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Speaker 1: This is Instant Game Reaction, an immediate look back at

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Speaker 1: the Colt's latest game and trying to make it adjusted

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Speaker 1: on the ball, it's like cold pifferty catch it and

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Speaker 1: he said, touchdown in d Why Jonathan Taylor. Now here's

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Speaker 1: your host, JJ Stacomitz from Colts dot Com. What's up everyone?

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Speaker 1: Welcome into another episode of Colts Instant Reaction here in

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Speaker 1: the Colts Audio Network. I'm J. J. Stakobitz, joined every

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Speaker 1: week by Ring of hun Remember Bill Brooks as we

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Speaker 1: break down the Colt's latest game. This one, Bill the

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Speaker 1: colts fifth straight loss, a twenty to three defeat to

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Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Chargers. It's the fourth time this year, Bill,

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Speaker 1: That is the most in the NFL. Well, we're gonna

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Speaker 1: get into some things in this podcast. There isn't nothing

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Speaker 1: to talk about, but I want to start here Bill.

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Speaker 1: After the game and a chance to go in the

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Speaker 1: and you know, here from Jeff Saturday, here from Nick Foles,

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Speaker 1: and they all said, the effort of this team is

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Speaker 1: that game yesterday might say, well, why is that? Because

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Speaker 1: you lost by seventeen points, you went over ten on

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Speaker 1: played in games where the result has been like this,

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Speaker 1: where you feel like the effort has been there. You know,

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Speaker 1: you put in the work during the week, you didn't

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Speaker 1: of get get beat pretty badly. What does that feel like, Bill?

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Speaker 1: And how does a team move forward after a game

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Speaker 1: need to change your effort because it's there, but it's

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Speaker 1: not chilling up in the result. Yeah. I mean a

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Speaker 1: lot of times what happens during the year is during practice,

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Speaker 1: at times plays just don't happen for whatever reason. Maybe

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Speaker 1: sometimes it could be a mental mistake, you know, sometimes

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Speaker 1: it could be the other opponent made a good play,

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Speaker 1: like you look at that interception by during James. He

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Speaker 1: things like that happens. It's frustrating as an athlete because

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Speaker 1: But then you just have to try to bounce back

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Speaker 1: that's the only way you're going to get through this

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Speaker 1: That probably showed at times. I think sometimes that narrative

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