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Speaker 3: big show planned as always, and here's the loose agenda

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Speaker 3: coming up to start out the show in just a

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Speaker 3: couple of minutes, Colts head coach Shane Steichen will join

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Speaker 3: me in the studio and we'll talk about the tough

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Speaker 3: loss in Jacksonville and where the Colts go from here

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Speaker 3: now with an eight and five record going into week

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Speaker 3: number fifteen, and then following that, Colts radio analyst Rick

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Speaker 3: Van Turrey and Joe Wrights we of course join me

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Speaker 3: on the program to begin breaking down the loss in

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Speaker 3: Jacksonville and how the Colts can turn things around with

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Speaker 3: four games to play. And as always, we want to

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Speaker 3: hear from you tonight. This is an interactive show and

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Speaker 3: we want your social media questions all evening long, and

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Speaker 3: we'll get to the best questions throughout the course of

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Speaker 3: the next hour. But let's start off with the state

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Speaker 3: of the Colts. They fell to the Jaguars on Sunday

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Speaker 3: thirty six to nineteen. It was their eleventh straight loss

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Speaker 3: to the Jaguar as the home team and their tenth

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Speaker 3: straight set back in games played at EverBank Stadium in

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Speaker 3: North Florida against the jag So we don't need to

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Speaker 3: spend a ton of time on the specifics of the

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Speaker 3: game because the big news of the game centers on injuries.

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Speaker 3: In the first quarter, quarterback Daniel Jones dropped a pass

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Speaker 3: and he slipped on a wet field and suffered an

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Speaker 3: achilles injury in his right leg, and he tried to

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Speaker 3: sit down and was grimacing in pain as the team's

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Speaker 3: The Colts at the time trailed fourteen to seven, and

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Speaker 3: they would go on to trail twenty eight to ten

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Speaker 3: and a halftime after the Jaguar scored two touchdowns after

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Speaker 3: Colts turnovers. But Jones's injury will keep him out for

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Speaker 3: the rest of the season, and that's a major blow

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Speaker 3: for both Jones and the Colts that seemingly made for

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Speaker 3: a great pairing. Jones was having a great season, completing

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Speaker 3: sixty eight percent of his passes. He was over three

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Speaker 3: the Colts will have a decision to make on him, certainly,

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Speaker 3: short term, the Colts are trying to salvage the season,

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Speaker 3: as they've now lost three of their last four and

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Speaker 3: Sunday and responded valiantly as one could have hoped, and

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Speaker 3: like we said, the Colts defense was putting some tough

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Speaker 3: most first half points scored by the Jaguars in a

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Speaker 3: So times are tough right now for the Colts. They've

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Speaker 3: continues with Daniel Jones set back on Sunday. The Colts

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Speaker 3: looking in. The Jaguars now lead the AFC South and

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Speaker 3: the wild card pecking order as well. But there's still

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Speaker 3: up in segment two, I'll be joined by Rick Van

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Speaker 3: what they saw on game film from yesterday. But it's

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Speaker 3: now time for a weekly conversation with Colts head coach

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Speaker 3: Shane Steichen, who joins us now as he's visiting with

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Speaker 3: us in the studio and coach. Obviously, Sunday was a

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Speaker 3: very forgettable day for the team on a lot of

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Speaker 2: Let's start first.

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Speaker 3: With Daniel Jones. How is he feeling today and what's

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Speaker 4: just the ultimate competitor, great teammate, prepares, you know, like

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Speaker 4: just a very unfortunate situation and just praying for a

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Speaker 3: So we'll double back to that certainly more there, but

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Speaker 3: you know, just stands for so much. But three concussions

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Speaker 4: Absolutely, you always want to keep the best interest in

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Speaker 3: In two, you know, again doubling back to the big

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Speaker 3: picture on the Daniel Jones injury, when when he goes down,

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Speaker 3: done a great job since he was signed back in

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Speaker 4: Yeah, anytime you lose your starting quarterback, it's hard on

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Speaker 4: you know, any team, and to see him go down

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Speaker 4: the way he did and a non contact injury is

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Speaker 4: obviously tough. But you know, guys rallied around Riley and

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Speaker 4: I thought Riley, you know, went in and did some

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Speaker 4: let us down on some drives, made some big time throws,

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Speaker 3: You know, when he comes in changes the dynamic of

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Speaker 3: You have to adapt to Hill his skill set and

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Speaker 3: his strength. So how did you think that the architects

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think. You know, Riley does a great job

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Speaker 4: And so when he came in, I thought he did

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Speaker 4: already in the game plan. You know, we had little

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Speaker 3: So again, you mentioned that Riley Leonard is dealing with

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Speaker 3: the knee injury, So certainly a lot of TBD aspects

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Speaker 3: been through this process before. You've had to switch quarterbacks

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Speaker 3: mid game, You've had to switch quarterbacks mid season. What

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Speaker 3: are the processes in the different phases of switching the

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it's understanding what that quarterback does well

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Speaker 4: and building the plan around the quarterback. I think that's

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Speaker 4: always the you know, I think that's the fun part

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Speaker 4: work through that this week and looking forward to that challenge.

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Speaker 3: You know, again, not to spend too much time talking

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Speaker 3: about the game, but it just kind of started with

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Speaker 3: the Colts on the bad foot of things, right, an

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Speaker 3: interception on the first play on offense. How do you

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Speaker 3: summarize the offensive day against the Jaguars who caused three

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Speaker 3: turnovers and they also cause the turnover on downs as well.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's obviously tough when you turn the football over.

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Speaker 4: You know, the first drive was tough. Starting the game

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Speaker 4: obviously you got to win the turnover about on this league,

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Speaker 3: We didn't get to the quarterback at all against Trevor Lawrence.

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Speaker 3: All big ones from here on out. Four games to go,

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Speaker 3: No question about a big one for the Colts. That's

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Speaker 3: And that's what we're gonna do here tonight, or at

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Speaker 3: The Colts need some makeovers and some changes on both

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Speaker 2: Cool baby raising hell today. Okay to go Pallas, bang

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Speaker 1: Bang bang, keep the hammer downright, keep talking to one another,

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Speaker 3: the Colts now eight and five. They dropped their third

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Speaker 3: in a row, fourth in their last five outings, and

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Speaker 3: the Jaguars now own sole possession of first place in

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Speaker 3: the AFC South. With only four games to play, The

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Speaker 3: Colts lost by seventeen. They lost their starting quarterback. They

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Speaker 3: suffered some other key injuries along the way. The defense

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Speaker 3: was on its heels for most of the game, allowing

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Speaker 3: a season high thirty six points, twenty eight of that

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Speaker 3: coming in the first half.

