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Speaker 1: dot com. I'm Mike Keith. This is so much fun

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Speaker 1: to be joined by my fellow play by play announcers

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Speaker 1: from the AFC South. Frank Frangie Jacksonville Jaguars.

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Speaker 2: How are you? I'm well. Thank you for doing this.

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Speaker 2: I love doing this. I look forward to it.

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Speaker 1: Matt Taylor, how are we doing? Indianapolis Colts and the Champ?

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Speaker 1: He's here, The champ is here, the belt, Mark vandermir

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Speaker 1: Houston Texans. Congratulations on being the AFC South Champions.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, Migaan, thanks for doing this. This is a

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Speaker 3: wonderful thing that we all do. And who would have

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Speaker 3: thunk it Hi that I'd be sitting here with the Yeah, Frank,

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Speaker 3: I wrestled it away from you.

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Speaker 4: As we didn't have a good last month. We had

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Speaker 4: the last month.

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Speaker 3: We have so much to do with the wins and losses,

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Speaker 3: but that doesn't mean we can't claim them.

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Speaker 5: I can tell you this. I sounded much better this year.

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Speaker 2: I don't know what it was.

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Speaker 3: People were coming up like you know, last year we

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Speaker 3: got blown out in some game and I thought I

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Speaker 3: did a pretty good broadcast.

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Speaker 5: But it doesn't matter. I get it. This is what

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Speaker 5: it's about, and it's wonderful.

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Speaker 1: Winning and losing. It's so underrated towards the perception of

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Speaker 1: your performance, no course, no question how that factors in

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Speaker 1: for people.

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Speaker 3: We've all had good games or are good wins where

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Speaker 3: we feel like I can't speak for you, guys, but

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Speaker 3: I would imagine this be the case where you feel

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Speaker 3: like I could have done a better jo yes day.

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Speaker 3: You know, I could have done certain calls, could have

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Speaker 3: nailed those better. And then you have blowouts where I thought,

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Speaker 3: man or not blowouts, but just losses. I thought that

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Speaker 3: was a really good broadcast. I mean we hit on

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Speaker 3: all the points. Ye halls were clean, everything was good.

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Speaker 3: But you want your team to win. That's why we

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Speaker 3: are voices of the team, because we want to ride

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Speaker 3: those highs and not preferably not the lows.

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Speaker 5: But it makes the highs that much more appealing.

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Speaker 4: And my point is right, if we're winning, they love us, okay,

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Speaker 4: and and if we're losing, it's the worst broadcast they

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Speaker 4: ever heard. I mean, there's a lot to that.

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Speaker 1: Well, we do the thing where they put a GoPro

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Speaker 1: know what I think of it, but they do it.

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Speaker 2: It's sponsored. Yeah, good, so we're right.

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Speaker 1: It's sponsored, and for for the people listening, that's a

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Speaker 1: big deal to what we do. Anytime you say something

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Speaker 1: is sponsored, you have Mark vander Meer's reaction, which is good. Yes,

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Speaker 1: but that means that means security. That means you got

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Speaker 1: and you know, you see the comments. Oh it's so

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Speaker 1: on and we really enjoyed you lose. Why are you

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Speaker 1: posting this?

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Speaker 2: Yes, why are you celebrating medioc Yeah, yeah, that's the

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Speaker 4: We only I think ours only goes out. That part

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Speaker 4: only goes out kind of like when we win.

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Speaker 4: But the beauty of the go pros is fantastic because

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Speaker 4: so some go here while they go here, and it

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Speaker 2: So you were going to say, Matthew.

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Speaker 6: Well, I was just gonna agree that when you win,

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Speaker 6: I mean, you guys experienced this too. When you win,

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Speaker 6: Monday is so much easier, talking about coach getting coffee,

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Speaker 6: the coaches Show, is a better show.

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Speaker 2: Following a win as well. Oh, no question.

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Speaker 3: I think one thing though that we go through being

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Speaker 3: are ways to handle it, because I know you guys

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Speaker 3: get peppered with this. Are the things you can't say?

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Speaker 3: Are the things you can't talk about?

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Speaker 2: Are your questions handed to you? Are they scripted for you?

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Speaker 3: No one has ever said anything to me about anything,

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Speaker 3: mean I did a three and twenty three basketball team

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Speaker 3: once upon a time, you know, you learn how to

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Speaker 3: ask the creative questions in that ironment when your team

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Speaker 5: When you lose, you will get better at your craft.

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Speaker 5: That will improve you even more than winning.

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Speaker 4: And in my situation marks a little different. You guys

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Speaker 4: work for the teams. I don't work for the team.

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Speaker 4: So I come in for the game. Well I do,

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Speaker 4: work for the team. Yeah, so I'm not going to

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Speaker 2: That's not my job. But who does? Who does?

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Speaker 3: My rebuttal is this? Who does ask those questions? I'm thinking, Hey,

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Speaker 3: Most of these guys don't have the guts to show

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Speaker 6: They'll play the left sound bite from the day before

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Speaker 1: Go to the pres conference, but there's certain questions you

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Speaker 1: always have to ask. I don't know if you guys,

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Speaker 5: I don't.

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Speaker 1: would you know? And I'm going to ask if there's

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Speaker 2: That's right, It's a thing.

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Speaker 2: And so Mike Rabel, he would get so mad.

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Speaker 1: At me because he would say, you know, I would say,

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Speaker 1: is Will Levice?

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Speaker 1: Is Ryan Tannehill? Is he gonna you know, do we

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Speaker 1: I get the same thing every time. And he finally,

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Speaker 1: answer that? Why do you ask? And I explained it

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Speaker 1: that's okay if that's what you want to do, but

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Speaker 1: just understand to do my job.

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Speaker 2: And he totally got that.

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Speaker 1: You got to ask the question, right, He totally understood.

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Speaker 1: the fans perspective, because that's who you do it for.

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Speaker 4: We and I think most of us. I'm pretty sure

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Speaker 4: know it is with me. We have good coaches. Well,

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Speaker 4: I mean our guy to work with, Doug Peterson's fantastic,

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Speaker 4: But we were lucky there. It's not the old school

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Speaker 4: I'm want to ask this question. He's gonna jump it

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Speaker 6: No, I mean with with Frank and now with Shane.

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Speaker 6: I've never had a situation where I felt like I

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Speaker 6: it's our name on the show, right It's you know

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Speaker 6: Colts Roundtable Live with Matt Taylor, So there's an integrity

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Speaker 6: aspect of it as well. There's a journalistic component to

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Speaker 6: your point, Mike, that the fans want to know. And

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Speaker 6: I think the guys that I've dealt with, Frank, Chris,

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Speaker 6: now Shane, they've all been incredibly supportive of me doing

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Speaker 6: my job. And I've never been called to the principal's

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Speaker 3: I think with the tough questions, whether it's uh, why

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Speaker 3: When I was at UMass, you know, Cali Perry was

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Speaker 3: the Caliperi Show pressed him on a suspended player and

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Speaker 3: just kept saying, Hey, these fans are all here for

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Speaker 3: an answer, and I think you got to give them more,

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Speaker 5: Stuff like that.

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Speaker 2: So that's how you got the job.

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Speaker 5: Kind of.

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Speaker 3: It. Sure, but I learned then and other times that yeah,

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Speaker 3: you have to just throw it out there, give them

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Speaker 3: the chance to answer, but you don't press them.

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Speaker 2: It's their show.

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Speaker 5: That's the other thing. People don't realize.

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Speaker 3: It's the Demico Ryan's show that we're doing. So we're

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Speaker 2: The salary cap.

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Speaker 1: We've had moments where we've been a little in front

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Speaker 2: They're trouble makers.

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Speaker 1: Still, They've got a lot of work to do, and

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Speaker 3: And then we beat the Jags down there in lopsided fashion.

437
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Speaker 5: I thought, Okay, this guy's good.

438
00:19:44,480 --> 00:19:46,840
Speaker 3: And then we blow out the Steelers at home, and

439
00:19:47,280 --> 00:19:50,040
Speaker 3: I thought, okay, we've got our guy. And I didn't

440
00:19:50,040 --> 00:19:51,600
Speaker 3: know where it was going to go from there. We

441
00:19:51,640 --> 00:19:54,280
Speaker 3: lost to Atlanta, but he played pretty well. We had

442
00:19:54,280 --> 00:19:56,679
Speaker 3: a bad game against Carolina on the road, but I

443
00:19:56,720 --> 00:19:58,600
Speaker 3: thought I never worried about that.

444
00:19:58,600 --> 00:19:59,280
Speaker 5: That was a hiccup.

445
00:19:59,320 --> 00:20:01,960
Speaker 3: Then when we beat Tampa Bay the way he did that,

446
00:20:02,320 --> 00:20:06,160
Speaker 3: leading him downfield in forty five ish seconds and hitting

447
00:20:06,160 --> 00:20:09,240
Speaker 3: it ten seconds ago, he snapping the ball and hitting

448
00:20:09,359 --> 00:20:11,399
Speaker 3: Tank Dell for the game winner, I thought.

449
00:20:11,200 --> 00:20:13,680
Speaker 5: This is it. So all throughout the year he kept

450
00:20:13,720 --> 00:20:14,480
Speaker 5: getting better too.

