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Speaker 2: thirty tonight again on this Tuesday, on early tonight. The

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Speaker 2: Pacers are in action tonight in Philadelphia and again normally

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Speaker 2: this show it airs on recapping games on Sundays, but

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Speaker 2: yesterday a day of rest and reacclamation for the Colts

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Speaker 2: getting back into the United States after their big win

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Speaker 2: in Germany over the weekend. Coming up in just a

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Speaker 2: per usual on this program. He's in Root right now,

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Speaker 2: heading down to the studio to recamp the win over

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Speaker 2: Colts analyst Rick Venturi and Joe Wrights as normal, starting

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Speaker 2: on segment number two and throughout the show tonight, we're

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Speaker 2: taking your questions on social media. Send those in on

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Speaker 2: x using hashtag Colts Roundtable. Colts though they were victorious

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Speaker 2: in Frankfurt on Sunday, beating the Patriots ten to six

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Speaker 2: in the lowest scoring game the NFL has seen so

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Speaker 2: far this year. It started off like it might be

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Speaker 2: a shootout. Both teams scored in their first drives of

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Speaker 2: the game. The Colts converted a fourth and goal inside

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Speaker 2: the fourth quarter on a met Gay fifty one yard

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Speaker 2: twenty points all season, and despite the low numbers on offense,

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Speaker 2: it was enough because the Colts defense was that good

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Speaker 2: all day long against the Patriots. The Colts held New

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Speaker 2: England to only six points, which was a single game

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Speaker 2: racked up five sacks, including a career day from dio

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Speaker 2: A dang Bo. He had three sacks in the game's

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Speaker 2: for loss and two interceptions. The Colts also gave up

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Speaker 2: clear game plan to slow down Jonathan Taylor at the

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Speaker 2: They primarily did that throughout, but the Colts receivers they

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Speaker 2: zone outside of a dang bow. On defense, Zire Franklin

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Speaker 2: Congratulations on the win against the Patriots, a win in Germany.

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Speaker 2: How satisfying was it to get that win with a

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Speaker 4: Yeah, no, it's huge to go overseas and get that

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Speaker 4: and West Virginia. I mean it was it was awesome experience,

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Speaker 5: It was awesome.

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Speaker 2: Well, let's talk about your team. The defense certainly set

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Speaker 2: that defense is racked up nine sacks, five turnovers. Why

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Speaker 4: They're just playing together, you know what I mean. They're

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Speaker 4: you know, to hold you know, Carolina to what ten

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Speaker 4: But it's been awesome to see the way the d

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Speaker 2: And then after ten games, your defense tied for fourth

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Speaker 5: Heading into the bye it's great they're all rushing together.

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Speaker 4: You know, we always talk about in the D line room,

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Speaker 2: Colts Roundtable Live. Let's go to Andy's question. First, coach,

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Speaker 2: what is your assessment of Gardner Minshew after six starts?

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Speaker 4: the one tiped interception in Germany, but he's giving us

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Speaker 2: All right, this goes back to the pass rush. John

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Speaker 5: The way he's rolling right now and.

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Speaker 4: The way he's playing, and he's just playing with great

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Speaker 2: It's head coach Shane sticking with us tonight on a

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Speaker 2: how's the season gone for you? What are you learning

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Speaker 5: You know, it's been good.

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Speaker 4: You know, with any NFL season, you know you're gonna

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Speaker 2: Danny's asking, how do you think defenses are going to

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Speaker 2: trip to Germany fellas Welcome back, Joe, How are you?

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Speaker 2: How did you take in the game? Was it weird

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Speaker 2: Get ready, get ready? Yeah, yeah, all right, Joey, begin

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Speaker 6: just as much as Dio. Obviously, three sacks for Dio,

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Speaker 6: but you know, Buckner was wrecking shop all game. And yeah,

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Speaker 6: just kind of a weird game, right, They went down

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Speaker 6: and scored, then we scored, and then after that offensive

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Speaker 6: explosion in the first quarter, you had six points the

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Speaker 6: rest of the game. And so it's a little bittersweet

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Speaker 6: for me because while the Colts have won two in

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Speaker 6: a row, you got yourself to five and five. You're

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Speaker 6: in the mix in this just unbelievably muddled AFC. I mean,

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Speaker 6: think about it. You have twelve teams right now, Matt

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Speaker 6: that are between six and three and four and five,

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Speaker 6: with the Colts right in the middle of five and five,

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Speaker 6: and it's gonna be really interesting in the last seven games,

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Speaker 6: but we're gonna have to get better offensive production, more points.

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Speaker 6: I know there was a stretch where the only team

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Speaker 6: in the NFL to have twenty points per game, but

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Speaker 6: when you think about Carolina, fourteen of those were scored

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Speaker 6: by Kenny Moore and than ten points now.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, definitely bye week.

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Speaker 6: I think is gonna be spent a lot of self

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Speaker 6: scout offensively, what do we need to do. And while

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Speaker 6: Minshew hasn't turned the ball over, that's been a positive.

