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

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Speaker 2: Ten good five but touchdown for the Colts. How found

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

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Speaker 2: I'm Matt Taylor again. Good to be with you tonight.

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Speaker 2: We're with you until six thirty This evening on a

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Speaker 2: little bit earlier with the Pacers hosting the Trailblazers to night.

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Speaker 2: Pacer pregame starts at six point thirty, so we're loaded

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Speaker 2: for the next hour talking Colts football. In just a

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Speaker 2: few minutes. We're scheduled to be joined by Colts head

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Speaker 2: coach Shane Steichen, who will recap the Colts victory on Sunday,

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Speaker 2: and then we'll also have plenty of time tonight to

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Speaker 2: hear from Colts analysts Rick vent Turrey and Joe Wrights.

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Speaker 2: They joined me on segment two and throughout the show tonight,

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Speaker 2: we're taking your social media questions. Submit those in on

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Speaker 2: X tonight for head coach Shane Steichen and again for

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Speaker 2: Rick and Joe. Use hashtag Colts Roundtable for that. The

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Speaker 2: Colts have now won three in a row after their

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Speaker 2: twenty seven to twenty win over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers

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Speaker 2: and it caps off a perfect November for the Colts,

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Speaker 2: who were three to zero in the month with wins

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Speaker 2: over Carolina, New England and Tampa. And it was a

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Speaker 2: complete team win for the Colts, all three phases contributing

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Speaker 2: at a high level. Offensively, the Colts averaged five point

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Speaker 2: seven yards per rush against a Tampa defense that was

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Speaker 2: Jonathan Taylor and Zach Moss were each over six yards

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Speaker 2: per carry for the game, and as a team, the

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Speaker 2: Colts rushed for one hundred and fifty five yards. They

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Speaker 2: also wrecked up three rushing touchdowns against a Tampa defense

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Speaker 2: that had allowed four all season going into Sunday. Jonathan

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Speaker 2: Taylor found the end zone twice for his first multi

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Speaker 2: rushing touchdown game since the twenty twenty one season, and

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Speaker 2: in the process, he passed Marshall Falk for the most

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Speaker 2: rushing touchdowns by a Colts player in their first four seasons,

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Speaker 2: with thirty six of them. The defense dominated the Bucks

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Speaker 2: up front. The Colts tied their season high on Sunday

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Speaker 2: with six sacks. Samson Ebacom had a team high two

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Speaker 2: of them, including the game ceiling stripsack on Baker Mayfield

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Speaker 2: It was recovered by Dio A Dangbo. And the pass

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Speaker 2: racked up fifteen sacks during their three game winning streak,

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Speaker 2: and the Colts also notched two more takeaways on Sunday,

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Speaker 2: including linebacker Ronnie Harrison's interception in the first half. The

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Speaker 2: And he stepped in front of it former teammate Baker

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Speaker 2: Mayfield's pass for a sixth career interception, and the Colts

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Speaker 2: would record a touchdown on the ensuing drive. On offense,

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Speaker 2: Gardner Minshew threw an interception of the first half, but

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Speaker 2: the Colts didn't win the turnover battle for the game,

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Speaker 2: as they now improved as six to zero this season

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Speaker 2: when they have less turnovers than their opposition. It was

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Speaker 2: also great to see the Colts close out a game

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Speaker 2: The win also puts the Colts over five hundred for

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Speaker 2: squarely in the mix in the AFC playoff standings. Right now,

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Speaker 2: the Colts hit seventh in the playoff pecking order, holding

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Speaker 2: the tiebreaker at the moment over Division rival Houston. Up

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Speaker 2: next for the Colts a trip to Nashville this upcoming

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Speaker 2: on segment number two, tonight, I'll be joined by Colts

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Speaker 2: But as promised, it's now time to lead off the

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Speaker 2: We're presented tonight again by Citizens Energy Group for this conversation. Coach,

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Speaker 2: congratulations on the win that makes three in a row

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Speaker 4: Yeah, no, it was good really just to get to

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Speaker 2: Rushing for one hundred and fifty five yards against that front,

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Speaker 4: You know, it was great. Often of line played really hard,

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Speaker 2: And the defense got after the Buccaneers all day, tying

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Speaker 2: And you're in the playoff mix, you're over five hundred.

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Speaker 2: You know this week in Tennessee, it's Shane sticking with

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Speaker 2: us tonight on Colts Round Table Live. The fourth down calls.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, no, there's a lot of collaboration that goes into

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Speaker 4: it's a great job of testament to our staff. You know,

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Speaker 2: Mark picking up right where we left off with the

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Speaker 2: fourth down conversation. He's asking what made the fourth down

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Speaker 4: Well, well, it was it was a specific look that

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Speaker 4: It was a highly executed play and credit to those guys, uh,

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Speaker 2: my question as a as a football lifer player, coach,

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Speaker 2: when you get the look that you want in that situation,

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Speaker 2: I mean, how do you maintain that poker face?

