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Speaker 2: busy tonight with you until seven o'clock unpacking the Colts

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Speaker 2: win over the weekend. The Colts knocked off the Texans

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Speaker 2: on Sunday thirty one to twenty to even their record

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Speaker 2: at one in one and snapped an eight game losing skid.

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Speaker 2: For the Colts dating back to last season. The Colts

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Speaker 2: are even through two games for the first time since

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Speaker 2: twenty nineteen, and they have a share of the AFC

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Speaker 2: South lead with Jacksonville and Tennessee. The Colts exploded offensively

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Speaker 2: in the first half, scoring twenty eight points in the

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Speaker 2: first two quarters, which is the most by an NFL

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Speaker 2: team this season. They blitzed out to an early fourteen

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Speaker 2: to nothing lead as Anthony Richardson capped off the first

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Speaker 2: drive of the game with an eighteen yard rushing touchdown.

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Speaker 2: The defense then recovered a strip sack on Houston's first drive,

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Speaker 2: and the very next play, Richardson again ran in his

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Speaker 2: second touchdown in the first quarter from fifteen yards out

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Speaker 2: to put the Colts up big early. However, Richardson would

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Speaker 2: wasn't feeling right. He's now in the NFL's concussion protocol

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Speaker 2: this week. But before he left, Richardson became the first

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Speaker 2: Colts rookie quarterback to rush for a touchdown in each

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Speaker 2: of his first two games. He's also the first Colts

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Speaker 2: player to log two rushing scores in the opening quarter

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Speaker 2: since Drin James in nineteen ninety nine, and he and

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Speaker 2: Dante Culpeper and Jack Thompson are the only quarterbacks in

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Speaker 2: NFL history with three plus rushing touchdowns in their first

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Speaker 2: two career games. Coming off the bench, veteran Gardner Minshew

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Speaker 2: took over the Colts offense and played incredibly well. He

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Speaker 2: completed nineteen of twenty three passes that's eighty three percent

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Speaker 2: for one hundred and seventy four yards with a touchdown,

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Speaker 2: and engineered scoring drives on his first three possessions. The

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Speaker 2: Colts running game was much better in Week two compared

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Speaker 2: to the opening game of the season, as the team

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Speaker 2: ran for one hundred and twenty six yards on twenty

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Speaker 2: three carries, including eighteen for eighty eight and a touchdown

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Speaker 2: from Zack Moss, who was the only Colts running back

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Speaker 2: to carry the ball on Saturday. Kylin Grantson was the

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Speaker 2: for the Colts. That came late in the first half,

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Speaker 2: The defense played awesome for the second straight week. They

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Speaker 2: fewest by a Colts opponent since Week four of the

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty one season. At Miami, linebacker Zire Franklin racked

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Speaker 2: one stops on the season, which are the most tackles

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Speaker 2: games of a season. Colts stay on the road coming

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Speaker 2: up in Week three, and now they get ready for

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Speaker 2: a stiff test coming up this weekend as they take

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Speaker 2: the Bengals on the road in Week two. As we said,

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Speaker 2: a very busy show tonight. We'll recap the Colts Week

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Speaker 2: two game in more detail coming up with Colts analysts

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Speaker 2: Rick Ventury and Joe Wrights. We're also taking your question

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Speaker 2: Roundtable again hashtag Colts round Table and we'll squeeze in

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Speaker 2: Shane Stiking, presented by Citizens Energy Group Coach Congratulations on

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Speaker 2: the win win number one as the head coach.

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Speaker 3: With the Indianapolis Colts.

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Speaker 2: What was that feeling like in the locker room you

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Speaker 5: Dude? It was. It was awesome.

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Speaker 6: Just all the hard work that's winning this thing, and

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Speaker 6: we all know it's it's really hard to win in

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Speaker 5: So yeah, it was really good. It was a really

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Speaker 2: I always like asking coaches this question. I mean, as

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Speaker 2: long as you've been doing this, how long can you

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Speaker 2: let a win feel good?

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Speaker 1: Like?

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Speaker 2: What do you allow yourself to how long do you

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Speaker 6: Myself personally, probably about three hour four hours.

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Speaker 5: That's it.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, and that's onto the next one. It's a it's

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Speaker 3: No, there's no doubt about that. You're exactly right, all right.

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Speaker 2: As we know, Anthony Richardson, he started the game, played

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Speaker 6: Gosh, you know, he started off hot, you know, throwing

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Speaker 5: Obviously, the first one was a nice, nice play.

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Speaker 3: Again.

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Speaker 2: I know you addressed the media earlier today, but for

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Speaker 5: Sure going forward.

