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Speaker 1: Welcome back inside of the Indiana Union Construction Industry Radio studio.

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Speaker 1: I'm Matt Taylor with JJ Stangovitz. We're talking free agency

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Speaker 1: for the Indianapolis Colts. That's because back in free agency

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Speaker 1: for Indianapolis a linebacker e J Speed, back in the

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Speaker 1: fold for year number five with the Colts. EJ, thanks

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Speaker 1: so much for the time. You got that smiling face.

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Speaker 1: I know you're happy. Congratulations, man, this is awesome for you.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you, thank you. I'm glad to be

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Speaker 1: back indeed, So tell me about your excitement. What are

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Speaker 1: some things that led you back to Indianapolis in this

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Speaker 1: process for you going through free agency for the first time. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: just a un finished business mindset, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 1: We got it's a place where of course I did

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Speaker 1: what I need to do as a player to get

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Speaker 1: a second contract, but I feel like as a team,

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Speaker 1: we got so much more to prove, so much more

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Speaker 1: to do, and you know, I got another two years

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Speaker 1: to prove myself, improve, you know what I mean, helpe

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Speaker 1: this team, IM prove that we are staple in the

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Speaker 1: league and we need to get back to you know,

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Speaker 1: winning and doing what we do best. You know what

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Speaker 1: I mean, e J, what does it mean to you

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Speaker 1: that the Colts believed in you, not just in drafting you,

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Speaker 1: but now in giving you the second contract and this

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Speaker 1: next opportunity here, It means a lot. You know, Battleput

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Speaker 1: is trusting me coming in early, and you know in

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Speaker 1: this process of free agency, I trusted him and we

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Speaker 1: got things done and we made an agreement, you know,

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Speaker 1: to not only come back on the money side, but

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Speaker 1: to come back and do what we need to do

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Speaker 1: as an organization and get this thing back on track.

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Speaker 1: So I'm very much excited. I'm very much appreciative or

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Speaker 1: a coach, organization, the fans, the fans of being great

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Speaker 1: and Lucas Oil, you know what I mean, Like in

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Speaker 1: my four years, so supportive, you know what I mean

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Speaker 1: of me when I signed, A lot of them was,

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Speaker 1: you know, excited for me to come back. And you know,

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Speaker 1: I just feel love and appreciating in Indianapolis. Have you

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Speaker 1: taken any time over the last couple of days just

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Speaker 1: to like, you know, think about your journey here from

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Speaker 1: being a fifth round pick you know, to play in

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Speaker 1: of years ago to that have of the season you

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Speaker 1: had last year, now earning this opportunity, just that journey

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Speaker 1: that you've been on. Yeah, it's been a it's been

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Speaker 1: a rollercoaster for sure. Um, I mean more ups and

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Speaker 1: downs to me, just because of the family oriented organization

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Speaker 1: when we got you know what I mean, even through

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Speaker 1: the hard times, we stuck together as a family and

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Speaker 1: I don't feel like we have a waver from that.

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Speaker 1: And the hard times were wasn't easy, but it was

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Speaker 1: definitely manageable. Yeah, DJ speed with us linebacker for the Colts,

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Speaker 1: coming back to Indianapolis and free agency for you. Like

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Speaker 1: we said, going through free agency for the first time,

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Speaker 1: what was the process like for it? Did you enjoy

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Speaker 1: it or it was a nerve racking? How did you

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Speaker 1: just experience free agency? It wasn't really too nerve wracking.

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Speaker 1: So I did enough to understand, like the game of

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Speaker 1: I did enough and I put in enough work to

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Speaker 1: be confident in myself that I would be somewhere. But

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Speaker 1: it was just the point of trying to get back

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Speaker 1: to Indianapolis. That was my whole goal. Through FREEHD. I

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Speaker 1: I'm not you know, I'm not wavering away from you know,

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Speaker 1: the things that that the media is saying, and and

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Speaker 1: like to the fans, I appreciative. I want to prove

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Speaker 1: to right there, you know, piggybacking off something that JJ said,

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Speaker 1: like he said, you know, you were drafted by this team.

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Speaker 1: Now you're back with the cults and free agency, but

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Speaker 1: you're back early, like it's the first week of free agency.

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Speaker 1: The Colts have prioritized you bringing you back from that standpoint.

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Speaker 1: How much confidence does that give you that you're a

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Speaker 1: coveted guy They want back inside that locker room a lot.

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Speaker 1: They just I mean even my teammates was calling me like, bro,

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Speaker 1: make sure we all hold that standard that we had

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Speaker 1: much stuff that goes in that linebacking corps, even with

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Speaker 1: those guys start making more plays as they go. I mean,

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Speaker 1: understand the business, right, free agency gives your back and

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Speaker 1: it takes away. It's got to be pretty bitter sweet

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Speaker 1: because at the end of the day, you understand the

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Speaker 1: They become great teammates and great brothers. Like you said,

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Speaker 1: how how bitter sweet was it to see Bobby signed

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Speaker 1: can't play with him any longer. Yeah, I was definitely

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Speaker 1: And you know, he works so hard. Like from day one,

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Speaker 1: and said something. It says something that the standard that

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Speaker 1: we put together for each other. Yeah, no doubt about that.

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Speaker 1: He's coming back as defensive coordinator. How exciting is that

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Speaker 1: for you to continue to play under his tutelage if

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Speaker 1: you will. It's exciting because Gus trust me, you know

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Speaker 1: what I mean, he put he put trust in me

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Speaker 1: and you know the sky's delivered from there. Do you

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Speaker 1: you think I'm thinking about like your strip sack? Now? Actually,

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Speaker 1: So speaking of special teams, uh, you have you have

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Speaker 1: another one of your teammates. New Special teams coordinator Brian

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