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Speaker 1: What's happened? Everybody.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to a Monday edition of Texans All Accents from

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Speaker 2: the Honda Texans Radio Studio. I'm your host, John Harrison,

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Speaker 2: football analyst, sideline reporter for your Houston, Texas. Glad to

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Speaker 2: be with you on another sultry Monday in June.

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Speaker 1: And that's just the way it goes around here.

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Speaker 2: You look at the weather settings and you're like, oh, Man,

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Speaker 2: ninety five, ninety five, ninety six. Oh, it's here, isn't it. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's pretty much here.

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Speaker 1: Now. I will say, remember last June, we got hit with.

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Speaker 2: Days in the hundreds, one hundred, like for sixteen days straight.

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Speaker 2: That was in June last year. So maybe a little

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Speaker 2: bit better June this year. But hope we all are

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Speaker 2: doing great. Glad you're with me. We got a we

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Speaker 2: got a big bang up show for you today. A

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Speaker 2: little bit later in the show, we're gonna talk to

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Speaker 2: our pal, Matt Taylor. When I say we, I mean

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Speaker 2: men behind the mics, Mark Vanimir, the Voice of the Texans,

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Speaker 2: catches up with the voice of the Colts, Matt Taylor.

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Speaker 2: And when Mark got there with this conversation, he said

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Speaker 2: to me, Johnny Man, I talked to Matt Man, maybe

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Speaker 2: we're taking the Colts for not for granted, but man,

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Speaker 2: maybe the Cults are gonna better. We think, Yeah, I

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Speaker 2: kind of think that's the case, and I kind of

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Speaker 2: think that's what people think about this Colts team, that

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Speaker 2: it's gonna be a little bit better than it was

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Speaker 2: last year. And that was a team that could have

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Speaker 2: very easily won in a vision with a caught pass

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Speaker 2: on fourth out. I mean, look, they still had the

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Speaker 2: cabani An zone and they still would have had to

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Speaker 2: stop CJ. Stroud only up one, and we know that CJ.

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Speaker 2: Stroud did some great things in the fourth quarter. I

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Speaker 2: would have actually loved to have seen that, to be honest,

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Speaker 2: to beat Indy on the last play of the game

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Speaker 2: in their building. It didn't come out that way, but

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Speaker 2: the good guys did win. So Matt Taylor is gonna

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Speaker 2: jump on the mic with Mark vandermir in our next segment.

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Speaker 2: But we're gonna kick off this show with not one,

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Speaker 2: not two, but three interviews of guys we had a

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Speaker 2: chance to catch up with in media days, and we're

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Speaker 2: gonna catch up with one of my favorites, this guy

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Speaker 2: since he's been in the building. It's been a guy

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Speaker 2: and I loved him back in college, and so when

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Speaker 2: he ended up with the Texans, I wasn't quite sure

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Speaker 2: what we were getting an MJ.

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Speaker 1: Stewart.

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Speaker 2: But ever since he has set foot in this building,

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Speaker 2: the man has known his role.

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Speaker 1: He has played it to a t.

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Speaker 2: Whether it's backup safety, whether it's special teams, personal protector

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Speaker 2: on punt team, whatever he's asked to do. M J.

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Speaker 2: Stewart does a bang up job. He's as valuable as

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Speaker 2: anybody gets on his team. And when he gets on

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Speaker 2: the mic, he always has something that I got to go, Yeah, man,

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Speaker 2: got cool. I like what he said right there. So

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Speaker 2: how about a few minutes with m J Stewart.

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Speaker 3: MJ.

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Speaker 4: You know, Johnny and I are watching you out on

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Speaker 4: the field and we're just we just give.

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Speaker 3: A nice exhale like MJ's here. It's good.

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Speaker 4: It's all good because you're one of those guys that

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Speaker 4: the coaches can count on. Everybody seems to be able

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Speaker 4: to rely on you doing your job no matter where

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Speaker 4: you are on the field, whether it be special teams

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Speaker 4: or on the D. Is that the way you see

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Speaker 4: your role, Like, I'm here to help this team win

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Speaker 4: in any which way I can.

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Speaker 5: Nah for sure, Like that's I kind of embraced that

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Speaker 5: role that I like take pride in, you know, I

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Speaker 5: mean just you know, being a special teams guy, always

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Speaker 5: balling out on special teams and then you know, whenever

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Speaker 5: my number is called, just go in the game and

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Speaker 5: do what I do.

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Speaker 2: M Jay, you had got a lot of safety reps.

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Speaker 2: Last year. Jimmy goes down in Tampa game. You go

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Speaker 2: in and I think it was literally the very next

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Speaker 2: at that particular moment.

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Speaker 1: Like Mark said, you have such a versatility.

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Speaker 2: The right way of saying this is but it takes

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Speaker 2: a lot of pride in yourself to be able to say,

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Speaker 2: all right, I'll.

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Speaker 1: Do whatever I gotta do.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I want to play safety, but look if I

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Speaker 1: Team winning games. When did you.

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Speaker 2: Kind of have that that thought process? When did that

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Speaker 2: kind of click for you? Like, you know what, I

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Speaker 2: want to stick in this league. I want to play

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Speaker 2: be able to play in this league. When did that

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Speaker 2: kind of happen for you?

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Speaker 5: Uh? Well, I don't know if any a lot of

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Speaker 5: people know my backstory, but I was drafted second round

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Speaker 5: twenty eighteen to Tampa and my rookie year, I actually

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Speaker 5: you know, I was all six weeks. The next year,

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Speaker 5: we got new coaching staff and it kind of I

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Speaker 1: It happens with new staffs a lot of times.

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Speaker 5: So and they drafted like three new guys and it

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Speaker 5: my I had to find my place. I had to

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Speaker 5: find my role again, you know what I mean. And

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Speaker 5: you know, coming from high school, college, like, you're always

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Speaker 5: that guy, right, you know what I mean, coming to

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Speaker 5: I got hurt, kind of got put on the back

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Speaker 5: that mentality like, Okay, I love the game of football

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Speaker 5: so much that it's not about where I am on

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Speaker 4: Is that what advice you would give to rookie guys

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Speaker 4: coming into the league for the first time and here

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Speaker 4: you are in year seven right that you know you've

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Speaker 4: been able to thrive despite a lot of different adverse

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Speaker 4: Just find your role and play it.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, that would because at the end of the day, offense, defense,

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Speaker 5: long as you're making plays, they will find a way

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Speaker 6: What I mean. It doesn't matter like what your role is.

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Speaker 5: How many snaps you get, say you get two snaps

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Speaker 6: Need this guy on the field. He's making plays.

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Speaker 5: So you're gonna your role is gonna increase if you

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Speaker 5: just embrace whatever role you have at the current moment.

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Speaker 2: And so you got a lot of vets in that

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Speaker 2: safety room. I mean, we talk about you and Eric

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Speaker 2: Murray a lot. Like Mark said, we know that if

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Speaker 2: We feel very you know, like a MJ. Eric, they've

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Speaker 2: got Jimmy who's been around a little bit. You know,

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Speaker 2: you see a tree there, rings around the tree. Jimmy's

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Speaker 2: got rings around the tree. But you also had a

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Speaker 1: Bullet to the room.

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Speaker 2: What's that safety room like kind of with the mix

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Speaker 5: Uh, it's just a it's just a veteran group, you

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Speaker 5: know what I mean. We got the younger, like you said,

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Speaker 5: we got a young buck, Kayln, but you know he's uh,

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Speaker 5: I mean, he's he's well beyond his years. Like he's

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Speaker 5: he's a very smart, intelligent guy, playmaker. And I think,

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Speaker 5: you know, with the with the wisdom that we have

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Speaker 5: give him a lot of nuggets where you know, when

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Speaker 5: look like a vet. Yeah, I mean, just you know,

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Speaker 5: our safety room, you know. And we're vets, like I said,

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Speaker 5: so we community, Kate like. The way we communicate to

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Speaker 5: We all know, you know, how the game go, how

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Speaker 5: easy to communicate with each other because we've been around

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Speaker 4: Stewart with us, We've taught you a few times. I

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Speaker 4: don't know if I've asked you this though. Growing up

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Speaker 3: You grew up?

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Speaker 6: I was Eagles fan. Eagles whole life, whole life.

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Speaker 3: Wow, how did that happen?