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Speaker 2: Meanwhile, Gardner Minshew came in in the second half, right,

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Speaker 2: I should say, in a second quarter, and the offense

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Speaker 6: It was awesome, you know, to be able to score

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Speaker 6: a full game. But we were fishing on third downs,

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Speaker 5: It was some change left and.

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Speaker 6: We were playing normal football and then it kind of

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Speaker 2: You know, Minshew comes in, he completes eighty three percent

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Speaker 5: Do it right? You know what?

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Speaker 6: One thing that's really special about Gardner, He's a very

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Speaker 5: He sees it really well. He understands it.

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Speaker 3: And that's what he does.

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Speaker 2: A heck of a job of all right defense, especially

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Speaker 6: Grove was impressive inside there. He set the tone on

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Speaker 2: All right, let's take a few fan questions for Shane

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Speaker 2: Sticking before we close out here on this first segment again,

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Speaker 2: tweeting your questions every Monday night using hashtag Holds round Table.

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Speaker 3: Kurt is up first, coach.

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Speaker 2: He says, I read where you were really fired up

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Speaker 2: to call that fake reverse with that fake jet sweep

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Speaker 2: when Richardson ran it in. You've been scheming that up

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Speaker 2: on that play? And what made that situation the perfect

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Speaker 2: time to call it? And you're grinning over there.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you're excited.

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Speaker 6: I'm grinning because you know we put it in this

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Speaker 6: that past week. Yeah, And wrapped it a few times

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Speaker 5: Worked out good.

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Speaker 6: And pitt had a huge block there on the linebacker

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Speaker 5: So it was fun to see.

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Speaker 2: You know, that's you brought up something I wanted to

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Speaker 3: He's one of your best players on the team. There's

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Speaker 2: What happens when one of your best players has buy

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Speaker 6: On all play like that, it's huge obviously. You know,

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Speaker 6: Pittman kind of does it all for us. You know,

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Speaker 6: he's our blocker, he's our enforcer, you know, he's our

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Speaker 2: All right, Joe is asking coach, well, Kylon Grantson seemed

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Speaker 2: is asking what have you been most pleased with through

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Speaker 6: I think the effort, you know, the effort, the attitude,

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Speaker 3: All right. Last one coming from Chad.

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Speaker 3: Zach absolutely all right.

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Speaker 2: Coach again, congratulations on that first victory. Enjoy it. Give

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Speaker 2: I know it's hard. I know you've got a lot

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Speaker 2: this evening, Fellas, Welcome back week number two and Joe

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Speaker 2: good to see the Colts playing much better complimentary football.

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Speaker 4: Very good.

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Speaker 2: Rick will start with you. What stood out to you?

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Speaker 7: in terms of finding creative ways to get mismatches and

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Speaker 7: get some easy yards. And I separated this game into thirds.

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Speaker 4: First third.

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Speaker 7: Anthony Richardson thought he played really well. Obviously, he goes

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Speaker 7: out with a concussion. But Minshew comes right in back

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Speaker 7: to back touchdown drives. He's eleven to thirteen in the

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Speaker 7: first half. It's really nice. The game was over at halftime,

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Speaker 7: and then when we forced him to punt and got

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Speaker 7: the field goal. I know we let it a little

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Speaker 7: bit late, and Coach, I agree with you. That's a

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Speaker 7: little bit of human nature and a little bit of

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Speaker 7: playing a little bit more conservatively and playing the clock.

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Speaker 7: But I mean the game was over with five minutes

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Speaker 7: left in the third quarter. We're up thirty one to ten,

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Speaker 7: and I just like, how our overall attitude. If I

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Speaker 7: get something one thing, We brought the fight to Houston.

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Speaker 7: We came and punched him in the mouth, and I

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Speaker 7: thought Shane really had the guys ready to go from

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Speaker 7: a schematic standpoint, but also from an emotional standpoint to

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Speaker 7: go down and take the fight to Houston. What you

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Speaker 2: Yeah, great point about the identity of the Colts under

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Speaker 2: Shane Steike and coming out there week number two. Colts

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Speaker 2: the tail of the tape with Rick Venturi and Joe

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Speaker 2: Wrights and their initial reactions after the Colts win in

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Speaker 2: Week two over the Houston Texans, again evening up their

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Speaker 2: record at one to one on the early season. After

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Speaker 2: this quick time out, we're gonna come back with a

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Speaker 2: segment titled That's more like It and talk about the

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Speaker 2: areas the Colts improved upon week two compared to week

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Speaker 2: All right, fell, it's time now for a segment we

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Speaker 2: call that's more like it. Looking at the areas the

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Speaker 2: Colts improved in in week one, or I should say

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Speaker 2: in week two.

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Speaker 3: Can to week number one?

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Speaker 2: Let's talk about the running game. After the Colts and

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Speaker 2: their running backs last week accounted for just twenty five

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Speaker 2: yards against the Jaguars, they came storming back one hundred

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Speaker 2: and twenty six yards as a team on twenty three carries.

