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Speaker 3: In the Indiana Union Construction Industry Radio Studio.

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Speaker 1: Let's get the podcast started. Let's stop for another OCP

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Speaker 1: here on YouTube and the Colts Audio Network. Hi everybody,

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Speaker 1: I'm Matt Taylor. Join alongside the lovely and talented and

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Speaker 1: the incomparable lair Overton LL.

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Speaker 2: Wondering who else was sitting here?

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Speaker 1: We're going to he's walking in the door now it's

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Speaker 1: going on. Great to see that, you see.

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Speaker 3: Hey, welcome back. You have a little spring break trip

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Speaker 3: in Arizona. You got to enjoy a little spring training, right.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, Yeah, we chased the warmer weather. So long story short.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's why we pushed our Florida trip until April

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Speaker 2: Are ramblings of Indian University basketball. But congratulations to the

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Speaker 2: IU women who advanced to the Sweet sixteen. Incredible win

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Speaker 1: And that's not me or us putting you know, unneeded

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, so when you go back to the you know

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Speaker 3: Oh, no question, are you already practicing your calls? Like

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Speaker 1: I don't even know what that means, to be honest

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to do all that. But a three

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Speaker 1: what the head coach of the Colts thinks about the

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Speaker 5: I'm JJ stankovi it'z here at the NFL Annual Meeting

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Speaker 5: with Colt's head coach Shane Steichen. Shane a year ago,

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Speaker 5: at this time, you're kind of setting the foundation of

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Speaker 6: Well, I think right now we're you know, we're going

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Speaker 5: As you've gone through that self scout, you do have

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Speaker 4: And that's a great question. I think.

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Speaker 5: How do you approach that where last year you have

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Speaker 5: Kind of continuing off that self scout idea, and you

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Speaker 6: go be successful.

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Speaker 4: On Sundays.

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Speaker 5: On defense, you know obviously mentioned Gus coming back. You know,

438
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Speaker 5: a lot of continuity in terms of personnel with Zaire

439
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Speaker 5: signing the extension, Grover, Kenny Taekwon all coming back. What

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Speaker 5: can that unit build on going into twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I think just being fast and physical every single day,

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Speaker 6: you know, the practices and going into game day is big.

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Speaker 4: Right.

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Speaker 6: We want to be tough on defense and we want

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Speaker 6: to get takeaways. Going to be big and that's one

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Speaker 6: of our keys to victory every single week is getting

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Speaker 6: those takeaways. And really just with anything like offense, we

448
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Speaker 6: got to score points and we got to keep the

449
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Speaker 6: points down. Defensively is going to be big for us

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Speaker 6: this year.

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Speaker 4: With the takeaways.

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Speaker 5: When you have a defense that's now played together for

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Speaker 5: three years under Gus Bradley, with a lot of the

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Speaker 5: same personnel, the add ability to play fast, to communicate quicker,

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Speaker 5: does that lead to more takeaways?

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Speaker 4: I believe so.

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Speaker 6: I think it definitely will because those guys are going

458
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Speaker 6: to be on the same page. You know, they've heard

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Speaker 6: the same terminology, you know, going into year three and

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Speaker 6: I was, you know, talking about continuity, and I think

461
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Speaker 6: it's going to be big for those guys and the

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Speaker 6: system in year three, and I think we'll see great growth.

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Speaker 5: The relationship between a coaching to general manager is always

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Speaker 5: so important in this league. One year in with Chris Ballard,

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Speaker 5: what's kind of stood out about the way that he

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Speaker 5: operates and how that works with you?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, you know what, I love Chris Ballard. He's a grinder,

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Speaker 6: He's a football guy, loves the process. You know, obviously

469
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Speaker 6: been doing it for a long time now, but just

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Speaker 6: the way he sees the game when we talk about personnel.

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Speaker 6: He's just been tremendous for me and you know, shoot

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Speaker 6: when I need something and you know, ask for his

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Speaker 6: opinion on certain things. He's been doing it for a

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Speaker 6: long time, so you know, just the relationship I've had

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Speaker 6: with him over this past year and building into year

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Speaker 6: two with them, I'm super excited about it.

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Speaker 5: The players will be back in the building in a

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Speaker 5: couple of weeks right now as we sit here in Orlando.

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Speaker 5: In late March, when they get back in the building,

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Speaker 5: kind of like all we talked about here is about

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Speaker 5: building on that year one. What's the message to the

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Speaker 5: guys who are coming back to build on year one now?

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Speaker 5: Starting in mid April.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, that's a great question. I think you know, they

485
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Speaker 6: know kind of, you know, the standards that have been

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Speaker 6: set in place. Obviously, we're gonna have a couple new

487
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Speaker 6: faces that are coming in and you know, we'll we'll

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Speaker 6: go over those standards again and those pillars and make

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Speaker 6: sure everyone understands what we're trying to get done in

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Speaker 6: the twenty twenty four season. But you know what I

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Speaker 6: say this every year, Every year is a new year,

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Speaker 6: and you know we got to start from ground one

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Speaker 6: and build this thing back up again.

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Speaker 4: But something we're looking forward to. All right. Shane Stiking,

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Speaker 4: thanks for the time here. Appreciate it, all right, Thanks JJ.

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Speaker 1: Thanks again to head coach Shane Steiking. JJ Stangovates down

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Speaker 1: in Orlando at NFL Owners Meetings twenty twenty four. We're

498
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Speaker 1: back here on set on the Official Colts podcast, Matt

499
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Speaker 1: Taylor here with Lara Overton, and again I just go

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Speaker 1: back to the fact that the Colts know who their

501
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Speaker 1: guy is. Really really exciting stuff right there. And Shane's right,

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Speaker 1: I mean, every team, no matter if you missed the playoffs,

503
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Speaker 1: like the Colts, right with a nine to eight record,

504
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Speaker 1: losing in Week eighteen or if you're the the Kansas

505
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Speaker 1: City Chiefs who have won back to back Super Bowls,

506
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Speaker 1: your roster's going to turn over. Yeah right, free agency

507
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Speaker 1: mandates it. Everybody's going to hit the reset button. But

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Speaker 1: again the fact of the Colts no.

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Speaker 3: Real agency and the salary cap, yeah, mandate that rely

510
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Speaker 3: hundred percent.

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Speaker 1: But Anthony Richardson is their guy. The foundation is here.

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Speaker 1: The free agency moves, which we're going to talk about,

513
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Speaker 1: you got, you know, a boatload of in house free

514
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Speaker 1: agents that are back, a couple of guys outside on

515
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Speaker 1: the open market that are now Colts, you know, Raykwon, Davis,

516
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Speaker 1: Joe Flacco. The cults are hitting the reset button. But

517
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Speaker 1: the foundation is here. Knowing that Richardson is their guy.

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Speaker 1: There's no more uncertainty. Get the quarterback position.

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Speaker 2: Right, Everything is solidified.

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Speaker 3: And that is you know, one of the things we

521
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Speaker 3: heard in that interview what a difference a year makes

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Speaker 3: for coach Stichen and that he is able to really

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Speaker 3: hone in on continuing to develop this team. Know who

524
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Speaker 3: he has in a house, right, has the coaching staff set,

525
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Speaker 3: has his quarterback? So much different from last year in

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Speaker 3: which you had on so many levels new coaches in here,

527
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Speaker 3: he's still trying to learn the players who are coming back,

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Speaker 3: trying to figure out what you're doing in the draft,

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Speaker 3: all of those things. So that is, you know, an

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Speaker 3: immense asset for Shane with what he is able to

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Speaker 3: do and how he's able to treat the spring.

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Speaker 1: Chris Ballard coming up in just a few minutes, but

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Speaker 1: let's talk about it. Ten in house free agents have

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Speaker 1: been resigned. Two outsiders, if you will, Rakwon Davis, Joe Flacco, Larr.

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Speaker 1: My question to you is, before we get to Chris,

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Speaker 1: how much of Richardson's potential, how much of his health

537
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Speaker 1: coming back, how much of that has impacted the Colts

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Speaker 1: decision to this point in free agency before the draft.

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Speaker 1: How much has that influenced their decision to bring back

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Speaker 1: much of the same core from seasons past, like Grover Stewart,

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Speaker 1: Taekwon Lewis, Kenny Moore, Zire Franklin who got an extension

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Speaker 1: as well.

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Speaker 2: Well.

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Speaker 3: It has to right, that has to be an immense

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Speaker 3: factor that you consider when you are structuring your off season.

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Speaker 2: And you know, one thing we have.

