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Speaker 1: The NFL never sleeps. The roster is ever evolving, and

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Speaker 1: it's all about finding the edge. This is the last word.

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Speaker 1: The off season home of the Indianapolis Colts. Now here's

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Speaker 1: Jeffrey Gorman and Matt Taylor.

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Speaker 2: Welcome in every Friday evening here on ninety three five

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Speaker 2: and one oh seven five the Fan. We're coming to

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Speaker 2: you from the Indiana Union Construction Industry Radio Studio. I'm

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Speaker 2: Jeffrey Gorman, Voice of the Colts. Matt Taylor. How are

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Speaker 2: you mate, I'm great, I'm great.

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Speaker 3: Weather. It's starting to turn, as they say, spring is

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Speaker 3: starting to spring, and it's the weekend. Life's pretty good.

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Speaker 3: How are you?

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Speaker 2: Pretty good?

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Speaker 1: Man?

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Speaker 2: A couple of weeks to the draft coming up for

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Speaker 2: in a couple but you know it's right around the corner.

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Speaker 2: Not many. So here's why I like this because I'm

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Speaker 2: an action guy. Yeah, and I like reaction. Okay, So

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna present a bunch of stuff to you tonight

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Speaker 2: where I'm gonna ask you to react to.

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Speaker 3: Come on now, and that's.

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Speaker 2: Coming from the NFL Owner meetings down in West Palm Beach.

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Speaker 2: So this week, all of the NFL, the owners, the

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Speaker 2: general managers, the coaches, the front office personnel. They all

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Speaker 2: got together go over some rule changes and things that

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Speaker 2: are happening in the NFL, and specifically we had Shane

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Speaker 2: Stiken and Chris Ballard talking about this football team quite

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Speaker 2: a bit. Matt, We're gonna get into that, but I

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Speaker 2: just your takeaway of this thing. I want to give

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Speaker 2: the people paying a nice picture of what we're looking

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Speaker 2: at when it comes to building this roster. But your

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Speaker 2: biggest takeaway from listening to Shane Stike and Chris Ballard

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Speaker 2: this week earlier from the owners meeting.

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Speaker 3: Well, there seems to just be consistency in the biggest

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Speaker 3: offseason piece with this team obviously centered around the quarterback

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Speaker 3: battle between Anthony Richardson and Daniel Jones that's coming up.

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Speaker 3: It's gonna be a true competition. We'll talk more about that,

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Speaker 3: but they've been steadfast about that all off season, from

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Speaker 3: twenty twenty four season, So it's gonna be fun to

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Speaker 3: talk about that. It's also gonna be fun to talk

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Speaker 3: about the Colts plans at tight end and the battle

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Speaker 3: they won to have for some offensive lines starting positions

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Speaker 3: as well. So a lot of juice and some complimentary

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Speaker 3: news came out of the owners' meetings this week, and

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Speaker 3: we'll talk about all the dialogue that Shane Stike and

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Speaker 3: Chris Ballard had this week.

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Speaker 2: Chris Ballard has started the buzzword competition, and we're all

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Speaker 2: talking about Maddie. It doesn't end just at the quarterback position.

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Speaker 2: There are definitely some battles to fill out this roster,

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Speaker 2: especially for starters. Let's start at the quarterback position. We'll

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Speaker 2: get to the tight end, we'll get to the others.

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Speaker 2: But what you said, the quarterback competition, that is the

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Speaker 2: buzz around Indianapolis and the NFL. Chris Ballard has stated

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Speaker 2: it that this is a real chance to wrestle the

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Speaker 2: job away from Anthony Richardson for Daniel Jones if he's

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Speaker 2: given that opportunity and they plan to give it to him.

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Speaker 2: Here is Chris Ballard. Earlier this week at the NFL

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Speaker 2: Owner's meetings, he sat down with Mike Florio from Pro

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Speaker 2: Football Talking was asked what he thinks about the people

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Speaker 2: who say that he only signed Daniel Jones this offseason

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Speaker 2: to test Anthony Richardson.

