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Speaker 1: get the podcast started. Hello and everyone, and welcome to

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Speaker 1: the Colts Official Podcast. My name is Jeffrey Gorman. I

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Speaker 1: am joined from Colts dot com senior writer covers this

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Speaker 1: team like no other JJ stank events and of course

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Speaker 1: our voice of the Colts, Matt Taylor is here. Coming

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Speaker 1: up on today today's pod, We're gonna discuss this fifty

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Speaker 1: three man roster. That's all we're gonna discuss. I got

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Speaker 1: news for you, a lot of Twitter thumbs out there

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Speaker 1: and everything. People trying to refresh pages of who's making

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Speaker 1: the team, who's not. We're gonna fight know what's going

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Speaker 1: on with this You got roster next to do man.

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Speaker 1: Big takeaways are coming up from training camp and the preseason,

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Speaker 1: plus we got from ESPN former cold quarterback Dan Orlovsky's

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Speaker 1: I set. But I start with JJ Steak a bit saying, hey,

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Speaker 1: I gotta start with initial. You know there's gonna be

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Speaker 1: big takeaways from this fifty three man being announced just

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Speaker 1: minutes ago. Your biggest takeaway could it have been earlier

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Speaker 1: That is always the thing. I you know, five years ago,

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Speaker 1: teams again. George Odom two years ago at Ashton, Dulan

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Speaker 1: was nearly a first team All Pro. Matthew Adams is

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Speaker 1: one of those guys. So yeah, I think you trust

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Speaker 1: Bubba Ventrone here to coach these guys up and get

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Speaker 1: him ready. All right, guys, real quick. The Colts Audio

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Speaker 1: Network coming up this week Tuesday through Thursday, ninety five

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Speaker 1: and one or seven five the Fan and the Colts

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Speaker 1: Audio Network. That is daily updates you get inside Football.

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Speaker 1: JJ talked about that earlier with Rick Venturi. That's gonna

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Speaker 1: drop on Wednesday with Mayte as well, giving you the

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Speaker 1: thoughts on the Colts roster going to season and what

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Speaker 1: he likes, what he liked rather from the play after

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Speaker 1: the Bucks. Colts ended out their preseason with a convincing

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Speaker 1: victory over the Tom Brady led Bucks. I love saying

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Speaker 1: that because I mean he did lead him. I mean

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Speaker 1: he started the game, so he did lead him. All right,

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Speaker 1: we got one on one from players going into the season. Friday,

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Speaker 1: don't forget about the Colts Happy Hour with JMV on

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

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Speaker 1: Matt Taylor, JJ stank. If it's I'm Gorman, I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: start with you, mate, Where are we strong? Give me

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Speaker 1: some strong areas right now after you saw this fifty

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Speaker 1: three man come out. Well, we're strong at media with

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Speaker 1: Jeffrey Gorman. That's where we're strong, man. We continue to

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Speaker 1: dominate the media portion of the of the organization. But

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Speaker 1: I still think you're really good at running back despite

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Speaker 1: the fact that you're only keeping three. When you have

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Speaker 1: the best running back in the NFL who doesn't miss time,

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Speaker 1: carrying over three hundred attempts per per season, you feel

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Speaker 1: really good about that. And I think cornerback, you feel

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Speaker 1: really good about the depth with facing Rogers, sort of

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Speaker 1: being that you know in the mix for that third

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Speaker 1: corner to back up Kenny Moore or to back up

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Speaker 1: Stefan Gilmore, or to have one of those guys on

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Speaker 1: the field in the sub packages. Really good there. I

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Speaker 1: mean Tony Brown too, right, He's got versatility in the nickel,

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Speaker 1: special teams, he can play on the outside. Frank Reich

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Speaker 1: spoke verily highly of Tony after that game against the

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Speaker 1: Tampa Bay Buccaneers. And then linebacker, especially if you can

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Speaker 1: get Shack Leonard back early in the season, you're really

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Speaker 1: really good and you have you have a lot of depth,

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Speaker 1: whether it's speed or Franklin in that mix to to start.

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Speaker 1: If if Leonard can't play Week one against Houston, I

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Speaker 1: don't think you can go wrong with either of those guys.

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Speaker 1: So those three positions running back, cornered, linebacker, to me

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Speaker 1: are probably the deepest and you feel the most secure

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Speaker 1: about going into the season. I'm gonna throw one other

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Speaker 1: one in there that I think is the deepest on

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Speaker 1: the team, and it's quarterback. You got Nick Foles and

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Speaker 1: Sam Ellen You're on yours. That's a pretty deep room.

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Speaker 1: I agree. I would imagine that, you know, the Colts

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Speaker 1: probably feel like that is as whole of a room

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Speaker 1: that they've had since probably you know, a you're talking

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Speaker 1: about Philip and Jacobe being here a couple of years ago.

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Speaker 1: That was a strong room. Top to bottom. But you

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Speaker 1: talk about those three quarterbacks in there, you're right, I

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Speaker 1: wouldn't throw them on. That is an area of strength.

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Speaker 1: I would also say this, and this is sort of

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Speaker 1: outside of the box, but you talk about areas of strength,

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Speaker 1: I think the biggest area of strength if you look

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Speaker 1: at the team big picture, is just the starting lineups

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Speaker 1: on both sides. Of a lot of talent, there's there's

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Speaker 1: not a glaring weakness with the starters on this team. Now,

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Speaker 1: knock on wood, they stay healthy. But I think the

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Speaker 1: biggest thing you can take away if you look at

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Speaker 1: this opening day roster or the initial fifty three man

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Speaker 1: roster compared to last year's, you just have more top

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Speaker 1: end talent. You've got more premium talent at important positions. Right,

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Speaker 1: You've got in Gockway defensive end. You got Gilmour at corner,

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Speaker 1: you got facing at got Matt Ryan, and you've got

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Speaker 1: Alec Pierce at receiver. You drafted him in the second round.

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Speaker 1: You get black men back at safety. That's huge, you know,

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Speaker 1: based on the way that he plays and how good

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Speaker 1: he is. That's like getting a first or second round

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Speaker 1: pick back into the mix on your squad. So the

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Speaker 1: starting lineup really really good for the Colts, and I

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Speaker 1: think maybe the opposite was true last year, where you

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Speaker 1: felt better about the depth and you felt or at

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Speaker 1: least you had more answers or you felt more secure

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Speaker 1: about special teams because of known commodities like the guys

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Speaker 1: you just talked about JJ. I think the Colts will

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Speaker 1: get there, but they have more unknowns on special teams

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Speaker 1: and depth than they did last year. But now they

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Speaker 1: have more top in talent. You've got a new punter

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Speaker 1: in Matt Hawk, Rodrigo Blanketship is back, and now you

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Speaker 1: have a different mix of core special teams players compared

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Speaker 1: to years past. All right, guys, listen up. Areas of weakness.

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Speaker 1: I don't like to talk about it because, quite frankly,

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Speaker 1: moves aren't done. But if we did look at this

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Speaker 1: thing right now, we're you know, some room to improve

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Speaker 1: and it's gonna happen in the next couple of days.

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Speaker 1: Is I kind of talked about the offensive lines up

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Speaker 1: earlier where you might see a veteran come in there

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Speaker 1: that would kind of be a you know, a potential

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Speaker 1: area that you look to address over the next couple

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Speaker 1: of days. Other than that, you know, I think you're

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Speaker 1: always I mean, Chris Poward has always shown a willingness

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Speaker 1: and a drive to tinker and improve this roster. And

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Speaker 1: it's always the hey, if we can get it's you know,

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Speaker 1: kind of the the clicher, and here we can get

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Speaker 1: one percent better with this move, We're gonna go ahead

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Speaker 1: and make it. So this roster is initial, but there's

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Speaker 1: gonna be a lot of moves. You get the practice squad,

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Speaker 1: you're gonna get guys coming in and off of that,

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Speaker 1: and maybe maybe you identify someone who you signed your

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Speaker 1: practice squad. Do you say, hey, you know, by week

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Speaker 1: eight or so, this guy could help us out. That

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Speaker 1: could be something you look for too many ta Yeah, No,

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Speaker 1: I mean I agree. I mean I think, you know,

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Speaker 1: defensive line, interior defensive line might be looked at, it

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Speaker 1: might be addressed, and then you know, it's gonna continue

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Speaker 1: to be a topic of conversation until it's not until

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Speaker 1: we start playing regular season games, and then either opinions

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Speaker 1: change or you know, things are solidified because you know

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Speaker 1: who your top four receivers are on offense, right, you

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Speaker 1: got Pittman, Pierce Paris and doing Should injuries happen there,

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Speaker 1: then you're gonna rely on players that are capable. Yes,

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Speaker 1: we've said that this entire offseason, but they haven't been

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Speaker 1: starters yet. They haven't been you know, key contributors when

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Speaker 1: you talk about Strawn and Patman or if you bring

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Speaker 1: back Harris or Qt. So that's gonna be continued to

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Speaker 1: be looked at and talked about until there's a reason

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Speaker 1: not to talk about. Absolutely, we got to be talking

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Speaker 1: a lot on this show throughout the season how good

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Speaker 1: this stinking team is, because it's only getting better and

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Speaker 1: better each week. I love what you said, Matt about

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Speaker 1: just like prime positions, bolstering getting stronger in those. I

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Speaker 1: wasn't gonna say premium players at premium positions, but I

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Speaker 1: think JJ's heard that one should once or twice a

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Speaker 1: couple of times. All Right, Matta has been busy last week,

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Speaker 1: not just a couple of days ago. Dan Orlovsky came

557
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Speaker 1: into town. He hosted the Colts kickoff luncheon. He discussed

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Speaker 1: his thoughts on Matt Ryan's potential with the Colts. So

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Speaker 1: he talked about Gus Bradley's defense here, and he thinks

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Speaker 1: that the Colts are the team to beat in the AFC.

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Speaker 1: South may take Voice of the Colts and Lara Overton

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Speaker 1: with Dan Orlovsky, Well the host of the Colts Kickoff.

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Speaker 1: Luncheon is former Colts quarterback and one of the best

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Speaker 1: NFL analysts on TV. You see him on ESPN on

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Speaker 1: all platforms. He does college football, he does NFL. Dan

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Speaker 1: Orlovsky is with us. Welcome back to town. Dan, It's

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Speaker 1: good to see you, Bud. Thank you man. It's good

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Speaker 1: to see everyone. It's cool coming back in. You know,

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Speaker 1: I haven't really been here since a decade now, since

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Speaker 1: I really played here. So yeah, I was texting with

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Speaker 1: some people last night just how cool downtown looks. Feels

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Speaker 1: like it's a lot different. So truly honored to be

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Speaker 1: hosting and kind of be talking football about the Colts.

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Speaker 1: It's awesome. You gotta love free agency, you love the draft,

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00:28:10,280 --> 00:28:13,040
Speaker 1: you love contracts and player movement. That's all cool. It

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Speaker 1: gives us something to talk about in the months of

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Speaker 1: March through July. But it's regular season. Thank god, let's

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Speaker 1: go finally, right, I mean, come on, especially in my

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Speaker 1: world where it's just we assumptions and forecasting and trying

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Speaker 1: to find interesting things to say, I mean, I enjoy

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Speaker 1: all that that stuff. But my love is all right,

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Speaker 1: what's going on with the football to tape right? Yeh?

