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Speaker 1: Football is about the Jimmy's and Joe's, and x's and o's.

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Speaker 2: Check New York Voto Baker Bruce.

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Speaker 1: It's time to get out the chockboard and diagram some plays.

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Speaker 1: Here's what it all starts right here. Let's play jaymiey Christmas.

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Speaker 1: This is Inside Football with former Colts and NFL coach

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Speaker 1: Rick Venturie.

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Speaker 2: It's Thanksgiving Week, five games left for the Colts, the

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Speaker 2: margin for air razor thin, and the Colts, who have

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Speaker 2: lost four of their last five. They're looking to get

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Speaker 2: on a run to close out the season, and it

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Speaker 2: starts on Sunday with a visit to New England to

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Speaker 2: take on to three and nine Patriots. Welcome to Inside

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Speaker 2: Football the podcast here on the Colts Audio Network. I'm

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Speaker 2: Matt Taylor. Good to be with you as always inside

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Speaker 2: the Indiana Union Construction Industry Radio Studio. Joined today by

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Speaker 2: Rick Venturre who is here to talk some ball with

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Speaker 2: thirty years of NFL coaching on his resume. Rick, Happy

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Speaker 2: Thanksgiving week to you. How you doing?

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Speaker 3: Oh you too, Matt. I hope you have a good

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Speaker 3: family day. We're planning on it, uh, you know, just

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Speaker 3: kind of really looking forward to it now. It's do

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Speaker 3: or die for us. Man. I mean there's you know,

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Speaker 3: as we used to say, you know, now there's no tomorrow.

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Speaker 3: It's the game you play that day. And yeah, you know,

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Speaker 3: it's like it's like we have five stairs now to climb,

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Speaker 3: you know, in this league, regardless of perceptions and records,

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Speaker 3: we're gonna have to bring up We're gonna have to

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Speaker 3: find a way which we haven't been able to do.

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Speaker 3: We're gonna have to find a way to bring that

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Speaker 3: a game, you know, just week after week after week.

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Speaker 2: Man, it's like five single elimination tournaments almost coming up

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Speaker 2: absolute the rest of the way in terms of, you know,

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Speaker 2: where the Colts have put themselves in the situation they

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Speaker 2: find themselves in. So we'll talk about that. Obviously we're

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Speaker 2: gonna go full bore on the Patriots, but let's go

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Speaker 2: back a couple of days. We don't need to spend

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Speaker 2: a ton of time in the Lions. But I thought, Rick,

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Speaker 2: the Colts smith out on another chance to get a

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Speaker 2: to Detroit just disappointing in the sense that you know,

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Speaker 2: but yet you still lose by three scores and the

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Speaker 2: game was just marred by penalties, lack of execution inside

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Speaker 3: No, you're exactly right, that's very well put. I you know,

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Speaker 3: the two teams that I've seen and studied and then

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Speaker 3: you're gonna have to not only have your a game,

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Speaker 3: you're gonna have to play it really clean. And as

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Speaker 3: you said, the disappointment was not achieving that. The disappointment was,

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Speaker 3: It was just so uncharacteristic just to have all the

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the ten penalties, eight of them by the offense.

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Speaker 2: the Colts are banged up, maybe the most injuries the

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Speaker 2: And that's a good thing, right you want to protect

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Speaker 2: right now, maybe the dirtiest it's been all season long,

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Speaker 2: going into as we said earlier, all pivotal games, must

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we went from you know, what would I consider anyway?

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Speaker 3: they really exposed Tucker and now we lose Bordolini. So yeah,

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Speaker 2: Doubt about that. So all winnable games the rest of

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Speaker 2: the way for the Indianapolis Colts. But let's get ready

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Speaker 2: for the home stretch. Rick five games left and the

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Speaker 2: last five opponents are a combined seventeen and forty right.

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Speaker 2: Four of the last five have three wins or fewer,

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Speaker 2: and New England has lost three of their last four.

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Speaker 2: They were just shelled by the Dolphins last Sunday, thirty

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Speaker 2: The Patriots were down thirty one to nothing going into

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Speaker 2: the fourth quarter, and this is just not the Patriots

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Speaker 2: the next New England loss will give them consecutive seasons

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Speaker 2: with double figure losses for the first time since nineteen

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Speaker 2: the change to rookie Drake may at quarterback over former

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Speaker 2: Colt quarterback Jacoby Brissett. And this is the fourth year

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Speaker 2: in a row the Colts are playing the Patriots, and

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Speaker 2: the Colts won last year's game in Germany ten to six,

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Speaker 2: and so that means the Colts are still looking for

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Speaker 2: curious what else you see in New England as you

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Speaker 2: studied the tape after twelve games.

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Speaker 3: Yes, and just a dovetail on what you said, you know,

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Speaker 3: once in a while as a running back and he

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00:23:05,520 --> 00:23:07,800
Speaker 3: just comes out of nowhere. And when he's in there,

429
00:23:07,880 --> 00:23:09,480
Speaker 3: he's in there for a reason. He's gonna get it.

430
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Speaker 3: He's gonna get a screen, he's gonna get a sweep,

431
00:23:11,760 --> 00:23:14,719
Speaker 3: there's something he's gonna get. So just technically, those are

432
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Speaker 3: two things you have to really be ready for. And again,

433
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Speaker 3: if you if you look at that inside perimeter, you

434
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Speaker 3: look at Stevenson, you look at you look at the

435
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Speaker 3: two tight ends, Hooper and Henry and Douglas, those are

436
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Speaker 3: all numbers to numbers guy A little bit like I

437
00:23:34,240 --> 00:23:37,080
Speaker 3: talked about last week. I mean, really numbers to numbers. Guy,

438
00:23:37,119 --> 00:23:41,879
Speaker 3: they got no speed outside the numbers in Boute and Burn.

