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Speaker 1: Welcome into the Texans All Access Pregames show on this

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Speaker 1: wonderful Wednesday. Wait, John, what did you just say? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's a pregame show. It's a Wednesday before Thursday game.

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Speaker 1: It's a pregame show, and I'm your host, John Harris.

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Speaker 1: Glad you are with me this evening as I sit

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Speaker 1: in the Hunday Texans Radio Studio NRG Stadium being essentially

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Speaker 1: outfitted all It's been crazy the last couple of days.

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Speaker 1: Thursday night football trucks all over the place, Disney, and

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Speaker 1: I's getting the heck out of here. I mean, it's

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Speaker 1: been nuts the last few days, but the place is

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Speaker 1: getting all dolled up ready for Thursday nights game against

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Speaker 1: the Indianapolis Colts. And oh boy, what a game. This

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Speaker 1: is six and four Texans six and four Colts. It's

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Speaker 1: the third time in five years in which these two

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Speaker 1: have met in and around December, i'll say week twelve

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Speaker 1: or later tie the top AFC South where the winner

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Speaker 1: ends up taking a huge step forward. We've kind of

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Speaker 1: broken down the schedules for both the rest of the

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Speaker 1: way out. This game is massive more margin for air

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Speaker 1: for the Colts, if you will, because the Colts had

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Speaker 1: won the first game, but the Texans get this one,

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Speaker 1: who puts them up one game. Then they got the

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Speaker 1: Patriots following Sunday. But I don't even want to look

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Speaker 1: forward to that. I feel like we did a lot

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Speaker 1: of that in the Baltimore week, like, oh Man got Baltimore.

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Speaker 1: Oh it's got the Colts on Thursday. I don't want

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Speaker 1: to do that. This is a one game isolated This

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Speaker 1: is your season. The twenty nineteen season is encapsulated in

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Speaker 1: this game right here now. With a win, it gives

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Speaker 1: you a leg up the loss. There's a lot still

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Speaker 1: to play for, especially because the teams that are in

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Speaker 1: the wild card hunt. If you will, you're gonna either

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Speaker 1: play the Titans or you've beaten the Raiders. Those are

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Speaker 1: two teams that kind of come up in the mix

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Speaker 1: when you're talking about wild card playoff teams. So you're

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Speaker 1: gonna have an opportunity to beat the Titans, and you're

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Speaker 1: gonna have tunity because you've beaten the Raiders. So you

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Speaker 1: got that to look forward to no matter what. But

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Speaker 1: you don't want to go in the road the playoffs

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Speaker 1: as much as being the wild card team. All the

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Speaker 1: wild card teams did do pretty well in the first

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Speaker 1: round the playoffs last year. I think they won three

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Speaker 1: out of four. Either way, you want to come out

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Speaker 1: of there winning the Vision. You'd love to be able

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Speaker 1: to get a buy. Gonna be tough, butt anything's possible,

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Speaker 1: But the Ravens and the Patriots seemed to be at

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Speaker 1: this point steps ahead. Nothing you can do about the Ravens.

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Speaker 1: You obviously be the Patriots with the Patriots or nine

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Speaker 1: in one of this point. So things are going to

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Speaker 1: be tough, But none of it matters. None of what

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Speaker 1: I just said matters, to be honest with you. With

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Speaker 1: a with a rough performance on Thursday against the Colts,

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Speaker 1: and I just don't think that's gonna happen. The Texans

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Speaker 1: have been really good a after the bye week each

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Speaker 1: year under Bill O'Brien now Sunday notwithstanding because that was

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Speaker 1: just not great, but b they've also been very good

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Speaker 1: coming off a tough defeat like that, and most NFL

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Speaker 1: teams are. They come off a tough defeat and they're like,

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Speaker 1: we can't let that happen. There's a sense of urgency.

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Speaker 1: Now in a short week, things get very difficult. Colts

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Speaker 1: had to play Jags. I don't know if it was

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Speaker 1: a physically taxing game, but they got to travel today.

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Speaker 1: They traveled here and got here to Houston, and they're

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Speaker 1: gonna be ready to go for tomorrow. The Texans traveled

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Speaker 1: back from Baltimore, so that was their travel day. But

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Speaker 1: they've been here preparing and getting ready for this one.

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Speaker 1: And it's an opportunity for two very good football teams

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Speaker 1: to meet in a place where Jacovid Brissette has had

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Speaker 1: a lot of success against the Texans. Unfortunately, well, he's

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Speaker 1: only got one of his four wins against the Texans here,

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Speaker 1: only one. But the Colts have won three in a row.

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Speaker 1: They won the last game eighteen, the playoff game in

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Speaker 1: the first game of nineteen. Time to flip the script

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Speaker 1: on that time, to flip the script back to the

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Speaker 1: Texans and put them in a position where they need

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Speaker 1: to be a top the AFC South. Tonight's show, my

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Speaker 1: buddy Andre Ware is gonna stop by to join me

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Speaker 1: to talk about this one on Thursday and the game

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Speaker 1: he's covering Saturday, which includes his alma matter, the University

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Speaker 1: of Houston. You've got Clint Sterner stopping by. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: talk about this one and what is the best defense

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Speaker 1: against the Colts offense? Interesting answer from Clint, will have

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Speaker 1: that for you. Also, Andrew Walker Colts dot Com is

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Speaker 1: our deep Slam behind Enemy Sidelines interview of the week.

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Speaker 1: You're in the lab crew, myself and Drew Doherty will

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Speaker 1: break down this one with key players and keys to

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Speaker 1: the game. And finally it's our men behind the Mike's series.

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Speaker 1: It continues with Mark Vandomir and Matt Taylor to play

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Speaker 1: by play voice of the Indianapolis Colts. So we've got

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Speaker 1: plenty for you now. Normally on a Wednesday we always

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Speaker 1: start with our hot reads and we will tonight. They

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Speaker 1: fifteen percent or more on car insurance. Well, we normally

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Speaker 1: don't have on a Wednesday, is Bill O'Brien, but we

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Speaker 1: gotta hear from Bill O'Brian, who sat down with Mark

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Speaker 1: Vandamir earlier today. Coach, I know you want to run

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Speaker 1: the football, So what's it gonna take to get back

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Speaker 1: of not getting behind. You know, we've got to start

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Speaker 1: you gotta throw the ball to get back. You can't

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Speaker 1: run it all day. So we've got to do a

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Speaker 1: lot of different things. But I think that you know,

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Speaker 1: we ran the ball for one hundred and twenty two

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Speaker 1: still playing hard. I think. I think the thing is

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Speaker 1: we've run the ball for one hundred and forty yards

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Speaker 1: per game, and that needs to show up on Thursday

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Speaker 1: night now against the Colts. The first time you move

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Speaker 1: plan that part of it? Yeah, no doubt. I mean,

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Speaker 1: They do a good job. They'll have some different wrinkles.

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Speaker 1: We'll have some different wrinkles for them. I think. I

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Speaker 1: think in the end, Randy, it comes down to self

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Speaker 1: you know, if you look at our our game before

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Speaker 1: is it the game plan when you're not quite sure

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Speaker 1: also know that our guys train, they're in the meetings,

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Speaker 1: even the practice squad guys are trained to know the

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Speaker 1: whether you're on the fifty three or you're on the

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Speaker 1: to play because they know the game plan. Dealing with

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Speaker 1: what's not gonna take to do it again. Yeah, we've

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Speaker 1: we're we've done a decent job overall. I think that

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Speaker 1: When we start to drive with no gain or obviously

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Speaker 1: They challenge leunged us when they kicked off to us.

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Speaker 1: A lot. Good luck, Thank you. Get to our next

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Speaker 1: hot read. We do this every Wednesday, but this one's

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Speaker 1: got a wrinkle because it is the day before the game,

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Speaker 1: and it is the injury report. Who's in, who's out,

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Speaker 1: who's doubtful, who's questionable. Let's take a look at it

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Speaker 1: right about now. Okay, not too many surprises at least,

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Speaker 1: as I would say with this injury report for your Texans.

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Speaker 1: You've got three players that are out. Mike Adams who

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Speaker 1: suffered that concussion in pregame against the Baltimore Ravens, he

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Speaker 1: I didn't inticipate any of those guys we're going to play.

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Speaker 1: Now these next three become extremely important. They're questionable, Will

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Speaker 1: Fuller to Sean Gibson, Bradley Roby full participants today at practice,

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Speaker 1: and completely in Dylan Cole, Tity Soward, and DeShawn Watson.

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Speaker 1: So there is you're the Texans side of things. So

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Speaker 1: three guys out, two safeties yikes HOOI and Sean Gibson

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Speaker 1: Now on the other side, the Colts have four guys out.

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Speaker 1: Running Back Marlon Mack, who was not tremendous against the

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Speaker 1: playoff game here, Marlon Mack is out, Shaquille Taylor defensive

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Speaker 1: Question for the Indianapolis Colts are the following and man,

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Speaker 1: It's my good friend Andre where with me again? In

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Speaker 1: Mark Vandermer, we locked the door. We're gonna we're gonna

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Speaker 1: edition to Texas All Access from the Honday Texans Radio Studio.

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Speaker 1: I am your host, John Harrison. I've done it again successfully.

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Speaker 1: Now I can't keep doing this because he's my boss,

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Speaker 1: I love that more than anything that I do all week. Man,

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Speaker 1: to you, Dre that stands out in this rivalry? You've

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Speaker 1: good or bad that you remember that you'll just be

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Speaker 1: for as long as you do this, that you'll remember

429
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Speaker 1: that game in particular. Yeah, there are a couple of

430
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Speaker 1: bad ones. They all involved ty oh God, certainly. But

431
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Speaker 1: I'm hoping that is strange Calf that miraculously heal up

432
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Speaker 1: to the point where he's anywhere near full speed this Thursday,

433
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Speaker 1: and uh that those that one those stand out because

434
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Speaker 1: you know, you're right there in the game and then

435
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Speaker 1: all of a sudden he uh he's able to to

436
00:22:04,040 --> 00:22:07,399
Speaker 1: to to affect the game down the field in the

437
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Speaker 1: manner in which he does which he's capable of doing.

438
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Speaker 1: I think the first win in Indianapolis is the one

439
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Speaker 1: that I remember the most because it was so hard

440
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Speaker 1: to crack through, and they was, you know, just so

441
00:22:18,800 --> 00:22:22,760
Speaker 1: uh hell been on not losing to the Texans at home,

442
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Speaker 1: and then when it finally happens, you just you know,

443
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Speaker 1: you relish in it a little bit. And I think

444
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Speaker 1: that's that would be the one that that that really

445
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Speaker 1: stands out. Yeah, that was Mark's breakfast Club moment. Apparently

446
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Speaker 1: as he walked out of the walked out of the

447
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Speaker 1: booth for a little bit, He's throwing his hands up

448
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Speaker 1: in the air in the press box and I mean,

449
00:22:39,880 --> 00:22:42,080
Speaker 1: you guys had called everyone and he he brought up

450
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Speaker 1: a good point I want to get your thoughts on this.

451
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Speaker 1: He talked about playing at the RCA Dome and how

452
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Speaker 1: people really didn't understand how loud that place actually was.

453
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Speaker 1: What what was it about playing that bandbox up there

454
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Speaker 1: in the RCA Dome against them? Well, it's like they

455
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Speaker 1: were trained, like they went to you know, a face

456
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Speaker 1: in camp or something, because they're extremely loud when they're

457
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Speaker 1: on defense, and I mean extremely loud to where it

458
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Speaker 1: affects an offense's ability to communicate. And then and you

459
00:23:13,960 --> 00:23:16,399
Speaker 1: get an adrenaline rush from that when you're on the

460
00:23:16,520 --> 00:23:19,280
Speaker 1: field as well as a defensive player. And then you

461
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Speaker 1: flip it over when they're on offense and Peyton Manning's

462
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Speaker 1: guiding a drive or it's Andrew Luck or whomever in

463
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Speaker 1: this case Ja Kobe Brisett, and I'm strictly talking about

464
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Speaker 1: up there. Uh. They it's almost like they're in church.

465
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Speaker 1: Everybody's quiet, They're listening to the quarterback. You can hear him,

466
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Speaker 1: and they just kind of know when to get loud

467
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Speaker 1: and when to shut it off. And Uh, like I said,

468
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Speaker 1: I don't know that I've ever seen that at another stadium,

469
00:23:47,280 --> 00:23:50,760
Speaker 1: but it's it's it's amazing to witness Drake College football

470
00:23:50,760 --> 00:23:52,520
Speaker 1: seas is winding down. But I know you got a

471
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Speaker 1: trip this week. What you got after Thursday night going

472
00:23:56,480 --> 00:23:59,359
Speaker 1: to see the Coup's in Tulsa. So the Coug's in

473
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Speaker 1: the Golden Hurricanes are going to do battle and Tulsa.

474
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Speaker 1: Tulsa is a team that that has had a lot

475
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Speaker 1: of close in a lot of close calls this year.

476
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Speaker 1: They're three and seven and you go back and you

477
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Speaker 1: look a couple of missfield goals here and opportunities that

478
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Speaker 1: have gotten the way that record could easily flip itself around.

479
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Speaker 1: And then this has been just a tough year for

480
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Speaker 1: for Dana Holgerson and his group over at on campus

481
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Speaker 1: and hopefully they can go there and uh and play

482
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Speaker 1: well this week. How hard is it to do a

483
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Speaker 1: Coogs game? Is it tough? Uh? No, because you know,

484
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Speaker 1: you as if you've been in it as long as

485
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Speaker 1: I have, you just you put you put certain things

486
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Speaker 1: aside and you just call it for what it is.

487
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Speaker 1: And I think you you owe it to both and

488
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Speaker 1: I always approach the game. It's a great question, though, Johnny,

489
00:24:49,600 --> 00:24:55,000
Speaker 1: that I approached the game that as if everybody's parents

490
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Speaker 1: are watching the game, and all you want to do

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Speaker 1: is be fair to everyone's parents, each and every kid's parents.

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Speaker 1: And so I'm not gonna, you know, show any favoritism

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Speaker 1: to one one team over the other, whether I went

494
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Speaker 1: to I've gone to school there or not. I owe

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00:25:12,840 --> 00:25:14,639
Speaker 1: it to the fan base to be right down the

496
00:25:14,720 --> 00:25:16,720
Speaker 1: middle and just call the game as I see it.

497
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Speaker 1: I knew you were that way. I just think it's

498
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Speaker 1: I think it's a fascinating not a conundrum might be

499
00:25:22,760 --> 00:25:24,720
Speaker 1: the right word to have to sort of face because

500
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Speaker 1: I know you love your university and then there you

501
00:25:27,359 --> 00:25:28,960
Speaker 1: are having to call a game in which they're in.

502
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Speaker 1: So I know that's gotta be it's gotta be tough

503
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Speaker 1: for eternally. But I've I've watched games that you've called,

504
00:25:33,520 --> 00:25:35,600
Speaker 1: and you wouldn't know if they didn't know it was you,

505
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Speaker 1: you wouldn't know that it was it was Andre Ware

506
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Speaker 1: calling a broadcast for his alma mater. Yeah, yeah, it

507
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Speaker 1: trust me. If if the coops are doing something, then

508
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Speaker 1: I deem less than Yeah, they'll get called out on

509
00:25:46,840 --> 00:25:48,879
Speaker 1: it as well as I the same thing on the

510
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Speaker 1: other side for for Tulsa. But it's fun to do it.

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Speaker 1: It's uh, you know, it does have a little bit different. Uh,

512
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Speaker 1: I guess prep because you know, I know that team

513
00:25:59,640 --> 00:26:02,280
Speaker 1: a little better than I know most from just having

514
00:26:02,359 --> 00:26:05,160
Speaker 1: followed it through the offseason, and you're reading material about

515
00:26:05,200 --> 00:26:08,720
Speaker 1: it as the year progresses, and so it's almost a

516
00:26:08,720 --> 00:26:12,359
Speaker 1: little bit easier to prepare for it in a sense. Andre,

517
00:26:12,560 --> 00:26:16,120
Speaker 1: where you'll hear him Thursday night Colts Texans. Then you'll

518
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Speaker 1: have him Saturday for Tulsa VU of Age train you

519
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Speaker 1: the best man. Thank you, brother, I appreciate it. Johnny. Yes,

520
00:26:21,520 --> 00:26:25,399
Speaker 1: I've effectively locked the door and kept Mark vanderm Art

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Speaker 1: in the hallway. My custom, my job, but got to

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Speaker 1: do it for the betterment of the show. All right,

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Speaker 1: coming up, Clint Starner, it's gonna join me and talk

524
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Speaker 1: about what's the best defense for this Colts offense? Just

525
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Speaker 1: an answer from Dirty Rednext on Texans All Access. Second

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Speaker 1: down and three across the forty two yard line of

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Speaker 1: the Texans, Watson at the gun. Here's the snap, the

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Speaker 1: Sean looking and firing, and he's got Hopkins up the

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Speaker 1: hash left side across the forty of the Ravens down

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Speaker 1: of the thirty six yard line of tagged down there

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Speaker 1: that is one of DeAndre Hopkins seventy five catches on

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Speaker 1: the season, and it's also one of fourteen catches that

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Speaker 1: he's had four first downs. That puts hop tied for

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Speaker 1: seventh in the league with catches for a first down.

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Speaker 1: He's got seventy five catches on the year, fourteen of

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Speaker 1: them going for a first down. I can do the

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Speaker 1: math on that. It's about eighteen nineteen percent for hop

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Speaker 1: with first down catches. So what two out of every ten,

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Speaker 1: one out every five's going for a first down for

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Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins. That's pretty darn good. As comparison, Michael Thomas

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Speaker 1: leads the league and catches ninety four catches, but only

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Speaker 1: fifteen of his have gone for first down, So that's

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Speaker 1: about sixteen percent somewhere in that range. I do the

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Speaker 1: math in my head, and that would put DeAndre Hopkins

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Speaker 1: a little bit above Michael Thomas from percentage standpoint, not

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Speaker 1: a volume standpoint. But hopefully Hop's got a big game

547
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Speaker 1: coming up on Thursday and he can take the lead

548
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Speaker 1: in that respective category. And that is this week's stats Challenge,

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Speaker 1: brought to you by Schlumberg at Houston Texas dot com. Today.

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Speaker 1: To register to take the stats Challenge, you gotta put

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Speaker 1: up a lot of numbers in his time as quarterback

552
00:28:04,359 --> 00:28:07,600
Speaker 1: University Arkansas. Then played quarterback for Dallas Cowboys, played in

553
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Speaker 1: the World League, played in the Arena League. It's my man,

554
00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:12,399
Speaker 1: dirty Ran Clint Sterner, Clinton, how are you doing, my man? Man?

555
00:28:12,440 --> 00:28:14,480
Speaker 1: I'm doing good. They look about it's any better, Johnny.

