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Speaker 1: recapping the action. YO sixty two yards Now, here's the

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Speaker 1: voice of the Colts, Matt Taylor. Hey, good evening. Welcome

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Speaker 1: until seven o'clock tonight, recapping the Colts week one tie

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Speaker 1: with the Houston Texans. It marks the first tie for

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Speaker 1: the Colts since Week seven of the nineteen eighty two

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Speaker 1: season against the Packers, and the first one in the

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Speaker 1: Indianapolis Colts era. The Colts took an early three to

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Speaker 1: nothing lead in the first quarter, but then Houston rallied

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Speaker 1: off twenty straight points. The Colts went into the fourth

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Speaker 1: Colts secondary a couple of times found the end zone

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Speaker 1: for two touchdowns. The Colts came up short on a

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Speaker 1: There were dropped passes in the end zone. Matt Ryan

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Speaker 1: had a screen pass in Houston territory picked off by

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Speaker 1: former Colt Jerry Hughes. The Colts also lost a fumble

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Speaker 1: on a center to quarterback exchange near midfield. For the game,

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Speaker 1: the Colts were just two for five in the red zone,

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Speaker 1: six for sixteen on third and fourth down, and were

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Speaker 1: penalized seven times. But despite all of that, the Colts

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Speaker 1: rallied back in the fourth quarter. They outscored the Texans

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Speaker 1: seventeen to nothing in the final ten minutes and forty

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Speaker 1: seven seconds. The game headed an overtime, but neither team

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Speaker 1: could score on two ot possessions. Houston got the ball first,

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Speaker 1: but Davis Mills was sacked twice, leading to a punt.

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Speaker 1: The Colts moved into field goal range with a thirteen

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Speaker 1: but Rodrigo Blankenship's forty two yard attempt sailed right late

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Speaker 1: in overtime. Despite the time, Matt Ryan threw for over

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Speaker 1: for his career. Jonathan Taylor ran for a buck sixty

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Speaker 1: one and found the end zone, and in doing so,

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Speaker 1: over one hundred yards for the fourteenth time in his career.

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Speaker 1: The Colts had a three hundred yard passer, a one

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Speaker 1: hundred yard rusher, and Michael Pittman Junior went over one

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Speaker 1: had accomplished that feat since Peyton Manning, Joseph Dai, and

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Speaker 1: Pierre Garson back in week six two ten at Washington.

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Speaker 1: Coming up tonight, we're gonna recap the game with Rick

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Speaker 1: next segment. We're also taking your questions later in the

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Speaker 1: show and on segment number one as always if you

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Speaker 1: have a question in The Colts tweeted in tonight using

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Speaker 1: hashtag Colts Roundtable. But first tonight we hear from the

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Speaker 1: head coach of the Colts, Frank Reich is with us

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Speaker 1: in study brought to you by Citizens Energy Group and

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Speaker 1: coach a very weird game in Houston. They made plays,

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Speaker 1: The Colts made plays, but neither team could fully take

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Speaker 1: advantage in overtime. What was your message to the team

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Speaker 1: after the tie on Sunday. Yeah, the message was, you know,

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Speaker 1: we didn't achieve our goal today of reaching one and zero,

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Speaker 1: like it is every Sunday. But but let's so let's

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Speaker 1: go back and do what we do every week. Let's

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Speaker 1: learn from the mistakes, let's clean up. The other message was,

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Speaker 1: you put up over five hundred yards of offense. You've

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Speaker 1: Statistically they shined in game one. So how do you

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Speaker 1: Is it's the healthy tension of a healthy dissatisfaction, right.

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Speaker 1: regular season by using hashtag Colts Roundtable. Billy's up. First,

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Speaker 1: he wants to know coach what was going on with

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Speaker 1: the center to quarterback problems yesterday? There were a couple

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Speaker 1: This is more of a procedural question. He says, we

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Speaker 1: out a segment called What's Real Some items good, some

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Speaker 1: on Colts Roundtable Live, stay with US on ninety three

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Speaker 1: Back with Joe Rights and Rick Venturi tonight on Colts

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Speaker 1: Roundtable Live by'm Matt Taylor. Let's go into a segment

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Speaker 1: as we tease, we'recalling this what's Real? Because the Colts

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Speaker 1: have only played one game, it's a small sample size. Well,

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Speaker 1: let's break down what's real and what might be a

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Speaker 1: one game anomaly with the Colts heading into Week two

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Speaker 1: against the Jacksonville Jaguars coming up this weekend. So what's real?

