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Speaker 1: Hello Colts fans, and welcome into this week's episode of

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Speaker 1: the Two Minute Drill Podcasts on Indianapolis Colts Podcast. I'm

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Speaker 1: Amanda Foster, joined this week by Casey Valier as we

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Speaker 1: are back from the Colts bye week and ready to

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Speaker 1: get you up to speed on everything you need to

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Speaker 1: know before the Colts head to Aarhead Stadium to play

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Speaker 1: the Kansas City Chiefs this weekend. First of all, Casey,

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Speaker 1: I haven't seen you in a little bit because we

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Speaker 1: had the bye week.

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Speaker 2: It feels like it.

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Speaker 1: Came at a good time for everybody in terms of

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Speaker 1: just obviously after the Berlin game, yep, coming back, you've

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Speaker 1: got to rest recuperate, both in terms of for us

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Speaker 1: in terms of relaxing a little bit after the start

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Speaker 1: of the season, and in terms of the team and

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Speaker 1: the football side of this building to kind of self

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Speaker 1: scout for a week and reevaluate after the way the

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Speaker 1: last few games have gone for them.

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Speaker 3: It is funny because within an NFL organization, the bye

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Speaker 3: week is different for everybody involved. Clearly we're not, you know,

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Speaker 3: going toe to toe with another guy and trying to

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Speaker 3: trip our heads off, but thankfully, you know, it is

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Speaker 3: one of those things. The bye week is always good

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Speaker 3: to you know, the self scouting. We can kind of

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Speaker 3: do that too. You know, it's a good way for

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Speaker 3: us to kind of look at what we've done and

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Speaker 3: how we can improve, and you know, look at this

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Speaker 3: team from a you know, a wider lens, if you will,

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Speaker 3: because we kind of focus, you know, on week to

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Speaker 3: week capsules. And ultimately you get to week ten when

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Speaker 3: you have your bye week, and you're eight and two

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Speaker 3: and you go, hey, you know what, this team has

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Speaker 3: been pretty darn good and you look at the numbers

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Speaker 3: agree against the rest of the league, and it backs

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Speaker 3: a lot of it up. Now, there are still the

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Speaker 3: naysayers out there that you know, still with the Colts.

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Speaker 3: They're the underdog going into Kansas City, so there's still

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Speaker 3: that whole notion. But yeah, the bye week, it always

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Speaker 3: comes at a good time, you know, nice, a little

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Speaker 3: bit of a relaxing and you know, it's it's good

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Speaker 3: at this time because the holidays are right around. So me,

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Speaker 3: I got a couple of young kids, so it's good

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Speaker 3: to you know, hey, there's again for for a little

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Speaker 3: while and then yeah, gear everything up.

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Speaker 4: But yeah, you know.

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Speaker 3: They say that the football really starts in November and December.

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Speaker 3: So here we are in the heart of it, and

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Speaker 3: you're you're looking at an eight and two team with

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Speaker 3: you know, very high expectations with a really tough last

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Speaker 3: seven game stretch. It all starts this week in Kansas City.

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Speaker 3: So the y week definitely came at a good time

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Speaker 3: and it kind of helps gear everything up for this

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Speaker 3: final stretch.

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Speaker 4: That's it's gonna be a challenge for sure.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, and essentially it's kind of like a brand

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Speaker 2: new season.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: And the way the way that the bye week fell.

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Speaker 1: Especially this year compared to maybe last ye where it

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Speaker 1: was a little bit later in the season, it feels

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Speaker 1: like this is a pretty.

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Speaker 2: Good split, if you will.

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Speaker 1: And like you said, looking at you know, the next

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Speaker 1: few games that they're the next seven games that colds have.

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Speaker 1: You got the Chiefs, then you've still got two against

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Speaker 1: and the forty nine ers in there, which those are

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Speaker 1: all very difficult, Like they're they're not intimidating, it's not

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Speaker 1: the right word, but they're challenging teams. Yeah, they're teams

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Speaker 1: week has kind of had the vibe of excuse me,

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Speaker 1: like a week one, beginning of the season type feel,

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Speaker 1: because everybody knows how much is at stake in these

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Speaker 1: where they want to get in the playoffs.

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Speaker 3: And breaking down kind of what you just said there

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Speaker 3: the final seven games, all seven teams. Now two of

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Speaker 3: those are the Jacks twice and the Texans twice. They're

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Speaker 3: all above five hundred. And you know, I love that

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Speaker 3: you mentioned the you know, start of a new season.

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Speaker 3: The Colts have awarded themselves the benefit when you look

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Speaker 3: at it coming out of the by you know, that

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Speaker 4: You look at where you are.

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Speaker 3: When the Colts being able to give themselves a little

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Speaker 3: The margin isn't so slim anymore. Now you give yourself

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Speaker 4: Eight and two.

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Speaker 3: You don't want to take anything, you know, off, you

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Speaker 3: don't want to take anything for granted because you want

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Speaker 3: to keep the foot down. Especially we talk about Houston, Yes,

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Speaker 3: we saw them get the big win on Thursday night.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, all that sudden, that defense is something else.

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Speaker 3: Davis Mills with three starter and that right there is

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Speaker 3: impressive because everything when you talk about Houston typically the

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Speaker 4: Stroud, he's out for three games.

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Speaker 3: That defense was able to really lift their into the bargain.

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Speaker 2: He's having a season.

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Speaker 4: He is having a season.

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Speaker 3: And Dani Hunter on the other side, Yeah, they're they're

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Speaker 3: a very good team. We'll talk, we'll get week when

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Speaker 3: they come into town.

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Speaker 4: But no, it's.

