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Speaker 1: If you want Colts talk all year long, you're in

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Speaker 1: the right place.

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Speaker 2: Caught over the medal. Michael Pittman Junior. There we go,

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Speaker 2: Twenty ten five touch down.

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Speaker 4: Michael Pittman Junior.

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Speaker 2: In the Indiana Union Construction Industry radio studio. Let's get

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Speaker 2: the podcast started.

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Speaker 4: My name is Jeffrey Gorman, Matt Taylor, JJ Stankowitz from

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Speaker 4: colds dot Com. Matt Taylor, Voice of the Golts guys,

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Speaker 4: I have a question before we go over the draft

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Speaker 4: call of Chris Ballard. When it comes to mock drafts, JJ,

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Speaker 4: we follow you online, we follow you on Colts dot

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Speaker 4: Com and everything, and you give a weekly thing what

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Speaker 4: these experts think about draft, and I eat it up.

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Speaker 4: I don't know about you, guys, but I eat those

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Speaker 4: up in the off season and then the draft comes

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Speaker 4: out and then you kind of compare a little bit.

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Speaker 4: And then there's the draft grades. What are we doing?

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Speaker 2: There's my question your rates?

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Speaker 4: What are we doing? I mean unless you're drafting, Hey,

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Speaker 4: is it just on a positional need? Or are they

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Speaker 4: adding depth or what they think? I know it's one

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Speaker 4: man or one woman's opinion, but shouldn't we do this

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Speaker 4: three years after the draft? Like after this draft regals? Hey,

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Speaker 4: let's pay Yeah, let's grade that draft. Like I'm serious

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Speaker 4: about my can anybody do that?

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Speaker 5: You can?

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Speaker 2: You can grade? I think you can grade process with this,

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Speaker 2: Like what what's your process mindset? Yeah? Like are you

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Speaker 2: are you trading up for guys? Are you trading back

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Speaker 2: and accumulating more picks like we saw the Colts do again,

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Speaker 2: are you quote unquote reaching for someone? But even then, like,

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Speaker 2: once you get out of the first eight picks seven

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Speaker 2: maybe seven picks this year, uh, you're like, what's a reach?

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Speaker 4: Right?

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Speaker 2: Like if you have a guy high on your board,

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Speaker 2: who cares? If you know, CBS Sports has him twenty

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Speaker 2: second and you take him eighteenth, it's not a reach,

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Speaker 2: like you know. And I had some friends text to

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Speaker 2: me specifically about our third round pick, Matt Gonzalvez, who like, well,

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Speaker 2: Dan Brugler had him as a fifth round pick. Why'd

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Speaker 2: he take him in the third Because once you get

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Speaker 2: past your top forty players, everyone's board is going to

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Speaker 2: be all over the place. That's how you have a

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Speaker 2: guy who could have a a fourth round grade falling

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Speaker 2: It's Calvin Ridley's brother Riley, and he was like, oh,

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Speaker 2: heit a second round grade by a bunch of people,

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Speaker 2: happens where everyone's and vice versa, vice versa, right, and

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Speaker 2: everyone's draft board is all over the place. But I mean,

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Speaker 4: But I still eat it up. I don't know about

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Speaker 4: you guys, but I'm like what they give us?

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Speaker 1: Ye like Poka Nakua, Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Think just because Matt Gunzalvis was a projected fifth round

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Speaker 3: it's about process. I think it's about roster construction too.

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Speaker 3: When you talk about draft grades, this team gets an A,

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Speaker 3: this team gets a D. Well, you know, you look

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Speaker 3: It's like what do you have now versus what you

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Speaker 2: I remember I remember reading draft grades in twenty twenty

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Speaker 2: when the Packers drafted Jordan Love, it was like, what

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Speaker 4: Incredible in a playoff team. How about that? Hey, that's

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Speaker 4: JJ stank If it's again Matt Taylor, voice of the Colts.

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Speaker 4: These guys were all over the draft and coming up

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Speaker 4: we're gonna hear from Ikaika molloy, who is the UCLA

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Speaker 4: which I can't wait to get at. But let's talk

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Speaker 2: Here.

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Speaker 4: I'll start with you, JJ, what sort of production does

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Speaker 4: like who's odd man out in that room when it

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Speaker 4: comes to it. But JJ, overall, we talked about mock

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Speaker 2: They So there are five mock drafts we had out

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Speaker 2: The most recent was Tom Fornellie with CBS Sports. Shout

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Speaker 2: out to Tom Big White Sox fan. Sorry, but so

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Speaker 2: the expectation I want to set for law too is

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Speaker 2: he's a very polished pass rusher. He's coming in with

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Speaker 3: And I think as far as it translates, Jeffer in

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Speaker 3: I think the Colts last year they were really good

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Speaker 1: Again.

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Speaker 3: It goes back to what we talked about last week.

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Speaker 3: I mean, Jeffrey, there was that that that Week eighteen game,

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Speaker 4: Four within this pick, he plays with the reckless abandon

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Speaker 4: and I want to ask you both this, did you

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Speaker 4: Ki Maloy, who is its defensive coordinator that you didn't

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Speaker 2: Just to back up Mate's point on the sacks. Last year,

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Speaker 2: So you're hitting home. That's great, but you know it's

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the big donkey were trying to avoid the big donkeys.

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Speaker 2: We are move We are moving on to baseball here.

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Speaker 2: Yike's okay, give me out of that mode. Anyways, what

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Speaker 2: we learned about Leotu from that chat we had with

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Speaker 2: that perseverance aspect of it, I think lot too fits

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Speaker 3: It's a good one joining us now on the Official

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Speaker 5: him in the right position to get to where he's

436
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Speaker 5: going to go. Once he made that decision he was

437
00:20:29,840 --> 00:20:34,040
Speaker 5: going to play again no matter what his mom as

438
00:20:34,440 --> 00:20:37,280
Speaker 5: well as myself, we had to change our view as well,

439
00:20:37,640 --> 00:20:40,440
Speaker 5: Like we were no longer trying to make him feel

440
00:20:40,480 --> 00:20:43,280
Speaker 5: comfortable in the situation he was. If he wanted to

441
00:20:43,359 --> 00:20:45,159
Speaker 5: push then we had to be a part of it

442
00:20:45,600 --> 00:20:48,560
Speaker 5: and really jump on his bandwagon and his train as

443
00:20:48,640 --> 00:20:51,960
Speaker 5: opposed to us trying to lead him another direction. And

444
00:20:52,040 --> 00:20:55,800
Speaker 5: then from there I said, his mantra is lyl like

445
00:20:55,880 --> 00:21:00,440
Speaker 5: your last. You can see there wasn't a minute of

446
00:21:00,600 --> 00:21:03,440
Speaker 5: a day that he wouldn't try to get better.

447
00:21:03,600 --> 00:21:04,119
Speaker 3: You know there was.

448
00:21:04,440 --> 00:21:05,919
Speaker 5: I'm saying this now because.

449
00:21:05,680 --> 00:21:06,520
Speaker 1: He's no longer here.

450
00:21:06,920 --> 00:21:08,920
Speaker 5: I don't think I'll get in trouble, but you know,

451
00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:11,600
Speaker 5: away from clothed at times, and he phoned the way

452
00:21:11,640 --> 00:21:14,320
Speaker 5: in on the weekends and he you know, we had

453
00:21:14,359 --> 00:21:16,360
Speaker 5: to lock the elevators because he kept trying to find

454
00:21:16,359 --> 00:21:19,400
Speaker 5: a way in on the on the holiday was send

455
00:21:19,480 --> 00:21:22,000
Speaker 5: the team home and his mom had to drive from

456
00:21:22,040 --> 00:21:25,480
Speaker 5: Sacramento to visit her own sons. He refused because that

457
00:21:25,600 --> 00:21:27,600
Speaker 5: Sacramento he didn't have the weight room, he didn't have

458
00:21:27,680 --> 00:21:30,840
Speaker 5: the football field, And like that was the mentality. People

459
00:21:30,840 --> 00:21:33,280
Speaker 5: are starting to figure out, like there is nothing that

460
00:21:33,440 --> 00:21:35,960
Speaker 5: is going to stop this kid from doing what his

461
00:21:36,119 --> 00:21:36,960
Speaker 5: dreams are set on.

462
00:21:37,080 --> 00:21:39,520
Speaker 3: Wow, So coach, you're you're telling me the calls drafted

463
00:21:39,560 --> 00:21:40,280
Speaker 3: a trespasser.

464
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Speaker 1: That's great, that's right here we go. Thanks a lot, coach.

465
00:21:45,960 --> 00:21:49,560
Speaker 1: Hey man, your your time is so valuable. I know

466
00:21:49,640 --> 00:21:51,120
Speaker 1: you got to run, so thank you so much.

467
00:21:51,160 --> 00:21:53,600
Speaker 3: But last one for me, can you talk about his

468
00:21:53,880 --> 00:21:57,639
Speaker 3: his relentlessness, his motor, his his hustle. How much of

469
00:21:58,240 --> 00:22:00,919
Speaker 3: his sack total, his tackle for loss total, his pressure

470
00:22:01,040 --> 00:22:04,040
Speaker 3: total is just because this guy, like you said, just

471
00:22:04,359 --> 00:22:04,960
Speaker 3: never quits.

472
00:22:05,040 --> 00:22:06,040
Speaker 1: He does not stop.

473
00:22:06,600 --> 00:22:08,760
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, I think I'll use I want to

474
00:22:08,800 --> 00:22:10,960
Speaker 5: say he used it in one of the podcasts or

475
00:22:11,040 --> 00:22:14,200
Speaker 5: YouTube or whatever it is. But Max Crosby comes to mind,

476
00:22:14,560 --> 00:22:17,720
Speaker 5: and the intensity he brings to the game, the energy

477
00:22:17,800 --> 00:22:20,480
Speaker 5: he brings in just a NonStop whether I'm getting blocked

478
00:22:20,600 --> 00:22:23,240
Speaker 5: or not, I'm gonna find it and will myself to

479
00:22:23,440 --> 00:22:25,960
Speaker 5: the ball. That is a great comparison to what you

480
00:22:26,040 --> 00:22:29,520
Speaker 5: guys have gotten in your franchise. Looto is a NonStop

481
00:22:29,640 --> 00:22:32,879
Speaker 5: player and he refuses to be stopped in order to

482
00:22:32,960 --> 00:22:36,159
Speaker 5: get to the ball. In practice here, he's actually the

483
00:22:36,200 --> 00:22:38,920
Speaker 5: one that kind of was the leader of it. No

484
00:22:39,080 --> 00:22:41,680
Speaker 5: matter what we did in practice, when that last play

485
00:22:41,880 --> 00:22:45,000
Speaker 5: was done, he would turn in sprint to the end zone,

486
00:22:45,359 --> 00:22:47,440
Speaker 5: and the whole defense by the end of the season

487
00:22:47,520 --> 00:22:50,680
Speaker 5: started sprinting with him and for him, his whole mindset

488
00:22:50,840 --> 00:22:53,240
Speaker 5: was the play won't stop until I get to the

489
00:22:53,400 --> 00:22:56,000
Speaker 5: end zone. Somehow, some way, you know. So I think

490
00:22:56,119 --> 00:22:58,880
Speaker 5: that's something that you guys will see over the course

491
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Speaker 5: over the year. But also well, you know, I call

492
00:23:00,680 --> 00:23:03,840
Speaker 5: him the artist. I really believe he's changed. He will

493
00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:06,280
Speaker 5: change the pastor's game like Aaron Donald did for the

494
00:23:06,320 --> 00:23:09,240
Speaker 5: defensive tackle spot. I think he will change the game

495
00:23:09,280 --> 00:23:11,840
Speaker 5: of pastors in terms of how he does it and

496
00:23:12,320 --> 00:23:13,840
Speaker 5: you know, just the you know, like I call him

497
00:23:13,840 --> 00:23:16,639
Speaker 5: the artist, just how detailed he's become in terms of

498
00:23:16,800 --> 00:23:21,000
Speaker 5: making something that could be very difficult right looks so easy.

499
00:23:21,440 --> 00:23:23,480
Speaker 1: Well, coach, I can't thank enough for your time.

500
00:23:23,520 --> 00:23:26,159
Speaker 3: Again, I know you're hard pressed for everything going on

501
00:23:26,280 --> 00:23:28,399
Speaker 3: there with practice still in full swing in the in

502
00:23:28,520 --> 00:23:32,119
Speaker 3: the spring on the West Coast. Congratulations to you, I mean, honestly,

503
00:23:32,200 --> 00:23:35,480
Speaker 3: congratulations to you and the role that you played in

504
00:23:35,840 --> 00:23:39,159
Speaker 3: Leatu's life and his football journey to get him drafted

505
00:23:39,160 --> 00:23:40,320
Speaker 3: by the Colts in the first round.

