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

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Speaker 1: Rick venturi Well.

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Speaker 4: You know, it's not football season until we do certain things,

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Speaker 4: and one of those things is fire up Inside Football

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Speaker 4: with Rick Venturrey here in the podcast. We are so

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Speaker 4: back now in twenty twenty five. Great to have the

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Speaker 4: podcast back here with RV. I'm Matt Taylor here at

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Speaker 4: Graham Park in Westfield, the side of Colt's training camp.

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Speaker 4: Industry Radio studio. It has been taken on the road

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Speaker 4: and it's time to talk some football with Rick Venturrey

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Speaker 4: and tap into his nearly thirty years of NFL coach experience. Rick,

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Speaker 4: Welcome back to training camp. I talked about the coaching

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Speaker 4: side of things, but in terms of following training camps

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Speaker 4: being part of them, you're well into the forties, my friend.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back.

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Speaker 3: If you can't.

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Speaker 2: If you count my year in the CFL, it's forty four. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: we've seen a few training camps. But you know, and

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Speaker 2: you've heard me say this, We've been together for a

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Speaker 2: long time now. Is I love training camp? I always did.

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Speaker 2: I loved it as a coach, no matter how hot

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Speaker 2: it got. No we had tough he got or monotonous.

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Speaker 2: And I always really like the first two weeks where

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Speaker 2: we're at right now, because you're still teaching the game,

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Speaker 2: you're still installing, you're still teaching your young kids, and

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Speaker 2: yet you're playing. You don't have the pressure of a

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Speaker 2: game yet, you know, And to me, this is in

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Speaker 3: And so yeah, I'm in my wheelhouse here, no.

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Speaker 1: Doubt about it. We've got so much to talk about today.

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Speaker 4: We're going to recap the first six days of colts practice.

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Speaker 4: Day number six just got done. Full disclosure. We're taping

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Speaker 4: this on Tuesday, the second day of full pads. We're

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Speaker 4: going to talk about the main topics on both sides

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Speaker 1: So let's get right after it.

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Speaker 4: Man, we want to start with quarterbacks, sure, all right,

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Speaker 4: I'm just gonna lay it out there on a tee

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Speaker 4: for you. In terms of these quarterbacks here, it's the

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Speaker 4: main highlight of camp. You've got this quarterback going on

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Speaker 4: right in quarterback battle, I should say, between Anthony Richardson

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Speaker 4: quarterback battles in the NFL in terms of overall training

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Speaker 4: camps around the NFL this summer. So let's start first

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Speaker 4: with Anthony Richardson. Take into account what you saw here

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Speaker 4: this afternoon, Rick, how does ar look to you so

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Speaker 2: He can throw the deep ball. You know, he's a

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Speaker 4: And as it relates to the entire team, you know

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Speaker 3: But you see steady performance.

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Speaker 2: If you look at his career, he's sixty four to

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Speaker 2: but really, training camp is going to go like this.

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Speaker 2: It's gonna be up and down, up and stock market

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Speaker 2: Do you trust that Anthony has come that percentage as

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Speaker 4: And that's the most ideal outcome for the Colts as

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Speaker 4: it relates to Daniel Jones career resurgence.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, absolutely that reassurgence to find twenty two and AR five,

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Speaker 2: Well you know, I would say based on this practice,

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Speaker 2: Based on practice so far, there hasn't been a big separation.

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Speaker 2: To be honest with you, it's not a huge separation.

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Speaker 2: So you probably would go with Richardson because of the

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Speaker 2: don't know that I trust Anthony, and you could make

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Speaker 1: Absolutely.

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Speaker 4: I want to talk about Tyler Warren, the rookie first

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Speaker 4: the Trojans Rick he had seventeen catches, two hundred and

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Speaker 4: the top Colts tight end had all of last season.

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Speaker 1: That was Kylon Granson.

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Speaker 4: So he had more production in one game than the

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Speaker 4: how much of his presence alone is going to fix

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Speaker 4: the Colts intermediate part of that passing game the woes

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Speaker 2: Well, he's a terrific prospect, period and you can see it.

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Speaker 2: I mean you can see it every day in practice.

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Speaker 2: He does something that you like, you saw versatility today.

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Speaker 2: They had him in the backfield, they put him in motion.

