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Speaker 1: Football is about the Jimmys and Joe's and x'es and o's.

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Speaker 2: Check New York vote.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, Bruce.

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Speaker 1: It's time to get out the chockboard and diagram some plays.

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Speaker 2: Here's what it all starts right here.

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Speaker 1: Let's play Day Money Christmas. This is Inside Football with

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Speaker 1: former Colts and NFL coach Rick Venturie.

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Speaker 4: Hi, everybody, and welcome to another installment of Inside Football

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Speaker 4: here with Rick Venturiy on the Colts Audio Network.

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Speaker 2: I'm Matt Taylor with Rick in Philadelphia. Rick.

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Speaker 4: We got the soundtrack in the in the background here

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Speaker 4: from the team hotel, so bear with that. The day

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Speaker 4: before the Colts close out the preseason, preseason finale is

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Speaker 4: coming up tomorrow, Thursday Night Football. It's the Colts and

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Speaker 4: the Eagles, and the Colts flew out to Philadelphia a

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Speaker 4: couple of days earlier to have a joint practice with

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Speaker 4: Philadelphia on Tuesday, so we'll talk about that and then

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Speaker 4: also preview what this team's going to look like next Tuesday,

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Speaker 4: when the Colts have to pair that roster down one

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Speaker 4: cut now from ninety players to fifty three. So a

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Speaker 4: lot to get into, but let's start with that joint practice.

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Speaker 4: The Colts practice for about an hour and a half.

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Speaker 4: It was supposed to be a two hour practice on

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Speaker 4: Tuesday between the Colts and the Eagles, and then that

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Speaker 4: dust up happened between the two teams. Jason Kelcey decided

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Speaker 4: to go all WWE on Zire Franklin. We know about that,

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Speaker 4: but Rick, what did you make of the third joint

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Speaker 4: practice and the first with the Eagles? The work the

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Speaker 4: Colts got done here in the city of Brotherly love.

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Speaker 3: Well, I actually felt really good about it from a

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Speaker 3: Colts standpoint. Now, I don't look at that practice as

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Speaker 3: far as who won it, who just has necessarily had

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Speaker 3: the results. I look at it from the accumulative experience

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Speaker 3: that was gained. Listen, the Eagles make the Bears look

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Speaker 3: like a JV team. I mean, they got Pro bowlers. Ever,

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Speaker 3: it was very evident they're the most talented team top

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Speaker 3: to bottom in the National Football League. This is a

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Speaker 3: team that was a holding penalty questionable, holding Pemley away

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Speaker 3: from winning the World Championship. So you may not go

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Speaker 3: out and beat them on the first day. But I

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Speaker 3: thought we really grew yesterday, and you only grow by

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Speaker 3: playing against the very best. And I thought I thought

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Speaker 3: we competed. I really did. I didn't think Richardson had

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Speaker 3: you know, wasn't able because of their defense to do

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Speaker 3: anything spectacular. But to me, he grew. He stayed away

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Speaker 3: from the reckless play. He got the ball to the

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Speaker 3: right people, you know, in the quick throat to downs.

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Speaker 3: He hurried it, He rhythmed it out and got it out.

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Speaker 3: He kind of like a baseball player makes adjustments to

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Speaker 3: a pitcher. I thought he made good adjustments within the game.

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Speaker 3: It was also great to get Buckner back, you know,

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Speaker 3: to get Ali Cox in there, to get Ogo Tree

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Speaker 3: back into that tight end mix which we've been talking about.

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Speaker 3: But you know, in the end, you know, I thought,

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Speaker 3: you know, defensively, we did a lot of good things

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Speaker 3: in the red zone. You know, I think the only

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Speaker 3: scoring aspect of it is they're two wide receivers aj

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Speaker 3: Brown in Devonte Smith, who I would say are the

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Speaker 3: two best comedy. I mean, they're elite guys. You know,

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Speaker 3: they made plays over the top, but even at that,

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Speaker 3: our guys competed with them all the way and forced

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's not like Dallas Flowers or Darren Baker Junior

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Speaker 2: No tip your cap to those guys. They got it.

