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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Colts Reunion Podcast, a conversation with former

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Speaker 1: Colts players look back at their career, what they're up

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Speaker 1: to now, and how the Colts played a positive role

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Speaker 2: Welcome to another edition of the Cults Reunion Podcast.

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Speaker 3: I'm Jeffrey Gorman today, joined by RINGA bandermember Bill Brooks

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Speaker 3: and were inside the Indiana Union Construction Industry Radio studio.

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Speaker 3: The Culture Reunion Series is our summertime series that pays

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Speaker 3: tribute to some of the great players that have donned

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Speaker 3: the Colts jersey. We catch up with former greats to

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Speaker 3: talk about their playing time with the Colts, what the

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Speaker 3: Colts did for their career, and what their careers meant

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Speaker 3: to the Colts. And joining us today as a former

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Speaker 3: Colts wide receiver and what a gamer Austin Colley. He

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Speaker 3: played five years in the NFL, spent four years with

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Speaker 3: the Colts after he was drafted by Bill Pollion in

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Speaker 3: two thousand and nine in the fourth round out of

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Speaker 3: Brigham Young University. He had a career determination and grint

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Speaker 3: and this guy was an absolute football player.

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Speaker 2: Austin Colly. Welcome to the podcast.

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Speaker 4: How are you today, Good Jeff, How are we doing.

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Speaker 3: Oh excellent. I appreciate you taking some time and catching

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Speaker 3: up with this. I want to go back jog the

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Speaker 3: a rookie coming in You needed to gain some trust,

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Speaker 3: and I mean immediate trust. If you're playing with Peyton

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Speaker 3: getting drafted out of BYU and thrown into a Peyton

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Speaker 3: Manning offense, you didn't miss a beat. How much pressure

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Speaker 4: Of the crew, I'd say it's like within the first

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Speaker 4: like five minutes. I mean for the first phone call

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Speaker 4: I got from a Bill basically saying, hey, you know,

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Speaker 4: And I knew the responsibility that I came with. I

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Speaker 4: the offensive huddle. I mean I would look around some

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Speaker 4: I mean, all these guys had you know, eight plus

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Speaker 4: the only missing part of that was you know, Marvin,

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Speaker 4: and I was, you know, I was kind of the

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Speaker 4: so I felt a tremendous amount of pressure to make

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Speaker 4: It wasn't because of me.

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Speaker 3: Well, you and Peyton got along so well, I think

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Speaker 3: is because you guys eat sleep, drink football, and I thought,

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Speaker 3: you know, that was a good connection as far as

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Speaker 3: I think that's where an immediate connection between you two started.

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Speaker 4: No, yeah, yeah, man. In college, I thought I had

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Speaker 4: I thought I worked hard, I thought I prepared well.

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Speaker 4: And then and then I got the league, and it wasn't.

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Speaker 4: I mean, obviously, Peyton is on a whole other level

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Speaker 4: in the way that he prepares for the game, what

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Speaker 4: But you know, I thought I worked hard, I thought

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Speaker 4: thing that amazed me, right, was guys like Reggie, guys

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Speaker 4: I think at the time it was at Tarot, But.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Austin, you talk about eat, sleep, and drink football.

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Speaker 5: Another guy that you know very well that you were

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Speaker 4: Yeah? No, So Shane and I were ball boys, I

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Speaker 4: it meant getting like a D one scholarship offer, and

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Speaker 4: And that would be at you know, eleven o'clock at night,

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Speaker 4: we love football. We had a high school coach who

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Speaker 5: Now you talk about Shane back in high school and

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Speaker 5: he's a quarterback. Of course you're a wide receiver. What

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Speaker 5: was he? What type of leader was Shane?

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Speaker 4: Well, I was gonna say the first thing is I mean,

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Speaker 4: you can see Shane's leadership and his ability to kind

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Speaker 4: he was no different and how he gets to buy

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Speaker 4: and it was no different when you were in high school, right.

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Speaker 4: I mean he definitely had a different type of mentality

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Speaker 4: it was special. You could tell he was different from

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Speaker 4: He was extremely you know, he would get checked out

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Speaker 4: coach to go watch film for a couple hours for

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Speaker 4: playing it. You know, a difficult opponent, right, Like we

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Speaker 3: Oh that's great and a fun story from Austin and

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Speaker 3: Shane Stike and is uh you know your rookie year,

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Speaker 3: the day, was sleeping on your brother's floor at that

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Speaker 4: That that is correct, that is correct. He was the

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Speaker 4: only one out there in my family that that I

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Speaker 4: had invited, right, just because again it was it was

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Speaker 4: right you've become the head coach of the Colts. And

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Speaker 4: and I'm gonna go ahead and tell you, like, I

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Speaker 4: don't think it's going to be his last cult super

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Speaker 3: Hey, I have to ask you. You you're a dog

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Speaker 3: when it comes to x's and o's and getting the

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I I thought about it for some time.

