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Speaker 1: This is Instant Game Reaction, an immediate look back at

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Speaker 1: the Colts' latest game and trying to make it adjusting

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Speaker 1: on the fall. It's cold, climbot. He catched it and

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Speaker 1: he rubbles across the door line. Touchdown, forty two yards.

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Speaker 1: Strike on the air. It out downfield, down the far sideline,

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Speaker 1: looking for Say Jones, and it's intercepted by the Colts.

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Speaker 1: I say Ah Rodgers on the returns gets up the

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Speaker 1: Taylor he said, touchdown in d Why Jonathan Taylor. Now,

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Speaker 1: here's your host, JJ Stankovitz from Colts dot Com. What's up? Everyone?

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Speaker 1: Welcome into another episode of Colts Instant Reaction here on

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Speaker 1: the Colts Audio Network every week. I'm JJS Takob's joined

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Speaker 1: by Bill Brooks Coult's ring of I remembers. We break

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Speaker 1: down the Colt's latest game and Bill um I thought,

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Speaker 1: I thought the Colts couldn't find a worse way to

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Speaker 1: lose than after they gave up thirty three points to

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys two weeks ago. But today the Colts are

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Speaker 1: on the losing end of what is now the biggest

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Speaker 1: comeback in NFL history. The Colts blow a thirty three

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Speaker 1: to nothing lead at halftime, they lose thirty nine to

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Speaker 1: thirty six to the Minnesota Vikings at US Bank Stadium

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Speaker 1: in overtime, and Bill, I kind of want to work

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Speaker 1: back to how this happened, not how the Colts have

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Speaker 1: built that thirty three to nothing lead at halftime. Let's

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Speaker 1: just dive right in to how this happened. And it

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Speaker 1: goes to a couple of things. And offense and defense

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Speaker 1: are both equally at fault here. That's something Jeff Saturday

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Speaker 1: emphasized after the game that this is not just the

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Speaker 1: defense giving up four hundred and seventeen yards to Kirk

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Speaker 1: Cousins after halftime. It's not just the offense getting only

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Speaker 1: a handful of first downs after halftime. It's on everyone

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Speaker 1: on this team that played a part in the Colts

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Speaker 1: getting outscored thirty nine to three in the final forty

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Speaker 1: minutes of this game. And you just take kind of

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Speaker 1: a quick critical view, Bill of the third quarter, fourth quarter,

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Speaker 1: and overtime. What are just some things that stand out

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Speaker 1: to you as to how the Colts allowed Minnesota to

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Speaker 1: get back into this game. Well, you know, we always

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Speaker 1: talk about complimentary football as far as offense, health with

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Speaker 1: defense and special teams and things like that. Well, to me,

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Speaker 1: that was just the opposite. You know, it wasn't complimentary football.

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Speaker 1: This was those guys hurting themselves. The offense couldn't sustain

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Speaker 1: the drive in the second half. You go four plays, punt,

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Speaker 1: six plays, field goal, three plays punt, four plays punt,

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Speaker 1: three plays punt, and and on and on. So you

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Speaker 1: could not sustain any drives to try to march down

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Speaker 1: They didn't do that. Defense, they couldn't get off the field.

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Speaker 1: Minnesota got a couple of quick touchdowns. Might I say quick,

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Speaker 1: I mean it took them maybe two minutes three minutes

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Speaker 1: to get down the field and score some touchdown, So

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Speaker 1: they couldn't get off the field themselves. So I think

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Speaker 1: this worked against those against the Coats. Not being able

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Speaker 1: to sustain a drive, give a defense some time to rest. Also,

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Speaker 1: go down the field, if you're an offensive player, go

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Speaker 1: down the field, sustain a drive and score some points.

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Speaker 1: I think if we score some more points in the

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Speaker 1: second half, especially being up thirty three nothing, I think

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Speaker 1: they I'm not saying they would have given up given up,

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Speaker 1: but the momentum will have been back on the Coat side,

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Speaker 1: and it have been very tough for the Vikings to

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Speaker 1: get any momentum to make a comeback. Yeah, Bill, That's

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Speaker 1: something Matt Ryan talked about after the game that on offense,

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Speaker 1: you're just looking for, you know, that one explosive play

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Speaker 1: if you get that, it really when the margin fairer

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Speaker 1: for the Vikings was very slim in the second half obviously,

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Speaker 1: but if you just force the Vikings to, you know,

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Speaker 1: while your offense drives downfield, even if you come away

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Speaker 1: with only three points, those three points, Bill would have

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Speaker 1: been the difference in this game. I mean, and you know,

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Speaker 1: we'll get into it two. In the first half, how

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Speaker 1: the Colts offense missed some opportunities, but missing that one

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Speaker 1: and they weren't able to get it. Meanwhile, Minnesota goes down.

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Speaker 1: I mean, they have ten explosive passes after halftime. Those

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Speaker 1: You're just looking for a big play to kind of

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Speaker 1: That way, you can start to get some momentum and

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Speaker 1: it puts a little doubt in your opponent's mind about,

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Speaker 1: oh man, we're not gonna be able to make this comeback.

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Speaker 1: But we still are going to try, but we're not

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Speaker 1: probably not gonna make this comeback because the momentum has

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Speaker 1: might be the big play, but it wasn't a big play,

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Speaker 1: and coach just couldn't hold on. We need thirty three

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Speaker 1: how they can play football, both offensively and defensively. This

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Speaker 1: them a second chance. And we gave them a second chance. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I think there are probably three three big flash points

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Speaker 1: of some opportunities on defense. You mentioned that Rodney Thomas

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Speaker 1: So then after that. The Colts then start driving a

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Speaker 1: in hindsight to say he should have kicked the field

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Speaker 1: Colts were confident in this play. This is a play there.

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Speaker 1: Matt Ryan convert this. The Colts do not convert that

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Speaker 1: And I mean, even if not, okay, so Chase McLoughlin

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Speaker 1: inexplicable how this happened, because the Colts had these opportunities

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Speaker 1: But that was a play that we couldn't take advantage of.

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Speaker 1: We still should have gotten in one yard. I've always

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Speaker 1: didn't get the first down, and then all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: defense has to come out there, regardless of what happens.

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Speaker 1: And then Dalvi Cook goes for sixty someone yards for

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Speaker 1: a screen for a touchdown. Big play for them they get.

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Speaker 1: They keep the momentum on their side, and the momentums

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Speaker 1: away from us. We don't have anything. It's away from us.

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Speaker 1: And you know what, given me a sort of credit.

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Speaker 1: They took advantage of the opportunities they had. They had

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Speaker 1: that team that says, Okay, who's gonna be the guy's

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Speaker 1: special teams offense, defense, someone has to make play to

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Speaker 1: if they're behind, they have to have guys to make plays.

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Speaker 1: The other thing, Bill, So I mean the Colts. The

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Speaker 1: Colts had a possession in overtime. I mean, through all

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