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Speaker 1: Which isn't yeah exactly, And so it's it's really nice,

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Speaker 1: you know with the you know, the saying is when

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Speaker 1: the off season comes, like we just can we survive?

586
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Speaker 1: And then he's finally like, all right, we survive, which

587
00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:48,360
Speaker 1: is interesting, but yeah, it's really good to have the

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Speaker 1: regular season here. All right, put your former player helmet

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Speaker 1: back on. What's your mindset as a player or what

590
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Speaker 1: was it once training camp breaks and you're getting ready

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Speaker 1: for the regular season? How did you handle that? How

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Speaker 1: did you come part mentalize knowing that we're keeping score

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Speaker 1: for real and what's about to happen is it's imperative. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean you start to transition. I would say like

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Speaker 1: two thirds of the way through camp you start to

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Speaker 1: think about that, especially the older you get. You know,

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Speaker 1: where you feel like you're spot on the team of

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00:29:15,400 --> 00:29:18,280
Speaker 1: one of fifty three's pretty solidified, okay, And so now

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Speaker 1: we start gearing towards the length of the season week

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Speaker 1: one and how we're going to set up that ten

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Speaker 1: day or two week period between the last game and

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Speaker 1: the first game, and who do we have and all

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Speaker 1: that stuff. So it's it's almost like it's you break

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Speaker 1: off from training camp mentally and you start getting so

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Speaker 1: much more excited for the thing that actually matters that

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Speaker 1: you spend all offseason working for all the training, all

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Speaker 1: the running, the lifting, the preparation, all that stuff, and

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Speaker 1: you start getting really excited for it, you know, And

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Speaker 1: it's you you try to again as you get older,

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Speaker 1: you try to let the kind of anxiety or excitement

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Speaker 1: of it ramp up towards week one rather than it

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Speaker 1: being too much early on, and it's really just going

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Speaker 1: and doing your job in the daily basis, you know,

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Speaker 1: and getting really focused on that. You know firsthand how

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Speaker 1: much this fan base loves their quarterbacks, and we're talking

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Speaker 1: about the start of another season with another new quarterback.

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Speaker 1: And one of the things that I talked with both

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Speaker 1: Quentin Nelson and Michael Pittman Junior about is it's almost

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Speaker 1: been a luxury to have had this much time with

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Speaker 1: Matt Ryan leading into a regular season. It's something they

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Speaker 1: really haven't had in multiple years because of injuries, COVID restrictions,

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Speaker 1: different things. When you do flip on the tape of

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Speaker 1: what Matt Ryan was doing last year and then you

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Speaker 1: integrate him behind this offensive line with the weapons he

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Speaker 1: has with Jonathan Taylor, what do you see the likelihood being,

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Speaker 1: how do you see this offense evolving? And how much

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Speaker 1: football does Matt Ryan seem to have left in him? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Matt can still played a really really high clip. I

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Speaker 1: think I always say this about quarterbacks. Can you think

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Speaker 1: and can you throw? And Matt can do those two

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Speaker 1: things at a really high level. Still, you know, the

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Speaker 1: beauty of this offense is that the quarterback has to

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Speaker 1: be one of eleven. There's offenses in this league that

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Speaker 1: aren't that way, that demand the quarterback to be more

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Speaker 1: than that because the scheme is relatively basic, or the

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Speaker 1: talent of the offensive line isn't good enough, or the

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Speaker 1: skill position can't win. You know, I think that this

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Speaker 1: offense is set up for a quarterback to go in

639
00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:19,760
Speaker 1: and don't you know, I don't want to say like, um,

640
00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:22,640
Speaker 1: just run the offense. Every quarterback is asked to do that.

641
00:31:22,760 --> 00:31:28,200
Speaker 1: The quarterbacks really have that. The ask is can you

642
00:31:29,080 --> 00:31:32,520
Speaker 1: make sure that we are very rarely in negative place

643
00:31:33,040 --> 00:31:38,320
Speaker 1: and be incredibly efficient that both the scheme and the

644
00:31:38,360 --> 00:31:41,760
Speaker 1: talent on the outside allows your job to be as

645
00:31:41,840 --> 00:31:44,440
Speaker 1: easy as possible, and I think Matt's in a really

646
00:31:44,440 --> 00:31:48,440
Speaker 1: good space to do that. I like, I've Matt and

647
00:31:48,520 --> 00:31:52,120
Speaker 1: I are relatively similar in age. I actually Matt's first

648
00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:56,440
Speaker 1: game as an NFL guy was against US in Detroit.

649
00:31:56,760 --> 00:31:58,840
Speaker 1: I think his first pass of his career went like

650
00:31:58,880 --> 00:32:02,080
Speaker 1: eighty two yards for a touchdown. And I've had the

651
00:32:02,160 --> 00:32:03,720
Speaker 1: fortune to get to know him a little bit and

652
00:32:03,720 --> 00:32:05,680
Speaker 1: going some golf trips with him, and I think the

653
00:32:05,720 --> 00:32:08,719
Speaker 1: thing that like probably is going to be really healthy

654
00:32:08,760 --> 00:32:10,840
Speaker 1: for this offense when it comes to Matt, and I

655
00:32:10,880 --> 00:32:14,160
Speaker 1: say this out of respect, is like he's got like

656
00:32:14,160 --> 00:32:17,680
Speaker 1: a healthy, endearing prick about him, you know where it's like,

657
00:32:18,160 --> 00:32:20,600
Speaker 1: you know, there's something about him that like he he

658
00:32:20,760 --> 00:32:24,840
Speaker 1: says stuff to you and you're like yeah, I like yeah,

659
00:32:24,840 --> 00:32:27,280
Speaker 1: you know. It's it's that quality that some quarterbacks have

660
00:32:27,360 --> 00:32:31,200
Speaker 1: the ability to have. It's just he grab you gravitate

661
00:32:31,200 --> 00:32:33,720
Speaker 1: towards him because of that personality, and you want to

662
00:32:33,720 --> 00:32:36,320
Speaker 1: be around him even more because of it. And I um,

663
00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:38,320
Speaker 1: I think that those guys on offense are really going

664
00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:40,040
Speaker 1: to kind of fall in love with this personality and

665
00:32:40,080 --> 00:32:41,840
Speaker 1: they'll be able to say he could still throw it

666
00:32:42,120 --> 00:32:44,120
Speaker 1: as well as needed. What do you think Frank Reich

667
00:32:44,200 --> 00:32:47,040
Speaker 1: has been through this entire time since twenty eighteen. He

668
00:32:47,080 --> 00:32:48,840
Speaker 1: takes this job and he thinks, all right, I'm gonna

669
00:32:48,840 --> 00:32:51,320
Speaker 1: have a healthy Andrew luck for the next twelve years,

670
00:32:51,360 --> 00:32:54,600
Speaker 1: and then it's the calf injury, and then he retires,

671
00:32:54,640 --> 00:32:58,000
Speaker 1: and then Jacoby Brosette, Carson Wentz, Philip Rivers, now Matt Ryan.

672
00:32:58,560 --> 00:33:01,280
Speaker 1: How tough has that been on the orderback guru a

673
00:33:01,400 --> 00:33:03,600
Speaker 1: Frank Reich in the play caller and trying to tailor

674
00:33:03,880 --> 00:33:06,280
Speaker 1: the offense to a new guy every year. Yeah, I

675
00:33:06,360 --> 00:33:08,640
Speaker 1: think that there's probably two sides to it. You could

676
00:33:08,640 --> 00:33:11,520
Speaker 1: sit there and be like, man, this is so hard slash,

677
00:33:11,760 --> 00:33:15,880
Speaker 1: unfair and daunting to Frank Reich. I also think that

678
00:33:16,360 --> 00:33:18,680
Speaker 1: some coaches in the NFL, and I think all of

679
00:33:18,720 --> 00:33:20,960
Speaker 1: us as people like, we just get set in our

680
00:33:20,960 --> 00:33:23,680
Speaker 1: ways and we get content and we get kind of rigid,

681
00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:28,320
Speaker 1: and the change is probably forced him to really stay

682
00:33:28,360 --> 00:33:30,360
Speaker 1: on the edge of his seat and to really look

683
00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:33,240
Speaker 1: at the offense that he's running and he's calling and

684
00:33:33,280 --> 00:33:35,440
Speaker 1: the plays that he's designing, and watch other people what

685
00:33:35,480 --> 00:33:38,600
Speaker 1: they're doing and say, Okay, can we do this differently,

686
00:33:38,640 --> 00:33:42,480
Speaker 1: more efficiently, better, more creative, more creatively, and I think

687
00:33:42,520 --> 00:33:45,000
Speaker 1: that's probably been a benefit for a guy like Frank

688
00:33:45,040 --> 00:33:48,480
Speaker 1: who kind of embraces that stuff. So this I can

689
00:33:48,520 --> 00:33:51,800
Speaker 1: tell you that outside of Andrew, because Andrew was, you know,

690
00:33:51,840 --> 00:33:55,720
Speaker 1: a generational obviously talent, the best pure thrower of the

691
00:33:55,720 --> 00:33:59,600
Speaker 1: football that Frank's had, and Matt certainly the guy who

692
00:33:59,600 --> 00:34:01,480
Speaker 1: can play to ball the best. I always say there's

693
00:34:01,520 --> 00:34:04,280
Speaker 1: a difference between being accurate and being able to place

694
00:34:04,280 --> 00:34:09,200
Speaker 1: the football a guy that does not fear failure, you know.

695
00:34:09,360 --> 00:34:13,319
Speaker 1: And I think that's a really interesting you know, because

696
00:34:13,360 --> 00:34:16,200
Speaker 1: Frank's an aggressive guy. Frank doesn't run from you know,

697
00:34:16,239 --> 00:34:18,040
Speaker 1: making a mistake or something like that. He wants to

698
00:34:18,120 --> 00:34:20,799
Speaker 1: go chase it down. And I think the correlation of

699
00:34:20,840 --> 00:34:23,239
Speaker 1: those personalities is going to be really good for the

700
00:34:23,280 --> 00:34:27,000
Speaker 1: two of them. Defensively, this is the most turnover we've

701
00:34:27,040 --> 00:34:30,200
Speaker 1: seen from a personal staff standpoint in Frank Reich's time

702
00:34:30,239 --> 00:34:33,279
Speaker 1: with the higher of Gus Bradley. He brought that entire

703
00:34:33,360 --> 00:34:36,239
Speaker 1: defensive staff with him in. Then you have, you know,

704
00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:39,760
Speaker 1: Matt talked about offseason. You have the draft, you have trades,

705
00:34:39,800 --> 00:34:42,280
Speaker 1: you have free agency, You bring in Yunique and Gakua

706
00:34:42,400 --> 00:34:45,040
Speaker 1: via trade. You signed Stefan Gilmour And when I talked

707
00:34:45,040 --> 00:34:46,800
Speaker 1: with Gus Bradley, one of the things he was excited

708
00:34:46,800 --> 00:34:48,879
Speaker 1: about is every level of that defense had a pro

709
00:34:48,920 --> 00:34:52,480
Speaker 1: bowler front to back. When you look at the foundation

710
00:34:52,640 --> 00:34:55,759
Speaker 1: that was here from the defense that Matt Eberflus established.

