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Speaker 3: This is overtime here on the Official Cults podcast channel

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Speaker 3: and also on YouTube with JJ Stangovitz, Casey Valier. I'm

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Speaker 4: This is something to it. It's not going to happen

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Speaker 5: You know, this is just not just something else I

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Speaker 3: Really good sound bite again right there from Anthony Richardson

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Speaker 3: To be able to kind of look at a defense

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Speaker 3: I think it was good for him to kind of

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean we all forget that. Well maybe we

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Speaker 4: Even if he's not going out there and playing that

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Speaker 4: Soak it all in. Remember the atmosphere. Remember how the

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Speaker 4: we're always like, wow, you know, he's so mature for

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Speaker 4: the self actualization that he has about himself as a person,

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Speaker 4: I don't even know what that meant was, Like, what

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Speaker 1: You're not thinking know what it means now?

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Speaker 4: To be honest, You're not thinking about You're not really

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Speaker 4: You know something else in my body. You know, it's

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Speaker 4: That something Chris Ballard said is he wants to be

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Speaker 4: just be positive. Everything's rosy, Yeah, you know, all Right'm

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Speaker 4: it was like that sucked and I had to work

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Speaker 3: sing to the children's there the children, i should say,

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Speaker 3: in the children's hospital. We found out then that he

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Speaker 3: was at that point halfway through his rehab. So that's

440
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Speaker 3: a couple of weeks ago removed. So he's you know,

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Speaker 3: on the back nine in terms of that when when

442
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Speaker 3: do we expect him to maybe throw again? And obviously

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Speaker 3: it won't be it'll be behind the scenes, but.

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Speaker 4: Right he said he doesn't have a firm timeline, but

445
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Speaker 4: it sounded like next month. You know, through this whole thing,

446
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Speaker 4: no one's ever put a timeline on when he's going

447
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Speaker 4: to be back. But if you listen to what everyone said,

448
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Speaker 4: there's been encouragement that it could be for Otias, if

449
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Speaker 4: not for Otias, for training camp, that he would be

450
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Speaker 4: back throwing. I mean, it wasn't even a given he

451
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Speaker 4: was going to have the surgery. That's another thing he

452
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Speaker 4: talked about that this is a difficult decision to work

453
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Speaker 4: through to get the surgery. But once he realized this

454
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Speaker 4: is what is best for my career, for the Colts

455
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Speaker 4: long term, then it was you know, it's what he

456
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Speaker 4: told Larr Overton yesterday.

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Speaker 1: It's an easy decision, all right, question for both of you.

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Speaker 3: Then we'll move on with Richardson not playing a majority

459
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Speaker 3: of the season, right, only appearing in four games and

460
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Speaker 3: getting through completely through one casey, and what ways do

461
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Speaker 3: you think next season will still kind of be a

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Speaker 3: rookie season for Anthony Richardson, maybe not like mistakes, Like

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Speaker 3: I'm not asking you, like, man, he's going to struggle

464
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Speaker 3: with this and we're still waiting to see how he

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Speaker 3: progresses in terms of this part of his game. I

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Speaker 3: just mean, like, in what mental parts of playing quarterback?

467
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Speaker 3: Do you still think he's got a ways to go?

468
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Speaker 3: Just because the only way you truly grow and learn

469
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Speaker 3: and stack is by just having experiences on the field.

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Speaker 1: I don't want this to come off as a negative

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Speaker 1: at all, but I think ultimately just finishing games, like

472
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Speaker 1: start a game and finish it all the way through,

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Speaker 1: I think that is going to be a big step

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Speaker 1: Because you talk about I mean, you finish one game

475
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Speaker 1: played in four Now ball is a long season. I

476
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Speaker 1: mean there's seventeen games, so when you think about it,

477
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Speaker 1: that's a lot that he missed. So I think ultimately

478
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Speaker 1: that's where I am with everything. Like we talked about it,

479
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Speaker 1: how it seemed like forever ago, I'm almost forgot. I

480
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Speaker 1: mean I didn't forget, but you almost forget what it

481
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Speaker 1: was having him as the quarterback. And that's I remember

482
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Speaker 1: how fun it was. I do. I do remember that.

483
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Speaker 1: I mean he was electric and I'm anxious to, you know,

484
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Speaker 1: get that feeling back, especially in Lucas Oil. There's nothing

485
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Speaker 1: better than having you know, one of those and one

486
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Speaker 1: of those types of players. And like you know, Rick

487
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Speaker 1: Van Terry talks about the ambient players, He's probably more

488
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Speaker 1: than an ambient because I mean he could do so much.

489
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Speaker 1: So they can throw an as tablet, you could all

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Speaker 1: of it, throw it all in there, the whole, the

491
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Speaker 1: whole CVS, de part, everybody, everything in there. But ultimately,

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Speaker 1: I think that's what it is. It's just in his

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Speaker 1: mind getting through a full game, going into the next week,

494
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Speaker 1: preparing getting through another full game. I think once you

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Speaker 1: you know, you break it down into like quarters, so

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Speaker 1: get like a quarter in, you got four complete games in,

497
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Speaker 1: and then then you kind of look back and Okay,

498
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Speaker 1: what did that for? Look like? How do you do

499
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Speaker 1: go through all of that? I mean you you hear

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Speaker 1: a bunch of guys talking about, like I know, Jonathan Taylor,

501
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Speaker 1: one of his big things. It's not the rehab, it's

502
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Speaker 1: the prehab, making sure that you were prepared before so

503
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Speaker 1: that so all of that into it. That is where

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Speaker 1: I think you're going to see that that rookiiness is

505
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Speaker 1: just getting through games. And I know that's very basic,

506
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Speaker 1: but that's kind of where I am.

