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Speaker 1: The Colts have near the halfway point of the NFL

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Speaker 1: regular season. I'm Matt Taylor. This is the Official Colts

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Speaker 1: Podcast with J. J. Stangovitz and Lara Overton. It's brought

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Speaker 1: win Bet. Guys, It's been crazy around the Colts here lately.

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Speaker 1: We got quarterback changes. Last week, Colts lose a heartbreaker.

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Speaker 1: The AFC South is looking tougher and tougher to win.

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Speaker 1: The Cults have made changes to the coaching staff today

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Speaker 1: and they've also traded one of their best players on offense. Man.

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Speaker 1: We've got a lot to get into Lara, have you

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Speaker 1: caught your breath yet? No? A right like, this is

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Speaker 1: November one, and I feel like we've lived a whole

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Speaker 1: season in eight weeks already, right, like four seasons actually exactly,

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Speaker 1: not like the resort, Not the resort, the four seasons either.

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Speaker 1: You're talking twelve months a year. This is not a vacation,

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Speaker 1: I think. Once you've seen changes that have been made

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Speaker 1: you're seeing that impacting of course at the quarterback situation

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Speaker 1: what you want to see is some sort of response.

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Speaker 1: You want to see some sort of fight, resilience from

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Speaker 1: this team, a bit of accountability, and that accountability should

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Speaker 1: not have to come from Frank. When you have seven

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Speaker 1: there's a lot there and there's no question about it.

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Speaker 1: I agree with all of that. That's layer Overton, JJ Stankovitz. Here,

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Speaker 1: let's let's get right after it again. Marcus Brady. Today

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Speaker 1: it was announced that the Colts have relieved him of

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Speaker 1: there's a lot to unpack here, JJ. With the sluggishness

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Speaker 1: What did you make of this move? Kind of surprising today,

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Speaker 1: Frank Reich said in his statement, this was an incredibly

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Speaker 1: to be made in the not too distant future about

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Speaker 1: this offense. The Cults are not a wash in cap

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Speaker 1: space like they have been over the last couple of

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Speaker 1: years because they have extended their guys. They have paid

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Speaker 1: Quentin Nelson and you know, Shack Leonard and Braden Smith

433
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Speaker 1: and all these guys who are part of that just

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Speaker 1: incredible twenty eighteen draft class. And now you know you're

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Speaker 1: gonna you know, Jonathan Taylor and Michael Pittman Junior like

436
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Speaker 1: you mentioned Lara, are going to come up for extensions.

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Speaker 1: You know it. This is kind of the cold hearted

438
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Speaker 1: reality of the business that sometimes you have to make

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Speaker 1: moves that you trade a guy you don't want to

440
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Speaker 1: get rid of, you really value, but ultimately you have

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Speaker 1: to do what's right for the Indianapolis Colts. And that's

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Speaker 1: how this move is going down. Yeah, just off the

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Speaker 1: top of my head, maybe you guys can help me

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Speaker 1: fill in the blanks. But some of my favorite Naim

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Speaker 1: Hinds memories in terms of games you've got, well, last

446
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Speaker 1: Sunday he scores a touchdown and then the two punt

447
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Speaker 1: return touchdowns versus the Panthers. That was an electric game.

448
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Speaker 1: Runs through the tunnel thrown deuces up. That was absolutely

449
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Speaker 1: He had one hundred and fifteen scrimmage yards I think

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Speaker 1: against the Titans a few years back on the road

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Speaker 1: on Thursday Night football. Also, coincidentally, on Thursday Night Football

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Speaker 1: last year, he had over one hundred yards from scrimmage

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Speaker 1: against the Jets and a thirty four yard touchdown. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, Marcus Brady Naim hinds. Those two guys good dudes.

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Speaker 1: And to not have them, you know, in the locker

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Speaker 1: room or in the front office anymore, today's tough day.

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Speaker 1: And as you said, Laer, it's it's a tough day

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Speaker 1: because most of this job is about relationships. You know,

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Speaker 1: sometimes we get caught in or at least I do,

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Speaker 1: get caught up in the game prep and looking at

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Speaker 1: team bios and player bios. But these these guys are dudes,

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Speaker 1: They're people. And one of the things I think back

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Speaker 1: to just this season, you know, the instance in Denver

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Speaker 1: when he got you know, tackled so hard that and

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Speaker 1: he couldn't stand up. He was wobbled, And I thought

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Speaker 1: about how scary that moment was, and you know, it

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Speaker 1: kept him out of that game. And he's able to

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Speaker 1: come back and I was apologizing that. He was like,

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Speaker 1: I could go back in I'm so sorry. Like I

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Speaker 1: think overall, I think back to how scary that moment was,

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Speaker 1: and I'm like, he's healthy and he's able to play football. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I would love for it to be here, but hey,

473
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Speaker 1: he's healthy. He's going to play football somewhere else. So

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Speaker 1: I think that provided me a little bit of perspective

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Speaker 1: this year, just in turn, because he's been so durable,

476
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Speaker 1: it was such an unusual situation to see, you know,

477
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Speaker 1: Nihim hampered in that way and see him banged up.

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Speaker 1: So that is one thing moving forward that you're you're

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Speaker 1: excited to see what he does. All right, A lot

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Speaker 1: going on today. That's the latest on Marcus Brady and

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Speaker 1: Naim Hines and the Colts trade for Zack Moss. Moss

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Speaker 1: in the fold now at the running back position behind

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Speaker 1: Jonathan Taylor and Dion Jackson. Moss is a good player.

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Speaker 1: He was drafted in the third round by the Bills

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Speaker 1: back in twenty twenty. We'll spend the rest of the

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Speaker 1: week talking about him and how he fits into this offense,

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Speaker 1: but that obviously took over the top part of our podcast.

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Speaker 1: We normally start with three and out, you know, the

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Speaker 1: top takeaways from the latest game. If we can do

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Speaker 1: that quickly here, I just want to talk about We'll

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Speaker 1: do this in a condensed format, but I just want

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Speaker 1: to talk about how that game last Sunday against the

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Speaker 1: Commanders JJ was literally a game of inches for the

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Speaker 1: Colts on so many levels, so many plays with Michael

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Speaker 1: Pittman's Michael Pittman Junior's run that came up short of

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Speaker 1: the goal line by inches. You had the Sam Ellinger

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Speaker 1: scramble there with just over two minutes to go when

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Speaker 1: his knee is down in she's short of getting a

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Speaker 1: first time. He sold it. He sold it so well.

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Speaker 1: I was down there. I was like, oh, he got it,

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Speaker 1: Like you asked me, right where do you see him

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Speaker 1: from the spot? I was so overly confident because I

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Speaker 1: bought into the Sam Elliger. He did. Yeah, he like

504
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Speaker 1: bounced right up, he signaled first down. I'm like, oh, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm all in. I mean, he sold the heck out

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Speaker 1: of that. And then you had the Terry McLaurin inches away,

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Speaker 1: you know, grabbing the ball away from the grasp of

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Speaker 1: Stefan Gilmour for that game changing play on the last

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Speaker 1: drive of the game for the Commanders. It's a long

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Speaker 1: story short man, if you if you think of it

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Speaker 1: that way, JJ, it's so frustrating because the Colts are

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Speaker 1: right there. They're right there in all of those games,

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Speaker 1: all of these games this season that have seemingly all

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Speaker 1: come down to one score games. I guess those couple

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Speaker 1: of plays in that game on Sunday kind of a

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Speaker 1: microcosm of this cult season. They're just four or five

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Speaker 1: plays a game away from being you know, maybe five

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Speaker 1: win six wins on the season. It comes down to execution.

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Speaker 1: And and that's where you know, hearing from players after

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Speaker 1: the game here and from Nihem Hines and Ryan Kelly

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Speaker 1: after the game that you know, Niheem said, and he's

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Speaker 1: right Nowhem said, we walked the ball up and down

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Speaker 1: the field in this game and came away with sixteen points.

