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Speaker 2: tonight talking all things Colts, featuring head coach Shane steik

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Speaker 2: Colts Roundtable. Week fourteen very unkind for the Colts as

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Speaker 2: they fell to the Bengals thirty four to fourteen to

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Speaker 2: drop their record down to seven and six on the season,

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Speaker 2: and the twenty point loss was the biggest defeat this

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Speaker 2: season for the Colts, and the Bengals beat the Colts

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Speaker 2: in every phase, forcing their way back into the playoff

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Speaker 2: race by snapping a four game Indianapolis winning streak. The

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Speaker 2: Colts suffered some uncharacteristic mistakes in all three phases. The

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Speaker 2: offense scored fewer than twenty points for just the third

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Speaker 2: time this season, and they struggled to run the ball.

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Speaker 2: Zach Moss averages two point two yards per carry, and

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Speaker 2: they had a holding penalty wiping off a touchdown. And

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Speaker 2: speaking of penalties, Colts racked up a season nine nine

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Speaker 2: of them, which caused problems all afternoon, and a defense

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Speaker 2: all season. They gave up three to the Bengals on Sunday,

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Speaker 2: Big gains of forty five, forty six, and fifty four.

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Speaker 2: Sinnati screen game created a lot of problems two big

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Speaker 2: plays in fact, including running back Chase Brown's fifty four

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Speaker 2: The were also mistakes on special teams as well. Matt

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Speaker 2: the game, rookie cornerback a Mere Speed was pushed back

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Speaker 2: in a punt returner Isaiah McKenzie as the ball was

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Speaker 2: coming down, forcing a muff punt that Cincinnati recovered, setting

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Speaker 2: up a field goal. The Bengals raced out to an

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Speaker 2: And unfortunately though, that was the highlight of the day

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Speaker 2: The third quarter really rough for the Colts. They were

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Speaker 2: Colts are now one of six teams in the AFC

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Speaker 2: number seven seed, behind the Pittsburgh Steelers, but head of Houston,

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Speaker 2: since twenty twenty. A loaded show as always, and we

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Speaker 2: and coach. Really tough game in Cincinnati on Sunday. We

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Speaker 2: just chronicled it there after watching the film today. What

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was just a lot of self inflicted wounds

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Speaker 3: couple of weeks. And you know, this is a week

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Speaker 2: No doubt about that. Kind of picking up with that,

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Speaker 2: I mean, how do you approach this week. It's a

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Speaker 2: trying to erase some of those again uncharacteristic mistakes.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, just really honing in on the details, and we

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Speaker 3: to just the self inflicted stuff that happened.

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Speaker 2: We can't allow that to happen. Let us get beat, you.

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Speaker 3: Know, by beating ourselves, and starts with myself. We all

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Speaker 3: then this week everything will just kind of be moved

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Speaker 3: we'll have it tomorrow and then we'll go from there.

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Speaker 2: Offensively, just four and a half yards per play, three

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Speaker 3: You know, credits to the Cincinnati Bengals. You know, they

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Speaker 3: starts with myself, starts with the coaches. We got to

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Speaker 2: And then when they had the ball. The screen game

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Speaker 3: Yeah, obviously the screens that they hit were big there.

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Speaker 2: Is that one of those things where now it's on tape,

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Speaker 2: you got to be you know, ultra prepared and ready

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's exactly you hit it on the head.

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Speaker 2: I mean, that's what it is. Right.

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Speaker 3: Anytime you know, you get hit with something, you got

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Speaker 3: So we've got to be all over it this week.

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Speaker 2: And then final one for me special teams. It's been

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Speaker 3: Little on characteristic things again, you know, on all three

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Speaker 3: Just like an unfortunate event right there that happened. And

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Speaker 3: then you know, we missed some kicks there that's unfortunate there,

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Speaker 3: that starts with myself.

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Speaker 2: All right, let's go to the fan questions for just

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Speaker 2: hashtag Colts Round Table. Let's go to a few of

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Speaker 2: them here. Coach Aaron is up first, asking we did

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Speaker 2: Half, no doubt. All right, a lot of questions here

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Speaker 4: We are two weeks to Christmas, so the Christmas season

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Speaker 5: again one of those that extended it, you know. And

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Speaker 5: then after you know, after gaining momentum going into the half,

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Speaker 5: and usually that's a great sign, you know, that that

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Speaker 5: magical twenty five minutes where we get back into it

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Speaker 5: fourteen fourteen. You know, we just phoned it in in

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Speaker 5: the third quarter. I mean we literally got slaughtered in

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Speaker 5: the third quarter and lost the second half twenty to nothing. Okay,

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Speaker 5: we've taken bows for a month then, rightfully so, and

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Speaker 5: we've talked about complimentary football. Well this was the opposite.

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Speaker 5: This bad in all phases. You know, we lost in

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Speaker 5: the red zone, we lost turnover battle, in time of possession.

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Speaker 5: So you know, I like the idea, and I said

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Speaker 5: that before spit it out by the time you got

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Speaker 5: back to the Horseshoe Casino and start looking to Pittsburgh.

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Speaker 5: But it does now, and I think it's legit. We

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Speaker 5: now asked a legit question. Were the Colts real or

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Speaker 5: did they simply feast on the league's bottom feeders. We're

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Speaker 5: certainly going to find that out in the next month.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's part of the storylines of this week going

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Speaker 2: into the Pittsburgh game on a short week. Both teams

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Speaker 2: are seven and six, huge playoff implications which we'll get into. Also,

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Speaker 2: the Indianapolis Colts. All right, that's the tale of the tape.

