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Speaker 1: This is Instant Game Reactions, an immediate look back at

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Speaker 1: the Colt's latest game. He's at the five looking for

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Speaker 1: the pylon. Touchdown Jonathan Taylor or run up twenty three

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Speaker 1: yards to Peter, then walk it up the field. It's intercepted,

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Speaker 1: Why Now here's your host? JJ Stankomitz from Colts dot Com. Hey, everyone,

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Speaker 1: welcome into another edition of the Colts Instant Reaction here

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Speaker 1: on the Colts Audio Network. I'm JJ Stenkovitz, joined by

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Speaker 1: former Colts wide receiver Bill Brooks to talk about the

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Speaker 1: colts thirty four to thirty one overtime loss to the

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Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans in Week eight. Bill, just from a former

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Speaker 1: player's perspective, when you played in games like this where

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Speaker 1: you know how much is at stake, but you're trying

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Speaker 1: to view would narrowly, and then a loss like this happens,

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Speaker 1: what's the response that you feel like it's coming out

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Speaker 1: Colts might be having in this game. Well, I think initially,

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Speaker 1: what happens is it's a gut punch, especially with a

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Speaker 1: game like this and knowing that you had a lead,

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Speaker 1: you jump on early up fourteen nothing and then you

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Speaker 1: know a game goes back and forth the rest of

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Speaker 1: the game and you make a nice little run there

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Speaker 1: at the end to get the game into overtime and

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Speaker 1: then you end up coming up short. It's it's a

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Speaker 1: gut punch. It hurts a lot. But knowing that this

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Speaker 1: have more games to play, it's hard, but you had

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Speaker 1: to try to put it behind you, learning from the

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Speaker 1: You don't have a whole week to think about this

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Speaker 1: game which is on Thursday night. So what I want

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Speaker 1: to do for our listeners here, Bill is view this

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Speaker 1: game through the lens of five pivot points in it,

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Speaker 1: which I kind of circled as I went back through it.

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Speaker 1: Five plays that I feel like really defined how this

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Speaker 1: game went. And let's get into how they happened, why

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Speaker 1: they happened, what they meant so the first one Colts

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Speaker 1: the Tennessee Titans forty yard line. On third and three,

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Speaker 1: Carson Wentz hit He tried to fire a deep shot

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Speaker 1: That was when Wentz he just didn't connect with Michael

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Speaker 1: first touchdown of the game right after that. Frank Reich

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Speaker 1: was asked about this after the game, and he expressed

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Speaker 1: confidence in the decision to go for it in that spot, which,

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Speaker 1: frankly I agree with Bill. When you're in that spot

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Speaker 1: of a sudden, it becomes the three score game in

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Speaker 1: the first quarter. And you know, frank Reich said after

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Speaker 1: Here's where I want to get into Bill. If anything

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Speaker 1: on fourth down, the play that they called on third

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Speaker 1: So I don't have a problem with him going forward

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Speaker 1: Right around this point in the game, the Titans game script,

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Speaker 1: And then when you're in that situation, they're going to

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Speaker 1: it a J. Brown fifty seven yards for a touchdown

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Speaker 1: that ties the game. AJ Brown said after the game

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Speaker 1: Pittman Junior is a star. He just DIDs Yeah. I

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Speaker 1: mean when making big plays at big times, when it's

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Speaker 1: pressure on you, that's saying a lot about that individual.

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Speaker 1: He wants the ball, he wants to be in those

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Speaker 1: situations where he wants to make big plays. And he

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Speaker 1: made a big play. I mean, Carson went was throwing

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Speaker 1: that ball up in the middle of the field like that,

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Speaker 1: and there were a number of guys around Pittman and

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Speaker 1: Pittman goes up high points the ball like he's been

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Speaker 1: doing so much thus far this year, catches it, holds

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Speaker 1: onto it, and puts them in good position to make

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Speaker 1: a play later on to go and score, and then

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Speaker 1: of course to get the pass in the furnace down

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Speaker 1: in the end zone, and then Jonathan Taylor runs in

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Speaker 1: in the end zone for the the touchdowns to get

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Speaker 1: the extra point to tie a game up and going

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Speaker 1: to overtime. So Pittman makes a nice play and Carson

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Speaker 1: Wentz credit. Also he avoids the sack of voice getting tackled,

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Speaker 1: keeps us balance enough to be able to get up

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Speaker 1: and then look down field and throw the ball to Pittman,

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Speaker 1: and Pittman makes a great play. So that name Pittman

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Speaker 1: has showing me a lot in these last few weeks.

