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

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Speaker 1: and one oh seven five. The Big Run.

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Speaker 1: He's inside the Red Song.

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Speaker 2: He's trek down from behind down to the nineteen yard line.

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Speaker 1: We're talking Colts and recapping the action.

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Speaker 3: A downfield and it is to the top of the Colts.

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Speaker 1: Look at inside the thirty yard line and it's Sec Winnard.

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Speaker 1: Now here's the voice of the Colts, Matt Taylor from

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Speaker 2: We're talking Colts football here on ninety three to five

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Speaker 2: and one oh seven five. The Fan. The Colts fell

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Speaker 2: the Ams in Week four, twenty nine, twenty three in

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Speaker 2: overtime to drop to two to two on the season.

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Speaker 2: The Colts got down big early. They trailed twenty to

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Speaker 2: nothing at halftime and then twenty three to zero with

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Speaker 2: they came storming back with twenty three unanswered points tied

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Speaker 2: the game, but the Colts fell short in overtime and

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Speaker 2: unable to complete what would have been the greatest regular

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Speaker 2: season comeback in club history. In the first half, the

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Speaker 2: Colts managed just one hundred and fourteen yards and lost

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Speaker 2: a fumble on twenty five plays in its first five possessions. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 2: the Rams scored on four of their five first half possessions,

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Speaker 2: right at the end of the first half. In that

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Speaker 2: first half, the Rams piled up huge edges on the

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Speaker 2: Colts in total yards two seventy two to one, ten

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Speaker 2: first down seventeen to five, and time of possession almost doubled.

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Speaker 2: But in the middle of the third quarter everything changed.

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Speaker 2: During a four possession stretch spanning the third and fourth

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Speaker 2: drives covering seventy five yards sixty two yards and eighty

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Speaker 2: finished the game with a wild stat line eleven for

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Speaker 2: six yards of total offense while being responsible for all

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Speaker 2: three consecutive games. Again, the game was tied at twenty

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Speaker 2: The teams would trade possessions, but neither team could get

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Speaker 2: headed overtime for the second consecutive week, and the Rams

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Speaker 2: won the toss and received the opening possession of additional time,

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Speaker 2: and that coin toss proved to be deadly for the Colts,

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Speaker 2: who would never possess the ball. In Matthew Stafford engineered

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Speaker 2: In the secondary, Stafford engineered his forty third game winning drive,

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Speaker 2: Nakua finished the day with one hundred and sixty three

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Speaker 2: The loss means the Colts have now dropped seven straight

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Speaker 2: It also means the Colts are now in a four

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Speaker 2: play coming up this Sunday when they welcome in the

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Speaker 2: on segment number two tonight, we're gonna be joined by

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Speaker 2: Colts analyst Rick Venturi and Joe Wrights and they'll answer

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Speaker 2: Also head coach Shane Steichen will do the same thing

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Speaker 2: here in just a moment here on segment number one.

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Speaker 2: You can only submit those questions tonight and every Monday

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Speaker 2: night use hashtag Colts Roundtable and we'll squeeze in as

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Speaker 2: coach of the Colts, Shane Steiken, presented by Citizens Energy

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Speaker 2: Group and coach a very difficult, very tough outcome on

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Speaker 2: Sunday and overtime loss to the Rams. When you go

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Speaker 5: Myself included obviously on both sides of the football. You know,

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Speaker 5: it's all about winning the football games, and we got

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Speaker 2: what were some things that went into that? What led

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Speaker 5: you know, and we got to do it, you know,

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Speaker 5: We made the adjustments at halftime, and our guys fought

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Speaker 5: I mean, the biggest thing was just believing in each other,

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Speaker 5: And our guys believed in each other in that locker room,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's Shane sticking with us. This is Colt's Round

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Speaker 2: Table Live tonight. Anthony Richardson in the second half was sensational, electric, elusive.

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Speaker 2: He was accurate, showed every bit of his just raw talents.

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Speaker 5: It's huge, obviously, you know a young player, you know,

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Speaker 5: you know, qualities that he, you know, brought to that team.

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Speaker 5: You know, yesterday was was tremendous, and he made some

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Speaker 4: Just his ability to create outside the pocket and create

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Speaker 2: And that's Shane sticking with us tonight on ninety three

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Speaker 2: of Colt's Round Table Live tonight. You talked to the

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Speaker 5: It's awesome to have him back in the fold, you know,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we got some more questions on Jonathan Taylor from

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Speaker 5: you know, a great mindset that you're gonna come out stronger,

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Speaker 5: you know from those type of injuries, you know, and

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Speaker 5: You know that he's done for this football team.

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Speaker 2: All right, let's get in a few fan questions the

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Speaker 2: mailbag segment here with head coach Shane Stike and hashtag

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Speaker 2: Colts roundtable to interact with us tonight and every Monday night.

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Speaker 2: Let's go to Andrew up first. Coach, what happened on

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Speaker 2: the last play of the game. What went into the

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Speaker 2: miscommunication in the secondary?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, there's just some communication issues right there that we

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Speaker 5: know play that you know lost us to game. There's

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Speaker 5: a lot of plays in that game that we could

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Speaker 5: But obviously we got to get those things cleaned up.

