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Speaker 1: Welcome to Colts Roundtable Live on ninety three to five

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Speaker 1: We're talking Colts and recapping the action. Good forest fucker.

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Speaker 2: Picks up a live football and races the other way

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Speaker 2: for a score picked off by the Colts from the

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Speaker 2: near sideline. Kenny Moore racing for the intone.

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Speaker 3: Ten five touchdown.

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Speaker 1: Indeed, why now Here's the voice of the Colts Matt

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Speaker 1: Taylor from the Indiana Union Construction Industry Radio Studio.

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Speaker 2: Good evening, everybody, and welcome to Colts Around Table Live tonight,

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Speaker 2: Matt Taylor. Welcome inside the Indiana Union Construction Industry Radio

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Speaker 2: Studio and Colts Roundtable Live is with you until seven

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Speaker 2: pm tonight, talking Colts football and a thrilling win. On Sunday,

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Speaker 2: as the Colts knocked off the Patriots twenty five to

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Speaker 2: twenty four, the victory improves the Colts record to six

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Speaker 2: and seven, and it was the team's first win over

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Speaker 2: the Patriots at Gillette Stadium since two thousand and six.

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Speaker 2: We've got a busy show tonight coming up. We're gonna

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Speaker 2: start it off with our weekly chat in just a

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Speaker 2: few moments with Colts head coach Shane Steichen, and then

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Speaker 2: starting on segment number two, analyst Rick Venturi and Joe

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Speaker 2: Wrights will join me to break down the game film

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Speaker 2: from Sunday's win in Foxborough. But it was a game

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Speaker 2: that saw the defense give up yards but make stops

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Speaker 2: inside the red zone. The offense suffered two turnovers, but

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Speaker 2: Anthony Richardson delivered in the clutch. The fourth quarter belonged

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Speaker 2: to the Indianapolis Colts, so let's recap the action as

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Speaker 2: we lead off with the game rewind. The Patriots took

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Speaker 2: a sixteen to fourteen lead into halftime in New England.

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Speaker 2: Rookie quarterback Drake May started off hot, completing seventeen of

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Speaker 2: Colts were in the game at the break thanks to

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Speaker 2: two red zone touchdowns, won a seven yard pass to

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Speaker 2: but the second half was back and forth just like

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Speaker 2: the first half. The Colts took the lead seventeen to

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Speaker 2: sixteen on a twenty five yard Matt Gay field goal

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Speaker 2: that capped off a thirteen play drive, but in the

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Speaker 2: fourth quarter, the Patriots would go up by the count

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Speaker 2: of twenty four to seventeen on an Antonio Gibson eleven

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Speaker 2: looked bleak when Anthony Richardson was picked off by Patriots

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Speaker 2: cornerback Christian Gonzalez in the middle of the fourth quarter,

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Speaker 2: but the defense forced a three and out and the

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Speaker 2: Colts got the ball back with five thirty four remaining

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Speaker 2: on their own twenty yard line, and then Anthony Richardson

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Speaker 2: with only twelve seconds to spare. Richardson accounted for fifty

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Speaker 2: the game. The Colts on that drive had to convert

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Speaker 2: game at twenty three. But the Colts kept the foot

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Speaker 2: it sounded like this. Anthony Richardson out of the gun,

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Speaker 2: and the Colts were winners. In Week thirteen. The nineteen

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Speaker 2: on segment two, Rick Venturrey and Joe Wrights are going

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Speaker 2: for your submissions and your thoughts for head coach Shane Steichen,

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Speaker 2: what a win, congratulations. How proud were you of the

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Speaker 2: team's fight and their execution down the stretch On that

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Speaker 2: epic nineteen play drive.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it was awesome to see those guys fight. The

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Speaker 5: the fourth down conversions were big. Over overcame some things

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Speaker 5: Anthony was tremendous.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and you knew right away no hesitation at all

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Speaker 5: Felt good about it right there, with that tiny twelve

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Speaker 5: You gotta stay calm in the moment, you know what

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Speaker 2: Those, you know, after the game, Anthony said he loves

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Speaker 2: So you've got game winning drives on the road by

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Speaker 2: Do you just think teams know how to win? Or

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Speaker 2: is that something that they develop? How do you look

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Speaker 5: it's huge for Anthony as well, you know, a young

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Speaker 2: The game within the game. You had three new offensive

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Speaker 2: what did you think of the job they did.

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Speaker 5: getting their opportunity. You know, I've heard about Glow before

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Speaker 2: And it also speaks to your confidence in them. I

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Speaker 2: mean you call the running play on that two point

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Speaker 2: So the red zone yesterday you were three for four,

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Speaker 2: the week before the Colts were zero for two against

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Speaker 2: the Lions. That was a major reason why the Colts

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Speaker 2: won that game. How do you explain the differences in

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Speaker 5: I think, you know, we executed that was the big thing.

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Speaker 5: We executed this week against New England and found ways

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Speaker 5: to get in there. Obviously three for four obviously would

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Speaker 5: are guys executed down there?

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Speaker 2: All right? You're on the bye? What what's your message

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Speaker 2: to the team here on this week off?

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Speaker 5: You know, get ready, get your bodies right, get your

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Speaker 5: minds right. Obviously, get some rest, but be ready to roll.

