WEBVTT - Jets-Colts Game Preview (10/12) 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:04.760 The game is over New York, the world. You baten 0:00:04.920 --> 0:00:08.080 to win the game. He's got it. That's as Jets. 0:00:08.160 --> 0:00:19.279 What's down? Can't? You're listening to the Official New York 0:00:19.360 --> 0:00:26.280 Jets podcast, a Jets three sixty production. What's Up Everybody? 0:00:26.280 --> 0:00:29.280 Ethan Greenberg, Eric Allen back here in studios on the 0:00:29.320 --> 0:00:33.400 Official Jets podcast this week Jets and Colts on Sunday, 0:00:33.560 --> 0:00:36.320 and we decided to talk to Stephen Holder of the 0:00:36.360 --> 0:00:40.839 Athletic Key Covers the Colds down there in America's Harland. 0:00:40.920 --> 0:00:43.680 We talked about all things Colts, all offense, defense, What 0:00:43.840 --> 0:00:46.320 is Andrew luck this year? How has he been performing? 0:00:46.640 --> 0:00:49.559 Will get Stevens takes. But first things first is I 0:00:49.600 --> 0:00:51.720 have to rewind the clock here for a second because 0:00:51.720 --> 0:00:55.080 on last week's pod, e A had of bold prediction. 0:00:55.360 --> 0:01:00.600 Roll the audio and they're bound to hit at some point. 0:01:00.760 --> 0:01:04.399 But I really think Greens the Jets are gonna have 0:01:04.520 --> 0:01:08.640 to have success. Moving to football on the ground and 0:01:08.760 --> 0:01:11.840 watched two nine. I think Blow Paul could have a 0:01:11.880 --> 0:01:16.319 big game. Yeah, that's right. E A said to nine 0:01:16.800 --> 0:01:19.640 blow Power is gonna have a big game against the 0:01:19.680 --> 0:01:24.480 Denver Broncos. He wasn't wrong, but Isaiah crow Hell really 0:01:24.520 --> 0:01:28.680 stole the show there. Hey, anytime a guy rushes for 0:01:29.560 --> 0:01:31.920 a hundred yards and then they took a couple back 0:01:32.480 --> 0:01:35.759 when the Jets were running out the clock he did. Okay, 0:01:35.880 --> 0:01:38.320 I know it got off to a tough start for 0:01:38.400 --> 0:01:40.840 not only Blow but the entire Jets team because it 0:01:40.959 --> 0:01:43.160 came out a little bit slow out of the gate. Again, 0:01:43.640 --> 0:01:47.000 but who could have forecasted Isaiah Coroel going for a 0:01:47.040 --> 0:01:51.600 franchise record to nineteen and any time you control the 0:01:51.640 --> 0:01:55.040 line of scrimmage, which the big Uglies did and rush 0:01:55.120 --> 0:01:58.040 for three hundred and twenty three yards, which, oh, by 0:01:58.080 --> 0:02:01.160 the way, was the second most. And for Chise history 0:02:01.480 --> 0:02:05.240 and Greens, this franchise been around since nineteen sixty and 0:02:05.440 --> 0:02:07.160 you know, I know you're getting a little bit older, 0:02:07.200 --> 0:02:12.359 but you aren't around in those early days. That's saying something. Yes, 0:02:12.639 --> 0:02:17.320 he did, he did, He contributed to the victory. The 0:02:17.400 --> 0:02:21.280 Crow flew higher than any other back in the franchise history. Well, 0:02:21.480 --> 0:02:25.840 we'll get e as slight prediction before we close up 0:02:25.840 --> 0:02:28.600 shop here, But I think that the whole game was shocking. 0:02:28.760 --> 0:02:32.079 But you can say you can point to some scheduling 0:02:33.000 --> 0:02:36.079 in the National Football League at times. And you had 0:02:36.120 --> 0:02:40.040 Denver coming off an emotional game, a divisional contest against 0:02:40.120 --> 0:02:43.480 Kansas City where they blew a fourth quarter lead, and 0:02:44.240 --> 0:02:46.880 they hung around here at MetLife for a quarter, but 0:02:47.000 --> 0:02:50.680 they really didn't put up too much resistance. You have 0:02:50.760 --> 0:02:52.919 to give credit to the Jets offensive line for a 0:02:53.000 --> 0:02:56.320 number of reasons. The running game is obviously the one 0:02:56.400 --> 0:02:59.440 that's sitting at the fore front of of everyone's mind 0:02:59.480 --> 0:03:03.239 just because of what Isaiahawllen belal Pal did. But from 0:03:03.240 --> 0:03:06.640 