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Speaker 1: And that it goes back to execution. Those you know,

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Speaker 1: you convert one of those short yardage plays into a touchdown,

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Speaker 1: even into a first down. And yeah, you're probably talking,

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Speaker 1: we're probably talking about a Colts win right now. But

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Speaker 1: it's it's something that you it's hard to look at

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Speaker 1: the rest of it and look at some of the

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Speaker 1: stuff the Colts have done well without saying, well, you know,

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Speaker 1: it's it's those couple of plays, because it keeps it.

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Speaker 1: It's happened quite a bit this year in a lot

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Speaker 1: of games, and that is the difference in this league

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Speaker 1: a lot of times. I mean, the Tennessee Titans are

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Speaker 1: a team that their peripheral numbers are not all that

536
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Speaker 1: far off from the Colts, but they execute. We have

537
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Speaker 1: to stop saying, and I know I'm guilty of it too,

538
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Speaker 1: but we have to stop saying that the Titans aren't

539
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Speaker 1: very good. They're good. They're a good team, and you

540
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Speaker 1: know where they're very good situationally, that's a micro fable team.

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Speaker 1: They are physical and they're good situationally. The Cults are

542
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Speaker 1: a physical team, but they have not been to the

543
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Speaker 1: level of good that they need to be and want

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Speaker 1: to be in those in those situations. That but that

545
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Speaker 1: that's where you know, the Titans are five and two

546
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Speaker 1: and the Cults are three four and one, and the

547
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Speaker 1: Titans effectively have a what a two and a half

548
00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:27,800
Speaker 1: game lead? Yeah, at least right now, at least yet

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Speaker 1: I don't do math with the tie. The tie is

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Speaker 1: hard with the outlier there, Oh, oh wait, already seventeen games.

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Speaker 1: I was already thrown off because now we have now

552
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Speaker 1: we have a tie. Yeah, I'm all over the place

553
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Speaker 1: on this. To drive it home, the league has had

554
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Speaker 1: a record number of games decided buy six points or less,

555
00:27:46,760 --> 00:27:49,639
Speaker 1: fifty five of them already eight points are less with

556
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Speaker 1: seventy one already. And yeah, we're just getting started with

557
00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:55,320
Speaker 1: all the close games down to the wire. All right,

558
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Speaker 1: let's double back Sam Ellinger Lara. What did you take

559
00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:01,359
Speaker 1: away from his first start? What did he have to

560
00:28:01,359 --> 00:28:04,679
Speaker 1: say positive wise after the game? The locker room that

561
00:28:04,760 --> 00:28:07,760
Speaker 1: gives you hope and optimism the rest of the season. Here,

562
00:28:07,880 --> 00:28:11,680
Speaker 1: the moment wasn't too big for him. He wasn't blindsided.

563
00:28:11,760 --> 00:28:16,800
Speaker 1: He'd showed no panic whatsoever when you're facing a defensive

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Speaker 1: front that was in hot pursuit. I mean, there were

565
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Speaker 1: a couple of times when he looked dead in the

566
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Speaker 1: water in some situations, and he proved that elusiveness, the

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Speaker 1: poise that you wanted to see. There was a particular

568
00:28:27,280 --> 00:28:29,520
Speaker 1: scramble I'm trying to think, rafted off of my head,

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Speaker 1: and he almost hit was it pit that he just

570
00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:36,240
Speaker 1: barely missed? I mean, kept a play alive for seconds

571
00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:38,720
Speaker 1: and guys are scrambling around trying to get open and

572
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Speaker 1: just for him to keep that play alive. Find a

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Speaker 1: man who and just slipped, I mean just past Michael

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Speaker 1: Pittman Junior. From what I recall. That's those were a

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Speaker 1: couple of the things. We can go through the numbers

576
00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:50,280
Speaker 1: and you can, I mean, you can digest all of it. Still,

577
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Speaker 1: it's a loss in your debut. That just sucks, right, Like,

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Speaker 1: you think about how much that locker room wanted that

579
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Speaker 1: win for Sam. They really did. That's what guys that

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Speaker 1: afterward they were and that is part of the influence

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Speaker 1: and the impact that Sam has. And I mean I

582
00:29:07,760 --> 00:29:09,680
Speaker 1: think they felt the same way about Matt Ryan too.

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Speaker 1: That's it's no different quarterback to quarterback. But you know,

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Speaker 1: when a guy is making his first NFL start, you

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Speaker 1: wanted to feel that they were rallying behind him to

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Speaker 1: some degree. But there were some good things out of it.

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Speaker 1: You know, for the most part, his his accuracy was good.

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00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:26,880
Speaker 1: I think he did throw some really impressive balls that

589
00:29:26,960 --> 00:29:30,080
Speaker 1: you saw, but I think overall it was the moment's

590
00:29:30,120 --> 00:29:32,840
Speaker 1: not too big for him. He has an immense confidence

591
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Speaker 1: going in. You do see things you can build an

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Speaker 1: offense around from Sam Ellinger. I think there were a

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Speaker 1: lot of positive things. Now, what I'm interested to see

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Speaker 1: is with having a game under his belt, with having

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Speaker 1: more time to scheme and to plan. Now, what are

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00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:52,560
Speaker 1: other things you pull out of your toolbox that you

597
00:29:52,560 --> 00:29:56,320
Speaker 1: could integrate into this offense moving forward? Because we did

598
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Speaker 1: see them, we saw them get a little bit more

599
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Speaker 1: creative out there. With the versatility that you had with

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Speaker 1: Sam Linger that I thought that was something too that

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Speaker 1: I am intrigued by moving forward. I thought just to

602
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Speaker 1: kind of go off of the moment wasn't too big

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Speaker 1: for him. You didn't see a lot of the operational

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Speaker 1: errors that might come with a young guy starting his

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Speaker 1: first NFL game. And the fumble was just a great hit.

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Speaker 1: I mean it was just it was a great hit.

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Speaker 1: It was like completely random well, I mean it was.

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Speaker 1: It was a good play. Yeah. But the the thing

609
00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:31,840
Speaker 1: with Sam was, you know, sometimes you'll see these rookies

610
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Speaker 1: get out there and they don't have good pocket presence.

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Speaker 1: They're they're not getting the team into the right checks

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Speaker 1: or looks. Um. You know, they're not killing plays and

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Speaker 1: they need to. They're not. You know, you're seeing guys

614
00:30:42,160 --> 00:30:43,920
Speaker 1: in the wrong place, lining up in the wrong place.

615
00:30:43,960 --> 00:30:47,600
Speaker 1: All that was very tight for the Colts. And that,

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's not what it's not unexpected because we

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Speaker 1: know Sam, we know how he operates, we know how

618
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Speaker 1: prepared he was going to be. But just it's different

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Speaker 1: when you're playing against a defense. It's not holding anything

620
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Speaker 1: back like Washington was. They're sending blitz package is in

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Speaker 1: front and putting fronts out there. Washington A University of Oklahoma,

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Speaker 1: they're not. They're not. You know the Tampa Bay Buccaneers

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Speaker 1: in the preseason, right, you know the way that they

624
00:31:09,720 --> 00:31:12,960
Speaker 1: were disguising some of their coverages and doing those different things.

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00:31:13,560 --> 00:31:16,560
Speaker 1: Sam handled that all really well. And that's kind of

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Speaker 1: the starting point for me that, Okay, he looked like

627
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Speaker 1: a functional NFL quarterback baseline, and then you layer on

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Speaker 1: top of that the forty seven yard at Alec Pierce

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Speaker 1: where he just rifled that thing downfield. He had a

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Speaker 1: completion on third and eight early in the third quarter

631
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Speaker 1: where great timing, he threw a strike to Alec Pierce

632
00:31:35,360 --> 00:31:37,720
Speaker 1: in a spot only Alc could make that catch, picked

633
00:31:37,760 --> 00:31:40,600
Speaker 1: up the first down. Really impressive throw. Some of the

634
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Speaker 1: throws of the day may have been the one that

635
00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:47,800
Speaker 1: pit dropped. Yeah, right where he bought that day. That

636
00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:52,160
Speaker 1: was a seed. Yeah, exactly right. That is a great

637
00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:55,000
Speaker 1: point that that was a very impressive throw in that

638
00:31:55,120 --> 00:31:59,080
Speaker 1: situation too, your number one receiver gotta make critical situation

639
00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:03,040
Speaker 1: to throw itself. Was phenomenal. Yeah, absolutely, And the dude

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Speaker 1: didn't throw a pick either, like you had to fumble.

