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Speaker 1: What's up everyone? This is another episode of the Official

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Speaker 1: Cults Podcast, presented by win Bet. I'm JJ Stankovitz, joined

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Speaker 1: by Lara Overton and Matt Taylor. Jeffrey Gorman's out this week,

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Speaker 1: out and play, and you would trust him to play

428
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Speaker 1: and be the game changer that you have seen him

429
00:21:06,800 --> 00:21:09,480
Speaker 1: to be to this point in his career. So it's

430
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Speaker 1: going to be fascinating to see because again, prior to

431
00:21:12,160 --> 00:21:15,840
Speaker 1: last week, my gut was he'll miss a game or two.

432
00:21:16,080 --> 00:21:20,000
Speaker 1: Now he's trending towards maybe being out there week one,

433
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Speaker 1: which is as a testament to his work ethic. So

434
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Speaker 1: it's going to be a developing thing. Probably I'll go

435
00:21:25,600 --> 00:21:27,320
Speaker 1: up all the way until game time. And one of

436
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Speaker 1: the things that Shack did tell me was that in

437
00:21:30,640 --> 00:21:33,200
Speaker 1: the time he has not been on the field, he's

438
00:21:33,200 --> 00:21:37,160
Speaker 1: basically just reallocated that to studying more and spending more

439
00:21:37,160 --> 00:21:39,800
Speaker 1: time in the playbook and watching more film. So he's

440
00:21:39,840 --> 00:21:42,600
Speaker 1: really just translated the time that he hasn't maybe been

441
00:21:42,920 --> 00:21:44,960
Speaker 1: you know, practicing, or maybe he hasn't been able to

442
00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:46,840
Speaker 1: go and spend an hour in the weight room lifting,

443
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Speaker 1: you know, because limitations. He's just used that time to

444
00:21:49,440 --> 00:21:52,359
Speaker 1: do other things to make sure he's still locked in.

445
00:21:52,400 --> 00:21:55,040
Speaker 1: So he's kind of been able to supplement that time. Again,

446
00:21:55,080 --> 00:21:59,879
Speaker 1: there's no way to replicate the time on task actually

447
00:22:00,040 --> 00:22:02,720
Speaker 1: in the field, but it's not like he's just used

448
00:22:02,800 --> 00:22:06,359
Speaker 1: that time, you know, to not figure out ways to

449
00:22:06,520 --> 00:22:09,240
Speaker 1: still catch up to speed, to still be locked in,

450
00:22:09,280 --> 00:22:11,840
Speaker 1: to know this scheme, to know this system, and really

451
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Speaker 1: adjust to what he's going to be doing this year.

452
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Speaker 1: That might just be those different nuances from what we've

453
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Speaker 1: seen in the past. All right, let's talk about the game.

454
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Speaker 1: Our first game to talk about this year. I mean

455
00:22:20,920 --> 00:22:24,359
Speaker 1: it's not a preseason game, first real game to talk about.

456
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Speaker 1: By the way, did you catch Frank RK yesterday or

457
00:22:26,080 --> 00:22:28,240
Speaker 1: his press conference and he was just like, the things

458
00:22:28,280 --> 00:22:31,120
Speaker 1: we were running in the preseason were so generic. Yeah,

459
00:22:31,240 --> 00:22:33,600
Speaker 1: like so generic. He was just really driving at home

460
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Speaker 1: like we weren't really doing any well. That goes back

461
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Speaker 1: to his introductory press conference. You know, he said, hey,

462
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Speaker 1: in the preseason, we show nothing right in four years.

463
00:22:40,800 --> 00:22:43,080
Speaker 1: That can five years that continues. So now we get

464
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Speaker 1: to see the Colts show something and it'll be against

465
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Speaker 1: the Houston Texans. This is a team. They're four and thirteen.

466
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Speaker 1: Last year they lost nine games by ten points. The

467
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Speaker 1: Colts beat them combined sixty two to three in two

468
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Speaker 1: games last season. New year, new team. The Texans are not.

469
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Speaker 1: This is not a roster that is just there's no

470
00:23:04,560 --> 00:23:07,479
Speaker 1: talent on it. Davis Mills did some good things last year,

471
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Speaker 1: he completed sixty seven percent of his passes. Brandon Cooks

472
00:23:10,960 --> 00:23:15,640
Speaker 1: six straight one thousand yard receive one thousand yards seasons

473
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Speaker 1: in his career. He's a guy who it's like every

474
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Speaker 1: Fantasy league someone winds up with Brandon Cooks and they're like, yeah,

475
00:23:20,240 --> 00:23:22,440
Speaker 1: I feel pretty good about this because someone's got to

476
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Speaker 1: catch the ball there. Nico Collins also an up and

477
00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:29,280
Speaker 1: coming wide receiver. Pretty decent pair they have. Their Texans

478
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Speaker 1: defense did give up over twenty six points per game

479
00:23:31,640 --> 00:23:34,040
Speaker 1: last season, their second to last in the NFL, and

480
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Speaker 1: stopping the run at one hundred and forty two yards

481
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Speaker 1: per game. But they have some good It's not like, again,

482
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Speaker 1: this is a team totally breft of talent. They got

483
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Speaker 1: the number three overall picked Derek Stingley junior at cornerback.

484
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Speaker 1: Jail and Petre is a safety who's some folks really

485
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Speaker 1: like there. So, matey, how do the Colts match up

486
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Speaker 1: against the Texans in this game? Well? Overall roster wise, Like,

487
00:23:52,440 --> 00:23:54,760
Speaker 1: I do agree with you, it's an NFL team, right,

488
00:23:54,800 --> 00:23:57,320
Speaker 1: so they're gonna have playmakers, They're gonna have talent, But

489
00:23:57,400 --> 00:23:59,760
Speaker 1: they had no Pro bowlers last year. They had no

490
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Speaker 1: All Pro players. They've added guys, as you said, They've

491
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Speaker 1: got Petrie and Stingley in the secondary, so they're going

492
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Speaker 1: to be better there. Lovey Smith's now the head coach.

493
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Speaker 1: But when you compare the two rosters, the Colts are

494
00:24:12,280 --> 00:24:15,520
Speaker 1: really really good team. The Texans are an up and

495
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Speaker 1: coming team. But as of right now, the Colts matchup

496
00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:21,439
Speaker 1: very favorably in this game. I mean the oddsmakers have

497
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Speaker 1: the Colts as an eight point favorite. That means nothing, right.

498
00:24:24,480 --> 00:24:26,800
Speaker 1: I mean, we all know. Just go back to Week

499
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Speaker 1: eighteen last year in Jacksonville and the Colts were a

500
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Speaker 1: fifteen point favorite. We all know how that went. But

501
00:24:32,240 --> 00:24:34,080
Speaker 1: I think in the ground game, you gotta start there.

502
00:24:34,160 --> 00:24:36,560
Speaker 1: Jonathan Taylor had at least one hundred and forty rushing

503
00:24:36,600 --> 00:24:40,400
Speaker 1: yards and both matchups it's the same scheme on defense.

504
00:24:40,480 --> 00:24:43,240
Speaker 1: Lovey Smith's still gonna oversee that unit despite being the

505
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Speaker 1: head coach as well. Good matchup there. On paper, Colts

506
00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:48,480
Speaker 1: were number two in rushing, the Texans were thirty first

507
00:24:48,520 --> 00:24:50,879
Speaker 1: and stopping the run. But sort of those games, or

508
00:24:50,920 --> 00:24:54,040
Speaker 1: those matchups within the game, I'm gonna be watching Jonathan

509
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Speaker 1: Grenard against Braden Smith or maybe Matt pryor because he

510
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Speaker 1: kind of shifts where he lines up. He had eight

511
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Speaker 1: sacks last year. I think the biggest question is how

512
00:25:03,119 --> 00:25:06,080
Speaker 1: much better is Mills because he was a rookie last year.

