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Speaker 1: you for joining us. Happy holidays to you. With Christmas

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Speaker 1: up on Saturday night five thirty Colts pregame huddle with me,

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Speaker 1: As we always do on Colts Happy where we start

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Speaker 1: going to be huge in that game as well. Like

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Speaker 1: I said, those guys are phenomenal at turnover, so that's

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Speaker 1: going to be a key point in the game. And

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Speaker 1: as well as just being able to handle their playmakers

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Speaker 1: on defense. They have a few playmakers and we're gonna

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Speaker 1: have to do a good great job of trying to

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Speaker 1: neutralize them as much as we can. You know, the

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Speaker 1: other thing too, it's much like Saturday night. You get

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Speaker 1: all these eyeballs in prime time where you know, the

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Speaker 1: only football game on. You're gonna have that again coming

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Speaker 1: up on Christmas Night. Is there any extra juice that

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Speaker 1: comes with that, you know, knowing that everybody in the NFL,

441
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Speaker 1: everybody's gonna be watching what you're doing. Oh yeah, prime

442
00:21:33,320 --> 00:21:35,600
Speaker 1: time is always a great time. Like you said, you're

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Speaker 1: the only game one, and you know, it's kind of

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Speaker 1: like you're going out there to put on a show,

445
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Speaker 1: but in your mind you're going out there to handle

446
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Speaker 1: business and come out with the win. But it's actually

447
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Speaker 1: really exciting, especially you know, when you get to play

448
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Speaker 1: in prime time, especially at home. Though. That makes a difference,

449
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Speaker 1: It really does. Jonathan Taylor is with us, Um you

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Speaker 1: enjoying Hard Knocks? Do you watch it on a weekly basis? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I definitely try to watch it and keep up with it.

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Speaker 1: It's kind of interesting. It's like a reality TV show

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Speaker 1: except that you're in it. Do you, i mean, do

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Speaker 1: you notice when they're on you, like when you're in

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Speaker 1: the running backs meeting room. This is why I asked this,

456
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Speaker 1: because I don't know if it was was it last weekend,

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Speaker 1: Kyle or two weeks ago when they were going over

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Speaker 1: the accolades for what you accomplished and everybody was clapping

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Speaker 1: and very excited in the room, you didn't look like

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Speaker 1: you were feeling it too much, know what I mean.

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Speaker 1: I didn't know if that was just by virtue of

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Speaker 1: how you feel normal basis, or if you know that

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Speaker 1: the cameras are in there. It just kind of looked

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Speaker 1: like that You're almost I don't want to say embarrassed,

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Speaker 1: but you kind of thought, you know, this is kind

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Speaker 1: of odd. Was it awkward for you? No, it wasn't awkward.

467
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Speaker 1: And hard knocks you kind of don't really notice they're around.

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Speaker 1: They have a bunch of cameras kind of posted in

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Speaker 1: the meeting rooms and on the field. They're usually on

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Speaker 1: the outskirts of the field, so unless you're really going

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Speaker 1: on one on one interaction with them, you kind of

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Speaker 1: don't even notice that they're there. Yeah, and has it

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Speaker 1: been enjoyable, not not only to know that you're a

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Speaker 1: part of this, but to be able to watch this

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Speaker 1: every Wednesday night? It has man especially knowing in the

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Speaker 1: future in years to come, when you'll have this foot

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Speaker 1: is to be able to look back on and it

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Speaker 1: will be a great time to reminisce. Yeah, playing at

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Speaker 1: the best the best time of year. This is, man, Seriously,

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Speaker 1: the best time of year for football right now is

481
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Speaker 1: without a doubt, especially when you feel that your team

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Speaker 1: is playing maybe to its best of abilities at the

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Speaker 1: right time of year, has to make it even extra

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Speaker 1: special for you. It does make a very special play

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Speaker 1: around this time of the year. Not everyone gets that opportunity,

486
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Speaker 1: so it's imperative that we take advantage of it. Yeah,

487
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Speaker 1: and you got it. On Christmas night in Arizona. It's

488
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Speaker 1: Jonathan Taylor running back of the Colts and they get

489
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Speaker 1: a team that should be ready and good to go

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Speaker 1: in the Arizona Cardinals. No doubt about that, Jonathan via

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Speaker 1: the Andy Moore Automotive Group potline. It's a pleasure to watch,

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Speaker 1: There's no doubt about that. And thanks for straightening out

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Speaker 1: that sixty seven yard run story. I think that's pretty awesome.

