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Speaker 1: What's up everyone? Welcome into another episode of Insidant Reaction

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Speaker 1: here on the Colts Audio Network and on YouTube. I'm

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Speaker 1: JJ stankabit'z, joined every week by Colt's Ring of Honor

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Speaker 1: wide receiver Bill Brooks to break down the Colts' latest game.

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Speaker 1: Bill the Colts twenty seven to twenty four winners over

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Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh Steelers. Obviously a ton to chew on from

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Speaker 1: this game, starting with the injury to Anthony Richardson that

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Speaker 1: occurred in the first quarter. So with about five six

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Speaker 1: minutes to go in the first quarter, Bill, Anthony scrambles

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Speaker 1: against fourteen yards. He fumbles on the play and he

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Speaker 1: that's when he first injured his hip. So Richardson comes

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Speaker 1: out of the game for two plays. He comes back

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Speaker 1: into the game. By this time, the Colts are at

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Speaker 1: the goal line. It's it's goal to go on the six.

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Speaker 1: Richardson runs the ball because Shane Stiken explained to us

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Speaker 1: after the game, here's why Richardson ran the ball, just

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Speaker 1: for everyone to know that he's in the game. And Bill,

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Speaker 1: I think you can attest to this that if you're

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Speaker 1: in a football game, you're good to go. That's the

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Speaker 1: mentality that you gotta have yes. So Richardson takes a carry.

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Speaker 1: Because the Steelers were in a base defense with three

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Speaker 1: linebackers four dbs on the field. When they were in

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Speaker 1: that look, the call was for Richardson to run the

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Speaker 1: ball in that situation. Anthony takes the snap, he runs

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Speaker 1: with it. He realizes, I can't really accelerate the way

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Speaker 1: that I want to. That's what he told us after

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Speaker 1: the game. So he goes down and starts to slide.

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Speaker 1: Minka Fitzpatrick hits him as he's giving himself up in

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Speaker 1: the helmet. By the way, it was helmet to helmet contact.

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Speaker 2: Yep.

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Speaker 1: The officials bill after the game set in a poll

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Speaker 1: report from Joel Rickson from The Indie Star that the

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Speaker 1: contact was incidental. We're gonna throw that to the side here.

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Speaker 1: That play ends Anthony Richardson's day. He goes to the

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Speaker 1: locker room, he comes back out. He wants to get

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Speaker 1: back in the game, but ultimately everyone decides Bill, it's

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Speaker 1: not it's not worth it from a player perspective, Bill,

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Speaker 1: I want to get your thoughts on this, Like when

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Speaker 1: you're you're on the fence of like should I go in?

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Speaker 1: Should I not? Isn't it always like with the player,

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Speaker 1: like you want to go in, but someone has to

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Speaker 1: protect you in that situation. And to me, it feels

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Speaker 1: like the Colt trainer Shane Steiken everyone involved said let's

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Speaker 1: let's take a breath here, Anthony, like, we don't need

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Speaker 1: this to be a bigger issue than it is right now.

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Speaker 2: Usually what happens during that time period when the player

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Speaker 2: is injured and he really wants to go back in,

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Speaker 2: the coaches the trainers are really trying to help the player.

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Speaker 2: The player all I thing he thinks about, I want

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Speaker 2: to go out there compete. I want to be with

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Speaker 2: my guys out there. I want to compete. I want

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Speaker 2: to try to help win the game. I want to

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Speaker 2: try to help score a touchdown. And the bare thing

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Speaker 2: is to do is to actually listen to the trainers

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Speaker 2: and the coaches because they're looking at the big picture

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Speaker 2: in regards to Okay, what am I going to need

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Speaker 2: to do to protect the player from getting any serious

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Speaker 2: That's what they're looking at. And also they're looking at, Okay,

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Speaker 2: I want to make sure that he's not going to

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Speaker 2: do anything to hurt the team as well. So it's

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Speaker 2: very important that coaches and trainers look at the big

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Speaker 2: because they want to make sure that Anthony's all right,

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Speaker 2: very important. But it's hard for a player to come

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Speaker 2: Usually if he says that, more likely the players really hurt.

