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Speaker 4: Welcome into the Official Colts Podcast here on the Colts

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Speaker 4: Audio Network and on the Colts YouTube page. We are

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Speaker 4: sponsored by Win las Vegas. I'm JJ Stankowitz. She's Lara Overton.

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Speaker 4: No Jeffrey Gorman today, but we do have Colts offensive

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Speaker 4: coordinator Jim Bob Cooter coming up later on the podcast.

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Speaker 4: Lara and I had a chance to sit down with

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Speaker 4: Jimbob last week ahead of the Colts came against the Titans,

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Speaker 4: but mostly Larry. We kind of talked about big picture stuff,

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Speaker 4: his coaching career, how this season has gone, so you're

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Speaker 5: Shane, the dynamic, especially with the offense, building the game plan.

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Speaker 4: How much he sounds like Peyton manning it correct, correct

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Speaker 4: all the above. That's coming up later on this episode.

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Speaker 4: Laara and I though, we're gonna talk a little bit

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Speaker 4: about the AFC playoff race, which is just like it's

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Speaker 3: Are you not entertained right now? So you're a fan of.

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Speaker 4: The NFL, like so much has happened since the Colts

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Speaker 4: Kenny Pickett has an ankle injury. He underwent surgery that

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Speaker 4: two weeks into flux. Then the Cincinnati Bengals with Jake

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Speaker 4: Browning just go and light up. The Jaguars win thirty

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Speaker 4: thirty four to thirty one in overtime on Monday Night Football.

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Speaker 4: Jake Browning, who the Colts will face this week coming

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Speaker 3: His first win since like twenty eighteen.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, since he was at Washington. He just throws for

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Speaker 4: three hundred and fifty four yards against one of the

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Speaker 4: this game by a lot more had they not attempted

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Speaker 4: all of a sudden, the AFC Wildcard race layer this.

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Speaker 2: And Jacksonville may have won had Trevor Lawrence not gone down.

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Speaker 4: But unless you are, You've got Tua who's been healthy,

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Speaker 3: Though he took a shot he did on Sunday.

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Speaker 4: Should have been a penalty, but that's beside the point.

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Speaker 4: So think about think about the AFC playoff race as

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Speaker 5: The Colts have been the team that has just found

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Speaker 4: Like when you win a game where like ten things

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Speaker 5: And I think that's one of the things that the

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Speaker 5: By the way, that's also the longest active win streak

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Speaker 4: But those are right now, right, I'm picking those two teams. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: that's pretty good, pretty good company, pretty strong. And this

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Speaker 4: Jim Bob Cooter. Jim Bob, thanks for taking some time here.

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Speaker 4: I know you've just finished up a busy week preparing

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Speaker 6: Yeah, well, appreciate you guys having me. You know what

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I've probably gotten better over the years of taking

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Speaker 5: One of the most valuable aspects of overlapping with so

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Speaker 6: Yeah, a lot of our a lot of our work.

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Speaker 6: ideas as we can, and then ultimately we know there's

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Speaker 6: only so many you can call in a game. There's

437
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Speaker 6: only so many you can get the practice reps up,

438
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Speaker 6: so we have to be smart about how many of

439
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Speaker 6: those we put on the sheet. But gosh, let's all

440
00:20:12,760 --> 00:20:14,399
Speaker 6: bring good ideas in there, and then we'll see if

441
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Speaker 6: we can't find find a few first downs and touchdowns

442
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Speaker 6: in there.

443
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Speaker 4: Jim, I'm curious about this. At the start of your career,

444
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Speaker 4: you worked with Peyton Manning, you know, indeed Denver. Then

445
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Speaker 4: you worked with Matthew Stafford, two guys who were established

446
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Speaker 4: by the time you got to work with them. Last

447
00:20:27,480 --> 00:20:30,600
Speaker 4: two years, Trevor Lawrence in year two. Now this year

448
00:20:30,680 --> 00:20:33,640
Speaker 4: you developed an offense for Anthony Richardson in year one.

449
00:20:33,720 --> 00:20:35,920
Speaker 4: Obviously that's now shifted to Gardner. Minshew more of a

450
00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:41,160
Speaker 4: veteran there. But I was working with younger quarterbacks challenged

451
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Speaker 4: you as a coach, you know, to provide things that

452
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Speaker 4: maybe you didn't have to provide a Stafford or a

453
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Speaker 4: Manning earlier in your career.

454
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Speaker 6: Yeah, it's it's you know, it's been really good to

455
00:20:49,800 --> 00:20:53,360
Speaker 6: get work with a bunch of different guys. Obviously, when

456
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Speaker 6: I showed up here with Peyton Manning, you know, shoot,

457
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Speaker 6: I was, I was.

458
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Speaker 1: I was the bright eyed rookie, you know. I was.

459
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Speaker 6: I was young and learning, and as a quality control coach,

460
00:21:01,760 --> 00:21:03,560
Speaker 6: you learn so much and you do so much work.

461
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Speaker 1: I was.

462
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Speaker 6: I was learning so much from Peyton, and sort of

463
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Speaker 6: maybe later later in our experience together, especially maybe in Denver,

464
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Speaker 6: I was able to sort of maybe give give a

465
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Speaker 6: little bit back. But then with Stafford, obviously an established

466
00:21:16,680 --> 00:21:19,240
Speaker 6: fed who's seen a ton of ball and retain so much.