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Speaker 1: But you, the family, you everybody over there, have a

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Speaker 1: fantastic holiday and go get him on Chris and Christmas

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Speaker 1: night in Arizona. And thanks for stopping by here. I

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Speaker 1: appreciate it. Thank you so much. You have a happy

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Speaker 1: Holidays as well. It's a Jonathan Taylor who is awesome

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Speaker 1: right there, both on the field and conversationally on Colts

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Speaker 1: Happy Hour, brought to you by then the Sportsbook. Download

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Speaker 1: you gotta be listening. I know a little bit of

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Speaker 1: what Rickman Jury might be thinking, but he's gonna tell

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Speaker 1: you all about it. He and voices of the Colts

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Speaker 1: Matt Taylor converse regarding the matchup on Christmas Night in Arizona,

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Speaker 1: the Colts and the Cardinals. The radio voices will be

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Speaker 1: back on the other side to tell you all that

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Speaker 1: you need to know this support of Colts Happy Hour

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Speaker 1: ninety three five and one oh seven five the fan,

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Colts Happy Hour. We're getting you

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Speaker 1: in the know on the Colts heading into the weekend. Hey,

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Speaker 1: welcome back, Casey Value. Give us a little bit of

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Speaker 1: bitter sweet symphony from the verve right there. This is

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Speaker 1: a big hit in the late nineties, these guys didn't

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Speaker 1: get paid a cent because of the Rolling Stones and

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Speaker 1: copyright laws right there, not a cent a Colts Happy

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Speaker 1: Hour ninety three five one h seven five the Fan

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Speaker 1: the Form Credit Union Question of the Week as follows. EJ.

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Speaker 1: Speed recovered the block punt for a TD against the Patriots,

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Speaker 1: the second time this season he's done just that for

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Speaker 1: a testdown, becoming the first player with multi punt block

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Speaker 1: return tds in a single season since two thousand and three.

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Speaker 1: Who was the last player to do so? We'll have

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Speaker 1: that answer coming up for you in just a bit,

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Speaker 1: but right now, it is the breakdown you've been waiting for.

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Speaker 1: From the radio network. The former NFO coach Rick Venturi

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Speaker 1: Voice to the Colts Matt Taylor explain a little bit

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Speaker 1: more in depth about the Christmas Night matchup in the Desert. Matt, Yes,

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Speaker 1: Sarah JMV. Let's roll out inside Football with Rick Venturry

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Speaker 1: here on Colts Happy Hour. The eight and six Colts

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Speaker 1: take on the ten and four Cardinals, and Rick's gonna

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Speaker 1: explain how the Colts come out on top on Christmas Night. Rick,

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Speaker 1: Let's start with the Blue Prince. Let's talk first about

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Speaker 1: the Cardinals on offense. They're a top ten offense and

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Speaker 1: scoring and total yards. They're tied with Tampa Bay with

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Speaker 1: eight thirty point games on the season, and it all

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Speaker 1: starts with dual thread quarterback Kyler Murray. He's the first

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Speaker 1: player in NFL history with sixty or more touchdown passes

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Speaker 1: and twenty or more touchdown runs in his first forty

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Speaker 1: one games. And he's just the second player ever with

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Speaker 1: ten thousand or more passing yards and fifteen hundred or

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Speaker 1: more rushing yards in their first three seasons, joining Cam Newton.

