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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Official Colts Podcast on Jeffrey Gorman La

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Speaker 1: rundown Lara can't find the rundown. JJ Stankowitz sher, you

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Speaker 1: will get that rundown, Larah. Hey, guys, what is the

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Speaker 1: vibe check around here? Here's my thing. I'm gonna start

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Speaker 1: it off twenty one to sixteen victory things are The

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Speaker 1: cake always tastes sweeter after a victory when I'm talking

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Speaker 1: about the Monday through Friday at the football Complex getting

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Speaker 1: ready for every Sunday, Lara with you first.

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Speaker 2: Always feels good to win around here. And the Colts

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Speaker 2: did it in a fun fashion as well.

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Speaker 3: Oh, it was entertaining. I joked with Rick and Matt

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Speaker 3: on the radio broadcast that I was talking entirely too

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Speaker 3: much because there was so much going on. It was

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Speaker 3: a game in which, you know, you're happy to get

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Speaker 3: the victory, but just felt like there wasn't a whole

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Speaker 3: lot of flow, you know, on on either side. So

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Speaker 3: but for the Colts to gut out a win in

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Speaker 3: that fashion, for the defense to stop the run the

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Speaker 3: way they did, get this critical takeaways see JT Trey sermon.

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Speaker 3: And how about I mean, I don't know if I

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Speaker 3: can watch enough highlight of the full team push to

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Speaker 3: get Trey Sermon into the end zone. And that's one

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Speaker 3: thing I talked about, talked with Shane Steichen about this

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Speaker 3: week on COLT three sixty was just the willingness of

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Speaker 3: your quarterback to do whatever it He is a teammate

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Speaker 3: above everything else. That's how he sees himself and just

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Speaker 3: the willingness to do whatever it takes, whatever his role

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Speaker 3: is in a particular play, particular position. And you saw

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Speaker 3: that exactly highlighted there. But yeah, that no I'm getting

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Speaker 3: I'm getting paid back from making fun of Casey value

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Speaker 3: from a kerfuffle from earlier in the week. Thank you.

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Speaker 3: But the environment was awesome, really really fun. You could

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Speaker 3: feel in that fourth quarter some of that blue and

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Speaker 2: I like shutting the Bears fans up.

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Speaker 3: I'm this week because that black and goal travels WELLBLEJ.

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Speaker 1: This is a team that you covered and you know

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Speaker 1: about Chicago. This is a little sweet victory for you

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Speaker 1: seeing the Bears come in. You had a great game

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Speaker 1: on the big at Lucas Oil Stadium. So hey, I'm

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Speaker 1: talking about the vibe here around vibe check and we're

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Speaker 1: gonna get into more we're gonna get into more today.

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Speaker 1: But the bibe check after getting that one, because we thought,

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Speaker 1: oh boy, we're looking forward. What if they don't win

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Speaker 1: this game? What does that mean for the season. Oh,

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Speaker 1: they must win.

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Speaker 2: I don't want to.

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Speaker 1: Say about but now, hey, everything's calm, cool and collected.

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Speaker 1: The AFC South is way up in the air right now,

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Speaker 1: so the vibe check.

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Speaker 2: How you filling?

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Speaker 4: You don't want to be where the Jaguars are right now.

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Speaker 4: You don't want to be where the Titans are. You

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Speaker 4: don't want to be where the Bengals are. Those are

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Speaker 4: the three zero to three teams in the NFL right now.

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Speaker 4: You said you know which one of those is.

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Speaker 3: I'm sorry, but which one of those is most surprising

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Speaker 2: Yes?

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Speaker 4: New England a team that everyone kind of thought they

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Speaker 4: home and they can't win either of those games. Jacksonville's

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Speaker 4: got They've had a tough schedule to open the season,

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Speaker 4: but you know that that's a team that struggled down

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Speaker 4: Uh that that I'm not shocked, I'm surprised. I'm not shocked.

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Speaker 4: And then Tennessee, I mean they made some magicians in

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Speaker 4: the offseason. I thought they would be a lot better,

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Speaker 4: but well Levis keeps throwing the ball to the other

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Speaker 2: Absolutely well, we want to welcome.

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Speaker 4: No notion for the Colts, though, I think just like

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Speaker 4: taking those three teams into account of like, man like

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Speaker 4: you're now, if you're going to make it out of

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Speaker 4: this season, you got to scratch and claw. I remember

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Speaker 4: the twenty twenty one Colts that started off own three.

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Speaker 4: They expended so much energy getting back to just getting

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Speaker 4: Then you can start building Colts have that opportunity right now.

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Speaker 3: Just feel like everything is so much lighter. There was

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Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, and look, I don't care how it looks

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Speaker 4: early in the season, like this Pittsburgh game.

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Speaker 3: One win counts the same, right This Pittsburgh.

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Speaker 4: Game could be equally is ugly because that's a really

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Speaker 4: But if the Colts win that game it could be

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Speaker 4: nine to six. Who cares because now you can start

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Speaker 4: that is a that's like that's not a canary in

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Speaker 4: If you're playing well and you're winning like the Buffalo Bills,

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Speaker 3: And I always feel like that, especially in that first

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Speaker 3: Who knows, but I do think that, just like you said, JJL,

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Speaker 3: It's just don't get beat badly and just be able

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Speaker 1: Let's find those winning formulas. Want to welcome everybody in

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Speaker 1: listening to the Colt's Audio network as well as our

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Speaker 1: YouTube viewers. Again, Learra Overton, JJ Stankowitz, Guys, the winning

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Speaker 1: formula that Learra talked about, Let's be honest, and the

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Speaker 1: kids said it right after the game.

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Speaker 2: I have to play better.

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Speaker 1: And I'm talking about Anthony Richardson with these percentages. He's

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying do this in spite of Anthony Richardson.

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Speaker 1: It's just the level of growth that he's at that's

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Speaker 1: I mean, real time, big grown up football games. You know,

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Speaker 1: with the quarterback, I want to hear about it, and

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Speaker 1: I want to start with the offensive line and Jonathan Taylor.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's where it starts for me. While your quarterback

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Speaker 4: to get the completion percentage up, he's got to hit

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Speaker 4: he's missing them. But if he gets there, and the

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Speaker 4: Colts have built this base of success on Jonathan Taylor

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Speaker 4: that's a really good foundation for this season and they

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Speaker 4: numbers on the Colts offensive line. They are their top

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Speaker 4: a clip of Will fries finishing a play on Montes Sweat,

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Speaker 1: Saw that saw that same play, and I'm thinking, old

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Speaker 1: sweet Will Fries is just a nice, great inner, a

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Speaker 1: our guys are winning the fight.

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Speaker 4: It's not just the strength that this line has, Lara, like,

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Speaker 4: be as patient as he is. Like how many times

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Speaker 4: have we seen JT. He gets up to, you know,

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Speaker 3: Through it, yep, and you see I was I was

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Speaker 3: joking with Shane Staging about this this week. It's like

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Speaker 3: like this entire offensive line, the continuity that they have had,

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Speaker 4: What would you have done if he handed you his tooth?

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Speaker 3: for this defensive front at a Tamawa at a bar

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Speaker 3: in there. The number of guys you were able to

437
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Speaker 3: work in really benefited them to have the entirety of

438
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Speaker 3: the week knowing what the expectation was going to be

439
00:20:07,640 --> 00:20:10,480
Speaker 3: without defo and the task only gets taller, you know,

440
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Speaker 3: as you keep moving ahead. But yeah, really excited about

441
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Speaker 3: what they did. And yeah, the Tavian Brian you are

442
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Speaker 3: my king of the week.

443
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Speaker 4: I thought Raywon Davis played a really good game too,

444
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Speaker 4: like that that that was much needed from the interior

445
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Speaker 4: of this d line.

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Speaker 3: Here's the thing. He had to get himself back into

447
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Speaker 3: game shape because he's made such significant time in training

448
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Speaker 3: camp obviously getting his blood pressure in check and all

449
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Speaker 3: of that. So you felt like that that time was

450
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Speaker 3: coming right, JJ, right, And you.

451
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Speaker 4: Know so Rayqwon played thirty eight snaps out of ninety.

452
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Speaker 4: I mean there's a lot of snaps also real quick,

453
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Speaker 4: just because I'm looking at the snap count, I want

454
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Speaker 4: to give five shout outs here to Jalen Jones, Nit

455
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Speaker 4: Cross ej Speed, Zire Franklin, and Julian Blackman for playing

456
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Speaker 4: ninety snaps of footbas Wow on Sunday about Big Grove.

457
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Speaker 4: Big Grove was in there for forty nine.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a lot of plays.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I thought soh On the edges, the cults are

460
00:21:02,760 --> 00:21:05,359
Speaker 4: really good. The d ns and you know, the linebackers

461
00:21:05,400 --> 00:21:08,280
Speaker 4: coming down to set the edge were much improved in

462
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Speaker 4: this game. That that was incredibly important for just hey,

463
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Speaker 4: set the edge and then the interior of this defense,

464
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Speaker 4: which is really good even without DeForrest Buckner in there,

465
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Speaker 4: then they can go to work. Zire Franklin had an

466
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Speaker 4: awesome Yeah, awesome gat this is you'll.

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Speaker 3: Get You guys are gonna see this. Man my stumbles,

468
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Speaker 3: this is I'm really trying to get it together here.

469
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Speaker 3: I need more coffee. Clearly, you guys are gonna see

470
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Speaker 3: this in a piece that comes out a little bit

471
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Speaker 3: later in the week. But some things that we learned

472
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Speaker 3: in talking with Grover Stewart and Layati Latu. The message

473
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Speaker 3: that Shane Steichen texted the defensive line that morning, run run, reach.

474
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Speaker 3: That was his message that he kind of manifested. That

475
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Speaker 3: stripsack that Layati Latu had also hilarious. Grover Stewart, we

476
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Speaker 3: were talking to him about obviously all of the defense

477
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Speaker 3: running to celebrate Layatu, and he said, I'm still laying

478
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Speaker 3: there on the ground trying to watch this football and

479
00:22:00,920 --> 00:22:04,359
Speaker 3: wrestle it away. Everybody else is down celebrating. Rayqwan Davis

480
00:22:04,400 --> 00:22:07,320
Speaker 3: was the only guy who stayed back there with me,

481
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Speaker 3: and Leaiatu said, for I knew he had it, it

482
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Speaker 3: was fine. But Grove said that like it was taking

483
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Speaker 3: all of his might because because he has obviously like

484
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Speaker 3: the hand and wrist protection and stuff like that, so

485
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Speaker 3: he couldn't clasp. He said, he was just basically putting

486
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Speaker 3: it in between his elbows, putting his belly on it,

487
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Speaker 3: like all of his force, just squeezing the football on

488
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Speaker 3: that takeaway that obviously led to a scoring drive for

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Speaker 3: the Colts. But the other thing, I mean, I'm talking

490
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Speaker 3: about manifesting. DeForest Buckner told Laatu last you before the game,

491
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Speaker 3: you're getting your first sack and then so.

