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

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Speaker 1: in d Why Now Here's the voice of the Colts,

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Speaker 1: Matt Taylor, live from the Power Home Solar Radio Studio.

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Speaker 1: Good evening, Welcome the Colts Round Table Live tonight, brought

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Speaker 1: o'clock tonight. Following us are the Pacers who are in

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Speaker 1: Boston this evening. And the Colts season is over as

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Speaker 1: they fell into the Jaguars in week eighteen, twenty six

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Speaker 1: to eleven. And it's hard to fathom that the two

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Speaker 1: thousand and twenty one campaign for the Colts is over.

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Speaker 1: With the loss, the Colts miss out on the playoffs

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Speaker 1: as they finished the season nine and eight. The Colts

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Speaker 1: lost their last two games of the year, needing only

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Speaker 1: card team, they couldn't get the job done, and Sunday's

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Speaker 1: loss will no doubt go down as one of the

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Speaker 1: toughest in the history of the franchise, considering all that

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Speaker 1: to a two and fourteen team who will be picking

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Speaker 1: first in the draft. In April, the Colts struggled mightily

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Speaker 1: in Jacksonville, as they've now lost to the Jaguars six

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Speaker 1: straight times and games played at Tiaa Bank Stadium. The

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Speaker 1: Jacks came into the game on an eight game losing

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Speaker 1: one of its last ten games. But Jacksonville came to play,

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Speaker 1: they had more urgency than the Colts. Jacksonville converted six

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Speaker 1: for nearly nineteen minutes in the first half. The Colts

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Speaker 1: trailed by ten and a half time, and the second

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Speaker 1: half things got worse. Carson Wentz lost a fumble and

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Speaker 1: The Colts allowed a season high six sacks in the game.

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Speaker 1: The offense had a very tough day. The Colts had

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Speaker 1: nine drives on the afternoon, and they either turned it

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Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence had his best game of the season. The

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Speaker 1: rookie quarterback for the Jaguars, through for two hundred and

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Speaker 1: twenty three yards, two touchdowns and no picks. He completed

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Speaker 1: Colts season is over. Unfortunately. There's a lot to talk

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Speaker 1: We'll do that coming up. We'll recap the game and

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Speaker 1: the season with Rick Venturi and Joe Writes, the former Colts.

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Speaker 1: They'll join me starting on the next segment, and we're

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Speaker 1: taking your questions all show long again with you until

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Speaker 1: seven o'clock tonight, if you have a question or thought

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Speaker 1: on the Colts tweeted in using hashtag Colts Round Table

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Speaker 1: of course on Twitter. But first we hear from head

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Speaker 1: coach Frank Reich. Brought to you as always by Citizens

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Speaker 1: Energy Group. He's on the line with us. Coach, very

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Speaker 1: much appreciate the time. Incredibly difficult into the season in

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Speaker 1: Jacksonville on Sunday? Can you describe what went wrong? Where

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Speaker 1: this was the last time this Colts team was intact

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Speaker 1: think back on the two thousand and twenty one Colts.

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Speaker 1: That's Frank Reich with us Yon Colts Roundtable Live. If

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Speaker 1: in tonight. It's the final show of the season, UM

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Speaker 1: using hashtag Colts round Table. Let's leave some time for

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Speaker 1: the fan questions coach. First up tonight is justin. He's

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Speaker 1: asking what did you make of Carson Wentz in the

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Speaker 1: there's no doubt the last couple of games we're disappointing

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Speaker 1: even exaggerate the run to me, I know what it means.

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Speaker 1: But as Joe said, I've now, I've said this all year,

430
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Speaker 1: I can eventually stop you with numbers, which they have

431
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Speaker 1: made it tougher and tougher. You know, the two hundred

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Speaker 1: yards games, you know two weeks and three two weeks

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Speaker 1: and three weeks ago, that was tough duty and then

434
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Speaker 1: yesterday they were all over and they've they've stopped it

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Speaker 1: for two games, to be honest with you and honestly

436
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Speaker 1: to not you know, to me, that's my biggest criticism

437
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Speaker 1: because I saw it coming, you know, to not be

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Speaker 1: able to attack people outside the numbers with Pittman and Hilton,