439
00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:45,960
Speaker 3: But those guys, if you put their catches together, you know,

440
00:23:46,080 --> 00:23:49,119
Speaker 3: and it's four three positions, three elements, it's one hundred

441
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Speaker 3: and fifty four catches, So you better defend it. Numbers

442
00:23:53,480 --> 00:23:57,200
Speaker 3: to numbers that for sure, high volume at tight ends

443
00:23:57,240 --> 00:23:59,080
Speaker 3: and a lot of a lot of quick rhythm stuff

444
00:23:59,600 --> 00:24:02,560
Speaker 3: because their offensive line is not very good, so they're

445
00:24:02,560 --> 00:24:05,160
Speaker 3: gonna get it out and we play that soft solle.

446
00:24:05,200 --> 00:24:08,200
Speaker 3: So look for those tight Ends to be really really

447
00:24:08,359 --> 00:24:12,760
Speaker 3: featured on quick stuff. Same way with Douglas, you know,

448
00:24:12,880 --> 00:24:15,320
Speaker 3: same way with the screen game which we got exposed

449
00:24:15,359 --> 00:24:19,920
Speaker 3: on last week. Again, I think the biggest key is

450
00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:23,639
Speaker 3: again you got to keep May and I think you

451
00:24:23,720 --> 00:24:26,480
Speaker 3: got to kind of keep him condensed, you know. Again,

452
00:24:26,720 --> 00:24:28,840
Speaker 3: as you said, you pointed out the numbers. He's got

453
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Speaker 3: terrific what is it eight plus in terms of running

454
00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:35,280
Speaker 3: the boss and he and he's not reckless. I mean

455
00:24:35,359 --> 00:24:38,760
Speaker 3: it's it's like if it's not there, he's taken off

456
00:24:38,800 --> 00:24:41,240
Speaker 3: and he's moving the chains and he'll do it inside out,

457
00:24:41,640 --> 00:24:44,040
Speaker 3: he'll do it outside, you know, outside in I mean

458
00:24:44,359 --> 00:24:46,399
Speaker 3: he's not They're not an option team. They don't do

459
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Speaker 3: any of that. So all of his numbers are not designers,

460
00:24:50,160 --> 00:24:54,600
Speaker 3: are really pretty much ad lib, really good release, really

461
00:24:54,640 --> 00:24:57,639
Speaker 3: good throw. Again, the only problem he has right now

462
00:24:57,880 --> 00:25:00,320
Speaker 3: is he's trying to win the game by himself, and

463
00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:03,920
Speaker 3: as you said, that leads to a really lot of turnovers.

464
00:25:04,040 --> 00:25:06,840
Speaker 3: Offensive line to me is a mess, and the right

465
00:25:06,960 --> 00:25:11,320
Speaker 3: side is absolutely terrible. Again, don't let the run get going,

466
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Speaker 3: because that is the one thing that they've been decent

467
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Speaker 3: at in that regard. Okay, as far as the coach

468
00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:21,960
Speaker 3: defensive blueprint, and these are fairly obvious, I think number one,

469
00:25:23,040 --> 00:25:26,240
Speaker 3: you gotta squeeze Stevenson and you got to choke him

470
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Speaker 3: on the checkdowns, on the screen passes. If you play

471
00:25:29,800 --> 00:25:32,760
Speaker 3: real soft on this team, you could make them better

472
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Speaker 3: than they are. He has that career four to four

473
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Speaker 3: rushing average, but he's caught a ton of passes in

474
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Speaker 3: his career. Gibson came in last week, you know, when

475
00:25:42,840 --> 00:25:46,320
Speaker 3: they were behind, and ran decently. But Stevenson at the

476
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Speaker 3: end of the day is going to have a ton

477
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Speaker 3: of touches. You don't want to let that running game,

478
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Speaker 3: that fifteenth running game get going, because if you do,

479
00:25:55,920 --> 00:25:59,359
Speaker 3: then you take pressure off the young quarterback and you

480
00:25:59,480 --> 00:26:04,159
Speaker 3: take cresh off the poorest offensive line. Number two, you

481
00:26:04,240 --> 00:26:06,480
Speaker 3: got to control those two tight ends. And again we

482
00:26:06,600 --> 00:26:09,800
Speaker 3: struggle with that because we don't play much matchup or

483
00:26:09,920 --> 00:26:12,359
Speaker 3: much mand a man and so there's a lot of

484
00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:15,080
Speaker 3: what we call no cover zones in there. And as

485
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Speaker 3: I said before, those two guys combined for seventy eight

486
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Speaker 3: touch it you know catches with Henry at fifty one.

487
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Speaker 3: So they're really an outstanding It's hard to say this,

488
00:26:26,080 --> 00:26:29,440
Speaker 3: but they're a real outstanding possession passing game, which is

489
00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:32,040
Speaker 3: a little bit of an achilles heel for us. And

490
00:26:32,400 --> 00:26:34,040
Speaker 3: you know I've said this to you before. If you

491
00:26:34,160 --> 00:26:37,960
Speaker 3: play high school area zone defense all day, they could

492
00:26:38,200 --> 00:26:40,359
Speaker 3: lead you to death. And that's something you just got

493
00:26:40,520 --> 00:26:43,640
Speaker 3: to choke them off. And then I think, situationally, number

494
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Speaker 3: three the third element. You got to stop Douglas. You've

495
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Speaker 3: already talked about his numbers as a rookie. He's got

496
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Speaker 3: forty eight catches, two ninety eight ball in hand yak

497
00:26:53,920 --> 00:26:57,119
Speaker 3: and he's a do it all guy, gadgets ball in hand,

498
00:26:58,160 --> 00:27:02,120
Speaker 3: RPOs and mid windows where you've got to be really

499
00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:05,639
Speaker 3: good with him third and three to seven in that

500
00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:08,880
Speaker 3: short and middle window is when they're going to get

501
00:27:09,040 --> 00:27:12,879
Speaker 3: him the ball. And again just on the outside, you know,

502
00:27:13,920 --> 00:27:18,080
Speaker 3: scheme the inside scheme numbers to numbers on those three elements.

503
00:27:18,560 --> 00:27:21,000
Speaker 3: And then squeeze if you want to press all day.

504
00:27:21,440 --> 00:27:25,080
Speaker 3: Those two guys cannot run, so squeeze them on the outside.

