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Speaker 1: Welcome everybody, Welcome into another edition of the Official Colts Podcast,

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Speaker 1: the Colts Audio Network, and the Colts Mobile app. I'm

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Speaker 1: Matt Taylor, Lair Overton, JJ stankovits along per usual, No

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Speaker 1: back in the studio next week. But second week of

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Speaker 1: first weekend of the NFL playoffs. Super wild Card Weekend

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Speaker 1: concluded last night Monday Night football. The Cowboys destroyed the

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Speaker 1: Tampa Bay Buccaneers. They're moving on, guys. You guys watch

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Speaker 1: a lot of football this weekend. Every bit of it. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: was such a good weekend, such a great weekend of football.

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Speaker 1: to that is the guys who are coming back who

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Speaker 1: maybe performed under expectations this year need to perform to expectations.

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Speaker 1: What Nelson talked about it after the season exactly right right,

429
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Speaker 1: And I thought Q was really really open and honest

430
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Speaker 1: after the season saying it starts with me, I have

431
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Speaker 1: to play better. I know exactly what I need to

432
00:22:12,240 --> 00:22:14,720
Speaker 1: do this offseason to go play at my highest level

433
00:22:14,800 --> 00:22:19,320
Speaker 1: coming into twenty twenty three. You need your best highest

434
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Speaker 1: paid players to play up to their level. And you

435
00:22:23,240 --> 00:22:24,840
Speaker 1: need those guys who are playing at a high level,

436
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Speaker 1: like DeForrest Buckner, like Grover Stewart, continue playing at that

437
00:22:27,760 --> 00:22:31,560
Speaker 1: high level, Zaire Franklin stars to find Gilmore, you need

438
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Speaker 1: those guys, you know, Michael Pittman Junior still play at

439
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Speaker 1: that really high level. But then get some of those

440
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Speaker 1: guys who maybe didn't, Paris Campbell. But that would be

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Speaker 1: the impending free agents, which I think is number three.

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Speaker 1: Target your in house free agents, Paris Campbell, Bobby Okaka

443
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Speaker 1: Unique and Gockway, Chase McLaughlin and then figure out, all right,

444
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Speaker 1: are there difference makers that we could spend on in

445
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Speaker 1: free agency? Because Chris Ballard said he's looking at everything

446
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Speaker 1: that he's done with roster construction. And something the Colts

447
00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:02,840
Speaker 1: have not done is spend in free agency. They have

448
00:23:02,960 --> 00:23:05,760
Speaker 1: spent through trades and they've been very aggressive going to

449
00:23:05,840 --> 00:23:08,760
Speaker 1: get to Forest Buckner, Carson Wentz. Obviously mixed results there.

450
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Speaker 1: Do the Colts go and spend in free agency like

451
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Speaker 1: the Jaguars did this offseason? So I think, to me,

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Speaker 1: the clear number two, number one and number two, fix

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Speaker 1: that competitive confidence, then find the long term answer at quarterback.

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Speaker 1: Then get JT and Shack back fully healthy, get your

455
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Speaker 1: stars playing up to their level, and then free agency

456
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Speaker 1: four and five. What do you got? Lara? So I

457
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Speaker 1: did long term answer at quarterback as my number one.

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Speaker 1: I actually number five for me was fixing the competitive

459
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Speaker 1: confidence because the way I ranked the other things, I

460
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Speaker 1: believe if you treat those areas properly in house free agents,

461
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Speaker 1: external free agents, addressing the quarterback with a long term solution,

462
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Speaker 1: I think that that competitive confidence will kind of take

463
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Speaker 1: care of itself based on how you're bringing guys in

464
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Speaker 1: and how you're evaluating how you're constructing this particular roster.

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Speaker 1: So number one, finding long term answer at quarterback. Number

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Speaker 1: two was targeting in house free agents that should be

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Speaker 1: back in twenty twenty three. Number three for me identifying

468
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Speaker 1: difference makers on the open market. Number four was ensuring

469
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Speaker 1: Jonathan Taylor and Shack Leonard are backfully healthy next season.

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Speaker 1: The reason I had that is number four is primarily

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Speaker 1: because that's on those guys as individuals. I don't know

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Speaker 1: how much you're going to control that both of those

473
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Speaker 1: guys are. Shack has been through this. I don't think

474
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Speaker 1: JT's had this type of injury situation before. But Jonathan

475
00:24:27,720 --> 00:24:33,000
Speaker 1: is such a cerebral, mindful guy that I think that

476
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Speaker 1: he knows and he is so diligent in prehab rehab.

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Speaker 1: I mean, we've talked so much about what he does

478
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Speaker 1: in the off season. I think that Jonathan and Shack

479
00:24:43,119 --> 00:24:48,240
Speaker 1: are each guys that are so committed and so dedicated

480
00:24:48,359 --> 00:24:50,720
Speaker 1: that they will identify those type of things and they'll

481
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Speaker 1: take care of that kind of on its own. Similar

482
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Speaker 1: to I'm thinking of this competitive confidence that I think

483
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Speaker 1: that is something that's going to come from getting the

484
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Speaker 1: long term answer quarterback making. You're bringing guys back who

485
00:25:01,080 --> 00:25:03,639
Speaker 1: are important pieces and then identifying a couple of other

486
00:25:03,680 --> 00:25:05,080
Speaker 1: guys that you really need to help you in key

487
00:25:05,119 --> 00:25:07,720
Speaker 1: areas out there in free agency. Doubling back to the

488
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Speaker 1: coaching search. I think it's also important to realize into

489
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Speaker 1: note that the guys coming in for interviews to be

490
00:25:15,080 --> 00:25:17,359
Speaker 1: the head coach of this team, they're also interviewing the

491
00:25:17,480 --> 00:25:20,280
Speaker 1: colts as much as the colts are interviewing them. So

492
00:25:20,600 --> 00:25:23,480
Speaker 1: these coaches want to know how things work last year.

493
00:25:23,560 --> 00:25:26,000
Speaker 1: They want to understand the talent and the roster, and

494
00:25:26,080 --> 00:25:29,679
Speaker 1: they want to know, Okay, what led to this fall off,

495
00:25:29,920 --> 00:25:31,879
Speaker 1: what led to the bad season, What do you think

496
00:25:31,920 --> 00:25:35,360
Speaker 1: the pitfalls were, what happened to the offense? What went

497
00:25:35,480 --> 00:25:38,800
Speaker 1: wrong with the offensive line. So I think coaching candidates

498
00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:41,280
Speaker 1: can come in here and offer a fresh perspective on

499
00:25:41,359 --> 00:25:44,679
Speaker 1: the team and the team philosophies right, because both sides

500
00:25:44,720 --> 00:25:47,879
Speaker 1: need to connect so they can identify the problems and

501
00:25:48,560 --> 00:25:51,320
Speaker 1: sort of agree on how you would go about fixing them.

502
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Speaker 1: I think that if you get that part right, I

503
00:25:54,359 --> 00:25:55,920
Speaker 1: agree with you j J. If you get if you

504
00:25:55,960 --> 00:25:59,679
Speaker 1: get the head coaching position correct, that should fix your

505
00:25:59,760 --> 00:26:03,400
Speaker 1: competitive confidence issue. If you get the head coach in here,

506
00:26:03,480 --> 00:26:06,120
Speaker 1: that's gonna hopefully take this team to the next level.

507
00:26:06,200 --> 00:26:08,960
Speaker 1: But then there's if you look at it, there's this

508
00:26:09,119 --> 00:26:13,359
Speaker 1: is not a reclamation project. It's not void of talent, right,

509
00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:16,720
Speaker 1: the cupboard's not completely bar So I think fixing the

510
00:26:16,800 --> 00:26:20,000
Speaker 1: competitive confidence that's first and foremost with the coaching hire.

511
00:26:20,400 --> 00:26:23,760
Speaker 1: Then it's develop a strong plan that you can be

512
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Speaker 1: sure in to confidently bring in the quarterback that's going

513
00:26:27,160 --> 00:26:29,760
Speaker 1: to be here for the foreseeable future. I mean, it's

514
00:26:29,800 --> 00:26:31,520
Speaker 1: obviously going to be a strong chance that it's a

515
00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:35,080
Speaker 1: rookie quarterback coming in. So the development of that player's

516
00:26:35,119 --> 00:26:36,760
Speaker 1: got to be key. That's got to be the most

517
00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:39,240
Speaker 1: important part of the future of this team. And so

518
00:26:39,359 --> 00:26:41,800
Speaker 1: I think you have to hire the coaching staff the

519
00:26:41,880 --> 00:26:44,280
Speaker 1: next head coach with that in mind. You have to

520
00:26:44,359 --> 00:26:48,080
Speaker 1: develop this rookie quarterback potentially to grow and turn into

521
00:26:48,119 --> 00:26:49,840
Speaker 1: the face of the franchise and a guy that you

522
00:26:49,920 --> 00:26:52,640
Speaker 1: can win with. To your point, layer of free agency

523
00:26:52,760 --> 00:26:55,600
Speaker 1: happens before the draft, right, So if the Cults are

524
00:26:55,600 --> 00:26:57,640
Speaker 1: going to draft a quarterback, it's going to be tough

525
00:26:57,680 --> 00:27:00,959
Speaker 1: for them to sell, you know something to free agents

526
00:27:01,160 --> 00:27:03,399
Speaker 1: when you don't have that guy on your roster just yet.

