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Speaker 1: All you need to know about the Colts in one place.

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Speaker 1: The Colts Daily Update starts now. Here's the voice of

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Speaker 1: the Colts, Matt Taylor. Good evening, Welcome to the Colts

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Speaker 1: Daily Update. On a Wednesday, Today was the first regular

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Speaker 1: season practice for the Colts. All eyes on the matchup

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Speaker 1: on Sunday with the Houston Texans, Week number one. Sunday's

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Speaker 1: game kicks off at one and you can hear it

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Speaker 1: right here on ninety three five and one oh seven

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Speaker 1: five the Fan. The Colts are looking for their fifth

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Speaker 1: straight win against the Texans. They swept the season series

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Speaker 1: last year, winning two games by a combined score of

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Speaker 1: sixty two to three, and the Colts, as we know,

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Speaker 1: also looking to wipe away an eight year streak of

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Speaker 1: Week one losses. Matt Ryan is the new quarterback and

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Speaker 1: he too is looking for a Week one win. His

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Speaker 1: personal streak is four straight Week one losses that of course,

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Speaker 1: dates back to his time with the Atlanta Falcons. Nobody

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Speaker 1: list was with the team for the last opening season

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Speaker 1: win back in two thirteen. In fact, only five players

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Speaker 1: on the team right now. We're even in the league

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Speaker 1: in two thirteen, Matt Ryan, Nick Foles, Stefan Gilmore, safety

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Speaker 1: Rodney McLeod an, offensive lineman Dennis Kelly, doubling back to

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Speaker 1: Matt Ryan. He was named a team captain today along

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Speaker 1: with Jonathan Taylor and Quentin Nelson on the offensive side

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Speaker 1: of the ball. On defense, the captains there are Shaquille

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Speaker 1: the team captain on special teams, just as he was

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Speaker 1: last season. Matt Ryan is going to be the six

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Speaker 1: different Week one quarterback for the Colts, stating back to

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Speaker 1: two seventeen. In fact, the Colts are the only team

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Speaker 1: plus games in four consecutive seasons, and they're on track

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Speaker 1: to extend that stat with Matt Ryan at the helm

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Speaker 1: here in two twenty two and Ryan today, he talked

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Speaker 1: about the fact that he was named a team captain

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Speaker 1: you know beyond that too, you know, we we've we've

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Speaker 1: You know, I'm honored the teammates, you know, chose me

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Speaker 1: lot of anticipation for this game coming up on Sunday,

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Speaker 1: really on both sidelines. The Cults are looking to bounce

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Speaker 1: back after narrowly missing the playoffs last season. The Texans

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Speaker 1: And it's a big game because it's the first game,

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Speaker 1: but also doubly important because it's an AFC South game

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Speaker 1: and it sets the tone inside the division. The Colts

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Speaker 1: and Matt Ryan likes the fact that this important game

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Speaker 1: is first up on the schedule for the Colts. I

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Speaker 1: think it's always important in division. You know, every time

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Speaker 1: to him. Everybody on offense has noticed his professionalism, the leadership,

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Speaker 1: the show. As expected, Shaquille Leonard did practice today in full.

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Speaker 1: what that looks like. That's Frank Reich on Shaquilla Leonard

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Speaker 1: as of now leading into the weekend. Elsewhere, on the

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Speaker 1: injury report for the Colts, it's pretty clean. The only

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Speaker 1: with Rick vent Turrey as RV gives you the Colts

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Speaker 1: blueprints for success to beat the Texans this weekend. Also

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