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Speaker 4: I mean maybe DeForest Buckner told Shane Walder to have

493
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Speaker 4: a tight end block him too. Would have taken that,

494
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Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, yeah, like but a lot too. Also,

495
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Speaker 4: you had a good game, like he I thought the pressures,

496
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Speaker 4: the pressures alone were good, and I thought he was

497
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Speaker 4: getting off on the snap like he was like in

498
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Speaker 4: the backfield immediately his he It actually kind of felt

499
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Speaker 4: like the Colts had something in terms of like jumping

500
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Speaker 4: the snap in that game because they were they were

501
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Speaker 4: getting off real quick. And now Caleb Williams that like

502
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Speaker 4: that dude, he's gonna be good. He's gonna be good.

503
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Speaker 4: The stuff he can do in the pocket's really impressive.

504
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Speaker 4: So they didn't get a ton of sacks or you know,

505
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Speaker 4: technical pressures, but like they were, they were good upfront.

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Speaker 2: And he's through for through for a ton of yards too.

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Speaker 4: I mean, uh, by the way, I do have one

508
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Speaker 4: other Can we talk about that goal line stand real quick?

509
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Speaker 4: Because that right there, that's like it's first and goal

510
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Speaker 4: on the four yard line, and that is like you,

511
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Speaker 4: they're gonna run it at you. The the Bears had

512
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Speaker 4: some maybe questionable decisions as a part of that, like

513
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Speaker 4: having DeAndre Carter block Taekwon Lewis, who just threw DeAndre.

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Speaker 3: Carter my memoir, by the way, the questionable.

515
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Speaker 4: The Larra Overton story. Uh yeah, maybe maybe don't have

516
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Speaker 4: a wide receiver trying to block Taekwon Lewis just a

517
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Speaker 4: tip for the Bears.

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 4: Taekwon even said, like I didn't really know why they

520
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Speaker 4: did that, but that that right there, like that stop,

521
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Speaker 4: like Grover Stewart, rayque On Davis in the interior, Zire

522
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Speaker 4: Franklin was awesome again on those plays that right there.

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Speaker 4: I think I think the Colts took a lot of

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Speaker 4: momentum from that, just defensively in terms of the run defense,

525
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Speaker 4: because a week ago, two weeks ago, if you ran

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Speaker 4: it four times of this Colts defense, it would have

527
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Speaker 4: felt like you probably would have got in on the

528
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Speaker 4: first or second attempt, And this time the Bears had

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Speaker 4: to resort to a speed option that lost him twelve

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Speaker 4: yards on fourth down because they couldn't run it up

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Speaker 4: the middle.

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Speaker 3: On the on the Colts is tykworn Lewis maybe the

533
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Speaker 3: most underscored, like I don't know, like most impactful, like

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Speaker 3: it just in terms of I feel like he has

535
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Speaker 3: quietly had one of the most significant starts to the

536
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Speaker 3: season of any defensive player from the consistency standpoint, would

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Speaker 3: you agree.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, he's he's been pushing the pocket. You know, he's

539
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Speaker 4: not a guy who's gonna get Maybe he's not gonna

540
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Speaker 4: get your ten sacks, but you know that he is

541
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Speaker 4: creating opportunities for sacks by his play. Whether it's for

542
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Speaker 4: him or for a teammate. Yeah, I mean I totally agree.

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Speaker 4: Like there's a reason why the Colts committed to Taekwon

544
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Speaker 4: Lewis and have even through all the injuries he's went

545
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Speaker 4: through and said we want you here in Indy and

546
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Speaker 4: boy is that pain all and.

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Speaker 1: Lara, that voice is heard in that defensive line room

548
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Speaker 1: from Taekwon Lewis that if not the leader of that

549
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Speaker 1: that room, I'm gonna call him one of the top leaders.

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Speaker 3: And through every defensive line coach that has come through

551
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Speaker 3: this building, like they all like whenever you get a

552
00:25:23,880 --> 00:25:25,840
Speaker 3: chance to say, hey, who should be talking more about?

553
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Speaker 3: Every single one loves a chance to talk about Taekwon Lewis,

554
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Speaker 3: Like it just that is who he is. He is

555
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Speaker 3: such a core mentor especially to some of the younger players.

556
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Speaker 3: And I think part of it is because he has

557
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Speaker 3: been through so much, Like there is nothing that he

558
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Speaker 3: hasn't seen that he hasn't you know, been strengthened by,

559
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Speaker 3: and he's just adapted and persevered in all the things

560
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Speaker 3: that he's He's just he's so important in terms of

561
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Speaker 3: an example for the rest of that room.

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Speaker 4: I think for the Colts, tho if we're talking about

563
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Speaker 4: winning formulas here, right, You got to lean on the

564
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Speaker 4: veterans on defense. Yeah, and those guys are the ones

565
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Speaker 4: who are largely cast with stopping the run. That's where

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Speaker 4: these first two weeks of the season was so surprising

567
00:26:05,680 --> 00:26:08,600
Speaker 4: in that they struggled with that. If you could get

568
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Speaker 4: this front going even without Buck in there, but you

569
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Speaker 4: get the veterans rolling, you get Zire Franklin playing like

570
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Speaker 4: you did in week three, you get Grover Stewart, Rakwon

571
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Speaker 4: Davis in there too, got you know, Raykon hasn't been here,

572
00:26:18,560 --> 00:26:21,520
Speaker 4: but he's a Vet too, and you know dial Dangbo

573
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Speaker 4: on the edge. I thought it had a really great two,

574
00:26:23,640 --> 00:26:26,439
Speaker 4: really good game. You get that part of your defense rolling.

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Speaker 4: That is a formula that you were going to need.

576
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Speaker 4: I don't know how you win without it, right, I

577
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Speaker 4: don't know how you win without run defense.

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Speaker 1: And those names that we've talked about four months, leaut

579
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Speaker 1: to Latu, Rakwon Davis, we talked about Tavi and Bryan.

580
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Speaker 1: We don't talk about all that much, but we talk

581
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Speaker 1: about these guys are gonna have to show up in

582
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Speaker 1: order for Yeah, I know that's that's true. I mean,

583
00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:48,199
Speaker 1: you've been around here a minute. But we talk like

584
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Speaker 1: those guys need to step up at the culture gonna win. Well,

585
00:26:50,359 --> 00:26:52,760
Speaker 1: guess what they did the beauty.

586
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Speaker 4: I don't care that the Bears come into this game

587
00:26:54,800 --> 00:26:57,800
Speaker 4: with an awful rushing offense. Who can't care the way

588
00:26:57,800 --> 00:27:00,080
Speaker 4: things have been going. This was going to be a

589
00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:02,800
Speaker 4: get right game for someone. Sure was for the Bears

590
00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:05,840
Speaker 4: rushing offense or the Colts rushing defense. Rayqwon Davis said,

591
00:27:05,880 --> 00:27:07,960
Speaker 4: we needed to make a statement. Okay, they made a

592
00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:11,480
Speaker 4: statement against the Bears. This wasn't just a bad rushing

593
00:27:11,520 --> 00:27:13,359
Speaker 4: defense meets a bad rushing offense and you know they

594
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Speaker 4: average three point five yards per care you get out

595
00:27:15,240 --> 00:27:17,960
Speaker 4: of there. This was like, no, they suffocated the Bears

596
00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:19,600
Speaker 4: rushing office and the Bears came and wanted to run

597
00:27:19,600 --> 00:27:22,000
Speaker 4: the Ball's they absolutely wanted to run the ball in

598
00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:23,360
Speaker 4: this game and they couldn't do it.

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Speaker 2: That's how Rayqwon Davis tackles people. He suffocates them. That's

600
00:27:26,160 --> 00:27:28,280
Speaker 2: what it looks like when he's that big. All right,

601
00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:30,560
Speaker 2: we've talked about the winning formulas. I want to move on.

602
00:27:30,680 --> 00:27:32,280
Speaker 2: Is this for real? Is this for real?

603
00:27:32,359 --> 00:27:34,280
Speaker 1: I'm want to start with the quarterback position right now?

604
00:27:34,359 --> 00:27:38,480
Speaker 1: Under fifty percent completion percentage out of ar right now?

605
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Speaker 1: Is this for real? JJ's starting with you? Does this

606
00:27:40,920 --> 00:27:43,280
Speaker 1: last a whole year? How far? What's the climb going

607
00:27:43,359 --> 00:27:45,240
Speaker 1: to be right now? Because to have success in this

608
00:27:45,359 --> 00:27:47,840
Speaker 1: league you need it from the quarterback position, and forty

609
00:27:47,920 --> 00:27:50,640
Speaker 1: nine point whatever percent is not that formula.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, no team has made the playoffs with their starting

611
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Speaker 4: quarterback having a completion or their their total team having

612
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Speaker 4: a completion percentage under fifty percent since the nineteen eighty

613
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Speaker 4: seven Houston Oilers.

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Speaker 2: H Okay.

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Speaker 4: Though, Yeah, that's a whole thing apparently in Tennessee and

616
00:28:05,840 --> 00:28:08,560
Speaker 4: Houston right now. Glad enough to be a part of that. Yeah, Uh,

617
00:28:10,040 --> 00:28:12,440
Speaker 4: it's it's got to get better. Anthony knows that it's

618
00:28:12,440 --> 00:28:15,119
Speaker 4: got to get better. I think it will. I mean,

619
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Speaker 4: you look at guys are open. Guys are open. Michael

620
00:28:18,440 --> 00:28:21,960
Speaker 4: Pittman Junior was open on that interception that Anthony Richardson

621
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Speaker 4: through Josh Downs was open on the fourth down play

622
00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:27,880
Speaker 4: that he sailed over his head. If guys are getting open,

623
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Speaker 4: just you know, Anthony said, he's got it, He's got

624
00:28:30,760 --> 00:28:32,800
Speaker 4: to kind of got to calm down, just spin it,

625
00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:35,960
Speaker 4: let it rip, and I kind of feel like there's

626
00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:38,480
Speaker 4: a get right game coming for Anthony Richardson in terms

627
00:28:38,480 --> 00:28:41,120
Speaker 4: of completion percentage, where he's going to come out of

628
00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:44,680
Speaker 4: it at fifteen for twenty or something. It's in there,

629
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Speaker 4: and at that point then I think you're going to

630
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Speaker 4: start seeing the climb. I don't know when that game

631
00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:51,800
Speaker 4: will be, hopefully against the Steelers. Got an awfully good defense,

632
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Speaker 4: Yes they do. They have an awfully good defense. I

633
00:28:53,600 --> 00:28:55,200
Speaker 4: don't know when that game will be, but I think

634
00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:55,720
Speaker 4: once that.

