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Speaker 1: For Jack Toyle, he's got it touchdown back ten touchdown

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

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Speaker 1: with the until seven o'clock tonight. Following us tonight here

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Speaker 1: fan is inside I U Basketball with Don Fisher and

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Speaker 1: Mike Woodson. But we're talking football now, as the Colts

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Speaker 1: are eight and six in a season high two games

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Speaker 1: for five hundred after their twenty seven and seventeen win

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Speaker 1: over the Patriots on Saturday night. The win snapped an

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Speaker 1: the colts seventh victory and their last nine games. The

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Speaker 1: Colts won the game with a dominant rushing game, elite

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Speaker 1: tackle seasons. And special teams was magnificent as well. Linebacker

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Speaker 1: and we're taking your questions as always, If you have

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Speaker 1: How much confidence do you have in this team right now? Coach?

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Speaker 1: the fan questions. Coach. First up tonight is Ryan. He says,

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Speaker 1: had to vote for MVP, would you vote for Jonathan Taylor?

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Speaker 1: slow it down out. It's just a great interception. But

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Speaker 1: the point is is that's a ten point swing if Indie,

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Speaker 1: if I was really worried about the Patriots scoring and

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Speaker 1: then getting the ball act. That was huge, and then

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Speaker 1: Okareki's interception led to three. You know, so that and

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Speaker 1: then again the third thing and this is just a

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Speaker 1: reality with us. Uh you know, I'd like to talk

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Speaker 1: about it later in the show. Nobody plays special teams

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Speaker 1: and the you know, the pupil beat the teacher yesterday

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Speaker 1: he learned the game from Belotchick. He gave Belicheck, he

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Speaker 1: gave him a block eye with that great block kick

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Speaker 1: and another score. So you know, I was a tremendous,

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Speaker 1: magical night, great night. You know, just to keep it

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Speaker 1: real though, the one thing that twenty four hours gave

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Speaker 1: me and you know we got it. We still have

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Speaker 1: the mountain declined and I'm talking about the mountain. I'm

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Speaker 1: talking about going all the way. There's just two issues

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Speaker 1: that hit me that we just you know that that

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Speaker 1: scare me or make me a little bit nervous. We

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Speaker 1: can get into him as one our inability, you know,

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Speaker 1: to stop that fourth quarter and we're you know, we're back,

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Speaker 1: We're thirty first. I mean, we give up seventeen points

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Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter. You know, we're giving up nine four.

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's we've got to stop or it's

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Speaker 1: gonna cost us, and I'll get into why I think

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Speaker 1: it's really happening, and then you know, I just sometimes Carson.

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Speaker 1: I love him, I love everything he does. He does

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Speaker 1: so many good things, but it just seems like in

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Speaker 1: pressure situations, you know, he just gives me some history

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Speaker 1: head scratchers, for instance, and I just, you know, hopefully

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Speaker 1: those two issues are the only issues that bother me

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Speaker 1: going forward. Well, those are some good questions and some

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Speaker 1: issues to talk about. Let's roll that into the Burning

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Speaker 1: Question Series. Here we have on segment number two tonight

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Speaker 1: on Colts Roundtable Live, three Games to play again, Rick

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Speaker 1: Venturi and Joe Writes Join me tonight. I'm Matt Taylor.

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Speaker 1: So the Burning Question Series number one. The Colts have

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Speaker 1: two really big wins in the last month. They beat

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Speaker 1: the Bills, they beat the Patriots, and had it not

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Speaker 1: been for a disappointing second half against the Bucks, the

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Speaker 1: Colts could be sitting with three marquis victories in their

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Speaker 1: last four games. Joe, against the Patriots, as you alluded to,

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Speaker 1: they're up big, twenty to nothing in the third quarter.

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Speaker 1: New England closed the gap twenty to seventeen with two

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Speaker 1: twenty one remaining and then Jonathan Taylor ice the game.