505
00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:29,280
Speaker 3: Then don't let them get any air at all. Number four,

506
00:27:29,960 --> 00:27:33,040
Speaker 3: and this is all part of it. Keep may contained

507
00:27:33,119 --> 00:27:37,080
Speaker 3: and compressed. A lot more effective moving than I expected.

508
00:27:37,560 --> 00:27:43,840
Speaker 3: A lot of improvisation. So rush lanes are important. I mean,

509
00:27:43,920 --> 00:27:46,879
Speaker 3: I think we can beat this offensive line, but we

510
00:27:47,040 --> 00:27:50,119
Speaker 3: have to beat it, not just with talent, but with discipline.

511
00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:52,760
Speaker 3: You don't you don't want to open up a lot

512
00:27:52,840 --> 00:27:55,520
Speaker 3: of lanes. You know, a couple of players last week

513
00:27:55,640 --> 00:27:58,560
Speaker 3: we lost the edge and we allowed the quarterback to

514
00:27:58,600 --> 00:28:01,520
Speaker 3: get out and get big, big you know, big big throws.

515
00:28:01,880 --> 00:28:04,639
Speaker 3: This kid will probably be big, big runs. And then

516
00:28:04,760 --> 00:28:08,119
Speaker 3: number five just have to dominate a subparwer offensive line.

517
00:28:09,080 --> 00:28:11,360
Speaker 3: You know both, you know, dominate the run number one

518
00:28:11,880 --> 00:28:14,879
Speaker 3: and force you know, force a protection game. The twenty

519
00:28:14,960 --> 00:28:18,200
Speaker 3: six sacks is real, and that's with a movement quarterback.

520
00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:22,000
Speaker 3: You know, twenty six sacks and twenty one giveaways. That's

521
00:28:22,040 --> 00:28:25,240
Speaker 3: their waterloo and pretty much when that happens, it means

522
00:28:25,280 --> 00:28:30,480
Speaker 3: that your front is forcing bad throws. Again, their right

523
00:28:30,600 --> 00:28:35,800
Speaker 3: tackle position, whoever plays, is a disaster. Inside stunts hurt

524
00:28:35,880 --> 00:28:39,120
Speaker 3: them a lot. You can get up and under low

525
00:28:39,240 --> 00:28:42,520
Speaker 3: their left tackle and you know, just have a good

526
00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:47,280
Speaker 3: rush plan, both base and blitz, but make sure that

527
00:28:47,440 --> 00:28:51,160
Speaker 3: it's always disciplined. You know, winning games now is not

528
00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:54,520
Speaker 3: just effort and not just talent. It's also who plays

529
00:28:54,600 --> 00:28:58,080
Speaker 3: the smartest yep. But again, keep this quarterback in toe.

530
00:28:58,240 --> 00:28:59,520
Speaker 3: Don't let him get going.

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Speaker 2: No doubt about that. He's, at the end of the day,

532
00:29:01,320 --> 00:29:03,560
Speaker 2: still a rookie and he has shown that propensali to

533
00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:05,560
Speaker 2: give you the football, and you got to keep him

534
00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:08,640
Speaker 2: inside the pocket because he can't scramble and can make

535
00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:11,080
Speaker 2: you pay with his legs. Rick fin Terry right there,

536
00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:14,680
Speaker 2: that's inside football the blueprint number one on the Patriots

537
00:29:14,720 --> 00:29:18,080
Speaker 2: on offense. Let's break down the Patriots defense here heading

538
00:29:18,120 --> 00:29:21,960
Speaker 2: into week number twelve and this new England defense looking

539
00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:25,440
Speaker 2: to rebound after a really bad showing last week in Miami,

540
00:29:25,560 --> 00:29:29,520
Speaker 2: the Dolphins scored twenty four points and racked up over

541
00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:32,600
Speaker 2: two hundred yards in the second quarter alone, and the

542
00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:35,880
Speaker 2: Patriots never recovered from that. New England couldn't get any

543
00:29:35,920 --> 00:29:39,080
Speaker 2: pressure at all last week, Tua was hit just twice

544
00:29:39,160 --> 00:29:43,040
Speaker 2: on forty one pass plays. And this Patriot defense overall,

545
00:29:43,160 --> 00:29:47,479
Speaker 2: it's a very middling unit. They ranked nineteenth in points

546
00:29:47,520 --> 00:29:51,920
Speaker 2: allowed at twenty three, eighteenth in rushing, twenty second against

547
00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:55,280
Speaker 2: the pass, and also twenty second in total defense. And

548
00:29:55,360 --> 00:29:58,800
Speaker 2: they've created only nine takeaways all season, including just one

549
00:29:58,880 --> 00:30:02,600
Speaker 2: in the last three game. And the individual highlights within

550
00:30:02,680 --> 00:30:05,120
Speaker 2: that defense. You talked about a key on White. He

551
00:30:05,240 --> 00:30:07,400
Speaker 2: can be really versatile on how they use him at

552
00:30:07,440 --> 00:30:10,120
Speaker 2: the defensive end spot. Also keep an eye out for

553
00:30:10,160 --> 00:30:13,640
Speaker 2: a linebacker Julani Tavai. He leads them in tackles. Then

554
00:30:13,680 --> 00:30:17,600
Speaker 2: in the secondary they've got Jonathan Jones and Christian Gonzales.

555
00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:20,040
Speaker 2: Jones had a pick six also a block punt against

556
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Speaker 2: the Colts. By the way, the last time these two

557
00:30:22,360 --> 00:30:25,560
Speaker 2: teams met in Foxborough in twenty twenty two. So Rick,

558
00:30:25,640 --> 00:30:28,440
Speaker 2: that's kind of the big view, the zoom out look

559
00:30:28,520 --> 00:30:31,520
Speaker 2: on the Patriots on defense. I'm curious what makes the

560
00:30:31,600 --> 00:30:35,360
Speaker 2: Pats defense better or worse on film than some of

561
00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:37,960
Speaker 2: their middle of the pack numbers statistically.