635
00:28:55,680 --> 00:28:57,200
Speaker 3: Happened, feels like a good opportunity.

636
00:28:57,240 --> 00:28:57,640
Speaker 2: There you go.

637
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Speaker 4: Yeah, Josh Allen puts some stuff on tape. I can't

638
00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:04,080
Speaker 4: get another like that game, by the way, I can

639
00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:07,520
Speaker 4: keep getting derailed by this game. Now for the Jags

640
00:29:07,520 --> 00:29:11,320
Speaker 4: to come out that flat, that's concerning. That's concerning for

641
00:29:11,360 --> 00:29:14,560
Speaker 4: them after they just played paid Trevor Lawrence all that money.

642
00:29:15,120 --> 00:29:16,520
Speaker 4: It's early, Yeah, it is early.

643
00:29:16,560 --> 00:29:18,440
Speaker 1: I mean the Sam Darnold's of the world, you know,

644
00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:22,280
Speaker 1: to wanna you know, I mean the quarterbacks and just

645
00:29:22,320 --> 00:29:24,160
Speaker 1: say it's a whole other podcast. But the longer you

646
00:29:24,160 --> 00:29:26,320
Speaker 1: stay around, sometimes it's not all that bad.

647
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Speaker 4: But we're okay, by the way, like real quick, like

648
00:29:28,880 --> 00:29:31,160
Speaker 4: this is just a little AFC south sidebar that I have.

649
00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:33,600
Speaker 4: If you're thinking of the four teams in the division

650
00:29:33,920 --> 00:29:37,160
Speaker 4: of like how you talking about vibe check, I think

651
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Speaker 4: the Colts are still second in terms of how they're

652
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Speaker 4: feeling about their quarterback, even though he's completing forty nine

653
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Speaker 4: percent of his passes and his six picks. Because Tennessee,

654
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Speaker 4: you know you got Brian Callahan cussing at Will Levis

655
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Speaker 4: on the sideline and Jacksonville paid Trevor Lawrence all this

656
00:29:50,080 --> 00:29:52,200
Speaker 4: money and whether or not all of this is his fault. Right,

657
00:29:52,280 --> 00:29:55,120
Speaker 4: you're zero and three and you can't really move the

658
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Speaker 4: ball efficiently. The Colts are confident Anthony richardson laira the

659
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Speaker 4: locker room. Yeah, the speech that Anthony gave yes where

660
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Speaker 4: he's saying, hey, I'm going to play better for y'all,

661
00:30:06,800 --> 00:30:10,080
Speaker 4: and then someone from the back goes, we're behind you, brother. Yeah,

662
00:30:10,160 --> 00:30:12,440
Speaker 4: that right there, that tells you all you need to. Yeah,

663
00:30:12,720 --> 00:30:14,920
Speaker 4: they got confidence him. He's gonna be fine.

664
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Speaker 3: No question. The solidarity of this offense is their vibes

665
00:30:18,360 --> 00:30:20,680
Speaker 3: are definitely high as they should be. I have I

666
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Speaker 3: talked to Jonathan Taylor about this last week just about

667
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Speaker 3: obviously Anthony takes a lot on his shoulders and basically

668
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Speaker 3: what they can do to support, you know, your young quarterback.

669
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Speaker 3: And he said, we just let him know it takes

670
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Speaker 3: all of us. It's not all on you. And of

671
00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:36,640
Speaker 3: course you're at the helm, being at the quarterback position,

672
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Speaker 3: a lot of the spotlight is on you, but we

673
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Speaker 3: don't want him to carry that on his shoulders. You'll

674
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Speaker 3: let him know he doesn't have to and he won't.

675
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Speaker 3: Kind of goes back to You're gonna find ways to

676
00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:49,520
Speaker 3: win games in different fashions. Also, it's such a small

677
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Speaker 3: sample size on this season, you know, I mean one

678
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Speaker 3: of the things that I've thought about this and not

679
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Speaker 3: that Shane hasn't made this excuse, Anthony's not making this excuse,

680
00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:02,040
Speaker 3: but you felt like the first four games of this

681
00:31:02,120 --> 00:31:05,120
Speaker 3: season were basically going to be rookie year two point

682
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Speaker 3: zero because of just how shortened, how abbreviated Anthony's rookie

683
00:31:09,640 --> 00:31:14,080
Speaker 3: season worse it was. So you're seeing him find that

684
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Speaker 3: groove and settle in and it is all going like

685
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Speaker 3: quite confidently, there's like very few people I worry about

686
00:31:21,720 --> 00:31:25,560
Speaker 3: less than Anthony Richardson just because of the poise. He's

687
00:31:25,600 --> 00:31:29,760
Speaker 3: so steadfast, immense maturity for being the youngest starting quarterback

688
00:31:29,800 --> 00:31:32,720
Speaker 3: in the NFL for a second straight season. Like it's

689
00:31:32,760 --> 00:31:36,800
Speaker 3: all there. It's all there, and especially the compliment that

690
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Speaker 3: Shane is with him and in being able to witness

691
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Speaker 3: some of the sideline exchange, like the conversations and I

692
00:31:43,240 --> 00:31:47,840
Speaker 3: can't hear everything that's going on, but the conversations back

693
00:31:47,840 --> 00:31:51,160
Speaker 3: and forth with Jim Bob when he's coming off the field,

694
00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:54,120
Speaker 3: how they're reviewing things, all of that, Like everything is

695
00:31:54,200 --> 00:31:57,200
Speaker 3: there to show you that, like this is working, this

696
00:31:57,360 --> 00:31:59,760
Speaker 3: is building, and we're going to see them reap those dividends.

697
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Speaker 4: I mean, I don't want a sunshine and Rainbow's what

698
00:32:02,600 --> 00:32:06,600
Speaker 4: it's been because it's been uneven and the misses like

699
00:32:06,640 --> 00:32:11,880
Speaker 4: that that fourth down where he misses that throw, those

700
00:32:11,920 --> 00:32:14,760
Speaker 4: are plays that will lose you games. They will. But

701
00:32:15,320 --> 00:32:17,680
Speaker 4: the thing with Anthony is when he throws in the

702
00:32:17,720 --> 00:32:20,200
Speaker 4: reception ary is one of those plays. Like Ryan Kelly

703
00:32:20,240 --> 00:32:22,120
Speaker 4: was talking about this after the game, Like he was asked, like,

704
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Speaker 4: do you have to say anything to Anthony. He's like no,

705
00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:26,800
Speaker 4: Like he comes back and he immediately owns it. He's

706
00:32:26,960 --> 00:32:31,720
Speaker 4: mature about it. He's he's able to own his mistakes

707
00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:35,560
Speaker 4: while not losing confidence because of them, and that for

708
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Speaker 4: a young quarterback, that's not always the case. There are

709
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Speaker 4: a lot of young quarterbacks who can own their mistakes,

710
00:32:39,800 --> 00:32:43,000
Speaker 4: but they are internally wilting confident.

711
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Speaker 1: This is a different young man. This is a different

712
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Speaker 1: quarterback than it was last year. The leadership that I'm showing,

713
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Speaker 1: just the stuff at that in the locker room, from

714
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Speaker 1: what we're seeing from that, just the things that he's.

715
00:32:53,760 --> 00:32:56,040
Speaker 4: Talk by the way Connor handle behind the camera at

716
00:32:56,040 --> 00:32:58,440
Speaker 4: a boy, let me know who the player was was

717
00:32:58,520 --> 00:32:59,040
Speaker 4: Quentin Nelson.

718
00:32:59,160 --> 00:33:01,880
Speaker 1: Quentin Nelson had his back. That's a big thing right there,

719
00:33:01,920 --> 00:33:04,040
Speaker 1: another feather in his cap. But I'm seeing I'm watching

720
00:33:04,040 --> 00:33:06,320
Speaker 1: this man mature right in front of our eyes. As

721
00:33:06,360 --> 00:33:08,280
Speaker 1: far as hey, it's great, you have to be good

722
00:33:08,280 --> 00:33:11,240
Speaker 1: on the field, but boy, oh boy, your personality and

723
00:33:11,280 --> 00:33:13,400
Speaker 1: your persona that you bring into the locker room and

724
00:33:13,440 --> 00:33:15,360
Speaker 1: you bring out into the field with you is so

725
00:33:15,520 --> 00:33:18,000
Speaker 1: contagious when you're the quarterback. And I'm starting to see

726
00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:20,560
Speaker 1: this stuff out of Anthony Richardson, which I'm getting excited

727
00:33:20,560 --> 00:33:22,960
Speaker 1: about because you know, everybody wants to get behind someone

728
00:33:23,120 --> 00:33:25,280
Speaker 1: and run as fast as they can follow him into

729
00:33:25,280 --> 00:33:26,000
Speaker 1: a burning forest.

730
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Speaker 2: And that's what we're getting right now.

731
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Speaker 3: It's you know, week one, there are all those people

732
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Speaker 3: who are clamoring, this is the best throw.

733
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Speaker 2: We've ever seen. Yeah, yeah, oh my gosh.

734
00:33:33,280 --> 00:33:36,040
Speaker 3: You's sixty five yards through the air or whatever. Da

735
00:33:36,200 --> 00:33:38,120
Speaker 3: da da, And then they're like, oh, but what you

736
00:33:38,120 --> 00:33:40,160
Speaker 3: know now a week later, like or two weeks later,

737
00:33:40,280 --> 00:33:44,960
Speaker 3: like how people there's so much like over analysis especially

738
00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:47,080
Speaker 3: of that, you know, those highs and lows in terms

739
00:33:47,120 --> 00:33:51,080
Speaker 3: of people who are critiquing and commentating and all that.

740
00:33:51,200 --> 00:33:52,920
Speaker 3: So it's it's really funny.

