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Speaker 1: Welcome to Know Your Foe on Colts dot Com and

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Speaker 1: in depth wook at the upcoming matchup. Here are your hosts,

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Speaker 1: Casey Valier and former Colts wide receiver Bill Brooks. It

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Speaker 1: is time for other installment of Know Your Foe right

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Speaker 1: here on Colts dot Com. I am your host Casey Vallee,

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Speaker 1: and I am joined as usual with Cults Ring of

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Speaker 1: Honor member of Bill Brooks. Colts travel on Nashville this

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Speaker 1: weekend to take on the Titans on Sunday, the final

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Speaker 1: regular season meeting with their AFC South Division rival, and

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Speaker 1: to get us up to date on the Titans for

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Speaker 1: the second time around. We're joined by Joe rex Road,

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Speaker 1: who covers the Titans for the Athletic Joe, thank you

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Speaker 1: so much for the time. How you doing well, Thanks

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Speaker 1: a lot for having me. I'm doing great and really

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Speaker 1: looking forward to this rematch. Yeah, we all are. It's

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Speaker 1: a lot of momentum heading into this game as opposed

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Speaker 1: to what it was a couple of weeks ago. The

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Speaker 1: Colts have won two games in a row since falling

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Speaker 1: to the Titans a couple of weeks back, and the

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Speaker 1: Titans that was actually part of that winning streak. They

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Speaker 1: won three games before they headed into the bye, and

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Speaker 1: that's kind of where I wanted to start coming off

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Speaker 1: the bye week last week. Do you think that bye

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Speaker 1: at all came too early after in the midst of

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Speaker 1: a three game winning streak. Well, yeah, I'm sure if

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Speaker 1: they if you gave Mike Brable his choice, he probably

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Speaker 1: would have at least pushed it back a month, right,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I don't think. I don't think coaches or

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Speaker 1: players love having having that off week this early in

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Speaker 1: the season. I guess if you're an optimist in the

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Speaker 1: Titans building, you're you're hoping at some point the injury

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Speaker 1: luck just turns around. It's been pretty bad, you know,

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Speaker 1: the last two seasons, and they did you know, they

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Speaker 1: did get some guys that looks like back, especially on defense,

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Speaker 1: who weren't in that first Colts game, who should help

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Speaker 1: the Titans. Now, I want to talk to you about

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Speaker 1: the guy under center there, Ryan Tannehill. The numbers are

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Speaker 1: what they are. They don't always tell the story, but

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Speaker 1: they're there. And I look at what he's done to

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Speaker 1: the to where we are at this point. Outside of

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Speaker 1: the Colts game, he completed any one percent of his

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Speaker 1: passes there, but he's got, he's a minimal yards to

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Speaker 1: this point. How did the numbers really tell his story

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Speaker 1: to the point in the season. Well, first of all,

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Speaker 1: just just my observation of Tannehill, I would say he's

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Speaker 1: probably been one of the most or one of the

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Speaker 1: brightest spots of this season so far for the Titans

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Speaker 1: when you consider, you know, the limitations, uh and the

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Speaker 1: issues around him. You know, after after last season in

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Speaker 1: the playoff loss to the Bengals, when of course he

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Speaker 1: threw the three interceptions, obviously, we had a lot of

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Speaker 1: questions about Ryan Tannehill the future with the Titans, and

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Speaker 1: one thing Mike Rabell said after that was, you know,

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Speaker 1: we've got to be great around him. Well, the Titans

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Speaker 1: have gotten worse around him. Yeah, you know they traded A. J. Brown. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's not of course, it's not their fault that they

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Speaker 1: to another knee injury. But they let Roger Saffold walk

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Speaker 1: you know, they just they have not been explosive around him.

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Speaker 1: Maybe they will be at some point if they get trailing.

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Speaker 1: done awfully well under the circumstances. Now, Joe, I want

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Speaker 1: to talk about running backs Derrick Henry. Last season, at

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Speaker 1: he has one hundred and four attempts. Is this a

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Speaker 1: out that Henry has less rushing attempts this year they

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Speaker 1: We're talking with Joe rex Roder covers the Titans for

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Speaker 1: So that's one way the Titans could look different Sunday defensively.

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Speaker 1: And then another thing is a Moni Hooker, very good safety,

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Speaker 1: And it's certainly not anywhere near that duration. But I

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Speaker 1: Which side gets, you know, the strip sack, you know,

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Speaker 1: We're all anxious to see what happens down in Nashville

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Speaker 1: on Sunday. Joe Rextro covers the Titans for the Athletic Joe,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much for the time, and enjoy the game. Okay,

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Speaker 1: gas Bill, great time, you guys, I appreciate it. The

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Speaker 1: final matchup of the regular season between the Colts and

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Speaker 1: Sam Fortier of the Washington Post about that game next week.

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Speaker 1: But this Sunday, it's the Colts and the Titans in Nashville,

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Speaker 1: the final regular season meeting between these two AFC South foes.

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Speaker 1: For Bill Brooks, I'm Casey Valley. Enjoy the game in

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Speaker 1: Bill Colts