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Speaker 1: Welcome into another episode of the Official Colts Podcast, presented

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Speaker 1: by When That I'm jj Staking. It's joined here by

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Speaker 1: Matt Taylor and Lara Overton. We are going to look

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Speaker 1: on the podcast. Your Questions, Mate's Random Thought of the Week,

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Speaker 1: all of our favorite segments, but one of our favorites

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Speaker 1: is back not that the voice in Jeffrey Yeah, do

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Speaker 1: not adjust your app do not adjust your headphones, do

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Speaker 1: not adjust your your date. And thinking that your time

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Speaker 1: It is in fact the return of the Jeoffrey Gorman.

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Speaker 1: It has been far too long. Tell the people because

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Speaker 1: they've all been asking where you've been, update us on

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Speaker 1: what's been keeping you busy this up. I appreciate your

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Speaker 1: more predictable without you. So no, mister Ersey has been, um,

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Speaker 1: lot and I think you're going to see that. I

426
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Speaker 1: think you're going to see that reflected on opening day

427
00:21:00,880 --> 00:21:03,639
Speaker 1: rosters this year, when when teams are on final cutdowns,

428
00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:05,960
Speaker 1: You're gonna see a lot more Day three picks making

429
00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:07,760
Speaker 1: it because there was a lot of talent in those rounds.

430
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Speaker 1: So yeah, it actually it was nice having numbers, but

431
00:21:11,119 --> 00:21:14,280
Speaker 1: it made it made for a tougher selection process. Well, Jim,

432
00:21:14,280 --> 00:21:16,680
Speaker 1: like you said, you had Alec Pierce in the Senior

433
00:21:16,720 --> 00:21:20,239
Speaker 1: Bowl and two other Colts players as well, but with

434
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Speaker 1: the first selection for the Colts in the second round,

435
00:21:22,400 --> 00:21:25,240
Speaker 1: what stood out to you about Alec Pierce's game and

436
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Speaker 1: why did you think back in uh in January and

437
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Speaker 1: February that Pierce would be a great fit in the

438
00:21:30,840 --> 00:21:34,480
Speaker 1: NFL Translating from Cincinnati. Yeah, Alex the guy that got

439
00:21:34,760 --> 00:21:36,600
Speaker 1: this happened with a lot of these guys coming off

440
00:21:36,640 --> 00:21:39,640
Speaker 1: that COVID year. He jumped up the port quite a bit.

441
00:21:40,080 --> 00:21:42,679
Speaker 1: We knew Alec was going to be a really good tester. Uh.

442
00:21:42,840 --> 00:21:44,280
Speaker 1: You know, we kind of worked hand in hand with

443
00:21:44,320 --> 00:21:47,520
Speaker 1: Bruce Feldman the last few years putting together his freaks list,

444
00:21:47,560 --> 00:21:49,720
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, I've got I've got some good

445
00:21:49,760 --> 00:21:51,879
Speaker 1: people in the building there at Cincinnati on that staff.

446
00:21:51,920 --> 00:21:53,840
Speaker 1: People have known a long time, and so we knew

447
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Speaker 1: how he was going to test. We knew he was

448
00:21:55,200 --> 00:21:57,280
Speaker 1: going to be a forty forty inch vertical guy and

449
00:21:57,600 --> 00:21:59,960
Speaker 1: probably run somewhere in the four threes. But really we're

450
00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:01,439
Speaker 1: he put it, put it together on it was on

451
00:22:01,480 --> 00:22:05,320
Speaker 1: the field. Um. You know, he's made plays down the

452
00:22:05,359 --> 00:22:08,159
Speaker 1: field in the past as a vertical stretch guy with

453
00:22:08,280 --> 00:22:11,040
Speaker 1: that four three speed, but you saw this year, uh

454
00:22:11,240 --> 00:22:16,280
Speaker 1: more intermediate stuff, really consistent catching the football. Clearly developed

455
00:22:16,280 --> 00:22:18,800
Speaker 1: a chemistry with Desmond Ritter's quarterback this year. I mean

456
00:22:18,800 --> 00:22:21,760
Speaker 1: it was Alec was it was his go to guy,

457
00:22:22,080 --> 00:22:23,960
Speaker 1: and he played big and big games. You know they

458
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Speaker 1: go on the road at Notre Dame. He did a

459
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Speaker 1: lot of good things and uh you know, just became

460
00:22:28,280 --> 00:22:31,159
Speaker 1: a became a playmaker and uh you know, when you

461
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Speaker 1: get a guy with that kind of heightweight, speed, h

462
00:22:33,680 --> 00:22:37,200
Speaker 1: and a guy that's ascending, that's still ascending. Um, you

463
00:22:37,280 --> 00:22:38,680
Speaker 1: got to be excited about it. And I know for

464
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Speaker 1: the Colts having bringing Reggie Wayne back and having him

465
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Speaker 1: uh you know, coach Receivers. We put Reggie in our

466
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Speaker 1: Senior Bowl Hall of Fame last year, so I know

467
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Speaker 1: Reggie a little bit now and uh so so cool

468
00:22:48,240 --> 00:22:50,080
Speaker 1: to see those two guys match up. I'm excited to

469
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Speaker 1: see where Alec will be you know, two or three

470
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Speaker 1: years from now. With with Reggie's tutelage. You mentioned that

471
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Speaker 1: Freaks list, Alec Pearce's number forty six on Bruce Spelt

472
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Speaker 1: Bruce Feldman twenty twenty one Freaks List, and mentioned in

473
00:23:02,200 --> 00:23:05,840
Speaker 1: there um that he deadlifted six hundred and seventy five pounds,

474
00:23:05,880 --> 00:23:09,639
Speaker 1: which is a lot of weight to deadlift. But just

475
00:23:09,680 --> 00:23:12,080
Speaker 1: when you think about Alec Pierce, and not just necessarily

476
00:23:12,160 --> 00:23:14,240
Speaker 1: the traits that we all know, when you can see

477
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Speaker 1: the broad jump, the vertical, the yards per catch that

478
00:23:17,400 --> 00:23:21,359
Speaker 1: he had in college, what about his compete level stood

479
00:23:21,359 --> 00:23:23,119
Speaker 1: out to you when you watched him during those Senior

480
00:23:23,160 --> 00:23:26,879
Speaker 1: Bowl practices. Yeah, he uh really competitive guy. And the

481
00:23:26,880 --> 00:23:29,360
Speaker 1: great thing is down here you see him. You see

482
00:23:29,440 --> 00:23:31,560
Speaker 1: you see him against press man coverage, which you don't

483
00:23:31,600 --> 00:23:34,200
Speaker 1: see a lot at that level. Um, you know, especially

484
00:23:34,200 --> 00:23:36,520
Speaker 1: a guy come from the AAC. You saw him against

485
00:23:36,880 --> 00:23:40,960
Speaker 1: consistently against NFL level corners. You're seeing him against a

486
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Speaker 1: bunch of guys that'll play at the next level. And

487
00:23:43,200 --> 00:23:45,679
Speaker 1: when you put on Cincinnati tape, I mean there's just

488
00:23:45,720 --> 00:23:47,399
Speaker 1: not a lot of that. You're not seeing him against

489
00:23:47,400 --> 00:23:49,120
Speaker 1: guys that are that are going to be pros. So

490
00:23:49,520 --> 00:23:51,200
Speaker 1: that was huge. And really when you talk about his

491
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Speaker 1: compete level, um, you know, Alec suffered an injury. I

492
00:23:54,880 --> 00:23:57,399
Speaker 1: want to say it was a shoulder um after the

493
00:23:57,400 --> 00:23:59,360
Speaker 1: second day of practice. I don't think he finished out

494
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Speaker 1: on Thursday the game, but I just remember how how

495
00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:05,119
Speaker 1: disappointed he was. You know, he really wanted to He

496
00:24:05,200 --> 00:24:08,440
Speaker 1: was really bummed out. It was really bummed that he

497
00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:10,320
Speaker 1: couldn't continue on through the week because he knew he

498
00:24:10,320 --> 00:24:12,720
Speaker 1: wanted to keep showing up. Well, he had a couple

499
00:24:12,800 --> 00:24:15,960
Speaker 1: good days of practice, so that that's usually an indication,

500
00:24:16,160 --> 00:24:18,600
Speaker 1: you know when you when these guys are you know

501
00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:19,840
Speaker 1: when they come to you and like Jim, I'm not

502
00:24:19,840 --> 00:24:20,960
Speaker 1: going to be able to make it through the week,

503
00:24:20,960 --> 00:24:22,919
Speaker 1: And usually that the trainers are the ones saying that.

504
00:24:23,040 --> 00:24:24,520
Speaker 1: You know, we have a have a meeting every morning

505
00:24:24,520 --> 00:24:26,000
Speaker 1: with the trainers. And when they let me know that,

506
00:24:26,040 --> 00:24:28,119
Speaker 1: I went to Alec and you could just hear in

507
00:24:28,160 --> 00:24:30,520
Speaker 1: his voice how disappointed he was. He was down here

508
00:24:30,560 --> 00:24:33,520
Speaker 1: to compete and show his best, all right, Jim. Another

509
00:24:33,560 --> 00:24:36,159
Speaker 1: guy for the Colts, Bernard Ryman, he plays in the

510
00:24:36,240 --> 00:24:38,320
Speaker 1: game as well, so you got to see him and

511
00:24:38,720 --> 00:24:41,520
Speaker 1: he's a really cool story, right, coming from Austria as

512
00:24:41,520 --> 00:24:44,919
Speaker 1: a kid, then picking up football, switching from tight end

513
00:24:44,960 --> 00:24:48,159
Speaker 1: to tackle in college at Central Michigan. What what traits

514
00:24:48,200 --> 00:24:50,880
Speaker 1: do you see from him that tell you he can

515
00:24:51,040 --> 00:24:54,280
Speaker 1: play tackle in the NFL for a long time. Yeah,

516
00:24:54,480 --> 00:24:56,200
Speaker 1: Bernard is You're right, you nail that. He's one of

517
00:24:56,240 --> 00:24:58,480
Speaker 1: the best stories in this draft. Really cool with the

518
00:24:58,760 --> 00:25:01,239
Speaker 1: Austrian background. We actually we picked up a following here

519
00:25:01,280 --> 00:25:04,520
Speaker 1: at on our social media channels from the uh I

520
00:25:04,520 --> 00:25:06,560
Speaker 1: think it's the Vienna Vikings is the team that he

521
00:25:06,640 --> 00:25:08,520
Speaker 1: played for over there, so we get we get a

522
00:25:08,520 --> 00:25:11,040
Speaker 1: lot of Vienna Vikings love here at the un Senior

523
00:25:11,080 --> 00:25:14,160
Speaker 1: Bowl in Twitter now. But uh no, a really high

524
00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:16,600
Speaker 1: end athlete. You can see the former tight end background

525
00:25:16,600 --> 00:25:19,200
Speaker 1: in him. He's got a nice feed, he moves easily,

526
00:25:20,080 --> 00:25:21,640
Speaker 1: you can get him out in space, and he looks

527
00:25:21,640 --> 00:25:25,000
Speaker 1: like an athlete. He can sustain on contact, which, uh

528
00:25:25,160 --> 00:25:27,280
Speaker 1: you what you would expect from a former tight end.