a past protection standpoint, the line held up very, very 0:03:06.680 --> 0:03:12.519 strong against Von Miller and Bradley Chubb, which is debateably 0:03:13.320 --> 0:03:17.240 the top pair of bookend pass rushers in the NFL. 0:03:17.280 --> 0:03:22.600 They're up there. It's early potential wise, like a couple 0:03:22.639 --> 0:03:25.240 of years. They might know I'm Miller's great, There's no 0:03:25.280 --> 0:03:27.560 doubt about that. And they got their hands on a 0:03:27.560 --> 0:03:30.760 couple of balls. But you have to credit I would 0:03:30.840 --> 0:03:33.520 give a game ball to the entire coaching staff because 0:03:33.520 --> 0:03:39.200 the Jets out coached the Broncos in a big way. 0:03:39.480 --> 0:03:41.680 You go for three three on the ground. The other 0:03:41.760 --> 0:03:44.600 thing is you took your shots up top. Jeremy Bates did, 0:03:45.320 --> 0:03:48.720 and he got a couple touchdowns. From Sam Donald to 0:03:49.360 --> 0:03:53.680 Robbie Anderson, and that is going to be on film. Now, 0:03:53.880 --> 0:03:56.280 what our defense is going to do when you face 0:03:56.400 --> 0:03:58.560 the Jets? Are you gonna put an extra safety in 0:03:58.560 --> 0:04:01.760 a box? If you do, you're rolling the dice out there. 0:04:01.800 --> 0:04:04.000 You might as well go to Vegas because that means 0:04:04.200 --> 0:04:07.760 no safety over the top on Robby Anderson. And how 0:04:07.760 --> 0:04:11.200 about the efficiency of Donald when you're talking about ten 0:04:11.320 --> 0:04:15.280 completion three go for scores? Yeah, Donald. I think what 0:04:15.440 --> 0:04:18.840 most fans are most impressive about his Sand Donald performance 0:04:18.920 --> 0:04:21.280 is the fact that he took chunk shots chunk plays 0:04:22.279 --> 0:04:25.360 when they presented themselves. But other than that, I thought 0:04:25.400 --> 0:04:29.039 he was very conservative in a good way. Not not 0:04:29.040 --> 0:04:32.120 not in a sense of checkdown check down because you 0:04:32.120 --> 0:04:35.120 don't want to take a shot, but very efficient with 0:04:35.200 --> 0:04:37.000 where he moved the ball. I think the next step 0:04:37.040 --> 0:04:40.279 for him is just gonna be maybe not scoring chunk plays. 0:04:40.360 --> 0:04:43.240 But I think that I was thinking about this. I 0:04:43.240 --> 0:04:45.200 don't think that Jets really worked the middle of the 0:04:45.240 --> 0:04:47.640 field a whole lot. I'm not saying they needed to, 0:04:48.080 --> 0:04:50.000 but I think that it was a good step in 0:04:50.040 --> 0:04:52.680 the right direction because you saw the playbook opening up 0:04:52.720 --> 0:04:56.120 a little bit and I'm excited to see what happens 0:04:56.160 --> 0:04:58.720 Sunday for a number of reasons, but mostly because the 0:04:58.800 --> 0:05:01.719 last time the Jets won there was a three game slide. 0:05:01.760 --> 0:05:04.640 So how are the Jets gonna respond to this victory. 0:05:04.680 --> 0:05:07.640 I think that that's gonna be a very telling factor. 0:05:07.680 --> 0:05:09.920 And this is the game so far off the season 0:05:09.960 --> 0:05:13.080 for the Jet. For Bradley Roby, I kind of feel 0:05:13.120 --> 0:05:16.880 bad for him. It's uh, Robbie, he loaned him to 0:05:16.920 --> 0:05:19.440 sleep on that first touchdown, I think, and then the 0:05:19.520 --> 0:05:21.600 second one he beat him and it was a perfect 0:05:21.680 --> 0:05:25.719 pass from Donald to use his eyes well, going to 0:05:25.760 --> 0:05:27.680 the right and then coming back to the left and 0:05:27.760 --> 0:05:30.719 dropping a diamond there. And defensively, I thought the Jets 0:05:30.720 --> 0:05:32.719 were very good. I thought they're gonna have some problems 0:05:32.720 --> 0:05:37.120 early against it. Broncos formidable run game. Philip Lindsay was 0:05:37.160 --> 0:05:39.960 getting a couple uh nice games out there, but they 0:05:40.000 --> 0:05:43.400 shut it down. And then Todd Bowles, who was calling 0:05:43.760 --> 0:05:48.080 plays in place of the ill Casey Rogers, Uh, he 