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Speaker 1: If you want Colts talk all year long, you're in

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Speaker 1: Indiana Union Construction Industry Radio studio. Let's get the podcast started.

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Speaker 3: Welcome to the Official Colts Podcast. I'm Jeffery Gorman. Miss

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Speaker 3: Lara Holderton usually here JJ STANKOBITZI is not so we're

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Speaker 3: gonna run this thing.

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Speaker 3: We have a lot to go over right now because

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Speaker 3: with the draft upcoming and the new players that are upcoming,

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Speaker 3: the behind the scenes look that this department the Colts

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Speaker 3: This award winning it's called Behind the Colts that we're

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Speaker 3: and you're a big part of it. I want to

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Speaker 3: start with that, because you're not gonna want to miss this,

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Speaker 3: I promise you. If you're a football fan, let alone

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Speaker 3: And then the funny thing the other day was you

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Speaker 4: This is an expanded look into the organization That will

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Speaker 4: so you will get a more expansive, in depth, comprehensive look.

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Speaker 4: In the past, we've kind of run basically January through

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Speaker 4: And one thing, JJ will be included in this podcast

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Speaker 3: This was a couple of years ago. There was a

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Speaker 4: Well, I think every possibility is on the table right now.

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Speaker 5: And there's not just one way to fix any of it.

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Speaker 3: That would say, okay, right there, seventh rounder, that would say, hey,

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Speaker 1: He's not a free agent, but he's back with the

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Speaker 1: congratulations on what this means to you. You know, certainly,

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Speaker 7: So where were your emotions when you know, the Colts

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Speaker 6: Well, it didn't necessarily go that way, but I would say,

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Speaker 1: I've got a feeling though, that now that you're here

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Speaker 7: I think about this a lot. I talked with Bobby

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Speaker 7: They saw you coming. This year you had one hundred

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Speaker 7: and seventy nine tackles. Like what where can you keep

438
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Speaker 7: growing as a player?

439
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Speaker 3: Uh?

440
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Speaker 7: You know now that you're going to have this kind

441
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Speaker 7: of stability here in Indianapolis.

442
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I think you know. Yeah, Bobby actually shout out

443
00:19:09,840 --> 00:19:12,240
Speaker 6: to be Wags. But you know, he talked to me

444
00:19:12,280 --> 00:19:14,040
Speaker 6: a lot about that even when I was a younger player,

445
00:19:14,280 --> 00:19:16,439
Speaker 6: just that you know, the first year you do something,

446
00:19:16,960 --> 00:19:19,200
Speaker 6: you pretty much catch the leads by league by surprise.

447
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Speaker 2: You know.

448
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Speaker 6: He said, there's only great players able to continue that

449
00:19:21,960 --> 00:19:25,600
Speaker 6: level of consistency over you know, of course of several years.

450
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Speaker 6: And obviously he's a prime example of that. You know,

451
00:19:28,560 --> 00:19:31,359
Speaker 6: twelve years, one hundred tackles, nine Pro Bowls. You know,

452
00:19:31,480 --> 00:19:35,840
Speaker 6: hall of fame resume speaks for yourself, But for me,

453
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Speaker 6: I think it's just you know, my growth comes and

454
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Speaker 6: just continue to try to make those you know, game

455
00:19:40,920 --> 00:19:43,879
Speaker 6: change in place, truly try to put my imprint on

456
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Speaker 6: the games that I play. I think, you know, towards

457
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Speaker 6: the end of last year, I started to gain that

458
00:19:48,560 --> 00:19:50,440
Speaker 6: that type of concept that started to understand and to

459
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Speaker 6: really try to take my game to that next level.

460
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Speaker 2: And you know, it's a work in progress.

461
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Speaker 6: Like look, I'm not perfect, I got a ways to go,

462
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Speaker 6: but just understand I'm committed to to being the best

463
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Speaker 6: version of me.

464
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Speaker 1: Sarah, You've been a team captain almost every single year

465
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Speaker 1: you've been here, and this is a total compliment to you.

466
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Speaker 1: I mean, I think there's a lot of good leaders

467
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Speaker 1: within this locker room, but I think you're it. I

468
00:20:10,760 --> 00:20:14,560
Speaker 1: think you are the biggest leader on this team, regardless

469
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Speaker 1: of what side of the ball you're talking about. Do

470
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Speaker 1: a do you realize that and be how how important

471
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Speaker 1: is that to you? In terms of what you're bringing

472
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Speaker 1: to this team.

473
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Speaker 2: Man.

474
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Speaker 6: Uh, you know, I think it's something that i've you know,

475
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Speaker 6: I've felt for a few years.

476
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Speaker 2: Uh.

477
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Speaker 6: You know, even before I was playing. You know, it

478
00:20:29,760 --> 00:20:31,359
Speaker 6: was a time when, you know, when I was just

479
00:20:31,359 --> 00:20:34,800
Speaker 6: playing special teams, I felt like my diminished role on

480
00:20:34,840 --> 00:20:38,200
Speaker 6: the team wasn't allowing me to truly become the guy

481
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Speaker 6: that I felt like the team needed me to be.

482
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Speaker 6: Because at the end of the day, we all respect success.

483
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Speaker 6: That that's just that's just that's life. But you know,

484
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Speaker 6: I think as my role grew and you know, I

485
00:20:49,920 --> 00:20:51,440
Speaker 6: was able to prove to my teammate said, I was

486
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Speaker 6: able to do that, you know, on defense as well.

487
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Speaker 6: It's something that I take very personal, you know, the

488
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Speaker 6: role of being you know, in the middle of that

489
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Speaker 6: huddle or being in the front and you know at

490
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Speaker 6: the guy's you know, I'm a general that likes to

491
00:21:03,119 --> 00:21:04,960
Speaker 6: be on the front lines, you know what I mean.

492
00:21:04,960 --> 00:21:07,040
Speaker 6: I'm in there with all the guys, with all the soldiers,

493
00:21:07,480 --> 00:21:09,880
Speaker 6: and it means everything to me. You know, I give

494
00:21:09,920 --> 00:21:13,000
Speaker 6: everything for them in every area and try to serve

495
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Speaker 6: and help them in every chance that I get. And uh,

496
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Speaker 6: like I said, it's something that I take very personally.

497
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Speaker 6: It means it means the most to me, to be

498
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Speaker 6: honest with.

499
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Speaker 7: You, something I've learned since I got here to the

500
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Speaker 7: Colts was that this is a team.

501
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Speaker 1: Who we got who we got another special guest.

502
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Speaker 2: Here, it's okay.

503
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Speaker 7: The something that that I've learned about like the Colts.

504
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Speaker 7: When you've played here for a while and you've been

505
00:21:36,640 --> 00:21:38,320
Speaker 7: a member of the community, you've been you know, a

506
00:21:38,359 --> 00:21:40,080
Speaker 7: part of it, You've you've kind, you've been a good

507
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Speaker 7: player on the field, all those things like legacy is

508
00:21:42,480 --> 00:21:45,600
Speaker 7: important to this franchise. Legacy is important to this community

509
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Speaker 7: when they think about the players that have come through here.

510
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Speaker 7: You're gonna be here for a while, You've you've built

511
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Speaker 7: a legacy here. You think about that, like twenty years

512
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Speaker 7: from now, thirty years from now, people are gonna be like, man,

513
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Speaker 7: like remember that Zire Franklin. He was He's a good player,

514
00:22:01,040 --> 00:22:03,359
Speaker 7: he's a good man. He made an impact on me.

515
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Speaker 7: Do you think about that?

516
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Speaker 6: No question, it's actually a crazy thing because I don't know,

517
00:22:07,760 --> 00:22:09,399
Speaker 6: like even when I was getting dressed, I don't like,

518
00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:11,520
Speaker 6: I'm be honest, I didn't play with the Colts on

519
00:22:11,520 --> 00:22:13,520
Speaker 6: Matten To be honest with you, then y'all was too good,

520
00:22:13,640 --> 00:22:15,840
Speaker 6: you know what I mean. I like playing with the

521
00:22:15,840 --> 00:22:18,080
Speaker 6: middle of the pack teams, you know, and earning my wins.