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Speaker 2: Be ready to roll.

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Speaker 5: Come back Monday, be ready to go for this Denver game.

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Speaker 2: How do you spin the bye? Within you and the

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Speaker 2: coaching staff? What do you guys want to get accomplished?

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Speaker 5: Self scout We kind of go back and look at

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Speaker 5: what we've done this year self scout wise and making

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Speaker 5: sure you know the areas that we need to improve on.

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Speaker 5: You know this, you know this four game stretch, get

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Speaker 5: those things improved on over the bye week and then

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Speaker 5: obviously we'll get some you know, the coach. We'll get

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Speaker 5: some times with their families as well later in the week,

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Speaker 5: so it'll be good.

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Speaker 2: How many guys need this buy? I mean, you've got

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Speaker 2: All right, A few more Harry's asking, what's our biggest

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Speaker 2: Absolutely. Head coach Shane Steichen with us. Sorry, coach, iom,

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Speaker 2: Thanksgiving went well. Put on some sweatpants after the big

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, all right, coach, Well, I know you got a

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Speaker 2: the show. How was that long weekend Thanksgiving capped off

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Speaker 4: We did Thanksgiving with Jill's family on Thursday and then

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Speaker 2: It's time now for the tail the tape by Brace

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Speaker 2: Get ready, get ready, all right, Joe. The Colts were

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Speaker 4: last three games, two fourth quarter drives when you're behind

439
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Speaker 4: and leading in the team, that's what's most important to

440
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Speaker 4: me because this team knows, and I think there's a

441
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Speaker 4: belief in there that we get this guy the ball.

442
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Speaker 4: He's going to be able to make plays with his

443
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Speaker 4: arm and his leg. And I know it's a short

444
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Speaker 4: career in a short time frame. He's always been at

445
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Speaker 4: his best in the fourth quarter. He's got selective amnesia,

446
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Speaker 4: like Coach likes to talk about. He comes in from

447
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Speaker 4: the interception, no big deal, leads us on a nineteen

448
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Speaker 4: play drive to win the game. And what I'm most

449
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Speaker 4: excited about is you get the win. You now get

450
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Speaker 4: the bye week to rest, and you're really setting up

451
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Speaker 4: a playoff game in Denver, because if we beat Denver

452
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Speaker 4: and get to seven and seven and have the tiebreaker,

453
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Speaker 4: they got a really hard schedule down the stretch. They'll

454
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Speaker 4: lose at least another game. If you're the Colts right now.

455
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Speaker 4: What's exciting. You have that late by, which is really odd.

456
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Speaker 4: I've never had to buy that late. But it's a

457
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Speaker 4: four game season that you control your own destiny with

458
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Speaker 4: and that's an exciting spot to be in after all

459
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Speaker 4: the ups and downs, and no matter what happened the

460
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Speaker 4: last twelve games, we control our own destiny. Sitting here

461
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Speaker 4: Monday night on December second, and that's an exciting place

462
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Speaker 4: to be and if you're in the locker room, and

463
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Speaker 4: that's an exciting place to be for Colts fans, you.

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Speaker 3: Know, I you know, as a cult fan and broadcaster,

465
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Speaker 3: I have to say this was one of the most exciting.

466
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Speaker 3: I mean, you kept telling you, kept telling them how

467
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Speaker 3: many lead changes there were. It was going back and forth,

468
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Speaker 3: and it was a point here or there, and it

469
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Speaker 3: was literally hard stopping. I think mine did stop right

470
00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:48,479
Speaker 3: there when we went for two, and I was happy

471
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Speaker 3: with it. But you know, with the season on the brink,

472
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Speaker 3: like I said, I think it was one of the

473
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Speaker 3: most exciting, exciting cult whims that I've ever been around.

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Speaker 3: Three key things. To me, three key elements is what

475
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Speaker 3: I see both at the game and in the tape.

476
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Speaker 3: I think Number one is our offensive grit. Okay, the

477
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Speaker 3: nineteen play, eighty yard five minutes, thank god, time consuming

478
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Speaker 3: drive was a little bit of everything. I agree with Joe.

479
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Speaker 3: Hats off to those kids that stepped up and played

480
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Speaker 3: in the offensive line. Of course, the quarterback, you know, Pierce,

481
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Speaker 3: all those things, all the grit that it took, the

482
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Speaker 3: you know, the three fourth downs, and essentially it was

483
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Speaker 3: four fourth downs because fit two points like a fourth down,

484
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Speaker 3: and you know, just the grit to go the length

485
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Speaker 3: of the field with it on the line, with literally

486
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Speaker 3: the season on the line, great grit. I think number

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Speaker 3: two was the cahonis and I think game management of

488
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Speaker 3: our head coach. He's come under some fire at times,

489
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Speaker 3: but I thought that he did a great job. I thought,

490
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Speaker 3: you know, all along, I felt like I felt like

491
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Speaker 3: he would go for two. I think I mentioned that

492
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Speaker 3: to you during and I know my defensive mind was

493
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Speaker 3: if I was a defensive coach, the defense I was

494
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Speaker 3: thinking about was what's going to be the two point defense?

495
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Speaker 3: And he was so decisive there was never a doubt

496
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Speaker 3: from the time we scored that touchdown. He put those

497
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Speaker 3: two fingers up right now. There wasn't no thought about it.

