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Speaker 1: Podcast on a Thursday, Bill Brooks the Ring of Honor

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Speaker 1: member Casey Valier from the Colts Radio Network. I'm Matt Taylor.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for coming back, fellows. How we do in post

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Speaker 1: Halloween doing well? Let me trigger traders for you in

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Speaker 1: the neighborhood.

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Speaker 2: Unfortunately, not many. I think we just had one family

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Speaker 2: came by one yeah, one family with two kids, and

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Speaker 2: it was one of those things where I told them

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Speaker 2: to kind of dip your hand into the the.

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Speaker 1: Bag there to test the toughness of the kids in

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Speaker 1: your neighborhood once a year.

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Speaker 2: I know they didn't want to come out, I guess,

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Speaker 2: but anyway, they dipped a hand into the bag and

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Speaker 2: could take some more. Mom, bro only got it one

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Speaker 2: out and I said, open your bag. Started I just

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Speaker 2: got dumping some in his bag and dumped some into

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Speaker 1: So they had quite a bit. But that was it.

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Speaker 1: That's why I found Casey on sugar with the kids

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Speaker 1: left over nerds and you know sweet tarts.

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Speaker 3: Ours was a similar situation to Bill. We had more

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Speaker 3: a new build neighborhood. It just just wrapped up all

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Speaker 3: maybe got forty houses total. So what I thought was

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Speaker 1: Real year of Alloween.

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Speaker 3: Well, we did not expect that, so we bought way

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Speaker 1: Valentine's Day, don't you know what.

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Speaker 3: Ultimately, I'm sure we have a bucket somewhere in the

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Speaker 1: So we have so much candy. It's it's unrehad we

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Speaker 1: Punts and the Panthers, I promise in week number nine

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Speaker 1: on this holiday edition post holiday edition of the Official

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Speaker 1: Colts Podcast. Also and later on the podcast, we're going

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Speaker 1: to be joined by Matt Gay, Colts kicker having a

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Speaker 1: phenomenal season. Fourteen out of sixteen on his kicks. He's

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Speaker 1: So the Colt's trying to snap a three game skid.

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Speaker 1: The Panthers are up next, as the Colts fly away

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Speaker 1: from Lucas Oil Stadium for the foreseeable future. Here, the

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Speaker 1: But to begin here, boys, we're going with four down territory.

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Speaker 1: We're leading off with four down territory. The Colts have

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Speaker 1: let's talk about the top four storylines for the Colts

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Speaker 1: and the Panthers on Sunday. The first topic here is

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Speaker 1: I'm calling it stop the bleeding Bill. The Colts are

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Speaker 1: on a three game slide. They're now three and five

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Speaker 1: the Colts have a couple of road games coming up here.

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Speaker 1: What you guys were both inside the locker room earlier

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Speaker 2: Well, I think the guys, of course, are disappointed in

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Speaker 2: They're saying all the things they need to say, and

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Speaker 2: In order to change that, you don't think about being

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Speaker 2: I know it's cliche, one game at a time, but

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Speaker 1: No, I agree with Bill.

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Speaker 3: I think the moon and locker room is right where

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Speaker 3: it probably should be. They're disappointed, and they're probably more

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Speaker 3: there is some positives you can take. Now you got

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Speaker 1: Finding out to the margin of area, right, that's where

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Speaker 3: I mean, weekend and week out, the whole adage of

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Speaker 3: I think we've really started to see over this three

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Speaker 3: last week maybe was a little bit more out of hand,

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Speaker 3: but ultimately you're right there in a lot of these situations.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to paraphrase here, but I loved what Zaire

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Speaker 1: Franklin had to say this week. And people say, yeah,

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Speaker 1: you're three and five, you're on a three game losing skid,

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Speaker 1: but listen, you got you got nine games left, You're fine.

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Speaker 1: Anything can happen. And while that's true, Zaire said, dude,

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Speaker 1: And I know you're not the most but I'm with Zaire, like,

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Speaker 1: it's time to go, Like, if you want to get

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Speaker 1: this season back on the right track. It starts with

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Speaker 1: and we'll talk about it, no disrespect to the Panthers.

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Speaker 1: It starts with dominating up one in sixteen, flying to

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Speaker 1: gear going into the playoffs, trying to make a playoff push.

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Speaker 1: Let's go to second down on our four down territory here.

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Speaker 1: You talked about it the point total on defense. What's

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Speaker 1: wrong with this defense? The Colts they gave up five

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Speaker 1: hundred and eleven yards to the Saints in a game

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Speaker 1: last week where prior to that game against the Colts,

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Speaker 1: the Saints hadn't racked up more than three hundred and

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Speaker 1: the Colts, they've allowed at least thirty seven points in

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Speaker 1: And we dug this up, Casey, because it kind of

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Speaker 1: just it's one of those things where you're going down

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Speaker 2: To me, looking at it, from the beginning of the

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Speaker 2: of a sudden, there's a big play. Last week, the

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Speaker 2: big plays to Shaheed down the field, big touchdown, big

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Speaker 2: what it gets off. It's a chance to win football games.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, when when the game is on the line, those

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Speaker 1: but it wasn't necessarily a game winning drive for the Saints,

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Speaker 1: type of drive that that Zac Bill is talking about,

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Speaker 3: We talked about it a little bit last week. Make

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Speaker 3: it last year. They didn't create a lot of turnovers

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Speaker 3: in years past, and then in that spot where they're

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Speaker 3: creating like third and thirteen, you want to see a

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Speaker 3: know what, We're gonna put car down and it's gonna

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Speaker 3: be You're gonna punt to us and we're gonna have

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Speaker 3: an opportunity. Instead, it's another big play. We saw that PJ.

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Speaker 1: Down the line.

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Speaker 3: This is before those penalties that everybody talks about. That

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the Colts obviously trying to figure out what their

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Speaker 1: he's probably gonna miss another game. They haven't officially made

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Speaker 1: the Colts coaching staff is reluctant to do that because

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Speaker 1: Is it Jonathan Taylor time? I think we all kind

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Speaker 1: Jonathan Taylor's going into his fifth game bill since he's

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Speaker 2: I look at it as I think they should continue

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Speaker 2: But I don't think it needs to be an overhaul

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Speaker 2: But I just think they need to maybe start continue

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Speaker 1: that cut down on the turnovers? But in doing that,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's that is a tough question because I agree

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Speaker 3: think that's what everybody anticipates Jonathan getting. You say, twenty

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Speaker 3: So it's hard to say that you have to just

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Speaker 3: I think ultimately, maybe what it is is you're giving

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Speaker 3: you know some of those. So it's it's a really

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Speaker 3: I don't know the answer clearly if I knew the answer,

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Speaker 1: But I don't think. I think you're already seeing it

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you have to you have to let them do that,

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Speaker 2: to continue to ramp up, so to speak, as far

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Speaker 1: All right, let's go fourth down, four down, territory, fourth down,

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Speaker 1: Frank Reich. Frank Reich versus the Colts. We all remember,

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Speaker 1: Frank is a tremendous guy, unbelievable coach, unbelievable human being,

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Speaker 1: was with the Colts from twenty eighteen to twenty twenty two.

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Speaker 1: the defense. And he allowed Gus to hire the staff

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Speaker 1: that's predominantly here still on that side of the ball,

433
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Speaker 1: and Ron Milis and Richard Smith and Cato June's just

434
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Speaker 1: to name a few. What changes Bill do the Colts

435
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Speaker 1: have to make on defense to help disguise some things

436
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Speaker 1: for Frank, who's going to be all over this defense

437
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Speaker 1: ins and outs. And from a basic principal standpoint, well,

438
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Speaker 1: I'm going a little old school here.

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Speaker 2: I'm going back to what Tony Dungee said one time,

440
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Speaker 2: and he said that you know what, this is what

441
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Speaker 2: we do. We play this type of defense. We're going

442
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Speaker 2: to do it, and we're going to play it, and

443
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Speaker 2: we're going to play it fast and we're just going

444
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Speaker 2: to minimize our mistakes. And I think that's the same

445
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Speaker 2: thing the Colt's gonna have to do. Play your defense. Yes,

446
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Speaker 2: you do have to do some things a little bit

447
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Speaker 2: differently because you do have tennessees. Every team has tennesseees,

448
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Speaker 2: so there are tennessees that we have from a defensive

449
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Speaker 2: standpoint that you need to tweak a little bit to

450
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Speaker 2: show him something a little bit different. So he is

451
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Speaker 2: going he is going to need to do something a

452
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Speaker 2: little bit different. Yeah, you know, if it's bringing pressure, whatever,

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Speaker 2: it may be. Just something a little bit different on

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Speaker 2: certain downs and distance.