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Speaker 5: So my mother is from Philly and I lived my

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Speaker 5: the Eagles mentality. And it's crazy because my mother and

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Speaker 6: Everybody else is Cowboys. I was Eagles, you know what

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Speaker 6: I mean.

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Speaker 3: So it's all the same division. Yeah, that makes it.

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Speaker 5: My bad commanders their carter commanders now yeah, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 5: but nobody was commander.

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Speaker 2: So when he was and Cowboys are playing each other,

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Speaker 2: is it like no holds barred in the house?

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Speaker 6: For sure was, but.

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Speaker 1: Yeah versus Cowboys.

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Speaker 4: When you look at this schedule, because you're here in

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Speaker 4: twenty two and twenty three and it wasn't like primetime

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Speaker 4: Paloza this year, a lot of primetime games. You got

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Speaker 4: that three game stretch at the end of the year

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Speaker 4: that's mind blowing with the Chiefs and the Dolphins, and

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Speaker 4: Dolphins first and then obviously the Ravens on Christmas.

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Speaker 3: What do you think of this schedule?

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Speaker 5: I mean, it's kind of just a testament to how

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Speaker 5: much work we put in, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 5: You know you can't get it on prime time games,

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Speaker 5: you know, winning games, you know what I mean? And

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Speaker 5: last year we putting a lot of work, shout out

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Speaker 5: to you know, the whole team put in a lot

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Speaker 5: of work. Yeah, a lot of hours, you know what

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Speaker 5: I mean. But you know it's a testament to us.

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Speaker 5: So were on prime time games. So we going to

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Speaker 5: show the world like what we got and we trying

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Speaker 5: to get that ring for real?

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Speaker 2: And did we talk about this a lot? Like we

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Speaker 6: This is the time.

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Speaker 2: So everybody's checking that out. So you hear from fellow

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Speaker 5: A play, you know you're gonna get you know you're

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Speaker 4: Favorite social media to fight Instagram x formerly Twitter, TikTok.

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Speaker 6: I'm an Instagram kind of Instagram only guy.

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Speaker 3: You're not gonna get that in Cuba video game for

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Speaker 6: It comes out. I'm getting it for sure. Be on

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Speaker 5: If we're being honest, I wish I would have had

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Speaker 1: I got you. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 5: I'm not saying sense for everybody, but like, like, you

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Speaker 1: Right?

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Speaker 5: Right?

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Speaker 6: But that's just my opinion.

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Speaker 4: But you bring up a good point, because some, not all,

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Speaker 6: Right, It's just I mean, that's just a player by

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Speaker 5: But you know, I'm happy for the young guys that they,

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Speaker 5: you know, it's just it's just kind of a player

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Speaker 1: You can always be honest with us, you know that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's all GOODJ Thanks a lot.

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Speaker 6: Good luck, Thank you so much, appreciate you having me.

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Speaker 2: That dude is absolutely one hundred percent welcome to our

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Speaker 2: Now slip it over to the offensive side of the

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Speaker 2: Cad Stover when he jumped at studio with Mark and I.

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Speaker 4: for you getting adjusted, kid.

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Speaker 7: It's been good. A lot of learning involved, Uh, no

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Speaker 2: As you're getting to learn to playbooks, what's the best

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Speaker 1: How has that part of it been? And it's the

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Speaker 7: I mean it's a very extensive playbook, especially as a

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Speaker 4: So when you say draw stuff up, see what's called

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Speaker 3: See how well you remember it?

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Speaker 7: I'll go through like the script night before, like now,

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Speaker 2: I'm not sure you knew that guy before. Yeah, you

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty. No, I say that you spent one year

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Speaker 1: Yeah, what was that like? And then after you get drafted?

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Speaker 2: How long did it take for CJ to call you

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Speaker 7: So I was already actually on the phone with him

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Speaker 1: Oh really, Yeah, we were already You're already talking.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, we were already talking.

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Speaker 7: And he's like, dude, he goes, we're coming to get

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Speaker 7: I mean, obviously great guy, go back a little ways

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Speaker 2: Now people paying attention to twenty twenty one would know

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Speaker 2: a football game. Awesome, but you're wearing number sixteen playing

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Speaker 6: Damn right.

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Speaker 7: My first start actually was ever that was your first start, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: Defensive end. Playing defensive end kind of changed you. As

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Speaker 6: Just let me freaking go.

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Speaker 7: Right, So started there, played like I don't know if

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Speaker 7: don't over coach me like I've never played this spot.

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Speaker 7: Let me try and figure this out athletically and naturally,

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Speaker 7: right because I was always a good basketb player. I always

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Speaker 7: caught the ball well. And they're like, okay, let's do it.

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Speaker 7: And c J came and we worked and worked and

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Speaker 7: then here we go.

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Speaker 3: Well more for you the tight end room.

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Speaker 4: What's it like with Schultz, with Brav everybody else coached

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Speaker 4: by Jake Moreland.

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Speaker 1: It's good, it's good. It's good.

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Speaker 6: Like I said, I'm still learning a lot.

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Speaker 7: Schultz is a great guy, Brev's a good guy, Andrew's

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Speaker 7: good All those guys are all good guys in the room.

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Speaker 7: It's a little different being a younger guy now just

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Speaker 7: trying to learn again. It's just like starting over like

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Speaker 7: everything else. So we decided to learn from them and

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Speaker 7: just enhance that room. All I can sounds good. Kate,

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Speaker 7: thanks a lot for joining. It's good luck to you.

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Speaker 7: Appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: What you didn't hear at the very end, and I

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Speaker 2: heard it as I was going back during this interview.

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Speaker 2: At the very end, I told Kate, I said, man,

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Speaker 2: we can talk to you for an hour, and during

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Speaker 2: media days they're going from one station to the next

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Speaker 2: and we're kind of backed up, so we only got

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Speaker 2: about five or six minutes with him. But just what

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Speaker 2: he had to say was so like every single word

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Speaker 2: was just like a hanging on it because there was

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Speaker 2: so much to it, and I loved what he said.

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Speaker 2: It kind of encapsulates what football is all about. You

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Speaker 2: got this kid from Rancho Cucamonga, California. You got this

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Speaker 2: kid from a small farm in Mansfield, Ohio, and they

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Speaker 2: get together at a university, they play together, they create

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Speaker 2: you know, incredible stuff together and then they link up

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Speaker 2: again in Houston as adults, as professionals to be able

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Speaker 2: to do it again and hopefully together win a championship

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Speaker 2: which eluded them in Ohio State. I just love that

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Speaker 2: because that's what football is all about, uh, bringing in cultures,

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Speaker 2: people from all over the different different parts of the country,

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Speaker 2: different parts of the world, bringing it together. You know,

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Speaker 2: all eleven working together on defense, all eleven working together

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Speaker 2: on offense, and I mean to be a rookie and

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Speaker 2: have that understanding was really really cool. Love talking to Katestover.

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Speaker 2: That was fun and we'll see hopefully has a great year.

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Speaker 2: Man this tight end room, I know people were like, man,

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Speaker 2: we need tight ends, we need tight ends. I'm glad

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Speaker 2: we got katesed Over because he was the right tight end.

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Speaker 2: There were some others I know people were asking me about.

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Speaker 2: I'm like, not sold that guy though, I'm sold because

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Speaker 2: he'll go block somebodies physical. He talked about his time

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Speaker 2: playing defensive an outsil linebacker. I think that's gonna help him.

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Speaker 2: I think it's gonna help the team. But you're talking

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Speaker 2: about Schultz brev Toriano. The two fullback tight end types

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Speaker 2: Harriston and Andrew Beck of course, and then Kate Stover

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Speaker 2: throwing that mix that has an opportunity to be a

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Speaker 2: sneaky hot position for the Texans this year, and I

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Speaker 2: can't wait to see what that looks like. So appreciate

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Speaker 2: these two guys stopping by m J. Stewart and Cad Stover. Okay,

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Speaker 2: we get back.

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Speaker 1: It's Men behind the Mics off season edition.

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Speaker 2: Mark Van Demir, the Voice of Texans, sits down with

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Speaker 2: Matt Taylor, the Voice of the Colts.

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Speaker 1: Next right here on Texans All Access. Welcome back his.

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Speaker 2: Monday initition of Texans All Access from NAY Texans Radio Studio.