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Speaker 1: Number One Rodrigo Blankenship missing a forty two yarder with

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Speaker 1: under a couple minutes left to go in overtime, leaving

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Speaker 1: the Colts precious little time left for another chance at

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Speaker 1: the win. But he was good before that. He drolled

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Speaker 1: a forty five yarder in a twenty seven yard or

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Speaker 1: in a couple of pats. But he also gave Houston

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Speaker 1: a helping hand by knocking a pair of kickoffs out

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Speaker 1: of bounds, each time giving them possession of the forty

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Speaker 1: yard line, which Rick chronicled earlier in segment two. So

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Speaker 1: Rick will start with you on this one. What's real

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Speaker 1: blanketship on rocky footing or just a bad opening game

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Speaker 1: of the season for the Colts kicker? What is real there? Well,

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Speaker 1: I think, in my opinion is that he is on

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Speaker 1: rocky ground because I don't think that he has ever

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Speaker 1: really established himself. This isn't like Adam Vinati, who was

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Speaker 1: a Hall of Fame guy that you were hoping was

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Speaker 1: in a slump. This is a guy who has I mean,

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Speaker 1: I don't I've never had full confidence in him period.

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Speaker 1: I don't, you know, I don't consider him an established

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Speaker 1: guy that that basically is the guy. So I mean,

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Speaker 1: and I think you know there are kickers out there.

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Speaker 1: We've made changes before, you know, I had a conversation.

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Speaker 1: This is ironic because I had a conversation with Mike Westoff,

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Speaker 1: who if the fans don't know, he's probably the premier

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Speaker 1: special team's coach in all times. I mean, he kind

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Speaker 1: of set the standard. He's retired now, but he had

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Speaker 1: years and years of doing it. And we got talking

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Speaker 1: about the Colts last week in a conversation and I

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Speaker 1: told him I just him kind of ambivalent towards a blankenship.

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Speaker 1: I just really don't know. I think he's good enough

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Speaker 1: until he's not. And Mike says, well, let me tell

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Speaker 1: you how to evaluates your place kicker. And he said,

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Speaker 1: here's how you evaluate your place kicker. When he misses

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Speaker 1: a kick to win the game from the forty yard line,

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Speaker 1: Are you shocked? And if you're, if you're, If you're

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Speaker 1: not shocked, then it's an anomaly. Uh, you know, if

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Speaker 1: you if you're, if you're shocked, Okay, it's an anomaly.

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Speaker 1: If you're not shocked, he's probably not good enough. And

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Speaker 1: to be honest with you, as much as I thought

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Speaker 1: we would make that and win it, and I was

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Speaker 1: in my mind the win was there. I had counted

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Speaker 1: to w I was not totally shocked when he missed it,

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Speaker 1: so I mean that that's kind of all you had

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Speaker 1: to know from me. I you know, I think he's

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Speaker 1: an okay guy. I don't think that he's, you know,

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Speaker 1: a guy necessarily that we've got to make a living with.

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Speaker 1: And so in my opinion, he is on rocky grounds.

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Speaker 1: I would agree with your coach, And I think that's

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Speaker 1: a great analogy by west Staff, because I think the

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Speaker 1: thing about Rodrigo is he doesn't have the great leg strength.

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Speaker 1: And we saw that how that affected us on the kickoffs.

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Speaker 1: We saw that how that affects on long field goals.

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Speaker 1: You don't expect him to be drilling him from fifty five.

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Speaker 1: You know, the Browns kicker hit a fifty eight yard

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Speaker 1: or to win the game. You know, in the Bengals kicker,

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Speaker 1: Now he struggled yesterday, but he had two sixty yoders

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Speaker 1: in the playoffs. Rodrigo doesn't have that in his bag,

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Speaker 1: so to speak. So you gotta be accurate, super accurate

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Speaker 1: from fifty on ind especially forty two to win the game.

