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Speaker 1: Here's what all starts right, Here's why jam money Chris.

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Speaker 1: This is Inside Football with former Colts and NFL coach

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Speaker 1: Rick Venturi. We are back here on Inside Football with

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Speaker 1: Rick Venturi, and with the Colts playing on Thursday night,

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Speaker 1: we thought we'd give you a recap podcast instead of

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Speaker 1: that route because there's a lot to recap. I for

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Speaker 1: the Colts beat the Jets forty five to thirty in

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Speaker 1: the game. The Colts wish wasn't that close, but the

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Speaker 1: string quarterback in Jos Johnson. I'm Matt Taylor and Rick.

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Speaker 1: Hope you got some sleep after the late night last night.

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Speaker 1: I know you've been porn over the tape today so far,

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Speaker 1: and pretty impressive stuff from the Colts on offense last night.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk about the defense, but the Colts on offense,

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Speaker 1: they put up forty five points, the most in the

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Speaker 1: Frank Reich Era five hundred and thirty two total yards,

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Speaker 1: six most in the Indie Era, the most in a

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Speaker 1: the Colts scored touchdowns on the first four drives of

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Speaker 1: a game for the first time since two thousand and seven.

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Speaker 1: So between Carson Wentz, Jonathan Taylor, nine Hines and then

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Speaker 1: like that light bulb that's about ray to flicker out.

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Speaker 1: So they always say you shine the brightest before that happened. Hopefully,

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Speaker 1: hopefully we shine bright today, to be honest with you,

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Speaker 1: But you know, I was really I'm really happy with

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Speaker 1: But I felt like it was kind of a game

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Speaker 1: Now you're not going to have those yards, you know,

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Speaker 1: the element that really scares me. Plus twenty ninth in

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Speaker 1: This is Inside Football. I'm Matt Taylor, and that's a

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Speaker 1: look back at the win last night for the Colts

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Speaker 1: The Colts have won four of their last six heading

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Speaker 1: But you better damn sure do it because you're going

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Speaker 1: to face four top quarterbacks in the last eight and

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Speaker 1: four top offenses. And if you don't shut that down,

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Speaker 1: I mean you you can you can kiss the playoffs

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Speaker 1: go by. That's Rick vent Terry. This is inside football.

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Speaker 1: That's a recap offense defense. And they look at the

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Speaker 1: Jets game as the Colts won on a short week

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Speaker 1: forty five to thirty over New York. Lastly, Rick, as

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Speaker 1: we wrap up, let's talk about what the rest of

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Speaker 1: the season looks like. What is a reasonable expectation for

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Speaker 1: the Colts given the schedule, the final eight games we

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Speaker 1: know about the the oh for your last eight against

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Speaker 1: playoff teams in twenty twenty, Can the Colts close out

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Speaker 1: some of these games and beat good teams down the

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Speaker 1: stretch like the Bucks, the Bills, the Raiders who look

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Speaker 1: like they're headed for the playoffs this season. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: find out if they can win some of these games.

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Speaker 1: But what are your tiers of games if you will,

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Speaker 1: in the last eight, and how does that break down

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Speaker 1: for the Colts. Yeah, you know, you kind of nailed it.

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Speaker 1: And I talked about that in the beginning. The pluses,

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Speaker 1: and I mean this is a plus. This is not

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Speaker 1: a backhanded comment. The Colts post up and they win

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Speaker 1: the games they should win, and now we're going to

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Speaker 1: have to find a way to win some games that

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Speaker 1: we're going to be the underdog in or at least

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Speaker 1: against good teams. Now, as I look at our team,

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Speaker 1: and then I'm going to get into specifics that you've

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Speaker 1: asked for, is if I looked at our team last

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Speaker 1: night at the end of nine games, and this is

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Speaker 1: kind of a mid season break almost, I think at

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Speaker 1: this point, and I think that our offense is good

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Speaker 1: enough need to get us I mean, I'm very happy

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Speaker 1: with it. I think our offense is good enough to

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Speaker 1: get us ten to eleven wins. The way our defensive

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Speaker 1: is playing right now, they're going to keep us at

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Speaker 1: eight and nine. So somewhere that offense has to stay consistent,

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Speaker 1: and I think the biggest key there is keeping the

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Speaker 1: identity and keeping Wentz on the reservation and then defensively, flatly, guys,

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Speaker 1: you got to fix it. If you have your head