527
00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:07,320
Speaker 1: When you talk about identifying outside you know, playmakers, how

528
00:27:07,359 --> 00:27:09,240
Speaker 1: are you going to sign a wide receiver when you

529
00:27:09,280 --> 00:27:11,320
Speaker 1: don't know who he's catching passes right right. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you're gonna have a draft plan. But draft night is

531
00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:16,920
Speaker 1: weird things happen. Yeah, there's people that trade up in

532
00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:19,159
Speaker 1: front of you that that block you on what you

533
00:27:19,200 --> 00:27:21,040
Speaker 1: want to do with Plan A and Plan B. So

534
00:27:21,160 --> 00:27:24,120
Speaker 1: that part's going to be fascinating because it just it happens,

535
00:27:24,359 --> 00:27:26,560
Speaker 1: you know, in the calendar year before the draft. Now,

536
00:27:26,600 --> 00:27:32,080
Speaker 1: I will say this, there is a scenario where I mean,

537
00:27:32,160 --> 00:27:34,359
Speaker 1: this has been like you know, speculated on and all that.

538
00:27:34,600 --> 00:27:39,240
Speaker 1: But if if that speculation were to come to happen,

539
00:27:39,640 --> 00:27:42,920
Speaker 1: the Colts trading up to number one overall is on

540
00:27:43,040 --> 00:27:45,480
Speaker 1: the table because you know, Chris Ballard said he would

541
00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:47,960
Speaker 1: do if if the Colts identify the guy, he would

542
00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:51,240
Speaker 1: move heaven and earth to go get him. And usually

543
00:27:51,359 --> 00:27:56,600
Speaker 1: that stuff happens right around, if not during, right after

544
00:27:56,680 --> 00:27:59,680
Speaker 1: the NFL combine, So you're talking right before free agency.

545
00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:02,520
Speaker 1: So it would be an easier sell potentially if the

546
00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:05,000
Speaker 1: Colts say, hey, we've just went through the NFL combine.

547
00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:08,480
Speaker 1: In my gosh, we love this guy and we you

548
00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:11,719
Speaker 1: know what, Chicago, all right, let's make a deal, then

549
00:28:11,760 --> 00:28:13,320
Speaker 1: that would probably be an easier sell of Hey, you

550
00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:16,399
Speaker 1: want to come. Yeah, we're we're Howie Mandel over here

551
00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:20,639
Speaker 1: with the suitcases. Well, then this one then you can

552
00:28:20,680 --> 00:28:22,919
Speaker 1: sell to free agent. But that but that's the thing

553
00:28:22,960 --> 00:28:25,399
Speaker 1: you can sell to free agents that there's nothing stopping

554
00:28:25,520 --> 00:28:28,520
Speaker 1: us from executing what we want exactly. And I think

555
00:28:28,720 --> 00:28:30,960
Speaker 1: and it doesn't always have to be that that though.

556
00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:35,480
Speaker 1: You're you're selling the aggressiveness, right, you're selling that aggressive mindset. Yeah,

557
00:28:35,520 --> 00:28:37,040
Speaker 1: by the way, just to get it out there, because

558
00:28:37,040 --> 00:28:39,240
Speaker 1: I had like fifteen people text me this this weekend.

559
00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:42,560
Speaker 1: The Colts have not considered trading Michael Pittman junior to

560
00:28:42,640 --> 00:28:46,560
Speaker 1: the Chicago Bears. It is January seventeen. This is ridiculous.

561
00:28:46,880 --> 00:28:49,160
Speaker 1: And my friend David Kaplan, who I know very well

562
00:28:49,200 --> 00:28:51,040
Speaker 1: from Chicago, is when to put it out there. Cap,

563
00:28:51,920 --> 00:28:53,480
Speaker 1: you're not listening to this. I don't know why i'd say, Cap,

564
00:28:53,960 --> 00:28:57,400
Speaker 1: that is ridiculous. Cap, it's not. It's not a thing.

565
00:28:57,760 --> 00:29:00,720
Speaker 1: So please everyone stopped texting it to me, tweeting at me.

566
00:29:00,920 --> 00:29:03,600
Speaker 1: It's not a thing right now. Okay, that's what I mean.

567
00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:05,800
Speaker 1: We're two weeks into the off season. We got four

568
00:29:05,840 --> 00:29:09,360
Speaker 1: more months of their head coach. Yeah, they can't go evaluate.

569
00:29:09,440 --> 00:29:11,719
Speaker 1: Oh we should trade this guy, Like, that's not happening

570
00:29:11,840 --> 00:29:15,200
Speaker 1: right now, stop it. I like it. I like it. Well,

571
00:29:15,240 --> 00:29:19,240
Speaker 1: that's a that's a long, busy, lengthy to do list,

572
00:29:19,320 --> 00:29:22,040
Speaker 1: and obviously that's like a Matt Taylor honey do list

573
00:29:22,080 --> 00:29:25,240
Speaker 1: in the middle of July, right Saturday afternoon, Like you're

574
00:29:25,280 --> 00:29:29,520
Speaker 1: going to Lowe's home depot. You're kind I'm painting the garage.

575
00:29:29,560 --> 00:29:31,920
Speaker 1: You can me. That's a long, long day. You gotta

576
00:29:31,960 --> 00:29:34,880
Speaker 1: take Molly SEUs shoe shopping or something. You've all been there, Yeah,

577
00:29:35,080 --> 00:29:38,520
Speaker 1: back to school clothes shopping. Geez. Well, all right, let's

578
00:29:38,600 --> 00:29:41,520
Speaker 1: let's before we close out, let's sort of post mortem

579
00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:44,880
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty two season. Discuss some of the final

580
00:29:45,160 --> 00:29:48,160
Speaker 1: eye popping numbers from this season, both good and bad,

581
00:29:48,680 --> 00:29:51,280
Speaker 1: and discuss what it means going forward. So I've got

582
00:29:51,360 --> 00:29:54,200
Speaker 1: two goods, two bads, and then we can discuss So

583
00:29:54,280 --> 00:29:57,200
Speaker 1: the first good that I have forty four sacks for

584
00:29:57,240 --> 00:29:59,440
Speaker 1: the Colts defense last year. That's the most by the

585
00:29:59,520 --> 00:30:03,120
Speaker 1: franchise in a season since two thousand and five, second

586
00:30:03,200 --> 00:30:06,080
Speaker 1: most sack total in a single season in franchise history.

587
00:30:06,640 --> 00:30:09,680
Speaker 1: Four players had at least five sacks this year, which

588
00:30:09,760 --> 00:30:13,080
Speaker 1: is only the third time that's occurred in the Indianapolis

589
00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:16,040
Speaker 1: Colts era dating back to nineteen eighty four. So the

590
00:30:16,160 --> 00:30:18,520
Speaker 1: question is layer, I'll start with, you can the Colts

591
00:30:18,560 --> 00:30:24,080
Speaker 1: pass rush continue that trend next season if Gus Bradley

592
00:30:24,240 --> 00:30:28,200
Speaker 1: and Unique and Gockway don't come back in their respective roles. Man,

593
00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:32,080
Speaker 1: that's a loaded question, I think too. Somebody you got

594
00:30:32,160 --> 00:30:34,640
Speaker 1: to account for in that is is Unique. You know,

595
00:30:34,840 --> 00:30:37,640
Speaker 1: obviously he was a huge factor in all of that.

596
00:30:38,600 --> 00:30:41,760
Speaker 1: And going back, I think that not only is it

597
00:30:41,840 --> 00:30:45,040
Speaker 1: a huge credit to Gus Bradley, but the work Nate

598
00:30:45,120 --> 00:30:48,440
Speaker 1: Ali did with that defensive line this year point yep,

599
00:30:48,600 --> 00:30:52,880
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I think he solidified himself as a

600
00:30:53,720 --> 00:30:59,240
Speaker 1: bona fide defensive mind and developer of talent and my goodness,

601
00:30:59,360 --> 00:31:02,120
Speaker 1: just one of the best absolute dudes that you will

602
00:31:02,160 --> 00:31:04,880
Speaker 1: ever talk to. I just I think that he One

603
00:31:04,920 --> 00:31:07,400
Speaker 1: of the things that Nate did with that group is

604
00:31:07,480 --> 00:31:10,760
Speaker 1: he they played relentless and you love that. You love

605
00:31:10,840 --> 00:31:15,120
Speaker 1: that the fashion in which they conducted themselves all year long.

606
00:31:15,120 --> 00:31:16,840
Speaker 1: I'm trying to go back to a quote that I

607
00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:21,960
Speaker 1: had from Jeff Saturday about the production by that defensive front,

608
00:31:21,960 --> 00:31:23,920
Speaker 1: because of course, who knows that oh five defense better

609
00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:27,160
Speaker 1: than Jeff Saturday, right, and he said, it's a little

610
00:31:27,200 --> 00:31:29,240
Speaker 1: disappointing to have that good of a record and still

611
00:31:29,280 --> 00:31:32,360
Speaker 1: feel like we've wasted it a bit from an offensive perspective,

612
00:31:32,520 --> 00:31:35,440
Speaker 1: and that is something worth saying. They gave you so much.

613
00:31:35,640 --> 00:31:38,320
Speaker 1: I think that that's really interesting. Though. If you don't

614
00:31:38,440 --> 00:31:41,200
Speaker 1: have Gus and you don't have stuff on, I'm not sure.

615
00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:44,080
Speaker 1: I don't know if you get to that level again

616
00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:46,720
Speaker 1: unless you think you have somebody who really loves to

617
00:31:46,760 --> 00:31:48,680
Speaker 1: get aggressive on the defense up front, like a way

618
00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:51,600
Speaker 1: Martindale up there. Yeah, but he's Here's what I think

619
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Speaker 1: is interesting about this is that I've got some questions

620
00:31:54,400 --> 00:31:56,600
Speaker 1: about you know, all right, well, if the colts Hire

621
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Speaker 1: say they hire a giro Evro, he's a front guy.

