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Speaker 1: I had an electric conversation with wide Receiver Alec Pierce.

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Speaker 1: We got into some technique stuff with him playing wide receiver.

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Speaker 1: It was awesome. Alec was great, Really enjoyed that conversation.

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Speaker 1: here on the Colt Show with wide Receiver Alec Pierce.

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Speaker 1: How you doing?

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Speaker 2: Man? Good? All right?

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Speaker 1: I want to start here the big catch Tyler Warren

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Speaker 1: had in Week two against Denver. You're running a go

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Speaker 1: route on Riley Moss and you faked like the ball

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah that's something. Why just you know, like I know,

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Speaker 3: I'm running them off and yeah, I mean instead of

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Speaker 3: they just keep running they think the ball's coming.

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Speaker 1: Though I've never I mean, I'm sure I've like seen it,

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Speaker 3: Like yeah, you know, when you're in the when you're

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Speaker 2: He probably like Okay, something just happened there.

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Speaker 3: And it was like I was like, if he's a

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Speaker 1: I was gonna say that that sounds like a Reggie

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Speaker 3: I like. I like the way he looks at like,

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Speaker 3: So I faked the way he kind of just breaks

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Speaker 3: just I just set the line, tried to kind of

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Speaker 1: What that versatility has to come a lot on selfishness though.

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Speaker 1: The way you're talking about this, this is completely like

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you put the work in, you do it's already

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Speaker 1: been done. Yeah. What is something that people may not

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Speaker 2: Uh, Man, He's he's good at He's good.

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Speaker 3: At a lot of sports. Like we play. He likes uh,

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Speaker 1: I mean he's a he's a really good.

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Speaker 1: It's funny, Carolina lacks bro Daniel.

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Speaker 3: Yeah literally literally we Uh it's funny. Over the summer

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Speaker 3: same thing like that does it because those balls go forever? Right,

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Speaker 2: And I'm like he's like, yeah, never never fails.

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Speaker 1: So that's a sport. I have no idea how to play,

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Speaker 3: So I'm a big I was talking with h Coleman Owen,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we're talking about sports or something. I don't know

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Speaker 3: Somebody's like, I didn't play baseball, and I'm like, let

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Speaker 3: I feel like it translates really well to playing receiver.

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Speaker 3: It's because a lot of times you see lacrosse like

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Speaker 1: I love this because you grew up playing a lot

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: I think I think it just develops you as an

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Speaker 3: in my in my football game just with like attacking

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Speaker 3: I played I played cetter. They were training me for

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Speaker 1: The ball all the time, right, that's it weren't an

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Speaker 3: No, it's it's it's true, it's true. But yeah, volleyball, volleyballs.

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Speaker 1: You know, does that look like a high schooler? Did

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Speaker 3: Whether it's like my biggest I always tell people to

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Speaker 2: You really can't teach speed.

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Speaker 3: But I think as a young as a young age,

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Speaker 3: if you start running track, it's only going to help

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Speaker 3: Like it's it's I have a lot of respect for

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Speaker 3: I always tell people to run track. That's always like

436
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Speaker 3: my biggest, my biggest advice to like young kids, what

437
00:18:54,160 --> 00:18:57,760
Speaker 3: was your track event? I was probably best at, like

438
00:18:58,280 --> 00:19:01,080
Speaker 3: triple jump, which kind of random. I didn't do a

439
00:19:01,080 --> 00:19:02,840
Speaker 3: ton of it, and I did a lot a lot

440
00:19:02,880 --> 00:19:05,280
Speaker 3: in middle school. So I only ran track my senior

441
00:19:05,359 --> 00:19:07,480
Speaker 3: year of high school because I was playing volleyball in

442
00:19:07,520 --> 00:19:08,240
Speaker 3: my first three years.

443
00:19:09,320 --> 00:19:10,840
Speaker 2: But I did a ton in middle school.

444
00:19:11,240 --> 00:19:13,200
Speaker 3: So I got good at triple jump in middle school,

445
00:19:13,960 --> 00:19:15,840
Speaker 3: and then I came back to track my senior year

446
00:19:15,840 --> 00:19:17,760
Speaker 3: and I was like, too, like triple jumps kind of

447
00:19:17,760 --> 00:19:19,679
Speaker 3: a lot on your knees and body and stuff like that.

448
00:19:19,800 --> 00:19:22,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I was very Uh.

449
00:19:22,280 --> 00:19:25,400
Speaker 3: I didn't want to do triple jump when my coach

450
00:19:25,520 --> 00:19:27,240
Speaker 3: was my coach was one of my football coaches. He

451
00:19:27,280 --> 00:19:28,600
Speaker 3: was kind of with me. He was like, he's like,

452
00:19:28,640 --> 00:19:30,440
Speaker 3: let's not do triple jump. It's a lot in your body.

453
00:19:30,440 --> 00:19:32,280
Speaker 3: Like I don't want you to, like you're going in

454
00:19:32,320 --> 00:19:34,560
Speaker 3: to go play college football in a month or two here,

455
00:19:34,680 --> 00:19:36,480
Speaker 3: Like I don't want you to like hurt your knee

456
00:19:36,520 --> 00:19:38,800
Speaker 3: or anything like that, because you know, I was bulking

457
00:19:38,880 --> 00:19:41,120
Speaker 3: up for football and I think you want to be real,

458
00:19:41,200 --> 00:19:43,960
Speaker 3: like real slim and in light to run. It's a

459
00:19:43,960 --> 00:19:46,240
Speaker 3: lot of a lot of weight on your knees and stuff.

