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Speaker 1: Welcome to Colts Round Table Live on ninety three to

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Speaker 1: five and one oh seven five. The fan gonna take off.

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Speaker 2: On a quarterback drawl.

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Speaker 3: He's at the ten, he's at the five on touched

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Speaker 4: Michael Pittmitt 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 5: Good forest fucker picks up a live football and races

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Speaker 5: the other way for a score picked up by the

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Speaker 5: Colts fan your sideline, Kenny Moore racing for the inZone

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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 3: Welcome to the show.

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Speaker 5: I'm Matt Taylor inside the Indiana Union Construction Industry Radio studio,

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Speaker 5: and tonight we're talking Colts football for the next hour

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Speaker 5: with you until seven o'clock tonight, and we're also recapping

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Speaker 5: the tough loss for the Colts and lost down in

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Speaker 5: Jacksonville in Week five, as the Colts fell thirty seven

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Speaker 5: to thirty four. The loss for the Colts drops them

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Speaker 5: to two and three on the season, OH and two

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Speaker 5: inside the AFC South, and it also means the Colts

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Speaker 5: have lost ten straight to the Jacksonville Jaguars as the

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Speaker 5: row team and have not won in Jacksonville since twenty fourteen.

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Speaker 5: It was an entertaining game in terms of back and

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Speaker 5: forth play, big plays on both sides by both offenses,

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Speaker 5: but the Colts couldn't get the final stop they needed

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Speaker 5: late in the game, as the Jaguars notched their first

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Speaker 5: win of the season. They avoid an OH to five start.

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Speaker 5: Coming up in just a few minutes. On this opening segment,

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Speaker 5: we'll be joined by head coach Shane Steichen. He'll answer

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Speaker 5: some questions on the game from Sunday and of course,

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Speaker 5: on the season to this point, and then starting on

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Speaker 5: segment two, we'll bring you some roundtable conversation on the

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Speaker 5: Colts with former Colt Joe Wrights. But let's recap the

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Speaker 5: game quickly coming up right now, it's the game rewind.

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Speaker 5: The Colts got off to a fast start on offense

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Speaker 5: a fourth and goal at the one and Joe Flacco

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Speaker 5: hit Michael Pittman Junior for a touchdown, and so the

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Speaker 5: Colts took an early seven to nothing lead. Joe Flacco,

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Speaker 5: who was starting for the first time in a Colts

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Speaker 5: Colts offense that was down key players, including Jonathan Taylor

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Speaker 5: and starting center Ryan Kelly. The Colts would also lose

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Speaker 5: starting right guard Will Fries in the second half as

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Speaker 5: what appeared to be a severe leg injury. On the

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Speaker 5: flip side. The Jaguars offense had a huge day against

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Speaker 5: the Colts. Indianapolis surrendered thirty seven points to the Jaguars,

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Speaker 5: who hadn't scored more than twenty points this season. Jacksonville

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Speaker 5: completing fifty three percent of his passes and on a

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Speaker 5: He threw for three seventy one after totaling just three

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Speaker 5: With the game tied late, the Jaguars went on a

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Speaker 3: Field goal range. The Colts got.

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Speaker 5: The ball back down three with under twenty seconds left

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Speaker 5: Coming up on segment two tonight, We'll be joined by

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Speaker 5: Colts analyst Joe Wrights, and we'll be taking your social

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Speaker 5: media questions tonight using hashtag Colts Roundtable on x You

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Speaker 5: can use that same hashtag and that same formula to

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Speaker 5: submit those questions and thoughts for head coach Shane Steichen,

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Speaker 5: who joins us now in studio on this first segment tonight.

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Speaker 3: Coach.

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Speaker 5: Really tough loss in Jacksonville. You tied the game late

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Speaker 5: at thirty four in the fourth quarter. What did the

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Speaker 6: Came down to explosive plays. You know, we got to

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Speaker 6: limit the explosive plays. We can't give up the big plays,

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Speaker 6: and we got to continue to create them on offense

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Speaker 6: and create them early in games and not wait, you.

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Speaker 3: Know, until the fourth quarter.

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Speaker 6: I know we scored twenty four in the fourth quarter,

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Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, I think we finished fifty percent on

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Speaker 5: Joe Flacco makes his first start of the season, first

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Speaker 5: and throw for three fifty nine. I know you love

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Speaker 5: to see that. How do you think he played? How

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Speaker 6: I thought he played a really good ball, you know,

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Speaker 5: How do you see the guys on offense specifically, how

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Speaker 6: Well, I think there's an understanding, you know, with a

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Speaker 5: Are any injury updates again, I know you talked to

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Speaker 5: Any chance any of those guys can get back this week?

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Speaker 6: just Will Fries, you know, had the surgery there in Florida.

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Speaker 3: How good of a season was he having.

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Speaker 6: He was playing great football, man, he was.

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Speaker 3: He's just so tough.

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Speaker 6: You know, that whole offensive line they got that tough

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Speaker 5: Live tonight. Ninety three to five and one oh seven

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Speaker 5: five the fan all right. Then defensively giving up four

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Speaker 5: fifty over four fifty to the Jags, what led to

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Speaker 5: their big day offensively? After again you watched the tape

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Speaker 6: I think it was just the big plays down the field.

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Speaker 6: You know, they hit some big ones. You know, there's

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Trevor Lawrence was hot, completed eighty two percent of

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Speaker 5: want to stress of the defense going forward to keep

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I think it's effecting the quarterback, you know, getting

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Speaker 6: he's a really good talented quarterback. I mean, his first

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Speaker 5: All right, last one from me, what was your your

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Speaker 6: Yeah, clean up the things we need to clean up.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it was great, Matt. It was a little bit

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Speaker 5: a lot on our plates this evening with you until

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Speaker 5: seven o'clock tonight. We're leading off our roundtable discussion now,

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Speaker 5: or I should say we're doing this the rest of

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Speaker 5: the way with some breakdown of the game film from yesday.

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Speaker 3: Joe.

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Speaker 5: We do that on a segment we always like to

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Speaker 5: call the tail of the tape.

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Speaker 3: Raising hell of to day.

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Speaker 2: Okay, bang bang, player, bang bang, keep the.

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Speaker 6: Hammer down, keep talking to one another minute, clean it up.

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Speaker 1: That's all.

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Speaker 3: Get ready?

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Speaker 5: Get ready? Yeah, all right, Joe. Joe Flacco got the

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Speaker 5: start for Anthony richardson three touchdowns. Trevor Lawrence had an

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Speaker 5: even bigger day throwing the football though he goes for

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Speaker 5: over three seventy and the Jaguars killed the Colts with

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Speaker 5: some big plays all game long. The Colts defense had

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Speaker 5: two takeaways, but the overall volume by the opposing offense

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Speaker 5: was there again as it has been all season long

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Speaker 5: to this point. So Joe, give us your your tail

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Speaker 5: the tape. After watching the game film again this morning,

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Speaker 5: Colts and Jaguars.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a head scratcher, Matt, because you have a

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Speaker 4: game offensively when you have twenty five first downs, you're

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Speaker 4: fifty percent on third down, which we've gotten better at.

