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

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

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Speaker 1: For Jack Doyle, he's got it. Touchdown back ten five, touchdown,

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Speaker 1: I go petfin jot of the Taylor touchdown. Hi in

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Speaker 1: d Why Now Here's the Voice of the Colts, Matt Taylor,

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Speaker 1: live from the Power Home Solar Radio Studio. Hey, welcome

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Speaker 1: to Colts Roundtable Live, presented by Citizens Energy Group, Proud

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Speaker 1: at Citizens Energy Group dot com. I'm Matt Taylor with

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Speaker 1: you until seven o'clock tonight. And the Colts are coming

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Speaker 1: off a dominating forty one to fifteen win over the

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills on Sunday. Was the most impressive and complete

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Speaker 1: win of the season for the Colts, who controlled the

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Speaker 1: game from start to finish. The Colts have won three

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Speaker 1: the AFC playoff race after a one in four start

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Speaker 1: to the season. The Bills came into the game boasting

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Speaker 1: points all season. The Colts didn't commit a turnover for

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Speaker 1: to work and prove himself again as one of the

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Speaker 1: Taylor's accomplishments on Sunday were long, so here goes. Here

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Speaker 1: are the highlights. He became just the six running back

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Speaker 1: He's the only player in NFL history to record one

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Speaker 1: He passed Josepha Dye for the third most rushing yards

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Speaker 1: of their first two seasons. And you want to talk

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Speaker 1: about consistency, Taylor has tallied a rushing touchdown in a

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Speaker 1: Mitchell from nineteen seventy five to nineteen seventy six. The

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Speaker 1: Colts defense did their job as well. They made life

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Speaker 1: of yesterday's big win over the Bills as Frank Reich,

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Speaker 1: line with us now. Coach. First off, congrats on the win.

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Speaker 1: How confident were you with that? You know, you can

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Speaker 1: Colts Roundtable. Let's go to the fan questions. Morris is

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Speaker 1: up first, coach. He's asking what do we do better

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Speaker 1: you said today the defensive line play great and really

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Speaker 1: guys if he's most valuable players, ask Poyer and hide

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Speaker 1: Micah hide. He went to tackle. I mean he was

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Speaker 1: looking up to the sky hoping that he could get

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Speaker 1: his facilities back my MVP. Yeah, and I agree. And

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Speaker 1: I think Jonathan Taylor is a threat to score every

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Speaker 1: time he touches the ball. And we've been talking about

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Speaker 1: that and people have, but I feel like yesterday was

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Speaker 1: really the first time I really believed it, and I

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Speaker 1: think this team believed it. I mean, that offensive line

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Speaker 1: knows if we block our guys up and if they're

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Speaker 1: going to bring an eighth guy in the box like

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Speaker 1: they did. Coach you know this as well as anybody.

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Speaker 1: You get a good runs when there's a seven box.

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Speaker 1: When you get an eight man box, that's when you

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Speaker 1: get the big runs because you get past you know,

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Speaker 1: the initial line and he's gone. And I loved everything

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Speaker 1: about yesterday. I loved how physical the offensive line was.

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Speaker 1: Shout out to Jack Doyle. By the way, Jack Doyle

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Speaker 1: blocked his ass off. He was downfield everywhere on every play.

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Speaker 1: A couple of those huge runs where the wham play,

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Speaker 1: that's when you basically cut the defensive tackle loose, he

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Speaker 1: runs upfield. Jack Doyle goes in and he kind of

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Speaker 1: pins him, kind of a trap play. We had a

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Speaker 1: couple of huge runs on that That forty yard run

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Speaker 1: was off away man, the first touchdown was. But it's

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Speaker 1: just it's continuing to get better and better and better.

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Speaker 1: And I go back Matt to the Jets game three

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Speaker 1: weeks ago, and I felt like that game, Frank basically said,

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Speaker 1: our identity is running the football, and we're not just

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Speaker 1: gonna pay it lip service. We're gonna do it, and

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Speaker 1: we're gonna come out and we're just gonna smack you.

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Speaker 1: And he had one hundred and seventy two yards last

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Speaker 1: week twenty one for one sixteen this week thirty two

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Speaker 1: for one eighty five. I mean he had one hundred

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Speaker 1: seventy five yards and zero touchdowns through the first three

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Speaker 1: games of the season. Jonathan Terrell, Dude, he's got fifteen

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Speaker 1: touchdowns the last eight games, So you're talking about MVP.

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Speaker 1: I mean, if he continue, if he continues at that pace,

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Speaker 1: he's going to be close to thirty by the end

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Speaker 1: of the year. So it'll be interesting to see down

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Speaker 1: the stretch. But if the Colts continue this playoff push.

