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Speaker 1: We're back here at the NFL Scouting Combine downtown Indianapolis,

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Speaker 1: Laara Overton. I'm Matt Taylor. It's our pleasure now to

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Speaker 1: be with the head coach of the Indianapolis Colts. Frank

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Speaker 1: Reich is with us on radio row. Coach, first off,

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Speaker 1: appreciate the time. What has the combine been like? We

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Speaker 1: describe a normal day for you now that the combine

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Speaker 1: is back intact after year hiatus, if you will. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's been great, you know, just being able to walk

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Speaker 1: through see a lot of old faces you know, coaches

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Speaker 1: and that you've coached with or just know throughout the league.

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Speaker 1: But really the days, Matt, it started with being a

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Speaker 1: new member of the Competition Committee. The last three days,

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Speaker 1: you know, been meetings all day with that and then

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Speaker 1: interviewing players, you know, college players a night. So have

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Speaker 1: been a good start so far. Coach, of the last

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Speaker 1: two years that we navigated unprecedented times and how we

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Speaker 1: approached the off season. How refreshing is it to get

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Speaker 1: back to being in person? What are things that maybe

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Speaker 1: you took hues on you learned from doing the way

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Speaker 1: you had to adapt that have impacted how you're handling

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Speaker 1: this year and how you guys might treat this process

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Speaker 1: moving forward. Yeah, no, you're right, Lara. We have been

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Speaker 1: able to use what we've learned with some of the

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Speaker 1: zoom stuff, but you just can't replace the in person.

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Speaker 1: So what some of the virtual stuff does. You know,

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Speaker 1: you can supplement that, but there's nothing like getting face

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Speaker 1: face as we can with as many guys. When you

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Speaker 1: have a guy for fifteen minutes, it's you know, it's

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Speaker 1: not a long time and you're trying to get as

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Speaker 1: much intel as possible. What are you looking for? How

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Speaker 1: how do you engage a guy in only fifteen minutes. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we prepare, the coaches prepare very hard. We have very

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Speaker 1: specific game plan for those interviews, and right these guys

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Speaker 1: can't prepare for. You know, show them things, show them

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Speaker 1: football stuff that there's no way that they sall Show

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Speaker 1: them some of our plays, show them some of their

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Speaker 1: plays and get them to car start talking about that,

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Speaker 1: it's good. I mean, you got to be very concise

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Speaker 1: tell when guys are off their game a little bit? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but it's fun to see that, you know, Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: can they can they recover? You know? I mean it's

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Speaker 1: like we all get off our game for a second

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Speaker 1: and that cap can you recover? And it's so it's

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Speaker 1: it's good to see coach through Colts Productions with the

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Speaker 1: next pick. We have that perspective of being able to

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Speaker 1: go through the process with the scouts, with Chris and

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Speaker 1: In that process, How are your interviews and what you're

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Speaker 1: looking for different from what those guys are already gathering

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Speaker 1: So those get they're really getting a lot of personal

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Speaker 1: we're really digging as deep as we can. What's your

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Speaker 1: we as coaches just come in and play a little piece.

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Speaker 1: You talk this week, how the Colts have a really

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Speaker 1: Knowing that, does that change the offseason approach, the strategy,

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Speaker 1: What does that mean? Does that mean that we just

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Speaker 1: things that that could mean. And so really that's Chris's job,

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Speaker 1: my job, mister Ersay with his leadership. You know what,

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Speaker 1: you know, because every move has a cost, right, every

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Speaker 1: In the time that you and Gus have been able

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Speaker 1: I mean, Gus comes from a system that is well

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Speaker 1: You know, Philip Rivers was with him for a long time.

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Speaker 1: great energy to the defense. And so I'm looking forward

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Speaker 1: mean he's a pro. Right, Yeah, that is partly because

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Speaker 1: Certainly that's Chris Bower and I kind of, you know,

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Speaker 1: He's already good, but I think there's room for an

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Speaker 1: And so that's really what we're counting on. And then,

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Speaker 1: Here you also have Colts veteran guys Mike Mitchell coming

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Speaker 1: You have to have a guy like Cato June, who

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