622
00:32:00,920 --> 00:32:03,040
Speaker 1: They play a three four in Denver, he's he's from

623
00:32:03,080 --> 00:32:06,959
Speaker 1: the vic Fangio Tree, which is a three four defense,

624
00:32:07,360 --> 00:32:09,200
Speaker 1: what does that look like next year? You know you

625
00:32:09,320 --> 00:32:11,280
Speaker 1: have defour, You know your your d lineman could be

626
00:32:11,440 --> 00:32:14,200
Speaker 1: Buck Grove at the nose, and then you could have

627
00:32:14,320 --> 00:32:16,360
Speaker 1: Quitty or Dial. But maybe Quitty has to be a

628
00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:20,000
Speaker 1: stand up linebacker who rushes. All that stuff I think

629
00:32:20,120 --> 00:32:22,600
Speaker 1: is secondary to getting the head coach. Right, if you

630
00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:25,920
Speaker 1: if Chris Ballard goes through this whole process and the

631
00:32:26,040 --> 00:32:28,800
Speaker 1: guy he identifies as this this is the guy to

632
00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:32,680
Speaker 1: lead our team is an odd front guy. So be

633
00:32:32,840 --> 00:32:36,040
Speaker 1: it then that that's the guy and you'll figure it

634
00:32:36,080 --> 00:32:38,400
Speaker 1: out later. If he's an even front guy, then you

635
00:32:38,480 --> 00:32:41,960
Speaker 1: don't have to change a whole lot on your D line. Um,

636
00:32:42,840 --> 00:32:45,280
Speaker 1: But I think that that's something that that's sort of

637
00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:48,560
Speaker 1: secondary to all this. I will say, two guys on

638
00:32:48,720 --> 00:32:51,920
Speaker 1: that D line who give me reason to believe they

639
00:32:51,960 --> 00:32:55,240
Speaker 1: could keep keep this up. Dialo Dangbo finish the season

640
00:32:55,440 --> 00:32:59,160
Speaker 1: like a banshee. He was really good down the stretch.

641
00:33:00,400 --> 00:33:02,719
Speaker 1: A guy who I think you could see him get

642
00:33:02,760 --> 00:33:05,920
Speaker 1: his feet under him in year two in the NFL,

643
00:33:05,960 --> 00:33:08,800
Speaker 1: which is always kind of the path the Colts expected. Larry,

644
00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:10,800
Speaker 1: you're pointing at me. What he got about that? He

645
00:33:10,920 --> 00:33:13,720
Speaker 1: told me how much it made a difference having a full,

646
00:33:13,800 --> 00:33:16,720
Speaker 1: healthy off season last year that when he talked about

647
00:33:16,760 --> 00:33:20,200
Speaker 1: you know, he was obviously playing on a fully healed achilles,

648
00:33:20,520 --> 00:33:23,040
Speaker 1: but it's just so different when you don't have the

649
00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:26,160
Speaker 1: confidence in your explosiveness and the torque that you need

650
00:33:26,480 --> 00:33:29,080
Speaker 1: to play that position. So he said, I just to

651
00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:31,080
Speaker 1: note this really quickly, because I did all this work

652
00:33:31,120 --> 00:33:32,640
Speaker 1: on these notes that some of them I didn't get

653
00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:34,480
Speaker 1: to use, you know, in different situations. So this is

654
00:33:34,520 --> 00:33:37,160
Speaker 1: the time to empty the tank. So empty the tank,

655
00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:38,760
Speaker 1: he said, I feel like it's night and day. It

656
00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:41,160
Speaker 1: was heeled. He's speaking to last year, but I was

657
00:33:41,200 --> 00:33:43,200
Speaker 1: still going through the rehab process and I had to

658
00:33:43,240 --> 00:33:45,040
Speaker 1: get back on the field because that was the only

659
00:33:45,120 --> 00:33:47,520
Speaker 1: way to get back into it. He said, it's night

660
00:33:47,600 --> 00:33:49,719
Speaker 1: and day. How his strength feels. You need a lot

661
00:33:49,760 --> 00:33:52,400
Speaker 1: of lower body power to play the game, and that

662
00:33:52,560 --> 00:33:55,280
Speaker 1: can be the difference in making a play. It's extremely

663
00:33:55,320 --> 00:33:57,840
Speaker 1: important to feel that confidence in my lower body and

664
00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:00,760
Speaker 1: feel that strength and balance. And I think that really

665
00:34:00,760 --> 00:34:02,480
Speaker 1: paid dividends for him over the second half of this.

666
00:34:02,560 --> 00:34:04,600
Speaker 1: And then the other guy here, I mean, Quity pay

667
00:34:04,680 --> 00:34:07,760
Speaker 1: had six sacks this year and limited yeah, in twelve

668
00:34:07,840 --> 00:34:10,320
Speaker 1: and twelve games. But the thing with Quitty that he

669
00:34:10,440 --> 00:34:12,640
Speaker 1: did so well. He was so good setting the edge

670
00:34:12,640 --> 00:34:16,200
Speaker 1: against the run, and you need to do that as

671
00:34:16,239 --> 00:34:21,240
Speaker 1: a defensive lineman. And whatever scheme that the Colts are running,

672
00:34:21,239 --> 00:34:23,480
Speaker 1: whether Gus is still here, whether it's an odd front

673
00:34:23,520 --> 00:34:25,120
Speaker 1: at even front, who cares. Quity pay is going to

674
00:34:25,120 --> 00:34:27,759
Speaker 1: be a big part of that, and I think you

675
00:34:27,800 --> 00:34:30,640
Speaker 1: can see Quitty his game really starting to take off

676
00:34:30,680 --> 00:34:34,000
Speaker 1: in year three. And even if even if Quitty's not

677
00:34:34,040 --> 00:34:36,919
Speaker 1: a double digit sack guy, the amount that he brings

678
00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:38,440
Speaker 1: to the way the Colts stopped the run, this is

679
00:34:38,520 --> 00:34:41,160
Speaker 1: one of the best run defenses in the NFL. Quitty

680
00:34:41,200 --> 00:34:43,520
Speaker 1: and Grove on that one side, on that kind of

681
00:34:43,560 --> 00:34:46,520
Speaker 1: half of the D line were awesome this year. And

682
00:34:46,760 --> 00:34:50,080
Speaker 1: something I talked to Nate Alie about was that the

683
00:34:50,239 --> 00:34:53,839
Speaker 1: impact that Quitty brought to Grove was that Grove could

684
00:34:53,920 --> 00:34:57,720
Speaker 1: operate in less space because Quity was so good setting

685
00:34:57,760 --> 00:35:00,520
Speaker 1: the edge so Grove could go like that gave me

686
00:35:00,520 --> 00:35:04,040
Speaker 1: out against tense where he'd like twelve tackles. Nate told

687
00:35:04,080 --> 00:35:06,560
Speaker 1: me that that was the product of, yes, Grove playing

688
00:35:06,880 --> 00:35:10,480
Speaker 1: at an incredibly high level, but you know, the the

689
00:35:10,719 --> 00:35:14,160
Speaker 1: edge in that game was set so well that Grove

690
00:35:14,200 --> 00:35:15,960
Speaker 1: could operate and he didn't have to like make a

691
00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:17,800
Speaker 1: bunch of plays in space because that's not what Grove

692
00:35:17,920 --> 00:35:20,520
Speaker 1: is going to do. And Quitty was such a big

693
00:35:20,560 --> 00:35:24,440
Speaker 1: part of that this year. That is incredibly important to

694
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Speaker 1: whatever the Colts defense looks like next year. All right,

695
00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:31,320
Speaker 1: that's the good. Our first bad. The Colts averaged on

696
00:35:31,480 --> 00:35:34,840
Speaker 1: offense seventeen a game. That's their worst mark since the

697
00:35:34,960 --> 00:35:38,000
Speaker 1: twenty eleven season. They had a league guy thirty four

698
00:35:38,120 --> 00:35:43,960
Speaker 1: turnovers sixty sacks allowed, that was second most in the NFL. Yeah,

699
00:35:44,080 --> 00:35:46,160
Speaker 1: just not good. I mean the Colts finished thirtieth in

700
00:35:46,320 --> 00:35:50,880
Speaker 1: scoring twenty ninth and third down twenty ninth the red zone. JJ.

701
00:35:51,120 --> 00:35:55,120
Speaker 1: What is salvageable about this Colts offense from last season?

702
00:35:55,200 --> 00:35:58,040
Speaker 1: How much needs to change next season? Yeah? I think

703
00:35:58,360 --> 00:36:02,200
Speaker 1: I think probably you're gonna see pretty significant scheme overhaul

704
00:36:02,360 --> 00:36:05,239
Speaker 1: for next year. Whatever that again, whatever that looks like,

705
00:36:05,360 --> 00:36:10,120
Speaker 1: we don't know yet, but you know, defenses adjusted to

706
00:36:10,320 --> 00:36:13,560
Speaker 1: the Colts scheme in a way that the Colts struggled

707
00:36:13,600 --> 00:36:17,959
Speaker 1: to adjust back this year. And I think you'll see,

708
00:36:18,120 --> 00:36:20,160
Speaker 1: you know, again, whatever it looks like. You know, maybe

709
00:36:20,239 --> 00:36:24,040
Speaker 1: there's there's more chip help with the offensive line. It's

710
00:36:24,080 --> 00:36:28,560
Speaker 1: just different run concepts. Whatever it might be that will change.

711
00:36:29,040 --> 00:36:32,839
Speaker 1: The Things that are salvageable I think are certain individual things.