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Speaker 2: Anthony Richardson rushed three times for thirty five yards before

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Speaker 2: he had to exit with that concussion. But Zach Moss

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Speaker 2: was the only running back to run the ball on

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Speaker 2: Sunday for the Colts. He had eighty eight yards on

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Speaker 2: eighteen carries. Also found the end zone and the Colts

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Speaker 2: running game with Moss, who averaged nearly five yards per carry,

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Speaker 2: looking really really good in week number two. Mister Joe Wrights,

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Speaker 2: that's more like it. What was the difference in the

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Speaker 2: running game this week compared to last week?

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Speaker 7: A few things stood out to me. One, the score

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Speaker 7: dictates the game. When you get up fourteen to nothing,

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Speaker 7: you're deciding when you run the ball.

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Speaker 4: And I liked it. We did some up tempo.

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Speaker 7: I thought we had their D line tired in the

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Speaker 7: first half, and so I liked just.

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Speaker 4: Overall our philosophy on running the ball.

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Speaker 7: I thought we did a good job of spreading them out,

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Speaker 7: getting some lighter boxes and then credits to the old

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Speaker 7: line game ball to the old line.

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Speaker 4: For sure.

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Speaker 7: I thought we did a better job Matt on our

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Speaker 7: combo blocks, meaning we're double team in a big defensive

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Speaker 7: lineman going up to the linebacker and still scraping off

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Speaker 7: and getting the linebacker.

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Speaker 4: We didn't do a great job of that. Week one.

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Speaker 4: We corrected that.

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Speaker 7: And then I think you saw Zach Moss first and foremost,

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Speaker 7: he held onto the football two fumbles last week from

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Speaker 7: the running back position, we had zero, and I think

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Speaker 7: you saw Zack Moss his power.

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Speaker 4: I think his.

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Speaker 7: Lower body, churn, the ability to take a one in

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Speaker 7: two yard gain and press it into four and five.

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Speaker 7: That wears on a defense and that fires up an

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Speaker 7: offensive line when you have a pretty good block play

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Speaker 7: and all of a sudden he's scrapping and clawing and

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Speaker 7: fighting and getting two three more yards. But really, credit

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Speaker 7: to Zach Moss for really having no preseason, not playing

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Speaker 7: at all, and basically to come in and play every snap.

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Speaker 7: He was solid in pass protection too. Yeah, credit goes

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Speaker 7: to the O line and credit goes to Zach Moss.

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Speaker 7: Game balls of those guys for sure.

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Speaker 2: How about Zach Moss Rick? That is he now the

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Speaker 2: Bellcown running back. I know it's a short sample size

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Speaker 2: or a small sample size, but you know, at the

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Speaker 2: beginning of the season, without Jonathan Taylor, it was going

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Speaker 2: to be running back by committee, the running back by

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Speaker 2: committee approach.

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Speaker 3: Should that be over?

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Speaker 2: After Zach Moss got every touch yesterday, that should be over.

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Speaker 8: That should be over. First of all, I'm with Joe,

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Speaker 8: I thought, you know, first of all, I do think

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Speaker 8: the Texans really helped us out. They didn't play a

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Speaker 8: bear defense until the last series. It looked to me

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Speaker 8: like they didn't watch any film. But that's stubbornness and

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Speaker 8: doing only what you do. They gave us that over

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Speaker 8: front every single down, and we just pounded that bubble

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Speaker 8: like I talked about, really good. From that standpoint, I

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Speaker 8: give the offensive line a ton of credit. Again, I

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Speaker 8: totally agree with Joe. If you look at our combo

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Speaker 8: blocks and pushing them off the line of scrimmage, you

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Speaker 8: know we really did bang it out in there. Now

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Speaker 8: let's go to Moss. Moss is definitely he's the banger,

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Speaker 8: you know, particularly if we can keep Richardson healthy. Richardson

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Speaker 8: will stretch it to the outside and what you need

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Speaker 8: is an inside banger, okay, And he is an inside banger,

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Speaker 8: very very impressive. And then I would only add one

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Speaker 8: thing to it. Pittman and Granson are really good space

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Speaker 8: blockers when you get Richardson on the edge. I mean

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Speaker 8: as Pittman absolutely declete, it decleted the inside defender on

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Speaker 8: that naked and then Grantson has been really good leading

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Speaker 8: him down the seam. So you know, all those things

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Speaker 8: I think were big factors and getting so much better.