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Speaker 3: Heard from Chris before is he was asked this, I

548
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Speaker 3: believe it was the season ending press conference about when

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Speaker 3: you have a quarterback on a rookie deal, how much

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Speaker 3: do you have to capitalize on that that you aren't

551
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Speaker 3: yet having to pay the quarterback the you know, veteran

552
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Speaker 3: money that you will have to on a second deal, especially,

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Speaker 3: you know, with the trajectory that Anthony Richardson appears to

554
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Speaker 3: be on, and you look at other quarterbacks of that

555
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Speaker 3: caliber and you know what that hit will be to

556
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Speaker 3: your budget, so to speak. So that opened some opportunities

557
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Speaker 3: for you to reward a Zire Franklin who was on

558
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Speaker 3: a deal that was you know, much much more on

559
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Speaker 3: par with a special teams player rather than your you know,

560
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Speaker 3: starting linebacker.

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Speaker 2: Francis game right exactly, so you think.

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Speaker 3: And then rewarding you know, bringing back Grover Stewart, the

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Speaker 3: ability to look at Kenny Moore and you know what

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Speaker 3: sort of flexibility you had at that position, making sure

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Speaker 3: that you retain Michael Pittman. You know, I think that

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Speaker 3: that was probably priority number one when you knew was

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Speaker 3: you know where exactly Anthony Richardson is, you know, from

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Speaker 3: that standpoint, So, yeah, I think it all is. I mean,

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Speaker 3: it's it's the most important position, right and when you

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Speaker 3: have that secured and you have at least some sort

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Speaker 3: of reassurance on where he is going to become April, May, June, July,

572
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Speaker 3: most importantly September. That does afford you a lot of

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Speaker 3: opportunities to address the other needs that you have by

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Speaker 3: rewarding your own building with your own and incentivizing the

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Speaker 3: guys who have given so much to this team in

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Speaker 3: the time that they have previously been a part of

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Speaker 3: the roster.

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Speaker 1: Well, I think in terms of what the Colts have

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Speaker 1: done so far in free agency, yeah, there's been a

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Speaker 1: lot of in house free agents, but some of the

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Speaker 1: most of the in house free agents that the Colts

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Speaker 1: have signed, excuse me, are some of the best players

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Speaker 1: at their positions in the NFL. Grover Stewart doesn't grow

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Speaker 1: on trees, nor does Kenny Moore, nor Doessire Franklin. So

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Speaker 1: had you lost those players, you're looking at even more

586
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Speaker 1: holes you have to fill and free agency in the draft.

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Speaker 1: So that's one of the things that I think kind

588
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Speaker 1: of gets overlooked. But free agency acquisition that just started.

589
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Speaker 1: And two, I think some of the biggest playmakers on

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Speaker 1: this team for next year, I don't think they're here yet.

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Speaker 1: You know, you look at all the offensive talent that's

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Speaker 1: going to be there at the top of this draft,

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Speaker 1: that's going to push down some elite defensive players to

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Speaker 1: the middle of the first round, players at either cornerback

595
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Speaker 1: or defensive end. Some tough decisions in a good way

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Speaker 1: for the Colts to make there at fifteen. Or maybe

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Speaker 1: they go wide receiver there at fifteen. Right, maybe you

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Speaker 1: get you know, the third or fourth best wide receiver

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Speaker 1: in this draft class.

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Speaker 2: But and what did Josh Downs show us last year?

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Speaker 2: And how impactful those rookie receivers can be, right.

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Speaker 1: Every year, the wide receiver depth is so immense. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you can get guys like we just said that can

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Speaker 1: come in and crack your top three wide receiver rotation

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Speaker 1: on Day three of the draft. I mean obviously Day

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Speaker 1: two as well, in rounds two, rounds three.

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Speaker 2: So Pittman was the second, Pierce was the second round,

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Speaker 2: Downs was the third round.

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Speaker 1: And you had Paris Campbell in there as well in

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Speaker 1: years past. So I just think that in terms of

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Speaker 1: free agency, we kind of think of it's got to

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Speaker 1: be new agency, it's got to be new guys, it's

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Speaker 1: got to be new, flashy. But I think that some

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Speaker 1: of the best players on this team next year are

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Speaker 1: going to be I think have more of an upside

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Speaker 1: than some of these free agents that Colts fans want

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Speaker 1: the Colts to go out and sign or trade for.

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Speaker 1: And they're certainly going to be more cost effective around

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Speaker 1: Anthony Richardson.

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Speaker 3: And you know, not even guys who are free agents,

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Speaker 3: but in talking about the upside, like thinking about what

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Speaker 3: Juju Brent's can do with a second season, a healthy offseason.

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Speaker 3: So I'm just kind of even looking at, you know,

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Speaker 3: those guys that you have internally and the jumps that

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Speaker 3: you know can be made at those various positions based

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Speaker 3: on just and again not guys who are free agents,

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Speaker 3: but just purely you know, the leap that you can

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Speaker 3: take in having this group and some of the guys

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Speaker 3: who you knew were headed back, but the x that

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Speaker 3: there are for so many of them.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and again from a fans standpoint, I get it.

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Speaker 1: They look at the online trackers, they look at all

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Speaker 1: some of the analytics websites, on salary cap, the amount

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Speaker 1: of spending that can be done. The Colts have spent

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Speaker 1: a boatload of money on guys that, again are some

636
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Speaker 1: of the best players at their positions. In the NFL,

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Speaker 1: and you really don't want to lose those guys because

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Speaker 1: of what they are in terms of a player on

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Speaker 1: the field, the leaders, they are inside the locker room.

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Speaker 1: But again, I think with Anthony Richardson coming back, he

641
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Speaker 1: is the key to all this. So like the Colts

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Speaker 1: think that Anthony Richardson can lift this team, there's no

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Speaker 1: doubt about it. That Again, we go back to what

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Speaker 1: we said earlier that the Colts are going to go

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Speaker 1: as far as Anthony Richardson will take them. And I

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Speaker 1: think there's some truth in that. But player acquisition just started.

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Speaker 1: I think you're going to see I don't know anything.

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Speaker 1: I don't know anything right. I'm not here trying to

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Speaker 1: say that like I have a gut feeling, but I'm

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Speaker 1: just saying Draft time can be really screwy and fun

651
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Speaker 1: things happen. Yeah, And I think you're going to see

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Speaker 1: this team be bold around how convicted they are with

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Speaker 1: supplementing this roster with good players inside it.

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Speaker 2: It will be an interesting month ahead.

655
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Speaker 3: Like to me, that's like, that's the madness is when

656
00:30:16,120 --> 00:30:18,600
Speaker 3: we get into It's not March, no, it's April.

657
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Speaker 4: Yeah.

658
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Speaker 1: We saw aj Brown a couple of years ago. I mean,

659
00:30:20,760 --> 00:30:23,560
Speaker 1: who saw that comings I'm not saying anything of that magnitude.

660
00:30:23,840 --> 00:30:26,160
Speaker 1: It's happening here to the Colts. But guy that has

661
00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:28,560
Speaker 1: to put that puzzle together is Chris Ballard again going

662
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Speaker 1: into his eighth season.

663
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Speaker 3: And there are a lot of one thing too, Yeah,

664
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Speaker 3: a lot of guys still available out there. You know,

665
00:30:33,840 --> 00:30:35,680
Speaker 3: a name that we were just kind of having some

666
00:30:35,680 --> 00:30:37,640
Speaker 3: fun with tossing around. It was like, oh, man, hey,

667
00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:39,000
Speaker 3: Stephan Gilmour hasn't signed.

668
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Speaker 1: I like guys that can still play.

669
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Speaker 3: To me, that's an indication of just how much there

670
00:30:43,560 --> 00:30:45,720
Speaker 3: is still to be determined if you have a guy

671
00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:48,680
Speaker 3: like that, you know, who is still on the open market,

672
00:30:48,760 --> 00:30:50,840
Speaker 3: still considering his options. So sorry to catch off.

673
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Speaker 1: No, that's exactly right. Though. Again we just started. We

674
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Speaker 1: are week and a half into this thing, so the

675
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Speaker 1: draft is still on the horizon. There's going to be

676
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Speaker 1: a lot of good players that come into this roster

677
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Speaker 1: to play big roles in twenty twenty four, and the

678
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Speaker 1: guy that has to figure all that out, Chris Ballard

679
00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:07,400
Speaker 1: to go again, sat down with JJ in Orlando this

680
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Speaker 1: week at the owners meetings.

681
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Speaker 5: All Right, I'm JJ stankobit'z here at the NFL Owners

682
00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:14,480
Speaker 5: meetings in Orlando with Colts general manager Chris Ballard. Chris,

683
00:31:14,560 --> 00:31:16,760
Speaker 5: we're kind of through the the first couple waves of

684
00:31:16,800 --> 00:31:20,760
Speaker 5: free agency. Obviously, you can always you know, continue roster construction,

685
00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:24,360
Speaker 5: roster building into the season. It's not set in stone yet.

