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Speaker 1: Welcome to Colts Roundtable live on ninety three to five

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Speaker 1: and one oh seven five to the fans.

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Speaker 2: Sales it upfield this time it's picked off the thirty

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Speaker 2: to twenty five and he's rolled out a vouve.

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Speaker 1: We're talking Colts and recapping the action.

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Speaker 2: He's trying to crash up.

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Speaker 3: Failed.

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Speaker 4: He got here, he's across to.

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Speaker 2: Good version.

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Speaker 3: His god.

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Speaker 1: Now here's the voice of the Colts, Matt Taylor from

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Speaker 1: the Indiana Union Construction Industry Radio studio.

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Speaker 3: We're talking about starting the game fast, Cane Morgan. The

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Speaker 3: pick six to start kind of started any better than that.

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Speaker 2: Shotguns snapped of the rookie quarterback in the pocket. He's dancing,

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Speaker 2: he's got time links it up. It picked up Kenny

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Speaker 2: Moore and going the LA house call an interception and

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Speaker 2: I touched down. I picked six for Kenny Moore in.

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Speaker 5: The left flat and that's one of the more easier

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Speaker 5: pick six is you're ever gonna see.

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Speaker 2: And the Colts defense starts the scoring party early at six.

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Speaker 3: Tone up that shot ups of the guys, the coaching staff,

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Speaker 3: everybody involved. Takes everybody in this league to their jobs

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Speaker 3: at a high level to go out next que my

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Speaker 3: fellow was just a great, great team win for us

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Speaker 6: Obviously we're running it well. J T, you know, had

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Speaker 6: another big time.

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Speaker 2: Day at Haniel Jones under center I formation, Tyler Warren

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Speaker 2: is the h back. They give it to Taylor right

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Speaker 2: up the gut, big hole. Forty cuts back to his right, spinning.

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Speaker 3: Up field, still going gos set of a tackle.

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Speaker 2: He's at a twenty, he's at.

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Speaker 4: The ten, he's at the five.

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Speaker 2: Touchdown shot upon Taylor ripped it from forty six yards out, touchdown.

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Speaker 2: I indeed, why yes, sir.

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Speaker 6: Huge credit to him and how he's been playing. And

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Speaker 6: then the guys up front, you know, and they're balking

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Speaker 6: and on the run games and big and then guys

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Speaker 2: Jones over the middle, fly is it upfield? Michael Pittman

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Speaker 4: He's in.

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Speaker 2: He stretched the ball across the goal line. Touchdown. Michael

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Speaker 2: Pittman Junior yards up to the catch, twenty yards to Peter.

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Speaker 6: I mean a lot of credit to the guys at front.

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Speaker 6: I think it starts there in the run game and

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Speaker 6: the past game, you.

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Speaker 4: Know, playoff that there's definitely what I'm vision on vision

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Speaker 4: is coming out handling the business each and every single week.

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Speaker 2: But that's the thing, is something that's each and every

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Speaker 2: single week. So we got to continue to do it

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Speaker 2: and it starts this week coming up at practice. That's

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Speaker 2: out sounded. That's what was said after a dominating win

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Speaker 2: for the Indianapolis Colts. They knock off the Tennessee Titans

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Speaker 2: Sunday forty one to twenty and week three down in Nashville,

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Speaker 2: and the win for the Colts moves them up to

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Speaker 2: three and ohero on the season, just their seventh three

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Speaker 2: and oh start in the Indianapolis Era. Hello everybody, Welcome

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Speaker 2: inside Colts Around Table Live. This is a full hour

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Speaker 2: I'm Matt Taylor. Also welcome inside the Indiana Union Construction

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Speaker 2: Industry Radio studio and Colts Roundtable Live is with you

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Speaker 2: until seven o'clock tonight. We are crammed for content for

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Speaker 2: the next hour or so. We're gonna kick off the

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Speaker 2: show in just a minute with our weekly conversation with

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Speaker 2: Colts head coach Shane Steichen on this first segment, and

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Speaker 2: then starting in segment two, analyst Rick Vin Turrey and

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Speaker 2: Joe Writes will join me to break down all that's

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Speaker 2: clicking for the Colts through three games. And then we

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Speaker 2: want your social media questions of course, all night long

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Speaker 2: for that trio, Shane, Joe and Rick submit your questions

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Speaker 2: on X tonight with the hashtag Colts Around Table. We'll

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Speaker 2: show tonight. We'll do all of that in just a moment.

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Speaker 2: But let's recap the Colts third win of the season

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Speaker 2: on the game rewind.

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Speaker 3: Well.

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Speaker 2: The Colts flat out took care of business against the Titans.

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Speaker 2: They outscored him twenty to six in the first half

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Speaker 2: and then twenty one to fourteen in the second half,

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Speaker 2: the Colts putting up forty points in a game for

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Speaker 2: the first time since twenty twenty one, and the offense

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Speaker 2: was incredibly balanced throughout. Daniel Jones went eighteen for twenty

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Speaker 2: no giveaways in the first three games of a season.

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Speaker 2: Michael Pittman Junior led the Colts in receiving with seventy

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Speaker 2: out than Jonathan Taylor was a beast on the ground

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Speaker 2: once again, carrying the rock seventeen times for one hundred

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Speaker 2: a season in team history since at least nineteen seventy.

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Speaker 2: The offense is on fire this year. They've scored one

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Speaker 2: and they've put up points on a ridiculous seventy seven

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Speaker 2: percent of their offensive possession so far this year. That

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Speaker 1: In the NFL.

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Speaker 2: The Colts have only had to punt once all year,

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Speaker 2: and this season marks the first time in franchise history,

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Speaker 2: the Colts haven't turned the ball over through the first

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Speaker 2: three weeks of a season. On defense, the Colts started

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Speaker 2: the scoring party with a thirty two yard pick six,

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Speaker 2: like Kenny Moore the second his fourth career picked six.

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Speaker 2: And on top of that, the Colts sacked rookie quarterback

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Speaker 2: win again for the Colts, dominating in all three phases,

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Speaker 2: and now the Colts set their sights on the LA

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Speaker 2: Rams in Week four. It will be the Colts first

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Speaker 2: against the NFC this season. All right, again, reminder coming

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Speaker 2: up segment two tonight, I'll be joined by Colts analysts

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Speaker 2: Rick Venturi and Joe Wrights. But right now it's time

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Speaker 2: to talk with Colts head coach Shane Steichen about the

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Speaker 2: Colts big win down in Nashville. Coach, appreciate the time,

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Speaker 2: Congratulations on the win three to zero start for the Colts.

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Speaker 2: What were your biggest positive takeaways from Sunday when you

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Speaker 2: went back and watched the game film over, I.