556
00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:16,600
Speaker 1: I'd need a twin and that'd be scary for you, scenary,

557
00:28:16,720 --> 00:28:19,080
Speaker 1: no doubt about it. I would love to see a

558
00:28:19,119 --> 00:28:21,480
Speaker 1: Clint Sterner twin. I used to think about what would

559
00:28:21,480 --> 00:28:23,240
Speaker 1: happen if there was a John Harris twin that would

560
00:28:23,280 --> 00:28:25,600
Speaker 1: have been. That would have been bad news, really really

561
00:28:25,680 --> 00:28:29,399
Speaker 1: bad news. John. Look, I told I told my girlfriend whenever,

562
00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:31,399
Speaker 1: whenever we go into it's not up. That's the part

563
00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:33,160
Speaker 1: of the de leagues. You gotta give me twin boys.

564
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Speaker 1: So I hope that works out. We're praying. Would you

565
00:28:35,359 --> 00:28:37,880
Speaker 1: want a lefty and a righty? Man? I just wanted

566
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Speaker 1: both to be healthy and both to be boys. I

567
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Speaker 1: just don't know what I do with the little girl

568
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Speaker 1: that man. I'm telling you, you would be the best

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Speaker 1: dad for a girl ever. I would love. I would

570
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Speaker 1: pay money to see your house the first time she

571
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Speaker 1: goes on a date and some Chimok walks in and says, hey,

572
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Speaker 1: I'm taking your daughter to date. I would pay money

573
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Speaker 1: to see that, Johnny, Dude, I have I have been there.

574
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Speaker 1: I know it's uh, it can be a frustrating existence,

575
00:29:05,520 --> 00:29:07,320
Speaker 1: but my daughter has learned to work through it. You

576
00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:08,880
Speaker 1: would as well, and you'd be a good dad. And

577
00:29:08,960 --> 00:29:10,720
Speaker 1: you were a great quarterback brother, and you saw a

578
00:29:10,760 --> 00:29:13,240
Speaker 1: great quarterback play on Sunday. I just want to start

579
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Speaker 1: with this. Then people talked about I know you've talked

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Speaker 1: about a little bit Lamar Jackson. Did you leave after

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Speaker 1: Sunday watching the game thinking higher of Lamar Jackson? Did

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Speaker 1: you already think that way about Lamar Jackson? How did

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Speaker 1: you feel after watching Lamar Jackson pretty much carve up

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Speaker 1: the Texans defense the way that he did last Sunday? Yeah,

585
00:29:30,920 --> 00:29:33,840
Speaker 1: I thought I thought that that. Uh definitely I thought

586
00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:36,720
Speaker 1: higher after the game. Uh, you know, yesterday was Tuesday

587
00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:39,080
Speaker 1: and so on. To take it back Tuesday, I needed

588
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Speaker 1: to take back my h my evaluations of where of

589
00:29:43,600 --> 00:29:46,880
Speaker 1: where Lamar Jackson was at as a quarterback. I felt

590
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Speaker 1: like he's a guy that everybody knows how athletic he is,

591
00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:51,920
Speaker 1: what he can do with his feet, I felt like

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00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:56,000
Speaker 1: he was varied. He was deadly when there was when

593
00:29:56,040 --> 00:29:59,880
Speaker 1: the first the first target was available, the first RECEI

594
00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:02,960
Speaker 1: in the progression was available, but and he hit a

595
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Speaker 1: couple of those. I think both touchdowns were his first

596
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Speaker 1: read in the progression. But he also got through his

597
00:30:09,280 --> 00:30:12,040
Speaker 1: progression multiple times checked the ball down, was very patient.

598
00:30:12,840 --> 00:30:15,880
Speaker 1: The way he took care of the football is very,

599
00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:18,520
Speaker 1: very impressive for a guy with with minimal starts. And

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Speaker 1: so I walked away from from Sunday's game, no doubt

601
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Speaker 1: about it, thoroughly impressed with Lamar Jackson. And and you

602
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Speaker 1: know of the understanding that I that I clearly um

603
00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:34,040
Speaker 1: you know, misjudged his ability and his development to this point.

604
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Speaker 1: And Clint I thought the way he threw it from

605
00:30:36,120 --> 00:30:39,040
Speaker 1: the pocket was pretty incredible. So let's let's flip it

606
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Speaker 1: over to the other side now, obviously the more important

607
00:30:40,960 --> 00:30:44,000
Speaker 1: side being the texting side of this. After you walked

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00:30:44,040 --> 00:30:46,360
Speaker 1: out of that wall, after walking out watching that game,

609
00:30:46,680 --> 00:30:50,040
Speaker 1: did you come out of there with lingering concerns that

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00:30:50,120 --> 00:30:54,760
Speaker 1: have gotten worse or new concerns that have you really

611
00:30:55,040 --> 00:30:59,200
Speaker 1: really worried about this one against the Colts? Lingering concerns

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Speaker 1: I don't know if they've got and worse. UM. I

613
00:31:00,960 --> 00:31:05,239
Speaker 1: think it's a very similar UM. I think performance from

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00:31:05,280 --> 00:31:07,600
Speaker 1: the offensive side of the football, as as you saw

615
00:31:07,640 --> 00:31:12,000
Speaker 1: against Jacksonville when Jalen Ramsey was still there, so Jacksonville,

616
00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:15,160
Speaker 1: the game that was in Houston earlier in the season.

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00:31:15,720 --> 00:31:18,920
Speaker 1: UM that when a defense has the ability to pressure

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00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:22,800
Speaker 1: the quarterback up front, bring blitzes, bring pressure, get pressure

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Speaker 1: with just the down flour with the ability to play

620
00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:31,400
Speaker 1: man to man, physical, disruptive defense on the backside of it.

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Speaker 1: The Texans just have shown that they have shown that

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Speaker 1: they have no answer in those situations, which is a

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00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:40,440
Speaker 1: little bit troubling obviously regardless of the talent level. But

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Speaker 1: it's a little bit concerning because when you say that,

625
00:31:44,520 --> 00:31:47,120
Speaker 1: you also got to take into consideration that the Texans

626
00:31:47,240 --> 00:31:50,360
Speaker 1: have the Shaun Watson, they have DeAndre Hopkins, they have

627
00:31:50,520 --> 00:31:53,760
Speaker 1: Kenny Steeles, they have a great tight end group. So

628
00:31:53,960 --> 00:31:57,400
Speaker 1: it's not a lack of talent of why they can't

629
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Speaker 1: beat man to man. Uh, it's to me, it's just

630
00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:06,120
Speaker 1: a lack of scheme, of creativity, of um of maybe

631
00:32:07,160 --> 00:32:12,600
Speaker 1: experience and work and communication versus that type of defense.

632
00:32:12,680 --> 00:32:16,080
Speaker 1: And so a little bit concerning um that that that

633
00:32:16,440 --> 00:32:20,280
Speaker 1: that problem arose again. You know that that this deep

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00:32:20,360 --> 00:32:23,240
Speaker 1: into the season. I'm not overly concerned about the fact

635
00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:25,440
Speaker 1: that it was forty one to seven. Um, you know,

636
00:32:25,480 --> 00:32:27,440
Speaker 1: I think that game got away from them, and you

637
00:32:27,520 --> 00:32:29,800
Speaker 1: can burn the game film. But when it's all said

638
00:32:29,840 --> 00:32:34,320
Speaker 1: and done, the offense is inability to beat man demand, disruptive, up, closed, tight,

639
00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:38,400
Speaker 1: and personal types of coverages, given that they're awfully skilled

640
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Speaker 1: at the receiver position, is puzzling to me. We're talking

641
00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:47,160
Speaker 1: with our buddy Clint Sterner, Clint along those lines, you know, offensively,

642
00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:50,920
Speaker 1: the ability to run the football. They in the fourth

643
00:32:51,120 --> 00:32:53,080
Speaker 1: course was fourth quarter. Yeah, in the fourth quarter they

644
00:32:53,160 --> 00:32:55,280
Speaker 1: finally got colors hide, you know, through for forty one

645
00:32:55,360 --> 00:32:57,400
Speaker 1: yard run. Duke Johnson has set it up with seventeen

646
00:32:57,480 --> 00:33:00,440
Speaker 1: yard run prior to that. The ability to run the

647
00:33:00,480 --> 00:33:03,080
Speaker 1: football and take the pressure off the Shawn Watson in

648
00:33:03,200 --> 00:33:06,520
Speaker 1: some sense, how valuable does that become not only Thursday night,

649
00:33:07,040 --> 00:33:09,720
Speaker 1: but beyond and taking on the Titans and the Patriots

650
00:33:09,800 --> 00:33:11,800
Speaker 1: and teams like that that do a pretty good job

651
00:33:11,840 --> 00:33:14,080
Speaker 1: stop in the run but also can cover you in

652
00:33:14,120 --> 00:33:16,520
Speaker 1: the back end. Like those two defenses in particular, can do.

653
00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:20,680
Speaker 1: How valuable does it become to run the football and

654
00:33:20,840 --> 00:33:24,440
Speaker 1: not just Deshaun Watson on scrambles or RPOs, but running

655
00:33:24,440 --> 00:33:27,280
Speaker 1: the football with Carlos Hide and Duke Johnson outside zone,

656
00:33:27,320 --> 00:33:29,400
Speaker 1: inside zone, those kind of things. How valuable does that

657
00:33:29,520 --> 00:33:32,600
Speaker 1: become over the next few weeks in particular? Look, John,

658
00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:35,320
Speaker 1: you and I both know that's extremely valuable with regardless

659
00:33:35,320 --> 00:33:38,040
Speaker 1: of who the opponent is, regardless of what scheam you

660
00:33:38,160 --> 00:33:42,640
Speaker 1: run you want to execute offensively, running the football on

661
00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:46,120
Speaker 1: the offensive side of the football is where you establish

662
00:33:46,720 --> 00:33:51,320
Speaker 1: staying power. It's it's where you establish dominance, and it's

663
00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:55,480
Speaker 1: it's where you've got a CounterPunch. You know, with with

664
00:33:55,600 --> 00:33:58,400
Speaker 1: the RPOs and with DeAndre Hopka, you've got a CounterPunch.

665
00:33:58,440 --> 00:34:01,120
Speaker 1: It's gotta all work together. But there's no doubt about it. Man,

666
00:34:01,200 --> 00:34:03,959
Speaker 1: When the ability to run the football, When the Texans

667
00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:06,280
Speaker 1: can run the football in the run game, regardless of

668
00:34:06,360 --> 00:34:08,000
Speaker 1: how they do it and regardless of who it is,

669
00:34:08,440 --> 00:34:11,040
Speaker 1: when they can move the football on the ground, they're

670
00:34:11,120 --> 00:34:14,439
Speaker 1: forcing the issue on the defense. And there they are

671
00:34:14,960 --> 00:34:18,680
Speaker 1: forcing the defense to play their game, where when it's

672
00:34:18,680 --> 00:34:22,200
Speaker 1: the other way around, like it was Sunday, the Baltimore

673
00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:26,880
Speaker 1: Ravens were dictating what the Texans could and couldn't do,

674
00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:28,640
Speaker 1: and that's what you got to try to avoid. And

675
00:34:28,760 --> 00:34:32,120
Speaker 1: typically when you run the football well you avoid that,

676
00:34:32,239 --> 00:34:34,360
Speaker 1: you stay in third and shorts you stay in second,

677
00:34:34,400 --> 00:34:38,480
Speaker 1: and shorts stay in manageable situations and then the playbooks

678
00:34:38,520 --> 00:34:41,239
Speaker 1: wide open. And so running the football is a big,

679
00:34:41,320 --> 00:34:43,719
Speaker 1: big part of that. And that's the concern is what

680
00:34:43,880 --> 00:34:47,040
Speaker 1: did Baltimore put on film that was able to slow

681
00:34:47,080 --> 00:34:49,719
Speaker 1: down the rpo the run game and the RPO game

682
00:34:50,080 --> 00:34:52,640
Speaker 1: of the Texans. Is it that man to man disruptive

683
00:34:52,719 --> 00:34:56,120
Speaker 1: type of defense, and will teams moving forward trying to

684
00:34:56,200 --> 00:34:59,120
Speaker 1: apply that when they play the Texans. I would expect

685
00:34:59,440 --> 00:35:01,520
Speaker 1: the Texans to see more of that, but I would

686
00:35:01,560 --> 00:35:05,040
Speaker 1: also expect Bill O'Brien, Tim Kelly, Deshaun Watson to have

687
00:35:05,239 --> 00:35:08,359
Speaker 1: counterpunches so that when that stuff does happen, that they're

688
00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:11,640
Speaker 1: able to strike in other places. That'll start with Fuller

689
00:35:11,680 --> 00:35:15,000
Speaker 1: getting healthy. It'll start with being more creative and really

690
00:35:15,160 --> 00:35:19,160
Speaker 1: prepping over the last three days to have answers in

691
00:35:19,320 --> 00:35:22,160
Speaker 1: those situations. And so while it was ugly Sunday, I

692
00:35:22,239 --> 00:35:26,200
Speaker 1: would fully expect the Textans to adjust moving forward and

693
00:35:26,640 --> 00:35:29,880
Speaker 1: not allow it to happen again. Clinton, this question because

694
00:35:29,920 --> 00:35:33,680
Speaker 1: of the Thursday night game, I think becomes relevant because

695
00:35:33,760 --> 00:35:36,440
Speaker 1: you've got such a short time span to get your

696
00:35:36,520 --> 00:35:40,120
Speaker 1: body ready. But that was a loss against the Baltimore

697
00:35:40,200 --> 00:35:43,000
Speaker 1: Ravens that if mentally you don't clear your head and

698
00:35:43,160 --> 00:35:45,680
Speaker 1: that thing lingers, oh boy, you could be in some trouble.

699
00:35:45,760 --> 00:35:48,600
Speaker 1: So what do you think becomes more important going into

700
00:35:48,680 --> 00:35:52,560
Speaker 1: this one against the Colts, physically getting yourself ready or

701
00:35:52,760 --> 00:35:55,600
Speaker 1: mentally leaving that game behind from last week. Well, I

702
00:35:55,719 --> 00:35:57,719
Speaker 1: think it's always mentally. I think it's gone as a

703
00:35:57,800 --> 00:36:01,120
Speaker 1: player mentally to lead games behind in good batter and different,

704
00:36:01,200 --> 00:36:04,440
Speaker 1: have a short term memory. Literally play the play game

705
00:36:04,520 --> 00:36:07,000
Speaker 1: the game day to day. Um, you know, I think

706
00:36:07,080 --> 00:36:09,640
Speaker 1: that's the player's job, it's the coach's job, it's the

707
00:36:09,800 --> 00:36:14,399
Speaker 1: organization's job. To physically get you ready, to physically feel

708
00:36:14,400 --> 00:36:17,319
Speaker 1: aware of This team is tired, they need rest, they

709
00:36:17,360 --> 00:36:19,360
Speaker 1: need to be off their feet, or they're not tired

710
00:36:19,440 --> 00:36:21,839
Speaker 1: that they need they need the work. They're not physical enough,

711
00:36:21,880 --> 00:36:24,359
Speaker 1: they need more physical work. We to put the pads

712
00:36:24,400 --> 00:36:26,280
Speaker 1: of leave it up to the coach to the side.

713
00:36:27,120 --> 00:36:29,920
Speaker 1: You know what needs to happen physically to both you

714
00:36:30,160 --> 00:36:33,520
Speaker 1: and individually and the team. It's the player's job to

715
00:36:33,719 --> 00:36:37,520
Speaker 1: mentally get beyond what happened Sunday versus Baltimore. Look, I

716
00:36:37,600 --> 00:36:41,759
Speaker 1: was in college, man, We're eight no. Tennessee's eight no.

717
00:36:41,920 --> 00:36:44,040
Speaker 1: We go on the road. We should have beaten them.

718
00:36:44,040 --> 00:36:46,520
Speaker 1: We were the better football team, and we end up

719
00:36:46,600 --> 00:36:49,320
Speaker 1: losing to Tennessee and it was heartbreaking. We got that

720
00:36:49,440 --> 00:36:53,160
Speaker 1: first loss in the lost column and we messed around

721
00:36:53,200 --> 00:36:54,840
Speaker 1: and didn't get over it. We had a hangover with

722
00:36:54,920 --> 00:36:57,360
Speaker 1: the Mississippi State the next week, and we allowed Missisippi

723
00:36:57,360 --> 00:36:59,440
Speaker 1: States to beat us, which knocked us out of the

724
00:36:59,600 --> 00:37:02,759
Speaker 1: SEC Championship game and obviously knocked this out of any

725
00:37:02,760 --> 00:37:06,279
Speaker 1: of the national championship pix. You're moving forward. When one

726
00:37:06,400 --> 00:37:09,600
Speaker 1: team is able to beat you twice, you're a mentally

727
00:37:09,960 --> 00:37:13,439
Speaker 1: fragile football team. We were at that point in time.

728
00:37:13,840 --> 00:37:16,840
Speaker 1: I hope that the Texans are able to mentally overcome

729
00:37:17,280 --> 00:37:20,440
Speaker 1: Sunday's loss, put it completely behind them, and move on

730
00:37:20,560 --> 00:37:23,200
Speaker 1: to the Indianapolis coach. You may get beat but don't

731
00:37:23,280 --> 00:37:26,080
Speaker 1: let Baltimore beat you. Twife, Clint. I'll ask you this

732
00:37:26,600 --> 00:37:30,000
Speaker 1: as a former quarterback and you're still a quarterback. Let's

733
00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:31,880
Speaker 1: be honest about that. You're a quarterback on the radio.

734
00:37:32,520 --> 00:37:34,600
Speaker 1: When you have a team that plays a lot of

735
00:37:34,640 --> 00:37:38,240
Speaker 1: man coverage like the Texans did against Indianapolis in Week seven,

736
00:37:38,840 --> 00:37:43,040
Speaker 1: and the Colts ran a bunch of picks slash rub routes,

737
00:37:43,080 --> 00:37:46,759
Speaker 1: did a really good job of getting guys free in

738
00:37:46,920 --> 00:37:50,279
Speaker 1: large part because of those particular routes. So if I

739
00:37:50,400 --> 00:37:53,520
Speaker 1: make you a defensive coordinator, how do you go about

740
00:37:53,680 --> 00:37:57,640
Speaker 1: slowing those routes down against man coverage? What did the

741
00:37:57,719 --> 00:38:00,880
Speaker 1: guys in man coverage really have to do to disrupt

742
00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:03,279
Speaker 1: all those pick slash rub routes that they're gonna get.