562
00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:41,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I actually, you know, I call it low

563
00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:45,040
Speaker 3: mediocre when when you're you know, from that sixteen to twenty. Yeah,

564
00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:47,640
Speaker 3: if you're at sixteen, I call it mediocre. If you're

565
00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:51,600
Speaker 3: between sixteen and twenty, I'll say, you know, I'll say,

566
00:30:52,280 --> 00:30:55,520
Speaker 3: I'll say low media, not bad, but right, yeah, yeah,

567
00:30:55,560 --> 00:30:57,280
Speaker 3: it's just kind of you know, if your bottom ten,

568
00:30:57,400 --> 00:31:01,000
Speaker 3: we know who you are, well, yeah, I don't, you know,

569
00:31:01,120 --> 00:31:03,120
Speaker 3: I think they are who they are. There's not this

570
00:31:03,320 --> 00:31:06,520
Speaker 3: is not a super talented team at all. There's a

571
00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:09,760
Speaker 3: handful of really good players, but you know, there's nobody

572
00:31:09,880 --> 00:31:12,520
Speaker 3: that is you know, you know, no Miles Garrett, there's

573
00:31:12,560 --> 00:31:15,000
Speaker 3: nobody that you're just scared to death of. You know,

574
00:31:15,080 --> 00:31:17,720
Speaker 3: when you look at them on Tuesday night, Uh, I

575
00:31:17,840 --> 00:31:19,520
Speaker 3: think they I think what you got to be alert

576
00:31:19,640 --> 00:31:22,880
Speaker 3: for is that, you know. I think he'll get them

577
00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:25,400
Speaker 3: to play on defense. I think they'll play really hard.

578
00:31:25,880 --> 00:31:29,360
Speaker 3: This week against US, they were embarrassed. Very seldom do

579
00:31:29,400 --> 00:31:31,400
Speaker 3: you get somebody to ever do that two weeks in

580
00:31:31,480 --> 00:31:35,320
Speaker 3: a row. And they're a little bit they're slightly unusual,

581
00:31:35,520 --> 00:31:38,600
Speaker 3: not as unusual as when Bill's there, but there's still

582
00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:41,960
Speaker 3: parts of them that you got to understand. This is

583
00:31:42,040 --> 00:31:45,360
Speaker 3: a what I call a true three four principle. In

584
00:31:45,480 --> 00:31:48,280
Speaker 3: other words, you have a lot of the game you'll

585
00:31:48,360 --> 00:31:51,280
Speaker 3: have defensive ends on your tackle. You'll have a nose,

586
00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:55,480
Speaker 3: he'll be he'll be zero up or sometimes offset, and

587
00:31:55,600 --> 00:31:57,360
Speaker 3: a lot of times what they do with those ends

588
00:31:57,480 --> 00:31:59,440
Speaker 3: is they shade and what I call a four eye.

589
00:31:59,480 --> 00:32:02,560
Speaker 3: What that means is instead of lining up over the

590
00:32:02,720 --> 00:32:06,160
Speaker 3: outside the tackle, you line up, but you play over

591
00:32:06,280 --> 00:32:10,000
Speaker 3: the inside, and they really want to squash you inside.

592
00:32:10,040 --> 00:32:12,240
Speaker 3: That's why they too gap it. They don't run up field.

593
00:32:12,520 --> 00:32:14,880
Speaker 3: They're not an up field run team like a four

594
00:32:14,920 --> 00:32:18,120
Speaker 3: to three team, and so they want to force the

595
00:32:18,280 --> 00:32:22,200
Speaker 3: ball to the sidelines and then they will set the

596
00:32:22,440 --> 00:32:24,680
Speaker 3: edge with guys on the line of scrimmage like a

597
00:32:24,720 --> 00:32:26,160
Speaker 3: three to four team can do it. In other words,

598
00:32:26,160 --> 00:32:29,400
Speaker 3: those outside linebackers are on the line of scrimmage. And

599
00:32:29,480 --> 00:32:32,240
Speaker 3: of course the best of the group group is Jennings

600
00:32:32,360 --> 00:32:35,280
Speaker 3: number thirty three. And then there's a myriad of other

601
00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:38,280
Speaker 3: guys that will play on the outside, from backers, you know,

602
00:32:38,400 --> 00:32:40,800
Speaker 3: to defensive ends. I mean, there's a lot of other guys,

603
00:32:40,880 --> 00:32:44,640
Speaker 3: but in principle, it's that four eye, and you know,

604
00:32:44,760 --> 00:32:48,040
Speaker 3: sometimes they'll sink one side down on the on the underside.

605
00:32:48,480 --> 00:32:51,760
Speaker 3: Sometimes they'll sink it down on the overside. And then

606
00:32:52,600 --> 00:32:55,320
Speaker 3: a year ago they played in Belichick and they're all

607
00:32:55,440 --> 00:32:58,560
Speaker 3: still there. They played a ton of bear. They took

608
00:32:58,600 --> 00:33:00,400
Speaker 3: the four eyes and brought them all the way down

609
00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:02,880
Speaker 3: in the threes. But it's all kind of the same deal,

610
00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:07,200
Speaker 3: but it's a little bit different than you're used to. Again,

611
00:33:07,400 --> 00:33:10,480
Speaker 3: a real high percentage of bringing those two guys off

612
00:33:10,520 --> 00:33:13,320
Speaker 3: the edge, the two outside linebackers, I just call that

613
00:33:13,480 --> 00:33:15,440
Speaker 3: two d's. We used to call that two d's all

614
00:33:15,480 --> 00:33:18,760
Speaker 3: the time. And a lot of those two guys coming

615
00:33:18,840 --> 00:33:21,600
Speaker 3: off the edge, leading with Jennings. And then when you're

616
00:33:21,680 --> 00:33:24,920
Speaker 3: doing that, that's when they play a lot of Manda

617
00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:29,480
Speaker 3: man press, what amounts to five man rush, Manda man press.

618
00:33:30,160 --> 00:33:32,680
Speaker 3: And then what they can do which most teams don't do.

619
00:33:32,800 --> 00:33:36,040
Speaker 3: This is real old school. If their guy blocks it.

