1
00:00:03,960 --> 00:00:08,000
Speaker 1: Holidays continue, and thank you for prioritizing us here on

2
00:00:08,039 --> 00:00:10,960
Speaker 1: the Jack Doyle Podcast during this I always call it

3
00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:13,960
Speaker 1: like the dead winter break, you know, that week before

4
00:00:14,040 --> 00:00:16,640
Speaker 1: week between Christmas and New Year's. But it is New

5
00:00:16,680 --> 00:00:18,479
Speaker 1: Year's Day as we come to here on the Jack

6
00:00:18,520 --> 00:00:21,680
Speaker 1: Doyle Podcast. That's the great Jack Doyle. I'm Matt Taylor,

7
00:00:21,960 --> 00:00:24,960
Speaker 1: and welcome back everybody, as we're talking about some New

8
00:00:25,040 --> 00:00:27,840
Speaker 1: Year's resolutions for the Colts, trying to get a win

9
00:00:28,360 --> 00:00:30,960
Speaker 1: at the end of the season. It's a new year.

10
00:00:31,400 --> 00:00:33,760
Speaker 1: I know it's Week eighteen, same season, but it's the

11
00:00:33,760 --> 00:00:36,400
Speaker 1: first game of the twenty twenty sixth calendar for the

12
00:00:36,400 --> 00:00:39,600
Speaker 1: Colts looking to break a six game slide here at

13
00:00:39,640 --> 00:00:41,640
Speaker 1: the end of the season. We know about the math,

14
00:00:41,720 --> 00:00:45,040
Speaker 1: we know about the playoffs. The Colts have been eliminated

15
00:00:45,040 --> 00:00:48,519
Speaker 1: from postseason contention for the fifth straight year, losing to

16
00:00:48,560 --> 00:00:51,120
Speaker 1: the Jaguars last week, but they were eliminated the day

17
00:00:51,159 --> 00:00:54,560
Speaker 1: before when the Texans beat the Chargers. So a lot

18
00:00:54,560 --> 00:00:57,520
Speaker 1: to talk about. We'll get into the quarterback situation all

19
00:00:57,560 --> 00:00:59,840
Speaker 1: of that here as it relates to the Indianapolis Colts

20
00:00:59,840 --> 00:01:02,880
Speaker 1: on this New Year's Day, twenty twenty six. But Jack

21
00:01:02,920 --> 00:01:03,639
Speaker 1: how you doing man.

22
00:01:03,640 --> 00:01:05,560
Speaker 2: Happy New Year too, Yeah, Happy New Year man. I'm

23
00:01:05,640 --> 00:01:07,320
Speaker 2: I'm you know, I'm happy to be here. You know

24
00:01:07,720 --> 00:01:10,200
Speaker 2: you said, We've had some losses here since game, but

25
00:01:10,240 --> 00:01:11,640
Speaker 2: I'm still happy to be here with you met and

26
00:01:11,959 --> 00:01:14,840
Speaker 2: like the Colts football man, and you know, there's not

27
00:01:15,080 --> 00:01:16,399
Speaker 2: not no place I'd rather be.

28
00:01:16,760 --> 00:01:18,200
Speaker 1: You sure knew how to make a guy feel good.

29
00:01:18,240 --> 00:01:19,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, there you go, There you go.

30
00:01:19,680 --> 00:01:21,399
Speaker 1: Christmas was good though too, with the family.

31
00:01:21,520 --> 00:01:26,520
Speaker 2: Christmas was good, chaotic as always kids. You know, there's

32
00:01:26,520 --> 00:01:28,600
Speaker 2: still I feel like there's still stuff just everywhere in

33
00:01:28,600 --> 00:01:32,840
Speaker 2: our house, just toys everywhere and boxes everywhere. And I

34
00:01:32,840 --> 00:01:34,720
Speaker 2: think me and my wife are just like in a standoff,

35
00:01:34,840 --> 00:01:36,600
Speaker 2: just like looking at each other, like who's going to

36
00:01:36,680 --> 00:01:39,120
Speaker 2: clean it up? Yeah, with that spider man like beam

37
00:01:39,160 --> 00:01:41,160
Speaker 2: where they're looking at each other. That's what it's like

38
00:01:41,160 --> 00:01:42,120
Speaker 2: in our house right now.

39
00:01:42,520 --> 00:01:44,520
Speaker 1: He's gonna blank first at the oile household.

40
00:01:44,600 --> 00:01:47,760
Speaker 2: Yes, absolutely, But no great Christmas man, Like I said,

41
00:01:47,760 --> 00:01:49,960
Speaker 2: it's it's so much fun with the young kids and

42
00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:52,919
Speaker 2: seeing the magic of Christmas through their eyes is very special.

43
00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:55,280
Speaker 1: What was the best thing you saw them open up

44
00:01:55,360 --> 00:01:58,040
Speaker 1: or have the chance to get where Santa came through.

45
00:01:58,120 --> 00:02:01,960
Speaker 2: They were so so my little daughter Leona got this,

46
00:02:02,160 --> 00:02:07,440
Speaker 2: like many it's like a mini mouse food cart. Yeah,

47
00:02:07,440 --> 00:02:10,200
Speaker 2: so she's she loves to like take our orders and

48
00:02:10,240 --> 00:02:13,080
Speaker 2: like she thinks she's a waitress, which is really cute.

49
00:02:13,080 --> 00:02:13,200
Speaker 3: You know.

50
00:02:13,360 --> 00:02:15,600
Speaker 2: She's like she's two and a half and she's got

51
00:02:15,600 --> 00:02:18,560
Speaker 2: this little mini mouse food cart. She's driving around and

52
00:02:18,680 --> 00:02:20,639
Speaker 2: wrecking into stuff and then it's like, dad, you want

53
00:02:20,639 --> 00:02:21,160
Speaker 2: some ice cream?

54
00:02:21,160 --> 00:02:22,760
Speaker 3: And then she'll go back to her cart and give me.

55
00:02:23,160 --> 00:02:25,400
Speaker 1: A web take it in. Oh, it's the best. Soak

56
00:02:25,480 --> 00:02:25,760
Speaker 1: it in.

57
00:02:25,800 --> 00:02:26,480
Speaker 3: It is the best.

58
00:02:26,560 --> 00:02:29,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, every dad ever will tell you soak it in,

59
00:02:29,840 --> 00:02:32,680
Speaker 1: which you already know that. But yeah, that's that's our

60
00:02:32,720 --> 00:02:36,520
Speaker 1: advice because those years do not last forever, and so

61
00:02:36,639 --> 00:02:39,160
Speaker 1: do bad times for the Colts. They're gonna get out

62
00:02:39,160 --> 00:02:41,960
Speaker 1: of this funk at some point, yeah, I promise you.

63
00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:44,920
Speaker 1: I mean, there's too many good people here running the

64
00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:48,520
Speaker 1: organization for it to have missed the playoffs five straight

65
00:02:48,760 --> 00:02:50,600
Speaker 1: five straight years, I should say, but that is the

66
00:02:50,639 --> 00:02:53,799
Speaker 1: reality here. So Jack, let's you know, we talked last

67
00:02:53,840 --> 00:02:57,320
Speaker 1: week the theme was hard Truce. They continue here. The

68
00:02:57,360 --> 00:03:01,160
Speaker 1: Colts started the season seven and one, but they become

69
00:03:01,200 --> 00:03:04,320
Speaker 1: only the six team in NFL history to miss the

70
00:03:04,320 --> 00:03:07,920
Speaker 1: playoffs after that good of a record. And you know,

71
00:03:07,960 --> 00:03:09,960
Speaker 1: this is the longest drought for the Colts when it

72
00:03:09,960 --> 00:03:13,320
Speaker 1: comes to the postseason since a seven year stretch there

73
00:03:13,320 --> 00:03:16,040
Speaker 1: when they missed the playoffs right around when they first

74
00:03:16,120 --> 00:03:18,800
Speaker 1: moved to town nineteen eighty eight to nineteen ninety four,

75
00:03:18,840 --> 00:03:21,640
Speaker 1: a seven year period missing out on the playoffs. So

76
00:03:21,680 --> 00:03:25,200
Speaker 1: this is almost uncharted waters for the Colts, at least

77
00:03:25,200 --> 00:03:28,560
Speaker 1: in this new generation of Colts fans experiencing the team

78
00:03:28,600 --> 00:03:34,040
Speaker 1: here in twenty twenty five. So when the Texans beat

79
00:03:34,080 --> 00:03:38,600
Speaker 1: the Chargers last week Saturday afternoon game, you know we're

80
00:03:38,640 --> 00:03:42,440
Speaker 1: all sitting there watching the TV and heavy rooting interest

81
00:03:42,480 --> 00:03:45,800
Speaker 1: for the Chargers. Colts beat them earlier this season. They

82
00:03:45,800 --> 00:03:46,640
Speaker 1: don't come through.

83
00:03:47,040 --> 00:03:47,560
Speaker 3: You have that.

84
00:03:48,080 --> 00:03:52,440
Speaker 1: I'm calling it all right, phantom defensive holding penalty with

85
00:03:52,560 --> 00:03:54,600
Speaker 1: the Chargers looking to get the ball back. It was

86
00:03:54,640 --> 00:03:57,080
Speaker 1: third down, they get a sack, They were down four,

87
00:03:57,200 --> 00:03:58,520
Speaker 1: going to get the ball back with a chance to

88
00:03:58,600 --> 00:04:01,160
Speaker 1: go down score and get the win and continue the

89
00:04:01,960 --> 00:04:05,240
Speaker 1: hopes of the Colts playoff chances. The next day when

90
00:04:05,240 --> 00:04:08,680
Speaker 1: they played the Jacksonville Jaguars, but when that result went

91
00:04:08,760 --> 00:04:11,560
Speaker 1: the way it did as a Colts fan, how deflating

92
00:04:11,640 --> 00:04:12,000
Speaker 1: was that for you?

93
00:04:12,120 --> 00:04:12,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know I was.

94
00:04:13,160 --> 00:04:15,200
Speaker 2: It was obviously we knew it was a long shot,

95
00:04:15,400 --> 00:04:18,159
Speaker 2: you know, the playoffs to that point anyways, but you

96
00:04:18,200 --> 00:04:21,159
Speaker 2: know it's just like so many results, you know, to

97
00:04:21,200 --> 00:04:22,880
Speaker 2: help the Colts go to the playoffs or make the

98
00:04:22,880 --> 00:04:26,359
Speaker 2: playoffs has not gone our way. Then I felt like, Okay,

99
00:04:26,560 --> 00:04:29,120
Speaker 2: the Chargers are gonna come through. You know, Philip Rivers

100
00:04:29,200 --> 00:04:31,480
Speaker 2: used to be with the Chargers, right, and I really

101
00:04:31,480 --> 00:04:33,000
Speaker 2: felt like, hey, this is gonna go our way so

102
00:04:33,040 --> 00:04:35,600
Speaker 2: that we can you know, be playing for something on

103
00:04:35,680 --> 00:04:39,120
Speaker 2: Sunday against Jacksonville. But yeah, it just puts a pit

104
00:04:39,160 --> 00:04:42,040
Speaker 2: in your stomach. Man, for how this season started and

105
00:04:42,360 --> 00:04:44,560
Speaker 2: kind of how this skid has gone. It's just really

106
00:04:44,640 --> 00:04:46,600
Speaker 2: you know, you feel for those guys and that are

107
00:04:46,640 --> 00:04:48,920
Speaker 2: putting the work in, and you know, as a fan,

108
00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:52,599
Speaker 2: I'm disappointed and frustrated for you know, for the fans.

109
00:04:52,640 --> 00:04:55,160
Speaker 3: I'm frustrated for the guys. So just a tough deal.

110
00:04:55,240 --> 00:04:57,160
Speaker 2: And you know, was proud of how the team came

111
00:04:57,200 --> 00:05:01,240
Speaker 2: out anyways against Jacksonville and and you know professional and

112
00:05:01,240 --> 00:05:02,240
Speaker 2: fought their tails off.

113
00:05:02,360 --> 00:05:05,440
Speaker 1: Well you're right though, I mean this six games slide

114
00:05:05,480 --> 00:05:09,159
Speaker 1: now for the Colts coincides with an eight game heater

115
00:05:09,680 --> 00:05:13,520
Speaker 1: for Houston, a seven game winning streak for Jacksonville, and

116
00:05:13,560 --> 00:05:16,479
Speaker 1: like you said, every everything else that that could have

117
00:05:17,200 --> 00:05:20,840
Speaker 1: aided the Colts. It seems like since the the bye week,

118
00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:23,200
Speaker 1: excuse me, the Colts have gotten no help at all

119
00:05:23,240 --> 00:05:25,320
Speaker 1: from anybody though, and they have nobody else to blame

120
00:05:25,360 --> 00:05:28,440
Speaker 1: other than themselves. But the reality is, I mean, this

121
00:05:28,520 --> 00:05:32,800
Speaker 1: is just sort of a you know, statistical anomaly where

122
00:05:33,200 --> 00:05:35,479
Speaker 1: I mean, what could go wrong has gone wrong for

123
00:05:35,520 --> 00:05:38,200
Speaker 1: the Colts, both internally and externally late in the season.