0:05:48.160 --> 0:05:51.159 did some nice things too, because I think the Jets 0:05:51.200 --> 0:05:54.279 gotta lead. And then he started started seeing them using 0:05:54.600 --> 0:05:59.040 some twists and stunts up front, and Winter Williams had 0:05:59.080 --> 0:06:01.599 a couple of sacks the Jets at four sacks and all, 0:06:01.720 --> 0:06:06.240 and then I started my little soliloquy here talking about Roby. 0:06:06.279 --> 0:06:08.640 You gotta give the Jets defensive back some credit too. 0:06:09.279 --> 0:06:14.160 I know the Broncos they got some yardage late, but listen, 0:06:14.160 --> 0:06:16.360 Truemay Johnson not playing that game is out with a 0:06:16.400 --> 0:06:19.559 quad injury. So Darryl Roberts filled in and he played 0:06:19.600 --> 0:06:21.720 a good game. And then Perry Nickerson got some very 0:06:21.880 --> 0:06:26.600 valuable run for Buster Screen at the nickel position. You know, 0:06:26.760 --> 0:06:28.120 I think that you have to give a lot of 0:06:28.160 --> 0:06:31.799 credit to a lot of different places on the Jets 0:06:31.839 --> 0:06:35.560 team because I think that all three phases played very well. 0:06:36.000 --> 0:06:39.400 And I think that this upcoming week is a big 0:06:39.400 --> 0:06:41.000 test for the Jets. I think it's the biggest game 0:06:41.000 --> 0:06:43.600 of the season just because we saw what happened after 0:06:43.640 --> 0:06:48.320 Detroit and what's gonna happen after beating the Broncos. I 0:06:48.320 --> 0:06:51.440 don't know. But you can't say. But you can't say 0:06:51.480 --> 0:06:53.480 it's the biggest game of the season when you said 0:06:53.560 --> 0:06:56.480 that last week, because weeks the biggest game of the season, 0:06:56.800 --> 0:07:00.520 trick question, there was no question. But he can't say 0:07:00.560 --> 0:07:05.640 that because really, I think if you look back, and 0:07:05.800 --> 0:07:10.160 we will. After sixteen game regular season, this was a 0:07:10.160 --> 0:07:13.920 pivotal ball game you had to win against Denver. That 0:07:14.000 --> 0:07:16.440 was a team who was two and two coming off 0:07:16.480 --> 0:07:19.560 a short week. And conversely, the Jets were on a 0:07:19.640 --> 0:07:23.720 three game slide and they were starting a three game 0:07:23.760 --> 0:07:27.280 homestand they needed something positive to happen. This is what 0:07:27.360 --> 0:07:28.920 I think about this weekend is that I think it's 0:07:28.920 --> 0:07:32.000 a swing game in the sense of I don't even 0:07:32.040 --> 0:07:33.360 know if that makes say, if you know what I'm 0:07:33.360 --> 0:07:35.800 trying to say when I say, I'm gonna gonna ask 0:07:35.800 --> 0:07:37.840 you to explain it. So what I mean by that 0:07:37.960 --> 0:07:40.360 is it's one of those games where if the Jets 0:07:40.400 --> 0:07:42.680 are able to stack two wins together back to back, 0:07:42.720 --> 0:07:45.400 I think it just kind of changes the mood and 0:07:45.640 --> 0:07:50.360 the feeling internally. Externally more so in the sense that 0:07:50.440 --> 0:07:52.280 you start to put some games together. Now you're getting 0:07:52.320 --> 0:07:55.880 real juice for when the Minnesota Vikings come around and 0:07:55.920 --> 0:07:58.240 then going to Chicago and as the season goes on 0:07:58.280 --> 0:07:59.680 and on. But I think it's just one of those 0:07:59.720 --> 0:08:02.960 games where it may only be one game, but I 0:08:02.960 --> 0:08:04.720 think there's a little more at stake than just a 0:08:04.760 --> 0:08:07.480 winner a loss, and that you can you can say 0:08:07.520 --> 0:08:10.160 to say, I don't say that. I think you can't 0:08:10.160 --> 0:08:14.760 say that, because again you're here, you're falling for the trap. 0:08:15.160 --> 0:08:17.680 You are falling for the truth talking about me personally 0:08:17.720 --> 0:08:21.000 or the team. No, you are I don't think the 0:08:21.000 --> 0:08:25.000 team well. But but no, because again, then when are 0:08:24.960 --> 0:08:27.920 you gonna say next week that the Vikings game is bigger? No? No, 0:08:28.000 --> 0:08:31.480 I think that this is really taking a larger step 0:08:31.520 --> 0:08:35.040 than just their Let's be clear about something. And we 0:08:35.080 --> 0:08:37.960 watched the Colts Thursday night, and the thing I told 0:08:37.960 --> 0:08:41.240 you I think was last Friday is that Indianapolis is 0:08:41.240 --> 0:08:44.000 gonna play for sixty minutes. I don't know how many 0:08:44.040 --> 0:08:46.800 games are gonna win, but Andrew Locke is by one 0:08:46.800 --> 0:08:49.720 of the top performers in the National Football League this season. 