498
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Speaker 3: That was what he was going to do. And I

499
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Speaker 3: think the reason I'd give him really good game management

500
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Speaker 3: since there a he looked across. Remember now New England

501
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Speaker 3: had been in nineteen defensive plays. They were exhausted on defense,

502
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Speaker 3: and number two, there's no way he was going to

503
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Speaker 3: trust his defense to go back in in and overtime.

504
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Speaker 3: No way. And I thought the other thing was at

505
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Speaker 3: the end of the game, when it was on the line,

506
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Speaker 3: he thought, players not plays. I mean it was going

507
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Speaker 3: to be ar five and all those key situations, and

508
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Speaker 3: you know what, it always is players over players. And

509
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Speaker 3: you know, I thought the you know, the third thing

510
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Speaker 3: was the kid is a finisher and selective ambesia is right.

511
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Speaker 3: I mean he you know, he came back from that

512
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Speaker 3: pad interception to Gonzalez. He had a couple overthrows in

513
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Speaker 3: that next drive, but he just puts it out and

514
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Speaker 3: he is a finisher man. And when it's when it's

515
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Speaker 3: all said and done, I mean, if not for him,

516
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Speaker 3: if not for him right now, we're four and nine.

517
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Speaker 3: I mean, he bails the defense out against the Jets,

518
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Speaker 3: he bails him out yesterday, and not only does he

519
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Speaker 3: take it down and score, he basically wipes the timeout

520
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Speaker 3: so the defense doesn't have to go back in. So

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Speaker 3: I was thrilled to death with that. A couple of

522
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Speaker 3: things that I really want to give shout outs to

523
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Speaker 3: and shouts down to. Okay, first of all, I want

524
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Speaker 3: to give a shout out to to the to the

525
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Speaker 3: offensive line. As as Joe said, I'm not going to

526
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Speaker 3: repeat it, but I really thought, and I've always liked

527
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Speaker 3: low like glow when he was here. I was really

528
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Speaker 3: happy when they made that move. Danny has always basically

529
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Speaker 3: played decent at center, not so much at guard, but

530
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Speaker 3: at center, and Gonzalez I totally agree, is much better

531
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Speaker 3: on the right side when he's not out in space.

532
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Speaker 3: You know, I thought that front five really played with grit,

533
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Speaker 3: and hats off to those kids for stepping up. Hats

534
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Speaker 3: off to Pierce. I think Piers has had one of

535
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Speaker 3: the greatest improvement seasons I've ever seen in a player.

536
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Speaker 3: The Piers of twenty three in the Piers of twenty

537
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Speaker 3: four is too different.

538
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Speaker 2: Yeah, he played with a banged up foot yesterday too,

539
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Speaker 2: Oh my god.

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Speaker 3: But I mean he has done so much. He's become

541
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Speaker 3: an all purpose receiver, not a one trick pony now

542
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Speaker 3: in the end of it. On the other end of it,

543
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Speaker 3: for people like myself who really understand the nuances of

544
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Speaker 3: defense and NFL football, in my world, the defense is

545
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Speaker 3: almost unwatchable, it really is, you know. I, Like I said,

546
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Speaker 3: if Ar five doesn't bail him out, we lose both

547
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Speaker 3: to the Jets and to the Patriots, who are bottom

548
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Speaker 3: feeders on offense, absolutely bottom feeders. I'm not sure there's

549
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Speaker 3: another group in the league, from coaches to players that

550
00:25:12,160 --> 00:25:15,159
Speaker 3: could give four hundred and twenty two yards to the

551
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Speaker 3: Patriots eighty percent completions in two hundred yards rushing. I

552
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Speaker 3: just really don't. I don't think there's another team in

553
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Speaker 3: the league that could accomplish that. You knew going in,

554
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Speaker 3: I said it myself, like ten times you had to

555
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Speaker 3: stop Stevenson in the running backs, you had to stop

556
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Speaker 3: the tight ends, and you had to make sure you

557
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Speaker 3: could control the quarterback on rushing. We did nothing. We

558
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Speaker 3: did none of those things, absolutely none of them. And

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Speaker 3: you know, basically, for three years, we've kind of watched

560
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Speaker 3: this Friday night concept shredded time and time again, and

561
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Speaker 3: we've seen quarterbacks become kings against us and it doesn't

562
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Speaker 3: matter who it is. And the sad thing for me,

563
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Speaker 3: no one on West fifty sixth Street seems to give

564
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Speaker 3: a damn about it. And you know, well I think

565
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Speaker 3: they should.

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Speaker 2: All right. That's Rick Venturi and Joe Wrights, and that's

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Speaker 2: They're big takeaways from watching the game film back again today.

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Speaker 2: Coming up in segment three, we're gonna roll out the

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Speaker 2: Tale of the Two Cities. We're gonna compare the differences

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Speaker 2: in the game on Sunday between quarterback play, red zone

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Speaker 2: we're gonna bust out this segment here. We're calling this

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Speaker 2: the Tale of the Two Cities. And this is not

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Speaker 2: the Charles Dickens novel. Rick, all right, this is a

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Speaker 2: completely different concept here. This is a look at the

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Speaker 2: differences between New England and Indianapolis from Sunday and some

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Speaker 2: pivotal areas. We're going to decide which areas the Colts

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Speaker 2: were dominant in and some things that still need to

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Speaker 2: get cleaned up after the bye with only four games

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Speaker 2: to play. And Rick, I'm gonna start with you. Let's

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Speaker 2: talk about the overall quarterback play on Sunday because you

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Speaker 2: had the two youngest quarterbacks in the NFL on display.