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Speaker 1: And so I think with kickers, it's interesting. You can

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Speaker 1: go and wane, and you can have one or two

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Speaker 1: good kicks, and that can you know, set the standard.

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Speaker 1: And you know I played with Steve Houschko as a

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Speaker 1: roommate of mine in Baltimore. He got released by the

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Speaker 1: Ravens for missing a couple of kicks and bounced around

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Speaker 1: and then he had seven unbelievable years in Seattle. And

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Speaker 1: that's just the thing about kickers. But I think that

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Speaker 1: definitely rocky ground is a good assumption for where Rodrigo's

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Speaker 1: at right now. All right, that's Joe Wrights, Rick Venturia

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Speaker 1: as well. I'm Matt Taylor. You're listening to Colt's Roundtable

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Speaker 1: Live tonight ninety three five and one US seven to

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Speaker 1: five the fin we're playing What's Real. So let's go

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Speaker 1: to the offense where wide receiver Alec Pierce dropped a

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Speaker 1: touchdown pass in the first half. Ashton Dulan had a

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Speaker 1: chance at a touchdown catch as well in the back

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Speaker 1: of the end zone. So against the Texans wide receivers

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Speaker 1: and tight ends not named Michael Pittman Junior, those guys

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Speaker 1: combined for thirteen catches on twenty three targets eighty three

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Speaker 1: yards and a couple of drop touchdowns. Joe, I'll start

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Speaker 1: with you first, on this one. So the receivers behind

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Speaker 1: Pittman they're gonna bounce back, or specifically with Pierce, he

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Speaker 1: just had opening game Jitters, what do you think is

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Speaker 1: real as far as that is concerned. I think opening

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Speaker 1: game Jitters, I was really impressed with Pierce in the

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Speaker 1: camp he put together, especially the last couple of weeks.

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Speaker 1: I don't have a ton of concerns about him. I

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Speaker 1: just think sometimes you get in the bright lights and

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Speaker 1: it's your first time and he dropped one, and that's

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Speaker 1: unfortunate because I would have put us up ten nothing.

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Speaker 1: But I don't think you go too hard on him

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Speaker 1: because you expect him to be a long time player.

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Speaker 1: Now if he drops another one next week, in a

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Speaker 1: week three and four, maybe something. But he had that drop,

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Speaker 1: Dueling had that drop. But you did have some nice plays.

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Speaker 1: You know, Moali had a big catch. I tell you what,

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Speaker 1: Hines in the slot. You know we did that. In

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Speaker 1: my opinion, we can't do that enough. There's no linebacker

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Speaker 1: in the game that can cover him, and so I

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Speaker 1: think we'll still get production from this wide receiver corps.

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Speaker 1: I just think it was more of a matter of

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Speaker 1: first game Jitters. For Pierson doing on those drops and hey,

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Speaker 1: now you've been in the big moment, you had your drop,

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Speaker 1: forget it, put it behind you. You're a good ball player.

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Speaker 1: Let's go out and execute week two. That would be

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Speaker 1: the message for me if I'm Reggie Wayne in that

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Speaker 1: wide receiver room this week in practice. Yeah, I pretty

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Speaker 1: much concurred there. You know, Pierce is a guy and

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Speaker 1: Joe is absolutely right. I mean we saw him basically

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Speaker 1: day after day after day improve and look good. I'm

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Speaker 1: sure that you know, and we talk about this all

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Speaker 1: the time. It's a different world. Joe knows this. When

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Speaker 1: you step foot out there in that first game and

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Speaker 1: it's for real and it's live, and it's an NFL

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Speaker 1: real game, not a preseason game or a practice, the

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Speaker 1: intensity level and the speed of the game, game and

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Speaker 1: everything is at a totally totally different level. If we

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Speaker 1: catch those two games, if we catch those balls, either

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Speaker 1: one of them, there is no overtime. I mean really, uh,

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Speaker 1: you basically left eleven points on the field just with

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Speaker 1: those two plays alone. But I think Pearce will be fine.