506
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Speaker 5: Very kind of you, guys, gentlemen. I appreciate that. And

507
00:23:43,040 --> 00:23:46,480
Speaker 5: congratulations to the Colts franchise as well. I promise you

508
00:23:46,480 --> 00:23:48,960
Speaker 5: you guys got the best here and you will. He

509
00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:52,120
Speaker 5: will add value to the franchise as well as from

510
00:23:52,160 --> 00:23:54,639
Speaker 5: coach Partri take take his coats are too hard. He

511
00:23:54,680 --> 00:23:57,479
Speaker 5: will do everything that you guys ask of him. Right, gentlemen,

512
00:23:57,520 --> 00:23:59,119
Speaker 5: thank you so much for your time. I appreciate you

513
00:23:59,160 --> 00:23:59,760
Speaker 5: guys have me on.

514
00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:03,000
Speaker 4: Well is nicely done. JJ. I mean we're finding out

515
00:24:03,040 --> 00:24:04,920
Speaker 4: a lot about this young man. It's not there's a

516
00:24:05,440 --> 00:24:07,760
Speaker 4: lot everything about him that you love. And I'm talking

517
00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:09,600
Speaker 4: about just like seeing him as a football player, but

518
00:24:09,640 --> 00:24:12,520
Speaker 4: everything off the football player, the joy, the family, everything,

519
00:24:12,600 --> 00:24:14,920
Speaker 4: the luckiness. He feels like, Wow, I'm actually in the

520
00:24:15,080 --> 00:24:17,240
Speaker 4: NFL and everything. It's gonna be a great story and

521
00:24:17,320 --> 00:24:18,480
Speaker 4: a breath of fresh air around here.

522
00:24:18,560 --> 00:24:20,359
Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, you know when you're just thinking about

523
00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:23,840
Speaker 2: him as a prospect, like he's the best edge rusher

524
00:24:23,960 --> 00:24:25,840
Speaker 2: in the draft. You know, you saw that clip at

525
00:24:25,920 --> 00:24:28,000
Speaker 2: Chris Ballard going around where he said, you know, we

526
00:24:28,119 --> 00:24:30,200
Speaker 2: just got the best f and edge rusher, Yeah, in

527
00:24:30,320 --> 00:24:33,040
Speaker 2: the draft, and he's just laughing. The reason why he

528
00:24:33,119 --> 00:24:37,359
Speaker 2: was available at fifteen is because of the neck issue

529
00:24:37,760 --> 00:24:40,399
Speaker 2: and the medical retirement. But once you learn the story

530
00:24:40,480 --> 00:24:43,359
Speaker 2: of it, of hey, he didn't agree with that, and

531
00:24:43,800 --> 00:24:46,920
Speaker 2: the pandemic plays a part in it where he doesn't

532
00:24:46,920 --> 00:24:51,199
Speaker 2: have a physical exam, and you know, it seemed kind

533
00:24:51,240 --> 00:24:53,960
Speaker 2: of like he got a raw deal. More so then

534
00:24:54,160 --> 00:24:57,280
Speaker 2: wonder like how that was even possible, right, yeah, I

535
00:24:57,520 --> 00:25:00,520
Speaker 2: even got here more so than this is like a

536
00:25:00,640 --> 00:25:04,640
Speaker 2: serious long term issue. And I mean some teams might

537
00:25:04,760 --> 00:25:07,520
Speaker 2: just you know, reflexively be scared off by that, which

538
00:25:07,520 --> 00:25:08,520
Speaker 2: I think is fair when.

539
00:25:08,359 --> 00:25:11,040
Speaker 4: You're universities too, can we throw that in there? Well

540
00:25:11,200 --> 00:25:12,560
Speaker 4: U C l A wasn't afraid of it.

541
00:25:12,760 --> 00:25:15,760
Speaker 2: Well well, and so this is a wild connection that

542
00:25:16,160 --> 00:25:18,919
Speaker 2: you know, Coach malloy got into about the you know, doctor,

543
00:25:19,240 --> 00:25:22,080
Speaker 2: doctor Robert Watkins and how he was the one who

544
00:25:22,160 --> 00:25:23,920
Speaker 2: cleared him and then he goes to Chip Kelly and

545
00:25:24,160 --> 00:25:28,639
Speaker 2: Chip Kelly's like, you know, that's our doctor. So just

546
00:25:28,760 --> 00:25:32,520
Speaker 2: you know, some serendipity included in it. But I understand

547
00:25:32,560 --> 00:25:34,720
Speaker 2: why teams would be scared off by it. But once

548
00:25:34,760 --> 00:25:39,040
Speaker 2: you really dig into it, if this does not seem

549
00:25:39,200 --> 00:25:42,240
Speaker 2: like something that is going to crop back up again,

550
00:25:42,520 --> 00:25:44,000
Speaker 2: I mean, he he said he was just gonna go

551
00:25:44,080 --> 00:25:48,560
Speaker 2: play rugby, like, okay, it's a pretty physical sport. But

552
00:25:48,640 --> 00:25:51,080
Speaker 2: he was okay doing that, So why not just keep

553
00:25:51,119 --> 00:25:52,640
Speaker 2: going put the with the helmet and pads.

554
00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:56,199
Speaker 4: On those rugby videos that are outsurfing. That's incredible. Shut up.

555
00:25:56,240 --> 00:25:59,440
Speaker 2: Shout out to Brent, Brent Hollywood and Meg Stall and

556
00:25:59,520 --> 00:26:02,560
Speaker 2: are so immediate right up going and like finding those

557
00:26:02,680 --> 00:26:04,879
Speaker 2: huddle highlights of him playing rugby, that was just.

558
00:26:05,160 --> 00:26:09,560
Speaker 4: Mowing the people down. I'm good, ridiculous, Oh, Mayde, You're

559
00:26:09,560 --> 00:26:11,159
Speaker 4: gonna have fun calling this young man as well. We

560
00:26:11,200 --> 00:26:12,800
Speaker 4: going to find out. I can't wait to find out

561
00:26:12,960 --> 00:26:15,959
Speaker 4: what happens in rookie miniicamp coming up, and obviously OTA's

562
00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:18,240
Speaker 4: and then you know up at what happens at Westfield

563
00:26:18,280 --> 00:26:19,800
Speaker 4: at training camp. But this is a great one and

564
00:26:19,920 --> 00:26:22,560
Speaker 4: we're excited. Everybody around here and in the city is

565
00:26:22,640 --> 00:26:25,600
Speaker 4: excited for new blood, if you will, and new exciting players,

566
00:26:25,960 --> 00:26:28,240
Speaker 4: none bigger than this second rounder. May Te start with

567
00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:30,760
Speaker 4: you out of Texas, a big receiver, I know, a

568
00:26:30,840 --> 00:26:34,480
Speaker 4: conglomerate or a congregation or whatever. Of Colt's front office

569
00:26:34,520 --> 00:26:38,160
Speaker 4: staff and football operations went down to Texas saw this man,

570
00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:41,840
Speaker 4: ed Ni Mitchell face to face Xavier Worthy as well

571
00:26:41,920 --> 00:26:44,520
Speaker 4: down there when that pick came up, and you know

572
00:26:44,600 --> 00:26:46,280
Speaker 4: what this guy can bring to the table and he

573
00:26:46,440 --> 00:26:49,359
Speaker 4: was available where he was What was your first thought

574
00:26:49,400 --> 00:26:50,879
Speaker 4: on that? What he can do for this offense?

575
00:26:50,960 --> 00:26:52,920
Speaker 3: I first thought is I can't believe he's still there.

576
00:26:52,960 --> 00:26:55,720
Speaker 3: I can't believe the cults are trading back and still

577
00:26:55,920 --> 00:26:58,240
Speaker 3: being able to pick him up. So, you know, great

578
00:26:58,280 --> 00:27:00,560
Speaker 3: credit to Chris Ballard for the you know, the the

579
00:27:00,840 --> 00:27:05,120
Speaker 3: drafting gymnastics with that knowing not only you know, having

580
00:27:05,200 --> 00:27:07,320
Speaker 3: the foresight to see, okay, he's in the cluster of

581
00:27:07,359 --> 00:27:09,240
Speaker 3: the players, we're okay to get in the second round,

582
00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:12,679
Speaker 3: but also kind of knowing what the other teams radar

583
00:27:12,840 --> 00:27:15,960
Speaker 3: might be around him within that pick so great that

584
00:27:16,040 --> 00:27:18,280
Speaker 3: you're able to add two fifth round picks plus still

585
00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:21,440
Speaker 3: get ad Nai Mitchell. And you know, my second thought

586
00:27:21,560 --> 00:27:24,040
Speaker 3: is the guy's obviously a winner on the outside, which

587
00:27:24,119 --> 00:27:26,760
Speaker 3: is what this I think this draft was all about.

588
00:27:27,320 --> 00:27:30,360
Speaker 3: In terms of offense. You needed to address the playmaking

589
00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:34,160
Speaker 3: ability and get more explosive outside the numbers to compliment

590
00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:37,280
Speaker 3: Anthony Richardson and certainly what you already have between the

591
00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:39,720
Speaker 3: numbers with guys like Downs and Pittman.

592
00:27:40,040 --> 00:27:40,920
Speaker 1: In those tight ends.

593
00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:43,760
Speaker 3: So you know, I just I kind of echo what

594
00:27:44,119 --> 00:27:46,800
Speaker 3: Shane Steikin said after the draft and going back and

595
00:27:46,880 --> 00:27:49,240
Speaker 3: watching more tape on him, He's exactly right. This guy's

596
00:27:49,280 --> 00:27:52,240
Speaker 3: a winner. He's a clear separator at the top of

597
00:27:52,320 --> 00:27:55,000
Speaker 3: his route. He's a big play guy, right, averaged over

598
00:27:55,080 --> 00:27:59,080
Speaker 3: fifteen yards per catch. You know at Texas last year.

599
00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:02,520
Speaker 3: He's got clutch ability. I mean, we saw all the

600
00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:05,760
Speaker 3: touchdowns and those big moments in the College Football Playoff.

601
00:28:05,920 --> 00:28:08,440
Speaker 3: I didn't realize until I looked it up that he's

602
00:28:08,480 --> 00:28:11,360
Speaker 3: played in the college football playoffs every er year.

603
00:28:11,440 --> 00:28:13,399
Speaker 1: You know, two at Georgia, you know, and then one

604
00:28:13,480 --> 00:28:13,919
Speaker 1: at Texas.

605
00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:15,119
Speaker 2: And I throw a quick stat at one of the

606
00:28:15,480 --> 00:28:18,640
Speaker 2: national championships. I put this in my ten colts things.

607
00:28:18,720 --> 00:28:20,920
Speaker 2: But there's only one person in the history of the

608
00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:23,520
Speaker 2: College Football Playoff who is more receiving touchdowns than ad

609
00:28:23,600 --> 00:28:26,359
Speaker 2: and I Mitchell, who was five. It's Devanta Smith who

610
00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:26,720
Speaker 2: had eight.

611
00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:27,200
Speaker 1: Wow.

612
00:28:27,640 --> 00:28:29,800
Speaker 2: But the leader board I threw it in here, it's

613
00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:33,119
Speaker 2: DeVonta Smith who has eight, then eighty, Mitchell Hunter Renfro

614
00:28:33,359 --> 00:28:35,560
Speaker 2: remember at Clemson he caught all those touchdowns. They both

615
00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:38,680
Speaker 2: had five. Then Justin Jefferson at LSU he had four

616
00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:41,640
Speaker 2: and one game, and then Calvin Ridley at Alabama. So

617
00:28:41,680 --> 00:28:42,840
Speaker 2: a pretty good list to be on there.

618
00:28:42,920 --> 00:28:44,440
Speaker 4: Yeah, successful list, right, all.

619
00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:45,720
Speaker 2: Those guys, by the way, I have had a thousand

620
00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:47,800
Speaker 2: yards in the NFL had a thousand yard season, right.

621
00:28:48,120 --> 00:28:50,680
Speaker 3: So, I mean, obviously, I think the headliner of this

622
00:28:50,920 --> 00:28:54,120
Speaker 3: pick is going to be the post Friday press conference

623
00:28:54,160 --> 00:28:56,880
Speaker 3: of Chris Ballard, you know, going on on that little bit,

624
00:28:56,960 --> 00:28:59,080
Speaker 3: he got a look excited obviously talking about no, no, no,

625
00:28:59,160 --> 00:29:01,840
Speaker 3: he got a little pissed off, there's no doubt, right,

626
00:29:02,960 --> 00:29:05,840
Speaker 3: so I know he felt he fell for whatever reason.

627
00:29:05,880 --> 00:29:08,520
Speaker 3: But the Colts obviously have no hesitations in.

628
00:29:08,560 --> 00:29:10,080
Speaker 1: That and doing their homework.