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Speaker 4: You just kind of hold it in like, oh boy,

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Speaker 4: we got it, let's go, you know, and it worked.

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Speaker 2: Nick is asking Zach Moss was more of a rotational

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Speaker 2: What goes into our running back usage game to game.

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Speaker 4: You know, we talk about that throughout the week, and

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Speaker 4: And obviously JT had a big game, you know, scoring

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm really just starting to dive into these guys

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no doubt about that. That is head coach Shane

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Speaker 5: It was.

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Speaker 3: We had a great Thanksgiving and got to spend a

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Speaker 2: How about you, Rick? Are your Christmas decorations up? How

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Speaker 2: No doubt about it. Yeah, it's tough this time of

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Speaker 2: your initial thoughts on the Colts improving to six and

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Speaker 5: We baby Bracon hell today.

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Speaker 2: Okay, bang bang, player, bang bang, keep the hammer down.

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Speaker 1: Keep talking to one enough ment to clean it up.

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Speaker 2: Get ready, get ready, Tale of the Tape time, Joe Wrights,

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Speaker 2: we begin with you, sir. As the Colts scored twenty

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Speaker 2: As again, the Colts are six and five on the season.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, a couple things I liked, Matt.

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Speaker 3: I thought that we played fast and physical all game,

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Speaker 5: That was big.

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Speaker 6: I just can't say enough, and I think I know

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Speaker 6: You know, it's cutting edge football, it's creative and specific

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Speaker 6: He came out and threw the ball all over the yard,

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Speaker 6: end of the game, he was able to change gears

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Speaker 6: And his two fourth down calls, you know, both the

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Speaker 6: design and when we call them. That's what champions are

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Speaker 6: made of, you know. So you know, I think it

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Speaker 6: was a terrific win. I would say this, there are

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Speaker 6: two trouble areas, you know, third you know, third down

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Speaker 6: for us offensively has got to get better and we

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Speaker 6: just have to get better run defense. That's just terrific.

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Speaker 6: Right now, we're, you know, the worst team in football

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Speaker 6: running the ball. Number thirty three three point one comes

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Speaker 6: in and gains one hundred and twenty five six point

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Speaker 6: six per and actually it kept an undermatch bucked team

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Speaker 6: in the game. Without Grover, we can't stop a nosebleed

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Speaker 6: between the tackles, And yet our coaching staff has not

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Speaker 6: made one adjustment or adaptation for his loss. I mean,

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Speaker 6: I don't understand it. With as creative as we are

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Speaker 6: on offense, we are just the opposite on defense. And

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Speaker 6: it's gonna bite us. I mean it's gonna bite us

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Speaker 6: when we get back into playing against top tier teams,

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Speaker 6: which we will be in January. So again, but at

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Speaker 6: the end of the day, what I liked more than

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Speaker 6: anything else, because we talk all the time about this

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Speaker 6: is a one possession game, you know, team this this

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Speaker 6: game comes down to those last six four minutes. And

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Speaker 6: what's most encouraging, and it's becoming a trend, is the

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Speaker 6: Colts finished the game in all four aspects. I thought

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Speaker 6: the best play to me, which was just fun and

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Speaker 6: I know Joe liked it, is the final play the

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Speaker 6: ten yard game that just put them away. Jonathan burst outside.

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Speaker 6: But if you look at it, Pittman, who's a star,

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Speaker 6: clears it, just clears it with a crackback block and

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Speaker 6: then here comes Nelson around like an eighteen wheeler. You

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Speaker 6: think that defense back part of him. It was And

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Speaker 6: that just to me put an explanation point on who

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Speaker 6: we have become.

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Speaker 2: That's Rick Venturi right there. Hey, Colts fans, remember the

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Speaker 2: the tale of the tape. Rick Venturi and Joe Wrights

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Speaker 2: were often running here. Those are their burning reactions after

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Speaker 2: the Colts improved a six and five on the season,

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Speaker 2: get their third straight win over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

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Speaker 2: And now the Colts are even more entrenched as we

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Speaker 2: said in the AFC Playoff mix, and what has worked

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Speaker 2: well during this three game winning streak a lot. We'll

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Speaker 2: talk about some of these specific common denominators for the

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Speaker 2: Colts in the last three games to bump them over

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Speaker 2: five hundred for the first time since early October. We'll

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Speaker 2: do that in just a moment when Colts Roundtable Live

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Speaker 2: at some of the common denominators. As we tease, the

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Speaker 2: Colts are on their first three game winning streak since

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Speaker 2: the twenty twenty one season. They're over five hundred for

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Speaker 2: the first time since early October. So let's break down

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Speaker 2: some common denominators for the Colts. The first common denominator

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Speaker 2: is the pass rush. You know, Rick, You alluded to

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Speaker 2: it big time there in segment number two. The Colts

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Speaker 2: wrecked up six sacks on Sunday that tied a season high.