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Speaker 1: But Joe, the question is, have the Colts found their

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Speaker 1: ability to close out games against good teams late in

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Speaker 1: the season, which obviously haunted them earlier in the season.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna say to be determined, But I love this

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Speaker 1: step and the reason why Matt that game against the

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Speaker 1: Bills was a signature win. I mean, we just blew

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Speaker 1: the doors off them, but it wasn't ever close. And

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Speaker 1: you look back again, this team has now had eleven

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Speaker 1: straight double digit leads, which awfully impressive. It shows what

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Speaker 1: we're able to do and playing complimentary football all three phases.

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Speaker 1: But three of those were lost as Baltimore and then

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Speaker 1: Tennessee and Tampa Bay at home. And so really three

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Speaker 1: of those games I mentioned when the slide started in

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Speaker 1: the fourth quarter, we weren't able to stop it and

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Speaker 1: pull out a victory. We did that against New England,

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Speaker 1: and so I think as big as this win is

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Speaker 1: in the standings and for us everything mentally, that gives

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Speaker 1: us an edge and I think it gives a leaf

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Speaker 1: in the locker room, which I is going to be

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Speaker 1: awful important because no matter how you slice it, you

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Speaker 1: get into the playoffs and the Colts are going to

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Speaker 1: be there. All those games are going to be tight.

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Speaker 1: You know, they're all gonna be a one score game.

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Speaker 1: And so the first time I felt like we really

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Speaker 1: won a one score game that maybe, you know, we

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Speaker 1: were teetering with a game that we didn't get done

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Speaker 1: against Tampa Bay and against Tennessee. Yeah, I mean, I

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Speaker 1: think it's a problem. I don't think we have it

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Speaker 1: totally fixed. I think what we can't we can't lose

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Speaker 1: sight of is the fact that Frank did stay patient

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Speaker 1: on that second and ten and he ran the ball

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Speaker 1: to Jonathan, and Jonathan made two guys miss in the

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Speaker 1: hole and went sixty seven yards for a touchdown. So

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Speaker 1: in that sense, we closed it out. I mean, in

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Speaker 1: that sense we closed it out by you know, running

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Speaker 1: the football. I mean, if you want to look at

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Speaker 1: it that way. But you know, seventeen points in the

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Speaker 1: third quarter, you know, seventeen points in the fourth quarter

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Speaker 1: that we gave up, you know, and plus we were aided.

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Speaker 1: We were aided by New England's own stupidity. I mean,

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Speaker 1: they have a offside's penalty on a field goal that

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Speaker 1: allows us to get three, and then they have an

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Speaker 1: offside penalty third and one going in on the red zone,

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Speaker 1: which prevents them from getting a touchdown. So you know,

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Speaker 1: we got it. We got a couple of breaks down

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Speaker 1: in there just to make sure that it didn't get away.

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Speaker 1: And honestly, if we don't run the clock out, you know,

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Speaker 1: then we're going to be defending again. So you know,

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Speaker 1: I don't feel that we have figured that out. And

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Speaker 1: my biggest concern is this Matt when it comes to

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Speaker 1: figuring it out. I think we've done a much better

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Speaker 1: job since the middle of the season in playing stickier

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Speaker 1: at the coverage part of it. I thought our corners

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Speaker 1: yesterday did a really good job of shutting down the

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Speaker 1: outside of the field. I really did. Now we don't

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Speaker 1: do a good job on Tyanna's but we've gotten a

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Speaker 1: lot better. Here's what we don't do, and you can

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Speaker 1: chronicle it. We don't get anything other than buckner out

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Speaker 1: of a four man rush, and that's why it's hard.

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Speaker 1: It's hard to hold leads because you know, we do

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Speaker 1: a lot of blitzing, a lot of edge blitzing early.

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Speaker 1: But you know, people figure that out and at the

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Speaker 1: end of the game, you've got to be able to

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Speaker 1: play some coverage and some four man rush, and right

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Speaker 1: now we're not generating harder anything. We're twenty first in sacks,

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Speaker 1: and if you look at some of those fourth quarters,

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Speaker 1: I mean, those quarterbacks are just standing up in there,

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Speaker 1: they're moving around, they're standing up in there, getting very

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Speaker 1: little pressure. And my thing is we have to fix that.

