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Speaker 1: If you want Colts talk all year long, You're in

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Speaker 1: the right place. Fires upfield into the end zone. It's

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Speaker 2: He's gonna fire up fields. Poken up. Tip it intercepted

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Speaker 3: This is the Official Colts Podcast, giving you an updated

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Speaker 3: look at what's new with the Horseshoes.

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Speaker 1: Colts have it intercepting two seconds slip. The Colts are

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Speaker 1: going to.

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Speaker 4: In in the Indiana Union Construction Industry Radio studio.

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Speaker 1: Let's get the podcast started.

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Speaker 3: Welcome to the Official Colts Podcast. My name is Jeffrey Gorman,

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Speaker 3: joined by Lara Overton and JJ Stancobitz, who is brought

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Speaker 3: to us today by our friends at Pro Football Focus.

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Speaker 3: What you like that?

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Speaker 1: What are we doing well?

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Speaker 3: I know you're a Colts guy, but I mean we're

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Speaker 3: gonna refer to a little PFF before the day's over.

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Speaker 1: I didn't have PFF once in the rundown. I'm a DVA.

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Speaker 1: I lookt in the rundown. Jeffrey, make fun of JJ

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Speaker 1: for the letters here.

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Speaker 3: We will get We will get to that for right now.

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Speaker 3: Kind of a heavy hearted moment that we have had recently.

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Speaker 3: This is coming to you at Tuesday and the Colts

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Speaker 3: have just released a statement regarding one of their favorites,

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Speaker 3: and Lara, I'm going to talk with you. You know this

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Speaker 3: young man, You've known him since day one on here

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Speaker 3: you get to know his family, the impact that he

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Speaker 3: has on the field and off the field. The Colts

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Speaker 3: have officially released linebacker Shaq Leonard and really a tough

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Speaker 3: day because we were joking before that we started recording

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Speaker 3: on It's not joking, is Lara. This is tough because

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Speaker 3: this is a gentleman that you work with and a cover.

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Speaker 3: But at the same time, this is a buddy, this

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Speaker 2: It truly is.

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Speaker 4: And we've had many very candid, heartfelt conversations over the

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Speaker 4: because I covered his rookie season before I was part

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Speaker 4: since twenty nineteen, have always had a very strong connection

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Speaker 2: Talking about that story and sharing that story.

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Speaker 4: And I remember going into training camp when we sat

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Speaker 2: What it did your first two seasons in the league.

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Speaker 4: And you've seen such evolution from him in that period

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Speaker 4: He poured absolutely every bit of himself into being the

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Speaker 3: And here's a story that you guys don't know about

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Speaker 3: A couple hours later, the statement come out. What does

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Speaker 3: say goodbye. I've been released today. That is baffling to

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Speaker 3: What does he do? He goes back to guys like

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Speaker 3: though I want it to be known too.

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Speaker 1: He came back and Kevin Connors filming this episode was

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Speaker 1: It's a sad day, it really is. It's a sad day.

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Speaker 3: The question is, Larry, we'll get to you on this,

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Speaker 3: but JJ, why now, why now for this move? Why

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Speaker 3: And I'm hoping it is because we haven't heard from

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Speaker 1: I mean, you look at his snap count. He's playing

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Speaker 1: It's a situation where yeah, maybe he goes and he

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Speaker 1: rehab from them those were serious deals. We're dealing with nerves.

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Speaker 1: This is his career here in Indy got robbed by

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Speaker 3: Huge contract and hopefully we're going to see that out. Lara,

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Speaker 3: how does this affect the locker rooms. That's a leader,

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Speaker 3: How does this move affect that locker room? You're going

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Speaker 4: Well, I think that it means that there are a

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Speaker 4: I think now you.

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Speaker 2: Look to who's the fire up guy around there? You

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Speaker 4: Always see Shaq was the first to leap up and

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Speaker 2: End zone and yells to the fans the come on?

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Speaker 4: You know it's in every promo, Like going into that

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Speaker 4: and I think that there is a level of okay,

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Speaker 4: So they have to have some more of these hype

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Speaker 2: But you do get the sense that he was kind

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Speaker 2: The guys on the sideline, doing all of that.

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Speaker 4: I do think that it's a blow to this locker

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Speaker 2: Go this way.

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Speaker 4: I don't think though, anyone in this locker room is

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Speaker 3: It is like I'm going for one day, you guys

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Speaker 1: Yeah, every game down the stretch is going to be big.