513
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Speaker 1: He played good at times. You know, he had some

514
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Speaker 1: spot moments, but not against the Colts. In two games

515
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Speaker 1: against the Colts last year, just fifty seven percent completion percentage,

516
00:25:15,240 --> 00:25:18,320
Speaker 1: had three picks. The Colts sacked him six times. So

517
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Speaker 1: I like this matchup on defense for the Colts going

518
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Speaker 1: into this game. As you said, Brandon Cooks is their guy.

519
00:25:24,160 --> 00:25:27,480
Speaker 1: He's their their bona fide target. He had seventy more

520
00:25:27,520 --> 00:25:30,440
Speaker 1: targets than anybody else on the team last season, So

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Speaker 1: I think that's gonna be a good matchup. You know,

522
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Speaker 1: pair Stefan Gilmour on him for a good portion of

523
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Speaker 1: the game, shut him down and make somebody else make

524
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Speaker 1: a play, whether that's Nico Collins as you said, or

525
00:25:40,880 --> 00:25:44,200
Speaker 1: Pharaoh Brown from the tied end position. You take him away,

526
00:25:44,240 --> 00:25:46,680
Speaker 1: that should mean some good things for the Colts. Pass

527
00:25:46,760 --> 00:25:50,040
Speaker 1: rush to get home with Unique and Goackway quitty pay.

528
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Speaker 1: Damien Pierce is Theirs study back him. You know, they

529
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Speaker 1: put they wave Marlin Max and he's gonna be running

530
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Speaker 1: back number one. He had thirteen touchdowns last year. They

531
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Speaker 1: they waved to Marlon Mack and then they released him

532
00:26:02,320 --> 00:26:04,439
Speaker 1: from the practice squad, so he's not even with the

533
00:26:04,440 --> 00:26:07,520
Speaker 1: team anymore, right, it's him, It's Pearson rex Burkhead running

534
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Speaker 1: the football. They were dead last at running the ball

535
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Speaker 1: last year. They only went over one hundred yards in

536
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Speaker 1: three games. So that's gonna be an emphasis with pet

537
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Speaker 1: Hamilton now at at offensive coordinator. But those are some

538
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Speaker 1: of the matchups within the game that I'm gonna be watching,

539
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Speaker 1: but clearly on paper, and I know the game is

540
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Speaker 1: not played on paper, but the Colts have a superior

541
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Speaker 1: roster going into this game, and obviously that's why the

542
00:26:28,280 --> 00:26:30,800
Speaker 1: oddsmakers have them as an eight point favorite. So the

543
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Speaker 1: one area I'm really looking for in this game where

544
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Speaker 1: I think the Texans could pose a challenge. Their pass

545
00:26:35,600 --> 00:26:39,359
Speaker 1: rush is pretty I'm not gonna say it's great. I

546
00:26:39,440 --> 00:26:42,960
Speaker 1: got Jerry Hughes, it's good. I think you could easily

547
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Speaker 1: overlook this group. You mentioned Jonathan Grenard eight sacks last year,

548
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Speaker 1: and then you add Jerry Hughes, a veteran pass rusher,

549
00:26:48,720 --> 00:26:54,240
Speaker 1: Mario Addison, same thing. You know, they go and they sign, uh, ok, mate,

550
00:26:54,320 --> 00:26:56,120
Speaker 1: how do you pronounce that name? I'm not I'm not

551
00:26:56,160 --> 00:27:02,920
Speaker 1: there yet. You're not remember it from last year. I'm

552
00:27:02,920 --> 00:27:05,040
Speaker 1: so sorry that I butchered that. Yeah played for them.

553
00:27:05,080 --> 00:27:07,040
Speaker 1: He was like their number three pass rusher last year

554
00:27:07,040 --> 00:27:09,399
Speaker 1: behind Leonard Floyd and Von Miller. Got a little bit

555
00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:11,639
Speaker 1: of juice to a MALIEK. Collins is a really good

556
00:27:11,840 --> 00:27:16,320
Speaker 1: d tackle. So for Colts offensive line that did not

557
00:27:16,359 --> 00:27:18,520
Speaker 1: play up to their standard last year and is replacing

558
00:27:18,520 --> 00:27:20,680
Speaker 1: two starters, I think this group is a pretty decent

559
00:27:20,760 --> 00:27:23,679
Speaker 1: challenge for them. You know, how does Matt Pryor fair

560
00:27:23,720 --> 00:27:26,040
Speaker 1: if he gets Jonathan Grenard on him, you know, or

561
00:27:26,160 --> 00:27:28,320
Speaker 1: you know, guy like Jerry Hughes on the interior, guy

562
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Speaker 1: like MALIEK. Collins. You know, if Danny Pinter is going

563
00:27:30,840 --> 00:27:33,399
Speaker 1: up against him, that will be a challenge for the

564
00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:36,240
Speaker 1: new Colts right guard. So I'm not just going to

565
00:27:36,320 --> 00:27:38,120
Speaker 1: pencil this in and say Matt Ryan's gonna a clean

566
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Speaker 1: pocket all game. I think the Colts offensive line can

567
00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:44,360
Speaker 1: be up to it, certainly, But this isn't a game

568
00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:45,640
Speaker 1: where if you get to it and you go Matt

569
00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:47,439
Speaker 1: Pryor had no sax and you're like, oh, they're just

570
00:27:47,440 --> 00:27:49,880
Speaker 1: playing the Texans D line. That's really not the case.

571
00:27:50,119 --> 00:27:51,960
Speaker 1: This is a line that's got some players on it,

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Speaker 1: some guys who have some pass rushing juice, and then

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Speaker 1: in guys like Jerry Hughes and Mario Addison, guys who

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Speaker 1: have a lot of pass rushing experience. So I feel

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Speaker 1: I feel like that, you know, you're looking at one

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Speaker 1: area where the Texans could pose the Colts and problems

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00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:08,560
Speaker 1: that they're going to need to handle. That that's kind

578
00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:10,359
Speaker 1: of the one I had circled. Anything else that stands

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Speaker 1: out to you, you know, before we kind of move

580
00:28:12,560 --> 00:28:15,600
Speaker 1: on to a big dealer, big whoop here again, they're

581
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Speaker 1: relying on some unheralded wide receivers, you know, to come

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Speaker 1: in and make an impact. You know, Chris Moore at

583
00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:24,200
Speaker 1: a Cincinnati he's a guy that's been on their practice

584
00:28:24,200 --> 00:28:26,640
Speaker 1: squad the last couple of years. Former Cult Philip door

585
00:28:26,760 --> 00:28:29,280
Speaker 1: Set makes the team. He's sort of that number four,

586
00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:32,280
Speaker 1: number five receiver. I really like Tyler Johnson. They picked

587
00:28:32,320 --> 00:28:34,480
Speaker 1: him up off a waiver claim. We saw him in

588
00:28:34,480 --> 00:28:38,360
Speaker 1: the preseason against Tampa and he's a nice little player.

589
00:28:38,360 --> 00:28:40,240
Speaker 1: He's out of Minnesota, so yeah, I think he kind

590
00:28:40,240 --> 00:28:43,200
Speaker 1: of mixes in within their passing game. But the biggest,

591
00:28:43,240 --> 00:28:45,360
Speaker 1: the biggest question for me is, you know what, what

592
00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:47,520
Speaker 1: kind of leap do they get out of Davis Mills.