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Speaker 2: Rick Venturi and Joe Wrights are along with you. I'm

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Speaker 2: Matt Taylor with you until six thirty tonight. That's their

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Speaker 2: burning questions and actually their reactions after the Colts fall

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Speaker 2: four game winning streak come to a close with that

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Speaker 2: we come back, we're gonna get out the notebook and

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Speaker 2: start mapping out the week ahead for the Colts and

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Speaker 2: talk about what must change on a short week in

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Speaker 2: order for the Colts to top the Steelers and in

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Speaker 2: a pivotal game for both teams. That's coming up next

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Speaker 2: Colts host the Steelers on Saturday. It's a pivotal AFC

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Speaker 2: showdown again. Rick Van Turrey and Joe Wrights are long,

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Speaker 2: I'm Matt Taylor. Both teams are seven and six, and

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Speaker 2: Saturday's game is shaping up to hold major ramifications in

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Speaker 2: each team's quest for a playoff spot here in twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty three. So again, I know it's only one day,

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Speaker 2: but somewhat of a short week here for both teams.

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Speaker 2: So let's discuss the areas that really need to be

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Speaker 2: addressed this week in earnest, and let's start with the

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Speaker 2: running game, Joe, because on Sunday Zach Moss he had

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Speaker 2: twenty eight yards on thirteen carries against a Bengal defense

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Speaker 2: that came into the game ranked thirty first in yards

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Speaker 2: allowed per carry. And in the last two games, the

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Speaker 2: Colts have rushed for a combined one hundred and one

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Speaker 2: yards on forty one carries that averages out to be

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Speaker 2: just two point four yards per carry. Going back at

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Speaker 2: the beginning of the season, they rushed for one hundred

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Speaker 2: and twenty six yards or more six times in their

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Speaker 2: first eight but Joe. They've failed to crack the one

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Speaker 2: hundred yard mark in four of their last five, and

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Speaker 2: the Colts might be without Johnathan Taylor again on Saturday

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Speaker 2: against Pittsburgh. So what needs to be addressed in the

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Speaker 2: running game this week for much better results and much

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Speaker 2: better offensive efficiency against the Steelers in six days?

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Speaker 4: Yeah? Well, I think, first off, your two home run

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Speaker 4: hitters Taylor and Richardson aren't there. And even though they

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Speaker 4: played together for what two snaps all year, one of

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Speaker 4: them was present mostly throughout the first part of the season.

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Speaker 4: So now and with him being out for most amount

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Speaker 4: of time, you're not gonna have either one of those

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Speaker 4: home run hitters, which is different for defenses because they

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Speaker 4: don't have to worry about what I would call just

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Speaker 4: a every time he touches the ball TV threat.

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Speaker 2: I think two.

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Speaker 4: Our offensive line struggled yesterday point of attack. Now, Freelan's

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Speaker 4: not that guy that Braden Smith is just a road grader.

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Speaker 2: We got to realize that.

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Speaker 4: But I thought that, you know, our left side of

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Speaker 4: the line had been I thought playing at a pretty

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Speaker 4: high level all year wasn't necessarily the case. Yesterday Coach

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Speaker 4: mentioned at Ryman really struggled I think then two you

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Speaker 4: get behind fourteen to seventeen points, there's not as many

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Speaker 4: opportunities for run, and so being in control on the

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Speaker 4: clock allows you to dictate when you run the ball.

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Speaker 2: But his point about the bear defense is a good

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Speaker 2: one too.

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Speaker 4: We've continued to struggle against that bear defense and we

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Speaker 4: should expect more and more of it the last four games.

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Speaker 4: So all in all, we got to be better than

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Speaker 4: two yards per carry, especially if the Colts are expected

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Speaker 4: to play MENI fee football in December into January. So

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Speaker 4: there's a lot of things, Matt that go into that.

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Speaker 4: And I think the last thing I'll share is, as

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Speaker 4: coach mentioned, we only take one shot yesterday. It's kind

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Speaker 4: of that condensed feel of the game where teams get

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Speaker 4: tighter and tighter on the receivers, Safeties get tighter, linebackers

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Speaker 4: hit the gap quicker, they're running downhill quicker, and because

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Speaker 4: they're not worried about us throwing over the top for

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Speaker 4: fifty five. And I think teams are going to continue

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Speaker 4: to restrict us and make things tighter as the season

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Speaker 4: goes on until we can prove that we can do

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Speaker 4: it over the top.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, And I agree with Joe on all points. I

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Speaker 5: think I look at it as a three tier thing.

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Speaker 5: I think number one it is running is a mindset.

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Speaker 5: And for this whole season until Sunday, our offensive line

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Speaker 5: has come out and they've played mad, they've played aggressive,

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Speaker 5: they've played to hurt you, to maul you, and they

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Speaker 5: were a reflection of the entire team. Yesterday, we didn't

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Speaker 5: play with that kind of attitude. You just felt it.