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Speaker 4: were going to draft or what this rookie season was

441
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Speaker 4: going to be for Anthony Richardson. And I think that

442
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Speaker 4: you know, moving forward, you're going to have to heavily

443
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Speaker 4: rely on this run game. You know this, and I'd

444
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Speaker 4: like to see that balance return. We obviously saw j

445
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Speaker 4: T carry the much heavier workload against New England. Liked

446
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Speaker 4: where it was maybe two and three weeks prior to

447
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Speaker 4: where you had, you know, more of a balance between

448
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Speaker 4: both Zach and JT. Because I think that for the

449
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Speaker 4: lack of having to defend a quarterback run, which obviously

450
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Speaker 4: garnerments who does have mobility, you know, not to diminish

451
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Speaker 4: what he's able to do with his legs, but to

452
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Speaker 4: have versatility at the running back position, when you can

453
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Speaker 4: wear down defenses in two different ways with two very

454
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Speaker 4: different type of runners, I think that is an asset

455
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Speaker 4: that you do want to continue to invest in moving forward.

456
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Speaker 4: But you know have loved what you have gotten of

457
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Speaker 4: late from Josh downs and the clutch playmaking ability that

458
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Speaker 4: he has shown as well. With this stretch like moving forward,

459
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Speaker 4: he is going to I think continue to be and

460
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Speaker 4: Can has earned a heavier and heavier bload within this offense.

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Speaker 4: And you knew going against New England he was going

462
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Speaker 4: to be limited because of the injury. You know that

463
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Speaker 4: he was battling through, didn't practice all week. To coach,

464
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Speaker 4: I can give you fifteen to twenty plays, came in

465
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Speaker 4: on those late downs and no pun intended and was

466
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Speaker 4: exactly what you needed.

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Speaker 2: Him to be in those situations.

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Speaker 4: So I do expect that there's going to be a

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Speaker 4: lot more attention paid to number one and in addition

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Speaker 4: to number eleven.

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Speaker 1: Well, the other thing just on Moss and Taylor, that

472
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Speaker 1: was something that Chris Ballard mentioned on the podcast last

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Speaker 1: week with us Learra that yeah, kind of got a

474
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Speaker 1: little out of whack against New England, and that'll get fixed.

475
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Speaker 1: Like you're going to see more Zach Moss, You're not

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Speaker 1: going to see it. Just be JT. The thing that

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Speaker 1: I go back to now when I'm kind of digesting

478
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Speaker 1: what Chris told us, and in light of the Shaquille

479
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Speaker 1: Leonard news today, is he said, Shane isn't phased by

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Speaker 1: anything that you know, Okay, you know, this is the circumstance.

481
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Speaker 1: You lost your starting quarterback in week five, the same

482
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Speaker 1: week that your star running back came back. They're on

483
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Speaker 1: the field for two plays together this season, all right,

484
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Speaker 1: You've had offensive linemen coming in and out, You've had

485
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Speaker 1: is you know, cornerback depth, you know, really needing needing

486
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Speaker 1: to be tested. Now, okay, one of your team captains

487
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Speaker 1: just got waived on Tuesday. And he said, through through

488
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Speaker 1: all that, and obviously that the shack stuff happened today,

489
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Speaker 1: but just through all of the ups and downs of

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Speaker 1: a season, Shane has stayed the same good and you know, okay,

491
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Speaker 1: all right, no woe is me, no complaining about it,

492
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Speaker 1: Just how can we go win a game with the

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Speaker 1: guys who are going to be on the field for us, Which.

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Speaker 3: Brings me up. You guys talked about it Chris Godwin,

495
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Speaker 3: Mike Evans, Kate Atton, He's guys. You know, Rashad right,

496
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Speaker 3: is it running back?

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Speaker 1: You can play?

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Speaker 3: I know the last and don't don't get me wrong though,

499
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Speaker 3: but big receivers. Really a guy like Juju Brents when Chris,

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Speaker 3: when Chris Ballard said, hey, I'm going to get a

501
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Speaker 3: long We're gonna get long cornerbacks. It's ideal to face

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Speaker 3: these long receivers with those guys. Are we going to

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Speaker 3: see Juju on some.

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Speaker 1: That's gonna be a good question. You know, his his

505
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Speaker 1: practice status to me is going to be really really

506
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Speaker 1: important this week, you know, just because you would like

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Speaker 1: to see him match up against Mike Evans. Not not

508
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Speaker 1: only because it's better for the team, but I just

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Speaker 1: want to see that. I want to see what Juju

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Speaker 1: can do against a guy who, you know, for my money,

511
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Speaker 1: should probably be a Hall of Famer someday, for the

512
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Speaker 1: consistency he's had over his career as a thousand yard receiver.

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Speaker 1: I'd love to just see what he could do against him.

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Speaker 1: And I think Juju's the kind of kid who doesn't

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Speaker 1: back down from any challenge. He's going to scrap it

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Speaker 1: up against whether it's Mike Evans or you know a

517
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Speaker 1: guy who is maybe less established. It doesn't matter. I

518
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Speaker 1: hope he plays just to you know, for obviously it

519
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Speaker 1: helps the team out, but just want I want to

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Speaker 1: see it you like.