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Speaker 2: So, Rick Venturi, I want to start with you first.

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Speaker 2: You've watched the.

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Speaker 3: Game film with a fine tooth comb. What does your

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Speaker 3: notebook say about the Colts tale of the tape here

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Speaker 3: and losing to the Jaguars.

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Speaker 5: Yeah. Oh, it was a very very difficult day. You know,

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Speaker 5: with the loss of Danny, which I'm not going to

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Speaker 5: be labor. Everybody saw it, everybody was there for it.

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Speaker 5: You know, that was gut wrenching and at the time,

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Speaker 5: for the moment, for the moment. It can only be

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Speaker 5: for the moment. It was a bit demoralizing, you know,

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Speaker 5: cancel that out. I think the toughest thing for me

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Speaker 5: was just kind of watching history repeat itself in Jacksonville.

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Speaker 5: I'm still a gas by that. I'm just still a

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Speaker 5: gas by the horrors that have happened there. You know,

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Speaker 5: obviously we all have to be very concerned about this

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Speaker 5: mid season death slide that we're on, which we're going

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Speaker 5: to talk about tonight. We're going to talk about how

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Speaker 5: to solve it, how to get out of that, you know,

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Speaker 5: And I just felt like, and obviously there were reasons

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Speaker 5: extenuating circumstances after the injuries, but watching Jacksonville kind of

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Speaker 5: totally outperform us, I mean, that was very very difficult

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Speaker 5: for me to watch. I think the things that we

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Speaker 5: you know, that I'm trying to take out of there

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Speaker 5: and trying to figure out how we're going to change this,

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Speaker 5: because these last four games are everything to us, and

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Speaker 5: they're very very challenging to say the least, you know,

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Speaker 5: But number one, we we just got to get JT going.

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Speaker 5: I mean, you know, in the four losses was three

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Speaker 5: last week and now it's four. Is he still hasn't

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Speaker 5: gotten over one hundred yards and I just, you know,

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Speaker 5: we just can't live that way, Matt. There's no way

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Speaker 5: that we can live week after week without JT being

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Speaker 5: the bell cow with this team. You know, I think

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Speaker 5: Pierce is doing a great job. You know, it doesn't

484
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Speaker 5: show tremendously on the numbers. He had eighty yards, but

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Speaker 5: he had three pis, which you could really add to

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Speaker 5: his you know, reception numbers because he's he is getting open,

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Speaker 5: guys are grabbing him. He's making tremendous catches and right

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Speaker 5: now he's our really only explosive guy that we're able

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Speaker 5: to get it to. Also, Warren has kind of disappeared

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Speaker 5: the last two weeks. I think obviously there are circumstances

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Speaker 5: involved with all the pressure that we're getting. You can't

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Speaker 5: sit there, you know, and just work your tight end

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Speaker 5: all day. Half the time you're just getting rid of

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Speaker 5: the ball. But those three factors, I mean, at the

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Speaker 5: end of the day, you have to win. I said

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Speaker 5: this every week. Those are three belcals. I mean, at

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Speaker 5: the end of the day, we've got to win with JT. Go,

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Speaker 5: we gotta win with Pierce, and and we got to

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Speaker 5: get Warn really really involved again. You know. I thought,

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Speaker 5: you know, now, there were some issues, a couple huge turnovers,

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Speaker 5: but I thought our defense you know, pretty much was

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Speaker 5: a no show in the first half, and that that

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Speaker 5: has nothing to do with our offensive. Problems other than

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Speaker 5: the couple turnovers put us in tough shape. But you know,

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Speaker 5: eatn ran it well on us. They ran the ball

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Speaker 5: early on us. We continue you to make the Lawrence

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Speaker 5: look like a Hall of Famer, and our defense is

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Speaker 5: free falling. I mean, there's reasons for it, but like

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Speaker 5: I said, nobody really cares. We fall into number twenty

510
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Speaker 5: two total and this is what's killing us. Twenty ninth

511
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Speaker 5: in passing and twenty eighth on third down, and those

512
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Speaker 5: just are not playoff numbers. I also, and this to

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Speaker 5: me has nothing to do with the quarterback. I just

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Speaker 5: cannot tolerate fourth and one being in the gun. I

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Speaker 5: just never have. I normally don't criticize calls because their resort,

516
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Speaker 5: their results oriented, but when you're in their fourth and one,

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Speaker 5: you have to always have a sneak threatened. Then you

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Speaker 5: can go outside or with it. But when you're handing

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Speaker 5: the ball five yards deep against the penetrating defensive line,

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Speaker 5: that was a killer. The two plays that were killers

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Speaker 5: in that first half when the game was still despite

522
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Speaker 5: everything was still was missing that fourth and one, and

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Speaker 5: then I have no idea what Jalen Jones was thinking

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Speaker 5: of on that third and fifteen and letting Patrick run

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Speaker 5: by him at the end of the day. Where we

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Speaker 5: are right now is we have four big challenges left,

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Speaker 5: and it's going to be incumbent on everyone in this

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Speaker 5: franchise to rally around Riley. And I personally think Riley

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Speaker 5: brings a lot to the table. We'll get into that

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Speaker 5: later today. We have to bring certain things to him

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Speaker 5: to elevate him. But everyone has to find that inner

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Speaker 5: greatness that everybody has because in this last four and

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Speaker 5: at the end of the day, there can be no

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Speaker 5: excuses whatsoever, only resolve and results. And I said this earlier.

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Speaker 5: No one cares about your issues. No one gives it. Damn,

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Speaker 5: what's that country song? Here's a quarter call someone who cares.

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Speaker 5: This is strictly about our will to overcome these adversities

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Speaker 5: and make it happen and fight our way in yep.

