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Speaker 1: Welcome to Colts Roundtable Live on ninety three five and

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Speaker 1: here's the voice of the Colts, Matt Taylor. Good evening

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Speaker 1: With you until seven o'clock tonight, We're talking Colts football.

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Speaker 1: I'm Matt Taylor and we'll be joined by interim head

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Speaker 1: coach Jeff Saturday shortly and former Colts Rick Finturry and

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Speaker 1: Joe Ritz will join the show tonight as well, starting

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Speaker 1: in segment number two. The Cults are coming off at

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Speaker 1: thirty nine thirty six overtime loss to the Vikings on Saturday.

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Speaker 1: The setback ensures the Cults of a losing season, as

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Speaker 1: they now sit four nine and one with only three

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Speaker 1: games to play, and the Colts have lost four straight

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Speaker 1: and seven of their last eight. By now you know

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Speaker 1: The Colts led thirty three to nothing in halftime. It

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Speaker 1: was their biggest halftime lead in a game since nineteen

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Speaker 1: ninety seven. But the Vikings came storming back in the

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Speaker 1: second half and forced overtime, and the thirty three point

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Speaker 1: rally is the largest comeback in NFL history. So how

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Speaker 1: did the Vikings do it well? First of all, they

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Speaker 1: had big play after big play in the second half.

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Speaker 1: Minnesota rattled off nineteen plays over ten yards in the

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Speaker 1: second half. Four of those plays covered more than twenty

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Speaker 1: and two of them went over sixty including the game

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Speaker 1: tying touchdown by Dalvin Cook late in the fourth quarter.

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Speaker 1: Those plays accounted for three hundred and eighty six of

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Speaker 1: Because of those big plays, the Vikings were able to

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Speaker 1: score quickly. They had six scoring drives in the second

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Speaker 1: half and overtime, including five touchdown possessions. The Colts faced

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Speaker 1: sixty one plays on defense in the second half and overtime.

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Speaker 1: Because they had a hard time getting off the field

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Speaker 1: and because the Colts offense couldn't put me into drives together,

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Speaker 1: Indianapolis had eight drives in the second half. They never

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Speaker 1: and didn't gain more than twenty six yards. They are

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Speaker 1: outscored in the second half in overtime thirty nine to three.

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Speaker 1: For the day, the Colts were just one for four

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Speaker 1: thirty two yards of total offense after halftime. Saturday was

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Speaker 1: a wild, wild game and had everything overtime, a huge comeback,

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Speaker 1: a pick six, a defensive touchdown, long field goals, big plays,

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Speaker 1: fake punts, questionable officiating. Saturday marks the first time in

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Speaker 1: franchise history the Colts generated a trifecta as well. That's

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Speaker 1: an offensive touchdown, a defensive touchdown, and a special team score.

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Speaker 1: That all came in the first half, but the second

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Speaker 1: half belonged to the Vikings as they clinched the NFC

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Speaker 1: North with the win, and they also became the first

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Speaker 1: team in NFL history to go ten and ozer in

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Speaker 1: one possession games through the first fourteen games of a up.

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Speaker 1: Next for the Colts to return home to Lucas Oil

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Speaker 1: Stadium to battle the Chargers on Monday Night Football on

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Speaker 1: the day after Christmas. As we said, starting on the

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Speaker 1: next segment, Colts analyst Rick Venturi and Joe Writes will

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Speaker 1: Rick and Joe and with interim head coach Jeff Saturday

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Speaker 1: here shortly. You can tweet in your questions tonight using

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Speaker 1: hashtag Colts Roundtable and we'll squeeze in as many as

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Speaker 1: we can tonight as we always do. And per usual,

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Speaker 1: Jeff Saturday, interim head coach of the Colts. He joins

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Speaker 1: us now in studio, brought to you by Citizens Energy Group,

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Speaker 1: and Jeff, you've had some time to reflect on the

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Speaker 1: game a little bit longer. Where did things go south

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Speaker 1: that terrific start? Well, really, I mean it's kind of

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Speaker 1: I showed the guys the tape today. Um. We did

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Speaker 1: we earned that loss. You know, there is no it

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Speaker 1: wasn't a fluke. It wasn't it was you know, players

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Speaker 1: and equally now that when guys have the opportunity to

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Speaker 1: last one for me, Jeff. A game like that can

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Speaker 1: this four game losing skill. It's embarrassing, right, I mean,

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Speaker 1: you should live in this because again, we earned it.

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Speaker 1: It's not And so I told the guys this morning,

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Speaker 1: their performance last night. Right half the team's NFL are

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Speaker 1: disappointed in how it turned out. This cannot be a

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Speaker 1: And you know, when I got asked after the game,

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Speaker 1: lot of good things we can build on. But it's

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Speaker 1: things you did do well and continue to do that

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Speaker 1: Colts Roundtable. Let's go to a handful of questions here, coach,

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Speaker 1: before we get you on your way, let's go to Morgan.