743
00:38:03,480 --> 00:38:05,520
Speaker 1: Philadelphia did it to them last year at the end

744
00:38:05,560 --> 00:38:07,680
Speaker 1: of the year. The Ravens ran a few of them

745
00:38:07,840 --> 00:38:10,319
Speaker 1: last week which were just killers, and the Colts did

746
00:38:10,360 --> 00:38:12,759
Speaker 1: it to them all day long. What's the key to

747
00:38:12,880 --> 00:38:15,360
Speaker 1: stopping some of these pick slash rub routes that the

748
00:38:15,480 --> 00:38:17,840
Speaker 1: Colts I know are gonna throw at them? If the Texans,

749
00:38:17,960 --> 00:38:21,160
Speaker 1: if and when the Texans play a bunch of man coverage, well,

750
00:38:21,320 --> 00:38:24,040
Speaker 1: first and foremost is get healthy, right, I mean better

751
00:38:24,080 --> 00:38:26,600
Speaker 1: players true a cover better. So if all the guys

752
00:38:26,680 --> 00:38:29,839
Speaker 1: get healthy and key players return, that's the first answer. Right,

753
00:38:30,080 --> 00:38:31,680
Speaker 1: you know, I think secondly, I think you've got to

754
00:38:31,719 --> 00:38:34,600
Speaker 1: You've got to consciously and which defenses always do. It's

755
00:38:34,640 --> 00:38:36,840
Speaker 1: not the Saint rocket sciences. You've got to try to

756
00:38:36,880 --> 00:38:39,000
Speaker 1: stay out of third and ones. You know, you gotta

757
00:38:39,040 --> 00:38:41,799
Speaker 1: try to get that their offense into situations where even

758
00:38:41,840 --> 00:38:43,480
Speaker 1: if they do get you with a quick rub route,

759
00:38:43,480 --> 00:38:46,080
Speaker 1: because rub routes quick that they essentially most of them,

760
00:38:46,120 --> 00:38:48,359
Speaker 1: for the most part, happened within three or four yards

761
00:38:48,400 --> 00:38:49,920
Speaker 1: of the line of scrimmage. So if it's third and

762
00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:52,440
Speaker 1: eight or third and keen, then you're in a situation

763
00:38:52,480 --> 00:38:54,719
Speaker 1: where even if the rub route is successful, you have

764
00:38:54,800 --> 00:38:56,920
Speaker 1: a safety or a linebacker that can come up and

765
00:38:57,560 --> 00:38:59,800
Speaker 1: peel off of their man and make the tackle. And so,

766
00:39:00,680 --> 00:39:02,480
Speaker 1: you know, I think the obvious answer is that get

767
00:39:02,600 --> 00:39:04,800
Speaker 1: healthy and stay out of situations where you got to

768
00:39:04,840 --> 00:39:07,600
Speaker 1: play man demand um and and but here's the deal

769
00:39:07,719 --> 00:39:10,280
Speaker 1: is when you don't play man demand, then that sometimes

770
00:39:10,320 --> 00:39:13,320
Speaker 1: those crossers that are screaming underneath, they're wide open because

771
00:39:13,360 --> 00:39:15,319
Speaker 1: you're playing a zone which you're playing a four over

772
00:39:15,480 --> 00:39:18,479
Speaker 1: three zone or a two over five zone. You're playing

773
00:39:18,520 --> 00:39:21,600
Speaker 1: a zone that essentially is giving the offense that underneath

774
00:39:21,640 --> 00:39:23,759
Speaker 1: cross or those shown a little routes, and so I

775
00:39:23,840 --> 00:39:25,560
Speaker 1: think it may be blown a little bit out of proportion.

776
00:39:25,640 --> 00:39:29,640
Speaker 1: Is particularly last time the Colts played the Texans, was

777
00:39:29,840 --> 00:39:32,160
Speaker 1: you didn't the secondary was just was was beat to

778
00:39:32,239 --> 00:39:34,439
Speaker 1: death from a health standpoint. So you had to play

779
00:39:34,480 --> 00:39:36,800
Speaker 1: soft zone and allow them to check the ball underneath

780
00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:39,080
Speaker 1: and then rally up and tackle. I don't know that

781
00:39:39,160 --> 00:39:40,759
Speaker 1: that's not a great game plan because you take a

782
00:39:40,800 --> 00:39:42,839
Speaker 1: couple of holding penalties out of the game last week,

783
00:39:43,520 --> 00:39:46,440
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, six weeks ago versus the Indianapolis Colts, and

784
00:39:46,520 --> 00:39:48,440
Speaker 1: I think the Texans win that football game. And so

785
00:39:48,800 --> 00:39:51,240
Speaker 1: I don't know that the answer to your question isn't

786
00:39:51,800 --> 00:39:54,080
Speaker 1: I mean, stay out of the stay out of those situations.

787
00:39:54,360 --> 00:39:56,480
Speaker 1: But when it's all said and done, you stay in

788
00:39:56,520 --> 00:39:59,240
Speaker 1: a zone coverage, allow them, give them the underneath throws,

789
00:39:59,239 --> 00:40:01,640
Speaker 1: don't give them the it plays over the top, rally

790
00:40:01,760 --> 00:40:05,680
Speaker 1: up and be physical and tackle and allow your offense

791
00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:10,120
Speaker 1: to then go outscore their offense. And so it's tough

792
00:40:10,160 --> 00:40:11,719
Speaker 1: when you got t Y Hilton doing it. Man, t

793
00:40:11,840 --> 00:40:14,000
Speaker 1: Y Hilton's really really good. He got great instinct. It's

794
00:40:14,040 --> 00:40:16,480
Speaker 1: tough to stop those rough routes. Yeah, there's no question

795
00:40:16,880 --> 00:40:19,600
Speaker 1: the Colts did a good job man zone. I mean

796
00:40:19,920 --> 00:40:22,160
Speaker 1: you're playing combination coverages, I mean all kinds of things

797
00:40:22,200 --> 00:40:24,320
Speaker 1: the Colts. The Colts can definitely hurt you. With Jacoby

798
00:40:24,360 --> 00:40:26,800
Speaker 1: Brissette and Clinton. I'll be in my final one. Jacoby

799
00:40:26,840 --> 00:40:29,080
Speaker 1: Brissette has had a lot of success against the Texans,

800
00:40:29,360 --> 00:40:33,160
Speaker 1: but he had his most success last time. The pass

801
00:40:33,280 --> 00:40:37,000
Speaker 1: rush has not gotten to the quarterback the last couple

802
00:40:37,040 --> 00:40:39,840
Speaker 1: of games, like we would watch actual is okay, but

803
00:40:40,040 --> 00:40:42,960
Speaker 1: last week definitely did not get back there to Lamar Jackson.

804
00:40:43,360 --> 00:40:45,719
Speaker 1: If the front four can't get there with the four

805
00:40:45,760 --> 00:40:49,520
Speaker 1: man rush, Clint, how much would you go about blitzing

806
00:40:49,600 --> 00:40:52,440
Speaker 1: bringing five and six to put pressure on Jacoby Brissette.

807
00:40:52,440 --> 00:40:54,760
Speaker 1: He's not Lamar Jackson, but he is a mobile quarterback

808
00:40:54,800 --> 00:40:56,640
Speaker 1: who makes a ton of plays, getting out of the

809
00:40:56,719 --> 00:40:58,920
Speaker 1: pocket and throwing off schedule. What would you do to

810
00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:02,440
Speaker 1: slow him down? Well, I think again, and this is

811
00:41:02,480 --> 00:41:04,560
Speaker 1: not I mean, I know it's a it's a tired answer,

812
00:41:04,600 --> 00:41:06,840
Speaker 1: it's a it's a it's a vague answer. But I

813
00:41:06,960 --> 00:41:09,360
Speaker 1: think the offense, the offense goes down and moves a

814
00:41:09,400 --> 00:41:11,480
Speaker 1: football well and scores on open drives. He gets a

815
00:41:11,520 --> 00:41:13,560
Speaker 1: little bit of a lead that changes the defensive game plan.

816
00:41:13,680 --> 00:41:16,920
Speaker 1: But to answer your questions to poltically, to answer your

817
00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:20,240
Speaker 1: questions specifically, is I think it's if you can't get pressure.

818
00:41:20,280 --> 00:41:21,759
Speaker 1: If in the first quarter you're not able to first

819
00:41:21,800 --> 00:41:23,480
Speaker 1: two or three drives, you're not able to get pressure

820
00:41:23,920 --> 00:41:27,120
Speaker 1: with your down five or maybe adding a linebacker to that,

821
00:41:27,200 --> 00:41:30,720
Speaker 1: to that look, then then you've got to bring pressure.

822
00:41:30,800 --> 00:41:32,880
Speaker 1: You've got you've got to put your guys on the

823
00:41:32,960 --> 00:41:36,960
Speaker 1: backside on an island, because if you don't move Jacoby brisaid,

824
00:41:36,960 --> 00:41:38,759
Speaker 1: if you don't get in and around his feet, you

825
00:41:38,760 --> 00:41:40,799
Speaker 1: don't have to hit him like JJ Watt did last

826
00:41:40,840 --> 00:41:43,800
Speaker 1: game twenty four times, but you gotta get around his speech.

827
00:41:43,840 --> 00:41:45,680
Speaker 1: You gotta move him, You gotta make him flies, You

828
00:41:45,800 --> 00:41:49,319
Speaker 1: gotta make him feel a little bit of pressure consistently,

829
00:41:49,719 --> 00:41:52,160
Speaker 1: or he's gonna pick you apart. So I would say

830
00:41:52,200 --> 00:41:54,879
Speaker 1: the first two or three drives, roll with the punch

831
00:41:54,920 --> 00:41:58,040
Speaker 1: of see if Jacob Martin, Whitney, Merciless uh DJ readers,

832
00:41:58,040 --> 00:41:59,960
Speaker 1: see if they can collapse the pocket, puts him around

833
00:42:00,080 --> 00:42:02,840
Speaker 1: a little bit, make him uncomfortable, and if they can't,

834
00:42:03,080 --> 00:42:04,920
Speaker 1: then you just got to put those guys behind them

835
00:42:04,960 --> 00:42:07,520
Speaker 1: on an Island. Now, if you if Deshaun watching, the

836
00:42:07,600 --> 00:42:09,319
Speaker 1: company goes down and is able to score some points,

837
00:42:09,400 --> 00:42:12,000
Speaker 1: which they should early, and they get a lead like

838
00:42:12,120 --> 00:42:15,839
Speaker 1: Baltimore did on Texans last Sunday. If the Texans are

839
00:42:15,840 --> 00:42:17,480
Speaker 1: able to go out and get a fourteen point lead,

840
00:42:17,680 --> 00:42:21,279
Speaker 1: that changes the entire game, right, that changes the entire game.

841
00:42:21,320 --> 00:42:23,600
Speaker 1: And when you when you don't have a JD. Clowney,

842
00:42:23,640 --> 00:42:25,480
Speaker 1: when you don't have a J. J. Watt, when your

843
00:42:25,520 --> 00:42:28,680
Speaker 1: secondary beat up, that's the time in the season where

844
00:42:28,680 --> 00:42:31,000
Speaker 1: your offense needs to carry the load. After scoring seven

845
00:42:31,080 --> 00:42:34,520
Speaker 1: points last week gets Baltimore, this offense needs to come

846
00:42:34,560 --> 00:42:37,560
Speaker 1: out and put the defense in a position where they've

847
00:42:37,600 --> 00:42:40,840
Speaker 1: got options, don't handcuff them and force them to do

848
00:42:41,040 --> 00:42:43,520
Speaker 1: things that they don't want to do or force them

849
00:42:43,600 --> 00:42:47,480
Speaker 1: to expose the secondary. The offense has to pull their weight.

850
00:42:47,560 --> 00:42:50,359
Speaker 1: The offense has to keep Romeo Cornell from being put

851
00:42:50,440 --> 00:42:53,040
Speaker 1: in a position where he's got a blitz guys and

852
00:42:53,239 --> 00:42:55,759
Speaker 1: and potentially give up big plays to t Y Hilton

853
00:42:55,800 --> 00:42:58,520
Speaker 1: and Jacoby for said, that's what man Clint Starner can

854
00:42:58,600 --> 00:43:01,800
Speaker 1: hear him two to six everything weekday on our flagship

855
00:43:01,920 --> 00:43:05,359
Speaker 1: and postgame gonna be doing a late one on Thursday night. Clint,

856
00:43:05,400 --> 00:43:08,320
Speaker 1: you're the best brother. Thank you so much. That's my

857
00:43:08,400 --> 00:43:11,560
Speaker 1: Palt right there, Clint Sterner breaking it down for you.

858
00:43:11,640 --> 00:43:13,879
Speaker 1: How about a little Andre Ware and Clint Sterner back

859
00:43:13,880 --> 00:43:15,680
Speaker 1: to back. That's pretty nice. All right, we get back.

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Speaker 1: your host, John Harris, It's time to go behind enemy

876
00:44:00,360 --> 00:44:03,360
Speaker 1: sidelines with dep sitter this week, as it is most,

877
00:44:03,680 --> 00:44:06,040
Speaker 1: if not every time we play the Colts, is to

878
00:44:06,120 --> 00:44:10,160
Speaker 1: hear from the brilliant writer for Colts dot Com, Andrew Walker.

879
00:44:10,280 --> 00:44:12,120
Speaker 1: Deepe take it away for the Colts, A lot has

880
00:44:12,239 --> 00:44:14,600
Speaker 1: changed since the last time these two teams have played.

881
00:44:15,120 --> 00:44:17,280
Speaker 1: They're coming off the big win, obviously over the Jags.

882
00:44:17,320 --> 00:44:19,719
Speaker 1: They lost two straight since they last faced each other.

883
00:44:19,840 --> 00:44:22,319
Speaker 1: Jacoby Burssette was in and out. I guess let's start there.

884
00:44:22,400 --> 00:44:24,640
Speaker 1: Let's start with Jacoby in his first game back against

885
00:44:24,640 --> 00:44:28,200
Speaker 1: the Jaguars. He had the spring MCL and amazingly back

886
00:44:28,239 --> 00:44:29,920
Speaker 1: after missing about a game and a half. How did

887
00:44:29,960 --> 00:44:32,680
Speaker 1: he look, Did the injury look like it limited him

888
00:44:32,719 --> 00:44:35,920
Speaker 1: in any way, or how the Colts called their plays? Yeah,

889
00:44:36,000 --> 00:44:38,200
Speaker 1: culturally seemed like they dodged a bullet, because if he

890
00:44:38,280 --> 00:44:41,000
Speaker 1: watched the replay of you know, three hundred and thirty

891
00:44:41,040 --> 00:44:44,600
Speaker 1: pound Clinton Nelson, you know, accidentally falling into the quarterback's leg.

892
00:44:45,040 --> 00:44:48,760
Speaker 1: Sure didn't look good at the moment. But just knowing Jacoby,

893
00:44:48,800 --> 00:44:50,719
Speaker 1: obviously he wanted to come back in that game. They

894
00:44:50,800 --> 00:44:52,960
Speaker 1: weren't gonna all at him. And then just you know,

895
00:44:53,120 --> 00:44:55,160
Speaker 1: throughout the week, he was limited in practice leading up

896
00:44:55,200 --> 00:44:57,640
Speaker 1: to that Dolphins game, looked like he was gonna go,

897
00:44:57,800 --> 00:44:59,560
Speaker 1: and then Frank Wright kind of at the last minute

898
00:44:59,600 --> 00:45:03,040
Speaker 1: was watching practice film and decided that he doesn't look

899
00:45:03,120 --> 00:45:06,280
Speaker 1: quite ready to go, especially kind of outside of the pocket,

900
00:45:06,320 --> 00:45:08,520
Speaker 1: which is where Jacoby does a lot of his damage.

901
00:45:08,560 --> 00:45:11,000
Speaker 1: So they decided to hold him out against that Dolphins game.

902
00:45:11,080 --> 00:45:13,400
Speaker 1: Unfortunately for the Colts. You know, you've follow in that

903
00:45:13,480 --> 00:45:16,480
Speaker 1: game to a young, up and coming Dolphins team that

904
00:45:16,880 --> 00:45:19,719
Speaker 1: quite frankly outplayed the Colts, so you gotta tip your

905
00:45:19,760 --> 00:45:22,360
Speaker 1: cap to him. But nice response by the Colts, you know,

906
00:45:22,520 --> 00:45:25,319
Speaker 1: getting to Code were set back. You know, as far

907
00:45:25,360 --> 00:45:27,360
Speaker 1: as I could see, it didn't look like he was

908
00:45:27,400 --> 00:45:29,040
Speaker 1: injured at all, and he had a couple of his

909
00:45:29,440 --> 00:45:32,880
Speaker 1: kind of trademark escaped the pocket type plays where he

910
00:45:32,960 --> 00:45:36,000
Speaker 1: didn't look limited at all. And really all he had

911
00:45:36,040 --> 00:45:38,239
Speaker 1: to do against the Jaguars other than make a couple

912
00:45:38,280 --> 00:45:40,839
Speaker 1: of key throws, especially on a fourth and goal from

913
00:45:40,840 --> 00:45:44,440
Speaker 1: the one touchdown to Marcus Johnson, what's really he just

914
00:45:44,560 --> 00:45:46,439
Speaker 1: had to manage the run game and make sure they're

915
00:45:46,480 --> 00:45:49,320
Speaker 1: in the right looks and it worked to perfection. Colts

916
00:45:49,400 --> 00:45:51,160
Speaker 1: ran for two hundred and sixty plus yards that they

917
00:45:51,160 --> 00:45:53,640
Speaker 1: are most since two thousand and four, two hundred yard

918
00:45:53,719 --> 00:45:57,000
Speaker 1: rushers for the first time since nineteen eighty five. So really,

919
00:45:57,200 --> 00:45:59,640
Speaker 1: Jacoby did a great job managing the game and then

920
00:45:59,719 --> 00:46:01,440
Speaker 1: just taking a couple of plays here and there when

921
00:46:01,480 --> 00:46:03,960
Speaker 1: he needed to. So I'm really interested to see what

922
00:46:04,040 --> 00:46:06,640
Speaker 1: the plan will be Thursday night against the Texans because,

923
00:46:06,680 --> 00:46:09,120
Speaker 1: as we all know, back in the first matchup, Jacoby

924
00:46:09,200 --> 00:46:11,279
Speaker 1: was throwing the ball over the place. But now the

925
00:46:11,360 --> 00:46:13,480
Speaker 1: Colts are running the ball well again, so who knows

926
00:46:13,520 --> 00:46:15,560
Speaker 1: how they'll approach this game. Yeah, I definitely want to

927
00:46:15,600 --> 00:46:17,160
Speaker 1: get into the run game because we saw what the

928
00:46:17,200 --> 00:46:20,000
Speaker 1: Colts did against the Jaguars on Sunday. But being at

929
00:46:20,320 --> 00:46:23,840
Speaker 1: a short week for Jacoby Brissette, is there any sort

930
00:46:23,880 --> 00:46:26,360
Speaker 1: of limitations on what he's able to do in practice

931
00:46:26,640 --> 00:46:28,560
Speaker 1: or you know, was there any concern that he did

932
00:46:28,640 --> 00:46:30,239
Speaker 1: come back as there? Really lazy? Did I know the

933
00:46:30,320 --> 00:46:33,280
Speaker 1: initial prognosis was a couple of weeks and it seemed

934
00:46:33,280 --> 00:46:35,000
Speaker 1: like he beat that or did he just look like

935
00:46:35,120 --> 00:46:38,279
Speaker 1: he was ready to come back. No, he's not even

936
00:46:38,320 --> 00:46:40,840
Speaker 1: on the injury report anymore, so he's good to go.