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Speaker 1: I know that running backs generally are not in the

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Speaker 1: MVP considerations. It's almost always quarterbacks. But what quarterback has

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Speaker 1: been more valuable than Jonathan Taylor really has to the team.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's taken on a whole new life the

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Speaker 1: last three games and I can't wait to see where

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Speaker 1: it goes the last six. Just to add, because I

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Speaker 1: really think I think Joe just made a really good point.

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Speaker 1: I gave Jack Doyle a game ball after the game,

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Speaker 1: and I'm so happy I did. After I watched the tape,

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Speaker 1: just played his tail off. The whams were impressive. That

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Speaker 1: gave us diversity. And then he had a couple of

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Speaker 1: key catches and we're looking for that other guy and

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Speaker 1: this one of the thing because we're not going to

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Speaker 1: mention it. You know, I really think that Fisher and

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Speaker 1: Smitty now are back. Man, they are back. They blocked

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Speaker 1: that run yesterday, and I mean they blocked it, and

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Speaker 1: so again all arrows pointing out yep, and just kind

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Speaker 1: of closing the book here on this topic. Jonathan Taylor

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Speaker 1: last Sunday or yesterday became the sixth running back with

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Speaker 1: five touchdowns over the past thirty seasons, and to your

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Speaker 1: guys's point, the last non quarterback to be named MVP

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Speaker 1: running back Adrian Peterson in two and twelve. Before that,

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Speaker 1: it was Ladanian Tomlinson in two thousand and six, and

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Speaker 1: then Sean Alexander in two thousand and five. All right,

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Speaker 1: number two, Carson Wentz. He didn't have to do too

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Speaker 1: much on Sunday, not Jonathan Taylor doing what he did,

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Speaker 1: but Wentz went eleven for twenty for one oh six touchdown. However,

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Speaker 1: Wentz continues to take great care of the football, guys.

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Speaker 1: He has attempted eighty four consecutive passes without an interception.

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Speaker 1: The Colts haven't suffered to turn over in three straight

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Speaker 1: games earlier this season. We know that Wentz set the

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Speaker 1: franchise record for consecutive games or I should say consecutive

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Speaker 1: pass attempts without an interception at two hundred and twelve.

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Speaker 1: He's only thrown three picks on the season, and his

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Speaker 1: interception rate on the year as point nine percent that

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Speaker 1: leads the NFL. So Joe writes Carson Wentz playing like

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Speaker 1: the wins of twenty seventeen and being the franchise quarterback

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Speaker 1: for the Colts in the long run. Are we there?

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Speaker 1: Have we reached that point yet? I think we are there,

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Speaker 1: and I think he's playing like seventeen in some ways.

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Speaker 1: I think he's playing better and he'll continue to do

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Speaker 1: so as he gets accustomed to the Colts version of

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Speaker 1: the Frank Reich offense in twenty twenty one and the

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Speaker 1: things we have. And I think the thing that Carson

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Speaker 1: does that we haven't had around here since Andrew Luck

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Speaker 1: is the deep ball. And we've seen that in some

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Speaker 1: games where those fifty sixty yard passes have been the

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Speaker 1: reason that we've won those football games. And so we

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Speaker 1: really have the whole package and eight or nine guys

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Speaker 1: to the box and saying, no matter what, Taylor's not

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Speaker 1: going to beat us. Carson Wentz has that ability to

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Speaker 1: beat us with his arm. But the biggest thing I

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Speaker 1: think for wins is his decision making. I know he's

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Speaker 1: had some you could call him some bonehead plays or

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Speaker 1: some questionable things when he's you know, throwing the ball

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Speaker 1: with his left hand, etc. But bottom line, no turnovers

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Speaker 1: the last three games, and he has the lowest interception

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Speaker 1: rate in the NFL, less than one percent. If he

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Speaker 1: can continue to do that and we can continue to

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Speaker 1: win the turnover battle. I mean we're taking the ball away.

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Speaker 1: We're now number one and takeaways after we got four

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Speaker 1: in Buffalo got zero. The Colts have the formula to

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Speaker 1: win and win in the playoffs because they can turn

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Speaker 1: you over on defense, get those extra possessions. We can

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Speaker 1: pack our run game and run the ball, and then

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Speaker 1: if we need to wins, I think can step up

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Speaker 1: and beat us through the air. So, in my opinion,

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Speaker 1: he's proved through the first eleven games that he's this quarterback.

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Speaker 1: He's the franchise quarterback for the future, not just this year,

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Speaker 1: but I'm talking three, five, seven, ten years to come. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: this guy has it all and he's playing you know

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Speaker 1: if not. I mean his QBR was number one in seventeen.

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Speaker 1: He's up to twelve, but remember that was three games,

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Speaker 1: foot surgery, two ankle sprains. I mean, he'd come up

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Speaker 1: from like twenty four to twelve and he's just moving forward.