741
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Speaker 5: Because so praised for those explosive plays, incredibly impressive plays

742
00:33:58,200 --> 00:34:00,520
Speaker 5: in week one, and then you know you're you're gonna

743
00:34:00,560 --> 00:34:02,960
Speaker 5: go through some of those growing paints, so to speak.

744
00:34:03,080 --> 00:34:05,120
Speaker 3: So yeah, I think you just have to compartmentalize.

745
00:34:05,160 --> 00:34:07,560
Speaker 4: Look, if Anthony Richardson's still completing under fifty percent of

746
00:34:07,640 --> 00:34:09,760
Speaker 4: his passes in December, you're probably worried.

747
00:34:09,880 --> 00:34:11,879
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I don't.

748
00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:14,319
Speaker 4: Yeah, right now, it's like, yeah, it's a problem, but

749
00:34:14,840 --> 00:34:16,719
Speaker 4: he believes he can fix it. The colts believe he

750
00:34:16,760 --> 00:34:21,279
Speaker 4: can fix it. And even if he doesn't, like immediately,

751
00:34:22,040 --> 00:34:24,120
Speaker 4: like we just talked about, there is a winning formula

752
00:34:24,200 --> 00:34:27,400
Speaker 4: here on offense, and it's running the football and hitting

753
00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:31,520
Speaker 4: those forty yard bombs downfield. You can win with that

754
00:34:31,560 --> 00:34:32,200
Speaker 4: type of offense.

755
00:34:32,200 --> 00:34:32,680
Speaker 2: Absolutely.

756
00:34:32,760 --> 00:34:36,279
Speaker 3: Is there any better person to help a quarterback, a

757
00:34:36,320 --> 00:34:39,520
Speaker 3: young quarterback fine consistency in this league than Shane Steiken.

758
00:34:39,719 --> 00:34:42,560
Speaker 1: No, he's up there. He's up there, like up there.

759
00:34:42,680 --> 00:34:44,719
Speaker 1: We talked earlier about it. The Steelers are coming in.

760
00:34:44,760 --> 00:34:47,239
Speaker 1: The Steelers defense right now is off the charts, off

761
00:34:47,280 --> 00:34:50,080
Speaker 1: the charts. So one more ar question, guys, really quick

762
00:34:50,120 --> 00:34:52,200
Speaker 1: on this one too. He's got six carries a game,

763
00:34:52,480 --> 00:34:55,920
Speaker 1: averaging thirty nine yards. As a football a fan alone,

764
00:34:56,200 --> 00:34:57,520
Speaker 1: I love watching the kid run.

765
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Speaker 2: I mean I love it.

766
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Speaker 1: He's gonna truck some people, he's gonna jukes from people,

767
00:35:00,800 --> 00:35:03,400
Speaker 1: he's gonna I mean, it's it's wonderful. But is that

768
00:35:03,520 --> 00:35:06,640
Speaker 1: the safest game plan for somebody like this? My question is,

769
00:35:06,680 --> 00:35:08,279
Speaker 1: and we'll move on, how much do we want to

770
00:35:08,320 --> 00:35:10,480
Speaker 1: see ar run in with the ball in his hands?

771
00:35:10,719 --> 00:35:11,800
Speaker 2: RPO options?

772
00:35:11,840 --> 00:35:14,400
Speaker 1: I know those are gonna be there, But how many

773
00:35:14,480 --> 00:35:16,720
Speaker 1: rushes do we want, honestly out of this guy because

774
00:35:16,760 --> 00:35:18,560
Speaker 1: he's so productive with the ball in his hands.

775
00:35:18,640 --> 00:35:21,879
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think I think a little bit more per

776
00:35:21,920 --> 00:35:24,000
Speaker 4: game BEAUTIFU would be could be the case, but I

777
00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:26,839
Speaker 4: think it actually could come on scrambles. Right now, the

778
00:35:26,840 --> 00:35:30,799
Speaker 4: Colts are twelfth in the NFL and scramble percentage on dropbacks,

779
00:35:31,160 --> 00:35:34,000
Speaker 4: They're right between Jordan Love, so Richardson's right between Jordan

780
00:35:34,040 --> 00:35:36,560
Speaker 4: Love and Will Levis on that list. You look at

781
00:35:36,600 --> 00:35:39,560
Speaker 4: the top of the list, you got Jane Daniels, who

782
00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:42,759
Speaker 4: is he scrambles all the time. And then you kind

783
00:35:42,760 --> 00:35:44,960
Speaker 4: of got your more you know, the guys you would expect,

784
00:35:45,120 --> 00:35:50,240
Speaker 4: Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson, Justin Fields, Kyler Murray, Jalen Hurts.

785
00:35:50,760 --> 00:35:53,560
Speaker 4: All those guys up there are scrambling at a pretty

786
00:35:53,600 --> 00:35:57,560
Speaker 4: decent clip. Even just add one or two more scrambles

787
00:35:57,560 --> 00:35:59,360
Speaker 4: per game. I love that Anthony wants to keep his

788
00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:02,680
Speaker 4: eyes downfield and make a big play. But while while

789
00:36:02,719 --> 00:36:05,080
Speaker 4: you're kind of figuring some of these things out in

790
00:36:05,200 --> 00:36:07,720
Speaker 4: terms of just you know, ripping the ball and getting

791
00:36:07,719 --> 00:36:10,040
Speaker 4: it to your receivers, if he takes off one or

792
00:36:10,040 --> 00:36:11,759
Speaker 4: two extra times a game and it's in the right

793
00:36:11,800 --> 00:36:13,560
Speaker 4: spot and he gets out of bounds or he slides,

794
00:36:13,640 --> 00:36:15,319
Speaker 4: or he knows how to protect himself or knows when

795
00:36:15,400 --> 00:36:19,439
Speaker 4: to you know, make a physical play, I'm I'm fine

796
00:36:19,440 --> 00:36:20,600
Speaker 4: with that. I'm not worried about that.

797
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Speaker 1: I don't know when Stiking is gonna draw it up,

798
00:36:22,480 --> 00:36:24,839
Speaker 1: but Lara, could you imagine a nice naked boot right

799
00:36:24,880 --> 00:36:25,239
Speaker 1: out of that?

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Speaker 3: Oh, it'll happen, I know, because if you know he's

801
00:36:28,440 --> 00:36:30,680
Speaker 3: had it, he's had on the call sheet and just

802
00:36:30,760 --> 00:36:31,880
Speaker 3: hasn't had the right situation.

803
00:36:31,960 --> 00:36:33,879
Speaker 2: That's an eighty yard run. I mean, like that could

804
00:36:33,920 --> 00:36:34,880
Speaker 2: be an eighty yard run for.

805
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Speaker 4: There was where was this play? There is a play

806
00:36:39,760 --> 00:36:45,719
Speaker 4: in this game where Anthony like absolutely trucked someone and

807
00:36:45,920 --> 00:36:48,400
Speaker 4: I want to say he was in the maybe like

808
00:36:48,440 --> 00:36:52,120
Speaker 4: the third quarter. Let's see, I'm gonna yeah, the third Oh,

809
00:36:52,200 --> 00:36:53,760
Speaker 4: here it is. I just pulled it up on my computer.

810
00:36:53,880 --> 00:36:58,040
Speaker 4: Oh my goodness, all right on the third quarter? Class

811
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Speaker 4: fifty seven Yeah, so fifty seven seconds off in the

812
00:37:01,760 --> 00:37:04,879
Speaker 4: third quarter. It's Kevin Byard. They run a little zone

813
00:37:04,920 --> 00:37:08,080
Speaker 4: read ratch, Richardson meets Byared in the hole and he

814
00:37:08,200 --> 00:37:09,040
Speaker 4: just runs through it.

815
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Speaker 2: Poor guy. Oh, I mean Steter fifty five pounds coming

816
00:37:12,520 --> 00:37:13,080
Speaker 2: at you, Kevin.

817
00:37:13,400 --> 00:37:16,440
Speaker 4: Yeah, that means good luck. I wish I could have shared.

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00:37:16,719 --> 00:37:19,160
Speaker 4: You know, you can't really see it if you're you're

819
00:37:19,200 --> 00:37:21,840
Speaker 4: on a this is like the world's worst way to

820
00:37:21,840 --> 00:37:23,960
Speaker 4: show all twenty two. But oh man, he just this

821
00:37:24,080 --> 00:37:26,880
Speaker 4: is physical. Bam goes right there, and this is terrible

822
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Speaker 4: for our audio yeah listeners.

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Speaker 1: By the way, and that will be a consistent I think.

824
00:37:30,920 --> 00:37:32,359
Speaker 1: Is Anthony Richardson with the ball in.

825
00:37:32,280 --> 00:37:34,640
Speaker 3: His hands terrible for our audio listeners?

826
00:37:34,960 --> 00:37:37,440
Speaker 2: Yeah no, that's not going to be consistent. But talk

827
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Speaker 2: about consistency.

828
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Speaker 4: Also probably wasn't great for our video. Here's this computer

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Speaker 4: right here.

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Speaker 3: One great Alec's the magic of editing.

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Speaker 1: Well yeah, sorry, guys, Alec Pierre here twenty five yards

832
00:37:48,680 --> 00:37:51,360
Speaker 1: a reception leads the NFL. Right now, explosive plays we

833
00:37:51,400 --> 00:37:53,440
Speaker 1: talked about it is this guy gonna are we we're

834
00:37:53,440 --> 00:37:55,200
Speaker 1: talking about this weekend and week out. He's going to

835
00:37:55,280 --> 00:37:57,120
Speaker 1: drop at least two in the bucket to Alec pierce

836
00:37:57,280 --> 00:37:57,920
Speaker 1: down the field.

837
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Speaker 4: So what I love about Alex season is no one

838
00:38:00,680 --> 00:38:02,840
Speaker 4: else in the NFL is able to chuck it downfield.

839
00:38:03,160 --> 00:38:05,480
Speaker 4: It's like Rashid Shaheed who got shut down in week

840
00:38:05,520 --> 00:38:08,319
Speaker 4: three and and like that's it him and Alec at

841
00:38:08,320 --> 00:38:09,920
Speaker 4: the top of the league. And this is where the

842
00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:13,439
Speaker 4: where the NFL has been going lately. Right that these

843
00:38:13,440 --> 00:38:17,360
Speaker 4: two high shelves are taking away these deep, explosive passes.

844
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Speaker 4: There hasn't been a guy who's averaged over twenty yards

845
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Speaker 4: per reception who's qualified for the league lead since twenty twenty.

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Speaker 2: Ooh okay, so.