124
00:05:38,320 --> 00:05:40,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, that just it makes it even tougher, right, And

125
00:05:40,440 --> 00:05:42,000
Speaker 2: you don't you never want to live that way, right,

126
00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:44,599
Speaker 2: We don't want to be like you know, this game,

127
00:05:44,680 --> 00:05:47,200
Speaker 2: you know, yes, sorry for us playing the refs. Yeah

128
00:05:47,400 --> 00:05:50,880
Speaker 2: it wasn't going But like you lost square, we lost

129
00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:54,680
Speaker 2: a bunch of games, close games, and losing all these

130
00:05:54,680 --> 00:05:56,800
Speaker 2: games in a row, you no one to blame but ourselves,

131
00:05:56,880 --> 00:05:59,760
Speaker 2: and yeah, it's just it's just it's just really frustrating

132
00:05:59,800 --> 00:06:02,000
Speaker 2: to to not you know, just get a chance in

133
00:06:02,040 --> 00:06:04,680
Speaker 2: the playoffs. Right again, with how this with how this

134
00:06:04,760 --> 00:06:07,840
Speaker 2: team started, with how this season started, you know, I

135
00:06:07,880 --> 00:06:10,440
Speaker 2: just didn't think we'd be sitting here today talking like this.

136
00:06:10,640 --> 00:06:13,240
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, several members of this team still on

137
00:06:13,279 --> 00:06:15,640
Speaker 1: the roster, right, I mean you you retired after the

138
00:06:15,680 --> 00:06:18,279
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one season, so a lot of holdover still here.

139
00:06:18,800 --> 00:06:23,240
Speaker 1: DeForest Buckner, Zaire Franklin, Quittin Nelson, Jonathan Taylor, Braden Smith,

140
00:06:23,640 --> 00:06:26,279
Speaker 1: so on and so forth. Have you had a chance

141
00:06:26,320 --> 00:06:28,840
Speaker 1: to talk to to any of these guys and if so,

142
00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:30,719
Speaker 1: how how might they be feeling here?

143
00:06:30,800 --> 00:06:32,600
Speaker 3: Yeah? No, I haven't had a chance to talk to them.

144
00:06:32,600 --> 00:06:34,080
Speaker 2: Try to, you know, I really do try to leave

145
00:06:34,160 --> 00:06:36,039
Speaker 2: him alone during the season for sure, because I know

146
00:06:36,080 --> 00:06:38,520
Speaker 2: it's just you're pulled in a lot of different directions

147
00:06:38,520 --> 00:06:40,720
Speaker 2: and you're trying to focus on on something. But I'll

148
00:06:40,720 --> 00:06:42,120
Speaker 2: get a chance to talk to some of them, you know,

149
00:06:42,320 --> 00:06:46,200
Speaker 2: coming up this offseason. You know, it's just they got

150
00:06:46,200 --> 00:06:49,479
Speaker 2: to just be you know, frustrated, reeling a little bit

151
00:06:49,800 --> 00:06:52,440
Speaker 2: just like, you know, kind of at a loss, like

152
00:06:52,520 --> 00:06:54,360
Speaker 2: how did this happen? Just how you know, similar to

153
00:06:54,360 --> 00:06:55,839
Speaker 2: how the fans feel. And you know, there's no one

154
00:06:55,920 --> 00:06:58,880
Speaker 2: that feels worse than those guys right there, those veteran

155
00:06:58,960 --> 00:07:01,560
Speaker 2: leaders that have been around and seeing how this story

156
00:07:01,600 --> 00:07:03,239
Speaker 2: is kind of gone in the past, and then another

157
00:07:03,320 --> 00:07:05,720
Speaker 2: year where it's you know, ending in disappointment. It's just

158
00:07:06,120 --> 00:07:08,279
Speaker 2: it's just really tough, really tough pill to swallow for

159
00:07:08,320 --> 00:07:10,600
Speaker 2: those guys. And you know they'll get the offseason to

160
00:07:10,720 --> 00:07:13,040
Speaker 2: kind of reflect and see maybe what they could have

161
00:07:13,080 --> 00:07:16,000
Speaker 2: done to help or or change. And sometimes it's just

162
00:07:16,080 --> 00:07:18,240
Speaker 2: you know, the circumstances went the way they did, and

163
00:07:18,480 --> 00:07:20,760
Speaker 2: you know it happened, you know, played out the way

164
00:07:20,760 --> 00:07:22,360
Speaker 2: it was supposed to play out, and it didn't go

165
00:07:22,400 --> 00:07:24,840
Speaker 2: your way. And that's life at the same time. So

166
00:07:24,840 --> 00:07:27,240
Speaker 2: so yeah, definitely feeling for those guys and who've kind

167
00:07:27,240 --> 00:07:28,960
Speaker 2: of been around and seeing the story before.

168
00:07:29,120 --> 00:07:31,360
Speaker 1: You know, I've been doing this for a long time,

169
00:07:31,560 --> 00:07:34,240
Speaker 1: you know, podcasts and radio shows. It did sports talk

170
00:07:34,320 --> 00:07:37,520
Speaker 1: radio for for almost a decade, and you know that

171
00:07:37,640 --> 00:07:41,320
Speaker 1: the phone lines are you know, people call in, they

172
00:07:41,320 --> 00:07:44,320
Speaker 1: have things to say, they have opinions. So fans out

173
00:07:44,320 --> 00:07:47,120
Speaker 1: there they're p o Yeah, I get it, yeah right,

174
00:07:47,320 --> 00:07:51,600
Speaker 1: but but where does where does the fans frustration How

175
00:07:51,640 --> 00:07:56,320
Speaker 1: does that compare to a cults player or a coach frustration.

176
00:07:56,520 --> 00:07:58,840
Speaker 1: I have to imagine, like I mean, if you're pissed

177
00:07:58,840 --> 00:08:02,200
Speaker 1: off as a fan. Imagine how you know a guy

178
00:08:02,240 --> 00:08:05,320
Speaker 1: like Taekwon Lewis Field or a guy like Zaire Franklin Fields.

179
00:08:05,320 --> 00:08:07,760
Speaker 1: I mean, a guy that's actually doing it, putting in

180
00:08:07,800 --> 00:08:11,480
Speaker 1: all the work, sacrificing time and his body and putting

181
00:08:11,480 --> 00:08:14,640
Speaker 1: everything on the line, and still from a playoff standpoint,

182
00:08:14,840 --> 00:08:15,880
Speaker 1: doesn't have much to show up.

183
00:08:15,920 --> 00:08:18,000
Speaker 2: Ye, I mean, Matt, I still we've talked about the show.

184
00:08:18,040 --> 00:08:20,280
Speaker 2: I still wake up in the middle of the night thinking

185
00:08:20,320 --> 00:08:23,080
Speaker 2: of the twenty twenty one loss to Jacksonville, Like, you know,

186
00:08:23,160 --> 00:08:27,000
Speaker 2: that's four or five whatever years ago, So thinking.

187
00:08:26,760 --> 00:08:28,000
Speaker 1: Of backing up in a cold sweat.

188
00:08:28,080 --> 00:08:29,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Like I'm that still happens. So that's what

189
00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:32,040
Speaker 2: these guys are feeling. These you know, these are scars

190
00:08:32,080 --> 00:08:35,200
Speaker 2: that these guys are going to live throughout the rest

191
00:08:35,240 --> 00:08:37,120
Speaker 2: of their lives and they're gonna be thinking about it. Yeah,

192
00:08:37,160 --> 00:08:39,880
Speaker 2: And I get it, like fans should be upset because

193
00:08:40,360 --> 00:08:42,880
Speaker 2: you know, the way it fell off, it wasn't the standard,

194
00:08:42,880 --> 00:08:45,079
Speaker 2: it wasn't good enough, right, and it's got to be better.

195
00:08:45,120 --> 00:08:48,840
Speaker 2: But trust me, these players, these guys are they're they're

196
00:08:48,880 --> 00:08:53,040
Speaker 2: they're ultimate competitors and they're probably a little bit embarrassed

197
00:08:53,080 --> 00:08:55,720
Speaker 2: the way this went down. I mean, they just you know,

198
00:08:55,760 --> 00:08:58,880
Speaker 2: you're on this losing skid right now, and you know,

199
00:08:58,960 --> 00:09:01,320
Speaker 2: these guys are guys who been ultimate competitors their whole

200
00:09:01,320 --> 00:09:03,920
Speaker 2: life and are used to winning. So you know, it's

201
00:09:04,760 --> 00:09:06,680
Speaker 2: it's really tough on those guys, and you know, I

202
00:09:06,720 --> 00:09:08,959
Speaker 2: feel for them, and hopefully I get a chance to

203
00:09:08,960 --> 00:09:10,360
Speaker 2: talk to some of them here coming here soon.

204
00:09:10,440 --> 00:09:12,080
Speaker 1: I mean, you're doing a great job right now of

205
00:09:12,080 --> 00:09:15,559
Speaker 1: putting yourself and their shoes because you literally have been

206
00:09:16,080 --> 00:09:18,800
Speaker 1: not that long ago. So what what about now?

207
00:09:18,880 --> 00:09:19,200
Speaker 3: All Right?

208
00:09:19,280 --> 00:09:22,800
Speaker 1: You you went into the week of practice last week

209
00:09:22,880 --> 00:09:26,360
Speaker 1: with a chance, right, and then that chance was ripped

210
00:09:26,360 --> 00:09:30,040
Speaker 1: from you Saturday, the day before the game. So you

211
00:09:30,080 --> 00:09:32,600
Speaker 1: still played the game with, you know, the knowledge of

212
00:09:32,880 --> 00:09:35,080
Speaker 1: we're out of the playoffs, but you had what less

213
00:09:35,120 --> 00:09:37,840
Speaker 1: than twenty four hours to deal with it. Now you

214
00:09:37,920 --> 00:09:40,760
Speaker 1: have an entire week. Last week you had the intensity

215
00:09:40,880 --> 00:09:44,480
Speaker 1: of the chance to make the playoffs. This week you don't.

216
00:09:44,800 --> 00:09:46,720
Speaker 1: This week, you go, you know, going into the game,

217
00:09:47,040 --> 00:09:49,760
Speaker 1: this is our last game, period, Right, We're gonna fly

218
00:09:49,840 --> 00:09:52,400
Speaker 1: to Houston and then the season's gonna be over, and

219
00:09:52,440 --> 00:09:55,600
Speaker 1: then you know, some guys are gonna get released. Some

220
00:09:55,640 --> 00:09:58,920
Speaker 1: guys are gonna leave the team in free agency. You know,

221
00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:02,640
Speaker 1: some guys might retire. Who knows, right, that's that's the

222
00:10:02,640 --> 00:10:05,960
Speaker 1: business of the NFL. But again, you talked about the

223
00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:12,320
Speaker 1: intensity last week. What about now you know going into Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday,

224
00:10:12,559 --> 00:10:15,560
Speaker 1: you're not going to make the playoffs? Do you since

225
00:10:16,559 --> 00:10:19,240
Speaker 1: I don't just Devil's advocate, do you sense a drop

226
00:10:19,280 --> 00:10:23,000
Speaker 1: off in intensity when you're a player in that moment?

227
00:10:23,040 --> 00:10:27,400
Speaker 1: Because training camp, regular season, all off season, and OTA's

228
00:10:27,480 --> 00:10:29,719
Speaker 1: it's all about We're going to work and bust our

229
00:10:29,760 --> 00:10:32,640
Speaker 1: tail with one goal of mine to make the playoffs,

230
00:10:32,640 --> 00:10:35,440
Speaker 1: to win the division, get home playoff games, make the

231
00:10:35,480 --> 00:10:38,839
Speaker 1: super Bowl. Now all those goals are gone. So do

232
00:10:38,920 --> 00:10:41,319
Speaker 1: you do you do you think the intensity might drop

233
00:10:41,320 --> 00:10:44,040
Speaker 1: off for the Colts in this situation? Human nature might

234
00:10:44,120 --> 00:10:44,400
Speaker 1: kick you.

235
00:10:44,520 --> 00:10:46,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think there's there. It'd be you know, silly

236
00:10:46,720 --> 00:10:48,000
Speaker 2: for me to come here and be like, there's not

237
00:10:48,080 --> 00:10:50,720
Speaker 2: some form of human nature to that. But what I

238
00:10:50,920 --> 00:10:52,920
Speaker 2: you know, I've been a part of teams where we

239
00:10:52,920 --> 00:10:55,880
Speaker 2: were done early, right, and there's no chance of I'm

240
00:10:55,920 --> 00:10:58,680
Speaker 2: thinking of what seventeen, you know, we were like we

241
00:10:58,679 --> 00:11:00,120
Speaker 2: were like four and twelve or something like that.

242
00:11:00,200 --> 00:11:03,479
Speaker 3: But there you so what, I showed up to practice.