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Speaker 3: Thought our defense did a great job a getting after

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Speaker 3: And then offensively, obviously ninety eight we knew Simmons was

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Speaker 3: You know, going back and looking.

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Speaker 2: At the tape, now, you mentioned that the Titans were

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Speaker 2: of a game. What did that do to kind of

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Speaker 2: set the tone and take the wind out of their

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Speaker 2: sale by the visiting team in your case, Yeah, I.

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Speaker 3: Think it's big anytime you can score on defense, and

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Speaker 3: we did with those guys was huge and just kind

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Speaker 2: You know, Offensively, you haven't turned the ball over the

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Speaker 2: history of the Colts to not turn it over in

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Speaker 2: the first three weeks of the season. What are the

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Speaker 2: biggest things that go into playing a clean game? What

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Speaker 2: are your coaching points to produce no turnovers?

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Speaker 3: You know, we talk about ball security at a premium

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Speaker 3: each and every week. That's a focal point of ours,

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Speaker 3: whether it's doing a tackling circuit on Wednesday or doing

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Speaker 3: our ball security takeaway circuits on Thursday, and then really

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Speaker 3: emphasizing it in the team meetings as well. That's a

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Speaker 3: big part of it. And just being clean with the

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Speaker 3: football offensively, right. You know, we have our deal, you know,

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Speaker 3: risus the elbow elbow locked, eagle claw bodyball boundary. That's

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Speaker 3: what we talk about, we preached. And defensively, we're ripping,

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Speaker 3: we're stabbing, sure, we're run, run, reaching after that football,

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Speaker 3: and we're violently attacking the ball defensively, and those are

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Speaker 3: things that we harp on. We got banners up all

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Speaker 3: constant reminder, uh for those guys, uh, each and every

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you've got you've got one sign. I forget where

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Speaker 2: the ball, the ball, the ball, right. I mean that means,

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Speaker 2: you know, ball security and turnovers. Those are the biggest

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Speaker 2: things that when you and lose your football game.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, there's no question it's all over. We got the

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Speaker 3: little uh we got the little punch sticks too as

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Speaker 3: well when you walk into the defensive meeting room, so

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Speaker 3: they're constantly punching at the ball. And the spring thing

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Speaker 2: Too, So it's off the field too.

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Speaker 3: It's everywhere everywhere, So it's all about.

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Speaker 2: I'm just fascinated by this promise is the last question.

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Speaker 2: But but how much does down and distance factor into turnovers? Right,

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Speaker 2: second and long and third and long are the big

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Speaker 2: turnover downs and the Colts just haven't been in too

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Speaker 2: many of those situations so.

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Speaker 1: Far this year.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's obviously a big part of it. I think

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Speaker 3: it's uh, you know, staying staying on track on the

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Speaker 3: early downs and not putting yourself in those positions. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: and I think we've done a good job of that.

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Speaker 3: And then also just the ballkickers JT taking care of it.

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Speaker 3: It's been big, so we got to continue that and

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Speaker 3: that's going to be a huge focal point.

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Speaker 2: For us and Daniel Jones obviously. I mean we've spent

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Speaker 2: a lot of time talking about him so far in

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Speaker 2: this early season over seventy percent completion percentage. But how

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Speaker 2: much improvement are you already seeing out of him from

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Speaker 2: from game one to game three? Game one was already

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Speaker 2: pretty good. Game three is even better as it relates

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Speaker 2: to keeping this team on schedule and not turn the

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Speaker 2: football over.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think he's doing a hell of a job,

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Speaker 3: a really good job, and I think it starts up

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Speaker 3: the other guy's making place for him too. But he's

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Speaker 3: seen it well. He's delivering the football with accuracy. He's

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Speaker 1: Thrown on time.

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Speaker 3: He knows how to throw it too as well. There's

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Speaker 3: got to drill it, you know, in those tight windows,

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Speaker 2: As Shane sticking with us. This is Colts around Table

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Speaker 3: I thought that did a good job. I thought Loo

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Speaker 2: go to Michael. He's asking, after what we've seen early

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Speaker 2: All right, Ian, I know we generated four sacks on Sunday,

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Speaker 2: All right, This is an operation question. This is from James.

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Speaker 2: The Titans tried a very long field goal. Joey Sly

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that's all part of the you know,

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Speaker 2: And that's that pretty wild to see him line up

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Speaker 2: They fell to the Eagles on Sunday, dramatic loss for them.

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Speaker 2: of the program is brought to you by Caesar Sports Book,

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Speaker 2: proud sports betting partner of the Indianapolis Colts. The Colts

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Speaker 2: are three and oh boys, hope you're doing well, Joe.

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Speaker 2: How'd you take in the game yesterday? Watching from Afar.

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Speaker 5: Oh, it was great to watch and uh again we

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Speaker 5: started fast. It was in you know, a game that

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Speaker 5: you know, in my opinion, never really was in doubt,

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Speaker 5: and that's great to see, but fun to watch, and

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Speaker 5: then really had fun digging into the All twenty two

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Speaker 5: this morning, you know, and yeah, breaking down the tape.

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Speaker 5: So looking forward to chatting about it here this evening.

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Speaker 2: No doubt about that. We're gonna get to that in

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Speaker 2: just a second. Rick Venturi along as well. I hope

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Speaker 2: you're doing well also, RV. What was the sweetest part

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Speaker 2: for your game day experience watching that game from the

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Speaker 2: man cave and a workmanlike effort for the Colts taking

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Speaker 2: care of the Titans.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think, you know, I think one of the

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Speaker 4: greatest things for me is all the things I fear

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Speaker 4: about trap games. Man, that franchise was ready yesterday. They

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Speaker 4: were gonna let that be a trap game. And I

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Speaker 4: really credit that because that can happen. I credit the

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Speaker 4: whole franchise for that coaching staff, the players. I mean,

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Speaker 4: they went in there to take it. They really did.

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Speaker 2: It was certainly dominant forty one to twenty, and the

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Speaker 2: game really didn't even feel that close. So we're gonna

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Speaker 2: break it all down. A lot to get into the

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Speaker 2: rest of the way, Rick and Joe, we're gonna take

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Speaker 2: you home until seven o'clock. I'm Matt Taylor here, So

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Speaker 2: a lot to get into. Segment three on the Horizon,

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Speaker 2: we're gonna roll out a portion of the show. I'm

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Speaker 2: calling it. Don't take it for granted, because we're gonna

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Speaker 2: discuss all that's working for the Colts through three games,

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Speaker 2: and of course we'll highlight some areas that are performing

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Speaker 2: at just an unusually high level three games into the

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Speaker 2: season for the Colts and all this execution, all of

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Speaker 2: this consistency, we have to break it down. But on

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Speaker 2: this segment we let Rick and Joe comment on their

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Speaker 2: initial reactions from the game. We call it the tail

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Speaker 2: of the tape.