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Speaker 2: Drake May has a good game, completes eighty percent of

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Speaker 2: his passes career high. Anthony Richardson goes twelve of twenty

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Speaker 2: four for one hundred and nine with two touchdowns and

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Speaker 2: two picks, for a passer rating of fifty five point seven.

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Speaker 2: The one hundred and nine yards are Richardson's fewest when

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Speaker 2: he's finished a game, and he's now completed twelve or

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Speaker 2: fewer passes in nine of his thirty team starts. But

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Speaker 2: he got it done in crunch time, right, That's all

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Speaker 2: that matters. So how do you compare Richardson to May

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Speaker 2: and Rick Ken? The Colts continue to win down the

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Speaker 2: stretch with the numbers that they're getting from their gunslinger.

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Speaker 3: Well, you know, I think if you if you basically

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Speaker 3: do what he can do and if you somehow could

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Speaker 3: shore up the defense. The answer to that is yes,

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Speaker 3: because it's still the consummate team game.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: You know, when I look at these two guys, they're

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Speaker 3: two of my favorite guys in the league. You know,

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Speaker 3: when we went into this game and I watched and

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Speaker 3: I watched May, and I really like to May coming

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Speaker 3: out of North Carolina, I was always surprised that he

635
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Speaker 3: kind of everybody thought he was going to fall. He

636
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Speaker 3: didn't fall too far to number three, but he he

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Speaker 3: and Richardson couldn't be. They're both going to be, I think,

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Speaker 3: great quarterbacks, but they're totally different. I mean, they're on different.

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Speaker 3: When you have Richardson, I'm not even sure that I

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Speaker 3: look at him as a peer quarterback when I look

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Speaker 3: at him as an entity and a weapon, somebody that

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Speaker 3: has something that you can't find. I mean, he is

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Speaker 3: another running back, not just an elusive quarterback on his

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Speaker 3: own read. He is a powerful guy that can run

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Speaker 3: in any gap, any gap. There. You saw it on

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Speaker 3: the two point. It was the swing power g to him.

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Speaker 3: They had a shot at him and he bent the pocket,

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Speaker 3: he bent the pile back. I mean he is a

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Speaker 3: terrific weapon. He also throws an exceptionally good deep ball,

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Speaker 3: you know. So with that matter of fact, I got

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Speaker 3: a text from my boy grudin now for the game.

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Speaker 3: He said, it's like playing against Tayson Hill the whole game.

653
00:30:45,520 --> 00:30:48,600
Speaker 3: And he meant that complimentary in that you got this

654
00:30:48,880 --> 00:30:53,000
Speaker 3: powerful man just running at you all day. And the

655
00:30:53,040 --> 00:30:56,400
Speaker 3: biggest key on this one is can they bring him

656
00:30:56,440 --> 00:30:58,760
Speaker 3: along in time on the rest of the game, the

657
00:30:58,840 --> 00:31:01,320
Speaker 3: intermediate game, and you know, we just don't see much

658
00:31:01,360 --> 00:31:04,280
Speaker 3: of it. But he has his special qualities, and I

659
00:31:04,320 --> 00:31:07,360
Speaker 3: think May is the classic. I think he's the best.

660
00:31:07,520 --> 00:31:10,440
Speaker 3: I think he's playing. It's between him and Daniels who's

661
00:31:10,440 --> 00:31:11,520
Speaker 3: playing the best.

662
00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:13,600
Speaker 2: This other rookies of the rookies.

663
00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:15,120
Speaker 3: Of the rookies. But I think he is going to

664
00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:18,520
Speaker 3: be exceptional because he has no outside receivers to throw to.

665
00:31:18,600 --> 00:31:20,960
Speaker 3: I mean, he is making a livering from numbers to

666
00:31:21,040 --> 00:31:23,959
Speaker 3: numbers with tight ends and running backs and a slot.

667
00:31:24,040 --> 00:31:28,719
Speaker 3: That's it. And what a job. He's got accuracy, really

668
00:31:28,760 --> 00:31:31,560
Speaker 3: comfortable in the pocket. But a great athlete. You saw

669
00:31:31,600 --> 00:31:34,080
Speaker 3: it on that forty yard takeoff. So you know, I

670
00:31:34,120 --> 00:31:37,960
Speaker 3: think both teams are really blessed. You know with a

671
00:31:38,480 --> 00:31:40,760
Speaker 3: star that they can build around that going to build

672
00:31:40,800 --> 00:31:44,000
Speaker 3: differently in both cases, but a star you can build around,

673
00:31:44,080 --> 00:31:44,520
Speaker 3: all right.

