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Speaker 1: Welcome to Colts Roundtable Live on ninety three five and

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Speaker 1: one oh seven five. The fans now, he's gonna stumble

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Speaker 1: bring him down. Keep it way down field for Zac Pascal, touchdown.

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Speaker 1: We're talking Colts and recapping the action way down field.

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Speaker 1: For Jack Doyle, He's got it, touchdown back ten five

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Speaker 1: touchdown pet Ben Jott the Taylor touchdown? Hi in d

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Speaker 1: Why Now Here's the voice of the Colts, Matt Taylor

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Speaker 1: live from the Power Home Solar Radio Studio. Good evening

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Speaker 1: and welcome to Colts Roundtable Live tonight, presented by Citizens

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Speaker 1: Matt Taylor with until seven o'clock tonight. And the Colts

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Speaker 1: were victorious on Sunday, knocking off the Jaguars twenty three

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Speaker 1: to seventeen. The Cults have now won five of their

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Speaker 1: last seven and have even their record at five and five.

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Speaker 1: The Colts are a five hundred football team for the

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Speaker 1: first time this season. The Colts sprinted out to its

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Speaker 1: seventeen nothing lead behind ninety three first quarter rushing yards

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Speaker 1: from Jonathan Taylor and a special team's touchdown. The Colts

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Speaker 1: blocked a punt with Zayre Franklin that was recovered by

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Speaker 1: fellow linebacker EJ. Speed following a three and out on

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Speaker 1: Jacksonville's opening drive. Speed picked up the ball the twelve

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Speaker 1: across the goal line for the score. And the Colts

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Speaker 1: defense was great all game long. They forced seven three

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Speaker 1: the game ceiling takeaway with under two minutes to go.

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Speaker 1: Jaguar quarterback Trevor Lawrence was scrambling up the medal and

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Speaker 1: was hit by DeForrest Buckner and Dioa Dangbo. A dangbos

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Speaker 1: hit jarred the football loose. It was recovered by Komoco

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Speaker 1: Terrey and the Colts have a takeaway in every game

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Speaker 1: this season. They leave the NFL with twenty one takeaways

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Speaker 1: on the year. They've also caused a turnover in eleven

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Speaker 1: straight games dating back to last season, which is the

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Speaker 1: longest active streak in the NFL. The Colts ended Sunday

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Speaker 1: with ten quarterback hits and they tied a season high

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Speaker 1: with three sacks, and the rookie Lawrence was uncomfortable for

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Speaker 1: most of the game, going just sixteen for thirty five

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Speaker 1: for one hundred and sixty two yards Passing, the offense

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Speaker 1: started hot again thanks to Jonathan Taylor. He finished the

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Speaker 1: day with a season high twenty one carries for one

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Speaker 1: hundred and sixteen rushing yards and a touchdown. He's now

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Speaker 1: and seven consecutive games, and became just the fourth player

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Speaker 1: ever to do so in seven straight games, joining Ladanian,

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Speaker 1: Tom Winson, Lydell Mitchell, and Larry Johnson. With his eighth

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Speaker 1: Alan and Michi and Marlon Mack and tied Joseph Dye

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Speaker 1: for the fifth most one hundred yard rushing games in

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Speaker 1: Colts history, and Taylor now has a rushing touchdown in

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Speaker 1: seven consecutive games. That's the longest active streak in the

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Speaker 1: NFL and the most consecutive games by a Colt since

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Speaker 1: Curtis Dickey back in nineteen eighty and Taylor now has

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Speaker 1: that's tied with Derrick Henry the most in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: After Taylor found the end zone to make it seventeen

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Speaker 1: seven of its next eight possessions. Five of those drives

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Speaker 1: in the end, and now they have a chance to

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Speaker 1: Up next are the Buffalo Bills in week eleven and

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Speaker 1: then the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in Week twelve. Those two

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Speaker 1: teams played in their conference championship games last season, and

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Speaker 1: the Colts are looking to make a statement. None of

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Speaker 1: the colts five wins this season have come against a

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Speaker 1: last year. We've got a lot to get into tonight.

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Speaker 1: We'll do that with Rick Venturi and Joe Wright starting

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Speaker 1: on segment number two, and we'll take your questions later

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Speaker 1: on the show. As always, if you have a question

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Speaker 1: hashtag Colts Roundtable and joining us now for a recap

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Speaker 1: of yesterday's win over the Jaguars. Is Frank Wright, the

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Speaker 1: head coach of the Colts. He's on the line with

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Speaker 1: us and it's brought to you as always by Citizens

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Speaker 1: Energy Group. Coach, thanks for the time and congrats on

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Speaker 1: the win. After looking at the tape today, what did

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Speaker 1: special teams we had to obviously the big play on

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Speaker 1: What does a special teams touchdown do for the team's juice?

