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Speaker 1: This is Inside Football with former Colts and the NFL

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Speaker 1: coach Rick Venturi. The Colts have hit the by no

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Speaker 1: game coming up week number fourteen. It's mid December and

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Speaker 1: the season for the Colts it's been put on pause.

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Speaker 1: It's four games to play. I'm Matt Taylor. Welcome to

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Speaker 1: the bye week edition of Inside Football here with Rick

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Speaker 1: Venturry r V. How you doing today? Then you get

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Speaker 1: But anyway, we got some time, we got some time

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Speaker 1: I'm right there with you, man, trying to get over

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Speaker 1: in Minneapolis coming up next in week number fifteen. So

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Speaker 1: Rick four eight and one for the Colts, three game skid.

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Speaker 1: They've dropped six of their last seven. They're one and

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Speaker 1: I thought today we would break out kind of in

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Speaker 1: the spirit of a movie. Remember that movie back in

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Speaker 1: coming of age. Let's talk about the now and the

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Speaker 1: received great reviews me included, right, I mean, I'll raise

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Speaker 1: RV have a great rest of the weekend off. Now,

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Speaker 1: will you watch a ton of football as a fan

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Speaker 1: or how will you consume the game this weekend? You

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Speaker 1: don't want, I may not watch a ton of football.

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Speaker 1: Come on, come on, No, I'm gonna focus, you know,

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Speaker 1: I'm you know to me. You know, the biggest thing

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Speaker 1: I'm focused on you know, I'll do continue to do Minnesota.

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Speaker 1: I started on them, uh, and then San Diego and

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Speaker 1: of course now actually I kind of like the idea

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Speaker 1: out with the Giants in Houston. So I guess I'll

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Speaker 1: be watching football, but it'll be business football. It won't

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Speaker 1: be pleasure, all right, It'll really be the business football,

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Speaker 1: to be honest with you. But yeah, like I said,

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Speaker 1: on everybody, like we said, we all I don't think

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Speaker 1: a real contender. Yeah, that's certainly been a wild ride. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean in some aspects, you know, Grand Park and

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Speaker 1: But another sense, it seems like two years ago, considering

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Speaker 1: coaster nature of this season for the call yea, no,

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Speaker 1: that's a good way to put it. The roller coaster nature,

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Speaker 1: of the year. You know, all those things have gigantic effects.

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Speaker 1: And and and the other thing is with the exception

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Speaker 1: one possession games that if we make one stop or

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Speaker 1: we make one play, you know, we could win it.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's there's been some real heartbreakers. And this

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Speaker 1: in that. But we were talking the other day just internally,

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Speaker 1: you know, like you said, the Colts have twenty six

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Speaker 1: turnovers on offense this season, if they just have half

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Speaker 1: they only have thirteen turnovers, which is still you know,

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Speaker 1: I don't care of the football. Hunt definitely would be

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Speaker 1: in the hunt, easily be in the hunt. I mean, really,

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Speaker 1: you probably have seven rights. Bumble it. We have an

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Speaker 1: unforced their think about this, Yeah, Jonathan and Jonathan and

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Speaker 1: the is it the Philadelphia game, He's fighting for the

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Speaker 1: running right and throw him boom, we give it up

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Speaker 1: and then we're first in goal on the way against

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Speaker 1: Pittsburgh to put them away. We got more downs to

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Speaker 1: put them away, and we have an unforced air. So

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Speaker 1: you know, that's just validating what you just said. You know,

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Speaker 1: if you just you know, and if you cut some

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Speaker 1: you know, I think we really need work on the

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Speaker 1: running game. I've said from day one. I see where

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Speaker 1: Tennessee let that fullback go today there point you talk

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Speaker 1: about a team that's there's seven and five and they're

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Speaker 1: in this array, you would know it. Yeah, I would go.

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Speaker 1: I would pick up Carter tomorrow and bring that fullback

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Speaker 1: in and bring some lead plays. As God is my judge,

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Speaker 1: I would do that tomorrow. I've said that all year. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know. And then and then we got to help

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Speaker 1: that left tackle in critical situations because there's gonna be

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Speaker 1: you know, every every game we play, there's there's going

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Speaker 1: to at some point there's gonna be a big time

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Speaker 1: rusher on their right side. It's been that kind of season,

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Speaker 1: my friend. That's Rick Ventury inside Football breaking it all down.

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Speaker 1: Despite no game for the Colts in week number fourteen.

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Speaker 1: They're on the buy. Rick, have a great weekend off

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Speaker 1: and we will talk to you next week. Getting ready

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Speaker 1: for Colts and Vikings on a Saturday afternoon in mid December.

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Speaker 1: Enjoy it and be well and we'll talk to you

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Speaker 1: again soon friend. Okay, a week from Wednesday we'll be

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Speaker 1: breaking it with a week from today we'll be breaking

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Speaker 1: down those Vikings. You got it, man, That's Rick Ventury

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Speaker 1: and that'll do it for this week's edition of d Football.

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Speaker 1: As always, for the latest on the Colts, check it

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Speaker 1: out Colts dot com, the mobile app m be sure

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Speaker 1: For Rick fin Terry, I'm Matt Taylor. We will talk

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Speaker 1: to you Wednesday on another installment of Insight Football, getting

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Speaker 1: you ready for Colts and Vikings right here on the

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