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Speaker 1: You kind of address this a little bit prior. But

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Speaker 1: why were the Vikings able to pick up so many

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Speaker 1: chunk plays in the second half? Were they running plays

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Speaker 1: made at We made a ton of technical errors, you know,

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Speaker 1: And how plays become explosive, you know, even if you're

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Speaker 1: the game got on and on and on. But when

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Speaker 1: struggles on offense led to that you know, defeat, and

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Speaker 1: the first half we had a thirty three point lead,

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Speaker 1: but let's be honest, seven with special teams. Seven was defense,

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Speaker 1: and we had two field goals when we started on

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Speaker 1: their thirty yard line one Kazaire Frank's great stop on

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Speaker 1: So that's twenty points off the board. We really only

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Speaker 1: scored thirteen offensively if you think about how we did it,

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Speaker 1: and in the second half, we didn't do anything offensively.

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Speaker 1: We didn't have a drive, they got more than two

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Speaker 1: first downs. I think we only had five first downs

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Speaker 1: for the entire second half. And the biggest stat I

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Speaker 1: Colts one for four, Minnesota four for four. And you

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Speaker 1: could probably use that red zone struggles as a microcosm

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Speaker 1: for this season. Why the Colts are sitting here with

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Speaker 1: their record, that is what it is, versus our record

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Speaker 1: being you know, seven seven and one or eight six

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Speaker 1: this AFC South race between Tennessee and now you know,

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Speaker 1: actually Jacksonville. Yeah, like you said, I mean, the Colts

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Speaker 1: had eight drives there in the second half, Joe. The

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Speaker 1: Colts never ran more than six plays on any of

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Speaker 1: them and never gained more than twenty six yards only

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Speaker 1: had three points total there in the second half. The

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Speaker 1: Colts did have a season high three takeaways in Minnesota,

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Speaker 1: that's the tail of the tape. This is Colts Roundtable

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Speaker 1: Live with Rick Venturry and Joe Wrights. I'm Matt Taylor.

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Speaker 1: When we come back, we're going to discuss some common

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Speaker 1: themes that have occurred this season. We just talked about

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Speaker 1: a handful of them, but will expound upon the themes

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Speaker 1: that keep coming up and why they keep happening. Colts

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Speaker 1: fin Terry and Joe Writes Tonight, I'm Matt Taylor here

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Speaker 1: So the Colts are four nine and one on the

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Speaker 1: season following the loss to the Vikings, they have lost

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Speaker 1: seven of their last eight games. And fellas, I'm taking

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Speaker 1: us back to high school. Remember back like your sophomore

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Speaker 1: year or junior year in English class, you'd have to

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Speaker 1: identify some themes. Rick, what was your theme that you

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Speaker 1: wrote in your turn paper in English class? I know

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Speaker 1: you had a good one back in the day. Well,

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Speaker 1: then we had to actually go to libraries research it.

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Speaker 1: And our topic was believe it or not, Sherman's March

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Speaker 1: to the Sea and all the way how he burned

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Speaker 1: Atlanta and burned Bacon and Holy my, which kind of

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Speaker 1: the you know, kind of prophetic for the rest of

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Speaker 1: my life, really kind of burning my way through. Joe,

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Speaker 1: what about you? I know you had a good one

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Speaker 1: there at Hambleton Southeastern. You wrote some good papers in

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Speaker 1: English back in the day. I don't. I don't know

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Speaker 1: that I honestly remember what my English theme was. And

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Speaker 1: my English teacher is gonna get upset. There at HSC,

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Speaker 1: I was more of a math guy. That's why I'm

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Speaker 1: in the financial world now that my memories are of numbers,

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Speaker 1: not like coaches. You know, poetic beauty that he's spitting

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Speaker 1: over there about Sherman, I think. I think when I

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Speaker 1: was in soft you guys will both appreciate this. I

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Speaker 1: had to do themes in music. That was one of

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Speaker 1: the term papers I had to do, and I wrote

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Speaker 1: the themes of John Mellencamps. So I stuck all who

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Speaker 1: I was all Who's your baby? So I had to

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Speaker 1: write about John Mellencamp's themes and music, right, like like

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Speaker 1: small towns and Americana and you know, yeah young Love

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Speaker 1: back in the day, so that I think I still

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Speaker 1: have that. I think I got an a on it

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Speaker 1: back in the day. But that's what we're doing here.

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Speaker 1: We're identifying themes for this Colts season, and one of

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Speaker 1: the themes, Rick, is that they have just struggled to

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Speaker 1: take full advantage of opportunities. That was on full display

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Speaker 1: against the Vikings. Right, you score thirty three points there

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Speaker 1: in the first half and only three points the rest

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Speaker 1: of the game. For the seventh time this season, scored

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Speaker 1: a one offensive touchdown or less, one for four inside

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Speaker 1: the red zone that had to settle for three McLoughlin

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Speaker 1: field goals after drives that stalled out at the eight

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Speaker 1: yard line, the ten yard line, and the nine yard line.