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Speaker 3: They were right in there, and I walked out of

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Speaker 3: there with a new respect. I mean, it's one thing

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Speaker 3: another thing to be right on the field like we

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Speaker 3: appreciation for an AJ Brown and a DeVante is there

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Speaker 3: even better than I thought they were, no doubt, and

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Speaker 3: they made great plays. But you know, if our guys

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Speaker 3: it's going to be better. They're not Jacksonville's not as

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Speaker 3: So you know, I just thought it was a great

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no doubt about it.

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Speaker 4: Doubling back to Anthony richardson, where do you think he

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Speaker 4: improved the most? Again, three joint practices, two with Chicago,

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Speaker 4: one with Philadelphia for the starting quarterback that has a

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Speaker 4: where do you think he grew the most with those

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Speaker 3: You know what, I'd say, it's two things. It's poise,

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Speaker 3: two things that I really liked, and I've seen this

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Speaker 3: And then what I liked yesterday is I just mentioned it.

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Speaker 3: And then the throat to Pittman that nobody's talking about

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Speaker 3: to me, the lack of the reckless play. I didn't

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I know.

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Speaker 4: I mean the body language. Now you're you're pretty secure

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Speaker 4: with that. And like you said, he is going to

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Speaker 4: what that equates to in terms of total playing time

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Speaker 4: in the first half. But what other things rick outside

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Speaker 4: of the body language and the things you talked about,

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Speaker 4: But what else gives you confidence about Anthony Richardson going

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Speaker 4: into the regular season that it just won't be, for

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Speaker 4: lack of a better term, overwhelming and a disaster for

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Speaker 3: Well, I hate to sound redundant, but I go back

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Speaker 3: to the fact that he's always poised, He's never he

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Speaker 3: are going bad. I really like the way he worked

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Speaker 3: through adversity yesterday and by adversity. We were a little

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Speaker 3: but you never really saw a panic. I mean, took

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Speaker 3: He did a really good job made those two plays

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Speaker 3: quantify it, but you see that improvement every day. I mean,

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Speaker 3: you know, I hate to say this, but it just

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Speaker 3: it just looks like he's fine. He doesn't he looks

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Speaker 3: doesn't Normally I'd be scared to death, and I'm not.

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Speaker 3: I really am not. Now. I don't know how good

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Speaker 3: I don't think they're with Philadelphia, but they are very

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Speaker 4: How do you think the Colts defense fair Like you said, yeah,

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Speaker 4: the Eagles were privy to the type of offense the

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Speaker 4: Same thing with the Colts defense because they're seeing it

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Speaker 3: And I thought it showed. I mean I didn't. I

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Speaker 3: In statistics, I thought we did a very good job

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Speaker 3: so I mean they have all these things going. I

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Speaker 3: I thought we played really good in the one red

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Speaker 3: job in close quarters of choking them off. Even in

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Speaker 3: in the downfield passing game. But it was really like

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Speaker 3: you say. It wasn't like we were out of position.

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Speaker 3: It's just the two the two great players made plays

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Speaker 3: and Hurts and Hurts made great plays. I mean, he

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Speaker 3: and and filling Adelphia will do that. And I hope

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Speaker 3: there's a time. And I don't know that we're there yet.

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Speaker 3: I don't know that we have that kind of talent.

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Speaker 3: But the advantage down the road of the great mobile

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Speaker 3: Kurtz and Anthony, is that it creates that offense, stresses

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Speaker 3: of one on one. Now. We saw Philadelphia, who's at

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Speaker 3: another level. They take advantage of it. We saw more

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Speaker 3: fifty to fifty balls, you know, than I think I've

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Speaker 3: they just kept Okay, here we go. You're gonna play

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Speaker 3: and you know what, that's why it was great experience

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Speaker 4: putting a bow on the Colts training camp and getting

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Speaker 4: coming up Tuesday, August twenty ninth. So let's discuss some

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Speaker 4: How much better is this offensive line after this camp? Rick,

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Speaker 3: Well, I think health is critical. I mean, I think

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Speaker 3: achieve somewhat of that success, because I think in the

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Speaker 3: end you're gonna see people play this offense like we

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Speaker 3: played Philadelphia yesterday, which was single high, loaded box, no

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Speaker 3: running game, no hurts running the ball, and that was effective.