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Speaker 5: You know, the Bengals who have had terrible time against

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Speaker 5: the run, you know, they just stepped up up front,

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Speaker 5: particularly Reader at Hill. They did a great job of

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Speaker 5: standing stuff up. They shot linebackers, they ran through they

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Speaker 5: you know, they did some things that really hurt us,

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Speaker 5: but they took command of the game. So I think

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Speaker 5: number one is mindset. You've got to get right back

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Speaker 5: to that when we play Saturday. I think number two. Schematically,

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Speaker 5: we have an issue. And when you talk about those

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Speaker 5: games lately, it's all the Jaguar plans. When the Jaguars

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Speaker 5: basically shut us down totally. It's a copycat league and

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Speaker 5: everybody has those powerckages and that Bear defense is killing us.

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Speaker 5: In that second half when we got slaughtered, they came

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Speaker 5: out and they ran Bear. They went from over to

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Speaker 5: bear in those two three and outs, and it was

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Speaker 5: the end of the end. All they just stuffed us.

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Speaker 5: And for some reason, it looks always looks like we're

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Speaker 5: gonna change a little bit, but we never do. We

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Speaker 5: keep trying to force those zone runs. And you see

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Speaker 5: what it's Scott in forty four carries one hundred and

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Speaker 5: one yards two point four. This is over two weeks,

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Speaker 5: and so I mean that's just not sustainable, and so

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Speaker 5: we've got to get more off tackles, searches, seals, powers, tosses,

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Speaker 5: and it's gonna take some more multiple tight ends. I mean,

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Speaker 5: we've got enough time, enough players to play two and

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Speaker 5: three tight ends. But until we solve that, we're gonna

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Speaker 5: be second and ten most of the day. And then

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Speaker 5: I do very much agree with Joe on this third thing.

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Speaker 5: A lot of the running game is not only how,

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Speaker 5: which I just explained, but when you run it. Okay,

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Speaker 5: and I think we've got and you and I talked

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Speaker 5: about this on the road right back, we've gotten kind

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Speaker 5: of conservative, particularly in the red zone. Seems like it's

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Speaker 5: always first down, run, run, run, and they know that,

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Speaker 5: and they're loading the box. And when you don't take

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Speaker 5: shots deep. Basically what happens, and then they're pressing with it.

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Speaker 5: You know what shuts Pittman down. And what they're doing

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Speaker 5: is they're just condensing the field and basically we can't.

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Speaker 5: And so, you know, I think, you know, sometimes that

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Speaker 5: passing game is so related to the to the running game.

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Speaker 5: And I thought after coming off those two big bombs

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Speaker 5: to Pierce last week, we would be able to loosen

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Speaker 5: people up, but we took one shot and then we

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Speaker 5: reverted right back into our real kind of tight, close

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Speaker 5: to the vest running game. And I think it's those

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Speaker 5: three things mindset scheme versus fare and more of a

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Speaker 5: pass run mix on unknown downs.

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Speaker 2: That's Rick Venturi along with Joe Wrights tonight. I'm Matt Taylor.

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Speaker 2: You're listening to Colts Around Table Live tonight. This is

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Speaker 2: ninety three to five and one seven the Fan with

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Speaker 2: you until six thirty tonight, talking Colts football. Let's go

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Speaker 2: to the other side of the ball here and talk

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Speaker 2: about the defense. And obviously the screen game was really

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Speaker 2: impactive for the Bengals yesterday. They ran several of those

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Speaker 2: three in particular gash the Colts for a combined twenty

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Speaker 2: four yards backup running back Chase Brown had a fifty

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Speaker 2: four yarder. Joe Mixon had a forty five yarder that

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Speaker 2: set up another score. Those plays open up the floodgates

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Speaker 2: for receivers and Jake browning to keep hitting those bigger plays.

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Speaker 2: Tee Higgins had a forty six yard completion in the

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Speaker 2: third quarter. The Bengals averaged eleven and a half yards

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Speaker 2: per drop back yesterday. And then some You know, I'm

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Speaker 2: a big quote guy, and so I pulled these out

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Speaker 2: here after the game too. DeForest Buckner gentleman said after

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Speaker 2: the game, quote, we opened Pandora's box today. For sure.

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Speaker 2: With the screen game, we've got to get that figured

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Speaker 2: out on tape. We've got to look at our fits

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Speaker 2: and how we can turn the screens back inside of

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Speaker 2: the guys pursuing the ball. We've got to put that

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Speaker 2: fire out quick. So that was DeForest Buckner. After the game.

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Speaker 2: Quity pay said, quote, we know it's gonna be the

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Speaker 2: same situation next week. They've got playmakers on offense and

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Speaker 2: the quarterback is similar to this game. They're gonna want

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Speaker 2: to get the ball out of their playmakers' hands so

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Speaker 2: as to not put too much on the quarterback. And

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Speaker 2: he also finished out that quote by saying, I feel

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Speaker 2: like it's going to be the same, exact same game

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Speaker 2: next week as well. So Rick, let me start with you.

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Speaker 2: After all of that and those quotes inside the locker room,

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Speaker 2: what needs to be addressed this week for the Colts

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Speaker 2: ability to slow down the screen game. If Pittsburgh wants

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Speaker 2: to copy what Cincinnati did to the Colts yesterday, Well.