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Speaker 3: You know. I don't know if he's a little bit.

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Speaker 6: Gun shy or just the offensive production isn't there, but

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Speaker 6: clearly we're gonna have to put some points up on

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Speaker 6: the board these last seven games if we're gonna want

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Speaker 6: to win keep ourselves in the mix here for a

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Speaker 6: playoff spot in the AFC.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I just think it was a really special feeling.

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Speaker 7: You know, the international component was obvious with all eyes

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Speaker 7: and ears. I think the Belichick factor also made it

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Speaker 7: more fun. And then it ended up being a sixty

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Speaker 7: minute game right down to the last minute, and you

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Speaker 7: cherish those no matter what. I think, the fact that

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Speaker 7: Dubai is here everyone can take legitimately normally you can't

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Speaker 7: legitimately a deep breath, get healthy and get ready to go.

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Speaker 7: And you know, we had to get back to five

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Speaker 7: and five. And now when you look at it, the

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Speaker 7: seven games are manageable, to say the least, and the

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Speaker 7: twenty three season, and I think, probably unexpectedly, is totally

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Speaker 7: in our hands. The rest of the way story, as

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Speaker 7: you guys said, was defense whenever you don't give up

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Speaker 7: TD five sacks, and the three biggest things that I

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Speaker 7: look for week after week the two turnovers. Blackman's was unbelievable.

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Speaker 7: I think I think that we were a little bit

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Speaker 7: of trouble there. I thought that was a tremendous play.

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Speaker 7: The four red zone stops were absolutely amazing. They had

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Speaker 7: three sixty yard drives in the second half, but they

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Speaker 7: couldn't turn him into anything. The red zone was great,

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Speaker 7: you know. And then most importantly, and this is something

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Speaker 7: that we haven't been good at, but in the last

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Speaker 7: two weeks now we have finished the fourth quarter on defense.

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Speaker 7: Special team's good. You know, we got the kicking that

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Speaker 7: we needed. Mackenzie's return in a tight game like that

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Speaker 7: was huge. Offense started really well. Actually, we random ball

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Speaker 7: early a little bit better, than I thought we would,

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Speaker 7: and the first touchdown was really the decider. Little did

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Speaker 7: we know that, but it really was. But you know,

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Speaker 7: as the day went on, I think Belichick gave us

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Speaker 7: his version of the Jaguar plan and it really shut

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Speaker 7: us down, you know. And again we'll get into that

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Speaker 7: in a minute, but you know, all that bear and

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Speaker 7: then when he did a little bit different, he played

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Speaker 7: a lot of man press and then he played when

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Speaker 7: he did play zone, it was really tight matchup. So

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Speaker 7: there was never much quick daylight. I know people are

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Speaker 7: on minshew, I'm going to get into that in a minute,

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Speaker 7: but there was very very quick, no daylight to go to.

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Speaker 7: I think again it's a tribute to Shane. I think

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Speaker 7: he is developing as a head coach, you know, beyond

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Speaker 7: offensive coordinator when you get in a game like that,

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Speaker 7: and Belichick was trying to win the game nine to seven.

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Speaker 7: That was his whole game, shorten it, run the ball

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Speaker 7: at us, don't do anything wrong, you know, win it

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Speaker 7: twelve to ten or nine to seven. And it was

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Speaker 7: kind of working for him, and I thought that Shane

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Speaker 7: did a good job. There's some times that when you

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Speaker 7: know your defense is not going to let him score,

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Speaker 7: a good head coach just pulls it back, and I've

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Speaker 7: seen that with him. I see that developing that wasn't

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Speaker 7: necessarily there a month ago. So you know, you know,

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Speaker 7: I think I will say this. I am thrilled to

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Speaker 7: death with where we are. I think when we sat

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Speaker 7: around the tent in Grant Park in August, if somebody

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Speaker 7: would have said, you know that Arner Minshew is going

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Speaker 7: to be the quarterback and we were going to be

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Speaker 7: five and five right now, I believe we'd have taken that.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, And I was going to say, coach, you know

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Speaker 6: what I think Shane really has and I think it's

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Speaker 6: a feel.

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Speaker 3: I think you can develop it.

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Speaker 6: But he coaches every game offensively to win that game

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Speaker 6: at that present time against that defense in the flow

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Speaker 6: of the game, right and he's not just going to

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Speaker 6: say this.

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Speaker 3: Was our game plan. We're coming in to do it.

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Speaker 6: And to your point, if Belichick's trying to win at

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Speaker 6: nine to seven, we'll win at ten to six and

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Speaker 6: we'll be happy doing it. And I think that's something

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Speaker 6: for a first time head coach. That's impressive. I'm curious

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I believe that totally, and we didn't necessarily see

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Speaker 7: it in Cleveland. If you go back to Cleveland, there

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Speaker 7: was some situations where he could have managed that better.