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Speaker 3: So what does Philadelphia do? They go downtown outside the

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Speaker 3: numbers one on one because that's what you sacrifice if

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Speaker 3: you play single high, eight man.

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Speaker 2: Front and can the Colts do that?

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Speaker 3: And you know what? And so I'm gonna turn your

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Speaker 3: guys that are gonna benefit from lack of coverage are

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Speaker 3: gonna be Pierced and Pittman. Now can they step up?

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Speaker 3: I don't expect them. I don't do not expect them

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Speaker 3: to be a J. Brownsmith and Smith. But can they

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Speaker 3: really grow this season? Can we attack that outside of

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Speaker 3: the field deep, because that's what they're gonna give us.

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Speaker 3: And in reality, and people are gonna play a lot

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Speaker 3: of man because they want to they want to start

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Speaker 3: stop the RPO games, so they're gonna play man to

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Speaker 3: shut it down. So what do you know Again, those

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Speaker 3: wideouts have got to win on the outside of the

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Speaker 3: field and deep, so I think they benefit the most,

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Speaker 3: but they have to prove they can do it.

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Speaker 4: Wrapping up here, Rick Venturrey, inside football, we've talked about

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Speaker 4: a gauntlet of things, so we're getting kind of redundant here.

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Speaker 4: But this last preseason game, we know Anthony Richardstein is

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Speaker 4: going to play, we know the starters to some degree

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Speaker 4: are gonna play. It's the last chance any of these

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Speaker 4: guys are gonna be on a game field until September tenth, Right,

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Speaker 4: So you're gonna go from August twenty fourth to September tenth,

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Speaker 4: You're gonna have a cut down in between, You're gonna

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Speaker 4: have a long labor day weekend in between, a lot

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Speaker 4: of downtime.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 4: So now it's it's time to sharpen those skills, work

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Speaker 4: out the kings to an even higher degree. What do

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Speaker 4: you want to get out of this last preseason game?

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Speaker 4: Will go A and B. A first on offense.

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Speaker 3: Okay, a first on offense. And this to me is

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Speaker 3: now what is classically the number two week in this season,

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Speaker 3: not the number three week. So I think you have

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Speaker 3: to look at it that way. So what I want

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Speaker 3: is vast improvement on offense from game one to game two.

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Speaker 3: And that's the old adage that you make most improvement

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Speaker 3: in the whole season between game one and game two,

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Speaker 3: and so that's how I'm looking at it. I want

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Speaker 3: tremendous improvement. We didn't score any points. We got down

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Speaker 3: there twice and should have, but we got to put

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Speaker 3: in the end zone. I mean, the two things that

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Speaker 3: you know, the three things that really cost us last year.

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Speaker 3: And when it's all said and done, this is what

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Speaker 3: I have to see. Okay, the turnovers, you know, you

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Speaker 3: gotta cut them down. Yep, you got to score in

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Speaker 3: the red zone. We were you know, we were twenty ninth. Okay,

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Speaker 3: we didn't. We're down there twice. Last time wasn't the

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Speaker 3: quarterback's fault, but penalty drop ball. We get it in.

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Speaker 3: So there and then at the end of the day,

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Speaker 3: we have to score points. You know, we're way down

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Speaker 3: at the bottom at seventeen plus. So that has all

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Speaker 3: got to change. And it's all you're related. You don't

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Speaker 3: turn it over, you take it in, you punch it

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Speaker 3: in in the red zone. And so what I look

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Speaker 3: for in week two after week one, now we've had

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Speaker 3: three really good practices joint practices, so we've even have

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Speaker 3: more advantage to get better. But after game one, all

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Speaker 3: game one does in the preseason and the regular season

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Speaker 3: is set what your baselines are. Here's where we are today, strength, weakness.

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Speaker 3: Now we know we're playing opposite people. So by game two,

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Speaker 3: what you're doing is you're increasing your pluses, but you're

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Speaker 3: now working on your weakness. It's okay, all right, we

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Speaker 3: got to get better. Here, here's to wear. So I

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Speaker 3: look for really big improvement on the offense.

