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Speaker 1: What's going on? Everybody, Welcome in to her Wednesday it

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Speaker 1: is you have Texans All Access from the Honday Texans

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Speaker 1: A Radio studio. I am John Harris, your host, football anial,

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Speaker 1: sideline reporter and looking forward to Sunday in Indianapolis at

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Speaker 1: Lucas Oil Stadium where the Texans have won in twenty fifteen,

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Speaker 1: twenty sixteen, twenty eighteen, and we're driving last year on

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Speaker 1: I remember the next day Mark and I talking with

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Speaker 1: go for two and he said yes, we were planning

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Speaker 1: our two point play to take the win from Indie

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Speaker 1: right there on the spot, but fumble at the two

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Speaker 1: created by Darius Lennard. He will be a big factor

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Speaker 1: obviously this week as he always is as your Texans

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Speaker 1: take on the Indianapolis Colts. Now tonight show, we got

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Speaker 1: a lot we're gonna hear from Nick Casserio, our interview

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Speaker 1: with Nick Casserio. We know that Nick was on with

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Speaker 1: Sean and Seth this morning. We had a great talk

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Speaker 1: with Nick as well. We'll have that for you in

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Speaker 1: our next segment. Then we will have our in the

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Speaker 1: Lab podcast. Drew and I talked a little bit about

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Speaker 1: what we saw Sunday against the Patriots and then started

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Speaker 1: previewing this game against the Indianapolis Colts. We will have

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Speaker 1: our men behind the mics. A guy who had my

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Speaker 1: job when we started, Matt Taylor, was a silent reporter

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Speaker 1: for the Colts. Got to be pretty good friends with Matt,

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Speaker 1: and then things happen up in Indianapolis. Bout a bang

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Speaker 1: about a banging mats to play by play voice of

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Speaker 1: the Colts and does a whale of a job. So

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Speaker 1: markt a chance to catch up with Matt Taylor. Will

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Speaker 1: have that for you. And then DP City goes behind

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Speaker 1: enemy sidelines with Laura Overton, who covers the Colts for

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Speaker 1: Colts dot Com. So we have got so much for

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Speaker 1: you tonight, including right off the bat, a little bit

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Speaker 1: of news. Let's get to the transactions and the injury

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Speaker 1: report for today because it is lengthy. Now the biggest

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Speaker 1: coming from left tackle Laramie Tunsel. Now I think it

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Speaker 1: was on Monday's show. I started off our Monday all

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Speaker 1: Rappaport and that Laramie had a torn UCL A torn

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Speaker 1: I remember correctly, either way, Laramie tore that UCL and

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Speaker 1: it appears now that he will have surgery on that thumb,

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Speaker 1: and it looks like four weeks is the target. So

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Speaker 1: will not think. I know it's three games. So if

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Speaker 1: the thought that Laramie's gonna be out after having the

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Speaker 1: and that stinks. However, Laramie's missed a few games before

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Speaker 1: You kept kept on moving, kept on doing some good things.

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Speaker 1: And Jeron Christians played a lot of football in this league.

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Speaker 1: And so that's my guess is that Drawn Christian will

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Speaker 1: Here is Coach Cully at his weekly Wednesday presser talking

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Speaker 1: Sometimes with commentary, some players play through it. What was

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Speaker 1: So you get done best for him, best for a team,

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Speaker 1: let's move forward with a couple of transactions. Now, one

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Speaker 1: And the Texans had worked out a number of players

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Speaker 1: But the other piece of news is super awesome. The

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Speaker 1: is Nico Collins. Oh man, you imagine having Nico back.

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Speaker 1: Looks like Danny A. Mendola should be ready to go

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Speaker 1: that is just really really good stuff. Now here's the key.

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Speaker 1: Here's the key. When you designated player for return, it

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Speaker 1: Coach Culley on Tyrod Taylor. Tyrode is not available right now.

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Speaker 1: And at that point, like, how do you approach choosing

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Speaker 1: He's our starting quarterback when he went down, he's doing

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Speaker 1: That means it's still Davis Mills. And you heard there.

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Speaker 1: the Indianapolis Colts. Now, I saved the worst for the last.

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Speaker 1: The Indiapolis Colts are banged of football team too. I

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Speaker 1: and a huge fan of Freddie's Frozen Custard and Steak Burgers.

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Speaker 1: Nick Cassario. Nick, welcome, Thanks a lot for spending some

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Speaker 1: the Seahawks. Last night's game went to overtime. So they've

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Speaker 1: essentially been in every game. The Miami game might have

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Speaker 1: of the gap. But acquired Carson in the offseason. Carson's

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Speaker 1: played really, really well. Carson's a really good football player.

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Speaker 1: He started well. He's in a good system, he's in

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Speaker 1: got a good group of skill players on the perimeter,

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Speaker 1: a really good running back who's not had a lot

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Speaker 1: of people talk about. And Jonathan Taylor, but he's a

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Speaker 1: i would say, a three down back that does a

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Speaker 1: lot of different things well. And then a good offensive line.

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Speaker 1: They made some investments in the offensive line. They just

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Speaker 1: extended Braydon Smith. They added Fisher to help solidify what's

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Speaker 1: and going back to Cleveland, who was with coach Marinelli

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Speaker 1: put his system in place. And they have arguably two

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Speaker 1: of the best players at their position forget about position

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Speaker 1: on defense in the league in Buckner and Darius Leonard.

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Speaker 1: So they present a lot of challenges. So we're gonna

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Speaker 1: have to prepare and unders stand how they play and

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Speaker 1: then in turn understand what we're gonna need to do

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Speaker 1: in order to be successful. It's going to be different

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Speaker 1: that Buffalo presented. It's just different week to week. You

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Speaker 1: had Kenny Moore when when you guys were in New England,

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Speaker 1: and it just got me thinking, you're talking about players,

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Speaker 1: because I always thinking about Anny Moore because we've kind

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Speaker 1: of joked on the air. It's you know, you go

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Speaker 1: to the Walmart bargain bin and you pull one out

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Speaker 1: and you're like, oh, let's try this one, and Kenny

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Speaker 1: Moore is turning into one of the better players in

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Speaker 1: the league. This really isn't about anymore. But it's more

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Speaker 1: about was there ever a player that you had just

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Speaker 1: kind of the one that got away, the one you

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Speaker 1: feel like, dang it, man, we had this guy or

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Speaker 1: I really like this guy, but you know what, it

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Speaker 1: just didn't work. But man, he went somewhere else and

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Speaker 1: he ended up being a big You've got a nomination,

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Speaker 1: Nick Comu gruge a hill because he's back here. You

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Speaker 1: got him, but he got away, but you got him

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Speaker 1: back here, right, Okay, no, no, no no, no, no, that

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Speaker 1: And Kenny's there's a lot of examples when you go

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Speaker 1: so Kenny was a good example. Kenny was undrafted, was

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Speaker 1: a really a productive player at Valdosta State. I mean

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Speaker 1: He was five eight and a half one ninety. He

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Speaker 1: positions at Valdosta, played safety, played in corners, so liked

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Speaker 1: this position versatility. Similar to some of the players that

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Speaker 1: in the end of the same player, but a lot

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Speaker 1: like Jonathan Jones. So you're talking about two guys that

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Speaker 1: had really successful, productive careers. I'd say Kenny's case. Kenny

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Speaker 1: actually had a really good training camp. He was probably

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Speaker 1: of our corners at the time, was like the sixth corner,

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Speaker 1: so he was in competition. The reality is you can't

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Speaker 1: keep everybody on your team and you have to make

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Speaker 1: some difficult decisions. At time, we all knew at some

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Speaker 1: point Kenny Kenny was going to be in the league,

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Speaker 1: just like KG was going to be in the league.

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Speaker 1: And Kenny's done a great job. He's been a really

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Speaker 1: good system fit for what Indy is doing on defense.

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Speaker 1: Has position versatility, plays in a perimeter and base defense,

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Speaker 1: sides inside to play star in subdefense, so and has

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Speaker 1: He's a very smart and he's a very instinctive player,

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Speaker 1: which you saw those. You saw those at Valdosta, we

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Speaker 1: saw them in our training camp. And the reality is

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Speaker 1: it's just hard to keep everybody. Let's talk about offensive

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Speaker 1: line depth here, Nick, because it was tested last week.

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Speaker 1: You have Charlie Heck coming up to play, and you

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Speaker 1: have christ Jan coming in at left tackle when Laramie

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Speaker 1: has to go out, so you had to use these guys,

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Speaker 1: ready to play. Typically, even going back, teams were only

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Speaker 1: allowed to take seven offensive linement to the game, and

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Speaker 1: you typically only had seven, So you had one player

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Speaker 1: So now when the institute is kind of the eighth

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Speaker 1: lineman rule and able to to get an extra linement

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Speaker 1: to the game. So in our situation, we actually went

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Speaker 1: to the game with seven because Marcus wasn't available because

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Speaker 1: of his injury situations. So when Laramie went down, whoever

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Speaker 1: the next tackle is goes in and played left tackle.

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Speaker 1: It's Jon. In this particular case, it was darn and

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Speaker 1: we had seen Charlie all during training camp. Charlie was

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Speaker 1: able to get a lot of reps at right tackle

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Speaker 1: because Marcus was in and out of the lineup, so

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Speaker 1: they went in there, and it's a good example really

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Speaker 1: going Look, we talked about with Chris of being ready

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Speaker 1: to play. You never know when that opportunity he's going

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Speaker 1: to come. But when you go out there, the expectation

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Speaker 1: as you're going to play to a certain level, and

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Speaker 1: those two particular players played to a certain level. So

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Speaker 1: we'll see what happens here and moving forward against Indie.

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Speaker 1: You said something last week, Nick that stuck with me.

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Speaker 1: We were talking about young players and drafting young players,

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Speaker 1: are bringing young players, and you talked about the second year,

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Speaker 1: stuck with me in talking about Charlie Heck, because Charlie

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty, I mean, it was just everything was

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Speaker 1: shortcut for those guys in twenty twenty. Same for anybody

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Speaker 1: in the twenty twenty draft class. We've seen a lot

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Speaker 1: of improvement. Coach Kali City is one of the most

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Speaker 1: a full training camp, He then had preseason games to

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Speaker 1: go out and do it. How much did that twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty class gets sort of short circuited because we're starting

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Speaker 1: to see some of those guys kind of rise up

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Speaker 1: and make plays. Charlie Heck, you know, has played well

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Speaker 1: started for us. John Garnard has started to make some plays.

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Speaker 1: How much the twenty twenty kind of set those guys back,

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Speaker 1: impacting your one, but now you're your two. It's a

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Speaker 1: great question. I would say it's really more of a

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Speaker 1: bumping a road and then go back to your earlier

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Speaker 1: question mark about process and what that entails. The reality,

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Speaker 1: this is the truth most people. I mean, this is

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Speaker 1: our belief in philosophy. Everybody doesn't share the same philosophy.

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Speaker 1: That would say, from our perspective, a rookie comes into

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Speaker 1: the league, regardless of where they've played, how much they've played,

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Speaker 1: there are a certain level of development that's involved. So

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Speaker 1: you draft the player in May whenever that is. They

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Speaker 1: come in for rookie mini camp, so they get a

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Speaker 1: little bit of the spring, they get training camp. Whatever

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Speaker 1: happens during the course of the regular season, more than

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Speaker 1: likely they're going to be taxed more than they ever

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Speaker 1: had before because they are in the length of the season.

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Speaker 1: When the season's over, then you start your offseason preparations.

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Speaker 1: So they go through February through Harvard long February offseason program,

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Speaker 1: OTA's training camp, so that over from that call it

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Speaker 1: January to the start of training camp. That's where you

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Speaker 1: can see some improvements in terms of their strength, in

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Speaker 1: terms of their power, in terms of their explosive this

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Speaker 1: then you have to see can they translate that over

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Speaker 1: to the field. So in Charlie's case, this is a

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Speaker 1: great example. So when the Houston season was over, when

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty one season then, which is why he made

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Speaker 1: as much improvement as he did because A he made

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Speaker 1: the arc of the part of the process. Going back

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Speaker 1: to what you said earlier, it's really a full year cycle.

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Speaker 1: And then once you get through that full year cycle,

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Speaker 1: I would regardless of the rookie, other than maybe some

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Speaker 1: elite players, they're very far behind. So you don't want

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Speaker 1: to put a timetable on when they're gonna play, how

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Speaker 1: much they're gonna play, how big of a contribution that

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Speaker 1: they're going to make that's kind of for everybody in

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Speaker 1: the periphery, for you guys to talk about in the radio,

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Speaker 1: because it's all fun and all that, But I would

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Speaker 1: say when you look at it from a running a team,

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Speaker 1: from a reality standpoint, we kind of have to look

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Speaker 1: at it through a different lens. All right. One more

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Speaker 1: for you, Nick, Now that we're deeper into the season,

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Speaker 1: what can you share with us about what you're doing

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Speaker 1: during the game headset on what kinds of information or

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Speaker 1: being relaid down to the sideline? Can you tell us

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Speaker 1: about that? Sure, it's really more observations, just kind of

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Speaker 1: seeing the arc and flow to the game, just tearing

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Speaker 1: what we're doing, what the call is, just making some

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Speaker 1: notes that type of thing. So really not necessarily inserting

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Speaker 1: myself into anything. It's really more listening, really more observing,

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Speaker 1: and if something does come up where there's a question

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Speaker 1: or hey what about this? You know, if there's a

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Speaker 1: I can help, then that's kind of what sort of

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Speaker 1: my role is. So it's really there to be a resource.

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Speaker 1: It's really there to serve and to help, regardless of

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Speaker 1: how big or small that is. On a week to

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Speaker 1: week basis. Well, we tackled a lot of stuff there

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Speaker 1: in that interview. Awesome stuff. Obviously, Nick was on this

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Speaker 1: morning with Sean and Seth and they got into a

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Speaker 1: number of different topics as well. So great to catch

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Speaker 1: up with Nick. He'll be obviously with us every single week.

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Speaker 1: He'll be on I think with Sean and Seth once

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Speaker 1: a month. So good stuff happening there with Nick Cassario.

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Speaker 1: There's also great stuff happening with our In the Lab podcast.

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Speaker 1: Drew Doughty and myself are up next right here on

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Speaker 1: Texans All Access All Access Access. Welcome back this Wednesday

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Speaker 1: issue that Texans All Access. I'm your host, John Harris,

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Speaker 1: football ANNO, Southern reporter and one half of the In

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Speaker 1: the Lab podcast duo. The other half of that is

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Speaker 1: my man Drew Doherty, and we sat down and well

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Speaker 1: we talked about a lot of different things right here

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Speaker 1: on the pot. Let's talk about the Colts because this

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Speaker 1: is an interesting setup. They're on National TV last night.

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Speaker 1: Boyle boy, what a game. But the better team won.

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's a that's a much a far superior

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Speaker 1: but ultimately they just couldn't, couldn't withstand the onslaught of

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Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson and everything is. But I saw some things,

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Speaker 1: I know you saw some things that are very intriguing

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Speaker 1: from Indianapolis, perhaps exploitable from Indianapolis, and perhaps worrisome for

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Speaker 1: the Texans because that that Jonathan Taylor. Wow, he's a player.