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Speaker 1: But for the most.

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Speaker 2: Part, do what you do. Just do it better and

457
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Speaker 2: go out there and execute it and make sure that

458
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Speaker 2: you can. You know what they're you know what the

459
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Speaker 2: Panthers are going to do stop them. You have a

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Speaker 2: game plan. You know, Feeling is one of the best

461
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Speaker 2: players on the team. They're gonna try to get to

462
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Speaker 2: bought the Feeling. Things like that. Hubbard the main running

463
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Speaker 2: back there, so you know what they're gonna do. You

464
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Speaker 2: know Bryce Young what he does back there in the pocket.

465
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Speaker 2: He's a guy that's mobile, do some things that're gonna

466
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Speaker 2: slow those guys down from being effective on offense.

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Speaker 1: I mean, whatever they do, Casey, you got to take

468
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Speaker 1: away Adam Thieling. He's got fifty seven catches on the season.

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying he's the only guy they've got on offense,

470
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Speaker 1: but he's the only guy they've got on offense. The

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Speaker 1: next closest guy in terms of catches as Jonathan Mingo

472
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Speaker 1: with nineteen. So you have to have a plan for

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Speaker 1: Adam Thieling. If the Colts get beat by Adam Thieling

474
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Speaker 1: in this game, that's gonna be a hard one to swallow,

475
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Speaker 1: because you knew going in he's really the only guy

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Speaker 1: that can be dangerous, you.

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Speaker 3: Know, Adam Thieling. This is just a sidebar a little bit.

478
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Speaker 3: I was shocked to see the stats that he's put

479
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Speaker 3: up just because and this is I mean, I gotta

480
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Speaker 3: tip my cap to theling because honestly I thought this

481
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Speaker 3: was he's a veteran guy. They brought him in because

482
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Speaker 3: they're getting a rookie quarterback, and he's just kind of

483
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Speaker 3: gonna help him, kind of what like Reggie Wayne was

484
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Speaker 3: for Andrew Luck. You know, it's not necessarily like you're

485
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Speaker 3: gonna be our go to guy. You just on a

486
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Speaker 3: key third down, you know, maybe you get three or

487
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Speaker 3: four catches a game. Because I thought that's what Adam

488
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Speaker 3: Thln was. I thought he was towards the end of

489
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Speaker 3: his career. Yes, but boys, he proved me wrong. I

490
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Speaker 3: mean he's seventh in the league in receptions. I mean,

491
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Speaker 3: this guy is playing like he was back in twenty

492
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Speaker 3: eighteen nineteen with the Vikings. Yeah, you're spot on with that.

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Speaker 3: I mean, if you're looking at this Panthers team and

494
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Speaker 3: it's not feeling Thielen theling and then stopped feeling for

495
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Speaker 3: a fourth time, I don't know what else you're looking at,

496
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Speaker 3: because that is ultimately what their offense is. We've seen

497
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Speaker 3: Bryce Young. Yes, he had a storied college career. He

498
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Speaker 3: looks like he has all the pieces to be a

499
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Speaker 3: really good quarterback in the NFL. Right now, he hasn't

500
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Speaker 3: shown all of that. Are still quirks he's trying to

501
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Speaker 3: tweak with and all of this. You've got to go

502
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Speaker 3: in and you've got to make sure that this guy

503
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Speaker 3: feels like a rookie. Show him things you haven't seen.

504
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Speaker 3: And this goes back to Frank Reich knows Gus Bradley.

505
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Speaker 3: But Gus Bradley knows Frank Reich, so it's kind of

506
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Speaker 3: a twofold thing where Gus is going to know in

507
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Speaker 3: a way. I know that the offense is going to

508
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Speaker 3: be different because the personnel is different, it's a different

509
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Speaker 3: play caller, all of that, but for the most part,

510
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Speaker 3: you're gonna be familiar with what Carolina is going to

511
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Speaker 3: do offensively. So, yes, you're spot on with Adam Thielen.

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Speaker 3: He's a guy that I got to say, really impressed

513
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Speaker 3: by what Adam Thlen has done. I thought this was

514
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Speaker 3: kind of his swan song. Go to a nice place

515
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Speaker 3: instead of Minnesota where it's cold, you.

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Speaker 1: Go to Carolina's vacation. Yeah, this is not it at all.

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Speaker 3: I mean, he's he's putting a case for a Pro

518
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Speaker 3: Bowl season, So you know, impressive by feeling, but you're

519
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Speaker 3: spot on.

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Speaker 1: He is the guy to stop and get after Bryce

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Speaker 1: Young and yeah, they're giving up an average of three

522
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Speaker 1: and a half sacks per game. He was taken down

523
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Speaker 1: six times last week by the Houston Texans. Get after him,

524
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Speaker 1: get off to a good start behind the eight ball early,

525
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Speaker 1: generate some momentum. That's the recipe for success for the

526
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Speaker 1: Colts on Sunday, Speaking of momentum, a guy who's trying

527
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Speaker 1: to carry that momentum from a great season so far

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Speaker 1: into week number nine in Carolina. That's Matt Gay. He's

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Speaker 1: the Colts kicker. As promise he's gonna join us. He's

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Speaker 1: only missed two kicks all season. Mister clutch joins us

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Speaker 1: here on the Official Coults Podcast. We're joined in studio

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Speaker 1: by Colts kicker Matt Gay, mister automatic, mister consistency, mister clutch,

533
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Speaker 1: all the above here with us. Matthew, how are we

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Speaker 1: doing today?

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Speaker 4: Man? Thanks for the time, of course, thanks for having

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Speaker 4: me on.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely. Now, before we go further, I know we're gonna

538
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Speaker 1: we have different mediums here. We're on We're on video

539
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Speaker 1: on YouTube, but of course the audio portion on the

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Speaker 1: Colts Audio Network. You gotta tell us what's going on here.

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Speaker 1: You've got some you got some remnants from Halloween there,

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Speaker 1: you got some some f.

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Speaker 4: The costume was supposed to be the Viking. Okay, so

544
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Speaker 4: we got tatted up.

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Speaker 5: If all he's on Amazon, they're actually pretty good. I

546
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Speaker 5: mean I got comeing neck tattoo.

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Speaker 1: I thought you spent the off day at the chair

548
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Speaker 1: the ink chair.

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Speaker 4: Yes, you would have thought.

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Speaker 5: I mean everyone was asking me, we're looking around, they

551
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Speaker 5: look good. I got a couple of questions. So I

552
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Speaker 5: mean from from Amazon, the qualities there. I mean I

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Speaker 5: got a full sleeve, a couple of neck tattoos that

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Speaker 5: are working out still.

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Speaker 2: But what did wife say about it?

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Speaker 4: Uh?

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Speaker 5: First she was a little like, oh you're a little

558
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Speaker 5: but she's she's coming on to them a little bit.

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Speaker 1: I think, like them, they're gonna they were fake. She

560
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Speaker 1: think you came home with some inspiration.

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Speaker 4: She definitely mean they're fake.

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Speaker 5: I don't think I have no tattoos that are real,

563
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Speaker 5: and so I think she's for me to be aggressive

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Speaker 5: and go get the neck tattoo.

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Speaker 4: And I think for the first tattoos.

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Speaker 1: That's awesome. Now are you a big Halloween guy? Like

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Speaker 1: what what did you do on Halloween? Did you go

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Speaker 1: all out?

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Speaker 4: Yeah? We went all out.

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Speaker 5: We were at the decorations up, got the kids dressed

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Speaker 5: up all day long.

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Speaker 1: Awesome.

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Speaker 5: I sold that I got all the good candy for them.

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Speaker 5: A little disappointed that it was so cold that we

575
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Speaker 5: didn't get a lot of tutors because.

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Speaker 4: I was I had the king size. I got all

577
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Speaker 4: of them.

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Speaker 5: I was going to hand out two or three per

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Speaker 5: a kid. And yeah, I don't even think we got

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Speaker 5: through the first bawl. I mean, I have so much

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Speaker 5: leftover candy.

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Speaker 1: What the heck are we doing? Why didn't you podcast?

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Speaker 4: I should have?

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Speaker 5: I'm going like I'm sneaking to the closet five times

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Speaker 5: a day.

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Speaker 1: Oh man, you are out and it's tempting. You got

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Speaker 1: to have some self discipline here in the time. I

588
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Speaker 1: remember in the early part, schedule, all of it.

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Speaker 4: So it's no good.

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Speaker 1: All right, Well, let's talk some ball here. You are having,

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Speaker 1: like I said, you're having a terrific season. On the year.