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Speaker 1: but then the Jaguars played very well on defense after

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Speaker 1: and don't try to get too far in front of it,

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Speaker 1: forget what's behind us. And you know, let's just focus

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Speaker 1: plenty of room for some good fan questions tonight. If

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Speaker 1: Let's go to Carl and I think you already talked

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Speaker 1: but Carl is asking what are your feelings on Carson

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Speaker 1: so it's a very fine line. Matt. As I would

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Speaker 1: You know that that's an instinctive move. So try to

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Speaker 1: So you got to maintain your aggressive mindset and that's

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Speaker 1: well said, no doubt about that. All right, Nick is

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Speaker 1: you work the officials during the game and how do

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Speaker 1: times they call this or that going into a game. Absolutely,

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Speaker 1: we do a scattering report on the officials. You know.

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Speaker 1: sheet you got. That fires the defense up. They get

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Speaker 1: more aggressive, send some more blitzes and then blitz would

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Speaker 1: be number three for me. We did not handle the

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Speaker 1: blitz well. When Jacksonville got down seventeen nothing, they got

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Speaker 1: desperate and rightfully so, and they started bringing a lot

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Speaker 1: of different pressures, and I felt like we didn't handle

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Speaker 1: it particularly well. It wasn't one guy, it wasn't just

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Speaker 1: the old lineman. The backs a couple of times got

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Speaker 1: run over. You know, Carson could have got rid of

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Speaker 1: the ball quicker, you know, receivers getting open separation downfield.

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Speaker 1: But I just felt like when they heated us up,

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Speaker 1: especially on third down and on some of the first

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Speaker 1: down play actions, we did not handle that blitz as well.

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Speaker 1: That's something that I'm sure they're taking a critical look

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Speaker 1: at this week and getting fixed because you know that

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Speaker 1: Buffalo is going to be watching that, you know, licking

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Speaker 1: their chops thinking that they're going to do the same

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Speaker 1: thing Sunday afternoon. Yeah, this is a real copycat league,

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Speaker 1: So you must fix it. You must fix it not

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Speaker 1: only for Sunday, but for you know, the Belichicks and

447
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Speaker 1: all those guys that studied that film are going to

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Speaker 1: come after you with those different things. I thought of

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Speaker 1: Cooble things that happened after watching the tape, I thought,

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Speaker 1: and Joe alluded to it before, where we get a

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Speaker 1: really good job on cutback plays. They really shored that

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Speaker 1: up as the game went on. They actually did a

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Speaker 1: much better job, I thought, particularly Alan on the backside,

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Speaker 1: really handled Alli Cox on that backside and really stuffed

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Speaker 1: some of that. I thought they made that double stink go.

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Speaker 1: They got in a lot of that double sink. And

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Speaker 1: what they did was they kind of mauled our inside

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Speaker 1: three and basically prevented them from getting anything and letting

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Speaker 1: those linebackers run, letting them run and shoot, you know,

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Speaker 1: particularly Jack and Wilson, and then a couple key pressures,

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Speaker 1: and we've got to fix this right away. You know.

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Speaker 1: We turned away from it a couple of times, but

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Speaker 1: that nickel blitz was there every single time. And that

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Speaker 1: isn't something that is really new to them. I mean,

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Speaker 1: especially with Ford at Nicol. They they ran that thing.

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Speaker 1: He never got blocked one top mean, you know, I

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Speaker 1: mean basically Carson did a great job of a couple

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Speaker 1: times just running away from it, but he was that

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Speaker 1: was there. And then they got in that delta and

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Speaker 1: this bothers me. They got into a three two and

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Speaker 1: ran the cross stunt and nobody blocks I got he

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Speaker 1: got hit right down the chest, so you know, again

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Speaker 1: our backside was not there. I thought also, Joe, we

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Speaker 1: got a little stubborn when they were running all that

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Speaker 1: double think. You can't run that inside to own versus

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Speaker 1: that double think. Gotta go to toss cracks and power os.

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Speaker 1: And you know, early in the game we ran a

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Speaker 1: really nice halfback I called it a long trap. We

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Speaker 1: powered down and Nelson came and kicked out you know,

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Speaker 1: the defensive end, and I mean Jonathan took it right

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Speaker 1: up there. And then you know that we never really

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Speaker 1: got back to that, so you know, but it's a

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Speaker 1: wake up call. You know, our offensive line got humbled

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Speaker 1: a little bit, and they'll respond because they're that kind

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Speaker 1: of guy. The other thing that was I think that

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Speaker 1: really caught me. I think I saw it during the game,

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Speaker 1: but boy did it hit me on the film. Did

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Speaker 1: they do a great job on our screen game? And

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Speaker 1: usually we get big plays of the screen game, but Matt,

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Speaker 1: I mean they are fast now and they rasing those

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Speaker 1: things from inside out, outside in. I mean, we couldn't

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Speaker 1: get and think about how many big plays we've gotten

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Speaker 1: on the screen, so you know they did a really

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Speaker 1: good job and they gained confidence every series. Rick vent

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Speaker 1: Terry Joe writes along, I'm Matt Taylor here on Colts

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Speaker 1: Roundtable Live on ninety three five and one oh seven

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Speaker 1: five the fan we're playing tell me why? Tell me why?