629
00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:12,400
Speaker 3: And you know, this is a first round draft pick

630
00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:14,560
Speaker 3: that they get in the middle to late of the

631
00:29:14,640 --> 00:29:17,080
Speaker 3: second round, and I think it addresses a huge need

632
00:29:17,160 --> 00:29:19,640
Speaker 3: and and and we'll see how much production he can

633
00:29:19,760 --> 00:29:22,520
Speaker 3: have outside the numbers, which the Colts I think desperately

634
00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:23,280
Speaker 3: needed in this dru.

635
00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:26,160
Speaker 2: So the Colts last year were twenty ninth in the

636
00:29:26,320 --> 00:29:29,520
Speaker 2: NFL with forty four completions of fifteen or more yards

637
00:29:29,640 --> 00:29:32,920
Speaker 2: to wide receivers. So they just they were not explosive

638
00:29:32,960 --> 00:29:36,560
Speaker 2: as a wide all right. But I think that the

639
00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:38,960
Speaker 2: point here is that this isn't just a d Mitchell

640
00:29:39,400 --> 00:29:42,760
Speaker 2: getting dropped into this offense. It's Anthony Richardson and a

641
00:29:42,880 --> 00:29:45,960
Speaker 2: d Mitchell. I think, you know, Alec Pierce is a

642
00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:48,400
Speaker 2: guy who's going to benefit from Anthony Richardson being in

643
00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:51,800
Speaker 2: there as well. But if you're just looking to get

644
00:29:51,840 --> 00:29:55,160
Speaker 2: more explosive as a wide receiver unit, ady Mitchell is

645
00:29:55,240 --> 00:29:57,400
Speaker 2: not the only reason why you're going to do that,

646
00:29:57,560 --> 00:30:00,680
Speaker 2: but he is a guy who should be expected to

647
00:30:00,840 --> 00:30:03,120
Speaker 2: help with getting more explosive. And then you know you're

648
00:30:03,120 --> 00:30:05,960
Speaker 2: talking about when you stretch the field with your wide receivers,

649
00:30:06,320 --> 00:30:09,560
Speaker 2: that's a different calculus for opposing defenses who now, maybe

650
00:30:09,560 --> 00:30:11,360
Speaker 2: you've got to play more two high safeties. We can't

651
00:30:11,440 --> 00:30:14,000
Speaker 2: keep that extra guy in the box against the run.

652
00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:16,160
Speaker 2: And that's everything right that the box.

653
00:30:16,040 --> 00:30:18,440
Speaker 3: Is everything for the running game with Taylor and Richardson.

654
00:30:18,240 --> 00:30:19,960
Speaker 4: Right, Well, this is going to be interesting because I

655
00:30:20,080 --> 00:30:23,600
Speaker 4: got four off the top of my head between Pittman, Downs, Pierce,

656
00:30:23,720 --> 00:30:26,640
Speaker 4: and now Mitchell. There's gonna be some fun fights up

657
00:30:26,680 --> 00:30:29,080
Speaker 4: in Westfield when it comes for roster spots in the

658
00:30:29,120 --> 00:30:31,680
Speaker 4: wide receiver role. I just wanted to say, what spells

659
00:30:31,720 --> 00:30:33,960
Speaker 4: out there, how much playtime is it is going to

660
00:30:34,200 --> 00:30:36,520
Speaker 4: affect any veterans on this team or this rookie.

661
00:30:36,720 --> 00:30:40,800
Speaker 2: Well, Alec Pierce last year played one ninety snaps on offense.

662
00:30:40,840 --> 00:30:43,480
Speaker 2: He played the most snaps of any skill position player

663
00:30:43,520 --> 00:30:45,800
Speaker 2: on the Colts was that ninety five percent of the

664
00:30:45,840 --> 00:30:49,440
Speaker 2: team snaps. I think Ady Mitchell probably will compete to

665
00:30:49,480 --> 00:30:52,200
Speaker 2: cut into that right at the X. But I also

666
00:30:52,280 --> 00:30:55,200
Speaker 2: don't think you're just burying Alec Pierce with this pick.

667
00:30:55,480 --> 00:30:58,160
Speaker 2: It's not like the Colts went out and drafted Marvin

668
00:30:58,200 --> 00:31:00,920
Speaker 2: Harrison junior, who probably would stepped in and just been,

669
00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:04,479
Speaker 2: you know, the immediate starter there. You know, I think

670
00:31:04,560 --> 00:31:08,120
Speaker 2: Ady Mitchell Nolt Piersa have a very healthy competition during

671
00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:09,560
Speaker 2: training camp, and there are two guys who can be

672
00:31:09,640 --> 00:31:12,360
Speaker 2: on the field. You know, you might not need Adi

673
00:31:12,440 --> 00:31:15,040
Speaker 2: Mitchell to play fifty percent of the snaps, which also

674
00:31:15,120 --> 00:31:17,800
Speaker 2: then kind of eases him into his NFL career because

675
00:31:17,800 --> 00:31:19,880
Speaker 2: you got a guy and Alec who you know can play,

676
00:31:19,920 --> 00:31:23,080
Speaker 2: who can play on the outside, and you also hope

677
00:31:23,120 --> 00:31:25,080
Speaker 2: this is one of those things where competition brings out

678
00:31:25,080 --> 00:31:27,440
Speaker 2: the best in both of those guys. Obviously, Alec did

679
00:31:27,480 --> 00:31:29,480
Speaker 2: not have the season he wanted to have last year,

680
00:31:29,880 --> 00:31:32,080
Speaker 2: but you know, everything that we've heard about him is

681
00:31:32,120 --> 00:31:34,800
Speaker 2: that his attitude was great through it, his mentality was

682
00:31:34,840 --> 00:31:37,040
Speaker 2: great through it, and he's he's going to get right

683
00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:39,480
Speaker 2: back to work now and going to compete to keep

684
00:31:39,560 --> 00:31:40,840
Speaker 2: getting his snaps.

685
00:31:40,560 --> 00:31:43,520
Speaker 4: More weapons for Anthony Richardson here here, I mean, I'm

686
00:31:43,560 --> 00:31:45,440
Speaker 4: all in for it. Fellers are going to move down.

687
00:31:45,680 --> 00:31:47,240
Speaker 4: Let's go a couple of picks right now in the

688
00:31:47,280 --> 00:31:51,200
Speaker 4: third round and fourth round Matt Gunsalvus offensive lineman from

689
00:31:51,240 --> 00:31:54,360
Speaker 4: pitt In, Wisconsin's Tanner Bordolini, which a lot of people

690
00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:56,960
Speaker 4: saw he even in the past year, as Wow, he

691
00:31:57,080 --> 00:31:59,240
Speaker 4: was rocking such a great mullet. I'm sorry to start

692
00:31:59,440 --> 00:32:01,920
Speaker 4: with the mull on this guy. Everybody has, but I

693
00:32:02,040 --> 00:32:04,280
Speaker 4: was watching in college games. I'm like, dude, that dude

694
00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:07,320
Speaker 4: is rocking that mullet, and he brings that to Indianapolis.

695
00:32:07,360 --> 00:32:09,760
Speaker 2: So I don't think anyone else caught this, but on

696
00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:13,240
Speaker 2: Tanner Pordalini's media zoom session he did right after he

697
00:32:13,280 --> 00:32:16,520
Speaker 2: got picked. Mike Chappell goes, finally, all right, let's see

698
00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:18,640
Speaker 2: the mullet. He turns around and shows it and Lara

699
00:32:18,760 --> 00:32:22,120
Speaker 2: Overton her reaction to it. If you've ever seen The Simpsons,

700
00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:26,000
Speaker 2: clipper ned Flanders is like squealing over purple drapes in

701
00:32:26,120 --> 00:32:28,480
Speaker 2: a house. It's just like a like that. That's what

702
00:32:28,600 --> 00:32:31,320
Speaker 2: Lara was doing, like convulsing. She was so happy.

703
00:32:31,560 --> 00:32:33,400
Speaker 4: She loved it on them. Oh it was incredible. Grub

704
00:32:33,520 --> 00:32:35,120
Speaker 4: What the kid looks like? I heard he shaved his

705
00:32:35,160 --> 00:32:37,880
Speaker 4: head and then just let it go. Love what he

706
00:32:37,960 --> 00:32:39,800
Speaker 4: looked like. Okay, Tanner, we love what you look like.

707
00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:42,480
Speaker 4: Now let's go where did these offensive lineman here? Start

708
00:32:42,520 --> 00:32:44,960
Speaker 4: with Gonsalves, if you will. What he brings to this

709
00:32:45,120 --> 00:32:48,440
Speaker 4: table and depth is everything in the NFL on the

710
00:32:48,480 --> 00:32:52,080
Speaker 4: offensive line specifically, but five starters coming back Matt Well, that's.

711
00:32:52,040 --> 00:32:52,760
Speaker 1: That's exactly right.

712
00:32:52,840 --> 00:32:55,240
Speaker 3: But you know, Chris Ballard is again he mentioned that

713
00:32:55,320 --> 00:32:58,440
Speaker 3: P word several times last Friday or the Friday before

714
00:32:58,480 --> 00:32:58,880
Speaker 3: the draft.

715
00:32:58,960 --> 00:32:59,960
Speaker 1: It's all about protect.

716
00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:04,240
Speaker 3: You can't have enough quality depth pieces along that offensive line.

717
00:33:04,560 --> 00:33:07,360
Speaker 3: The last couple of years, there's that clear investment with

718
00:33:07,480 --> 00:33:12,760
Speaker 3: Freeland and now Gonzalves and then Bordolini. Gonzalves, I think specifically,

719
00:33:13,440 --> 00:33:16,240
Speaker 3: this is a guy that I think can play everywhere.

720
00:33:16,320 --> 00:33:17,440
Speaker 1: He can even play center.

721
00:33:17,520 --> 00:33:20,120
Speaker 3: I think I think he's got the position flexibility or

722
00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:22,440
Speaker 3: at least the body type they think that potentially can

723
00:33:22,520 --> 00:33:25,840
Speaker 3: play in the interior excuse me, interior. Even though he

724
00:33:25,920 --> 00:33:28,320
Speaker 3: played on the right side, left side, the tackle positions

725
00:33:28,360 --> 00:33:33,120
Speaker 3: in college predominantly. To me, the most surprising thing about

726
00:33:33,240 --> 00:33:35,400
Speaker 3: this pick, and maybe surprising is not the right word.

727
00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:38,360
Speaker 3: Probably more intriguing is that he only played three games

728
00:33:38,440 --> 00:33:40,960
Speaker 3: last year, So there really is a forecast and a

729
00:33:41,080 --> 00:33:44,800
Speaker 3: projection within this pick, and the Colts trade up in

730
00:33:44,920 --> 00:33:47,920
Speaker 3: the third round to get him. And to your point, JJ,

731
00:33:48,040 --> 00:33:51,360
Speaker 3: there's other draft pundits and experts that said this was

732
00:33:51,400 --> 00:33:53,600
Speaker 3: a fourth or a fifth round draft pick. So all

733
00:33:53,640 --> 00:33:55,920
Speaker 3: of that in mind, you know, kind of adds up

734
00:33:55,960 --> 00:33:59,440
Speaker 3: to this really intriguing prospect the Colts have. But talking

735
00:33:59,560 --> 00:34:02,600
Speaker 3: with a scale afterwards, and you hear Chris and Shane

736
00:34:02,680 --> 00:34:05,800
Speaker 3: talk this was one of their best offensive linemen in

737
00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:09,280
Speaker 3: the draft, yep, regardless of position, and I think position

738
00:34:09,400 --> 00:34:11,920
Speaker 3: flexibility is a huge feather in his cap. And the

739
00:34:12,040 --> 00:34:14,200
Speaker 3: Colts love guys like these. I mean, you go back

740
00:34:14,239 --> 00:34:16,640
Speaker 3: to the the Joe Haiggs and the Joe Wrights is

741
00:34:16,719 --> 00:34:17,160
Speaker 3: of the world.

742
00:34:17,239 --> 00:34:18,120
Speaker 1: That's how you stay.

743
00:34:18,280 --> 00:34:21,120
Speaker 3: That's that's your longevity piece in the NFL is your

744
00:34:21,480 --> 00:34:22,600
Speaker 3: position flexibility.

745
00:34:22,680 --> 00:34:24,800
Speaker 1: The more that you can do ads to your value.

746
00:34:25,200 --> 00:34:27,280
Speaker 3: I don't think he's gonna factor into the starting lineup

747
00:34:27,320 --> 00:34:30,120
Speaker 3: next year, obviously, but Ryan Kelly is gonna be a

748
00:34:30,160 --> 00:34:32,640
Speaker 3: free agent. Will Fry' is gonna be a free agent

749
00:34:32,960 --> 00:34:35,759
Speaker 3: after next year twenty five. You got Braydon Smith who's up.