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Speaker 1: You are fourteen for sixteen on field goals, five over

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Speaker 1: six over fifty. I'm saying you're having a great year.

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Speaker 1: I know that you are your your your harshest critic.

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Speaker 1: How do you feel like the year is going.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean it's it's been pretty solid. I'd say

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Speaker 5: I'm a little disappointed to the one. I mean, the

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Speaker 5: one I miss against la Is forty seven. Yeah, and

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Speaker 5: I I mean that's it's just such a makeable kick.

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Speaker 5: I mean, I for sure should have made that one.

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Speaker 5: And then as a kicker, you hate that blocks go

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Speaker 5: against you.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and so you kind of look that. I think

604
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Speaker 1: the same thing. I think that should be its own category.

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Speaker 5: It's so hard to differentiate between yeah, what's your fault

606
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Speaker 5: and what's not.

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Speaker 4: Is it a low kick? Is it this and that?

608
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Speaker 4: And so you look at them.

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Speaker 5: I've looked at that kick with that I Miles get

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Speaker 5: I've looked at it, and I'm like, is there any

611
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Speaker 5: way that I'm making it?

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Speaker 1: Miles Garrett is in your face mask as you're trying

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Speaker 1: to kick that.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a big dude. So I hate that.

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Speaker 5: I mean that it take a lot to go in

616
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Speaker 5: to be like this was his fault, This wasn't his fault.

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Speaker 5: We don't count this against him. We do this on

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Speaker 5: this guy. So I understand it. But I mean the

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Speaker 5: one against La really is the one that I look

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Speaker 5: back and be like, I mean I should have made

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Speaker 5: that kick. Yeah, and so, uh, that's the one that

622
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Speaker 5: kind of sits there and he's at you.

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Speaker 4: So but I mean, overall, pretty solid.

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Speaker 2: So have you ever had anyone do what Miles Garrett

625
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Speaker 2: did that game? I mean previously when you kick with

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Speaker 2: other teams, or.

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Speaker 4: When you see guys do it in the past.

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Speaker 5: I mean, you used to be able to run up

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Speaker 5: and jump over, and they change the rules so now

630
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Speaker 5: you have to be on the line of scrimmage and

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Speaker 5: to do that and jump over.

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Speaker 4: I mean guys have attempted it.

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Speaker 5: I mean normally, if you get any piece of a guy,

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Speaker 5: if you staged there toe or their foot, throwing them

635
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Speaker 5: off balance, and to be able to get back in

636
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Speaker 5: the ground and jump back up is very, very difficult.

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Speaker 5: So credit to that dude. I mean, he's just he's

638
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Speaker 5: an absolute freaking nature. To be able to do that

639
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Speaker 5: at six six two eighty two eighty five whatever he is,

640
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Speaker 5: I mean, is unbelievable. But I've never had a block

641
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Speaker 5: like that.

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Speaker 1: Now, Rigo Sanchez is your holder. He does a lot. Obviously,

643
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Speaker 1: he's been here for a long time. Great guy, he's

644
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Speaker 1: a great holder, is a great punter. But how much

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Speaker 1: how much is he helping you have a great season

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Speaker 1: so far?

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Speaker 4: Oh, he's awesome.

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Speaker 5: I mean he's been able to be able to I

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Speaker 5: rememb right when I got here. Every kicker is different

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Speaker 5: with how they like the lean and the holds and stuff,

651
00:28:38,400 --> 00:28:39,840
Speaker 5: and so right from the get go, he was awesome

652
00:28:39,880 --> 00:28:41,200
Speaker 5: being able to like, Hey, what do you like? Let

653
00:28:41,240 --> 00:28:43,080
Speaker 5: me learn it, let me figure it out. And him

654
00:28:43,080 --> 00:28:45,239
Speaker 5: and Luke are just workhorses, and so they just they

655
00:28:45,280 --> 00:28:47,720
Speaker 5: get a bunch of They're constantly getting snaps and be

656
00:28:47,720 --> 00:28:50,320
Speaker 5: able to figure it out and being able to tell him,

657
00:28:50,360 --> 00:28:52,960
Speaker 5: like with different conditions, hey, lean it a little this way,

658
00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:53,560
Speaker 5: a little this way.

659
00:28:53,600 --> 00:28:54,200
Speaker 4: He's been awesome.

660
00:28:54,240 --> 00:28:56,400
Speaker 5: And so just having the camaraderie and just being cool

661
00:28:56,480 --> 00:28:58,200
Speaker 5: dudes to be able to get along with, I mean,

662
00:28:58,440 --> 00:28:59,000
Speaker 5: it is sweet.

663
00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:01,160
Speaker 4: It's good to have with Luke Andrigo, all right.

664
00:29:01,160 --> 00:29:03,720
Speaker 1: Going along with that for you, because every every kicker

665
00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:07,400
Speaker 1: is different. You all have your different skill sets and anatomy,

666
00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:10,120
Speaker 1: if you will, in terms of of how you attack

667
00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:12,800
Speaker 1: the ball and what your strengths are for you, can

668
00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:15,000
Speaker 1: you define the perfect hold?

669
00:29:16,560 --> 00:29:18,920
Speaker 5: I would say straight up and down. As far as

670
00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:21,480
Speaker 5: backward or forward. I don't want it leaning backwards.

671
00:29:21,520 --> 00:29:22,280
Speaker 4: For me, I like it.

672
00:29:22,320 --> 00:29:24,960
Speaker 5: I don't know some kickers like it lean forward. I

673
00:29:25,080 --> 00:29:27,840
Speaker 5: like it straight up and down. And then for me,

674
00:29:27,960 --> 00:29:31,080
Speaker 5: I like just slightly. I mean, if we're not no conditions,

675
00:29:31,080 --> 00:29:33,440
Speaker 5: no end, we're indoors, slight lean.

676
00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:36,800
Speaker 4: To the right, okay, And why is that just with

677
00:29:36,840 --> 00:29:37,640
Speaker 4: a right foot of kicker?

678
00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:39,600
Speaker 5: The way you come into the angle. You don't want

679
00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:42,720
Speaker 5: the balls straight up and down. It'll generally roll off

680
00:29:42,760 --> 00:29:45,000
Speaker 5: the ankle cause a double hit, and that's what you

681
00:29:45,040 --> 00:29:46,840
Speaker 5: get the X balls or an ankle ball that goes left.

682
00:29:46,840 --> 00:29:49,120
Speaker 5: And so if it's leaned just a little bit, it'll

683
00:29:49,240 --> 00:29:51,640
Speaker 5: roll off the foot. So it rolls off, it avoids

684
00:29:51,680 --> 00:29:53,800
Speaker 5: the ankle and rolls off the foot pretty good. And

685
00:29:53,840 --> 00:29:58,560
Speaker 5: then for me, my miss, it is generally a toe

686
00:29:58,640 --> 00:30:00,840
Speaker 5: ball as opposed to ankle ball, so I hit it

687
00:30:00,840 --> 00:30:02,920
Speaker 5: lower on my foot. Hit a towball, and if that

688
00:30:02,960 --> 00:30:05,680
Speaker 5: ball is leaning more straight up and down as opposed

689
00:30:05,720 --> 00:30:07,760
Speaker 5: to like a toe ball with a lot of right

690
00:30:07,840 --> 00:30:09,920
Speaker 5: lying for the camera, a lot of rightly, and for me,

691
00:30:11,040 --> 00:30:12,959
Speaker 5: the tip of the ball is what caused the rotation.

692
00:30:13,040 --> 00:30:14,920
Speaker 5: So a towball, you don't hit it clean, it'll start

693
00:30:14,960 --> 00:30:17,320
Speaker 5: to drift right. For me, if that ball is leaning

694
00:30:17,360 --> 00:30:19,880
Speaker 5: just a little bit, that towball generally stays true and

695
00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:24,200
Speaker 5: stays straight over the dsh yards and so it'll generally

696
00:30:24,240 --> 00:30:26,720
Speaker 5: still make it through if I do hit the.

697
00:30:27,240 --> 00:30:29,720
Speaker 1: Toe Sure, and people think you're just a kicker, Yeah,

698
00:30:30,120 --> 00:30:33,160
Speaker 1: just kick the ball. I'm serious. I'm fascinated by that.

699
00:30:33,320 --> 00:30:36,600
Speaker 1: I mean, all the science That goes into really.

700
00:30:36,440 --> 00:30:38,600
Speaker 2: And talking about that. When you get to a stadium,

701
00:30:38,600 --> 00:30:42,560
Speaker 2: a visiting stadium like this week, what is your routine

702
00:30:43,440 --> 00:30:46,480
Speaker 2: when you go to make a kick and warm up

703
00:30:46,960 --> 00:30:51,240
Speaker 2: to determine your preferential preferential direction you want to kick

704
00:30:51,320 --> 00:30:54,680
Speaker 2: and also the distance that you can kick going that way.