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Speaker 2: All right, that's more like it with Rick Venturi and

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Speaker 2: Joe Wright, sim Matt Taylor. This is Colts Round Table

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Speaker 2: live tonight here on ninety three to five and one

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Speaker 2: oh seven five the fan. Let's go to red zone,

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Speaker 2: red zone on both sides of the football. The Jaguars

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Speaker 2: were three for three in the red zone last week,

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Speaker 2: but the Texans on Sunday, when they were on offense,

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Speaker 2: they were just one for four, scoring touchdowns inside the

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Speaker 2: twenty yard line. By the way, the defense finished the

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Speaker 2: game with a lot of impact and just like we

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Speaker 2: said last week, sixteen hurries, nine hits, six sacks. The

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Speaker 2: sack total, by the way for the Colts was the

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Speaker 2: most since Week fifteen of the twenty twenty two season

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Speaker 2: at Minnesota. The Colts only allowed fifty two rushing yards,

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Speaker 2: the fewest by a Coult's opponent since Week four, twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty one at Miami. But the Colts were four for

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Speaker 2: four rick on offense after going one for three in

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Speaker 2: the red zone in week number one. So the Colts

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Speaker 2: in the red zone on both sides of the ball,

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Speaker 2: that's more like it. What was better in the red

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Speaker 2: zone in week two compared to Week one?

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Speaker 8: Well, I think you know in week two. First of all,

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Speaker 8: you know, I've always said there's four things that you

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Speaker 8: have to be good at and sometimes you can and

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Speaker 8: sometimes you just don't have the skill. Number One, if

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Speaker 8: you have a running quarterback that can run designers in

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Speaker 8: that red zone, it makes all the difference in the world.

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Speaker 8: We saw that with Jalen Hurtz. Number Two, you want

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Speaker 8: to be able to have your best runner run our

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Speaker 8: best play that day and just simply execute it. Number three,

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Speaker 8: a fifty to fifty ball guy on the outside and

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Speaker 8: then inside reliable guys to run options in different routes.

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Speaker 8: And basically we got three out of four of them Sunday.

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Speaker 8: We didn't need any more. But you know, number one,

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Speaker 8: we've already chronicled that. You know, the to the Naked,

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Speaker 8: you know the naked and the quarterback draw were phenomenal.

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Speaker 8: I mean when I when I saw Richardson take it

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Speaker 8: off there, I had the visions of Hurts against us

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Speaker 8: last year. It was just a carbon copy. And I

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Speaker 8: know from a defensive standpoint how difficult that is. And

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Speaker 8: those things are going to happen in the red zone.

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Speaker 8: You're not gonna waste your quarterback out on the field.

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Speaker 8: You're gonna run them in the red zone, and you're

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Speaker 8: gonna run them in the fourth quarter when you need

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Speaker 8: to play. But I mean that was just a parting

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Speaker 8: of the ways Kelly and Froes did a real good

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Speaker 8: job on that sea block pull it around. I liked

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Speaker 8: really that.

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Speaker 4: I thought.

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Speaker 8: Then when he wasn't in the game, we actually pounded

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Speaker 8: in there, you know, with Moss, and again we ran

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Speaker 8: our best runner on our best play that day, which

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Speaker 8: was the zone week against that overfront, we just blocked

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Speaker 8: the heck out of it and got it in there.

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Speaker 8: And then I think the reliable inside receivers and I

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Speaker 8: think we've just begun to fight. I'm going to get

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Speaker 8: into it with Downs, But then we threw the ball

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Speaker 8: to Granson, who's the other very reliable inside and he

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Speaker 8: just really made a play, So, you know, kind of

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Speaker 8: in the end. And it's the same way on defense,

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Speaker 8: it's will over skill down there. I mean, you have

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Speaker 8: to win in that situation. You have to want to win,

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Speaker 8: and you have to run your best players in their

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Speaker 8: best plays and execute. It's not a fazet finesse area.

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Speaker 8: It's an area where you have to absolutely execute.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I really liked what we did schematically, and we

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Speaker 7: had some great individual performances. Coach mentioned Downs, you know,

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Speaker 7: the touchdown that we threw to Grants and the play

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Speaker 7: before was third and seven. But downs for eleven yards

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Speaker 7: on third down mean downs is becoming a problem on

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Speaker 7: third down in terms of how hard he is to cover.

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Speaker 7: And you can see that security blanket, which I love

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Speaker 7: across the middle of the field. But to have an

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Speaker 7: eleven yard run in the red zone for a touchdown

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Speaker 7: and all that was, that was just a great block play.

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Speaker 7: They were a little bit tired and we just came

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Speaker 7: at him full speed ahead. And I really just think

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Speaker 7: schematically with Shane, he can do so many different things,

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Speaker 7: so many variations, different formations. But I liked about our

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Speaker 7: running attack as we just spread them out. If we're

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Speaker 7: going to them out and they're gonna leave a lighter

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Speaker 7: box and not go bear like coach said, have a bubble,

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Speaker 7: just run the ball. I've always thought that, you know,

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Speaker 7: I never really understood why coaches put you know, three

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Speaker 7: tight ends in there in jumbo and clog it up.