529
00:25:27,320 --> 00:25:29,080
Speaker 1: So I think you know, Bernard's a guy who's best

530
00:25:29,119 --> 00:25:31,280
Speaker 1: football is still ahead of him. There was a lot

531
00:25:31,320 --> 00:25:33,919
Speaker 1: of like mock first round stuff with Bernard over the

532
00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:36,359
Speaker 1: past year. Another I think he was another one of

533
00:25:36,359 --> 00:25:39,959
Speaker 1: Bruce's freaks guys. Um, but uh, but no, there's been

534
00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:42,119
Speaker 1: a there's been a lot of first round buzz round Bernard.

535
00:25:42,240 --> 00:25:44,760
Speaker 1: So for for them to get him with the thirteenth

536
00:25:44,760 --> 00:25:47,240
Speaker 1: pick in the third round, I mean, that's tremendous value.

537
00:25:47,960 --> 00:25:50,000
Speaker 1: And when I say his best best football is ahead

538
00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:51,480
Speaker 1: of him, if you just go back a couple of

539
00:25:51,520 --> 00:25:53,560
Speaker 1: years and watch and then you watch this year's stuff

540
00:25:54,520 --> 00:25:57,800
Speaker 1: just made a considerable jump. So another guy that you know,

541
00:25:57,840 --> 00:26:00,399
Speaker 1: as scouts we always talk about in that three year window,

542
00:26:00,440 --> 00:26:01,800
Speaker 1: like what's he going to be by years two and

543
00:26:01,880 --> 00:26:05,440
Speaker 1: years three? Um, it's really exciting. He's got he's got

544
00:26:05,480 --> 00:26:08,800
Speaker 1: starting left tackle ability. Um. And now you just how

545
00:26:09,119 --> 00:26:11,800
Speaker 1: quickly can that developmental curve happen when he gets there

546
00:26:11,800 --> 00:26:14,400
Speaker 1: in Indie with with pro coaching and going against better

547
00:26:14,440 --> 00:26:18,400
Speaker 1: competition consistently, you know than he saw in the mac um.

548
00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:22,480
Speaker 1: So No, really in a great, great, great individual. Really

549
00:26:22,520 --> 00:26:26,080
Speaker 1: love getting a no Bernard down here and just interacting

550
00:26:26,119 --> 00:26:28,600
Speaker 1: with him and watching him compete down here. I think, Uh,

551
00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:30,520
Speaker 1: I think he's going to be the left tackle the

552
00:26:30,520 --> 00:26:32,680
Speaker 1: future there in Indie. Bernard Ryman, by the way, number

553
00:26:32,720 --> 00:26:35,520
Speaker 1: twenty six on Bruce Feldman's freaks list. How did you

554
00:26:35,520 --> 00:26:38,760
Speaker 1: see him compete against some of the competition at edge

555
00:26:38,800 --> 00:26:41,920
Speaker 1: Rusher during the Senior Bowl, whether it was a guy

556
00:26:41,960 --> 00:26:45,200
Speaker 1: like Boye Mafi, who was a pretty high round pick

557
00:26:45,200 --> 00:26:47,960
Speaker 1: I think in the second round. Um, you know Arnold

558
00:26:47,960 --> 00:26:51,040
Speaker 1: Eviketty who went thirty four thirty fourth overall to the Falcons.

559
00:26:51,040 --> 00:26:53,320
Speaker 1: How did you see him perform against some of that

560
00:26:53,359 --> 00:26:57,760
Speaker 1: top level competition that he only faced sparingly at Central Michigan. Yeah, no,

561
00:26:57,880 --> 00:27:00,320
Speaker 1: it was you know, his one of his best was

562
00:27:00,359 --> 00:27:02,400
Speaker 1: against LSU. But yeah, down here it's a really good

563
00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:03,800
Speaker 1: We had a good edge group this year. A lot

564
00:27:03,840 --> 00:27:05,359
Speaker 1: of guys went high, a lot of a lot of

565
00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:08,240
Speaker 1: Day two guys. Um, they went in that group that

566
00:27:08,280 --> 00:27:10,160
Speaker 1: he went up against. And again for all these guys,

567
00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:12,200
Speaker 1: it wasn't clean the whole week. He certainly got beat

568
00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:14,440
Speaker 1: Um they all did. I mean, I don't think he

569
00:27:14,480 --> 00:27:17,280
Speaker 1: can look on either side of the line, um and

570
00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:19,520
Speaker 1: see a guy that went through the week flawless and

571
00:27:19,600 --> 00:27:22,760
Speaker 1: just you know, notch nothing but wins. But uh, but no,

572
00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:24,679
Speaker 1: I loved how he bounced back, you know, I love

573
00:27:24,720 --> 00:27:27,280
Speaker 1: how he how he took coaching, and uh, you know

574
00:27:27,359 --> 00:27:29,320
Speaker 1: those guys they go back to back reps. So if

575
00:27:29,359 --> 00:27:31,120
Speaker 1: they get if they get whooped on one rep, they're

576
00:27:31,160 --> 00:27:33,680
Speaker 1: right back up there again. And uh, to see how

577
00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:36,560
Speaker 1: he bounced back and took the coaching and applied applied

578
00:27:36,600 --> 00:27:38,760
Speaker 1: to you know, whatever technical point the coach may have had.

579
00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:41,320
Speaker 1: I just like how he competed, you know, I mean,

580
00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:43,480
Speaker 1: I think that's I think those are the takeaways that

581
00:27:43,520 --> 00:27:45,879
Speaker 1: you get from a Senior Bowl exposure that you're not

582
00:27:45,920 --> 00:27:48,520
Speaker 1: going to get off off the college tape or or

583
00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:50,840
Speaker 1: you know, a college practice exposure. You don't see a

584
00:27:50,840 --> 00:27:53,040
Speaker 1: lot of one on one pass rush when you go

585
00:27:53,119 --> 00:27:56,760
Speaker 1: to college practices anymore, not like he used to. Um So, No,

586
00:27:56,920 --> 00:27:58,399
Speaker 1: I think I think he held his own more than

587
00:27:58,440 --> 00:28:01,280
Speaker 1: held his own against a really good edge ed rush grew. Jim,

588
00:28:01,320 --> 00:28:04,239
Speaker 1: can you give us the story on Eric Johnson? He

589
00:28:04,280 --> 00:28:06,160
Speaker 1: was picked up by the Colts in the fifth round

590
00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:07,959
Speaker 1: and he was sort of a late ad for you

591
00:28:08,040 --> 00:28:10,960
Speaker 1: this year based on how I understand he plays well

592
00:28:11,359 --> 00:28:14,159
Speaker 1: in the NFL PA Bowl and then you give him

593
00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:16,399
Speaker 1: a call right away to join the Senior Bowl roster.

594
00:28:16,520 --> 00:28:18,639
Speaker 1: How did that all go down? And and what'd you

595
00:28:18,680 --> 00:28:21,080
Speaker 1: like most about his game when you saw him down

596
00:28:21,119 --> 00:28:23,840
Speaker 1: a mobile? Yeah, he was kind of a late replacement

597
00:28:23,880 --> 00:28:25,480
Speaker 1: for us. You know. Eric was a guy that that

598
00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:28,080
Speaker 1: we kind of got un late in the process. Unfortunately,

599
00:28:28,119 --> 00:28:30,960
Speaker 1: it happens that way with some small school guys. UM.

600
00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:33,080
Speaker 1: As much as we try to try to not let

601
00:28:33,080 --> 00:28:35,400
Speaker 1: guys slip the cracks, Alex through the cracks a little

602
00:28:35,400 --> 00:28:38,400
Speaker 1: bit for us. But Yeah, I went up to the

603
00:28:38,480 --> 00:28:41,880
Speaker 1: NFLPA game and was from from all the all the

604
00:28:41,920 --> 00:28:43,720
Speaker 1: calls I made around in my buddies at the in

605
00:28:43,720 --> 00:28:45,160
Speaker 1: the league that we're out there at that event, that

606
00:28:45,280 --> 00:28:48,640
Speaker 1: he was the best player out there, regardless of position. UM.

607
00:28:48,840 --> 00:28:53,040
Speaker 1: So we we called his agent and uh basically intercepted

608
00:28:53,120 --> 00:28:56,239
Speaker 1: him at the airport in Chicago and and rerouted him

609
00:28:56,240 --> 00:28:59,400
Speaker 1: the mobile. UM. The good thing. The good thing was

610
00:28:59,440 --> 00:29:01,560
Speaker 1: he had as aquipment with him, so that we didn't

611
00:29:01,560 --> 00:29:03,959
Speaker 1: have a we didn't have an equipment issue. He just

612
00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:06,520
Speaker 1: uh we had that rerouted as well. And he showed

613
00:29:06,560 --> 00:29:09,320
Speaker 1: up in mobile on Sunday just like everyone else, UM

614
00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:11,120
Speaker 1: and went through the week normally. It's not like he

615
00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:12,920
Speaker 1: was a guy that got here on Tuesday or Wednesday.