674
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Speaker 2: Joe, for you, I think you'll admit too and concur

675
00:31:47,760 --> 00:31:50,520
Speaker 2: that Drake May played really well yesterday and is having

676
00:31:50,520 --> 00:31:54,600
Speaker 2: a really good rookie season. And also for context Sunday,

677
00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:57,760
Speaker 2: for the Colts, they won just for the fifteenth time

678
00:31:57,880 --> 00:32:01,840
Speaker 2: since they moved to Indianapolis when quarterback completed twelve or

679
00:32:01,880 --> 00:32:05,480
Speaker 2: fewer passes for one hundred and ten or fewer yards

680
00:32:05,520 --> 00:32:08,520
Speaker 2: in the first time since twenty twenty one. So how

681
00:32:08,520 --> 00:32:12,160
Speaker 2: do you break down May versus Richardson and also just

682
00:32:12,240 --> 00:32:15,120
Speaker 2: the the baseline performances in terms of what they're getting

683
00:32:15,120 --> 00:32:16,600
Speaker 2: out of Richardson in the big picture.

684
00:32:16,880 --> 00:32:18,720
Speaker 4: Yeah, First, for May, what I think and we do

685
00:32:18,840 --> 00:32:21,960
Speaker 4: this are too often, is we let quarterbacks get comfortable.

686
00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:24,440
Speaker 4: So you're facing a young quarterback and you let him

687
00:32:24,440 --> 00:32:27,120
Speaker 4: get comfortable with just easy completions. It was tight end,

688
00:32:27,120 --> 00:32:29,640
Speaker 4: tight end running back, running back, and then I mean

689
00:32:29,920 --> 00:32:32,000
Speaker 4: May put some throws in there. He stepped back and

690
00:32:32,480 --> 00:32:34,200
Speaker 4: went off his back foot and let it rip and

691
00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:37,200
Speaker 4: threw the ball in between some tight zone windows and

692
00:32:37,240 --> 00:32:39,360
Speaker 4: he let it fly. And he is accurate, but I

693
00:32:39,400 --> 00:32:42,040
Speaker 4: think it's more a product of our defense letting these

694
00:32:42,120 --> 00:32:45,000
Speaker 4: quarterbacks get so comfortable early in the game where they

695
00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:47,280
Speaker 4: build that confidence. It's like a shooter in basketball. You

696
00:32:47,320 --> 00:32:49,680
Speaker 4: let him hit a couple easy shots, you don't guard

697
00:32:49,760 --> 00:32:51,520
Speaker 4: him well in the first half, and all of a sudden,

698
00:32:51,520 --> 00:32:54,680
Speaker 4: he's got that confidence to hit the harder shot or

699
00:32:54,720 --> 00:32:56,800
Speaker 4: make the harder pass later in the game. And so

700
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Speaker 4: I think, you know, may played well, but I think

701
00:32:58,880 --> 00:33:01,880
Speaker 4: part of it is we all allowed him to play well,

702
00:33:02,480 --> 00:33:05,120
Speaker 4: especially in our secondary. And then I think when you

703
00:33:05,160 --> 00:33:08,440
Speaker 4: go to Richardson, you know, when it's fourth and two,

704
00:33:08,640 --> 00:33:11,400
Speaker 4: when the game's on the line, everybody knows he's going

705
00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:13,240
Speaker 4: to run the ball, and you still can't stop him.

706
00:33:13,320 --> 00:33:15,640
Speaker 4: And that's just a tremendous gift. And what I saw

707
00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:19,120
Speaker 4: yesterday from the Colts was the formula for winning ball games.

708
00:33:19,240 --> 00:33:22,920
Speaker 4: Taylor twenty five carries on the ground, Richardson had nine carries.

709
00:33:22,960 --> 00:33:26,240
Speaker 4: You get thirty to thirty five carries between those two guys,

710
00:33:26,360 --> 00:33:29,040
Speaker 4: and then he had only twenty four passing attempts. I

711
00:33:29,040 --> 00:33:31,080
Speaker 4: think that's the formula. And I know he was only

712
00:33:31,120 --> 00:33:34,280
Speaker 4: fifty percent, only four point five yards per pass, but

713
00:33:34,320 --> 00:33:36,080
Speaker 4: we got to help him out as receivers. You know,

714
00:33:36,920 --> 00:33:39,840
Speaker 4: Ady Mitchell has a drop Granston has a drop down

715
00:33:39,880 --> 00:33:41,840
Speaker 4: there at the two yard line, those numbers would be

716
00:33:41,880 --> 00:33:44,520
Speaker 4: a little bit different. And I think we got to

717
00:33:44,560 --> 00:33:47,440
Speaker 4: figure out a way, especially if Downs isn't there, to

718
00:33:47,560 --> 00:33:49,840
Speaker 4: get more out of the passing game. And I think

719
00:33:49,840 --> 00:33:52,640
Speaker 4: where Richardson's most dangerous as you see it. You know,

720
00:33:52,880 --> 00:33:55,160
Speaker 4: he's back in the pocket, all of a sudden, he's

721
00:33:55,200 --> 00:33:57,400
Speaker 4: on the move, he steps up. He can throw really

722
00:33:57,440 --> 00:33:59,720
Speaker 4: really good on the run, and that's those deep balls

723
00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:04,360
Speaker 4: that defenses can't necessarily defend well, especially when he's moving

724
00:34:04,680 --> 00:34:06,320
Speaker 4: and they got a plaster you know, when they got

725
00:34:06,360 --> 00:34:08,200
Speaker 4: to kind of cover for longer in the back end.

