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Speaker 1: talking cold san recapping the action day sixty two yards. Now.

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Speaker 1: take on the Raptors at Gamebridge Fieldhouse. Until then, we're

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Speaker 1: talking Colts football for the next hour. We got a

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Speaker 1: lot planned per usual tonight coming up. We'll be joined

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Speaker 1: by interim head coach Jeff Saturday, and former Colts Rick

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Speaker 1: Fintury and Joe Ritz will join the show as well,

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Speaker 1: starting on the next segment. Unfortunately, Sunday was more of

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Speaker 1: the same for the Colts. They fell to the Giants

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Speaker 1: thirty eight to ten weeks seventeen, as it marked their

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Speaker 1: sixth straight loss and drops the Colts down to four

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Speaker 1: eleven one on the season. Colts got off to an

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Speaker 1: early three to nothing lead thanks to a forty nine

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Speaker 1: the Giants then responded and ripped off thirty one straight points.

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Speaker 1: In fact, they outscored the Colts twenty four to nothing

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Speaker 1: on third down, and Giants linebacker Landon Collins picked off

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Speaker 1: hard on the football. Their cart came out for foals initially,

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Speaker 1: return and second year quarterback Sam Ellinger played the remainder

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Speaker 1: roughest days of the season. The Giants scored over thirty

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Speaker 1: sensational game. He was nineteen for twenty four, passing for

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Speaker 1: Colts have now lost four games this season by at

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Speaker 1: and they will close out the season this coming Sunday

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Speaker 1: Colts analyst Rick Van Terry and Joe Wrights will join

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Speaker 1: always do, coming up with Rick and Joe and also

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Speaker 1: in just a bit with interim head coach Jeff Saturday.

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Speaker 1: those as we can tonight, and per usual, Jeff Saturday,

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Speaker 1: and Jeff, I appreciate the time as always. And Daniel Jones,

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Speaker 1: as we just said that offense, why was it difficult

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Speaker 1: finishing on a positive note always leaves a much better

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Speaker 1: up as a coach, for sure. That's Jeff Saturday. Let's

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Speaker 1: go to a handful of fan questions before we close

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Speaker 1: out here with you, Jeff. Um again, if you have

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Speaker 1: a question for Jeff Saturday every Monday night, hashtag Colts

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Speaker 1: Roundtable on Twitter is the best way to do that

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Speaker 1: But it's it's like that, when the guy goes down,

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Speaker 1: How is New Year's with you and your family? Did

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Speaker 1: and Joe, we're going back to the jukebox. Rick by request,

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Speaker 1: I know you had this after the game. We're playing

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Speaker 1: the name that tune. We're bringing it back song titles

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Speaker 1: that sum up the Colts at the present time. Get

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

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Speaker 1: one oh seven five. The fan. Here's Matt Taylor, the

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Speaker 1: Voice of the Colts. Welcome back again. Colts Round Table

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Speaker 1: across the Midwest. With Rick Venturry and Joe Right, I'm

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Speaker 1: Matt Taylor. We're going back to name that tune. Joe,

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Speaker 1: you're ready to go. I've got a feeling we're gonna

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Speaker 1: stump you. Oh for three. I think you're going here.

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Speaker 1: You know I'm a music aficionado. Out here, I'm ready,

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Speaker 1: No Chancey, We're going for round two. Have named that tune?

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Speaker 1: We did this, of course, a couple of weeks ago,

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Speaker 1: and it's time to identify the present state of the

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Speaker 1: Colts with some more song titles. I'll turn up the

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Speaker 1: jukebox and you guys guess the song title. Here we go,

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Speaker 1: song number one? Where have all the Flowers Gone? Where

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Speaker 1: have all the Gone? A little bit of a slow

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Speaker 1: saw Back in the day writing Rick Venturi's Wheelhouse when

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Speaker 1: he was what like fifteen to seventeen years old. Here,

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Speaker 1: Ricky got this one. I do I do? All right?

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Speaker 1: Where have all the flowers gone? That's right, that's right,

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Speaker 1: you know, you know basically that was oh my god.