451
00:20:14,680 --> 00:20:16,639
Speaker 3: What do we always say, you got to improve, no

452
00:20:16,680 --> 00:20:18,439
Speaker 3: matter who you are, you got to get better. He

453
00:20:18,560 --> 00:20:20,840
Speaker 3: kept getting better, And then I thought when he got

454
00:20:20,920 --> 00:20:23,479
Speaker 3: the concussion, it was actually I don't want to call

455
00:20:23,480 --> 00:20:26,040
Speaker 3: it blessing in disguise, but I think being off his feet,

456
00:20:26,400 --> 00:20:28,480
Speaker 3: being out of the building for a week or two

457
00:20:28,840 --> 00:20:30,600
Speaker 3: just clear, you know, clearing his head. I hate to

458
00:20:30,640 --> 00:20:34,120
Speaker 3: use that terminology, but just enabling his body to hear

459
00:20:34,240 --> 00:20:36,680
Speaker 3: while his brain was getting better. His body's healing too,

460
00:20:36,880 --> 00:20:39,600
Speaker 3: and then we had a fantastic finish really but lost

461
00:20:39,600 --> 00:20:43,000
Speaker 3: to the Ravens. So I had no idea, Frank, but

462
00:20:43,359 --> 00:20:44,359
Speaker 3: I like what I'm seeing.

463
00:20:45,280 --> 00:20:48,119
Speaker 4: He's very good and you should tell me now, Anthony

464
00:20:48,240 --> 00:20:50,639
Speaker 4: Richardson is a wonderful kid. He's got to stay in

465
00:20:50,680 --> 00:20:52,399
Speaker 4: the field, right, I mean, I think that would be

466
00:20:52,440 --> 00:20:54,320
Speaker 4: the question. Tell me about getting to know him a

467
00:20:54,359 --> 00:20:56,280
Speaker 4: little bit and what are your expectations.

468
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Speaker 6: Well, I have similar experiences as Mark. I mean, he

469
00:20:59,520 --> 00:21:01,960
Speaker 6: is he just turned twenty one. He's twenty one years

470
00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:05,560
Speaker 6: old in May, and you talk about all the expectations

471
00:21:05,600 --> 00:21:09,080
Speaker 6: the face of a franchise. Now you're the marketing face

472
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Speaker 6: of an NFL team, and you played thirteen games coming

473
00:21:12,720 --> 00:21:17,359
Speaker 6: out out of college. And he was sensational in the

474
00:21:17,400 --> 00:21:20,080
Speaker 6: first month of the season. You know that first that

475
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Speaker 6: that Week two game that Mark alluded to. I mean,

476
00:21:22,560 --> 00:21:26,359
Speaker 6: Anthony Richardson is he's making people miss I mean he

477
00:21:26,400 --> 00:21:28,800
Speaker 6: had he had four rushing touchdowns in the first four

478
00:21:28,840 --> 00:21:32,359
Speaker 6: games of the season. Obviously he goes down a week five.

479
00:21:33,040 --> 00:21:34,920
Speaker 6: If you look at the totality of the season, he

480
00:21:34,960 --> 00:21:37,320
Speaker 6: played one hundred and seventy three snaps, which is about

481
00:21:37,359 --> 00:21:41,600
Speaker 6: fifteen percent of the overall offensive snaps for the season.

482
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Speaker 6: So there's no question that when he comes back next year,

483
00:21:44,640 --> 00:21:47,800
Speaker 6: he's gonna have to kind of retool his rookie season.

484
00:21:48,600 --> 00:21:52,240
Speaker 6: But what I told Mark yesterday was when you watched

485
00:21:52,320 --> 00:21:54,760
Speaker 6: him in OTAs, when you watched him in spring, when

486
00:21:54,800 --> 00:21:57,199
Speaker 6: you watched him in training camp, rarely did he not

487
00:21:57,400 --> 00:21:59,960
Speaker 6: go to the right place with the football. I think

488
00:22:00,119 --> 00:22:02,440
Speaker 6: that's the thing that surprised me the most with Anthony

489
00:22:02,520 --> 00:22:06,600
Speaker 6: Richardson is that he's a much better passer. He's more

490
00:22:06,720 --> 00:22:09,679
Speaker 6: accurate than I thought he would be. He's more calm

491
00:22:09,800 --> 00:22:11,200
Speaker 6: in the pocket than I thought.

492
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Speaker 2: He would be.

493
00:22:12,040 --> 00:22:15,479
Speaker 6: But the Colts don't want this past season and this

494
00:22:15,600 --> 00:22:18,480
Speaker 6: experience with him getting banged up because he had the concussion,

495
00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:20,960
Speaker 6: he had the ankle, so just a lot of time.

496
00:22:20,960 --> 00:22:23,720
Speaker 6: He had like four injuries in four games. He only

497
00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:28,240
Speaker 6: completed one game sixty minutes full one time. That was

498
00:22:28,280 --> 00:22:31,080
Speaker 6: the Week four game, I think against the Rams. But

499
00:22:32,119 --> 00:22:34,960
Speaker 6: what they don't want to do to Anthony Richardson is

500
00:22:35,119 --> 00:22:38,520
Speaker 6: curb his playing style. They don't want to change what

501
00:22:38,600 --> 00:22:43,040
Speaker 6: he does and what makes him special. But the contrarians

502
00:22:43,080 --> 00:22:45,880
Speaker 6: around town are saying you gotta teach him to slide

503
00:22:45,960 --> 00:22:48,040
Speaker 6: and you gotta protect him better.

504
00:22:48,040 --> 00:22:50,399
Speaker 1: Jump in because the play he was injured on that

505
00:22:50,560 --> 00:22:52,680
Speaker 1: ended the season, that was that was nothing.

506
00:22:54,640 --> 00:22:55,000
Speaker 2: Very much.

507
00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:59,080
Speaker 1: So, I mean, Harold Landry didn't hit him dirty, It wasn't.

508
00:22:59,480 --> 00:23:03,960
Speaker 1: I mean, he just got tackled the shoulder, and that

509
00:23:03,960 --> 00:23:06,879
Speaker 1: that would worry me. Yeah, you know, because if if

510
00:23:06,920 --> 00:23:09,359
Speaker 1: he'd been hit or bent in an unusual way or

511
00:23:09,720 --> 00:23:12,080
Speaker 1: I mean sometimes you see the injuries, say well that's weird.

512
00:23:12,240 --> 00:23:15,520
Speaker 2: That's why that happened. This was just a normal play, right.

513
00:23:15,480 --> 00:23:18,159
Speaker 6: And you don't want to take anything away from his

514
00:23:18,240 --> 00:23:21,320
Speaker 6: ability to be special, because that's why you drafted him

515
00:23:21,320 --> 00:23:24,119
Speaker 6: where you did. And I told Mark yesterday, I really

516
00:23:24,160 --> 00:23:26,399
Speaker 6: think that based on everything you heard at the end

517
00:23:26,400 --> 00:23:28,480
Speaker 6: of the draft last year, the comments and some of

518
00:23:28,520 --> 00:23:31,320
Speaker 6: the innuendos, I really do think if the Colts were

519
00:23:31,320 --> 00:23:34,680
Speaker 6: picking first overall last year, that Anthony Richardson was their

520
00:23:34,680 --> 00:23:37,080
Speaker 6: guy because they think that he has the highest ceiling.

521
00:23:37,520 --> 00:23:40,959
Speaker 6: He can do things that c J. Stroud couldn't do. Now,

522
00:23:40,960 --> 00:23:43,600
Speaker 6: obviously c J. Stroud is he's He's c J.

523
00:23:43,720 --> 00:23:44,040
Speaker 2: Stroud.

524
00:23:44,080 --> 00:23:47,080
Speaker 6: He turned into a fantastic player, and the Colts are

525
00:23:47,080 --> 00:23:48,640
Speaker 6: going to have to contend with that for the next

526
00:23:48,680 --> 00:23:52,119
Speaker 6: decade or so. But I think what you're going to

527
00:23:52,160 --> 00:23:54,040
Speaker 6: see as from the Colts, I think you're gonna see

528
00:23:54,040 --> 00:23:57,880
Speaker 6: Shanstyke and be a little bit more tactful, a little

529
00:23:57,880 --> 00:24:00,840
Speaker 6: bit more I don't know what the right word would be,

530
00:24:01,280 --> 00:24:03,520
Speaker 6: a little bit more precise, I guess, And how you

531
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Speaker 6: use Anthony Richardson kind of like how the Ravens use

532
00:24:06,680 --> 00:24:10,440
Speaker 6: Lamar Jackson. Give the ball to your best player when

533
00:24:10,480 --> 00:24:13,200
Speaker 6: the field shrinks, or when it's a third and short

534
00:24:13,240 --> 00:24:15,640
Speaker 6: and you gotta have a moment right inside the red

535
00:24:15,720 --> 00:24:18,120
Speaker 6: zone when yards are hard to come by. That's when

536
00:24:18,119 --> 00:24:20,119
Speaker 6: I think you're gonna see more of the design runs

537
00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:23,760
Speaker 6: from Anthony Richardson. But it's really fun to think about

538
00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:28,159
Speaker 6: the potential of Jonathan Taylor and Anthony Richardson in the

539
00:24:28,200 --> 00:24:31,480
Speaker 6: same backfield because those two guys together last year because

540
00:24:31,520 --> 00:24:35,439
Speaker 6: of Taylor's saga off the field and then Richardson's injury,

541
00:24:35,440 --> 00:24:38,760
Speaker 6: those two guys can play played they combined two snaps.