712
00:36:32,920 --> 00:36:35,760
Speaker 1: Michael Pittman Jr. Is a a very good wide receiver

713
00:36:35,920 --> 00:36:39,120
Speaker 1: in the NFL. You know, I think you saw some

714
00:36:39,400 --> 00:36:42,040
Speaker 1: some promising things out of Bernard Ryman at left tackle

715
00:36:42,120 --> 00:36:44,600
Speaker 1: down the stretch. Chris Ballard, you know, made it a

716
00:36:44,680 --> 00:36:46,560
Speaker 1: point that he was you know, he played well and

717
00:36:46,640 --> 00:36:48,200
Speaker 1: the offensive line in the second half of the season

718
00:36:48,320 --> 00:36:50,040
Speaker 1: was not the reason why the Colts lost games. That

719
00:36:50,320 --> 00:36:51,920
Speaker 1: I wrote about that on Colts dot com if you

720
00:36:51,960 --> 00:36:55,320
Speaker 1: kind of want like a longer explanation to that. And

721
00:36:55,440 --> 00:36:57,960
Speaker 1: then I'm writing about out it pierced today on Colts

722
00:36:57,960 --> 00:36:59,839
Speaker 1: dot Com and looking into some of the numbers on him,

723
00:37:00,160 --> 00:37:03,400
Speaker 1: he had a really encouraging rookie season. Yeah, he hit

724
00:37:03,480 --> 00:37:05,799
Speaker 1: the he hit the rookie wall. But I went back

725
00:37:05,840 --> 00:37:08,040
Speaker 1: and I looked at the average rookie season for a

726
00:37:08,120 --> 00:37:10,160
Speaker 1: wide receiver taken in the top one hundred picks over

727
00:37:10,200 --> 00:37:13,279
Speaker 1: the last ten years, and Alec outpaced it pretty significantly.

728
00:37:13,400 --> 00:37:14,640
Speaker 1: And how many of those guys had to play with

729
00:37:14,680 --> 00:37:18,680
Speaker 1: three different quarterbacks Bengo who had quarterback instability for Alec

730
00:37:18,680 --> 00:37:20,319
Speaker 1: to put up the numbers. He did forty one catches,

731
00:37:20,360 --> 00:37:22,920
Speaker 1: five hundred ninety three yards, you know, a couple touchdowns

732
00:37:23,920 --> 00:37:26,959
Speaker 1: and like very different quarterbacks. Like when you talk about

733
00:37:26,960 --> 00:37:29,280
Speaker 1: like going from a Nick Foles to as Sam Ellinger

734
00:37:29,360 --> 00:37:31,560
Speaker 1: with the Matt Ryan and there as well, completely different

735
00:37:31,640 --> 00:37:35,880
Speaker 1: quarterbacks in there. Really impressive season. I'm very encouraged by

736
00:37:35,880 --> 00:37:39,680
Speaker 1: Alec Pierce. I'm extremely encouraged by Jelani Woods what he did.

737
00:37:39,760 --> 00:37:41,560
Speaker 1: So I think you're taking some of this individual talent

738
00:37:41,600 --> 00:37:44,000
Speaker 1: and you're saying there are guys here that you can

739
00:37:44,080 --> 00:37:46,560
Speaker 1: build on next year. You gotta get the scheme right,

740
00:37:46,600 --> 00:37:48,759
Speaker 1: you gotta get the O line back to where they

741
00:37:49,200 --> 00:37:50,759
Speaker 1: need to be, up to their level of play and

742
00:37:50,800 --> 00:37:53,359
Speaker 1: their standards, and you got to get the quarterback right.

743
00:37:53,520 --> 00:37:55,800
Speaker 1: Those are not just oh, we'll just wave a wanded

744
00:37:55,840 --> 00:37:57,239
Speaker 1: it into works. That's going to take a lot of

745
00:37:57,280 --> 00:37:59,040
Speaker 1: work for the Colt to get the Colts to get there,

746
00:37:59,520 --> 00:38:02,000
Speaker 1: but it's possible. And again it's like this offense is

747
00:38:02,080 --> 00:38:05,000
Speaker 1: not devoid of talent. There are guys here that you

748
00:38:05,080 --> 00:38:07,239
Speaker 1: can build on, that you can build around. Going into

749
00:38:07,280 --> 00:38:10,799
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, I was looking at the running backs

750
00:38:10,840 --> 00:38:14,320
Speaker 1: in the production. Every single one of those guys, Jonathan Taylor,

751
00:38:14,600 --> 00:38:18,600
Speaker 1: Dion Jackson, Zack Moss had to fight for yards after

752
00:38:18,840 --> 00:38:22,360
Speaker 1: contact each and every game. I think the physicality that

753
00:38:22,600 --> 00:38:25,480
Speaker 1: you have instilled in that group in the run game,

754
00:38:25,840 --> 00:38:29,520
Speaker 1: especially with the way Zach Moss found a stride late

755
00:38:29,600 --> 00:38:31,399
Speaker 1: in the season. You know, we've talked about it so much,

756
00:38:31,600 --> 00:38:34,160
Speaker 1: where he's just dragging bodies with him, you know, down

757
00:38:34,200 --> 00:38:36,239
Speaker 1: the turf, and so I think that you have that

758
00:38:36,400 --> 00:38:38,920
Speaker 1: mentality already instilled in your running backs. And then you,

759
00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:41,359
Speaker 1: of course have Jonathan Taylor, who didn't have the type

760
00:38:41,360 --> 00:38:44,160
Speaker 1: of year that he expected to basically due to injury

761
00:38:44,160 --> 00:38:47,280
Speaker 1: and then also partially because of the lack of production

762
00:38:47,360 --> 00:38:49,480
Speaker 1: by that offensive line. But I think that that's really

763
00:38:49,560 --> 00:38:52,279
Speaker 1: encouraging what you have gotten from from that group and

764
00:38:52,440 --> 00:38:54,960
Speaker 1: something to build upon. And then the other thing is

765
00:38:55,440 --> 00:38:56,840
Speaker 1: one of the things that needs to change is I

766
00:38:56,880 --> 00:38:59,799
Speaker 1: think you need more involvement from your tight ends. I mean,

767
00:39:00,040 --> 00:39:02,560
Speaker 1: guys are at great point making plays when they get

768
00:39:02,600 --> 00:39:04,719
Speaker 1: the opportunity, but how many times do we just have

769
00:39:04,840 --> 00:39:07,360
Speaker 1: these stretches where it was no targets, especially when you

770
00:39:07,440 --> 00:39:10,160
Speaker 1: have Gilani Woods out there who had come up huge

771
00:39:10,239 --> 00:39:13,680
Speaker 1: and significant situations, Mo Kyle and all of those guys.

772
00:39:13,840 --> 00:39:15,560
Speaker 1: So that's one thing I think that has to change

773
00:39:15,560 --> 00:39:18,000
Speaker 1: with a new ski moving forward, is more involvement from

774
00:39:18,040 --> 00:39:19,880
Speaker 1: your tight ends in the receiving game. Yeah, I just

775
00:39:20,040 --> 00:39:22,400
Speaker 1: quickly because I agree with you guys. I think the offense.

776
00:39:22,920 --> 00:39:26,080
Speaker 1: No excuses made whatsoever, because you are what you know,

777
00:39:26,239 --> 00:39:30,480
Speaker 1: the numbers say you are, and unfortunately, statistically the Colts

778
00:39:30,560 --> 00:39:33,200
Speaker 1: had one of the worst offenses in the NFL last year.

779
00:39:33,239 --> 00:39:36,040
Speaker 1: But I think the offense has a big asterisk next

780
00:39:36,080 --> 00:39:38,239
Speaker 1: to it because you think about what happened towards the

781
00:39:38,320 --> 00:39:40,600
Speaker 1: end of the season. I mean Jeff Saturday's quote, he said,

782
00:39:41,040 --> 00:39:43,080
Speaker 1: I think this was right before they made the switch

783
00:39:43,120 --> 00:39:45,279
Speaker 1: to Nick Foles. He said, quote, I made this very clear.

784
00:39:45,360 --> 00:39:48,920
Speaker 1: We're down offensive coaching, offensive coaching wise, so not a

785
00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:51,640
Speaker 1: lot of time to reconstruct anything since I've been here.

786
00:39:52,280 --> 00:39:54,239
Speaker 1: We are where we are right now. You're running what

787
00:39:54,360 --> 00:39:57,440
Speaker 1: you have, You're running what you know. So I think

788
00:39:57,480 --> 00:40:01,160
Speaker 1: the offensive line is more than salvageable. The passing offense

789
00:40:01,880 --> 00:40:04,400
Speaker 1: definitely needs an overhaul. But you've got one of the

790
00:40:04,440 --> 00:40:06,759
Speaker 1: best running backs in football coming back. You can rely

791
00:40:06,920 --> 00:40:09,680
Speaker 1: on him. You got playmakers and Pittman coming back. I

792
00:40:09,760 --> 00:40:12,000
Speaker 1: think you have big yards per catch guys coming back

793
00:40:12,040 --> 00:40:15,600
Speaker 1: in Pearson Woods. So you've got some emerging pieces that

794
00:40:15,760 --> 00:40:19,480
Speaker 1: you need to incorporate in the offense next season. Back

795
00:40:19,680 --> 00:40:22,799
Speaker 1: that is a big factor. I just I've seen drew

796
00:40:22,880 --> 00:40:25,680
Speaker 1: a ton as he's been rehabbing here, and I mean,

797
00:40:25,760 --> 00:40:28,560
Speaker 1: I'm just thinking so much about how high that ceiling

798
00:40:28,680 --> 00:40:31,719
Speaker 1: is for him next and he should be fully healthy. Yeah,

799
00:40:31,840 --> 00:40:34,239
Speaker 1: you know, going into even probably heavily involved in a

800
00:40:34,239 --> 00:40:36,279
Speaker 1: lot of the offseason and thinking about all the names

801
00:40:36,400 --> 00:40:38,400
Speaker 1: we just rattled off, and now let compare them to

802
00:40:38,480 --> 00:40:40,120
Speaker 1: the guys that the New York Giants have a wide

803
00:40:40,160 --> 00:40:43,000
Speaker 1: receiver and their weapons on that team, Yeah, Colts probably

804
00:40:43,040 --> 00:40:47,320
Speaker 1: have better weapons. They You need, you need the right scheme,

805
00:40:47,440 --> 00:40:50,120
Speaker 1: you need the the guys who can accentuate those weapons

806
00:40:50,200 --> 00:40:52,719
Speaker 1: the best, and you just need continuity. You need continuity

807
00:40:52,760 --> 00:40:55,480
Speaker 1: on the offensive line, continuity at quarterbacks and all of

808
00:40:55,520 --> 00:40:57,759
Speaker 1: those things. I mean, it's so basic. Towards the end

809
00:40:57,760 --> 00:41:00,759
Speaker 1: of the season, like it was so basic and very

810
00:41:00,840 --> 00:41:03,040
Speaker 1: just vanilla. It was. It was easy to game plan

811
00:41:03,120 --> 00:41:05,279
Speaker 1: against the Colts, and I think that's a product of

812
00:41:05,920 --> 00:41:08,359
Speaker 1: what happened, the situation that they are in. That's why

813
00:41:08,360 --> 00:41:10,040
Speaker 1: I put a little bit of an asterisk next to it.