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Speaker 1: Number two. The Colts won the turnover battle for the

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Speaker 1: ninth time in ten games on Sunday, and dating back

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Speaker 1: to last season, the Colts have now forced a turnover

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Speaker 1: in eleven consecutive games. That's the longest active streak in

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Speaker 1: the NFL. DIOA Dangbo strips sack or strip on Trevor

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Speaker 1: Lawrence as he was scrambling up the field. That was

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Speaker 1: the defense's twenty first takeaway of the season. The Colts

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Speaker 1: leave the NFL on fumble recoveries with eleven. They have

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Speaker 1: one and nine of ten games this season. Rick, the

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Speaker 1: Colts defense just has a knack for creating takeaway. So

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Speaker 1: do the Buffalo Bills. We'll talk about that. That's the

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Speaker 1: opponent coming up on Sunday. But tell me why the

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Speaker 1: Colts are so good at in the football way compared

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Speaker 1: to most other defenses. Well, this is not by accident.

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Speaker 1: This starts with the team construction. First of all, Chris

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Speaker 1: is going to get defensive players that can run. He

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Speaker 1: puts a lot of emphasis on ball skills, ball getting

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Speaker 1: out in your history. He likes turnover players in history,

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Speaker 1: so he's gonna feel you that fill the room with

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Speaker 1: those kinds of guys. The defense itself structurally plays with

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Speaker 1: a lot of vision. There's a lot of zone in there,

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Speaker 1: so there's a lot of eyes on the ball, not

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Speaker 1: a lot of back to the ball coverages. So you know,

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Speaker 1: basically you know, see it, go get it. The third thing,

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Speaker 1: and I think this won the game for us, really,

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Speaker 1: is that the staff demand's hustle. You run to the

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Speaker 1: ball or you don't play here. I mean, and people

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Speaker 1: talk a good game, but the Colts live a good game.

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Speaker 1: And basically a lot of their turnovers and the reason

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Speaker 1: that they get they secure them is not just punching

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Speaker 1: it out. They've got guys around the ball to get it.

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Speaker 1: And really, when you look at the he played, we

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Speaker 1: only had one, but it saved the day and their

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Speaker 1: their hustle players. Basically, both Buckner and a Dangbo were blocked.

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Speaker 1: I mean, they didn't make great players at the line

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Speaker 1: of scrimmage. But Buckner never quits for a big guy,

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Speaker 1: and he ran right back. He was on a loop technique.

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Speaker 1: He ran back inside as did a Dangbo And so

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Speaker 1: that hustle right there, buck Buckner make an initial stop

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Speaker 1: and then a Dangbo coming in. That is a direct.

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Speaker 1: That's a direct relative to your to your hustle. And

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Speaker 1: then I think that the last thing as far as

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Speaker 1: team goes. Now, all that stuff being said, you would

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Speaker 1: be pretty good to start with, but what makes you

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Speaker 1: on another level is Darius Leonard. Now he didn't have

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Speaker 1: one yesterday, but he is a guy that takes you

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Speaker 1: from good to great on that aspect of the game

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Speaker 1: because there's nobody like him. Really. If you took Leonard

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Speaker 1: off the team, you know, you'd be good, but you

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Speaker 1: wouldn't be great, like you wouldn't be leading the league

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Speaker 1: like your now. But it isn't an accident. All those

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Speaker 1: things are you know, they all come together and they

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Speaker 1: make for those turnovers. Yeah, I agree, And just to

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Speaker 1: add on to what you said, coach, it starts from

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Speaker 1: the thirty thousand foot of view roster construction, hustling, getting

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Speaker 1: guys get can play. But you know turnovers is something.

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Speaker 1: This team their second in the NFL, and they do

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Speaker 1: it really really well. You know, going into yesterday, you know,

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Speaker 1: the Colts were eleventh, you know in DVOA you know,

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Speaker 1: which basically is an adjusted metric formula that takes into

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Speaker 1: a million different categories and ranks the defense in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: And you say, wow, Colts eleventh. You know, seems like

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Speaker 1: we've been giving up a lot of yards and a

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Speaker 1: lot of points in I mean in yards. You know,

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Speaker 1: we're in the twenties and giving up first downs, passing yards,

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Speaker 1: and rushing yards right where towards the bottom third in

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Speaker 1: those categories, point being. It's not an accident. It's not

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Speaker 1: something that oh we kind of got lucky they threw

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Speaker 1: the ball to us. No, this is something the Colts

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Speaker 1: are intentional on. They practice it daily, they work on

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Speaker 1: in the offseason, they build their roster and being able

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Speaker 1: to get turnovers and that's why this defense has been

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Speaker 1: buoyed and really why we've been able to get to

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Speaker 1: five wins and down the stretch it's gonna be awful

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Speaker 1: important because you look at us. We're second in the

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Speaker 1: NFL right now, but we're still five and five. You know,

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Speaker 1: we played Tennessee and we were plus three turnover Differentia

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Speaker 1: lost the game. So if we can shore up some

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Speaker 1: of those other areas, if we can shore up some