750
00:34:36,120 --> 00:34:40,400
Speaker 4: So they're gonna play this year. I'm just saying that's

751
00:34:40,480 --> 00:34:40,879
Speaker 4: just the way.

752
00:34:42,320 --> 00:34:44,759
Speaker 3: Yeah, right, is one hundred percent along the offensive line,

753
00:34:44,840 --> 00:34:47,960
Speaker 3: so he could factor in somewhere given how many different

754
00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:48,799
Speaker 3: positions he can play.

755
00:34:48,880 --> 00:34:51,560
Speaker 2: I mean, the Colts last year, Quentin Nelson and Will

756
00:34:51,640 --> 00:34:54,680
Speaker 2: Fries didn't miss like any snaps. That's unhard it and

757
00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:57,920
Speaker 2: that's a testament to both of those guys. But random

758
00:34:57,960 --> 00:35:00,600
Speaker 2: stuff happens in a physical foot you know, physical game.

759
00:35:00,920 --> 00:35:02,320
Speaker 1: A running back rolls up on you.

760
00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:05,160
Speaker 2: You know, you hope that doesn't happen. You hope you're

761
00:35:05,160 --> 00:35:07,719
Speaker 2: starting five next year is the same starting five you

762
00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:10,200
Speaker 2: had last year. But you know last year Blake Freely

763
00:35:10,239 --> 00:35:12,600
Speaker 2: had to start what nine games and Western French step again.

764
00:35:14,160 --> 00:35:17,600
Speaker 2: So you're gonna need these guys. The thing with Gonzalves

765
00:35:17,680 --> 00:35:18,879
Speaker 2: that I go back to, he was an.

766
00:35:18,880 --> 00:35:22,399
Speaker 4: Ornery guy, right, JJ ornery guy, little, a little chippy.

767
00:35:22,680 --> 00:35:24,600
Speaker 2: He seems like a good fit for our offensive.

768
00:35:24,200 --> 00:35:27,280
Speaker 1: Line roll language. He was a laboratory.

769
00:35:27,360 --> 00:35:30,239
Speaker 2: He was only flagged four times in one thousand seven

770
00:35:30,360 --> 00:35:33,719
Speaker 2: hundred and fifty seven snaps in college. Zero holding penalties. Wow,

771
00:35:34,239 --> 00:35:36,880
Speaker 2: that that's hard to do. Like with the way that

772
00:35:36,960 --> 00:35:39,600
Speaker 2: holding gets called to not even be in a position

773
00:35:39,640 --> 00:35:42,480
Speaker 2: where you get called as a tackle, that's pretty good.

774
00:35:42,920 --> 00:35:44,360
Speaker 2: That's that's that's pretty impressive.

775
00:35:44,920 --> 00:35:47,440
Speaker 4: Penalties would just four starters, Yeah.

776
00:35:48,040 --> 00:35:49,840
Speaker 2: Which sometimes that can be on the corner right, you know,

777
00:35:51,080 --> 00:35:54,840
Speaker 2: and then you know he throwing Bordolini. I don't I

778
00:35:54,880 --> 00:35:57,239
Speaker 2: don't totally love like playing favorites, but like, this guy's

779
00:35:57,280 --> 00:35:59,880
Speaker 2: one of my favorite picks the Colts had in the

780
00:36:00,120 --> 00:36:03,919
Speaker 2: entire NFL draft because like his he's just he fits

781
00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:05,680
Speaker 2: that mentality that you want out of the line, the

782
00:36:05,760 --> 00:36:07,880
Speaker 2: Colts line. You know, he's the guy who's going to

783
00:36:07,920 --> 00:36:10,840
Speaker 2: come in and learn. He's very humble, understands his his

784
00:36:11,040 --> 00:36:13,800
Speaker 2: versatility is important. But then you look at his athletic

785
00:36:13,880 --> 00:36:18,920
Speaker 2: testing numbers and like he broke Jason Kelce's three cone

786
00:36:18,960 --> 00:36:23,440
Speaker 2: record at the NFL Combine. So no interior offensive lineman

787
00:36:23,480 --> 00:36:26,280
Speaker 2: can run run the three cone faster than Jason Kelcey

788
00:36:26,400 --> 00:36:30,240
Speaker 2: until Tanner Bordolini. He ran a four to eight short

789
00:36:30,320 --> 00:36:33,320
Speaker 2: shuttle that was the seventh fastest by an interior offensive lineman.

790
00:36:34,480 --> 00:36:37,239
Speaker 2: He ran a four nine four second forty yard dash

791
00:36:37,320 --> 00:36:40,880
Speaker 2: that's in the ninety seventh percentile for interior alignment. He

792
00:36:41,040 --> 00:36:43,800
Speaker 2: weighs over three hundred pounds and he ran the forty

793
00:36:43,840 --> 00:36:45,880
Speaker 2: and under five seconds. Man. Look, and I know you

794
00:36:45,920 --> 00:36:47,440
Speaker 2: can be like, well, what does this really mean? But

795
00:36:47,600 --> 00:36:51,200
Speaker 2: like sometimes when you get these great athletes at these positions,

796
00:36:51,680 --> 00:36:53,600
Speaker 2: when they grow into it, when they figure out how

797
00:36:53,600 --> 00:36:55,600
Speaker 2: to use their hands and how to set and all that,

798
00:36:56,200 --> 00:37:00,520
Speaker 2: the creative stuff you can do with these guys is

799
00:37:00,640 --> 00:37:02,600
Speaker 2: really fun to see. And we got a head coach

800
00:37:02,640 --> 00:37:04,560
Speaker 2: here who does a lot of creative stuff with his

801
00:37:04,640 --> 00:37:06,839
Speaker 2: offensive line. We saw it with Quintin Nelson last year,

802
00:37:07,160 --> 00:37:09,160
Speaker 2: some of the stuff he would do on play action

803
00:37:09,239 --> 00:37:11,640
Speaker 2: where he's pulling and he's just absorbing a Denico Autrey

804
00:37:11,719 --> 00:37:14,080
Speaker 2: bull rush. We saw it with Jason Kelsey, the stuff

805
00:37:14,120 --> 00:37:17,120
Speaker 2: he was able to do in Philadelphia. Obviously, Quentin Nelson

806
00:37:17,160 --> 00:37:21,600
Speaker 2: and Jason Kelcey are two elite top point hh one

807
00:37:21,680 --> 00:37:25,320
Speaker 2: percent players in the NFL. But I love taking the

808
00:37:25,360 --> 00:37:28,560
Speaker 2: good athlete here and a guy who's versatile, and again,

809
00:37:28,600 --> 00:37:30,160
Speaker 2: he's probably not a guy you are gonna expect to

810
00:37:30,200 --> 00:37:33,200
Speaker 2: start right away, but down the road, if you know,

811
00:37:33,520 --> 00:37:36,200
Speaker 2: Ryan Kelly leaves in free agency, if Will Fries leaves

812
00:37:36,239 --> 00:37:39,359
Speaker 2: in free agency, obviously he'd like to keep both those guys.

813
00:37:39,400 --> 00:37:41,400
Speaker 2: But if something were to happen and you can't pay him,

814
00:37:41,480 --> 00:37:44,640
Speaker 2: or they go somewhere else and you can slide Bordolini

815
00:37:44,719 --> 00:37:48,480
Speaker 2: or Gonzalveez in, that's smart. And worst case of these

816
00:37:48,520 --> 00:37:51,640
Speaker 2: guys are just depth guys. Long term, that's also smart

817
00:37:51,880 --> 00:37:54,160
Speaker 2: because having good offensive linemen to come off the bench

818
00:37:54,560 --> 00:37:55,799
Speaker 2: is a really important thing.

819
00:37:56,200 --> 00:37:59,680
Speaker 3: Well, and they're here under contract while Anthony Richardson grows

820
00:38:00,239 --> 00:38:02,600
Speaker 3: to the point where if these guys need to become

821
00:38:02,719 --> 00:38:05,320
Speaker 3: starters in year three or four, that's going to be

822
00:38:05,360 --> 00:38:09,920
Speaker 3: a different roster construction dynamic when Richardson hopefully reaches that

823
00:38:09,960 --> 00:38:10,359
Speaker 3: big page.

824
00:38:10,360 --> 00:38:12,840
Speaker 2: I always think offensive line as like a week link system,

825
00:38:13,440 --> 00:38:15,520
Speaker 2: and you know, usually if you have one of your

826
00:38:15,560 --> 00:38:18,439
Speaker 2: starters go out, you're worried that the guy who comes

827
00:38:18,480 --> 00:38:19,879
Speaker 2: in is going to be a week link and they're

828
00:38:19,880 --> 00:38:21,879
Speaker 2: just gonna be that guy's gonna get run at all day.

829
00:38:22,760 --> 00:38:24,640
Speaker 2: If these guys both pan out or one of these

830
00:38:24,680 --> 00:38:27,120
Speaker 2: two guys check out, you're hoping that that guy can

831
00:38:27,200 --> 00:38:28,760
Speaker 2: come off the mention not be a week link.

832
00:38:28,680 --> 00:38:30,600
Speaker 4: Good depth and a good part of this offense too,

833
00:38:30,680 --> 00:38:33,080
Speaker 4: and everybody's you know, healthy across the board. We saw

834
00:38:33,200 --> 00:38:35,200
Speaker 4: last year Braden Smith's coming back for a big one.

835
00:38:35,280 --> 00:38:37,960
Speaker 4: So cannot wait and real quick. Would you rather be

836
00:38:38,080 --> 00:38:41,560
Speaker 4: represented by the law firm or a restaurant? Probably the restaurant,

837
00:38:41,760 --> 00:38:44,560
Speaker 4: you think, so just say it. See how it flows, Garse,

838
00:38:45,280 --> 00:38:49,600
Speaker 4: see how it flows both gun solve, sorry, gunsolvice in Bordolini's.

839
00:38:49,680 --> 00:38:51,600
Speaker 4: Is that a law firm or is that a restaurant

840
00:38:51,640 --> 00:38:52,200
Speaker 4: you want to go to?

841
00:38:53,560 --> 00:38:55,600
Speaker 3: I'm serious, I want to I want a table for

842
00:38:55,680 --> 00:38:58,120
Speaker 3: two on the patio at Bordolini's.

843
00:38:58,239 --> 00:38:59,319
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know what I mean?

844
00:38:59,400 --> 00:39:01,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, yea, yeah, they take reservations.

845
00:39:01,280 --> 00:39:02,320
Speaker 4: Got you, Yeah, I'm with you.

846
00:39:02,560 --> 00:39:03,400
Speaker 1: No veal pacatta.

847
00:39:03,440 --> 00:39:05,680
Speaker 2: I don't want them chicken spaghetti? Do you want them

848
00:39:05,719 --> 00:39:06,200
Speaker 2: represent me?

849
00:39:06,239 --> 00:39:07,759
Speaker 4: I just want to eat at their restaurant, Guys, I.

850
00:39:07,760 --> 00:39:08,359
Speaker 1: Want them to cater.

851
00:39:08,400 --> 00:39:10,320
Speaker 4: The draft part, Well, those big fellas are coming in

852
00:39:10,400 --> 00:39:12,840
Speaker 4: and we're gonna talk about, probably down the road, some

853
00:39:13,200 --> 00:39:16,120
Speaker 4: Italian cooking with Bordolini somewhere. I'm I'm sure it's just

854
00:39:16,200 --> 00:39:16,719
Speaker 4: gonna come up.

855
00:39:16,719 --> 00:39:19,520
Speaker 2: But the only thing that's that's a bummer about Bordolini

856
00:39:20,080 --> 00:39:22,640
Speaker 2: is that. So Macknzalvez is from the New York area.

857
00:39:22,680 --> 00:39:24,480
Speaker 2: If Bordelini was in the New York area, that's just

858
00:39:24,560 --> 00:39:25,400
Speaker 2: that's a home run.

859
00:39:25,440 --> 00:39:31,279
Speaker 4: Right right, Don't forget Anthony Gonzales or Anthony Costanzo had

860
00:39:31,320 --> 00:39:34,680
Speaker 4: the restaurant. Yeah, so we're gonna try and let's just

861
00:39:34,760 --> 00:39:37,120
Speaker 4: have Tanner Bordolini open a restaurant here and they will

862
00:39:37,160 --> 00:39:39,560
Speaker 4: move on. Let's move on with this offense as well.

863
00:39:39,680 --> 00:39:41,759
Speaker 4: Going down here we go. Oregon State can't wait to

864
00:39:41,840 --> 00:39:44,320
Speaker 4: talk about this young man. Matt Taylor really quick, what

865
00:39:44,400 --> 00:39:47,440
Speaker 4: does Anthony Gould bring to the wide receiver room? And guys,

866
00:39:47,480 --> 00:39:49,120
Speaker 4: I'm gonna ask you both, what does he bring to

867
00:39:49,200 --> 00:39:50,439
Speaker 4: this new kickoff rule?