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Speaker 4: So where I fall on that is if you look

508
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Speaker 4: at when he did play, the Cults are were an

509
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Speaker 4: explosive offense. Chris Ballard mentioned it their tenth and explosive

510
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Speaker 4: play rate, but he didn't push the ball down field

511
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Speaker 4: a whole lot. You saw some throws, you know, the

512
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Speaker 4: one to Allec where he's got Aaron Donald wrapped up

513
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Speaker 4: around him, the one to Josh downs. But if you

514
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Speaker 4: look at just like average depth of target, him and

515
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Speaker 4: Gardner were kind of right right there when they played.

516
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Speaker 4: But that's an area of Anthony's game that we have

517
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Speaker 4: seen on film when he's been at Florida that he

518
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Speaker 4: wants to do and he can do it. We didn't

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Speaker 4: see it yet. I think that's an area that had

520
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Speaker 4: he played the whole rookie season, you would have seen

521
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Speaker 4: that grow incrementally as the season went on, and that's

522
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Speaker 4: an area that maybe next year it maybe it won't

523
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Speaker 4: be an immediate thing, but you'll see hopefully a development curves.

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Speaker 1: If he can finish those games.

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Speaker 4: You'll see from week one to week eight to week

526
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Speaker 4: fifteen to week eighteen that he's he's more confident in

527
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Speaker 4: pushing the ball down field, that he knows when to

528
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Speaker 4: take those shots, how to take those shots, because that's

529
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Speaker 4: an area of this Colts offense that they do need

530
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Speaker 4: to be more explosive. And a way to help everything

531
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Speaker 4: with explosiveness is you just you have to be able

532
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Speaker 4: to respect the deep ball. That's going to help Jonathan

533
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Speaker 4: Taylor out. That's going to help him out when he

534
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Speaker 4: takes the ball off in his hand.

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Speaker 1: Ja I think, I mean you were there. I know

536
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Speaker 1: for me, there was the totally took my breath away,

537
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Speaker 1: the moment inside. I think it was raining at camp

538
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Speaker 1: and Anthony threw that pass to one to Alec to Alex,

539
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Speaker 1: which I mean he was off his left foot, right

540
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Speaker 1: foot of the air, didn't even look like he just

541
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Speaker 1: flicked his wrist and it was sixty yards and that's

542
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Speaker 1: when we all were like this guy. This guys got something.

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Speaker 1: One of those you can stand up straight on that one, Like, Oh,

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Speaker 1: I was standing next to Bill Brooks and he just

545
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Speaker 1: looked at me and was like, did that really just happen?

546
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Speaker 1: And I was like, I think Bill's ready to come

547
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Speaker 1: out of retirely. Yeah, that's right.

548
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Speaker 4: I remember looking at Bill after that and being like, Bill,

549
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Speaker 4: where's your homing and shoulder pads?

550
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Speaker 1: So I agree. We saw it on tape in Florida,

551
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Speaker 1: we saw it in camp, but yeah, we're definitely ready

552
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Speaker 1: to see that in the game for sure.

553
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Speaker 3: Good stuff on Anthony Richardson again. Pull up that entire

554
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Speaker 3: press conference that you're on your time on demand again,

555
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Speaker 3: Colts dot Com and the Colts Mobile app.

556
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Speaker 2: Elsewhere.

557
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Speaker 3: Chris Ballard met with the media today again for just

558
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Speaker 3: about an hour. Had a lot to talk about. We'll

559
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Speaker 3: break down the juicy stuff, but again, the first thing

560
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Speaker 3: I want to lead off with in terms of the

561
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Speaker 3: sound by here, Chris Baller talked about the defense. Gus

562
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Speaker 3: Bradley is returning for twenty twenty four under contract. He's

563
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Speaker 3: going to oversee this defense again next season. But here's

564
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Speaker 3: Chris talking about his evaluation of the Colts defense. This

565
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Speaker 3: past season and his objectives for that unit going into

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Speaker 3: the offseason.

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Speaker 6: Looking a little bit of defense, you know, the year

568
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Speaker 6: before he comes in, and you know, we kind of

569
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Speaker 6: had a I don't want to say a veteran team,

570
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Speaker 6: but we had some veteran players. And then we I

571
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Speaker 6: just said, look, we're going to go young in some spots.

572
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Speaker 6: And we went young in the secondary. And look, there

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Speaker 6: were some there are some rough moments at times in

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Speaker 6: the secondary. And I don't completely put that on on them.

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Speaker 6: I put that more on on me. But you know,

576
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Speaker 6: how do you how do you ever develop any continuity

577
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Speaker 6: with especially with your own guys if you don't just

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Speaker 6: play them. So I decided to go young. We took

579
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Speaker 6: our lumps, took our lumps at times, but I think

580
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Speaker 6: it's going to pay off down the line for him.

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Speaker 6: I think we had five or six new starters on defense.

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Speaker 6: We did do some good things. Now it's not like

583
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Speaker 6: it was all bad. The points do got to come down.