726
00:34:08,239 --> 00:34:10,439
Speaker 2: But we got to find ways in the passing game.

727
00:34:10,600 --> 00:34:12,800
Speaker 4: Part of its receivers just catching the ball and helping

728
00:34:12,840 --> 00:34:15,919
Speaker 4: them out to get some more explosives in the pass game.

729
00:34:15,960 --> 00:34:17,600
Speaker 4: And I think we can do that. I think with

730
00:34:17,640 --> 00:34:19,879
Speaker 4: the deep ball with Pierce and some of the other

731
00:34:19,920 --> 00:34:22,040
Speaker 4: concepts that we have, you know, we can get it done.

732
00:34:22,040 --> 00:34:24,080
Speaker 4: And I know our receivers are banged up right now,

733
00:34:24,080 --> 00:34:26,239
Speaker 4: and this bye week comes at a really good time.

734
00:34:26,239 --> 00:34:28,680
Speaker 4: But what I saw was the formula yesterday, and that's

735
00:34:28,840 --> 00:34:31,880
Speaker 4: twenty to twenty five carries from Taylor. Let the offensive

736
00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:36,080
Speaker 4: line dictate the game. Richardson runs ten ish design runs

737
00:34:36,120 --> 00:34:38,799
Speaker 4: per game, and then you take the top off on

738
00:34:38,840 --> 00:34:41,520
Speaker 4: the defense with some deep balls which we didn't get yesterday,

739
00:34:41,560 --> 00:34:43,400
Speaker 4: but we get those. To me, that's kind of that

740
00:34:43,440 --> 00:34:46,440
Speaker 4: three headed monster that we need to think about offensively

741
00:34:46,680 --> 00:34:49,440
Speaker 4: with this identity as we go into this home stretch

742
00:34:49,520 --> 00:34:50,560
Speaker 4: these last four games.

743
00:34:51,080 --> 00:34:53,879
Speaker 2: That's Joe Wright's right there. This is Colt's Round Table Live.

744
00:34:53,920 --> 00:34:56,840
Speaker 2: I'm Matt Taylor also tonight and joined by Rick Van Turrey,

745
00:34:57,280 --> 00:34:59,280
Speaker 2: and this segment is the tail of the two cities,

746
00:34:59,280 --> 00:35:01,680
Speaker 2: comparing the Colt to New England yesterday and a big

747
00:35:01,719 --> 00:35:04,880
Speaker 2: reason why the Colts won. As we mentioned in the

748
00:35:04,920 --> 00:35:07,719
Speaker 2: previous segment red zone play. The Colts converted three or

749
00:35:07,719 --> 00:35:11,280
Speaker 2: four trips inside the twenty posted a season high seventy

750
00:35:11,280 --> 00:35:14,480
Speaker 2: five percent mark in the red zone. The Patriots, meanwhile,

751
00:35:14,480 --> 00:35:17,120
Speaker 2: were just two for six. They had to settle for

752
00:35:17,160 --> 00:35:19,520
Speaker 2: a couple of short fuel goals. They missed the field

753
00:35:19,520 --> 00:35:21,360
Speaker 2: goal in the red zone. They threw the pick of

754
00:35:21,440 --> 00:35:24,200
Speaker 2: the goal line. It was intercepted by Julian Blackman and

755
00:35:24,280 --> 00:35:26,880
Speaker 2: the red zone aspect of the game. Joe, it was

756
00:35:26,920 --> 00:35:29,719
Speaker 2: epitomized in the fourth quarter. Anthony Richardson threw a three

757
00:35:29,840 --> 00:35:32,719
Speaker 2: yard touchdown pass to Alec Pierce with twelve seconds to go,

758
00:35:33,160 --> 00:35:35,279
Speaker 2: and they won the game by going for two, which

759
00:35:35,320 --> 00:35:38,200
Speaker 2: is also obviously inside the red zone. So, Joe, for

760
00:35:38,280 --> 00:35:40,439
Speaker 2: you what worked well on both sides of the ball

761
00:35:40,520 --> 00:35:43,040
Speaker 2: for the Colts in the red zone on Sunday because

762
00:35:43,080 --> 00:35:45,160
Speaker 2: it was a big bounce back week for the Colts

763
00:35:45,200 --> 00:35:47,840
Speaker 2: in that department after they were zero for two against

764
00:35:47,840 --> 00:35:51,560
Speaker 2: the Lions, and defensively, Detroit took advantage of the Colts

765
00:35:51,560 --> 00:35:53,120
Speaker 2: inside the red zone last Sunday.

766
00:35:53,480 --> 00:35:56,120
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, first off, defense, our red zone defense saved us.

767
00:35:56,200 --> 00:35:58,279
Speaker 4: And you know they had a touchdown called back from

768
00:35:58,320 --> 00:36:00,760
Speaker 4: a penalty. Yeah, you know, which you speak about penalties,

769
00:36:00,760 --> 00:36:02,839
Speaker 4: we only had two for fifteen yards the whole game.

770
00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:05,480
Speaker 4: We did not beat ourselves, which was great. And then

771
00:36:05,520 --> 00:36:07,839
Speaker 4: you know, shout out to Blackman that interception just heads

772
00:36:07,880 --> 00:36:09,960
Speaker 4: up football. I mean that that's saved the game right there.