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Speaker 1: you know, that just tells me that Pittman and Hilton

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Speaker 1: they don't have much confidence in them or we don't

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Speaker 1: know what we're doing because it's really just a numbers game,

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Speaker 1: and you have to be able to do that, and

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Speaker 1: you have to be able to do it on first

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Speaker 1: down because in this league with Jonathan Taylor, I've said

445
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Speaker 1: this every week, you're gonna get those nine guys inside

446
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Speaker 1: the numbers. You're gonna get it one hundred percent of

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Speaker 1: the time. So no, I don't believe that you're you're

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Speaker 1: ever going to do that. And we have a lot

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Speaker 1: to fix. I think we have a marginal recruit or

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Speaker 1: a receiver corps at best. We have a quarterback who's

451
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Speaker 1: hit or miss, and Joe hit it. Our offensive line,

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Speaker 1: I think they've really struggled with last two weeks six

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Speaker 1: sacks and two turnovers. I mean, they got demolished yesterday. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and some numbers to kind of back some things up here.

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Speaker 1: We know Jonathan Taylor led the NFL and rushing he

456
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Speaker 1: led it by a wide margin, in fact, five hundred

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Speaker 1: and fifty two yards. That's the widest margin in the

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Speaker 1: NFL since two thousand and nine. But unfortunately, guys, Jonathan

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Speaker 1: Taylor becomes the first rushing champ to not make the

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Speaker 1: playoffs since Maurice Jones drew in twenty eleven. And the

461
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Speaker 1: passing game in the last eight games of the season,

462
00:23:05,720 --> 00:23:09,919
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz sixty one percent completion percentage, ten touchdowns, four picks,

463
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Speaker 1: only an eighty seven point one passer rating, and his

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Speaker 1: average yards per attempt was six point three. Rick vent

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Speaker 1: Terry Joe writes, I'm Matt Taylor. This is Colts Roundtable

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

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Speaker 1: We're doing some truth or trash. Rick, Let's go to

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Speaker 1: you first, because you talked about that offensive line truth

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Speaker 1: or trash here, the Colts O line needs to be

470
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Speaker 1: tweaked in the off season and wasn't as dominant as

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Speaker 1: it should have been this season. Truth or trash, Well,

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Speaker 1: you know I think it was dominant. I'm gonna say truth.

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Speaker 1: I will say truth because there's this I think we

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Speaker 1: have a problem and how we're going to fix it.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. It was a problem we had last year.

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Speaker 1: It's still a problem this year. You know. I think

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Speaker 1: that our line at times was dominant. I think there

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Speaker 1: were games that we were run dominant, particularly when we

479
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Speaker 1: had diversity in the run. You know, I think Doyle

480
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Speaker 1: meant a ton to that on the running game. I think,

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Speaker 1: you know, he was outstanding the wham plays all you know,

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Speaker 1: the toss cracks, all the stuff that we did along

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Speaker 1: with our zones. You know, I think at times our

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Speaker 1: run blocking was dominant. Our past blocking really not so

485
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Speaker 1: much in two areas. And really, you know, I'm not

486
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Speaker 1: going to make excuses for him because the reality is

487
00:24:25,359 --> 00:24:28,439
Speaker 1: we're sitting home watching the playoffs. But our left tackle

488
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Speaker 1: position is still and it was exposed more and more

489
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Speaker 1: really as the season went on in Alan just absolutely

490
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Speaker 1: killed Fisher. I mean that left tackle is still a

491
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Speaker 1: huge issue. I mean, I think, you know, we could

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Speaker 1: be our right the rest of the way across the board,

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Speaker 1: but that is an issue. And then number two is

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Speaker 1: not just an offensive line issue. And I've warned you you.