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Speaker 4: One thing I asked Zire Franklin in addition to a

522
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Speaker 4: number of guys I don't know, two weeks ago, was

523
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Speaker 4: if takeaways in particular interceptions are contagious when you look

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Speaker 4: at what Kenny Moore did against Carolina and then Julian

525
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Speaker 4: Blackman and Rodney Thomas did against New England, Like, I

526
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Speaker 4: think that those guys have played at such a high

527
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Speaker 4: level the last few weeks, it's so encouraging for that

528
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Speaker 4: group that was doubted for a significant portion of the

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Speaker 4: year to see the way that those guys have risen

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Speaker 4: to make Plays'.

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Speaker 1: Stat time here we go.

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Speaker 3: Let me have it.

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Speaker 1: One of two team, the Cults are one of two

534
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Speaker 1: teams in the NFL to have a takeaway in every

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Speaker 1: single game this season. Is that the Chiefs.

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Speaker 3: Okay, I got a company right now.

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Speaker 1: That's pretty good. Chiefs is pretty good defense.

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Speaker 3: Okay, in good company there. I had a great thought

539
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Speaker 3: I was coming back with right now and then just

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Speaker 3: lost it.

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Speaker 1: Oh, tend to get that stat in there.

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Speaker 3: Rabbits really quick. I'm going to work through that. But

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Speaker 3: when we're talking about Tampa Bay coming in defensively speaking,

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Speaker 3: you know, Levante David, I think of it, stuff like that.

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Speaker 3: They're pretty good though. This team defensively is pretty good.

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Speaker 3: And I know we're on the home turf right there.

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Speaker 3: But oh, I got it. I got it. I'm sure,

548
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Speaker 3: and it's for both of you. I did a little

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Speaker 3: reach search on Alec Pierce. He's having such a similar

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Speaker 3: year this year to what he is last year? Is

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Speaker 3: that pretty accurate?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: And last year and last year Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Aside from that, like you know, the game winning touchdown, yah.

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Speaker 3: And last year we said, wow, this kid's great, this

556
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Speaker 3: kid's but in your second year you want to jump up. Well,

557
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Speaker 3: the jump up hasn't exactly happened. And I know there's

558
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Speaker 3: been a quarterback carousel of sorts like this do we

559
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Speaker 3: need and this final games above and beyond and Alec

560
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Speaker 3: Pearson a half basically is what I'm saying for this

561
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Speaker 3: team to have success, to really have that wide receiver,

562
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Speaker 3: you know that Gardner's going to look you. Obviously, downs

563
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Speaker 3: is there and depending on who's playing at the tight

564
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Speaker 3: end position and stuff, but Alec Pierce from here, how

565
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Speaker 3: important is his role from here downfield? Not only that,

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Speaker 3: but really taking the stats that he's been building on,

567
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Speaker 3: which has been very pedestrian and compared to last year,

568
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Speaker 3: but really having to amp it up. Are we at

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Speaker 3: that point with this receiver.

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Speaker 4: I think we're at the point where you just want

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Speaker 4: to see him consistently gain confidence because I think with

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Speaker 4: Alec is you see that the more reps there are,

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Speaker 4: the more targets that he receives.

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Speaker 2: That's where you start to see it.

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Speaker 4: It's hard to go quiet and not have a catch

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Speaker 4: in a game or two games, or be you know,

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Speaker 4: very limited in your role and then be expected. Then

578
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Speaker 4: you you know, it's a huge moment you're expecting, like

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Speaker 4: it's you really need to find that consistency. And I

580
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Speaker 4: thought that you saw a big spike in his confidence

581
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Speaker 4: last year when Matt he and Matt Ryan connected on

582
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Speaker 4: a number of situation and they would do it game

583
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Speaker 4: in and game out, and you would get him involved

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Speaker 4: really early on. I think it's difficult, especially for a

585
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Speaker 4: young receiver in a second season where okay, you're dormant

586
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Speaker 4: the entire first half and then finally you're getting a

587
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Speaker 4: look in the third quarter. So I think from a

588
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Speaker 4: confidence building standpoint and an uh establishment of this offense,

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Speaker 4: I do think you would like to see him be

590
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Speaker 4: more heavily involved in this seven games.

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Speaker 3: A little lecture work and yeah, a little lecture weaponry

592
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Speaker 3: is what we're saying.

593
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Speaker 4: And I mean the defenses you're facing for the most

594
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Speaker 4: part kind of lean toward being able to do that,

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Speaker 4: which we're.

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Speaker 1: Gonna get in.

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Speaker 3: Well. Yeah, so that that brings me to my next point.

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Speaker 3: Bring up, bring up those percentages. I want to stay you.

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Speaker 1: Want a percentage. Okay, Tampa blitzes on forty eight point

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Speaker 1: six percent of their opposing passing plays. That's the second

601
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Speaker 1: highest rate in the league. So half half of the

602
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Speaker 1: passing guys like Pro Football focus, Yeah, basically half. Usually

603
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Speaker 1: when you blitz, you can you know, you can do

604
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Speaker 1: a lot of zone stuff behind it, but sometimes you're

605
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Speaker 1: gonna leave your your cornerbacks one on one and if

606
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Speaker 1: you do that, you know, hey, throw it up to Alec.