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Speaker 6: We've had we'll continue to have long discussions about, you know,

585
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Speaker 6: where we're going and how we'll get that done. But

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Speaker 6: saying that we had new starters on defense, we did

587
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Speaker 6: do some good things too. You know, we got after

588
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Speaker 6: the pass are pretty good. I think he's got to

589
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Speaker 6: get a little better, but fifty one sacks pretty good.

590
00:25:03,760 --> 00:25:05,200
Speaker 6: Took the ball away. We wouldn't need to be a

591
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Speaker 6: little better there in that area, and we've got to

592
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Speaker 6: take away the explosives. But I would expect to see

593
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Speaker 6: us take another jump here this year. On defense.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's Chris Ballard on the defense. Pretty simple right there.

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Speaker 3: There's a lot of you know, I call them Pro

596
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Speaker 3: Bowl caliber players. There's Pro Bowl players and Pro Bowl

597
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Speaker 3: caliber players on this defense this past season. Now some

598
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Speaker 3: of them are free agents. You got Julian Blackman, you

599
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Speaker 3: got Kenny Moore. You know, you lost Shaquille Leonard during

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Speaker 3: the course of the season.

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Speaker 2: He got waived.

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Speaker 3: The truth of the matter is that, you know, it's

603
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Speaker 3: the point total, right you finished twenty eighth in points.

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Speaker 3: He gave up over twenty four points per game. And

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Speaker 3: then the big plays the Colts, I think they were

606
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Speaker 3: like twenty first in total big plays allowed. So I mean,

607
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Speaker 3: obviously it's kind of middle of the pack. But you know,

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Speaker 3: that's where this defense I think can improve going forward

609
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Speaker 3: next season. It starts with the secondary. It was young

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Speaker 3: and was kind of young by design there from the

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Speaker 3: admission of Chris ballad.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that that was a big point that

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Speaker 4: he made, is that we intentionally went young, and he said,

614
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Speaker 4: you know, we're gonna take our lumps. But the Colts

615
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Speaker 4: feel encouraged by some of those young players now going

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Speaker 4: into twenty twenty four, specifically a corner.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: You know, the play of Jalen Jones, you know, continued

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Speaker 4: to ascend throughout the season.

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Speaker 1: Juju Brents.

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Speaker 4: He talked about when Juju was on the field, you

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Speaker 4: could see the traits there. You could see the competitiveness.

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Speaker 4: Juju's gotta be healthier. That's something he talked about too.

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Speaker 4: He's got to practice more, he's got to play more.

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Speaker 4: But those two guys, and somebody mentioned he threw in

626
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Speaker 4: there too, is young corner's Dallas Flowers, Yeah, guy who

627
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Speaker 4: was an ascending player. When he got injured in Week four,

628
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Speaker 4: that that opened the door for Jalen Jones, who you know,

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Speaker 4: I thought had a pretty solid season in there. But

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Speaker 4: it was a young defensive back room. The only two

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Speaker 4: guys who had played more than three years in the NFL,

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Speaker 4: you know, until Ronnie Harrison got moved back to Shakey

633
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Speaker 4: We're just Kenny Moore and Julian Blackman, and that again

634
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Speaker 4: that was by design. I think the the experience that

635
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Speaker 4: a lot of those guys had in twenty three will

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Speaker 4: benefit them in twenty four, especially again at that cornerback position.

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Speaker 3: That's a great segue. I was going to ask you.

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00:27:05,920 --> 00:27:08,680
Speaker 3: I mean, it stinks right now. Someone just asked me, like,

639
00:27:08,720 --> 00:27:11,520
Speaker 3: if you were able to draw up the Achilles heel

640
00:27:11,800 --> 00:27:14,359
Speaker 3: of this Colts team from this past season, it was

641
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Speaker 3: probably the secondary considering how many elite receivers or the

642
00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:23,199
Speaker 3: opposition's top receivers having big games against the Colts. But

643
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Speaker 3: how much better off are the Colts going to be

644
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Speaker 3: because of the baptism by fire from Juju Brins when

645
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Speaker 3: he was healthy. And by the way, Chris was really

646
00:27:31,720 --> 00:27:36,000
Speaker 3: adamant about guys, not just Juju, but guys across the board.

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Speaker 3: The only way you're going to get better is by playing.

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Speaker 3: And injuries happen, right this is the NFL. Everybody gets hurt.

649
00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:45,840
Speaker 3: The injury rate across the board in this league is

650
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Speaker 3: one hundred percent. But you got to mitigate him as

651
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Speaker 3: best you can, which means you have to be in

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Speaker 3: tip top great condition, you have great nutrition, all that stuff.

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Speaker 3: You have to have great habits to be available. The

654
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Speaker 3: best ability is avail ability. But with Jalen Jones when

655
00:28:02,760 --> 00:28:05,479
Speaker 3: he played, and with Juju Brents when he played Casey,

656
00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:07,720
Speaker 3: how much better off for the Colts in the long

657
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Speaker 3: term given just how many overall snaps these guys played

658
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Speaker 3: this passage.

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Speaker 1: I mean that that is for me, was the most

660
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Speaker 1: big The most I took from the season was the

661
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Speaker 1: youth got a lot of playing time, especially in the secondary.