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Speaker 6: And I think first part game recap for me, obviously

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Speaker 6: the game changed on a dime right with Jones's injury,

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Speaker 6: and Riley came in and I thought he did some

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Speaker 6: good things. You know, I'm thinking about that first scramble

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Speaker 6: when it's third and eight, and you know, he certainly

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Speaker 6: has that athletic ability he kept his eyes downfield. To me,

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Speaker 6: the biggest sequence of the game was, you know, it

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Speaker 6: was twenty one to ten. You know, we get a

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Speaker 6: run by Taylor and off side. Finally it's second and

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Speaker 6: two or they're right at midfield and we get shut

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Speaker 6: out right the third and one call. You know, he

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Speaker 6: tries to go down to Ogletree down the scene. I

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Speaker 6: think that's one. You know, when he watches it on film,

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Speaker 6: he'll see that that opened up right there and he

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Speaker 6: could have easily scrambled for seven or eight yards. And

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Speaker 6: then we got stuffed on the fourth and one. But

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Speaker 6: you know, when you look at the stats, I mean

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Speaker 6: they're they're almost identical. Right, We had more first downs

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Speaker 6: than they did, time of possession was equal. We ran

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Speaker 6: the same amount of plays. So what happened we had

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Speaker 6: the two big turnovers backed up which gave them sevens

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Speaker 6: and they executed in the red zone and then Jacksonville.

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Speaker 6: When you watch the film, what frustrated me defensively was

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Speaker 6: all of their plays. Their big plays were on second

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Speaker 6: and fourteen on the first drive, third and five, they

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Speaker 6: go to Thomas for forty third and goal from the

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Speaker 6: eight when we thought we had them back after the penalty,

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Speaker 6: you know, third and fifteen. They made big plays on

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Speaker 6: the key money downs, and even though we were six

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Speaker 6: of eleven on third down, we did not do that

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Speaker 6: in terms of when we needed to make a play,

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Speaker 6: if that makes sense. As the stakes rose, they made

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Speaker 6: more plays at the highest points of the game. Moving

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Speaker 6: forward to Lendard, I agree with coach. You know, I

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Speaker 6: think you have four games left, You're six weeks removed

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Speaker 6: from being the one seed in the playoffs, and now

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Speaker 6: you're mathematically looking up. But the bottom line, you control

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Speaker 6: your own destiny. Is it going to be a tougher

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Speaker 6: road for sure? Is it going to be more of

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Speaker 6: an uphill climb with a rookie quarterback than not? Yes,

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Speaker 6: But I agree with coach, and you've got to come together,

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Speaker 6: and you've got to come together tight, and there can't

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Speaker 6: be any doubt in there from the coaching staff, from

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Speaker 6: the players. This is one of those we all we

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Speaker 6: got moments, so to speak, in terms of it's us

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Speaker 6: against the world, and in a way you think maybe

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Speaker 6: that can galvanize you, right, I think about Houston, right,

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Speaker 6: Houston was three and five their seasons on the brink.

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Speaker 2: CJ. Strouds out with concussion.

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Speaker 6: What happens. Davis Mills comes in there as a backup,

589
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Speaker 6: plays great football, wins three games, and now they've won

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Speaker 6: five in a row. Right, Why can't a similar circumstance

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Speaker 6: happen with the Colts? And I think that's kind of

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Speaker 6: gotta be your rallying cry.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, great point, right there? Good stuff from both have

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Speaker 3: you had? Rick Van Turrey and Joe Wrights And those

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Speaker 3: are their reactions from watching the game film from Sunday's

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Speaker 3: bad loss to the Jacksonville Jaguars, a loss that drops

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Speaker 3: the Colts to eight and five, second place, actually now

598
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Speaker 3: third place in the AFC South with the Texans who

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Speaker 3: keep on winning. As you said, Joe, and the Colts

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Speaker 3: now outside of the AFC playoff picture at the moment,

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Speaker 3: accurate weather. Coming up segment three, we're gonna dive into

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Speaker 3: Monday makeovers again. The Colts need to make some major

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Speaker 3: changes on offense. Obviously they'll be forced into some of

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Speaker 3: those changes with the change at quarterback. Also some tweaks

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Speaker 3: on defense with the final four games of the season looming,

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Speaker 3: and we'll discuss all of those things in full detail

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Speaker 3: when we come back. That's coming up when we return

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Speaker 3: with you until six point thirty. I'm Matt Taylor, joined

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Speaker 3: by Rick Venturrey. And Joe Wrights, and on the last

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Speaker 3: segment we looked at the film on the tail of

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Speaker 3: the tape. Now it's time for a segment called Monday Makeovers,

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Speaker 3: and the Colts need to make some moves and some

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Speaker 3: makeovers on both sides of the ball and maybe some

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Speaker 3: tweaks to the approach here in the final four games.

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Speaker 3: So let's talk about the offensive makeover first. With Daniel

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Speaker 3: Jones out for the rest of the season with an

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Speaker 3: achilles injury, so the Colts on Sunday turn things over

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Speaker 3: to Riley. Leonard finished the afternoon eighteen for twenty nine

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Speaker 3: for one hundred and forty five yards, did throw an interception,

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Speaker 3: capped off the game on the last drive of the

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Speaker 3: game for the Colts with a six yard scramble into

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Speaker 3: the end zone a rushing touchdown for Leonard, but the

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Speaker 3: Colts also had a hard time running the ball against

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Speaker 3: that Jaguars front seven. Jonathan Taylor finished with seventy four

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Speaker 3: rushing yards, but it took him twenty one carries to

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Speaker 3: get there. And in the big picture, as you said,

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Speaker 3: Rick Van Turrey, Taylor has failed to eclipse one hundred

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Speaker 3: yards on the ground for the third straight game and

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Speaker 3: for the fourth time and the Colts' last five outings.