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Speaker 4: So Aleck and Alex at twenty five. That's like he's

848
00:38:28,440 --> 00:38:31,640
Speaker 4: leading the league at twenty five per That is nuts.

849
00:38:32,400 --> 00:38:36,040
Speaker 4: But he's finding a way to get open downfield. He's

850
00:38:36,440 --> 00:38:39,600
Speaker 4: it's not just hey, you know, hey, go run fast downfield.

851
00:38:39,640 --> 00:38:41,640
Speaker 4: It's he's he's got really good feel for how to

852
00:38:41,640 --> 00:38:44,040
Speaker 4: get open downfield, and he's got a quarterback who can

853
00:38:44,080 --> 00:38:46,600
Speaker 4: get him the ball. There's absolutely a world where we

854
00:38:46,640 --> 00:38:47,879
Speaker 4: get to the end of the year and Alec Pierce

855
00:38:47,960 --> 00:38:49,920
Speaker 4: leads the NFL in yards perception.

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Speaker 3: And he was real so close to a third straight

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00:38:51,920 --> 00:38:52,720
Speaker 3: game of the touchdown.

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Speaker 4: Yep.

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00:38:53,320 --> 00:38:55,600
Speaker 3: Oh, I mean he was right there, Like I was

860
00:38:55,640 --> 00:38:57,960
Speaker 3: just watching it, like, oh, like wanted him to, you know,

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00:38:58,080 --> 00:38:59,680
Speaker 3: squeak it out and get I mean what it was

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00:38:59,680 --> 00:39:00,439
Speaker 3: stopped two?

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00:39:00,680 --> 00:39:04,239
Speaker 4: Maybe like that was that was Richardson turned it over

864
00:39:04,239 --> 00:39:07,680
Speaker 4: in the end zone after that unfortunately. Okay, yeah, those

865
00:39:07,719 --> 00:39:10,440
Speaker 4: are the plays that Okay, if Anthony's going to complete

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Speaker 4: fifty percent of his passes, but he hits two of

867
00:39:12,160 --> 00:39:15,320
Speaker 4: those a game. Those are points, right, Those are probably

868
00:39:15,400 --> 00:39:17,719
Speaker 4: going to lead to points ninety percent of the time.

869
00:39:17,800 --> 00:39:20,240
Speaker 1: Let's stay here really quick with wide receivers, Josh Dollens

870
00:39:20,280 --> 00:39:22,480
Speaker 1: first game back or first game this year, obviously the

871
00:39:22,520 --> 00:39:25,200
Speaker 1: third one of the season, his input against what happened

872
00:39:25,200 --> 00:39:27,480
Speaker 1: against the Bears, and also ad Mitchell, guys, just give

873
00:39:27,480 --> 00:39:29,279
Speaker 1: me your thoughts on this real quick. I think he

874
00:39:29,320 --> 00:39:32,319
Speaker 1: only had like seven offensive snaps right there for number ten.

875
00:39:32,400 --> 00:39:34,440
Speaker 1: So where are we going with Josh Downs and ad from.

876
00:39:34,280 --> 00:39:34,839
Speaker 2: Here on out?

877
00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:37,160
Speaker 3: Well, I think with Joshua was understandable. I don't know

878
00:39:37,960 --> 00:39:40,560
Speaker 3: that he was necessarily on night pitch count, but you

879
00:39:40,600 --> 00:39:42,760
Speaker 3: were going to be intentional about how you were working

880
00:39:42,880 --> 00:39:45,880
Speaker 3: him back in right, and so liked to see the

881
00:39:45,920 --> 00:39:49,480
Speaker 3: implementation getting Josh Downs in there, getting him those reps

882
00:39:50,440 --> 00:39:54,000
Speaker 3: and then yeah, Ady Mitchell, like that the time is coming.

883
00:39:54,120 --> 00:39:54,279
Speaker 4: You know.

884
00:39:54,360 --> 00:39:58,719
Speaker 3: I think that Anthony continues to reiterate his confidence in

885
00:39:59,080 --> 00:40:02,359
Speaker 3: ad right going to him. It's just a matter of

886
00:40:02,400 --> 00:40:06,400
Speaker 3: like finding that connection. And you know eighty has said before,

887
00:40:06,480 --> 00:40:08,440
Speaker 3: like you know, I don't want to be that voice

888
00:40:08,440 --> 00:40:11,319
Speaker 3: in the quarterback's head, right like on the misses that

889
00:40:11,320 --> 00:40:14,399
Speaker 3: they'd had before and different things like that. So yeah,

890
00:40:14,600 --> 00:40:19,399
Speaker 3: that's that's so that is something that is brewing, right,

891
00:40:19,560 --> 00:40:23,440
Speaker 3: that's that's going to hit. You're gonna see those and

892
00:40:23,760 --> 00:40:27,399
Speaker 3: you know obviously too. One thing I don't I took

893
00:40:27,440 --> 00:40:30,879
Speaker 3: for granted how banged up Pitt was coming into that game, right,

894
00:40:30,960 --> 00:40:33,439
Speaker 3: and for him to have you know, take the number

895
00:40:33,480 --> 00:40:35,600
Speaker 3: of snaps that he did, jj Iman, it was up there,

896
00:40:36,640 --> 00:40:39,680
Speaker 3: I thought was to me, I mean, just I mean,

897
00:40:40,160 --> 00:40:42,960
Speaker 3: we never doubt like the play.

898
00:40:42,960 --> 00:40:46,799
Speaker 4: He played forty seven fifty six off somebody, I.

899
00:40:46,800 --> 00:40:50,280
Speaker 1: Mean the back then he didn't practice on Friday, right exactly.

900
00:40:50,520 --> 00:40:56,240
Speaker 3: So yeah, I think that again, young receivers, young pass catchers,

901
00:40:57,600 --> 00:41:01,560
Speaker 3: those are things because we really saw you know, very

902
00:41:01,560 --> 00:41:05,520
Speaker 3: little of the connection between Anthony and Josh last season,

903
00:41:06,640 --> 00:41:10,920
Speaker 3: and you saw really Josh start to evolve and you know,

904
00:41:10,960 --> 00:41:15,399
Speaker 3: with Gardner Minshew completely different type of quarterback. So he's

905
00:41:15,480 --> 00:41:18,960
Speaker 3: going to be Josh will be critical for Anthony finding

906
00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:22,400
Speaker 3: some consistency in terms of the intermediate off.

907
00:41:22,280 --> 00:41:24,440
Speaker 4: Rights and and you know downs had there was that

908
00:41:24,520 --> 00:41:27,440
Speaker 4: one play I think he dropped on the near sideline,

909
00:41:27,800 --> 00:41:30,000
Speaker 4: but for the most part, you expect him to catch those. Yeah,

910
00:41:30,040 --> 00:41:32,920
Speaker 4: those for sure that that's that was a you're not

911
00:41:32,920 --> 00:41:35,560
Speaker 4: worried about that on Adie Mitchell though, Yeah, he only

912
00:41:35,560 --> 00:41:39,880
Speaker 4: played six snaps in this game. I think as he

913
00:41:40,200 --> 00:41:43,360
Speaker 4: grows with Anthony, those can kind of come back. But

914
00:41:43,560 --> 00:41:45,880
Speaker 4: right now, I mean, you can't take Alec piersoft field.

915
00:41:46,160 --> 00:41:48,120
Speaker 4: You don't want to take Michael Pittman junior off the field,

916
00:41:48,239 --> 00:41:49,719
Speaker 4: and you don't want to take Josh Downs off.

917
00:41:49,800 --> 00:41:52,000
Speaker 2: Ashton Dolan's getting some Ashton Dulan Ashton doing.

918
00:41:52,320 --> 00:41:54,440
Speaker 4: He got thirteen snaps like he You know, this is

919
00:41:54,480 --> 00:41:56,600
Speaker 4: a this is why we talked about the Colts having

920
00:41:56,640 --> 00:41:57,719
Speaker 4: a deep receiver.

921
00:41:57,480 --> 00:41:59,720
Speaker 2: Room and they're all going to be needed.

922
00:41:59,800 --> 00:42:01,840
Speaker 4: Yeah, right, and I think this is a good opportunity

923
00:42:01,840 --> 00:42:03,719
Speaker 4: off for Ady Mitchell to earn his way back into it.

924
00:42:03,800 --> 00:42:04,040
Speaker 2: Yeah.

925
00:42:04,040 --> 00:42:06,360
Speaker 4: And you know, okay, hey, like let's work on that connection.

926
00:42:06,440 --> 00:42:09,200
Speaker 4: Let's work on getting open on time and you know,

927
00:42:09,239 --> 00:42:11,160
Speaker 4: catching the football and he'll get back in there. And

928
00:42:11,160 --> 00:42:13,919
Speaker 4: he still got open on that deep one that got

929
00:42:13,920 --> 00:42:16,279
Speaker 4: broken up by the safety. He still got open on

930
00:42:16,280 --> 00:42:17,880
Speaker 4: that play. He can get open and.

931
00:42:18,560 --> 00:42:19,200
Speaker 2: That will continue.

932
00:42:19,239 --> 00:42:21,600
Speaker 1: Guys, we're gonna be talking about mascots. Yeah, I said it.

933
00:42:21,840 --> 00:42:24,560
Speaker 1: NFL mascots. We haven't yet in a long time. I

934
00:42:24,600 --> 00:42:26,799
Speaker 1: don't think we've ever talked about NFL mascots. I got

935
00:42:26,880 --> 00:42:28,520
Speaker 1: to talk about this. We are going to talk about that,

936
00:42:28,560 --> 00:42:31,319
Speaker 1: but not yet. I'm still going out Leatu Latsu Lera

937
00:42:31,719 --> 00:42:34,319
Speaker 1: from here on out. He got not the monkey off

938
00:42:34,360 --> 00:42:36,040
Speaker 1: his back type of thing, but yeah, he did get

939
00:42:36,080 --> 00:42:36,600
Speaker 1: his first sack.

940
00:42:36,760 --> 00:42:38,520
Speaker 2: Is a strip, seck is a turnover. They got points

941
00:42:38,520 --> 00:42:38,960
Speaker 2: over the thing.

942
00:42:39,280 --> 00:42:41,840
Speaker 1: Is it go time now for this young man and

943
00:42:41,920 --> 00:42:44,440
Speaker 1: the importance that he brings with is not only his pressures,

944
00:42:44,480 --> 00:42:47,040
Speaker 1: his strip sacks, his sacks, but with no default, like

945
00:42:47,080 --> 00:42:49,520
Speaker 1: you said, no Buckner in there right now. The importance

946
00:42:49,520 --> 00:42:51,719
Speaker 1: of Leasu Latsu to this defense right now.