243
00:11:03,120 --> 00:11:04,719
Speaker 2: And we knew, you know, you knew, you know, you're

244
00:11:04,760 --> 00:11:06,880
Speaker 2: out right, you show up to practice that first day,

245
00:11:07,240 --> 00:11:10,000
Speaker 2: and if you don't bring intensity, you're gonna get embarrassed

246
00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:13,360
Speaker 2: on that football field really fast, because it's still the NFL, right,

247
00:11:13,440 --> 00:11:16,400
Speaker 2: And hopefully guys will learn that quickly. And again this

248
00:11:16,520 --> 00:11:19,560
Speaker 2: veteran leadership will will wake these guys up who are

249
00:11:19,600 --> 00:11:21,199
Speaker 2: being like, Hey, I'm just gonna kind of go through

250
00:11:21,240 --> 00:11:24,040
Speaker 2: the motions this week. Hey, you'll probably get yourself hurt,

251
00:11:24,559 --> 00:11:27,240
Speaker 2: be you'll get yourself embarrassed, and see, you have a

252
00:11:27,320 --> 00:11:29,400
Speaker 2: job to do. Have some pride in your work, and

253
00:11:29,400 --> 00:11:32,240
Speaker 2: and and hopefully that you know, the veteran leaders will

254
00:11:32,240 --> 00:11:34,800
Speaker 2: will wake the guys up to show that and show

255
00:11:34,840 --> 00:11:37,520
Speaker 2: the pride that they have. But but yeah, it'd be

256
00:11:37,559 --> 00:11:39,839
Speaker 2: silly to be like, hey, it's not you know, you're

257
00:11:39,880 --> 00:11:41,559
Speaker 2: not gonna have the same intensity you would have if

258
00:11:41,559 --> 00:11:43,840
Speaker 2: you were, you know, going to work for a playoff

259
00:11:43,880 --> 00:11:46,200
Speaker 2: game for that week, right, But but yeah, you still

260
00:11:46,200 --> 00:11:47,880
Speaker 2: got a job to do, and so you got to

261
00:11:47,880 --> 00:11:48,440
Speaker 2: put in the work.

262
00:11:48,480 --> 00:11:50,319
Speaker 1: And when it comes to guys who are free agents,

263
00:11:50,400 --> 00:11:52,640
Speaker 1: like hypothetically, if you're here on a one year deal

264
00:11:53,040 --> 00:11:55,559
Speaker 1: and you're a free agent and you're out of the playoffs.

265
00:11:55,559 --> 00:11:58,200
Speaker 1: I mean people talk, right, yeah, I mean how important

266
00:11:58,240 --> 00:12:01,000
Speaker 1: is it? Like if if player is going to hit

267
00:12:01,040 --> 00:12:03,840
Speaker 1: the open market in March and there's a coach on

268
00:12:03,880 --> 00:12:06,880
Speaker 1: another team that calls a coach, a Colt's assistant coach, like, hey,

269
00:12:07,080 --> 00:12:08,960
Speaker 1: what do you think of this guy? Like, you have

270
00:12:09,040 --> 00:12:11,120
Speaker 1: to be able to you have if you're the player,

271
00:12:11,160 --> 00:12:13,080
Speaker 1: you have to be able to force the coach the

272
00:12:13,120 --> 00:12:15,880
Speaker 1: cult the Colts coach I should say to say, we

273
00:12:15,880 --> 00:12:18,320
Speaker 1: were out of the playoffs, but this guy still busted

274
00:12:18,360 --> 00:12:22,040
Speaker 1: as you know what, every single day, regardless of the

275
00:12:22,080 --> 00:12:23,600
Speaker 1: implications on Sunday.

276
00:12:23,320 --> 00:12:24,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was the same guy every single day. That's

277
00:12:24,920 --> 00:12:28,440
Speaker 2: what any everybody wants. Every coach wants consistency from a player.

278
00:12:28,520 --> 00:12:31,080
Speaker 2: It doesn't matter what the circumstances are, that you're the

279
00:12:31,080 --> 00:12:33,960
Speaker 2: same guy every single day and every single day in

280
00:12:33,960 --> 00:12:37,280
Speaker 2: this building. You know, as a player is you know,

281
00:12:37,360 --> 00:12:39,000
Speaker 2: you have to have a little bit of gratitude that

282
00:12:39,040 --> 00:12:41,840
Speaker 2: you're an NFL player and what you're being asked to

283
00:12:41,880 --> 00:12:44,160
Speaker 2: do and and to be able to achieve the highest

284
00:12:44,200 --> 00:12:48,160
Speaker 2: level of football. And when you don't you know, reflect

285
00:12:48,200 --> 00:12:51,679
Speaker 2: on that or you know, take advantage of that or

286
00:12:51,840 --> 00:12:54,960
Speaker 2: understand you know, the responsibility that comes with that. Then

287
00:12:55,200 --> 00:12:58,040
Speaker 2: you know you're you're doing yourself a disservice. And like

288
00:12:58,040 --> 00:13:00,920
Speaker 2: you said, people talk every days, you know, another notch

289
00:13:00,920 --> 00:13:03,079
Speaker 2: on your resume, and when you don't put good film

290
00:13:03,120 --> 00:13:05,920
Speaker 2: out there, like you're just you know, hurting your career

291
00:13:05,920 --> 00:13:06,960
Speaker 2: and hurting your reputation.

292
00:13:07,320 --> 00:13:09,480
Speaker 1: So then what is the difference. Is there a difference

293
00:13:09,520 --> 00:13:12,800
Speaker 1: between as a former player? Is there a difference between

294
00:13:12,800 --> 00:13:15,080
Speaker 1: the culture eight and eight? Is there a difference between

295
00:13:15,080 --> 00:13:18,080
Speaker 1: eight and nine and nine and eight? Eight and nine

296
00:13:18,120 --> 00:13:20,760
Speaker 1: means you've lost seven straight games to close out the season.

297
00:13:21,240 --> 00:13:24,000
Speaker 1: Nine and eight means you salvage the season with a

298
00:13:24,040 --> 00:13:26,120
Speaker 1: win in week eighteen and you have a winning record.

299
00:13:26,520 --> 00:13:28,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I wouldn't say there's a big difference

300
00:13:28,880 --> 00:13:30,679
Speaker 2: in nineteen eight and eighty nine, but there's a big

301
00:13:30,720 --> 00:13:33,319
Speaker 2: difference in losing seven games to end your season, right,

302
00:13:33,360 --> 00:13:36,400
Speaker 2: So I think a win is really important as far

303
00:13:36,400 --> 00:13:39,240
Speaker 2: as that goes, and just getting that little bit of

304
00:13:39,240 --> 00:13:41,400
Speaker 2: the sour taste out of your mouth that hey, we

305
00:13:41,400 --> 00:13:43,560
Speaker 2: still can go win a football game, right, Like, you know,

306
00:13:43,600 --> 00:13:46,040
Speaker 2: we've kind of forgotten how to do that and then

307
00:13:46,120 --> 00:13:48,280
Speaker 2: lost a lot of tight games. So let's get a

308
00:13:48,280 --> 00:13:50,319
Speaker 2: win so that we can remind ourselves, Hey, we know

309
00:13:50,360 --> 00:13:51,599
Speaker 2: how to win football. And like you said to be

310
00:13:51,679 --> 00:13:53,760
Speaker 2: in a show, it's a new year, right in twenty

311
00:13:53,800 --> 00:13:57,040
Speaker 2: twenty six. Let's go get a win in twenty twenty six.

312
00:13:56,920 --> 00:13:58,600
Speaker 1: All right, So as we sit here and tape this

313
00:13:58,760 --> 00:14:01,720
Speaker 1: right now as we talk to you, we are talking

314
00:14:01,720 --> 00:14:04,960
Speaker 1: to you before there's anything definitive from head coach Shane

315
00:14:04,960 --> 00:14:08,520
Speaker 1: Stikeen when it comes to the game plan and the

316
00:14:08,720 --> 00:14:12,520
Speaker 1: quarterback decision for Week eighteen against the Houston Texans. We

317
00:14:12,600 --> 00:14:15,079
Speaker 1: don't know definitively right now as we speak, if it's

318
00:14:15,120 --> 00:14:17,400
Speaker 1: going to be Philip Rivers, if it's going to be

319
00:14:17,480 --> 00:14:21,000
Speaker 1: Rightly Leonard perhaps, or maybe the off chance that Anthony

320
00:14:21,120 --> 00:14:24,320
Speaker 1: Richardson comes off of injured reserve and has a chance

321
00:14:24,360 --> 00:14:28,000
Speaker 1: to be part of the active roster and have a

322
00:14:28,080 --> 00:14:30,600
Speaker 1: chance to start in the final game of the season.

323
00:14:30,640 --> 00:14:33,400
Speaker 1: So we'll wait and see on that. But hypothetically, Jack,

324
00:14:33,440 --> 00:14:36,840
Speaker 1: if Philip Rivers has played his last game not only

325
00:14:36,920 --> 00:14:39,800
Speaker 1: with the Colts but in the NFL and three starts

326
00:14:39,840 --> 00:14:43,320
Speaker 1: this year with the Colts, he started against Seattle, San

327
00:14:43,320 --> 00:14:46,760
Speaker 1: Francisco and the Jaguars, completed sixty three percent of his

328
00:14:46,840 --> 00:14:52,000
Speaker 1: passes through for over five hundred yards, four touchdowns, three interceptions.

329
00:14:52,320 --> 00:14:54,240
Speaker 1: I mean, for me, it was arguably better than I

330
00:14:54,840 --> 00:14:57,560
Speaker 1: would have expected, considering the Colts were down to their

331
00:14:57,640 --> 00:15:01,840
Speaker 1: third quarterback after losing Daniel Jones uh To to an

332
00:15:01,880 --> 00:15:05,400
Speaker 1: achilles injury a couple of weeks ago against the Jacksonville Jaguars.

333
00:15:05,400 --> 00:15:07,760
Speaker 1: And he comes out of retirement age forty four and

334
00:15:07,800 --> 00:15:09,720
Speaker 1: all of that. But if he if he has played

335
00:15:09,760 --> 00:15:14,960
Speaker 1: his last game in the NFL, I guess encapsulate the

336
00:15:15,040 --> 00:15:18,120
Speaker 1: seventeen years prior to this and then just the unique

337
00:15:18,120 --> 00:15:21,800
Speaker 1: situation of the last three weeks, how will you remember

338
00:15:22,200 --> 00:15:27,040
Speaker 1: totality wise, Philip Rivers with all that he's accomplished and

339
00:15:27,400 --> 00:15:29,240
Speaker 1: the brain that he has playing football.

340
00:15:29,560 --> 00:15:32,120
Speaker 2: I mean, he's just fearless, right, I Mean, that's what

341
00:15:32,240 --> 00:15:34,320
Speaker 2: I think of Phil, Like to come out and want

342
00:15:34,320 --> 00:15:36,160
Speaker 2: to do this right and knowing that it could go

343
00:15:36,760 --> 00:15:38,840
Speaker 2: really bad, and then it went you know, solid right,

344
00:15:38,880 --> 00:15:41,080
Speaker 2: it went pretty good, went okay, right, you know, he's

345
00:15:41,320 --> 00:15:42,960
Speaker 2: he would say, you know, I wish we had got

346
00:15:42,960 --> 00:15:45,440
Speaker 2: to win if that was his last you know, his

347
00:15:45,520 --> 00:15:48,720
Speaker 2: last start. But but yeah, it's I mean, what a

348
00:15:48,800 --> 00:15:51,120
Speaker 2: what a fearless competitor man. And it was so fun

349
00:15:51,120 --> 00:15:53,960
Speaker 2: to just watch him snap right back into you know

350
00:15:54,080 --> 00:15:57,240
Speaker 2: the old Phil and talking trash and yelling at the

351
00:15:57,280 --> 00:15:59,600
Speaker 2: refs and you know, and then then also being at

352
00:15:59,600 --> 00:16:02,880
Speaker 2: the line of scrimmage and and call him plays and

353
00:16:02,640 --> 00:16:05,600
Speaker 2: and just watching his brain work. You know, you just

354
00:16:05,600 --> 00:16:07,760
Speaker 2: don't see that a lot in the NFL anymore. Like

355
00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:09,920
Speaker 2: you know what, we kind of we grew up watching

356
00:16:09,960 --> 00:16:12,640
Speaker 2: Peyton Manning do that, and you know, watching Philip Rivers

357
00:16:12,640 --> 00:16:15,160
Speaker 2: do that now. Is it is so fun from a

358
00:16:15,200 --> 00:16:17,400
Speaker 2: fans perspective to watch a guy kind of watch his

359
00:16:17,480 --> 00:16:20,360
Speaker 2: brain tick. So yeah, I mean, good on Phil for

360
00:16:20,360 --> 00:16:22,920
Speaker 2: for for for coming out here and and I mean,

361
00:16:22,960 --> 00:16:25,040
Speaker 2: honestly what it seems like, you know, come and help

362
00:16:25,080 --> 00:16:26,840
Speaker 2: out a buddy. You know, him and Shane are very close,

363
00:16:26,880 --> 00:16:29,680
Speaker 2: and Shane calls and and and need some help. He's like,

364
00:16:29,720 --> 00:16:31,480
Speaker 2: all right, I got your back, bud. Like I'll go

365
00:16:31,600 --> 00:16:33,160
Speaker 2: do it. I don't care, I don't care what people

366
00:16:33,200 --> 00:16:35,640
Speaker 2: say about how I look or or what it's gonna

367
00:16:35,640 --> 00:16:37,400
Speaker 2: look like. I'm gonna go out there and and try

368
00:16:37,400 --> 00:16:40,200
Speaker 2: and play some more ball because I love football, so

369
00:16:40,200 --> 00:16:43,000
Speaker 2: so good on phill and and and and really cool

370
00:16:43,040 --> 00:16:45,440
Speaker 2: to to kind of watch him operate these past few weeks.