542
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Speaker 2: Together last year. Wow. Yeah, so virtually nothing.

543
00:24:42,040 --> 00:24:45,800
Speaker 6: So there's a lot of excitement on what the box

544
00:24:45,840 --> 00:24:49,480
Speaker 6: would look like against the run if you're playing the Colts.

545
00:24:49,480 --> 00:24:51,399
Speaker 6: I mean, how do you defend Jonathan Taylor. How do

546
00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:55,159
Speaker 6: you defend Anthony Richardson. Maybe you get Michael Pittman junior

547
00:24:55,200 --> 00:24:58,080
Speaker 6: back on the franchise tag, or you extend him so

548
00:24:58,119 --> 00:25:01,199
Speaker 6: you have that reliable pass catcher, that physical wide receiver.

549
00:25:01,960 --> 00:25:04,800
Speaker 6: But I think more so than anything within the passing game,

550
00:25:04,840 --> 00:25:07,520
Speaker 6: the Colts need some more pop on the outside, some

551
00:25:07,560 --> 00:25:10,800
Speaker 6: more explosive plays. But long win and answer to your question,

552
00:25:10,840 --> 00:25:15,280
Speaker 6: I think Anthony Richardson is so much more poised, mature

553
00:25:15,359 --> 00:25:19,000
Speaker 6: beyond his years, and just really exciting what he can do.

554
00:25:19,560 --> 00:25:23,080
Speaker 6: Because you guys know, within the Cults franchise it's been

555
00:25:23,240 --> 00:25:26,480
Speaker 6: Peyton Manning and Andrew luck In, Jim Harball. The Colts

556
00:25:26,480 --> 00:25:30,280
Speaker 6: have never had anything close to a quarterback like Anthony Richardson.

557
00:25:30,600 --> 00:25:32,440
Speaker 6: And based on his skill set and what we're seeing

558
00:25:32,440 --> 00:25:34,240
Speaker 6: now in the NFL, I think you have to have

559
00:25:34,680 --> 00:25:37,040
Speaker 6: what he can do to a degree to win big

560
00:25:37,080 --> 00:25:37,560
Speaker 6: in the NFL.

561
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Speaker 4: Everyone every quarterback's got to be able to move now everyone.

562
00:25:40,800 --> 00:25:42,560
Speaker 4: But to your point, which takes us down, I know

563
00:25:42,600 --> 00:25:46,080
Speaker 4: you love your guy. Will Levis is physical. He's a bodybuilder.

564
00:25:46,160 --> 00:25:48,800
Speaker 4: He's a big, physical guy. He's athletic, as heck, you

565
00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:50,760
Speaker 4: really like him. Tell us about will Luck because the

566
00:25:50,800 --> 00:25:52,359
Speaker 4: first time you and I talked about him, Yeah, we

567
00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:53,520
Speaker 4: had a little glow about you.

568
00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:53,959
Speaker 2: Yeah.

569
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Speaker 1: I liked him early on because in the rookie MIDI

570
00:25:57,000 --> 00:25:59,439
Speaker 1: camp when we sign him throw, We've never had a

571
00:25:59,480 --> 00:26:03,600
Speaker 1: guy with arm. You're like, oh, okay, I mean you'd

572
00:26:03,680 --> 00:26:06,560
Speaker 1: see Tannehill throw and Tannehill has a good arm. You're like, oh,

573
00:26:06,600 --> 00:26:09,159
Speaker 1: that's great. And Malik Willis has a good arm and

574
00:26:09,160 --> 00:26:11,080
Speaker 1: you're like, Okay, that's impressed. And then you see this

575
00:26:11,200 --> 00:26:14,680
Speaker 1: and you're like, what was that? Yeah, it's a howitzer.

576
00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:17,959
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's crazy good. To your point though,

577
00:26:17,960 --> 00:26:21,520
Speaker 1: about mobility, you know what's funny about that is when

578
00:26:21,600 --> 00:26:25,840
Speaker 1: we had the good offenses twenty nineteen through twenty twenty one,

579
00:26:26,520 --> 00:26:30,440
Speaker 1: Ryan Tannehill was running. Yeahn't wasn't twenty times a game,

580
00:26:30,600 --> 00:26:32,960
Speaker 1: wasn't ten times a game. It was always on third down,

581
00:26:33,160 --> 00:26:36,159
Speaker 1: third down, or in the red zone version or in

582
00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:38,600
Speaker 1: the red zone. I mean he in twenty twenty one

583
00:26:38,720 --> 00:26:40,560
Speaker 1: he rushed for seven touchdowns.

584
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Speaker 5: And what's a big number for a quarterback.

585
00:26:42,560 --> 00:26:45,400
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, especially for a guy he was a receiver.

586
00:26:45,600 --> 00:26:48,040
Speaker 1: It was the receiver first two years, yeah, so, but

587
00:26:48,160 --> 00:26:50,639
Speaker 1: then in twenty twenty two and twenty twenty three he

588
00:26:50,640 --> 00:26:55,000
Speaker 1: didn't run anymore, and so that aspect of it being

589
00:26:55,160 --> 00:26:57,439
Speaker 1: out was a was a big deal. Some of it

590
00:26:57,480 --> 00:26:59,840
Speaker 1: was due to an ankle, and I'm not blaming him,

591
00:26:59,840 --> 00:27:02,640
Speaker 1: but I agree, you've got to have somebody who can move.

592
00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:07,240
Speaker 1: Levis can move to He's not a runner per se,

593
00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:10,320
Speaker 1: But is he gonna be able to take off when

594
00:27:10,359 --> 00:27:13,200
Speaker 1: it opens up on third and ten and get your

595
00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:13,840
Speaker 1: fifteen yards?

596
00:27:13,880 --> 00:27:14,080
Speaker 2: Yeah?

597
00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:17,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, because he's got good speed and he's athletic. Now

598
00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:21,399
Speaker 1: we don't need him trying to run over people. Because

599
00:27:21,520 --> 00:27:26,920
Speaker 1: Levis's whole thing is his intensity is through the roof.

600
00:27:27,119 --> 00:27:30,399
Speaker 1: And that's one thing they've had to try to rein

601
00:27:30,520 --> 00:27:35,920
Speaker 1: in because at Kentucky things would go wrong and he

602
00:27:35,960 --> 00:27:39,240
Speaker 1: would kind of get down on himself and they had

603
00:27:39,280 --> 00:27:41,800
Speaker 1: to say, listen, this is the NFL, friend, I mean,

604
00:27:41,880 --> 00:27:45,520
Speaker 1: it's it's you are gonna throw a bad ball. I

605
00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:47,640
Speaker 1: mean you you are, I mean this is gonna happen.

606
00:27:47,720 --> 00:27:49,320
Speaker 1: You got to you gotta shake it off. And we

607
00:27:49,359 --> 00:27:51,960
Speaker 1: saw in a couple of instances where he made a

608
00:27:51,960 --> 00:27:54,680
Speaker 1: couple of bad plays the Miami game on Monday Night

609
00:27:54,800 --> 00:27:57,560
Speaker 1: where he made a couple of bad plays and yet

610
00:27:57,600 --> 00:27:59,880
Speaker 1: he came back and led the victory at the end,

611
00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:03,679
Speaker 1: which getting the victory was great and doing it, you know,

612
00:28:03,680 --> 00:28:05,639
Speaker 1: two touchdowns in the last four minutes, but to me,

613
00:28:06,280 --> 00:28:11,320
Speaker 1: the bigger thing was the way that he flipped it around. Yeah,

614
00:28:11,640 --> 00:28:14,639
Speaker 1: and you know, Pete Rose used to talk about a

615
00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:17,639
Speaker 1: lot of the success in hitting for him was if

616
00:28:17,720 --> 00:28:20,840
Speaker 1: you start zero for two or oh for three, and

617
00:28:20,920 --> 00:28:23,159
Speaker 1: you end up three for five, two for five or

618
00:28:23,160 --> 00:28:25,520
Speaker 1: three for five, you come back and you put the

619
00:28:25,640 --> 00:28:28,520
Speaker 1: earlier at bats out of the way, And I think

620
00:28:28,600 --> 00:28:31,840
Speaker 1: that's a lot of what he's having to learn. He's

621
00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:36,479
Speaker 1: super smart, I mean crazy smart. And remember he played

622
00:28:36,520 --> 00:28:39,560
Speaker 1: for pro style kind of guys at not only Kentucky

623
00:28:39,600 --> 00:28:43,400
Speaker 1: but also at Penn State. He's an older guy. You know,

624
00:28:43,440 --> 00:28:46,600
Speaker 1: he's not twenty one, he's twenty four, and so he's

625
00:28:46,600 --> 00:28:50,080
Speaker 1: seen a couple things. He's had a couple bad things happen,

626
00:28:51,640 --> 00:28:56,720
Speaker 1: and that actually helps. I think having the adversity, the

627
00:28:56,840 --> 00:28:59,920
Speaker 1: adversity of the NFL is the toughest thing for any play,

628
00:29:00,680 --> 00:29:03,120
Speaker 1: but at the quarterback position, it's like way up.