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Speaker 1: And no, I was a little bit older. Actually that's

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Speaker 1: the sixties. That's when I was headed and you know

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Speaker 1: that's when I was basically wearing the headband. You were, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: this is fist, fist in the air. This was one

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Speaker 1: of the early protest, early protest songs back into sixties. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, and uh, you know Peter, Paul and Mary.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it was it's covered by everyone, but those

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Speaker 1: were the you know, where have all the flowers gone?

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Speaker 1: And when I thought, when I when I thought about this,

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Speaker 1: and I'm one of the one of the verses in there.

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Speaker 1: It goes from flowers to women to soldiers and where

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Speaker 1: have they all gone? And finally it's they've gone to

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Speaker 1: graveyards every one, And I thought, yeah, you know, we've

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Speaker 1: pretty much has gone to the graveyard. Really, And you know,

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Speaker 1: I think it really all started after Christmas. I think

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Speaker 1: that four Games Swing. I think the meltdown against the

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Speaker 1: Raiders here, who were a representative team. But then the

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Speaker 1: unexpected upset at Jacksonville. Then we come back with expectations,

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Speaker 1: but we tied Houston, you know, which is like a

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Speaker 1: loss for us, and then we lose to Jacksonville again

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Speaker 1: and get it, get our butts kick, And essentially it's

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Speaker 1: like losing to Jacksonville twice in three weeks. And I

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Speaker 1: think that that's set the table for Frank. I don't

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Speaker 1: think there's any question about I think that the I'm

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Speaker 1: sure that the Jim at that point had lost confidence

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Speaker 1: in Frank in that respect. And then the rest of

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Speaker 1: it was just waiting to happen, you know, losing to

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Speaker 1: Tennessee twice, which meant they swept us, you know, and

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Speaker 1: then the embarrassment at New England. It was just a

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Speaker 1: matter of time. And then we make the coaching change,

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Speaker 1: you know, which is chaotic, and you really bring in

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Speaker 1: a non coach to be the coach. You're forced to

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Speaker 1: elevate basically an intern to call the plays, um, you know,

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Speaker 1: and so you know, and then we have the quarterback controversy,

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Speaker 1: you know, we have the carousel. We go from you know,

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Speaker 1: you go, we go from Brian, we go to to

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Speaker 1: the young kid, um you know, Ellinger, then we go

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Speaker 1: back to Ryan, and then somehow, some way, somebody dreams

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Speaker 1: up that we're gonna win with Foals, you know, And

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Speaker 1: I'll get into that later when we get into Ellinger.

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Speaker 1: But I mean, so it's really it really turned to chaos. Um.

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Speaker 1: You know, right in the middle of the season. It

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Speaker 1: went from a downward slide to total chaos. And that's

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Speaker 1: basically where we are. And I just think we've lost

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Speaker 1: our way, totally totally lost our identity. I mean, I

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Speaker 1: have no idea who we are on offense. I did

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Speaker 1: know a year ago. I have no idea what we

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Speaker 1: are now. I do like Moss, you know, I do

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Speaker 1: like I do like Sam Ellinger, and I do like Woods.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I you know, I like those guys for

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Speaker 1: sure as young players. But we have no identity run passed.

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Speaker 1: We have no real passing game identity at all. Defensively,

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Speaker 1: you know, we've really lost that too, where you know,

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Speaker 1: we're so vanilla and over time it just it just

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Speaker 1: really really kills us. And again the you know, all

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Speaker 1: the things that we talked about, the turnover ratio, we've

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Speaker 1: gone from first in the league to last. Our red

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Speaker 1: zone offense and defense is terrible. In our fourth quarter

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Speaker 1: offensive defense is terrible. So you know, I think it's

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Speaker 1: been emerging, it's been chaos has helped it. I think

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Speaker 1: it's been for coaching in spots, you know. I think

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Speaker 1: it's obviously talent deficiencies. I think we definitely overrated our

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Speaker 1: football team. I'm guilty of that as well. And we

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Speaker 1: didn't compensate in certain situations for our weaknesses. And like

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Speaker 1: I said, we just like I said, I think we

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Speaker 1: just lost our way along the way. There you go,

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Speaker 1: that's Rick Venturi. We're playing Name that tune here on

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Speaker 1: Colts Roundtable Live. Joe WiM's the last time you dialed

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Speaker 1: up some Peter, Paul and Mary on the old iPod.