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Speaker 2: It was highlighted by Samson Ebacom. He had two, he stripped,

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Speaker 2: sacked Baker Mayfield in the final couple of minutes to

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Speaker 2: close out the game get the win for the Colts

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Speaker 2: in front of the home crowd. But you look elsewhere.

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Speaker 2: Joe Quitty Pey got one, Isaiah Land had one, Taikwan

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Speaker 2: Lewis had a sack at a tom Awada bare and

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Speaker 2: Dioid Dangbos split the other sacks. So the Colts have

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Speaker 2: racked up at least five sacks and back to back games.

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Speaker 2: They've notched fifteen sacks in the last three. The last

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Speaker 2: time the Colts had five plus sacks and back to

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Speaker 2: back games, that was the twenty eighteen season, Joe, the

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Speaker 2: last time they had four sacks in three straight you

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Speaker 2: have to go back to when you were playing the

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Speaker 2: twenty fourteen Colts on defense that year. So how instrumental

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Speaker 2: has the pass rush been for the Colts during this

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Speaker 2: three game winning streak here, Joe? And what can you

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Speaker 2: point to as to why it's really on fire right

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Speaker 2: now at this point in the season.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, A couple things pop out to me.

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Speaker 3: I think ebucom You know, I can't say enough about

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Speaker 3: his two sacks. One was the sack fumble, how he

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Speaker 3: just bent the edge really tight against Wurfs and then

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Speaker 3: on that bowl rush where he got to Worfs and

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Speaker 3: knocked him back into the quarterback. That's a big man.

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Speaker 3: And we knew that Tampa Bay's right side of the

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Speaker 3: line was a liability. But Worfs is a really good player,

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Speaker 3: and for him to go Monoimano with two sacks. I

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Speaker 3: think a couple things, Matt One. I think Dio is

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Speaker 3: really making a presence inside when he rushes on the

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Speaker 3: guards in the center. We line him up in there

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Speaker 3: as the nose or the three technique. I think his length,

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Speaker 3: his physicality, his speed, you know everything. You know him

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Speaker 3: and Buckner in there. That's two tall trees. And I

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Speaker 3: really like too, we batted some passes down. We're compressing

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Speaker 3: the pocket. And then I think what happens too, Matt

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Speaker 3: is other teams are aware of that when all of

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Speaker 3: a sudden you have five six sacks. As an offensive line,

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Speaker 3: you're looking at guys differently. It puts a little bit

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Speaker 3: of fear in the other team's passing game, and I

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Speaker 3: think that allows the quarterbacks to maybe get a little

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Speaker 3: bit more happy feet and all of a sudden they're

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Speaker 3: thinking about, well, this sack's coming, and I thought Mayfield

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Speaker 3: a couple of times, you know, took off early and.

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Speaker 5: Tried to get out of the pocket. We did a

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Speaker 5: good job containing him.

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Speaker 3: I think certain guys Quitty are really just getting better individually,

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Speaker 3: and then we're working as a unit. You know, when

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Speaker 3: you're playing complimentary football, when you're up ten, you're up

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Speaker 3: fourteen in the second half, you can get sacks because

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Speaker 3: teams have to throw the ball. That's when you pin

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Speaker 3: your years back as a defensive lineman and you really feast.

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Speaker 3: So just hats off to our d line. We're really

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Speaker 3: starting to get home with four overall. That's something the

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Speaker 3: coach I know, we haven't done the last couple of years,

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Speaker 3: and boy, that can be a big difference, especially with

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Speaker 3: some of the young guys we got in the secondary.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't think there's any doubt about it. You know,

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Speaker 6: I said this earlier. The one thing Chris Ballard has

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Speaker 6: provided with this group is a really a bus load

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Speaker 6: full of athletes who can run and can rush the passer. Now,

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Speaker 6: it's taken some time, it's taken some development with some guys.

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Speaker 6: We're starting to see good life out of Ptolemy and

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Speaker 6: then Land all of a Sudd was a part of it.