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Speaker 4: You throw, or you have four un or fifty yards

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Speaker 4: of total offense, and you win the turnover battle, and

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Speaker 4: you're sitting there thinking, how did we lose that football game?

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Speaker 4: You score thirty four points, which should be enough to

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Speaker 4: win an NFL game. You mentioned it, it's big plays.

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Speaker 4: It all came down to big plays. And when you

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Speaker 4: think the Jags had, you know, almost four hundred yards

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Speaker 4: through the air, Lawrence's over eighty percent completion range. We

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Speaker 4: just had way too many guys running wide open. Part

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Speaker 4: of that is individual technique, part of that is coverage

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Speaker 4: and communication. But Jacksonville had three drives Matt that were

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Speaker 4: ten seconds or less, three one play drives. They had

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Speaker 4: the eighty five yard touchdown, They had the nineteen yard

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Speaker 4: run that was set up off that punt return. I

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Speaker 4: think that gets lost a little bit. That was such

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Speaker 4: a big play momentum because Rego is having a great

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Speaker 4: season and you know that he boomed that punt and

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Speaker 4: they just got around that right wall.

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Speaker 2: They set it up.

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Speaker 4: We took some poor angles of pursuit, some mistackles, and

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Speaker 4: he runs it right down there inside the twenty and

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Speaker 4: then really the killer Matt as I thought about this

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Speaker 4: last night and early this morning watching the tape. It's

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Speaker 4: a three point game and we lose by three points,

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Speaker 4: and at the end of the half, that six point

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Speaker 4: swing was just so daunting. We get the football back

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Speaker 4: off the turnover, we're thinking, worst case, we're going in

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Speaker 4: a halftime tied. We got a chance to make a

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Speaker 4: play here, the sack fumble comes up, and then they

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Speaker 4: hit the field goal and it was a two second,

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Speaker 4: two second drive right there, one play field goal which

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Speaker 4: you almost never see, and that six point scene right

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Speaker 4: before half, I think really put the momentum in Jacksonville's favor.

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Speaker 4: And then we were playing catch up and you go

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Speaker 4: at the end of the game, they win by a

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Speaker 4: field goal. We lose by a field goal that easily

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Speaker 4: could have been switched, just kind of on that wonky

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Speaker 4: end to the first half. So bottom line, big plays

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Speaker 4: for Jacksonville got it done today. But that was a

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Speaker 4: game I really felt the Colts should have won. And

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Speaker 4: that's what I think makes this really frustrating. We always

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Speaker 4: talk about the twenty four hour rule. You got to

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Speaker 4: get over and you got to move on. But this

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Speaker 4: is one you got to be careful as a player

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Speaker 4: a coach. It doesn't linger longer because if you're a Colt,

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Speaker 4: you walked off that field knowing Jacksonville didn't win that game.

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Speaker 4: The Colts lost that game.

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Speaker 5: Right There a lot of things you can point to,

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Speaker 5: especially in a game when you lose by three points

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Speaker 5: on the road against a team that had won prior

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Speaker 5: to that game. All right, Colts fans, remember the weather

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Speaker 5: us here tonight on his tail the tape. We got

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Speaker 5: plenty more to get into tonight the rest of the show.

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Speaker 5: When we come back, we're gonna leave plenty of time

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Speaker 5: to do this. We're gonna roll out the top ten

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Speaker 5: list like David Letterman back in the day on The

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Speaker 5: Tonight Show. We're gonna give you the top five positive

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Speaker 5: so far for the Colts through five games, and then

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Speaker 5: we'll lay out the top five areas that still need work,

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Speaker 5: work in progress. So we're gonna add up five and

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Speaker 5: five and get to ten and we'll discuss those in detail.

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

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Speaker 1: five and one oh seven five the Fan from the

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Speaker 1: Indiana Union Construction Industry Radio Studio. Here's Matt Taylor, the

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Speaker 1: voice of the Colts.

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Speaker 3: Welcome back.

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Speaker 5: sports betting partner of the Indianapolis Colts. With Joe Wrights tonight,

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Speaker 5: I'm Matt Taylor, no Rick Vinturrey. He's normally with us

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Speaker 5: on Monday nights. He's off tonight, but should be back

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Speaker 5: in the fold coming up next Monday. In honor of

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Speaker 5: David Letterman, Indiana's own he used to roll out the

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Speaker 5: top ten list every single night on the Late Show

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Speaker 5: and I'm sure, Joe, you stayed up late every night

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Speaker 5: to see what was going on the top ten, what

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Speaker 5: they were making fun of or putting in jest, did you.

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Speaker 2: Not, Monsey, Indiana, right, David Letterman.

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Speaker 5: All right, So with that in mind, we're gonna add

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Speaker 5: up to the top ten list. We're going top five

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Speaker 5: positive for the Colts through five games, and then the

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Speaker 5: top five areas that need work still going into another

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Speaker 5: AFC South game this weekend down in Tennessee. So top

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Speaker 5: five good, top five that still needs work positive number

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Speaker 5: five and by the way, we're going five to one,

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Speaker 5: so one is the biggest positive. And don't scoff at

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Speaker 5: this because I'm going Rego Sanchez with number five. On

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Speaker 5: the season, Joe, he ranked second in punts landed inside

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Speaker 5: the twenty yard line with twelve, ranks fourth and net

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Speaker 5: average on the season at forty five point five yesterday

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Speaker 5: down in Jacksonville average fifty two point five with a

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Speaker 5: couple of penned inside the twenty. He's been a big

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Speaker 5: weapon for the Colts in terms of controlling field position,

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Speaker 5: and I think we'd be talking about him a little

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Speaker 5: bit more if the defense was a little bit better

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Speaker 5: at capitalizing on his ability to pin deep teams inside

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Speaker 5: their own territory.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, no question, Matt. I love that you brought up Rego.

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Speaker 4: And there's a couple of reasons why. First off, you

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Speaker 4: mentioned he's been pinning people inside the twenty. We've just

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Speaker 4: been letting them out of the gate. I think, like

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Speaker 4: another huge sequence in that game, we got them backed up,

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Speaker 4: they get the penalty. It's first in twenty five, Sire

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Speaker 4: Franklin does a great job sniffing out that screen pass.

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Speaker 4: It's second and twenty four and I'm thinking, man, we're

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Speaker 4: gonna get the ball back on the fifty. We're gonna

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Speaker 4: be in a great field position, guaranteed to score, and

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Speaker 4: they hit one for sixty one yards. So we haven't

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Speaker 4: been playing complimentary football and taking advantage of Rego and

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Speaker 4: how he's flipped field position. And the reason I love

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Speaker 4: why you brought him up, Matt. If you look at

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Speaker 4: any analysis, you go to the talking heads anywhere, you know, ESPN,

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Speaker 4: NFL Network, whatever, how much time do they spend talking

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Speaker 4: about special teams two percent? Maybe that special teams is

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Speaker 4: a third of the game. And when the great teams,

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Speaker 4: teams that win, they play complimentary football. Everybody talks about

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Speaker 4: Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs and spagnolling their defense. You know,

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Speaker 4: their special teams coordinator Tube has been there forever and

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Speaker 4: they have won consistently one of the best special teams

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Speaker 4: units in the NFL. When you look at the Patriots

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Speaker 4: dynasty that they had. I read something once, and you know,

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Speaker 4: probably five or six years ago, that said, when is

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Speaker 4: somebody going to be able to knock off the Patriots?

