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Speaker 1: We're talking Colts and recapping the action.

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Speaker 2: Good course, fuck there picks up a live football and races.

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Speaker 3: The other way for a score picked off by the.

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Speaker 2: Colts from the near sideline. Kenny Moore racing for the

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Speaker 1: Indeed, why now Here's the voice of the Colts Matt

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Speaker 1: Taylor from the Indiana Union Construction Industry Radio Studio.

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Speaker 2: Welcome inside the Indiana Union Construction Industry Radio Studio, and

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Speaker 2: tonight we're talking about Colts foot for the next hour

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Speaker 2: or so, recapping the twenty to seventeen win for the

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Speaker 2: Colts over the Tennessee Titans. On a little bit earlier,

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Speaker 2: this evening with Pacer Pregames set to take over at

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Speaker 2: six point thirty tonight. But the Colts are three and

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Speaker 2: three after the win, and they notched their first victory

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Speaker 2: inside the AFC South on Sunday. The win also puts

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Speaker 2: the Colts in second place in the division and now

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Speaker 2: they get ready for the Miami Dolphins at Lucas Oil

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Speaker 2: Stadium in Week seven after two weeks on the road.

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Speaker 2: Colts head coach Shane Steiken is set to join us

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Speaker 2: on this first segment tonight in just a little bit,

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Speaker 2: and then later in the show, I'll be visited by

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Speaker 2: Colts analysts Rick vn Turrey and Joe Wright starting in

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Speaker 2: segment two. But it's time now to lead off the

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Speaker 2: show with the game rewind from Sunday. Joe Blacko got

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Speaker 2: the start on Sunday for the Colts as Anthony Richardson

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Speaker 2: was a last minute scratch, still dealing with that oblique injury.

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Speaker 2: Joe goided the Colts to an opening possession touchdown to

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Speaker 2: Josh Downs as the Colts took an early seven to

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Speaker 2: nothing lead. That means the Colts have now scored a

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Speaker 2: touchdown on their opening possession in three straight games for

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Speaker 2: the first time since twenty twenty. Flacco would throw another

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Speaker 2: touchdown to Michael Pittman, Junior in the fourth quarter, and

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Speaker 2: that would extend his streak of consecutive games with at

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Speaker 2: least two passing touchdowns to eight, which is tied with

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Speaker 2: Jordan Love for the longest active streak in the NFL.

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Speaker 2: Pittman's touchdown grab late in the game from Flacco would

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Speaker 2: mark the quarterbacks twenty seventh fourth quarter game winning drive.

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Speaker 2: That's tied with former Titans quarterback Ryan Tannehill for the

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Speaker 2: seventh most in NFL history. Speaking of Pittman, what a

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Speaker 2: gutsy performance by him. Playing with a nagging back injury,

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Speaker 2: he came up big in the clutch. He had three

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Speaker 2: Fellow wide receiver Josh Downs was also marvelous. He caught

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Speaker 2: It was a frustrating twenty three yard run by Tony

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Speaker 2: the Colts slammed the door. Tennessee's next four possessions went

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Speaker 2: and the Colts won another close game. Indianapolis has seen

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Speaker 2: obviously in those games with the point differential of exactly

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Speaker 2: Citizens Energy Group. Coach, Congrats on the win, appreciate the time.

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Speaker 2: As always, another gutsy performance on Sunday by the Colts,

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Speaker 4: It was big. You know, our defense stepped up there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Joe Flacco starts the game, plays very well again

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Speaker 2: How is he doing now? Is he trending towards.

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Speaker 2: But practice this week, that's that's all on the table.

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Speaker 2: Other injuries for the Colts. Ryan Kelly left the game

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Speaker 2: Better elsewhere on offense. Coach, I'm just going to tee

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Speaker 4: Just incredible, incredible toughness, you know, about on through a

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Speaker 2: Doubt about that. Another star on Sunday colts On offense,

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Speaker 4: I mean, he's just got a great knack forgetting open,

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Speaker 4: He's got great routes, great hands, you know, great vision

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Speaker 2: And he was another guy playing through pain a little

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Speaker 2: In the fourth quarter, they got those big stops, Like

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Speaker 4: Josh? They played relentless there in crunch time for sure.

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Speaker 4: Those three three and outs at the end of the

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Speaker 4: yardage obviously was down holding to what they did two

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Speaker 2: Can you pinpoint what was different this go around defensively?

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Speaker 2: I mean, how did you get to win in this

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Speaker 4: And jest, I think we just it comes back to

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Speaker 4: You know, obviously Julian getting the interception there too at

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Speaker 4: the end was huge, you know, trying to win that

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Speaker 4: turnover battle every week. But they just played with you know,

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Speaker 2: And I want to go back to offense. You had

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Speaker 2: for Ryan Kelly. Like we talked about, how have you

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think anytime you got depth of the position

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Speaker 4: our line coach. He does a great job with those guys.

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Speaker 4: It doesn't matter if you're a starter or a backup.

