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Speaker 1: the right place. This is the Official Colts Podcast, giving

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Speaker 1: touch down. Let's get the podcast started, not exactly how

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Speaker 1: the Cults scripted it. The Colts are now one two

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Speaker 1: in a row, the Colts only have one win through

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Speaker 1: four games. They fell to the Titans on Sunday. They

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Speaker 1: remain winless in the division through three tries, and now

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Speaker 1: it's on to Denver Thursday night football. No time to rest,

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Speaker 1: no time to sulk. The Colts will kick it off

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Speaker 1: in about forty eight hours from this taping and week

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Speaker 1: number five, trying to write this ship and get their

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Speaker 1: season back on the right track. Hi, everybody, Welcome to

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Speaker 1: the Colts Official Podcast today, brought to you by win Bed.

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Speaker 1: I'm Matt Taylor, JJ Stangovitz and Casey Valley will join

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Speaker 1: today as well. JJ's here now, Casey will pop in

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Speaker 1: and just a bit. But JJ, the Colts are looking

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Speaker 1: for answers. I don't know if we have them, but

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Speaker 1: we'll talk about it anyways. First off, how you doing

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Speaker 1: I'm looking at our itinerary for Denver and I'm looking

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Speaker 1: What did you say, I didn't look at it. I

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Speaker 1: you'll have a long weekend though to recover. That is

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Speaker 1: So you were in the locker room yesterday, I didn't

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Speaker 1: What is it right now? After that disappointing effort to

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Speaker 1: whole lot of takeaways this year. That's something that they acknowledge.

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Speaker 1: just need to be putting more positions to actually have

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Speaker 1: minus six in the turnover margin after leading the NFL

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Speaker 1: top ten and takeaways every year under Frank Reich. But JJ,

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Speaker 1: of the things too, I mean, maybe you know it's

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Speaker 1: always glass half full, whatever you want to look at,

429
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Speaker 1: but we've all see what Jonathan Taylor can do. So

430
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Speaker 1: I feel like this struggle that you're in right now,

431
00:20:40,840 --> 00:20:43,560
Speaker 1: at some point, I think he's going to break through

432
00:20:43,720 --> 00:20:46,040
Speaker 1: and it's all going to We're gonna look back here

433
00:20:46,080 --> 00:20:48,240
Speaker 1: on Week four talking about this prior to the Week

434
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Speaker 1: five game and go, wow, remember when they were struggling

435
00:20:50,880 --> 00:20:52,840
Speaker 1: to run the football, here's where they are now. That's

436
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Speaker 1: kind of the way that I view this. Here's the

437
00:20:54,760 --> 00:20:57,400
Speaker 1: other thing that people forget. Jonathan Taylor through five games

438
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Speaker 1: last year, he was averaging four point four yards perry.

439
00:21:00,960 --> 00:21:04,800
Speaker 1: You know, not bad, not terrible, but not what we

440
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Speaker 1: remember Jonathan Taylor being last year. Jonathan Taylor through four

441
00:21:08,840 --> 00:21:11,320
Speaker 1: games this year is averaging four yards to carry. So

442
00:21:11,640 --> 00:21:15,120
Speaker 1: it's down, but it's not like it's so significantly down

443
00:21:15,160 --> 00:21:17,040
Speaker 1: from where it was at the early point of last season.

444
00:21:17,080 --> 00:21:19,840
Speaker 1: The Colts really leaned in to some certain concepts that

445
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Speaker 1: they were able to figure out in the run game

446
00:21:21,400 --> 00:21:24,080
Speaker 1: last year as the season went on. The last thing

447
00:21:24,080 --> 00:21:26,840
Speaker 1: on this though, is the Colts have had to change

448
00:21:26,880 --> 00:21:28,399
Speaker 1: some things in the run game because you don't have

449
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Speaker 1: Jack Doyle. And Frank Greich said it on Monday. Jack

450
00:21:32,119 --> 00:21:33,680
Speaker 1: was one of the best, if not the best, run

451
00:21:33,680 --> 00:21:35,879
Speaker 1: blocking tight end in the NFL. He is no longer

452
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Speaker 1: on this team. That leads you to need to go

453
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Speaker 1: with some different concepts in the run game, and as

454
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Speaker 1: you figure out what you're good at and what you're

455
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Speaker 1: not good at in the first quarter of the season,

456
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Speaker 1: then you can start leaning into what you are good

457
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Speaker 1: at and figuring that out and kind of going from there.

458
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Speaker 1: So I'm not ready to bury this run game. I

459
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Speaker 1: am not ready to say that they're a victim of

460
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Speaker 1: their own run success. Let's give it a little bit

461
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Speaker 1: more time. Great now, all right? Number two, the AFC

462
00:22:00,520 --> 00:22:02,840
Speaker 1: South is forgiving. But the most division wins the Colts

463
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Speaker 1: can rack up this season is three. That's not enough

464
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Speaker 1: to pull out the division championship. Truth or trash trash.

