:33:03,520 --> 00:33:06,080 Speaker 2: going to be critical, and then even if downs. But 644 00:33:06,120 --> 00:33:09,320 Speaker 2: I think for Pittman especially, one thing that I'd like 645 00:33:09,360 --> 00:33:11,120 Speaker 2: to see us do. This is what Gruden used to 646 00:33:11,120 --> 00:33:13,360 Speaker 2: do to us when I was in New Orleans and 647 00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:17,000 Speaker 2: he had an offense without much speed at receiver. Okay, 648 00:33:17,120 --> 00:33:19,920 Speaker 2: he would close down the formations. In other words, we 649 00:33:19,960 --> 00:33:23,040 Speaker 2: used to call it a tight two by two or 650 00:33:23,080 --> 00:33:25,600 Speaker 2: it was a bunch to one side with X very 651 00:33:25,640 --> 00:33:28,360 Speaker 2: close on the other side. And what I call that 652 00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:32,760 Speaker 2: is condensation to the formation. Okay, Now, what's the idea. 653 00:33:32,920 --> 00:33:37,160 Speaker 2: You condense the formation and then you explode out and 654 00:33:37,240 --> 00:33:39,440 Speaker 2: so you know, first of all, you can get you 655 00:33:39,480 --> 00:33:42,320 Speaker 2: can get Pittman free access, but you get him down 656 00:33:42,360 --> 00:33:44,640 Speaker 2: on the secondary because what the secondary will do is 657 00:33:44,640 --> 00:33:48,000 Speaker 2: they'll close tight and closer, you see what I'm saying. 658 00:33:48,240 --> 00:33:51,040 Speaker 2: And you can get to those formations with motion and 659 00:33:51,080 --> 00:33:53,240 Speaker 2: get them out there where you can get quick rhythm again, 660 00:33:53,400 --> 00:33:55,360 Speaker 2: where you can get a quick ball to the tight end. 661 00:33:55,720 --> 00:33:57,880 Speaker 2: All those things can really help you, and they can 662 00:33:57,960 --> 00:34:01,000 Speaker 2: help Gardner and they can help the rest of our guys. 663 00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:03,920 Speaker 2: But I think all those things, I think the one 664 00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:06,680 Speaker 2: thing Shane has used to stand still football because their 665 00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:10,640 Speaker 2: philosophy at Philadelphia is if you're gonna put nine guys 666 00:34:10,680 --> 00:34:12,719 Speaker 2: up here to stop me on the run, I'm just 667 00:34:12,760 --> 00:34:16,239 Speaker 2: gonna throw the ball outside to DeVante and I'm gonna 668 00:34:16,239 --> 00:34:18,520 Speaker 2: throw it outside to aj because you can't play him 669 00:34:18,520 --> 00:34:20,920 Speaker 2: one on one. Well, they can play our guys one 670 00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:24,359 Speaker 2: on one, So we have to be even much more 671 00:34:24,440 --> 00:34:28,399 Speaker 2: creative in getting those guys open. But it'll it'll come 672 00:34:28,480 --> 00:34:31,600 Speaker 2: down to that. I think, you know, the good wine 673 00:34:31,640 --> 00:34:34,279 Speaker 2: will always come to the top. So at the end 674 00:34:34,360 --> 00:34:37,279 Speaker 2: of the day, I think it'll be Jonathan and if 675 00:34:37,280 --> 00:34:38,759 Speaker 2: he's healthy downs all right. 676 00:34:38,800 --> 00:34:41,080 Speaker 1: Then on defense, the player on that side of the 677 00:34:41,080 --> 00:34:44,480 Speaker 1: ball that's gonna dominate these last seven games? Is it? 678 00:34:44,680 --> 00:34:47,359 Speaker 1: Grover Stewart once he comes back again, He's got two 679 00:34:47,360 --> 00:34:50,959 Speaker 1: games left on his suspension. Zire Franklin looking to break 680 00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:53,799 Speaker 1: his own tackle record from last season again, he's on 681 00:34:53,840 --> 00:34:57,080 Speaker 1: pace to do that. Dioi dang Bo continues to break 682 00:34:57,080 --> 00:35:00,359 Speaker 1: out with the sacks stacking, you know, good performances upon 683 00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:02,560 Speaker 1: what he did in Germany with the career high three 684 00:35:02,640 --> 00:35:05,360 Speaker 1: sacks against the Patriots. The one guy on defense you 685 00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:07,280 Speaker 1: think is going to tear it up in the final 686 00:35:07,360 --> 00:35:08,280 Speaker 1: seven for the Colts. 