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Speaker 1: He's ready to play, like we said last week's showing

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Speaker 1: more confidence. He's very confident in what he's doing. Is

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Speaker 1: very confident and understanding the system, understanding the plays, understanding

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Speaker 1: his responsibility is what he needs to do. And then

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Speaker 1: also being an aggressive individual, won the ball in pressure

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Speaker 1: situations and making plays at that time. So he is

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Speaker 1: an individual that it doesn't surprise me because of his

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Speaker 1: background as his dad being a formal player, so he

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Speaker 1: has a kind of a head startup understanding what it

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Speaker 1: takes to be the guy out there on the football

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Speaker 1: field and to be able to step up and make

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Speaker 1: plays when needed, and he's done that thus far this year.

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Speaker 1: So one other real quick thing about this, Frank Reich

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Speaker 1: was asked after the game, did you consider going for

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Speaker 1: two in that spot? And he said, you know, we

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Speaker 1: talked about it, but the conventional wisdom there is you're

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Speaker 1: at home, you go for the tie. And I don't

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Speaker 1: have a problem with Frank Rereig not going for two there.

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Speaker 1: That feels kind of like hindsight being twenty twenty, because

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Speaker 1: the Colts got the ball to begin overtime and then

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Speaker 1: they went out and got a stop of the Titans

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Speaker 1: to start overtime. I mean, Tennessee went three and out,

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Speaker 1: so you can say, oh, they should have gone for

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Speaker 1: two in that situation. Something else that was interesting bills

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Speaker 1: that Reich said the Colts had like four or five

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Speaker 1: of their favorite plays in the low red area, so

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Speaker 1: like goal to go, and they used them all before

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Speaker 1: they even got to overtime because they just had so

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Speaker 1: many opportunities down there. So it wasn't that they ran

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Speaker 1: out of plays. But they had a bunch of plays

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Speaker 1: that they really liked. They probably practiced them and did

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Speaker 1: a good job in practice with them last week. And

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Speaker 1: then you get to that situation and you say, do

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Speaker 1: we really love any of these play calls? I get it,

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Speaker 1: I really get it. And again, if the Colts went

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Speaker 1: down and they had scored it over time, none of

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Speaker 1: this would have been a thing. Yeah, I agree with you.

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Speaker 1: And you know you're going for two there. If you

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Speaker 1: don't feel comfortable with your two point play or any

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Speaker 1: play that you're running, you shouldn't really running, right. You

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Speaker 1: can like it, but you gotta love it in that Yeah,

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Speaker 1: especially in that's a situation, because if you don't make it,

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Speaker 1: the game's over. You lose right there, because you're going

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Speaker 1: for two, you're down by one point, you're going for two.

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Speaker 1: You don't make it, the game's over. And I'm old school,

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Speaker 1: I'm a little conservative individual, old school. At home play

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Speaker 1: for the tie, on the road, play for the wine.

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Speaker 1: And and you know, so they were at home play

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Speaker 1: for the tie. Hope that you can win the toss

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Speaker 1: and go down and score score a touchdown and end

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Speaker 1: the game. Really for the most part, and but you

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Speaker 1: know what, it worked out almost it went for the

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Speaker 1: one point, got the extra point, tie the game up.

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Speaker 1: When overtime won the coin toss, got the ball, but

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Speaker 1: just couldn't go down and score. So, um, you know

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Speaker 1: what it was. It was a tough Halloween. Put that way,

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Speaker 1: it's a little horror show for the Coats and unfortunately

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Speaker 1: for this game. But you know, bounce back. You have to,

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Speaker 1: you know, put it behind you as soon as possible

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Speaker 1: and get ready for the Jets, because you know what

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Speaker 1: the Jets are coming in here. And if I'm not mistaken,

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Speaker 1: I think they beat the Bengals like white through for

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Speaker 1: four yards. Yeah, so you know it's a team that

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Speaker 1: can that can that that's good, that can play that

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Speaker 1: you know they they've they've won some games. They beat

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Speaker 1: the Titans as well, so um, you know they the

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Speaker 1: coach need to make sure that they don't take this

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Speaker 1: team whitely, even though they've lost a lot of games.