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Speaker 1: You know, I'd say, I like all those three really

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Speaker 1: good saints. I don't know that I listen to their

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Speaker 1: music though, good disciples, hell of a good disciple that Peter,

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Speaker 1: no doubt. But when you talk about where all the

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Speaker 1: flowers are gone, I mean there's none left on the

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Speaker 1: on the rosebush. And I think, again, you know, not

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Speaker 1: to belabor the point, but the two biggest things I

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Speaker 1: think are really just the team culture right now, right

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Speaker 1: I think really isn't a crisis mode. And then I

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Speaker 1: think lack of identity, especially offensively because special teams has

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Speaker 1: been really good at times, sofwid all year, defense has

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Speaker 1: been you know, up and down, and they've struggled here

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Speaker 1: as of late. And a lot of that too is

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Speaker 1: you know, our offense not giving them advantageous positions, but

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Speaker 1: our lack of offensive identity. And going back to something

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Speaker 1: Coach talked about, when you turn on and watch the NFL,

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Speaker 1: the modern NFL, what you see are quarterbacks like Jones

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Speaker 1: and Pickett and Herbert and not that necessarily are going

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Speaker 1: to be the Jalen Hurts types or fields that are

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Speaker 1: running for one hundred yards of game. I actually don't

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Speaker 1: think that's a good long term solution you're seeing in Baltimore.

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Speaker 1: You know they've got a great team, but when Lamar

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Speaker 1: Jackson's out for a month, you really struggle. But I

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Speaker 1: just think the lack of mobility and explosive playmaking from

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Speaker 1: our quarterback position has really just hindered us all season long.

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Speaker 1: And you coach mentioned, you know, the QB carousel we're

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Speaker 1: mixing up there, but you know, clearly we have to

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Speaker 1: find a long term answer at that position because that's

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Speaker 1: what you got to build your franchise along, no doubt

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Speaker 1: about all right, that's Joe writes with Rick vent Terry.

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Speaker 1: I'm Matt Taylor. We're playing Name that Tune. This is

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Speaker 1: Colts Round Table Live here on ninety three five and

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Speaker 1: one oh seven five the fan. Let's pump another quarter

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Speaker 1: into the jukebox. Let's go Name that tune number two.

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Speaker 1: Play one for all time's sake, play as Time goes by.

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Speaker 1: You must remember this, just the keys. I mean, this

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Speaker 1: is the classic of the classic Joe rights. You got

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Speaker 1: this one? Is this in your wheelhouse at all? What

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Speaker 1: do you got? It's not? I know. It's from Casablanca,

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Speaker 1: which oh yeah, that'll out yeah times that's the number

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Speaker 1: one movie, right of hyeah. Yeah, but no. But in

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Speaker 1: terms of the song, as Time Goes By, play it

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Speaker 1: against Sam? Is that the right song there? Yeah? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you just had Shazam up during that. I know what

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Speaker 1: you were doing. You had the iPhone out, you had

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Speaker 1: Shazam going because there's no way you're pulling out as

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Speaker 1: Time Goes By from the Casa Blanca soundtrack. But that's

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Speaker 1: exactly what it is. Man. This song came out in

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Speaker 1: the nineteen thirties, made famous for its use in Casablanca

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Speaker 1: nineteen forty two. Play it again, Sam, that was the

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Speaker 1: line in the movie from Casablanca. That's because Sam Ellinger,

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Speaker 1: He's gonna play it again. Uh, Joe, I could describe

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Speaker 1: Sam ellinger season, but I don't have that much time

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Speaker 1: because it's been a wild, wild ride for him, you know,

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Speaker 1: coming in as the number three, then the number two,

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Speaker 1: then the number one, then back in fourth and all around.