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Speaker 5: First of all, those quotes should have been made last

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Speaker 5: week because you knew they were the best screen team

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Speaker 5: in the league, and we act like we never seen

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Speaker 5: one before. So I mean, I say it jokingly, but

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Speaker 5: I mean, did you look at the tape. I mean,

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Speaker 5: Hickson Mixon is one of the best screen guys in

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Speaker 5: the league, much less Brown. All Right, When you when

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Speaker 5: you play screens, there's three things that you really have

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Speaker 5: to coach and you have to approach. I've always thought

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Speaker 5: of the screen as just an extension of the running game,

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Speaker 5: but with the effect of freezing people either on the

649
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Speaker 5: rush or in your drops. But you have to treat

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Speaker 5: it like a screen in terms of stopping it. And

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Speaker 5: the first thing you have to have is really hard

652
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Speaker 5: force to the outside when you read it, you have

653
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Speaker 5: to have somebody coming up and really forcing that thing

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Speaker 5: back in. And when you reduce that, then you have

655
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Speaker 5: to have really good inside out film. People have to

656
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Speaker 5: respond from their drops that linebacker or from their rush,

657
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Speaker 5: and you have to get really good inside out field

658
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Speaker 5: and then you have to get some space tackling. Well,

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Speaker 5: we didn't do any of it, to be honest with you,

660
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Speaker 5: and we're in that soft zone. We don't play a

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Speaker 5: lot of man coverage, so we're in that soft zone

662
00:30:39,800 --> 00:30:42,920
Speaker 5: all the time. So that also attracts screens because you

663
00:30:42,960 --> 00:30:45,880
Speaker 5: don't have any quick coverage to the backs. Well, on

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Speaker 5: the very first one, on the big one, Kenny just

665
00:30:48,040 --> 00:30:50,800
Speaker 5: makes a bad decision. He's back in the zone, he

666
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Speaker 5: goes underneath the first block, and of course that gives

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Speaker 5: that speed merchant. I mean, he looked like a He

668
00:30:57,560 --> 00:31:01,360
Speaker 5: just was like a streak running down the field and

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00:31:01,400 --> 00:31:05,040
Speaker 5: got everybody out. Our inside pursuit back out was bad

670
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Speaker 5: all day. The closest guy for every time was Grover,

671
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Speaker 5: but he just couldn't quite get there. And then we

672
00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:13,680
Speaker 5: had a lot of bad angles. We had mistackles downfield.

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00:31:14,360 --> 00:31:16,760
Speaker 5: Thomas mister tackle on the first one that could have

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00:31:17,240 --> 00:31:20,560
Speaker 5: saved it, and then what's his name got run over.

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Speaker 5: Baker got run over with a straight arm by mixing,

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Speaker 5: And so I think all those issues have to be

677
00:31:27,960 --> 00:31:31,000
Speaker 5: there and you have to work on them, and you know,

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00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:34,040
Speaker 5: you know, in my opinion, they should have been worked

679
00:31:34,080 --> 00:31:37,160
Speaker 5: on it. It shouldn't have been this bad. Again, hard force,

680
00:31:37,720 --> 00:31:41,600
Speaker 5: inside out phil and space tackling and if you play

681
00:31:41,680 --> 00:31:43,760
Speaker 5: some Manda Man press it would help us in so

682
00:31:43,800 --> 00:31:46,840
Speaker 5: many ways. It would help our young corners to get aggressive.

683
00:31:46,840 --> 00:31:49,920
Speaker 5: But also it gives you the ability to close on

684
00:31:50,120 --> 00:31:53,040
Speaker 5: backs right now, right now, you're not waiting, you're not

685
00:31:53,160 --> 00:31:55,320
Speaker 5: back in his zone. You kind of it. It's like

686
00:31:55,400 --> 00:31:58,400
Speaker 5: Jordan rules, you take away the screen before it can develop, and.

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Speaker 4: Coach laid it out how you defend screens. I just

688
00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:04,720
Speaker 4: thought our edge all day. We always used to say

689
00:32:04,760 --> 00:32:07,400
Speaker 4: no edge, no chance for a team, whether you're running

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00:32:07,400 --> 00:32:08,880
Speaker 4: the ball, whether you're in the screen game. And I

691
00:32:08,920 --> 00:32:11,760
Speaker 4: just thought they completely controlled our edges all game and

692
00:32:11,880 --> 00:32:14,640
Speaker 4: something we didn't need to do. And I think to

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Speaker 4: coaches point those two quotes from our defensive linemen, it's

694
00:32:18,520 --> 00:32:20,280
Speaker 4: something you got to be aware of going into the game.

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Speaker 4: And this game cost us in terms of yeah, it

696
00:32:24,080 --> 00:32:27,680
Speaker 4: cost us it's another loss, but each game has more multitude,

697
00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:30,480
Speaker 4: and every game we go here is one more step

698
00:32:30,680 --> 00:32:33,640
Speaker 4: more intensity, and we got to be prepared to have

699
00:32:33,720 --> 00:32:37,400
Speaker 4: these fixes in these answers before the problem happens, and

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Speaker 4: not when you're correcting. Okay, after the game, we got

701
00:32:39,560 --> 00:32:43,080
Speaker 4: time because pretty soon the hour glass and the sand

702
00:32:43,120 --> 00:32:45,120
Speaker 4: is shrinking out of there every day, and that's just

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00:32:45,160 --> 00:32:48,320
Speaker 4: the reality of when you're playing high level football in December.

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Speaker 4: So all in all, just to kind of go back

705
00:32:51,600 --> 00:32:55,240
Speaker 4: to the front, it's one game, but there's a lot

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Speaker 4: of things that if we don't fix, it'll continue to

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Speaker 4: be problematic for us rest of the season.

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Speaker 2: Is that a Days of Our Lives reference out of you,

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Speaker 2: Joe Roe?

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Speaker 3: Was it?

