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Speaker 2: is with you until six thirty tonight. We're on five

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Speaker 2: thirty to six thirty as the Pacers are at action tonight,

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Speaker 2: got a full show planned for you as always. To

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Speaker 2: start out here in just a few moments, Colts head

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Speaker 2: coach Shane Steichen will join me for our conversation recapping

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Speaker 2: the game and the loss to the Texans, and then

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Speaker 2: following that, Colts radio analyst Rick Venturi and Joe Writes

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Speaker 2: will join the program to begin breaking down the elements

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Speaker 2: that led to the Colts loss to the Texans, and

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Speaker 2: they'll break down some of the big areas that have

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Speaker 2: let the Colts down in three of the last four

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Speaker 2: games as well. Also, we want your social media questions

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Speaker 2: tonight for Shane and Joe and Rick. Submit your thoughts

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Speaker 2: tonight on x with hashtag Colts round Table. We'll get

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Speaker 2: to the best ones throughout the course of the next

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Speaker 2: hour or so. But let's start off with the big

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Speaker 2: picture on the Colts as they fell twenty to sixteen

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Speaker 2: to the Houston Texans on Sunday. That drops them to

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Speaker 2: eight and four on the season. It was their third

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Speaker 2: loss in four games and it was the first AFC

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Speaker 2: South loss for the Colts, also their first loss at

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Speaker 2: home this year, and the Texans came into the game

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Speaker 2: boasting one of the best defenses in the NFL and

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Speaker 2: that was on display at Lucas Oil on Sunday. The

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Speaker 2: Colts had sixteen points that was a season low, and

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Speaker 2: their two hundred and eighty one yards of offense was

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Speaker 2: their second lowest total of the season. The offense punted

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Speaker 2: on three first quarter possessions, then turned the ball over

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Speaker 2: on downs inside the red zone on their fourth drive,

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Speaker 2: and Houston made the Colts work for everything they got yesterday.

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Speaker 2: Jonathan Taylor posted eighty five yards on twenty one carries,

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Speaker 2: but his longest run of the day was just twelve yards.

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Speaker 2: Daniel Jones was fourteen for twenty seven in the passing game.

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Speaker 2: His top receiver was Alec Pierce, who notched seventy eight

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Speaker 2: yards on four catches and also recorded the team's first

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Speaker 2: touchdown of the game. The Colts offense has definitely hit

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Speaker 2: a speed bump in the road lately. They've played some

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Speaker 2: really good defenses that are bringing consistent pressure. That's led

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Speaker 2: to the Colts averaging only twenty one points per game

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Speaker 2: in their last four and they've scored just three touchdowns

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Speaker 2: on their last ten red zone trips. The Colts have

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Speaker 2: each of their first ten games of the season. The

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Speaker 2: Colts defense has allowed just three touchdowns in the last

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Speaker 2: were only able to generate two sacks on C. J. Stroud.

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Speaker 2: The Colts definitely had their chances to win, but a

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Speaker 2: becoming a factor for the team. The Colts will play

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Speaker 2: one more game without DeForest Buckner. He's still on ir

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Speaker 2: Rick Venturi and Joe Wrights will dive into what they

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Speaker 2: time for our weekly chat with Colts head coach Shane Steichen,

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Speaker 2: a very tough loss to the Texans, it's now three

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Speaker 2: losses in the last four games for the Colts. What

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Speaker 2: in the locker room following that hard fought game.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, anytime you lose at home, especially against a division opponent,

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Speaker 4: it's obviously tough and it's frustrating. But you know what,

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Speaker 4: we got everything we want in front of us. You know,

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Speaker 4: we're sitting at eight and four with another division game

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Speaker 2: No question about it. So let's start from the beginning.

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Speaker 2: On offense. You had to punt on your first three

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Speaker 4: the three and outs can't happen. We want to start fast.

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Speaker 4: you know, looking at the first drive. Obviously, you know

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Speaker 4: we threw the chuck down at JT. The second play

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Speaker 4: they sat on it, covered it, and then they got

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Speaker 4: to do a better good job. It always starts with myself,

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Speaker 4: you know, putting these guys in position to go make

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Daniel Jones finishes the day fourteen for twenty seven. But

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Speaker 2: he had some really impressive throws, including the touchdown pass

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Speaker 4: Well, he did some really good things. I mean throwing

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Speaker 4: I thought he hung in there, made some good throws

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Speaker 2: You know, the Texans, like I said, that, they were

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think anytime you go into an opponent. You know,

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Speaker 4: you know, you got your your rules for your opponent,

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Speaker 4: your base rules. But when you see specific looks, obviously

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Speaker 4: you got game plan adjustments within that and just making

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Speaker 2: You know, to going back to Daniel Jones, a lot's

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Speaker 2: been made about his his fibula injury, and certainly if

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Speaker 2: he couldn't play, he wouldn't be out there. So he's

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Speaker 2: doing a lot of things to manage that situation. But

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Speaker 2: what is going into his ability to still play and

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Speaker 2: be available for this team and is his injury if

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Speaker 2: you want to call it that is that Is that

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Speaker 2: changing your approach to these games at all? With him

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Speaker 4: I know it's not changing the approach I think really

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Speaker 4: You know, he gets him self prepared, you know, each

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Speaker 4: He's been as tough as nails for us standing in

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Speaker 4: the pocket. But again, we go through our game plan

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Speaker 2: Again, that touchdown pass that he had to Pierce was

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Speaker 2: just a thing of beauty, and Pierce had a great game,

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Speaker 2: a big impact. Seventy eight yards on four catches, all

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Speaker 2: of them covering at least fifteen yards receiving. How would

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Speaker 2: you describe Alex's growth and the stability and what he

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's been great growth to see his growth over

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Speaker 4: the last couple of years, and then this year leading

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Speaker 4: the league and yards per catch has been phenomenal. The

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Speaker 4: away from defenders, you know, the deep crossing routes, the

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Speaker 2: All Right. I don't want to get you into trouble,

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Speaker 2: but I know you've you've been asked this, but obviously

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Speaker 2: turning points in the game, obviously, was that sequence in

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Speaker 2: be guilty of delay of game. It's not called. I

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Speaker 2: throw a pass over the middle to Xavier Hutchinson. He slips.

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Speaker 2: They call a pass interference on Kenny Moore. It was

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Speaker 2: very questionable. A couple of plays later they go in

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Speaker 2: then they kick the pat looks like it's wide left,

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Speaker 2: laughing about it. Now. What did that sequence do to

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Speaker 2: kind of, you know, provide some momentum in the game.