0:08:49.840 --> 0:08:52.520 They are rebuilding or building or however you want to 0:08:52.559 --> 0:08:56.199 say it. But every game, Make no mistake, the Colts 0:08:56.200 --> 0:08:59.240 could win this game, make no mistake about it. This 0:08:59.280 --> 0:09:03.199 is profession, no football, and this cold steam could have 0:09:03.280 --> 0:09:06.320 beat Cincinnati lost by one point. They'd a lead in 0:09:06.360 --> 0:09:09.040 that game. They were at the four yard line against 0:09:09.040 --> 0:09:12.400 Philly defunded Super Bowl champion in their building. Oh, by 0:09:12.440 --> 0:09:15.199 the way, could have won that game. Frank Wright decided 0:09:15.200 --> 0:09:17.080 to go for it in overtime, which I like his 0:09:17.120 --> 0:09:21.200 aggression against Houston at home. Any of those games could 0:09:21.200 --> 0:09:24.760 have went the other way. So this Colts team keeps 0:09:24.760 --> 0:09:29.440 on coming at you. Uh, matchups. We just watched what 0:09:29.520 --> 0:09:32.360 Connor McGregor and this Kobib guy in Las Vegas over 0:09:32.400 --> 0:09:36.800 the weekend. Styles make fights. Styles make fights, and the 0:09:36.920 --> 0:09:39.600 Jets have to contend with the different style this weekend. 0:09:40.080 --> 0:09:44.560 I think the run game could give the Colts a 0:09:44.640 --> 0:09:48.559 lot of issues, but luck no matter who he's throwing 0:09:48.600 --> 0:09:51.160 a ball too, and the two guys I think the 0:09:51.240 --> 0:09:54.440 Jets have to make sure that they take care of, 0:09:54.520 --> 0:09:56.640 especially if t Y Helton is not in a lineup. 0:09:56.720 --> 0:09:59.360 Is Eric Ebron, the former first round pick in Detroit. 0:09:59.720 --> 0:10:02.160 He showed up on Thursday night a couple of touchdowns 0:10:02.160 --> 0:10:06.800 over Hunter Arabs receivers, and I him hides from n 0:10:06.840 --> 0:10:09.920 see state of course he's been an oppressive rookie back. 0:10:10.200 --> 0:10:13.000 All right, without further ado, let's go to Stephen Holder 0:10:13.040 --> 0:10:21.640 of the Athletic. All right, talking to Stephen Holder now 0:10:21.679 --> 0:10:25.480 of the Athletic. Stephen is this Colts team to me 0:10:25.640 --> 0:10:27.840 at least? And I think to e A as well. 0:10:27.920 --> 0:10:30.360 It's just very interesting because you look at the record, 0:10:30.400 --> 0:10:32.800 it's one and four, but you look at the team 0:10:32.840 --> 0:10:34.760 and it seems like it's a team that plays hard 0:10:34.800 --> 0:10:38.199 for sixty minutes with a new coach and Andrew luck back. 0:10:38.320 --> 0:10:43.120 So how would you describe this team through five games? Yeah, 0:10:43.160 --> 0:10:45.600 I think that's a fair description. Look, you are what 0:10:45.720 --> 0:10:48.480 your record says, and I'm a faid believer in that. 0:10:49.080 --> 0:10:51.000 So I don't think the Cults are a good team 0:10:51.080 --> 0:10:53.840 right now, but I think they're on their way to 0:10:54.200 --> 0:10:57.680 becoming that. And I don't think they're very far away. 0:10:57.720 --> 0:11:01.600 They're they're really going, uh right now a team that 0:11:01.720 --> 0:11:04.640 can't finish games, and it's because they just don't have 0:11:04.760 --> 0:11:07.199 enough to get it done right now. But but they 0:11:07.200 --> 0:11:11.360 have enough to to be competitive every Sunday. And you know, 0:11:11.400 --> 0:11:14.200 even with all their injuries right now, which are