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Speaker 1: Baby Grayson, hell today.

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Speaker 2: Okay to go, fellas, Bang bang, play bang bang.

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Speaker 1: Keep the hammer down, keep talking to one another, man

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Speaker 1: to clean it up. That's all.

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Speaker 2: Get righty, get righty, all right, fellas. The Colts are

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Speaker 2: three and zero, first time since two thousand and nine.

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Speaker 2: They outscored the Titans twenty to six at half time,

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Speaker 2: twenty one to fourteen of the second half, and the

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Speaker 2: Colts remain in first place in the AFC South thanks

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Speaker 2: to over eight hundred passing yards so far by Daniel

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Speaker 2: Jones in the first three games, also in part thanks

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Speaker 2: to Jonathan Taylor's three hundred and thirty eight rushing yards

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Speaker 2: on the season. So, Rick, I'm start with you tonight. First,

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Speaker 2: get out the notebook. Tell us what else you need

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Speaker 2: to note on the Colts and the dominant performance over

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Speaker 2: the Titans from watching the game film again this morning.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm just riding this wave. I mean, as I

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Speaker 4: said earlier, I was so proud of the team for

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Speaker 4: going out there and absolutely dominating from the first play.

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Speaker 4: This could have been a trap game, but they went

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Speaker 4: out hit him right off the bat. You know, Kenny's

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Speaker 4: big interception. You know, we won the big three areas

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Speaker 4: that I look at. First area is the start of

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Speaker 4: the game. We win the first quarter, seventeen at three.

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Speaker 4: You know, we win the middle eight, which I put

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Speaker 4: a lot of stock into. You know, we scored before

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Speaker 4: the half, and then we score on the first drive,

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Speaker 4: and then we put them to sleep in the fourth quarter.

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Speaker 4: I mean, I'll tell you what you could you could

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Speaker 4: tell the outside world this is really a damn good

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Speaker 4: Colt football team. There's no fluke here. This is really

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Speaker 4: a good team. You know what hit me, Matt is

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Speaker 4: in the past, a game like this would have been

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Speaker 4: a nail bier. It would have been like twenty one

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Speaker 4: to twenty we'd have been holding on a field goal

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Speaker 4: at the end.

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Speaker 2: They all have been Titans exactly right now.

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Speaker 4: I mean, you know, even against a bad team. But

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Speaker 4: you know, the difference is your offense is sensational. I mean,

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Speaker 4: Danny is and we're going to get into this number

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Speaker 4: one QBR in the league. You know, Jonathan is possessed.

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Speaker 4: He's the number one rusher in the league. And they

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Speaker 4: just keep scoring. That's the difference. You just keep scoring

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Speaker 4: all of a sudden, you know, even if they do

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Speaker 4: something well, it's forty one at the end of the day.

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Speaker 4: You know, the offensive variation has been tremendous. I think

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Speaker 4: Shane has done a great job of coming out and

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Speaker 4: establishing the lead. Don't worry about establishing the runner of

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Speaker 4: the past. Established the lead, and he's come out pretty

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Speaker 4: much wide open, really moved, you know, moved the quarterback

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Speaker 4: around and then ends up pounding him to death rate late.

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Speaker 4: You know, the use of pitman and Warren, who are

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Speaker 4: kind of like hybrid KUIs. I mean, it's been great

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Speaker 4: and it pierced over the top. Number one in scoring,

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Speaker 4: number two total, zero turnover is one sack third and

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Speaker 4: rush one punt. Are you kidding me? That's unbelievable. I

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Speaker 4: did think special teams. I thought we kept DK He

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Speaker 4: made some yards, but he never really broke one. You know,

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Speaker 4: I thought that was an important thing. Our defense is

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Speaker 4: a little bit uneven, even though it's seventh total. We're

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Speaker 4: doing some good things and we're playing in spots, but

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Speaker 4: I think we really have to be better. You know,

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Speaker 4: we're still we're still giving up a lot of rush per.

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Speaker 4: We're still number twenty five in rush per, and I

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Speaker 4: think when you're doing that, you affect your rush a

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Speaker 4: little bit. You know. We got four sacks yesterday, And

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Speaker 4: of course I always got to take my hat off

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Speaker 4: to Lewis. I just think when Lewis is healthy, he's

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Speaker 4: the most productive guy with the exception of Buckner and

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Speaker 4: Grover on that front. I mean, he's always there, and

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Speaker 4: you know, I don't know a lot to just seems

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Speaker 4: like he's on the witness protection pro for me, and

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Speaker 4: you know, I have to give credit. I have you

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Speaker 4: know award. You know, he avoided a lot of things,

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Speaker 4: made some pretty good throws, some hard throws on the run.

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Speaker 4: You know, he showed some of that. But you know,

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Speaker 4: I think I think a couple of things. I think

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Speaker 4: we have to be really better on the edge. I

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Speaker 4: didn't think we were very good against Nicks on predetermined stuff.

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Speaker 4: And then I thought we let this kid get out

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Speaker 4: on some scrambles you know, where he plays best. I

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Speaker 4: think that's really going to be interesting. But again, terrific win,

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Speaker 4: you know, terrific win on a game that you could

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Speaker 4: go in there and play flat. We did not. The

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Speaker 4: only trouble area is that I see, and I think

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Speaker 4: you have to fix them before we go to LA

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Speaker 4: because you're going to play a really good team there.

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Speaker 4: We're still as good as we are on offense, we're

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Speaker 4: still twenty sixth in the red zone. We still have

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Speaker 4: to get better there. And on defense for thirty second,

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Speaker 4: we haven't stopped the red zone drive yet. So you know,

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Speaker 4: I think those issues right there, you know, have to

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Speaker 4: be fixed. But man, it's it's as we always said

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Speaker 4: in coaching, it's great to be correcting things and getting

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Speaker 4: better when.

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Speaker 5: You're winning, Amen coach. And to add on to that,

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Speaker 5: you know, there's nothing like a win. When you go

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Speaker 5: in there, you watch the film critically, you get better.

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Speaker 5: You understand this is just week three of a seventeen

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Speaker 5: week season. But what impressed me the most is, you know,

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Speaker 5: the three things. For me, We started fast, the pick

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Speaker 5: six from Kenny. You know, people are still settling in

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Speaker 5: from the Broadway bars, and all of a sudden, we're

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Speaker 5: upsetting nothing on the scoreboard, and that was kind of

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Speaker 5: a gift, but we'll take the gift and not apologize

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Speaker 5: for it. Number two, no turnovers again, three straight games

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Speaker 5: with no turnovers were plus five. We're tops. The NFL

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Speaker 5: tied up there for number one. That's an unbelievable indicator

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Speaker 5: on your long term and playoff success. And then number three,

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Speaker 5: the double score right before half. I mean the games

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Speaker 5: seventeen to six Tennessee's lined up for a long field goal.