620
00:33:36,160 --> 00:33:38,320
Speaker 3: Let's say that you're a linebacker and you got coverage

621
00:33:38,360 --> 00:33:41,680
Speaker 3: on the back and he blocks, then that's going to

622
00:33:41,720 --> 00:33:44,120
Speaker 3: bring you. That's what we call an add on or

623
00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:47,080
Speaker 3: a green dog. And your quarterback has to be aware

624
00:33:47,080 --> 00:33:49,800
Speaker 3: of those things because sometimes he'll feel like it's protected

625
00:33:50,200 --> 00:33:51,600
Speaker 3: and all of a sudden a guy will come out

626
00:33:51,640 --> 00:33:54,959
Speaker 3: of nowhere. So it's not something that you over scheme.

627
00:33:55,480 --> 00:33:58,600
Speaker 3: You just have to feel it. Young quarterbacks sometimes have

628
00:33:58,800 --> 00:34:04,120
Speaker 3: trouble with that. Again, the guys you're concerned with is

629
00:34:04,240 --> 00:34:08,279
Speaker 3: the three corners are pretty good. You mentioned it, Gonzales

630
00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:11,960
Speaker 3: on one side and the Jones boys. There's two jones

631
00:34:12,040 --> 00:34:14,440
Speaker 3: Is in there, the Jones at corner and then the

632
00:34:14,600 --> 00:34:17,759
Speaker 3: Jones at at Nickel and uh and and I think

633
00:34:17,920 --> 00:34:20,760
Speaker 3: I think Dogger is a pretty dog on good safety.

634
00:34:20,880 --> 00:34:24,080
Speaker 3: So you know, their back end is not bad, their

635
00:34:24,200 --> 00:34:26,840
Speaker 3: front is just not dominating. And it looks like that

636
00:34:28,200 --> 00:34:30,480
Speaker 3: Wise is gonna be out. I think he's going to

637
00:34:30,560 --> 00:34:33,800
Speaker 3: be out. He's also one of the guys that you

638
00:34:33,840 --> 00:34:38,759
Speaker 3: would be concerned with inside a lot of variables on

639
00:34:39,080 --> 00:34:41,960
Speaker 3: third down, they'll give you a lot of different looks,

640
00:34:41,960 --> 00:34:45,400
Speaker 3: and that's when they'll take Jones and move him around.

641
00:34:45,520 --> 00:34:51,600
Speaker 3: Sometimes he'll be standing up with Toby inside and it'll

642
00:34:51,640 --> 00:34:54,160
Speaker 3: look like a thirty and he's kind of what I

643
00:34:54,280 --> 00:34:57,400
Speaker 3: call the spinner that's a delta three down. And then

644
00:34:57,480 --> 00:34:59,799
Speaker 3: a fourth guy that's the spinner that can line up

645
00:34:59,800 --> 00:35:03,480
Speaker 3: out side or inside, and you normally that's Jones. Sometimes

646
00:35:03,560 --> 00:35:05,520
Speaker 3: they have a radar where there three of them are

647
00:35:05,600 --> 00:35:09,200
Speaker 3: standing up inside and and that's a Jones and Tavey

648
00:35:09,400 --> 00:35:14,640
Speaker 3: and probably a safety in their dime. Look again, they'll

649
00:35:14,680 --> 00:35:17,160
Speaker 3: give you a lot of five man rush, a lot

650
00:35:17,239 --> 00:35:21,040
Speaker 3: of Manda man uh, and they will give you they

651
00:35:21,160 --> 00:35:24,359
Speaker 3: will bring Tavi a lot. So he's you know, he's

652
00:35:24,400 --> 00:35:27,000
Speaker 3: a guy you always have to account for on third down,

653
00:35:27,520 --> 00:35:29,840
Speaker 3: in your in your protection. He's always got to be,

654
00:35:30,239 --> 00:35:34,280
Speaker 3: you know, because he becomes the fifth rusher a lot. Also,

655
00:35:35,719 --> 00:35:40,200
Speaker 3: Mapu and Gugger off the edge, the two safeties. They'll

656
00:35:40,239 --> 00:35:42,759
Speaker 3: bring those guys off the edge as well. The other

657
00:35:42,880 --> 00:35:46,640
Speaker 3: thing is they will zero blitz more than it's kind

658
00:35:46,680 --> 00:35:49,200
Speaker 3: of that's old school and they'll still do it. I

659
00:35:49,320 --> 00:35:54,160
Speaker 3: think tactically, you really want to study the Bear's tape

660
00:35:54,280 --> 00:35:57,279
Speaker 3: because you know, I think you know, there's gonna be

661
00:35:57,360 --> 00:35:59,920
Speaker 3: certain things they did against Williams, who's a movement guy,

662
00:36:00,640 --> 00:36:02,759
Speaker 3: that they will do against a R five and they

663
00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:06,160
Speaker 3: blitzed him a lot. Man. Really they try to cut

664
00:36:06,200 --> 00:36:10,800
Speaker 3: off his legs, and I would study that film. I

665
00:36:10,840 --> 00:36:12,800
Speaker 3: think there's two things you always do with the Patriots.

666
00:36:12,880 --> 00:36:14,680
Speaker 3: Now it's not as extreme as it used to be.

667
00:36:15,400 --> 00:36:18,520
Speaker 3: But if you have an illness, you must fix it

668
00:36:18,719 --> 00:36:22,200
Speaker 3: because they will always adapt their game plan to what

669
00:36:22,320 --> 00:36:26,000
Speaker 3: has hurt you. And then you know, and then number two,

670
00:36:26,560 --> 00:36:30,360
Speaker 3: study teams that their personnel is similar to yours because

671
00:36:30,719 --> 00:36:34,600
Speaker 3: they'll steal from that type of situation. All right, Colts

672
00:36:34,680 --> 00:36:38,640
Speaker 3: Offensive Blueprint for victory. Number one. We got to find

673
00:36:38,680 --> 00:36:41,680
Speaker 3: a way to get JT the ball. And I think

674
00:36:41,719 --> 00:36:44,640
Speaker 3: with this team, you really have to attack them off

675
00:36:44,760 --> 00:36:48,640
Speaker 3: tackle and outside because again in their thirty they squeeze

676
00:36:48,719 --> 00:36:52,600
Speaker 3: the inside, they squeeze it with bear. And so what