522
00:22:18,160 --> 00:22:20,520
Speaker 6: Y'all was ninety eight all the time. It had Peyton

523
00:22:20,600 --> 00:22:22,160
Speaker 6: and Marvin. It was it was too easy to play

524
00:22:22,160 --> 00:22:24,439
Speaker 6: with Joe. But you know, I just think, you know,

525
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Speaker 6: since I've been here, and it's just one of those things,

526
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Speaker 6: you know, going on my seventh year with the same organization,

527
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Speaker 6: and that's that's a blessing in itself. You know a

528
00:22:31,600 --> 00:22:32,920
Speaker 6: lot of people don't you know, Are'm blessed to be

529
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Speaker 6: able to be with the same ortization for that long

530
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Speaker 6: and just to be able to be here for three

531
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Speaker 6: more years. You know, I'm a Colt and that's something

532
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Speaker 6: I take pride in. Legacy is something that means a

533
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Speaker 6: lot to me. My last name is something that means

534
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Speaker 6: a lot to me. And you know, I just think

535
00:22:46,160 --> 00:22:48,000
Speaker 6: everything that I do, not only on the field, but

536
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Speaker 6: in the community. You know, I'm just trying to leave

537
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Speaker 6: this place better than how I found it. So, like

538
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Speaker 6: I said, I'm just keep giving myself, keep giving my

539
00:22:55,080 --> 00:22:58,000
Speaker 6: all to not only the coach, but the Indianapolis and

540
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Speaker 6: we just gonna see how far we could take it.

541
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Speaker 1: And this little man right here, this is why you

542
00:23:01,119 --> 00:23:01,600
Speaker 1: do it, right.

543
00:23:01,720 --> 00:23:04,040
Speaker 6: No question we have right here, Oh this little Cairo man,

544
00:23:04,080 --> 00:23:05,480
Speaker 6: this is this is my this is my right hand.

545
00:23:05,520 --> 00:23:09,679
Speaker 6: Right here, man, it's my prods, my heart walking under man.

546
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Speaker 1: That's I mean, such a that right there is a

547
00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:15,720
Speaker 1: great picture. If picture could say a thousand words, that's

548
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Speaker 1: what it is. That's what it's all about. Right there,

549
00:23:17,400 --> 00:23:20,479
Speaker 1: Sire Franklin celebrating big time at Hogies and Hops.

550
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Speaker 6: You get to z frank No substitutions, No substitutions. We

551
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Speaker 6: don't respect the substitutions. If you're getting the Hogies and

552
00:23:27,840 --> 00:23:30,440
Speaker 6: Hops cheese steak boy, I'm actually oh and I didn't

553
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Speaker 6: get a cheese season.

554
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Speaker 2: I'm really I'm trying. I got I'll see, I got

555
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Speaker 2: watch way.

556
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Speaker 1: No power is immense with you.

557
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Speaker 6: What of staying away from cheese steaks? Yeah, I mean

558
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Speaker 6: I got. I gotta do a little dance with my

559
00:23:41,720 --> 00:23:45,320
Speaker 6: dieting off. You know it's sometimes I go too far

560
00:23:45,440 --> 00:23:47,159
Speaker 6: and the who is the off season, you know what

561
00:23:47,160 --> 00:23:50,040
Speaker 6: I mean? So I gotta I gotta keep it, gotta

562
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Speaker 6: keep it tight, as Gus would say.

563
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Speaker 2: So Yeah, We're gonna be all right though.

564
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Speaker 1: That's a good man right here. What you see is

565
00:23:54,760 --> 00:23:57,840
Speaker 1: what you get Zire Franklin in terms of personality and

566
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Speaker 1: sandwiches from Hoges and hop Congratulations again, my friend, You're

567
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Speaker 1: you're one hundred percent all real and can't thank you

568
00:24:04,280 --> 00:24:04,800
Speaker 1: enough of your time.

569
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Speaker 2: Yes, I appreciate you.

570
00:24:05,680 --> 00:24:08,760
Speaker 3: That boys obviously a huge leader and his son. His

571
00:24:08,880 --> 00:24:10,600
Speaker 3: son is also a big fan of FOPS love.

572
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Speaker 4: That's the cutest and it was so fun for all

573
00:24:13,200 --> 00:24:16,800
Speaker 4: those guys to see have their families here, have them around. Also,

574
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Speaker 4: there's a phenomenal piece that premiered on Monday night from

575
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Speaker 4: the big signing Day as we kind of called it

576
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Speaker 4: on Wednesday, with all of the guys who were in

577
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Speaker 4: the building that day coming around. So definitely give that

578
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Speaker 4: a look. It's on Colts dot Com Colts YouTube as well.

579
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Speaker 4: A couple of awesome moments with of course Zire and

580
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Speaker 4: his family, Kenny Moore and his family, Michael Pittman and

581
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Speaker 4: his wife, and then of course Grover and Taekwon Rego.

582
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Speaker 4: I mean, just all of those guys having them. It

583
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Speaker 4: was really special to have all of them in the

584
00:24:45,920 --> 00:24:48,399
Speaker 4: building together for that day because they were just crossing

585
00:24:48,440 --> 00:24:50,040
Speaker 4: paths in the hallways, and you could just see how

586
00:24:50,040 --> 00:24:53,440
Speaker 4: happy they were for one another and also how motivated

587
00:24:53,480 --> 00:24:56,359
Speaker 4: they all are to, you know, take what they have

588
00:24:56,560 --> 00:25:00,359
Speaker 4: built to another level. No one is complaced and they

589
00:25:00,440 --> 00:25:03,320
Speaker 4: feel like that there is a purpose to all of

590
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Speaker 4: them being brought back. And then also you think about

591
00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:09,439
Speaker 4: it too, is the free agents. They had options of

592
00:25:09,440 --> 00:25:11,800
Speaker 4: going elsewhere. They could have signed with other teams, So

593
00:25:12,080 --> 00:25:15,080
Speaker 4: gives you a perspective on why those guys chose.

594
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Speaker 5: To be here.

595
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Speaker 3: You hit the nail on the head. Obviously, Chris Ballard

596
00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:20,320
Speaker 3: went in and said, I'm keeping my guys here state

597
00:25:20,400 --> 00:25:22,919
Speaker 3: in house, but they did venture outside a little bit.

598
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Speaker 3: Let's start first off with according to reports, and of

599
00:25:25,840 --> 00:25:28,960
Speaker 3: course the Pat McAfee shoke, because we saw Joe Flacco

600
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Speaker 3: on there. According to reports, he will be signing with

601
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Speaker 3: the Colts this week apparently sometime, so Chris Ballard and

602
00:25:36,040 --> 00:25:38,960
Speaker 3: team went outside of their in house stuff between Joe

603
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Speaker 3: Flacco and ray Kwon Davis, who will get to in

604
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Speaker 3: a minute. But again according to reports, that Joe Flacco thing,

605
00:25:45,280 --> 00:25:49,160
Speaker 3: we've got a senior sort of a quarterback in here

606
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Speaker 3: who is older than his head coach, who is sitting

607
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Speaker 3: next to a young gentleman who wears number five and

608
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Speaker 3: is like, Okay, I haven't played a ton of football

609
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Speaker 3: at this level. But having a guy like Joe Flaco

610
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Speaker 3: next to Anthony Richardson.

611
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Speaker 4: And just in general showing the rope well, I think,

612
00:26:06,280 --> 00:26:08,200
Speaker 4: just in general, the demand that there was last season

613
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Speaker 4: for backup quarterbacks across the NFL, the priority that there

614
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Speaker 4: is on having someone who is reliable, who is steady,

615
00:26:15,960 --> 00:26:18,760
Speaker 4: who is poised, who was proven in this league, I

616
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Speaker 4: think means a lot. That's why you you know, saw

617
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Speaker 4: a lot of movement you have already at the quarterback position.

618
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Speaker 4: I mean, gosh, look at Pittsburgh right now, what they

619
00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:29,800
Speaker 4: did at the court at quarterback rights so far that

620
00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:32,280
Speaker 4: you had to address it one way or another. And

621
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Speaker 4: you know, I do think that this is it's great.

622
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Speaker 4: It's great all around. Certainly, it's going to be good

623
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Speaker 4: for Anthony to continue to have you know, resources around

624
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Speaker 4: him to help him grow and develop, but to also

625
00:26:43,359 --> 00:26:46,240
Speaker 4: you know, have someone with stability. It came off of

626
00:26:46,280 --> 00:26:49,280
Speaker 4: a phenomenal season obviously kind of you know, was kicked

627
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Speaker 4: up on the couch and you know, nearing retirement, you know,

628
00:26:52,880 --> 00:26:55,159
Speaker 4: wasn't totally sure he was ready to retire, but you know,

629
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Speaker 4: then came in and did what he did, let the

630
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Speaker 4: Browns to post season appearance.