705
00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:56,680
Speaker 5: Yeah, that gets into like I mean, you get out

706
00:30:56,720 --> 00:30:59,160
Speaker 5: their pregame and so you get out there. I try

707
00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:01,960
Speaker 5: not to look too much in the weather during the week.

708
00:31:02,280 --> 00:31:04,320
Speaker 5: Anything is opposed to like it's gonna be cold.

709
00:31:05,240 --> 00:31:06,200
Speaker 4: Okay, it's gonna be cold.

710
00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:08,440
Speaker 5: I know, like, hey, I'm probably gonna wear something, but

711
00:31:08,520 --> 00:31:12,200
Speaker 5: I don't change unless it's really really bad conditions. I

712
00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:14,720
Speaker 5: don't change my cleats, I don't change anything like that. So,

713
00:31:15,800 --> 00:31:19,080
Speaker 5: because the weather can be so misleading sometimes, hey, until

714
00:31:19,120 --> 00:31:20,719
Speaker 5: you get there and you really can get out there

715
00:31:20,720 --> 00:31:22,680
Speaker 5: on the field and figure out what you're getting. I

716
00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:24,200
Speaker 5: don't really try to look too much into it. So

717
00:31:24,320 --> 00:31:26,120
Speaker 5: I get there, I get out on the field, see

718
00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:28,600
Speaker 5: what I'm dealing with, and then pregame. It's it's just

719
00:31:28,640 --> 00:31:31,000
Speaker 5: being able to get out there and hit different kicks

720
00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:32,920
Speaker 5: and see what the ball's doing, see if it's blowing

721
00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:36,360
Speaker 5: left or right. And then from there, I mean, then

722
00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:38,200
Speaker 5: you talk to Rego and say, hey, it's it's a

723
00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:40,320
Speaker 5: really heavy wind, let's change the lean or let's do

724
00:31:40,360 --> 00:31:42,720
Speaker 5: some different things. And then if it's in your face,

725
00:31:42,800 --> 00:31:45,880
Speaker 5: you obviously try and have the benefit of going with

726
00:31:45,960 --> 00:31:48,920
Speaker 5: the wind in the second quarter or fourth quarter, and

727
00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:51,440
Speaker 5: then just trusting your trusting your pregame and trusting your

728
00:31:51,480 --> 00:31:52,960
Speaker 5: process when you get out there for a kick. I

729
00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:55,280
Speaker 5: mean to do all the work pregame and say hey,

730
00:31:55,280 --> 00:31:57,600
Speaker 5: it's going left to right, and then being able to

731
00:31:57,640 --> 00:32:00,560
Speaker 5: trust that when you get out there is the big thing, like, hey,

732
00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:03,600
Speaker 5: this ball is gonna move right, and I got to

733
00:32:03,640 --> 00:32:05,080
Speaker 5: play it a little left and let the wind do

734
00:32:05,120 --> 00:32:07,560
Speaker 5: his thing and and trust that it's going to do that.

735
00:32:07,560 --> 00:32:09,960
Speaker 1: That's Matt Gay with us Colts kicker. Now you read

736
00:32:09,960 --> 00:32:12,760
Speaker 1: about kickers all the time, and you know some guys say,

737
00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:15,400
Speaker 1: I got I gotta put on my left sock first,

738
00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:17,440
Speaker 1: and I gotta put on my pants a certain way,

739
00:32:17,760 --> 00:32:19,720
Speaker 1: or before they run out before a kick, they got

740
00:32:19,720 --> 00:32:22,360
Speaker 1: a rabbit's foot they smuggled from the locker room to

741
00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:24,720
Speaker 1: to rub before they you know, go out for a kick.

742
00:32:24,840 --> 00:32:28,080
Speaker 1: Do you have any anything like that or you how superstitious,

743
00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:28,360
Speaker 1: are you.

744
00:32:30,360 --> 00:32:34,000
Speaker 5: I wouldn't say I'm super superstitious. I'm a little stitious,

745
00:32:39,720 --> 00:32:43,400
Speaker 5: a little sitious. There are certain things like you get

746
00:32:43,400 --> 00:32:45,560
Speaker 5: on a streak, and so you are the same cleats

747
00:32:45,800 --> 00:32:48,400
Speaker 5: you don't want to change. I'm not too big into

748
00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:50,200
Speaker 5: and a lot of that stuff. I mean, I grew

749
00:32:50,240 --> 00:32:52,400
Speaker 5: up playing soccer, and so yeah, I kind of have

750
00:32:52,400 --> 00:32:55,320
Speaker 5: a cleat addiction, and so okay, I wear a bunch

751
00:32:55,360 --> 00:32:57,160
Speaker 5: of different cleats and I'll switch them out, and so

752
00:32:57,520 --> 00:33:00,600
Speaker 5: I've worn different cleats and things like that. The only

753
00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:04,320
Speaker 5: really thing that I try to do is, I mean,

754
00:33:04,440 --> 00:33:06,880
Speaker 5: right before the game, I I get out on the

755
00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:08,200
Speaker 5: field for warm ups, I call my wife.

756
00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:09,400
Speaker 4: I FaceTime my wife and my kids.

757
00:33:09,880 --> 00:33:12,440
Speaker 5: Awesome, very awesome, and so we I show my kids

758
00:33:12,480 --> 00:33:14,840
Speaker 5: the field. Yeah, we talked to her, and then after

759
00:33:14,880 --> 00:33:16,320
Speaker 5: warm ups and stuff. Right, but when we come in

760
00:33:16,320 --> 00:33:18,400
Speaker 5: for the game, with like thirtyish minutes before the game,

761
00:33:18,920 --> 00:33:21,560
Speaker 5: I call her again and we talked to her, and

762
00:33:21,600 --> 00:33:22,960
Speaker 5: she asked me how warmth to go, and we just

763
00:33:23,040 --> 00:33:25,640
Speaker 5: chat about it, and so I see the kids and

764
00:33:25,640 --> 00:33:27,040
Speaker 5: and then uh, that's.

765
00:33:26,920 --> 00:33:27,840
Speaker 4: Pretty that's pretty much.

766
00:33:28,680 --> 00:33:30,680
Speaker 5: And then before I go out for warm ups, I

767
00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:33,040
Speaker 5: always right before I get on the field, I always

768
00:33:33,520 --> 00:33:36,120
Speaker 5: take a knee and say a low prayer, And that's

769
00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:38,880
Speaker 5: pretty much the superstition that kind of goes into it.

770
00:33:39,400 --> 00:33:41,160
Speaker 1: That's just your routine that gets you in your right head.

771
00:33:41,240 --> 00:33:42,640
Speaker 4: Yeah, they give see a little space. Is just being

772
00:33:42,640 --> 00:33:45,680
Speaker 4: able to just perspective on things. Yeah, you out there

773
00:33:45,680 --> 00:33:46,040
Speaker 4: for this thing.

774
00:33:46,080 --> 00:33:48,160
Speaker 5: But if I can have a grounding and what matters

775
00:33:48,200 --> 00:33:50,600
Speaker 5: my life, my family and my kids, that's the stuff

776
00:33:50,640 --> 00:33:51,920
Speaker 5: that really kind of keeps you ground. And so you

777
00:33:51,960 --> 00:33:53,080
Speaker 5: can go out there at the end of the day,

778
00:33:53,400 --> 00:33:55,800
Speaker 5: let it all hanging loose on the field and you

779
00:33:55,840 --> 00:33:56,720
Speaker 5: can live with what happens.

780
00:33:56,800 --> 00:33:57,240
Speaker 4: Yeah.

781
00:33:57,040 --> 00:33:57,480
Speaker 1: Yeah done.

782
00:33:57,600 --> 00:33:59,920
Speaker 2: Now you talk about getting in your space before the game.

783
00:34:00,440 --> 00:34:02,600
Speaker 2: I think I heard you talk about when you go

784
00:34:02,680 --> 00:34:05,080
Speaker 2: to kick a kick a game winner, like in Baltimore,

785
00:34:05,320 --> 00:34:06,560
Speaker 2: you got in a blackout mode.

786
00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:06,840
Speaker 4: Yep.

787
00:34:07,240 --> 00:34:08,600
Speaker 2: What's blackout mode for you?

788
00:34:09,040 --> 00:34:10,520
Speaker 4: It's a state where you're just not.