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Speaker 1: As we said on the last segment, the Colts had

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Speaker 1: more than six plays on any of them, never gained

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Speaker 1: more than twenty six yards. Rick, The Colts were facing

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Speaker 1: the league's worst passing defense in the NFL on Saturday,

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Speaker 1: but Matt Ryan finished the day with just one hundred

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Speaker 1: and eighty two passing yards and had five point five

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Speaker 1: yards per pass attempt, a pretty low number by NFL standards. Rick,

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Speaker 1: why can the Colts not break the theme of you know,

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Speaker 1: quote unquote going for the jugular on offense and becoming

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Speaker 1: more efficient on that side of the football. Now, you

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Speaker 1: mentioned it, and Joe mentioned it early on in a

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Speaker 1: different context. One of the critical problems that the Colts have,

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Speaker 1: and it's both ways. The Colts red zone offense is

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Speaker 1: number thirty one now you know, with three games to go,

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Speaker 1: and actually the red zone Colts defense is number thirty.

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Speaker 1: So the Colts have not been able to push it

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Speaker 1: in in close quarters, you know, from the beginning of

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Speaker 1: the year till now. You know, my theory is, I

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Speaker 1: don't think the Colts know who they are anymore. I

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Speaker 1: really don't. You know, at one time we were if

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Speaker 1: you look at us a year ago today, you know,

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Speaker 1: we were a heavy running team that could play that

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Speaker 1: could play some defense, that could play action with it,

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Speaker 1: that counted on turnovers, but could do those things. But

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Speaker 1: we were you know, that offense was going to spin

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Speaker 1: on that running game, and that's Scott and away from us.

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Speaker 1: It's inconsistent. We ran the ball a little bit better,

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Speaker 1: but really it worked as a negative this week because

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Speaker 1: you know, to kind of give them more time. I think,

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Speaker 1: a we don't know who we are. We have not

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Speaker 1: established a consistent running game from the beginning of the

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Speaker 1: season too. Now. I think the other thing is we

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Speaker 1: just refuse, refuse to work and take shots on the

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Speaker 1: outside of the field and you get no explosive players.

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Speaker 1: I mean, we take one shot and we run Pittman,

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Speaker 1: who can outrun me against Peterson, their best corner. I

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Speaker 1: said all week, you got to get Pierson over there on.

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Speaker 1: You got to get the young kid over there on Skelly,

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Speaker 1: Pierce on Skelly, or get Jilani Woods on there. I mean,

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Speaker 1: we've got the two most explosive players on our team,

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Speaker 1: and they gave one ball between the two of them

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Speaker 1: in the whole game. That just tells me you're out

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Speaker 1: to lunch. I mean, any eventually you have you can't.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think Ryan is throwing like at five

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Speaker 1: point five for pass. I mean against a team that

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Speaker 1: was thirty second going on fifty, that gave up like

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Speaker 1: nine yards per play on the passing game. Now we're

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Speaker 1: sitting there running quick screens, handing the ball off inside,

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Speaker 1: not taking advantage of any of that. And to me,

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Speaker 1: that's been the theme the whole season long. I mean

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Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago, we throw one ball to Pear,

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Speaker 1: so it's a forty five yard game. We do the

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Speaker 1: same thing to the young kid Gilannie Woods, it's a

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Speaker 1: thirty five yard game. I mean, those guys have like

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Speaker 1: even close. And it's just I mean, it's just an

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Speaker 1: absolute ridiculous I don't know if we have enough experience

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Speaker 1: on offense now and a coaching staff to understand total concepts.

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Speaker 1: I don't think they understand the defensive concepts they're playing against.

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Speaker 1: Nor do they really understand the personnel game that has

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Speaker 1: played weekend week out in the NFL, the matchup game. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: to add on to what coach said, I think the

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Speaker 1: most important stat there is at five point five per

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Speaker 1: pass attempt when you look at the Colts versus the

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Speaker 1: rest of the NFL, and even in that game on Saturday,

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Speaker 1: Matt that we called you know how many times of

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Speaker 1: the vikings take a shot down the field and for

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Speaker 1: throw at forty fifty yards or even the fifteen twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty five yard chunks, and we're battling with five six

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Speaker 1: seven yard routes. And I think with Jonathan Taylor being

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Speaker 1: out in that game, I thought the offensive line actually

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Speaker 1: blocked pretty well, but we didn't have that explosiveness because

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Speaker 1: our home runner hit or wasn't in there. So if

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Speaker 1: we don't have that, who are your explosive guys in

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Speaker 1: the outside? Coach mentioned they're Pierson Woods and they had

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Speaker 1: one catch between them, you know Pierce. They had that

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Speaker 1: cover zero look and we tried to throw it deep

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Speaker 1: to him. It looked like him and Matt Ryan were

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Speaker 1: talking about someone on the sideline miscommunication with the route.