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Speaker 1: And as an aside, are you like me and that

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Speaker 1: you're always tempted to say Jonathan Taylor Thomas like that? Yes, yes, absolutely,

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Speaker 1: thank god, this Jonathan Taylor has kind of kept me

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Speaker 1: from doing that. When you brought it up, I thought

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Speaker 1: about it. But this Jonathan Taylor is a oh man,

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Speaker 1: he you know, it's funny. We um. We had a

643
00:33:41,840 --> 00:33:43,880
Speaker 1: young man with us by name of Jesse Clark used

644
00:33:43,880 --> 00:33:45,640
Speaker 1: to be who was to run all our social and

645
00:33:45,720 --> 00:33:48,840
Speaker 1: Jesse was University of Wisconsin grad and so Jesse and

646
00:33:48,840 --> 00:33:51,560
Speaker 1: I used to be in the office and in an

647
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Speaker 1: office together, and so I would put my headphones on

648
00:33:54,240 --> 00:33:56,560
Speaker 1: and just kind of well, Okay, what game am I

649
00:33:56,600 --> 00:33:58,560
Speaker 1: watching today? What am I studying today? And so it

650
00:33:58,640 --> 00:34:00,760
Speaker 1: was the year I was studying for John actually was

651
00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:03,600
Speaker 1: before that, and I was studying Jonathan Taylor, and I

652
00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:05,239
Speaker 1: was just like my god. I would just walk over

653
00:34:05,240 --> 00:34:07,440
Speaker 1: there and I would hit him and I'm like, your boy,

654
00:34:07,520 --> 00:34:09,719
Speaker 1: Jonathan Taylor as a dude. So we would text each

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00:34:09,719 --> 00:34:13,120
Speaker 1: other like, can you imagine Jonathan Taylor playing for the Texans.

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00:34:13,320 --> 00:34:16,560
Speaker 1: No way, the Texans are not gonna get There's no

657
00:34:16,600 --> 00:34:19,160
Speaker 1: way it can happen. The Texans will be not They're

658
00:34:19,160 --> 00:34:20,960
Speaker 1: not gonna be drafting in position they would get him.

659
00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:23,479
Speaker 1: And then they actually were in position and did draft

660
00:34:23,560 --> 00:34:27,160
Speaker 1: Ross Blacklock. And then my worst fear was that, Okay, well,

661
00:34:27,160 --> 00:34:29,279
Speaker 1: now he's gonna go to the Titans, or he's gonna

662
00:34:29,280 --> 00:34:31,200
Speaker 1: back up Derrick Henry, or he's gonna go to the Colts.

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Speaker 1: And then the Colts take him the next pick, and

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Speaker 1: I'm like, I mean that first touchdown, he had drew

665
00:34:37,320 --> 00:34:40,879
Speaker 1: his third and fifteen and that's just a throwaway play

666
00:34:40,960 --> 00:34:43,440
Speaker 1: just off the field. They just didn't want to turn

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00:34:43,480 --> 00:34:46,960
Speaker 1: the ball over. It made Yeah, that's why I texted

668
00:34:46,960 --> 00:34:48,560
Speaker 1: you last night. You're like, what, I guess you were

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00:34:48,640 --> 00:34:50,880
Speaker 1: somewhere else, you had no. I was in the kitchen.

670
00:34:50,920 --> 00:34:53,520
Speaker 1: I was in the kitchen cooking, and so I wasn't

671
00:34:53,760 --> 00:34:55,600
Speaker 1: Because I was cooking, I wasn't able really to kind

672
00:34:55,640 --> 00:34:59,560
Speaker 1: of focus on the game, so I don't mind getting

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00:34:59,600 --> 00:35:02,080
Speaker 1: behind a live game because I can just fast forward

674
00:35:02,120 --> 00:35:04,760
Speaker 1: through the commercials. Yeah, and so I sort of plant

675
00:35:04,840 --> 00:35:07,280
Speaker 1: that way. I'm like, so, I cooked dinner, made dinner.

676
00:35:07,320 --> 00:35:10,279
Speaker 1: I made a spicy sausage pasta um with some parmer

677
00:35:10,320 --> 00:35:12,560
Speaker 1: gan bred to go with it. That was pretty good.

678
00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:14,920
Speaker 1: And while you're while you're cooking that, I send you what.

679
00:35:15,040 --> 00:35:18,120
Speaker 1: I sent you what you can't eat this, and figuring

680
00:35:18,160 --> 00:35:20,000
Speaker 1: you'd be watching and you're like what, And I'm like, oh,

681
00:35:20,040 --> 00:35:23,920
Speaker 1: he's definitely not watching it. That's a nice not yet anyway. Yeah,

682
00:35:24,080 --> 00:35:27,600
Speaker 1: I almost texted you back at that point. I was like, oh,

683
00:35:27,760 --> 00:35:29,440
Speaker 1: I know, but I didn't. I didn't have to. You

684
00:35:29,440 --> 00:35:31,440
Speaker 1: already knew because I got caught up on a game.

685
00:35:31,880 --> 00:35:34,360
Speaker 1: Uh and then watched it all the way through. And

686
00:35:34,120 --> 00:35:38,760
Speaker 1: what a really good football games, really fun game to watch.

687
00:35:39,320 --> 00:35:45,400
Speaker 1: Drama involved because a kicking situation for Indianapolis was not great. Um,

688
00:35:45,560 --> 00:35:48,399
Speaker 1: you know what Carson Wentz did, and I gotta get

689
00:35:48,560 --> 00:35:51,960
Speaker 1: credited Carson. You know, he started off just real rocky,

690
00:35:52,080 --> 00:35:56,520
Speaker 1: but man, he lit up that raven secondary. I gotta

691
00:35:56,560 --> 00:35:59,080
Speaker 1: admit I did not see that coming. I did not

692
00:35:59,120 --> 00:36:02,080
Speaker 1: see a comment I thought Wink Martindale Don Martindale would

693
00:36:02,080 --> 00:36:04,279
Speaker 1: send a bunch of blitzes at him, and he did.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if it was because Wentz was getting

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00:36:07,120 --> 00:36:08,799
Speaker 1: the ball out quickly, I don't know, but he didn't

696
00:36:08,800 --> 00:36:10,479
Speaker 1: send a ton of blitzes. And when they did blitz

697
00:36:10,560 --> 00:36:13,000
Speaker 1: the offensive line and banged up one picked it up

698
00:36:13,160 --> 00:36:16,000
Speaker 1: and then Wentz just delivered to everybody. He threw it

699
00:36:16,040 --> 00:36:19,799
Speaker 1: to everybody. I mean, Aston Dulan's making catches, Michael Pittman had,

700
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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, Michael Pittman to catch, he makes for

701
00:36:23,040 --> 00:36:26,480
Speaker 1: a touchdown down the Oh my goodness. But in the end,

702
00:36:26,840 --> 00:36:31,000
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson just making one more play. I mean, he was.

703
00:36:31,520 --> 00:36:35,840
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson's phenomenal. He's phenomenal. So now they got to

704
00:36:35,840 --> 00:36:40,040
Speaker 1: come back. They've got a day less to prepare, day

705
00:36:40,440 --> 00:36:42,880
Speaker 1: less to recuperate. That's kind of good. That works for

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Speaker 1: the Texans in their favor to a degree. I suppose

707
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Speaker 1: we'll see how much. But what's the biggest threat with him?

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00:36:48,280 --> 00:36:51,200
Speaker 1: I mean, I thought Taylor is really the guy who's

709
00:36:51,760 --> 00:36:53,880
Speaker 1: like we talked about, he stands out, he's such a

710
00:36:53,960 --> 00:36:57,359
Speaker 1: problem and he makes something happen when nothing's really there

711
00:36:57,400 --> 00:36:59,200
Speaker 1: to happen, and he done. He did that like on

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Speaker 1: that first touch of Like you're talking about, what do

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Speaker 1: the Texans have to do to defend against that? Because

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Speaker 1: that's a step up I think from what the Texans

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Speaker 1: have seen the last week or so. Yeah, I would

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Speaker 1: you know, think going back to the game against Cleveland,

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00:37:12,320 --> 00:37:15,120
Speaker 1: you know when you see Chubb and Hunt. Yeah, Now,

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Speaker 1: I think the difference for the Colts is that Jonathan

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00:37:19,600 --> 00:37:24,040
Speaker 1: Taylor is like Chubb, Naim Hunts Naim Hines is nowhere

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Speaker 1: like Hunt, but he presents an even bigger issue because

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Speaker 1: of his speed. So you know that Hines is not

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00:37:29,480 --> 00:37:32,960
Speaker 1: gonna pound, but you know that Hans can take it

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Speaker 1: and bounce a run outside and all of a sudden

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00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:37,880
Speaker 1: he's got ten to speed and he's flying by you.

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00:37:37,920 --> 00:37:41,200
Speaker 1: I mean, he can absolutely smoke. But Jonathan Taylor runs

726
00:37:41,239 --> 00:37:44,080
Speaker 1: four three eight two hundred and twenty five pounds, so

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00:37:44,160 --> 00:37:47,799
Speaker 1: he's got speed. He's now seeing things. I think the

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00:37:47,840 --> 00:37:50,000
Speaker 1: biggest thing you've got to do for a guy like

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00:37:50,120 --> 00:37:54,600
Speaker 1: that is cut off the runway. You gotta make things cloudy,

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00:37:54,719 --> 00:37:57,480
Speaker 1: like he knows, okay, this is this is a b

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Speaker 1: gap run. I know, I gotta get to the gap

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Speaker 1: which is between the garden tackle. That's where that's my

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00:38:02,880 --> 00:38:06,879
Speaker 1: aiming point on this play. You've got to make those

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00:38:06,920 --> 00:38:09,520
Speaker 1: things cloudy and there are different things you can do.

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Speaker 1: You can run some blitz. I thought the Texans did

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Speaker 1: a really interest They had a really interesting run blitz

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00:38:14,600 --> 00:38:17,720
Speaker 1: the other day. You remember the big hit by John Grennard. Sure,

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Speaker 1: and on that play, it essentially was kind of a

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00:38:21,360 --> 00:38:24,320
Speaker 1: it was kind of a text game. The tackle Maliek

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Speaker 1: Collins kind of shot into the offensive tackle kind of

741
00:38:28,719 --> 00:38:32,120
Speaker 1: in the direction the play was going, and then Grennard

742
00:38:32,239 --> 00:38:36,000
Speaker 1: looped around and so moving back inside. So it looks

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Speaker 1: like Grenard's going opposite the way the play is going.

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00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:42,160
Speaker 1: But because of Malik getting up field and forced the

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Speaker 1: back to cut back inside and then a man who

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Grenard is right there to make the play.

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00:38:48,040 --> 00:38:52,120
Speaker 1: I mean, perfect position to make the play. So little

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00:38:52,280 --> 00:38:57,279
Speaker 1: subtle run stunts, run blitzes, those kind of things. Here's

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Speaker 1: the other one, and this is a little tougher with

750
00:38:58,880 --> 00:39:02,960
Speaker 1: our defense years passed. This is a little bit easier

751
00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:06,920
Speaker 1: because it was a little bit more of and not redreact.

752
00:39:06,920 --> 00:39:11,080
Speaker 1: But they played a lot of staunch technique. They were

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Speaker 1: not going to allow guys to get up to a

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00:39:13,760 --> 00:39:16,520
Speaker 1: different level, and they wanted to kind of force a

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00:39:16,880 --> 00:39:20,480
Speaker 1: form a wall up front. Our guys now are just

756
00:39:21,120 --> 00:39:24,520
Speaker 1: blown and going a field. They want to create mayhem,

757
00:39:24,560 --> 00:39:29,120
Speaker 1: they want to penetrate. That disrupts a lot of blocking schemes. However,

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00:39:30,280 --> 00:39:32,280
Speaker 1: if a guy doesn't get all the way up field

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00:39:32,480 --> 00:39:37,920
Speaker 1: or turns back, yes, it leaves. It leaves gaps and

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00:39:38,120 --> 00:39:42,160
Speaker 1: big gaps. And that's like you said, I think vulnerabilities

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00:39:42,200 --> 00:39:45,440
Speaker 1: is the exact right word. It leaves this defense vulnerable

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00:39:45,480 --> 00:39:48,719
Speaker 1: for cutbacks for Taylor to exploit that. And now a

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00:39:48,719 --> 00:39:52,279
Speaker 1: sudden linebackers are not at the line of scrimmage to

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00:39:52,280 --> 00:39:55,080
Speaker 1: make a play because that play is hitting so fast

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00:39:55,080 --> 00:39:57,759
Speaker 1: because now there's a scene. So now there's room, and

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00:39:57,840 --> 00:40:00,560
Speaker 1: that's what you don't want. You want to take away

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00:40:00,560 --> 00:40:03,760
Speaker 1: that separation and room for Taylor forced him to stop

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00:40:03,760 --> 00:40:06,719
Speaker 1: his feet the line scrimmage and bounce to allow other

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Speaker 1: guys to get there. The most important thing, Drew, this

770
00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:14,040
Speaker 1: is gonna sound so freaking obvious when I say it,

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00:40:15,080 --> 00:40:18,040
Speaker 1: you probably already know what it is. But you gotta

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00:40:18,080 --> 00:40:21,640
Speaker 1: tackle like men. You've gotta tackle like men. You gotta

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Speaker 1: tackle like guys that have you know, been tackling your

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00:40:24,760 --> 00:40:28,279
Speaker 1: entire lives, and not like a group of eight year

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00:40:28,320 --> 00:40:31,440
Speaker 1: old pop warner guys trying to pull a flag. You've

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00:40:31,480 --> 00:40:33,920
Speaker 1: got to tackle like men, and you've got to do

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00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:36,600
Speaker 1: it together. You can't throw a shoulder into a guy

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00:40:36,640 --> 00:40:39,400
Speaker 1: and think he's gonna go down. Not this guy, yeah,

779
00:40:39,440 --> 00:40:41,680
Speaker 1: and not any guy really, but not this guy. So

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Speaker 1: Nick Chubb, to me, is the one guy that I

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00:40:45,360 --> 00:40:47,879
Speaker 1: think about the most of Jonathan Taylor. Now I think

782
00:40:47,960 --> 00:40:52,440
Speaker 1: Chubb is more powerful, but I think Taylor is probably

783
00:40:52,480 --> 00:40:56,480
Speaker 1: a hair faster than Chubb. But to me, they're similar

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00:40:56,520 --> 00:40:59,880
Speaker 1: in that way that they hit that outside zone. You

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00:41:00,120 --> 00:41:03,120
Speaker 1: give him a scene, see you, and you know we're

786
00:41:03,160 --> 00:41:05,000
Speaker 1: cranking up the band and they're kicking an extra point,

787
00:41:05,080 --> 00:41:08,080
Speaker 1: and that that cannot happen against this guy. All right.

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00:41:08,120 --> 00:41:11,320
Speaker 1: On the flip side, we gotta give kudos to Davis Mills,

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Speaker 1: especially when you consider what he went through in Buffalo

790
00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:15,960
Speaker 1: where it was just about as bad as it gets.

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00:41:16,880 --> 00:41:20,520
Speaker 1: Flip it around a week later, three touchdown passes, no interceptions,

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00:41:20,719 --> 00:41:25,120
Speaker 1: the accuracy which I mean other than the Carolina game,

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00:41:25,719 --> 00:41:27,759
Speaker 1: e factoring his two other games that he's played in

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Speaker 1: the regular season. Everything we saw are in training camp

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Speaker 1: or the preseason. He was just not accurate numbers wise, Yeah,

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00:41:34,400 --> 00:41:38,440
Speaker 1: he was. He was a dead eye, you know. On

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00:41:38,520 --> 00:41:41,480
Speaker 1: Sunday afternoon, he really really was accurate and moved the

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00:41:41,480 --> 00:41:45,000
Speaker 1: ball around. You talk about finding different receivers last night.