937
00:46:41,719 --> 00:46:44,040
Speaker 1: It was just one of those things where Frank Wright

938
00:46:44,160 --> 00:46:47,200
Speaker 1: kind of wanted to save Jacoby Brissette from himself, I

939
00:46:47,320 --> 00:46:50,919
Speaker 1: guess against the Dolphins. So I can see how maybe

940
00:46:50,960 --> 00:46:53,560
Speaker 1: from the outside it might look like, okay, maybe you know,

941
00:46:53,560 --> 00:46:56,560
Speaker 1: because they downgraded him on Saturday right before the game,

942
00:46:56,640 --> 00:46:58,960
Speaker 1: that doesn't look great. But it was actually just one

943
00:46:58,960 --> 00:47:01,239
Speaker 1: of those things where he was actually at eighty eighty

944
00:47:01,280 --> 00:47:03,560
Speaker 1: five percent, Frank Reich said for the Dolphins game, but

945
00:47:03,640 --> 00:47:06,000
Speaker 1: he's like, let's just set this out, give it another

946
00:47:06,080 --> 00:47:09,239
Speaker 1: couple of days. And then by Monday, Tuesday of last week,

947
00:47:09,840 --> 00:47:12,279
Speaker 1: Jacoby really was filling no effects of the knee injury,

948
00:47:12,360 --> 00:47:15,240
Speaker 1: so he's good to go. Okay, Well, that's unfortunate news, Andrew.

949
00:47:16,040 --> 00:47:18,560
Speaker 1: Let's talk about the run game. Marlon Mack. This Texans

950
00:47:18,640 --> 00:47:21,359
Speaker 1: team knows what he can do, but he suffered an

951
00:47:21,400 --> 00:47:25,879
Speaker 1: injury on Sunday against Jacksonville and looks like he will

952
00:47:25,920 --> 00:47:27,960
Speaker 1: be out for the foreseeable future. I don't know if

953
00:47:28,000 --> 00:47:29,880
Speaker 1: it's for the rest of the season, but what can

954
00:47:29,880 --> 00:47:31,880
Speaker 1: you tell us about Marlon Mack and what that backfield

955
00:47:31,960 --> 00:47:35,000
Speaker 1: is going to look like heading into Thursday's game. Yeah,

956
00:47:35,080 --> 00:47:37,120
Speaker 1: Marlon Mack was having a real great game you know

957
00:47:37,440 --> 00:47:40,400
Speaker 1: against the Jaguar's first half into the third quarter, you know,

958
00:47:40,480 --> 00:47:44,759
Speaker 1: already above a hundred yards and had a magnificent you

959
00:47:44,840 --> 00:47:49,200
Speaker 1: know two spinning, you know, pressing circle a couple of

960
00:47:49,200 --> 00:47:52,879
Speaker 1: times on the PlayStation controller on a touchdown run. Great,

961
00:47:53,000 --> 00:47:55,239
Speaker 1: great play by him, but totally in the third quarter,

962
00:47:55,480 --> 00:47:58,640
Speaker 1: broke up, fractured his hand and was out for the

963
00:47:58,719 --> 00:48:01,880
Speaker 1: rest of the game. And now it's not really it

964
00:48:02,239 --> 00:48:05,000
Speaker 1: happened with Paris Campbell against the Steelers too, where you

965
00:48:05,320 --> 00:48:08,040
Speaker 1: kind of break your hand, and it's not really since

966
00:48:08,080 --> 00:48:10,160
Speaker 1: that's so important to what you do as a receiver,

967
00:48:10,320 --> 00:48:12,239
Speaker 1: as a running back, it's kind of hard to give

968
00:48:12,280 --> 00:48:15,520
Speaker 1: an exact timetable for return. So Paris Campbell hopes to

969
00:48:15,560 --> 00:48:18,440
Speaker 1: be back maybe you know, he's practiced a little this

970
00:48:18,560 --> 00:48:21,320
Speaker 1: week in the walk throughs, but realistically maybe he'll be

971
00:48:21,400 --> 00:48:24,279
Speaker 1: back to simmer first against the Titans, and maybe Marlon Mack.

972
00:48:24,320 --> 00:48:26,839
Speaker 1: It's the same thing. There's no real timetable, so we'll

973
00:48:26,880 --> 00:48:29,680
Speaker 1: see on him. Doesn't seem like ir or anything is

974
00:48:29,719 --> 00:48:32,600
Speaker 1: being considered there. So stepping in from Marlin Mack. With

975
00:48:32,760 --> 00:48:36,120
Speaker 1: Jordan Wilkins actually out with an ankle injury against the Jaguars,

976
00:48:36,200 --> 00:48:39,680
Speaker 1: was Jonathan Williams, who's listed fourth on the depth chart,

977
00:48:39,960 --> 00:48:42,040
Speaker 1: but he's really you know, nineteen Hinds is kind of

978
00:48:42,040 --> 00:48:46,000
Speaker 1: the more gadget receiver, third down type back. Johnson Williams

979
00:48:46,120 --> 00:48:50,040
Speaker 1: is your more you know, traditional vision type back that

980
00:48:50,200 --> 00:48:51,960
Speaker 1: came in and did a really good job career high

981
00:48:51,960 --> 00:48:55,080
Speaker 1: in rushing, you know, one hundred plus yards and like

982
00:48:55,160 --> 00:48:57,560
Speaker 1: I said, two hundred plush rushers for the first time

983
00:48:57,600 --> 00:49:00,319
Speaker 1: since nineteen eighty five for the Colts. So if if

984
00:49:00,480 --> 00:49:03,640
Speaker 1: you know, obviously Max not in Thursday night, he won't

985
00:49:03,680 --> 00:49:05,880
Speaker 1: be playing. So it looks like Jordan Wilkins will be

986
00:49:05,960 --> 00:49:09,160
Speaker 1: good to go and Johnson Johnson Williams will kind of

987
00:49:09,680 --> 00:49:11,960
Speaker 1: split the carries. It seems like, split the load at

988
00:49:12,080 --> 00:49:13,919
Speaker 1: running back as far as the carries going. The ninety

989
00:49:13,960 --> 00:49:16,239
Speaker 1: Minds will of course always be a factor at running back.

990
00:49:16,880 --> 00:49:19,480
Speaker 1: You mentioned Paris Campbell. He and t Y Hilton missed

991
00:49:19,520 --> 00:49:22,239
Speaker 1: a couple of games with injury, the last two in fact,

992
00:49:22,320 --> 00:49:24,760
Speaker 1: and I know everybody wants to know about t Y Hilton.

993
00:49:25,280 --> 00:49:27,200
Speaker 1: Seems like he would if there was a game for

994
00:49:27,280 --> 00:49:28,920
Speaker 1: him to come back for, it'd be this one, this

995
00:49:29,040 --> 00:49:31,680
Speaker 1: Thursday night game against the Texas. We know what he

996
00:49:31,760 --> 00:49:34,200
Speaker 1: said about playing at NRG Stadium in the past. What

997
00:49:34,320 --> 00:49:36,360
Speaker 1: can you tell us about t Y Hilton and what

998
00:49:36,600 --> 00:49:40,120
Speaker 1: his status looks like heading into Thursday. Yeah, And you know,

999
00:49:40,200 --> 00:49:42,760
Speaker 1: if there's one guy where you just really have no idea,

1000
00:49:42,920 --> 00:49:45,719
Speaker 1: it's t Y Hilton because he just he's the kind

1001
00:49:45,719 --> 00:49:49,560
Speaker 1: of the rare breed that, especially now so late into

1002
00:49:49,600 --> 00:49:53,880
Speaker 1: his career, veteran guy, so comfortable and so talented, he

1003
00:49:53,960 --> 00:49:57,920
Speaker 1: doesn't really need to practice to play, as crazy as

1004
00:49:57,960 --> 00:50:01,520
Speaker 1: that sounds. So even with with a newish quarterback in

1005
00:50:01,600 --> 00:50:04,400
Speaker 1: Jacoby Brissette, who's only you know, worked with about you

1006
00:50:04,480 --> 00:50:08,600
Speaker 1: know year plus now um combined, he still has such

1007
00:50:08,640 --> 00:50:11,160
Speaker 1: a good connection with him that he can miss practice

1008
00:50:11,239 --> 00:50:14,480
Speaker 1: and still possibly play Thursday nine. And he hasn't really

1009
00:50:14,520 --> 00:50:17,640
Speaker 1: been participating much this week, so we'll see. I would

1010
00:50:17,680 --> 00:50:19,320
Speaker 1: look at it more as a game time decision. But

1011
00:50:19,400 --> 00:50:22,759
Speaker 1: you're right, you know, considering the implications of this game,

1012
00:50:23,120 --> 00:50:25,359
Speaker 1: the winner of this game taking sole possession of first

1013
00:50:25,360 --> 00:50:27,879
Speaker 1: place in the FC stuth being in the driver's seat

1014
00:50:28,000 --> 00:50:30,160
Speaker 1: for the final month of the season, with all the

1015
00:50:30,239 --> 00:50:33,640
Speaker 1: implications of that and all the tiebreaker scenarios that goes

1016
00:50:33,719 --> 00:50:36,680
Speaker 1: with that, you would think, you know, if t Y

1017
00:50:36,760 --> 00:50:39,440
Speaker 1: Hilton can go even you know, unlike Jacoby Brissette. If

1018
00:50:39,440 --> 00:50:43,160
Speaker 1: t Y Hilton's at eighty eight, he might even be

1019
00:50:43,280 --> 00:50:45,800
Speaker 1: better used as you know, kind of like he was

1020
00:50:45,880 --> 00:50:48,480
Speaker 1: in that playoff game against Houston last year, where he

1021
00:50:48,600 --> 00:50:50,279
Speaker 1: can make a few plays early for you be a

1022
00:50:50,360 --> 00:50:52,759
Speaker 1: good decoy and then just kind of go from there.

1023
00:50:52,880 --> 00:50:55,360
Speaker 1: All right, let's pitch gears and talk about this Colts defense.

1024
00:50:55,400 --> 00:50:58,440
Speaker 1: They limited Leonard Fournette with just twenty three yards on

1025
00:50:58,600 --> 00:51:00,279
Speaker 1: eight carries on Sunday. What did you see from the

1026
00:51:00,320 --> 00:51:02,640
Speaker 1: defense in Sunday's win that maybe wasn't there the previous

1027
00:51:02,680 --> 00:51:05,759
Speaker 1: two weeks, especially against the run. Well, it's not, it's

1028
00:51:05,840 --> 00:51:08,920
Speaker 1: not really, you know, the defense the last several weeks,

1029
00:51:09,000 --> 00:51:12,040
Speaker 1: going back to Week five against the Chiefs. Um. You know,

1030
00:51:12,160 --> 00:51:15,480
Speaker 1: obviously Deshaun Watson's gonna uh, you know, hurt a lot

1031
00:51:15,560 --> 00:51:17,280
Speaker 1: of defenses, and he made a lot of good plays

1032
00:51:17,800 --> 00:51:19,520
Speaker 1: back against the Colts a few weeks ago. But the

1033
00:51:19,600 --> 00:51:23,520
Speaker 1: defense has really been playing very solidly, you know, Like

1034
00:51:23,600 --> 00:51:25,360
Speaker 1: I said, back to Week five against the Chiefs and

1035
00:51:25,680 --> 00:51:27,520
Speaker 1: all of a sudden I look up at the at

1036
00:51:27,600 --> 00:51:31,040
Speaker 1: the stats and the Colts defense is top ten and

1037
00:51:31,200 --> 00:51:35,440
Speaker 1: yards allowed and and ninth and rushing rushing yards allowed.

1038
00:51:35,480 --> 00:51:37,760
Speaker 1: So they've really kind of turned a corner. And it's

1039
00:51:37,800 --> 00:51:40,680
Speaker 1: no surprise given that guys like Darius Leonard who missed

1040
00:51:40,680 --> 00:51:44,160
Speaker 1: a few weeks um has come back, and Jabal Sheard

1041
00:51:44,200 --> 00:51:47,120
Speaker 1: has come back, and Leek Hooker's back in the fold,

1042
00:51:47,200 --> 00:51:49,960
Speaker 1: and um, you know Kenny Moore missed at Texans game,

1043
00:51:50,080 --> 00:51:52,560
Speaker 1: He's back and playing really high level of football at

1044
00:51:52,840 --> 00:51:55,799
Speaker 1: flot cornerback. So they have, you know, and then there's

1045
00:51:55,880 --> 00:51:58,000
Speaker 1: there's guys that've been in a whole time, like Justin Houston,

1046
00:51:58,200 --> 00:52:01,280
Speaker 1: who as a sack in sixth straight game, eight overall

1047
00:52:01,360 --> 00:52:04,239
Speaker 1: leading the team. So all their pieces are in place. Now.

1048
00:52:05,200 --> 00:52:06,799
Speaker 1: You know, they are a little banged up this week

1049
00:52:06,880 --> 00:52:09,520
Speaker 1: and especially in the secondary, so we'll sail that ends

1050
00:52:09,560 --> 00:52:12,160
Speaker 1: up playing out, but all their pieces have now kind

1051
00:52:12,160 --> 00:52:15,279
Speaker 1: of fallen into place to start giving Matt Eberflus, the

1052
00:52:15,320 --> 00:52:17,919
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator, an opportunity to start mixing up a little

1053
00:52:17,920 --> 00:52:19,440
Speaker 1: bit because we all heard kind of the first few

1054
00:52:19,480 --> 00:52:22,920
Speaker 1: games how predictable this Colts defense was. They're always going

1055
00:52:22,960 --> 00:52:25,279
Speaker 1: to be playing zone, they're never playing man. Well that's

1056
00:52:25,360 --> 00:52:29,120
Speaker 1: changed and they're mixing up with blitzes and zone coverages

1057
00:52:29,239 --> 00:52:32,279
Speaker 1: and hidden coverages and all kinds of things now that

1058
00:52:32,360 --> 00:52:34,799
Speaker 1: they're getting their pieces back. So the Colts defense has

1059
00:52:34,840 --> 00:52:37,480
Speaker 1: really settled in, and I say the biggest difference, as

1060
00:52:37,520 --> 00:52:39,160
Speaker 1: you kind of allude to, is against the run and

1061
00:52:39,880 --> 00:52:43,240
Speaker 1: kind of unsung guys like Grover Stewart the defensive tackle

1062
00:52:43,360 --> 00:52:45,680
Speaker 1: up front, and he's really done a good job kind

1063
00:52:45,680 --> 00:52:48,440
Speaker 1: of solidifying things to make sure that those gaps are

1064
00:52:48,480 --> 00:52:51,160
Speaker 1: covered and the run is stopped. I know we talked

1065
00:52:51,160 --> 00:52:53,439
Speaker 1: about Adam Vinatieri the first time around, so I'm gonna

1066
00:52:53,440 --> 00:52:55,279
Speaker 1: bring them up again because it seems like it's just

1067
00:52:55,440 --> 00:52:57,920
Speaker 1: an up and down battle for him. This week we

1068
00:52:58,040 --> 00:53:00,400
Speaker 1: saw him miss a few an important games at the

1069
00:53:00,480 --> 00:53:02,239
Speaker 1: end of the games, but then on Sunday he had

1070
00:53:02,239 --> 00:53:06,080
Speaker 1: a pretty good performance, didn't miss any kicks. Are there

1071
00:53:06,160 --> 00:53:09,000
Speaker 1: still concerns with Adam Vinetarian moving forward? I know the

1072
00:53:09,120 --> 00:53:11,800
Speaker 1: Colts were bringing in some some kickers or the reports

1073
00:53:11,840 --> 00:53:14,600
Speaker 1: that they brought in some kickers to just for tryouts

1074
00:53:14,640 --> 00:53:17,920
Speaker 1: a few weeks back, but no changes made there. What

1075
00:53:18,040 --> 00:53:20,480
Speaker 1: do you foresee with Adam Vinetari for the rest of

1076
00:53:20,520 --> 00:53:24,000
Speaker 1: the season. Yeah, the cults are sticking with that in Minitary.

1077
00:53:24,080 --> 00:53:26,759
Speaker 1: I think it's crystal clear. You know. Obviously he's had

1078
00:53:26,800 --> 00:53:28,800
Speaker 1: his misses this year and a few more than he

1079
00:53:28,880 --> 00:53:31,840
Speaker 1: usually does, and unfortunately some of those have come in

1080
00:53:32,120 --> 00:53:35,000
Speaker 1: big moments. But they're going to stick with a Adam Minitary,

1081
00:53:35,080 --> 00:53:39,280
Speaker 1: and it's it's because of the leader he is obviously,

1082
00:53:39,400 --> 00:53:41,960
Speaker 1: you know, Hall of famer whenever he starts to hang

1083
00:53:42,040 --> 00:53:44,600
Speaker 1: him up, Um, greatest kicker of all time as far

1084
00:53:44,640 --> 00:53:46,960
Speaker 1: as the stats go, and we all know about his

1085
00:53:47,040 --> 00:53:49,320
Speaker 1: clutch moments, you know, in Super Bowls and all that.

1086
00:53:49,840 --> 00:53:52,239
Speaker 1: But he really adds a ton of value in the

1087
00:53:52,320 --> 00:53:55,479
Speaker 1: locker room as far as leadership and and a source

1088
00:53:55,560 --> 00:53:58,560
Speaker 1: to go to for for any player, offensive, defensive, or

1089
00:53:58,640 --> 00:54:01,960
Speaker 1: special teams for any kind of moment. So the cults

1090
00:54:02,080 --> 00:54:05,040
Speaker 1: value that a lot. And you know, yeah, it's you know,

1091
00:54:05,160 --> 00:54:08,600
Speaker 1: the misses, Um, you know, I have been frustrating for everybody,

1092
00:54:08,640 --> 00:54:12,880
Speaker 1: including most most including Adavinitary. They the cults are going

1093
00:54:12,920 --> 00:54:15,640
Speaker 1: to do their due diligence and bring guys in um

1094
00:54:15,800 --> 00:54:18,480
Speaker 1: for tryouts every you know, for for workouts every once

1095
00:54:18,520 --> 00:54:21,680
Speaker 1: in a while. Um, but that's that's has no bearing

1096
00:54:21,719 --> 00:54:24,319
Speaker 1: on Vinitary. They're going to stick with an Invinitary. They

1097
00:54:24,400 --> 00:54:26,880
Speaker 1: love what he brings. Um, kind of like I alluded to,

1098
00:54:27,000 --> 00:54:29,040
Speaker 1: I think last time, the guy still brings it in

1099
00:54:29,160 --> 00:54:32,080
Speaker 1: practice every day. Um, you know, the numbers look great

1100
00:54:32,120 --> 00:54:33,960
Speaker 1: in practice, and it's it's one of those things where

1101
00:54:34,200 --> 00:54:37,120
Speaker 1: it hasn't translated every game onto the game field. But

1102
00:54:37,239 --> 00:54:39,279
Speaker 1: I think you know he's he's trying to make the

1103
00:54:39,320 --> 00:54:42,120
Speaker 1: adjustments needed to be able to correct some of his issues.