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Speaker 1: So just real quick before we wrap this up, just

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Speaker 1: the last flashpoint play had would then be the second

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Speaker 1: interception Carson wentz through, which set up the Titans game

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Speaker 1: winning forty four yard field goal, and on that play,

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Speaker 1: Carson said he thought Michael Pittman Junior had some leverage

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Speaker 1: against the underneath defenders, but Kevin Bayer and the Titans

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Speaker 1: safety really drove down on that play. He kind of

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Speaker 1: did a really good job reading it. They ran a

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Speaker 1: play action there. They're trying to pick up some chunkyards.

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Speaker 1: You know. I think Wentz said he wants to go

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Speaker 1: back and look at the checkdowns on those plays and see,

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Speaker 1: you know, if a guy like Jonathan Taylor moile Cox

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Speaker 1: might have been opened there. That's a play though, where

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Speaker 1: Rich called it and said, hey, we can pick up

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Speaker 1: some chunkyards here, But in that situation, that's one Wentz

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Speaker 1: put all on his shoulders and said, Hey, that I'm

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Speaker 1: going to be thinking about thinking about that one tonight. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know, I want that one back. That one's gonna

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Speaker 1: kind of stick with me. Yeah, that's gonna probably hurt

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Speaker 1: him a little bit because it, you know, the underneath

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00:29:10,280 --> 00:29:14,880
Speaker 1: coverage was wasn't really tight, but it was tight enough

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Speaker 1: where Wentz couldn't throw it on a line so he

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Speaker 1: had to kind of put a little air under it.

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Speaker 1: And then Buyer's coming coming from the top down made

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Speaker 1: an easy pick for him because he was reading that

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Speaker 1: and probably knowing that the Coats might go to Pittman

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Speaker 1: because Pittman is having a big day. You know, he

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Speaker 1: had targeted fifteen times and had ten receptions, so so

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Speaker 1: he probably played the percentagers that you know, the coach

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Speaker 1: is probably gonna go to Pittman. And he made a

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Speaker 1: good play. Give him credit, now, Carson, you know, Crosson

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Speaker 1: shouldn't have thrown the ball to many people around Pittman

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Speaker 1: on that play. And you know, like he said, it's

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Speaker 1: a player that he wished she can have back. I'm

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Speaker 1: sure he wished he had the football on a yo

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Speaker 1: yo string there and they can bring it back and

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Speaker 1: throw it to someone else. But unfortunately that didn't happen.

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Speaker 1: And you know what does that happens in football? You know,

557
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Speaker 1: you make a decision, why don't you do it? You

558
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Speaker 1: hope it works out, but then if it doesn't, you

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00:30:11,840 --> 00:30:14,520
Speaker 1: know what, you gotta take the responsibility of the play

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Speaker 1: and move on. And that's what he has to do.

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Speaker 1: He has to move on, look at it maybe tomorrow

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Speaker 1: and see where you know, he could have did something

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Speaker 1: differently possibly, and then from that point move on and

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Speaker 1: get ready for the Jets. So just to kind of

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Speaker 1: put a bow on this game, We didn't talk about

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Speaker 1: this yet, but the Colts hell Derrick Henry to sixty

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Speaker 1: eight yards on twenty eight carries. Derrick Henry average two

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Speaker 1: point four yards per carry. That is his lowest yards

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Speaker 1: per carry average when he gets twenty or more carries

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Speaker 1: in a game. Since Week seventeen of the twenty seventeen season.