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Speaker 2: I'm your host, John Harrison Football, I know, a sideline

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Speaker 2: reporter for your Houston Texans, inching ever so closely to

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Speaker 2: training camp. Starting here's the way that I kind of

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Speaker 2: looked at it.

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 2: So next week is the fourth of July week, so

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Speaker 2: it's kind of out. I know there are a lot

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Speaker 2: of people in the building that that aren't gonna be here.

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Speaker 2: Then after that we get the eighth is big twelve

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Speaker 2: Media Days out in Vegas, which I'm going to. The

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Speaker 2: next week starts SEC Media Days. The first few days

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Speaker 2: of the week, and then the eighteenth is it started

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Speaker 2: training camp, Like blink your eyes and we're a training

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Speaker 2: camp people.

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Speaker 1: I know you guys are pumped. I am too.

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Speaker 2: I know there's a lot of work that goes into

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Speaker 2: training camp and we've got, you know, trips galore, you know,

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Speaker 2: going to the Hall of Fame that we're staying over

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Speaker 2: the weekend, We're staying up at Ohio for practice. Then

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Speaker 2: it's the Steelers back home for a couple But July eighteenth, man,

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Speaker 2: it's coming. It's about three and a half weeks away.

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Speaker 2: And I know you guys are as pumped as I am.

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Speaker 2: I believe the training camp tickets are all sold out,

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Speaker 2: so if you can't get there, listen to our shows

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Speaker 2: Texas Training Camp Live starting at eight o'clock July eighteenth, Thursday,

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Speaker 2: Friday the next week, and then on up leading up

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Speaker 2: to the Hall of Fame game Thursday night against Chicago Bears.

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Speaker 2: That's gonna be a blast. I just I can't wait, man,

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Speaker 2: I can't wait. I know you guys are kind of

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Speaker 2: the same. And then it'll lead to our opener week

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Speaker 2: one back in the House of Horrors.

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Speaker 1: But listen, since I've been down on the sidelines.

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Speaker 2: We're five and five against the Colts starting at twenty fourteen,

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Speaker 2: five and five including last year's win to get in

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Speaker 2: won that game twenty three to seven, actually twenty three nineteen,

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Speaker 2: gave him a safety at the end. Forgot about that,

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Speaker 2: And now we got to go back up there week

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Speaker 2: one and do it all over again against a healthy

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Speaker 2: Anthony Richardson and the Colts. The two men calling the

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Speaker 2: action are Mark Vandermire, who you know, and Matt Taylor,

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Speaker 2: who you may not, but if you've been listening, you know.

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Speaker 2: Matt a good friend of ours up and in. He

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Speaker 2: does a great job calling the Colts games. Been doing

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Speaker 2: it now probably the last seven eight years. He does

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Speaker 2: incredible job for the Colts. And well we call this

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Speaker 2: men behind the Mikes. We do it during the season

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Speaker 2: for every game. This is just the off season version

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Speaker 2: with Matt Taylor.

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Speaker 1: Take it away.

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Speaker 4: Mark all right, joining us now here on Texans Radio.

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Speaker 4: It's Matt Taylor, Voice of the Colts. Matt, great to

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Speaker 4: see you as always. How's it going?

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Speaker 8: Likewise, Mark, great to see you. Life is good.

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Speaker 9: Enjoying some time here in the summer before the chaos

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Speaker 9: of Crany camp begins. But life is good enjoying some

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Speaker 9: hot weather here.

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Speaker 4: Well, we're opening the season at Indianapolis and I'm hoping

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Speaker 4: the pool is cleared out by then because we've been

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Speaker 4: watching the US swimming trials.

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Speaker 3: That has to be bizarre.

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Speaker 4: I mean, they built a swimming pool on the surface

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Speaker 4: of Lucas Oil Stadium.

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Speaker 9: Very impressive and I'm sure you've seen the images, you know,

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Speaker 9: in the highlights of the races. It looks markets It's unbelievable.

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Speaker 9: It looks like the pool was there this entire time.

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Speaker 9: I mean, it looks like the place was built for

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Speaker 9: a natatorium if if you will, I mean, it's the

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Speaker 9: job they did was absolutely seamless. And you know, I

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Speaker 9: know you and I have talked about these types of

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Speaker 9: things before, but Indianapolis just does an unbelievable job at

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Speaker 9: hosting big events and thinking.

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Speaker 8: Outside the box.

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Speaker 9: So you know, leave it to the movers and shakers

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Speaker 9: here in Indie to turn an NFL stadium into an

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Speaker 9: datorium and a big size, Olympic sized pool. It's it's

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Speaker 9: absolutely unbelievable. I saw the pool. I didn't I haven't

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Speaker 9: been yet to an event, but I've seen the pool.

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Speaker 9: I was able to get in the stadium and actually

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Speaker 9: see it and witness it for myself.

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Speaker 8: It's unbelievable.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and you're right about Indianapolis because I know that

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Speaker 4: when the schedule comes out, it's always tough for our

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Speaker 4: guys to book the hotel rooms for the team because

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Speaker 4: there's always a convention or something in Indianapolis. It's like

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Speaker 4: the Vegas of the Midwest or something.

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Speaker 3: I don't know why.

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Speaker 9: And you know, I've actually talked to the president of

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Speaker 9: the Indiana Sports Corps about that a couple of weeks

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Speaker 9: ago before the swimming trials started. You know, you've been

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Speaker 9: to Indianapolis several times. But I mean, you've got the

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Speaker 9: Indianapolis five hundred, you had the All Star Game here,

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Speaker 9: you got the Big Ten Championship game, you have the

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Speaker 9: Big Ten Basketball tournament that's routinely here. Pacers, Colts, now

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Speaker 9: the Fever are rolling with Caitlyn Clark in town. I mean,

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Speaker 9: it's just a great place to be anyways. But sports

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Speaker 9: has always kind of defined the city.

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Speaker 4: Matt Taylor, Voice of the Colts joining US. Okay, biggest

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Speaker 4: offseason story with the Indianapolis Colts in your opinion, what

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Speaker 4: is it?

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Speaker 8: Man? That's a good one.

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Speaker 9: It's probably got to be just the return in the

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Speaker 9: health of Anthony Richardson at quarterback. I mean, obviously they

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Speaker 9: missed him for thirteen games last year, and it all

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Speaker 9: kind of came to a head there in that Week

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Speaker 9: eighteen game against the Houston Texans. Obviously that was the

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Speaker 9: winning your end game and Texans won. The Colts kind

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Speaker 9: of they have to deal with that this entire offseason.

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Speaker 9: But Anthony Richardson's return and getting to watch him here

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Speaker 9: in the spring, mark he looked like. The biggest takeaway

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Speaker 9: for me as it relates to him is he just

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Speaker 9: doesn't look like a quarterback that's coming off of off

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Speaker 9: season shoulder surgery. The arm strength was really good, the

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Speaker 9: velocity I thought was even better compared to last year,

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Speaker 9: believe it or not. And you know, the buzzwords that

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Speaker 9: you're hearing with him as it relates to the coaching

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Speaker 9: staff here in the spring, was accelerated vision, knowing where

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Speaker 9: to go with the football, getting the ball out faster.

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Speaker 8: You know, he was going to the right places with

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Speaker 8: the ball.

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Speaker 9: But now it's just being delivered even more timely to

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Speaker 9: the playmakers on offense so that they can go make plays.

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Speaker 9: So all of the mental things that he was left

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Speaker 9: to process just by watching last year kind of kicking

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Speaker 9: in and I think you're gonna see big time growth

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Speaker 9: from year one to year two with Anthony Richardson, plus

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Speaker 9: him understanding better the nuances of the NFL, knowing basically

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Speaker 9: how to play play the football game in terms of

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Speaker 9: intensity right, knowing when to push it, when to slide,

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Speaker 9: when did to get out of bounds, when to throw

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Speaker 9: it away. I think the Colts are going to be

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Speaker 9: much more intentional about design runs with him. If I

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Speaker 9: had a gut about that, Mark, I would probably say

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Speaker 9: it's going to be more like Lamar Jackson right inside

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Speaker 9: the red zone in the fourth quarter, games on the line,

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Speaker 9: put the ball on your your put the ball in

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Speaker 9: the hands of your best playmaker playmaker. That's what I

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Speaker 9: think you're going to see out of the Colts as

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Speaker 9: it relates to Richardson being smart with him, but also

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Speaker 9: not taking away why you drafted a guy of his

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Speaker 9: athleticism and skill set fourth overall.