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Speaker 1: He historically is a really good catcher. Matter of fact,

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Speaker 1: he historically can make the circus catch. So again, I

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Speaker 1: think that'll come. You know, Doling has inconsistencies in his play.

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Speaker 1: He's done some good things and some you know, he's

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Speaker 1: kind of one of those guys. It's good until he isn't.

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Speaker 1: Now I agree with Joe. I think, you know, with

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Speaker 1: the exception of our two, you know, terrific players right now,

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Speaker 1: basically jtuh In Pittman, there is no question that number

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Speaker 1: three game breaker is Hines and he is really a handful.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he was real critical in getting that ball

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Speaker 1: down there in that red own. They couldn't cover him.

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Speaker 1: They couldn't cover him, and when we put him all

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Speaker 1: the way outside and you know, we had to make

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Speaker 1: him show the covers. Those are those are big deals. Now,

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Speaker 1: the two guys, I think maybe he may emerge here

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Speaker 1: before it's all over. And if anything does continue with

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Speaker 1: those two guys, I think Matt Ryan will throw the

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Speaker 1: ball to Campbell. I really do. I've seen it in practice.

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Speaker 1: I thought Campbell did a good job of getting open

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Speaker 1: in that one drive there where we did have some diversity.

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Speaker 1: I really liked the way he got open. He only

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Speaker 1: had a couple of catches. But I thought that I've

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Speaker 1: seen Ryan be willing to go to him. I think

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Speaker 1: he's a substantially better player than dueling in the slide.

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Speaker 1: I think he's much more threatening. I'd like to see

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Speaker 1: him be the guy more often. And the other guy

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Speaker 1: that will I think, you know, really is kind of

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Speaker 1: the sleeper again, is strong Matt, I'm telling you. And

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Speaker 1: they're not afraid to throw to him, and he's he

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Speaker 1: just makes it look easy, you know. And if you know,

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Speaker 1: and let's say Pierce isn't ready, let's say that he

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Speaker 1: needs a little time, well, let's you know, if we

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Speaker 1: need to go with Strawn and Campbell, go with them.

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Speaker 1: Don't worry about it, you know, because you're gonna be

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Speaker 1: Pittman focused anyway. And what you do need, though is diversity,

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Speaker 1: because that, you know, the idea of the Big three

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Speaker 1: will catch up with us because they they they all

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Speaker 1: attack the similar areas of the field that can be defended.

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Speaker 1: So we're gonna need that diversity before it's all over,

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Speaker 1: no doubt about that. That's Rick Vent Terry Joe Rights

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Speaker 1: is along as well. Colts Roundtable Live tonight here on

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Speaker 1: the fan. Let's go to what's real number three quickly,

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Speaker 1: And you know, the Colts have been conscious and cognizant

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Speaker 1: of the workload that they could place on Jonathan Taylor

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Speaker 1: this season, because last year he led the NFL with

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Speaker 1: three hundred and thirty two carries. He's averaging three hundred

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Speaker 1: carries every year dating back to twenty seventeen when he

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Speaker 1: was in college at Wisconsin. Yesterday, right out of the

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Speaker 1: gate in the first quarter, eleven carries, finished the game

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Speaker 1: with thirty one. What's real as far as this is concerned, Rick,

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Speaker 1: the Colts will they're going to dial it back as

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Speaker 1: the season goes, and they're gonna be conscious of the

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Speaker 1: workload they're placing on Jonathan Taylor for the long term

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Speaker 1: or is it forget it? He's he's our best player.

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Speaker 1: We got to feed him the rock. We've got to

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Speaker 1: win games right here and right now. Yeah, you know

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Speaker 1: that's that was and I said that to you going

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Speaker 1: into the season, that that's going to be the toughest

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Speaker 1: game management thing for Frank Reich, to be honest with you,

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Speaker 1: is where what is balance? Where is balance important? One

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Speaker 1: thing about Jonathan he is sensational. He's probably the best

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Speaker 1: football player that I've been associated with in my coaching career,

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Speaker 1: and I've been with four or five Hall of Famers.

