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Speaker 1: We're talking Colts and recapping the action.

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Speaker 4: Good course, fucker picks up a live football and races

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Speaker 5: For a score picked off by.

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Speaker 2: The Colts from the near sideline. Kenny Moore racing for

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Speaker 2: the intone ten five touchdown.

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Speaker 1: Indeed, why now Here's the voice of the Colts, Matt

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Speaker 2: we got you covered talking Colts football for the next hour.

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Speaker 2: Breaking down the five and seven record for the Colts

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Speaker 2: and they are twenty four to six loss to the

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Speaker 2: Lions in Week twelve at Lucas Oil Stadium. That loss

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Speaker 2: and we'll talk about all of the areas that hurt

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Speaker 2: the team and of course what needs corrected for the

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Speaker 2: Colts with only five games to go here in the

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Speaker 2: regular season. So we got a busy show, starting with

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Speaker 2: our weekly conversation with Colts head coach Shane Stick and

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Speaker 2: he's gonna join us here in studio in just a moment.

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Speaker 2: And then starting on segment two, analysts Rick Van Turrey

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Speaker 2: and Joe Wrights will join me and they'll break down

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Speaker 2: the game film from Sunday and discuss the big reasons

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Speaker 2: why the Colts have five wins on the season, pronominantly

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Speaker 2: over teams that are under five hundred and then seven

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Speaker 2: losses against teams who mostly have a winning record so

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Speaker 2: far on the season. But as always, we're gonna lead

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Speaker 2: off the show a quick recap of the latest game action.

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Speaker 2: It's time now for the game rewind. The Colts came

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Speaker 2: into the game against Detroit looking to make a statement

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Speaker 2: they started off strong. The Colts racked up more than

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Speaker 2: two hundred yards of offense in the first half and

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Speaker 2: drove down inside the ten yard line twice, but they

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Speaker 2: couldn't find the end zone on either trip to the

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Speaker 2: of Matt Gay field goals under thirty yards. That was

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Speaker 2: the biggest difference of the game at halftime. The Lions

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Speaker 2: had two red zone touchdowns and the Colts had none,

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Speaker 2: and the visitors led at the break fourteen to six.

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Speaker 2: Detroit scored both of their touchdowns in the second quarter

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Speaker 2: in the NFL. The second half was a major struggle

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Speaker 2: for the Colts on offense. Indianapolis mustered just sixty seven

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Speaker 2: third and the fourth quarters, and a big reason why penalties.

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Speaker 2: The Colts suffered a season high ten penalties for seventy

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Speaker 2: it was really disappointing allment to the game. As the

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Speaker 2: Elsewhere on offense, the running game really struggled for the Colts.

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Speaker 2: past halftime. The defense held the Lions to twenty four points.

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Speaker 2: but the Colts' schedule to close out is favorable. The

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Speaker 2: by Citizens Energy Group. Coach The Lions presented a really

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Speaker 6: I mean this league is in margin fair is always slim,

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Speaker 6: penalties killed us obviously. You know we had ten for

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Speaker 7: You know, we had some holding.

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Speaker 2: What else made it tough to move the ball in

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Speaker 6: We got to remove the ball offensively.

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Speaker 3: We go from there.

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Speaker 2: The penalties and some of the drop passes made it

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Speaker 2: Anthony Richardson played after it looked really good the week

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Speaker 2: What happened inside the twenty that made it tough to convert,

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Speaker 4: You had to.

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Speaker 2: really good team that was averaging well over thirty three.

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Speaker 2: Scored fifty two the week before. The Lions had nine

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Speaker 6: I think they do a good job mixing it up, run, pass, formationally,

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Speaker 6: They got a lot of weapons. We knew they were

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Speaker 6: a really good job of you know, not getting the

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Speaker 6: Was pretty impressive by our defense.

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Speaker 2: At Shane Stiking, this is Colts Round Table Live Final

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Speaker 2: one from me. You've got five games to go and

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Speaker 2: you obviously know the margin of air is pretty thin

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Speaker 2: here as we head into the month of December. What

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Speaker 2: was your message to the guys today inside.

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Speaker 3: The meeting room.

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Speaker 6: It was fundamentals, technique and attention to detail, like we

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Speaker 6: because it always does. It comes down to three or

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Speaker 2: All right, Shane, sticking with us, let's close out the

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Speaker 2: in every Monday night. Here on this segment, using the

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Speaker 2: hashtag Colts Round Table on X, let's go to Wyatt.

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Speaker 2: He's asking, hey, coach, how can we get more out

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Speaker 2: of the tight ends. They don't seem to be too

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Speaker 2: involved and they're suffering from some drop passes.

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Speaker 6: I think every week we look at it schematically, how

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Speaker 6: we can get them involved. You know, sometimes we have

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Speaker 6: that happens organically with you know, the progressions through the quarterback.

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Speaker 6: But you know, we look at those things every week

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Speaker 6: and if we can get those guys involved.

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Speaker 2: The better. All right, bye week. Question here from Andy,

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Speaker 7: They can have time with their families.

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Speaker 7: It was a big one?

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Speaker 7: Awesome appreciation.

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Speaker 2: Happy Thanksgiving week to you and you know before we

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Speaker 2: How do you guys spend Thanksgiving? And how do you all?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well it's it's getting tougher by the year, Matt.

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Speaker 5: Well, for one thing, because it's gonna snow, the only

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Speaker 5: cut up peppers in there, you know, feta cheese, and

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Speaker 5: then I make my own little salad dressing and mix

444
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Speaker 5: it all up, and you know, let it.