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Speaker 4: I don't know if it's as much a test, and

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Speaker 4: I guess you could. It's a matter of semantics. But

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Speaker 4: the work, the competition word I think is good for anybody.

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Speaker 2: I do.

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Speaker 4: And you never know when the light's gonna come on

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Speaker 4: for a player you don't, and especially at the quarterback position.

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Speaker 4: And are we hopeful it comes on, you know, for

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Speaker 4: Anthony right now? Absolutely? And we hopefully it comes on

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Speaker 4: for you know, Daniel Jones right now? Absolutely? That would

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Speaker 4: be the that'd be the utopia if all of a

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Speaker 4: sudden both of them are competing at a high level.

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Speaker 4: It's coming on. But I mean, I'm not an astronomis.

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Speaker 4: I can't tell the future. So we'll just go day

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Speaker 4: by day and let them compete and see what comes

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Speaker 2: Matt Taylor, I gotta ask you, and I'm gonna play

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Speaker 2: a devil's advocate on this. When we're talking about reps,

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Speaker 2: we need reps when you're an offensive quarterback in the NFL.

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Speaker 2: I'm talking about the more reps you get, the better

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Speaker 2: you will be. How does that figure out now with

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Speaker 2: a true competition at this level, Matt, when you're talking

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Speaker 2: about OTA reps and then going into training camp, how

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Shane Steichen was asked about this at the owners

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Speaker 3: to have an open competition at quarterback. And we talked

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Speaker 3: about this during the combine. When this news started to

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Speaker 3: kind of trickle out. A lot of national NFL pundits,

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Speaker 3: guys that we talked to at the combine, Jeffrey, remember,

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Speaker 3: they were not in favor of this. They want to

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Speaker 3: some people want to see the Colts go all in

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Speaker 3: on Anthony Richardson and bypass this idea because it does

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Speaker 3: take reps away from Anthony Richardson, who needs reps in

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Speaker 3: order to grow and develop as a quarterback and all

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Speaker 3: of that. And I get that, right, that's a totally

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Speaker 3: fair argument, it really is. But on the other hand,

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Speaker 3: the first two years of Richardson's career, between production and availability,

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Speaker 3: those things have kind of forced the Colts hand here, right,

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Speaker 3: And the Colts will They're going to work out the

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Speaker 3: rep situation. They'll figure that out. But there's no question

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Speaker 3: that Richardson will have to maximize those reps because there's

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Speaker 3: going to be less of them. Quite frankly, like we said,

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Speaker 3: it's time to win. You cannot wait around and hope

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Speaker 3: that Richardson shows extreme improvement. You hope that it happens.

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Speaker 3: That would be ideal, But guess what, brother, hope is

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Speaker 3: not a strategy, And like Chris Ballard said, Richardson has

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Speaker 3: not shown the ability to stay healthy. You gotta start winning.

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Speaker 3: Whether that's with Daniel Jones or Anthony Richardson, it does

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Speaker 3: not matter. Again, four straight years missing out on the playoffs,

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Speaker 3: got a good roster. A lot of key ingredients are

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Speaker 3: here in the primes of their career. You know, some

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Speaker 3: say it should be Richardson. You want it to be

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Speaker 3: But if it's not, if he does get beat out

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Speaker 3: so be it. The best man needs to win that job,

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Speaker 3: and the Colts need overall consistency at.

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Speaker 2: Quarterback, and it starts with completing passes. Maddie completion percentage

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Speaker 2: for Anthony Richardson and change not going to cut it.

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Speaker 2: Here's head coach Shane Stiken on Richardson needing to improve

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think that definitely needs to improve, you know,

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Speaker 5: is the complete percentage. I think you can't go broke

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Speaker 5: taking a profit, but getting those completions are huge and

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Speaker 5: just moving the change, you know, instead of being at

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Speaker 5: you know we're going to be working on that this

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Speaker 2: Camp, Mattie. You know, at forty seven and change is

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Speaker 2: not going to cut it. You know, you want that

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Speaker 2: sixty five or higher. You get to those quarterbacks that

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Speaker 2: have a seventy percent completion percentage. Guess what those guys

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Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure, for sure. And some have asked themselves

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Speaker 3: the question, Hey, is the signing of Daniel Jones more

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Speaker 3: shown enough improvement by the time the regular season rolls around.

