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Speaker 1: If you want Colts talk all year long, you're in

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Speaker 1: the right place. This is the official Colts podcast, giving

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Speaker 1: you an updated look at what's new with the horseshoes.

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Speaker 1: the podcast started. I Lord, it was loud in there

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Speaker 1: the other day. It was loud in there Lera at

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Speaker 1: Joe Rights on the call, because yeah, it was raucous,

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Speaker 1: Then I remembered how into it those fans were when

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Speaker 1: I'm not trying to take anything away from the fan base,

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Speaker 1: I like it. Well, JJ, it's good to have you back, Lara,

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Speaker 1: and we'll kind of see where it goes. Going back

427
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Speaker 1: to Taylor, JJ, what are some things I mean now

428
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Speaker 1: that his season is over, reportedly. What are some things

429
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Speaker 1: that tell you that Taylor can still be the same

430
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Speaker 1: guy next year as he was in twenty twenty one,

431
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Speaker 1: right when he led the NFL on rushing eighteen hundred

432
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Speaker 1: yards and the club record with rushing touchdowns. What tells

433
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Speaker 1: you that he can still be that guy if the

434
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Speaker 1: variables around him can change. Yeah, I think that's that's

435
00:21:39,400 --> 00:21:42,200
Speaker 1: the key right there, Matt Can the variables around him change,

436
00:21:42,240 --> 00:21:45,840
Speaker 1: because you know, he's someone who you still see the explosiveness.

437
00:21:45,840 --> 00:21:48,919
Speaker 1: We saw it on that run against the Las Vegas

438
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Speaker 1: Raiders where you know, he got that hole, he got

439
00:21:51,960 --> 00:21:53,760
Speaker 1: the burst, he got one on one on the dB

440
00:21:54,359 --> 00:21:57,719
Speaker 1: and he hit it really hard. But you know, Jonathan

441
00:21:57,720 --> 00:21:59,480
Speaker 1: Taylor this year, if you look at some of the

442
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Speaker 1: stuff that at Pro Football Focus tracks about yards before contact,

443
00:22:05,080 --> 00:22:09,760
Speaker 1: Jonathan Taylor this year, one point four yards before contact

444
00:22:09,920 --> 00:22:12,960
Speaker 1: is his average. Last year that average was one point seven.

445
00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:16,639
Speaker 1: So it hasn't totally dropped off. But you're seeing defenses

446
00:22:16,720 --> 00:22:20,000
Speaker 1: play him a lot different, just with some of the

447
00:22:20,040 --> 00:22:24,479
Speaker 1: five man fronts that you're getting and getting linebackers on

448
00:22:24,560 --> 00:22:27,640
Speaker 1: him a little bit more. The cults are gonna need

449
00:22:28,080 --> 00:22:32,040
Speaker 1: to probably tweak whatever run scheme they have with you know,

450
00:22:32,040 --> 00:22:34,359
Speaker 1: whatever the offense, whatever the coaching staff looks like next year,

451
00:22:34,400 --> 00:22:36,640
Speaker 1: which is another huge question. No doubt you can still

452
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Speaker 1: build this offense around Jonathan Taylor, but you probably need

453
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Speaker 1: to have some scheme tweaks to unlock him again next year.

454
00:22:44,400 --> 00:22:46,880
Speaker 1: And Laarry, He's going into a contract year and so

455
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Speaker 1: that's gonna make this offseason all that more interesting because

456
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Speaker 1: even with this season being what it was for Taylor,

457
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Speaker 1: with the injuries and the ball security issues at times

458
00:22:56,600 --> 00:22:58,280
Speaker 1: he has, I mean, I think we can all agree.

459
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Speaker 1: Everybody can agree he's far exceeded his rookie contract, and

460
00:23:02,440 --> 00:23:05,080
Speaker 1: I think that's what you know, the Colts like to do.

461
00:23:05,119 --> 00:23:07,920
Speaker 1: When a guy out plays his value, then the contract

462
00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:11,840
Speaker 1: talks really heat up. But this is just hypothetical or

463
00:23:11,880 --> 00:23:14,680
Speaker 1: just rhetorical. Do you resign a guy before you have to?

464
00:23:15,320 --> 00:23:17,600
Speaker 1: And do you resign a player before you have to?

465
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Speaker 1: At that position? He plays running back and you hate

466
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Speaker 1: to say that, but at the end of the day,

467
00:23:22,080 --> 00:23:25,199
Speaker 1: in this league, running backs are a position that do

468
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Speaker 1: get devalued. Even though Jonathan Taylor's Jonathan Taylor and primarily

469
00:23:29,800 --> 00:23:32,800
Speaker 1: last year proved in twenty twenty one, he's not just

470
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Speaker 1: your run of the mill running back. He's a game changer.

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Speaker 1: He's that home run hitter, that big play guy the

472
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Speaker 1: Colts desperately need in that offense. I think it's it's

473
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Speaker 1: a very interesting conversation because so far Chris Ballard has

474
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Speaker 1: leaned into extending a lot of guys and he has

475
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Speaker 1: a philosophy of rewarding your own right and investing in

476
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Speaker 1: your own investing in the guys who you've brought in

477
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Speaker 1: and drafted. So it's going to be an interesting philosophy

478
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Speaker 1: with all of the different needs that the Colts will

479
00:24:00,840 --> 00:24:03,600
Speaker 1: have to address in the offseason. Do they have that

480
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Speaker 1: luxury because you've tied up a whole lot of money

481
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Speaker 1: in other contract extensions already when you look at Quentin

482
00:24:10,560 --> 00:24:14,040
Speaker 1: Nelson and Shack Leonard and Brandon Smith and you know

483
00:24:14,080 --> 00:24:16,600
Speaker 1: different guys who are and you did it Nines and

484
00:24:16,600 --> 00:24:19,320
Speaker 1: you did it with Niim Hines. Yes, exactly. So I

485
00:24:19,320 --> 00:24:21,960
Speaker 1: think it will be interesting though, with how much you've

486
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Speaker 1: invested and locked up for long term situations, if you

487
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Speaker 1: do have that viability to do that at this juncture,

488
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Speaker 1: given a lot of things that are going to have

489
00:24:32,920 --> 00:24:36,560
Speaker 1: to happen, then also you know within the organization itself

490
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Speaker 1: and the philosophy of the incoming you know, head coach

491
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Speaker 1: and what Chris Ballard wants to do with his vision

492
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Speaker 1: moving into twenty three and Michael Pittman Jr. I thought

493
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Speaker 1: about that as well. Yeah, can you extend both of

494
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Speaker 1: them this offseason or do you need to pick and

495
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Speaker 1: choose based on where you are financially. That's going to

496
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Speaker 1: be a big question certainly over the next couple I

497
00:24:55,200 --> 00:24:57,080
Speaker 1: do think if you have a philosophy of building, you know,

498
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Speaker 1: building from the trenches, right and all of that, what

499
00:25:00,480 --> 00:25:04,520
Speaker 1: good is it to have really good front play without

500
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Speaker 1: a running game to compliment that? You know what? What

501
00:25:07,720 --> 00:25:10,199
Speaker 1: is that returning for you? If you have all of

502
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Speaker 1: this invested in in those lines defensive and offensive, but

503
00:25:13,560 --> 00:25:16,200
Speaker 1: you're you obviously have to get production in your run

504
00:25:16,240 --> 00:25:18,520
Speaker 1: game to compliment that offense and what you've done there

505
00:25:19,119 --> 00:25:21,320
Speaker 1: with those front five. All right, I want to double back.

506
00:25:21,359 --> 00:25:23,679
Speaker 1: That's the breaking news if you will, on Jonathan Taylor.

507
00:25:23,720 --> 00:25:26,800
Speaker 1: Let's double back to this Colts team. How are they

508
00:25:26,840 --> 00:25:29,159
Speaker 1: going to respond with the With the Colts in the

509
00:25:29,160 --> 00:25:32,480
Speaker 1: midst of this tailspin, right, they've lost four in a row,

510
00:25:32,600 --> 00:25:35,520
Speaker 1: seven of their last eight, three games to play right now?

511
00:25:35,520 --> 00:25:38,640
Speaker 1: They rank fourteen out of sixteen teams in the AFC.

512
00:25:39,280 --> 00:25:41,040
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm just gonna throw out some big picture

513
00:25:41,119 --> 00:25:44,280
Speaker 1: questions for you guys, and you can bite off wherever

514
00:25:44,359 --> 00:25:46,639
Speaker 1: you want to bite off, and you can go with

515
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Speaker 1: this wherever you want to go, because I don't have

516
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Speaker 1: the answers. I mean, this is really difficult. I mean,

517
00:25:51,040 --> 00:25:53,840
Speaker 1: how are the Colts going to handle these last three games?

518
00:25:54,280 --> 00:25:57,359
Speaker 1: What's the psyche of the team after this heartbreaking loss

519
00:25:57,359 --> 00:25:59,760
Speaker 1: where you're up thirty three to nothing at halftime, you

520
00:25:59,760 --> 00:26:02,080
Speaker 1: can close it out? And then how do you ensure

521
00:26:02,119 --> 00:26:05,240
Speaker 1: guys don't quit? JJ? Man, those are loaded questions. Right

522
00:26:05,280 --> 00:26:07,000
Speaker 1: where do you want to go? Right there? I think

523
00:26:07,040 --> 00:26:11,119
Speaker 1: you just have to rely on your veteran leadership, you know.

524
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Speaker 1: I think about a guy like DeForrest Buckner, who has

525
00:26:13,640 --> 00:26:16,280
Speaker 1: been through a season like this when he was with

526
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Speaker 1: the San Francisco forty nine ers, a couple of seasons

527
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Speaker 1: like this early in his career, or those forty nine

528
00:26:21,119 --> 00:26:25,440
Speaker 1: ers teams, you know, before they made the Super Bowl

529
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Speaker 1: in was a twenty nineteen that those were some lean

530
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Speaker 1: years for the forty nine ers. You got to lean

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Speaker 1: on your veterans who have been through this. Stefan Gilmour

532
00:26:34,320 --> 00:26:37,119
Speaker 1: maybe hasn't been through this in a little while, but

533
00:26:37,160 --> 00:26:39,040
Speaker 1: when he was at the Buffalo Bills, you know early

534
00:26:39,080 --> 00:26:41,199
Speaker 1: in his career that they didn't have some seasons that

535
00:26:41,240 --> 00:26:45,040
Speaker 1: went the way they thought. So keep your professional approach

536
00:26:45,400 --> 00:26:50,280
Speaker 1: to it and make sure that you're still doing everything

537
00:26:50,320 --> 00:26:52,720
Speaker 1: you can to get ready for game day. And you

538
00:26:52,760 --> 00:26:54,400
Speaker 1: know it's easy. You know we're gonna hear a lot

539
00:26:54,440 --> 00:26:57,760
Speaker 1: of what you put on film is your resume, no

540
00:26:57,840 --> 00:27:01,000
Speaker 1: matter what your team's record is. And you know, these

541
00:27:01,080 --> 00:27:02,720
Speaker 1: last three games are going to tell us a lot

542
00:27:02,760 --> 00:27:04,399
Speaker 1: about the guys in that locker room. You're gonna hear

543
00:27:04,440 --> 00:27:07,600
Speaker 1: a lot of that. When it comes to following the

544
00:27:07,640 --> 00:27:09,880
Speaker 1: example of the veterans, I think that's where this team

545
00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:11,880
Speaker 1: needs to rely on because this is a young team.