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Speaker 1: I mean, the one guy that we're getting consistent rush

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Speaker 1: from is Buckner, but once he's not involved, we're getting

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Speaker 1: very little, you know. And I think the biggest thing

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Speaker 1: is settle on four guys that we're gonna play on

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Speaker 1: third down and we're gonna play in the fourth quarter.

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Speaker 1: Move Buckner around, get him like we did Sunday Sunday.

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Speaker 1: Each Saturday, we got him out there on the left tackle,

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Speaker 1: let him run a jam game and he won, you know,

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Speaker 1: and continue to play with those guys time after time.

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Speaker 1: We look like an inner merles and Meet team. Sometime

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Speaker 1: we got different rushers in different situations and we got

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Speaker 1: out there. We got guys out there shouldn't be out

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Speaker 1: there in the fourth quarter with the game on the line.

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Speaker 1: So I'm just saying to keep it real, is that

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Speaker 1: we've got to figure out how to generate more four

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Speaker 1: man rush because I think our coverage has actually gotten

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Speaker 1: a lot better. But I don't feel other than Buckner,

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Speaker 1: I don't feel much in that four men rush. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I do agree with you there, and to your point, um,

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Speaker 1: looking at the numbers today before the Monday night games,

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Speaker 1: this afternoon and this evening the Colts, at last check,

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Speaker 1: we're twelve and opponent completion percentage allowed. And remember at

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Speaker 1: the beginning of the season that number was in the

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Speaker 1: twenty nine thirty. Yeah. Yeah, no, that's kind of my point.

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Speaker 1: We have really improved there, There's no question about it.

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Speaker 1: I was very critical of that at one time, but

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Speaker 1: we have made necessary adjustments. We've played a lot more

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Speaker 1: man and even in our zones, we're stickier on the edge.

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Speaker 1: You know, there's no doubt about that. But when you

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Speaker 1: and then that's why I'm I'm isolating it down to

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Speaker 1: one area, Matt, and that's you know, we've got to

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Speaker 1: get four man rushing. It's it's it's not asking them

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Speaker 1: to blitz Moore. I mean, I'm not saying that at all. Man,

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Speaker 1: you got to get out in four man rush. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I agree with your point there, Coach, and I think

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Speaker 1: something we've seen in some of these leads that have

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Speaker 1: evaporated for the Colts. A team has a long drive,

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Speaker 1: or they go up tempo. Maybe the Colts go through.

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Speaker 1: Now they get the ball back. Now our guys are

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Speaker 1: a little tired, and now we're getting almost no rush.

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Speaker 1: And to your point, I think, okay, so a four

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Speaker 1: man rush, how do we get the most pre prep

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Speaker 1: it's Buckner isolating him, or it's isolating him with two

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Speaker 1: guys spreading the other guys out, either going wide four.

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Speaker 1: I again I mentioned last week, I love the spinner.

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Speaker 1: Look if you can get one guy to walk around

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Speaker 1: and get three one on ones and then just one

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00:29:38,720 --> 00:29:40,520
Speaker 1: of those guys has to win. But to your point,

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Speaker 1: I think we streamline that in the fourth season. And

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00:29:43,760 --> 00:29:46,360
Speaker 1: now you've got four guys that know we're our NASCAR package.

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Speaker 1: We're all get at done package, whatever you want to

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Speaker 1: call it. Those guys just like an offensive line, you

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Speaker 1: start to figure guys out and win. This guy might

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Speaker 1: go inside or outside. How can I set this pick

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00:29:56,080 --> 00:29:58,520
Speaker 1: stunt or this game. That's something we got to do

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00:29:58,520 --> 00:30:00,520
Speaker 1: because to your point, you're gonna be playing good quarterbacks

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Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter throwing the ball, and we got

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Speaker 1: to find a way to win. Indeed, all right, that's

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Speaker 1: Joe Wright, san Rick vent Terry, I'm Matt Taylor. This

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Speaker 1: is Colts Round Table Live Tonight, ninety three five and

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Speaker 1: one oh seven five the fantaking a look back at

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Speaker 1: the Patriots game, and then a look ahead with three

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Speaker 1: games remaining for the Colts here in the regular season,

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Speaker 1: one more final burning question, because they did beat the Patriots,