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Speaker 5: Why they called time out and then got a delay

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Speaker 5: a game after that, I have no idea, but Big

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Speaker 5: Grove blocks it. All of a sudden, we turn a

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Speaker 5: potential seventeen to nine game at half into twenty to

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Speaker 5: six before the half, and we score on the first

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Speaker 5: drive to Pittman, it's twenty seven to six and good

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Speaker 5: night Nashville. That game was over. But for me, the

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Speaker 5: play of the game was, you know, late in the

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Speaker 5: third quarter there and Warren. You know, he comes across

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Speaker 5: on just a little you know, pre snap, he's running,

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Speaker 5: he gets the ball in the flat. Nice game. Then

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Speaker 5: he lines up at fullback and Coach, I know you

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Speaker 5: love this. We ran old school ISO strongside. There was

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Speaker 5: a meeting in the B gap between him and Cody

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Speaker 5: Barton and boom, Taylor gets unscathed at the secondary. He

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Speaker 5: jukes the first safety, then he spins out of a tackle,

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Speaker 5: then he breaks like three more tackles and Pittman is

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Speaker 5: thirty yards downfield to get a block in for the touchdown.

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Speaker 5: Coach mentioned it, Yeah, our wide receiver blocking is unbelievable.

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Speaker 5: And when you have worn as physical as he is,

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Speaker 5: as physical as Pittman is, that was just an awesome

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Speaker 5: icing on the cake to watch that and to say

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Speaker 5: night night to the Titans fans.

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Speaker 4: No, you know, the thing about it is, I reference

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Speaker 4: those two guys as high and I do that with

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Speaker 4: full compliment in It's almost like I've always said, Titman

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Speaker 4: is like a tight end and wide receiver's body. He's

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Speaker 4: so good over the middle and what you saw when

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Speaker 4: they get it to him in the flat, he runs

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Speaker 4: byp he runs through people. And Warren is a full back,

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Speaker 4: wide receiver tight end. I mean, like you said, he

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Speaker 4: blocks the eye, so the next thing you know, he's

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Speaker 4: catching the ball and making people miss. I mean, these

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Speaker 4: are two hybrid weapons. You know. They're fun to watch.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, just old school football players.

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Speaker 1: Man.

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Speaker 2: They can line up and do a lot of things

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Speaker 2: for you, and it's fun little toys to play with

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Speaker 2: if you're Shane stiking within that offense. All right, great

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Speaker 2: stuff right there. Off to a fantastic start. That's the

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Speaker 2: tale of the tape with Rick Venturi and Joe Rights.

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Speaker 2: Those are their reactions from watching the game film from

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Speaker 2: Sunday and a thorough beatdown of the Titans, who, by

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Speaker 2: the way, they've lost nine straight games dating back to

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Speaker 2: last year. They are zero to three for the second

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Speaker 2: straight year. The Colts in first place in the AFC South. Hey,

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Speaker 2: Colts fans, remember the weather authorities are Fox fifty nine

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Speaker 2: in CBS four, Indiana's largest and weatherrate certified most accurate

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Speaker 2: weather Coming up segment three, we're gonna roll on and

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Speaker 2: this upcoming segment is titled Don't Take It for Granted.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna highlight the areas that are performing at an

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Speaker 2: incredibly high level for the Colts through three games, and

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Speaker 2: we'll talk about why we need to kind of sit

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Speaker 2: back and hopefully they continue, but just really revel in

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Speaker 2: what we're seeing so far from the Indianapolis Colts. That's

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Speaker 2: coming up next when we come back on Colts Roundtable

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Speaker 2: so on ninety three five and one oh seven five

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

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Speaker 1: Again.

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Speaker 2: I Matt Taylor, joined by Rick Vincery and Joe Writes.

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Speaker 2: Shane Steiken joined us on the first segment, breaking down

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Speaker 2: the big win over the Titans. On the last segment,

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Speaker 2: Joe and Rick looked at the film and discussed all

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Speaker 2: that went right for the Colts in Week three. But

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Speaker 2: now let's take a deeper dive into all of this success, fellas,

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Speaker 2: and let's discuss the areas that are thriving for the Colts.

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Speaker 2: This segment is called don't take it for granted. We

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Speaker 2: need to kind of take a step back and marvel

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Speaker 2: at the execution in these areas. And first up, Jones

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Speaker 2: or Joe, I need to talk about Daniel Jones because

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Speaker 2: he's been remarkable and he's off to a fantastic start.

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Speaker 2: Yesterday eighteen of twenty five two to eight and a touchdown.

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Speaker 2: He also had four carries for twenty seven, including that

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Speaker 2: sensational scramble of seventeen yards to get the Colts first down,

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Speaker 2: and he avoided a sack. He's also the first player

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Speaker 2: the Super Bowl era with three plus passing touchdowns, three

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Speaker 2: plus rushing touchdowns, and most importantly, as we noted earlier,

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Speaker 2: no giveaways in the first three games of a season.

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Speaker 2: He's over one hundred passer rating in the first three

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Speaker 2: games of the season. He's never done that before at

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Speaker 2: any other point in his career. So it's not even

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Speaker 2: sell factual. He is having the best three game stretch

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Speaker 2: of his career right now, Joe. So how much do

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Speaker 2: we kind of need to sit back, appreciate and not

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Speaker 2: take for granted what we're seeing out of Daniel Jones

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Speaker 2: right now in the production that he's giving the Colts

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Speaker 2: in this offense.

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Speaker 5: No, it's an incredible start and just the way he's

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Speaker 5: playing has just been unbelievable. And you know, for me, really,

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Speaker 5: Matt three plays early on in that game really highlight

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Speaker 5: all the different fasts that's that Jones has to his game.

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Speaker 5: The first one, you know, early on in the game,

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Speaker 5: we fake the handoff to Taylor, Jones does a little

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Speaker 5: half roll left. I mean he's looking left, looking left

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Speaker 5: the whole time Downs is running up the seam. They

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Speaker 5: think it's going to be a go rat. All of

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Speaker 5: a sudden he breaks for that deep over, and I

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Speaker 5: mean he didn't even look right till the very end

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Speaker 5: of that throw. Right when he was letting go of

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Speaker 5: the ball, he knew exactly where downs was going to be.