371
00:16:45,440 --> 00:16:48,160
Speaker 1: Well, he said that no matter what, you know, his decision,

372
00:16:48,840 --> 00:16:51,080
Speaker 1: he wasn't gonna have any regrets. Yeah, like, I'm just

373
00:16:51,120 --> 00:16:53,800
Speaker 1: gonna go out there because I have everything that you

374
00:16:53,840 --> 00:16:56,200
Speaker 1: just said. I want to help a friend. I love

375
00:16:56,240 --> 00:16:58,720
Speaker 1: this game. I still think I can play. I can

376
00:16:58,760 --> 00:17:01,040
Speaker 1: be useful. I know a lot of guys inside this

377
00:17:01,120 --> 00:17:03,760
Speaker 1: locker room. No matter how it goes three and oho

378
00:17:03,800 --> 00:17:06,440
Speaker 1: or zero and three or heck, maybe he starts Sunday,

379
00:17:06,840 --> 00:17:09,560
Speaker 1: maybe it's you know, a fourth game in that mix

380
00:17:09,600 --> 00:17:11,679
Speaker 1: as well. But he said he was gonna have no

381
00:17:11,880 --> 00:17:13,960
Speaker 1: regrets about this. How much do you think he's gonna

382
00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:16,280
Speaker 1: remember the last month or so for the rest of

383
00:17:16,280 --> 00:17:16,720
Speaker 1: his life.

384
00:17:17,080 --> 00:17:18,760
Speaker 2: I think I'll remember it for I think it's gonna

385
00:17:18,760 --> 00:17:21,120
Speaker 2: be one of his favorite memories from playing football.

386
00:17:21,240 --> 00:17:24,640
Speaker 3: Like I he had to have so much fun.

387
00:17:24,680 --> 00:17:26,960
Speaker 2: And again, I know the results didn't go the way

388
00:17:27,119 --> 00:17:28,679
Speaker 2: you know, he wanted him to go, the way we

389
00:17:28,720 --> 00:17:31,320
Speaker 2: wanted him to go as Colts fans, But but he

390
00:17:31,359 --> 00:17:33,560
Speaker 2: had to have so much fun. I can't imagine like

391
00:17:34,080 --> 00:17:36,520
Speaker 2: just hopping into a practice right now and being like

392
00:17:37,200 --> 00:17:39,119
Speaker 2: go play, going to play football, like he had to

393
00:17:39,160 --> 00:17:41,600
Speaker 2: have so much fun because there's no you know, once

394
00:17:41,640 --> 00:17:44,280
Speaker 2: you retire, there's no way to replicate that. You can coach,

395
00:17:44,359 --> 00:17:46,560
Speaker 2: right and you know he's coaching high school and you

396
00:17:46,560 --> 00:17:48,440
Speaker 2: know I've helped out high school. You can do all

397
00:17:48,440 --> 00:17:51,359
Speaker 2: that stuff, but there's nothing that could replicate you know,

398
00:17:51,480 --> 00:17:53,960
Speaker 2: truly playing that game and running out in front of

399
00:17:54,000 --> 00:17:56,840
Speaker 2: the crowd and you know, converting a big third down

400
00:17:56,920 --> 00:17:59,359
Speaker 2: and things like that. You can't replicate it. So to

401
00:17:59,359 --> 00:18:01,199
Speaker 2: get another chain into that, I mean, that had been

402
00:18:01,240 --> 00:18:04,080
Speaker 2: so cool for Phil and for his whole family.

403
00:18:03,960 --> 00:18:06,399
Speaker 1: And he said he was really excited. One of the

404
00:18:06,440 --> 00:18:11,040
Speaker 1: components about this decision was showing that his younger kids,

405
00:18:11,040 --> 00:18:12,680
Speaker 1: because we know he has a lot of children. Okay,

406
00:18:12,720 --> 00:18:15,840
Speaker 1: it's been well chronicled, but some of the younger kids

407
00:18:15,880 --> 00:18:18,080
Speaker 1: never got to see him play, never got to see

408
00:18:18,119 --> 00:18:21,280
Speaker 1: him play in his prime. So he was excited for

409
00:18:21,880 --> 00:18:24,840
Speaker 1: the younger side of his family to get a chance

410
00:18:24,920 --> 00:18:28,680
Speaker 1: to actually see him physically out there play football. Why, right,

411
00:18:28,760 --> 00:18:32,280
Speaker 1: see dad in action to do it. This is a

412
00:18:32,359 --> 00:18:35,240
Speaker 1: hypothetical question to you, but like if you were able

413
00:18:35,280 --> 00:18:38,080
Speaker 1: to come out of retirement. What would you most be

414
00:18:38,280 --> 00:18:42,560
Speaker 1: excited for when it comes to your kids being able

415
00:18:42,640 --> 00:18:46,000
Speaker 1: to see you play, Like, what what things would you

416
00:18:46,080 --> 00:18:49,200
Speaker 1: be excited for them to see in you in terms

417
00:18:49,240 --> 00:18:51,800
Speaker 1: of your playing style and you know, for them to

418
00:18:51,880 --> 00:18:54,640
Speaker 1: emulate you coming out of retirement playing football the way

419
00:18:54,680 --> 00:18:57,120
Speaker 1: you did for for so long nine years with the Colts. Yeah,

420
00:18:57,200 --> 00:18:58,840
Speaker 1: that's I don't know if that makes sense. No, it

421
00:18:58,880 --> 00:18:59,560
Speaker 1: does make I like.

422
00:18:59,560 --> 00:19:01,560
Speaker 2: Well, you know, I would want him to see effort, right,

423
00:19:01,600 --> 00:19:03,400
Speaker 2: I mean that's you know, and being a good teammate.

424
00:19:03,440 --> 00:19:05,439
Speaker 2: There's nothing that those are the two things that you

425
00:19:05,480 --> 00:19:08,280
Speaker 2: know you can control, right, and and two things that

426
00:19:08,320 --> 00:19:10,480
Speaker 2: were always important to me, you know, and and playing

427
00:19:10,520 --> 00:19:13,240
Speaker 2: hard no matter what the circumstances are. And and and

428
00:19:13,320 --> 00:19:14,119
Speaker 2: being a good teammate.

429
00:19:14,200 --> 00:19:14,320
Speaker 3: Right.

430
00:19:14,359 --> 00:19:16,359
Speaker 2: You know I've talked about in here, you know, rushing

431
00:19:16,440 --> 00:19:18,280
Speaker 2: to help a Jonathan Taylor up, you know, after he

432
00:19:18,280 --> 00:19:20,720
Speaker 2: gets tacked. Just little things like that. I'd I'd want

433
00:19:20,720 --> 00:19:23,000
Speaker 2: them to see the little things, you know, in between plays,

434
00:19:23,040 --> 00:19:26,280
Speaker 2: and and the way I carried myself hopefully that could

435
00:19:26,640 --> 00:19:28,960
Speaker 2: you know that he could emulate. But it got me thinking,

436
00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:32,000
Speaker 2: as you were talking about Phil, do you think like

437
00:19:32,520 --> 00:19:35,160
Speaker 2: gunners like coaching up Phil. You know his son Gunner,

438
00:19:35,160 --> 00:19:37,159
Speaker 2: who plays quarterback. You know Phil because they're running the

439
00:19:37,160 --> 00:19:37,840
Speaker 2: same offense.

440
00:19:38,240 --> 00:19:40,240
Speaker 1: Dad, Hey Dad, you missed the out there.

441
00:19:40,280 --> 00:19:42,560
Speaker 2: You missed the flat. You know he was opening the flat.

442
00:19:42,640 --> 00:19:44,840
Speaker 2: You told me that's our first read, and yeah, you

443
00:19:44,880 --> 00:19:46,680
Speaker 2: did it. Look I was thinking of that the other night,

444
00:19:46,800 --> 00:19:50,840
Speaker 2: like he's not doing what he's coaching and something to

445
00:19:50,840 --> 00:19:54,320
Speaker 2: do on the field, and so you get a teenager,

446
00:19:54,520 --> 00:19:56,479
Speaker 2: you know, you know, all that goes so uh so

447
00:19:56,520 --> 00:19:58,280
Speaker 2: that had to be that had to be really fun

448
00:19:58,280 --> 00:19:59,920
Speaker 2: for the Rivers family to sit down at the dinner

449
00:20:00,040 --> 00:20:02,120
Speaker 2: able and Dad be like, or you know, his son

450
00:20:02,160 --> 00:20:04,640
Speaker 2: Gunner'd be like, hey, Dad, let's watch some film first

451
00:20:04,680 --> 00:20:07,000
Speaker 2: first reads to the flat? Right, you know we're running

452
00:20:07,040 --> 00:20:10,159
Speaker 2: this concept. You know you miss that. That's good, be

453
00:20:10,240 --> 00:20:10,800
Speaker 2: really funny.

454
00:20:10,960 --> 00:20:12,800
Speaker 1: And how many players did he have? I mean, I'm

455
00:20:12,840 --> 00:20:15,639
Speaker 1: sure like close to a dozen maybe more. Write the

456
00:20:15,680 --> 00:20:18,879
Speaker 1: story out there that some of the the players on

457
00:20:18,920 --> 00:20:22,000
Speaker 1: his high school football team flew up or drove up

458
00:20:22,040 --> 00:20:24,400
Speaker 1: to the game to watch the Colts play the Jaguar.

459
00:20:24,480 --> 00:20:26,280
Speaker 1: So we had, you know a lot of those those

460
00:20:26,320 --> 00:20:30,399
Speaker 1: Fair Hope Alabama Saint Michael kids on his on his

461
00:20:30,520 --> 00:20:33,840
Speaker 1: team watching him play football in the stands. Now, how

462
00:20:33,840 --> 00:20:36,000
Speaker 1: many how many kids from the pe class would come?

463
00:20:36,240 --> 00:20:36,440
Speaker 3: Yeah?

464
00:20:36,920 --> 00:20:38,520
Speaker 1: Play coming out?

465
00:20:38,880 --> 00:20:39,399
Speaker 3: That's funny.

466
00:20:39,720 --> 00:20:41,080
Speaker 1: Sholl out some ticket though for that.

467
00:20:41,160 --> 00:20:43,399
Speaker 3: Oh yes, because they're all here. That's the problem.

468
00:20:44,720 --> 00:20:46,119
Speaker 1: I'd be all available.

469
00:20:46,160 --> 00:20:48,280
Speaker 3: I'd be in big trouble. I'd be in big trouble.

470
00:20:48,520 --> 00:20:50,720
Speaker 2: No, that's the you know they obviously they were joking

471
00:20:50,760 --> 00:20:52,439
Speaker 2: with me when when Phil came out, was like, hey,

472
00:20:52,440 --> 00:20:53,680
Speaker 2: when are you gonna go mount And like, no, I

473
00:20:53,720 --> 00:20:54,240
Speaker 2: can't come out.

474
00:20:54,240 --> 00:20:55,560
Speaker 3: You know, I gotta teach you guys.

475
00:20:55,920 --> 00:20:58,400
Speaker 1: Right big, I got a job already.

476
00:20:58,520 --> 00:21:00,400
Speaker 2: But yeah, how I mean, how cool for those high

477
00:21:00,400 --> 00:21:03,959
Speaker 2: school kids, like you know, you know Phil's preaching all

478
00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:05,639
Speaker 2: the right things to him, I'm sure down there in

479
00:21:05,680 --> 00:21:08,000
Speaker 2: Fair Hope and teaching them the life lessons, how to

480
00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:09,600
Speaker 2: walk the walk they come with football, and then he

481
00:21:09,640 --> 00:21:10,919
Speaker 2: goes out there and walks the walks.

482
00:21:11,040 --> 00:21:12,119
Speaker 3: Yeah, how cool is that?

483
00:21:12,240 --> 00:21:15,720
Speaker 2: And you know, coach rivers out there playing football and

484
00:21:15,840 --> 00:21:17,200
Speaker 2: had to be cool for those guys to see.

485
00:21:17,240 --> 00:21:21,359
Speaker 1: All right. So Week eighteen with the quarterback situation, Riley

486
00:21:21,440 --> 00:21:25,720
Speaker 1: Leonard playing for the Colts, playing that defense on the

487
00:21:25,840 --> 00:21:29,280
Speaker 1: road at NRG Stadium, what do you like about Riley

488
00:21:29,359 --> 00:21:32,520
Speaker 1: Leonard's game. The rookie out of Notre Dame, He's played

489
00:21:32,600 --> 00:21:35,679
Speaker 1: I think three or four games. Most substantial body of

490
00:21:35,720 --> 00:21:39,080
Speaker 1: work came in that game a couple weeks ago, I

491
00:21:39,119 --> 00:21:41,920
Speaker 1: think it was Week fourteen in Jacksonville, after Daniel Jones

492
00:21:41,960 --> 00:21:44,720
Speaker 1: tears his achilles. What do you like about Riley Leonard's

493
00:21:44,720 --> 00:21:46,879
Speaker 1: skill set going into the final game of this season.

494
00:21:47,040 --> 00:21:49,119
Speaker 2: Yeah, his mobility, right, and you know he's going to

495
00:21:49,160 --> 00:21:51,480
Speaker 2: be going up against a really tough defense in the Texans.