711
00:34:56,040 --> 00:34:59,520
Speaker 1: Now the nuances that Gus Bradley brings in. How much

712
00:34:59,520 --> 00:35:02,960
Speaker 1: of a lead can this defense take, especially in closing

713
00:35:03,120 --> 00:35:06,480
Speaker 1: out games, finishing games and the fashion that they're expected

714
00:35:06,520 --> 00:35:09,439
Speaker 1: to do. Yeah, I mean last year the takeaway goal

715
00:35:09,520 --> 00:35:11,000
Speaker 1: was like forty for them. I think they got like

716
00:35:11,040 --> 00:35:13,799
Speaker 1: thirty four or thirty three or something like that. Um,

717
00:35:14,160 --> 00:35:17,560
Speaker 1: you know, the leap as a unit is going to

718
00:35:17,600 --> 00:35:21,640
Speaker 1: come from Like does a player like Coddy pay take

719
00:35:21,719 --> 00:35:24,759
Speaker 1: a leap the same way that Kenny Moore did? We're like,

720
00:35:24,800 --> 00:35:26,719
Speaker 1: whoa that? That guy's one of the best in the

721
00:35:26,760 --> 00:35:29,600
Speaker 1: league right now? Is what he does? I have heard

722
00:35:29,600 --> 00:35:32,080
Speaker 1: a ton of buzz about like Nick Cross does he

723
00:35:32,160 --> 00:35:35,120
Speaker 1: step in? Is Blackman healthy? Can those guys because I

724
00:35:35,160 --> 00:35:37,680
Speaker 1: think those two players have the chance to become like

725
00:35:37,719 --> 00:35:41,440
Speaker 1: the Cats in Buffalo, you know Boyer and um Micah

726
00:35:41,520 --> 00:35:43,759
Speaker 1: Hyde where like you got two of it that that

727
00:35:43,920 --> 00:35:48,319
Speaker 1: unit is really good. So the unit jump is going

728
00:35:48,360 --> 00:35:52,160
Speaker 1: to be attached to those individual players jumps. Um, it'll

729
00:35:52,200 --> 00:35:55,960
Speaker 1: be interesting because I do think that there's the theory that,

730
00:35:56,719 --> 00:35:59,960
Speaker 1: you know, Gus is notorious for a cover three defense.

731
00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:02,480
Speaker 1: If you just line up and play cover three nowadays

732
00:36:02,480 --> 00:36:03,960
Speaker 1: in the league, you are going to get gutted by

733
00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:06,359
Speaker 1: offenses because of the rules and how smart guys are.

734
00:36:06,400 --> 00:36:09,359
Speaker 1: So it'll be really interesting to see because I thought

735
00:36:09,400 --> 00:36:12,520
Speaker 1: what Matt Eberflus did so cool last year was like

736
00:36:12,600 --> 00:36:15,280
Speaker 1: they would have so much post snap movement. I'm getting

737
00:36:15,280 --> 00:36:18,760
Speaker 1: super deep into football world, but yeah, post snap movement

738
00:36:18,800 --> 00:36:21,160
Speaker 1: where like as an offense, you'd sit there and go,

739
00:36:21,280 --> 00:36:22,880
Speaker 1: I know where those guys are going to be, and

740
00:36:22,920 --> 00:36:24,799
Speaker 1: then the ball snapped like dang and dang where I

741
00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:26,680
Speaker 1: thought they were going to be. And so does he

742
00:36:26,880 --> 00:36:31,560
Speaker 1: kind of not only um, continue to have that be

743
00:36:31,640 --> 00:36:34,279
Speaker 1: a foundational piece, but does that does he bring a

744
00:36:34,360 --> 00:36:37,640
Speaker 1: little bit more back end disguise attached to it, and

745
00:36:37,760 --> 00:36:40,920
Speaker 1: does he allow plays like players like Shack to continue

746
00:36:40,920 --> 00:36:44,759
Speaker 1: to be ball hawking type of defenders. So, um, there's

747
00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:47,480
Speaker 1: there's a theory that he can't just line up and

748
00:36:47,520 --> 00:36:49,720
Speaker 1: play cover three like he did, you know in the past.

749
00:36:49,760 --> 00:36:52,719
Speaker 1: That thrived because it's just a different world nowadays in

750
00:36:52,760 --> 00:36:56,880
Speaker 1: the RPO game. So um, I think kind of allowing

751
00:36:57,000 --> 00:37:00,719
Speaker 1: Eberflus's philosophies um to continue need to be a big

752
00:37:00,760 --> 00:37:02,680
Speaker 1: part of it. I think he's okay. You know, Dan,

753
00:37:02,719 --> 00:37:05,839
Speaker 1: We've talked about Jonathan Taylor all offseason and last year

754
00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:10,480
Speaker 1: eighteen hundred yards rushing and set franchise records with touchdowns

755
00:37:10,560 --> 00:37:13,480
Speaker 1: and I mean yards after contact. The guy's just a beast.

756
00:37:13,840 --> 00:37:16,719
Speaker 1: But we've said, or at least I've said that if

757
00:37:16,719 --> 00:37:19,200
Speaker 1: he doesn't flirt with two thousand rushing yards this season,

758
00:37:19,320 --> 00:37:21,279
Speaker 1: that's not a bad thing for the Colts. They got

759
00:37:21,360 --> 00:37:23,759
Speaker 1: to be more efficient in the passing game if they

760
00:37:23,800 --> 00:37:26,000
Speaker 1: want to really make a push for the playoffs and

761
00:37:26,080 --> 00:37:28,960
Speaker 1: go deep in the month of January and February. Do

762
00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:30,799
Speaker 1: you see it the same way in terms of maybe

763
00:37:30,840 --> 00:37:34,640
Speaker 1: if Jonathan Taylor's role is not as significant on this team,

764
00:37:34,680 --> 00:37:37,000
Speaker 1: that might be overall better for the Colts. Yeah. And

765
00:37:37,040 --> 00:37:39,120
Speaker 1: I think the easiest way to say it is like

766
00:37:39,160 --> 00:37:40,880
Speaker 1: the Colts really want to run the football when they

767
00:37:40,920 --> 00:37:42,880
Speaker 1: want to, not when they feel like, all right, we

768
00:37:42,960 --> 00:37:45,520
Speaker 1: have to, you know, Like that's when you get into

769
00:37:45,560 --> 00:37:48,279
Speaker 1: that mindset of art. We have to run the football here.

770
00:37:48,360 --> 00:37:51,880
Speaker 1: That's when you become incredibly predictable and you're asking a

771
00:37:51,920 --> 00:37:53,719
Speaker 1: lot out of the people to run the football and

772
00:37:53,840 --> 00:37:55,680
Speaker 1: be like, hey, you gotta run off two free guys.

773
00:37:57,040 --> 00:37:58,320
Speaker 1: You know. I think that when they get to a

774
00:37:58,360 --> 00:38:00,640
Speaker 1: point where they want to run the they can run

775
00:38:00,640 --> 00:38:03,239
Speaker 1: the ball when they want to. Means that that the

776
00:38:03,320 --> 00:38:06,480
Speaker 1: defense is on its heels. It's the defense has no

777
00:38:06,680 --> 00:38:11,120
Speaker 1: idea versus what personnel grouping or formation that the offense

778
00:38:11,239 --> 00:38:13,200
Speaker 1: is going to do. And that's I think when Frank

779
00:38:13,320 --> 00:38:15,040
Speaker 1: is at his best, when like he can present to

780
00:38:15,080 --> 00:38:17,600
Speaker 1: you a formation and I can call three or four

781
00:38:17,640 --> 00:38:19,719
Speaker 1: different plays out of that formation. Maybe three of them

782
00:38:19,760 --> 00:38:21,520
Speaker 1: are past plays, maybe one of them are run plays.

783
00:38:21,520 --> 00:38:24,640
Speaker 1: And so you know, it's also that fine line of

784
00:38:24,840 --> 00:38:26,839
Speaker 1: I say, I always say football is like this really

785
00:38:26,840 --> 00:38:29,560
Speaker 1: simple game that we overcomplicate. You know. It's they got

786
00:38:29,600 --> 00:38:32,040
Speaker 1: an offensive line that can move humans, and they got

787
00:38:32,040 --> 00:38:35,439
Speaker 1: a back that can run around, through or buy them.

788
00:38:35,600 --> 00:38:38,719
Speaker 1: And so there's there's that belief that like, you stop it,

789
00:38:39,480 --> 00:38:42,239
Speaker 1: we are going to force you to stop this, but

790
00:38:42,320 --> 00:38:44,400
Speaker 1: also also think like you can make it easier on

791
00:38:44,480 --> 00:38:46,719
Speaker 1: everybody when you're deuced doing it when you want to.

792
00:38:46,840 --> 00:38:49,400
Speaker 1: So yeah, I think that because of some of the

793
00:38:49,480 --> 00:38:52,479
Speaker 1: younger talent they have on the perimeter, if that stays healthy,

794
00:38:52,520 --> 00:38:54,680
Speaker 1: if Alec is the guy that they hope he is,

795
00:38:54,719 --> 00:38:56,920
Speaker 1: and if Paris can stay healthy, and Dulin takes a

796
00:38:56,960 --> 00:38:59,600
Speaker 1: step forward, and you know, my Heeam's got to get

797
00:38:59,640 --> 00:39:01,680
Speaker 1: some touch is a little bit more as well. So

798
00:39:02,600 --> 00:39:06,000
Speaker 1: you know, it's also I don't think fans truly understand

799
00:39:06,719 --> 00:39:10,440
Speaker 1: how much adding that one game linkedins the season. I

800
00:39:10,520 --> 00:39:14,240
Speaker 1: know it sounds silly. It's a long season for those guys,

801
00:39:14,320 --> 00:39:16,200
Speaker 1: you know, and especially if you get into the playoffs.