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Speaker 8: A couple of years.

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Speaker 4: Ago, they had him on a bit of a pitch

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Speaker 4: count or adjusted schedule right in the offseason program.

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Speaker 9: Believe it or not, not, really, I mean towards the

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Speaker 9: end of many camp, you know, he dealt with some

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Speaker 9: soreness in that right shoulder, right the surgically repair shoulder,

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Speaker 9: and they were actually surprised that he hadn't had more

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Speaker 9: soreness up until then. You know, obviously they're going to

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Speaker 9: do right by him and they're going to make sure

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Speaker 9: that they don't push it when they don't need to.

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Speaker 9: Right kind of understanding where they are in terms of

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Speaker 9: the calendar right at that point it was late May,

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Speaker 9: early June, but they did say that you know, if

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Speaker 9: this was a Sunday, right if you know, they had

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Speaker 9: a mini camp on Wednesday and Thursday, if they had

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Speaker 9: a game on Sunday, he would have been able to play.

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Speaker 8: So that that's good news.

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Speaker 9: So obviously going into training camp, you know, the next

660
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Speaker 9: thing or the next question is going to be what

661
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Speaker 9: what does he look like? You know, does he need

662
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Speaker 9: days off? Can he be able to consistently throw three

663
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Speaker 9: four days in a row at camp? And what are

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Speaker 9: things going to look like when you take that that

665
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Speaker 9: red non contact quarterback Jersey off. Once the Bolts start

666
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Speaker 9: flying for real, as you said week one against the

667
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Speaker 9: Houstons exits, I.

668
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Speaker 4: Think the Colts are undervalued by some and Jonathan Taylor

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Speaker 4: is a huge reason for that.

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Speaker 3: I mean, this guy is one of the best running

671
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Speaker 3: backs in the league.

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Speaker 4: And I think it's not like people forget about it,

673
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Speaker 4: but maybe he's underappreciated around the NFL. The kind of

674
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Speaker 4: weaponry that the Colts have starting with him. I mean,

675
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Speaker 4: we could talk about Richardson and Pittman all day long,

676
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Speaker 4: but Taylor is really the straw that stirs the drink.

677
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Speaker 9: No, yeah, I agree with you, and I think maybe

678
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Speaker 9: there's a national forgetfulness regarding Jonathan Taylor the last two

679
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Speaker 9: years just because of how the seasons have gone for

680
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Speaker 9: the Colts. I mean, twenty two was a disaster, twenty

681
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Speaker 9: three was up and down. You know, no, no Richardson

682
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Speaker 9: for a majority of the season. You know, Taylor was

683
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Speaker 9: dealing with the off the field stuff, with the contract drama.

684
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Speaker 9: Then he started the year on pup. So there was

685
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Speaker 9: a lot of like stopping and starting of Jonathan Taylor

686
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Speaker 9: these last two years. And you know, when you look

687
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Speaker 9: at Richardson and Taylor together, Mark, believe it or not,

688
00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:44,000
Speaker 9: those two guys played two snaps together the entire season.

689
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Speaker 8: That was it. Two snaps the entire year. Last year

690
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Speaker 8: on the game field.

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Speaker 1: Wow.

692
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Speaker 8: So I think this is a big time, you.

693
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Speaker 9: Know, fresh start for both guys and kind of a

694
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Speaker 9: new beginning of an era in the backfield between Richardson

695
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Speaker 9: and Taylaylor. And you know you mentioned Pittman and Josh

696
00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:07,040
Speaker 9: Downs is that receiver? I really think, Mark, in order

697
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Speaker 9: for this offense to kind of take the next step

698
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Speaker 9: and to really compliment Anthony Richardson, they've got to be

699
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Speaker 9: better outside.

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Speaker 8: Right.

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Speaker 9: There was just times last year and this I think

702
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Speaker 9: it's probably more of like the Gardner Minshew effect more

703
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Speaker 9: than anything. You know, there were just times last year

704
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Speaker 9: where it felt like the Colts were playing on like a.

705
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Speaker 8: Fifteen to twenty yard field.

706
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Speaker 9: You know, they just didn't have a lot of pop

707
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Speaker 9: outside the numbers and vertically to push the ball down

708
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Speaker 9: the field. So I thought it was imperative for the

709
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Speaker 9: Colts to address that here in the offseason, and I

710
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Speaker 9: think they did really adequately. You know, Josh Dowins is

711
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Speaker 9: coming back for year number two. Michael Pittman gets a

712
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Speaker 9: big time deal in free agency, but you draft ada

713
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Speaker 9: Ni Mitchell in the second round, Mark, I think that's

714
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Speaker 9: a big time steal for the Colts given his skill

715
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Speaker 9: set his value in where he was picked up in

716
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Speaker 9: the draft. I'm sure you can agree with that, you know,

717
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Speaker 9: I'm sure John Harris had really high marks on him

718
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Speaker 9: during the draft process. He looks like he can kind

719
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Speaker 9: of fix some of those ailments for the Colts in

720
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Speaker 9: that regard. So that's a long winded way of saying,

721
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Speaker 9: if the Colts can be more of a threat outside

722
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Speaker 9: and down the field, that'll really open up the running game.

723
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Speaker 9: With Jonathan Taylor and Anthony Richardson. I mean, I think

724
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Speaker 9: it's going to be huge in the designer runs, but

725
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Speaker 9: also the red zone, the zone reads in the RPO game.

726
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Speaker 9: That's really gonna help the Colts be able to be

727
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Speaker 9: more efficient on offense.

728
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Speaker 8: And you've seen it too, Mark.

729
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Speaker 9: I mean, these two guys, Richardson and Taylor, they can

730
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Speaker 9: take a little bit of a crease and turn it

731
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Speaker 9: into a home run, a sixty seventy yard gallop by

732
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Speaker 9: both of those guys with their speed and their athleticism.

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Speaker 9: So as long as the passing game complements the running

734
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Speaker 9: game in this sense for the Colts, I think those

735
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Speaker 9: two guys have the best chance to be the best

736
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Speaker 9: quarterback running back duo in the NFL given their athleticism.

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Speaker 4: Wow, Matt Taylor, voice of the Colts, joining us, tell

738
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Speaker 4: me about Joe Flacco a little bit here, because minsh,

739
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Speaker 4: you played the bulk of the season. You hope Flacco doesn't.

740
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Speaker 4: But what about the addition of him after having the

741
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Speaker 4: fine season he had in Cleveland.

742
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Speaker 3: I know it didn't end well for him, but he

743
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Speaker 3: brought them to the playoffs.

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Speaker 9: No, absolutely, I mean it was all going well until

745
00:31:17,240 --> 00:31:20,920
Speaker 9: he played the Houston Texans right in the playoffs. But

746
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Speaker 9: he he's a remarkable guy.

747
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Speaker 8: I got.

748
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Speaker 9: I got a chance to just kind of, you know,

749
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Speaker 9: shoot the blank with him a couple of weeks ago

750
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Speaker 9: before a mini camp practice.

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Speaker 8: I mean, Joe's a cool dude. He's down to earth

752
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Speaker 8: and he's just gonna shoot you straight, tell it like

753
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Speaker 8: it is.

754
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Speaker 9: And I think he's perfect for Anthony Richardson in the

755
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Speaker 9: sense that you know, Joe has this ability.

756
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Speaker 8: I don't know if this is gonna make sense to you.

757
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Speaker 9: You've seen enough of his games over the years, Mark,

758
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Speaker 9: he just has this ability to not overcomplicate the game.

759
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Speaker 8: And I think, you know, obviously quarterbacks have a lot of.

760
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Speaker 9: Stuff on their plate, and I'm not downplaying that with

761
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Speaker 9: Joe Flacco in mind, but he just has this ability

762
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Speaker 9: to just take what the defense gives them. And I

763
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Speaker 9: think both guys Richardson and Flacco believe in the chunk

764
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Speaker 9: play the deep ball. They both throw a very good

765
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Speaker 9: deep ball, and they believe in being efficient in that

766
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Speaker 9: part of the offense. But I think that Flaco's going

767
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Speaker 9: to come in and help Richardson, you know, simplify the

768
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Speaker 9: game a little bit. You know, it's it's okay to

769
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Speaker 9: check it down or throw it away, or you know,

770
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Speaker 9: take five yards to set yourself up for third and

771
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Speaker 9: two instead of going for the big play.