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Speaker 1: I think that, you know, it's one of those things that, yeah,

466
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Speaker 1: you look in the past, and you know, I think

467
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Speaker 1: it's it's one of those things that every team that's

468
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Speaker 1: won the AFC South during its entirety of the history

469
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Speaker 1: has won it with four plus wins. I just don't

470
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Speaker 1: know if necessarily that's going to be the case this year,

471
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Speaker 1: because I think we've seen an increase in the play

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Speaker 1: in Jacksonville. So therefore, I don't think the other teams

473
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Speaker 1: are going to have you know, your run there. Houston,

474
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Speaker 1: they may be down, but I still think that the

475
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Speaker 1: Titans and the Jags are so up and down. Like

476
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Speaker 1: I think there's there's so much to be said that

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Speaker 1: they may have a stretcher. They win a couple of games,

478
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Speaker 1: and then they lose a couple of games. I think

479
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Speaker 1: the Colts kind of fall into that similar sttch right now.

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Speaker 1: So I think when it's all said and done, I

481
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Speaker 1: think the Colts still I mean, you look at the division.

482
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Speaker 1: It's still wide open. So I look at it from

483
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Speaker 1: that aspect. There's still a lot of football to be

484
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Speaker 1: played if you just start just execute. We've all we've

485
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Speaker 1: talked about that for four weeks. If this team execute.

486
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Speaker 1: We have yet to come off of a game and

487
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Speaker 1: said that they played well for sixty minutes. We've seen

488
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Speaker 1: a couple of good quarters, a couple of good halves

489
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Speaker 1: here and there, but they haven't played a full product together.

490
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Speaker 1: So I think once they start executing, you start winning

491
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Speaker 1: a little bit more games, you really start to see

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Speaker 1: how the division shakes out. I don't necessarily think that

493
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Speaker 1: they don't have enough to say they can win a division. Yeah,

494
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Speaker 1: I mean the Colts are what a half game out

495
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Speaker 1: right in the division. That just shows it's just so

496
00:23:25,720 --> 00:23:28,360
Speaker 1: early in the season. Exactly how the look the Jacksonville

497
00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:30,640
Speaker 1: Jaguars look like a good team. The Tennessee Titans look

498
00:23:30,720 --> 00:23:33,000
Speaker 1: like a good team. The Colts have not got to

499
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Speaker 1: that level yet. But we're four games in. Let's pump

500
00:23:35,520 --> 00:23:37,159
Speaker 1: the brakes on this the Colt. But like I was

501
00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:40,960
Speaker 1: talking about earlier with Matt, the margin Freyr is now lower.

502
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Speaker 1: You know those games in Week six and seven, those

503
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Speaker 1: are going to be, you know, potentially season season defining games.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's go to number three. The Colts need

505
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Speaker 1: to stick with Will Fries at right guard the rest

506
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Speaker 1: of the season, truth or trash. Ah, that's a that's

507
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Speaker 1: a hard one because I don't for the rest of

508
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Speaker 1: the season. I don't know. We've seen such a small samples.

509
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Speaker 1: I mean, this was his first career start last week,

510
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Speaker 1: and Danny Pinter had three career starts heading into Week four,

511
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Speaker 1: So when you look at it from that aspect, it's

512
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Speaker 1: such a small number to really say, oh yeah, definitely

513
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Speaker 1: he showed me enough for him to be the guy

514
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Speaker 1: the rest of the season. I mean, we'll definitely get

515
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Speaker 1: a good taste to see what start number two looks

516
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Speaker 1: like for Will Fries here against the Broncos. So maybe

517
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Speaker 1: after that I can reassess and kind of say, Okay,

518
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Speaker 1: judging the three games we saw out of Danny and

519
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Speaker 1: the two we saw out of Will, maybe you'll be

520
00:24:28,680 --> 00:24:29,960
Speaker 1: able to have a better one. But I don't know

521
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Speaker 1: if I can really make that assessment right now. Yeah,

522
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Speaker 1: you know, what Frank Reich said after the game on

523
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Speaker 1: Sunday was that it was a really tough decision to

524
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Speaker 1: make that switch and that it doesn't necessarily mean that

525
00:24:41,160 --> 00:24:43,760
Speaker 1: the Colts are looking at Will Fries at right guard

526
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Speaker 1: for the rest of the season. But you know, he

527
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Speaker 1: earned the opportunity throughout we practiced and we'll kind of

528
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Speaker 1: see where it goes going forward here starting Thursday night

529
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Speaker 1: against the Denver Broncos. I'll probably say trash to that one,

530
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Speaker 1: just because of the rest of the season, right, that's

531
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Speaker 1: in it, you know what, Will just again, we'll see

532
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Speaker 1: things go all right. Last one, Thursday's game is a

533
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Speaker 1: must win game for the Colts given the start to

534
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Speaker 1: their season. Truth or trash. I know, I know, I'm

535
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Speaker 1: not a big must win guy because really, you know,

536
00:25:11,359 --> 00:25:13,240
Speaker 1: when it comes down to the stretch, that's when the

537
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Speaker 1: must win comes in. But this is definitely one you

538
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Speaker 1: want to have. I think, Yeah, from a lot of

539
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Speaker 1: I mean, you're coming off a tough loss to a

540
00:25:21,080 --> 00:25:25,080
Speaker 1: divisional opponent, which you're frustrated, you're mad, you're all of that.