686
00:31:24,600 --> 00:31:27,880
Speaker 5: But why was it important to retain so many pieces

687
00:31:27,920 --> 00:31:32,880
Speaker 5: on defense, specifically with Taekwon, Grover Kenny, those guys all

688
00:31:32,880 --> 00:31:33,280
Speaker 5: coming back.

689
00:31:33,440 --> 00:31:36,960
Speaker 7: Look, they're all one, They're all been really good players

690
00:31:36,960 --> 00:31:39,400
Speaker 7: for us, and you know, being able to get all

691
00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:41,680
Speaker 7: three of those guys back into the fold we were

692
00:31:41,840 --> 00:31:44,320
Speaker 7: really excited about. You know, all three of them had

693
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Speaker 7: other opportunities and you know, luckily we were able to

694
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Speaker 7: get a deal done to get them back. And I

695
00:31:50,640 --> 00:31:55,920
Speaker 7: don't think you can underestimate continuity and being in the

696
00:31:55,920 --> 00:31:58,440
Speaker 7: scheme another year, how much that's gonna help, you know,

697
00:31:58,560 --> 00:32:01,800
Speaker 7: not only them, but also the team.

698
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Speaker 5: Talking to Shane about this yesterday and he made mention that,

699
00:32:04,320 --> 00:32:06,440
Speaker 5: you know, hey, when you get that continuity on defense,

700
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Speaker 5: you're going into year three with Gus, all these guys

701
00:32:08,320 --> 00:32:11,800
Speaker 5: have played together for five, six, seven years now, that

702
00:32:11,840 --> 00:32:14,719
Speaker 5: can lead to more takeaways. How do you see that

703
00:32:14,720 --> 00:32:18,320
Speaker 5: that continuity maybe leading to a jump in this defense

704
00:32:18,400 --> 00:32:19,480
Speaker 5: with Gus, you.

705
00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:22,080
Speaker 7: Know it'll be it'll be fun to watch because you

706
00:32:22,120 --> 00:32:24,280
Speaker 7: know we still got work to do. But when you

707
00:32:24,520 --> 00:32:28,040
Speaker 7: understand what our defensive staff and Gus and them are

708
00:32:28,040 --> 00:32:30,720
Speaker 7: trying to do, and then you understand where the strengths

709
00:32:30,760 --> 00:32:33,000
Speaker 7: of the defense are and then also where they can

710
00:32:33,240 --> 00:32:36,680
Speaker 7: hurt you a little bit, it it makes you to

711
00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:39,360
Speaker 7: play a little freer, a little faster each and every

712
00:32:39,440 --> 00:32:42,200
Speaker 7: year you've had more reps in it, so that's definitely

713
00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:42,680
Speaker 7: a benefit.

714
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Speaker 5: Let's talk about Raekwon Davis, a little bit a guy

715
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Speaker 5: who played mostly into three down front in Miami where

716
00:32:47,560 --> 00:32:50,120
Speaker 5: he's kind of two gapping. You may you mentioned when

717
00:32:50,120 --> 00:32:51,680
Speaker 5: we're talking to the local media here that you think

718
00:32:51,680 --> 00:32:53,840
Speaker 5: there's a little bit more in his game, maybe com

719
00:32:53,840 --> 00:32:56,240
Speaker 5: into a four down, more attacking front. Where do you

720
00:32:56,280 --> 00:32:58,440
Speaker 5: see him fitting in in that defensive.

721
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Speaker 7: Way, Well, there's no doubt he'll He'll definitely be in

722
00:33:00,320 --> 00:33:04,480
Speaker 7: the mix. He's a he's a big man who can

723
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Speaker 7: move for a big man. So we're I don't I

724
00:33:07,440 --> 00:33:09,280
Speaker 7: think everybody knows my philosophy, like, I don't think you

725
00:33:09,280 --> 00:33:12,680
Speaker 7: can have enough good players up front. And then we

726
00:33:12,680 --> 00:33:14,440
Speaker 7: were excited to get him and get him in the

727
00:33:14,440 --> 00:33:16,960
Speaker 7: mix and you know, see what more he can add

728
00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:18,880
Speaker 7: to the defense. But we think he can play both

729
00:33:19,320 --> 00:33:21,120
Speaker 7: the one and the three and give us some snatch.

730
00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:23,280
Speaker 7: But we know Grover can play both the one and

731
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Speaker 7: the three, and it gives us some flexibility inside also

732
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Speaker 7: with Bob.

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Speaker 5: And that gives you the the depth to to maybe

734
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Speaker 5: not put so much on Grove and Buck.

735
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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's yeah.

736
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Speaker 7: And then you know, getting Ray Kwan also getting Taven

737
00:33:38,120 --> 00:33:40,560
Speaker 7: signed back into the mixer we thought, you know, did

738
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Speaker 7: some really good things last year. And then also our

739
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Speaker 7: young players behind him, we think we've got some good

740
00:33:47,280 --> 00:33:47,960
Speaker 7: depth inside.

741
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Speaker 5: That's kind of a bigger picture question. But last year

742
00:33:50,360 --> 00:33:53,120
Speaker 5: at the owners meetings, you mentioned that, you know, you

743
00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:56,600
Speaker 5: field in inquiries for Ryan Kelly, kennymore the second you

744
00:33:56,840 --> 00:33:59,080
Speaker 5: said we're keeping them. They're good colts, they're good players,

745
00:33:59,480 --> 00:34:02,320
Speaker 5: and they both went out had outstanding seasons obviously, Kenny.

746
00:34:02,440 --> 00:34:05,080
Speaker 5: Now back on the extension, is that just a reminder

747
00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:09,160
Speaker 5: that development's not linear. Careers are not linear. You shouldn't

748
00:34:09,200 --> 00:34:13,319
Speaker 5: bury guys, you know after one maybe down season if

749
00:34:13,360 --> 00:34:16,920
Speaker 5: they have you know, prior success. Just the lesson of

750
00:34:16,960 --> 00:34:20,040
Speaker 5: that those guys keeping them and then having them play

751
00:34:20,160 --> 00:34:21,040
Speaker 5: so well last year.

752
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Speaker 7: I think we all had a rough twenty twenty two.

753
00:34:23,840 --> 00:34:27,400
Speaker 7: I mean, you know, me included, and you know, there's

754
00:34:27,680 --> 00:34:32,800
Speaker 7: there's look, we believe in people, and you bet on people,

755
00:34:32,880 --> 00:34:35,400
Speaker 7: and I knew what kind of people they were, and

756
00:34:36,719 --> 00:34:39,239
Speaker 7: it doesn't shock me that they bounce back the way

757
00:34:39,280 --> 00:34:42,279
Speaker 7: they did, and I think they'll continue to play at

758
00:34:42,280 --> 00:34:45,000
Speaker 7: a high level. I mean, of course, when things don't

759
00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:47,960
Speaker 7: go right or and your play declines, you've got to

760
00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:52,440
Speaker 7: address it. But we didn't see any decline physically. You know,

761
00:34:52,480 --> 00:34:54,960
Speaker 7: it was just one of those years. So now very

762
00:34:55,080 --> 00:34:57,680
Speaker 7: very proud of what those guys were able to do

763
00:34:57,840 --> 00:35:00,600
Speaker 7: and where I think they're going offensively.

764
00:35:00,760 --> 00:35:03,720
Speaker 5: You've invested in Michael Pittman Junior, invested in Jonathan Taylor,

765
00:35:03,920 --> 00:35:06,400
Speaker 5: Anthony Richardson, invested a high pick in him. When you

766
00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:10,320
Speaker 5: look at that kind of trio of skill position players,

767
00:35:10,760 --> 00:35:13,200
Speaker 5: what can they build on in twenty twenty four.

768
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Speaker 7: Well, I think one, getting you know, Anthony, you know,

769
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Speaker 7: through a full getting him back into mix and into

770
00:35:20,320 --> 00:35:22,760
Speaker 7: a full season is going to be fun for everybody

771
00:35:22,840 --> 00:35:26,919
Speaker 7: to watch, all of us included. And I think when

772
00:35:26,920 --> 00:35:30,640
Speaker 7: you when you look at Pittman, another year year two,

773
00:35:30,719 --> 00:35:35,120
Speaker 7: really in the new offense, Jonathan Taylor being healthy for

774
00:35:35,200 --> 00:35:38,319
Speaker 7: an offseason. We forget last offseason he went through a

775
00:35:38,400 --> 00:35:41,160
Speaker 7: surgery and rehab and then we had the contract stuff

776
00:35:41,200 --> 00:35:44,880
Speaker 7: going on for him to be clear mentally and physically.