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Speaker 4: You know as kind of the AFC king and it

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Speaker 4: was a long time associate a Belichick, and he basically said,

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Speaker 4: when somebody spends enough the same amount of time.

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Speaker 2: In the kicking game as we work on it, they'll

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Speaker 2: be able to do it. But it's true because.

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Speaker 4: It's complimentary football, and it's a third of the game.

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Speaker 4: It's hidden yards. Nobody ever talks about special teams unless

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Speaker 4: you miss a game winning field goal or the long

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Speaker 4: snapper has a bad snap. But very important. Rego's a

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Speaker 4: weapon for this team and I'm glad you included him

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Speaker 4: on that list.

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Speaker 2: Good work, all.

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Speaker 5: Right, Positive number four Josh downs. He didn't play the

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Speaker 5: first two games of the season, had that high ankle

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Speaker 5: spraying dating back to early on in training camp when

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Speaker 5: he went down with that, but he came back in

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Speaker 5: Week three against Chicago kind of had a quiet game

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Speaker 5: in that contest, three catches twenty two yards. But in

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Speaker 5: the last two games, Joe big time playmaker against the

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Speaker 5: Steelers and Jags. He has seventeen combined catches for a

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Speaker 5: buck fifty one and a touchdown, and eleven of his

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Speaker 5: seventeen catches the last two weeks have also gone for

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Speaker 5: a first down. So last year we know about him

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Speaker 5: setting the rookie record for catches and he's proving to

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Speaker 5: be pretty irreplaceable in this offense in terms of volume

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Speaker 5: and playmaking ability and yards per catch.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I like this inclusion on the list. I think

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Speaker 4: Josh Downs is our most valuable receiver and Harris is

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Speaker 4: having a great season. You know, he had three huge

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Speaker 4: catches late in the game to get us there. Pittman

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Speaker 4: gets his touchdown. He's so steady and solid. But Downs

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Speaker 4: brings you a unique ability. I said this last week

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Speaker 4: on the show. It should be called third downs because

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Speaker 4: he's uncoverable on third down.

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Speaker 2: You get him in the slot.

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Speaker 4: He's so quick, his hands are good, he's got really

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Speaker 4: good savigy. He's smart. For a second year receiver credit

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Speaker 4: to him. I also know he's being coached up well

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Speaker 4: by my ex teammate Reggie Wayne. But that's why I

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Speaker 4: think he's our most valuable receiver, Matt, because the NFL

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Speaker 4: comes down to a situational football league, comes down to

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Speaker 4: red zone, and it comes down to third down. And

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Speaker 4: when you have a guy on third down that's really

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Speaker 4: really hard to cover in the slot when he's matched

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Speaker 4: up on linebackers or safeties, if they're playing man, you

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Speaker 4: can't do it. Teams are gonna start double teaming him

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Speaker 4: or committing an extra guy to him on third down

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Speaker 4: because he's so good and he's so valuable on that

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Speaker 4: money down when it's third and four, third and six,

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Speaker 4: that's what you need to keep drives going. And matt

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Speaker 4: Our third down completion percentage as a team has really

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Speaker 4: increased the last two weeks. It's not a coincidence that

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Speaker 4: coincides with Josh Downs coming back to the football team.

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Speaker 4: So I really think the sky's a limit for him. Sometimes, Matt,

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Speaker 4: I forget he's only in his second year because of

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Speaker 4: how dependable he is, especially on that money third downs.

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Speaker 5: There you go, well said, right there, I'm gonna have

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Speaker 5: to use that. I'm stealing that from Joe Wrights with

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Speaker 5: us tonight.

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Speaker 4: You don't even need to give me credit when you

656
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Speaker 4: bust out on the radio next week at ten.

657
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Speaker 5: No, I won't do that to you. This is Colts

658
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Speaker 5: Round Table Live tonight. This is the top ten and

659
00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:48,120
Speaker 5: we're going in descending order. We're starting with the positive

660
00:28:48,200 --> 00:28:50,560
Speaker 5: five positives, and then we'll go to the things that

661
00:28:50,640 --> 00:28:54,600
Speaker 5: need work done. All right, Positive number three Depth keeping

662
00:28:54,680 --> 00:28:58,320
Speaker 5: the Colts afloat. That's how I titled this because, as

663
00:28:58,360 --> 00:29:00,360
Speaker 5: you know, Joe, the Colts have been hit really hard

664
00:29:00,400 --> 00:29:03,880
Speaker 5: with injuries. On Sunday they were down on the defense

665
00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:09,080
Speaker 5: without DeForest Buckner and Kenny Moore and Quitty pay Taekwon Lewis, Juju,

666
00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:11,560
Speaker 5: Brent Samson, Ebacom goes all the way back to the

667
00:29:11,560 --> 00:29:14,680
Speaker 5: start of training camp. On offense, no Ryan Kelly, no

668
00:29:14,760 --> 00:29:18,400
Speaker 5: Anthony Richardson, no Jonathan Taylor. Then during the game they

669
00:29:18,440 --> 00:29:21,800
Speaker 5: lose Will Fries with that severe leg injury. So the

670
00:29:21,840 --> 00:29:25,760
Speaker 5: depth pieces are really stepping up, guys like Tanner Bordolini

671
00:29:25,800 --> 00:29:29,600
Speaker 5: and Dalton Tucker, Chris Lamon, Samuel Walmack, Adam goatz Is

672
00:29:29,680 --> 00:29:31,200
Speaker 5: just to name a few I know I'm leaving some

673
00:29:31,240 --> 00:29:34,840
Speaker 5: guys out, but without the depth of this team, Joe,

674
00:29:34,840 --> 00:29:37,280
Speaker 5: the Colts would be I think in an even worse

675
00:29:37,320 --> 00:29:40,240
Speaker 5: spot after five games. Credit to the way the roster

676
00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:43,320
Speaker 5: has been built, because all the different levels of that

677
00:29:43,440 --> 00:29:45,080
Speaker 5: roster have been challenged so far.

678
00:29:45,280 --> 00:29:46,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, no question.

679
00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:48,480
Speaker 4: And when you look at our defense, and we saw

680
00:29:48,520 --> 00:29:50,440
Speaker 4: it show up on the tape yesterday, right, but you

681
00:29:50,520 --> 00:29:53,760
Speaker 4: really got six starters that are out right now, and

682
00:29:53,840 --> 00:29:56,000
Speaker 4: some of them longer term injuries and others Hopefully we

683
00:29:56,040 --> 00:29:58,320
Speaker 4: can get some of those guys back soon. But I

684
00:29:58,360 --> 00:30:01,360
Speaker 4: agree with you, Matt, that's what really matters when you're

685
00:30:01,440 --> 00:30:04,080
Speaker 4: Chris Baward and building the roster and you're thinking about

686
00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:06,840
Speaker 4: guys that are, you know, forty to fifty three on

687
00:30:06,880 --> 00:30:09,239
Speaker 4: that fifty three man and how can they come in

688
00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:11,480
Speaker 4: and impact the game. And you know, we always talked

689
00:30:11,480 --> 00:30:13,720
Speaker 4: about it when you played. It's next man up mentality.