802
00:39:16,200 --> 00:39:18,880
Speaker 1: So the more that they can get him kind of

803
00:39:18,880 --> 00:39:21,160
Speaker 1: peeking in December, the better. I love that you talked

804
00:39:21,160 --> 00:39:24,800
Speaker 1: about those receivers because so much of the offseason conversation

805
00:39:25,040 --> 00:39:28,200
Speaker 1: debate arguments surrounded when will the Colts or will the

806
00:39:28,239 --> 00:39:31,880
Speaker 1: Colts sign a veteran wide receiver, And the veteran that

807
00:39:31,960 --> 00:39:35,919
Speaker 1: they added was hiring Reggie Wayne as the wide receivers coach,

808
00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:38,320
Speaker 1: something that Frank Reich had tried to do the entire

809
00:39:38,400 --> 00:39:40,839
Speaker 1: time that he'd been here, wanting to bring Reggie back,

810
00:39:40,880 --> 00:39:43,239
Speaker 1: having been wide receivers coach for Reggie when he was

811
00:39:43,280 --> 00:39:46,520
Speaker 1: a player. Here know, you know Reggie well for the

812
00:39:46,719 --> 00:39:49,560
Speaker 1: young group of playmakers that he is inherited, and a

813
00:39:49,560 --> 00:39:52,480
Speaker 1: lot of people certainly excited about Michael Pittman Junr very

814
00:39:52,480 --> 00:39:55,120
Speaker 1: excited about Alec Pierce. We know that Leap is so

815
00:39:55,680 --> 00:39:59,120
Speaker 1: great in terms of a rookie wide receiver. But what

816
00:39:59,360 --> 00:40:03,759
Speaker 1: makes Reggie such a good fit to put these young

817
00:40:03,800 --> 00:40:07,080
Speaker 1: guys in position? Help them evolve, help them grow so

818
00:40:07,120 --> 00:40:10,000
Speaker 1: that this team has all the guys they need, all

819
00:40:10,040 --> 00:40:12,759
Speaker 1: the weapons that they need for Matt Ryan in place already. Yeah,

820
00:40:12,760 --> 00:40:14,279
Speaker 1: it's a great question. I think there's a couple of

821
00:40:14,280 --> 00:40:18,000
Speaker 1: things like Reggie, at least when I gone around him.

822
00:40:18,080 --> 00:40:20,960
Speaker 1: I'll never forget waking up in training camp one morning

823
00:40:21,040 --> 00:40:22,759
Speaker 1: and this is a guy who went to Miami. He

824
00:40:22,840 --> 00:40:26,239
Speaker 1: was incredible, first round pick, all that stuff, played with

825
00:40:26,280 --> 00:40:28,200
Speaker 1: guys who are in the Hall of Fame. And I

826
00:40:28,239 --> 00:40:30,160
Speaker 1: woke up one morning, went to the weight room. It

827
00:40:30,200 --> 00:40:32,200
Speaker 1: was like six am, and we had just had a

828
00:40:32,239 --> 00:40:35,279
Speaker 1: relatively like heavy practice the day before, and Reggie was

829
00:40:35,640 --> 00:40:39,000
Speaker 1: squatting and running sprints on the treadmill. So to have

830
00:40:39,080 --> 00:40:43,360
Speaker 1: a guy in your room that not only the results

831
00:40:43,360 --> 00:40:46,640
Speaker 1: were what they were, but had that I'm okay with

832
00:40:46,719 --> 00:40:50,320
Speaker 1: the lonely work work ethic. I think that's a really

833
00:40:50,360 --> 00:40:54,520
Speaker 1: really big thing because players automatically sit there and when

834
00:40:54,560 --> 00:40:57,440
Speaker 1: he tells them things, there's not only weight to it,

835
00:40:57,520 --> 00:41:00,480
Speaker 1: there's clout to it because of the work, and he

836
00:41:00,520 --> 00:41:03,440
Speaker 1: can kind of teach them how to again, first round

837
00:41:03,480 --> 00:41:06,000
Speaker 1: picks you didn't have to do that, especially like year

838
00:41:06,080 --> 00:41:08,400
Speaker 1: ten I was with Reggie or something like that. I

839
00:41:08,480 --> 00:41:13,160
Speaker 1: think that his experience being around Peyton is probably hugely

840
00:41:13,200 --> 00:41:17,319
Speaker 1: beneficial because they have that moment when I always say this,

841
00:41:17,640 --> 00:41:20,360
Speaker 1: you know, because we often talk quarterback receiver and we

842
00:41:20,480 --> 00:41:22,960
Speaker 1: only keep it one sided, like receiver, listen to what

843
00:41:22,960 --> 00:41:26,239
Speaker 1: the quarterback wants, you know. I'll never forget how much

844
00:41:26,360 --> 00:41:29,120
Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford would listen to Calvin you know, and hey,

845
00:41:29,520 --> 00:41:32,480
Speaker 1: what are you seeing? Because quarterbacks, we really don't know

846
00:41:32,520 --> 00:41:35,520
Speaker 1: how hard it is for those guys, like we might

847
00:41:35,600 --> 00:41:39,480
Speaker 1: see cover two, but they may not, you know. So

848
00:41:39,480 --> 00:41:43,360
Speaker 1: so the more that those guys can hear how Reggie

849
00:41:43,360 --> 00:41:48,760
Speaker 1: and Peyton communicated, and really Reggie too Peyton, it'll empower

850
00:41:48,840 --> 00:41:52,680
Speaker 1: them and kind of encourage them to be vocal to

851
00:41:52,760 --> 00:41:55,200
Speaker 1: the stuff that they see or feel or need from

852
00:41:55,239 --> 00:41:58,520
Speaker 1: Matt and obviously be receptive to Matt as well. So

853
00:41:58,560 --> 00:42:03,320
Speaker 1: I think, like just the experience of being incredibly talented,

854
00:42:03,360 --> 00:42:08,160
Speaker 1: incredibly hard working, but also so detailed and so on

855
00:42:08,280 --> 00:42:12,920
Speaker 1: top of everything because everything mattered to him. I think

856
00:42:13,080 --> 00:42:16,480
Speaker 1: is really like an endless amount of growth that they

857
00:42:16,520 --> 00:42:19,520
Speaker 1: can have. Reggie is like a human SoundBite. I mean,

858
00:42:19,520 --> 00:42:21,279
Speaker 1: it's so great to have him. And one of the

859
00:42:21,360 --> 00:42:25,120
Speaker 1: questions I asked to him this offseason was what makes

860
00:42:25,160 --> 00:42:27,279
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan the type of quarterback you would have liked

861
00:42:27,280 --> 00:42:30,160
Speaker 1: to have played with? And his response was, Man, it

862
00:42:30,200 --> 00:42:32,239
Speaker 1: makes me want to throw up because he reminds me

863
00:42:32,280 --> 00:42:38,759
Speaker 1: of Payton so much. Do you see those tendencies very prick? Yeah,

864
00:42:38,800 --> 00:42:42,480
Speaker 1: I think like these guys, I mean Peyton right, class

865
00:42:42,480 --> 00:42:46,399
Speaker 1: of his own, incredibly comfortable in their own skin. They

866
00:42:46,520 --> 00:42:48,840
Speaker 1: never try to be somebody that they're not or somebody

867
00:42:48,840 --> 00:42:53,680
Speaker 1: that you think they should be. Ultra confident, very intelligent,

868
00:42:54,160 --> 00:42:58,719
Speaker 1: has the personality to mix it up with everybody, you know.

869
00:42:59,120 --> 00:43:02,360
Speaker 1: I think that it's it's so interesting because you know,

870
00:43:02,480 --> 00:43:05,760
Speaker 1: Matt really trends towards potentially being a Hall of Famer.

871
00:43:05,800 --> 00:43:08,120
Speaker 1: You know, it's certainly there's numbers to support it, and

872
00:43:08,120 --> 00:43:09,960
Speaker 1: he's in Atlanta for such a long time, and now

873
00:43:09,960 --> 00:43:14,480
Speaker 1: he steps into this situation and there are parallels to

874
00:43:14,520 --> 00:43:18,440
Speaker 1: the Matthew Stafford moment, you know, and it's it's it's

875
00:43:18,440 --> 00:43:21,719
Speaker 1: got to be so like intriguing to him to sit

876
00:43:21,760 --> 00:43:24,520
Speaker 1: there and be like, well, you know, why why not me?

877
00:43:25,000 --> 00:43:28,239
Speaker 1: Why can't I have that opportunity? And so um, I

878
00:43:28,280 --> 00:43:31,440
Speaker 1: think there's a lot of similarities to this team. You know,

879
00:43:31,440 --> 00:43:33,480
Speaker 1: if you look at Matt in Atlanta and when they

880
00:43:33,480 --> 00:43:36,880
Speaker 1: were a rolling it was obviously Kyle and but for me,

881
00:43:36,920 --> 00:43:38,680
Speaker 1: it was more like the size of the cats on

882
00:43:38,719 --> 00:43:41,000
Speaker 1: the outside. He had big bodied guys. And I think

883
00:43:41,080 --> 00:43:42,719
Speaker 1: the thing, and I'm going to talk about this with

884
00:43:42,760 --> 00:43:46,480
Speaker 1: Matt today, is you know, Matt throws this this like

885
00:43:46,840 --> 00:43:52,200
Speaker 1: almost like beautifully lofted pillow type of throw, not weak

886
00:43:52,400 --> 00:43:55,480
Speaker 1: arm strength, but the ball is so easily caught because

887
00:43:55,520 --> 00:43:58,279
Speaker 1: he's he's placing it. You know, you're, hey, you're six

888
00:43:58,320 --> 00:44:00,640
Speaker 1: foot four and you're not wide open. But I know

889
00:44:00,680 --> 00:44:02,640
Speaker 1: if I throw it to this kind of quadrant on

890
00:44:02,760 --> 00:44:04,640
Speaker 1: your body with just a little touch on it, you

891
00:44:04,680 --> 00:44:07,200
Speaker 1: can use your body to frame a guy and we

892
00:44:07,280 --> 00:44:09,359
Speaker 1: can have a bunch of chunk completions and I think

893
00:44:09,440 --> 00:44:12,719
Speaker 1: like there's a lot of correlations between his time with

894
00:44:12,760 --> 00:44:15,560
Speaker 1: a player like Julio and his big body, or Tony

895
00:44:15,640 --> 00:44:17,880
Speaker 1: Gonzalez and his big body, and to some of the

896
00:44:17,880 --> 00:44:20,520
Speaker 1: guys that are here, Dan, is there anything as we

897
00:44:20,600 --> 00:44:22,200
Speaker 1: kind of wrap up on the Colts and you've been

898
00:44:22,239 --> 00:44:24,960
Speaker 1: so gracious with your time, is there anything about this

899
00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:27,880
Speaker 1: team that gives you pause as you look at the roster?

900
00:44:28,040 --> 00:44:31,120
Speaker 1: Is anything about this team that you say, man, the

901
00:44:31,160 --> 00:44:33,520
Speaker 1: great team, but they got to get better here going

902
00:44:33,520 --> 00:44:36,920
Speaker 1: into the season. Sure? Yeah, I mean I said this

903
00:44:37,040 --> 00:44:39,839
Speaker 1: going into like the last two or three weeks of

904
00:44:39,920 --> 00:44:45,040
Speaker 1: last season, right, And I said the concern I would

905
00:44:45,040 --> 00:44:47,560
Speaker 1: have about the Colts if they had gotten into the

906
00:44:47,560 --> 00:44:50,919
Speaker 1: playoffs was gonna be the perimeter players, Like you gotta

907
00:44:50,960 --> 00:44:54,280
Speaker 1: be able to go win. And there's still that question

908
00:44:54,280 --> 00:44:58,000
Speaker 1: like can Michael win consistently? I think he can? What

909
00:44:58,200 --> 00:45:00,319
Speaker 1: is Alec? Like I called a bunch of games of

910
00:45:00,360 --> 00:45:03,480
Speaker 1: Alcapier Slasher in Cincinnati countless time. I'd be like Alex,

911
00:45:03,520 --> 00:45:05,520
Speaker 1: they just put them out there one on one Andy one, right,

912
00:45:05,719 --> 00:45:08,440
Speaker 1: but it was more of like the DeAndre Hopkins body

913
00:45:08,520 --> 00:45:12,880
Speaker 1: type of control. So do those perimeter players play at

914
00:45:12,920 --> 00:45:16,080
Speaker 1: a really high level consistently against a really high end coverage.