662
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Speaker 1: You can never have it. You could never have enough

663
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Speaker 1: corners like I will. I will stand on that hill

664
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Speaker 1: until I because you talk about injuries, you talk, you

665
00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:33,680
Speaker 1: lose a step at corner, You're gone. So you can

666
00:28:33,720 --> 00:28:36,119
Speaker 1: never have enough corners. And when you talk about guys

667
00:28:36,160 --> 00:28:39,640
Speaker 1: like Jalen Jones, who you know, he's a seventh round pick,

668
00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:43,560
Speaker 1: nothing's guaranteed, and he just kept proving that, hey, I

669
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Speaker 1: deserve to be I deserve a shot here. I mean,

670
00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:48,720
Speaker 1: ultimately he beat out the fifth round pick and Darius Rush.

671
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Speaker 1: That's why he was on this team. They talked about

672
00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:52,880
Speaker 1: that when the when the roster cuts happened, and then

673
00:28:52,960 --> 00:28:54,560
Speaker 1: you see him just continue to chip away and then

674
00:28:54,600 --> 00:28:57,400
Speaker 1: Dallas Flowers go down he steps in, and I would

675
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Speaker 1: say for the most part, you might have saw more

676
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Speaker 1: out of Jalen Jones maybe then you saw out of Juju.

677
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Speaker 1: I thought that he played. He played a lot more

678
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Speaker 1: and I think you saw real that growth now both

679
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Speaker 1: of them. I'm sure if you look at their tape,

680
00:29:09,800 --> 00:29:12,520
Speaker 1: there's some ups and there's some downs, and you want

681
00:29:12,520 --> 00:29:15,520
Speaker 1: to have a lot more ups. But definitely a positive thing.

682
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Speaker 1: You talked about Dallas Flowers. I mean you look at

683
00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:19,760
Speaker 1: just throws those three guys. We don't know what's going

684
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Speaker 1: to happen in free agency with Kenny Moore. We know

685
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Speaker 1: this staff is you know, the nickel position inside this

686
00:29:25,160 --> 00:29:28,640
Speaker 1: defense is so key. And Kenny Moore is still elite.

687
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Speaker 1: I mean he had I think he had a great

688
00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:33,840
Speaker 1: resurgence here in twenty three, definitely re established himself as

689
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Speaker 1: one of those best corners. So you bring back Kenny

690
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Speaker 1: and that group of corners and Darryl Baker, I mean,

691
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Speaker 1: look at the amount of snaps that he got too.

692
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Speaker 1: That is four corners who have played a substantial amount

693
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Speaker 1: of snaps service defense, which is going to be key

694
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Speaker 1: moving forward because when it comes down to things, sometimes

695
00:29:54,440 --> 00:29:57,280
Speaker 1: experience it just it just matters more and that's what

696
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Speaker 1: these guys have earned a lot of this this year.

697
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Speaker 4: See what kind of shakes out over the next couple

698
00:30:03,040 --> 00:30:07,160
Speaker 4: of months. But I do think you'll see Chris, Chris

699
00:30:07,200 --> 00:30:10,040
Speaker 4: Ballard adds some He said, we're gonna add some juice

700
00:30:10,040 --> 00:30:12,520
Speaker 4: to that group, some fuel that group for some competition.

701
00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:15,760
Speaker 4: Like baseline, you need more competition there and that goes

702
00:30:15,760 --> 00:30:18,920
Speaker 4: for safety, that goes for corner. Does that include re

703
00:30:19,040 --> 00:30:22,080
Speaker 4: signing Kenny Moore the second and Julian Blackman will see

704
00:30:22,520 --> 00:30:25,040
Speaker 4: you know, like like Ballard said, you'd love to bring

705
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Speaker 4: everyone back, but that's not the reality of it. So

706
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Speaker 4: you know, we'll kind of see where those things go

707
00:30:31,280 --> 00:30:34,320
Speaker 4: over the next couple of weeks and months. Safety is

708
00:30:34,360 --> 00:30:37,920
Speaker 4: the interesting spot for me in that do you need

709
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Speaker 4: more experience back there, whether you signed Julian or not.

710
00:30:42,440 --> 00:30:44,600
Speaker 4: You know, Chris talked about you know, Ronnie Thomas had

711
00:30:44,640 --> 00:30:46,880
Speaker 4: some good moments and it crossed and some good moments,

712
00:30:46,920 --> 00:30:50,760
Speaker 4: but there were some growing pains. You need more consistency there.

713
00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:54,040
Speaker 4: So that that's a position where you kind of need

714
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Speaker 4: that guy to be, you know, your backstop free safety

715
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Speaker 4: and you can't have Nico cons running free when there's

716
00:31:02,920 --> 00:31:05,000
Speaker 4: no safety help on that, you know, on that play

717
00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:07,040
Speaker 4: to open the game against the Taxians, like, you can't

718
00:31:07,080 --> 00:31:10,640
Speaker 4: have that. So what does that lead to over the

719
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Speaker 4: next couple of months in free agency and the draft?

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Speaker 2: All Right? One other highlight from Chris Ballard.

721
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Speaker 3: I mean, obviously this time of year, when you go

722
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Speaker 3: into the business side of the NFL, when we're only

723
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Speaker 3: a couple of months removed from the start of free agency,

724
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Speaker 3: whenever a general manager speaks, it's all about free agency

725
00:31:27,320 --> 00:31:29,959
Speaker 3: approach and the Colts having spending money. How are you

726
00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:31,640
Speaker 3: going to use it? How are you going to spend it?