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Speaker 1: I mean, this guy is absolutely phenomenal. I've always said

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Speaker 1: I've paid to watch him play anytime, anywhere, and you

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Speaker 1: can't ever get away from him. You know. You know

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Speaker 1: what what I worry about now, I don't worry about

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Speaker 1: his durability. His durability is there. It's proven. He gets better.

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Speaker 1: He's cumulative runner, he gets better. He was that way

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Speaker 1: in college, six hundred carries. You know the problem is

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Speaker 1: and because the Houston, the Houston defense is not a

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Speaker 1: of better defenses than that. Is that they're gonna do

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Speaker 1: things to stop Jonathan and we're going to need diversity.

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Speaker 1: It's very tough for me not to get him that ball.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he's just so good with it. He runs possessed,

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Speaker 1: he makes yardage when it's not there. But you would

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Speaker 1: not necessarily because of his workload, but you're gonna need

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Speaker 1: I would agree with you there coaching, And now I like,

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Speaker 1: you know, Michael Jordan for the bulls in the heyday.

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Speaker 1: If he scored fifty points a game every game in

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Speaker 1: the regular season, which he very well could, that's less

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Speaker 1: shots all those other guys are getting. When you add

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Speaker 1: it up on a game by game basis, then you

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Speaker 1: get to the playoffs. And to your point, a team

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Speaker 1: puts nine guys in the box against Taylor says he

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Speaker 1: absolutely is in beating us. Have we developed those younger

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Speaker 1: wide receivers, tight ends, Hines, etc. And I think we're

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Speaker 1: in a case where we have a lot of young

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Speaker 1: skill position players, especially tight end and wide receiver, and

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Speaker 1: we need to continue to get those guys the ball,

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Speaker 1: even though your recipe is, hey, if Taylor carries the

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Speaker 1: rock forty times a game, you're probably gonna win the

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Speaker 1: ball game. And so again I don't envy Frank Reich

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Speaker 1: and how you divvy that up, but I do think

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Speaker 1: every game is different. You got to win the games

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Speaker 1: to be able to get to the playoffs. But bottom line,

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Speaker 1: that's a tough kind of situation to have no data

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Speaker 1: about it. Rick vent Teri and Joe Wrights, that's what's real.

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Speaker 1: what was your assessment of our defensive scheme in the

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Speaker 1: first game with Gus Bradley compared two years passed with

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Speaker 1: Matt Eberflus, and then Rick, I'm gonna combine Danny and Dawn.

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Speaker 1: Dawn is asking why do we always seem to have

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Speaker 1: a hard time slowing down tight ends? O? J. Howard

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Speaker 1: burned us for two touchdowns. So Rick, I'll give you

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Speaker 1: some defensive questions. Compare Gus Bradley through game one versus

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Speaker 1: Matt Eberflus, and then the tight end struggles for the

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Speaker 1: Colts in game one. Yeah, it's it's pretty interesting because

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Speaker 1: there are some similarities between last year and this year.

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Speaker 1: I was disappointed, to be honest with you. I thought

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Speaker 1: we've looked much better in training camp in those first

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Speaker 1: three quarters. In that course, we've played shutdown defense, you know,

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Speaker 1: the rest of the way, fourth quarter and overtime. You know, again,

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Speaker 1: I thought Grover Stewart was terrific and I thought Gilmore

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Speaker 1: was terrific. Kind of the two guys that have been

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Speaker 1: really good in training camp carried it right into this ballgame.

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Speaker 1: You know, when you looked at the Eberfluss defense, the

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Speaker 1: You know. I always felt like there were too many

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Speaker 1: open zones in there. Now where I thought that Eberfluss

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Speaker 1: particularly in what we call a max a max blitz

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Speaker 1: bring six and play zone behind it, which was, you know,

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Speaker 1: always felt like there was a little bit too much

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Speaker 1: cover too. I always felt with eber Flusters too much too.

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Speaker 1: And now I'm going to be begging Bradley to give

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Speaker 1: us a little bit of two. The thing about the

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Speaker 1: Bradley system is it really is based on a single

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Speaker 1: high Cover three. Now they have a lot of nuance

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Speaker 1: within it. They'll play Cover three to one side and

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Speaker 1: man to man to the weak side. They'll reverse it,

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Speaker 1: they'll buzz it, they'll play it with an inside leverage,

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Speaker 1: and then they'll back out of there and play quarters.