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Speaker 4: He coaches that whole group the same. And to have

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Speaker 4: then Tanner obviously has played a little bit, but then

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Speaker 2: All Right, you're three and three and I asked you

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Speaker 4: I love the fight of our team. Our guys just

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Speaker 4: keep fighting till the end. You know, four quarters. This

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Speaker 2: How was your football weekend? I know you guys hit

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Speaker 2: I know you were feeling pretty good after that win yesterday,

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Speaker 3: You're not kidding, man, but it was a grind. I

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Speaker 4: Follot bang bang, player bang bang.

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Speaker 5: really been Joe Flacco's you know, really only bad or

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Speaker 5: really forced throw that he's had through playing. And then

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Speaker 5: we didn't have a ton of penalties. We only had five,

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Speaker 5: but we had some key penalties that extended their drives.

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Speaker 5: I'm thinking of the face mask for us that took

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Speaker 5: away seven put three on the scoreboard, and then coach

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Speaker 5: mentioned it it was a grind. Tennessee was trying to

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Speaker 5: win that game thirteen to ten. They were trying to

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Speaker 5: have these seven to nine minute drives and they were successful.

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Speaker 5: And you look up at the start of the fourth

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Speaker 5: quarter we're down seventeen thirteen. You're thinking, no, no, no,

444
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Speaker 5: we're the better team. We got to win this football game.

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Speaker 5: But credit to the Colts. The defense has four or

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Speaker 5: straight stops to finish the game. They did not score

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Speaker 5: a point in the fourth quarter, which has been an

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Speaker 5: achilles heel for US. I thought Goodson ran really hard.

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Speaker 5: I think with Joe Flacco, we have a quarterback with

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Speaker 5: great accuracy that can control the flow of the game,

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Speaker 5: you know, kind of a possession type passing game. Josh

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Speaker 5: downs third down, he's uncoverable. Third down is officially now.

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Speaker 5: I know, I mentioned it a couple of weeks ago.

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Speaker 3: Matt.

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Speaker 5: It's officially the downs, you know, when we're on third.

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Speaker 5: And But what I liked about the Colts we found

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Speaker 5: a way to finish the game, win a road division game.

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Speaker 5: And I'll tell you what Michael Pittman. You know, we

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Speaker 5: used to say in basketball that the harder you played

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Speaker 5: on defense, the more shots you would make. I don't

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Speaker 5: know why it's like that, that's just how it works.

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Speaker 5: And football, the tougher you are, the more plays you make.

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Speaker 5: And Pittman, after missing practice, you know, the national guys

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Speaker 5: are saying he might go on ir He comes and

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Speaker 5: practice Friday, he comes and plays the game. He's been quiet.

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Speaker 5: The huge fifty to fifty ball in that all out

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Speaker 5: cover zero blitz, which was impressive, and then I love

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Speaker 5: the Stones by Shane Stike and to make that call

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Speaker 5: on second down and really ice the game. But credit

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Speaker 5: to Michael Pittman for just his toughness. He brings such

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Speaker 5: a level of toughness as a wide receiver, which few

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Speaker 5: do in the NFL because it's such a diva position.

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Speaker 5: And I was really happy to see him really win

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Speaker 5: the game for us, going up and catching that fifty

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Speaker 5: to fifty ball.

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Speaker 3: You know, you know, wh I if I had to,

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Speaker 3: if I had to give a title to this movie,

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Speaker 3: it would be true grit, to be honest with you,

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Speaker 3: because it was at tea minute crime. I mean, and

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Speaker 3: thank god the NFL games are marathon because you needed that.

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Speaker 2: He was directing that movie, Rick, I need to know.

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Speaker 3: Well, I don't know, we were into the Nashville sound.

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Speaker 3: We'd probably have to get somebody from Tennessee. But it

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Speaker 3: was definitely definitely true grit, you know. And when you

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Speaker 3: really you peel the onion back. I mean, the statistics

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Speaker 3: are really almost equal. I mean, you know, Tennessee won

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Speaker 3: the running game by almost twice. The Colts won the

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Speaker 3: passing game by twice. We both had to bad turnovers

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Speaker 3: yards per almost exactly the same, and thanks to the

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Speaker 3: fourth quarter time of possession ended up the same. They

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Speaker 3: had that for about three quarters. They were up six,

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Speaker 3: but we ended up tying it up. But you know,

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Speaker 3: and you know, I always put this as one of

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Speaker 3: my prime views of a team, and that's fourth quarter

495
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Speaker 3: defense because NFL games come down to one possession almost

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Speaker 3: every friggin game. And so in the end, you know,

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Speaker 3: the Coats won despite the equality in statistics, the Colts

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Speaker 3: won the part of the game that matters most, and

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Speaker 3: they really dominated the fourth quarter in all areas, every

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Speaker 3: single area of the game, you know, to win that

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Speaker 3: part of the game ten to nothing, you know, the

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Speaker 3: offense put up ten points, including kind of a carryover

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Speaker 3: from the third quarter for the field goal. But then

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Speaker 3: the seven minute drive kind of turned the tables a

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Speaker 3: you know, at eight o'clock for us instead of the

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Speaker 3: other way. It balanced it out. We got the seven

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Speaker 3: and you know, our defense, which you know, for the

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Speaker 3: last seven quarters, you know, couldn't stop a nosebleed. And

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Speaker 3: we go into the fourth quarter thirty second total in

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Speaker 3: the league, thirty four thirty second on first on fourth down.