593
00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:50,000
Speaker 1: He's really good inside the red zone. He takes good

594
00:28:50,040 --> 00:28:53,880
Speaker 1: care of the football, he's a good decision maker, accurate,

595
00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:56,880
Speaker 1: but again, the Colts defense last year just gave him

596
00:28:56,880 --> 00:28:59,800
Speaker 1: a ton of trouble. And now with a new defense

597
00:28:59,800 --> 00:29:02,520
Speaker 1: and Gus Bradley, maybe a little bit of an advantage

598
00:29:02,520 --> 00:29:04,360
Speaker 1: for the Colts going into this game because it is

599
00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:06,760
Speaker 1: the first you know, test for the Colts in a

600
00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:09,040
Speaker 1: new scheme and they're gonna have some new wrinkles that

601
00:29:09,080 --> 00:29:12,280
Speaker 1: maybe the Houston Texans weren't prepared for. But you could

602
00:29:12,320 --> 00:29:14,680
Speaker 1: say that about the other side, is Pep Hamilton's the

603
00:29:14,720 --> 00:29:18,320
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator. I mean, it's it's the NFL. You make adjustments,

604
00:29:18,360 --> 00:29:21,000
Speaker 1: you know, you play the first quarter, the first fifteen minutes,

605
00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:23,800
Speaker 1: you kind of decide, Okay, who are they today, what

606
00:29:23,840 --> 00:29:25,920
Speaker 1: are they trying to do? And then you adjust and

607
00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:27,600
Speaker 1: you just go out there and play football. After that,

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00:29:27,640 --> 00:29:30,080
Speaker 1: all right, let's play big deal or big whoop. Are

609
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Speaker 1: the following statements important or concerning or are they not significance.

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Speaker 1: Let's start here. The Colts have lost eight straight season

611
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Speaker 1: opening games, a streak that ties the worst market franchise

612
00:29:41,360 --> 00:29:43,400
Speaker 1: history and it is the third longest in NFL history.

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Speaker 1: Lera big deal or big whoop? To me, it's a

614
00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:50,760
Speaker 1: big whoop because when you look at last season, and

615
00:29:50,840 --> 00:29:52,240
Speaker 1: I hope this is the last time we harp on

616
00:29:52,320 --> 00:29:54,960
Speaker 1: last season into a new season. But I will say

617
00:29:55,000 --> 00:30:00,240
Speaker 1: big whoop because had you one to start the season

618
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Speaker 1: last year, you wouldn't have been in the situation you

619
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Speaker 1: were in those last two games of this season, right.

620
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Speaker 1: You wouldn't have had to bank on beating the Raiders

621
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Speaker 1: or beating the Jags in Jacksonville. You would have taken

622
00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:14,320
Speaker 1: care of things early on that would have better positioned

623
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Speaker 1: you and you already would have been likely solidified into

624
00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:19,440
Speaker 1: a playoff spot had you won earlier, had you started

625
00:30:19,440 --> 00:30:22,000
Speaker 1: this season better, you know, we've seen the Colts basically

626
00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:24,720
Speaker 1: have to dig themselves out of these big deficits and

627
00:30:24,760 --> 00:30:27,480
Speaker 1: that just takes so much energy to expend to do

628
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Speaker 1: when you start off with a loss and you're climbing

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Speaker 1: your way back again. So yeah, I'm gonna say it's

630
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Speaker 1: a big whoop. Yeah, we're tired of talking about it.

631
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Speaker 1: We're tired of hearing about it. So it's Mike, Man,

632
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Speaker 1: I've heard that a thousand times since, like since I've

633
00:30:39,640 --> 00:30:42,920
Speaker 1: been here, I think since like twenty fourteen or something

634
00:30:42,920 --> 00:30:44,680
Speaker 1: like that. So we're just looking to break that street.

635
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Speaker 1: You know, We're just wanting to do whatever it takes.

636
00:30:47,680 --> 00:30:57,640
Speaker 1: So like whatever that's gonna be, thanks Chap even worse. Yeah, yeah, absolutely,

637
00:30:57,680 --> 00:30:59,040
Speaker 1: So that's what we're trying to do, you know, like

638
00:30:59,080 --> 00:31:01,920
Speaker 1: we're gonna fight our hardness. We're going to prepare and

639
00:31:02,320 --> 00:31:05,600
Speaker 1: just treat every day like it's like a game, and um,

640
00:31:05,640 --> 00:31:07,880
Speaker 1: that should put us in a great position to go

641
00:31:07,920 --> 00:31:10,520
Speaker 1: out there and uh play out well yeah, I mean

642
00:31:10,560 --> 00:31:12,920
Speaker 1: if we're all sick and tired of hearing about it

643
00:31:12,920 --> 00:31:14,480
Speaker 1: and talking about it and bringing it up as a

644
00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:16,920
Speaker 1: storyline going into the game, just imagine being a player.

645
00:31:17,240 --> 00:31:19,640
Speaker 1: Just imagine being a coach. Imagine being Frank Reich. And

646
00:31:19,720 --> 00:31:21,360
Speaker 1: you're the only one of us who was here for

647
00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:24,320
Speaker 1: that actually, yeah, of this group sitting in this room

648
00:31:24,400 --> 00:31:28,080
Speaker 1: right here, you're holding down on the sidelines for that

649
00:31:28,120 --> 00:31:30,760
Speaker 1: win against the Raiders. Right. It seems like that was

650
00:31:31,680 --> 00:31:35,320
Speaker 1: in NFL terms eight years that's that's three lifetimes, you know,

651
00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:38,040
Speaker 1: for a lot of people professionally. But I don't know

652
00:31:38,080 --> 00:31:39,880
Speaker 1: how to answer this. Is it? Is it a big

653
00:31:39,880 --> 00:31:41,720
Speaker 1: deal or a big whoop? Is it? Can I say

654
00:31:41,800 --> 00:31:45,040
Speaker 1: big deal because it's sort of in the middle. Yeah,

655
00:31:45,160 --> 00:31:48,120
Speaker 1: because I'm tired of wait, oh I can. I was confused.

656
00:31:48,240 --> 00:31:50,640
Speaker 1: I I it is a big deal. I went big deal,

657
00:31:51,120 --> 00:31:53,360
Speaker 1: big deal. I meant I messed it up. I didn't

658
00:31:53,360 --> 00:31:55,280
Speaker 1: really know what big whoop was. I thought big whoop

659
00:31:55,400 --> 00:31:58,640
Speaker 1: is n't matter. Oh, okay, but it's it's kind in

660
00:31:58,640 --> 00:32:01,160
Speaker 1: the middle because I got confused. None of that has

661
00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:03,920
Speaker 1: anything to do with Sunday. But also at the same time,

662
00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:07,080
Speaker 1: it's a big deal because the owner is putting a

663
00:32:07,080 --> 00:32:09,360
Speaker 1: ton of emphasis on it. I mean, Jim Ursey always

664
00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:11,240
Speaker 1: talks about you know, he has to, he has to

665
00:32:11,320 --> 00:32:13,800
Speaker 1: kind of curb it, you know, he's he's admitted an interviews.