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Speaker 1: He's now gonna get his third start, you know, we

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Speaker 1: do know that. Jeff Saturday announced that today he's going

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Speaker 1: to start for the third time this season in Week

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Speaker 1: eighteen against the Houston Texans. What do you make of

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Speaker 1: Sam Ellinger's second year in the NFL with the Colts

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Speaker 1: and his progress towards the Colts getting more intel on

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Speaker 1: him and deciding if he can be part of that

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Speaker 1: quarterback room next season in twenty twenty three. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: think in hindsight, if you knew you were sitting here

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Speaker 1: at four eleven and one going into the last game,

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Speaker 1: you probably would have liked to seem Ellinger more, just

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Speaker 1: to know because really he's had you know, two and

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Speaker 1: a half games of action. He's going to get three

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Speaker 1: and a half here coming up against Houston, But you'd

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Speaker 1: like to know kind of what you've got long term

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Speaker 1: in Sam and I think he's a guy that's come

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Speaker 1: a long way from year one to two, especially in

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Speaker 1: passing the ball. You just see he's got a lot

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Speaker 1: more velocity on his throws than he had after year one.

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Speaker 1: I really question can he make all the NFL throws?

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Speaker 1: But he just hasn't had enough time to really show

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Speaker 1: what he can do. And hopefully you can put together

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Speaker 1: a good six team minutes here, but obviously you got

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Speaker 1: to start thinking of you the Colts, what is Ellinger?

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Speaker 1: What do we really think we have in him? And

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Speaker 1: how does that factor into that long term because again,

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Speaker 1: you know, the biggest issue, you know, macro issue. We

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Speaker 1: talked about culture, etc. And that's most important, but micro

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Speaker 1: in terms of individual player and talent, it's got to

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Speaker 1: be in the quarterback. And so you really want to

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Speaker 1: know and maybe have a longer book on Sam than

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Speaker 1: you would have had as the season started. You know, again,

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Speaker 1: if you knew that you were sitting here right now

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Speaker 1: with kind of how the season's gone and Rick, even

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Speaker 1: with three games, well, the Colts know what they have

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Speaker 1: in Sam Ellinger by season's end just with three starts. No,

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Speaker 1: they may not, Matt, and to me, that is a

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Speaker 1: huge mistake. That does an absolutely huge mistake. You know,

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Speaker 1: basically we went to him there, you know, we went

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Speaker 1: to him, you know, basically in the middle of the

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Speaker 1: season with Frank. I thought he played very very well

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Speaker 1: against the Commanders. I mean, it wasn't his fault that

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Speaker 1: they scored ten points in four minutes. I mean he

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Speaker 1: wasn't in there defending McLaren. Who's who you know who

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Speaker 1: hit the walk off touchdown. I mean, he played extremely

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Speaker 1: well in the game. He got absolutely slaughtered in New England.

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Speaker 1: But my contention at the time was if that would

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Speaker 1: have been our two statues, Ryan or Foles, they'd instead

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Speaker 1: of nine sacks, they'd have had twenty sacks because Beliz

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Speaker 1: has just outschemed us and had basically attacked our weaknesses

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Speaker 1: and we had no chance whatsoever, I thought. And I

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Speaker 1: know it's after the fact and we can say all

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Speaker 1: that and we'll get to see it firsthand this week.

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Speaker 1: But he showed you again this week, even in a

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Speaker 1: short window. He showed your quick release, showed your poise,

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Speaker 1: basically accuracy. He ran the one zone read. That's what

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Speaker 1: that's what Joe's talking about. Kind of that the fringe guy,

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Speaker 1: not the Jalen Hurts, but a guy that has some

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Speaker 1: talent that can give you versatility. He runs at one

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Speaker 1: time for twelve year, twelve yards on that key down,

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Speaker 1: he comes out on a third and short, comes out

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Speaker 1: on a sprint pass, moves the pocket, and really his

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00:33:03,720 --> 00:33:06,360
Speaker 1: arm is fine this year. His arm, and I'm with Joe.