541
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Speaker 1: And if you can get a victory on Thursday, not

542
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Speaker 1: necessarily it wipes it away, but it gives you a

543
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Speaker 1: good taste, and you also get that mini buy that

544
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Speaker 1: a lot of So getting a victory heading into a

545
00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:38,640
Speaker 1: weekend where you can rest and and kind of gear

546
00:25:38,760 --> 00:25:41,679
Speaker 1: up for that rematch against Jacksonville, you've already got that

547
00:25:41,760 --> 00:25:45,080
Speaker 1: bad taste in your mouth. So having extra momentum heading

548
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Speaker 1: into that game is so key. So I wouldn't necessarily

549
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Speaker 1: say truth that it is a must win, but it

550
00:25:50,920 --> 00:25:53,160
Speaker 1: is a very important one to have and definitely one

551
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Speaker 1: that you want to win for sure on Thursday. Yeah,

552
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Speaker 1: you know, I think the must win part of that

553
00:25:59,240 --> 00:26:04,840
Speaker 1: is the only must wins truthfully are like wins that

554
00:26:04,880 --> 00:26:07,960
Speaker 1: would clinch you a playoffs or knock you out of

555
00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:10,280
Speaker 1: the playoffs. The Colts last year had a must win

556
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Speaker 1: game against the Jacksonville Jaguars to end the season that

557
00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:15,879
Speaker 1: was a true must win game. But in Week five,

558
00:26:16,040 --> 00:26:19,360
Speaker 1: there's probably not really a technically must win game because

559
00:26:19,359 --> 00:26:21,040
Speaker 1: the Colts could still they could lose this game, and

560
00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:22,720
Speaker 1: they could still win the division. I know it might

561
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Speaker 1: not feel like that to you know, folks on the

562
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Speaker 1: outside or but that is the case. The thing that

563
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Speaker 1: I always look at, and I know that this is

564
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Speaker 1: probably not the way that typically it happens, but sports

565
00:26:36,480 --> 00:26:39,240
Speaker 1: are a game of runs and momentum. I've always thought

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Speaker 1: that the Colts right now have what two losses? Correct,

567
00:26:43,080 --> 00:26:45,840
Speaker 1: last I look one two and one two losses. So

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Speaker 1: let's say they win, they lose Thursday, that's three losses.

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Speaker 1: They still have a chance to rack up what is

570
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Speaker 1: at twelve victories? Yeah, I mean like twelve, get you

571
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Speaker 1: in correct? Yeah, So that's where I like, must win

572
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Speaker 1: Week five. That's why it does not because they still

573
00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:04,800
Speaker 1: have a chance. To me, now, now, the chances of

574
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Speaker 1: them rattling off winning the rest of that's probably far fetched.

575
00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:11,120
Speaker 1: You're hard to look at, but the possibility is there.

576
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Speaker 1: So that's why I must win. I don't. I don't

577
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Speaker 1: really put it on this game for sure. I mean,

578
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Speaker 1: I think and the closest must win games, the closest

579
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Speaker 1: two must win games you're gonna get are again in

580
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Speaker 1: Week six and seven, right where those are against division opponents.

581
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Speaker 1: They're your last chance to play teams in the AFC

582
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Speaker 1: South until Week eighteen against the Houston Texans at home.

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Speaker 1: So those are about again about as close as you

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Speaker 1: can get, especially when those are the two teams right

585
00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:40,359
Speaker 1: now in the Jaguars and Titans that look like they're

586
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Speaker 1: going to be competing at the top of the AFC South.

587
00:27:42,320 --> 00:27:45,440
Speaker 1: You want to get in that conversation as well. All right, Matt,

588
00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:47,679
Speaker 1: you coming back in. I'm in, I'm in. I like

589
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Speaker 1: what you guys said. It's teetering on the border of

590
00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:53,800
Speaker 1: must win right week six seven, Yeah, all Caps must win.

591
00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:57,640
Speaker 1: Got Jacksonville and Tennessee coming in here, and as you said,

592
00:27:57,680 --> 00:28:00,440
Speaker 1: no AFC South games in the back half of the sea.

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00:28:00,520 --> 00:28:02,520
Speaker 1: All right, let's go to the twitter mail bag, JJ,

594
00:28:02,640 --> 00:28:04,000
Speaker 1: what do you got dialed up here as far as

595
00:28:04,040 --> 00:28:06,760
Speaker 1: that's concerned. All right, this is from Samantha Scout at

596
00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:10,359
Speaker 1: Sammy Scout seven on Twitter. We've had slow starts before.

597
00:28:10,480 --> 00:28:15,520
Speaker 1: Why does this year feel worse? I'll take a crack

598
00:28:15,560 --> 00:28:18,800
Speaker 1: at it. I think it's because throughout training camp there

599
00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:21,360
Speaker 1: were a lot of signs that it wouldn't be this way.

