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Speaker 1: latest with the Indianapolis Colts. Now here's the voice of

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Speaker 1: the Colts, Matt Taylor. Welcome into the Colts Daily Update

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Speaker 1: on this Thursday night, A little bit hot today. I'm

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Speaker 1: Matt Taylor, and the Colts were outside in the heat

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Speaker 1: for the final time this week. They did so earlier

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Speaker 1: this afternoon. The team will have Tomorrow and Saturday and

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Speaker 1: Sunday off and then return to work on Monday. That's

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Speaker 1: Labor Day for the first practice of the regular season,

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Speaker 1: leading into Week one a week from this Sunday against

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Speaker 1: the Houston Texans. A lot to get into tonight. Per usual,

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Speaker 1: We've got some roster moves to go over, the practice

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Speaker 1: squad is forming, and we're also going to leave some

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Speaker 1: time to hear from Colts kicker Rodrigo Blankenship, who beat

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Speaker 1: out Jake Verity in the preseason in order to handle

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Speaker 1: the Colts kicking duties on special teams this year. Big

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Speaker 1: piece of news this week it's the return of Shaquille

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Speaker 1: Leonard on the practice field. He practiced the last two days,

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Speaker 1: really good news for the Colts. He missed all of

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Speaker 1: offseason surgery back in June on his back. The problem

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Speaker 1: nerves and shooting pain down into his calf. The Colts

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Speaker 1: think they have that eradicated. And then on Wednesday, Chris

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Speaker 1: Ballard noted that this season will be Leonard's first without pain,

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Speaker 1: going back to two thoy nineteen. But Shaquille himself answered

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Speaker 1: Shaquille Leonard and the Colts still haven't placed a timetable

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Speaker 1: goal is to have him pain free when he gets

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Speaker 1: Of course, a linebacker is going to accrue a ton

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Speaker 1: injury front, cornerback Isaiah Rodgers. He's returned to the practice

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Speaker 1: during the year. The Colts this week they claimed rookie

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Speaker 1: Stay with us. This is ninety three five and one

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Speaker 1: oh seven five the Fan. We now return to the

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Speaker 1: Colts Daily Update with Matt Taylor, the voice of the Colts. Hey,

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Speaker 1: welcome back here on the Colts Daily Update. Matt Taylor here,

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Speaker 1: and as promise, we're gonna leave some time for a

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Speaker 1: chat with Rodrigo Blankenship, the Colts kicker, coming back for

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Speaker 1: year number three after kicking the first five games of

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Speaker 1: And a good conversation right now with Rodrigo who talks

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Speaker 1: Verity and what that boiled down to. You know, I'm

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