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Speaker 4: I thought about it for some time, but it's it's

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Speaker 4: a unique lifestyle, man. Like, there there's a little bit

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Speaker 4: of sacrifice that goes into it from everybody that I've

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Speaker 4: through the coaching rings, Like, there is a bit of

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Speaker 4: sacrifice on the family end. And uh, it really wasn't

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 4: I enjoy watching all my kids games, not just some

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Speaker 4: love coaching my kids in football, and you know, I

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Speaker 3: Right, let's brag about those kids because I met them

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Speaker 3: a couple of weeks ago when you were here at

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Speaker 3: the complex. And obviously, uh, if there are anything like

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Speaker 2: What's the uh, what's the sports.

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Speaker 3: Looking like in the future for the colleague kids?

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Speaker 4: It's looking good. They you know, they played football right now,

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Speaker 4: They just got done with basketball. I mean, they're good

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Speaker 1: Man.

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Speaker 4: They got some good genetics flow through their body. My wife,

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Speaker 4: all her family, it's actually how I met my wife

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Speaker 4: were both wide receivers at b YU under Jim McMahon

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Speaker 4: they got the DNA. It just all depends on what

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Speaker 3: We'll see a colleague at b YU. I'm sure in

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Speaker 3: the next you know, a few years.

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Speaker 2: Is that accurate?

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Speaker 4: Possibly? Possibly, you want, you want? It was funny. I

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Speaker 4: actually just took him out to North Carolina to spend

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Speaker 4: some time with coach Clyde Christiansen. Oh wonder as a consultant. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: so we were. We went out there a couple of days.

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Speaker 4: They participated in the tar Hill Camp and the Duke camp.

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Speaker 3: Sure one of one of the things that that football

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Speaker 3: bit to kind of give Shane an idea of what

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Speaker 3: he's going in with working with Reggie Wayne.

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Speaker 4: If I would have gotten that call, yeah I would have.

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Speaker 4: I would have been hyping him up absolutely excellent.

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Speaker 2: Man, Hey, I tell you it's great.

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Speaker 3: And I just I saw you guys the other day,

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Speaker 3: like I said, I bring this up and the camaraderie

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Speaker 3: and everything and just all ball you and Shane and

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Speaker 3: Reggie sitting around there and your kids, and I was like, man, this,

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Speaker 3: I think we're short one coach on this staff.

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Speaker 4: Really. I would love I would love to go get

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Speaker 4: Reggie's coffee.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, fair enough. Austin Collie joining us here on

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Speaker 3: the Colts Reunion podcast. I want to touch base a

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Speaker 3: little bit on maybe an ode. Maybe I'm way off

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Speaker 3: line here. What was it a little tip of the

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Speaker 3: cap to your father's career in the CFL when you

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Speaker 3: when you ended up playing at the end of your

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Speaker 3: career one season up there.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I I I still I still had

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Speaker 4: some some gas. I thought I still had some gas

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Speaker 4: left in the tank. And my buddy John Beck called

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Speaker 4: me and said, hey, you gotta come up here play

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Speaker 4: with me for a year, just try it out. You know,

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Speaker 4: I I am. I was born in Canada, so I

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Speaker 4: naturally have uh Canadian citizenship. So you know the I

461
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Speaker 4: guess the terms of every deal highly favored Canadian football players.

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Speaker 4: You get paid a little bit more, you almost get

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Speaker 4: a guaranteed spot on the team. So I just come

464
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Speaker 4: up here, you know, try it out. If you don't

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Speaker 4: like it, don't worry about it. And so I went

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Speaker 4: up there, and to be honest, it was it was

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Speaker 4: a great experience. The schedule is great, but like I said,

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Speaker 4: I just it just I got to a point where, man,

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Speaker 4: I just couldn't manage my my, you know, the paying

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Speaker 4: level anymore. And uh just stuff going on with with concussions.

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Speaker 4: So I yeah, it was a perfect perfect season for closure, right, Like, Okay,

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Speaker 4: you're you're you're about done.