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Speaker 3: And for me, I think it's both you have. Like

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Speaker 3: you said, you have to have consistency in the passing game.

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Speaker 3: That's really what it all boils down to, because the

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Speaker 3: NFL's best at quarterback make a lot of high completion throws,

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Speaker 3: the kind of plays and the kind of completions that

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Speaker 3: plays well with Richardson Jefferys, it's kind of the other

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Speaker 3: way around, right, And with Jones, he completes the high

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Speaker 3: certainly not as much as Anthony Richardson has shown to

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Speaker 3: about finding consistency in the passing game for this offense.

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Speaker 3: It's important that both of these guys have mobility too.

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Speaker 3: We haven't really mentioned that, right. They can do similar things.

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Speaker 2: Similar quarterbacks, believe it or not. I know people scratch

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Speaker 2: your head at this, but Daniel Jones can run the football, right.

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Speaker 2: I mean, Anthony Richardson can run the football right.

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Speaker 3: So I think it's important from the dynamic aspect of

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Speaker 3: But as it relates to that catch twenty two thing

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Speaker 3: his natural potential, but also the Colts knowing they need

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Speaker 3: and move the ball and then again quite frankly win

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Speaker 2: Chris Ballard again he caught up with Mike Florio from

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Speaker 2: clicking for Anthony richards In this season.

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Speaker 4: He's just a consistency. I think it's like with any

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Speaker 4: hard on any young quarterback in this league. You're seeing it.

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Speaker 4: You see it. I mean, you see what kind of

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Speaker 4: in terms of consistency, you know, the sooner the better.

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Speaker 4: But every player's journey's different. Everybody's every developmental timeline is different.

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Speaker 4: It's the scrutiny and of what the position means to

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Speaker 4: a team. So the faster it can happen, the better

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Speaker 4: it is for everybody. But you know, we don't have

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Speaker 4: a crystal ball.

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Speaker 2: With that, Matt You know what we talk about Anthony

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Speaker 2: Richardson and Daniel Jones. All eyes will be on that competition.

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Speaker 2: But it's not high on the list. But it's on

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Speaker 2: the list. And I'm talking about a third quarterback. Here's

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Speaker 2: what I mean. Sam Ellinger was that guy for about

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Speaker 2: four years. Here he's in Denver now with Sean Payton.

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Speaker 2: Colts need a third quarterback. Again, not high on the list,

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Speaker 2: but I do want to get to this thing. Do

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Speaker 2: you think they find that in the upcoming draft? Who

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Speaker 2: that guy is? I know Jason Bean's on the roster right.

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Speaker 3: Now, right Yeah, I wouldn't rule it out. I think

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Speaker 3: you bring up a really good point because you know,

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Speaker 3: certainly with the Colts, it's not going to be one

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Speaker 3: of the top two quarterbacks in this draft and cam

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Speaker 3: Ward or shuduor Sanders. But maybe you get to Day

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Speaker 3: lot of ups and some intangibles, and maybe that guy's

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Speaker 3: worth exploring a little bit. Like you said, Sam Ellinger

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Speaker 3: just left in free agency and he fits exactly what

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Speaker 3: I just said upside, great intangibles, great leaders, great coach.

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Speaker 3: Jathick right, And like you said, you still have Jason

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Speaker 3: Bean on the roster. He showed some flashes in the

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Speaker 2: You just heard from head coach Change stike In talking

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Speaker 2: I'm just saying, how about in this draft? Maybe not

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Speaker 2: Ballard and Stike and we're talking tight ends down there,

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

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Speaker 2: Hey, I know that drummer, good guy, lead singer boy,

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Speaker 3: Jeffer, you've had some prior life.

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Speaker 2: We welcome in showcase casey Value Matt Taylor. All right,

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Speaker 2: time now for the fanforum section of Colts dot Com.