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Speaker 7: But the thing I like about Stike in he self

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Speaker 7: checks himself. He is not afraid to change immediately to

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Speaker 7: change the style. I think you hit it perfectly. Belichick

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Speaker 7: wants to win at nine to seven, will win at

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Speaker 7: twelve ten today, And that really takes something for a

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Speaker 7: guy who's really pretty much considered a genius offensive coordinator

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Speaker 7: to all of a sudden say, hey, we're going to

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Speaker 7: sacrifice all those numbers today is we're gonna win the game.

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Speaker 2: That's exactly what they did. Colts fans. Remember the weather

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Speaker 2: That's the next time out for the Colts on the

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Speaker 2: Where the Colts are at with some progress reports heading

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Speaker 2: into a week off. So let's start on the offensive

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Speaker 2: side of the ball. As I said five and five,

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Speaker 2: Gardner Minshew playing in nine of ten games at quarterback.

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Speaker 2: He's had six starts, and during this two game winning streak,

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Speaker 2: Colts Beeak Carolina with one hundred and ninety eight yards.

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Speaker 2: They followed that up with two hundred and sixty four

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Speaker 2: touchdown in each of the last two games. However, they

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Speaker 2: have scored at least twenty and nine of ten games.

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Speaker 2: They ranked tenth in the NFL this season with plays

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Speaker 2: over twenty with thirty nine plays on the season, So

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Speaker 2: they are explosive. But generally speaking, as we've said, the

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Speaker 2: probable blueprint that teams are gonna use to stop the

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Speaker 2: Colts in the final seven games. They're gonna stack the

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Speaker 2: line of scrimmage, They're going to take away that running game.

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Speaker 2: They're gonna try to slow down Jonathan Taylor and Dare

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Speaker 2: Gardner Minshew to make some more throws in the passing game, Joe.

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Speaker 2: So what does your progress report say on the Colts

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Speaker 2: on the offensive side, Joe, Yeah, when.

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Speaker 6: We sit here at the bye week, I'm giving our

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Speaker 6: some a minus offensively for a couple reasons. One, we're

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Speaker 6: top ten in points, we're twelve. I think overall in yards.

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Speaker 6: You know, our one offensive stat that's hurt us as turnovers.

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Speaker 6: I think we're twenty one. And I think, Matt Well,

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Speaker 6: you make a good point. We scored one offensive touchdown

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Speaker 6: the last two games. We're two and zero. And you

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Speaker 6: know when Kenny Moore scored fourteen last week and we

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Speaker 6: talked about kind of the slugfest this game was. You know,

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Speaker 6: we scored thirty eight against the Browns and that counts

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Speaker 6: as an l at the end of the day in

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Speaker 6: the scorebook. And I think we've done a better job

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Speaker 6: of keeping things tighter, not turning the football over. But

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Speaker 6: again coach mentioned it, Gardner Minshew's played in nine of

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Speaker 6: our ten games this year, and we're five and five

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Speaker 6: and we're in the middle of a very packed AFC,

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Speaker 6: but very alive, and you know, the playoff race and

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Speaker 6: I think if you're going to say you've done that

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Speaker 6: with your backup quarterback, I think you've got to get

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Speaker 6: a lot of credit to the offense because I think

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Speaker 6: offensively we have definitely overachieved to where I thought it

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Speaker 6: would be at the beginning of the season, especially considered

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Speaker 6: Richardson has missed the time that he has.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, you know, I look at this and I look

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Speaker 7: at what you know, what are we going to have

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Speaker 7: to do to get better? And we talk about the

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Speaker 7: seven games are winnable, but what are we going to

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Speaker 7: have to do to make a run on offense? Because

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Speaker 7: as good as we like what we did, you know

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Speaker 7: you were working. You're working against two bottom feeders that

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Speaker 7: can't score a point. You get one that scores thirteen

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Speaker 7: one to score six, and you know that, you know,

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Speaker 7: with that kind of offense, you know you don't have

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Speaker 7: to do much to win a game. But that's not

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Speaker 7: going to happen so much even going forward. I mean,

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Speaker 7: I watch Baker Mayfield, you know, with Evans, you know,

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Speaker 7: and with Godwin. That's a different that's back a little

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Speaker 7: bit more towards some teams we played early. You got

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Speaker 7: Joey Burrow the third game, you know going in, I mean,

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Speaker 7: you're not Those teams aren't going to get thirteen or

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Speaker 7: We've talked about this. It's the same thing everybody's applying

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Speaker 7: because that's what this league is. And again they're playing

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Speaker 7: that bear defense on first down, and you know, we

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Speaker 7: it's just and Joe will tell you this, it's really

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Speaker 7: you can't. We did it a little bit early and

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Speaker 7: Jonathan made some runs, some three or four yard runs,

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Speaker 7: but you can't sustain a pure zone running game against

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Speaker 7: that bear defense with the safety down. We have to

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Speaker 7: get a little bit more variation because we don't want

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Speaker 7: to say, well, Jonathan Taylor is not going to win

655
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Speaker 7: this game. We got to win it with our receivers.

