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

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Speaker 1: cold san recapping the action. Why sixty two yards now?

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

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Speaker 1: tonight and we're talking Colts football until six thirty before

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Speaker 1: Pacer basketball. A. Colt suffered another heartbreaking loss on Sunday,

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Speaker 1: falling to Philadelphia seventeen to sixteen. They've lost their last

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Speaker 1: two home games to the Commanders and Eagles by identical

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Speaker 1: scores and under similar circumstances, unable to rally after giving

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Speaker 1: Sundays a bit of a microcosm of the season for

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Speaker 1: the Colts. The defense had to shoulder a big load

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Speaker 1: for much of the game, and a ten point leading

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Speaker 1: the fourth quarter could not be held. The defense was

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Speaker 1: unable to finish, and the offense missed chance after chance

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Speaker 1: to put the game away. Colts got off to a

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Speaker 1: fast start. They scored a touchdown in their first drive

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Speaker 1: Colts scored points on their opening possession of a game.

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Speaker 1: They led ten to three and a a half time and

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Speaker 1: was filled with mischances. On the first play of the

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Speaker 1: second half, Unique and Goakway strip sack Jalen Hurts and

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Speaker 1: the Colts recovered just outside of the red zone. The

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Speaker 1: but the Colts could only muster three points on those drives.

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Speaker 1: After the Eagles cut the lead to thirteen to ten

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Speaker 1: and the fourth quarter, the Colts drove the ball to

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Speaker 1: with under six minutes to play, But instead of going

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Speaker 1: The Colts got the ball back with just over minutes

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Speaker 1: time expired. The Colts defense played very well, holding the

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Speaker 1: Eagles to a season low seventeen points, but it wasn't enough,

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Speaker 1: as Philadelphia overcame a fourth quarter double digit deficit for

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Speaker 1: the first time since two ten. The Colts offense was

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Speaker 1: held to under twenty points for the seventh time this season.

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Speaker 1: They suffered four sacks and seven tackles for loss, and

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Speaker 1: the Colts are now four six and one on the season,

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Speaker 1: with six games to play and on the outside looking

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Speaker 1: in on the AFC playoff picture. We're loaded with Colts

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Speaker 1: talk as always tonight. Rick Venturi and Joe Wrights will

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Speaker 1: join me later on discussing that tough loss to the Eagles,

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Speaker 1: and of course a look ahead to the final month

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Speaker 1: and a half of the season six games to play

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Speaker 1: for the Colts. We're also taking your questions and comments,

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Speaker 1: says we normally do. If you have those, tweet them

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Speaker 1: in tonight using hashtag Holts Roundtable. And we'll also take

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Speaker 1: a few of them right now on segment one, right

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Speaker 1: out of the gate with interim head coach Jeff Saturday,

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Speaker 1: Really tough game on Sunday, no doubt about that. After

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Speaker 1: You hold the Eagles to seventeen points, that's a season

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Speaker 1: Colts had a takeaway on Sunday as well, that was

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Speaker 1: Here on Colts Roundtable Live with Rick Venturry and Joe Writes.

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

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Speaker 1: six games left right now. The Colts are on the

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Speaker 1: definitive answers on this Colts team after eleven games? Where

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about some hard truths we've teased dead on

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Speaker 1: the last segment. As the Colts now have played eleven games,

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Speaker 1: four six and one, nearly two thirds of the season

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Speaker 1: is in the books. Do we have concrete conclusions on

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Speaker 1: few specific areas and talk about the offense, Rick, because

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Speaker 1: the Colts are scoring only about fifteen points per game.

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Speaker 1: They scored a touchdown in the first drive of the game,

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Speaker 1: but then the Colts found it very difficult to move

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Speaker 1: the ball. The Colts let some very major chances slip

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Speaker 1: through their fingers. They led by ten points going into

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Speaker 1: three drives and that third quarter they started the plus

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Speaker 1: twenty two their own forty seven and their own forty five,

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Speaker 1: In the third quarter. They were one for three inside

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Speaker 1: the red zone. You talked about it. They had that

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Speaker 1: yard line, had to settle for a field goal, took

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Speaker 1: a sack on third down. So Rick, the only thing

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Speaker 1: consistent about this Colts offense is its inconsistency on the season.