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Speaker 6: We know what Buckner can do. I agree that the

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Speaker 6: two guys that are really giving us rush. Obviously Dio

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Speaker 6: is becoming a really top tier player, and they were

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Speaker 6: times Sunday and I wanted to see this where Buckner

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Speaker 6: and Dio basically just absolutely clouded the vision. I mean,

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Speaker 6: you know, a couple of times Mayfield stepped up, there

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Speaker 6: was nowhere to go. He couldn't see it. As a

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Speaker 6: matter of fact, on the first sack, he just didn't

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Speaker 6: know where to go. And all of a sudden, Ebuchan

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Speaker 6: came off that tight edge because those two guys set

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Speaker 6: it up. But Lewis is also moving around. You know,

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Speaker 6: he's productive. Dio will always Dio is just, you know,

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Speaker 6: a guy with tremendous upside. When he gets in that

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Speaker 6: very difficult to block. Quitty will get His sacks will

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Speaker 6: be second effort sacks, just like Sunday. They're not great

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Speaker 6: necessarily pass rushes, but when the quarterback gets forced around,

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Speaker 6: he's always there. And then I think the guy that

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Speaker 6: has really made the difference, Because all that being set,

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Speaker 6: you have to have that speed rusher off your right edge.

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Speaker 6: And basically when we got Abu Khan, it wasn't a

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Speaker 6: big signing. You know, we knew he had potential, but

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Speaker 6: really and truly he gives you that jet off the edge.

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Speaker 6: Great job on worse, particularly in that fourth quarter, that

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Speaker 6: strip sack was really really special and that ended the game.

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Speaker 6: I also agree that you know, basically, when you're playing

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Speaker 6: with leads, which in the last three weeks, you know,

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Speaker 6: we've been playing with leads almost from wire to wire,

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Speaker 6: then you usually that's when you get your sacks and

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Speaker 6: your turnovers because you can turn it loose. You know,

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Speaker 6: you're there one dimensional. I mean in the fourth quarter,

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Speaker 6: you just you know, you get in that Russian sprinter

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Speaker 6: stuff is good. I think we're seeing development of young kids,

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Speaker 6: you know, into their second and third year, and again,

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Speaker 6: playing with the leads mean everything, but the sacks in

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Speaker 6: the last three weeks really erased. They've been the eraser

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Speaker 6: really without those sacks, in those strip sacks, and we

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Speaker 6: have seven now, which basically we're tied for the lead

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Speaker 6: in the National Football League with seven strip sacks, So

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Speaker 6: I mean those things have erased some ills. That would

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Speaker 6: hurt us if we didn't get those sacks.

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Speaker 2: No doubt about that, especially trying to defend the running game,

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Speaker 2: like you said, without Grover Stewart. Right out there, Rick Venturi,

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Speaker 2: Joe Wrights, I'm Matt Taylor. We're talking about some of

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Speaker 2: the common denominators for the Colts during their three game

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Speaker 2: winning streak here with you tonight until six point thirty

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Speaker 2: on Colts Round Table Live. Let's go to another one.

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Speaker 2: Michael Pittman Junior. His consistency On Sunday, he led the

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Speaker 2: Colts ten catches, had one hundred and seven receiving yards,

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Speaker 2: his first career, I should say, his first one hundred

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Speaker 2: yard game of the season for him. It marked his

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Speaker 2: eighth game this season with at least eight catches, which

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Speaker 2: passes Marvin Harrison for the second most such games and

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Speaker 2: single season team history. He's recorded eight or more catches

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Speaker 2: in four straight games. That is the third longest streak

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Speaker 2: in franchise history. So, Rick, I'll start with you. Where

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Speaker 2: would the Colts be without Pittman's consistency here during this

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Speaker 2: three game winning streak. For Gardner Minshew to throw the

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Speaker 2: football too in the passing game, Oh no, it.

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Speaker 6: Would be a big struggle, and Michael is he's really

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Speaker 6: playing his tailoff. Now. I think what you have to

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Speaker 6: do you have to look at Michael in a little

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Speaker 6: bit different context. Michael on the outside is not going

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Speaker 6: to be Jerry Rice. He's not going to be a

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Speaker 6: j Brown. Now. If you play off him like they

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Speaker 6: did early, he's going to catch some balls in front

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Speaker 6: of you. But where Michael makes the difference is basically

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Speaker 6: when he gets on the inside or they create inside

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Speaker 6: positions for him and he runs inside routes, whether they're

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Speaker 6: red routes or option routes or hook routes. He will

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Speaker 6: do the dirty work. And he is a reliable and

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Speaker 6: dependable catcher that you know is going to be tougher

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Speaker 6: than Heck. Now, his numbers are always going to be

649
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Speaker 6: what they are. He's got ten catches for one hundred yards,

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Speaker 6: you know, so you know basically his yards per catch

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Speaker 6: are ten yards, which are much more like a slot

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Speaker 6: or a tight end than they are a premier outside receiver.