687 00:35:08,760 --> 00:35:11,439 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a really good question because right now there's 688 00:35:11,480 --> 00:35:14,359 Speaker 2: a lot of guys that are bawling it. You know, 689 00:35:14,440 --> 00:35:17,560 Speaker 2: Buckner is a tremendous player, but he gets game planned, 690 00:35:17,600 --> 00:35:19,799 Speaker 2: he really does. He gets you know, that's what an 691 00:35:19,840 --> 00:35:25,279 Speaker 2: ambient player gets, is is really game planned. There's no 692 00:35:25,440 --> 00:35:29,120 Speaker 2: question that Grover will have a huge impact on us. 693 00:35:29,480 --> 00:35:32,160 Speaker 2: I still believe that teams are looking at us as 694 00:35:32,239 --> 00:35:35,520 Speaker 2: so simple in the front. We do nothing on the 695 00:35:35,520 --> 00:35:38,440 Speaker 2: front on first down but play over and so my 696 00:35:38,600 --> 00:35:42,719 Speaker 2: suggestion is get into some bear defense, get into some 697 00:35:42,840 --> 00:35:46,640 Speaker 2: inside blitzing on run, blitzes on first down. Grover will 698 00:35:46,640 --> 00:35:49,000 Speaker 2: make us better, but he won't be the answer. The 699 00:35:49,080 --> 00:35:52,080 Speaker 2: other thing is Franklin is playing good. Just get him 700 00:35:52,120 --> 00:35:54,600 Speaker 2: healthy in the next week. And I think the most 701 00:35:54,640 --> 00:35:56,799 Speaker 2: important thing is get speed in there. For Leonard, you 702 00:35:57,000 --> 00:35:59,280 Speaker 2: just got to get a hammer in there. You can't 703 00:35:59,600 --> 00:36:02,600 Speaker 2: get guy that isn't contacting people. You've got to get 704 00:36:02,640 --> 00:36:05,040 Speaker 2: that other guy in there. And that's the only way. 705 00:36:05,280 --> 00:36:08,399 Speaker 2: And if we don't stop the run, then we're gonna 706 00:36:08,440 --> 00:36:10,560 Speaker 2: be really vulnerable on other things. 707 00:36:10,719 --> 00:36:11,120 Speaker 3: Okay. 708 00:36:11,400 --> 00:36:14,840 Speaker 2: I think the second thing is that pass defense, making 709 00:36:14,840 --> 00:36:17,359 Speaker 2: sure we can move that around. As far as the 710 00:36:17,360 --> 00:36:20,279 Speaker 2: breakout guys go, I think it's gonna be a lot 711 00:36:20,320 --> 00:36:23,080 Speaker 2: like Sunday. I think the guy that's gonna benefit most 712 00:36:24,120 --> 00:36:26,520 Speaker 2: from where we're headed and what they do with Buckner 713 00:36:26,960 --> 00:36:30,839 Speaker 2: is Odengbo. I think he's got the confidence. I think 714 00:36:30,920 --> 00:36:34,279 Speaker 2: you can get him one on one. He's already what 715 00:36:34,360 --> 00:36:36,680 Speaker 2: is it six and a half now, he's well on 716 00:36:36,760 --> 00:36:40,920 Speaker 2: his way to double digits. You're gonna get him ideal matchups. 717 00:36:40,920 --> 00:36:43,000 Speaker 2: I wouldn't take him off the field, I really wouldn't. 718 00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:46,560 Speaker 2: I'd play him on first down. I've said this many 719 00:36:46,600 --> 00:36:49,759 Speaker 2: times in the last twenty four hours. I think the 720 00:36:49,800 --> 00:36:52,680 Speaker 2: only thing that'll stop him from stardom now is not 721 00:36:52,800 --> 00:36:57,439 Speaker 2: playing every down. Kenny Moore is a breakout player, and 722 00:36:57,520 --> 00:37:00,000 Speaker 2: you know he's been a breakout player every ball game 723 00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:04,600 Speaker 2: this year. You know, he gives us great edge play. Uh, 724 00:37:04,760 --> 00:37:08,200 Speaker 2: he's a he's a turnover guy. Blackman's right with him. 725 00:37:08,239 --> 00:37:12,080 Speaker 2: He's right with him again. Stop that inside running game, 726 00:37:12,600 --> 00:37:15,720 Speaker 2: and and don't get away from protecting those corners because 727 00:37:15,800 --> 00:37:18,480 Speaker 2: next week you're gonna have You're gonna have Evans, yeah 728 00:37:18,560 --> 00:37:20,600 Speaker 2: and guy on out there, and they're gonna make these 729 00:37:20,600 --> 00:37:23,600 Speaker 2: guys we played the last two weeks. They'll make them 730 00:37:23,640 --> 00:37:27,560 Speaker 2: forget those guys. And then if Cincinnati gets healthy, you know, 731 00:37:27,600 --> 00:37:30,600 Speaker 2: with Chase and Higgins and Board, that's another that's another 732 00:37:30,719 --> 00:37:32,440 Speaker 2: world here in the next three weeks. 