631
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Speaker 3: And so, yeah, are in good shape. And by the way,

632
00:27:01,040 --> 00:27:02,840
Speaker 3: Colts dot com for all the latest stuff. I think

633
00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:05,359
Speaker 3: you're gonna be sitting down with that Joe Flecco soon enough.

634
00:27:05,680 --> 00:27:07,960
Speaker 3: So miss Larra Overton will bring you the latest on Nass.

635
00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:13,360
Speaker 3: Another free agent that the Colts brought in, a large,

636
00:27:13,720 --> 00:27:16,399
Speaker 3: large man. And when I think of Grover Stewart and

637
00:27:16,440 --> 00:27:19,119
Speaker 3: when I think of DeForest Buckner with the addition of

638
00:27:19,200 --> 00:27:22,520
Speaker 3: ray Kwon Davis, who goes at six eight, three thirty five,

639
00:27:22,960 --> 00:27:25,120
Speaker 3: he was in here last week. You guys talked to him.

640
00:27:25,320 --> 00:27:27,040
Speaker 3: He walked by me in the hallway. It was like

641
00:27:27,080 --> 00:27:30,600
Speaker 3: one of these things like, holy smokes, that's murderer's role

642
00:27:30,680 --> 00:27:33,320
Speaker 3: right there, those three big guys right there. Just before

643
00:27:33,359 --> 00:27:35,720
Speaker 3: we're gonna hear from Waycon. What does he bring to

644
00:27:35,760 --> 00:27:37,359
Speaker 3: this defensive line unit.

645
00:27:37,600 --> 00:27:40,479
Speaker 4: Well, we talked about how imperative it is to have

646
00:27:40,600 --> 00:27:41,880
Speaker 4: rotation upfront.

647
00:27:42,320 --> 00:27:45,120
Speaker 5: Is he a guy who can come in and help supplement.

648
00:27:44,680 --> 00:27:47,840
Speaker 4: You know, DeForest in that position right and give you

649
00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:51,479
Speaker 4: a bit of rotation with those interior guys on your

650
00:27:51,520 --> 00:27:55,919
Speaker 4: defensive line. That's something that Chris Bellard has preached building

651
00:27:55,920 --> 00:27:59,239
Speaker 4: from the trenches and investing in that area. This is

652
00:27:59,280 --> 00:28:01,520
Speaker 4: I think one of those that will be kind of

653
00:28:01,560 --> 00:28:04,960
Speaker 4: a sneaky signing. I think people don't realize how impactful

654
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Speaker 4: it is right now. But proven commodity, former second round

655
00:28:07,800 --> 00:28:10,080
Speaker 4: pick out of Alabama, had a great run with the

656
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Speaker 4: Miami Dolphins and is really excited for the opportunity that

657
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Speaker 4: he has to work with this group. And I love

658
00:28:16,080 --> 00:28:19,560
Speaker 4: this for Charlie Partridge, new defensive line coach, just to

659
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Speaker 4: have more weapons in that arsenal, to be able to

660
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Speaker 4: work with and be able to develop, and guys who

661
00:28:24,480 --> 00:28:28,120
Speaker 4: are really complimentary pieces to one another. So yeah, that's

662
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Speaker 4: a ferocious looking front, not just with the guys who

663
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Speaker 4: you anticipate to be starting there, but with the rotation

664
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Speaker 4: that you have, you know as well, because Grover is

665
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Speaker 4: extended you or you know, re signed on in free agency.

666
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Speaker 5: Taekwon lewis as well coming off the best year of

667
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Speaker 5: his career.

668
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Speaker 4: So now you're looking at okay, like we've got healthy pieces,

669
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Speaker 4: We've got hungry guys who are there upfront and too

670
00:28:49,200 --> 00:28:51,960
Speaker 4: think about you know, anyone who you can have to

671
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Speaker 4: allow to forest a bit of rotation. He has been

672
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Speaker 4: such an iron man, played through so many injuries over

673
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Speaker 4: the last four seas that you think, I mean, rarely

674
00:29:02,600 --> 00:29:04,800
Speaker 4: is he out of the game, right, So if you

675
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Speaker 4: can to some degree allow him to be on some

676
00:29:08,400 --> 00:29:11,280
Speaker 4: rotation or any of those guys, it is certainly going

677
00:29:11,320 --> 00:29:13,480
Speaker 4: to benefit that group up front and what they're going

678
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Speaker 4: to be able to do, because although they set the

679
00:29:15,640 --> 00:29:18,360
Speaker 4: franchise sack record last year, this is a team that

680
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Speaker 4: when they evaluated in the offseason, did not feel that

681
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Speaker 4: they were getting to the quarterback and wreaking enough havoc

682
00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:29,080
Speaker 4: nearly enough. They were not disruptive enough upfront. So this

683
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Speaker 4: is one of those moves that you've seen to address

684
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Speaker 4: exactly that.

685
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Speaker 3: In a sneaky move, you mentioned him Charlie Partridge doing

686
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Speaker 3: what he can do at the collegiate level. Now keep

687
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Speaker 3: in mind a lot of his guys that he played

688
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Speaker 3: underneath him at Pittsburgh and stuff with Partridge and new

689
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Speaker 3: defensive line coach.

690
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Speaker 5: Oh jacko Wisconsin. That was pretty good.

691
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Speaker 3: Yeah, JJ Watt was pretty good. But I'm saying, like

692
00:29:49,240 --> 00:29:51,240
Speaker 3: not everyone's going to the next level. You know what,

693
00:29:51,280 --> 00:29:53,120
Speaker 3: I mean, well, now he's at the next level and

694
00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:55,360
Speaker 3: these all these guys have proven it. They're the best

695
00:29:55,360 --> 00:29:57,680
Speaker 3: in the world at what they do on defensive line play.

696
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Speaker 3: So that's the interesting relationship and I'm going to be

697
00:30:00,640 --> 00:30:03,000
Speaker 3: looking forward to is see what coach Partris gets out

698
00:30:03,040 --> 00:30:06,440
Speaker 3: of these guys, starting with those three Redwoods between Grover Stewart,

699
00:30:06,680 --> 00:30:09,880
Speaker 3: you know, Raekwon Davis and the Forrest Bucker. So that's

700
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Speaker 3: what I'm excited about. And who knows what sort of

701
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Speaker 3: depth they may or may not add in the draft.

702
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Speaker 3: But why don't we introduce you right now, Matt Taylor

703
00:30:15,760 --> 00:30:18,080
Speaker 3: Voice to the Colts. JJ Stankovitz had a chance to

704
00:30:18,120 --> 00:30:20,640
Speaker 3: sit down last week with Raekwon Davis when he came

705
00:30:20,680 --> 00:30:22,440
Speaker 3: into the Colts and said, Hey, I'm going to sign

706
00:30:22,520 --> 00:30:24,840
Speaker 3: my name on the dotted line. Let's play some football.

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Speaker 1: We're on set right now with JJ Stangovitz. I'm Matt Taylor.

708
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Speaker 1: Pleasure to be joined by the newest Indianapolis Colt coming

709
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Speaker 1: over in free agency from the Miami Dolphins to Wrexam

710
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Speaker 1: Havoc along that defensive line. It's ray Kwon Davis on

711
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Speaker 1: the podcast here with us. Raekwon Man, great to meet you.

712
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Speaker 2: How are you to meet you?

713
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Speaker 1: We're doing fantastic and we just have to lead off

714
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Speaker 1: with I mean, obviously you had your suitors in NFL

715
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Speaker 1: free agency. What are some things that most attracted you

716
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Speaker 1: to the Colts?

717
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Speaker 8: Ah, different scheme, you know, just you know, I feel

718
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Speaker 8: like this is a be a brand new star for

719
00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:02,680
Speaker 8: me and it's something I want to do, you know,

720
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Speaker 8: with my career. And it's about it. Man, I love

721
00:31:06,880 --> 00:31:09,720
Speaker 8: you know. On the GM call, he just I can

722
00:31:09,760 --> 00:31:11,560
Speaker 8: hear in his voice. Man, he really wanted me here,

723
00:31:11,720 --> 00:31:15,480
Speaker 8: so you know, and I felt that now I'm here.