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Speaker 2: They can displace him. He can play at the end

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Speaker 2: he's been into backfield. He can even throw the ball.

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Speaker 2: catches it well. He's a three down guy. He never

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Speaker 2: comes off the field. I think he gives us a

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Speaker 2: In my opinion on Warren is he will be as

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Speaker 3: Because it's not it's not gonna be about him. I mean,

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Speaker 2: Only thing he isn't He isn't blazing, but he's athletic

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Speaker 2: I mean and he can and he can separate with

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Speaker 4: Yeah, he was going into the last year of his

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Speaker 2: Well, first question, it's a tough choice between Danny and

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Speaker 3: He will at right.

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Speaker 2: It's really funny when you look at our offensive line

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Speaker 3: No one separates like him.

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Speaker 2: But he's got to make layups and he's got to

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Speaker 4: All right, let's go defense now. And I know that

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Speaker 2: it looks like we got a steal, which isn't a

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Speaker 3: We got to get that up to fifteen. Okay, I'm

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Speaker 1: The top half.

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Speaker 2: Okay, Now, defense twenty ninth, we got to get that

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Speaker 3: That's what I'm saying.

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Speaker 2: I was right between three and four. He was one

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Speaker 2: he could really play. I looked at the tape and

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00:21:33,119 --> 00:21:36,199
Speaker 2: I said, speed. You know me, If you can't run,

439
00:21:36,240 --> 00:21:38,720
Speaker 2: I don't want you. But then if you have speed,

440
00:21:39,280 --> 00:21:41,879
Speaker 2: let the tape did take to you? Oh and a

441
00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:44,680
Speaker 2: kid is terrific on tape, then you know whether or

442
00:21:44,720 --> 00:21:47,080
Speaker 2: not you took him third or fourth, just thank god

443
00:21:47,119 --> 00:21:48,840
Speaker 2: you got him and give me you know, I got

444
00:21:48,880 --> 00:21:49,760
Speaker 2: to give Chris credit.

445
00:21:50,200 --> 00:21:52,280
Speaker 3: Who gives a damn with you? You're third or fourth?

446
00:21:52,320 --> 00:21:55,400
Speaker 2: You know you and I always laugh. The draft now

447
00:21:55,520 --> 00:21:57,600
Speaker 2: has taken on a life of its own. It's like

448
00:21:57,640 --> 00:22:00,520
Speaker 2: a schedule to itself. That's all we talk about for threeident.

449
00:22:01,080 --> 00:22:03,480
Speaker 2: A week later in the first mini came. Nobody cares

450
00:22:03,520 --> 00:22:05,800
Speaker 2: about it. It doesn't matter. And no and on the team

451
00:22:05,880 --> 00:22:08,200
Speaker 2: or or not. He's confirmed it both in mini camp

452
00:22:08,280 --> 00:22:09,959
Speaker 2: and had a good day out here that had a

453
00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:13,040
Speaker 2: great breakup over in the middle, So you know, I

454
00:22:13,440 --> 00:22:18,040
Speaker 2: mean you know again that looks now. One thing about him,

455
00:22:18,080 --> 00:22:20,320
Speaker 2: I will say this, I think I mentioned this to

456
00:22:20,320 --> 00:22:21,000
Speaker 2: you the other day.

457
00:22:21,440 --> 00:22:23,280
Speaker 3: With a guy like Ward on the other side, he's

458
00:22:23,280 --> 00:22:24,239
Speaker 3: gonna get tested well.

459
00:22:24,320 --> 00:22:26,240
Speaker 4: But can you can you put in two words because

460
00:22:26,240 --> 00:22:28,639
Speaker 4: you mentioned Jalen Jones got banged up a little bit today,

461
00:22:28,920 --> 00:22:30,919
Speaker 4: we'll see the severity of that had to be carted

462
00:22:30,960 --> 00:22:34,120
Speaker 4: off the field. No Juju Brents today as again we're

463
00:22:34,119 --> 00:22:37,040
Speaker 4: taping this on Tuesday. But just the fact that he's

464
00:22:37,359 --> 00:22:40,000
Speaker 4: they're just throwing him out there and seeing how much

465
00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:42,199
Speaker 4: he can handle, how much they can trust him in

466
00:22:42,280 --> 00:22:44,680
Speaker 4: a couple of different positions. Can you put into words,

467
00:22:44,920 --> 00:22:46,760
Speaker 4: because you've been at this a long time, just how

468
00:22:46,880 --> 00:22:48,199
Speaker 4: rare this is this guy is.