546
00:27:12,080 --> 00:27:14,840
Speaker 1: This team does have a lot of guys who maybe

547
00:27:14,840 --> 00:27:18,320
Speaker 1: haven't been through this before. You know, if you're drafted

548
00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:20,840
Speaker 1: in two thousand and twenty or two twenty one, or

549
00:27:20,880 --> 00:27:24,560
Speaker 1: even twenty nineteen, you know the way that season went

550
00:27:24,560 --> 00:27:28,879
Speaker 1: with the unprecedented start two with Andrew Luck retiring, you

551
00:27:28,880 --> 00:27:31,640
Speaker 1: haven't been through a season where you're your five games

552
00:27:31,720 --> 00:27:35,200
Speaker 1: under five hundred but three to go, and that can

553
00:27:35,240 --> 00:27:38,000
Speaker 1: test guys. But again, I think if you look to

554
00:27:38,040 --> 00:27:41,760
Speaker 1: the veterans on this team, the pros on this team,

555
00:27:41,840 --> 00:27:44,040
Speaker 1: that's where I think it starts in that locker room.

556
00:27:44,520 --> 00:27:47,240
Speaker 1: I had Jeff Saturday yesterday back in studio for Colts

557
00:27:47,240 --> 00:27:51,000
Speaker 1: three sixty and he talked through a pretty thorough team

558
00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:53,719
Speaker 1: meeting that they had a pretty extensive team meeting that

559
00:27:53,760 --> 00:27:57,840
Speaker 1: went for about an hour mayte to go through all

560
00:27:57,960 --> 00:28:03,959
Speaker 1: of you know, Saturday in every phase, offensive, defensive, special teams,

561
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Speaker 1: and I think that you're going to find out a

562
00:28:07,680 --> 00:28:11,159
Speaker 1: lot in regards to whether or not you have the

563
00:28:11,240 --> 00:28:13,360
Speaker 1: right guys in this locker room and who the right

564
00:28:13,440 --> 00:28:16,360
Speaker 1: guys are, who is a part of building from this

565
00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:19,600
Speaker 1: and being galvanized through this adversity and being part of

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Speaker 1: what you're trying to do in the future, and then

567
00:28:21,160 --> 00:28:24,240
Speaker 1: those who are not part of that mentality. I think

568
00:28:24,280 --> 00:28:27,240
Speaker 1: that these final few games, and I think even going

569
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Speaker 1: back to the Dallas game, you started to see some

570
00:28:32,119 --> 00:28:36,360
Speaker 1: of those indications for you know, for the coaching staff,

571
00:28:36,359 --> 00:28:40,240
Speaker 1: for the front office as they are evaluating every single element.

572
00:28:40,240 --> 00:28:42,000
Speaker 1: And we knew that would be part of what Jeff

573
00:28:42,040 --> 00:28:44,480
Speaker 1: Saturday was doing when he came in is bringing a

574
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Speaker 1: fresh perspective and giving his analysis on who are the

575
00:28:48,680 --> 00:28:51,080
Speaker 1: right people to be in this building because he's been

576
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Speaker 1: in this building when things have been good and when

577
00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:55,240
Speaker 1: you were a part of building something special and when

578
00:28:55,280 --> 00:28:58,400
Speaker 1: there was this strong culture of winning. And so I

579
00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:00,560
Speaker 1: think that this is a huge assessment I think for

580
00:29:00,680 --> 00:29:05,040
Speaker 1: every single person of how you conduct yourself through the

581
00:29:05,080 --> 00:29:07,680
Speaker 1: final you know, I'm going to say five games of

582
00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:09,080
Speaker 1: the season, because I'm going to say this kind of

583
00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:12,840
Speaker 1: goes back relate to Dallas and moving forward, and you know,

584
00:29:12,960 --> 00:29:18,560
Speaker 1: especially these last two fourth quarters that you have incurred

585
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Speaker 1: and I think that there will be a massive debrief

586
00:29:21,600 --> 00:29:26,000
Speaker 1: and evaluation and examination of every single factor. And I

587
00:29:26,040 --> 00:29:28,719
Speaker 1: do think that it'll be about how you respond. How

588
00:29:28,760 --> 00:29:33,440
Speaker 1: do you take the things that Jeff so thoroughly assessed

589
00:29:33,480 --> 00:29:36,320
Speaker 1: and examined in that team meeting. How do you take that.

590
00:29:36,440 --> 00:29:38,840
Speaker 1: Do you take that as as defeat and that you

591
00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:41,040
Speaker 1: know everything is out the window, or do you take

592
00:29:41,040 --> 00:29:44,200
Speaker 1: that as being constructive and how you can be part

593
00:29:44,240 --> 00:29:47,040
Speaker 1: of something moving forward and how you can advance yourself,

594
00:29:47,040 --> 00:29:49,120
Speaker 1: how you can advance the guys around you. It'll be

595
00:29:49,240 --> 00:29:52,240
Speaker 1: very interesting to see how these next three weeks unfold. Yeah,

596
00:29:52,280 --> 00:29:54,720
Speaker 1: I think the psyche, and what I'm about to say

597
00:29:54,880 --> 00:29:56,880
Speaker 1: is probably going to sound like I think guys should

598
00:29:56,920 --> 00:29:59,000
Speaker 1: be selfish, but that's not what I mean. I think

599
00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:02,000
Speaker 1: the psyche is that guys know right now they have

600
00:30:02,080 --> 00:30:04,760
Speaker 1: to play for themselves, they have to play for their

601
00:30:04,840 --> 00:30:07,640
Speaker 1: futures at this point. I mean, I think Joe Ritz

602
00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:10,520
Speaker 1: had a really good story last night on Colts Roundtable Live. Mean,

603
00:30:10,840 --> 00:30:12,600
Speaker 1: when he was in, you know, kind of a young

604
00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:15,239
Speaker 1: player with the Colts in two eleven, right, they were

605
00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:18,360
Speaker 1: two and fourteen, horrible season, but he wanted to prove

606
00:30:18,440 --> 00:30:21,160
Speaker 1: to Jim Urse and the powers that be that he

607
00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:23,719
Speaker 1: wanted to be a cold He wanted to be serious

608
00:30:23,760 --> 00:30:26,560
Speaker 1: about his future in the NFL and that he could

609
00:30:26,600 --> 00:30:29,320
Speaker 1: be an asset for the team in two twelve with

610
00:30:29,360 --> 00:30:31,280
Speaker 1: a new head coach and a new regime and a

611
00:30:31,320 --> 00:30:33,520
Speaker 1: new general manager. I think that's what a lot of

612
00:30:33,520 --> 00:30:35,880
Speaker 1: these guys are trying to do right now. It just

613
00:30:35,920 --> 00:30:38,360
Speaker 1: really stinks that this is the position that they're in.

614
00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:41,520
Speaker 1: But the psyche, I think has to be finished out strong.

615
00:30:41,680 --> 00:30:45,080
Speaker 1: For myself, I need to play for myself and my future,

616
00:30:45,560 --> 00:30:47,720
Speaker 1: but I also need to play for the guy next

617
00:30:47,720 --> 00:30:51,080
Speaker 1: to me who's playing for his future too, and tried

618
00:30:51,080 --> 00:30:53,360
Speaker 1: to prove that you belong on this team next season,

619
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Speaker 1: and tried to build some some semblance of offseason momentum

620
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Speaker 1: going into two thousand and twenty three. All right, so

621
00:31:00,440 --> 00:31:03,040
Speaker 1: let's move on to what to build on. Who are

622
00:31:03,120 --> 00:31:06,800
Speaker 1: some emerging players the Colts can build around and win

623
00:31:06,920 --> 00:31:09,680
Speaker 1: with next season. The first guy that I have JJ

624
00:31:09,920 --> 00:31:13,120
Speaker 1: Dio Dango. He's coming on strong these last couple of games,

625
00:31:13,480 --> 00:31:16,560
Speaker 1: career high two sacks the other day on Saturday, did

626
00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:19,360
Speaker 1: get that one taunting penalty, So you can't have that.

627
00:31:19,360 --> 00:31:22,440
Speaker 1: That's a growing, you know, tool, something he's gonna learn from.

628
00:31:22,760 --> 00:31:25,719
Speaker 1: But I think he's getting more reps because of the

629
00:31:25,760 --> 00:31:28,760
Speaker 1: Taekwon Lewis injury. He's getting more comfortable at the three

630
00:31:28,760 --> 00:31:31,560
Speaker 1: tech spot. He's really flashing here lately. Yeah, I mean,

631
00:31:31,560 --> 00:31:35,760
Speaker 1: he's turning into the guy you thought he was gonna be,

632
00:31:36,640 --> 00:31:39,080
Speaker 1: just with the way he's able to kind of anchor

633
00:31:39,120 --> 00:31:42,080
Speaker 1: against the run and get after the passer. I mean,

634
00:31:42,160 --> 00:31:45,120
Speaker 1: you know, the game he had obviously against Minnesota was

635
00:31:45,120 --> 00:31:49,600
Speaker 1: really impressive. But Dalvin Cook, the sixty four yard touchdown

636
00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:54,160
Speaker 1: he had, Dio Dangbo almost ran him down and in

637
00:31:54,280 --> 00:31:59,280
Speaker 1: the end zone as Dalvin Cook is celebrating, there's Dio Dangbo.

638
00:31:59,360 --> 00:32:02,760
Speaker 1: I mean, he's rented sixty something yards downfield trying to

639
00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:06,400
Speaker 1: get to him. You like that effort. You obviously would

640
00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:09,080
Speaker 1: have liked if Dalvin Cook got tackled earlier. But if

641
00:32:09,600 --> 00:32:14,880
Speaker 1: you're looking for individual effort that you can be encouraged

642
00:32:14,880 --> 00:32:18,800
Speaker 1: by Dio Dangbo over the course of that game. Very encouraging.

643
00:32:18,840 --> 00:32:21,160
Speaker 1: But you're absolutely right, matea the last couple of games,

644
00:32:21,720 --> 00:32:25,520
Speaker 1: Dio has absolutely been coming on. You know, going back

645
00:32:25,520 --> 00:32:29,040
Speaker 1: even to Week eleven, he had two pressures against the Eagles.

646
00:32:29,040 --> 00:32:31,400
Speaker 1: He then had three against the Steelers, two against the Cowboys,

647
00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:36,360
Speaker 1: two against the Vikings. Both those ended in sacks. That's

648
00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:38,360
Speaker 1: those are good. Those are encouraging. And then again, the

649
00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:40,280
Speaker 1: way that he's playing against the run has really fit

650
00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:42,960
Speaker 1: in with the overall mentality the Colts expect their d

651
00:32:43,040 --> 00:32:45,280
Speaker 1: linemen to play against the runs. So that's when you're

652
00:32:45,320 --> 00:32:48,160
Speaker 1: thinking about next year and you're thinking about a versatile

653
00:32:48,200 --> 00:32:50,680
Speaker 1: defensive lineman. You know, Taekwon will be a free agent

654
00:32:50,760 --> 00:32:53,760
Speaker 1: after this year. Can you plug Dio Dangbo into that role?

655
00:32:54,480 --> 00:32:58,200
Speaker 1: And right and you know, because you need D line rotation,

656
00:32:58,280 --> 00:33:02,000
Speaker 1: and Diodangbo looks like a very effective D lineman right

657
00:33:02,040 --> 00:33:04,120
Speaker 1: now who can rotate into a number of spots and

658
00:33:04,440 --> 00:33:07,600
Speaker 1: right now, Lara. If you're talking about most consistent cults

659
00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:11,040
Speaker 1: through this season to this point, I think in that

660
00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:14,680
Speaker 1: bucket has to be number twenty five Rodney Thomas. He

661
00:33:14,720 --> 00:33:17,560
Speaker 1: has played so consistently this year. It's like we were

662
00:33:17,560 --> 00:33:20,520
Speaker 1: all hyped up for Nick cross Well. Rodney Thomas has been,

663
00:33:20,960 --> 00:33:23,600
Speaker 1: you know, the most impactful rookie safety of that bunch

664
00:33:23,680 --> 00:33:26,320
Speaker 1: because he's a seventh round pick out of Yale, notched

665
00:33:26,360 --> 00:33:29,560
Speaker 1: his second interception of the season, continues to make plays Lara,

666
00:33:29,600 --> 00:33:32,640
Speaker 1: either as a starter or a big contributor at safety,

667
00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:34,680
Speaker 1: and he showed a big time on Saturday with that

668
00:33:34,720 --> 00:33:38,560
Speaker 1: pickoff of her cousin. In high stakes situations, Rodney Thomas

669
00:33:38,560 --> 00:33:41,000
Speaker 1: finds ways to be there, and I think he just

670
00:33:41,160 --> 00:33:45,080
Speaker 1: really immerses himself in the guys that he is surrounded by,

671
00:33:45,280 --> 00:33:48,400
Speaker 1: in that secondary, in that room, in the meeting room.

