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Speaker 2: Let's get the podcast started.

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Speaker 3: I was the best man at my best friend's second wedding,

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Speaker 3: and when it got time for me to do my

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Speaker 3: best man's speech, I said, welcome back everybody.

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Speaker 1: Oh lord, he was not happy. Just kidding.

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Speaker 2: That did not happen.

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Speaker 1: Shit, yeah, easy man, that did not happen.

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Speaker 3: But we welcome you back to the Official Colts Podcast,

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Speaker 3: presented by Bill Brooks and Casey Belly.

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Speaker 1: I'm Matt Taylor.

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Speaker 3: Hell of a start, right, We're off and running. We're

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Speaker 3: getting your primed and ready. We're we're in week three form.

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Speaker 3: Here is the Colts are getting ready for the Ravens.

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Speaker 3: Let's talk about it. Let's go back to week two.

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Speaker 3: Bill the Houston Texans. The Colts obviously took care of

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Speaker 3: business there.

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Speaker 1: What were you most encouraged by?

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Speaker 4: Well, one of the things that was encouraged by what

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Speaker 5: One of them things I was encouraged by his way

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Speaker 5: the offense converted on third down. There were six or

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Speaker 5: twelve on third down, and you know what, to me,

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Speaker 5: that showed a lot about what they did on first

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Speaker 4: So to me, I think that was huge.

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Speaker 5: So if the offense can continue to be efficient, our

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Speaker 5: third down easy. So that's one of the things that

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Speaker 5: I was impressed with the offense from going from week

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Speaker 1: What about you, sir?

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Speaker 3: Or for four for the Colts in the red zone,

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Speaker 3: Bill mentioned third down, the defense only gave up fifty

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Speaker 3: two yards to Damian Pearson company. I mean that was

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Speaker 3: I know, the score was kind of close there towards

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Speaker 3: the end, is that the Texans had a chance to

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Speaker 3: that long field goal there in the fourth quarter. But Casey,

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Speaker 3: that was a game where basically by halftime you felt

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Speaker 3: really good about the Colts and their chances to take

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Speaker 6: That's the best way to think about it, because that's

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Speaker 6: ultimately what it was. Yes, it's you know, thirty one

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Speaker 6: it never really felt like it was that close. Which

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Speaker 6: I'm not trying to say that, Hey, I know all

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Speaker 6: it's going to be, and I said, honestly, I think

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Speaker 6: The way they started, I mean, you get out fourteen

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Speaker 3: I mean, you save your best plays for your best players, right,

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Speaker 1: The ball handling on that play.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I can appreciate this Bill.

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Speaker 3: When something like that comes to fruition and you call

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Speaker 5: And when you execute it like they did, you know,

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Speaker 5: This is what we want to look at right now

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Speaker 1: When you lose your mind on the sideline.

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Speaker 5: It actually feels that much better when you execute the

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Speaker 6: Everything was great about the play, but the one thing

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Speaker 6: Yes, oh man, I mean, I'm sure you know. Pittman's

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Speaker 6: That was a great way to put it on put

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Speaker 1: There's no doubt about that.

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Speaker 3: the Colts afford it? That's the next chapter of this podcast.

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Speaker 3: So you're going into week three, you're one in one.

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Speaker 3: debate if the Colts can quote unquote afford it starting

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Speaker 3: in week number three. So we all know about where

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Speaker 3: He's been injured three different times, an ankle, he's had

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Speaker 1: He's listed.

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Speaker 3: Care of his well, they drafted him forth overall to

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's the goal case.

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Speaker 4: And this is only one game, you know.

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Speaker 5: If he's ah borderline, I know, and they say, oh,

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Speaker 1: Well, what needs to change, if anything?

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Speaker 6: That's a great question because ultimately, you draft him forth

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Speaker 1: And you don't want to take that away from him.

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Speaker 1: That's why you draft that.

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Speaker 6: The first time you take him, you understand the risk.

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Speaker 6: I think ultimately, and maybe this is you know, it's

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Speaker 6: But I think part of it might be it's such

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Speaker 3: And it's not like he was really banged up all

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Speaker 6: It might be one of those things that it might

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Speaker 6: just be too highlighted instances right now that forced him

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Speaker 6: another eight weeks. I think ultimately we've heard we haven't

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Speaker 3: eighty eight yards, eighteen carries, got in the end zone.

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Speaker 6: See, I look at it as you can afford it.

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Speaker 3: But there was only the Colts only had fifty seven

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Speaker 3: After we only had whatever it was, twenty five yards

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Speaker 6: I think getting him involved early, just like a six

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Speaker 5: having a play early in the game, right just to

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Speaker 5: get the ball in my hands, just to get hit,

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Speaker 5: get tackled, whatever it may be.

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Speaker 4: Then you're into the game.

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Speaker 5: I mean I'm into the game if I don't get

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Speaker 5: a catch or anything like that. But to have a

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Speaker 5: ball come to me. I know the ball is coming

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Speaker 5: to me. I'm gonna catch it, get hit, get the

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Speaker 5: juices flowing, and get right into the game immediately.

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Speaker 1: You know. You look at this stats.

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Speaker 3: I mean, the Colts put up thirty one points the

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Speaker 3: other day, but I think so far on the season,

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Speaker 3: the Colts only have one pass completion on a ball

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Speaker 3: bill that's traveled over twenty yards down the field. Wow,

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Speaker 3: it's been a lot of I mean, whether it's Richardson

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Speaker 3: or Gardner Minshew, it's been a lot of intermediate throws.

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Speaker 3: We fully expect the Ravens not to get too skimatical,

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Speaker 3: but a preview of this game defensively from Baltimore, we

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Speaker 3: fully expect them to do more of what Jacksonville did

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Speaker 3: than what Houston did up front along that defensive line,

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Speaker 3: which means I think it's going to be more difficult

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Speaker 3: for the Colts to run the football than it was

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Speaker 3: against the Houston Texans, which means you got to win

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Speaker 3: more matchups outside. That's where Pierce comes into play.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you have to throw the ball.

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Speaker 5: That's that's why I'm saying, you don't want to be

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Speaker 5: so one dimensional that you know, Okay, we're running the ball.

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Speaker 5: Doing a good job running, bab we'll going to running ball.

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Speaker 5: You have to pass the ball down the field, open

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Speaker 5: up the offense, keep defense off balance, and just hopefully

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Speaker 5: just diversify your offense so you can be efficient getting

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Speaker 5: the ball down the field. And then also now I'll

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Speaker 5: talk about this later, but you want to control the

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Speaker 5: clock as well going down the field, especially against the

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Speaker 5: Baltimore Ravens.

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Speaker 3: All Right, the game was somewhat out of hand in

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Speaker 3: week number two. The Colts had a two score lead.

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Speaker 1: C J.