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Speaker 1: He did that on Sunday as well, and was really

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Speaker 1: really good about it. Short game, deep game, he did

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00:41:51,520 --> 00:41:55,719
Speaker 1: it all. But the Colts, that's a different animal all together.

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00:41:56,400 --> 00:42:00,960
Speaker 1: I would love, love, love, love to see the defense

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00:42:01,040 --> 00:42:04,000
Speaker 1: the Colts have played the first five weeks of the year,

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00:42:04,600 --> 00:42:08,080
Speaker 1: one in which they can't get to the quarterback, that

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00:42:08,120 --> 00:42:12,480
Speaker 1: they are banged up in the secondary, that things aren't altogether.

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00:42:12,800 --> 00:42:17,080
Speaker 1: But you and I both know this Colts defense against

807
00:42:17,280 --> 00:42:22,160
Speaker 1: this Texans squad at home, that defense will show up

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00:42:22,200 --> 00:42:26,920
Speaker 1: and show out. I just can't believe that it's gonna

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00:42:26,960 --> 00:42:29,200
Speaker 1: be a defense that gives up four hundred and forty

810
00:42:29,239 --> 00:42:34,360
Speaker 1: two yards passing a second time. But we'll see Davis

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Speaker 1: Mills gonna have to prove he can throw for three

812
00:42:36,920 --> 00:42:40,640
Speaker 1: bills a second time. So a lot of things going

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00:42:40,680 --> 00:42:43,600
Speaker 1: on with that matchup of the Colts and the Texans.

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00:42:43,719 --> 00:42:45,520
Speaker 1: I'll have my keys to the game a little later

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00:42:45,520 --> 00:42:49,800
Speaker 1: in the week but it's trending in a definite positive direction.

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00:42:50,160 --> 00:42:53,399
Speaker 1: Can't wait for it. Also, can't wait to hear from

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Speaker 1: Matt Taylor, the voice of the Colts, with our good

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00:42:56,360 --> 00:42:58,239
Speaker 1: friend Mark Vandam. You're the voice the Texans. It's been

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Speaker 1: behind the Mike's next on Texans As. We've got one

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00:43:04,040 --> 00:43:06,600
Speaker 1: hour down, one hour left to go. Right here to

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Speaker 1: Wednesday edition of Texans All Access from the that Texans

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Speaker 1: Radio studio. I am John Harris, football analysts, cython reporter

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Speaker 1: and very envious that the proverbial radio sock was on

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00:43:19,080 --> 00:43:22,200
Speaker 1: the door and I got kicked out for this conversation

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00:43:22,800 --> 00:43:26,600
Speaker 1: between Matt Taylor, the voice of the Indianapolis Colts, and

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Speaker 1: our good pal Mark Vandimir. Let's get men behind the

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Speaker 1: MIC's going right now, joining us right now Texans Radio.

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Speaker 1: Matt Taylor, voice of the Indianapolis Colts. Matt, great to

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Speaker 1: visit with you, and I feel like you and I

830
00:43:42,440 --> 00:43:45,560
Speaker 1: are the Spider Man meme based on the way each

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00:43:45,560 --> 00:43:48,400
Speaker 1: of our last games went. You at Baltimore and the

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00:43:48,440 --> 00:43:52,000
Speaker 1: Texans against the Patriots, blowing the lead field goal issues

833
00:43:52,640 --> 00:43:54,520
Speaker 1: how you feel in a few days later after that

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00:43:54,600 --> 00:43:59,080
Speaker 1: Colts game with Baltimore, Yeah, that's a really good analogy.

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Speaker 1: You're a really good metaphor. It's also like that Homer

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00:44:01,280 --> 00:44:04,239
Speaker 1: Simpson meme, because you know, the Colts were up big

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Speaker 1: in that game on Monday Night in Baltimore. They're up

838
00:44:06,680 --> 00:44:09,720
Speaker 1: nineteen points and we're talking about how good they're playing,

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00:44:09,719 --> 00:44:11,000
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden you have to do

840
00:44:11,040 --> 00:44:13,680
Speaker 1: the Homer Simpson meme where he kind of backtracks into

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00:44:13,719 --> 00:44:16,080
Speaker 1: the end of the bushes there a little bit, because

842
00:44:16,520 --> 00:44:19,640
Speaker 1: the Colts yacked it up, I mean, losing that nineteen

843
00:44:19,680 --> 00:44:22,359
Speaker 1: point lead. They're up twenty two to three with three

844
00:44:22,360 --> 00:44:24,800
Speaker 1: minutes to go in the third quarter, and then to

845
00:44:24,960 --> 00:44:27,920
Speaker 1: lose an overtime. It's tied for the ninth biggest blown

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00:44:28,040 --> 00:44:31,520
Speaker 1: lead Enfranchise history. And obviously a lot of things go

847
00:44:31,560 --> 00:44:34,680
Speaker 1: into it. I mean, very unfortunate circumstance with their kicker

848
00:44:35,160 --> 00:44:38,480
Speaker 1: getting injured in the pregame warmups. I mean, obviously, what

849
00:44:38,560 --> 00:44:41,480
Speaker 1: are the odds of that happening, and then just defensively

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00:44:41,520 --> 00:44:44,160
Speaker 1: not being able to make a play, and then you know,

851
00:44:44,200 --> 00:44:47,960
Speaker 1: in the second half, just getting completely ripped apart by

852
00:44:48,160 --> 00:44:51,759
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson, who threw for three hundred and thirty five

853
00:44:51,840 --> 00:44:56,440
Speaker 1: yards in the second half. And overtime that alone tops

854
00:44:56,520 --> 00:45:00,080
Speaker 1: his career high. So he did that in one half,

855
00:45:00,400 --> 00:45:02,279
Speaker 1: you know, setting a new career high in terms of

856
00:45:02,320 --> 00:45:05,360
Speaker 1: passing four touchdowns. So a lot went into it, and

857
00:45:05,560 --> 00:45:08,760
Speaker 1: certainly it's a it was I think a defining moment

858
00:45:08,920 --> 00:45:11,320
Speaker 1: loss for the Colts. You know, it was a chance

859
00:45:11,360 --> 00:45:13,520
Speaker 1: for them to kind of make a statement on Monday

860
00:45:13,600 --> 00:45:17,040
Speaker 1: Night football, to beat a really good football team and show,

861
00:45:17,160 --> 00:45:19,200
Speaker 1: you know, to the rest of the football world that hey,

862
00:45:19,200 --> 00:45:22,399
Speaker 1: they're better than their own three start. But instead they're

863
00:45:22,400 --> 00:45:25,440
Speaker 1: now one and four and they got a really really

864
00:45:25,480 --> 00:45:27,640
Speaker 1: tough road ahead if they want to get back into

865
00:45:27,640 --> 00:45:30,520
Speaker 1: the playoff conversation. There's no doubt about that. Well, you're

866
00:45:30,560 --> 00:45:34,440
Speaker 1: not alone with the kicker deal, Matt, because the Texans

867
00:45:34,520 --> 00:45:37,200
Speaker 1: had their place kicker, Kademy Fairbaron, injured it in now

868
00:45:37,320 --> 00:45:41,000
Speaker 1: preseason game during the warm ups and they ended up

869
00:45:41,000 --> 00:45:43,080
Speaker 1: having a go for two all night and having Justin

870
00:45:43,160 --> 00:45:46,279
Speaker 1: Reid kick off and Fairbaron just back a couple of

871
00:45:46,280 --> 00:45:48,719
Speaker 1: games ago and struggled obviously in his first game where

872
00:45:48,760 --> 00:45:50,840
Speaker 1: he really had to place kick. So you never know

873
00:45:50,880 --> 00:45:53,160
Speaker 1: what's going to happen. But tell me this, the way

874
00:45:53,200 --> 00:45:56,319
Speaker 1: the Colts built the lead. The way they got there

875
00:45:56,400 --> 00:46:00,239
Speaker 1: in front of Baltimore, that's the way they want to play, right.

876
00:46:00,239 --> 00:46:02,399
Speaker 1: I mean they had Taylor with a big catch and Ron,

877
00:46:02,480 --> 00:46:05,120
Speaker 1: they had some good defense brewing. Tell me about what

878
00:46:05,280 --> 00:46:09,840
Speaker 1: worked on that Monday night. Yeah, they played fantastically for

879
00:46:09,920 --> 00:46:12,600
Speaker 1: two and a half quarters, and they played their brand

880
00:46:12,640 --> 00:46:15,560
Speaker 1: the ball against a really good team on both sides

881
00:46:15,600 --> 00:46:17,799
Speaker 1: of the ball. Offensively, you know, they wrapped up five

882
00:46:17,920 --> 00:46:21,080
Speaker 1: hundred and thirteen yards of offense, and you know, they

883
00:46:21,080 --> 00:46:23,279
Speaker 1: were just kind of surgical there in that first half.

884
00:46:23,320 --> 00:46:24,600
Speaker 1: You know, they didn't have a lot of points to

885
00:46:24,600 --> 00:46:26,479
Speaker 1: show for it, and that speaks to the red zone.

886
00:46:26,520 --> 00:46:29,040
Speaker 1: I'll talk about that in just a second. But in

887
00:46:29,160 --> 00:46:32,759
Speaker 1: terms of just execution the game plan and you know

888
00:46:32,800 --> 00:46:35,200
Speaker 1: how they were set up to build the Ravens man,

889
00:46:35,440 --> 00:46:38,200
Speaker 1: they performed well and they had an edge about them.

890
00:46:38,440 --> 00:46:40,600
Speaker 1: I thought they were the more prepared team. They were

891
00:46:40,640 --> 00:46:43,080
Speaker 1: the tougher team in the first half, really for the

892
00:46:43,160 --> 00:46:46,440
Speaker 1: first you know, two and a half quarters, but you know,

893
00:46:46,520 --> 00:46:49,280
Speaker 1: things kind of slipped apart. But I mean Carson Wentz

894
00:46:49,320 --> 00:46:52,000
Speaker 1: had the best game of his career, at least statistically,

895
00:46:52,120 --> 00:46:54,560
Speaker 1: because I mean three for four hundred and two yards,

896
00:46:54,640 --> 00:46:57,400
Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty eight passer rating. Those are career highs.

897
00:46:57,760 --> 00:47:00,560
Speaker 1: His yards per attempt was eleven point five. I mean

898
00:47:00,600 --> 00:47:03,760
Speaker 1: these last two games for him in Week four and five,

899
00:47:03,880 --> 00:47:07,080
Speaker 1: since he's you know, gradually gotten a little bit healthier

900
00:47:07,200 --> 00:47:09,720
Speaker 1: coming off the two ankle sprains in Week two against

901
00:47:09,760 --> 00:47:12,080
Speaker 1: the Rams, I mean, he's he's played like one of

902
00:47:12,080 --> 00:47:14,040
Speaker 1: the best quarterbacks in the league. I don't know what

903
00:47:14,040 --> 00:47:17,160
Speaker 1: else you want from your starting quarterback in terms of

904
00:47:17,200 --> 00:47:20,160
Speaker 1: production setting up his team with a chance to win.

905
00:47:20,320 --> 00:47:23,359
Speaker 1: So I think offensively, you know, they certainly upheld there

906
00:47:23,400 --> 00:47:26,239
Speaker 1: into the bargain, and then defensively to start the game,

907
00:47:26,920 --> 00:47:30,440
Speaker 1: I mean, just great defensive principles in stopping Lamar Jackson.

908
00:47:30,480 --> 00:47:33,719
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, they stopped that you know, ridiculous

909
00:47:33,760 --> 00:47:37,399
Speaker 1: forty forty three game streak where the Ravens went over

910
00:47:37,440 --> 00:47:39,840
Speaker 1: one hundred yards rushing. They didn't get anywhere near that

911
00:47:39,960 --> 00:47:43,000
Speaker 1: on Monday night. So, you know, stopping the run, that's

912
00:47:43,000 --> 00:47:46,880
Speaker 1: a hallmark of the Colts defense. But obviously passing defense,

913
00:47:47,520 --> 00:47:51,399
Speaker 1: that's a different story because anytime under Matt Eberflus, unfortunately

914
00:47:51,760 --> 00:47:54,560
Speaker 1: their defensive coordinator, anytime they play, you know, an above

915
00:47:54,600 --> 00:47:58,080
Speaker 1: average quarterback, you know, the secondary gets chewed up a

916
00:47:58,080 --> 00:48:01,360
Speaker 1: little bit. So far this year, Colts have allowed opposing

917
00:48:01,440 --> 00:48:04,640
Speaker 1: quarterbacks to post a one twenty four point nine passer

918
00:48:04,719 --> 00:48:08,040
Speaker 1: rating and they're completing seventy three percent of their passes.

919
00:48:08,080 --> 00:48:11,040
Speaker 1: So right now, it's good stopping the run and not

920
00:48:11,200 --> 00:48:13,560
Speaker 1: so good it's slowing down the pass. Yeah, and it

921
00:48:13,600 --> 00:48:16,920
Speaker 1: looked like the Ravens were getting that underneath stuff going.

922
00:48:17,000 --> 00:48:19,719
Speaker 1: It wasn't all just bombs away from Lamar Jackson and

923
00:48:19,880 --> 00:48:23,440
Speaker 1: his running ability. They got some short stuff underneath, shallow crosses,

924
00:48:23,440 --> 00:48:26,239
Speaker 1: things like that. What is the issue there? I know,

925
00:48:26,360 --> 00:48:28,600
Speaker 1: you have injuries and obviously that has to have a

926
00:48:28,640 --> 00:48:31,960
Speaker 1: great deal to do with it, right they do, and

927
00:48:32,080 --> 00:48:34,440
Speaker 1: it does. You know, Xavier Roads went out of the

928
00:48:34,440 --> 00:48:36,920
Speaker 1: game with a concussion. They didn't play the game with

929
00:48:37,040 --> 00:48:39,520
Speaker 1: Rock you seen. So, I mean there was good stretches

930
00:48:39,560 --> 00:48:41,760
Speaker 1: of the second half in crunch time where the Colts

931
00:48:41,800 --> 00:48:44,880
Speaker 1: were lined up with you know, bo Pete Keys and

932
00:48:45,040 --> 00:48:48,279
Speaker 1: Anthony Chesley. And this is no disrespect to either guy

933
00:48:48,360 --> 00:48:51,279
Speaker 1: because they're in the NFL for a reason, but it

934
00:48:51,400 --> 00:48:55,279
Speaker 1: almost looked like it was the last preseason game, you know,

935
00:48:55,520 --> 00:48:59,120
Speaker 1: in August, based on the secondary alignment out there, so

936
00:48:59,239 --> 00:49:01,960
Speaker 1: it's just it's all about matchup, certainly laid in the

937
00:49:02,040 --> 00:49:04,719
Speaker 1: game when those guys are on the field, and you know,

938
00:49:04,800 --> 00:49:07,319
Speaker 1: Mark Andrews the tight end, had a big game against him,

939
00:49:07,400 --> 00:49:10,839
Speaker 1: Marquis Brown had a big game against them, and yeah,

940
00:49:10,880 --> 00:49:15,000
Speaker 1: I mean once the Baltimore got down big and they

941
00:49:15,040 --> 00:49:16,879
Speaker 1: sort of got in that two minute mode and they

942
00:49:16,920 --> 00:49:19,520
Speaker 1: were going at breakneck speed, it was hard for the

943
00:49:19,560 --> 00:49:23,480
Speaker 1: Colts to substitute, especially on the defensive line, so their

944
00:49:23,480 --> 00:49:26,080
Speaker 1: pass rush got negated. And then they had some injuries

945
00:49:26,080 --> 00:49:29,080
Speaker 1: in the secondary, with some inexperience in the back end,

946
00:49:29,200 --> 00:49:31,799
Speaker 1: and just you know, guys making plays in front of him.