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Speaker 3: But we rose from the ashes. You know, we had

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Speaker 3: the three big stops and the huge winning turnover to

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Speaker 3: finish it. I'm with Joe, I think this week and

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Speaker 3: probably a lot of the time, but more more than

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Speaker 3: ever this week, Michael Pivetty pitomized the day. Really they

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Speaker 3: had him, they had him going on IR for four weeks.

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Speaker 3: He didn't just play. He made two critical game winning plays,

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Speaker 3: and you know, hats off to him. That's you know,

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Speaker 3: and I hate to be a dinosaur on this, but

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Speaker 3: that's old school. That's a guy that played all school

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00:24:00,520 --> 00:24:04,200
Speaker 3: toughness and you can't money can't buy that. And then

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Speaker 3: Downs continues to be a chain mover. He is. He

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Speaker 3: is uncoverable on the possession route sometimes on third down.

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Speaker 3: I wish we wouldn't even get cute, just put him

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Speaker 3: in the slot because nobody can cover him, to be

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Speaker 3: honest with you, and Pierce continues to get deep on people.

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Speaker 3: You know, he got the big PI which is like

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Speaker 3: a bomb, and of course Joe did it again, just

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Speaker 3: another tremendous effort. It wasn't necessarily his most accurate day,

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Speaker 3: but he was great against the Blitz and it ended

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Speaker 3: up costing them the game. He was absolutely great. Actually,

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Speaker 3: the protection was pretty well as well for as much

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Speaker 3: as they came, but he got it out there and

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Speaker 3: just did a great job. You know, he's in his

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Speaker 3: last eight games, he's six and two, and if we

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Speaker 3: play any and if we play any defense at all

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Speaker 3: at Jacksonville, he's seven and one. Just to make it

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Speaker 3: the way it was, again, a lot of hats off

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Speaker 3: to the defense really pulled it together when they had

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Speaker 3: two guys I want to single out though, because I

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Speaker 3: think they made the difference in the fourth quarter, you know,

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Speaker 3: and that's Womack and Jones. I mean, those guys had

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Speaker 3: three PBUs in the fourth quarter, and I thought, I thought,

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Speaker 3: Womack has come in here and played his tailoff, and

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Speaker 3: Jones made a terrific TVU on Hopkins on that one

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Speaker 3: on one fifty to fifty ball at the end of

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Speaker 3: the fourth quarter. Yeah, and then I think people don't

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Speaker 3: realize how good a rush Dio had on the interception

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Speaker 3: by Blackman. They ran a little twist game with him

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Speaker 3: and Brian. He comes around and he bowlos and really

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Speaker 3: doesn't allow it doesn't allow Levis to follow through on

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Speaker 3: that ball, and it ended up a duck. And then

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Speaker 3: of course Blackman showed his great, great range really to

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Speaker 3: go over and get it. And then what can we

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Speaker 3: say about Rigo? You know, id I just keep spitting

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Speaker 3: game balls out to him. I mean, you know, the

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Speaker 3: last two punts of the game, you know, made an

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Speaker 3: mnemic offense have to think about going ninety some yards,

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Speaker 3: which was not gonna happen. So in the end, with

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Speaker 3: the season on the brink, we pulled it out of

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Speaker 3: there and we put ourselves in real solid position. Again.

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Speaker 3: As I said, that cheeseburger tasted really good on the West.

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Speaker 2: They're real good that double cheese for Rick Ventury. Good

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Speaker 2: breakdown by both of you right there, Rick Venturi and

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Speaker 2: Joe Wrights. That's the tale of the tape. Hey, Colts fans.

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Speaker 2: Remember the weather authorities now are Fox fifty nine and

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Speaker 2: CBS four Indiana's largest and Weather eight certified most accurate weather.

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Speaker 2: All right, we've got plenty more to get into the

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Speaker 2: rest of the show. When we come back, we're rolling out.

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Speaker 2: We're going to compare things to this Indiana fall weather

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Speaker 2: that we've been having, comparing that to the Indianapolis Colts,

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Speaker 2: because it's been gorgeous some days, other days it's a

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Speaker 2: little bit more unpredictable, So which parts of the Colts

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Speaker 2: operation falls into those categories. We will discuss that in

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Speaker 2: detail when we come back. Colts Round Table Live Tonight

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Speaker 2: Entergroup dot com. We're back in just a moment. Here

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Speaker 2: on ninety three five and one oh seven five. The fan.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Colts Roundtable Live on ninety three five

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Speaker 1: and one oh seven five. The fan from the Indiana

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Speaker 1: Union Construction Industry Radio Studio. Here's Matt Taylor, the voice

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Speaker 1: of the Colts.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back. This is Colts Roundtable Live Tonight, brought to

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Speaker 2: of the Indianapolis Colts. Rick ventis here, Joe Wright, I'm

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Speaker 2: Matt Taylor, and let's compare Indiana weather in NFL football. Right,

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Speaker 2: Because Indiana weather is unpredictable, so is NFL football this

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Speaker 2: time of year, we seemingly experience multiple seasons. During the day.

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Speaker 2: In the morning, it's chilly, you put on a jacket.