724
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Speaker 1: Baby, take us through that phone call. I mean, what

725
00:31:17,240 --> 00:31:19,320
Speaker 1: what kind of what kind of energy does Chris Ballard

726
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Speaker 1: have about him when he's on the phone with.

727
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Speaker 2: It was great, man.

728
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Speaker 8: Just he was like, hey, ray Kwon, like we want

729
00:31:24,680 --> 00:31:27,000
Speaker 8: you here, like we need you here, we want you here.

730
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Speaker 8: I'm not hanging his phone up until he got you here.

731
00:31:30,360 --> 00:31:34,280
Speaker 8: I was like, you know, think about indeed, was I

732
00:31:34,280 --> 00:31:35,960
Speaker 8: ain't been an indie since you know, to comeby.

733
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Speaker 1: Come on now, there's a lot going on here. Hey,

734
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Speaker 1: I'm on now.

735
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Speaker 8: I'm not knocking him. I'm never knocking him, man, I'm

736
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Speaker 8: just I'm here now, so you know, I look around.

737
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Speaker 1: Is that how it went down?

738
00:31:44,960 --> 00:31:45,120
Speaker 2: Though?

739
00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:47,880
Speaker 1: I mean you you committed before that that phone call ended.

740
00:31:48,480 --> 00:31:51,040
Speaker 8: Yeah, he sold me. Hey he can ay if you

741
00:31:51,080 --> 00:31:52,760
Speaker 8: want to sell a house and he can really do it.

742
00:31:53,200 --> 00:31:54,920
Speaker 8: Tell anybody, I promise you.

743
00:31:54,960 --> 00:31:56,840
Speaker 7: I don't know if Chris Ballard's got a future career

744
00:31:56,840 --> 00:31:57,560
Speaker 7: as a real turm.

745
00:31:57,680 --> 00:31:59,920
Speaker 2: Yeah he can be. He definitely do it, really sell

746
00:32:00,360 --> 00:32:01,360
Speaker 2: for so he can do it.

747
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Speaker 5: Rayk One.

748
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Speaker 7: For Colts fans who maybe don't know you as a player,

749
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Speaker 7: could you kind of describe your playing style?

750
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Speaker 2: Man?

751
00:32:07,840 --> 00:32:10,040
Speaker 8: Great guy man, I mean business. I just love my

752
00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:13,320
Speaker 8: player style. I love my I love how I do things.

753
00:32:13,560 --> 00:32:17,680
Speaker 8: And any old line can tell you that they love

754
00:32:17,720 --> 00:32:18,479
Speaker 8: that big guy right there.

755
00:32:18,520 --> 00:32:19,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's business.

756
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Speaker 7: You kind of mentioned the scheme change, getting in the

757
00:32:21,720 --> 00:32:24,120
Speaker 7: different type of a scheme. I know last year at

758
00:32:24,160 --> 00:32:26,680
Speaker 7: least you're in kind of that three four vic fangio

759
00:32:26,800 --> 00:32:29,920
Speaker 7: multiple front thing. Here you got the four down Gus

760
00:32:29,960 --> 00:32:31,800
Speaker 7: Bradley scheme. What excites you about playing in that?

761
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Speaker 8: Just you know, just trying it out. You know, I

762
00:32:34,680 --> 00:32:36,640
Speaker 8: can't really describe it because I never played it, but

763
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Speaker 8: I just know it's a lot different. I feel like

764
00:32:39,160 --> 00:32:42,720
Speaker 8: you create a bigger opportunity for me, and I feel

765
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Speaker 8: like I can really do it.

766
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Speaker 1: Yeah, no doubt about that. I mean you are a big,

767
00:32:46,680 --> 00:32:49,840
Speaker 1: powerful man, right, you're six foot seven and you know

768
00:32:49,920 --> 00:32:52,160
Speaker 1: through through these parts here coming up in a couple

769
00:32:52,160 --> 00:32:54,080
Speaker 1: of weeks, we got the solar eclipse coming here. I

770
00:32:54,080 --> 00:32:56,280
Speaker 1: don't know if you're aware of that, but I'm dubbing

771
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Speaker 1: you as the play by play guy the human solar Eclipse.

772
00:32:59,160 --> 00:33:01,160
Speaker 1: Where did you get where do you get your size?

773
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Speaker 3: Like?

774
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Speaker 1: What what part of your family does that come from?

775
00:33:03,520 --> 00:33:05,880
Speaker 2: For you? For my dad's is that right? Yeah?

776
00:33:05,880 --> 00:33:09,120
Speaker 8: My dad got a little height to him, and you

777
00:33:09,160 --> 00:33:11,520
Speaker 8: know we're all tall, were all just real big.

778
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Speaker 7: You know, what's your favorite game? Like, you know, it's

779
00:33:14,520 --> 00:33:16,200
Speaker 7: kind of same thing, like we're talking about playing style,

780
00:33:16,240 --> 00:33:18,800
Speaker 7: but like give me like a game that if fans, now,

781
00:33:18,840 --> 00:33:20,640
Speaker 7: we're gonna watch this interview and say, I want to

782
00:33:20,680 --> 00:33:21,560
Speaker 7: learn more about this guy.

783
00:33:21,640 --> 00:33:22,000
Speaker 3: There you go?

784
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Speaker 2: What game?

785
00:33:22,360 --> 00:33:22,800
Speaker 7: Should they go?

786
00:33:22,840 --> 00:33:23,120
Speaker 2: Watch?

787
00:33:23,520 --> 00:33:23,840
Speaker 3: YouTube?

788
00:33:23,920 --> 00:33:24,560
Speaker 2: Highlights? Right?

789
00:33:24,880 --> 00:33:26,240
Speaker 7: You find it anywhere?

790
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Speaker 8: Yeah, that's that's a horror that y'all really put me

791
00:33:29,280 --> 00:33:30,120
Speaker 8: on the spot with that one.

792
00:33:30,880 --> 00:33:33,600
Speaker 7: What about even go back to like Bama Bama.

793
00:33:33,640 --> 00:33:37,920
Speaker 8: That's quite a few games I say Clemson Clemson game,

794
00:33:38,160 --> 00:33:39,320
Speaker 8: you could pick a bunch.

795
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Speaker 2: There you go.

796
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Speaker 8: I would say, well, right now, I would say with

797
00:33:43,440 --> 00:33:48,840
Speaker 8: the Patriots earlier this year because I don't want them watching,

798
00:33:48,960 --> 00:33:52,400
Speaker 8: you know, something bad. But he can't really do nothing

799
00:33:52,480 --> 00:33:55,640
Speaker 8: right here, So what this is I'm trying to really

800
00:33:55,680 --> 00:33:57,880
Speaker 8: give him something to watch. Man. It's a couple of games. Man,

801
00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:01,200
Speaker 8: when you turn the film, I got great energy. I

802
00:34:01,240 --> 00:34:03,440
Speaker 8: love the game, man, I really love the game. I

803
00:34:03,480 --> 00:34:06,280
Speaker 8: love anybody I play games because I feel like this

804
00:34:06,360 --> 00:34:08,399
Speaker 8: guy like he on the side of me. I feel

805
00:34:08,400 --> 00:34:10,279
Speaker 8: like he's with me, he ready to go to war

806
00:34:10,320 --> 00:34:13,439
Speaker 8: with me. So anybody I'm playing with like it's go time.

807
00:34:14,239 --> 00:34:14,480
Speaker 1: I know.

808
00:34:14,520 --> 00:34:17,000
Speaker 7: It's like a kind of that interior defensive tackle. We've

809
00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:19,239
Speaker 7: talked with Grover Stewart about this here about how like

810
00:34:19,520 --> 00:34:21,600
Speaker 7: you may not get the you know, the sacks or

811
00:34:21,600 --> 00:34:23,560
Speaker 7: the oh yeah, the big highlight place, but like how

812
00:34:23,640 --> 00:34:25,920
Speaker 7: much satisfaction do you take in, like, you know, the

813
00:34:25,920 --> 00:34:27,719
Speaker 7: impact you had on a play, even if you're not

814
00:34:27,760 --> 00:34:29,000
Speaker 7: the one making the tackle or the play.

