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Speaker 1: All you need to know about the Colts in one place.

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Speaker 1: The Colts Daily Update starts. Now here's the voice of

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Speaker 1: the Colts, Matt Taylor. Hey, welcome inside the Colts Daily

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Speaker 1: Update here on the fan. Happy hump Day, and we're

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Speaker 1: leading you into Pacer basketball. Tonight, the Pacers take on

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Speaker 1: the Nuggets at the field House. I'm Matt Taylor. A

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Speaker 1: lot to get into this evening here on the Colts.

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Speaker 1: They were back to work today and back on the

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Speaker 1: practice field getting ready for Week ten. The Las Vegas

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Speaker 1: Raiders are next, another road game for the Colts, and

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Speaker 1: today was the first day interim coach Jeff Saturday met

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Speaker 1: with the media. And we all know how busy of

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Speaker 1: week it's been for him and the Colts. You know,

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Speaker 1: Frank Reich let go on Monday. Jeff Saturday appointed interim

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Speaker 1: coach for the final eight games later on that day.

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Speaker 1: And Saturday has been on the job a little bit

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Speaker 1: more than forty eight hours, so obviously a lot's been

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Speaker 1: was like addressing the team for the first time. Had

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Speaker 1: the first chance to meet with the team this morning.

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Speaker 1: Thought it went well. Great to see guys and meet

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Speaker 1: people just you know, try to try to let them

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Speaker 1: can expect of me, And thought that went really well. Look,

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Speaker 1: was really crisp on both sides. And that's kind of

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Speaker 1: where we sit. You know. Certainly the Colts have made

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Speaker 1: national headlines after firing Frank Rank and then bringing in

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Speaker 1: a coach that wasn't on the staff to be the

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Speaker 1: interim coach for eight games, and a coach that's never

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Speaker 1: coached at the college or professional level before. And Jeff

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Speaker 1: Saturday today discussed why he took this job and why

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Speaker 1: I care about their families. I've sat in their seat.

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Speaker 1: Man sucks, right, I like Frank. I've talked to Frank

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Speaker 1: we've texted. I love Frank Man. I was working with

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Speaker 1: to him. I consider Frank a friend and I love him.

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Speaker 1: I think he's a heck of a football coach. I

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Speaker 1: got no control over how that. So I understand from

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Speaker 1: their perspective. I've sat in that seat. They love Frank Man,

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Speaker 1: So I don't minimize that at all. I care about

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Speaker 1: the staff and their families. Guys work hard, they sacrifice

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Speaker 1: for their families. They sacrifice time, energy and effort. Like

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Speaker 1: I know equipment room, man, I know media relations, I

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Speaker 1: know training room. Like you guys act like this is

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Speaker 1: these are my people, bro, Like my adult life was

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Speaker 1: This organization matters to me, right, the people in the

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Speaker 1: Whatever I can do. And when he said, hey, can

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Speaker 1: who announced again today that assistant coach Parks Frasier will

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Speaker 1: Ryan today discussed the locker rooms surprise that Jeff Saturday

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Speaker 1: in terms of total yards. The Patriots scored only twenty

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Speaker 1: That's the Forrest Buckner who's been with the Colts since

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Speaker 1: missing last week's game with a peck. Ryan Kelly limited

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Speaker 1: Mo Ali Cox with a knee, Tony Brown with a hamstring,

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