814
00:41:10,200 --> 00:41:12,400
Speaker 1: But certainly they've got a lot of work to do.

815
00:41:12,760 --> 00:41:15,880
Speaker 1: All right, Let's go back to the good ie popping

816
00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:19,080
Speaker 1: stat here and the good zire Franklin and Stefan Gilmore

817
00:41:19,200 --> 00:41:23,520
Speaker 1: fantastic seasons. Franklin started every game, broke the team's single

818
00:41:23,600 --> 00:41:27,200
Speaker 1: season tackle record, emerged as the squad's biggest leader. And

819
00:41:27,280 --> 00:41:30,680
Speaker 1: then Gilmore played a career high number of snaps despite

820
00:41:30,719 --> 00:41:32,840
Speaker 1: missing the last game of the season. He had two picks,

821
00:41:32,960 --> 00:41:36,640
Speaker 1: eleven pass breakups and those four game winning plays and

822
00:41:36,680 --> 00:41:40,040
Speaker 1: the Colts four victories on the season. Lark and Franklin

823
00:41:40,120 --> 00:41:43,880
Speaker 1: and Gilmore, Can they duplicate their seasons next year in

824
00:41:43,960 --> 00:41:47,080
Speaker 1: a potentially different defense. Here's one of the reasons that

825
00:41:47,280 --> 00:41:50,359
Speaker 1: I think it will be difficult for Zaire. You're going

826
00:41:50,440 --> 00:41:54,920
Speaker 1: to have Shack Leonard back, obviously not having check this

827
00:41:55,000 --> 00:41:57,200
Speaker 1: past season from the majority of year psion, does he

828
00:41:57,320 --> 00:42:00,560
Speaker 1: play right? You had you had Zied doing so much

829
00:42:00,640 --> 00:42:03,120
Speaker 1: more work and filling in a lot of different voids.

830
00:42:03,160 --> 00:42:05,800
Speaker 1: They're also Bobby Ocrica in much more production because you

831
00:42:05,920 --> 00:42:08,640
Speaker 1: had those guys kind of picking that up, right. I mean,

832
00:42:08,880 --> 00:42:13,400
Speaker 1: who was the previous single season tackle record holder. It

833
00:42:13,600 --> 00:42:16,640
Speaker 1: was Shack Leonard before Zire Franklin took that over in

834
00:42:16,800 --> 00:42:19,759
Speaker 1: Week eighteen. So I do think that it's likely that

835
00:42:19,920 --> 00:42:24,040
Speaker 1: Zire's pause, that Zire's numbers might go down. Just sheerly

836
00:42:24,120 --> 00:42:26,920
Speaker 1: looking at numbers, I think he will have an equal,

837
00:42:27,360 --> 00:42:31,600
Speaker 1: if not even greater impact, though within the defense, dependent

838
00:42:31,760 --> 00:42:34,920
Speaker 1: upon what system and scheme comes in place. I do

839
00:42:35,080 --> 00:42:38,440
Speaker 1: think Gilmore has will be able to duplicate that's a

840
00:42:38,560 --> 00:42:41,319
Speaker 1: similar season because you're thinking he got through a whole

841
00:42:41,360 --> 00:42:43,239
Speaker 1: season healthy. Yeah, he missed the last game of the

842
00:42:43,280 --> 00:42:45,879
Speaker 1: season with the risk, but I'm not really concerned about

843
00:42:45,880 --> 00:42:49,080
Speaker 1: that whatsoever. But I think after having battling back from

844
00:42:49,120 --> 00:42:51,440
Speaker 1: injuries and having injuries shortened seasons and a lot of

845
00:42:51,560 --> 00:42:54,719
Speaker 1: questions about the level at which he could continue to play,

846
00:42:54,800 --> 00:42:57,279
Speaker 1: he proved that he can still play at a very

847
00:42:57,400 --> 00:42:59,600
Speaker 1: high level. I mean, I think that, in my opinion,

848
00:42:59,640 --> 00:43:01,839
Speaker 1: he had Pro Bowl type of year, despite the fact

849
00:43:01,920 --> 00:43:04,280
Speaker 1: he was not elected to the Pro Bowl. I believe

850
00:43:04,280 --> 00:43:07,440
Speaker 1: he's an alternate, right. I do think that Stefan can

851
00:43:07,520 --> 00:43:10,360
Speaker 1: have an equally successful year from a numbers perspective. I

852
00:43:10,360 --> 00:43:13,279
Speaker 1: remember a conversation I had to Stefan back during OTA's

853
00:43:13,520 --> 00:43:15,880
Speaker 1: when I was just talking ab about making the transition

854
00:43:16,360 --> 00:43:18,799
Speaker 1: to Gus Bradley's defense, which is a new way of playing.

855
00:43:18,880 --> 00:43:21,840
Speaker 1: He hadn't played in that kind of scheme and that

856
00:43:21,960 --> 00:43:24,600
Speaker 1: kind of coaching, and he was just sort of like

857
00:43:25,120 --> 00:43:27,320
Speaker 1: I haven't, but like you gotta remember what the Patriots

858
00:43:27,360 --> 00:43:30,480
Speaker 1: we played everything. There is not a defense, there is

859
00:43:30,520 --> 00:43:33,080
Speaker 1: not a scheme. There is not a coverage assignment that

860
00:43:33,200 --> 00:43:35,960
Speaker 1: Stefan Gilmour does not have experienced with over his ten

861
00:43:36,080 --> 00:43:38,600
Speaker 1: year career. And then I thought about what Ron Miless

862
00:43:38,600 --> 00:43:41,359
Speaker 1: said during training camp, where he was like, Stefan has

863
00:43:41,400 --> 00:43:43,960
Speaker 1: had a way of doing things his entire career. He

864
00:43:44,120 --> 00:43:47,120
Speaker 1: literally has you know, the plaque on the wall defensive

865
00:43:47,160 --> 00:43:50,000
Speaker 1: Player of the Year. But all I he's, like Miles said,

866
00:43:50,000 --> 00:43:52,480
Speaker 1: all I heard was, yes, coach, all right, let's do it.

867
00:43:53,000 --> 00:43:57,000
Speaker 1: And I mean, like, who cares who the defensive coordinator

868
00:43:57,080 --> 00:43:59,000
Speaker 1: is if it's still Gus and Miless, if it's someone

869
00:43:59,080 --> 00:44:01,239
Speaker 1: else and they tell to find you're playing it this way.

870
00:44:01,400 --> 00:44:03,239
Speaker 1: He can do it. There's no doubt about that. And

871
00:44:03,400 --> 00:44:06,960
Speaker 1: Larry your point about him playing the entire season, that's

872
00:44:07,000 --> 00:44:08,520
Speaker 1: it right there. He can do it, and he can

873
00:44:08,560 --> 00:44:11,759
Speaker 1: be healthy, and he makes guys around him better. That's

874
00:44:11,800 --> 00:44:14,560
Speaker 1: the other factor of him too. He elevates the rest

875
00:44:14,600 --> 00:44:16,719
Speaker 1: of the room. He leads in his own way. Yeah right,

876
00:44:16,840 --> 00:44:21,000
Speaker 1: just by taking coaching well and just being you know

877
00:44:21,040 --> 00:44:23,200
Speaker 1: a guy that says, hey, don't listen to what I say,

878
00:44:23,320 --> 00:44:25,719
Speaker 1: just watch what I do. And that's Stefan Gilmour in

879
00:44:25,719 --> 00:44:27,839
Speaker 1: a nutshell, right. And he's taken a couple of these

880
00:44:27,960 --> 00:44:30,760
Speaker 1: young dbs and they're gonna go train with him this offseason.

881
00:44:30,800 --> 00:44:32,520
Speaker 1: He's going to bring a few of them to North

882
00:44:32,600 --> 00:44:34,640
Speaker 1: Carolina and spend some time with those guys. And I

883
00:44:34,680 --> 00:44:37,080
Speaker 1: think that just speaks volumes to not just the type

884
00:44:37,120 --> 00:44:38,880
Speaker 1: of professional and player he is, but the type of

885
00:44:39,280 --> 00:44:41,919
Speaker 1: leader right that he is. All Right, one more bad.

886
00:44:42,080 --> 00:44:46,440
Speaker 1: The Colts went just one four and one inside the

887
00:44:46,560 --> 00:44:50,520
Speaker 1: division last year. That's their worst AFC South mark since

888
00:44:50,600 --> 00:44:54,680
Speaker 1: the division was formed back in two thousand and two. Unfortunately,

889
00:44:54,800 --> 00:44:57,960
Speaker 1: the hard truth is the Colts trailed by at least

890
00:44:58,040 --> 00:45:01,840
Speaker 1: ten points in all six division games this past season.

