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Speaker 1: What's up everyone? Welcome into another episode of Instant Reaction

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Speaker 1: here on the Colts Audio Network and on YouTube. I'm

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Speaker 1: JJ Stankowitz, joined every week by Colts Ring of Honor

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Speaker 1: wide receiver Bill Brooks, as we break down the Colt's

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Speaker 1: latest game, Bill. The Colts beat the Chicago Bears twenty

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Speaker 1: one to sixteen on Sunday at Lucas Oil Stadium. The

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Speaker 1: Colts improved to one and two. The Bears and the

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Speaker 1: Chicago White Sox combined to fall to thirty seven and

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Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty two on the season. With today's results, Bill,

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Speaker 1: the big story out of this game beyond just the

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Speaker 1: Colts getting the win. I think Anthony Richardson going ten

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Speaker 1: of twenty for one hundred and sixty seven, he throws

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Speaker 1: two picks. He is a passer rating of thirty nine

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Speaker 1: point zero. And I was talking to a couple of

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Speaker 1: my friends who covered the Bears in the press box

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Speaker 1: after the game, and Patrick Finley, who covers the Bears

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Speaker 1: for the Chicago Sun Times, told me that's the first

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Speaker 1: time since nineteen ninety four the Bears have a lot

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Speaker 1: of passer rating under forty for a starting quarterback who

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Speaker 1: started and finished a game and lost. So I put

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Speaker 1: some perspective into the Colts win today that Anthony Richardson

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Speaker 1: was not at his best, but the Colts still managed

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Speaker 1: to win. And Bill, the overarching takeaway I had for

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Speaker 1: this game was, while Anthony Richardson is figuring out how

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Speaker 1: to be the reason why the Colts win games, it

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Speaker 1: is imperative that the Colts figure out ways to win

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Speaker 1: games around that. And today, Bill, they were able to

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Speaker 2: Yeah, forget to win a game today without Anthony at

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Speaker 2: his best, And if you are a teammate of Anthony's

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Speaker 2: or you're on the Colts roster, and you can win

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Speaker 2: a game that way without your quarterback being his best

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Speaker 2: and knowing that he's only going to get better as

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Speaker 2: time goes on, it does a lot for you as

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Speaker 2: an individual and as a team because you know that, hey,

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Speaker 2: there are gonna be times where the quarterback might not

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Speaker 2: be at his best, but we are good enough to

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Speaker 2: win a game when he's not at his best and

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Speaker 2: kind of just say, Okay, we're going to hold it

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Speaker 2: together until he gets better. Each week, he gets a

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Speaker 2: little bit better. Each week, he does a little bit better,

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Speaker 2: and he learns each week and knowing that, hey, once

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Speaker 2: he gets to his potential that we think he can be,

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Speaker 2: then if he can be the guy and the reason

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Speaker 2: why we win, and then we can play at a

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Speaker 2: level that, you know what, we can win games when

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Speaker 2: he's not at his best. Just think how good we

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Speaker 2: can be if we all come together at one time

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Speaker 2: when he's playing at his best and we the rest

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Speaker 2: of the team, we're doing our job and we're playing

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Speaker 2: really well. So I think that is a the way

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Speaker 2: they should look at it and the way that you know,

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Speaker 2: if you understand it, that we just have to go

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Speaker 2: out there right now and play our best until he

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Speaker 2: gets figures it out and he improves and things he

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Speaker 2: understands how things should work, and that he goes out

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Speaker 2: there and then he executes and he plays at his best,

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Speaker 2: then the coach should have some big games and big

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Speaker 2: wins in the future when it all comes together, right.

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Speaker 1: I mean, the plays are out there for Anthony Richardson,

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Speaker 1: But for whatever reason today there were were the misses

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Speaker 1: were more noticeable, I think, bill than even back to

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Speaker 1: Week two against Green Bay, the second interception Richardson threw

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Speaker 1: Michael Pittman Junior has loads of green grass around him.