1104
00:54:42,200 --> 00:54:44,799
Speaker 1: And it definitely showed against the Jaguars. And he hit

1105
00:54:44,840 --> 00:54:46,560
Speaker 1: all his kicks and all of them seem to be

1106
00:54:46,680 --> 00:54:49,160
Speaker 1: hit pretty clean right down the middle. Good stuff is

1107
00:54:49,160 --> 00:54:52,319
Speaker 1: always Andrew Walker of Cults dot Com Andrew Short week

1108
00:54:52,800 --> 00:54:54,839
Speaker 1: uh second match. Hopefully this is the last time these

1109
00:54:54,880 --> 00:54:57,920
Speaker 1: two teams face each other this year because it's always

1110
00:54:58,160 --> 00:55:01,040
Speaker 1: a stressful but exciting game. Oh. When the Texans and

1111
00:55:01,120 --> 00:55:04,560
Speaker 1: Colts played each other, Thanks Andrew, I mean, it really

1112
00:55:04,640 --> 00:55:06,480
Speaker 1: does feel like we just played those guys. It was

1113
00:55:06,520 --> 00:55:09,400
Speaker 1: weeks seven. It's five weeks ago. But as both of

1114
00:55:09,480 --> 00:55:12,000
Speaker 1: them mentioned, DPC do and Andrew Walker there of Colts

1115
00:55:12,040 --> 00:55:14,920
Speaker 1: dot Com, these teams have changed in that amount of time,

1116
00:55:14,960 --> 00:55:18,160
Speaker 1: significantly changed. Keep him keep this in mind. When the

1117
00:55:18,200 --> 00:55:21,800
Speaker 1: Texans played the Colts in that Week seven matchup, the

1118
00:55:22,040 --> 00:55:24,600
Speaker 1: three corners that were on the field the majority of

1119
00:55:24,719 --> 00:55:28,080
Speaker 1: that day, where Philip Gaines who is now in I

1120
00:55:28,200 --> 00:55:32,000
Speaker 1: are Keion Crossing and Cornell Armstrong. Now Kean and Cornell

1121
00:55:32,160 --> 00:55:34,239
Speaker 1: have played a little bit over the last few weeks,

1122
00:55:34,320 --> 00:55:36,120
Speaker 1: but as the Texas have gotten a few guys health

1123
00:55:36,160 --> 00:55:38,839
Speaker 1: there in the secondary, they've not played as much. They're

1124
00:55:38,880 --> 00:55:41,680
Speaker 1: more special teams guys. But on that Week seven matchup,

1125
00:55:41,800 --> 00:55:44,320
Speaker 1: those two guys in particular, along with Gains had to

1126
00:55:44,440 --> 00:55:47,120
Speaker 1: play a significant portion of that game and that was

1127
00:55:47,400 --> 00:55:49,680
Speaker 1: that was tough. Philip had just gotten here a couple

1128
00:55:49,680 --> 00:55:52,560
Speaker 1: of weeks prior to that, Kean Crossing had been with

1129
00:55:52,640 --> 00:55:54,840
Speaker 1: the team from week one but had not played a

1130
00:55:54,920 --> 00:55:57,560
Speaker 1: lot in the secondary. And then you had Corner Armstrong,

1131
00:55:57,600 --> 00:55:59,759
Speaker 1: who I believe going in today Week seven matchup had

1132
00:55:59,800 --> 00:56:03,879
Speaker 1: just moved up to the team to be on the roster,

1133
00:56:04,040 --> 00:56:05,800
Speaker 1: I think either that week or the week before, so

1134
00:56:06,120 --> 00:56:08,600
Speaker 1: there was not a ton of experience when you flash

1135
00:56:08,640 --> 00:56:11,640
Speaker 1: forward since then, carry On Connelly has been traded for

1136
00:56:12,120 --> 00:56:15,360
Speaker 1: the potential getting Bradley Robi back. You have Vernon Hargraves

1137
00:56:15,360 --> 00:56:19,280
Speaker 1: who was claimed on waivers. Jonathan Joseph came back relatively healthy,

1138
00:56:19,360 --> 00:56:21,960
Speaker 1: so you could have a significant sea change in the

1139
00:56:22,239 --> 00:56:25,880
Speaker 1: secondary for the Texans. Now Justin Reid banged up to

1140
00:56:25,960 --> 00:56:29,160
Speaker 1: Sean Gibson banged up to secondary that's banged up at

1141
00:56:29,239 --> 00:56:33,480
Speaker 1: the safety position. So from that perspective, there are there

1142
00:56:33,520 --> 00:56:35,960
Speaker 1: are concerns back there, but it's definitely changed things in

1143
00:56:36,000 --> 00:56:38,319
Speaker 1: the last five weeks, especially for the Texans secondary. Oh

1144
00:56:38,400 --> 00:56:40,440
Speaker 1: by the way, then I forget the number ninety nine

1145
00:56:40,480 --> 00:56:42,239
Speaker 1: played in that week's seven matchup and is not playing

1146
00:56:42,239 --> 00:56:44,720
Speaker 1: in this one. You know, well, there's that unfortunately, because

1147
00:56:45,120 --> 00:56:48,120
Speaker 1: he was an absolute dude that day, and I mean

1148
00:56:48,560 --> 00:56:52,440
Speaker 1: a dominant, dominant dude. He was absolutely amazing and the

1149
00:56:52,520 --> 00:56:54,279
Speaker 1: Colts will not have to tangle with him, which is

1150
00:56:54,640 --> 00:56:56,640
Speaker 1: sad to say, but they are gonna have to tangle

1151
00:56:56,760 --> 00:56:59,799
Speaker 1: I think with a much improved secondary with some guys

1152
00:57:00,000 --> 00:57:03,320
Speaker 1: it's experience, length and speed which should help them against

1153
00:57:03,400 --> 00:57:06,120
Speaker 1: Jacoby Brissette and company. All Right, we get back. It's

1154
00:57:06,120 --> 00:57:07,880
Speaker 1: time for the End the Lab crew to break this

1155
00:57:08,000 --> 00:57:11,040
Speaker 1: one down in depth. Who are our players to watch

1156
00:57:11,400 --> 00:57:13,040
Speaker 1: and what are the keys of the game. Drew and

1157
00:57:13,080 --> 00:57:15,520
Speaker 1: I will do that next on Texans Access. Drew Doherty

1158
00:57:15,560 --> 00:57:17,200
Speaker 1: and I make up the in the Lab crew and

1159
00:57:17,360 --> 00:57:20,000
Speaker 1: this week. Well, I'll let Drew tell you what we're

1160
00:57:20,000 --> 00:57:23,479
Speaker 1: gonna do. We're gonna start with your player to watch

1161
00:57:23,680 --> 00:57:26,440
Speaker 1: on the Texans. And we could say Deshaun Watson every

1162
00:57:26,480 --> 00:57:28,880
Speaker 1: single week, but we're not gonna who are you watching

1163
00:57:28,960 --> 00:57:34,400
Speaker 1: this week? Okay? Can I pick a group? Sure? And

1164
00:57:34,520 --> 00:57:43,320
Speaker 1: because player to watch like an individual, and when I

1165
00:57:43,360 --> 00:57:45,960
Speaker 1: think of individuals, I think of like one on one.

1166
00:57:47,440 --> 00:57:52,720
Speaker 1: My players to watch will be Texans defenders in man

1167
00:57:53,160 --> 00:57:56,680
Speaker 1: coverage against the Cults passing game, because what did we

1168
00:57:56,720 --> 00:58:00,480
Speaker 1: see in Indianapolis about a month ago? What did we see? Well,

1169
00:58:00,880 --> 00:58:09,200
Speaker 1: we saw exactly Rubby. Oh nice, shout out Rubbie. The

1170
00:58:09,840 --> 00:58:12,680
Speaker 1: people people hear about this all the time, and it's

1171
00:58:13,320 --> 00:58:17,120
Speaker 1: a you always have as a passing game. You always

1172
00:58:17,120 --> 00:58:19,760
Speaker 1: have what are called zone beaters, and you got man

1173
00:58:19,960 --> 00:58:24,160
Speaker 1: beaters and those are just okay, if you get zone

1174
00:58:24,240 --> 00:58:25,680
Speaker 1: or you get this kind of zone, this is your

1175
00:58:25,760 --> 00:58:27,880
Speaker 1: zone beater. If you get man coverage, okay, these are

1176
00:58:27,960 --> 00:58:29,959
Speaker 1: different things you can do well. One of the things

1177
00:58:30,600 --> 00:58:33,400
Speaker 1: that teams have been doing a great job of because

1178
00:58:34,720 --> 00:58:37,600
Speaker 1: in the NFL, talent matches talent for the most part.

1179
00:58:37,840 --> 00:58:39,320
Speaker 1: You're not just gonna take a guy and say, okay,

1180
00:58:39,320 --> 00:58:40,880
Speaker 1: just run by him, will thorth to you all game long.

1181
00:58:40,960 --> 00:58:43,600
Speaker 1: That's not You're not gonna do that. So what you've

1182
00:58:43,640 --> 00:58:45,800
Speaker 1: got to be able to do is have different things

1183
00:58:45,840 --> 00:58:49,800
Speaker 1: that you can do to beat the defense and man coverage.

1184
00:58:50,280 --> 00:58:55,720
Speaker 1: And the Colts do an incredible job of picking off

1185
00:58:55,840 --> 00:58:58,600
Speaker 1: defenders with routes, and it's like, wait, a second job,

1186
00:58:58,840 --> 00:59:01,240
Speaker 1: it's a pick play. How does that? It's all about

1187
00:59:01,360 --> 00:59:05,000
Speaker 1: timing the route delivery, if you want to call it

1188
00:59:05,080 --> 00:59:09,920
Speaker 1: as such, and how those routes come together. And the

1189
00:59:10,120 --> 00:59:13,600
Speaker 1: route that really still kind of bothers me in some sense,

1190
00:59:13,800 --> 00:59:16,760
Speaker 1: was so brilliantly done. But it was a throw from

1191
00:59:16,800 --> 00:59:19,280
Speaker 1: Brissette to Eric Ebron and Linnie Johnson was in man

1192
00:59:19,320 --> 00:59:21,160
Speaker 1: coverage in Ebron. He started on the right side of

1193
00:59:21,160 --> 00:59:23,080
Speaker 1: the formation and he caught the ball all the way

1194
00:59:23,120 --> 00:59:25,600
Speaker 1: on the other side. So two Colts are on the

1195
00:59:25,680 --> 00:59:28,080
Speaker 1: other side, so Ebron's kind of flexed out and I

1196
00:59:28,120 --> 00:59:30,360
Speaker 1: think he's the only guy on that side. So these

1197
00:59:30,440 --> 00:59:33,120
Speaker 1: two guys run routes like they're just running right down

1198
00:59:33,160 --> 00:59:34,560
Speaker 1: the middle of the field. It's like, well, we got

1199
00:59:34,600 --> 00:59:36,120
Speaker 1: those guys covered. We got guys in the middle of

1200
00:59:36,120 --> 00:59:38,840
Speaker 1: the field. But as they're running in man coverage. Our

1201
00:59:38,840 --> 00:59:42,680
Speaker 1: guys are trailing. What's happening is Ebron is drafting basically underneath,

1202
00:59:43,000 --> 00:59:46,600
Speaker 1: and that four man mosh pit creates his pick on

1203
00:59:46,760 --> 00:59:48,920
Speaker 1: Lonnie Johnson throw the Ebron. He ends up with a

1204
00:59:48,960 --> 00:59:54,560
Speaker 1: big game. They do an excellent job with that when

1205
00:59:54,600 --> 00:59:57,160
Speaker 1: you're in man coverage, So that to me would be

1206
00:59:57,200 --> 00:59:59,680
Speaker 1: something I watched and then too in time out. It's

1207
00:59:59,680 --> 01:00:04,000
Speaker 1: gonna be fascinating because just about everybody that they're gonna

1208
01:00:04,000 --> 01:00:06,160
Speaker 1: see in man coverage, the Colts, it's a good point.

1209
01:00:06,200 --> 01:00:08,560
Speaker 1: Did not play against that last time. Bradley rob we

1210
01:00:08,640 --> 01:00:10,720
Speaker 1: think will be back. Bradley Roby's probably coming back, hope,

1211
01:00:10,760 --> 01:00:13,440
Speaker 1: so Vernon Hargrave's probably gonna play right. Just got just

1212
01:00:13,560 --> 01:00:16,720
Speaker 1: got to town a week ago. Conley, he's been playing

1213
01:00:16,720 --> 01:00:18,600
Speaker 1: a lot for the Texans. They didn't see him last time.

1214
01:00:19,000 --> 01:00:21,360
Speaker 1: He got here the week after the Indianapolis game. Gonna

1215
01:00:21,360 --> 01:00:24,080
Speaker 1: be fascinating to see j Joe will play, but how

1216
01:00:24,160 --> 01:00:26,480
Speaker 1: much did you see of him? So the whole secondary

1217
01:00:26,560 --> 01:00:28,640
Speaker 1: is gonna be different. So that that helps because I

1218
01:00:28,760 --> 01:00:30,760
Speaker 1: know the next question will be, oh my god, Joe, well,

1219
01:00:30,800 --> 01:00:32,680
Speaker 1: why would you play man coverage against that? We can't

1220
01:00:32,680 --> 01:00:34,840
Speaker 1: sit there and play all in the whole time, because

1221
01:00:34,840 --> 01:00:36,640
Speaker 1: they'll just pick open spots and just sit in the

1222
01:00:36,720 --> 01:00:38,800
Speaker 1: zone and kind of didn't conduct the way down the field.

1223
01:00:38,840 --> 01:00:40,440
Speaker 1: And that might be the way you go, but you

1224
01:00:40,480 --> 01:00:41,959
Speaker 1: know when I sit there on zone all day, because

1225
01:00:41,960 --> 01:00:45,680
Speaker 1: they'll eventually they've got zone beaters too. So then how

1226
01:00:45,720 --> 01:00:47,960
Speaker 1: do you how do you beat these pick routes as

1227
01:00:47,960 --> 01:00:51,560
Speaker 1: a defense? What do you have to do that? First

1228
01:00:51,560 --> 01:00:53,520
Speaker 1: of all, it comes with recognition. It comes up being

1229
01:00:53,560 --> 01:00:56,080
Speaker 1: physical at the line of scrimmage, so that you disrupt

1230
01:00:56,160 --> 01:00:58,680
Speaker 1: the timing of those routes. In an addition to that,

1231
01:00:58,720 --> 01:01:00,960
Speaker 1: at the line of scrimmage, getting your hands up because

1232
01:01:01,440 --> 01:01:03,680
Speaker 1: you've not seen this, We've not seen the Texans get

1233
01:01:03,720 --> 01:01:07,240
Speaker 1: to the quarterback as much lately. So if you're not

1234
01:01:07,320 --> 01:01:10,560
Speaker 1: gonna do that, make it tougher throwing lanes. Wise, make

1235
01:01:10,600 --> 01:01:14,040
Speaker 1: them throw there are different ways to the shrup then

1236
01:01:14,080 --> 01:01:15,800
Speaker 1: that's a great one. D throw how to throw through

1237
01:01:15,840 --> 01:01:18,240
Speaker 1: the trees if you will, so you don't have that

1238
01:01:18,360 --> 01:01:21,400
Speaker 1: direct line the other way. And the other thing you

1239
01:01:21,480 --> 01:01:22,840
Speaker 1: got to be able to do is if you were

1240
01:01:22,880 --> 01:01:24,400
Speaker 1: in man coverage, you got to be able to hug

1241
01:01:24,480 --> 01:01:27,960
Speaker 1: up on your routes. So as a guy's running his route,

1242
01:01:28,000 --> 01:01:29,280
Speaker 1: you got to be able to hug up and getting

1243
01:01:29,320 --> 01:01:32,120
Speaker 1: his hip so that if they pick you off, that

1244
01:01:32,760 --> 01:01:34,720
Speaker 1: some of the shrapnel is going through the receiver too,

1245
01:01:34,800 --> 01:01:37,320
Speaker 1: So it's not just picking you off. He's picking everybody off.

1246
01:01:37,360 --> 01:01:40,120
Speaker 1: But if you give distance, now of a sudden, it's

1247
01:01:40,160 --> 01:01:42,240
Speaker 1: like going to a crosswalk and you've got four people

1248
01:01:42,320 --> 01:01:43,760
Speaker 1: crossing in front of you and you're like, well, what

1249
01:01:43,840 --> 01:01:46,000
Speaker 1: do you do with that? You can run right through it,

1250
01:01:46,360 --> 01:01:49,400
Speaker 1: but then that doesn't help because that gives them what

1251
01:01:49,480 --> 01:01:52,240
Speaker 1: they want. You can go over the top of it. Well,

1252
01:01:52,280 --> 01:01:53,760
Speaker 1: then you're late and the ball is going to be

1253
01:01:53,800 --> 01:01:57,080
Speaker 1: delivered on time. But if you're hugging the route and

1254
01:01:57,200 --> 01:01:59,680
Speaker 1: you anticipate the route but early, you can jump that

1255
01:01:59,800 --> 01:02:02,160
Speaker 1: route and getting the hit pocket and then that four

1256
01:02:02,200 --> 01:02:04,360
Speaker 1: man mosh pit because they can't stop. They can't so

1257
01:02:04,520 --> 01:02:08,520
Speaker 1: the second day stop. It's called offensive pass interparents. So

1258
01:02:09,000 --> 01:02:11,920
Speaker 1: those pick routs become key. Now here's the other aspect.