672
00:33:48,440 --> 00:33:50,720
Speaker 1: I mean, he's immersed in every single bit of it.

673
00:33:50,760 --> 00:33:52,600
Speaker 1: And I think part of that comes from the fact,

674
00:33:52,840 --> 00:33:55,560
Speaker 1: you know you're coming out a Yale, you know, not

675
00:33:55,600 --> 00:33:58,200
Speaker 1: a necessary a smaller school, but an IVY League school

676
00:33:58,240 --> 00:34:02,760
Speaker 1: that isn't necessarily known for big time NFL type of production.

677
00:34:03,040 --> 00:34:05,200
Speaker 1: You're a later round pick, you know that you're going

678
00:34:05,240 --> 00:34:06,520
Speaker 1: to come in and have to have a chip on

679
00:34:06,520 --> 00:34:09,319
Speaker 1: your shoulder and earn every single thing, and he certainly has.

680
00:34:09,320 --> 00:34:12,719
Speaker 1: And I saw his parents at the game beforehand, and

681
00:34:12,760 --> 00:34:15,120
Speaker 1: it was so great to get to see them, and

682
00:34:15,160 --> 00:34:17,319
Speaker 1: they have just I was talking to them about what

683
00:34:17,360 --> 00:34:20,240
Speaker 1: this just whole past year has been like for Rodney

684
00:34:20,280 --> 00:34:21,840
Speaker 1: for them. But one of the things is in the

685
00:34:21,880 --> 00:34:24,360
Speaker 1: conversations with Rodney in the locker room, you can just

686
00:34:24,360 --> 00:34:27,120
Speaker 1: see how much his confidence has grown because he has

687
00:34:27,160 --> 00:34:29,960
Speaker 1: proven that he belongs. And since he has done that,

688
00:34:30,280 --> 00:34:33,000
Speaker 1: he has started to you know, he's been consistent, but

689
00:34:33,160 --> 00:34:36,799
Speaker 1: now he's making those big impactful plays like the interception,

690
00:34:36,880 --> 00:34:39,480
Speaker 1: you know, in those big situations. And to go back

691
00:34:39,560 --> 00:34:42,719
Speaker 1: to Dio, JJ, I had a conversation, pretty lengthy conversation

692
00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:44,600
Speaker 1: with him last week in the locker room. I was

693
00:34:44,640 --> 00:34:47,840
Speaker 1: kind of bouncing between Quiddi and Dio, and I asked

694
00:34:47,840 --> 00:34:50,400
Speaker 1: Dio just about the difference that he feels although he

695
00:34:50,440 --> 00:34:52,799
Speaker 1: was playing at this point last year, the difference in

696
00:34:52,920 --> 00:34:55,640
Speaker 1: coming off of and rehabbing from that achilles injury to

697
00:34:55,640 --> 00:34:57,799
Speaker 1: where he is now, and he said it's night and day.

698
00:34:57,880 --> 00:35:00,480
Speaker 1: He said it was healed last year. I was still

699
00:35:00,480 --> 00:35:02,239
Speaker 1: going through the rehab process and I had to get

700
00:35:02,280 --> 00:35:04,359
Speaker 1: back on the field because that was the only way

701
00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:06,360
Speaker 1: to get back into it. He said, you need a

702
00:35:06,360 --> 00:35:09,080
Speaker 1: lot of lower body power to play the game, and

703
00:35:09,200 --> 00:35:11,480
Speaker 1: that can be the difference in making a play. And

704
00:35:11,480 --> 00:35:14,719
Speaker 1: I think that's really what you're seeing from Dio at

705
00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:16,520
Speaker 1: this point in the year, and you hope to see

706
00:35:16,560 --> 00:35:18,480
Speaker 1: that too in these final couple of games. I think

707
00:35:18,680 --> 00:35:21,680
Speaker 1: he's somewhat, you know, I don't want to say benefited

708
00:35:21,760 --> 00:35:24,319
Speaker 1: from Quiddy's injury, but it has been a little bit

709
00:35:24,360 --> 00:35:27,279
Speaker 1: that has opened some of the door for him to

710
00:35:27,320 --> 00:35:29,200
Speaker 1: get out there and get more reps there up front.

711
00:35:29,239 --> 00:35:31,759
Speaker 1: And he's also benefited from having, you know, guys like

712
00:35:31,840 --> 00:35:34,080
Speaker 1: Buck and Grove up there in the middle that helped

713
00:35:34,120 --> 00:35:36,839
Speaker 1: create opportunities for you. But you know, looking to the

714
00:35:36,880 --> 00:35:42,080
Speaker 1: guys that you build upon. As the mate served up

715
00:35:42,080 --> 00:35:44,160
Speaker 1: the topic, I think the number one. I mean, there's

716
00:35:44,160 --> 00:35:46,920
Speaker 1: so many guys who talk about think Julian Blackman's been outstanding.

717
00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:49,480
Speaker 1: I think Grover Stewart is certainly worthy of being in

718
00:35:49,480 --> 00:35:53,479
Speaker 1: the conversation. Stefan Gilmour to me is one of those

719
00:35:53,520 --> 00:35:58,040
Speaker 1: guys because this is a team that is in a pivotal,

720
00:35:58,360 --> 00:36:02,680
Speaker 1: defining time and you need veteran leadership like you haven't

721
00:36:02,680 --> 00:36:05,359
Speaker 1: needed it in a really long time in this locker room.

722
00:36:05,520 --> 00:36:08,880
Speaker 1: And Stefan is a guy who has been a part

723
00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:14,440
Speaker 1: of winning teams consistently. He knows what winning franchises look like,

724
00:36:14,520 --> 00:36:17,759
Speaker 1: and he brings that experience in here. I think for

725
00:36:17,840 --> 00:36:20,680
Speaker 1: a lot of the guys, it's awesome to have Grover

726
00:36:20,920 --> 00:36:23,960
Speaker 1: and Dio and Rodney Thomas, but all they know is

727
00:36:24,040 --> 00:36:28,160
Speaker 1: this team. It's you really need guys who have been

728
00:36:28,200 --> 00:36:31,960
Speaker 1: a part of establishing cultures or building upon cultures to

729
00:36:32,120 --> 00:36:35,239
Speaker 1: impact this locker room moving forward. So that's why you

730
00:36:35,280 --> 00:36:37,839
Speaker 1: look to a guy like Stefan Gilmour to me to

731
00:36:37,880 --> 00:36:41,200
Speaker 1: help bring some of those influences and you take notes

732
00:36:41,239 --> 00:36:44,200
Speaker 1: from him to me. Whoever the next coaches that comes in,

733
00:36:44,480 --> 00:36:46,160
Speaker 1: that's got to be one of the first guys you

734
00:36:46,239 --> 00:36:48,919
Speaker 1: call in. Hey, tell me you know what's going well,

735
00:36:48,960 --> 00:36:50,560
Speaker 1: what do we need to do differently? What can you

736
00:36:50,600 --> 00:36:52,759
Speaker 1: tell me about what you were a part of, you know,

737
00:36:52,800 --> 00:36:55,520
Speaker 1: with the Bills or win New England, you know, different areas.

738
00:36:55,640 --> 00:36:57,799
Speaker 1: And then also I think Buck is that way. Buck

739
00:36:57,920 --> 00:37:00,680
Speaker 1: was part of building something in San Francisco. He knows

740
00:37:00,719 --> 00:37:02,520
Speaker 1: what worked at that point in time and that he

741
00:37:02,640 --> 00:37:05,760
Speaker 1: can be a part of establishing and you know, building

742
00:37:05,760 --> 00:37:08,880
Speaker 1: a foundation for this team moving forward. And here's what

743
00:37:08,920 --> 00:37:12,680
Speaker 1: we know about Stefan Gilmour. He's not going to you know,

744
00:37:12,800 --> 00:37:16,320
Speaker 1: stand up at his locker right. He's he's not incredibly vocal,

745
00:37:16,320 --> 00:37:18,480
Speaker 1: at least not with the media, at least not with us. Now.

746
00:37:18,480 --> 00:37:20,879
Speaker 1: Inside that locker room, it might be different, but what

747
00:37:20,920 --> 00:37:23,840
Speaker 1: we can say definitively is that Stefan Gilmour is a

748
00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:27,279
Speaker 1: lead by example type of guy both inside the locker room,

749
00:37:27,719 --> 00:37:31,640
Speaker 1: and you know, he's gonna step up and he's gonna

750
00:37:31,640 --> 00:37:33,520
Speaker 1: be there every single day. He's gonna be in the

751
00:37:33,520 --> 00:37:35,520
Speaker 1: weight room, he's gonna be eating the right things. He's

752
00:37:35,520 --> 00:37:37,400
Speaker 1: gonna be, you know, sitting in the front row in

753
00:37:37,440 --> 00:37:40,239
Speaker 1: the meetings. You don't play this long, this well since

754
00:37:40,280 --> 00:37:43,839
Speaker 1: twenty twelve with not doing everything right every single day.

755
00:37:43,880 --> 00:37:46,680
Speaker 1: That's what Stefan Gilmour is still doing despite a four

756
00:37:46,840 --> 00:37:48,680
Speaker 1: nine and one team around it, and Stefan Gilmour is

757
00:37:48,680 --> 00:37:50,359
Speaker 1: still playing at a really high level. Right He's got

758
00:37:50,360 --> 00:37:53,799
Speaker 1: eleven pass defense, nine pass breakups, two interceptions this year.

759
00:37:54,239 --> 00:37:56,480
Speaker 1: He almost had a couple more on Saturday. I mean,

760
00:37:56,680 --> 00:37:59,279
Speaker 1: there's that one, the one touchdown that Jefferson got him

761
00:37:59,280 --> 00:38:01,239
Speaker 1: on that like fake whip route. There's not a single

762
00:38:01,320 --> 00:38:03,880
Speaker 1: cornerback in the league who could defend that, like not

763
00:38:04,080 --> 00:38:06,920
Speaker 1: a single cornerback in the league guard. There were some

764
00:38:06,960 --> 00:38:11,319
Speaker 1: serious communication fallouts in that game. Also with coverage. There

765
00:38:11,320 --> 00:38:14,000
Speaker 1: were some conversations on the sideline, so a lot of that,

766
00:38:14,360 --> 00:38:16,480
Speaker 1: you know, where you saw some of those plays being

767
00:38:16,520 --> 00:38:18,960
Speaker 1: made was not necessarily on a single player. It was

768
00:38:19,040 --> 00:38:23,000
Speaker 1: really on a collapse of communication within the second dary.

769
00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:24,520
Speaker 1: But I think that's a really good point though about

770
00:38:24,520 --> 00:38:27,000
Speaker 1: you need guys who have been outside of this building. Yes,

771
00:38:27,160 --> 00:38:29,680
Speaker 1: and Gilmore Gillian Buck are like right at the top

772
00:38:29,719 --> 00:38:32,160
Speaker 1: of that list. Of these are guys who are under

773
00:38:32,160 --> 00:38:35,360
Speaker 1: contract next year, who have been in situations where the

774
00:38:35,360 --> 00:38:38,400
Speaker 1: team has not been winning but has been building something.

775
00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:40,200
Speaker 1: And then they've been in situations where the team has

776
00:38:40,200 --> 00:38:42,400
Speaker 1: been winning. Both those guys have been to Super Bowls,

777
00:38:42,920 --> 00:38:46,319
Speaker 1: and that is really important as you're evaluating the rest

778
00:38:46,360 --> 00:38:49,440
Speaker 1: of this team, and you're evaluating the culture of this team.