666
00:32:13,840 --> 00:32:17,640
Speaker 1: I gotta make sure I don't put too much emphasis

667
00:32:17,720 --> 00:32:20,360
Speaker 1: on this first game, considering we've lost eight of them

668
00:32:20,360 --> 00:32:22,480
Speaker 1: in a row. And I just think it's sort of

669
00:32:22,520 --> 00:32:24,240
Speaker 1: a big deal in this sense that you just you

670
00:32:24,360 --> 00:32:26,640
Speaker 1: gotta get off to a good start this year because

671
00:32:27,080 --> 00:32:28,880
Speaker 1: there's just not going to be a lot of margin

672
00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:31,000
Speaker 1: for air towards the end of the season or the

673
00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:33,640
Speaker 1: back half of the season when you talk about AFC

674
00:32:33,800 --> 00:32:37,520
Speaker 1: South games, because five of the first seven come before Halloween,

675
00:32:37,640 --> 00:32:39,240
Speaker 1: so if you don't get off to a good start

676
00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:41,800
Speaker 1: within the division, and by the way, those division games

677
00:32:41,840 --> 00:32:45,440
Speaker 1: also count as AFC games New conference games, which were

678
00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:47,840
Speaker 1: so important to the Colts last year in their bid

679
00:32:47,880 --> 00:32:51,760
Speaker 1: for a tiebreaker as a wildcard team. The sense of

680
00:32:51,840 --> 00:32:54,720
Speaker 1: urgency has to be there, and it's a big deal

681
00:32:54,760 --> 00:32:56,720
Speaker 1: that you get off to a good start this year,

682
00:32:57,080 --> 00:32:59,680
Speaker 1: which means you would break that that awful streak so

683
00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:02,800
Speaker 1: in the middle, big whoop because the past has no

684
00:33:03,200 --> 00:33:05,520
Speaker 1: indicator on how this game goes. But also a big

685
00:33:05,560 --> 00:33:09,120
Speaker 1: deal because Week one and really the first month this

686
00:33:09,200 --> 00:33:11,520
Speaker 1: season are going to be so imperative for the Colts. Yeah,

687
00:33:11,520 --> 00:33:13,640
Speaker 1: I know, there's that stat may say that since adopting

688
00:33:13,680 --> 00:33:16,600
Speaker 1: the twelve team playoff format in nineteen ninety, fifty three

689
00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:18,960
Speaker 1: percent of teams that when the opener make the playoffs,

690
00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:21,320
Speaker 1: only twenty five percent of teams that start owing one

691
00:33:21,400 --> 00:33:23,760
Speaker 1: get to the postseason. I'm not super worried about that,

692
00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:26,960
Speaker 1: just because, like you know, we've talked about the Colts

693
00:33:26,960 --> 00:33:30,840
Speaker 1: still have made the postseason in this stretch three times. Actually,

694
00:33:31,960 --> 00:33:35,440
Speaker 1: having said that, I think your point is good that

695
00:33:35,520 --> 00:33:37,560
Speaker 1: I think it's a big whoop for Week one, but

696
00:33:37,680 --> 00:33:39,960
Speaker 1: for the first seven weeks of the season it's a

697
00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:43,200
Speaker 1: big deal because it's not just that you play five

698
00:33:43,280 --> 00:33:45,080
Speaker 1: year seven games. You get the Titans twice, you get

699
00:33:45,080 --> 00:33:48,720
Speaker 1: the Jaguars twice, so you're done. You do not get

700
00:33:48,720 --> 00:33:51,440
Speaker 1: another chance to play those teams. Like, if you're one

701
00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:53,400
Speaker 1: of those teams, it's like, all right, well, we really

702
00:33:53,400 --> 00:33:55,080
Speaker 1: figured out who we were in the first half of

703
00:33:55,080 --> 00:33:57,120
Speaker 1: the season, then we took off. We're not going to

704
00:33:57,200 --> 00:33:58,800
Speaker 1: get a chance to play the Titans and beat the

705
00:33:58,840 --> 00:34:01,120
Speaker 1: Titans again. You got to take care of business in

706
00:34:01,200 --> 00:34:04,160
Speaker 1: weeks four and seven against Tennessee and in weeks two

707
00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:06,520
Speaker 1: and six against Jacksonville. That's what you've got to do

708
00:34:06,800 --> 00:34:09,759
Speaker 1: early in the season. Also, it is womp there. It

709
00:34:09,880 --> 00:34:12,000
Speaker 1: is by the way, like I thought I was correct,

710
00:34:12,120 --> 00:34:15,680
Speaker 1: Like it's w h O O MP for all of

711
00:34:15,760 --> 00:34:19,640
Speaker 1: my like nineties kids out there, Yeah, tag team, it's womp.

712
00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:21,719
Speaker 1: So when I said womp, I thought I was right. See,

713
00:34:21,760 --> 00:34:23,960
Speaker 1: I got I got thrown off because of the scoop

714
00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:26,839
Speaker 1: there it is commercial. There's no, it's not scoop there

715
00:34:26,880 --> 00:34:28,799
Speaker 1: it is. It's scoop there it is. So how do

716
00:34:28,840 --> 00:34:32,719
Speaker 1: you spell womp? W h o o MP. At least

717
00:34:32,760 --> 00:34:35,800
Speaker 1: it's like the Big Blue Block and Mario talking about

718
00:34:35,880 --> 00:34:40,000
Speaker 1: the song. If we are referencing the great song from

719
00:34:40,080 --> 00:34:44,520
Speaker 1: ninety three showing my age now, it's womp. But yeah,

720
00:34:44,600 --> 00:34:46,840
Speaker 1: come on, I just remember that from Mighty Ducks too.

721
00:34:47,200 --> 00:34:49,920
Speaker 1: But I'll see Mighty Ducks too. Yeah, when they're going

722
00:34:49,960 --> 00:34:51,480
Speaker 1: to get I think I knew that there was a

723
00:34:51,520 --> 00:34:55,799
Speaker 1: second one. There's a third one too. Yeah, like when

724
00:34:56,120 --> 00:34:58,320
Speaker 1: they're out in the skate park and you know practice

725
00:34:58,360 --> 00:35:00,279
Speaker 1: is over. They didn't need to find their mode Joe

726
00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:04,600
Speaker 1: back before they take on Iceland. Yeah, there is. Lara

727
00:35:04,920 --> 00:35:07,840
Speaker 1: is mouthing the words to this, and she hasn't missed

728
00:35:07,840 --> 00:35:12,239
Speaker 1: one yet. Yeah, whoop, it's who o MP. Yes, there

729
00:35:12,280 --> 00:35:13,880
Speaker 1: you go. We gotta get like Stevens and turn the

730
00:35:13,880 --> 00:35:15,719
Speaker 1: cameras on in here, so we could have got Lara

731
00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:18,279
Speaker 1: dancing at her chair to this. Also, if you're not

732
00:35:18,360 --> 00:35:20,680
Speaker 1: dancing in your chair, like driving around or listening to

733
00:35:20,719 --> 00:35:24,480
Speaker 1: this while mowing the lawn, you're you're missing out I

734
00:35:24,520 --> 00:35:27,080
Speaker 1: am not listening to this mowing the lawn. That's kind

735
00:35:27,080 --> 00:35:30,440
Speaker 1: of hard to miss. Why did I say mowing the lawn? Big,

736
00:35:30,560 --> 00:35:34,040
Speaker 1: big whoop? All right, Maybe the mother vacuuming the house there,

737
00:35:34,080 --> 00:35:38,680
Speaker 1: that's the another loud activity. Uh, big dealer, big whoop.

738
00:35:39,239 --> 00:35:41,640
Speaker 1: No member of the Colts wide receiver group is older

739
00:35:41,680 --> 00:35:44,279
Speaker 1: than twenty five. None has played more than thirty games.

