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Speaker 1: The NFL never sleeps.

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Speaker 2: The roster is ever evolving, and it's all about finding

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Speaker 2: the edge. This is the Last Word, the off season

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Speaker 2: ham of the Indianapolis Colts. Now here's Jeffrey Gorman and

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Speaker 3: Welcome into the Last Word, your off season radio home

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Speaker 3: of the Colts. We're airing inside the Indiana Union Construction

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Speaker 3: Industry Radio Studio every Friday evening here on ninety three

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Speaker 3: five one oh seventy five the fan.

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Speaker 4: Matt Taylor, Voice of the Colts. Glad you're here. Let's

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Speaker 4: get busy, big man.

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Speaker 1: How we doing. How was your week so far?

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Speaker 4: So far, so good.

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Speaker 3: We've got a i mean, just an influx of out

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Speaker 3: of towners in town this weekend, invading Lucas Oil Stadium.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna break that watching round ball.

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Speaker 4: That's it. Yeah, there's no beach time.

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Speaker 3: After're taking spring break in Indianapolis. It's either Indiana Dunes,

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Speaker 3: I guess, yeah, or go down to you know, go

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Speaker 3: down to Lucas Oil.

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Speaker 5: Good hoops, he's a polar plunge down Lake Monroe. I

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Speaker 5: guess I'm not putting you on the spot.

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Speaker 3: On segment three of this show, it's just coming up

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Speaker 3: in a few, but I'm just saying, hopefully Don Fisher

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Speaker 3: give a call. So what I'm saying, Don Fisher, voice

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Speaker 3: of the voice of the Colts, voice of your Hoosiers

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Speaker 3: football and basketball. He is not working this time of year,

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Speaker 3: but hopefully we can catch up with him via Matt Taylor,

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Speaker 3: my friend, We've got some things coming up because I

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Speaker 3: want to go back to what Chris Ballard had said

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Speaker 3: in his season ending press conference. Yeah, talked about the

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Speaker 3: need to get better. And I'm going to say this,

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Speaker 3: the man was a you know, a man of his word,

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Speaker 3: if you will. When this free agency period come on.

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Speaker 3: Because we heard from Chris Ballard from the first time

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Speaker 3: on behind the Colts. Yeah, that's free agency driven. Is

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Speaker 3: obviously behind the look scenes at what the Colts did

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Speaker 3: and garnering the three four five free agents that they

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Speaker 3: step by step and then we heard Chris Ballard talking

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Speaker 3: he said the same thing at the end of the

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Speaker 3: press conference end of the year press conference. He actually

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Speaker 3: did what he was talking about. Because Chris Ballard's not

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Speaker 3: spend a lot of money here in past seasons on

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Speaker 3: free agency, and we've seen that before.

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Speaker 5: Matt, Yeah, no question about it. So you look at

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Speaker 5: Charvarius Ward, cam Bineam, maybe to a lesser degree, Daniel.

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Speaker 3: Jones, Matt, no, lesser degree, Matt No, no, no, no,

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Speaker 3: mean didn't heventeen and a half million if the man

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Speaker 3: I mean all these things I'm saying, sure, spending money

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Speaker 3: at Jones is a big part of it in my opinion.

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Speaker 1: No, that's fair.

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Speaker 5: I just meant you didn't hear hi about on the

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Speaker 5: first day of the NFL free agency. But Chris said

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Speaker 5: in that piece behind the Colts that hey, if you

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Speaker 5: want to bring in somebody that fills a need and

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Speaker 5: gonna have to pay him, and you're gonna have to

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Speaker 5: be aggressive. And by all accounts, Charvarius Ward said that

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Speaker 5: cam Byam said that in the middle of the night

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Speaker 5: getting ready for free agency in the Philippines, and then

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Speaker 5: Chris Ballard and this piece said we we had to

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Speaker 5: be major players if we wanted to get this done,

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Speaker 5: and they did and It means the Colts targeted these

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Speaker 5: makes them so much better on paper going into the season.

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Speaker 3: Competition will be everywhere come camp in Westfield. I mean,

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Speaker 3: obviously we know some of the you know, the five

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Speaker 3: But competitions everywhere, and that's at the quarterback position as well.

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Speaker 3: Here's Chris Ballard on why the Colts chose Daniel Jones

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Speaker 3: to push Anthony richardson this offseason.

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Speaker 6: Competition brings out the best in anybody. It's a competitive league,

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Speaker 6: not just bringing in anybody. It had to be somebody

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Speaker 6: I think it's going to go both ways. I think

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Speaker 6: going to be where they help each other to grow too.