779
00:38:49,760 --> 00:38:51,880
Speaker 1: To get the input of both of those guys. All right,

780
00:38:51,960 --> 00:38:54,320
Speaker 1: let's go what to build on. Let's go to special teams.

781
00:38:54,640 --> 00:38:58,640
Speaker 1: Two names Chase McLoughlin gonna be a free agent and

782
00:38:58,800 --> 00:39:02,240
Speaker 1: Dallas Flower. Yeah. JJ, remember last year when the Colts

783
00:39:02,239 --> 00:39:04,800
Speaker 1: couldn't make long kicks or even at temp long kicks.

784
00:39:05,600 --> 00:39:08,920
Speaker 1: Not so fast last year? You mean week one? I

785
00:39:08,960 --> 00:39:12,560
Speaker 1: mean well, yes, eight makes over fifty yards this season

786
00:39:12,640 --> 00:39:15,520
Speaker 1: for Chase ranks second in the NFL, has the second

787
00:39:15,520 --> 00:39:18,520
Speaker 1: most makes over fifty this year. He's made thirteen of

788
00:39:18,560 --> 00:39:21,919
Speaker 1: his last sixteen kicks. He's knocked down a fifty yard

789
00:39:21,920 --> 00:39:24,680
Speaker 1: field goal in four straight games. That's a Colts record.

790
00:39:24,960 --> 00:39:26,919
Speaker 1: I mean when he goes out there. To me, that's

791
00:39:26,960 --> 00:39:30,640
Speaker 1: the test. You're surprised when he misses. That's the good

792
00:39:30,680 --> 00:39:33,200
Speaker 1: mark of a kickers. When, oh my gosh, he missed, right,

793
00:39:33,239 --> 00:39:35,960
Speaker 1: I mean that that's stability. And he's been a journeyman

794
00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:38,759
Speaker 1: for his career. But in a league where we all

795
00:39:38,800 --> 00:39:42,520
Speaker 1: know it's hard to find reliable, consistent kickers, you know,

796
00:39:42,560 --> 00:39:45,200
Speaker 1: he's he's definitely made his case in free agency. He's

797
00:39:45,239 --> 00:39:47,920
Speaker 1: a guy that you might lump into this bucket JJ

798
00:39:48,320 --> 00:39:50,720
Speaker 1: on who to build around or what to build around

799
00:39:50,920 --> 00:39:53,040
Speaker 1: for twenty twenty three. It's also pretty good sign as

800
00:39:53,040 --> 00:39:55,040
Speaker 1: a kicker when you're breaking a franchise record held by

801
00:39:55,080 --> 00:39:58,719
Speaker 1: Adam Vanatira, which Chase McLaughlin broke with his eighth field

802
00:39:58,760 --> 00:40:01,160
Speaker 1: goal of fifty or more yards and his record was seven.

803
00:40:01,920 --> 00:40:04,800
Speaker 1: Um yeah, I mean absolutely and sometimes maytay. This happens

804
00:40:04,800 --> 00:40:09,120
Speaker 1: with kickers like this. This is why I'm usually against

805
00:40:09,120 --> 00:40:11,399
Speaker 1: like drafting a kicker or giving a kicker a big

806
00:40:11,440 --> 00:40:15,760
Speaker 1: contract and free agency because sometimes guys who have bounced

807
00:40:15,800 --> 00:40:19,279
Speaker 1: around to you know, five teams, six teams, like Chase

808
00:40:19,360 --> 00:40:21,440
Speaker 1: McLoughlin have sometimes they land in a spot and it

809
00:40:21,480 --> 00:40:24,960
Speaker 1: clicks and you never quite know when that's going to happen,

810
00:40:25,160 --> 00:40:28,759
Speaker 1: as like a talent evaluator. But Chase McLoughlin has been

811
00:40:28,800 --> 00:40:31,680
Speaker 1: a very good kicker for the Colts this year. You

812
00:40:31,719 --> 00:40:33,880
Speaker 1: absolutely would say, yeah, you could bring him back next

813
00:40:33,960 --> 00:40:36,799
Speaker 1: year because he's got the leg strength, he's comfortable, and

814
00:40:36,880 --> 00:40:39,760
Speaker 1: he lives. He already lived here. You know, his family,

815
00:40:39,760 --> 00:40:42,000
Speaker 1: he and his wife didn't move from Indianapolis. Even after

816
00:40:42,880 --> 00:40:45,680
Speaker 1: he left here in twenty nineteen. He had three other stops,

817
00:40:45,680 --> 00:40:49,680
Speaker 1: and he's comfortable here, he's comfortable with you know, the

818
00:40:49,719 --> 00:40:52,279
Speaker 1: coaching staff. Again, we'll see where that that may go

819
00:40:52,400 --> 00:40:56,360
Speaker 1: next year. Um, but that, yeah, I mean you figure

820
00:40:56,640 --> 00:40:59,560
Speaker 1: you can hang onto this guy and um, you know,

821
00:40:59,640 --> 00:41:02,440
Speaker 1: keep him Brown because you know what you have in

822
00:41:02,600 --> 00:41:05,480
Speaker 1: him now. And having a known quantity at kicker, Yeah,

823
00:41:05,640 --> 00:41:07,799
Speaker 1: is a pretty nice thing to have. That man has

824
00:41:07,800 --> 00:41:10,480
Speaker 1: earned it, no doubt. And again you're likely to see

825
00:41:10,520 --> 00:41:13,080
Speaker 1: what we have seen in season's past where maybe they'll

826
00:41:13,120 --> 00:41:15,520
Speaker 1: bring in a little competition in training camp. You know,

827
00:41:15,520 --> 00:41:18,320
Speaker 1: you'll bring in maybe a rookie kicker, an undrafted rookie

828
00:41:18,400 --> 00:41:21,120
Speaker 1: or or maybe even you know, a veteran who can

829
00:41:21,200 --> 00:41:23,520
Speaker 1: provide a little bit of competition just so you do

830
00:41:23,600 --> 00:41:26,520
Speaker 1: have a full evaluation. And you know that's pretty common.

831
00:41:26,719 --> 00:41:29,600
Speaker 1: But when I talked to Chase on Monday afternoon, he

832
00:41:29,680 --> 00:41:32,080
Speaker 1: was saying that he has been such the beneficiary of

833
00:41:32,120 --> 00:41:34,800
Speaker 1: the consistency, having a guy like Luke Rhodes, having Bubba

834
00:41:34,880 --> 00:41:37,279
Speaker 1: here who was here in his first ten year here

835
00:41:37,320 --> 00:41:40,120
Speaker 1: back in twenty nineteen. But this is a guy who

836
00:41:40,160 --> 00:41:44,520
Speaker 1: once he left Indianapolis, went to the Vikings, the Jags,

837
00:41:44,719 --> 00:41:47,719
Speaker 1: the Jets, and the Browns. And he was telling me

838
00:41:48,400 --> 00:41:51,120
Speaker 1: this is going to be the first Christmas that he

839
00:41:51,200 --> 00:41:53,239
Speaker 1: spends with his family. He has his wife, he has

840
00:41:53,280 --> 00:41:56,000
Speaker 1: a ten month old daughter, and then another child on

841
00:41:56,040 --> 00:41:59,000
Speaker 1: the way this spring. He said, every other year he's

842
00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:02,960
Speaker 1: been spending Chris in hotel rooms. Because again to your pointment,

843
00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:06,480
Speaker 1: take he's been this journeyman guy. And I don't know

844
00:42:06,800 --> 00:42:09,960
Speaker 1: that there is the a tougher career in all of

845
00:42:10,080 --> 00:42:13,920
Speaker 1: professional sports than being an NFL NFL kicker. Here's the

846
00:42:13,960 --> 00:42:16,920
Speaker 1: other thing with Chase McLoughlin. Um, it's not just that

847
00:42:16,960 --> 00:42:19,240
Speaker 1: he's making his field goals. He hasn't missed a pat

848
00:42:19,880 --> 00:42:22,919
Speaker 1: and he's averaging sixty five yards per kickoff. When when

849
00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:25,400
Speaker 1: Rigo Sanchez went down, that was a big issue. The

850
00:42:25,480 --> 00:42:28,160
Speaker 1: colt didn't have someone who they could they felt could

851
00:42:28,160 --> 00:42:32,080
Speaker 1: really handle kickoffs. Rodrigo Blanketship. Remember in Week one, he

852
00:42:32,200 --> 00:42:34,440
Speaker 1: wasn't released just because he missed that field goal. He

853
00:42:34,480 --> 00:42:36,440
Speaker 1: had two kicks that went out, banged him out of bounds,

854
00:42:36,520 --> 00:42:39,520
Speaker 1: right right, that's right. And and Chase McLoughlin has come

855
00:42:39,560 --> 00:42:42,120
Speaker 1: in and has not only been a good field goal kicker,

856
00:42:42,160 --> 00:42:45,239
Speaker 1: he has been good on kickoffs. That's a very that's

857
00:42:45,239 --> 00:42:48,719
Speaker 1: a very important part of this Colt special team's operation. Yeah. Um,

858
00:42:48,840 --> 00:42:51,120
Speaker 1: so it's kind of the whole package as a kicker

859
00:42:51,160 --> 00:42:54,040
Speaker 1: that he's brought. All right. How about our guy Dallas Flowers. Yeah,

860
00:42:54,080 --> 00:42:56,240
Speaker 1: let me talk about him. One hundred and seventy five

861
00:42:56,320 --> 00:43:00,400
Speaker 1: yards and kickoff returns the other day average UF thirty

862
00:43:00,440 --> 00:43:04,080
Speaker 1: five yards per return, had two over forty. So since

863
00:43:04,120 --> 00:43:06,719
Speaker 1: he took over these duties, primarily in the second half

864
00:43:06,719 --> 00:43:09,239
Speaker 1: against Pittsburgh a couple of weeks ago, what was that

865
00:43:09,280 --> 00:43:13,560
Speaker 1: week twelve? Yea, he leads the NFL in kickoff return yards.

866
00:43:13,640 --> 00:43:16,560
Speaker 1: In that time, he's got three over forty five. Had

867
00:43:16,560 --> 00:43:18,760
Speaker 1: the eighty nine yard or in the second half against

868
00:43:18,760 --> 00:43:21,160
Speaker 1: the Steelers. And as I said, he's only been doing

869
00:43:21,160 --> 00:43:23,560
Speaker 1: this in the last three games. But if he qualified,

870
00:43:23,719 --> 00:43:28,600
Speaker 1: if he qualified to rank in kickoff return average, he

871
00:43:28,640 --> 00:43:32,040
Speaker 1: would rank number one in the NFL. He's averaging thirty

872
00:43:32,040 --> 00:43:35,720
Speaker 1: four point one on the season and he's playing defense. Two.

873
00:43:35,920 --> 00:43:37,960
Speaker 1: He played he played number back for the first time

874
00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:40,120
Speaker 1: the other day against the Minnesota Vikings in a pinch.

875
00:43:40,360 --> 00:43:43,400
Speaker 1: The Colts were down Brandon facing Andy Kenny Moore, and

876
00:43:43,480 --> 00:43:46,200
Speaker 1: he came in. He played well against Justin Jefferson in company.

877
00:43:46,239 --> 00:43:48,280
Speaker 1: That's what I want to talk about, mate, because we've

878
00:43:48,320 --> 00:43:51,160
Speaker 1: seen Dallas to do the kickoff returns. You know, you

879
00:43:51,200 --> 00:43:52,799
Speaker 1: saw it in the preseason he had a fifty three

880
00:43:52,880 --> 00:43:55,480
Speaker 1: yard or you had obviously the one against Pittsburgh and

881
00:43:55,520 --> 00:43:59,040
Speaker 1: now these ones against Minnesota. But actually playing defense. This

882
00:43:59,120 --> 00:44:02,080
Speaker 1: is the first time Dallas Flowers played defense in an

883
00:44:02,160 --> 00:44:05,760
Speaker 1: NFL regular season game, and I just kind of figured

884
00:44:06,040 --> 00:44:07,960
Speaker 1: they're gonna go right at him because a lot of

885
00:44:08,000 --> 00:44:10,919
Speaker 1: teams would say, hey, we have Justin Jefferson, the best

886
00:44:10,920 --> 00:44:13,520
Speaker 1: receiver in the NFL. We have Adam Feelin, a nine

887
00:44:13,600 --> 00:44:16,479
Speaker 1: year veteran, and here's this undrafted rookie coming in playing

888
00:44:16,560 --> 00:44:18,440
Speaker 1: on defense for the first time. We should pick on him.

