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Speaker 1: All you need to know about the Colts in one place.

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Speaker 1: The Colts Daily Update starts. Now here's the voice of

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Speaker 1: the Colts, Matt Taylor. Hey, what's up? The Colts Daily

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Speaker 1: Update is on the air here on ninety three five

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Speaker 1: and one oh seven five a fan. The Colts were

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Speaker 1: back to work today. They're gearing up for Sunday's Week

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Speaker 1: sixth game against the Jacksonville Jaguars. It's round two between

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Speaker 1: these two AFC South rivals. The Jags won the first

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Speaker 1: meeting twenty four to nothing back in Week two, and

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Speaker 1: the Jaguars have won the last two meetings with the

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Speaker 1: Colts when you factor in Week eighteen last year, and

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Speaker 1: this will actually be the earliest the two teams have

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Speaker 1: completed their season series since the AFC South was formed

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Speaker 1: back in two thousand and two. The Jaguars have topped

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Speaker 1: the Colts in the last two games by a combined

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Speaker 1: score of fifty to eleven, but those games were in Jacksonville.

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Speaker 1: This go around on Sunday, of course, is at Lucas

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Speaker 1: Oil Stadium, where the Colts have won four in a

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Speaker 1: row against the Jaguars and eight of the last nine.

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Speaker 1: The Jags in fact have lost thirteen straight road games

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Speaker 1: against the AFC South. That's the second longest streak of

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Speaker 1: in division road losses since divisional realignment in two thousand

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Speaker 1: and two. The Colts come into the game they're rested

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Speaker 1: to a degree, having played on Thursday night last week.

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Speaker 1: They come in two two and one. The Jaguars are

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Speaker 1: two and three, losers of two in a row coming

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Speaker 1: into week number six. They lost at the Texans on

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Speaker 1: Sunday thirteen to six in a game that was just

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Speaker 1: as ugly as the Colts and Broncos game. Jacksonville turn

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Speaker 1: They went o for three on fourth down, turned over

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Speaker 1: inside the red zone. But despite the loss, they're still

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Speaker 1: in the thick of the AFC South just like the Colts,

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Speaker 1: and second place in the division is up for grabs

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Speaker 1: coming up on Sunday. The scouting report on the Jaguars

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Speaker 1: is their fifteenth and scoring, but turnovers have killed them

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Speaker 1: weeks ago. Trevor Lawrence had two picks last week against

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Speaker 1: a killer, and over the past two weeks he's completed

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Speaker 1: but he's been great in their wins. In those games,

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Speaker 1: he's completing seventy six percent of his passes for nearly

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Speaker 1: five hundred yards, five touchdowns and no turnovers. And that

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Speaker 1: same cast of skilled players that hurt the Colts back

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Speaker 1: Travis etn, James Robinson at running back who ran for

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Speaker 1: Christian Kirk the bread and butter for the Jaguars defense.

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Speaker 1: They're giving up just sixteen points per game, which is

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Speaker 1: fourth in the NFL, and they blanked the Colts back

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Speaker 1: in week number two. They ranked sixth against the run,

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Speaker 1: which is a very good number, but it would be

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Speaker 1: even better if they didn't allow up combining three hundred

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Speaker 1: for the Colts offensive line. They rotated that unit up

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Speaker 1: it was Bernard Ryman starting at left tackle, Quentin Nelson

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Speaker 1: Daily Update. I'm Matt Taylor. Colts and Jaguars on Sunday,

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Speaker 1: Round two between these two AFC South rivals, the Colts

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Speaker 1: Asked promise we're gonna leave time to hear from Colts

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Speaker 1: rookie wide receiver Alec Pierce, who joined myself and Jeffrey

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Speaker 1: Alex's coming off a career high eight catches for eighty

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