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Speaker 6: And that's fine with me. What Shane has done is

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Speaker 6: if you look at it recently, he has and coming

655
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Speaker 6: off that bye week, he did a great job. Sunday

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Speaker 6: is basically he has found ways now to get Pittman

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Speaker 6: the free excess he needs. Once he gets free excess

658
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Speaker 6: and gets down into your back end, he's going to

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Speaker 6: make plays. And I thought Shane did another really good job.

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Speaker 6: They motioned beyond him. You saw that secondary back right off,

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Speaker 6: and here he is on critical catches. The other thing

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Speaker 6: is he is such He's such a tough guy. He's

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Speaker 6: such a tough blocker. I pointed out that play at

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Speaker 6: the end of the game where he just basically wipes

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Speaker 6: out the inside on a crackback. So you're talking, you're

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Speaker 6: talking about a tough guy that is really really producing.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I just think he really embodies just a great team

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Speaker 3: player overall. Like Rick said, most of your top wide receivers,

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Speaker 3: they got no interest in blocking. They're standing out there.

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Speaker 3: There's as little contact as possible. Not only does he

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Speaker 3: welcome it, he seeks it. And I think that physicality

673
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Speaker 3: really helps set the tone for the offense. And I

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Speaker 3: really like what we did with him. And you know

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Speaker 3: a lot of those the RPOs that we ran, and

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Speaker 3: you know Minshew slinging its side arm. I thought there

677
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Speaker 3: was some great play design from Shane Stike and call

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Speaker 3: in the plays. But I think with Pitting more than anything, Matt,

679
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Speaker 3: it's just his consistency. It's that every game he shows up,

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Speaker 3: he's ready to compete hard.

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Speaker 5: Again.

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Speaker 3: He's never gonna be like coach said, you know, probably

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Speaker 3: your your game breaker, you know, sixty yards streaking down

684
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Speaker 3: the field like Tyreek Hill. Yeah, but he is what

685
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Speaker 3: he is, and he's consistent every single game, and he

686
00:32:48,080 --> 00:32:50,480
Speaker 3: plays up to his potential every single game. And so

687
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Speaker 3: you know as a play caller what you're getting week

688
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Speaker 3: in and week out with Pittman. And it's great to

689
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Speaker 3: see him get the success in terms of you know,

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Speaker 3: a lot of catches over one hundred receiving yards because

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Speaker 3: you want a credit and you want to feed those

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Speaker 3: guys that are your stars and those guys that really

693
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Speaker 3: show up and just work hard day in and day out.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, Joe Wright's right there along with Rick Van Turiy.

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Speaker 2: I'm Matt Taylor. We've got time for one more common

696
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Speaker 2: denominator for the Colts during this three game winning streak

697
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Speaker 2: here and Joe, You're gonna love this one considering her background.

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Speaker 2: The offensive line performing incredibly well on Sunday, they had

699
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Speaker 2: to play without Ryan Kelly at center. He missed the

700
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Speaker 2: game with a concussion, so Wesley French started and by

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Speaker 2: all accounts played very very well, just like he has

702
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Speaker 2: all season long when he's had to step up on

703
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Speaker 2: the interior of that offensive line. I mean, the Colts

704
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Speaker 2: ran for one hundred and fifty five yards against a

705
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Speaker 2: highly rated Buccaneers front, and they've only allowed three sacks

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Speaker 2: in the last three games. Rick, we barely called Vida

707
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Speaker 2: Veya's name all game long. How much credit should the

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Speaker 2: O line be getting for you during this three game

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Speaker 2: winning streak here for the Colts.

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Speaker 6: Oh, I think they've been tremendous. I tell you what.

711
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Speaker 6: I think they've played at such a high level. And

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Speaker 6: they can talk about Philadelphia and all these people. I

713
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Speaker 6: don't think anybody has played as well as our group

714
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Speaker 6: ass collectively, and that includes guys like Wesley who French,

715
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Speaker 6: who came in there, did a heck of a job.

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Speaker 6: You're right. I had to check if Via actually played

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Speaker 6: in the game. And even Friedland has done pretty good

718
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Speaker 6: when he's in there. He's been serviceable. But you know what,

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Speaker 6: like you said, to gain one hundred and fifty five

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Speaker 6: six point six, and we didn't even really come out

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Speaker 6: to run we came out to throw it, but then

722
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Speaker 6: once he changed gears, we absolutely just got after them.

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Speaker 6: And really, that left side, I'll tell you what, when

724
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Speaker 6: you look at Nelson and Ryman, I mean they turn you.

725
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Speaker 6: They not only block you, they turn you. And then

726
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Speaker 6: Nelson came around on that pull again. He looked like

727
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Speaker 6: an eighteen wheeler and we got good. We got a

728
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Speaker 6: little bit better blocking out of our right side this time.