460
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Speaker 3: So but I ended up doing it. It was actually

461
00:19:50,240 --> 00:19:53,680
Speaker 3: because conference. So oak Park wins every suburban Silver oak

462
00:19:53,680 --> 00:19:58,440
Speaker 3: Park wins every year, and yeah we uh, I think

463
00:19:58,480 --> 00:19:59,920
Speaker 3: I think they went every year. Maybe them are you

464
00:20:00,080 --> 00:20:02,400
Speaker 3: or something, But like Glamber Weston never we didn't win.

465
00:20:02,640 --> 00:20:04,960
Speaker 3: I don't know if we'd ever won track conference. And

466
00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:07,040
Speaker 3: we didn't end up winning. We were super super close.

467
00:20:07,080 --> 00:20:10,560
Speaker 3: But going into that conference event, my coach looked at

468
00:20:10,560 --> 00:20:12,840
Speaker 3: it and he was like he was like triple jump.

469
00:20:12,880 --> 00:20:14,320
Speaker 3: There's He's like, there's no one in. He's like, they

470
00:20:14,359 --> 00:20:17,239
Speaker 3: got one good guy from oak Park, Like he's you know,

471
00:20:17,480 --> 00:20:19,720
Speaker 3: he's gonna win conference. But he's like, you go out

472
00:20:19,720 --> 00:20:21,800
Speaker 3: there and you He's like, I know, you haven't an

473
00:20:21,800 --> 00:20:23,159
Speaker 3: triple jump all year, but like you go out there

474
00:20:23,200 --> 00:20:25,480
Speaker 3: and put a good number up, like you'll get second place.

475
00:20:26,640 --> 00:20:28,440
Speaker 2: You know, we'll take to whatever the eight points or

476
00:20:28,440 --> 00:20:28,959
Speaker 2: whatever it is.

477
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Speaker 3: And I'm like, all right, like I love doing triple dumb,

478
00:20:31,920 --> 00:20:35,080
Speaker 3: I'll get a shot, right, And I went out there

479
00:20:35,840 --> 00:20:38,200
Speaker 3: and I beat I beat the kid from Oak Park

480
00:20:39,119 --> 00:20:41,840
Speaker 3: and then it was like, so I was like, did that.

481
00:20:42,200 --> 00:20:43,960
Speaker 3: And then we went to I think sectionals the next

482
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Speaker 3: week and then State. So I think I I think

483
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Speaker 3: I jumped triple jump like like three, like two times

484
00:20:49,200 --> 00:20:51,640
Speaker 3: all year or something three times all year, and every

485
00:20:51,720 --> 00:20:53,600
Speaker 3: jump I'd go like, do you get three jumps at

486
00:20:53,640 --> 00:20:53,920
Speaker 3: a track?

487
00:20:53,960 --> 00:20:54,000
Speaker 2: Me?

488
00:20:54,119 --> 00:20:57,240
Speaker 3: Right, it's like conference, Like every jump would go like

489
00:20:57,280 --> 00:20:59,959
Speaker 3: maybe like six inches farther and then go to like

490
00:21:00,080 --> 00:21:02,880
Speaker 3: sectionals and you just get better on every single jump.

491
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Speaker 3: And I got to State and I was in like

492
00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:07,560
Speaker 3: one like the lower flight. I think they had like

493
00:21:07,600 --> 00:21:10,800
Speaker 3: three flights or something, and maybe you advance the next day,

494
00:21:10,840 --> 00:21:12,399
Speaker 3: and like you know, most of the guys are just

495
00:21:12,400 --> 00:21:13,920
Speaker 3: just the guys from the top flight that advanced the

496
00:21:13,960 --> 00:21:15,159
Speaker 3: next day. And I was like from like one of

497
00:21:15,200 --> 00:21:18,160
Speaker 3: the lower ones and I, I, you know, probably broke

498
00:21:18,200 --> 00:21:21,080
Speaker 3: my school record or something. And I went to the

499
00:21:21,119 --> 00:21:24,160
Speaker 3: finals if doing like five like probably like six jumps

500
00:21:24,200 --> 00:21:26,520
Speaker 3: all year or something, and it was it was in

501
00:21:26,560 --> 00:21:28,920
Speaker 3: the finals. The finals is the only time I cause

502
00:21:28,920 --> 00:21:31,399
Speaker 3: I remember every jump I was going farther and the

503
00:21:31,440 --> 00:21:33,560
Speaker 3: finals that's when it finally stopped and I was I

504
00:21:33,600 --> 00:21:35,800
Speaker 3: was close. I was, like I want to say, I

505
00:21:35,840 --> 00:21:37,639
Speaker 3: was within. It was like a down year, like they

506
00:21:37,640 --> 00:21:40,520
Speaker 3: didn't normally every year because triple jun was pretty like niche,

507
00:21:40,920 --> 00:21:44,000
Speaker 3: you know, I feel like they don't have like like

508
00:21:44,560 --> 00:21:46,480
Speaker 3: I was looking back at the results from years past

509
00:21:46,520 --> 00:21:48,119
Speaker 3: and there would be like a guy who's going to

510
00:21:48,200 --> 00:21:51,160
Speaker 3: like a big SEC school who beat everyone by four feet,

511
00:21:51,160 --> 00:21:52,840
Speaker 3: you know, yeah, And they didn't have a guy like

512
00:21:52,880 --> 00:21:55,080
Speaker 3: that this year. So like I was within, Like I

513
00:21:55,080 --> 00:21:56,960
Speaker 3: want to say, I was within like six inches or

514
00:21:57,000 --> 00:21:58,480
Speaker 3: like ten inches of winning state.

515
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Speaker 1: And that's insane.