677
00:36:52,719 --> 00:36:54,680
Speaker 3: I would do, I'd play a little bit when I'm

678
00:36:54,680 --> 00:36:57,040
Speaker 3: in twelve personnel. I'd get those two tight ends together

679
00:36:57,160 --> 00:37:00,920
Speaker 3: in a wing look because that stretches the gap and

680
00:37:01,160 --> 00:37:04,200
Speaker 3: pound it, toss it, get him out there. And then

681
00:37:04,239 --> 00:37:07,000
Speaker 3: I think the place we're really missing is we got

682
00:37:07,120 --> 00:37:09,000
Speaker 3: to get the ball to JT in space. I mean,

683
00:37:09,080 --> 00:37:11,560
Speaker 3: we've got to get him on the screen game. He

684
00:37:11,640 --> 00:37:14,759
Speaker 3: saw effective it was for the Lions, how effective it

685
00:37:14,880 --> 00:37:17,640
Speaker 3: is for Detroit, and he's the guy you want out

686
00:37:17,680 --> 00:37:20,880
Speaker 3: in space. We just have to get him going. And

687
00:37:21,080 --> 00:37:23,880
Speaker 3: you know, I don't know if we use Grandson, but

688
00:37:24,080 --> 00:37:26,680
Speaker 3: also you got to get some lead plays in there

689
00:37:26,760 --> 00:37:29,200
Speaker 3: in that off tackle area. You know, I just said

690
00:37:29,239 --> 00:37:31,040
Speaker 3: the other day, if we ever ran a lead play,

691
00:37:31,120 --> 00:37:33,719
Speaker 3: I'd take the whole NFL combine to Saint Almos to

692
00:37:33,800 --> 00:37:36,600
Speaker 3: be honest with you, if I ever saw one, then

693
00:37:36,719 --> 00:37:38,239
Speaker 3: I think the second thing you want to do is

694
00:37:38,239 --> 00:37:40,600
Speaker 3: give them a lot of misdirection. We're like, we're this

695
00:37:40,760 --> 00:37:43,239
Speaker 3: is what we're doing really well. I mean, you know,

696
00:37:43,680 --> 00:37:45,880
Speaker 3: Ar five is you know, up to what three hundred

697
00:37:45,880 --> 00:37:49,120
Speaker 3: and thirty five yards rushing and in half the half

698
00:37:49,200 --> 00:37:51,200
Speaker 3: the snaps that the other guys have gotten because of

699
00:37:51,280 --> 00:37:55,040
Speaker 3: injuries and benching, But a lot of misdirection runs because

700
00:37:55,080 --> 00:37:57,200
Speaker 3: I think they'll really run to the ball. I think

701
00:37:57,640 --> 00:37:59,600
Speaker 3: after last week, you're going to see a fired up

702
00:37:59,640 --> 00:38:03,200
Speaker 3: team running like hell to the ball and you've got

703
00:38:03,320 --> 00:38:05,960
Speaker 3: to force them to either blitz or to spy him.

704
00:38:06,520 --> 00:38:09,120
Speaker 3: But I think that if you get JT going one

705
00:38:09,200 --> 00:38:11,960
Speaker 3: way and him going the other way, compliment one another.

706
00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:14,040
Speaker 3: But we got to come up with one of those

707
00:38:14,040 --> 00:38:16,919
Speaker 3: one hundred and fifty yard days rushing. I mean, that's

708
00:38:16,960 --> 00:38:20,040
Speaker 3: probably the most underachieving part of our team, and part

709
00:38:20,080 --> 00:38:22,320
Speaker 3: of it is the offensive line. There's no doubt about it.

710
00:38:23,320 --> 00:38:27,880
Speaker 3: I think number three. We got to attack man demand covers.

711
00:38:27,920 --> 00:38:30,879
Speaker 3: We got to expect I think more than anything else,

712
00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:33,360
Speaker 3: I think if I'm predicting this game as a coach,

713
00:38:33,760 --> 00:38:35,960
Speaker 3: I'm going to get five man rushes against they are,

714
00:38:36,520 --> 00:38:39,080
Speaker 3: and I'm going to get man press coverage. I'm going

715
00:38:39,160 --> 00:38:42,520
Speaker 3: to get pressed, really hard pressed, particularly with downs out,

716
00:38:43,239 --> 00:38:45,600
Speaker 3: And I think you have to do things to create

717
00:38:45,719 --> 00:38:51,680
Speaker 3: free excess for guys like Pittman, and that is stacks, movements, bunches,

718
00:38:52,160 --> 00:38:55,560
Speaker 3: because if you just line up stationary, the Jones Boys

719
00:38:55,640 --> 00:38:57,960
Speaker 3: and Gonzales will get up in your mess kit and

720
00:38:58,120 --> 00:39:01,040
Speaker 3: they will play you pretty well. So you've got to

721
00:39:01,080 --> 00:39:03,320
Speaker 3: be able to run what I call those man beaters

722
00:39:03,400 --> 00:39:05,960
Speaker 3: where you can run away from them, make them sort

723
00:39:06,080 --> 00:39:09,480
Speaker 3: through people. Meshes are real good when you're bringing one

724
00:39:09,560 --> 00:39:12,640
Speaker 3: receiver from one side rubbing him on the other side.

725
00:39:12,920 --> 00:39:15,400
Speaker 3: The other thing that's really good is you can run

726
00:39:15,480 --> 00:39:18,200
Speaker 3: those what I call those pick wheels. You bring your

727
00:39:18,239 --> 00:39:20,920
Speaker 3: split end in. We do this really well and get

728
00:39:21,040 --> 00:39:24,839
Speaker 3: jt up up the sidelines and rub that linebacker who's

729
00:39:24,840 --> 00:39:26,840
Speaker 3: got to cover him because most of the time the

730
00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:30,440
Speaker 3: linebackers or down safety has him. So you know, I

731
00:39:30,520 --> 00:39:35,479
Speaker 3: think that's really important. But you know, if you force

732
00:39:35,560 --> 00:39:38,239
Speaker 3: them out of man and get them in his zone,

733
00:39:38,360 --> 00:39:41,520
Speaker 3: then they're terrible inside. They're just they're like us. They played.