727
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Speaker 3: Here's Chris Ballard talking about his free agency approach specifically

728
00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:39,400
Speaker 3: how it is kind of tailored to this offseason because

729
00:31:39,400 --> 00:31:41,880
Speaker 3: the Colts were nine to eight, they had a winning record,

730
00:31:42,160 --> 00:31:44,720
Speaker 3: and by all accounts from the national media, the Colts

731
00:31:44,760 --> 00:31:47,680
Speaker 3: are ahead of schedule. Right, maybe surprise some people with

732
00:31:47,720 --> 00:31:50,840
Speaker 3: their winning record this year despite missing the playoffs. All

733
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Speaker 3: that coupled with having a quarterback on a rookie contract

734
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Speaker 3: and having some money to spend elsewhere, maybe at some

735
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Speaker 3: other positions. Here's what Chris Ballard had to say in

736
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Speaker 3: terms of free agency approach.

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Speaker 6: No, I think we got more flexibility right now than

738
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Speaker 6: we've had the last few years. A little bit of

739
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Speaker 6: that is, you know, we're not paying a quarterback big

740
00:32:11,720 --> 00:32:16,120
Speaker 6: money anymore, and so we're gonna have some more flexibility

741
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Speaker 6: and we'll do you know, we'll always be prudent, but

742
00:32:18,680 --> 00:32:23,160
Speaker 6: will be will be as aggressive as we need to

743
00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:25,000
Speaker 6: be in free agency with players that we think can

744
00:32:25,040 --> 00:32:29,280
Speaker 6: help us. And it's always it's always dicey. I think

745
00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:33,320
Speaker 6: y'all know this. Y'all see this. You're watching the league, okay,

746
00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:38,720
Speaker 6: And with free agency, it's not just about it's the

747
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Speaker 6: you know, it's the fit of the player into the

748
00:32:41,760 --> 00:32:46,160
Speaker 6: locker room and then you know whatever you're paying that

749
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Speaker 6: player that he can earn and is worth the amount

750
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Speaker 6: of money you're paying him.

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Speaker 3: Certainly an interesting place to be for the Colts, as

752
00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:55,280
Speaker 3: I said, winning record rookie quarterback or I should say

753
00:32:55,320 --> 00:32:59,440
Speaker 3: quarterback on a rookie contract. Fourteen unrestricted free agents for

754
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Speaker 3: the Colts, and they're going to have some holes because

755
00:33:01,840 --> 00:33:04,000
Speaker 3: they're not going to be able to resign everybody. And

756
00:33:04,120 --> 00:33:07,640
Speaker 3: I think that this is a more of a headliner

757
00:33:07,720 --> 00:33:10,560
Speaker 3: free agency class than we've seen in years past. A

758
00:33:10,600 --> 00:33:13,560
Speaker 3: lot of starters, a lot of leaders you talked about

759
00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:17,600
Speaker 3: Kenny Moore and Julian Blackman and Zack Moss and Gardner

760
00:33:17,680 --> 00:33:23,320
Speaker 3: Minshew and Grover Stewart and Michael Pittman, Michael Pittman, Rigoberto Sanchez.

761
00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:26,520
Speaker 3: So the reality is all of those guys can't come back.

762
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Speaker 3: I mean, the Colts are going to let some really

763
00:33:27,960 --> 00:33:31,240
Speaker 3: good football players out on the open market, and you

764
00:33:31,360 --> 00:33:34,280
Speaker 3: got to deal with that. But you know, where are

765
00:33:34,320 --> 00:33:37,080
Speaker 3: the Colts right now, JJ in terms of Chris Ballard's

766
00:33:37,120 --> 00:33:41,320
Speaker 3: approach to free agency, knowing this team as close, you know,

767
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Speaker 3: agreeing with what Shane Stiken had to say at his

768
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Speaker 3: end of the season press conference, and the Colts being

769
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Speaker 3: able to win games under Shane Steiken even though Shane

770
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Speaker 3: Steiken didn't have a full deck of cards this past.

771
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Speaker 4: Right, I think the most important thing for how the

772
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Speaker 4: Colts are going to operate this offseason is you have,

773
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Speaker 4: like you said, Mayte the quarterback on a rookie contract

774
00:34:03,480 --> 00:34:05,920
Speaker 4: that if you look around the NFL, the NFL landscape,

775
00:34:06,320 --> 00:34:09,400
Speaker 4: just that quarterback who you say that's our starter for

776
00:34:09,440 --> 00:34:11,800
Speaker 4: next year and he's on a rookie contract. That is

777
00:34:11,840 --> 00:34:14,200
Speaker 4: the most valuable asset a team can have.

778
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Speaker 1: Whether or not.

779
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Speaker 4: And that is almost like irregardless of whether the guy's

780
00:34:17,840 --> 00:34:19,719
Speaker 4: like good or not. Right, it's like if you just

781
00:34:19,800 --> 00:34:22,879
Speaker 4: if you if that guy's gonna do matter, that that

782
00:34:23,120 --> 00:34:27,120
Speaker 4: means you can operate differently than other teams. Does that

783
00:34:27,160 --> 00:34:29,120
Speaker 4: mean the cults are going to get overly aggressive in

784
00:34:29,200 --> 00:34:29,960
Speaker 4: free agency?