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Speaker 6: On the running game. I thought Froz is the only guy.

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Speaker 6: I thought he struggled a little bit on protection this week,

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Speaker 6: But overall our protection has been really good. Like you said,

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Speaker 6: we had two sacks yesterday, but really, Minshew ran into

733
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Speaker 6: the stunt and really, as I look at it on film,

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Speaker 6: it is a real good stunt. But but if Minshew

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Speaker 6: had just stayed in the pocket, the back would have

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Speaker 6: picked him up. So I mean, honestly, whether it's protection

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Speaker 6: or whether it's run blocking, these guys have been good.

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Speaker 3: I agree with coach and what I think this o

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Speaker 3: line has become Matt and Rick is really the heartbeat

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Speaker 3: of this offense. And when your offensive line is the

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Speaker 3: heartbeat of your offense, generally good things happen. And while

742
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Speaker 3: we have some talented guys at the skill position. We

743
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Speaker 3: don't have the most talented guys in the NFL. And

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Speaker 3: our quarterback Minshew, you know he's playing at a high level,

745
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Speaker 3: but you know he's a backup going into it. So

746
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Speaker 3: what are you going to lean on these last six games.

747
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Speaker 3: You're going to lean on the offensive line of the Colts,

748
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Speaker 3: and you're going to lean on them in this playoff push.

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Speaker 3: And again, no, Ryan Kelly, O line plays well. Braden

750
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Speaker 3: Smith misses three four games, O line still plays well.

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Speaker 3: I think coach is right. Our offensive line unit is

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Speaker 3: playing as a top five unit in the NFL. And

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Speaker 3: when we're running the ball to the level we are,

754
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Speaker 3: and you can grind people out in December football, that's

755
00:36:03,960 --> 00:36:07,000
Speaker 3: what you have to do. Jonathan Taylor's getting healthier and healthier.

756
00:36:07,239 --> 00:36:09,839
Speaker 3: He's continuing to find his groove. And what I love

757
00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:13,000
Speaker 3: is fourth quarter game on the line. They know we're

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Speaker 3: gonna run it, We know we're gonna run it. All

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Speaker 3: fifty million know everybody's gonna run it, and they still

760
00:36:17,560 --> 00:36:19,640
Speaker 3: couldn't stop us, and we ran them out the gate

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Speaker 3: and we punished them, and I just think the cumulative

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Speaker 3: effect of our offensive line pounded and pounded and pounded

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Speaker 3: and coach you mentioned in VDAVA he did not stow

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Speaker 3: up in the stat sheets, so you and him had

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Speaker 3: the same amount of tackles yesterday. Credit to our interior.

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Speaker 3: Three guys and they're working hard right.

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Speaker 2: Polly's asking, I know this season doesn't end today, but

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Speaker 2: how impressed have you been with our team considering the

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Speaker 2: adversity that we've had this year and now we're in

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Speaker 2: the playoff mix.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I just really really like this team. You know,

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Speaker 6: I like this team back in training camp. But I

817
00:39:13,440 --> 00:39:15,040
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Speaker 6: hard and would be fun to watch. I don't think

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Speaker 6: I'm not going to take credit for thinking that this

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Speaker 6: would be a playoff team with its win to its back,

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Speaker 6: And honestly, I am just totally and I said this before,

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Speaker 6: I've totally bought into Stike and just like the team has.

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Speaker 6: I mean, this is a guy that's overcome adversity. You

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Speaker 6: talk about you know, basically JT not being there in

825
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Speaker 6: the beginning, and then all of a sudden, you know,

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Speaker 6: Anthony is rolling in. Boom, he's out of there. And

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Speaker 6: we have injuries in the offensive line when we lose

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Speaker 6: key guys, you know, we get downs going in and

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Speaker 6: we lose him. But he's never flinched whatsoever. When I

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Speaker 6: think of where we were at the end of twenty two,

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Speaker 6: and I just don't mean record, I mean the way

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Speaker 6: we looked on the field compared to what we look

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Speaker 6: under Styke, and it is absolutely amazing to me. He's

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Speaker 6: a guy that utilizes his assets. He has a great

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Speaker 6: grasp of the game. He basically creates advantages all the time,

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Speaker 6: no matter what. He's really game specific. He attacks each

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Speaker 6: team differently. And then he's adapting like he did Sunday

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Speaker 6: again in the game, going from throwing it all over

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Speaker 6: the yard, you know, to run it right after and

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Speaker 6: ground him into the death. The other thing, and this

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Speaker 6: he speaks to the choir with me, is there's that

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Speaker 6: quiet accountability and when you're on this team today, you

843
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Speaker 6: are accountable for how you play it. Accountability is not

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Speaker 6: a buzzword, it is the reality. And when you have that,

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Speaker 6: everybody is going to find their best performance.