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Speaker 1: You know. The biggest thing that knocked me out when

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Speaker 1: I went back and studied him before we made the

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Speaker 1: trade was, you know, he was his thirty three touchdowns

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Speaker 1: and seven interceptions in two thousand and seventeen, he had

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Speaker 1: a sixty percent completion average. Well, he's right now at

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Speaker 1: eighteen and three, so you can you know, you can

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Speaker 1: project that to be every bit as good. But he's

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Speaker 1: actually got a better percentage at sixty three. I agree

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Speaker 1: with Joe in some ways he's better. I think he's

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Speaker 1: better in this respect. He's like a coach on the field.

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Speaker 1: The players will tell you he gets you out of

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Speaker 1: bad plays into good plays, great line of scrimmage, command

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Speaker 1: and presence without being a ringmaster, outstanding escapability. He gave

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Speaker 1: us a Houdini that was a critical play. Seven yesterday,

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Speaker 1: third and ten, they were coming back. He makes a

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Speaker 1: Houdini play, he runs underneath it for that eighteen yard game,

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Speaker 1: we get a field goal and keep our distance. His

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Speaker 1: accuracy has been very very good. If the other thing

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Speaker 1: about him, and I think you start to take it

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Speaker 1: for granted. He can make the off platform throw better

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Speaker 1: actually than Andrew Luck could. Andrew was very very good,

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Speaker 1: but fairly mechanical. This guy can throw it from any position.

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Speaker 1: I have to be careful not to overdo it. But

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Speaker 1: when you look at him, look at what he's done

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Speaker 1: in two weeks. You talk about critical plays, the Houdini

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Speaker 1: play is one of them. The week before when we're

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Speaker 1: struggling to Pete Jacksonville, he's got a bliz coming free.

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Speaker 1: He runs full out to the right and throws an

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Speaker 1: absolute asper and tablet to make a critical first down

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Speaker 1: to go down in get it. No, I think we're

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Speaker 1: in great hands right now with Whens And you know what,

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Speaker 1: You're gonna always live with a bad play here there.

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Speaker 1: You know why, because the god's trying to win the game.

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Speaker 1: What I think Frank's done a good job in Frank

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00:29:14,120 --> 00:29:16,280
Speaker 1: always does a good job on this because he can

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Speaker 1: get in their heads because of who he is is.

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Speaker 1: He gets him to play within himself that no when

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Speaker 1: to hold them, no, when to fold them, the difference

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Speaker 1: and disadvantage and impossibility. And that's where the left handed

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Speaker 1: thrill come. But you you know, you take away those

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Speaker 1: two bad plays once he's healthy. What's there not to

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00:29:32,840 --> 00:29:35,320
Speaker 1: like about Carson And no doubt about that. That's Rick

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Speaker 1: vent Erry and Joe right sim Matt Taylor along here

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Speaker 1: on Colts Roundtable Live tonight. We're rolling out are we There?

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Speaker 1: So let's go to Are we There? Number three and

589
00:29:44,080 --> 00:29:47,080
Speaker 1: wrap up in winning three straight games. The Cults are

590
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Speaker 1: now over five hundred for the first time all season.

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Speaker 1: They're climbing closer and closer to the top seven of

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Speaker 1: the AFC to make the playoffs. At six and five,

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00:29:55,680 --> 00:29:58,280
Speaker 1: the Colts are still outside the wild card picture, but

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Speaker 1: they're still six games to go the Bills. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's a week to week thing. I mean, just look

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Speaker 1: at Buffalo, right, they dropped from the two seed to

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Speaker 1: the seven seed in the AFC with one loss, Joe.

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Speaker 1: Since nineteen ninety only four teams have ever made the

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Speaker 1: playoffs after starting the season oh and three. But here

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Speaker 1: come the Colts looking to become number five. So Indianapolis

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Speaker 1: now having a legitimate chance of making the playoffs, Joe,

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Speaker 1: are we there? Oh, We're definitely there. And I said

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Speaker 1: going into this game against Buffalo, if we beat Buffalo

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Speaker 1: and Tampa Bay, we're in the playoffs for sure. If

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Speaker 1: we beat one of them, you know, we still got

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Speaker 1: some room to work. But I read something today that

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Speaker 1: I think the Colts have close to a seventy five

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Speaker 1: percent chance to make the playoffs. And that's because obviously

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Speaker 1: we got Tampa Bay coming in. But the rest of

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Speaker 1: our schedule, you know, outside of that game at Arizona,

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Speaker 1: isn't too difficult. I mean, the Raiders are in a slide.

