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Speaker 1: This is the Colts Free Agent Tracker, a look at

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Speaker 1: some key in house free agents this offseason. Welcome to

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Speaker 1: another Colts Free Agent Tracker. This is our look at

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Speaker 1: key free agents this offseason for the Indianapolis Colts. I'm

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Speaker 1: Matt Taylor going to be with you, and I am

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Speaker 1: good to be joined by Lara Overton and Casey Valier

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Speaker 1: for today's podcast. And guys, we've already examined Eric Fisher,

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Speaker 1: We've taken a close look at Pamoca, Terrey, tay Kwon Lewis,

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Speaker 1: Xavier Rhodes. Earlier this week, we took a look at

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Speaker 1: Mark Lewinsky and Chris Read on The Offensive Wine. If

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Speaker 1: you haven't listened to those podcasts, checked them out and

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Speaker 1: right now on Colts dot Com and the Colts Audio Network.

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Speaker 1: But today, yeah, what are you waiting for? If you haven't,

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Speaker 1: yeahn't done it already? What are you waiting for? That

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Speaker 1: time is now? We can we can lead the deer

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Speaker 1: to water, Lara, But it's up to them to drink

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Speaker 1: it all right, Like, I don't know what else you

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Speaker 1: want from us, right, We're serving it all up for

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Speaker 1: you on a platter. And that platter today is in

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Speaker 1: the form of defensive line, al Quadeine exactly. It took

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Speaker 1: the words right out of my mouth. Because NFL free

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Speaker 1: agency starts next week and Muhammad's gonna be a big

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Speaker 1: part of that in terms of in house free agents

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Speaker 1: for the Colts. That's because the legal tampering period starts

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Speaker 1: on Monday, which basically is free agency. Casey, that's when

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Speaker 1: all the juicy news starts to come out. And then

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Speaker 1: on Wednesday, March the sixteenth, at four o'clock Eastern time,

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Speaker 1: that's when it all starts legally. Anyways, the twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: So all right, let's take a look at big Al

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Speaker 1: today on this free agency tracker. Last season, Muhammad all

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Speaker 1: seventeen games. He was a starter. He had six sacks

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Speaker 1: thirteen quarterback hits. Prior to this season, he had been

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Speaker 1: He had never played more than fifty six percent of

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Speaker 1: the snaps in a season, but this past year that

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Speaker 1: number ballooned way up to seventy three percent. He was

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Speaker 1: Muhammed did he show enough last season as a starter

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Speaker 1: they bring him back in free agency. Well, given opportunity,

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Speaker 1: he delivered with a career high six sacks, and then

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Speaker 1: he had those thirteen quarterback hits. He was also the

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Speaker 1: I'm looking back fifty straight games that guy has played.

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Speaker 1: That consistency in his availability and production I think lends

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Speaker 1: he has done so far since he's come into this building,

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Speaker 1: what back in twenty eighteen when he was claimed, and

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Speaker 1: I'm intrigued also by what the opportunities of this Gus

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Speaker 1: I think you're exactly right, Larah. Mohammed's durability and the

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Speaker 1: in free agency. Not only has he become a more

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Speaker 1: But I think I think relying on al Kady Mohammed

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Speaker 1: guys like at Alquity Mohammed having a breakout year because

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Speaker 1: in free agency, LA, does that diminish the cults needs

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Speaker 1: at defensive end going forward next season? I mean, remember again,

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Speaker 1: does Mohammed factor into the long term our guests, in

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