516
00:21:59,280 --> 00:22:00,000
Speaker 2: The triple jump, yea.

517
00:22:00,080 --> 00:22:02,119
Speaker 3: And it was like and I told you, I was

518
00:22:02,160 --> 00:22:05,159
Speaker 3: improving every single jump, And I got to the the

519
00:22:05,560 --> 00:22:08,399
Speaker 3: final day and they just used my marks from the

520
00:22:08,480 --> 00:22:10,240
Speaker 3: day before because the problem is I was doing I

521
00:22:10,280 --> 00:22:11,800
Speaker 3: was doing four events out there so and it was

522
00:22:11,800 --> 00:22:13,359
Speaker 3: like one hundred degrees. I think I just got a

523
00:22:13,359 --> 00:22:15,920
Speaker 3: well the fatigue started to hit in a little bit,

524
00:22:15,960 --> 00:22:18,600
Speaker 3: but uh yeah, I would love to go back and

525
00:22:18,640 --> 00:22:20,240
Speaker 3: look at I think I got like six or seven

526
00:22:20,280 --> 00:22:24,600
Speaker 3: place in the state, but and having done like no

527
00:22:24,720 --> 00:22:27,959
Speaker 3: pri like yeah doing it doing like yeah, probably probably

528
00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:29,600
Speaker 3: under ten jumps on the season.

529
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Speaker 1: And yeah, like you said, that's a niche thing, like.

530
00:22:32,080 --> 00:22:32,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it was cool.

531
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Speaker 3: The thing is the thing that was like I just

532
00:22:35,880 --> 00:22:38,679
Speaker 3: remember being like, man, I was within like it was

533
00:22:38,680 --> 00:22:41,360
Speaker 3: definitely underfoot. I think everyone was in like forty six

534
00:22:41,440 --> 00:22:43,800
Speaker 3: some feet and I was like right there. I was

535
00:22:43,840 --> 00:22:45,560
Speaker 3: like I could I could have won state if I

536
00:22:45,600 --> 00:22:47,560
Speaker 3: just would have took the seriously a little you know.

537
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Speaker 1: Uh, this might be kind of a dumb question, but

538
00:22:51,240 --> 00:22:54,760
Speaker 1: like did you realize like in that moment, like I'm

539
00:22:54,760 --> 00:22:56,600
Speaker 1: a really good athlete, Like did it like hitting you

540
00:22:56,600 --> 00:22:57,160
Speaker 1: all like.

541
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Speaker 2: I I mean, I don't. I wouldn't say in that moment.

542
00:23:02,960 --> 00:23:05,200
Speaker 3: I always loved like triple jump, and I was always

543
00:23:05,359 --> 00:23:09,120
Speaker 3: like like in middle school, like no, like I don't

544
00:23:09,119 --> 00:23:11,240
Speaker 3: think anyone ever beat me in the triple jump, right,

545
00:23:11,280 --> 00:23:14,280
Speaker 3: it was that was like kind of my event doing track,

546
00:23:14,480 --> 00:23:15,360
Speaker 3: and I love track.

547
00:23:15,480 --> 00:23:17,280
Speaker 2: It was always a great time for me. I would

548
00:23:17,320 --> 00:23:18,200
Speaker 2: do like one hundred to.

549
00:23:18,119 --> 00:23:21,320
Speaker 3: Two hundred and sometimes four hundred long jump, triple jump.

550
00:23:21,800 --> 00:23:23,680
Speaker 3: And then you know, if you're doing all the sprints,

551
00:23:23,680 --> 00:23:25,720
Speaker 3: you're doing the relays and stuff. So that's what in

552
00:23:25,880 --> 00:23:28,359
Speaker 3: in high school, we were running all the relayed, like

553
00:23:28,359 --> 00:23:30,040
Speaker 3: we went down state four by one, four x two,

554
00:23:30,080 --> 00:23:32,439
Speaker 3: four by four was what we're really there to do.

555
00:23:32,480 --> 00:23:34,639
Speaker 3: And then I was like, you can do four events.

556
00:23:34,840 --> 00:23:36,359
Speaker 3: I call if I have a triple jump, and like,

557
00:23:36,600 --> 00:23:40,320
Speaker 3: let's see where the thing goes, right, But yeah, and

558
00:23:40,440 --> 00:23:43,600
Speaker 3: I I don't know. I don't know if that that

559
00:23:43,720 --> 00:23:46,040
Speaker 3: made me reals was a good athlete or that.

560
00:23:46,200 --> 00:23:48,520
Speaker 1: Then it's just funny because like I think about going

561
00:23:48,560 --> 00:23:50,800
Speaker 1: back to like, you know, my like the kids who

562
00:23:50,840 --> 00:23:53,119
Speaker 1: I grew up around. Yeah, and like there's this one

563
00:23:53,200 --> 00:23:55,080
Speaker 1: kid who through like ninety miles an hour is like

564
00:23:55,080 --> 00:23:57,080
Speaker 1: a seth grater and it was like, oh, he's he's

565
00:23:57,119 --> 00:23:59,080
Speaker 1: going you know, he's gonna go to Major League Baseball.

566
00:23:59,119 --> 00:24:02,159
Speaker 1: And like I remember in like eight eighth grade yearbooks,

567
00:24:02,359 --> 00:24:04,240
Speaker 1: everyone's going for this kid, Hey, sign my yearbook. This

568
00:24:04,320 --> 00:24:07,080
Speaker 1: might be worth something someday. And there's Evan Turner over there.