733 00:37:32,840 --> 00:37:35,719 Speaker 1: All right, Rick Vin Terry, well done with a breakdown 734 00:37:35,760 --> 00:37:38,279 Speaker 1: here today the Colts on an off week, and look 735 00:37:38,320 --> 00:37:41,800 Speaker 1: at the offense and defense heading into the by seven 736 00:37:41,840 --> 00:37:44,480 Speaker 1: games left and some time off here, Rick, what do 737 00:37:44,520 --> 00:37:46,000 Speaker 1: you have going on the rest of the bye week? 738 00:37:46,040 --> 00:37:48,800 Speaker 1: How do you fill up the time some non football 739 00:37:48,840 --> 00:37:51,120 Speaker 1: activities as you rest up for the home stretch. 740 00:37:52,120 --> 00:37:56,440 Speaker 2: Well, I have, uh, I have one non football activity 741 00:37:56,960 --> 00:38:00,200 Speaker 2: and that's those two wheelers that I owe so you know, 742 00:38:00,520 --> 00:38:04,720 Speaker 2: we're having another We have another sixty day tomorrow today. 743 00:38:04,520 --> 00:38:05,040 Speaker 1: Yep, yep. 744 00:38:05,200 --> 00:38:09,400 Speaker 2: We'll put a little mileage on that, yep, and just 745 00:38:09,520 --> 00:38:11,920 Speaker 2: kind of just kind of chill out, you know, trying 746 00:38:11,920 --> 00:38:14,840 Speaker 2: to get I'm trying to get my health back all together. 747 00:38:14,920 --> 00:38:16,160 Speaker 3: It's just been a. 748 00:38:16,200 --> 00:38:19,440 Speaker 2: Bunch of little things that are controllable, but they seem 749 00:38:19,520 --> 00:38:21,879 Speaker 2: to all be hitting me at once, and so I'm 750 00:38:21,920 --> 00:38:24,040 Speaker 2: gonna get a little, you know, just kind of chill 751 00:38:24,080 --> 00:38:26,200 Speaker 2: out this weekend and be ready to go for Tampa. 752 00:38:26,280 --> 00:38:29,200 Speaker 1: Yeah, nobody needs to buy more than Rick, right, let's go. 753 00:38:29,440 --> 00:38:31,279 Speaker 2: Come on, I I. 754 00:38:32,600 --> 00:38:35,080 Speaker 1: It always comes at the perfect time, and you can attest. 755 00:38:35,160 --> 00:38:37,759 Speaker 1: I can attest too. I'm a little worn out as well, 756 00:38:37,840 --> 00:38:40,399 Speaker 1: so it's good to kind of hit the recharge these 757 00:38:40,440 --> 00:38:44,160 Speaker 1: batteries on on Friday, Saturday and Sunday coming up, watch 758 00:38:44,200 --> 00:38:47,480 Speaker 1: some football, and then gear up for Colts and Buccaneers 759 00:38:47,680 --> 00:38:50,880 Speaker 1: the Sunday after Thanksgiving. We'll rest up, my friend, enjoy 760 00:38:50,920 --> 00:38:53,239 Speaker 1: the weekend off, watch some football. I know you're gonna 761 00:38:53,239 --> 00:38:55,360 Speaker 1: be taking my sherry out in the town, as you should. 762 00:38:55,440 --> 00:38:58,399 Speaker 1: So yeah, we'll get back to the blueprints next week, 763 00:38:58,440 --> 00:39:00,799 Speaker 1: breaking down the bucks and we will talk to you 764 00:39:00,840 --> 00:39:03,600 Speaker 1: next Wednesday, Rick, always enjoy our time. Thanks as always. 765 00:39:04,320 --> 00:39:06,120 Speaker 3: Yeah, thanks for you, Maan, I love it. 766 00:39:06,320 --> 00:39:08,640 Speaker 2: And we'll be back in that booth against Tampa. 767 00:39:08,760 --> 00:39:11,520 Speaker 1: Indeed, back in the saddle week number twelve. And that's 768 00:39:11,600 --> 00:39:14,239 Speaker 1: Rick Van Turrey. I'm Matt Taylor, and that'll do it 769 00:39:14,280 --> 00:39:17,800 Speaker 1: for this week's installment of Inside Football. Plenty of Colts 770 00:39:17,800 --> 00:39:21,840 Speaker 1: conversation despite no game this Sunday, and of course for 771 00:39:21,920 --> 00:39:23,560 Speaker 1: more on the Colts, keep it locked here on the 772 00:39:23,560 --> 00:39:25,759 Speaker 1: Colts Audio Network. And again we'll talk to you next 773 00:39:25,760 --> 00:39:29,319 Speaker 1: week next Wednesday, breaking down the Colts and the Buccaneers 774 00:39:29,800 --> 00:39:32,839 Speaker 1: following Thanksgiving. But until then, have a great rest of 775 00:39:32,840 --> 00:39:35,759 Speaker 1: your week and thanks for listening to Inside Football with 776 00:39:35,880 --> 00:39:38,359 Speaker 1: Rick Van Turrey. I'm Matt Taylor. So long for now 777 00:39:38,640 --> 00:39:40,160 Speaker 1: here on the Colts Audio Network.