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Speaker 2: Okay, Landon is asking Richardson averaged over twenty yards per

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Speaker 2: completion in the second half. What did the big chunk

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Speaker 2: with teams knowing he can't throw it deep accurately.

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Speaker 5: Anytime you can create those explosive plays, obviously, your you know,

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Speaker 5: anytime we can create those things offensively, you know, obviously

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Speaker 2: Okay. Lastly, Randy is asking or stating here the AFC

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Speaker 2: Indeed, that's head coach Shane stikeing tonight on Colts Roundtable Live. Coach,

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Speaker 6: I mean, this is just a really uh tough game,

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Speaker 6: And Matt can I add one more thing there? And

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Speaker 3: But hey, you're in win now, and we had a chance.

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Speaker 6: And that's what's disappointing because we didn't have the intensity.

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Speaker 6: We weren't ready to get off the bus and La

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Speaker 6: was and if anybody should had the advantage, it should

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Speaker 6: have been us. So that's what's really disappointing to me.

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Speaker 2: Playing in Cincinnati on a Monday night, going back to

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Speaker 2: Los Angeles, coming back to Indianapolis on a short week

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Speaker 2: after playing on Monday night, getting down big early, twenty

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Speaker 2: to nothing. We talked about at fellas, you know, last week,

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Speaker 2: it's like, all right, it's it's it's easy. You guys

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Speaker 2: have all been players. We've all been players. Yeah, Rick

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Speaker 2: you've been a head coach. I mean, it's it's easy,

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Speaker 2: easier to embrace the underdog mentality, have that chip on

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Speaker 2: your shoulder, right, everybody counting you out. It's harder, I think, Joe,

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Speaker 2: to embrace the all right, now, we have shown something, right,

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Speaker 2: we have proved something, we have won a game, we've

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Speaker 2: we've had a degree of success. How do you handle

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Speaker 2: that success? And the Colts didn't have much urgency with

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Speaker 2: that success going into this game against the Rams.

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Speaker 6: And Reggie Wayne always said, Matt, it's different being the

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Speaker 6: hunters versus being the hunted, and when you're the hunted,

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Speaker 6: and just like this, we had a little everybody's talking

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Speaker 6: about the Colts last week. You don't think the Rams

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Speaker 6: were ready and they had a chip on their shoulder.

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Speaker 6: And that's the thing with this young football team. You

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Speaker 6: got to be ready. You got to be ready to

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Speaker 6: walk in and swing first and hard every single game.

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Speaker 6: And as this team continues to have success, it's going

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Speaker 6: to get harder and harder. And that's one of the

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Speaker 6: hardest things in the NFL. Fight human nature and be

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Speaker 6: ready to fight and be ready to take the fight

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Speaker 6: to them week in and week out. And that's why

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Speaker 6: I thought the Rams a little bit more of a

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Speaker 6: veteran group, veteran quarterback. They brought that into Indianapolis yesterday afternoon.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, certainly from Stafford and certainly from Aaron Donald. And

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Speaker 2: what can you say about Pooka Nakua and his five

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Speaker 2: hundred yards receiving so far in the NFL through four

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Speaker 2: games as a rookie Colts fans, remember, the weather authorities

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Speaker 2: tale of the tape. Rick Venturi rights their initial reactions

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Speaker 2: after the Colts Week four lost to the Rams. Time

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Speaker 2: for a quick time out, though when we come back,

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Speaker 2: we're kind of staying with that that feeling. How do

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Speaker 2: you feel a day later? Do you feel better or

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Speaker 2: worse about some key aspects of Sunday's game a day

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Speaker 2: later on this Monday? That's coming up next. This is

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Speaker 2: Colts Roundtable Live on ninety three to five and one

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Speaker 1: This is Roundtable Live, a full hour dedicated to Colts football.

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Speaker 1: Here again is Matt Taylor, the voice of the Colts

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Speaker 2: All Right, A day later, you're still talking about this

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Speaker 2: heartbreaking loss the Rams win in overtime twenty nine to

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Speaker 2: twenty three. You guys know, often in life, when you

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Speaker 2: feel bad about something, they tell you to sleep on it.

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Speaker 2: You wake up with a different perspective a day later.

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Speaker 2: So let's discuss some key aspects to this loss and

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Speaker 2: talk about if you feel better or worse here on

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Speaker 2: this Monday, Rick, Let's talk about that secondary Matthew Stafford

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Speaker 2: throws for three to nineteen. I've repeatedly found open receivers

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Speaker 2: with that quick release. Pooka Nakua gave the Colts all

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Speaker 2: kinds of problems, but Stafford was surgical four for five

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Speaker 2: for sixty yards in the overtime that began with a

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Speaker 2: big play over the middle to Nakua that set up

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Speaker 2: that touchdown drive. So, as you said back in segment

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Speaker 2: number two there, the Colts have now allowed three one

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Speaker 2: hundred yard receiving games on the season and three touchdowns

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Speaker 2: to the other team's top target. Right, you had Calvin

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Speaker 2: Ridley go for eight for one oh one in a touchdown,

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Speaker 2: Nico Collins goes for one six on seven catches and

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Speaker 2: a touchdown a week two for the Texans, and then

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Speaker 2: Nakua goes off for a touchdown nine catches for one

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Speaker 2: hundred and sixty three yards. Do you feel better or

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Speaker 2: worse about the Colt secondary a day later after Sunday, Rick, Well.