777
00:35:44,920 --> 00:35:48,080
Speaker 7: I think we're about to see a monster year from Jonathan,

778
00:35:48,560 --> 00:35:50,840
Speaker 7: and then getting Anthony back in the mix with those guys,

779
00:35:51,200 --> 00:35:53,440
Speaker 7: you know, makes it exciting going forward, and then you know,

780
00:35:53,480 --> 00:35:55,719
Speaker 7: you don't ever want to forget about you know, we

781
00:35:55,760 --> 00:36:00,000
Speaker 7: think Josh Downs, we like Pierce, we like the totality

782
00:36:00,160 --> 00:36:02,799
Speaker 7: of our tight end room, and we think we've got

783
00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:05,839
Speaker 7: a really good offensive line. So we think, of course

784
00:36:05,880 --> 00:36:09,799
Speaker 7: there's you always want to add, but we got the

785
00:36:09,880 --> 00:36:12,439
Speaker 7: draft and some more free agency here down the line.

786
00:36:12,480 --> 00:36:13,919
Speaker 4: But we're excited about where we're at.

787
00:36:14,080 --> 00:36:16,480
Speaker 5: The impact Reggie Wayne has made seems to be pretty

788
00:36:16,800 --> 00:36:19,640
Speaker 5: significant there as a coach. But I want to ask

789
00:36:19,680 --> 00:36:22,840
Speaker 5: you about him as like a talent evaluator, like he's

790
00:36:23,040 --> 00:36:24,919
Speaker 5: you know, he was big on downs last year, right,

791
00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:29,279
Speaker 5: what have you learned about Reggie's I for not just

792
00:36:29,320 --> 00:36:31,560
Speaker 5: being like, hey, that guy's a good receiver. That's a

793
00:36:31,560 --> 00:36:32,879
Speaker 5: good receiver who fits us.

794
00:36:33,320 --> 00:36:35,480
Speaker 7: Here's let me tell you this about Regg because I

795
00:36:36,200 --> 00:36:38,960
Speaker 7: think the world of Reggie and it's been fun to

796
00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:43,600
Speaker 7: watch him grow, not grow as a coach, Like he

797
00:36:43,640 --> 00:36:47,000
Speaker 7: had never really coached before when he got in this position,

798
00:36:47,200 --> 00:36:51,239
Speaker 7: so he was just figuring it out. It's different when

799
00:36:51,280 --> 00:36:53,239
Speaker 7: you're a player, all right now, when you have to

800
00:36:53,280 --> 00:36:55,399
Speaker 7: go teach what you know, It's different because a lot

801
00:36:55,400 --> 00:36:57,600
Speaker 7: of times guys can't do. This is one of the

802
00:36:57,640 --> 00:36:59,399
Speaker 7: things I used to tell Reg was like, hey, they

803
00:36:59,440 --> 00:37:02,120
Speaker 7: can't do which you did. You got to figure out

804
00:37:02,120 --> 00:37:04,200
Speaker 7: what they can do and help them enhance that.

805
00:37:05,160 --> 00:37:07,440
Speaker 4: And that's been fun for me to watch.

806
00:37:07,480 --> 00:37:09,799
Speaker 7: And then also even as an evaluate, I've always thought

807
00:37:09,800 --> 00:37:12,239
Speaker 7: that players know players they do. They have a good

808
00:37:12,239 --> 00:37:14,640
Speaker 7: feel for it, and they have a good like you

809
00:37:14,719 --> 00:37:16,680
Speaker 7: ask our locker our locker room knows who can play.

810
00:37:16,840 --> 00:37:19,319
Speaker 7: I mean, they have a good feel for it. And

811
00:37:19,360 --> 00:37:21,719
Speaker 7: I think his he played in the league so long,

812
00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:23,759
Speaker 7: he's been around the game for so long. I think

813
00:37:23,760 --> 00:37:26,680
Speaker 7: he understands the skill sets that are required to be

814
00:37:26,719 --> 00:37:29,640
Speaker 7: successful at wide out and that helps him identify, you know,

815
00:37:29,920 --> 00:37:31,120
Speaker 7: guys like Josh Downs.

816
00:37:31,560 --> 00:37:34,279
Speaker 5: With the continuity on the coaching staff, you know, just

817
00:37:34,320 --> 00:37:37,600
Speaker 5: in general, how does that benefit Shane and kind of

818
00:37:37,600 --> 00:37:40,440
Speaker 5: the message and the culture and the scheme and all

819
00:37:40,440 --> 00:37:43,680
Speaker 5: that stuff that he's building, you know, keeping coordinators, keeping

820
00:37:43,719 --> 00:37:45,040
Speaker 5: position coaches on staff.

821
00:37:45,280 --> 00:37:47,280
Speaker 7: I think I think, look, I think that was critical.

822
00:37:47,719 --> 00:37:50,600
Speaker 7: Anytime you have continuity year to year, it's it's you're

823
00:37:50,600 --> 00:37:53,560
Speaker 7: gonna do things better. And we think we've got some

824
00:37:53,640 --> 00:37:57,279
Speaker 7: really good coaches. I Shaaned at an outstanding job. You

825
00:37:57,320 --> 00:37:59,200
Speaker 7: know when he when he went and hired, you know,

826
00:37:59,280 --> 00:38:02,040
Speaker 7: hit the staff and put the staff together. He's very diligent.

827
00:38:02,120 --> 00:38:05,960
Speaker 7: He took his time, he didn't rush, and I think

828
00:38:06,360 --> 00:38:08,759
Speaker 7: I think it came to fruition as we went through

829
00:38:08,760 --> 00:38:11,680
Speaker 7: the season. You saw these guys grow and continue to

830
00:38:11,680 --> 00:38:13,960
Speaker 7: grow together as a staff. It's it's no different than

831
00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:16,040
Speaker 7: a team. I mean, they're growing as a staff together.

832
00:38:16,160 --> 00:38:21,000
Speaker 7: So no excited about, you know, having everybody back. And

833
00:38:21,040 --> 00:38:23,479
Speaker 7: I think the addition of Charlie Parkers we're excited about

834
00:38:23,480 --> 00:38:25,920
Speaker 7: from the University of Pittsburgh, you know, as our defensive

835
00:38:25,920 --> 00:38:28,480
Speaker 7: line coach. He's got a wealth of knowledge and he's

836
00:38:28,520 --> 00:38:29,560
Speaker 7: a really good teacher.

837
00:38:29,920 --> 00:38:31,759
Speaker 5: That's been for you here, Chris, Just what kind of

838
00:38:31,800 --> 00:38:35,040
Speaker 5: growth have you seen from Shane specifically that you know,

839
00:38:35,080 --> 00:38:37,560
Speaker 5: maybe last year as he's trying to, you know, set

840
00:38:37,560 --> 00:38:40,000
Speaker 5: this foundation that he's now kind of started to build

841
00:38:40,040 --> 00:38:41,200
Speaker 5: on in year two.

842
00:38:41,280 --> 00:38:43,200
Speaker 7: So far, I think the first year as a head coach,

843
00:38:43,239 --> 00:38:47,239
Speaker 7: you're just trying to navigate being a head coach. I mean,

844
00:38:47,360 --> 00:38:49,400
Speaker 7: you're you're now you know, when you've been a coordinator,

845
00:38:49,440 --> 00:38:52,000
Speaker 7: you're in charge of your unit, but now you're you're

846
00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:56,200
Speaker 7: in charge of every coach, every player on that team.

847
00:38:56,560 --> 00:38:57,680
Speaker 4: And I thought he did.

848
00:38:57,560 --> 00:39:01,600
Speaker 7: A tremendous job, you know, in year one, but then

849
00:39:02,080 --> 00:39:05,560
Speaker 7: going into year two, watching understanding the areas that we

850
00:39:05,640 --> 00:39:09,160
Speaker 7: needed to improve, challenging our coaching staff and challenging our

851
00:39:09,200 --> 00:39:12,879
Speaker 7: players in places that we need to improve and get better,

852
00:39:12,920 --> 00:39:14,920
Speaker 7: and then challenging us on where we need to get

853
00:39:14,920 --> 00:39:17,440
Speaker 7: better as a personnel, staff and things that he needs

854
00:39:17,480 --> 00:39:18,400
Speaker 7: to be successful.

855
00:39:18,680 --> 00:39:20,319
Speaker 4: All right, Chris Pallard, thanks for the time here.

856
00:39:20,360 --> 00:39:23,759
Speaker 1: Awesome in Orlando. Awesome stuff right there, JJ Stango, it's

857
00:39:23,760 --> 00:39:26,160
Speaker 1: down in Orlando. Thanks again to Chris Ballard and Shane

858
00:39:26,160 --> 00:39:29,319
Speaker 1: Steike and for their time with JJ this weekend, for

859
00:39:29,440 --> 00:39:32,239
Speaker 1: appearing here on the official Colts podcast. Back here with

860
00:39:32,360 --> 00:39:34,520
Speaker 1: Larira I'm mad to close out, and Chris and Shane

861
00:39:34,560 --> 00:39:37,839
Speaker 1: they were not the only headliners this week down in Florida, Larry,

862
00:39:37,840 --> 00:39:40,200
Speaker 1: we have rule changes. All right, you have the whiteboard.