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Speaker 1: They played almost no to whatsoever. I did like the

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Speaker 1: fact that by the end of the game he was matching.

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Speaker 1: He was taking Gilmore and matching him to Cooks, which

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Speaker 1: I like because you know, I think you have to

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Speaker 1: do that to take away a guy if you're not

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Speaker 1: going to do it schematically. My only problem with it

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00:37:45,800 --> 00:37:48,400
Speaker 1: is Cover three is Cover three, no matter how much

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00:37:48,560 --> 00:37:52,160
Speaker 1: you dress it up. You know, like they say, put

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00:37:52,239 --> 00:37:54,479
Speaker 1: lipstick on a pig, you know it's still a pig

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Speaker 1: at certain points. And I'm not saying Cover three is

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Speaker 1: a pig. But if you do anything too much, you know,

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Speaker 1: and you just live and die with it. Eighty percent

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Speaker 1: of the game, let's say, I mean they're gonna pick

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Speaker 1: you clean, They're gonna play action and get a lot

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Speaker 1: of areas back in there. And I worry over the

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Speaker 1: long haul. Although I think Gilmore helps us, I didn't

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Speaker 1: think Kenny had a very good game at all. But

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Speaker 1: you know, I just feel like that you can only

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Speaker 1: undress those corners so much out there, and if you're

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Speaker 1: playing Cover three and quarters all day, you're really undressing

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Speaker 1: the corners all the time. So I think there's going

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Speaker 1: to have to be more diversity, and I think we

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Speaker 1: have to be much more creative on the pass us

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00:38:37,880 --> 00:38:41,200
Speaker 1: because other than pay sacks late, we got very very

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00:38:41,280 --> 00:38:46,000
Speaker 1: little pressure for three quarters on the quarterback. That was disappointing. Now,

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00:38:46,040 --> 00:38:48,319
Speaker 1: as far as the tight ends go, I think that

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Speaker 1: we're gonna be better in the long run if we

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Speaker 1: fix one area because we are matching tighter underneath, we're

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Speaker 1: not letting. Actually, Mills made some great throws in there.

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Speaker 1: I mean some tight window throws in this game in

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Speaker 1: the seams. But we have one real flaw in our

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Speaker 1: Cover three And I pointed it out in the preseason

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Speaker 1: when they threw that gimme down the middle down the

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Speaker 1: inside seam at Tampa against Cover three. When you play

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Speaker 1: a three deep. When you play a three deep, there

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Speaker 1: is a dead zone if you run one guy on

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Speaker 1: the two guys on the outside down by the sidelines

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Speaker 1: and then you run two seam patterns that come right

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Speaker 1: down the inside of the numbers. Okay, I mean the

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Speaker 1: inside of yeah, the inside of the numbers. So you

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Speaker 1: got four deep guys. There is a dead spot for

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Speaker 1: that middle safety to cover that he can't get to.

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Speaker 1: And that's that's between like eighteen and twenty yards. If

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Speaker 1: that ball is thrown on a rope, there as a

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Speaker 1: real dead spot. And so you have to do one

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Speaker 1: or two things in your cover three. You have to

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Speaker 1: either have one of your linebackers run man demand with

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Speaker 1: that seam and the free safety goes the other way.

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Speaker 1: We used to call that the stretch principle. Free safety

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Speaker 1: just say stretch right, and he would tell the right

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Speaker 1: side linebacker, you have to run with that seam. I'll

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Speaker 1: run with the seam on the left. Or when I'm

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Speaker 1: in the Belichick system, you have to reroute those number twos.

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Speaker 1: You have to knock them off that area. You've got

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Speaker 1: to squeeze them out to the ones so that the

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Speaker 1: corner can cover both guys deep, or you squeeze them

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Speaker 1: in where the safety can get them. But you have

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Speaker 1: to reroute them. We have done neither. We did neither.