1259
01:02:12,360 --> 01:02:14,760
Speaker 1: It happens not just for the defensive backs, but it

1260
01:02:14,840 --> 01:02:16,960
Speaker 1: happens for the linebackers too, And a great example happening

1261
01:02:16,960 --> 01:02:20,840
Speaker 1: against Baltimore. Baltimore took uh mark Ingram and swung him

1262
01:02:20,840 --> 01:02:23,040
Speaker 1: out to the flat on the right. They it's like

1263
01:02:23,200 --> 01:02:25,680
Speaker 1: Mark Andrews and he just came right down. It wasn't

1264
01:02:25,680 --> 01:02:27,840
Speaker 1: even a pick. It was a full up block. And

1265
01:02:27,960 --> 01:02:29,880
Speaker 1: then Rests missed it. He came right down in and

1266
01:02:29,920 --> 01:02:34,680
Speaker 1: he blocked Bernardrick McKinney, who had mark Ingram in man coverage,

1267
01:02:35,280 --> 01:02:38,520
Speaker 1: and so in man coverage, I got you. He's got you.

1268
01:02:39,200 --> 01:02:42,360
Speaker 1: So when Andrews goes inside the corner, as you should

1269
01:02:42,960 --> 01:02:46,680
Speaker 1: goes with and he since he goes down, that gives

1270
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Speaker 1: Ingram all kinds of space, easy throat. He goes in

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Speaker 1: the end zone, he's sliding his Speaking of line, that's good.

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Speaker 1: That was a good video by the speaking of the

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01:02:55,640 --> 01:02:59,520
Speaker 1: inside linebackers. It's gonna happen this week. We saw it

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01:02:59,560 --> 01:03:03,280
Speaker 1: two weeks ago, or two games ago, or maybe snow

1275
01:03:03,280 --> 01:03:06,040
Speaker 1: we saw three games ago against the Raiders. We saw

1276
01:03:06,120 --> 01:03:12,960
Speaker 1: it almost happen again early against the Ravens. Dylan Cole

1277
01:03:13,840 --> 01:03:16,360
Speaker 1: dropping back, getting his hands on a pass. He needs

1278
01:03:16,400 --> 01:03:18,480
Speaker 1: to pick it this time because that's a way on

1279
01:03:18,600 --> 01:03:21,360
Speaker 1: these rub routes, getting getting in the jumble. There those

1280
01:03:21,440 --> 01:03:23,520
Speaker 1: those inside linebackers he can if he can come down

1281
01:03:23,560 --> 01:03:27,240
Speaker 1: with an interception, can help change the game. So you

1282
01:03:27,320 --> 01:03:29,440
Speaker 1: went with a group for your player to watch. I

1283
01:03:29,680 --> 01:03:31,560
Speaker 1: kind of started the rules a little bit. I'm gonna

1284
01:03:31,600 --> 01:03:33,600
Speaker 1: I'm a rules follower, as you know, and I will

1285
01:03:33,640 --> 01:03:35,960
Speaker 1: follow the rules. I'm gonna go with DJ Reader, and

1286
01:03:35,960 --> 01:03:37,680
Speaker 1: I've picked him a lot this season, but I like

1287
01:03:37,840 --> 01:03:41,120
Speaker 1: this because of many times he will be matched up

1288
01:03:41,160 --> 01:03:45,320
Speaker 1: against Quentin Nelson. You'll see Quentin Nelson, who's regarded by

1289
01:03:45,360 --> 01:03:47,280
Speaker 1: many as the best offensive lineman in the game. Yes,

1290
01:03:47,480 --> 01:03:49,840
Speaker 1: and he played pretty well against Quentin Nelson last time.

1291
01:03:50,320 --> 01:03:52,560
Speaker 1: He's got to do it again this week. Within the run,

1292
01:03:52,800 --> 01:03:54,480
Speaker 1: he's got to help get to the past. Like we

1293
01:03:54,560 --> 01:03:57,640
Speaker 1: were talking about, messing things super set. So I want

1294
01:03:57,680 --> 01:03:59,440
Speaker 1: to see what DJ Reader can do, because he's been

1295
01:03:59,440 --> 01:04:02,200
Speaker 1: awesome all year long down there in the middle, and

1296
01:04:02,320 --> 01:04:04,560
Speaker 1: he's also played out at end a little bit in

1297
01:04:04,680 --> 01:04:07,360
Speaker 1: certain situations too. But I want to see what number

1298
01:04:07,480 --> 01:04:12,520
Speaker 1: ninety eight does and can do here at home on

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Speaker 1: Thursday night. All right, John, two keys to victory. I'm

1300
01:04:17,040 --> 01:04:20,000
Speaker 1: gonna steal yours. Okay, you go first. You gotta you

1301
01:04:20,040 --> 01:04:24,080
Speaker 1: gotta just do better against those rub routes and against

1302
01:04:24,120 --> 01:04:26,880
Speaker 1: their receivers than you did last time. That's one key. Okay,

1303
01:04:27,240 --> 01:04:32,800
Speaker 1: you do that, you solve so very many problems. Another thing,

1304
01:04:33,040 --> 01:04:34,840
Speaker 1: I want to see you run the ball, whether it's

1305
01:04:34,880 --> 01:04:37,560
Speaker 1: with this run pass option, whether it's just the standard

1306
01:04:38,040 --> 01:04:39,520
Speaker 1: run the ball a little bit better than you did

1307
01:04:39,680 --> 01:04:42,040
Speaker 1: last time as well. You did okay last time, but

1308
01:04:42,480 --> 01:04:45,040
Speaker 1: I want to get back to what we saw more

1309
01:04:45,160 --> 01:04:51,560
Speaker 1: of in Kansas City against Jacksonville in London. I want

1310
01:04:51,600 --> 01:04:54,760
Speaker 1: to see Carlos Hyde gashing these dudes. I want to

1311
01:04:54,760 --> 01:04:56,600
Speaker 1: see Duke Johnson coming in. I want to see Sean

1312
01:04:56,920 --> 01:04:58,960
Speaker 1: tucking it and run for about thirty yards as well,

1313
01:04:59,440 --> 01:05:01,560
Speaker 1: three or four times. I want to keep them off

1314
01:05:01,600 --> 01:05:03,640
Speaker 1: the field as much as I can. Yeah, and that's

1315
01:05:03,800 --> 01:05:05,560
Speaker 1: that's a recipe you can use against any team, but

1316
01:05:05,560 --> 01:05:08,320
Speaker 1: I'd like it. I think it's gone very well for

1317
01:05:08,400 --> 01:05:10,880
Speaker 1: the Texans in the past because I don't know how

1318
01:05:11,000 --> 01:05:13,680
Speaker 1: much explosiveness we can see out of this defense, excuse me,

1319
01:05:13,720 --> 01:05:16,240
Speaker 1: out of this offense with the downfield stuff. So let's

1320
01:05:16,320 --> 01:05:19,120
Speaker 1: run the ball, okay, and let's let's limit the exposure

1321
01:05:19,160 --> 01:05:21,280
Speaker 1: for our defense. Yeah, I'm with you. I think you're

1322
01:05:21,320 --> 01:05:24,480
Speaker 1: exactly right. I think that the two games that come

1323
01:05:24,560 --> 01:05:27,200
Speaker 1: to mind right off the bat of the two against

1324
01:05:27,240 --> 01:05:29,400
Speaker 1: AFC West teams, the Chiefs and the Raiders. Those are

1325
01:05:29,440 --> 01:05:32,280
Speaker 1: two games in which I think we had about eighteen

1326
01:05:32,360 --> 01:05:36,120
Speaker 1: to twenty plays more than both of those offenses did.

1327
01:05:36,240 --> 01:05:39,240
Speaker 1: And those offenses were pretty are pretty damn powerful. I mean,

1328
01:05:39,280 --> 01:05:41,320
Speaker 1: we've seen that throughout the year. We know what the

1329
01:05:41,400 --> 01:05:43,240
Speaker 1: Chiefs can do. The Raiders have gotten better and better

1330
01:05:43,280 --> 01:05:45,680
Speaker 1: and better by the week, but the defenses came up

1331
01:05:45,720 --> 01:05:50,440
Speaker 1: with timely stops. So I think you're that time possession

1332
01:05:50,520 --> 01:05:52,840
Speaker 1: thing is is now The coaches sort of bristle at

1333
01:05:52,960 --> 01:05:55,439
Speaker 1: it a little bit. They're like, yeah, time possessions great,

1334
01:05:55,440 --> 01:05:57,680
Speaker 1: but we better score what so, And that's the thing

1335
01:05:58,040 --> 01:06:00,840
Speaker 1: I want. I want long possessions where a score, right.

1336
01:06:01,320 --> 01:06:02,440
Speaker 1: I know, I know what you're saying. I know what

1337
01:06:02,480 --> 01:06:05,360
Speaker 1: you're saying, um to clarify for the listeners, but I

1338
01:06:05,440 --> 01:06:07,440
Speaker 1: think I think you're you're dead on with that. I

1339
01:06:07,560 --> 01:06:12,560
Speaker 1: think my first key it's very very simple. It's probably

1340
01:06:12,600 --> 01:06:18,720
Speaker 1: the most it's probably the simplest thing in football, conceptually speaking,

1341
01:06:19,640 --> 01:06:23,320
Speaker 1: maybe the most difficult to do in football. Tackling. Yeah,

1342
01:06:23,800 --> 01:06:27,680
Speaker 1: tackling was not good at Baltimore, and there are there

1343
01:06:27,880 --> 01:06:30,240
Speaker 1: there are a number of reasons for that. The Ravens

1344
01:06:30,280 --> 01:06:32,000
Speaker 1: put them out in space a number of times. Mr

1345
01:06:32,160 --> 01:06:39,680
Speaker 1: Jacksons is but I did this is This is typically

1346
01:06:40,600 --> 01:06:45,040
Speaker 1: no matter Clowney, why will Fork, whoever has been in

1347
01:06:45,080 --> 01:06:49,320
Speaker 1: this defense, especially since Bill Obron got here in twenty fourteen,

1348
01:06:49,720 --> 01:06:53,560
Speaker 1: it has typically been a really good tackling defense, and

1349
01:06:53,960 --> 01:06:56,760
Speaker 1: it was not that on Sunday against Baltimore. Now Baltimore

1350
01:06:56,800 --> 01:06:59,880
Speaker 1: added to that, I think the majority of the problem

1351
01:07:00,040 --> 01:07:02,240
Speaker 1: was on the Texans side, not making good, solid tackles,

1352
01:07:03,000 --> 01:07:05,560
Speaker 1: not wrapping up, not taking great angles, those kind of things.

1353
01:07:05,600 --> 01:07:07,920
Speaker 1: So tackling, there's a little a lot of different tenants,

1354
01:07:07,960 --> 01:07:09,920
Speaker 1: but I'm put that at the top, because even if

1355
01:07:09,920 --> 01:07:12,120
Speaker 1: you don't face Marlon Mack, you're gonna face Jonathan Williams,

1356
01:07:12,160 --> 01:07:15,240
Speaker 1: who went over a hundy against the Jaguars last week,

1357
01:07:15,280 --> 01:07:17,240
Speaker 1: at Jordan Wilkins, who's a bigger back at two hundred

1358
01:07:17,240 --> 01:07:19,120
Speaker 1: fifty two hundred twenty pounds. You got ninety Hindes who

1359
01:07:19,200 --> 01:07:22,200
Speaker 1: runs ten four one hundred. You've got speed, you talent

1360
01:07:22,240 --> 01:07:25,200
Speaker 1: there at the running back position, even though Mac will play,

1361
01:07:25,600 --> 01:07:29,040
Speaker 1: and then you got Jacoby Brissett. Maybe the best players

1362
01:07:29,160 --> 01:07:31,800
Speaker 1: Kobe Rosett made all year was avoiding a sack against

1363
01:07:31,800 --> 01:07:34,920
Speaker 1: the Broncos where he shook off Von Miller, one of

1364
01:07:34,960 --> 01:07:36,600
Speaker 1: the greats of the game, maybe one of the best

1365
01:07:36,680 --> 01:07:40,000
Speaker 1: of all time, shakes him off, shakes off Derek Wolfe,

1366
01:07:40,480 --> 01:07:44,400
Speaker 1: and delivers a strike down to t Y Hilton. So tackling,

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01:07:44,560 --> 01:07:48,440
Speaker 1: to me is a huge priority. All talked about the

1368
01:07:48,480 --> 01:07:51,440
Speaker 1: pick play, so I won't do that offensively. I think tempo.

1369
01:07:51,960 --> 01:07:56,000
Speaker 1: I agree to your point about time possession. My change

1370
01:07:56,080 --> 01:07:58,840
Speaker 1: up to that would be would be the tempo. There's

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01:07:58,840 --> 01:08:01,920
Speaker 1: gonna come a time in this game where Okay, we've

1372
01:08:01,960 --> 01:08:03,880
Speaker 1: been kind of grinding it out, but we've got to

1373
01:08:03,920 --> 01:08:06,040
Speaker 1: throw a change up at these guys. We've been throwing

1374
01:08:06,120 --> 01:08:08,600
Speaker 1: four seam and two seam fastballs at them and they're

1375
01:08:08,640 --> 01:08:12,280
Speaker 1: not handling it very well. But now let's throw the

1376
01:08:12,400 --> 01:08:14,200
Speaker 1: change up at him. Let's see how that hand you know,

1377
01:08:15,120 --> 01:08:18,479
Speaker 1: So in this game, not an ef his pitch. Yeah,

1378
01:08:19,400 --> 01:08:22,439
Speaker 1: But I think that the up tempo they tried it

1379
01:08:22,520 --> 01:08:24,840
Speaker 1: was funny because they tried to get there in Baltimore,

1380
01:08:25,520 --> 01:08:28,559
Speaker 1: but the dad gum ref fell on his backside. If

1381
01:08:28,600 --> 01:08:31,000
Speaker 1: you remember that, that gave Baltimore time to line up

1382
01:08:31,520 --> 01:08:34,479
Speaker 1: and really couldn't get into the tempo the way they

1383
01:08:34,520 --> 01:08:37,400
Speaker 1: wanted to, and I think the Patriots, the Patriots hats

1384
01:08:37,400 --> 01:08:39,200
Speaker 1: success against the Ravens with some up tempo, and I

1385
01:08:39,520 --> 01:08:43,200
Speaker 1: felt like we could have gotten there. But I felt

1386
01:08:43,200 --> 01:08:45,559
Speaker 1: like that was maybe a card that Bill Brian wanted

1387
01:08:45,600 --> 01:08:47,120
Speaker 1: to play when it was when it was time, and

1388
01:08:47,160 --> 01:08:49,120
Speaker 1: they never got to that time. But I think against

1389
01:08:49,160 --> 01:08:51,040
Speaker 1: the Colts, maybe pushing the tempo a little bit, and

1390
01:08:51,280 --> 01:08:54,519
Speaker 1: the drive I go back to is in the second

1391
01:08:54,560 --> 01:08:56,800
Speaker 1: half they went down and scored I want to say,

1392
01:08:56,880 --> 01:08:59,599
Speaker 1: took a twenty one ten lead maybe in the game

1393
01:08:59,680 --> 01:09:03,080
Speaker 1: up there, So it's like, oh boy, we went five

1394
01:09:03,200 --> 01:09:05,760
Speaker 1: plays seventy five yards in like a minute and a half.

1395
01:09:06,120 --> 01:09:10,320
Speaker 1: Boom bang boom, flip up the t kiki hut for

1396
01:09:10,520 --> 01:09:14,320
Speaker 1: on the option touchdown. It was like that, like whoa, okay,

1397
01:09:14,400 --> 01:09:16,720
Speaker 1: we can do that. Yeah, let's do more of that.

1398
01:09:17,040 --> 01:09:20,000
Speaker 1: That was up tempo, that was quick. It was called

1399
01:09:20,040 --> 01:09:22,640
Speaker 1: stuff to line scrimmage and let's go still. I think

1400
01:09:22,680 --> 01:09:25,200
Speaker 1: there's gotta be some of that involved. So to me,

1401
01:09:25,439 --> 01:09:29,719
Speaker 1: it's almost like I think about um, I think about

1402
01:09:30,120 --> 01:09:33,320
Speaker 1: the rapper e forty. He would kind of elongate his

1403
01:09:33,560 --> 01:09:35,200
Speaker 1: rap and then all sudden he would try to speed

1404
01:09:35,280 --> 01:09:38,840
Speaker 1: up at the end yes, exactly like that. And what

1405
01:09:38,880 --> 01:09:41,360
Speaker 1: do I mean by that is changing up the speeds

1406
01:09:41,400 --> 01:09:43,960
Speaker 1: to your offense. I think that can help you against

1407
01:09:44,040 --> 01:09:46,840
Speaker 1: a team and a defense like the Indianapolis Colts. All right,

1408
01:09:46,880 --> 01:09:48,880
Speaker 1: you get back, It's time to go behind the mics.

1409
01:09:48,920 --> 01:09:50,720
Speaker 1: The man behind the mikes calling the game on Thursday Night,

1410
01:09:50,920 --> 01:09:54,080
Speaker 1: Mark Vandemir, you know the voice of the Texans, Matt Taylor.

1411
01:09:54,160 --> 01:09:55,960
Speaker 1: You may not know, but you've heard him plenty on

1412
01:09:56,040 --> 01:09:58,360
Speaker 1: this station. We love Matt. Matt Taylor and Mark Vandamir

1413
01:09:58,560 --> 01:10:02,000
Speaker 1: next Texans All Access. We've got one final segment on

1414
01:10:02,120 --> 01:10:03,880
Speaker 1: tonight's show, and we're gonna turn it over to the

1415
01:10:03,960 --> 01:10:06,200
Speaker 1: two men that would be calling this one on Thursday Night,

1416
01:10:06,479 --> 01:10:08,840
Speaker 1: Mark Vannimir, you know very well. He sat down with

1417
01:10:09,280 --> 01:10:12,439
Speaker 1: Matt Taylor, second year Colts played by play Man. They

1418
01:10:12,520 --> 01:10:15,400
Speaker 1: discussed all facets of this one. Matt. That was a

1419
01:10:15,520 --> 01:10:18,760
Speaker 1: much needed win for the Cults last time around. As

1420
01:10:18,760 --> 01:10:23,080
Speaker 1: you beat Jacksonville soundly, were you surprised at the lopsided

1421
01:10:23,200 --> 01:10:26,080
Speaker 1: nature of the score. Yeah, I really was, to be

1422
01:10:26,160 --> 01:10:28,080
Speaker 1: honest with you, and I mean going into the game,

1423
01:10:28,120 --> 01:10:30,760
Speaker 1: the Colts have played ten straight or I should say

1424
01:10:30,840 --> 01:10:33,880
Speaker 1: nine straight, you know, one score game. So there was

1425
01:10:33,960 --> 01:10:36,439
Speaker 1: really no reason to think, you know, last Sunday was

1426
01:10:36,479 --> 01:10:38,200
Speaker 1: going to be any different in terms of how the

1427
01:10:38,280 --> 01:10:40,120
Speaker 1: game was going to play out. And I thought it

1428
01:10:40,160 --> 01:10:41,720
Speaker 1: was gonna come down to the wire, just like all

1429
01:10:41,800 --> 01:10:44,240
Speaker 1: the rest of them. But you know, the Colts really

1430
01:10:44,600 --> 01:10:46,600
Speaker 1: played their best half of football. I thought in the

1431
01:10:46,680 --> 01:10:50,000
Speaker 1: second half against Jacksonville. They outscored him twenty three to

1432
01:10:50,479 --> 01:10:53,240
Speaker 1: I think six, you know, a late touchdown late in

1433
01:10:53,280 --> 01:10:57,000
Speaker 1: the game for Jacksonville, but they just played a really

1434
01:10:57,200 --> 01:11:00,799
Speaker 1: compliment a complimentary you know, second half. For the offense,

1435
01:11:01,160 --> 01:11:02,920
Speaker 1: you know, got the ball to start with. They scored

1436
01:11:02,960 --> 01:11:05,720
Speaker 1: touchdowns on their first two drives of the second half.