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Speaker 3: Stroud you know, had a big fourth quarter if you will,

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Speaker 3: one hundred and ninety yards passing. The hard truth of

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Speaker 3: it is, Fellas the Colts now have been outscored twenty

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Speaker 3: four to zero in the fourth quarter so far this season.

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Speaker 3: Last year they had the widest margin in the fourth

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Speaker 3: quarter in terms of being outscored in the final period

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Speaker 3: in twenty twenty two. And I hate to bring this

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Speaker 3: up because it's a nightmare, but in twenty twenty one,

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Speaker 3: Week five at Baltimore Monday Night football game, Colts were

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Speaker 3: up big nineteen points in the third quarter. They were

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Speaker 3: outscored sixteen to three in the fourth quarter as the

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Speaker 3: Ravens completed that epic come from behind win. We know

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Speaker 3: about the Mark Andrews game. We know about the Lamar

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Speaker 3: Jackson game. You know, career high franchise record four hundred

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Speaker 3: and forty two passing yards against the Colts in that game. Casey,

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Speaker 3: I'll start with you can the Colts of four? Can

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Speaker 3: they have four to keep having big fourth quarters allowed

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Speaker 3: going forward?

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Speaker 1: No? I mean you can't do it. You can't do it.

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Speaker 6: I mean unless you're up forty points in the first

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Speaker 6: three quarters, which is not gonna happen.

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Speaker 1: You know, that's the NFL. We've talked about Minnesota Vikings proved. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that that's true. Yeah, we've talked about this.

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Speaker 6: I mean last year, I believe the I don't remember

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Speaker 6: what the exact historical value is, but the point differential

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Speaker 6: last year was one of the all time high, like

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Speaker 6: lowest in NFL history, just an one score game throughout

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Speaker 6: the entire season. So fourth quarter is huge because every

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Speaker 6: game you look through, you look across the scoreboards. You know,

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Speaker 6: let's say, look at the third quarter on any given Sunday,

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Speaker 6: you look at teams where you're like, oh, they're gonna

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Speaker 6: blow them out, and all of a sudden you look

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Speaker 6: at the score and it's you know, it's twenty one fourteen.

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Speaker 6: They have the football, you know, down a score late

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Speaker 6: in the game. So that's why fourth quarter you have

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Speaker 6: to figure that out. It's one of those things where

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Speaker 6: last week, yeah, it kind of was what it was.

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Speaker 1: The game was already. Yeah, I don't think it won't think.

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Speaker 3: I think the twenty four point margin for the Colts

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Speaker 3: is a little skewed, yes, because of last week. But

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Speaker 3: it goes back to what we talked about in our

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Speaker 3: podcast last Thursday.

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Speaker 1: We sat here and talked about does it feel different.

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Speaker 3: Well, the Colts in the fourth quarter against the Jacksonville

524
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Speaker 3: Jaguars didn't make enough place Jacksonville did in that case,

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Speaker 3: it didn't feel different. And you know, we're still going

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Speaker 3: to talk about it until it's not something to talk about.

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Speaker 5: Bill exactly, I agree, and I think they can't afford

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Speaker 5: to blow big leads in the fourth quart. They have

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Speaker 5: to be out there in stop teams. And it's not

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Speaker 5: just the defense. This is a whole team thing because offensively,

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Speaker 5: you have to control the clock. You want to eat

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Speaker 5: some ground up east some clock up, eat some ground

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Speaker 5: by moving the ball down the field, getting first downs,

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Speaker 5: moving the ball, pinning them.

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Speaker 4: Back as far as possible.

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Speaker 5: And if you have to punt, that's fine, punt the ball,

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Speaker 5: but keep them back in their own end zone, back

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Speaker 5: in their own side of the faked off. Yes, make

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Speaker 5: them drive it and then that way it's going to

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Speaker 5: eat up some more clocks. So this is on all phases,

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Speaker 5: not just the defense have to do their job, don't

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Speaker 5: get me wrong. They have to stop people, but the

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Speaker 5: offense has to do a good job of moving the

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Speaker 5: ball down the field. The special teams have to do

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Speaker 5: a good job of pendingham back in their own end zone.

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Speaker 3: Bill Brooks, right there, Casey Valie, I'm Matt Taylor. Let's

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Speaker 3: double back to the guy that we talked about earlier,

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Speaker 3: Zach Moss eighty eight yards eighteen carries found the end

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Speaker 3: zone in his first game in twenty twenty three. He's

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Speaker 3: our special guests this week on the Official Colts Podcast.

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Speaker 3: He joined myself and Bill Brooks a little bit earlier

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Speaker 3: today to talk about week two and then looking forward

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Speaker 3: to the Ravens in week three. All right, joining us

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Speaker 3: now on the Official Colts Podcast. He's fresh off week

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Speaker 3: number two. Eighty eight yards on the ground eighteen carries

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Speaker 3: found the end zone for the first time in twenty

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Speaker 3: twenty three. Hey, wear's number twenty one. His name is

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Speaker 3: Zach Moss.

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Speaker 1: Zach. Thanks for the time, man. How are you.

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Speaker 7: I'm all good, man, appreciate you guys.

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Speaker 1: How you feeling.

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Speaker 3: I mean, you're coming off, as I said, a big

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Speaker 3: game against the Houston Texans. We'll talk about that workload

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Speaker 3: in just a second. But how good did it feel

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Speaker 3: to get back on the regular season game field for

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Speaker 3: the first time for you since about January of earlier

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Speaker 3: this year?

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Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean it felt great. I mean, you know,

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Speaker 8: didn't have camp right and only did OTAs technically, yep.

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Speaker 8: So getting back out there with the guys, man, you know,

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Speaker 8: and then getting to win made it even better, right.

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Speaker 8: I think that was the most important thing out of

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Speaker 8: anything else for personal reasons or anything like that. So

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Speaker 8: just getting to win a division, to win on the road,

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Speaker 8: and it's getting out there and being.

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Speaker 7: Able to have a little success. Super super happy about it. Now.

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Speaker 5: You talked about you missed some time in camp, but

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Speaker 5: the last week was your first game back. As far

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Speaker 5: as some physical activity, how does your body feel right now?

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Speaker 8: I had a rough first couple of days were late

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Speaker 8: in the week now, so I'm feeling a lot better

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Speaker 8: and just been trying to, you know, get as fresh

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Speaker 8: as I possibly can for Baltimore this week.

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Speaker 7: But I feel good right now though.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you played fifty six of fifty seven snaps.

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Speaker 1: That's ninety eight percent. I was not good at math.

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Speaker 3: But you were the only running back for the Colts

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Speaker 3: to carry the football down in Houston. Did you know

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Speaker 3: going into that game like you were, you were ready

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Speaker 3: to be the bell cow, the workhorse, whatever you want

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Speaker 3: to call it, the main guy within the running game.