915
00:45:16,560 --> 00:45:19,960
Speaker 1: And then I think the secondary on the outside, like,

916
00:45:20,000 --> 00:45:23,279
Speaker 1: how where is Stefan as a player? You know? Um?

917
00:45:23,600 --> 00:45:26,560
Speaker 1: And does the secondary? The great thing that they did

918
00:45:26,640 --> 00:45:29,200
Speaker 1: last year was they were so attached to the rush

919
00:45:29,280 --> 00:45:33,759
Speaker 1: like it was such a handshake type of defense together

920
00:45:34,120 --> 00:45:38,560
Speaker 1: and that that takes a lot of um not I

921
00:45:38,560 --> 00:45:40,759
Speaker 1: don't want to say time, but it just takes you

922
00:45:40,880 --> 00:45:44,239
Speaker 1: got to be so greased with that stuff for to

923
00:45:44,360 --> 00:45:47,760
Speaker 1: consistently be good. And I think if that happens, Yeah,

924
00:45:47,880 --> 00:45:50,480
Speaker 1: I have said distance March. I think they win the division.

925
00:45:50,520 --> 00:45:52,080
Speaker 1: I think there's a team to beat in the division.

926
00:45:52,120 --> 00:45:55,520
Speaker 1: I think that they're the most complete roster in the division. Um,

927
00:45:55,640 --> 00:45:58,640
Speaker 1: there's no reason that they should not mentioning the division.

928
00:45:58,640 --> 00:46:00,880
Speaker 1: That's exactly where I was going to go, because you

929
00:46:00,920 --> 00:46:03,600
Speaker 1: win the division, easiest path to the playoffs, especially with

930
00:46:03,640 --> 00:46:07,279
Speaker 1: as tough as the brutal absolutely brules that ad that

931
00:46:07,360 --> 00:46:10,000
Speaker 1: has become and everyone looks too all right, Tennessee has

932
00:46:10,040 --> 00:46:12,720
Speaker 1: been the front runner. They've been the one, the perennial leader,

933
00:46:13,680 --> 00:46:16,160
Speaker 1: but of course they look a little bit different this year.

934
00:46:16,640 --> 00:46:19,920
Speaker 1: You can't really write off Houston and Jacksonville where do

935
00:46:19,960 --> 00:46:22,919
Speaker 1: you see both of those teams being more competitive within

936
00:46:22,960 --> 00:46:25,640
Speaker 1: the division and being teams that are not going to

937
00:46:25,680 --> 00:46:28,600
Speaker 1: make it easy for Indianapolis to run away with despite

938
00:46:28,640 --> 00:46:30,720
Speaker 1: the fact that they do appear to be on paper,

939
00:46:31,000 --> 00:46:33,640
Speaker 1: the strongest team in the FC South. Jacksonville juston is

940
00:46:33,680 --> 00:46:37,960
Speaker 1: such a healthier space as an organization with Doug Peterson

941
00:46:38,000 --> 00:46:41,440
Speaker 1: as the head coach there. Trevor Lawrence now really restarts

942
00:46:41,440 --> 00:46:44,440
Speaker 1: his NFL career, but in a such a better situation

943
00:46:44,480 --> 00:46:48,920
Speaker 1: of play, well, there's still talent deprived that roster. That

944
00:46:49,040 --> 00:46:52,400
Speaker 1: roster still should not be able to contend for a

945
00:46:52,440 --> 00:46:55,360
Speaker 1: division unless Trevor plays completely out of his face and

946
00:46:55,800 --> 00:46:58,279
Speaker 1: some of their younger skill players do. But they'll be

947
00:46:58,360 --> 00:47:01,280
Speaker 1: much improved. And I think the same with Houston. You know, Houston,

948
00:47:01,800 --> 00:47:04,280
Speaker 1: it's such a I don't want to say wildcard because

949
00:47:04,560 --> 00:47:08,840
Speaker 1: like there's like a high level of intrigue about Davis Mills.

950
00:47:09,000 --> 00:47:12,399
Speaker 1: All right, you got something to you um. I think

951
00:47:12,400 --> 00:47:15,640
Speaker 1: that their defensive talent isn't good enough, you know yet,

952
00:47:15,880 --> 00:47:18,160
Speaker 1: even though the addition of Stingley on the outside so

953
00:47:19,000 --> 00:47:22,680
Speaker 1: improved rosters. But this is really a two man division,

954
00:47:22,719 --> 00:47:27,239
Speaker 1: two man race, and because of the difference in the

955
00:47:27,360 --> 00:47:30,480
Speaker 1: quarterback play, the difference in the offensive line, and the difference.

956
00:47:30,920 --> 00:47:33,680
Speaker 1: You know, I've said this about Tennessee. I love Tennessee,

957
00:47:33,680 --> 00:47:36,640
Speaker 1: I do, but they're gonna rely on their number one

958
00:47:36,680 --> 00:47:38,600
Speaker 1: receivers coming off in ac out there. I love Robert,

959
00:47:38,640 --> 00:47:40,680
Speaker 1: I play with him. I hope he is, but I

960
00:47:40,680 --> 00:47:44,279
Speaker 1: don't know how that's gonna go. They're replacing a superstar

961
00:47:44,360 --> 00:47:48,560
Speaker 1: with an unknown, you know, draft pick. So I here's

962
00:47:48,560 --> 00:47:50,920
Speaker 1: the here's the thing for me with Houston, Like I

963
00:47:50,960 --> 00:47:53,200
Speaker 1: think Indy has a guy that on third and six

964
00:47:53,640 --> 00:47:56,120
Speaker 1: and it's week seventeen and we it's we gotta go

965
00:47:56,120 --> 00:47:57,640
Speaker 1: get a first down to get into field. Girl, I

966
00:47:57,680 --> 00:47:59,600
Speaker 1: feel like you could put Pittman out there and be like, dude,

967
00:47:59,600 --> 00:48:03,359
Speaker 1: you gotta like you gotta go win or alec I

968
00:48:03,440 --> 00:48:07,080
Speaker 1: don't know if youst Tennessee has that. Robert's never been

969
00:48:07,160 --> 00:48:12,239
Speaker 1: that guy, and Treylan at Arkansas was never that guy.

970
00:48:12,440 --> 00:48:15,080
Speaker 1: And I just that matters in the NFL when it

971
00:48:15,120 --> 00:48:18,880
Speaker 1: comes to like moments that are the most important. Final

972
00:48:18,920 --> 00:48:21,480
Speaker 1: one from me, Dan again, we so much enjoy your

973
00:48:22,080 --> 00:48:24,879
Speaker 1: experiences on TV. Loved you in the Colts locker room

974
00:48:24,920 --> 00:48:28,719
Speaker 1: in twenty eleven. How much enjoyment do you take from

975
00:48:29,239 --> 00:48:32,080
Speaker 1: doing the TV analyst work as compared to being a

976
00:48:32,080 --> 00:48:35,239
Speaker 1: football player. Uh, you know, being a football player was

977
00:48:35,480 --> 00:48:37,960
Speaker 1: my dream come true. That was the you know, you're

978
00:48:37,960 --> 00:48:39,840
Speaker 1: a ten year old and you have this dream and

979
00:48:39,920 --> 00:48:43,520
Speaker 1: you have pictures all over your room of magazine cutouts,

980
00:48:43,560 --> 00:48:46,319
Speaker 1: and you know, you go from having this dream to

981
00:48:46,440 --> 00:48:49,560
Speaker 1: a goal to a you know, a reality. And so

982
00:48:50,520 --> 00:48:52,840
Speaker 1: it was the absolute coolest thing I've ever been a

983
00:48:52,840 --> 00:48:54,919
Speaker 1: part of, outside of like getting married and having kids.

984
00:48:54,920 --> 00:48:57,160
Speaker 1: It was like, you know, it was the greatest thing

985
00:48:57,160 --> 00:48:58,279
Speaker 1: because I think a big part of it as you

986
00:48:58,320 --> 00:49:02,760
Speaker 1: prove it to yourself being in the TV world. Um,

987
00:49:03,320 --> 00:49:06,799
Speaker 1: I it's it's as like every day fun. It just

988
00:49:06,920 --> 00:49:09,000
Speaker 1: wasn't a dream of mine when I was a twelve

989
00:49:09,080 --> 00:49:10,640
Speaker 1: year old. You know, when did it become a dream

990
00:49:10,719 --> 00:49:14,400
Speaker 1: or a pursuit of yours? Um? You know it's funny

991
00:49:15,239 --> 00:49:18,120
Speaker 1: the Twitter cutups, right. Yeah. Well, I think I think

992
00:49:18,160 --> 00:49:21,000
Speaker 1: like it's always been a thing for me. I say

993
00:49:21,040 --> 00:49:23,120
Speaker 1: this all the time. My wife found a notebook when

994
00:49:23,120 --> 00:49:24,399
Speaker 1: I was like ten years old, I said, I want

995
00:49:24,400 --> 00:49:27,120
Speaker 1: to be a broadcasted for ESPN, so like, but I

996
00:49:27,160 --> 00:49:31,160
Speaker 1: was never focused on that. I never thought of it. Um, Yeah,

997
00:49:31,239 --> 00:49:34,719
Speaker 1: yeah right. I wasn't a really athletic person as a kid,

998
00:49:34,760 --> 00:49:36,600
Speaker 1: Like I could throw, and I was a good athlete,

999
00:49:36,600 --> 00:49:39,280
Speaker 1: but I was slow and no muscle and all that stuff.

1000
00:49:39,320 --> 00:49:42,279
Speaker 1: And so I think like I really studying like the

1001
00:49:42,320 --> 00:49:44,399
Speaker 1: beauty of football early on because that was the only

1002
00:49:44,520 --> 00:49:46,720
Speaker 1: way I was again ever gonna make my dream come true.

1003
00:49:47,000 --> 00:49:48,880
Speaker 1: And then being a backup for the great majority of

1004
00:49:48,920 --> 00:49:52,439
Speaker 1: my career like it in many ways taught me how

1005
00:49:52,480 --> 00:49:54,560
Speaker 1: to try to be good at this job, you know.

1006
00:49:54,680 --> 00:49:58,480
Speaker 1: And so I love still being a nerd about football

1007
00:49:58,480 --> 00:50:01,880
Speaker 1: because I always was. I love finding things that people

1008
00:50:02,160 --> 00:50:06,239
Speaker 1: can't end or won't um. I love being willing to

1009
00:50:06,280 --> 00:50:09,840
Speaker 1: say stuff that people can't or won't um. You know.