815
00:34:29,080 --> 00:34:31,800
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean, man, listen at the Christian or or

816
00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:34,480
Speaker 8: Zach made the play to be like yeah, right, you

817
00:34:34,520 --> 00:34:36,240
Speaker 8: know what I'm saying we'll come back to the sideline

818
00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:39,160
Speaker 8: because like people don't really understand, like like that guy

819
00:34:39,160 --> 00:34:41,600
Speaker 8: in the middle of taking them double teams or making

820
00:34:41,640 --> 00:34:43,800
Speaker 8: that running back go left or right. You know what

821
00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:46,440
Speaker 8: I'm saying, You're taking them off his running steps. So

822
00:34:46,680 --> 00:34:48,960
Speaker 8: like that's good man, it's good for a note. You know,

823
00:34:49,080 --> 00:34:51,719
Speaker 8: nose don't really get that much credit, but he's gonna

824
00:34:51,719 --> 00:34:53,800
Speaker 8: get that one day when when the people have really

825
00:34:53,880 --> 00:34:55,839
Speaker 8: learned the football and understand what's going on.

826
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Speaker 1: You mentioned Christian Wilkins. Last year in Miami, you guys

827
00:34:59,320 --> 00:35:03,279
Speaker 1: were seventh against the run, and you you obviously used

828
00:35:03,320 --> 00:35:05,719
Speaker 1: that all the way to the playoffs. What did you

829
00:35:05,800 --> 00:35:08,600
Speaker 1: learn about your time playing in the Miami defense being

830
00:35:08,600 --> 00:35:11,319
Speaker 1: as good at stopping the run as you guys were,

831
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Speaker 1: And what did you take from your time playing with

832
00:35:13,040 --> 00:35:14,880
Speaker 1: a great player like Christian Wilkins.

833
00:35:15,080 --> 00:35:17,640
Speaker 8: Oh, we all just like we all played off each other.

834
00:35:17,680 --> 00:35:21,520
Speaker 8: You know, we all had different assignments. You know, you

835
00:35:21,640 --> 00:35:24,640
Speaker 8: got me in the middle. You gotta re you gotta

836
00:35:24,640 --> 00:35:26,520
Speaker 8: be stock, you gotta you gotta hold the middle down,

837
00:35:26,560 --> 00:35:28,759
Speaker 8: you gotta be you know what I'm saying, Like I say,

838
00:35:28,800 --> 00:35:30,600
Speaker 8: you gotta make that running back go left for right,

839
00:35:30,960 --> 00:35:34,160
Speaker 8: and uh, Christian and Zach was good as you know,

840
00:35:34,320 --> 00:35:37,040
Speaker 8: making that making them play sure. You know that that

841
00:35:37,160 --> 00:35:39,760
Speaker 8: helped the defense, you know, and you know the corners,

842
00:35:39,760 --> 00:35:42,040
Speaker 8: you know, I ain't gonna the corners being that too, now,

843
00:35:42,040 --> 00:35:43,560
Speaker 8: you got they gotta come up sometime and make them

844
00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:46,440
Speaker 8: a little them a little sneaky tackles in the open field.

845
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Speaker 2: You know.

846
00:35:47,160 --> 00:35:48,760
Speaker 7: Colt's got a pretty good one of those. And Kenny

847
00:35:48,760 --> 00:35:51,480
Speaker 7: Moore the second for coming up making tackles like on

848
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Speaker 7: the d line. How do you form that chemistry now?

849
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Speaker 7: With DeForest Buckner, Grover Stewart, Quitty Pey Dio, Dangbo, Taekwon Lewis,

850
00:35:58,200 --> 00:35:58,880
Speaker 7: those guys.

851
00:35:58,719 --> 00:36:01,719
Speaker 8: Easy man, just all just every day at practice is

852
00:36:01,760 --> 00:36:04,880
Speaker 8: working the you know, working on crafts, just seeing what

853
00:36:05,200 --> 00:36:07,920
Speaker 8: like what we can do to get better, like what

854
00:36:08,600 --> 00:36:11,080
Speaker 8: we can do to you know, build that bun. You

855
00:36:11,120 --> 00:36:13,759
Speaker 8: know it's gonna be easy man. I really can't wait,

856
00:36:13,760 --> 00:36:14,879
Speaker 8: Like I'm really excited right now.

857
00:36:14,880 --> 00:36:17,360
Speaker 1: What do you admire about Grover's Stewart? What do you

858
00:36:17,360 --> 00:36:20,120
Speaker 1: admire about the Forest Buckner? I'm sure you watched a

859
00:36:20,120 --> 00:36:22,440
Speaker 1: lot of their film and saw the way that they

860
00:36:22,520 --> 00:36:25,600
Speaker 1: play within this scheme in terms of winning your decision

861
00:36:25,640 --> 00:36:27,640
Speaker 1: to make this move to come over to the Colts.

862
00:36:28,160 --> 00:36:31,200
Speaker 1: What is it about those guys that you can use

863
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Speaker 1: to your advantage as you supplement this defensive line.

864
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Speaker 8: H Man, they mean business like they everything I'm with

865
00:36:38,120 --> 00:36:41,160
Speaker 8: and everything I represent. They it's the same thing with them.

866
00:36:41,239 --> 00:36:44,080
Speaker 8: They mean business and I feel like me, you know

867
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Speaker 8: what I'm saying being with them, boys were all on

868
00:36:46,320 --> 00:36:49,719
Speaker 8: the same page. Yeah, we just want to take this thing.

869
00:36:49,760 --> 00:36:52,480
Speaker 8: I think every every guy on this team got the

870
00:36:52,520 --> 00:36:54,359
Speaker 8: same goal at the end of the day. We want

871
00:36:54,360 --> 00:36:56,480
Speaker 8: to ring and we're gonna We're gonna do whatever it

872
00:36:56,520 --> 00:36:57,120
Speaker 8: take to get one.

873
00:36:57,160 --> 00:36:57,440
Speaker 2: All right.

874
00:36:57,480 --> 00:37:00,000
Speaker 1: You mentioned your last time in Indianapolis was the Combine.

875
00:37:00,239 --> 00:37:01,400
Speaker 1: He was like twenty eighteen.

876
00:37:01,640 --> 00:37:04,359
Speaker 8: No, no, that.

877
00:37:04,360 --> 00:37:09,120
Speaker 1: Was twenty twenty. It's still a little bit right, man,

878
00:37:09,160 --> 00:37:11,480
Speaker 1: Come on now, I mean, how excited are you to play?

879
00:37:11,960 --> 00:37:14,879
Speaker 1: Because I know you haven't experienced Lucas Oil Stadium, But man,

880
00:37:14,920 --> 00:37:18,680
Speaker 1: it gets thumping, it gets loud. How excited are you?

881
00:37:18,960 --> 00:37:22,080
Speaker 8: Yeah? I went to Batman. You know I'm used to that.

882
00:37:22,280 --> 00:37:24,239
Speaker 8: I know you are stuff I'm used to. But I

883
00:37:24,320 --> 00:37:27,640
Speaker 8: love that Angie. I love great Aergie man great like

884
00:37:28,120 --> 00:37:29,879
Speaker 8: I want to hear that noise and get me going.

885
00:37:30,800 --> 00:37:34,239
Speaker 1: All right, ray Kwon Davis, give us the snapshot. Who

886
00:37:34,280 --> 00:37:35,960
Speaker 1: are you off the field? What do you what kind

887
00:37:35,960 --> 00:37:38,239
Speaker 1: of drives y'all away from football a little bit?

888
00:37:38,719 --> 00:37:41,040
Speaker 8: I've been a great dad man. I love my son.

889
00:37:41,080 --> 00:37:43,640
Speaker 8: There you go, that's that's mine. Well, joy, that's that's

890
00:37:43,640 --> 00:37:44,200
Speaker 8: why I love.

891
00:37:44,120 --> 00:37:47,360
Speaker 2: How old two and six? Oh God, bless you Saiah

892
00:37:47,400 --> 00:37:48,440
Speaker 2: and Camilo Davis.

893
00:37:48,520 --> 00:37:49,040
Speaker 3: That's awesome.

894
00:37:49,040 --> 00:37:49,439
Speaker 2: That's great.