891
00:45:02,560 --> 00:45:06,040
Speaker 1: Since twenty eighteen, the Cults are just fifteen fourteen and

892
00:45:06,200 --> 00:45:09,480
Speaker 1: one against the AFC South and in that time they're

893
00:45:09,520 --> 00:45:13,439
Speaker 1: o and five against the Jaguars on the road. So, Lara,

894
00:45:13,520 --> 00:45:17,240
Speaker 1: how much of the cults struggles this season started because

895
00:45:17,280 --> 00:45:20,600
Speaker 1: they couldn't win those early division games? And how much

896
00:45:20,719 --> 00:45:23,920
Speaker 1: better will the division be next season compared to this

897
00:45:24,080 --> 00:45:27,280
Speaker 1: past season? It was huge because you were just already

898
00:45:27,400 --> 00:45:29,400
Speaker 1: you know, behind the sticks, so to speak, when you

899
00:45:29,480 --> 00:45:32,000
Speaker 1: start with a tie and a loss against the division.

900
00:45:32,040 --> 00:45:34,920
Speaker 1: You were oh one and one after you started the

901
00:45:34,960 --> 00:45:37,040
Speaker 1: season at Houston and then went to Jacksonville and didn't

902
00:45:37,040 --> 00:45:42,680
Speaker 1: just lose to Jacksonville, I mean got absolutely terrorized by Jacksonville,

903
00:45:42,719 --> 00:45:46,560
Speaker 1: got shut out by the Jaguars at that point, So

904
00:45:46,719 --> 00:45:48,759
Speaker 1: it was it was huge. I think it killed a

905
00:45:48,880 --> 00:45:51,600
Speaker 1: lot of your confidence. There were a lot. Then you're

906
00:45:51,640 --> 00:45:55,640
Speaker 1: just this goes to as well, playing in those double

907
00:45:55,719 --> 00:45:59,640
Speaker 1: digit deficits. You're just fighting to get back into contention

908
00:45:59,760 --> 00:46:01,960
Speaker 1: we in and week out and in game, and that

909
00:46:02,120 --> 00:46:04,640
Speaker 1: just drains so much energy out of you. I remember

910
00:46:04,680 --> 00:46:06,719
Speaker 1: that's something that you know, Frank when he would be

911
00:46:06,800 --> 00:46:11,320
Speaker 1: asked about getting into falling behind and these slow starts

912
00:46:11,400 --> 00:46:14,080
Speaker 1: that they had had to come back week in and

913
00:46:14,160 --> 00:46:15,640
Speaker 1: week out, and he's like, it just takes so much

914
00:46:15,680 --> 00:46:17,359
Speaker 1: out of you. I mean from a not so much

915
00:46:17,400 --> 00:46:20,680
Speaker 1: even a physical perspective, because obviously your body is set

916
00:46:20,760 --> 00:46:22,920
Speaker 1: to play that full sixty minutes, but from a mental

917
00:46:23,120 --> 00:46:26,759
Speaker 1: aspect is trying to play from you know, come from

918
00:46:26,840 --> 00:46:29,960
Speaker 1: behind in these situations and dig yourself out of holes.

919
00:46:30,360 --> 00:46:33,520
Speaker 1: That is just demoralizing. I mean It's just it kills

920
00:46:33,600 --> 00:46:36,239
Speaker 1: any momentum that you try to go into a game

921
00:46:36,280 --> 00:46:38,239
Speaker 1: with and any type of confidence you're trying to build

922
00:46:38,239 --> 00:46:40,120
Speaker 1: over the course of a game. How much better will

923
00:46:40,160 --> 00:46:42,440
Speaker 1: the division be? Obviously Jackson Mill is going to be better.

924
00:46:42,800 --> 00:46:46,240
Speaker 1: Houston is a huge wild card. You have no idea

925
00:46:46,280 --> 00:46:50,920
Speaker 1: what they're gonna do, don't have more talent on that roster.

926
00:46:51,120 --> 00:46:53,560
Speaker 1: With another year, will have a young quarterback there. They're

927
00:46:53,560 --> 00:46:55,920
Speaker 1: inevitably going to be better than three wins. And you know,

928
00:46:56,040 --> 00:46:58,080
Speaker 1: Tennessee is going to be better just because they're Tennessee

929
00:46:58,080 --> 00:47:00,360
Speaker 1: and they just will be you know, at it's just

930
00:47:00,520 --> 00:47:04,200
Speaker 1: that's what they do. I actually think they're there's a

931
00:47:04,320 --> 00:47:09,920
Speaker 1: possibility Tennessee's really they do. They're they're kind of up

932
00:47:09,960 --> 00:47:13,640
Speaker 1: against it again with the cap and they don't have

933
00:47:13,840 --> 00:47:15,680
Speaker 1: a ton of talent on that roster. They had not

934
00:47:15,840 --> 00:47:18,359
Speaker 1: hit on their free general manager coming in new GM,

935
00:47:18,480 --> 00:47:20,880
Speaker 1: coming in Mike Rabel though. I mean, I think the

936
00:47:20,960 --> 00:47:22,840
Speaker 1: reason why you just like they're going to be competitive

937
00:47:22,880 --> 00:47:25,279
Speaker 1: is because their head coach is going to always get

938
00:47:25,320 --> 00:47:28,480
Speaker 1: them a dog. But like Tennis, Tennessee, their last couple

939
00:47:28,520 --> 00:47:30,560
Speaker 1: first round picks me and Isaiah Wilson the tackle they

940
00:47:30,600 --> 00:47:32,879
Speaker 1: took a couple of years ago was cut after a year.

941
00:47:33,360 --> 00:47:37,799
Speaker 1: They've had some big, profiled misses and that is depleted

942
00:47:37,880 --> 00:47:41,680
Speaker 1: some of their talent um. But they're fascinating team this offseason.

943
00:47:41,719 --> 00:47:43,160
Speaker 1: What do you do at quarterback? As long as you

944
00:47:43,200 --> 00:47:45,719
Speaker 1: got Derrick Henry, you're always I mean yeah, like Derrick

945
00:47:45,760 --> 00:47:47,600
Speaker 1: Henry avage like three yards of carry in a game

946
00:47:47,640 --> 00:47:49,320
Speaker 1: where they had to have it and they had started

947
00:47:49,400 --> 00:47:51,640
Speaker 1: Josh Dobbs, a guy they signed off the Steelers practice.

948
00:47:52,239 --> 00:47:54,920
Speaker 1: Fascinating story, by the way, I was I loved following

949
00:47:54,960 --> 00:47:57,840
Speaker 1: that storyline. His parents they're making the drive and he

950
00:47:57,920 --> 00:47:59,360
Speaker 1: had to leave his car and his parents had to

951
00:47:59,400 --> 00:48:02,880
Speaker 1: bringing the car downside of that story is the quarterback

952
00:48:02,920 --> 00:48:05,239
Speaker 1: you took in the third round, you didn't play him,

953
00:48:05,280 --> 00:48:08,040
Speaker 1: You didn't believe. So Tenant Tennessee is some real interesting

954
00:48:08,120 --> 00:48:10,799
Speaker 1: questions going forward. But they will absolutely be competed out

955
00:48:10,840 --> 00:48:13,040
Speaker 1: they always do. They always do because they have Mike

956
00:48:13,080 --> 00:48:15,759
Speaker 1: Frable as their head coach. But you're absolutely right mate

957
00:48:15,800 --> 00:48:19,239
Speaker 1: about Houston that they're they They're gonna have some more

958
00:48:19,280 --> 00:48:21,719
Speaker 1: talent on that roster. By the way, Laramy Tunsel had

959
00:48:21,760 --> 00:48:24,560
Speaker 1: a great season, like no one noticed because he was

960
00:48:24,600 --> 00:48:26,520
Speaker 1: the left tackle for the Texans. But like that dude

961
00:48:26,640 --> 00:48:31,360
Speaker 1: is really good. Um. And Jalen Petrie the rookie safety

962
00:48:31,360 --> 00:48:36,560
Speaker 1: they took out of Derek State, but he's really good. Um.

963
00:48:37,360 --> 00:48:39,480
Speaker 1: Houston's building up that roster a little bit. They got

964
00:48:39,520 --> 00:48:42,560
Speaker 1: a ways to go. Yeah, they got it in two

965
00:48:42,640 --> 00:48:44,879
Speaker 1: picks in the top twelve. They're gonna get some dudes

966
00:48:44,920 --> 00:48:47,080
Speaker 1: on that team coming up. And depending on who the

967
00:48:47,160 --> 00:48:49,960
Speaker 1: hire is their head coach. They're talking to Sean Payton, Um,

968
00:48:50,680 --> 00:48:52,880
Speaker 1: they could they could be a factor in this division

969
00:48:52,960 --> 00:48:55,160
Speaker 1: before you know it. Yeah, no, that's exactly right. And

970
00:48:55,280 --> 00:48:56,960
Speaker 1: and to go back, I mean as soon as the

971
00:48:57,000 --> 00:48:59,919
Speaker 1: Colts were swept by Tennessee whatever week that was, Week seven,

972
00:49:00,560 --> 00:49:02,520
Speaker 1: I mean that's when all the changes came. After that,

973
00:49:02,719 --> 00:49:05,160
Speaker 1: that's when the roller coaster of a season started. And

974
00:49:05,280 --> 00:49:07,160
Speaker 1: we said back at the beginning of the season, and

975
00:49:07,239 --> 00:49:09,319
Speaker 1: in fact, when the schedule came out last year, when

976
00:49:09,800 --> 00:49:12,399
Speaker 1: five of the first seven games or against the AFC South,

977
00:49:12,480 --> 00:49:14,440
Speaker 1: you're either going to be in the catbird sea. It's

978
00:49:14,480 --> 00:49:16,160
Speaker 1: hard too are you're gonna be facing it up in

979
00:49:16,640 --> 00:49:18,759
Speaker 1: that way? To finish the way you had to start

980
00:49:18,800 --> 00:49:21,719
Speaker 1: against the back to back division opponents. It's really tough, right,

981
00:49:21,719 --> 00:49:24,360
Speaker 1: and then you only have one AFC South game in

982
00:49:24,440 --> 00:49:27,239
Speaker 1: your last ten so yeah, I mean once once the