600
00:28:21,359 --> 00:28:22,800
Speaker 1: There are a lot of things to believe it wouldn't

601
00:28:22,800 --> 00:28:24,560
Speaker 1: be this way. The first being, all right, you know,

602
00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:26,960
Speaker 1: we changed the practice schedule. We got it at noon,

603
00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:29,480
Speaker 1: we got it closer to kickoff. For these one pm games.

604
00:28:30,280 --> 00:28:32,840
Speaker 1: You know, everyone's body clocks and circadian rhythms are going

605
00:28:32,840 --> 00:28:36,240
Speaker 1: to be closer to you know, being at peak performance

606
00:28:36,280 --> 00:28:38,960
Speaker 1: at kickoff. We have not seen that yet. We have

607
00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:42,200
Speaker 1: not really seen peak performance at kickoff from this team.

608
00:28:42,240 --> 00:28:44,360
Speaker 1: The other part of it that I'm still trying to

609
00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:46,200
Speaker 1: wrap my head around is that, you know, the offensive

610
00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:49,480
Speaker 1: line did practice together pretty much all through training camp

611
00:28:50,240 --> 00:28:53,959
Speaker 1: until the last week of last year, very different than

612
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Speaker 1: last year when you had Mark Lewinsky is the only

613
00:28:57,400 --> 00:29:01,720
Speaker 1: regular participant in practice on that offensive line. So I thought,

614
00:29:01,760 --> 00:29:04,240
Speaker 1: because of those factors, you know, the old line could start,

615
00:29:04,800 --> 00:29:07,960
Speaker 1: you know with with the kind of communication that they

616
00:29:07,960 --> 00:29:11,080
Speaker 1: need with a new quarterback and everyone's started at that

617
00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:13,400
Speaker 1: you know, peak performance level, that this team could get

618
00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:16,880
Speaker 1: off to a fast start. And I understand why fans

619
00:29:16,920 --> 00:29:19,160
Speaker 1: are you know, this question that Samantha asked is being

620
00:29:19,200 --> 00:29:22,840
Speaker 1: asked because yeah, well, you know, it feels like it

621
00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:24,760
Speaker 1: should be better than this based on what the Colts

622
00:29:24,760 --> 00:29:26,200
Speaker 1: did in training camp, and they cult did a good

623
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Speaker 1: training camp. Yeah it's not like you you know, we

624
00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:30,760
Speaker 1: showed up to Grand Park every day and or like, man,

625
00:29:30,760 --> 00:29:33,200
Speaker 1: I was not a bad practice, or this guy's hurt. Yeah,

626
00:29:33,360 --> 00:29:35,880
Speaker 1: like hurt. This guy's hurt. You had, you had the

627
00:29:36,040 --> 00:29:38,800
Speaker 1: entire team there. I mean, they were very minimal injuries.

628
00:29:38,840 --> 00:29:40,800
Speaker 1: And that's yeah, you're right. I think you chronicled it

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Speaker 1: very well. Another thing for me, and it goes back

630
00:29:43,520 --> 00:29:45,720
Speaker 1: to what I said earlier, is like when when guys

631
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Speaker 1: came back with the start of the off season workout program,

632
00:29:49,560 --> 00:29:51,240
Speaker 1: for lack of a better term, I think you you

633
00:29:51,560 --> 00:29:54,800
Speaker 1: saw guys more dialed in and more focused and more

634
00:29:54,960 --> 00:29:58,160
Speaker 1: business oriented they took not that they don't take the

635
00:29:58,200 --> 00:30:01,479
Speaker 1: off season workout program seriously every year. I think they

636
00:30:01,480 --> 00:30:04,520
Speaker 1: were treating that period of time as if it was

637
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Speaker 1: the start of the regular season in terms of intensity

638
00:30:08,080 --> 00:30:11,280
Speaker 1: and focus and all of those things. And that makes

639
00:30:11,320 --> 00:30:13,480
Speaker 1: the start of the season a little bit more perplexing

640
00:30:13,520 --> 00:30:17,920
Speaker 1: than twenty eighteen or twenty twenty one. Another thing, who

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Speaker 1: was it, Samantha. Another thing to your point, Samantha, is

642
00:30:21,320 --> 00:30:24,040
Speaker 1: that you know last year, not that you would ever

643
00:30:24,080 --> 00:30:26,360
Speaker 1: again make excuses for getting off to a one in

644
00:30:26,440 --> 00:30:29,480
Speaker 1: four start or one win through your first four games

645
00:30:29,480 --> 00:30:32,160
Speaker 1: like this year and last year. But last year the

646
00:30:32,200 --> 00:30:35,200
Speaker 1: schedule was really really difficult. It was you know, you

647
00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:38,080
Speaker 1: played Seattle and then you played the Rams, then the Titans,

648
00:30:38,080 --> 00:30:39,800
Speaker 1: and you didn't have Carson Wentz in that game, and

649
00:30:39,880 --> 00:30:42,520
Speaker 1: you came back and played the Dolphins, who flirted with

650
00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:46,400
Speaker 1: the playoffs the season before this year. I think we

651
00:30:46,440 --> 00:30:51,080
Speaker 1: would all agree that the most advantageous part of the

652
00:30:51,360 --> 00:30:55,200
Speaker 1: schedule was the first month yea, and they haven't been

653
00:30:55,240 --> 00:30:57,360
Speaker 1: able to take advantage of that. So that that's why

654
00:30:57,400 --> 00:30:59,880
Speaker 1: I think this feels different. It is because the Colts

655
00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:04,720
Speaker 1: have been dominated at times by teams in their division.