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Speaker 2: I don't know. I I've never really watched that. To

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00:33:06,880 --> 00:33:09,640
Speaker 2: watch The Laddin recently with the kids. That's exactly right,

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Speaker 2: Randy up first, Rick is asking how did our defense

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00:34:59,560 --> 00:35:02,400
Speaker 2: look with Grover Stewart back in the lineup. Did we

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00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:05,320
Speaker 2: see a noticeable difference even though the Bengals were still

752
00:35:05,320 --> 00:35:08,080
Speaker 2: able to run the ball for over one hundred yards?

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00:35:08,320 --> 00:35:11,000
Speaker 2: The Colts are still right, should say have given up

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00:35:11,080 --> 00:35:14,880
Speaker 2: have allowed over one hundred yards rushing in seven straight games.

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Speaker 2: But what kind of a difference did number ninety make

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00:35:17,520 --> 00:35:18,320
Speaker 2: back in the lineup.

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00:35:18,680 --> 00:35:21,000
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's a good question. And you tend to say no,

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00:35:22,040 --> 00:35:24,200
Speaker 5: you know, because of the overall result in the game.

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00:35:24,239 --> 00:35:26,880
Speaker 5: But what my eyes tell me is he made a

760
00:35:26,960 --> 00:35:30,480
Speaker 5: huge difference. You know, we were giving up You check

761
00:35:30,560 --> 00:35:32,160
Speaker 5: me if I'm wrong. We were giving up one hundred

762
00:35:32,160 --> 00:35:36,040
Speaker 5: and fifty four yards a game without him, and just

763
00:35:36,120 --> 00:35:39,880
Speaker 5: peer statistically, we only gave up one hundred and eleven

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Speaker 5: and that was with thirty two carries. That was three

765
00:35:41,840 --> 00:35:45,239
Speaker 5: point five. Yeah, much much lower than what we've been

766
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Speaker 5: given up. And the truth is, as Joe said, two

767
00:35:48,080 --> 00:35:51,360
Speaker 5: of the big runs were edge plays, were plays that

768
00:35:51,440 --> 00:35:53,440
Speaker 5: got to the edge, which he had nothing to do with.

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Speaker 5: I thought, you know, what my eyes told me on

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00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:59,520
Speaker 5: the tape is basically he did a much much better

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00:35:59,600 --> 00:36:01,600
Speaker 5: job than anybody we've had in there. I mean, he

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00:36:02,040 --> 00:36:06,080
Speaker 5: you can feel his run stuff ability and his ability.

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00:36:06,120 --> 00:36:08,960
Speaker 5: Like I said, he was always the closest guy to

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00:36:09,120 --> 00:36:12,799
Speaker 5: the screens in terms of running outside. So, you know,

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00:36:12,880 --> 00:36:17,000
Speaker 5: I think there is no question that Grover's you know,

776
00:36:17,080 --> 00:36:21,400
Speaker 5: Grover's presence means a lot, you know, particularly those direct runs.

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00:36:21,440 --> 00:36:23,800
Speaker 5: I almost and I know it's not true, but I

778
00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:26,359
Speaker 5: almost feel like when anybody else is in there, they

779
00:36:26,400 --> 00:36:29,000
Speaker 5: almost audible to that inside zone. It almost looks like

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00:36:29,040 --> 00:36:31,080
Speaker 5: they audible and it's like a ten yard gain every

781
00:36:31,080 --> 00:36:34,319
Speaker 5: time they run it. And the biggest problem though that

782
00:36:34,360 --> 00:36:36,760
Speaker 5: we have is he's got to change up the front

783
00:36:37,160 --> 00:36:41,160
Speaker 5: in seven games now. In seven games, I think he's

784
00:36:41,239 --> 00:36:44,080
Speaker 5: changed up the front three times on first or second down.

785
00:36:44,120 --> 00:36:46,520
Speaker 5: And you know what, it doesn't matter if you're playing

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00:36:46,520 --> 00:36:50,200
Speaker 5: with the monsters of the midway. Eventually people catch up

787
00:36:50,200 --> 00:36:53,239
Speaker 5: with your front and they make a difference. But I

788
00:36:53,280 --> 00:36:57,640
Speaker 5: think there's no question that Grover being back is a big,

789
00:36:57,800 --> 00:36:58,919
Speaker 5: big gain for us.

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Speaker 2: That's Rick vin heory. We're taking your questions tonight on

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00:37:05,400 --> 00:37:07,319
Speaker 2: All right, Joe, you want this one. This one's coming

793
00:37:07,320 --> 00:37:09,600
Speaker 2: from Mitchell. He's asking what do you think of our

794
00:37:09,640 --> 00:37:12,799
Speaker 2: overall offensive approach the last couple of weeks? Is it

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00:37:12,840 --> 00:37:15,560
Speaker 2: too conservative because we're playing with the backup quarterback in

796
00:37:15,600 --> 00:37:16,880
Speaker 2: Gardner Minshew.