1437
01:11:06,120 --> 01:11:08,519
Speaker 1: The defense has been playing lights out lately, you know,

1438
01:11:08,600 --> 01:11:11,439
Speaker 1: special teams played great with Adam Ventetary bouncing back and

1439
01:11:11,880 --> 01:11:14,320
Speaker 1: knocking down all five of US kicks, including the pat.

1440
01:11:14,600 --> 01:11:18,360
Speaker 1: So I thought it was their best, you know, complete performance,

1441
01:11:19,400 --> 01:11:22,280
Speaker 1: you know, for an entire game, but specifically that second half.

1442
01:11:22,720 --> 01:11:24,600
Speaker 1: I just didn't see them running for two hundred and

1443
01:11:24,680 --> 01:11:27,360
Speaker 1: sixty four yards like they did against that you know,

1444
01:11:27,479 --> 01:11:29,840
Speaker 1: Jacksonville front, which was pretty good. I mean, you guys know,

1445
01:11:29,920 --> 01:11:33,160
Speaker 1: they've got Calais Campbell up front and unique and Gockway

1446
01:11:33,280 --> 01:11:36,479
Speaker 1: and you know the rookie. They're fantastic rookie out of

1447
01:11:36,560 --> 01:11:40,360
Speaker 1: Kentucky in the first round. So credit Danianapolis for kind

1448
01:11:40,360 --> 01:11:43,559
Speaker 1: of regrouping after two clunkers, two bad losses and getting

1449
01:11:43,600 --> 01:11:46,640
Speaker 1: a much win against a good Jacksonville team. But now

1450
01:11:46,720 --> 01:11:48,360
Speaker 1: the Colts are three and oh in the division. That's

1451
01:11:48,400 --> 01:11:50,799
Speaker 1: probably the most important thing about that win against Jacksonville.

1452
01:11:50,800 --> 01:11:53,320
Speaker 1: They're now undefeated in the division with obviously a huge

1453
01:11:53,320 --> 01:11:55,720
Speaker 1: one coming up on Thursday night. Matt Taylor, voice of

1454
01:11:55,800 --> 01:11:58,880
Speaker 1: the Cults joining us. Okay, the running game without Mac,

1455
01:11:59,040 --> 01:12:00,960
Speaker 1: what's it going to be like? Trying to run the

1456
01:12:01,040 --> 01:12:03,160
Speaker 1: rock and still have those big guys up front? And

1457
01:12:03,160 --> 01:12:05,880
Speaker 1: I imagine that's a huge part of the equation. Yeah.

1458
01:12:05,920 --> 01:12:07,560
Speaker 1: I mean, as long as they've got their you know,

1459
01:12:07,760 --> 01:12:10,560
Speaker 1: they're they're starting five offensive line and tack which they do,

1460
01:12:10,840 --> 01:12:13,160
Speaker 1: I think they should be okay, you know, numbers wise,

1461
01:12:13,680 --> 01:12:15,360
Speaker 1: you know, in terms of the stats, it's kind of

1462
01:12:15,400 --> 01:12:19,120
Speaker 1: a misleading stat without Marlon Max. Since twenty seventeen, the

1463
01:12:19,240 --> 01:12:21,960
Speaker 1: Cults are rushing for about seventy six yards per game

1464
01:12:22,320 --> 01:12:24,320
Speaker 1: with Mac in the lineup. You know, the last two

1465
01:12:24,400 --> 01:12:27,160
Speaker 1: years plus the numbers about one hundred and twenty rushing

1466
01:12:27,240 --> 01:12:30,879
Speaker 1: yards per game, So it drops off big time historically,

1467
01:12:31,000 --> 01:12:32,479
Speaker 1: but I don't think that's going to be the case

1468
01:12:32,560 --> 01:12:35,080
Speaker 1: going forward because the Colts really have a ton of

1469
01:12:35,240 --> 01:12:39,639
Speaker 1: depths at running back. They've got Jordan Wilkins, second year player,

1470
01:12:40,080 --> 01:12:42,320
Speaker 1: kind of been a role player, so he's obviously in

1471
01:12:42,439 --> 01:12:44,479
Speaker 1: line for more. And then you have to really feel

1472
01:12:44,520 --> 01:12:47,479
Speaker 1: good about what Jonathan Williams provides because I mean he's

1473
01:12:47,479 --> 01:12:50,120
Speaker 1: coming off a game where I mean he got his

1474
01:12:50,200 --> 01:12:52,560
Speaker 1: opportunity and he certainly cashed in with one hundred and

1475
01:12:52,600 --> 01:12:56,160
Speaker 1: sixteen rushing yards on you know, thirteen attempts. I mean

1476
01:12:56,280 --> 01:12:58,760
Speaker 1: before that, a season high was won, you know, the

1477
01:12:58,800 --> 01:13:01,720
Speaker 1: week before against the doll But he's a guy that

1478
01:13:01,800 --> 01:13:04,200
Speaker 1: Colts have really liked for a long time. He hasn't

1479
01:13:04,200 --> 01:13:07,439
Speaker 1: been active because it's been a numbers game for him,

1480
01:13:07,560 --> 01:13:09,800
Speaker 1: but credit to him for always staying and ready to

1481
01:13:09,880 --> 01:13:12,320
Speaker 1: go on the practice squad and then once he was

1482
01:13:12,360 --> 01:13:15,320
Speaker 1: brought up late last year, he's you know, he's been

1483
01:13:15,360 --> 01:13:18,320
Speaker 1: given a great look on the scout team. And you know,

1484
01:13:18,400 --> 01:13:21,000
Speaker 1: Frank Reich and Chris Ballard behind closed doors, they always

1485
01:13:21,000 --> 01:13:23,360
Speaker 1: said to themselves and you see that run today by

1486
01:13:23,439 --> 01:13:25,719
Speaker 1: Jonathan Williams in practice or did you see what number

1487
01:13:25,760 --> 01:13:28,400
Speaker 1: thirty three did in training camp. I was really happy

1488
01:13:28,439 --> 01:13:30,720
Speaker 1: to see him get his opportunity and cash in with it,

1489
01:13:31,160 --> 01:13:33,680
Speaker 1: you know, with that big game against the Jaguar. So

1490
01:13:34,560 --> 01:13:37,320
Speaker 1: I think the Colts should be okay running the football.

1491
01:13:37,360 --> 01:13:39,360
Speaker 1: I think it's going to be more by committee. They'll

1492
01:13:39,400 --> 01:13:41,760
Speaker 1: split up those carries kind of three ways when you

1493
01:13:41,880 --> 01:13:44,439
Speaker 1: also throwing Naim Hines in there as well. But I

1494
01:13:44,520 --> 01:13:46,439
Speaker 1: don't expect any one of those guys to be a

1495
01:13:46,520 --> 01:13:49,599
Speaker 1: bell cow running back and run the football like Marlon

1496
01:13:49,920 --> 01:13:52,840
Speaker 1: Mac does about nineteen or twenty times a game. Matt Taylor,

1497
01:13:52,960 --> 01:13:55,840
Speaker 1: Voice of the Colts joining us now. T Y Hilton

1498
01:13:55,960 --> 01:13:58,240
Speaker 1: is one thing, but what about the other past catchers,

1499
01:13:58,240 --> 01:14:00,479
Speaker 1: because it seems like against the Texans, it doesn't matter

1500
01:14:00,520 --> 01:14:03,479
Speaker 1: who's playing, they tend to make plays. Yeah, that that's

1501
01:14:03,560 --> 01:14:05,880
Speaker 1: I mean the Colts, they are who they are right

1502
01:14:05,960 --> 01:14:08,320
Speaker 1: now in terms of an offensive identity. They are going

1503
01:14:08,400 --> 01:14:10,439
Speaker 1: to run the ball first. That's what they want to do.

1504
01:14:10,560 --> 01:14:13,320
Speaker 1: I mean they're a top five rushing team. You know,

1505
01:14:13,439 --> 01:14:16,720
Speaker 1: the passing numbers are reflected in that. You know, they're

1506
01:14:16,840 --> 01:14:19,760
Speaker 1: they're a bottom you know seven team in passing. And

1507
01:14:19,880 --> 01:14:23,439
Speaker 1: that's not because Jacoby Brissette can't throw the football. It's

1508
01:14:23,479 --> 01:14:26,040
Speaker 1: just because of you know, their offensive identity is to

1509
01:14:26,280 --> 01:14:30,160
Speaker 1: run it first. Now that being said, you know, without

1510
01:14:30,200 --> 01:14:33,800
Speaker 1: t Y Hilton, without Paris Campbell, without Devin Funches, the

1511
01:14:33,840 --> 01:14:36,439
Speaker 1: Colts are down to you know, some guys they didn't

1512
01:14:36,479 --> 01:14:39,600
Speaker 1: see or forecasts playing a ton this season. You know,

1513
01:14:39,840 --> 01:14:42,519
Speaker 1: guys like you know, Chester Rogers, you know, being in

1514
01:14:42,600 --> 01:14:46,200
Speaker 1: that front three mix at wide receiver. You know, Ashton Doolan.

1515
01:14:46,360 --> 01:14:49,160
Speaker 1: Same thing with you know, Marcus Johnson, who got you know,

1516
01:14:49,280 --> 01:14:51,400
Speaker 1: pulled off the practice squad a couple of weeks ago.

1517
01:14:52,160 --> 01:14:55,080
Speaker 1: Those guys have had a difficult time winning their one

1518
01:14:55,160 --> 01:14:57,439
Speaker 1: on one matchups. And the Colts do not stretch the

1519
01:14:57,520 --> 01:14:59,760
Speaker 1: field very often. I think they're you know, one of

1520
01:14:59,800 --> 01:15:04,000
Speaker 1: the you know, bottom seven teams in terms of explosive plays,

1521
01:15:04,160 --> 01:15:06,960
Speaker 1: plays over twenty five yards, things of that nature. I

1522
01:15:07,040 --> 01:15:09,479
Speaker 1: think they only have two in the last four games,

1523
01:15:09,560 --> 01:15:13,280
Speaker 1: you know, passing plays over twenty five So, you know,

1524
01:15:13,360 --> 01:15:15,160
Speaker 1: it's going to be really interesting for me in this

1525
01:15:15,320 --> 01:15:19,240
Speaker 1: game mark stylistically, to see who the Colts are, because

1526
01:15:19,280 --> 01:15:21,240
Speaker 1: in that first game, the Colts had a pretty good

1527
01:15:21,320 --> 01:15:24,320
Speaker 1: idea against the Texans what they had to do to

1528
01:15:24,720 --> 01:15:27,160
Speaker 1: beat Houston, and that was throw the ball. You know.

1529
01:15:27,280 --> 01:15:31,200
Speaker 1: Jacobe Burssette dropped back to throw thirty nine times, completed

1530
01:15:31,280 --> 01:15:34,439
Speaker 1: a had a career high with three hundred and twenty

1531
01:15:34,479 --> 01:15:37,640
Speaker 1: six yards passing career high and four touchdowns. It was

1532
01:15:37,720 --> 01:15:41,200
Speaker 1: his best passer rating game of his career. So I'll

1533
01:15:41,240 --> 01:15:44,160
Speaker 1: be interested to see what the Colts I think they

1534
01:15:44,240 --> 01:15:45,920
Speaker 1: have to do in this game in order to win it.

1535
01:15:45,960 --> 01:15:48,479
Speaker 1: Can they run the ball against the Texans who got

1536
01:15:48,560 --> 01:15:52,679
Speaker 1: gashed against you know, Baltimore upfront? The Colts really don't

1537
01:15:52,800 --> 01:15:55,360
Speaker 1: look like Baltimore offensively, so I'm not sure how much

1538
01:15:55,400 --> 01:15:58,200
Speaker 1: that translates, but it'll be interesting to see if the

1539
01:15:58,240 --> 01:16:00,560
Speaker 1: Colts can run the ball better in this game and

1540
01:16:00,680 --> 01:16:03,200
Speaker 1: maybe mixing the run versus the pass in the second

1541
01:16:03,240 --> 01:16:06,080
Speaker 1: go around against the Texans. Knowing the Colts are depleted

1542
01:16:06,120 --> 01:16:08,960
Speaker 1: as of right now at receiver, They're down their top three,

1543
01:16:09,160 --> 01:16:11,599
Speaker 1: you know, wide receivers at the start of training camp

1544
01:16:11,640 --> 01:16:14,360
Speaker 1: heading into the regular season. Texans want to play clean,

1545
01:16:14,479 --> 01:16:17,280
Speaker 1: That's no secret, everybody does. They can't afford to turn

1546
01:16:17,320 --> 01:16:19,720
Speaker 1: it over like last time. What about the defensive side

1547
01:16:19,760 --> 01:16:21,280
Speaker 1: of the ball for Indy. What's it looking like going

1548
01:16:21,360 --> 01:16:24,400
Speaker 1: into Thursday. They're playing their best football of the season

1549
01:16:24,520 --> 01:16:26,400
Speaker 1: right now. I mean the Colts are giving up just

1550
01:16:26,439 --> 01:16:29,880
Speaker 1: about seventy rushing yards per game in their last five.

1551
01:16:30,040 --> 01:16:32,320
Speaker 1: They've held three of their last five opponents to under

1552
01:16:32,360 --> 01:16:35,879
Speaker 1: one hundred yards rushing. Darius Leonard's really coming on, Anthony

1553
01:16:35,960 --> 01:16:39,760
Speaker 1: Walker at middle linebackers really coming on. The pressure is

1554
01:16:40,400 --> 01:16:44,000
Speaker 1: more productive lately. Justin Houston has eight sacks on the season.

1555
01:16:44,080 --> 01:16:47,400
Speaker 1: Now he's got a sack in six consecutive games. So

1556
01:16:47,560 --> 01:16:49,920
Speaker 1: they're playing their best football of the seasons. And in

1557
01:16:50,000 --> 01:16:53,280
Speaker 1: the secondary, they're not giving up the big plays. They're

1558
01:16:53,320 --> 01:16:55,840
Speaker 1: really good inside the red zone in this five game stretch.

1559
01:16:56,120 --> 01:16:59,040
Speaker 1: The only bad thing is heading into this game, you

1560
01:16:59,120 --> 01:17:01,519
Speaker 1: know they may have won the war or the battle,

1561
01:17:01,520 --> 01:17:04,240
Speaker 1: I should say, against the Jacksonville Jaguars. If you're a

1562
01:17:04,320 --> 01:17:06,400
Speaker 1: Colts fan, you just hope that they didn't lose the

1563
01:17:06,479 --> 01:17:10,479
Speaker 1: war going forward because they had so many guys banged

1564
01:17:10,560 --> 01:17:14,000
Speaker 1: up in that game, specifically in the secondary. Rock you

1565
01:17:14,120 --> 01:17:16,880
Speaker 1: Scene got banged up. Carry Willis isn't going to play

1566
01:17:16,880 --> 01:17:19,479
Speaker 1: in this game because he's got a concussion. Pierre to

1567
01:17:19,600 --> 01:17:22,200
Speaker 1: Sira hasn't played since that Week sixth game against the

1568
01:17:22,520 --> 01:17:26,920
Speaker 1: Houston Texans with a nagging hamstring injury. Clayton Gathers has

1569
01:17:26,960 --> 01:17:29,400
Speaker 1: been in and out of the lineup this year because

1570
01:17:29,439 --> 01:17:32,720
Speaker 1: of some stuff. So they're really really thin right now

1571
01:17:33,120 --> 01:17:36,679
Speaker 1: in the secondary, especially at cornerback. So I would expect

1572
01:17:36,720 --> 01:17:39,120
Speaker 1: to see Quincy Wilson active in this game. He hasn't

1573
01:17:39,120 --> 01:17:41,719
Speaker 1: been the last couple of weeks. I would I expect

1574
01:17:41,760 --> 01:17:43,400
Speaker 1: to see him play, and I would expect to see

1575
01:17:43,479 --> 01:17:46,000
Speaker 1: him have a big role because the Colts being thin

1576
01:17:46,160 --> 01:17:49,160
Speaker 1: numbers wise in the back end. All Right, your guys,

1577
01:17:49,240 --> 01:17:51,479
Speaker 1: Matt asked me, if these two teams are going to

1578
01:17:51,520 --> 01:17:53,800
Speaker 1: be back in the postseason in January, what is your

1579
01:17:54,000 --> 01:17:56,479
Speaker 1: feeling on that, on how it's going to play out

1580
01:17:56,520 --> 01:17:58,400
Speaker 1: the rest of the way in the division. I got

1581
01:17:58,520 --> 01:18:00,720
Speaker 1: to imagine Thursday's result has a lot to do with that.

1582
01:18:00,800 --> 01:18:03,439
Speaker 1: But what are your feelings right now? Yeah, I mean

1583
01:18:03,560 --> 01:18:05,840
Speaker 1: for the Colts, I can only speak on behalf of

1584
01:18:05,920 --> 01:18:08,920
Speaker 1: the Colts. I think that if the Colts, you know,

1585
01:18:09,080 --> 01:18:11,519
Speaker 1: just just knowing what I know right now, obviously their

1586
01:18:11,560 --> 01:18:14,640
Speaker 1: best chances to win the division, to make the postseason.

1587
01:18:15,720 --> 01:18:17,519
Speaker 1: I think that wild card race is going to be

1588
01:18:17,760 --> 01:18:20,280
Speaker 1: really really tight. And the bad part about the Colts

1589
01:18:20,320 --> 01:18:22,800
Speaker 1: in terms of the wild card is the Colts have

1590
01:18:22,960 --> 01:18:25,560
Speaker 1: dropped some games they shouldn't have, you know, on the

1591
01:18:25,680 --> 01:18:27,760
Speaker 1: road to Pittsburgh, who I don't think it's going to

1592
01:18:27,840 --> 01:18:30,840
Speaker 1: make the postseason, so that hurts. The same is true

1593
01:18:30,920 --> 01:18:33,799
Speaker 1: for you know, a really really really bad loss to Miami.