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Speaker 1: You guys heard me talk about it last week and

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Speaker 1: the week before. In the last month of the season,

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Speaker 1: teams have blitz to from that second level and we

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Speaker 1: have missed. I thought the two biggest plays defensive plays

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Speaker 1: of the game yesterday when we were still in it

500
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Speaker 1: was the unblocked Wilson blitz on the double seat and

501
00:25:11,840 --> 00:25:14,959
Speaker 1: he hits it and Braden Smith gets confused and doesn't

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Speaker 1: come back, and then Wilson's interception. But again, I said

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Speaker 1: that all along, that if you don't start picking up

504
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Speaker 1: these second wave blitzes, you are going to get it

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Speaker 1: over and over. And I was really thinking about the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: We were going to get it. Little did I know

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Speaker 1: that that sack, because that sack was huge, because it

508
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Speaker 1: was it was demoralizing to us as well. Yeah, I agree, coach,

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Speaker 1: But to your point about the individual personnel, I feel

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Speaker 1: like from Quinton Nelson to the right, you know, those

511
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Speaker 1: guys were for the most part mostly solid enough. You know,

512
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Speaker 1: Smithy struggled a little bit, he missed some time with injury.

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Speaker 1: You're gonna struggle. I mean, you're an offensive lineman. You're

514
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Speaker 1: not gonna win sixty straight plays against you know, defensive

515
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Speaker 1: linemen that are getting paid a lot of money too.

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Speaker 1: But to a coach's point, you know, left tackle was

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Speaker 1: an issue. And while you want to talk about the

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Speaker 1: offensive line and you know how great you know guys

519
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Speaker 1: can be, left tackle is the most important position on

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Speaker 1: that line. And I think that speaks a little bit

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Speaker 1: to just the overall roster in my opinion. Do I

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Speaker 1: believe we have a very talented and deep roster, Yes,

523
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Speaker 1: but at some of the most critical positions, left tackle, cornerback,

524
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Speaker 1: you know, wide receiver, you know, the quarterback being up

525
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Speaker 1: and down, we have some question marks there and it

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Speaker 1: goes back to coach. I know you always talk about it.

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Speaker 1: You know, each player's position has a ceiling on how

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Speaker 1: good they can be. You know, you can be Quinton

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Speaker 1: Nelson the best guard in football, which I believe he is,

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Speaker 1: but if you're a good left tackle, that has a

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Speaker 1: higher value overall than a great left guard, If that

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Speaker 1: makes sense that I think that left tackle, to me

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Speaker 1: is going to be very interesting what we do going

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Speaker 1: into the off sea. And I do think that prior

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Speaker 1: in some time there showed some flashes and some potentially

536
00:26:52,600 --> 00:26:55,159
Speaker 1: has the body type. I think he has the twitch

537
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Speaker 1: to be able to play it. But is he somebody

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Speaker 1: that you look to long term? Fisher A fixed free

539
00:27:00,680 --> 00:27:03,119
Speaker 1: agency that you know is what I'm gonna be keeping

540
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Speaker 1: my eye on next year because that definitely you came

541
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Speaker 1: back to bite us at the biggest time, you know,

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Speaker 1: yesterday afternoon Truth or Trash here on Colts Round Table Live.

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00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:14,200
Speaker 1: That's Joe Rights Rick Venturi along. I'm Matt Taylor ninety

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Speaker 1: three five and one oh seven five the fan Tonight

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Speaker 1: final Truth or Trash. Joe will go to you first.

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00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:22,760
Speaker 1: The Colts defense is ability to create takeaways. It was

547
00:27:22,800 --> 00:27:25,080
Speaker 1: good this year, right they finished second in the NFL

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00:27:25,119 --> 00:27:28,320
Speaker 1: in total takeaways with thirty three. But that's not enough

549
00:27:28,760 --> 00:27:30,840
Speaker 1: to take the defense where it wants to go. Is

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00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:33,359
Speaker 1: that truth or trash? I'm gonna say truth, and I'm

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00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:35,399
Speaker 1: gonna say truth because I felt all year we were

552
00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:37,959
Speaker 1: good against the run. Again, Matt, you mentioned that we

553
00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:40,280
Speaker 1: were number one or number two all year and taking

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Speaker 1: the ball away. But bottom line, pass game defense we failed,

555
00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:49,359
Speaker 1: and we failed in two areas. It's all tied together.