690
00:30:13,920 --> 00:30:16,840
Speaker 4: But the standards the standard. If you're starting, even if

691
00:30:16,840 --> 00:30:18,960
Speaker 4: you're not the starter, you're expected to play at a

692
00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:21,240
Speaker 4: starting level. And I think certain guys have come in

693
00:30:21,240 --> 00:30:23,239
Speaker 4: there and done well. I think Will Mack we're going

694
00:30:23,280 --> 00:30:25,840
Speaker 4: to need more from him and Lamon's especially with Flowers

695
00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:28,200
Speaker 4: being waved. I think Bordellini has come in, you know,

696
00:30:28,240 --> 00:30:30,920
Speaker 4: as a rookie in his first two starts, and he's played,

697
00:30:30,960 --> 00:30:33,640
Speaker 4: you know, solid football. He was better against Pittsburgh than

698
00:30:33,640 --> 00:30:35,680
Speaker 4: this week. But you know, for a guy that's coming

699
00:30:35,720 --> 00:30:38,600
Speaker 4: in and replacing Ryan Kelly, you know, he's he's done.

700
00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:39,520
Speaker 2: A very admirable job.

701
00:30:39,600 --> 00:30:41,480
Speaker 4: So another guy, Dalton Tucker, he's gonna have to step

702
00:30:41,560 --> 00:30:43,040
Speaker 4: up now with Will Fries to see the guy at

703
00:30:43,080 --> 00:30:45,760
Speaker 4: right guard. If Ryan Kelly comes back, maybe you slide

704
00:30:45,760 --> 00:30:48,560
Speaker 4: Bordelini over there. You know, pinters and options you mentioned,

705
00:30:48,600 --> 00:30:51,680
Speaker 4: just thinking through different combos. But yeah, depth matters in

706
00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:55,200
Speaker 4: the NFL because the NFL. The injury rate in the NFL,

707
00:30:55,240 --> 00:30:58,960
Speaker 4: it's one hundred percent. Everybody's gonna have one at some point. Unfortunately,

708
00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:01,120
Speaker 4: the Colts have had more injuries and you'd like through

709
00:31:01,160 --> 00:31:03,680
Speaker 4: the first five weeks, but those other guys got to

710
00:31:03,720 --> 00:31:06,320
Speaker 4: step up and play at that starting level. And then again,

711
00:31:06,360 --> 00:31:08,040
Speaker 4: you got to get your studs back, right, We got

712
00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:11,040
Speaker 4: to get our five star players back, hopefully sooner than later,

713
00:31:11,120 --> 00:31:13,920
Speaker 4: because we've seen that show up again, especially on the

714
00:31:13,920 --> 00:31:15,200
Speaker 4: defensive side of the football.

715
00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:17,840
Speaker 5: All Right, Joe, let's move down to positive number two.

716
00:31:18,120 --> 00:31:21,560
Speaker 5: How about Joe Flacco to the rescue yesterday, his two

717
00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:24,800
Speaker 5: hundred and third career start, getting the start for Anthony

718
00:31:24,840 --> 00:31:26,840
Speaker 5: richards And who didn't play against the Jags with that

719
00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:28,280
Speaker 5: hip and that oblique injury.

720
00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:29,720
Speaker 3: Three point fifty.

721
00:31:29,480 --> 00:31:32,040
Speaker 5: Nine three touchdowns, came home with a passer rating of

722
00:31:32,080 --> 00:31:35,760
Speaker 5: one twenty one point three. Also nearly brought the Colts

723
00:31:35,760 --> 00:31:37,920
Speaker 5: all the way back with a string of big throws

724
00:31:37,920 --> 00:31:40,280
Speaker 5: in the fourth quarter to Alec Pierce late in the game.

725
00:31:40,760 --> 00:31:42,920
Speaker 5: And it's really good and I think it's really important,

726
00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:45,760
Speaker 5: Joe for the Colts to have a savvy veteran quarterback,

727
00:31:45,840 --> 00:31:49,120
Speaker 5: considering Anthony Richardson still hasn't been able to stay on

728
00:31:49,160 --> 00:31:52,120
Speaker 5: the field consistently. Through eight starts, He's been knocked out.

729
00:31:51,960 --> 00:31:53,600
Speaker 3: Of four of them so far in the NFL.

730
00:31:53,800 --> 00:31:56,600
Speaker 4: Joe's he's a great guy. He's a great player, better

731
00:31:56,600 --> 00:31:58,600
Speaker 4: man off the field. We were lucky to be rookies

732
00:31:58,600 --> 00:32:01,080
Speaker 4: together in two thousand and eight, his rookie year, my

733
00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:03,120
Speaker 4: rookie year as well in Baltimore, and so it's been

734
00:32:03,120 --> 00:32:06,000
Speaker 4: really fun to see him come back here and be

735
00:32:06,040 --> 00:32:08,200
Speaker 4: able to play for the Colts and Matt as you mentioned,

736
00:32:08,320 --> 00:32:11,040
Speaker 4: He's really important for two reasons. First, just on the field,

737
00:32:11,200 --> 00:32:13,840
Speaker 4: as you mentioned with Richardson and some of the injuries,

738
00:32:13,880 --> 00:32:17,160
Speaker 4: having a backup quarterback that's really a starting level quarterback

739
00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:19,880
Speaker 4: with pinpoint accuracy in the NFL. I would argue that

740
00:32:19,880 --> 00:32:22,280
Speaker 4: that maybe, you know, Chris Ballard's best move he made

741
00:32:22,560 --> 00:32:25,120
Speaker 4: in the offseason bringing Flacco in, and again he led

742
00:32:25,120 --> 00:32:27,640
Speaker 4: the Colts to four to fifty yards and thirty four points.

743
00:32:27,640 --> 00:32:29,600
Speaker 4: That should be enough to win, you know, an NFL

744
00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:32,880
Speaker 4: football game. But the second reason he's really important is

745
00:32:32,920 --> 00:32:35,080
Speaker 4: because he's such a veteran. He's been in the league

746
00:32:35,120 --> 00:32:37,800
Speaker 4: seventeen years and so now you've got a guy like

747
00:32:37,920 --> 00:32:40,960
Speaker 4: Richardson who's only twenty two himself, and he can learn

748
00:32:40,960 --> 00:32:43,400
Speaker 4: from Flacco, and Flacco can coach him up in the

749
00:32:43,480 --> 00:32:46,160
Speaker 4: quarterback room and be just really a second, you know,

750
00:32:46,280 --> 00:32:49,040
Speaker 4: coach presence for him, a mentor to look up to,

751
00:32:49,480 --> 00:32:51,520
Speaker 4: not only in everything that Joe would say to him,

752
00:32:51,640 --> 00:32:54,600
Speaker 4: but just by going out and watching him operate in practice,

753
00:32:54,640 --> 00:32:57,480
Speaker 4: in games, etc. So that's really going to benefit the

754
00:32:57,520 --> 00:33:00,200
Speaker 4: growth of Richardson long term. And again when he he's

755
00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:02,240
Speaker 4: on the field too, Flacco is playing at a starter

756
00:33:02,360 --> 00:33:04,720
Speaker 4: level and he played at a really high level yesterday.