656
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Speaker 7: So I think we still as we look at ourselves

657
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Speaker 7: in to buy we've got to use a little bit

658
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Speaker 7: more two tight ends that looks like two backs, where

659
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Speaker 7: you can power kick, where you can run whams, where

660
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Speaker 7: you can do different things to keep Jonathan alive, and

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Speaker 7: not totally rely on the passing game, because the other

662
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Speaker 7: thing they're implying is it's that tight man demand. They

663
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Speaker 7: have no respect for our receivers. We really need to

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Speaker 7: get downs back because he's the one guy that can

665
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Speaker 7: really create without the scheme. But they're doing a lot

666
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Speaker 7: of that, and so you know, I think we've got

667
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Speaker 7: to figure out, you know, how to get free excess

668
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Speaker 7: for Pittman quicker in the down. You know, we're trying

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Speaker 7: to run over routes, which is all right against man covers.

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Speaker 7: And thank god, our offensive line that really held up

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Speaker 7: if you really look at it, I mean our offensive line.

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Speaker 7: We're number ten in few of sacks given up. And

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Speaker 7: people are criticizing Gardner for holding the ball, but if

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Speaker 7: you really look at it, there's no fast separation, very

675
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Speaker 7: little fast separation. And what he did a great job of.

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Speaker 7: To me, I think it's a kind of a better

677
00:30:12,560 --> 00:30:15,440
Speaker 7: job than we give him credit. Is he uncovered, he

678
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Speaker 7: got out and moved so much better than I ever expected.

679
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Speaker 7: And he makes big plays, including from an offensive standpoint,

680
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Speaker 7: the biggest player of the game is to throw and

681
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Speaker 7: catch by downs. Because that was so big it took

682
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Speaker 7: them out of timeouts. It also made it first at

683
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Speaker 7: eighty five from where we punted the ball. But I mean,

684
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Speaker 7: we have to figure that out. I don't think that

685
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Speaker 7: we can get in the comfort zone and think we

686
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Speaker 7: can really win this way and sustain it. I think

687
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Speaker 7: that's important. And then at the end of the day though,

688
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Speaker 7: you know, I talked to missionary about that, if they

689
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Speaker 7: put nine guys inside the numbers, you know, that's eight

690
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Speaker 7: guys in the free safety inside the numbers. You know,

691
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Speaker 7: our receivers they're getting paid, they're gonna have to win outside.

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Speaker 7: I mean they you know, at some point, you know,

693
00:31:01,280 --> 00:31:03,520
Speaker 7: numbers just beat you and you've got to be able

694
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Speaker 7: to throw it outside and get it there. So, you know,

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Speaker 7: there's a lot of things we got to get better at,

696
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Speaker 7: but we really, we really have fallen off offensively in

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Speaker 7: the last couple of weeks.

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Speaker 2: Table Live. All Right, that's the offensive progress report. Let's

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Speaker 2: go to the defensive report here at the bye So

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Speaker 2: New England obviously they're not going to be confused with

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Speaker 2: the best offense in the NFL. But to hold an

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Speaker 2: NFL team to only six points really really good stuff

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Speaker 2: right there. As we said, that's the fewest points the

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Speaker 2: sacks to go along with six tackles for lost two picks.

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Speaker 2: The Patriots zero for four in the red zone. And

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Speaker 2: it's a really good bounce back performance because the Colts

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Speaker 2: prior to these two games against the Panthers and the Patriots,

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Speaker 2: they were giving up, you know, at least thirty seven

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Speaker 2: points in three straight games, three straight losses. So the

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Speaker 2: Colts have responded by allowing just one touchdown and four

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Speaker 2: field goals over the last one hundred and twenty minutes

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Speaker 2: of football. So, Joe again, back to you. What is

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Speaker 2: the progress report for you on the Colts defense with

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Speaker 2: seven games to play, in the amount of momentum they have,

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Speaker 2: you know, potentially generated here in these last two wins.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, mixed review for me, because again you mentioned that

727
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Speaker 6: Browns game, and I just think while our offense gave

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Speaker 6: him some points, they are just what we did at

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Speaker 6: the end of that game in the fourth quarter, three

730
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Speaker 6: minutes left to let them come back and go eighty yards.

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Speaker 6: And I hope doesn't come back to catch us when

732
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Speaker 6: he gets down to numbers and crunching and you know,

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Speaker 6: the playoff formation. But I think our defense has been

734
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Speaker 6: good when we've been aggressive, and I think when we

735
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Speaker 6: blitz and we've been aggressive schematically, we've been good. And

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Speaker 6: if I had to give an MVP, I'm giving Buckner

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Speaker 6: one A and I'm giving Zaire one B. Kenny Moore

738
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Speaker 6: is obviously having a great season as well, but you know,

739
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Speaker 6: Franklin comes back twelve tackles. Buckner I think has just been,

740
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Speaker 6: you know, a menace on a different level. And I

741
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Speaker 6: think the other thing Matt is he's inspired those younger

742
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Speaker 6: guys to play like that on the defensive line. A

743
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Speaker 6: because he's commanded a bunch of double teams, but B

744
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Speaker 6: just with the effort in the tenacity that he brings.

