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Speaker 1: right now, Matt Taylor, Voice of the Colts. We got

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Speaker 1: He's gonna explain why he chose to join Stike and

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Speaker 1: Shane Stike. And here's one thing that I like. One

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Speaker 1: go over some of the changes. Jim Bob Cooter Boom,

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Speaker 1: So these are young coaches, but I think full of

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Speaker 1: As we know, Jeffrey, that unit played well for most

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Speaker 1: listen up. Seventeen Colts players will become free agents, either

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Speaker 1: Jim Bob Cooter coming up after this talking about this role,

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Speaker 1: Joining us is Jim Bob Cooter, coach. Welcome to Indianapolis.

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Speaker 1: How are you appreciate it? Doing good? Man, doing good?

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Speaker 1: now he's overseeing not only all of that in the offense,

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Speaker 1: but the entire team special teams. I mean, you know

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Speaker 1: the drill, right, you know, the whole gamut the head

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Speaker 1: coach has to deal with. How can you, as the

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Speaker 1: offensive coordinator, because Shane's gonna call the plays, how can

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Speaker 1: you help him throughout the course of the game or

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Speaker 1: throughout the course of the week, really start to understand

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Speaker 1: and implement the game plan that helps him call the

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Speaker 1: plays in real time and not have to think too much. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so I'll be there to work through a lot of

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Speaker 1: that process offensively with him and for him. You know,

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Speaker 1: some some aspects will do together, some aspects, you know,

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Speaker 1: it will be will be task that I'll do for

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Speaker 1: him or us as a coaching staff will do to

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Speaker 1: really help him out because those those requirements. So it'll

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Speaker 1: be a process. We're all in this together. You know.

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Speaker 1: This is about the team. This is about all of

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Speaker 1: us working to put a good product out there on

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Speaker 1: the field. But for coach Stike and you know, to

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Speaker 1: do what he needs to do offensively, our coaching staff,

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Speaker 1: you know, it starts with me. Our offensive coaching staff

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Speaker 1: needs to do a great job of doing our job,

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Speaker 1: full filling our task, you know, doing if I coach,

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Speaker 1: if I coach a position, doing everything I can to

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Speaker 1: get that position to play the best they can. For me,

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Speaker 1: it's the whole offense. Obviously, Shane's calling it. Shane's in charge,

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Speaker 1: but there's a lot of things that go on during

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Speaker 1: the week that an offensive coordinator can sort of take

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Speaker 1: off the plate of his head coach, right, And that's

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Speaker 1: what I plan to do, and I plan to do

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Speaker 1: it at a really high all right, last one would

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Speaker 1: be remiss if we didn't ask you about where you

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Speaker 1: just came from the Jacksonville Jaguars passing game coordinator last

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Speaker 1: year and you work closely with Trevor Lawrence. He obviously

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Speaker 1: took some steps forward and they won the AFC South

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Speaker 1: this past year, and the cults are gonna have to

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Speaker 1: deal with him and that team, you know, twice a

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Speaker 1: year every year now for the foreseeable future. Where did

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Speaker 1: you see Trevor grow and how much better did that

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Speaker 1: offense become last year because of yourself and Doug Peterson. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'll I'll take no credit. I mean those guys, there's

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of good people down there in jacksonvill

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of good players. There's a lot of

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Speaker 1: good young players that are getting better. I know they're

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Speaker 1: in the division now, but I'll talk them up for

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Speaker 1: a second. You know, uh there there there's a lot

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Speaker 1: of good young players that are that are improving, getting better.

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Speaker 1: I think we took some strides last year, especially I

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Speaker 1: would say around the middle of the season where the

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Speaker 1: Jaguars kind of we we were it was a fight

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Speaker 1: and scratch and claw to win a game type of year.

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Speaker 1: And then we started winning those games. We hadn't been

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Speaker 1: in the in the first half. And that that's due

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Speaker 1: to Trevor Lawrence. That's true to due to Christian Kirk.

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Speaker 1: You know a ton of guy Evan Ingram, there's a

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Speaker 1: million names these guys are. These guys are really good players,

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Speaker 1: and it's due to a great coaching staff, right Doug Peterson,

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Speaker 1: Press Taylor, All those guys are are a really high level,

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Speaker 1: high high you know, high character guys that are doing

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Speaker 1: things the right way. So I had a great time

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Speaker 1: working with those guys, great time learning from those guys

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Speaker 1: and and and hopefully helping them out a little bit.

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Speaker 1: But it but now we get to turn our sights

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Speaker 1: on beating we want to. I got you know, I

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Speaker 1: got somewhere. I got a T shirt AFC South Champions

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, and uh, there're a good will. There's

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Speaker 1: a good will around here where like to like to

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Speaker 1: get like to get the twenty twenty three version. But

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Speaker 1: we're gonna have to put the work in, you know,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna have to have a good year to try

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Speaker 1: to see if we can't find a way to beat

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Speaker 1: those guys. I like it fired up right there. That's

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Speaker 1: offensive coordinator Jim Bob Cooter with us. Uh, he is

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Speaker 1: back in the fold. Second go around here with the

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Speaker 1: Indianapolis Colts coach. Good to meet you, great to talk

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Speaker 1: to you, and best of luck here in your first

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Speaker 1: couple of days on the job. All right, I appreciate you.

