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Speaker 1: What's up, Colts fans. I'm JJ Stankowitz. Welcome into another

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Speaker 1: episode of The Colt Show in Indianapolis. Colts podcast, coming

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Speaker 1: to you from Grand Park, where the Colts wrapped up

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Speaker 1: another day of training camp. We're tapping this on Tuesday.

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Speaker 1: Colts have a walk through on Wednesday and then a

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Speaker 1: night practice on Thursdays. This POD's gonna come out before

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Speaker 1: that night practice. Coming up later on the podcast, I

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Speaker 1: had a chance to sit down with left tackle Bernard Ryman,

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Speaker 1: who signed a contract extension this week. He's gonna be

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Speaker 1: a stalwart on this Colts offensive line for years to come.

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Speaker 1: Really excited to share that conversation with you guys. I

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Speaker 1: also a'm gonna get into the Colts Show mail bag,

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Speaker 1: before we get to Bernard Ryman, a couple things I

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Speaker 1: want to get into from practice that I observed on Tuesday. Specifically,

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Speaker 1: really good day for both quarterback for Anthony Richardson and

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Speaker 1: for Daniel Jones. The same on Monday. Really, so you

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Speaker 1: got back to back good days for both quarterbacks, and

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Speaker 1: the key thing here is that the pads are on,

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Speaker 1: so you know, I think maybe it was a bit

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Speaker 1: of a slow start in some ways for the offense

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Speaker 1: in the first four days of practice last week, where

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Speaker 1: Come on Monday Tuesday, both quarterbacks look sharp, and the

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Speaker 1: thing that I noticed on Tuesday was that they both

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Speaker 1: looked very calm, kind of going through their reads, going

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Speaker 1: No turnovers for either quarterback today. And there are a

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Speaker 1: couple of reps down in the red zone. The Coults

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Speaker 1: almost like goal to go to start practice. Anthony Richardson

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Speaker 1: on one of them, he had really quiet feet in

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Speaker 1: the pocket. He looked off a defender, bought a little

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Speaker 1: bit of time. You found Michael Pittman Junior for a touchdown.

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Speaker 1: On the next play, things maybe broke down a bit.

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Speaker 1: He kind of calmly back pedaled, found him well like

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Speaker 1: Cox in the end zone for another touchdown. Again, I

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Speaker 1: just kept writing down the word calm. And then for

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Speaker 1: Dan Daniel Jones, there is a period in seven on

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Speaker 1: sevens where he found Ady Mitchell on three consecutive plays,

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Speaker 1: including one downfield. You're seeing both guys layer throws really

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Speaker 1: well to the second level. That's something Anthony Richardson needed

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Speaker 1: to work on, something he focused on this offseason. And

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Speaker 1: you're seeing a lot of completions. You're not seeing a

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Speaker 1: ton of balls hitting the ground because they were behind

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Speaker 2: You're seeing accurate throws.

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Speaker 1: And I think I talked about this last week that

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Speaker 1: the defense, the Colts defense has really challenged both quarterbacks

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Speaker 1: to have like accuracy plus. And I think early on

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Speaker 1: I think right now you're seeing that accuracy really show

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Speaker 1: up in a really nice encouraging way. Now we're a

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Speaker 1: week into practice, so you don't want to draw any conclusions.

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Speaker 1: I think it's probably still too early to call who's

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Speaker 1: going to win this job and if it's gonna lead

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Speaker 1: to the result the Colts ultimately want when the regular

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Speaker 1: season opens on September seventh. But these last two days

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Speaker 1: have been very encouraging so again the both quarterbacks. You

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Speaker 1: want to see him build on that on Thursday night

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Speaker 1: and then into the weekend. Colts of an off day Friday,

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Speaker 1: they'll practice again Saturday Sunday before getting on a plane

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Speaker 1: the Colts coming up in the mail bag, but let's

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Speaker 1: get to Colts left tackle Bernard Ryman right after these messages.

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Speaker 1: to be joined here on The Colts Show by Tackle

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Speaker 1: Bernard Ryman Bernard earlier this morning, we're taping this Tuesday.

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Speaker 1: You signed a contract extension with the Colts. First of all,

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Speaker 1: congratulations for seeing the work that you put in to

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Speaker 1: It has been really cool, just you know, from from

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Speaker 1: above almost what what does this all mean to you?

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Speaker 1: What did that moment mean to you to put pen

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Speaker 3: I mean it means everything, honestly, Yes, when I when

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Speaker 3: you play football, you try to play for as long

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Speaker 3: entire goal was to win football games for the Colts,

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Speaker 3: improve every day, and be here long term. And you know,

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Speaker 3: obviously this is just the beginning, because there's still a

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Speaker 3: I mean, I'm my family's excited. I'm excited, and I'm

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Speaker 1: What is the stability that you get, you know, to

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Speaker 3: I mean, we've really been taken in by this community here.

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Speaker 1: I know it's kind of happened, you know, pretty quick,

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Speaker 3: Honestly, I haven't had much time yet. It's kind of

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Speaker 1: Was there ever a moment, like maybe when it was

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Speaker 3: I mean, I've always believed in myself and I've always

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Speaker 3: But at the end of the day, there's there's so

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Speaker 3: So I just you know, that's what I did that.

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Speaker 2: What's something that you can do in your fourth training.

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Speaker 3: Know, just trusting myself and then trying new things, trying

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Speaker 3: Yeah, obviously you think about it. But the job of

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Speaker 1: How fortunate did you feel that you got drafted here

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna be in Baltimore with the team. It's

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Speaker 1: my kids first week at kindergarten, spending some quality family

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Speaker 1: time back here in Indy. But Lara Overton's gonna have

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Speaker 1: you covered from Baltimore next week, as well as Amanda

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Speaker 2: For Bernard Ryman, who is a pleasure.

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Speaker 1: It was a pleasure for him to join me here

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Speaker 1: on the podcast, and again, congratulations to him on his

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Speaker 1: contract extension. I'm JJ Stankovitz. Thank you for watching this

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Speaker 1: episode of The Colt Show. Give us a five star

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