467
00:21:19,280 --> 00:21:23,359
Speaker 6: He understands and and remembers so much. There are a

468
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Speaker 6: lot of shortcuts you can take with a veteran quarterback. Hey,

469
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Speaker 6: Matthew Stafford, this is just like such and such you

470
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Speaker 6: guys ran before we got here. Y'all called it this,

471
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Speaker 6: and you ran it like this, and you know we're

472
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Speaker 6: going to shorten that one route by a yard or two.

473
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Speaker 1: But that's the same thing.

474
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Speaker 6: Read it the same way when you're with you know,

475
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Speaker 6: young quarterbacks from different backgrounds, different college programs. Uh, you know,

476
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Speaker 6: the shortcuts don't exist. You need to sort of you

477
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Speaker 6: need to sort of flesh out the details in every

478
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Speaker 6: every football play, every progression, every detail that there's a

479
00:21:52,840 --> 00:21:55,760
Speaker 6: million details in quarterbacking. But you get to sort of

480
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Speaker 6: start from start from ground zero, start from first principles,

481
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Speaker 6: and just sort of sort of build the information that

482
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Speaker 6: you're teaching those guys and try to build it in

483
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Speaker 6: the right manner, which is exciting.

484
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Speaker 1: Right.

485
00:22:06,760 --> 00:22:09,600
Speaker 6: You don't skip step two, don't go step one to

486
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Speaker 6: step three. You got to hit every single step. Let's

487
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Speaker 6: not forget about this because maybe he's never gotten that

488
00:22:14,840 --> 00:22:18,359
Speaker 6: rep against such and such a coverage, whereas maybe with

489
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Speaker 6: a with an eight or ten year vet, you can say, gosh,

490
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Speaker 6: this guy knows cover two. You never throw it to

491
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Speaker 6: such and such, you know.

492
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Speaker 2: So, all right, we're talking about Peyton Manning. Have people

493
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Speaker 2: pointed out.

494
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Speaker 5: That you and Peyton have a similar like cadence in

495
00:22:32,520 --> 00:22:35,080
Speaker 5: your voice, You guys kind of sounds similar in press

496
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Speaker 5: conferences because earlier in the season we were all listening,

497
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Speaker 5: We're like, oh my gosh, Jimbob kind of sounds like Peyton.

498
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Speaker 3: There's a similarity there.

499
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Speaker 5: And it's funny because we had Coach Stike and miked

500
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Speaker 5: up a couple weeks ago, and there are some similarities

501
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Speaker 5: between the Gollies and the you know that we knew

502
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Speaker 5: from from phillip Rivers.

503
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Speaker 2: Have people pointed that out? Have you found that yourself?

504
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Speaker 1: That is the first time.

505
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Speaker 6: I think it's uh, it's a University of Tennessee thing.

506
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Speaker 6: I think that's you know, we we the the schooling's

507
00:23:00,520 --> 00:23:03,439
Speaker 6: pretty high level down there, so we've we've probably received

508
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Speaker 6: a lot of the same media training from bud Ford

509
00:23:06,240 --> 00:23:07,959
Speaker 6: and some of those guys down there. We got some

510
00:23:08,440 --> 00:23:10,640
Speaker 6: got some great media training back in the day. But

511
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Speaker 6: now I hadn't hadn't heard that I have to keep

512
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Speaker 6: an eye on it. Might have to switch some things

513
00:23:14,400 --> 00:23:15,840
Speaker 6: up on everybody. It's good to know.

514
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Speaker 5: We'll work our editing magic a little little manning Jimbob

515
00:23:19,920 --> 00:23:24,800
Speaker 5: mashup for potentially with everything the adversity.

516
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Speaker 3: That you guys have been through this season.

517
00:23:26,200 --> 00:23:28,639
Speaker 5: Of course, you know, not having Jonathan to start the season,

518
00:23:28,880 --> 00:23:31,320
Speaker 5: suffered of course the injury last week. You have everything

519
00:23:31,320 --> 00:23:34,520
Speaker 5: that we went through with Anthony Richardson as well man

520
00:23:34,560 --> 00:23:38,879
Speaker 5: offensive line too. I feel like that's almost been not recognized,

521
00:23:38,960 --> 00:23:42,160
Speaker 5: not underrecognized, but something that has somewhat flown under the radar.

522
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Speaker 5: With the rotation that you've had Wesley French stepping in

523
00:23:44,320 --> 00:23:46,440
Speaker 5: at center in a number of position you'd have Blake

524
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Speaker 5: Freeland in both on the left and the right side.

525
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Speaker 2: How have those.

526
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Speaker 5: Challenges, the obstacles that are inevitable in you know, any

527
00:23:54,560 --> 00:23:57,720
Speaker 5: NFL season, how have those helped you guys evolve as

528
00:23:57,760 --> 00:24:00,399
Speaker 5: an offense with all of the different moving hearts that

529
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Speaker 5: you've had and the different guys who have stepped up

530
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Speaker 5: in a number of critical situations.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, great question.

532
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Speaker 6: I mean it's something that I think in the course

533
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Speaker 6: of an NFL season, you're really lucky if you find

534
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Speaker 6: yourself not in those situations.

535
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Speaker 1: You end up it ends up happening.