789
00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:16,000
Speaker 5: There's nothing going on in your mind, like you're you're

790
00:34:16,040 --> 00:34:18,520
Speaker 5: just in rhythm. You're just you're out there, You're just

791
00:34:18,560 --> 00:34:19,160
Speaker 5: swinging the leg.

792
00:34:19,239 --> 00:34:19,560
Speaker 4: For me.

793
00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:22,680
Speaker 5: On a lot of a lot of those kicks, a

794
00:34:22,719 --> 00:34:27,719
Speaker 5: lot of the good kicks, I don't really remember much

795
00:34:27,760 --> 00:34:30,240
Speaker 5: from what happened from the snat. So the snap happens,

796
00:34:31,080 --> 00:34:32,640
Speaker 5: and then next thing, you know, I'm kind of like

797
00:34:32,680 --> 00:34:35,399
Speaker 5: in my finish and I'm looking up and the ball

798
00:34:35,480 --> 00:34:35,840
Speaker 5: is going.

799
00:34:35,960 --> 00:34:39,200
Speaker 4: I don't remember the ball hitting my foot. I don't

800
00:34:39,239 --> 00:34:41,520
Speaker 4: remember anything kind of going.

801
00:34:41,320 --> 00:34:42,800
Speaker 1: Like outside your body, so to speak.

802
00:34:42,920 --> 00:34:45,879
Speaker 5: Yeah, you're kind of just yeah, outside the body there,

803
00:34:45,920 --> 00:34:46,640
Speaker 5: but you're not there.

804
00:34:46,760 --> 00:34:48,440
Speaker 4: Yeah, And it's I mean.

805
00:34:48,320 --> 00:34:51,800
Speaker 5: Some people think it's like a increased zone of focus

806
00:34:52,160 --> 00:34:55,360
Speaker 5: or but it's kind of hard for me to understand

807
00:34:56,120 --> 00:34:59,520
Speaker 5: that because increase zone of focus would make me feel

808
00:34:59,520 --> 00:35:01,960
Speaker 5: like I would I'd be so low, like I would

809
00:35:02,040 --> 00:35:03,640
Speaker 5: know what the ball looks like, I would know this

810
00:35:03,680 --> 00:35:05,960
Speaker 5: and I would. So it's it's different from me when

811
00:35:07,080 --> 00:35:09,120
Speaker 5: I more relate to like the basketball players or mikel.

812
00:35:09,160 --> 00:35:09,319
Speaker 4: Dwin.

813
00:35:09,400 --> 00:35:11,520
Speaker 5: You say like, oh, he's unconscious, like he can't miss,

814
00:35:11,560 --> 00:35:13,680
Speaker 5: and you're kind of unconn like you're not in your

815
00:35:13,680 --> 00:35:15,600
Speaker 5: own get out of your own way type of thing. Yeah, Like,

816
00:35:15,640 --> 00:35:18,360
Speaker 5: and I'm just letting my body do what I've trained

817
00:35:18,360 --> 00:35:19,319
Speaker 5: and do what I know how to do.

818
00:35:19,600 --> 00:35:22,600
Speaker 4: And again I just don't. I don't really, I just

819
00:35:22,600 --> 00:35:23,480
Speaker 4: don't really remember.

820
00:35:24,160 --> 00:35:26,000
Speaker 2: You're not thinking about I need to place my foot

821
00:35:26,040 --> 00:35:28,000
Speaker 2: my plant foot here and hit the ball here. You

822
00:35:28,080 --> 00:35:29,320
Speaker 2: just go and just do it.

823
00:35:29,320 --> 00:35:32,200
Speaker 5: Yeah, just going and doing not I mean the thing

824
00:35:32,280 --> 00:35:35,239
Speaker 5: over analysis to a paralysis, like you think about too

825
00:35:35,239 --> 00:35:38,680
Speaker 5: many things. You can't go and perform. Like if I'm

826
00:35:38,680 --> 00:35:40,360
Speaker 5: trying to place the ball through the uprights, it's not

827
00:35:40,400 --> 00:35:42,400
Speaker 5: gonna end up very well as opposed to just like

828
00:35:43,239 --> 00:35:45,799
Speaker 5: picking a spot and swinging away. When you try to

829
00:35:45,840 --> 00:35:47,960
Speaker 5: like place it, then you you don't swing as hard

830
00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:49,879
Speaker 5: and you take things off and things change and that's

831
00:35:49,880 --> 00:35:52,759
Speaker 5: when things smith hits and stuff like that come into play.

832
00:35:52,800 --> 00:35:54,680
Speaker 5: And so I just try to I don't know, just

833
00:35:54,680 --> 00:35:55,400
Speaker 5: getting that zone.

834
00:35:56,680 --> 00:35:58,560
Speaker 1: I don't think I've ever been in that zone really.

835
00:35:59,200 --> 00:36:01,400
Speaker 1: I mean the way you're just describing it is why

836
00:36:01,440 --> 00:36:04,080
Speaker 1: you are where you are. You You are an elite

837
00:36:04,440 --> 00:36:07,799
Speaker 1: athlete and elite player at your position. That's why Bill

838
00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:09,560
Speaker 1: and I while Bill, you are You're in the ring

839
00:36:09,560 --> 00:36:11,200
Speaker 1: of honor. That's why I'm sitting here on the couch,

840
00:36:11,400 --> 00:36:13,239
Speaker 1: all right. That's why I'm doing a podcast right now.

841
00:36:13,280 --> 00:36:17,320
Speaker 1: There's no doubt about that. Now. The Miles Garrett play aside,

842
00:36:17,680 --> 00:36:20,399
Speaker 1: the Colts roll you out for a sixty yard field goal,

843
00:36:20,840 --> 00:36:23,439
Speaker 1: which means they think you can make it. How much

844
00:36:23,520 --> 00:36:26,480
Speaker 1: confidence does that give you when it comes to their

845
00:36:26,520 --> 00:36:29,480
Speaker 1: confidence in you? Like right, confidence is earned, but it's

846
00:36:29,520 --> 00:36:31,759
Speaker 1: also received. I mean the fact that the Colts were

847
00:36:31,760 --> 00:36:33,640
Speaker 1: going to kick a fifty or a sixty yard field

848
00:36:33,640 --> 00:36:36,400
Speaker 1: goal with you, I'm blown away because of their trust

849
00:36:36,440 --> 00:36:39,319
Speaker 1: and their their confidence level and your ability to do that.

850
00:36:39,520 --> 00:36:40,920
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean that's awesome.

851
00:36:40,960 --> 00:36:43,440
Speaker 5: I mean normally you don't field positions such a huge

852
00:36:43,480 --> 00:36:45,840
Speaker 5: thing and football, and so normally are those positions.

853
00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:48,279
Speaker 4: You're going to try and especially I mean yeahs.

854
00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:49,839
Speaker 1: Not and to have not in the game it's game

855
00:36:49,920 --> 00:36:51,200
Speaker 1: that means Yeah, that means they're going to get the

856
00:36:51,200 --> 00:36:52,759
Speaker 1: ball if you miss it at the fifty.

857
00:36:52,480 --> 00:36:55,319
Speaker 5: Second quarter, right, So for them to go out there

858
00:36:55,880 --> 00:36:57,440
Speaker 5: and send me out for that gives me a lot

859
00:36:57,480 --> 00:36:59,160
Speaker 5: of confidence. I mean, I think some of the stuffs

860
00:36:59,239 --> 00:37:01,279
Speaker 5: play the game and what happens on the stuff before.

861
00:37:01,320 --> 00:37:04,560
Speaker 5: I think we were right a couple of yards we

862
00:37:04,560 --> 00:37:06,440
Speaker 5: were probably would have been a fifty five or fifty

863
00:37:06,440 --> 00:37:09,040
Speaker 5: four before that end up taking a sack and so

864
00:37:09,080 --> 00:37:10,759
Speaker 5: I think in their minds they were already thinking field

865
00:37:10,760 --> 00:37:13,040
Speaker 5: goal and then take the sack. And so I don't

866
00:37:13,040 --> 00:37:16,319
Speaker 5: know how much goes into like, hey, we already had

867
00:37:16,320 --> 00:37:18,279
Speaker 5: field goal up call field goal, and so from me

868
00:37:18,320 --> 00:37:20,200
Speaker 5: the sideline, I see the sack and I'm thinking, okay,

869
00:37:20,280 --> 00:37:22,239
Speaker 5: we might punt here, and they still go field goal,

870
00:37:22,280 --> 00:37:24,200
Speaker 5: and so for me, I'm just like, let's go.

871
00:37:24,320 --> 00:37:26,640
Speaker 4: Let's I'm so I'm stoked to go kick a sixty.