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Speaker 1: Is that a hard truth through eleven games for the Colts? Oh,

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Speaker 1: it's an absolute hard truth. And the hard statistics which

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Speaker 1: matter after eleven games. Joe will tell you that they

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Speaker 1: might not matter after four games, but they matter. You know,

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Speaker 1: you're average in fifteen seven, that's thirty one or thirty two.

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Speaker 1: You know, depending on what happens tonight, that's last in

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Speaker 1: the league. You're thirtieth in the red zone, so you're

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Speaker 1: not punching it in. And I think the two biggest

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Speaker 1: statistics that are absolutely killing us, and I'll elaborate, is

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Speaker 1: where twenty fifth in the league on the rush and

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Speaker 1: thirty one in sacks. So you know what I see

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Speaker 1: week after week is the inability to run the football.

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Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden behind an account and

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Speaker 1: you can't protect the passer. You know. Again again, like

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Speaker 1: I said, thirty first in the league in sacks. We

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Speaker 1: average three point six a game. And I said this

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Speaker 1: all all season long, and it hasn't changed with the

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Speaker 1: coaching change. We are behind the count on our running game.

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Speaker 1: We just double sinc. The bear defense has come back

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Speaker 1: into the league and our offensive staff is a year behind.

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Speaker 1: We are trying to play masketball. Maskball is zone blocking,

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Speaker 1: wedge blocking, you know, trying to pump the ball. And

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Speaker 1: when they played that over defense in the first quarter,

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Speaker 1: our our offensive line did a good job. It's not

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Speaker 1: all on them. We have real schimmatic issues. When they

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Speaker 1: were getting up on them, and we drove it right

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Speaker 1: down their throat. The minute they said no, the Eagles

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Speaker 1: adjusted immediately. We're going to the double sink. All of

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Speaker 1: a sudden, the zone zone runs are dead. We have

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Speaker 1: no lead plays. We refuse to address it. We can't gap.

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Speaker 1: You either mash block or your gab block. What we

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Speaker 1: can't do is gab block. We tried a couple power

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Speaker 1: ros to the weak side and they stuff those because

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Speaker 1: so we really are not playing with a full deck

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Speaker 1: from a strategic standpoint, and obviously the coaching change didn't

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Speaker 1: matter on that. And then to me, the other issue

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Speaker 1: I think the kid will be good as a sophomore.

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Speaker 1: He'll be bigger, he'll be more experienced. We got a

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Speaker 1: liability at right guard. Our top guys are not protecting

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Speaker 1: as well as they should. But we have two liabilities

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Speaker 1: that you know, and yet we leave that left tackle

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Speaker 1: that is strategic and you're not going to get out

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Speaker 1: of it with Ryan. I mean, it's not like you

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Speaker 1: have a Hurts who can get you out of a

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Speaker 1: bad or who could stretch the defense with his own

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Speaker 1: run type deals. You've got a stationary quarterback. So you

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Speaker 1: have to have a brilliant running game, a diverse running game,

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Speaker 1: and you have to protect liabilities in terms of past protection.

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Speaker 1: So you know, I think we're way behind the count.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if we have time to fix it. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: to play off a coach, I do think that the

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Speaker 1: theme for this year has been inconsistency to add a

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Speaker 1: little bit of color to his comments about the run game.

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Speaker 1: The first drive of the game, we were going they

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Speaker 1: were in that over defense. We kept him on the field.