863
00:39:40,200 --> 00:39:42,520
Speaker 1: We're gonna get into that in just a second. Hold tight,

864
00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:45,880
Speaker 1: some big rule changes coming to the league here in

865
00:39:45,920 --> 00:39:50,880
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four. Let's start first with the hip drop tackle,

866
00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:55,160
Speaker 1: also known as the swivel tackle. No more, it is banned.

867
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Speaker 1: The violation is going to result into a fifteen yard

868
00:39:58,239 --> 00:40:03,560
Speaker 1: penalty automatic first down. Troy Vincent, Executive vice president of

869
00:40:03,560 --> 00:40:06,680
Speaker 1: Football Operations, said this week that it is likely to

870
00:40:06,719 --> 00:40:09,880
Speaker 1: be enforced to the quote use of helmet rule, so

871
00:40:09,920 --> 00:40:13,880
Speaker 1: helmet to helmet contact, which typically leads to warning letters

872
00:40:13,920 --> 00:40:18,000
Speaker 1: and fines the week after a game, rather than flags

873
00:40:18,480 --> 00:40:22,799
Speaker 1: during the course of the game. The rule change does

874
00:40:22,840 --> 00:40:26,960
Speaker 1: not outlaw all hip drop tackles, but rather those in

875
00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:31,960
Speaker 1: which the tackler quote unwaits himself by swiveling and dropping

876
00:40:31,960 --> 00:40:35,040
Speaker 1: his hips and lower body landing on top of the

877
00:40:35,120 --> 00:40:38,400
Speaker 1: runner below the knees. So, in other words, it's difficult

878
00:40:38,440 --> 00:40:40,440
Speaker 1: is that to call on? Well, I mean, that's what

879
00:40:40,480 --> 00:40:42,960
Speaker 1: I'm saying. I mean, I know again, I know it's

880
00:40:43,200 --> 00:40:47,200
Speaker 1: really dangerous. That type of tackle is really dangerous. They

881
00:40:47,560 --> 00:40:51,160
Speaker 1: reported it's twenty to twenty five times more likely to

882
00:40:51,239 --> 00:40:54,080
Speaker 1: lead to an injury. But you're exactly right. Don't roll

883
00:40:54,120 --> 00:40:55,880
Speaker 1: your eyes at me, okay, because I was never an

884
00:40:55,960 --> 00:40:58,640
Speaker 1: NFL player, and I'm not trying to pretend like I

885
00:40:58,800 --> 00:41:01,280
Speaker 1: was one. But I did play all the way through college,

886
00:41:01,400 --> 00:41:04,160
Speaker 1: just as a defender did and someone that played in

887
00:41:04,200 --> 00:41:07,279
Speaker 1: the secondary. So if you're telling me that I have

888
00:41:07,360 --> 00:41:12,839
Speaker 1: to worry about keys, coverages, rolling formations, and then when

889
00:41:12,840 --> 00:41:14,520
Speaker 1: there's a big play that happens in front of me,

890
00:41:14,560 --> 00:41:16,560
Speaker 1: I have to stop and think about how I'm tackling

891
00:41:16,600 --> 00:41:18,880
Speaker 1: a guy. That's That's a tough proposition.

892
00:41:19,120 --> 00:41:22,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean that's the other thing too, is now,

893
00:41:22,360 --> 00:41:25,960
Speaker 3: guys who have been doing this for to say, you

894
00:41:26,040 --> 00:41:29,160
Speaker 3: start playing football at seven years old, call it, you've

895
00:41:29,160 --> 00:41:32,680
Speaker 3: been playing this way for fifteen, twenty years whatever, and

896
00:41:32,719 --> 00:41:34,200
Speaker 3: now you have to make I mean, not that you're

897
00:41:34,239 --> 00:41:36,160
Speaker 3: tackling that way in like pup league and all that,

898
00:41:36,200 --> 00:41:37,160
Speaker 3: but now.

899
00:41:36,960 --> 00:41:38,600
Speaker 2: You've been in the league for a period of time.

900
00:41:38,800 --> 00:41:41,840
Speaker 3: You're playing the same way from your college days at least,

901
00:41:41,920 --> 00:41:43,799
Speaker 3: and now you have to make this adjustment on the

902
00:41:43,800 --> 00:41:47,319
Speaker 3: fly like a just completely you know, alter that. And

903
00:41:47,360 --> 00:41:51,319
Speaker 3: then there's also, I mean, tell me from your perspective,

904
00:41:51,600 --> 00:41:55,399
Speaker 3: the ability you have as a defender to tackle a guy.

905
00:41:55,719 --> 00:41:57,200
Speaker 2: And I mean you're trying to pull down.

906
00:41:57,280 --> 00:41:59,960
Speaker 1: Think about your running side by side with a guy, right.

907
00:42:00,120 --> 00:42:03,799
Speaker 3: Okay, a guy with the power of Jonathan Taylor or

908
00:42:03,840 --> 00:42:06,080
Speaker 3: whoever we you know, and you're trying to bring him down.

909
00:42:06,120 --> 00:42:08,920
Speaker 3: How much control do you have over exactly how that

910
00:42:09,040 --> 00:42:12,960
Speaker 3: happens when you're trying to basically get just completely.

911
00:42:12,640 --> 00:42:14,719
Speaker 2: Wrap a guy up, right, That's what you're worried about.

912
00:42:14,719 --> 00:42:17,080
Speaker 3: And then oh wait, I have to not drop my

913
00:42:17,200 --> 00:42:20,120
Speaker 3: body weight and pull down and you know, swivel and

914
00:42:20,160 --> 00:42:24,000
Speaker 3: that ex How are all of those things happening simultanus?

915
00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:27,040
Speaker 1: The kinesiology of all this is, I mean, honestly, it's

916
00:42:27,080 --> 00:42:29,759
Speaker 1: it's really daunting to your point. I mean, if you're

917
00:42:29,800 --> 00:42:32,520
Speaker 1: a safety or a linebacker catching up with the play,

918
00:42:32,560 --> 00:42:35,200
Speaker 1: you're either trying to limit the damage of a big

919
00:42:35,239 --> 00:42:38,600
Speaker 1: play or prevent a touchdown. Your job in that moment

920
00:42:39,120 --> 00:42:41,239
Speaker 1: is to just get the guy on the ground, get

921
00:42:41,320 --> 00:42:44,280
Speaker 1: the ball carrier on the ground as quickly as possible,

922
00:42:44,680 --> 00:42:48,200
Speaker 1: and to think about in real time how I'm touching,

923
00:42:48,560 --> 00:42:50,600
Speaker 1: how I'm you know, what part of the body or

924
00:42:50,640 --> 00:42:53,520
Speaker 1: the uniform I'm grabbing in order to get leverage to

925
00:42:53,520 --> 00:42:56,880
Speaker 1: get this guy on the ground. Like it's impossible, absolutely impossible.

926
00:42:56,880 --> 00:42:58,239
Speaker 3: A couple years ago, you know, when we were talking

927
00:42:58,280 --> 00:43:00,520
Speaker 3: about the adjustments that they made in terms of how

928
00:43:00,560 --> 00:43:03,600
Speaker 3: you're able to tackle the quarterback, and the frustration you

929
00:43:03,600 --> 00:43:05,759
Speaker 3: know that there was from certain guys, you know, with

930
00:43:05,800 --> 00:43:08,480
Speaker 3: that when they're like, wait, we are making this is

931
00:43:09,360 --> 00:43:13,759
Speaker 3: milliseack that you have between being able to make contact,

932
00:43:13,800 --> 00:43:17,399
Speaker 3: have a successful you know, stop on a play, takedown, yes,

933
00:43:17,680 --> 00:43:20,440
Speaker 3: and then you have these other things like you know,

934
00:43:20,520 --> 00:43:23,319
Speaker 3: guys were joking about, Okay, now we have to like

935
00:43:23,360 --> 00:43:25,080
Speaker 3: pick up a guy and like lay him down.

936
00:43:25,160 --> 00:43:27,440
Speaker 2: You know, basically it's what you're now resorted to.

937
00:43:27,680 --> 00:43:31,040
Speaker 1: Well, it's just it's just another rule that favors offense.

938
00:43:31,480 --> 00:43:34,319
Speaker 1: And I'm all for making the game safer. I'm all

939
00:43:34,360 --> 00:43:38,200
Speaker 1: for evolving. There's no doubt that that play is dangerous.