445
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Speaker 2: Go there you go, Hey, Joe, maybe you can offset

446
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Speaker 2: one of those pieces of pie with some salad from

447
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Speaker 2: Rick Venturi's house I left.

448
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Speaker 4: I mean, I'll take it, coach, But I don't know

449
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Speaker 4: that pumpkin pie with a lot of whip cream that

450
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Speaker 4: stuff to beat Thanksgiving?

451
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Speaker 2: Now, well, well said, right there, Rick Venturi and Joe

452
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Speaker 2: Wrights and their plans coming up on Thanksgiving and some

453
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Speaker 2: traditions within their respective families. Right there, I'm Matt Taylor.

454
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Speaker 2: All right, we got a lot of ground to cover here.

455
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Speaker 2: The rest of the way. Tonight, let's lead off our

456
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Speaker 2: roundtable discussion with some film breakdown. We do that here

457
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Speaker 2: on this segment. We call it the tail of the tape.

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Speaker 3: Brason hell today, Okay, go bang bang, player, bang bang,

459
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Speaker 3: keep the hammer.

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Speaker 4: Down, all right, keep talking to one another man to

461
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Speaker 4: clean it up.

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Speaker 1: That's all.

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Speaker 2: Get ready, get ready?

464
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, all right.

465
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Speaker 2: The Colts lost twenty four to six to the Lions.

466
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Speaker 2: They were zero for two inside the red zone, no

467
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Speaker 2: offensive touchdowns for the Colts. They only mustered sixty seven

468
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Speaker 2: net yards of offense in the second half due to

469
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Speaker 2: primarily a lot of penalties for the Colts. The Lions

470
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Speaker 2: scored twenty four racked up three ninety one of offense,

471
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Speaker 2: but the Colts couldn't consistently make stops on third down

472
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Speaker 2: and inside the zone. So, Joe, what happened? How did

473
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Speaker 2: a look on the tape again today? After you watch

474
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Speaker 2: the game film earlier this morning?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well, first, after rewatching the game, and I thought

476
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Speaker 4: this going in and seeing it live. I mean, I

477
00:20:10,920 --> 00:20:13,439
Speaker 4: think Detroit's the best team in the NFL. They're clearly

478
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Speaker 4: playing the best right now. But you know, they're so

479
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Speaker 4: solid across all three phases. Offense, defense, special teams. They

480
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Speaker 4: don't beat themselves and they know exactly who they want

481
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Speaker 4: to be at all times, and I think they just

482
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Speaker 4: don't make mistakes. I know, you know, they ended up

483
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Speaker 4: with five penalties, but really you know that late hit,

484
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Speaker 4: you know, late in the game, which you know was

485
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Speaker 4: a BS play and then the unsportsmlike conduct. They had

486
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Speaker 4: like fifteen penalty yards you know, through the mid fourth

487
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Speaker 4: quarter with no turnovers. And so that's just a really

488
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Speaker 4: good football team. I think that's the class of the NFL.

489
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Speaker 4: And when you play a team like that, you know,

490
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Speaker 4: and you're the Colts, you don't have the margin of

491
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Speaker 4: air to make mistakes. And for me, you know, penalties

492
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Speaker 4: and the Ogle Tree drop is really what you know,

493
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Speaker 4: watching the game, we needed to not make those penalties

494
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Speaker 4: and we needed that touchdown if we were gonna win

495
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Speaker 4: this football game. And it seemed like every time we

496
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Speaker 4: got a chance, every time we got close, we get

497
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Speaker 4: down the red zone, you know, then we get a

498
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Speaker 4: penalty a legal man downfield, and then you know later

499
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Speaker 4: in the game we had that Alec Pierce which was

500
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Speaker 4: at a penalty or not, you know, that box out

501
00:21:15,240 --> 00:21:17,879
Speaker 4: illegal pick play. Who knows, but you know, I felt

502
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Speaker 4: like going into the second half, even Lions get the ball,

503
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Speaker 4: they got an eight point.

504
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Speaker 3: Lead, they drive all the way down.

505
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Speaker 4: We get that huge stop on fourth down, and we

506
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Speaker 4: got the momentum and the crowd's ready to get back

507
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Speaker 4: into the game. And then we take over the ball.

508
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Speaker 4: We get a penalty on the first play, we overcome

509
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Speaker 4: it with the deep pass to Pittman. Then all of

510
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Speaker 4: a sudden, we get second and ten and we got

511
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Speaker 4: that you know, pierce play, which would have put us,

512
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Speaker 4: you know, all the way down in Lion's territory. And

513
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Speaker 4: it just seemed like for me, penalties was really the

514
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Speaker 4: flavor of the day and things we got better at.

515
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Speaker 4: But you know, just football wise, you know, the Lions

516
00:21:49,640 --> 00:21:52,560
Speaker 4: are so physical up front. I think it showed up

517
00:21:52,960 --> 00:21:56,280
Speaker 4: to me really for the first time in a big way,

518
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Speaker 4: just our three rookie offensive lineman, and I know those

519
00:21:58,880 --> 00:22:00,920
Speaker 4: guys are battling, you know, their tails off, and you

520
00:22:00,960 --> 00:22:03,680
Speaker 4: got to give them credit, but you know, it showed

521
00:22:03,760 --> 00:22:06,720
Speaker 4: up against that formidable front. Our inability to run the ball.