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Speaker 1: We had some tempo when we went back to the

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Speaker 1: huddle and we're huddling, and when we brought in our

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Speaker 1: two tight ends to try to block, that didn't work

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Speaker 1: at all. And really, our tight ends have been a

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Speaker 1: huge liability blocking all year. When we got in the

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Speaker 1: third quarter and we had that first and ten on

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Speaker 1: the twenty seven, it was a clear missed assignment that

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Speaker 1: Molei was involved in minus four yards negative play. The

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Speaker 1: inability of our tight ends to one block at the

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Speaker 1: point of attack, to have a tight end in the

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Speaker 1: backfield like a Jack Doil that can run a lead,

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Speaker 1: that's really killed us all year. So when we've been

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Speaker 1: at our best running the ball, when we're really spread

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Speaker 1: out and you've got a light box, a six box,

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Speaker 1: or when we've gone tempo and we've allowed our O

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Speaker 1: line to kind of, you know, build some momentum and

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Speaker 1: get that defensive line tired, and that's to me, is

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Speaker 1: really the only time we've been able to run the

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Speaker 1: ball all year, and then in pass pro. You know,

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Speaker 1: clearly we had issues yesterday, and what I didn't like

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Speaker 1: kind of like Coach talked about the two key plays

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Speaker 1: down on the five yard line, Reddit gets a sack

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Speaker 1: on Ryan Ryman's one on one third down on that

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Speaker 1: last drive of the game, Brandon Graham bull rushes him

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Speaker 1: into the quarterback. You've got to give some help to

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Speaker 1: the guy. It's hard to block these defensive ends, these

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Speaker 1: freaks in the NFL one on one, even if you're

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Speaker 1: a seven ten year veteran, let alone a rookie. And

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Speaker 1: I do think not giving these guys help is almost

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Speaker 1: some hubrious from our offensive line coaching, from the play calling,

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Speaker 1: whoever it's got to be. And then the other thing

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Speaker 1: that really disappointed me yesterday was the penalties. Eight penalties

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Speaker 1: for ninety five yards. Again, we won the turnover battle,

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Speaker 1: which was a key of mine. We lost the red

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Speaker 1: zone battle, but too many penalties, these negative penalties that

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Speaker 1: offensively we don't have enough firepower to overcome those. And

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Speaker 1: those really were some drive killers, the holds, the illegal

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Speaker 1: man downfield when we had a great schematic play on

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Speaker 1: that tight end screen to the backside and Ryman just

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Speaker 1: drifted downfield. Those really are inexcusable and that really killed

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Speaker 1: our offensive production. Yesterday. You talk about the protection and

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Speaker 1: the need to help Joe, does that come from. Where

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Speaker 1: does it need to come from? Is it tight end help,

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Speaker 1: is it running back help? Where does it need to

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Speaker 1: come from? In terms of helping out a young player

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Speaker 1: like Ryman at left tackle, what I always liked is

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Speaker 1: what we used to a Jack Doyle. We used to

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Speaker 1: leave him in for a second or two and it's

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Speaker 1: not even a chip block, but you almost solidify for

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Speaker 1: a second or two, let the lionman get his hands

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Speaker 1: on him, and then you still can release out into

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Speaker 1: a route, you know, and be a safety valve for

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Speaker 1: four or five yards, or you just go max protect

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Speaker 1: and you send two three guys downfield and try to

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Speaker 1: get it there. But we haven't had a lot of variation,

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Speaker 1: kind of like in the run game, in terms of

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Speaker 1: our past protection schemes. But bottom line, when you got

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Speaker 1: a rookie out there that's struggling and had some penalties,

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Speaker 1: don't make him go one on one at the end

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Speaker 1: of the game to win the game, right, Make somebody

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Speaker 1: else do something else and I felt like we left

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Speaker 1: him on an island there, and obviously that results weren't good. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: no doubt about that. We're talking about some hard truths

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Speaker 1: here on Colt's Roundtable, Live Tonight, ninety three five and

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Speaker 1: one oh seven five the Fan. That's Joe Wrights, Rick

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Speaker 1: Venturi on the horn. I'm Matt Taylor. Let's talk about

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Speaker 1: hard truth number two. The offensive line didn't play well

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Speaker 1: as it did certainly the week before last against the Raiders,

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Speaker 1: allowing four sacks, including two by Bernard Ryman, who gave

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Speaker 1: them up on the last two drives of the game.