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Speaker 5: Now, you say you had a closure there and once

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Speaker 5: of seasons off. Once your careers over playing football, you

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Speaker 5: kind of always reflect and kind of look back on

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Speaker 5: things and and see how your career went in some

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Speaker 5: special moments in your career with teammates or with certain teams.

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Speaker 5: Was there any one special moment outside of playing in

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Speaker 5: the Super Bowl for the Napolis coach that you can

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Speaker 5: share with us that you had when you play with

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Speaker 5: the Indianapolis Coats.

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Speaker 4: I don't think there's one special mode. I I think

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Speaker 4: I think about all the things like that that that

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Speaker 4: eighteen did to get us together as an offense man,

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Speaker 4: Like I'm going to duke when Peyton was was rehabbing

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Speaker 4: his neck and spending the week out there with coach

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Speaker 4: tug Cliff and watching Peyton rehab, watch him kind of

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Speaker 4: get back to to to where he was and being

489
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Speaker 4: a part of being out there with the guys and

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Speaker 4: you know, golfing, you know, golfing in the afternoon after

491
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Speaker 4: we throw, spending time at dinners, like I mean, those

492
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Speaker 4: are the things that always cherish, right, I mean, it's

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Speaker 4: just the Yeah, the off the field camaraderie is really

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Speaker 4: what you miss when you get done playing. And you know,

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Speaker 4: Peyton did a great job of making sure to harness

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Speaker 4: that throughout, you know, throughout the time.

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Speaker 3: That I was there, absolutely when it was all said

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Speaker 3: and down one hundred and seventy nine receptions almost two

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Speaker 3: thousand yards in your career. Here's the one stat I

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Speaker 3: love about your career, Austin Kelly.

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Speaker 2: You move the change.

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Speaker 3: You averaged over ten yards of reception in your NFL career.

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Speaker 3: That's an impact player and something that you can hang

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Speaker 3: your head on for the rest of your life.

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Speaker 4: I did not know that, Jeff, about that.

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Speaker 2: Thank you double digit guy right there.

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Speaker 4: Good golf's My head's gonna be a little bit, yeah,

508
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Speaker 4: a little bit, a little bit bigger today.

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Speaker 3: Not bad former NFL great handsome kills the ball on

510
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Speaker 3: the golf course and they can do it all.

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Speaker 2: He can do it all. Hey man, I I love it.

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Speaker 3: Love catching up with you on UH just to find

513
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Speaker 3: out what's going on in your life and obviously this

514
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Speaker 3: new special relationship that Colts fans are finding out about

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Speaker 3: that you have with Shane Stike, and can you give

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Speaker 3: me an outlook for the next couple of years in

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Speaker 3: this franchise led by your buddy Shane.

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Speaker 4: Oh, I like it. I like it. The AFC Salve

519
00:25:19,760 --> 00:25:22,520
Speaker 4: is becoming a tough division, got a lot of great teams,

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Speaker 4: but you know, Shane, Shane's a one of one talent,

521
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Speaker 4: and and they've got one on one talent all across

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Speaker 4: the board there with the Colts, right like, I think

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Speaker 4: ar is a very very special player, a very impactful

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Speaker 4: player that that we'll be watching for a very very

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Speaker 4: long time. And I know Reg has got that white

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Speaker 4: out room right where it needs to be. A lot

527
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Speaker 4: of young bucks that are going to be uh yeah,

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Speaker 4: that are going to be extremely impactful players are going

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Speaker 4: to be around for a long long time. So I

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Speaker 4: see nothing but success for the Colts in the future.

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Speaker 3: Right there is I'm Austin Cally and when people ask me, hey, Gorman,

532
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Speaker 3: you've been around here a minute, who's the toughest football

533
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Speaker 3: players you know?

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Speaker 1: Oh?

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Speaker 3: And I'm gonna Austin Colley Dallas Clark. I just two

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Speaker 3: of my top guys that I'll say, if you want

537
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Speaker 3: true grit, determination and absolute toughness about playing in the

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Speaker 3: NFL and making a career of it.

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Speaker 2: Just go look at these guys career. Brother.

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Speaker 3: I appreciate what you did on the field, and I'm

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Speaker 3: so happy for you with your your beautiful family and

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Speaker 3: things that are going on with your life post football,

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Speaker 3: and we so appreciate you taking some time and catching

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Speaker 3: up with us.

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Speaker 4: No, I appreciate you guys having me on