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Speaker 1: in the sand and you can't understand this after three

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Speaker 1: and a half years, you really don't deserve to be here,

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Speaker 1: to be honest with you. Looking at the specifics, I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna put my analyst hat on more than my coaching hat,

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Speaker 1: because my coaching hat says, the only game that we're

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Speaker 1: interested is a week from Sunday against the Jaguars. That's it,

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Speaker 1: and that's how I'm coaching my team. But my analysts

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Speaker 1: says this because I've already studied the Jaguars and I

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Speaker 1: know the Texas, so I think unless we have a

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Speaker 1: meltdown of historic proportions. We should win those three division games,

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Speaker 1: two with the Jags, and we should win the Texans game.

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Speaker 1: And I mean not sincerely, I mean and if we

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Speaker 1: play our best and they play their best, we win

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Speaker 1: those three games. So if you look at it where

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Speaker 1: we are right now, that is seven and five. Okay,

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Speaker 1: that's seven and five, and I think that's a given.

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Speaker 1: I think the Patriots at four and four are very average.

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Speaker 1: I don't think I think Belichick will keep them competitive,

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Speaker 1: but I think they're very average team. And I'm going

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Speaker 1: to give us to win there at home, Okay, to

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Speaker 1: win they're at home. I think we've got a nice

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Speaker 1: break in between there also, and that puts us, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you with me on this, and that that that brings

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Speaker 1: us in my opinion, this is the analyst in me

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Speaker 1: to eight and five. Now here's the key eight and five.

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Speaker 1: From here. You've got the Raiders, I mean, you got

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Speaker 1: the Raiders Arizona, you got Buffalo, and you got the Bucks,

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Speaker 1: all potential division winners, all good teams, all quarterbacks who

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Speaker 1: can light you up if you don't do something about

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Speaker 1: what you're doing. And to me, the key issue there

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Speaker 1: is you've got to get a split there. You've got

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Speaker 1: to get a split there to get to ten. Matt,

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Speaker 1: I think ten will get you in. Okay, I can't

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Speaker 1: guarantee it, but I think ten I'll get you in.

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Speaker 1: And realistically the way if our offense continues to go

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Speaker 1: and we can somehow fix this past defense, then you know,

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Speaker 1: I think that you you You've got to be competitive though,

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Speaker 1: and you've got to find a way to split realistically,

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Speaker 1: those four games. If you do better, great, do better, great,

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Speaker 1: but find a way to split those and you win ten. Now,

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Speaker 1: obviously those three division games, I mean it's going to

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Speaker 1: take a catastrophe to lose one of those, and I

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Speaker 1: think you beat the Patriots. Now he's going to coach him, well,

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Speaker 1: he's gonna be ready, but I think you win that one.

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Speaker 1: So I think you're looking you know, I think you're

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Speaker 1: looking at eight and five with those with those four

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Speaker 1: games to go. So if you get the ten wins,

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Speaker 1: that means in the last eight games, the Colts go

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Speaker 1: six and two, and you know, I think that's necessary.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you know, you know, I mean you know

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Speaker 1: they you know, and I'm not being critical, but they

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Speaker 1: dug their own hole. I mean, you go, you know,

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Speaker 1: as you said the other night, you know, you start,

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Speaker 1: you start the season. Oh and three. You know now

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Speaker 1: you're you're you're you're climbing, you're climbing the mountain. We

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Speaker 1: found that a week we found out a year ago

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Speaker 1: as good as we played, and we were eleven and five,

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Speaker 1: but the initial loss in the regular season costs us

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Speaker 1: a home playoff game. So you you you know, you're

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Speaker 1: you're on an uphill climb. But the good news for

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Speaker 1: me is between special teams and offense, we are near

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Speaker 1: elgue team. We're I will say this, potentially elite team.

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Speaker 1: We have to continue to play like we're playing, you know,

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Speaker 1: last night and most of them. I mean we've been

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Speaker 1: scoring like crazy. Come on, over thirty and four straight games. Yes, yea, exactly.

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Speaker 1: We haven't seen those numbers since Peyton Manning was the

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Speaker 1: quarterback here, that's right. I mean, eighth in the league

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Speaker 1: in scoring, yeah, you know, but you know, seventeenth in scoring.