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Speaker 1: On the season sixty nine point eight completion percentage that

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Speaker 1: ranked second. His passer rating of one h two point

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Speaker 1: three ranks fourth. In fact, he's had five games on

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Speaker 1: the year over one twenty in passer rating, which is

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Speaker 1: tied with Kurt Warner for the most such games in

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Speaker 1: a single season in team history. James Conner great weapon

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Speaker 1: at running back, he has sixteen total touchdowns on the

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Speaker 1: season that ranks third in the NFL. And then in

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Speaker 1: the passing game, its former Bengal Ajen and rookie Rondel

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Speaker 1: Moore at a Purdue carrying the load now that DeAndre

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Speaker 1: Hopkins is on the shelf with an injury, and as

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Speaker 1: you said, they also turn to tight end Zach Ertz

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Speaker 1: as well in that capacity. Rick, so give us the

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Speaker 1: skinny on the Cardinals offense heading into this game, a

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Speaker 1: big game for them after a really bad outing against

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Speaker 1: the Lions last week. Yeah, the first thing you gotta

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Speaker 1: know is that basically their offense is a combination of

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Speaker 1: NCAA football on early downs and then it tries to

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Speaker 1: become an NFL team on third down. And by that,

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Speaker 1: I mean this is our po city, this is zone

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Speaker 1: reads with the quarterback, bootlegs with the quarterback. I mean

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Speaker 1: he's going to run those zone reads and keep it,

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Speaker 1: no question about that. And then if they get behind

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Speaker 1: in the count, you know, then they'll get in there'll

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Speaker 1: be in the gun all the time, but they'll get

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Speaker 1: into spreads and you know, try to quick release it.

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Speaker 1: I think you know, I think you said this and

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Speaker 1: I agree totally. I think Connor was very underrated. He's

571
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Speaker 1: having a really good year. He gives him a banger inside.

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Speaker 1: He's a very tough runner. He's got a little bit

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Speaker 1: of juice in terms of elusiveness, but he's going to

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Speaker 1: pound you. You have to tackle him and get him down.

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Speaker 1: He's a better receiver than I thought coming out of

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Speaker 1: the backfield. You can't go to sleep on him. He's

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Speaker 1: a good route runner coming out and he can catch

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Speaker 1: it and run. So they've got a pretty good runner.

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Speaker 1: You know, they got Edmond's back now at Edmunds was out,

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Speaker 1: and so they've got a dual threat running back. Edmunds

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Speaker 1: is smaller, a little bit more of an elusive, loose

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Speaker 1: play guy. And then they've got the three guys. I

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Speaker 1: said at receiver, I mean AJ Green is their split end,

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Speaker 1: is their ex guy. You know, he's the guy on

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Speaker 1: the week side that if you if you bring the

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Speaker 1: coverage over, He's the guy they want to go one

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Speaker 1: on one on the week side. You know, Aj we

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Speaker 1: played against him a million times, ac batic guy, you know,

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Speaker 1: fifty fifty red zone that they'll throw fade to him

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Speaker 1: every other play, fade and back fade. So you really

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Speaker 1: have to compete with him. Not the fastest guy in

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Speaker 1: the world, and I really believe you can jam the

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Speaker 1: heck out of him at the line of scrimmage. He

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Speaker 1: gives you a lot of body to hit. But you

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Speaker 1: have to compete with him. He's their one on one

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Speaker 1: guy on the week side. Kirk has really come on.

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Speaker 1: Kirk is actually you know, their leading receiver with sixty

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Speaker 1: two catches, and eight eight hundred and twelve yards thirteen

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Speaker 1: one five tds, and he's a guy that is really

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Speaker 1: excelling in the slot. He's sneaky fast in there. If

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Speaker 1: he gets a bad matchup, he can get over the top.

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Speaker 1: But he's having a really good year and he you know,

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Speaker 1: his role without Hopkins has expanded. And just to regress

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Speaker 1: one minute, the one. The other thing that I really

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Speaker 1: like about Connor is this guy's hungry around the goal

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Speaker 1: on This guy's got twelve tds. I mean, he's very

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Speaker 1: hungry when he gets into red zone. And then a

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Speaker 1: couple specialists. I think you got to really be ready for.

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Speaker 1: We know Rondel Moore around here. I mean, he's a

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Speaker 1: big play guy ready to happen. You know, he's a

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Speaker 1: return guy to Purdue kid, but he is a reverse

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Speaker 1: guys run wildcat speed sweeps, screen passes. They love to

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Speaker 1: throw screens on first down to Kirk and to more

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Speaker 1: and to Connor. That's one of their big approaches. But

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Speaker 1: he's a guy that you have to cluster as a specialist.