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Speaker 1: but they did so with only fifty seven yards passing

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Speaker 1: on five completions. Those five completions are tied for the

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Speaker 1: third fewest Enfranchise history in a win and the fewest

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Speaker 1: in a game since nineteen seventy four. Also, the fifty

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Speaker 1: seven yards are the seventh fewest in a win and

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Speaker 1: the fewest in a game for the Colts since nineteen

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Speaker 1: ninety five. In fact, Carson Wentz had more rushing attempts

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Speaker 1: than he did completions in the game, and of his

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Speaker 1: twelve pass attempts Wentz through, the Patriots got their hands

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Speaker 1: on six of them. So, Joe, is the Colts passing game?

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Speaker 1: Is it strong enough to make some noise in the playoffs,

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Speaker 1: assuming the Colts can get there? It is, because we've

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Speaker 1: seen it. But what concerns me a little bit is that,

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Speaker 1: you know. I think Wentz's two poorous games were Tennessee

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Speaker 1: and New England, both at home. And I give credit

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Speaker 1: to Frank because when we got up twenty points, now

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Speaker 1: it becomes a game of time and score. How much

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Speaker 1: are we up, how much times on the clock, how

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Speaker 1: many possessions can New England realistically get? And I think

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Speaker 1: he was right in continuing to pound the ball. I

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Speaker 1: think especially when you consider that, you know, after that

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Speaker 1: big first down to t Y Hilton, then when Wentz

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Speaker 1: throws the interception, now all of a sudden, it says, well,

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Speaker 1: let's just pound the football. So Wentz has to be

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Speaker 1: better in some of those critical situations in terms of

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Speaker 1: New England dropped an interception or two two, and I

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Speaker 1: think that's a little bit concerning. But bottom line, when

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Speaker 1: you talk about the playoffs and coach, I think you'd agree.

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Speaker 1: I think three teams travel no matter where you go,

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Speaker 1: Physicality in the run game, number two, turnovers generated on defense,

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Speaker 1: and number three, I think nobody's talking about our special teams,

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Speaker 1: which in my opinion, probably is the best unit in

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Speaker 1: the NFL. If you pack those three things, you can

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Speaker 1: win a ball game with only five completions we did that.

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Speaker 1: It's funny everybody was raving about New England. They beat

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Speaker 1: the Bills on the road with only two completed passes. Well,

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Speaker 1: we just built the hottest team in the AFC with

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Speaker 1: only five completed passes. So this team is playing complimentary

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Speaker 1: football at a high level. But I do agree to

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Speaker 1: make a serious run in the playoffs, we got to

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Speaker 1: have some more efficiency from the pass game. Yeah, you know,

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Speaker 1: it's hard for me to say this right now because

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Speaker 1: I really like the fact that we're putting the signature

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Speaker 1: on the game. I thought that the run game, the

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Speaker 1: run game game plan was absolutely phenomenal, and I had

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Speaker 1: looked at you know, we talked about this before the game, Joe,

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Speaker 1: I said, you know, at the end of the day,

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Speaker 1: after all this study I've done, New England is nineteenth

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Speaker 1: and stopping the run in terms of yards from plays.

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Speaker 1: So let's be patient today, Let's keep pounding. And it's

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Speaker 1: easy to say that, but now you got to come

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Speaker 1: out and do it. What I thought the Colts did

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Speaker 1: a great job was putting you know, the twelve personnel

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Speaker 1: thirteen personnel big thirteen. You know, we got in there

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Speaker 1: and we balanced them up and even though they were

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Speaker 1: heavy fronts. We didn't go to the RPO game. The

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Speaker 1: RPO game is not for the Colts. The RPO game

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Speaker 1: is great on paper, but it is not for the

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Speaker 1: Colts because it takes the ball away from Jonathan Taylor.

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Speaker 1: And I thought we did a great job, and I

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Speaker 1: want to mention this before I get to the passing game.

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Speaker 1: I thought our receivers Coach Grove did a great job.