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Speaker 8: So that's that's what I'm really excited to see.

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Speaker 9: And you know, there's this debate around here in terms

774
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Speaker 9: of the depth a quarterback because the Colts also too

775
00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:40,880
Speaker 9: have Sam Ellinger, who they drafted a couple of years ago,

776
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Speaker 9: guy that played in your state at the University of Texas,

777
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Speaker 9: and they're still high on him, and there's this debate

778
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Speaker 9: is there going to be a quarterback competition between Flacco

779
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Speaker 9: and Ellinger. I just find it hard to believe that,

780
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Speaker 9: you know, a Super Bowl champion, a guy that's thrown

781
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Speaker 9: for over forty four thousand career y'all is going to be,

782
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Speaker 9: you know, holding the clipboard and running down the practice squad.

783
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Speaker 9: So but Sam Ellinger is a great player too. I

784
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Speaker 9: mean every time he comes in, good things happen typically.

785
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Speaker 9: But I think Joe Flacco is a guy that if

786
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Speaker 9: he has to play the Colts still can push the

787
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Speaker 9: ball down the field with that weaponry that I talked about,

788
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Speaker 9: plus Flacco's ability to still be able to get it

789
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Speaker 9: done like he showed last year throwing for over three

790
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Speaker 9: hundred yards and four straight games at one point last season.

791
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Speaker 4: Matt, you know, I like to ask questions like this,

792
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Speaker 4: give me one or two colts that aren't getting a

793
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Speaker 4: lot of attention that you expect maybe not huge things from,

794
00:33:37,920 --> 00:33:40,200
Speaker 4: but exciting things from, and they're going to be valuable

795
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Speaker 4: contributors in twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 3: Guys who aren't getting the ink.

797
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Speaker 9: Well, a guy that maybe Texans fans forget about because

798
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Speaker 9: he literally played zero snaps last year for the entire

799
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Speaker 9: season is Jolannie Woods. The tight end they picked him

800
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Speaker 9: up in the draft in twenty twenty two. Had a

801
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Speaker 9: pretty good rookie season up and down, but he had

802
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Speaker 9: some breakout moments. But last year he dealt with nagging

803
00:34:04,440 --> 00:34:08,759
Speaker 9: hamstring injuries, multiple hamstring injuries for the entire season and

804
00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:09,840
Speaker 9: never saw the field.

805
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Speaker 8: And the Colts are really high.

806
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Speaker 9: On him and that they believe that he can maybe

807
00:34:15,400 --> 00:34:18,439
Speaker 9: be part of that puzzle that helps push the ball

808
00:34:18,480 --> 00:34:20,320
Speaker 9: down the field a little bit more. He's kind of

809
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Speaker 9: the closest thing the Colts have to you know, a

810
00:34:23,320 --> 00:34:25,200
Speaker 9: Travis Kelcey or a George Kittle.

811
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Speaker 8: And that's that's being generous.

812
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Speaker 9: That've got a good skill set of of tight ends

813
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Speaker 9: in the room, but nothing close to those dynamic playmakers

814
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Speaker 9: that I just mentioned.

815
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Speaker 8: But Woods, I think is a guy that can be

816
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Speaker 8: a mismatch.

817
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Speaker 9: He's a former quarterback, former basketball player in high school.

818
00:34:40,480 --> 00:34:44,640
Speaker 9: Good athleticism, he's got great you know, measurements about him,

819
00:34:44,760 --> 00:34:47,280
Speaker 9: height and weight, really good footwork.

820
00:34:47,320 --> 00:34:48,360
Speaker 8: He's a willing blocker.

821
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Speaker 9: Maybe he can you know, supply some big plays in

822
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Speaker 9: the middle of the field up the seam.

823
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Speaker 8: So don't don't sleep on him. And then on the

824
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Speaker 8: other side of the ball.

825
00:34:57,920 --> 00:35:02,319
Speaker 9: I mean, obviously everybody's talking about Leatu Latu. It was

826
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Speaker 9: the first round pick for the Colts, the fifteenth overall

827
00:35:04,680 --> 00:35:09,680
Speaker 9: selection and also to the first defensive player off the board,

828
00:35:09,760 --> 00:35:12,279
Speaker 9: so the Colts feel like, you know, they got their

829
00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:15,120
Speaker 9: guy on the defensive side of the ball with that

830
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Speaker 9: fifteen selection. A big time steal there with all those

831
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Speaker 9: quarterbacks that went to the top of the draft. But

832
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Speaker 9: I just think in general, you should be talking about

833
00:35:24,280 --> 00:35:26,759
Speaker 9: this Colts pass rush. Last year they had fifty one

834
00:35:26,840 --> 00:35:30,919
Speaker 9: sacks as a defense, which was a franchise record, but Mark,

835
00:35:30,960 --> 00:35:36,400
Speaker 9: they weren't always the most timely sacks right at times

836
00:35:36,480 --> 00:35:40,120
Speaker 9: last year. You know, the sack numbers look good, but

837
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Speaker 9: in big moments, right I go back to that Week

838
00:35:42,760 --> 00:35:44,000
Speaker 9: eighteen game against CJ.

839
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Speaker 8: Stroud.

840
00:35:44,600 --> 00:35:48,439
Speaker 9: He was all too comfortable in big moments of that game,

841
00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:50,960
Speaker 9: in the fourth quarter, if you're a Colts fan. So

842
00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:54,960
Speaker 9: they want to see more consistency out of the overall

843
00:35:55,040 --> 00:35:58,880
Speaker 9: quarterback hurries. The pressures and the sack numbers should be

844
00:35:58,880 --> 00:36:01,360
Speaker 9: pretty good, but they just want to see more disruptions

845
00:36:01,680 --> 00:36:04,320
Speaker 9: that lead to Aaron throws and takeaways by the defense.

846
00:36:04,719 --> 00:36:07,080
Speaker 9: So I think that the secondary is going to benefit

847
00:36:07,200 --> 00:36:09,520
Speaker 9: from that, and hopefully you're going to see a much

848
00:36:09,600 --> 00:36:13,719
Speaker 9: improved pass rush because of Leatu Loatsu and all the

849
00:36:13,719 --> 00:36:15,080
Speaker 9: four pieces that are coming back.

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Speaker 4: I mean, the fifty one sacks being a franchise record

851
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Speaker 4: kind of blows me away considering the players that you've

852
00:36:20,200 --> 00:36:24,120
Speaker 4: had in Indy, like Robert Mathis, Dwight Freeny dealing with

853
00:36:24,239 --> 00:36:28,200
Speaker 4: that and that was a franchise record on last year's team.

854
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Speaker 3: I know it was a winning season, but that's pretty amazing.

855
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Speaker 9: Well what happened in years past to your point, You've

856
00:36:33,160 --> 00:36:37,080
Speaker 9: got Mathis and Freeny as the bookend defensive ends, and

857
00:36:37,120 --> 00:36:38,960
Speaker 9: that was the hallmark for the Colts. I mean, the

858
00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:41,000
Speaker 9: Colts would get up by two scorers in the fourth

859
00:36:41,080 --> 00:36:42,200
Speaker 9: quarter and then.

860
00:36:42,080 --> 00:36:43,799
Speaker 8: That defense could just go right.

861
00:36:43,840 --> 00:36:45,640
Speaker 9: They could just pin their ears back and that's when

862
00:36:45,640 --> 00:36:48,760
Speaker 9: the strip sacks came. Those game changing or game ceiling

863
00:36:48,800 --> 00:36:52,120
Speaker 9: plays happened with those two bass brothers. But I think

864
00:36:52,160 --> 00:36:55,080
Speaker 9: you're gonna see or at least what you saw last year.

865
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Speaker 9: You saw four different guys for the Colts with at

866
00:36:57,520 --> 00:36:58,840
Speaker 9: least eight sacks.

867
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Speaker 8: Including the fourth Buckner Sampson. Ebacom's coming back quit.