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Speaker 6: And so we thought Daniel skill set and Anthony skill set,

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Speaker 6: there's a lot of similarities there. So offensively, I think

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Speaker 6: that's going to help you our offensive staff say, Okay,

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Speaker 6: we don't have to make these wholesale changes with one

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Speaker 3: Plus I like the new start, the new reset, if

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Speaker 3: you will press that reset button for Daniel Jones, Matt

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Speaker 3: it's tough playing quarterback in New York City. It's tough

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Speaker 3: coming as the sixth overall pick out of Duke to

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Speaker 3: go in that environment. Sure, and listen to the media

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Speaker 3: every day. Don't know if he does or he doesn't.

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Speaker 3: But at the end of the day, here's what he is.

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Speaker 3: He's a student of the game. He's the first one in,

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Speaker 3: he's the last one league he's gonna win. He's loaded

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Speaker 3: with stinking talent.

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Speaker 1: No question about it.

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Speaker 5: And we talked about this earlier in the week on

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Speaker 5: about Daniel Jones, his ups and downs and his exit

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Speaker 5: from New York and all of that stuff, but this

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Speaker 5: guy is still NFL caliber starting quarterback twice. He's completed

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Speaker 5: sixty seven percent of his passes for a season, So

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Speaker 5: he's got the accuracy that this team needs. That they

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Speaker 5: push Anthony Richardson is come in and show us that

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Speaker 5: So from from a Daniel Jones standpoint, he is going

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Speaker 5: to be really excited to have this chance to legitimately

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Speaker 5: But I think bigger picture than that, Jeffrey. This is

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Speaker 5: just another reminder right there, that quote from Chris Ballard.

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Speaker 5: This competition's gonna be fair, it's gonna be legitimate, and

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Speaker 5: it's going to be the best for the team. You're

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Speaker 5: out Anthony Richardson, he's the guy, right, so be it,

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Speaker 5: regardless of Anthony Richardson was drafted fourth overall two years ago.

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Speaker 5: So the skill set component to what Chris Ballard was

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Speaker 5: No deceptively mobile. He's got the six most rushing yards

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Speaker 5: I think that's key, and Chris hit on it. The

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Speaker 3: For sure. Hey, it doesn't end at quarterback when it

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Speaker 3: comes to competition. You know who we lost, mate, and

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Speaker 3: so do Colts fans. Ryan Kelly to the Vikings with

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Speaker 3: Will Fryes, Dioa Dangbo to the Bears, Kylon Grantson's side

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Speaker 3: Julian Blackman are all free agents on the open market.

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Speaker 3: The Colts are going to replace a handful of contributors

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Speaker 3: Matt from last year. Okay, so do me this favor.

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Speaker 3: Which starter from last season? I mentioned them? Man no

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Speaker 4: I got, I got one.

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna wait for years though, of those four guys

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Speaker 5: Great question, my gut, says Will Fryes. Yes, I'm going right,

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Speaker 5: So I think Matt Gonzalez might have a chance to

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Speaker 5: a strong candidate there. But he's never played guard in

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Speaker 5: last season. And then the Colts also brought in Dan

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Speaker 1: Mix as well.

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Speaker 5: Maybe DIOI Dangbo because he was durable, gave you a

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Speaker 2: We now return to the offseason home of the Colts.

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Speaker 2: The last word with Jeffrey Gorman and Matt Taylor from

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Speaker 7: a lot of sense if the Colts don't aren't able

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Speaker 7: to address that in Round one, which just based on value,

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Speaker 7: it seems like they might not even though those are

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Speaker 7: needs plenty of options for them to address both those

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Speaker 7: positions on Day two, in.

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Speaker 1: No doubt about that.

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Speaker 5: That's Ryan McCrystal, NFL draft analysts from Sharp Football Analysis

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Speaker 5: dot Com. Last one for me, Ryan loaded question on

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Speaker 5: the Colts to close out how improved are the Colts

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Speaker 5: so far based on their free agency moves to this point,

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Speaker 5: and how do you think this Colts quarterback battle is

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Speaker 5: going to go down between Daniel Jones and Anthony Richardson.

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Speaker 7: Well as far as how improved, I mean, obviously they

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Speaker 7: haven't done a ton, but the moves that they've made,

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Speaker 7: you know, making some moves to address the secondary, I

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Speaker 7: think they that made a lot of sense. I think

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Speaker 7: they've done enough to shore up some positions that they

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Speaker 7: can feel that they're moving in the positive direction. For

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Speaker 7: as the quarterback battle, I think you've got to go

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Speaker 7: with Richardson. You've got to give him a really good

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Speaker 7: chance to take the next step and continue his development,

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Speaker 7: because if you do hand it off to Daniel Jones,

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Speaker 7: it's not like that signals to your team in a

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Speaker 7: strong way that you're trying to win a super Bowl.

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Speaker 7: Daniel Jones is not winning a super Bowl for you,

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Speaker 7: So what are you really trying to do if you

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Speaker 7: hand them off to him just sneak into the playoffs?