629
00:29:03,120 --> 00:29:05,440
Speaker 3: And how you overcome it? He said, how do you

630
00:29:05,480 --> 00:29:08,080
Speaker 3: bounce back from that. I'm curious about this with the

631
00:29:08,120 --> 00:29:11,440
Speaker 3: Titans though, because to me, and I don't know how

632
00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:13,560
Speaker 3: you guys feel, but I might have talked about this

633
00:29:13,640 --> 00:29:17,280
Speaker 3: last year. As an announcer, I gauge certain things. This

634
00:29:17,360 --> 00:29:21,240
Speaker 3: is one of my meters, my terror meter when that

635
00:29:21,280 --> 00:29:23,720
Speaker 3: player is on the field. And I had it with Peyton,

636
00:29:24,760 --> 00:29:26,960
Speaker 3: I had it with Steve McNair back in the day.

637
00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:31,320
Speaker 3: With the Titans playing quarterback, certain players, you know, terrify

638
00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:33,080
Speaker 3: you when they're on the field.

639
00:29:33,240 --> 00:29:34,840
Speaker 5: It's third and six, You're like, I know they're going

640
00:29:34,920 --> 00:29:35,280
Speaker 5: to get this.

641
00:29:35,320 --> 00:29:38,680
Speaker 3: I'm talking to offense here, and Dereck Henry is maybe

642
00:29:38,840 --> 00:29:41,080
Speaker 3: maybe he's the only non quarterback to fit this bill,

643
00:29:41,120 --> 00:29:44,640
Speaker 3: although Jonathan Taylor comes close. Derick Henry in the backfield

644
00:29:44,800 --> 00:29:47,880
Speaker 3: is frightening to me at any down, and we talked

645
00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:49,480
Speaker 3: about this last week. Why even take him off the

646
00:29:49,520 --> 00:29:51,200
Speaker 3: field on third down? I don't to wear him out,

647
00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:54,320
Speaker 3: but just leave him on the field. He's frightening. The

648
00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:57,040
Speaker 3: defense doesn't always do what the defense doesn't want.

649
00:29:57,160 --> 00:29:58,440
Speaker 2: They don't want to see Derek Henry.

650
00:29:58,480 --> 00:30:01,520
Speaker 6: Ever, I always said that the Titans do everybody a

651
00:30:01,560 --> 00:30:02,920
Speaker 6: favor by taking Derrick Henry Off.

652
00:30:03,120 --> 00:30:04,600
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, great, thank you.

653
00:30:04,840 --> 00:30:07,719
Speaker 6: I know you know spears can catch the ball, but listen,

654
00:30:08,080 --> 00:30:10,680
Speaker 6: it should be a running down third and five or less.

655
00:30:10,880 --> 00:30:12,200
Speaker 2: Right, he can pick it up, right.

656
00:30:12,240 --> 00:30:15,560
Speaker 1: Well, our problem was we weren't getting to third and five. Sure, ye,

657
00:30:15,800 --> 00:30:19,560
Speaker 1: Well that's what has crushed us the last two years

658
00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:23,040
Speaker 1: is everybody would put fourteen guys in the box on

659
00:30:23,160 --> 00:30:26,880
Speaker 1: first down, and so you were lucky if you got

660
00:30:26,880 --> 00:30:29,160
Speaker 1: back to the line of scrimmager. You gained a yard.

661
00:30:29,760 --> 00:30:33,960
Speaker 1: And then you're in a situation. And if it wasn't

662
00:30:34,080 --> 00:30:37,160
Speaker 1: second and twelve, if it was really second and nine,

663
00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:39,960
Speaker 1: they might run him again, and it might be third

664
00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:42,040
Speaker 1: and four, and then third and four is of down.

665
00:30:42,080 --> 00:30:44,840
Speaker 1: You can do a lot of different things, especially when

666
00:30:44,880 --> 00:30:49,000
Speaker 1: Tannehill was running. And so now you know that element

667
00:30:49,120 --> 00:30:52,600
Speaker 1: is gone and you're in third and eight plus and

668
00:30:52,840 --> 00:30:56,000
Speaker 1: he's not a receiver. And the other thing, too, is

669
00:30:56,640 --> 00:30:59,960
Speaker 1: in Yulie or at Alabama, they would have been crazy

670
00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:02,280
Speaker 1: to spend a lot of time with him on pass protection.

671
00:31:03,840 --> 00:31:07,400
Speaker 1: So they so Derek's thing about pass protection. We all

672
00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:10,320
Speaker 1: know he's a tough guy. Nobody's saying he's afraid to

673
00:31:10,320 --> 00:31:14,800
Speaker 1: block anybody, but that's a fuel thing understanding where people

674
00:31:14,840 --> 00:31:16,040
Speaker 1: are going to be coming.

675
00:31:15,760 --> 00:31:17,239
Speaker 5: From a lot of guys can't do it.

676
00:31:17,280 --> 00:31:21,560
Speaker 1: Well, Taj Spears can't Taj Spears consense. Okay, the guy's

677
00:31:21,600 --> 00:31:23,880
Speaker 1: going to be coming from my right or I need

678
00:31:23,920 --> 00:31:26,520
Speaker 1: to step up here. He's got that. Derek was never

679
00:31:26,640 --> 00:31:29,760
Speaker 1: trained in that way. He's also not a receiver who

680
00:31:29,840 --> 00:31:34,040
Speaker 1: runs ten routes. He basically runs a screen pass and

681
00:31:34,080 --> 00:31:37,480
Speaker 1: then some sort of swing or whatever. And so from

682
00:31:37,560 --> 00:31:40,520
Speaker 1: that standpoint, that's when when it was third and seven

683
00:31:40,640 --> 00:31:42,600
Speaker 1: or more he had to come off them.

684
00:31:42,680 --> 00:31:43,120
Speaker 2: Yeah.

685
00:31:43,240 --> 00:31:45,479
Speaker 4: Well, let me tell you about you fearing Dereck Henry.

686
00:31:45,920 --> 00:31:49,760
Speaker 4: Let me give you a scenario. It's the last game

687
00:31:49,800 --> 00:31:52,640
Speaker 4: of the year. Everybody says he's over the hill, although

688
00:31:52,680 --> 00:31:55,160
Speaker 4: he's second in the league in rushing. No, he's not

689
00:31:55,280 --> 00:31:58,360
Speaker 4: coming back. It's his last game ever. The whole the

690
00:31:58,400 --> 00:32:01,320
Speaker 4: whole city of Nashville is out citizen of Nationals at

691
00:32:01,320 --> 00:32:03,440
Speaker 4: the game. Okay, old game I've ever seen with eight

692
00:32:03,480 --> 00:32:06,400
Speaker 4: million people at the game, and they're all Derrick Henry fans.

693
00:32:07,040 --> 00:32:09,560
Speaker 4: You could feel it, I'm telling you. When you're the

694
00:32:09,560 --> 00:32:12,040
Speaker 4: Playboy play guy of the other team where he's from.

695
00:32:13,080 --> 00:32:15,640
Speaker 4: And so he's from our Mike. I could feel that.

696
00:32:15,840 --> 00:32:18,040
Speaker 4: I know, I was nervous when I saw him to

697
00:32:18,120 --> 00:32:20,680
Speaker 4: come out and he's celebrated. I'm like, it was kind

698
00:32:20,680 --> 00:32:23,960
Speaker 4: of a days you just I'm telling you, Matt, you

699
00:32:24,040 --> 00:32:26,960
Speaker 4: felt it before the game started. Not not I didn't

700
00:32:26,960 --> 00:32:29,520
Speaker 4: if we're gonna lose better, but Derrick Henry was gonna

701
00:32:29,520 --> 00:32:30,040
Speaker 4: go nuts.

702
00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:33,160
Speaker 2: You just you just had did you have that fat?

703
00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:35,920
Speaker 2: It was? And I mean, and we got to be

704
00:32:35,960 --> 00:32:38,680
Speaker 2: the other team. Okay, so where he's from, you know

705
00:32:38,680 --> 00:32:40,960
Speaker 2: what I mean. Unfortunately you were the Washington general.

706
00:32:42,800 --> 00:32:45,280
Speaker 4: And I remember thinking this is I mean, that's how

707
00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:47,720
Speaker 4: But to your point about fearing, I agree, that's a

708
00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:51,000
Speaker 4: great description because here we go and I think the

709
00:32:51,040 --> 00:32:54,600
Speaker 4: first carrier to him like and and your line wasn't

710
00:32:54,680 --> 00:32:57,720
Speaker 4: very good, but they blocked like the greatest line of

711
00:32:57,720 --> 00:33:00,080
Speaker 4: all time that day because they're blocking for Derek.

712
00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:02,560
Speaker 1: You're blocking for Derrick Henry and they know he had

713
00:33:02,680 --> 00:33:05,760
Speaker 1: you know, they know they understood what it was.

714
00:33:05,840 --> 00:33:08,400
Speaker 2: And I really feel that it was.

715
00:33:09,440 --> 00:33:12,959
Speaker 1: I mean, for us as broadcasters, you love to do

716
00:33:13,080 --> 00:33:17,040
Speaker 1: players like this because it's like, this is gonna be

717
00:33:17,040 --> 00:33:20,120
Speaker 1: a Hall of Fame player his five years. If you

718
00:33:20,240 --> 00:33:24,960
Speaker 1: take from the Jacksonville game on the Thursday night December sixth,

719
00:33:25,160 --> 00:33:29,120
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen. Through the end of last season, there have

720
00:33:29,280 --> 00:33:32,440
Speaker 1: not been five other running backs have a five years

721
00:33:32,960 --> 00:33:34,600
Speaker 1: like he did in NFL history.