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Speaker 1: technique on the back end, if we can get a

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Speaker 1: better pass run and we continue those turnovers, that's when

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Speaker 1: you're gonna have a team that's got a formula to

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Speaker 1: not only get to the playoffs, but potentially make a

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Speaker 1: deep run. And it's gonna start Sunday at Buffalo. Because

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Speaker 1: again Buffalo twenty four takeaways on the season, Colts twenty

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Speaker 1: one can guarantee you, Matt that when we get the

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Speaker 1: stats Monday morning and see who won the game, the

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Speaker 1: Colts got to be on the right side of that

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Speaker 1: turnover battle to go up and win in Buffalo, no

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Speaker 1: doubt about that. Joe writes Rick vent Terry. I'm Matt Taylor.

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Speaker 1: Tell me why number three. As we close out this segment,

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Speaker 1: let's talk about special teams. Because the Colts blocked a

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Speaker 1: punt for a touchdown the first quarter. Zaire Franklin got it.

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Speaker 1: He laid out perfectly time the block, and then E. J.

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Speaker 1: Speed jumped on the ball return at twelve yards for

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Speaker 1: the score. And over the last four seasons, including the postseason,

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Speaker 1: the Colts have scored points on an NFL best six

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Speaker 1: opposing punt plays. They have three touchdowns via block punts,

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Speaker 1: two punt returns for touchdowns, those by nine Hines, and

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Speaker 1: a safety. Special teams was a huge reason the Colts

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Speaker 1: won the game on Sunday, Right, the Jaguars miss an

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Speaker 1: extra point and a field goal. Meanwhile, the Colts in

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Speaker 1: the kicking game, they were perfect. With Michael Badgeley, why

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Speaker 1: have the Colts been superior than most of their opponents

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Speaker 1: this season on special teams? Tell me why they're good

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Speaker 1: there compared to most of the teams they play similar

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Speaker 1: to what we talked about last segment. It's a focus

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Speaker 1: from roster construction and Chris Ballard. You know when Chris

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Speaker 1: comes from Kansas City, where Kansas City always the last

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Speaker 1: ten years or show has had a team that's in

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Speaker 1: the top five of special teams units. And then you

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Speaker 1: bring in our special teams coach Bubba Ventrone who played

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Speaker 1: in New England. And oh, by the way, does anybody

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Speaker 1: try to get more out of the kicking game? Coach?

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Speaker 1: You know this than Belichick. You know, I read a

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Speaker 1: quote about five years ago talking about who can ever

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Speaker 1: beat the Patriots in AFC East and it was a

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Speaker 1: you know, one of those unnamed general manager, but he said,

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Speaker 1: until a team in the AFC East puts as much

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Speaker 1: emphasis on the kicking game as the Patriots, they'll never

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Speaker 1: beat him. Right, because special teams always gets lost. We

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Speaker 1: always talk about all offense and defense. It's a third

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Speaker 1: of the game, those hidden yards, the points, and the

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Speaker 1: Colts it's a focus on it from Chris Ballard. I

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Speaker 1: mean the fact that we drafted you know, Glasgow out

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Speaker 1: of Michigan just to be a special teams guy. That's unique,

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Speaker 1: and it's unique just to keep a special teams only

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Speaker 1: player on the roster, but it's that important to the Colts,

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Speaker 1: and that's something again like the New England's and Kansas

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Speaker 1: City's have done for years and years. So I think

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Speaker 1: you combine the fact that we place maybe a heavier

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Speaker 1: roster waited on special teams in some other franchises, and

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Speaker 1: then the fact that you got a really good special

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Speaker 1: team coach in Ventrone who knows and play the game,

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Speaker 1: can put those guys in good positions. And then you

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Speaker 1: have to have a good kicker and punter, right, And

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Speaker 1: that's the last part. You know, having a really good

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Speaker 1: kicker and a really good punter, you know, Rigaberto, you know,

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Speaker 1: two time player the weekend. And let's give credit to

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Speaker 1: Bagley right coming in here. You know, obviously Rodrigo's injured,

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Speaker 1: and you know, he comes in here, hadn't missed a

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Speaker 1: kick yet, perfect, and you know, he's been great, And

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Speaker 1: I think that's just again great signing for him to

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Speaker 1: come in here and be lights out in the kicking game.

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Speaker 1: That's something that sometimes we can take for granted and

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Speaker 1: we shouldn't because again, just like offense and defense, it's

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Speaker 1: a third part of the game at the end of it,

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Speaker 1: whether you're gonna win or lose. Yeah, it's actually become

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00:31:24,600 --> 00:31:27,200
Speaker 1: a very exciting part of our game. I mean, really,

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Speaker 1: when you look at it, Special Team scored eighteen points Sunday.

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Speaker 1: I mean there's really a Special Teams touchdown. Badgley has eleven.

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Speaker 1: I do. I do think Chris has done a really

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Speaker 1: good job on the skill part of it. The kickers themselves.