868
00:39:50,719 --> 00:39:52,759
Speaker 3: Well, I think this is a great pick for the

869
00:39:52,840 --> 00:39:56,000
Speaker 3: Colts in the foresight to understand that the rules are changing.

870
00:39:56,520 --> 00:39:59,200
Speaker 3: I think there's different value now within these draft picks

871
00:39:59,239 --> 00:40:01,959
Speaker 3: once you get to four, five, and six.

872
00:40:02,480 --> 00:40:03,839
Speaker 1: So I love this pick.

873
00:40:03,920 --> 00:40:06,880
Speaker 3: This is probably my favorite pick of the draft because

874
00:40:06,920 --> 00:40:09,919
Speaker 3: of the upside and the value that he can bring

875
00:40:10,080 --> 00:40:12,560
Speaker 3: in a specialized role. That's what you're looking to do

876
00:40:13,320 --> 00:40:16,080
Speaker 3: on Day three of the draft. You're not drafting Pro bowlers,

877
00:40:16,360 --> 00:40:19,720
Speaker 3: You're not drafting at least guys not right away anyways,

878
00:40:19,800 --> 00:40:21,920
Speaker 3: Right you get what I'm saying. Yeah, yeah, you're drafting

879
00:40:22,040 --> 00:40:25,600
Speaker 3: for trades, you're drafting for niche roles at least early on,

880
00:40:26,120 --> 00:40:29,040
Speaker 3: and for Gould. I freaking love this pick because of

881
00:40:29,120 --> 00:40:31,680
Speaker 3: the new kickoff rules, because he's one of the best

882
00:40:31,760 --> 00:40:34,600
Speaker 3: punt returners in the game in college football in the

883
00:40:34,680 --> 00:40:37,759
Speaker 3: last two years. And you're asking yourself, well, wait a minute,

884
00:40:37,800 --> 00:40:40,560
Speaker 3: you just said kickoff and punt. Well, the new kickoff

885
00:40:40,680 --> 00:40:43,560
Speaker 3: is kind of like a punt because short area guys

886
00:40:43,600 --> 00:40:46,880
Speaker 3: are closer together. It's all about just vision and spacing

887
00:40:47,280 --> 00:40:49,840
Speaker 3: and speed, and he's got all of that. So I

888
00:40:50,080 --> 00:40:53,400
Speaker 3: love this pick from the special teams angle. He's on offense,

889
00:40:53,480 --> 00:40:55,480
Speaker 3: he's mainly an outside guy. He can play in the

890
00:40:55,520 --> 00:40:58,720
Speaker 3: slot too, that's interesting, but playing but he was mostly

891
00:40:58,800 --> 00:41:01,160
Speaker 3: an outside pick up, you know, but he still was

892
00:41:01,200 --> 00:41:04,319
Speaker 3: productive in a major conference in the Pac twelve if

893
00:41:04,320 --> 00:41:06,000
Speaker 3: you had thirteen hundred yards career.

894
00:41:05,840 --> 00:41:09,160
Speaker 1: Wise, you know, for the Beaver. So I love this pick.

895
00:41:09,600 --> 00:41:12,840
Speaker 3: I think good on Chris Ballard and obviously Brian Mason

896
00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:15,200
Speaker 3: was a factor in it too. Just good on you

897
00:41:15,320 --> 00:41:17,920
Speaker 3: to have the vision to say we're going to actually

898
00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:21,600
Speaker 3: take a chance on a guy that could you know,

899
00:41:21,719 --> 00:41:24,479
Speaker 3: fill out a big time role for us in terms

900
00:41:24,520 --> 00:41:27,200
Speaker 3: of field position and giving us a spark in that

901
00:41:27,280 --> 00:41:28,080
Speaker 3: third phase of the game.

902
00:41:28,200 --> 00:41:28,960
Speaker 4: Right, write him down.

903
00:41:29,080 --> 00:41:32,319
Speaker 2: That's well, And that Ashton doing is your sex?

904
00:41:32,520 --> 00:41:33,200
Speaker 1: Put him in pencil.

905
00:41:33,520 --> 00:41:35,319
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you know you still have to figure

906
00:41:35,320 --> 00:41:37,879
Speaker 2: out how he looks on the new kickoff returns. It's

907
00:41:37,920 --> 00:41:40,320
Speaker 2: not just hey, this guy's going to be our kickoff returner.

908
00:41:40,360 --> 00:41:42,919
Speaker 2: He's got to earn it, especially when you've got guys

909
00:41:42,960 --> 00:41:45,959
Speaker 2: on this roster like Dallas Flowers who have experience doing

910
00:41:46,000 --> 00:41:48,759
Speaker 2: it the other way. But you know, things could shake

911
00:41:48,800 --> 00:41:50,799
Speaker 2: out or the Colts need Dallas Flowers to start games

912
00:41:50,840 --> 00:41:53,120
Speaker 2: for them. Sure, and maybe you don't want a starting

913
00:41:53,200 --> 00:41:55,040
Speaker 2: cornerback back there returning kicks.

914
00:41:55,120 --> 00:41:56,560
Speaker 1: May don't you want Josh Downs doing that.

915
00:41:56,719 --> 00:41:59,279
Speaker 2: You're right exactly where Gould is a guy who maybe

916
00:41:59,320 --> 00:42:01,920
Speaker 2: he has a role on this offense, but it's probably

917
00:42:01,920 --> 00:42:05,160
Speaker 2: gonna be limited and targeted to certain kinds of plays.

918
00:42:05,719 --> 00:42:09,120
Speaker 2: But I mean the kickoff, I think the expectation is

919
00:42:09,200 --> 00:42:11,600
Speaker 2: that you're gonna get You're gonna average probably about the

920
00:42:11,600 --> 00:42:14,239
Speaker 2: twenty five thirty yard line to start, if you can

921
00:42:14,320 --> 00:42:16,719
Speaker 2: get beyond that because you have an ace back there.

922
00:42:17,239 --> 00:42:20,120
Speaker 2: That is huge field position. And this guy at Oregon

923
00:42:20,200 --> 00:42:23,359
Speaker 2: State he averaged sixteen point eight yards per punt return

924
00:42:23,440 --> 00:42:26,040
Speaker 2: over the last two seasons. So imagine like you're punting

925
00:42:26,080 --> 00:42:28,399
Speaker 2: the ball and he catches it at the fifteen yard line.

926
00:42:28,800 --> 00:42:31,200
Speaker 2: You're starting a drive at the thirty one yard line.

927
00:42:31,239 --> 00:42:33,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's two first hands exactly.

928
00:42:33,200 --> 00:42:37,000
Speaker 2: Those are huge yards that you're getting. So even on

929
00:42:37,120 --> 00:42:39,319
Speaker 2: punt returns, that could be a weapon for the Colts here,

930
00:42:39,480 --> 00:42:42,640
Speaker 2: just that that extra eight nine ten yards. Maybe you're

931
00:42:42,640 --> 00:42:45,000
Speaker 2: not thinking he's gonna house one every game or you know,

932
00:42:45,080 --> 00:42:48,360
Speaker 2: ever every season, but those extra yards are critical for

933
00:42:48,520 --> 00:42:49,920
Speaker 2: starting off an offense in a good position.

934
00:42:49,960 --> 00:42:51,320
Speaker 4: And I see Shane Stiken doing this.

935
00:42:51,440 --> 00:42:52,279
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you know that.

936
00:42:52,640 --> 00:42:55,359
Speaker 3: You know what I mean, wide receiver screens, just get

937
00:42:55,400 --> 00:42:55,719
Speaker 3: the ball.

938
00:42:56,719 --> 00:43:00,160
Speaker 2: You mentioned the outside stuff. So he's five non ing

939
00:43:00,160 --> 00:43:02,960
Speaker 2: one hundred and seventy four pounds. Josh Downs is five

940
00:43:02,960 --> 00:43:05,880
Speaker 2: to nine hundred and seventy one pounds. But Downs in

941
00:43:05,960 --> 00:43:08,600
Speaker 2: college was almost exclusively a slot guy. Ninety percent of

942
00:43:08,680 --> 00:43:11,040
Speaker 2: his snaps came in the slot. That's how we saw

943
00:43:11,160 --> 00:43:13,959
Speaker 2: him primarily get used with the Colts. Gould, like you mentioned,

944
00:43:14,040 --> 00:43:17,120
Speaker 2: mate is primarily an outside guy, so there could be

945
00:43:17,200 --> 00:43:18,840
Speaker 2: a different you know, and he can play inside too.

946
00:43:18,880 --> 00:43:20,840
Speaker 2: I think twenty seven percent of his college snaps are

947
00:43:20,880 --> 00:43:23,919
Speaker 2: in the slot, but he can be used in different ways.

948
00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:25,640
Speaker 2: And I don't know if you're looking at him getting

949
00:43:25,680 --> 00:43:27,800
Speaker 2: more than five six snaps a game, but maybe on

950
00:43:27,920 --> 00:43:29,359
Speaker 2: one of those he gets the ball in his hands

951
00:43:29,360 --> 00:43:30,279
Speaker 2: and you see what happens. Ye.

952
00:43:30,680 --> 00:43:33,279
Speaker 4: Hey, Speed kills fellows and you know that kid's got

953
00:43:33,360 --> 00:43:35,640
Speaker 4: it when you're talking about four to three JJ starting

954
00:43:35,680 --> 00:43:38,240
Speaker 4: with you. This is your alma mater. Let's go to Missouri.

955
00:43:38,680 --> 00:43:43,200
Speaker 4: Jalen Carli's fifth round of developmental linebacker who contributes on

956
00:43:43,280 --> 00:43:45,919
Speaker 4: special teams? Is he like a young EJ. Speed type

957
00:43:45,960 --> 00:43:47,560
Speaker 4: of guy if he makes his team? And I'm not

958
00:43:47,600 --> 00:43:50,120
Speaker 4: being negative on that, because in this NFL, with this

959
00:43:50,280 --> 00:43:52,640
Speaker 4: roster and twenty two starters coming back, these guys got

960
00:43:52,719 --> 00:43:53,480
Speaker 4: to come out and prove it.

961
00:43:53,680 --> 00:43:55,799
Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, you look at just the linebacker depth

962
00:43:55,880 --> 00:43:58,360
Speaker 2: chart and Zire Franklin and EJ. Speed are firmly entranced

963
00:43:58,400 --> 00:44:01,120
Speaker 2: to as your two starting linebacker because you're in you're

964
00:44:01,120 --> 00:44:03,480
Speaker 2: playing Nickel so much, you know, it's really you have

965
00:44:03,560 --> 00:44:08,239
Speaker 2: two starting linebackers, but he's going to have to compete with,

966
00:44:08,719 --> 00:44:10,319
Speaker 2: you know, the guys behind them. So you're looking at

967
00:44:10,360 --> 00:44:13,400
Speaker 2: Grant Stewart, who is an a special teamer, Saguna Lubi

968
00:44:13,600 --> 00:44:15,600
Speaker 2: who showed some stuff last year when he got on

969
00:44:15,640 --> 00:44:17,680
Speaker 2: the field, also a good special teams guy, had the

970
00:44:18,400 --> 00:44:22,279
Speaker 2: blocked punt against Tennessee. So he you know, he's got

971
00:44:22,480 --> 00:44:24,759
Speaker 2: a bit of an uphill battle to make the roster.

972
00:44:24,960 --> 00:44:27,640
Speaker 2: But a guy who when when Chris Ballard was talking

973
00:44:27,680 --> 00:44:30,560
Speaker 2: about him, he mentioned EJ. Speed a couple times. He's

974
00:44:30,600 --> 00:44:33,080
Speaker 2: got long arms, thirty four and a quarter inch arms.

975
00:44:34,120 --> 00:44:38,040
Speaker 2: He's he's you know, fast, he's big, he's athletic. And

976
00:44:38,960 --> 00:44:41,160
Speaker 2: I thought this is interesting that Tyler Hughes, the area

977
00:44:41,239 --> 00:44:45,640
Speaker 2: scout who scouted Jalen Carlis, brought up Divine Diablo, who

978
00:44:46,320 --> 00:44:49,239
Speaker 2: Gus Bradley and Richard Smith had with the Raiders in

979
00:44:49,280 --> 00:44:51,600
Speaker 2: twenty twenty one. He was a safety at Virginia Tech.

980
00:44:51,880 --> 00:44:54,120
Speaker 2: They took him in the sixth round. He wound up

981
00:44:54,160 --> 00:44:58,120
Speaker 2: starting a little bit for Gus and Richard in Las Vegas.