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Speaker 1: But you know, Minnesota just got continually tighter and tighter

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Speaker 1: on our receivers like it's happened all year, and we

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Speaker 1: really have not stretched the field all year. And I

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Speaker 1: think when you look at the Colts first the rest

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Speaker 1: of the NFL, that's the big difference. And I totally

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Speaker 1: do with coach about your identity. If you're talking about

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Speaker 1: your identity fourteen games and you really don't have one,

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Speaker 1: and that's been probably the biggest reason for our underperformance

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Speaker 1: on offense that in the turnovers, we did a good

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Speaker 1: job not turning the ball over. We actually were plus

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Speaker 1: two in the game, which you would think would lead

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Speaker 1: you to a win. But turnovers and lack of that

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Speaker 1: deep vertical passing game to me or what we're going

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Speaker 1: to look back at this season as the two reasons

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Speaker 1: why our offense kind of held us back from stacking

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Speaker 1: war wins. Yeah, we've been talking about the lack of

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Speaker 1: vertical passing game for how long now, Joe, I mean

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Speaker 1: at least the last five or six shows. We've discussed

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Speaker 1: that in some capacity here on the show. This is

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Speaker 1: Colts Roundtable Live with Rick Venturry and Joe. Right sign

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Speaker 1: Matt Taylor, Joe stick right there. Let's go to theme

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Speaker 1: number two, because the Colts have found ways to lose

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Speaker 1: this season, and recently their tendency is to fall apart

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Speaker 1: here in the second half. They dominate for much of

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Speaker 1: the game, right but against the Eagles they allow the

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Speaker 1: game winning touchdown in the final possession. They went toe

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Speaker 1: to toe Dallas for three quarters and then fell apart

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Speaker 1: there in the fourth quarter. The Colts this year have

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Speaker 1: been outscored by forty one points in the second halves

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Speaker 1: of games this season. That ranks twenty eighth in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: In the second halves of the last two games combine,

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Speaker 1: the Colts have been outscored sixty nine to nine. And

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Speaker 1: then after halftime against Minnesota, the Colts allowed four hundred

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Speaker 1: and thirty six yards, twenty nine first downs thirty nine points.

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Speaker 1: Also in the second half and overtime on Saturday, the

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Speaker 1: Vikings wrecked up nineteen plays over ten four plays over

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Speaker 1: twenty yards in two plays over sixty Those plays added

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Speaker 1: up to three hundred and eighty six yards of offense

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Speaker 1: for Minnesota. We chronicled that back in segment number one.

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Speaker 1: But Joe, why are the Colts struggling so mightily in

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Speaker 1: the second half? On defense? It used to be just defense.

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Speaker 1: Now it's offense and defense for the Colts. When I

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Speaker 1: look at the team overall and the struggles in the

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Speaker 1: second half, let me give you a basketball analogy. I

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Speaker 1: know a lot of our listeners are IU fans, and

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Speaker 1: I know a lot of our Purdue fans. And since

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Speaker 1: the Boilers are ranked number one, Matt, I'll throw this

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Speaker 1: out you. It's easy to shoot a shot when you're

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Speaker 1: up twenty or you're down twenty in a basketball game.

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Speaker 1: Does that make sense? Like it's easy to shoot when

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00:32:13,120 --> 00:32:14,920
Speaker 1: there's no pressure on you at all. And I felt

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00:32:14,920 --> 00:32:16,880
Speaker 1: like going in this game, the Colts were loose, the

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00:32:16,920 --> 00:32:18,680
Speaker 1: Colts were fired up, they were ready to go. There

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00:32:18,720 --> 00:32:20,680
Speaker 1: was no pressure on them. And all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: you get up thirty three to nothing, and now, guess what.

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Speaker 1: Minnesota has no pressure because the game's over right, and

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Speaker 1: they're like, well, you know, we'll just keep playing and

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Speaker 1: keep playing. And then all of a sudden, the game

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Speaker 1: got to be thirty six to twenty one, and it

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00:32:30,680 --> 00:32:33,400
Speaker 1: got tighter and tighter. And as games have got tighter

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Speaker 1: in the second half, as the pressure has mounted, we

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Speaker 1: have folded overall as a team. And I think that

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Speaker 1: looks to a lot of different reasons, but to me,

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Speaker 1: that's just our attitude, our culture right now, and the

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Speaker 1: team is one that when the game gets really really tight,

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Speaker 1: we don't expect to go out and win and make

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Speaker 1: the play. We're waiting for the other shoot to drop in,

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Speaker 1: something bad to happen. And I've been on both sides

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Speaker 1: of that. I've been on teams where no matter what happened.

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Speaker 1: I knew we were going to win the game because

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Speaker 1: you just kind of have culture in the locker room.

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Speaker 1: And I've been on teams where you're playing, you're playing,

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00:33:03,520 --> 00:33:06,400
Speaker 1: you're fighting hard, you're looking to scoreward. Oh man, holy smokes.