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Speaker 5: He put it right in the exact spot to break

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Speaker 5: it for a big thirty yard game. I mean, just

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Speaker 5: the trust he has in his arm, in the accuracy

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Speaker 5: and being able to, you know, look other ways and

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Speaker 5: look off the safeties, I mean, is really impressive. And

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Speaker 5: then you follow it back up. You mentioned that seventeen

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Speaker 5: yard scramble. I mean Simmons, who's really good player. Now,

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Speaker 5: I mean he edged us, he crossed Bordolini's face. You're

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Speaker 5: looking like a ten yard sack. When Tennessee was kind

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Speaker 5: of getting excited. All of a sudden, he spins out left.

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Speaker 5: He scrambles for seventeen yards, takes on the safety there

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Speaker 5: with a little shoulder, and then we go down on

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Speaker 5: the red zone and I just think his legs as

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Speaker 5: good as he's been with his arm. His legs are

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Speaker 5: such a weapon. I mentioned the scramble, and then down

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Speaker 5: there in the red zone, you fake to JT up

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Speaker 5: the middle. I mean tremendous ball handling two. By the way,

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Speaker 5: watching it live on TV, you think that Taylor's got

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Speaker 5: the ball, he pulls it for an eight yard game,

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Speaker 5: gets us down to the two. We go in there

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Speaker 5: and score, And Coach mentioned kind of the red zone

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Speaker 5: woes a little bit for the Colts quarterbacks legs ability

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Speaker 5: to run, that's a bonus down there when things get

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Speaker 5: tight and when they're harder to handle. And I just

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Speaker 5: think what you're really seeing Matt through three games is

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Speaker 5: a perfect marriage between Jones's ability on the field and

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Speaker 5: Shane Steichen's play calling. You can tell that Shane has

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Speaker 5: complete trust that he can call anything he's got in

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Speaker 5: the playbook and he knows that Jones is going to

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Speaker 5: be able to handle it. And I think Jones is

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Speaker 5: really benefiting from Shane calling the game. All the different

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Speaker 5: diversity and formations, all the different motions, all the different

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Speaker 5: pre snapchecks that he's given, what we're doing offensively in

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Speaker 5: the run game, what we're doing offensively in the past game.

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Speaker 5: I mean, that's hard to prepare for now, as diverse

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Speaker 5: and multiple as we are in so many different ways,

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Speaker 5: but still being balanced running the ball and throwing the

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Speaker 5: ball it's been really impressive so far. And again, can't

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Speaker 5: say enough about Daniel Jones. Yeah, that's the book on

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Speaker 5: Daniel Jones. With Joe Wrights not taking him for granted.

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Speaker 5: Let's progress down. And another guy that you just you

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Speaker 5: have to marvel at, but you can't take him for granted.

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Speaker 5: You have to appreciate what he does every single week

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Speaker 5: is Jonathan Taylor, Rick fin Turrey. Because yesterday over one

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Speaker 5: hundred yards three touchdowns, he has the most rushing yards

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Speaker 5: through the first three games of a season in team

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Speaker 5: history dating back to the merger in nineteen seventy. Yesterday

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Speaker 5: was his twenty sixth career one hundred yard rushing game,

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Speaker 5: third time in his career with one hundred plus rushing

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Speaker 5: yards and at least three rushing touchdowns. His consistency is

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Speaker 5: just off the charts. Dating back to last year, He's

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Speaker 5: cracked the one hundred yard barrier in six of his

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Speaker 5: last seven games. I mean, he goes without saying Rick,

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Speaker 5: he's in the prime of his career, But I mean,

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Speaker 5: how much do we need as a fan base to

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Speaker 5: sit back and kind of take a second to just

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Speaker 5: appreciate the brilliance of Jonathan Taylor Because it looks like

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Speaker 5: the Colts have two different ideas right now. And I

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Speaker 5: know we've talked about this, but they have the passing game,

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Speaker 5: which is explosive under Daniel Jones and all the pass catchers,

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Speaker 5: but they also have this other identity where they're ground

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Speaker 5: and pound and great offensive line and Jonathan Taylor ripping

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Speaker 5: off a forty six yard touchdown that should have been

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Speaker 5: about a five yard gain initially.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and I think it starts tactically. I've always said

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Speaker 4: from the beginning is no matter what you established, Jonathan

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Speaker 4: is the fulcrum. Jonathan is the guy that is going

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Speaker 4: to create the eight man box. He's the guy that

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Speaker 4: is going to get everybody tight in there. And now

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Speaker 4: with Warren and Pittman inside, you basically have a nine

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Speaker 4: man box. But it starts with Jonathan. And I think

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Speaker 4: Shane's done a great job. We talked about it before

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Speaker 4: in terms of just coming out and establishing the lead.

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Speaker 4: Don't worry about we're gonna run it here. We're going

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Speaker 4: to do this. What he's done, knowing he's going to

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Speaker 4: get that eight man front, He's come out and thrown

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Speaker 4: the ball. He's been wide open right off the bat,

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Speaker 4: and particularly with Bootlegs. I thought, we're going to set

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Speaker 4: a new record with bo yesterday, and we get out

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Speaker 4: on the edge and get it going and soften them up.

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Speaker 4: And then here comes Jonathan. And you know, I've said

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Speaker 4: it a million times, he is a cumulative runner. And

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Speaker 4: the way you beat a defense is you open him up,

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Speaker 4: you get him fatigued, you get him playing pass and

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Speaker 4: rush the passer, and then stay close in the second

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Speaker 4: half you break him with that horse. And he is

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Speaker 4: a horse. I'm telling you. I said before the game,

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Speaker 4: both in the pregame and in the podcast, think touchdown

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Speaker 4: against this team when you break it, don't think first down,

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Speaker 4: think touchdown. You're seeing poorer and poorer tackling in the secondary.

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Speaker 4: And this is Jonathan's game. I've always believed that he's

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Speaker 4: right at the top of the league as the best runner,

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Speaker 4: but I have never I don't think I've ever seen

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Speaker 4: him run more possessed than he is right now. And

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Speaker 4: he's possessed in all aspects of the game. The blocking,

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Speaker 4: the catching, all everything that he's doing is unbelievable. It's

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Speaker 4: unbelievable what he's doing. And as I said, he has

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Speaker 4: that cumulative effect. You know when we had to put

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Speaker 4: him to sleep in the second half when they were

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Speaker 4: kind of hanging around. Then he makes those breakaway runs.

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Speaker 4: I mean, and he shows that speed. He just looks good.

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Speaker 4: And you know what, I thought we saw it in

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Speaker 4: training camp, but you just never know in practice. I

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Speaker 4: just thought he looked so sleek and quick, and man

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Speaker 4: is he is he showing it? I mean, I'll tell

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Speaker 4: you between you know, as Joe just talked about, between

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Speaker 4: Jones and and Taylor, you're getting sensational football. You're not

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Speaker 4: getting good football. You're getting sensational football.