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Speaker 2: All right, let's go back to the mailbag. Nigel is

847
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Speaker 2: asking Joe, how impressed have you been with the creativity

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Speaker 2: on fourth down this year with Shane Stike and calling plays, Joe,

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Speaker 2: they were three for four yes today. Then the big bomb,

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Speaker 2: the thirty yarder momentum wise to Moali Cox and what I.

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Speaker 3: Like Matt He makes it look easy on that fourth

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Speaker 3: down to Moali, I mean nobody was covering. And then

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Speaker 3: on that other fourth down when we ran the fake

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Speaker 3: zone read up the middle, ran the double slant, Pittman

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Speaker 3: was wide open out in the flat. It reminds me

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Speaker 3: mad of when Charlie Weise came to Notre Dame said

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Speaker 3: he has a decided schematic advantage.

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Speaker 2: That didn't happen football, that that did not happen.

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Speaker 3: But with Shane I believe that it does happen because

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Speaker 3: I really think he's a cut above in terms of

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Speaker 3: x's and o's, and I think what coach mentioned every week,

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Speaker 3: it's a game plan week to week decision where he's

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Speaker 3: going to exploit things that they do. And now you're

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Speaker 3: a defensive coordinator on the other side, he's thrown you

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Speaker 3: all these different formations and looks and being creative with

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Speaker 3: his plays. Even when you know he's running the punt

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Speaker 3: team on, he's running the guys back on there, there's

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Speaker 3: a lot extra that the other team's got to think

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Speaker 3: about weekend. And again, you know, we were two of

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Speaker 3: eleven on third down. We got to get better at that,

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Speaker 3: but three or four on fourth down, and he made

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Speaker 3: those fourth downs easy. I really think that Shane through

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Speaker 3: his eleven game career, has established himself as a top

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Speaker 3: three to five play caller in the NFL. And that's

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Speaker 3: just huge when you go out there and have that

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Speaker 3: advantage x's and o's.

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Speaker 6: Wise, offensively, it's one thing to move the ball and

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Speaker 6: sometimes you have to make great plays. But let me

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Speaker 6: just say this from a guy that's coached forever. When

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Speaker 6: you get guys wide open, I mean wide open in

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Speaker 6: situations when miss Sherry could throw the ball and hit him,

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Speaker 6: that's big time coaching because that just doesn't happen.

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Speaker 2: No doubt about that. All right, let's go quickly here.

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Speaker 2: I know we kind of touched on this earlier. Rick

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Speaker 2: Todd is asking, how concerned are you with our running defense?

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Speaker 2: One more game without Grover Stewart, we'll have to slow

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Speaker 2: down Derrick Henry and the Titans. I think the number

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Speaker 2: now is without Grover Stewart, Rick, the Colts have allowed

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Speaker 2: at least one hundred and twenty five rushing yards in

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Speaker 2: every game during his absence. That obviously includes giving up

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Speaker 2: about twenty five yesterday to the thirty second ranked Tampa

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Speaker 2: Bay Buccaneers on the ground.

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Speaker 6: No, it's really hard to watch. I'll be honest with you.

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Speaker 6: I can't. I don't know if I can look at

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Speaker 6: another game where we sit in a stationary over defense,

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Speaker 6: I mean, and never ever change it ever. And I'll

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Speaker 6: be honest with you. Once we lost Grover, I mean,

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Speaker 6: and with the exception of Buckner, you have athletes, but

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Speaker 6: you have no space eaters. You have no guys that

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Speaker 6: can hold the point. And we've got two gaut linebackers

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Speaker 6: that'll stab you and Franklin and Speed. Now that Speed's

902
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Speaker 6: in there, we're better. But we're just dashed in there.

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Speaker 6: And you know what I am worried about. Tennessee Tennessee

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Speaker 6: now is not what they used to be, but they're

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Speaker 6: still number fifteen. They average four point three and they

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Speaker 6: will commit to a running game and it could be

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Speaker 6: all the difference in the world. So, you know, I

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Speaker 6: don't know what's going to make him fix it. I

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Speaker 6: just can't believe it. Everybody in the world, everybody in

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Speaker 6: the world plays bear defense, but us, I mean, I

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Speaker 6: just don't understand it. And even when Grover comes back,

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Speaker 6: we've opened up a can of war there on that

913
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Speaker 6: run defense. And if we better get some variants. What's

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Speaker 6: amazing to me is as creative as Shade is on offense,

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Speaker 6: we are just the opposite on defense.