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Speaker 1: See what happens.

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Speaker 3: That's what I'm saying. Just somebody to get it in.

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Speaker 3: I love these stats, and we're coming with JJ Stankovitz

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Speaker 3: people are going to be talking about that. Shack Leonard.

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Speaker 3: Is a lot going on in this Thanksgiving week. I

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Speaker 3: still have to get to some Thanksgiving each stuff that

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Speaker 3: we're going to talk about at the end of the show.

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Speaker 3: But JJ one stat that pointed out to me on

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Speaker 3: the rundown that I love and please help us with this. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: thirty three percent chance left, thirty three percent chance that

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Speaker 3: this team three out of ten chances we are going

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Speaker 3: to make the playoffs from here on out, which happen

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Speaker 3: to go. I like those numbers because, as Learra said,

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Speaker 3: we're not facing the eighty five Bears defense a lot

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Speaker 3: through the next seven games.

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Speaker 1: Here's the context for those numbers.

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Speaker 2: So you don't have the Niners the Eagles, Chiefs.

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Speaker 1: Like the Bills, do basically what the Bills have coming up.

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Speaker 1: The Colts have the easiest remaining schedule in the AFC,

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Speaker 1: according to your your guys at d v O A

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Speaker 1: O R O R. Yeah, are three to eleven TLC

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Speaker 1: what music DMB What is O V A R tbd

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Speaker 1: U d v O A Uh, it's been around for

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Speaker 1: a while in advanced stat detracts efficiency.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, give me digitally visualized.

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Speaker 1: I believe it's ramp.

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Speaker 3: Uh what is it?

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Speaker 1: I forget what the D stands for? But value over average.

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Speaker 3: Value over average, distinguished determined value over.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, sure, go ahead. These are good numbers. They're good,

642
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Speaker 1: they're solid, they've been around for a while.

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Speaker 3: If we can understand them, they're great. But just give

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Speaker 3: me the d v O yah.

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Speaker 1: So that that the Colts, according to to that they

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Speaker 1: the opponents that the Colts will face down the stretch

647
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Speaker 1: are easier than any other team in the AFC. So

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Speaker 1: and look, there are no easy games, especially when you're

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Speaker 1: in just.

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Speaker 2: Two weeks away from getting Grover Stewart back.

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Speaker 1: That is big because the Colts with Grover Stewart. I'm

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Speaker 1: going to throw another stat at you. The Colts with

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Speaker 1: Grover Stewart on the field or on their you know,

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Speaker 1: on the roster, we're thirteenth in e p A against

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Speaker 1: the rush on defense that's expected. Points at it. There

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Speaker 1: we go without Grover Stewart, they're thirty second.

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Speaker 3: A yeah, big big difference.

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Speaker 1: There, and that is no slight to any of the

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Speaker 1: guys who have stepped in for Grove, but man Grover's

660
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Speaker 1: that just shows you the impact that grow Stewart has.

661
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Speaker 3: Two more weeks with no Grover Stewart and then he's

662
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Speaker 3: back on. If we can get by here with a

663
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Speaker 3: couple of these, I don't.

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Speaker 1: Care how they Wincinnati game, right, yeah, that you wish

665
00:30:08,600 --> 00:30:10,560
Speaker 1: the since the game in the Tennessee game were flipped right.

666
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Speaker 1: Grove back for Tennessee. But this defense is a chance

667
00:30:15,600 --> 00:30:18,320
Speaker 1: and like I said, they're turning the ball over. And

668
00:30:18,760 --> 00:30:22,560
Speaker 1: if the Colts offense doesn't turn the ball over, they

669
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Speaker 1: are going to win games.

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Speaker 3: Lara, I saw. I brought out Ballock Peerce. How important

671
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Speaker 3: is Jonathan Taylor? How important is Zach Moss for these

672
00:30:30,600 --> 00:30:32,520
Speaker 3: last seven They say to run the football as we're

673
00:30:32,520 --> 00:30:35,280
Speaker 3: getting closer to the winter months and stuff. But my

674
00:30:35,360 --> 00:30:37,560
Speaker 3: point is this is that the key of this offense

675
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Speaker 3: from here on out, regardless of what look you get defensively.

676
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Speaker 2: It has to be because really when you look at

677
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Speaker 2: you know.

678
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Speaker 4: Winning the turnover battle. The running backs have done their

679
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Speaker 4: job in protecting the football. You know, over the course

680
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Speaker 4: of this season, starting out you know, Week two, when

681
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Speaker 4: Zach Moss came back from the broken arm. You know,

682
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Speaker 4: they're aside from Week one running backs, ball security, these

683
00:30:58,600 --> 00:31:02,640
Speaker 4: guys have been in every fashion. So I do think

684
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Speaker 4: when you look at, especially what your offensive line has

685
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Speaker 4: given you, Yeah, use those guys.