522
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Speaker 4: You know, Taylor really hasn't been able to run the

523
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Speaker 4: ball the last you know, three four games, and even

524
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Speaker 4: with richardson back, it hasn't been much better. I think

525
00:22:13,960 --> 00:22:17,040
Speaker 4: we can get a little bit more dynamic with our scheme,

526
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Speaker 4: find ways to get him the ball in space a

527
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Speaker 4: little bit more. The screen game is something that I

528
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Speaker 4: think hasn't been super effective for us. And you turn

529
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Speaker 4: around and watch the Lions on the other side, I

530
00:22:25,760 --> 00:22:27,960
Speaker 4: mean they screened us to death, you know, with tight

531
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Speaker 4: end screens, running back screens, all those wide receiver screens.

532
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Speaker 4: I think that's something from a high percentage play and

533
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Speaker 4: to get the ball in your playmaker's hands. You know

534
00:22:36,200 --> 00:22:37,639
Speaker 4: that maybe we could do a little bit more of.

535
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Speaker 4: But you know, bottom line, it was tough for the

536
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Speaker 4: Colts because you know that you really had the chance

537
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Speaker 4: to get yourself to five hundred, as coach mentioned. And

538
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Speaker 4: what you're left with now is you got a five

539
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Speaker 4: game season that really there's no margin for air. You know,

540
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Speaker 4: I think it's going to take ten wins to get

541
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Speaker 4: in the playoffs and you're gonna have to run off

542
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Speaker 4: five in a row.

543
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Speaker 3: Now, that may seem like a tall task with how.

544
00:22:58,720 --> 00:23:00,560
Speaker 4: We played this year, but if you look at who

545
00:23:00,560 --> 00:23:03,800
Speaker 4: we're playing again, I mean, everybody is really the bottom

546
00:23:03,840 --> 00:23:06,680
Speaker 4: third of the NFL outside of Denver, and again that

547
00:23:07,240 --> 00:23:09,120
Speaker 4: could be a game that you know, you beat New

548
00:23:09,119 --> 00:23:11,160
Speaker 4: England and you beat Denver and you get yourself back

549
00:23:11,200 --> 00:23:13,720
Speaker 4: to five hundred with three to go, you could get

550
00:23:13,720 --> 00:23:15,760
Speaker 4: yourself right back in. So I still think it's all

551
00:23:15,800 --> 00:23:17,879
Speaker 4: in front of the Colts. I do think they control

552
00:23:17,920 --> 00:23:19,960
Speaker 4: their own destiny still to try to get in the playoffs.

553
00:23:20,040 --> 00:23:22,480
Speaker 4: But you've got to clean up some of those mistakes

554
00:23:22,520 --> 00:23:25,399
Speaker 4: because we just don't have the margin for air. You

555
00:23:25,440 --> 00:23:27,399
Speaker 4: know that we have that some of these other teams

556
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Speaker 4: have with just some of our limiting factors.

557
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Speaker 2: Right, four of the colts last five opponents have three

558
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Speaker 2: wins or fewer. All Right, Joe Wright's right there his

559
00:23:36,480 --> 00:23:38,520
Speaker 2: taiale the tape. Rick Vintory, what did you see on

560
00:23:38,600 --> 00:23:39,520
Speaker 2: the game film today?

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Speaker 5: Well, you know, going into the game, you know, as

562
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Speaker 5: we always do, you know, we create a blueprint for victory.

563
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Speaker 5: I've never believed that there wasn't anybody, no matter how

564
00:23:50,840 --> 00:23:53,280
Speaker 5: good they are, you know, they couldn't be beaten on

565
00:23:53,400 --> 00:23:57,159
Speaker 5: a good day if you do the right things and

566
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Speaker 5: if you bring your a game. But that was the key,

567
00:23:59,200 --> 00:24:02,720
Speaker 5: you had to bring your a game. The Lions really

568
00:24:02,760 --> 00:24:07,720
Speaker 5: were impressive, not flashy, but impressive because in this game

569
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Speaker 5: they did it. They just did their job, they just

570
00:24:10,480 --> 00:24:14,240
Speaker 5: did it methodically. But really, at the end of the day,

571
00:24:14,280 --> 00:24:18,800
Speaker 5: they dominated the Colts. Really, they dominated the scoreboard, they

572
00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:23,080
Speaker 5: dominated third down on both sides of the offense and defense.

573
00:24:23,640 --> 00:24:27,479
Speaker 5: They dominated the red zone offense and defense, and of

574
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Speaker 5: course they dominated I don't know if dominated the turn

575
00:24:31,040 --> 00:24:35,000
Speaker 5: but certainly were least penalized by a long shot. You know,

576
00:24:35,040 --> 00:24:38,160
Speaker 5: they had a seventy two percent completion rate at quarterback.

577
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Speaker 5: We had a thirty nine, and then they had the

578
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Speaker 5: time of possession fifteenth, so that that's really the tail

579
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Speaker 5: of the tape. It was a methodical, conservative performance by them,

580
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Speaker 5: but definitely dominating, and I agreed. I think there's no

581
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Speaker 5: question that the the worst part of the game. Actually

582
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Speaker 5: there's two issues. You know, the you know, the Ogal

583
00:25:00,320 --> 00:25:03,679
Speaker 5: Tree drop was terrible because that's seven, and then we

584
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Speaker 5: have the huge penalty on the other red zone miss

585
00:25:06,840 --> 00:25:09,280
Speaker 5: which we settle. I was mad right then. I knew

586
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Speaker 5: you can't settle. You can't have those unforced airs in

587
00:25:13,920 --> 00:25:17,560
Speaker 5: that red zone. And what happened was, you know, because

588
00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:20,919
Speaker 5: of those two red zone failures, one definitely because of

589
00:25:20,960 --> 00:25:25,760
Speaker 5: a penalty you end up fourteen to six rather than

590
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Speaker 5: fourteen to fourteen, which really changes the game because all

591
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Speaker 5: Detroit wanted to do was keep a little bit of

592
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Speaker 5: distance and don't screw it up, and that's what they did.