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Speaker 1: You know we're doing good, but you're kind of waiting

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Speaker 1: for that other team to take over because you don't

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Speaker 1: have that innermost confidence at your core. And I feel

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Speaker 1: like this Colts team, it's really the ladder of those

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Speaker 1: two scenarios that I just laid out. Yeah, I think

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Speaker 1: I think that's exactly right. You know, I have three

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Speaker 1: I think what i'd call significant statistics, you know, games

688
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Speaker 1: within the games that really make or break you. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: the first one we know is giveaway, takeaway, and really

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Speaker 1: we're you know, that's been a We're getting a little

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Speaker 1: bit better, but it's still we're thirty two give giveaways

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Speaker 1: in twenty two. But the two areas that I concentrate

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Speaker 1: and concentrated so hard on as a defensive coordinator was

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Speaker 1: red zone offense and red zone defense. And we talked

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Speaker 1: about that just a minute ago. But the other thing

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Speaker 1: that is just a killer, and it is an NFL killer,

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Speaker 1: is our offense is number twenty seven seven in the

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Speaker 1: fourth quarter, and our defense is number thirty. And you know,

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Speaker 1: even though there was some good defense played early in

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Speaker 1: the year, I would I just get I get irritated

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Speaker 1: when I hear good enough to win, because in seven

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Speaker 1: of the eight games that we've just recently played, seven

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Speaker 1: out of the eight, I guess, I guess you'd have

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Speaker 1: to take New England out of there because there was

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Speaker 1: no critical plays at the end. But in seven out

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Speaker 1: in six of the eight games, the defense has never

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Speaker 1: been able to close out a game period. Never never, never,

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Speaker 1: they have never, And then of course in the last

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Speaker 1: two weeks they've been embarrassingly bad, I mean, historically bad.

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Speaker 1: I think part of that is that they play We

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Speaker 1: play a very vanilla scheme. I think the effort is there.

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00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:52,680
Speaker 1: I'm not seeing I thought there was a little quit

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Speaker 1: in the Dallas game, But overall, the effort is there.

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Speaker 1: But we play a very vanilla scheme. We don't challenge

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Speaker 1: people in the covers. We play very little press, very

716
00:35:03,160 --> 00:35:08,400
Speaker 1: little matchup underneath. We play over almost exclusively one front.

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Speaker 1: You can count on one hand the blitzes in the

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Speaker 1: whole game. If you're lucky and so I think also

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Speaker 1: what happens, because I've coached it for years, is in

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Speaker 1: the course of the game, the offense now gets a

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Speaker 1: total rhythm of what you're doing. And if you're not

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Speaker 1: changing it up, if you're not doing anything different, you're

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Speaker 1: giving receivers free access. You're not matching them. In the

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Speaker 1: second level, You're gonna end up getting shredded unless you're

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00:35:35,360 --> 00:35:38,800
Speaker 1: just playing a horrendous football team, you know. And the

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Speaker 1: Vikings with the Vikings did in the second half was

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Speaker 1: they started playing Jefferson more inside, Osbourne more inside, feeling inside,

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Speaker 1: and they just peppered that soft zone inside play after play.

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Speaker 1: They utilize their top players. We talk about not knowing

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Speaker 1: how to utilize our players. You know, at the end

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Speaker 1: of the day. You know, jeffersonding Cook at the end

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Speaker 1: of the day had three hundred plus yards. I mean

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Speaker 1: they at the end of the day, we didn't stop.

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Speaker 1: They're good guys. We didn't stop their good guys, and

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Speaker 1: they got them the ball. But I really believe that

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Speaker 1: at the end of the day, you know, by us

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Speaker 1: being as vanilla as we are and we don't you know, really,

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Speaker 1: at the end, if you're not blitzing, you've got to

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Speaker 1: have a great pass rush and we got some sacks Sunday,

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Speaker 1: but you know, that pass rush has been non existent

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Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter and it was again that final drive.

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Speaker 1: They had to go the length of the field and

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Speaker 1: they hit chunk plays all the way down and got

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Speaker 1: it and so hey, and we've seen that story now

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Speaker 1: for the last two months. That's Rick vent Terry Joe

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Speaker 1: Writes is on the horn as well. I'm Matt Taylor.

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Speaker 1: This is Colts Roundtable Live tonight. That's a look at

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Speaker 1: some of the themes that have popped up lately for

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Speaker 1: the Colts and why they keep happening. Coming up, we're

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Speaker 1: gonna take your questions. The mailbag segment is next and

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Speaker 1: it's open sending your questions and your thoughts tonight on

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Speaker 1: Twitter using hashtag Colts Roundtable, and we'll take a few

753
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Speaker 1: of those when we come back. We'll also talk about

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Speaker 1: why the Colts. You know, we've talked about some of

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00:37:01,560 --> 00:37:04,200
Speaker 1: the things that have plagued this team. We'll talk about

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00:37:04,239 --> 00:37:07,040
Speaker 1: some things that have continuously happened in a positive light.