785
00:34:30,360 --> 00:34:30,839
Speaker 1: I don't know.

786
00:34:31,360 --> 00:34:33,600
Speaker 4: Chris Ballard said we're going to get as aggressive as

787
00:34:33,640 --> 00:34:36,440
Speaker 4: we need to. What does that mean? We'll see It's

788
00:34:36,440 --> 00:34:38,200
Speaker 4: not Chris Balard is going to come out and be like, guys,

789
00:34:38,200 --> 00:34:40,360
Speaker 4: we're spending all the cash.

790
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Speaker 1: Watch in the world. Watch because then you know what's

791
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Speaker 1: gonna happen.

792
00:34:42,120 --> 00:34:43,919
Speaker 4: His agents are gonna come to him and be like, hey,

793
00:34:43,920 --> 00:34:46,000
Speaker 4: so my guy, Yeah, you're interested in my guy. Okay,

794
00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:48,080
Speaker 4: price got jacked up five percent because that comment you

795
00:34:48,120 --> 00:34:50,680
Speaker 4: made back in January, Like, he's not gonna do that.

796
00:34:51,160 --> 00:34:53,879
Speaker 4: But this is the first time we have seen Chris

797
00:34:53,880 --> 00:34:57,000
Speaker 4: Ballard operate in a season where he's a quarterback on

798
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Speaker 4: a rookie contract. And it's also the first time we've

799
00:34:59,440 --> 00:35:02,080
Speaker 4: seen him operate in a season where he knows who

800
00:35:02,120 --> 00:35:05,920
Speaker 4: the quarterback is going to be. On January tenth since

801
00:35:06,560 --> 00:35:10,520
Speaker 4: twenty nineteen, and then Luck retired and that didn't work.

802
00:35:10,560 --> 00:35:11,600
Speaker 1: I mean, but that was the last time.

803
00:35:12,080 --> 00:35:14,960
Speaker 3: Just as you say that, I mean, I'm think about right, Yeah,

804
00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:16,880
Speaker 3: that's you're right, because the last time the Colts had

805
00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:20,880
Speaker 3: the same starter week one and consecutive seasons was twenty fifteen,

806
00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:21,760
Speaker 3: twenty sixteen.

807
00:35:21,800 --> 00:35:23,360
Speaker 2: So you're right. I mean, it's amazing.

808
00:35:23,400 --> 00:35:26,360
Speaker 4: Think about how that affects your roster building the last

809
00:35:26,400 --> 00:35:29,440
Speaker 4: couple of years, you've gone into this press conference being.

810
00:35:29,280 --> 00:35:31,120
Speaker 1: Like, yeah, I don't know who it's going to be.

811
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Speaker 4: You know, Okay, maybe maybe we'll go get Philip Rivers.

812
00:35:33,320 --> 00:35:35,600
Speaker 4: That sounds good. Okay, Sure, we'll go trade.

813
00:35:35,360 --> 00:35:36,040
Speaker 1: For Carson Wentz.

814
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Speaker 2: Okay wins.

815
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know what we're gonna do now after

816
00:35:38,160 --> 00:35:41,239
Speaker 4: Carson Wentz is gone, but okay, turns out we're going

817
00:35:41,239 --> 00:35:42,000
Speaker 4: to trade for Matt Ryan.

818
00:35:42,080 --> 00:35:44,239
Speaker 1: Yeah. But you have to then think about it wasn't the.

819
00:35:44,200 --> 00:35:45,080
Speaker 2: Whopper this year.

820
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Speaker 3: To your point, there wasn't the all right, like ninety

821
00:35:47,960 --> 00:35:49,920
Speaker 3: percent of the questions are going to be about one thing.

822
00:35:49,960 --> 00:35:52,320
Speaker 4: Honestly, it was got kind of a boring press conference,

823
00:35:52,440 --> 00:35:53,200
Speaker 4: which is a good thing.

824
00:35:53,280 --> 00:35:54,839
Speaker 1: Yeah, you kind of want this to be a boring

825
00:35:54,880 --> 00:35:55,560
Speaker 1: press conference.

826
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Speaker 4: But I mean, think about the money you had to

827
00:35:58,480 --> 00:36:00,879
Speaker 4: spend to get Philip Rivers in the building, to get

828
00:36:01,040 --> 00:36:03,120
Speaker 4: Carson Wentz Matt Ryan in the building, and the draft

829
00:36:03,160 --> 00:36:05,040
Speaker 4: capital you had to spend to get Carson Wentz and

830
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Speaker 4: Matt Ryan in the building. You have to do any

831
00:36:06,920 --> 00:36:10,200
Speaker 4: of that right now, you have your full complimented draft

832
00:36:10,200 --> 00:36:11,600
Speaker 4: picks and you don't have to go get a quarterback.

833
00:36:11,640 --> 00:36:12,759
Speaker 4: And by the way, you don't have to pay left

834
00:36:12,800 --> 00:36:14,920
Speaker 4: tackle because you feel pretty good about the guy you

835
00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:17,760
Speaker 4: got on a rookie contract to that position too. That's

836
00:36:17,600 --> 00:36:19,800
Speaker 4: a that's another spot that gets a little pricey.