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Speaker 1: If he's around that backfield, he's around either in that

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Speaker 1: tight wing or in that backfield. He's there for a

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Speaker 1: reason and you know, he can take it to the house.

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Speaker 1: And then I think one of the best hybrids tight

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Speaker 1: ends in the league is Earts. You know Earth's is

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Speaker 1: he's got thirty four catches, but you know he's got

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Speaker 1: three touchdowns. They're gonna get him the ball. Murray really

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Speaker 1: likes him in that third and three to seven window,

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Speaker 1: right in that tight window, he loves him. And then

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Speaker 1: Mattie loves him in regisolance. So you know, that's the

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00:31:05,200 --> 00:31:08,280
Speaker 1: skilled part of their team. I mean, really, they're they're

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Speaker 1: not very good in the offensive line. Uh. You know,

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Speaker 1: they've got issues at left tackle. Uh you know with Humphreys,

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Speaker 1: they got they got lissues at right guard, whether it's

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Speaker 1: Garcia or Jones their right tackle. But the problem is

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Speaker 1: is you have to have such a disciplined rush against

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Speaker 1: the sky, and he erases a lot of their issues

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Speaker 1: with his ability to scramble, you know, and at the

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Speaker 1: end of the day, at the end of the day,

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Speaker 1: you've you just got to make them play NFL football

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Speaker 1: and cut his legs away. In terms of the must

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00:31:41,920 --> 00:31:47,080
Speaker 1: again very much, it's very similar to play in Baltimore. Okay,

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00:31:47,160 --> 00:31:51,680
Speaker 1: you've got to have a good double edged plan. Okay,

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00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:55,120
Speaker 1: you've got to have a really good plan and the

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Speaker 1: Colts have been very good at this in the last

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Speaker 1: couple of years of stopping the NCAA game. The zone reads,

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Speaker 1: but this guy is for real. Now he's gonna pull

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Speaker 1: it and go. So you really your edges have to

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Speaker 1: be really be disciplined. You know, it's a form of

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Speaker 1: option football, even though we don't think of it as option,

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Speaker 1: but it really is. And you've got to be really disciplined,

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Speaker 1: and you've got a gang tackle. I think probably along

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Speaker 1: with that, and maybe even more importantly is you just

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Speaker 1: have to have a rush plan. And I'm not talking

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Speaker 1: about necessarily a blitz plan. How do you rush this guy? Well,

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Speaker 1: the first thing is do not let him on our edge. Okay,

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Speaker 1: you have to set the edge on this guy. If

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Speaker 1: he gets outside, I mean, all hell is gonna break loose.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be like a punt return, or he's gonna

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Speaker 1: throw that ball forty five yards downfield so that it

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Speaker 1: starts there. And then discipline inside because he can duck

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Speaker 1: in and out and do the same thing. So again,

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Speaker 1: be very disciplined. I think when your four man rush,

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Speaker 1: it's a little bit more of a mushrush this week.

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Speaker 1: Bring some pressure and when you bring four or don't

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Speaker 1: be afraid to play man to man and use Leonard

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Speaker 1: as that fifth guy where he gets in there and

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Speaker 1: it's not really a hug, it's just almost it's almost

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Speaker 1: a secondary blitz. But he has the ability, he has

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Speaker 1: a sense for it. And then I think he should

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Speaker 1: six man blitz him sometimes. And you know when you

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Speaker 1: six man blitz him, you force him to throw hot

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Speaker 1: and you're taking his wheels away. So are those are

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Speaker 1: the big things? That's Rick vent Surrey. This is inside Football.

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Speaker 1: I'm Matt Taylor breaking down the Cardinals defense. Says, we

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Speaker 1: shift over to that side of the ball. The Cardinals

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Speaker 1: give up only twenty points per game. Rick, That's fourth

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Speaker 1: best in the NFL. They've held eight teams to twenty

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Speaker 1: points or less on the season, third most in the league.