734
00:39:41,560 --> 00:39:44,840
Speaker 3: They cover air, they don't cover. They don't cover receivers.

735
00:39:45,680 --> 00:39:48,719
Speaker 3: As Bud Carson told me back in nineteen eighty two,

736
00:39:49,640 --> 00:39:53,560
Speaker 3: you know, if you're not covering receivers and you're covering air,

737
00:39:53,760 --> 00:39:56,359
Speaker 3: just remember quarterbacks don't throw it the air, they throw

738
00:39:56,360 --> 00:40:01,239
Speaker 3: it the receivers. So I think that's critical again, and

739
00:40:01,360 --> 00:40:04,440
Speaker 3: I would be ready for blitzing on long yards and

740
00:40:04,640 --> 00:40:10,120
Speaker 3: especially be alert for Tavey Dogger along with White and Jennings.

741
00:40:10,200 --> 00:40:13,800
Speaker 3: I think those five guys make sure they're in your protection.

742
00:40:14,480 --> 00:40:16,360
Speaker 3: And we got to score in the red zone. You know,

743
00:40:16,440 --> 00:40:19,600
Speaker 3: that's where we broke down last week. The Patriots don't

744
00:40:19,600 --> 00:40:23,200
Speaker 3: score their number thirty one in scoring, you know, but

745
00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:27,280
Speaker 3: they've got solid on rush per and solid red zone defense.

746
00:40:27,760 --> 00:40:29,919
Speaker 3: We got to protect the ball. We got to put

747
00:40:29,960 --> 00:40:33,520
Speaker 3: it away. Score in the red zone. As you said earlier,

748
00:40:33,640 --> 00:40:36,360
Speaker 3: they don't take it away. I think there, what are

749
00:40:36,400 --> 00:40:39,680
Speaker 3: they number twenty eight now? So again I think if

750
00:40:39,760 --> 00:40:43,960
Speaker 3: you win the red zone and the turnover battle, you'll

751
00:40:44,040 --> 00:40:45,640
Speaker 3: survive to fight another day.

752
00:40:46,080 --> 00:40:46,480
Speaker 1: All right.

753
00:40:46,760 --> 00:40:49,880
Speaker 2: Well, done right there. That's Rick Venturi the defensive blueprints

754
00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:53,120
Speaker 2: for the Indianapolis Colts right there, and we're going to

755
00:40:53,160 --> 00:40:55,000
Speaker 2: set you up here, Rick for your final thoughts and

756
00:40:55,080 --> 00:40:58,000
Speaker 2: your final instructions for the Colts to close out. And

757
00:40:58,600 --> 00:41:01,279
Speaker 2: quite simply, like we said, you've got five left, and

758
00:41:01,560 --> 00:41:04,759
Speaker 2: all five very winnable on paper, like we chronicled, but

759
00:41:04,880 --> 00:41:07,680
Speaker 2: the NFL ain't played on paper. The Colts margin for

760
00:41:07,800 --> 00:41:10,880
Speaker 2: air here is basically nothing. It's zero. And if the

761
00:41:11,040 --> 00:41:14,880
Speaker 2: Colts lose, I would say playoff hopes are basically on

762
00:41:15,040 --> 00:41:17,480
Speaker 2: life support if you drop this game against the Patriots

763
00:41:17,520 --> 00:41:20,560
Speaker 2: on Sunday. So it's all about survival and it's that

764
00:41:20,800 --> 00:41:24,160
Speaker 2: single game elimination mindset that has to start kicking into

765
00:41:24,239 --> 00:41:27,640
Speaker 2: gear right here and right now. And New England can

766
00:41:27,719 --> 00:41:30,200
Speaker 2: still be a tough place to play. I know they're struggling,

767
00:41:30,280 --> 00:41:32,440
Speaker 2: I know they're three to nine, but this is not

768
00:41:32,520 --> 00:41:34,320
Speaker 2: going to be a layup for the Colts on Sunday.

769
00:41:34,760 --> 00:41:37,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's no givens in the NFL. There's it's not

770
00:41:37,719 --> 00:41:41,000
Speaker 3: like college. There's no billion dollar games that you're going

771
00:41:41,080 --> 00:41:43,400
Speaker 3: to come in and win it, you know. And just

772
00:41:43,880 --> 00:41:46,160
Speaker 3: to kind of dovetail off, what you said in the end,

773
00:41:47,239 --> 00:41:50,440
Speaker 3: this is about season survival and it's got to be

774
00:41:50,520 --> 00:41:54,160
Speaker 3: a single elimination mentality. I mean, you've got you put

775
00:41:54,200 --> 00:41:57,920
Speaker 3: yourself in this position where there's zero margin for air,

776
00:41:58,640 --> 00:42:02,040
Speaker 3: so you alone us fight your way out. You know.

777
00:42:02,160 --> 00:42:05,640
Speaker 3: To do this, really you have to have singular I

778
00:42:05,760 --> 00:42:10,880
Speaker 3: mean singular, narrow focus on the Patriots in Foxborough this Sunday.

779
00:42:11,440 --> 00:42:16,279
Speaker 3: There is literally there's literally no football tomorrow. There is

780
00:42:16,440 --> 00:42:20,120
Speaker 3: no tomorrow. The Patriots have not quit, they won't quit,

781
00:42:20,760 --> 00:42:23,920
Speaker 3: and expect a dog fight in Foxborough for sixty minutes.