947
00:42:51,920 --> 00:42:55,279
Speaker 3: In talking to guys you know, last week or after

948
00:42:55,320 --> 00:42:57,879
Speaker 3: the game and then throughout the week, they all talked

949
00:42:57,880 --> 00:43:00,279
Speaker 3: about like this is his high motor. When you have

950
00:43:00,320 --> 00:43:03,640
Speaker 3: a high motor, those are the type of plays that

951
00:43:03,719 --> 00:43:06,600
Speaker 3: you are able to make. And that is mean he

952
00:43:06,640 --> 00:43:08,239
Speaker 3: said it. This is the reason I was drafted here

953
00:43:08,320 --> 00:43:10,520
Speaker 3: was to make plays like that. And you see that

954
00:43:10,560 --> 00:43:13,759
Speaker 3: he's going to continue. You know, we talk about the

955
00:43:13,800 --> 00:43:16,600
Speaker 3: fact that you know, takeaways kind of come in bunches

956
00:43:17,160 --> 00:43:19,840
Speaker 3: in one way shape or form, and yeah, you feel

957
00:43:19,840 --> 00:43:22,520
Speaker 3: like that this was a breakthrough for him. This is

958
00:43:22,560 --> 00:43:26,800
Speaker 3: almost his arrival to the NFL with having a play

959
00:43:26,960 --> 00:43:29,480
Speaker 3: just like that. But yeah, he's going to have to

960
00:43:29,680 --> 00:43:32,400
Speaker 3: be disruptive. I mean, it's not going to be a

961
00:43:32,400 --> 00:43:34,400
Speaker 3: strip sack every game, but he is going to have

962
00:43:34,440 --> 00:43:37,600
Speaker 3: to be disruptive up there for this defense to continue

963
00:43:37,600 --> 00:43:41,759
Speaker 3: to be effective, continue to affect the passer, and have

964
00:43:41,880 --> 00:43:43,799
Speaker 3: the type of success that we saw last week.

965
00:43:43,960 --> 00:43:46,800
Speaker 4: I do like that among twenty twenty four draft picks,

966
00:43:47,280 --> 00:43:49,960
Speaker 4: he is the highest Pro Football focused pass rush grade,

967
00:43:50,200 --> 00:43:52,040
Speaker 4: which is you know when they grade it, and that's

968
00:43:52,040 --> 00:43:53,960
Speaker 4: not what you know how you know the Colts internally

969
00:43:54,000 --> 00:43:56,400
Speaker 4: graded always, but when they grade it and he's out

970
00:43:56,440 --> 00:43:58,799
Speaker 4: there rushing the passer, he's been better than any draft pick,

971
00:43:58,880 --> 00:44:02,279
Speaker 4: any rookie lovest year, better than Jared Verse, better than

972
00:44:02,600 --> 00:44:06,520
Speaker 4: Dallas Turner, some of these guys who went high, He's

973
00:44:06,600 --> 00:44:07,080
Speaker 4: gonna be fine.

974
00:44:07,239 --> 00:44:08,240
Speaker 2: None of them went higher.

975
00:44:08,320 --> 00:44:10,640
Speaker 4: None of them went higher. He's gonna be fine. Is

976
00:44:10,640 --> 00:44:14,040
Speaker 4: he like it's still an adjustment like he is great preseason,

977
00:44:14,680 --> 00:44:17,359
Speaker 4: It's still an adjustment to the speed of how I mean,

978
00:44:17,400 --> 00:44:19,799
Speaker 4: how defenses are gonna our offenses are gonna chip you

979
00:44:20,040 --> 00:44:23,560
Speaker 4: and game plan for you. It's still an adjustment, but

980
00:44:23,600 --> 00:44:25,759
Speaker 4: he's figuring it out. He's he's gonna be fine, all right,

981
00:44:25,840 --> 00:44:26,040
Speaker 4: j J.

982
00:44:26,080 --> 00:44:28,319
Speaker 1: I want to stay with you, stats guy, it is

983
00:44:28,320 --> 00:44:31,319
Speaker 1: coming up, and I got some stats for you. Enlighten us,

984
00:44:31,400 --> 00:44:33,800
Speaker 1: help us out, give us the good, find the silver

985
00:44:33,880 --> 00:44:36,919
Speaker 1: lining in this one. Colt's defense twenty eighth on third down,

986
00:44:36,920 --> 00:44:39,719
Speaker 1: twenty seventh on fourth down, twenty six in.

987
00:44:39,719 --> 00:44:43,319
Speaker 2: The red zone. LERA, are these for real?

988
00:44:43,440 --> 00:44:45,120
Speaker 1: I mean, I know we're one and two and the

989
00:44:45,160 --> 00:44:47,239
Speaker 1: record does show that under five hundred and stuff. Are

990
00:44:47,280 --> 00:44:49,000
Speaker 1: these for real? Or is this gonna flip? Are we

991
00:44:49,000 --> 00:44:50,879
Speaker 1: gonna flip the switch on this and kind of work

992
00:44:50,920 --> 00:44:53,680
Speaker 1: our way up though? So we're not that the seller dweller.

993
00:44:53,760 --> 00:44:56,080
Speaker 1: When it comes to the NFL teams and defensive.

994
00:44:55,760 --> 00:44:58,400
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think I think it starts with more consistently

995
00:44:58,440 --> 00:45:00,760
Speaker 4: stopping the run, which you know we saw against Chicago,

996
00:45:01,800 --> 00:45:04,040
Speaker 4: you know the Colts last year, or eleventh on third down,

997
00:45:04,520 --> 00:45:07,759
Speaker 4: so you know, they they've got they've had some success there.

998
00:45:08,080 --> 00:45:09,920
Speaker 4: They're eighteenth in the red zone, they're okay in the

999
00:45:09,920 --> 00:45:13,840
Speaker 4: red zone last year a little below average. So the

1000
00:45:14,200 --> 00:45:16,000
Speaker 4: situational stuff, I wanted to bring it up though, just

1001
00:45:16,040 --> 00:45:18,239
Speaker 4: because that that's where you are going to have to

1002
00:45:18,239 --> 00:45:20,239
Speaker 4: be better. It did feel like Chicago had too many

1003
00:45:20,239 --> 00:45:24,640
Speaker 4: third down conversions in that game where they you know,

1004
00:45:24,640 --> 00:45:26,640
Speaker 4: we knew they're going to throw it, and you know

1005
00:45:26,640 --> 00:45:28,040
Speaker 4: they're able to get it. You know, col Comette had

1006
00:45:28,040 --> 00:45:32,400
Speaker 4: a huge game, right. Those are ones where when you're leading,

1007
00:45:32,800 --> 00:45:36,080
Speaker 4: you that's where you want your defense to get a

1008
00:45:36,120 --> 00:45:38,919
Speaker 4: sack on third down, get get pressure forced to throw away,

1009
00:45:38,960 --> 00:45:41,000
Speaker 4: force an errant throw that you can take the ball

1010
00:45:41,040 --> 00:45:44,279
Speaker 4: away and seal the game. I think they've got, you know,

1011
00:45:44,320 --> 00:45:50,759
Speaker 4: the more that this defense plays together and the just

1012
00:45:50,800 --> 00:45:55,319
Speaker 4: the the front continuing to rush more for as one,

1013
00:45:55,880 --> 00:45:57,840
Speaker 4: I think you're going to see more and more pressures

1014
00:45:57,880 --> 00:46:01,279
Speaker 4: on those plays that do lead to a stake where

1015
00:46:01,280 --> 00:46:03,960
Speaker 4: you want the defense to finish it on third down.

1016
00:46:03,960 --> 00:46:05,560
Speaker 4: I was just a little I wanted to highlight that

1017
00:46:05,640 --> 00:46:07,840
Speaker 4: just because it was a little worrying how Chicago was

1018
00:46:07,840 --> 00:46:10,320
Speaker 4: able to move the ball in some of those situations

1019
00:46:10,400 --> 00:46:12,520
Speaker 4: late in the game where the defense felt like they

1020
00:46:12,520 --> 00:46:14,640
Speaker 4: could have put their stamp on it and wasn't quite

1021
00:46:14,680 --> 00:46:15,920
Speaker 4: able to right well.

1022
00:46:16,000 --> 00:46:19,520
Speaker 1: Lara defensively speaking, obviously, a lot's gonna happen from here

1023
00:46:19,560 --> 00:46:21,040
Speaker 1: on out, and you're gonna flip the switch on this

1024
00:46:21,120 --> 00:46:24,239
Speaker 1: Charlie Partridge showing that you know he's here. Colts are

1025
00:46:24,239 --> 00:46:28,120
Speaker 1: on pace for another record setting sack year, if you will.

1026
00:46:28,160 --> 00:46:31,760
Speaker 1: They were before kickoff at least against the Chicago Bears,

1027
00:46:31,760 --> 00:46:34,719
Speaker 1: on pace for fifty one overall, they're down in the

1028
00:46:35,200 --> 00:46:38,680
Speaker 1: cellar right now. Defensively, No DeForest Buckner, no Juju Brentz.

1029
00:46:38,719 --> 00:46:39,440
Speaker 2: I mean we see that.

1030
00:46:39,760 --> 00:46:41,600
Speaker 1: Can they flip the switch and get this at least

1031
00:46:41,640 --> 00:46:44,120
Speaker 1: up to the midway point, Give me seventeen, Give me fifteen,

1032
00:46:44,160 --> 00:46:47,440
Speaker 1: Give me fourteen overall, because right now consistently gonna happen,

1033
00:46:47,640 --> 00:46:49,120
Speaker 1: and we got some tough opponents coming up.

1034
00:46:49,160 --> 00:46:49,839
Speaker 2: They could rush the.

1035
00:46:49,760 --> 00:46:52,200
Speaker 3: Football, le I mean think about last year. You had

1036
00:46:52,239 --> 00:46:54,600
Speaker 3: a significant stretch where you miss Grover Stewart, Yes, and

1037
00:46:54,640 --> 00:46:56,040
Speaker 3: you figured out away right.

1038
00:46:56,160 --> 00:46:57,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, So I think.