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Speaker 1: His arm a year ago was not good enough. But

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Speaker 1: working with House and whatever happened, his arm is fine.

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Speaker 1: There's no doubt about me. And I think that the

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Speaker 1: biggest mistake was after New England putting it all on

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Speaker 1: him and then going back. That was mistake number one.

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Speaker 1: But mistake number two is going with Folds. I could

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Speaker 1: never understand that. I couldn't understand that. In training camp,

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Speaker 1: I lobbied for Ellinger at the time. I've I've even

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Speaker 1: lobbied with them for with Ellinger to be at least

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Speaker 1: in the last few weeks as the changeup guy, kind

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Speaker 1: of what Driscoll does for Houston, come in and run

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Speaker 1: short yardage. Oh well, I'll tell you just what just

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Speaker 1: what Frank did with Jacobe Brissette. When Rivers was here,

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Speaker 1: he would you know, he went in there and effectively

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Speaker 1: ran short yardage and things like that. But you know

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Speaker 1: we couldn't come around. We couldn't get that. So you know,

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Speaker 1: I I say, in a way, shame on the offense,

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Speaker 1: the staff over there, or whoever makes that decision, because

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Speaker 1: you know, when Saturday tells me that Folds is our

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Speaker 1: best chance to win, I gotta look at him like

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Speaker 1: you better look at this again. I never believed. I

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Speaker 1: never bought that for a second. And the thing that

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Speaker 1: I say about Sam is I know. I know that

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Speaker 1: Sam will never be Jalen Hurts. He'll never be Patrick Mahomes.

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Speaker 1: He's not in that class and he may never ever

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Speaker 1: be a starter. But what I do see in him,

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Speaker 1: I see Ryan Tannehill traits and what I wanted to

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Speaker 1: know at the end of seventeen games, maybe we'll get

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Speaker 1: a little bit better look this Sunday is can he

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Speaker 1: be that? Can he be that Gardner? Minshew? Can he

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Speaker 1: be pretty? Can he be Heineke? Can he be a

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Speaker 1: legitimate backup quarterback when you get your franchise guy. That's

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Speaker 1: the question that we should be asking and answering and

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Speaker 1: I think that we made a huge but particularly when

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Speaker 1: we went the second time and we went back to

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Speaker 1: folds that will never understand, and I basically say shame

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Speaker 1: on you to the offensive staff. Colts Round Table Live

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Speaker 1: tonight here on ninety three five and one oh seven

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Speaker 1: five the Fan with Rick vent Terry and Joe. Right. So,

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Speaker 1: I'm Matt Taylor. We're having fun. We're trying to put

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Speaker 1: this season into perspective and play and name that tune,

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Speaker 1: some song titles that sum up where the Colts are

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Speaker 1: at right now, let's go name that two number three,

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Speaker 1: Fire up the juke bucks Square one. My latest clip,

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Speaker 1: rest you in on Me took a world of trouble,

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00:35:34,719 --> 00:35:38,040
Speaker 1: took the world of tears. It took a long time

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00:35:40,440 --> 00:35:43,080
Speaker 1: to get back here. Joe, I'm just gonna give you

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Speaker 1: a hint. You know I had to squeeze this guy

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Speaker 1: in here. He's my favorite guy. Somber Somber song on

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Speaker 1: the Somber Monday for the Colts. Even though you don't

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Speaker 1: probably know the song, you gotta know the boys. Come

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00:35:53,800 --> 00:35:56,280
Speaker 1: on now, I can get you there. We got Tom

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Speaker 1: Petty and I do know this. I do like Tom.

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Speaker 1: He's somewhere more in my era than the nineteen thirties

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00:36:01,719 --> 00:36:05,440
Speaker 1: Casa blanca, but cats a blanc. The song is a

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00:36:05,719 --> 00:36:08,960
Speaker 1: square one, square one, not a boy yeah, square one.