895
00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:51,920
Speaker 1: Good for you, Good for you, well, thank you so

896
00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:53,600
Speaker 1: much for squeezing us in. I know you've got a

897
00:37:53,600 --> 00:37:56,080
Speaker 1: crazy busy day, you know, coming up here for the

898
00:37:56,120 --> 00:37:58,520
Speaker 1: first time since twenty twenty. Now, all right, so we

899
00:37:58,600 --> 00:37:58,960
Speaker 1: got that.

900
00:37:58,960 --> 00:38:01,239
Speaker 8: Sound, we get to notice looking around, you know, I

901
00:38:01,280 --> 00:38:03,120
Speaker 8: got I got time now to look so you know,

902
00:38:03,280 --> 00:38:05,160
Speaker 8: back you're saying the draft, you don't really had that

903
00:38:05,280 --> 00:38:06,640
Speaker 8: much time to just look around.

904
00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:09,640
Speaker 1: So I've got time now though indeed, indeed he's going

905
00:38:09,719 --> 00:38:12,879
Speaker 1: to be wreaking havoc along that defensive line for next

906
00:38:12,960 --> 00:38:15,520
Speaker 1: year and beyond, wearing a cole telmet Ray Kwon, thank

907
00:38:15,560 --> 00:38:17,440
Speaker 1: you so much for the time, man. Congratulations.

908
00:38:17,840 --> 00:38:20,759
Speaker 3: More depth, more depth, and that big man right up

909
00:38:20,800 --> 00:38:24,120
Speaker 3: front that's going to be like again, there's not a

910
00:38:24,120 --> 00:38:26,480
Speaker 3: lot of people in the NFL that played that size,

911
00:38:26,480 --> 00:38:29,400
Speaker 3: and I've watched the highlight of him. He's a you know,

912
00:38:29,760 --> 00:38:33,160
Speaker 3: very agile and then I mean, you got to play

913
00:38:33,160 --> 00:38:35,880
Speaker 3: at this level at that size, which is just ridiculous.

914
00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:38,759
Speaker 3: I mean, it's it's breathtaking. You'll see it, guys, trust me.

915
00:38:38,760 --> 00:38:40,320
Speaker 3: I don't know what number that Rayquan is going to

916
00:38:40,360 --> 00:38:41,960
Speaker 3: be wearing, but when you see him on the field,

917
00:38:42,239 --> 00:38:44,399
Speaker 3: not alongside of Grover Stewart and alongside of the Forrest

918
00:38:44,440 --> 00:38:46,640
Speaker 3: Buker man, who's gonna want to run these guys?

919
00:38:47,239 --> 00:38:49,839
Speaker 4: Speaking of numbers, did you see in Atlanta that Kirk

920
00:38:49,880 --> 00:38:51,640
Speaker 4: Cousins is going to go with eight because Kyle Pitts

921
00:38:51,719 --> 00:38:54,160
Speaker 4: is gonna eighteen because Pitts is going to keep eight.

922
00:38:54,280 --> 00:38:55,000
Speaker 3: I did see that.

923
00:38:55,080 --> 00:38:58,160
Speaker 4: Was sorry, just a good deviation there, But numbers. I

924
00:38:58,280 --> 00:39:01,760
Speaker 4: was like, oh man, I was right, like, not often

925
00:39:01,800 --> 00:39:04,399
Speaker 4: do you see? I mean, because Pitt's just a young guy,

926
00:39:04,560 --> 00:39:07,920
Speaker 4: you know, usually there is a gentleman's agreement, right, and

927
00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:09,400
Speaker 4: there's some incentive.

928
00:39:08,920 --> 00:39:09,800
Speaker 3: A couple of hamburgers.

929
00:39:09,880 --> 00:39:12,360
Speaker 5: Yeah, right, So I was just I was shocked by that.

930
00:39:12,400 --> 00:39:13,560
Speaker 5: So it is always fun to see.

931
00:39:13,360 --> 00:39:15,640
Speaker 3: You don't know how to numbers well, much loved to

932
00:39:15,680 --> 00:39:17,719
Speaker 3: Kyle Pitts, We're not, you know, much love, but it

933
00:39:17,800 --> 00:39:20,800
Speaker 3: is Kirk Cousins who does have quite a career behind

934
00:39:20,880 --> 00:39:21,160
Speaker 3: his bag.

935
00:39:21,239 --> 00:39:24,239
Speaker 4: Bun Oh, you'll see something coming up too, talking kind

936
00:39:24,280 --> 00:39:26,719
Speaker 4: of flashback now we're going this is just like a

937
00:39:26,840 --> 00:39:30,640
Speaker 4: ping pong match right now. Uh, speaking of Zire Franklin

938
00:39:30,680 --> 00:39:33,359
Speaker 4: and his journey. You know, do you remember that when

939
00:39:33,480 --> 00:39:36,600
Speaker 4: Zaire came into his first camp, he was given ninety seven.

940
00:39:36,960 --> 00:39:39,280
Speaker 3: I don't like that that was his number, ninety seven.

941
00:39:39,680 --> 00:39:42,239
Speaker 3: It looks but he looks perfect in forty four.

942
00:39:42,360 --> 00:39:44,680
Speaker 5: He had earned forty four. He had to. They basically

943
00:39:44,719 --> 00:39:45,680
Speaker 5: gave him ninety seven.

944
00:39:45,760 --> 00:39:49,279
Speaker 4: And so that's a conversation that we had when he

945
00:39:49,360 --> 00:39:51,880
Speaker 4: sat down in here. You'll see that coming up a

946
00:39:51,880 --> 00:39:54,640
Speaker 4: little bit later. A little bit of insight into that

947
00:39:55,800 --> 00:39:56,720
Speaker 4: throughout the off season.

948
00:39:56,800 --> 00:39:59,279
Speaker 3: I sin that is uh. We talked about this earlier

949
00:39:59,280 --> 00:40:01,840
Speaker 3: in the show. But behind the Colts is a great

950
00:40:01,920 --> 00:40:04,000
Speaker 3: inside look behind the curtain and the way that things

951
00:40:04,040 --> 00:40:06,359
Speaker 3: are done led by you. You do a great job

952
00:40:06,400 --> 00:40:09,080
Speaker 3: at everything. Ed I was saying, you're the one. I

953
00:40:09,120 --> 00:40:11,239
Speaker 3: didn't go up to Shane Steichen's house the other night

954
00:40:11,480 --> 00:40:12,880
Speaker 3: and sit down with him and his family.

955
00:40:12,840 --> 00:40:15,759
Speaker 4: We've got VP Dave Knickerbocker, and of course all of

956
00:40:15,800 --> 00:40:19,600
Speaker 4: our production team Matt Wilkining editing a ton of this

957
00:40:19,719 --> 00:40:21,880
Speaker 4: episode and you know, leading a lot of that, and

958
00:40:21,880 --> 00:40:24,200
Speaker 4: then our entire team that we have here as well.

959
00:40:24,239 --> 00:40:28,280
Speaker 4: So everyone, truly, everyone has a hand. Everyone from content

960
00:40:28,360 --> 00:40:31,440
Speaker 4: production has a hand in making this successful, from all

961
00:40:31,480 --> 00:40:34,279
Speaker 4: of the motion graphics that go into it, from all

962
00:40:34,320 --> 00:40:37,279
Speaker 4: of the shooting aspects, from the social media aspects of it,

963
00:40:37,520 --> 00:40:38,799
Speaker 4: our PR team promoting it.

964
00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:41,279
Speaker 3: So yeah, I'm telling you, we don't know. We're talking

965
00:40:41,280 --> 00:40:43,880
Speaker 3: about what's happening today and over the next couple of weeks,

966
00:40:43,880 --> 00:40:46,000
Speaker 3: these gams are going to be talking to one another

967
00:40:46,040 --> 00:40:48,120
Speaker 3: about trying to get hop in the draft or drop

968
00:40:48,160 --> 00:40:50,319
Speaker 3: back in the draft and stuff like that. So we're

969
00:40:50,320 --> 00:40:52,200
Speaker 3: gonna do the best. We're gonna bring you the latest

970
00:40:52,200 --> 00:40:53,680
Speaker 3: and the greatest that we can as far as what

971
00:40:53,800 --> 00:40:55,080
Speaker 3: is happening in Coltsville.