740
00:35:44,320 --> 00:35:46,480
Speaker 1: Michael Pittman is the most accomplished of the bunch. He's

741
00:35:46,520 --> 00:35:49,799
Speaker 1: just twenty four. The returning receivers to the roster not

742
00:35:49,960 --> 00:35:52,720
Speaker 1: named Michael Pittman combined for twenty eight receptions, three hundred

743
00:35:52,760 --> 00:35:55,480
Speaker 1: eighty seven yards and four touchdowns last season. By the way,

744
00:35:55,520 --> 00:35:58,320
Speaker 1: Michael Pittman Junior has played like six hundred more snaps

745
00:35:58,320 --> 00:36:01,279
Speaker 1: in his career than the rest of this wide receiver group.

746
00:36:01,440 --> 00:36:04,400
Speaker 1: Is this a big deal as in this is important?

747
00:36:05,080 --> 00:36:07,600
Speaker 1: Or is this a big whoop as in who cares?

748
00:36:07,600 --> 00:36:10,960
Speaker 1: Big whoop? I see why people care. But the reason

749
00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:15,399
Speaker 1: I say big whoop is because I really like the young,

750
00:36:15,440 --> 00:36:18,600
Speaker 1: emerging talent that you have, and I like it combined

751
00:36:18,760 --> 00:36:21,840
Speaker 1: with what Matt Ryan is giving you from a leadership

752
00:36:21,880 --> 00:36:24,640
Speaker 1: perspective and the way he is elevating the rest of

753
00:36:24,640 --> 00:36:28,799
Speaker 1: the guys around him. I also say big whoop because

754
00:36:29,400 --> 00:36:32,040
Speaker 1: as we're talking about receivers, I want to broaden that

755
00:36:32,080 --> 00:36:34,640
Speaker 1: out to pass catchers. I want to put Naim Hinds,

756
00:36:34,840 --> 00:36:36,680
Speaker 1: He's gonna have a bigger role catching the ball. I

757
00:36:36,680 --> 00:36:38,839
Speaker 1: want to throw those tight ends in there as well,

758
00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:43,160
Speaker 1: Mo Kylan July Woods. So I mean, obviously Jolyni is

759
00:36:43,320 --> 00:36:46,120
Speaker 1: a rookie, but you know Mo has given you, you know,

760
00:36:46,239 --> 00:36:49,520
Speaker 1: really valuable presence on the field. From a receiving standpoint.

761
00:36:49,719 --> 00:36:52,600
Speaker 1: You know, naihim is going to get touches in the

762
00:36:52,640 --> 00:36:56,040
Speaker 1: passing game. So to me, yes, you're isolating the wide receivers,

763
00:36:56,040 --> 00:36:57,480
Speaker 1: but I almost think you have to broaden it out

764
00:36:57,600 --> 00:36:59,480
Speaker 1: and you have to look at the targets and the

765
00:36:59,520 --> 00:37:02,960
Speaker 1: weapons offense has in general. And I also think that

766
00:37:03,280 --> 00:37:07,200
Speaker 1: these wide receivers are really going to prove themselves to

767
00:37:07,239 --> 00:37:10,480
Speaker 1: be formidable as this season goes on, with the opportunity

768
00:37:10,520 --> 00:37:14,560
Speaker 1: they're now percentage. Yeah, I agree. Hopefully this is it

769
00:37:14,560 --> 00:37:17,040
Speaker 1: turns out to be a big whoop because I'm really

770
00:37:17,080 --> 00:37:20,479
Speaker 1: excited to see how Matt Ryan at quarterback can help

771
00:37:20,640 --> 00:37:23,879
Speaker 1: bring these guys along because I think this offense it's

772
00:37:23,880 --> 00:37:27,520
Speaker 1: a Frank Reich staple. It's a Matt Ryan staple with Atlanta.

773
00:37:27,600 --> 00:37:31,200
Speaker 1: You're gonna get seven, eight nine guys every week catching

774
00:37:31,239 --> 00:37:33,720
Speaker 1: a pass. And it's not like, you know, Michael Pittman

775
00:37:33,840 --> 00:37:36,359
Speaker 1: Junior has to have one hundred and twenty receiving yards

776
00:37:36,360 --> 00:37:38,719
Speaker 1: and a touchdown in order for the Colts to have

777
00:37:38,760 --> 00:37:41,399
Speaker 1: a chance to win. I mean, you're gonna have playmakers here,

778
00:37:41,440 --> 00:37:44,880
Speaker 1: guy stepping into roles and it just because they haven't

779
00:37:44,960 --> 00:37:48,200
Speaker 1: doesn't mean they can't. Ashton DeLand only had thirteen catches

780
00:37:48,280 --> 00:37:50,480
Speaker 1: last season. Well guess what, He's in a new role

781
00:37:50,680 --> 00:37:52,960
Speaker 1: now and the Colts feel confident that he can be,

782
00:37:53,400 --> 00:37:55,720
Speaker 1: you know, a number three guy, or maybe it's Paris

783
00:37:55,760 --> 00:37:58,680
Speaker 1: Campbell as a number two or a number three something

784
00:37:58,719 --> 00:38:00,880
Speaker 1: they haven't asked of him or something that he hasn't

785
00:38:01,080 --> 00:38:03,680
Speaker 1: been able to do because of health. Every year there's

786
00:38:03,880 --> 00:38:07,239
Speaker 1: there's guys that graduate from the practice squad or role

787
00:38:07,320 --> 00:38:10,319
Speaker 1: player on special teams that you know, migrate into the

788
00:38:10,400 --> 00:38:13,279
Speaker 1: starting lineup and you say, wow, this guy's pretty good.

789
00:38:13,520 --> 00:38:16,120
Speaker 1: Guys have left in free agency, or it's it's his

790
00:38:16,200 --> 00:38:19,000
Speaker 1: time in year three or year four, whatever the case is,

791
00:38:19,480 --> 00:38:21,960
Speaker 1: to step up and be asked to do more. So

792
00:38:22,040 --> 00:38:25,560
Speaker 1: hopefully this is a big whoop, but we're not going

793
00:38:25,640 --> 00:38:28,080
Speaker 1: to know until about week three, week four. Hell, these

794
00:38:28,080 --> 00:38:31,080
Speaker 1: guys turn into playmakers behind Michael Pittman Junior. One thing

795
00:38:31,080 --> 00:38:33,960
Speaker 1: to think about here, why I think it's more of

796
00:38:33,960 --> 00:38:37,120
Speaker 1: a big whoop is I asked Reggie Wayne if there

797
00:38:37,200 --> 00:38:40,400
Speaker 1: was something he learned about Michael Pittman Junior that he

798
00:38:40,480 --> 00:38:42,959
Speaker 1: didn't know when he took the job. And Reggie told

799
00:38:42,960 --> 00:38:45,680
Speaker 1: me that it was that Michael Pittman Junior is a

800
00:38:45,719 --> 00:38:49,240
Speaker 1: true leader of that room, that he has that leadership quality.

801
00:38:49,239 --> 00:38:52,359
Speaker 1: And Reggie said it took him till probably year ten

802
00:38:52,480 --> 00:38:54,800
Speaker 1: or eleven to really slide into that role. And I

803
00:38:54,840 --> 00:38:57,040
Speaker 1: think probably having Marvin Harrison there had something to do

804
00:38:57,080 --> 00:38:59,719
Speaker 1: with it. But for pitt it's been very natural for

805
00:38:59,800 --> 00:39:02,640
Speaker 1: him to step in as that leader. He's very much

806
00:39:02,760 --> 00:39:06,399
Speaker 1: a lead by example, be a perfectionist. But this dude

807
00:39:06,560 --> 00:39:10,160
Speaker 1: is just tough as nails out there. And I think

808
00:39:10,160 --> 00:39:11,839
Speaker 1: about something that Frank w Reich told me. He said,

809
00:39:11,840 --> 00:39:14,800
Speaker 1: when your number one wide receiver is your best blocking

810
00:39:14,840 --> 00:39:19,080
Speaker 1: wide receiver, that pushes everyone else to go do that job,

811
00:39:19,120 --> 00:39:20,960
Speaker 1: to kind of the dirty work of playing the position.