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Speaker 3: So seems like now the Colts go as Taylor goes,

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Speaker 3: and right now, opposing defenses have really done a nice

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Speaker 3: job of consistently bottling him up. So Rick Ventury, I'm

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Speaker 3: gonna go to you first. So what makeovers do the

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Speaker 3: Colts have to make now to the offense without Daniel

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Speaker 3: Jones and now for the foreseeable future operating things with

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Speaker 3: a rocky quarterback and Riley Leonard.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you know the great coaches. Now, great coaches coach

656
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Speaker 5: to their players, and obviously what we have to do

657
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Speaker 5: is mesh what Riley does and improve our running game

658
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Speaker 5: with JT. Continue to get to Bald, to Piers, and

659
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Speaker 5: maybe even a little bit more to Warren. Now. I

660
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Speaker 5: like Riley, I really do. I think he brings certain

661
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Speaker 5: things to the table. Smart, very athletic, He's not afraid

662
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Speaker 5: of big moments. He's been in there. What he isn't

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Speaker 5: right yet, and I think he'll get it someday. He's

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Speaker 5: not pinpoint accurate. So what we have to do is

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Speaker 5: make sure that we coach to him, particularly on early downs,

666
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Speaker 5: on first down, when the defenses are simple, much more

667
00:31:25,840 --> 00:31:29,880
Speaker 5: quick rhythm with him. Get the ball out quick, get

668
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Speaker 5: it into his own defenses, continue to move that pocket

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Speaker 5: with him. He's really good on the move. And if

670
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Speaker 5: the edge is there, let him go on ahead and

671
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Speaker 5: take it. When you're gonna throw deep, do it on

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Speaker 5: first down, do it with maximum protection. Run two man

673
00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:49,800
Speaker 5: routes deep with a checkdown and he's either looking to

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Speaker 5: one guy or he's checking it down. And then I

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Speaker 5: think what we add is a little bit with what

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Speaker 5: we had with Richardson, is we add the NCAA dimension

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Speaker 5: which might help Jonathan. The ability to run the zone

678
00:32:03,040 --> 00:32:07,720
Speaker 5: reads and predetermined quarterback runs may open that up. That

679
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Speaker 5: may make the edges softer, might open it up for JT. Inside.

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Speaker 5: But I think more than anything else, our coaching staff,

681
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Speaker 5: starting with Shane Steichen, have to basically make statements and

682
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Speaker 5: their actions have to validate that that we have total

683
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Speaker 5: confidence in this kid. There's no excuses. We're moving forward.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, Coach hit it on the head with basically the

685
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Speaker 6: same stuff I was going to share. I really like

686
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Speaker 6: his leadership, his toughness, in his athleticism, and I think

687
00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:39,280
Speaker 6: to his athleticism, I think that can open up the

688
00:32:39,360 --> 00:32:42,680
Speaker 6: running game more for JT. Like coach said, you know,

689
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Speaker 6: similar to some things that Richardson did when he was

690
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Speaker 6: at the helmet QB. Now they're a different type of athlete.

691
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Speaker 6: But the thing that you know, Shane Stikeen's done this before, right,

692
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Speaker 6: going from Richardson to Minshew, Richardson to Flacco sometimes in games.

693
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Speaker 6: So you know that the schematic stuff is there, but

694
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Speaker 6: you know, even some designed runs for Leonard, I'm thinking

695
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Speaker 6: you getting a shotgun. Yeah, and Taylor's there with you

696
00:33:04,600 --> 00:33:06,600
Speaker 6: run a quarterback sweep right, you know, and you got

697
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Speaker 6: a lead blocker or you know, Matt something like you're

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Speaker 6: in third and four and it's gonna be a four

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Speaker 6: man rush. Potentially you run a design quarterback, draw some

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Speaker 6: draw some things where he's a designer that he's running

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Speaker 6: it from the pocket. I think that can loosen up

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Speaker 6: the defense. I mean think back to yesterday and the

703
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Speaker 6: big third downs that Lawrence picked up with his legs

704
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Speaker 6: and so yeah, I just think you have to do

705
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Speaker 6: things that are simple that he does well. The last

706
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Speaker 6: thing I'll share too is I wouldn't mind some no

707
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Speaker 6: huddle or tempo you get the defense. What that does

708
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Speaker 6: is that makes it the defense more vanilla when you're

709
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Speaker 6: going no huddle or you're going quickly, they don't have

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Speaker 6: time to get into their exotics and sub et cetera.

711
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Speaker 6: And you can do some things boom boom boom, or

712
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Speaker 6: even that sugar huddle where you don't have to go

713
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Speaker 6: lightning pace like two minutes, but you don't let the

714
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Speaker 6: team substitute and you make them have some more vanilla

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Speaker 6: calls can help. So just and I think even with

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Speaker 6: the offense kind of being stagnant, some change up in tempo,

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Speaker 6: you know, start the game in two manus.

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Speaker 5: You know.

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Speaker 6: Sometimes stuff like that, Yeah, you know, can be a

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Speaker 6: little rejuvenation, a little bit of a spark or something

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Speaker 6: that you need.

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Speaker 3: No question about it. Great stuff, Joe writes Rick Van Turrey.

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Speaker 3: I'm Matt Taylor. This is Colts Around Table Live. We

724
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Speaker 3: are with you every Monday night recapping the latest action

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Speaker 3: with the Indianapolis Colts. Night with you until six thirty,

726
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Speaker 3: and we're talking about makeovers here after the Colts have

727
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Speaker 3: dropped four of their last five. So that was the

728
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Speaker 3: offensive makeover on a Monday. Let's talk about Monday makeover

729
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Speaker 3: on defense. Joe Wright's day right there, because the Colts

730
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Speaker 3: gave up a season high thirty six points of the Jags.

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Speaker 3: Twenty eight of that came in the first half. By

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Speaker 3: the way, that's the highest first half total allowed in

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Speaker 3: the game by the Colts since twenty twenty. Like we

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Speaker 3: mentioned earlier, but the Jaguars had great balance. Trevor Lawrence

735
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Speaker 3: had a really good game. But the Colts pass rush,

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Speaker 3: they had some more quiet moments. They produced no sacks

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Speaker 3: or quarterback hits on Lawrence, who dropped to throw thirty

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Speaker 3: times on Sunday, Trevor Lawrence completed three passes of at

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Speaker 3: least thirty yards. Brian Thomas had a semi big game.

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00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:04,120
Speaker 3: Etn ran twenty times for seventy four, scored on runs

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Speaker 3: of three and twenty eight. The Colts gave up three

742
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Speaker 3: point fifty. The Jags were seven for fifteen on third down,

743
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Speaker 3: and it just felt like Joe. The Jaguars were in

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00:35:12,400 --> 00:35:15,439
Speaker 3: control on offense for most of the game. So what

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00:35:15,560 --> 00:35:19,000
Speaker 3: makeovers do you have for the Colts? Any tweaks or

746
00:35:19,040 --> 00:35:21,440
Speaker 3: any makeovers they can make on the defensive side of

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Speaker 3: the ball heading into the home stretch.

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Speaker 2: Here four games to go. Yeah.