947
00:49:31,880 --> 00:49:34,800
Speaker 1: It was just a really tall order. And Jackson, to

948
00:49:35,000 --> 00:49:38,120
Speaker 1: his credit, just took his game to the next level.

949
00:49:38,200 --> 00:49:41,200
Speaker 1: He was really good at extending plays and just his

950
00:49:41,280 --> 00:49:44,120
Speaker 1: accuracy was off the charts. I mean, he had four

951
00:49:44,239 --> 00:49:47,080
Speaker 1: hundred and forty two passing yards for the game and

952
00:49:47,480 --> 00:49:50,800
Speaker 1: he is I think his completion percentage eighty six percent.

953
00:49:50,920 --> 00:49:53,080
Speaker 1: That was the best ever for a player with at

954
00:49:53,160 --> 00:49:55,640
Speaker 1: least forty attempts and for a player with at least

955
00:49:55,640 --> 00:49:59,200
Speaker 1: four hundred passing yards in a game. So certainly an

956
00:49:59,280 --> 00:50:03,400
Speaker 1: historic formants by the Ravens quarterback. But again I go

957
00:50:03,440 --> 00:50:05,680
Speaker 1: back to the passing defense for the Colts anytime they

958
00:50:05,719 --> 00:50:08,480
Speaker 1: play above average quarterbacks, and I'll would throw you know,

959
00:50:08,560 --> 00:50:11,359
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson in there. The last couple of years into

960
00:50:11,400 --> 00:50:14,399
Speaker 1: that in that conversation, it just has not gone well

961
00:50:14,440 --> 00:50:16,279
Speaker 1: for the Colts defense and giving up a lot of

962
00:50:16,320 --> 00:50:18,680
Speaker 1: yards and a lot of points. Matt Taylor, Voice of

963
00:50:18,719 --> 00:50:21,799
Speaker 1: the Colts joining us. Matt, you brought up last year

964
00:50:22,080 --> 00:50:26,040
Speaker 1: two games that the Texans lost when trying to take

965
00:50:26,120 --> 00:50:29,319
Speaker 1: command of the situation down the stretch, bitten by the

966
00:50:29,360 --> 00:50:33,200
Speaker 1: turnover bug, and the Colts of the Texans nemesis. Let's

967
00:50:33,200 --> 00:50:34,960
Speaker 1: just be clear on that. Even though the Texans have

968
00:50:34,960 --> 00:50:38,279
Speaker 1: won the division more often lately than the Colts, the

969
00:50:38,320 --> 00:50:41,680
Speaker 1: Cults are still in command of the all time series.

970
00:50:41,680 --> 00:50:44,640
Speaker 1: Won the playoff game here capping twenty eighteen. And what

971
00:50:44,760 --> 00:50:47,960
Speaker 1: are the Colts fans and the Colts and Cults nation,

972
00:50:48,000 --> 00:50:49,880
Speaker 1: if you will, what do they think of the Texans

973
00:50:49,960 --> 00:50:53,239
Speaker 1: right now? What Houston's going through? Well, I mean right now,

974
00:50:53,239 --> 00:50:55,719
Speaker 1: I mean you can sort of make comparisons between the

975
00:50:55,719 --> 00:50:58,959
Speaker 1: two franchises because the records the same. It's one and four.

976
00:50:59,200 --> 00:51:02,160
Speaker 1: You know, the Texans are on a losing streak. You know,

977
00:51:02,200 --> 00:51:05,120
Speaker 1: they've had some instability at quarterback. The Colts have obviously

978
00:51:05,160 --> 00:51:08,000
Speaker 1: had some instability at QB, not in the sense that

979
00:51:08,040 --> 00:51:11,279
Speaker 1: it's different guys, but with Carson Wentz, I mean, it's

980
00:51:11,320 --> 00:51:14,720
Speaker 1: really like the beginning of the season was his training

981
00:51:14,800 --> 00:51:17,760
Speaker 1: camp and his acclamation period to a new team, because

982
00:51:18,160 --> 00:51:21,080
Speaker 1: he missed all of the real training camp basically with

983
00:51:21,800 --> 00:51:23,959
Speaker 1: a foot injury. You know, the second day of camp,

984
00:51:24,000 --> 00:51:26,480
Speaker 1: second day of practice, he goes out with a foot problem,

985
00:51:26,880 --> 00:51:30,239
Speaker 1: has to have surgery where they remove a bone from

986
00:51:30,280 --> 00:51:32,640
Speaker 1: his foot, and then he's out basically the next four

987
00:51:32,680 --> 00:51:35,279
Speaker 1: or five weeks. So he came back the week before

988
00:51:35,320 --> 00:51:37,920
Speaker 1: the start of the regular season, and again I'm saying,

989
00:51:37,960 --> 00:51:41,480
Speaker 1: just now he's finding his groove. He's healthier, and plus

990
00:51:41,480 --> 00:51:43,799
Speaker 1: he had those two ankle sprains against the Rams, which

991
00:51:43,840 --> 00:51:46,760
Speaker 1: compounded things in a negative way. So in the last

992
00:51:46,760 --> 00:51:50,520
Speaker 1: two weeks, I mean, Wentz is at seventy three percent

993
00:51:50,640 --> 00:51:54,479
Speaker 1: completion percentage, six hundred and thirty passing yards, nine point

994
00:51:54,560 --> 00:51:58,040
Speaker 1: four yards per attempt, and he has six completions over

995
00:51:58,120 --> 00:52:01,480
Speaker 1: twenty five yards. Those are all top five numbers for quarterbacks.

996
00:52:01,520 --> 00:52:03,640
Speaker 1: Just in the last two weeks, I know it's a

997
00:52:03,680 --> 00:52:06,880
Speaker 1: short sample size, but again, he is getting more acclimated

998
00:52:06,960 --> 00:52:09,880
Speaker 1: in the Colts offense and he is getting healthier. But

999
00:52:09,960 --> 00:52:13,600
Speaker 1: to draw comparisons right now between the two franchises, I

1000
00:52:13,719 --> 00:52:17,200
Speaker 1: still think that the Texans have aspirations of getting back

1001
00:52:17,200 --> 00:52:19,840
Speaker 1: into the mix. I know the Colts do, and the

1002
00:52:19,880 --> 00:52:21,960
Speaker 1: Colts schedule kind of lightens up a little bit, at

1003
00:52:22,040 --> 00:52:24,080
Speaker 1: least on paper. I don't know if you saw the

1004
00:52:24,080 --> 00:52:26,600
Speaker 1: Colts first five games of the season mark, but I

1005
00:52:26,640 --> 00:52:29,920
Speaker 1: mean it was an absolute gauntlet. I mean, the first

1006
00:52:29,960 --> 00:52:31,960
Speaker 1: five games to start a year for the Colts. I

1007
00:52:31,960 --> 00:52:34,360
Speaker 1: don't think there's been a more difficult stretch for a

1008
00:52:34,440 --> 00:52:37,560
Speaker 1: team based on the year before his results in the

1009
00:52:37,640 --> 00:52:40,000
Speaker 1: last thirty years, I mean, they've played teams that made

1010
00:52:40,040 --> 00:52:43,640
Speaker 1: the playoffs, teams that won at least ten games last year,

1011
00:52:43,680 --> 00:52:47,600
Speaker 1: all in the first five, and no one around here

1012
00:52:47,680 --> 00:52:50,440
Speaker 1: saw one and four. But that's with the injuries and

1013
00:52:50,520 --> 00:52:52,920
Speaker 1: just bad luck and not executing well, we'll get you.

1014
00:52:53,880 --> 00:52:56,719
Speaker 1: But so with that, with that being said, this game

1015
00:52:56,760 --> 00:52:59,640
Speaker 1: on Sunday for the Colts against the Texans, quite frankly,

1016
00:52:59,640 --> 00:53:01,480
Speaker 1: it's the Super Bowl. I mean it has to be.

1017
00:53:01,520 --> 00:53:04,160
Speaker 1: I mean, their game at Lucas Oil Stadium coming up

1018
00:53:04,200 --> 00:53:06,120
Speaker 1: on Sunday is the biggest game of the year because

1019
00:53:06,120 --> 00:53:08,440
Speaker 1: if they if they dropped this one and they go

1020
00:53:08,520 --> 00:53:10,200
Speaker 1: to one in five and oh and two in the

1021
00:53:10,239 --> 00:53:13,480
Speaker 1: AFC South, you know, mathematically you wouldn't be eliminated, but

1022
00:53:13,560 --> 00:53:16,040
Speaker 1: in all reality you would probably be done for the

1023
00:53:16,120 --> 00:53:17,759
Speaker 1: year in terms of trying to climb back into the

1024
00:53:17,800 --> 00:53:21,759
Speaker 1: playoff race. You played Tennessee already. What was it like

1025
00:53:21,920 --> 00:53:24,920
Speaker 1: seeing them? What do you make of that team in

1026
00:53:25,000 --> 00:53:28,200
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one. You know, they're just a solid team

1027
00:53:28,320 --> 00:53:30,560
Speaker 1: and as long as they've got the quarterback and as

1028
00:53:30,600 --> 00:53:32,920
Speaker 1: long as they've got Derrick Henry, you know, they're always

1029
00:53:32,920 --> 00:53:34,399
Speaker 1: going to have a chance. And that's what they did

1030
00:53:34,400 --> 00:53:37,080
Speaker 1: against the Colts. They they grinded him down in the

1031
00:53:37,120 --> 00:53:40,400
Speaker 1: second half. You know, Henry didn't explode. You know, he

1032
00:53:40,440 --> 00:53:43,440
Speaker 1: didn't have any you know, forty fifty yard runs, but

1033
00:53:43,480 --> 00:53:46,160
Speaker 1: he still had twenty eight carries well over one hundred yards,

1034
00:53:46,520 --> 00:53:49,239
Speaker 1: and they just sort of, you know, pounded the Colt

1035
00:53:49,320 --> 00:53:51,319
Speaker 1: in the submission late in the game, kind of took

1036
00:53:51,360 --> 00:53:53,640
Speaker 1: over that game and that was the game. There was

1037
00:53:53,680 --> 00:53:55,440
Speaker 1: a little bit of an asterix. If you're a Colts

1038
00:53:55,480 --> 00:53:57,920
Speaker 1: fan because that was the game that Wentz came back

1039
00:53:57,960 --> 00:54:00,719
Speaker 1: and late in the week decided he was good enough

1040
00:54:00,760 --> 00:54:03,440
Speaker 1: to play, cleared all the protocols, doctors gave him the

1041
00:54:03,440 --> 00:54:06,520
Speaker 1: green light, played on two bad ankles, and he visibly

1042
00:54:06,560 --> 00:54:09,480
Speaker 1: just wasn't the same quarterback. It's not an excuse. But

1043
00:54:09,520 --> 00:54:11,200
Speaker 1: I think if the Colts play him again, and they

1044
00:54:11,239 --> 00:54:13,120
Speaker 1: will him a couple of weeks, I think they'll have

1045
00:54:13,160 --> 00:54:16,000
Speaker 1: a better chance to win that football game because you know,

1046
00:54:16,040 --> 00:54:18,279
Speaker 1: the playbook will be more open, and the more things

1047
00:54:18,280 --> 00:54:21,839
Speaker 1: that went skin do, I think the better. So you know,

1048
00:54:21,880 --> 00:54:24,279
Speaker 1: it's it's one of those things where you got to

1049
00:54:24,360 --> 00:54:27,920
Speaker 1: play really sound football against Tennessee. Plus they got the

1050
00:54:27,920 --> 00:54:29,799
Speaker 1: two guys on the outside at least they did against

1051
00:54:29,840 --> 00:54:32,440
Speaker 1: the Colts with Julio Jones and A. J. Brown to

1052
00:54:32,520 --> 00:54:36,160
Speaker 1: kind of make their offense more dynamic and defensively, I

1053
00:54:36,200 --> 00:54:38,200
Speaker 1: still think they're kind of average. I think they can

1054
00:54:38,320 --> 00:54:40,799
Speaker 1: be had, But it's funny. You know, the Colts are

1055
00:54:40,800 --> 00:54:43,680
Speaker 1: getting out of this five game stretch to start the

1056
00:54:43,719 --> 00:54:46,960
Speaker 1: season where it's really tough. The Titans stretch coming up,

1057
00:54:47,040 --> 00:54:49,680
Speaker 1: that's their most difficult portion of the schedule. They got

1058
00:54:49,680 --> 00:54:52,799
Speaker 1: to play Buffalo, Kansas, City didn't come here to play

1059
00:54:52,840 --> 00:54:55,720
Speaker 1: the Colts at the Rams and then play the Saints,

1060
00:54:56,000 --> 00:54:59,800
Speaker 1: Whereas the Colts next couple of games Houston, San Francisco's

1061
00:54:59,800 --> 00:55:03,359
Speaker 1: to in three, the Titans the Jets on a Thursday night,

1062
00:55:03,400 --> 00:55:06,040
Speaker 1: they're one and four and then Jacksonville and five. So

1063
00:55:06,480 --> 00:55:07,840
Speaker 1: you don't want to put the card in front of

1064
00:55:07,840 --> 00:55:09,799
Speaker 1: the horse. But if if you're going to get on

1065
00:55:09,840 --> 00:55:12,080
Speaker 1: a roll, now is the time to do it if

1066
00:55:12,080 --> 00:55:14,960
Speaker 1: you're the Colts, because there's at least a chance that

1067
00:55:15,080 --> 00:55:17,400
Speaker 1: things can kind of break your way with the Titans

1068
00:55:17,400 --> 00:55:20,600
Speaker 1: having a difficult schedule coming up week six through ten.

1069
00:55:21,080 --> 00:55:25,680
Speaker 1: Matt Taylor joining US voice of the Indianapolis Colts. Jacksonville winless,

1070
00:55:25,880 --> 00:55:28,680
Speaker 1: and we know about the Urban Meyer situation a couple

1071
00:55:28,719 --> 00:55:32,360
Speaker 1: of weeks ago, but overall, the Jaguars organization not getting

1072
00:55:32,360 --> 00:55:35,160
Speaker 1: a win yet. Are you surprised by that? What do

1073
00:55:35,200 --> 00:55:38,920
Speaker 1: you make of their situation moving forward here? I am

1074
00:55:39,000 --> 00:55:41,680
Speaker 1: surprised by that because I thought they had a lot

1075
00:55:41,680 --> 00:55:44,440
Speaker 1: of good returning talent. I mean, they spend a lot

1076
00:55:44,440 --> 00:55:46,520
Speaker 1: of money in free agency. I like some of the

1077
00:55:46,560 --> 00:55:49,359
Speaker 1: moves they made this offseason with new players coming in,

1078
00:55:50,320 --> 00:55:52,560
Speaker 1: and obviously, you know they got a good core. They

1079
00:55:52,560 --> 00:55:56,240
Speaker 1: had a bazillion draft picks. I mean, a new franchise

1080
00:55:56,320 --> 00:55:59,399
Speaker 1: quarterback in Trevor Lawrence. I guess I'll start there. I'm

1081
00:55:59,400 --> 00:56:02,480
Speaker 1: a little bit disappointed in Lawrence, and I know he's

1082
00:56:02,480 --> 00:56:04,920
Speaker 1: a rookie, a lot of expectations, and he's got the

1083
00:56:04,920 --> 00:56:07,799
Speaker 1: weight of the franchise on his shoulders. That being said,

1084
00:56:08,080 --> 00:56:10,919
Speaker 1: I thought he would look better. I think I thought

1085
00:56:10,920 --> 00:56:13,200
Speaker 1: he would be a little bit more efficient than he

1086
00:56:13,280 --> 00:56:16,920
Speaker 1: has shown to this point. They've dropped some winnable games.