1010
00:50:09,840 --> 00:50:11,880
Speaker 1: When I got it, started into the job, people would

1011
00:50:11,880 --> 00:50:14,160
Speaker 1: tell me it's not your job to be right. I

1012
00:50:14,280 --> 00:50:17,600
Speaker 1: totally disagree with that, Like it is my job. It

1013
00:50:17,640 --> 00:50:19,279
Speaker 1: is my job to be right, because how am I

1014
00:50:19,320 --> 00:50:22,120
Speaker 1: differentiating from anybody else if I'm not right or wrong

1015
00:50:22,160 --> 00:50:25,000
Speaker 1: more often than not, So I try to take tremendous

1016
00:50:25,040 --> 00:50:28,440
Speaker 1: pride and like my theory is, I'm never scared to

1017
00:50:28,480 --> 00:50:31,440
Speaker 1: be wrong, because if I'm scared to be wrong, I'm

1018
00:50:31,440 --> 00:50:35,080
Speaker 1: never strained to be right. And I like being on

1019
00:50:35,160 --> 00:50:41,000
Speaker 1: television saying stuff that people like, you're crazy, um and um.

1020
00:50:41,040 --> 00:50:43,799
Speaker 1: I love doing That's what's the most satisfying Bowl take

1021
00:50:43,840 --> 00:50:49,439
Speaker 1: you've had where you've been proven last year, last year? Um,

1022
00:50:49,680 --> 00:50:53,200
Speaker 1: I think last year too. Like I remember me saying

1023
00:50:53,239 --> 00:50:56,640
Speaker 1: if Cincinnati's defense played similar to what the Steelers defense

1024
00:50:56,680 --> 00:50:58,880
Speaker 1: of the past had been, Cincinnati could get to the

1025
00:50:58,920 --> 00:51:01,560
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. And Stephen A and who I Love was like,

1026
00:51:01,560 --> 00:51:03,120
Speaker 1: you're out of your mind. I'm like, I'm just telling

1027
00:51:03,120 --> 00:51:06,640
Speaker 1: you that quarterback is the real deal. Matthew. Like everyone

1028
00:51:06,760 --> 00:51:09,239
Speaker 1: freaking out that Matthew Stafford had thrown a couple of interceptions.

1029
00:51:09,320 --> 00:51:11,719
Speaker 1: I was like every like this, this guy's gonna go

1030
00:51:11,719 --> 00:51:14,200
Speaker 1: win the super Bowl because in the moments where he's

1031
00:51:14,200 --> 00:51:15,879
Speaker 1: got to be his best, he has no other choice

1032
00:51:15,920 --> 00:51:18,160
Speaker 1: but two. And we saw that playout. So like last

1033
00:51:18,200 --> 00:51:20,480
Speaker 1: year was a really cool year for that stuff, you know,

1034
00:51:20,520 --> 00:51:23,080
Speaker 1: I said, I think like week three or week four,

1035
00:51:23,080 --> 00:51:27,280
Speaker 1: when Indian in New England were kind of often slow starts,

1036
00:51:27,280 --> 00:51:28,799
Speaker 1: I was like, those two teams will be in the

1037
00:51:28,840 --> 00:51:30,640
Speaker 1: mix near the end, and everyone was like, you're crazy.

1038
00:51:30,680 --> 00:51:34,360
Speaker 1: So I just I love that stuff, you know. I

1039
00:51:34,520 --> 00:51:38,480
Speaker 1: love being right, because it proves to me that, like

1040
00:51:38,840 --> 00:51:41,040
Speaker 1: I'm trusting my eyes and I'm doing the work, and

1041
00:51:41,080 --> 00:51:43,000
Speaker 1: I think that as long as I trust my eyes,

1042
00:51:43,080 --> 00:51:44,920
Speaker 1: I'm not scared to be wrong about it, no question

1043
00:51:44,920 --> 00:51:48,239
Speaker 1: about it. Dan Orlovsky again, really enjoy you know, all

1044
00:51:48,239 --> 00:51:50,359
Speaker 1: that you to do on television. Thank you so much

1045
00:51:50,400 --> 00:51:52,560
Speaker 1: for being the guest speaker here for the Colts, to

1046
00:51:52,640 --> 00:51:55,680
Speaker 1: the kickoff lunch and continued success. You're just so easy

1047
00:51:55,680 --> 00:51:57,200
Speaker 1: to talk to. You're great at what you do. You're

1048
00:51:57,239 --> 00:51:59,600
Speaker 1: down to earth. So I really appreciate it. Appreciate it.

1049
00:51:59,640 --> 00:52:02,240
Speaker 1: Thank you, good stuff, mate. Tell you and Lara Overton.

1050
00:52:02,440 --> 00:52:05,000
Speaker 1: Here's what I'm gonna give you. On Orlovsky, Okay, never

1051
00:52:05,040 --> 00:52:08,239
Speaker 1: said a word when he was here. I never heard

1052
00:52:08,280 --> 00:52:11,360
Speaker 1: him speak. I just didn't. I never heard you guys speaking.

1053
00:52:11,400 --> 00:52:13,000
Speaker 1: This was back in the day where we could have

1054
00:52:13,239 --> 00:52:15,080
Speaker 1: you know, we'd be in the locker room for a

1055
00:52:15,080 --> 00:52:18,320
Speaker 1: good forty five minutes each day. After I never heard

1056
00:52:18,480 --> 00:52:21,279
Speaker 1: Orlovsky speak. And when he did, it was he was

1057
00:52:21,360 --> 00:52:23,200
Speaker 1: kind of forced into it when he had well, it

1058
00:52:23,280 --> 00:52:26,000
Speaker 1: was kind of stuff. But it's an awkward season though

1059
00:52:26,320 --> 00:52:28,360
Speaker 1: very much so, I mean very much so for it,

1060
00:52:28,440 --> 00:52:30,360
Speaker 1: but I mean very quiet guy. But I'm saying I

1061
00:52:30,360 --> 00:52:32,239
Speaker 1: love Dan he was. I mean, I love watching him

1062
00:52:32,239 --> 00:52:34,719
Speaker 1: as a fan now because he says so informative. But

1063
00:52:34,880 --> 00:52:36,560
Speaker 1: from what I knew him when he was a cold

1064
00:52:36,560 --> 00:52:39,759
Speaker 1: to where he is now, you know, I didn't see it.

1065
00:52:39,840 --> 00:52:42,120
Speaker 1: I didn't see it came out of a shell. That's

1066
00:52:42,120 --> 00:52:44,759
Speaker 1: like the receivers. Right. Just because you haven't heard him,

1067
00:52:44,960 --> 00:52:47,440
Speaker 1: it doesn't mean I can't right, right, that's right. But

1068
00:52:47,480 --> 00:52:49,160
Speaker 1: I mean, it was an awkward season and you had

1069
00:52:49,280 --> 00:52:52,120
Speaker 1: Peyton's neck going on. They're bringing Carry Collins at the

1070
00:52:52,160 --> 00:52:54,680
Speaker 1: beginning of this season. He gets hurt and then it's

1071
00:52:54,760 --> 00:52:59,239
Speaker 1: Curtis Painter and then you know he's thrust into the

1072
00:52:59,320 --> 00:53:01,120
Speaker 1: last five game aims of the season. He's just trying

1073
00:53:01,160 --> 00:53:04,359
Speaker 1: to assimilate and do a good Josn Now you're talking

1074
00:53:04,440 --> 00:53:07,359
Speaker 1: hit on. Yes, everybody knows him huge following out. He's

1075
00:53:07,400 --> 00:53:09,600
Speaker 1: such a good dude. Yeah, Like he's so great. He's

1076
00:53:09,640 --> 00:53:11,000
Speaker 1: down to earth and he is a friend of the

1077
00:53:11,000 --> 00:53:14,919
Speaker 1: Colts Network, that's for sure. Playing Okay, guys, twittermail back, JJ,

1078
00:53:15,040 --> 00:53:17,600
Speaker 1: have no idea what's going on? What do we got? Good?

1079
00:53:17,600 --> 00:53:19,000
Speaker 1: I'm glad you have no idea what's going on? The

1080
00:53:19,520 --> 00:53:23,680
Speaker 1: question is from at t y Bob Official. Is at

1081
00:53:23,719 --> 00:53:28,000
Speaker 1: hay Gorman a stick, roll on or spray deodorant guy? Also,

1082
00:53:28,200 --> 00:53:30,880
Speaker 1: what game this season makes you sweat the most? Oh?

1083
00:53:30,960 --> 00:53:33,600
Speaker 1: I like that. I like that answer first part of

1084
00:53:33,600 --> 00:53:35,920
Speaker 1: the question. Not afraid to answer the first part of

1085
00:53:35,920 --> 00:53:39,400
Speaker 1: the question. I'm an Old Spice guy. It's either a

1086
00:53:39,480 --> 00:53:42,400
Speaker 1: blue or a green. It's like cool and fresh or something.

1087
00:53:42,840 --> 00:53:45,840
Speaker 1: But it's no anti diet deodorant. It's all the stick

1088
00:53:45,960 --> 00:53:48,880
Speaker 1: anti person. Yeah, OK, I'm gonna use the white stuff

1089
00:53:48,880 --> 00:53:51,680
Speaker 1: that has like aluminum minute and yeah, I just used

1090
00:53:51,719 --> 00:53:54,200
Speaker 1: the clear stuff and been with Old Spice for a while.

1091
00:53:54,239 --> 00:53:56,640
Speaker 1: On that. I'm just gonna say we've had a partnership.

1092
00:53:56,680 --> 00:54:00,440
Speaker 1: That's very very one way. This partnership. Let you know,

1093
00:54:00,480 --> 00:54:02,440
Speaker 1: people at Old Spice and I'm gonna go out and

1094
00:54:02,719 --> 00:54:05,000
Speaker 1: I'm telling myself a little bit more. I use a

1095
00:54:05,040 --> 00:54:07,640
Speaker 1: body wash that is from Old Spice and I hate

1096
00:54:07,680 --> 00:54:09,440
Speaker 1: the name of it, but I'm gonna come clean with

1097
00:54:09,440 --> 00:54:16,120
Speaker 1: you right now, no pun intended swagger. Yeah what are

1098
00:54:16,160 --> 00:54:18,880
Speaker 1: you talking about? Now? I know why you smell so

1099
00:54:19,280 --> 00:54:21,480
Speaker 1: mid fifties isn't the swagger type, but yeah, that's what

1100
00:54:21,520 --> 00:54:23,560
Speaker 1: I do. I go there think it smells good, slapping

1101
00:54:23,600 --> 00:54:26,160
Speaker 1: on and get out and you know, run about the day. Maytay.

1102
00:54:26,239 --> 00:54:28,719
Speaker 1: What game makes you sweat the most this year? Oh? Man? Like,

1103
00:54:29,239 --> 00:54:32,640
Speaker 1: give me, give me some deeper criteria, am I Like? So,

1104
00:54:32,800 --> 00:54:36,440
Speaker 1: I think, what game don't you want to see because

1105
00:54:36,440 --> 00:54:38,759
Speaker 1: you're so nervous of it? I mean, what it is? Yeah?