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Speaker 2: For the most part, players want to go out there

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Speaker 1: I actually heard Jason Garrett talk about this on Football

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Speaker 1: Night in America. Is watching that before we started Potting

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Speaker 1: Bill said he's the longtime Dallas Cowboys coach, and he said,

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Speaker 1: you as a coach, you also want to compete, right,

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Speaker 1: you want your best players out there. But ultimately sometimes

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Speaker 1: you know, I think ultimately that's the decision that Shane

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Speaker 1: Right now, Anthony Richardson told us after the game he's

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Speaker 1: hopefully he's out there against Jacksonville. That's a tough thing

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Speaker 1: training staff and to Shane Stichen for saying, yeah, you

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Speaker 1: hold off here. That's not an easy thing to do. Uh.

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Speaker 2: In that moment, Bill, No, it's not an easy thing

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Speaker 2: to do. And and Shane has to think about, Okay, yes,

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Speaker 2: I want to win this football game, but after this game,

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Speaker 2: we have thirteen more games to play the rest of

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Speaker 2: the year. So he has to think. He has to

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Speaker 2: say it. Look like I said before, he has to

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Speaker 2: look at the big picture and think about what's going

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Speaker 2: that we already got enough guys dinged up as it

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Speaker 2: looking at the big picture to make sure. Okay, let's

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Speaker 2: on as it is now. But the guys we have

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Speaker 1: I mean, the other part of it, Bill, is like

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Speaker 1: Anthony Richardson was cooking when he was in there today. Wow,

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Speaker 1: he was three to four on his throws. He hit

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Speaker 1: that thirty two yarder to Michael Pittman Junior to start

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Speaker 1: But the Colts were running the ball really, really well

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Speaker 1: many answers for Anthony Richardson and Jonathan Taylor in the backfield.

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Speaker 1: Some of the numbers here, Bill, the Colts with Richardson

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Speaker 1: in average six point two yards per carry. After Richardson

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Speaker 1: on the the next eight drives. So that just tells

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Speaker 1: the Colts were without Ryan Kelly in this game. Let's

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Speaker 1: not forget that. Tanner BORDERLINI comes in making his first

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, they ran the ball well, and I

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Speaker 2: think a lot of that goes to Ar's presence out

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Speaker 2: knowing that he can run the ball, he can make

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Speaker 2: give the old line credit as well. They did a

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Speaker 2: nice job, you know, Tannel Boyer leading in there. I

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Speaker 2: a very good, good defensive front of the Pittsburgh Steelers.

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Speaker 2: And you know, from my account, from what I looked

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Speaker 2: nice job out there. Tanna Bordlanding, he looked like he

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Speaker 2: young man. It was good. So running game is very

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Speaker 2: important for the Coats, and you know, having r out there,

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Speaker 2: it changes things. It changes how the defensive defenses play

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Speaker 2: the Coats in regards to scheming them game playing for them,

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Speaker 2: looking at Jonathan Taylor rung the ball looking at Aar

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Speaker 2: Ar out there does things differently for defenses as they

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Speaker 1: All right, Bill, I'm gonna put you on the spot here.

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Speaker 1: What was your forty time? I'm going somewhere, by the way,

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Speaker 1: I'm going somewhere.

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Speaker 2: My forty time roughly is about four or five three ish,

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Speaker 2: say five five?

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Speaker 1: At what weight?

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Speaker 2: Again?

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Speaker 1: You know I'm asking I'm asking a man his weight,

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Speaker 1: but at what weight?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's all right. I was probably about one eighty

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Speaker 2: seven eight, Okay.

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Speaker 1: So Tanner Borderlini at the NFL Combine earlier this year

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Speaker 1: he ran faster back to the sideline after that first

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Speaker 1: drive where I don't know if anyone picked it up,

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Speaker 1: Borderlini is running as fast as he can toward the

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Speaker 1: where the offensive line sits, and the only thing that

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Speaker 1: I asked him after the game actually like hey, like,

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Speaker 1: what do you think was faster? Is like, I don't know,

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Speaker 1: I think I was faster running back to the sideline.

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Speaker 2: He said.