812
00:39:21,040 --> 00:39:23,919
Speaker 1: But something that's very important for the Colts run game.

813
00:39:24,280 --> 00:39:27,319
Speaker 1: So to me, when you're thinking about this group, and

814
00:39:27,400 --> 00:39:29,640
Speaker 1: even though they're young, if you have someone who is

815
00:39:29,640 --> 00:39:32,680
Speaker 1: a leader in it in Michael Pittman junior, who's been

816
00:39:32,760 --> 00:39:35,279
Speaker 1: productive in his career with a thousand yards season last year,

817
00:39:35,320 --> 00:39:38,480
Speaker 1: I think you worry less about the amount of snaps

818
00:39:38,560 --> 00:39:40,759
Speaker 1: or the amount of receptions or how old they are,

819
00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:43,839
Speaker 1: and you look more at can this be a good

820
00:39:43,880 --> 00:39:46,840
Speaker 1: top to bottom group with a leader in Michael Pittman

821
00:39:46,880 --> 00:39:48,480
Speaker 1: at the top, And I think the answer is yes,

822
00:39:48,520 --> 00:39:50,759
Speaker 1: it can be. Will just have to see how things

823
00:39:50,800 --> 00:39:52,359
Speaker 1: play out, like you said, mate, too over the first

824
00:39:52,360 --> 00:39:55,120
Speaker 1: couple of weeks of the season. Anyways, let's get to

825
00:39:55,239 --> 00:39:59,160
Speaker 1: this week's mail bag question. Here's the mail it never

826
00:39:59,360 --> 00:40:10,480
Speaker 1: fills in makes great question today from at Brian McClean

827
00:40:10,640 --> 00:40:13,960
Speaker 1: twenty eight on Twitter. What's going to be Jonathan Taylor's

828
00:40:14,080 --> 00:40:18,719
Speaker 1: carry target per game? He threw out twenty and this

829
00:40:18,800 --> 00:40:21,480
Speaker 1: ties into something Frank Rereich talked a lot about this

830
00:40:21,600 --> 00:40:25,320
Speaker 1: on Monday, where the Colts in the offseason they really

831
00:40:25,480 --> 00:40:30,640
Speaker 1: dove in to looking at running backs with heavy workloads

832
00:40:30,680 --> 00:40:35,120
Speaker 1: and how those guys' careers played out and in part

833
00:40:35,160 --> 00:40:37,000
Speaker 1: of this. Frankreich gave a lot of praise to the

834
00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:40,799
Speaker 1: Colts analytics department of Georgie Lee and John Park, but

835
00:40:40,960 --> 00:40:44,839
Speaker 1: they really looked at it, and I think I think

836
00:40:44,880 --> 00:40:47,200
Speaker 1: the Colts they know they have the best running back

837
00:40:47,200 --> 00:40:49,319
Speaker 1: in football and Jonathan Taylor, but they don't want to

838
00:40:49,360 --> 00:40:51,960
Speaker 1: overuse him and they don't want to burn him out.

839
00:40:52,239 --> 00:40:54,720
Speaker 1: They want to make sure that when he touches the ball,

840
00:40:54,800 --> 00:40:57,360
Speaker 1: he can be as explosive and as fresh as possible.

841
00:40:57,960 --> 00:40:59,680
Speaker 1: The Colts, I mean, they've set up this whole year

842
00:40:59,760 --> 00:41:02,560
Speaker 1: to pass the ball more because passing is more efficient,

843
00:41:02,600 --> 00:41:04,879
Speaker 1: and again, you don't want to, you know, burn out

844
00:41:04,880 --> 00:41:06,520
Speaker 1: you're running back, and you kind of saw last year

845
00:41:06,560 --> 00:41:09,440
Speaker 1: the limitations of an offense that has to rely so

846
00:41:09,520 --> 00:41:14,120
Speaker 1: heavily on a run. Game twenty feels probably about right

847
00:41:14,640 --> 00:41:17,400
Speaker 1: over the course of a season. But then you think

848
00:41:17,440 --> 00:41:19,720
Speaker 1: about it, You're like, that's three hundred and forty carries.

849
00:41:20,400 --> 00:41:25,880
Speaker 1: That's a lot of carries. I mean, that would be

850
00:41:25,920 --> 00:41:28,960
Speaker 1: more than last year. Yeah, so you kind of look

851
00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:30,920
Speaker 1: at that and you're like, I don't know, maybe it's

852
00:41:30,960 --> 00:41:33,839
Speaker 1: a little bit less. Maybe if you're looking at an

853
00:41:33,880 --> 00:41:37,520
Speaker 1: average like fifteen, I mean last year, they're only two

854
00:41:37,520 --> 00:41:39,640
Speaker 1: players who went over three hundred carries. That'd be Nagy

855
00:41:39,719 --> 00:41:41,640
Speaker 1: Harris at three o seven and Jonathan Taylor at three

856
00:41:41,719 --> 00:41:44,520
Speaker 1: thirty two. This is a stat that Cynthia Freeland dropped

857
00:41:44,800 --> 00:41:48,000
Speaker 1: yesterday and I thought that this was just I saw

858
00:41:48,040 --> 00:41:50,000
Speaker 1: that saying you have to give us credit because we

859
00:41:50,080 --> 00:41:52,920
Speaker 1: had that like two months ago. I didn't. I somehow

860
00:41:52,960 --> 00:41:58,759
Speaker 1: missed if she would. I asked Jonathan had anyways read

861
00:41:58,760 --> 00:42:01,240
Speaker 1: the stack, because it's still impressive. Yeah, his rush yards

862
00:42:01,280 --> 00:42:04,319
Speaker 1: after contact one thousand, two hundred and seventy two. That's,

863
00:42:04,320 --> 00:42:08,880
Speaker 1: according to Pro Football Focus, exceeded the total rushing yards

864
00:42:08,960 --> 00:42:12,279
Speaker 1: produced by any other player. Nick Chop ranked second in

865
00:42:12,280 --> 00:42:15,240
Speaker 1: the league with one two hundred and fifty nine total

866
00:42:15,520 --> 00:42:19,759
Speaker 1: rushing yards. So yeah, it is that's that's nuts. So

867
00:42:19,800 --> 00:42:22,760
Speaker 1: that was part of so Cynthia was doing a larger

868
00:42:22,840 --> 00:42:26,000
Speaker 1: look at all of her projections for each team across

869
00:42:26,080 --> 00:42:27,560
Speaker 1: and that was just one of the things that she

870
00:42:27,760 --> 00:42:30,960
Speaker 1: noted within her prediction for what the Colts will do

871
00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:33,919
Speaker 1: this year. She noted that that statistics so also only

872
00:42:33,960 --> 00:42:36,040
Speaker 1: two players over the last couple of years have had

873
00:42:36,080 --> 00:42:38,600
Speaker 1: back to back seasons of three hundred carries Derrick Henry

874
00:42:38,600 --> 00:42:42,080
Speaker 1: and Ezekiel Elliott. It's that's hard to do. And I

875
00:42:42,120 --> 00:42:44,480
Speaker 1: think you do want to say maybe you'd kind of

876
00:42:44,920 --> 00:42:48,120
Speaker 1: dial it back a little bit while still being keeping

877
00:42:48,120 --> 00:42:50,279
Speaker 1: the same efficiency and explosiveness that you have at the

878
00:42:50,320 --> 00:42:53,640
Speaker 1: running back right position. But again, I think it goes

879
00:42:53,680 --> 00:42:56,520
Speaker 1: into you're probably not going to have a game like

880
00:42:56,560 --> 00:42:59,200
Speaker 1: the Colts had against the Patriots where your quarterback throws

881
00:42:59,200 --> 00:43:02,879
Speaker 1: at twelve times. That ideally you don't have a game

882
00:43:02,920 --> 00:43:05,399
Speaker 1: like that this year. Yeah, I think when it's all

883
00:43:05,440 --> 00:43:07,000
Speaker 1: said and done, you're you're not going to throw the

884
00:43:07,040 --> 00:43:10,520
Speaker 1: ball more per se. You just need to throw it better.