656
00:31:04,840 --> 00:31:07,480
Speaker 1: To start the year, they've trailed by as many as

657
00:31:07,480 --> 00:31:10,120
Speaker 1: seventeen points or at least seventeen points, and all of

658
00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:12,720
Speaker 1: their three games against the AFC South so far, So

659
00:31:12,760 --> 00:31:15,760
Speaker 1: to me, that's why it feels different, and that's why

660
00:31:15,760 --> 00:31:19,560
Speaker 1: it needs a drastic turnaround asap coming up on Thursday. No,

661
00:31:19,720 --> 00:31:23,200
Speaker 1: completely agree and that and part of it too. You

662
00:31:23,320 --> 00:31:27,760
Speaker 1: heard all offseason how the Cults were all the other

663
00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:30,400
Speaker 1: teams in the division were inferior. That's kind of maybe

664
00:31:30,400 --> 00:31:32,800
Speaker 1: that's part of it too. You heard that narrative, or

665
00:31:32,840 --> 00:31:34,760
Speaker 1: if you just looked at the Cults roster how they

666
00:31:34,920 --> 00:31:37,200
Speaker 1: stacked up and how it looked on paper. The other

667
00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:40,400
Speaker 1: teams looked inferior. So the fact that, like you said, Matt,

668
00:31:40,560 --> 00:31:42,920
Speaker 1: you trailed to seventeen to all three of those at

669
00:31:42,960 --> 00:31:45,200
Speaker 1: one point in the game, that is kind of where

670
00:31:45,240 --> 00:31:48,080
Speaker 1: that taste. It's like, really, what is going on? So

671
00:31:48,160 --> 00:31:49,800
Speaker 1: that that's part of it too. I think, well, I

672
00:31:49,840 --> 00:31:51,600
Speaker 1: don't know how you transition out of that, because that's

673
00:31:51,600 --> 00:31:56,400
Speaker 1: a I can't wait for the question because this this

674
00:31:56,560 --> 00:32:01,000
Speaker 1: random thought of the week a lot of time. Once

675
00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:04,040
Speaker 1: again for like the I mean all the time, Matt,

676
00:32:04,080 --> 00:32:06,240
Speaker 1: I do this. I put the most research into the

677
00:32:06,280 --> 00:32:07,880
Speaker 1: random thought of the week. So let's go. Well, I'm

678
00:32:07,920 --> 00:32:10,160
Speaker 1: glad because I put no research into it because it

679
00:32:10,240 --> 00:32:12,200
Speaker 1: just popped into my brain and then I typed it out.

680
00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:14,680
Speaker 1: So that's the extent of it here. So my random

681
00:32:14,720 --> 00:32:16,360
Speaker 1: thought of the week as we close out this is

682
00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:19,800
Speaker 1: kind of fun. Hopefully it's a better you know, spiritual

683
00:32:19,880 --> 00:32:22,040
Speaker 1: uplift than the conversation we just had on the Twitter

684
00:32:22,080 --> 00:32:24,680
Speaker 1: mail bag, although that was a good question. Um, my

685
00:32:24,840 --> 00:32:27,080
Speaker 1: random thought is, Hey, we play on you know, Thursday

686
00:32:27,200 --> 00:32:29,600
Speaker 1: night in Denver that's also known Casey as the Mile

687
00:32:29,680 --> 00:32:33,320
Speaker 1: High City or an old School, the the Sunshine State. Um,

688
00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:37,160
Speaker 1: which American city has the best nickname? American city that

689
00:32:37,240 --> 00:32:42,400
Speaker 1: has the best nickname? So so research boy, take it over. Yeah,

690
00:32:42,400 --> 00:32:44,920
Speaker 1: there are there are a lot, but I just want

691
00:32:44,920 --> 00:32:48,360
Speaker 1: to I just want to start in Indiana, Okay, because

692
00:32:48,400 --> 00:32:50,600
Speaker 1: if you go to Wikipedia, you can find a list

693
00:32:50,640 --> 00:32:53,240
Speaker 1: of city nicknames. Now a lot of these are just

694
00:32:53,600 --> 00:32:57,720
Speaker 1: not true, like no one calls them this, like for India.

695
00:32:58,360 --> 00:33:01,800
Speaker 1: Let's see. Uh okay, well, actually Indianapolis isn't doesn't have

696
00:33:01,880 --> 00:33:05,440
Speaker 1: terrible ones, but like listed on here for Evansville, Indiana,

697
00:33:05,560 --> 00:33:08,480
Speaker 1: these are the nicknames for Evansville, Crescent City, Pocket City,

698
00:33:08,560 --> 00:33:12,560
Speaker 1: River City, Stoplight City, Heavensville, and evans Vegas. So someone

699
00:33:12,560 --> 00:33:16,280
Speaker 1: wi Vegas and added evans they have a casino down there.