1087
00:56:17,480 --> 00:56:19,919
Speaker 1: You know, I throw last week's game as a winnable game.

1088
00:56:20,239 --> 00:56:22,920
Speaker 1: I certainly thought the Bengal game for them on a

1089
00:56:22,920 --> 00:56:25,160
Speaker 1: Thursday night that was a winnable game. They blew that

1090
00:56:25,239 --> 00:56:28,520
Speaker 1: fourteen point lead. So I was a little bit more

1091
00:56:28,600 --> 00:56:30,839
Speaker 1: bullish on them than a lot of people going into

1092
00:56:30,880 --> 00:56:33,080
Speaker 1: the season. Now, maybe not to the extent of them

1093
00:56:33,080 --> 00:56:36,240
Speaker 1: making the playoffs, but I certainly didn't CEO in five

1094
00:56:36,360 --> 00:56:39,680
Speaker 1: and now they've lost twenty straight games, and now we're

1095
00:56:39,719 --> 00:56:42,040
Speaker 1: starting to talk about them potentially flirting with the all

1096
00:56:42,120 --> 00:56:45,279
Speaker 1: time record of consecutive losses, which I think is set

1097
00:56:45,280 --> 00:56:48,319
Speaker 1: by Tampa Bay back in the eighties and nineties with

1098
00:56:48,440 --> 00:56:52,839
Speaker 1: twenty six straight losses, so they've been a disappointment. And

1099
00:56:53,160 --> 00:56:55,320
Speaker 1: that being said, you know, they always give the Colts trouble.

1100
00:56:55,440 --> 00:56:58,040
Speaker 1: You know, I know about the Texans and the Jaguars

1101
00:56:58,080 --> 00:57:00,239
Speaker 1: have some really good games over the years, but the

1102
00:57:00,280 --> 00:57:03,839
Speaker 1: Colts have not won in Jacksonville since twenty fourteen. So

1103
00:57:03,880 --> 00:57:06,720
Speaker 1: even though record wise it's it's kind of a layup,

1104
00:57:07,000 --> 00:57:09,800
Speaker 1: at least on paper, it will not be in reality

1105
00:57:09,840 --> 00:57:13,759
Speaker 1: because their last win was against the Colts back in

1106
00:57:13,960 --> 00:57:17,560
Speaker 1: Week one of twenty twenty. Other than the quarterback situation

1107
00:57:17,640 --> 00:57:19,680
Speaker 1: you played the Dolphins, Texans will have them in a

1108
00:57:19,680 --> 00:57:23,880
Speaker 1: few weeks. What do you think is wrong with Miami? Well,

1109
00:57:23,920 --> 00:57:26,680
Speaker 1: I mean right now, it's it's Jacoby Brisset at quarterback.

1110
00:57:26,840 --> 00:57:29,400
Speaker 1: You know, defensively, they just don't really have too much

1111
00:57:29,480 --> 00:57:33,200
Speaker 1: of an identity. You know, obviously we saw Jacoby here

1112
00:57:33,240 --> 00:57:35,520
Speaker 1: over the years as the quarterback for the Colts. You know,

1113
00:57:35,840 --> 00:57:39,480
Speaker 1: Marque's a guy that is highly respected in the locker room.

1114
00:57:39,520 --> 00:57:42,640
Speaker 1: He just he's like oozing with intangibles. But when you

1115
00:57:42,640 --> 00:57:45,320
Speaker 1: get him on the field, you know the things that

1116
00:57:45,400 --> 00:57:47,040
Speaker 1: kind of stand out to you. He's not going to

1117
00:57:47,120 --> 00:57:49,080
Speaker 1: turn the football over. He's always going to keep you

1118
00:57:49,080 --> 00:57:51,320
Speaker 1: in the game. He's going to be smart with the ball.

1119
00:57:51,760 --> 00:57:53,760
Speaker 1: But the other side of that is he's just not

1120
00:57:53,800 --> 00:57:55,400
Speaker 1: going to push it down the field. You know, the

1121
00:57:55,480 --> 00:57:57,840
Speaker 1: yards per attempt is not going to be very high.

1122
00:57:57,920 --> 00:58:01,280
Speaker 1: And it's funny. We were game planning for the for

1123
00:58:01,320 --> 00:58:04,880
Speaker 1: the Dolphins a couple of weeks ago, prepping for that conversation,

1124
00:58:05,400 --> 00:58:07,920
Speaker 1: and one of the things we brought up was, you know,

1125
00:58:08,080 --> 00:58:10,440
Speaker 1: it's it's funny I'm talking to you about this because

1126
00:58:10,440 --> 00:58:13,480
Speaker 1: I remember a game in twenty nineteen, late in the season,

1127
00:58:13,520 --> 00:58:15,760
Speaker 1: I think it was end of November. It's a Thursday

1128
00:58:15,840 --> 00:58:18,520
Speaker 1: night game. You know, the Colts and Texans were, you know,

1129
00:58:18,920 --> 00:58:20,560
Speaker 1: neck and neck to see who's going to win the

1130
00:58:20,560 --> 00:58:23,200
Speaker 1: AFC South. And obviously those had to head matchups mean

1131
00:58:23,320 --> 00:58:27,200
Speaker 1: so much. There's a primetime game down there, and Colts

1132
00:58:27,200 --> 00:58:28,840
Speaker 1: did a lot of really good things in order to

1133
00:58:28,840 --> 00:58:31,080
Speaker 1: win the game, right, one hundred and fifty yards rushing,

1134
00:58:31,480 --> 00:58:34,120
Speaker 1: they didn't turn the football over, they one time of possession,

1135
00:58:34,160 --> 00:58:36,720
Speaker 1: they got a couple of takeaways, and they still lost.

1136
00:58:36,800 --> 00:58:39,480
Speaker 1: And the big reason why it's because they just couldn't

1137
00:58:39,520 --> 00:58:41,640
Speaker 1: push the ball down the field. They didn't have enough

1138
00:58:41,760 --> 00:58:44,600
Speaker 1: chunk plays and they had a hard time scoring and

1139
00:58:44,640 --> 00:58:47,320
Speaker 1: just when when that happens, you know, it's it's it's

1140
00:58:47,360 --> 00:58:49,880
Speaker 1: hard to be efficient on offense. And you know, I

1141
00:58:49,920 --> 00:58:51,880
Speaker 1: think the biggest pass play in that game for the

1142
00:58:51,880 --> 00:58:55,040
Speaker 1: Colts was fourteen yards and that's sort of indicative of

1143
00:58:55,080 --> 00:58:58,439
Speaker 1: what the Miami offense looks right now, looks like right

1144
00:58:58,440 --> 00:59:01,520
Speaker 1: now with Jakobe Pursett. So I know they've had injuries too.

1145
00:59:01,720 --> 00:59:03,920
Speaker 1: You know, they're playing in a difficult division now in

1146
00:59:03,960 --> 00:59:06,640
Speaker 1: the AFCs with Buffalo and New England kind of figuring

1147
00:59:06,720 --> 00:59:09,520
Speaker 1: some things out. But yeah, I mean that that that

1148
00:59:09,600 --> 00:59:12,680
Speaker 1: should be I think a game where the Texans should

1149
00:59:12,720 --> 00:59:16,000
Speaker 1: have an outstanding chance to win it, because just right now,

1150
00:59:16,400 --> 00:59:18,720
Speaker 1: Miami's a little bit uneven on both sides of the ball.

1151
00:59:18,880 --> 00:59:22,280
Speaker 1: All right, final thoughts, math this Sunday, the match, both

1152
00:59:22,280 --> 00:59:25,040
Speaker 1: teams coming off of tough losses, Texans getting a much

1153
00:59:25,080 --> 00:59:28,040
Speaker 1: better quarterbacking performance than they did the week before. What

1154
00:59:28,120 --> 00:59:31,920
Speaker 1: do you think Sunday at noon? Well, like I said that,

1155
00:59:31,960 --> 00:59:34,240
Speaker 1: the Colts are treating it like it's their super Bowl.

1156
00:59:34,280 --> 00:59:36,479
Speaker 1: It's it's a must win game. Again, the math says

1157
00:59:36,520 --> 00:59:39,240
Speaker 1: it's not, but the reality says that it's. It's pretty

1158
00:59:39,280 --> 00:59:43,200
Speaker 1: close and I think offensively, the Colts have found their stride.

1159
00:59:43,520 --> 00:59:46,520
Speaker 1: They're looking really, really good again. Five hundred and thirteen

1160
00:59:46,600 --> 00:59:49,080
Speaker 1: yards of offense against Baltimore last week. I mean, if

1161
00:59:49,120 --> 00:59:52,400
Speaker 1: you can't win with those numbers, then it's it's just

1162
00:59:52,600 --> 00:59:54,920
Speaker 1: it's it's gonna be a long year for you. That

1163
00:59:55,040 --> 00:59:57,080
Speaker 1: being said, the offense can do more. You know, I

1164
00:59:57,120 --> 00:59:59,840
Speaker 1: talked about the red zone earlier. Right now, the Colts

1165
00:59:59,840 --> 01:00:03,600
Speaker 1: are seven for nineteen mark inside the red zone. That's

1166
01:00:03,680 --> 01:00:07,000
Speaker 1: dead last, that's thirty second. Last week they were one

1167
01:00:07,120 --> 01:00:10,720
Speaker 1: for four and in Baltimore they had three drives of

1168
01:00:10,880 --> 01:00:14,440
Speaker 1: nine or more plays that resulted in no points and

1169
01:00:14,560 --> 01:00:16,560
Speaker 1: again one for four in the red zone. They failed

1170
01:00:16,600 --> 01:00:19,000
Speaker 1: to score on two of those trips all together inside

1171
01:00:19,040 --> 01:00:22,560
Speaker 1: the twenty yard line. And then when you give up

1172
01:00:22,560 --> 01:00:25,560
Speaker 1: a nineteen point lead and you lose the game in overtime,

1173
01:00:25,960 --> 01:00:28,640
Speaker 1: everything's gonna get looked at. And that's certainly a big

1174
01:00:28,680 --> 01:00:31,400
Speaker 1: reason why they lost that football game. So, you know,

1175
01:00:31,640 --> 01:00:34,760
Speaker 1: I think it's got to be situational where the Colts

1176
01:00:34,760 --> 01:00:37,280
Speaker 1: win this football game coming up on Sunday. They got

1177
01:00:37,280 --> 01:00:39,400
Speaker 1: to be good on third down, and they definitely have

1178
01:00:39,480 --> 01:00:41,640
Speaker 1: to be much better inside the red zone. I know

1179
01:00:41,720 --> 01:00:43,880
Speaker 1: Houston's had their troubles on both sides of the ball,

1180
01:00:44,000 --> 01:00:46,960
Speaker 1: specifically on defense. They're giving up some big plays, but

1181
01:00:47,040 --> 01:00:50,160
Speaker 1: they've been good situationally, good on third down and good

1182
01:00:50,160 --> 01:00:51,920
Speaker 1: in the red zone. So if the Colts want to

1183
01:00:51,960 --> 01:00:54,840
Speaker 1: win this game, it comes down to the little details

1184
01:00:54,880 --> 01:00:58,400
Speaker 1: on third down and making plays. Think players, not plays

1185
01:00:58,720 --> 01:01:00,880
Speaker 1: when they have the ball inside the twey at Lucas Oil.

1186
01:01:01,480 --> 01:01:04,000
Speaker 1: All right, Matt, we really appreciate the time. Look forward

1187
01:01:04,000 --> 01:01:06,560
Speaker 1: to seeing you on Sunday. My pleasure. Mark be Well.

1188
01:01:07,040 --> 01:01:11,120
Speaker 1: Great stuff there from Matt Taylor, the voice of the

1189
01:01:11,200 --> 01:01:14,360
Speaker 1: Indianapolis Colts, and he got me thinking as he was

1190
01:01:14,400 --> 01:01:18,320
Speaker 1: talking about the Colts, and he throughout a couple of numbers.

1191
01:01:18,320 --> 01:01:22,080
Speaker 1: He got me thinking about the schlumber J Stats Challenge.

1192
01:01:22,280 --> 01:01:23,640
Speaker 1: If you want to be part of the schlumber J

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Speaker 1: Stats Challenge, to Houston Texas dot com and find stats

1194
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Speaker 1: Challenge and you'll be ready to rock. How about this

1195
01:01:31,320 --> 01:01:37,440
Speaker 1: The Colts a defense that has just terrorized the quarterback

1196
01:01:37,680 --> 01:01:39,400
Speaker 1: over the last how many every years? I mean they've

1197
01:01:39,440 --> 01:01:41,919
Speaker 1: done it and did it to Deshaw Watson the last

1198
01:01:41,920 --> 01:01:44,920
Speaker 1: few years. I mean, they get after it up front.

1199
01:01:45,880 --> 01:01:52,520
Speaker 1: The Colts rank dead last in quarterback pressures this year.

1200
01:01:53,160 --> 01:01:59,240
Speaker 1: They've played five games with just twenty five They have

1201
01:01:59,520 --> 01:02:04,320
Speaker 1: just eight hurries. That's thirty first in the league. And

1202
01:02:04,400 --> 01:02:07,560
Speaker 1: they move up a few spots with a total of

1203
01:02:07,720 --> 01:02:12,720
Speaker 1: ten sacks. Now. They drafted Quitty pay in the first

1204
01:02:12,800 --> 01:02:15,920
Speaker 1: round last year. Ben Banagoo is a second rounder. Comico

1205
01:02:15,960 --> 01:02:19,280
Speaker 1: Turey was a second or a third rounder. The Forrest

1206
01:02:19,280 --> 01:02:21,480
Speaker 1: Buckner they gave up a first rounder for. They paid

1207
01:02:21,480 --> 01:02:23,240
Speaker 1: a lot of money to grow over Stewart. Now, Buckner

1208
01:02:23,240 --> 01:02:25,360
Speaker 1: and Stewart are inside guys, so I'm not really gonna

1209
01:02:25,400 --> 01:02:27,760
Speaker 1: put too much on them. But they had justin Houston

1210
01:02:27,800 --> 01:02:30,200
Speaker 1: to let him go. He ended up with the Baltimore Ravens.

