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Speaker 1: We're back inside the Colts Radio studio. I'm Matt Taylor

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Speaker 1: with second year wide receiver with US Mike Strown. Mike,

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Speaker 1: first off, congratulations for you personally. Great start to the

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Speaker 1: season week number one, a couple of catches. How good

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Speaker 1: did it feel to be back there in year number

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Speaker 1: two making plays right away in week number one? It

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Speaker 1: feels great? You know. Um, it's high expectations for everybody

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Speaker 1: in this room. You know, coach talks about it all

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Speaker 1: the time. So, um, you know, it felt great to

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Speaker 1: be able then making some place for my team, you know,

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Speaker 1: and I'm hoping you know that up it goes up

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Speaker 1: a little bit more, you know, and you know I

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Speaker 1: love to compete enough to compete, so that's the biggest thing.

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Speaker 1: You know. We went up against the division deponent, so

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Speaker 1: you know, it's just coming in and being able to

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Speaker 1: compete and win your matchups for you, your excitement level

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Speaker 1: because last year, you know, you started off hot and

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Speaker 1: then towards the end of the season and active most

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Speaker 1: games for you in terms of consistency, how much are

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Speaker 1: you looking forward to putting that all together in year

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Speaker 1: number two here with the Colts. Well, for me, you know,

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Speaker 1: Consistency is going to be number one, you know, being

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Speaker 1: consistent in coming out and doing my job each play,

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Speaker 1: making plays. You know, that's that's that's what this team

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Speaker 1: needs for me to do, you know, just to come

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Speaker 1: out do my job and make plays that didn't know

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Speaker 1: I can make. For you? Last year, where do you

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Speaker 1: think you grew the most as a player? You know,

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Speaker 1: coming from a Division two program, you had the COVID

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Speaker 1: season before your rookie campaign. Um, just that big learning

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Speaker 1: curve coming from Division two to the NFL. Where do

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Speaker 1: you think you grew the most from last year and

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Speaker 1: how that's helping you and year number two? Um, yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, just you know, reading the defense pre snap.

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Speaker 1: You know, with Matt Ryan, with the addition of him

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Speaker 1: being at the QB spot, you know, he you know,

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Speaker 1: he's helped a lot with that, you know, showing you know,

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Speaker 1: being able to show us what to look at, what

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Speaker 1: you know to key pre snap. So you know that's

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Speaker 1: that's been the big thing for me. You know, Um,

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Speaker 1: being on the details with the adjustments, the conversions. So

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Speaker 1: you know, I'm the game has slowed down a lot

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Speaker 1: more and I'm able to you know, read defenses and

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Speaker 1: coverage this pre snap. That's so interesting. Mike Strana is

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Speaker 1: with us how much of how much success in the

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Speaker 1: National Football League is determined and happens before the snap

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Speaker 1: of the football. I would say like fifty percent, because

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Speaker 1: you could go from one play to the next based

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Speaker 1: off of how the defense is playing. Yeah, you know,

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Speaker 1: so I would say, you know, pre snap is really

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Speaker 1: important and and it could it really could take you.

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Speaker 1: It could get you a long way. You know, you

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Speaker 1: can help your offense, you know, pick up you know,

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Speaker 1: hitting yardage and stuff like that that you wouldn't be

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Speaker 1: able to see, right, you know. So during don't give

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Speaker 1: anything away, but an average play in the NFL as

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Speaker 1: a wide receiver, for a guy that plays the position

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Speaker 1: that you play, how many things go through your mind?

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Speaker 1: Like how many things do you have to diagnose on

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Speaker 1: a given play? Would you say, um, you know, for

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Speaker 1: me as a wide receiver, obviously, I gotta you know,

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Speaker 1: stay keyed in to my to the person who's covering me, right,

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Speaker 1: so you know, I'm paying attention to to to the dB,

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Speaker 1: his leverage, how he's playing, if he's aggressive. I'm also

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Speaker 1: keen to the safety is up top, seeing what coverage

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Speaker 1: um coverages the playing and and it's you know that

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Speaker 1: else with the success of the offense, that players are

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Speaker 1: you talk about your your you know, synergy and your

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Speaker 1: chemistry with Matt Ryan. How did you go about developing

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Speaker 1: that in a short amount of time because you missed

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Speaker 1: the first ten practice of training camp dealing with an

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Speaker 1: injury from the offseason workout program. But you came back

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Speaker 1: and you guys were on fire just like that. How

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Speaker 1: I came in, I came in kind of on the

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Speaker 1: Stron with us. How does Matt Ryan as a quarterback?

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Speaker 1: How does he make you better? Fourteen years well, fifteen

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Speaker 1: make a guy like you better? Man? Everything about him? Man,

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Speaker 1: He's a great leader. His demeanor, I mean, you know,

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Speaker 1: seeing him come out, his routine, Um, you know, his

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Speaker 1: he's a Super Bowl win the quarterback. I feel we

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Speaker 1: I believe that one hundred percent. So, um, you know,

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Speaker 1: And so that just that just comes with, you know,

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Speaker 1: That's Mike Strown with us, second year wide receiver for

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Speaker 1: the Indianapolis Colts. Take me back to Houston. Things really

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Speaker 1: started to ramp up there in the fourth quarter and overtime.

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Speaker 1: Can you point to anything that sort of clicked with

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Speaker 1: the offense that got it back into gear? Uh? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, we just had to, you know, overall, just

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Speaker 1: that's who we did. And you know, we were able

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Speaker 1: you know, each you know, you know, coach talks about

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Speaker 1: of a tie before, Actually, no, that's anything like you know,

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Speaker 1: How's the family doing? How are things back in the Bahamas? Man,

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Speaker 1: appreciate that, you know the family is doing real well.

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Speaker 1: they're actually about to come over soon hopefully for a game,

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Speaker 1: come up for a game. Oh yeah, really definitely, So

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Speaker 1: they're always keeping up with what we have going on

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Speaker 1: ready to roll. But um, yeah, they're they're doing pretty good. Indeed,

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Speaker 1: it's Bahamas Proud. Mike Strown with us too in studio. Mike,

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Speaker 1: always a pleasure to talk to your best of luck

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Speaker 1: coming up in week two. Thank you, appreciate you having

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