889
00:44:18,680 --> 00:44:22,720
Speaker 1: Dallas Flowers didn't get targeted in eighteen coverage snaps. Four

890
00:44:22,760 --> 00:44:25,080
Speaker 1: of those came when he was man to man with

891
00:44:25,160 --> 00:44:27,560
Speaker 1: Justin Jefferson. Two of them came when he was man

892
00:44:27,680 --> 00:44:29,680
Speaker 1: to man with Adam Feeling, and they didn't throw the

893
00:44:29,680 --> 00:44:32,200
Speaker 1: ball his way. And that wasn't just because you know,

894
00:44:32,280 --> 00:44:34,799
Speaker 1: Kirk went through his progressions and you know, playn't wasn't

895
00:44:34,800 --> 00:44:37,440
Speaker 1: designed to go there. There was a fourth and fifteen

896
00:44:37,760 --> 00:44:40,480
Speaker 1: where Dallas was manned up against Stefan Gilmour and eat

897
00:44:40,520 --> 00:44:43,320
Speaker 1: a little bit of safety help. But fourth and fifteen,

898
00:44:43,360 --> 00:44:45,320
Speaker 1: in that situation of the game in the fourth quarter,

899
00:44:45,480 --> 00:44:47,560
Speaker 1: you figure Kirk Cousins is like, I'm throwing the ball

900
00:44:47,600 --> 00:44:51,480
Speaker 1: to eighteen. I don't care and Dallas had good cover

901
00:44:51,600 --> 00:44:53,120
Speaker 1: john it. Kirk had to get off it because of

902
00:44:53,239 --> 00:44:56,440
Speaker 1: some pressure, and that was where Dio dropped him. I

903
00:44:56,440 --> 00:44:58,279
Speaker 1: think it was like a one yard scramble. Technically, it

904
00:44:58,320 --> 00:45:01,840
Speaker 1: was close to being a sack. I was really impressed

905
00:45:02,200 --> 00:45:06,520
Speaker 1: by just how calm and collected he was out there

906
00:45:06,920 --> 00:45:10,759
Speaker 1: that those situations. It would have been very easy for

907
00:45:10,800 --> 00:45:13,359
Speaker 1: an undrafted rookie to have the moment be too big

908
00:45:13,400 --> 00:45:16,000
Speaker 1: for him. It was not too big for Dallas Flowers

909
00:45:16,480 --> 00:45:19,440
Speaker 1: and I loved his approach. We had a chance to

910
00:45:19,520 --> 00:45:23,600
Speaker 1: catch up with him on Monday and he said, I

911
00:45:23,640 --> 00:45:26,480
Speaker 1: went into it thinking, well, everyone expects me to lose

912
00:45:27,000 --> 00:45:29,120
Speaker 1: and to get beat, so what do I have to

913
00:45:29,160 --> 00:45:33,279
Speaker 1: lose here? And he knew he could do it, and

914
00:45:33,440 --> 00:45:35,000
Speaker 1: he went out there, and boyd he did it. I

915
00:45:35,400 --> 00:45:38,719
Speaker 1: was really impressed. I'm interested if he gets more opportunities.

916
00:45:38,760 --> 00:45:42,120
Speaker 1: You know, Brandon facing you'd expect to be back this week,

917
00:45:42,560 --> 00:45:47,120
Speaker 1: maybe you know, maybe there's still some opportunities for Dallas

918
00:45:47,160 --> 00:45:49,239
Speaker 1: on this defense though, going down the stretch. I mean

919
00:45:49,239 --> 00:45:50,920
Speaker 1: when he when he has the ball in his hands

920
00:45:50,920 --> 00:45:53,600
Speaker 1: on a kickoff return, like you're surprised when he doesn't

921
00:45:53,600 --> 00:45:56,399
Speaker 1: get at least the thirty five yard line. And how

922
00:45:56,400 --> 00:45:58,279
Speaker 1: many times has he taken the ball out from at

923
00:45:58,320 --> 00:46:01,279
Speaker 1: least five yards deep in his hands, which is incomplete,

924
00:46:01,680 --> 00:46:04,800
Speaker 1: you know, contrast to how the Colts approached that early

925
00:46:04,840 --> 00:46:06,560
Speaker 1: in the season. But he's got the green light, yeah,

926
00:46:06,640 --> 00:46:09,120
Speaker 1: he does from Bubba Ventrone. He talked about that last week.

927
00:46:09,200 --> 00:46:11,240
Speaker 1: It's say, we trust you to go make a play.

928
00:46:11,560 --> 00:46:13,359
Speaker 1: And that's what he's doing. Even if he does have

929
00:46:13,400 --> 00:46:15,279
Speaker 1: to make up eight yards in the end zone when

930
00:46:15,280 --> 00:46:17,560
Speaker 1: he's catching the ball near the back end line, he's

931
00:46:17,560 --> 00:46:20,120
Speaker 1: still getting up field and providing the Colts with outstanding

932
00:46:20,160 --> 00:46:22,600
Speaker 1: field position. And by the way, just a quick shout out,

933
00:46:23,600 --> 00:46:28,279
Speaker 1: Jojoe Doman and Grant Steward have been great blocking on

934
00:46:28,360 --> 00:46:32,439
Speaker 1: those kickoff returns. Both those guys have done a really

935
00:46:32,440 --> 00:46:35,120
Speaker 1: good job to spring Dallas. He was he was very

936
00:46:35,160 --> 00:46:37,359
Speaker 1: clear and saying, hey, my blockers have been really good

937
00:46:37,360 --> 00:46:40,399
Speaker 1: for me too. Those are two guys two pretty good

938
00:46:40,440 --> 00:46:43,480
Speaker 1: fines on special teams as well. Yeah, Doman obviously the

939
00:46:43,520 --> 00:46:46,480
Speaker 1: touchdown against Minnesota, but Grant Steward has been a really

940
00:46:46,640 --> 00:46:48,680
Speaker 1: key special teamer for the Colts this year too, And

941
00:46:48,680 --> 00:46:50,920
Speaker 1: the Colts had the trifecta for the first time in

942
00:46:51,000 --> 00:46:54,799
Speaker 1: franchise history. They scored a touchdown on offense, defense, and

943
00:46:55,000 --> 00:46:57,200
Speaker 1: special teams in the same game. In fact, they did

944
00:46:57,239 --> 00:47:00,480
Speaker 1: in the first half, first time ever in franchise history.

945
00:47:00,840 --> 00:47:03,200
Speaker 1: And we look this up earlier this week. The Colts

946
00:47:03,320 --> 00:47:08,080
Speaker 1: lead the NFL in blocked punts for touchdowns since twenty eighteen.

947
00:47:08,440 --> 00:47:11,160
Speaker 1: They have four of them in the regular season. Inn't

948
00:47:11,160 --> 00:47:13,319
Speaker 1: that time they actually had five because they had one

949
00:47:13,360 --> 00:47:15,840
Speaker 1: of the playoffs against Kansas City as well. And the

950
00:47:16,040 --> 00:47:18,720
Speaker 1: Colts are tied for first in the NFL and special

951
00:47:18,760 --> 00:47:22,840
Speaker 1: teams touchdowns since Bubba Ventrone came over in twenty eighteen.

952
00:47:22,880 --> 00:47:25,640
Speaker 1: They have seven of them, tied with New England in

953
00:47:25,680 --> 00:47:29,080
Speaker 1: that time span special teams touchdowns. So the Colts really

954
00:47:29,120 --> 00:47:30,840
Speaker 1: have a lot to build on in that third phase

955
00:47:30,880 --> 00:47:33,120
Speaker 1: of the game. All Right, to close out, let's talk

956
00:47:33,120 --> 00:47:36,359
Speaker 1: about Pro Bowl nods and snubs. It's it's timely because

957
00:47:36,360 --> 00:47:38,719
Speaker 1: the Pro Bowl voting is coming out. I think it's

958
00:47:38,760 --> 00:47:41,320
Speaker 1: already done. But the rosters are going to be announced

959
00:47:41,320 --> 00:47:44,400
Speaker 1: on Wednesday night on the NFL network, and there is

960
00:47:44,440 --> 00:47:47,040
Speaker 1: no game anymore. Now we're gonna have What are we having? Instead?

961
00:47:47,080 --> 00:47:52,759
Speaker 1: We have like a skills competition and a flag football game? Right,

962
00:47:53,200 --> 00:47:55,399
Speaker 1: And I'm actually okay with that, you know, I mean,

963
00:47:55,440 --> 00:47:58,560
Speaker 1: I think we all understand what the Pro Bowl was

964
00:47:58,760 --> 00:48:02,000
Speaker 1: and sort of, you know, fell beneath the mark of

965
00:48:02,320 --> 00:48:05,439
Speaker 1: just wasn't good compelling TV. It wasn't great, It wasn't

966
00:48:05,440 --> 00:48:08,040
Speaker 1: a great game, even though a lot of people watch it.

967
00:48:08,080 --> 00:48:10,440
Speaker 1: I think just as many people are gonna watch guys

968
00:48:10,480 --> 00:48:12,360
Speaker 1: having fun and kind of yucking it up in a

969
00:48:12,400 --> 00:48:15,520
Speaker 1: skills competition and playing a flag football game. So that's

970
00:48:15,520 --> 00:48:18,120
Speaker 1: all going to take place on February fifth, but you

971
00:48:18,160 --> 00:48:21,560
Speaker 1: will still have players earning the designation and the honor

972
00:48:21,600 --> 00:48:25,239
Speaker 1: of making the Pro Bowl. So how many Pro Bowl

973
00:48:25,280 --> 00:48:28,080
Speaker 1: players are gonna be on this Colts team layer right now?

974
00:48:28,120 --> 00:48:30,960
Speaker 1: And who are they? For me? I got Stefan Gilmour

975
00:48:31,040 --> 00:48:34,359
Speaker 1: in the running, and I've got Buckner outside of that.

976
00:48:34,560 --> 00:48:36,439
Speaker 1: I don't know who else you would put in there

977
00:48:36,480 --> 00:48:40,640
Speaker 1: in terms of definitively gonna make the Pro Bowl, Grover Stewart,

978
00:48:40,760 --> 00:48:43,920
Speaker 1: Zire Franklin. I think they might be in that snub category.

979
00:48:44,200 --> 00:48:46,120
Speaker 1: We'll talk about that. But LAA, who do you have?

980
00:48:46,360 --> 00:48:48,879
Speaker 1: Who do you feel confident in for the Colts making

981
00:48:48,920 --> 00:48:52,439
Speaker 1: the Pro Bowl? Oh? Man, that's tough. I think you're right.

982
00:48:52,600 --> 00:48:55,560
Speaker 1: I do think Buck will probably get in there. He's

983
00:48:55,560 --> 00:48:58,719
Speaker 1: one of those who's so established at the position that

984
00:48:58,840 --> 00:49:00,440
Speaker 1: I think he has a lot of name wreck ignition

985
00:49:00,520 --> 00:49:03,880
Speaker 1: across the league. Would love for Gilly as well. I

986
00:49:03,920 --> 00:49:07,839
Speaker 1: think Grover is more than deserving. If Grover doesn't get in,

987
00:49:07,880 --> 00:49:12,400
Speaker 1: I think that this entire locker room might you know, explode,

988
00:49:12,640 --> 00:49:15,960
Speaker 1: you know, and call foul on that, because he is

989
00:49:16,000 --> 00:49:19,040
Speaker 1: certainly more than deserving of that. I'm you know, curious.