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Speaker 2: In the afternoon, it's still eighty plus degrees. It feels

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Speaker 2: like summer here in the month of October. Sometimes in

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Speaker 2: the evening it feels like the fall tempts dip under

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Speaker 2: fifty degrees. So let's compare the ever changing any weather

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Speaker 2: landscape to the week to week nature of the NFL

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Speaker 2: and the Colt season. So the first forecast sunny and

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Speaker 2: clear skies. We had beautiful weather in Central Indiana last week,

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Speaker 2: mostly sunny days. You can do just about anything in

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Speaker 2: that bad boy outside when the sun is shining and

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Speaker 2: you got blue skies overhead. And that's what the Colts

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Speaker 2: offense has done. They've done just about anything with Joe

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Speaker 2: Flacco at quarterback in these last three games. Since taking

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Speaker 2: over for Anthony Richardson in the first quarter of that

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Speaker 2: Steelers game in Week four, Flacco's completed sixty five percent

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Speaker 2: of his passes, seven touchdowns, only one pick. He's thrown

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Speaker 2: at least two touchdown passes in eight straight games dating

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Speaker 2: back to last year. And Rick whatever happens now with

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Speaker 2: Anthony Richardson this week, whatever ends up happening with that

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Speaker 2: situation with him. Flacca regardless, deserves a ton of credit

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Speaker 2: for how he's given the Colts a great chance to

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Speaker 2: win these last three games on offense.

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Speaker 3: Well, there's no question about it. And he's won two

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Speaker 3: games without Jonathan Taylor, which you know really rips us

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Speaker 3: from the running game, you know, actually two and a

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Speaker 3: quarter I mean without him, So I mean there is

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Speaker 3: no question about what he's done and what he's capable

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Speaker 3: of done. I'll tell you when I walked out of

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Speaker 3: there last night and I'm almost aghast, I just said

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Speaker 3: to myself, and I think I said it to somebody else.

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Speaker 3: I said, you know, the guy is really still good.

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Speaker 3: And I don't care how old he is. You know,

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Speaker 3: there's that phrase, how old would you be if you

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Speaker 3: didn't know the day you were born? I mean, he

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Speaker 3: didn't know the day he was born. He just goes

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Speaker 3: out and plays and he looks terrific. And you know,

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Speaker 3: I understand, I mean, I understand the feeling that you know,

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Speaker 3: Richardson is the future. I understand the football ass respect

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Speaker 3: of it. If you want to argue it that you

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Speaker 3: know Richardson gives you a dynamic multi approach with his legs,

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Speaker 3: you know, from that standpoint, and he's the investment pick,

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Speaker 3: he's the lottery pick, and so everybody wants to make

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Speaker 3: sure and I've said this myself, that we know who

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Speaker 3: he is and that he has a year of development,

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Speaker 3: and so you know, in that regard, you know, it

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Speaker 3: can't be argued that he's the guy in the future,

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Speaker 3: but I'm not sure Flacco isn't the guy for today.

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Speaker 3: Flacco can win you games, and he did have an

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Speaker 3: uncar characteristic interception, but he hasn't had many. His numbers

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Speaker 3: are really really good. And you know, the other thing

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Speaker 3: that he's done is he's what he shows you. He

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Speaker 3: Richardson doesn't bring. And that's why you're seeing downs just

647
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Speaker 3: flourish in those possession downs. You're seeing Pittman flourish over

648
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Speaker 3: the middle. And it's not that he can't throw the

649
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Speaker 3: deep ball, because he can't. He's always noticed for it.

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Speaker 3: But he brings us a classic NFL passing game. And

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Speaker 3: you know the thing about it is, I know our

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Speaker 3: defense had a good quarter, but I don't trust it.

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Speaker 3: And so you know what we can't do and if

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Speaker 3: we do play Richardson, what we can't have is we

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Speaker 3: can't have turnovers. We cannot give anybody the advantage because

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Speaker 3: we can't count on a shutdown game. And that's where

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Speaker 3: Joe's been so good. And you know, actually I just

658
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Speaker 3: brought it up, you know, since he's since his first

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Speaker 3: start at Cleveland last year, he's the highest ranked passer

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Speaker 3: in the National Football League. He is six and two

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Speaker 3: in those eight games that he's played the majority of

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Speaker 3: and if we play any defense at Jacksonville, he's seven

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Speaker 3: and one. So you know, you know, if somebody told

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Speaker 3: me Joe's going to be our quarterback, now, I'm very

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Speaker 3: very comfortable with it. He was terrific against the Blitz yesterday.

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Speaker 3: I mean actually he put it right back in their face.

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Speaker 3: He did it play after play obviously, the zero blitz

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Speaker 3: where he throws it up to Pittman terrific play. But

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Speaker 3: you know, I'm just saying the guy still is very

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Speaker 3: very good.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he still got it all right. How about this

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Speaker 2: for a forecast or a weather comparison as it relates

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Speaker 2: to the Colts. How about gray skies in the forecast,

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Speaker 2: But a great Dale, great day I should say prevails. Right.