616
00:29:12,960 --> 00:29:14,600
Speaker 1: So no, it had a really good week. You know,

617
00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:17,680
Speaker 1: he's uh, he's got he's got initial quickness, he can

618
00:29:17,720 --> 00:29:20,959
Speaker 1: get on an edge as a pass rusher. Um, he

619
00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:23,240
Speaker 1: can run like when this guy clears a block, he

620
00:29:23,280 --> 00:29:26,000
Speaker 1: can go chase it down so um, and he plays

621
00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:29,360
Speaker 1: really hard. Those things showed up consistently on Missouri State

622
00:29:29,360 --> 00:29:32,120
Speaker 1: tape and and again in the NFLPA game. Going sitting

623
00:29:32,120 --> 00:29:33,760
Speaker 1: down and watching that tape after I was getting the

624
00:29:33,760 --> 00:29:36,719
Speaker 1: good reviews, Um, you could see a guy that that

625
00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:39,440
Speaker 1: has some pass rush and in the fifth round you're

626
00:29:39,440 --> 00:29:41,680
Speaker 1: getting a you know, a big, big three hundred pound

627
00:29:41,680 --> 00:29:43,360
Speaker 1: whatever he ended up being. I think Eric was like

628
00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:45,560
Speaker 1: six three to six four, you know, a three hundred

629
00:29:45,560 --> 00:29:47,320
Speaker 1: pound guy that can get up field and affect the

630
00:29:47,400 --> 00:29:49,760
Speaker 1: quarterback a little bit. Um hard to get those guys

631
00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:52,920
Speaker 1: after the first couple rounds. So to get a guy that, um,

632
00:29:52,960 --> 00:29:55,320
Speaker 1: you know might need some development, but has that ability

633
00:29:55,320 --> 00:29:57,640
Speaker 1: in his body in the fifth round, UM, I thought

634
00:29:57,680 --> 00:30:00,320
Speaker 1: that was a great pick by the Colts. Jim. Over

635
00:30:00,360 --> 00:30:03,040
Speaker 1: the course of your time with the Senior Bowl, I'm

636
00:30:03,080 --> 00:30:05,120
Speaker 1: curious when you get a guy like Eric Johnson who

637
00:30:05,160 --> 00:30:08,720
Speaker 1: comes in and you know he's maybe a late addition

638
00:30:08,880 --> 00:30:11,040
Speaker 1: to it, and he's coming from a smaller school, and

639
00:30:11,080 --> 00:30:15,120
Speaker 1: you see that guy practice well and play. Well, how

640
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Speaker 1: much satisfaction do you get out of that of like, hey,

641
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Speaker 1: we identified this guy and now we have helped him.

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Speaker 1: We've helped give him the platform to continue building his

643
00:30:23,800 --> 00:30:28,719
Speaker 1: case to be a draft pick. I truly appreciate the question,

644
00:30:28,760 --> 00:30:31,080
Speaker 1: but man, it's it's really just about all these guys.

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Speaker 1: And I mean, yeah, we're giving him opportunity, but they

646
00:30:33,760 --> 00:30:36,160
Speaker 1: are in that opportunity right if we're if we're doing

647
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Speaker 1: our jobs right, we're identifying the best players, and so

648
00:30:39,760 --> 00:30:41,440
Speaker 1: it's cool to see all these guys come down and

649
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Speaker 1: take advantage of it. Whether it's a guy like Trevor

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Speaker 1: Penning that you know, was probably a fringe first round

651
00:30:47,560 --> 00:30:49,880
Speaker 1: guy anyway, but you know, places his way up to

652
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Speaker 1: the nineteenth pick, or you know Cool Strange from Tennessee

653
00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:55,840
Speaker 1: Chattanooga it was probably a fifth or sixth round pick

654
00:30:55,840 --> 00:30:59,280
Speaker 1: and goes twenty ninth. Overall, all these guys helped themselves,

655
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Speaker 1: small school guy, especially with our game. So no, it's

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00:31:02,760 --> 00:31:05,080
Speaker 1: just it's just rewarding seeing those guys, you know, take

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Speaker 1: advantage of their opportunities. Hey, Jim, last one for me,

658
00:31:08,280 --> 00:31:10,120
Speaker 1: and you kind of touched on it a little bit.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, you're you're doing so much work

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00:31:12,280 --> 00:31:14,840
Speaker 1: and this is a labor of love for you, and

661
00:31:14,880 --> 00:31:18,840
Speaker 1: it's really a year round ordeal for you putting these

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Speaker 1: rosters together. I'm sure you're you're already planning and you

663
00:31:21,760 --> 00:31:23,760
Speaker 1: know the wheels in your head are turning for the

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Speaker 1: roster for twenty twenty three. Are there any guys from

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00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:29,680
Speaker 1: the Senior Bowl from this past year that you're you're

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Speaker 1: particularly proud of a guy that went to the game,

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Speaker 1: that was drafted. That validates their hard work, your hard work,

668
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Speaker 1: and the fact that they participated in the game and

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Speaker 1: now they're they're realizing their NFL dream. Yeah, you're right,

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00:31:43,040 --> 00:31:45,640
Speaker 1: it's year round. We're I'm staring here at a board

671
00:31:45,640 --> 00:31:48,160
Speaker 1: in my office, Sin Scott already about three hundred names

672
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Speaker 1: on it for next year. We've our football staff has

673
00:31:51,040 --> 00:31:53,360
Speaker 1: really done an awesome job so far, from really about

674
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Speaker 1: the middle of February till now getting all the power

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Speaker 1: five guys created. Not I certainly have a lot of

676
00:31:58,520 --> 00:32:00,720
Speaker 1: catch up to do this hour to watch all these guys,

677
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Speaker 1: but uh, well no, I think there's a couple of

678
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Speaker 1: guys like Troy Anderson, the linebacker from Montana State, was

679
00:32:05,480 --> 00:32:07,760
Speaker 1: a guy that is probably in my four years. Year

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00:32:08,080 --> 00:32:12,040
Speaker 1: surpassed my personal expectations more than any player. Uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: he ends up going in the second round of the

682
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Speaker 1: Atlanta Falcons. And when we h you know, part of

683
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Speaker 1: our process is really reaching out to the NFL teams

684
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Speaker 1: and you know, Turp and Dodds and those guys have

685
00:32:23,320 --> 00:32:26,560
Speaker 1: been awesome over the last four years of and Chris

686
00:32:26,680 --> 00:32:29,680
Speaker 1: and Chris Baller too of just providing feedback, you know,

687
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Speaker 1: when we when we reach out to those guys in

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Speaker 1: the fall, and when we made calls on Troy Anderson UM,

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Speaker 1: there was a lot of teams that still saw Troy

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Speaker 1: as maybe a Taysom Hill, gadget offensive player, special teams guy,

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Speaker 1: you know, because Troy was a quarterback running back his

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Speaker 1: first couple of years at Montana State. So to see

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Speaker 1: him go in the second round as a linebacker after

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Speaker 1: a great week here was really cool. And then to

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Speaker 1: see the guys that were like, you know, our big

696
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Speaker 1: thing is trying to convince these guys that are you know,

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Speaker 1: fringe first round picks to still come here and better themselves.

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Speaker 1: And you got like Zion Johnson, Jermaine Johnson, Trevor Penning, UM,

699
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Speaker 1: guys like that that came down here that we're probably

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Speaker 1: going to go you know, late one or early two anyway,

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00:33:08,520 --> 00:33:11,360
Speaker 1: but really came down here and solidified themselves and probably

702
00:33:11,440 --> 00:33:13,280
Speaker 1: made a nice jump and again up in that part

703
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Speaker 1: of the draft. That's millions and millions of dollars right,

704
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Speaker 1: So to me, our game makes sense more for those picks.

705
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Speaker 1: And we had some guys that had accepted and the

706
00:33:21,360 --> 00:33:24,200
Speaker 1: agents pulled him out of the game this year that

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Speaker 1: really felt that you know, ended up ended up, you know,

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Speaker 1: I think being hurt by not coming down here. So

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Speaker 1: this is a work in progress, like we're trying to

710
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Speaker 1: we're trying to build this thing, and I think there's

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Speaker 1: you know, we always want to draw some examples every

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Speaker 1: year to some guys that really helped themselves, and certainly

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Speaker 1: I think those are a handful we can point to

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Speaker 1: both the players and the agents for next year of

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Speaker 1: guys that coming too mobile really helped him. Well, you

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Speaker 1: mentioned those guys who are kind of the fringe first

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Speaker 1: round picks who helped him out. And you mentioned earlier

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Speaker 1: that Reggie Wayne went into the Senior Bowl Hall of

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Speaker 1: Fame last year. I mean, talk about a great example

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Speaker 1: of that. Wasn't was he named the Senior Bowl MVP

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Speaker 1: that year or was he just one of the guy

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Speaker 1: I think I can't remember. But man, if you would

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Speaker 1: have heard Reggie's acceptance speech last year for a Hall

724
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Speaker 1: of Fame, it's like I wrote it was. He was

725
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Speaker 1: just talking about how agents were trying to talk him

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Speaker 1: into not coming to the game, and you know, he

727
00:34:18,280 --> 00:34:19,799
Speaker 1: knew he was going to be a second or third

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Speaker 1: round pick, and he came down here not an awesome week,

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Speaker 1: and it's the reason why he became a first rounder.

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Speaker 1: And um, it really was. You know, he credits his

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Speaker 1: you know, good, good chunk of his career and especially

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Speaker 1: why he ended up in India on his week in Mobile.

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Speaker 1: So no, it was he read his speech and he

734
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Speaker 1: got he came down from the podium. I'm like, man,

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00:34:37,880 --> 00:34:39,920
Speaker 1: did I write that for you? Like that was incredible?