496
00:21:51,760 --> 00:21:54,320
Speaker 2: You know, we've seen that earlier in the year and

497
00:21:54,440 --> 00:21:56,720
Speaker 2: the way they can kind of get after you. But

498
00:21:56,720 --> 00:21:58,639
Speaker 2: but yeah, Riley, I think you know, from the body

499
00:21:58,640 --> 00:22:01,119
Speaker 2: of work he's had this whole seas in and and

500
00:22:01,119 --> 00:22:03,320
Speaker 2: and watching the way Daniel operated right, and then he

501
00:22:03,359 --> 00:22:05,240
Speaker 2: got a chance to watch how Phil operated right.

502
00:22:05,320 --> 00:22:06,520
Speaker 3: He had to learn a lot.

503
00:22:07,280 --> 00:22:09,280
Speaker 2: So I'm really excited for him to go out there

504
00:22:09,320 --> 00:22:11,320
Speaker 2: and and and take on the challenge and get an

505
00:22:11,359 --> 00:22:14,320
Speaker 2: opportunity to play and and again, his legs and his

506
00:22:14,359 --> 00:22:17,240
Speaker 2: mobility will be a you know, a key to his success,

507
00:22:17,320 --> 00:22:19,639
Speaker 2: I think. And uh so, yeah, it'll be cool to

508
00:22:19,640 --> 00:22:20,480
Speaker 2: see what Riley can do.

509
00:22:20,640 --> 00:22:22,320
Speaker 1: So, what what are the things the Colts can do

510
00:22:22,359 --> 00:22:25,040
Speaker 1: outside of that. Yeah, what can they do with Leonard

511
00:22:25,040 --> 00:22:27,160
Speaker 1: that they couldn't do with Philip Rivers the last couple

512
00:22:27,160 --> 00:22:27,440
Speaker 1: of games.

513
00:22:27,480 --> 00:22:29,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, Riley can run the ball, right, you know we

514
00:22:29,800 --> 00:22:31,800
Speaker 2: can do some zone read stuff, is what I see.

515
00:22:31,840 --> 00:22:34,679
Speaker 2: I see, you know more you know Dan think Daniel

516
00:22:34,760 --> 00:22:37,280
Speaker 2: early in the season of getting out of the pocket. Right,

517
00:22:37,359 --> 00:22:39,919
Speaker 2: You'll see those slide routes will come back. You know,

518
00:22:39,960 --> 00:22:41,760
Speaker 2: we saw we used to hit pitt Or Warring on

519
00:22:41,840 --> 00:22:43,600
Speaker 2: them a lot. You know, those guys come in there

520
00:22:43,640 --> 00:22:45,280
Speaker 2: a block a lot, so when they come around, they

521
00:22:45,320 --> 00:22:47,120
Speaker 2: come back behind the lot of scrimge on those slide routes.

522
00:22:47,160 --> 00:22:48,400
Speaker 3: You can get them opening in the flat.

523
00:22:49,280 --> 00:22:51,760
Speaker 2: So I see a lot of that, you know, you know,

524
00:22:51,840 --> 00:22:53,800
Speaker 2: come to fruition, you know, coming up in the game

525
00:22:53,800 --> 00:22:56,280
Speaker 2: plan this week. And uh and again I like the

526
00:22:56,280 --> 00:22:58,760
Speaker 2: way Riley carries himself and and and again. I think

527
00:22:58,800 --> 00:23:02,159
Speaker 2: he's he's done the world call year and prep and

528
00:23:02,760 --> 00:23:05,400
Speaker 2: practice and the way he's worked. I think he'll put

529
00:23:05,400 --> 00:23:06,600
Speaker 2: on a good show in come Sunday.

530
00:23:06,760 --> 00:23:08,000
Speaker 1: And you're good with this call.

531
00:23:08,119 --> 00:23:08,280
Speaker 3: Right.

532
00:23:08,359 --> 00:23:12,600
Speaker 1: Considering the circumstances, the Bolts are eliminated. Philip Rivers is

533
00:23:12,640 --> 00:23:15,919
Speaker 1: forty four, probably not coming back here next year. You're

534
00:23:15,960 --> 00:23:16,960
Speaker 1: okay with this decision?

535
00:23:17,040 --> 00:23:19,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's the right call for all parties involved.

536
00:23:19,960 --> 00:23:21,439
Speaker 2: And then get Riley a chance to get out there,

537
00:23:21,520 --> 00:23:23,280
Speaker 2: Like I said, get out there and show what he's got. Right,

538
00:23:23,280 --> 00:23:26,080
Speaker 2: he came in and you know, he did solid when

539
00:23:26,080 --> 00:23:28,639
Speaker 2: he came in for Daniel there and down in Jacksonville

540
00:23:28,880 --> 00:23:31,440
Speaker 2: after the achilles and move the ball and threw a

541
00:23:31,440 --> 00:23:33,040
Speaker 2: couple I remember him throwing a couple of really good

542
00:23:33,040 --> 00:23:36,480
Speaker 2: go bra really good go balls, which we have some

543
00:23:36,520 --> 00:23:38,280
Speaker 2: guys that can go get go balls, so you know

544
00:23:38,400 --> 00:23:40,480
Speaker 2: that's a good sign. So so yeah, I think it's

545
00:23:40,480 --> 00:23:42,720
Speaker 2: the right call and it'll be fun to see Riley

546
00:23:42,760 --> 00:23:43,800
Speaker 2: out there operating well.

547
00:23:43,920 --> 00:23:46,360
Speaker 1: Bigger picture, I mean, even if Daniel Jones does come

548
00:23:46,400 --> 00:23:49,240
Speaker 1: back and resigns with the Colts in free agency again,

549
00:23:49,280 --> 00:23:50,920
Speaker 1: he's on a one year deal, so if he comes

550
00:23:50,960 --> 00:23:56,000
Speaker 1: back again, he tore his achilles in late November early December,

551
00:23:56,520 --> 00:23:58,840
Speaker 1: so that's I mean, I have I don't think anybody

552
00:23:58,880 --> 00:24:03,479
Speaker 1: definitively anymore as timelines on acls and achilles. I mean

553
00:24:03,520 --> 00:24:06,760
Speaker 1: modern medicine and all these athletes are just freaks and

554
00:24:06,800 --> 00:24:10,800
Speaker 1: everybody's different anyways, But hypothetically, I mean, even if Jones

555
00:24:10,840 --> 00:24:13,400
Speaker 1: does come back, he's gonna miss some time. He's gonna

556
00:24:13,400 --> 00:24:15,840
Speaker 1: miss some time in the spring, he could miss some

557
00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:18,320
Speaker 1: time in the summer, and it's fair to wonder if

558
00:24:18,320 --> 00:24:21,399
Speaker 1: he's gonna be back in time for training camp, preseason,

559
00:24:21,480 --> 00:24:24,840
Speaker 1: regular season. So hypothetically, even if Jones comes back, is

560
00:24:25,160 --> 00:24:29,080
Speaker 1: rightly Leonard a viable option for the Colts just chicking

561
00:24:29,119 --> 00:24:31,919
Speaker 1: this around to maybe take over the reins for a

562
00:24:31,920 --> 00:24:34,320
Speaker 1: couple of games at the beginning of the season next years.

563
00:24:34,680 --> 00:24:37,199
Speaker 1: Is his skill set and his future that bright for

564
00:24:37,280 --> 00:24:37,720
Speaker 1: this team?

565
00:24:37,760 --> 00:24:40,600
Speaker 2: Well, here's his audition, right, I mean, this is the audition.

566
00:24:40,840 --> 00:24:42,399
Speaker 2: You know, we've kind of talked about it earlier in

567
00:24:42,400 --> 00:24:44,840
Speaker 2: this podcast, man, Like, this is an audition for everybody

568
00:24:44,880 --> 00:24:48,879
Speaker 2: across the NFL, righty, It's not just for the Colts, Like,

569
00:24:48,920 --> 00:24:50,480
Speaker 2: and that's how you got to take it. It's another

570
00:24:50,520 --> 00:24:52,560
Speaker 2: notch on your resume. You know, what can you do

571
00:24:52,680 --> 00:24:56,040
Speaker 2: against a top defense in the NFL at their place?

572
00:24:56,280 --> 00:24:58,200
Speaker 2: You know who's they're going to be playing for something?

573
00:24:58,240 --> 00:25:01,720
Speaker 2: Right They're still competing for that a AFC South title,

574
00:25:01,800 --> 00:25:03,840
Speaker 2: So so yeah, it's gonna be a great opportunity for

575
00:25:03,920 --> 00:25:06,360
Speaker 2: him to kind of show what he's got and and yeah,

576
00:25:06,560 --> 00:25:08,320
Speaker 2: you know, I think Riley has shown a lot of

577
00:25:08,359 --> 00:25:10,960
Speaker 2: good stuff. I think he had a really good preseason.

578
00:25:11,800 --> 00:25:14,240
Speaker 2: I'm thinking of he had a game down in Cincinnati,

579
00:25:14,280 --> 00:25:16,320
Speaker 2: was at Cincinnati where he like balled out.

580
00:25:16,280 --> 00:25:18,760
Speaker 1: Right, I like a fifty yard pass the LaQuan Tripp.

581
00:25:18,880 --> 00:25:20,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what I'm picturing in my head. And it

582
00:25:20,560 --> 00:25:21,080
Speaker 3: was beautiful.

583
00:25:21,160 --> 00:25:23,439
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's like he throws a good go route.

584
00:25:24,119 --> 00:25:27,400
Speaker 2: So that's a good thing, right, And and again having

585
00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:30,200
Speaker 2: the whole year of learning, you know, behind Daniel, right

586
00:25:30,240 --> 00:25:32,600
Speaker 2: and then learning you know, getting more time you know

587
00:25:32,640 --> 00:25:34,320
Speaker 2: with Philip Rivers. I know he spent time with him

588
00:25:34,359 --> 00:25:36,520
Speaker 2: in the past. Like who better to learn you know,

589
00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:38,720
Speaker 2: seeing defenses and where to go with a ball than

590
00:25:38,760 --> 00:25:40,840
Speaker 2: Philip Rivers. So so yeah, this will be a great

591
00:25:40,840 --> 00:25:42,720
Speaker 2: audition for him to to kind of show what he's

592
00:25:42,720 --> 00:25:45,160
Speaker 2: got and and and to see, you know, if he's

593
00:25:45,200 --> 00:25:47,720
Speaker 2: a viable option going into next year to kind of

594
00:25:47,760 --> 00:25:49,040
Speaker 2: you know, phil phill a role.

595
00:25:49,840 --> 00:25:52,720
Speaker 1: All right, So Riley Leonard is going to quarterback to

596
00:25:52,800 --> 00:25:56,840
Speaker 1: Colts in week eighteen, So we'll look forward to that. Obviously,

597
00:25:56,880 --> 00:25:59,119
Speaker 1: you know, a different set of circumstances for the Colts

598
00:25:59,119 --> 00:26:01,800
Speaker 1: as they close out this season. But let's talk about

599
00:26:01,840 --> 00:26:04,160
Speaker 1: the fallout right again. The big picture is the Colts

600
00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:07,200
Speaker 1: started seven to one, missing the playoffs for the fifth

601
00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:11,800
Speaker 1: straight season, and Jack, to me again, we'll have a

602
00:26:11,800 --> 00:26:14,760
Speaker 1: lot more time to get into this after the season's over,

603
00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:18,440
Speaker 1: when the dust settles, will put things into better perspective.

604
00:26:18,480 --> 00:26:21,840
Speaker 1: But I think you know, as it relates to now, right,

605
00:26:21,880 --> 00:26:23,720
Speaker 1: when you have the realization that you're not going to

606
00:26:23,760 --> 00:26:27,440
Speaker 1: make the playoffs, I think the decision makers for the Colts, Jack,

607
00:26:27,480 --> 00:26:30,280
Speaker 1: they're going to have to balance what I'm calling the

608
00:26:30,880 --> 00:26:34,639
Speaker 1: promise of a seven and one start, yeah, and the

609
00:26:34,720 --> 00:26:39,160
Speaker 1: absolute great football played by the Colts in the first

610
00:26:39,240 --> 00:26:44,160
Speaker 1: two months of this season, I mean historic numbers offensive efficiency.

611
00:26:44,359 --> 00:26:47,879
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones was experiencing career resurgence and there's no reason

612
00:26:47,920 --> 00:26:51,639
Speaker 1: to think that that wasn't going to continue if he

613
00:26:51,720 --> 00:26:54,960
Speaker 1: doesn't have the fibula and then the achilles. So they're

614
00:26:54,960 --> 00:26:57,359
Speaker 1: going to have to balance the promise of the first

615
00:26:57,440 --> 00:27:00,720
Speaker 1: two months of the season with a healthy Daniel Jones, Jack,

616
00:27:00,840 --> 00:27:05,240
Speaker 1: versus just the overall shortcomings of this franchise for the

617
00:27:05,280 --> 00:27:07,520
Speaker 1: last decade or so. I mean throw out the last

618
00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:10,520
Speaker 1: five years. But right, I mean there's only been one

619
00:27:10,800 --> 00:27:16,920
Speaker 1: playoff win since twenty fourteen. Yeah, there's only been There's

620
00:27:16,960 --> 00:27:21,479
Speaker 1: been zero AFC Style championship since twenty fourteen, you know,

621
00:27:21,600 --> 00:27:24,800
Speaker 1: no home playoff games in that time, So I mean,

622
00:27:24,840 --> 00:27:26,960
Speaker 1: where how do you balance all of that, right, the

623
00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:30,480
Speaker 1: big picture versus when we were healthy and humming, we

624
00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:31,640
Speaker 1: were a pretty good football team.