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Speaker 2: So if you don't like the weather here in Indiana,

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Speaker 2: what's that old line, just wait fifteen minutes because it's

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Speaker 2: gonna change. And that's what happened to the forecast this

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Speaker 2: week to some of the Colts wide receivers. They are

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Speaker 2: dealing with a bad forecast with both Michael Pittman Junior

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Speaker 2: and Josh Downs during the week. Pittman missed some practice

681
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Speaker 2: time this week with the back, and some of the

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Speaker 2: national reports had a missing multiple games maybe going on

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Speaker 2: ir Downs missed two practices with a toe that clearly

684
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Speaker 2: bothered him throughout the course of the game yesterday. But

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Speaker 2: both guys step up and they're huge Joe down the stretch.

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Speaker 2: Downs has seven for sixty six in a touchdown. Pittman

687
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Speaker 2: had three for thirty five, but at the game winning

688
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Speaker 2: touchdown the fourth quarter, then the game ceiling sixteen yard

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Speaker 2: catch at the two minute warning. Joe. The Colts had

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Speaker 2: some gray skys surrounding the receivers going into the game,

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Speaker 2: but they ended up getting sunshine and playmaking from both

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Speaker 2: Downs and Pittman, who showed incredible toughness yesterday.

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Speaker 5: No question, Matt and toughness is the word that carries

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Speaker 5: the day and Coach mentioned it earlier. You can't put

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Speaker 5: a price on toughness. And when Pittman's your highest paid

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Speaker 5: wide receiver and he's as tough as he is, that's

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Speaker 5: just so different than you look around all these other

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Speaker 5: NFL teams and they're high paid guys or divas, and

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Speaker 5: Pittman's not a diva. And so that exudes toughness that

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Speaker 5: permeates to the rest of the wide receiving room. And

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Speaker 5: that's been great. And you think about he misses practice,

702
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Speaker 5: downs misses practice. Yeah, they both are outstanding yesterday afternoon.

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Speaker 5: And Matt, when I look at our passing game, it's

704
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Speaker 5: really impressive because we can do a lot of different

705
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Speaker 5: things now we haven't been able to do in years past.

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Speaker 5: Downs in between the numbers almost uncoverable, bescially on third down.

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Speaker 5: Pierce is your home run threat. I know he didn't

708
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Speaker 5: have a big day on paper, but that thirty three

709
00:34:05,760 --> 00:34:09,480
Speaker 5: yard pass interference penalty, that's a completion right that should

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Speaker 5: go down in stats as a long game. And Tennessee

711
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Speaker 5: was playing the old New England defense yesterday. They were

712
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Speaker 5: holding to grabbing on every single play, and then they

713
00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:20,360
Speaker 5: were whining and moaning. You know, they didn't get the calls,

714
00:34:20,640 --> 00:34:23,520
Speaker 5: but that played at Pierce was impressive. So you think

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Speaker 5: about Pierce as your home run. Brett downs in between

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Speaker 5: the numbers, and then Pittman. He's a big body. He

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Speaker 5: can go inside and outside. He wins that fifty to

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Speaker 5: fifty ball. I think that's something that we have the

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Speaker 5: confidence to throw him some more of those fifty to

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Speaker 5: fifty balls because he'll go up and he'll get him.

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Speaker 5: And you know, coach mentioned Flacco really good against the blitz.

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Speaker 5: Shout out to the old line too. They were blitzing

723
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Speaker 5: earlier in the game. We were picking it up. Well,

724
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Speaker 5: they kind of went away from the blitz. They brought

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Speaker 5: that zero blitz at the end. And as our coaches

726
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Speaker 5: used to say, when you go zero blitz is a

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Speaker 5: diferent defense. It's a big play for them or it's

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Speaker 5: a big play for us. Yeah, and the line picked

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Speaker 5: it up. Flacco hung in there. Pittman makes the great

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Speaker 5: But Matt I really like our passing game because I

731
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Speaker 5: think it's at a level it hasn't been in years

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Speaker 5: past because we have a lot of different facets that

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Speaker 5: can attack all over the football field.

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Speaker 2: All Right, Joe wright's right there, Rick Venturrey. I'm Matt Taylor.

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Speaker 2: This is Colts Round Table Live tonight on ninety three

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Speaker 2: to five and one oh seven five The fan with

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Speaker 2: you until six thirty tonight. Pacer pregame takes over the

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Speaker 2: airwaves at that point. All right, our last weather comparison,

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Speaker 2: Rick vent Tury, I just threw this one in there.

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Speaker 2: I'm calling this partly cloudy and a little misty, all right,

741
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Speaker 2: because here in Indiana where no strangers to those days

742
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Speaker 2: that are a little partly cloudy, a little slight rainfall

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Speaker 2: that kind of sums up the Colts defensive day on

744
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Speaker 2: Sunday wasn't great, but they didn't give up the huge

745
00:35:43,440 --> 00:35:45,839
Speaker 2: yardage totals like they had at times in the first

746
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Speaker 2: five games. Colts gave up a season low two forty

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Speaker 2: one to Tennessee. They hold Will Levis to just ninety

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Speaker 2: five yards passing, but the Colts didn't register a sack

749
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Speaker 2: for the second straight game, and they still had a

750
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Speaker 2: hard time slowing down the rush to see goes for

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Speaker 2: one forty six on the ground, and the Colts still

752
00:36:03,520 --> 00:36:05,680
Speaker 2: had a few plays they'd like to have back, including

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Speaker 2: a wide open touchdown to Nick Westbrook a Kine and

754
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Speaker 2: a twenty three yard touchdown run allowed to Tony Pollard

755
00:36:12,400 --> 00:36:15,719
Speaker 2: on a third and nineteen. So the Colts defense rick

756
00:36:15,760 --> 00:36:17,879
Speaker 2: they gave up no points in the fourth quarter. That's

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00:36:17,880 --> 00:36:20,080
Speaker 2: a really good step in the right direction. But there's

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00:36:20,080 --> 00:36:24,040
Speaker 2: still obviously some some teachable moments going into Week seven

759
00:36:24,080 --> 00:36:25,080
Speaker 2: against Miami.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I'm really proud of the fourth quarter effort.