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Speaker 1: But so he's he's been Reggie's been awesome with us,

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Speaker 1: And yeah, he's He's another great example of of a

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Speaker 1: guy that was going to be a high draft pick.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's gonna be probably a top fifty pick

740
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Speaker 1: or top hundred pick for sure, and came down to

741
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Speaker 1: Mobile and took full advantage against the best of the

742
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Speaker 1: best and and ended up a first rounder. That's Jim Naggi,

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Speaker 1: executive director of the Rec Senior Ball where the Colt

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Speaker 1: three players participate this year. Ale Pierce, Bernard Ryman, and

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Speaker 1: Eric Johnson. Jim, thank you so much for taking the

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Speaker 1: time and for the insight today. Yeah, guys, thanks though

747
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Speaker 1: for having me all right, thanks again to Jim Naggie

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Speaker 1: from the Rec Senior Ball for joining us here on

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Speaker 1: the Official Colts Podcast. We're going to have an episode

750
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Speaker 1: of overtime coming out Thursday night talking about the Colts schedule,

751
00:35:19,560 --> 00:35:23,440
Speaker 1: but before the schedule is released Thursday night, I believe

752
00:35:23,480 --> 00:35:26,680
Speaker 1: that's at eight pm on NFL Network, we're gonna talk

753
00:35:26,760 --> 00:35:29,279
Speaker 1: about some of our predictions for what's going to happen

754
00:35:29,360 --> 00:35:32,160
Speaker 1: with the Colts schedule. As a reminder, here's who the

755
00:35:32,160 --> 00:35:34,800
Speaker 1: Colts will play. You're obviously playing the AFC South team's

756
00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:36,920
Speaker 1: home and away. We don't need to totally go over that,

757
00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:40,680
Speaker 1: but Colts get at home, the Pittsburgh Steelers, the Kansas

758
00:35:40,719 --> 00:35:44,440
Speaker 1: City Chiefs, the LA Chargers, the Philadelphia Eagles, and the

759
00:35:44,520 --> 00:35:48,760
Speaker 1: Washington Commanders at home, in addition to the Titans, Texans

760
00:35:48,760 --> 00:35:55,280
Speaker 1: and Jaguars on the road. The Colts will play the Patriots, Broncos, Raiders, Cowboys, Giants,

761
00:35:55,280 --> 00:35:59,360
Speaker 1: and Vikings away from Lucas Oil Stadium. So the Colts

762
00:35:59,360 --> 00:36:02,520
Speaker 1: have nine road games this year eight home games. That's

763
00:36:02,520 --> 00:36:04,399
Speaker 1: a flip from last year where they had nine home

764
00:36:04,400 --> 00:36:08,239
Speaker 1: games in eight road games. The seventeenth game. That additional

765
00:36:08,320 --> 00:36:12,080
Speaker 1: game is a crossover with the division you played in

766
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Speaker 1: the NFC two years ago, and then the corresponding spot.

767
00:36:15,480 --> 00:36:17,879
Speaker 1: So the Vikings finished second in the NFC North last

768
00:36:17,960 --> 00:36:21,319
Speaker 1: year they played. The Colts played the NFC North two

769
00:36:21,360 --> 00:36:23,800
Speaker 1: years ago. That's why they're playing the Vikings on the road. Anyways,

770
00:36:24,200 --> 00:36:27,279
Speaker 1: let's go around here, pier into our crystal ball, and

771
00:36:27,400 --> 00:36:29,319
Speaker 1: also do this make it three straight years we've played

772
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Speaker 1: Minnesota because we played him at home in the regular season,

773
00:36:31,719 --> 00:36:36,880
Speaker 1: and in nineteen we played twenty twenty at home, and

774
00:36:36,880 --> 00:36:39,520
Speaker 1: then last year it was preseason at Minnesota. Yeah, all right,

775
00:36:39,560 --> 00:36:41,799
Speaker 1: it's good. It's good if the skull chant just gets

776
00:36:41,840 --> 00:36:44,600
Speaker 1: stuck in your head at random moments. It's a beautiful stadium.

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Speaker 1: It's one of my favorite stadiams. It is so okay,

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00:36:48,120 --> 00:36:50,839
Speaker 1: very cool. Right, I'm sorry, I'm getting caught up as

779
00:36:50,880 --> 00:36:53,240
Speaker 1: I go here. Yes, great place to visit. I hope.

780
00:36:53,360 --> 00:36:56,080
Speaker 1: My only hope about the schedule, Like literally, my only

781
00:36:56,120 --> 00:36:58,399
Speaker 1: hope is that you get to go to Minnesota when

782
00:36:58,440 --> 00:37:02,200
Speaker 1: it's not December. It's inside though, No, no, yeah, But

783
00:37:02,239 --> 00:37:04,520
Speaker 1: when I covered the Bears, when I covered the Bears,

784
00:37:04,560 --> 00:37:06,880
Speaker 1: every single season, the Bears played the Vikings. When I

785
00:37:06,920 --> 00:37:09,040
Speaker 1: covered the Bears, they ended the year in Minnesota or

786
00:37:09,040 --> 00:37:11,480
Speaker 1: played the Vikings in December. So I never got to

787
00:37:11,560 --> 00:37:14,719
Speaker 1: enjoy I never got to walk around mineas like it

788
00:37:14,800 --> 00:37:17,280
Speaker 1: was always freezing. You have to take the tunnels between

789
00:37:17,280 --> 00:37:20,400
Speaker 1: the buildings like it was terrible. Anyways, let's beard our

790
00:37:20,520 --> 00:37:24,000
Speaker 1: crystal ball mate. Who are the Colts going to open

791
00:37:24,160 --> 00:37:26,279
Speaker 1: the season with? Start with you and then we'll go

792
00:37:26,280 --> 00:37:31,600
Speaker 1: to Lara a week one. Oh, shoot, let's go, let's go.

793
00:37:31,840 --> 00:37:33,560
Speaker 1: Let's get it out of the way early. Let's go.

794
00:37:33,600 --> 00:37:35,920
Speaker 1: I want to see them open with Jacksonville on the road. Oh,

795
00:37:36,239 --> 00:37:39,000
Speaker 1: let's get two things out of the twenty twenty. Is

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00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:41,560
Speaker 1: this what we're doing. Let's snap a six game losing

797
00:37:41,600 --> 00:37:44,600
Speaker 1: streak to the Jaguars on the road and snap an

798
00:37:44,600 --> 00:37:47,479
Speaker 1: eight game or an eight year losing streak in week one.

799
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Speaker 1: The math is right on that, right, twenty thirteen to

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00:37:50,080 --> 00:37:53,239
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, the Colts have not one in Week one.

801
00:37:53,920 --> 00:37:56,560
Speaker 1: The colts eight game losing streak in Week one has

802
00:37:56,640 --> 00:38:00,319
Speaker 1: tied a franchise record when they lost every Week one

803
00:38:00,400 --> 00:38:03,279
Speaker 1: game from nineteen eighty four to nineteen ninety one. The

804
00:38:03,360 --> 00:38:06,560
Speaker 1: Colts have lost eleven of their last twelve Week one games.

805
00:38:06,600 --> 00:38:11,120
Speaker 1: No more, Jacksonville on the road, snap two streaks and

806
00:38:11,200 --> 00:38:15,239
Speaker 1: start the season off. Reich, I am looking at the storylines,

807
00:38:15,280 --> 00:38:18,279
Speaker 1: and this is the only reason that I'm making these selections,

808
00:38:18,440 --> 00:38:21,440
Speaker 1: But I could see them wanting to have this whole

809
00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:25,760
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan, new to the AFC, going up against old

810
00:38:25,920 --> 00:38:31,560
Speaker 1: NFC foes, the Frank Reich connection to Philadelphia. Maybe it's

811
00:38:31,640 --> 00:38:35,600
Speaker 1: Colts hosting Eagles, or you're just coming straight out of

812
00:38:35,600 --> 00:38:39,200
Speaker 1: the gates with Washington comes to Lucas Oil Stadium. You

813
00:38:39,280 --> 00:38:42,840
Speaker 1: have Carson with the new team coming to play against

814
00:38:42,840 --> 00:38:45,760
Speaker 1: the Colts with a new quarterback, a lot of drama

815
00:38:45,840 --> 00:38:47,799
Speaker 1: their Week one. I could see them wanting I mean,

816
00:38:47,840 --> 00:38:49,799
Speaker 1: not real drama, but they're going to, you know, kind

817
00:38:49,800 --> 00:38:52,680
Speaker 1: of build that whole, all the different relationships and storylines

818
00:38:52,719 --> 00:38:55,480
Speaker 1: and connections. So I kind of like the idea of

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Speaker 1: potentially Colts hosting an NFC opponent in either it says

820
00:39:00,440 --> 00:39:02,399
Speaker 1: Washington Football team here, which I can't get that out

821
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Speaker 1: of my mind because I'm still gonna it's gonna take

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Speaker 1: me a long time to get to Commanders, just like

823
00:39:05,920 --> 00:39:09,279
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say criss Cross. So either Eagles or Commanders

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Speaker 1: or I kind of liked the idea. If it goes

825
00:39:11,920 --> 00:39:15,520
Speaker 1: AFC Kansas City Chiefs Week one, Colts at home, I

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Speaker 1: like that idea as well. So sixteen years ago, the

827
00:39:19,520 --> 00:39:24,560
Speaker 1: Colts began their run to winning a Lombardi Trophy with

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Speaker 1: a trip to face the New York Giants in East Rutherford,

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Speaker 1: New Jersey. So I'm gonna say the Coults are gonna

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00:39:32,040 --> 00:39:34,200
Speaker 1: open the season against the New Year ok. I like that. Okay,

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Speaker 1: do you guys remember the John Mellencamp song this is

832
00:39:37,280 --> 00:39:40,480
Speaker 1: Our Country? Yeah, this is uh. That was in a

833
00:39:40,760 --> 00:39:44,080
Speaker 1: I think a Chevy car commercial. Yeah, And the car

834
00:39:44,120 --> 00:39:47,160
Speaker 1: commercial had just come out and the Colts played the

835
00:39:47,200 --> 00:39:50,120
Speaker 1: Giants on Sunday Night football. I was in college. I

836
00:39:50,200 --> 00:39:52,879
Speaker 1: watched that game with a bunch of friends, and that

837
00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:58,560
Speaker 1: song and that commercial aired forty seven times during that game.