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00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:44,560
Speaker 1: Badgually comes in here, does a great job. Sanchez has

652
00:31:44,600 --> 00:31:48,080
Speaker 1: you know, been tremendous twice AFC Player of the Week

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Speaker 1: this year, you know, and so we we we never

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00:31:52,240 --> 00:31:55,200
Speaker 1: we very seldom ever lose it. I will say though,

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Speaker 1: that Cook had a great day, going back to what

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Speaker 1: Joe said before, and here his punting actually kept us

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Speaker 1: on that long field all day long. Just to emphasize

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Speaker 1: how special teams is important on everything. But I totally agree.

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Speaker 1: You know, there's a construction aspect of it, and when

660
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Speaker 1: you draft really well on that second and particularly that

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Speaker 1: third day, and then you get some undrafted free agents,

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Speaker 1: you know, like it like an odom guys that you know,

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Speaker 1: like a you know, just different guys that do really

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Speaker 1: good jobs, and basically you construct your team, and that's

665
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Speaker 1: where the roster matters. I think, you know, sometimes on

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Speaker 1: offense and defense, the first the top ten guys are important,

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Speaker 1: but I think the roster matters on special teams. Then

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Speaker 1: I totally agree with on Ventrone. He does a great

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Speaker 1: job motivationally, schematically, He has those guys ready to play.

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Speaker 1: He coached under Scotty O'Brien with Belichick and under Mike Westoff.

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Speaker 1: He played for those guys, and those two guys probably

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Speaker 1: are the best special teams coaches in my history. And

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Speaker 1: just a little anecdote about Belichick, and that's exactly right.

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Speaker 1: How how they play special teams. When I coached the

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Speaker 1: secondary form Belichick, I had two guys, Benny Thompson and

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Speaker 1: Lewis Riddick, who does TV now, And those guys were

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00:33:16,560 --> 00:33:19,960
Speaker 1: primarily special teams guys. And they didn't even do individual

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00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:23,480
Speaker 1: with me. They did individual team. And I'm serious, I

679
00:33:23,520 --> 00:33:26,520
Speaker 1: mean that was I was always lobbying for it. I

680
00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:30,080
Speaker 1: never won that bottle. No, I mean, the Colts have

681
00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:33,320
Speaker 1: Isaiah Rodgers, they have Ashton Dulan, and if the guy

682
00:33:33,400 --> 00:33:36,160
Speaker 1: was trying, I hitched in the draw there. That's the

683
00:33:36,200 --> 00:33:39,040
Speaker 1: most underrated guy on this team. He leads the NFL

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Speaker 1: and special teams tackles. And George Odam did the same

685
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Speaker 1: thing last year. Yeah, yeah, yeah, all right, that's a

686
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Speaker 1: look at Tell me why I look at some key

687
00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:49,480
Speaker 1: areas in the game yesterday again, the Colts beat the

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00:33:49,520 --> 00:33:52,600
Speaker 1: Jaguars twenty three to seventeen. Wouldn't we come back. We'll

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Speaker 1: get to the mail bag, We'll talk about the bills,

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Speaker 1: we'll talk about the emergence of Quitty pay and what

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Speaker 1: to expect in the final seven games of the season

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Speaker 1: for the Colts when we return here on Colts Roundtable Live.

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Speaker 1: seven five the Fan. Welcome back to Colts Roundtable Live

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Speaker 1: the Voice of the Colts. Welcome back again here on

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Speaker 1: every Monday night using hashtag Colts Roundtable. Let's go to

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Speaker 1: Monty's question. First, Joe, now that Quitti pay has his

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Speaker 1: first sack, do you expect him to catch fire? With

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Speaker 1: seven games to go catch fire? I hope, so, I

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00:35:01,320 --> 00:35:03,520
Speaker 1: definitely expect him to get more. And I think really

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00:35:03,560 --> 00:35:06,360
Speaker 1: three reasons come to mind one, Matt he's healthy. You know,

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00:35:06,360 --> 00:35:08,560
Speaker 1: he had the hamstring injury, and when you're an explosive

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00:35:08,640 --> 00:35:11,720
Speaker 1: speed rusher type guy and you don't trust yourself totally,

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Speaker 1: especially as a rookie, that can be hard. I think

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Speaker 1: number two, he's gained an experience and he's continued get

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00:35:17,480 --> 00:35:19,480
Speaker 1: better every game. I mean, when you're going up against

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Speaker 1: the Dwayne Browns and the Whitworth's early in the year

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00:35:22,360 --> 00:35:25,960
Speaker 1: like he was, you know Pro Bowl left tackles if mister,

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Speaker 1: so you're just going to gain more experience. He's continue

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Speaker 1: to do it. And then I think three, you know, finishing,

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Speaker 1: how to finish the play to the ground and a

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Speaker 1: lot of guys can get pressure, and you know pay

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Speaker 1: It had a lot of pressures leading up today. But

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Speaker 1: great to kind of get that monkey off your back,

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Speaker 1: get that first room and you take the quarterback to

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Speaker 1: the ground. And then the last thing is we showed

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Speaker 1: a lot more blitzes, which I really liked yesterday. I