569
00:24:07,480 --> 00:24:10,040
Speaker 1: He's just like yeah cool. You know, guy goes he's

570
00:24:10,080 --> 00:24:11,960
Speaker 1: the second overall pick in the NBA, and it's like,

571
00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:13,399
Speaker 1: you know, no one thought at that moment he was

572
00:24:13,400 --> 00:24:15,800
Speaker 1: gonna do that. Amon Shumpet's a year behind us. Yeah,

573
00:24:17,359 --> 00:24:19,439
Speaker 1: were you the only like pro athlete to come out

574
00:24:19,440 --> 00:24:24,480
Speaker 1: of Gunbard like in your your general sphere there obviously

575
00:24:24,480 --> 00:24:26,600
Speaker 1: your brothers, you know.

576
00:24:26,640 --> 00:24:31,800
Speaker 3: I'm trying to think if we had.

577
00:24:31,400 --> 00:24:32,080
Speaker 2: We had a lot.

578
00:24:32,119 --> 00:24:34,720
Speaker 3: There was a lot of talented guys, especially my my

579
00:24:34,800 --> 00:24:35,720
Speaker 3: older brother's class.

580
00:24:36,960 --> 00:24:39,280
Speaker 2: We had like a was Chris.

581
00:24:39,160 --> 00:24:40,800
Speaker 1: Watt and your older brother's class or is he a.

582
00:24:40,800 --> 00:24:43,720
Speaker 2: Little no Chris Watts. Chris Watt's probably like like five.

583
00:24:43,640 --> 00:24:47,080
Speaker 1: Years Okay, assistant offensive line coach Chris Watt.

584
00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:51,359
Speaker 3: But I'm trying to think if there's anyone we actually

585
00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:55,000
Speaker 3: had a kid. We had a kid from Glenbard, West.

586
00:24:56,000 --> 00:24:57,560
Speaker 3: I know at least I went to elementary school with

587
00:24:57,600 --> 00:24:59,960
Speaker 3: him and he was in the Winter Olympics. Okay, speech

588
00:25:00,840 --> 00:25:04,800
Speaker 3: speed skater, awesome, Yeah, so there there's one. There's yeah,

589
00:25:04,840 --> 00:25:06,439
Speaker 3: But we always had kind of like random like we

590
00:25:06,480 --> 00:25:09,040
Speaker 3: had a really but there was a girl that was

591
00:25:09,080 --> 00:25:11,120
Speaker 3: really really good at long distance running. I don't think

592
00:25:11,160 --> 00:25:14,480
Speaker 3: she ended up having like a you know, like like

593
00:25:14,560 --> 00:25:18,280
Speaker 3: all American college career, but she she was like kind

594
00:25:18,280 --> 00:25:20,160
Speaker 3: of like the like number one runner in the country

595
00:25:20,200 --> 00:25:21,080
Speaker 3: coming out of high school.

596
00:25:21,080 --> 00:25:22,399
Speaker 2: I think she went to Michigan.

597
00:25:23,720 --> 00:25:26,480
Speaker 3: And then, like my brother's class had they did the

598
00:25:26,520 --> 00:25:29,880
Speaker 3: Gator Player of the Year for football, Sam Brodner running.

599
00:25:29,960 --> 00:25:31,119
Speaker 2: Yeah, he was.

600
00:25:31,200 --> 00:25:33,119
Speaker 3: He was like, he was incredible. He went to actually

601
00:25:33,119 --> 00:25:35,200
Speaker 3: talked with Jonathan Taylor about him. He went to Wisconsin

602
00:25:35,640 --> 00:25:38,480
Speaker 3: and just unfortunately for him, he towards a cl his

603
00:25:38,760 --> 00:25:42,600
Speaker 3: uh his freshman year, and then the class behind him

604
00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:44,280
Speaker 3: was Jonathan Taylor, so I think he was so he

605
00:25:44,359 --> 00:25:46,760
Speaker 3: red shirted and then he's coming and going into camp

606
00:25:46,800 --> 00:25:48,720
Speaker 3: to battle for that running back spot. And you know

607
00:25:49,240 --> 00:25:52,400
Speaker 3: it sounded like JT went three years and got every

608
00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:53,160
Speaker 3: single carry.

609
00:25:52,960 --> 00:25:54,520
Speaker 2: Out a yeah.

610
00:25:54,640 --> 00:25:56,639
Speaker 3: So so that was that was the tough like he

611
00:25:56,720 --> 00:26:00,080
Speaker 3: kind of got stuck behind JT. And then yeah, my

612
00:26:00,080 --> 00:26:03,800
Speaker 3: my brothers, you know, both of them. Oh, we'll see

613
00:26:04,119 --> 00:26:07,920
Speaker 3: in Cage's class. So my little brother kaid his one

614
00:26:07,920 --> 00:26:10,240
Speaker 3: of his one of his good buddies is playing at Gonzaga.

615
00:26:11,200 --> 00:26:14,119
Speaker 3: Brandon Huff he was he was mister basketball for Illinois. Okay,

616
00:26:14,320 --> 00:26:17,320
Speaker 3: so he's I mean he's like six to eleven. He's good,

617
00:26:17,440 --> 00:26:18,879
Speaker 3: really good shoot, good player.

618
00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:22,240
Speaker 1: Is he related to the pacer center Jay Huff He's not. Okay,

619
00:26:22,320 --> 00:26:25,200
Speaker 1: he's not. But no, he's a big guy with the

620
00:26:25,240 --> 00:26:25,960
Speaker 1: last name of Huff.

621
00:26:26,040 --> 00:26:28,960
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I mean you go play Gonzaga, We'll see me.

622
00:26:29,080 --> 00:26:29,240
Speaker 3: Yeah.