722
00:33:35,480 --> 00:33:36,200
Speaker 5: I mean, that does it.

723
00:33:36,880 --> 00:33:41,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're talking about Jim Brown, talking about OJ Simpson,

724
00:33:41,280 --> 00:33:45,440
Speaker 1: You're talking about Ladanian, Tomlinson, Adrian Peterson. I mean, to

725
00:33:45,640 --> 00:33:50,040
Speaker 1: average over one hundred yards rushing per game for over

726
00:33:50,160 --> 00:33:53,880
Speaker 1: five years is crazy. The most two hundred yard games

727
00:33:53,920 --> 00:33:57,440
Speaker 1: in NFL history, a two thousand season, I mean, all

728
00:33:57,440 --> 00:33:59,760
Speaker 1: of those. One of the greatest ever, one of the greatest.

729
00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:02,840
Speaker 1: And so you're sitting here and you're thinking, how blessed

730
00:34:02,840 --> 00:34:06,440
Speaker 1: am I that I have gotten to call these plays?

731
00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:09,880
Speaker 1: I mean, what a gift this is. And then in

732
00:34:09,960 --> 00:34:12,200
Speaker 1: this moment, I mean, you understand the Titans are in

733
00:34:12,280 --> 00:34:16,160
Speaker 1: a different place. Derek's at a different place. I mentioned earlier,

734
00:34:16,560 --> 00:34:20,000
Speaker 1: you're resetting your cap for the first time in your history,

735
00:34:20,120 --> 00:34:23,200
Speaker 1: in a Broadway with a lot of new people. Ran

736
00:34:23,320 --> 00:34:26,440
Speaker 1: Carthon didn't bring him in. Bran Callahan's never coached him.

737
00:34:26,760 --> 00:34:30,200
Speaker 1: Chad Brinker, the president football Operations, has no tied to

738
00:34:30,239 --> 00:34:31,880
Speaker 1: I mean, it's all and he plays running back and

739
00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:35,879
Speaker 1: he's getting and he plays running back, a position that sucks. Well,

740
00:34:35,920 --> 00:34:39,080
Speaker 1: it does, it does, but it is a devalued position.

741
00:34:39,920 --> 00:34:41,880
Speaker 1: It's the world we're in. It starts with the seven

742
00:34:41,920 --> 00:34:44,600
Speaker 1: on seven with the high school kids. There's no Dereck

743
00:34:44,680 --> 00:34:49,160
Speaker 1: Henry plays seven on seven. So it's there. So you're

744
00:34:49,200 --> 00:34:54,520
Speaker 1: walking into Nissan Stadium that day and you're saying this

745
00:34:54,640 --> 00:34:57,560
Speaker 1: is going to be special. Yeah, because there you hit it. Frank,

746
00:34:57,880 --> 00:35:00,319
Speaker 1: there's no way that crowd should have been what it

747
00:35:00,480 --> 00:35:01,120
Speaker 1: was that day.

748
00:35:01,960 --> 00:35:03,879
Speaker 5: There's no they it was like a bold game.

749
00:35:04,719 --> 00:35:08,160
Speaker 1: Well, it is a moment. It's an athlete has bonded

750
00:35:08,280 --> 00:35:12,280
Speaker 1: with a city over an eight year period and there's

751
00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:15,520
Speaker 1: such respect for him. He's a Heisman Trophy winner and

752
00:35:16,640 --> 00:35:18,960
Speaker 1: he's a great dude. And the other thing too. At

753
00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:22,799
Speaker 1: the trade deadline in twenty eighteen, when he was the

754
00:35:22,840 --> 00:35:25,759
Speaker 1: Titans third string running back because he was in a

755
00:35:25,800 --> 00:35:29,720
Speaker 1: horrible slump, they couldn't find anybody that wanted to trade

756
00:35:29,760 --> 00:35:30,280
Speaker 1: for him.

757
00:35:31,040 --> 00:35:31,480
Speaker 2: Wow.

758
00:35:31,680 --> 00:35:34,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, and what this is twenty eighteen, So it's DeMarco

759
00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:35,080
Speaker 3: Murray still there?

760
00:35:35,160 --> 00:35:39,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, at this point it's Deon Lewis. Okay, So

761
00:35:39,640 --> 00:35:43,359
Speaker 1: Dion Lewis is the first string running back David Fluellen

762
00:35:44,040 --> 00:35:49,520
Speaker 1: is getting snaps over Dereck Henry. At this point, Derek

763
00:35:49,640 --> 00:35:51,320
Speaker 1: is is just he's in a slump.

764
00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:53,040
Speaker 5: And Lafloor is the offensive coordinator.

765
00:35:53,120 --> 00:35:56,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I mean listen, they weren't making a mistake

766
00:35:56,880 --> 00:36:00,400
Speaker 1: not playing him, and they couldn't figure out how to

767
00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:03,080
Speaker 1: get him going. Well, what does this guy do? He's

768
00:36:03,120 --> 00:36:06,000
Speaker 1: this big star, He's the all time leading rusher in

769
00:36:06,120 --> 00:36:10,560
Speaker 1: high school history. He's a Heisman Trophy where he's Derrick Henry.

770
00:36:10,640 --> 00:36:14,359
Speaker 1: He's on the Nissan commercials. Everybody knows Derrick Henry. And man,

771
00:36:14,400 --> 00:36:17,600
Speaker 1: he that dude's in the tank. And what does he do?

772
00:36:17,719 --> 00:36:20,440
Speaker 1: He runs with the scout team, he goes to he

773
00:36:20,480 --> 00:36:23,040
Speaker 1: does he gets with the running back coach, He gets

774
00:36:23,080 --> 00:36:25,600
Speaker 1: with the running back coach and spends time, and he

775
00:36:25,680 --> 00:36:27,880
Speaker 1: keeps working and working there like you have to press

776
00:36:27,920 --> 00:36:30,280
Speaker 1: the hole this way. We know you've never done it before,

777
00:36:30,400 --> 00:36:33,000
Speaker 1: but you've got to learn this. And then that Thursday

778
00:36:33,080 --> 00:36:36,439
Speaker 1: night game happens where he rushes for two thirty eight

779
00:36:36,480 --> 00:36:38,680
Speaker 1: in the ninety nine yard run and the four touchdowns

780
00:36:38,680 --> 00:36:40,400
Speaker 1: stiff arms half the city.

781
00:36:40,160 --> 00:36:41,319
Speaker 2: Yea, but I.

782
00:36:44,440 --> 00:36:47,759
Speaker 1: Started I'm not saying not saying this to hurt you,

783
00:36:47,800 --> 00:36:53,560
Speaker 1: I promise, But that night was such a revelation. You're like,

784
00:36:53,920 --> 00:36:57,440
Speaker 1: this all just Changedah. And so then for five years,

785
00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:00,560
Speaker 1: there's never there has in rare instant is in the

786
00:37:00,640 --> 00:37:03,719
Speaker 1: NFL history. There's never been anything like it. And then

787
00:37:04,160 --> 00:37:06,920
Speaker 1: fast forward a little, you know, five years in a month,

788
00:37:07,520 --> 00:37:10,640
Speaker 1: and you come out for that game and you just know,

789
00:37:11,719 --> 00:37:14,480
Speaker 1: you just know, didn't know we were gonna win. Yeah,

790
00:37:14,640 --> 00:37:16,680
Speaker 1: had no idea if we could win the ball game.

791
00:37:17,120 --> 00:37:21,319
Speaker 1: But it's like today, this is gonna be special. And

792
00:37:21,360 --> 00:37:27,200
Speaker 1: it was a it was a unique experience, if that's it. Yeah,

793
00:37:27,280 --> 00:37:29,400
Speaker 1: it was a great Scentuff took the mic at the

794
00:37:29,480 --> 00:37:31,040
Speaker 1: end of the game back the crowd.

795
00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:34,680
Speaker 3: I mean, you just it looked like a send off,

796
00:37:34,920 --> 00:37:37,480
Speaker 3: and it did felt like one. And our fans in

797
00:37:37,560 --> 00:37:40,880
Speaker 3: Houston go get Derek Henry on all the talk radio,

798
00:37:41,640 --> 00:37:45,720
Speaker 3: Get Derrick Henry or you know, they might watch Sakwan Barkley.

799
00:37:45,800 --> 00:37:48,280
Speaker 3: You know how fans are. It's free agency. It's sirs,

800
00:37:48,320 --> 00:37:51,280
Speaker 3: get the most expensive car. But I get it because

801
00:37:51,320 --> 00:37:51,920
Speaker 3: he'd be awesome.

802
00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:53,439
Speaker 2: Yeah. Let me let me tie it all back.

803
00:37:53,480 --> 00:37:56,640
Speaker 6: And I'm gonna sabotage the podcast because this is only

804
00:37:56,680 --> 00:37:59,400
Speaker 6: we care about this. But the press release, the Titans

805
00:37:59,400 --> 00:38:01,880
Speaker 6: press release. You guys all read the press release. I

806
00:38:01,920 --> 00:38:04,200
Speaker 6: scour the press release. I'm a big dork. I read

807
00:38:04,200 --> 00:38:06,680
Speaker 6: it word for word. But Derrick Henry and the Titans

808
00:38:06,719 --> 00:38:09,480
Speaker 6: press release is the biggest beast of all time, and

809
00:38:09,560 --> 00:38:13,520
Speaker 6: it changes every single week because there's another milestone, there's

810
00:38:13,520 --> 00:38:17,840
Speaker 6: another ageous So from that standpoint, I'm looking forward to

811
00:38:17,880 --> 00:38:21,080
Speaker 6: not having to prepare on a weekly basis.