1211
01:02:31,080 --> 01:02:33,680
Speaker 1: Taekwon Lewis is the guy they I want to say,

1212
01:02:33,680 --> 01:02:35,400
Speaker 1: spend a second round on. They put a lot of

1213
01:02:35,840 --> 01:02:39,480
Speaker 1: money in draft picks into pass rushers. Those guys have

1214
01:02:40,080 --> 01:02:44,520
Speaker 1: not click. Now. Turey got hurt when it looked like

1215
01:02:44,600 --> 01:02:48,240
Speaker 1: he was ready to turn the corner. He's trying to

1216
01:02:48,280 --> 01:02:52,600
Speaker 1: work himself back. But Banigo, man, right now, that's not

1217
01:02:52,680 --> 01:02:55,680
Speaker 1: looking great, and I hope it stays that way. But

1218
01:02:55,760 --> 01:02:58,080
Speaker 1: as soon as you start talking about something like that,

1219
01:02:58,600 --> 01:03:01,560
Speaker 1: what ends up happening. They turned the corner and they

1220
01:03:01,680 --> 01:03:04,760
Speaker 1: blow it out and away you go, especially if Larmy

1221
01:03:04,800 --> 01:03:07,720
Speaker 1: Tunsil is unable to go at left tackle, which it

1222
01:03:07,880 --> 01:03:09,800
Speaker 1: sounds like is going to be the case. Now the

1223
01:03:09,800 --> 01:03:13,000
Speaker 1: injury report, Laramie is shown as did not participate, but

1224
01:03:13,080 --> 01:03:15,200
Speaker 1: it does sound like he is going to have that

1225
01:03:15,240 --> 01:03:18,120
Speaker 1: surgery and more than likely going ir. We'll see what

1226
01:03:18,160 --> 01:03:21,200
Speaker 1: the official word is from the team, but that about

1227
01:03:21,240 --> 01:03:25,040
Speaker 1: Laramie came from a number of different sources around the

1228
01:03:25,120 --> 01:03:28,760
Speaker 1: league now, and of course Dave Kelly did say he

1229
01:03:28,840 --> 01:03:33,880
Speaker 1: was having surgery. Twenty five pressures last in the league

1230
01:03:33,920 --> 01:03:36,360
Speaker 1: thirty first, and hurries with just eight twenty eighth in

1231
01:03:36,360 --> 01:03:40,040
Speaker 1: the league in sacks with ten now through five games,

1232
01:03:40,040 --> 01:03:44,760
Speaker 1: there's still two sacks a game. If the Texans give

1233
01:03:44,840 --> 01:03:47,440
Speaker 1: up two sacks with the reconfigured line with Charlie Heck

1234
01:03:47,480 --> 01:03:51,000
Speaker 1: and right tackle with Jon Christian more likely a left tackle,

1235
01:03:51,240 --> 01:03:53,040
Speaker 1: we'll see how all that goes together. I know there's

1236
01:03:53,080 --> 01:03:56,840
Speaker 1: been questioned about Titus Howard. Does Titus move out or

1237
01:03:56,880 --> 01:03:59,600
Speaker 1: back to tackle given the issues that they've had a

1238
01:03:59,680 --> 01:04:02,440
Speaker 1: soul see how the Texans go about handling it. But

1239
01:04:03,440 --> 01:04:06,840
Speaker 1: the Colts pass rush right now might be the time

1240
01:04:06,920 --> 01:04:11,080
Speaker 1: to catch them and hopefully it stays that a way.

1241
01:04:11,120 --> 01:04:14,480
Speaker 1: All right, that'll do it for our chamberge status challenge.

1242
01:04:14,520 --> 01:04:17,640
Speaker 1: Come on next, Let's go behind enemy sidelines with our

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01:04:17,720 --> 01:04:21,640
Speaker 1: good friend Deep Situ alongside Laura Overton of Colts dot Com.

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Speaker 1: Next on Texans All Access Makes Us makes Us. It's

1245
01:04:27,320 --> 01:04:30,280
Speaker 1: time to go behind enemy sidelines on this Wednesday at

1246
01:04:30,320 --> 01:04:34,240
Speaker 1: issue of Texans All Access with our good friend Deep City.

1247
01:04:34,480 --> 01:04:38,000
Speaker 1: Caught up with Laura Overton. If Colts dot com deepe

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Speaker 1: take it away, it's Enemy Sidelines presented by Microsoft. Joining

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Speaker 1: me today my good friend Laara Overton. She's a team

1250
01:04:44,080 --> 01:04:46,919
Speaker 1: reporter for the Indianapolis Colts. Lara, I was just saying,

1251
01:04:46,920 --> 01:04:49,200
Speaker 1: you look so bright eyed and bushy tailed for being

1252
01:04:49,200 --> 01:04:52,080
Speaker 1: on a short week, especially a short week that ended

1253
01:04:52,120 --> 01:04:54,840
Speaker 1: in an overtime loss for the Colts. But give us

1254
01:04:54,840 --> 01:04:56,680
Speaker 1: a sense what's the mood in the building as these

1255
01:04:56,680 --> 01:04:58,840
Speaker 1: Colts get ready to turn around and face the Texans

1256
01:04:58,880 --> 01:05:02,520
Speaker 1: on Sunday. May tight turnaround, indeed, and that's always tough,

1257
01:05:02,600 --> 01:05:05,400
Speaker 1: but you feel like with the result the Colts had

1258
01:05:05,480 --> 01:05:08,439
Speaker 1: on Monday night, it's a good time to have this

1259
01:05:08,600 --> 01:05:10,600
Speaker 1: short week because you need to put that one to

1260
01:05:10,680 --> 01:05:13,840
Speaker 1: bed as quickly as possible, move right on. You have

1261
01:05:14,280 --> 01:05:18,080
Speaker 1: a huge opportunity this weekend back at home after three

1262
01:05:18,200 --> 01:05:21,800
Speaker 1: straight really tough road games against a division opponent in

1263
01:05:21,840 --> 01:05:25,000
Speaker 1: the Houston Texans. So it's one of those where the

1264
01:05:25,040 --> 01:05:27,760
Speaker 1: Colts need to move on and put that really that

1265
01:05:27,960 --> 01:05:31,680
Speaker 1: huge defeat, that disappointing loss, a ton of emotion. You

1266
01:05:32,080 --> 01:05:34,640
Speaker 1: probably saw a lot of the guys after at the

1267
01:05:34,720 --> 01:05:39,280
Speaker 1: podium and really just how devastated they were to let

1268
01:05:39,320 --> 01:05:43,680
Speaker 1: that nineteen point lead slip away in a hostile environment

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Speaker 1: against an incredible team in the Baltimore Ravens. But there

1270
01:05:48,080 --> 01:05:51,800
Speaker 1: were so many good things when you go back and

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01:05:51,880 --> 01:05:54,480
Speaker 1: you look at the way that Carson Wentz played passing

1272
01:05:54,480 --> 01:05:57,840
Speaker 1: for more than four hundred yards, the play of Jonathan Taylor,

1273
01:05:58,120 --> 01:06:02,080
Speaker 1: Michael Pittman making an incredible catch. There are a lot

1274
01:06:02,120 --> 01:06:05,880
Speaker 1: of components within this Colts team that they feel there's

1275
01:06:05,920 --> 01:06:09,120
Speaker 1: taking the proper steps and getting to where they want

1276
01:06:09,160 --> 01:06:12,280
Speaker 1: to be. But make no mistake there is it's tough

1277
01:06:12,360 --> 01:06:16,120
Speaker 1: to recover from a loss like that from allowing you know,

1278
01:06:16,160 --> 01:06:18,440
Speaker 1: the Ravens to get back into it as late into

1279
01:06:18,440 --> 01:06:20,720
Speaker 1: the game as you did, especially when this is a

1280
01:06:20,800 --> 01:06:25,520
Speaker 1: defense that really prides itself on being able to match

1281
01:06:25,640 --> 01:06:29,760
Speaker 1: up and to stop a variety of different offenses. But

1282
01:06:29,840 --> 01:06:32,800
Speaker 1: there's just, you know, no match for the former NFL

1283
01:06:32,920 --> 01:06:36,040
Speaker 1: MVP in Lamar Jackson and just with how special he

1284
01:06:36,160 --> 01:06:39,480
Speaker 1: is at quarterback and what he's able to do for

1285
01:06:39,640 --> 01:06:43,080
Speaker 1: that offense. And you know, there were certainly issues and

1286
01:06:43,280 --> 01:06:47,120
Speaker 1: special teams issues with this defense in terms of just personnel.

1287
01:06:47,240 --> 01:06:49,360
Speaker 1: Lost a number of guys due to injury over the

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01:06:49,400 --> 01:06:52,800
Speaker 1: course of that game. So the Colts need to capitalize

1289
01:06:52,800 --> 01:06:56,400
Speaker 1: on having an opportunity back at home to continue to

1290
01:06:56,480 --> 01:06:59,200
Speaker 1: build on the good things that they saw and also

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01:06:59,280 --> 01:07:02,600
Speaker 1: correct a lot of things that allowed, you know, that

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01:07:02,720 --> 01:07:05,400
Speaker 1: win to slip away from them on Monday night. Yeah,

1293
01:07:05,440 --> 01:07:08,040
Speaker 1: you mentioned good things that happened, and Carson Wentz was

1294
01:07:08,120 --> 01:07:10,520
Speaker 1: so impressive. You mentioned the four hundred yards passing. He

1295
01:07:10,560 --> 01:07:13,920
Speaker 1: was averaging eleven and a half yards per pass. I

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01:07:14,000 --> 01:07:15,760
Speaker 1: just remember a few weeks ago seeing him on the

1297
01:07:15,760 --> 01:07:19,840
Speaker 1: injury report with ankles like as in both ankles and

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01:07:19,960 --> 01:07:23,400
Speaker 1: he continued to play. How has he bounced back from

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01:07:23,440 --> 01:07:26,360
Speaker 1: that injury and has it limited him in any way?

1300
01:07:26,880 --> 01:07:31,160
Speaker 1: It has been I mean mind blowing to see the

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01:07:31,240 --> 01:07:34,280
Speaker 1: recovery that he made as quickly as he was able

1302
01:07:34,320 --> 01:07:37,080
Speaker 1: to when we saw him get knocked out at the

1303
01:07:37,200 --> 01:07:40,840
Speaker 1: end of that game against the Rams at home, and

1304
01:07:41,040 --> 01:07:43,640
Speaker 1: he was on the sideline getting the attention, made every

1305
01:07:43,640 --> 01:07:46,480
Speaker 1: attempt he could come back into the game. Was not

1306
01:07:46,640 --> 01:07:49,520
Speaker 1: able to because of just how quickly, when you think

1307
01:07:49,560 --> 01:07:53,280
Speaker 1: about ankle sprains, those developed so quickly to where that

1308
01:07:53,400 --> 01:07:57,439
Speaker 1: swelling sets in and your mobility is completely restricted. So

1309
01:07:57,720 --> 01:08:00,760
Speaker 1: you look at how limited he was within the offense

1310
01:08:00,800 --> 01:08:04,120
Speaker 1: against the Tennessee Titans when they played in Nashville, looked

1311
01:08:04,120 --> 01:08:07,400
Speaker 1: a little bit better against Miami, and then made immense

1312
01:08:07,480 --> 01:08:11,720
Speaker 1: strides against Baltimore. Still not one hundred percent. I don't

1313
01:08:11,720 --> 01:08:14,640
Speaker 1: think that you can say whatsoever that he's one hundred

1314
01:08:14,680 --> 01:08:18,000
Speaker 1: percent right now with those ankle sprains, but to have

1315
01:08:18,160 --> 01:08:21,439
Speaker 1: made the significant improvement over the course of three weeks,

1316
01:08:21,479 --> 01:08:25,120
Speaker 1: because when you think about a high ankle sprain and

1317
01:08:26,080 --> 01:08:29,640
Speaker 1: the severity that that can lead to the kind of

1318
01:08:29,760 --> 01:08:32,360
Speaker 1: range that there is with an ankle sprain with a

1319
01:08:32,439 --> 01:08:36,200
Speaker 1: quarterback who does pride himself on having a degree of mobility,

1320
01:08:36,200 --> 01:08:38,720
Speaker 1: and that's something we certainly did not have within this

1321
01:08:38,800 --> 01:08:41,160
Speaker 1: offense last year with Philip Rivers. Philip Rivers did so

1322
01:08:41,200 --> 01:08:44,920
Speaker 1: many things well and he was such a productive quarterback

1323
01:08:44,960 --> 01:08:48,360
Speaker 1: within this system. But that was something that was exciting

1324
01:08:48,720 --> 01:08:50,959
Speaker 1: for the Colts when you do bring in a quarterback

1325
01:08:51,040 --> 01:08:54,000
Speaker 1: like Carson Wentz who does have a different level that

1326
01:08:54,040 --> 01:08:57,280
Speaker 1: you haven't necessarily had to work with in the options

1327
01:08:57,400 --> 01:09:00,439
Speaker 1: that does create within your offense, and man week one,

1328
01:09:00,520 --> 01:09:03,760
Speaker 1: we saw it. We saw him making plays really effectively

1329
01:09:03,840 --> 01:09:07,519
Speaker 1: with his feet, keeping plays alive, extending plays the way

1330
01:09:07,560 --> 01:09:10,479
Speaker 1: that he was able to. And so you're starting to

1331
01:09:10,520 --> 01:09:14,200
Speaker 1: see two things. Yes, he is getting healthier, he's also

1332
01:09:14,680 --> 01:09:19,000
Speaker 1: getting more comfortable relying on his receivers and targeting a

1333
01:09:19,120 --> 01:09:22,200
Speaker 1: number of different weapons that he has within this offense.

1334
01:09:22,240 --> 01:09:25,080
Speaker 1: The way he's spreading the ball around has been one

1335
01:09:25,120 --> 01:09:28,240
Speaker 1: of the most intriguing things to watch over the last

1336
01:09:28,240 --> 01:09:31,080
Speaker 1: three weeks because initially it was a lot of you know,

1337
01:09:31,280 --> 01:09:34,120
Speaker 1: heavy on Zach Pascal early on in those first two games,

1338
01:09:34,120 --> 01:09:37,960
Speaker 1: and rightfully so. Zack's an incredibly reliable receiver and as

1339
01:09:38,040 --> 01:09:41,800
Speaker 1: one of those he's a really crafty route runner. What

1340
01:09:41,960 --> 01:09:44,240
Speaker 1: he's able to do, the positions he's able to put

1341
01:09:44,320 --> 01:09:46,840
Speaker 1: himself in, the separation he's able to get. But now

1342
01:09:46,880 --> 01:09:49,599
Speaker 1: you're seeing more tight ends involved. I'm thinking about two

1343
01:09:49,600 --> 01:09:52,320
Speaker 1: different touchdowns to mo Aali Cox in the game against

1344
01:09:52,320 --> 01:09:55,880
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins. Against the Ravens, you saw Mo, you

1345
01:09:55,920 --> 01:09:59,080
Speaker 1: saw Kyl and Granson, a lot of Michael Pittman junior

1346
01:09:59,439 --> 01:10:02,639
Speaker 1: paris starting to get involved. And all this is happening

1347
01:10:02,840 --> 01:10:06,000
Speaker 1: still without t Y Hilton, who remains on IR at

1348
01:10:06,000 --> 01:10:08,720
Speaker 1: this point with that neck procedure that he had. So

1349
01:10:08,840 --> 01:10:11,240
Speaker 1: those are the things that I'm really starting to see

1350
01:10:11,400 --> 01:10:15,799
Speaker 1: this offense taking shape and identity of what it wants

1351
01:10:15,840 --> 01:10:19,000
Speaker 1: to be with Carson Wentz and you certainly needed to

1352
01:10:19,040 --> 01:10:21,680
Speaker 1: see more of those explosive plays. That was something that

1353
01:10:21,800 --> 01:10:25,400
Speaker 1: they wanted to see as they started to integrate Carson

1354
01:10:25,479 --> 01:10:28,320
Speaker 1: into the offense, and that's starting to pay dividends as

1355
01:10:28,360 --> 01:10:31,480
Speaker 1: he has really starting to create more chemistry, more continuity

1356
01:10:31,479 --> 01:10:36,080
Speaker 1: with his receivers. And that's mainly not because of the injury.