885
00:43:10,560 --> 00:43:12,520
Speaker 1: You need to have more efficiency, You need to have

886
00:43:13,040 --> 00:43:16,279
Speaker 1: bigger plays yards after catch, you know, as you said,

887
00:43:16,360 --> 00:43:19,719
Speaker 1: Jonathan Taylor led the NFL in workload last year three

888
00:43:19,840 --> 00:43:23,080
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty two carries. He carried the ball one

889
00:43:23,160 --> 00:43:25,800
Speaker 1: hundred and ninety two times in the final eight games

890
00:43:25,800 --> 00:43:28,800
Speaker 1: of the season. That's an average of twenty four times

891
00:43:28,840 --> 00:43:31,480
Speaker 1: per game. That's that's a lot. I don't know if

892
00:43:31,520 --> 00:43:33,960
Speaker 1: twenty four sustainable, and I know the Colts don't want

893
00:43:33,960 --> 00:43:36,000
Speaker 1: to get there because of who they want to be,

894
00:43:36,400 --> 00:43:38,440
Speaker 1: you know, an offense in terms of balance you know

895
00:43:38,440 --> 00:43:40,480
Speaker 1: what they want to do to Jonathan Taylor and his body.

896
00:43:40,840 --> 00:43:44,680
Speaker 1: But if you look at it, the first eight games

897
00:43:44,800 --> 00:43:47,600
Speaker 1: the Colts were or i should say Taylor was averaging

898
00:43:47,640 --> 00:43:51,319
Speaker 1: fifteen point five. Last eight games, the number was up

899
00:43:51,320 --> 00:43:55,200
Speaker 1: to twenty two point one. So again, I don't think

900
00:43:55,239 --> 00:43:59,040
Speaker 1: it just sort of happened that way organically where the

901
00:43:59,080 --> 00:44:03,760
Speaker 1: Colts became very dependent on Jonathan Taylor. We've talked about

902
00:44:03,760 --> 00:44:06,040
Speaker 1: this at nauseum. The Colts through for over two hundred

903
00:44:06,080 --> 00:44:08,200
Speaker 1: yards just twice in the last eight games of the

904
00:44:08,239 --> 00:44:11,520
Speaker 1: season last year. It's probably better when it's all said

905
00:44:11,560 --> 00:44:13,440
Speaker 1: and done, if you look at seventeen games and you

906
00:44:13,480 --> 00:44:16,920
Speaker 1: average it out, it's probably best if Jonathan Taylor is getting,

907
00:44:17,320 --> 00:44:20,359
Speaker 1: you know, fifteen to seventeen carries per game for about

908
00:44:20,360 --> 00:44:23,400
Speaker 1: one hundred yards in the Colts throw for two fifty

909
00:44:23,440 --> 00:44:26,319
Speaker 1: per game and score thirty points per game that way,

910
00:44:26,360 --> 00:44:29,279
Speaker 1: as compared to scoring thirty points last year the other way.

911
00:44:29,360 --> 00:44:31,400
Speaker 1: Real quick. The other thing on this, I think Jonathan

912
00:44:31,400 --> 00:44:33,680
Speaker 1: Taylor is more than forty receptions this year. There is

913
00:44:33,680 --> 00:44:36,080
Speaker 1: a stretch of three games last year between weeks thirteen

914
00:44:36,120 --> 00:44:38,960
Speaker 1: and fifteen or thirteen and sixteen where he didn't have

915
00:44:38,960 --> 00:44:40,600
Speaker 1: a single catch in a game. I don't think that

916
00:44:40,640 --> 00:44:43,160
Speaker 1: happens again. I think his catches may go up. Maybe

917
00:44:43,160 --> 00:44:45,920
Speaker 1: his attempts on a rushing go down. All right, Random

918
00:44:45,920 --> 00:44:47,560
Speaker 1: thought a week, let's do it real quick. All right,

919
00:44:47,640 --> 00:44:49,560
Speaker 1: Random thought of the week. Guys, I want to know

920
00:44:49,680 --> 00:44:52,040
Speaker 1: if you're gonna lose something, would you rather lose your

921
00:44:52,040 --> 00:44:55,759
Speaker 1: phone or would you rather lose your wallet? This one

922
00:44:55,800 --> 00:44:58,080
Speaker 1: is if you have to pass immediate immediately as I

923
00:44:58,120 --> 00:45:01,399
Speaker 1: saw it, I've replaced so any cell phones in my day.

924
00:45:01,480 --> 00:45:04,000
Speaker 1: Like I think that the Apple care people probably like

925
00:45:04,120 --> 00:45:06,279
Speaker 1: know me by name. They're like, ah, she's back. I

926
00:45:06,560 --> 00:45:10,080
Speaker 1: really Oh oh yes, you can ask Dan Tucker about

927
00:45:10,080 --> 00:45:13,520
Speaker 1: how many phones i'd either broken, lost, whatever. Yes, So,

928
00:45:13,560 --> 00:45:16,759
Speaker 1: like I do my eye cloud backup religiously, Like if

929
00:45:16,800 --> 00:45:18,600
Speaker 1: I lose a phone, I would, you know, be back

930
00:45:18,600 --> 00:45:20,400
Speaker 1: at the Apples. I mean, I hate it because I

931
00:45:20,400 --> 00:45:23,560
Speaker 1: hate paying for it and like it's it's disgusting, But

932
00:45:23,640 --> 00:45:25,640
Speaker 1: I know that everything I can get back because of

933
00:45:25,960 --> 00:45:29,279
Speaker 1: the magic of the cloud, you know, and the fact

934
00:45:29,360 --> 00:45:32,279
Speaker 1: that everything can easily be restored there. For sure, you

935
00:45:32,280 --> 00:45:34,920
Speaker 1: can't store your driver's license in the crowd in the cloud,

936
00:45:34,960 --> 00:45:36,200
Speaker 1: and then you have to go to the BMV and

937
00:45:36,280 --> 00:45:38,680
Speaker 1: this surprises me. I thought for sure you guys would

938
00:45:38,680 --> 00:45:41,160
Speaker 1: go the other way on this. No, I mean, look,

939
00:45:41,200 --> 00:45:44,200
Speaker 1: I feel my wife gives me, you know, stuff all

940
00:45:44,200 --> 00:45:45,960
Speaker 1: the time because I feel lost if I don't have

941
00:45:46,000 --> 00:45:48,160
Speaker 1: my cell phone with me for like a minute. But

942
00:45:48,640 --> 00:45:51,760
Speaker 1: like that's a lot easier. I didn't have my phone

943
00:45:51,800 --> 00:45:54,040
Speaker 1: for about four and a half hours on Friday, Good

944
00:45:54,040 --> 00:45:56,040
Speaker 1: for you. Well no, I mean I didn't have a choice.