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Speaker 1: Derrick Henry's longest rush was nine yards. The Colts did

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Speaker 1: a fantastic job on every single level of their defense

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Speaker 1: against Derrick Henry, whether it was al Kadi Muhammad or

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Speaker 1: Bobby o'karaka or Kenny Moore. The second they played their

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Speaker 1: butts off to stop Derrick Henry, and you kind of

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Speaker 1: get the sense that like that, I don't want to

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Speaker 1: say deflating, but players after the game, when I was

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Speaker 1: asking them about it, weren't really willing to engage in like, oh,

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Speaker 1: we did a great job against Derrick Henry. Kennymore was

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Speaker 1: like they got a J. Brown and look at what

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Speaker 1: AJ Brown did? I mean, you know, Brown finished today

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Speaker 1: ten catches, one hundred and fifty five yards in a touchdown,

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Speaker 1: and you know the Colt still lost. But it's just

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Speaker 1: you go into this game and you say, you know,

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Speaker 1: if you can hold Derrick Henry to under one hundred

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Speaker 1: yards and under three point seven yards per carry, you're

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Speaker 1: feeling pretty good about it. Derrick Henry got sixty eight

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Speaker 1: yards and two point four yards per carry. So I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna look at that from the sense of the Colts defense.

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Speaker 1: They're really him good against the run, really good, And

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Speaker 1: that is a general positive that I'm going to take

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Speaker 1: from an otherwise gutting loss. Yeah, get the defensive credited

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Speaker 1: against the run, because as you said, Kenny Moore and

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Speaker 1: Amos and Dajo, Darius Lennart Karake, those guys did a

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Speaker 1: nice job and tackling Henry and keeping those guys keeping

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Speaker 1: Henry in the box and not getting any big yards.

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Speaker 1: And as you said, you know, kep Henry under three

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Speaker 1: point seven, you know, and the staff of Henry if

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Speaker 1: he games three point seven is they're like three nine

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Speaker 1: and seventeen, and then when games under three point seven

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Speaker 1: yards per carry, they're thirteen and fifteen. So but now

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Speaker 1: fourteen and fifteen, yeah, now fourteen and fifteen exactly. And

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Speaker 1: then keeping them under a hundred yards, you know it

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Speaker 1: ties of twenty two and three when he goes over

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Speaker 1: one hundred yards and at thirty and thirty when he

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Speaker 1: goes under a hundred yards. So I mean they did

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Speaker 1: what they need to do as far as stopping Derrick Henry,

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Speaker 1: but they let the other guys be him. A J.

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Speaker 1: Brown and Tannehill. Tannehill a couple of big runs as

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Speaker 1: well to get some first down. But A J. Brown

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Speaker 1: had a big game, as you stayed it there earlier.

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Speaker 1: But the defense against the run did a nice job.

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Speaker 1: They did what they were supposed to do. They came

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Speaker 1: up and they hit Henry. They were tackling and tackling, tackling.

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Speaker 1: He never had any big runs. You said, his biggest

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Speaker 1: run was nine yards, and they kept him in that

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Speaker 1: box and then let him get any out, get out

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Speaker 1: and make any big long runs that can break a

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Speaker 1: defense back. So give a defense credit against the run,

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Speaker 1: but unfortunately just couldn't stop A J. Brown. Well, that

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Speaker 1: is going to do it for us here on this

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Speaker 1: episode of Colts Incident Reaction. It's a short week, so

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Speaker 1: the Colts are gonna flush this loss and move on

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Speaker 1: to the New York Jets in prime time the Color

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Speaker 1: Rush game at Lucas Oil Stadium. Where are Your Blue

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Speaker 1: on Thursday to the game at Lucas Oil Stadium and

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Speaker 1: get some New York Jets. Colts are going to have

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Speaker 1: a pretty condensed week here with practices on Monday and Tuesday,

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Speaker 1: kind of or walk through type practices before Thursday. Kind

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Speaker 1: of a good thing in the sense that the Colts

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Speaker 1: get to just get rid of this game quickly and

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Speaker 1: move on to the Jets in one sense, and we

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Speaker 1: are going to move on to the Jets here on

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Speaker 1: the Colts Audio Network as well, we're gonna have a

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Speaker 1: brand new Colts Official podcast coming to you on Tuesday evening.

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Speaker 1: We're going to be joined by Colleen Wolf from NFL Network.

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Speaker 1: Knows a lot about the NFL and about Carson Wentz,

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Speaker 1: so we're going to be excited to talk to her

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Speaker 1: about that. I'll be joined by Lara Overton on that podcast,

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Speaker 1: and then be sure to take stay tuned for a

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Speaker 1: new episode of Inside Football with Rick Venturiy this week

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Speaker 1: as well, with a great Matt Taylor doing that Know

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Speaker 1: Your Foe with Casey Valier and the aforementioned Bill Brooks.

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