940
00:43:38,640 --> 00:43:41,839
Speaker 1: But again, as I mean, the NFLPA didn't like it,

941
00:43:41,880 --> 00:43:44,600
Speaker 1: they didn't want it, and I've seen you know, former players,

942
00:43:44,640 --> 00:43:46,960
Speaker 1: current players come out and say how impossible it is.

943
00:43:47,080 --> 00:43:50,279
Speaker 2: JJ Watt all over Twitter yesterday talking about it.

944
00:43:50,160 --> 00:43:52,239
Speaker 1: And I think they're right. It's just another thing they

945
00:43:52,280 --> 00:43:55,759
Speaker 1: have to contend with another thing. They have to compartmentalize.

946
00:43:56,080 --> 00:43:59,200
Speaker 1: And I do like the fact that from from Troy

947
00:43:59,280 --> 00:44:02,319
Speaker 1: Vinson standpoint, that it's gonna be sort of, I don't

948
00:44:02,320 --> 00:44:04,640
Speaker 1: know what the right word is, it's gonna be, you know,

949
00:44:04,920 --> 00:44:08,719
Speaker 1: justified after the fact, primarily because it's gonna be impossible

950
00:44:08,719 --> 00:44:12,120
Speaker 1: for the officials to determine in real time how much force,

951
00:44:12,120 --> 00:44:15,279
Speaker 1: how much leverage there was in the swivel to get

952
00:44:15,320 --> 00:44:17,279
Speaker 1: a guy down. So I think a lot of these

953
00:44:17,320 --> 00:44:19,200
Speaker 1: are gonna be more fines and more penalties.

954
00:44:19,840 --> 00:44:22,040
Speaker 2: Something I'm gonna call something right now, let's it's really agree.

955
00:44:22,040 --> 00:44:24,000
Speaker 3: But when we get back, when guys are back for

956
00:44:24,040 --> 00:44:26,040
Speaker 3: OTAs and all of that, I want to get like

957
00:44:26,600 --> 00:44:29,839
Speaker 3: Gus Bradley or one of these defensive coaches back here

958
00:44:30,239 --> 00:44:32,120
Speaker 3: and ask them, how are you guys?

959
00:44:32,880 --> 00:44:34,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, how are you gonna do with that? Yeah?

960
00:44:34,200 --> 00:44:36,799
Speaker 3: How are you dealing with this? How are you adapting

961
00:44:36,840 --> 00:44:38,759
Speaker 3: for this? How are you integrating certain gos?

962
00:44:38,760 --> 00:44:40,840
Speaker 1: We should also we should also preface again as a

963
00:44:40,880 --> 00:44:45,120
Speaker 1: former football player, no one teaches the hip drop parrel. Okay,

964
00:44:45,120 --> 00:44:47,320
Speaker 1: it's all about leading with your head, but it's again,

965
00:44:47,840 --> 00:44:50,640
Speaker 1: if there's a big play happening, get guy on ground,

966
00:44:50,880 --> 00:44:56,000
Speaker 1: whatever it takes. And sometimes just the natural body mechanics

967
00:44:56,000 --> 00:44:58,960
Speaker 1: and movements of the play right just lead to the

968
00:44:59,040 --> 00:45:02,400
Speaker 1: hip drop tackles. So again, I'm all for the game evolving,

969
00:45:02,719 --> 00:45:05,480
Speaker 1: but it's it's gonna make it really hard on defenses

970
00:45:05,560 --> 00:45:08,440
Speaker 1: to just react in real time and just play football,

971
00:45:08,560 --> 00:45:10,920
Speaker 1: you know, And I think it just it makes the

972
00:45:10,960 --> 00:45:14,160
Speaker 1: game is kind of making it hard for guys to

973
00:45:14,280 --> 00:45:15,360
Speaker 1: just be football players.

974
00:45:15,480 --> 00:45:15,680
Speaker 4: You know.

975
00:45:15,719 --> 00:45:17,959
Speaker 1: It's kind of what you sign up for. Sounds cruel,

976
00:45:18,040 --> 00:45:22,040
Speaker 1: but that's what it is. Elsewhere, two other proposals were approved.

977
00:45:22,360 --> 00:45:27,120
Speaker 1: Teams will receive a third challenge after one successful challenge. Previously,

978
00:45:27,160 --> 00:45:30,000
Speaker 1: teams had to be successful on two challenges to get

979
00:45:30,000 --> 00:45:32,080
Speaker 1: the third. So that's a big one. But let's talk

980
00:45:32,080 --> 00:45:35,600
Speaker 1: about the kickoff all right. So we have diagram this

981
00:45:36,520 --> 00:45:40,880
Speaker 1: as best as we can here, so we're callotor. So

982
00:45:40,960 --> 00:45:43,160
Speaker 1: here we go. We have this is not gonna be

983
00:45:43,160 --> 00:45:45,720
Speaker 1: great for our audio audience, but for those on YouTube

984
00:45:45,760 --> 00:45:47,920
Speaker 1: you can follow along here. So this is what we

985
00:45:47,960 --> 00:45:50,360
Speaker 1: have going on here. This is the the kickoff rule

986
00:45:50,880 --> 00:45:55,600
Speaker 1: that owners approved today actually on Tuesday at owners meeting.

987
00:45:55,719 --> 00:45:58,439
Speaker 1: So this is how it's gonna go. Layer is gonna

988
00:45:58,480 --> 00:46:01,600
Speaker 1: help diagram in real time. I'm here with your training.

989
00:46:01,560 --> 00:46:02,560
Speaker 2: My best, John Madden.

990
00:46:02,640 --> 00:46:04,640
Speaker 1: There you go. You got a guy to the ball.

991
00:46:04,760 --> 00:46:07,360
Speaker 1: The thing go round and round and run and boom.

992
00:46:08,480 --> 00:46:11,000
Speaker 1: All right, So the ball is now going to be

993
00:46:11,120 --> 00:46:15,000
Speaker 1: kicked off at the thirty five yard line, and just

994
00:46:15,120 --> 00:46:18,280
Speaker 1: the kicker for the kicking off team, the kicking team

995
00:46:18,400 --> 00:46:21,520
Speaker 1: will be at the thirty five yard line. Everybody else

996
00:46:22,440 --> 00:46:26,200
Speaker 1: in terms of alignment, is going to line up one

997
00:46:26,280 --> 00:46:30,279
Speaker 1: foot on the receiving team's forty yard line. So the

998
00:46:30,320 --> 00:46:33,160
Speaker 1: rest of the kickoff cover team is going to line

999
00:46:33,239 --> 00:46:36,240
Speaker 1: up at the forty yard line. Ten other guys. Okay,

1000
00:46:36,920 --> 00:46:41,360
Speaker 1: the ten kicking team players can't move until the ball

1001
00:46:41,800 --> 00:46:45,480
Speaker 1: hits the ground or a player in what's called the

1002
00:46:45,600 --> 00:46:48,760
Speaker 1: landing zone. The landing zone is between the goal line

1003
00:46:49,120 --> 00:46:51,319
Speaker 1: and the twenty yard line, so basically it's the red

1004
00:46:51,400 --> 00:46:55,080
Speaker 1: zone that's the landing zone. The ten players covering the

1005
00:46:55,200 --> 00:46:59,439
Speaker 1: kick cannot move until the ball is either it either

1006
00:46:59,520 --> 00:47:04,520
Speaker 1: hits inside the twenty yard line or the returner catches

1007
00:47:04,560 --> 00:47:08,200
Speaker 1: the ball. That's when the kicking the kickoff goes into

1008
00:47:08,440 --> 00:47:11,319
Speaker 1: live motion, if you will. The receiving team is going

1009
00:47:11,400 --> 00:47:13,640
Speaker 1: to line up as follows. They're going to line up

1010
00:47:13,640 --> 00:47:16,480
Speaker 1: in what's called the setup zone, which is a five

1011
00:47:16,560 --> 00:47:19,799
Speaker 1: yard area from the thirty five yard line to the

1012
00:47:19,920 --> 00:47:25,319
Speaker 1: thirty where at least nine receiving players must line up.

1013
00:47:25,360 --> 00:47:28,960
Speaker 1: At least seven players have to have for the setups.

1014
00:47:29,080 --> 00:47:32,640
Speaker 1: There you go. Yeah, seven players on the receiving team

1015
00:47:33,160 --> 00:47:36,959
Speaker 1: have to have their foot on the thirty five yard line.

1016
00:47:37,000 --> 00:47:40,800
Speaker 1: Two other players can line up off of the thirty

1017
00:47:40,800 --> 00:47:42,839
Speaker 1: five yard line, but they have to be between the

1018
00:47:42,880 --> 00:47:47,000
Speaker 1: thirty and the thirty five. That's what's called the setup zone.