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Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying. You have to sit back and

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Speaker 2: really marvel at it and appreciate what you got right here.

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Speaker 2: And to your point, I mean, Jonathan Taylor not only

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Speaker 2: does he look like twenty twenty one when he led

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Speaker 2: the NFL and rushing, I think he looks better, and

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Speaker 2: through three games he's on pace for a better season

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Speaker 2: that year. In twenty twenty one, he led the league

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Speaker 2: with over eighteen hundred yards. He's on pace for nineteen

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Speaker 2: hundred yards so far this year. So obviously a long

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Speaker 2: way to go, but the Colts are off to just

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Speaker 2: a fantastic start on offense. One hundred and three points

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Speaker 2: they've scored through three games. They've scored on seventy seven

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Speaker 2: percent of their offensive drives, no turnovers, only one punt.

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Speaker 2: It's been remarkable. Don't take it for granted. Right there,

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Speaker 2: that's a look at the areas that are performing at

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Speaker 5: Gold?

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Speaker 2: And are you concerned, Rick fin Turry about what we

867
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Speaker 2: have on the defensive line on the edges so far

868
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Speaker 2: this season?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I am a little bit concerned. I

870
00:40:28,719 --> 00:40:31,040
Speaker 4: think we can be so much better. And I think

871
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Speaker 4: it's also related to if our back end's healthy or not.

872
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Speaker 4: There's a couple of areas I think that affect this.

873
00:40:38,760 --> 00:40:41,200
Speaker 4: And Joe's heard me say this a million times. He's

874
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Speaker 4: heard most coaches say it. There's a thing that bothers

875
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Speaker 4: me a little bit. We're number seven, so we're playing

876
00:40:47,480 --> 00:40:51,200
Speaker 4: good defense, but we're not playing dominating defense on the run.

877
00:40:51,320 --> 00:40:55,600
Speaker 4: We're twenty fifth in terms of giving up yards per play,

878
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Speaker 4: which is all I care about. And I've always said

879
00:40:58,719 --> 00:41:01,440
Speaker 4: to you and said to people, and I used to

880
00:41:01,480 --> 00:41:04,719
Speaker 4: tell my players, you have to earn the right to

881
00:41:04,880 --> 00:41:07,600
Speaker 4: rush the passer. You've got to stop that run cold

882
00:41:08,080 --> 00:41:10,399
Speaker 4: and create more of those second and lungs and third

883
00:41:10,400 --> 00:41:13,399
Speaker 4: and lungs, and that'll help it. It's great to see

884
00:41:13,480 --> 00:41:17,640
Speaker 4: Lewis back. Lewis actually right now is our best edge rusher.

885
00:41:17,760 --> 00:41:21,600
Speaker 4: He had two sacks. Lat two has got to come back.

886
00:41:21,719 --> 00:41:24,640
Speaker 4: He's got to come back and give us an impact guy.

887
00:41:24,719 --> 00:41:26,319
Speaker 4: We're not getting any of that now. I know he's

888
00:41:26,360 --> 00:41:29,000
Speaker 4: coming back off the injury, but that has to be

889
00:41:29,160 --> 00:41:31,839
Speaker 4: there or we're not gonna do it now. The other

890
00:41:31,960 --> 00:41:36,480
Speaker 4: thing that's related to rush is close off, choke off coverages.

891
00:41:37,040 --> 00:41:41,000
Speaker 4: Lou wants to play tough, press match, get in there

892
00:41:41,080 --> 00:41:42,800
Speaker 4: and play you, and he did a lot of that

893
00:41:42,920 --> 00:41:45,440
Speaker 4: in the first half when we did get those sacks early,

894
00:41:45,960 --> 00:41:48,239
Speaker 4: but then when we lost Ward and then when we

895
00:41:48,400 --> 00:41:51,959
Speaker 4: lost Kenny, then he's forced to play more conventional zone,

896
00:41:52,320 --> 00:41:55,520
Speaker 4: which is exposed as our linebackers, and it also gives

897
00:41:55,600 --> 00:41:58,520
Speaker 4: a quarterback time to look at it and get it right.

898
00:41:58,680 --> 00:42:01,239
Speaker 4: So it's kind of really but I got to tell

899
00:42:01,239 --> 00:42:05,480
Speaker 4: you it's really critical that that secondary is healthy, particularly

900
00:42:05,600 --> 00:42:09,000
Speaker 4: Ward and Kenny. We can patch number three, but those

901
00:42:09,080 --> 00:42:11,840
Speaker 4: two guys have to be there and they will affect

902
00:42:11,880 --> 00:42:12,799
Speaker 4: the rush. Yeah.

903
00:42:13,040 --> 00:42:15,680
Speaker 2: Unfortunately, bad news for Kenny Moore. He's going to miss

904
00:42:15,719 --> 00:42:18,360
Speaker 2: some time with a calf injury, so we'll see how

905
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Speaker 2: that goes. Of course, the Colts today signed Mike Hilton

906
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Speaker 2: to their practice squad. He has a ton of familiarity

907
00:42:23,760 --> 00:42:27,080
Speaker 2: playing nickel cornerback under lu An Rumo. I should say

908
00:42:27,120 --> 00:42:30,160
Speaker 2: all those years when they were together with the Cincinnati Bengals.

909
00:42:30,160 --> 00:42:33,080
Speaker 2: All right, let's go to Scott. He's asking all off

910
00:42:33,160 --> 00:42:35,799
Speaker 2: season long, Joe writs, we heard about needing to get

911
00:42:35,880 --> 00:42:39,040
Speaker 2: more completions in the middle of the field. So why

912
00:42:39,160 --> 00:42:41,399
Speaker 2: is Daniel Jones able to do that at a much

913
00:42:41,520 --> 00:42:43,880
Speaker 2: higher rate for the Colts so far this season?

914
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Speaker 5: Well, a couple things. I think. Number One, tight ends.

915
00:42:46,480 --> 00:42:49,320
Speaker 5: We were lasting completions in the NFL last year and

916
00:42:49,400 --> 00:42:51,359
Speaker 5: we can see that. You know, Tyler Warren is an

917
00:42:51,400 --> 00:42:53,920
Speaker 5: emerging star, and I mean that's your best bet, right

918
00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:55,920
Speaker 5: get those tight ends across the middle of the field.