868
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Speaker 9: He pay just got his option picked up, so they're

869
00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:08,799
Speaker 9: high on him still. But I'm telling you, Mark, they

870
00:37:08,840 --> 00:37:11,960
Speaker 9: really think that Leatu Latu is going to be that

871
00:37:12,200 --> 00:37:15,279
Speaker 9: missing piece, right, And it goes back to what I

872
00:37:15,280 --> 00:37:18,160
Speaker 9: said before, like in big games and crunch time, it's

873
00:37:18,160 --> 00:37:20,319
Speaker 9: all about just winning your one on one matchup and

874
00:37:20,360 --> 00:37:21,440
Speaker 9: getting to the quarterback.

875
00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:23,200
Speaker 8: And I think the Colts.

876
00:37:22,880 --> 00:37:26,240
Speaker 9: Think that he's going to be their version, hopefully sooner

877
00:37:26,239 --> 00:37:28,840
Speaker 9: than later, of the Bosa brothers or TJ.

878
00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:29,320
Speaker 8: Watt.

879
00:37:29,360 --> 00:37:32,200
Speaker 9: They think he can be that good, and they need

880
00:37:32,280 --> 00:37:34,839
Speaker 9: him to be that good pretty early on in his

881
00:37:34,880 --> 00:37:36,720
Speaker 9: career based on how they've built this team.

882
00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:40,400
Speaker 4: Matt Taylor, voice of the Indianapolis Colts, joining us. Matt,

883
00:37:40,520 --> 00:37:42,680
Speaker 4: let's talk about the people who are not in the room.

884
00:37:42,719 --> 00:37:45,560
Speaker 4: That would be the Jacksonville Jaguars and Tennessee Titans. First,

885
00:37:45,560 --> 00:37:48,080
Speaker 4: with the Jags, what do you think here in twenty

886
00:37:48,120 --> 00:37:52,040
Speaker 4: twenty four. They just signed Lawrence to the extension. They

887
00:37:52,080 --> 00:37:55,200
Speaker 4: lost some guys, but they have a lot of good

888
00:37:55,280 --> 00:37:58,040
Speaker 4: players and this is a winning team two years in

889
00:37:58,040 --> 00:38:00,440
Speaker 4: a row. I know they melted down last year, but

890
00:38:00,560 --> 00:38:02,560
Speaker 4: what are your thoughts on the upcoming campaign.

891
00:38:03,239 --> 00:38:05,240
Speaker 8: I think the Jaguars are going to be really good.

892
00:38:05,440 --> 00:38:08,319
Speaker 9: I think the AFC South in general, Mark, I think

893
00:38:08,320 --> 00:38:09,440
Speaker 9: it's gonna be a dogfight.

894
00:38:09,719 --> 00:38:10,319
Speaker 8: I really do.

895
00:38:10,480 --> 00:38:13,919
Speaker 9: I don't see any teams like the Jags last year

896
00:38:13,960 --> 00:38:15,880
Speaker 9: falling off a cliff right when they lost five in

897
00:38:15,920 --> 00:38:17,560
Speaker 9: the last six games to end the season.

898
00:38:17,600 --> 00:38:18,880
Speaker 8: I don't see that happening.

899
00:38:19,200 --> 00:38:21,959
Speaker 9: I mean, Trevor Lawrence just got solidified with the Big Deal,

900
00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:25,360
Speaker 9: you know. I know they're kind of switching to play calling.

901
00:38:25,719 --> 00:38:27,560
Speaker 9: I don't know if it's gonna be Press Taylor again

902
00:38:27,600 --> 00:38:29,799
Speaker 9: this year or if Doug Peterson's gonna take on those

903
00:38:29,880 --> 00:38:32,360
Speaker 9: roles again. But I think the Jaguars are going to

904
00:38:32,400 --> 00:38:35,920
Speaker 9: be really stinking good. And I'm actually much higher on

905
00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:38,359
Speaker 9: the Titans than most people are.

906
00:38:38,440 --> 00:38:40,080
Speaker 8: I think Will Levis.

907
00:38:39,960 --> 00:38:42,560
Speaker 9: Is going to be really good too, and they've had

908
00:38:42,600 --> 00:38:49,640
Speaker 9: a deceptively productive and complementary offseason, especially on offense around

909
00:38:49,680 --> 00:38:52,360
Speaker 9: Will Levis going into the season. So I think the

910
00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:54,120
Speaker 9: AFC South is going to be one of the more

911
00:38:54,160 --> 00:38:57,040
Speaker 9: competitive divisions.

912
00:38:55,920 --> 00:38:56,800
Speaker 8: In the NFL.

913
00:38:57,440 --> 00:39:00,560
Speaker 9: And we say it every year, it's cliche, it's hyper, yes,

914
00:39:00,640 --> 00:39:04,000
Speaker 9: but this year I really do think it's it's accentuated

915
00:39:04,040 --> 00:39:07,000
Speaker 9: that every single one of these games, Mark is going

916
00:39:07,080 --> 00:39:09,759
Speaker 9: to have so much magnitude. And if you look at

917
00:39:09,760 --> 00:39:12,719
Speaker 9: the Colts in the Texans right away in Week one

918
00:39:13,239 --> 00:39:16,680
Speaker 9: and then you get them at the end of October,

919
00:39:17,120 --> 00:39:20,200
Speaker 9: so the Colts in Texans' rivalry is going to be

920
00:39:20,280 --> 00:39:22,440
Speaker 9: done before the halfway part.

921
00:39:22,280 --> 00:39:22,840
Speaker 8: Of the season.

922
00:39:22,920 --> 00:39:26,360
Speaker 9: Like, selfishly, I think that sucks. I think that sucks,

923
00:39:26,800 --> 00:39:28,600
Speaker 9: but that's the way it goes. You got to play

924
00:39:28,600 --> 00:39:31,480
Speaker 9: all the games and doesn't matter. They all count the same.

925
00:39:31,840 --> 00:39:33,839
Speaker 9: But I would like to selfishly see some of these

926
00:39:33,840 --> 00:39:35,880
Speaker 9: division games a little bit more spread out as it

927
00:39:35,880 --> 00:39:37,120
Speaker 9: relates to the Colts schedule.

928
00:39:37,520 --> 00:39:39,200
Speaker 8: But that's what they've had to deal with the last

929
00:39:39,280 --> 00:39:39,920
Speaker 8: couple of years.

930
00:39:40,320 --> 00:39:42,240
Speaker 9: And that just means the first half of the season

931
00:39:42,600 --> 00:39:46,000
Speaker 9: you got to bring it because if you lose those games, man,

932
00:39:46,040 --> 00:39:48,160
Speaker 9: they count as two. They count is double, and your

933
00:39:48,200 --> 00:39:50,080
Speaker 9: margin for air in the second half of the season,

934
00:39:50,200 --> 00:39:51,600
Speaker 9: it's going to be razor razor thin.

935
00:39:51,719 --> 00:39:52,640
Speaker 8: I can't wait for it.

936
00:39:53,480 --> 00:39:57,000
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's no question being done so early. As a bummer.

937
00:39:57,080 --> 00:40:01,680
Speaker 4: This is the earliest the series will been completed ever.

938
00:40:02,160 --> 00:40:05,240
Speaker 3: I went back and tracked it. Ten was really early,

939
00:40:05,320 --> 00:40:07,640
Speaker 3: but it wasn't this early. So it's just strange. But

940
00:40:07,800 --> 00:40:08,560
Speaker 3: that's the way it is.

941
00:40:08,600 --> 00:40:11,160
Speaker 4: Like you said, Matt Taylor, voice of the Colts joining us,

942
00:40:11,160 --> 00:40:13,319
Speaker 4: all right, so what do you think of the Texans

943
00:40:13,320 --> 00:40:14,799
Speaker 4: from your seat, Matt.

944
00:40:15,280 --> 00:40:17,360
Speaker 8: Same thing. I think the Texans are great.