641
00:32:05,240 --> 00:32:07,720
Speaker 1: No interceptions though, that's a big thing for me. There

642
00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:10,320
Speaker 1: is maybe one throw in there that was a little

643
00:32:10,320 --> 00:32:12,360
Speaker 1: bit risky. I think it was early where a linebacker

644
00:32:12,400 --> 00:32:15,200
Speaker 1: batted it down, But nothing that you were like, you know,

645
00:32:15,560 --> 00:32:17,120
Speaker 1: one of those like oh my god, what are you doing? Like,

646
00:32:17,360 --> 00:32:19,800
Speaker 1: you didn't have any of those. And if if you're

647
00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:21,680
Speaker 1: the number one, if you are the guy, if you're

648
00:32:21,680 --> 00:32:24,400
Speaker 1: gonna be the number one receiver, that's a situation you

649
00:32:24,560 --> 00:32:28,040
Speaker 1: make that catch. You make that catch, it's critical situation,

650
00:32:28,280 --> 00:32:30,800
Speaker 1: opportunity to win a game, that catch. That balling. Yeah,

651
00:32:30,840 --> 00:32:32,120
Speaker 1: I mean Rick and I are in the booth calling

652
00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:33,840
Speaker 1: that play. I mean I've got that. I've got that

653
00:32:33,880 --> 00:32:36,280
Speaker 1: down as a completion of twenty yards of the forty

654
00:32:36,280 --> 00:32:38,960
Speaker 1: five yard line, you know, yards after catching. My head's

655
00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:42,200
Speaker 1: so physical too, I mean he's great at yards after catch, right,

656
00:32:42,280 --> 00:32:44,120
Speaker 1: you think he's gonna fight after he's got the ball

657
00:32:44,120 --> 00:32:46,320
Speaker 1: in his hands, He's got ten more in front of him.

658
00:32:46,840 --> 00:32:48,320
Speaker 1: I think he gets to at least to the fifty

659
00:32:48,400 --> 00:32:50,960
Speaker 1: yard line, gets out of bounds, or if worst case scenario,

660
00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:53,040
Speaker 1: gets tackled in bounds, you call a time out. You

661
00:32:53,080 --> 00:32:55,520
Speaker 1: had one time out left there, and then at that

662
00:32:55,560 --> 00:32:57,600
Speaker 1: point you only need about ten more yards to get

663
00:32:57,640 --> 00:33:00,160
Speaker 1: into the career long range of Chase mcglass and the

664
00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:02,600
Speaker 1: way Chase McLoughlin has been kicking right thirteen to fourteen

665
00:33:02,600 --> 00:33:04,760
Speaker 1: field goals, you feel pretty good about tough end of

666
00:33:04,760 --> 00:33:07,720
Speaker 1: game attempt, There no doubt about it. How do you think, Lara,

667
00:33:07,760 --> 00:33:10,120
Speaker 1: how do you think he translates on the road, You know,

668
00:33:10,280 --> 00:33:13,760
Speaker 1: one of the more hostile places to play, obviously Gillette Stadium.

669
00:33:13,840 --> 00:33:16,320
Speaker 1: I think the Patriots since two thousand and two, Not

670
00:33:16,360 --> 00:33:18,200
Speaker 1: to get all weird on you, but since two thousand

671
00:33:18,200 --> 00:33:21,280
Speaker 1: and two, yeah, the Patriots have the highest winning percentage

672
00:33:21,320 --> 00:33:24,880
Speaker 1: at home at Gillette Stadium. The Cults are looking for

673
00:33:24,920 --> 00:33:27,600
Speaker 1: their first road win against the Patriots since two thousand

674
00:33:27,600 --> 00:33:29,600
Speaker 1: and six. We already talked about going up against Bill

675
00:33:29,600 --> 00:33:31,680
Speaker 1: Bellisi and sixth season was a good one. That was

676
00:33:31,680 --> 00:33:34,320
Speaker 1: a good team, good team, it was fruitful. Yeah, Um,

677
00:33:34,640 --> 00:33:36,640
Speaker 1: how do you think that translates to a difficult place

678
00:33:36,640 --> 00:33:39,400
Speaker 1: to play? Now? I have to just believe everything that

679
00:33:39,480 --> 00:33:42,480
Speaker 1: you say because it is my maiden voyage to Foxborough.

680
00:33:42,520 --> 00:33:45,120
Speaker 1: I've never been to Gillette Stadium. I've never experienced this.

681
00:33:45,360 --> 00:33:49,640
Speaker 1: It's not fun. So it's well, well, logistically it's not

682
00:33:49,760 --> 00:33:52,000
Speaker 1: fun because it's it would be like if Lucas Oil

683
00:33:52,080 --> 00:33:55,960
Speaker 1: Stadium was in Greensburg. Yeah, you travel into Providence, right,

684
00:33:55,960 --> 00:33:59,480
Speaker 1: You'll go into Providence and then to Foxboro, is my

685
00:33:59,600 --> 00:34:03,200
Speaker 1: understand So the cults choose to stay in Providence. I

686
00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:05,440
Speaker 1: think Foxboro, if I'm not mistaken. It's been a while

687
00:34:05,440 --> 00:34:07,760
Speaker 1: since we've been there. It's it's a suburb of Boston

688
00:34:07,880 --> 00:34:11,200
Speaker 1: teams last time, right, suburb suburb is being generous. Yeah,

689
00:34:11,480 --> 00:34:14,239
Speaker 1: it's like going to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. You know,

690
00:34:14,320 --> 00:34:17,080
Speaker 1: like you're you're all in all these little small neighborhoods

691
00:34:18,080 --> 00:34:20,840
Speaker 1: and it just like it emerges. Yeah, I mean literally,

692
00:34:21,760 --> 00:34:24,320
Speaker 1: like a half acre away from the stadium is like farms.

693
00:34:24,480 --> 00:34:26,560
Speaker 1: And I didn't mean to deflect your question, but I'm

694
00:34:26,560 --> 00:34:30,320
Speaker 1: just being upfront because I haven't first hand experienced the environment.

695
00:34:32,120 --> 00:34:35,920
Speaker 1: I'm somewhat speaking ignorantly, just in the sense that I mean, obviously,

696
00:34:36,040 --> 00:34:38,440
Speaker 1: I feel like I have a good working knowledge of

697
00:34:38,440 --> 00:34:41,120
Speaker 1: the NFL, so I have an understanding of what it

698
00:34:41,200 --> 00:34:43,680
Speaker 1: is and the hostility of the environment and the magnitude

699
00:34:43,680 --> 00:34:47,319
Speaker 1: of playing there. But I just think going back to it,

700
00:34:47,960 --> 00:34:50,279
Speaker 1: none of this to this point has been too big

701
00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:52,840
Speaker 1: for Sam. I don't expect this to be the time.

