1 00:00:04,840 --> 00:00:08,360 Speaker 1: This is Instant Game Reaction, an immediate look back at 2 00:00:08,360 --> 00:00:10,880 Speaker 1: the Colt's latest game and trying to make it. Adjusting 3 00:00:10,920 --> 00:00:14,080 Speaker 1: on the ball, He's Michael Piffany cast it. They rubbles 4 00:00:14,080 --> 00:00:18,000 Speaker 1: across the door wide, touchdown forty two yards. Strike on 5 00:00:18,120 --> 00:00:20,080 Speaker 1: to air it out down field, down the far sideline, 6 00:00:20,239 --> 00:00:22,959 Speaker 1: looking for Zay Jones and it's intercepted by the Colts. 7 00:00:23,120 --> 00:00:25,840 Speaker 1: I say, Ah Rogers, all the returns gets off the Taylor, 8 00:00:26,040 --> 00:00:32,360 Speaker 1: he said, touchdown in d Why Jonathan Taylor. Now here's 9 00:00:32,360 --> 00:00:37,320 Speaker 1: your host, J J. Stankovitz from Colts dot Com. What's up? Everyone? 10 00:00:37,400 --> 00:00:40,840 Speaker 1: Welcome in to another episode of Colts Instant Reaction here 11 00:00:40,880 --> 00:00:43,519 Speaker 1: on the Colts Audio Network. I'm joined every week by 12 00:00:43,640 --> 00:00:46,040 Speaker 1: Colts Ring of Honor, remember Bill Brooks, as we break 13 00:00:46,080 --> 00:00:49,159 Speaker 1: down the Colts latest game. This week, Week thirteen, the 14 00:00:49,240 --> 00:00:53,240 Speaker 1: Colts are fifty four to nineteen losers to the Dallas 15 00:00:53,240 --> 00:00:55,240 Speaker 1: Cowboys on Sunday Night Football. We're coming to you a 16 00:00:55,240 --> 00:00:58,520 Speaker 1: little bit later than usual. We both needed a little 17 00:00:58,520 --> 00:01:01,760 Speaker 1: bit of sleep after that game, getting back late from 18 00:01:01,760 --> 00:01:03,920 Speaker 1: doing the postgame show. The Bill did getting back late 19 00:01:03,960 --> 00:01:06,920 Speaker 1: from Dallas like me. But we're gonna have all the 20 00:01:06,920 --> 00:01:12,280 Speaker 1: breakdown you need from this game, which was a rough one. 21 00:01:12,640 --> 00:01:16,160 Speaker 1: The Colts go into the fourth quarter losing twenty one 22 00:01:16,200 --> 00:01:19,960 Speaker 1: to nineteen. They give up thirty three unanswered points five 23 00:01:20,080 --> 00:01:24,000 Speaker 1: touchdowns Bill in the final fourteen and a half minutes 24 00:01:24,120 --> 00:01:29,200 Speaker 1: of this game just one of those that it got 25 00:01:29,240 --> 00:01:31,960 Speaker 1: away and it's snowballed, and it's spiraled in a way 26 00:01:32,040 --> 00:01:36,440 Speaker 1: that I don't think anyone saw it coming. The way 27 00:01:36,440 --> 00:01:39,520 Speaker 1: the Colts had competed up to the start of the 28 00:01:39,560 --> 00:01:42,480 Speaker 1: fourth quarter was not indicative of a game that would 29 00:01:42,640 --> 00:01:46,720 Speaker 1: get out of hand like this. And talking to players 30 00:01:46,720 --> 00:01:50,160 Speaker 1: after the game, Bill they were they were embarrassed by this. 31 00:01:50,360 --> 00:01:53,000 Speaker 1: You know, Paris Campbell used that word. This is embarrassing. 32 00:01:53,560 --> 00:01:56,560 Speaker 1: And you know you lose by thirty five points. That's 33 00:01:56,600 --> 00:02:00,200 Speaker 1: the colts biggest margin of loss in a games since 34 00:02:00,280 --> 00:02:02,640 Speaker 1: Week one of the twenty seventeen season of forty six 35 00:02:02,680 --> 00:02:05,360 Speaker 1: to nine lost to Los Angeles Rams. Bill. When when 36 00:02:05,360 --> 00:02:07,360 Speaker 1: you're a game like this and it's kind of going 37 00:02:07,400 --> 00:02:10,640 Speaker 1: this way, how do you how do you stay locked in? 38 00:02:10,680 --> 00:02:14,080 Speaker 1: How do you stay competitive? Just on a personal level 39 00:02:14,320 --> 00:02:17,640 Speaker 1: when things are just going you know, so Haywire, in 40 00:02:17,639 --> 00:02:20,040 Speaker 1: a game like this, it's one of those things where 41 00:02:20,080 --> 00:02:22,200 Speaker 1: you have to say, you know the old adda, just 42 00:02:22,200 --> 00:02:24,760 Speaker 1: don't look at the scoreboard. Just play football. Just play 43 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:27,560 Speaker 1: the game. And you can't look at the score board, 44 00:02:27,600 --> 00:02:31,320 Speaker 1: can't look at the things that have happened in the past. 45 00:02:31,800 --> 00:02:33,280 Speaker 1: You have to put it behind you. You have to 46 00:02:33,320 --> 00:02:37,200 Speaker 1: have a memory where you don't remember things. That's basically, 47 00:02:37,200 --> 00:02:39,760 Speaker 1: you just have to have something you can forget, forget 48 00:02:39,840 --> 00:02:41,639 Speaker 1: the things that happened in the past and just move 49 00:02:41,680 --> 00:02:44,880 Speaker 1: forward and just try to continue to play and not 50 00:02:45,560 --> 00:02:48,359 Speaker 1: let the things in the past affect how you play 51 00:02:48,440 --> 00:02:50,960 Speaker 1: the game going forward and just go out there and 52 00:02:50,960 --> 00:02:53,040 Speaker 1: play your game. Um, that's the one thing you have 53 00:02:53,080 --> 00:02:55,600 Speaker 1: to try to do. And it just snowball in the 54 00:02:55,639 --> 