593
00:25:36,200 --> 00:25:39,600
Speaker 5: Then the other thing, obviously that the penalties did, they

594
00:25:39,600 --> 00:25:43,480
Speaker 5: took away huge gains. You know, I said going into

595
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Speaker 5: the game that this was this game was going to

596
00:25:45,440 --> 00:25:51,040
Speaker 5: be determined by explosive plays, us stopping explosive plays, in

597
00:25:51,160 --> 00:25:54,359
Speaker 5: US making explosive plays. And we did a pretty good

598
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Speaker 5: job on defense of at least not letting it out

599
00:25:57,640 --> 00:26:00,360
Speaker 5: of control. You know, they got three hundred nine yards,

600
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Speaker 5: but we didn't give up a ton of big plays.

601
00:26:02,880 --> 00:26:06,360
Speaker 5: You know, we were hanging in there. But every time

602
00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:09,639
Speaker 5: we'd get an explosive play on offense, it got called

603
00:26:09,680 --> 00:26:13,200
Speaker 5: back obviously, you know, you know that's just the way

604
00:26:13,240 --> 00:26:15,520
Speaker 5: it is. I mean, we it was a game that

605
00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:19,560
Speaker 5: you had to bring your a game to have a chance. Buffalo.

606
00:26:19,640 --> 00:26:22,840
Speaker 5: I mean this was like Buffalo. Two teams that are good,

607
00:26:23,320 --> 00:26:26,320
Speaker 5: that are better than us, and they know how to

608
00:26:26,320 --> 00:26:28,959
Speaker 5: play sharp, and they didn't come in to screw it up.

609
00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:30,720
Speaker 5: They came in to win it. They weren't going to

610
00:26:30,800 --> 00:26:33,720
Speaker 5: try to make a statement, and it's kind of the

611
00:26:33,800 --> 00:26:36,600
Speaker 5: same old thing, all of a sudden ten penalties for

612
00:26:36,680 --> 00:26:39,240
Speaker 5: the team that went in number six. It's kind of

613
00:26:39,240 --> 00:26:44,360
Speaker 5: a theme this year that Colts find ways to lose defensively, though,

614
00:26:44,400 --> 00:26:47,199
Speaker 5: we gave up three hundred and ninety yards and you know,

615
00:26:47,280 --> 00:26:51,840
Speaker 5: we gave up seventy two percent completions. But in a sense,

616
00:26:51,920 --> 00:26:55,280
Speaker 5: we didn't do bad because we kept the explosive plays

617
00:26:55,320 --> 00:26:59,240
Speaker 5: down and you know, the game was within limits. You know,

618
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Speaker 5: I felt going and if we could hold it around

619
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Speaker 5: twenty that we would have a chance. And you know

620
00:27:05,359 --> 00:27:09,000
Speaker 5: that part of it wasn't all bad. Offensively to me

621
00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:12,080
Speaker 5: was a huge disappointment. I mean, you're not you're not

622
00:27:12,119 --> 00:27:15,080
Speaker 5: gonna beat anybody, you know, scoring six points. You're not

623
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Speaker 5: certainly not gonna beat the Lions. You're not gonna be

624
00:27:16,880 --> 00:27:20,800
Speaker 5: the Giants if you score six points. And the one

625
00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:23,800
Speaker 5: thing I want to make because this has really been

626
00:27:23,840 --> 00:27:28,160
Speaker 5: a struggle for us, but since October sixth, okay, if

627
00:27:28,160 --> 00:27:30,920
Speaker 5: you throw out this, if you throw out the Jets game,

628
00:27:31,240 --> 00:27:34,320
Speaker 5: the Colts are averaging fifteen points a game. Okay, so

629
00:27:34,359 --> 00:27:37,399
Speaker 5: that you know that really has to change, you know,

630
00:27:37,480 --> 00:27:40,240
Speaker 5: And but again, you know, we you know, we didn't

631
00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:42,560
Speaker 5: get to one hundred yards rushing one hundred and seventy

632
00:27:42,560 --> 00:27:46,800
Speaker 5: two yards passing versus the twenty seventh worst pass coverage,

633
00:27:46,920 --> 00:27:49,000
Speaker 5: and that is going to be the Achilles heel of

634
00:27:49,040 --> 00:27:51,800
Speaker 5: the Detroit As good as they are, somebody is gonna

635
00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:54,280
Speaker 5: shred that pass defense. It's not very good at all.

636
00:27:54,640 --> 00:27:56,439
Speaker 5: But really, at the end of the day, it was

637
00:27:56,480 --> 00:28:02,560
Speaker 5: that red zone lack of efficiencyes didn't give us a chance.

638
00:28:03,680 --> 00:28:06,600
Speaker 5: Our tight end production. You talked about it during the game.