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Speaker 1: A top five unit against the pass, allowing only two

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Speaker 1: hundred and ten yards per game, and they get after

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Speaker 1: you under defensive coordinator Vance Joseph. Their fifth in sacks

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Speaker 1: this season and fifth in total sacks since twenty nineteen

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Speaker 1: when he took over. And the Cardinals are a very

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Speaker 1: impactful defense. Rick. They might give up some yards, but

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Speaker 1: they make up for it with impactful play such as

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Speaker 1: eighteen forced fumbles tied for second, sixty passes defenced, eighty

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Speaker 1: quarterback hit, sixty one tackles for loss. And the biggest

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Speaker 1: impactful player on that defense is Chandler Jones. He's the

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Speaker 1: all time leader in Saxon club history, leads the NFL

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Speaker 1: and sacks, force fumbles and strip sacks since coming into

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Speaker 1: the NFL in twenty twelve, and among active players, trails

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Speaker 1: only Von Miller in career sack total. So it's gonna

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Speaker 1: be another strong test for the Colts offense coming up

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Speaker 1: on Christmas Night. Yeah, and we've got a lot of

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Speaker 1: experience in this situation, particularly with three teams. Okay, this

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Speaker 1: team is structured in a three four. Everybody has their

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Speaker 1: versions of three to four, you know, but we saw

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Speaker 1: three four version primarily a double sink against Tampa. We

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Speaker 1: saw three four sink and base three four against the Patriots.

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Speaker 1: And now we come back and see a three four

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Speaker 1: with overlook and double sinks and things like that. Now,

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Speaker 1: where the commonality is on these teams, and it's good

699
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Speaker 1: and it's bad, is that all these teams have big

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Speaker 1: outside linebackers who are really rush guys. First, I call

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Speaker 1: him Clydesdale's and coverage and it hurts him. But what

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Speaker 1: the structure is built so that those two guys on

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Speaker 1: the edge are rushers more often than not. That that

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Speaker 1: forces certain types of coverage, but it also brings five

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Speaker 1: a lot, so they're disruptive. As you said, there isn't

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Speaker 1: any question about it. And you know, obviously it starts

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Speaker 1: with Jones. Jones hasn't been quite as impactful as he

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Speaker 1: was early in the season. And they're gonna be on

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Speaker 1: both sides. Sometimes Jones is gonna be on the left,

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Speaker 1: sometimes he's gonna be on the right. I think he'll

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Speaker 1: be on our left most of the time. And then Golden.

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Speaker 1: You know, Golden has eleven and a half sacks on

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Speaker 1: the other side, number forty four, So you know they're

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Speaker 1: getting half of their So actually talked about the good

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Speaker 1: sack number, but over fifty percent of him it's coming

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Speaker 1: out of those two guys. So you know, I mean,

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Speaker 1: that's you know, that's that's something that you got to

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Speaker 1: know going in. I like there two inside linebackers, I

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Speaker 1: really do. They're two different kinds of guys. Uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: you know, Hicks is the you know, he's he's the

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Speaker 1: leading tackler, he's the hammer. He reminds me of Bentley

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Speaker 1: with New England. And then Simmons is a terrific athlete.

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Speaker 1: He's he's not he does He's not the playmaker yet

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Speaker 1: that Leonard is, but he's that kind of guy. He

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Speaker 1: can blitz, he can run sideline, the sidelines. He's a

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Speaker 1: tremendous you know, he was lottery pick athlete coming out

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Speaker 1: of college, very very good. So you have kind of

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Speaker 1: a I call him the hit man Hicks, and then

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Speaker 1: you got uber athlete in Simmons. I think a couple

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Speaker 1: of good safeties. I've always liked Buddha Baker. He's usually

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Speaker 1: their down guy when they make an eight man front,

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Speaker 1: they like to have him in the box or around it.

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Speaker 1: And then Thompson's a very good guy to free safety.

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Speaker 1: Now they've got one really good corner in Murphy. And

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Speaker 1: Murphy was playing you know, the matchup corner, the number

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Speaker 1: one corner, and then he was moving inside to play Nickel,

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Speaker 1: but Offered was struggling so bad that last week they

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Speaker 1: made a switch on that and they left Murphy outside

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Speaker 1: and they brought Hamilton in to play the Nickels so

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Speaker 1: that they didn't have as big a void on the outside.