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Speaker 8: I knew probably was going to do like eighty percent. Yeah, right,

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Speaker 8: since we're talking percentages. Didn't think I was gonna get

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Speaker 8: that many snaps, you know, being fresh out. Yeah, you know,

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Speaker 8: first game back, first action, all that type of stuff.

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Speaker 8: But you know, the body was responded well to it.

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Speaker 8: You know, I was able to go out there, you know,

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Speaker 8: outside of being physically sharp, but being mentally sharp still

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Speaker 8: and just being able to execute out on place.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I mean, Shane Steichen has said in the past, I

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Speaker 3: been going back to training camp, it's going to be

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Speaker 3: a running back by committee approach. But we're gonna as

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Speaker 3: the game goes on, We're gonna go with the hot hand.

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Speaker 3: I mean, you were on fire in that game. Did

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Speaker 3: you Did you feel yourself getting in the zone even

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Speaker 3: though it was your first game back or your first

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Speaker 3: game I should say this year in twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 7: No, I feel like I was rusty.

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Speaker 1: Really.

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Speaker 7: Yeah.

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Speaker 8: If I had one hundred yards, I'll probably would have

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Speaker 8: told you something different. But now I felt like I

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Speaker 8: was a little bit rusty.

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Speaker 6: Man.

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Speaker 7: I think just getting back out there, you know.

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Speaker 8: Practice, had a good week of practice, you know, which

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Speaker 8: gave me a lot of confidence going into that game.

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Speaker 8: And then as the game kind of went, you know,

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Speaker 8: I felt better, right, winning a lot of one on ones,

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Speaker 8: which was kind of big for me. But you know,

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Speaker 8: just being able to get to where I feel like

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Speaker 8: I'm making all my reads, all my cuts, you know,

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Speaker 8: and I'm feeling really good and you know, delivering a

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Speaker 8: lot of blows and all that type of stuff. You know,

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Speaker 8: That's where I'm still trying to get back to where

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Speaker 8: I'm feeling just like one hundred percent of me.

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Speaker 7: But you know, I think we two was, you know,

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Speaker 7: pretty decent.

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Speaker 1: I'll say, yeah, definitely.

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Speaker 5: You know you talk about you you had a good game.

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Speaker 5: I thought the office line played well. How impressed were

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Speaker 5: you with the play of the offensive line?

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Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean, you know, so many people was making

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Speaker 8: the big thing about those guys you know, last year

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Speaker 8: and all that type of stuff in the media, But

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Speaker 8: you know, even the last few games of the year

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Speaker 8: that I played with them, you know, I thought we

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Speaker 8: had a lot of you know, continuity, you know, doing

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Speaker 8: a lot of good things well, and that just kind

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Speaker 8: of carried over into this year. And those guys, you know,

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Speaker 8: went into you know, OTA's training camp, you know, just

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Speaker 8: in a certain mindset to be dominant, and they've been

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Speaker 8: able to do that these first two weeks. I think

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Speaker 8: obviously getting coach Tony in there as well, you know,

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Speaker 8: yeah what you know, the knowledge that he brings to

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Speaker 8: those guys and then allowing those guys to just be

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Speaker 8: them and go out there and dominate. And you know,

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Speaker 8: as much as we kind of run the ball, you know,

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Speaker 8: and you run the ball early, those guys get to

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Speaker 8: start teeing off real early in the game.

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Speaker 7: Uh So you know, they get you know, all the

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Speaker 7: real fast.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: You go back to last year, at the end of

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Speaker 3: last season, Jonathan Taylor goes out the last four games

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Speaker 3: of the season, you're the guy. You're the starting running back,

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Speaker 3: and and since that time when you factor in Sunday's

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Speaker 3: game as well. Uh, dating back to last year with

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Speaker 3: the Colts, you're averaging like five point four yards per carry.

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Speaker 3: You just talked about the offensive line. Why do you

662
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Speaker 3: think this is such a great fit for you running

663
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Speaker 3: the football because you're really efficient doing it.

664
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Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean, you know, going back to college, right,

665
00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:06,399
Speaker 8: I think being in the offense, that's like kind of

666
00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:09,560
Speaker 8: run first. You know where I'm getting, you know, fifteen

667
00:27:09,560 --> 00:27:12,080
Speaker 8: plus carries, you know, for you know, as a back,

668
00:27:12,200 --> 00:27:14,160
Speaker 8: you get better as the game goes, Right, It's only

669
00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:16,640
Speaker 8: so many times where you see dudes just have six

670
00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:19,480
Speaker 8: carries for one hundred and fifty yards, right, So you

671
00:27:19,560 --> 00:27:21,760
Speaker 8: got to get going, and this offense allows guys in

672
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Speaker 8: the backfield to get going and lean on us a lot.

673
00:27:24,880 --> 00:27:27,080
Speaker 8: And then you know, after that, you know, then the

674
00:27:27,080 --> 00:27:28,880
Speaker 8: office line does a great job of just being where

675
00:27:28,880 --> 00:27:30,399
Speaker 8: they're supposed to be, and then we just try to,

676
00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:33,160
Speaker 8: you know, make their job a little easier with moving

677
00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:36,679
Speaker 8: linebackers and stuff like that. So you know, I felt

678
00:27:37,200 --> 00:27:40,000
Speaker 8: real good here just being able to do what I've

679
00:27:40,040 --> 00:27:43,560
Speaker 8: always been able to do back, even dating back to school.

680
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Speaker 4: Want to pick it back off of that.

681
00:27:44,840 --> 00:27:46,879
Speaker 5: I think when Shane first got here, he said, we

682
00:27:46,920 --> 00:27:47,920
Speaker 5: want the pass to.

683
00:27:47,960 --> 00:27:49,880
Speaker 4: Score and we want to run to win.

684
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Speaker 5: How does that make you feel as a running back,

685
00:27:52,200 --> 00:27:53,719
Speaker 5: knowing that the running game is going to be that

686
00:27:53,960 --> 00:27:56,000
Speaker 5: important to the offense to be successful, and not just

687
00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:57,720
Speaker 5: to stay offense, but to the team to be successful.

688
00:27:57,760 --> 00:27:58,360
Speaker 7: It's beautiful.

689
00:28:00,040 --> 00:28:02,160
Speaker 8: My first three years, I wasn't in the offense that

690
00:28:02,440 --> 00:28:04,439
Speaker 8: you know, was in that type of mindset, you know,

691
00:28:04,880 --> 00:28:08,720
Speaker 8: you know, being in Buffalo, it was more very past heavy.

692
00:28:09,800 --> 00:28:12,840
Speaker 8: So now getting more carries than I ever did in

693
00:28:12,920 --> 00:28:15,920
Speaker 8: my time there in an offense that wants to win

694
00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:18,439
Speaker 8: the ball and wants to running downhill right, not just

695
00:28:19,040 --> 00:28:21,800
Speaker 8: strictly outside zones and things of that nature. But you know,

696
00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:24,000
Speaker 8: it allows me to play into my kind of style.