1039
00:46:57,520 --> 00:47:01,360
Speaker 3: That you have that ability. This room is deep enough

1040
00:47:01,440 --> 00:47:05,239
Speaker 3: that you can do it even without DeForest, who is

1041
00:47:05,360 --> 00:47:10,080
Speaker 3: obviously your Pro Bowl, all prolo everything, the absolute iron

1042
00:47:10,120 --> 00:47:12,560
Speaker 3: man of this defense. Yeah. I think that this is

1043
00:47:12,600 --> 00:47:15,760
Speaker 3: a situation which they're not going to let their foot

1044
00:47:15,840 --> 00:47:18,919
Speaker 3: off the guests. They know what is going what the

1045
00:47:19,040 --> 00:47:21,640
Speaker 3: key to their success is going to be and everything

1046
00:47:21,719 --> 00:47:24,640
Speaker 3: kind of runs through that front, even as well, of course,

1047
00:47:24,680 --> 00:47:27,640
Speaker 3: and as talented as that linebacker group is, and obviously

1048
00:47:27,680 --> 00:47:30,000
Speaker 3: the play that you're getting from Jalen Jones and Kenny

1049
00:47:30,040 --> 00:47:32,480
Speaker 3: Moore and Julian Blackman and crossing the guys on the

1050
00:47:32,480 --> 00:47:35,160
Speaker 3: back end, like it all starts up front, right. There's

1051
00:47:35,200 --> 00:47:38,600
Speaker 3: just that's how this this defense is built. That's where

1052
00:47:38,640 --> 00:47:41,000
Speaker 3: your investment has been made, and that's where a lot

1053
00:47:41,040 --> 00:47:43,080
Speaker 3: of these pieces are just going to have to keep

1054
00:47:43,120 --> 00:47:45,720
Speaker 3: stepping up. And I think you're going to have different

1055
00:47:45,719 --> 00:47:47,680
Speaker 3: guys with flashes different weeks. Good.

1056
00:47:47,840 --> 00:47:48,400
Speaker 2: We don't know.

1057
00:47:48,520 --> 00:47:50,600
Speaker 4: We don't know if DeForest Buckner is gonna miss a

1058
00:47:50,640 --> 00:47:53,200
Speaker 4: minimum you know the Yeah, we don't on IR. But

1059
00:47:53,400 --> 00:47:56,160
Speaker 4: the earliest you could come back as Miami and this

1060
00:47:56,239 --> 00:47:57,480
Speaker 4: is kind of the same thing. If you could, you

1061
00:47:57,480 --> 00:48:00,279
Speaker 4: can come out of like four games potentially a moment

1062
00:48:00,280 --> 00:48:03,280
Speaker 4: without Buck. If you go three and one in these games,

1063
00:48:03,320 --> 00:48:05,880
Speaker 4: beautiful and then you drop Buck back into this defense,

1064
00:48:06,400 --> 00:48:08,440
Speaker 4: now you're starting to think, okay, you can you can

1065
00:48:08,480 --> 00:48:10,839
Speaker 4: really make some noise here. That would be I mean

1066
00:48:10,880 --> 00:48:12,600
Speaker 4: even need to go too and two. That's still that's

1067
00:48:12,600 --> 00:48:15,279
Speaker 4: still good. That is still fine. You can still make

1068
00:48:15,560 --> 00:48:18,319
Speaker 4: some plenty of noise with that, But three and one

1069
00:48:18,320 --> 00:48:20,279
Speaker 4: would mean I believe you'd just be even on the

1070
00:48:20,320 --> 00:48:22,200
Speaker 4: season going into week six.

1071
00:48:22,360 --> 00:48:25,240
Speaker 1: Well more's Moore's about to happen because Wednesday the Colts

1072
00:48:25,239 --> 00:48:27,759
Speaker 1: are back on the field for practice. You follow both

1073
00:48:27,800 --> 00:48:29,320
Speaker 1: of these and go to Colts dot com if you

1074
00:48:29,360 --> 00:48:33,000
Speaker 1: want information both of these journalists, I should say, I didn't.

1075
00:48:33,120 --> 00:48:35,000
Speaker 1: I left it open on both of these. I just

1076
00:48:35,080 --> 00:48:36,439
Speaker 1: left it, So I'm sorry, Larah.

1077
00:48:36,480 --> 00:48:39,120
Speaker 4: Can we talk about your Big Jay journal moment after

1078
00:48:39,160 --> 00:48:40,320
Speaker 4: the game Sunday?

1079
00:48:41,840 --> 00:48:43,280
Speaker 2: Big Jay Journal moment?

1080
00:48:43,640 --> 00:48:46,480
Speaker 4: Fill in the blanks, go ahead, Jays. Well, so we're

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00:48:46,480 --> 00:48:49,080
Speaker 4: it's Lara and I talking to Jalen Jones, Okay, and

1082
00:48:49,360 --> 00:48:54,239
Speaker 4: Jason Larry's Lara. Lara goes, oh, it.

1083
00:48:54,160 --> 00:48:56,760
Speaker 3: Was a very lighthearted, like Anthony was over there pouring

1084
00:48:56,840 --> 00:48:59,239
Speaker 3: water on Jalen Jones. Was very celebratory.

1085
00:48:59,560 --> 00:49:02,640
Speaker 4: So we were we were having some fun and Lara

1086
00:49:02,800 --> 00:49:05,920
Speaker 4: goes jail and are turnovers kind of like kids, you

1087
00:49:05,920 --> 00:49:09,080
Speaker 4: can't pick your favorite. Yeah, And I look I look

1088
00:49:09,120 --> 00:49:11,560
Speaker 4: over at Lara and I'm like, that was good. That

1089
00:49:11,680 --> 00:49:13,840
Speaker 4: was good. I'm just gonna make eye contact of like

1090
00:49:14,000 --> 00:49:14,520
Speaker 4: that was good.

1091
00:49:15,640 --> 00:49:17,239
Speaker 3: It was. It was really fun. Like I actually can't

1092
00:49:17,320 --> 00:49:18,040
Speaker 3: remember what his.

1093
00:49:18,120 --> 00:49:19,759
Speaker 4: I don't even know what his response was because I

1094
00:49:19,800 --> 00:49:21,400
Speaker 4: was like a good one.

1095
00:49:21,480 --> 00:49:22,880
Speaker 3: But I mean, yeah, when you get two of the

1096
00:49:22,920 --> 00:49:24,799
Speaker 3: I'm like, do you pick a favorite? Like, you know,

1097
00:49:25,000 --> 00:49:26,960
Speaker 3: is one better than the other? I don't know, you're

1098
00:49:26,960 --> 00:49:28,839
Speaker 3: looking to make this soap once again.

1099
00:49:28,880 --> 00:49:31,080
Speaker 4: I mean, when you have two kids, whoever goes down

1100
00:49:31,080 --> 00:49:33,360
Speaker 4: to bed easier? Yeah, it's probably the favorite.

1101
00:49:33,360 --> 00:49:37,040
Speaker 3: That's so whatever whatever interception came to you easier, I guess.

1102
00:49:37,320 --> 00:49:39,400
Speaker 3: So I guess probably the first one, yeah, or or

1103
00:49:39,480 --> 00:49:41,719
Speaker 3: but whichever one led to a scoring drive.

1104
00:49:41,600 --> 00:49:42,960
Speaker 4: Right, But I guess, like you know, if it's like,

1105
00:49:43,160 --> 00:49:44,359
Speaker 4: you know, one of these kids is having a really

1106
00:49:44,400 --> 00:49:45,799
Speaker 4: hard time going to bed and I still got them

1107
00:49:45,840 --> 00:49:48,120
Speaker 4: down to bed, man, I feel really good about that. Yeah,

1108
00:49:48,160 --> 00:49:49,640
Speaker 4: like I really accomplished.

1109
00:49:49,080 --> 00:49:53,040
Speaker 3: Something like yeah, yeah, that was Honestly, it was such

1110
00:49:53,040 --> 00:49:54,719
Speaker 3: a wacky game. I think I went into that locker

1111
00:49:54,800 --> 00:49:57,520
Speaker 3: room like what are we gonna do in here? Like

1112
00:49:57,600 --> 00:49:59,640
Speaker 3: I was, I had a lot of fun that one.

1113
00:50:00,080 --> 00:50:02,960
Speaker 1: Also, you had a lot of fun pregame. That's what

1114
00:50:03,000 --> 00:50:05,640
Speaker 1: I want to talk to you about. Jil Lera is

1115
00:50:05,719 --> 00:50:08,359
Speaker 1: like Besti's with the pacers like all, you know, like

1116
00:50:08,520 --> 00:50:11,560
Speaker 1: the TJ McConnell's, the Halliburtons and stuff. I love going

1117
00:50:11,600 --> 00:50:13,160
Speaker 1: over there and talking. And the funny thing is, like

1118
00:50:13,200 --> 00:50:15,400
Speaker 1: I did, I didn't meet t J McConnell, but he

1119
00:50:15,560 --> 00:50:17,160
Speaker 1: was there. You were talking with himself. He had a

1120
00:50:17,200 --> 00:50:20,120
Speaker 1: football in his hand and I just do naturally, instinctually

1121
00:50:20,880 --> 00:50:22,680
Speaker 1: try and punch it out like we do here on

1122
00:50:22,719 --> 00:50:24,880
Speaker 1: fifty sixth Street, and he's like this and he's like

1123
00:50:24,920 --> 00:50:26,839
Speaker 1: ball security, you know, he's like that.

1124
00:50:27,640 --> 00:50:32,160
Speaker 3: He have it right, Yeah, And he was great elbow, he.

1125
00:50:32,160 --> 00:50:35,560
Speaker 2: Was great on the end boundary. Bring back t J mcconnal.

1126
00:50:35,239 --> 00:50:37,680
Speaker 3: I love it. I love it, or you know Halliburton

1127
00:50:37,760 --> 00:50:44,520
Speaker 3: dancing McAfee's again, always Mary's Haliburton. Also, the fact of

1128
00:50:44,960 --> 00:50:47,000
Speaker 3: Jonathan Taylor running out the back of the end zone

1129
00:50:47,040 --> 00:50:49,359
Speaker 3: and into the arms of t Y might be one

1130
00:50:49,360 --> 00:50:52,640
Speaker 3: of my favorite of the year so far. Also, it's

1131
00:50:52,680 --> 00:50:56,320
Speaker 3: just such a fun game all around. But at halftime

1132
00:50:56,719 --> 00:50:59,560
Speaker 3: I run up to do our our kind of halftime hit.