702
00:34:52,840 --> 00:34:57,960
Speaker 1: That is, this is too tough. Back to back volatile

703
00:34:58,080 --> 00:35:00,640
Speaker 1: environments that you were going into when you talk about

704
00:35:00,719 --> 00:35:03,120
Speaker 1: playing the Patriots in New England and then playing the

705
00:35:03,200 --> 00:35:06,240
Speaker 1: Raiders in Las Vegas, those this is. These are two

706
00:35:07,280 --> 00:35:13,600
Speaker 1: I mean just absolutely massive games in terms of road, environment,

707
00:35:13,760 --> 00:35:17,480
Speaker 1: dynamic to be tested in not just for Sam Ellinger,

708
00:35:17,520 --> 00:35:21,480
Speaker 1: but also for the rest of this offense. I think

709
00:35:21,680 --> 00:35:24,120
Speaker 1: I think it'll be good for Sam. I think he will.

710
00:35:24,400 --> 00:35:30,880
Speaker 1: He seems to thrive in situations that most people would

711
00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:34,080
Speaker 1: wilt with him, So that is what I am taking away.

712
00:35:34,120 --> 00:35:37,399
Speaker 1: I think Sam will embrace this, He'll accept it, He'll

713
00:35:37,680 --> 00:35:41,359
Speaker 1: he'll love it. You almost feel like there's Sam is

714
00:35:41,440 --> 00:35:45,319
Speaker 1: like the I mean, just the most genuine, great all

715
00:35:45,360 --> 00:35:49,160
Speaker 1: around guy, but there's like a little nastiness to him

716
00:35:49,200 --> 00:35:51,399
Speaker 1: where he's like, I'm okay, if you hate me, I'm

717
00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:53,880
Speaker 1: all right with being food. I'll feed off of it

718
00:35:53,960 --> 00:35:57,280
Speaker 1: like he does. He does have that ship on his shoulders.

719
00:35:57,320 --> 00:35:59,719
Speaker 1: So I'm excited to see what he does and when

720
00:35:59,760 --> 00:36:02,920
Speaker 1: he's able to do, provided the opportunity, and you know,

721
00:36:02,920 --> 00:36:05,000
Speaker 1: provided how the guys rise up. I mean, this guy's

722
00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:07,719
Speaker 1: played in in big time Bowl games. He's played in

723
00:36:07,719 --> 00:36:12,160
Speaker 1: the Red Red River rivalry in front of charged up crowds.

724
00:36:12,880 --> 00:36:16,160
Speaker 1: I don't think there's any situation on the road that

725
00:36:16,239 --> 00:36:19,880
Speaker 1: is going to phase Sam Ellinger. Facing a Bill Belichick defense,

726
00:36:20,520 --> 00:36:24,880
Speaker 1: that is maybe a different story because Bill Belichick is

727
00:36:25,880 --> 00:36:28,279
Speaker 1: one of the best, if not the best, defensive mind,

728
00:36:28,320 --> 00:36:30,920
Speaker 1: best head coach we've seen in NFL history. He always

729
00:36:30,920 --> 00:36:34,000
Speaker 1: presents a challenge to young quarterbacks. That is always something

730
00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:37,400
Speaker 1: he will do. However, young quarterbacks who can run have

731
00:36:37,480 --> 00:36:40,040
Speaker 1: had a little bit more success against Bill Belichick. We

732
00:36:40,040 --> 00:36:43,319
Speaker 1: saw it justin fields light up the Patriots. I saw

733
00:36:43,400 --> 00:36:46,600
Speaker 1: Mitch Trubisky in twenty eighteen. Patriots came into town. Mitch

734
00:36:46,680 --> 00:36:48,880
Speaker 1: ran for like one hundred yards in that game, Bears

735
00:36:48,880 --> 00:36:51,640
Speaker 1: scored thirty one points, almost beat the Patriots. In twenty

736
00:36:51,840 --> 00:36:55,440
Speaker 1: eighteen a little bit more. Although this is the first

737
00:36:55,480 --> 00:36:58,279
Speaker 1: time you're going into Foxborough since eighteen. You did just

738
00:36:58,360 --> 00:37:01,640
Speaker 1: face the Patriots and beat the Patrios last season with

739
00:37:01,840 --> 00:37:04,440
Speaker 1: two pretty similar teams. Obviously, Colts have a new defense

740
00:37:04,440 --> 00:37:06,839
Speaker 1: and different things like that. But Mac Jones was playing

741
00:37:06,880 --> 00:37:09,280
Speaker 1: at an incredibly high level. When you faced the Patriots

742
00:37:09,360 --> 00:37:12,000
Speaker 1: last year. You were successful against him. You put up

743
00:37:12,360 --> 00:37:14,759
Speaker 1: you put up points on their defense. There are some

744
00:37:14,840 --> 00:37:16,560
Speaker 1: things that I think you can draw from from that

745
00:37:16,680 --> 00:37:19,239
Speaker 1: success just last season. Mac Jones, By the way, this

746
00:37:19,280 --> 00:37:20,759
Speaker 1: shocked me when I looked it up. He has three

747
00:37:20,800 --> 00:37:24,880
Speaker 1: touchdowns to seven interceptions this year. Oh yeah, good's right.

748
00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:27,799
Speaker 1: Good completion percentage though, but yeah yeah, not taking care

749
00:37:27,840 --> 00:37:30,480
Speaker 1: of the football, got hurt, got banged up. So Bailey

750
00:37:30,560 --> 00:37:33,279
Speaker 1: Zappy jumps in there. What a year it's been in

751
00:37:33,320 --> 00:37:35,960
Speaker 1: New English. Shack Leonard picked off Mac Jones last year.

752
00:37:35,960 --> 00:37:37,760
Speaker 1: I hope to see Shack continue to kind of increase

753
00:37:37,800 --> 00:37:40,759
Speaker 1: his snap share in this game. Got an interception hey

754
00:37:40,960 --> 00:37:44,160
Speaker 1: on Sunday against the Commanders too, so hope to see

755
00:37:44,200 --> 00:37:47,719
Speaker 1: that continue. Well. The Marcus Brady News sort of I

756
00:37:47,800 --> 00:37:52,200
Speaker 1: put this good, elaborate, thoughtful rundown together obviously always do.

757
00:37:52,360 --> 00:37:55,400
Speaker 1: The Marcus Brady news sort of blew that up, and

758
00:37:55,480 --> 00:37:57,440
Speaker 1: I was excited for the bit that I had with

759
00:37:57,480 --> 00:37:58,960
Speaker 1: forks in the road. Did you guys take a look

760
00:37:58,960 --> 00:38:01,400
Speaker 1: at that? I know, yeah, can we do it? You

761
00:38:01,480 --> 00:38:03,600
Speaker 1: go through it quick? I don't want to still you

762
00:38:03,640 --> 00:38:05,200
Speaker 1: still want to do it? Does it still make sense

763
00:38:05,200 --> 00:38:06,880
Speaker 1: to do it? You guys are gonna make fun of me,

764
00:38:06,880 --> 00:38:09,600
Speaker 1: aren't you. No, you gonna make fun of me on this. Absolutely.

765
00:38:10,040 --> 00:38:11,640
Speaker 1: I was kind of proud of this one, but also

766
00:38:11,640 --> 00:38:14,279
Speaker 1: embarrassed at the same point or the same time. I

767
00:38:14,320 --> 00:38:16,879
Speaker 1: just want to talk about the changes on offense. Let's

768
00:38:16,880 --> 00:38:18,919
Speaker 1: just do that one, because I think we'll just get

769
00:38:18,920 --> 00:38:20,879
Speaker 1: the gist of it then move on. But I want

770
00:38:20,920 --> 00:38:23,959
Speaker 1: to talk about the changes on offense, or if there's

771
00:38:24,040 --> 00:38:26,560
Speaker 1: going to be changes on offense. In terms of execution,

772
00:38:26,600 --> 00:38:29,239
Speaker 1: we talk about all the sluggishness again, and but we

773
00:38:29,280 --> 00:38:32,919
Speaker 1: did see some spark with Sam Ellinger there in terms

774
00:38:32,960 --> 00:38:36,480
Speaker 1: of the end rounds and bubble screens and jet sweeps

775
00:38:36,480 --> 00:38:39,000
Speaker 1: and things like that. Because Colts had four plays over