700
00:33:16,440 --> 00:33:18,520
Speaker 1: I've got a family in Evansville, and I have heard

701
00:33:18,560 --> 00:33:20,800
Speaker 1: all of those, but I mean they're mostly like you know,

702
00:33:20,880 --> 00:33:23,400
Speaker 1: people called Nashville nash Vegas. Like you're just adding Vegas.

703
00:33:23,480 --> 00:33:28,760
Speaker 1: Everything that's dumb. Let's stop. Let's Martinsville, Indiana is the

704
00:33:28,800 --> 00:33:31,239
Speaker 1: Goldfish capital of the world. Oh I thought they were

705
00:33:31,240 --> 00:33:33,440
Speaker 1: the Artesians because they had wells down there. Well, it's

706
00:33:33,440 --> 00:33:35,560
Speaker 1: also the city of mineral water. Okay, but they're also

707
00:33:35,600 --> 00:33:38,640
Speaker 1: the goldfish capital of the world. That's probably why Mishawaka,

708
00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:42,720
Speaker 1: Indiana is the peppermint capital of the world. Okay, wow, yeah,

709
00:33:42,760 --> 00:33:45,200
Speaker 1: what did you say for elk Elkhart, Indiana? Like a

710
00:33:45,240 --> 00:33:48,040
Speaker 1: bunch of RVs up there, They have a bunch of

711
00:33:48,120 --> 00:33:50,760
Speaker 1: RV the RV capital of the world. RV capital is

712
00:33:50,920 --> 00:33:54,760
Speaker 1: really what it is? No, well done, Dad, driven through

713
00:33:54,800 --> 00:33:56,719
Speaker 1: Elkart on the way to South Ben It's just like

714
00:33:57,760 --> 00:34:03,400
Speaker 1: it is. It looks like a Notre Dame tailgate. I

715
00:34:03,440 --> 00:34:05,480
Speaker 1: swear to God, that was pretty good. I mean JJ

716
00:34:05,560 --> 00:34:07,840
Speaker 1: scroll and he's like, wait a minute, he's onto something.

717
00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:10,799
Speaker 1: He's right. Other other Indian Indiana cities, if I can

718
00:34:10,840 --> 00:34:13,200
Speaker 1: guess what their nicknames are, give me, give me a

719
00:34:13,200 --> 00:34:17,359
Speaker 1: city and I'll guess. How about Logansport. Oh boy, they're

720
00:34:17,360 --> 00:34:20,160
Speaker 1: the Berries, right, high school nickname is the Berries. They're

721
00:34:20,200 --> 00:34:23,560
Speaker 1: the city of bridges and city of churches. Okay, over one,

722
00:34:23,880 --> 00:34:27,200
Speaker 1: you're over one. Let's go. Indian history is pretty good though.

723
00:34:27,640 --> 00:34:30,040
Speaker 1: Let's go down to South Bend, Indiana. Do you want

724
00:34:30,040 --> 00:34:32,000
Speaker 1: to guess with the number one nickname on South Bend

725
00:34:32,040 --> 00:34:36,400
Speaker 1: Indianas Nah, I'm blanking there Lotion City, a lot of

726
00:34:36,400 --> 00:34:39,640
Speaker 1: bed Beth and Beyond's up there in South Bend. How

727
00:34:41,160 --> 00:34:45,319
Speaker 1: Tara Hote is uh, let's see the sick. Maybe something

728
00:34:45,320 --> 00:34:48,799
Speaker 1: to do with sycamores or trees. Nope, I was gonna

729
00:34:48,840 --> 00:34:52,080
Speaker 1: go Target City. Tara Hot's really good. Queen City of

730
00:34:52,120 --> 00:34:55,719
Speaker 1: the Wabash. Okay, that's a great city. Nickname. Yeah, put

731
00:34:55,719 --> 00:34:59,200
Speaker 1: that on a sign as you walk into town. Warsaw, Indiana,

732
00:34:59,320 --> 00:35:02,760
Speaker 1: warsa clue, No, the orthopedic capital of the world because

733
00:35:03,040 --> 00:35:06,200
Speaker 1: the man, the man who invented the prosthetic leg is

734
00:35:06,239 --> 00:35:10,879
Speaker 1: from Warsaw. Really yeah, Warsaw legit. So if you ever

735
00:35:10,880 --> 00:35:13,719
Speaker 1: go to Warsaw, Indiana, there are a bunch of there's

736
00:35:13,760 --> 00:35:15,400
Speaker 1: a there's a huge hospital there and it's one of

737
00:35:15,440 --> 00:35:17,359
Speaker 1: the best places to get orthopedic's done. You know, that's

738
00:35:17,400 --> 00:35:19,799
Speaker 1: funny world. You're right, there is a huge hospital that's

739
00:35:19,960 --> 00:35:22,359
Speaker 1: I went to school in Manchester and there's not much

740
00:35:22,400 --> 00:35:24,480
Speaker 1: to do in Manchester, kind of got to go about

741
00:35:24,520 --> 00:35:28,240
Speaker 1: thirty miles either east west, north south to do anything.