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Speaker 1: It's like first of energy, what a first drive for him,

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Speaker 1: Like they hit that thirty two yard and like I

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Speaker 1: and he's blocking his butt off on those first couple

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Speaker 2: It's exciting to see young players get so excited out

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Speaker 2: looking forward to this for quite a while and now

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Speaker 2: that he had the opportunity to go out there and play,

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Speaker 2: like I said, all my by my account from what

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Speaker 1: So the Colts after Anthony Richardson gets hurt, they're up

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Speaker 1: fourteen nothing. Joe Flacco throws the touchdown to Josh Downs

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Speaker 2: Bill, exactly. And that shows what type of coach Shane

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Speaker 2: week where the Titans are gonna come up big. You know,

433
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Speaker 2: they might catch seven eight balls. The whole group of

434
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Speaker 2: them on might catch ten balls. Who knows how many

435
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Speaker 2: balls they might catch. But they're going to play a

436
00:21:21,400 --> 00:21:24,480
Speaker 2: big part in the game down the road. But as

437
00:21:24,480 --> 00:21:27,040
Speaker 2: for right now, if it's blocking or chipping someone to

438
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Speaker 2: prevent them from making a big play, that's what they'll do.

439
00:21:29,760 --> 00:21:32,040
Speaker 2: And that says a lot about the tight ends, and

440
00:21:32,040 --> 00:21:34,320
Speaker 2: it says a lot about this team really because I

441
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Speaker 2: think we have a lot of I think they have

442
00:21:35,800 --> 00:21:38,520
Speaker 2: a lot of unselfish guys on the team. So when

443
00:21:38,520 --> 00:21:40,600
Speaker 2: you have a lot of unseelfish guys, you can do

444
00:21:40,640 --> 00:21:42,439
Speaker 2: a lot of good things out there in the football field.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's talk about the Colts defense in this game. Bill.

446
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Speaker 1: They come into today without you know, and I don't

447
00:21:50,080 --> 00:21:52,040
Speaker 1: want to lose sight of it. They come in without

448
00:21:52,119 --> 00:21:55,400
Speaker 1: DeForest Buckner, who misses another you know, his second game

449
00:21:55,760 --> 00:21:58,200
Speaker 1: out of a minimum of four while he's on injured reserve.

450
00:21:58,280 --> 00:22:01,760
Speaker 1: They don't have Juju Brants who's also on IR. They

451
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Speaker 1: don't have Quitty Pay, they don't have Kenny Moore the second.

452
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Speaker 1: So you you are depleted on defense and also on

453
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Speaker 1: defensive line. By the way, get like still going back.

454
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Speaker 1: You know, Samson ebucom. Everyone's dealing with injuries. The Steelers

455
00:22:16,440 --> 00:22:18,800
Speaker 1: didn't of Alex high Smith all that, But you are.

456
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Speaker 1: You are a thin up front in this game. Your

457
00:22:22,720 --> 00:22:27,480
Speaker 1: thinnick cornerback in this game. And I thought you got

458
00:22:27,520 --> 00:22:30,080
Speaker 1: really good play out of Sam Woollmack the third. He

459
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Speaker 1: had a couple of plays in this game. You got

460
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Speaker 1: good play out of Isaiah land. I don't know how

461
00:22:37,560 --> 00:22:41,119
Speaker 1: that was roughing the passer. Looked like a form tackle

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Speaker 1: to me.

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Speaker 2: But here they said, yes, he drove him into the

464
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Speaker 2: ground with his body his body weight, So that's what

465
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Speaker 2: That's what they said.

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Speaker 1: So that's what the call was. Yeah, you you are.

467
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Speaker 1: You know you got Crystal Mons starting at slot corner.

468
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Speaker 1: Kennymore the second so important to this defense, right, and

469
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Speaker 1: you get plays out of Chris Lamontz who sticks with

470
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Speaker 1: Justin Fields, who gives the ball away on that play.

471
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Speaker 1: But you know that's because Lemon stayed with him. You get,

472
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Speaker 1: you know, a couple of breakups out of Sam Wollmack.

473
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Speaker 1: You get then a Nick Cross like this dude, like

474
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Speaker 1: Nick Cross is playing really really good football right.

475
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Speaker 2: Now, solid football all four games he's played in. He's

476
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Speaker 2: played some real, real good football for Annapolis Colts on

477
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Speaker 2: defense this year.

478
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Speaker 1: And you know the forced fumble he had on Pickens

479
00:23:33,880 --> 00:23:36,240
Speaker 1: where he stays with the play, that's a game changer.