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Speaker 1: And I think that's very apropos just to kind of

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Speaker 1: where the Colts are at, because obviously, you know, I

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00:36:14,760 --> 00:36:16,880
Speaker 1: think this offseason is going to be met with just

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00:36:16,960 --> 00:36:19,799
Speaker 1: really brutal reality, right, and you have to really take

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Speaker 1: stock and where we are, brutally honest everywhere across the board.

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Speaker 1: And I do think in a lot of ways, you know,

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Speaker 1: you kind of got to go back to square one

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Speaker 1: in this franchise just because of the fall from Grace.

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Speaker 1: I was telling somebody this the other day. It's one

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Speaker 1: thing if you're a bad team and you know you're

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Speaker 1: going to be a bad team. It's another thing if

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Speaker 1: you have a bad season when you had really high

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Speaker 1: expectations like the Colts have had, and that's the hardest

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Speaker 1: pill to swallow. But when you look at this franchise

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Speaker 1: and you look at square one, there's a lot of

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Speaker 1: different issues to compound, and you know, for the first

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Speaker 1: time in a long time, the Colts are going to

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Speaker 1: have a top ten pick, and you think most likely

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Speaker 1: going to get a quarterback, and you know the Cults

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Speaker 1: are going to pick somewhere between four and six in

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Speaker 1: this draft, which which how it falls. Arizona is going

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Speaker 1: to a boat race by saying fran Denver might beat

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Speaker 1: the Chargers, especially because they've clinched and Russell Wilson, you know,

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Speaker 1: at home and he's had a lot of heat, has

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Speaker 1: his own issues. But in reality, you're gonna pick between

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Speaker 1: four and six, and some teams ahead of you, the

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Speaker 1: Bears they're not going to pick a quarterback, Cardinals aren't

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Speaker 1: going to pick a quarterback. So if you're the cultu,

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Speaker 1: you're going to have your chance to draft hopefully that

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Speaker 1: franchise guy. But again, it's it's not just about the

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Speaker 1: quarterback in about one position, even though that's the most important,

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of other issues with this franchise in

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Speaker 1: terms of the team. You know, that culture in the

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Speaker 1: locker room that I really think are going to have

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Speaker 1: to take a hard look at everywhere across the board.

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Speaker 1: You just have to do that in a season that

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Speaker 1: has gone like this one has. Yeah, you know, I'm

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Speaker 1: with Joe. It's really to me when you look at

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00:37:43,600 --> 00:37:46,560
Speaker 1: where we are, it's rock bottom. I don't care what

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Speaker 1: anybody says, you can try to spin your way out

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00:37:49,080 --> 00:37:51,360
Speaker 1: of it. This is rock bottom. And I'll give you

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Speaker 1: the numbers. Okay, you know, as a scoring offense, we're

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00:37:54,480 --> 00:37:58,120
Speaker 1: number thirty. As a scoring defense, we're twenty eight. We

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Speaker 1: are worst in the National Football number thirty two in

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00:38:01,840 --> 00:38:04,600
Speaker 1: turnover ratio, and we've talked about that all season long.

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Speaker 1: Plus fourteen number one from last year to minus thirteen,

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Speaker 1: number thirty two in three games. In three of the

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Speaker 1: last four games again, we've had thirty one unanswered, thirty

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Speaker 1: two unanswered, thirty three unanswered points plus throw in a

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Speaker 1: twenty to three loss to San Diego. So I mean,

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Speaker 1: what further focus do you have to see to realize

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Speaker 1: that we've hit bottom, that we have issues everywhere. And

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Speaker 1: so to me, if I'm advising Jimmy Jersey, I say

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Speaker 1: it's time for a total overhaul. That doesn't mean every

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Speaker 1: single person has to go, but every single person has

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Speaker 1: to be evaluated, and in many cases they have to go.

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Speaker 1: And I think you have to look at, as Joe said,

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Speaker 1: much more than just one thing. I think you have

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Speaker 1: to look at how your team is constructed, because it

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00:38:54,200 --> 00:38:58,240
Speaker 1: certainly isn't constructed very well. How your team is well coached.