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00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:51,240
Speaker 1: It's coverage on the back end, it's pass rush on

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Speaker 1: the front end. I mean, when did we get a

558
00:27:52,880 --> 00:27:55,719
Speaker 1: pass rush yesterday? On Trevor Lawrence. I mean coach mentioned

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Speaker 1: that the confidence they got from that first drive. I

560
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Speaker 1: mean we had two third and longs. It's third and

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Speaker 1: and and I'm thinking, all guaranteed they get off the

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Speaker 1: field to one drive. You know, I was listening to

563
00:28:04,359 --> 00:28:06,359
Speaker 1: you guys and we were talking about the penalty got

564
00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:08,520
Speaker 1: backed up. Now it goes from thirty and age. Weal

565
00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:10,479
Speaker 1: the third and long. I'm thinking, well, we're getting off

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Speaker 1: the field, We're gonna fund. Here we go and then

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Speaker 1: they complete it. And we just had the inability to

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Speaker 1: stop teams in the past game. And I think it's personnel.

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Speaker 1: I think it's schematic, but really, you know, I look

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Speaker 1: at I always watched the front guys first. Our pass

571
00:28:22,640 --> 00:28:25,400
Speaker 1: rush really was non existent for the most part. When

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00:28:25,400 --> 00:28:27,560
Speaker 1: we just said four guys. We had to bring pressure.

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Speaker 1: We had to have special circumstances, We had to fall

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Speaker 1: into some different sacks. We weren't able to just kind

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Speaker 1: of line up and beat guys one on one. And

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00:28:34,480 --> 00:28:37,159
Speaker 1: then that goes into the back end as well, you know,

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Speaker 1: in terms of just pure coverage, being able to play

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Speaker 1: the man, bring an extra guy down to the box,

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Speaker 1: bring five or six guys. The Blitz. We weren't able

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00:28:44,080 --> 00:28:45,800
Speaker 1: to do that too. So while we were great and

581
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Speaker 1: turning the ball over and that's a huge predictor for success,

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Speaker 1: we also had some unique variables this year. And we

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00:28:51,720 --> 00:28:54,520
Speaker 1: were plus three turnovers against the Titans and lost. We

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Speaker 1: were plus two turnovers at home against the Raiders and loss.

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Speaker 1: But that speaks to our inability to really get stops

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Speaker 1: on third down and really get stops against the past. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and Joe, Joe hit it perfectly yesterday on thirty two

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Speaker 1: thirty two attempted calls. We hit the quarterback two times.

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Speaker 1: And this is this is that's just amazing. And you know,

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Speaker 1: I think it's truth. And then nobody loves turnovers better

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Speaker 1: than I do. And turnovers are hard to get their outstanding.

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Speaker 1: Now we have one guy who makes it go. You know,

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00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:31,400
Speaker 1: we can we can talk about team turnovers, but really

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Speaker 1: they're the result. Really, the big numbers are the results

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Speaker 1: of one guy, and that's Leonard and there's nobody like him.

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Speaker 1: But and I've always said this though, where you have

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Speaker 1: to be careful about, and I warned during the year,

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Speaker 1: is that turnovers sometimes mask that that you're really not

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Speaker 1: stopping people. You're you're getting the ball back at times,

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Speaker 1: but you're really not stopping people. And I think the

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Speaker 1: turnovers really mask a very mediocre defense, which at the

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Speaker 1: end of the year in his sixteenth right in the middle.

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Speaker 1: But when you look at the past related stuff, you know,

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Speaker 1: it's nineteenth on the pass, it's nineteenth on third down,

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Speaker 1: and then here's where it kills you. And here's where

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00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:17,560
Speaker 1: it killed you all year long because this team. One

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Speaker 1: of the failures of this team was we could not

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Speaker 1: finish games, and we couldn't finish the season. So you

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Speaker 1: know that that's a big picture thing. But when you

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Speaker 1: look at it, we're twenty fifth in the league in sacks,

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Speaker 1: I mean, and yesterday it was just ridiculous. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you know, and Jacksonville not only is not a great

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Speaker 1: offensive line, they played with two backups to start the

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Speaker 1: game and they and Joe's right, I mean, we couldn't

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Speaker 1: get off a block. We were I mean, we were

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Speaker 1: just staller. I mean, he had all day long he

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Speaker 1: could be patient, and that's all that kid needed after