697
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Speaker 1: You know.

698
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Speaker 3: Going back to last week, conditioning for you obviously wasn't

699
00:28:27,840 --> 00:28:30,280
Speaker 3: a problem with those eighteen carries your first game of

700
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Speaker 3: the season, but you broke your forearm.

701
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Speaker 1: I think it was July.

702
00:28:33,920 --> 00:28:36,240
Speaker 3: Thirty first, I think, if I'm not mistaken, that was

703
00:28:36,280 --> 00:28:39,920
Speaker 3: the first day of full pads for the Colton training camp.

704
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Speaker 3: I mean that's a drag for you, obviously coming off

705
00:28:42,360 --> 00:28:45,560
Speaker 3: a great ending to twenty twenty two for you, How

706
00:28:45,560 --> 00:28:48,120
Speaker 3: did you stay in shape physically and mentally? I mean,

707
00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:51,160
Speaker 3: I know it's an upper body injury so to speak,

708
00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:53,280
Speaker 3: but yeah, when you're not on the football field, that's

709
00:28:53,360 --> 00:28:56,200
Speaker 3: just it's hard to replicate football shape so to speak.

710
00:28:56,240 --> 00:28:56,880
Speaker 1: How did you do that?

711
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Speaker 7: Yeah?

712
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Speaker 8: I was, I mean I was down the first few weeks,

713
00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:00,760
Speaker 8: probably like two three weeks. I was down for sure,

714
00:29:00,880 --> 00:29:02,640
Speaker 8: just couldn't move it and do that type of stuff.

715
00:29:03,360 --> 00:29:05,400
Speaker 8: But the training staff has done a great job. You know,

716
00:29:06,040 --> 00:29:09,240
Speaker 8: everyone in this training staff, Doug has done a great

717
00:29:09,320 --> 00:29:11,840
Speaker 8: job of just getting me in shape and making me

718
00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:15,960
Speaker 8: run a lot of stuff, which is you know those

719
00:29:16,040 --> 00:29:18,400
Speaker 8: days you're like you hate it, but you know I

720
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Speaker 8: was able to just be in mindset to just like

721
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Speaker 8: you know, really take it seriously and not kind of

722
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Speaker 8: just jog through them and dog them and things like that,

723
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Speaker 8: and just know that you know, when I do come back,

724
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Speaker 8: I was going to rely on that type of condition

725
00:29:31,320 --> 00:29:33,400
Speaker 8: and all that type of stuff. So I think, you know,

726
00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:35,480
Speaker 8: it just showed up week two being able to play

727
00:29:35,480 --> 00:29:38,200
Speaker 8: that many snaps and not really needing a breather and

728
00:29:38,240 --> 00:29:40,720
Speaker 8: coming out of that game feeling you know, outside of

729
00:29:40,760 --> 00:29:44,040
Speaker 8: being sore, but you know, cardiovasketwase just feeling really good.

730
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Speaker 4: You know.

731
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Speaker 5: I looked at the Ravens how they played this past

732
00:29:47,120 --> 00:29:50,280
Speaker 5: couple of weeks, and their defense looks pretty good. You've

733
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Speaker 5: watched them on film this week? What do you think

734
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Speaker 5: about their defense?

735
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Speaker 8: I mean, they have a great defense. I remember we

736
00:29:56,240 --> 00:29:58,240
Speaker 8: played them when I was back in Buffalo two years ago.

737
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Speaker 8: Different not a lot of different guys, but some different

738
00:30:02,840 --> 00:30:05,720
Speaker 8: guys in the in the in the defense, they do

739
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Speaker 8: a lot up front, right, a lot of big run

740
00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:11,040
Speaker 8: stop kind of defensive linemen. I think the strength of

741
00:30:11,040 --> 00:30:13,880
Speaker 8: their defense is definitely their linebackers, right. I think Rokwan

742
00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:16,840
Speaker 8: and Patrick Queen. You're talking about two very, very very

743
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Speaker 8: good run linebackers, especially in uh Rokwan.

744
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Speaker 7: Everyone knows that guy.

745
00:30:22,080 --> 00:30:23,760
Speaker 8: So you know, it's definitely gonna be a good challenge

746
00:30:23,760 --> 00:30:26,560
Speaker 8: for us to try to do what we know, replicate

747
00:30:26,560 --> 00:30:28,520
Speaker 8: what we did last week, and hopefully we can go

748
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Speaker 8: out there and you know, duplicate that, but just do

749
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Speaker 8: it even better, no.

750
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Speaker 1: Doubt about that.

751
00:30:32,440 --> 00:30:35,240
Speaker 3: That's Zach Moss with us running back for the Indianapolis Colts.

752
00:30:35,360 --> 00:30:36,320
Speaker 1: All right, nugget alert.

753
00:30:36,480 --> 00:30:39,240
Speaker 3: You're ready for this, Bill Brooks, he knows I like nuggets.

754
00:30:39,240 --> 00:30:42,000
Speaker 3: All right, nugget alert. On Sunday, you missed, or I

755
00:30:42,040 --> 00:30:45,760
Speaker 3: should say, you forced seven miss tackles when you're running

756
00:30:45,800 --> 00:30:49,680
Speaker 3: the football. You have now forced twenty three miss tackles

757
00:30:49,720 --> 00:30:53,440
Speaker 3: since Week sixteen of last year. And I watch you

758
00:30:53,520 --> 00:30:55,720
Speaker 3: play and you're kind of that one cutback. You know,

759
00:30:55,720 --> 00:30:58,320
Speaker 3: you're run very hard, You're you're not afraid to lower

760
00:30:58,360 --> 00:31:00,959
Speaker 3: your shoulder and get yards after contact. But you got

761
00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:03,760
Speaker 3: a little little shimmy about you as well, right, I

762
00:31:03,760 --> 00:31:07,080
Speaker 3: mean you're you're kind of deceptively elusive with the football

763
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Speaker 3: in your hands. I mean, where does that come from

764
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Speaker 3: for you? All those mistackles that you've induced.

765
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Speaker 8: Oh man, that's a good question. I think you know,

766
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Speaker 8: you know, speaking on that, I think my two favorite

767
00:31:16,360 --> 00:31:18,120
Speaker 8: running backs growing up. A lot of people don't know

768
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Speaker 8: this is a nugget as well.

769
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Speaker 1: There you go.

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Speaker 7: You know I didn't start playing running back until my

771
00:31:21,640 --> 00:31:23,800
Speaker 7: senior year in high school. Okay, right, so I was

772
00:31:23,840 --> 00:31:24,560
Speaker 7: a late bloomer.

773
00:31:24,880 --> 00:31:25,680
Speaker 1: What did you played before?

774
00:31:25,720 --> 00:31:28,040
Speaker 7: That? Linebacker? All? Yeah?

775
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Speaker 3: So were they just down a couple of injuries and like, Zach,

776
00:31:30,960 --> 00:31:33,440
Speaker 3: you're running a fo get over there, dude.