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Speaker 7: The first thing I have to do in my world,

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Speaker 7: in our coaching fraternity, Okay, you know, I'm gonna separate

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Speaker 7: secondary from game plan, Okay, because they are interrelated. I mean,

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Speaker 7: we have young corners and they're gonna get younger. You know,

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Speaker 7: if we lose Flowers will be even younger going into

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Speaker 7: next week. So that is a given. They're young corners.

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Speaker 7: But at the same time, you have to have a

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Speaker 7: specific game plan for a team. I'm disgusted about this

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Speaker 7: and going in I knew exactly what Sean McVay is

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Speaker 7: and what Stafford is. What Stafford wants is zone defense.

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Speaker 7: He wants to be able to hit it up in

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Speaker 7: there to stick at where he wants to in the holes.

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Speaker 7: And what Sean McVay wants is he he wants to

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Speaker 7: take a four five seven receiver just like Cupist, but

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Speaker 7: he's going to get him in bunches, he's going to

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Speaker 7: get him in stacks, and he's going to run him

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Speaker 7: free through your back end when you play cover three,

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Speaker 7: cover two areas zone and you do nothing to stop

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Speaker 7: him at the line of scrimmage. And I explain this

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Speaker 7: a week. I explain this last Wednesday. When they get

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Speaker 7: in bunches and stacks, you can't back off. That's what

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Speaker 7: he wants you to do. You have to get up

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Speaker 7: and jam, and you have to pick the guy. You

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Speaker 7: have to pick Nakua up off of the break off

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Speaker 7: of the stack release. If you sit back, That's exactly

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Speaker 7: what he wants you to do and play zone defense.

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Speaker 7: To me, we played right into their hands. Number two.

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Speaker 7: When you pressure the Rams, it's not like the Ravens.

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Speaker 7: Every game is different. When you pressure Jackson, you pressure

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Speaker 7: and you play zone behind it because he can run.

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Speaker 7: When you pressure the rams, you play tight pressing man

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Speaker 7: demand defense, which we do, and we played all zone

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Speaker 7: so many times when the pressure was going to be there,

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Speaker 7: he just dumped it off to the tight end or

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Speaker 7: dumped it off quick to somebody and got himself out

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Speaker 7: of trouble, you know. And then the fatal play, the

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Speaker 7: fatal play of the game is we're down there, third

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Speaker 7: and four in the overtime and we totally blow an assignment.

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Speaker 7: We totally blow the coordination between Kenny Smith and between

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Speaker 7: Juju Brands, totally blow it and let the top got

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Speaker 7: top catcher in the league wide open for a score.

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Speaker 7: So I feel worse today, But it's not necessarily that

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Speaker 7: we can't play with the people we have. We just

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Speaker 7: basically have to begin to come up with game plans

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Speaker 7: that choke people off and primarily take away a top receiver.

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Speaker 7: You've just chronicled it, and I've watched six years of it.

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Speaker 7: At some point you knew Nikula was going to get

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Speaker 7: about fifty, he was going to get ten to twelve targets.

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Speaker 7: I mean, come on, now, take him away.

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Speaker 6: And to add on what coach said, you know, and

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Speaker 6: I know he's going to talk about the secondary, so

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Speaker 6: I'll talk a little bit about the defensive front.

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Speaker 7: Matt.

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Speaker 6: You know, we sat there without our guys, like Coach mentioned,

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Speaker 6: and how many times did they rip six yards, eight yards,

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Speaker 6: ten yards on first down? We talked in the pregame

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Speaker 6: keys and coach I heard yours shut down the run

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Speaker 6: and make them one dimensional. We did not shut down

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Speaker 6: their running game. The other thing too, we had some

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Speaker 6: key penalties early in the game. You go back, it's

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Speaker 6: the first drive, but what a difference maker third and eleven.

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Speaker 6: EJ Speed hits him out of bounds. Yeah, personal fount

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Speaker 6: and now it's a first down. They go down and

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Speaker 6: get a touchdown. Think about if they had punted there

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Speaker 6: and we get the ball, that game could have a

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Speaker 6: completely different trajectory. Or maybe you're down two scores instead

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Speaker 6: of three and a half time and it's something different. So

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Speaker 6: it's all those little things that magnif everybody's talking about

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Speaker 6: Nkou at the end of the game, and certainly that

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Speaker 6: was disappointing to see him beat us when we knew

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Speaker 6: they were going to him in crunch time. But the

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Speaker 6: running game and the lack of stopping that's something they

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Speaker 6: hadn't had success that directly waited. We didn't win first

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Speaker 6: down like we talked about pregame, and that was a

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Speaker 6: big reason why we struggled too.

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Speaker 3: On the back.

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Speaker 2: That's Joe Wrights. Rick fin Turi's along as well. This

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Speaker 2: is Colts Roundtable Live tonight. I'm Matt Taylor. We're talking

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Speaker 2: about if you feel better or worse after the Colts

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Speaker 2: overtime lost to the Rams a day later on this Monday.