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Speaker 7: Hey spread them out, and that's what the Colts have

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Speaker 7: done forever. And if they give you a light box,

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Speaker 7: just go downhill, no messing around.

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Speaker 4: And I really really thought that after all of our struggles,

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Speaker 4: I think you really.

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Speaker 7: Saw Shane's imprints the most in terms of our four

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Speaker 7: successful touchdowns on four successful drives and just the creativity

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Speaker 7: he's gonna bring offensively, And keep in mind it's just

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Speaker 7: weak two right. That playbook is awful, thick, and I

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Speaker 7: know we'll continue to evolve with different plays, schemes, formations

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Speaker 7: and excited to where this offense can go, especially with

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Speaker 7: the production we're getting from a lot of different guys.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's more like it. That's what we're doing here

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Speaker 2: on Colts Round Table Live tonight on ninety three to

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Speaker 2: five and one oh seven five the Fan Again, that's

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Speaker 2: Joe Wright. Rick vent Turre's on the horn. I'm Matt Taylor.

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Speaker 2: Let's go to situational offense. We talked about the red zone.

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Speaker 3: They were four for four.

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Speaker 2: All of those touchdowns, by the way, came in the

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Speaker 2: first half for the Colts, but they didn't turn the

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Speaker 2: football over. Between Anthony Richardson and Gardner Minshew, they had

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Speaker 2: great ball protection and great ball placement. The decision making,

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Speaker 2: especially by Gardner Minshew, was just off the charts. Another

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Speaker 2: eighty percent completion percentage day for him, but a week

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Speaker 2: after converting just two of twelve on third down and

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Speaker 2: one for five on fourth down. In Week one, the

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Speaker 2: Colts were six for twelve and third down situations they

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Speaker 2: didn't allow us sack for the first time since Week

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Speaker 2: six last year against the Jacksonville Jaguars. I know, for

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Speaker 2: the most part, Joe, the Colts did a really good

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Speaker 2: job of staying out of third and long. We'll talk

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Speaker 2: about that in just a second, but being much more

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Speaker 2: efficient on third down and week number two, that's more

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Speaker 2: like it. What was the difference in being much more

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Speaker 2: successful on those money downs collectively?

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Speaker 7: It was a lot of things, Matt first off execution individually,

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Speaker 7: but I think you hit on it in terms of

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Speaker 7: we were good on first and second down, so we

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Speaker 7: weren't facing third and ten, third eleven all that.

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Speaker 2: They said, Yeah, just three third downs longer than seven

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Speaker 2: yards for the game, which I think that number. In

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Speaker 2: Week number one, they had half of their third down

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Speaker 2: conversions or half of their third down attempts were eight

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Speaker 2: yards or longer. So big difference there for sure.

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Speaker 7: And when it's third and four and five, and schematically

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Speaker 7: you got richardson back there, you got to count one

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Speaker 7: to two extra guys on the defensive side of the

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Speaker 7: ball for him taking off and running with it, and

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Speaker 7: then Minshew does such a good ball getting the ball

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Speaker 7: out quick. And then third down, I mean Josh Downs,

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Speaker 7: I mean, he is such a tough cover one on

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Speaker 7: one and he is so quick his shiftiness inside the slot.

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Speaker 7: I think he's going to be a guy that for

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Speaker 7: years to come. Defensive coordinators, Rick, I'll toss up to you,

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Speaker 7: they're gonna shut her thinking about how are you going

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Speaker 7: to cover him with Richardson's legs and that threat on

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Speaker 7: third down?

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Speaker 8: Yeah, absolutely, Joe, And you know, Matt, you hit on it.

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Speaker 8: And I'm like a broken record on that. The difference

718
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Speaker 8: in third and four, the difference in third and three

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Speaker 8: and four and third and eight nine in the National

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Speaker 8: Football League, that is his seven five per swing for

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Speaker 8: whoever has the advantage, and then your swing down is

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Speaker 8: that five to seven, And you're exactly right. And particularly

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Speaker 8: early in the game, our third downs were all in

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Speaker 8: that third and three variety, and then when we got

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Speaker 8: into a couple key third and six and sevens downs

726
00:32:17,720 --> 00:32:20,840
Speaker 8: had terrific plays. So I do think you know, again,

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Speaker 8: I've always said third down is the most talked about

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Speaker 8: down in pro football, but first down is the most

729
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Speaker 8: important down because it sets the table. When you're in

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Speaker 8: those third and three to four's, you can run very

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Speaker 8: difficult stuff. You get in a bunch route. We rub

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Speaker 8: for Pittman one time he's wide open. You run the