945
00:40:18,040 --> 00:40:22,000
Speaker 9: I mean, I credit to that entire organization, the front office,

946
00:40:22,080 --> 00:40:24,960
Speaker 9: in the vision, and obviously you know the new head

947
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:28,040
Speaker 9: coach there with coach Ryan's I mean, he's got those

948
00:40:28,040 --> 00:40:31,680
Speaker 9: guys humming, and I think their offseason was splashy. I

949
00:40:31,719 --> 00:40:33,560
Speaker 9: thought a lot of their moves made a whole lot

950
00:40:33,560 --> 00:40:37,160
Speaker 9: of sense. The trade for Diggs I thought was really

951
00:40:37,200 --> 00:40:40,000
Speaker 9: really savvy. I know, it's he's kind of on a

952
00:40:40,120 --> 00:40:43,399
Speaker 9: on an approved situation if you will, long term, but

953
00:40:43,760 --> 00:40:45,920
Speaker 9: you know, it's scary for the rest of the division

954
00:40:45,960 --> 00:40:49,360
Speaker 9: that CJ. Stroud has even more weaponry to throw the

955
00:40:49,360 --> 00:40:53,560
Speaker 9: football to. And if you're a cult follower, that's terrifying

956
00:40:53,640 --> 00:40:56,440
Speaker 9: because you know, he basically got it done with one

957
00:40:56,480 --> 00:40:58,680
Speaker 9: guy last year. That was Nico Collins in that Week

958
00:40:58,719 --> 00:41:02,040
Speaker 9: eighteen game. I know Dalton Schultz had a nice game too,

959
00:41:02,400 --> 00:41:04,719
Speaker 9: but in terms of the outside weapon wise, it was

960
00:41:04,760 --> 00:41:06,640
Speaker 9: really one guy and the Colts had a hard time

961
00:41:06,680 --> 00:41:10,279
Speaker 9: slowing that down. And now Stroud's got even more, you know,

962
00:41:10,320 --> 00:41:12,160
Speaker 9: pieces of the puzzle to to work with.

963
00:41:12,280 --> 00:41:14,920
Speaker 8: So I think it's gonna be a great rivalry. I do.

964
00:41:15,120 --> 00:41:17,680
Speaker 9: I mean, I think both places, both stadiums, both fan

965
00:41:17,760 --> 00:41:21,680
Speaker 9: bases are just top notch. I can't wait for it.

966
00:41:21,880 --> 00:41:24,799
Speaker 9: I think Mark, and I think you would probably expect this.

967
00:41:25,040 --> 00:41:27,200
Speaker 9: I think that first game of the season, Week one,

968
00:41:27,800 --> 00:41:30,839
Speaker 9: it's gonna feel like a playoff game because I think

969
00:41:30,880 --> 00:41:33,279
Speaker 9: both fan bases are smart enough to know what they're

970
00:41:33,320 --> 00:41:35,799
Speaker 9: looking at. They're looking at, you know, the future of

971
00:41:35,840 --> 00:41:38,320
Speaker 9: these franchises that don't I don't think are going anywhere

972
00:41:38,360 --> 00:41:41,960
Speaker 9: anytime soon because of the head coaches, the core that's

973
00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:43,640
Speaker 9: been built, and certainly the quarterbacks.

974
00:41:44,280 --> 00:41:47,320
Speaker 4: One more, Matt, what's the circle that one on the calendar?

975
00:41:47,360 --> 00:41:50,440
Speaker 4: Game for you out of the division for the Colts,

976
00:41:50,440 --> 00:41:52,680
Speaker 4: so maybe for you personally too, if it's not the

977
00:41:52,719 --> 00:41:53,520
Speaker 4: same thing.

978
00:41:53,680 --> 00:41:55,880
Speaker 9: It's Yeah, it's probably the second game, to be honest

979
00:41:55,920 --> 00:41:58,279
Speaker 9: with you, I think it's at Lambeau you know, just

980
00:41:58,320 --> 00:42:00,719
Speaker 9: because you play the Packers once every four years, you

981
00:42:00,800 --> 00:42:03,279
Speaker 9: go to Lambeau once every eight years because of the

982
00:42:03,400 --> 00:42:09,720
Speaker 9: NFC breakdown. But it's another great barometer game for the Colts.

983
00:42:09,719 --> 00:42:12,000
Speaker 9: I mean, selfishly, I'm excited to go to the historic

984
00:42:12,080 --> 00:42:15,120
Speaker 9: Lambeau Field. I've never called a game there before, so

985
00:42:15,160 --> 00:42:18,040
Speaker 9: that part is I'm looking forward to kind of checking off.

986
00:42:18,080 --> 00:42:20,759
Speaker 9: But I mean I'm looking at the schedule right now, Mark,

987
00:42:20,800 --> 00:42:24,319
Speaker 9: You've got Houston at Green Bay, Chicago, Pittsburgh for the

988
00:42:24,360 --> 00:42:26,880
Speaker 9: Colts to start the season. So three out of your

989
00:42:26,920 --> 00:42:29,880
Speaker 9: first four games were at home. That's good, But also

990
00:42:29,960 --> 00:42:32,280
Speaker 9: three of your first four games to start the season

991
00:42:32,360 --> 00:42:35,400
Speaker 9: or against teams that made the playoffs last year, and

992
00:42:35,480 --> 00:42:37,880
Speaker 9: that wild card within that group are the Bears, and

993
00:42:37,920 --> 00:42:39,600
Speaker 9: you don't know what they're going to be. They could be,

994
00:42:40,160 --> 00:42:43,719
Speaker 9: you know, way more improved with with Caleb Williams at quarterback,

995
00:42:43,800 --> 00:42:46,440
Speaker 9: so you don't really know how to gauge that game

996
00:42:46,960 --> 00:42:50,200
Speaker 9: early on in the season. So I'm just excited to

997
00:42:50,200 --> 00:42:53,280
Speaker 9: see how the Colts navigate the first part of the schedule.

998
00:42:53,440 --> 00:42:57,600
Speaker 9: Selfishly excited to go to lambeau Field. But I'm also

999
00:42:58,200 --> 00:43:00,719
Speaker 9: hoping that I know you would do agree with this,

1000
00:43:01,160 --> 00:43:03,200
Speaker 9: but hoping the Colts can get off the schneid for

1001
00:43:03,320 --> 00:43:06,400
Speaker 9: Week one. Hopefully they can beat the Texans. The Colts

1002
00:43:06,440 --> 00:43:08,680
Speaker 9: mark they have not. Let me ask you this a

1003
00:43:08,680 --> 00:43:10,520
Speaker 9: little bit of a trivia question, when was the last

1004
00:43:10,560 --> 00:43:12,600
Speaker 9: time you think when was the last time you think

1005
00:43:12,600 --> 00:43:14,480
Speaker 9: the Colts won a Week one game?

1006
00:43:15,800 --> 00:43:15,960
Speaker 6: Oh?

1007
00:43:16,120 --> 00:43:18,719
Speaker 3: This is this goes back a long way, doesn't it.

1008
00:43:18,719 --> 00:43:21,319
Speaker 3: It's like twenty fourteen or something ridiculous like that.

1009
00:43:21,840 --> 00:43:24,600
Speaker 8: It's it's even more ridiculous. It's twenty thirteen.

1010
00:43:25,120 --> 00:43:27,759
Speaker 9: Uh and it just to give you perspective, they beat

1011
00:43:27,800 --> 00:43:32,280
Speaker 9: the then Oakland Raiders, right, the Raiders hasn't even moved yet,

1012
00:43:33,280 --> 00:43:36,240
Speaker 9: So that's that's kind of everybody around here is sick

1013
00:43:36,280 --> 00:43:38,920
Speaker 9: of that storyline and and trying to get off to

1014
00:43:38,960 --> 00:43:41,600
Speaker 9: a good start and Anthony Richardson coming back and a

1015
00:43:41,640 --> 00:43:44,560
Speaker 9: lot of hype there hopefully, you know, it's it's a

1016
00:43:44,560 --> 00:43:47,080
Speaker 9: little bit more manageable to start the month of September,

1017
00:43:47,120 --> 00:43:49,480
Speaker 9: and the Colts aren't in a hole, which has kind

1018
00:43:49,480 --> 00:43:51,359
Speaker 9: of been a theme for them the last you know,

1019
00:43:51,360 --> 00:43:53,200
Speaker 9: four or five years, going back a little bit.

1020
00:43:53,320 --> 00:43:56,839
Speaker 1: Tremendous stuff with Matt Taylor of the Colts. Big thanks

1021
00:43:56,840 --> 00:43:59,160
Speaker 1: to Mark for getting that to us.