618
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Speaker 1: that first drive. So you know, the twenty five sacks

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Speaker 1: means something. The twenty ninth fourth quarter, the ranking twenty

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Speaker 1: ninth in the fourth quarter, has to do with your pass,

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Speaker 1: has to do with you know, finish in the game,

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Speaker 1: you know, and just those are the areas. You know. Again,

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Speaker 1: we can't throw the ball well enough and we can't

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Speaker 1: stop the pass. And that is a recipe. That's a

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Speaker 1: recipe for disaster in the national footballing All right, that's

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Speaker 1: truth or trash. Here on Colts Roundtable Live with Rick

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Speaker 1: I'm Matt Taylor back in with Rick Finurry and Joe Rights,

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Speaker 1: the former Colts, and we're taking your Twitter questions now

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Speaker 1: final show, of course of the two and twenty one

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Speaker 1: season by virtue of the Colts, coming up short on

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Speaker 1: Sunday to the Jacksonville Jaguars. Let's go to Ben's question

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Speaker 1: up first, Joe, do you think Carson Wentz played well

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Speaker 1: enough this season for the Colts to believe in him

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Speaker 1: next season and beyond. Yeah, I feel like Gentz had

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Speaker 1: a bell shaped season. After that Titans game when he

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Speaker 1: put together a stretch that was as good as anybody

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Speaker 1: in the league. And what's funny is, you know, a

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Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago on the pregame show, we were

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Speaker 1: talking about Wentz, and you know, I was defending him,

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Speaker 1: saying he had the second best cube are the Statin

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Speaker 1: totality since Week four of any quarterback. He was in

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Speaker 1: between Aaron Rodgers and Tom Brady, and he had played

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Speaker 1: that good and stretches in terms of efficiency, third down,

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Speaker 1: red zone touchdowns, not turning the ball over. But then

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Speaker 1: you look at really the last month of the season

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Speaker 1: and he kind of came down off the end of

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Speaker 1: that hill or you know, into that that bell shaped mean,

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Speaker 1: and you know, when you look at the Patriots game,

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Speaker 1: he didn't play well. And then you look at you know,

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Speaker 1: the Cardinals game, you know, he struggled some, but boy,

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Speaker 1: he had just an incredible fourth quarter. I really thought

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Speaker 1: that was going to galvanize him. And I don't know

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Speaker 1: how much missing you know, practice with COVID, etc. But

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Speaker 1: he was not good the last two games. And so

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Speaker 1: to me that you know, there's still some question marks

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Speaker 1: on Wentz because I felt like week in and week out,

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Speaker 1: you didn't necessarily know what you were going to get.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes he looked like, you know, he was a top

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Speaker 1: quarterback in the NFL, and then you had times like

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Speaker 1: yesterday afternoon where felt like we couldn't throw it in

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Speaker 1: the ocean. So it'd be interesting to me, you know,

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Speaker 1: the evaluations, you know, and as they go on, you know,

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Speaker 1: between Frank and Chris just kind of really what they

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Speaker 1: think about Wentz and really what you know, his ceiling

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Speaker 1: can be be here as a Colts quarterback. All right,

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Speaker 1: let's go to Paul's question, Rick, what happened to our

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Speaker 1: secondary in the last couple of games. I know we

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Speaker 1: had guys injured, but did we revert to our soft

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Speaker 1: zone coverage and f so why? Yeah, that's a good question.

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Speaker 1: I don't think that we totally reverted to it. I

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Speaker 1: thought that we reverted to it early in long yardage situations.

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Speaker 1: That the downs that Joe were talking about, those third

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Speaker 1: and twelves, third and tens that he got going, you know,

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Speaker 1: those were against his own defense. I would have liked

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Speaker 1: to pressure him right off the bat and check his

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Speaker 1: whole card. We didn't do it, you know, but we

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Speaker 1: have had problems really for four years in terms of

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Speaker 1: our scheme. One, we do still play a lot of

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Speaker 1: area zone. So when you're playing area zone, you know

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Speaker 1: you're counting on reading the quarterback and break into the ball,

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Speaker 1: which I personally don't think works in the National football

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Speaker 1: Like I think they'll shred you with that. Um. I

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Speaker 1: thought that we really tried after the Jets game. After

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Speaker 1: three and a half years after the Jets game. Uh,

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Speaker 1: you know when those when those marginal guys put up

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Speaker 1: all those numbers. There was something happened because we really

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Speaker 1: tried then to play more mand de mand. We played

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Speaker 1: more mand demand, a little bit more sticky zone. We

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Speaker 1: played a little bit more matchup zone. But it isn't nothing.