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Speaker 3: There's no doubt about it. We're not gonna minimize that.

762
00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:33,400
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, three big stops in a huge

763
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Speaker 3: turnover with the game on the line, you know we're

764
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Speaker 3: we're gonna give We're gonna give plaudits to that. At

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Speaker 3: the same time, though, let's don't have a victory parade.

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Speaker 3: That is an anemic offense, an anemic quarterback, and stylistically

767
00:36:47,480 --> 00:36:49,719
Speaker 3: they are just trying to win without passing the ball.

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Speaker 3: I told you it's like watching my grandson Austin thirteen

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Speaker 3: year old game. I mean, that's what it looks like

770
00:36:55,160 --> 00:36:57,800
Speaker 3: when you're playing them. So, I mean, I think everything

771
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Speaker 3: that you do has a context and you must look

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Speaker 3: at it that way. Now here's a couple of encouraging

773
00:37:03,760 --> 00:37:07,840
Speaker 3: things though. I thought the fact the kid Womack I

774
00:37:07,880 --> 00:37:11,440
Speaker 3: said this before, Womack and Jones had good games. Yesterday,

775
00:37:11,480 --> 00:37:14,839
Speaker 3: they had really really good games. Jones got by with one,

776
00:37:14,880 --> 00:37:16,960
Speaker 3: but so what you know, they get it. They goes

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00:37:17,040 --> 00:37:19,440
Speaker 3: the other way as well. But they played. Those two

778
00:37:19,480 --> 00:37:22,680
Speaker 3: guys played really well. You know, with Kenny back, you know,

779
00:37:22,760 --> 00:37:26,840
Speaker 3: that looked a lot more solid in that sense. I

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Speaker 3: think we really need Buckner back, and hopefully that's that's

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Speaker 3: sooner than later, you know, hopefully when we get to

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Speaker 3: Texas at least, because we're a man short. When we

783
00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:41,840
Speaker 3: don't have Grover and Davis in the game together, we

784
00:37:41,960 --> 00:37:45,719
Speaker 3: just have a huge void in there. And again another

785
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Speaker 3: big rushing day against US. I mean, we're at the

786
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Speaker 3: bottom on that. We can't stop direct runs and that's

787
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Speaker 3: a little bit scary. And then honestly, you know, we

788
00:37:56,560 --> 00:37:59,040
Speaker 3: only have one more week in this valley of bad

789
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Speaker 3: offenses again to Miami, because after that you have five

790
00:38:04,719 --> 00:38:09,239
Speaker 3: games against the Texans, Minnesota, Buffalo, and Detroit. You have

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Speaker 3: four out of five guys that you're not going to

792
00:38:11,800 --> 00:38:14,520
Speaker 3: be able to blitz and play that zone defense behind it.

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00:38:14,560 --> 00:38:16,600
Speaker 3: You're just not I mean we got by with it

794
00:38:16,640 --> 00:38:18,640
Speaker 3: against Levis, but you're not going to be able to

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Speaker 3: play it then, So you know, I'm encouraged in one way,

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Speaker 3: really encouraged with the effort in the fourth quarter because

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Speaker 3: I'll tell you, when you've been struggling, I've been that

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Speaker 3: guy when everybody's ridiculing you and they're just trashing you,

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Speaker 3: it really feels great to rise up and go. So

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Speaker 3: I think Buckner would be a tremendous impact for us

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Speaker 3: when we get him back.

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Speaker 2: Indeed, all right, that's the Indiana weather and the ever

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Speaker 2: Brian is up first tonight. He wants Rick Ventury to

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Speaker 2: weigh in on this one. Brian is asking RV, how

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Speaker 2: important is it for us to take guard shots to Pierce?

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Speaker 2: Even if he doesn't catch the deep ball yesterday, we

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Speaker 3: No, it's really really important. And you know, now we finally,

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Speaker 3: for once in several years, we have two guys that

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Speaker 3: can break the coverage D Pierce and Mitchell. And Pierce

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Speaker 3: is a guy right now that not only breaks the

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Speaker 3: coverage D, but he's proven to be a fifty to

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Speaker 3: fifty guy. You can trust him. You can throw it

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Speaker 3: up if the coverage is tight and let him go

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Speaker 3: get it. But you know, he literally you know, we

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00:41:06,080 --> 00:41:08,680
Speaker 3: ran right, He ran right by Snead. He's supposed to

848
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Speaker 3: be so good. And I think what's really important is

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Speaker 3: the more. And this is where Taylor would be so

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Speaker 3: important to be back. When we're running the ball like

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Speaker 3: we can behind that left side, and we're throwing those

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Speaker 3: possession passes in the first level to Downs and in

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Speaker 3: the second level to Pittman over the middle, then team's

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Speaker 3: just gonna have to pack it inside. I mean, they

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Speaker 3: have to pack all that coverage inside and play naked

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Speaker 3: on the corner and when you do that, then you

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Speaker 3: know you're opening it up for Pierce. And I'm so

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Speaker 3: comfortable now for the first time that we actually will

859
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Speaker 3: take it. We have enough confidence in the throwers and

860
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Speaker 3: the catchers. Yeah, and so yeah, I think it's absolutely critical.