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Speaker 6: For me, the three things defensively are one, you got

750
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Speaker 6: to find a way to get a pass rush, you know,

751
00:35:29,920 --> 00:35:32,440
Speaker 6: winning one on one matchups. I know then you don't

752
00:35:32,440 --> 00:35:34,560
Speaker 6: always want to bring five and six guys, But we

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00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:37,760
Speaker 6: can't let quarterbacks be comfortable back there. You know Lawrence

754
00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:39,120
Speaker 6: and I know they ran a lot of quick game

755
00:35:39,160 --> 00:35:41,640
Speaker 6: stuff with him, but you know he was comfortable all day.

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Speaker 6: We never got to him and got him unsettled. So

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00:35:44,239 --> 00:35:48,440
Speaker 6: that's one. Number two is stopped the run better. Well, overall,

758
00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:50,799
Speaker 6: the statistics weren't bad. I thought we did do a

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00:35:50,800 --> 00:35:53,280
Speaker 6: pretty good job on first down of stopping the run.

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Speaker 6: You know, there still were the couple times when ETN

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Speaker 6: got the big ones. You think about that twenty eight

762
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Speaker 6: yarder that was untouched, you know that really put them

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Speaker 6: ahead on the scoreboard, going up twenty one. So with

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Speaker 6: where we're at offensively, our defense is just gonna have

765
00:36:07,360 --> 00:36:09,440
Speaker 6: to be better in terms of total points and so

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Speaker 6: pressure on the quarterback stop the run, and we got

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Speaker 6: to find a way to get turnovers. Youve got to

768
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Speaker 6: get takeaways, whether it's a strip, sack, punching the ball

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Speaker 6: out on runs, being more intentional by doing that, getting

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Speaker 6: an interception. We're gonna have to find ways Matt to

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00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:26,360
Speaker 6: win games more with our defense maybe than our offense,

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Speaker 6: like we're early in the season, just the reality of

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Speaker 6: the situation.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think, you know, our defense basically has been

775
00:36:33,160 --> 00:36:37,080
Speaker 5: in pre fall since Buckner was ruled out. You know,

776
00:36:37,160 --> 00:36:40,400
Speaker 5: only added to it with Gardner out. Two hundred and

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Speaker 5: thirty five yards in the first half twenty eight points.

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Speaker 5: Obviously a couple points off turnovers, but still, you know,

779
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Speaker 5: two hundred and thirty five yards. That's the volume that's

780
00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:52,920
Speaker 5: sketching up with us. The biggest thing that could help

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00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:55,879
Speaker 5: us is getting Buckner back, if we could get Buckner back,

782
00:36:55,920 --> 00:36:59,080
Speaker 5: because right now, when you watch the tape, regardless of

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00:36:59,120 --> 00:37:03,480
Speaker 5: the numbers, other than when you don't when Grover it's Grover,

784
00:37:04,040 --> 00:37:07,040
Speaker 5: and then it's not very physical. We're getting out physical

785
00:37:07,239 --> 00:37:09,600
Speaker 5: at the line of scrimmage on a lot of things.

786
00:37:09,680 --> 00:37:13,080
Speaker 5: Right now, if Grover doesn't make a play, everybody else

787
00:37:13,200 --> 00:37:16,520
Speaker 5: just looks like blackboard. They're just blocked and nothing is happening.

788
00:37:16,920 --> 00:37:21,040
Speaker 5: We're not establishing anything. I think we got to continue

789
00:37:21,080 --> 00:37:24,359
Speaker 5: to play bear. I think we got to blitz off it,

790
00:37:24,360 --> 00:37:28,840
Speaker 5: blitz up in those gaps, particularly on early downs, and

791
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Speaker 5: then I think we're gonna have to create pass rush

792
00:37:31,239 --> 00:37:34,600
Speaker 5: because Joe's exactly right. You know, we're you know, it's

793
00:37:34,760 --> 00:37:37,880
Speaker 5: just disappeared. I mean lat two looked like he was coming,

794
00:37:37,960 --> 00:37:42,040
Speaker 5: and yesterday he was again on the witness protection program.

795
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Speaker 5: We're not getting anything one on one off the edge,

796
00:37:45,480 --> 00:37:48,200
Speaker 5: So basically, if we can get them in a second

797
00:37:48,200 --> 00:37:51,120
Speaker 5: and long, I think the most important thing is cover

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00:37:51,200 --> 00:37:53,719
Speaker 5: them up. That's what people are doing to us. They're

799
00:37:53,760 --> 00:37:56,640
Speaker 5: covering them up with those walk ups and then they're

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00:37:56,640 --> 00:37:59,120
Speaker 5: blitzing off the edge, and I think that's what we

801
00:37:59,200 --> 00:38:02,040
Speaker 5: got to do. I think Lou has brought a lot

802
00:38:02,080 --> 00:38:05,160
Speaker 5: of people. He's tried to play man, but the results

803
00:38:05,200 --> 00:38:07,600
Speaker 5: just aren't there. So you know, we got to keep

804
00:38:07,680 --> 00:38:11,760
Speaker 5: grinding get if we could get those two key defenders back,

805
00:38:12,400 --> 00:38:14,120
Speaker 5: that could make all the difference in the world.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll find out if DeForrest Buckner is able to

807
00:38:16,920 --> 00:38:19,920
Speaker 3: come off of injured reserve later on this week, but

808
00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:23,759
Speaker 3: obviously a couple days before we find the finality of

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00:38:23,800 --> 00:38:26,640
Speaker 3: that or a conclusion to that storyline. Going into a

810
00:38:26,680 --> 00:38:29,640
Speaker 3: pivotal game for the Colts against the Seahawks, last one

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Speaker 3: for both of you and Rick, I'll start with you,

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00:38:32,040 --> 00:38:34,000
Speaker 3: and then Joe, I want you to comment as well,

813
00:38:34,040 --> 00:38:37,720
Speaker 3: because you both have good perspectives on this last topic,

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00:38:37,760 --> 00:38:40,200
Speaker 3: coming from different angles, one a coach and the other

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00:38:40,280 --> 00:38:43,319
Speaker 3: a player. But you know you talk about makeovers here,

816
00:38:43,440 --> 00:38:46,759
Speaker 3: final four makeovers with four games to play, right, the

817
00:38:46,760 --> 00:38:50,360
Speaker 3: Colts find themselves now a long shot to win the division.