00:02:58,640 Speaker 1: coats last night, you know, especially after the third quarter 55 00:02:58,680 --> 00:03:01,120 Speaker 1: when you have the turn overs and I think they 56 00:03:01,160 --> 00:03:06,680 Speaker 1: went fumble, interception, interception, fumble the next four possessions and 57 00:03:06,720 --> 00:03:10,240 Speaker 1: that makes it very difficult. It's just tough and end 58 00:03:10,240 --> 00:03:12,920 Speaker 1: of the game there and turn the ball over. You 59 00:03:12,960 --> 00:03:16,240 Speaker 1: can't do that, and all the penalties as again as 60 00:03:16,240 --> 00:03:20,040 Speaker 1: we talked about before, and it just makes it very frustrating, 61 00:03:20,120 --> 00:03:22,920 Speaker 1: make it for a long day. And I agree with Paris, 62 00:03:23,080 --> 00:03:26,280 Speaker 1: it's it was embarrassing for the coach and as a player, 63 00:03:26,720 --> 00:03:30,480 Speaker 1: it's embarrassing, especially the week before you played a team 64 00:03:30,720 --> 00:03:34,480 Speaker 1: on national TV and you know you came up short 65 00:03:34,520 --> 00:03:36,440 Speaker 1: in that game, and then you have a chance to 66 00:03:36,520 --> 00:03:39,520 Speaker 1: following week to come back and play a game on 67 00:03:39,640 --> 00:03:42,680 Speaker 1: national TV again and you come up short, but you 68 00:03:42,800 --> 00:03:45,680 Speaker 1: play a lot worse than you played the previous week. 69 00:03:46,480 --> 00:03:49,840 Speaker 1: Both of the losses, but something that's just very embarrassing 70 00:03:49,840 --> 00:03:52,680 Speaker 1: and very hard to deal with as a professional athlete. 71 00:03:52,680 --> 00:03:54,200 Speaker 1: But they have to try to bounce back from this. 72 00:03:54,440 --> 00:03:56,880 Speaker 1: So before we get into how the fourth courtoc out away, 73 00:03:56,920 --> 00:03:59,800 Speaker 1: just just to kind of re rack where the Colts were. 74 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:01,720 Speaker 1: You know, I mentioned it was twenty one nineteen going 75 00:04:01,760 --> 00:04:03,480 Speaker 1: into the fourth quarter of the Colts bill. They had 76 00:04:03,520 --> 00:04:07,840 Speaker 1: a fifteen play, ninety yardard touchdown drive in the third quarter. 77 00:04:08,200 --> 00:04:10,720 Speaker 1: It took eight minutes off the clock. It was efficient, 78 00:04:11,520 --> 00:04:13,960 Speaker 1: it was just it was a really good drive. It 79 00:04:14,120 --> 00:04:17,200 Speaker 1: ended with Alec Pierce going up and beating Calvin Joseph 80 00:04:17,200 --> 00:04:20,000 Speaker 1: in the end zone for a fifteen yard touchdown. We're 81 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:21,800 Speaker 1: gonna talk about Alec a little bit later in the pot. 82 00:04:21,839 --> 00:04:22,920 Speaker 1: I want to pick a brain on some of the 83 00:04:22,960 --> 00:04:26,320 Speaker 1: stuff he did on Sunday, But you know, then Dallas 84 00:04:26,320 --> 00:04:29,560 Speaker 1: comes back down and Isaiah Rodgers almost as an interception. 85 00:04:30,960 --> 00:04:33,640 Speaker 1: Jeff Saturday said on Monday, he did not challenge that call, 86 00:04:33,720 --> 00:04:36,760 Speaker 1: by the way, just because he had got, you know, 87 00:04:36,920 --> 00:04:41,000 Speaker 1: word from upstairs in the Colts booth that you know, 88 00:04:41,040 --> 00:04:43,760 Speaker 1: the call in the field was that the pass is incomplete. 89 00:04:44,560 --> 00:04:48,800 Speaker 1: The ball had clearly hit the ground, and if you 90 00:04:48,839 --> 00:04:50,880 Speaker 1: look at a couple of angles of the replay, it 91 00:04:50,920 --> 00:04:53,479 Speaker 1: shows that, you know, Isaiah unfortunately did not come down 92 00:04:53,520 --> 00:04:55,479 Speaker 1: with that, so it wasn't going to be overturned, so 93 00:04:55,520 --> 00:04:57,840 Speaker 1: he did not challenge it. The Cowboys don't come out 94 00:04:57,839 --> 00:05:00,160 Speaker 1: a couple of plays later, get down to the three 95 00:05:00,240 --> 00:05:02,320 Speaker 1: yard line on third and ten, get in the end zone. 96 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:04,440 Speaker 1: That was at the start of the fourth quarter, and 97 00:05:04,440 --> 00:05:07,920 Speaker 1: then Bill, like you mentioned the Colts go fumble, interception, interception, fumble, 98 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:11,560 Speaker 1: Dallas turns all four of those into touchdowns, including a 99 00:05:11,680 --> 00:05:15,880 Speaker 1: Malik Hooker twenty eight yard fumble recovery for a touchdown. 