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Speaker 1: I mean, those were gimmis to Oj Howard, I mean,

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Speaker 1: you have to cover those seams. So that would be

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Speaker 1: like a lot of things. We short it up when

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Speaker 1: we had two in the fourth quarter, but we got

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Speaker 1: to get a lot better. Rick Vince are right there,

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Speaker 1: Joe writes along as well. Colts Roundtable Live. This is

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Speaker 1: go to Scott's question, Joe, what things still give you

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Speaker 1: optimism that the Colts can still compete for the Division

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Speaker 1: and the AFC South. Well, I think, Scott, to your question,

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Speaker 1: been saying all offseason, if we don't win the South

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Speaker 1: and reclaim the division this year, it's a failure and

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Speaker 1: I stand by that, and I think look no further

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Speaker 1: than Tennessee losing it home to the Giants, I mean,

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Speaker 1: and just an epic collapsed by them. And while we

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Speaker 1: didn't play well well I thought at times it was

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Speaker 1: really ugly in the game, we still got out of

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Speaker 1: there with a tie, and I think if you just

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Speaker 1: look at the division, you know Houston has to go

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Speaker 1: to Denver next week and fight Russell Wilson, and Tennessee's

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Speaker 1: got to go to Buffalo and play you know, the

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Speaker 1: crown Super Bowl champs, Josh Allen. So at the end

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Speaker 1: of next week, if you take care of business, you

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Speaker 1: could be sitting there with a game lead, a game

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Speaker 1: and a half lead, and a two game lead on

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Speaker 1: everybody else in the division. But that to me speaks

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Speaker 1: to the urgency of this game. Matt are struggles in

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Speaker 1: Jacksonville are well documented seven years in a row. Well,

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Speaker 1: I don't think there needs to be a freak out

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Speaker 1: it's just one game. There needs to be a healthy

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Speaker 1: sense of urgency and paranoia in my opinion, to make

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Speaker 1: Search CBS four Indie in the App Store or Google Play.

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Speaker 1: As Joe alluded to in the last segment, not a

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Speaker 1: great day for the AFC South. Everybody is still winless.

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Speaker 1: The Colts and Texans tied, the Jaguars fell to the Commanders,

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Speaker 1: the Titans lost at home to the Giants twenty one

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Speaker 1: to twenty. It's now time for your closing arguments, Joe,

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Speaker 1: I'll let you go first your final thoughts on the

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Speaker 1: game yesterday and if you want to look ahead to

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Speaker 1: the challenge in Week two next Sunday against Jacksonville. I

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Speaker 1: said at the beginning, they say it ties like kissing

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Speaker 1: your sister. You don't want to be doing the map.

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Speaker 1: You want to be kissing the prettiest girl at the prom.

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Speaker 1: And if you do that, you got to take your

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Speaker 1: act on the road. Win a road game against Jacksonville

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Speaker 1: that you've struggled with. It's well documented. Get that win

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Speaker 1: and all things are back right in the Colts world

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Speaker 1: in terms of taking back the AFC South. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: when we go to Jacksonville, you know, I've had a

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Speaker 1: chance to watch them very very closely. They lost a

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Speaker 1: changing players than the Texans, and obviously their ability to

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Speaker 1: play US has been outstanding. So again, this season is

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Speaker 1: going to pivot on next week's game. No question about

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Speaker 1: a huge Week two affair. It's another AFC South showdown

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Speaker 1: on the road for the Colts. We gotta run tonight.

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Speaker 1: We're up against at Rick vent Terry and Joe wrights guys,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much for the time and the breakdown

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Speaker 1: this evening. That's all the time we have. Thanks to

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Speaker 1: everybody who participated and joined in and tweeted in their

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Speaker 1: questions for both Frank Reich and Rick and Joe later

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Speaker 1: on in the show. Coming up, it's ESPN Radio. We'll

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Speaker 1: talk to you next week at six pm on Monday

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Speaker 1: for another installment of Colts Roundtable Live. Until then, thanks

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Speaker 1: for listening and keep it right here on your home

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Speaker 1: of the Colts ninety three five and one oh seven

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Speaker 1: five the Fan. Goodnight,