1022
00:43:59,160 --> 00:44:01,359
Speaker 2: All right, we get back around the NFL quickly right

1023
00:44:01,400 --> 00:44:03,640
Speaker 2: here on our final segment of Texans All Access on

1024
00:44:03,640 --> 00:44:05,440
Speaker 2: this Monday evening, we got one final segment of this

1025
00:44:05,480 --> 00:44:08,160
Speaker 2: money ed issue of Texans All Access from the Hyundai

1026
00:44:08,239 --> 00:44:12,120
Speaker 2: Texans Radio studio. I'm your host, John Harrison, football analyst,

1027
00:44:12,560 --> 00:44:16,520
Speaker 2: sideline reporter for your Houston Texans. Let's jump around the

1028
00:44:16,600 --> 00:44:21,960
Speaker 2: league where the biggest news probably is out of San Francisco.

1029
00:44:23,000 --> 00:44:24,560
Speaker 1: Don't know what.

1030
00:44:24,480 --> 00:44:27,680
Speaker 2: Really is coming out of this, but today Brandon Ayyuk

1031
00:44:27,920 --> 00:44:30,120
Speaker 2: is meeting with the forty nine Ers. Now, if you've

1032
00:44:30,160 --> 00:44:33,080
Speaker 2: been following this sort of soap opera, it's kind of

1033
00:44:33,120 --> 00:44:37,040
Speaker 2: gone back to the end of the Super Bowl. After

1034
00:44:37,080 --> 00:44:39,759
Speaker 2: the forty nine Ers loss, Brandon Ayuk got loose on

1035
00:44:39,840 --> 00:44:44,120
Speaker 2: social media and just you know, talking loosely about his

1036
00:44:44,239 --> 00:44:47,520
Speaker 2: future with the Niners. It's been I don't want to

1037
00:44:47,560 --> 00:44:49,759
Speaker 2: say contentious. I mean Brandon Ayuk is really the only

1038
00:44:49,800 --> 00:44:52,480
Speaker 2: one that has really said anything. The Niners have not

1039
00:44:52,640 --> 00:44:55,800
Speaker 2: fired back and said anything. I think the biggest issue

1040
00:44:55,840 --> 00:44:58,440
Speaker 2: here is I've seen a number of people talking about

1041
00:44:58,440 --> 00:45:03,319
Speaker 2: this u throughout the weekend and prior to the forty

1042
00:45:03,360 --> 00:45:06,520
Speaker 2: nine Ers would like to have Brandon Ayuk back. They

1043
00:45:06,640 --> 00:45:10,720
Speaker 2: just don't want Brandon Ayuk back at the contract number

1044
00:45:10,800 --> 00:45:15,200
Speaker 2: that he wants, and you know that makes some sense.

1045
00:45:15,719 --> 00:45:17,759
Speaker 1: They want to get him back at a reasonable number.

1046
00:45:17,800 --> 00:45:19,319
Speaker 2: If you look at the numbers they have been thrown

1047
00:45:19,360 --> 00:45:23,600
Speaker 2: around in the receiver game recently. I mean it's been

1048
00:45:23,600 --> 00:45:25,839
Speaker 2: pretty big numbers. You know what Jay l Watto got,

1049
00:45:25,840 --> 00:45:29,719
Speaker 2: what Nick Nick Nico Collins got, I'm on Ross Saint

1050
00:45:29,760 --> 00:45:32,319
Speaker 2: Brown what he got, what Justin Jefferson got. Man the

1051
00:45:32,360 --> 00:45:35,840
Speaker 2: price tag is going up and they're already paying Deebo

1052
00:45:35,920 --> 00:45:38,320
Speaker 2: Samuel and they just drafted Ricky Piersoll and they re

1053
00:45:38,480 --> 00:45:43,880
Speaker 2: up with Juwan Jennings. So is that going to be

1054
00:45:44,080 --> 00:45:47,040
Speaker 2: money well spent? I don't, by any means want people

1055
00:45:47,040 --> 00:45:49,799
Speaker 2: to think I'm dogging on Brandon Ayuk. I've always liked

1056
00:45:49,840 --> 00:45:52,320
Speaker 2: Brandon Ayuk, been a big fan of his for a

1057
00:45:52,360 --> 00:45:54,839
Speaker 2: long time. When Brandon when Jaye Dames was throwing too

1058
00:45:54,840 --> 00:45:57,160
Speaker 2: many at Arizona State. What he's done thus far in

1059
00:45:57,200 --> 00:46:01,120
Speaker 2: the league. He's an electric separator, great with the ball

1060
00:46:01,440 --> 00:46:03,719
Speaker 2: after the catch, can get open anywhere. It can get

1061
00:46:03,760 --> 00:46:05,359
Speaker 2: open at phone booth if you know what those are.

1062
00:46:05,560 --> 00:46:08,479
Speaker 2: He's an incredible football player. But how much the forty

1063
00:46:08,560 --> 00:46:11,520
Speaker 2: nine ers A can pay and B are willing to pay?

1064
00:46:12,120 --> 00:46:14,799
Speaker 2: So those two questions they'll have to figure it out.

1065
00:46:14,920 --> 00:46:16,759
Speaker 2: So Brandon Ayuk and the forty nine ers are at

1066
00:46:16,880 --> 00:46:22,840
Speaker 2: least sitting down. According to Ryan Clark, speaking of contracts,

1067
00:46:22,880 --> 00:46:27,320
Speaker 2: of Patriot got a contract and a running back Romandre Stevenson,

1068
00:46:27,320 --> 00:46:30,480
Speaker 2: who I've always I've been a fan of four years.

1069
00:46:30,560 --> 00:46:35,600
Speaker 2: Thirty six million dollars So the Patriots, as Adam Schefter

1070
00:46:35,680 --> 00:46:38,360
Speaker 2: pointed out over the weekend, they're bringing back their own

1071
00:46:38,560 --> 00:46:41,960
Speaker 2: Romandre Stevens in four years thirty six. Kyle Duggar was

1072
00:46:42,000 --> 00:46:45,000
Speaker 2: their franchise player, things a transition player either way four

1073
00:46:45,080 --> 00:46:48,160
Speaker 2: years fifty eighth extended him, Michael Nwaynu three years fifty

1074
00:46:48,200 --> 00:46:51,040
Speaker 2: seven million, Hunter Henry three years twenty seven, Kenrick Bourne

1075
00:46:51,080 --> 00:46:55,279
Speaker 2: three years nineteen point five, Anthony Jennings three years twelve mili.

1076
00:46:55,840 --> 00:46:59,720
Speaker 2: So Patriots bring him back the core of their team.

1077
00:46:59,760 --> 00:47:01,799
Speaker 2: Now that core as good as it was, no, but

1078
00:47:02,040 --> 00:47:03,840
Speaker 2: it's still a core that they can keep together for

1079
00:47:03,880 --> 00:47:06,319
Speaker 2: a little bit and do some things.

1080
00:47:06,320 --> 00:47:07,600
Speaker 1: I think the Patriots are gonna be better.

1081
00:47:07,600 --> 00:47:10,320
Speaker 2: People think it's a matter of you know, Jacoby Brissett

1082
00:47:10,400 --> 00:47:12,759
Speaker 2: and you know, what's the progress of Drake May. That

1083
00:47:12,880 --> 00:47:14,759
Speaker 2: defense could be really good and now you know you're

1084
00:47:14,760 --> 00:47:17,400
Speaker 2: gonna have that running game with Ramondre Stevenson. I've always

1085
00:47:17,400 --> 00:47:20,480
Speaker 2: been a fan of Stevenson. So this is something that

1086
00:47:20,520 --> 00:47:22,560
Speaker 2: Elliott Wolf said he wanted to do. He wanted to

1087
00:47:22,560 --> 00:47:25,680
Speaker 2: be a draft and developed team. They are that Ramandre

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Speaker 2: Stevenson is headed back to the New England Patriots. Barry

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Speaker 2: Sanders revealed he had a heart related medical scare.

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Speaker 1: Man, rest up, Barry and be well.

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Speaker 2: There's some running back news there to close down the show,

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Speaker 2: and a big thanks to everybody on this show. Thank

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Speaker 2: you to Mark Vandermier, to Matt Taylor, Voice to the Colts,

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Speaker 2: MJ Stewart, Cat stover.

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Speaker 1: All of you've for listened. My guys back at six ' ten.

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Speaker 1: We'll see them all, everybody, and as always, go Texans.