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Speaker 1: I thought our receivers did a great job playing and

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Speaker 1: play out getting a hat on the eighth guy in

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Speaker 1: the box. So you know, there was never what Jonathan

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Speaker 1: never saw was clean guys ever hitting him. He always

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Speaker 1: had an edge. If it was a double sinc we

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Speaker 1: pinched off those threes, if it was a thirty, we

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Speaker 1: just got right after him. So we ran fixed plays,

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Speaker 1: but we got hats on everybody, which is really good

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Speaker 1: coaching and really good execution. I'm not sure about the

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Speaker 1: passing game, and I'm not sure you can go all

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Speaker 1: the way without it. I think you have to be yourself,

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Speaker 1: and I think Frank actually learned from Tampa. You know

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Speaker 1: that we have to be us and we have to

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Speaker 1: win our way. And I credit him totally on that one.

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Speaker 1: Against New England. I do feel though, that in this league,

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Speaker 1: at some point you have to be effective throwing the ball.

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Speaker 1: I'm fine with Pittman. I think Pittman plays his role

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Speaker 1: really well. My concern it really didn't come up because

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Speaker 1: we didn't. We didn't even worry about it. We just

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Speaker 1: pounded him to death. But if you know, when somebody

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Speaker 1: takes away Pittman, I just haven't seen anybody I like Doyle.

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Speaker 1: I mean, Doyle does the scheme things we ask him,

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Speaker 1: but I haven't seen anybody else be creative if we

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Speaker 1: get in that situation. And that's that's my biggest concern.

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Speaker 1: I was worried about it, but it didn't matter because

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Speaker 1: we just pounded him to death. But I do believe

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Speaker 1: you're gonna be in a situation someday where you're gonna

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Speaker 1: really have to throw the ball. And I hope that

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Speaker 1: these pressure situations where Carson has done some head scratchers

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Speaker 1: is just is just an end game thing and isn't

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Speaker 1: consistently this way. All right, Well, coach, we let me

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Speaker 1: think what about Ashton Dulan. He's a guy that we

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Speaker 1: saw go real well a couple of weeks ago. Though

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Speaker 1: I'm totally with you on that. I mean that first

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Speaker 1: play that that end around him exactly. He said, you

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Speaker 1: know what that and Matt and I talked about this

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Speaker 1: Durney game. I turned him Matt, I said, Matt, you

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Speaker 1: know what play that's forgotten and this game is the

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Speaker 1: table for us because East off in the edge. I've

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Speaker 1: been I've been crying for Dueling. I don't understand it

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Speaker 1: why he isn't because he's tough, he blocks, he does everything,

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Speaker 1: and he's so much more explosive than everybody else. I'm

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Speaker 1: totally with you on that, Joe. I'm just I'm begging

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Speaker 1: for him to play more. I really am, because I

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Speaker 1: think he is that guy. Yeah, Pat Pascal has been awful, solid,

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Speaker 1: and he is. He is really good at what he does.

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Speaker 1: But in my opinion, Duelan gives us the higher ceiling

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Speaker 1: in terms of a third white out there because here's what,

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Speaker 1: here's what happens. Here's it's like Jack and Pascal. They're

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Speaker 1: dependable guys. If the scheme gets them open, they're gonna

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Speaker 1: be open and they're gonna catch it. But if they

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Speaker 1: get tough one on one covers you can't count on it.

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Speaker 1: Then we need somebody else and right now, you know,

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Speaker 1: I just I keep one and heal them to be there.

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Speaker 1: But it seems like every time he gets bumpties out

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Speaker 1: of the game, you know, I just you know, it's

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Speaker 1: killing me on that because I still think he has juice. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: all right, good stuff, good burning questions tonight here on

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Speaker 1: Colts Roundtable Live. Rick vent Terry, Joe Wrights. I'm Matt Taylor.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk about the Colts and the elite special team units.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk about Also there's a question in here Fellas

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Speaker 1: Chew on this, does Frank Reich own Bill Belichick. It

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Speaker 1: might be a little bit too early, little premature to

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Speaker 1: lot to choose from. Let's go to grant grants up first.