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Speaker 2: Let's talk about the offense. In the first half, Colts

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Speaker 2: just mustered one hundred and fourteen yards, they lost a fumble,

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Speaker 2: They ran only twenty five plays, but they rallied back

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Speaker 2: there in the second half. They had a four possession

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Speaker 2: stretch there in the third and fourth quarter where Richardson

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Speaker 2: orchestrated quick strike touchdown drives, seventy five yard drive, a

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Speaker 2: sixty two yard drive, and an eighty three yard drive.

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Speaker 2: He completed three passes in the game over thirty yards,

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Speaker 2: including that thirty five yard touchdown pass to Moley Cox,

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Speaker 2: and for the game, Richardson averaged seven point three yards

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Speaker 2: per attempt, which was nearly double what the Colts turned

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Speaker 2: out last week against the Ravens. Rick do you feel

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Speaker 2: better or worse about the offensive performance? A day later,

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Speaker 2: it's spearheaded by Anthony Richardson, making tons of plays, a

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Speaker 2: letticism the talent in the pocket to escape trouble. Do

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Speaker 2: you feel better or worse about this offense on this

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Speaker 2: Monday after Sunday?

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Speaker 7: All right, Matt, I know this sounds silly, but I

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Speaker 7: actually feel better about it now. You just said why.

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Speaker 7: I feel really good about it because we have a

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Speaker 7: quarterback that gets He got on the playground and it

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Speaker 7: was just unbelievable. I mean I would pay double to

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Speaker 7: watch that kid play. I mean, he just I'm excited

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Speaker 7: every week. I mean he brought us back single handedly.

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Speaker 7: He got receivers open with extension, he erased pass rush

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Speaker 7: with scramble ability. You know that part of it is

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Speaker 7: going to give us a great future. Now. The difference

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Speaker 7: in offense and defense is, even though it wasn't always successful,

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Speaker 7: I see what Shane's trying to do and I like it.

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Speaker 7: I mean, you know, he adapted. He did more in

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Speaker 7: the running game versus the Bear wasn't real successful, but

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Speaker 7: you can see the evolution. Tony Sprano's got those guys,

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Speaker 7: regardless of who he's got He's got them playing hard inside.

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Speaker 7: Nelson is a man's man in this game, and you

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Speaker 7: won't notice it unless you really look at the tape,

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Speaker 7: you know. I think the one thing that I think

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Speaker 7: he's got to do. I think Shane is very used

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Speaker 7: to those two top receivers at Philadelphia, AJ Brown and

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Speaker 7: DeVante Smith, and our guys can't separate. The only guy

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Speaker 7: that creates offense at all, creates offense is downs. Okay.

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Speaker 7: So what I think is important, okay, is that he

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Speaker 7: has got to learn a little bit from Sean McVay.

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Speaker 7: We've got to do more movement. We got to do

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Speaker 7: just like he does in the red zone. And incidentally,

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Speaker 7: he does a great job long utilizing see I like

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Speaker 7: how he utilizes the quarterback in the red zone worth

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Speaker 7: number three in the league. We're seventy two percent this morning,

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Speaker 7: I mean, and we are really good down in there.

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Speaker 7: And he did use a lot of movement. I mean,

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Speaker 7: the movement to get Pittman open is just what I'm

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Speaker 7: talking about out on the field. I mean, Sean McVay

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Speaker 7: gets guys open that can't run. I'm just telling you.

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Speaker 7: And so I think we got to do a little

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Speaker 7: bit more that we don't. We're not good enough at

649
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Speaker 7: any position at white out to be stationary and get open.

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Speaker 7: So but I like what he's doing. I see evolution,

651
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Speaker 7: and you know, even with young kids in there on

652
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Speaker 7: the offensive line. Don't get me wrong, the kid was

653
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Speaker 7: overmatched at left tackle against Donald, but he battling and

654
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Speaker 7: he's gonna be okay. And we ended up coming over

655
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Speaker 7: and helping him lait in a game. But I just

656
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Speaker 7: I see what they're doing and I'm I feel better

657
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Speaker 7: about it. I'm optimistic.

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Speaker 6: I agree, I am very optimistic. When I watched that

659
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Speaker 6: game unfold Matt and coach, it reminded me of playing

660
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Speaker 6: with Andrew Luck in terms of there were a lot

661
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Speaker 6: of games in his career where we were down big

662
00:31:41,320 --> 00:31:43,920
Speaker 6: and the offensive line is under durest because you got

663
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Speaker 6: guys like me out there blocking and there's guys in

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Speaker 6: his face. But you know what, I always felt like

665
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Speaker 6: playing with Andrew, that guy he is going to find

666
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Speaker 6: a way to get it done in crunch time and

667
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Speaker 6: win us the ballgame.

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Speaker 3: And I really thought we were going to win the

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Speaker 3: ball game.

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Speaker 6: And I just feel like that belief in a quarterback

671
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Speaker 6: that gives you so much more conviction The other ten

672
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Speaker 6: guys in the offensive line, in the whole team, And

673
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Speaker 6: the reality is, you know, if Kylon Granson catches that

674
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Speaker 6: ball in the fifty on that last possession, it's a

675
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Speaker 6: whole different Tom today. And there's that fourth and seven

676
00:32:11,960 --> 00:32:14,560
Speaker 6: Granson just getting out of his hands. You know, Pierce

677
00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:16,440
Speaker 6: had that big third down where it's kind of fifty

678
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Speaker 6: to fifty ball. We got to help him out a

679
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Speaker 6: little bit and win some of these fifty to fifty balls,

680
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Speaker 6: get a little bit more production of our pass catchers.