776
00:38:39,080 --> 00:38:43,080
Speaker 1: twenty five and seven plays over fifteen, so the Colts

777
00:38:43,080 --> 00:38:44,799
Speaker 1: are kind of had a fork in the road through

778
00:38:44,920 --> 00:38:47,359
Speaker 1: nine games. Or through eight games going into the ninth

779
00:38:47,360 --> 00:38:50,920
Speaker 1: game three four and one new quarterback, maybe a change

780
00:38:50,920 --> 00:38:54,120
Speaker 1: in creativity a little bit. I said, the Colts at

781
00:38:54,160 --> 00:38:56,759
Speaker 1: the fork in the road, they could either take same old,

782
00:38:56,800 --> 00:39:00,400
Speaker 1: same old Bolivard JJ or finally take care of the

783
00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:02,960
Speaker 1: ball avenue with all the turnovers. Which which road do

784
00:39:03,040 --> 00:39:05,879
Speaker 1: they take? I also like this, so it's it's same old,

785
00:39:05,920 --> 00:39:07,680
Speaker 1: same old the S and the L or cablet so

786
00:39:07,719 --> 00:39:11,200
Speaker 1: it looks like so so boulevard. So it's like there's

787
00:39:11,239 --> 00:39:14,600
Speaker 1: a good little acronym and same same old boulevard. Or

788
00:39:14,640 --> 00:39:16,960
Speaker 1: finally take care of the ball avenue the road. I

789
00:39:17,040 --> 00:39:22,800
Speaker 1: misread a mate as same old, same o L boulevard.

790
00:39:20,800 --> 00:39:26,000
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, my bad, But yeah, I say, same

791
00:39:26,080 --> 00:39:30,279
Speaker 1: old line makes sense with the fumbles, but yeah. I

792
00:39:30,320 --> 00:39:33,040
Speaker 1: mean we were talking about this on Colts Around Table

793
00:39:33,040 --> 00:39:37,120
Speaker 1: Live Matt with Rick Venturiy on Monday. And you know,

794
00:39:38,280 --> 00:39:40,759
Speaker 1: there are things you can emphasize in practice, but you

795
00:39:40,760 --> 00:39:43,040
Speaker 1: can only do it so much of just be like

796
00:39:43,080 --> 00:39:45,160
Speaker 1: just just you gotta take care of the football. You

797
00:39:45,160 --> 00:39:48,360
Speaker 1: know you can. You can work on ball security drills,

798
00:39:48,400 --> 00:39:52,360
Speaker 1: but some of these fumbles are have just been almost random.

799
00:39:52,440 --> 00:39:54,160
Speaker 1: I mean, like Jonathan Taylor that first when he had

800
00:39:54,200 --> 00:39:58,080
Speaker 1: against Tennessee. He sprained his ankle on the play. I

801
00:39:58,120 --> 00:40:01,520
Speaker 1: can't imagine holding onto a football when your ankle is

802
00:40:01,560 --> 00:40:04,160
Speaker 1: in searing pain, like what happens when you sprain it that,

803
00:40:04,280 --> 00:40:06,640
Speaker 1: you know, stuff like that, And and Sam that what

804
00:40:06,800 --> 00:40:09,279
Speaker 1: the fumble he had just like a weird play where

805
00:40:09,280 --> 00:40:11,080
Speaker 1: he was trying to escape the pocket and the ball

806
00:40:11,160 --> 00:40:13,279
Speaker 1: just kind of came out as he tried to start

807
00:40:13,360 --> 00:40:15,520
Speaker 1: running with it. Just one of those things that's like,

808
00:40:15,920 --> 00:40:18,520
Speaker 1: I don't even know how you correct that as a

809
00:40:18,560 --> 00:40:21,120
Speaker 1: head coach, other than to be like, hey, don't you know,

810
00:40:21,360 --> 00:40:24,600
Speaker 1: don't do that again. Um, I think it'll go more

811
00:40:24,640 --> 00:40:27,239
Speaker 1: toward finally take her of the ball. Avenue with the

812
00:40:27,239 --> 00:40:31,239
Speaker 1: fumbles and they just paved it too. It's great, Yeah,

813
00:40:31,280 --> 00:40:36,520
Speaker 1: just because this is this it's freshly, it's well lit.

814
00:40:36,800 --> 00:40:39,080
Speaker 1: This feels like one of those things where it's gonna

815
00:40:39,080 --> 00:40:44,400
Speaker 1: be there's no roundabouts. Roundabouts are great. It feels like

816
00:40:44,400 --> 00:40:45,680
Speaker 1: one of those things where this is just going to

817
00:40:45,719 --> 00:40:47,360
Speaker 1: be a regression to the only thing worse than a

818
00:40:47,400 --> 00:40:50,839
Speaker 1: roundabout is a Michigan left. Yeah, what is that? Yeah,

819
00:40:51,480 --> 00:40:56,040
Speaker 1: that's another podcast entirely. I'm I'm definitively going finally take

820
00:40:56,120 --> 00:40:59,520
Speaker 1: care of the ball avenue, And I'm going back to

821
00:40:59,600 --> 00:41:01,839
Speaker 1: something that I talked to Stephan Gilmour about. I mean,

822
00:41:01,960 --> 00:41:04,160
Speaker 1: opposite side of the ball, but one of the things,

823
00:41:04,160 --> 00:41:06,680
Speaker 1: speaking of a guy who knows about playing in Foxborough,

824
00:41:06,800 --> 00:41:10,400
Speaker 1: knows about the environment of Gillette Stadium, he told me

825
00:41:10,400 --> 00:41:12,279
Speaker 1: in a conversation a few weeks back that there are

826
00:41:12,320 --> 00:41:14,480
Speaker 1: some things that you just have to figure out and

827
00:41:14,680 --> 00:41:17,319
Speaker 1: endure over the course of this season where you just

828
00:41:17,440 --> 00:41:21,799
Speaker 1: have to have some inevitable struggles before you get to

829
00:41:21,840 --> 00:41:24,000
Speaker 1: the point as a team of being the team you're

830
00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:27,719
Speaker 1: going to be. And my thinking is that this team

831
00:41:27,760 --> 00:41:30,640
Speaker 1: has interred plenty of those struggles already. Now is the

832
00:41:30,680 --> 00:41:33,000
Speaker 1: time to prove that resilience and prove some growth off

833
00:41:33,040 --> 00:41:34,960
Speaker 1: of it. And I think this is the prime opportunity

834
00:41:35,400 --> 00:41:37,719
Speaker 1: to do that. I love it forks in the road

835
00:41:37,800 --> 00:41:40,160
Speaker 1: right there. I had good stuff on slow starts and

836
00:41:40,640 --> 00:41:43,400
Speaker 1: trade deadline and maybe a couple of a start avenue

837
00:41:43,480 --> 00:41:46,200
Speaker 1: or put it together early lane. I had sluggish start

838
00:41:46,280 --> 00:41:48,719
Speaker 1: drive or put it together early lane? Which road do

839
00:41:48,800 --> 00:41:51,879
Speaker 1: they take? Fork in the road About the offense too,

840
00:41:51,960 --> 00:41:55,840
Speaker 1: it's what's your poem? What's the Robert Frost Robert frost

841
00:41:56,040 --> 00:42:02,680
Speaker 1: Y take is the modern day Robert Frost. Am, you

842
00:42:02,680 --> 00:42:05,360
Speaker 1: guys are good sports? Walking me through that, there's inspiration

843
00:42:05,400 --> 00:42:08,279
Speaker 1: for next week's right, Yeah, there creative brain wool. Let's

844
00:42:08,280 --> 00:42:10,000
Speaker 1: see if he can do it again? All right? J

845
00:42:10,200 --> 00:42:12,560
Speaker 1: J Twitter Times mail bag. What do you get? So

846
00:42:12,640 --> 00:42:15,439
Speaker 1: we talked about Sam Ellinger earlier in the pod, and