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Speaker 1: The Eagles had seven tackles for loss on defense, and

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Speaker 1: as we said, Jonathan Taylor ran the ball very well

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Speaker 1: in that first series, but then Philly adjusted and Taylor

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Speaker 1: in the rushing game had just thirty five yards on

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Speaker 1: the next fifteen carries and just two point three yards

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Speaker 1: per carry for the remainder of the game. Joe, the

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Speaker 1: offensive line, it's just regressed compared two years past. Is

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Speaker 1: that a hard truth for this team after eleven games?

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Speaker 1: I think so, and I think there's a lot of

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Speaker 1: different factors that come into that. You know, last year

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Speaker 1: we had a dynamic quarterback, that would pull the ball

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Speaker 1: and he'd be able to run the ball. We don't

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Speaker 1: have that this year, so that element is lost in

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Speaker 1: terms of a running lane. We also lost Jack Doyle,

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Speaker 1: who is the best blocker in the NFL from a

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Speaker 1: y position. So right now your minus two big things

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Speaker 1: going into the season, right if that makes sense. And

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Speaker 1: then Glinski moves on at right guard, and you have

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Speaker 1: a new left tackle, so your minus two big schematic things.

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Speaker 1: You have two new guys in there, and Rhyman and

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Speaker 1: Fries so again I think will be good with time.

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Speaker 1: They're still growing. And then coaches talked about a little

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Speaker 1: bit schematically, when we try to go big and when

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Speaker 1: we have two tight ends on the field and mash

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Speaker 1: people and just move them, it's just not working. And

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Speaker 1: we saw that yesterday. It's hard to move three hundred

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Speaker 1: and fifty pound lin Vaal Joseph and three hundred and

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Speaker 1: thirty pounds su without any sort of creative the and

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Speaker 1: or tempo in the run game. And I think we

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Speaker 1: really saw that in quarters two through four yesterday. I

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Speaker 1: think it's a hard truth. I think everything Joe said

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Speaker 1: is correct, and I'm going to be a broken record.

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Speaker 1: This is a little bit of redundancy from the our

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Speaker 1: first topic. It to me, it's a combination of issues

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Speaker 1: in the offensive line. I think, first of all, we

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Speaker 1: do not help them schematically on the running game. We

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Speaker 1: are you know he talked about it. We have no

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Speaker 1: interior blocker. We refuse to go out and get a

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Speaker 1: fullback who you can find in a Walmart parking lot.

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Speaker 1: We don't have an interior blocker at tight end, so

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Speaker 1: we have no diversity inside. Everything is a zone run.

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Speaker 1: Well do you think they don't watch films on the

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Speaker 1: other side? And the Bear defense was built to stop

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Speaker 1: zone running game. It just happens that the two twenty

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Speaker 1: two defense of the year. I can't pick up a

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Speaker 1: cape at any level when I don't see that defense.

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Speaker 1: So we have schematic issues. Then we have talent liabilities.

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Speaker 1: We have a liability at left tackle until he grows up.

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Speaker 1: We have a liability at right guard. They are not

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Speaker 1: talented enough yet. That's not to say they can't be,

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Speaker 1: but they're not talented enough yet. But I'm like Joe,

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Speaker 1: I mean, at some point you have to protect those

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Speaker 1: guys schematically, even if it means getting less people out.

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Speaker 1: I remember Belichick talking about coming into play the Colts

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Speaker 1: when the Colts are in their heyday with Freenian Mathis,

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Speaker 1: and he said to me, I will not let those

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Speaker 1: two guys beat me if I've got a chip and

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Speaker 1: hold on him all day long. See that. But to me,

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Speaker 1: that's a tactical approach that would help those guys. If

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Speaker 1: you don't help them, you're going to commit suicide. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you're just committing suicide if you think you can overcome that. So,

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Speaker 1: you know. And then I think the other thing is

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Speaker 1: we had you know, And this happens all the time.