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Speaker 1: He's got about five yards in front of him and

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Speaker 1: He's just got to spin it, let it rip and

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Speaker 1: this is an ugly game for Anthony Richardson, like an

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Speaker 1: Trey Sermon touched Quentin Nelson Bill, he told a couple

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Speaker 1: by the end of this play, nine of the Bears

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Speaker 1: eleven defenders on the field had rallied to the ball,

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Speaker 1: Junior Bernard Rayman, Quintin Nelson all pushing and they get

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Speaker 1: that situation. That was that was a moment that really

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Speaker 2: Yeah, when teammates see that the quarterback is getting in

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Speaker 2: zone knowing that, Anthony, you know, I'm gonna do whatever

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Speaker 2: what he showed on that play. Your teammates look at

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Speaker 2: what's going on, he wants to help this team score touchdowns,

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Speaker 3: And so you see him pushing, and he's the leader.

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Speaker 2: He's the first one to do it to push, try

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Speaker 2: you when you do that, when if you're trying to

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Speaker 2: And you know what, he probably gained a lot of

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Speaker 2: we should be doing the same thing. And that's why

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Speaker 2: he's won the leaders on the team.

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Speaker 1: So Bill after the game, Anthony Richardson in his postgame

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Speaker 1: this was not a good game that he played throwing

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Speaker 1: improving his completion percentage, Like full stop, That's what the

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Speaker 1: thing that's gonna matter the most. But the reason why

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Speaker 1: of stuff like that. It's because, like Ryan Kelly was asked, hey,

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Speaker 1: The team trusts Anthony Richardson because in the postgame locker room,

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Speaker 1: on our social media channels on Colts dot com, it

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Speaker 1: starts with Shane Steichen and then Anthony Richardson goes and

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Speaker 1: breaks down the team bill. I don't know if you

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Speaker 1: look he's gotta eat. He's got to play better. He

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Speaker 1: eventually Anthony Richardson will be the reason why the Colts

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Speaker 1: win football games. Right now, today he wasn't. But down

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Speaker 2: The teammates are behind him, and they're behind him because

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Speaker 2: of the things he said, as you mentioned in the

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Speaker 1: I mean, and look with Anthony Richardson, those guys all

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Speaker 1: have seen it. They all know that, no matter what

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Speaker 1: because of his outrageous athleticism and playmaking ability. And Shane

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Speaker 1: the fourth and the fourth and short throw that he skied.

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Speaker 1: Tough play right there. But you know what, we can

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Speaker 1: eventually we can go back to that and or hey,

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Speaker 1: if today's the day that we just need to hivot

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Speaker 1: the other stuff does need to be cleaned up. I

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Speaker 1: look this up, Bill. The last team to make the

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Speaker 1: playoffs when as a team they're completing under fifty five

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Speaker 1: you know, if Richardson can kind of clean up some

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Speaker 1: it spin, let it rip. It's week three. If the

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Speaker 1: you're two and two through week four. Now you start

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Speaker 3: Right now. You know they're going to be some ups

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Speaker 2: It's just we as fans and people who are wanting

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, you're gonna have to live with a

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Speaker 2: To sitting with Jonathan Taylor, running hard, running with patients,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, you bring up the Bears defense, and

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, and that gives you confidence as an

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Speaker 2: We did what we needed to do from an offensive

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Speaker 3: To help us win this football game. And that's all

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Speaker 1: The flip side of it, Bill is on defense, the

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Speaker 2: And that's what you want to do. You want to

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Speaker 2: stop the run and make the Bears one dimensional and

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Speaker 2: put the game pretty much on kill Williams shoulders and

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Speaker 2: see what he can do. And the coach did what

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Speaker 2: they need to do to get the win, which is

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Speaker 2: a big win. Then play the best they could play

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Speaker 2: it definitely a lot better, but to get the first one,

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Speaker 2: that's what you want to do. Get the first one,

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Speaker 2: learn from it, and hopefully they can build on that

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Speaker 2: each week and get better and hopefully they stack some

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Speaker 2: wins up as the season goes on.