100 00:05:18,960 --> 00:05:22,480 Speaker 1: You know, and something Bill after the game, hearing from 101 00:05:22,560 --> 00:05:25,359 Speaker 1: Jeff Saturday and hearing from players is that it was 102 00:05:25,440 --> 00:05:27,560 Speaker 1: kind of indicative of where the season has been, is 103 00:05:27,600 --> 00:05:31,800 Speaker 1: that it's not one thing, you know, everyone's kind of 104 00:05:31,800 --> 00:05:35,200 Speaker 1: taking their turns in this and you know, as mo 105 00:05:35,320 --> 00:05:37,400 Speaker 1: Alei Cox losing a fumble on a tight end screen, 106 00:05:37,440 --> 00:05:39,920 Speaker 1: it was Matt Ryan, you know, throw in those two 107 00:05:39,960 --> 00:05:43,280 Speaker 1: interceptions and then you know he gets heated up and 108 00:05:43,520 --> 00:05:47,640 Speaker 1: there's a strip sack for the last fumble. And if 109 00:05:47,720 --> 00:05:49,560 Speaker 1: it would be easy, Bill, if there was just one 110 00:05:49,600 --> 00:05:51,479 Speaker 1: answer for this, that you could say, all right, we'll 111 00:05:51,480 --> 00:05:53,680 Speaker 1: do this one thing during the bye week and that'll 112 00:05:53,720 --> 00:05:56,280 Speaker 1: fix everything. But that's not the case for this team 113 00:05:56,320 --> 00:05:58,360 Speaker 1: that is the most turnovers in the NFL at twenty 114 00:05:58,400 --> 00:06:01,320 Speaker 1: six right now. Yeah, everyone's gonna turn and that's the 115 00:06:01,400 --> 00:06:03,680 Speaker 1: unfortunate thing. You know, if it's you know, it's one 116 00:06:03,760 --> 00:06:06,920 Speaker 1: group here on this drive, and the next drive it's 117 00:06:06,920 --> 00:06:10,760 Speaker 1: another group, or it's another individual. So it's not any 118 00:06:10,800 --> 00:06:13,000 Speaker 1: one person or any one thing that you can put 119 00:06:13,040 --> 00:06:14,680 Speaker 1: your finger on and say, hey, we need to do 120 00:06:14,720 --> 00:06:17,000 Speaker 1: this during the week of practice and we need to 121 00:06:17,040 --> 00:06:19,400 Speaker 1: improve on this and this will solve our issues. And 122 00:06:19,440 --> 00:06:22,599 Speaker 1: it's unfortunately it's not that way. It's a number of things. 123 00:06:22,680 --> 00:06:25,160 Speaker 1: If it's off the line, if it's communication with the 124 00:06:25,200 --> 00:06:27,680 Speaker 1: off the line and the quarterback, if it's a communication 125 00:06:27,839 --> 00:06:32,040 Speaker 1: between office line, quarterback and running back, receivers not getting 126 00:06:32,040 --> 00:06:35,680 Speaker 1: open quarterback, putting the ball in certain areas. So it's 127 00:06:35,720 --> 00:06:38,760 Speaker 1: a combination of things that they have to try to 128 00:06:38,800 --> 00:06:41,000 Speaker 1: fix it. And it's going to start with each and 129 00:06:41,080 --> 00:06:45,160 Speaker 1: each person, each player. They have to look in the 130 00:06:45,200 --> 00:06:48,240 Speaker 1: mirror themselves and see what they are not doing or 131 00:06:48,279 --> 00:06:51,560 Speaker 1: what they can and do better, how can they improve 132 00:06:52,320 --> 00:06:54,040 Speaker 1: And they're gonna have some time to think about it 133 00:06:54,279 --> 00:06:56,440 Speaker 1: during the buy a week now, so they'll have a 134 00:06:56,480 --> 00:06:59,040 Speaker 1: lot of time to think about it, and you know what, 135 00:06:59,040 --> 00:07:01,120 Speaker 1: what can they do to this team? That's what they 136 00:07:01,160 --> 00:07:03,800 Speaker 1: need to start working on, start thinking about from here 137 00:07:03,839 --> 00:07:07,719 Speaker 1: on out, and then hopefully they figured that out, come 138 00:07:07,760 --> 00:07:10,840 Speaker 1: back after the bye week and get ready for the 139 00:07:10,920 --> 00:07:14,120 Speaker 1: next game and try to improve, because from here on 140 00:07:14,160 --> 00:07:18,680 Speaker 1: out it's about getting better and working on things to improve, 141 00:07:18,800 --> 00:07:21,239 Speaker 1: not to think not thinking about playoffs, not thinking about 142 00:07:21,320 --> 00:07:24,520 Speaker 1: we have only four games remaining. Take care of each 143 00:07:24,600 --> 00:07:27,240 Speaker 1: day and try to get better each day, and try 144 00:07:27,280 --> 00:07:30,400 Speaker 1: to work hard each day to improve yourself and do 145 00:07:30,560 --> 00:07:34,280 Speaker 1: things to help improve this football team. For the Colts, 146 00:07:34,280 --> 00:07:36,920 Speaker 1: five turnovers in this game. Matt Ryan through an interception 147 00:07:37,600 --> 00:07:40,520 Speaker 1: toward the end of the first half. Culture only the 148 00:07:40,560 --> 00:07:42,800 Speaker 1: fourth team this year to have five turnovers in a game. 149 00:07:42,840 --> 00:07:44,440 Speaker 1: It will not surprise you to learn, Bill that all 150 00:07:44,440 --> 00:07:49,120 Speaker 1: four of those teams have lost. Over the last five seasons. 151 00:07:49,120 --> 00:07:51,160 Speaker 1: Team that turn teams that turn the ball over five 152 00:07:51,240 --> 00:07:54,320 Speaker 1: or more times are two thirty and one, and over 153 00:07:54,360 --> 00:07:59,160 Speaker 1: the last five full seasons, no team has been over 154 00:07:59,200 --> 00:08:02,800 Speaker 1: five hundred. Excuse me two teams. Only two of thirty 155 00:08:02,800 --> 00:08:05,040 Speaker 1: seven teams who have turned the ball over twenty six 156 00:08:05,200 --> 00:08:07,760 Speaker 1: more times as the Colts have this year have finished 157 00:08:07,800 --> 00:08:09,840 Speaker 1: with a record over five hundred. The Colts can no 158 00:08:09,920 --> 00:08:13,320 Speaker 1: longer finish with a record over five hundred this year. 159 00:08:13,360 --> 00:08:14,840 