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Speaker 1: The perception and reality in the NFL from the media

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00:32:54,520 --> 00:32:57,959
Speaker 1: and people is absolutely crazy. And I did say this

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Speaker 1: a hundred times this week. We got a real fall

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Speaker 1: since the security against the Raiders. The Raiders are the

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Speaker 1: worst defensive coach team and the worst talent on defense

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Speaker 1: that you will see in this league. And so we

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00:33:10,840 --> 00:33:13,000
Speaker 1: came out of there thinking that we had it fixed.

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Speaker 1: Immediately you get into a well coach defense that is talented,

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Speaker 1: totally different. All right. I feel bad for Jonathan because

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Speaker 1: he is a great player and he's a lot better

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Speaker 1: player than these numbers. Yeah, all right, let's talk about

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Speaker 1: another hard truth again with Rick Ventury and Joe Rights,

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Speaker 1: I Matt Taylor. Let's talk about the defense because they

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Speaker 1: sack Jalen Hurts three times, but at times he had

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Speaker 1: all data throw and makes some game changing plays. Quitti

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00:33:39,320 --> 00:33:43,120
Speaker 1: pay didn't play. He's battling an ankle injury. Tykwon Lewis

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Speaker 1: as we know, he's on IR for the remainder of

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Speaker 1: the season. DeForrest Buckner still dealing with the high level

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Speaker 1: of double teams, unique and Goackway had his best game

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Speaker 1: as a cold, but his strict sack came when the

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Speaker 1: Eagles chose to double team Grover's Stewart and left him

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Speaker 1: backside one on one. So Rick, I'll tee it up

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Speaker 1: to you that the pass rush this season for the Cults,

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Speaker 1: it just doesn't have as much depth as it needs

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Speaker 1: to in order for the defense to go from good

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Speaker 1: to great? Is that statement? Is that a hard truth

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Speaker 1: for this team after eleven games? That's a real hard

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Speaker 1: truth in my opinion. And you know, I go back

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Speaker 1: to training camp and one of the thoughts that I

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Speaker 1: had coming out of training camp, and I, like I said,

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Speaker 1: I thought this team was a real contender. I honestly did.

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Speaker 1: But one of the things that I thought was could

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Speaker 1: be a problem now could be because if we stayed healthy,

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Speaker 1: it wouldn't be is. I thought that to drop off

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Speaker 1: between our top five defensive lineman, you know, with Lewis

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Speaker 1: in the rotation in the top five, I thought the

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Speaker 1: drop off was drastic in preseason. We're gonna stop anybody,

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Speaker 1: to be honest with you, and a lot of those

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Speaker 1: guys are playing playing in the games today, and if

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Speaker 1: you don't have great speed along the line against this guy,

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Speaker 1: you're you're you're gonna have trouble now. Also, there's time

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Speaker 1: times that Hurtz is going to make great plays. I mean,

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Speaker 1: the twenty three yard run is just a great athlete

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Speaker 1: making a great play. I don't even criticize the defense

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Speaker 1: for that. Do I criticize him for the third and

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Speaker 1: seven call you bet, but not for great runs like that.

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Speaker 1: But I think the loss of Lewis and pay is

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Speaker 1: a killer. Really, I think Dao was playing better. I

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Speaker 1: thought he played with a little discipline. But obviously this

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Speaker 1: isn't a great pass rush team. I don't think we

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Speaker 1: do anything to help him. We very seldom ever blitz.

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Speaker 1: We're a what I call a one front team. It's

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Speaker 1: over over over. I don't think we do a good

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Speaker 1: job at all of moving Buckner around and creating the

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Speaker 1: matchups for him inside. He very seldom lined up on

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Speaker 1: som Muala and I thought he was their weakest leigeman

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Speaker 1: last week and they always had him on the other side.