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Speaker 1: Guess it was fun. And also I think he owes

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Speaker 1: to me twenty five bucks from darts over at Gadsby's. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you talked about that. Now. He used to throw darts

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Speaker 1: at this little wall watering, so he's stiffed. Yeah, restaurant.

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Speaker 1: I've just I gotta check my notes, Jim Bob, So

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Speaker 1: we're gonna check our notes. I think he might owe

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Speaker 1: me a lunch or something like that. Hey, that was

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Speaker 1: a good one, and you know, good tenderline over there,

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Speaker 1: gats He's bad. Not good pull there, matey good pull anyway. Listen,

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Speaker 1: I'm happy that he's in the mix. He's back in.

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Speaker 1: He's comfortable with this thing. You know, he's with a

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Speaker 1: young head coach like that. Jim Bob Cooter, welcome back.

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Speaker 1: Forum Credit Union Question of the Week. Quarterback inspired Derek Carr,

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Speaker 1: may tay need I talk about Derek Carr with you?

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Speaker 1: I mean, here we go again. Yes, I saw this

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Speaker 1: and I got happy. You love Derek Carr of all

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Speaker 1: the Saints. The Saints are my team in the NFC. Now, fine,

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Speaker 1: I mean two three years ago, find a way to

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Speaker 1: get to Indianapolis. But good for Derek Carr. Listen. He

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Speaker 1: agreed to a four year contract with the Saints that

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Speaker 1: Car signing with the Saints, that means all four NFC

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Speaker 1: South teams will have a different starting quarterback to begin

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Speaker 1: the twenty twenty three season then they did in twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty two. Again, new quarterbacks in one division, all of

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Speaker 1: them will change from one week to another. Mattee, when

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Speaker 1: was the last time in NFL division? You'll have no

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Speaker 1: chance at this? By the way, when was the last time?

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Speaker 1: I don't think so? An NFL division had a different

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Speaker 1: starting quarterback in its season opener than the previous season.

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Speaker 1: An entire divisions and its tired. What's the last time.

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Speaker 1: No idea zero Okay, I even know where to start. No,

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Speaker 1: but you gotta be over like sixty years old even

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Speaker 1: nineteen seventy three d AFC West, Darryl Lamonica went to

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Speaker 1: Kenny Stabler, Lenny Dawson went to Mike Livingston, from the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs Broncos at Steve Ramsey, they went to Charlie Johnson,

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Speaker 1: and the Chargers went from John Hattle two. Oh, Johnny Unitis.

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Speaker 1: So first time, this will be the first time since

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Speaker 1: seventy three. I forgot about Johnny United's playing for the

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Speaker 1: Chargers out of his career. Yeah, that's a good pull though,

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Speaker 1: Darryl Lamonica to Ken Stabler's pretty solid though. How about

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Speaker 1: the snake though, Hey, hey, hey, it's nineteen seventy three.

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Speaker 1: The AFC West had all new quarterbacks from seventy two

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Speaker 1: to seventy three. The first time with this one coming

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Speaker 1: up with Derek Carr is what what they're doing in

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Speaker 1: the NFC South this year? So good stuff, good pull

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Speaker 1: big story so far our quarterback contracts and the franchise tags.

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Speaker 1: This week a big one for NFL quarterbacks this offseason.

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Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson may take joy in here really quick. The

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Speaker 1: Ravens applied their non exclusive franchise player tag to quarterback

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Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson. That means Jackson can negotiate with other teams

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Speaker 1: next week and can sign an offer sheet with another team,

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Speaker 1: match that offer. Do you like that it's the non

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Speaker 1: exclusive franchise tag. The big thing here is teams would

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Speaker 1: pay Lamar Jackson. That is a steep price to pay.

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Speaker 1: Lamar is, as we all know, is representing himself. He

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Speaker 1: the NFL kind of tell him what he's worth. And

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Speaker 1: I know the price tag is high, but I'm just

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Speaker 1: million dollar deal that was, as we've said, out of

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Speaker 1: this planet. And I don't think NFL teams like that

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Speaker 1: of whack that early, kind of skipping five six steps between.

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Speaker 1: The wilder thing is is that Jackson has had far

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Speaker 1: him some money. The guy's exciting, he helps the league,

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Speaker 1: but obviously you got to protect, you know, the budget

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Speaker 1: little hesitant paying that big money for a scrambling quarterback

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Speaker 1: who set out a lot last year. So more to

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Speaker 1: be revealed. The fun part of the offseason is coming up.

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Speaker 1: NFL free agency next week. Matt Taylor, Boys of the Coach.

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Speaker 1: I'm just gonna put it out there right now. Yeah,

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