639
00:28:06,680 --> 00:28:11,119
Speaker 5: It's just nowhere. It's not it's nonexistent. And then I

640
00:28:11,160 --> 00:28:13,320
Speaker 5: think the thing they did a really good job of

641
00:28:13,480 --> 00:28:18,280
Speaker 5: defensively is they crushed our inside people. They they did

642
00:28:18,320 --> 00:28:23,480
Speaker 5: it with bull rushes, they did it with nose tackle twists. Obviously,

643
00:28:23,560 --> 00:28:28,720
Speaker 5: they exposed Tucker finally got exposed. And I think Quentin

644
00:28:28,720 --> 00:28:30,639
Speaker 5: Nelson had the worst game of his career, to be

645
00:28:30,680 --> 00:28:33,679
Speaker 5: honest with you, he wasn't much better. And they just

646
00:28:33,720 --> 00:28:36,240
Speaker 5: did a good job of crushing that pocket. And there

647
00:28:36,320 --> 00:28:38,840
Speaker 5: was a lot of times when there were guys either

648
00:28:38,920 --> 00:28:43,840
Speaker 5: around Richardson, around his legs, around his you know, around

649
00:28:43,880 --> 00:28:47,160
Speaker 5: his stomach and forced you know, some some air and

650
00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:50,080
Speaker 5: throws in that sense. So I mean in the end,

651
00:28:50,560 --> 00:28:52,320
Speaker 5: you know, this is just a really good This is

652
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Speaker 5: like Buffalo. Those are the two of all the teams

653
00:28:55,040 --> 00:28:57,520
Speaker 5: I've seen this year, those two are the real. Now

654
00:28:57,600 --> 00:28:59,760
Speaker 5: we haven't played the Chiefs, but those two teams that

655
00:28:59,760 --> 00:29:03,960
Speaker 5: I've studied, they're really class outfits without many liabilities.

656
00:29:04,640 --> 00:29:07,320
Speaker 2: No question about. Another opportunity for the Colts to make

657
00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:11,160
Speaker 2: a statement that did not happen. Hey, Colts fans, remember now.

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Speaker 2: over five hundred. Again, the Colt. It's missed out on

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Speaker 2: Rick Finturi and Joe Wrights. We're now busting out segment.

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Speaker 2: This is called tell Me Why, because the Colts are

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Speaker 2: five and seven. They've lost four of their last five

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Speaker 2: heading into the last month of the season, with very

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Speaker 2: winnable games on the schedule the rest of the way.

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Speaker 2: And this year, the Colts are one in six against

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Speaker 2: teams with a winning record, and they're four to one

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Speaker 2: against teams who were under five hundred on the season.

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Speaker 2: So let's explain why the Colts have predominantly lost to

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Speaker 2: good teams and have topped bad teams. So Joe tell

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Speaker 2: us why the Colts have taken care of business against

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Speaker 2: teams that are inferior to the Colts, so to speak.

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Speaker 2: So the wins are against the Bears, Steelers, Titans, Dolphins,

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Speaker 2: and Jets. Those teams are combined twenty three and thirty

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Speaker 2: two on the season, and only one of them, the Steelers,

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Speaker 2: has a winning record. So what are some reasons why

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Speaker 2: the Colts have been able to win games against those teams? Again,

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Speaker 2: teams that are predominantly well under five hundred to this

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Speaker 2: point of the season.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think when you look at our read, a

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Speaker 4: couple things stick out to me. One, haven't lost the game.

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Speaker 4: And what I mean by that is, you know, all

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Speaker 4: those games we won the turnover battle. Outside of the

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Speaker 4: Jets game. You know last week we were good on

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Speaker 4: third down. We generally were the least penalized team. So again,

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Speaker 4: you're limiting all these mistakes. And we always used to

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Speaker 4: say more games in the NFL are lost than their one.

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Speaker 4: If you just play good, clean football, don't turn it over,

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Speaker 4: win the turnover margin, and are the less penalized team,

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Speaker 4: you're going to win like seventy five percent of your games.

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Speaker 4: And so we did that. When I reflect back on

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Speaker 4: those wins too, I think we were able to run

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Speaker 4: the ball. We were able to impose our will, We

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Speaker 4: were able to get Jonathan Taylor going or AR five going,

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Speaker 4: and we were able to dictate the tempo of the

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Speaker 4: games in terms of running the ball when we have to.

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Speaker 4: And then I think the third part about that is

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Speaker 4: generally those games we got out to an early lead.

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Speaker 4: You think about the Jets game and how much we

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Speaker 4: took that one under control. You think about the Steelers

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Speaker 4: game and how right away. You know, the Colts just

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Speaker 4: you know, really took the bull by the horns in

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Speaker 4: that football game. You think about, you know, Miami. I

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Speaker 4: know we were down and we came back, But this

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Speaker 4: is a team, this Colts team. When we're able to

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Speaker 4: have a ten to three lead, or when we're able

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Speaker 4: to be up thirteen to ten and a half time,

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Speaker 4: those type of things are a lot better because now

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Speaker 4: we got the full arsenal. We can stay disciplined, we

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Speaker 4: can stay consistent, we can stay patient with the running

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Speaker 4: game with this team and with you know, the young

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Speaker 4: quarterback in AR five and some of you know our

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Speaker 4: accuracy problems, you know, in terms of completing passes and

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Speaker 4: moving the chains. It's a lot different if this Colts

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Speaker 4: team is up thirteen to seven and a half versus

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Speaker 4: yesterday we're down fourteen to six. And that's what I

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Speaker 4: felt like in the Lions game was fourteen to six.