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Speaker 1: For the life of me, I don't understand that. So, yeah,

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Speaker 1: we got a lot of issues, but we are not

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Speaker 1: a dynamic rush team, that's for sure. Yeah, and I

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Speaker 1: would agree with coach. We have some talent, for sure,

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Speaker 1: but the depth is really hurting obviously, Like you talked

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Speaker 1: about Matt with the injuries. You know, I always thought

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Speaker 1: as an offensive lineman it was hard to block guys

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Speaker 1: if you didn't exactly know where they were going to

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Speaker 1: be every snap. And you know the teams that do

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Speaker 1: these walk arounds where got one or two guys we

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Speaker 1: would call it the spinner and they're up there walking

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Speaker 1: around moving pre snap, jumping from side to side. I'd

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Speaker 1: like for us to see a little bit more of

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Speaker 1: that dynamically, just to get some guys in some different

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Speaker 1: rush lanes and switch it up. Now. I know against hurts,

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Speaker 1: you want to keep him in the cup, and maybe

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Speaker 1: that's not the game to do it. But to Coach's point,

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Speaker 1: we've been pretty vanilla all year in terms of what

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Speaker 1: we've rushed with four men and not running any sort

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Speaker 1: of blitzes. But I think the other thing too is,

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Speaker 1: you know, Philly and Hurts, they got a running quarterback,

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Speaker 1: very athletic. As the game went on, he had more

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Speaker 1: and more time in the pocket to run around there

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00:36:50,920 --> 00:36:54,080
Speaker 1: as our defensive line got fatigued on the flip side.

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Speaker 1: As we got deeper and deeper into the game, their

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00:36:56,680 --> 00:36:59,520
Speaker 1: guys were fresher and fresher because well, one we hadn't

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Speaker 1: had as men snaps, but two, you know, Matt Ryan

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Speaker 1: was staying in the pocket every time, and I think

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Speaker 1: that difference kind of showed up, especially in the fourth quarter.

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Speaker 1: We got less and less pressure as the game game.

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Speaker 1: They got more and more pressure as the game went on. Yep,

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Speaker 1: no doubt about that. That's a look at some of

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Speaker 1: the hard truths surrounding the Colts team after their seventeen

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Speaker 1: to sixteen loss to the Philadelphia Eagles. On Sunday, with

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Speaker 1: Rick Finturry and Joe wrightsigm Matt Taylor coming up, we're

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Speaker 1: gonna take your questions. The mail bag is open sending

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Speaker 1: your thoughts and your comments on Twitter using hashtag Colts

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Speaker 1: Roundtable and we'll take a few of those when we

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Speaker 1: come back on the other side. You're listening to Colts

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00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:22,560
Speaker 1: talking Colts football. If you have a thought or comment

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Speaker 1: much of our running game is on Jonathan Taylor? He's

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Speaker 1: asking is he not running the same way as he

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Speaker 1: did last year? And I would say very little. To me,

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Speaker 1: Taylor still looks the same explosiveness running hard. My only

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Speaker 1: gripe with him would be the fumbles he had one yesterday.

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Speaker 1: You know he's had a couple of three last couple

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Speaker 1: of games. Yeah, But to boil it down, I would

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Speaker 1: really sum up why are running games struggled? Into four parts? One,

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Speaker 1: you're big three and I'm talking about Nelson, Kelly and

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Speaker 1: Smith have not played at the same level they've had

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Speaker 1: the year before. Two, you got new guys, and you've

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Speaker 1: had rotating guy in a left tackle and right guard

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Speaker 1: that have been liabilities throughout the year. Three Schematically, I

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Speaker 1: think we've continued to just run zone and zone and

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Speaker 1: wedge blocking, and we haven't really been dynamic or creative

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Speaker 1: in what we've done. But I think that also leads

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Speaker 1: into my fourth and that we've really got little to

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Speaker 1: no production from our tight ends. And I've been talking

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Speaker 1: about it all year, but we don't have a fullback

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Speaker 1: that can run a lead play. Jack Doyle was arguably

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Speaker 1: the best blocker in the NFL last year and he

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00:39:27,239 --> 00:39:29,680
Speaker 1: did so much and this year, you know, those guys

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Speaker 1: are getting stood up by safeties or we got missed assignments,

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Speaker 1: or we're not blocking. And so to me, if your