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00:35:49,280 --> 00:35:51,520
Speaker 1: mean the first two third downs we brought five onths,

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Speaker 1: then we brought six. The first time they had to

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Speaker 1: go inside on the linebacker, Pay gets free access, quarterback

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Speaker 1: knocked down. You know, I don't know why we didn't

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Speaker 1: stay with the blitz really. When the game changed for Jacksonville,

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00:36:02,280 --> 00:36:04,560
Speaker 1: they had a third and ten, we dropped nine guys,

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Speaker 1: we only rushed two. They get a first down next

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00:36:06,920 --> 00:36:09,800
Speaker 1: play Agnew sixty five for a touchdown. So whenever we blitzed,

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Speaker 1: there was only one time they got a completion on

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Speaker 1: third down on a blitz. If that's something we continue

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Speaker 1: to do, that should open up more sacklings for pay

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Speaker 1: But awful excited about him. You throwing Dio two who

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00:36:20,480 --> 00:36:23,240
Speaker 1: got the force fumble and kind of gets that first

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Speaker 1: taste of what it's like to make a huge game

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00:36:25,320 --> 00:36:28,279
Speaker 1: changing play. Awful excited for those two guys. You know,

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Speaker 1: down the stretch to the last seven games. What do

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00:36:30,239 --> 00:36:33,200
Speaker 1: you think I quity pay Rick, Well, you know, I

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00:36:33,360 --> 00:36:36,920
Speaker 1: want him to continue to go. I like pay I

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00:36:37,080 --> 00:36:41,200
Speaker 1: liked him when we drafted him. He's just a great

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Speaker 1: effort guy. You know, you know our sacks yesterday were

749
00:36:45,920 --> 00:36:50,320
Speaker 1: freak sacks. They're not They're not sacks that I cherish

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Speaker 1: in that they weren't. Like we lined up and we

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00:36:54,480 --> 00:36:56,759
Speaker 1: beat a good protector one on one and got to

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Speaker 1: the quarterback. I mean, the Star Wars sack is a

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00:36:59,560 --> 00:37:03,120
Speaker 1: double scramble. It really is like almost a punt return.

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00:37:03,160 --> 00:37:06,719
Speaker 1: It's like a loose play sack. The last sack which

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00:37:06,719 --> 00:37:10,800
Speaker 1: won the game was hustle on a scramble and Quity

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00:37:10,880 --> 00:37:14,440
Speaker 1: got pretty lucky, actually to the two quarterback hits that

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00:37:14,520 --> 00:37:18,759
Speaker 1: he got other than the sack were schematic. I mean,

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00:37:18,760 --> 00:37:21,520
Speaker 1: they didn't block him, they didn't touch him. We got

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Speaker 1: up in blitz and I'm with Joe, I want pressure,

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Speaker 1: and I think you're gonna have to put pressure on

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Speaker 1: Allen to be honest with you, but you know, and

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00:37:28,280 --> 00:37:31,759
Speaker 1: then the defense, the offensive line turned down and he

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00:37:31,880 --> 00:37:35,000
Speaker 1: got two straight hits. And then on his sack, it

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Speaker 1: was an RPO that the left tackle blocked him like

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Speaker 1: it was a run because it was a run to

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Speaker 1: him mentally, and then our corners did a great job. Incidentally,

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Speaker 1: I thought yah Sin played the game of his life.

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Speaker 1: But we did a good job. And he had to

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Speaker 1: hold the ball. If you hold the ball on an RPO,

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Speaker 1: the defensive the offensive tackle has no chance. And so

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00:37:55,800 --> 00:37:57,360
Speaker 1: you know, pay was able to get up there and

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Speaker 1: hopefully that gives him the confidence. We're still not doing, though,

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Speaker 1: a real good job of just winning one on ones.

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Speaker 1: And that's why I agree with Joe. I think pressure

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Speaker 1: is really gonna be important. I just you know, we've

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Speaker 1: gone here long enough to not see a lot of

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Speaker 1: winning one on ones along the line of scrimmage, and

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Speaker 1: that's going to be critical. I would think that the

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Speaker 1: confidence level now with pay may be a really real

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Speaker 1: help going forward. All Right, we'll find out. Let's hit

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Speaker 1: more question before we get into the bills up next

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Speaker 1: in week eleven on Sunday for the Colts, Paul as

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Speaker 1: asking Joe, are the next two games maker break for us?

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Speaker 1: Do we have to split with Buffalo and Tampa Bay

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Speaker 1: or win both to have a shot at keeping pace

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Speaker 1: with other AFC teams. Well, great question, Paul, and I

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Speaker 1: think people are starting, you know, fans out there, myself

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Speaker 1: included to look at the AFC playoff picture. You know,

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00:39:43,160 --> 00:39:45,400
Speaker 1: right now we would be, you know, the ten seed.