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00:39:58,680 --> 00:40:00,520
Speaker 1: That is I mean. I remember that game because it

839
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Speaker 1: was the Manning Bowl week one. But I weirdly remember

840
00:40:04,640 --> 00:40:07,920
Speaker 1: just being so sick and tired of that commercial after

841
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Speaker 1: three hours. Oh yeah, well, I mean boy for an

842
00:40:10,719 --> 00:40:13,080
Speaker 1: Indiana native to get sick of John Mellencamp, right, I

843
00:40:13,120 --> 00:40:15,319
Speaker 1: know I must have been playing. Oh my gosh, that's

844
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Speaker 1: that's a conversation for another time. All right. So I

845
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Speaker 1: was watching an interview Chris Ballard did I think it

846
00:40:20,680 --> 00:40:23,520
Speaker 1: was either with Rich eyes and or Mike Florio where

847
00:40:23,640 --> 00:40:26,399
Speaker 1: he was talking about the schedule and he got asked

848
00:40:26,400 --> 00:40:27,880
Speaker 1: about it and he, you know, it's like what do

849
00:40:27,880 --> 00:40:29,520
Speaker 1: you look for on the schedule? And he said, you know,

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Speaker 1: we look for how many road games in a row

851
00:40:31,200 --> 00:40:34,320
Speaker 1: we get, We look for quarterbacks, we look for primetime games,

852
00:40:34,320 --> 00:40:36,600
Speaker 1: and like we always get screwed with the primetime games.

853
00:40:37,200 --> 00:40:39,480
Speaker 1: How many primetime games will the Colts get in twenty

854
00:40:39,640 --> 00:40:43,080
Speaker 1: twenty two? Which games? And will they get one scheduled

855
00:40:43,239 --> 00:40:45,960
Speaker 1: at home that is not on Thursday night? This is

856
00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:48,319
Speaker 1: a loaded question. It is a loaded question. I'm gonna

857
00:40:48,360 --> 00:40:51,480
Speaker 1: say two primetime games. One is the Thursday night and

858
00:40:51,480 --> 00:40:53,360
Speaker 1: then one is going to be either a Sunday or

859
00:40:53,360 --> 00:40:55,800
Speaker 1: a Monday night. To me, I think two is probably

860
00:40:56,280 --> 00:40:59,799
Speaker 1: on par with what we would expect. So the Colts

861
00:40:59,840 --> 00:41:05,560
Speaker 1: at your head. Three scheduled primetime games between Monday night

862
00:41:05,920 --> 00:41:10,200
Speaker 1: against Baltimore, Sunday night against San Francisco. There Thursday night,

863
00:41:10,200 --> 00:41:13,160
Speaker 1: and then the Patriots game got flexed to being a

864
00:41:13,280 --> 00:41:16,080
Speaker 1: night game. There you go. Yeah, two, but that was

865
00:41:16,120 --> 00:41:19,040
Speaker 1: the team coming off a playoff appearance. Usually these, you know,

866
00:41:19,040 --> 00:41:21,880
Speaker 1: the networks will take into account that, so may tell

867
00:41:21,920 --> 00:41:24,400
Speaker 1: you how many primetime games. Yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna

868
00:41:24,400 --> 00:41:26,920
Speaker 1: hope for three, be a little bit more ambitious, hope

869
00:41:26,960 --> 00:41:29,480
Speaker 1: for three. And I'm gonna say the home game against

870
00:41:29,480 --> 00:41:32,760
Speaker 1: the Titans is either a Sunday night or a Monday

871
00:41:32,880 --> 00:41:36,480
Speaker 1: night game, which will be the first scheduled Sunday night

872
00:41:36,560 --> 00:41:39,400
Speaker 1: or Monday night home game at Lucas Oil Stadium since

873
00:41:40,280 --> 00:41:44,479
Speaker 1: two fifteen. So I'm gonna say the Titans at home,

874
00:41:45,040 --> 00:41:48,480
Speaker 1: and then maybe maybe the Chiefs at home. We'll see,

875
00:41:48,560 --> 00:41:51,400
Speaker 1: maybe that's a Thursday night game. But I think Cowboys

876
00:41:51,440 --> 00:41:53,919
Speaker 1: on the Road has enough draw to it just because

877
00:41:53,920 --> 00:41:57,120
Speaker 1: it's Dallas Dallas Colts, you know, low crossover matchup there.

878
00:41:57,160 --> 00:41:59,319
Speaker 1: So those are the three to me that I think

879
00:41:59,320 --> 00:42:02,799
Speaker 1: have the biggest appeal or the biggest chance to go

880
00:42:02,840 --> 00:42:04,960
Speaker 1: Sunday night or Monday I'm gonna throw one more in there.

881
00:42:05,040 --> 00:42:06,719
Speaker 1: To me, the one that stood out to me looking

882
00:42:06,760 --> 00:42:08,719
Speaker 1: at a Sunday night or Monday night is the Denver

883
00:42:08,800 --> 00:42:12,040
Speaker 1: Broncos game. I think Colts Broncos in Denver has the

884
00:42:12,040 --> 00:42:14,360
Speaker 1: potential to be one of those where you have two

885
00:42:14,920 --> 00:42:18,680
Speaker 1: veteran quarterbacks who had success in their previous franchises now

886
00:42:18,719 --> 00:42:21,399
Speaker 1: with new teams, and think there could be a lot

887
00:42:21,440 --> 00:42:25,520
Speaker 1: of intrigue to put Russell Wilson and the Matt Ryan matchup,

888
00:42:26,120 --> 00:42:30,600
Speaker 1: you know, now with Denver and with Indianapolis respectively. To me,

889
00:42:30,719 --> 00:42:33,719
Speaker 1: that's probably a primetime types of Mario. I'm gonna be

890
00:42:33,760 --> 00:42:37,360
Speaker 1: cynical and never bet against a trend. Three primetime games,

891
00:42:37,840 --> 00:42:41,719
Speaker 1: all of them on the road. I just throughout radio.

892
00:42:41,800 --> 00:42:44,520
Speaker 1: Take random ones. Thursday night at the Vikings, Monday Night

893
00:42:44,520 --> 00:42:47,040
Speaker 1: at the Raiders, Sunday Night at the Patriots. But late

894
00:42:47,040 --> 00:42:48,479
Speaker 1: in the season the Colts will get a game flex

895
00:42:48,480 --> 00:42:51,560
Speaker 1: to Sunday night at home. Oh okay, because I think

896
00:42:51,600 --> 00:42:53,440
Speaker 1: late in the season the Colts will be competitive for

897
00:42:53,480 --> 00:42:56,400
Speaker 1: a playoff spot Sunday night. You know, when you schedule

898
00:42:56,440 --> 00:42:59,040
Speaker 1: out some of these games, you know you got to

899
00:42:59,080 --> 00:43:02,880
Speaker 1: schedule it months in advance. You wait, did you say

900
00:43:03,160 --> 00:43:05,920
Speaker 1: Vegas Monday night or Sunday night? What you said? Yeah?

901
00:43:05,960 --> 00:43:08,440
Speaker 1: I love that idea for the fans because you can

902
00:43:08,520 --> 00:43:10,919
Speaker 1: go out, like fly out on Friday, have your whole

903
00:43:10,960 --> 00:43:13,360
Speaker 1: like weekend, like do you know, make a trip for

904
00:43:13,480 --> 00:43:15,360
Speaker 1: Colts fans. I'm just thinking how great that would be

905
00:43:15,400 --> 00:43:17,880
Speaker 1: if you go in on Friday, you have old day Saturday,

906
00:43:17,880 --> 00:43:19,560
Speaker 1: and then like the majority of the day Sunday before

907
00:43:19,560 --> 00:43:22,080
Speaker 1: a Sunday night game or a Monday night game. Like

908
00:43:22,360 --> 00:43:24,120
Speaker 1: I'm thinking about it. We're kinking about a lot of

909
00:43:24,200 --> 00:43:26,680
Speaker 1: days to spend in Vegas. Though. Yeah, forty eight hours

910
00:43:26,760 --> 00:43:29,799
Speaker 1: is good. Three days, three days, seventy two. But that's

911
00:43:29,800 --> 00:43:32,320
Speaker 1: why I'm saying, you flat on on Friday night though,

912
00:43:32,719 --> 00:43:36,319
Speaker 1: you get in Friday evening a Sunday, yeah, get Yeah,

913
00:43:36,360 --> 00:43:39,120
Speaker 1: you basically have Saturday Sunday and then you fly fly

914
00:43:39,200 --> 00:43:40,880
Speaker 1: back Monday, or if he said Sunday night, you come

915
00:43:40,880 --> 00:43:43,520
Speaker 1: back Monday morning. But I just love the idea of like,

916
00:43:43,640 --> 00:43:46,799
Speaker 1: especially if this is like a November type of situation,

917
00:43:47,239 --> 00:43:49,279
Speaker 1: You're going out there and maybe you can before we

918
00:43:49,320 --> 00:43:51,279
Speaker 1: go over to the stadium, you kick back a little bit.

919
00:43:51,320 --> 00:43:55,680
Speaker 1: You get a little outdoor time you go by on

920
00:43:55,719 --> 00:43:57,719
Speaker 1: the pavement walking down the sun. You can go to

921
00:43:57,800 --> 00:44:00,080
Speaker 1: pool for a little bit. You see. If d J.

922
00:44:00,200 --> 00:44:02,359
Speaker 1: Paul D's playing somewhere, I don't know, well, I mean,

923
00:44:02,400 --> 00:44:04,759
Speaker 1: come on, he is playing somewhere, right, why would he

924
00:44:04,760 --> 00:44:06,799
Speaker 1: not be exactly the game by the way, they'll get

925
00:44:06,800 --> 00:44:10,719
Speaker 1: flexed and decided night football late in the season. Colts Chargers, Yeah,

926
00:44:10,760 --> 00:44:13,759
Speaker 1: I have this and that's circled here. Yeah, it's two

927
00:44:13,800 --> 00:44:16,480
Speaker 1: teams that did not make the playoffs last year. Justin

928
00:44:16,520 --> 00:44:18,880
Speaker 1: Herbert is like an alien back there, a quarterback. The

929
00:44:18,960 --> 00:44:21,400
Speaker 1: Chargers have made a ton of moves, uh, you know,

930
00:44:21,440 --> 00:44:25,360
Speaker 1: adding guys like jac Jackson Khalil Mack that that is

931
00:44:25,400 --> 00:44:27,719
Speaker 1: a team that should be pretty good this year. They

932
00:44:27,719 --> 00:44:29,160
Speaker 1: look to be pretty good team. I think that game

933
00:44:29,200 --> 00:44:31,520
Speaker 1: will have a lot of playoff implications and like that's

934
00:44:31,560 --> 00:44:33,399
Speaker 1: one that could get flexed in. Again, we have no

935
00:44:33,480 --> 00:44:36,120
Speaker 1: idea what the schedule is going to look like right now.