972
00:40:55,560 --> 00:40:57,680
Speaker 4: Do you wonder like can a GM go to Like

973
00:40:58,120 --> 00:41:00,239
Speaker 4: you feel like you probably can't go into like a

974
00:41:00,280 --> 00:41:03,160
Speaker 4: movie at this point in the year, right, Like, well,

975
00:41:03,200 --> 00:41:04,719
Speaker 4: I no, I'm just saying, like, oh, I'm going to

976
00:41:04,760 --> 00:41:07,160
Speaker 4: shut my phone off for three hours and watch you.

977
00:41:07,040 --> 00:41:09,880
Speaker 5: Know, well you do that, right, Yeah, you can't do

978
00:41:09,960 --> 00:41:10,520
Speaker 5: that right.

979
00:41:10,440 --> 00:41:13,160
Speaker 3: No, No, you can't. I guess you could, but you know,

980
00:41:13,200 --> 00:41:15,560
Speaker 3: if it's date night with your wife and you're pinging

981
00:41:15,680 --> 00:41:17,440
Speaker 3: through the whole thing, is honey, I gotta take this.

982
00:41:17,480 --> 00:41:19,160
Speaker 3: I'm sure, honey, I got to take this. So you're

983
00:41:19,200 --> 00:41:21,799
Speaker 3: absolutely right. Yeah, maybe where the eye, maybe where the

984
00:41:21,880 --> 00:41:23,920
Speaker 3: EarPods and just kind of take it on the side.

985
00:41:24,040 --> 00:41:25,480
Speaker 2: Yeah. I like to move. I like to move.

986
00:41:25,520 --> 00:41:26,919
Speaker 3: I got to get back to Oppenheimer's.

987
00:41:26,920 --> 00:41:28,920
Speaker 5: So you just can't do it.

988
00:41:28,960 --> 00:41:31,799
Speaker 4: You can't put it on do not disturb, right, it's

989
00:41:31,920 --> 00:41:33,080
Speaker 4: too funny anyway.

990
00:41:33,120 --> 00:41:35,960
Speaker 3: You're right about this because it's so fluid over the

991
00:41:36,040 --> 00:41:37,960
Speaker 3: next couple of weeks of what goes on with the draft.

992
00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:40,000
Speaker 3: But there's so many answers that are questions that are

993
00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:41,839
Speaker 3: going to be answered for you Colts fans out there

994
00:41:42,040 --> 00:41:44,360
Speaker 3: and the general managers out there still on the keyboards,

995
00:41:44,400 --> 00:41:46,640
Speaker 3: you're going to have your answers too. But this, this

996
00:41:46,680 --> 00:41:48,560
Speaker 3: Colts team is going to be better. I mean then

997
00:41:48,880 --> 00:41:52,920
Speaker 3: obviously with a it's scary to think about Anthony Richardson

998
00:41:52,960 --> 00:41:54,760
Speaker 3: with a year under his belt and I know it's

999
00:41:55,000 --> 00:41:57,200
Speaker 3: kind of like his second rookie year because of such

1000
00:41:57,200 --> 00:41:58,160
Speaker 3: limited playing.

1001
00:41:58,160 --> 00:42:00,640
Speaker 5: Versus kind of a retcher here. Really, if you about it.

1002
00:42:00,640 --> 00:42:03,200
Speaker 3: I like the fact, just like Shane Steichen, he knows

1003
00:42:03,920 --> 00:42:06,200
Speaker 3: he knows about he doesn't know about OTAs, but he

1004
00:42:06,239 --> 00:42:07,880
Speaker 3: will this year. So to be his first time he

1005
00:42:07,920 --> 00:42:10,960
Speaker 3: didn't he wasn't there last year, but after that being

1006
00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:13,319
Speaker 3: the starter seeing how you know what worked for him

1007
00:42:13,360 --> 00:42:15,399
Speaker 3: last year through the first five weeks, six weeks, even

1008
00:42:15,440 --> 00:42:18,000
Speaker 3: through preseasons and stuff. Just to have that under the belt,

1009
00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:21,080
Speaker 3: it's going to be a fireworks are going to happen

1010
00:42:21,120 --> 00:42:22,400
Speaker 3: for Anthony Richards.

1011
00:42:22,080 --> 00:42:24,839
Speaker 4: Well, absolutely, and even beyond Anthony Richards And think about

1012
00:42:24,880 --> 00:42:27,560
Speaker 4: last year. Jonathan Taylor wasn't active in OTAs. I don't

1013
00:42:27,560 --> 00:42:30,120
Speaker 4: think Pittman was. He was coming off of he had

1014
00:42:30,160 --> 00:42:30,840
Speaker 4: to dad up.

1015
00:42:30,920 --> 00:42:31,120
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1016
00:42:31,160 --> 00:42:32,880
Speaker 4: Yeah, he had a hip thing that he was working

1017
00:42:32,920 --> 00:42:36,040
Speaker 4: back from. Alec Pearce was not at that point in time.

1018
00:42:36,080 --> 00:42:37,719
Speaker 4: He had some things that he was working through. So

1019
00:42:37,800 --> 00:42:40,200
Speaker 4: you think about kind of what the offense looked like,

1020
00:42:40,239 --> 00:42:42,560
Speaker 4: it's going to be completely different with the assembly of

1021
00:42:42,600 --> 00:42:43,719
Speaker 4: guys that you expect to see.

1022
00:42:43,719 --> 00:42:45,680
Speaker 5: You hope everybody is healthy.

1023
00:42:45,360 --> 00:42:47,919
Speaker 4: Going out there, and that's really what we heard from

1024
00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:50,839
Speaker 4: general manager Chris Ballard when we most recently heard from him,

1025
00:42:50,920 --> 00:42:52,920
Speaker 4: was that, you know, overall, it had been a pretty

1026
00:42:53,040 --> 00:42:57,440
Speaker 4: healthy offseason, not a lot of unexpected injuries or procedures

1027
00:42:57,480 --> 00:42:59,680
Speaker 4: that had come up outside of what they knew at

1028
00:42:59,680 --> 00:43:01,880
Speaker 4: the at the end of the regular season, Right, So

1029
00:43:02,440 --> 00:43:03,799
Speaker 4: you think about all of those things so that I

1030
00:43:03,840 --> 00:43:05,800
Speaker 4: think it's so easy to forget. Oh wait, yeah, j

1031
00:43:05,920 --> 00:43:09,040
Speaker 4: T wasn't healthy, Pitt wasn't fully healthy, Pierce wasn't working

1032
00:43:09,080 --> 00:43:11,400
Speaker 4: I think until maybe Vet Mini camp was when he

1033
00:43:11,480 --> 00:43:14,200
Speaker 4: was working his way back in so and then I

1034
00:43:14,239 --> 00:43:17,040
Speaker 4: mean Josh Downs and all of those guys. I mean

1035
00:43:17,080 --> 00:43:20,000
Speaker 4: basically at that point, you know, in OTA's garnerments, you

1036
00:43:20,000 --> 00:43:21,080
Speaker 4: had a bunch of tight ends.

1037
00:43:20,920 --> 00:43:23,040
Speaker 3: That's what I'm saying. Like, and and I think I

1038
00:43:23,080 --> 00:43:26,840
Speaker 3: think according to reports again that Flacco comes in here, Uh,

1039
00:43:26,920 --> 00:43:29,480
Speaker 3: Anthony doesn't have an OTA under his belt. Flacco is

1040
00:43:29,480 --> 00:43:32,000
Speaker 3: probably about thirty of him under his belt at this point,

1041
00:43:32,280 --> 00:43:35,320
Speaker 3: and uh like he's going to be instrumental in following

1042
00:43:35,360 --> 00:43:37,840
Speaker 3: the lead of Flaco as far as the even the

1043
00:43:37,880 --> 00:43:40,840
Speaker 3: OTAs go, because it's an area that he wasn't familiar

1044
00:43:40,840 --> 00:43:42,600
Speaker 3: with practice. But the OTA is at that time of

1045
00:43:42,640 --> 00:43:44,799
Speaker 3: the year and what they're trying to accomplish. So yeah,

1046
00:43:44,840 --> 00:43:47,160
Speaker 3: we're in good shape again according to reports, and we're

1047
00:43:47,160 --> 00:43:49,080
Speaker 3: going to bring you the latest and greatest always on

1048
00:43:49,160 --> 00:43:52,160
Speaker 3: colts dot Com. I just want to end this with

1049
00:43:52,360 --> 00:43:57,560
Speaker 3: a non football sort of an angle. Yes, and uh

1050
00:43:57,760 --> 00:44:00,719
Speaker 3: pre taping here, we got talking little bit and this

1051
00:44:00,760 --> 00:44:03,920
Speaker 3: is a Southern Indiana gal. Fun born and raised in

1052
00:44:03,960 --> 00:44:06,520
Speaker 3: Southern Indiana, which is a stone in Louisville.