745
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Speaker 6: So for me these last seven games, I want us

746
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Speaker 6: to keep dialing it up. I want us to keep

747
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Speaker 6: being aggressive. I want us to keep bringing guys five

748
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Speaker 6: and six guys. I know, you know, we have some

749
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Speaker 6: issues on the back end corner wise, but it seems

750
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Speaker 6: to me that the games that we're winning, we're continuing

751
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Speaker 6: to get pressure with either our four guys who we're

752
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Speaker 6: bringing five and six, and I just think that's something

753
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Speaker 6: we don't have, you know, Pro Bowl lockdown corners on

754
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Speaker 6: the outside. So I think we got to find creative

755
00:33:50,840 --> 00:33:53,160
Speaker 6: ways to bring pressure, and we got to stable the

756
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Speaker 6: ship in the run game. Buckner's got two more games, sorry,

757
00:33:56,200 --> 00:33:58,400
Speaker 6: excuse me, Grover Stewart and then he comes back and

758
00:33:58,440 --> 00:34:00,880
Speaker 6: he's a difference maker, but obviously we're going to miss

759
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Speaker 6: them for two more So Patriots got loose a little

760
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Speaker 6: bit running the football, and we got to shore that up.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, you know, I agree. I think there's two things

762
00:34:08,360 --> 00:34:13,200
Speaker 7: that we did in the Carolina game. It was not necessary,

763
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Speaker 7: it wasn't the it wasn't really the game plan for

764
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Speaker 7: this week against the Patriots. But the two things we

765
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Speaker 7: did in Carolina, which I think we have to carry

766
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Speaker 7: through the seven weeks is pressure. Like Joe said, we

767
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Speaker 7: can't be a fourteen percent pressure team. We've got to

768
00:34:28,440 --> 00:34:32,160
Speaker 7: be somewhere between thirty and forty to apply that pressure.

769
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Speaker 7: I think number two we have to continue to realize

770
00:34:35,160 --> 00:34:37,839
Speaker 7: with those young corners, we got to mix cover two

771
00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:41,200
Speaker 7: cover eight. We did a terrific job against that we

772
00:34:41,360 --> 00:34:44,600
Speaker 7: you know, two weeks ago, but last week with their receivers,

773
00:34:44,600 --> 00:34:46,080
Speaker 7: that wasn't the way to do what you had to

774
00:34:46,080 --> 00:34:48,560
Speaker 7: play them inside, you know. And the thing that I

775
00:34:48,640 --> 00:34:51,239
Speaker 7: really like, if you want to just look at statistics,

776
00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:54,880
Speaker 7: these were things. Now they're not glamorous statistics yet, but

777
00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:57,319
Speaker 7: these were things we were in the bottom three in

778
00:34:57,360 --> 00:35:00,520
Speaker 7: the league. Our red zone now has slowly creeped up

779
00:35:00,560 --> 00:35:05,480
Speaker 7: to eighteen, our takeaways eleven. Our fourth quarter defense, now

780
00:35:05,480 --> 00:35:08,800
Speaker 7: we've lived at thirty two, is now up to sixteen,

781
00:35:09,160 --> 00:35:12,319
Speaker 7: and our sacks are up to nine. So you know,

782
00:35:12,400 --> 00:35:15,200
Speaker 7: there is no doubt that there's a lot of improvement.

783
00:35:15,239 --> 00:35:17,880
Speaker 7: But I think those two things that we just talked

784
00:35:17,920 --> 00:35:19,640
Speaker 7: about are going to be critical. I don't think you

785
00:35:19,640 --> 00:35:23,399
Speaker 7: can play Mayfield without pressure without cover two. Same way

786
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Speaker 7: with Joe Burrow. I don't know so much about Levis,

787
00:35:26,200 --> 00:35:28,680
Speaker 7: but those two out of three I do know. Now

788
00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:32,279
Speaker 7: I would say that the alarm and this is an alarm.

789
00:35:32,520 --> 00:35:34,719
Speaker 7: I think, you know, when we get Grover back it'll

790
00:35:34,719 --> 00:35:38,720
Speaker 7: be a huge factor. But you know, again one sixty

791
00:35:38,840 --> 00:35:41,359
Speaker 7: seven to the Patriots, we do that's all they were

792
00:35:41,360 --> 00:35:43,919
Speaker 7: going to do. Four point I mean that I think

793
00:35:43,960 --> 00:35:46,080
Speaker 7: that's what crazy the week before one hundred and thirty

794
00:35:46,120 --> 00:35:49,120
Speaker 7: eight four point nine, and we're not stopping it right

795
00:35:49,200 --> 00:35:52,480
Speaker 7: at us, you know, and obviously without Grover we have