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Speaker 7: Maybe I think that Richardson is the quarterback theoretically down

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Speaker 7: the road, maybe wins you a super Bowl. So you've

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Speaker 7: got to give him a really long, hard look, even

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Speaker 7: if there's more growing pains early in the season. We

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Speaker 7: just haven't seen enough of him to completely write him

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Speaker 7: off yet, so I'm still excited to see what he

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Speaker 7: can potentially do, especially if they're able to add you know,

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Speaker 7: maybe if they add an offensive lineman to you know,

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Speaker 7: help out pass protection, help out the run game a

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Speaker 7: little bit more, that could help them more out of

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Speaker 7: the tight end. I think they could do enough through

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Speaker 7: the draft to put him in a better position to

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Speaker 7: succeed and hopefully give him another longer look.

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Speaker 3: At sharp FB analysis on Twitter X that is Ryan McCrystal, Hey,

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Speaker 3: just really quick, what in the heck is Travis Hunter

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Speaker 3: going to do in the NFL?

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Speaker 4: Is he going to be defending passes or catching him?

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Speaker 7: I think that his best spot is going to be

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Speaker 7: at cornerback, partially because that's the easiest way to play

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Speaker 7: him two ways. It's a little bit easier to play

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Speaker 7: full time at cornerback and then occasionally step in at

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Speaker 7: receiver because there's just a little bit less preparation throughout

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Speaker 7: the week. I think at receiver, I think definitely most

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Speaker 7: coaches will look at it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's going to be interesting. He turns into a

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Speaker 3: gadget guy on offense real quick.

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Speaker 4: Doesn't.

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Speaker 7: He absolutely, that's a good spot.

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Speaker 3: Long Ran, appreciate the time today and look forward to

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Speaker 3: keep reading what you're putting out on Sharpfootballanalysis dot com.

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Speaker 3: He can't wait for this upcoming NFL draft. Thanks again,

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Speaker 3: thanks for having me, guys, Maddie. That's a good find

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Speaker 3: out of you. That's a smart man right there. It

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Speaker 3: makes me look smart. Ryan McCrystal knows his stuff. That's

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Speaker 3: a really good website. Obviously, Warren Sharp is the founder

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Speaker 3: Sharp Football Analysis and than Ryan is covering the draft

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Speaker 3: and all things in NFL. So yeah, add him to

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Speaker 3: the list, add him to the repertoire this time of year,

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Speaker 3: talking to draftnicks to get us smarter and tell us

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Speaker 3: who some of these prospects are and why they're on

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Speaker 3: the Colts radar. So really good to have Ryan in

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Speaker 3: the fold there. So we're gonna mix the men after

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Speaker 3: the draft as well. Don't forget Colts fans. The Colts

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Speaker 3: commitment to the growth of high school girls flag football.

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Speaker 4: It continues.

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Speaker 3: The team's goal is to launch one hundred high school

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Speaker 3: girls flag football teams by the fall of twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 4: We need your help.

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Speaker 3: Colts are helping with ten thousand in resources, So get

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Speaker 3: We're going Basketball Showcase value is gonna come in mayte

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Speaker 3: You love this time of year. Teams are invading Lucas

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Speaker 3: Oil Stadium. The Sweet sixteen is here, and I want

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Speaker 3: to talk about fan basis, So give me something early.

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Speaker 5: If you were if you were looking for a staycation

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Speaker 5: in downtown Minneapolis this weekend, I'm sorry you're sol not

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Speaker 5: a hotel room to be found nowhere.

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Speaker 3: We're gonna give you more and find out about that

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Speaker 3: was crazy fan bases invading Indianapolis. This is the Last

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Speaker 3: Word Matt Taylor, Boyce of the Colts t I'm Jeffrey

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Speaker 3: Gorman coming back with more here on ninety three five

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Speaker 3: and one oh seven five The Fan.

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Speaker 2: This is your weekly fix on Colts football. The Last

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Speaker 2: Word with Jeffrey Gorman and Matt Taylor from the Indiana

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Speaker 2: Union Construction Industry Radio Studio.

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Speaker 3: Oh, I feel all nice and cozy. Just basketball sound

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Speaker 3: right there, it's happening.

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Speaker 1: You remember when they used to have ring tones?

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Speaker 8: This was, I mean an ongoing ring tone for me

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Speaker 8: long after March.

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Speaker 1: No, Kia, yeah back yeah, back in the day. Yeah, no, Kia.

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Speaker 8: I used to. I used to my my go to

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Speaker 8: phone was the Razor back in the day. And this

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Speaker 8: was the ring tone you called me in October and

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Speaker 8: this is still going there like it's a little pass

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Speaker 8: like no, no, no.

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Speaker 1: It's never too old for this.