469
00:22:48,680 --> 00:22:49,440
Speaker 1: I don't want to use.

470
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Speaker 4: The word against supplanting because we haven't played a game yet,

471
00:22:52,600 --> 00:22:55,320
Speaker 4: but if it does happen, he's going to be playing

472
00:22:55,359 --> 00:22:57,920
Speaker 4: over guys like Jalen Jones that have You know, he

473
00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:01,200
Speaker 4: started all seventeen games last year and started twenty seven

474
00:23:01,240 --> 00:23:02,639
Speaker 4: of the last twenty eight games in the.

475
00:23:02,640 --> 00:23:04,960
Speaker 3: Regular season, and he's had a great camp. Yeah, it's

476
00:23:04,960 --> 00:23:07,560
Speaker 3: not like Jones hasn't. Jones has competed.

477
00:23:08,080 --> 00:23:10,680
Speaker 2: I think what it really comes down to, I think

478
00:23:10,720 --> 00:23:12,679
Speaker 2: Lou and I see the game the same way. We

479
00:23:12,720 --> 00:23:16,720
Speaker 2: see it as a matchup, pressing game at corner, and

480
00:23:16,800 --> 00:23:21,840
Speaker 2: we favor speed and quickness and toughness to everything. And

481
00:23:21,880 --> 00:23:24,800
Speaker 2: that's what he carries beyond everybody else. He has that

482
00:23:24,960 --> 00:23:28,720
Speaker 2: four four one speed, so we know he can catch up.

483
00:23:28,840 --> 00:23:31,600
Speaker 2: Like you know, the other day he was behind down

484
00:23:31,640 --> 00:23:33,840
Speaker 2: here in the red zone, but in five steps he

485
00:23:33,920 --> 00:23:36,480
Speaker 2: caught up and knocked the ball down. Yeah, and you

486
00:23:36,480 --> 00:23:39,399
Speaker 2: know again, you gotta let tape take you. You know,

487
00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:42,040
Speaker 2: unless you know, when a guy's over four or five,

488
00:23:42,160 --> 00:23:45,800
Speaker 2: it's always a little scary. And what Lou is looking

489
00:23:45,840 --> 00:23:49,280
Speaker 2: for and he's going to sacrifice everything before has been

490
00:23:49,400 --> 00:23:54,760
Speaker 2: length length length. No, He's like I was, I want speed, speed, speed.

491
00:23:55,160 --> 00:23:58,000
Speaker 2: You know, I knelt at the altar of Il Davis

492
00:23:58,040 --> 00:24:00,560
Speaker 2: for years and years and years, and that's what this

493
00:24:00,640 --> 00:24:03,200
Speaker 2: kid brings me. He he had really good on tape.

494
00:24:03,200 --> 00:24:05,800
Speaker 4: Matt, all right, let's go to another layer of this defense.

495
00:24:05,920 --> 00:24:08,840
Speaker 4: Let's talk about linebacker. A lot of guys are rotating

496
00:24:08,840 --> 00:24:11,760
Speaker 4: in with the first team defense due to the absence

497
00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:15,280
Speaker 4: of a Zaire Franklin still rehabbing from off season ankle surgery.

498
00:24:15,640 --> 00:24:19,119
Speaker 4: So which players are catching your eye or starting to

499
00:24:19,119 --> 00:24:20,040
Speaker 4: flare up a little bit?

500
00:24:20,040 --> 00:24:21,640
Speaker 1: Playing mic alongside Jaylen Carl.

501
00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:25,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, we know a Louvy and I thought a

502
00:24:25,080 --> 00:24:28,520
Speaker 2: Louvis played pretty well in relief a year ago. But

503
00:24:28,560 --> 00:24:31,600
Speaker 2: those weren't small samples, they weren't very long. But he

504
00:24:31,800 --> 00:24:34,840
Speaker 2: seems to he seems to have the ability to be

505
00:24:34,880 --> 00:24:37,280
Speaker 2: a ball magnet, you know, he just seems like he

506
00:24:37,280 --> 00:24:40,280
Speaker 2: alway gets his hands on it or something. But the

507
00:24:40,320 --> 00:24:43,360
Speaker 2: two guys that have caught my eye kind of out

508
00:24:43,400 --> 00:24:48,080
Speaker 2: of nowhere is the local kid mcgron and Batchie, the

509
00:24:48,160 --> 00:24:52,639
Speaker 2: kid that played for Lewett Cincinnati. I think you know

510
00:24:53,560 --> 00:24:59,080
Speaker 2: a Jaki also, but I would say mcgrone in Batchie

511
00:24:59,359 --> 00:25:02,160
Speaker 2: are the two guys that have really caught my eye.