742
00:35:28,280 --> 00:35:30,000
Speaker 1: In Warsaw was an area we used to go because

743
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:34,080
Speaker 1: they had a ponder rosa. So there's not much to

744
00:35:34,120 --> 00:35:36,880
Speaker 1: do in Manchester. The biggest understate. But in the history

745
00:35:36,880 --> 00:35:41,040
Speaker 1: of this podcast, there's nothing to do in Manchester. So

746
00:35:41,280 --> 00:35:46,160
Speaker 1: so yeah about Warsaw one more, one more that I

747
00:35:46,200 --> 00:35:48,160
Speaker 1: just want to get out. It's not Indiana and this

748
00:35:48,239 --> 00:35:51,920
Speaker 1: is not real. But on Wikipedia this is literally listed

749
00:35:52,040 --> 00:35:54,360
Speaker 1: for Branson, Missouri, and it's one of my favorite Simpsons

750
00:35:54,360 --> 00:35:57,239
Speaker 1: references of all time. The nickname is Las Vegas. If

751
00:35:57,280 --> 00:36:04,360
Speaker 1: ned Flanders ran it, well done, Hidyhoe neighbors, welcome to Branson.

752
00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:08,400
Speaker 1: That's awesome. Wow. Oh wait, Fort Wayne. Fort Wayne's the

753
00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:12,200
Speaker 1: Summit City, right, Summit City. The arena up there is

754
00:36:12,200 --> 00:36:15,160
Speaker 1: called the sum Also the magnet Wire Capital of the World.

755
00:36:15,200 --> 00:36:18,400
Speaker 1: There you go, Wow, what does magnet wire? I don't know.

756
00:36:18,640 --> 00:36:21,719
Speaker 1: That's great. That's great. Also Fort Wayne also known as

757
00:36:21,760 --> 00:36:23,640
Speaker 1: City of Churches. There are a couple of cities of

758
00:36:23,760 --> 00:36:26,320
Speaker 1: churches in Indiana. Yeah, we're very religious people here in

759
00:36:26,320 --> 00:36:28,319
Speaker 1: the Midwest. I mean someone someone's got to be the

760
00:36:29,040 --> 00:36:30,759
Speaker 1: you know, you can't have two of them in the

761
00:36:30,760 --> 00:36:36,160
Speaker 1: same state. Also, Jeffersonville nickname is just Jeff, the Jeff

762
00:36:36,480 --> 00:36:39,640
Speaker 1: Jeff down to the Jeff sixty five. If anyone lives

763
00:36:39,640 --> 00:36:41,399
Speaker 1: in these cities. And I'm sure we have listeners who

764
00:36:41,440 --> 00:36:43,400
Speaker 1: do live in these cities. Of course, let us know

765
00:36:43,480 --> 00:36:45,799
Speaker 1: if these are accurate or not. Like if you live,

766
00:36:46,160 --> 00:36:49,040
Speaker 1: if you live in Martinsville, Indiana, please tell me if

767
00:36:49,040 --> 00:36:51,840
Speaker 1: it's actually called the Goldfish Capital of the World. I

768
00:36:52,160 --> 00:36:54,520
Speaker 1: need to know this. Well, next time you drive down

769
00:36:54,600 --> 00:36:57,319
Speaker 1: to Bloomington, you stop off, there's nice little there's a

770
00:36:57,320 --> 00:36:59,560
Speaker 1: little restaurant there off of forty. I don't know what

771
00:36:59,600 --> 00:37:01,440
Speaker 1: the road is, but it's called Come and Get It,

772
00:37:02,120 --> 00:37:04,640
Speaker 1: and it is. That place is exactly what you think

773
00:37:04,680 --> 00:37:07,000
Speaker 1: it would be. Have you guys ever seen um my

774
00:37:07,080 --> 00:37:10,480
Speaker 1: cousin Vinnie. Oh, yeah, when he walks into the diner

775
00:37:10,520 --> 00:37:13,719
Speaker 1: there and they have three choices breakfast, lunch, dinner. Like,

776
00:37:13,760 --> 00:37:15,879
Speaker 1: that's come and get It in Martinsville. So next time

777
00:37:15,920 --> 00:37:18,359
Speaker 1: I met Come and Get It, which lovely people, and

778
00:37:18,400 --> 00:37:20,759
Speaker 1: I got breakfast and it was great. It was delicious.

779
00:37:20,800 --> 00:37:23,680
Speaker 1: So I'll ask them about the goldfish reference right there.

780
00:37:23,760 --> 00:37:25,960
Speaker 1: You know, when I moved here, I live in Carmel,

781
00:37:26,040 --> 00:37:27,960
Speaker 1: moved to Carmel. I was like, why does everyone hit Carmel.