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Speaker 1: You play Jacksonville again, you play Houston. But what I

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Speaker 1: like about the Colts is we're five and three in

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Speaker 1: our conference and you know, a lot of those tie

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Speaker 1: breakers come down to your division record, then your conference

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Speaker 1: record when it's out of there. And I just think

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Speaker 1: the fact that some of the teams ahead of us,

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Speaker 1: like the Bengals and the Steelers and the Chargers, I mean,

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Speaker 1: they have really really hard schedules and they're all playing

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Speaker 1: each other, you know. I mean you look at the

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Speaker 1: Steelers schedule the last seven, right, and the Steelers are

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Speaker 1: a half game ahead of us. It's at Cincinnati, Baltimore

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Speaker 1: at home, at Minnesota, Tennessee at home, at Kansas City,

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Speaker 1: the Browns at home, and at Baltimore. You know, I

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Speaker 1: mean when you compare those seven games to the remaining

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Speaker 1: Colts six games, a lot of these teams, I think, Chargers, Bengals, Steelers,

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Speaker 1: they're just gonna start to beat each other up and

628
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Speaker 1: lose some games. I think if the Colts get to

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Speaker 1: ten wins, they're in. All the matters is winning the

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Speaker 1: next one. And in a way, I'm glad that we

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Speaker 1: play Tampa Bay coming up next because it's Tampa Bay

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Speaker 1: defending Super Bowl champs Tom Brady. We know what he's

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Speaker 1: meant as an enemy to this franchise. In a game

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Speaker 1: like that against Buffalo. The only negative is you can

635
00:31:49,120 --> 00:31:51,600
Speaker 1: play so well that you can tend as a player.

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Speaker 1: I've been there, want to kind of enjoy it and

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00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:56,080
Speaker 1: bring it into Monday and Tuesday and Wednesday. But when

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Speaker 1: you've got Tom Brady coming into Lucas Oil, that gets

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Speaker 1: your focus really quick. Yeah. Absolutely, And every week will

640
00:32:03,080 --> 00:32:06,120
Speaker 1: unfold differently. You could look great running the ball next

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Speaker 1: week this week, and you know they may put eight

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Speaker 1: guys up there, or they may play like the Jaguars.

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Speaker 1: If you go two weeks ago, we couldn't run it

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Speaker 1: a lick. So you know, you got to be able

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Speaker 1: to be adaptable. What I like about us right now.

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Speaker 1: Joe made a statement early and I agree to this.

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Speaker 1: I don't think anybody played better in the National Football

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Speaker 1: League than we did on Sunday. I don't think that

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Speaker 1: anybody did totally. And I think that's so encouraging. As

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Speaker 1: we come down to stretch. I am a statistics guy,

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Speaker 1: and we're number five in scoring and we're number twelve

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Speaker 1: and points given up. So we're at the top of

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Speaker 1: the list there and all those wildcard teams, all six

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Speaker 1: of them that are involved there. And if you look

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Speaker 1: at our defense, since we've gotten aggressive, now that we

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Speaker 1: have changed gears, since you know, two weeks ago before

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Speaker 1: we played the Jaguars, we change gears after that debacco

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Speaker 1: with the Jets, even though we won in all those yards,

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Speaker 1: we were given up. And if you look at the

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Speaker 1: last two weeks, we've given up seventeen points and fifteen points.

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Speaker 1: We have been a different defensive team. And so that

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Speaker 1: was my only concern down the stretch. I have very

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Speaker 1: little concerned about our offense because I just think, you know,

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Speaker 1: we're too talented, too well coached, to note nuanced not

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Speaker 1: to have good weekend week out. I have been concerned

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Speaker 1: about our defense, but I think we change gears. I

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Speaker 1: think we're picking it up. And I always look at

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Speaker 1: three things, Matt, you know, and I you hear me,

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Speaker 1: You see me say this every week. There's three keys

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Speaker 1: that I look in points giving up, we're number twelve,

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Speaker 1: and we may be better than that. QBR we're number

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Speaker 1: twelve in climbing, and then turnover differential we're number one.

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Speaker 1: So three of the big attributes that are that you need,

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Speaker 1: in my opinion, to be really good. We've got it.

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Speaker 1: And there there's really when you look through there, you

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Speaker 1: know there isn't anybody that scares you. And the rest

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Speaker 1: of those wild card teams, a matter of fact, most

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Speaker 1: of them have gone downward. Most of them started out

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Speaker 1: good and they're on a downward trajectory where we had

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Speaker 1: a tough time, but we're coming on. And that's how

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Speaker 1: I want my team going in playoffs. I want it

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Speaker 1: coming on, no question about it. Now. It's really important.