777
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Speaker 5: Or did you get an interception that showed that you

778
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Speaker 5: had some running skin?

779
00:31:36,040 --> 00:31:36,800
Speaker 1: Runback right?

780
00:31:37,360 --> 00:31:39,320
Speaker 8: People wanted me to play running back for so long,

781
00:31:39,520 --> 00:31:42,719
Speaker 8: but I never really cared to really do it to

782
00:31:42,760 --> 00:31:45,760
Speaker 8: that extent up until you know, my senior year. Then

783
00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:47,680
Speaker 8: I transfer out and then I went to another school

784
00:31:48,240 --> 00:31:50,520
Speaker 8: and they gave me to just full full on right,

785
00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:51,520
Speaker 8: just go ahead and do that.

786
00:31:52,520 --> 00:31:53,400
Speaker 7: And I was able to do it.

787
00:31:53,400 --> 00:31:55,960
Speaker 8: But you know, Aaron Foster and Marshall Lynch, you know,

788
00:31:56,200 --> 00:31:58,480
Speaker 8: like you speak to that base in that one cut

789
00:31:58,480 --> 00:32:00,920
Speaker 8: style which those two dudes are known for.

790
00:32:00,960 --> 00:32:01,040
Speaker 7: It.

791
00:32:01,960 --> 00:32:03,880
Speaker 8: Those two dudes that I watched all the time, just

792
00:32:03,920 --> 00:32:06,560
Speaker 8: consistently over over and over, and I think just being

793
00:32:06,560 --> 00:32:09,800
Speaker 8: able to make people miss, uh, you know, without looking

794
00:32:09,840 --> 00:32:12,160
Speaker 8: like a guy who can make people miss all the time.

795
00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:14,600
Speaker 8: I think that just goes back to my childhood just

796
00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:17,000
Speaker 8: playing little throw back football in the park and just

797
00:32:17,040 --> 00:32:18,280
Speaker 8: try to make people miss all the time.

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Speaker 3: When you when you, I mean, are you aware on

799
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Speaker 3: the field. Maybe this is a dumb question, but during

800
00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:25,640
Speaker 3: the game, are you aware of when you force somebody

801
00:32:25,720 --> 00:32:26,560
Speaker 3: to miss a tackle?

802
00:32:26,720 --> 00:32:28,440
Speaker 1: Like? How good does that feel yeah.

803
00:32:28,480 --> 00:32:30,239
Speaker 7: I mean I'm not super aware of it.

804
00:32:30,280 --> 00:32:32,080
Speaker 8: Like when you just said seven, I didn't think I

805
00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:34,920
Speaker 8: made seven people miss, right, But you know I definitely

806
00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:37,080
Speaker 8: thought I may maybe one or two guys missing.

807
00:32:37,080 --> 00:32:39,560
Speaker 7: Then we go on the sideline, we joke about it about.

808
00:32:39,360 --> 00:32:45,720
Speaker 8: It, like, yeah, one of two dudes miss for sure.

809
00:32:46,680 --> 00:32:49,760
Speaker 8: But you know, you know that's last week, and now

810
00:32:49,760 --> 00:32:51,440
Speaker 8: that you know, everything's about just trying to get better

811
00:32:51,480 --> 00:32:51,880
Speaker 8: every week.

812
00:32:52,120 --> 00:32:54,120
Speaker 5: Let me talk about your running skills and definitely could

813
00:32:54,160 --> 00:32:56,080
Speaker 5: run the ball very well. I want to talk about

814
00:32:56,080 --> 00:32:58,400
Speaker 5: your passing pass catching skills. You know you were target

815
00:32:58,440 --> 00:33:00,840
Speaker 5: four times last week, cut off four balls. Yeah, how

816
00:33:00,880 --> 00:33:02,600
Speaker 5: do you feel about your pass catching skills?

817
00:33:02,960 --> 00:33:05,160
Speaker 7: I think I'm pretty good catching the ball look good?

818
00:33:05,320 --> 00:33:08,040
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean I've just never been in the you know,

819
00:33:08,080 --> 00:33:11,080
Speaker 8: in the offense that's been able to I've been allowed

820
00:33:11,120 --> 00:33:14,520
Speaker 8: to do too much past catching. But I think, you know,

821
00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:16,600
Speaker 8: if people take a look at the numbers and things

822
00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:18,959
Speaker 8: like that and look at you know, drop rating, you know,

823
00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:20,440
Speaker 8: targets and all the type of stuff, I think I'm

824
00:33:20,440 --> 00:33:21,720
Speaker 8: pretty pretty decent.

825
00:33:21,840 --> 00:33:22,160
Speaker 7: All right.

826
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Speaker 3: Last one for me is wrapping up here with with

827
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Speaker 3: Zach Moss. Let's talk about Zack Moss the guy. Let's

828
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Speaker 3: talk about Zack Moss the father. I know it's been

829
00:33:29,920 --> 00:33:31,120
Speaker 3: kind of a whirlwind for you.

830
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Speaker 1: Traded in the middle of last year. Now you're the

831
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Speaker 1: starting running back.

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Speaker 3: But also in the summertime, it was a big, big

833
00:33:38,360 --> 00:33:40,840
Speaker 3: summer for you. You welcome in your your first child,

834
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Speaker 3: your baby boy three months old. How's that going for you?

835
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Speaker 3: And what do you enjoy most about being a father

836
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Speaker 3: of an infant?

837
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Speaker 8: Yeah, I think that was the biggest thing, no matter what, right,

838
00:33:51,360 --> 00:33:53,280
Speaker 8: I think, you know, I always wanted to be a dad,

839
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Speaker 8: and you know, being able to welcome a son with

840
00:33:56,560 --> 00:34:00,240
Speaker 8: my wife, which is the best thing ever. Right you

841
00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:03,440
Speaker 8: think about you know, being traded, you know, all these

842
00:34:03,480 --> 00:34:06,880
Speaker 8: different things that you can't really control. But the things

843
00:34:06,880 --> 00:34:08,560
Speaker 8: that I knew I could control, you know, is how

844
00:34:08,560 --> 00:34:10,800
Speaker 8: to be a husband, how to be a father and

845
00:34:10,840 --> 00:34:11,600
Speaker 8: all those type of things.

846
00:34:11,640 --> 00:34:13,799
Speaker 7: And still learning, right, only three months in.

847
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Speaker 1: Oh a long way to go play. This is an

848
00:34:19,400 --> 00:34:22,600
Speaker 1: all Pro dad, and I'm like three Pro Bowls, you.

849
00:34:22,600 --> 00:34:26,520
Speaker 8: Know, I'm still learning, but it's it's literally the best,

850
00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:29,320
Speaker 8: you know, I mean, no matter what you know happens

851
00:34:29,360 --> 00:34:32,400
Speaker 8: outside of you know, with football and you know, just

852
00:34:32,480 --> 00:34:35,360
Speaker 8: anything else that you know, I may endeavor in my life.