990
00:49:19,080 --> 00:49:22,920
Speaker 1: Although it has been um a year in which he

991
00:49:23,000 --> 00:49:25,440
Speaker 1: hasn't been up to the level that he has played

992
00:49:25,480 --> 00:49:29,000
Speaker 1: in previous seasons, I do think that the name recognition

993
00:49:29,000 --> 00:49:31,440
Speaker 1: in the notoriety of a Quentin Nelson could get him

994
00:49:31,480 --> 00:49:35,920
Speaker 1: in there as well. Uh So, Yeah, it's an unusual

995
00:49:36,040 --> 00:49:38,279
Speaker 1: year because do you think about last year it was

996
00:49:38,600 --> 00:49:43,040
Speaker 1: seven turned eight Pro bowlers right son seven total? But

997
00:49:43,080 --> 00:49:46,680
Speaker 1: then but then Ashton was added in correct, I don't

998
00:49:46,680 --> 00:49:49,279
Speaker 1: remember if he actually I think was added in or not.

999
00:49:49,480 --> 00:49:52,880
Speaker 1: I think the final number seven, okay, so he should

1000
00:49:52,880 --> 00:49:54,960
Speaker 1: have been. I think that there really it's a year.

1001
00:49:55,080 --> 00:49:57,960
Speaker 1: There are no guarantees, unfortunately. I think when you look

1002
00:49:57,960 --> 00:49:59,719
Speaker 1: at the group, that's that's the thing. And in such

1003
00:49:59,719 --> 00:50:02,960
Speaker 1: a popularity contest too, Yeah, and WANs and the players,

1004
00:50:03,040 --> 00:50:05,960
Speaker 1: it's a lot of it is name recognition. And so

1005
00:50:06,000 --> 00:50:07,759
Speaker 1: I don't mean to interrupt you, JJ, but that's why

1006
00:50:07,760 --> 00:50:10,920
Speaker 1: I don't feel confident, although they're very deserving, I just

1007
00:50:10,960 --> 00:50:12,839
Speaker 1: don't think this is going to be the year for

1008
00:50:13,040 --> 00:50:16,440
Speaker 1: Zaire Franklin and Grover Steward because they're really breaking out

1009
00:50:16,480 --> 00:50:17,960
Speaker 1: for the first time. I mean, look, when you're four

1010
00:50:18,080 --> 00:50:20,319
Speaker 1: nine and one, Yeah, that's part of it. That's that's

1011
00:50:20,400 --> 00:50:22,399
Speaker 1: the biggest thing is you're you're four nine and one

1012
00:50:22,960 --> 00:50:26,439
Speaker 1: and you have not played well on national TV. Those

1013
00:50:26,480 --> 00:50:30,880
Speaker 1: are two two pretty significant factors. I agree, because usually,

1014
00:50:30,960 --> 00:50:32,879
Speaker 1: you know, guys get their Pro Bowl moments when you're

1015
00:50:32,880 --> 00:50:35,400
Speaker 1: on Monday Night Football or Sunday Night Football or you know,

1016
00:50:35,440 --> 00:50:37,360
Speaker 1: in these you know, national windows. And the Cults have

1017
00:50:37,440 --> 00:50:39,680
Speaker 1: had three of them leading into the you know, the

1018
00:50:39,840 --> 00:50:42,680
Speaker 1: the Pro Bowl announcement, and they lost to the Steelers,

1019
00:50:43,080 --> 00:50:45,560
Speaker 1: they got embarrassed by the Cowboys in the fourth quarter,

1020
00:50:45,600 --> 00:50:47,919
Speaker 1: and they gave up the biggest lead in NFL history

1021
00:50:47,920 --> 00:50:51,759
Speaker 1: against the Vikings. Those three factors are probably going to

1022
00:50:51,920 --> 00:50:54,799
Speaker 1: mean that a deserving Pro bowler or two will not

1023
00:50:54,840 --> 00:50:56,600
Speaker 1: be going to Las Vegas for the Colts, whether it's

1024
00:50:56,600 --> 00:50:59,640
Speaker 1: de Forest or Gilly or Zaire who's fourth in the

1025
00:50:59,719 --> 00:51:02,640
Speaker 1: NFL and tackles right now, or Grover who's you know,

1026
00:51:02,760 --> 00:51:05,400
Speaker 1: one of the best defensive tackles in the NFL. But

1027
00:51:05,680 --> 00:51:09,600
Speaker 1: those guys are they might get overshadowed by you know,

1028
00:51:09,640 --> 00:51:12,120
Speaker 1: a d tackle who's having a really good year but

1029
00:51:12,320 --> 00:51:15,480
Speaker 1: is on the Eagles. Yeah, like Chris Chris Jones or

1030
00:51:15,600 --> 00:51:18,560
Speaker 1: Quinn and Williams, Jeffrey Simmons, Right, you know, you know

1031
00:51:18,600 --> 00:51:22,200
Speaker 1: those guys, Um you just mentioned three AFC defensive tackles,

1032
00:51:22,200 --> 00:51:25,359
Speaker 1: which that doesn't boat super well for groven Buck, That's

1033
00:51:25,360 --> 00:51:27,640
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, right, you know. And those guys are

1034
00:51:27,680 --> 00:51:30,239
Speaker 1: all on winning teams, yeah, teams that are in the

1035
00:51:30,239 --> 00:51:33,520
Speaker 1: playoffs right now or in contention right And that's the thing.

1036
00:51:33,560 --> 00:51:35,680
Speaker 1: I mean, we've seen this before. I mean, Kenny Moore

1037
00:51:35,800 --> 00:51:38,760
Speaker 1: was snubbed for the Pro Bowl well before he actually

1038
00:51:38,800 --> 00:51:42,360
Speaker 1: made it last year. I mean Darius Leonard or Shaquille Leonard.

1039
00:51:42,400 --> 00:51:44,360
Speaker 1: He was Darius at the time in twenty and eighteen

1040
00:51:44,360 --> 00:51:46,400
Speaker 1: when he was a rookie, but he got snubbed for

1041
00:51:46,440 --> 00:51:48,480
Speaker 1: the Pro Bowl and he was like leading the NFL

1042
00:51:48,560 --> 00:51:51,880
Speaker 1: and tackles at the time. I mean, so it does happen,

1043
00:51:52,000 --> 00:51:54,920
Speaker 1: It can happen, it will continue to happen because there

1044
00:51:55,000 --> 00:51:57,360
Speaker 1: is a fan element, there is a player element. And

1045
00:51:57,880 --> 00:52:00,279
Speaker 1: I'm not saying guys don't take their time to do

1046
00:52:00,320 --> 00:52:03,120
Speaker 1: their research, but there is a lot to do with

1047
00:52:03,239 --> 00:52:06,560
Speaker 1: name recognition, and unfortunately, you know, the Cults are four

1048
00:52:06,680 --> 00:52:09,640
Speaker 1: nine and one, and to JJ's point, they haven't performed

1049
00:52:09,640 --> 00:52:12,880
Speaker 1: great on national TV and primetime. You know, I just

1050
00:52:12,920 --> 00:52:16,560
Speaker 1: don't think nationally Grover's Stewart is a household name. Even

1051
00:52:16,600 --> 00:52:18,719
Speaker 1: though they're playing great this year for the Colts and

1052
00:52:18,719 --> 00:52:21,839
Speaker 1: we certainly know them and appreciate them, I just don't

1053
00:52:21,880 --> 00:52:23,600
Speaker 1: know if it's it's going to happen this year for

1054
00:52:23,640 --> 00:52:26,799
Speaker 1: those guys. All right, that's a look at the Colts here,

1055
00:52:26,840 --> 00:52:30,319
Speaker 1: four nine and one guys. To close out any other

1056
00:52:30,719 --> 00:52:33,319
Speaker 1: thoughts on that game in Minnesota, before we go to

1057
00:52:33,360 --> 00:52:35,640
Speaker 1: the random thought of the week which is Christmas themed

1058
00:52:35,880 --> 00:52:39,640
Speaker 1: this week, Larrny parting shots on Colts and vikings. Um.

1059
00:52:39,680 --> 00:52:42,239
Speaker 1: You know, the only thing was it was fun to

1060
00:52:42,280 --> 00:52:45,560
Speaker 1: see so many of the you know, national media and

1061
00:52:45,600 --> 00:52:48,680
Speaker 1: the presence that was there with having the Saturday and

1062
00:52:48,960 --> 00:52:51,839
Speaker 1: Sunday games, NFL Network had a big set up. Jamie

1063
00:52:51,880 --> 00:52:54,279
Speaker 1: Ardle was hosting It's you know, been a guest on

1064
00:52:54,320 --> 00:52:58,240
Speaker 1: the podcast and ran into Lindsay Zarniac who was incredible

1065
00:52:58,320 --> 00:52:59,960
Speaker 1: and she was on the sidelines and had great things

1066
00:53:00,160 --> 00:53:02,480
Speaker 1: to say about the podcast, so nice. And then my

1067
00:53:02,640 --> 00:53:05,640
Speaker 1: guy DeAngelo Hall was hanging out with him on the

1068
00:53:05,680 --> 00:53:07,920
Speaker 1: sidelines as well. Had a really fun time catching up

1069
00:53:07,960 --> 00:53:10,480
Speaker 1: with him and just kind of you know, debriefing um

1070
00:53:11,080 --> 00:53:13,880
Speaker 1: on the game there on the sidelines because he was

1071
00:53:14,000 --> 00:53:16,560
Speaker 1: here in training camp with NFL Network, so really great

1072
00:53:16,560 --> 00:53:18,040
Speaker 1: to catch up with him. So it was cool to

1073
00:53:18,120 --> 00:53:20,960
Speaker 1: see how much of a presence there were as around it.

1074
00:53:21,000 --> 00:53:22,919
Speaker 1: Which was the first game of the weekend that really

1075
00:53:22,960 --> 00:53:25,399
Speaker 1: is one of my favorite NFL weekends of the year. Yeah,

1076
00:53:25,440 --> 00:53:27,600
Speaker 1: with the triple header on Saturday, I mean that that

1077
00:53:27,800 --> 00:53:32,160
Speaker 1: Bill's uh Miami game on Saturday night, getting home and

1078
00:53:32,160 --> 00:53:34,719
Speaker 1: watching the second half of that game on television that

1079
00:53:34,840 --> 00:53:37,759
Speaker 1: this is cool man. Yeah, really when they started, when

1080
00:53:37,760 --> 00:53:41,960
Speaker 1: they played let It Snow was awesome. Also, it was

1081
00:53:42,000 --> 00:53:45,480
Speaker 1: good to see Niai Hindes with the touchdown on the

1082
00:53:45,520 --> 00:53:50,920
Speaker 1: back flip snow. Good stuff. Also, Bills fans have to

1083
00:53:50,960 --> 00:53:52,520
Speaker 1: be as hardy as they come. I know, we we've

1084
00:53:52,560 --> 00:53:56,239
Speaker 1: given props to the Minnesota experience. My goodness. Did you

1085
00:53:56,280 --> 00:53:59,560
Speaker 1: see people were standing on the packed snow, you know,

1086
00:53:59,640 --> 00:54:03,520
Speaker 1: and then they all had it was like built in coolers.

1087
00:54:03,560 --> 00:54:05,840
Speaker 1: They had just like packed their beers into the snow.

1088
00:54:05,880 --> 00:54:09,000
Speaker 1: In the stands, they were throwing snowballs. They actually threatened

1089
00:54:09,040 --> 00:54:11,480
Speaker 1: the refs had to threaten the fans, We're not throwing

1090
00:54:11,480 --> 00:54:14,320
Speaker 1: any more snowballs. They were gonna start penalizing the Bills.