1357
01:10:36,320 --> 01:10:38,600
Speaker 1: That really goes back to the very limited time that

1358
01:10:38,720 --> 01:10:41,640
Speaker 1: he had, missing the majority of training camp because of

1359
01:10:41,680 --> 01:10:43,920
Speaker 1: the foot injury that he had, and then of course

1360
01:10:43,960 --> 01:10:46,839
Speaker 1: going on the COVID nineteen close contact list right prior

1361
01:10:46,880 --> 01:10:50,519
Speaker 1: to that season opener. So this offense is starting to

1362
01:10:50,520 --> 01:10:53,840
Speaker 1: take shape. Now it's time for this defense to start

1363
01:10:53,880 --> 01:10:57,160
Speaker 1: making those similar streads as well and being able to

1364
01:10:57,520 --> 01:11:00,080
Speaker 1: do a lot of what they prided themselves on in

1365
01:11:00,120 --> 01:11:02,920
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty season, especially being more effective in stopping

1366
01:11:02,920 --> 01:11:04,880
Speaker 1: the run well. Frank Reich has had to deal with

1367
01:11:04,920 --> 01:11:07,400
Speaker 1: so many quarterbacks for the Colts over the past few years,

1368
01:11:07,400 --> 01:11:09,439
Speaker 1: and he's been with the team last year with Philip

1369
01:11:09,479 --> 01:11:11,920
Speaker 1: Rivers and this year with Carson Wentz. But he's got

1370
01:11:11,920 --> 01:11:14,800
Speaker 1: that familiarity with Wentz from there from their time with

1371
01:11:14,840 --> 01:11:17,080
Speaker 1: the Eagles. How much has that really helped and how

1372
01:11:17,160 --> 01:11:20,200
Speaker 1: much did he really adapt that offense to suit Wentz's

1373
01:11:20,240 --> 01:11:24,519
Speaker 1: attributes a different quarterback every season under frank Reich. When

1374
01:11:24,520 --> 01:11:28,439
Speaker 1: you're thinking about Andrew Luck, Jacoby Brisset, Philip Rivers, and

1375
01:11:29,520 --> 01:11:32,479
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz. So you did have Jacobe of course, for

1376
01:11:32,600 --> 01:11:34,519
Speaker 1: you know, all of twenty nineteen, and then he was

1377
01:11:34,560 --> 01:11:36,840
Speaker 1: in the backup role in twenty twenty, and then you

1378
01:11:36,880 --> 01:11:39,400
Speaker 1: went head to head with your former quarterback when you

1379
01:11:39,439 --> 01:11:42,160
Speaker 1: played him in Miami. So it's been very interesting and

1380
01:11:42,240 --> 01:11:47,040
Speaker 1: that he's been scheming this offense for these different quarterbacks

1381
01:11:47,040 --> 01:11:50,479
Speaker 1: and then also had to scheme against that quarterback when

1382
01:11:50,520 --> 01:11:52,559
Speaker 1: you talked about that Week four matchup that they had

1383
01:11:52,560 --> 01:11:56,080
Speaker 1: against the Miami Dolphins, and just this week, Carson Wentz

1384
01:11:56,080 --> 01:11:58,439
Speaker 1: when he passed for over four hundred yards, as we noted,

1385
01:11:58,479 --> 01:12:02,639
Speaker 1: became the fourth quarterback franchise history to eclipse that mark,

1386
01:12:02,800 --> 01:12:05,960
Speaker 1: joining Andrew Luck, Peyton Manning, and Johnny Unitas as the

1387
01:12:05,960 --> 01:12:09,800
Speaker 1: only quarterbacks to do that. So you're starting to see

1388
01:12:10,120 --> 01:12:13,480
Speaker 1: a lot of what Frank Wrych had kind of promised

1389
01:12:13,720 --> 01:12:17,599
Speaker 1: to Jim Ersey and to Chris Ballard when he pitched

1390
01:12:17,600 --> 01:12:20,599
Speaker 1: the idea of what you think about going and getting

1391
01:12:20,640 --> 01:12:26,200
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz. And obviously Carson was looking for that new chapter,

1392
01:12:26,360 --> 01:12:31,840
Speaker 1: looking to create, you know, a new new chapter in

1393
01:12:31,920 --> 01:12:34,959
Speaker 1: his career, starting off in a new place after everything,

1394
01:12:35,320 --> 01:12:38,720
Speaker 1: you know, after everything went the way it did at

1395
01:12:38,760 --> 01:12:42,519
Speaker 1: the final few months of his career with the Philadelphia Eagles.

1396
01:12:42,840 --> 01:12:46,960
Speaker 1: And yes, I think you take elements of what they

1397
01:12:47,000 --> 01:12:50,960
Speaker 1: had success doing in Philadelphia, because not only do you

1398
01:12:51,000 --> 01:12:53,720
Speaker 1: have Frank Wrych, you have Mike grow as well, who

1399
01:12:53,800 --> 01:12:56,000
Speaker 1: was part of that staff in Philly. You have Press

1400
01:12:56,040 --> 01:12:59,719
Speaker 1: Taylor now with the organization as well, who was also

1401
01:12:59,800 --> 01:13:03,840
Speaker 1: one of those who worked clot closest with Carson during

1402
01:13:03,840 --> 01:13:07,040
Speaker 1: their time with the Eagles. But one of the points

1403
01:13:07,040 --> 01:13:10,639
Speaker 1: of emphasis in bringing Carson in was that he did

1404
01:13:10,680 --> 01:13:14,800
Speaker 1: not have to carry this offense entirely on his own shoulders.

1405
01:13:14,840 --> 01:13:18,040
Speaker 1: And it wasn't we have to have him play at

1406
01:13:18,080 --> 01:13:21,719
Speaker 1: that MVP level that he was back in twenty seventeen

1407
01:13:21,800 --> 01:13:24,360
Speaker 1: in order for this offense to be successful. No, this

1408
01:13:24,479 --> 01:13:30,120
Speaker 1: is an offense that already had a solidified offensive line.

1409
01:13:30,479 --> 01:13:33,120
Speaker 1: You have an incredible running game, not only with Jonathan

1410
01:13:33,160 --> 01:13:36,240
Speaker 1: Taylor but also with Nihiem Hines Marlon Mack. You have

1411
01:13:36,280 --> 01:13:39,200
Speaker 1: a number of weapons both at tight end and in

1412
01:13:39,880 --> 01:13:42,600
Speaker 1: the receiving in the wide receiver room. And then you

1413
01:13:42,680 --> 01:13:45,560
Speaker 1: had this defense kind of anchored by Darius Leonard and

1414
01:13:45,600 --> 01:13:48,479
Speaker 1: Deforce Buckner that you could rely upon as well, that

1415
01:13:48,560 --> 01:13:51,960
Speaker 1: prides itself on being able to be very opportunistic, you know,

1416
01:13:52,080 --> 01:13:57,800
Speaker 1: creating those takeaway opportunities, scoring on defense, doing those different things. So, yes,

1417
01:13:57,920 --> 01:14:01,719
Speaker 1: I do think that they adapted the offense somewhat to Carson,

1418
01:14:01,760 --> 01:14:06,400
Speaker 1: but not so much to rely on Carson having to

1419
01:14:06,479 --> 01:14:09,040
Speaker 1: carry this offense, but being able to more so put

1420
01:14:09,120 --> 01:14:12,840
Speaker 1: him in physician to be successful because it's certainly playing

1421
01:14:12,840 --> 01:14:16,959
Speaker 1: to his strength, but then also his strength as compliment

1422
01:14:17,040 --> 01:14:21,440
Speaker 1: to the guys who he has to work around and utilizing.

1423
01:14:21,800 --> 01:14:25,080
Speaker 1: You know Jonathan Taylor, who finished the twenty twenty season

1424
01:14:25,120 --> 01:14:27,880
Speaker 1: as one of the top three backs in the NFL

1425
01:14:27,960 --> 01:14:31,320
Speaker 1: and really didn't come on until later in the season

1426
01:14:31,400 --> 01:14:34,000
Speaker 1: when you saw him starting to have those hundred yard

1427
01:14:34,040 --> 01:14:37,160
Speaker 1: plus rushing games that he did. Now he followed up

1428
01:14:37,200 --> 01:14:40,200
Speaker 1: a hundred yard rushing performance against Miami with one hundred

1429
01:14:40,240 --> 01:14:44,680
Speaker 1: yard receiving performance against the Ravens. So you're starting to

1430
01:14:44,680 --> 01:14:47,880
Speaker 1: see certainly this offense taking shape, not just in what

1431
01:14:47,960 --> 01:14:50,880
Speaker 1: they have game planned to do with Carson, but also

1432
01:14:51,280 --> 01:14:54,160
Speaker 1: with Carson being able to use everything else that he

1433
01:14:54,200 --> 01:14:57,760
Speaker 1: has at his disposal. You mentioned t why Hilton and

1434
01:14:57,800 --> 01:14:59,880
Speaker 1: Texans fans certainly know a lot about him that he

1435
01:15:00,240 --> 01:15:03,360
Speaker 1: has been on IR so far, So what can you

1436
01:15:03,360 --> 01:15:06,240
Speaker 1: tell us about his return this year? And also you

1437
01:15:06,320 --> 01:15:09,200
Speaker 1: mentioned Michael Pittman, how he's really stepped up in his place.

1438
01:15:09,680 --> 01:15:11,360
Speaker 1: One of the things I'm gonna go to Pittman first,

1439
01:15:11,360 --> 01:15:14,120
Speaker 1: because I had a conversation with Frank Reich about Michael

1440
01:15:14,160 --> 01:15:19,400
Speaker 1: Pittman just yesterday and he brought up the physical presence,

1441
01:15:19,439 --> 01:15:23,879
Speaker 1: the physicality that Pittman plays with at the receiving position

1442
01:15:24,560 --> 01:15:27,799
Speaker 1: is something that they want to heavily build on because

1443
01:15:27,800 --> 01:15:31,679
Speaker 1: he is a big body that you haven't necessarily had

1444
01:15:31,760 --> 01:15:34,280
Speaker 1: within this Colts offense. The Colts have had a ton

1445
01:15:34,320 --> 01:15:37,240
Speaker 1: of success with receivers like t Y Hilton, who are

1446
01:15:37,280 --> 01:15:40,320
Speaker 1: more of those speed guys, smaller body guys, but who

1447
01:15:40,400 --> 01:15:43,679
Speaker 1: do pride themselves on, you know, the incredible route running,

1448
01:15:43,720 --> 01:15:46,680
Speaker 1: being incredibly fast, you know, tough to cover in a

1449
01:15:46,760 --> 01:15:49,479
Speaker 1: number of different situations, being the guys who are just

1450
01:15:49,600 --> 01:15:54,559
Speaker 1: able to basically capitalize on the mismatch of speed that

1451
01:15:54,680 --> 01:15:58,080
Speaker 1: they have and able to you know, be very elusive

1452
01:15:58,400 --> 01:16:02,800
Speaker 1: to dbs. So Pittman is a nice compliment to that

1453
01:16:02,880 --> 01:16:05,120
Speaker 1: in the fact that he is able to kind of

1454
01:16:05,120 --> 01:16:07,920
Speaker 1: what we saw from mo Alei Cox go over the

1455
01:16:08,000 --> 01:16:10,280
Speaker 1: top of a DB's head, you know, almost those you

1456
01:16:10,400 --> 01:16:14,080
Speaker 1: got mossed type of scenarios and just that battle of

1457
01:16:14,080 --> 01:16:16,840
Speaker 1: will being able to you know, even when you have

1458
01:16:16,960 --> 01:16:21,000
Speaker 1: those contested catch scenarios, they're able to will their way

1459
01:16:21,520 --> 01:16:25,679
Speaker 1: into making those catches, making those completions of hassability. And

1460
01:16:26,160 --> 01:16:29,240
Speaker 1: Michael Pittman Junior had the injury in twenty twenty that

1461
01:16:29,680 --> 01:16:33,320
Speaker 1: cost him multiple weeks when he was just started to

1462
01:16:33,360 --> 01:16:36,840
Speaker 1: find a groove with Philip Rivers, so he came into

1463
01:16:36,840 --> 01:16:38,679
Speaker 1: the season and this is something I talked to Frank

1464
01:16:38,680 --> 01:16:41,799
Speaker 1: about Michael Pittman coming into the twenty twenty one season,

1465
01:16:42,240 --> 01:16:45,599
Speaker 1: he was one of the most motivated guys that Frank

1466
01:16:45,720 --> 01:16:48,679
Speaker 1: has ever worked with because of the way the result

1467
01:16:48,760 --> 01:16:52,280
Speaker 1: that you had Buffalo in the playoffs. Michael went into

1468
01:16:52,360 --> 01:16:57,400
Speaker 1: Frank's office and just had this motivation and he was

1469
01:16:57,479 --> 01:17:02,479
Speaker 1: just absolutely obsessed with making sure that he picked up

1470
01:17:02,520 --> 01:17:04,920
Speaker 1: where he left off or came into the twenty twenty

1471
01:17:04,920 --> 01:17:07,320
Speaker 1: one season even better in terms of how he went

1472
01:17:07,360 --> 01:17:10,599
Speaker 1: into the off season, how he committed himself to his training,

1473
01:17:10,600 --> 01:17:12,760
Speaker 1: to his workouts, all of those things, the time that

1474
01:17:12,840 --> 01:17:16,240
Speaker 1: he spent you know, with the other receivers and with

1475
01:17:16,320 --> 01:17:19,160
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz getting up to speed with what they were

1476
01:17:19,200 --> 01:17:21,960
Speaker 1: going to do and what this offense was looking to do.

1477
01:17:22,479 --> 01:17:25,360
Speaker 1: And then t Y Hilton coach Reich said that he

1478
01:17:25,400 --> 01:17:29,080
Speaker 1: continues to make strides with that rehab. The difficulty when

1479
01:17:29,080 --> 01:17:31,160
Speaker 1: you're talking about a thirty year old receiver who has

1480
01:17:31,160 --> 01:17:34,000
Speaker 1: a neck procedure is you don't want to rush him back,

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Speaker 1: even though we know that Ty has been a quick

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01:17:37,000 --> 01:17:40,080
Speaker 1: healer over the course of his career and really has

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01:17:40,160 --> 01:17:44,720
Speaker 1: not had a number of major injuries aside from what

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01:17:44,800 --> 01:17:46,320
Speaker 1: he did, you know, at the end of that twenty

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01:17:46,439 --> 01:17:50,000
Speaker 1: nineteen season, that lower leg injury that he had. So

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01:17:50,360 --> 01:17:52,840
Speaker 1: this is something where they're treating it, you know, very

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01:17:52,880 --> 01:17:56,960
Speaker 1: cautiously because the severity of dealing with anything you know,

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01:17:57,080 --> 01:18:00,840
Speaker 1: related to that spinal cord area. So you do think

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Speaker 1: that it's optimistic that here toward you know, you would

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01:18:04,720 --> 01:18:07,640
Speaker 1: like to think that before the midway point in the

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01:18:07,760 --> 01:18:11,280
Speaker 1: season it is an option to bring Ty off of

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Speaker 1: i R. It's nothing that they expected would be season ending.