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Speaker 1: Is these AFC games. The one game that I think

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Speaker 1: is going to be a really tough one coming up,

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Speaker 1: and goodness, we got them at home, and we have

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Speaker 1: them after the is the Patriots, you know, and you

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Speaker 1: got to make sure that you get the Jaguars. Oh,

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Speaker 1: you got to make sure you get the Jaguars, Raiders

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Speaker 1: and Patriots, and then you damn sure have to get

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Speaker 1: one of that Arizona or the Bucks. Those two NFC

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Speaker 1: games coming up right now, and the Bucks are the

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Speaker 1: most vulnerable. The two best teams that we play the

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Speaker 1: rest of the way today if you have to evaluate

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Speaker 1: them today and how they're playing at this moment is

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Speaker 1: New England Patriots in the Arizona Cardinals. You know, the

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Speaker 1: Bucks are really struggling. We'll talk about that at the

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Speaker 1: end of the show, but they are really struggling. And

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Speaker 1: I do agree it's nice to have that high profile

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Speaker 1: team after this big win. So you don't you don't

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Speaker 1: have that tenancy to sit back. You look at that film,

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Speaker 1: there's Tom Brady, let's go yeah. And to Joe's point

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Speaker 1: wrapping up here, a win against Tampa Bay on Sunday

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Speaker 1: would jump the Colts odds to eighty five percent to

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Speaker 1: make the playoffs according to analytics website five thirty eight

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Speaker 1: and that's a look at are we there? Look at

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Speaker 1: some statements on the Colts through eleven games this season.

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Speaker 1: When we come back, we're going to dive into the

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Speaker 1: mail bag. We'll talk about the Buccaneers, the dominance of

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Speaker 1: the Colts running game in the final six games of

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Speaker 1: the season, and a lot more when we come back

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Speaker 1: Matt Taylor. Let's go to Dean's question first. How much

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Speaker 1: of our success in the ground game is due to

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Speaker 1: our tight ends? Joe, I watched the tight ends very closely,

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Speaker 1: and I feel like no one blocks as well as

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Speaker 1: they do. You talked about Jack Doyle earlier. This is

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Speaker 1: right in line with number eighty four in his blocking prowess. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Dean is watching the same game I am, because I mean,

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Speaker 1: I thought Jack Doyle was just phenomenal. I mean, as

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Speaker 1: good of game as I can remember in his ten

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Speaker 1: year career of just blocking not only downfield extra effort.

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Speaker 1: A lot of times when we run an inside zone

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Speaker 1: to the right, he comes all the way back across

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Speaker 1: the left and either seals or cuts off the defensive end.

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Speaker 1: He had some wham blocks on the three techniques, so

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Speaker 1: that means he's blocking a three hundred pound guy and

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Speaker 1: he's not afraid to stick in his nose in there

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Speaker 1: and get him out the way. But I just thought

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Speaker 1: Jack was so good yesterday, and really the whole offensive line,

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Speaker 1: I mean, to be real, the offensive line after they

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Speaker 1: came out and we established dominance against the Jaguars, went

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Speaker 1: up seventeen nothing. Jacksonville was more physical than we were

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Speaker 1: at the point of attack, and I bet our guys

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Speaker 1: knew it. I bet the coaches let him know about

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Speaker 1: it in film. But they came out and played angry

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Speaker 1: yesterday and they blocked angry, and boy, it was a

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Speaker 1: joy to see. When you have that much success in

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Speaker 1: the run, when you have forty six carries as an

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Speaker 1: offensive lineman, I mean, that's just that's an old lineman's

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Speaker 1: dream right there. And I'm just really excited about this

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Speaker 1: group coming together. I think that Fish, you know, coach

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Speaker 1: Finerry mentioned earlier. You know, I think Fisher's explosiveness is back,

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Speaker 1: his physicalities back after seven eight games. Braden Smith played

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Speaker 1: his best game of the season yesterday, and then the inside,

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Speaker 1: Kelly is just solid like he always is. And you know,

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Speaker 1: even though Quintin Nelson went out and I know he's

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Speaker 1: battling through a lot with that ankle injury, you know,

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Speaker 1: when you have a Chris Read and you have the

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Speaker 1: depth to come in there, I mean, we didn't really

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Speaker 1: miss a beat. So that's awful exciting for this old line.

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Speaker 1: I talked about it, you know, way back when at

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Speaker 1: the start of the season. For the Colts offense to

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Speaker 1: be the best unit that they can be, the offensive

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Speaker 1: line has to be the heartbeat of the team. And

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Speaker 1: I really feel like the last four or five games

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Speaker 1: they've done that. And it was punctuated yesterday with an

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Speaker 1: I'm Matt Taylor. Let's go to Shawn's question before we

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Speaker 1: close out here in this segment, Rick, this is to you,

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Speaker 1: what's your confidence level in our secondary against the Bucks

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Speaker 1: offense and Tom Brady coming to town on Sunday. Well,

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Speaker 1: you know, I have a lot more confidence after Sunday.

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Speaker 1: But this is a whole different type of approach. You know,

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Speaker 1: a last Sunday we played yesterday, we played a power

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Speaker 1: forward at quarterback who's a great athlete, who's still, in

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Speaker 1: my opinion, and I said this before the game, not

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Speaker 1: just after, is more still more of an NCAA guy

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Speaker 1: than he is. You know, he's, like I said, he's

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Speaker 1: a power forward. He's an athlete. First, he gets confused.

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Speaker 1: He was very confused yesterday. Now we're going to play

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Speaker 1: a surgeon. We're gonna play a surgical approach. So it's

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Speaker 1: very different. Now we don't have to worry about the mobility.