796
00:35:52,600 --> 00:35:55,440
Speaker 7: a huge void. But we're also just like I said,

797
00:35:55,480 --> 00:35:58,240
Speaker 7: on a positive side, we did a lot of different

798
00:35:58,280 --> 00:36:00,480
Speaker 7: things against Carolina. We got to do some different things

799
00:36:00,560 --> 00:36:03,080
Speaker 7: till he gets back up front. I mean, you can't

800
00:36:03,120 --> 00:36:06,520
Speaker 7: just sit there in that over every single down and

801
00:36:06,560 --> 00:36:08,640
Speaker 7: they know and you don't have a noseguard that can

802
00:36:08,719 --> 00:36:11,879
Speaker 7: really win. And when Buckner goes out because he has

803
00:36:11,920 --> 00:36:14,319
Speaker 7: to get a rest, it is it's just Katie by

804
00:36:14,360 --> 00:36:17,080
Speaker 7: the door. And then we got to play speed over Leonard.

805
00:36:17,200 --> 00:36:19,360
Speaker 7: It's the elephant in the room. But Leonard is giving

806
00:36:19,440 --> 00:36:21,920
Speaker 7: us a zero. We have got to have speed in

807
00:36:21,960 --> 00:36:25,279
Speaker 7: there because on first and second down when teams are

808
00:36:25,280 --> 00:36:26,680
Speaker 7: going to run it at you, you got to have

809
00:36:26,760 --> 00:36:30,600
Speaker 7: your hammers and that speed. Hopefully Franklin stays healthy, and

810
00:36:30,640 --> 00:36:32,759
Speaker 7: then we got to move that nose and there's no

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Speaker 7: just none. But I think you're gonna have to stop

813
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Speaker 7: that because we cannot continue to give up that running

814
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Speaker 2: Colts Roundtable is the best way to do that. Let's

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Speaker 2: go to Justin's question. First. This is for Rick vin Turrey.

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Speaker 2: He's asking Rick, as a former coach, what's the verdict

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Speaker 2: on Shane Steiking through ten games? Where do we have

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Speaker 2: an advantage with him on the sidelines maybe compared to

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Speaker 2: years past.

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Speaker 7: Well, I'll be honest with you, Justin, I think it's

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Speaker 7: a great question. And I've been around now since two

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Speaker 7: twelve again, and I honestly believe this that we never

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Speaker 7: are at a disadvantage with Stikeen as a head coach,

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Speaker 7: and I haven't felt that way necessarily for the last

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Speaker 7: twelve years. I'm not saying every game, but I feel like,

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Speaker 7: and I think Joe hit it, that he's game specific.

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Speaker 7: He goes in to win this game, and I never

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Speaker 7: feel like we're going to get out coached at the

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Speaker 7: head coaching level. Some things that he's brought that I

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Speaker 7: really like. He's brought a quiet accountability, and you know,

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Speaker 7: I like that at the profession. He doesn't make a

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Speaker 7: lot of statements about players. He doesn't get into that,

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Speaker 7: but if a player doesn't play well, he doesn't play

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Speaker 7: very long. And I really like that he's brought cutting

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Speaker 7: edge football. You know, when he had Richardson, he brought

890
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Speaker 7: an offense to us that very few people knew and

891
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Speaker 7: could do it. But then he flipped right over with

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Speaker 7: Gardner and has played a totally different offense seamlessly and

893
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Speaker 7: done that really good. We've seen creative stuff in the game.

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Speaker 7: I mean, you know, he stole timeouts with people with

895
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Speaker 7: those line changes as Matt says, I mean he's done

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Speaker 7: stuff like that and what I like and what I've noticed,

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Speaker 7: and maybe I'm overthinking it, but I just think he's

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Speaker 7: grown as a head coach. I think the last two

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Speaker 7: games were really good by him because rather than try

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Speaker 7: to just go wild and score a million points, he

901
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Speaker 7: knew he could win it tight, and he was willing

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Speaker 7: to subjugate his offensive thinking a little bit and let

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Speaker 7: the defense really take over. So now I think we

904
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Speaker 7: really really have it right on this one. Like I said,

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Speaker 7: I never go into a game now feeling we're gonna

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Speaker 7: be out coached.

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Speaker 2: All right, let's go back to the mail bag here again.

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Speaker 2: Hashtag Colts round Table on Twitter on x to get

909
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Speaker 2: in your questions with us.

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Speaker 3: Every week.

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Speaker 2: You're on Colts Round Table Live. Rick Venti, Joe Wright,

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Speaker 2: Si'm Matt Taylor. Let's go to Don's question. Joe, Don

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Speaker 2: is firing up. What is the most beneficial aspect of

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Speaker 2: having the buye Joe this late in the season. As

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Speaker 2: a former player, what do you recommend the players get

916
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Speaker 2: out of the buye this late in the season with

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Speaker 2: seven games to go.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, always good to have the later bye.