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Speaker 2: And how tough was it to kind of refocus your

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Speaker 2: guys after some things went against you in terms of

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Speaker 2: the officiating yesterday.

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Speaker 4: I think you know, in football, there's things that you

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Speaker 4: And I think you got to control the control balls

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Speaker 4: we can control how we operate and how we go

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Speaker 4: Sounds good.

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Speaker 2: Hope you're good hope you had a great Thanksgiving with

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Speaker 2: They've watched the game film. We call it the Tail

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Speaker 3: Raising hell today.

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Speaker 2: Okay, bang bang, playing bang bang, keep the.

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Speaker 1: Hammer down, keep talking to one another minute, clean it up.

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Speaker 2: So the Tale of the Tape says the Colts are

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Speaker 5: know we rarely talk about officials here, but I do

438
00:19:05,320 --> 00:19:08,440
Speaker 5: think that sequence was such a backbreaker for the Colts

439
00:19:08,480 --> 00:19:10,119
Speaker 5: when you think about the delay a game that was

440
00:19:10,160 --> 00:19:12,800
Speaker 5: clearly a delay, a game that leads into the same

441
00:19:12,840 --> 00:19:16,280
Speaker 5: play with the pass interference that was not and then

442
00:19:16,320 --> 00:19:18,600
Speaker 5: that extra point. Still trying to wrap my head around

443
00:19:18,640 --> 00:19:21,920
Speaker 5: how that was called good. You know that's right there,

444
00:19:21,960 --> 00:19:23,480
Speaker 5: and I know everybody's talked about it, but that's the

445
00:19:23,520 --> 00:19:25,359
Speaker 5: difference in being down three at the end of the

446
00:19:25,359 --> 00:19:27,960
Speaker 5: game and kicking a forty six yard field goal to

447
00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:30,440
Speaker 5: tie it versus having to go forward on fourth and long,

448
00:19:30,680 --> 00:19:33,520
Speaker 5: and again the Colts missed an extra point themselves, and

449
00:19:33,600 --> 00:19:36,199
Speaker 5: you know, I know we'll discuss that from badgely also,

450
00:19:36,320 --> 00:19:39,919
Speaker 5: but I did think that, you know, both teams probably

451
00:19:39,920 --> 00:19:42,720
Speaker 5: each game can grumble about the officials, but there were clearly,

452
00:19:42,800 --> 00:19:45,560
Speaker 5: you know, back to back to back plays there on

453
00:19:45,600 --> 00:19:48,119
Speaker 5: that key drive in the fourth quarter that hold the

454
00:19:48,359 --> 00:19:51,000
Speaker 5: hurt the Colts. But regardless Matp to me, this was

455
00:19:51,040 --> 00:19:54,240
Speaker 5: a continuation of the same story of Kansas City in

456
00:19:54,359 --> 00:19:56,560
Speaker 5: terms of, you know, the last four drives in casey

457
00:19:56,600 --> 00:19:58,840
Speaker 5: we went three and out, We go three and out,

458
00:19:58,920 --> 00:20:01,040
Speaker 5: drive one three and out too, we get a first

459
00:20:01,080 --> 00:20:03,520
Speaker 5: down then we go three and out again, and you know,

460
00:20:03,640 --> 00:20:06,680
Speaker 5: now it's mid second quarter before he possessed the football back,

461
00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:09,359
Speaker 5: and it's kind of the same thing. Not enough yards

462
00:20:09,400 --> 00:20:12,680
Speaker 5: on first down. You know, teams playing more stout against

463
00:20:12,680 --> 00:20:15,280
Speaker 5: the run and or load in the box. And you know,

464
00:20:15,280 --> 00:20:16,800
Speaker 5: I think about that first third and eight of the game.

465
00:20:16,840 --> 00:20:20,000
Speaker 5: Houston brings a cover zero blitz. They got seven rushers,

466
00:20:20,280 --> 00:20:22,919
Speaker 5: We have seven blockers. We actually pick it up really well,

467
00:20:23,240 --> 00:20:25,040
Speaker 5: but the ball slips out of Down's hands and he

468
00:20:25,119 --> 00:20:27,080
Speaker 5: drops it. Now he had some great catches later in

469
00:20:27,119 --> 00:20:29,080
Speaker 5: the game. But here's the bottom line, Matt. I think

470
00:20:29,359 --> 00:20:32,800
Speaker 5: with Jones and the injury and some more limited mobility,

471
00:20:33,119 --> 00:20:35,720
Speaker 5: teams are going to continue to do what Kansas City

472
00:20:35,720 --> 00:20:39,280
Speaker 5: did and Houston did, and that's bring extra rushers. That's

473
00:20:39,400 --> 00:20:41,639
Speaker 5: keep him in the cup and come after him. The

474
00:20:41,800 --> 00:20:45,280
Speaker 5: edge rushers aren't as worried about their rush lane discipline

475
00:20:45,640 --> 00:20:48,320
Speaker 5: because they're not expecting Daniel to break the pocket, you know,

476
00:20:48,359 --> 00:20:50,120
Speaker 5: and beat them fifteen or twenty yards.

477
00:20:50,359 --> 00:20:51,199
Speaker 3: So what do you have to do.

478
00:20:51,240 --> 00:20:53,320
Speaker 5: You have to make them pay, and you have to

479
00:20:53,359 --> 00:20:55,760
Speaker 5: make them play with big plays. And we did that

480
00:20:55,840 --> 00:20:58,040
Speaker 5: when we took our shots to pierce. He had the catch,

481
00:20:58,080 --> 00:21:00,679
Speaker 5: he had the defensive pass interference, and you got to

482
00:21:00,680 --> 00:21:03,480
Speaker 5: make them pay with screen passes, and you know, and

483
00:21:03,520 --> 00:21:03,800
Speaker 5: we did.

484
00:21:03,840 --> 00:21:06,600
Speaker 3: We had that nice screen to tailor down the sideline.

485
00:21:06,640 --> 00:21:08,359
Speaker 5: Now, the second play of the game was supposed to

486
00:21:08,359 --> 00:21:10,840
Speaker 5: be a tight end screen to Warren will Anderson just

487
00:21:10,840 --> 00:21:12,760
Speaker 5: sniffed it out and he was right there. So Jones

488
00:21:12,760 --> 00:21:15,360
Speaker 5: dirted the ball. But you know, we got to continue

489
00:21:15,359 --> 00:21:18,880
Speaker 5: to find answers Matt on third and long or third down,

490
00:21:18,920 --> 00:21:20,879
Speaker 5: because I do think teams are going to continue to

491
00:21:20,920 --> 00:21:24,280
Speaker 5: bring six and seven against us and make the Colts

492
00:21:24,760 --> 00:21:26,720
Speaker 5: show that they can beat you and hit you over

493
00:21:26,720 --> 00:21:29,800
Speaker 5: the top for fifty or continue to get those chunk plays.