536
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Speaker 6: All over the league, all over the field, in different

537
00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:22,639
Speaker 6: position rooms and all that. You know, guys miss a

538
00:24:22,640 --> 00:24:24,920
Speaker 6: few weeks here and there. You hope a guy can

539
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Speaker 6: miss a few weeks and he's on his way back.

540
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Speaker 6: And for instance, you talked about Blake Friedland. You know,

541
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Speaker 6: Blake Friedland gets to play a few games, and gosh,

542
00:24:33,200 --> 00:24:35,680
Speaker 6: he gets better and better as he plays those games. Now,

543
00:24:35,680 --> 00:24:38,040
Speaker 6: if if Blake Freeland's got to play the next game,

544
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Speaker 6: you feel like, gosh, he has gotten better as the

545
00:24:39,880 --> 00:24:42,720
Speaker 6: year goes on. We've seen that from him, and that's

546
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Speaker 6: that's been you know, guys get better in practice. You're

547
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Speaker 6: supposed to. That's what we're gonna do. At a certain point,

548
00:24:47,640 --> 00:24:49,720
Speaker 6: you only practicing pad so much. The football is a

549
00:24:49,760 --> 00:24:54,000
Speaker 6: little bit different than than game day football. So you

550
00:24:54,119 --> 00:24:56,280
Speaker 6: have a little more confidence in a guy that's played

551
00:24:56,280 --> 00:24:58,400
Speaker 6: two or three good games. Leslie French played a few

552
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Speaker 6: good games up there, you go, gosh, if French is

553
00:25:00,880 --> 00:25:02,920
Speaker 6: in there, we're just fine, go play good football again,

554
00:25:02,960 --> 00:25:05,280
Speaker 6: you know. So it's that way with a lot of positions.

555
00:25:05,280 --> 00:25:08,480
Speaker 6: You end up building, you hope, building a little better depth,

556
00:25:08,520 --> 00:25:10,959
Speaker 6: a little more depth, just because gosh, there are more

557
00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:14,359
Speaker 6: reps to be had at certain positions. Ultimately, you know,

558
00:25:14,359 --> 00:25:17,520
Speaker 6: we play seventeen regular season games. You'd love to play, gosh,

559
00:25:17,560 --> 00:25:20,040
Speaker 6: you love to keep everybody healthy and play everybody all seventeen.

560
00:25:20,040 --> 00:25:23,000
Speaker 6: It's just not the reality of the of the league.

561
00:25:23,080 --> 00:25:26,600
Speaker 6: But you know, opportunities sometimes get created for other guys

562
00:25:26,640 --> 00:25:28,800
Speaker 6: and throughout this league, I've seen a bunch of guys

563
00:25:28,840 --> 00:25:32,280
Speaker 6: take advantage of those opportunities and you know, make make

564
00:25:32,280 --> 00:25:34,800
Speaker 6: the team better, make themselves better, and and and really

565
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Speaker 6: really go from there. So, uh, it's part of it.

566
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Speaker 6: It's part of the yearly process. And we're we're we're

567
00:25:40,680 --> 00:25:43,440
Speaker 6: hopeful and sort of excited that we think it's built

568
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Speaker 6: some depth and we're and we're we're heading a good

569
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Speaker 6: direction because of it. Having said all that, we hope

570
00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:50,159
Speaker 6: everybody's on their way back to health soon. You know,

571
00:25:50,200 --> 00:25:51,440
Speaker 6: that's that's kind of the ultimate hope.

572
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Speaker 5: How rewarding though, is it for you as a coach

573
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Speaker 5: when you, you know, maybe do have a guy who

574
00:25:56,520 --> 00:25:59,280
Speaker 5: finally gets an opportunity and he does rise to the occasion.

575
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Speaker 5: When you see a guy who steadily improves over the

576
00:26:01,520 --> 00:26:03,600
Speaker 5: course of the week, when he's thrust into a difficult

577
00:26:03,600 --> 00:26:06,240
Speaker 5: situation that you know, maybe came a little bit sooner

578
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Speaker 5: than what he initially may have been prepared for.

579
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Speaker 6: Yeah, it's really cool, really cool, because these guys put

580
00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:15,000
Speaker 6: in so so much work. When you're not maybe not

581
00:26:15,080 --> 00:26:18,280
Speaker 6: playing on game day, maybe you don't get recognized for it.

582
00:26:18,520 --> 00:26:21,240
Speaker 6: Your family, your friends. Gosh, how's it going up there.

583
00:26:21,960 --> 00:26:24,000
Speaker 6: We don't see you playing all that much. But these

584
00:26:24,040 --> 00:26:27,040
Speaker 6: guys are working so hard, maybe scout team, maybe sort

585
00:26:27,040 --> 00:26:29,840
Speaker 6: of some reps here and there during the week, and

586
00:26:29,840 --> 00:26:32,960
Speaker 6: to see guys sort of sort of take advantage of

587
00:26:32,960 --> 00:26:35,439
Speaker 6: those opportunity, it's a testament to their hard works, a

588
00:26:35,480 --> 00:26:38,800
Speaker 6: testament to you know, probably what got most of them

589
00:26:38,800 --> 00:26:40,760
Speaker 6: in the league in the first place, putting that work in,

590
00:26:40,800 --> 00:26:43,440
Speaker 6: And honestly, it's a testament to their position coaches. A