1019
00:47:47,520 --> 00:47:52,120
Speaker 1: For the receiving team, a maximum of two returners can

1020
00:47:52,200 --> 00:47:56,280
Speaker 1: line up in the landing zone and can move freely

1021
00:47:56,400 --> 00:47:59,560
Speaker 1: to get the ball. Okay. The landing zone again, is

1022
00:47:59,600 --> 00:48:02,680
Speaker 1: the area between the goal line of the twenty yard line.

1023
00:48:03,120 --> 00:48:07,480
Speaker 1: Any kick that hits short of the landing zone, treated

1024
00:48:07,560 --> 00:48:10,719
Speaker 1: like a kickoff or a kickoff out of bounds, will

1025
00:48:10,719 --> 00:48:13,720
Speaker 1: be spotted at the forty yard line. All right, again,

1026
00:48:13,880 --> 00:48:17,600
Speaker 1: any kickoff that hits short of the landing zone or

1027
00:48:17,719 --> 00:48:20,640
Speaker 1: goes out of bounds is going to be given to

1028
00:48:20,719 --> 00:48:24,360
Speaker 1: the receiving team at the forty yard line. Any kick

1029
00:48:24,719 --> 00:48:27,919
Speaker 1: that hits in the landing zone and then goes into

1030
00:48:27,960 --> 00:48:32,960
Speaker 1: the end zone must be returned or down by the

1031
00:48:33,000 --> 00:48:37,319
Speaker 1: receiving team. Down would obviously be a touchback at that

1032
00:48:37,520 --> 00:48:40,520
Speaker 1: If that happens, then the ball will be spotted at

1033
00:48:40,560 --> 00:48:43,520
Speaker 1: the twenty yard line. Are you with me so far, Lara?

1034
00:48:43,800 --> 00:48:47,239
Speaker 1: Give me a head nod. Yes, you're with me so far.

1035
00:48:47,719 --> 00:48:50,120
Speaker 1: I don't feel like I'm describing this very well. We'll

1036
00:48:50,160 --> 00:48:50,680
Speaker 1: proceed up.

1037
00:48:50,719 --> 00:48:52,520
Speaker 2: Don't think you are. I'm the one who's trying to

1038
00:48:52,960 --> 00:48:54,600
Speaker 2: actually illustrate this.

1039
00:48:54,760 --> 00:48:56,480
Speaker 1: You're doing quite well. Then you're doing quite well.

1040
00:48:56,480 --> 00:48:57,680
Speaker 2: You can't even see what I'm doing.

1041
00:48:57,840 --> 00:49:01,520
Speaker 1: So basically, the ball has to hit between the goal

1042
00:49:01,560 --> 00:49:04,840
Speaker 1: line and the twenty yard line. If that happens, then

1043
00:49:05,000 --> 00:49:08,120
Speaker 1: the return team must field it. You can't fair catch anymore.

1044
00:49:08,320 --> 00:49:11,000
Speaker 1: Fair catches are gone. That was a one year experiment,

1045
00:49:11,320 --> 00:49:14,759
Speaker 1: didn't go so well, and that's gone out of the game.

1046
00:49:15,120 --> 00:49:17,839
Speaker 1: So if the ball lands in the twenty yard line

1047
00:49:17,840 --> 00:49:20,360
Speaker 1: and then trickles into the end zone, it's a touchback

1048
00:49:20,880 --> 00:49:23,280
Speaker 1: that will be placed at the twenty if the ball

1049
00:49:23,360 --> 00:49:25,440
Speaker 1: if you just kick the ball directly into the end

1050
00:49:25,560 --> 00:49:28,600
Speaker 1: zone or out of bounds, the other team gets the

1051
00:49:28,640 --> 00:49:30,640
Speaker 1: ball at the forty yard line. This is a way

1052
00:49:30,719 --> 00:49:35,160
Speaker 1: Larra to add more intrigued to this play, make it safer.

1053
00:49:36,080 --> 00:49:39,040
Speaker 1: And I mean last year, the NFL thought it was

1054
00:49:39,080 --> 00:49:44,080
Speaker 1: going to go from around thirty eight percent of kickoff

1055
00:49:44,080 --> 00:49:47,680
Speaker 1: returns to around thirty one percent with the implementation of

1056
00:49:47,719 --> 00:49:51,360
Speaker 1: the fair catch. They drastically underestimated what would happen. They

1057
00:49:51,400 --> 00:49:54,440
Speaker 1: went down from thirty eight to twenty two percent. So

1058
00:49:54,480 --> 00:49:56,440
Speaker 1: we had a Super Bowl last year, Lara, where we

1059
00:49:56,440 --> 00:50:00,440
Speaker 1: had thirteen kickoffs for the entire game, zero returns. The

1060
00:50:00,480 --> 00:50:04,120
Speaker 1: Colts last year as a team, they played eighteen games.

1061
00:50:04,320 --> 00:50:06,640
Speaker 1: Guess how many kickoff returns they had for the entire

1062
00:50:06,719 --> 00:50:09,880
Speaker 1: season and eighteen games five nine.

1063
00:50:10,040 --> 00:50:12,359
Speaker 2: I was thinking about Germany. I was thinking the Frankfurt game, right,

1064
00:50:12,640 --> 00:50:14,120
Speaker 2: that was like the one where I was like, wait,

1065
00:50:14,239 --> 00:50:17,160
Speaker 2: we finally have something, like we finally were returning the ball.

1066
00:50:17,280 --> 00:50:20,240
Speaker 1: Sam mckinzie's going here. Yeah, so it's a way Petree

1067
00:50:20,320 --> 00:50:23,200
Speaker 1: Roads take him home. So I think it's a way

1068
00:50:23,280 --> 00:50:27,000
Speaker 1: to make the play more interesting. Also add more value

1069
00:50:27,040 --> 00:50:29,560
Speaker 1: to special teams. Yeah, I mean, these back end of

1070
00:50:29,600 --> 00:50:32,120
Speaker 1: the roster guys have to love this new rule because

1071
00:50:32,600 --> 00:50:34,800
Speaker 1: now they've got a niche. Like the Matthew Slaters of

1072
00:50:34,840 --> 00:50:37,759
Speaker 1: the world are loving this because it adds value to

1073
00:50:37,920 --> 00:50:40,359
Speaker 1: their ability to make a team right.

1074
00:50:40,440 --> 00:50:41,359
Speaker 2: You know it's true.

1075
00:50:41,400 --> 00:50:43,040
Speaker 1: You know you have to be able to cover punts

1076
00:50:43,040 --> 00:50:44,880
Speaker 1: and cover kicks. This is another way to do it.

1077
00:50:44,960 --> 00:50:48,360
Speaker 1: So also, I think it's gonna really improve field position

1078
00:50:48,880 --> 00:50:51,480
Speaker 1: for next year. It's gonna lead to more points, it's

1079
00:50:51,520 --> 00:50:53,960
Speaker 1: gonna be it's gonna lead to more excitement, which is

1080
00:50:53,960 --> 00:50:56,239
Speaker 1: obviously what the common fan wants. So I don't know

1081
00:50:56,280 --> 00:50:58,759
Speaker 1: how you feel about it, but I kind of like it. Well,

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Speaker 1: it's it's.

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Speaker 3: Gonna it's gonna look crash course in it now thanks

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Speaker 3: to Matt Taylor, I do.

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00:51:02,800 --> 00:51:05,120
Speaker 1: It's gonna look wacky and there's gonna be a feeling

1086
00:51:05,120 --> 00:51:07,319
Speaker 1: out process for the common fan. But I think once

1087
00:51:07,360 --> 00:51:09,960
Speaker 1: you get over sort of the shock of it and

1088
00:51:10,000 --> 00:51:11,840
Speaker 1: the jarring look of it.

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00:51:11,960 --> 00:51:14,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, because my dad was really upset about it.

1090
00:51:14,000 --> 00:51:16,600
Speaker 1: It is an XFL type, but he said, he was like,

1091
00:51:16,600 --> 00:51:18,600
Speaker 1: this is not the pretty radical like he was.

1092
00:51:18,680 --> 00:51:20,759
Speaker 3: He was upset about it little. He's a very he's

1093
00:51:20,800 --> 00:51:22,000
Speaker 3: a football traditionalist.

1094
00:51:22,040 --> 00:51:25,160
Speaker 1: You're going to see big returns, better field position. So

1095
00:51:25,400 --> 00:51:26,319
Speaker 1: and you never have.

1096
00:51:26,239 --> 00:51:28,720
Speaker 2: To see me do this again. That's the best years

1097
00:51:28,760 --> 00:51:29,719
Speaker 2: of it's alsome.

1098
00:51:29,880 --> 00:51:32,920
Speaker 1: Right, you're taking you're taking all the collisions out of

1099
00:51:32,960 --> 00:51:34,520
Speaker 1: the out of the play with a with a five

1100
00:51:34,600 --> 00:51:37,719
Speaker 1: yard difference between the cover team and the return team.