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Speaker 3: If we do that, that's only going to open things up.

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Speaker 6: And I think to coaches point, you know, schematically doing

683
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Speaker 6: some different things in the passing game, because to me,

684
00:32:30,080 --> 00:32:32,800
Speaker 6: that's our biggest weakness. We're pounding the inside right now

685
00:32:32,840 --> 00:32:35,720
Speaker 6: with Moss, We're getting to the edge with Richardson. Coaches

686
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Speaker 6: right that offensive line group is playing hard. Quentin Nelson

687
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Speaker 6: is back, baby. I love watching him play.

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Speaker 7: You know.

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Speaker 6: Yeah again, Freeland struggle a little bit, but French he

690
00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:45,520
Speaker 6: held up all right. And that right side of the line,

691
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Speaker 6: and we're getting downhill on guys in the running game

692
00:32:48,240 --> 00:32:50,760
Speaker 6: that should continue to improve, but we got to be

693
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Speaker 6: able to get some more passes down the field, either

694
00:32:53,160 --> 00:32:55,720
Speaker 6: guys just individual plays winning the fifty to fifty balls

695
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Speaker 6: or doing different things grammatically to get some easy throws

696
00:32:58,680 --> 00:33:01,360
Speaker 6: because richards in one of the weaknesses is still some

697
00:33:01,440 --> 00:33:03,920
Speaker 6: of that accuracy. You saw him overthrow Pittman when he

698
00:33:03,960 --> 00:33:06,360
Speaker 6: had that breakout route early in the first half. That

699
00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:09,000
Speaker 6: could have been a just above his fingertips. So we

700
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Speaker 6: got to find a way to help him out in

701
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Speaker 6: the passing game, whether it's schematically or just individual effort

702
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Speaker 6: guys stepping up and catching the football.

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Speaker 2: Well, Joe, stay right there. I mean, the last do

704
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Speaker 2: you feel better or worse A day later that I

705
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Speaker 2: wanted to talk about was the offensive line, and you

706
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Speaker 2: just kind of chronicled it there. Bernard Ryman out with

707
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Speaker 2: a concussion. Ryan Kelly was dealing with a concussion. So

708
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Speaker 2: you had Blake Friedland, the rookie out of BYU fourth

709
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Speaker 2: round draft pick, making his NFL debut, his first start,

710
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Speaker 2: and what a task it was at times partly trying

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Speaker 2: to slow down Aaron Donald. Wesley French was making just

712
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Speaker 2: his second start at center. So suffice it to say,

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Speaker 2: based on what you just said, you feel better about

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Speaker 2: the depth along the offensive line.

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Speaker 6: A day later, I do and I think Freeland, you

716
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Speaker 6: got to judge him from the game in terms of

717
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Speaker 6: it's his first career start against a three time defensive

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Speaker 6: Player of the Year, and there were a couple of

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Speaker 6: plays Donald got him on that first pass rush, he

720
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Speaker 6: set him up wide and power rushed in. I'd move

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Speaker 6: and you know, then he ripped around the outside a

722
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Speaker 6: couple of times and got him. But what I like

723
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Speaker 6: is protection wise, there were a couple of times late

724
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Speaker 6: in the game we had three guys on him and

725
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Speaker 6: we weren't going to let him beat us and win

726
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Speaker 6: the game. And I really like that from a coaching perspective.

727
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Speaker 6: But that O line group is going to be fine.

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Speaker 6: I agree with coach. I think that Tony Sperano junior

729
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Speaker 6: we talked about in the preseason. You know, he's a

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Speaker 6: difference maker on the offensive line group. And hopefully you

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Speaker 6: get Kelly back, hopefully you get Rhyming back next week.

732
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Speaker 6: That'll only help the run game as well. But I

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Speaker 6: do like where this offensive line group is coming, and

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Speaker 6: I think the combination of that in Richardson's ability to

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Speaker 6: move in the pocket and make plays will continue to

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Speaker 6: be a strength as the season goes on.

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Speaker 7: I did all that though completely. I just I give

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Speaker 7: Nelson five stars in this game. I just thought, you know,

739
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Speaker 7: the things that he did, the intensity that he played with,

740
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Speaker 7: you know, that's the leadership that's catching. I think Tony

741
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Speaker 7: has done a really good job emotionally with those guys.

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Speaker 7: They play tough inside, and I like the combination. I'm

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Speaker 7: sure Shane, Cooter and Tony all have something to do

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Speaker 7: with it, but I do like I see what they're

745
00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:06,440
Speaker 7: trying to do. They're not just you know, they're expanding

746
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Speaker 7: the scheme a little bit every week. They used Granson

747
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Speaker 7: a little bit as a fullback, they lose Mo Alley

748
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Speaker 7: a little bit as a fullback. I've been calling for

749
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Speaker 7: those things. I like those things. And again, what I

750
00:35:17,440 --> 00:35:19,319
Speaker 7: see a little bit in Freeland is a little bit

751
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Speaker 7: like Ryman was a year ago. Well he's playing, you

752
00:35:22,160 --> 00:35:24,799
Speaker 7: have to help him against top guys. But I see

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Speaker 7: talent there.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 7: Again, like Joe said that, you can't ask him to

756
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Speaker 7: go out there one on one, but by the fourth quarter, see,

757
00:35:31,880 --> 00:35:34,359
Speaker 7: I could see us bringing people over there to help him.