853
00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:36,920
Speaker 8: You know, I definitely want to be the best I

854
00:34:36,920 --> 00:34:38,959
Speaker 8: can be to my wife and my son.

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00:34:39,239 --> 00:34:42,000
Speaker 3: Well said, right there, that's a good man, Zach Moss,

856
00:34:42,040 --> 00:34:44,880
Speaker 3: fresh off of eighty eight yards and a touchdown against

857
00:34:44,920 --> 00:34:45,920
Speaker 3: the Houston Texans.

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Speaker 1: We all three share something in common. We like being dads.

859
00:34:50,080 --> 00:34:52,920
Speaker 3: But I'm telling you what, this guy is a former

860
00:34:53,200 --> 00:34:56,080
Speaker 3: NFL great, a current NFL great over here to my right,

861
00:34:56,160 --> 00:34:59,120
Speaker 3: and I'm just a white guy named that right. So

862
00:34:59,160 --> 00:35:01,760
Speaker 3: we're just hanging out here, Zach. I appreciate your.

863
00:35:01,600 --> 00:35:02,319
Speaker 1: Time more than you know.

864
00:35:02,440 --> 00:35:02,600
Speaker 6: Man.

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Speaker 1: Congratulations and best of luck on Sunday.

866
00:35:04,960 --> 00:35:07,880
Speaker 7: Thank you, appreciate you guys at.

867
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Speaker 3: Zach Moss from earlier today, We're back here on the

868
00:35:10,280 --> 00:35:14,399
Speaker 3: Official Colts podcast, Bill Brooks sticking around. Casey Valier's back.

869
00:35:14,440 --> 00:35:17,160
Speaker 3: I'm Matt Taylor and Zach Moss and the Colts looking

870
00:35:17,160 --> 00:35:20,080
Speaker 3: to steal a game in Baltimore, if you will. Colts

871
00:35:20,080 --> 00:35:22,800
Speaker 3: have not won in the Charms City since two thousand

872
00:35:22,880 --> 00:35:26,000
Speaker 3: and nine, and I think it's the Ravens are eighty

873
00:35:26,040 --> 00:35:30,160
Speaker 3: eight and thirty four record wise at home under John

874
00:35:30,200 --> 00:35:32,719
Speaker 3: Harball since two thousand and eight, which is one of

875
00:35:32,719 --> 00:35:35,239
Speaker 3: the best home records in the NFL in that time,

876
00:35:35,320 --> 00:35:38,120
Speaker 3: so a very difficult place to play. Cults are looking

877
00:35:38,160 --> 00:35:41,439
Speaker 3: for a two to one record going into week number four,

878
00:35:41,600 --> 00:35:44,360
Speaker 3: as the Baltimore Ravens are two to zero for the

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00:35:44,360 --> 00:35:48,200
Speaker 3: first time for their franchise since twenty twenty. All Right,

880
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Speaker 3: closing out here with the Baltimore bullet points.

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Speaker 1: All right, there's a lot of ways.

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Speaker 3: There's a lot of keys of the game, if you will,

883
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Speaker 3: But Bill, I'm starting with you give me your Baltimore

884
00:35:58,480 --> 00:36:01,399
Speaker 3: bullet point. The one thing the have to do. Maybe

885
00:36:01,440 --> 00:36:04,479
Speaker 3: it's an underlying thing, maybe it's like a hidden gym,

886
00:36:04,560 --> 00:36:06,600
Speaker 3: but you're one thing. You're gonna be watching four on

887
00:36:06,680 --> 00:36:09,200
Speaker 3: Sunday in order for the Colts to come out victorious.

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00:36:09,440 --> 00:36:10,160
Speaker 4: It's pretty simple.

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00:36:10,160 --> 00:36:13,720
Speaker 5: It's no hitting Jim all right, contain Lamar Jackson perfect.

890
00:36:14,120 --> 00:36:15,880
Speaker 5: It's as simple as that. I mean, the guy is

891
00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:18,320
Speaker 5: very explosive. If he can throw the ball very well,

892
00:36:18,960 --> 00:36:21,759
Speaker 5: which I think he's underrated in regards of how he

893
00:36:21,760 --> 00:36:24,200
Speaker 5: throws the ball down the field, but I don't think

894
00:36:24,200 --> 00:36:27,120
Speaker 5: he's underrated. And how well he runs the football and

895
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Speaker 5: how explosive he can explosive, he can be back there

896
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Speaker 5: in the backfield. So I think the Coats defensively needs

897
00:36:33,520 --> 00:36:36,799
Speaker 5: to make sure they surround him, put some pressure on him,

898
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Speaker 5: and keep him in the pocket so he doesn't get

899
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Speaker 5: out of the pocket and make those big plays.

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Speaker 3: And it's all about the pass rush too. You just

901
00:36:42,760 --> 00:36:45,640
Speaker 3: talked about the pocket. The pocket is formed a pass

902
00:36:45,719 --> 00:36:48,920
Speaker 3: rush against Lamar Jackson, the most effective pass rush against

903
00:36:48,920 --> 00:36:52,000
Speaker 3: the player like this, it's a straight line wave where

904
00:36:52,040 --> 00:36:56,759
Speaker 3: everybody is staying within their lane. They have lane integrity.

905
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Speaker 3: That way, he has nowhere to go either stepping up

906
00:36:59,400 --> 00:37:01,680
Speaker 3: into the pocket on a pass play or break and

907
00:37:01,719 --> 00:37:03,040
Speaker 3: contain on a run play.

908
00:37:03,120 --> 00:37:04,439
Speaker 4: Act he uses a whole field.

909
00:37:04,440 --> 00:37:07,080
Speaker 5: I mean, I'm talking about Horizontald absolutely is the fil field.

910
00:37:07,120 --> 00:37:09,560
Speaker 5: So yeah, yes, so you have to make sure that

911
00:37:09,719 --> 00:37:12,520
Speaker 5: you keep him so much that he's only gonna run

912
00:37:12,600 --> 00:37:14,960
Speaker 5: harvezontal Lee, that he's not gonna get the field vertically,

913
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Speaker 5: So make those big plays.

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Speaker 1: All right, containing Lamar Jackson Casey Vale.

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00:37:18,840 --> 00:37:20,759
Speaker 6: So mine is kind of in the similar point, but

916
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Speaker 6: it's it's the run game. That's one of the areas

917
00:37:22,960 --> 00:37:26,160
Speaker 6: right now where the Colts defense per usual. It seems

918
00:37:26,200 --> 00:37:28,680
Speaker 6: like the last handful of years this Colts defense has

919
00:37:28,719 --> 00:37:31,000
Speaker 6: been very very good against the run. It remains that

920
00:37:31,040 --> 00:37:34,160
Speaker 6: way this year, leading the league as far as yards

921
00:37:34,160 --> 00:37:38,280
Speaker 6: per carry. They're like fifth, I think in yards per game.