494
00:21:29,800 --> 00:21:31,720
Speaker 5: Otherwise it's going to be kind of the same rinse

495
00:21:31,760 --> 00:21:34,960
Speaker 5: and repeat story in this copycat league. And again special

496
00:21:34,960 --> 00:21:38,159
Speaker 5: teams you know, badly misses that extra point which looms

497
00:21:38,240 --> 00:21:42,040
Speaker 5: very large. But overall, defensively, well, I think we played

498
00:21:42,040 --> 00:21:44,199
Speaker 5: good enough to win and only giving up twenty points, right,

499
00:21:44,240 --> 00:21:47,720
Speaker 5: I think you allow them twenty you get a turnover,

500
00:21:48,119 --> 00:21:50,000
Speaker 5: you think your offense is going to give you enough

501
00:21:50,040 --> 00:21:54,359
Speaker 5: to win the game. Still, too many sustained drives, ten plays,

502
00:21:54,400 --> 00:21:58,560
Speaker 5: twelve plays, fourteen plays where they're chewing up seven eight minutes,

503
00:21:58,560 --> 00:22:00,679
Speaker 5: and that's what leads to that thirty five minute to

504
00:22:00,680 --> 00:22:02,880
Speaker 5: twenty five minute time of possession. I mean, we only

505
00:22:02,920 --> 00:22:04,879
Speaker 5: had three drives in the second half, and when you own,

506
00:22:04,920 --> 00:22:07,800
Speaker 5: the offense only touches the ball for three times. We

507
00:22:07,800 --> 00:22:09,959
Speaker 5: were kind of getting it going there once we hit

508
00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:13,120
Speaker 5: the mid second quarter, but unfortunately we didn't have those

509
00:22:13,200 --> 00:22:15,280
Speaker 5: because coming out of the gate they had fourteen plays

510
00:22:15,280 --> 00:22:18,679
Speaker 5: for eight thirteen, their second drives twelve plays for five thirteen,

511
00:22:18,720 --> 00:22:20,840
Speaker 5: and now there's like ten minutes left in the football game.

512
00:22:20,960 --> 00:22:23,760
Speaker 5: So that's kind of my just high level analysis how

513
00:22:23,800 --> 00:22:27,800
Speaker 5: I'm feeling obviously disappointed. And the last thing I'll say

514
00:22:27,880 --> 00:22:30,399
Speaker 5: is the Colts are in the middle of a schneid.

515
00:22:30,440 --> 00:22:30,919
Speaker 3: They just are.

516
00:22:31,040 --> 00:22:32,600
Speaker 5: You know, you start out seven and one, you lose

517
00:22:32,640 --> 00:22:34,720
Speaker 5: three of your last four. But guess what, every team

518
00:22:34,800 --> 00:22:37,359
Speaker 5: is dealing with this adversity at some point, you know,

519
00:22:37,400 --> 00:22:40,000
Speaker 5: throughout the season. Houston dealt with it early on. You know,

520
00:22:40,040 --> 00:22:42,639
Speaker 5: you look at the Philadelphia Eagles, who is everybody's Super

521
00:22:42,640 --> 00:22:45,360
Speaker 5: Bowl pick. They're going through it right now. The Lions,

522
00:22:45,359 --> 00:22:47,280
Speaker 5: who are another trendy pick, they're going through it.

523
00:22:47,520 --> 00:22:48,520
Speaker 3: You know, the Rams.

524
00:22:48,200 --> 00:22:49,879
Speaker 5: Everybody had them as the best team in football. They

525
00:22:49,960 --> 00:22:51,960
Speaker 5: just go out to Caroline and they lose. So that's

526
00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:53,680
Speaker 5: just the reality of the NFL. You got to bring

527
00:22:53,680 --> 00:22:57,040
Speaker 5: it every week, and the Colts have no time, no

528
00:22:57,160 --> 00:22:59,080
Speaker 5: time to feel sorry for themselves. You got to get

529
00:22:59,080 --> 00:23:02,119
Speaker 5: off the mat because now this game down there in

530
00:23:02,200 --> 00:23:06,800
Speaker 5: Jacksonville six days from now looms incredibly large in terms

531
00:23:06,840 --> 00:23:08,199
Speaker 5: of you got to find a way to win it,

532
00:23:08,280 --> 00:23:10,800
Speaker 5: especially with dropping this home division one, which was a

533
00:23:10,800 --> 00:23:11,960
Speaker 5: disappointment yesterday.

534
00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:14,760
Speaker 6: Yeah, I got to say I came out of that game,

535
00:23:14,920 --> 00:23:18,480
Speaker 6: you know, frustrated. In many ways. There's a part of

536
00:23:18,520 --> 00:23:21,439
Speaker 6: me that's angry, and there's a part of me that

537
00:23:21,520 --> 00:23:23,720
Speaker 6: now has a little bit of doubt on the ball club.

538
00:23:23,800 --> 00:23:26,560
Speaker 6: To tell you the truth, the anger part of it.

539
00:23:26,600 --> 00:23:29,840
Speaker 6: There's three things that really bothered me about the game

540
00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:32,359
Speaker 6: after I looked at the tape and had time to

541
00:23:32,400 --> 00:23:36,119
Speaker 6: think about it, because they all involved points, and you know,

542
00:23:36,160 --> 00:23:40,119
Speaker 6: we're in situations where we're playing playoff tight football, you know,

543
00:23:40,200 --> 00:23:45,440
Speaker 6: in one score game and points mean everything. Obviously, Obviously,

544
00:23:45,520 --> 00:23:48,840
Speaker 6: I think there's no question the Zebras put points on

545
00:23:48,880 --> 00:23:51,400
Speaker 6: the board for the Texans. I you know, I don't

546
00:23:51,400 --> 00:23:54,040
Speaker 6: care what anybody says they put points on the board

547
00:23:54,840 --> 00:23:59,680
Speaker 6: in that regard, at least four, maybe five a mists

548
00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:03,800
Speaker 6: point at this stage is intolerable. I mean, you cannot

549
00:24:04,240 --> 00:24:07,520
Speaker 6: you cannot do that. I mean, we're playing with a

550
00:24:07,560 --> 00:24:10,920
Speaker 6: four point deficit instead of three just because of our