872
00:37:28,200 --> 00:37:30,839
Speaker 1: I hit it good too, well, you hit it right

873
00:37:30,840 --> 00:37:32,040
Speaker 1: to Miles Garrett.

874
00:37:34,840 --> 00:37:36,560
Speaker 5: When that's one of those things where I like, you

875
00:37:36,600 --> 00:37:38,120
Speaker 5: just know it came off the foot good, and so

876
00:37:38,200 --> 00:37:39,440
Speaker 5: that's so.

877
00:37:39,440 --> 00:37:43,000
Speaker 1: That was gonna be good. Get yeah, I'm saying you

878
00:37:43,120 --> 00:37:45,040
Speaker 1: made the field goal. I'm saying that was that was

879
00:37:45,080 --> 00:37:45,680
Speaker 1: gonna be good.

880
00:37:45,760 --> 00:37:48,000
Speaker 5: Uh. I think it's it's a lot of confidence just

881
00:37:48,440 --> 00:37:50,440
Speaker 5: to have them, you know, send me out there and

882
00:37:50,440 --> 00:37:52,359
Speaker 5: trust you, and so you just you gain confidence from

883
00:37:52,360 --> 00:37:53,359
Speaker 5: all those situations, those.

884
00:37:53,239 --> 00:37:53,799
Speaker 4: Things all right.

885
00:37:53,840 --> 00:37:56,480
Speaker 1: Now, Going along with that, when do you start when

886
00:37:56,520 --> 00:37:58,560
Speaker 1: do you start to get up when the when the

887
00:37:58,600 --> 00:38:00,600
Speaker 1: Colts have the ball, when they're on off, When do

888
00:38:00,640 --> 00:38:02,600
Speaker 1: you start to get antsy? Is it when they cross

889
00:38:02,640 --> 00:38:06,560
Speaker 1: the fifty or what's what's the line of demarcation on

890
00:38:06,600 --> 00:38:09,319
Speaker 1: the field, When you start to psychologically get ready for

891
00:38:09,360 --> 00:38:10,520
Speaker 1: a potential kick.

892
00:38:10,600 --> 00:38:13,640
Speaker 5: Generally, well, me and Rigo we have the net on

893
00:38:13,680 --> 00:38:15,960
Speaker 5: sideline and we kind of are both kicking the same

894
00:38:15,960 --> 00:38:18,319
Speaker 5: way into the net. And so generally when we're backed

895
00:38:18,400 --> 00:38:21,640
Speaker 5: up or in our own territory, he's punting and I'm

896
00:38:21,680 --> 00:38:22,040
Speaker 5: just chilling.

897
00:38:22,080 --> 00:38:23,480
Speaker 4: I'm sitting down, I'm hanging out.

898
00:38:24,680 --> 00:38:27,480
Speaker 5: And then generally across the fifties when we make the

899
00:38:27,520 --> 00:38:30,480
Speaker 5: switch and I start kicking into the net and he

900
00:38:30,520 --> 00:38:34,440
Speaker 5: starts getting a couple holds, so and then that's just

901
00:38:34,440 --> 00:38:37,200
Speaker 5: like I get a kick on first down, second down, okay,

902
00:38:37,239 --> 00:38:39,520
Speaker 5: third down, probably another one. Then I'm go stand on

903
00:38:39,520 --> 00:38:41,839
Speaker 5: the sideline. It's like, all right, got it, first down, cool,

904
00:38:41,960 --> 00:38:44,560
Speaker 5: I go back to the net. Hit another one, Okay,

905
00:38:44,600 --> 00:38:47,919
Speaker 5: third down again, hit another one, first down. So yeah, yeah,

906
00:38:48,080 --> 00:38:50,000
Speaker 5: the drive, you're just kind of staying ready, saying warm

907
00:38:50,400 --> 00:38:52,520
Speaker 5: for me. I mean, that's that's the biggest battle, is

908
00:38:52,600 --> 00:38:54,799
Speaker 5: staying warm throughout the game, sure, because i mean we

909
00:38:54,840 --> 00:38:57,040
Speaker 5: get out there probably two hours before the game, so

910
00:38:57,120 --> 00:39:01,600
Speaker 5: we're six hours probably total of just kicking and staying warm,

911
00:39:01,840 --> 00:39:03,359
Speaker 5: and so just being able to keep the leg fresh

912
00:39:03,400 --> 00:39:04,480
Speaker 5: ready to go out there, and you don't want to

913
00:39:04,480 --> 00:39:08,160
Speaker 5: go out there cold for sure, and being able to

914
00:39:08,239 --> 00:39:09,680
Speaker 5: hit a couple in the net and go and then

915
00:39:09,760 --> 00:39:11,759
Speaker 5: obviously third down numbers called a year on out there

916
00:39:11,800 --> 00:39:12,839
Speaker 5: and try to make a kick.

917
00:39:13,440 --> 00:39:14,680
Speaker 4: Yeah, try to make a kick.

918
00:39:14,920 --> 00:39:17,319
Speaker 2: Now, this is your second stint with the Coats. What

919
00:39:17,520 --> 00:39:19,880
Speaker 2: have you learned about yourself as a kicker in the

920
00:39:19,960 --> 00:39:22,400
Speaker 2: National Football League from the first time you were here?

921
00:39:22,719 --> 00:39:27,120
Speaker 2: After you've gone to the Rams and yeah, and other teams.

922
00:39:27,360 --> 00:39:29,120
Speaker 5: All I say, my time here in Indie, the first

923
00:39:29,160 --> 00:39:32,080
Speaker 5: time I was here was probably one of the most

924
00:39:32,120 --> 00:39:35,040
Speaker 5: important times for me in my whole career because I

925
00:39:35,080 --> 00:39:38,640
Speaker 5: went through my rookie year in Tampa. Yeah, up and down,

926
00:39:38,680 --> 00:39:42,040
Speaker 5: rookie year, a lot of you know, good, a lot

927
00:39:42,040 --> 00:39:45,719
Speaker 5: of bad. End the year on a bad note there,

928
00:39:46,320 --> 00:39:50,839
Speaker 5: go through the next preseason, they cut me and there

929
00:39:50,880 --> 00:39:53,880
Speaker 5: was a lot of stuff going going on in Tampa

930
00:39:53,920 --> 00:39:56,920
Speaker 5: that probably just wasn't great for me as opposed to

931
00:39:56,920 --> 00:39:58,839
Speaker 5: my just my own self and just like the thing

932
00:39:58,920 --> 00:40:00,400
Speaker 5: that I was doing. And so when I left Tampa

933
00:40:00,960 --> 00:40:04,120
Speaker 5: made a couple of changes as far as technique goes

934
00:40:04,160 --> 00:40:08,080
Speaker 5: and things go that I was working on. And when

935
00:40:08,120 --> 00:40:12,319
Speaker 5: I left Tampa was actually like like a it was just.

936
00:40:12,280 --> 00:40:13,759
Speaker 4: More like a relief type thing.

937
00:40:13,800 --> 00:40:16,479
Speaker 5: Honestly, it was kind of like Okay, Like I feel

938
00:40:16,560 --> 00:40:21,359
Speaker 5: like I was trying to be someone else and they

939
00:40:21,360 --> 00:40:23,160
Speaker 5: were trying to make me be someone else and mold

940
00:40:23,200 --> 00:40:25,239
Speaker 5: me into something as opposed to like me just kind

941
00:40:25,280 --> 00:40:27,239
Speaker 5: of doing my thing and kicking how I want to

942
00:40:27,320 --> 00:40:30,640
Speaker 5: kick and perform on my own headspace. So when I

943
00:40:30,680 --> 00:40:33,319
Speaker 5: got here to be on practice squad and being able

944
00:40:33,320 --> 00:40:37,040
Speaker 5: to have them, you know, have confidence in me being

945
00:40:37,080 --> 00:40:39,920
Speaker 5: able to honestly just kick throughout the week without the

946
00:40:39,960 --> 00:40:42,799
Speaker 5: stress and pressure of going out on Sundays, to just

947
00:40:42,840 --> 00:40:44,480
Speaker 5: be able to work on things throughout the week and

948
00:40:44,480 --> 00:40:47,319
Speaker 5: be able to go out there and like have guys like, oh,

949
00:40:47,480 --> 00:40:49,520
Speaker 5: tell you you know you're doing a good job, and

950
00:40:50,520 --> 00:40:53,040
Speaker 5: being able to work through some things and be able

951
00:40:53,040 --> 00:40:53,399
Speaker 5: to kind.

952
00:40:53,320 --> 00:40:55,839
Speaker 4: Of kick free was for eightish weeks and.