945
00:45:56,040 --> 00:45:57,319
Speaker 1: I had to take it to Horizon to get some

946
00:45:57,320 --> 00:45:59,799
Speaker 1: things done again, because I mean, this is this is

947
00:45:59,840 --> 00:46:03,319
Speaker 1: the me, Like I'm always like messing things up. What

948
00:46:03,360 --> 00:46:07,080
Speaker 1: are you doing? Well? So I got a new phone

949
00:46:07,560 --> 00:46:10,440
Speaker 1: of like months ago, and I broke it the first

950
00:46:10,520 --> 00:46:12,080
Speaker 1: day I had it, So then I had to replace

951
00:46:12,120 --> 00:46:14,320
Speaker 1: the phone, and the replacement phone never got sync to

952
00:46:14,360 --> 00:46:16,120
Speaker 1: my watch, so I had to go and I had

953
00:46:16,160 --> 00:46:17,680
Speaker 1: to leave my watch and my phone there so they

954
00:46:17,719 --> 00:46:19,080
Speaker 1: could do a whole bunch of things to update it

955
00:46:19,080 --> 00:46:22,760
Speaker 1: and make it work again. So yeah, I know. So yeah,

956
00:46:23,239 --> 00:46:26,200
Speaker 1: well I must not be as technical technically savvy as

957
00:46:26,200 --> 00:46:28,719
Speaker 1: you guys. So if I lost my phone, that would

958
00:46:28,760 --> 00:46:31,640
Speaker 1: consist of me having to loop in five other people

959
00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:34,399
Speaker 1: in a hassle for me to get it, sync back

960
00:46:34,480 --> 00:46:37,040
Speaker 1: up and get it get all the apps where I

961
00:46:37,080 --> 00:46:39,600
Speaker 1: want them, and the user names and the passwords. So

962
00:46:40,000 --> 00:46:42,279
Speaker 1: I would be crippled if I lost my phone. And

963
00:46:42,320 --> 00:46:45,120
Speaker 1: I've also lost I've had experienced losing my wallet about

964
00:46:45,160 --> 00:46:48,440
Speaker 1: twelve times. Have you not used to that? Having to

965
00:46:48,480 --> 00:46:51,400
Speaker 1: go to the DMV for a new issued license and

966
00:46:51,520 --> 00:46:54,200
Speaker 1: getting new credit cards and all that stuff. It's also

967
00:46:54,239 --> 00:46:57,160
Speaker 1: why I never carry cash because I am so prone

968
00:46:57,160 --> 00:46:59,520
Speaker 1: to losing my wallet. That's why I never have cash

969
00:46:59,600 --> 00:47:02,040
Speaker 1: on me because I had our carry cash because it's

970
00:47:02,040 --> 00:47:06,320
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two. Um well yeah, I mean I like,

971
00:47:07,680 --> 00:47:10,239
Speaker 1: right and buy a boat, okay for example, Okay, it's

972
00:47:10,280 --> 00:47:11,960
Speaker 1: good to have. I had cash on me, which I

973
00:47:12,000 --> 00:47:13,480
Speaker 1: don't always do, but I had to go buy I

974
00:47:13,560 --> 00:47:16,520
Speaker 1: ran into the like gas station. I just needed ice

975
00:47:16,600 --> 00:47:18,680
Speaker 1: for we were having a gathering on Saturday and we

976
00:47:18,680 --> 00:47:20,960
Speaker 1: needed ice and their credit card machine wasn't working, and

977
00:47:21,000 --> 00:47:23,080
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, that's fine. I actually had cash

978
00:47:23,120 --> 00:47:24,880
Speaker 1: on me. So there were all these other people that

979
00:47:24,880 --> 00:47:26,719
Speaker 1: were like, oh, man, I'm trying to you know, get

980
00:47:26,800 --> 00:47:28,520
Speaker 1: I'm trying to get gas or people, you know, and

981
00:47:28,560 --> 00:47:31,320
Speaker 1: they're that's the worst, right if the thing the machines

982
00:47:31,360 --> 00:47:33,440
Speaker 1: aren't working. So thankfully I had cash, and I'm like,

983
00:47:33,520 --> 00:47:35,399
Speaker 1: I need to do better. I actually paid with cash

984
00:47:35,440 --> 00:47:38,240
Speaker 1: the other day at at a restaurant, I got carry

985
00:47:38,239 --> 00:47:41,680
Speaker 1: out and paid with cash. And this this woman, God

986
00:47:41,719 --> 00:47:43,600
Speaker 1: bless her. She looked at me like I wanted to,

987
00:47:43,760 --> 00:47:47,120
Speaker 1: uh like have her build me a spaceship to go

988
00:47:47,160 --> 00:47:51,759
Speaker 1: to Mars. She had no idea how to transactions. I

989
00:47:51,880 --> 00:47:54,239
Speaker 1: was like, I'm sorry, okay, well, okay, this last thing

990
00:47:54,280 --> 00:47:57,120
Speaker 1: on this though, do you keep anything like sentimental in

991
00:47:57,160 --> 00:48:00,520
Speaker 1: your wallet? Like you don't? You don't, so I have

992
00:48:00,640 --> 00:48:02,320
Speaker 1: like because I'll lose it. That's well. See, I was

993
00:48:02,360 --> 00:48:04,000
Speaker 1: gonna say, that's one of the things about my wallet.

994
00:48:04,160 --> 00:48:06,120
Speaker 1: I keep like like I have a couple of photos,

995
00:48:06,160 --> 00:48:07,919
Speaker 1: I have a couple of like notes, like little things

996
00:48:07,920 --> 00:48:11,440
Speaker 1: in there that like I have like four nostalgia purposes.

997
00:48:11,480 --> 00:48:13,560
Speaker 1: So if I lost my wallet, I'd be really devastated.

998
00:48:13,600 --> 00:48:15,920
Speaker 1: I feel like, yeah, now, I would just be bummed

999
00:48:15,920 --> 00:48:19,920
Speaker 1: to lose some like gift cards and my ideas. Yeah.

1000
00:48:20,000 --> 00:48:25,319
Speaker 1: For Partellos, that boiled Beef's on you, all right? Well?

1001
00:48:25,320 --> 00:48:27,479
Speaker 1: Coming up this week on the Colts Audio Network Daily

1002
00:48:27,520 --> 00:48:30,600
Speaker 1: Updates Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. Those will be on ninety

1003
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Speaker 1: three five and one or seven five The Fan. You

1004
00:48:32,280 --> 00:48:34,960
Speaker 1: can find them here on the Colts Audio Network as well.

1005
00:48:35,000 --> 00:48:37,640
Speaker 1: Inside Football with Rick Van Terry is out on Wednesday.

1006
00:48:37,800 --> 00:48:41,200
Speaker 1: Rick's Blueprint to beat the Houston Texans in Week one

1007
00:48:41,200 --> 00:48:43,799
Speaker 1: will be on that episode Player one on ones all

1008
00:48:43,800 --> 00:48:47,000
Speaker 1: Weeklon Mayte, you caught up with winebacker Jojoe Doman this

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Speaker 1: Your Foe and interview with an insider on the Texans

1011
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Speaker 1: that'll be out on Thursday. Friday Colts Happy Hour with

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Speaker 1: JMV on nine to three five and one to seven

1013
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Speaker 1: five The Fan, and then after the game late night Sunday,

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Speaker 1: Bill Brooks and I are going to record the first

1015
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