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Speaker 3: I mean that Pi was huge yesterday.

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Speaker 2: All Right, Logan is up next, and he wants to

863
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Speaker 2: talk about the red zone on both sides of the ball.

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Speaker 2: I will propose the offense to Joe and then Rick

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Speaker 2: if you want to take the dpensive side of the ball.

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Speaker 2: Logan's asking we seem to be super conservative in the

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Speaker 2: red zone on offense, who can we target inside the

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Speaker 2: twenty yard line? And what can we do to be

869
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Speaker 2: more creative? And then the other side of the ball,

870
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Speaker 2: just asking why do we have so many receivers in

871
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Speaker 2: tight end seemingly wide open inside the twenty. So, Joe,

872
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Speaker 2: if you want to field that first part first, the

873
00:42:21,320 --> 00:42:25,000
Speaker 2: offensive side of the of the red zone for the Colts.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, what a good question. And when you look at

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Speaker 5: the NFL, Matt, the two statistics that matter most to

876
00:42:30,360 --> 00:42:32,320
Speaker 5: me are third down in red zone and as an offense,

877
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Speaker 5: we're eighth and third down. We've done a lot better

878
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Speaker 5: job the last couple weeks. We're fifteenth in red zone offense.

879
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Speaker 5: We were one to three yesterday. But to me, it's

880
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Speaker 5: really two different red zone offenses. When Jonathan Taylor's in

881
00:42:44,400 --> 00:42:46,920
Speaker 5: the game, he's just a difference maker running back, and

882
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Speaker 5: when Richardson's in the game, it's a lot easier to

883
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Speaker 5: run those inside runs to a running back because you

884
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Speaker 5: have the threat of the zone read Richardson pulling it

885
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Speaker 5: running around the end, which scares defenses. They're softer in

886
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Speaker 5: the middle. So yesterday we got down their first goal

887
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Speaker 5: at the four. We ran at three straight times up

888
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Speaker 5: the middle, but there's no threat of Flacco and there's

889
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Speaker 5: no tailor, you know, the dynamic game breaker in there.

890
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Speaker 5: So to me, with Flacco as quarterback and we're in

891
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Speaker 5: the red zone, when you're in the red zone, the

892
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Speaker 5: field is twice as wide as it is long. Spread

893
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Speaker 5: them out, get three four wide receivers out there, run

894
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Speaker 5: downs in between. You got two jump ball guys and

895
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Speaker 5: Pierson Pittman that can both make plays if they're running

896
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Speaker 5: man coverage or if they're bringing some sort of blitz.

897
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Speaker 5: So I think our advantage, especially when Joe's in the

898
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Speaker 5: game is to actually throw the ball out more in

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Speaker 5: the red zone, and I think that'll lead to more

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Speaker 5: tds in there instead of settling for field goals. But coach,

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Speaker 5: what you got answer wise on the defensive side of

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Speaker 5: the football.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and you know, I thought that the question was

904
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Speaker 3: really well praised. We have had an inordinate Man.

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Speaker 2: You guys both love Logan in this question. Man, he

906
00:43:51,200 --> 00:43:53,120
Speaker 2: should get like a prize or something. You guys are

907
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Speaker 2: all over it.

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Speaker 3: He should. And Logan is a man after my heart.

909
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Speaker 3: He realizes that the NFL is all about the red

910
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Speaker 3: zone play as well in the red zone and that

911
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Speaker 3: you either win it or lose it in those last

912
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Speaker 3: twenty yards, tell you the truth. And we are twenty

913
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Speaker 3: fourth on defense going into the game, and we didn't

914
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Speaker 3: get it do any better this week. You know, I

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Speaker 3: think two things that just strike me and it's just

916
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Speaker 3: amazing to me, is we have so many mental breakdowns.

917
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Speaker 3: And we're not a complex team. I mean we're either

918
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Speaker 3: in quarters, man or thirds. But we have actually blown coverage.