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Speaker 1: The law to strip sack in particular, Bill I thought

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Speaker 1: was really notable, not just for the timing of it,

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Speaker 1: not just for the actual the actual result of it.

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Speaker 1: But this was a shot play. The Bears are running,

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Speaker 1: they were in max and they had Cole Comet trying

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Speaker 1: to block Layatu Latu on this play. This was supposed

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Speaker 1: to be a shot play they had They only had

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Speaker 1: two guys out in routes Roma, Dunza and DJ Moore.

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Speaker 1: The Colts had pretty well covered Julian Blackman's playing the

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Speaker 1: deep safety. There was really not much there, but asking

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Speaker 1: Cole Comet to block Layatu Latu is a tricky proposition.

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Speaker 1: To me that that did not work out in the

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Speaker 1: bears favor, and lot too said it for the game

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Speaker 1: that you know, Quiddy Pay told him, hey, if you

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Speaker 1: get this look, if this guy's blocking you, which it

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Speaker 1: turned out of was Comet, you can you can beat him.

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Speaker 1: You got him like you got him in that look,

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Speaker 1: and that's exactly what he got. Cole Comet's a really

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Speaker 1: good player, Like I mean, we saw it today. The

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Speaker 1: guy's a really good player, but he's not an offensive lineman.

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Speaker 1: He's not a left tackle. And on a shot play

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Speaker 1: like that, the way Latu I thought had played all game,

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Speaker 1: that looked like he was having a really really good game.

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Speaker 1: That's a match up that the Colts were excited to get.

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Speaker 1: I think in that.

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Speaker 2: Situation, I think if a lot of two seas a

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Speaker 2: tight end out there on him, I'm sure a lot

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Speaker 2: two is probably gonna be a little excited to try to,

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Speaker 2: you know, get around him, and you know, don't get

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Speaker 2: me wrong.

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Speaker 3: Tight ends.

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Speaker 2: We have some good blocking tight ends in the National

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Speaker 2: Football League. But I like my chances with a Lot

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Speaker 2: two against Comet trying to get to Caleb Williams. And

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Speaker 2: he did a nice job getting to Caleb Williams and and.

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Speaker 3: Also other rushers he had.

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Speaker 2: He did a nice job putting some pressure on kilp

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Speaker 2: Wims as well. But a Lot two getting around Comet

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Speaker 2: and having an opportunity to get a strip sack that

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Speaker 2: was huge, And you know, to me, I think it

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Speaker 2: changes the game right there, as we said it was

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Speaker 2: fourteen to nine. A Lot two makes a big play

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Speaker 2: during an important time of the game and gets the

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Speaker 2: ball back to our team, back to the offense and they,

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Speaker 2: you know, they make a play and score a touchdown.

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Speaker 2: So big, big, big credit to a Lot two for

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Speaker 2: come up with a big play at the right time.

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Speaker 1: I know that Caleb Williams put up what did he have?

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Speaker 1: Three hundred and fifty the sixty something passing yards, But

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Speaker 1: I thought the Colt secondary played pretty well, like obviously

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Speaker 1: Jalen Jones getting the two picks Bill those are the

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Speaker 1: highlights of the day. I thought Kenny Moore the second

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Speaker 1: had a really good day. I thought you saw some

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Speaker 1: decent stuff from Sam Womack the third even from Dallas Flowers.

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Speaker 1: It felt like a lot of the big plays the

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Speaker 1: Bears got were either to Cole Comet who had a

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Speaker 1: big day, or when they would get advantageous matchups with

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Speaker 1: Roma Dunza where they had a Dunza on Nick Cross.

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Speaker 1: A couple of times they had a Duneesa. Even there

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Speaker 1: was one play where they got him on EJ. Speed,

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Speaker 1: which is, you know, EJ's a really good player, but

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Speaker 1: you're not asking him to cover a wide receiver a

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Speaker 1: whole lot. So I thought for the most part, when

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Speaker 1: the secondary was targeted in certain situations, especially the corners,

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Speaker 1: I thought they had a pretty good day. Well, we'll

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Speaker 1: go back and look at the film on some of

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Speaker 1: these guys, but overall encouraging in a game where the

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Speaker 1: Bears are gonna have to throw the ball that the

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Speaker 1: Colt secondary didn't totally break down in this game. In fact,

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Speaker 1: they had some real standout moments, highlighted by Jalen Jones exactly.