757
00:33:04,800 --> 00:33:07,240
Speaker 5: All right, positive number one. And if you want to

758
00:33:07,280 --> 00:33:09,479
Speaker 5: debate these you can. If you want to hit us

759
00:33:09,520 --> 00:33:12,160
Speaker 5: up on Twitter or x and debate him, that's fine,

760
00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:12,680
Speaker 5: That's what this.

761
00:33:12,680 --> 00:33:13,160
Speaker 3: Is all about.

762
00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:15,800
Speaker 5: But for my money, Joe, the biggest positive for the

763
00:33:15,840 --> 00:33:19,280
Speaker 5: Colts through five games Alec Pierce in his big plays.

764
00:33:19,320 --> 00:33:22,040
Speaker 5: I mean, where would the Colts offense be without those?

765
00:33:22,120 --> 00:33:25,280
Speaker 5: And Anthony Richardson and Joe Flacco. They've got the arm

766
00:33:25,320 --> 00:33:27,920
Speaker 5: strength to get Pierce the ball down the field. And

767
00:33:27,960 --> 00:33:31,640
Speaker 5: he's routinely beating the secondary in coverage. That part's the

768
00:33:31,640 --> 00:33:34,600
Speaker 5: most impressive thing to me is how he's consistently doing

769
00:33:34,680 --> 00:33:37,440
Speaker 5: this when it's showing up on tape that the secondary

770
00:33:37,480 --> 00:33:40,040
Speaker 5: has to be aware of it and it's still happening.

771
00:33:40,080 --> 00:33:44,240
Speaker 5: But yesterday, Pierce records three receptions for a single game

772
00:33:44,280 --> 00:33:47,000
Speaker 5: career high one thirty four in a touchdown. He averaged

773
00:33:47,240 --> 00:33:49,760
Speaker 5: a ridiculous forty four yards per catch. He had that

774
00:33:49,840 --> 00:33:53,640
Speaker 5: sixty five yard touchdown pass that marked his second touchdown

775
00:33:53,680 --> 00:33:57,080
Speaker 5: reception of the season over sixty yards and Pierce Joe.

776
00:33:57,080 --> 00:33:59,920
Speaker 5: He now has five catches on the season over forty

777
00:34:00,320 --> 00:34:03,000
Speaker 5: and continues to lead the NFL and yards per catch

778
00:34:03,080 --> 00:34:05,480
Speaker 5: on the season. And I've said it all offseason, or

779
00:34:05,520 --> 00:34:08,040
Speaker 5: did say it going into the season. No one has

780
00:34:08,080 --> 00:34:11,880
Speaker 5: been more affected by the quarterback carousel than Alec Pierce.

781
00:34:11,960 --> 00:34:14,799
Speaker 5: And he now has a chance to really shine with

782
00:34:14,840 --> 00:34:18,120
Speaker 5: a couple of quarterbacks that like to and can push

783
00:34:18,200 --> 00:34:19,160
Speaker 5: the ball down the field.

784
00:34:19,520 --> 00:34:21,680
Speaker 4: No question. You look at Alec Pierce last year, it

785
00:34:21,680 --> 00:34:24,480
Speaker 4: was where's Waldo? And he wasn't anywhere and he wasn't

786
00:34:24,520 --> 00:34:26,520
Speaker 4: showing up. But that wasn't necessarily his fault, as you

787
00:34:26,560 --> 00:34:28,720
Speaker 4: mentioned Matt. It's just you know, Minshew and his strength

788
00:34:28,800 --> 00:34:30,839
Speaker 4: wasn't throwing the ball deep down the field. And now

789
00:34:30,840 --> 00:34:33,440
Speaker 4: you got two really big arms and Richardson and Flacco

790
00:34:33,520 --> 00:34:35,160
Speaker 4: that are coming in, and you know, we go down

791
00:34:35,160 --> 00:34:37,239
Speaker 4: fourteen points and most people are thinking the game's over

792
00:34:37,520 --> 00:34:39,600
Speaker 4: and we just played recess ball. And what I mean

793
00:34:39,640 --> 00:34:41,080
Speaker 4: by that is, you go to recess and you want

794
00:34:41,080 --> 00:34:42,839
Speaker 4: to win the game, get the guy that can throw

795
00:34:42,840 --> 00:34:44,879
Speaker 4: the ball the furthest and get the guy that can

796
00:34:44,920 --> 00:34:47,320
Speaker 4: run the fastest and it's tall and can jump the highest,

797
00:34:47,320 --> 00:34:48,960
Speaker 4: and just go up and keep doing it and you'll

798
00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:49,480
Speaker 4: make plays.

799
00:34:49,480 --> 00:34:52,720
Speaker 2: And that's what the Colts did. I mean, three huge catches.

800
00:34:52,600 --> 00:34:55,040
Speaker 4: Tie the football game almost single handedly brought us back

801
00:34:55,080 --> 00:34:57,960
Speaker 4: that flat go to Pierce connection. But I'm really excited

802
00:34:58,320 --> 00:35:00,839
Speaker 4: for Pierce because he's a guy that works really, really,

803
00:35:00,880 --> 00:35:02,799
Speaker 4: really hard. And if you talk to Shane, he talked

804
00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:04,920
Speaker 4: to Chris Ballard. Come out of training camp. What was

805
00:35:04,960 --> 00:35:07,960
Speaker 4: the message that nobody had a better camp than Alec Pierce.

806
00:35:08,320 --> 00:35:10,359
Speaker 4: And now it's showing up on Sundays and he gives

807
00:35:10,440 --> 00:35:12,839
Speaker 4: us that dynamic weapon that we can take the top

808
00:35:12,880 --> 00:35:15,360
Speaker 4: off the defense and that just changes the way you

809
00:35:15,400 --> 00:35:17,760
Speaker 4: have to call the game as a defensive coordinator. So Pierce,

810
00:35:18,080 --> 00:35:21,080
Speaker 4: you know, kind of legitimizing himself as a weapon and

811
00:35:21,160 --> 00:35:23,160
Speaker 4: one of the best deep ball threats in the NFL

812
00:35:23,440 --> 00:35:25,000
Speaker 4: has been huge for this football team.

813
00:35:25,080 --> 00:35:27,040
Speaker 5: All right, this is the top ten list on Colts

814
00:35:27,120 --> 00:35:30,359
Speaker 5: Roundtable Live tonight. That's Joe Wrights. I'm Matt Taylor. Those

815
00:35:30,400 --> 00:35:32,880
Speaker 5: are the top five positives. All right, let's do the

816
00:35:32,880 --> 00:35:35,120
Speaker 5: top five areas that need work. We're going to go

817
00:35:35,160 --> 00:35:38,600
Speaker 5: in descending order. So area that needs work number five,

818
00:35:38,680 --> 00:35:41,279
Speaker 5: how about rookie impact. The top two draft picks for

819
00:35:41,320 --> 00:35:44,200
Speaker 5: the Colts Laatu Latsu and ad Ni Mitchell, Joe It's

820
00:35:44,239 --> 00:35:47,479
Speaker 5: been kind of a mixed bag so far. Laatu's got

821
00:35:47,800 --> 00:35:51,359
Speaker 5: one sack through five games. Mitchell yesterday he was kind

822
00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:53,040
Speaker 5: of up and down, but he did have a career

823
00:35:53,120 --> 00:35:56,839
Speaker 5: high in catches with four and receiving yards with thirty eight.