480
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Speaker 1: Like I can't remember many ninety plus yard drives that

481
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Speaker 1: didn't end with points, but that's what the Steelers had

482
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Speaker 1: right there. You're getting EJ. Speed playing at an outrageous

483
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Speaker 1: level right now. I saw a stat that I think

484
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Speaker 1: he's tied with Zach Thomas for the most consecutive games

485
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Speaker 1: with ten or more tackles in NFL history right now. Wow,

486
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Speaker 1: like he's playing out of his mind. Zire Franklin's playing.

487
00:24:00,640 --> 00:24:04,560
Speaker 1: You're getting the interior now of Okay, you don't have

488
00:24:04,640 --> 00:24:08,640
Speaker 1: Buck in there, but that Grover Stewart and Rayquan Davis

489
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Speaker 1: Perring is playing awesome. Dio Dango had a sack and

490
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Speaker 1: a half today. Like you're seeing guys step up Jalen

491
00:24:15,680 --> 00:24:19,120
Speaker 1: Jones had that huge pass breakup down the field. Yeah,

492
00:24:19,240 --> 00:24:23,840
Speaker 1: this is a team that you love seeing this because

493
00:24:23,880 --> 00:24:26,399
Speaker 1: this defense got kind of railroaded early in the season,

494
00:24:26,680 --> 00:24:31,120
Speaker 1: right where the narrative was this defense can't stop the run,

495
00:24:31,440 --> 00:24:34,560
Speaker 1: they stink, they can't do anything. And now they've lost

496
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Speaker 1: a bunch of guys, they've lost probably their best player

497
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Speaker 1: in DeForrest Buckner, and they've started to turn it around.

498
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Speaker 1: And to me, that speaks to a lot of resiliency

499
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Speaker 1: on this team, something you can build on as you

500
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Speaker 1: hopefully start getting those guys back. You get Kenny back,

501
00:24:48,920 --> 00:24:52,360
Speaker 1: you get Quitti back, you eventually get buck back. That's

502
00:24:52,400 --> 00:24:56,200
Speaker 1: all really really encouraging, hopefully as the Colts get healthier

503
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Speaker 1: as the season goes on.

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Speaker 2: Yes, speaks to the leadership of the defense as well,

505
00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:02,480
Speaker 2: you know, talking to you know, talking about those guys

506
00:25:02,520 --> 00:25:05,920
Speaker 2: like Kenny Moore and Saya Franklin and EJ and even

507
00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:09,679
Speaker 2: Buckeing though he's not there, those guys, Grover, those guys

508
00:25:09,720 --> 00:25:12,920
Speaker 2: just pouring into those guys as young guys. Hey, look,

509
00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:15,040
Speaker 2: we're gonna stick with it. We're good, We're good enough

510
00:25:15,080 --> 00:25:17,280
Speaker 2: to make plays, and we're gonna turn this thing around

511
00:25:17,280 --> 00:25:19,879
Speaker 2: from a defensive standpoint, and we're going to be just fine.

512
00:25:20,280 --> 00:25:22,120
Speaker 2: And they went out today and they did what they

513
00:25:22,160 --> 00:25:24,560
Speaker 2: need to do to win the game. You know, yes,

514
00:25:24,640 --> 00:25:26,600
Speaker 2: they gave up. It was a lot over four hundred

515
00:25:26,640 --> 00:25:30,359
Speaker 2: yards uh to the Steelers, but they did the things

516
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Speaker 2: they need to do to win the game. They got

517
00:25:32,680 --> 00:25:35,119
Speaker 2: the turnovers, which they want. They got two turnovers today,

518
00:25:35,160 --> 00:25:38,360
Speaker 2: so that nice job. They sacked justin Field, so they

519
00:25:38,359 --> 00:25:40,760
Speaker 2: got after justin Field. So they did do some good

520
00:25:40,800 --> 00:25:43,679
Speaker 2: things out there. And the guys that stepped in the

521
00:25:43,760 --> 00:25:47,320
Speaker 2: Womax and le Mons, those guys stepped in and did

522
00:25:47,320 --> 00:25:49,480
Speaker 2: a nice job. And you like to see that. And

523
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Speaker 2: you know, I like to see Dial the way he's playing.