782
00:42:24,640 --> 00:42:28,760
Speaker 3: You've got to prepare like your career is on the line,

783
00:42:28,920 --> 00:42:32,560
Speaker 3: Because your career is on the line, clean up all

784
00:42:32,600 --> 00:42:37,520
Speaker 3: your issues and prepare to play a very clean game,

785
00:42:38,320 --> 00:42:41,200
Speaker 3: play smart, and play with poise. We didn't do that

786
00:42:41,360 --> 00:42:44,759
Speaker 3: last week. As a famous mentor of mine used to say,

787
00:42:45,520 --> 00:42:51,839
Speaker 3: do your job, nothing stupid, nothing selfish, Come together as

788
00:42:51,920 --> 00:42:57,840
Speaker 3: a team and put sixty full minutes. All three phases

789
00:42:57,920 --> 00:43:01,760
Speaker 3: got to go for sixty minutes. You are the better team,

790
00:43:02,680 --> 00:43:06,080
Speaker 3: but that has to be validated between the lines. This

791
00:43:06,280 --> 00:43:09,640
Speaker 3: game will be determined by the team as most prepared,

792
00:43:11,040 --> 00:43:15,880
Speaker 3: plays the smartest, plays the hardest, and refuses to let

793
00:43:15,960 --> 00:43:19,799
Speaker 3: this season, get away. This season comes down to one

794
00:43:19,880 --> 00:43:24,320
Speaker 3: to zero this Sunday. It is do or die. You

795
00:43:24,520 --> 00:43:29,280
Speaker 3: have now a five step stairwell to climb. Five steps

796
00:43:29,480 --> 00:43:32,840
Speaker 3: is going to define your season, and it's going to

797
00:43:32,960 --> 00:43:37,680
Speaker 3: define who you are. You can only climb one step

798
00:43:37,760 --> 00:43:41,120
Speaker 3: at a time, and you must step all over the

799
00:43:41,239 --> 00:43:46,080
Speaker 3: Patriots first and survive to fight again. Believe in yourself,

800
00:43:47,000 --> 00:43:51,279
Speaker 3: absolutely refuse to be denied. It's now or never, man,

801
00:43:51,680 --> 00:43:52,160
Speaker 3: I love it.

802
00:43:52,280 --> 00:43:54,680
Speaker 2: Word play right there, man, Rick von Terry. They get

803
00:43:54,719 --> 00:43:58,280
Speaker 2: better each and every week. Man, you're like a poet

804
00:43:58,400 --> 00:44:00,879
Speaker 2: on those final instructions, man, and you bring the heat

805
00:44:01,000 --> 00:44:04,840
Speaker 2: as always. Have a great Thanksgiving coming up, Enjoy that

806
00:44:04,960 --> 00:44:07,719
Speaker 2: time with the family, enjoy some football in the background,

807
00:44:07,800 --> 00:44:10,520
Speaker 2: no doubt, and we'll see on the plane on Saturday,

808
00:44:10,560 --> 00:44:13,560
Speaker 2: getting ready for a trip to the northeast. How's the

809
00:44:13,880 --> 00:44:15,759
Speaker 2: preparation for the Venturi salad going?

810
00:44:15,840 --> 00:44:19,000
Speaker 3: By the way, Well, miss Sherry was up this morning.

811
00:44:19,080 --> 00:44:20,800
Speaker 3: I was in here working and all of a sudden,

812
00:44:20,880 --> 00:44:23,000
Speaker 3: I see this woman coming in here at six point

813
00:44:23,000 --> 00:44:25,319
Speaker 3: thirty like on a damn mission, so.

814
00:44:27,080 --> 00:44:28,840
Speaker 2: Prepped and ready to go. Baby.

815
00:44:29,400 --> 00:44:31,480
Speaker 3: Now is every would have to say that she has

816
00:44:31,560 --> 00:44:34,239
Speaker 3: made a total comeback and she is ready to roll

817
00:44:34,320 --> 00:44:34,600
Speaker 3: in here.

818
00:44:34,719 --> 00:44:36,720
Speaker 2: Now, is everybody coming to your place?

819
00:44:37,360 --> 00:44:40,160
Speaker 3: No, we're going to Jason's that you know this week.

820
00:44:40,280 --> 00:44:42,840
Speaker 3: Jason wanted us all over there and beauful. He just

821
00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:46,000
Speaker 3: really lives. I mean it's like about seven minutes down

822
00:44:46,440 --> 00:44:48,680
Speaker 3: down the street for us out here. So yeah, I'm

823
00:44:48,719 --> 00:44:50,839
Speaker 3: looking forward to it. We got our we got our

824
00:44:50,920 --> 00:44:54,280
Speaker 3: Big ten, our Big ten conference, our Big ten family will.

825
00:44:54,120 --> 00:44:58,040
Speaker 2: Be there, all represented, baby fighting for a spot at

826
00:44:58,080 --> 00:45:01,760
Speaker 2: the table for sure. All right, Rick, have a wonderful

827
00:45:01,840 --> 00:45:04,000
Speaker 2: day and we'll see you on Saturday. Man, Thanks as always,

828
00:45:04,440 --> 00:45:05,120
Speaker 2: Thank you, Matt.

829
00:45:05,160 --> 00:45:06,880
Speaker 3: I'm really look forwardunate see you on the plane.

830
00:45:06,960 --> 00:45:08,920
Speaker 2: You got it, Rick Van Turrey right there, And that's

831
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Speaker 2: gonna do it for this holiday edition, if you will,

832
00:45:11,760 --> 00:45:15,680
Speaker 2: of Inside Football around Thanksgiving time. And that's everything you

833
00:45:15,800 --> 00:45:18,200
Speaker 2: possibly need to know for the Colts and Pats Week

834
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Speaker 2: number thirteen. We're gonna be there in New England on

835
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Speaker 2: Sunday for nine hours of coverage on radio and that's

836
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Speaker 2: going to begin at ten am with the Colts pregame huddle.

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Speaker 2: That's on our flagship stations in Indianapolis ninety three, five,

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Speaker 2: one oh seven five The Fan ninety seven to one

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Speaker 2: Hank FM. We've got you all day long along the

840
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Speaker 2: Ascension Saint Vincent Radio Network Again. Happy Thanksgiving everybody for

841
00:45:40,880 --> 00:45:43,719
Speaker 2: Rick Van Turrey. I'm Matt Taylor. Thanks for listening to

842
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Speaker 2: Inside Football. Enjoy time with family and joy football in

843
00:45:47,880 --> 00:45:50,960
Speaker 2: the background and we'll talk Colts and Patriots coming up

844
00:45:51,040 --> 00:45:53,000
Speaker 2: on Sunday. We'll talk to you next week right here

845
00:45:53,320 --> 00:46:05,880
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