983
00:49:27,320 --> 00:49:31,120
Speaker 1: Colts again were defeated twice by Tennis CE. That's when

984
00:49:31,840 --> 00:49:33,759
Speaker 1: you just saw a lot of upheaval and it was

985
00:49:33,840 --> 00:49:36,600
Speaker 1: hard for this team to sort of regain its footing

986
00:49:37,280 --> 00:49:39,360
Speaker 1: because of all the changes going on around it. But

987
00:49:39,440 --> 00:49:42,719
Speaker 1: here's what should give you hope and optimism. Piggybacking off

988
00:49:42,760 --> 00:49:45,120
Speaker 1: of what JJ said, I think it applies to the Texans,

989
00:49:45,200 --> 00:49:47,360
Speaker 1: but I also think it applies to the Colts. So

990
00:49:47,640 --> 00:49:50,879
Speaker 1: in eighteen of the last twenty seasons, at least one

991
00:49:51,040 --> 00:49:54,880
Speaker 1: team has won its division after finishing last or tied

992
00:49:55,000 --> 00:49:58,040
Speaker 1: for last in the season prior. The Jaguars pulled that

993
00:49:58,120 --> 00:50:00,759
Speaker 1: off this past season, and also two in each of

994
00:50:00,840 --> 00:50:03,800
Speaker 1: the last thirty two seasons. Right, every year for the

995
00:50:03,880 --> 00:50:07,359
Speaker 1: last thirty two years, at least four teams have made

996
00:50:07,400 --> 00:50:10,719
Speaker 1: the playoffs after missing them the season prior. You know

997
00:50:10,760 --> 00:50:13,959
Speaker 1: what that number was this year it was seven half

998
00:50:14,040 --> 00:50:16,840
Speaker 1: of the field. Half of the field made the playoffs

999
00:50:16,920 --> 00:50:19,600
Speaker 1: this year that didn't last year. It's a league of parody,

1000
00:50:19,719 --> 00:50:22,200
Speaker 1: so it can happen, and it happens every years. So

1001
00:50:22,360 --> 00:50:25,600
Speaker 1: you're saying that's a chance. It's there's so much parody

1002
00:50:25,640 --> 00:50:28,040
Speaker 1: because if you don't have one of like the top

1003
00:50:28,400 --> 00:50:32,399
Speaker 1: four dudes at quarterback, like, yeah, you can make a run,

1004
00:50:32,560 --> 00:50:34,080
Speaker 1: Yeah you can. You can have it, And it's all

1005
00:50:34,080 --> 00:50:36,719
Speaker 1: about just winning close games and be in being better

1006
00:50:36,800 --> 00:50:39,719
Speaker 1: with the football and not turning it over. Yeah, Francisco,

1007
00:50:40,680 --> 00:50:43,600
Speaker 1: the Giants, The Giants. What did Chris Ballard say? More

1008
00:50:43,680 --> 00:50:46,239
Speaker 1: games are lost in the NFL and lost a lot

1009
00:50:46,280 --> 00:50:48,320
Speaker 1: of games. Yeah, if you like the New York Chess

1010
00:50:48,719 --> 00:50:50,880
Speaker 1: so good. I keep going back to the Giants in

1011
00:50:50,960 --> 00:50:54,360
Speaker 1: this podcast. But they they're so good at not losing games.

1012
00:50:54,719 --> 00:50:57,240
Speaker 1: They're so good at that. And you throw the Jaguars

1013
00:50:57,280 --> 00:50:59,359
Speaker 1: in there as well. They just sort of treaded water

1014
00:50:59,480 --> 00:51:02,960
Speaker 1: while the Colts and the Titans self destructed and they

1015
00:51:03,040 --> 00:51:05,960
Speaker 1: just didn't turn the football. Honest kind of say, the

1016
00:51:06,000 --> 00:51:08,360
Speaker 1: Jaguars are pretty good at winning games because Doug Peterson

1017
00:51:08,600 --> 00:51:11,719
Speaker 1: is a really good coach at that sum But yeah,

1018
00:51:11,719 --> 00:51:14,040
Speaker 1: I mean, like the Giants are up there at the

1019
00:51:14,120 --> 00:51:17,520
Speaker 1: forty nine ers are like they don't make mistakes. These teams.

1020
00:51:17,560 --> 00:51:19,120
Speaker 1: If you go through a game and you don't make

1021
00:51:19,160 --> 00:51:22,440
Speaker 1: those kind of mistakes that lead to force your opponent

1022
00:51:22,480 --> 00:51:24,279
Speaker 1: to make them. Yeah, you force your opponent to make them.

1023
00:51:24,320 --> 00:51:26,920
Speaker 1: The Colts made those mistakes this year. But that can

1024
00:51:27,000 --> 00:51:29,320
Speaker 1: turn around. It absolutely can. Yep. All right, that's the

1025
00:51:29,600 --> 00:51:31,840
Speaker 1: that's the good and the bad. The eye popping numbers

1026
00:51:31,880 --> 00:51:35,120
Speaker 1: how transferable they are in a couple of situations next

1027
00:51:35,239 --> 00:51:38,240
Speaker 1: year going into the twenty twenty three season for the Colts,

1028
00:51:38,840 --> 00:51:40,520
Speaker 1: close and out Layer. You got a random thought of

1029
00:51:40,560 --> 00:51:42,640
Speaker 1: the week this week. I do have a timely random

1030
00:51:42,680 --> 00:51:45,080
Speaker 1: thought of the ring It okay, So it started by thinking,

1031
00:51:45,160 --> 00:51:49,359
Speaker 1: if you could experience the playoff atmosphere anywhere, where would

1032
00:51:49,400 --> 00:51:51,040
Speaker 1: it be? But then I decided to take a little

1033
00:51:51,120 --> 00:51:54,320
Speaker 1: caveat of any of the remaining playoff games. So you

1034
00:51:54,360 --> 00:51:57,200
Speaker 1: could go to any of the divisional round playoff games

1035
00:51:57,440 --> 00:52:00,120
Speaker 1: to experience the atmosphere in Kansas City, philadel if you

1036
00:52:00,160 --> 00:52:03,799
Speaker 1: a Buffalo or San Francisco, However, you have to wear

1037
00:52:03,880 --> 00:52:08,279
Speaker 1: the visiting team's apparel into the stadium. Which one are

1038
00:52:08,360 --> 00:52:12,720
Speaker 1: you picking? So it's Jacksonville at Kansas City, Giants at Eagles,

1039
00:52:13,280 --> 00:52:18,080
Speaker 1: Bengals at Bills, and then Cowboys at Niners. Which environment

1040
00:52:18,200 --> 00:52:20,040
Speaker 1: are you willing to go into for the sake of

1041
00:52:20,080 --> 00:52:24,320
Speaker 1: experiencing the environment wearing the opponents easy. Jaguars at Chiefs,

1042
00:52:24,440 --> 00:52:27,600
Speaker 1: there's no hate. The Chiefs are probably like, oh, it's cute.

1043
00:52:28,000 --> 00:52:29,600
Speaker 1: You know, You're not gonna no one's gonna like be

1044
00:52:29,680 --> 00:52:32,120
Speaker 1: throwing beers at you like you're a cowboys if you're

1045
00:52:32,120 --> 00:52:35,600
Speaker 1: saying the chief. San Francisco Chiefs fans don't view the

1046
00:52:35,719 --> 00:52:38,040
Speaker 1: Jaguars as a huge threat to upset them on Sunday.

1047
00:52:38,120 --> 00:52:41,000
Speaker 1: Probably not or Saturday, I guess, and also probably however,

1048
00:52:41,040 --> 00:52:43,040
Speaker 1: felt off the Bengals last year. The Good Point Good

1049
00:52:43,080 --> 00:52:46,759
Speaker 1: Point Arrowhead Stadium, though Great Ado, is an incredible atmosphere. Okay, mate,

1050
00:52:46,920 --> 00:52:50,280
Speaker 1: how about you? All right, I'm gonna say I've actually

1051
00:52:50,640 --> 00:52:53,480
Speaker 1: met a bunch of Bills fans either either the night

1052
00:52:53,920 --> 00:52:56,440
Speaker 1: either the night before a game or I actually I

1053
00:52:56,560 --> 00:52:59,319
Speaker 1: sat next to a gentleman. I was on vacation last

1054
00:52:59,400 --> 00:53:01,480
Speaker 1: year in Florida. I sat next to a gentleman at

1055
00:53:01,520 --> 00:53:03,839
Speaker 1: a bar and he was a Bills fan. He's from

1056
00:53:03,880 --> 00:53:08,120
Speaker 1: Buffalo originally, and we just sat and had a nice conversation,

1057
00:53:08,400 --> 00:53:10,800
Speaker 1: and uh, he seemed like a nice guy. Pretty indicative

1058
00:53:10,840 --> 00:53:13,279
Speaker 1: of the fans in that area. Uh, they're pretty fun

1059
00:53:13,360 --> 00:53:15,879
Speaker 1: loving people. We saw that during the snowstorm, right they're

1060
00:53:15,920 --> 00:53:17,919
Speaker 1: helping their players out of the out of the snow

1061
00:53:18,000 --> 00:53:20,040
Speaker 1: ditches in their driveway in order to get to the airport.

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Speaker 1: So I think it's a pretty I would say opposing

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Speaker 1: fan friendly fan base. It's a great stadium, it's a

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Speaker 1: great environment, but I don't think Bengals fans should feel

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Speaker 1: threatened coming up there and wearing their orange and black

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Speaker 1: gladly and that's where I'm going. I'm going to Buffalo

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Speaker 1: and I'm tailgating and I'm crashing through the tables. Were

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Speaker 1: stuff well, because we're all gonna wear zoo baz. That's

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Speaker 1: you brought the zoo baz, so come on in. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm breaking that time. I don't even care. That's great.