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Speaker 1: This is geared towards Rick. He's asking Rick, why are

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Speaker 1: the Colts superior to other teams when it comes to

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Speaker 1: special teams? Do other teams just not prioritize those things

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Speaker 1: in the draft, coaching, etc. Well, they're prioritized at different levels. Now,

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Speaker 1: the beauty of Saturday Night was the Patriots traditionally have

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Speaker 1: been the most high prioritized and normally as a number

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Speaker 1: one or two ranking in the league. So to beat

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Speaker 1: them at their own game is a tremendous tribute to

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Speaker 1: this franchise. Now, to me, our special teams is a

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Speaker 1: perfect storm of confidence. It starts, first of all, with

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Speaker 1: Ballard's ability to draft on the third day and to

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Speaker 1: select quality undrafted free agents. Just look at it. Matt Franklin,

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Speaker 1: Speed Adams, Odin Dulin, Glasgow Roads, the snapper. You know,

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Speaker 1: our two return guys, our third day draft ficks. I mean,

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Speaker 1: so you know, it's an amazing how accurate he's been

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Speaker 1: in selecting those guys that give us talent. Then you

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Speaker 1: turn it over to Bubba, who, in my opinion at

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Speaker 1: this moment in time, is the premier special teams coach

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Speaker 1: in the National Football League. He gets them ready emotionally,

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Speaker 1: he sells them on what they've got to do. He

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Speaker 1: gets them ready schematically. He has that charisma with those guys.

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Speaker 1: They believe in him, they got in play. So when

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Speaker 1: you put the prioritization in the draft, in the ability,

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Speaker 1: I mean, some people would like to do that, but

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Speaker 1: most people don't draft as well as we do on

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Speaker 1: the third day. And then to have a coach who

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Speaker 1: puts that all together, it's just amazing. But I mean

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Speaker 1: to see Dad block kick. I think Joe mentioned it

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Speaker 1: before you want to talk about an implaqt play that

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Speaker 1: was stunning. That was stunning, and I think it's stunned

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Speaker 1: the Patriots and I'm not sure they ever recovered from it,

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Speaker 1: No doubt about that was the game changer. All Right,

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Speaker 1: we tease this one again. Send in your question tonight

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Speaker 1: hashtag Colt's Roundtable on Twitter for Rick Ventserry Joe, right, Tim,

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Speaker 1: Matt Taylor. We talked about this one on the last

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Speaker 1: segment here. This is from Mitch Joe. Do you guys

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Speaker 1: think that Frank Reich owns Bill Belichick? Two wins as

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Speaker 1: an OC and a head coach, the Super Bowl and

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Speaker 1: Philly and a great game plan here with the Colts.

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Speaker 1: I mean, Frank Reich is a great coach, but Bill Belichick, Joe,

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Speaker 1: six super Bowls kind of speak for itself. I don't

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Speaker 1: know if anybody owns Bill Belichick. Well inspect to some

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Speaker 1: of the great coaches in this league, and I think

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Speaker 1: that's accurate. I tell you what, Mitch, My brother Andy

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Speaker 1: was going around Lucas Oil screaming that right owns Belichick

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Speaker 1: to everybody after the game. I will say this about Frank.

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Speaker 1: Obviously they beat him with Philly and the Super Bowl

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Speaker 1: when he was you know, dialing up plays. You know,

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Speaker 1: then lost in twenty eighteen up in New England. But

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Speaker 1: Frank's team was more well prepared than Bills on Saturday night.

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Speaker 1: They executed better schematically to better, and they were better

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Speaker 1: to play. And I think the thing about Frank is

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Speaker 1: he's so even keeled week to week, right the Colts emotionally.

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Speaker 1: When you look at NFL teams that ride the wave

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Speaker 1: up and down and up and down like Tennessee to me,

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Speaker 1: rise the wave all the time, Frank's teams are always

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Speaker 1: ready to play, and I think always well prepared. That's

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Speaker 1: a credit to just his demeanor as a head coach

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Speaker 1: and being a leader of men. And again I don't

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Speaker 1: think you say anybody owns Belichick because he's gonna go

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Speaker 1: down and the Annals of History is the best of

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Speaker 1: all time. But Frank ain't flinching on the other sideline.