982
00:44:58,239 --> 00:45:00,880
Speaker 2: Last year he started for the Raiders. He had one

983
00:45:00,960 --> 00:45:02,960
Speaker 2: hundred and four tackles as a linebacker, so he grew

984
00:45:03,040 --> 00:45:05,239
Speaker 2: into it. Yeah, and I think you envision hopefully the

985
00:45:05,280 --> 00:45:07,120
Speaker 2: same thing with Jaalen Carlis. And that's kind of what

986
00:45:07,200 --> 00:45:10,200
Speaker 2: the Colts have done at linebacker, is they've taken swings

987
00:45:10,239 --> 00:45:14,000
Speaker 2: on guys with length, which Carlis has. There's no linebacker

988
00:45:14,040 --> 00:45:15,920
Speaker 2: who's been drafted in the last two years who has

989
00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:20,520
Speaker 2: longer arms than Jalen Carlins. And you go and you

990
00:45:20,719 --> 00:45:23,640
Speaker 2: take that trait and you say, let's go develop you

991
00:45:23,719 --> 00:45:25,279
Speaker 2: and figure it out while you contribute on.

992
00:45:25,280 --> 00:45:26,680
Speaker 4: Special long arms or keep defending.

993
00:45:26,719 --> 00:45:28,319
Speaker 2: You know, keep all right, because what if you're two

994
00:45:28,360 --> 00:45:30,319
Speaker 2: hundred and twenty five pounds and you've got a three

995
00:45:30,400 --> 00:45:33,520
Speaker 2: hundred and thirty pound guard pulling toward you, you can

996
00:45:33,600 --> 00:45:36,000
Speaker 2: still win leverage if you get your hands to strike

997
00:45:36,080 --> 00:45:38,680
Speaker 2: him first. And at thirty four in charms, Carlis is

998
00:45:38,680 --> 00:45:40,880
Speaker 2: probably gonna have longer arms than a lot of the

999
00:45:40,920 --> 00:45:42,439
Speaker 2: guards who are going to pull to the second level

1000
00:45:42,440 --> 00:45:43,160
Speaker 2: to try to block him.

1001
00:45:43,200 --> 00:45:45,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's all about leverage and separation there and that

1002
00:45:45,440 --> 00:45:48,400
Speaker 3: that's a huge tool. Another piece of precedent to all

1003
00:45:48,480 --> 00:45:51,440
Speaker 3: this is Ronnie Harrison on the Colts roster last year,

1004
00:45:51,480 --> 00:45:54,440
Speaker 3: who went from safety to linebacker then back to safety

1005
00:45:54,480 --> 00:45:56,160
Speaker 3: and a pinch towards the end of last season, but

1006
00:45:56,560 --> 00:45:58,440
Speaker 3: certainly a guy that can do it all and he

1007
00:45:58,520 --> 00:46:01,920
Speaker 3: adds depth and value to several positions. I just think

1008
00:46:02,239 --> 00:46:04,319
Speaker 3: sounds cliche, but this guy's just a stud.

1009
00:46:04,400 --> 00:46:05,600
Speaker 1: He's a football player.

1010
00:46:05,640 --> 00:46:05,759
Speaker 4: You know.

1011
00:46:05,960 --> 00:46:08,040
Speaker 3: Just give him, you know, give him some pads and

1012
00:46:08,120 --> 00:46:09,840
Speaker 3: helmets and let him go. He's got a nose for

1013
00:46:09,880 --> 00:46:10,320
Speaker 3: the ball.

1014
00:46:10,200 --> 00:46:11,520
Speaker 4: And those guys will work their way out.

1015
00:46:11,560 --> 00:46:12,279
Speaker 1: He always do.

1016
00:46:12,440 --> 00:46:14,919
Speaker 3: At Missouri, he's their leading tackler the last two years

1017
00:46:14,960 --> 00:46:17,719
Speaker 3: and he plays safety, which means that he's kind of

1018
00:46:17,719 --> 00:46:20,200
Speaker 3: that hybrid guy, you know, whatever you want to call it.

1019
00:46:20,280 --> 00:46:22,560
Speaker 3: You know that the bandit or the robing him all

1020
00:46:22,600 --> 00:46:23,040
Speaker 3: proud down.

1021
00:46:24,000 --> 00:46:24,640
Speaker 4: That's my guy, right.

1022
00:46:24,719 --> 00:46:26,840
Speaker 2: That guy had a great game against Ohio State and

1023
00:46:26,880 --> 00:46:27,439
Speaker 2: the Cotton Bolls.

1024
00:46:27,719 --> 00:46:29,480
Speaker 4: You're gonna be just partner. You're gonna have a chair

1025
00:46:29,560 --> 00:46:31,840
Speaker 4: right in front of his locker ketchups every day. Let's go.

1026
00:46:32,120 --> 00:46:34,439
Speaker 2: You know, talk about Brady Cook and you know, coach

1027
00:46:34,560 --> 00:46:36,640
Speaker 2: Drink and all that. One other thing that I would

1028
00:46:36,680 --> 00:46:38,840
Speaker 2: be remiss to note here on Jail and Carlais is

1029
00:46:38,880 --> 00:46:42,440
Speaker 2: the Colt's assistant linebackers coach. Was also a converted safety.

1030
00:46:42,480 --> 00:46:45,600
Speaker 2: Turned linebacker Keto June safety show it out of Michigan

1031
00:46:45,640 --> 00:46:47,400
Speaker 2: and we know here in Indy he was a pretty

1032
00:46:47,400 --> 00:46:49,479
Speaker 2: good player, so you got that experience too.

1033
00:46:49,680 --> 00:46:52,080
Speaker 4: Absolutely right. Can you guys name his head coach.

1034
00:46:52,640 --> 00:46:53,239
Speaker 1: Cato June?

1035
00:46:53,360 --> 00:46:56,439
Speaker 2: Yeah, uh, Brady Hope. No, that's too early.

1036
00:46:58,320 --> 00:46:59,640
Speaker 1: Oh my god, what two thousand?

1037
00:46:59,680 --> 00:47:00,640
Speaker 2: It's on the tip of my tongue.

1038
00:47:00,640 --> 00:47:01,520
Speaker 1: While we going back here.

1039
00:47:02,200 --> 00:47:04,600
Speaker 2: You're a Michigan guy. You're not dying inside your Lloyd

1040
00:47:04,640 --> 00:47:06,200
Speaker 2: Carr there it is Lloyd Carr.

1041
00:47:06,360 --> 00:47:09,120
Speaker 4: Good poll right there. Okay, moving on here with this draft.

1042
00:47:09,200 --> 00:47:12,160
Speaker 4: No Michigan men drafted out of uh drafted.

1043
00:47:12,200 --> 00:47:14,120
Speaker 2: No, they went to a better, better school, in better content.

1044
00:47:14,160 --> 00:47:17,120
Speaker 4: That's true, that's true. But okay, here I got I

1045
00:47:17,160 --> 00:47:19,880
Speaker 4: got to bring it back on because I almost started

1046
00:47:19,880 --> 00:47:24,520
Speaker 4: when not starting to this, but like, uh, I'm sorry, yeah,

1047
00:47:24,920 --> 00:47:27,840
Speaker 4: I'm sorry. The cornerbacks. Can I get to the cornerbacks

1048
00:47:27,880 --> 00:47:30,360
Speaker 4: in this unit that's here and stuff so young obviously

1049
00:47:30,680 --> 00:47:32,800
Speaker 4: health was an issue last year and stuff like this,

1050
00:47:33,280 --> 00:47:36,879
Speaker 4: But the cornerback in this defense and the cornerback room

1051
00:47:36,920 --> 00:47:38,920
Speaker 4: in this defense and everything, and Chris Ballard saying, hey,

1052
00:47:38,920 --> 00:47:41,760
Speaker 4: I'm going up because guys, I don't care who starts,

1053
00:47:41,800 --> 00:47:44,040
Speaker 4: But just tell me, everyone and their brother on those

1054
00:47:44,120 --> 00:47:46,279
Speaker 4: mock drafts we talked about earlier in the show, had

1055
00:47:46,320 --> 00:47:49,200
Speaker 4: the Colts grabbing a cornerback at fifteen there was a

1056
00:47:49,280 --> 00:47:50,279
Speaker 4: couple to choose from.

1057
00:47:50,800 --> 00:47:51,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that.

1058
00:47:51,440 --> 00:47:54,080
Speaker 3: I think that's probably for the average fan. The surprise

1059
00:47:54,160 --> 00:47:57,080
Speaker 3: of the draft is that every mock draft you saw

1060
00:47:57,400 --> 00:48:00,399
Speaker 3: was Quinnon, Mitchell and Terry on Arnold or kool Aid

1061
00:48:00,400 --> 00:48:03,399
Speaker 3: and McKinstry. Yeah, I mean, all these guys were in play,

1062
00:48:03,480 --> 00:48:05,520
Speaker 3: and these were all first round draft picks. And then

1063
00:48:05,520 --> 00:48:09,279
Speaker 3: the Colts decided to go pass rusher after they I

1064
00:48:09,360 --> 00:48:12,279
Speaker 3: think tried very very you know, I think they were

1065
00:48:12,400 --> 00:48:15,719
Speaker 3: very They pursued trying to move up. They did, they

1066
00:48:15,760 --> 00:48:17,640
Speaker 3: tried to pursue moving up, and then I think once

1067
00:48:18,040 --> 00:48:20,080
Speaker 3: those top three receivers went off the board, they had

1068
00:48:20,120 --> 00:48:22,440
Speaker 3: to reassess and a lot too false to them. And

1069
00:48:22,520 --> 00:48:24,879
Speaker 3: that's a premium position, a position of me. We talked

1070
00:48:24,920 --> 00:48:30,120
Speaker 3: all about that, but not addressing the cornerback position specifically

1071
00:48:30,280 --> 00:48:33,160
Speaker 3: until what your seventh draft pick and round number five

1072
00:48:33,239 --> 00:48:35,400
Speaker 3: on Day three, I think took a lot of people

1073
00:48:35,480 --> 00:48:38,320
Speaker 3: off guard. And if it did surprise you, maybe you

1074
00:48:38,440 --> 00:48:41,360
Speaker 3: weren't listening. As intently as you needed to be on

1075
00:48:41,640 --> 00:48:45,600
Speaker 3: Friday before the draft, when Chris Ballard said, listen, this

1076
00:48:45,760 --> 00:48:47,200
Speaker 3: is kind of like the offensive line.

1077
00:48:47,040 --> 00:48:49,680
Speaker 1: Two years ago. These guys can play. They grew up.

1078
00:48:50,000 --> 00:48:52,480
Speaker 3: It's not as bad as y'all think. And I think

1079
00:48:52,560 --> 00:48:57,480
Speaker 3: the next step for Flowers and Brant's and Jones, and

1080
00:48:57,760 --> 00:49:00,719
Speaker 3: obviously now Abraham in the mix as well Simpson if

1081
00:49:00,760 --> 00:49:03,840
Speaker 3: he can play some safety and cornerback, the next step

1082
00:49:04,320 --> 00:49:08,440
Speaker 3: is just trusting these guys more. In press man demand, right,

1083
00:49:08,840 --> 00:49:11,600
Speaker 3: how much more can you balance out the lack of

1084
00:49:11,680 --> 00:49:15,000
Speaker 3: blitzing and the zone coverage numbers? Right, because you're the

1085
00:49:15,080 --> 00:49:17,880
Speaker 3: team that blitz the fewest and the team that played

1086
00:49:17,880 --> 00:49:20,520
Speaker 3: the most zone How much can you even out those

1087
00:49:20,640 --> 00:49:24,200
Speaker 3: numbers by trusting the secondary that has two three years

1088
00:49:24,280 --> 00:49:26,439
Speaker 3: under their belt. Now, well, I guess in the case

1089
00:49:26,480 --> 00:49:28,799
Speaker 3: of Brentson Jones, it's only one. But towards the end

1090
00:49:28,840 --> 00:49:32,000
Speaker 3: of your rookie season, you're no longer treated like a rookie, right,

1091
00:49:32,719 --> 00:49:36,359
Speaker 3: You've got baptism by fire at that point. So that's

1092
00:49:36,400 --> 00:49:38,919
Speaker 3: what I'm looking forward to. And there's that belief, there's

1093
00:49:39,000 --> 00:49:42,040
Speaker 3: that confidence that Chris Ballard and Shane Steiken have in

1094
00:49:42,120 --> 00:49:45,399
Speaker 3: this young secondary to the point where they didn't feel

1095
00:49:45,480 --> 00:49:48,000
Speaker 3: like they had to address it. They didn't have to,

1096
00:49:48,160 --> 00:49:51,360
Speaker 3: you know, reach and show this, you know, tons of

1097
00:49:51,520 --> 00:49:55,000
Speaker 3: urgency to get a cornerback just because we're so young

1098
00:49:55,480 --> 00:49:57,640
Speaker 3: and so perceived and experience in the back end.