591
00:26:43,480 --> 00:26:45,680
Speaker 6: lot of those guys probably don't get the credit they

592
00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:49,360
Speaker 6: deserve when, you know, when when a when a backup

593
00:26:49,400 --> 00:26:52,240
Speaker 6: player comes in because a starting player has gotten injured,

594
00:26:53,359 --> 00:26:55,960
Speaker 6: you know, and that backup player plays well, a lot

595
00:26:55,960 --> 00:26:58,520
Speaker 6: of credit is deserved by that backup player being ready

596
00:26:58,520 --> 00:27:00,879
Speaker 6: to go and getting him so helf ready for that

597
00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:05,359
Speaker 6: game action. But those position coaches deserve some some some

598
00:27:05,359 --> 00:27:07,720
Speaker 6: some love as well for for all the work they've

599
00:27:07,720 --> 00:27:09,199
Speaker 6: put in to get them to that point. And it

600
00:27:09,200 --> 00:27:11,280
Speaker 6: does happen so much in this league, and it's so

601
00:27:11,280 --> 00:27:13,280
Speaker 6: so good to see it. You've seen those examples over

602
00:27:13,320 --> 00:27:15,440
Speaker 6: and over through the years, where you know, a guy

603
00:27:15,520 --> 00:27:17,320
Speaker 6: makes a big catch, or a guy's able to step

604
00:27:17,359 --> 00:27:20,280
Speaker 6: in and play offensive line and you don't miss a

605
00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:23,360
Speaker 6: beat maybe, uh, and he just plays such good football

606
00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:25,560
Speaker 6: and we're we're we're always excited when when guys have

607
00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:26,639
Speaker 6: their opportunity to do that.

608
00:27:26,880 --> 00:27:29,160
Speaker 4: A couple of years ago, you were, you know, young

609
00:27:29,200 --> 00:27:32,479
Speaker 4: OC at the Detroit Lions play caller there. That offense

610
00:27:32,560 --> 00:27:35,160
Speaker 4: is rolling, you know, especially early on in your tenure there.

611
00:27:35,359 --> 00:27:37,080
Speaker 4: You've kind of had to work your way back to

612
00:27:37,119 --> 00:27:41,359
Speaker 4: become an offensive coordinator going to New York, going to Philly, Jacksonville.

613
00:27:41,840 --> 00:27:44,560
Speaker 4: What do you know now as an offensive coordinator that

614
00:27:44,640 --> 00:27:46,920
Speaker 4: maybe you I don't know if you wish you knew

615
00:27:47,240 --> 00:27:49,119
Speaker 4: back in the first time around, or what sort of

616
00:27:49,160 --> 00:27:52,000
Speaker 4: wisdom have you gained over these lead years now as

617
00:27:52,040 --> 00:27:52,760
Speaker 4: an OC again?

618
00:27:52,960 --> 00:27:57,960
Speaker 6: Yeah, hopeful hopefully a lot, hopefully quite a bit. You

619
00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:00,840
Speaker 6: know this, this this game of football is is it's

620
00:28:00,840 --> 00:28:02,840
Speaker 6: a complex game. There's a lot of stuff you can

621
00:28:02,920 --> 00:28:04,600
Speaker 6: learn and a lot of stuff. You know, Gosh, we're

622
00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:07,720
Speaker 6: on our players trying to coach these guys to learn

623
00:28:07,760 --> 00:28:10,960
Speaker 6: a lot about the game. Could be what we're doing offensively,

624
00:28:10,960 --> 00:28:13,560
Speaker 6: what the defense is doing, and how that can help

625
00:28:13,640 --> 00:28:16,119
Speaker 6: them play a little bit better. Well, there's there's a

626
00:28:16,119 --> 00:28:18,280
Speaker 6: lot of there's a lot that coaches get better throughout

627
00:28:18,320 --> 00:28:19,320
Speaker 6: their career as well.

628
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Speaker 1: It's something that I think.

629
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Speaker 6: I think I've tried to do a good job of

630
00:28:24,200 --> 00:28:26,399
Speaker 6: the last four or five years and been putting some

631
00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:30,199
Speaker 6: different roles which have ultimately been really beneficial for me,

632
00:28:30,359 --> 00:28:33,040
Speaker 6: sort of seeing different side of the game being a

633
00:28:33,080 --> 00:28:35,880
Speaker 6: running back coach and maybe diving a little deeper into

634
00:28:35,920 --> 00:28:39,560
Speaker 6: the run game or some of the technique specific things

635
00:28:39,560 --> 00:28:42,760
Speaker 6: of the run game that maybe I hadn't hadn't dove

636
00:28:42,800 --> 00:28:45,440
Speaker 6: into as a quarterback coach or an offensive coordinator at

637
00:28:45,440 --> 00:28:48,040
Speaker 6: that time, and then being able to be in Philadelphia

638
00:28:48,080 --> 00:28:50,600
Speaker 6: and sort of sort of watch those guys do their

639
00:28:50,640 --> 00:28:52,600
Speaker 6: work while I was helping, but I wasn't sort of

640
00:28:52,760 --> 00:28:55,320
Speaker 6: hands on active. I was able to sort of take

641
00:28:55,320 --> 00:28:57,080
Speaker 6: that sort of ten thousand foot view and just sort

642
00:28:57,120 --> 00:28:59,440
Speaker 6: of hopefully improve and get better, and like we talked

643
00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:01,960
Speaker 6: about earlier, maybe make a few of those notes that

644
00:29:01,960 --> 00:29:04,959
Speaker 6: that wepe we hope carries over as the career moves forward.