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Speaker 1: tight ends aren't going to block, don't put two tight

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Speaker 1: ends on the field and run the ball. Put four

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Speaker 1: wide receivers on the field, spread it out, get a lightbox,

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Speaker 1: and then give the ball to Jonathan Taylor. That's when

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Speaker 1: we've had the most success this year, when we've been

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Speaker 1: super spread out, or when we've gone tempo from the

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Speaker 1: running game. But again, I think it's all those other factors,

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Speaker 1: not JT that has led to the lack of his production.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's go back to the mail bag again,

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Speaker 1: tweeting your questions tonight and every Monday night for the

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Speaker 1: is asking Rick what led to the breakdown on defense

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Speaker 1: at the end of the game. Why was the lane

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Speaker 1: so big for Jalen Hurts at quarterback to run the

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Speaker 1: quarterback drawl for a touchdown? I know, Rick, you're still

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Speaker 1: hot about this, Yeah, you know, and you just tell

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Speaker 1: her from me. I can't get it out of my head.

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Speaker 1: I can't spit it out. That's the play. I can't

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Speaker 1: spit out. And you know me by now. If I

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Speaker 1: haven't talked about it in my game plan thinking and

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Speaker 1: talked about it in the podcast, or talked about it

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Speaker 1: on the air as we were going through the game,

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to second guess it after the game.

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Speaker 1: But I knew Dog gone well, and I said it

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Speaker 1: all week long that when you're in the red zone,

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Speaker 1: particularly the low red zone goal to go, you have

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Speaker 1: to treat Hurts as a running back. He is not

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Speaker 1: a true quarterback. You can't play conventionally there. And on

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Speaker 1: the first two downs we did, but you have to play.

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Speaker 1: You have to play one of three things against him

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00:41:01,840 --> 00:41:05,360
Speaker 1: and nothing else. One you have to play a loaded

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00:41:05,400 --> 00:41:08,800
Speaker 1: box and that means everybody close to the line of scrimmage.

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Speaker 1: We did it on second down. Actually we forced a loss,

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Speaker 1: which was probably the worst thing could happen to us,

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Speaker 1: because then our guys outsmarted themselves and called a pass defense.

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Speaker 1: But basically, you have one of three ways to go.

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Speaker 1: You load the box with like a forty six maybel

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Speaker 1: where everybody is close, you cut off the edges, nothing inside,

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Speaker 1: or you play a red one, and the who normally

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Speaker 1: is the rat. That guy isn't a spy, but he's

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Speaker 1: right on the line of scrimmage, right behind your defensive tackles,

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Speaker 1: and he and his whole responsibility is the quarterback period

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Speaker 1: or in what I was calling for was zero blitz,

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Speaker 1: because if it's zero blitz, you're gonna force him because

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Speaker 1: there's always in that play is kind of that quarterback

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Speaker 1: draw also is a form of an RPO. I mean

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Speaker 1: they have a pass route tied in with it basically

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Speaker 1: a fate on the outside in equipped stick to the

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Speaker 1: left side. But we want him to do that. But

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Speaker 1: at that stage in the game, by then, basically face

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Speaker 1: On had Smith covered all day long, and basically Gilmore

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Speaker 1: had had a j Brown covered. So I want to

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Speaker 1: force that throw outside by letting him walk in. We

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Speaker 1: played what is called a red four, which is a coverage.

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Speaker 1: So both linebackers, oh Karake and Franklin, they went out

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Speaker 1: to number three. They didn't even look inside. I mean

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Speaker 1: that miss Sherry could have run that thing inside much

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Speaker 1: less jail and earth. I mean to me, in my world, Okay,

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Speaker 1: in my world, that is a call. There's seven wonders

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Speaker 1: of the world. That's the eighth wonder right there. Yeah. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: certainly a disappointing way for the Colts to come up

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Speaker 1: short at home, especially trying to capitalize win for Jeff Saturday,

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Speaker 1: first time out against the Raiders. Ten point lead there

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Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter, not able to close the deal.