1099
00:49:57,840 --> 00:50:00,880
Speaker 2: I thought about that quote that Ballard said the Friday

1100
00:50:00,920 --> 00:50:03,400
Speaker 2: before the draft about the O line and how he

1101
00:50:03,760 --> 00:50:06,239
Speaker 2: used the corners. Similarly, I was like, you know, coming

1102
00:50:06,280 --> 00:50:09,799
Speaker 2: into last year, we were wondering, at this time can

1103
00:50:09,880 --> 00:50:12,359
Speaker 2: Bernard Ryman play? We were wondering at this time, why

1104
00:50:12,440 --> 00:50:14,680
Speaker 2: didn't the Colts take a right guard, you know, someone

1105
00:50:14,719 --> 00:50:17,360
Speaker 2: to compete with wil Fryes on the interior, and the

1106
00:50:17,440 --> 00:50:20,080
Speaker 2: Colts saw some stuff in both of those guys that

1107
00:50:20,320 --> 00:50:22,400
Speaker 2: led them to believe, hey, these can be our starters.

1108
00:50:22,800 --> 00:50:25,800
Speaker 2: I think it's similar with Juju. Brentz and Bernard Ryman

1109
00:50:25,840 --> 00:50:27,799
Speaker 2: are sort of similar in that role. Like you saw

1110
00:50:27,840 --> 00:50:31,040
Speaker 2: the flashes. Wasn't consistent enough, but you saw the flashes

1111
00:50:31,160 --> 00:50:33,760
Speaker 2: in year one. And then Jalen Jones and Will Fries

1112
00:50:33,840 --> 00:50:37,319
Speaker 2: both seventh round picks who showed at times they could

1113
00:50:37,400 --> 00:50:40,920
Speaker 2: play as rookies or in their first real opportunity to start,

1114
00:50:41,480 --> 00:50:44,160
Speaker 2: and you go with that. When Chris Ballard said we

1115
00:50:44,239 --> 00:50:47,359
Speaker 2: want to add competition to that room, I don't think

1116
00:50:47,440 --> 00:50:49,680
Speaker 2: that means we want to add a starter. I mean,

1117
00:50:49,719 --> 00:50:51,000
Speaker 2: do you want to add guys who are going to

1118
00:50:51,040 --> 00:50:54,400
Speaker 2: push Jones and Brents And by the way, Dallas Flowers

1119
00:50:54,480 --> 00:50:55,960
Speaker 2: is going to be someone who can do that already.

1120
00:50:57,920 --> 00:51:01,040
Speaker 2: But it wasn't surprising to me. Like Chris Ballot even

1121
00:51:01,120 --> 00:51:03,000
Speaker 2: kind of laughed at the end of his press conference

1122
00:51:03,520 --> 00:51:06,759
Speaker 2: about Uh. He was asked about lat To and like,

1123
00:51:06,840 --> 00:51:08,560
Speaker 2: are you worried that he's I think he's twenty two

1124
00:51:08,560 --> 00:51:10,560
Speaker 2: to twenty three? You're worried about the age a little bit?

1125
00:51:10,600 --> 00:51:12,759
Speaker 2: He goes, No, we tried to sign a twenty nine

1126
00:51:12,840 --> 00:51:17,200
Speaker 2: year old defensive end. By the way, Yeah, the Neil

1127
00:51:17,280 --> 00:51:19,040
Speaker 2: Hunter Colts are trying to pay him a lot of

1128
00:51:19,080 --> 00:51:21,959
Speaker 2: money in free agency to come here. They weren't trying

1129
00:51:21,960 --> 00:51:23,879
Speaker 2: to pay a cornerback a lot of money. They weren't

1130
00:51:23,880 --> 00:51:27,520
Speaker 2: trying to trade for a cornerback. That that was all bs,

1131
00:51:28,200 --> 00:51:31,879
Speaker 2: all that stuff really so, but that was not something

1132
00:51:31,920 --> 00:51:35,319
Speaker 2: the Colts were looking to do. Maybe you're looking maybe

1133
00:51:35,360 --> 00:51:38,800
Speaker 2: if a high level upgrade was available in free agency,

1134
00:51:38,880 --> 00:51:41,520
Speaker 2: which wasn't the case, Maybe you would have thought about it,

1135
00:51:41,600 --> 00:51:43,480
Speaker 2: but once there wasn't, it was like, Okay, let's go

1136
00:51:43,600 --> 00:51:45,759
Speaker 2: ahead and let's see what these two guys have. And

1137
00:51:45,840 --> 00:51:47,960
Speaker 2: maybe the Colts still adds someone there, but I'm not

1138
00:51:48,320 --> 00:51:48,719
Speaker 2: so sure.

1139
00:51:48,920 --> 00:51:51,880
Speaker 4: You got a can't playing high level football in Jalen

1140
00:51:51,920 --> 00:51:55,480
Speaker 4: Simpson from Auburn. But Micah Abraham, like the last two years,

1141
00:51:56,239 --> 00:51:58,520
Speaker 4: I mean, you know, he's got the most interceptions in

1142
00:51:58,560 --> 00:52:01,840
Speaker 4: the last two years in college football, the FCS, FBS.

1143
00:52:02,160 --> 00:52:02,840
Speaker 4: I'm sorry.

1144
00:52:04,960 --> 00:52:08,359
Speaker 1: Level, it's power. Marshall, Yeah, that's that's that's the that's

1145
00:52:08,400 --> 00:52:09,200
Speaker 1: how you determine that.

1146
00:52:09,320 --> 00:52:12,799
Speaker 3: But I think, yeah, Abraham comes in and again he's

1147
00:52:12,840 --> 00:52:14,440
Speaker 3: a sixth round pick and he's going to add some

1148
00:52:14,520 --> 00:52:16,400
Speaker 3: depth and he's going to push for a roster spot

1149
00:52:16,719 --> 00:52:18,839
Speaker 3: and you're not drafting him to be a starter right away.

1150
00:52:19,239 --> 00:52:22,320
Speaker 3: So I think, to be fair, like the there is

1151
00:52:22,400 --> 00:52:25,560
Speaker 3: this boat of confidence in this young secondary, especially when

1152
00:52:25,560 --> 00:52:27,720
Speaker 3: you don't address it until day three of the draft.

1153
00:52:28,320 --> 00:52:30,520
Speaker 3: So I do think it's a little bit of a gamble,

1154
00:52:30,760 --> 00:52:33,239
Speaker 3: right But I think that we're going to see, like

1155
00:52:33,320 --> 00:52:36,000
Speaker 3: time is going to tell how this plays out, and

1156
00:52:36,520 --> 00:52:39,480
Speaker 3: we're going to see just how convicted and rightfully so

1157
00:52:39,640 --> 00:52:43,200
Speaker 3: the cults were into thinking that this secondary is ready

1158
00:52:43,239 --> 00:52:46,880
Speaker 3: to go. But listen, we've seen these types of moves

1159
00:52:46,920 --> 00:52:50,320
Speaker 3: before in the past, with belief in the young pass

1160
00:52:50,400 --> 00:52:52,320
Speaker 3: rushers that the Colts have had on their roster, the

1161
00:52:52,400 --> 00:52:55,359
Speaker 3: young wide receivers they've had on their roster. So there's

1162
00:52:55,440 --> 00:52:58,520
Speaker 3: no doubt that they feel a certain way, and I

1163
00:52:58,600 --> 00:53:01,719
Speaker 3: think the actions of the AFT send a statement to

1164
00:53:01,800 --> 00:53:03,320
Speaker 3: how they feel about the secondary.

1165
00:53:03,560 --> 00:53:04,719
Speaker 1: There's a lot to like about that.

1166
00:53:04,960 --> 00:53:07,640
Speaker 3: There is, there's a lot of potential and there's a

1167
00:53:07,680 --> 00:53:10,480
Speaker 3: lot of upstart there. But at the end of the day,

1168
00:53:10,719 --> 00:53:13,320
Speaker 3: I think fans get a little squeamish because of the

1169
00:53:13,400 --> 00:53:17,080
Speaker 3: youth and the inexperience. But you know, Devil's advocate to

1170
00:53:17,120 --> 00:53:18,920
Speaker 3: that is how do you get experience? How do you

1171
00:53:18,960 --> 00:53:20,839
Speaker 3: get more playing time? How do you get better? It's

1172
00:53:21,280 --> 00:53:22,640
Speaker 3: you get you're on the field more.

1173
00:53:22,719 --> 00:53:25,520
Speaker 4: So. Then again, if one of these two cats just

1174
00:53:25,719 --> 00:53:28,719
Speaker 4: dominates in Westfield, he's starting. And that's what I like

1175
00:53:28,800 --> 00:53:29,719
Speaker 4: about the competition.

1176
00:53:30,040 --> 00:53:32,480
Speaker 3: Juju Brints is a bona fide starter, right if he

1177
00:53:32,520 --> 00:53:33,200
Speaker 3: can stay healthy.

1178
00:53:33,280 --> 00:53:35,520
Speaker 2: Yes, that's part of the I think. I think I'm

1179
00:53:35,560 --> 00:53:37,560
Speaker 2: looking at these two picks as Yeah, they're going to

1180
00:53:37,600 --> 00:53:42,239
Speaker 2: compete to start, absolutely, But last year the Colt's depth

1181
00:53:42,280 --> 00:53:45,320
Speaker 2: at cornerback when Flowers went down for the year and

1182
00:53:45,400 --> 00:53:47,120
Speaker 2: then Brentz was out of the lineup for a while,

1183
00:53:47,239 --> 00:53:50,360
Speaker 2: they had some issues with depth. Jalen Jones stepped up

1184
00:53:50,360 --> 00:53:52,920
Speaker 2: and did a great job. But I think adding guys

1185
00:53:52,960 --> 00:53:55,800
Speaker 2: who have certain skills. Simpson's a guy who you know,

1186
00:53:55,880 --> 00:53:57,920
Speaker 2: played safety in college, but the Colts think he can

1187
00:53:57,960 --> 00:54:01,200
Speaker 2: play corner, outside corner the NFL. And then Abraham, he

1188
00:54:01,239 --> 00:54:03,440
Speaker 2: can play inside and outside. But like you mentioned, mate

1189
00:54:03,880 --> 00:54:06,960
Speaker 2: those interceptions, and then I kind of like guys who

1190
00:54:06,960 --> 00:54:09,560
Speaker 2: have blood lines. His dad is Donnie Abraham, who led

1191
00:54:09,600 --> 00:54:13,040
Speaker 2: the NFL in interceptions in nineteen ninety nine. His cousin

1192
00:54:13,560 --> 00:54:16,600
Speaker 2: is Tim Jennings, the Colts player from Georgia who led

1193
00:54:16,600 --> 00:54:19,360
Speaker 2: the NFL in interceptions with the Bears in twenty twelve.

1194
00:54:20,040 --> 00:54:23,759
Speaker 2: Interceptions just run in this family, I guess I like that. Gus, Yeah,

1195
00:54:23,800 --> 00:54:25,680
Speaker 2: come on in here, we got room for you. I

1196
00:54:25,760 --> 00:54:28,080
Speaker 2: love bloodlines in the NFL. Let's move out to a

1197
00:54:28,160 --> 00:54:28,839
Speaker 2: crowded room.

1198
00:54:28,920 --> 00:54:33,160
Speaker 4: Guys. Finally right here, Oklahoma, Jonah Laulu seventh round or

1199
00:54:33,200 --> 00:54:34,920
Speaker 4: does he make the team? I mean, it's a tough,

1200
00:54:35,000 --> 00:54:38,719
Speaker 4: it's a crowded room, and obviously this pick, you know,

1201
00:54:38,880 --> 00:54:40,960
Speaker 4: is a guy you look for in the future for help.

1202
00:54:41,080 --> 00:54:42,600
Speaker 4: Right now, I would say that's accurate.

1203
00:54:42,719 --> 00:54:44,200
Speaker 1: I would say this is a development pick.

1204
00:54:44,239 --> 00:54:46,800
Speaker 3: I mean, it's probably one of the most crowded rooms

1205
00:54:47,000 --> 00:54:50,160
Speaker 3: filled with talent that you have, especially with the investment

1206
00:54:50,320 --> 00:54:53,439
Speaker 3: over the last two months with the Forest Bucksher Grover

1207
00:54:53,560 --> 00:54:56,040
Speaker 3: Stewart both and one in free agency, the other.

1208
00:54:55,960 --> 00:54:57,440
Speaker 1: One getting a contract extension.

