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Speaker 1: get the latest on the Colts in the NFL. This

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Speaker 1: is the Last Word, the offseason Home of the Colts

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Speaker 1: with Jeffrey Gorman and Matt Taylor. Hello again, everyone, and

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Speaker 1: welcome to the Last Word. My name is Jeffrey gore Man.

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Speaker 1: I am joined by the voice of the Colts, Matt Taylor.

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Speaker 1: We've got a big show in front of us here.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna be talking a little bit about Reggie Wayne

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Speaker 1: stuff happening as far as the Hall of Fame goes. Matt,

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Speaker 1: we'll get to that. The man was robbed yet again.

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Speaker 1: We are also going to be talking about the big

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Speaker 1: ready for the Bengals to take on the Rams. And

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Speaker 1: like I said, we'll get to that in a minute.

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Speaker 1: But Matt Taylor, let's start with this news. New Colts

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Speaker 1: defensive coordinator Gus Bradley. He met with the media this

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Speaker 1: Matt Taylor or a head coach since two thousand and nine.

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Speaker 1: He is well respected. He is different from Matt Eberflus.

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Speaker 1: Tell me what you like about Gus Bradley and what

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Speaker 1: I think there's some base fundamental principles to it, without

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Speaker 1: The Last Word with Jeffrey Gorman and Matt Taylor from

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Speaker 1: the Power Home Solar Radio Studio. I think, you know,

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Speaker 1: we say we played a lot of Cover three, but

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Speaker 1: that's even evolved. That's from the days back in Seattle.

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Speaker 1: But I think there's been some changes. There's you know,

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Speaker 1: all of a sudden, it turns into a match coverage

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Speaker 1: and now we're playing a little bit more man and

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Speaker 1: a little bit more split safety. And it's it really

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Speaker 1: is based on the types of players that you have

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Speaker 1: and how do you utilize their skill set. But I

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Speaker 1: think that you're looking for a team that plays fast,

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Speaker 1: plays physical, get the ball, and every call that we

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Speaker 1: have is designed to get the ball. That type of mentality,

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Speaker 1: and so you know, when you see them on tape

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Speaker 1: they have the ability to play fast. I think they

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Speaker 1: can really concentrate now and picking up the new scheme

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Speaker 1: what is asked of them and get back and then

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Speaker 1: add to the ability to play fast. All right, welcome

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Speaker 1: back to the last word right here in ninety three

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Speaker 1: five and one oh seven five the fan that was

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Speaker 1: Gus Bradley, Colt's new defensive coordinator on how his defense

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Speaker 1: has evolved from just to cover three defense over the years.

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Speaker 1: Can't wait for that man and to make a big

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Speaker 1: splash in Indianapolist. I'm now for the Forum Credit Union

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Speaker 1: question of the week, May Tay, I know you watched it,

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Speaker 1: but last night at the NFL's Honor Awards, Jonathan Taylor

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Speaker 1: was named the twenty twenty one FedEx Ground Player of

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Speaker 1: the Year, an award given annual lead to the NFL's

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Speaker 1: top running back. Taylor was also the leading fan vote

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Speaker 1: getter for the twenty twenty two Pro Bowl and was

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Speaker 1: named First Team All Pro. He also had a mic

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Speaker 1: in his hand last night he did some live television.

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Speaker 1: The kid can do it all. He did, I mean

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Speaker 1: he did, now listen. He is also the leading fan

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Speaker 1: vote getter, as I said, for the Pro Bowl and

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Speaker 1: was named First Team All Pro. My question to you

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Speaker 1: from our friends at Forum Credit Union, they want to

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Speaker 1: know who was the last Colts running back to go

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Speaker 1: to the Pro Bowl and be named an All Pro

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Speaker 1: in the same season. This is a layup. Well, I

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Speaker 1: know the last Colts player to go to the running

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Speaker 1: back to go to the Pro Bowl was Joseph Adie

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Speaker 1: in two thousand and seven, but I don't think he

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Speaker 1: was an All Pro that year. And then before that

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Speaker 1: it was Dream James. So I'm thinking like around ninety nine,

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Speaker 1: two thousand ish, somewhere in that neighborhood he was Pro

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Speaker 1: Bowl and All Pro in the same season. May Tay,

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Speaker 1: Let's be honest, if we're doing these Forum Credit Union

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Speaker 1: Questions of the Weeks, which we've done for years with

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Speaker 1: there's really three or four guys that we're gonna answer with,

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Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Marshall Fulkerson, Yeah, you know,

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Speaker 1: a little Joseph and Dye in there. I mean, we

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Speaker 1: once in a while may get dominic roads thrown in before.