1091
00:54:15,960 --> 00:54:19,800
Speaker 1: Lane come on real quick. Shout out to the Miami

1092
00:54:19,880 --> 00:54:23,239
Speaker 1: Dolphins because remember where they play in Miami and they

1093
00:54:23,239 --> 00:54:26,160
Speaker 1: went up to Buffalo and almost Wait, but Mike McDaniel

1094
00:54:26,280 --> 00:54:28,279
Speaker 1: was taunting that week by wearing a shirt that said

1095
00:54:28,320 --> 00:54:31,080
Speaker 1: I Wish it were colder at practice and then Josh

1096
00:54:31,120 --> 00:54:33,759
Speaker 1: Allen references it in the postgame Brossers this. I love

1097
00:54:33,800 --> 00:54:37,680
Speaker 1: that sign in the crowd too, Fish. I love the

1098
00:54:37,680 --> 00:54:41,239
Speaker 1: pettiness like it's fantastic. That's great. All right, Well, hey

1099
00:54:41,400 --> 00:54:44,560
Speaker 1: random thought to close out, we're done talking colts. This

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00:54:44,640 --> 00:54:48,360
Speaker 1: is our last podcast before the holidays, before Christmas. Random

1101
00:54:48,360 --> 00:54:50,160
Speaker 1: Thought of the Week, JJ, I know you've got a

1102
00:54:50,200 --> 00:54:53,040
Speaker 1: good one, so we'll kind of go duel random thoughts

1103
00:54:53,120 --> 00:54:55,920
Speaker 1: this week. Here's my random thought. This popped in getting

1104
00:54:55,920 --> 00:54:58,000
Speaker 1: ready for a secret stand. I was wrapping up my

1105
00:54:58,120 --> 00:55:02,040
Speaker 1: daughter's present for her Secret Santa at her school. So

1106
00:55:02,080 --> 00:55:05,360
Speaker 1: if you guys could be a secret Santa with anybody

1107
00:55:05,400 --> 00:55:09,399
Speaker 1: in the world, either living or deceased, anybody that you know,

1108
00:55:09,600 --> 00:55:11,479
Speaker 1: or anybody that you would want to meet, doesn't matter.

1109
00:55:11,719 --> 00:55:13,879
Speaker 1: If you could be a secret Santa with anybody, Lara,

1110
00:55:13,920 --> 00:55:16,080
Speaker 1: who would it be and what would you get it? Wait? Hold,

1111
00:55:16,080 --> 00:55:17,960
Speaker 1: and I have I have questions here is this is

1112
00:55:18,000 --> 00:55:22,919
Speaker 1: I'm receiving from them or I'm purchasing for them or both. Um,

1113
00:55:23,120 --> 00:55:27,919
Speaker 1: let's to say, for argument's sake, that you are. I'm

1114
00:55:27,960 --> 00:55:30,120
Speaker 1: gonna need a minute if JJ has something prepared because

1115
00:55:30,160 --> 00:55:31,719
Speaker 1: I didn't look ahead. I usually don't look ahead the

1116
00:55:31,760 --> 00:55:33,160
Speaker 1: random Thought the week because I like to just go

1117
00:55:33,239 --> 00:55:37,360
Speaker 1: on right. Yeah. Yeah, I also usually don't look ahead

1118
00:55:37,360 --> 00:55:39,800
Speaker 1: to the random Thought of the week. Oh no, because

1119
00:55:39,920 --> 00:55:43,719
Speaker 1: I like the same thing, like, yeah, this is this

1120
00:55:43,760 --> 00:55:47,279
Speaker 1: is a deep thought or appreciate my first thought of

1121
00:55:47,360 --> 00:55:50,160
Speaker 1: who would I love to exchange gifts with right now

1122
00:55:50,200 --> 00:55:55,080
Speaker 1: at this exact moment. Argentina national team's keeper Amy Martinez,

1123
00:55:55,600 --> 00:56:01,680
Speaker 1: who is the he's one of like the performance he

1124
00:56:01,680 --> 00:56:03,040
Speaker 1: put on in the World Cup final. I don't know

1125
00:56:03,040 --> 00:56:04,360
Speaker 1: if you guys watched it. It was one of the

1126
00:56:04,360 --> 00:56:07,319
Speaker 1: best games of sports I've ever seen. So this is

1127
00:56:07,360 --> 00:56:08,960
Speaker 1: this is you want to buy that guy and I

1128
00:56:08,960 --> 00:56:10,920
Speaker 1: want him, I want him to send me a gift

1129
00:56:11,239 --> 00:56:14,240
Speaker 1: because he then that guy was obnoxious in that final.

1130
00:56:14,400 --> 00:56:17,359
Speaker 1: It was great. He's The Brits have a word for it.

1131
00:56:17,360 --> 00:56:21,600
Speaker 1: It's called he s curse word housery what he did

1132
00:56:21,760 --> 00:56:23,680
Speaker 1: and he did it at such a great level in

1133
00:56:23,800 --> 00:56:26,680
Speaker 1: the penalty shootout. But then he won the Like Keeper

1134
00:56:26,680 --> 00:56:30,319
Speaker 1: Award for like best goalkeeper in the World Cup. And

1135
00:56:30,600 --> 00:56:33,560
Speaker 1: he gets he gets it. It's the trophy is just

1136
00:56:33,640 --> 00:56:36,200
Speaker 1: a hand and he gets it and he's looking at it.

1137
00:56:36,600 --> 00:56:39,400
Speaker 1: He's looking at the hand and the wheels are turning

1138
00:56:39,440 --> 00:56:41,240
Speaker 1: in his head of like should I do it? Should

1139
00:56:41,239 --> 00:56:42,759
Speaker 1: I do it? Should I do it? And then he

1140
00:56:42,800 --> 00:56:46,200
Speaker 1: puts the hand down to his crotch and goes like ah,

1141
00:56:46,239 --> 00:56:49,040
Speaker 1: like that, and it was one of the funniest things

1142
00:56:49,040 --> 00:56:52,000
Speaker 1: I've ever seen. One of the most insufferable people that

1143
00:56:52,080 --> 00:56:54,399
Speaker 1: I have. I think he would send a really funny gift.

1144
00:56:54,520 --> 00:56:58,000
Speaker 1: Oh god, man, I don't know. Was how was the

1145
00:56:58,040 --> 00:57:01,960
Speaker 1: best goalkeeper in the World Cup? Not the winning goalkeeper

1146
00:57:02,040 --> 00:57:04,880
Speaker 1: every year? Well, like Tim Howard should have won it

1147
00:57:05,520 --> 00:57:08,120
Speaker 1: eight years ago when he had fifteen saves against Belgium

1148
00:57:08,160 --> 00:57:10,160
Speaker 1: for the US. It's always got to be the goalie

1149
00:57:10,160 --> 00:57:12,759
Speaker 1: that gives up the fewest goals. Okay, which is the

1150
00:57:12,800 --> 00:57:14,960
Speaker 1: winning team? You can say this like, oh what, the

1151
00:57:15,040 --> 00:57:17,520
Speaker 1: NFL MVP is just the best quarterback on the best team.

1152
00:57:17,640 --> 00:57:20,320
Speaker 1: Like that's how I just think, like mathematically, it should

1153
00:57:20,320 --> 00:57:23,000
Speaker 1: always go to the guy that nothing makes sense in

1154
00:57:23,080 --> 00:57:26,280
Speaker 1: soccer anyway. So I know, I'm just I'm just poking

1155
00:57:26,320 --> 00:57:28,560
Speaker 1: the bear that is JJ with his World Cup because

1156
00:57:28,560 --> 00:57:32,120
Speaker 1: he knows I know nothing. I do not care about soccer,

1157
00:57:32,160 --> 00:57:34,400
Speaker 1: and so I'm poking the bear. Right now, I apologize.

1158
00:57:34,400 --> 00:57:36,640
Speaker 1: There are more people who watched the World Cup, by

1159
00:57:36,640 --> 00:57:38,800
Speaker 1: the way, more minutes of the World Cup were watched

1160
00:57:38,840 --> 00:57:44,360
Speaker 1: before the semifinals that were that were United States in Okay,

1161
00:57:44,480 --> 00:57:46,840
Speaker 1: in the United States, more people watch the World Cup

1162
00:57:46,880 --> 00:57:50,440
Speaker 1: before the semifinal. Watch the entirety of it. Only happens

1163
00:57:50,440 --> 00:57:52,720
Speaker 1: every four years. March Madness happens every four years, so

1164
00:57:52,760 --> 00:57:55,360
Speaker 1: if you combine four years of March Madness, it would

1165
00:57:55,400 --> 00:58:02,400
Speaker 1: probably let me rephrase, I appreciate soccer, but I do

1166
00:58:02,520 --> 00:58:04,440
Speaker 1: I do not get on board. It's going to be

1167
00:58:04,520 --> 00:58:07,440
Speaker 1: the third most popular support in America in about four years. Oh,

1168
00:58:07,440 --> 00:58:09,080
Speaker 1: I mean, you know what they say that the last

1169
00:58:09,120 --> 00:58:12,280
Speaker 1: twelve World Cups. Yeah, I've been hearing that for twelve years.

1170
00:58:12,360 --> 00:58:16,720
Speaker 1: I think about soccer taking over basketball in terms of popularity. Okay,

1171
00:58:16,760 --> 00:58:18,400
Speaker 1: So I have my answer, and I thought this is

1172
00:58:18,440 --> 00:58:19,920
Speaker 1: what I was going to go with, but I just

1173
00:58:20,000 --> 00:58:22,320
Speaker 1: had to I had needed a moment to digest. So

1174
00:58:23,480 --> 00:58:27,760
Speaker 1: Mackenzie Scott, who is the ex wife of Jeff Bezos, Oh,

1175
00:58:27,920 --> 00:58:33,120
Speaker 1: she has she's got some dough. She has contributed fourteen

1176
00:58:33,440 --> 00:58:40,120
Speaker 1: billion dollars to different nonprofits and charities all over the world. Okay,

1177
00:58:40,160 --> 00:58:43,320
Speaker 1: this is I mean, she's the third richest, third wealthiest

1178
00:58:43,360 --> 00:58:47,440
Speaker 1: woman in the world, and she spends billions upon billions

1179
00:58:47,440 --> 00:58:50,400
Speaker 1: and puts a very strong emphasis on giving back and

1180
00:58:50,480 --> 00:58:54,120
Speaker 1: her philanthropic initiatives. So that's who I'm going with for

1181
00:58:54,160 --> 00:58:58,280
Speaker 1: they're gonna get something good well. And then also the

1182
00:58:58,280 --> 00:59:00,480
Speaker 1: thing is too, she doesn't want anything. She would just

1183
00:59:00,480 --> 00:59:03,120
Speaker 1: be just donate to something, pick a cause to donate.

1184
00:59:03,200 --> 00:59:06,520
Speaker 1: I appreciate that, and that's what I would do, is

1185
00:59:06,600 --> 00:59:11,600
Speaker 1: you know, I would in turn donate to very worthy causes,

1186
00:59:11,720 --> 00:59:14,400
Speaker 1: especially those you know that are on a very you

1187
00:59:14,400 --> 00:59:19,040
Speaker 1: know or granular, granular organic kind of grassroots level, smaller

1188
00:59:19,120 --> 00:59:21,240
Speaker 1: organizations where the money would go very far. But yeah,

1189
00:59:21,240 --> 00:59:23,640
Speaker 1: that's that's it's mine, that's what I would do. Mine's

1190
00:59:23,640 --> 00:59:25,400
Speaker 1: in the same spirit I want to give them. This

1191
00:59:25,440 --> 00:59:27,400
Speaker 1: is gonna sound sappy, but I want to be secret.

1192
00:59:27,400 --> 00:59:31,720
Speaker 1: Santa's with the principle at my daughter's school, principle Amy

1193
00:59:31,840 --> 00:59:35,720
Speaker 1: because she lives, she does, she works, she works, she works,

1194
00:59:35,720 --> 00:59:38,440
Speaker 1: she does everything. I mean, she runs the freaking school.