512
00:25:02,200 --> 00:25:05,760
Speaker 2: They've they've made plays and uh, you know, it'll be

513
00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:08,440
Speaker 2: good to get Zaire back, but this also gives those

514
00:25:08,440 --> 00:25:09,960
Speaker 2: guys the opportunity to blow out.

515
00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:10,840
Speaker 1: Scale of one to ten.

516
00:25:10,960 --> 00:25:13,760
Speaker 4: Before we move on from linebacker, how big of a

517
00:25:13,800 --> 00:25:16,159
Speaker 4: deal is it that Zaire the biggest leader of the

518
00:25:16,200 --> 00:25:19,760
Speaker 4: team emotionally, spiritually, and then I think also too, he's

519
00:25:19,800 --> 00:25:22,720
Speaker 4: just got great high football IQ. How big of a

520
00:25:22,760 --> 00:25:24,760
Speaker 4: deal is it that we haven't seen him yet?

521
00:25:25,640 --> 00:25:25,800
Speaker 2: Uh?

522
00:25:26,119 --> 00:25:28,160
Speaker 1: Scale one to ten with a new deal.

523
00:25:28,280 --> 00:25:32,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I'd say I'd say five. I think

524
00:25:32,240 --> 00:25:34,800
Speaker 2: he'll be just fine. You you hit it on the head.

525
00:25:35,080 --> 00:25:37,919
Speaker 2: He is rare intelligence. I mean this is a double

526
00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:41,280
Speaker 2: major how to Syracuse. One of them's economics. I mean,

527
00:25:41,880 --> 00:25:43,720
Speaker 2: do you think we could do that? I mean you

528
00:25:43,840 --> 00:25:47,240
Speaker 2: probably could. I got a couple of blocks for I

529
00:25:47,240 --> 00:25:51,159
Speaker 2: don't think, yeah that's what I still have a financial

530
00:25:51,160 --> 00:25:52,399
Speaker 2: guy in New Orleans.

531
00:25:52,560 --> 00:25:55,879
Speaker 3: No, I don't. I think he'll be okay.

532
00:25:56,160 --> 00:26:00,000
Speaker 2: Uh and mentally, Uh, it would probably be very difficult

533
00:26:00,080 --> 00:26:03,720
Speaker 2: up for some guys. I think he has the ability

534
00:26:03,760 --> 00:26:06,240
Speaker 2: to do it, and he does. He has a great

535
00:26:06,320 --> 00:26:09,720
Speaker 2: leadership role on this team. There's a he you know,

536
00:26:09,760 --> 00:26:14,280
Speaker 2: he as an NFL presence. He's very important. I mean

537
00:26:14,359 --> 00:26:18,080
Speaker 2: he's really important to this defense. But you know, there's

538
00:26:18,080 --> 00:26:20,840
Speaker 2: no sense rushing him. I mean you want him fully

539
00:26:20,840 --> 00:26:22,080
Speaker 2: healthy when he comes in there.

540
00:26:22,240 --> 00:26:25,359
Speaker 4: As we wrap up here, let's go to the defensive line.

541
00:26:25,400 --> 00:26:28,560
Speaker 1: The Colts pass rush. It's gonna be pretty diverse this season.

542
00:26:28,640 --> 00:26:33,280
Speaker 4: Quity pay lat year number two, j T Tuamoloau, Samson

543
00:26:33,320 --> 00:26:36,480
Speaker 4: Ebacom coming back after a torn achilles last year.

544
00:26:36,520 --> 00:26:37,760
Speaker 1: Taekwon Lewis is back.

545
00:26:37,840 --> 00:26:40,520
Speaker 4: Rick, whis your confidence level in that group based on

546
00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:42,240
Speaker 4: what you've seen so far here in camp?