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Speaker 3: All of this has has led to the Cults are

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Speaker 3: yourself because the AFC South all of a sudden, it's

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Speaker 3: just decided by a couple of games here and there,

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Speaker 3: and continue to separate yourself. And against an AFC team,

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Speaker 3: against the Chiefs, it's massive because for the Chiefs on

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Speaker 3: Thursday night, that was a bad outcome for them. Yep,

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Speaker 3: they need all the help they can get from some

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Speaker 3: So Kansas City potentially they lose this weekend. They're under

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Speaker 2: Well, we'll get into the Chiefs in just a moment.

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Speaker 1: First, we got to get into the Colts obviously, and

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Speaker 1: injury updates for this Friday, clean health.

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Speaker 2: Clean bill of health for the first time in a while.

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Speaker 1: And even more exciting is that Travarius Ward Senior has

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Speaker 1: cleared concussion protocol.

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Speaker 2: He still needs to be activated from injured reserve in

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Speaker 2: order to be able to play.

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Speaker 1: The expectation, the feel that we got from Shane steak

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Speaker 1: in the Colts typical Saturday roster moves, and we'll get

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Speaker 1: to go out and play alongside Sauce Gardner and Kennymore.

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Speaker 2: The second yeah, back at Kansas City. Also, we know

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Speaker 2: he has played for the Chiefs.

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Speaker 1: He has plenty of experience with Patrick Mahomes and this

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Speaker 2: But first I want to talk about having a guy.

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Speaker 1: Like Travarius Ward and a guy like Sauce Gardner and

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Speaker 2: And especially you could obviously think about just Sauce.

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Speaker 1: And Mooney on the outside, because we all know what

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Speaker 1: Kenny can do on his own, But the pairing of

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Speaker 2: The same team, on the same field.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And that's it's funny because Mooney actually mentioned that

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Speaker 3: when he spoke to the media to day, is I've

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Speaker 3: first two years of his career. Yes, so this is

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Speaker 3: this is when the trade happened a couple weeks ago.

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Speaker 3: This was the vision, yep, it was, oh man, what's

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Speaker 3: it going to look like having Sauce on one side

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Speaker 4: Kind of penciled that Chiefs game.

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Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, he can come off of ir You've got

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Speaker 3: Patrick Mahomes and Andy Reid, those offensive masterminds.

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Speaker 4: What would that.

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Speaker 3: Look like if you can have both those guys. So

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Speaker 3: it looks like everything is trending that we will see

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Speaker 3: that all happen on Sunday, and I think that's going

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Speaker 3: to give lou An Arumo just so much more multiplicity to.

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Speaker 4: His defense that he can do.

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Speaker 3: So it's going to be interesting to see kind of

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Speaker 3: what the defense looks now when you have the two

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Speaker 4: You know what, you know what Kenny is.

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Speaker 3: I mean, Kenny's the best nickel in football and has

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Speaker 3: been for the last handful of years, so arguably, I mean,

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Speaker 3: you have three of the best at their positions all

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Speaker 3: on the same secondary. And then what cam Binam and

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Speaker 3: Nick Cross have been you take that. I mean, those

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Speaker 3: five right there, good luck on paper finding a better

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Speaker 3: you know, a potential historically great secondary. So it'll be

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Speaker 3: very fun to see what happens on Sunday if he

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Speaker 3: is activated. Know he's cleared protocol, but if he can

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Speaker 3: pair up with Sauce and Kinney and then Cam and

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Speaker 3: Nick on the back end, it could be a really

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Speaker 3: incredible secondary.

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Speaker 1: Also looking at it, it's really really exciting to think about,

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Speaker 1: just you know, from a viewing stand, Yeah, oh absolutely,

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Speaker 1: And then you think about kind of like this is

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Speaker 1: obviously we all know the injuries that the Colt secondary

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Speaker 1: has dealt with, but this feels like kind of what

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Speaker 1: they pictured at the beginning of the season. Obviously, you

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Speaker 1: take out Justin Wall, you you interchange a couple of people,

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Speaker 1: bring in Sauce Gardner. But this was the kind of

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Speaker 1: potential that the Colts secondary was supposed to have going

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Speaker 1: into the season, if that makes sense, And it looks

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Speaker 1: a little bit different now, but I would argue that

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Speaker 1: maybe it even has more potential now now that you've

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Speaker 1: got Sauce.

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Speaker 2: Gardener in there.

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Speaker 1: So it's going to be Kansas City is a very

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Speaker 1: impressive and formidable offense. So this is going to be

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Speaker 1: a big test for all of them right out the gate.

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Speaker 1: But again, you do think the Sauce has had the

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Speaker 1: bye week to get back into things and kind of

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Speaker 1: get more comfortable and everybody's been in the building together.

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Speaker 1: They've been working together for a long time, and it

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Speaker 1: seems like there's again just a lot of excitement about

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Speaker 1: the potential that this defense has, even when you think

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Speaker 1: about the guy like DeForest Buckner being on injured reserve.

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Speaker 2: Yeah it's a big blow.

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Speaker 1: Yeah it's a very very big blow, but it's mitigated

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Speaker 1: a little bit because of all these other guys that

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Speaker 3: Well, I think with lou and Rumo's defense, he likes

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Speaker 3: to kind of work his way back to front yep,

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Speaker 1: Yep, oh, I think you summed it up perfectly with

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Speaker 2: A good way to end it.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Thank you very much, Casey, and thank you

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Speaker 1: to everyone for tuning in as well. Obviously, always be

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Speaker 2: Would have, come on, please do it week twelve.

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Speaker 1: Come on and follow along with Colts dot Com, which

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Speaker 1: But I'm gonna keep saying it every week regardless. Anyway, Casey,

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