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Speaker 1: Or five guys is basically the answer when you're coming

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Speaker 1: up with these Forum Credit Union questions quarterbacks, right, and

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Speaker 1: the last that's feteen years, it's it's number twelve and

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Speaker 1: number eighteen. That is true anyway. Thanks for our friends

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Speaker 1: Colts dot com. You can interact there with other fans online,

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Speaker 1: post a topic, participate in various discussions regarding your Colts

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Speaker 1: Forum credit Union, helping members live their financial dreams. It

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Speaker 1: is time, let's bust it out. Here's the grab bag.

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Speaker 1: Let's close out the show. It's time the NFL grab

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Speaker 1: Bag and a sortive look at what's going on in

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Speaker 1: the NFL. NFL grab Bag always brought to you by

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Speaker 1: our friends at Meyer, where local sports are win for

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Speaker 1: the entire community, building up leaders, teaching integrity, sparking our economy.

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Speaker 1: throughout Indiana because when we support the home team, we

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Speaker 1: all win, including Jeffrey Gorman and his golf game this week.

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Speaker 1: Jeffrey tell us who you hit the fairways with this

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Speaker 1: past week in LA for the Super Bowl? All right, Well,

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Speaker 1: I didn't exactly hit the fairways with him, but we

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Speaker 1: did have a nice discussion on the tea box and

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Speaker 1: at the clubhouse. I said it last year. It was

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Speaker 1: a brief meeting, but we had more of a time

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Speaker 1: to catch up this year. I mean, I don't know

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Speaker 1: what to say. I've loved the guy's work. He's very

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Speaker 1: soft spoken. He doesn't have a hard handshake at all.

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Speaker 1: He's very kind, very shy almost. But Joe PESHI that guy,

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Speaker 1: that's right. Joe PESHI our favorite mob figure throughout the years,

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Speaker 1: as well as Home Alone and everything. Great actor. But

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Speaker 1: just had a nice chat with Joe pe she who

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Speaker 1: I was introduced Mattey. This guy's too old for you

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Speaker 1: and I. But ask your parents about Tom Dreeson, who

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Speaker 1: was a comedian back in the rat Back in the

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Speaker 1: rat Pack days. He warmed up for for you know,

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Speaker 1: Frank Sinatra for years for those guys and all the

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Speaker 1: rat Pack he would work with Sammy Davis Junior included.

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Speaker 1: And he came over and we had some great tales

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Speaker 1: and stuff past. She wasn't saying much, but Dreeson had

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Speaker 1: a great story about I asked him, I said, he said, man,

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Speaker 1: I know I picked the right business because I get

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Speaker 1: to meet great people like Joe here and you know,

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Speaker 1: stand shoulder to shoulder with the great throughout the years.

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Speaker 1: And then he goes by the way, don't forget I

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Speaker 1: have a book out. I just released it last year.

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Speaker 1: So it was so funny the way he did it.

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Speaker 1: He's like, don't forget it. I'm like, my parents are

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Speaker 1: big fans. Years He's like, well, buy two of them.

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Speaker 1: But maytey I did ask him. He goes, I go,

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Speaker 1: let me ask you a question about the celebrity, the

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Speaker 1: celebrity on Earth. Tell me about your meetings, because I

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Speaker 1: know he met everyone everybody back in the day. I said,

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Speaker 1: tell me about your meetings. Tom dreeson with Muhammad Ali

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Speaker 1: and he met him for the first time when he

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Speaker 1: was Ashes Clay Okay, yeah, yeah, and he said he

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Speaker 1: was very soft spoken like that, very much of a gentleman.

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Speaker 1: The next time he met him, he was Muhammad Ali,

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Speaker 1: and he came up and they had introduced, you know again,

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Speaker 1: said hey, good to see again. Good to see him,

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Speaker 1: he said. But the only thing different was Ali had

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Speaker 1: his soupcoat pockets full of magician tricks. So Dreason's like,

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to have it. I'm trying to have a

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Speaker 1: conversation with the champ and he's pulling ribbons out the

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Speaker 1: back of my collar, you know, and he's removing his

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Speaker 1: thumb and then he's got these card games and stuff,

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Speaker 1: and he goes, I have no idea what he did,

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Speaker 1: but he had card games, tricks games, all these these

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Speaker 1: magical trick games on his person. He said it was unbelievable.