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00:37:07,360 --> 00:37:09,520
Speaker 1: That's special teams. We'll talk about that when we come

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Speaker 1: oh seven five The Fan. Let's go to mcguel up first,

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Speaker 1: he says, despite all the troubles this season, we're very

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Speaker 1: good on special teams. We've blocked a punt how to

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Speaker 1: return for a touchdown. By the way, this is me

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Speaker 1: talk and the Colts lead the NFL with four block

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Speaker 1: punt touchdowns since twenty eighteen, Chase McLoughlin five for five

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Speaker 1: on field goals. He's made a fifty yard field goal

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Speaker 1: in four straight games. He's also now set the Colts

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Speaker 1: record for the most fifty yard made field goals in

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Speaker 1: single season franchise history with eight with a fifty two

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Speaker 1: yard or the other day against the Minnesota Vikings. So

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Speaker 1: all that is kind of subtext to mcguel's question there, Joe,

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Speaker 1: why are the Colts consistently better on special teams than

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Speaker 1: their opponents under Bubba Ventrone? That two words right there,

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Speaker 1: Bubba Ventrone. I think he is just an absolute dynamo

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Speaker 1: of a special team's coach. And it's unfortunately Colts didn't

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Speaker 1: win because your first game ball, it was going to Bubba.

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Speaker 1: When you think about you block a punt and score.

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00:38:59,080 --> 00:39:01,000
Speaker 1: When you think about you stop a fake punt to

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Speaker 1: get you the ball in the thirty for a field goal.

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Speaker 1: Five for five on field goals, Matt We had three

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Speaker 1: returns that Flowers took deep in his own end zone

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Speaker 1: past the forty for field position, and they had the

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Speaker 1: best coverage kick return unit in the NFL, and every

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00:39:15,440 --> 00:39:17,359
Speaker 1: time he took it out of the end zone. He

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Speaker 1: did not get past the twenty five, so he just

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Speaker 1: started calling for fair catches and we'll take it on

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Speaker 1: the twenty five. So it was an actual dominant performance.

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Speaker 1: They've been doing it all year. When you talk about

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Speaker 1: complimentary football, offense, defense, special teams, our special teams has

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00:39:30,360 --> 00:39:33,600
Speaker 1: been the best unit so far this season. Again, that's

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Speaker 1: with a kicker and a punter that weren't on your

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Speaker 1: roster Week one two. And I think when you think

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Speaker 1: about complete overall team, Bubba comes from New England and

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Speaker 1: I know New England and coach, I know, you know

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Speaker 1: Bill Well, but they put an emphasis on the kicking game.

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Speaker 1: Not a lot of teams do, which is why year

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Speaker 1: and year out, just really can't say enough about how

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Speaker 1: well they've performed this season. Yeah, you know, I've been

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Speaker 1: I've been fortunate. I've been probably with the two greatest

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Speaker 1: special teams coaches of all times, Mike Westoff, who would

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Speaker 1: be in the Hall of Fame if there was one,

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Speaker 1: and Scotty O'Brien who coached with the Patriots and with

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Speaker 1: the Browns and with Belichick for all those years and

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Speaker 1: was really the guy. And I'm going to put bubb

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Speaker 1: or right in their class. I have been so impressed

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Speaker 1: with him from the day he came here. I think

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Speaker 1: number one, strategically he stated the art. They are always

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Speaker 1: ready to block a punt to get a return, to

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Speaker 1: do something. I think Number two, he maximizes every player

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Speaker 1: that he has, whether it's Flowers, you know, undrafted free agent,

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Speaker 1: you know, whether it's kickers that he has to change

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Speaker 1: in the middle of the season because of injury, whether

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Speaker 1: it's a bunch of young guys like Doman that he

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Speaker 1: has to get into the lineup, get disciplined. But there's

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Speaker 1: nobody that maximizes talent better than he does. And then

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Speaker 1: I think most importantly, he has a charisma in his

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Speaker 1: own sense that he really gets them up emotionally and

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Speaker 1: there is no day that they don't play hard. I

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Speaker 1: mean you really, I can remember or one, but you

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Speaker 1: really have to stretch to find any bad performances by

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Speaker 1: that group. I just I can't say enough about him.

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Speaker 1: I hope he gets his opportunity to be a head

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Speaker 1: coach someday. Yeah, well, I mean that would certainly be

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Speaker 1: great for Babba, but you know, you definitely want him

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Speaker 1: in the fall next year and beyond He's been here

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Speaker 1: since twenty eighteen, and the Colts have consistently been one

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Speaker 1: of the top performing special teams units in the NFL

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Speaker 1: in that span. Stay right there, Rick, Paul's asking, how

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Speaker 1: has Isaiah Rodgers performed this season? To me? This is

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Speaker 1: Paul asking. This is part of his question. He says

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Speaker 1: to me, he's had as many good plays as he's

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Speaker 1: had negative plays. Yeah, and I would say probably more

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Speaker 1: good plays than negative plays. I think at the corner

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Speaker 1: when you have a negative play, it really stands out.

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Speaker 1: You know. I've always been a believer in Isaiah and

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Speaker 1: I still am. He's a very talented guy. He has

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Speaker 1: two things that you can't coach as a former secondary coach.