936
00:44:36,160 --> 00:44:38,799
Speaker 1: We will not find out until Thursday night at I

937
00:44:38,840 --> 00:44:41,840
Speaker 1: believe again it is eight pm, all right, most intriguing

938
00:44:41,880 --> 00:44:43,439
Speaker 1: games for the Colts. We've kind of talked a little

939
00:44:43,440 --> 00:44:46,320
Speaker 1: bit about it. La you mentioned Carson Wentz's Carson Wentz's

940
00:44:46,360 --> 00:44:50,799
Speaker 1: return with the Washington Commanders, Patrick Mahomes justin Herbert coming

941
00:44:50,840 --> 00:44:53,680
Speaker 1: to Lucasoil Stadium. I mentioned the Eagles game too, because

942
00:44:53,760 --> 00:44:55,719
Speaker 1: not only is that coach's former team, but now you

943
00:44:55,760 --> 00:44:59,520
Speaker 1: have Nick Sirianni. Sirianni over there is the head coach

944
00:44:59,640 --> 00:45:02,439
Speaker 1: their A. J. Brown will come back to Lucas Oil

945
00:45:02,480 --> 00:45:04,359
Speaker 1: Stadium in that game. I'm going to throw one out

946
00:45:04,360 --> 00:45:08,400
Speaker 1: though that game against the Raiders, the Unique and Gackway

947
00:45:08,520 --> 00:45:11,359
Speaker 1: Revenge game. Did y'all read that Tyler Dunn story he

948
00:45:11,400 --> 00:45:14,239
Speaker 1: wrote on Unique on golong Oh. I saw it, didn't

949
00:45:14,320 --> 00:45:19,560
Speaker 1: rate it now, unbelievable story. I have any anyone who's

950
00:45:19,600 --> 00:45:21,560
Speaker 1: listening to this who has not read that story, go

951
00:45:21,680 --> 00:45:24,480
Speaker 1: read Tyler Dunn story on Unique and Gackway. It is.

952
00:45:25,080 --> 00:45:27,879
Speaker 1: It is a as good of a feature story as

953
00:45:27,880 --> 00:45:30,440
Speaker 1: I think I've read about a player in a really

954
00:45:30,480 --> 00:45:35,720
Speaker 1: long time. In it, Unique talks about how he's bounced around.

955
00:45:35,760 --> 00:45:38,280
Speaker 1: You know, he was with the Jaguars, had the following

956
00:45:38,280 --> 00:45:40,640
Speaker 1: out there. Then he goes to Minnesota. Then they offer

957
00:45:40,719 --> 00:45:43,920
Speaker 1: him the opportunity to leave Minnesota and he gets traded

958
00:45:43,960 --> 00:45:46,520
Speaker 1: to Baltimore. Then he signs with the Raiders, but he

959
00:45:46,560 --> 00:45:49,480
Speaker 1: doesn't sign for as much money as he probably should have,

960
00:45:50,120 --> 00:45:51,960
Speaker 1: and he starts to feel like he's at home with

961
00:45:52,000 --> 00:45:54,239
Speaker 1: the Raiders. He's named a team captain. They you know,

962
00:45:54,280 --> 00:45:56,800
Speaker 1: they make the playoffs, and then they trade him to

963
00:45:56,840 --> 00:46:00,320
Speaker 1: replace him with another guy. And in that story were

964
00:46:00,320 --> 00:46:02,560
Speaker 1: in there, he's you can sense from him, he is like,

965
00:46:02,640 --> 00:46:04,799
Speaker 1: I am going to make the Raiders pay. I'm going

966
00:46:04,840 --> 00:46:07,000
Speaker 1: to show them that they should not have traded me.

967
00:46:07,719 --> 00:46:10,279
Speaker 1: That game to me, I love the narrative of that game,

968
00:46:10,360 --> 00:46:13,560
Speaker 1: just for Unique's sake. Yeah, back in Vegas too, you know,

969
00:46:13,640 --> 00:46:16,480
Speaker 1: Gus Brown, it makes you think of like DeForest going

970
00:46:16,520 --> 00:46:19,759
Speaker 1: to San fran last right, very similar DeForest, you know

971
00:46:19,840 --> 00:46:22,240
Speaker 1: that was I think it was probably a different situation

972
00:46:22,280 --> 00:46:25,520
Speaker 1: because San Francisco didn't just like immediately replaced de Forest

973
00:46:25,560 --> 00:46:27,479
Speaker 1: with a free agent. It was, yeah, yeah, we can't

974
00:46:27,520 --> 00:46:30,080
Speaker 1: pay everyone, right, we value here, but we're you know,

975
00:46:30,200 --> 00:46:31,920
Speaker 1: I just you know, going into it, you knew that

976
00:46:31,960 --> 00:46:33,680
Speaker 1: there was a lot of emotion for him, and he

977
00:46:33,719 --> 00:46:36,680
Speaker 1: was pretty pretty canny about that. Yeah, if if Unique

978
00:46:36,680 --> 00:46:38,799
Speaker 1: and Gakuay ends this game against the Raiders the same

979
00:46:38,800 --> 00:46:40,879
Speaker 1: way to Forest, the game against the forty nine ers

980
00:46:40,880 --> 00:46:43,439
Speaker 1: with a sack to walk off the field. That would

981
00:46:43,440 --> 00:46:45,239
Speaker 1: be pretty good. May tell any other games that we're

982
00:46:45,480 --> 00:46:47,680
Speaker 1: missing here talking about. Well laa kind of brought up

983
00:46:47,719 --> 00:46:50,080
Speaker 1: the the Sunday night or Monday night appeal of the

984
00:46:50,160 --> 00:46:53,200
Speaker 1: Chiefs game. I think that is a really good I

985
00:46:53,200 --> 00:46:55,360
Speaker 1: think it's going to be a really good barometer or

986
00:46:55,480 --> 00:46:58,360
Speaker 1: measuring stick. You know, Kansas City's been, you know, the

987
00:46:58,440 --> 00:47:00,839
Speaker 1: class of the AFC the last four years or so.

988
00:47:00,960 --> 00:47:03,400
Speaker 1: That's gonna be a good, you know, measuring stick to

989
00:47:03,440 --> 00:47:05,400
Speaker 1: see where you are in terms of how you stack

990
00:47:05,480 --> 00:47:07,560
Speaker 1: up in the conference, how you know, big of a

991
00:47:07,600 --> 00:47:11,480
Speaker 1: contender you think you are. This is so obvious because

992
00:47:11,600 --> 00:47:13,799
Speaker 1: it's just the rivalry. But New England, you know, you

993
00:47:13,880 --> 00:47:17,000
Speaker 1: go back to New England and the Colts went last year,

994
00:47:17,480 --> 00:47:20,239
Speaker 1: they wanted home, they broke that long streak, what was it,

995
00:47:20,320 --> 00:47:22,480
Speaker 1: two thousand and nine, they hadn't beat the Patriots. And

996
00:47:22,480 --> 00:47:25,360
Speaker 1: then if you look at going back to New England,

997
00:47:25,520 --> 00:47:27,960
Speaker 1: the Colts haven't won there since two thousand and six.

998
00:47:28,600 --> 00:47:30,640
Speaker 1: You know, you're talking about a six game losing streak

999
00:47:30,680 --> 00:47:34,319
Speaker 1: in Foxborough, including some playoff games. So that's gonna be

1000
00:47:34,360 --> 00:47:36,239
Speaker 1: big there's gonna be a lot of motivation, a lot

1001
00:47:36,280 --> 00:47:38,200
Speaker 1: of eyeballs on that. So that's got a lot of

1002
00:47:38,200 --> 00:47:42,240
Speaker 1: sex appeal to it. So, I mean Tennessee obviously huge

1003
00:47:42,800 --> 00:47:45,719
Speaker 1: because of you know, sweeping, They got swept last year

1004
00:47:45,800 --> 00:47:49,239
Speaker 1: and Colts haven't beaten Tennessee at home in the last

1005
00:47:49,239 --> 00:47:51,880
Speaker 1: three years. So those are big ones because of, you know,

1006
00:47:51,920 --> 00:47:55,000
Speaker 1: the massiveness the importance that those games hold inside the

1007
00:47:55,000 --> 00:47:57,080
Speaker 1: AFC South. There are not many games on here that

1008
00:47:57,160 --> 00:47:59,920
Speaker 1: don't have some kind of narrative. Yeah, it's a stack

1009
00:48:00,120 --> 00:48:03,279
Speaker 1: schedule when you think about the quarterbacks the Colts are

1010
00:48:03,280 --> 00:48:08,040
Speaker 1: gonna face, you know, Ryan Tannehill, Patrick Mahomes, Justin Herbert

1011
00:48:08,200 --> 00:48:12,719
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts, Carson Wentz, Mac Jones, Russell Wilson, Derek Carr,

1012
00:48:12,800 --> 00:48:17,399
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott, Um, you know, Kirk Cousins. Yeah, there's there's

1013
00:48:17,400 --> 00:48:20,359
Speaker 1: no homecoming games. Yeah, it's uh, it's gonna be a

1014
00:48:20,360 --> 00:48:23,160
Speaker 1: loaded schedule and uh it's gonna be a fun one.

1015
00:48:23,239 --> 00:48:26,280
Speaker 1: So again, stay tuned for that episode of overtime dropping

1016
00:48:26,360 --> 00:48:29,319
Speaker 1: in your Colts audio network feed when that is out

1017
00:48:29,360 --> 00:48:31,560
Speaker 1: on Thursday night. Matey, let's go to the mail bag.