623
00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:31,119
Speaker 2: Maybe he cants the NBA or something. You know, he

624
00:26:31,720 --> 00:26:32,560
Speaker 2: definitely play what's up?

625
00:26:32,600 --> 00:26:37,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, we could go down this suburban Chicago

626
00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:40,199
Speaker 1: athletic rabbit hole. It was like, yeah, it's hard to

627
00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:42,680
Speaker 1: identify as like a high schooler like this guy's definitely

628
00:26:42,720 --> 00:26:45,159
Speaker 1: gonna make the pros and sure, you know it just

629
00:26:45,240 --> 00:26:47,800
Speaker 1: all that development that it takes. Like I guess that

630
00:26:47,880 --> 00:26:49,399
Speaker 1: the last thing to end it on here is like

631
00:26:50,040 --> 00:26:51,639
Speaker 1: when people come up to you you do the you know,

632
00:26:51,640 --> 00:26:54,320
Speaker 1: the youth football camp back in Glen Ellen, when kids

633
00:26:54,320 --> 00:26:55,520
Speaker 1: come up to you and they say, hey, what does

634
00:26:55,560 --> 00:26:58,159
Speaker 1: it take to make it to the pros, Like to

635
00:26:58,200 --> 00:26:59,919
Speaker 1: make it in the NFL. You've been in it for

636
00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:02,239
Speaker 1: four years now, Yeah, what's like maybe the first thing

637
00:27:02,280 --> 00:27:03,959
Speaker 1: that like pops into your head to tell kids when

638
00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:04,520
Speaker 1: they ask you.

639
00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:09,720
Speaker 3: That, Yeah, I think the biggest thing of making it one,

640
00:27:09,760 --> 00:27:13,879
Speaker 3: you gotta get here, which which takes a lot in college,

641
00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:17,560
Speaker 3: and you know, there's obviously a lot of things that

642
00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:20,520
Speaker 3: go into it too, like COMMA, I feel like the

643
00:27:20,600 --> 00:27:22,400
Speaker 3: COMBA and all that stuff. Like it's it's a lot

644
00:27:22,440 --> 00:27:25,520
Speaker 3: about your athletic profile, and some people might just be

645
00:27:26,359 --> 00:27:28,200
Speaker 3: might might not, might not make it out the gate

646
00:27:28,240 --> 00:27:30,520
Speaker 3: off off that, right, but then you gotta you know,

647
00:27:30,640 --> 00:27:32,399
Speaker 3: do well in college. But then I think once you

648
00:27:32,640 --> 00:27:35,439
Speaker 3: get in the league, I think the biggest thing is

649
00:27:35,480 --> 00:27:41,080
Speaker 3: like consistency and just being like kind of on top

650
00:27:41,119 --> 00:27:43,520
Speaker 3: of things in terms of just like your routines.

651
00:27:43,520 --> 00:27:44,960
Speaker 2: And stuff like that, because you gotta.

652
00:27:45,840 --> 00:27:47,679
Speaker 3: It took me a little while to understand, but like

653
00:27:47,760 --> 00:27:52,400
Speaker 3: every day you're being evaluated, you know, like practice practice

654
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Speaker 3: is essentially got to treat it like the game because

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Speaker 3: you got there. Like tomorrow, we'll have a Wednesday practice

656
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Speaker 3: and we'll run our plays for that. We're preparing for

657
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Speaker 3: the Titans, right, And if I go out there and

658
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Speaker 3: don't run good routes or don't make the plays like

659
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Speaker 3: they're not, they're gonna be way less likely to run

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Speaker 3: those plays in the game than they are.

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Speaker 2: So it's like it's basically like you're the week.

662
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Speaker 3: The in the the practice week is almost like your

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Speaker 3: tryout for Sunday to get those plays called up. So

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Speaker 3: you gotta build your you gotta build your CONFI you

665
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Speaker 3: got to build the coach's confidence in you and in

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Speaker 3: your your abilities to like call that play on Sunday.

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Speaker 1: So awesome From Cincinnati wide receiver number fourteen, Alex Pierce,

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Speaker 1: this is great man, a lot about triple jumps and.

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Speaker 2: Triple jones West suburbans suburban Chicago.

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Speaker 1: I resisted asking you your Portillo's order. Uh. Shout out

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Speaker 1: to Maggie Evers back there, communications coordinator, also Chicago.

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Speaker 2: We're well represented out here.

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Speaker 1: We resisted a Partillo's conversation. Thanks to the time Alec.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate appreciate it all right back here on the Cold Show.

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Speaker 1: Thanks again to wide receiver Alec Pearce for joining me

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Speaker 1: here on the pod. Great conversation. Again. I tried to

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Speaker 1: keep the like the suburban Chicago stuff to a minimum,

678
00:28:58,280 --> 00:29:00,360
Speaker 1: but it's kind of tough one Like Ali quent to

679
00:29:00,400 --> 00:29:03,040
Speaker 1: high school in the same conference of my high school

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Speaker 1: outside of Chicago, So again, try to keep it to

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Speaker 1: a minimum. But learned a lot about Alec in that conversation.

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Speaker 1: It was great. All right, Let's get to the Colts

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Speaker 1: Dylan Dernal writes for this week's mail bag question, Daniel

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Speaker 1: Jones has shown great improvements during the first two weeks

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Speaker 1: of the season. Do you believe he can be good

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Speaker 1: enough to get the Colts back into the playoffs? Will

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Speaker 1: he be like Sam Darnald and be a better QB

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Speaker 1: with a better system around him? All Right? So I've

693
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Speaker 1: talked about this a decent amount on the pod, like

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Speaker 1: even going back to preseason, where I kind of was like,

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Speaker 1: I don't know if Sam Darnold's all that good of

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Speaker 1: a comparison. I think the guy I was looking at

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Speaker 1: was Ryan Tannehill with what he did in Tennessee. But

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Speaker 1: I did I was like, Okay, if we're talking about

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Speaker 1: Donald here, what did he do to start last year?