837
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Speaker 3: Uh huh, Well said right there. And that's the thing, Casey,

838
00:36:23,040 --> 00:36:25,560
Speaker 3: the Colts have you always say when you when you

839
00:36:25,560 --> 00:36:28,080
Speaker 3: talk about free agency and guys that hit the open market,

840
00:36:28,120 --> 00:36:30,920
Speaker 3: and Chris talked about it today too, like the great

841
00:36:30,920 --> 00:36:33,240
Speaker 3: elite players at premium positions.

842
00:36:32,920 --> 00:36:33,759
Speaker 2: They don't hit them all.

843
00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:36,000
Speaker 3: They don't get there right, so you're over you're already

844
00:36:36,040 --> 00:36:39,520
Speaker 3: over paying for you know, B class players. You know

845
00:36:39,520 --> 00:36:43,120
Speaker 3: you're paying B class players a type money. And somebody

846
00:36:43,160 --> 00:36:45,680
Speaker 3: asked them, you know, how much of your salary cap

847
00:36:45,719 --> 00:36:46,600
Speaker 3: space is going to be.

848
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Speaker 2: Spent on in house free agents?

849
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Speaker 3: Just based on what we know in our hunches and

850
00:36:51,200 --> 00:36:53,600
Speaker 3: the amount of great players the Colts have up in

851
00:36:53,680 --> 00:36:56,520
Speaker 3: terms of expiring contracts, I think it's safe to say

852
00:36:56,560 --> 00:36:58,000
Speaker 3: that a lot of that money is going to be

853
00:36:58,040 --> 00:37:00,120
Speaker 3: spent on players that are going to come back that

854
00:37:00,160 --> 00:37:01,480
Speaker 3: wore this uniform last year.

855
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Speaker 1: I think that and just past precedents, I mean, that

856
00:37:04,480 --> 00:37:06,239
Speaker 1: is one of the things that Chris Ballard has always done.

857
00:37:06,239 --> 00:37:08,879
Speaker 1: He's rewarded his own So I would assume that's kind

858
00:37:08,880 --> 00:37:10,480
Speaker 1: of the route you're going to go, and if you

859
00:37:10,520 --> 00:37:14,480
Speaker 1: look at it, it's probably it's probably, you know, warranted.

860
00:37:14,520 --> 00:37:16,200
Speaker 1: I mean some of these guys, I mean, you talk

861
00:37:16,239 --> 00:37:18,600
Speaker 1: about the year that Julian Blackman had, I think it

862
00:37:18,640 --> 00:37:21,200
Speaker 1: was probably his best year as a pro when he

863
00:37:21,239 --> 00:37:23,239
Speaker 1: needed to have a really good year. I talked about

864
00:37:23,239 --> 00:37:26,560
Speaker 1: the resurgers, we saw, Kenny Moore. I mean, we can't

865
00:37:26,600 --> 00:37:29,399
Speaker 1: stop talking about the year that Michael Pittman had. I mean,

866
00:37:29,520 --> 00:37:33,600
Speaker 1: the dude was everything for that offense. And then you

867
00:37:33,640 --> 00:37:37,600
Speaker 1: look at the landscape of the NFL and ultimately it

868
00:37:37,680 --> 00:37:40,520
Speaker 1: was a backup quarterback year. I mean, there were so

869
00:37:40,560 --> 00:37:42,520
Speaker 1: many backup quarterbacks and when you look at the guy

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Speaker 1: that was playing here, he was probably among the top

871
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Speaker 1: if not the top backup that was playing. So if

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Speaker 1: you look at just those four guys, and I didn't

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Speaker 1: even mention Grover Stewart, who he's probably I mean, it

874
00:37:52,560 --> 00:37:54,160
Speaker 1: would make sense for him to be back. I mean,

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Speaker 1: Chris Ballard talked about wanting to have him back right there,

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Speaker 1: those five guys, that probably takes up a good chunk

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Speaker 1: of that cap. But we don't know what's going to happen,

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Speaker 1: but I would agree I think a majority of it

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Speaker 1: is going to go to those in house guys.

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Speaker 4: The other thing to think about here is last offseason,

881
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Speaker 4: low Key was a bit of a departure. Now, the

882
00:38:10,680 --> 00:38:13,759
Speaker 4: Colts operated in free agency where they they committed some

883
00:38:13,880 --> 00:38:17,080
Speaker 4: dollars to Samson, ebcom May and to Matt Gay and

884
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Speaker 4: they did that not knowing but probably believing we're going

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Speaker 4: to have a rookie quarterback in here. And I think

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Speaker 4: that may be a tip of the iceberg of what

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Speaker 4: could come. It's not like you're going to.

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Speaker 3: See they were smart and realistic.

889
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Speaker 1: If those moves.

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Speaker 4: Worked out pretty well, y I mean, especially with Ebicom,

891
00:38:34,920 --> 00:38:38,759
Speaker 4: God what years he had. That's not to say that

892
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Speaker 4: you're going to see Chris Ballach go out and give

893
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Speaker 4: a you know, six year, one hundred and forty million

894
00:38:42,960 --> 00:38:46,000
Speaker 4: dollar contract to someone in free agency, because again, those

895
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Speaker 4: guys usually don't hit free agency.

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Speaker 3: But to your point, that was coming off four wins

897
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Speaker 3: right now you're coming off nine.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and you're right there, I.

899
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Speaker 1: Mean and there. They're just different way.