1018
00:48:31,760 --> 00:48:34,839
Speaker 1: Here's the mail It never fills and makes me want

1019
00:48:34,880 --> 00:48:43,040
Speaker 1: to tail all right. Our question this week comes from

1020
00:48:43,760 --> 00:48:48,800
Speaker 1: Vallejo d s on Twitter. Projected stats for Alec Pierce

1021
00:48:48,960 --> 00:48:51,759
Speaker 1: this year, So I wanted to take this question to

1022
00:48:51,840 --> 00:48:55,080
Speaker 1: kind of present what an average rookie season looks like

1023
00:48:55,640 --> 00:48:59,000
Speaker 1: for a wide receiver drafted around when Pierce gets picked.

1024
00:48:59,040 --> 00:49:01,920
Speaker 1: So I took on stat head on a Pro Football

1025
00:49:01,920 --> 00:49:06,480
Speaker 1: References stat head app you can sort by rookie seasons

1026
00:49:06,640 --> 00:49:08,920
Speaker 1: where they were drafted over the last ten years. So

1027
00:49:09,480 --> 00:49:11,680
Speaker 1: usually we hear from gms that, like, once you get

1028
00:49:11,719 --> 00:49:14,279
Speaker 1: passed about pick sixteen of the draft toward the end

1029
00:49:14,280 --> 00:49:17,760
Speaker 1: of the second round, the difference in player caliber between

1030
00:49:17,800 --> 00:49:20,960
Speaker 1: picks seventeen and like pick sixty four is not all

1031
00:49:21,000 --> 00:49:23,880
Speaker 1: that different. So I looked at receivers who were drafted

1032
00:49:24,320 --> 00:49:27,360
Speaker 1: between the seventeenth and sixty fourth overall pick over the

1033
00:49:27,400 --> 00:49:30,080
Speaker 1: last ten years what they did as rookies. I got

1034
00:49:30,160 --> 00:49:34,680
Speaker 1: seventy one wide receivers. Those players averaged thirty seven catches

1035
00:49:34,719 --> 00:49:37,839
Speaker 1: for four hundred and eighty four yards with three touchdowns.

1036
00:49:37,920 --> 00:49:40,080
Speaker 1: Thirty three of them had thirty three of those seventy

1037
00:49:40,080 --> 00:49:42,279
Speaker 1: one had five hundred and more yards. Michael Pittman Junior,

1038
00:49:42,320 --> 00:49:44,759
Speaker 1: By the way, forty catches for five hundred and three

1039
00:49:44,800 --> 00:49:47,800
Speaker 1: yards as a rookie. So let's take that average thirty

1040
00:49:47,800 --> 00:49:50,839
Speaker 1: seven catches, four hundred and eighty four yards, three touchdowns.

1041
00:49:51,520 --> 00:49:53,279
Speaker 1: Is that fair for Alec Pierce? Should it be a

1042
00:49:53,320 --> 00:49:55,520
Speaker 1: little bit higher, should it be a little bit lower?

1043
00:49:55,560 --> 00:49:58,440
Speaker 1: What do we think, Lara, I'm gonna a little higher,

1044
00:49:58,600 --> 00:50:02,520
Speaker 1: I think than that, just thinking about the dynamic of

1045
00:50:03,120 --> 00:50:07,360
Speaker 1: this particular offense and how it favors what Alec Pierce

1046
00:50:07,800 --> 00:50:11,120
Speaker 1: can do in tandem with Michael Pittman Junior, with this

1047
00:50:11,200 --> 00:50:14,560
Speaker 1: run game, and with having a quarterback like Matt Ryan,

1048
00:50:14,680 --> 00:50:18,080
Speaker 1: who we know they'll be getting to work altogether very soon.

1049
00:50:18,080 --> 00:50:21,439
Speaker 1: You'll be able to utilize that time this spring, and

1050
00:50:21,800 --> 00:50:25,400
Speaker 1: I do think that it's an opportunity to when you

1051
00:50:25,440 --> 00:50:28,160
Speaker 1: think about, you know, Pittman's rookie numbers that you mentioned,

1052
00:50:28,480 --> 00:50:31,440
Speaker 1: that was with very minimal offseason work. It was a

1053
00:50:31,440 --> 00:50:34,319
Speaker 1: weird training camp because it was amid the pandemic, so

1054
00:50:34,400 --> 00:50:36,520
Speaker 1: there was a much and it was made up. There

1055
00:50:36,560 --> 00:50:40,399
Speaker 1: was a much slower start though with that offense under

1056
00:50:40,440 --> 00:50:43,919
Speaker 1: Philip Rivers, through no fault of anyone's just because of

1057
00:50:44,320 --> 00:50:46,360
Speaker 1: the dynamic in the environment you're working with so I

1058
00:50:46,360 --> 00:50:50,680
Speaker 1: would expect I would expect Aleck Pierce to see earlier

1059
00:50:50,800 --> 00:50:53,640
Speaker 1: success maybe than we saw with some other rookie receivers

1060
00:50:53,719 --> 00:50:56,360
Speaker 1: because of the situation that he's stepping into. I'm not

1061
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Speaker 1: gonna say it's exponentially higher, but I think it'll be

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00:50:58,760 --> 00:51:01,839
Speaker 1: slightly over. Maybe those averages are playing out right now,

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00:51:01,920 --> 00:51:04,640
Speaker 1: maytay that average of three touchdowns. That's something that I

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00:51:04,719 --> 00:51:06,920
Speaker 1: kind of circled that is, like, I think that that

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00:51:06,960 --> 00:51:10,480
Speaker 1: goes higher. When we had Matt Bowanon last week from ESPN,

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00:51:10,520 --> 00:51:12,280
Speaker 1: you know, we we were talking about how Alec Pierce

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00:51:12,400 --> 00:51:16,560
Speaker 1: was his best red zone wide receiver, best red zone

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00:51:16,640 --> 00:51:19,120
Speaker 1: threat in this year's draft. Do you think that that

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00:51:19,200 --> 00:51:21,600
Speaker 1: number probably goes up? Oh as, I mean, what did

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00:51:21,640 --> 00:51:24,920
Speaker 1: you say? It was thirty thirty seven eighty four yards

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00:51:24,920 --> 00:51:27,399
Speaker 1: three touchdowns. Is the average thirty seven for four eighty

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00:51:27,400 --> 00:51:30,800
Speaker 1: four three touchdowns. I think I think it will be higher,

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00:51:30,800 --> 00:51:32,759
Speaker 1: and quite frankly, I think the Colts needed to be

1074
00:51:32,880 --> 00:51:35,359
Speaker 1: higher to keep it. Simply, I said last week that

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00:51:35,440 --> 00:51:38,480
Speaker 1: the Colts. I think it's a little ambitious to ask

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00:51:38,560 --> 00:51:41,240
Speaker 1: for eight hundred, nine hundred receiving yards for a rookie

1077
00:51:41,320 --> 00:51:43,719
Speaker 1: right away. But if he gives you somewhere in the

1078
00:51:43,719 --> 00:51:46,399
Speaker 1: neighborhood of a Zach Pascal and two nineteen and two

1079
00:51:46,880 --> 00:51:49,960
Speaker 1: twenty where he's given you, you know, six hundred and

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00:51:50,000 --> 00:51:53,359
Speaker 1: forty receiving yards and four or five touchdowns and he's

1081
00:51:53,360 --> 00:51:55,279
Speaker 1: a really good blocker on the outside. That's a really

1082
00:51:55,280 --> 00:51:56,879
Speaker 1: good year. I think for Alec Pierce. I was gonna

1083
00:51:56,880 --> 00:51:59,040
Speaker 1: say if helps in the run game there too, that

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00:51:59,040 --> 00:52:01,719
Speaker 1: that is a bit big thing. All right, last part

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Speaker 1: here for the podcast, Mate's random Thought of the Week,

1086
00:52:05,719 --> 00:52:10,840
Speaker 1: mayte random thought oh the week? And why is the

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00:52:10,960 --> 00:52:14,760
Speaker 1: carpet all went Todd? I don't know, Marco, you guys

1088
00:52:14,800 --> 00:52:16,799
Speaker 1: going out of Tome? Does this chooth push your Food

1089
00:52:16,800 --> 00:52:20,200
Speaker 1: by American Gentile Association. If it's cold there, If these

1090
00:52:20,280 --> 00:52:23,200
Speaker 1: vans get good gas mileage, he'll fast. Does this thing go?

1091
00:52:23,400 --> 00:52:26,680
Speaker 1: Does it have automeric transmission? Does it have four wheel drive?

1092
00:52:26,920 --> 00:52:34,720
Speaker 1: Shot shot up? You guys. Have you seen the trailer

1093
00:52:34,800 --> 00:52:38,719
Speaker 1: the preview for the new Top Gun movie. Yes, it

1094
00:52:38,719 --> 00:52:40,879
Speaker 1: looks awesome. I didn't know there was a new Top

1095
00:52:40,920 --> 00:52:43,120
Speaker 1: Gun movie. Yeah, there's a new Top Gun movie coming

1096
00:52:43,120 --> 00:52:44,960
Speaker 1: out there. So I think it was watching the NBA

1097
00:52:45,000 --> 00:52:47,239
Speaker 1: playoffs the other day, so I fell asleep at the

1098
00:52:47,280 --> 00:52:50,279
Speaker 1: mention of a movie, right, like, Oh wow, so it's

1099
00:52:50,320 --> 00:52:52,680
Speaker 1: coming out a Memorial Day weekend, So I take it, Larry,

1100
00:52:52,680 --> 00:52:55,560
Speaker 1: you haven't seen the first one back in nineteen eighty

1101
00:52:55,600 --> 00:52:59,840
Speaker 1: six Top Gun. No never, No, Larry just said that

1102
00:53:00,120 --> 00:53:01,719
Speaker 1: the tone of why would I have seen it? Yeah?