818
00:38:50,800 --> 00:38:53,240
Speaker 3: They were on that quest to win the AFC South

819
00:38:53,280 --> 00:38:55,520
Speaker 3: for the first time since twenty fourteen. But with the

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00:38:55,600 --> 00:38:59,120
Speaker 3: loss on Sunday, the Colts now are also on the

821
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Speaker 3: fringe of a play off spots and they're gonna have

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Speaker 3: to rely on a rookie quarterback potentially for the final

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00:39:05,320 --> 00:39:08,520
Speaker 3: four games of the season. So what are the makeovers

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Speaker 3: to the team in the final four games of the season? Right,

825
00:39:11,520 --> 00:39:14,880
Speaker 3: this is kind of an intangible topic, But what is

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Speaker 3: the margin for air? What does the buy in level

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00:39:18,160 --> 00:39:20,840
Speaker 3: have to be? Just that the level of commitment the

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00:39:20,880 --> 00:39:23,719
Speaker 3: team needs from the top down in order to not

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Speaker 3: squander that seven and one start in the first two

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Speaker 3: months of the season.

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Speaker 5: No, that's exactly right, and I think it starts with

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00:39:31,400 --> 00:39:36,480
Speaker 5: stike and Stikeen has to instill confidence in this team

833
00:39:36,880 --> 00:39:40,040
Speaker 5: because obviously it's waning that we can do it, and

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Speaker 5: it starts with his belief in Riley Leonard. I've talked

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Speaker 5: to you guys before. The greatest motivational speech that I've

836
00:39:47,120 --> 00:39:50,680
Speaker 5: ever heard was about two sentences. It came back in

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Speaker 5: two thousand when Dick Formil was the coach of the

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Speaker 5: Greatest Show on Earth, and basically he had paid a

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Speaker 5: lot of money to get Green in to be his quarterback.

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Speaker 5: And basically, in the last preseason game, Green gets hurt,

841
00:40:06,040 --> 00:40:11,480
Speaker 5: gets an ACL and everybody is distraught. Vermil came out

842
00:40:11,880 --> 00:40:16,360
Speaker 5: on Tuesday. He looked into the camera's eyes and he said,

843
00:40:16,600 --> 00:40:21,640
Speaker 5: we will rally around Kurt Warner and we will play

844
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Speaker 5: good football. Now, at that point in time, nobody in

845
00:40:25,680 --> 00:40:28,880
Speaker 5: the world ever heard about Kurt Warner. But I've always

846
00:40:28,880 --> 00:40:33,200
Speaker 5: felt it was that confidence. And obviously Warner stepped up

847
00:40:33,239 --> 00:40:35,840
Speaker 5: and became the MVP of the league, but it was

848
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Speaker 5: that confidence that he showed to the overall team. You know,

849
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Speaker 5: you've got to give him a reason that we can believe.

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Speaker 5: I mean, there's a depression when you lose that guy.

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Speaker 5: So I think it starts with that intangible and then

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Speaker 5: I think on defense, I think the one thing lou

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Speaker 5: has to do is basically, we can't hold up. We

854
00:40:54,880 --> 00:40:58,080
Speaker 5: can't hold up right now, Manda Man and everything we're doing,

855
00:40:58,480 --> 00:41:01,080
Speaker 5: our zones aren't helping us. I think he's got to

856
00:41:01,120 --> 00:41:05,239
Speaker 5: come up with more outside pressure, and I think he's

857
00:41:05,280 --> 00:41:08,040
Speaker 5: got to come up with more defenses to take away

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00:41:08,120 --> 00:41:11,520
Speaker 5: top guys. We still we can't let Collins and Thomas

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Speaker 5: and all these guys go off on us, knowing how

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Speaker 5: good they are.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I think for me to dovetail off that defensive point.

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Speaker 6: You know, Carlisle's you know active yesterday didn't play. You know,

863
00:41:21,800 --> 00:41:24,279
Speaker 6: he's probably our best cover linebacker. Does that helped some

864
00:41:24,440 --> 00:41:27,280
Speaker 6: in coverage where maybe you can do some different pressures,

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Speaker 6: you know, Kenny Moore's a really good blitzer off the nickel,

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Speaker 6: some corner pressures, things like that. I agree with coach

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Speaker 6: to change it up. But I think defensively, we got

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Speaker 6: to have the mindset that, you know, we're going up

869
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Speaker 6: there to Seattle and we're holding them to seventeen points

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Speaker 6: in offense. You get to eighteen and we're going to

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Speaker 6: win the game. And that's a tough task. But I

872
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Speaker 6: think that's got to be what's called upon defensively. You know, Matt,

873
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Speaker 6: When I think about the Final four, I think I

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Speaker 6: love coaches talk about rallying around Riley Leonard again. I

875
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Speaker 6: think he's a guy that you can rally around. He's won,

876
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Speaker 6: he's one at a high level. He's mature, he's older,

877
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Speaker 6: he's a leader. But for me, this is all about

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Speaker 6: you know, you can say which one about playoffs and

879
00:42:01,320 --> 00:42:04,440
Speaker 6: situations and controlling your own destiny. It's all true. You

880
00:42:04,440 --> 00:42:07,680
Speaker 6: gotta win one game. You have lost three in a row,

881
00:42:08,320 --> 00:42:11,120
Speaker 6: your quarterback has now hurt. You got to win one game,

882
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Speaker 6: and it has to be a rallying cry that fellas.

883
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Speaker 6: I mean, I said burn the boats last week, and

884
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Speaker 6: we didn't burn them. You're going back out to a

885
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Speaker 6: body of water. They're in Pacific Ocean. I mean, there

886
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Speaker 6: is no option right in terms of doing it. And

887
00:42:25,920 --> 00:42:27,759
Speaker 6: it's a game where nobody's gonna give you a chance.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 6: Seattle's ten and three, they're rolling, They're scoring forty points

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Speaker 6: a game. You know, they're battle with the Rams for

891
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Speaker 6: the number one seed in the NFC. Who cares, right,

892
00:42:36,080 --> 00:42:39,160
Speaker 6: it's the NFL. The Colts got a bunch of good players,

893
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Speaker 6: and the Colts got to recognize that Jonathan Taylor and

894
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Speaker 6: Quinton Nelson and Shaveria's Ward and Buckner and Grove and

895
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Speaker 6: Franklin and on and on and on and on. Those

896
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Speaker 6: guys elevate their game, rally around Riley Leonard and just

897
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Speaker 6: win a game, and win a game and then figure

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Speaker 6: out what you're gonna do after that. But to me,

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Speaker 6: you got to really just almost narrow your foot right,

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Speaker 6: get your aim really, really really small.