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Speaker 1: Nothing is done extremely well. I mean I I think

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Speaker 1: personally that we lack two things. I think we lack

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Speaker 1: sophistication in coverage. Nuance and coverage. And by that, I mean,

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Speaker 1: you know, you got to give people different looks. Sometimes

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Speaker 1: it's combination man zones. Sometimes it's double coverage on a receiver.

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Speaker 1: I mean, when is the last time that we've ever

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Speaker 1: taken away a top receiver? Even Sunday we go into

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Speaker 1: that game and they have one, one legitimate receiver in Jones,

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Speaker 1: and I think he catches the first three third downs

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Speaker 1: of the game like he like he's wide open. I

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Speaker 1: just I'll never understand that. And I think we do

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Speaker 1: going to attack this guy on the rush. I just

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Speaker 1: don't see that from our team. And with the good

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Speaker 1: defensive coordinators I've been with, you can you can do that,

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Speaker 1: I think we have. The second thing is we can't.

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Speaker 1: And Joe mentioned as early, we just have literally had

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Speaker 1: no four man pass for us. I mean, and you

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Speaker 1: know it's a shame. We we We sent Autrey packing

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Speaker 1: and he has nine at the end of the year,

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Speaker 1: and even Houston four and a half, and we haven't

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Speaker 1: got anybody that has really dominated and give us the

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Speaker 1: type of rush that we need. I think that's killed

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Speaker 1: us in fourth quarters. You know, I think that's an issue.

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Speaker 1: We don't have a shutdown corner. We've got guys that

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Speaker 1: played a little bit better, but when you're counting, when

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Speaker 1: you're telling me, you know, we're gonna be hurting if

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Speaker 1: rock y'asine isn't playing, then you really have problems. Okay,

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Speaker 1: So you know, I think it's a combination. You know, personnel,

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Speaker 1: no shutdown corner, no real rushers right now in a

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Speaker 1: scheme that lacks nuance, sophistication and game specificity. And you know,

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Speaker 1: when you look at the numbers, you know, passing wise,

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Speaker 1: Live in two twenty one. I'll give you guys the

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Speaker 1: floor one final time. Joe, I'll start with you if

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Speaker 1: you want to just give your final thoughts on this

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Speaker 1: Colts two twenty one season, finishing in disappointing fashion as

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Speaker 1: the Colts fall to nine and eight after a loss

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Speaker 1: on Sunday to the Jaguars. If you want to talk

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Speaker 1: about the season in totality and your offseason priorities you

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Speaker 1: have for the Colts now that the off season is

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Speaker 1: officially here, fun season with a very disappointing and sudden end.

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Speaker 1: And I think when you look at their record nine

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Speaker 1: and eight, they're above five hundred. But this was a

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Speaker 1: team that was vastly different in terms of, you know,

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Speaker 1: this was a team that should have been in the

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Speaker 1: playoffs and that by all intensive purposes there two weeks ago.

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Speaker 1: It wasn't a team that kind of struggled all year

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Speaker 1: round five hundred And when I look at the season,

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Speaker 1: what I'm going to really think about most and reflect

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Speaker 1: on it, I'm sure all these you know, players and

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Speaker 1: coaches are doing this agonizingly. Is it's a game of inches.