Speaker 1: If they were to win out, they would go eight 160 00:08:14,880 --> 00:08:18,560 Speaker 1: eight and one. Colts are averaging two turnovers a game 161 00:08:18,720 --> 00:08:22,800 Speaker 1: right now, and way too much. I mean you, like, 162 00:08:22,920 --> 00:08:25,240 Speaker 1: we've talked about so much that makes the margin for 163 00:08:25,360 --> 00:08:30,000 Speaker 1: error so slim, and this is a team that it's 164 00:08:30,040 --> 00:08:33,480 Speaker 1: so hard to live in that realm and be successful, 165 00:08:33,520 --> 00:08:35,920 Speaker 1: and talking to players after the game, it's like the 166 00:08:36,360 --> 00:08:39,120 Speaker 1: reason why the Colts are four eight and one starts 167 00:08:39,160 --> 00:08:41,760 Speaker 1: with we have turned the ball over too much. But 168 00:08:41,840 --> 00:08:44,040 Speaker 1: the answer to how to fix that is a lot 169 00:08:44,080 --> 00:08:47,120 Speaker 1: more complicated, by far as a lot more complicated, and 170 00:08:47,400 --> 00:08:51,280 Speaker 1: the frustrating thing about it is it's not like these 171 00:08:51,320 --> 00:08:56,120 Speaker 1: teams that we're playing are beating us. We're beating ourselves, 172 00:08:56,280 --> 00:08:58,400 Speaker 1: right and in a lot of ways. And when you start, 173 00:08:58,440 --> 00:09:01,920 Speaker 1: when you beat yourselves, you just just it makes it 174 00:09:02,040 --> 00:09:06,120 Speaker 1: very difficult to win against eleven other guys, but you're 175 00:09:06,160 --> 00:09:08,880 Speaker 1: beating but you're basically playing against I don't know, say 176 00:09:08,920 --> 00:09:12,240 Speaker 1: fifteen and sixteen guys because five, five, four or five 177 00:09:12,360 --> 00:09:14,839 Speaker 1: six other guys are making mistakes, and so it makes 178 00:09:14,840 --> 00:09:17,520 Speaker 1: it very difficult to win football games. So you can't 179 00:09:17,520 --> 00:09:19,199 Speaker 1: do that. You can't beat yourself. It's hard enough to 180 00:09:19,240 --> 00:09:24,160 Speaker 1: beat these other teams when they're playing well and you're 181 00:09:24,240 --> 00:09:27,160 Speaker 1: playing well, and when you're not playing well making mistakes, 182 00:09:27,760 --> 00:09:31,440 Speaker 1: it makes it that more much more difficult. So they 183 00:09:31,480 --> 00:09:33,840 Speaker 1: just have to try to try to figure out how 184 00:09:33,880 --> 00:09:35,760 Speaker 1: to do this, and you know what, we're getting close 185 00:09:35,800 --> 00:09:37,480 Speaker 1: to the end of the season, but you just have 186 00:09:37,600 --> 00:09:39,880 Speaker 1: to try to figure out how how we can get 187 00:09:39,880 --> 00:09:42,200 Speaker 1: better and how we can minimize our mistakes. For the 188 00:09:42,240 --> 00:09:46,680 Speaker 1: Colts defense, you know, the final point total is obviously 189 00:09:46,720 --> 00:09:50,120 Speaker 1: not flattering. Seven of those came on the league Cooker's 190 00:09:50,120 --> 00:09:52,959 Speaker 1: fumble recovery for a touchdown, But you know, the Colts 191 00:09:52,960 --> 00:09:55,600 Speaker 1: are put in some pretty tough places as a defense. 192 00:09:57,160 --> 00:10:00,680 Speaker 1: You know, Dallas, Dallas taken over near mid field in 193 00:10:00,800 --> 00:10:03,160 Speaker 1: Colts territory in the fourth quarter. But Zaire Franklin made 194 00:10:03,160 --> 00:10:05,760 Speaker 1: a point after the game that you know, turnovers and 195 00:10:05,920 --> 00:10:08,480 Speaker 1: sudden change defense in the fourth quarter is kind of 196 00:10:08,640 --> 00:10:11,920 Speaker 1: especially tough. Um. You're kind of buy into that bill 197 00:10:11,960 --> 00:10:14,960 Speaker 1: that when when you get a turnover as an offense 198 00:10:14,960 --> 00:10:17,800 Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter, that that momentum spark is maybe 199 00:10:17,840 --> 00:10:20,880 Speaker 1: heightened a little bit more in the final fifteen minutes, 200 00:10:20,920 --> 00:10:23,000 Speaker 1: oh by far, because you know that, hey, this is 201 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:26,679 Speaker 1: the opportunity to so called put a dagger in the 202 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:30,080 Speaker 1: opponents on the opponent that you can if you go 203 00:10:30,160 --> 00:10:33,160 Speaker 1: down and score, we know that's gonna be that much 204 00:10:33,160 --> 00:10:35,200 Speaker 1: more difficult for the team to come back because they're 205 00:10:35,240 --> 00:10:37,079 Speaker 1: running out of time. It's in the fourth quarter, they're 206 00:10:37,160 --> 00:10:38,800 Speaker 1: running out of time. They're not gonna have much time 207 00:10:38,840 --> 00:10:41,800 Speaker 1: to respond to that and come back from that. So 208 00:10:42,280 --> 00:10:46,160 Speaker 1: those hurt a defense when knowing that an offense is 209 00:10:46,720 --> 00:10:51,320 Speaker 1: is have turned the ball over and then they have 210 00:10:51,360 --> 00:10:52,600 Speaker 1: to go out there and try to stop them. Then 211 00:10:52,520 --> 00:10:55,840 Speaker 1: the offense scores and defense you just