919
00:42:56,560 --> 00:42:58,520
Speaker 5: You know, they're too big for safeties to cover them,

920
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Speaker 5: they're too fast for linebacker. So he's got that large

921
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Speaker 5: catch radius so him. One, I think Pittman being healthy. Two,

922
00:43:04,840 --> 00:43:07,399
Speaker 5: you think people forget that Pittman had a fractured bone

923
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Speaker 5: in his back that he played through last year. That's

924
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Speaker 5: a tough dude. He's healthy. But I think the real

925
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Speaker 5: thing is the combination of Jones and his accuracy throwing

926
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Speaker 5: the ball to making the right read and getting to

927
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Speaker 5: his second read, his third read. Hanging in there. What

928
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Speaker 5: I love about Jones. He hangs in there in the pocket.

929
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Speaker 5: He knows where he's gonna go. He's hanging in there

930
00:43:26,800 --> 00:43:28,680
Speaker 5: as long as he can, long as he can, you know,

931
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Speaker 5: on the deep over the downs. I mean, he took

932
00:43:30,360 --> 00:43:32,040
Speaker 5: a shot right there, threw it off his back foot,

933
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Speaker 5: but he know where he wanted to go with the ball.

934
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Speaker 5: And so I think you're really seeing the combinations his

935
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Speaker 5: accuracy and then Shane Stike and being able to just

936
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Speaker 5: really fully deploy his whole bag as they call it,

937
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Speaker 5: right his bag of tricks and all the different plays,

938
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Speaker 5: knowing the confidence he has that seventeen's gonna run him,

939
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Speaker 5: and he's gonna run him.

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Speaker 2: Well, no good stuff right there. Again, that's Joe Wrights.

941
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Speaker 2: This is Colt's Round Table Live with our mailbag segment. Here,

942
00:43:54,560 --> 00:43:57,560
Speaker 2: Ty for one more question submission on X again. Hashtag

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00:43:57,600 --> 00:44:00,400
Speaker 2: Colts round Table to submit your questions here. This is

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Speaker 2: coming up from Jason. He's asking hey, Rick in Nashville,

945
00:44:03,960 --> 00:44:07,600
Speaker 2: Michael Pittman Junior led the team seventy three yards, six

946
00:44:07,760 --> 00:44:12,280
Speaker 2: catches a touchdown. He's also showing off that patented bruising

947
00:44:12,640 --> 00:44:16,120
Speaker 2: run after catchability. How much do we need to appreciate

948
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Speaker 2: the fact that Michael Pittman Junior is back healthy after

949
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Speaker 2: a fractured bone injury that in his back that he

950
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Speaker 2: dealt with for most of last year. He's healthy this

951
00:44:26,280 --> 00:44:30,320
Speaker 2: year and he is definitely producing a much larger clip

952
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Speaker 2: so far in three games for the Colts that he

953
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Speaker 2: did for most of last season when he was banged up.

954
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Speaker 4: Well, I think it's three things. First of all, you know,

955
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Speaker 4: first of all, Pittman's health is really critical. Number two,

956
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Speaker 4: Pittman is one of our most physical football players. He

957
00:44:46,080 --> 00:44:49,640
Speaker 4: defines doing the dirty work on a big run last week.

958
00:44:49,760 --> 00:44:52,080
Speaker 4: Last week he made a big block. I mean, he's

959
00:44:52,160 --> 00:44:56,400
Speaker 4: downfield blocking. But Michael is not just a pure outside

960
00:44:56,480 --> 00:44:59,960
Speaker 4: receiver like I said, Michael is a hyrid Michael Pittman

961
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:04,040
Speaker 4: and is a master across the field in the middle

962
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Speaker 4: of the field, tough like a tight end, you can't

963
00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:10,120
Speaker 4: knock him around. And then he's really good in the

964
00:45:10,280 --> 00:45:12,799
Speaker 4: flat where you can get him the ball, let him

965
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Speaker 4: get turned up, be physical and do those type of things.

966
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Speaker 4: This is his game. And what I really feel like

967
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Speaker 4: is he's really coming back into his own. And part

968
00:45:22,840 --> 00:45:26,000
Speaker 4: of it is also usage, because I think now what

969
00:45:26,200 --> 00:45:29,360
Speaker 4: Shane has done is now he's not worried about building

970
00:45:29,680 --> 00:45:32,040
Speaker 4: a circle around his quarterback and we can only do this,

971
00:45:32,400 --> 00:45:34,880
Speaker 4: and we can only do that, and so he's found

972
00:45:34,960 --> 00:45:37,680
Speaker 4: the roles for his players, and I think he's found

973
00:45:37,719 --> 00:45:41,719
Speaker 4: the perfect role for Warren and for Pittman, and that's

974
00:45:41,719 --> 00:45:44,920
Speaker 4: why you're seeing both of those guys really really flourish.

975
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Speaker 4: I mean, I totally believe it. I mean, pittanycough the

976
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Speaker 4: touchdown over the middle. You look at him over the middle.

977
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Speaker 4: You look at him moving and in the flat, catching

978
00:45:54,280 --> 00:45:56,880
Speaker 4: the ball quick and turning up, and it's a totally

979
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Speaker 4: different look.

980
00:45:58,000 --> 00:46:01,839
Speaker 2: Big time contributions from Michael Pittman Junior so far two

981
00:46:01,960 --> 00:46:05,600
Speaker 2: games over sixty receiving yards and a couple of touchdowns

982
00:46:05,680 --> 00:46:07,799
Speaker 2: on the season already. All right, that's the mail bag

983
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984
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Speaker 2: we're also going to take a look at the rams

993
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Speaker 2: in week four. They're coming up next. We'll do that

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Speaker 2: We're back for the final time. Thanks for sticking with

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Speaker 2: Rick Venturion Joe writes, it's time now for our closing

1010
00:47:25,360 --> 00:47:27,960
Speaker 2: arguments as we wrap up the program and look ahead

1011
00:47:28,000 --> 00:47:30,760
Speaker 2: to week number four. So, Joe, the floor is yours,

1012
00:47:30,840 --> 00:47:33,160
Speaker 2: my friend. The Colts are three and ozero. Life's pretty good.

1013
00:47:33,200 --> 00:47:35,839
Speaker 2: They're in first place, they have a great shot at

1014
00:47:36,040 --> 00:47:38,120
Speaker 2: you know, their long term goals here off to a

1015
00:47:38,160 --> 00:47:41,480
Speaker 2: great start. They've got some wiggle room. But you know,

1016
00:47:41,560 --> 00:47:43,920
Speaker 2: it's a long journey. It's a marathon, not a sprint.

1017
00:47:44,040 --> 00:47:46,279
Speaker 2: So up next for the Colts a long trip out

1018
00:47:46,320 --> 00:47:48,920
Speaker 2: to Los Angeles. So give us your final thoughts on

1019
00:47:49,000 --> 00:47:51,960
Speaker 2: that Titans win and how the Colts balance success and

1020
00:47:52,120 --> 00:47:54,359
Speaker 2: hunger going into week four on the road again.