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Speaker 1: Just make the comparison to this staff, and make the

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Speaker 1: comparison to the New York Giants, and then there has

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Speaker 1: become a cultural Listen, it's been a loss of confidence.

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Speaker 1: There's no question about that. They they may talk a

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00:39:11,320 --> 00:39:14,239
Speaker 1: good game, you know, but the lack of confidence is

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00:39:14,280 --> 00:39:17,440
Speaker 1: there and there isn't any doubt about it. So, I mean,

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Speaker 1: if there is a time to start over, it's right now.

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Speaker 1: This is rock bottom. I mean, like I said from Christmas,

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Speaker 1: it's four, it's three, it's I mean, it's four, thirteen

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Speaker 1: and one. That's who you are. If we lose, If

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00:39:31,719 --> 00:39:34,920
Speaker 1: we were to lose to Houston, we will absolutely have

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00:39:35,080 --> 00:39:38,319
Speaker 1: the worst division record in the AFC South. Even if

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Speaker 1: we beat them, we're going to tie at two three

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Speaker 1: and one in the division. So, I mean, for the

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Speaker 1: once proud Horseshoes, what is that but the bottom? Yeah,

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00:39:47,760 --> 00:39:50,400
Speaker 1: those are some sad songs here at the Honky Talk

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Speaker 1: on this Monday night in Central Indiana on January second.

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Speaker 1: But that's where we're at here with the Colts. All right,

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Speaker 1: coming up, We're gonna hit the pause button, but when

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Speaker 1: we return, take your questions. The mailbag segment is coming up. Next,

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Speaker 1: Table we're stacked up as always, got time for a couple.

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Speaker 1: Let's go to Matt's question first. He's asking Joe, outside

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Speaker 1: of quarterback next offseason, which we talked about, what's our

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Speaker 1: biggest need to write the ship And for me, good question, Matt.

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Speaker 1: I think it's game changers on third down and in

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Speaker 1: the red zone. When you turn on the NFL, you

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Speaker 1: could distill it down to third and five, third and seven,

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Speaker 1: or second and goal, third and goal, and what teams

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Speaker 1: and what guys are making plays. And to me, you know,

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Speaker 1: obviously we talked about the quarterback, but we need more

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Speaker 1: of those game changers on third down, either in the

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Speaker 1: passing game, defending the pass, rushing the quarterback, blocking for

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Speaker 1: the quarterback. You know, you look around the league and

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Speaker 1: all these teams are gonna be playing in the playoffs,

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Speaker 1: and I just look at the explosive game changers on

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Speaker 1: that third down and red zone, and that's an area

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Speaker 1: that we need to add more of this offseason, all right,

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Speaker 1: line as well. Let's go to next question part of

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Speaker 1: the mail bag. Here, he's asking Rick, why do we

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Speaker 1: have such a Why did we have such a tough

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Speaker 1: time against the rush yesterday? We've allowed over two hundred

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Speaker 1: yards three times this season and actually, now this is

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Speaker 1: me talking crunching the numbers, the Colts defense is giving

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Speaker 1: up on average Rick one hundred and fifty seven rushing

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Speaker 1: yards per game during this six game losing skid that

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Speaker 1: they're on right now. Yeah, And I think, first of all,

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Speaker 1: as far as the pure running game, I think it

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Speaker 1: really starts with our inability to have discipline on the edge.

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Speaker 1: We will run blindly to the ball and anything like

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Speaker 1: a quarterback zone read, anything like a counter speed anything.

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Speaker 1: If you look at the last few games, the tosses

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Speaker 1: but we are so undisciplined on the edge that we

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Speaker 1: we do not do a good job against running quarterbacks. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: Daniel Jones. Some of that was designed. I mean he

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Speaker 1: came out of there in a zone reads and we

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Speaker 1: something that he does a lot of. I mean we

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Speaker 1: you know, whether it's Piket or Hurts or even Dak Prescott.