625
00:27:31,720 --> 00:27:33,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, Matt Weirres, it was like every week

626
00:27:33,960 --> 00:27:36,159
Speaker 2: you were coming in here reading a new stat that

627
00:27:36,280 --> 00:27:38,880
Speaker 2: this offense was accomplishing that was like hadn't been done

628
00:27:38,880 --> 00:27:40,040
Speaker 2: since nineteen seventy.

629
00:27:40,160 --> 00:27:42,040
Speaker 1: It was like, yeah, insane, it's the merger.

630
00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:44,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, it was. I mean, it's crazy.

631
00:27:44,720 --> 00:27:47,840
Speaker 2: It's just again, it just makes it so tough, right

632
00:27:47,920 --> 00:27:51,240
Speaker 2: because it looked like, you know, you know, we've kind

633
00:27:51,240 --> 00:27:53,280
Speaker 2: of been trying to break down that door, right and

634
00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:55,480
Speaker 2: getting to the playoffs and getting a home playoff game,

635
00:27:55,480 --> 00:27:57,800
Speaker 2: Like you said, it hadn't been since twenty fourteen. Then

636
00:27:57,840 --> 00:28:00,679
Speaker 2: that's a long time. That was my second season, so

637
00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:04,280
Speaker 2: that's a really long time ago. But man, it's just

638
00:28:04,359 --> 00:28:07,240
Speaker 2: really tough. And you don't ever want to blame injuries,

639
00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:09,760
Speaker 2: but you know, I think injuries played a huge role

640
00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:12,679
Speaker 2: in this season. And every season's got its story, right,

641
00:28:12,680 --> 00:28:14,760
Speaker 2: and you don't want to just say knock them all

642
00:28:14,760 --> 00:28:16,520
Speaker 2: off on, you know, and mush them all together.

643
00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:17,680
Speaker 3: Every season's got a story.

644
00:28:17,680 --> 00:28:20,479
Speaker 2: And I really think this year would have been different

645
00:28:20,840 --> 00:28:22,560
Speaker 2: had we not had some of the key injuries that

646
00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:25,560
Speaker 2: we had, And I think it would have turned out different.

647
00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:28,560
Speaker 2: And you know, maybe that's me being a little too optimistic,

648
00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:30,000
Speaker 2: but that's how I kind of see it.

649
00:28:30,119 --> 00:28:31,480
Speaker 1: I mean, look at I mean, during the eight and

650
00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:34,919
Speaker 1: two start, the Colts led the NFL in scoring thirty

651
00:28:34,920 --> 00:28:37,880
Speaker 1: two points per game. That's dropped all the way down

652
00:28:37,880 --> 00:28:41,040
Speaker 1: to nineteen points per game during this six game losing skid.

653
00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:43,400
Speaker 1: The Colts have been held to twenty or less than

654
00:28:43,440 --> 00:28:46,040
Speaker 1: six of their last seven. They've been held to twenty

655
00:28:46,120 --> 00:28:49,320
Speaker 1: or less in seven games this season. They've lost all

656
00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:51,480
Speaker 1: of them. I mean, is it that easy? Is it

657
00:28:51,840 --> 00:28:54,000
Speaker 1: that easy to say with Daniel Jones this offense is

658
00:28:54,040 --> 00:28:56,600
Speaker 1: pretty good? Without him, it struggled.

659
00:28:56,320 --> 00:28:57,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it is.

660
00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:00,560
Speaker 2: And I think maybe the opponent changed, right, I think

661
00:29:00,560 --> 00:29:03,240
Speaker 2: this schedule definitely got more difficult as the season went on.

662
00:29:03,320 --> 00:29:06,520
Speaker 2: But you lose your starting quarterback and you lose not

663
00:29:06,560 --> 00:29:09,080
Speaker 2: only his ability and what he was doing on the field,

664
00:29:09,160 --> 00:29:12,120
Speaker 2: but we were talking about how Daniel was, you know,

665
00:29:12,800 --> 00:29:15,000
Speaker 2: quizzing guys throughout the week, right and you know, and

666
00:29:15,040 --> 00:29:16,880
Speaker 2: bringing him in to watch a little clip of film,

667
00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:19,480
Speaker 2: and just his the way he was carrying himself, his leadership.

668
00:29:19,520 --> 00:29:22,840
Speaker 2: It's just infectuous. When you have a quarterback who does

669
00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:25,959
Speaker 2: all those little things too, I mean, and you lose that,

670
00:29:26,080 --> 00:29:28,960
Speaker 2: it really does hurt a team. I mean it again,

671
00:29:29,040 --> 00:29:31,840
Speaker 2: it's easy. You don't want to make the injury excuse,

672
00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:35,920
Speaker 2: but it's this season seems, you know, not so much

673
00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:38,360
Speaker 2: like others. And I really think the injury portion of

674
00:29:38,400 --> 00:29:41,240
Speaker 2: losing your starting quarterback really did hurt this team. And

675
00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:44,239
Speaker 2: you know, you throw Deforce Buckner in there too, as

676
00:29:44,280 --> 00:29:47,600
Speaker 2: I'm thinking, like other big injuries and different guys on defense.

677
00:29:47,680 --> 00:29:51,160
Speaker 2: So so yeah, you know, again, I hate doing that

678
00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:53,240
Speaker 2: and I don't like doing that, but I think it

679
00:29:53,280 --> 00:29:55,680
Speaker 2: really is kind of the story of how this season went.

680
00:29:55,800 --> 00:29:58,480
Speaker 1: And I've heard it said and I understand this, but

681
00:29:58,520 --> 00:30:00,440
Speaker 1: I would love to pose this to you because I

682
00:30:00,440 --> 00:30:03,480
Speaker 1: think you can explain it pretty well. Someone said, when

683
00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:07,200
Speaker 1: the Colts lost Daniel Jones, they lost Jonathan Taylor as well,

684
00:30:07,720 --> 00:30:10,240
Speaker 1: what do you think what do they mean by that?

685
00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:12,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, well, especially early when you know, when

686
00:30:12,840 --> 00:30:15,360
Speaker 2: we started having fill up, everything was in gun and

687
00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:17,360
Speaker 2: you know, when you're in gun and you're trying to

688
00:30:17,360 --> 00:30:19,440
Speaker 2: do run game, it just doesn't work as well at

689
00:30:19,440 --> 00:30:21,880
Speaker 2: the angles for the whole line changes. You don't get

690
00:30:21,960 --> 00:30:26,240
Speaker 2: Jonathan Taylor going downhill. And we really lost the rollout

691
00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:29,080
Speaker 2: pass game, right the nakeds then that's what they're calling

692
00:30:29,160 --> 00:30:33,040
Speaker 2: naked rollouts. And you know, not having that, you know,

693
00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:35,440
Speaker 2: be a fake or being an option off of, you know,

694
00:30:35,560 --> 00:30:38,480
Speaker 2: off of the run game to Jonathan, you know, it

695
00:30:38,680 --> 00:30:41,440
Speaker 2: just it really hurt his game, and and and and

696
00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:44,360
Speaker 2: and how we could attack a defense and and yeah,

697
00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:47,440
Speaker 2: I think that's probably well said, and and and how

698
00:30:47,520 --> 00:30:50,320
Speaker 2: much you know, you don't realize it until it's gone, right,

699
00:30:50,360 --> 00:30:52,880
Speaker 2: how much of effect you know, Daniel was, you know,

700
00:30:53,080 --> 00:30:56,480
Speaker 2: and and and helping Jonathan Taylor get going, and and

701
00:30:56,680 --> 00:30:58,960
Speaker 2: and the way they were scheming up the you know,

702
00:30:59,080 --> 00:31:00,960
Speaker 2: run game. It was a lot of early passes and

703
00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:02,840
Speaker 2: rollouts early in the first half, so a lot of

704
00:31:02,840 --> 00:31:04,880
Speaker 2: games with Daniel and then and then run the ball

705
00:31:04,920 --> 00:31:07,200
Speaker 2: in the second half is why the defense is spread

706
00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:09,560
Speaker 2: out yeah, well they have to count for them. You've

707
00:31:09,600 --> 00:31:13,000
Speaker 2: got them unbalanced, right, And so yeah, I think that's

708
00:31:13,040 --> 00:31:14,800
Speaker 2: a that's well put. I haven't heard that said, but

709
00:31:14,880 --> 00:31:18,080
Speaker 2: I mean it's accurate and accurate statement for sure.

710
00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:20,880
Speaker 1: So I think there's more to it than this. But

711
00:31:21,280 --> 00:31:24,200
Speaker 1: to keep it simple, I wrote down that the three

712
00:31:24,360 --> 00:31:27,520
Speaker 1: biggest reasons, right in terms of the fallout when you

713
00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:30,000
Speaker 1: go seven to one and eight and two and now

714
00:31:30,040 --> 00:31:32,760
Speaker 1: you miss the playoffs. Unbelievably missed the playoffs, but you

715
00:31:32,840 --> 00:31:36,360
Speaker 1: do it with two games to go, is even more frustrating.

716
00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:40,560
Speaker 1: But to me that the three biggest keys or reasons

717
00:31:40,600 --> 00:31:43,080
Speaker 1: why the Colts missed the playoffs, in no particular order.

718
00:31:43,360 --> 00:31:47,200
Speaker 1: You mentioned injuries. I also wrote down just not being

719
00:31:47,200 --> 00:31:50,960
Speaker 1: able to win close games and having too many miss chances.

720
00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:53,640
Speaker 1: All right, so that's number two, and the number three

721
00:31:54,120 --> 00:31:57,040
Speaker 1: not being able to beat good teams, not being able

722
00:31:57,080 --> 00:31:59,440
Speaker 1: to beat teams who are over five hundred and like

723
00:31:59,480 --> 00:32:01,960
Speaker 1: you said, the schedule has certainly ramped up.

724
00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:03,520
Speaker 3: What is it?

725
00:32:03,560 --> 00:32:06,280
Speaker 1: I wrote it down the first half of the season

726
00:32:06,320 --> 00:32:09,520
Speaker 1: the Colts played. They played ten games, but they only

727
00:32:09,560 --> 00:32:12,360
Speaker 1: played four teams with a winning record in the first

728
00:32:12,360 --> 00:32:14,800
Speaker 1: ten games. And they're going to close out the season

729
00:32:14,840 --> 00:32:19,120
Speaker 1: against six straight opponents who have at least eleven wins. Okay,

730
00:32:19,560 --> 00:32:22,640
Speaker 1: so no question the schedule heated up. But not being

731
00:32:22,640 --> 00:32:25,160
Speaker 1: able to beat good teams, teams that are over five

732
00:32:25,240 --> 00:32:27,920
Speaker 1: hundred that are gonna make the playoffs. So rank them

733
00:32:27,920 --> 00:32:33,280
Speaker 1: in order, Jack, what are the biggest ones for you? Injuries,

734
00:32:33,920 --> 00:32:36,560
Speaker 1: close games, not being able to finish games in the

735
00:32:36,560 --> 00:32:38,600
Speaker 1: fourth quarter, and not being able to beat good teams.

736
00:32:38,720 --> 00:32:40,840
Speaker 1: Rank those in terms of why the Colts missed the playoffs.

737
00:32:40,920 --> 00:32:44,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, well again, I hate doing injuries, but losing your

738
00:32:44,440 --> 00:32:46,760
Speaker 2: starting quarterback and a guy that was playing at an

739
00:32:47,200 --> 00:32:50,240
Speaker 2: MVP level. I mean, go back to when the fibula first,

740
00:32:50,280 --> 00:32:52,280
Speaker 2: you know, the fracture of fibula first started, and it's

741
00:32:52,400 --> 00:32:56,440
Speaker 2: hinder Daniel. I think that plays a huge part in

742
00:32:56,480 --> 00:32:58,920
Speaker 2: the way the season kind of went. And you know,

743
00:32:58,960 --> 00:33:01,120
Speaker 2: the first half was rolling in the NFL part, right,

744
00:33:01,160 --> 00:33:05,920
Speaker 2: And so I would I would put injuries first, and

745
00:33:05,960 --> 00:33:08,600
Speaker 2: then you gotta win close games, because I would put

746
00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:10,320
Speaker 2: that second, and then last, I would put you know,

747
00:33:10,400 --> 00:33:13,080
Speaker 2: beating good teams, which those are pretty even in my eyes, but.

748
00:33:13,520 --> 00:33:15,280
Speaker 1: They all go hand, Yeah, they all go hand hand.

749
00:33:15,320 --> 00:33:17,960
Speaker 3: But you you know, you can't.

750
00:33:18,240 --> 00:33:21,120
Speaker 2: Every game in the NFL is close for the most part.

751
00:33:21,560 --> 00:33:23,680
Speaker 2: There are one score games, you know, seventy five I

752
00:33:23,680 --> 00:33:25,120
Speaker 2: don't know. I'm guessing seventy five eight.

753
00:33:26,360 --> 00:33:28,440
Speaker 1: There are one score games the last four minutes.

