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Speaker 1: Welcome to Know your Foe Oncolts dot Com and in

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Speaker 1: depth look at the upcoming matchup. Here are your hosts,

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Speaker 1: Casey Valier and former Colts wide receiver Bill Brooks. Welcome

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Speaker 1: in to Know your Foe on Colts dot Com. I'm

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Speaker 1: your host Casey Valia, joined us always by Culturing of

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Speaker 1: Honor member Bill Brooks. The Cults are on the East

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Speaker 1: Coast this week and taken on the New England Patriots

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Speaker 1: and to give us an inside look on the Patriots,

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Speaker 1: we are joined by Tom Curran, who covers the Patriots

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Speaker 1: as an insider for NBC Sports Boston. Tom, Great to

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Speaker 1: talk to you again. How you doing, I'm outstanding. Thank

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Speaker 1: you so much. Always good to have you. Know. Billy

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Speaker 1: Brooks back in Massachusetts. I know he said, who's you're now?

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Speaker 1: The little homecoming for Bill. Well, it's always good to

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Speaker 1: talk to you, Tom. I want to talk about the

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Speaker 1: history of this. We consider it kind of a rivalry

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Speaker 1: here in Indianapolis. You've got those days of Manning versus Brady,

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Speaker 1: but both those guys are gone and you know, from

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Speaker 1: a New England perspective, prior to the season this game

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Speaker 1: is announced. I want to know what the ibe is

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Speaker 1: around that area. Is is this just another game or

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Speaker 1: is there a little rivalry there? Because, like I said,

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Speaker 1: we know what this game means here in Indianapolis. When

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Speaker 1: you talk about the Patriots, well, I think it's faded

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Speaker 1: a little bit because you know, for the Patriots it

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Speaker 1: wasn't as as rife with agitation as it was for

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Speaker 1: Indianapolis fans, especially twenty seventeen with Josh McDaniels, you know,

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Speaker 1: leaving Indianapolis at the altar and Chris Ballard declaring rivalry

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Speaker 1: is back on. So it's a little more fresh. You know,

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Speaker 1: when when Peyton left and ended up going over to

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Speaker 1: Denver and in his wake it was Andrew Luck. The

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Speaker 1: Patriots kind of had a pretty good run against that

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Speaker 1: Colds group. Yeah, So you know, I think that it's

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Speaker 1: not as strident arrivalry. Although when you look at that

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Speaker 1: period of time from one two, hell twenty ten or eleven,

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Speaker 1: well twenty ten, at least before Peyton's neck, that ten

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Speaker 1: year run of rivalry games just were you know, an

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Speaker 1: odyssey unto themselves. No, absolutely, there's one of those things

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Speaker 1: and year out. Just high level football, you know. And

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Speaker 1: that's the interesting thing. You see a Kansas City against

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Speaker 1: and every possession is highly leveraged. And now we're both

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Speaker 1: watching teams now, aren't we We're uh, well, okay, we're

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Speaker 1: screwed up that possession. Don't get another one in a minute,

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Speaker 1: because the other team is going to screw up too.

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Speaker 1: That sure seems to be the case, that's for sure

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Speaker 1: We're talking about the quarterback play. And the Patriots drafted

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Speaker 1: Mac Jones last year in the first round. He was

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Speaker 1: a Pro bowler, led them to the playoffs. One of

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Speaker 1: those narratives was that he gets kind of controlled when

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Speaker 1: he could control last year, and he didn't do too

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Speaker 1: much this year. They're four and four. We saw the injury,

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Speaker 1: but we've also seen the stats are a little down

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Speaker 1: quarterback controversy at all between where Mac Jones is in

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Speaker 1: the future leading the Patriots. There should not be a

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Speaker 1: quarterback controversy between Mac and Zappy, and Mac is a

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Speaker 1: But he needs to start proving it. You know. He

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Speaker 1: even more complicated by changing the offense to something that's

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Speaker 1: very interesting season. I think they're starting to get traction.

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Speaker 1: It's it's a great package for a running back to have. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: What is your assessment this wide receiver group? They have talent,

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Speaker 1: Rush Myers is good. Kendrick Bourne had an outstanding year

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Speaker 1: entire passing game. Nelson Agol is a big player. Keep

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Speaker 1: your eye on Taekwon Thornton. Just a amazingly fast kid

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Speaker 1: Billy experienced that innumerable times over his football career. Yes,

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Speaker 1: What has his presence meant to the defense? Versatility? He's

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Speaker 1: And it's just a really good leader. I like their defense,

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Speaker 1: want to move to the secondary this offiction. The Patriots

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Speaker 1: and they've also added some younger guys. They have Jack

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Speaker 1: And he will trend towards being your next big ticket

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Speaker 1: one hundred million in four years unless weird things happen. Now,

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Speaker 1: I got a couple more things with you, Tom. Looking

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Speaker 1: little research from afar not watching every snap, but one

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Speaker 1: Keeper of the Las Vegas Sun this Sunday. It's the

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Speaker 1: Colts and Patriots from Gillette Stadium in New England for

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Speaker 1: Bill Brooks. I'm Casey Valley and enjoy the game and

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Speaker 1: go Colts.