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Speaker 4: Then meanwhile on the defense. They played only six snaps

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Speaker 4: together in that preseason opener in Buffalo. But what a test,

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Speaker 4: like we talked about it hurts. I don't know if

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Speaker 4: they're gonna play, But you got aj Brown, Smith, Goddard Lane,

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Speaker 4: Johnson Dickerson, you got Jason Kelsey. I mean, what a

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Speaker 4: test offensively that this Eagles team is going to post

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Speaker 4: for the Colts defense.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and so I think what it really is going

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Speaker 3: to come down to is we want to see our defense.

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Speaker 3: We want to see our defense as a group. Okay,

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Speaker 3: continue to stop the running game like they did yesterday

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Speaker 3: in practice, but eliminate the big over the top play, Okay.

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Speaker 3: I mean I would say big improvement from yesterday. Even

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Speaker 3: the running defense was there. Okay, Now protect on the

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Speaker 3: deep ball, and then you know, I think what really,

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Speaker 3: you know, I think the biggest things that we're continuing

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Speaker 3: to look at and we got to look at every day,

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Speaker 3: all right, is can our holders, can our corners hold up?

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Speaker 3: You know, can they hold up? And can we generate

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Speaker 3: a pass rush? And if we can't do it organically

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Speaker 3: or you know, just talent wise playing ball, we got

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Speaker 3: to establish it. We've got to create it with pressure

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Speaker 3: because I think I think the key to our defense

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Speaker 3: is creating pressure off the edge and being to hole

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Speaker 3: up at the corners. And you're gonna have to play

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Speaker 3: a lot of man single high the way with the

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Speaker 3: new you know, just like right off the bat when

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Speaker 3: we played Lawrence. I mean, you know, Lawrence is a

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Speaker 3: guy that can run the zone, reads, that can run

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Speaker 3: the officer. He gives you that that threat all the time.

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Speaker 3: So you've got to be able to close the box

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Speaker 3: and yet play one on one on the outside to

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Speaker 3: stop him.

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Speaker 2: Yep, no doubt about it. Rick Venturry, right there.

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Speaker 4: Another jam Pack episode of Inside Football, the Philadelphia edition

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Speaker 4: here in the hotel lobby for the Colts getting ready

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Speaker 4: for the last preseason game, and you're back on radio.

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Speaker 2: My friend.

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Speaker 3: Oh, I'm really looking forward to it. Miss Sherry didn't

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Speaker 3: have to pack a coat and tie back in with you.

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Speaker 3: We spend so much time together. We can finish, we

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Speaker 3: can finish one another sentence. I really know. I'm really

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Speaker 3: looking forward to it. I think it'll be a fun

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Speaker 3: night tomorrow night. I'm glad that, you know, our top

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Speaker 3: guys are going to go in there and play. I

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Speaker 3: think it's really important. You got you know, you have

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Speaker 3: like sixteen days or so, you know, to get ready

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Speaker 3: for the opener. I never had that luxury. Uh, And

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Speaker 3: so I think it's really important for us to go

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Speaker 3: in there and play, you know, and there and like

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Speaker 3: I said, there's really an excitement to watch this quarterback

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Speaker 3: grow every day.

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Speaker 2: No, I'm not buying it.

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Speaker 4: The glitz and glamor of TV is wornt off your ego.

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Speaker 4: Your ego is. No, You're you're back here slumming it

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Speaker 4: with the villagers. Now, how the mighty have fallen? Rick Venturi. No,

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Speaker 4: it's in all seriousness. It's great to have you back.

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Speaker 4: It's going to be good to have the gang back yourself,

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Speaker 4: LAIRA Overton and TV wise. Nationally it's on Amazon Prime,

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Speaker 4: but locally WRTV Channel six is going to carry that broadcast.

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Speaker 4: And of course we've got you on the Bell Tire

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Speaker 4: Radio Network, ninety three five, one oh seven five, the

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Speaker 4: FAM and ninety seven to one Hank FM and Indianapolis

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Speaker 4: Colton Eagles Thursday Night Football, and we will be back

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Speaker 4: again next Wednesday talking about the roster breakdown and going

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Speaker 4: into the regular season. It's the Colts and Jaguars and

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Speaker 4: week number one and we'll have plenty of time to

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Speaker 4: break that down next week on Inside Football. We'll talk

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Speaker 4: to you then. I'm Matt Taylor, Rick Van Turi. This

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Speaker 4: is Inside Football here on the Colts Audio Network.