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Speaker 1: You look back at the Rams game, at the Titans game,

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Speaker 1: at the Ravens game, the Raiders game. You know, all

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Speaker 1: these games we had, you know, double digit leads and

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Speaker 1: lost them, and it's a game of inches. And it's

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Speaker 1: the NFL and you got to bring it every Sunday

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Speaker 1: and you've got to be able to have that killer

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Speaker 1: mentality to know how to really win games in the

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Speaker 1: fourth quarter when the stakes are rising. And that's something

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Speaker 1: that I feel like on the whole, we failed out

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Speaker 1: this year and that's why you know, we're gonna be

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Speaker 1: staying at home, and I think it's gonna be really

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Speaker 1: tough pill to swallow. I think that this roster has

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Speaker 1: but I think a lot of it, too, is that

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Speaker 1: I think, you know, we can talk all we want

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Speaker 1: final two games to get in the playoffs, you just

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Speaker 1: got to get it done. And I feel like our

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Speaker 1: stars disappointed in the final couple games. And I think

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Speaker 1: that's what is really again, something that's going to have

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Speaker 1: a lot of reflection, you know, looking in the mirror.

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Speaker 1: You know, who's going to take control of this team,

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Speaker 1: what players are going to be, the guys in the

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Speaker 1: locker room, they're gonna say, fellows, this is not good enough.

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Speaker 1: It's not good enough to win nine games and almost

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Speaker 1: it's good enough to win the division and win eleven

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Speaker 1: and twelve games and you got this thing clinched, you know,

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Speaker 1: two weeks to go in the season. Because that's the

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Speaker 1: type of roster I think this team can have, and

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Speaker 1: I think hopefully players can use all this as motivation

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Speaker 1: in the off season to make sure that you don't

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Speaker 1: and sour taste in your mouth that everybody's experiencing right now. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: to me, it was it just was a tremendous roller coaster,

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Speaker 1: you know. Was It was filled with exhilaration at times,

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Speaker 1: you know, and just an absolute and absolute demoralization at

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Speaker 1: other times. I think in retrospect, if you take the

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Speaker 1: I think it was capable. I think it was capable

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Speaker 1: of moments of greatness. We saw that, but it was

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Speaker 1: also painfully flawed and that came back to bite us

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Speaker 1: in different areas, which we talked about all season long,

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Speaker 1: and we particularly talked about it today. I think the

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Speaker 1: we have to address totally the passing game on offense,

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Speaker 1: and that's all aspects of it, and the past defense

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Speaker 1: and all aspects of it. I mean, when when you

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Speaker 1: look at it statistically and your eyes look at it

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Speaker 1: on the tape, are those are the areas that just

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Speaker 1: You know, the problem, the only problem I have, and

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Speaker 1: it really irks me, is the same questions that we

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Speaker 1: going to be questions that we have now at the

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Speaker 1: end of two twenty one, going into two twenty two.

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Speaker 1: You know, we're still we've got quarterback issues. We can

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Speaker 1: make excuses for him we got quarterback issues, we got

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Speaker 1: left tackle issues, we got wide receiver issues. You know,

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Speaker 1: we've got us rusher issues, and we got corner issues.

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Speaker 1: So you know, those five things were problems in twenty

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Speaker 1: and so you know, for us to keep going, that's

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Speaker 1: very difficult. But if you look at it and you're

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Speaker 1: honest about it and not spinning it, those five issues

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Speaker 1: are still issues today. All right, we gotta run. That's

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Speaker 1: all the time we have tonight, guys. Thank you so

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Speaker 1: much for all the time, the insight and the knowledge

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Speaker 1: all season long. It's a ton of fun doing this

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Speaker 1: show with you, guys, Rick vent Terry and Joe writes.

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Speaker 1: Unfortunately it ends way too soon, but it's it's my

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Speaker 1: pleasure to do the show with you guys, So again,

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Speaker 1: thank you very much for making it fun, making it

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Speaker 1: Thanks Matt, You're the best. Thank you, Matt, no question

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Speaker 1: about it. I'm gonna miss this one. That's all the

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Speaker 1: time we have. Thanks to everybody who joined the show

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Speaker 1: and participated and tweeted in their questions. My thanks as

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Speaker 1: well to Frank Reich who joined us on a weekly

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Speaker 1: basis here on Colts Roundtable Live. Coming up next, it's

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Speaker 1: Pacer Basketball the Blue and Gold in Boston tonight. We

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Speaker 1: will talk to you next year on this show. But

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Speaker 1: the last word the offseason Home of the Colts that

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Speaker 1: will start up on Friday night here on the Home

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