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Speaker 1: One he has great catch up speed, which you have

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Speaker 1: to have as a young kid. And two he has

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Speaker 1: great ball skills. He really has the ability to find

854
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Speaker 1: a ball in a blind spot, and that's something you

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Speaker 1: can never coach. You either have that or you don't

856
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Speaker 1: have it. Now, what he has to get is more discipline.

857
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Speaker 1: He has to get much better technique wise at the

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Speaker 1: line of scrimmage. He's got to learn from his partner

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Speaker 1: on the other side, Gilmore. I think at times he

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Speaker 1: has to have more discipline if he could learn from Gilmore,

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Speaker 1: and Gilmore's got it obviously through great experience. Kind of

862
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Speaker 1: that patience, kind of that knowledge and that ploise, you know,

863
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Speaker 1: to never be herky jerky, to know when to cut

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Speaker 1: it loose, to no when to make that big play.

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Speaker 1: I think he could really grow with that. I think

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Speaker 1: he's got a really bright future. But I think he's

867
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Speaker 1: got to get fundamentally better, and he has to get stronger.

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Speaker 1: He's never going to be a really big guy, and

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Speaker 1: he is willing, but he will miss him tackles sometimes

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Speaker 1: just because he doesn't have the strength. So I think

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Speaker 1: that's the kind of project they have to work on.

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Speaker 1: All right, this is Colts Roundtable Live. We're taking your

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Speaker 1: questions tonight on the mail bag. We have time for

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Speaker 1: one more. That was Rick Venturi. Joe writes, gets this one.

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Speaker 1: This is coming from Nick. Joe. What does this loss

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Speaker 1: do for our psyche? Now? Are the players going to

877
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Speaker 1: be completely checked out? Joe, you're the perfect guy to ask.

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Speaker 1: Take us inside that locker room. What's going on right

879
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Speaker 1: now inside these players heads? No question, it's tough, and

880
00:43:28,320 --> 00:43:30,960
Speaker 1: that was a really a gut wrenching defeat. It's embarrassing.

881
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Speaker 1: We heard everything, but you know, to go back my

882
00:43:32,920 --> 00:43:35,040
Speaker 1: own experience a year we were two and fourteen, man,

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Speaker 1: I mean we were owing thirteen. We didn't win a

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Speaker 1: game until yesterday, December eighteenth, we beat the Titans. But

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Speaker 1: I always felt like, as a player, I'm going to

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Speaker 1: continue to play hard for two reasons. One I owe

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Speaker 1: it to my teammates. I owe it to my brothers

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Speaker 1: in the locker room. And then two selfishly, I wanted

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00:43:50,640 --> 00:43:53,040
Speaker 1: to be in that Colts organization in twenty twelve. I

890
00:43:53,080 --> 00:43:57,400
Speaker 1: wanted to have a spot. I wanted to show the coaches.

891
00:43:57,480 --> 00:43:59,120
Speaker 1: I wanted to show the staff. I wanted to show

892
00:43:59,160 --> 00:44:01,719
Speaker 1: mister Ursey that I wanted to be a cult continuing on.

893
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Speaker 1: And I think for a lot of those guys, you've

894
00:44:03,320 --> 00:44:06,120
Speaker 1: got three games left to put on tape, why you

895
00:44:06,200 --> 00:44:08,719
Speaker 1: belong in this locker room moving forward? Because obviously there's

896
00:44:08,719 --> 00:44:11,960
Speaker 1: going to be changes on next year's roster. And I

897
00:44:12,000 --> 00:44:13,600
Speaker 1: think the last thing is what better way to do

898
00:44:13,640 --> 00:44:16,480
Speaker 1: it this next game than Monday night football. We've now

899
00:44:16,560 --> 00:44:20,440
Speaker 1: had disappointing performances on Monday night, Sunday night, and Saturday afternoon.

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Speaker 1: You get another chance Monday Night Football. It's a day

901
00:44:23,120 --> 00:44:27,160
Speaker 1: after Christmas. Everybody's gonna be laying around fat eating Christmas cookies,

902
00:44:27,200 --> 00:44:29,239
Speaker 1: watching you and Coach. I know we've talked about that.

903
00:44:29,600 --> 00:44:31,800
Speaker 1: It meant something to me that I was going to

904
00:44:31,880 --> 00:44:34,319
Speaker 1: show out because more than anything in the NFL, you

905
00:44:34,360 --> 00:44:37,200
Speaker 1: won't respect from your own locker room first, but you

906
00:44:37,239 --> 00:44:40,200
Speaker 1: won't respect from your peers around the league. Hey, Colts

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Speaker 1: about how the Colts need to rebound this week in

911
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Speaker 1: practice and also the challenge that lies ahead and the

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Speaker 1: So the Colts currently sit four nine and one. They

928
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Speaker 1: haven't been mathematically eliminated from the playoffs yet. There's three

929
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Speaker 1: games to play up next at Lucasoil Stadium Monday Night Football.