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Speaker 8: mesh routes, you run the crosses underneath, and the rubs

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Speaker 8: right off the bat. We hit Granson on a rub

735
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Speaker 8: coming across, you know, and all those things that are

736
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Speaker 8: really really the stacks. They're really difficult to sort out

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Speaker 8: and to stop. But I think the biggest plus coming

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Speaker 8: out of this thing, and not to be redundant. I

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Speaker 8: was redundant on the air, but it's downs. Downs is

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Speaker 8: a money guy. When that ball is third and five

741
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Speaker 8: to seven and that swing down, unless they double him,

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Speaker 8: he is going to be wide open. There was even

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Speaker 8: another time. The only time that Minshew struggled a little

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Speaker 8: bit was the one time he double clutched because I

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Speaker 8: don't think he realized that he would come out to

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Speaker 8: break that quick, and he was wide open for a

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Speaker 8: third and eight that we didn't convert. So I'm really

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Speaker 8: optimistic about that, And I'm gonna mention another guy one

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Speaker 8: of the you know, I'm really optimistic on three guys

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Speaker 8: that were. You know, we just didn't know that much

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Speaker 8: about you know, obviously number one is Moss coming back.

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Speaker 8: Number you know in one A is downs and then

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Speaker 8: the guy don't think you want to forget about man.

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Speaker 8: I'm telling you this guy can run the option, he

755
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Speaker 8: can run the stuff, and he catches everything. As Mallory,

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Speaker 8: I think he's kind of a forgotten guy. He had

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Speaker 8: a big play Sunday, but the third and the six

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Speaker 8: catch that he made was terrific in there. So I mean,

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Speaker 8: I think we're really really on the right track. And

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Speaker 8: then our offensive line to me is just so much

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Speaker 8: better skinadically and technically the way we're playing and we're

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Speaker 8: playing angry again. And I thought they did a really

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Speaker 8: good job of stunts. There was a couple there was

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Speaker 8: a blitz on the left side with a twist, and

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Speaker 8: Nelson just jagged, you know, I mean really particularly for Minshew.

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Speaker 8: I mean that thing was really pretty clean the whole way.

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Speaker 8: So it really wasn't surprising. All those factors that you

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Speaker 8: need to be good on third down were there.

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Speaker 4: No doubt.

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Speaker 2: to number one. Right out of the shoot here, Joe,

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Speaker 2: really good question, I think it was the first one submitted. Obviously,

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Speaker 2: with the news that's going on in quarterback, James is asking, Joe,

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Speaker 2: are you worried about how we're using Anthony Richardson in

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Speaker 2: the long run? Two games and he's had to leave

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Speaker 2: both games after taking shots outside the pocket?

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Speaker 3: What are your.

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Speaker 2: Thoughts on Anthony Richardson's usage and the run game long term?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it's a natural question.

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Speaker 5: One.

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Speaker 7: A lot of Colts fans are probably thinking through today.

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Speaker 7: Two games, he's had to leave both game. Obviously the concussion.

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Speaker 7: We'll see as he kind of goes through the protocol

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Speaker 7: this week and what that means for Sunday. But I

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Speaker 7: think for Richardson, it's a combination of two things. It's one,

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Speaker 7: how many times do you have them on design runs

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Speaker 7: and coach mentioned that you're saving those for the red

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Speaker 7: zone fourth and one, And then really the second one

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Speaker 7: is on you know the QB in terms of when

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Speaker 7: can you get down when is it smart to slide

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Speaker 7: and know that it's okay if it's third and seven

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Speaker 7: and it's fourth and three and you got to punt

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Speaker 7: the ball, that's an okay play in the NFL. And

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Speaker 7: then I think the other one is just the speed

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Speaker 7: and the physicality of NFL defenses. Obviously when he was

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Speaker 7: he's running against, and he's bigger than a lot of guys

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Speaker 7: are run against the NFL. But just the physicality of

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Speaker 7: the hits that you're facing on Sunday compared to Saturday afternoon,

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Speaker 7: I think that's probably been a little bit of an

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Speaker 7: adjustment for him. He didn't play a lot in the preseason,

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Speaker 7: and obviously in practice and all the joint practices, you're

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Speaker 7: not taking the shots. So I think he'll get used

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Speaker 7: to that as the season progresses. The next you know,

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Speaker 7: three four games, but obviously you don't want to see

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Speaker 7: him continue to take hit after hit because it's just

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Speaker 7: a numbers game and you're obviously playing the long game

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Speaker 7: with our franchise quarterback.

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Speaker 2: All right again, Joe Wright's right there. Rick Venturi's up next,

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Speaker 2: really good questions on the secondary Rick, so let's combine

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Speaker 2: both of them here. The first one is from Larry

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Speaker 2: What are the early returns on Darryl Baker Junior at cornerback?