754
00:33:28,440 --> 00:33:30,680
Speaker 2: You gotta find a way to win those, and we

755
00:33:30,760 --> 00:33:33,360
Speaker 2: just haven't, right, we haven't figured that out. And you know,

756
00:33:33,440 --> 00:33:35,600
Speaker 2: I don't know what it is, and I don't know

757
00:33:35,600 --> 00:33:37,920
Speaker 2: how to fix it, but we got we gotta find

758
00:33:37,920 --> 00:33:40,360
Speaker 2: a way because that's just what the NFL is. And

759
00:33:40,400 --> 00:33:41,840
Speaker 2: you're not going to be in the playoffs if you

760
00:33:41,840 --> 00:33:44,000
Speaker 2: don't win some of these close games. And you know

761
00:33:44,040 --> 00:33:47,560
Speaker 2: you're playing good teams late in the year, you split those, right,

762
00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:49,760
Speaker 2: We split those less you know what was it six

763
00:33:49,800 --> 00:33:51,880
Speaker 2: teams with you get go three and three in those

764
00:33:52,320 --> 00:33:55,400
Speaker 2: because you're beating bad teams early in the season, right,

765
00:33:55,440 --> 00:33:57,560
Speaker 2: you're taking care of your business, right, you're giving yourself

766
00:33:57,600 --> 00:33:59,720
Speaker 2: some leeway. You just got to split those right and

767
00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:00,760
Speaker 2: win some of those.

768
00:34:01,040 --> 00:34:02,520
Speaker 1: And it goes back to injuries though, like if you

769
00:34:02,840 --> 00:34:05,600
Speaker 1: this is me talking not you, but if Daniel Jones

770
00:34:05,960 --> 00:34:09,279
Speaker 1: and DeForest Buckner primarily yes, are healthy, like the heart

771
00:34:09,280 --> 00:34:10,960
Speaker 1: and soul of the guy on offense and the heart

772
00:34:10,960 --> 00:34:12,640
Speaker 1: and soul of the guy on defense. If those two

773
00:34:12,680 --> 00:34:15,080
Speaker 1: guys are healthy and humming late in the season, and

774
00:34:15,120 --> 00:34:16,960
Speaker 1: you play all these good teams late in the year,

775
00:34:17,280 --> 00:34:20,560
Speaker 1: you may not go undefeated. No, but you're not gonna

776
00:34:20,560 --> 00:34:24,080
Speaker 1: go over. No, you're gonna split them right to some degree,

777
00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:26,680
Speaker 1: and you're not going to be in this situation. You're

778
00:34:26,680 --> 00:34:30,680
Speaker 1: gonna be ten eleven wins going into weekend team with

779
00:34:30,719 --> 00:34:34,000
Speaker 1: a much better chance of probability to make the playoffs,

780
00:34:34,040 --> 00:34:36,439
Speaker 1: and heck, you're probably still alive to win the Division two.

781
00:34:36,680 --> 00:34:37,480
Speaker 3: That's just crazy.

782
00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:38,600
Speaker 1: That's just me talking. Yeah.

783
00:34:38,640 --> 00:34:40,799
Speaker 3: No, but that I agree with you, Matt. I agree

784
00:34:40,840 --> 00:34:41,440
Speaker 3: with you completely.

785
00:34:41,560 --> 00:34:44,520
Speaker 1: It all kind of all. It's all big one ball

786
00:34:44,560 --> 00:34:47,480
Speaker 1: of sorrow, right, it is one. Yeah, you know, get

787
00:34:47,480 --> 00:34:48,680
Speaker 1: the tiny violins.

788
00:34:48,320 --> 00:34:50,280
Speaker 3: Out for yeah, exactly. Yeah, that's how we're feeling.

789
00:34:50,320 --> 00:34:53,600
Speaker 2: But it's just, you know it, it just stinks. You know,

790
00:34:54,200 --> 00:34:56,920
Speaker 2: we're sitting here talking about home playoff games. That's why

791
00:34:56,960 --> 00:34:58,520
Speaker 2: I keep thinking about as we're as we're kind of

792
00:34:58,520 --> 00:35:01,200
Speaker 2: discussing how the season went and and thinking of, you know,

793
00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:03,680
Speaker 2: number one seeds, we're thinking of home playoff games.

794
00:35:03,719 --> 00:35:05,200
Speaker 3: The way at the beginning of this year.

795
00:35:05,239 --> 00:35:07,640
Speaker 2: Wait, man, I just feel sick for those guys and

796
00:35:07,760 --> 00:35:09,560
Speaker 2: how it kind of all fell apart, and you know,

797
00:35:09,640 --> 00:35:12,239
Speaker 2: starting with the injury to Daniel and and like you said,

798
00:35:12,239 --> 00:35:14,600
Speaker 2: to Forrest too. I can't remember exactly when the Forest

799
00:35:14,680 --> 00:35:15,799
Speaker 2: first heard his neck was.

800
00:35:15,760 --> 00:35:18,440
Speaker 1: In Pittsburgh and Pittsburgh, yeah, week nine, I think.

801
00:35:18,520 --> 00:35:20,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, so it's just again like you said, and those

802
00:35:20,640 --> 00:35:25,160
Speaker 2: are truly are like the Forrest's leadership skills and talents

803
00:35:25,200 --> 00:35:27,360
Speaker 2: and the way he plays football and the way he

804
00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:30,200
Speaker 2: carries himself and holds guys accountable, and the way he

805
00:35:30,239 --> 00:35:33,120
Speaker 2: plays man that you can't tell me that wasn't missed

806
00:35:33,840 --> 00:35:35,520
Speaker 2: from that defense out there, and the way you can

807
00:35:35,520 --> 00:35:38,879
Speaker 2: get after the passer. And then Daniel, you know, Daniel Jones,

808
00:35:38,920 --> 00:35:40,719
Speaker 2: the same way on as far as the offense goes.

809
00:35:40,760 --> 00:35:43,719
Speaker 2: So yeah, really really tough pill to swallow with how

810
00:35:43,760 --> 00:35:44,920
Speaker 2: this thing's kind of shaken up.

811
00:35:44,920 --> 00:35:48,160
Speaker 1: I mean, what's more unbelievable the Colts six games slide

812
00:35:48,680 --> 00:35:51,799
Speaker 1: and losing seven of eight, or Jacksonville winning seven in

813
00:35:51,840 --> 00:35:55,120
Speaker 1: a row after they were what three and five, five

814
00:35:55,160 --> 00:35:56,960
Speaker 1: and four somewhere in there. I have to go back

815
00:35:57,000 --> 00:36:00,280
Speaker 1: and look, or Houston winning eight straight games after starting

816
00:36:00,320 --> 00:36:01,320
Speaker 1: the year oh and three.

817
00:36:01,160 --> 00:36:03,320
Speaker 2: It's like you forget about that, right because we know

818
00:36:03,320 --> 00:36:05,319
Speaker 2: we're stuck in our own little bubble here. But it's like,

819
00:36:06,280 --> 00:36:08,319
Speaker 2: I don't even realize they've won that many games. I

820
00:36:08,320 --> 00:36:10,080
Speaker 2: know they've been winning, but like to win that many

821
00:36:10,120 --> 00:36:13,080
Speaker 2: in a row is just it doesn't make sense. What's

822
00:36:13,160 --> 00:36:15,160
Speaker 2: up with the AFC South. This is supposed to be

823
00:36:15,160 --> 00:36:16,359
Speaker 2: around here again.

824
00:36:16,440 --> 00:36:18,800
Speaker 1: I mean, Houston's a great team and they deserve it

825
00:36:18,880 --> 00:36:21,359
Speaker 1: right they're in and I mean C J. Stroud missed

826
00:36:21,360 --> 00:36:24,719
Speaker 1: three games with a concussion. Davis Mills comes in, great job,

827
00:36:24,840 --> 00:36:27,840
Speaker 1: he weathers the storm and and and takes over the

828
00:36:27,880 --> 00:36:29,840
Speaker 1: wheel and keeps it right down the middle. But I

829
00:36:29,840 --> 00:36:32,200
Speaker 1: mean they don't they don't score a boatload of points.

830
00:36:33,160 --> 00:36:35,080
Speaker 3: You'll say, what that Will Anderson guy?

831
00:36:35,120 --> 00:36:37,880
Speaker 1: I understand. I understand, like one one side of the

832
00:36:37,880 --> 00:36:40,880
Speaker 1: ball is kind of dominating that team of carrying a little.

833
00:36:40,719 --> 00:36:44,120
Speaker 2: Bit that Will Anderson Guy is le git man, I

834
00:36:44,120 --> 00:36:45,640
Speaker 2: have got I don't have to block him.

835
00:36:45,680 --> 00:36:47,920
Speaker 1: I'm glad I don't have to block hic here too. Yeah, No,

836
00:36:47,960 --> 00:36:48,400
Speaker 1: that'd be no.

837
00:36:48,440 --> 00:36:50,520
Speaker 2: I mean they had plenty there when I was you know,

838
00:36:51,040 --> 00:36:55,320
Speaker 2: when I was playing with Watt and Merciless. Merciless gosh,

839
00:36:55,440 --> 00:36:58,560
Speaker 2: I still wake up thinking of Mercy, that merciless No

840
00:36:58,560 --> 00:37:00,960
Speaker 2: one talked about merciless mercy. He might have been the best,

841
00:37:01,080 --> 00:37:05,440
Speaker 2: like yeah, you know, just so play out, strong, great hands.

842
00:37:05,120 --> 00:37:09,480
Speaker 1: Like great last name too, Yeah, yes, yes, defensive.

843
00:37:09,120 --> 00:37:09,680
Speaker 3: Yes he was.

844
00:37:10,160 --> 00:37:12,960
Speaker 2: He's an Illinois product, but yeah he was a stud

845
00:37:13,200 --> 00:37:15,479
Speaker 2: and Clowney. You know they had Clowny too. Clowney still

846
00:37:15,520 --> 00:37:19,200
Speaker 2: going but uh but yeah, it's just it's just stinks, man.

847
00:37:19,480 --> 00:37:21,440
Speaker 2: It just like the fact that a f C South

848
00:37:21,520 --> 00:37:25,799
Speaker 2: is is everything was doing this to us after the beginning, yeah,

849
00:37:26,080 --> 00:37:26,759
Speaker 2: literally right, and the.

850
00:37:26,800 --> 00:37:28,839
Speaker 1: High Yeah, I mean we're flying home from Berlin two

851
00:37:28,840 --> 00:37:30,239
Speaker 1: and a half game lead in the a f C

852
00:37:30,400 --> 00:37:32,640
Speaker 1: South and all these teams are kind of tread and

853
00:37:32,719 --> 00:37:34,680
Speaker 1: water a little bit. You're like, okay, we we have

854
00:37:34,719 --> 00:37:37,560
Speaker 1: finally built up the wiggle room. We've gotten off to

855
00:37:37,640 --> 00:37:40,879
Speaker 1: a great we have this margin for air, and they

856
00:37:40,960 --> 00:37:42,480
Speaker 1: used it up by the end of November.

857
00:37:42,920 --> 00:37:43,840
Speaker 3: I mean, it's crazy.

858
00:37:43,880 --> 00:37:45,839
Speaker 1: We laugh about it now, right, Yeah, we're in it.

859
00:37:45,800 --> 00:37:46,920
Speaker 3: Because we're in it. We're in it.

860
00:37:46,960 --> 00:37:49,000
Speaker 2: You gotta almost laugh about it because holse, do you

861
00:37:49,040 --> 00:37:49,680
Speaker 2: respond to it?

862
00:37:49,719 --> 00:37:49,919
Speaker 3: Man?

863
00:37:50,040 --> 00:37:51,640
Speaker 1: Exactly a coping mechanism.

864
00:37:51,920 --> 00:37:53,120
Speaker 3: It's just stinks. Man.

865
00:37:53,200 --> 00:37:55,080
Speaker 2: It just I feel so bad for those guys that

866
00:37:55,160 --> 00:37:57,160
Speaker 2: are putting in the work and the coaches who are

867
00:37:57,160 --> 00:37:58,759
Speaker 2: putting in the work for it's just kind of just

868
00:37:59,280 --> 00:38:01,239
Speaker 2: you know, fall of the rails here is just it's

869
00:38:01,320 --> 00:38:03,680
Speaker 2: just really tough. Really, it's really tough build us wall.

870
00:38:03,760 --> 00:38:06,240
Speaker 1: Like I said, Yeah, well, we can't end on a downer.

871
00:38:06,320 --> 00:38:08,279
Speaker 1: We know, we got to ramp things back up a

872
00:38:08,280 --> 00:38:10,520
Speaker 1: little bit. That's what we do here. To close out

873
00:38:10,520 --> 00:38:12,759
Speaker 1: the podcast. If you're new to the show, we have

874
00:38:12,880 --> 00:38:15,319
Speaker 1: some fun with Jack Doyle, two time Pro Bowler, nine

875
00:38:15,400 --> 00:38:17,839
Speaker 1: year colt tight end. We know him as the great

876
00:38:17,840 --> 00:38:20,040
Speaker 1: football player, but let's get to know him off the field.

877
00:38:20,040 --> 00:38:22,840
Speaker 1: We call it you don't know Jack, So Jack, this

878
00:38:22,960 --> 00:38:24,319
Speaker 1: is where we get to know you a little bit.