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Speaker 1: And the perfect example of that is, you know, when

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Speaker 1: it's twenty to ten and they kicked the field goal

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Speaker 1: because they think that there's gonna be nine minutes left,

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Speaker 1: they're gonna get the ball. We take five minutes off

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Speaker 1: the clock, dial up eight runs, punt it back, to

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Speaker 1: him and that fourth and one call on your own

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Speaker 1: forty three. That took some stones and Wright didn't flinch,

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Speaker 1: and I love that about him. Just a great job

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Speaker 1: of him preparing the Colts team for that Pat's game. Indeed,

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Speaker 1: all right, time for a quick time out. When we

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Speaker 1: come back, we'll take some more of your Twitter questions

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Speaker 1: close out the show talk about the Arizona Cardinals and

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Speaker 1: take a peek at the AFC playoffs standings in week

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Speaker 1: number sixteen. All of that and more when we come

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Speaker 1: back with Rick Vent, Terry Joe Wright. Si'm Matt Taylor

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Speaker 1: for the final time tonight on Colts Round Table Live.

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Speaker 1: regular season and hopefully a playoff run for the Colts.

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Speaker 1: Let's go to Doug's question, Joe, what are the chances

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Speaker 1: that the Colts make the playoffs and what matchups in

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Speaker 1: the playoffs should we be rooting for? In other words,

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Speaker 1: Colts matchup well against one. The AFC South is not

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Speaker 1: completely over yet, with Tennessee following yesterday. They host San

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Speaker 1: Francisco this week and then Miami, who's won six in

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Speaker 1: a row. Now they'd have to lose two more home games,

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Speaker 1: but if they do that, the South is still in alive.

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Speaker 1: It's hanging by a thread, but it definitely wasn't there

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Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago. But I think the Colts

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Speaker 1: are realists. Is gonna end up as a wild card

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Speaker 1: as the five or the sixth seed. The fact that

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Speaker 1: we have so many tiebreakers, is going to be great

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Speaker 1: for us because we should have the five or the

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Speaker 1: sixth seed, and you know, the five or the six

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Speaker 1: seeds gonna play. It's either gonna play Tennessee in Nashville.

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Speaker 1: I love another crack at the Titans, or it's gonna

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Speaker 1: play the AFC North winner on the road, whoever that's

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Speaker 1: gonna be Baltimore, Cleveland, Cincinnati, And none of those teams

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Speaker 1: scare me in my opinion. The Chiefs are playing the

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Speaker 1: best of anybody. After that, the Colts number two, and

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Speaker 1: then the rest of you know, the Pats, the Chargers,

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Speaker 1: the Bills. You're not gonna face any of those teams

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Speaker 1: in the first round if you're the five or the six,

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Speaker 1: first or second best wild card. So I really think

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Speaker 1: it's setting up nicely for the Colts. I think they

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Speaker 1: get in their percentages is you know darn near a lock,

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Speaker 1: especially if you win two out of three, which you should,

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Speaker 1: and you're gonna have a favorable matchup Week one in

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Speaker 1: the playoffs because you're gonna be playing in Nashville against

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Speaker 1: the Titans, or you're gonna be playing somebody in the

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Speaker 1: AFC North. And I like the Colts chances against any

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Speaker 1: Taking a look at the AFC standings, the Chiefs are

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Speaker 1: the number one seed as of right now, they lead

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Speaker 1: the AFC West. They're ten and four, the Patriots nine

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Speaker 1: and five, the Titans at nine and five. They are

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Speaker 1: the third seed. The Bengals at eight and six. They

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Speaker 1: currently lead the AFC North, but they have to play

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Speaker 1: the Ravens coming up this weekend. Both of those teams

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Speaker 1: are eight and six. The Colts are the first wild

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Speaker 1: card at eight and six, Chargers at eight and six,

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Speaker 1: Bills at eight and six, and then outside the playoff

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Speaker 1: picture as of right now are the Ravens, but the

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Speaker 1: Colts have the tiebreakers over Buffalo, Los Angeles and Baltimore

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Speaker 1: based on best winning percentage in the conference. They have

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Speaker 1: the best AFC record among that group with the record

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Speaker 1: of seven and three, So rick as we close out.

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Speaker 1: The Cardinals are up next. They stubb their big time yesterday.