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Speaker 1: But you know, you know, I think the other guy,

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Speaker 1: I think the other corner struggles to some degree, you know, Wilson,

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Speaker 1: the young kid. I think you can get after him. Now.

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Speaker 1: What they like to do as a unit is they

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Speaker 1: like to make their three four and what I call

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Speaker 1: a load or an overschief. They like to shift everybody

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Speaker 1: to the tight end, keep their backers weak. And then

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Speaker 1: I thought we would get this from a second but

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Speaker 1: we didn't. And then bring Buddha Baker down into that

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Speaker 1: strong side behind the lineman. And that's a really good

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Speaker 1: balanced front. That's something that you're gonna see where they're

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Speaker 1: going to try to set that up to stop Jonathan.

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Speaker 1: It's rickmand Terry Matt Taylor right now. Colts Happy How

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Speaker 1: Night number two on the season four him in that

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Speaker 1: block punt recovery for a TED category, which is a

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Speaker 1: very small number of folks that ever get in that

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Speaker 1: category multiple times this season, He's done it for touchdowns.

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Speaker 1: And what's interesting about it is who was the last

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Speaker 1: person to do it twice in a season. The answer

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Speaker 1: is Ed Reid did it back in two thousand and

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Speaker 1: Team's exploits, a good friend, Matt Taylor, Voice of the Colts,

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Speaker 1: has EJ and I conversation right now. Matt, Thank you,

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Speaker 1: JM V. E J. Speed indeed joined us on the

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Speaker 1: horn now, fresh off a monster game against the Patriots

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Speaker 1: last time out, EJ. Thanks for the time tonight. How

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Speaker 1: are you. I'm doing fine? How about you? So I'm

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Speaker 1: doing great? Congrats again on that Patriots win. What did

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Speaker 1: that win mean for the team? Beating a really good

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Speaker 1: team here late in the season and making a stay

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Speaker 1: and to yourselves and the rest of the AFC with

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Speaker 1: three games to go. I think we kind of like

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Speaker 1: already made a statements of ourselves. But to the rest

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Speaker 1: of the league, I think that was a great that

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Speaker 1: was that was a great win to put everybody on

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Speaker 1: notice that, you know, we come up for the playoffs

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Speaker 1: from coming for the whole thing, and we weren't super

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Speaker 1: ball out of this year. And you got the block

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Speaker 1: punt touchdown? All right, take me through it. What went

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Speaker 1: through your mind when you saw the ball in the

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Speaker 1: end zone just sitting there and you're the guy you're

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Speaker 1: sprinting towards it. What was your approach at that point

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Speaker 1: trying to make a big play in a big game? Uh,

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Speaker 1: just being being controlled and recovery and let's you know, Letten,

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Speaker 1: let's keep the game going, let's let's finish this game,

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Speaker 1: and let's let's get a doge. But way easier said

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Speaker 1: than done, right, I mean how do you how do

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Speaker 1: you keep your cool? Right? The entire football world is

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Speaker 1: watching the crowds going nuts. How do you maintain your

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Speaker 1: composure in that moment um? It's kind of unexplainable. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you just got to be in a position and kind

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Speaker 1: of you know, just having athletic ability, just having having

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Speaker 1: really having faith in yourself. You know that you built

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Speaker 1: to make plays. You just make the play. Not too

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Speaker 1: much things going on and when you think too much.

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Speaker 1: That's myself actually, and that's that's my problem. Right. But

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Speaker 1: you've you've got two block punts for touchdowns on the season. Man,

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Speaker 1: or are you cherry picking? I mean, are you letting

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Speaker 1: other guys do the dirty work and then you're cleaning

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Speaker 1: it up for all the glory? What's going on? Not

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Speaker 1: even I mean they just I mean I'm running to

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Speaker 1: the ball. They say good things happen to those who

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Speaker 1: run to the ball, So that's what happened. I play hard.

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Speaker 1: If you playing, you know, just come out of it.