551
00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:13,720
Speaker 6: own failure. And then the other thing that really had

552
00:24:13,880 --> 00:24:16,439
Speaker 6: upset me at the time and it still upsets me

553
00:24:16,520 --> 00:24:20,119
Speaker 6: to this day because it cost us points, is we

554
00:24:20,320 --> 00:24:23,320
Speaker 6: botched that fourth and one. We had to get cute

555
00:24:23,320 --> 00:24:25,639
Speaker 6: with emotion. If you're going to run him on a sneak,

556
00:24:25,680 --> 00:24:27,680
Speaker 6: put him in there and run him. But you got

557
00:24:27,800 --> 00:24:30,679
Speaker 6: Jonathan Taylor. If you run him off tackle, everybody'll be

558
00:24:30,840 --> 00:24:34,600
Speaker 6: sunk inside. He'll make the first down. And that took

559
00:24:34,720 --> 00:24:37,720
Speaker 6: at least a minimum of three off the board. So

560
00:24:38,560 --> 00:24:41,640
Speaker 6: in the end, this team is still it's really playing

561
00:24:41,840 --> 00:24:46,720
Speaker 6: really competitive football. I mean, Pierce was tremendous. Piers was tremendous.

562
00:24:46,760 --> 00:24:49,720
Speaker 6: I'll get into that later. But what we're not doing

563
00:24:50,080 --> 00:24:52,240
Speaker 6: the three out of the four games that we've played

564
00:24:52,280 --> 00:24:56,080
Speaker 6: that we've lost, is we're not finishing the game at

565
00:24:56,119 --> 00:25:00,159
Speaker 6: closing time. Regardless of all the rest of it. The

566
00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:04,479
Speaker 6: Colts have two opportunities in the final minutes in the

567
00:25:04,520 --> 00:25:07,640
Speaker 6: orange area of the game, we have the ball twice

568
00:25:07,920 --> 00:25:10,720
Speaker 6: first and ten, and you know, in the first one

569
00:25:10,800 --> 00:25:14,400
Speaker 6: they stuff us on first. On third down, they basically

570
00:25:14,400 --> 00:25:17,120
Speaker 6: make a good play on downs and they stuff the ball,

571
00:25:17,160 --> 00:25:21,600
Speaker 6: they knock it down. So we have to settle for three. Okay,

572
00:25:21,720 --> 00:25:24,639
Speaker 6: we have to settle for three instead of a potential seven.

573
00:25:25,200 --> 00:25:27,000
Speaker 6: And then at the end of the game when we

574
00:25:27,119 --> 00:25:29,960
Speaker 6: have to play for seven, you know, we get stuffed

575
00:25:29,960 --> 00:25:32,560
Speaker 6: on first down. You said it in the booth perfectly,

576
00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:36,560
Speaker 6: you said, we have three downs to make nine yards.

577
00:25:36,640 --> 00:25:39,399
Speaker 6: That's it. We have three downs to make nine yards.

578
00:25:39,840 --> 00:25:43,280
Speaker 6: We get in there downs has a critical drop, big

579
00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:46,520
Speaker 6: time drop on third down, and then for some reason,

580
00:25:46,920 --> 00:25:50,119
Speaker 6: you know, we're throwing to Pittman on Stingley in the

581
00:25:50,160 --> 00:25:52,959
Speaker 6: biggest down of the game, and they stop us. So

582
00:25:53,040 --> 00:25:57,439
Speaker 6: we have two opportunities to get seven. Yeah, you know,

583
00:25:57,480 --> 00:26:00,159
Speaker 6: that's fourteen points, and we come out of there with

584
00:26:00,200 --> 00:26:03,440
Speaker 6: three and end up losing the game from that standpoint.

585
00:26:03,840 --> 00:26:06,679
Speaker 6: You know, in these losses, you know, the boat, the

586
00:26:06,720 --> 00:26:10,320
Speaker 6: boat hasn't sunk by any stretch of the imagination, but

587
00:26:10,760 --> 00:26:14,679
Speaker 6: it damn sure has taken on on some water, you know,

588
00:26:14,720 --> 00:26:17,280
Speaker 6: And I think you know, it starts here. I think

589
00:26:17,280 --> 00:26:19,919
Speaker 6: where it starts, and you asked me this at the

590
00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:22,719
Speaker 6: end of the game. It starts with our inability to

591
00:26:22,760 --> 00:26:26,600
Speaker 6: score points. I mean in the losses. Now it's twenty

592
00:26:27,119 --> 00:26:32,040
Speaker 6: twenty and sixteen, so it's twenty or less in those games.

593
00:26:32,400 --> 00:26:35,920
Speaker 6: And honestly, if you score twenty four in the last

594
00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:39,359
Speaker 6: two weeks, you're ten and two. If you score twenty four,

595
00:26:39,640 --> 00:26:41,800
Speaker 6: that's all you got to get. Now, this was a

596
00:26:41,880 --> 00:26:44,879
Speaker 6: team in the first eight weeks of the season that

597
00:26:45,040 --> 00:26:47,199
Speaker 6: was you know, the standard was thirty. I mean we

598
00:26:47,280 --> 00:26:51,080
Speaker 6: were shooting for thirty and now we're shooting for twenty.

599
00:26:51,119 --> 00:26:55,159
Speaker 6: And that's that. That really and truly is a problem.

600
00:26:55,200 --> 00:26:58,000
Speaker 6: There is any need to doubt about that. I think

601
00:26:58,040 --> 00:27:01,320
Speaker 6: a couple of things also on offense is you know

602
00:27:01,440 --> 00:27:03,640
Speaker 6: JT has been held under one hundred and three out

603
00:27:03,680 --> 00:27:05,840
Speaker 6: of four times, three out of four times in the

604
00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:10,080
Speaker 6: last month. They're all losses. And the pressure is getting

605
00:27:10,080 --> 00:27:12,560
Speaker 6: to us. The pass pressure is getting to us, there's

606
00:27:12,560 --> 00:27:16,760
Speaker 6: no question. And along with the pass pressure, teams are

607
00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:19,919
Speaker 6: playing man to man or tight match. They are not

608
00:27:20,119 --> 00:27:23,119
Speaker 6: sitting back, they are in our face and we're getting

609
00:27:23,280 --> 00:27:26,679
Speaker 6: almost no separation at White House. We look like we

610
00:27:26,800 --> 00:27:30,040
Speaker 6: have in the past in that sense, and that's a problem.

611
00:27:30,359 --> 00:27:33,240
Speaker 6: So at the end of the day, we are three

612
00:27:33,359 --> 00:27:37,879
Speaker 6: for twelve, three for twelve now on third and fourth down.