847
00:42:15,520 --> 00:42:18,279
Speaker 1: this has been kind of a pretty heavy pod just

848
00:42:18,320 --> 00:42:20,600
Speaker 1: in terms of football stuff. It hasn't been a great

849
00:42:20,640 --> 00:42:24,000
Speaker 1: week around here in Indianapolis. So let's have a discussion

850
00:42:24,440 --> 00:42:27,520
Speaker 1: from her old pal Nick Merlina, who asks how many

851
00:42:27,520 --> 00:42:29,440
Speaker 1: skills would you need to fill up a bowing seven

852
00:42:29,520 --> 00:42:33,120
Speaker 1: forty seven? Oh, this is a random I'm gonna say

853
00:42:33,120 --> 00:42:37,480
Speaker 1: one trillion. Oh oh geez, Louise, it's just like a

854
00:42:37,520 --> 00:42:40,960
Speaker 1: big plane? Then? Yeah? Is this is I need to

855
00:42:41,040 --> 00:42:43,839
Speaker 1: know though? Is this like a is this like a

856
00:42:43,880 --> 00:42:46,880
Speaker 1: passenger plane or is this a like is this a

857
00:42:46,920 --> 00:42:50,839
Speaker 1: hauling freight type of Okay, you haven't answer. Are there

858
00:42:50,840 --> 00:42:53,120
Speaker 1: seats on it? And do I have to fill? Is

859
00:42:53,160 --> 00:42:55,920
Speaker 1: this just the cabin or is this the luggage compartment

860
00:42:55,960 --> 00:42:58,040
Speaker 1: like underneath and above as well? Like I have a

861
00:42:58,040 --> 00:43:01,279
Speaker 1: lot of questions by seven can carry one hundred and

862
00:43:01,320 --> 00:43:05,680
Speaker 1: thirty nine tons in the main cargo deck. Do we

863
00:43:05,719 --> 00:43:08,200
Speaker 1: actually know what the answer is? I don't know. So

864
00:43:08,239 --> 00:43:09,839
Speaker 1: I could just throw on anything. You could throw out

865
00:43:09,840 --> 00:43:12,520
Speaker 1: whatever you want. At this I said a trillion, A trillion,

866
00:43:14,200 --> 00:43:19,400
Speaker 1: Nick Merlina a job. I'm gonna go three hundred and

867
00:43:19,560 --> 00:43:22,640
Speaker 1: forty million Skittles. It's got to be at least a billion.

868
00:43:22,880 --> 00:43:26,120
Speaker 1: I don't know. Yeah, one b by the way, speaking over,

869
00:43:26,760 --> 00:43:31,840
Speaker 1: you know what, I have taken a stance, an anti

870
00:43:32,080 --> 00:43:35,880
Speaker 1: Skittles stance since they changed the green from lime to

871
00:43:35,960 --> 00:43:39,200
Speaker 1: green apple. Can't do it anymore. Didn't know that happened. Oh,

872
00:43:38,960 --> 00:43:42,799
Speaker 1: it's it's an absolutely egregious decision on the part of

873
00:43:42,800 --> 00:43:45,600
Speaker 1: her Skittles. Mister Skittle is in my doghouse right now

874
00:43:45,600 --> 00:43:47,400
Speaker 1: when this happens. Been a couple of years. It's been

875
00:43:47,400 --> 00:43:50,200
Speaker 1: a couple of years. Yeah, the green apple, green apple,

876
00:43:50,320 --> 00:43:53,680
Speaker 1: no green apple or awful line was the way to go. So, yeah,

877
00:43:53,880 --> 00:43:56,200
Speaker 1: this is one of the greater disappointments of my adult life.

878
00:43:56,239 --> 00:43:58,040
Speaker 1: Let me tell you know what I've worn myself out

879
00:43:58,080 --> 00:44:00,760
Speaker 1: on because of Molly, my five year old loves candy.

880
00:44:00,840 --> 00:44:04,560
Speaker 1: I've worn myself out on red starbursts to me, they

881
00:44:04,560 --> 00:44:08,320
Speaker 1: take they taste awful now because I've had so many

882
00:44:07,560 --> 00:44:11,360
Speaker 1: ticketing over here across the building, They've got like just

883
00:44:11,400 --> 00:44:13,719
Speaker 1: wads of candy everywhere. And I had like nine of

884
00:44:13,760 --> 00:44:18,359
Speaker 1: the pink starbursts today. So good. So yesterday we're trick

885
00:44:18,440 --> 00:44:22,880
Speaker 1: or treating, and I found out that my son Charlie,

886
00:44:22,880 --> 00:44:25,480
Speaker 1: one of my two twins, doesn't like Reese's Peanut Butter

887
00:44:25,520 --> 00:44:29,400
Speaker 1: Cups but loves Glad you clarify there are two twins,

888
00:44:29,400 --> 00:44:33,840
Speaker 1: Well that's a good point. Yeah, loves Twizzlers. That's like,

889
00:44:33,960 --> 00:44:37,520
Speaker 1: that's like, that's like saying that's like saying an NFL

890
00:44:37,560 --> 00:44:41,960
Speaker 1: football game. It's very redundant. Um loves Twizzlers, hates Reese's Cups.

891
00:44:42,400 --> 00:44:46,680
Speaker 1: What are you doing wrong? I don't know. Really concerned, wow,

892
00:44:46,840 --> 00:44:50,120
Speaker 1: really concerned. I also think that sometimes kids just like

893
00:44:50,320 --> 00:44:53,160
Speaker 1: things based on the color, Like you know, like sometimes

894
00:44:53,200 --> 00:44:55,960
Speaker 1: like you'll ask a kid for the what flavor popsicle

895
00:44:56,000 --> 00:44:58,160
Speaker 1: do you want? And then they're like red or purple.

896
00:44:58,239 --> 00:45:00,279
Speaker 1: It's like it's not cherry or grape like. I think

897
00:45:00,280 --> 00:45:01,759
Speaker 1: some of the are just drawn to the color. So

898
00:45:01,800 --> 00:45:05,080
Speaker 1: I think there's there's hope for young chocolate. There's hope

899
00:45:05,080 --> 00:45:07,200
Speaker 1: for young Charles. It was good news for me though,

900
00:45:07,200 --> 00:45:10,360
Speaker 1: because I just say about you get all the leftovers. Baby.

901
00:45:10,560 --> 00:45:12,840
Speaker 1: That was a very random Twitter mail bag, but I

902
00:45:12,920 --> 00:45:15,680
Speaker 1: like it, kind of light, lighthearted, hit lighten up a

903
00:45:15,680 --> 00:45:18,080
Speaker 1: little alway. It's great to hear from Nick Merlina. Always

904
00:45:18,120 --> 00:45:20,120
Speaker 1: all right, the random thought of the week, always light,

905
00:45:20,239 --> 00:45:23,160
Speaker 1: always random. Um. We had Chipotle the other day for

906
00:45:23,239 --> 00:45:25,879
Speaker 1: lunch around here. The fine folks with the Colts fed

907
00:45:25,960 --> 00:45:30,279
Speaker 1: us and we got to judge the Halloween um costume contest.

908
00:45:30,719 --> 00:45:35,200
Speaker 1: So got me thinking Chipotle fast food. Yes, yes, I

909
00:45:35,200 --> 00:45:40,200
Speaker 1: would agree. Some say no, though unanimous that's forever I

910
00:45:40,200 --> 00:45:42,400
Speaker 1: would agree. Okay, so I'm in an audible here. I

911
00:45:42,440 --> 00:45:44,959
Speaker 1: have also a random thought of the week as well.