645
00:29:06,160 --> 00:29:09,240
Speaker 5: One of the things looking at, especially with the offense,

646
00:29:09,280 --> 00:29:11,840
Speaker 5: has been able to accomplish this season. What ten games

647
00:29:11,840 --> 00:29:14,120
Speaker 5: this season you've scored twenty points or more. You're now

648
00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:16,959
Speaker 5: right in the thick of it in the month of December.

649
00:29:17,040 --> 00:29:19,200
Speaker 2: When you look at that group, what.

650
00:29:19,080 --> 00:29:22,160
Speaker 5: Is most exciting to you about the opportunity that they

651
00:29:22,240 --> 00:29:25,400
Speaker 5: have and what they have the potential to do coming

652
00:29:25,440 --> 00:29:28,000
Speaker 5: off of you know, those three straight wins, you know,

653
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Speaker 5: stacking wins and getting into position where.

654
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Speaker 2: You're playing your best football at the right time.

655
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Speaker 6: Yeah, that that that, that's what's most exciting. You play

656
00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:40,000
Speaker 6: early in the year so that you're playing meaningful football

657
00:29:40,040 --> 00:29:42,800
Speaker 6: in November and December. You know, we got to that

658
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Speaker 6: point in November, we started playing a little bit better,

659
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Speaker 6: we got winning games. November went pretty well. Now we're

660
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Speaker 6: going into December and it's it's all out ahead of

661
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Speaker 6: us here.

662
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Speaker 1: We got it.

663
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Speaker 6: We got a push to make along the final the

664
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Speaker 6: final sort of stretch of this season to hopefully make

665
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Speaker 6: that playoff push. And offensively, we've got gotta improve our

666
00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:04,320
Speaker 6: play along with that, because along with the games getting

667
00:30:04,320 --> 00:30:06,720
Speaker 6: a little bit bigger, sometimes you gotta you gotta, you

668
00:30:06,760 --> 00:30:08,120
Speaker 6: gotta improve that play a little bit better.

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Speaker 1: You gotta make one less mistake.

670
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Speaker 6: You gotta make one more great catch or great block

671
00:30:12,240 --> 00:30:15,880
Speaker 6: or great throw. It's it's it's an exciting time of

672
00:30:15,960 --> 00:30:18,080
Speaker 6: year being able to get into that mode where you're

673
00:30:18,080 --> 00:30:20,560
Speaker 6: playing really important football late in the year when it

674
00:30:20,560 --> 00:30:23,440
Speaker 6: gets cold and rainy and it's snowing and you know,

675
00:30:23,480 --> 00:30:25,880
Speaker 6: it's nasty out. That's you're playing good football at that

676
00:30:25,920 --> 00:30:27,920
Speaker 6: time of year and it's really important. That's really fun,

677
00:30:27,960 --> 00:30:30,040
Speaker 6: and we hope our guys are going to have fun

678
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Speaker 6: doing that. We're going to go attack that challenge and

679
00:30:32,360 --> 00:30:35,520
Speaker 6: uh hopefully we we hope hope our fans get to

680
00:30:35,520 --> 00:30:38,040
Speaker 6: come to some exciting games, some sort of big games

681
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Speaker 6: here where you know, gosh, we really need to win

682
00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:42,200
Speaker 6: this game. We need the fans to be loud. Those

683
00:30:42,200 --> 00:30:44,400
Speaker 6: are the most fun games, So we were hoping for

684
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Speaker 6: some of those.

685
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Speaker 4: What do those feel like as a coach, Like when

686
00:30:46,720 --> 00:30:49,360
Speaker 4: you're on the sideline and you're you're kind of you're

687
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Speaker 4: in it in those moments in those big games in December.

688
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's really really cool. You know, it's kind of

689
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Speaker 1: what we're in it for.

690
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Speaker 6: You want to get into the biggest of the big

691
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Speaker 6: games and go do your job at a really high level,

692
00:31:01,440 --> 00:31:04,120
Speaker 6: go perform on game day. You know, obviously the players

693
00:31:04,160 --> 00:31:06,080
Speaker 6: are out there, they're running routes, they're running the ball,

694
00:31:06,120 --> 00:31:09,600
Speaker 6: they're throwing catching. Coaches we have our job to do

695
00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:11,720
Speaker 6: on game day as well, and it's you know, it's

696
00:31:11,760 --> 00:31:13,880
Speaker 6: all on us to do that really, really well. You know,

697
00:31:13,920 --> 00:31:16,400
Speaker 6: we may we may have a little a little smaller

698
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Speaker 6: impact than the starting quarterback or something on game.

699
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Speaker 1: Day, but we have a little role in that game

700
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Speaker 1: and we want to do it really well.

701
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Speaker 6: And it's it's exciting to have the challenge of gosh,

702
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Speaker 6: I need to be Sunday, I need to be sharp,

703
00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:28,280
Speaker 6: I need to be on it, you know. And that's

704
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Speaker 6: that's what I think the really good coaches in this

705
00:31:30,320 --> 00:31:30,720
Speaker 6: league do.