which 0:11:14.200 --> 0:11:17.120 are really piling up, they're still finding a way to 0:11:17.120 --> 0:11:20.800 be competitive. So I think the key has been you know, 0:11:20.880 --> 0:11:24.360 we knew this would be every building year, but it 0:11:24.440 --> 0:11:27.320 was hard to sort of project how competitive they would be, 0:11:28.760 --> 0:11:32.720 especially given andrew lux situation coming off that year long 0:11:32.760 --> 0:11:37.640 absence at quarterback. But he's been fabulous really through five weeks, 0:11:37.720 --> 0:11:40.479 and I think that has kind of changed the conversation. 0:11:41.120 --> 0:11:43.720 And and now it's evident they're really not that far 0:11:43.760 --> 0:11:47.400 away from being a team that's a factor. But again, 0:11:47.800 --> 0:11:49.320 they got to prove they can get it done. They're 0:11:49.400 --> 0:11:52.040 so young on both sides of the ball, and that's 0:11:52.120 --> 0:11:55.280 really I think a big part of of why they're 0:11:55.320 --> 0:11:57.640 women for right now and why they haven't been able 0:11:57.679 --> 0:12:01.079 to make those plays to close games. So many things 0:12:01.080 --> 0:12:04.000 to get to you here. I got so many questions 0:12:04.040 --> 0:12:06.640 about the Colts and the Jets and the connections, but 0:12:07.160 --> 0:12:11.640 you mentioned Luck. What were your expectations for him going 0:12:11.800 --> 0:12:15.840 into the season. What were the organization's expectations for him? 0:12:15.840 --> 0:12:20.280 Had he entered the season? And has he surpassed maybe 0:12:20.280 --> 0:12:22.760 what you had thought we would see out of Andrew 0:12:22.840 --> 0:12:28.480 Luck here early And how delighted is the organization as 0:12:28.520 --> 0:12:30.960 far as what they're seeing here early on from him 0:12:31.000 --> 0:12:34.840 in two thousand eighteen. Okay, So it's interesting. I remember 0:12:35.920 --> 0:12:41.800 throughout the spring and summer just getting consistent like confidence, 0:12:41.920 --> 0:12:46.200 like I mean both confidence from from upper management about 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:50.360 their outlook for and Luck. And I didn't understand it. 0:12:50.480 --> 0:12:54.560 I thought they were crazy. Okay, I was gonna set 0:12:54.600 --> 0:12:57.880 yourself up for trouble again here. Okay, it wasn't that 0:12:57.920 --> 0:12:59.680 I didn't believe he was coming back. I never thought 0:13:00.000 --> 0:13:04.680 there was those things. I had enough reporting and enough 0:13:04.760 --> 0:13:09.280 evidence to know that that there has been like legitimate 0:13:09.280 --> 0:13:11.480 progress with his arm, with his shoulder, and then I 0:13:11.559 --> 0:13:13.319 knew that that is showing it was in a much 0:13:13.320 --> 0:13:15.920 first better place, much much stronger. You can look at 0:13:16.000 --> 0:13:18.319 him physically throughout the off season and say, Okay, that 0:13:18.400 --> 0:13:20.840 guy looks like he's going to play football. Last year 0:13:20.920 --> 0:13:23.480 that was not the case. He looked clearly like he 0:13:23.520 --> 0:13:26.880 had been out for months. But all that being said, 0:13:27.440 --> 0:13:30.240 I mean I hadn't seen him do it. So at 0:13:30.240 --> 0:13:32.360 the end of the day, I mean, it's about playing football, 0:13:32.400 --> 0:13:35.480 not about you know how much events press. So I 0:13:35.520 --> 0:13:38.360 needed to actually see him throw a football and anything 0:13:38.440 --> 0:13:41.440 after that. After we saw him throw a football, oh, 0:13:41.600 --> 0:13:43.640 at the end of O t A, at the end 0:13:43.640 --> 0:13:46.600 of mini camp, which has been early to mid June, 0:13:47.040 --> 0:13:49.320 I mean, he wasn't rowing forcedly. He was he was 0:13:49.360 --> 0:13:54.040 conducting or participating I should say, in individual drills only. 0:13:54.960 --> 0:13:57.480 And really, you know, we've all spent a lot of 0:13:57.520 --> 0:14:00.400 time at football practice. We know that individual drills are 