feel demoralized about 212 00:10:55,960 --> 00:10:58,000 Speaker 1: what's going on out there and that you don't have 213 00:10:58,080 --> 00:10:59,640 Speaker 1: a chance, and that knowing that it's going to be 214 00:10:59,720 --> 00:11:02,760 Speaker 1: very for the team to make up for that, for 215 00:11:02,960 --> 00:11:06,360 Speaker 1: your team to make up that difference. So it's it's hard. 216 00:11:06,400 --> 00:11:09,880 Speaker 1: It's hard on defenses. Um. I feel for the defense. Um, 217 00:11:10,240 --> 00:11:12,319 Speaker 1: you know, they played hard. No, they do have a 218 00:11:12,400 --> 00:11:14,080 Speaker 1: job to do and that job is to stop teams 219 00:11:14,080 --> 00:11:17,880 Speaker 1: from scoring, regardless of where the opponent gets the ball 220 00:11:17,920 --> 00:11:20,280 Speaker 1: at or turn over or where they start at. So 221 00:11:20,320 --> 00:11:23,199 Speaker 1: that's their job. But you know what, it makes it 222 00:11:23,400 --> 00:11:25,640 Speaker 1: very difficult to stop a team when they only have 223 00:11:25,800 --> 00:11:28,320 Speaker 1: thirty yards ago, fifty yards ago, or forty yards ago. 224 00:11:28,400 --> 00:11:31,000 Speaker 1: Try to make the team go the whole whole distance 225 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:35,240 Speaker 1: of the field seventy five eighty yards. But um, you 226 00:11:35,280 --> 00:11:38,520 Speaker 1: know what it's it is demoralizing just because they have 227 00:11:38,640 --> 00:11:41,160 Speaker 1: less time to come back from that. Yeah, and you know, 228 00:11:41,200 --> 00:11:44,240 Speaker 1: you look at just some of the rushing numbers. It was, 229 00:11:44,400 --> 00:11:46,720 Speaker 1: you know, the Colts defense allowed. It wasn't up to 230 00:11:46,760 --> 00:11:49,520 Speaker 1: their standard. I think probably in the first three quarters, 231 00:11:49,520 --> 00:11:52,160 Speaker 1: Colts allow five point four yards per carry, twenty five 232 00:11:52,200 --> 00:11:54,360 Speaker 1: attempts for one hundred and thirty four yards for the Cowboys. 233 00:11:54,360 --> 00:11:57,360 Speaker 1: Over the first three quarters, Tony Pollard in particular, he 234 00:11:57,400 --> 00:12:00,200 Speaker 1: had ten carries for sixty yards, including a touchdown down. 235 00:12:01,600 --> 00:12:03,640 Speaker 1: You know that that is again that's not up to 236 00:12:03,760 --> 00:12:06,880 Speaker 1: what the Colts believe their standard can be. But then 237 00:12:06,920 --> 00:12:09,640 Speaker 1: the final totals really then just get skewed by the 238 00:12:09,640 --> 00:12:11,600 Speaker 1: fourth quarter of the Cowboys in the fourth quarter rushed 239 00:12:11,640 --> 00:12:15,720 Speaker 1: ten times for eighty eight yards three touchdowns, and it 240 00:12:15,760 --> 00:12:19,640 Speaker 1: gets away from them at that point that there's really 241 00:12:19,720 --> 00:12:22,360 Speaker 1: not much else to say about this game that you know, Okay, 242 00:12:22,360 --> 00:12:24,040 Speaker 1: it's you know, it's great. The Cults are competitive for 243 00:12:24,040 --> 00:12:28,320 Speaker 1: three quarters against a Super Bowl contender, But those mistakes, 244 00:12:28,400 --> 00:12:33,000 Speaker 1: I mean, they just they keep coming in inopportune times, 245 00:12:33,040 --> 00:12:36,760 Speaker 1: and no more so than in this game against the Cowboys. Now, 246 00:12:37,160 --> 00:12:39,320 Speaker 1: we don't play three quarters in the National Football League, 247 00:12:39,360 --> 00:12:41,400 Speaker 1: we played four quarters sixteen minutes. You have to play 248 00:12:41,400 --> 00:12:43,679 Speaker 1: the whole game. And when you don't play the whole 249 00:12:43,720 --> 00:12:46,120 Speaker 1: game and you make mistakes and turn the ball over, 250 00:12:46,160 --> 00:12:48,679 Speaker 1: as we talked about, it makes it very difficult. Now 251 00:12:48,679 --> 00:12:51,760 Speaker 1: that the guys did play well for three quarters and 252 00:12:51,880 --> 00:12:54,439 Speaker 1: kept it close, but you know, give Dallas credit. They 253 00:12:54,480 --> 00:12:57,800 Speaker 1: have a good, good, good running game, and you know, 254 00:12:57,960 --> 00:13:01,480 Speaker 1: when you got it's only Parliament and Ezekiel back there, 255 00:13:01,520 --> 00:13:04,679 Speaker 1: Elliott and run the ball and doing the things they did. 256 00:13:04,720 --> 00:13:07,000 Speaker 1: And then you have cdee Lamb out there and you 257 00:13:07,080 --> 00:13:09,560 Speaker 1: had a couple of jet sweeps there earlier in the game, 258 00:13:09,640 --> 00:13:13,080 Speaker 1: and you know, making good yards off of that. So 259 00:13:13,160 --> 00:13:15,920 Speaker 1: it makes it very difficult to win. And Dallas is 260 00:13:15,920 --> 00:13:20,760 Speaker 1: a good football team. Coats played decently for the first 261 00:13:20,760 --> 00:13:24,479 Speaker 1: three quarters. But you know what, we don't get participation 262 00:13:24,960 --> 00:13:27,679 Speaker 1: awards here for playing good for three quarters. We lost 263 00:13:27,679 --> 00:13:31,040 Speaker 1: the game and it makes it difficult and very hard 264 