1103
00:53:01,760 --> 00:53:03,440
Speaker 1: Why would? Why would I have seen one of the

1104
00:53:03,480 --> 00:53:05,440
Speaker 1: more iconic Why do you? Why do you ask? Like

1105
00:53:05,480 --> 00:53:07,759
Speaker 1: that's a weird question because you should expect it at

1106
00:53:07,760 --> 00:53:09,360
Speaker 1: this point. I haven't seen anything. You guys know me

1107
00:53:09,400 --> 00:53:11,560
Speaker 1: well enough, we've done this so long. No, most likely

1108
00:53:11,640 --> 00:53:14,720
Speaker 1: I haven't seen it if it doesn't involve a sporting event,

1109
00:53:15,640 --> 00:53:18,440
Speaker 1: uh like or you know, some sort of like sports

1110
00:53:18,520 --> 00:53:23,120
Speaker 1: under volleyball. Top Gun. Yeah, they did play sand beach volleyball. Yeah,

1111
00:53:23,200 --> 00:53:25,560
Speaker 1: I haven't seen it, But at any rate, it got

1112
00:53:25,600 --> 00:53:29,879
Speaker 1: me thinking, what are your guys's favorite movie sequels that

1113
00:53:29,960 --> 00:53:32,799
Speaker 1: did not, like, completely ruin the original for you that

1114
00:53:32,880 --> 00:53:36,520
Speaker 1: just wasn't an absolute tragedy any come to mind toy

1115
00:53:36,600 --> 00:53:42,360
Speaker 1: story too. I'm not getting that. The First Detective awful, terrible,

1116
00:53:42,800 --> 00:53:45,799
Speaker 1: absolutely the first one. That's like the only sequel I

1117
00:53:45,800 --> 00:53:47,880
Speaker 1: can think of right now. I don't know. I don't

1118
00:53:47,920 --> 00:53:50,440
Speaker 1: like I don't watch movies that come in like sequel

1119
00:53:51,000 --> 00:53:54,560
Speaker 1: series like I don't. I don't know, uh a sequel? Oh,

1120
00:53:55,560 --> 00:53:58,000
Speaker 1: I I got nothing? What do you what? What's yours?

1121
00:53:58,400 --> 00:54:01,360
Speaker 1: I jotted down a few of them that are acceptable,

1122
00:54:01,560 --> 00:54:04,000
Speaker 1: you know, they didn't ruin the first one. I jotted

1123
00:54:04,040 --> 00:54:06,799
Speaker 1: down Back to the Future Too, never seen it, big, big,

1124
00:54:06,840 --> 00:54:09,439
Speaker 1: back to the Future guy, I dare someone to beat

1125
00:54:09,480 --> 00:54:11,360
Speaker 1: me and Back to the Future trivia. By the way,

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00:54:11,800 --> 00:54:14,680
Speaker 1: the Godfather Too, never seen it is good. I think

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00:54:14,680 --> 00:54:17,080
Speaker 1: it's better than the first one. Actually, um. And then

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00:54:17,200 --> 00:54:22,320
Speaker 1: I jotted down Indiana Jones and did not ruin Raiders

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00:54:22,320 --> 00:54:24,440
Speaker 1: of the Lost Arc. Yeah. I haven't seen any of

1130
00:54:24,440 --> 00:54:27,279
Speaker 1: those movies, so I guess The Dark Knight counts as

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00:54:27,280 --> 00:54:31,200
Speaker 1: a sequel. What's that? Batman? Batman? I'm not a big see.

1132
00:54:31,239 --> 00:54:33,280
Speaker 1: I don't understand though, these like all go in different

1133
00:54:33,400 --> 00:54:35,640
Speaker 1: orders with Batman, like they come out with like a sequel,

1134
00:54:35,640 --> 00:54:37,640
Speaker 1: but then they go like back in time to before.

1135
00:54:37,960 --> 00:54:42,240
Speaker 1: I can't follow it. No. I also don't like different

1136
00:54:42,280 --> 00:54:46,719
Speaker 1: Batman's like they had, like Michael Keaton is Batman. I

1137
00:54:46,719 --> 00:54:49,440
Speaker 1: don't know who this joker is they've got now playing Batman.

1138
00:54:49,520 --> 00:54:53,080
Speaker 1: He is not Michael Keaton like it topped out, Kim Basinger,

1139
00:54:53,200 --> 00:54:56,239
Speaker 1: Michael Keaton, and Jack Nicholson. I think I agree with you,

1140
00:54:56,560 --> 00:54:59,600
Speaker 1: which is why I'm not a huge comic book movie fan. Yeah. No,

1141
00:55:00,160 --> 00:55:03,120
Speaker 1: track of the what do they call those? The the

1142
00:55:03,239 --> 00:55:07,799
Speaker 1: institutions or the series or the establishments. Also also coming

1143
00:55:07,840 --> 00:55:11,440
Speaker 1: to the list of Rocky two never seen, I've never

1144
00:55:11,440 --> 00:55:14,720
Speaker 1: seen Rocky I've seen no, Rocky three is awful, Rocky

1145
00:55:14,760 --> 00:55:17,280
Speaker 1: two is good, Rocky three is throw it to the garbage.

1146
00:55:17,320 --> 00:55:19,839
Speaker 1: Yeah right, yeah, you're right, rock Rocky three they needed

1147
00:55:19,880 --> 00:55:24,319
Speaker 1: a pivot Rocky four though. Rocky four is the German Yes, yep, yeah,

1148
00:55:24,560 --> 00:55:27,440
Speaker 1: Ivan Drago Russian. That's why I'm sorry. Yeah. Best of

1149
00:55:27,480 --> 00:55:31,240
Speaker 1: the series, yes, yeah, no, my favorite. My favorite sequel

1150
00:55:31,280 --> 00:55:34,160
Speaker 1: is Ken Giffin Griffy Junior. There you go, may say

1151
00:55:34,200 --> 00:55:43,840
Speaker 1: that's my favorite real life Okay, yeah, yeah, he fair enough. Yeah.

1152
00:55:43,840 --> 00:55:48,680
Speaker 1: How about worst sequels of all time? Caddyshack two, unwatchable, unwatchable,

1153
00:55:49,000 --> 00:55:52,279
Speaker 1: major League two. It's not not nearly as good as

1154
00:55:52,280 --> 00:55:54,400
Speaker 1: the first one, but not terrible. Some people are like

1155
00:55:54,640 --> 00:55:57,080
Speaker 1: major League two is fine. I'm like, Wesley Snipes isn't

1156
00:55:57,120 --> 00:56:00,439
Speaker 1: in it? Wesley Snipes not playing Willie Mayheyes, I can't

1157
00:56:00,440 --> 00:56:03,440
Speaker 1: do it if it wasn't Omar Epps. Omar Epps. Yeah,

1158
00:56:03,760 --> 00:56:05,880
Speaker 1: and he was good. Don't get me wrong. I couldn't

1159
00:56:05,920 --> 00:56:07,839
Speaker 1: move past it. Yeah, I can see that. How about

1160
00:56:07,840 --> 00:56:10,960
Speaker 1: you guys? Remember Speed two? No? Yeah, I mean the

1161
00:56:11,000 --> 00:56:13,279
Speaker 1: same thing. J J. Keiana Reeves isn't in the movie.

1162
00:56:13,320 --> 00:56:16,480
Speaker 1: And that's the you know, the runaway cruise ship anything.

1163
00:56:16,760 --> 00:56:20,040
Speaker 1: Runaway cruise ship, yeah, runaway cruise ship man no longer

1164
00:56:20,080 --> 00:56:24,279
Speaker 1: we graduated from the bus going over? Yeah, bring Sandy back.

1165
00:56:24,360 --> 00:56:26,279
Speaker 1: She's in it, but not Keanu Reeves. And then all

1166
00:56:26,320 --> 00:56:30,760
Speaker 1: the Jurassic Parks anything after the original Jurassic Park. Oh, legally,

1167
00:56:30,840 --> 00:56:35,759
Speaker 1: Blonde Too was a good sequel. I forgot about that one.

1168
00:56:36,760 --> 00:56:38,520
Speaker 1: I'll take your word for it. Yeah, I love it.

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00:56:39,000 --> 00:56:42,840
Speaker 1: That's all I got here, guys. Yeah, I'm not ciskl anywhere.

1170
00:56:42,840 --> 00:56:45,680
Speaker 1: You're not happy here my movie critique that, no, we're not.

1171
00:56:45,840 --> 00:56:48,239
Speaker 1: That's okay, though, But that's my that's my random thought

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00:56:48,280 --> 00:56:50,080
Speaker 1: of the week. It's a good random thought of the week.

1173
00:56:50,239 --> 00:56:52,640
Speaker 1: I'm not a big movie person either, but yeah, I

1174
00:56:52,680 --> 00:56:55,000
Speaker 1: get Lara. Lara makes me look like I'm Gene Ciskle

1175
00:56:55,040 --> 00:56:58,040
Speaker 1: over here I've seen anyways. Coming up this week on

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Speaker 1: the Colts Audio Network Wednesday, we're gonna have a new

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00:57:01,440 --> 00:57:03,360
Speaker 1: interview with a Colts player as week three of the

1178
00:57:03,360 --> 00:57:06,839
Speaker 1: off season program rolls on TBD on Who that guy

1179
00:57:06,880 --> 00:57:09,200
Speaker 1: will be back here in the studio, so you're gonna

1180
00:57:09,200 --> 00:57:11,240
Speaker 1: want to check that out. On the Colts Audio Network

1181
00:57:11,280 --> 00:57:13,600
Speaker 1: Thursday night again, we'll be that new episode of overtime

1182
00:57:13,600 --> 00:57:16,520
Speaker 1: breaking down the Colts schedule. On Friday, the last third,

1183
00:57:16,600 --> 00:57:19,280
Speaker 1: more breakdowns of the Colts schedule with Matt Taylor and

1184
00:57:19,480 --> 00:57:22,720
Speaker 1: breaking down the day the first day of Coults Rookie Minicamp,

1185
00:57:22,800 --> 00:57:26,200
Speaker 1: which is on Friday this weekend Coults Rookie Miniicamp taking

1186
00:57:26,240 --> 00:57:29,680
Speaker 1: place Friday, Saturday Sunday. We'll be back here on the

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00:57:29,800 --> 00:57:33,520
Speaker 1: Colts Official Podcast presented by wind Bet on Tuesday for

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00:57:33,600 --> 00:57:36,920
Speaker 1: next week for Matt Taylor and Lara Overton. I'm JJ Stankovitz.

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Speaker 1: subscribe to the Colts Audio Network wherever you get your podcast,

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