613
00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:41,600
Speaker 6: So you're not scoring points, but you're giving the ball

614
00:27:41,720 --> 00:27:44,720
Speaker 6: up very quickly because you're not converting on third down.

615
00:27:45,119 --> 00:27:48,120
Speaker 6: And then, as you alluded to before, I credit our

616
00:27:48,160 --> 00:27:50,960
Speaker 6: defense and points given up. We're still in the top ten.

617
00:27:51,440 --> 00:27:53,199
Speaker 6: I mean, I think they do a good job of

618
00:27:53,359 --> 00:27:56,639
Speaker 6: paying on particularly in the red zone, but in reality

619
00:27:56,720 --> 00:28:00,560
Speaker 6: it's another three hundred and sixty four yard game. We're

620
00:28:00,640 --> 00:28:04,760
Speaker 6: number twenty seven in third down, you know. And so

621
00:28:05,200 --> 00:28:08,639
Speaker 6: what happens is by not converting on third down and

622
00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:12,000
Speaker 6: being twenty seventh on defense on third down, you're just

623
00:28:12,080 --> 00:28:17,199
Speaker 6: giving up disproportion amount of time of possession. To their credit,

624
00:28:17,240 --> 00:28:20,280
Speaker 6: to the Texans credit, that's who they are. They have

625
00:28:20,359 --> 00:28:23,480
Speaker 6: an identity. I mean, they play great defense. They held

626
00:28:23,560 --> 00:28:26,800
Speaker 6: us to sixteen, They win the time of possession. They're

627
00:28:26,840 --> 00:28:29,520
Speaker 6: fourth in the league and moving up third. Now, you know,

628
00:28:29,640 --> 00:28:32,520
Speaker 6: by winning it by ten minutes, they don't turn it

629
00:28:32,560 --> 00:28:35,320
Speaker 6: over very much. We got one, but that's it, you know.

630
00:28:35,359 --> 00:28:38,040
Speaker 6: And then they tend to score just enough to win.

631
00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:41,840
Speaker 6: So you know, in reality, that's what the problem. And

632
00:28:41,920 --> 00:28:44,000
Speaker 6: when you really look at it, we just haven't been

633
00:28:44,080 --> 00:28:47,200
Speaker 6: winning the fourth quarter, which goes back to my original

634
00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:51,040
Speaker 6: thinking that we're just not finishing the game. So again,

635
00:28:51,360 --> 00:28:54,239
Speaker 6: we have now created what amounts to the game of

636
00:28:54,280 --> 00:28:57,400
Speaker 6: the year. And somebody told me a long time ago,

637
00:28:57,840 --> 00:29:00,000
Speaker 6: as a coach or player, you have the life cycle

638
00:29:00,120 --> 00:29:03,040
Speaker 6: of a fruit fly about twenty four hours. You live

639
00:29:03,120 --> 00:29:05,760
Speaker 6: and die in those twenty four hours. So you've got

640
00:29:05,760 --> 00:29:08,040
Speaker 6: to rise back up. You got to get ready for

641
00:29:08,080 --> 00:29:12,920
Speaker 6: this game. The Jacksonville Jaguars are very much like, very

642
00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:17,480
Speaker 6: much like the Texans in their surging. You know, they've

643
00:29:17,520 --> 00:29:21,120
Speaker 6: won games in a row. Now they're playing very well.

644
00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:25,040
Speaker 6: Duval County has been the house of whores. But all

645
00:29:25,120 --> 00:29:28,239
Speaker 6: that's got to be behind us because we're now in

646
00:29:28,280 --> 00:29:31,800
Speaker 6: this back five. It's now or never, it's do or die.

647
00:29:32,240 --> 00:29:34,240
Speaker 6: We have to go down and get this game. We've

648
00:29:34,240 --> 00:29:38,480
Speaker 6: got to put all the ills behind us, no excuses,

649
00:29:39,080 --> 00:29:41,000
Speaker 6: and we've got to go down there and get a game.

650
00:29:41,280 --> 00:29:43,880
Speaker 2: All right, great stuff right there from Rick Ventury and

651
00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:46,920
Speaker 2: Joe Wright, certainly a lot of frustrating parts to their

652
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Speaker 2: tails of the tape, there and their reactions from watching

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Speaker 2: the game film from Sunday's loss to the Texans. Again,

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Speaker 2: it's a game that drops the Colts to eight and

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Speaker 2: four on the season. As part of the show Always

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Speaker 2: up in segment three. Like we said, we've got some

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Speaker 2: speed bumps here in the road. So what are the

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Speaker 2: main speed bumps? How big are they? And how do

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Speaker 2: the Colts smooth them out and drive down the road

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Speaker 2: With five games to go here on their metaphorical journey

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Speaker 2: on a road trip in twenty twenty five. That's all

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Speaker 2: coming up next when we come back here on Colts

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

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Speaker 1: Colts breakdown. Here's Matt Taylor, the voice of the Colts

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Speaker 1: from the Indie He and a Union Construction industry radio studio.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for coming back tonight on Colts Roundtable Live. As

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Speaker 2: we return here with you until six thirty pm tonight.

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Speaker 2: the Indianapolis Colts. Here with Rick Venturi and Joe Wrights,

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Speaker 2: I'm Matt Taylor, and of course on that last segment,

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Speaker 2: we looked at the film and examined the game film

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Speaker 2: again as the Colts fell twenty to sixteen to the Texans.

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Speaker 2: And now on segment three, it's time for a segment

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Speaker 2: called the Colts speed Bumps. We're going to take a

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Speaker 2: look at the biggest bumps in the road in the

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Speaker 2: last four games for the Colts. What are they? How

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Speaker 2: big are these speed bumps and how do the Colts

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Speaker 2: smooth them out and drive down the road. Here with

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Speaker 2: five games to go, the biggest speed bump offensively is

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Speaker 2: all this defensive pressure the Colts are seeing. I know,

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Speaker 2: if you go back to yesterday, Daniel Jones finished the

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Speaker 2: game fourteen for twenty seven for two oh one and

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Speaker 2: two touchdowns with a pretty good passer rating of one

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Speaker 2: oh one. That was his uh, those were I should

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Speaker 2: say his numbers in totality, And when he was not

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Speaker 2: blitzed yesterday he was twelve at of sixteen, two passing

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Speaker 2: touchdowns a passer rating of one fifty two in that instance.