812
00:38:20,719 --> 00:38:21,040
Speaker 5: For dear.

813
00:38:21,160 --> 00:38:22,919
Speaker 3: I used to feel that way about the Colts release

814
00:38:22,960 --> 00:38:26,160
Speaker 3: when Peyton there's a whole book on Peyton Manning within

815
00:38:26,239 --> 00:38:29,280
Speaker 3: the press release, and I'm thinking, I'm just gonna saysies

816
00:38:29,320 --> 00:38:30,040
Speaker 3: a gentleman.

817
00:38:29,760 --> 00:38:31,399
Speaker 5: It's Peyton man quarterback today.

818
00:38:31,400 --> 00:38:33,160
Speaker 2: That's all you do, and that's ultimately what you end

819
00:38:33,239 --> 00:38:33,680
Speaker 2: up doing.

820
00:38:33,719 --> 00:38:35,640
Speaker 6: But the thing about the press release that I was

821
00:38:35,719 --> 00:38:38,120
Speaker 6: so always just taken aback by when it comes to

822
00:38:38,160 --> 00:38:41,279
Speaker 6: Derrick Henry. Yes, the two thousand yard seasons and all that,

823
00:38:41,320 --> 00:38:44,000
Speaker 6: but the fourth quarter rushing that always stood out to

824
00:38:44,040 --> 00:38:48,320
Speaker 6: me like the best fourth quarter rushing running back in

825
00:38:48,360 --> 00:38:51,360
Speaker 6: the last five years, more fourth quarter rushing yards than anybody.

826
00:38:51,440 --> 00:38:53,279
Speaker 3: And by the way, I was the biggest Titans fan

827
00:38:53,320 --> 00:38:56,040
Speaker 3: of the world that day. It's weird within our division

828
00:38:56,239 --> 00:38:58,479
Speaker 3: when you have to root for an AFC South team

829
00:38:58,560 --> 00:39:02,000
Speaker 3: because you know, I love you guys for us. Yeah,

830
00:39:02,120 --> 00:39:04,120
Speaker 3: you're rooting for the Titans. Is very weird, you know.

831
00:39:04,200 --> 00:39:05,680
Speaker 3: But I was like, go to it tight.

832
00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:08,040
Speaker 6: You know, it's funny about all of this. I didn't

833
00:39:08,080 --> 00:39:10,239
Speaker 6: watch any I didn't watch a minute of that game.

834
00:39:10,360 --> 00:39:13,840
Speaker 6: Oh really, Oh, because you were lost the day before.

835
00:39:13,960 --> 00:39:16,319
Speaker 6: I understand, I was working. That was the whole like

836
00:39:16,360 --> 00:39:18,960
Speaker 6: clean out your locker day. Like I was, oh, yeah,

837
00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:21,239
Speaker 6: you were working. So I didn't watch a minute of

838
00:39:21,280 --> 00:39:22,759
Speaker 6: that game. I listened to you on my way to

839
00:39:22,800 --> 00:39:24,879
Speaker 6: the compound. Thank you, But that was it. I think

840
00:39:24,880 --> 00:39:27,360
Speaker 6: it's you were the one. It's good for the division.

841
00:39:27,440 --> 00:39:30,560
Speaker 3: That year prior, we had the Saturday night championship game

842
00:39:30,600 --> 00:39:34,120
Speaker 3: with Jacksonville, Tennessee, and then the Coltston Texans play for

843
00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:36,080
Speaker 3: not the division, but it turned out to be for

844
00:39:36,120 --> 00:39:37,520
Speaker 3: the division, but it was a playoff.

845
00:39:37,760 --> 00:39:38,399
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was cool.

846
00:39:38,400 --> 00:39:40,600
Speaker 5: It's like Saturday night AFC South showcase.

847
00:39:41,120 --> 00:39:43,439
Speaker 2: I love it that they're doing that now. I think

848
00:39:43,520 --> 00:39:44,560
Speaker 2: that is so smart.

849
00:39:44,640 --> 00:39:47,000
Speaker 4: And I love the fact that that, you know, listen,

850
00:39:47,120 --> 00:39:50,759
Speaker 4: our division hasn't been the marquee division man, and and

851
00:39:50,840 --> 00:39:52,200
Speaker 4: we're headed there again.

852
00:39:52,320 --> 00:39:53,920
Speaker 2: If Trevor is what I think he is, I think

853
00:39:53,960 --> 00:39:55,239
Speaker 2: you're right. If if C. J.

854
00:39:55,360 --> 00:39:57,719
Speaker 4: Strouds what it looks like he obviously is, and two

855
00:39:57,800 --> 00:40:01,040
Speaker 4: young quarterbacks and the coaches too, Yeah, yes, I mean

856
00:40:01,040 --> 00:40:03,160
Speaker 4: I think right now we are in a weird the

857
00:40:03,280 --> 00:40:06,160
Speaker 4: golden age of this division. I don't really hear that,

858
00:40:06,239 --> 00:40:08,239
Speaker 4: and that's really exciting for all of us.

859
00:40:08,320 --> 00:40:10,680
Speaker 3: Here's the problem, though, problem I'll put that in air

860
00:40:10,719 --> 00:40:14,879
Speaker 3: quotes or whatever. There hasn't been a Super Bowl winner, right,

861
00:40:15,040 --> 00:40:17,040
Speaker 3: We've got to get a super.

862
00:40:16,719 --> 00:40:19,400
Speaker 5: Bowl winner or two would be great out.

863
00:40:19,280 --> 00:40:19,840
Speaker 2: Of this division.

864
00:40:19,880 --> 00:40:22,880
Speaker 3: Because people talk about the really tough divisions in football,

865
00:40:22,920 --> 00:40:25,640
Speaker 3: and you look at the AFC West, the Chiefs elevate

866
00:40:25,680 --> 00:40:28,360
Speaker 3: the entire division, no matter how bad the other teams

867
00:40:28,400 --> 00:40:31,600
Speaker 3: are or okay or whatever they are, right, they elevate

868
00:40:31,640 --> 00:40:34,920
Speaker 3: the entire division. You look at the NFC East, well,

869
00:40:34,920 --> 00:40:37,759
Speaker 3: the Eagles in recent years have elevated that division. I

870
00:40:37,760 --> 00:40:39,520
Speaker 3: know the Cowboys have won a lot of regular season

871
00:40:39,520 --> 00:40:43,319
Speaker 3: games lately, but I think with the AFC South, we

872
00:40:43,320 --> 00:40:44,799
Speaker 3: were on a run for a while when it was

873
00:40:44,800 --> 00:40:47,719
Speaker 3: still six teams going from each conference where you'd get

874
00:40:47,719 --> 00:40:51,320
Speaker 3: two in from the division annually, right, and it was

875
00:40:51,360 --> 00:40:54,600
Speaker 3: flipping around a little bit, And Matt pointed this out yesterday,

876
00:40:54,600 --> 00:40:57,160
Speaker 3: So I'm not putting salt in the wound. The Colts

877
00:40:57,200 --> 00:40:59,680
Speaker 3: have not won the division since twenty fourteen, right, right,

878
00:41:00,719 --> 00:41:03,759
Speaker 3: But since everybody else has won it twice at least twice. Yeah,

879
00:41:03,760 --> 00:41:06,520
Speaker 3: and the Texans have won it more than anybody since then.

880
00:41:07,360 --> 00:41:10,280
Speaker 3: Yet the Texans are the only one in the division

881
00:41:10,320 --> 00:41:13,320
Speaker 3: to not make it to the AFC Championship Game. The

882
00:41:13,440 --> 00:41:15,520
Speaker 3: Jags have been, the Titans have been, The Colts went

883
00:41:15,600 --> 00:41:19,720
Speaker 3: in twenty fourteen, So it's weird kind of it's horrible

884
00:41:19,760 --> 00:41:21,280
Speaker 3: for the Texans that they haven't been to an AFC

885
00:41:21,360 --> 00:41:24,200
Speaker 3: Championship game, the Titans. The Oilers were the last team

886
00:41:24,200 --> 00:41:26,640
Speaker 3: to do it in nineteen seventy nine. So we have

887
00:41:26,719 --> 00:41:29,760
Speaker 3: those things going that kind of keep the division down. Plus,

888
00:41:29,880 --> 00:41:32,640
Speaker 3: if it's NFC East and everybody's five hundred ish, it's

889
00:41:32,640 --> 00:41:35,160
Speaker 3: still attractive because they're huge markets and it's Dallas and

890
00:41:35,200 --> 00:41:37,080
Speaker 3: New York and glitz and glamour and all that.

891
00:41:37,160 --> 00:41:39,120
Speaker 4: Despite all I agree with everything you said, I didn't

892
00:41:39,120 --> 00:41:41,960
Speaker 4: realize those numbers to you just read them out. But

893
00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:45,640
Speaker 4: we have it's still coaching quarterback more than it's ever been.

894
00:41:45,960 --> 00:41:48,680
Speaker 4: It's Beellateck and Brady and it's Andy Reid Mahomes. That's

895
00:41:48,719 --> 00:41:51,600
Speaker 4: who wins the championship. You can get to the game.