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Speaker 2: It seemed like the Texans were picking on him at

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Speaker 2: times late in the game on Sunday, And then also

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Speaker 2: Cameron is saying, I feel good after the win, but

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Speaker 2: I don't like the fact that another team's top receiver

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Speaker 2: went over one hundred yards against our secondary. How worried

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Speaker 2: are you that we can't take another team's top option

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Speaker 2: away Rick in the secondary?

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Speaker 8: Well, I really empathize with the questions because they're really hard.

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Speaker 8: They're you know, and I'm one of those guys. You

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Speaker 8: if you're gonna go forward, we're gonna go back in

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Speaker 8: the deep end, and you really do have to self

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Speaker 8: what adjustments you do have to make. And it's very

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Speaker 8: obvious to me that people have more confidence they had

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Speaker 8: or less confidence that they can work on Flowers than

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Speaker 8: they can Baker. Really, in these first two games, a

873
00:39:19,960 --> 00:39:23,759
Speaker 8: lot of that offense is directed at Baker, And you know,

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Speaker 8: I think there's two things there I think, first of all,

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Speaker 8: we isolate him all day long, and it's gonna bite us.

876
00:39:30,520 --> 00:39:34,120
Speaker 8: It's just gonna bite us against good teams. You know,

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Speaker 8: we saw it somewhat against Ridley Collins had a really

878
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Speaker 8: good game. And you know, I do think that you

879
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Speaker 8: have to do some things to compensate, or you know,

880
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Speaker 8: you just can't be stubborn and play single high. Now,

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00:39:48,640 --> 00:39:52,360
Speaker 8: I thought Gus in the first half. In the first

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Speaker 8: half actually did a couple of things. He played some

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Speaker 8: cover too, not a lot, but he did. He had

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Speaker 8: a sprinkling in there of Cover two, which closes the corners,

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Speaker 8: and then had he played a couple and some of

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Speaker 8: it was in the red zone, but he played a

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Speaker 8: Cover eight, which is quarter quarter half of which they

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Speaker 8: really matched underneath. And I you know, I think all

889
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Speaker 8: of a sudden, that can change it. Plus the blitz

890
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Speaker 8: helps the corners. I've always thought that the rush. You

891
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Speaker 8: know that the corners and the rush were related, and

892
00:40:21,560 --> 00:40:24,399
Speaker 8: sometimes it's more important. But when you have the six

893
00:40:24,480 --> 00:40:26,960
Speaker 8: man blitz and you can get a guy there right away,

894
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Speaker 8: that ball has to come out. But I think we

895
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Speaker 8: are going to have to help him. I think he's

896
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Speaker 8: going to struggle if we leave him on an island.

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Speaker 8: I don't believe he is a guy that can hold

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Speaker 8: up on the island. And what you do is you

899
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Speaker 8: direct some coverages. Sometimes we'll say cover eight is quarter

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Speaker 8: quarter half, and what you say is the call would

901
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Speaker 8: be something like over eight to the field or over

902
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Speaker 8: eight to the left, and just give him some help

903
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Speaker 8: at times, you know, some double coverage help, or we

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Speaker 8: would say, you know, you know, just there's different ways

905
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Speaker 8: to direct the coverage. But I think you have to

906
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Speaker 8: tell the offense on the other side that he isn't

907
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Speaker 8: one on one all day, because I think if we

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Speaker 8: do that, the better teams that we play are going

909
00:41:14,520 --> 00:41:17,239
Speaker 8: to take enough advantage of that. I mean, even though

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Speaker 8: there was garbage yard at the end, we still gave

911
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Speaker 8: up a high percentage and over three hundred yards passing. Yeah,

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Speaker 8: you know, I mean this team got three field goals

913
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Speaker 8: a week ago. Let's let's tell it like it is.

914
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Speaker 8: I mean, from that standpoint with no offensive line. Now,

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Speaker 8: I am totally in agreement with the question about you know,

916
00:41:36,040 --> 00:41:39,560
Speaker 8: taking away a good wide receiver. I mean, if you

917
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Speaker 8: don't have that ability, and again, you know, I learned

918
00:41:43,600 --> 00:41:46,879
Speaker 8: that over the years, you'd never want to get beat

919
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Speaker 8: by a guy who going into the game you know

920
00:41:49,480 --> 00:41:51,919
Speaker 8: can beat you. To me, that is a cardinal sin

921
00:41:52,480 --> 00:41:55,520
Speaker 8: of defensive coordinators now, and we do it over and

922
00:41:55,680 --> 00:41:58,640
Speaker 8: over and over again. Now in this game, I'm not

923
00:41:58,719 --> 00:42:02,000
Speaker 8: that critical because the two important elements to win it