706
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Speaker 1: They show up on game day.

707
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Speaker 6: Sort of sort of ready to have a great day

708
00:31:35,360 --> 00:31:37,880
Speaker 6: and ready to be really on really on top of

709
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Speaker 6: whatever their job is for that staff.

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Speaker 4: All right, Jim Bob Cooter, thanks so much for joining

711
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Speaker 4: us here. We really appreciating time, and good luck the

712
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Speaker 4: rest of the season.

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Speaker 1: All right, appreciate it, guys.

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Speaker 4: Thanks to Colts offensive coordinator Jim Bob Cooter for coming

715
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Speaker 4: back here. He sat in that seat. We kind of

716
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Speaker 4: shifted it around. We had three people. So for our

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Speaker 4: YouTube viewers, sorry for the little change up in.

718
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Speaker 2: That movie Magic. I am not Jim Bob Cooter.

719
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Speaker 1: You're not.

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Speaker 2: I'm not. I would like to be there.

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Speaker 4: I mean you, he's pretty tall. Jimbob's a big guy.

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Speaker 4: He is a big well, he's a quarterback, right from

723
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Speaker 4: a quarterback. I mean, I saw there's someone who Jimbob

724
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Speaker 4: played with in college who's like still in the NFL.

725
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Speaker 4: I think it's a long snapper.

726
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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I have to go go back and find that one.

728
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Speaker 4: But okay, So Jim Bob's interesting, Lara, because I remember

729
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Speaker 4: when I was covering the Bears and in the NFC North,

730
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Speaker 4: when when they were rolling with Matt Stafford in Detroit,

731
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Speaker 4: and it was like, all right, Jim Bob Cooter is

732
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Speaker 4: one of those like rising coaching candidates, and then things

733
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Speaker 4: got off the rails in Detroit. Matt Patricia got there

734
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Speaker 4: through no fault of Jim bres.

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Speaker 2: Right exactly, my seat mate, I feel like I have

736
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Speaker 2: to defend here.

737
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Speaker 4: Matt Patricia got there. That did not go the way

738
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Speaker 4: Detroit I think thought it would. Matthew Stafford got hurt

739
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Speaker 4: a couple of times, and then all of a sudden,

740
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Speaker 4: Jimbob has to go on this kind of journey to

741
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Speaker 4: rebuild his career, which is not an easy thing to do.

742
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Speaker 4: But he talked on it about how going to be

743
00:33:03,640 --> 00:33:06,080
Speaker 4: the running backs coach for the New York Jets. Helped

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Speaker 4: him out, and then he kind of takes this broader

745
00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:10,880
Speaker 4: view as a consultant with the Eagles, and then he's

746
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Speaker 4: a passing game coordinator with the Jaguars and comes here.

747
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Speaker 5: That role with the Eagles is what introduced him to Shane, right,

748
00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:20,040
Speaker 5: And that's obvious something that we touched on. There is

749
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Speaker 5: the dynamic that they forged and created from that opportunity.

750
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Speaker 4: But I think the experience is now the people he's

751
00:33:26,520 --> 00:33:30,080
Speaker 4: worked with since his career kind of hit a bit

752
00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:32,680
Speaker 4: of a skid again for really no fault of his own,

753
00:33:33,360 --> 00:33:36,760
Speaker 4: really benefit him right now as the Colts are game

754
00:33:36,800 --> 00:33:39,080
Speaker 4: planning and he is in this role where you know

755
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Speaker 4: a lot of people ask right like as the offensive

756
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Speaker 4: coordinator who doesn't call plays, like what do you do?

757
00:33:43,680 --> 00:33:45,320
Speaker 4: But what he said I thought was a great answer

758
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Speaker 4: of you know, you support the play caller. You all

759
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Speaker 4: kind of collaborate on stuff and you bring ideas together.

760
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Speaker 4: And he has a big role in that.

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Speaker 5: And I also notice, because of my vantage point on

762
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Speaker 5: game bays, I'm down on the sidelines doing radio. So

763
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Speaker 5: Shane is obviously looking compreh at the entire game. He's

764
00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:04,840
Speaker 5: of course engaging with the offense at certain periods of time,

765
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Speaker 5: but it has to be pretty limited because he's looking

766
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Speaker 5: at everything, looking at do you know if he should

767
00:34:09,440 --> 00:34:12,040
Speaker 5: throw a challenge flag, He's watching the defense, he's doing

768
00:34:12,080 --> 00:34:14,719
Speaker 5: you know, all those different things over the course of

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Speaker 5: the game.

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Speaker 2: So Jim Bob has such a heavy role.

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Speaker 5: In you know, engaging with and you know, being in

772
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Speaker 5: constant communication down the field with the offense as well.

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Speaker 2: So it's fun to watch how he works.

774
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Speaker 5: On game day and how he operates and his involvement

775
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Speaker 5: in working with all of those guys down there on

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Speaker 5: the field, you know, especially especially with the quarterbacks.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, everybody plays a part. And when he put up

778
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Speaker 4: thirty one points against the Titans on the road, like

779
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Speaker 4: the Colts did, everyone's got a part.

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Speaker 5: What now, eleven games with twenty points are more of

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Speaker 5: the season, is that right?

