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Speaker 1: Welcome into another episode of the Two Minute Drill podcast,

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Speaker 1: presented by Nerdwallen, Play Smart, Finance Harder. I'm jj Stankobitz,

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Speaker 1: joined again by Colts dot Com writer Amanda Foster, and

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Speaker 1: we're giving you all the last minute news, notes and

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Speaker 1: observations we have before they Colts host the undefeated Pittsburgh

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Speaker 1: Steelers on Sunday at Lucas Oil Stadium. As always, we'll

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Speaker 1: have injury updates and the most interesting things we learned

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Speaker 1: in the locker room this week. Let's get the podcast started,

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Speaker 1: all right, Amanda. On Friday, the Colts ruled out two players,

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Speaker 1: defensive end Quitty Pay with a quad and cornerback Kennymore

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Speaker 1: the second with a hip injury. Both those players exited

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Speaker 1: Friday our last week's game against the Bears with their injuries,

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Speaker 1: so filling in for Quitty Pay this seems like another

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Speaker 1: opportunity for Layatu Latu to play quite a bit in

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Speaker 1: this game.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I mean, I think and you've kind of

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Speaker 2: got on the rundown of it being an important game

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Speaker 2: for law too. I mean, especially with Quitty not playing,

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Speaker 2: it is important, but it would have been just as

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Speaker 2: important for a lot too if Quitty was in there,

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Speaker 2: and I think that we could have seen an increased

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Speaker 2: level of play from lat two even if they were

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Speaker 2: both out there together. I don't know how much necessarily

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Speaker 2: that would have have changed necessarily because there is a

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Speaker 2: lot of trust in law too. And you know, now

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Speaker 2: that everybody has seen what he can do once, like

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Speaker 2: he wants to do again. He wants to build off

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Speaker 2: the same exactly exactly, and he would have done that regardless,

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Speaker 2: but it is it could be a very big game

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Speaker 2: for him now that we know that Quitty won't play.

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Speaker 1: Right, I mean, and Taekwon lewis also being on the

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Speaker 1: injury report. He's got a calf and a wrist, so

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Speaker 1: that that also feeds into it where you know Taekwon's

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Speaker 1: he's not He wasn't ruled out today, so that's good, yes,

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Speaker 1: but we don't know exactly what his status is going

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Speaker 1: to be. That's still is kind of a little bit

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Speaker 1: up in the air. So for for the Colts, yeah,

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Speaker 1: this is probably a game anyway that Lattu was going

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Speaker 1: to play a little bit more of a role in.

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Speaker 1: But I mean, you're absolutely right, like you want him

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Speaker 1: to start stacking on it now. Okay, Hey, you got

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Speaker 1: a strip sack in a big moment, how do you

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Speaker 1: build on it? And defending the run in this game

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Speaker 1: is going to be big. Pittsburgh wants to run the

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Speaker 1: football with Najee Harris and Justin Fields out of that

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Speaker 1: backfield Cordero Patterson, so stopping the run is going to

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Speaker 1: be very, very important. It's going to be even more

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Speaker 1: important if lat two's in there, because we've mostly seen

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Speaker 1: him come in on kind of obvious passing situations this year.

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Speaker 1: So big game for a lot too, big game for

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Speaker 1: Dio Dangbo again, who is as well, who has been

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Speaker 1: playing pretty well lately all right for the Colts with

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Speaker 1: Kenny Moore the second already a depleted secondary. Amanda chrys

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Speaker 1: Lamns did return to practice on Friday. He's kind of

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Speaker 1: your your backup nickel there for Kenny. But how can

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Speaker 1: you see this Colts cornerback situation playing out in this game.

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Speaker 2: That's a good question, and I really am not entirely

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Speaker 2: sure what to expect and what to think. We talked

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Speaker 2: about when Juju Brentz was first when he first was

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Speaker 2: remember Dallas talking in the locker room about how he

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Speaker 2: felt like he was ready and he wanted to prove

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Speaker 2: himself and everything. We saw Jalen Jones come out and

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Speaker 2: make a big splash last Sunday. So there's no question

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Speaker 2: that there's talent in the cornerback room and in the

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Speaker 2: makes it hard to think of kind of how you're

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Speaker 2: know how they could go about doing that, because you're

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Speaker 2: not going to just fill somebody in and get the

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Speaker 2: same results that you would get from Kenny.

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Speaker 1: Right. What I want to see here is, you know, okay,

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Speaker 1: is it going to be If Lamon's is able to play,

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Speaker 2: You don't want to move Jalen from where he is

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Speaker 1: Out, right, Yeah, and Jalen's mostly an outside guy exactly.

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Speaker 1: You know, he's probably not much of a Nickel. We're

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Speaker 1: going to get to Jalen ya really good story on him.

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Speaker 1: But if Lemn's is limited or he can't play, I

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Speaker 1: in there against the run. The Colts have already started

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Speaker 1: to go more of Jalen Carlies on the field. Do

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Speaker 1: you see more three linebackers out there with Franklin's speed

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Speaker 2: Especially if Pittsburgh is going to try to run the ball,

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Speaker 2: which we think that which.

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Speaker 1: I think that they are absolutely And you know, discipline

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Speaker 1: of yards on the ground. Yeah. A couple of guys

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Speaker 1: a neck. The Colts offensive line has been really really

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Speaker 1: good this year, Amanda, Yep, like top three in the

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Speaker 1: That's not realistic to expect starters to play every single

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I don't see how being backups to

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Speaker 2: we heard about that with Anthony Richardson being hurt last year,

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Speaker 2: I'm sure the younger guys are taking everything they possibly can.

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Speaker 1: That's something that Tanner Borderlini told me during the preseason

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Speaker 1: that he thought it was really not like normal almost

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Speaker 1: hard to play every single snap. Yeah, what Quentin Nelson

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Speaker 1: know Freeland had his moments, but like going against t J. Watt,

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Speaker 1: Watt exactly, there's a reason why I brought him up.

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Speaker 1: Those guys, those guys, for the most part, like held

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Speaker 2: That's that's the thing, going back to the cornerbacks and

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Speaker 1: So I also think that's why, like this team, Yeah

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Speaker 1: they're one and two, but they haven't lost games by

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Speaker 1: But like, the Colts are not getting blown out thirty

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Speaker 2: They're not getting they're not getting embarrassed.

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Speaker 1: Right, They're not getting embarrassed. We've seen some teams that

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Speaker 1: has not happened to them this year. All right, let's

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Speaker 1: talk about a couple of interesting things we heard in

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Speaker 1: the story you wrote on Jalen Jones. It's up on

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Speaker 1: colts dot com, went up on Friday. I said this

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Speaker 1: to you when you were talking about writing it. You're

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Speaker 1: about the vets in Jalen Jones's life.

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Speaker 2: Yep.

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Speaker 1: And that has multiple meanings for him.

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Speaker 2: And for you meetings and for me. Yeah, no, it was.

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Speaker 2: I mentioned this to you in wanting to write about Jalen,

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Speaker 2: about how after the game on Sunday, he had talked

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Speaker 2: about how he had this love for defense and he

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Speaker 2: grew up playing on both sides of the ball. He

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Speaker 2: I kind of went into the locker room on Wednesday thinking,

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Speaker 2: And I asked him about that. He gave a great answer.

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Speaker 2: But then we started talking because I was doing some

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Speaker 2: said that both of his parents were in the Navy.

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Speaker 2: Both of my parents were also in the navy. That's

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Speaker 2: how they met. They were not in the navy. When

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's gonna be a test for the Colts this

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Speaker 2: For the Colts. No, no questionable calls I would prefer

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