912
00:45:45,000 --> 00:45:46,880
Speaker 1: I know I don't want to steal though. That's like

913
00:45:46,920 --> 00:45:48,520
Speaker 1: Mayta's random thought of the week. I don't know what

914
00:45:48,520 --> 00:45:51,799
Speaker 1: we would call mine. There's there's multiple week. Yeah. But

915
00:45:52,000 --> 00:45:57,600
Speaker 1: uh so it's November first. Is it too early for

916
00:45:57,719 --> 00:46:01,560
Speaker 1: Christmas music and Christmas decor? Yes? No, I say yes,

917
00:46:01,600 --> 00:46:03,960
Speaker 1: it is absolutely too early. You have to go to Thanksgiving.

918
00:46:04,200 --> 00:46:08,120
Speaker 1: Do not do not bulldoze Thanksgiving with your Mariah carry

919
00:46:08,239 --> 00:46:11,439
Speaker 1: bull I have no time for it. Like, no, don't

920
00:46:11,440 --> 00:46:14,120
Speaker 1: start hanging the garland, don't bust out your point sets,

921
00:46:14,120 --> 00:46:17,680
Speaker 1: none of that. No, Observe Thanksgiving, Give Thanksgiving. It is

922
00:46:17,840 --> 00:46:25,840
Speaker 1: to respect the pilgrims, uh, you know, and save save,

923
00:46:26,560 --> 00:46:30,919
Speaker 1: save all of that, you know, Mariah carry garbage rocking

924
00:46:30,960 --> 00:46:35,359
Speaker 1: around the Christmas tree stuff for November. It's not just

925
00:46:35,480 --> 00:46:37,680
Speaker 1: that though, it's everything. Like you can't even go buy

926
00:46:37,760 --> 00:46:41,200
Speaker 1: a lawnmower or a grill in the month of August. Yeah,

927
00:46:41,239 --> 00:46:45,160
Speaker 1: because everything is is fall. It's Halloween in August. Yeah, right,

928
00:46:45,200 --> 00:46:47,960
Speaker 1: everything's sped up two and a half months prior than

929
00:46:48,320 --> 00:46:51,319
Speaker 1: when it should be out or celebrated. Here's here's my take.

930
00:46:52,040 --> 00:46:54,520
Speaker 1: It's gonna be warm this weekend. It's gonna be in

931
00:46:54,560 --> 00:46:57,400
Speaker 1: the seventies, beautiful weather. Yes, great time to put up

932
00:46:57,400 --> 00:47:03,880
Speaker 1: your lights, because you know what's the worst. You can awful.

933
00:47:04,080 --> 00:47:06,000
Speaker 1: You can put a new splash for you. You can

934
00:47:06,000 --> 00:47:07,640
Speaker 1: put them up and not turn them on. Yeah. They

935
00:47:07,640 --> 00:47:09,920
Speaker 1: can live there, they can live there, they can be there. Right,

936
00:47:10,520 --> 00:47:17,000
Speaker 1: it's still you know, observe Thanksgiving in our household, we

937
00:47:17,040 --> 00:47:19,560
Speaker 1: are putting up all of our Christmas. I will go

938
00:47:19,600 --> 00:47:22,120
Speaker 1: in hands down. Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday of the

939
00:47:22,239 --> 00:47:26,640
Speaker 1: entire year. It trump's Christmas in my book, absolutely, because

940
00:47:26,640 --> 00:47:29,720
Speaker 1: you're not under no obligation for like gifts and do everything.

941
00:47:29,880 --> 00:47:33,160
Speaker 1: It's so much just about being together and gathering and

942
00:47:33,320 --> 00:47:36,680
Speaker 1: spending time. And it's not about what you got or

943
00:47:36,719 --> 00:47:40,839
Speaker 1: what you gotta give, yes, or you know, appearing at

944
00:47:40,840 --> 00:47:43,600
Speaker 1: the you know, festival of Lights and you feel like

945
00:47:43,600 --> 00:47:45,560
Speaker 1: you got to take pictures outside of this, and you

946
00:47:45,600 --> 00:47:47,840
Speaker 1: got to visit Santa and you got like some people,

947
00:47:49,239 --> 00:47:51,200
Speaker 1: right right, right. But I just feel like that there

948
00:47:51,200 --> 00:47:52,959
Speaker 1: are kind of a lot of a lot of feel

949
00:47:53,000 --> 00:47:56,800
Speaker 1: like boxes you have to check come Christmas time, whereas

950
00:47:56,840 --> 00:48:00,200
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving time just seems more about showing up. Yeah, Okay,

951
00:48:00,520 --> 00:48:02,680
Speaker 1: I think this is interesting because the previous pod you

952
00:48:02,719 --> 00:48:06,080
Speaker 1: said you hate fall, but you love Thanksgiving. I like

953
00:48:06,120 --> 00:48:09,800
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving as a holiday. Yeah, yes, Thanksgiving to me is

954
00:48:09,800 --> 00:48:15,120
Speaker 1: is still a fall holiday, so it make it a falliday. Yeah,

955
00:48:15,160 --> 00:48:17,239
Speaker 1: but it still falls. But if you hate but like

956
00:48:17,320 --> 00:48:20,319
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving happens in warm weather still, like, I mean, it's

957
00:48:20,360 --> 00:48:23,160
Speaker 1: not like Thanksgivings cancel if it's sixty five, yeah, which

958
00:48:23,160 --> 00:48:27,520
Speaker 1: it has been here on thanks It's also snowed on Thanksgiving. Yes, miserable.

959
00:48:28,000 --> 00:48:31,640
Speaker 1: I just see, I consider Thanksgiving still a fall holiday. Yeah,

960
00:48:31,719 --> 00:48:33,560
Speaker 1: just don't like fall weather, Like I don't know. Yeah,

961
00:48:33,600 --> 00:48:35,359
Speaker 1: I don't think she's debating that. I think she would

962
00:48:35,400 --> 00:48:38,399
Speaker 1: like Thanksgiving if if it fell in April, right, sure, absolutely, okay,

963
00:48:38,560 --> 00:48:41,040
Speaker 1: got it, Yes, okay, yes, I just it's it's a

964
00:48:41,040 --> 00:48:43,120
Speaker 1: great time, like, especially in my family. So I have

965
00:48:43,160 --> 00:48:45,479
Speaker 1: a blended family, like not to get too much into

966
00:48:45,600 --> 00:48:49,440
Speaker 1: the dynamic, but blended family. So we just get you

967
00:48:49,480 --> 00:48:52,600
Speaker 1: get Thursday through the weekend, like we take all of it.

968
00:48:52,680 --> 00:48:54,480
Speaker 1: So like we spend time with my husband's family, then

969
00:48:54,480 --> 00:48:56,440
Speaker 1: we go down good old New Albany, we get time

970
00:48:56,440 --> 00:48:57,920
Speaker 1: with like my dad's side of the family, and then

971
00:48:58,120 --> 00:48:59,759
Speaker 1: my mom and my stepdad side of the family. We

972
00:48:59,800 --> 00:49:01,680
Speaker 1: do a whole thing together. So like I end up

973
00:49:01,719 --> 00:49:04,759
Speaker 1: getting to see everyone, whereas Christmas is a little bit

974
00:49:04,760 --> 00:49:07,400
Speaker 1: more divided up. I don't see my cousins on Christmas.

975
00:49:07,400 --> 00:49:10,000
Speaker 1: We don't see you know, Dan's cousins and extended family

976
00:49:10,000 --> 00:49:12,520
Speaker 1: on Christmas because everyone's really more into their just immediate

977
00:49:12,600 --> 00:49:14,920
Speaker 1: side of the family. Right, because we have two days

978
00:49:14,920 --> 00:49:17,520
Speaker 1: for that Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, Thanksgiving, you at least

979
00:49:17,520 --> 00:49:19,560
Speaker 1: get Thursday, Friday, Saturday in our case, we'll even get

980
00:49:19,600 --> 00:49:21,560
Speaker 1: into Sunday because we don't play until a little Monday

981
00:49:21,600 --> 00:49:24,120
Speaker 1: night football. That's the I'm going to be out of

982
00:49:24,120 --> 00:49:27,640
Speaker 1: my gourd on Friday. On Black Friday, two pm, USA

983
00:49:27,719 --> 00:49:30,160
Speaker 1: Verse England in the World Cup. Nobody talked to me.