1133
00:51:00,120 --> 00:51:03,920
Speaker 3: Lucas Oil Plaza, Mark, thank you so much, one of

1134
00:51:03,960 --> 00:51:07,400
Speaker 3: the regular viewers listeners to the podcast and all of

1135
00:51:07,400 --> 00:51:09,640
Speaker 3: our coverage so awesome to talk to him.

1136
00:51:09,560 --> 00:51:12,080
Speaker 2: Marcus Mark, Yeah, which one? This one?

1137
00:51:12,560 --> 00:51:15,359
Speaker 3: Thanks, so I wanted to give him a shout out.

1138
00:51:15,440 --> 00:51:18,359
Speaker 3: So always fun to Mark, especially, like you know, game

1139
00:51:18,440 --> 00:51:19,920
Speaker 3: days can be so hectic where you run around, you

1140
00:51:19,960 --> 00:51:21,640
Speaker 3: got a million things going on. So when you have

1141
00:51:21,680 --> 00:51:24,600
Speaker 3: a couple, you know, minutes to chat with people and

1142
00:51:24,920 --> 00:51:27,520
Speaker 3: just hear what they think of the podcast and the

1143
00:51:27,560 --> 00:51:32,040
Speaker 3: video content, articles and everything. It's just it's just awesome.

1144
00:51:32,040 --> 00:51:33,920
Speaker 3: It's just reassuring and exciting to.

1145
00:51:33,920 --> 00:51:37,799
Speaker 1: Hear at Lara Overton, at JJ stankovits, and of course

1146
00:51:37,840 --> 00:51:41,759
Speaker 1: at colts dot com. Go ahead, guys, oh speaking a halftime, Yeah,

1147
00:51:41,760 --> 00:51:42,680
Speaker 1: We're we're.

1148
00:51:42,560 --> 00:51:44,200
Speaker 2: Gonna get there. We're gonna get there at halftime.

1149
00:51:44,239 --> 00:51:47,279
Speaker 1: I just want to talk about this coming into Indianapolis, right,

1150
00:51:47,280 --> 00:51:48,960
Speaker 1: and best of luck to the Fever by the way,

1151
00:51:48,960 --> 00:51:51,960
Speaker 1: they're playing on Wednesday, Caitlyn Clark, Aliah Boston and the

1152
00:51:52,000 --> 00:51:53,880
Speaker 1: rest of the team, good luck on that. But guys,

1153
00:51:54,000 --> 00:51:56,319
Speaker 1: when the Steelers freaking come into town and we're going

1154
00:51:56,400 --> 00:51:59,400
Speaker 1: to get to halftime, the importance JJ of you, I

1155
00:51:59,680 --> 00:52:02,240
Speaker 1: know this is joking when not really joking.

1156
00:52:02,640 --> 00:52:05,120
Speaker 2: You've got to have a game, bro. You understand what

1157
00:52:05,160 --> 00:52:05,520
Speaker 2: I'm saying.

1158
00:52:05,600 --> 00:52:08,839
Speaker 1: JJ Stankovitz, you have to have a game because these

1159
00:52:08,920 --> 00:52:12,200
Speaker 1: freaking people travel at the rate that is, you know,

1160
00:52:12,360 --> 00:52:15,640
Speaker 1: overwhelming sound barriers or they're black and gold everywhere that

1161
00:52:15,640 --> 00:52:17,799
Speaker 1: they go. I'm just hearing you in my head. That's

1162
00:52:17,960 --> 00:52:21,440
Speaker 1: their like we need that. So I'm saying this, guys,

1163
00:52:21,680 --> 00:52:23,600
Speaker 1: just to get started early on the week. If you're

1164
00:52:23,640 --> 00:52:26,759
Speaker 1: going to the game, bring your megaphone. For crap's sake,

1165
00:52:26,960 --> 00:52:30,320
Speaker 1: we need as well. You can't do that if you can't.

1166
00:52:30,200 --> 00:52:32,319
Speaker 2: Stub it in a clear bag. If you do, bring it.

1167
00:52:32,360 --> 00:52:34,400
Speaker 1: But I'm just saying it's so important to have the

1168
00:52:34,400 --> 00:52:37,400
Speaker 1: home field advantage. And these Steelers coming in, you know,

1169
00:52:37,480 --> 00:52:39,640
Speaker 1: that's a scary thought because not only is their defense

1170
00:52:39,680 --> 00:52:42,000
Speaker 1: so stink and nasty, these guys travel and can fill

1171
00:52:42,080 --> 00:52:42,800
Speaker 1: up half the building.

1172
00:52:42,800 --> 00:52:45,040
Speaker 4: All right, I do want to talk about halftime, Go go,

1173
00:52:45,320 --> 00:52:48,200
Speaker 4: So I want to play clip. We're gonna play clip

1174
00:52:48,960 --> 00:52:51,359
Speaker 4: of what we did at halftime. If you haven't seen it,

1175
00:52:51,360 --> 00:52:53,560
Speaker 4: it's mascots versus pee wee's take a look at this

1176
00:53:00,280 --> 00:53:04,360
Speaker 4: the stiff arm. Okay, So I wanted to play this

1177
00:53:04,400 --> 00:53:07,319
Speaker 4: because I wanted to shout out Brian Mitchell. Great run,

1178
00:53:07,360 --> 00:53:10,400
Speaker 4: by the way, I mean great run by blueper Brian Mitchell,

1179
00:53:10,440 --> 00:53:12,160
Speaker 4: who is part of our content team. He does a

1180
00:53:12,200 --> 00:53:14,279
Speaker 4: lot of stuff, the cool digital graphics to see in

1181
00:53:14,280 --> 00:53:17,560
Speaker 4: the scoreboard. He has a panel that is sound effects

1182
00:53:17,960 --> 00:53:20,839
Speaker 4: that we just mess around within the office and he

1183
00:53:20,920 --> 00:53:23,920
Speaker 4: was hitting the hanks and bunks worked throughout the mascots

1184
00:53:23,960 --> 00:53:26,440
Speaker 4: versus Pee Wee's. That was incredible. Shout out to Blue

1185
00:53:27,080 --> 00:53:28,520
Speaker 4: Trey who is Blue.

1186
00:53:28,880 --> 00:53:30,959
Speaker 3: That was a live mix that he's just like.

1187
00:53:31,200 --> 00:53:35,480
Speaker 4: Live, live sound effects, Balk two Bonk three, that's great.

1188
00:53:35,960 --> 00:53:36,120
Speaker 2: Uh.

1189
00:53:36,680 --> 00:53:38,840
Speaker 4: Shout out to Blue who texted me last night that

1190
00:53:38,840 --> 00:53:39,640
Speaker 4: he's really sore.

1191
00:53:40,160 --> 00:53:40,359
Speaker 2: Uh.

1192
00:53:40,400 --> 00:53:42,279
Speaker 4: And I also want to give a real shout out

1193
00:53:42,320 --> 00:53:46,359
Speaker 4: to Air Blue who just face planning when Brownsburg kids

1194
00:53:46,360 --> 00:53:48,680
Speaker 4: go to touch And also shout out to Brownsburg good sports,

1195
00:53:48,680 --> 00:53:51,120
Speaker 4: good job, good sports on the whole thing. Those mascots

1196
00:53:51,120 --> 00:53:52,920
Speaker 4: did not let up. I do like spret time.

1197
00:53:53,320 --> 00:53:55,360
Speaker 3: My question to Jalen did not make the transcript.

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Speaker 1: I that's funny. I do you like watching mascot struck

1199
00:54:01,280 --> 00:54:02,799
Speaker 1: little kids? And I don't mean that to mean by

1200
00:54:02,800 --> 00:54:04,680
Speaker 1: the kids are they're all padded up and everything like that,

1201
00:54:05,760 --> 00:54:06,520
Speaker 1: but it is fun.

1202
00:54:06,360 --> 00:54:09,960
Speaker 4: And blush, you know, hip thrusting thing. Yeah, but that's

1203
00:54:10,000 --> 00:54:12,680
Speaker 4: you know, it's not pad helmet on all.

1204
00:54:12,640 --> 00:54:13,160
Speaker 2: Right, guys.

1205
00:54:13,239 --> 00:54:15,279
Speaker 1: Uh that was fun. Thank you, JJ. You gotta have

1206
00:54:15,320 --> 00:54:17,080
Speaker 1: a big game, Lara. You gotta have a big game

1207
00:54:17,120 --> 00:54:19,200
Speaker 1: on the sidelines. The Steelers are a waiting get Let's

1208
00:54:19,239 --> 00:54:21,920
Speaker 1: get this thing. Let's yeah for sure, Let's get this

1209
00:54:21,960 --> 00:54:23,600
Speaker 1: thing to two and two and then the fun begins.

1210
00:54:23,640 --> 00:54:24,480
Speaker 1: It's been a great week.

1211
00:54:24,520 --> 00:54:25,120
Speaker 2: It always is.

1212
00:54:25,360 --> 00:54:27,600
Speaker 1: Like I said, the cake is sweeter when we win.

1213
00:54:27,719 --> 00:54:30,319
Speaker 1: So let's do that against the Steelers. Nobody's expecting this one.

1214
00:54:30,320 --> 00:54:32,600
Speaker 2: All the Steelers are this. The Steelers are that. Let's

1215
00:54:32,600 --> 00:54:33,520
Speaker 2: go show them the business.

1216
00:54:33,520 --> 00:54:35,720
Speaker 1: Colts fans, if you're going down there, get there early,

1217
00:54:35,960 --> 00:54:38,480
Speaker 1: make sure you're loud and proud up in the stands,

1218
00:54:38,480 --> 00:54:41,520
Speaker 1: and of course again at Larah Olverton, at JJ Stankowitz

1219
00:54:41,520 --> 00:54:43,880
Speaker 1: and Colts dot com for the latest information. Let's get

1220
00:54:43,920 --> 00:54:46,560
Speaker 1: out of here before the card rolls out. Connor, thanks

1221
00:54:46,560 --> 00:54:48,200
Speaker 1: for your help so much. And I just want a

1222
00:54:48,200 --> 00:54:51,480
Speaker 1: general reminder to you. This is the worst couch in Indianapolis.

1223
00:54:52,719 --> 00:54:53,279
Speaker 4: It just is.

1224
00:54:53,480 --> 00:54:55,560
Speaker 1: Got My back is killing me right now. I'm numb

1225
00:54:55,640 --> 00:54:58,319
Speaker 1: on my backside. We'll be back next week, hopefully it's

1226
00:54:58,360 --> 00:55:00,120
Speaker 1: two and two. Thanks to Lara, thanks j Do.

1227
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Speaker 2: We'll see you then.