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Speaker 4: I think any assumption you may have about how the

901
00:38:58,840 --> 00:39:01,759
Speaker 4: Colts are going to operate this offseason just throwed out

902
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Speaker 4: the window because we don't know, we have no idea.

903
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Speaker 4: Like going back to the point I just made, this

904
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Speaker 4: is the first time we've seen the Colts operate with

905
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Speaker 4: a quarterback who they know who their Week one starter

906
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Speaker 4: is going to be, you know, really long time.

907
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Speaker 3: Yep, good stuff right there. Anything else that we may

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Speaker 3: have missed, anything else, you know, nugget or news bite

909
00:39:17,480 --> 00:39:19,520
Speaker 3: wise that we should hit on before we.

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Speaker 4: Go, Just some of the stuff that Chris said about

911
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Speaker 4: Anthony Richardson and he sat where Casey was here during

912
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Speaker 4: the bye week. He sat down a lerra over ten

913
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Speaker 4: and I and we chatted about some stuff, and I

914
00:39:29,360 --> 00:39:31,800
Speaker 4: heard some of the same things that we talked about

915
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Speaker 4: in that episode of the Official Cults podcast pop up

916
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Speaker 4: here in his press conference. But the thing that if

917
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Speaker 4: I'm taking a like one line takeaway that he said

918
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Speaker 4: is he was like the thing that sort of stood

919
00:39:44,120 --> 00:39:47,759
Speaker 4: out about Anthony Richardson, he's a passer. Yeah, And there

920
00:39:47,880 --> 00:39:51,479
Speaker 4: was all these again assumptions and narratives that this guy's

921
00:39:51,520 --> 00:39:53,799
Speaker 4: a raw passer because he completed fifty percent of his

922
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Speaker 4: passes at Florida.

923
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Speaker 1: But sure the Colts.

924
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Speaker 4: When they when they drafted him, if you talk to

925
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Speaker 4: people who are as part of that evaluation, we all

926
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Speaker 4: would have said he is more accurate than his completion

927
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Speaker 4: percentage would have told you. But just the poise that

928
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Speaker 4: he had in the pocket, I think that that translated

929
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Speaker 4: to the NFL in a really impressive way. And then

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Speaker 4: the way that he operated from the pocket, Like, look,

931
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Speaker 4: ultimately you can be a mobile quarterback, but you have

932
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Speaker 4: to win from the pocket. Eventually you're gonna it's gonna

933
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Speaker 4: be third and long and you gotta win from the pocket.

934
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think we saw signs.

935
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Speaker 3: From Anthony makes it more fun throws every game.

936
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Speaker 4: I think we saw signs from Anthony he can do that. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: He's got a lot of work to do, He's got

938
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Speaker 4: a lot of consistency that needs to happen. But here

939
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Speaker 4: and Chris Ballard say that, and just you know, you

940
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Speaker 4: watch some of the throws that he made, like, that's

941
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Speaker 4: really encouraging that this guy who is so physically gifted

942
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Speaker 4: is a quarterback with a capital Q.

943
00:40:45,960 --> 00:40:47,800
Speaker 1: There you go play the position capital Q.

944
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Speaker 2: I'll take a queue, Give me a queue.

945
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Speaker 4: No one, No one's there, No one's getting a cue

946
00:40:54,360 --> 00:40:57,160
Speaker 4: if you're asking for a queue on what wheel of fortune?

947
00:40:57,239 --> 00:40:58,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know you already know the.

948
00:40:59,120 --> 00:41:00,920
Speaker 2: You know the puzzle right because you.

949
00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:07,000
Speaker 1: Know that's what it is. Let's go here.

950
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Speaker 3: That's how you know it's time to close it out.

951
00:41:09,560 --> 00:41:11,759
Speaker 3: We're getting squirrely here. It's going to be a long,

952
00:41:11,880 --> 00:41:14,840
Speaker 3: but a very exciting off season for the Indianapolis Colts,

953
00:41:15,160 --> 00:41:18,320
Speaker 3: and it just started again. Check out Anthony Richardson and

954
00:41:18,800 --> 00:41:21,719
Speaker 3: Chris Ballard's press conference in full, Colts dot Com and

955
00:41:21,840 --> 00:41:24,839
Speaker 3: the Colts Audio Network, and that'll do it for overtime.

956
00:41:25,160 --> 00:41:27,799
Speaker 3: We are here when news breaks or when stuff needs

957
00:41:27,840 --> 00:41:30,359
Speaker 3: to be talked about, we get together and we hash

958
00:41:30,440 --> 00:41:32,680
Speaker 3: it out. And we will be back next Tuesday for

959
00:41:32,760 --> 00:41:36,320
Speaker 3: the Official Colts Podcast, brought to you by Win Las Vegas,

960
00:41:36,440 --> 00:41:38,800
Speaker 3: and then of course on Fridays. As we said, the

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Speaker 3: off season Home of the Colts radio wise, that's the

962
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Speaker 3: last word, and we will do that all off season

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Speaker 3: long and overtime when necessary. Again for Casey Value, JJ Stangovitz,

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Speaker 3: I'm Matt Taylor, Sherry. Thank you on the ones and

965
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Speaker 3: twoes behind the camera on YouTube. Thanks for checking us

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Speaker 3: out and we will talk to you soon on overtime

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Speaker 3: here the Colts Audio Network, so on,