922
00:37:38,920 --> 00:37:41,640
Speaker 6: But the thing on the other side is the Ravens. Yes,

923
00:37:42,080 --> 00:37:44,839
Speaker 6: like Lamar has had a great passing year this year,

924
00:37:44,920 --> 00:37:48,239
Speaker 6: over seventy percent. He has looked really, really good under

925
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Speaker 6: the new Todd Mounkin, their offensive coordinator in Baltimore. But

926
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Speaker 6: their whole offense is geared around the run. They have

927
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Speaker 6: been a run heavy team for a long time and

928
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Speaker 6: since Lamar Jackson took over as a starting quarterback and

929
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Speaker 6: twenty eighteen, they're averaging one hundred and seventy nine rushing

930
00:38:02,920 --> 00:38:05,400
Speaker 6: yards per game, which is the most.

931
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Speaker 1: In the NFL.

932
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Speaker 6: In seventy nine Wow, rushing. That's the average average, because

933
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Speaker 6: this is an average, so like not like, I mean

934
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Speaker 6: you almost pencil this in almost two hundred yards rushing

935
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Speaker 6: per game. If you're an offensive coordinator, you're like, just

936
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Speaker 6: what else do you want me to do? I mean,

937
00:38:21,040 --> 00:38:23,520
Speaker 6: that is what you're looking for? Yeah, I mean it's

938
00:38:23,520 --> 00:38:27,520
Speaker 6: almost It's almost thirty yards more than second, which is

939
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Speaker 6: Derreck Henry and the Titans in that timeframe.

940
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Speaker 1: So it's insane.

941
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Speaker 6: It's one of those things where you look at the

942
00:38:33,080 --> 00:38:35,960
Speaker 6: strength of the Colts and the strength of the Ravens.

943
00:38:36,640 --> 00:38:39,040
Speaker 6: You know that they lost Justice Hill this week. He

944
00:38:39,080 --> 00:38:40,920
Speaker 6: looks like, you know, we're taking this Thursday. I'm not

945
00:38:40,960 --> 00:38:42,480
Speaker 6: sure if he's going to play on Sunday due to

946
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Speaker 6: his I think it's a turf toe injury he's got

947
00:38:44,680 --> 00:38:47,960
Speaker 6: going on. Also, you know, we saw JK. Dobbins leaving

948
00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:50,640
Speaker 6: week one, so Gus Edwards is there, Bell Cow with

949
00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:53,759
Speaker 6: some veterans in Melvin Gordon. They just signed Kenyon Drake.

950
00:38:53,800 --> 00:38:56,399
Speaker 6: We saw him during training camp. So they don't have

951
00:38:56,480 --> 00:38:59,880
Speaker 6: the full bevy of options that they always have. But

952
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Speaker 6: Lamar Jackson serves as a pretty darn good number two

953
00:39:02,840 --> 00:39:04,799
Speaker 6: running back is if you put that out there. So

954
00:39:04,880 --> 00:39:07,680
Speaker 6: the running game for me is so key. I love

955
00:39:07,680 --> 00:39:10,719
Speaker 6: what this Colts defensive line does in the run game.

956
00:39:11,320 --> 00:39:13,920
Speaker 6: It's very very important this Sunday if they want to

957
00:39:13,920 --> 00:39:16,480
Speaker 6: have a chance to get a victory containing the run.

958
00:39:16,640 --> 00:39:17,160
Speaker 1: I like it.

959
00:39:17,280 --> 00:39:19,480
Speaker 3: I like it all right, I got two. I'm kind

960
00:39:19,520 --> 00:39:22,080
Speaker 3: of stealing the show here. I apologize, but I think.

961
00:39:21,920 --> 00:39:22,560
Speaker 1: Hey, you're the host.

962
00:39:22,560 --> 00:39:25,560
Speaker 3: You just there's just a lot of stuff to do

963
00:39:25,640 --> 00:39:27,319
Speaker 3: in this game in order to win, because I.

964
00:39:27,280 --> 00:39:29,480
Speaker 1: Think the Ravens are just solid. They are a very

965
00:39:29,560 --> 00:39:30,759
Speaker 1: solid football team.

966
00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:33,120
Speaker 3: They're not going to blow you away with superstars, but

967
00:39:33,160 --> 00:39:35,200
Speaker 3: they're just they don't have a lot of weaknesses on

968
00:39:35,239 --> 00:39:39,040
Speaker 3: their roster. So you brought up Lamar Jackson, you complimented it.

969
00:39:39,880 --> 00:39:42,320
Speaker 3: You got to take away the security blanket, like you

970
00:39:42,400 --> 00:39:44,919
Speaker 3: got to take away Linus a security blanket in this game.

971
00:39:45,400 --> 00:39:46,280
Speaker 1: That's Mark Andres.

972
00:39:46,880 --> 00:39:47,120
Speaker 7: Yeah.

973
00:39:47,160 --> 00:39:49,600
Speaker 3: Again, I hate to bring up the twenty twenty one game,

974
00:39:49,719 --> 00:39:55,000
Speaker 3: but every pass was going to the tight end and

975
00:39:55,080 --> 00:39:57,640
Speaker 3: we're just thinking to ourselves, how does he keep getting open?

976
00:39:57,680 --> 00:40:01,240
Speaker 3: He caught eleven of thirteen balls that for one hundred

977
00:40:01,239 --> 00:40:04,600
Speaker 3: and forty seven yards, which was and two touchdowns, by

978
00:40:04,600 --> 00:40:07,600
Speaker 3: the way, in a two point conversion. But his receiving

979
00:40:07,640 --> 00:40:11,799
Speaker 3: total that night was the highest total allowed by the

980
00:40:11,840 --> 00:40:15,040
Speaker 3: Colts to a an opposing tight end since they moved

981
00:40:15,040 --> 00:40:18,160
Speaker 3: to Indianapolis. Wow, got to take him away. I mean,

982
00:40:18,200 --> 00:40:20,319
Speaker 3: I know that got great players on the outside. We'll

983
00:40:20,320 --> 00:40:23,680
Speaker 3: see about Odell Beckham, We'll see about Zay Flowers. But

984
00:40:24,560 --> 00:40:26,640
Speaker 3: these guys, I mean, Jackson and Andrews are in the

985
00:40:26,640 --> 00:40:28,360
Speaker 3: same draft class. Yeah, I mean, this is like t

986
00:40:28,520 --> 00:40:31,160
Speaker 3: Y Hilton Andrew. Look, yeah, that's why I say the

987
00:40:31,200 --> 00:40:31,920
Speaker 3: security blanket.

988
00:40:31,960 --> 00:40:34,680
Speaker 1: You got to take him away and then the other thing.