686
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Speaker 2: This offensive line is playing at the highest level that

687
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Speaker 2: it has in what two years.

688
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Speaker 4: JJ, And now you have, yeah Broth, you have a

689
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Speaker 4: healthy Jonathan Taylor for the first time in probably you know,

690
00:31:17,280 --> 00:31:20,040
Speaker 4: two years as well with everything you went through last year,

691
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Speaker 4: and now you have this great compliment to him in

692
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Speaker 4: what Zach Moss is able to bring you. So that's

693
00:31:25,040 --> 00:31:29,320
Speaker 4: going to afford you much more opportunity, much more variety

694
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Speaker 4: in and schematically what you can bring in your run game.

695
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Speaker 3: JJ. I want to talk some more percentages with you,

696
00:31:37,080 --> 00:31:39,560
Speaker 3: I really do. I want to talk more pro football focused.

697
00:31:39,680 --> 00:31:41,800
Speaker 3: I want to talk about that. But something's more pressing

698
00:31:41,840 --> 00:31:44,520
Speaker 3: than that. We will not have a podcast on Thursday

699
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Speaker 3: because of the holiday, and I want you guys to

700
00:31:46,680 --> 00:31:48,680
Speaker 3: know that day will not be on here, that it's

701
00:31:48,720 --> 00:31:51,640
Speaker 3: not happened celebrating with the family. You've got a young

702
00:31:51,720 --> 00:31:53,880
Speaker 3: family around your lera. I want to get into yours too,

703
00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:56,080
Speaker 3: but I want to stick to Thanksgiving. I know you're

704
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Speaker 3: a master chef when it comes to cutlery and whatnot

705
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Speaker 3: with that. Who will prepare the meal for the stank

706
00:32:02,040 --> 00:32:04,479
Speaker 3: of Itzes this year? And what will that meal consist?

707
00:32:04,600 --> 00:32:05,440
Speaker 2: So you bring back worse?

708
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Speaker 1: Are you just going?

709
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Speaker 3: Are you going chalk right across the board? It's cranberry,

710
00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:10,280
Speaker 3: it's turkey, it's stuffing.

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Speaker 1: It's my So we're going back up to Chicago where

712
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Speaker 1: my mom's family is for a little family Thanksgiving on Thursday.

713
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Speaker 1: But previously I'm a big brine guy for the turkey.

714
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Speaker 1: So you get you get an ice bucket, you know,

715
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Speaker 1: water ice, You throw some spices in. You could throw

716
00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:30,960
Speaker 1: some citrus in if you want. Maybe a little little

717
00:32:30,960 --> 00:32:32,040
Speaker 1: bourbon could go in there.

718
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Speaker 3: Whatever.

719
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Speaker 1: It might be. Drunk bird okay, yeah, you know, and

720
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Speaker 1: you dunk the bird in it overnight. Usually try to

721
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Speaker 1: get about twenty four hours when it's a little too

722
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Speaker 1: warm out. You got to put a lot more ice

723
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Speaker 1: in that bucket because you obviously don't want the bird

724
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Speaker 1: to spoil. Sure, but you brind the turkey and you

725
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Speaker 1: cook it low and slow and slow. That's the way

726
00:32:50,840 --> 00:32:51,920
Speaker 1: to go. It's it's the best.

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Speaker 3: How many times a year do you eat cranberries?

728
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Speaker 1: Zero? So I don't put it on my plate and

729
00:32:57,160 --> 00:32:58,560
Speaker 1: then get it. It's wasted space.

730
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Speaker 3: Hello are you traditional on it? Stuff? Are you? Are

731
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Speaker 3: you eating cranberry at the.

732
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Speaker 2: South And by the way, where has to be?

733
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Speaker 3: Where are the overtons this year? And what are you cooking,

734
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Speaker 3: if anything this year?

735
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Speaker 4: So this is a shout out to one of my

736
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Speaker 4: favorite places on the north side of Indy. This is

737
00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:14,360
Speaker 4: not a paid advertisement, but what I always take for

738
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Speaker 4: Thanksgiving is the classic Psalms coffee cake.

739
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Speaker 1: Oh god, I love the Psalms coffee.

740
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Speaker 4: So you can go to Psalms there for you fellow

741
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Speaker 4: north Siders, right around what's seventy first in Keystone, or.

742
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Speaker 1: You can join me in the village West Clay.

743
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Speaker 2: Yes, oh, there you go.