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Speaker 1: Is what I wanted to know, Like, did Sam Donald

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Speaker 1: get right out of the gate with Minnesota and play

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Speaker 1: better than we had ever seen Sam Donald play in

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Speaker 1: his NFL career? The answer is yes. Sam Donald last

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Speaker 1: year in his first four games completed sixty nine percent

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Speaker 1: of his passes, with eleven touchdowns, three picks, and a

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Speaker 1: passer rating of one hundred and eighteen point nine. He

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Speaker 1: averaged eight point eight yards per attempt. It turns out

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Speaker 1: like that was a sign of things to come for

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Speaker 1: Sam Donald. Last year with the Vikings, he had fourteen

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Speaker 1: games of the passer rating over one hundred. In his

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Speaker 1: previous sixty eight games, so that's from twenty eighteen to

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, he had twelve games with a passer

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Speaker 1: rating over one hundred, so that fast start he was

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Speaker 1: able to replicate that as the season went on. Daniel

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Speaker 1: Jones he has one hundred and eleven point one passer

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Speaker 1: rating through his first two games. That is the highest

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Speaker 1: in a two game span in his entire NFL career.

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Speaker 1: His nine point three yards per attempt over these first

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Speaker 1: two games is the second highest in a two game span,

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Speaker 1: and he's only taken two sacks. That's the fourth fewest

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Speaker 1: amount of sacks he's taken in any two game span.

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Speaker 1: So like this, this is not just to start a season.

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Speaker 1: This is like any two game span of Daniel Jones' career,

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Speaker 1: So can he continue it? I think what we saw

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Speaker 1: against Denver is a really strong indicator that he can.

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Speaker 1: And it's because that Denver defense they marry rush and

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Speaker 1: coverage better than like most defenses in the NFL. Right, Like,

728
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Speaker 1: they've got goblins up front who get after the court

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Speaker 1: like Nick Benito and Jonathan Cooper and Zach Allen and

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Speaker 1: these guys are They're a great pass rushing unit, so

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Speaker 1: they'll get after you rushing five and then playing tight

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Speaker 1: man coverage. But up behind it with a guy like

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Speaker 1: Pats or Tan the Second who's one of the best

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Speaker 1: cornerbacks in the NFL. And Daniel Jones, he was blitzed

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Speaker 1: and like Pro Football Focus council does a blitz when

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Speaker 1: you send five. But like Rick Venturrey and I had

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Speaker 1: this conversation before the game on Sunday, like I don't

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Speaker 1: know if like I call it, the Broncos are doing

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Speaker 1: like true blitzing because there are three down front and

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Speaker 1: they just send their two outside linebackers whatever it is.

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Speaker 1: They're sending a ton of five man pressures as you

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Speaker 1: would expect, and Daniel Jones did a good job mitigating

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Speaker 1: that with the offensive line, with Jonathan Taylor, who has

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Speaker 1: been freaking nails as a run block as a pass protector,

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Speaker 1: I should say, um, Daniel Jones did a good job

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Speaker 1: mitigating that and not getting under pressure a whole lot

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Speaker 1: when he was under pressure. That was on nineteen of

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Speaker 1: his thirty eight dropbacks, he went eight to fifteen for

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Speaker 1: one hundred and two yards. He scrambled three times and

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Speaker 1: he was only sacked once. So baseline, you're not getting

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Speaker 1: a bunch of negative plays like his. I think quarterbacks

752
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Speaker 1: who take a ton of sacks those are drive killers.

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Speaker 1: Sacks are drive killers, and Daniel Jones didn't do a

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Speaker 1: whole lot of that. He's able to scramble, and maybe

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Speaker 1: he didn't gain a ton of yards when he scrambled,

756
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Speaker 1: but again, you're not getting the negative plays. And then

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Speaker 1: going eight to fifteen for one hundred and two yards,

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Speaker 1: it's not like, you know, the most impressive total, but

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Speaker 1: under pressure against that Denver defense, that is impressive. He

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Speaker 1: didn't throw the ball into harm's way, and he was

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Speaker 1: accurate when he needed to be. I mean that the

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Speaker 1: last throw he made to Alec Pearson that third and six,

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Speaker 1: where Pierce runs the shell across that we talked about

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Speaker 1: in the interview with him, Like Jones is getting pressure

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Speaker 1: from Nick Benito to his left on his blindside and

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Speaker 1: he's just he's buying enough time and he gets to

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Speaker 1: throw off. Those things are sustainable, they're not like well,

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Speaker 1: Shane Steikeen schemed it up and it was easy. Daniel

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Speaker 1: Jones made a number of really freaking hard throws in

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Speaker 1: Week two, like his first throw of the game to

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Speaker 1: Josh Downs. I asked Jim Bob Kuter about it on

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Speaker 1: Tuesday and Jim Bob goes, oh, yeah, that was He

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Speaker 1: just kind of did one of those like that was

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Speaker 1: one of those throws that like gets you to sit

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Speaker 1: up in your seat a little bit, type of like,

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Speaker 1: you know, the way he talked about it. These things

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Speaker 1: are Daniel Jones playing quarterback. It's not well. Shane Steikeen

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Speaker 1: schemed it up and it worked. It was Daniel Jones