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Speaker 1: We don't have to worry about that part of the game.

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Speaker 1: There's less to worry about there. But the three things

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Speaker 1: I think that you have to be really be worried about,

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Speaker 1: not worried about, but you have to plan for. That

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Speaker 1: is different. Is the first thing is you can't show

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Speaker 1: your pre snap defenses to Tom Brady. It's like showing

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Speaker 1: him to Peyton Manning. You know you and they have

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Speaker 1: certain formations where they isolate people like Evan is on

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Speaker 1: the weak side, sometimes with a three by one. Sometimes

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Speaker 1: it's Gronk if he posted up, which I think he's

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Speaker 1: supposed to play tonight against the Giants, and then they'll

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Speaker 1: move a Godwin around. And so what happens is if

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Speaker 1: you show a coverage or you get predictable, he's going

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Speaker 1: to get a one on one matchup and it ain't

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Speaker 1: gonna take him three milliseconds knowing where to go. And

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Speaker 1: he's got some guys that can match up, and particularly

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Speaker 1: fifty fifty guys like Evans and like Gronkowski. The second

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Speaker 1: thing is he is very capable because of his accuracy

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Speaker 1: and his judgment before the snap and on the snap,

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Speaker 1: he is gonna really pepper you underneath. If we if

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Speaker 1: we sit and play a ton of zone. Now we've

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Speaker 1: been playing less and less and more tougher matchup in there,

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Speaker 1: but he will pick his zone apart, He'll he'll he'll

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Speaker 1: spread the field. He'll get in a lot of spread.

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Speaker 1: They'll spread the field and they'll go quick rhythm and

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Speaker 1: he'll hit that ball before you set up. So it's

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Speaker 1: isolation by formation, pre snap, those type of things. And

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Speaker 1: then you have to make sure that you stop the

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Speaker 1: run because if you don't, then he's very, very good

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Speaker 1: at play action on first down. So the biggest key

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Speaker 1: is you you were playing a great athlete last week.

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Speaker 1: This week you're playing a surgeon. Totally different kind of guy.

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Speaker 1: We'll take a look at the AFC playoff race and

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Speaker 1: twenty one to play. Taking a look at the week

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Speaker 1: twelve AFC standings, the Titans lost yesterday, but there's still

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Speaker 1: number one in the AFC in terms of playoff seeding

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Speaker 1: so they take over the four seed. The Cincinnati Bengals

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Speaker 1: at six and four. In the five seed, the Chargers

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Speaker 1: are six and four at number six, the Bills at

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Speaker 1: six and four, the Steelers at five four and one,

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Speaker 1: and the Colts currently at number nine at a record

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00:43:04,600 --> 00:43:07,120
Speaker 1: or with a record of six and five. So up

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Speaker 1: next for the Colts or the Tampa Bay Buccaneers they

859
00:43:09,760 --> 00:43:12,000
Speaker 1: won the Super Bowl last season. Of course, they host

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Speaker 1: the Giants tonight on Monday Night Football. They're currently six

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Speaker 1: and three on the season and coming into the game tonight,

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Speaker 1: they've lost back to back games to the Saints and

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Speaker 1: the Washington Football team, but they currently lead the NFC South.

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Speaker 1: They have a ton of weapons on offense. They've got

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Speaker 1: running back Leonard Fournette, receivers Chris Godwin and Mike Evans

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Speaker 1: and Tony o'brown win healthy. And also we think coming

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Speaker 1: back tonight is tight in Rob Grinkowski. We'll see how

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Speaker 1: that plays out coming up tonight on primetime. So Joe

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Speaker 1: closing out here. We always know that Thanksgiving marks the

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Speaker 1: beginning of that stretch run of the season. Right, six

871
00:43:46,040 --> 00:43:49,240
Speaker 1: games left? How do players stay focused? How do they

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Speaker 1: stay locked in this time of year? What every game

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00:43:51,640 --> 00:43:55,439
Speaker 1: has magnified so much in late November and December. Well,

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Speaker 1: it's easier if you're in a playoff race, and in

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00:43:58,080 --> 00:44:00,040
Speaker 1: some ways it's easier if you're a team like the

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Speaker 1: Colts that knows that every game is so important. So obviously,

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Speaker 1: you know, you get into the dog days of the season,

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Speaker 1: you know, you get into the holidays, there can be

879
00:44:07,440 --> 00:44:10,280
Speaker 1: distractions out there. But I think two things for the Colts. One,

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Speaker 1: they're relatively healthy right now. There's healthy if they've been

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Speaker 1: all season, which is great. And two, the Colts still

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Speaker 1: have their bye week, which is awesome. And you go

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Speaker 1: back the last three Super Bowl champs, I believe have

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Speaker 1: all had the latest buy possible. The Colts have that.