782
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Speaker 4: There's only been the only game that didn't was the

783
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Speaker 4: Patriots game. Yes, in Germany.

784
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Speaker 2: How we would forget?

785
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Speaker 4: Hey, that was a win. I'm not forgetting it. Patriots

786
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Speaker 4: probably want to forget.

787
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Speaker 2: It forgetting you see, not forgetting either.

788
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Speaker 4: Quick you see what happened with the Patriots over the

789
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Speaker 4: weekend six to nothing.

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Speaker 2: To the charge. Oh, I sure did.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: The Patriots Steelers game that's coming up, okay on Thursday

793
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Speaker 4: night might be one of the lowest scoring games of

794
00:35:10,719 --> 00:35:13,640
Speaker 4: the year. Like even to that point, it's gonna look

795
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Speaker 4: like like an Iowa game potentially because Bill Belichick can

796
00:35:18,160 --> 00:35:21,200
Speaker 4: still coordinate the heck out of a defense. But Steelers

797
00:35:21,239 --> 00:35:23,239
Speaker 4: offense gonna have to go to Mitch Trubisky in that game.

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Speaker 4: It's gonna be interesting.

799
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Speaker 5: It will, yeah, will be And I mean Steelers are

800
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Speaker 5: dealing with, you know, injuries as well, like aside from

801
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Speaker 5: Kenny Pickett.

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Speaker 1: Yep.

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Speaker 2: So it's tough. It's a tough week to be on

804
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Speaker 2: a short week.

805
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Speaker 3: There's never a good week to be in a short week,

806
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Speaker 3: but especially tough.

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Speaker 5: One thing I asked Shane about also in our conversation

808
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Speaker 5: yesterday was how much truth there is to catching a

809
00:35:41,360 --> 00:35:43,879
Speaker 5: team on a short week. Because Cincinnati, although they got

810
00:35:43,880 --> 00:35:45,719
Speaker 5: the win on Monday night football, you got to fly

811
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Speaker 5: back from Jacksonville. Now you only have, you know, you

812
00:35:48,320 --> 00:35:51,720
Speaker 5: have a short turnaround to get ready for a home game.

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Speaker 5: And he said, you know, it's you know, an interesting question.

814
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Speaker 5: There are things that you can kind of look into

815
00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:01,799
Speaker 5: and try to exploit about that, but totally just still

816
00:36:01,800 --> 00:36:05,840
Speaker 5: comes down to preparation, game planning, practice.

817
00:36:05,520 --> 00:36:06,000
Speaker 3: All of that.

818
00:36:06,080 --> 00:36:08,759
Speaker 5: But I do think that is an interesting factor of

819
00:36:08,800 --> 00:36:10,280
Speaker 5: this game upcoming right well.

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Speaker 4: And then the flip side of that is the Steelers

821
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Speaker 4: will have extra rest going into Week fifteen against the Colts,

822
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Speaker 4: while the Colts will be on a shorter week going

823
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Speaker 4: into that game. So how can you manage all this stuff?

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Speaker 4: And I mean, the one thing I just keep going

825
00:36:20,680 --> 00:36:22,680
Speaker 4: back to, there's so much weird stuff that's still going

826
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Speaker 4: to happen in the playoff race these next five games.

827
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Speaker 4: Just weird stuff is going to happen. Just wonky things

828
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Speaker 4: are going to be all over. The Steelers lost to

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Speaker 4: the Cardinals by two touchdowns in a game that got

830
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Speaker 4: delayed twice by weather. Yeah, sure that sounds about right.

831
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Speaker 4: Just stuff like that, or games like the Colts had

832
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Speaker 4: against the Titans, like just Julian Blackman recovering a fumble

833
00:36:43,920 --> 00:36:47,480
Speaker 4: and then losing it. You have two blocked punts, one

834
00:36:47,520 --> 00:36:50,400
Speaker 4: that wasn't technically a blocked punt, but then in between

835
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Speaker 4: that you have the Titans having a pick two because

836
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Speaker 4: of course, a one hundred yard pick two just why not.

837
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Speaker 4: You have garnerment, you almost throwing an interception to end

838
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Speaker 4: the game. You have of a lead change in overtime

839
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Speaker 4: where the Titans go down and get a field goal,

840
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Speaker 4: and then the Colts hit a fifty five yard at

841
00:37:05,680 --> 00:37:07,439
Speaker 4: Alec Pierce, they get Michael Pittman for the game winning

842
00:37:07,480 --> 00:37:09,879
Speaker 4: Touchdow like a lead change in overtime would be like, wow,

843
00:37:09,920 --> 00:37:12,440
Speaker 4: what a crazy game. But that was like the seventh

844
00:37:12,440 --> 00:37:14,239
Speaker 4: weirdest thing that happened. But you also had the trick

845
00:37:14,239 --> 00:37:17,440
Speaker 4: play to Kylon grantson trick played. Every team ran, they

846
00:37:17,440 --> 00:37:20,080
Speaker 4: both ran trick plays. They were like multiple flea flickers

847
00:37:20,080 --> 00:37:23,279
Speaker 4: in this game, because of course there were. That's just

848
00:37:23,360 --> 00:37:25,000
Speaker 4: what this season's like right now.

849
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Speaker 3: Completely, And I mean, the good.