1106
00:54:38,760 --> 00:54:40,840
Speaker 1: I think I think that. I think I took it

1107
00:54:40,880 --> 00:54:44,440
Speaker 1: as the under the radar game or a trap game,

1108
00:54:44,680 --> 00:54:47,360
Speaker 1: or you know, something along those lines when you initially

1109
00:54:47,360 --> 00:54:49,640
Speaker 1: said sweat like the game that gives you the most

1110
00:54:49,840 --> 00:54:54,960
Speaker 1: um anxiety. Yeah, okay. To me, it's the game at

1111
00:54:54,960 --> 00:54:58,560
Speaker 1: home against Tennessee, not because you don't know Tennessee's good

1112
00:54:58,640 --> 00:55:00,920
Speaker 1: or you the chance to overlook it, just it just

1113
00:55:01,000 --> 00:55:04,160
Speaker 1: means so much like it's such an intense game. I mean,

1114
00:55:04,600 --> 00:55:08,120
Speaker 1: that game is the that is the pseudo AFC South

1115
00:55:08,320 --> 00:55:12,799
Speaker 1: Championship game, especially last year's game at home, because you know,

1116
00:55:12,840 --> 00:55:14,919
Speaker 1: the first game was in Week three on the road,

1117
00:55:15,000 --> 00:55:16,680
Speaker 1: and then you come back home and you play them

1118
00:55:16,680 --> 00:55:20,680
Speaker 1: on Halloween. You're done facing the Titans by the halfway

1119
00:55:20,719 --> 00:55:22,879
Speaker 1: point of the season. And the same as kind of true.

1120
00:55:22,880 --> 00:55:24,920
Speaker 1: This year, you're going to see him twice in the

1121
00:55:24,920 --> 00:55:27,799
Speaker 1: first eight games. The first meeting is at home this

1122
00:55:27,880 --> 00:55:30,640
Speaker 1: year instead of on the road. But if you get

1123
00:55:30,680 --> 00:55:34,200
Speaker 1: them the first time at home, man, it really kind

1124
00:55:34,200 --> 00:55:36,640
Speaker 1: of sets up, you know, where you are in terms

1125
00:55:36,640 --> 00:55:38,560
Speaker 1: of getting off to a good start, getting in the

1126
00:55:38,600 --> 00:55:42,160
Speaker 1: catbird seat in the AFC South. And again, I think

1127
00:55:42,200 --> 00:55:45,760
Speaker 1: there's a healthy amount of pressure and it's coming from everywhere.

1128
00:55:45,800 --> 00:55:48,760
Speaker 1: It's coming from the fans, it's coming internal. Obviously. Jammersa

1129
00:55:48,840 --> 00:55:51,320
Speaker 1: has talked openly about we have to beat the Titans

1130
00:55:51,400 --> 00:55:54,040
Speaker 1: this year. That to me, when you talk about sweating

1131
00:55:54,400 --> 00:55:59,280
Speaker 1: and perspiring and being you know, having having anxiety about

1132
00:55:59,280 --> 00:56:01,560
Speaker 1: a game, it's the Tennessee game because it means so

1133
00:56:01,680 --> 00:56:04,359
Speaker 1: much to winning the division, all right, literally and figuratively.

1134
00:56:04,960 --> 00:56:07,319
Speaker 1: It's the Jacksonville game in Week two. Yeah, Colt having

1135
00:56:07,400 --> 00:56:10,759
Speaker 1: one down there in a long time, and it's gonna

1136
00:56:10,760 --> 00:56:13,359
Speaker 1: be hot, so you are going to be sweating during

1137
00:56:13,360 --> 00:56:15,640
Speaker 1: that game. But you also you gotta win that game.

1138
00:56:16,239 --> 00:56:17,960
Speaker 1: This has got to be the year that that streak ends.

1139
00:56:18,000 --> 00:56:19,920
Speaker 1: Double Jay, I agree with you, but Dad Gumm, you

1140
00:56:19,960 --> 00:56:21,759
Speaker 1: gotta win that first one too. You gotta win that

1141
00:56:21,760 --> 00:56:23,799
Speaker 1: first one game've had, you know, the ghost of that

1142
00:56:23,800 --> 00:56:25,200
Speaker 1: that have been down there it's like you, I'm not

1143
00:56:25,280 --> 00:56:27,480
Speaker 1: talking about t Y Hillen. It just is a weird

1144
00:56:27,600 --> 00:56:29,600
Speaker 1: rivalry through the year. Is that when you don't think

1145
00:56:29,600 --> 00:56:33,000
Speaker 1: a team has a chance to win, est teams will

1146
00:56:33,120 --> 00:56:35,600
Speaker 1: you got Yeah, but that's the thing you can knock

1147
00:56:35,600 --> 00:56:39,600
Speaker 1: out the Week one losing streak and the Jacksonville losing

1148
00:56:39,640 --> 00:56:41,560
Speaker 1: streak in the first two weeks of the season. You're right,

1149
00:56:41,719 --> 00:56:45,920
Speaker 1: exercise those demons are psychologically and psychologically then hopefully that

1150
00:56:45,960 --> 00:56:48,040
Speaker 1: gives you a bit of a boost of like, all right,

1151
00:56:48,040 --> 00:56:49,560
Speaker 1: you don't have to worry about that anymore. There no

1152
00:56:49,640 --> 00:56:52,359
Speaker 1: more questions, you're gonna get about it. You just move on,

1153
00:56:52,560 --> 00:56:54,560
Speaker 1: focus on the Cheeps and then the Titans in that

1154
00:56:54,560 --> 00:56:57,080
Speaker 1: game in Week four. Wow, okay, I love it. Twitter

1155
00:56:57,440 --> 00:57:00,320
Speaker 1: question of the week? Who was that? Again? Who was from? Ty?

1156
00:57:00,360 --> 00:57:03,520
Speaker 1: Bob Official? T Why Bob official? Good Man? That's a

1157
00:57:03,600 --> 00:57:06,840
Speaker 1: stick the owner and Bob hopefully we answered. Hopefully we

1158
00:57:06,920 --> 00:57:09,640
Speaker 1: answered your question. There. We got to Matake. He's got

1159
00:57:09,719 --> 00:57:12,640
Speaker 1: random thoughts that just spew up his mouth every now

1160
00:57:12,640 --> 00:57:14,600
Speaker 1: and again. We're keeping it light here, Why don't we

1161
00:57:14,920 --> 00:57:16,919
Speaker 1: Why don't we go? Your thought of the week is Yeah,

1162
00:57:17,000 --> 00:57:20,280
Speaker 1: no more roster talk here, guys, what, Jeffrey, what's the

1163
00:57:20,320 --> 00:57:22,840
Speaker 1: worst date you've ever been on? Oh, that's my random

1164
00:57:22,880 --> 00:57:27,800
Speaker 1: thought of the first date. Yeah, um boy, there's been

1165
00:57:27,840 --> 00:57:29,800
Speaker 1: a couple. I don't know if I'm gonna zero win on.

1166
00:57:29,840 --> 00:57:31,560
Speaker 1: I don't know if I could tell that story though.

1167
00:57:33,000 --> 00:57:35,560
Speaker 1: Can you give us the age version or no? Geez? Yeah,

1168
00:57:35,640 --> 00:57:39,120
Speaker 1: it was something to do with somebody's dad. No, I didn't.

1169
00:57:39,160 --> 00:57:41,680
Speaker 1: It was like I never saw the woman again, but

1170
00:57:41,720 --> 00:57:44,160
Speaker 1: we had met previously the day before. I was living

1171
00:57:44,160 --> 00:57:46,680
Speaker 1: in southern California at the time. I'll never forget it.

1172
00:57:46,720 --> 00:57:48,080
Speaker 1: I'll just come out and say it. I mean, it

1173
00:57:48,160 --> 00:57:50,160
Speaker 1: is what it is. You know, nature is a beautiful thing.

1174
00:57:50,280 --> 00:57:55,880
Speaker 1: So so so I I met this woman and hey,

1175
00:57:55,880 --> 00:57:57,640
Speaker 1: we got to launch us. And he's like, oh, let's

1176
00:57:57,640 --> 00:57:59,240
Speaker 1: go out to dinner or something like that. We talked,

1177
00:57:59,280 --> 00:58:00,800
Speaker 1: and this is back in the day of the pager

1178
00:58:00,920 --> 00:58:03,560
Speaker 1: was around and stuff like that. They had landline nineteen

1179
00:58:03,680 --> 00:58:07,000
Speaker 1: ninety two. No, it's probably more like, I mean realistically

1180
00:58:07,080 --> 00:58:10,280
Speaker 1: ninety six, ninety seven in that range, maybe ninety five.

1181
00:58:10,400 --> 00:58:12,840
Speaker 1: I'm in there. Anyway, we talked and she said, yeah,

1182
00:58:12,840 --> 00:58:14,400
Speaker 1: that'd be fun. You have to come pick me up.

1183
00:58:14,520 --> 00:58:15,840
Speaker 1: You want to take me out on the date and

1184
00:58:15,840 --> 00:58:18,000
Speaker 1: stuff like that. I said, no problem, absolutely go there.

1185
00:58:18,360 --> 00:58:20,960
Speaker 1: And she gets in the car and the first thing

1186
00:58:21,000 --> 00:58:23,160
Speaker 1: she says is, I can't go to a restaurant with you,

1187
00:58:23,200 --> 00:58:24,680
Speaker 1: but I want you to take me to a store

1188
00:58:25,000 --> 00:58:27,040
Speaker 1: because my aunt just came into town and I don't

1189
00:58:27,080 --> 00:58:31,520
Speaker 1: feel good. Oh oh shoot, oh glory b I'm just

1190
00:58:31,560 --> 00:58:34,560
Speaker 1: saying again. I know. There was a long pause, but

1191
00:58:34,600 --> 00:58:37,360
Speaker 1: she was not very animated. I took you for your words.

1192
00:58:37,440 --> 00:58:39,440
Speaker 1: She was no. You know, it was that time of

1193
00:58:39,480 --> 00:58:43,840
Speaker 1: the you know, I'm saying, of okay, so she my

1194
00:58:43,880 --> 00:58:47,000
Speaker 1: point for hold on a second, I'm just clarified. She

1195
00:58:47,080 --> 00:58:49,760
Speaker 1: was laying down in my car as I was driving

1196
00:58:49,760 --> 00:58:53,000
Speaker 1: to Ralph's so she could go get something sure for

1197
00:58:53,080 --> 00:58:56,040
Speaker 1: her aunt who just came in town. Gotcha is a

1198
00:58:58,960 --> 00:59:01,240
Speaker 1: really bad dan and she's I said, I dropped her

1199
00:59:01,240 --> 00:59:03,560
Speaker 1: back off, and I did. Never I did, and I'm

1200
00:59:03,600 --> 00:59:05,240
Speaker 1: not being that guy, but I just did. Never saw

1201
00:59:05,240 --> 00:59:07,040
Speaker 1: her again because it was so one and done. It

1202
00:59:07,400 --> 00:59:08,960
Speaker 1: was one and done. And I literally took her to

1203
00:59:09,000 --> 00:59:11,800
Speaker 1: the store. She got some you know, there's some things

1204
00:59:11,840 --> 00:59:14,720
Speaker 1: for herself, and then some woman's hygiene products, and then

1205
00:59:15,000 --> 00:59:19,440
Speaker 1: that was all I saw her because her attitude aside

1206
00:59:19,440 --> 00:59:21,080
Speaker 1: from that, had nothing to do with that, but her

1207
00:59:21,080 --> 00:59:24,000
Speaker 1: attitude was so entitled, like you're coming to pick me up,

1208
00:59:24,200 --> 00:59:26,120
Speaker 1: You're going here. I'm not going here with you, but

1209
00:59:26,200 --> 00:59:27,720
Speaker 1: you are going to take me here with that, and

1210
00:59:27,760 --> 00:59:30,280
Speaker 1: I was just like whoa, Okay, Okay, here we go. So,

1211
00:59:30,480 --> 00:59:32,160
Speaker 1: you know, it was about a thirty minute date that

1212
00:59:32,200 --> 00:59:35,400
Speaker 1: I would classify as one of the words not good. Yeah,

1213
00:59:35,560 --> 00:59:37,200
Speaker 1: not a good date right there. And you guys are

1214
00:59:37,240 --> 00:59:39,360
Speaker 1: both married, so be careful on this one. I'm no

1215
00:59:39,760 --> 00:59:45,040
Speaker 1: mine is it was last year and it's my fault.