1053
00:44:06,719 --> 00:44:08,440
Speaker 5: Raised in Southern Indiana, yes.

1054
00:44:08,360 --> 00:44:11,040
Speaker 3: Raise it, but a stone throw away from Louisville. So basically,

1055
00:44:11,080 --> 00:44:15,200
Speaker 3: what I'm saying is Hoosier at heart, really a Louisville girl.

1056
00:44:15,280 --> 00:44:18,520
Speaker 3: And what happens in the month of May in Louisville.

1057
00:44:18,880 --> 00:44:22,520
Speaker 3: We saw the pictures, we saw the dress, but the hat,

1058
00:44:23,840 --> 00:44:27,279
Speaker 3: the Kentucky Derby outfit that Miss Lara Overton will be

1059
00:44:27,280 --> 00:44:27,960
Speaker 3: wearing this year.

1060
00:44:28,080 --> 00:44:29,080
Speaker 1: No, it's gonna make it.

1061
00:44:29,160 --> 00:44:31,200
Speaker 3: I can't wait to see picks online when it happens.

1062
00:44:31,200 --> 00:44:33,560
Speaker 3: But we did get a sneak peek on that, and

1063
00:44:33,600 --> 00:44:35,960
Speaker 3: you're looking good. Thank me a little bit about how

1064
00:44:35,960 --> 00:44:38,080
Speaker 3: you go into picking out the right thing, because it's

1065
00:44:38,120 --> 00:44:40,840
Speaker 3: all about the fit. At the Louisville, at the Kentucky.

1066
00:44:40,440 --> 00:44:46,000
Speaker 4: Derby Okay, I am very fortunate that between covering and attending,

1067
00:44:46,080 --> 00:44:49,520
Speaker 4: I've probably gone about a dozen times because i worked

1068
00:44:49,520 --> 00:44:52,680
Speaker 4: in television in Louisville and I've done some red carpet

1069
00:44:52,680 --> 00:44:55,480
Speaker 4: reporting type of things. So worked some and it just

1070
00:44:55,520 --> 00:44:58,600
Speaker 4: attended some for fun. And when I've gone for fun,

1071
00:44:58,920 --> 00:45:01,279
Speaker 4: I get to go with my parents and my siblings

1072
00:45:01,320 --> 00:45:05,040
Speaker 4: and just an incredible day. And my mom, since my

1073
00:45:05,040 --> 00:45:09,200
Speaker 4: parents go every year, she has an arsenal of ostentatious hats.

1074
00:45:09,400 --> 00:45:11,279
Speaker 4: So typically what all I'm able to do is go

1075
00:45:11,320 --> 00:45:13,840
Speaker 4: an id which hadn't to wear, and then I find

1076
00:45:13,840 --> 00:45:16,759
Speaker 4: a dress that fits accordingly. But yeah, it's uh, it

1077
00:45:16,840 --> 00:45:19,920
Speaker 4: is a time. It's so it is so much fun.

1078
00:45:21,320 --> 00:45:25,080
Speaker 4: You know, it's steeped in just the tradition of it all.

1079
00:45:25,120 --> 00:45:28,320
Speaker 4: And you know, I think that it's fun because people

1080
00:45:28,480 --> 00:45:31,839
Speaker 4: around Central Indiana can kind of appreciate it because it's

1081
00:45:31,920 --> 00:45:35,080
Speaker 4: you know, you have the tradition of the Indianapolis five hundred,

1082
00:45:35,200 --> 00:45:37,120
Speaker 4: not so different from the tradition of you know, the

1083
00:45:37,200 --> 00:45:40,200
Speaker 4: Kentucky Derby. When you think about all of the pommum circumstance,

1084
00:45:40,280 --> 00:45:42,680
Speaker 4: like there is certainly the Derby, but they are all

1085
00:45:42,760 --> 00:45:45,080
Speaker 4: of these events leading up too as well, just like

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Speaker 4: there is for the Indianapolis five hundred so and we

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Speaker 4: have our little family traditions that go along with it.

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Speaker 5: So maybe it is always usually a little bit of

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Speaker 5: that litment.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, Minjuls are out there and usually do breakfast.

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Speaker 4: There's a little spot on the backside called Wagner's.

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Speaker 5: The real ones know.

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Speaker 3: Uh So, the only thing I wish for you guys

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Speaker 3: is no rain. That's what I want to bright sunny day.

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Speaker 5: It is, thank you.

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Speaker 4: It is the trickiest weekend of weather ever. It's sometimes raining,

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Speaker 4: it sometimes cold, all those things.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, just be dry. We've lucked out the last few

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Speaker 5: years that we've gone been pretty good weather. So yeah,

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Speaker 5: so that's kind of one of one of those things

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Speaker 5: I'm looking forward to. It's great because it's the weekend.

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Speaker 4: It follows the draft to so all the draft stuff

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Speaker 4: is wrapped up weekend prior to I believe Mini camp

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Speaker 4: or Rookie Minnie Camp excuse me, and those type of things.

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Speaker 4: So falls in such a fun time of year. But yeah,

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Speaker 4: you got to be on point with the outfit.

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Speaker 3: Want you want to see the Kentucky Derby outfit. Just

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Speaker 3: keep following along. Hats a.

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Speaker 4: When people try to get out of the car at

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Speaker 4: Derby because everyone because everyone has their hats, and yeah.

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Speaker 3: Who's dressing your husband? You're doing that or is he that? Yeah, Okay,

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Speaker 3: you're gonna have the rain again. At Larra Overton on

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Speaker 3: Twitter X No, there's.

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Speaker 4: Always a little seersucker homage, you know.

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Speaker 5: Sometimes I like it.

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Speaker 3: I like the celebrities that go there. I like the

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Speaker 3: athletes that go there, see what they're doing. We've seen

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Speaker 3: Peyton in years past and he was throwing the ball here,

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Speaker 3: would bring some receivers and offensive linemen down there and

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Speaker 3: stuff like that. We've seen Aaron Rodgers in the past.

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Speaker 4: You don't you come home Derby guy, big horse racing guy,

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Speaker 4: had name familiar on here.

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Speaker 5: Former running backs coach Tom Rathman.

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Speaker 3: Tom Rathman like the whole handicapper Tom Rathman, Well coach,

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Speaker 3: give us a little inside track if you got anything

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Speaker 3: out there enjoying his retirement, I think up in northern California.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, Thank you very much. At Lara Overton on

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Speaker 3: Twitter X. If you want to follow along and find

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Speaker 3: that Derby fit, but you're gonna wind to find a

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Speaker 3: lot more information regarding your colts. Hey, this is what

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Speaker 3: we do. We're leading up to the draft, we're talking

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Speaker 3: about scenarios, we're welcoming in new players. And with that,

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Speaker 3: thank you Zayia Franklin, thank you Rayikwon Davis for sitting down,

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Speaker 3: and thank you to you JJ Stankowitz and Matt Taylor

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Speaker 3: for everything they did today. Blot's coming. We don't know

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Speaker 3: what's gonna happen with the draft, we don't know what's

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Speaker 3: gonna happen with free agency from your point, but once

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Speaker 3: we do, we're gonna give you the news. So you

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Speaker 3: keyboard gms out there, We're gonna follow you guys a

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Speaker 3: little bit and see what you're guys thinking. But if

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Speaker 3: you want the real deal of what's going on, go

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Speaker 3: to colts dot com. Follow along with the likes of

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Speaker 3: at Larra Overton, Matt Taylor, JJ stank Of. It's included.

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Speaker 3: So I had fun. Can't wait to talk more Derby

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Speaker 3: with you, but more importantly, let's have some fun at

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Speaker 3: this upcoming draft.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely, we got a couple of exciting weeks ahead and

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Speaker 4: all culminates at the end of April.

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Speaker 3: All Right, this show brought you by our friend named Kimberly.

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Speaker 3: Once again behind the camera. We thank you for that,

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Speaker 3: and Colts dot com has the latest for Learra Overton.

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Speaker 3: I'm Jeffrey Gorvin. Thanks for watching.