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Speaker 2: But when he was blitzed by the Texans, he was

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Speaker 2: just two for eleven for fourteen yards and had a

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Speaker 2: passer rating of just thirty nine. So you know, Rick

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Speaker 2: Vanterurrey Sunday was kind of a microcosm of Jones's recent

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Speaker 2: splits against the blitz. So how big is this speed

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Speaker 2: bump the Colts are rolling over right now when it

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Speaker 2: comes to all the pressure they're seeing lately on Daniel Jones,

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Speaker 2: teams coming after him and making them win from inside

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Speaker 2: the pocket, Matt.

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Speaker 6: This speed porters on BNA roadblock, to tell you the truth,

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Speaker 6: one of those state police roadblocks, okay, and we got

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Speaker 6: to get over it. And we've got to fix it.

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Speaker 6: And I think it's come about for several reasons. I think,

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Speaker 6: first of all, you know, at this stage in the season,

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Speaker 6: you're out there, you're bare naked. They've watched every tape

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Speaker 6: on you, they know every vulnerability. But starting with Pittsburgh,

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Speaker 6: I mean they've gotten a lot of pressure. Even Atlanta

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Speaker 6: got tons of pressure on the blitz Kansas City did,

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Speaker 6: and now they turned around and they blitzed more than

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Speaker 6: they ever thought about blitzing yesterday. And I think what

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Speaker 6: they see is the vulnerability. We don't push the ball

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Speaker 6: deep very much, so they're not as they don't risk it.

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Speaker 6: I don't think they respect our Receiver Corps a great deal,

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Speaker 6: even though Pierce is having a good year, I don't

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Speaker 6: think they respect it. Under pressure, I think they've seen vulnerabilities.

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Speaker 6: JT has fallen off the last few weeks in the

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Speaker 6: protection aspect, and what they've seen is that Bordolini's lack

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Speaker 6: of girth and lack of strength that they can run

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Speaker 6: right over them, which they've done twice. And then, as

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Speaker 6: you guys have mentioned before, you know, once we announced

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Speaker 6: that Danny hasn't broken leg, then he they know that

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Speaker 6: he's he's somewhat limited in terms of you know, getting

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Speaker 6: avoiding and getting away. And I thought, what these guys

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Speaker 6: did a really good job of they collapsed the pocket,

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Speaker 6: so he really didn't have much of much, you know,

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Speaker 6: much of an avenue to go. And so again it's

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Speaker 6: a it's a combination of copycat league, uh and in

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Speaker 6: a quarterback that's nicked up. And you know, Joe hit

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Speaker 6: it right early. He didn't ever look like he really

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Speaker 6: wanted to get out of there and go. I mean,

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Speaker 6: it's it obviously is affecting them.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and I would agree with that.

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Speaker 5: You know, from the offensive line perspective, you know, the

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Speaker 5: middle three guys guard and the and the center are

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Speaker 5: responsible for keeping the depth of the pocket, so not

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Speaker 5: letting those guys get pushed back interior of the A

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Speaker 5: and B gap. The tackles are responsible for keeping the

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Speaker 5: width of the pocket so that there's room in there

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Speaker 5: for the quarterback to throw the ball. In Houston's game plan,

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Speaker 5: like coach says, think was just a collapse all around.

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Speaker 5: So what were they doing. They ran linestone, That's how

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Speaker 5: we gave up their first sack. They ran a TT stunt.

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Speaker 5: Bordolini gets picked wrap around the ends, close in sack

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Speaker 5: and then they lined up Will Anderson right over Bordolini

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Speaker 5: and he just you know, ran them over and they're

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Speaker 5: collapse in the pocket kind of from the A and

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Speaker 5: B gap. So, you know, individually from an offensive line perspective,

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Speaker 5: until we show that we can kind of handle some

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Speaker 5: of that, they're going to continue to game us. They're

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Speaker 5: going to continue to run guys over. If you remember,

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Speaker 5: they probably watch it on film from LA when the

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Speaker 5: Rams did that, you know, back in week four, kind

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Speaker 5: of running right over the center. So if I was

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Speaker 5: Bordolini and somebody's running downhill on me, I just go

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Speaker 5: and cut him, you know, as hard charging as he

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Speaker 5: was doing. But I do think that's one in terms

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Speaker 5: of the pressure. And those aren't blitzes, right, but to

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Speaker 5: coaches point, when there it's third and seven, third and eight,

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Speaker 5: they bring a cover zeros it blitz. We got to

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Speaker 5: make them pay. And I agree, they're going to continue

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Speaker 5: to play our receivers stickier and stickier, which is why

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Speaker 5: we got to hit the big plays in the screens.

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Speaker 5: We hit a screen for a big play, you know,

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Speaker 5: I think we can dial up a couple more of those,

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Speaker 5: and then Alec Pierce I mean, he's just been tremendous,

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Speaker 5: you know, I think he's really emerging. Is our number

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Speaker 5: one threat over downs on third down downs. Had some

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Speaker 5: tremendous catches, but also had two drops, which is not

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Speaker 5: normal for him. But those are your two guys, Matt

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Speaker 5: and then Warren with his big body that when they're

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Speaker 5: playing super sticky coverage, you know, can get more separation

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Speaker 5: downs in the in the short, you know, to midterm routes,

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Speaker 5: and then Pierce in terms of getting that separation deep

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Speaker 5: for the fifty to fifty balls.

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Speaker 2: All right, great stuff right there. So far we're talking

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Speaker 2: about speed bumps. The Colts are rolling over right now.

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Speaker 2: The second speed bump that I do want to leave

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Speaker 2: time for to discuss here is just the defensive volume

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Speaker 2: and the time of possession. And Rick vent Tury alluded

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Speaker 2: to it there on his tail the tape. But you know, overall,

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Speaker 2: the Colts defense has allowed just three touchdowns in the

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Speaker 2: last two games, and they've played two really good quarterbacks

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Speaker 2: in that span. Obviously, Patrick Mahomes speaks for himself, but CJ.

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Speaker 2: Stroud I think is upper half in the NFL as well,

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Speaker 2: and of course that get that unit has one more

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Speaker 2: game to go without DeForest Buckner. He's still on injured

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Speaker 2: reserve with the neck injury, and now looks like the

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Speaker 2: Colts are going to be you know, week to week

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Speaker 2: so to speak, with Sauce Gardner dealing with a calf injury.

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Speaker 2: So the point total has been pretty good, Joe Wrights,

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Speaker 2: But in the last two games they have allowed a

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Speaker 2: combined nine drives that have lasted at least ten plays

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Speaker 2: to the Chiefs and the Texans, and of those drives,

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Speaker 2: four of them have lasted at least six minutes of

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Speaker 2: time of possession. Now, the Colts have lost time of

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Speaker 2: possession in the last two games by a combined margin

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Speaker 2: of seventy seven minutes and thirty three seconds to the

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Speaker 2: opposition to just fifty minutes and forty seconds for the Colts.