744
00:33:30,640 --> 00:33:32,720
Speaker 4: But you walk in and then you have them frozen

745
00:33:32,800 --> 00:33:34,960
Speaker 4: a smaller or a larger and you can just go

746
00:33:35,240 --> 00:33:37,400
Speaker 4: Tuesday night, Wednesday night, you can pick them up, grab

747
00:33:37,440 --> 00:33:38,880
Speaker 4: it and then you are set. You will be the

748
00:33:38,960 --> 00:33:42,560
Speaker 4: hit of Thanksgiving. So that's what I take I love

749
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Speaker 4: cranberry sauce, but I want like the ocean spray out

750
00:33:45,240 --> 00:33:47,440
Speaker 4: of the can, like with the ridges, like just yeah,

751
00:33:47,480 --> 00:33:49,400
Speaker 4: I love it. The home made stuff I don't like

752
00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:52,440
Speaker 4: as much. Like I want the jellied goo. That's what

753
00:33:52,520 --> 00:33:54,200
Speaker 4: I want, And then I like to combine it with

754
00:33:54,280 --> 00:33:56,280
Speaker 4: some of the stuffing. You kind of mix those together.

755
00:33:56,360 --> 00:33:59,120
Speaker 3: But stuffing, boy, stuffing, I got a whole thing.

756
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Speaker 1: Uh whoa woa.

757
00:34:00,960 --> 00:34:02,960
Speaker 3: Stuffing I got and you're preparing it, I know, but

758
00:34:03,040 --> 00:34:05,320
Speaker 3: don't if you eat stuffing and it's soggin the middle,

759
00:34:05,360 --> 00:34:07,440
Speaker 3: get out of here. You got to burn your stuff

760
00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:11,400
Speaker 3: a gentleman. Corners, Yes, you have to burn it. If

761
00:34:11,440 --> 00:34:12,960
Speaker 3: we're going to get into mac and cheese with some

762
00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:15,560
Speaker 3: people having some people, it's not going to be soupy.

763
00:34:15,680 --> 00:34:18,279
Speaker 3: You gotta crust those corners too, and make that top rown,

764
00:34:18,520 --> 00:34:20,399
Speaker 3: make that cheese bake. It's a must. I'm not going

765
00:34:20,440 --> 00:34:22,879
Speaker 3: anywhere near your mac and cheese unless it's been through.

766
00:34:23,239 --> 00:34:25,480
Speaker 3: It's it's ten extra minutes in the oven, is what

767
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Speaker 3: I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: That's what I need.

769
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Speaker 2: I'm a word of that. Yeah right, Yeah.

770
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Speaker 3: We jammed a lot into this show because of the holidays.

771
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Speaker 3: This weekend Shack Leonard release. Obviously the Tampa Bay Bucks

772
00:34:34,560 --> 00:34:37,000
Speaker 3: coming up. We got percentages galore, and it is a

773
00:34:37,080 --> 00:34:39,440
Speaker 3: short week like this, but a couple of very important

774
00:34:39,440 --> 00:34:42,800
Speaker 3: reminders follow these two. Follow this young man and this woman.

775
00:34:42,960 --> 00:34:45,880
Speaker 3: If you want the latest again at ax at Larra Overton,

776
00:34:45,960 --> 00:34:48,919
Speaker 3: at JJ Stankomitz and of course on colds dot com.

777
00:34:48,960 --> 00:34:50,719
Speaker 3: Don't forget Inside Football with Rick Ventur.

778
00:34:50,760 --> 00:34:53,000
Speaker 2: Don't forget at Hey Gorman, at Hey Morman too.

779
00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:54,720
Speaker 3: I won't give you much, but I'm just being honest

780
00:34:54,760 --> 00:34:55,040
Speaker 3: with you.

781
00:34:55,040 --> 00:34:56,920
Speaker 1: Now you honestly you send better tweets than I do.

782
00:34:57,080 --> 00:34:59,480
Speaker 3: We'll be out on Wednesday with coach Rick Venturi. That

783
00:34:59,600 --> 00:35:01,920
Speaker 3: is Insight Football, giving you the blueprints for the Colt's

784
00:35:01,920 --> 00:35:04,400
Speaker 3: way to beat the Buccaneers. In week twelve, no official

785
00:35:04,440 --> 00:35:07,439
Speaker 3: podcast on Thursday, Enjoy the Burden, enjoy the burnt mac

786
00:35:07,480 --> 00:35:09,680
Speaker 3: and cheese, JJ and Bill Brook's also going to bring

787
00:35:09,719 --> 00:35:12,120
Speaker 3: you the Instant Reaction on Sunday night, recapping the Colts

788
00:35:12,120 --> 00:35:15,399
Speaker 3: and Buccaneers. We end with this, Lara, We're getting into

789
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Speaker 3: the holiday season. Are you ready? Because the reason I

790
00:35:18,040 --> 00:35:19,759
Speaker 3: said that is I was driving home last night and

791
00:35:19,840 --> 00:35:21,960
Speaker 3: it was about you know, it was dark it was.