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Speaker 7: And that See, when I look at it from a

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00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:39,560
Speaker 7: coaching standpoint, I look at what is your adaptation, what

760
00:35:39,760 --> 00:35:42,360
Speaker 7: is your adjustment. That's why I'm so angry with the defense.

761
00:35:42,640 --> 00:35:44,960
Speaker 7: I know I don't have my two top inside guys,

762
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Speaker 7: and I sit there all day and get pounded. I mean,

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Speaker 7: you gotta do something.

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Speaker 2: go to the best ones. Here, Michael is asking Joe,

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Speaker 2: can we expect to see that many called runs for

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Speaker 2: Anthony Richardson on a consistent basis, especially with him knowing

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Speaker 2: when to slide as he did a couple of times yesterday.

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Speaker 3: I think the ladder there is key, Matt.

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Speaker 6: One of the biggest excitements, especially in the first half,

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00:38:08,680 --> 00:38:10,240
Speaker 6: was when he had that first slide and the crowd

806
00:38:10,239 --> 00:38:12,600
Speaker 6: went nuts, and I think people realize the value of

807
00:38:12,680 --> 00:38:15,680
Speaker 6: him getting down and understand and as he continues to play,

808
00:38:16,160 --> 00:38:18,399
Speaker 6: he will continue to be able to be smart about

809
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Speaker 6: when to take those hits. But the reality is him

810
00:38:21,239 --> 00:38:24,400
Speaker 6: on the outside is such a weapon, and those design

811
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Speaker 6: runs are such a weapon. One you keep calling them.

812
00:38:26,760 --> 00:38:30,360
Speaker 6: Defensive coordinators have to keep allocating for different formations. What

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Speaker 6: are they going to do this week? We gotta worry

814
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Speaker 6: and you know what that does. That softens up the

815
00:38:34,239 --> 00:38:36,359
Speaker 6: inside to pound it with Zach Moss. So I think

816
00:38:36,480 --> 00:38:38,279
Speaker 6: we got to continue to call those, and again it's

817
00:38:38,280 --> 00:38:40,560
Speaker 6: a matter of coaching Richardson to be smart and get

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Speaker 6: out of bounds when you need to slide when you

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Speaker 6: need to, and know when it's fourth and one you

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Speaker 6: gotta have it. That's when you put your head down

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Speaker 6: and you make a special play.

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Speaker 2: All right, let's go to Jimmy. He's up next, Rick,

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Speaker 2: Why are we so much better? We being the Colts

824
00:38:54,800 --> 00:38:57,359
Speaker 2: in this case? From Jimmy? Why are we so much

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Speaker 2: better in the red zone this year? Is it all

826
00:38:59,560 --> 00:39:01,520
Speaker 2: about Compenny Richardson at quarterback?

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Speaker 7: Well, I've always said, you know, and again, the red

828
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Speaker 7: zone is kind of my thing. It was my thing

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Speaker 7: as an assistant coach and it's my thing today. I've

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Speaker 7: always felt there's four elements that you really have to

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Speaker 7: have in the red zone to be good. Number one,

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Speaker 7: and some teams just don't have it. And that is

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Speaker 7: a quarterback who can run on designers, because that makes

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Speaker 7: that's almost like playing with the twelfth man. I guarantee

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Speaker 7: you from a defensive standpoint. Number two, you want a

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Speaker 7: downhill runner who can run your best plays, whatever your

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Speaker 7: best play is. You don't want a lot of plays.

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Speaker 7: You want to be good, and we have that right

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Speaker 7: now in Moss. You want a fifty to fifty jump

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Speaker 7: ball guy, and I don't think we exploit that enough.

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Speaker 7: I think Pittman can be that guy. And then you

842
00:39:48,440 --> 00:39:52,600
Speaker 7: need an inside tight end because normally they will get

843
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Speaker 7: a lot of one on one coverage and we're starting

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Speaker 7: to develop that with ogle Tree. And of course we

845
00:39:57,760 --> 00:40:01,320
Speaker 7: had the touchdown to Moe Ally. I think two things

846
00:40:01,360 --> 00:40:05,840
Speaker 7: though that have really separated us. Obviously, Richardson is a monster.

847
00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:10,080
Speaker 7: I mean he had two touchdowns immediately, you know, in

848
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Speaker 7: the in the Houston game. I mean he has two

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Speaker 7: touchdowns from the orange red zone. I mean in two runs.