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Speaker 2: And the Chiefs and the Texans combined to run one

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Speaker 2: hundred and sixty two plays to the Colts one hundred

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Speaker 2: and one plays. So how big is it when it

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Speaker 2: comes to the colts inability to get quick stops and

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Speaker 2: get themselves off the field on defense down the stretch.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a big one, Matt, because again, what the

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Speaker 5: Colts have primarily been able to hold both these teams

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Speaker 5: to twenty points in regulation the last two weeks is

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Speaker 5: because combining they're three of eleven in the red zone,

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Speaker 5: so they're getting down there. But you know, to me, Matt,

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Speaker 5: it goes down to a lot of things. We've given

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Speaker 5: up a lot of first downs by penalty, some justified,

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Speaker 5: some not.

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Speaker 3: We haven't getten nearly enough.

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Speaker 5: Pressure on the quarterback in terms of our front four rush,

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Speaker 5: and you know that's been almost non existent. Yi was

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Speaker 5: yesterday afternoon in terms of our guys making a move

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Speaker 5: and getting in the face of Stroud. It seemed like

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Speaker 5: he had all day back there. And then I also

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Speaker 5: think on first and second down, teams are running the ball,

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Speaker 5: part of that being Buckner out of there, but with

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Speaker 5: more effectiveness. So what were Houston's thirds down third and four,

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Speaker 5: third and three, third and one? Those are much more

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Speaker 5: manageable than a lot of the third and seven, third

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Speaker 5: and eight third and tens that we had on the

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Speaker 5: other side. So to me, those three things right, not

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Speaker 5: getting off the field on third down, either giving them

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Speaker 5: a big catch or a defensive penalty like we've had

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Speaker 5: too many of them, not getting enough pass rush on

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Speaker 5: those plays, and then giving up too many yards on

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Speaker 5: the first and second down runs. That's how you allow

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Speaker 5: teams to have those ten twelve fourteen play drives where

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00:39:02,719 --> 00:39:05,759
Speaker 5: our defense out and then keep our offense on the sideline.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, there's no doubt about it. I think our defense

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00:39:08,719 --> 00:39:12,640
Speaker 6: has survived, you know, basically on a couple of things.

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Speaker 6: I think number one, it survived. It is in the

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Speaker 6: top ten in terms of fewest points giving up. I

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Speaker 6: think that's a good thing. They've been very tough in

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Speaker 6: the red zone lately and up until this week. You know,

848
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Speaker 6: we've also ranked high as far as takeaways. You know,

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Speaker 6: takeaways and red zone will allow an average defense to survive.

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Speaker 6: But on the other hand, we're sinking and everything else,

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Speaker 6: and Joe chronicle that you know, we're not. I thought

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Speaker 6: we were a little bit better yesterday against the run,

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Speaker 6: but we were okay until we weren't, you know, and

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Speaker 6: crunch time, you know, they were able to really hammer

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Speaker 6: with cutbacks and make yardage. And again, you know, in

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Speaker 6: three games with Al Buckner, it's one hundred and forty

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Speaker 6: yards one hundred and forty eight yards one hundred and

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Speaker 6: eight yards rushing, So we haven't held anybody under one

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Speaker 6: hundred in those three games, and that mounts up. I

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Speaker 6: thought the tennis, I thought Texas did a really good

861
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Speaker 6: job on second and long when we would stop them

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Speaker 6: on first down, they did a great job on that

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Speaker 6: get back down to get back into those third and fours,

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Speaker 6: and a lot of that is what that possession passes.

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Speaker 6: Now we're really falling off the cliff, though, is in

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Speaker 6: the passing game. I mean, you know, our total defense

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Speaker 6: is down to twenty one, but we're twenty seventh now

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Speaker 6: in the league and pass yards per game. You know,

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Speaker 6: we're twenty seventh on third down. And where they're absolutely

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Speaker 6: killing us is in the middle of the field. It

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Speaker 6: just all you got to do is look at the

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Speaker 6: game plans lately, you know, run the ball, throw the

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Speaker 6: ball in the middle of the field, don't turn it over,

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Speaker 6: and they can't win. And there's a couple of things

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Speaker 6: that are affecting us, you know. And it starts a

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Speaker 6: little bit with Joe said, we're not getting any first

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Speaker 6: wave sacks. We never see him from the edge. I mean,

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Speaker 6: we got all kinds of money invested, but we don't

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Speaker 6: see him. And so what happens is and the mandamand coverages.

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Speaker 6: People stack and they rub people, and by the time

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Speaker 6: that guy from the outside gets across to the other

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Speaker 6: side of the middle of the field, that's a long run.

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Speaker 6: You don't get there. And then in zone because we

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Speaker 6: play area zone and this is a criticism of mine,

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Speaker 6: until we start matching underneath, we ain't going to stop

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Speaker 6: anything in zone. Nothing, because if you don't have a

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Speaker 6: tremendous pass rush and you're playing area zones, the longer

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Speaker 6: the quarterback has and he was in a rocking chair,

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Speaker 6: the more distance stretches in zone, both vertically between the

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Speaker 6: linebackers and the safety and between people underneath, and they're

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Speaker 6: just killing us in their tight ends. Average guys making

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Speaker 6: plays in there. And so you know again that kind

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Speaker 6: of volume in that kind of defense is going to

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Speaker 6: lead you the time of possession, and right now we're

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Speaker 6: not overcoming it with big plays on offense.

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Speaker 2: All right, those are the two biggest speed bumps here,

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Speaker 2: the Colts defensive pressures and the defensive volume and time

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Speaker 2: of possession the Colts defense has faced, and time of

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Speaker 2: possession defensively on the field, all right. Rick Van Turrey

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Speaker 2: right there, and Joe Wrights, I'm Matt Taylor. Those are

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Speaker 2: Colts have the ability to get back on track here

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Speaker 2: But it's time now for the mail bag, and we

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Speaker 2: First one is coming in from Cliff. He's asking, do

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Speaker 2: you guys think Alec Pierce is our true number one

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Speaker 2: wide receiver this year? He says, Joe writes, good things

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Speaker 2: always seem to happen when we throw it to him.

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Speaker 2: What do you think about Alec Pearson his role and

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Speaker 2: it's only growing bigger inside this offense down the stretch

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Speaker 2: of the season.

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Speaker 3: Here, Yeah, great observation, Cliff.