792
00:35:22,280 --> 00:35:24,880
Speaker 3: It was like three twenty pm, and I was outside

793
00:35:24,920 --> 00:35:27,400
Speaker 3: and I saw the Christmas lights in the neighborhood. We

794
00:35:27,440 --> 00:35:30,279
Speaker 3: got about six houses up. Is it too early? Thanksgiving's

795
00:35:30,280 --> 00:35:32,319
Speaker 3: not even here yet. That's my question of the day

796
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Speaker 3: is when is the right time to throw up some

797
00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:35,920
Speaker 3: Christmas lights? Uh?

798
00:35:36,040 --> 00:35:37,480
Speaker 1: They already went up in our household.

799
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Speaker 3: All right, I'm going with you.

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00:35:39,040 --> 00:35:40,680
Speaker 1: No, Okay, listen, let's done with Jay.

801
00:35:40,680 --> 00:35:41,760
Speaker 3: Where'd you do it at Halloween?

802
00:35:42,560 --> 00:35:46,239
Speaker 1: No? You were Halloween decor away and then there's about

803
00:35:46,239 --> 00:35:48,080
Speaker 1: a week gap and then the Christmas time goes.

804
00:35:48,120 --> 00:35:50,440
Speaker 3: Actually, there wasn't a week gap, And I bet you're three,

805
00:35:50,560 --> 00:35:52,560
Speaker 3: you know, four days and you got up on the ladder.

806
00:35:52,600 --> 00:35:55,319
Speaker 1: I bet yeah, you know? Why bye week? That's what

807
00:35:55,320 --> 00:35:56,480
Speaker 1: I'm heading during a lot of time.

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Speaker 3: Okay, what's going on with Tucker and lights at your house?

809
00:36:00,280 --> 00:36:00,640
Speaker 2: Nothing?

810
00:36:00,880 --> 00:36:01,200
Speaker 1: Nothing?

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Speaker 4: We are a into December. I like to respect the

812
00:36:06,040 --> 00:36:09,440
Speaker 4: tradition of Thanksgiving. I liked for Thanksgiving rush to have

813
00:36:09,520 --> 00:36:14,080
Speaker 4: its whole weekend of just Thanksgiving. To me, hot take here,

814
00:36:14,400 --> 00:36:17,920
Speaker 4: But I think Thanksgiving is a better holiday than Christmas.

815
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Speaker 3: Okay.

816
00:36:18,480 --> 00:36:19,600
Speaker 1: I have a couple of times.

817
00:36:20,200 --> 00:36:21,600
Speaker 2: Well, here's the thing. I like.

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00:36:22,360 --> 00:36:26,560
Speaker 4: You can walk around and say Happy Thanksgiving all week

819
00:36:26,600 --> 00:36:29,880
Speaker 4: long to everybody, and you know, kind of everyone's partaking

820
00:36:29,920 --> 00:36:32,080
Speaker 4: in different things like that, so it's just kind of

821
00:36:32,239 --> 00:36:35,400
Speaker 4: and then there's not the obligation of the gifts and

822
00:36:35,440 --> 00:36:38,520
Speaker 4: the exchanging and the pressure of all that. It's just

823
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Speaker 4: about gathering and being together.

824
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Speaker 1: The good news is you apparently don't have to get

825
00:36:44,320 --> 00:36:45,960
Speaker 1: Tucker a gift this year.

826
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Speaker 2: After that Tucker gifted him. Yes, I think the best

827
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Speaker 2: gift of all time. So yes, it's it's true.

828
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Speaker 1: If you want to know what, we don't need to

829
00:36:54,400 --> 00:36:56,080
Speaker 1: throw them under the bus or the don't.

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Speaker 3: By the way, for those who don't know, mister Trucker,

831
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Speaker 3: you guys, I'm gonna get us out of trouble. Tucker.

832
00:37:04,440 --> 00:37:06,799
Speaker 3: I'm on your side. Your wife, on the other hand,

833
00:37:06,880 --> 00:37:08,320
Speaker 3: I don't know for a fact, but I want to

834
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Speaker 3: say a big thanks to one of our official forefathers

835
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Speaker 3: and pilgrims of this show, the gentleman behind the camera,

836
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Speaker 3: Kevin Connors today, thank you for your help. JJ. I

837
00:37:16,200 --> 00:37:18,919
Speaker 3: wonder look forward to what we got because this team

838
00:37:18,960 --> 00:37:21,319
Speaker 3: is sniffing a playoff berth with these seven games to go,

839
00:37:21,360 --> 00:37:23,560
Speaker 3: and they're all winnable games, not gonna say we're going

840
00:37:23,680 --> 00:37:25,279
Speaker 3: to do it, but boil boy, you get five and

841
00:37:25,280 --> 00:37:27,759
Speaker 3: you got double digit, you got something, Lara Olverton, I

842
00:37:27,800 --> 00:37:30,319
Speaker 3: want to hear about everything that went down down South Indy.

843
00:37:30,440 --> 00:37:33,440
Speaker 3: Next week we we'll talk about after a big Colts victory.

844
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Speaker 3: This is the Official Colts Podcast, brought to you by

845
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Speaker 3: our friends and win Las Vegas Guys. I appreciate the time.