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Speaker 4: The game was still in the balance. But you know,

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Speaker 4: when Gibbs got loose for that touchdown run twenty one

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Speaker 4: to six, it get's really hard for us to come

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Speaker 4: back in games just because we don't have that prolific

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Speaker 4: passing attack that some of these other teams have in the.

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Speaker 5: NFL, you know, just a dovetail off that for one second,

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Speaker 5: I just I think when we play well, I'll highlight

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Speaker 5: two things. On defense. When we play well, you know,

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Speaker 5: we are number sixteen, we are defensive stats aren't worth

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Speaker 5: a darn, but we are number sixteen in scoring defense,

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Speaker 5: so we keep the point total, you know, legit. And

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Speaker 5: then we're number nine in takeaways. So those two things

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Speaker 5: keep us legitimate. Really they're the only two things, but

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Speaker 5: they those two things keep us legit on defense. And

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Speaker 5: then the two weapons that may help us win is

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Speaker 5: you got to remember Richardson is like number six as

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Speaker 5: a quarterback rusher, and he's played half the games at

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Speaker 5: the top five us played, you know, with three hundred

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Speaker 5: and thirty five yards rushing and five point five and

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Speaker 5: then he's number one in the league in terms of

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Speaker 5: yardage per catch. So he gives you the running threat

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Speaker 5: and the explosive threats. So to me, just those four

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Speaker 5: things when we're really playing well, those really are the reasons.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, those have definitely been accentuated in the wins for

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Speaker 2: the Colts. So Rick, stay right there, we're playing tell

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Speaker 2: me why tell us why then? Why the Colts have

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Speaker 2: struggled to beat good teams and make statements on the season. Right,

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Speaker 2: the seven losses this year, You've got two losses to

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Speaker 2: the Texans. The other setbacks are against the Packers, Jaguars, Vikings, Bills,

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Speaker 2: and Lions. Those teams are combined fifty two and twenty seven.

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Speaker 2: Six of the seven teams the Colts have lost to

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Speaker 2: have at least seven wins on the season, except for

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Speaker 2: the two to nine Jags, who beat the Colts back

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Speaker 2: in Week five. So, Rick, what are some reasons why

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Speaker 2: the Colts haven't been able to get over the hump

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Speaker 2: against some of the NFL's best teams, at least the

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Speaker 2: best teams the Colts have seen on their schedule.

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Speaker 5: Well, you guys know this, statistics really do start to

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Speaker 5: matter at twelve weeks. I mean they really kind of

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Speaker 5: tell you who you are. And I think some things

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Speaker 5: and then I'm gonna specifically answer that question. But you know,

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Speaker 5: we're number twenty two in total offense, we're twenty seven

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Speaker 5: in giveaways, scoring twenty one, but it's only fifteen points

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Speaker 5: in game lately, and then on third down we're twenty three.

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Speaker 5: Then on defense we're number twenty eight on you know,

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Speaker 5: total defense, twenty six in the fourth quarter crunch time,

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Speaker 5: and this is the killer, and this has been here

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Speaker 5: for years. We're twenty ninth in completions completion percentage, and

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Speaker 5: I know over the years, if you look at that

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Speaker 5: stat when you're in that bottom ten, you ain't in

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Speaker 5: the playoffs because it's a passing lead. And if you're

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Speaker 5: giving up seventy percent all the time, you're in trouble.

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Speaker 5: And then on third down. We're twenty eighth on defense

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Speaker 5: as well, which all leads to that killer, that time

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Speaker 5: of possession, which is a ten minute deficiency. Now, if

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Speaker 5: you break away the wins and losses, you know there's

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Speaker 5: four teams. It was going to be a toss up

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Speaker 5: or underdog. You know, we played Houston at full strength

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Speaker 5: in the opener. They beat us in a close game.

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Speaker 5: That could happen. We play Minnesota. I think Minnesota is

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Speaker 5: an overachiever, but they're a good team, and you know,

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Speaker 5: they beat us in a tight game. That can happen.

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Speaker 5: You know, I think Buffalo and the Detroit Lions are

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Speaker 5: better than us. They're simply better than us. I thought

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Speaker 5: we had a shot at Buffalo because they were miss

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Speaker 5: three out of their four top targets, but in the

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Speaker 5: end they kind of outclassed us. Here's what's cost us

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Speaker 5: at this point. Three key games have really cost us.

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Speaker 5: You know, part of it was quarterback unevenness in the

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Speaker 5: early shuffling, but this is a game. The first game

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Speaker 5: that killed us is the Packer game. Yep, Okay, they

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Speaker 5: come in with no quarterback. Yep, we know they have

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Speaker 5: to throw, they have to run it, and they come

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Speaker 5: in and get three hundred and eighty three total two

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Speaker 5: to sixty one Russian and Jacobs goes for one point

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Speaker 5: fifty one. See, to me, that's an excusable and that

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Speaker 5: was a winnable game for us. The second Texan game

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Speaker 5: was a real winnable game. They come in without Collins,

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Speaker 5: but Stroud throws twenty five for thirty seven, seventy seven

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Speaker 5: percent to eighty five. Mixing goes over one hundred. So

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Speaker 5: you know, to me, that's another game that we had

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Speaker 5: all the advantages in the division, and that seventy seven

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Speaker 5: percent just keeps coming back on you. And then the

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Speaker 5: worst of all was the Jaguars. The Jaguars are a

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Speaker 5: bad team. They've actually phone games in Okay, and they