1021
00:47:54,920 --> 00:47:57,480
Speaker 5: Yeah, no question, Matt. I mean great win, division win,

1022
00:47:57,680 --> 00:48:01,319
Speaker 5: road win. You always those and those mean a little

1023
00:48:01,320 --> 00:48:04,000
Speaker 5: bit extra. But you know, hey, it's it's Monday night

1024
00:48:04,200 --> 00:48:06,480
Speaker 5: and we're well past the twenty four hour rules, so

1025
00:48:06,480 --> 00:48:07,799
Speaker 5: you got to go back to work. And I think

1026
00:48:07,880 --> 00:48:12,440
Speaker 5: for me, this Colts team, it's now managing the expectations

1027
00:48:12,480 --> 00:48:14,520
Speaker 5: that are changing with this team. People are talking about

1028
00:48:14,520 --> 00:48:16,640
Speaker 5: the Colts now they're a really good football team, they're

1029
00:48:16,640 --> 00:48:19,240
Speaker 5: the favorites in the division. All that stuff is true,

1030
00:48:19,600 --> 00:48:20,880
Speaker 5: but now you got to go back to work, and

1031
00:48:20,920 --> 00:48:22,880
Speaker 5: you got to handle that. It's harder to handle when

1032
00:48:22,880 --> 00:48:26,200
Speaker 5: everybody's talking good about you than when everybody wants to

1033
00:48:26,239 --> 00:48:28,040
Speaker 5: throw stones at you. And we're playing a really good

1034
00:48:28,120 --> 00:48:30,080
Speaker 5: Rams team that came off a game against the Eagles

1035
00:48:30,080 --> 00:48:32,080
Speaker 5: that they had in the bag and they lost. You

1036
00:48:32,160 --> 00:48:33,560
Speaker 5: know that they're going to be hungry. They kind of

1037
00:48:33,560 --> 00:48:35,879
Speaker 5: gave that one away. But coach, I'm going to toss

1038
00:48:36,000 --> 00:48:37,919
Speaker 5: up to you. I know mcveigh's an awful good coach,

1039
00:48:38,040 --> 00:48:39,680
Speaker 5: but I think a lot of listeners don't know that

1040
00:48:40,360 --> 00:48:42,400
Speaker 5: he used to get your coffee for you back in

1041
00:48:42,440 --> 00:48:44,399
Speaker 5: the day when you were coaching together in Tampa Bay.

1042
00:48:44,680 --> 00:48:46,560
Speaker 4: Yeah, I love I love him a lot, but I

1043
00:48:46,600 --> 00:48:47,960
Speaker 4: want to beat the hell out of him. But he

1044
00:48:48,160 --> 00:48:51,640
Speaker 4: is really a subant, you know. They the Rams come

1045
00:48:51,680 --> 00:48:55,040
Speaker 4: off a devastating loss. There's nothing worse than to blow

1046
00:48:55,080 --> 00:48:57,680
Speaker 4: a game when you have a nineteen point or seventeen

1047
00:48:57,760 --> 00:49:01,080
Speaker 4: point lead, whatever it was they and they still would

1048
00:49:01,080 --> 00:49:03,160
Speaker 4: have won it, but they have two field goal blocks

1049
00:49:03,200 --> 00:49:06,040
Speaker 4: in the fourth quarter right down the middle. So it

1050
00:49:06,200 --> 00:49:08,759
Speaker 4: was a very very difficult loss. They're a very very

1051
00:49:08,800 --> 00:49:11,920
Speaker 4: good team, to say the least. I think that the

1052
00:49:12,000 --> 00:49:14,719
Speaker 4: thing you got to know about them. Number one, the

1053
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Speaker 4: state of the art head coach in McVeigh. They've got

1054
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Speaker 4: a great quarterback still in Matthew Stafford. Their young defense

1055
00:49:23,480 --> 00:49:26,480
Speaker 4: is really really good and athletic. It's going to be

1056
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Speaker 4: the number two ranked offense with the Colts against the

1057
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Speaker 4: number five ranked defense and number two in sacks over

1058
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Speaker 4: there with the Rams. And then two terrific receivers. Nakua

1059
00:49:38,360 --> 00:49:41,680
Speaker 4: who is really a master of the middle of the field.

1060
00:49:42,600 --> 00:49:45,640
Speaker 4: He's a great receiver. He ripped us two years ago,

1061
00:49:46,320 --> 00:49:49,480
Speaker 4: and bringing Adams in there has given him that outside,

1062
00:49:49,640 --> 00:49:53,040
Speaker 4: double move fade guy. So it's kind of like mister

1063
00:49:53,160 --> 00:49:56,319
Speaker 4: outside and mister inside with a guy who can really

1064
00:49:56,400 --> 00:50:00,640
Speaker 4: get him the game. Real challenge coming up here, challenge there,

1065
00:50:00,680 --> 00:50:05,920
Speaker 4: and so far in good barometer game. Really they should

1066
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Speaker 4: be four and oh we're four and oh. Championship type game.

1067
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Speaker 2: Yep, no doubt about. It's gonna be a great one.

1068
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Speaker 2: And we've got all week to preview the matchup coming

1069
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Speaker 2: up on Sunday. That's a quick scouting report on the Rams.

1070
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Speaker 2: As Rick Venturi mentioned again, they suffer their first loss

1071
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Speaker 2: of the season against the Eagles Sunday, thirty three to

1072
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Speaker 2: twenty six after they had a comfortable lead for most

1073
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Speaker 2: of that game. All right, that's gonna do it for tonight,

1074
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Speaker 2: Joe and Rick. Great to be with you guys every

1075
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Speaker 2: Monday here in the regular season. Fantastic job per usual.

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Speaker 2: My thanks to head coach Shane Stiching again who joined

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Speaker 2: on that first segment. And if you missed any of

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Speaker 2: this show, whether it was Shane or the fellas Joe

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Speaker 2: be posted here shortly on Colts dot com and the

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Speaker 2: Colts Mobile app or the Colts Podcast channel anywhere you

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Speaker 2: download your podcast. Stay tuned shortly it will be up

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Speaker 2: and you can listen on demand on your schedule. We're

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Speaker 2: gonna do it next week breaking down Week four Colts

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Speaker 2: and Rams, but until then, have a great rest of

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Speaker 2: the week. Thanks so much for tuning in tonight. I'm

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Speaker 2: Matt Taylor, Colts Around Table Live on your home for

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Speaker 2: the Colts ninety three five and one oh seven five

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Speaker 2: the Fan.

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Speaker 1: Good night,