524
00:25:51,640 --> 00:25:56,159
Speaker 2: Guyal's playing extremely well, playing very physical, giving great effort

525
00:25:56,160 --> 00:25:58,760
Speaker 2: out there, making plays out there. So you know, you

526
00:25:58,840 --> 00:26:01,960
Speaker 2: got a lot of guys playing hard. Car Lee's he

527
00:26:02,119 --> 00:26:05,000
Speaker 2: made some plays out there. Yeah, Kylis, I'm sorry, Yeah,

528
00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:07,040
Speaker 2: he made some plays out there. So those guys are

529
00:26:07,040 --> 00:26:09,080
Speaker 2: playing well and they have the opportunity. That's what they

530
00:26:09,080 --> 00:26:10,280
Speaker 2: need to do. They need to go out there and

531
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Speaker 2: make plays and they are doing that. And you know,

532
00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:16,119
Speaker 2: we talked about Nick Cross, Nick Cross making plays Julian

533
00:26:16,160 --> 00:26:18,880
Speaker 2: Blackman making play. So those guys are doing their job

534
00:26:18,920 --> 00:26:20,600
Speaker 2: and that's what you want to see from a defense.

535
00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:23,760
Speaker 2: And the one thing they're doing right now, which I'm

536
00:26:24,320 --> 00:26:27,280
Speaker 2: happy about, they're sticking together. Yeah, people are talking about

537
00:26:27,320 --> 00:26:29,680
Speaker 2: them and things like that that you know, they might

538
00:26:29,720 --> 00:26:31,399
Speaker 2: not be playing as well as they really want to,

539
00:26:32,200 --> 00:26:35,000
Speaker 2: but they're sticking together and they're coming together. As long

540
00:26:35,040 --> 00:26:37,840
Speaker 2: as they can continue to do that, stick together, come together,

541
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Speaker 2: and believe in themselves, then you know they will play

542
00:26:41,680 --> 00:26:44,240
Speaker 2: to the level that they want to play and that

543
00:26:44,320 --> 00:26:45,520
Speaker 2: they expected themselves.

544
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Speaker 1: Yeah, the Colts gut four sacks in this game, but

545
00:26:48,600 --> 00:26:53,160
Speaker 1: they're they're pressure. Their front was overwhelming. Per Pro Football Focus,

546
00:26:53,240 --> 00:26:56,520
Speaker 1: they had twenty two total pressures and a pass rush

547
00:26:56,760 --> 00:26:59,639
Speaker 1: win rate of forty two point nine percent. Those are

548
00:26:59,640 --> 00:27:03,600
Speaker 1: both and highs. And Pittsburgh's offensive lines banged up right

549
00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:07,320
Speaker 1: like ja James Daniels exited this game. They don't have

550
00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:11,960
Speaker 1: Isaac Saamalo Troy font News out so like they were,

551
00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:14,639
Speaker 1: they were banged up up front, but good like the

552
00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:17,960
Speaker 1: Colts that that's what this should look like against a

553
00:27:18,119 --> 00:27:20,920
Speaker 1: banged up offensive line. And by the way, the Colts

554
00:27:20,960 --> 00:27:23,920
Speaker 1: are banged up like Taekwon Lewis. He exited the game

555
00:27:23,920 --> 00:27:25,359
Speaker 1: at the elbow, but he came into this game with

556
00:27:25,400 --> 00:27:29,680
Speaker 1: an injury that led him to be questionable. And like

557
00:27:29,720 --> 00:27:31,720
Speaker 1: a good game for lat too, great game for a

558
00:27:31,800 --> 00:27:35,080
Speaker 1: dang Bo Grover Stewart, Raekwon Davis said, their moments in

559
00:27:35,160 --> 00:27:38,200
Speaker 1: pass rush like all around just this this is a

560
00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:43,160
Speaker 1: really encouraging game as a building block for that Colts front.

561
00:27:43,600 --> 00:27:46,240
Speaker 1: But again, Bill, I just think the thing I take

562
00:27:46,280 --> 00:27:49,960
Speaker 1: away from this game is just resiliency. Like with all

563
00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:52,680
Speaker 1: everything stacked up against the Colts defense, they were still

564
00:27:52,720 --> 00:27:54,840
Speaker 1: able to come out. And Yeah, Justin Fields at his moments,

565
00:27:55,520 --> 00:27:58,800
Speaker 1: Justin Fields is a good quarterback like he's.