0:14:00.480 --> 0:14:03.720 not really uh it's not a real replication of what 0:14:03.760 --> 0:14:06.600 you're gonna do on Sunday. So that was the extent 0:14:06.640 --> 0:14:09.680 of what I've seen. So I was willing to believe 0:14:09.840 --> 0:14:13.240 that he was gonna play. I didn't necessarily not believe it. 0:14:13.400 --> 0:14:16.000 I just didn't think that he would be where he 0:14:16.040 --> 0:14:17.960 needed to be. I thought this would be a really 0:14:18.000 --> 0:14:21.680 gradual process. Range. Look, then we got the training camp 0:14:22.240 --> 0:14:24.480 and literally the first day of training camp was his 0:14:24.640 --> 0:14:29.200 first time taking full team snaps since two thousands sixteen. 0:14:29.960 --> 0:14:31.680 And here was the vault all over the place. And 0:14:31.720 --> 0:14:35.160 I was like stunned. I mean, it wasn't perfect, and 0:14:35.240 --> 0:14:38.680 it wasn't you know, necessarily in sync, but he was 0:14:38.760 --> 0:14:41.600 doing it, and it was like, all right, well, maybe 0:14:41.640 --> 0:14:44.680 we were wrong. And I think every day you started 0:14:44.680 --> 0:14:47.760 to see it more and more. Even though I would 0:14:47.800 --> 0:14:49.920 say by the end of training camp in the preseason, 0:14:49.960 --> 0:14:52.760 I still thought it would be a slow start for 0:14:52.840 --> 0:14:55.480 Andrew luck. I just you know, he didn't play a 0:14:55.520 --> 0:14:58.240 lot of snaps. He played about thirties five well, I 0:14:58.280 --> 0:15:00.920 said today, the first couple of preseason, he didn't play 0:15:00.960 --> 0:15:03.920 a lot. He did play a lot in his and 0:15:03.920 --> 0:15:06.640 and we've got a good look at him. But but 0:15:06.720 --> 0:15:09.960 he had a really uh throwing the ball down the 0:15:10.000 --> 0:15:12.560 field very much. Uh, it was very much a short 0:15:12.600 --> 0:15:15.280 passing game. They had a left tackle injury, which they 0:15:15.320 --> 0:15:17.920 still have, so they were protecting him a little bit. 0:15:18.400 --> 0:15:20.600 And so I don't think we saw the full breath 0:15:20.680 --> 0:15:22.600 of the offense, and we hadn't seen the full breath 0:15:22.640 --> 0:15:25.800 of what Andrew Luck could do. So I figured, Okay, 0:15:25.840 --> 0:15:28.200 they're gonna baby him for a while here. He's not 0:15:28.280 --> 0:15:31.560 really back, and I thought that process would take some time. 0:15:31.600 --> 0:15:33.520 And then he came out and see the open ball 0:15:33.800 --> 0:15:36.960 fifty times, so everything got blown out of the water 0:15:37.320 --> 0:15:39.760 and I realized I was completely wrong. But he's defied 0:15:39.800 --> 0:15:44.080 expectations for me at least. And look, he's not perfect yet. 0:15:44.280 --> 0:15:46.360 I think you'll see them throwing where he's out of 0:15:46.360 --> 0:15:49.440 sync with his receivers, in part because they're new guys. 0:15:49.480 --> 0:15:52.640 But I just think that comes from having a long layoff. 0:15:52.720 --> 0:15:56.000 But I think in terms of his ability to place 0:15:56.080 --> 0:15:59.240 the ball, I mean, if you watched the Thursday night 0:15:59.280 --> 0:16:01.760 against the Patriot, I mean either of the best balls 0:16:01.760 --> 0:16:05.320 he's thrown this year. I was toringly impressed, and they 0:16:05.360 --> 0:16:08.600 had no business even being in that football game missing 0:16:08.680 --> 0:16:11.720 probably you know, I would say six or seven of 0:16:11.840 --> 0:16:14.200 their top ten or twelve players, So I mean it 0:16:14.280 --> 0:16:17.600 was it was very impressive, no pun intended. Are they 0:16:17.640 --> 0:16:23.280 putting too much on Andrew's luck shoulders right now? Well, 0:16:23.440 --> 0:16:27.520 it's it's happening because of the situation. I think when 0:16:27.520 --> 0:16:30.000 you're when you're missing, you're starting left half, when you're 0:16:30.000 --> 0:16:35.240 starting running back, your Pro Bowl tight end, you're missing, uh, 0:16:35.400 --> 0:16:37.680 your a Pro Bowl receiver right now, t Y Hilton, 0:16:38.280 --> 0:16:40.480 it's very very much in question for this Sunday. I 0:16:40.520 --> 0:16:42.680 don't feel good about him playing at all. So obviously 0:16:42.680 --> 0:16:45.120 they have a lot going on in the injury department. 