00:13:31,080 --> 00:13:34,400 Speaker 1: for the players. I'm sure it was a very long 265 00:13:34,520 --> 00:13:38,280 Speaker 1: flight back home last night, and it's gonna be a long, 266 00:13:38,360 --> 00:13:40,400 Speaker 1: long couple of days off of these guys because there's 267 00:13:40,400 --> 00:13:42,280 Speaker 1: something they're gonna think about during the bye week for 268 00:13:42,360 --> 00:13:46,320 Speaker 1: a while, and knowing that this season has gotten away 269 00:13:46,360 --> 00:13:48,520 Speaker 1: from him, it makes it very difficult for him. And 270 00:13:48,559 --> 00:13:52,360 Speaker 1: it's been a long season, not a season the way 271 00:13:52,400 --> 00:13:55,880 Speaker 1: they plan for what to play out the way it has. 272 00:13:55,920 --> 00:13:59,840 Speaker 1: But they are gonna need to try to fix this 273 00:14:00,840 --> 00:14:03,360 Speaker 1: in the next couple of days, next couple of weeks 274 00:14:03,360 --> 00:14:06,400 Speaker 1: to improve their play, and that's what you have to 275 00:14:06,400 --> 00:14:09,960 Speaker 1: look at. Improve their practicing improve their play and hopefully 276 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:13,400 Speaker 1: this can continue to carry over. One final thing to 277 00:14:13,440 --> 00:14:15,640 Speaker 1: talk about before we get out here. A bright spot 278 00:14:15,640 --> 00:14:17,120 Speaker 1: in this game was a couple of plays that Alec 279 00:14:17,200 --> 00:14:19,640 Speaker 1: Pierce made. He gives four catches for eighty six yards, 280 00:14:19,960 --> 00:14:23,160 Speaker 1: forty five yard are on a go ball outside the numbers, 281 00:14:23,320 --> 00:14:25,680 Speaker 1: and then a fifteen yard touchdown. Both of those were 282 00:14:25,720 --> 00:14:30,800 Speaker 1: contested catches where Bill you saw Alex speed, his athleticism, 283 00:14:31,400 --> 00:14:35,280 Speaker 1: his ball skills, you know, his ability to kind of 284 00:14:35,280 --> 00:14:37,720 Speaker 1: flash late hands and be strong with his hands in 285 00:14:37,760 --> 00:14:40,040 Speaker 1: the air, all the things that we know Alk can do. 286 00:14:40,120 --> 00:14:42,040 Speaker 1: And it was just good to see that because Alec 287 00:14:42,080 --> 00:14:45,680 Speaker 1: over his last four games, he you know, his production 288 00:14:45,840 --> 00:14:49,280 Speaker 1: dropped and you know, Reggie Wayne was getting questions about 289 00:14:49,280 --> 00:14:51,760 Speaker 1: if Alc had hit the rookie wall, and you know, 290 00:14:52,440 --> 00:14:55,080 Speaker 1: I think what Reggie's answer was, which wound up being 291 00:14:55,120 --> 00:14:58,160 Speaker 1: pretty relevant for this game, was that if you look 292 00:14:58,200 --> 00:15:00,520 Speaker 1: at the film, the things that Alec was do even 293 00:15:00,520 --> 00:15:03,960 Speaker 1: when the ball wasn't coming his way, we're encouraging and 294 00:15:04,280 --> 00:15:06,240 Speaker 1: Reggie didn't see any signs that Alc could hit the 295 00:15:06,320 --> 00:15:09,200 Speaker 1: rookie wall. He goes out today and definitely shows that 296 00:15:09,280 --> 00:15:11,440 Speaker 1: he has not hit a rookie wall. Yeah, it looks 297 00:15:11,480 --> 00:15:16,120 Speaker 1: like at the game on Sunday night that Alec was fine. 298 00:15:16,160 --> 00:15:18,440 Speaker 1: Didn't Lucky hit a rookie wall. And you know, that's 299 00:15:18,440 --> 00:15:20,120 Speaker 1: what you have to do as a young player in 300 00:15:20,120 --> 00:15:23,560 Speaker 1: the National Football League. They're gonna be stretches in the 301 00:15:23,600 --> 00:15:26,520 Speaker 1: season where you're not getting balls thrown to you, and 302 00:15:26,560 --> 00:15:28,840 Speaker 1: you still have to continue to work on your game 303 00:15:28,920 --> 00:15:31,400 Speaker 1: during that time period. You know what you work on 304 00:15:31,440 --> 00:15:33,400 Speaker 1: your routes, You work on your release against guys and 305 00:15:33,440 --> 00:15:35,960 Speaker 1: see what works and what doesn't work. And those are 306 00:15:36,040 --> 00:15:38,000 Speaker 1: actually reps that you're getting, even though you're not getting 307 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:40,880 Speaker 1: the ball, the reps you're getting to improve yourself. And 308 00:15:41,120 --> 00:15:44,800 Speaker 1: him going out there Sunday playing and catching that long 309 00:15:44,880 --> 00:15:47,200 Speaker 1: ball on the sideline there and going up and getting it. 310 00:15:47,280 --> 00:15:49,760 Speaker 1: And what I liked what I saw about the balls 311 00:15:49,760 --> 00:15:52,360 Speaker 1: that he caught on the sidelines. There's one he had 312 00:15:52,400 --> 00:15:54,800 Speaker 1: good body control, knowing where he was at, knowing how 313 00:15:54,960 --> 00:15:58,520 Speaker 1: to attack the ball and how to put his body 314 00:15:58,560 --> 00:16:02,440 Speaker 1: between him and the defender and the ball so that 315 00:16:03,840 --> 00:16:06,160 Speaker 1: only he can get the ball. And especially on that 316 00:16:06,200 --> 00:16:08,880 Speaker 1: touchdown play, nice release off to the