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Speaker 1: I just let him do it. He said he was

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Speaker 1: like a kid in a candy shop given a ten

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Speaker 1: minute show. And he said, just the best, one of

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Speaker 1: the best things he's ever did. I said, give me

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Speaker 1: a tom can you give me a story or two

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Speaker 1: on Sinatra? And he said, I'm sorry, I can't talk

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Speaker 1: about Frank. That's what he says. I don't know. I

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Speaker 1: think it is. I mean, that is the Godfather, but

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Speaker 1: he talked about that. But he goes, I'm sorry. He

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Speaker 1: just he was a great man. I can't talk about Frank.

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Speaker 1: He goes, by the book. By the book, it was

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Speaker 1: so funny. I did. I did. I had a great

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Speaker 1: time out of and I appreciate you. Let me tell

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Speaker 1: that story, PESHI. Man, he's one of my all time favorites.

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Speaker 1: Did you get into like roles and favorite favorite actors?

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Speaker 1: And you know, folks, he will not let you, no,

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Speaker 1: he won't let you like he's he hits and runs. Man,

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Speaker 1: he just doesn't get into that. He probably he wanted

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Speaker 1: to talk. Yeah, he talks a lot of golf. Now,

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Speaker 1: he doesn't move the golf ball very far, but he's

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Speaker 1: out there consistent. He has a nice swing. It's a

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Speaker 1: it's a it's a country club called Lakeside where a

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Speaker 1: friend of mine is a member there, so you have

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Speaker 1: to go play with the member and all that stuff,

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Speaker 1: and it's the who's who, just guys out there trying

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Speaker 1: to improve their golf game. But it was kind of fun.

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Speaker 1: But with Peshi, we just kind of talked golf and

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Speaker 1: talked about, you know, follow and talked a little bit

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Speaker 1: about the Pebble Beach pro Am Dreeson and Tom Dreeson,

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Speaker 1: who I talked about. He was a staple there. But

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Speaker 1: Joe so so soft spoken. I do some invitations, but

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Speaker 1: I don't do a good Joe Peshi. But here's how

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Speaker 1: he spoke. Okay, Yeah, it's fun. We had a laugh, fun,

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Speaker 1: it's great tin. Yeah, I love Yeah, that was right guy.

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Speaker 1: But he really saw spoken soft handshake. So he's a

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Speaker 1: gentle giant of a man. But anyway, that was a

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Speaker 1: bad Joe Pesci. My point is he just he was

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Speaker 1: just soft spoken the whole time. I can't picture Joe

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Speaker 1: Pesci in any other setting other than him standing over

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Speaker 1: a guy with a basement exactly sin No, I mean,

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Speaker 1: I'm just I'm sorry. That'll That'll never be replaced with

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Speaker 1: any other mental image I have of that guy. Oh

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Speaker 1: my god. No, and he loves golf. Those guys love golf.

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Speaker 1: And it's funny the look he had on last thing

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Speaker 1: on Peschi dark dark sunglasses, a hat with the brim

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Speaker 1: up and just looked like a hundred million dollars, just

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Speaker 1: looked like he could walk right off the He could

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Speaker 1: have walked off the set of Good Fellas, the two

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Speaker 1: thousand version. You know what I mean. Now, it was great. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: next year hopefully we'll meet up with him again and

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Speaker 1: I'll have him better stories with Joe Pesci LA bound

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Speaker 1: super Bowl. It's all this weekend. A big game is

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Speaker 1: waiting in a couple of days. Gush Bradley is in

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Speaker 1: as the new defensive coordinator. We do have some more

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Speaker 1: coaching hires to talk about. You can find it all

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Speaker 1: on colts dot com download the Colts app as well.

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Speaker 1: You'll hear mate JJ Stankomitz letter Overton myself among many others.

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Speaker 1: We're getting you ready for next season. I know it's early,

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Speaker 1: but that's what we do. We got a whole lot

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Speaker 1: of new faces in Colt Slam this year, so let's

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Speaker 1: get ready for a huge twenty twenty two and twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty one will end with the Super Bowl coming up

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Speaker 1: in two days. Matey, I appreciate the time. Let's go

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Speaker 1: watch some Pacer basketball because the Cavaliers are coming into town. Yes, sir,

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Speaker 1: have a great weekend, Jeff. We'll see you back here

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Speaker 1: next week. You two the last word right here at

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

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Speaker 1: brother John in he caught a plane and he got

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Speaker 1: on in now and a win, and it's got a

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Speaker 1: pistol in his pocket to say, the man is crazy

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Speaker 1: on the Colts. That ain't no doubt about it, all right,