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00:44:24,160 --> 00:44:26,960
Speaker 1: Maybe that's a premonition or not, But if I'm the Colts,

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00:44:27,000 --> 00:44:30,560
Speaker 1: you're thinking, Hey, Thanksgiving weekend, we got Tom Brady at home,

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Speaker 1: We're going to Houston. Then we get a bye week,

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00:44:32,560 --> 00:44:35,040
Speaker 1: and then we get a really rest up recharge for

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Speaker 1: the last four games. So I can't wait for Sunday.

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Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be a phenomenal game. And you know,

891
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Speaker 1: the nice thing is, you know Tampa Bay they've lost

892
00:44:42,360 --> 00:44:44,640
Speaker 1: two in a row, but they're going to come off

893
00:44:44,680 --> 00:44:46,560
Speaker 1: that short week, so they're playing Monday night tonight. So

894
00:44:46,600 --> 00:44:49,279
Speaker 1: if you're a Colts, you relax on the couch, put

895
00:44:49,320 --> 00:44:51,759
Speaker 1: your feet up, and you're watching the game and then saying,

896
00:44:51,800 --> 00:44:54,640
Speaker 1: hopefully that extra day of prep will be advantageous to

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Speaker 1: the Colts coming up Sunday afternoon. Yeah, no doubt about that.

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Speaker 1: All right, Rick, you talked about Tom Brady earlier the

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Speaker 1: last segment. But give us the skinny on the Bucks

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00:45:02,600 --> 00:45:05,160
Speaker 1: heading into this game, on knowing that they played tonight

901
00:45:05,200 --> 00:45:08,000
Speaker 1: against New York. Yeah, we're gonna We're gonna watch it tonight.

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00:45:08,400 --> 00:45:10,279
Speaker 1: You know, this has got to be a rebound game

903
00:45:10,320 --> 00:45:13,000
Speaker 1: for them. I mean, they've really you know, I've watched

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Speaker 1: the last two games against the Saints in Washington. You know,

905
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Speaker 1: when the Saints were playing with a third string quarterback

906
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Speaker 1: in in Simeon in Washington has what four and six, um,

907
00:45:23,480 --> 00:45:25,680
Speaker 1: And they lost both games, and they didn't look very

908
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Speaker 1: good in the losses. I mean, Bruce arians who we know,

909
00:45:28,719 --> 00:45:31,680
Speaker 1: who's the krusty coach. Uh, you know, he called them

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00:45:31,680 --> 00:45:34,520
Speaker 1: the dumbest team in pro football. And you know, in

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00:45:34,560 --> 00:45:36,439
Speaker 1: a way, that's kind of how they played. A lot

912
00:45:36,520 --> 00:45:40,200
Speaker 1: like Buffalo. A lot of penalties, Matt penalties mounted up

913
00:45:40,280 --> 00:45:43,760
Speaker 1: killed them in certain situations. Um. And they just haven't

914
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Speaker 1: been in six certainly the last two weeks now, a

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Speaker 1: world champion. Uh, you know they can, they can. They

916
00:45:49,600 --> 00:45:52,520
Speaker 1: can probably flip the switch and get going now they've

917
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Speaker 1: they've got some issues. You've got. You know, you've got

918
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Speaker 1: greatness in Tom. There's no question about it. He's been

919
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Speaker 1: the GOP forever and ever and ever. You know, I'd

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00:46:01,800 --> 00:46:04,719
Speaker 1: talked a little bit about him before. Your game plan

921
00:46:04,840 --> 00:46:07,239
Speaker 1: has to be flawless and you have to execute, and

922
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Speaker 1: you got to be able to get him off the spot.

923
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Speaker 1: But as long as you have a Brady, you've got

924
00:46:11,640 --> 00:46:14,719
Speaker 1: a good ball club. You know, he's surrounded by two

925
00:46:14,840 --> 00:46:19,000
Speaker 1: really good outside receivers and Evans and Godwin. You know,

926
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Speaker 1: we'll get into it on our podcast on Wednesday. H

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Speaker 1: Is specifically, you know, they have not played with Gronk

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Speaker 1: in the last two weeks, and you know, late in

929
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Speaker 1: the career here, particularly at Tampa, Gronk has meant so

930
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Speaker 1: much to Tom. When Gronk isn't there, they're really not

931
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Speaker 1: quite the same because he loves him on different kind

932
00:46:39,480 --> 00:46:42,840
Speaker 1: of matchups, different by worry lines up in the formation.