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Speaker 1: quickly at the AFC playoff picture, the Chiefs if the

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Speaker 1: playoffs started today, would be the top seed in the AFC.

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Speaker 1: They lead the AFC West they are eight and two.

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Speaker 1: The Dolphins check in at number two at seven and three.

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Speaker 1: The Titans are winning the AFC South with the record

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Speaker 1: of seven and three, and the Ravens would be the

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Speaker 1: four seed winners right now of the AFC North at

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Speaker 1: seven and three or three wild card teams are the

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Speaker 1: Bills at seven and three, Patriots at six and four,

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Speaker 1: and the Bengals at six and four. The Colts currently

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Speaker 1: hold the tenth place spot in the AFC with the

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Speaker 1: record of four six and one, and the Steelers are

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Speaker 1: up next. They are three and seven. They rank fifteen

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Speaker 1: out of sixteen teams in the AFC coming into this

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Speaker 1: game on Monday Night Football and the Colts will host

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Speaker 1: the Steelers for the first time since twenty seventeen, as

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Speaker 1: the Colts are looking to break a seven game losing

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Speaker 1: skid to the Pittsburgh Steelers and try to get back

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Speaker 1: on the right track with six games to go. So

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Speaker 1: closing arguments, Joe, your final thoughts on this Colts Eagles

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Speaker 1: heartbreaker and a look ahead to prime time for the

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Speaker 1: Colts against the Steelers at Lucas Oil Stadium. Again, it's

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Speaker 1: therapeutic to talk about this, just like as as a player.

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Speaker 1: You go in, you watch the film, find the corrections

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Speaker 1: and get better. But at that twenty four hour rule

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Speaker 1: I talked about being the show, it's got to be there.

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Speaker 1: The Eagles game, as tough as to swallow is done.

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Speaker 1: You got to refocus yourself this Thanksgiving week and you're

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Speaker 1: on Monday Night Football. You've got one of the most

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Speaker 1: storied franchise in the NFL, the Steelers coming to town.

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Speaker 1: They're not having a great season, but trust me, a

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Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin team will always be physical, always be tough.

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Speaker 1: Their front four is a lot to handle. We'll have

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Speaker 1: to be ready to get that win on Monday Night,

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Speaker 1: no doubt a better Rick. I know we're gonna talk

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Speaker 1: in depth on Wednesday on Inside Football with the Blueprints,

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Speaker 1: but give us the quick skinny on the Steelers. Obviously

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Speaker 1: having a disappointing season at three and seven, they're kind

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Speaker 1: of like the Colts. No good defense, offense a little

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Speaker 1: bit shaky. Yeah, really, they've really really struggling. It's it's

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Speaker 1: hard for me, you know, when I watch the Steelers,

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Speaker 1: I've not seen this Steeler team before. They're three and seven.

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Speaker 1: They're twenty eighth in terms of points score, twenty sixth

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Speaker 1: in terms of points given up. That's hard to come

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Speaker 1: out of my mouth when you talk about the Steelers,

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Speaker 1: but that's in fact who they are. You know, they've

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Speaker 1: gone with Kenny Pick at the rookie. You know, they're

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Speaker 1: looking at this as a growth season to see if

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Speaker 1: they can develop him for the future. But they're taking

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Speaker 1: it on the chin. The other thing is Joe said,

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Speaker 1: I think there's nothing better for the Colts to come

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Speaker 1: off this disappointing loss and know they're going to play

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Speaker 1: on a prime time game. I think that's huge. I

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Speaker 1: think that can be a psychological lift and it must

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Speaker 1: be no doubt about it. We'll see how it plays out, gentlemen.

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Speaker 1: Thanks as always for the time tonight we got to run.

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Speaker 1: The Pacers are next. We've got you covered though on

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Speaker 1: the Colts all week long, as we always do. Colts

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Speaker 1: Daily updates Tuesday and Wednesday this week before Thanksgiving. Colts

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Speaker 1: Venturiy and the Blueprints to beat the Steelers. That's gonna

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