824
00:35:56,920 --> 00:35:59,600
Speaker 5: So what have been your assessments of the premium picks

825
00:35:59,600 --> 00:36:01,760
Speaker 5: by the here in this latest draft?

826
00:36:01,960 --> 00:36:04,200
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know, Law two's only got one sack. You know,

827
00:36:04,280 --> 00:36:06,239
Speaker 4: week one he's going against Tunsul, one of the best

828
00:36:06,320 --> 00:36:08,879
Speaker 4: left tackles in the NFL. I like Law two though,

829
00:36:08,880 --> 00:36:11,040
Speaker 4: because I think he's flashed. Man, he's shown you that

830
00:36:11,120 --> 00:36:14,319
Speaker 4: ability to be a disruptor for a rookie at defensive end.

831
00:36:14,360 --> 00:36:17,600
Speaker 4: He's really polished in his just rush repertoire. And you

832
00:36:17,640 --> 00:36:19,160
Speaker 4: saw it, you know, in the game a couple weeks

833
00:36:19,200 --> 00:36:21,400
Speaker 4: ago when he basically ended the game with the strip fumble.

834
00:36:21,440 --> 00:36:23,959
Speaker 4: Because there's a lot of disruptors in the NFL, there's

835
00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:26,880
Speaker 4: not as many finishers and Law two has shown that.

836
00:36:27,080 --> 00:36:29,439
Speaker 4: And so you know, to me, I'm not as worried

837
00:36:29,440 --> 00:36:31,520
Speaker 4: about him as Mitchell. And look it's five games in,

838
00:36:31,640 --> 00:36:33,440
Speaker 4: you're not worried about either of these guys. They need

839
00:36:33,480 --> 00:36:36,600
Speaker 4: some time to develop. Mitchell has unique speed. He has

840
00:36:36,680 --> 00:36:39,839
Speaker 4: ability to get open, he gets separation. But for him,

841
00:36:39,960 --> 00:36:42,840
Speaker 4: it's those contested catches. It's when the defender's there and

842
00:36:42,880 --> 00:36:45,440
Speaker 4: he's there going up and winning those fifty to fifty balls.

843
00:36:45,480 --> 00:36:47,720
Speaker 4: That's something that I'd like to see some more growth

844
00:36:47,760 --> 00:36:49,920
Speaker 4: out of Mitchell here as this season continues.

845
00:36:49,960 --> 00:36:52,440
Speaker 5: On all right, area that needs work. Number four, how

846
00:36:52,440 --> 00:36:55,120
Speaker 5: about d line disruption. We talked about all the players

847
00:36:55,160 --> 00:36:58,479
Speaker 5: the Colts didn't have upfront yesterday, Quitty pay didn't play,

848
00:36:58,520 --> 00:37:02,200
Speaker 5: Taekwon Lewis was on ion, all of those things, but Joe,

849
00:37:02,200 --> 00:37:05,000
Speaker 5: it was the second time this season the Colts they

850
00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:08,120
Speaker 5: didn't record a sack. The pass rush has been kind

851
00:37:08,120 --> 00:37:10,879
Speaker 5: of either feast or famine so far this year. Trevor

852
00:37:10,960 --> 00:37:13,960
Speaker 5: Lawrence had a big day. What's been your assessment of

853
00:37:14,360 --> 00:37:17,800
Speaker 5: the defensive line war of attrition without some big names

854
00:37:17,840 --> 00:37:19,799
Speaker 5: that haven't been available for the Colts in the last

855
00:37:19,800 --> 00:37:20,520
Speaker 5: couple of games.

856
00:37:20,719 --> 00:37:22,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, the war of attrition's showing up.

857
00:37:22,440 --> 00:37:24,360
Speaker 4: You're seeing Matt some of those depth guys not be

858
00:37:24,360 --> 00:37:26,640
Speaker 4: able to win as much individual one on one matchups

859
00:37:26,640 --> 00:37:29,120
Speaker 4: and make plays. But the bottom line, if I'm in

860
00:37:29,160 --> 00:37:31,640
Speaker 4: there in the defensive line room, this week, it's it

861
00:37:31,680 --> 00:37:33,640
Speaker 4: doesn't matter, it doesn't matter who's playing. We got to

862
00:37:33,680 --> 00:37:35,919
Speaker 4: get more pressure on the quarterback because with this young

863
00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:39,600
Speaker 4: secondary that's banged up secondary, the pass rush and pass

864
00:37:39,680 --> 00:37:41,840
Speaker 4: defense tie in so much hand to hand, and we

865
00:37:41,920 --> 00:37:44,480
Speaker 4: got to find a way, Matt, by any means necessary,

866
00:37:44,520 --> 00:37:47,120
Speaker 4: to get more production out of the d line, regardless

867
00:37:47,120 --> 00:37:48,920
Speaker 4: of who's in there. And again, you hope that we

868
00:37:48,960 --> 00:37:50,959
Speaker 4: can get some of these guys back sooner than later

869
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Speaker 4: because it makes a difference, and we're seeing that show

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Speaker 4: up on the tape, all right.

871
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Speaker 3: Area that needs work.

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Speaker 5: Number three, moving on to the rushing defense, It was

873
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Speaker 5: a big problem the first two games when the Colts

874
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Speaker 5: allowed over four hundred yards to the Texans and the Packers.

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Speaker 5: They kind of got it figured out a little bit

876
00:38:06,080 --> 00:38:09,000
Speaker 5: weeks three and four Chicago and Pittsburgh, but it came

877
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Speaker 5: to a head again yesterday Tank Bigsby took a handoff,

878
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Speaker 5: went up the field nineteen yards and then he had

879
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Speaker 5: another sixty five yard touchdown, and so the Colts ranked

880
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Speaker 5: thirty first and rushing yards allowed on the season despite

881
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Speaker 5: two good games. As I said in weeks three and four, Joe,

882
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Speaker 5: how do you fix this running game problem? When the

883
00:38:27,200 --> 00:38:30,239
Speaker 5: defensive line, like we talked about, it's so compromised at

884
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Speaker 5: the moment.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and if you had asked me this week three, Matt,

886
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Speaker 4: that would have been our number one issue. We have

887
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Speaker 4: corrected it a little bit, but I do like some

888
00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:39,280
Speaker 4: different things we've done. I like when we're playing Grover

889
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Speaker 4: in there as well as Davis on the inside with

890
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Speaker 4: Dio as a heavy end. I think even when Quidy

891
00:38:43,480 --> 00:38:45,879
Speaker 4: pay comes back, that's a good combination on first down

892
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Speaker 4: base defense to try to stop the run. We've gotten

893
00:38:48,440 --> 00:38:51,120
Speaker 4: better play out of our linebackers. You know that Bigsby play.