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Speaker 2: All right, that's the mailbag segment tonight with Rick fin

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Speaker 2: Turrey Joe Wrights. As always, submit your questions on X

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Speaker 2: every Monday night. U'se the hashtag Colts Round Table. When

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

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Speaker 2: a quick look at the AFC South and the AFC

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Speaker 2: playoff standings as well. In preview week thirteen, December Football

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Speaker 2: on the Horizon. The Tennessee Titans are up next. Back

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Speaker 2: for all of that. In just a moment. You are

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Speaker 2: listening to Colts Round Table live on ninety three to

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Speaker 2: five and one oh seven five the Fan.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Colts Roundtable Live on ninety three to

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Speaker 1: five and one oh seven five the Fan for more

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Speaker 1: Colts breakdown. Here's Matt Taylor, the Voice of the Colts

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Speaker 1: from the Indiana Union Construction Industry Radio Studio, back.

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Speaker 2: Once more for the final time on Colts Round Table

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Speaker 2: of local sports teams across the Midwest. As we said,

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Speaker 2: in the AFC playoff standings as of right now, the

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Speaker 2: Colts sit seventh with the record of six and five.

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Speaker 2: They hold the tiebreakers over teams that are on the

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Speaker 2: outside looking in. The Texans also at six and five

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Speaker 2: they are eighth in the pecking order, and the Broncos

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Speaker 2: at six and five they're ninth in the AFC Playoffs standing.

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Speaker 2: So here we are, gentlemen. We talked about the home

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Speaker 2: stretch and some meetingful football, but now that the Colts

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Speaker 2: are back inside the division for the first time since

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Speaker 2: October fifteenth, coming up this Sunday. I know they beat

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Speaker 2: the Titans once already this season, but winning in Nashville,

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Speaker 2: it's always tough. How do you make sure you don't

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Speaker 2: rest on your laurels as a former player coming off

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Speaker 2: three consecutive wins, going up against the team that again

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Speaker 2: you match up favorably on paper with.

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Speaker 3: Well, we got no time to rest on our laurels, right,

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Speaker 3: this is a playoff push. We're playing December foot ball

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Speaker 3: and you're playing against a division opponent, and Matt, you

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Speaker 3: know those guys will be ready down in Tennessee because

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Speaker 3: they really have owned the Colts over the last three

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Speaker 3: to four years. But we beat them up now, and

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Speaker 3: we played them in mid October here at Lucas Oil,

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Speaker 3: so you know that that second game in the series,

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Speaker 3: that division rivalry, they'll be ready to go and play.

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Speaker 3: And when you play Tennessee, you got to match their physicality.

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Speaker 3: You have to out physical and bully the bowie. We

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Speaker 3: did that last time and we're going to need to

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Speaker 3: do it again even though they got some changes down there.

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Speaker 3: But Coach, I know you've watched them tape on Tennessee.

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Speaker 3: What do they look like now with the rookie levis

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Speaker 3: there at QB.

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Speaker 6: Well, a brief introduction into Tennessee and reasons that you

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Speaker 6: have to be ready. Number one, they're four and seven,

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Speaker 6: but they're four and one in Nashville, so you know

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Speaker 6: you got that going. They can run the ball. They're

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Speaker 6: number fifteen in rush per with Henry and Spears at

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Speaker 6: four point three, and we have never really stopped Hopkins.

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Speaker 6: Hopkins ran all over us in the passing game in

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Speaker 6: that last one even though we run it. So they

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Speaker 6: have elements there. And we know that they have defensive talent.

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Speaker 6: We've talked about this all the time. They've got it

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Speaker 6: if they can get an advantage. They're still ninth in

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Speaker 6: the league in fewest points giving up, so you know

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Speaker 6: when you look at those four or five factors right there, no,

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Speaker 6: you're going to be in for a ballgame.

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Speaker 2: Rick Ventury, Joe Wright's right there. Great job for usual

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Speaker 2: on a Monday night, gentlemen. My thanks as well to

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

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Speaker 2: If you missed any of the show, it's going to

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Speaker 2: be available on Colts dot com. It's also going to

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Speaker 2: Audio Network, anywhere you download your podcast. We'll have more

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Speaker 2: on the Colts and the Titans all week long, leading

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Speaker 2: into Sunday and again. We'll be back next Monday recapping

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Speaker 2: all the action with Rick Ventury, Joe Wrights. I'm Matt Taylor,

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Speaker 2: but a Pacer pregame I should say it's coming up

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Speaker 2: next Pacers take on the Trailblazers at the Fieldhouse. Thanks

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Speaker 2: for listening to Colts Around Table live here on the

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Speaker 2: Home of the Colts. This is ninety three to five

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