924
00:42:02,600 --> 00:42:06,560
Speaker 8: this week was really Number one was stopping the run

925
00:42:06,600 --> 00:42:08,960
Speaker 8: and number two was rushing the quarterback. And we did

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Speaker 8: both of them. We held Pierce to two point one

927
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Speaker 8: and we got six sacks. So the fact that Collins

928
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Speaker 8: had a big day it wasn't as critical in this one,

929
00:42:17,520 --> 00:42:20,640
Speaker 8: but it can be. You can't let Flowers well I

930
00:42:20,640 --> 00:42:22,839
Speaker 8: think they've lost Beckham, but you can't let those two

931
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Speaker 8: guys beach and no one going into the game that

932
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Speaker 8: they can. And there's a lot of things you can do.

933
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Speaker 8: You can roll, you can call coverage rolls to guys

934
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Speaker 8: every once in a while. You can call a one

935
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Speaker 8: double to people, you know, like we would have said

936
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Speaker 8: one double Collins and stuff like that. I just think

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00:42:38,280 --> 00:42:41,120
Speaker 8: you have to have that variation when you get in

938
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Speaker 8: the deep end.

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Speaker 2: All right, that's a look at the Colts Mailbag, a

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Speaker 2: we'll take a look at Week three and the two

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Speaker 2: to zero Baltimore Ravens. You are listening to Colts Round

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Speaker 2: it's time now for the closing arguments from Rick Venturi

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Speaker 2: and Joe Wrights to close out the show tonight. The

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Speaker 2: Colts are one and one. Wasn't perfect, Joe, but you

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00:43:46,520 --> 00:43:49,080
Speaker 2: never apologize for the win. What did you come away

961
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Speaker 2: most encouraged? By with the Colts in Houston as they

962
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Speaker 2: try to build upon that going into as Rick said,

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Speaker 2: a much stiffer test in week three on the road

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Speaker 2: in Baltimore.

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Speaker 7: I just think it was our attitude, Matt. We were

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Speaker 7: ready to play physically, mentally, emotionally. We were the more

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Speaker 7: physical team across both lines. And keep in mind, this

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Speaker 7: is a Houston team that lost. They're coming back to

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Speaker 7: their home opener, all kinds of excitement, and we just

970
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Speaker 7: came flat in and punched him in the mouth. And

971
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Speaker 7: by the time Houston woke up in the mid third quarter,

972
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Speaker 7: we were a head thirty one to ten. So I

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Speaker 7: just really give a credit to the players for getting

974
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Speaker 7: themselves ready, in this coaching staff for coming down, and

975
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Speaker 7: then secondly, really Shane Stike and his rolldecks offensively. That's

976
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Speaker 7: just got me excited to see schematically what we draw

977
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Speaker 7: up week out and how that gives defensive coordinators problems.

978
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Speaker 7: And then obviously we got a big test though Baltimore

979
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Speaker 7: on the road is a different animal and coach, I'm

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00:44:38,400 --> 00:44:41,920
Speaker 7: sure you have dissected him a bunch on film already,

981
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Speaker 7: So what can we expect next Sunday at one o'clock.

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Speaker 8: No You're right, Joe. They may not be a great

983
00:44:47,040 --> 00:44:49,359
Speaker 8: team yet, but they're a really good team. I mean,

984
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Speaker 8: you know, on an offense, you've got a former MVP

985
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Speaker 8: and Lamar Jackson, premier tight end Andrews who came back,

986
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Speaker 8: and I don't think they'll have Beckham. I think he

987
00:44:58,480 --> 00:45:01,120
Speaker 8: hurt his ankle. But they have four number ones and

988
00:45:01,160 --> 00:45:05,640
Speaker 8: they have a just emerging rookie superstar in Za Flowers.

989
00:45:05,880 --> 00:45:08,320
Speaker 8: And then on defense, this is a whole different game, Joe,

990
00:45:08,360 --> 00:45:12,000
Speaker 8: this is a multiple They'll give us bear, they'll give

991
00:45:12,080 --> 00:45:15,520
Speaker 8: us pressure, they'll give us all kinds of match coverages.

992
00:45:16,200 --> 00:45:18,839
Speaker 8: Mike McDonald does a really good job there. They were

993
00:45:18,880 --> 00:45:21,960
Speaker 8: top five a year ago in like five different categories,

994
00:45:22,320 --> 00:45:25,640
Speaker 8: and he is a disciple of Wink Martindale, so the

995
00:45:25,800 --> 00:45:29,680
Speaker 8: challenge will be totally different going into Baltimore.

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Speaker 2: Indeed, all right, that's all the time we've got tonight,

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Speaker 2: Rick Vincery, Joe writes, fantastic as always, my thanks again

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Speaker 2: to head coach Shane Steichen, who joined in on the

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