1209
00:54:57,680 --> 00:55:00,920
Speaker 3: Plus you bring in Rakwon Davis, Tavin is coming back,

1210
00:55:01,200 --> 00:55:03,759
Speaker 3: he got some position flexibility of other guys that can

1211
00:55:03,840 --> 00:55:07,520
Speaker 3: kick in and pass rush situations like Taekwon Lewis and

1212
00:55:07,680 --> 00:55:10,520
Speaker 3: Dioa Dangbo. So yeah, this is probably a guy they're

1213
00:55:10,560 --> 00:55:13,760
Speaker 3: taking a flyer on because of the potential, the traits

1214
00:55:13,800 --> 00:55:16,840
Speaker 3: that he has, the quickness, the speed, the power. This

1215
00:55:16,920 --> 00:55:18,799
Speaker 3: is the guy that just got better every year from

1216
00:55:18,880 --> 00:55:22,840
Speaker 3: Hawaii to Oklahoma. Like his the totality of his career

1217
00:55:23,280 --> 00:55:25,480
Speaker 3: with the with the raw stats is not going to

1218
00:55:25,560 --> 00:55:27,879
Speaker 3: blow you away. But I think the film is better

1219
00:55:28,080 --> 00:55:30,440
Speaker 3: than the box score in this case, So yeah, I

1220
00:55:30,480 --> 00:55:34,080
Speaker 3: think this is a projection and somebody they might try

1221
00:55:34,120 --> 00:55:36,600
Speaker 3: to stash on the practice squad and just get better

1222
00:55:36,760 --> 00:55:38,480
Speaker 3: and develop and then we'll see where he is.

1223
00:55:38,520 --> 00:55:40,279
Speaker 4: And you know, anything outside of that, that's kind of

1224
00:55:40,320 --> 00:55:41,160
Speaker 4: what he is in your eyes.

1225
00:55:41,239 --> 00:55:43,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean he had a thirty six inch vertical

1226
00:55:43,600 --> 00:55:45,799
Speaker 2: at two hundred ninety two pounds. Pretty good athelete, then

1227
00:55:45,840 --> 00:55:48,200
Speaker 2: pretty good athlete. Yeah, you bet, you bet on the athlete.

1228
00:55:48,239 --> 00:55:50,920
Speaker 2: And the Colts thought he uh when he moved to

1229
00:55:51,000 --> 00:55:53,600
Speaker 2: defensive tackle last year that his his talent started to

1230
00:55:53,640 --> 00:55:55,920
Speaker 2: come out. But as I think we'll we'll get into

1231
00:55:56,000 --> 00:55:58,680
Speaker 2: here in a little bit defensive that defensive line room. Yeah,

1232
00:55:58,760 --> 00:56:01,560
Speaker 2: there's gonna be some bad in training camp in that room.

1233
00:56:02,160 --> 00:56:05,560
Speaker 4: Your competition everywhere over this And I love, by the

1234
00:56:05,560 --> 00:56:07,879
Speaker 4: way Sean Shane Steichen when he talks to the draft

1235
00:56:08,000 --> 00:56:10,880
Speaker 4: choice after. I love watching the videos obviously produced in house.

1236
00:56:11,080 --> 00:56:13,480
Speaker 4: Our guy today behind the screen, behind the camera, one

1237
00:56:13,520 --> 00:56:16,239
Speaker 4: of those always here the word compete. Can't wait to

1238
00:56:16,320 --> 00:56:18,680
Speaker 4: have you come in here and compete. Compete, compete. Love

1239
00:56:18,760 --> 00:56:21,359
Speaker 4: the competition that this room or these rooms are going

1240
00:56:21,440 --> 00:56:24,399
Speaker 4: to be having for this football team led by Anthony Richardson. Okay,

1241
00:56:24,400 --> 00:56:26,320
Speaker 4: where else would we need help, guys real quick? Anything

1242
00:56:26,400 --> 00:56:28,600
Speaker 4: happening before camp that we see a new face or

1243
00:56:28,600 --> 00:56:29,080
Speaker 4: two in here?

1244
00:56:29,200 --> 00:56:32,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I think you might look at running

1245
00:56:32,680 --> 00:56:36,120
Speaker 2: back as a spot. You know, the Colts like Trace Sermon,

1246
00:56:36,160 --> 00:56:39,400
Speaker 2: they like Evan Hall, but you know they still kind

1247
00:56:39,440 --> 00:56:41,880
Speaker 2: of have that Zach Moss sized hole on the roster

1248
00:56:43,360 --> 00:56:46,480
Speaker 2: that you know they did look at drafting a running back.

1249
00:56:46,560 --> 00:56:48,839
Speaker 2: Chris Ballard mentioned that, but didn't you know, one didn't

1250
00:56:48,840 --> 00:56:50,160
Speaker 2: fall to them in the range that they are in.

1251
00:56:51,200 --> 00:56:52,920
Speaker 2: That could be somewhere where you look to address it.

1252
00:56:53,000 --> 00:56:57,160
Speaker 2: Maybe you still think about another safety coming in, but

1253
00:56:57,320 --> 00:56:59,279
Speaker 2: really those are those about the only two I kind

1254
00:56:59,280 --> 00:57:00,919
Speaker 2: of look at and say, yeah, these are spots where

1255
00:57:00,920 --> 00:57:03,400
Speaker 2: you could have guys come in and make the roster

1256
00:57:03,680 --> 00:57:04,879
Speaker 2: in significant roles.

1257
00:57:05,000 --> 00:57:08,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, we forget that just because the draft's over,

1258
00:57:08,480 --> 00:57:10,640
Speaker 3: free agency is still going on and a lot of

1259
00:57:10,719 --> 00:57:13,880
Speaker 3: teams weigh and position themselves to see what their draft

1260
00:57:13,920 --> 00:57:16,160
Speaker 3: hall is and then reevalue.

1261
00:57:16,400 --> 00:57:20,880
Speaker 2: And the other little note here is that after the draft,

1262
00:57:21,720 --> 00:57:24,400
Speaker 2: unrestricted free agents who signed no longer count against the

1263
00:57:24,480 --> 00:57:27,160
Speaker 2: compensatory pick formula. So if you're looking to play that

1264
00:57:27,240 --> 00:57:30,280
Speaker 2: game a little bit, some teams do wait until after

1265
00:57:30,320 --> 00:57:33,240
Speaker 2: the draft to go pick up a veteran on the free.

1266
00:57:33,040 --> 00:57:36,200
Speaker 3: Agency Who is who is the Mike Adams of this

1267
00:57:36,640 --> 00:57:37,960
Speaker 3: Eric Fisher, Yeah, exactly.

1268
00:57:38,160 --> 00:57:40,240
Speaker 4: Hey, there's gonna be some great competition, which we talked

1269
00:57:40,240 --> 00:57:42,720
Speaker 4: about all through this podcast. What's your guys' favorite position

1270
00:57:42,840 --> 00:57:44,840
Speaker 4: group that's going to be going jj you mentioned it

1271
00:57:44,920 --> 00:57:47,560
Speaker 4: off camera. You start first at tight end room.

1272
00:57:47,800 --> 00:57:50,320
Speaker 2: Colston't do anything to the tight end room, but they

1273
00:57:50,400 --> 00:57:52,520
Speaker 2: did something to the wide receiver room. So now if

1274
00:57:52,520 --> 00:57:55,880
Speaker 2: you're looking at this roster and you're you're seeing might

1275
00:57:55,920 --> 00:58:00,400
Speaker 2: be six receivers you can keep between Pittman Downs, Pierce, Mitchell, Duelin,

1276
00:58:00,560 --> 00:58:02,280
Speaker 2: what is going to make Dulan's going to make the

1277
00:58:02,320 --> 00:58:04,919
Speaker 2: team as a special teamer, and then Gould who would

1278
00:58:04,920 --> 00:58:07,360
Speaker 2: also probably make the team as a special teamer. Does

1279
00:58:07,440 --> 00:58:09,520
Speaker 2: that mean your tight end spot strength three?

1280
00:58:09,920 --> 00:58:11,240
Speaker 4: Three? Tight ends five or four?

1281
00:58:11,680 --> 00:58:14,160
Speaker 1: I think probably four tops, but more like but three.

1282
00:58:14,320 --> 00:58:16,800
Speaker 2: But then think about the guys who are in that competition,

1283
00:58:16,920 --> 00:58:21,000
Speaker 2: Mooley Cox, Jilani Woods, Drew Ogletree, Will Mallory, and Kylon Granson.

1284
00:58:21,520 --> 00:58:23,440
Speaker 2: It's like one of those five might be out, two

1285
00:58:23,480 --> 00:58:27,040
Speaker 2: of those five might be out, and all all of

1286
00:58:27,120 --> 00:58:29,800
Speaker 2: those guys would be worthy of a roster spot. So

1287
00:58:29,920 --> 00:58:32,480
Speaker 2: that competition, to me, is going to be fascinating to

1288
00:58:32,560 --> 00:58:35,080
Speaker 2: see how that plays out because again, if you're going

1289
00:58:35,120 --> 00:58:37,919
Speaker 2: to keep six receivers, someone else probably needs to fall

1290
00:58:38,000 --> 00:58:39,920
Speaker 2: off somewhere. And that's probably a tight end.

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Speaker 4: Mate, What do you think competition? What what? What department

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Speaker 4: as they say in the business world, will be competitive.

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Speaker 3: This this tree shipping, shipping cogs you know, just yeah,

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Speaker 3: accounts payable?

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Speaker 1: No, I probably agree, it's it's tight end.

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Speaker 3: And then on the defensive side of the ball, it's

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Speaker 3: probably that the defensive line and just how much and

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Speaker 3: bigger picture is how much.

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Speaker 1: Playing time or what is the playing time? How does

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Speaker 1: that pie split up?

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Speaker 3: Now with the addition of Wattu with those edge rushers,

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Speaker 3: hey man, what he pay Samson abacom?

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Speaker 2: You made two significant additions on the d line in

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Speaker 2: layout tu Latu and George and Raekwon Davis on the interior.

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Speaker 2: So those are two guys that are going to be

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Speaker 2: on the roster. You can keep ten or eleven defensive linemen,

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Speaker 2: but you have a lot of guys who you have

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Speaker 2: invested draft capital into, you know, the Colts. Every time

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Speaker 2: Chris Ballard gets a chance to mention him, he mentions

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Speaker 2: how much they like Isaiah Land. Yeah, who's picked up

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Speaker 2: off waivers last year? So it's going to be a

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Speaker 2: real interesting competition at that defensive line room during training.

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Speaker 4: Cap A lot more to come because those players are

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Speaker 4: in the back right now getting ready for this season,

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Speaker 4: and obviously we're gonna have that long gap in that

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Speaker 4: July area and then it is on can't wait. Hey,

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Speaker 4: I just want to say this coming up. You guys

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Speaker 4: cover this draft in this team better than most Leira

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Speaker 4: Overton as well as right up there. But I love

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Speaker 4: breaking down the draft and I thank you because you

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Speaker 4: make us smarter and I think you guys would agree

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Speaker 4: with that of breaking down this specific draft class with

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Speaker 4: these two guys. JJ Stankomitz Matt Taylor Voice of the

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Speaker 4: Colts at JJ Stankovitz at Mayte Colts right there, Just

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Speaker 4: thank you, thank you for doing that, because there's gonna

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Speaker 4: be so many storylines that are coming up here. We're

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Speaker 4: gonna promote inside football coach Rick Van Turrey will be

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Speaker 4: breaking down the draft on Thursday on the Colts Audio Network. Fellas,

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Speaker 4: this was a little bit of a longer one, but

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Speaker 4: I'm glad we did what we did because we got

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Speaker 4: the tools and the cutlery out and we cut and

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Speaker 4: dissected and everything like that almost like almost like the

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Speaker 4: meat that you provided for everybody on draft night. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: you brought in some sewage.

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Speaker 2: I saw, Yeah, Jeffrey. It's Portillo's buddy. Every year, every year,

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Speaker 2: Dave Knickerbocker, our VP of Content and Production order or

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Speaker 2: Portillo's during the draft, and Jeffrey takes a photo one

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Speaker 2: of the beef sandwiches and sends it to me with

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Speaker 2: just the caption and sewage. I know, and I'll end

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Speaker 2: with this, two of them.

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Speaker 4: I know, I'll end with this. I took a picture

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Speaker 4: of it, and I go, and I swear I'm coming clean.

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Speaker 4: I go. Boy, if I put a little mustard on that,

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Speaker 4: it really doesn't look that bad.

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Speaker 2: But there on it.

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Speaker 4: Guys, thanks so much for the help. Again that may

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Speaker 4: at JJ Stankment's Colts dot Com, the voice of the Colts.

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Speaker 4: Right here, I'm Jeffrey Gorman. Gonna be back with more

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Speaker 4: keeping you up to date on this football team. Excitement

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Speaker 4: is everywhere, man, because it is almost upon us. This

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Speaker 4: team led by Anthony Richardson and a couple exciting uh

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Speaker 4: draft joh, the whole draft class is exciting. But boy,

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Speaker 4: those one and two guys, I can't wait to watch

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Speaker 4: them work for JJ and Matt. I'm Jeffrey Gorman. We'll

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Speaker 4: talk to you next week.