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Speaker 6: That's the first thing you look at when the schedule

920
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Speaker 6: comes out, and it's advantageous because one you get physically healthy,

921
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Speaker 6: you get a chance to rest and all those nix

922
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Speaker 6: and bruises too. You get to unplug a little bit

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Speaker 6: more mentally and emotionally. And I think that's players and

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Speaker 6: coaches too. And now all of a sudden, instead of

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Speaker 6: having the buye, we can come back and say, well,

926
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Speaker 6: we got eleven games or twelve games less, maybe the playoffs,

927
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Speaker 6: there's seven games you're in that sprint to the finish line.

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Speaker 6: I just think mentally, emotionally, you know, spiritually, it's easier

929
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Speaker 6: to kind of hone in to say, hey, fellas, every

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Speaker 6: game now it's a seven game sprint to get us

931
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Speaker 6: in the playoffs and get us in the dance. And

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Speaker 6: I think it's gonna be really nice just mentally knowing, hey,

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Speaker 6: we got our bye week and we're not coming back

934
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Speaker 6: and playing until after Thanksgiving. And so I think this

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Speaker 6: is a big advantage for the Colts and hopefully something

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Speaker 6: that we can continue to be healthy, not only physically,

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Speaker 6: but also mentally recharged in late December and January when

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Speaker 6: you're trying to win these critical games and get yourself

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Speaker 6: in the playoff race.

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Speaker 2: All right, let's go back to the mail bag. We

941
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Speaker 2: had time for maybe one more and Rick, I know

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Speaker 2: you wanted to talk about Dio a dangbo. I know

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Speaker 2: Shane Steiken talked about it earlier on our segment here

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Speaker 2: on segment number one, but I know you had some

945
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Speaker 2: good thoughts on Dio. Let's go to Gary's question regarding that.

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Speaker 2: He's asking, why is Dio exploding and is he close

947
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Speaker 2: to turning into a star on the edge for us?

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I think he really is. I mean, Dio even

949
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Speaker 7: when we got him now, we got him hurt, and

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Speaker 7: there was gonna be a year and there was gonna

951
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Speaker 7: be a growth period, and there was going to be

952
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Speaker 7: a period where we figure out out where he fits better.

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Speaker 7: But what Dio has. He has great athleticism. He's got

954
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Speaker 7: really really loose hips, He's versatile as all get out.

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Speaker 7: He can play first down on the edge. I don't

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Speaker 7: think necessarily he's a great edge rusher, but he's a

957
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Speaker 7: really good football player on the edge. And then where

958
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Speaker 7: he becomes a star is on third down when you

959
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Speaker 7: put him inside opposite buck and buckets all those doubles.

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Speaker 7: I mean, he just killed those guys Sunday. I mean

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Speaker 7: they couldn't. That's thou kid. He still can't find him.

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Speaker 7: He really can't find him because he has so much athleticism.

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Speaker 7: I think his confidence is growing. I've always felt and

964
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Speaker 7: I said it last week actually, when I was asked

965
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Speaker 7: that he is definitely going to be a double digit

966
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Speaker 7: SAT guy. I think, honestly, the only thing that will

967
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Speaker 7: ever prevent him from being a star is just not

968
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Speaker 7: necessarily playing sixty minutes in a game. I am really impressed.

969
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Speaker 7: I'm not totally surprise because I loved his athleticism, but

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Speaker 7: it's coming truition now.

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Speaker 2: All right, that's a look at the Colts Mailbag, a

972
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Speaker 2: part of Colts Surround Table Live. As always getting those

973
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Speaker 2: questions for us every week using hashtag Colts and round Table.

974
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Speaker 2: When we come back, we'll close out the show. We'll

975
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Speaker 2: take a look at the AFC South standings and also

976
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Speaker 2: the AFC playoff picture with the Colts heading into an

977
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Speaker 2: off week. Here in week eleven, five and five through

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Speaker 2: ten games. You're listening to Colts Round Table Live. We'll

979
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Speaker 2: close it out in just a moment. You're on ninety

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Speaker 2: three to five and one oh seven to five the fan.

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Speaker 1: We now return to Colts Roundtable Live once again. Here's

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Speaker 1: Matt Taylor from the Indiana Union Construction Industry Radio studio.

983
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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back for the final time. Tonight, Colts Round

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Speaker 2: across the Midwest. So a quick look at the AFC

990
00:45:03,200 --> 00:45:06,440
Speaker 2: South standings. The Jaguars are six and three, but they

991
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Speaker 2: lost the forty nine Ers on Sunday thirty four to three.

992
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Speaker 2: The Texans continue to roll. They're five and four. They

993
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Speaker 2: beat the Bengals impressively on Sunday. Colts are five and five.