773
00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:12,239
Speaker 4: When he picked the ball up, you know, off of

774
00:36:12,520 --> 00:36:15,200
Speaker 4: Henry and returned it. I couldn't believe that one didn't

775
00:36:15,239 --> 00:36:17,279
Speaker 4: hit the ground. But you know, just great play by him,

776
00:36:17,320 --> 00:36:19,839
Speaker 4: And I think defensively again, you know, we're a team

777
00:36:19,880 --> 00:36:22,400
Speaker 4: that's built to bend, not break, and give up yards.

778
00:36:22,400 --> 00:36:24,239
Speaker 4: And if you're going to give up that yardage, you

779
00:36:24,320 --> 00:36:26,279
Speaker 4: got to be a fishing in the red zone we

780
00:36:26,280 --> 00:36:29,520
Speaker 4: were yesterday. And then offensively, just the weapon that Richardson

781
00:36:29,560 --> 00:36:31,560
Speaker 4: gives you running the ball, and we can be a

782
00:36:31,560 --> 00:36:34,440
Speaker 4: premier red zone team. And I think for this group,

783
00:36:34,680 --> 00:36:37,600
Speaker 4: right efficiency in the red zone, you know, seventy five

784
00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:40,640
Speaker 4: three or four like where yesterday. I like conceptually on

785
00:36:40,680 --> 00:36:43,680
Speaker 4: that two point play. You know, typically a zone read

786
00:36:43,880 --> 00:36:46,400
Speaker 4: right is where you the running back runs up the middle.

787
00:36:46,400 --> 00:36:48,720
Speaker 4: The quarterback reads the end and he pulls it, decides

788
00:36:48,719 --> 00:36:50,080
Speaker 4: whether he wants to run around the end or give

789
00:36:50,120 --> 00:36:52,840
Speaker 4: the ball to the running back. But with Richardson's ability

790
00:36:52,840 --> 00:36:55,400
Speaker 4: as a quarterback to be that power runner, I like

791
00:36:55,480 --> 00:36:58,320
Speaker 4: the diversity. I thought our run game was more diverse yesterday.

792
00:36:58,320 --> 00:37:01,640
Speaker 4: Again credit to the offensive line continuing to expand on

793
00:37:01,719 --> 00:37:03,799
Speaker 4: what we do well in the red zone and not

794
00:37:03,880 --> 00:37:06,960
Speaker 4: being afraid to run Richardson right, Richardson left. Richardson up

795
00:37:06,960 --> 00:37:09,200
Speaker 4: the middle when you get down there, because even though

796
00:37:09,239 --> 00:37:11,239
Speaker 4: everybody knows he's going to run the ball. It's still

797
00:37:11,280 --> 00:37:13,960
Speaker 4: incredibly tough to stop because you're defending twelve guys in

798
00:37:14,040 --> 00:37:16,960
Speaker 4: not eleven, right, And just the unique physical traits that

799
00:37:17,040 --> 00:37:19,960
Speaker 4: Richardson has which are unique to any other quarterback in

800
00:37:19,960 --> 00:37:20,520
Speaker 4: the NFL.

801
00:37:20,800 --> 00:37:22,840
Speaker 2: And that's just it, Rick. I mean, you apologize for

802
00:37:22,920 --> 00:37:25,239
Speaker 2: nothing when you get a win. But the Colts do

803
00:37:25,360 --> 00:37:28,520
Speaker 2: have to feel fortunate to get that victory considering you know,

804
00:37:28,640 --> 00:37:31,160
Speaker 2: New England miss is a chip shot field goal. They

805
00:37:31,200 --> 00:37:33,400
Speaker 2: had some other penalties inside the red zone, and they

806
00:37:33,480 --> 00:37:36,120
Speaker 2: had that interception of the goal line that was you know,

807
00:37:36,200 --> 00:37:38,879
Speaker 2: more of a byproduct of Julian Blackman being the right

808
00:37:38,920 --> 00:37:40,719
Speaker 2: place at the right time than it was a bad

809
00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:42,000
Speaker 2: throw by Drake May.

810
00:37:42,440 --> 00:37:44,760
Speaker 3: Yeah. Absolutely, And if you look at the play, Zier

811
00:37:44,960 --> 00:37:47,520
Speaker 3: really makes it. I mean he gets his hand in

812
00:37:47,600 --> 00:37:51,359
Speaker 3: there as what's his face as May as the tight

813
00:37:51,440 --> 00:37:54,600
Speaker 3: end eighty five was. Henry was bobbling the ball, you

814
00:37:54,680 --> 00:37:57,080
Speaker 3: know when he was bobbling it, but Zaire got in

815
00:37:57,160 --> 00:38:00,799
Speaker 3: there and affected his hands and then it carrimed up

816
00:38:00,880 --> 00:38:04,080
Speaker 3: to black Men. And I don't think Yers get enough

817
00:38:04,080 --> 00:38:05,960
Speaker 3: credit on this. As I looked at the tape, I

818
00:38:05,960 --> 00:38:08,360
Speaker 3: didn't even notice it at the game. To tell you,

819
00:38:08,400 --> 00:38:12,040
Speaker 3: the truth. But you speak to you speak to me