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Speaker 1: protected himself, he avoided pressure, he got the Colts in

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Speaker 1: the right protection look, and then he was able to

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Speaker 1: distribute the ball to the guys he needed to get

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Speaker 1: the ball to. He pushed the ball downfield a ton

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Speaker 1: in this game, I mean like five times. Maybe I

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Speaker 1: don't know if I would call it a ton actually,

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Speaker 1: but like he did it in situations where it didn't

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Speaker 1: necessarily call for it, Like it wasn't like a design

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Speaker 1: shot play, and he's buying time and he's trying to

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Speaker 1: get the ball deep to Ady Mitchell. He hits Alec

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Speaker 1: on that one to Riley Moss where Riley Moss is

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Speaker 1: in coverage where he gets JT in the right protection

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Speaker 1: look blocking Singleton coming in through the B gap and

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Speaker 1: he gets that pass off. A really tremendous play all

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Speaker 1: around there. I don't know. I think you're seeing things

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Speaker 1: that are sustainable. The question then is like what will

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Speaker 1: teams start throwing at the Colts going forward? And I

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Speaker 1: don't know. I mean, he's passed some tests against teams

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Speaker 1: that are gonna blitz a lot. Miami blitzed him a

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Speaker 1: ton Denver again it technically, I guess it counts as

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Speaker 1: a blitz, but they sent a lot of five man pressures, right,

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Speaker 1: Can he do it against a team that maybe is

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Speaker 1: going to say, maybe we're not gonna blitz him a

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Speaker 1: whole lot because he's shown that he can beat it.

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Speaker 1: Now that might be the next sort of iteration of

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Speaker 1: this Colts offense that you need to go through with

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Speaker 1: Daniel Jones is okay, can he beat a team when

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Speaker 1: they're not going to blitz you? Because the book on

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Speaker 1: Daniel Jones was if you do blitz him, he's going

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Speaker 1: to struggle at least with New York. And I think

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Speaker 1: you're seeing with a good offensive line, a running back

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Speaker 1: who has been awesome in pass protection. Like, seriously, I

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Speaker 1: cannot emphasize that enough, how good Jonathan Taylor has been

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Speaker 1: in that aspect of his game. And receivers who are

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Speaker 1: getting open, they're getting open on time, they're making plays

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Speaker 1: with the ball in their hands after the catch. It's

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Speaker 1: just a really good, just kind of collective group on

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Speaker 1: offense right now. So yeah, we'll see how it kind

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Speaker 1: of changes going forward. All right, let's look ahead to

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Speaker 1: Tennessee again real quick on the mail bag again, thanks

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Speaker 1: to Dylan for his question. I would be remiss if

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Speaker 1: I didn't say, get your questions in here in the

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Speaker 1: YouTube comments on Colts dot Com, slash mailbag on social media.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's look ahead to Tennessee because I did

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Speaker 1: a little dive into them today and if you look

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Speaker 1: at their offense, it is not good. They're thirtieth in

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00:36:13,120 --> 00:36:16,560
Speaker 1: points per game, fifteen point five, dead last in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: They are averaging three point two yards per play. That

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Speaker 1: is not good. They're thirty first in ep april play.

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Speaker 1: They are last in success rate. They're getting successful gains

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Speaker 1: on just twenty seven percent of their plays. I mean,

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Speaker 1: think about that. That's like you're getting a three and

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Speaker 1: out pretty much every time. If that's like what you're doing.

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Speaker 1: They've scored one touchdown all season, one touchdown. They have turnovers,

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Speaker 1: by the way, Houston, the Houston Texans, they only have

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Speaker 1: two touchdowns this season. The Titans are thirty first on

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Speaker 1: third down. They're twenty seventh in penalty rate. They're getting

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Speaker 1: flagged a lot. They're making it hard on cam Ward.

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Speaker 1: But I and cam Ward real quick, Like just his

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Speaker 1: stats this year, thirty one and sixty one two eighty

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Speaker 1: seven yards. He's only attempted three passes of twenty plus

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Speaker 1: are yards, which, like, when you watch him play, I

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00:37:05,840 --> 00:37:10,080
Speaker 1: was kind of surprised by that. He's been sacked eleven times,

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Speaker 1: that's the most in the NFL through two games. But

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Speaker 1: here's here's the thing, cam Ward, if you just like

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Speaker 1: turn on the film with this guy. It does not

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Speaker 1: match the stats. And I asked lou Anarumo specifically if

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Speaker 1: he thinks like the stats match the film, And what

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Speaker 1: lu said is, I mean, the first thing you do

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Speaker 1: as a coordinator is you go and you look at

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Speaker 1: the film and then maybe you you check out some

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Speaker 1: of the stats. And what Luenarumo said he sees in

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Speaker 1: cam Ward is he sees the fields field well, and

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Speaker 1: he's very aggressive. He knows when to be aggressive and

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Speaker 1: when not to be aggressive. The stats don't match the tape.

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Speaker 1: That is the number one takeaway I got from hearing

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Speaker 1: Louannarumo talk is that whatever you're gonna see from cam

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00:37:50,120 --> 00:37:52,520
Speaker 1: Ward with his stats going into this game, it does

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Speaker 1: not match the tape. And all you gotta do is

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Speaker 1: go look at that that pass he had where he

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00:37:57,040 --> 00:37:59,879
Speaker 1: rolls out to his right against La he somehow gets

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Speaker 1: to throw off across his body across the entire field.

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00:38:03,440 --> 00:38:07,680
Speaker 1: It's ridiculous arm strength, ridiculous arm talent. Elk Iaminor makes

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Speaker 1: the catch in the end zone for a touchdown, just

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00:38:09,360 --> 00:38:11,640
Speaker 1: like an insane play that he can make. So you

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Speaker 1: gotta be aware that he can make plays outside of structure.