1594
01:18:34,400 --> 01:18:37,080
Speaker 1: The Colts lost a home game to Oakland back in

1595
01:18:37,240 --> 01:18:39,400
Speaker 1: the early part of the season, so that's gonna hurt

1596
01:18:39,439 --> 01:18:43,120
Speaker 1: because Oakland is in the mix for a wild card.

1597
01:18:43,360 --> 01:18:46,599
Speaker 1: I mean, Buffalo is right there, some other teams are

1598
01:18:46,640 --> 01:18:48,600
Speaker 1: in the mix. I think record wise, is going to

1599
01:18:48,680 --> 01:18:51,320
Speaker 1: be tough for the Colts to get into the wild

1600
01:18:51,400 --> 01:18:53,879
Speaker 1: card because of you know, some head to head matchups

1601
01:18:53,960 --> 01:18:56,640
Speaker 1: they they dropped they probably shouldn't have that are going

1602
01:18:56,680 --> 01:18:58,920
Speaker 1: to come back to bite them when you know, you

1603
01:18:59,000 --> 01:19:03,559
Speaker 1: get into rambificase later in the season, like weeks fifteen, sixteen,

1604
01:19:03,640 --> 01:19:06,800
Speaker 1: and seventeen. I think if the Colts win this game

1605
01:19:06,880 --> 01:19:09,400
Speaker 1: coming up on Thursday, they'll they will essentially have a

1606
01:19:09,479 --> 01:19:12,880
Speaker 1: two game lead over Houston with five games to go.

1607
01:19:13,160 --> 01:19:15,519
Speaker 1: You'll like their chances to win the division if that's

1608
01:19:15,560 --> 01:19:18,000
Speaker 1: the case, because there'll be a game up and then

1609
01:19:18,040 --> 01:19:20,960
Speaker 1: they'll have the tiebreaker over Houston with a sweep on

1610
01:19:21,000 --> 01:19:24,200
Speaker 1: the season. So you know, I don't I don't think

1611
01:19:24,200 --> 01:19:26,559
Speaker 1: the Cults are looking past these Houston Texans in terms

1612
01:19:26,600 --> 01:19:30,240
Speaker 1: of the playoffs. But I fully expect that if the

1613
01:19:30,320 --> 01:19:33,360
Speaker 1: Colts win this game, they'll make the playoffs by winning

1614
01:19:33,400 --> 01:19:35,840
Speaker 1: the division. And that's a good thing because the Colts

1615
01:19:35,920 --> 01:19:38,640
Speaker 1: wildcard chances just don't look great at the moment as

1616
01:19:38,680 --> 01:19:40,560
Speaker 1: we sit here and talk right now. So you're with me,

1617
01:19:40,640 --> 01:19:43,720
Speaker 1: I've given it the long title Thursday's Game of the Way.

1618
01:19:43,760 --> 01:19:46,880
Speaker 1: Too early to say it unofficial AFC South Championship game,

1619
01:19:47,200 --> 01:19:50,040
Speaker 1: I always say de facto, right, We're always usually talking

1620
01:19:50,040 --> 01:19:53,080
Speaker 1: about this game being played in December at Lucas Oil Stadium,

1621
01:19:53,400 --> 01:19:56,320
Speaker 1: you know, like midway through the months, like weeks fourteen

1622
01:19:56,400 --> 01:19:58,519
Speaker 1: or fifteen, Like it's always going to come down to

1623
01:19:58,600 --> 01:20:02,360
Speaker 1: this game to see team represents the AFC South. It's

1624
01:20:02,400 --> 01:20:05,160
Speaker 1: just about three weeks sooner this year, but I think

1625
01:20:05,240 --> 01:20:07,800
Speaker 1: the ramifications are the same. Whoever wins this game, I

1626
01:20:07,880 --> 01:20:10,360
Speaker 1: think is going to have the leg up to represent

1627
01:20:10,479 --> 01:20:12,479
Speaker 1: the AFC South in the playoffs. Well, I'm with you

1628
01:20:12,720 --> 01:20:16,000
Speaker 1: on that thought of why did the schedule makers put

1629
01:20:16,080 --> 01:20:19,080
Speaker 1: this ditty in December. I mean, this thing belongs in

1630
01:20:19,160 --> 01:20:21,840
Speaker 1: the final couple of weeks of the season, third to

1631
01:20:22,000 --> 01:20:24,720
Speaker 1: last week at the outside, I mean, this is this

1632
01:20:24,960 --> 01:20:27,200
Speaker 1: is always about the division here, and I can't believe

1633
01:20:27,240 --> 01:20:29,320
Speaker 1: they didn't do it that way. Well it's you know,

1634
01:20:29,400 --> 01:20:32,320
Speaker 1: it's primetime, so maybe some more eyeballs on it, right

1635
01:20:32,400 --> 01:20:36,200
Speaker 1: Thursday Night Football Division matchup, you know, So I understand

1636
01:20:36,240 --> 01:20:38,920
Speaker 1: it from from that standpoint. If you're a Colts fan.

1637
01:20:39,360 --> 01:20:41,720
Speaker 1: The one major gripe you have as far as a

1638
01:20:41,960 --> 01:20:45,680
Speaker 1: schedule the schedule makers are concerned is the Cults have played. Now,

1639
01:20:46,000 --> 01:20:48,400
Speaker 1: this will be the seventeenth time the Colts have played

1640
01:20:48,439 --> 01:20:51,719
Speaker 1: on Thursday Night Football and the twelfth time they played

1641
01:20:51,840 --> 01:20:54,400
Speaker 1: on the road. So I'm not sure what it is

1642
01:20:54,479 --> 01:20:56,320
Speaker 1: about the Colts and not being able to get home

1643
01:20:56,400 --> 01:20:59,120
Speaker 1: games on Thursday night on short weeks. But I'm sure

1644
01:20:59,200 --> 01:21:01,400
Speaker 1: Texans fans don't care because you know, the texts or

1645
01:21:01,400 --> 01:21:04,120
Speaker 1: the Colts have have had, you know, a reasonably good

1646
01:21:04,160 --> 01:21:06,760
Speaker 1: amount of success at narg Stadium, so I'm sure they

1647
01:21:06,800 --> 01:21:09,360
Speaker 1: don't care about the colts plight having to travel on

1648
01:21:09,400 --> 01:21:12,760
Speaker 1: a short week. Well it's very interesting you say that, yeah,

1649
01:21:12,840 --> 01:21:15,120
Speaker 1: because you look at the history of the Thursday Night

1650
01:21:15,200 --> 01:21:18,840
Speaker 1: matchups here two eleven. Dan Orlovsky as a cult beats

1651
01:21:18,880 --> 01:21:22,520
Speaker 1: the Texans. We all know about Matt Hasselbeck with Montezuma's

1652
01:21:22,560 --> 01:21:25,920
Speaker 1: Revenge or whatever in twenty fifteen, the twenty fourteen game

1653
01:21:26,040 --> 01:21:29,120
Speaker 1: Thursday Night. You traveled both those times, so who knows.

1654
01:21:29,320 --> 01:21:31,080
Speaker 1: I'm with you. I think the road team always has

1655
01:21:31,120 --> 01:21:33,439
Speaker 1: a disadvantage on Thursday Night. Hey, let me ask you this.

1656
01:21:33,640 --> 01:21:37,439
Speaker 1: You're still working with Jim Sorgi, right, correct, Yeah, does

1657
01:21:37,520 --> 01:21:40,120
Speaker 1: Sorgie have any good Peyton manning stories for you? Do

1658
01:21:40,160 --> 01:21:43,599
Speaker 1: you ever get that out of him? Oh? Absolutely, yeah?

1659
01:21:43,680 --> 01:21:46,880
Speaker 1: And he safeguards that relationship with Peyton. You know, Jim

1660
01:21:46,920 --> 01:21:49,640
Speaker 1: and I are very very good friends. But even I

1661
01:21:49,840 --> 01:21:52,760
Speaker 1: have a hard time, you know, cracking that coach to

1662
01:21:52,880 --> 01:21:55,320
Speaker 1: get inside the film room with those two guys together.

1663
01:21:56,200 --> 01:21:58,599
Speaker 1: But you know they're still very close. You know, Peyton

1664
01:21:58,640 --> 01:22:02,320
Speaker 1: will send them texts, you know, Uh, the most recent examples,

1665
01:22:02,360 --> 01:22:03,880
Speaker 1: you know, Peyton sent him a text of what he

1666
01:22:04,040 --> 01:22:05,960
Speaker 1: was for Halloween, you know, send him a picture. So

1667
01:22:06,439 --> 01:22:08,680
Speaker 1: that was pretty cool. But you know, Jim is a

1668
01:22:08,840 --> 01:22:12,559
Speaker 1: very as you would imagine playing with Peyton all those years,

1669
01:22:12,600 --> 01:22:15,280
Speaker 1: but just on his own, plus the Peyton Manning relationship.

1670
01:22:15,680 --> 01:22:19,519
Speaker 1: He is one of the most cerebral football minds I've

1671
01:22:19,560 --> 01:22:23,040
Speaker 1: ever been around. And I watched practice with him, and

1672
01:22:23,160 --> 01:22:25,800
Speaker 1: he points things out and he sees things, and he's

1673
01:22:25,840 --> 01:22:28,640
Speaker 1: able to just identify things so quickly on you know

1674
01:22:28,760 --> 01:22:31,040
Speaker 1: what's coming or what they're trying to do. So being

1675
01:22:31,080 --> 01:22:33,439
Speaker 1: able to call a game with him every Sunday is

1676
01:22:33,479 --> 01:22:36,080
Speaker 1: a real treat. And I honestly, you know, honest, honest

1677
01:22:36,120 --> 01:22:39,240
Speaker 1: to goodness, learns something every every Sunday. You know, being

1678
01:22:39,320 --> 01:22:40,880
Speaker 1: with him and calling a game with him, it's got

1679
01:22:40,920 --> 01:22:42,320
Speaker 1: to be one of the best jobs in the history

1680
01:22:42,320 --> 01:22:46,200
Speaker 1: of sports to be Peyton Manning's backup in Indianapolis. Matt Taylor,

1681
01:22:46,600 --> 01:22:48,559
Speaker 1: it's not. It's not as glamorous as you would think.

1682
01:22:48,600 --> 01:22:51,320
Speaker 1: He's got some war stories where where Peyton went RiPP

1683
01:22:51,360 --> 01:22:53,600
Speaker 1: into him and you know, there's not just holding it.

1684
01:22:53,680 --> 01:22:56,400
Speaker 1: It's not just holding the clipboard on Sunday. There's a Jim.

1685
01:22:56,800 --> 01:23:00,439
Speaker 1: Jim had a huge hand in a role on the

1686
01:23:00,600 --> 01:23:03,880
Speaker 1: game planning and the strategy every Sunday for that offense.

1687
01:23:04,080 --> 01:23:06,960
Speaker 1: That's awesome. Well, they did very well. One more for

1688
01:23:07,120 --> 01:23:10,400
Speaker 1: you here, Matt, how has Manning looked at in Andy.

1689
01:23:11,080 --> 01:23:13,559
Speaker 1: Was there a bitter feeling about him going to Denver

1690
01:23:13,680 --> 01:23:16,320
Speaker 1: and winning a Super Bowl with the Broncos? And if

1691
01:23:16,360 --> 01:23:18,720
Speaker 1: there was, are they over that? What's the relationship? Like?

1692
01:23:20,120 --> 01:23:22,880
Speaker 1: I don't think so. I mean, I think, you know,

1693
01:23:22,920 --> 01:23:25,200
Speaker 1: there's always gonna be a minority of people that were

1694
01:23:26,160 --> 01:23:27,760
Speaker 1: that are going to be hell bent on you know,

1695
01:23:27,840 --> 01:23:30,599
Speaker 1: he shouldn't have he shouldn't have gone, or the Colt

1696
01:23:30,640 --> 01:23:33,400
Speaker 1: shouldn't have released him. But you just have to put

1697
01:23:33,439 --> 01:23:37,080
Speaker 1: yourself in the Colt shoes. Back in that twenty eleven year,

1698
01:23:37,280 --> 01:23:40,280
Speaker 1: they were just in a no win situation because of

1699
01:23:40,360 --> 01:23:42,920
Speaker 1: the unknowns. I mean, we're talking about a guy that

1700
01:23:43,080 --> 01:23:46,080
Speaker 1: could not say definitively for himself how he was going

1701
01:23:46,160 --> 01:23:48,840
Speaker 1: to feel. The doctors and trainers couldn't predict how it

1702
01:23:48,920 --> 01:23:51,840
Speaker 1: was going to go. I mean, at that time in

1703
01:23:51,960 --> 01:23:54,599
Speaker 1: the offseason in March of twenty eleven, no one knew

1704
01:23:54,640 --> 01:23:56,519
Speaker 1: if that neck was going to come back, and if

1705
01:23:56,720 --> 01:23:58,840
Speaker 1: Peyton was ever going to play again, and if he

1706
01:23:58,840 --> 01:24:00,719
Speaker 1: would be the same guy and if he did step

1707
01:24:00,800 --> 01:24:03,400
Speaker 1: back on the field. So with a two and fourteen

1708
01:24:03,479 --> 01:24:06,760
Speaker 1: season and with a home run prospect out there like

1709
01:24:06,880 --> 01:24:09,639
Speaker 1: Andrew Luck, and it can't miss seemingly, you know, number

1710
01:24:09,680 --> 01:24:12,720
Speaker 1: one overall traffick. They had to make that move, and

1711
01:24:12,880 --> 01:24:16,320
Speaker 1: so they did what was best for their organization. And

1712
01:24:16,960 --> 01:24:20,439
Speaker 1: you know, you can argue the way the luck tenure ended,

1713
01:24:20,600 --> 01:24:23,040
Speaker 1: you know, it is what it is. But at the time,

1714
01:24:23,200 --> 01:24:26,080
Speaker 1: it was, in my opinion, a no brainer. And so

1715
01:24:26,200 --> 01:24:28,639
Speaker 1: I don't think, you know, I would say ninety five

1716
01:24:29,240 --> 01:24:33,840
Speaker 1: of Colts fans have no remorse over Peyton Manning leaving

1717
01:24:33,880 --> 01:24:35,960
Speaker 1: and winning a Super Bowl with the Denver Broncos. I

1718
01:24:36,040 --> 01:24:39,120
Speaker 1: thought most of Indianapolis was very happy for him, and

1719
01:24:39,160 --> 01:24:42,439
Speaker 1: they certainly rooted for him u in those Super Bowls

1720
01:24:42,960 --> 01:24:46,160
Speaker 1: with the Denver Broncos. The thing that drives me crazy

1721
01:24:46,640 --> 01:24:48,559
Speaker 1: is when he would come back and play the Colts

1722
01:24:48,800 --> 01:24:51,320
Speaker 1: and you would you would see those split jerseys, you know,

1723
01:24:51,479 --> 01:24:55,760
Speaker 1: half Orange half Colts. Those drove me crazy. Either you're

1724
01:24:55,760 --> 01:24:58,120
Speaker 1: either a Colts fan or a Peyton Manning fan, so

1725
01:24:58,240 --> 01:25:01,040
Speaker 1: you got to pick one. I just never really understood

1726
01:25:01,080 --> 01:25:03,920
Speaker 1: that concept. But um, you know, Peyton when he comes

1727
01:25:03,920 --> 01:25:06,479
Speaker 1: to me, he was just here two weeks ago when

1728
01:25:06,520 --> 01:25:09,360
Speaker 1: the team inducted Dwight Freeney into the Ring of Honor,

1729
01:25:10,080 --> 01:25:12,320
Speaker 1: so he was back for that and so whenever he's

1730
01:25:12,720 --> 01:25:14,720
Speaker 1: back in the stadium and makes an appearance on the

1731
01:25:14,760 --> 01:25:17,880
Speaker 1: big JumboTron at Lucas Oil Stadium, the place just goes crazy.

1732
01:25:18,240 --> 01:25:20,960
Speaker 1: I mean, he's a folk hero here. He'll always be that.

1733
01:25:21,560 --> 01:25:23,720
Speaker 1: He'll always be the guy that guided the Colts to

1734
01:25:23,800 --> 01:25:28,040
Speaker 1: their first Super Bowl championship. Indianapolis, he's got he's got

1735
01:25:28,120 --> 01:25:30,800
Speaker 1: a statue out front of Lucas Oil for crying out loud.

1736
01:25:30,920 --> 01:25:33,799
Speaker 1: So this city, the state owes a ton to Peyton Manning.

1737
01:25:34,080 --> 01:25:36,960
Speaker 1: I mean, you talk about the Super Bowl coming here. Uh,

1738
01:25:37,400 --> 01:25:40,320
Speaker 1: you know the fact that Lucas Oil Stadium is even built,

1739
01:25:40,360 --> 01:25:44,280
Speaker 1: it's a wreck. It's because of, indirectly because of all

1740
01:25:44,360 --> 01:25:47,040
Speaker 1: the success the Colts had all those twelve and four

1741
01:25:47,160 --> 01:25:50,120
Speaker 1: years that that Peyton orchestrated. So I mean you could

1742
01:25:50,160 --> 01:25:54,640
Speaker 1: say that the economy and the notoriety of Indianapolis is

1743
01:25:54,720 --> 01:25:57,679
Speaker 1: indirectly tied to what Peyton Manning did and the success

1744
01:25:57,720 --> 01:25:59,880
Speaker 1: of the Colts in those you know, mid to tooth

1745
01:26:00,000 --> 01:26:03,360
Speaker 1: thousand years. Excellent stuff, matt Hey. We appreciate the time

1746
01:26:03,439 --> 01:26:05,439
Speaker 1: as always, safe travels here. We look forward to seeing

1747
01:26:05,479 --> 01:26:07,760
Speaker 1: your Thursday night. You got it, Mark, Thanks for having

1748
01:26:07,840 --> 01:26:10,040
Speaker 1: me on and I have a great call coming up. Man,

1749
01:26:10,160 --> 01:26:13,360
Speaker 1: this one is going to be huge. Cannot wait. A

1750
01:26:13,439 --> 01:26:15,320
Speaker 1: big thanks to Bill O'Brien, to Mark vandam Here, to

1751
01:26:15,400 --> 01:26:18,400
Speaker 1: Andre Where, to Clint Stirner, to Deep Cited, to Andrew Walker,

1752
01:26:18,640 --> 01:26:21,640
Speaker 1: to Drew Doherty, and of course to Matt Taylor. To

1753
01:26:21,720 --> 01:26:23,559
Speaker 1: all my guys back at six ten for keeping us

1754
01:26:23,600 --> 01:26:25,240
Speaker 1: on the air, To all of you for listen, Thanks

1755
01:26:25,320 --> 01:26:28,120
Speaker 1: so much. We will see you tomorrow in this building.

1756
01:26:28,280 --> 01:26:31,479
Speaker 1: Be here, be loud. Let's roll, Go Texans.