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Speaker 5: I mean, you know, Pierce is leading the league and

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Speaker 5: yards per catch for the second season in a row.

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Speaker 5: And he's always been a great deep threat fifty to

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Speaker 5: fifty ball guy. But I really give him credit on

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Speaker 5: his route improvement. His routes are much more precise, and

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Speaker 5: he's really becoming so dangerous across the middle of the

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Speaker 5: field running those deep overs, and with his big frame,

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Speaker 5: his strong hands, and his increased route running ability, he

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Speaker 5: has continued to improve and he's really, I think, our

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Speaker 5: number one threat and he's got to continue to be

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Speaker 5: that matt because we're going to need somebody to make

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Speaker 5: big catches and primetime opportunities these last five weeks of

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Speaker 2: Yes, seventy eight yards on four catches for Alec Pierce

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Speaker 2: draped in coverage, a nineteen yard catch in the end zone.

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Speaker 2: That's a catch that not many receivers in the NFL

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Speaker 2: can make, and he did it for a second touchdown

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Speaker 2: of the season. All right, let's go to Jerry. We

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Speaker 2: got time for one more here. We're kind of up

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Speaker 2: against it. We apologize for that. But Jerry is asking

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Speaker 2: Rick fin Tury, why are Zeire Franklin and Jermaine Pratt

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Speaker 2: coming on lately? Are they playing much better or just

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Speaker 2: racking up big tackle numbers? And he also goes on

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Speaker 2: to say it still feels like the middle of the

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Speaker 2: field in the passing game is wide open against us.

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Speaker 6: Well, I think they are playing much better, and I

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Speaker 6: think they're playing much better against the run, even though

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Speaker 6: the numbers maybe don't show it. I think in Zaire's case,

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Speaker 6: I think he's doing a really good job of getting

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Speaker 6: downhill fast. He's diagnosing and he's going through, and he's

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Speaker 6: running through. And I think Lou's helped him a little

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Speaker 6: bit in terms of running some fires on early downs.

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Speaker 6: He's very good at that. He's a good blitzer. He

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Speaker 6: knows how to time it, he knows how to hit it.

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Speaker 6: I think Pratt has just gotten more comfortable every week.

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Speaker 6: I also think that it helps him that he gets

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Speaker 6: on the edge some and comes off the edge, and

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Speaker 6: most of his good plays have come off that edge.

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Speaker 6: With destruction, with basically disruption, the middle of the field

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Speaker 6: is a huge problem. I talked about it before. We're

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Speaker 6: really struggling in there. If we're gonna get better and

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Speaker 6: we're gonna and we're gonna close this thing all off,

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Speaker 6: you know, and close the drip, we've got to figure

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Speaker 6: out ways to play better in the middle of the field.

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Speaker 2: All right. That's the mail bag segment tonight. Again, thanks

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Speaker 2: closing arguments again from Rick Van Turrey and Joe Writes.

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Speaker 2: And Joe, I want to start with you as the

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Speaker 2: Colts again, they've lost three of their last four the

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Speaker 2: Jaguars now they keep on winning. Both teams are eight

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Speaker 2: and four, and the Colts on Sunday head down to

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Speaker 2: a location that has been very unkind to the Colts.

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Speaker 2: They haven't won in Jacksonville inside that city since twenty fourteen.

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Speaker 2: It's nine straight losses for the Colts at Everbanks Stadium

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Speaker 2: in North Florida, and it kind of feels like this season,

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Speaker 2: as you guys have said, it feels like the Colts

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Speaker 2: have reached crossroads here. The season can go one of

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Speaker 2: two ways here with five games to go in the

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Speaker 2: regular season, and I think, quite simply, Joe, we're gonna

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Speaker 2: find out a lot about this Colts football team and

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Speaker 2: what it's made of coming up on Sunday, and I'm

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Speaker 2: looking forward to it as you and I will both

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Speaker 2: be on the call in the booth in Jacksonville.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, no question, Matt. Coming into this season, there were

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Speaker 5: three streaks that were crazy to me. If Colts hadn't

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Speaker 5: won a home opener since twenty thirteen, hadn't won in Jacksonville,

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Speaker 5: and also coincidentally hadn't won the division since twenty fourteen.

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Speaker 3: We ended the.

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Speaker 5: First streak, Matt, and now it's time to go reclaim

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Speaker 5: Jacksonville for the Colts. This is a first place game,

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Speaker 5: it's a huge matchup, and we're going down there to Florida.

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Speaker 5: There's some water, so you know what my slogan is, Matt,

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Speaker 5: burn the boats, burn the boats. There is no option

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Speaker 5: for retreat. We are going down there to win that

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Speaker 5: football game. And Coach, I know you've watched the Jags already.

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Speaker 5: Seems like they're maybe you know, the record doesn't reflect

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Speaker 5: eight and four and they're in first place right now.

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Speaker 6: Yeah. I think basically, to put it another way, I

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Speaker 6: think they've played beyond their numbers. They're eleventh in scoring,

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Speaker 6: their twelfth and points given up. But they're playing better

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Speaker 6: than that. They're playing extremely well. I credited to two things.

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Speaker 6: I broke down a lot of tape at the end

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Speaker 6: of last week. I think Liam Cohne has done a

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Speaker 6: great job as a head coach and offensive coordinator, and

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Speaker 6: the defensive coordinator Campanelli has done a terrific job design

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Speaker 6: wise putting those guys in a good spot to win.

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Speaker 6: So I think that's a plus. As always, As always,

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Speaker 6: Jacksonville flies or dies basically by hobb. Trevor Lawrence plays.

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Speaker 6: When he's on, he plays to the level of Mahomes

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Speaker 6: and when he's not, it's more like Carson Wentz. But

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Speaker 6: you'd never know what you're gonna get. He has usually

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Speaker 6: played pretty well against us, particularly down there. So again

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Speaker 6: they will fly or die with Trevor Lawrence.

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Speaker 2: And we'll see what happens coming up on Sunday. Certainly

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Speaker 2: you qualified as the biggest game of the year in

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Speaker 2: the regular season for the Colts. Good wrap up there

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Speaker 2: on the closing arguments with Rick Venturi and Joe Wrights.

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Speaker 2: edition of Colts Roundtable Live, Joe writes and Rick Ventury,

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Speaker 2: great job tonight and is always good to be with

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Speaker 2: you recapping the action. Have a great rest of the

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Speaker 2: week coming up. My thanks again to Shane Styken, you

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Speaker 2: joined earlier tonight, Joe writes, Rick Ventury. I'm Matt Taylor Facer.

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