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Speaker 5: they score thirty seven points Lawrence goes twenty eight for

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Speaker 5: thirty four eighty two percent completion three seventy one in

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Speaker 5: two dds. So the top four games that I talked about,

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Speaker 5: those those games could have been lost by anybody, right,

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Speaker 5: But that bottom three, the Green Bay game, the Texas

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Speaker 5: two game, and the Jaguar game, we did not. We

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Speaker 5: we that's what's killed us. We would be eight to

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Speaker 5: four if we took care of business in those three games.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, And I think just a dovetail off what coach

842
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Speaker 4: is talking about when you're a team that's you know,

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Speaker 4: right around five hundred and we've struggled to beat you know,

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Speaker 4: some of these teams. To me, starting fast is so important,

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Speaker 4: you know, having a lead at halftime and not trap

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Speaker 4: to play catch up football, you know, scoring on your

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Speaker 4: first drive, which we did, but you know, getting out

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Speaker 4: to a seven to nothing lead or a ten three lead.

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Speaker 4: I just think that's so big because we got to

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Speaker 4: get a lot of youth on this team, and we

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Speaker 4: got youth at quarterback and that just gives you a

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Speaker 4: lot more confidence within the sixty minute game when you're

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Speaker 4: playing from ahead first, you're playing from behind. So I

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Speaker 4: think starting fast, however, you got to do it. Whether

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Speaker 4: it's changing things up offensively, tempo wise, you know, defense.

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Speaker 4: Whatever you got to do is start fast. To me,

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Speaker 4: that's going to be really important these last five games

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Speaker 4: this season.

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Speaker 2: Yep, no question about it. Good stuff right there. That's

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Speaker 2: tell me why why have the Colts dropped seven and

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Speaker 2: why have they won five? In the commonalities in those

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Speaker 2: two categories. Rick Venturi and Joe Wrights along, I'm Matt Taylor.

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Speaker 2: to Kent in the mail bag first. He is asking, Hey,

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Speaker 2: Joe Wrights, is it time to think about making changes

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Speaker 2: to our offensive line? I know we have three rookies

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Speaker 2: up front, but they don't seem to be holding up

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Speaker 2: very well lately.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I do, and good question, Ken, I do think

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Speaker 4: that something to look at a change, and I think

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Speaker 4: it's the simplest and the easiest fix would be to

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Speaker 4: think about putting Glowinski into the lineup at right guard.

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Speaker 4: And I know that, you know, we just signed him

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Speaker 4: last week, so what kind of football shape is he in?

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Speaker 4: But I tell you what, if you're coming in, you

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Speaker 4: know that you're healthy and you know you're one hundred

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Speaker 4: percent injury free, and so hopefully he's got a lot

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Speaker 4: in the tank. But you know, he's a guy that

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Speaker 4: started for four years here. I also think you plug

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Speaker 4: in a new guy. It's different if you've never been

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Speaker 4: in this system or played with these guys. But he

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Speaker 4: played next to Braden Smith for I mean, lord knows

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Speaker 4: how many games, and so I think he's somebody that's

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Speaker 4: a ten year.

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Speaker 3: Vet could solidify that right guard spot.

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Speaker 4: And I give you know, Tucker Krevit, he's been battling,

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Speaker 4: but I do think, you know, we've been exposed, especially

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Speaker 4: you know, between the three technique inside at guard to

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Speaker 4: last couple of games, and getting some extra push in

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Speaker 4: there on run plays, being more solid and pass protection

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Speaker 4: could help us.

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Speaker 3: And then you know, Gonzalvez has been bad on the

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Speaker 3: left side.

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Speaker 4: But it'd be nice to get Ryman back, and just

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Speaker 4: because I think of his pass protection.

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Speaker 3: And now you know, when.

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Speaker 4: It's third and seven, third and eight, you're able to

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Speaker 4: maybe let Ryman be out there on an island a

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Speaker 4: little bit more, get another guy out into the route

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Speaker 4: VERSU committing another tight end maybe to stay and help Lock.

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Speaker 4: So you know, if we can get Ryman back, Yeah,

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Speaker 4: and maybe you think about making that change.

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Speaker 3: I think those are two moves that could.

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Speaker 4: Solidify this offensive line, you know, and let us get

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Speaker 4: back to playing a little bit better, you know, these

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Speaker 4: last five games of the season.

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Speaker 2: All right, that's Joe Wrights with the mailbag segment tonight.

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Speaker 2: I'm Matt Taylor. Rick vent Terry is standing by this

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Speaker 2: one is going to Rick from Dalton. He's asking Rick,

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Speaker 2: why can't we get Jonathan Taylor ripping off big games

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Speaker 2: any longer like he did in twenty twenty one. He

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Speaker 2: seems like a non factor in most of the games

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Speaker 2: that we play. And this is a good observation by Dalton.

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Speaker 2: He's right, Jonathan Taylor. It's not all on the running back,

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Speaker 2: of course, but Jonathan Taylor is under four yards per

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Speaker 2: carry in three of the last four games the Colts

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Speaker 2: have played.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's been a struggle lately. You're right, Matt, because

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Speaker 5: overall he's four to four with seven tds. But you're

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Speaker 5: exactly right. Like our offense in general, it's kind of

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Speaker 5: on a downward slope, you know. And I think you know,

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Speaker 5: I think his teams see us and they play us.

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Speaker 5: You're gonna load the box because I mean, you have

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Speaker 5: to stop JT and you have to stop Richardson on

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Speaker 5: the edge, and then you can play three deep and

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Speaker 5: just make sure we don't run deep over the top.