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Speaker 7: And then you know Sunday, he's just a monster on

851
00:40:18,280 --> 00:40:21,359
Speaker 7: that counter and we're running designers to him. We can

852
00:40:21,440 --> 00:40:24,480
Speaker 7: spread it, run a quarterback draw. I mean that is

853
00:40:24,719 --> 00:40:28,080
Speaker 7: that just puts so much pressure on the defense. And

854
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Speaker 7: then I also think that along with Richardson, Shane really

855
00:40:33,560 --> 00:40:35,440
Speaker 7: knows how to do it. I mean he's done it

856
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Speaker 7: with Hurtz. He really knows how and when to call it.

857
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Speaker 7: And he's very creative. Not so much in plays because

858
00:40:43,280 --> 00:40:45,480
Speaker 7: I don't think you want to get real exotic in

859
00:40:45,600 --> 00:40:48,880
Speaker 7: plays because you have to execute in tight spaces, but

860
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Speaker 7: he's very creative with formations. He got in that why

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00:40:51,800 --> 00:40:54,880
Speaker 7: look and they shifted the double wing and then all

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Speaker 7: of a sudden they motioned the back out of the backfield.

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Speaker 7: But what did they run? They ran a solid quarterback

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Speaker 7: count and Richardson walks in and his spin move was

865
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Speaker 7: better than most quarterbacks, to be honest with you. But

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Speaker 7: then he came back, they did a similar thing and

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Speaker 7: they did what I'd like to see him do more

868
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Speaker 7: with Pittman on the field, is they motioned him in

869
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Speaker 7: zigzag motion and then he came out the other edge,

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Speaker 7: and now all of a sudden, they're thinking Richardson is

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Speaker 7: gonna run the ball, and you know, Pittman is just wide,

872
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Speaker 7: flat open in the flat and so I think it's

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Speaker 7: a combination of all those things. But there's no doubt

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Speaker 7: that Richardson and change use of him and creativity is

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Speaker 7: critical right now number three in the league as of

876
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Speaker 7: this morning with seventy two percent scoring. That's that's very

877
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Speaker 7: very good.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the Colts yesterday, Rick, they were two for two

879
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Speaker 2: scoring touchdowns in the red zone. They were two for

880
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Speaker 2: two on two point conversions. And they've scored they've scored

881
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Speaker 2: touchdowns on seven of their last eight red zone opportunities.

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Speaker 3: Pretty good.

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Speaker 7: Now, it's been terrific. And you know what, if you

884
00:42:00,239 --> 00:42:01,960
Speaker 7: keep doing that, you're gonna win a lot of games.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And it's a welcome surprise, not a surprise but

886
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Speaker 2: a welcome alternative considering what happened to the Colts offensively

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00:42:09,360 --> 00:42:12,440
Speaker 2: in the red zone last season. That was troublesome all

888
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Speaker 2: year long. In twenty twenty two, all right, we got

889
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Speaker 2: time for one more, Joe. Let's squeeze in Grant. Grant

890
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Speaker 2: is asking. I think he's kind of speaking for a

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Speaker 2: lot of Colts fans right now. How imperative are the

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Speaker 2: next two games at home or I should say in

893
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Speaker 2: the division. One is a home game. The week after

894
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Speaker 2: next is in Jacksonville to take on the Jaguars for

895
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Speaker 2: the second time. The next two games in the AFC

896
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Speaker 2: South Joe, with everyone in the division at two and two.

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Speaker 2: I like this question because I don't know if there

898
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Speaker 2: must win games for the Colts this early in the season.

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Speaker 2: You know, you look at early to mid October, but

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Speaker 2: they are I think when it's all said and done,

901
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Speaker 2: you know, if you go into week seventeen, Week eighteen,

902
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Speaker 2: these next two games are going to go a long

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Speaker 2: way in how the Colts are positioned to maybe fight

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Speaker 2: for the playoffs in December, no question, And.

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Speaker 6: I'm gonna say that next week is a must win.

906
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Speaker 6: I don't know about Jacksonville down there, but The reality is, Matt,

907
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Speaker 6: we've lost seven games in a row now at home,

908
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Speaker 6: and Tennessee's coming to our building in six days, and

909
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Speaker 6: Tennessee's owned us the last three four years, and you.

910
00:43:12,840 --> 00:43:14,000
Speaker 3: Got to put a stop to that.

911
00:43:14,280 --> 00:43:16,680
Speaker 6: And you've got to win your home games, especially your

912
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Speaker 6: division ones. I think all of a sudden we thought

913
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Speaker 6: Jackson was going to run away this division. Everybody's sitting

914
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Speaker 6: in two and two. Houston looks awful good the last

915
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Speaker 6: couple weeks. This thing is going to be a battle.

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Speaker 6: I'm just telling you down to week seventeen. But I

917
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Speaker 6: do think that the team with the best intra divisional record,

918
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Speaker 6: and I think if you're the Colt, you got to

919
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Speaker 6: get to at least four and two at the end

920
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Speaker 6: of the year within the six games in division if

921
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Speaker 6: you want to have a chance at winning the AFC

922
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Speaker 6: South titles.

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Speaker 3: But Sunday, to me is a must win.

924
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Speaker 6: It's Tennessee an opponent that has beaten us, because honestly,

925
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Speaker 6: they've out toughed us the last three four years.

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Speaker 3: We're at home.