989
00:40:34,680 --> 00:40:36,799
Speaker 3: And I think you might have been highlighting this, Bill,

990
00:40:36,840 --> 00:40:39,040
Speaker 3: I don't want to steal your under on this, but

991
00:40:39,440 --> 00:40:42,200
Speaker 3: stay on the field. Time of possession in this game

992
00:40:42,280 --> 00:40:44,520
Speaker 3: is going to be really big. I mean, Ravens can't

993
00:40:44,520 --> 00:40:47,799
Speaker 3: score if they're not on the field. And you bring

994
00:40:47,800 --> 00:40:50,040
Speaker 3: this up because the Colts have been under thirty minutes

995
00:40:50,080 --> 00:40:52,560
Speaker 3: a time of possession in both games so far, and

996
00:40:53,440 --> 00:40:55,920
Speaker 3: I know that's a little bit deceiving because of last week,

997
00:40:56,200 --> 00:40:59,120
Speaker 3: really really efficient scoring the football. But what you just

998
00:40:59,360 --> 00:41:02,320
Speaker 3: you can't do is you can't afford three and outs

999
00:41:02,360 --> 00:41:04,520
Speaker 3: in the anouns key. And I bring that up because

1000
00:41:04,520 --> 00:41:07,560
Speaker 3: the Colts have gone three and out on thirty seven

1001
00:41:07,680 --> 00:41:11,520
Speaker 3: percent of their drives so far this season. That's thirty

1002
00:41:11,560 --> 00:41:15,360
Speaker 3: first in the NFL or second highest or second worst

1003
00:41:16,200 --> 00:41:19,120
Speaker 3: in the league. And the Ravens defense they have forced

1004
00:41:19,160 --> 00:41:21,560
Speaker 3: their opponents to go three and out thirty one percent

1005
00:41:21,600 --> 00:41:24,600
Speaker 3: of the time so far through through two games. That's

1006
00:41:24,640 --> 00:41:28,919
Speaker 3: the fourth highest percentage on this young season. So I think, Bill,

1007
00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:31,759
Speaker 3: you need to be up around thirty three thirty five

1008
00:41:31,840 --> 00:41:33,560
Speaker 3: minutes a time in possession to win this game.

1009
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and that's what I was talking about earlier.

1010
00:41:35,080 --> 00:41:37,160
Speaker 5: You know, we were talking about third downs, being successful

1011
00:41:37,200 --> 00:41:38,920
Speaker 5: on third downs, Well, you're only gonna be successful on

1012
00:41:38,960 --> 00:41:41,239
Speaker 5: third downs if you going down first and second down

1013
00:41:41,239 --> 00:41:43,160
Speaker 5: and you're moving the ball down the field. You're eating

1014
00:41:43,239 --> 00:41:46,120
Speaker 5: up the clock. And also not just eating up the clock.

1015
00:41:46,360 --> 00:41:47,960
Speaker 5: But we have to score as well. You know, we

1016
00:41:48,040 --> 00:41:49,360
Speaker 5: have to score points too. And when you get in

1017
00:41:49,400 --> 00:41:51,279
Speaker 5: the red zone, we talk about red zone scoring, so

1018
00:41:51,320 --> 00:41:53,479
Speaker 5: we have to score some touchdowns and getting the red zone.

1019
00:41:53,480 --> 00:41:55,520
Speaker 5: But you know what, I forget a field goal, that's fine,

1020
00:41:55,560 --> 00:41:58,239
Speaker 5: but eat up the clock. Let's keep Lamar Jackson in

1021
00:41:58,239 --> 00:42:00,759
Speaker 5: that offense on the sideline watching up. You'll go up

1022
00:42:00,760 --> 00:42:01,480
Speaker 5: and down the field.

1023
00:42:01,560 --> 00:42:04,480
Speaker 3: Absolutely, like Rick Venturi said earlier this week, to steal

1024
00:42:04,480 --> 00:42:07,000
Speaker 3: a line from him, And no disrespect to the Houston

1025
00:42:07,000 --> 00:42:09,239
Speaker 3: Texans where they're at right now. But you know the

1026
00:42:09,239 --> 00:42:11,640
Speaker 3: Colts are now, they're swimming to the deep end, all right.

1027
00:42:12,040 --> 00:42:15,239
Speaker 3: The Baltimore Ravens are. They're a stiff challenge and a

1028
00:42:15,239 --> 00:42:17,160
Speaker 3: lot has to go right for the Colts to win

1029
00:42:17,280 --> 00:42:20,200
Speaker 3: this football game. And that speaks to the Ravens and

1030
00:42:20,239 --> 00:42:22,800
Speaker 3: you know their credibility and how good of a football

1031
00:42:22,840 --> 00:42:24,840
Speaker 3: team they are. But I think you can say the

1032
00:42:24,880 --> 00:42:27,200
Speaker 3: same thing about Baltimore. They have to play really well

1033
00:42:27,360 --> 00:42:29,200
Speaker 3: to beat the Colts, all right, So I think it's

1034
00:42:29,239 --> 00:42:31,279
Speaker 3: going to be a really really good football game one

1035
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Speaker 3: o'clock on Sunday in Baltimore. Casey Valier, right there, Bill Brooks,

1036
00:42:36,040 --> 00:42:39,239
Speaker 3: I'm Matt Taylor. Thanks for joining in on the Thursday

1037
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Speaker 3: edition of the Official Colts Podcast with the Thursday Crew.

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00:42:42,960 --> 00:42:46,040
Speaker 3: Also our thanks to Zach Moss who joined us earlier

1039
00:42:46,080 --> 00:42:48,680
Speaker 3: today and provided some really good insight.

1040
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Speaker 1: I mean he said he's rusty.

1041
00:42:49,800 --> 00:42:52,759
Speaker 3: If that's rusty eighty eight yards, I don't want to see,

1042
00:42:53,080 --> 00:42:55,760
Speaker 3: well w D forty on there no really good.

1043
00:42:57,040 --> 00:43:00,719
Speaker 4: Ready to go and have that what it looks like

1044
00:43:00,719 --> 00:43:01,480
Speaker 4: to take away.

1045
00:43:01,280 --> 00:43:04,239
Speaker 1: That creek on the door. Zach Moss is looking good.

1046
00:43:04,280 --> 00:43:06,440
Speaker 3: We hope we'll definitely hope to see that coming up

1047
00:43:06,480 --> 00:43:09,319
Speaker 3: in week number three. Again for KC and Bill, I'm

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Speaker 3: Matt Taylor. We will talk to you next Tuesday on

1049
00:43:12,080 --> 00:43:16,719
Speaker 3: the Official Colts Podcast YouTube and also on the Colts audionetwork,

1050
00:43:16,760 --> 00:43:19,279
Speaker 3: Colts dot com, and the Colts Mobile app wherever you

1051
00:43:19,360 --> 00:43:22,240
Speaker 3: get us. We're back next week, talking more Colts football,