547
00:26:42,520 --> 00:26:46,719
Speaker 2: Well, I think we haven't established this yet, and I

548
00:26:46,720 --> 00:26:50,040
Speaker 2: think this is a must because our secondary is gonna

549
00:26:50,040 --> 00:26:52,280
Speaker 2: be so much better that I can tell you.

550
00:26:52,280 --> 00:26:53,199
Speaker 3: You can mark on that.

551
00:26:53,760 --> 00:26:57,200
Speaker 2: Our linebackers will be I worry less about that position

552
00:26:57,920 --> 00:27:01,480
Speaker 2: as far as premium position than any Yeah, defensive lines

553
00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:04,720
Speaker 2: of premium position. And we have to be able, whether

554
00:27:04,800 --> 00:27:08,720
Speaker 2: it's a lot too. We have to establish impact on

555
00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:12,040
Speaker 2: the orb. We have to have an impact restaurant on

556
00:27:12,080 --> 00:27:14,680
Speaker 2: the outside. So far, we don't have that. We've had,

557
00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:17,440
Speaker 2: you know, we've had guys that are okay, but nobody

558
00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:20,600
Speaker 2: that you on Tuesday night, you know, you're saying, oh

559
00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:22,800
Speaker 2: my god, I got to turn the protection of this guy.

560
00:27:23,040 --> 00:27:26,160
Speaker 3: I gotta chip him every down. We need to get that.

561
00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:30,680
Speaker 2: And I'm not, you know, just watching uh tummy Miloa,

562
00:27:31,480 --> 00:27:33,520
Speaker 2: you know, and the one on one down there. He's

563
00:27:33,560 --> 00:27:37,560
Speaker 2: pretty good, you know, a lot too, very slick tae

564
00:27:37,640 --> 00:27:39,360
Speaker 2: kwon is a combination guy.

565
00:27:39,640 --> 00:27:41,119
Speaker 3: Yep, decent on the edge.

566
00:27:41,440 --> 00:27:44,200
Speaker 2: He'll be the guy that comes in and plays the

567
00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:49,280
Speaker 2: the rush inside guy like our kid that we uh

568
00:27:49,480 --> 00:27:51,879
Speaker 2: that we let go Dingbo.

569
00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:54,719
Speaker 3: He'll he'll have that. Well, I forget you quick when

570
00:27:54,760 --> 00:27:58,639
Speaker 3: you're gone. You know, I was like that as a

571
00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:00,680
Speaker 3: coach too. I love you and you're gone, then I

572
00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:02,359
Speaker 3: don't know. I don't know where the hell you are.

573
00:28:02,760 --> 00:28:06,000
Speaker 2: But uh and and I think we you know we

574
00:28:06,280 --> 00:28:09,000
Speaker 2: you say, we have a lot of diversity, and we

575
00:28:09,080 --> 00:28:12,159
Speaker 2: have rushers. I think we'll be all right, but I

576
00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:15,720
Speaker 2: think we need those two young kids to bring impact.

577
00:28:15,840 --> 00:28:18,760
Speaker 2: I mean to where you're really worried about them. And

578
00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:24,560
Speaker 2: my biggest concern is backup tackle running game. Okay, not

579
00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:27,280
Speaker 2: back up tackle passing game, because we can move Timo

580
00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:30,520
Speaker 2: in there, lewis in there. I mean, it's not the

581
00:28:30,680 --> 00:28:36,040
Speaker 2: rush issue. It's whenever Grover and a problem. When Grover

582
00:28:36,119 --> 00:28:38,400
Speaker 2: and Buckner go out of the game, it's second and five,

583
00:28:38,440 --> 00:28:41,280
Speaker 2: it's almost a full yard. It's almost like the offense

584
00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:44,720
Speaker 2: goes run. You know, they have a sign right, you know,

585
00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:47,320
Speaker 2: and and you know we'd be frustrated doing the game.

586
00:28:47,560 --> 00:28:49,520
Speaker 3: Here we go on a drive that's all rushing and

587
00:28:49,560 --> 00:28:50,080
Speaker 3: you say.

588
00:28:50,360 --> 00:28:51,480
Speaker 1: God, how did they get here?