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Speaker 1: There's no doubt about that. You are just the third

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Speaker 1: NFL player since nineteen ninety four with two block punt

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Speaker 1: return touchdowns in a season. I mean, it's incredible. Which

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Speaker 1: which one was sweeter the touchdown against the Jaguars or

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Speaker 1: this one against the Patriots. I'm gonna give it to

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Speaker 1: the Jaguars. I actually got to get the ball in

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Speaker 1: my hands and make something happy with it. Both of

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Speaker 1: them are both of them are blessing. Both of them

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Speaker 1: felt good. Why are you guys having so much success

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Speaker 1: on blocking punts? How much time and scheming goes into

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Speaker 1: that in terms of preparation during the week. I think

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Speaker 1: it's our mentality, our approach. We play hard, and when

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Speaker 1: you play hard, pressure bus pipe. So like when you

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Speaker 1: play hard, you get stuff, good stuff. Good things come

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Speaker 1: out of those who play hard on the football field. EJ.

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Speaker 1: Speed is with US Colts linebacker EJ. How much do

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Speaker 1: you enjoy playing on special teams? Is that a mindset?

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Speaker 1: You have to have a love for it because you

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Speaker 1: seem to love it because of how much impact you're

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Speaker 1: having on these games. I think it's just I think

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Speaker 1: it just comes from being natural. I can make an

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Speaker 1: impact on defense, special teams. Really wherever I put on

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Speaker 1: the field. I always been like that. I played multiple

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Speaker 1: positions growing up, and a lot of a lot of

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Speaker 1: I played football. A lot of the streets I played.

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Speaker 1: I played football from sun up to sundown, me and

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Speaker 1: my brother. So, um, it's natural. It's anything on the

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Speaker 1: football field is natural for me. I feel like, well,

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Speaker 1: that goes back to your high school days, right, you

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Speaker 1: played running back, you played wide receiver, you played quarterback

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Speaker 1: even up until college. No, yeah, keep returning from return

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Speaker 1: so you know, I just national football player? All right?

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Speaker 1: Tell me what's it like to play for a Bubba Ventron,

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Speaker 1: a former special team's great player in his own right

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Speaker 1: in the NFL. How intense is he throughout the course

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Speaker 1: of the week. Highly intense? I mean you see it

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Speaker 1: on the sideline, y'all. Ever get a chance to come

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Speaker 1: in the building and they let y'all. I mean just

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Speaker 1: come to a price and you or see you fall

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Speaker 1: in love with the passion that he brings to the game.

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Speaker 1: When it comes to culture, was that your mindset when

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Speaker 1: you first broke into the league. Get on the good

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Speaker 1: graces of Bubba Intron and bust your tail on special teams,

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Speaker 1: improve that you can be a difference maker on teams

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Speaker 1: and on defense as a linebacker. I think, I think

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Speaker 1: when it comes to Bubba and me and when I

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Speaker 1: first came in into the league, Bubba demanded. Bubba demanded

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Speaker 1: a certain type of playing style, a certain type of

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Speaker 1: mindset to approach playing for him, and he stayed consistent

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Speaker 1: with it. And when he stayed consistent with it, it

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Speaker 1: would just a graduate. I caught up to it, and

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Speaker 1: that's natural for me. I'm not even thinking of like

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Speaker 1: on players. I gotta play hard. It's just a natural thing.

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Speaker 1: And he played hard, and then you turn on the

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Speaker 1: film you're like, you know, you turn on him. You

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Speaker 1: look at other people and you look at yourself. You're like, man,

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Speaker 1: I'm playing way harder than this guy. And then that's

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Speaker 1: why the players come, because it's just a natural you

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Speaker 1: naturally playing hard. It's like not even an effort, it's

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Speaker 1: just a standard. There's no doubt about that. That's e J.

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Speaker 1: Speed Coats linebacker with us. All right, let's talk about

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Speaker 1: the Arizona Cardinals up next. EJ. What do they look

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Speaker 1: like on film and what kinds of challenges do they

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Speaker 1: pose on offense and on special teams. We're still looking

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Speaker 1: through the game plan, but I think I think it'd

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Speaker 1: be a great game. It's on Christmas, so I'm thinking

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Speaker 1: that everybody would be high effort and it'll be a

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Speaker 1: fun game to play against, play against the Arizona Cartnership. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: what what are your thoughts on playing on Christmas night?