930
00:45:53,920 --> 00:45:56,799
Speaker 1: The Chargers come to town the day or I should say,

931
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Speaker 1: in this case, the night following Christmas. Rick and Joe

932
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Speaker 1: your final thoughts on the Colts Vikings game and the

933
00:46:03,280 --> 00:46:05,800
Speaker 1: challenge ahead and week number sixteen. Joe will start with

934
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Speaker 1: you first. What do you think the players are talking

935
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Speaker 1: about and discussing this week in the locker room again

936
00:46:11,840 --> 00:46:14,320
Speaker 1: the home stretch here with three games to play. Yeah,

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00:46:14,360 --> 00:46:16,560
Speaker 1: I think it's it's about again, it's playing hard for

938
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Speaker 1: your team first, and it's playing hard for yourself and

939
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Speaker 1: next season. I know they're not mathematically limited from the playoffs.

940
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Speaker 1: But you know it's a one in a million scenario,

941
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Speaker 1: and so really, I think this game will show a

942
00:46:26,800 --> 00:46:29,080
Speaker 1: lot coming up Monday night if this gut wrenching loss,

943
00:46:29,120 --> 00:46:30,960
Speaker 1: and you know, the player's got to be ready, and

944
00:46:31,160 --> 00:46:33,440
Speaker 1: you know Jeff Saturday's got his work cut out for him,

945
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Speaker 1: you know, getting that team motivated back up off the

946
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Speaker 1: mat here for these final three games, no doubt about it.

947
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Speaker 1: All right, Rick, we got about thirty seconds. I apologize,

948
00:46:41,960 --> 00:46:44,920
Speaker 1: we're up against it. But this Chargers team, if if

949
00:46:44,920 --> 00:46:47,480
Speaker 1: the playoffs started today, they would be in as a

950
00:46:47,560 --> 00:46:49,600
Speaker 1: wildcard team. This is a big game for them on

951
00:46:49,640 --> 00:46:52,320
Speaker 1: Monday night. This is that this is not a super

952
00:46:52,360 --> 00:46:55,319
Speaker 1: talented team and it's a beatable team. But I'll tell

953
00:46:55,320 --> 00:46:57,680
Speaker 1: you what, really, the last two weeks, they're playing with

954
00:46:57,800 --> 00:47:01,320
Speaker 1: great confidence and they're playing with rate effort. It's noticeable

955
00:47:01,440 --> 00:47:03,680
Speaker 1: jumps right off the tape. And I'll tell you the

956
00:47:03,719 --> 00:47:07,000
Speaker 1: quarterback Herbert is the real deal. The kid can really go.

957
00:47:08,000 --> 00:47:10,319
Speaker 1: He can throw it from the pocket. If you let

958
00:47:10,440 --> 00:47:12,600
Speaker 1: him on the edge, he can spin it. He won

959
00:47:12,600 --> 00:47:15,319
Speaker 1: the game against Tennessee with a great scramble to the

960
00:47:15,440 --> 00:47:19,520
Speaker 1: edge and an absolute thirty five yard dart down Field,

961
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Speaker 1: So there's no question about it. They're gonna come ready

962
00:47:22,200 --> 00:47:24,799
Speaker 1: to play. They're very beatable. And I will say this

963
00:47:24,880 --> 00:47:27,919
Speaker 1: and Joe knows this. I mean, traveling on Christmas Day

964
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Speaker 1: is a little bit depressing, particularly halfway across the country.

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Speaker 1: So I'm gonna take that as a little advantage this week. Yep,

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Speaker 1: the Colts return home after a couple of weeks away,

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Speaker 1: plus the buy getting back at Lucas Oil Stadium. Gentlemen,

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Speaker 1: that's all the time we've got tonight. Rick and Joe.

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00:47:42,680 --> 00:47:45,040
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. Rick, I appreciate the time. Man.

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Speaker 1: I'm glad you're feeling better. We'll talk later this week,

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Speaker 1: all right, we'll get ready to go on Wednesday for

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Speaker 1: the podcast. Absolutely all right. And Joe again, my thanks

973
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Speaker 1: to you filling in for Rick this weekend in Minnesota.

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Speaker 1: You are fantastic, so appreciate that. Have a great week

975
00:47:58,120 --> 00:48:00,319
Speaker 1: and happy Holidays to you and yours my friend. Yep.

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Speaker 1: Thanks yeah, Merry Christmas to all our listeners out there.

977
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Speaker 1: Appreciate you guys tuning in every Monday with coach and I.

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Speaker 1: There you go. That's Joe Wrights, Rick fin Terry, I'm

979
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Speaker 1: Matt Taylor. My thanks to those guys my thanks as

980
00:48:10,360 --> 00:48:13,400
Speaker 1: well to interim head coach Jeff's Saturday who joined in

981
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Speaker 1: the first segment. And as always, we've got you covered

982
00:48:16,000 --> 00:48:19,000
Speaker 1: on the Colts all week long. Colts Daily updates tomorrow

983
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Speaker 1: through Thursday. Colts Official podcast is gonna come out tomorrow

984
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Speaker 1: as well. Insight Football, as Rick said, that's gonna drop

985
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Speaker 1: on Wednesday with his blueprints to beat the Chargers. Check

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