589
00:28:51,480 --> 00:28:53,680
Speaker 3: You know how they get here? And so you know,

590
00:28:53,800 --> 00:28:55,080
Speaker 3: I don't know Gallimore.

591
00:28:55,120 --> 00:28:57,120
Speaker 2: We just we just signed a guy that played for

592
00:28:57,200 --> 00:29:00,560
Speaker 2: Lou three and forty pounds, you know.

593
00:29:00,600 --> 00:29:00,840
Speaker 3: And I.

594
00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:04,240
Speaker 2: Think with Lou, just like with me in the old days,

595
00:29:04,240 --> 00:29:09,000
Speaker 2: you're gonna see more Sarah Gusa type, more more stuffersah

596
00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:12,960
Speaker 2: and let people run around them than just pure athletes

597
00:29:13,040 --> 00:29:13,880
Speaker 2: running the gaps.

598
00:29:14,160 --> 00:29:17,320
Speaker 4: Last thing here before I wrap up. You're old school guy, right,

599
00:29:17,520 --> 00:29:21,040
Speaker 4: you can't bs Rick Venturi? What are some things that

600
00:29:21,120 --> 00:29:24,600
Speaker 4: you want to see that will lead hopefully to this

601
00:29:24,680 --> 00:29:27,080
Speaker 4: team getting off to a little bit of a faster start, right,

602
00:29:27,160 --> 00:29:31,680
Speaker 4: haven't won Week one since twenty thirteen? Closing seasons better?

603
00:29:31,760 --> 00:29:34,480
Speaker 4: You know you're five and nine record wise in Week

604
00:29:34,560 --> 00:29:38,800
Speaker 4: sixteen through eighteen since twenty twenty, trying to win close games.

605
00:29:38,800 --> 00:29:42,320
Speaker 4: The Colts played thirteen one score games last season. What

606
00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:44,040
Speaker 4: are some things that you want to see out of

607
00:29:44,040 --> 00:29:48,160
Speaker 4: this camp that will produce better results in those key

608
00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:51,760
Speaker 4: areas for the Colts that have to a decent degree

609
00:29:51,880 --> 00:29:52,520
Speaker 4: kept them out.

610
00:29:52,360 --> 00:29:53,040
Speaker 1: Of the playoffs.

611
00:29:53,240 --> 00:29:58,080
Speaker 2: Well, I would say number one, number one, and it's

612
00:29:58,720 --> 00:30:01,280
Speaker 2: I don't know if it's an intangible bull or it's

613
00:30:01,480 --> 00:30:04,840
Speaker 2: it's not. You can't measure it numbers wise. We have

614
00:30:04,920 --> 00:30:05,640
Speaker 2: to we have to.

615
00:30:05,560 --> 00:30:09,480
Speaker 3: Bring toughness to the picture. I mean, our padded practices

616
00:30:09,640 --> 00:30:10,520
Speaker 3: have to be tough.

617
00:30:12,520 --> 00:30:14,760
Speaker 2: It's it's not bad for the first two days, mis

618
00:30:14,760 --> 00:30:15,800
Speaker 2: Scott improved.

619
00:30:16,320 --> 00:30:17,479
Speaker 3: I I along with that.

620
00:30:17,560 --> 00:30:20,240
Speaker 2: I want to see our starters play more in the

621
00:30:20,280 --> 00:30:23,800
Speaker 2: preseason games because that's the only time you're going to tackle.

622
00:30:24,560 --> 00:30:27,400
Speaker 2: And I don't bitch to me in September that we're

623
00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:30,640
Speaker 2: missing tackles when you never practice tackling.

624
00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:33,640
Speaker 3: I mean you have to do it. I think that

625
00:30:33,960 --> 00:30:35,360
Speaker 3: the tone of toughness.

626
00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:37,959
Speaker 2: I'm not a big believer in these in these rest days,

627
00:30:38,080 --> 00:30:42,000
Speaker 2: I'll tell you unfiltered because I think you establish toughness,

628
00:30:42,040 --> 00:30:43,080
Speaker 2: you don't talk about it.

629
00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:45,560
Speaker 3: Uh. I was talking with Casey earlier today.

630
00:30:45,960 --> 00:30:48,680
Speaker 2: I worked for six of the toughest NFL coaches of

631
00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:51,560
Speaker 2: all times. Not a one of them ever talked toughness.