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Speaker 1: A couple games out ahead of us would be Vegas

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Speaker 1: and Cincinnati are both five and four, but they play

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Speaker 1: each other next week. You know, the Steelers play the

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00:39:52,640 --> 00:39:55,560
Speaker 1: Chargers next week. That AFC North and AFC West is

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Speaker 1: just gonna beat each other into submission, which is good

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Speaker 1: for Colts fans. But when I look at the next two,

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Speaker 1: if you win both, you're in a great spot, I

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00:40:04,040 --> 00:40:06,200
Speaker 1: mean a great spot because not only are you seven

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Speaker 1: and five and control your destiny. You beat two of

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Speaker 1: the best teams in football, and you're feeling great about yourself.

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Speaker 1: I think if you lose both, you're done right. You

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Speaker 1: get to five and seven, you know, then then you

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Speaker 1: got to win five in a row just to get

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Speaker 1: to ten wins, lose an interdivisional tiebreaker or a conference

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Speaker 1: with the Bills. So to me, you got to at

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Speaker 1: least split these games right and get to six and

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00:40:25,920 --> 00:40:29,040
Speaker 1: six coming home. But we got to clean some things

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Speaker 1: up if we want to beat the teams. And that's

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00:40:30,760 --> 00:40:32,839
Speaker 1: been the knock on this Colts team all year. You're

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Speaker 1: five and five, but you haven't been able to beat

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Speaker 1: the truly, really good or elite football teams. And we've

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Speaker 1: been close, but we haven't been able to finish. And

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Speaker 1: there's a million different things you can look at, but

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Speaker 1: when I look at it holistically, One, we got to

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Speaker 1: continue to win the turnover battle, especially with Buffalo. Number two,

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Speaker 1: we got to get better in the back end because

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Speaker 1: when you're playing Josh Allen, when you're playing Tom Brady,

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Speaker 1: we cannot let those guys pick us apart with their

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Speaker 1: best receivers like some teams have done. That's art secondary,

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Speaker 1: that's part the pass rush we talked about earlier, and

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Speaker 1: I agree with coach. I think we got to do

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Speaker 1: things differently schematically because we're not truly just beating guys

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Speaker 1: one on one. Bring some more pressure, brings some blitzes.

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Speaker 1: Kenny Moore is a great blitzer from the corner position.

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Speaker 1: You know, Darius Leonard can really run Okaraka. They can

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00:41:17,200 --> 00:41:19,440
Speaker 1: get after the quarterback because of that speed we have.

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00:41:19,880 --> 00:41:23,520
Speaker 1: And then offensively, we got to find somebody else. And

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Speaker 1: when I say somebody else, Jonathan Taylor check him off,

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00:41:26,320 --> 00:41:29,080
Speaker 1: he's good to go. Pittman, I think he's emerged. He's

846
00:41:29,080 --> 00:41:31,279
Speaker 1: got the most third down catches in the league. He's

847
00:41:31,320 --> 00:41:32,880
Speaker 1: gonna make big plays when he needs to. But that

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Speaker 1: somebody else has got to come either from t Y Hilton,

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Speaker 1: who I know is just getting back, but you know

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Speaker 1: he had five targets, only had one catch yesterday, or

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Speaker 1: Nahem Hines. Hine said four touches for thirty yards. That's

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Speaker 1: a pretty good ratio. I think one of those two guys,

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Speaker 1: t Y or Hines has got to be that third

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Speaker 1: wheel offensively with Taylor and Pittman. We got to be

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Speaker 1: able to feed because teams are going to start to

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Speaker 1: either load the box to takeaway Taylor or they're going

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Speaker 1: to start to double and Brackett Pittman, and we got

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Speaker 1: talk about the Buffalo Bills. They beat the Jets on Sunday.

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Speaker 1: It wasn't even close. It was forty five to seventeen.

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Speaker 1: They rebounded after falling to the Jaguars last week nine

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Speaker 1: to six. The Bills forced five turnovers in the game

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Speaker 1: on Sunday, all of them coming from their secondary, with

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Speaker 1: four picks in a fumble recovery. Josh Allen threw for

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Speaker 1: three sixty six and two touchdowns. Stefan Diggs and Gabriel

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Speaker 1: Davis each went over one hundred yards receiving in the

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Speaker 1: game and their big win over the Jets, says Joe

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Speaker 1: alluded to the Bills are the number one team in

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Speaker 1: the NFL and takeaways at twenty four. They have eight

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Speaker 1: turnovers on defense and the last two games. Rick, what

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Speaker 1: else do we didn't need to know about the Bills?

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Speaker 1: Give us the quick skinny on Buffalo heading into the

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Speaker 1: week here, Well, there's no question to sense of urgency

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Speaker 1: has to be there. I mean, we've got this is

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Speaker 1: the seven or bust part of the season. We've got

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Speaker 1: to win five out of seven, and we've got to

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Speaker 1: win three out of five against playoff teams, and that

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Speaker 1: starts Sunday. You know, I agree, if we don't blow

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Speaker 1: the last two minutes of the first half in Orchard

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Speaker 1: Park in the playoffs, we beat Buffalo. I'm not as

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Speaker 1: big a Buffalo fan as everybody else is, but statistically

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Speaker 1: they are off the charts. You know, the big three

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Speaker 1: that I look at, QBR, points given up and turnover differential.