953
00:40:55,800 --> 00:40:58,640
Speaker 5: Something like that was really important for me to I think,

954
00:40:58,719 --> 00:41:00,839
Speaker 5: gain confidence and get back to I was and work

955
00:41:00,920 --> 00:41:03,480
Speaker 5: through a couple of things without like, yeah, say they

956
00:41:03,480 --> 00:41:05,680
Speaker 5: signed me and I was active that week to go

957
00:41:05,719 --> 00:41:08,520
Speaker 5: out there and kick on Sunday and be like still

958
00:41:08,600 --> 00:41:10,640
Speaker 5: trying to tweak a couple of things or go out

959
00:41:10,680 --> 00:41:13,399
Speaker 5: there after kind of what happened in Tampa. I think

960
00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:15,680
Speaker 5: that time offered me to be able to work on

961
00:41:15,719 --> 00:41:19,040
Speaker 5: things was huge. And so by the time I got

962
00:41:19,080 --> 00:41:22,239
Speaker 5: the call from La and went to La, i'd you know,

963
00:41:22,440 --> 00:41:24,920
Speaker 5: perfected and you were ready, was ready to actually go

964
00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:27,759
Speaker 5: back out on the field and game some of the

965
00:41:27,800 --> 00:41:30,600
Speaker 5: stuff that I've been working on and the confidence that

966
00:41:30,640 --> 00:41:31,040
Speaker 5: I've been.

967
00:41:30,920 --> 00:41:33,720
Speaker 1: Building based on that time you spent on the Colts

968
00:41:33,760 --> 00:41:37,680
Speaker 1: practice squad during that twenty twenty season. How much did

969
00:41:37,760 --> 00:41:41,320
Speaker 1: that time influence or play a part in your decision

970
00:41:41,560 --> 00:41:43,080
Speaker 1: to want to come back to the Colts and free

971
00:41:43,120 --> 00:41:44,560
Speaker 1: agency this past off season.

972
00:41:45,480 --> 00:41:46,040
Speaker 4: I think it's huge.

973
00:41:46,040 --> 00:41:47,719
Speaker 5: I think you make connections when you're here. I think

974
00:41:47,800 --> 00:41:52,640
Speaker 5: you know, you have relationships you have. I think things

975
00:41:52,719 --> 00:41:55,160
Speaker 5: changed in three years, but you have some familiarities, some

976
00:41:55,520 --> 00:41:56,640
Speaker 5: familiar faces.

977
00:41:56,320 --> 00:41:58,280
Speaker 4: In the building. I knew Luke, I knew Rego.

978
00:41:58,680 --> 00:42:00,880
Speaker 5: Chris was still the GM, and so that played a

979
00:42:00,880 --> 00:42:02,799
Speaker 5: big part with him and my agent, and he knew

980
00:42:02,880 --> 00:42:04,640
Speaker 5: Chris knew me, and he's seeing film on me, and

981
00:42:04,680 --> 00:42:07,920
Speaker 5: so I think that played a big part in being

982
00:42:07,960 --> 00:42:10,320
Speaker 5: able to be like, Okay, well, if this does happen,

983
00:42:10,480 --> 00:42:13,960
Speaker 5: maybe Indy's gonna come. I've been there before, they know me,

984
00:42:15,680 --> 00:42:17,120
Speaker 5: and so I think that plays a big part into

985
00:42:17,520 --> 00:42:19,920
Speaker 5: making those decisions is you know, we've been there before,

986
00:42:19,960 --> 00:42:24,600
Speaker 5: we somewhat know the area ish and have some familiar

987
00:42:24,600 --> 00:42:25,520
Speaker 5: faces in the building.

988
00:42:27,640 --> 00:42:30,839
Speaker 4: That was kind of all key critical moments.

989
00:42:30,880 --> 00:42:32,920
Speaker 5: Is supposed to just go into a completely new situation

990
00:42:32,960 --> 00:42:34,719
Speaker 5: and we feel a little bit more comfortable. Come on

991
00:42:34,840 --> 00:42:37,480
Speaker 5: to a place where you did a little stint and

992
00:42:37,520 --> 00:42:39,439
Speaker 5: you know a couple of people and have a few

993
00:42:39,440 --> 00:42:40,200
Speaker 5: familiar faces.

994
00:42:40,280 --> 00:42:42,319
Speaker 1: Oh, Matt you're You're an amazing guy. You have a

995
00:42:42,320 --> 00:42:44,759
Speaker 1: great story. I could literally I could sit here all

996
00:42:44,840 --> 00:42:47,120
Speaker 1: day and talk ball with you, talk about your background

997
00:42:47,160 --> 00:42:50,759
Speaker 1: in Utah and playing soccer, the switch to football. But

998
00:42:51,200 --> 00:42:53,840
Speaker 1: as draw automatic here, he's fourteen out of sixteen. Like

999
00:42:53,880 --> 00:42:56,759
Speaker 1: we said five over six over fifty, but really he's

1000
00:42:56,800 --> 00:43:00,719
Speaker 1: six over six because the Miles Garrett asterisk there. He's

1001
00:43:00,719 --> 00:43:03,080
Speaker 1: not superstitious, he's a little stitches. Remember that.

1002
00:43:03,160 --> 00:43:03,359
Speaker 4: Now.

1003
00:43:03,600 --> 00:43:06,000
Speaker 1: That's Matt Gay here with us in studio. Matthew, thank

1004
00:43:06,040 --> 00:43:08,160
Speaker 1: you so much for the time. Always a pleasure to

1005
00:43:08,200 --> 00:43:10,080
Speaker 1: sit and talk ball with you. And good luck on Sunday.

1006
00:43:10,080 --> 00:43:11,359
Speaker 4: Thanks for haming on, guys, appreciate it.

1007
00:43:12,400 --> 00:43:15,600
Speaker 1: Thanks again to Matt Gay. Awesome conversation. I mean I'm

1008
00:43:15,600 --> 00:43:18,600
Speaker 1: not joking, I could I could spend another hour talking

1009
00:43:18,600 --> 00:43:21,520
Speaker 1: to him about the science of kicking and how he's

1010
00:43:21,560 --> 00:43:24,160
Speaker 1: gotten to where he is and his background in Utah.

1011
00:43:24,280 --> 00:43:26,359
Speaker 1: Just that was fun. Tremendous guy, You have a really

1012
00:43:26,400 --> 00:43:29,239
Speaker 1: good conversation. I love talking to those specialists because they're

1013
00:43:29,280 --> 00:43:30,799
Speaker 1: kind of out of side, out of mind for most

1014
00:43:30,840 --> 00:43:33,880
Speaker 1: of the game until they're needed exactly know, they come

1015
00:43:33,960 --> 00:43:35,719
Speaker 1: up clutch. I was not going to bring this up

1016
00:43:35,760 --> 00:43:38,280
Speaker 1: in front of him because I'm not a big believer

1017
00:43:38,360 --> 00:43:41,520
Speaker 1: in jinxing, and I don't know if Matt was or is,

1018
00:43:41,640 --> 00:43:43,359
Speaker 1: so I didn't want to do this in front of him.

1019
00:43:43,719 --> 00:43:47,480
Speaker 1: But Matt Gay has made twenty four consecutive fuel goals

1020
00:43:47,480 --> 00:43:50,120
Speaker 1: on the road, and the Colts go on the road

1021
00:43:50,600 --> 00:43:52,640
Speaker 1: in each of the next two games. He has not

1022
00:43:52,680 --> 00:43:55,920
Speaker 1: missed a fueld goal as a member of the away team,

1023
00:43:56,200 --> 00:43:59,160
Speaker 1: either with the Colts or with the Rams since Week

1024
00:43:59,239 --> 00:44:02,799
Speaker 1: seventeen of twenty twenty one. Okay, I'm not a jink Sky,

1025
00:44:03,239 --> 00:44:05,879
Speaker 1: so don't at me on Sunday if the Colts miss

1026
00:44:05,920 --> 00:44:07,880
Speaker 1: a fuel goal. I don't want to hear it because

1027
00:44:08,000 --> 00:44:11,080
Speaker 1: me talking has nothing to do with the outcome of

1028
00:44:11,160 --> 00:44:14,600
Speaker 1: someone's actions. All Right, It's just really, let's let's live

1029
00:44:14,640 --> 00:44:18,279
Speaker 1: in really No, come on, No, I am not a

1030
00:44:18,360 --> 00:44:20,239
Speaker 1: jink Sky, but I didn't I did. I want to

1031
00:44:20,239 --> 00:44:22,359
Speaker 1: respect Matt if if he is. I agree with you

1032
00:44:22,400 --> 00:44:25,080
Speaker 1: on that. All right, let's close it out Week number nine.