782
00:37:28,160 --> 00:37:30,719
Speaker 1: Carmel's nickname is the roundabout capital of the world. Yeah,

783
00:37:30,760 --> 00:37:33,120
Speaker 1: that's why Everyone's true and it is true. I mean

784
00:37:33,120 --> 00:37:34,719
Speaker 1: it is I love roundabouts are great. I never said

785
00:37:34,760 --> 00:37:37,279
Speaker 1: it stoplights, It's perfect. See I'm from Noblesville and we

786
00:37:37,280 --> 00:37:41,440
Speaker 1: were called Noble Tucky. That was like Noble Vegas. No,

787
00:37:42,120 --> 00:37:44,640
Speaker 1: Noble Tucky was very common. See, Like I was thinking,

788
00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:47,319
Speaker 1: you know, bigger citys when I saw this, So like

789
00:37:47,480 --> 00:37:50,239
Speaker 1: I thought of Indianapolis and like Naptown. I think that's

790
00:37:50,239 --> 00:37:52,920
Speaker 1: a great nickname just because its din sounds kind of cool.

791
00:37:53,040 --> 00:37:55,600
Speaker 1: Circle City, Circle City is a good one. But I'm

792
00:37:55,640 --> 00:37:58,680
Speaker 1: I'm a huge Las Vegas fan, so like Sin City,

793
00:37:58,719 --> 00:38:00,399
Speaker 1: it just made me think of just a cool city.

794
00:38:00,440 --> 00:38:02,719
Speaker 1: So that's where I went. I like that JJ went,

795
00:38:02,840 --> 00:38:06,920
Speaker 1: you know more in the Indiana, Indiana suburbs. But well,

796
00:38:06,960 --> 00:38:09,440
Speaker 1: we spent entirely too much time on that, as we

797
00:38:09,480 --> 00:38:11,440
Speaker 1: typically do on the random thought of the week. But

798
00:38:11,480 --> 00:38:13,560
Speaker 1: that's what it's for. Whatever pops in my brain, we

799
00:38:13,640 --> 00:38:16,960
Speaker 1: discuss and we flush out. Gentlemen, great job is always

800
00:38:17,040 --> 00:38:19,840
Speaker 1: appreciate the time. On the Official Colts podcast, we gotta go.

801
00:38:19,880 --> 00:38:21,600
Speaker 1: It's a short week. We got a lot of prep

802
00:38:21,640 --> 00:38:24,480
Speaker 1: to do before the game on Thursday night. We're gonna

803
00:38:24,480 --> 00:38:27,719
Speaker 1: have No Your Foe dropping tomorrow on Wednesday, and then

804
00:38:27,719 --> 00:38:30,520
Speaker 1: we'll have Inside Football with Rick Venturrey. That'll be out

805
00:38:30,600 --> 00:38:33,640
Speaker 1: after the game, either on Friday or Saturday with the

806
00:38:33,680 --> 00:38:38,359
Speaker 1: recap podcast instead of the preview Blueprint podcast that gets

807
00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:41,160
Speaker 1: you ready to go for the upcoming game. So JJ

808
00:38:41,400 --> 00:38:44,640
Speaker 1: is back with Bill Brooks on Friday with instant Reaction

809
00:38:44,760 --> 00:38:47,360
Speaker 1: from the game in Denver. That'll be in your podcast

810
00:38:47,440 --> 00:38:52,000
Speaker 1: feed probably on Friday morning and based on the sleep

811
00:38:52,040 --> 00:38:54,640
Speaker 1: that you get, JJ, maybe a little bit Friday late morning,

812
00:38:54,640 --> 00:38:57,120
Speaker 1: early afternoon, but it'll be up there. It'll be up.

813
00:38:57,320 --> 00:38:59,960
Speaker 1: As we discussed, it's going to be no sleep, no sleep,

814
00:39:00,239 --> 00:39:02,440
Speaker 1: you know the Beastie Boys song, No Sleep till Brooklyn.

815
00:39:02,480 --> 00:39:05,120
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna be in here like no sleep till

816
00:39:05,360 --> 00:39:12,960
Speaker 1: by week six. Cults, instant reaction take us out, all right,

817
00:39:13,040 --> 00:39:16,360
Speaker 1: J J. Casey, have a great game day on Thursday, Casey,

818
00:39:16,400 --> 00:39:18,359
Speaker 1: we will talk to you back here. JJ. We will

819
00:39:18,400 --> 00:39:21,920
Speaker 1: see you in the radio booth at Mile High Stadium

820
00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:24,319
Speaker 1: or whatever they're calling it out there. We'll we'll figure

821
00:39:24,360 --> 00:39:26,880
Speaker 1: the power field at well, we'll figure it out before Thursday.

822
00:39:26,920 --> 00:39:28,399
Speaker 1: I promise. We got a lot to do, a lot

823
00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:30,360
Speaker 1: of boxes to check off here in the next forty

824
00:39:30,360 --> 00:39:33,080
Speaker 1: eight hours. I'm Matt Taylor. Thanks for joining us say

825
00:39:33,080 --> 00:39:35,240
Speaker 1: we will talk to you next Tuesday on the official

826
00:39:35,280 --> 00:39:38,080
Speaker 1: cults podcast Colts Need to Win. Talk to you soon.

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Speaker 1: Have a great weekend.