896
00:41:52,080 --> 00:41:54,560
Speaker 4: You're not in this day and age. You are not

897
00:41:54,640 --> 00:41:57,879
Speaker 4: winning it in this day and age without that. And

898
00:41:57,920 --> 00:42:00,399
Speaker 4: we have four franchises now that might have that that

899
00:42:00,400 --> 00:42:02,279
Speaker 4: that's the point I can tell you. I think we

900
00:42:02,360 --> 00:42:04,560
Speaker 4: got that. I think you got that mark. It looks like,

901
00:42:04,600 --> 00:42:07,200
Speaker 4: I mean, we have four franchises now. No, Lo, maybe

902
00:42:07,239 --> 00:42:08,960
Speaker 4: these young quarterbacks don't turn out to be all that.

903
00:42:09,120 --> 00:42:11,680
Speaker 4: Maybe Stroud as a sophomore slump and I'm wrong about

904
00:42:11,719 --> 00:42:13,960
Speaker 4: travoring the two young guys don't. But I don't think so.

905
00:42:14,560 --> 00:42:17,560
Speaker 4: And the point is we now might have that. Well

906
00:42:17,880 --> 00:42:20,840
Speaker 4: we had we as a collectively as a division, we

907
00:42:20,960 --> 00:42:22,439
Speaker 4: haven't had four franchises.

908
00:42:22,719 --> 00:42:25,400
Speaker 2: That's solid footing well those two spots, right.

909
00:42:25,440 --> 00:42:28,680
Speaker 1: So what I felt good about from our standpoint is

910
00:42:28,680 --> 00:42:32,880
Speaker 1: when Brian Callahan comes in initial press conference, he immediately

911
00:42:32,880 --> 00:42:35,440
Speaker 1: starts talking about Will Levis as the guy yeah, and

912
00:42:35,440 --> 00:42:39,160
Speaker 1: it's like, okay, now that's pretty good. Yeah, because he

913
00:42:39,160 --> 00:42:42,399
Speaker 1: didn't draft him right, and he's had some pretty good

914
00:42:42,440 --> 00:42:46,120
Speaker 1: quarterbacks around in his life, and.

915
00:42:45,520 --> 00:42:47,480
Speaker 5: He had a pretty good draft position right now.

916
00:42:47,640 --> 00:42:50,120
Speaker 1: And so yeah, I mean if if if we wanted

917
00:42:50,160 --> 00:42:52,440
Speaker 1: to take another one, we could right now. So for

918
00:42:52,560 --> 00:42:55,960
Speaker 1: him to come in and say, yeah, we're building around

919
00:42:56,000 --> 00:42:59,160
Speaker 1: this guy. And and while at the combine he makes

920
00:42:59,200 --> 00:43:03,960
Speaker 1: the comment we're going to get competition, veteran competition from

921
00:43:04,040 --> 00:43:08,000
Speaker 1: Malik Willis leaving out will Levis total like he's on

922
00:43:08,040 --> 00:43:08,840
Speaker 1: a different level.

923
00:43:08,920 --> 00:43:11,000
Speaker 2: It's like, oh, okay, and that's.

924
00:43:10,920 --> 00:43:14,040
Speaker 1: And you know, that's what you that's what you want,

925
00:43:14,080 --> 00:43:17,000
Speaker 1: because I mean it's quarterback play. You know, Dave McGinnis,

926
00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:19,440
Speaker 1: who I work with, says, if you don't have a quarterback,

927
00:43:19,480 --> 00:43:21,080
Speaker 1: you've got a highly paid rugby team.

928
00:43:21,640 --> 00:43:25,759
Speaker 7: And you know, I mean, today today's football, it's it.

929
00:43:26,080 --> 00:43:28,120
Speaker 7: I might steal that line. That's that I mean, in

930
00:43:28,160 --> 00:43:31,680
Speaker 7: today's football. That's yet.

931
00:43:31,760 --> 00:43:34,600
Speaker 5: Look how important the backup quarterback is.

932
00:43:34,960 --> 00:43:37,200
Speaker 3: And this past year was the year of the backup

933
00:43:37,280 --> 00:43:40,400
Speaker 3: and and the Colts almost win the division with Gardner

934
00:43:40,400 --> 00:43:43,359
Speaker 3: Minshew playing quarterback. Good quarterback, but come on, I mean

935
00:43:43,400 --> 00:43:45,520
Speaker 3: you almost he almost did it, you know, not only

936
00:43:45,560 --> 00:43:47,800
Speaker 3: made it, but with the result the next day. I

937
00:43:47,840 --> 00:43:50,440
Speaker 3: always say the universe changes with certain things. Maybe if

938
00:43:50,440 --> 00:43:52,680
Speaker 3: the Colts beat the Texans, maybe the Jags, I don't

939
00:43:52,719 --> 00:43:55,320
Speaker 3: know what happens, but you would have made the playoffs.

940
00:43:55,480 --> 00:43:57,799
Speaker 3: You know, one or two more throws get you there

941
00:43:57,800 --> 00:44:01,759
Speaker 3: with Gardner Minshew, You're you want the game with Bethard, right,

942
00:44:01,880 --> 00:44:04,640
Speaker 3: The Jags did so. The Jags won a game with CJ. Betherd,

943
00:44:04,680 --> 00:44:07,040
Speaker 3: a crucial game, the only win they had down the stretch.

944
00:44:07,800 --> 00:44:11,760
Speaker 3: Backups are so important. Yeah, I agree with coach McGinnis.

945
00:44:11,760 --> 00:44:13,720
Speaker 3: You know, you got to have one over the long stretch,

946
00:44:13,840 --> 00:44:15,960
Speaker 3: but you also need a backup. That's why I'm very

947
00:44:16,000 --> 00:44:18,360
Speaker 3: curious to know who the Colts backup is going to

948
00:44:18,400 --> 00:44:20,680
Speaker 3: be this year, because minshe's a free agent.

949
00:44:20,560 --> 00:44:22,280
Speaker 2: And the flank style of Anthony Richardson.

950
00:44:22,600 --> 00:44:25,520
Speaker 3: And look, the Texans had case Keenum defeat the Titans

951
00:44:25,520 --> 00:44:28,439
Speaker 3: and he must have it kind of game up there.

952
00:44:28,520 --> 00:44:30,480
Speaker 3: Got had to have had to at least split in

953
00:44:30,520 --> 00:44:32,799
Speaker 3: the games with Tennessee and Cleveland at the time. But

954
00:44:32,840 --> 00:44:35,200
Speaker 3: you needed the division wins, and you know, with the

955
00:44:35,200 --> 00:44:38,520
Speaker 3: playoff tie breakers, those division wins are extremely important.

956
00:44:38,520 --> 00:44:41,680
Speaker 6: They're to go back to Frank's point, That's the thing

957
00:44:41,680 --> 00:44:44,120
Speaker 6: that I think I'm most encouraged by with the Colts

958
00:44:44,239 --> 00:44:46,760
Speaker 6: talk about you got to have the coach, the play caller,

959
00:44:46,800 --> 00:44:50,920
Speaker 6: with Shane Stikeen's both and the quarterback, I think, excuse me,

960
00:44:51,000 --> 00:44:54,560
Speaker 6: I think Anthony Richardson learned a very valuable lesson as

961
00:44:54,600 --> 00:44:57,279
Speaker 6: a as a young guy. And he said this at

962
00:44:57,320 --> 00:44:58,759
Speaker 6: the end of the season, and I don't think it

963
00:44:58,840 --> 00:45:01,839
Speaker 6: was him being cocky or you know, over the top.

964
00:45:01,920 --> 00:45:05,280
Speaker 6: He's like, if I'm healthy, I think we're in the playoffs.

965
00:45:05,600 --> 00:45:09,160
Speaker 6: And I think that's more of an accurate statement than

966
00:45:09,520 --> 00:45:11,880
Speaker 6: not because of what we saw in terms of the

967
00:45:11,920 --> 00:45:13,080
Speaker 6: first month of the season.

968
00:45:13,440 --> 00:45:14,400
Speaker 2: So just like CJ.

969
00:45:14,520 --> 00:45:17,640
Speaker 6: Stroud dealing with the concussion, I think with him missing

970
00:45:17,680 --> 00:45:20,760
Speaker 6: all of that time, it's a very valuable lesson for him.

971
00:45:21,200 --> 00:45:24,279
Speaker 6: I'm very important to this franchise. And again that's not

972
00:45:24,440 --> 00:45:28,080
Speaker 6: him being cocky. We're gonna go as far as I'm

973
00:45:28,120 --> 00:45:31,960
Speaker 6: gonna go in terms of my availability. That's huge for

974
00:45:32,040 --> 00:45:35,759
Speaker 6: this team. But also too with the Colts on the

975
00:45:35,800 --> 00:45:39,040
Speaker 6: precipice of a playoff spot with Shane Steichen as the

976
00:45:39,080 --> 00:45:42,520
Speaker 6: play caller, the offensive mastermind, with a backup quarterback in

977
00:45:42,560 --> 00:45:46,480
Speaker 6: Gardner Minshew whose playing style is completely different from that

978
00:45:46,680 --> 00:45:50,359
Speaker 6: of Anthony Richardson gives you hope that this guy has

979
00:45:50,440 --> 00:45:53,839
Speaker 6: coached a lot of different styles, a lot of different quarterbacks,

980
00:45:54,040 --> 00:45:57,000
Speaker 6: and he's had success no matter what style he has

981
00:45:57,080 --> 00:45:57,560
Speaker 6: to deal with.