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Speaker 1: They fell to the Lions thirty to twelve. Kyler Murray

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Speaker 1: and company had fifty pass attempts in that game. But

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Speaker 1: despite the loss, they're still leading the NFC West. Give

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Speaker 1: us the quick skinny on the Cardinals on Christmas Night. Well,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's a it's another great opportunity to have

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Speaker 1: the entire football focus of the entire football world focus

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Speaker 1: on us against another division leading team. I think the

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Speaker 1: reality is we're catching him at the right time. Now.

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Speaker 1: They're going to be angry after the Detroit game, so

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Speaker 1: you're going to get a better game than they got Saturday,

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Speaker 1: their Sunday yesterday. But you know, this is a team

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Speaker 1: that you know, they raced out. I mean they're ten

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Speaker 1: wins are based on the first seven. You know, they've

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Speaker 1: lost four to seven, three out of five, however you

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Speaker 1: want to cut it, you know, and they've lost three

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Speaker 1: of them at home. I mean, they've struggled at home.

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Speaker 1: So you know, this is a team. I think it

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Speaker 1: really hurt him to lose Hopkins. Hopkins was the go

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Speaker 1: to guy. I think he was just an absolute favorite target,

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Speaker 1: favorite security blanket for the quarterback. I think he's a

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Speaker 1: little bit lost without him. They are led by Murray.

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Speaker 1: Murray as an MVP candidate. He's one of the dynamic

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Speaker 1: players in the league. You know, similar in some ways

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Speaker 1: to uh you know, to Jackson and Baltimore in that

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Speaker 1: he could beat you with design runs. He can beat

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Speaker 1: you with a lot of scrambles and extension. As a

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Speaker 1: matter of fact, the biggest thing I want to do

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Speaker 1: is keep that guy inclosed in the pocket, get a

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Speaker 1: couple trees up there inside like Buckner and maybe do

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Speaker 1: and make him play short. He's very far. He's diminutive,

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Speaker 1: but dynamic, and that's the key issue. You know. Obviously

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Speaker 1: the AJ Greens and Kirk and Rondale, Moore and Connor,

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Speaker 1: they got skills on offense, on defense, the highlight of

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Speaker 1: their team are the two edge rushers, you know, no

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Speaker 1: question about that. The two edge rushers are are the

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Speaker 1: top guys, Golden and Chandler Jones. They got twenty and

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Speaker 1: a half sacks between them. But only one thing I'll

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Speaker 1: start the week on is very much night New England.

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Speaker 1: They have a lot of great stats going in, but

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Speaker 1: they're seventeenth on rushing defense totally. They're seventeenth in total

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Speaker 1: rush and their number twenty seven in yards per rush

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Speaker 1: at four point six. So you know, right off the

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Speaker 1: bat you see an asset and you see a you know,

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Speaker 1: you see path to victory. All right, we gotta run tonight.

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Speaker 1: Fella's great job as always, Rick Venturry and Joel writes, Rick,

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Speaker 1: I know we're going to see each other coming up

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Speaker 1: on Saturday night. But Joe, by the way, I can't

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Speaker 1: think of a better way to spend Christmas Night other

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Speaker 1: than with Rick Ventury. But Joe, and I mean that seriously,

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Speaker 1: but Joe, seriously, Marry Christmas, enjoy the time with the

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Speaker 1: family this weekend, and thanks for all you do. Yeah, thanks,

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Speaker 1: and thanks to all the listeners to your questions interactions.

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Speaker 1: What makes this show go. Marry Christmas to all go

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Speaker 1: Colts and let's fire it up on Christmas Night. Indeed,

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Speaker 1: have some fun. That's all the time we have tonight.

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Speaker 1: My thanks to everybody who joined the show tweeted in

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Speaker 1: their questions. We'll have more on the Colts and the

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Speaker 1: Cardinals match up all week long. But again, inside IU

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Speaker 1: basketball is coming up next. To have a great night, everybody,

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Speaker 1: and we'll talk to you next week. Next Monday, you're

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Speaker 1: on Colts Roundtable Live on ninety three five and one

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Speaker 1: oh seven five to fans