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Speaker 4: I do, Matt, And while I was praising Shane a

798
00:37:18,880 --> 00:37:21,120
Speaker 4: couple of weeks ago for winning games ten to six

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00:37:21,200 --> 00:37:24,360
Speaker 4: and grinding out against the Panthers, I think that we

800
00:37:24,520 --> 00:37:28,360
Speaker 4: have gotten more conservative and we're just not hitting big plays,

801
00:37:28,360 --> 00:37:31,840
Speaker 4: but we're not attempting the big plays. When Pierce goes

802
00:37:32,040 --> 00:37:35,440
Speaker 4: yard and Tennessee, I'd say we'll give another chance to

803
00:37:35,440 --> 00:37:37,640
Speaker 4: do it again in Cincy and if nothing else is

804
00:37:37,640 --> 00:37:39,840
Speaker 4: going to extend the defense. But bottom line, we're five

805
00:37:39,840 --> 00:37:42,880
Speaker 4: point four yards per pass since he was eleven yesterday.

806
00:37:42,880 --> 00:37:43,480
Speaker 2: That's double.

807
00:37:43,920 --> 00:37:46,520
Speaker 4: And I think with Jonathan Taylor out of the game,

808
00:37:46,600 --> 00:37:49,239
Speaker 4: we gotta find creative ways to make big plays. And

809
00:37:49,280 --> 00:37:52,440
Speaker 4: I don't know if that's more gadgets with McKenzie or Downs.

810
00:37:52,880 --> 00:37:53,720
Speaker 2: I think that Downs.

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00:37:53,719 --> 00:37:55,960
Speaker 4: He had three targets, three catches, and I think he's

812
00:37:55,960 --> 00:37:57,600
Speaker 4: a guy we got to continue to feed.

813
00:37:57,920 --> 00:37:59,760
Speaker 2: We really got to focus on how can.

814
00:37:59,600 --> 00:38:02,120
Speaker 4: We get him the ball, maybe him the ball in

815
00:38:02,120 --> 00:38:05,279
Speaker 4: space and other big plays, different screenplays from ourselves, But

816
00:38:05,560 --> 00:38:07,520
Speaker 4: I think we got to find more creative ways to

817
00:38:07,640 --> 00:38:11,359
Speaker 4: manufacture and grind out big plays because just doing what

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00:38:11,400 --> 00:38:13,040
Speaker 4: we're doing, I don't think is gonna get it done

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Speaker 4: here the last four weeks of the season.

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Speaker 2: All right, Rick Venti and Joe Wrights along, I'm Matt Taylor.

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Speaker 2: We're taking your question tonight on the mailbag segment. Here

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Speaker 2: tonight on Colts Roundtable Live, Rick Nathan is asking you

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Speaker 2: how much longer, Rick, can we survive with our young corners.

824
00:38:27,400 --> 00:38:29,480
Speaker 2: Are we playing with fire at that position.

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Speaker 5: Well, we're gonna have to. We're gonna have to survive.

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Speaker 5: I mean, you know, Gilbour won the game for the Cowboys,

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Speaker 5: but he's.

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Speaker 2: Not here any That's a good point.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, we you know, we have to we have to

830
00:38:39,960 --> 00:38:42,080
Speaker 5: win with the game with this And here's I look

831
00:38:42,120 --> 00:38:44,640
Speaker 5: at it this way. I think again, you know, you

832
00:38:44,719 --> 00:38:46,759
Speaker 5: tend to put it all on them because you'll look

833
00:38:46,800 --> 00:38:50,279
Speaker 5: at a major statistic and here again, here's what the

834
00:38:50,320 --> 00:38:53,160
Speaker 5: stats say, But here's what my eyes tell me. He

835
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Speaker 5: threw for two seventy four yesterday, twenty six of it.

836
00:38:58,800 --> 00:39:01,920
Speaker 5: The ball was never throw across the line of scrimmage.

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00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:06,440
Speaker 5: I mean, the Backs had one half of the pass offense.

838
00:39:06,920 --> 00:39:09,800
Speaker 5: Baker got turned around. He made a bad play, probably

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Speaker 5: his worst play, probably our corner's worst single play of

840
00:39:13,719 --> 00:39:17,440
Speaker 5: the year. He simply got turned around by Higgins. Guessed

841
00:39:17,480 --> 00:39:20,200
Speaker 5: wrong on that one and gave up a forty six

842
00:39:20,280 --> 00:39:23,680
Speaker 5: yard play. But those kids overall, now, we did have

843
00:39:23,719 --> 00:39:27,600
Speaker 5: some roles, We did have some cover eight roles to chase,

844
00:39:27,640 --> 00:39:30,719
Speaker 5: which was good. But even when we played Manda Man,

845
00:39:30,880 --> 00:39:33,600
Speaker 5: I thought our kids did a really good job at

846
00:39:33,640 --> 00:39:36,319
Speaker 5: times I thought they battled. He tried to throw that

847
00:39:36,400 --> 00:39:40,560
Speaker 5: big comeback to Chase, that big corner route right to left,

848
00:39:40,960 --> 00:39:43,520
Speaker 5: Baker took it away. I mean on the one out

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00:39:43,560 --> 00:39:46,839
Speaker 5: to Chase, Jones couldn't have been tighter. So, you know,

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00:39:46,920 --> 00:39:50,239
Speaker 5: I think we do them a disservice schematically, and I've

851
00:39:50,280 --> 00:39:52,040
Speaker 5: said it all year, I'll keep saying it. I mean,

852
00:39:52,040 --> 00:39:54,759
Speaker 5: we string them out, we leave at least one of

853
00:39:54,800 --> 00:39:57,359
Speaker 5: them and mostly two of them. We leave him out there,

854
00:39:57,440 --> 00:40:00,359
Speaker 5: one on one in an off position. The these are

855
00:40:00,480 --> 00:40:05,040
Speaker 5: good young long rookies or young kids, and I think

856
00:40:05,080 --> 00:40:08,520
Speaker 5: we would really help them by allowing them. I've coached

857
00:40:08,520 --> 00:40:12,600
Speaker 5: this forever to get up and press people, use their length,

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00:40:13,040 --> 00:40:16,160
Speaker 5: get up and press people, not always be back, and

859
00:40:16,200 --> 00:40:18,759
Speaker 5: then help them with some double coverage like cover two.