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Speaker 1: Will you enjoy that even though it's you know, it's

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Speaker 1: a holiday and you're gonna be away from from family

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Speaker 1: on that night. I definitely missed the fan, but I

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Speaker 1: think I think I'll be doing it. I think it's

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Speaker 1: a great Christians present for me to play on Christmas.

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Speaker 1: I haven't played on Christmas a day in my life,

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Speaker 1: so this would be the first time. So I'm looking

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Speaker 1: to do something specially on Christmas. All right, last couple

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Speaker 1: of things again with EJ. Speed, Colts linebacker with us,

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Speaker 1: how much confidence does this team have right now? I

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Speaker 1: know that's a tough question to answer. It's a tough

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Speaker 1: thing to sort of of quantify. But you've won seven

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Speaker 1: of nine, two really big marquee wins right in the

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Speaker 1: last couple of weeks over Buffalo and New England. How

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Speaker 1: dangerous are the Colts right now? We're rolling? O you

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Speaker 1: see it. We had a shout out versus Houston and

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Speaker 1: I ain't gonna be talking about the past. Just know

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Speaker 1: we were rolling right now. We're excited. We juice stuff

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Speaker 1: and I think anybody that's that's that they put in

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Speaker 1: front of us. We're gonna we're gonna run through absolutely

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Speaker 1: for sure. All right, EJ. Your favorite Christmas gift of

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Speaker 1: all time. I can't let you leave without putting you

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Speaker 1: on the hook as far as that goes. Favorite Christmas

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Speaker 1: present you ever unwrapped under the tree. Actually, my favorite

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Speaker 1: Christmas present wasn't even mine. My sister had got a dotson.

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Speaker 1: He named him Junior. He got as she had got

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Speaker 1: a dots and for Christmas, and I fell in love

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Speaker 1: with that dog. And he's he's, he's he's moved on.

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Speaker 1: Now all dogs go to heaven. So shout out, my boy.

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Speaker 1: That's awesome. Great answer, right there, e J. Speed, Colts

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Speaker 1: linebacker with us. EJ, thanks again for the time. Congrats

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Speaker 1: on the win over New England and good luck in

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Speaker 1: Arizona on Christmas night and enjoy the rest of the season.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk with you soon. Yeah, sorry, thank you. It's uh.

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Speaker 1: EJ's two scores on special teams with pump pump block

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Speaker 1: situations this season pretty impressive right there with Matt Taylor

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Speaker 1: Let us take a break. We'll come back for a

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Speaker 1: Later on tonight Noe Brogden notes Sabonus and Achilles for

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Speaker 1: again Gainbridge Fieldhouse. Pregame show coming up at the bottom

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Speaker 1: of the hour. We'll come back on this festivus early

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Speaker 1: at the Colts on ninety three five and one oh

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Speaker 1: the afterday, make every moment more. You learned today that

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Speaker 1: indeed Martin Lewinski went on the COVID list, and we

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Speaker 1: also learned that Andrew Sendejo and Ryan Kelly are going

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Speaker 1: to be out for that matchup coming up on Saturday night. Now,

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Speaker 1: for you two. I'm not going to be in here

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Speaker 1: tomorrow doing the regular show, in fact, none of us will,

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Speaker 1: but I will be back coming up on Saturday late

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Speaker 1: afternoon Colts pregame huddle with me, Bill Brooks and the Goreman.

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Speaker 1: We'll take shape round about five thirty coming up on

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Speaker 1: Christmas afternoon, and then we'll it's you set for that

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Speaker 1: Colts and Cardinals matchup in Glendale later on that evening.

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Speaker 1: So we'll get you there at five thirty and then

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Speaker 1: obviously count down to kick off with Matt and Rick

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Speaker 1: and Lara coming up after that, and then game time

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Speaker 1: should be incredibly entertaining from Glendale with that matchup with

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Speaker 1: the Colts and the Arizona Cardinals up next though. Rockets

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Speaker 1: Then the story will unfold on this Festivals holiday. Thank

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Speaker 1: you very much, Corbin, good to see you. Eddie Pacers

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