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Speaker 1: So you look to this is a good stretch where

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Speaker 1: the Cults have four of the next five home game

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01:18:23,320 --> 01:18:25,880
Speaker 1: opportunities that this is a point where is it a

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01:18:25,880 --> 01:18:29,799
Speaker 1: possibility that you start to integrate t Y Hilton because

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Speaker 1: I don't think it's necessarily going to be a situation

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Speaker 1: where you thrust him in and he's not on a

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01:18:33,840 --> 01:18:36,280
Speaker 1: pitch count. If you think about getting him in working

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Speaker 1: his way in kind of having some scripted plays where

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01:18:39,040 --> 01:18:42,080
Speaker 1: you see where his comfort level is, where his timing

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01:18:42,200 --> 01:18:46,240
Speaker 1: is with Carson Wentz as well. But make no mistake,

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01:18:46,640 --> 01:18:49,240
Speaker 1: the Cults are certainly expecting when t Y Hilton gets back,

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01:18:49,280 --> 01:18:51,519
Speaker 1: he's going to be a big piece of this offense

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01:18:51,560 --> 01:18:54,400
Speaker 1: and going to be someone who you do target in

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01:18:54,439 --> 01:18:58,120
Speaker 1: those clutch type of situations, you know, gain sealing situations

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01:18:58,160 --> 01:19:01,120
Speaker 1: on the line. Because aside from t why this is

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01:19:01,160 --> 01:19:04,040
Speaker 1: a very young receiver room, when you kind of look

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01:19:04,040 --> 01:19:06,280
Speaker 1: at the rest of the guys around him, and he's

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Speaker 1: a captain, he's one of the most you know, well

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Speaker 1: respected leaders within that locker room. He's a quiet leader.

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01:19:13,960 --> 01:19:16,439
Speaker 1: You're not a very vocal guy, but certainly your lead

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01:19:16,479 --> 01:19:19,479
Speaker 1: by example guy. He's an emotional leader. He is the

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01:19:19,520 --> 01:19:23,719
Speaker 1: heart and soul. When you talk about these offensive weapons

1515
01:19:23,800 --> 01:19:26,200
Speaker 1: and what he brings, he means an awful lot, and

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01:19:26,280 --> 01:19:29,160
Speaker 1: just his presence within the room can do a lot

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01:19:29,240 --> 01:19:32,200
Speaker 1: for the rest of these young receivers who you're working with.

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01:19:32,720 --> 01:19:35,840
Speaker 1: Michael Pittman, Paris Campbell, still, you know, one of the

1519
01:19:35,920 --> 01:19:38,240
Speaker 1: young guys in that room, all of the different guys

1520
01:19:38,280 --> 01:19:41,799
Speaker 1: who you're working with right now, and turning to Michael Strown,

1521
01:19:41,880 --> 01:19:44,000
Speaker 1: I'm thinking of you know another one as well coming

1522
01:19:44,000 --> 01:19:46,439
Speaker 1: out of this twenty twenty one draft class who's looking

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01:19:46,479 --> 01:19:49,599
Speaker 1: to really mold out and carve out a role within

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01:19:49,640 --> 01:19:52,160
Speaker 1: this offense, who kind of need t Y Hilton to

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01:19:52,200 --> 01:19:54,640
Speaker 1: be that leader to show them the ropes and to

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01:19:54,640 --> 01:19:57,519
Speaker 1: help all of these guys progress and develop over the

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01:19:57,520 --> 01:19:59,960
Speaker 1: course of the season. All Right, well, let's switch here

1528
01:20:00,120 --> 01:20:03,639
Speaker 1: and talk about the defense. Matt Eberflus obviously has done

1529
01:20:03,920 --> 01:20:06,559
Speaker 1: a number of good things over his time with the Colts,

1530
01:20:06,600 --> 01:20:10,160
Speaker 1: but in Sunday's game against the Ravens, in the first half,

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01:20:10,640 --> 01:20:14,240
Speaker 1: they were able to hold Lamar Jackson to four consecutive

1532
01:20:14,280 --> 01:20:17,400
Speaker 1: puns and just a field goal. What changed in the

1533
01:20:17,439 --> 01:20:20,639
Speaker 1: second half and what does the defense take away from

1534
01:20:20,640 --> 01:20:23,320
Speaker 1: that game on what they could do better. Lamar started

1535
01:20:23,320 --> 01:20:26,360
Speaker 1: finding Mark Andrews. I think that was where you had

1536
01:20:26,360 --> 01:20:31,040
Speaker 1: the difficulty. Was that touchdowns and conversions? Yeah, exactly two

1537
01:20:31,160 --> 01:20:34,400
Speaker 1: different occasions. That was where things really swung in a

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01:20:34,400 --> 01:20:37,720
Speaker 1: different direction. And that was something that both coach Reich

1539
01:20:37,880 --> 01:20:44,200
Speaker 1: and coach Eberflus noted was how much of an elite

1540
01:20:44,320 --> 01:20:48,360
Speaker 1: passer that Lamar Jackson has become. Early on in his career,

1541
01:20:48,400 --> 01:20:50,439
Speaker 1: he was so well noted, of course for what he

1542
01:20:50,479 --> 01:20:53,400
Speaker 1: does in their run game and the elusiveness that he has,

1543
01:20:53,400 --> 01:20:55,800
Speaker 1: but where he has really developed and become an even

1544
01:20:55,840 --> 01:20:58,559
Speaker 1: greater threat is because of his arm and now he

1545
01:20:58,600 --> 01:21:01,320
Speaker 1: has both of those things that you have to adjust for,

1546
01:21:01,560 --> 01:21:04,160
Speaker 1: and that was what the Colts simply did not have

1547
01:21:04,240 --> 01:21:06,280
Speaker 1: an answer for. That ended up being the nail in

1548
01:21:06,360 --> 01:21:09,719
Speaker 1: the coffin with you know, Hollywood Brown having the game clinching,

1549
01:21:09,840 --> 01:21:14,759
Speaker 1: game winning touchdown. So you do have a depleted group

1550
01:21:14,960 --> 01:21:18,840
Speaker 1: in that secondary. You saw Xavier Rhodes lead to leave

1551
01:21:18,880 --> 01:21:22,120
Speaker 1: the game. He's now on concussion protocol. Anderson Dao also

1552
01:21:22,160 --> 01:21:25,040
Speaker 1: now in concussion protocol. You did not have Rocky a

1553
01:21:25,160 --> 01:21:27,679
Speaker 1: Scene in that game. He missed a second straight game

1554
01:21:28,200 --> 01:21:30,720
Speaker 1: as well, so you look at the personnel and that

1555
01:21:30,880 --> 01:21:34,160
Speaker 1: was certainly, you know, a detriment late to the Colts.

1556
01:21:34,640 --> 01:21:37,120
Speaker 1: I mentioned that earlier, and I did not mention Rocky

1557
01:21:37,280 --> 01:21:40,679
Speaker 1: Scene's name. My goodness, he's missed a couple of games.

1558
01:21:40,680 --> 01:21:43,720
Speaker 1: These guys are banged up, and I don't like to

1559
01:21:43,760 --> 01:21:46,639
Speaker 1: see guys injured, don't get me wrong, but to play

1560
01:21:46,680 --> 01:21:49,599
Speaker 1: the Colts and there's no Quentin Nelson, some bang up

1561
01:21:49,640 --> 01:21:53,120
Speaker 1: guys on the other side of the ball. Teams wanted

1562
01:21:53,120 --> 01:21:56,519
Speaker 1: four coming off a really emotional and physical game on

1563
01:21:56,640 --> 01:22:01,519
Speaker 1: Monday night. Oh boy, Well see what happens. We'll see

1564
01:22:01,520 --> 01:22:04,160
Speaker 1: what happens. I'm my keys to the game later in

1565
01:22:04,280 --> 01:22:06,240
Speaker 1: the week. All right, we get back. You know what,

1566
01:22:06,280 --> 01:22:08,920
Speaker 1: I'm gonna finish up with a little bit of college football,

1567
01:22:08,960 --> 01:22:11,200
Speaker 1: how about that? Yeah, We're gonna talk college football with

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01:22:11,320 --> 01:22:14,280
Speaker 1: our final few minutes right here on Texans All Access.

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01:22:15,360 --> 01:22:21,080
Speaker 1: MACS MACS. As we dial up our finals segment right

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Speaker 1: here on this Wednesday edition of Texans All Access. I've

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Speaker 1: got a question for all my Houston area teachers out there.

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Speaker 1: Go to Houston Texans dot com slash Toros Matrials to

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Speaker 1: learn more. Now I t is going to this segment

1578
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Speaker 1: me John Harris, football analyst, sideline reporter and owner proprietor

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01:22:52,600 --> 01:22:56,200
Speaker 1: of football takeover dot Com. That's the college football side

1580
01:22:56,200 --> 01:23:01,120
Speaker 1: of my brain Football takeover dot Com. Bookmark it, read it,

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01:23:01,720 --> 01:23:04,519
Speaker 1: love it. I've got a ton of content there for

1582
01:23:04,560 --> 01:23:08,720
Speaker 1: college football, and I just went through the Alabama A

1583
01:23:08,760 --> 01:23:11,479
Speaker 1: and M game and charted every single play. Now, three

1584
01:23:11,520 --> 01:23:13,800
Speaker 1: weeks ago, I charted every single play of a M's

1585
01:23:13,840 --> 01:23:18,000
Speaker 1: offense against Arkansas, and it was dreadful. I'm like, wow,

1586
01:23:18,280 --> 01:23:21,800
Speaker 1: holy smokes. Arkansas physically kicked him in the teeth. A

1587
01:23:22,080 --> 01:23:24,840
Speaker 1: M didn't respond. It's partly why I didn't have a

1588
01:23:24,880 --> 01:23:26,240
Speaker 1: whole lot of faith they would be able to do

1589
01:23:26,280 --> 01:23:29,719
Speaker 1: it against Alabama. But that was a totally just everything

1590
01:23:29,760 --> 01:23:34,400
Speaker 1: about it was different. Obviously, Zach Kelzada was different. The offense.

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01:23:34,439 --> 01:23:36,439
Speaker 1: The line was different. Keny Green I thought, look very

1592
01:23:36,479 --> 01:23:39,280
Speaker 1: very good left tackle, and that was a great sign

1593
01:23:39,439 --> 01:23:41,200
Speaker 1: for somebody those a lot of draft work to see

1594
01:23:41,200 --> 01:23:45,000
Speaker 1: that about Kenyan Green, I thought, huh, mental note made

1595
01:23:45,360 --> 01:23:47,760
Speaker 1: Kenny Green over there playing left tackle. But Jay Little

1596
01:23:47,760 --> 01:23:51,320
Speaker 1: Widermatter got involved in the game early. I think that

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01:23:51,439 --> 01:23:54,519
Speaker 1: changes the offense. And I Smith had a tremendous ball game.

1598
01:23:54,600 --> 01:23:57,439
Speaker 1: Devin A. Chain had the kickoff return, but he also

1599
01:23:57,479 --> 01:24:00,400
Speaker 1: had one tremendous catchdown the sideline. He is a weapon.

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Speaker 1: But I will tell you this. I heard was listening

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01:24:03,920 --> 01:24:05,919
Speaker 1: to the podcast today a couple of guys from PFF

1602
01:24:06,000 --> 01:24:09,599
Speaker 1: that I liked, their podcast called Tailgate. It's Austin Gale

1603
01:24:09,640 --> 01:24:12,599
Speaker 1: and our good friend Mike Renner and they were saying

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01:24:12,800 --> 01:24:16,400
Speaker 1: RB one was either Bryce Hall or Kenneth Walker. As

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01:24:16,400 --> 01:24:18,760
Speaker 1: we headed towards the twenty twenty two NFL Draft, My

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01:24:18,960 --> 01:24:21,639
Speaker 1: RB one, I can tell you already, is going to

1607
01:24:21,680 --> 01:24:25,360
Speaker 1: be Isaiah Spiller. Isaiah Spiller's an absolute dude. Watching those

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01:24:25,360 --> 01:24:27,960
Speaker 1: two games, every single play, Isaiah Spiller has been the

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01:24:27,960 --> 01:24:31,080
Speaker 1: best player on the field in both those games. And

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01:24:31,120 --> 01:24:33,560
Speaker 1: there are first round talent in those games. Now, I

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01:24:33,560 --> 01:24:35,040
Speaker 1: don't know that Isaiah w end up going in the

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01:24:35,040 --> 01:24:37,920
Speaker 1: first round. He is RB one to meet. He is

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01:24:38,000 --> 01:24:41,479
Speaker 1: this version of Jonathan Taylor, although he's not a four

1614
01:24:41,479 --> 01:24:44,200
Speaker 1: to three eight guy that like Jonathan Taylor the Colts is.

1615
01:24:44,439 --> 01:24:46,599
Speaker 1: That's what John Taylor rent of forty and four three eight.

1616
01:24:47,439 --> 01:24:50,000
Speaker 1: I don't think Spiller's gonna get to that number, but

1617
01:24:50,040 --> 01:24:52,000
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna be in a low four fives.

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01:24:52,040 --> 01:24:56,559
Speaker 1: And his vision, everything about it, everything about him speaks

1619
01:24:56,640 --> 01:25:00,839
Speaker 1: NFL running back Frisaia Spiller. He is an absolute dude.

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01:25:01,280 --> 01:25:03,400
Speaker 1: So a lot there at Football takeaway dot Com to

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01:25:03,560 --> 01:25:07,080
Speaker 1: check out. I actually did a Harris one hundred of well,

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01:25:07,120 --> 01:25:10,439
Speaker 1: if you took the Heisman ballot and extended it out

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01:25:10,439 --> 01:25:13,479
Speaker 1: to a hundred names, the Heisman ballot only has three names.

1624
01:25:13,600 --> 01:25:16,160
Speaker 1: Well I did one out to one hundred, basically ranking

1625
01:25:16,200 --> 01:25:18,439
Speaker 1: the best players at college football. So go check that

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01:25:18,439 --> 01:25:21,679
Speaker 1: out Football Takeaway dot Com And of course you could

1627
01:25:21,680 --> 01:25:25,080
Speaker 1: see SEC Big twelve. You could see it. You could

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01:25:25,080 --> 01:25:27,120
Speaker 1: be in the building to watch the Texas Bowl. I'm

1629
01:25:27,160 --> 01:25:30,920
Speaker 1: gonna happen in twenty twenty two, January fourth, so you

1630
01:25:30,960 --> 01:25:33,960
Speaker 1: want to be there for that. So little college football

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01:25:33,960 --> 01:25:36,879
Speaker 1: talk to finish the show, But gotta thank Lara Overton,

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01:25:37,120 --> 01:25:41,599
Speaker 1: Deep City, Matt Taylor, Mark Vanimer, Nick Caserio, Drew Doherty,

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01:25:41,640 --> 01:25:43,679
Speaker 1: all of you for listening. Thank you to Jimmy mudback

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Speaker 1: in studio. We'll see him by everybody and has always

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Speaker 1: go Texans,