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Speaker 2: This week, there's the target.

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Speaker 6: We got the arrow, and we're going right after that

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Speaker 6: bulls eye. That's our only hope.

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Speaker 2: I love it.

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Speaker 3: Good stuff right there and great perspective from Rick Ventury

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Speaker 3: We started off with head coach Shane Steichen. Now Rick

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Speaker 3: So let's not beat around the bush. Let's go right

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Speaker 3: to it. Let's go to Frank's question. He is asking

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Speaker 3: Rick Ventury, where do you think we're going to see

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Speaker 3: the biggest boost on defense from the return of DeForest Buckner,

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Speaker 3: potentially this upcoming Sunday against the Seattle Seahawks. Again definitive,

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Speaker 3: but he is eligible to come off of injured reserve

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Speaker 5: Well, I think the number one thing that he brings

942
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Speaker 5: back is he brings some ambient ability. Everybody in the

943
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Speaker 5: league knows it, they have to prepare for it. And

944
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Speaker 5: we've lost our physicality up there, both on the run

945
00:45:18,080 --> 00:45:20,880
Speaker 5: and the pass rush. In other words, it's all been

946
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Speaker 5: on Grover and he does his thing. But Grover's the

947
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Speaker 5: only guy you got to worry about right now in

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Speaker 5: that front. The minute we get Buckner back, now you've

949
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Speaker 5: got to figure out if you're going to run off tackle,

950
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Speaker 5: you're gonna have to double Buckner. Now, when you double Buckner,

951
00:45:35,680 --> 00:45:38,359
Speaker 5: then that's that's one thing. You might eliminate him from

952
00:45:38,360 --> 00:45:42,279
Speaker 5: that play, but your linebackers have freedom to fill and

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Speaker 5: to go. It also then makes it one on one

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Speaker 5: on Grover, who actually makes a ton of plays. So

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Speaker 5: I think it helps you on the running game that way.

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Speaker 5: I think what really helps you is on the passing game,

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Speaker 5: on the rush, because basically you can almost know that

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Speaker 5: they're going to turn the protection to Buckner, or they're

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Speaker 5: going to lean somebody to Buckner. They're going to make

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Speaker 5: sure that he doesn't ruin their game. Now when they

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Speaker 5: do that, when you know that going in, that means

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Speaker 5: if you know that protection is going to slide to Buckner,

963
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Speaker 5: then you can do a lot of things away from Buckner.

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Speaker 5: You can bring the ends inside and run an in

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Speaker 5: those twist. You can bring outside guys off that edge,

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Speaker 5: no doubt about it. You can do so many things

967
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Speaker 5: you can run cross games away from it. So his

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Speaker 5: impact will be big on both the run and the pass. Plus,

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Speaker 5: I think in the NFL, you know image and your

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Speaker 5: belief in people means everything, and everybody knows on that

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Speaker 5: defensive unit what Buckner means to that team.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, huge boost if the Colts can get him back

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Speaker 3: in the fold number ninety nine potentially back within that

974
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Speaker 3: defense in week fifteen. All right, let's go to Anthony's

975
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Speaker 3: question for Joe Wrights. He's asking, Hey, Joe, does our

976
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Speaker 3: deep ball and ability to push the ball down the field?

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Speaker 3: Does it completely go away now without Daniel Jones turning

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Speaker 3: the offense over to Riley Leonard.

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Speaker 2: No, it doesn't.

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Speaker 6: Now it's going to be different, right, Jones's accuracy is

981
00:47:09,880 --> 00:47:13,080
Speaker 6: very very good, probably better than Leonard's. And you know,

982
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Speaker 6: Leonard doesn't have the experience pre and post snap read

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Speaker 6: and coverages getting to your third and fourth read probably

984
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Speaker 6: like Jones does.

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Speaker 2: But Matt, you just got to do it a different way.

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Speaker 2: You know, think back to the Houston game.

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Speaker 6: You know, one of our biggest plays of game is

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Speaker 6: a thirty five yard pass was a screen pass to

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Speaker 6: Tailor on the left side right screens. You know, maybe

990
00:47:31,360 --> 00:47:34,040
Speaker 6: some more hard play action on first and second down

991
00:47:34,080 --> 00:47:36,400
Speaker 6: where maybe you have two or three man routes and

992
00:47:36,480 --> 00:47:38,880
Speaker 6: you have some extra protection in there, you max protect

993
00:47:38,920 --> 00:47:41,400
Speaker 6: something we haven't done a ton of. And he can

994
00:47:41,440 --> 00:47:43,799
Speaker 6: still push the ball down the field, but you can

995
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Speaker 6: do it in a lot of different ways. I mean,

996
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Speaker 6: Jacksonville push the ball down the field with a bunch

997
00:47:47,440 --> 00:47:50,080
Speaker 6: of three step drops and just throwing fades, and I think, yeah,

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00:47:50,080 --> 00:47:51,520
Speaker 6: you know what I like about Leonard. You know, he

999
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Speaker 6: had a really good pass to Pierce in the end zone.

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Speaker 6: He had a really good pass with that questionable PI

1001
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Speaker 6: on Pittman. So he did some good things, Matt to

1002
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Speaker 6: get that experience. And the last thing I'll say about Leonard.

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Speaker 6: It's a lot different when you're thrown into the game

1004
00:48:03,440 --> 00:48:05,600
Speaker 6: mid second quarter than when you prepare all week as

1005
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Speaker 6: the starter. Right, and he'll take every rep. He'll have

1006
00:48:08,200 --> 00:48:11,719
Speaker 6: extra film study, and that's going to be advantageous for

1007
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Speaker 6: him in terms of starting the week on Monday as

1008
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Speaker 6: the starter versus going in mid second quarter like you

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Speaker 6: did last week.