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Speaker 6: We got to put a stop to that, and we

928
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Speaker 6: got to get off this home schneid. In terms of

929
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Speaker 6: making Lucas Oil again, a place where it's really hard

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Speaker 6: for teams to come in and get a victory.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the Colts have lost seven straight games at Lucas

932
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Speaker 2: Oil State, which is the longest losing streak in the

933
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Speaker 2: history of the venue, which opened in two thousand and eight.

934
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Speaker 2: That's Joe Wrights and Rick Vin Terry, Joe, I know

935
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Speaker 2: you got a run, so we're gonna cut you loose.

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Speaker 2: Rick and I though we'll come back. We'll close out

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Speaker 2: the show and we will preview those Tennessee Titans a

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Speaker 2: little bit more detail when we come back to wrap

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Speaker 2: it up here on Colts Roundtable Live, brought to you

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

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

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Speaker 2: We're back with the closing arguments on the show with

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Speaker 2: Rick van Turrey. Looking ahead, Rick at the Tennessee Titans

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Speaker 2: as the Colts get back in the AFC South play

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Speaker 2: in each of the next couple of games Tennessee this week,

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Speaker 2: then the week after the Jacksonville Jaguars on the road.

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Speaker 2: If you look at this game coming up, the Titans

958
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Speaker 2: are somewhat of an enigma right now. They're two and

959
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Speaker 2: two like everybody else in the division. And you know,

960
00:45:26,560 --> 00:45:28,600
Speaker 2: when they look good, they look good, and when they

961
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Speaker 2: look bad, they look bad, they look good. Yesterday they

962
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Speaker 2: routed the Bengals twenty seven to three. Derrick Henry got

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Speaker 2: back on track. But the week before Rick, they got

964
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Speaker 2: destroyed by the Browns, didn't muster one hundred yards of offense.

965
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Speaker 2: So who are the Titans from what you can tell

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Speaker 2: after four games of film study to this point, No.

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Speaker 7: You're exactly right. I guess a enigma is the word.

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Speaker 7: I think the surprise division now though after yesterday, is

969
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Speaker 7: the AFC South, all of a sudden, we're all locked

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Speaker 7: up at two and two. I don't think too many

971
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Speaker 7: people would have given, you know, division all teams credit

972
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Speaker 7: for two wins. At this point in watching Tennessee, the

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Speaker 7: only thing that's scary about Tennessee is I think they

974
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Speaker 7: kind of found their identity yesterday. You know, they're a

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Speaker 7: very very dangerous team on defense. They have a lot

976
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Speaker 7: of talent with Simmons and Autry and Landry, you know,

977
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Speaker 7: and that crew buyered that guys. You know, we know

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Speaker 7: them well, and they can be very very dangerous on defense.

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Speaker 7: I even in their losses icy things that worry me.

980
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Speaker 7: But what worries me more is yesterday's when you know,

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Speaker 7: they again they got back to Tennessee football, which they

982
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Speaker 7: you know before yesterday they were struggling with Henry, and

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Speaker 7: Henry comes up with one hundred and twenty two his

984
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Speaker 7: five point five, Tannehill has his eighteen for twenty five,

985
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Speaker 7: and you know in two hundred and forty yards, you know,

986
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Speaker 7: and all of a sudden, that looks like the Tennessee

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Speaker 7: of old, you know. And I haven't studied this last

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Speaker 7: tape yet. I'll do that to but all of a

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Speaker 7: sudden when you look at that, and I thought they

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Speaker 7: were dangerous anyway. I just thought that they you know,

991
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Speaker 7: they've kind of lost their way on offense. But honestly, yesterday,

992
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Speaker 7: when you look at it statistically, they look like they

993
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Speaker 7: have their identity back.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and the Colts have struggled with them. Rick to

995
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Speaker 2: close out, we got about thirty seconds left. You're exactly right.

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Speaker 2: This is a team that has topped the Colts the

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Speaker 2: franchise five consecutive times. They come into Lucas Oil Stadium

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Speaker 2: with a lot of confidence. They've won four straight games

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Speaker 2: at Lucas Oil. And it doesn't matter what the record is,

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Speaker 2: doesn't matter how good they look one week or how

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Speaker 2: bad they look the next. I mean, this is a

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Speaker 2: well coached team under Mike Vrabel. They've got a good

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Speaker 2: culture and they've got a good franchise in terms of identity,

1004
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Speaker 2: in terms of who they want to be and the

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Speaker 2: physicality they always play with.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, you're exactly right, and what you're really finding out

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Speaker 7: And I so believe this adage. It's not necessarily who

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Speaker 7: you play, it's when you play them. And each individual

1009
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Speaker 7: matchup in the NFL is totally different. That's why some

1010
00:48:00,000 --> 00:48:02,160
Speaker 7: some times you have to throw records out and you

1011
00:48:02,239 --> 00:48:04,480
Speaker 7: have to really peel back the onion and look at

1012
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Speaker 7: the actual games within the game.

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Speaker 2: Well said right there. That's Rick van turre My. Thanks

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Speaker 2: to him per usual, and Joe Writes for joining the

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Speaker 2: show and head coach Shane Steichen who joined in on

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Speaker 2: the first segment tonight as always, so if you miss

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Speaker 2: any of that, you can check it out right now,

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Speaker 2: I'm Matt Taylor. We're out of time. We got a run.

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