879
00:38:24,360 --> 00:38:28,680
Speaker 1: And obviously, this week's theme is centered around the holiday season.

880
00:38:28,760 --> 00:38:31,560
Speaker 1: Last week we talked about, you know, your favorite Christmas

881
00:38:31,600 --> 00:38:34,600
Speaker 1: presents and your favorite Christmas traditions. But this week we

882
00:38:34,640 --> 00:38:37,080
Speaker 1: want to know Jack, where do you stand on New

883
00:38:37,160 --> 00:38:42,560
Speaker 1: Year's Eve? Overrated? Underrated? I'm gonna say it's overrated, overrated?

884
00:38:42,760 --> 00:38:47,839
Speaker 2: Yes, absolutely, I don't care, right, you know, I don't

885
00:38:47,840 --> 00:38:48,919
Speaker 2: care about New Year's Eve.

886
00:38:49,080 --> 00:38:50,799
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just another.

887
00:38:50,520 --> 00:38:52,479
Speaker 2: D you don't have your party pants. No, I don't

888
00:38:52,480 --> 00:38:55,040
Speaker 2: have my party pants. I've never I've never really gotten

889
00:38:55,040 --> 00:38:55,960
Speaker 2: the hype around it.

890
00:38:56,080 --> 00:38:58,800
Speaker 3: I really have it like same. I mean, I'll watch

891
00:38:58,840 --> 00:38:59,520
Speaker 3: the ball drop.

892
00:38:59,560 --> 00:39:00,920
Speaker 1: I guess it's amateur night.

893
00:39:00,920 --> 00:39:01,160
Speaker 3: Brother.

894
00:39:01,280 --> 00:39:03,359
Speaker 2: My kids will try and be like all hyped up

895
00:39:03,440 --> 00:39:05,920
Speaker 2: right and try and stay up, and I'll probably be

896
00:39:05,960 --> 00:39:06,800
Speaker 2: asleep on the couch.

897
00:39:06,880 --> 00:39:07,680
Speaker 3: I probably won't make.

898
00:39:07,640 --> 00:39:09,240
Speaker 1: So this is I don't know if you've ever pulled

899
00:39:09,239 --> 00:39:10,839
Speaker 1: this off or try to pull this off, but this

900
00:39:10,880 --> 00:39:13,120
Speaker 1: is the Joe Wrights move. He's got a gaggle of

901
00:39:13,239 --> 00:39:16,120
Speaker 1: kids too, Okay, all right, he's got what eight of them?

902
00:39:16,360 --> 00:39:16,600
Speaker 3: Yeah?

903
00:39:16,680 --> 00:39:20,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, So his move is he'll he'll like change all

904
00:39:20,560 --> 00:39:21,680
Speaker 1: the clocks in his house.

905
00:39:21,960 --> 00:39:23,319
Speaker 3: It's such a baller move. Yeah.

906
00:39:23,320 --> 00:39:26,439
Speaker 1: So, like when it's like nine o'clock, he'll fast forward

907
00:39:26,480 --> 00:39:29,000
Speaker 1: it to like eleven thirty. Last year's there, and he'll

908
00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:31,799
Speaker 1: pull up He'll pull up a YouTube video, put it

909
00:39:31,840 --> 00:39:35,600
Speaker 1: on the TV and say, get kids, gather around two

910
00:39:35,680 --> 00:39:38,719
Speaker 1: minutes ten nine, and then they go to bed at

911
00:39:38,760 --> 00:39:42,279
Speaker 1: like nine ten o'clock. I'm like, that's a pros.

912
00:39:41,760 --> 00:39:43,680
Speaker 2: Want to move. I might try and steal it. Yeah,

913
00:39:43,719 --> 00:39:45,759
Speaker 2: I might try and steal it. Oh no, you know,

914
00:39:45,880 --> 00:39:48,080
Speaker 2: it'd be hard to change all the clocks though with something.

915
00:39:48,320 --> 00:39:50,200
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, you have to be pretty comprehensive about it.

916
00:39:50,280 --> 00:39:51,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you got kids out, you do it the

917
00:39:51,920 --> 00:39:55,319
Speaker 2: day before, tablets and yeah, I do it the day before, right,

918
00:39:55,360 --> 00:39:56,680
Speaker 2: all right, So I'm gonna do it tonight.

919
00:39:57,000 --> 00:39:58,560
Speaker 1: You know, we're shooting this on Tuesday, So I'm gonna

920
00:39:58,560 --> 00:40:00,880
Speaker 1: do it tonight. So it's ready for New Year's. Holy smokes.

921
00:40:01,640 --> 00:40:05,000
Speaker 1: But yeah, definitely overrated in my eyes. I don't get

922
00:40:05,320 --> 00:40:07,319
Speaker 1: so you never went out though, like in college. Never

923
00:40:07,520 --> 00:40:10,200
Speaker 1: I guess a big party or party bus. I guess,

924
00:40:10,520 --> 00:40:11,360
Speaker 1: never did anything big.

925
00:40:12,120 --> 00:40:14,080
Speaker 3: I remember like going to like the elbow Room downtown

926
00:40:14,160 --> 00:40:14,920
Speaker 3: like in college.

927
00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:17,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, there you go, that's it.

928
00:40:17,080 --> 00:40:18,959
Speaker 3: That's like, that's what I remember doing for New Year's

929
00:40:18,960 --> 00:40:19,799
Speaker 3: an elbow room.

930
00:40:19,960 --> 00:40:21,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, what were you doing down there?

931
00:40:21,760 --> 00:40:25,440
Speaker 3: I don't know, that's what you're like, what twenty.

932
00:40:25,160 --> 00:40:27,000
Speaker 1: Three hanging out with a bunch of fifty year olds

933
00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:27,839
Speaker 1: at the elbow room.

934
00:40:28,120 --> 00:40:31,279
Speaker 3: No, it was like someone like someone who grew up.

935
00:40:31,320 --> 00:40:34,920
Speaker 2: I know, some eastsider was throwing a party or something.

936
00:40:34,960 --> 00:40:36,960
Speaker 3: I don't know. I was probably in high school. I

937
00:40:36,960 --> 00:40:39,160
Speaker 3: don't even beer. I might not have been of age.

938
00:40:39,160 --> 00:40:42,239
Speaker 3: I don't even know that's what'll say that. But I

939
00:40:42,280 --> 00:40:43,040
Speaker 3: was still in college.

940
00:40:43,520 --> 00:40:45,360
Speaker 2: I wasn't playing. I wasn't playing for the Colts. I

941
00:40:45,360 --> 00:40:47,120
Speaker 2: remember that, right, I was still in college.

942
00:40:47,560 --> 00:40:49,000
Speaker 1: Fake id with Jack Doyle.

943
00:40:49,239 --> 00:40:51,920
Speaker 3: No, I was probably twenty one. My wife might maybe not,

944
00:40:51,960 --> 00:40:52,360
Speaker 3: but I was.

945
00:40:52,360 --> 00:40:56,759
Speaker 2: Probably twenty yeah yeah, but but yeah, definitely overrated. I

946
00:40:56,840 --> 00:41:00,080
Speaker 2: don't I don't have like a like a go to

947
00:41:00,440 --> 00:41:02,719
Speaker 2: celebration that we're gonna do anything like that.

948
00:41:02,719 --> 00:41:04,680
Speaker 1: I don't think I can remember anything I've ever done.

949
00:41:04,800 --> 00:41:07,480
Speaker 2: No, I could be completely wrong in saying album room too.

950
00:41:07,640 --> 00:41:09,319
Speaker 2: I don't even know well that came there.

951
00:41:09,320 --> 00:41:12,759
Speaker 1: We check the police report, y, we'll find out what

952
00:41:12,840 --> 00:41:15,520
Speaker 1: year that was and the officer that pinched you for

953
00:41:15,560 --> 00:41:16,120
Speaker 1: a fake.

954
00:41:18,200 --> 00:41:20,200
Speaker 3: That was pre Beard by the way, Oh.

955
00:41:20,120 --> 00:41:22,160
Speaker 2: Yes, I probably had a like one, playing a small one.

956
00:41:22,239 --> 00:41:23,160
Speaker 2: I could barely grow it.

957
00:41:23,239 --> 00:41:23,719
Speaker 3: I love it.

958
00:41:24,040 --> 00:41:27,520
Speaker 1: Any New Year's resolutions this year for Jack going into

959
00:41:27,520 --> 00:41:30,880
Speaker 1: twenty twenty six, other than to continue the podcast.

960
00:41:30,520 --> 00:41:32,880
Speaker 2: Yes, absolutely continue the podcast. Continue to hang out with

961
00:41:32,880 --> 00:41:37,680
Speaker 2: Matt Taylor. Yeah, check, check done. I I don't know,

962
00:41:37,840 --> 00:41:39,680
Speaker 2: you know, I always try, you know, I say this

963
00:41:40,120 --> 00:41:41,480
Speaker 2: a lot to my kids, But I was like, I'm

964
00:41:41,520 --> 00:41:43,120
Speaker 2: gonna try and be more patient with you guys.

965
00:41:43,680 --> 00:41:44,640
Speaker 3: That's my goal, man.

966
00:41:44,800 --> 00:41:47,120
Speaker 2: So that's like and they're like, Dad, you always say that,

967
00:41:47,160 --> 00:41:48,480
Speaker 2: and it's like, yeah, because it's really hot.

968
00:41:48,840 --> 00:41:49,439
Speaker 3: Yeah it's tough.

969
00:41:49,560 --> 00:41:52,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's really tough with you guys. Say my name

970
00:41:52,520 --> 00:41:55,480
Speaker 2: over and over again. Yeah, Da dad, Dad, Dad Dad.

971
00:41:55,880 --> 00:41:57,440
Speaker 2: It's like, I can't even have a chance to respond

972
00:41:57,480 --> 00:41:59,320
Speaker 2: to you. Right, it's my middle one, Henry.

973
00:41:59,320 --> 00:42:01,600
Speaker 1: I'll show patient if you show patients. Yeah, but we

974
00:42:01,640 --> 00:42:03,200
Speaker 1: do it together. Yeah, that's tandem.

975
00:42:03,239 --> 00:42:05,759
Speaker 3: That ain't gonna work. That ain't gonna work. Yeah.

976
00:42:05,920 --> 00:42:07,520
Speaker 1: They don't have they don't have resolutions.

977
00:42:07,640 --> 00:42:10,160
Speaker 3: No, they don't know. They're living their best lives as

978
00:42:10,160 --> 00:42:11,280
Speaker 3: they should be as.

979
00:42:11,120 --> 00:42:12,680
Speaker 1: The kids many kids.

980
00:42:13,080 --> 00:42:15,080
Speaker 3: But yeah, I'll go with patients. Cool.

981
00:42:15,480 --> 00:42:17,920
Speaker 2: Keep being a better version of myself. Yeah, I try

982
00:42:17,960 --> 00:42:19,160
Speaker 2: to do that all day every day.

983
00:42:19,719 --> 00:42:21,520
Speaker 1: You're either getting better you're getting worse.

984
00:42:21,680 --> 00:42:22,399
Speaker 3: Don't say the same.

985
00:42:22,480 --> 00:42:24,800
Speaker 1: It's right, baby, we're getting better. Here with Jack Doyle

986
00:42:24,800 --> 00:42:27,080
Speaker 1: on the Jack Doyle Podcast. I said it last week,

987
00:42:27,080 --> 00:42:29,640
Speaker 1: but it's it's been an absolute pleasure of doing this

988
00:42:29,719 --> 00:42:31,440
Speaker 1: with you, and we're gonna do it one more time

989
00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:35,200
Speaker 1: next week to close out you know the regular season

990
00:42:35,600 --> 00:42:38,600
Speaker 1: and talk about everything that happened for the Colts in

991
00:42:38,680 --> 00:42:40,200
Speaker 1: Week eighteen. Let's get a win.

992
00:42:40,480 --> 00:42:43,120
Speaker 3: Let's go, can we Let's go win out in Houston.

993
00:42:43,400 --> 00:42:46,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, golly, regardless of the playoffs, let's just get a win.

994
00:42:46,560 --> 00:42:46,920
Speaker 3: Get a win.

995
00:42:47,000 --> 00:42:49,319
Speaker 2: It's gonna make everybody feel just a little bit better,

996
00:42:49,360 --> 00:42:50,279
Speaker 2: no question, little bit better.

997
00:42:50,400 --> 00:42:50,959
Speaker 3: Cure's a lot.

998
00:42:51,080 --> 00:42:53,760
Speaker 1: That's the great Jack Doyle. I'm Matt Taylor again. Happy

999
00:42:53,800 --> 00:42:57,400
Speaker 1: New Year, everybody. Hope you have enjoyed the podcast. We

1000
00:42:57,440 --> 00:43:00,000
Speaker 1: have certainly enjoyed bringing it to you each and every

1001
00:43:00,160 --> 00:43:03,520
Speaker 1: week here on the Colts Podcast channel. Colts and Texans

1002
00:43:03,520 --> 00:43:06,360
Speaker 1: Week eighteen down in RG Stadium, and we'll talk to

1003
00:43:06,400 --> 00:43:08,920
Speaker 1: you next week here on the Colts Podcast channel. So long,

1004
00:44:00,880 --> 00:44:29,760
Speaker 1: I