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Speaker 1: On defense, it means you're, you know, you're kind of mediocre,

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Speaker 1: but the other stats just kill you, all right, my friend,

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Speaker 1: fantastic as always that I thought, this is a good

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Speaker 1: little break from our preview podcast because it was a

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Speaker 1: short weeks, so it does give some time to kind

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Speaker 1: of exhale a little bit and take a bigger look

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Speaker 1: at what's going on on offense, defense and the final

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Speaker 1: eight games of the season. Now that we're sort of

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Speaker 1: at the midway point of the NFL's regular season with

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Speaker 1: a seventeen game regular season here in twenty twenty one,

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Speaker 1: what are you doing this weekend? Wow? How are you

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Speaker 1: going to spend your off weekend with no ball on Sunday?

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Speaker 1: You know what, I haven't even thought about it. Come on, now,

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you what I was, you know, getting ready

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Speaker 1: for that game last night. And you know this, I mean,

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Speaker 1: I mean that was such a short week. Did I

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Speaker 1: just put all my focus on that. I'm gonna take

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Speaker 1: a deep breath today after we finished this. That's we're short.

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Speaker 1: We'll worry about the weekend. Hopefully, hopefully the weather is good,

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Speaker 1: because you know, one thing is a constant. If the

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Speaker 1: weather is good, you know one thing I'll be doing well.

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Speaker 1: I'll be I'll be out on that. I'll be out

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Speaker 1: on that going and I will be enjoying the peak

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Speaker 1: fall here, the turn of the leaves here in Indiana, well,

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Speaker 1: I think I got an extra rake. If you want

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Speaker 1: to come down and help me out in the yard,

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Speaker 1: I'll put you to work. Name your price. I'll pay

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Speaker 1: an hourly. Way. I've retired on that function right now.

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Speaker 1: I one thing I've done in my career is I've

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Speaker 1: I've done well enough to have somebody helped me out

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Speaker 1: on that. It's all right, that's all right. Well, I'm

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Speaker 1: staring at a pile of leaves coming out this weekend.

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Speaker 1: But you know what, I weirdly, You know this about me,

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Speaker 1: I weirdly enjoy that kind of stuff. It gets me

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Speaker 1: out and gets me active. I'm out in the air

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Speaker 1: and so hopefully I can get it. Well, you know

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Speaker 1: what that is, that's your that does for you what

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Speaker 1: my motorcycle does for me. You know, I mean my

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Speaker 1: wife even said it. You know the motorcycle is better

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Speaker 1: than another woman or a trip to the psychiatrist. Well,

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Speaker 1: that's that's one way to put It's all about perspective.

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Speaker 1: That's what I tell my wife all the time. You're

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Speaker 1: mad at me. I could be you know, I could

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Speaker 1: be you know I'm out running around, or you know,

579
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Speaker 1: I could be a gambling addict. You got it pretty good.

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Speaker 1: You know, I'm just miss Sherry. I want to do

581
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Speaker 1: if you were kidding me before she said like fifty

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Speaker 1: years of kickoffs. And she walked in my room this morning,

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Speaker 1: and you know, I got up quickly. I got my

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Speaker 1: coffee and water, and she looked at me and she goes,

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00:31:04,920 --> 00:31:08,440
Speaker 1: you are just obsessed. It's what you do. I mean

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00:31:08,760 --> 00:31:13,680
Speaker 1: between August and February. He can't turn it off. Man.

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Speaker 1: All right, well, rest up, we'll do it again on Monday.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk with you again on Colt's Roundtable Live, and

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Speaker 1: then we'll be back to the podcast at a normal

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Speaker 1: time next Wednesday. Getting ready for the Jaguars. Rick, thanks

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Speaker 1: always for the time, and have a good weekend off.

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Speaker 1: All right, thank you, Matt. Good job on those two

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Speaker 1: games in four days. That voice held up way you two? Pal? Yeah, well,

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Speaker 1: hopefully we at full strength coming up next Sunday, gets

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Speaker 1: the Jaguars and get some get some more punch in

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Speaker 1: the U and the voice and some more fizz in

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Speaker 1: the soda, so to speak. That's Rick vent Terry. I'm

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Speaker 1: Matt Taylor. Thanks for joining us here on Inside Football.

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Speaker 1: Colts beat the Jets on Thursday night, forty five to thirty.

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Speaker 1: I have a great weekend. We'll talk to you next

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Speaker 1: week here on colts dot com and the Colts Mobile app.