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Speaker 1: The Colts take on the Cowboys Sunday Night Football this week,

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Speaker 1: and the Colts are looking to play some better football

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Speaker 1: as the calendar flips to December. I'm Matt Taylor with

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Speaker 1: Casey Valier and joining us now to talk about Sunday

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Speaker 1: Night's game. He's going to be on the call for

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Speaker 1: Westwood One. Former NFL defensive tackle and NFL analyst Mike

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Speaker 1: Golick is with us. Mike, thanks for the time today.

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Speaker 1: How are you. I'm doing well. I am. I glad

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Speaker 1: to be on absolutely now. Mike. Are you still based

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Speaker 1: up in South ben Well. I'm there six months out

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Speaker 1: of the year and then once it turns bad weather,

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Speaker 1: I come out here to Sky now. So I'm done

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Speaker 1: with smart You got it all figured out, man, I

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Speaker 1: love it. But you're still an adopted Hoosier, so we

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Speaker 1: love you. Man. When you look at this, when you

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Speaker 1: look at this Colts team getting ready for Colts and

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Speaker 1: Cowboys in your preparation, I guess just big picture for you,

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Speaker 1: what stands out to you when you look at the

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Speaker 1: Colts in terms of how they've underperformed this year for

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Speaker 1: seven and one, What are some things that have kind

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Speaker 1: of hit home for you? Looking at him three and

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Speaker 1: I quite honestly, I have been somewhat stunned. I mean,

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Speaker 1: how much they struggled. So, you know, a lot of

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Speaker 1: people point to the old line, which had been such

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Speaker 1: a strong point for them. Certainly, you know, forty three

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Speaker 1: sacks given up this year. The running game hasn't been

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Speaker 1: what it's been though. Jonathan tayl on the last I

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Speaker 1: a game, So it seems like they're getting back to

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Speaker 1: that a little bit. I mean that that's certainly one

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Speaker 1: it's really Pittman, right, I mean, isn't like about thirty

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Speaker 1: For that for this team not making the playoff and

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Speaker 1: like most others have been very, very surprised. When you

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Speaker 1: have you seen from Matt Ryan that maybe you weren't

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Speaker 1: you weren't expecting to see? All the turnovers? I mean

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Speaker 1: I'm sure Matt's even even sick of the turnovers as well.

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Speaker 1: he is one dramm because there's completion percentage is still

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Speaker 1: Golic with us NFL analyst. He's going to be on

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Speaker 1: the call on Sunday Westwood One between Colts and Cowboys

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Speaker 1: on Sunday Night Football. Mike, what was your initial reaction

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Speaker 1: And the thing that there were people that were negative

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Speaker 1: for taking it that I completely disagree with. You know, Jeff,

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Speaker 1: go over their head. Well, that's on Ersey, that's not

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Speaker 1: try and kind of set the ship right, that's my goal.

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Speaker 1: Like with us NFL analyst, he's going to be on

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Speaker 1: Now switching over to the Cowboys, Mike, they're one of

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Speaker 1: impressed because I was scratching my head at that trade.

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Speaker 1: Quite honestly, We're gone. I really was. But again, it's

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Speaker 1: So again this is a one kind of a one

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Speaker 1: they would be. Now, you get yourself in the cap

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Speaker 1: Ceedee Lamb has done a nice job in taking over

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Speaker 1: That's former NFL are Mike Golik and NFL analysts on

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Speaker 1: Westwood One on the call on Sunday in Dallas between

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Speaker 1: Colts and Cowboys on Sunday Night Football, Mike Final one

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Speaker 1: from us. And this is interesting because you brought up

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Speaker 1: the college football Playoff a little bit earlier. That's going

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Speaker 1: and so we were kind of having an internal debate

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Speaker 1: four best teams make the field, regardless of division or

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Speaker 1: regardless of conference, who would those four teams be right now?

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Speaker 1: In your eyes and your opinion, the four best teams

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Speaker 1: right now in the NFL? Wow? Wow? So I would

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Speaker 1: have to put Philly, would Philly and Dallas? The way

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Speaker 1: leave the Chiefs out right, So in no particular order, Philly, Dallas,

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Speaker 1: you're looking between Miami, you're looking to be Buffalo, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: who has one more loss with them, But I see,

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Speaker 1: think they're going to really compete in an NFC which

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Speaker 1: could be strong with Philly and Dallas, and that's San Francisco. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I mean the seven and four they have on offense

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Speaker 1: So there and again A lot of that is based

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Speaker 1: on how you're playing right now, right as we head

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Speaker 1: into the month of December, final stretch, as you know,

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Speaker 1: this is where it goes from one level to the next,

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Speaker 1: and the regular season here as we head towards the playoffs. Mike,

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Speaker 1: I know you're loving life right now. Enjoy that weather

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Speaker 1: in Arizona, Mike, and continued success and well, we'll track

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Speaker 1: you down on Sunday in the press box. They're in Dallas.

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Speaker 1: Sounds good. I'll be there eating all the press box.

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Speaker 1: You got it, Mike, Thanks so much for the time.

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Speaker 1: All right, see you guys.