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Speaker 5: If you get us in long yardage situations, blitz us.

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Speaker 5: So I think number one you're running into loaded boxes.

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Speaker 5: Teams are playing heavy and they're like bear, they don't

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Speaker 5: want to let him have those direct runs. I think

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Speaker 5: number two were really way and Joe has alluded to this,

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Speaker 5: we're way to generic running him. I mean everything is

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Speaker 5: a single back. We zone it, we will trap it

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Speaker 5: a little bit, but everything is a single back offense.

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Speaker 5: I've pleaded with this. I don't understand it. Almost everyone

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Speaker 5: else in the league carries a fullback or a tight end.

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Speaker 5: Who is a fullback? I mean we carry four tight

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Speaker 5: ends and none of them play worth a damn. I mean,

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Speaker 5: you mean to tell me we couldn't have a fullback

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Speaker 5: to get in there and give us some leads and

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Speaker 5: some powers to let John to let Jonathan run direct

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Speaker 5: behind somebody and not always in the one back where

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Speaker 5: the defense sees them. I think that's that's all a

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Speaker 5: part of it. And then of course Joj's mentioned it.

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Speaker 5: I mean, you know, we have issues in the offensive

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Speaker 5: line when Ryman is in there and Kelly's in there,

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Speaker 5: you know, and we have our whole line from the beginning.

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Speaker 5: You know, then we're a very powerful drive blocking team.

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Speaker 5: I mean, we we can move the line of scrimmage.

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Speaker 5: But you know that's not how happen. And this group

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Speaker 5: is not It doesn't have nearly the power and experience

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Speaker 5: that that group had. And you know, so I think

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Speaker 5: if you used to throw all those things together, yep,

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Speaker 5: I mean you got to try to get him going

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Speaker 5: in there, but you know, it's an uphill struggle. I'm

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Speaker 5: if we almost have to get Ryman back. He was

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Speaker 5: playing so well before he got hurt.

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Speaker 2: All right, we'll see if that can happen this week again,

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Speaker 2: Rick vent Terry right there, that's the mailbag segment tonight.

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Speaker 2: They are up next. There are three and nine. They're

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Speaker 2: Turrey and Joe Wright's time now for the closing arguments

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Speaker 2: as we wrap up the program here, Joey began first

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Speaker 2: with you final thoughts from a twenty four to six

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Speaker 2: loss to the Lions. The Colts had a lot of

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Speaker 2: self infliction that costs them dearly in that game, and

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Speaker 2: now they got to turn the page quickly and get

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Speaker 2: ready for the final five. Where As you said earlier,

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Speaker 2: the margin for air is basically zero for the Colts

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Speaker 2: if they want to make the postseason.

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Speaker 3: It is.

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Speaker 4: But what's exciting, Matt is you're playing one team with

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Speaker 4: the winning record, and that's Denver with the rookie quarterback.

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Speaker 3: And so if you're the Colts, you still control your

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Speaker 4: And I'm excited about these last five games, especially We've

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Speaker 4: got a bye weekend there to kind of recoup that

1031
00:47:32,600 --> 00:47:35,680
Speaker 4: late by can help us bottom line. Win this game, however,

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Speaker 4: means necessary. You get to the bye, you got two

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Speaker 4: weeks to prepare for Denver. That's an advantage. You get

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Speaker 4: that game, and then you're seven and seven, and you

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Speaker 4: got three very very winnable games. So even though we

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Speaker 4: got to maybe win five in a row to get

1037
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Speaker 4: their coach, I'm cautiously optimistic because of who we're playing.

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Speaker 4: And I still think this team in AR five we

1039
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Speaker 4: got a lot of room to grow. But I know

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Speaker 4: we're going up to Foxborough. We ain't playing your dad's Patriots, right,

1041
00:48:01,280 --> 00:48:03,440
Speaker 4: tell us about this team very very winnable game that

1042
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Speaker 4: we should get done up there on Sunday.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you just kept on my line. Actually, I mean

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Speaker 5: this is definitely not your father's Patriots. I've never seen

1045
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Speaker 5: a Patriot team in this shape. You know, they're thirty

1046
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Speaker 5: two to one offense, twenty two one defense. Just a

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Speaker 5: couple of things here before we go, Just a couple

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Speaker 5: of things. You always got to be alert for Number one,

1049
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Speaker 5: there are still some remnants of the Belichick defense. A

1050
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Speaker 5: lot of volume on defense and on offense, Drake May

1051
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Speaker 5: is really good. He's playing on a really, really bad team.

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Speaker 5: But this kid is really playing his tailoff week after week.

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Speaker 5: You know, you know, he is showing why they picked

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Speaker 5: him number three. He's a terrific athlete with all the

1055
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Speaker 5: skill in the world. I really respect what he's doing.

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Speaker 5: Like I said, this is a kid playing very well

1057
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Speaker 5: on a very very bad team.

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Speaker 2: No question about it. Should be a good challenge, at

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Speaker 2: least offensively for the Colts. Going up against a young

1060
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Speaker 2: gun at quarterback in New England fell us terrific job

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Speaker 2: tonight here on Colts Roundtable Live. Have a happy Thanksgiving

1062
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Speaker 2: to you both, and we'll talk to you next Monday.

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Speaker 3: Thanks Matt. Happy Thanksgiving to you too.

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Speaker 2: Thanks to head coach Shane Steike and you're joined in

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