1033
00:44:25,160 --> 00:44:28,080
Speaker 1: Let's call our shots. Some walk off predictions here about

1034
00:44:28,160 --> 00:44:30,160
Speaker 1: the game on Sundays. The Cults are trying to get

1035
00:44:30,200 --> 00:44:32,520
Speaker 1: back on the right track and snapped this three game

1036
00:44:32,560 --> 00:44:36,240
Speaker 1: losing skid, Casey Valier, I'm going with you, then, Bill,

1037
00:44:36,560 --> 00:44:39,640
Speaker 1: then me, I want your guarantees. Give me one guarantee

1038
00:44:39,880 --> 00:44:41,520
Speaker 1: about the Colts and Panthers on Sunday.

1039
00:44:41,600 --> 00:44:44,000
Speaker 3: My one guarantee is the Colts run the ball. They

1040
00:44:44,040 --> 00:44:47,120
Speaker 3: run the ball effectively, they win time of possession. You

1041
00:44:47,160 --> 00:44:51,879
Speaker 3: see Jonathan Taylor have maybe two touchdowns. He has one

1042
00:44:51,920 --> 00:44:54,120
Speaker 3: touchdown on the year. I know he's itching to get

1043
00:44:54,120 --> 00:44:54,839
Speaker 3: back in the end zone.

1044
00:44:54,880 --> 00:44:57,960
Speaker 1: No, I need a solid guarantee. Okay, proclaim, proclaim.

1045
00:44:58,080 --> 00:45:01,880
Speaker 3: I'm saying Jonathan Taylor runs one and two scores and

1046
00:45:01,880 --> 00:45:03,520
Speaker 3: the Colts win handily on Sunday.

1047
00:45:03,560 --> 00:45:06,680
Speaker 2: All right, Bill, Wow, my guarantee not very good against

1048
00:45:06,680 --> 00:45:10,479
Speaker 2: the run o the Panthers. No, they're my guarantee. Coat

1049
00:45:10,560 --> 00:45:14,960
Speaker 2: score minimum twenty four points okay, and Josh Downs has

1050
00:45:15,000 --> 00:45:17,680
Speaker 2: a touchdown all right back in his North Carolina era.

1051
00:45:17,719 --> 00:45:20,480
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, good, great call, great call. The tar

1052
00:45:20,600 --> 00:45:24,080
Speaker 1: Hill going back home. My guarantee this is kind of soft,

1053
00:45:24,440 --> 00:45:27,080
Speaker 1: but it's it's kind of big picture. The Panthers are

1054
00:45:27,120 --> 00:45:30,439
Speaker 1: gonna play there, you know what off for Frank Reich.

1055
00:45:30,640 --> 00:45:33,560
Speaker 1: That's my guarantee. Yeah, those guys are going to bring it.

1056
00:45:33,760 --> 00:45:36,280
Speaker 1: They're gonna bust their tails. It's gonna be a dogfight.

1057
00:45:36,360 --> 00:45:38,560
Speaker 1: I know they're one in six. I know they've been

1058
00:45:38,560 --> 00:45:41,799
Speaker 1: outscored by seventy two points on the season. I know

1059
00:45:41,880 --> 00:45:45,000
Speaker 1: they've lost four games by double figures. But this is

1060
00:45:45,040 --> 00:45:49,400
Speaker 1: the n f L. Anything can happen any given Sunday.

1061
00:45:49,680 --> 00:45:52,040
Speaker 1: And you know those guys, Frank's not gonna come out

1062
00:45:52,040 --> 00:45:54,560
Speaker 1: and say it, because that's not Frank's way, that's not

1063
00:45:54,640 --> 00:45:57,719
Speaker 1: how he's wired. But every leader within that Panthers locker

1064
00:45:57,800 --> 00:46:01,440
Speaker 1: room is going to galvanize the troops and guys. We

1065
00:46:01,480 --> 00:46:04,759
Speaker 1: won last week, we got a little bit of momentum.

1066
00:46:04,960 --> 00:46:07,400
Speaker 1: Let's get this done for our head coach who was

1067
00:46:07,440 --> 00:46:09,759
Speaker 1: fired in the middle of the season last year by

1068
00:46:09,800 --> 00:46:12,719
Speaker 1: the team we're playing on Sunday. That's coming into our house.

1069
00:46:12,719 --> 00:46:15,080
Speaker 1: They're going to be fired up. That stadium is going

1070
00:46:15,160 --> 00:46:18,239
Speaker 1: to be going nuts. I guarantee they give everything they

1071
00:46:18,280 --> 00:46:21,080
Speaker 1: have to beat the Colts. And you know what Frank's doing.

1072
00:46:21,520 --> 00:46:23,920
Speaker 1: He's doing what he did in twenty eighteen the Colts

1073
00:46:23,920 --> 00:46:26,200
Speaker 1: were one and five, got on a roll. They were

1074
00:46:26,200 --> 00:46:28,960
Speaker 1: one in four to start twenty twenty one, they got

1075
00:46:29,000 --> 00:46:31,359
Speaker 1: on a roll. I don't want to say he's used

1076
00:46:31,400 --> 00:46:35,840
Speaker 1: to this, but he knows been there before. And thank listen,

1077
00:46:36,000 --> 00:46:40,520
Speaker 1: the NFC South is maybe the worst division in football.

1078
00:46:41,120 --> 00:46:43,600
Speaker 1: It's it's not hyperbole. It's not out of the question

1079
00:46:43,680 --> 00:46:46,160
Speaker 1: to say that at one in six they still have

1080
00:46:46,200 --> 00:46:48,240
Speaker 1: a chance to get one hundred percent and win their division.

1081
00:46:48,480 --> 00:46:51,279
Speaker 1: That's what he's preaching this locker room, and I guarantee

1082
00:46:51,320 --> 00:46:54,080
Speaker 1: you those guys are believing it and they're gonna bust

1083
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Speaker 1: their tails to beat the Colts.

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Speaker 3: No, completely agree, and that's you know you said about Frank.

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Speaker 3: I mean, this isn't a but this is comfort zone.

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Speaker 3: I mean, he slow starts is kind of what we

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Speaker 3: I mean, nobody.

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Speaker 1: Likes them, no comfort I know what you mean, but.

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Speaker 3: This is he's not it's not unfamiliar terrorists, right, Frank

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Speaker 3: so we all know what Frank w Reich is, I

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Speaker 3: mean as a human being, as a leader, those guys

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Speaker 3: you know in that locker room, everybody you talked, I

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Speaker 3: mean we talked about it in the Colts locker room.

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Speaker 3: Nobody had anything but wonderful things to say about Frank

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Speaker 3: and how this is a business trip. But we're excited

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Speaker 3: to go see coach Frank. We're excited to go talk to,

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Speaker 3: you know, the guy who meant so much to a

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Speaker 3: lot of these guys. And these guys you've seen what

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Speaker 3: he's done in this locker room. I can only imagine

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Speaker 3: what looks like in that Panthers locker room. So now, Matt,

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Speaker 3: I think you're spot on with what what you're.

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Speaker 1: Expecting guaranty of damn Bill Brooks right there, Bill Brooks, Now,

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Speaker 1: if you're used to hearing and watching Bill at one o'clock, right,

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Speaker 1: should say at ten am for a one o'clock got

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Speaker 1: to readjust your schedule here, Yeah, because this is the

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Speaker 1: only time all season the Colts play in the four

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Speaker 1: o'clock windows. So Bill is gonna be bumped back a

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Speaker 1: couple of hours. On the pregame show, Bill Brooks, get yeah.

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Speaker 3: This time and then the next week, it's no sleep

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Speaker 3: for that Patriots game and both extremes.

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Speaker 1: Bill Brooks starts on the pregame huddle at three, Casey

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Speaker 1: or I should say, at one. I beg your pardon,

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Speaker 1: I see I think I just got so used. I

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Speaker 1: started at one o'clock Casey valet, and countdown to kickoff

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Speaker 1: begins at three. I think I started four. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: think so. I think we were to go all right.

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Speaker 1: But it's the Colts and Panthers, both teams coming off

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Speaker 1: a grueling game. Obviously the Panthers won, the Colts with

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Speaker 1: a setback, trying to get back to five hundred before

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Speaker 1: the bye week. But one at a time in Carolina

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Speaker 1: on Sunday, and we will talk to you next week

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Speaker 1: getting ready for the Colts and the Patriots before we

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Speaker 1: head around the globe to Germany to get ready for

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Speaker 1: that game internationally. And we will do it again next Thursday,

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Speaker 1: talking Colts football here on the Official Colts podcast on

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