860
00:40:19,239 --> 00:40:22,880
Speaker 5: So it's very hard to evaluate it. I think, just

861
00:40:22,960 --> 00:40:26,560
Speaker 5: like the quarterback, I think they get over evaluated and

862
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Speaker 5: over graded down. You know, but there is no choice.

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Speaker 5: This is who we're going to play with, and that's

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Speaker 5: why scheme does matter, and sometimes you have to help

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Speaker 5: those guys.

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Speaker 2: All right, we got time for one more question. If

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Speaker 2: we go quick, if we can squeeze it in, this

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Speaker 2: is a good one from Morris, and we kind of

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Speaker 2: talked about this earlier on segment number one with Shane Stiking.

870
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Speaker 2: Because the Colts got outscored or outgained, i should say,

871
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Speaker 2: in the third quarter, outgained in the third period one

872
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Speaker 2: six to seventeen, Joe. So Morris is asking why were

873
00:40:55,160 --> 00:40:57,480
Speaker 2: we seemingly not ready to play in the third quarter

874
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Speaker 2: We gave up two easy touchdown drives and couldn't answer

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Speaker 2: on offense.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Morris, great question, and the answer is human nature. Now,

877
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Speaker 4: I thought when we came back and scored twice in

878
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Speaker 4: thirty seconds, we had got the game tied, We had

879
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Speaker 4: all the momentum. But the bottom line is the third

880
00:41:12,239 --> 00:41:14,800
Speaker 4: quarter was reminiscent of the first quarter, which was remnants

881
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Speaker 4: of our attitude.

882
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Speaker 2: In this game.

883
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Speaker 4: We played like a team that hadn't lost in forty

884
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Speaker 4: two days.

885
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Speaker 2: And that's the reality.

886
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Speaker 4: And as a coach, you can talk all you want

887
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Speaker 4: to team and try to grab their attention and get

888
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Speaker 4: guys ready to go, but bottom line, human nature is unbeaten.

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Speaker 4: We got to fight every single day, and so I

890
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Speaker 4: would translate into the next game we're playing. Pepperg They

891
00:41:33,360 --> 00:41:36,759
Speaker 4: lost to the Patriots, who were terrible at home and

892
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Speaker 4: people are thinking, well, they can't win without Kenny Pickett.

893
00:41:39,520 --> 00:41:39,800
Speaker 2: Uhuh.

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Speaker 4: This is the team that's lost two straight games, a

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Speaker 4: proud franchise, a really good head coach. They're going to

896
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Speaker 4: come in here Saturday with three extra days of rest,

897
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Speaker 4: really ready to roll for that same human nature element

898
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Speaker 4: that they thought they were just going to walk in

899
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Speaker 4: the park against New England at home and it's the NFL,

900
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Speaker 4: and I think we had we were too casual. It

901
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Speaker 4: was human nature and we played like a team that thought, well,

902
00:41:59,400 --> 00:42:02,160
Speaker 4: they don't have their MVP type quarterback Burrows, so we're

903
00:42:02,160 --> 00:42:03,840
Speaker 4: gonna go down to the Sincy and get it. And

904
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Speaker 4: I think we were humbled in a really good way

905
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Speaker 4: and we got to turn that negative into a positive

906
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Speaker 4: coming up on Saturday.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, enormous game this Saturday. That's the mail Bags segment tonight.

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Speaker 2: As always, submit your questions in on X using hashtag

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Speaker 2: Colts round Table for us on the show. When we

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Speaker 2: come back, we'll close out the program. We'll take a

911
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Speaker 2: look at the AFC South standings and the AFC Playoff

912
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Speaker 2: standings as well. There's a lot going on in relation

913
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Speaker 2: to both, and we'll also preview Week fifteen the Steelers

914
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Speaker 2: coming to town on Saturday afternoon to Lucas Oil Stadium.

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Speaker 2: You're listening to Colts Round Table Live tonight. We're back

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Speaker 2: in just a moment, closing out the show here on

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Speaker 2: ninety three to five and one oh seven five the Fan.

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Speaker 1: This is Roundtable Live, a full hour dedicated to Colts football.

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Speaker 1: Here again is Matt Taylor, the voice of the Colts

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Speaker 1: from the Indiana Union Construction Industry Radio Studio.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back for the final time tonight. This is Colts

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Speaker 2: across the Midwest. We talk about those AFC playoff standings

928
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Speaker 2: right now. You've got the Ravens at ten and three

929
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Speaker 2: they are the top dog and the AFC Conference, followed

930
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Speaker 2: by in this order, Dolphins at ninety three, Chiefs eight

931
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Speaker 2: and five, Jaguars at eight and five, the three wildcard teams.

932
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Speaker 2: As of right now, the Browns are eight and five

933
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Speaker 2: the Steelers are seven and six. The Colts are seven

934
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Speaker 2: and six, holding on to the last playoff spot in

935
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Speaker 2: the AFC. Then right beneath them, you've got the Texans

936
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Speaker 2: seven and six, Broncos seven and six, Bengals seven and six,

937
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Speaker 2: and the Buffalo Bills who are now seven and six.