984
00:49:30,680 --> 00:49:33,080
Speaker 1: I hope my kids sleep until four thirty in their nap.

985
00:49:33,120 --> 00:49:35,839
Speaker 1: They can. I nobody talk to me from two until

986
00:49:35,880 --> 00:49:38,799
Speaker 1: four thirty on Black Friday. Oh, I'm going to be

987
00:49:38,880 --> 00:49:41,759
Speaker 1: losing my mind. Wow, that's awesome. I didn't know that

988
00:49:41,800 --> 00:49:44,439
Speaker 1: was happening. I'm not all excited. You know, that's great.

989
00:49:44,600 --> 00:49:49,080
Speaker 1: World Cup starts in twenty days. See all I asked you, guys,

990
00:49:49,080 --> 00:49:52,360
Speaker 1: freddie Ado still playing. It's like actually probably because he

991
00:49:52,440 --> 00:49:56,960
Speaker 1: was like fourteen. Yeah, that's how dormant my soccer knowledge is.

992
00:49:57,239 --> 00:50:00,319
Speaker 1: All I asked you was is Chipotle fast food? And

993
00:50:00,360 --> 00:50:02,040
Speaker 1: now this is where we have gone. We're talking, you

994
00:50:02,400 --> 00:50:06,640
Speaker 1: know what, I feel like we learn about each other. Thought,

995
00:50:06,840 --> 00:50:08,840
Speaker 1: that's also what you do when you gather at Thanksgiving,

996
00:50:08,840 --> 00:50:10,680
Speaker 1: because you're more about spending time with people than just

997
00:50:10,760 --> 00:50:14,239
Speaker 1: opening your gifts. You know, fantastic, JJ. What do you

998
00:50:14,239 --> 00:50:15,880
Speaker 1: got going on this week? Colts dot com? What are

999
00:50:15,880 --> 00:50:20,279
Speaker 1: you writing about well, we're all sides besides coaching changes. Yeah.

1000
00:50:20,320 --> 00:50:22,320
Speaker 1: Well we'll see what kind of the week goes. You know,

1001
00:50:22,360 --> 00:50:24,560
Speaker 1: how the week goes. But um, I do want to

1002
00:50:24,600 --> 00:50:26,200
Speaker 1: kind of get just get into some stuff on Paris

1003
00:50:26,200 --> 00:50:28,799
Speaker 1: Campbell because he's been good and it's been such a

1004
00:50:28,840 --> 00:50:32,160
Speaker 1: cool thing to see Paris really start to realize the

1005
00:50:32,239 --> 00:50:34,480
Speaker 1: kind of player he can be in the NFL career

1006
00:50:34,520 --> 00:50:38,160
Speaker 1: high games this year. Yeah wood, and just the fact that, yeah,

1007
00:50:38,320 --> 00:50:41,480
Speaker 1: the consistency, the consistency, he can be a possession guy

1008
00:50:41,520 --> 00:50:43,320
Speaker 1: who can give you those tough yards over the middle,

1009
00:50:43,400 --> 00:50:45,760
Speaker 1: or he can be the explosive guy who can gash

1010
00:50:45,800 --> 00:50:49,160
Speaker 1: you downfield with the ball in his hands. Um, big

1011
00:50:49,200 --> 00:50:50,960
Speaker 1: fan of what he's doing this year, and want to

1012
00:50:50,960 --> 00:50:54,640
Speaker 1: give him a little bit of love this week. Yeah, yeah,

1013
00:50:54,680 --> 00:50:56,680
Speaker 1: really quickly if we're getting cold, sweet sixty, I just

1014
00:50:56,719 --> 00:51:00,759
Speaker 1: have to say I am so just heartbroke and gut

1015
00:51:00,800 --> 00:51:04,239
Speaker 1: wrenched over Taekwon Lewis and his season ending injury for

1016
00:51:04,280 --> 00:51:08,120
Speaker 1: a second consecutive year. Just thinking of him and his recovery.

1017
00:51:08,320 --> 00:51:11,040
Speaker 1: He is the most resilient, positive guy, So thinking of

1018
00:51:11,120 --> 00:51:14,200
Speaker 1: him as he goes through you know, another rehab off season.

1019
00:51:14,320 --> 00:51:17,279
Speaker 1: But on Colts three sixty. Sticking with the same position group,

1020
00:51:17,800 --> 00:51:21,759
Speaker 1: we have Big Groves in studio. You will not want

1021
00:51:21,840 --> 00:51:25,640
Speaker 1: to miss Big grow Stewart goes into all the things

1022
00:51:25,800 --> 00:51:29,839
Speaker 1: we are we are talking about Groves dancing, we are

1023
00:51:29,840 --> 00:51:34,240
Speaker 1: talking about this defense, We are talking about the recognition

1024
00:51:34,320 --> 00:51:37,120
Speaker 1: that he is finally getting over it. He is so

1025
00:51:37,200 --> 00:51:39,920
Speaker 1: long deserved over under three and a half. Grove laughs

1026
00:51:40,040 --> 00:51:44,799
Speaker 1: in the interview. Oh oh, are you kidding me? You

1027
00:51:44,840 --> 00:51:46,880
Speaker 1: have me and Grover in the studio. It's like the

1028
00:51:47,000 --> 00:51:51,240
Speaker 1: two silliest people ever who will laugh at absolutely anything. Yeah,

1029
00:51:51,280 --> 00:51:56,920
Speaker 1: it's probably interview because of absence. Great, Yeah, I'm just

1030
00:51:57,040 --> 00:51:59,600
Speaker 1: laughing at you guys laughing. Yeah, yeah, i'd watch that too.

1031
00:51:59,600 --> 00:52:02,520
Speaker 1: That's four and a half minutes of TV gold, right there, guys,

1032
00:52:02,520 --> 00:52:05,879
Speaker 1: well done. Plenty of audio this week Colts Round Table

1033
00:52:05,920 --> 00:52:08,880
Speaker 1: Live from last night, Colts Daily Updates, Inside Football with

1034
00:52:08,960 --> 00:52:12,640
Speaker 1: Rick Venturry, his thoughts on the coaching changes, his blueprints

1035
00:52:12,640 --> 00:52:15,319
Speaker 1: to beat the Patriots, Know Your Foe. Later this week,

1036
00:52:15,360 --> 00:52:18,920
Speaker 1: Tom Curran covers the Pats from MBC Sports in Boston,

1037
00:52:19,320 --> 00:52:22,600
Speaker 1: and then Friday Colts Happy Hour with JMV. Sunday Nights

1038
00:52:22,719 --> 00:52:26,840
Speaker 1: Instant Reaction on the Patriots game with JJ and Bill Brooks.

1039
00:52:26,880 --> 00:52:30,080
Speaker 1: Guy's well done. Have a great week, all right, Thank

1040
00:52:30,120 --> 00:52:32,880
Speaker 1: you guys for the best. We gotta run, JJ Stangovitz,

1041
00:52:32,960 --> 00:52:35,960
Speaker 1: Layer Overton. I'm Matt Taylor. Thanks for listening to the

1042
00:52:36,040 --> 00:52:39,399
Speaker 1: Official Colts Podcast, brought to you by Win Bett. We'll

1043
00:52:39,400 --> 00:52:42,000
Speaker 1: talk to you later this week and next week you're

1044
00:52:42,040 --> 00:52:44,760
Speaker 1: on the Official Colts Podcast as the Colts getting ready

1045
00:52:44,880 --> 00:52:48,319
Speaker 1: for the Raiders in week number ten. Until then, have

1046
00:52:48,400 --> 00:52:50,760
Speaker 1: a great week. Stick it here on the Colts Audio Network.

1047
00:52:50,800 --> 00:52:51,040
Speaker 1: So on.