894
00:38:51,120 --> 00:38:52,960
Speaker 4: He just broke about a bazillion tackles. That was a

895
00:38:52,960 --> 00:38:55,319
Speaker 4: great individual effort. But you know, to me, this is

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Speaker 4: one that is is area of concern. It would have

897
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Speaker 4: been a much higher area concern a couple weeks ago.

898
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Speaker 4: We have corrected it a little bit, though, you know

899
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Speaker 4: in these last three.

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Speaker 5: Weeks, okay, area that needs work Number two. I call

901
00:39:06,560 --> 00:39:09,279
Speaker 5: this secondary impact. The Colts have played the last couple

902
00:39:09,280 --> 00:39:12,520
Speaker 5: of games without Juju Brints and Kenny Moore. Brent is

903
00:39:12,600 --> 00:39:14,880
Speaker 5: likely out for the season more still dealing with a

904
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Speaker 5: hip injury. Maybe he gets back to action coming up

905
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Speaker 5: this weekend. Jalen Jones is having a really solid second season.

906
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Speaker 5: He's got two picks, he's got his hands on the

907
00:39:24,719 --> 00:39:26,880
Speaker 5: ball a lot, he's got a force fumble on the season.

908
00:39:27,200 --> 00:39:29,840
Speaker 5: But there's still too much volume in the secondary. The

909
00:39:29,840 --> 00:39:32,880
Speaker 5: Colts have allowed a one hundred plus yard receiver to

910
00:39:32,960 --> 00:39:35,880
Speaker 5: all five opponents so far this year. You want to

911
00:39:35,920 --> 00:39:39,040
Speaker 5: see it tougher for quarterbacks to find their top targets

912
00:39:39,320 --> 00:39:42,799
Speaker 5: against the Colts secondary, which has been a theme unfortunately

913
00:39:42,840 --> 00:39:44,360
Speaker 5: for the Colts the last couple of years.

914
00:39:44,560 --> 00:39:47,280
Speaker 4: Yeah, no question, this would have been my number one, Matt.

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Speaker 4: You know, we just we have too many guys running

916
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Speaker 4: wide open in the NFL and making huge plays. And

917
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Speaker 4: I think about, you know, that eighty five yard touchdown

918
00:39:55,680 --> 00:39:58,000
Speaker 4: when we're in cover three and you know we bite

919
00:39:58,000 --> 00:39:59,959
Speaker 4: Flowers bites and they just take it to the house,

920
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Speaker 4: or that touchdown later in the game when it looked

921
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Speaker 4: like Flowers and Blackman had a miscommunication. You know, you

922
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Speaker 4: can't have miscommunications, especially in the red zone. And we're

923
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Speaker 4: allowing too many easy catches, you know, quarterbacks that are

924
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Speaker 4: thrown for seventy five eighty percent, you know, and shreding

925
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Speaker 4: us down the field and I know we've had a

926
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Speaker 4: bunch of injuries and that's tough, but again, the standard

927
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Speaker 4: is the standard in Womack Lemon's guys like that, you've

928
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Speaker 4: got to step up by any means necessary. I think

929
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Speaker 4: it's a combination of our injuries. I think it's a

930
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Speaker 4: combination of better pass rush will help us alleviate some

931
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Speaker 4: time in the secondary, combination of scheme. But I will

932
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Speaker 4: say the one bright spar has been Jalen Jones. Matt.

933
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Speaker 4: I think he has been just really, really solid, you know,

934
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Speaker 4: borderline spectacular at certain times. And you know, even though

935
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Speaker 4: that's been a negative, let's give him a gold star

936
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Speaker 4: here because Jones is put together a heck of a

937
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Speaker 4: first five games to this twenty twenty four season.

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Speaker 5: And then finally the area that needs work number one,

939
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Speaker 5: and you could probably interchange number two and number one,

940
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Speaker 5: but for me, it's I call this overall total defense.

941
00:40:56,200 --> 00:40:58,960
Speaker 5: Trevor Lawrence on Sunday passes for a career high three

942
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Speaker 5: seventy one eighty two percent completion percentage. After coming into

943
00:41:03,520 --> 00:41:06,879
Speaker 5: the game at fifty three point three percent completion rate.

944
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Speaker 5: The Colts are now giving up Joe four hundred and

945
00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:12,560
Speaker 5: nineteen yards per game on average, that's last in the NFL.

946
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Speaker 5: They've given up over four hundred yards in three of

947
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Speaker 5: five games so far this season, and quarterbacks having career

948
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Speaker 5: slash season high games. It's unfortunately we've seen that too

949
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Speaker 5: often against the Colts that I think, Joe, it's a

950
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Speaker 5: combination of all the little things coming together to fix

951
00:41:30,719 --> 00:41:31,840
Speaker 5: this big of a problem.

952
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Speaker 4: Yeah, no question, everybody's just got to do their job better.

953
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Speaker 4: But you know, Matt, the definition of insanity is doing

954
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Speaker 4: the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.

955
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Speaker 4: And I feel like we've been a little bit in

956
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Speaker 4: that mode here, you know for the Colts as of

957
00:41:43,960 --> 00:41:46,320
Speaker 4: late and the bottom night were last in the NFL

958
00:41:46,320 --> 00:41:48,560
Speaker 4: and yards given up, you know, the defense, it's last

959
00:41:48,600 --> 00:41:50,640
Speaker 4: in the NFL, and I think it's been massed a

960
00:41:50,680 --> 00:41:52,960
Speaker 4: little bit in weeks three and four because of the turnovers.

961
00:41:53,360 --> 00:41:55,279
Speaker 4: Turnovers help you out there. And but again we still

962
00:41:55,320 --> 00:41:57,560
Speaker 4: got two turnovers, but we still gave up almost five

963
00:41:57,640 --> 00:42:00,320
Speaker 4: hundred yards last week. So there's a lot of areas

964
00:42:00,360 --> 00:42:02,719
Speaker 4: that we got to get fixed up. And again it's

965
00:42:03,600 --> 00:42:05,560
Speaker 4: it's not gonna be an easy fix. Switch this guy

966
00:42:05,640 --> 00:42:07,920
Speaker 4: do this position here or there. But you know, like

967
00:42:07,960 --> 00:42:10,920
Speaker 4: you said, the secondary and the defense combined. You know,

968
00:42:10,960 --> 00:42:13,360
Speaker 4: that's been the Colts Achilles heel, you know, really, like

969
00:42:13,400 --> 00:42:15,080
Speaker 4: you said, dating back a couple of years now, but

970
00:42:15,200 --> 00:42:17,920
Speaker 4: especially through this first five games. And you know that's

971
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Speaker 4: the reason why we're sitting here now at two and

972
00:42:19,880 --> 00:42:22,120
Speaker 4: three and you know, wishing that man, we should at

973
00:42:22,200 --> 00:42:24,360
Speaker 4: least be three and two or four to one, et cetera.

974
00:42:24,400 --> 00:42:26,960
Speaker 4: But it's, uh, that's been frustrating, and I know it

975
00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:28,520
Speaker 4: has been for everybody in that building too.

976
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Speaker 5: All right, that's the Colt's top ten list after five games.