line of scrimmage, 317 00:16:08,960 --> 00:16:11,680 Speaker 1: got the field and of course gave himself enough for 318 00:16:11,760 --> 00:16:14,720 Speaker 1: him on the sideline. I thought Matt made a nice throw, 319 00:16:14,840 --> 00:16:18,280 Speaker 1: and then Alec made a nice job, did a nice 320 00:16:18,360 --> 00:16:21,760 Speaker 1: job of putting his body between the ball and the defender, 321 00:16:21,840 --> 00:16:23,920 Speaker 1: going up, getting the ball and holding onto the balls 322 00:16:23,920 --> 00:16:26,040 Speaker 1: he came down. So those are the things that you 323 00:16:26,080 --> 00:16:28,760 Speaker 1: see with Alec there that he's doing a nice job, 324 00:16:28,800 --> 00:16:31,280 Speaker 1: and I think he will he will continue to progress 325 00:16:31,320 --> 00:16:34,360 Speaker 1: as long as he continues to learn. You know, he's 326 00:16:34,440 --> 00:16:36,960 Speaker 1: learning from one of the best and Reggie. So he 327 00:16:37,040 --> 00:16:39,960 Speaker 1: continues just to learn and grow and grow and grow 328 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:42,600 Speaker 1: and work and work and work, he'll get better. And 329 00:16:42,920 --> 00:16:45,080 Speaker 1: the things that he's working on now you will see 330 00:16:45,120 --> 00:16:48,440 Speaker 1: as in the years to come, the weeks to come, 331 00:16:48,520 --> 00:16:51,080 Speaker 1: that he will those things will be easier for him, 332 00:16:51,560 --> 00:16:53,640 Speaker 1: and you know he will catch the balls and make 333 00:16:53,720 --> 00:16:56,440 Speaker 1: some nice runs after the catch and do a nice job. 334 00:16:56,480 --> 00:17:00,480 Speaker 1: So I'm very encouraged by what I see from Yeah. 335 00:17:00,520 --> 00:17:03,400 Speaker 1: I mean, if you look at how this Colts season 336 00:17:03,520 --> 00:17:05,760 Speaker 1: is going, I think right now you're starting to focus 337 00:17:05,800 --> 00:17:09,479 Speaker 1: in on individual players and especially for the young guys growth, 338 00:17:09,480 --> 00:17:11,640 Speaker 1: and you know we saw it with Jilani Woods last week, 339 00:17:11,640 --> 00:17:14,960 Speaker 1: eight catches for ninety eight yards Bernard Ryman did not 340 00:17:15,040 --> 00:17:17,760 Speaker 1: allow a sack when he was matched up against a 341 00:17:17,840 --> 00:17:20,320 Speaker 1: Marcus Lawrence, and Michael Parsons did not even allow a 342 00:17:20,400 --> 00:17:26,240 Speaker 1: quarterback hit in those situations. That's encouraging. You're seeing, you know, 343 00:17:26,240 --> 00:17:28,080 Speaker 1: and now Alec coming on, You're seeing some of the 344 00:17:28,119 --> 00:17:31,720 Speaker 1: young guys from this year's draft class on offense show 345 00:17:31,800 --> 00:17:33,920 Speaker 1: some encouraging signs down the stretch. It's never going to 346 00:17:33,960 --> 00:17:37,440 Speaker 1: be perfect, it's never going to be linear, but ultimately, 347 00:17:37,480 --> 00:17:38,840 Speaker 1: I think if we get to the end of the 348 00:17:38,840 --> 00:17:41,080 Speaker 1: season and we see some more games like this from Alec, 349 00:17:41,119 --> 00:17:43,800 Speaker 1: from Jelani, from Bernard, and you feel like at the 350 00:17:43,880 --> 00:17:46,040 Speaker 1: end of the season their arrows are pointing up going 351 00:17:46,080 --> 00:17:50,880 Speaker 1: into year two, that will be encouraging, separating that from 352 00:17:50,920 --> 00:17:52,639 Speaker 1: whatever the Colts record was. And I thought Alec had 353 00:17:52,640 --> 00:17:54,359 Speaker 1: a really gonna answer after the game. Bill just one 354 00:17:54,440 --> 00:17:57,960 Speaker 1: last thing that he said, you know, he knows the 355 00:17:58,000 --> 00:17:59,840 Speaker 1: deal with playing wide receiver that some weeks are going 356 00:17:59,880 --> 00:18:02,359 Speaker 1: to at the ball, some weeks you're not. He understands that. 357 00:18:02,400 --> 00:18:05,160 Speaker 1: He's like, what I'm not used to is the losing 358 00:18:05,640 --> 00:18:08,359 Speaker 1: and where this team is right now. I thought it 359 00:18:08,400 --> 00:18:10,720 Speaker 1: was a really good answer, really self aware answer. By 360 00:18:10,720 --> 00:18:12,800 Speaker 1: the young kid. Yeah, and it's it's probably hard for him, 361 00:18:12,920 --> 00:18:15,159 Speaker 1: like you said, coming from Cincinnati and winning winning some 362 00:18:15,320 --> 00:18:20,040 Speaker 1: games and being successful at Cincinnati, it makes it difficult 363 00:18:20,080 --> 00:18:22,560 Speaker 1: when you come in you're losing these minis games now 364 00:18:22,640 --> 00:18:25,440 Speaker 1: in the National Football League, it makes it very difficult. 