919
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Speaker 3: I don't mean get beat. We have actually blown coverage

920
00:44:32,840 --> 00:44:36,759
Speaker 3: almost once a game and sometimes twice a game. The

921
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Speaker 3: other day yesterday We're in a simple red three and

922
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Speaker 3: basically they throw a fake quick screen and go and

923
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Speaker 3: both Kenny Moore, who really should be deep, and cross

924
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Speaker 3: play the screen and boom, it's wide open. We've blown

925
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Speaker 3: that quarters coverage, that four palms, which I despise with

926
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Speaker 3: everything I have. We've blown that so many times on misdirections,

927
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Speaker 3: on on on safety and corners not communicating, so you know,

928
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Speaker 3: and that's sad because that really doesn't have much to

929
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Speaker 3: do with talent or liabilities. That's just coaching and executing

930
00:45:12,200 --> 00:45:15,520
Speaker 3: and that that really shouldn't happen. And then the other

931
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Speaker 3: thing is just mistackles. I mean, it wasn't truly a

932
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Speaker 3: red zone, but the third and nineteen was what in

933
00:45:21,960 --> 00:45:25,080
Speaker 3: the orange zone was closed. You know, they had a

934
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Speaker 3: good they had a good play called in that was

935
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Speaker 3: going to gain about probably six yards seven yards, and

936
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Speaker 3: then they were going to kick the field goals, so

937
00:45:32,520 --> 00:45:35,520
Speaker 3: we weren't gonna lose anything. But then once he broke it,

938
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Speaker 3: then we had two just got in on two of

939
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Speaker 3: our best players. We had more and black one just

940
00:45:41,400 --> 00:45:44,400
Speaker 3: flagged the tackle for a touchdown. So you know, I

941
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Speaker 3: would say communication and tackling is what's got to get better.

942
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Speaker 2: Rick Venturi, Joe Wright's right there. This message is brought

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Speaker 2: the matchup and also breakdown the AFC South standings going

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Speaker 2: and they're closing arguments with the Colts big Week six

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Speaker 2: win over the Tennessee Titans. So if you look at it, Joe,

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Speaker 2: the Colts are even on the season, right, they're three

972
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Speaker 2: and three. All their games have been one score affairs

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Speaker 2: and they've scored one hundred and thirty nine points. They've

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Speaker 2: also given up one hundred and thirty nine points, so

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Speaker 2: their margin is exactly zero. So going into Week seven, Joe,

976
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Speaker 2: how can the Colts kind of pull the car out

977
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Speaker 2: of neutral, get on the highway and kind of hit

978
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Speaker 2: cruise control hopefully get on a winning streak here?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, well, you got to. You got to pound Miami.

980
00:47:51,480 --> 00:47:54,160
Speaker 5: They're a team that's in shambles right now without their quarterback.

981
00:47:54,440 --> 00:47:57,520
Speaker 5: They're reeling. As Reggie Wayne used to say, keep the

982
00:47:57,560 --> 00:48:00,600
Speaker 5: losers losing, and so to me, you jump on my early.

983
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Speaker 5: You let them know that's going to be a long

984
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Speaker 5: day at Lucas Soil, and you get yourself above five

985
00:48:04,600 --> 00:48:07,279
Speaker 5: hundred matt to four and three until we face what

986
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Speaker 5: I call the gauntlet of the schedule, those next five games.

987
00:48:10,760 --> 00:48:13,480
Speaker 5: And the coach, I know that you've probably dug in

988
00:48:13,560 --> 00:48:15,960
Speaker 5: on the tape since you got home so early last night.

989
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Speaker 5: What do we expect from Miami coming in here in

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Speaker 5: six days.

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Speaker 3: Well, this is our last weekend. What I've been referring

992
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Speaker 3: to as the Valley of bad offenses and quarterbacks. I mean,

993
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Speaker 3: and really we've really benefited from being in that valley,

994
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Speaker 3: There's no doubt about it. And Miami's no different. After

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00:48:32,560 --> 00:48:35,000
Speaker 3: they lost to you know, they're trying to do it

996
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Speaker 3: with Huntley. I think they're getting a little better and

997
00:48:37,280 --> 00:48:40,680
Speaker 3: finding some niches for Huntley. But the reality is this.

998
00:48:40,760 --> 00:48:43,719
Speaker 3: They're number thirty two in the league and scoring the

999
00:48:43,800 --> 00:48:47,200
Speaker 3: quarterback has a sixty seven point three passer rating. But

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Speaker 3: on the other side of it, they're like the Bears,

1001
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Speaker 3: They're like Pittsburgh, you know, they're like the teams we've

1002
00:48:52,800 --> 00:48:57,800
Speaker 3: been playing Tennessee. They're number six in total defense, number

1003
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Speaker 3: four against the pass, and on third down their number one.

1004
00:49:01,840 --> 00:49:04,200
Speaker 3: So they have a method to beat you. That's why

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Speaker 3: these games with these other teams, even in the Valley

1006
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Speaker 3: h have have been so tight because they have the

1007
00:49:11,000 --> 00:49:14,360
Speaker 3: ability to play defense. They're not very good on offense.

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Speaker 3: But you know it just as when when when Matt

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Speaker 3: said it perfectly, when you're sitting at at a zero

1010
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Speaker 3: point differential, you're gonna you're gonna play one score games

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Speaker 3: to the end.

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Speaker 2: YEP. Kind of sounds like the Tennessee Titans last week.

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Speaker 2: So we'll see if the Colts can put it all

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Speaker 2: together in week number seven. But that's all the time

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Speaker 2: we've got Tonight, Joe writs Rick Vincurrey Colts Roundtable Live.

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Speaker 2: Always enjoy being with you guys here on Monday nights. Again,

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Speaker 2: my thanks to head coach Shane Steichen, who joined in

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Speaker 2: on the first segment tonight for his thoughts following the

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