982
00:45:57,760 --> 00:46:00,359
Speaker 1: What I'm excited about from the Titans perspective to your

983
00:46:00,400 --> 00:46:05,719
Speaker 1: point about the backup quarterback, we can afford one. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

984
00:46:05,760 --> 00:46:07,960
Speaker 1: Well you did with minche Yeah, you know, and that's

985
00:46:08,000 --> 00:46:11,920
Speaker 1: a big deal. Because Joshua Dobbs wanted to stay in

986
00:46:12,040 --> 00:46:16,279
Speaker 1: Tennessee and was really trying to and the Titans really

987
00:46:16,320 --> 00:46:19,960
Speaker 1: wanted him to stay. Cleveland made him a two million

988
00:46:20,000 --> 00:46:25,640
Speaker 1: dollars guaranteed offer and then the traded them. They traded

989
00:46:25,719 --> 00:46:29,480
Speaker 1: him to Arizona. But the Titans very much would have left,

990
00:46:29,520 --> 00:46:32,520
Speaker 1: and they would have loved. Two million dollars is not exorbitant.

991
00:46:32,800 --> 00:46:36,040
Speaker 1: The Titans were so tight against the cap they could

992
00:46:36,080 --> 00:46:39,600
Speaker 1: not afford to pay a guy two million dollars guaranteed

993
00:46:40,719 --> 00:46:42,120
Speaker 1: in hopes that he didn't play.

994
00:46:42,480 --> 00:46:42,719
Speaker 2: Yeah.

995
00:46:42,920 --> 00:46:45,200
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean that's insurance.

996
00:46:44,920 --> 00:46:45,640
Speaker 2: They couldn't have.

997
00:46:45,880 --> 00:46:48,240
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, we've all been there at different

998
00:46:48,280 --> 00:46:51,040
Speaker 1: times when we were young, buying car insurance. Yeah, we'd

999
00:46:51,080 --> 00:46:54,000
Speaker 1: love to buy the best, but we can't afford it.

1000
00:46:54,040 --> 00:46:56,960
Speaker 1: So We buy just what we can afford to get by,

1001
00:46:57,200 --> 00:47:00,920
Speaker 1: so we're legal. And that's where the Titans work this year.

1002
00:47:01,239 --> 00:47:04,280
Speaker 1: If they want to spend two million dollars three million

1003
00:47:04,320 --> 00:47:10,000
Speaker 1: dollars guaranteed on a savvy backup quarterback, they can do it,

1004
00:47:10,280 --> 00:47:11,600
Speaker 1: and I'm thankful for that.

1005
00:47:12,440 --> 00:47:15,920
Speaker 2: I have one off as we wrap here, what's the

1006
00:47:15,920 --> 00:47:16,480
Speaker 2: more wrapping?

1007
00:47:16,560 --> 00:47:22,120
Speaker 4: Well, wait a minute, who's running this year? What's the

1008
00:47:22,160 --> 00:47:24,319
Speaker 4: one or two things that the Titans need to do?

1009
00:47:25,400 --> 00:47:25,919
Speaker 4: Give me two.

1010
00:47:26,640 --> 00:47:28,640
Speaker 1: Well, they've got to fix the offensive line and they've

1011
00:47:28,640 --> 00:47:30,400
Speaker 1: got to add speed at wide receiver.

1012
00:47:30,680 --> 00:47:31,600
Speaker 4: Offensive line speed.

1013
00:47:32,480 --> 00:47:34,360
Speaker 3: Devin Singletary is a free agent, so they got to

1014
00:47:34,360 --> 00:47:37,040
Speaker 3: address running back and the running game. They have to

1015
00:47:37,120 --> 00:47:39,560
Speaker 3: run the ball consistently. They get the best season ever

1016
00:47:39,560 --> 00:47:41,680
Speaker 3: out of Devin Singletary. That was his best year ever

1017
00:47:41,960 --> 00:47:45,640
Speaker 3: over nine hundred yards, but he's a free agent. They

1018
00:47:45,680 --> 00:47:47,920
Speaker 3: got to figure out what they're doing because you have

1019
00:47:48,000 --> 00:47:50,839
Speaker 3: to take as great as CJ. Stroud played, you have

1020
00:47:50,920 --> 00:47:52,520
Speaker 3: to take some heat off of them. You want to

1021
00:47:52,560 --> 00:47:55,000
Speaker 3: be balanced, especially in that system that they're running.

1022
00:47:55,239 --> 00:47:57,600
Speaker 6: Two things, as it relates to the Colts missing the

1023
00:47:57,600 --> 00:48:00,440
Speaker 6: playoffs last year, I think that the two biggest things

1024
00:48:00,480 --> 00:48:03,479
Speaker 6: that that held him back were it's pretty easy. Big

1025
00:48:03,520 --> 00:48:06,000
Speaker 6: plays on offense, not enough and too many big plays

1026
00:48:06,040 --> 00:48:09,480
Speaker 6: allowed on defense. They had fifty one sacks last year,

1027
00:48:09,520 --> 00:48:12,080
Speaker 6: which was a franchise record. Yeah, and they actually finished

1028
00:48:12,120 --> 00:48:14,760
Speaker 6: top five in the NFL in sacks on defense.

1029
00:48:14,840 --> 00:48:17,560
Speaker 2: Wow. But it's just the timeliness, right. They don't have

1030
00:48:18,239 --> 00:48:19,400
Speaker 2: that guy.

1031
00:48:19,719 --> 00:48:22,480
Speaker 6: Yet, you know what I'm saying, Like Joey Bosa, Nick Bosa,

1032
00:48:22,560 --> 00:48:25,680
Speaker 6: TJ Watt, like the guy that in the high leverage

1033
00:48:25,680 --> 00:48:29,399
Speaker 6: situation games on the line, he's unblockable. The Colts don't

1034
00:48:29,440 --> 00:48:31,920
Speaker 6: have that guy yet, so they're still in search of that,

1035
00:48:32,920 --> 00:48:34,439
Speaker 6: trying to figure out what they're gonna do with Michael

1036
00:48:34,480 --> 00:48:37,120
Speaker 6: Pittman Junior. But I think the biggest things are stopped

1037
00:48:37,160 --> 00:48:39,319
Speaker 6: the big plays on defense, which we saw in Week

1038
00:48:39,360 --> 00:48:43,120
Speaker 6: eighteen with Nico Collins, and not enough big plays on offense.

1039
00:48:43,200 --> 00:48:45,720
Speaker 6: I think some of that boils down to Gardner Minshew

1040
00:48:46,040 --> 00:48:48,759
Speaker 6: versus Anthony Richardson because the big plays were there at

1041
00:48:48,760 --> 00:48:51,160
Speaker 6: the beginning of the season with ar but just trying

1042
00:48:51,200 --> 00:48:52,799
Speaker 6: to marry those two things together.

1043
00:48:52,960 --> 00:48:55,000
Speaker 2: We're all talking about stilling the same we go all day.

1044
00:48:55,000 --> 00:48:55,319
Speaker 2: I got.

1045
00:48:56,880 --> 00:48:59,200
Speaker 4: For Jackson, Yeah, but I will tell you for us,

1046
00:48:59,800 --> 00:49:02,680
Speaker 4: we have to get more physical. You saw it in

1047
00:49:02,680 --> 00:49:06,360
Speaker 4: that game. We have to get more physical. That's the

1048
00:49:06,440 --> 00:49:09,719
Speaker 4: thing on both lines of scrimmage. Now, look, it sound

1049
00:49:09,760 --> 00:49:12,240
Speaker 4: like I'm making excuses for him, but their offensive line

1050
00:49:12,320 --> 00:49:15,160
Speaker 4: was banged up all year. Devon Hamilton had a health

1051
00:49:15,200 --> 00:49:18,759
Speaker 4: issue that he was a fantastic two gap nose guard

1052
00:49:19,360 --> 00:49:21,280
Speaker 4: and two years ago and then he had health issue,

1053
00:49:21,360 --> 00:49:24,399
Speaker 4: was never himself fully Foughtocasi didn't play very well. So

1054
00:49:24,760 --> 00:49:27,600
Speaker 4: the lines of the big people. If you I want

1055
00:49:28,320 --> 00:49:32,400
Speaker 4: free agency draft, I want a bunch of poundage because

1056
00:49:35,080 --> 00:49:37,960
Speaker 4: because that's what the Jags need. More physicality.

1057
00:49:38,040 --> 00:49:40,440
Speaker 2: It's like the opposite of everybody else. That's what speed.

1058
00:49:40,520 --> 00:49:42,640
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, well, and I think the Jags kind of

1059
00:49:42,640 --> 00:49:46,759
Speaker 4: have the periphery they need. They need physicality and got

1060
00:49:46,760 --> 00:49:48,399
Speaker 4: to be able to run it. Got to stop the run.

1061
00:49:48,400 --> 00:49:50,200
Speaker 4: It sound like a coach, but that's where they were.

1062
00:49:50,280 --> 00:49:52,680
Speaker 6: They don't have a physicality problem when they play the Colts.

1063
00:49:52,760 --> 00:49:54,920
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, well, I hear you. You know what I mean.

1064
00:49:55,040 --> 00:49:57,000
Speaker 4: I do, I do, But that's that's that's the big

1065
00:49:57,040 --> 00:49:58,000
Speaker 4: thing I think for them.

1066
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