365 00:18:25,440 --> 00:18:27,960 Speaker 1: But that's part of the growth process also with the 366 00:18:28,040 --> 00:18:30,359 Speaker 1: young guys. You know, they're gonna be games where you 367 00:18:30,440 --> 00:18:33,120 Speaker 1: might go through stretches where it's part of the season 368 00:18:33,119 --> 00:18:35,399 Speaker 1: where you go through stretches where you're gonna lose a 369 00:18:35,440 --> 00:18:37,400 Speaker 1: few games. You know, it might lose two or three 370 00:18:37,480 --> 00:18:40,720 Speaker 1: or four games throughout the season, but it's gonna it 371 00:18:40,800 --> 00:18:43,199 Speaker 1: might be difficult to bounce back from those things. But 372 00:18:43,240 --> 00:18:45,040 Speaker 1: you have to learn how to bounce back. You have 373 00:18:45,080 --> 00:18:47,480 Speaker 1: to learn how to put the week behind you, learn 374 00:18:47,520 --> 00:18:49,560 Speaker 1: from your mistakes and move forward to the next week, 375 00:18:49,600 --> 00:18:51,639 Speaker 1: to the next game. And that's what you don't have 376 00:18:51,680 --> 00:18:53,720 Speaker 1: to see from these young guys. That's gonna be part 377 00:18:53,760 --> 00:18:56,720 Speaker 1: of their growth process, not just this year, but next 378 00:18:56,800 --> 00:18:58,800 Speaker 1: year as well. So you know a lot of times 379 00:18:58,840 --> 00:19:00,480 Speaker 1: if you look at the graph, you know graph of 380 00:19:00,600 --> 00:19:02,119 Speaker 1: some of these young guys are gonna be you know, 381 00:19:02,119 --> 00:19:04,240 Speaker 1: they're gonna start going up. But then you might see 382 00:19:04,240 --> 00:19:05,960 Speaker 1: a level off a little bit for a few games, 383 00:19:05,960 --> 00:19:07,840 Speaker 1: and it's gonna go up again. It's gonna level offt 384 00:19:07,840 --> 00:19:10,760 Speaker 1: and it might dip a little bit one point and 385 00:19:10,760 --> 00:19:13,679 Speaker 1: then go back up again. But from the beginning of 386 00:19:13,880 --> 00:19:16,080 Speaker 1: training camp to the end of the season, you want 387 00:19:16,080 --> 00:19:18,720 Speaker 1: to see where that graph has gone, where that line 388 00:19:18,720 --> 00:19:21,119 Speaker 1: has gone up. And I think for a lot of 389 00:19:21,160 --> 00:19:23,520 Speaker 1: the young guys that that line has gone up on 390 00:19:23,560 --> 00:19:25,960 Speaker 1: the graph. So you know, like you said, Gilani Woods, 391 00:19:25,960 --> 00:19:29,320 Speaker 1: Alec Paris and Bernard Ryman, the young guys there, you 392 00:19:29,359 --> 00:19:31,240 Speaker 1: see it going up, and you want to continue to 393 00:19:31,280 --> 00:19:34,200 Speaker 1: go up, and especially once the season is over, from 394 00:19:34,240 --> 00:19:36,200 Speaker 1: the second from the first year to the second year, 395 00:19:36,480 --> 00:19:38,280 Speaker 1: you want to see even a bigger jump for those 396 00:19:38,320 --> 00:19:41,000 Speaker 1: young guys that uh, they could make contributions to the 397 00:19:41,040 --> 00:19:43,160 Speaker 1: team to help the team win. All right, Well, that's 398 00:19:43,200 --> 00:19:45,000 Speaker 1: gonna do it for us here on this episode of 399 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:48,360 Speaker 1: Colts Instant Reaction. Here in the Colts Audio Network. Tomorrow 400 00:19:48,440 --> 00:19:50,760 Speaker 1: on Tuesday, there will be another episode of the Official 401 00:19:50,760 --> 00:19:53,600 Speaker 1: Colts Podcast presented by wind Bet. It'll be with myself, 402 00:19:53,680 --> 00:19:56,200 Speaker 1: Matt Taylor, and Lara Overton. We're gonna have one more 403 00:19:56,200 --> 00:19:59,160 Speaker 1: of those before we we're gonna go dark on our 404 00:19:59,200 --> 00:20:04,560 Speaker 1: social platform starting on Tuesday at noon. We're all going 405 00:20:04,600 --> 00:20:06,320 Speaker 1: to take kind of a mental health break here with 406 00:20:06,400 --> 00:20:08,760 Speaker 1: the Colts. We did it last year during the bye week. 407 00:20:08,800 --> 00:20:11,120 Speaker 1: It's a really nice thing that the Rsay family extends 408 00:20:11,200 --> 00:20:14,080 Speaker 1: to us here, the ability to take a little bit 409 00:20:14,080 --> 00:20:17,320 Speaker 1: of time to rest and relax because we need it. 410 00:20:17,480 --> 00:20:20,240 Speaker 1: Thirteen weeks of this without much of a break bill, 411 00:20:20,280 --> 00:20:23,560 Speaker 1: It's been quite a grind to get to this point, 412 00:20:23,600 --> 00:20:25,720 Speaker 1: but we've had fun doing it. We'll be back with 413 00:20:25,760 --> 00:20:29,040 Speaker 1: another episode of Colts Instant Reaction following the Colts Vikings game, 414 00:20:29,080 --> 00:20:32,800 Speaker 1: which is on Saturday, December seventeenth at one pm. That 415 00:20:32,840 --> 00:20:35,440 Speaker 1: will be on NFL Network. The NFL just announced that 416 00:20:35,560 --> 00:20:39,000 Speaker 1: on Monday the kickoff time for that game, so we'll 417 00:20:39,040 --> 00:20:41,400 Speaker 1: have an episode up for you either that Saturday night 418 00:20:41,560 --> 00:20:45,560 Speaker 1: or Sunday morning, depending on our schedules. And for now, 419 00:20:45,720 --> 00:20:48,439 Speaker 1: just tune into the Official Cults Podcast presented by win 420 00:20:48,480 --> 00:20:51,520 Speaker 1: Bet tomorrow and Tuesday. Anyways. For Bill Brooks, I'm JJ Stankovitz. 421 00:20:51,600 --> 00:20:53,320 Speaker 1: Thank you so much for listening to us here on 422 00:20:53,320 --> 00:20:55,160 Speaker 1: the Colts Audio Network. We'll talk to you next time.