1101
00:51:38,040 --> 00:51:40,840
Speaker 3: So I like it, and and you just can't the

1102
00:51:40,880 --> 00:51:42,680
Speaker 3: thing is too on the coverage team. You can't build

1103
00:51:42,760 --> 00:51:45,840
Speaker 3: up quite as much momentum from where your position.

1104
00:51:45,600 --> 00:51:49,239
Speaker 1: Is to take all the high potential of of concussions

1105
00:51:49,280 --> 00:51:52,080
Speaker 1: and collisions and things like that. So I think, you know,

1106
00:51:52,160 --> 00:51:55,279
Speaker 1: once the common fan, I think by week five it's

1107
00:51:55,320 --> 00:51:57,239
Speaker 1: going to be all normal. I really do. I think

1108
00:51:57,280 --> 00:51:59,319
Speaker 1: it's going to be all normal, And I think people

1109
00:51:59,360 --> 00:52:00,600
Speaker 1: are going to get used to it. And I think

1110
00:52:00,600 --> 00:52:04,600
Speaker 1: it adds more value to teams to add a spark

1111
00:52:04,640 --> 00:52:07,200
Speaker 1: plug back there as a return man. You know, get

1112
00:52:07,200 --> 00:52:10,480
Speaker 1: some bigger plays and be creative with the alignment of

1113
00:52:10,520 --> 00:52:13,120
Speaker 1: those things, how they kick off, how they go about

1114
00:52:13,120 --> 00:52:15,240
Speaker 1: receiving it. You know, there's there's a lot more.

1115
00:52:15,440 --> 00:52:19,640
Speaker 8: Technician status about on kickoff return as of right now.

1116
00:52:19,640 --> 00:52:22,000
Speaker 8: He's your guy, right, I mean, I'm all four speech

1117
00:52:22,080 --> 00:52:24,440
Speaker 8: for baby. Yeah, get back there, and you know, just

1118
00:52:24,440 --> 00:52:25,439
Speaker 8: find a little bit of a crease.

1119
00:52:25,440 --> 00:52:27,239
Speaker 1: And that's the thing. Like, there's there's gonna be a

1120
00:52:27,280 --> 00:52:30,920
Speaker 1: lot of like engaging between the five yards of the

1121
00:52:31,000 --> 00:52:32,840
Speaker 1: kicking team and the cover team. There's gonna be some

1122
00:52:32,880 --> 00:52:35,040
Speaker 1: holes that you just are going to be able to

1123
00:52:35,040 --> 00:52:37,560
Speaker 1: cover because of guys being too quick to hit him. Yeah,

1124
00:52:37,640 --> 00:52:40,160
Speaker 1: you know, so that that part's exciting. So all right,

1125
00:52:40,160 --> 00:52:41,719
Speaker 1: what else you got this week? What else is going

1126
00:52:41,760 --> 00:52:45,200
Speaker 1: on on on behind the Colts which came out last

1127
00:52:45,200 --> 00:52:48,640
Speaker 1: week obviously with the first episode which was fantastic chronicling

1128
00:52:48,719 --> 00:52:52,160
Speaker 1: the you know, behind the scenes of head coach Shane Stecken.

1129
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Speaker 1: What else can we expect within the series.

1130
00:52:53,880 --> 00:52:56,759
Speaker 3: Well, we're working on a couple of things simultaneously. You know,

1131
00:52:56,800 --> 00:53:00,759
Speaker 3: none of these things are happening like singularly. The episodes

1132
00:53:00,800 --> 00:53:02,040
Speaker 3: which you will see over the course.

1133
00:53:01,840 --> 00:53:02,760
Speaker 2: Of the next few months.

1134
00:53:02,920 --> 00:53:05,400
Speaker 3: We are working on building a few of those right now,

1135
00:53:05,640 --> 00:53:08,640
Speaker 3: primarily focused on the draft. You will see an episode

1136
00:53:08,960 --> 00:53:12,680
Speaker 3: coming up ahead of the draft, really digging in on

1137
00:53:13,320 --> 00:53:17,240
Speaker 3: the grind and the process in preparation for the draft.

1138
00:53:17,400 --> 00:53:19,600
Speaker 3: So we'll see that coming up here very very soon.

1139
00:53:20,360 --> 00:53:23,960
Speaker 3: Excited to show you guys. Obviously, those who have been

1140
00:53:23,960 --> 00:53:26,799
Speaker 3: along the ride of with the next pick, you know

1141
00:53:26,880 --> 00:53:29,560
Speaker 3: what to expect from the draft series. So it is

1142
00:53:29,600 --> 00:53:32,040
Speaker 3: a lot of those elements which people have come to

1143
00:53:32,080 --> 00:53:35,040
Speaker 3: expect from the Draft series, but some areas that we

1144
00:53:35,239 --> 00:53:38,560
Speaker 3: haven't yet been able to dive in prop So, yeah,

1145
00:53:38,600 --> 00:53:41,160
Speaker 3: you know, that's one thing with the series and these

1146
00:53:41,160 --> 00:53:43,640
Speaker 3: offseason series is how are we continuing to evolve it

1147
00:53:43,760 --> 00:53:46,520
Speaker 3: so that we are delivering new content.

1148
00:53:46,160 --> 00:53:48,080
Speaker 2: And aspects that we haven't been able to show.

1149
00:53:48,400 --> 00:53:51,799
Speaker 3: And it's tricky because you want to show as much

1150
00:53:51,800 --> 00:53:54,200
Speaker 3: as possible, but then there is such a layer of

1151
00:53:54,560 --> 00:53:56,799
Speaker 3: there are things that are going to be you know,

1152
00:53:56,880 --> 00:54:00,520
Speaker 3: you can't exactly, you know, get into there are certain

1153
00:54:00,560 --> 00:54:03,719
Speaker 3: aspects of it just because of the sensitive nature of

1154
00:54:04,440 --> 00:54:06,400
Speaker 3: the draft and the processes that there are. But we

1155
00:54:06,440 --> 00:54:09,920
Speaker 3: will bring you, guys some very interesting elements and some

1156
00:54:10,000 --> 00:54:12,239
Speaker 3: things we have not yet been able to absolutely.

1157
00:54:12,320 --> 00:54:16,240
Speaker 1: It's behind the Colts episode number one all about Shane Steichen.

1158
00:54:16,320 --> 00:54:18,520
Speaker 1: Plenty more where that came from. Check it out on

1159
00:54:18,560 --> 00:54:21,960
Speaker 1: all the Colts social media platforms. YouTube, It's right there

1160
00:54:22,000 --> 00:54:24,359
Speaker 1: for you and there's gonna be plenty more coming right

1161
00:54:24,360 --> 00:54:28,320
Speaker 1: around draft time. Lara Overton, I'm Matt Taylor. Our brackets

1162
00:54:28,360 --> 00:54:30,319
Speaker 1: are not busted because we did a fill one out.

1163
00:54:30,600 --> 00:54:32,840
Speaker 1: So now we're just watching Go Purdue coming up this

1164
00:54:32,920 --> 00:54:36,560
Speaker 1: weekend local tie there the Fighting Boiler makers obviously have

1165
00:54:36,600 --> 00:54:38,799
Speaker 1: a great chance to make the final four, so we're

1166
00:54:38,800 --> 00:54:40,240
Speaker 1: pushing like heck for that to happen.

1167
00:54:40,320 --> 00:54:42,359
Speaker 2: Who's your women in the Sweet sixteen as well?

1168
00:54:42,520 --> 00:54:45,600
Speaker 1: So busy, busy time of the year, and the Draft

1169
00:54:45,640 --> 00:54:47,560
Speaker 1: will be here in less than a month, So we

1170
00:54:47,640 --> 00:54:50,759
Speaker 1: got you covered across the board on Colts dot Com, here,

1171
00:54:50,800 --> 00:54:54,160
Speaker 1: on YouTube, and the Colts Audio Network. For Lara, I'm

1172
00:54:54,200 --> 00:54:57,520
Speaker 1: Matt Taylor. Our thanks again to head coach Shane Steichen GM,

1173
00:54:57,600 --> 00:55:00,719
Speaker 1: Chris Ballard JJ stegib. It's down in Orlando. All three

1174
00:55:00,800 --> 00:55:04,040
Speaker 1: guys making their way back later this week back to Indianapolis,

1175
00:55:04,320 --> 00:55:07,680
Speaker 1: and we'll be back as breaking news happens on overtimes

1176
00:55:07,920 --> 00:55:11,440
Speaker 1: and of course next Tuesday on the Official Cults podcast here,

1177
00:55:11,480 --> 00:55:14,120
Speaker 1: on YouTube and the Colts Audio Network.

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Speaker 6: So on.