938
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Speaker 2: So the Colts right now, as we said, they've got

939
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Speaker 2: the tiebreaker over Buffalo, Cincinnati, and Denver based on best

940
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Speaker 2: win percentage in conference games. The Colts are five and

941
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Speaker 2: four in AFC games, which is the best record among

942
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Speaker 2: that group. So Rick and Joe your final thoughts. You

943
00:44:07,880 --> 00:44:10,480
Speaker 2: are closing arguments and Joe with you. We always like

944
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Speaker 2: to kind of tap into your former player resource. The

945
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Speaker 2: Colt's bouncing back from this one. It's a short week,

946
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Speaker 2: you play on Saturday. Everybody knows the magnitude of the

947
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Speaker 2: game coming up this weekend. How do you use a

948
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Speaker 2: former player focus without psyching yourself up too much knowing

949
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Speaker 2: this weekend it's like a playoff game against the Steelers.

950
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Speaker 4: Well, I think one, You're on a short week, so

951
00:44:30,920 --> 00:44:32,640
Speaker 4: you got to turn the page even quicker than that

952
00:44:32,680 --> 00:44:34,680
Speaker 4: twenty four hour rule, like coach talked about, when you

953
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Speaker 4: get off I seventy four, it's on to Pittsburgh. But

954
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Speaker 4: I think two and away, Matt, this is an easy

955
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Speaker 4: game to bounce back from. And what I mean by that,

956
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Speaker 4: there's no emotional hangover, there's no wood a should have kouda.

957
00:44:44,719 --> 00:44:46,680
Speaker 4: This is bottom line. We went out to the playground,

958
00:44:46,719 --> 00:44:48,600
Speaker 4: we got punched in the face, we got bullyed and

959
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Speaker 4: beat up. And guess what. This team's got a lot

960
00:44:50,880 --> 00:44:53,960
Speaker 4: of attitude, they got a lot of character, and they'll respond.

961
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Speaker 4: They'll be ready to play Saturday at four thirty. Because

962
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Speaker 4: I think in some ways it's easy when you pummeled

963
00:44:58,680 --> 00:45:00,319
Speaker 4: like that to get back up because you can't wait

964
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Speaker 4: to get back out there because you got a lot

965
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Speaker 4: of pride, know that, Hey, that wasn't what we put

966
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Speaker 4: on film. That wasn't us. Let's go out there and

967
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Speaker 4: show the world what we're going to do in a

968
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Speaker 4: national TV game Saturday at four thirty.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, And when you look at Pittsburgh, just some key

970
00:45:12,600 --> 00:45:15,320
Speaker 5: things to think about going into it there. They're really

971
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Speaker 5: been bad on offense number twenty seven in scoring sixteen

972
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Speaker 5: to two. Trubisky was so bad that he got booed

973
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Speaker 5: almost out of the ballpark. So look for them to regroup,

974
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Speaker 5: lick their wounds, and probably you know, kind of copy

975
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Speaker 5: Cincinnati and how they're using a quarterback and how they're

976
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Speaker 5: nursing them into the game with screens and things like that. Yeah,

977
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Speaker 5: now they're just the opposite, really stingy on defense number seven,

978
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Speaker 5: nineteen to two. Now, the interesting thing, and this could

979
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Speaker 5: be great for us, is both Watt and high Smith.

980
00:45:46,040 --> 00:45:48,320
Speaker 5: High Smith left the game, never came back with a

981
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Speaker 5: neck and TJ. Watt, who is you know, former defensive

982
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Speaker 5: Player of the Year, went into the concussion protocol on Friday,

983
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Speaker 5: and the percentage of guys playing the next week and

984
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Speaker 5: particularly shorter week, Yeah, okay, is not really that great. So, man,

985
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Speaker 5: I would love to see those two guys watching from

986
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Speaker 5: the sidelines.

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Speaker 2: We shall see. You're exactly right, TJ. Watt. He is

988
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Speaker 2: a game wrecker in and of itself. He's got fourteen

989
00:46:13,520 --> 00:46:16,000
Speaker 2: sacks on the season, He's got a boatload of tackles

990
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Speaker 2: for lost and quarterback hits. He's one of the best

991
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Speaker 2: players defensively in the NFL. Well done, right there, Rick Finn, Turrey,

992
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Speaker 2: Joe Wrights, and I'm Matt Taylor. And that's all the

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Speaker 2: time We've got tonight. And my thanks as well to

994
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Speaker 2: head coach Shane Steichen who joined on the first segment tonight.

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Speaker 2: So if you missed any of the program, we were

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Speaker 2: locked and loaded a lot of Colts conversation for a

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Speaker 2: full hour there. It's going to be available here shortly

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Speaker 2: on Colts dot com, Colts Mobile app will have it,

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Speaker 2: and the Colts Audio Network anywhere you download your podcast,

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Speaker 2: and we'll have more of the Colts and the Steelers

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Speaker 2: all week long leading into Saturday, and we'll do it

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Speaker 2: again next Monday recapping all the action. But Pacer pregame

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Speaker 2: is coming up next. Pacers and Piston tonight in the

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Speaker 2: Motors City. Thanks for listening Colts Roundtable Live tonight on

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Speaker 2: ninety three to five and one oh seven five the Fan.

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