933
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Speaker 1: So getting him back, we'll see how that really affects him. Also,

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Speaker 1: Antonio Brown was playing good, but he hasn't played in

935
00:46:49,840 --> 00:46:52,960
Speaker 1: a while. So you know those two guys Antonio Brown

936
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Speaker 1: in in Gronkowski being out. That hurts him because you

937
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Speaker 1: know that's those are Tom's security blankets going all the

938
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Speaker 1: way back to New England. Now, their offensive line, Joe

939
00:47:03,480 --> 00:47:06,600
Speaker 1: knows this was a cornerstone. It was really a cornerstone

940
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Speaker 1: in their Super Bowl drive. But they have struggled inside

941
00:47:10,719 --> 00:47:13,719
Speaker 1: and protection. And that's tough on Brady because he's not

942
00:47:13,760 --> 00:47:15,680
Speaker 1: going to move out of the pocket if you can,

943
00:47:16,120 --> 00:47:18,960
Speaker 1: if you can pressure him up inside because everything he

944
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Speaker 1: does is numbers to numbers really unless he gets in isolation.

945
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Speaker 1: But Mark pet has really really struggled at left guard,

946
00:47:26,880 --> 00:47:30,759
Speaker 1: Kapa has struggled Jensen inside. They haven't been the same

947
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Speaker 1: team now. Defensively, I think that's where I noticed the

948
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Speaker 1: biggest difference. You know, they in the end of two

949
00:47:37,040 --> 00:47:40,359
Speaker 1: nineteen and two twenty, their defense was maybe the most

950
00:47:40,440 --> 00:47:44,040
Speaker 1: underrated defense in the National Football League. I mean really

951
00:47:44,080 --> 00:47:47,120
Speaker 1: really good, you know, with edge guys like Pierre Paul,

952
00:47:47,600 --> 00:47:50,080
Speaker 1: you know, and Barrett. I mean, those two guys were

953
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Speaker 1: just really outstanding. And then they drafted the triumph kid

954
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Speaker 1: out of Washington and Stay. They have those guys, but

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Speaker 1: they haven't been as loud. They've been fairly quiet. He

956
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Speaker 1: is Banguvvi is a big force inside. You know, David

957
00:48:04,120 --> 00:48:08,560
Speaker 1: and White are really really aggressive go to linebackers, but

958
00:48:08,680 --> 00:48:11,799
Speaker 1: not super physical if you go right at them. The

959
00:48:11,840 --> 00:48:15,360
Speaker 1: biggest problem they have is, you know, is Bowls. I

960
00:48:15,480 --> 00:48:19,160
Speaker 1: call him Blitz Bowls because he brings more. Todd brings

961
00:48:19,239 --> 00:48:21,759
Speaker 1: more than anybody in the league. They're gonna pressure. I

962
00:48:21,760 --> 00:48:25,040
Speaker 1: guarantee you your protection. It's gonna get checked out. But

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00:48:25,120 --> 00:48:27,640
Speaker 1: the biggest problem they've had, Matt is they've had a

964
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Speaker 1: turnstyle at corner because of injuries, and it's just been

965
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Speaker 1: like a mass unit. And because of that, they've been

966
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Speaker 1: forced to play a lot more zone and they're just

967
00:48:37,360 --> 00:48:40,880
Speaker 1: not a zone team. And what it really affects is

968
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Speaker 1: their pressure because they're playing a lot of zone with

969
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Speaker 1: their pressure and where they would have been man to

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00:48:46,200 --> 00:48:50,480
Speaker 1: man and people are torching them. So their world champions

971
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Speaker 1: respect them. They got the goat at quarterback, you know,

972
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Speaker 1: but play who they are, not who they were. I

973
00:48:56,800 --> 00:48:59,319
Speaker 1: always tell my team that you know, play play who

974
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Speaker 1: they are. You know, play the play the men, don't

975
00:49:01,600 --> 00:49:05,440
Speaker 1: play the myth. And you know, this is definitely another

976
00:49:05,520 --> 00:49:08,600
Speaker 1: big challenge. I think it's good, as Joe said, because

977
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Speaker 1: it's a high profile team that gets your attention after

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Speaker 1: a big win. But it's it's very, very winnable to

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Speaker 1: say the least. All right, great stuff as always, Rick

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Speaker 1: Venturi and Joe Wright sign Matt Taylor. That's all the

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Speaker 1: time we have tonight here on Colts Roundtable Live. We're

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Speaker 1: up against it. My thanks to everybody who joined the show,

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Speaker 1: of course, Rick and Joe and Frank Breich on segment

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Speaker 1: number one, and all who tweeted in their question tonight

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Speaker 1: using hashtag Colts Roundtable. ESPN Radio is coming up next.

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Speaker 1: Then after that at seven thirty it's Pacer pregame as

987
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Speaker 1: the Blue and Gold are on the road in Chicago

988
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Speaker 1: tonight to face off against the Bowls. Colts Roundtable Live

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Speaker 1: returns next Monday with the recap of the Colts and

990
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Speaker 1: the Buccaneers. Until then, have a great week, everybody. We'll

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Speaker 1: talk to you throughout the week. You're on ninety three

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Speaker 1: five and one oh seven five the Fan, Happy Thanksgiving,

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Speaker 1: Go Pacers and go Colts.