850
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Speaker 5: Part is is that all of the wildness has benefited

851
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Speaker 5: the Colts.

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00:37:30,800 --> 00:37:32,799
Speaker 4: It has, and the Colts are doing a really good

853
00:37:32,840 --> 00:37:36,640
Speaker 4: job handling that chaos. How do you handle the chaos?

854
00:37:36,920 --> 00:37:39,879
Speaker 4: That's the story right now. Your backup quarterbacks all over

855
00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:42,560
Speaker 4: the place, guys coming in and out of your starting lineup,

856
00:37:42,920 --> 00:37:46,960
Speaker 4: weird wonky. The Bengals throwing two wide receiver passes like

857
00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:49,680
Speaker 4: I mentioned and still winning, Just okay, sure, why not?

858
00:37:49,960 --> 00:37:51,720
Speaker 4: Let's just throw that one in there for good measure,

859
00:37:51,960 --> 00:37:54,840
Speaker 4: like the Bills losing that game to the Eagles where

860
00:37:55,120 --> 00:37:56,800
Speaker 4: you have a fifty eight yard field goal and the

861
00:37:56,880 --> 00:37:59,480
Speaker 4: driving rain storm that goes into sentences overtime, because yeah, sure,

862
00:37:59,480 --> 00:38:02,280
Speaker 4: why not. Exactly, just weird stuff is going to happen.

863
00:38:02,320 --> 00:38:05,480
Speaker 4: But the Colts continue to come out of those chaotic

864
00:38:05,560 --> 00:38:08,120
Speaker 4: games with wins, and that's what you need in a

865
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Speaker 4: playoff race.

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Speaker 5: Just continue taking your blood pressure medication because the cardiac

867
00:38:12,640 --> 00:38:15,280
Speaker 5: cults are in full effect in the month of December

868
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Speaker 5: and will continue to be.

869
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Speaker 3: So you know, meditation is good.

870
00:38:19,080 --> 00:38:22,480
Speaker 2: You know, stay well hydrated over the course of your games.

871
00:38:22,160 --> 00:38:24,879
Speaker 5: And you know, just make sure you keep everything in check,

872
00:38:24,960 --> 00:38:26,680
Speaker 5: you know, a little yoga from time to get.

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Speaker 4: And get a forty ounce Stanley mug and then get

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Speaker 4: roasted by your friends for it like I do all

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Speaker 4: the time. Exactly, walk into a meeting with a Stanley

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Speaker 4: mug on Monday and just I can't believe you got

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Speaker 4: a Stanley mug.

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Speaker 5: And then I also like that you call it a

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Speaker 5: Stanley mug because you won't say Stanley Cup, because the

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Speaker 5: Stanley Cup to you is specifically the hockey.

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Speaker 4: It's crazy, but then but then okay, so just to

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Speaker 4: close up this podcast, I get roasted because I'm like,

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Speaker 4: I got the legit Stanley Cup. And then I'm like,

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Speaker 4: you know, I can't believe you have the real Stanley Cup,

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Speaker 4: you know, basic, And I'm like, Lara, you have a

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Speaker 4: knockoff one, and I just get everyone there is no

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Speaker 4: oh way, Lara Overton is a knockoff Stanley Cup. No way,

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Speaker 4: it's a real thing.

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Speaker 5: Hey, I if I had the knockoff one, I would

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Speaker 5: be proud of it.

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Speaker 2: I just don't have I received my snap. I'm in Defense.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we're on Defense Mob.

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Speaker 2: It was a gift I would like.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: I mean I also have a lot of drinking receptacles,

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00:39:18,239 --> 00:39:20,719
Speaker 5: so you know, I have a lot of things. I've

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00:39:20,719 --> 00:39:22,640
Speaker 5: got the Turvis tumbler, I got the yettie. I have

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00:39:22,680 --> 00:39:25,120
Speaker 5: an array of them. So it's you know, I'm not

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Speaker 5: trying to be bougie with the Stanley Cup. I just

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Speaker 5: like a lot of.

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Speaker 4: Beverages and it's a great way to stay hydrated, is

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Speaker 4: the real point I was making. But you know, go

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Speaker 4: ahead and roast me everyone else for having us a

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Speaker 4: good Christmas gift, great Christmas holiday gift.

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Speaker 2: This seasonal stocking stuff for all right.

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Speaker 4: Well, that's going to do it for this episode of

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Speaker 4: the Official Cults Podcast presented by Win Las Vegas. The

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Speaker 4: crew will be back on Thursday, May te Casey and

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Speaker 4: Bill Brooks with a TBD player. I don't want to

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Speaker 4: give it away, but the player that they were trying

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00:39:53,160 --> 00:39:55,520
Speaker 4: to get for Thursday maybe the most interesting man on

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Speaker 4: the team. We'll see, Oh, I think I think you

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Speaker 4: got an If you got an idea, guess it in

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Speaker 4: the YouTube comments and then hope that that guy shows

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Speaker 4: up on Thursday for the podcast. All right, let's going

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Speaker 4: to do it for us again here on the Official

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Speaker 4: Cults Podcast presented by Win Las Vegas. For Larra Overton,

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Speaker 4: I'm j Jos Taketitz, counor handles behind a camera this week.

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Speaker 4: Thanks for shooting that one, and we'll talk to you

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Speaker 4: next week here on the Official Colts Podcast.