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Speaker 5: Rob's question. Good submission here from Rob Joe. He's asking, Hey,

1003
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Speaker 5: after the loss and starting zero to two in the division,

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1005
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1007
00:44:04,360 --> 00:44:07,479
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Speaker 2: Yeah, the answer is zero. Rob. I think you know

1009
00:44:10,320 --> 00:44:12,040
Speaker 2: Houston being two to zero in the division.

1010
00:44:12,040 --> 00:44:14,400
Speaker 4: Now, they haven't played a division road game yet, but

1011
00:44:14,600 --> 00:44:17,160
Speaker 4: hard for me to imagine that they're gonna lose too

1012
00:44:17,160 --> 00:44:19,160
Speaker 4: many of those. So if the Colts won an outside

1013
00:44:19,239 --> 00:44:21,000
Speaker 4: chance to win this division, you're gonna have to sweep it,

1014
00:44:21,040 --> 00:44:22,759
Speaker 4: get to four and two. You're gonna have to win

1015
00:44:22,800 --> 00:44:25,120
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1016
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Speaker 4: other tie breakers to play themselves out.

1017
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Speaker 5: We've got time for one more. Let's squeeze in Darren.

1018
00:44:30,080 --> 00:44:32,560
Speaker 5: Darren's asking, Hey, why didn't we take more shots to

1019
00:44:32,600 --> 00:44:35,640
Speaker 5: Alec Pierce earlier in the game. We waited until the

1020
00:44:35,680 --> 00:44:37,520
Speaker 5: fourth quarter and then he exploded.

1021
00:44:37,840 --> 00:44:40,080
Speaker 4: Yeah, good question, Darren. I think a little bit. It's

1022
00:44:40,120 --> 00:44:41,799
Speaker 4: the time and score of the game. You think three

1023
00:44:41,920 --> 00:44:44,120
Speaker 4: catches for one thirty five? Why didn't we do that

1024
00:44:44,160 --> 00:44:46,840
Speaker 4: all game? The reality is you're a little bit desperate.

1025
00:44:46,920 --> 00:44:49,040
Speaker 4: You're willing to take some chances and throw a ball

1026
00:44:49,160 --> 00:44:51,000
Speaker 4: up and make it a fifty to fifty ball. But

1027
00:44:51,080 --> 00:44:52,799
Speaker 4: you do that early in the game, you risk an

1028
00:44:52,800 --> 00:44:55,839
Speaker 4: interception or something like that when he's double covered. And

1029
00:44:56,000 --> 00:44:58,799
Speaker 4: I think that the way Jacksonville play their defense a

1030
00:44:58,800 --> 00:45:01,279
Speaker 4: lot of deep safeties they were allowing giving us the

1031
00:45:01,360 --> 00:45:03,600
Speaker 4: checkdown and Joe was kind of taking the check down

1032
00:45:03,640 --> 00:45:05,840
Speaker 4: and moving the ball down the field. But so to me,

1033
00:45:05,960 --> 00:45:07,640
Speaker 4: is really a way they played early on and then

1034
00:45:07,920 --> 00:45:10,440
Speaker 4: that desperation you had to do it. But again it

1035
00:45:10,520 --> 00:45:12,799
Speaker 4: is something that's great on film and know that, hey,

1036
00:45:12,840 --> 00:45:15,440
Speaker 4: maybe it is something we take another deep shot or

1037
00:45:15,440 --> 00:45:17,400
Speaker 4: too early on in the game and throw them at

1038
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Speaker 4: fifty to fifty ball because Pierce has given a lot

1039
00:45:19,640 --> 00:45:21,320
Speaker 4: of confidence he's coming down with those.

1040
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Speaker 5: that next game up for the Colts, the Tennessee Titans,

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Speaker 5: show with Joe Writes Tonight. Rick van Terry normally with

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Speaker 5: it's time for the closing arguments, Joe. As we sit

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Speaker 5: here and stand now with the Colts at two and three, three,

1074
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Speaker 5: you can't feel sorry for yourself because a you have

1075
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Speaker 5: to go back on the road and it's another division game,

1076
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Speaker 5: another AFC South game for the Colts Week six with

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Speaker 5: the Tennessee Titans. And here here's the deal. I mean, obviously,

1078
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Speaker 5: yesterday you could have played much better. You did some

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Speaker 5: things really well, but yet, as we said earlier, chronicled

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Speaker 5: early on in the program, there's still a lot of

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Speaker 5: things that occurred that are below team standards. How should

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Speaker 5: the Colts feel going into this game and how do

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Speaker 5: they put it all together in a very important game.

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Speaker 5: It doesn't feel like a I guess not necessarily it's

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Speaker 5: a make or break game, but it feels like that

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Speaker 5: because of you're already zero to two inside the division.

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Speaker 5: Another loss on Sunday would be really hard to overcome.

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Speaker 4: No question, Matt, I do feel like it's got that feeling,

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Speaker 4: and I feel like the next two weeks really because

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Speaker 4: you're sitting here, you know, to go to thirty thousand

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Speaker 4: feet for a minute. You're two and three you got

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Speaker 4: two games against Tennessee and Miami at home, very winnable,

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Speaker 4: and then we go into the gaunt part of our schedule,

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Speaker 4: which I've said, you know from the start of the season.

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Speaker 4: At Houston, at Minnesota, Buffalo at home, at New York

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Speaker 4: Lions at home. Those are your next five after that

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Speaker 4: Miami game. And so to me, Matt, you got to

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Speaker 4: win these two and get to four and three, get

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Speaker 4: yourself above five hundred, and then you go face that gauntlet.

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Speaker 4: And again it's not gonna be easy because it's the

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Speaker 4: division rival. Tennessee's one and three. But they got their

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Speaker 4: first win, big win on the road last week. They

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Speaker 4: got a bye week, so they got some extra time

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Speaker 4: to prepare that favors them. It'll be interesting their quarterback situation.

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Speaker 4: You know, Levis goes out with the injury. Callahan said

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Speaker 4: he's starting if he's healthy. But we could see a

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Speaker 4: marquee matchup here of twenty twenty three first round picks

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Speaker 4: and will Levis and Richardson you know, coming up here

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Speaker 4: in six days.

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Speaker 3: No doubt about it.

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Speaker 5: We'll keep an eye on the quarterbacks all week long

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Speaker 5: and see if that matchup indeed comes to fruition. But

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Speaker 5: that's Joe Wright's here on Colts Roundtable Live tonight. That's

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Speaker 5: all the time we've got and Rick fvent Terry again.

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Speaker 5: We'll be back with us next week as we break

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Speaker 5: down Colts and Titans in week number six. My thanks

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Speaker 5: again to head coach Shane Steichen who joined in the

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Speaker 5: first segments night for his thoughts following that loss down

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Speaker 5: in Jacksonville and a progress report of sorts for the

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Speaker 5: Colts after five games for Joe Wrights. I'm Matt Taylor,

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Speaker 5: ESPN Radios. Coming up next. This has been Colts Roundtable Live.

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Speaker 5: You're in the Home of the Colts ninety three five

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Speaker 5: and one oh seven five the Fan.

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Speaker 3: Good night,