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Speaker 1: I mean we have struggled, I mean terribly on the

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Speaker 1: edge with the quarterback. And then the other thing that

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Speaker 1: has happened to us. We have not done a good

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Speaker 1: job of shutting down quarterbacks who can scramble. I mean,

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Speaker 1: right off the bat, Jones has a big six shard

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Speaker 1: run for a first down. We really lacked discipline in rush.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes we have three to one, one to one to

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Speaker 1: one side, we open up big seams. We don't have

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Speaker 1: good rush plans in that regard, and then we never blitz.

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Speaker 1: If you bring five, if you bring six, you're gonna

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Speaker 1: stop that. But we just haven't done a good job.

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Speaker 1: Quarterbacks historically have killed us with their feet, both on

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Speaker 1: designed run and either extension scrambles or extension throws. Again,

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Speaker 1: that's Rick Venturian. Joe writes tonight, this is Colts Roundtable

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Speaker 1: time out. We're up against it a little bit. When

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Speaker 1: talk about the regular season finale, Week number eighteen and

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Speaker 1: Colts playoff situation. Obviously not going to miss are going

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Speaker 1: to miss the postseason for the sixth time in eight years.

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Speaker 1: One game left, the Houston Texans come to town. It's

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Speaker 1: time now for the closing arguments with Rick Venturry and

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Speaker 1: Joe Wrights and Joe before we close out. Has it

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Speaker 1: appeared to you, as a former player, is a guy

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Speaker 1: that's that's pretty in tune with what it takes to

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Speaker 1: compete at a high level in this league. Has it

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Speaker 1: appeared to the Colts have I hate to say this,

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Speaker 1: but have have they lightened up at all? Or would

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Speaker 1: you say that you're still seeing guys continuing to scratch

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Speaker 1: and claw in terms of the effort and the performance

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Speaker 1: out there on Sundays. No, I think that not to

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Speaker 1: a man, but as a whole, we have lightened up.

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Speaker 1: And I think really back to the second half of

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Speaker 1: that Vikings game and that debacle and since then, you know,

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Speaker 1: we haven't been the same team. Felt like we were

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Speaker 1: kind of broken there in that second half, and I

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Speaker 1: think that's been reflective of our three points, ten points

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Speaker 1: and you know, two blowouts over the last couple of weeks.

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Speaker 1: So we'll see you guys, got one more game going

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Speaker 1: against Houston, and it's always an odd feeling when you're

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Speaker 1: playing that last game of the season, you know neither

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Speaker 1: team is going to make it to the playoffs. It's

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Speaker 1: almost got a weird kind of feel to the ballgame.

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Speaker 1: And we'll we'll see how it goes on Sunday, no doubt,

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Speaker 1: all right, Rick. The Texans two thirteen and one. Obviously

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Speaker 1: they're on hard times, just like the Colts. They've lost

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Speaker 1: ten of their last eleven. They were killed by the

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Speaker 1: Jags thirty one to three. Interesting game in the sense

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Speaker 1: that it's two teams with bad records, it's trying to

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Speaker 1: close out the season, and you know, two fan bases

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Speaker 1: that would rather see their teams lose than win. It's

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Speaker 1: really weird. Actually, well you know, really they did get

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Speaker 1: blown out by the Jaguars, but that's that's a little

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Speaker 1: bit of an anomaly because the three weeks previous they

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Speaker 1: played their tails off. I mean, they had Dallas beat

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Speaker 1: they lost to Kansas City in otey, and they beat

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Speaker 1: the Titans. I mean, they're dangerous in that sense. And

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Speaker 1: this was the team that really began the tailspin, which

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Speaker 1: was the you know, the tie and the loss. So

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Speaker 1: you know, as Joe said, and you just said, in

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Speaker 1: a game like this, anything can happen, so you know,

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Speaker 1: you go there and expect the unexpected. Yeah, that's all

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Speaker 1: the time we've got tonight. Well said Rick Ventury and

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Speaker 1: Joe writes my thanks as well to Iterham head coach

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Speaker 1: Jeff's Saturday who joined in the first segment, and we've

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Speaker 1: got you covered all week long on the Colts heading

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Speaker 1: into the regular season finale. The Colts Official podcast is

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