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Speaker 1: As a defense, and you know, you think about the

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Speaker 1: big one bo Nicks had Detroit Franklin down the nearest

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Speaker 1: sideline in week two. Gotta be aware that cam Ward

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Speaker 1: can go make a play like that as well, that

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Speaker 1: could flip this game. The other thing I just want

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Speaker 1: to say about Week three, weird stuff happens in week

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Speaker 1: three like all the time. I don't know, I don't

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Speaker 1: know if there's like confirmation bias on my part, but

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Speaker 1: like I just think about Week three. And in twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty three, the Indianapolis Colts went to Baltimore on the

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Speaker 1: road and they beat Lamar Jackson in the Baltimore Ravens

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Speaker 1: in a game where Zack Moss caught a touchdown on

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Speaker 1: a wheel route, Matt Gay hit what four fifty plus

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Speaker 1: yard field goals in that game. They blitzed the heck

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Speaker 1: out of Lamar Jackson and like that and wound up

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00:39:00,640 --> 00:39:02,359
Speaker 1: being a weird game if you look at it at

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Speaker 1: the end of the year where Baltimore is going to

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Speaker 1: the AFC Championship and the Colts just barely missed the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: But other weird stuff has happened in Week three, like

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two, maybe that was the thing that

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Speaker 1: came up in your mind if you're watching this or

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Speaker 1: listening to this as a Colts fan. The Indianapolis Colts

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Speaker 1: beat the Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs in Week

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Speaker 1: three of the twenty twenty two season. Julanni Woods had

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Speaker 1: that game winning touchdown. As you may have heard, the

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Speaker 1: Colts went four to twelve and one that year, and

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs won the Super Bowl. When I covered the Bears,

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00:39:31,800 --> 00:39:35,120
Speaker 1: this was like a weekly thing or yearly thing. In

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Speaker 1: Week three, my first year covering the team, the Bears

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Speaker 1: were awful. They beat the Pittsburgh Steelers at home. The

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Speaker 1: Steelers went to the playoffs that year. In twenty seventeen

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00:39:43,840 --> 00:39:47,040
Speaker 1: and twenty eighteen, the Arizona Cardinals were awful. The Bears

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Speaker 1: almost lost to them on the road. Like just weird

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Speaker 1: stuff happens in week three. I don't know why. Maybe

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Speaker 1: it's because you get like two games of film and

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Speaker 1: teams are starting to figure out their identity and if

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Speaker 1: you're zero to two, as bad as you think, and

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Speaker 1: if you're two, no, you're not as good as you think,

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Speaker 1: and teams get jumped or something. But I don't know.

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Speaker 1: Just Tennessee, like as a team doesn't look very good.

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Speaker 1: But I'm just saying, like, beware and the cults are

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Speaker 1: certainly aware that playing a divisional opponent in Week three,

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Speaker 1: you gotta bring it. No matter if Tennessee is like

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Speaker 1: near the bottom of the NFL in every offensive category,

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Speaker 1: their defense is solid. I like what Denard Wilson has

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Speaker 1: done there. They might not have like a ton of

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Speaker 1: just like top end talent type guys. Jeffrey Simmons is

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Speaker 1: an awesome football player to Andandre Sweat is an awesome

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Speaker 1: football player in the interior their D line. You know,

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Speaker 1: Tennessee they've got the third most or excuse me, they

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Speaker 1: have the second most takeaways. They have four takeaways this year.

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Speaker 1: On defense, they're twenty six in yards per play but

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Speaker 1: eighteenth and EPA per play twelfth, and success rate fourteenth,

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Speaker 1: and scoring drive rate they're twenty sixth, on third down

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Speaker 1: twenty sixth and explosive run rate allowed. I don't know,

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Speaker 1: it's just gonna be a really interesting game. I would

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Speaker 1: not discount the Tennessee can put a good defensive forms together,

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Speaker 1: and that cam Ward can make a couple of just

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Speaker 1: like holy crap plays in this game that are gonna

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Speaker 1: make it tough on the Colts. So Colts got to

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Speaker 1: bring it in week three. Again, it's a division opponent.

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Speaker 1: You got the Jags playing the Texans, by the way,

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Speaker 1: so the AFC South's playing each other in week three

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Speaker 1: and the Colts. If you want to win your division

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Speaker 1: for the first time since twenty fourteen, you gotta win

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Speaker 1: these games in the AFC South. You gotta win early

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Speaker 1: and you gotta win often in the AFC South. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna be back here next week on the Colts Show

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Speaker 1: with a look back at Tennessee. We're gonna have another

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Speaker 1: conversation with someone coming up next week, and then to

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Speaker 1: look ahead to the Colts facing the Los Angeles Rams

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Speaker 1: Man week four. We're almost there. We're almost through the

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Speaker 1: end of September. What a start's been for the Colts.

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Speaker 1: I've been joking with friends. It feels like the Colts

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Speaker 1: are never gonna lose again, and they're the best team

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Speaker 1: in the NFL. Obviously, it's a long season. Vibes are

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Speaker 1: about as good as they could be right now going

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Speaker 1: into Tennessee. But you still gotta win, and you can't

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Speaker 1: get too ahead of yourself with this football team. It

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Speaker 1: is just Week three that's gonna do it for this

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Speaker 1: where every day is game Day. Thank you for listening,

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Speaker 1: Thank you for watching us here on The Colt Show.

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Speaker 1: We'll be back next Thursday. So long.