566
00:27:58,760 --> 00:28:02,320
Speaker 2: Doing quarterback, Yes, good quarterback and be a very good athlete.

567
00:28:02,760 --> 00:28:05,840
Speaker 1: He made some plays today it was like those are

568
00:28:07,440 --> 00:28:09,960
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh's got a pretty good quarterback back there.

569
00:28:11,800 --> 00:28:13,400
Speaker 2: But for this Colts.

570
00:28:13,119 --> 00:28:16,240
Speaker 1: Defense to be again with the amount of injuries that

571
00:28:16,320 --> 00:28:20,720
Speaker 1: piled up, I was so impressed by them. And then situationally,

572
00:28:21,440 --> 00:28:24,960
Speaker 1: I thought this was a really really nice game for

573
00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:27,920
Speaker 1: the Colts. And the play I want to highlight here, Bill,

574
00:28:28,840 --> 00:28:33,200
Speaker 1: So the Steelers of the ball, they're driving down three

575
00:28:33,320 --> 00:28:38,280
Speaker 1: after the two minute warning and the Colts get a

576
00:28:38,320 --> 00:28:40,400
Speaker 1: bit of a break. There's kind of the bad snap

577
00:28:40,440 --> 00:28:45,600
Speaker 1: exchange where Fields loses twelve yards on the play. So

578
00:28:45,640 --> 00:28:48,280
Speaker 1: then he throws it deep to Pickens Jalen Jones. Great

579
00:28:48,320 --> 00:28:50,600
Speaker 1: pass breakup. He's in one on one coverage that is

580
00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:55,120
Speaker 1: just like Manoemno and Jones wins that play. Great play

581
00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:58,200
Speaker 1: by Jalen Jones. So now it's third and twenty two

582
00:28:59,120 --> 00:29:01,320
Speaker 1: and you're you're right there, Bill, You're looking to set

583
00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:03,320
Speaker 1: up fourth down, You're not looking to convert the culture

584
00:29:03,320 --> 00:29:06,719
Speaker 1: play and everyone back. So Justin Fields dumps it off

585
00:29:06,760 --> 00:29:11,840
Speaker 1: to Naji Harris and when that pass is completed, EJ.

586
00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:15,920
Speaker 1: Speed is twelve yards away from Harris, who is a

587
00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:20,040
Speaker 1: couple yards from the sideline. I don't know why, but

588
00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:22,920
Speaker 1: Harris didn't immediately go out of bounds or he didn't

589
00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:24,800
Speaker 1: run up field and then just get out of bounce.

590
00:29:25,360 --> 00:29:29,040
Speaker 1: That allows EJ. Speed to tackle Naji Harris in bounds

591
00:29:29,080 --> 00:29:31,080
Speaker 1: and keep the clock running. And I asked EJ after

592
00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:35,200
Speaker 1: the game, like, like, what's the technique there? He said,

593
00:29:35,400 --> 00:29:37,920
Speaker 1: we practice that all the time. We practice in two

594
00:29:37,960 --> 00:29:41,360
Speaker 1: minute drills tackling guys in bounds, and all it takes

595
00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:44,040
Speaker 1: you just got to tackle him backwards. You've got to

596
00:29:44,040 --> 00:29:46,720
Speaker 1: make sure he's going backwards when you tackle him, because they.

597
00:29:46,640 --> 00:29:48,720
Speaker 2: Will ford progress.

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00:29:48,800 --> 00:29:53,600
Speaker 1: Yep, that's exactly what happened again. Heady played by EJ.

599
00:29:53,760 --> 00:29:56,440
Speaker 1: Speed confused as to what Naji Harris was doing on

600
00:29:56,480 --> 00:30:00,600
Speaker 1: that play, but thankfully that's what he did. U also

601
00:30:00,600 --> 00:30:03,360
Speaker 1: shout out to Naji Harris for the double Birds.

602
00:30:06,160 --> 00:30:08,800
Speaker 2: Yeah he might be, buddy, you might be a little

603
00:30:08,840 --> 00:30:10,360
Speaker 2: lighter in his pocket come next week.