994
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Speaker 2: Titans are three and six if the AFC playoffs. If

995
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Speaker 2: the playoffs started today, the Colts would be on the

996
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Speaker 2: outside looking in on the AFC playoff picture. They currently

997
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Speaker 2: ranked tenth in the AFC playoff standings, again with the

998
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Speaker 2: record of five and five. All right, before we give

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Speaker 2: way to the Pacers and Pacer pre game, here in

1000
00:45:34,880 --> 00:45:37,920
Speaker 2: a couple of minutes closing arguments with Rick Venturi and

1001
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Speaker 2: Joe Wrights, and as we talked about Joe, the Colts

1002
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Speaker 2: get a precious week off really kind of their their

1003
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Speaker 2: first extensive time off since late July when training camp started,

1004
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Speaker 2: but now a chance to rest and refocus for the

1005
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Speaker 2: home stretch. What do you try to get accomplished here

1006
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Speaker 2: on the bye week as a former player and getting

1007
00:45:56,280 --> 00:45:58,880
Speaker 2: ready for a grueling you know, month and a half

1008
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Speaker 2: left of the year here, First.

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Speaker 6: Off, get healthy? And Rick will say this from a

1010
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Speaker 6: coach's perspective, self scout, what are teams doing? What are

1011
00:46:05,920 --> 00:46:08,440
Speaker 6: they going to play us? Especially I think offensively? How

1012
00:46:08,480 --> 00:46:10,399
Speaker 6: are we going to handle what you know, coach would

1013
00:46:10,440 --> 00:46:12,839
Speaker 6: call the Jacksonville game playing against us? But I always

1014
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Speaker 6: felt like I didn't do this early in my career

1015
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Speaker 6: mat But the good player self scout too, Okay, I'm

1016
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Speaker 6: ten games in.

1017
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Speaker 3: What have I done well? What can I get better at?

1018
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Speaker 3: And how can You're not going to.

1019
00:46:21,920 --> 00:46:24,360
Speaker 6: Make huge improvements here and there, but what do I

1020
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Speaker 6: need to really focus on technique wise the last seven

1021
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Speaker 6: games to play my very best? And so hopefully the

1022
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Speaker 6: coaches have given those to their players and the players

1023
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Speaker 6: have also done some self scouting their own here this

1024
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Speaker 6: bye week to get ready to roll when you come back.

1025
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I think it's important that everybody gets that deep breath.

1026
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Speaker 7: You can take it right now. But I think Shane

1027
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Speaker 7: has to tell these guys when they leave, when they're

1028
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Speaker 7: out of here, and impress with them that this when

1029
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Speaker 7: they come back, whether it's Sunday or Monday, they come

1030
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Speaker 7: back totally committed. You know, when we started in July,

1031
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Speaker 7: it's a marathon. Now it's a sprint to finish. It's

1032
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Speaker 7: got to be a total sense of urgency. In my opinion,

1033
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Speaker 7: the future is now. The one thing I like about Shane,

1034
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Speaker 7: he doesn't back away from saying games are big. It's

1035
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Speaker 7: not one of those well, it's just the next game, No,

1036
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Speaker 7: he said it. With these two going in and self

1037
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Speaker 7: scout is really important. I think it's it's sometimes when

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00:47:18,800 --> 00:47:21,600
Speaker 7: you come off two wins, you tend to not want

1039
00:47:21,640 --> 00:47:23,799
Speaker 7: to be as critical as you should, but when it

1040
00:47:23,800 --> 00:47:25,560
Speaker 7: really comes down to it, we got to figure out

1041
00:47:25,600 --> 00:47:28,879
Speaker 7: four things. On offense, how to run versus the bear

1042
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Speaker 7: and number two, how to get receiver separation. On defense,

1043
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Speaker 7: how to stop the run right at us. That scheme

1044
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Speaker 7: and personnel and we got to maintain coverages and pressures

1045
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Speaker 7: versus certain teams that are much better passing teams than

1046
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Speaker 7: we've looked at the last two weeks.

1047
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Speaker 2: All right, Rick Ventury, Joe Wrights bringing it as always,

1048
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Speaker 2: that's all the time we've got tonight and a great

1049
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Speaker 2: job for the fellas per usual here on this Tuesday

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Speaker 2: edition of Colts Round Table Live again. My thanks to

1051
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Speaker 2: head coach Shane Steichen who joined on the first segment.

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Speaker 2: If any of the show tonight again, it's gonna be

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Speaker 2: posted here shortly. Colts dot Com, the Colts Mobile app

1054
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Speaker 2: and the Colts Audio Network will have it. That's anywhere

1055
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Speaker 2: you download your podcasts. And reminder, we will not have

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Speaker 2: a show next Monday. No show next Monday night, following

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Speaker 2: the off weekend for the Colts on the bye, so

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Speaker 2: we will not return on this program until Monday November

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Speaker 2: twenty sixth, following the Buccaneers game. But a ser pregame

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Speaker 2: is next again the Pacers in Philly tonight against the

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Speaker 2: seventy six Sers. Thanks for listening the Colts Round Table

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Speaker 2: Live on ninety three five and one oh seven five

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Speaker 2: the Fan. Goodnight,