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Speaker 1: Why do they have Southern accents because they're wearing zoo

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Speaker 1: bas there with Donny Baker. It's the environment I'm picking

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Speaker 1: right there. Like also, I mean I am pretty like

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Speaker 1: fair weather and most aspects, I don't like being super cold.

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Speaker 1: I think that environment is worth braving it for. Even

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Speaker 1: if you know you gotta create a snow it's great

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Speaker 1: because you have to be there and being there during

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00:54:10,600 --> 00:54:13,160
Speaker 1: all blizzard, I know you you experienced that firsthand. But

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Speaker 1: I love it how they just build the snow around

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Speaker 1: and then you got a little cup holder you know,

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Speaker 1: just keeps the beer frosty cold right there at the stadium. Okay,

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Speaker 1: what would be the one you would between Eagles Giants?

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Speaker 1: You're a Giants fan going to that or no, hell no,

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00:54:26,440 --> 00:54:28,640
Speaker 1: that San franc But then you have to be a

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Speaker 1: Cowboys fan going to San Francisco Giants at Eagles, that

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00:54:32,280 --> 00:54:34,440
Speaker 1: is the one. You do not even know. I wouldn't

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00:54:34,440 --> 00:54:38,000
Speaker 1: even to Ian. They booed Sante, They throw batteries at JD.

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00:54:38,160 --> 00:54:40,520
Speaker 1: Drew in Philadelphia, like they are all over the place

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00:54:40,600 --> 00:54:42,920
Speaker 1: that you know, those fans, Oh yeah, and that's that's

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00:54:42,960 --> 00:54:45,800
Speaker 1: a huge ravelry too, like there's no mercy there. But like,

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Speaker 1: but then you're a Cowboys fan going to San Francisco

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00:54:48,880 --> 00:54:53,000
Speaker 1: and like everyone's gonna hate you. It's just like if

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Speaker 1: it were any other team going to San Francisco would

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Speaker 1: be like, oh yeah, I don't know, because I feel

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Speaker 1: like they're gonna be a lot of Cowboys fans. San

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Speaker 1: Francisco is kind of much a I don't know if

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00:55:01,320 --> 00:55:03,719
Speaker 1: like transient population is like the way to describe it,

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00:55:03,760 --> 00:55:05,279
Speaker 1: but like a lot of people who live in San

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00:55:05,320 --> 00:55:08,239
Speaker 1: fran aren't necessarily from San Francisco. So I feel like

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Speaker 1: you have a lot of people descending from a lot

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Speaker 1: of areas upon San Francisco because of how large you

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Speaker 1: know of a city it is, and the economy and

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00:55:16,239 --> 00:55:18,680
Speaker 1: the business environment of it to the tech culture and

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00:55:18,760 --> 00:55:20,360
Speaker 1: this and that. So I feel like there are a

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Speaker 1: lot of non Native Niners maybe around there who kind

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Speaker 1: of bring in their fandom flos every yeah, but also

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00:55:27,640 --> 00:55:30,240
Speaker 1: everyone can coalesce around the fact that it's the cowboys

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Speaker 1: and we hate them. Sure, sure, So no, I'm not

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Speaker 1: I am not taking a risk getting the blank beat

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Speaker 1: out of me in a parking lot in Philadelphia wearing

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Speaker 1: an Eli Manning jersey. Have you got seen Silver Linings playbook?

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Speaker 1: I am not doing that. I am not getting crap

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Speaker 1: beat out of me at an Eagles tailgate, No chance.

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Speaker 1: I am staying away from that atmosphere. That's good stuff

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00:55:50,520 --> 00:55:53,000
Speaker 1: right there, that Larrah well thought out and it's very

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00:55:53,040 --> 00:55:55,439
Speaker 1: timely as well. Thank you actually liked it? Yeah, yeah,

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00:55:55,600 --> 00:55:57,880
Speaker 1: really good. Also on Philly, UM the episode of It's

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00:55:57,920 --> 00:56:00,479
Speaker 1: Always Sunny in Philadelphia where they try to sneak series

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00:56:00,560 --> 00:56:03,359
Speaker 1: the world series. Yeah, with the riot juice or they're

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00:56:03,360 --> 00:56:06,399
Speaker 1: just drinking riot juice. It's like Blue and the Jugs. Yeah,

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00:56:06,400 --> 00:56:08,879
Speaker 1: I mean literally, they like they made riot Juice because

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Speaker 1: it made sense for Philadelphry to sneak into the tunnel. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Great episode. Yeah, and they get stuck in the linen

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Speaker 1: closet of the hotel across the street. Epic right there.

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Speaker 1: All right, j J. What are you pumping out this week?

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Speaker 1: You talked about your your piece coming out with Alec Pierce. Yeah,

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00:56:24,320 --> 00:56:27,759
Speaker 1: so this week, starting to look back on the individual

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Speaker 1: rookie seasons of a number of guys. So I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: have Alec Pierce, Jilani Woods, Bernard Riemann, and Nick Cross

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00:56:33,760 --> 00:56:35,719
Speaker 1: this week up on colts dot Com. Trying to take

1131
00:56:35,800 --> 00:56:38,840
Speaker 1: more of a deep dive into some of the numbers

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00:56:38,960 --> 00:56:40,920
Speaker 1: and some of the things that those guys did this

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00:56:41,040 --> 00:56:42,920
Speaker 1: year instead of just kind of surface level, Oh you

1134
00:56:43,000 --> 00:56:45,280
Speaker 1: had a good year. Um So, got some interesting stuff

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Speaker 1: on Alt Pierce and how he fared on Goballs this

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00:56:48,560 --> 00:56:50,840
Speaker 1: year or something that we knew we could do. Um So,

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00:56:51,000 --> 00:56:53,040
Speaker 1: check that out, And then got some really interesting stuff

1138
00:56:53,040 --> 00:56:55,520
Speaker 1: in Jilani coming up on Wednesday. But check that out

1139
00:56:55,560 --> 00:56:57,320
Speaker 1: on Colts dot Com and then whenever the Colts have

1140
00:56:57,640 --> 00:57:02,240
Speaker 1: another coaching interview, you can find that Uncles and Greatest

1141
00:57:02,520 --> 00:57:04,920
Speaker 1: la What are you getting ready for? Mobile? And yeah,

1142
00:57:05,360 --> 00:57:07,319
Speaker 1: the Singer Bowls coming up at the end of the month,

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00:57:07,360 --> 00:57:09,400
Speaker 1: so we are preparing for that, preparing for with the

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00:57:09,520 --> 00:57:12,560
Speaker 1: next pick, which will be a fascinating series. I mean

1145
00:57:12,600 --> 00:57:14,200
Speaker 1: it is each and every year, but you know the

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Speaker 1: draft of course this year and the magnitude of it especially.

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00:57:17,400 --> 00:57:19,600
Speaker 1: But then there's a piece that went up earlier today.

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Speaker 1: It's our finale of a series we started this year

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Speaker 1: called Preps and Pros, in which we have a player

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00:57:24,640 --> 00:57:26,600
Speaker 1: sit down, one of our players sitting down with a

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00:57:26,640 --> 00:57:28,840
Speaker 1: high school player at the same position, and they break

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00:57:28,920 --> 00:57:31,160
Speaker 1: down one another's film. And this is certainly one of

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00:57:31,240 --> 00:57:34,200
Speaker 1: my favorites we've done so far. It's Kylan Granson with

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00:57:34,360 --> 00:57:37,400
Speaker 1: Brennan Wootton. Brennan is a tight end from Cathedral High

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Speaker 1: School who has committed to play next year at Western Michigan,

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00:57:40,840 --> 00:57:43,360
Speaker 1: and they had a really fun banter. Kylan gave him

1157
00:57:43,440 --> 00:57:46,680
Speaker 1: some fantastic feedback about his game. And it was interesting

1158
00:57:46,720 --> 00:57:48,600
Speaker 1: as well because we flipped on the tape and there

1159
00:57:48,640 --> 00:57:51,840
Speaker 1: were aspects of Brennan's game that Kylan totally could see

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00:57:52,040 --> 00:57:54,720
Speaker 1: his young self within, so it made for a really fun,

1161
00:57:54,840 --> 00:57:57,960
Speaker 1: dynamic thing, is really entertaining, and also it's a great

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00:57:58,000 --> 00:58:00,640
Speaker 1: way to see just how entertaining of an individual Kyle

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00:58:00,720 --> 00:58:04,640
Speaker 1: and Cranston is because he's so fantastic. Yeah, preps in

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00:58:04,800 --> 00:58:07,640
Speaker 1: pros check it out right now. It's available Colts dot

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00:58:07,720 --> 00:58:10,560
Speaker 1: com and the Colts Mobile app, and the of course,

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00:58:10,600 --> 00:58:13,560
Speaker 1: we've got the Last Word. That's the offseason radio program

1167
00:58:13,680 --> 00:58:15,760
Speaker 1: for the Colts, breaking everything down, getting you up to

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00:58:15,800 --> 00:58:18,920
Speaker 1: speed on the coaching search. That's on Friday nights at

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Speaker 1: six o'clock on ninety three five and one oh seven

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Speaker 1: five the Fan. It's also on demand anytime over the

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Speaker 1: weekend on the Colts Audio Network. So the search continues.

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Speaker 1: We'll see how that continues to shakeout and evolve this

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Speaker 1: week for the Colts head coach. Stay tuned. Colts dot

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Speaker 1: com has the latest. As JJ said, anytime it happens,

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00:58:36,480 --> 00:58:39,480
Speaker 1: it'll be posted immediately, so we'll have it all there

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Speaker 1: for you. For JJ and Lara, I'm Matt Taylor. This

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Speaker 1: is the official Colts Podcast, brought to you by Winbett.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for listening and hanging out with us. We'll talk

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Speaker 1: to you next week next Tuesday on the official Colts podcast,

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Speaker 1: So one