604
00:30:10,560 --> 00:30:12,720
Speaker 1: Yeah. I don't know about that one, Bud. I mean,

605
00:30:14,360 --> 00:30:16,040
Speaker 1: if you're gonna get that, if you're gonna get if

606
00:30:16,040 --> 00:30:17,800
Speaker 1: you're gonna give double birds to a whole stadium at

607
00:30:17,840 --> 00:30:20,560
Speaker 1: least average more than a yard and half per carry. Anyways, Uh,

608
00:30:20,760 --> 00:30:24,000
Speaker 1: EJ tackles him going backwards, keeps the clock running. That

609
00:30:24,080 --> 00:30:27,479
Speaker 1: means Pittsburgh has to Now now it's fourth and eleven

610
00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:31,600
Speaker 1: and they are desperation mode, but now they're hurried up.

611
00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:35,400
Speaker 1: You can't get in the huddle. You might have practiced something,

612
00:30:35,680 --> 00:30:38,240
Speaker 1: now it's just you gotta get up there. We gotta

613
00:30:38,240 --> 00:30:41,440
Speaker 1: make a play and nothing's open downfield. Great coverage by

614
00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:44,720
Speaker 1: the Colts Fields throws it. Julian Blackman drops what would

615
00:30:44,720 --> 00:30:47,760
Speaker 1: have been an interception, it doesn't matter. Game's over at

616
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Speaker 1: that point. Just great situational football by e J. Speed

617
00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:55,560
Speaker 1: in that moment. You love seeing that. Again, that's a

618
00:30:55,600 --> 00:30:57,800
Speaker 1: sign of a well coached defense. Yes, you're able to

619
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Speaker 1: make a play like that, Bill, Yes, it is a.

620
00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:03,320
Speaker 2: Big play because if he gets out of bounds, then

621
00:31:03,600 --> 00:31:06,000
Speaker 2: Stills have time to think about what play they want

622
00:31:06,040 --> 00:31:07,880
Speaker 2: to run, get the personnel in there. They need to

623
00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:09,880
Speaker 2: get in there, and they can do whatever they almost

624
00:31:09,880 --> 00:31:12,240
Speaker 2: wanting with the gets out of bound, stops the clock

625
00:31:13,120 --> 00:31:16,040
Speaker 2: for a fourth down play. But good play by EJ.

626
00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:18,080
Speaker 2: Speed knowing that, hey, look if I can get to

627
00:31:18,120 --> 00:31:21,160
Speaker 2: this guy, stop him, stop his forward progress, keep him

628
00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:23,840
Speaker 2: in bounds, the clock's gonna run. They're gonna have a

629
00:31:23,840 --> 00:31:27,640
Speaker 2: hard time coming up and getting a playoff. But you

630
00:31:27,720 --> 00:31:30,760
Speaker 2: know what coach did. That's to me, that's just smart

631
00:31:30,800 --> 00:31:34,440
Speaker 2: football and being aware of the situation, aware of what's

632
00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:36,440
Speaker 2: going on, and aware of what you need to do

633
00:31:36,880 --> 00:31:40,400
Speaker 2: to hopefully hopefully get this team off the football off

634
00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:42,280
Speaker 2: the field and get the ball back to your team.

635
00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:46,320
Speaker 2: And ejsp made a nice play, and it's good that

636
00:31:46,400 --> 00:31:49,720
Speaker 2: you know what the coachs really rep that in practice,

637
00:31:49,840 --> 00:31:52,560
Speaker 2: doing those things. Those little things, you know, make a

638
00:31:52,600 --> 00:31:56,000
Speaker 2: big difference. A lot of times. You do certain things

639
00:31:56,240 --> 00:31:59,320
Speaker 2: all season long, from training camp, the first few weeks

640
00:31:59,320 --> 00:32:01,560
Speaker 2: of the season, in the middle of the season, and

641
00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:04,760
Speaker 2: those situations never might never come up, might not never

642
00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:06,840
Speaker 2: come up in a game in the first part of

643
00:32:06,880 --> 00:32:09,440
Speaker 2: the season. But then that one time it does come

644
00:32:09,520 --> 00:32:12,080
Speaker 2: up later on this time week four, but it might

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Speaker 2: be week eight. It pays off usually, and today it

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Speaker 2: paid off for the Colts as far as keeping Nag

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Speaker 2: Harris in bounds and the clock was still running, all right.