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Speaker 3: No question about it. Good stuff. All right, that's the

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Speaker 3: mailbag segments tonight. Thanks for everybody. I wish we had

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1014
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Speaker 3: and we'll try to get into more of those thoughts

1015
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Speaker 3: coming up next Monday night. Again, reminder, the Colts scored

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Colts Roundtable Live on ninety three to

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Speaker 3: the program, Here, I'm Matt Taylor, Rick Venturi and Joe

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Speaker 3: Wrights and it's now time for their closing arguments as

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Speaker 3: we wrap up the show and look ahead to the

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Speaker 2: On the road.

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Speaker 3: And Joe first, for you, I mean, you've been in

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Speaker 3: every kind of locker room imaginable, So tell me what's

1043
00:49:55,280 --> 00:49:58,800
Speaker 3: being said inside that locker room right now, how guys

1044
00:49:58,800 --> 00:50:01,920
Speaker 3: are reacting, and how you think the team needs to

1045
00:50:02,000 --> 00:50:04,920
Speaker 3: circle the wagons after a three game, losing streak, and

1046
00:50:04,960 --> 00:50:07,840
Speaker 3: now you're playing for your playoff lives here every week

1047
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Speaker 3: for the next month down the stretch.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, no doubt. And it's the leaders in the locker room, Matt,

1049
00:50:12,960 --> 00:50:15,040
Speaker 6: that are saying, all right, you know what. We're rallying

1050
00:50:15,160 --> 00:50:18,520
Speaker 6: around Riley Leonard, including the coaching staff, and saying, okay,

1051
00:50:18,520 --> 00:50:20,080
Speaker 6: we all got to do better. We got to do

1052
00:50:20,160 --> 00:50:23,440
Speaker 6: our jobs better. And if fifty two guys do that,

1053
00:50:23,520 --> 00:50:25,720
Speaker 6: you know, a rising tide raises all boats and that'll

1054
00:50:25,719 --> 00:50:29,680
Speaker 6: help Leonard. And so that's the message that nobody's given

1055
00:50:29,719 --> 00:50:32,880
Speaker 6: us a chance. And we got adversity with the losing streak,

1056
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Speaker 6: we got a diversity and losing our quarterback. But guess what,

1057
00:50:34,880 --> 00:50:37,279
Speaker 6: nobody's feeling sorry for us in the NFL, and we

1058
00:50:37,320 --> 00:50:39,440
Speaker 6: got to do whatever it takes. Again, if you win

1059
00:50:39,480 --> 00:50:41,640
Speaker 6: this game three to two, or if you win this

1060
00:50:41,719 --> 00:50:44,080
Speaker 6: game forty two to forty one, it doesn't matter. You

1061
00:50:44,160 --> 00:50:46,680
Speaker 6: just got to go out there to Loomenfield and win

1062
00:50:46,719 --> 00:50:48,840
Speaker 6: a game. And you know what Elliott Bay is, Matt,

1063
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Speaker 6: I don't know. That's the body of water right next

1064
00:50:53,800 --> 00:50:55,759
Speaker 6: that backs up to the stadium that leads out to

1065
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Speaker 6: the Pacific.

1066
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Speaker 2: That's where the boats are going to be burnt.

1067
00:50:58,440 --> 00:51:03,680
Speaker 6: Matt Taylor, Hey, four o'clock, Elliott Bay torch them. Let's go,

1068
00:51:04,080 --> 00:51:06,920
Speaker 6: let's shock the world and let's get ourselves back here

1069
00:51:07,360 --> 00:51:10,000
Speaker 6: and support this new quarterback. But coach, I know you

1070
00:51:10,120 --> 00:51:12,560
Speaker 6: probably already dug in on some tape on the Seahawks.

1071
00:51:12,600 --> 00:51:14,680
Speaker 6: They're they're rolling and putting up a lot of points.

1072
00:51:14,680 --> 00:51:16,520
Speaker 6: Give us the skinny on Seattle.

1073
00:51:17,000 --> 00:51:21,680
Speaker 5: Yeah, they're truly outstanding. You know, they're basic Conegian elite

1074
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Speaker 5: team in the NFC ten and three, one hundred and

1075
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Speaker 5: sixty one point differential, number two in scoring, number two

1076
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Speaker 5: in scoring defense. So you know that kind of tells

1077
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Speaker 5: it all. Great young coach and Mike McDonald defensive minded guy.

1078
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Speaker 5: You've got the comeback kid who's playing his tail off

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Speaker 5: again in Sam Sam Donold. Their defense is talented. It's

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Speaker 5: a pressure defense all the time. This is the toughest

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Speaker 5: venue in the NFL to play in terms of on

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Speaker 5: field communication. The noise early in the game, particularly that

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Speaker 5: first quarter, is absolutely incredible in Seattle. Es.

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Speaker 3: That's to look at the Seahawks, who are definitely rolling

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Speaker 3: out West. I got a busy week here. I got

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Speaker 3: to bone up on the Seahawks, and I also have

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Speaker 3: to do better on my Seattle geography, Joe Wright, So

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Speaker 3: you give me a lot of homework, man.

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Speaker 2: Elliott Bay go look it up, no doubt, got no Starbucks.

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Speaker 2: Didn't that start out there?

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Speaker 3: Oh stop, get out of here, all right, I know

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Speaker 3: what Starbucks is, you clown? All right, Come on now,

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Speaker 3: I'm not that ridiculous, even though I look at all right, fellas.

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Speaker 3: Great job tonight, Rick Vituri and Joe Wright. It's always

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Speaker 3: good to be with you guys recapping the action, and

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Speaker 3: we'll do it again next Monday night. Again, my thanks

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Speaker 3: to head coach Shane Stike and who joined in that

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Speaker 3: first segment talking about the latest with Daniel Jones. If

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Speaker 3: you missed any of the show, we're gonna be posting

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Speaker 3: it here shortly. Podcast version is going to be available

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Speaker 3: on Colts dot com and the mobile app and the

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Speaker 3: Colts Podcast channel, anywhere you download your podcast.

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Speaker 2: Have a great week coming up.

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Speaker 3: Thanks so much for tuning in tonight for Rick Van Turry,

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Speaker 3: Joe Wrights, and Shane Stike in earlier I'm Matt Taylor

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Speaker 3: Pacer pregame is coming up next. This has been Colts

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Speaker 3: Roundtable Live here on your home for the Colts ninety

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Speaker 3: three five and one oh seven five defense have a

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Speaker 3: great nun