632
00:30:52,080 --> 00:30:56,720
Speaker 3: But we practice lived it. Toughness. We lived it. Toughness

633
00:30:56,840 --> 00:30:57,640
Speaker 3: was a way of life.

634
00:30:57,960 --> 00:30:59,600
Speaker 2: Or you could hit the road, you could get on

635
00:30:59,640 --> 00:31:02,560
Speaker 2: the bus, and I think we need to establish that.

636
00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:06,640
Speaker 2: I think beyond that, it goes back to those numbers

637
00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:10,480
Speaker 2: I talked about with you before quarterbacking. I think we've

638
00:31:10,480 --> 00:31:13,080
Speaker 2: got to get from that twenty seventh twenty eight QBR

639
00:31:13,520 --> 00:31:16,360
Speaker 2: up to fifteen. Let's get us in the top half

640
00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:22,360
Speaker 2: on QBR defense. You know the Anairumo handprint. Let's get

641
00:31:22,440 --> 00:31:25,280
Speaker 2: us from twenty nine. Just get us to fifteen. Don't

642
00:31:25,320 --> 00:31:27,640
Speaker 2: get it, you know, I'm not asking realistic to be

643
00:31:27,720 --> 00:31:30,480
Speaker 2: in the top three. Get us to fifteen, and then

644
00:31:30,520 --> 00:31:33,400
Speaker 2: get that turnover ratio, which right now is a minus four,

645
00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:36,000
Speaker 2: which is in the bottom twelve. You get us up

646
00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:38,840
Speaker 2: in the top ten. If you look at the NFL

647
00:31:39,120 --> 00:31:43,880
Speaker 2: over years, the top ten turnover ratio teams are always

648
00:31:43,880 --> 00:31:47,000
Speaker 2: in the playoffs. There's an outlier, like the Greatest Show

649
00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:48,960
Speaker 2: on Turf was an outlier, but there's not many.

650
00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:51,080
Speaker 3: But there's scoring thirty eight exactly exactly.

651
00:31:51,360 --> 00:31:54,280
Speaker 2: It's an outlier, you know. And you know the minus four.

652
00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:56,360
Speaker 2: We were always pretty good here and we really took

653
00:31:56,400 --> 00:31:59,840
Speaker 2: a step back. So if you get those three areas,

654
00:32:00,320 --> 00:32:02,520
Speaker 2: you know, and then you know, I don't you know,

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Speaker 2: he seems okay. I hope our place kicking is okay.

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Speaker 2: You know, we never talk about that, do we miss one,

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Speaker 2: you know, you know, and and then I think, you know,

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Speaker 2: you know, I think it's Shane. I don't know how

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Speaker 2: to put this other tactfully. It's Shane's growth as a

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Speaker 2: head coach and that that comes in toughness, personnel decisions,

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Speaker 2: game management.

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Speaker 3: You know, game management is one of the most underrated

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Speaker 3: things in football.

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Speaker 2: We talk about it in basketball all the time, but

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Speaker 2: game management is everything in football as well.

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Speaker 4: That's the great Rick van Turry and that's our first

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Speaker 4: installment of Inside Football here Training Camp twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 1: Like I said earlier, we are so back. We are back.

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Speaker 3: We are back.

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Speaker 4: No no hiccups, no hitches, Yes, sir, that ball's coming

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Speaker 4: out on time when Rick Van Turrey's on the podcast,

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Speaker 4: no question about it, all right. So reminder that the

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Speaker 4: Cults are going to host that night practice tomorrow, that

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Speaker 4: is Thursday night this week from six to eight. They're

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Speaker 4: going to have an off day on Friday, then return

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Speaker 4: to work back to back over the weekend, working out

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Speaker 4: Saturday and Sunday here at Grand Park. And for that

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Speaker 4: complete camp schedule, all you gotta do head to colts

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Speaker 4: dot com slash Camp download your tickets there. It's a

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Speaker 4: one stop shop for everything you need to know about

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Speaker 4: training camp up at Graham Park. Rick Van Turrey bringing

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Speaker 4: the heat as he always does, right out of the gate.

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Speaker 4: I'm Matt Taylor. Thanks for listening to this first installment

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Speaker 4: here in twenty twenty five in training camp of Inside Football,

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Speaker 4: and we will talk to you next week