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Speaker 1: It paid off for the Colts in a twenty seven

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Speaker 1: to twenty four win bill. The Colts are now five

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Speaker 1: hundred on the season at two and two. They got

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Speaker 1: a critical stretch coming up. If you think about the

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Speaker 1: season in quarters, the Colts, they go two and two

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Speaker 1: in the first quarter of the season. The second quarter

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Speaker 1: of the season is now defined by all three AFC

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Speaker 1: South Road games at Jacksonville in Week five, at Tennessee

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Speaker 1: in Week six, at Houston in the week eight, sandwiched

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Speaker 1: around a home game against the Miami Dolphins in Week seven.

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Speaker 1: This is a stretch now bill where the Colts have

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Speaker 1: to build on it. But it's just like baseline. It's

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Speaker 1: so good to be two and two where you can

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Speaker 1: actually stack something as opposed to if you're talking about

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Speaker 1: one in three right now, or god forbid, you're the Jaguars,

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Speaker 1: you're rowing four and you got to climb out of

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Speaker 1: that hole while facing all these divisional opponents like that

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Speaker 1: is that is a tough, tough situation. If you're in

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Speaker 1: that hole, the cult are not. And now you can

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Speaker 1: really start thinking about stacking some wins and staking your

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Speaker 1: claim as a contender in the AFC South. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Now, first of all, you're gonna stack these last two games.

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Speaker 2: You want these last two games, so you stack back

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Speaker 2: to back wins for yourselves against two teams at home

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Speaker 2: at Lucas Layer Stadium. Now, these next couple of games,

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Speaker 2: three out of four against AFC South opponents on the road,

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Speaker 2: you know it's going to be big, big games, so

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Speaker 2: you're gonna have to go out there and play well.

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Speaker 2: So get back to five hundred. You're playing better football

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Speaker 2: right now at this moment. Now it's time to go

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Speaker 2: and say, Okay, these AFC South games, so we've always

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Speaker 2: talked about them, they count as two or one and

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Speaker 2: a half. However you want to look at it, but

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Speaker 2: they're very important games. Colts can go out and take

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Speaker 2: care of business against the Jaguars at in Jacksonville and

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Speaker 2: then come back and play against Tennessee the following week.

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Speaker 2: You know what to get these next two games, then

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Speaker 2: you're four and two, and then after that anything can happen.

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Speaker 2: So I mean to me, this game is real big

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Speaker 2: for the Colts to get to five hundred, get back

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Speaker 2: to two and two, so now you can move forward,

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Speaker 2: So we'll see what happens. Have to correct a lot

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Speaker 2: of mistakes that were made today, but once they do that,

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Speaker 2: it's a lot better correcting mistakes after a win than

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Speaker 2: after a loss. So moving forward, I think the Coats

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Speaker 2: feel pretty good right now about themselves, how they're turning

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Speaker 2: this thing around, and hopefully they can continue to make

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Speaker 2: that turn as they go forward and play the next

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Speaker 2: couple of games.

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Speaker 1: All right, Well, Bill and I will be back next

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Speaker 1: Sunday night after the Colts face the Jacksonville Jaguars at

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Speaker 1: EverBank Stadium down in Jacksonville. The Jaguars are rowing four,

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Speaker 1: the Colts are two and two. But as we know, Bill, Jackson,

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Speaker 1: that's a tough place to play.

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Speaker 2: Yes, it has been for the Colts for the last

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Speaker 2: little too long years.

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Speaker 1: Yes, too long. Let's see if the Colts can break

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Speaker 1: that streak and climbed over five hundred again. We'll be

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Speaker 1: back one week from today. Between now and then, stick

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Speaker 1: with us here on the Colts Audio Network and here

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Speaker 1: on YouTube for all of your news, analysis and breakdowns

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Speaker 1: of the Colts, Steelers, and looking ahead to the Colts

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Speaker 1: and the Jaguars. For Bill Brooks, I'm JJ Sankowitz. Thanks

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Speaker 1: for listening to this episode of Instant Reaction. Talk to

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Speaker 1: you next Sunday after hopefully a Colts win in Jacksonville.

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Speaker 2: So long