0:16:45.160 --> 0:16:49.120 It's not just because moments, and Frank Rich will tell 0:16:49.120 --> 0:16:51.360 you that and he goes out of his way to 0:16:51.440 --> 0:16:54.200 make it clear no one cares about our injuries, and 0:16:54.200 --> 0:16:58.800 he's right, but that doesn't mean we can't take them 0:16:58.800 --> 0:17:02.560 into account. So yeah, right now, Anti Luck is having 0:17:02.200 --> 0:17:05.400 to look he's from the ball in twenty times last game. 0:17:05.720 --> 0:17:08.920 It's insane. I've never seen anything like it. And part 0:17:08.920 --> 0:17:12.280 of that is certainly the game situations, falling behind a 0:17:12.320 --> 0:17:15.640 couple of times, going to overtime against Houston last week. 0:17:16.080 --> 0:17:19.440 So it's a unique set of circumstances. Granted, and it's 0:17:19.480 --> 0:17:22.640 not something that's going to happen every week. But they 0:17:22.840 --> 0:17:25.520 aren't having a lot of success running the football. Well, 0:17:25.560 --> 0:17:28.159 that's putting more on the passing game. Uh. They have 0:17:28.359 --> 0:17:31.400 been behind at times, so that puts pressure on the quarterback. 0:17:31.640 --> 0:17:34.800 There's just been a lot of situations that where yeah, 0:17:34.800 --> 0:17:38.280 I do agree with you, I think unintentionally it is 0:17:38.320 --> 0:17:40.840 falling on Anti Luck. What I would say though, is 0:17:41.320 --> 0:17:43.760 he is getting more help than he's gotten in the 0:17:43.800 --> 0:17:47.240 past from his defense. Now, the Patriots put up some 0:17:47.320 --> 0:17:50.000 points last week and that was a little bit out 0:17:50.040 --> 0:17:53.040 of character for the defense. But I do think for 0:17:53.160 --> 0:17:55.200 week the week, the defense is giving them a chance. 0:17:55.280 --> 0:17:59.800 Even the previous game against Houston, I believe they scored 0:18:00.640 --> 0:18:03.320 seven thirty eight points in that game, but four team 0:18:03.359 --> 0:18:07.040 of those points came off turnovers, one in the end 0:18:07.080 --> 0:18:10.320 zone and one inside the teary line. So the defense 0:18:10.359 --> 0:18:12.680 has given them a chance and that's where and wos 0:18:12.760 --> 0:18:14.760 getting a little bit of a lift from right now. 0:18:15.720 --> 0:18:19.640 So in fact, in some cases on some Sundays, it's 0:18:19.640 --> 0:18:23.760 a situation where the offense isn't carrying its ownly. So, 0:18:24.240 --> 0:18:26.560 so we'll see what happens on this Sunday. But but 0:18:26.760 --> 0:18:30.680 I do think it would certainly behooved them to get 0:18:30.680 --> 0:18:33.640 a running game going and take some of that pressure off. 0:18:33.840 --> 0:18:37.040 Andrew can't continue to throw the ball at this rate, 0:18:37.720 --> 0:18:40.000 whether his soldier is a per cent or not. It's 0:18:40.000 --> 0:18:44.919 just not really conducive to winning football. That was just 0:18:46.160 --> 0:18:49.280 it's unbelievable. I want to you mentioned the defense. I 0:18:49.320 --> 0:18:51.960 don't think that a lot of fans know a whole 0:18:52.000 --> 0:18:56.000 lot about the Colts defense, and so I want to 0:18:56.040 --> 0:18:59.480 know is what's the identity of the defense and what 0:18:59.480 --> 0:19:02.240 what do the players try to do? How do you 0:19:02.240 --> 0:19:04.640 try to take away an offense from the Colt's perspective? 0:19:04.720 --> 0:19:07.880 And for fans that don't know, is Darius Leonard? I mean, 0:19:07.920 --> 0:19:10.840 my god, this guy's really taking the NFL by storm. 0:19:10.960 --> 0:19:14.920 Is how good is Darius Leonard? Well, I'll start with 0:19:14.960 --> 0:19:19.280 your first question. Look, the defense is very reminiscent to 0:19:19.280 --> 0:19:22.359 to what you saw with the Colts under Tony Dungee. 