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Speaker 2: financial dreams. Here we go, Boys, Casey welcome in. The

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Speaker 2: NFL announced this week it will air three games on

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Speaker 2: Christmas Day in twenty twenty five, the first two streaming

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Speaker 2: on Netflix and the third is a part of Amazon

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Speaker 2: Primes Thursday Night Football package. Boys. The question is this,

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Speaker 2: how many people watch football on Christmas Day? Last year

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Speaker 2: on Netflix? How many people watch football? And think about it?

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Speaker 2: A nationally televised game will be at nineteen okay, nineteen

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Speaker 2: point five, and that'll be a rating on and you're like,

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Speaker 2: oh my gosh, the NFL the biggest dog in ton

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Speaker 2: So keep that for reference.

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Speaker 3: So for the day, I'm gonna say like six million.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, I'm probably clearing because you're you're around,

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Speaker 6: you're not doing anything, so you've got the TV on

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Speaker 6: in the background. I'm gonna go close to Them'm gonna

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Speaker 6: say you said you're a little salty, so maybe you

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Speaker 6: go forty.

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Speaker 2: Well, here it is. I'm saying for one game, if

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Speaker 2: you get nineteen on it, it's ridiculous. And they put

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Speaker 2: all these three games together and have the annual viewership

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Speaker 2: it's twenty six point five million US viewers averaging watching

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Speaker 2: each and.

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Speaker 3: So that that was a per game average. Oh my god,

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Speaker 3: I thought for the day. No, no, no, that was

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Speaker 3: the per game That's on me. But I'm just saying, bro,

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Speaker 3: they have a thing now on Christmas. Christmas football is

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Speaker 3: a thing. Kansas City Chiefs have said Dallas has in

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Speaker 3: Detroit has that ring with us? No, please with us?

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Speaker 2: No you don't like that.

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Speaker 3: No, I don't know, ty Reid. No, I don't want

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Speaker 3: to see the Chiefs on Christmas. I don't want to

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Speaker 3: see anybody. Here's if I was commissioner for the day,

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Speaker 3: one of the first things I do, and I would

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Speaker 3: blow up the Cowboys and Lions on.

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Speaker 1: Year.

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Speaker 6: And that's what I'm saying.

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Speaker 3: Even if they're good.

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Speaker 6: The Chiefs are great right now, but what happens in

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Speaker 6: a decade when they're in a lull.

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Speaker 2: Mahomes is on that roster, he can play on Christmas Day.

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Speaker 2: If Mahomes isn't playing, he's not playing that.

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Speaker 6: If Mahomes is here, he plays on Christmas.

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Speaker 2: I'm watching. I understand because five years, ten years from now,

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Speaker 2: and all of a sudden, now.

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Speaker 3: The league would like it. Yeah, league would definitely like it.

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Speaker 2: Guys, theres some rule changes going on. I want to

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Speaker 2: talk to him before we say goodbye. The competition committee

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Speaker 2: was busy. Which rule change do you like the most?

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Speaker 6: I would go with the overtime rule. Just make it

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Speaker 6: stand it across the board. I'm in favor of that.

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Speaker 6: Everybody get an opportunity to have the football. That's that's

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Speaker 6: what I'm in favor.

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Speaker 2: Show Case, good call.

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 2: There also a new rule that was put in for

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Speaker 2: the Colts radio production team. It is okay to drink

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Speaker 2: your weight in Margarita's at your neighbor Reed's house. I'm understanding.

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Speaker 2: That's big.

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Speaker 1: Is that right?

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Speaker 2: This sent down yesterday and I'm just telling you, I

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Speaker 3: That actually passed unanimously all the owners.

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Speaker 2: So you can drink your weight and Margarita's at the

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Speaker 2: neighbors on Thursday night.

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Speaker 6: I will say that Thursday we we we put a

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Speaker 6: right back over there to night for some.

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Speaker 2: More rules are rules, They are rules. Here we go

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Speaker 2: stumbled home, Casey Valley, Matt Taylor, I'm Jeffrey Gorman. This

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Speaker 2: is the last word. Boys, don't go anywhere, because coming

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Speaker 2: up Karl Malone, John Stockton, Adrian Danley, they're all coming

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Speaker 2: in the game. Bridge, good luck against those pacers. Thanks

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