1216
00:59:45,080 --> 00:59:47,200
Speaker 1: I'm just opening the story by saying this is my

1217
00:59:47,280 --> 00:59:50,600
Speaker 1: fault what happened here, So we blame you anyway. So

1218
00:59:50,680 --> 00:59:54,320
Speaker 1: my wife, Betsy is she loves the Olympics, loves the

1219
00:59:54,600 --> 00:59:58,680
Speaker 1: loves team usay, loves you know, figure skating, gymnastics, all

1220
00:59:58,680 --> 01:00:01,439
Speaker 1: this stuff. So last year, I'm sitting here at work

1221
01:00:01,560 --> 01:00:03,960
Speaker 1: and I'm on Pro Football Reference dot Com doing my

1222
01:00:04,080 --> 01:00:06,400
Speaker 1: job and I see a little banner ed down at

1223
01:00:06,400 --> 01:00:09,320
Speaker 1: the bottom that Simone Biles and the US gymnastics team

1224
01:00:09,360 --> 01:00:11,960
Speaker 1: are coming to Indianapolis. I'm like, yeah, that's cool, we

1225
01:00:12,000 --> 01:00:14,680
Speaker 1: should do that. You know, I don't know anything else

1226
01:00:14,680 --> 01:00:16,720
Speaker 1: about it I clicking in and buy some tickets. You're like, hey,

1227
01:00:16,800 --> 01:00:18,960
Speaker 1: let's go see this. Let's get a babysitter. We'll go

1228
01:00:18,960 --> 01:00:23,240
Speaker 1: out to dinner beforehand. So we go out, we go

1229
01:00:23,280 --> 01:00:27,240
Speaker 1: to Prime, have a great, great dinner there, and it's like,

1230
01:00:27,280 --> 01:00:30,000
Speaker 1: all right, let's get over to uh, you know, gain Bridge,

1231
01:00:30,000 --> 01:00:32,520
Speaker 1: and let's go see this. So we get over there,

1232
01:00:32,600 --> 01:00:34,160
Speaker 1: we get in and we sit down and we look

1233
01:00:34,160 --> 01:00:38,280
Speaker 1: around and it's nothing but teenage girls. Like it's like

1234
01:00:38,320 --> 01:00:43,920
Speaker 1: twelve in the range, probably probably eight. The ages of

1235
01:00:43,960 --> 01:00:48,920
Speaker 1: maybe five through seventeen makeup about eighty percent of the audience.

1236
01:00:49,200 --> 01:00:52,880
Speaker 1: And there we are two adults with no kids, who

1237
01:00:52,920 --> 01:00:55,600
Speaker 1: have had a bottle of wine and dinner, sitting there

1238
01:00:55,640 --> 01:00:59,560
Speaker 1: in the stands watching an exhibition that barely was gymnastics

1239
01:00:59,600 --> 01:01:02,240
Speaker 1: at all. Right, right, And Betsy at one point went

1240
01:01:02,320 --> 01:01:04,280
Speaker 1: up to go use the bathroom, and I texted her,

1241
01:01:04,320 --> 01:01:08,479
Speaker 1: please come back, because I'm sitting here a single man

1242
01:01:09,320 --> 01:01:13,000
Speaker 1: in this stadium. And I mean we left it. Yeah,

1243
01:01:13,280 --> 01:01:15,680
Speaker 1: it did not work out. It was entirely my fault.

1244
01:01:15,720 --> 01:01:18,960
Speaker 1: And every now and then if Betsy goes, hey, remember

1245
01:01:18,960 --> 01:01:22,000
Speaker 1: that time that we went to that gymnastics show and

1246
01:01:22,160 --> 01:01:25,440
Speaker 1: it wasn't for us because we don't have every time

1247
01:01:25,480 --> 01:01:29,000
Speaker 1: you watch gymnastics, now, right, you got an icebreaker? Well, yeah,

1248
01:01:29,240 --> 01:01:32,320
Speaker 1: I mean we did. I did see someone Biles do

1249
01:01:32,440 --> 01:01:35,400
Speaker 1: some gymnastics. Is very impressive, but it was not like her,

1250
01:01:35,640 --> 01:01:39,280
Speaker 1: you know, full reach, arguably the greatest gymnast of articably

1251
01:01:39,320 --> 01:01:42,840
Speaker 1: the greatest athlete. The good news is you and Betsy

1252
01:01:42,920 --> 01:01:44,800
Speaker 1: got to see that. Yeah, but it was like it

1253
01:01:44,880 --> 01:01:47,960
Speaker 1: was like watching. It was like watching. I would equate

1254
01:01:48,000 --> 01:01:49,320
Speaker 1: it to like if you showed up the training camp

1255
01:01:49,360 --> 01:01:52,800
Speaker 1: and he watched Jonathan Taylor in uh no pads go

1256
01:01:52,920 --> 01:01:56,640
Speaker 1: through drills at a jog through is like kind of

1257
01:01:56,640 --> 01:01:58,480
Speaker 1: like what we saw Simone Biles. It was like, that

1258
01:01:58,560 --> 01:01:59,800
Speaker 1: is a great athlete, and I know this is a

1259
01:01:59,840 --> 01:02:01,880
Speaker 1: great athlete, but they're not doing the things that make

1260
01:02:01,920 --> 01:02:04,040
Speaker 1: them and they got paid. Well, we'll go to Matt Taylor.

1261
01:02:04,080 --> 01:02:06,040
Speaker 1: And I'm thinking, I'm hoping this goes back to your

1262
01:02:06,040 --> 01:02:10,480
Speaker 1: four age days when when you were working with Yeah,

1263
01:02:10,520 --> 01:02:14,960
Speaker 1: you know, it was feeding the chickens in the barn.

1264
01:02:15,800 --> 01:02:18,080
Speaker 1: In the barn, an old man Peabody came in, caught

1265
01:02:18,160 --> 01:02:23,800
Speaker 1: us as a terrible age the lambs and whatnot. Now

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Speaker 1: do you remember that period of time in high school.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if they still do this. I don't

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Speaker 1: know if they did this in Illinois JJ. But you

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Speaker 1: get your license and you have that ninety day approbation

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Speaker 1: period where you're not allowed to have somebody in your car. Ye.

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Speaker 1: So I got to talking with this gal. It's sophomore

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Speaker 1: year of high school and she gets her license before

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Speaker 1: I do, and she says, i'll pick you up. And

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Speaker 1: I said, well, you got the ninety day things. She said, oh,

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Speaker 1: I won't tell if you don't tell us, all right,

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Speaker 1: So she comes and picks me up, and it's sort

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Speaker 1: of late at night. It's like ten to eleven, you know,

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Speaker 1: at least late for a sixteen year old, right, kind

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Speaker 1: of breaking curfew. She takes us to a nearby high

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Speaker 1: school that is under construction, like they're building some add

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Speaker 1: on wing or something. So we you know, neither of

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Speaker 1: us could go back to our house because we weren't

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Speaker 1: supposed to be together. So um, she comes and picks

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Speaker 1: me up. We go to this nearby construction site of

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Speaker 1: a high school. We park. We think we're, you know,

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Speaker 1: we're getting away with something, so we park and um,

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Speaker 1: so you know, then they might see, you know, and

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Speaker 1: then I start seeing in my rear view mirror. There

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Speaker 1: I see, you know, cherries and berries. Yea gumball machine.

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Speaker 1: Gumball machine, and um, you know, the local sheriff comes

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Speaker 1: over and he takes us away, and so we had

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Speaker 1: to call our parents, parents had to come get us.

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Speaker 1: We had to explain what we were doing, and neither

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Speaker 1: of us really could because what a dip move? What

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Speaker 1: what an absolute dip move to think that we could

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Speaker 1: get away with with what we did. Everybody's had that

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Speaker 1: sort of thing, you know, So some people get caught,

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Speaker 1: some don't. I mean this is twenty years ago, so

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Speaker 1: still surveillance cameras still were in existence, right, So yeah,

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Speaker 1: it was not obvious to spot us. So she got

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Speaker 1: grounded for uh you know, probably a couple of months.

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Speaker 1: I got grounded for a similar sentence, and uh yeah,

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Speaker 1: people people still talk to talk about these stupidity. Look

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Speaker 1: at you know, matey, you're gonna be going at with

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Speaker 1: your own kids pretty soon. Don't forget what were you thinking?

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Speaker 1: You don't have an answer? That's it, man, Hey, I

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Speaker 1: like those. That is the mate's random thought of the week.

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Speaker 1: Maybe on next week's show. I'll tell you when I

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Speaker 1: got drunk and rolled in Hollywood anyway, that's for another story.

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Speaker 1: It's a true one too, but maybe I can that's true,

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Speaker 1: that's true. But listen. I enjoyed it, and listen, Hollywood Square.

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Speaker 1: I'm just telling you first time, second time, third time.

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Speaker 1: Maybe in Hollywood, I got drunk and I got rolled.

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Speaker 1: I know I sounded like an old country song. But

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Speaker 1: we'll talk about it in a couple of weeks again

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Speaker 1: Inside Football with Rick Venturia, it's gonna drop on Wednesday.

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Speaker 1: You get Rick's thoughts on this fifty three man roster.

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Speaker 1: Don't forget we got one on ones going through. You

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Speaker 1: got the Colts Happy Hour with jmbing Daily updates Tuesday

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Speaker 1: through Thursday and ninety three five and one oh seven

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01:04:52,120 --> 01:04:55,080
Speaker 1: five to fan Matt Taylor, Boys and the Colts. You

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01:04:55,160 --> 01:04:57,680
Speaker 1: know him, you love him. JJ Stakob. It's Colts dot

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Speaker 1: Com senior writer, one of the best in the business.

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Speaker 1: And sometimes you'll hear me, and sometimes you won't. I'm Gorman,

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Speaker 1: all right, guys, I had fun. Like I said, We're

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Speaker 1: gonna talk drunken and getting rolled in Hollywood after we

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Speaker 1: talk football next week. Just kidding, we'll be back talking ball.

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Speaker 1: See you th