0:19:22.400 --> 0:19:25.919 Actually ironically so it's very similar to that, very similar 0:19:25.960 --> 0:19:29.159 to what Lovey Smith ran with the Chicago Bears, and 0:19:29.200 --> 0:19:32.600 those are very simplistic schemes there's not a lot of pressures, 0:19:32.920 --> 0:19:36.679 there's not a lot of coverage. Is they're pretty basic 0:19:36.960 --> 0:19:39.960 and they're not gonna bring a lot of a lot 0:19:40.000 --> 0:19:42.840 of blizzes. There's not a lot of complex packages. So 0:19:43.000 --> 0:19:47.040 I think what you're gonna see is they're about running 0:19:47.040 --> 0:19:51.159 and hitting basically it. I mean, there's some complexities in it, 0:19:51.280 --> 0:19:54.040 and they do have some things that they'll they'll they'll 0:19:54.080 --> 0:19:56.000 sort of scheme up and and throw at you from 0:19:56.040 --> 0:19:58.080 week to week. But it's not gonna be a ton 0:19:58.680 --> 0:20:00.760 you know what you're going to get. I mean, as 0:20:00.800 --> 0:20:03.879 as the coaches have told me on numerous occasions, you know, 0:20:04.000 --> 0:20:07.120 we do what we do. So it's not a mystery 0:20:07.320 --> 0:20:10.280 to anyone. Uh, the chest coaches are not going to 0:20:10.320 --> 0:20:14.960 look at this team defensively on film and be confused. 0:20:15.240 --> 0:20:20.040 Like it's not that confusing, frankly. So it's really about, look, 0:20:20.160 --> 0:20:23.359 we we believe. This is their philosophy is we believe 0:20:23.400 --> 0:20:25.160 we can get to the football, get three or four 0:20:25.200 --> 0:20:28.600 guys to the football and prevent the big plays. And 0:20:28.760 --> 0:20:33.040 that's really the essence of it. It's been relatively effective. 0:20:33.280 --> 0:20:35.439 I do think one of the things that the Colts 0:20:35.440 --> 0:20:38.600 have really struggled with the last two season is just 0:20:38.720 --> 0:20:42.680 giving up huge plays. That's something that I think has 0:20:42.720 --> 0:20:45.800 been corralsed a little bit this year. So I think 0:20:45.880 --> 0:20:49.080 that is an indication of this scheme having intended effect. 0:20:49.359 --> 0:20:53.760 Now what can happen is a lot of times teams 0:20:53.800 --> 0:20:57.080 can kind of uh you can kind of end up 0:20:57.160 --> 0:20:59.920 dying by papercut if you will, and and maybe not 0:21:00.119 --> 0:21:02.399 getting off the field. So they are a little bit 0:21:02.400 --> 0:21:05.760 of an undersized defense, so that sometimes works against them. 0:21:06.200 --> 0:21:09.359 Uh they you know, they certainly play a lot of 0:21:09.480 --> 0:21:13.520 zero so teams that that are sort of guilt to 0:21:13.560 --> 0:21:16.840 beat zones, they tend to have some success. So there 0:21:16.840 --> 0:21:19.399 are they can be beat right and and they're not 0:21:19.440 --> 0:21:22.479 a finished product by any stretch. But I do like 0:21:22.720 --> 0:21:25.760 the concept and and they're playing it well. It's really 0:21:25.800 --> 0:21:29.000 about not pulling anybody. It's just about doing what you 0:21:29.119 --> 0:21:32.200 do at a very very high level. That's the defense. 0:21:32.240 --> 0:21:36.720 So you mentioned Darius Leonard. This is not a defense 0:21:36.800 --> 0:21:39.320 with a lot of household names. I mean very very 0:21:39.440 --> 0:21:42.800 very few. Uh. Millie Cooker is maybe a guy people know. 0:21:42.960 --> 0:21:44.879 He's the first round pick coming off an a c 0:21:45.040 --> 0:21:46.440 L a little bit of a slow start, but he 0:21:46.680 --> 0:21:50.160 I think has immense potential. But other than him, there's 0:21:50.240 --> 0:21:52.960 not a ton of guys on this team that you 0:21:53.080 --> 0:21:56.640 really would consider household names. But Darius Leonard I think 0:21:56.720 --> 0:21:59.160 is gonna be one of those names here pretty soon. 0:21:59.800 --> 0:22:03.400 This guy's having He did miss Thursday night's game against England, 0:22:03.400 --> 0:22:06.760 but this guy is having an incredible season so far. 0:22:07.359 --> 0:22:10.400