846
00:37:39,200 --> 00:37:41,680
Speaker 3: Anything you got anything else before we go, because like

847
00:37:41,719 --> 00:37:43,480
Speaker 3: I said, it's a little bit different week. Thanksgiving.

848
00:37:43,719 --> 00:37:44,839
Speaker 2: Yes, the thing last thing that I have.

849
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Speaker 4: If you are in town, you're around Indianapolis on Thanksgiving,

850
00:37:47,760 --> 00:37:49,640
Speaker 4: come out to the Drumstick Dash.

851
00:37:49,680 --> 00:37:50,920
Speaker 2: It all benefits.

852
00:37:50,480 --> 00:37:54,200
Speaker 4: Wheeler Mission, the largest fundraiser of the year for Wheeler Mission.

853
00:37:54,200 --> 00:37:56,120
Speaker 4: There's a four point two mile run and a two

854
00:37:56,160 --> 00:37:56,960
Speaker 4: and a half mile run.

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00:37:57,120 --> 00:37:57,920
Speaker 2: Family friendly.

856
00:37:58,200 --> 00:38:00,480
Speaker 4: Get everybody out there nine o'clock right there in the

857
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Speaker 4: heart of Broad Ripple.

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00:38:01,239 --> 00:38:03,280
Speaker 2: You can walk, you can jog, you can bring.

859
00:38:03,120 --> 00:38:05,640
Speaker 4: The wagons and the strollers, but just an all around

860
00:38:05,680 --> 00:38:07,640
Speaker 4: great way to kick off Thanksgiving morning.

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Speaker 2: Appreciate our friends that Wheeler Mission for all that they.

862
00:38:09,680 --> 00:38:12,399
Speaker 3: Double jay anything on the way out. Give me something

863
00:38:12,440 --> 00:38:14,279
Speaker 3: statistically just so we can take it with us. Put

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Speaker 3: it in our back pouch for the drive to mission.

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Speaker 3: Yeah you want you want to throw throw some pennies

866
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Speaker 3: in your couch.

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Speaker 1: Give me something staffter, Nah, you know what, I don't

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Speaker 1: have that.

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00:38:23,760 --> 00:38:27,400
Speaker 3: Forty eight or so of American Households. We'll have turkey

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Speaker 3: on the table. How about something like that forty eight?

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Speaker 3: What are you talking about? Try like ninety. I don't know.

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00:38:32,640 --> 00:38:34,600
Speaker 3: We're a melting pot right now. So you might have some,

873
00:38:34,680 --> 00:38:35,839
Speaker 3: you know, egg rolls over here.

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Speaker 1: You might have my old podcast co host real quick

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Speaker 1: if you're if you're not a turkey fan. In Chicago,

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Speaker 1: my old podcast co host, he and his girlfriend would

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Speaker 1: just use Thanksgiving NAIs and excuse to go get like

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Speaker 1: food they want. They don't really like Thanksgiving food, so

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Speaker 1: they would go buy like really nice steak. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: at the point of meat market in Chicago. Go cook

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Speaker 1: that up at home. Don't don't know who they are,

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Speaker 1: but really like what you guys did back there. I

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Speaker 1: wish we could do that myself, because.

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Speaker 3: Really, this meal of turkey and it's like once a

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Speaker 3: year and it's just like you know, I mean, it's

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Speaker 3: a nice tradition and everything. Don't get me wrong, but

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Speaker 3: it's like I'm not going out of my way in

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Speaker 3: October or in like July to say where's some cranberry

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Speaker 3: and turkeys and stuffing.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I'm not looking for stuffing in May.

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Speaker 3: I know I sound like I do. I sound like

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Speaker 3: a dry fart. Sorry about that, But enjoy the Thanksgiving thing.

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Speaker 3: Enjoy the feast and everything. Sorry, we're gonna let you

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Speaker 3: out on that. And remember the thing to take away

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Speaker 3: is thank you, Shack Leonard for everything you brought here

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Speaker 3: to this club. You did a hell of a job

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Speaker 3: for the time, and we hope you do it somewhere

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Speaker 3: else and can win a ring and keep on going

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Speaker 3: with bigger and greater things. And more importantly, the fans.

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Speaker 3: He was talking to you guys about the fans. So

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Speaker 3: we are all on. Behalf of AJ, behalf of AJ

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Speaker 3: and JJ and hello. We used to have a guy

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Speaker 3: here named AJ, but I'm back for JJ and hello.

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Speaker 3: That's Learra Overton. I want to thank you fans for

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Speaker 3: watching us, putting up with us, watching Colts dot com,

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Speaker 3: following us on Twitter, and everything in between. Because it

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Speaker 3: is an exciting football year. Seven seven weeks left, Colts

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Speaker 3: get five of those seven wins, playoff team, we're going

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Speaker 3: to talk about it more Happy Thanksgiving

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Speaker 4: MHM.