1195
00:59:38,560 --> 00:59:41,400
Speaker 1: She knows every parent, she knows every kid, she runs

1196
00:59:41,400 --> 00:59:44,520
Speaker 1: the fundraisers, does all the events. I mean, she's front

1197
00:59:44,520 --> 00:59:46,960
Speaker 1: and center every single day in the parking lot line

1198
00:59:47,040 --> 00:59:49,479
Speaker 1: for drop off and pick up. I mean she never

1199
00:59:49,520 --> 00:59:52,000
Speaker 1: misses a day. So I can only imagine, you know,

1200
00:59:52,040 --> 00:59:55,440
Speaker 1: how much time she spends on on nights and weekends

1201
00:59:55,520 --> 00:59:58,680
Speaker 1: and I mean literally nothing slips through the cracks with her.

1202
00:59:58,720 --> 01:00:00,320
Speaker 1: So I would I just want to get her day

1203
01:00:00,360 --> 01:00:04,880
Speaker 1: off if I could. Yeah, here's your vacation day. Give

1204
01:00:04,920 --> 01:00:06,920
Speaker 1: her one of my vacation days so she can just

1205
01:00:06,960 --> 01:00:08,840
Speaker 1: sleep it. That's like like you would go in and

1206
01:00:08,880 --> 01:00:10,880
Speaker 1: be principal for a day to give principal Amy the

1207
01:00:10,920 --> 01:00:13,040
Speaker 1: day off. Oh, that would be something did you ever have?

1208
01:00:13,440 --> 01:00:17,600
Speaker 1: But did you ever have that? Johns, You're up for

1209
01:00:17,720 --> 01:00:19,440
Speaker 1: lunch today? Didn't you have that though? Where it was

1210
01:00:19,440 --> 01:00:21,320
Speaker 1: a big reward you would have like you got to

1211
01:00:21,400 --> 01:00:24,480
Speaker 1: be principal for the day if you, you know, achieved

1212
01:00:24,560 --> 01:00:26,320
Speaker 1: certain things like I just remember that was always a

1213
01:00:26,480 --> 01:00:28,880
Speaker 1: career day. You know who got to be the principal

1214
01:00:29,000 --> 01:00:32,000
Speaker 1: career day? Yeah, when everybody took over the school. JJ,

1215
01:00:32,200 --> 01:00:34,800
Speaker 1: you also have a great rand. And this this isn't

1216
01:00:34,840 --> 01:00:37,880
Speaker 1: actually from me, but this is a debate we're having

1217
01:00:37,920 --> 01:00:39,640
Speaker 1: in her little content area. So I'm going to give

1218
01:00:39,640 --> 01:00:42,240
Speaker 1: a shout out to one of our graphic designers, Aaron Balderson.

1219
01:00:42,320 --> 01:00:45,000
Speaker 1: She brought this up in the spirit of the Duke's

1220
01:00:45,040 --> 01:00:48,760
Speaker 1: Mayo Bowl, where both that coaches have agreed to they

1221
01:00:48,760 --> 01:00:50,479
Speaker 1: win the game, they're going to get a Mayo bath.

1222
01:00:51,280 --> 01:00:54,040
Speaker 1: Who's in the bowl? What is I don't know who cares? Okay,

1223
01:00:54,080 --> 01:00:57,920
Speaker 1: it's what is the worst condiment that you could or

1224
01:00:58,000 --> 01:01:01,200
Speaker 1: condiment or dip excuse me, that you could have dumped

1225
01:01:01,240 --> 01:01:05,080
Speaker 1: on your head after winning a football game. The worst

1226
01:01:05,280 --> 01:01:09,040
Speaker 1: condiment or post condiment. Oh, I've got it. I've got it.

1227
01:01:09,680 --> 01:01:16,080
Speaker 1: Saint Elmo's cocktail sauce. Because when that gets in your eyes,

1228
01:01:16,160 --> 01:01:18,320
Speaker 1: you're not you know what I mean, Like it's like, yeah,

1229
01:01:18,360 --> 01:01:21,760
Speaker 1: that's I love it, like I love consuming it, you know,

1230
01:01:22,240 --> 01:01:26,680
Speaker 1: via But to be dump dumped upon you, you know,

1231
01:01:26,800 --> 01:01:28,720
Speaker 1: and then I don't know if it starts seeping down

1232
01:01:28,720 --> 01:01:31,200
Speaker 1: into places, you know, because that stuff goes everywhere. Mine

1233
01:01:31,240 --> 01:01:34,840
Speaker 1: would be maple syrup, because even if you have pancakes

1234
01:01:34,880 --> 01:01:37,120
Speaker 1: at breakfast, like you get a little maple syrup on

1235
01:01:37,160 --> 01:01:39,560
Speaker 1: your hands, or like if it drips on your your

1236
01:01:39,640 --> 01:01:41,920
Speaker 1: arms are on your clothes, you're it's it's over like

1237
01:01:42,280 --> 01:01:45,120
Speaker 1: you're just it's you're you're sticky today. Guess what you're sticky.

1238
01:01:45,280 --> 01:01:47,640
Speaker 1: We watched we just go take a shower. We watched

1239
01:01:47,680 --> 01:01:49,160
Speaker 1: rudding crashes the other day. It just reminds me wearing

1240
01:01:49,240 --> 01:01:51,640
Speaker 1: Vince spawns like, I know everything there is about maple syrups.

1241
01:01:51,680 --> 01:01:54,960
Speaker 1: Umes I put in my hair might fill you up

1242
01:01:55,000 --> 01:01:58,000
Speaker 1: with the sacrament you're in, enlightened cat father, Mine would

1243
01:01:58,040 --> 01:01:59,840
Speaker 1: be maple syrup. That's a good one. Mine would be

1244
01:01:59,840 --> 01:02:02,200
Speaker 1: a one steak sauce because I think that stuff is gross.

1245
01:02:02,280 --> 01:02:04,400
Speaker 1: Oh I love a one? I hate it? Do you think?

1246
01:02:04,440 --> 01:02:05,920
Speaker 1: Do you tangent? But do you when you go to

1247
01:02:05,960 --> 01:02:08,120
Speaker 1: a steakhouse and you order or ask for an one?

1248
01:02:08,280 --> 01:02:11,560
Speaker 1: Is that is that being disrespectful to the cook? Yes,

1249
01:02:11,880 --> 01:02:13,840
Speaker 1: if you go to a steakhouse and you ask for

1250
01:02:13,880 --> 01:02:16,920
Speaker 1: a one, that means you didn't seek the steak. Fully

1251
01:02:17,040 --> 01:02:19,360
Speaker 1: disagree on this. We were just weren't we having this

1252
01:02:19,440 --> 01:02:24,320
Speaker 1: conversation made? Oh no, it doesn't. Okay. Just because you

1253
01:02:24,440 --> 01:02:26,480
Speaker 1: order a one, that doesn't mean you're putting it on

1254
01:02:26,480 --> 01:02:28,360
Speaker 1: the steak. I like to dump a one sauce on

1255
01:02:28,360 --> 01:02:30,760
Speaker 1: a baked potato. I love a steak and baked potato,

1256
01:02:30,840 --> 01:02:33,680
Speaker 1: and I'll eat the steak. Okay, So you shouldn't. It

1257
01:02:33,680 --> 01:02:36,400
Speaker 1: shouldn't be offensive because that doesn't necessarily mean it's going

1258
01:02:36,440 --> 01:02:38,200
Speaker 1: on the steak. Maybe I want to put it on

1259
01:02:38,240 --> 01:02:40,200
Speaker 1: some other things. May I think my bread in it?

1260
01:02:40,280 --> 01:02:42,960
Speaker 1: I think you need to specify. I would like some

1261
01:02:43,080 --> 01:02:45,160
Speaker 1: a one, but it is not for the steak that

1262
01:02:45,240 --> 01:02:49,000
Speaker 1: I am ordering. I'm not being disrespectful, sir. Your steak

1263
01:02:49,040 --> 01:02:50,960
Speaker 1: is adequate, right, And like you know some people, you

1264
01:02:51,000 --> 01:02:52,600
Speaker 1: know the deal, like Patrick Mahomes, you know the deal

1265
01:02:52,640 --> 01:02:54,520
Speaker 1: if he if he shows up in your steakhouse, You're like,

1266
01:02:54,560 --> 01:02:56,600
Speaker 1: I'm going to break the steak and here's some ketchup.

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Speaker 1: But is that how he eats a steak? He loves

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Speaker 1: ketchup on steak. Yeah, yeah, I need a minute true story.

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Speaker 1: Yeah wow, just completely ruin your stake. Just instead, just

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Speaker 1: order chicken. Here's some ground beef and some bread and

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Speaker 1: oh yeah, here's a burger. Yeah I agree. Oh that's

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Speaker 1: that's very very snow for someone who's such an elite

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Speaker 1: athlete in such a you know, cool dude. Yeah, nobody's perfect.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna be processing this for a really long time

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Speaker 1: and now I want to bake potato. The other part

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Speaker 1: of the other part of this random thought was you

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Speaker 1: have to name the bowl game, So Lara, it sounds

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Speaker 1: like yours would be the Saint Elmo's Indianapolis Bowl or

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Speaker 1: the Who's Your Bowl? The Saint Almos. Who's your bowl? Okayne,

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Speaker 1: Mine would be the High Viscosity maple syrup takes an

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Speaker 1: hour to drip on your head bowl. Uh, you know sweepstakes,

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Speaker 1: the Toronto High Viscosity Bowl. Yeah, the Canadian maple syrup

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Speaker 1: will not touch your head for an hour and a

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Speaker 1: half bowl. You know what, though, you could have a

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Speaker 1: great trophy with that, because it could be kind of

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Speaker 1: like a tap you know, like like six uneaten paying

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Speaker 1: All right, I'm all for a trophy that you can

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Speaker 1: somehow drink out of, you know. Yeah, well yeah, like

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Speaker 1: the Stanley Cup, like you know, yeah, all about that

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Speaker 1: the Victory Bell. You can't drink out of that FIFA thing?

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Speaker 1: Jay Ja I like that one. Who came up with that?

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Speaker 1: Jaron Balderston, one of our graphic designers. Well done, Aaron,

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Speaker 1: appreciate that. Lara. What you got on three sixty this

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Speaker 1: week on television before we close up? Oh, we got

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Speaker 1: a couple of great things, including a conversation with Chase McLoughlin,

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Speaker 1: and then also this week a really special event that

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Speaker 1: you will not want to miss. The colts are caroling

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Speaker 1: with kids at Riley Hospital for Children. This is an

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Speaker 1: event that was an annual affairs had to go on

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Speaker 1: hold for a few years because of COVID protocols and

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Speaker 1: all of things. But players are spending their day off

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Speaker 1: spreading cheer, singing carols, delivering gifts and smiles to some

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Speaker 1: kids who are spending the holidays just trying to heal,

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Speaker 1: trying to get well at Riley. So that's always a

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Speaker 1: really special day. Indeed, JJ, what are you writing about

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Speaker 1: going into Monday Night football post Christmas? So, actually, I'm

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Speaker 1: going to take something Lara did last week. Well, I

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Speaker 1: was out. Lara had a chat with Desmond Patman about

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Speaker 1: Mike Leach and remembering the late great Mike Leach. So

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Speaker 1: all right, right up her conversation with Does on the

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Speaker 1: website and looking forward to sharing that with him. All right,

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Speaker 1: good stuff, guys, this is our last podcast before Christmas.

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Speaker 1: Have a great holiday. I hope it's magical, jaj and Lar.

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Speaker 1: I hope Santa brings you everything that you want and Larry,

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Speaker 1: enjoy your serenity. Thank you whenever and wherever that comes.

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Speaker 1: I hope you find you. I hope you find whatever

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Speaker 1: you're looking for. I'll be sitting there trying to drum

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Speaker 1: up some random thoughts for next week's please yeah, please

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Speaker 1: please we need them all right. JJ lair, I'm Matt Taylor.

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Speaker 1: This has been the official Cults podcast. We will talk

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Speaker 1: to you next week after the Colts take on the

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Speaker 1: Chargers on Monday Night Football, the day after Christmas. Thanks

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Speaker 1: for joining in. Happy holidays, everybody, will talk to you soon.