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Speaker 1: We're back inside the Indiana Union Construction Industry radio studio

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Speaker 1: talking with a new assistant coach for the Indianapolis Colts

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Speaker 1: with JJ Stangovitz. I'm Matt Taylor joining us now Tony Sperrano,

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Speaker 1: junior offensive line coach for your Colts. Coach Sperrano, how

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Speaker 1: are we doing? Good to meet you? I'm doing great

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Speaker 1: good to meet you as well. So how excited are

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Speaker 1: you for this opportunity? What attracted you the most to

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Speaker 1: link up with Shane Steike and here in Indianapolis. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: first off, I'm really really excited about the opportunity, really

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Speaker 1: really excited to work with the group of players that

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Speaker 1: to working with coach Steike and the most was just

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Speaker 1: hearing his vision for how he wants to run this organization,

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Speaker 1: this team with Chris Ballard, like that shared vision that

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Speaker 1: they had. Um. You know, you hear coach talk about

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Speaker 1: character is to him. Just again having a chance to

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Speaker 1: sit down with him talk to him with his vision

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Speaker 1: for you know, us as an offensive line and how

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Speaker 1: we're gonna play the offense. And then the team collectively

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Speaker 1: moving forward. Just a lot of things that I believe

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Speaker 1: in and just just was really excited about the chance. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you've been in the NFL since twenty eleven and a

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Speaker 1: lot of different capacities. You know, since twenty seventeen, you've

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Speaker 1: been an assistant offensive line coach for the Jaguars, Panthers Giants.

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Speaker 1: Who were some of your coaching mentors You've had along

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Speaker 1: the way that have really helped you get to this point. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: my father was was and really always will be the

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Speaker 1: primary one, but I've I've had the I've been really

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Speaker 1: lucky and really fortunate to learn from a lot of

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Speaker 1: incredible coach and someone that I look up to a

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Speaker 1: bunch and learned a ton from. UH. Pat Meyer who

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Speaker 1: I was with in Carolina, George Warhops another one, UH

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Speaker 1: and then Doug Marrone who who was the coach that

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Speaker 1: I was with in Jacksonville. UM, I would say those

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Speaker 1: four guys have had a really really an addition to

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Speaker 1: my father, have had a really really big impact on

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Speaker 1: me as a coach and and how I viewed the

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Speaker 1: offensive line position as you were growing up. You know,

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Speaker 1: are you going to training camps where your dad's coaching,

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Speaker 1: watching your dad coach, what do you remember about those moments?

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Speaker 1: You know, I remember the thing, you know, my dad

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Speaker 1: loved his players, was always uh really really appreciative of

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Speaker 1: And so the biggest thing that I took away from

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Speaker 1: and how he was always eager to correct them to

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Speaker 1: help them get better as opposed to uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: demean or disrespect in any way. UM just showed me

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Speaker 1: a different way that the things could be done, you know,

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Speaker 1: and and and again something I believe in a lot.

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Speaker 1: And that's something that I was gonna ask. Then you've

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Speaker 1: carried over into your coaching tenure. Where is that that

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Speaker 1: you know, demeaning like you percent, that's what I believe

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Speaker 1: Do you find that's the process that guys respond the

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Speaker 1: like I said, it's the style that that's most authentic

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Speaker 1: and being demeaning or respectful toward guys. That's Tony Sperrano,

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Speaker 1: junior offensive line coach for the Indianapolis Colts. And you

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Speaker 1: Is it almost like in your career, Tony, Like everywhere

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Speaker 1: it's Tony Sperano junior with us, and certainly there's a

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Speaker 1: lot that goes into offensive line play. But you can

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Speaker 1: So you know, again there can't be any independent contractors.

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Speaker 1: So you're here in their perspectives and how they see things,

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Speaker 1: the Indianapolis Colts, and you've also coached tight ends in

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Speaker 1: the NFL as well. How much will the tight ends

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Speaker 1: And and I've always had a ton of respect for him.

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Speaker 1: thanks so much for the time, great to meet you,

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