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Speaker 4: It's happened in the night.

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Speaker 1: At face plate did you have back in the day?

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Speaker 1: Case it was the silver all yea, I remember the

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Speaker 1: face plate said a lot about you. Yes it did.

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Speaker 4: Hey, don't forget.

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Speaker 3: The Colts are going to Germany to play a football game,

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Speaker 3: and you can go.

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Speaker 4: It's simple.

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Speaker 3: Go to on location exp dot com slash Colts Germany

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Speaker 3: for more information. Again, it's another big party happening in Germany.

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Speaker 3: You can be there on location exp dot com slash Colts.

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Speaker 3: If Don Fisher, if Don Fisher was working today, if

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Speaker 3: he was, what would it sound like if he welcomed

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Speaker 3: in the fan bases of Kentucky, Tennessee, Houston, and of

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Speaker 3: course right up the road in West Lafayette the boiler Mat.

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Speaker 5: It's the crossroads of America, all roads laid to Johntown

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Speaker 5: and Annapolis for this bull game. Actually two ball games tonight,

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Speaker 5: Tennessee takes on Kentucky. Purdue takes on the top seed

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Speaker 5: and the Houston Ball Club, and hopefully Perdue can get

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Speaker 5: the job done. Brydon Smith from out signed the Big

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Speaker 5: Ten Player of the Year. Welcome to town.

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Speaker 4: How about that.

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Speaker 1: Fish is Working's no script? That's terrible.

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Speaker 4: Oh that's pretty good.

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Speaker 1: You got this afternoon's bullgame.

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Speaker 3: Nobody else the four of Pride Union.

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Speaker 4: The question of the week.

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Speaker 3: Is basketball related. And I know we're a football show,

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Speaker 3: but it's rolling on this weekend.

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Speaker 4: Midwest.

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Speaker 1: We have a lot of civic prize. We do.

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Speaker 4: We do.

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Speaker 3: It's right here in Indianapolis and Midwest region. First matchup Tennessee, UK. Obviously,

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Speaker 3: if Purdue takes on Houston, you're Billy boiler over there,

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Speaker 3: cause I know you are. Which fan base is most

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Speaker 3: represented tonight in that stadium of those four teams?

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Speaker 1: Okay?

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Speaker 4: Credit Union question week?

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Speaker 8: You know the Purdue fan base better than I Yes,

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Speaker 8: and the Purdue fan base is going to travel but

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Speaker 8: you know what team always traveled?

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Speaker 4: Blue?

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Speaker 8: Kentucky, especially being this close, I think is going to

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Speaker 8: be littered with the Kentucky Blue.

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Speaker 1: You're gonna seeing a lot more Blue than anything else.

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Speaker 3: Kelvin Samson backers have been known to spend a lot

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Speaker 3: of money. All right, they're bringing up that oil money.

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Speaker 3: You're from Houston, like three people wearing a red sweat.

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Speaker 4: Right, That's what I'm going following Houston up.

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Speaker 5: I'm not saying they have a bad fan base, but

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Speaker 5: they're not on the They're not on the level of

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Speaker 5: a team that's coming off a national championship appearance that's.

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Speaker 1: An hour away.

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Speaker 5: That's the thing for an SEC team or Big Blue Nation,

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Speaker 5: which is I think in its own league.

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Speaker 8: It's bizarre that the number one seed Houston is probably

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Speaker 8: gonna be least represented here because of where it is.

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Speaker 8: I mean, do you think of Tennessee, Kentucky and Purdue.

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Speaker 1: It's drivable.

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Speaker 8: Absolutely.

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Speaker 3: Let me just say this, Paynter beat Houston and Kelvin Sampson.

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Speaker 3: Who do you want to see him play?

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Speaker 4: To advance?

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Speaker 1: I mean, give me give me Kentucky a.

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Speaker 4: Loaded question, because both teams are good.

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Speaker 1: I'd probably say Tennessee.

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Speaker 8: I think I like produce odds over Tennessee, but I

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Speaker 8: think both of them are very, very cap.

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Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be a great game, man.

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Speaker 5: I mean the fact that we have all top four

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Speaker 5: teams in this region and some mega brands too, and

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Speaker 5: throwing Houston because they've been absolutely darn good for the

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Speaker 5: last five six years under Kelvin Samson. I think Indianapolis

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Speaker 5: hit the jackpot in terms of matchups, programs, and then

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Speaker 5: just crazy fan bases that are gonna drink a lot,

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Speaker 5: spend a lot of money, and have a good time.

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Speaker 3: to talk football with you, and don't forget let's all

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Speaker 3: come back Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, I'm the same dial and

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Speaker 3: give you the Colts update and of course the last

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Speaker 3: word next Friday. Appreciate your time for Matt Taylor, Casey Valley.

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