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Speaker 2: They have some good moments there and then, like you said,

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Speaker 2: especially Jalen Jones with the two interceptions, the bigger interceptions there,

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Speaker 2: and you know, he played those those interceptions very well

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Speaker 2: as far as coming up making some big plays. One

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Speaker 2: of them was a real tough catch for Jalen Jones,

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Speaker 2: but he made a nice, nice catch there on one

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Speaker 2: of them and also kept his feeding bounds to make

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Speaker 2: sure that he got the interception.

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Speaker 3: So give him credit.

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Speaker 2: Give Jalen Jones credit, and you know, give Nick Cross

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Speaker 2: credit to I think Nick Cross did some good things.

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Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, with ten tackles today, so he did

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Speaker 2: a nice job making some tackles and you know he's

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Speaker 2: trying to fly around to the ball and make some play.

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Speaker 3: So give Nick some credit. And I thought the second

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Speaker 3: day played okay.

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Speaker 2: You know, like you said, I need to watch the

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Speaker 2: film again from beginning to end and actually see what happened.

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Speaker 2: But I think they did a good enough job for

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Speaker 2: the Coast to win. So that's the most important thing

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Speaker 2: right now.

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Speaker 1: The Colts did a good enough job to win this

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Speaker 1: football game. And in week three, Bill, that's all you

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Speaker 1: can ask for, which is summing up thirty minutes.

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Speaker 2: Of analysis, that's all you can ask for. And you know,

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Speaker 2: going into the game, I always said, I always said,

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Speaker 2: going to the game, I said, yes, I want the

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Speaker 2: Coast to win, but I want them to play well

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Speaker 2: because playing well, to me, is going to hopefully set

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Speaker 2: them up to hopefully get better as a year goes

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Speaker 2: on and as the game's going down on line, because

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Speaker 2: to me, that's the most important thing. If you're playing

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Speaker 2: well and you win, then you kind of can expect that.

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Speaker 2: You know, you kind of set the bar real high,

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Speaker 2: and then you want to go even higher as a

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Speaker 2: player to play even better. And you know what, this

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Speaker 2: game wasn't their best game by far, and they will

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Speaker 2: tell you that this was not their best game, but

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Speaker 2: they found a way to win the ball game. It's

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Speaker 2: very tough to win in the National Football League. These

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Speaker 2: guys found a way to win. Now they just need

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Speaker 2: to build on that, and they need to correct the

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Speaker 2: mistakes that they made. They made a lot of mistakes

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Speaker 2: out there today. But they need to build on that.

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Speaker 2: And you know what, is always good to get a

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Speaker 2: win when you don't play your best. And now they

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Speaker 2: know what they need to do to play better and

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Speaker 2: hopefully they can carry that over and play better next

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Speaker 2: week against the Pittsburgh Steelers.

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Speaker 1: The undefeated Pittsburgh Steelers by the way Bill with Justin

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Speaker 1: Fields at quarterback, I'm sure once people figure out in

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Speaker 1: Chicago that Justin Fields is coming to town undefeated after

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Speaker 1: Caleb Williams Leavestown at one and two, that'll go over

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Speaker 1: well over.

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Speaker 3: The radio airwaves in Chicago.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure that's gonna do it for us here on

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Speaker 1: this episode of Instant Reaction, on the Colts Audio Network

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Speaker 1: and on the Colts YouTube page. Thank you for listening,

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Speaker 1: thank you for watching, Bill and I will be back

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Speaker 1: next week again after the aforementioned Colts versus Steelers game

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Speaker 1: at Lucas Oil Stadium. Until then, so long, have a

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Speaker 1: great week.