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Speaker 1: I look at that. I think they're the most telling

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Speaker 1: three stats on every team. Turnover differential, number one, points

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Speaker 1: given up, number one QBR. He's moved up to number seven.

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Speaker 1: So those are really light, lights out statistics. Like I said,

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Speaker 1: the five wins that we've had, you know, basically our

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Speaker 1: bottom theaters now we have a chance to write the narrative,

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Speaker 1: to rewrite the narrative. You know, the O and eight

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Speaker 1: tells us it's a reality. We haven't beat the top teams,

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Speaker 1: and now we're facing him, and we're facing him with

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Speaker 1: our fate in hand. I think the biggest thing you

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Speaker 1: got to know is their number two in scoring, number

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Speaker 1: one in points given up. That's awfully good. Alan is

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Speaker 1: a pain. He's a really good quarterback. He's a tremendous athlete.

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Speaker 1: He's improved his accuracy over the years amazingly, so I

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Speaker 1: think that was the question coming in. He's addressed that.

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Speaker 1: But he is a great athlete. You know, we saw

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Speaker 1: it last year when he got on the edge in

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Speaker 1: that two minute drive. And he will throw it downfield.

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Speaker 1: I mean when he scrambles, he can run for thirty,

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Speaker 1: but he can throw for fifty. You've got to have

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Speaker 1: a great plan against Alan, and you cannot let him

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Speaker 1: on the edge of your defense number two. And I'm

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Speaker 1: not asking for this, I'm begging for this. You have

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Speaker 1: to have a plan for Diggs. Diggs is maybe the

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Speaker 1: premier guy in the league. He was a little bit

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Speaker 1: quiet for a couple of weeks. Yesterday he exploded. You know,

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Speaker 1: part of it was Beasley was out a little bit

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Speaker 1: during the game with Ribs. You know, Emmanuel Sanders is good,

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Speaker 1: but Diggs is great. You have to have a plan

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Speaker 1: that third phase that I always talk about for Diggs.

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Speaker 1: And then the other thing is when Beasley is healthy,

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Speaker 1: he is just absolutely outstanding in the slot. He's one

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Speaker 1: of the best third in possession guys. He's like Edelman,

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Speaker 1: he's like Welker and actually when he was out, Mackenzie,

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Speaker 1: who's a great return guy. And don't forget that great

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Speaker 1: return guy in Mackenzie. Now, defensively, they're very, very good.

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Speaker 1: Their ratings are off the chart, number one total, number

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Speaker 1: one scoring defense. And yet they don't maybe have one

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Speaker 1: guy that is an ambient player. But I'll tell you what,

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Speaker 1: they got a boatload of good football players. Their scheme

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Speaker 1: is very practical, but it's sticky. It's very sticky. They

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Speaker 1: played type man press, they play four match, they'll come

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Speaker 1: after you. They don't do a million things, but what

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Speaker 1: they do they do well and they can copy. They

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Speaker 1: have all the things in their packages that Jacksonville gave

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Speaker 1: us Sunday, and they just play really, really good at

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Speaker 1: the team hard to find a liability, maybe with the

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Speaker 1: exception of Wallace the one corner, but you know White

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Speaker 1: is a premier corner, and you know he's gonna match Pittman.

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Speaker 1: So you know, I've been saying all along, and Joe

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Speaker 1: just reiterated it. We've got to have some other guys

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Speaker 1: step up because we wanted to go after Campbell with Hilton,

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Speaker 1: and Campbell stuffed Hilton Sunday, so you know, we've got

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Speaker 1: to have another guy when we get into these really

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Speaker 1: good teams. But I'm really excited about it. I think

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Speaker 1: there's a quality of Buffalo. I think they're a front

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Speaker 1: running team. I think if you can, you know, if

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Speaker 1: you can rattle them like we had them rattled in

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Speaker 1: the first half and let them off, I really look

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Speaker 1: forward to this game. I agree we walked out of

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Speaker 1: their last year thinking that we really should have won

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Speaker 1: that game. All right, that's the rundown on the Buffalo

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Speaker 1: bill should be fun coming up on Sunday. We got

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Speaker 1: all week to talk about it, but we gotta run tonight.

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Speaker 1: That's all the time we have. We're up against it.

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Speaker 1: Thanks to everybody who joined the show tonight and tweeted

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Speaker 1: in their questions and again, my thanks to Rick and

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Speaker 1: Joe and Frank Reich who joined the program on the

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Speaker 1: first segment of the show tonight. The Pacers are up next.

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Speaker 1: The Blue and Gold are in New York tonight to

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Speaker 1: battle the Knicks. Colts Roundtable Live returns next Monday with

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Speaker 1: the recap of the Colts and the Bills next week.

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Speaker 1: Until then, have a great week and we'll talk about

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Speaker 1: the game throughout the week. You're on ninety three five

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Speaker 1: and one oh seven five the Fan. Good Night,