820
00:38:12,160 --> 00:38:14,959
Speaker 3: when you speak red zone. For some reason, over the years,

821
00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:17,120
Speaker 3: I kind of on every staff became known as the

822
00:38:17,160 --> 00:38:20,160
Speaker 3: red zone guy, kind of became my kind of my

823
00:38:20,239 --> 00:38:24,440
Speaker 3: specialty as an assistant coach, and I would every Thursday,

824
00:38:24,480 --> 00:38:27,919
Speaker 3: I would give the presentation of the red zone, both

825
00:38:27,920 --> 00:38:31,160
Speaker 3: emotionally and strategically what we were going to do, and

826
00:38:31,280 --> 00:38:34,520
Speaker 3: to emphasize the importance of it. Every Thursday, I would say,

827
00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:38,080
Speaker 3: you know, there's three things important in your life. That

828
00:38:38,239 --> 00:38:41,240
Speaker 3: is God, that is family, and that is red zone.

829
00:38:41,280 --> 00:38:43,600
Speaker 3: And for three hours on Sunday, I want you to

830
00:38:43,640 --> 00:38:47,560
Speaker 3: reverse that. Okay, I would say that every Thursday. But

831
00:38:47,960 --> 00:38:51,919
Speaker 3: in the end, in the end, the one significant statistic

832
00:38:52,440 --> 00:38:54,919
Speaker 3: that mattered was the red zone Sunday. And we got

833
00:38:54,920 --> 00:38:58,279
Speaker 3: some breaks the callback of the touchdown, the chip field goal.

834
00:38:59,200 --> 00:39:01,160
Speaker 3: You know, the penalty, there's no question about it. But

835
00:39:01,200 --> 00:39:05,239
Speaker 3: the interception was critical and when it happened. But the

836
00:39:05,320 --> 00:39:07,480
Speaker 3: idea that we scored three out of four times and

837
00:39:07,520 --> 00:39:09,759
Speaker 3: really you got to add the two point that's four

838
00:39:09,840 --> 00:39:13,680
Speaker 3: to five, really was the difference maker. And I think

839
00:39:13,719 --> 00:39:16,719
Speaker 3: the biggest thing now is that once you get in

840
00:39:16,800 --> 00:39:21,239
Speaker 3: the low red zone, Richardson's almost unstoppable. I mean he is.

841
00:39:21,760 --> 00:39:25,279
Speaker 3: He does literally add the twelfth man. I mean, there's

842
00:39:25,320 --> 00:39:27,840
Speaker 3: a play in there where we go spread and of

843
00:39:27,880 --> 00:39:31,360
Speaker 3: course the defense has to spread out, and over the years,

844
00:39:31,400 --> 00:39:34,560
Speaker 3: you don't account for the quarterback in that situation, and

845
00:39:34,600 --> 00:39:37,799
Speaker 3: now you're running with a Jim Brown type tailback. They

846
00:39:37,880 --> 00:39:40,680
Speaker 3: run a crack and he's around there. It's not even questioning.

847
00:39:40,719 --> 00:39:43,359
Speaker 3: And then they actually run a power play. You know,

848
00:39:43,680 --> 00:39:46,200
Speaker 3: it's a swing power with the quarterback on the two

849
00:39:46,200 --> 00:39:49,120
Speaker 3: point play. And so you know, I think that is

850
00:39:49,239 --> 00:39:51,759
Speaker 3: really you know, there's no question about it that that

851
00:39:51,840 --> 00:39:56,720
Speaker 3: won the game both ways because really they dominated most statistics.

852
00:39:57,320 --> 00:39:59,399
Speaker 3: You know, I think we had less penalties. I think

853
00:39:59,440 --> 00:40:02,200
Speaker 3: that saved a little bit, but they still hit thirty

854
00:40:02,239 --> 00:40:05,040
Speaker 3: four minutes time and possession. But you know, at the

855
00:40:05,160 --> 00:40:07,720
Speaker 3: end of the day, I've always said this that twenty yards,

856
00:40:08,120 --> 00:40:10,680
Speaker 3: and I actually call it thirty yards because I start

857
00:40:10,680 --> 00:40:13,400
Speaker 3: the orange zone from the thirty to the twenty. Because

858
00:40:13,440 --> 00:40:16,959
Speaker 3: studying it over the years, offense is changed in those

859
00:40:17,040 --> 00:40:19,520
Speaker 3: areas from the twenty to the thirty, to the twenty

860
00:40:19,560 --> 00:40:22,239
Speaker 3: to the ten, and from the ten in offense is

861
00:40:22,400 --> 00:40:26,600
Speaker 3: drastically changing. There if you study it over time and

862
00:40:26,719 --> 00:40:28,839
Speaker 3: you know so the ability to stop them in there

863
00:40:29,200 --> 00:40:32,080
Speaker 3: and the ability to score. Actually, at the end of

864
00:40:32,160 --> 00:40:34,279
Speaker 3: the day, if you're looking for a stat, and I

865
00:40:34,280 --> 00:40:36,320
Speaker 3: would say this that at the end of the season,

866
00:40:36,400 --> 00:40:40,759
Speaker 3: that where we stand right now, the only area other

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Speaker 3: than we're running the ball really good, like Joe says,

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Speaker 3: we're still we're thirteenth now in yards per with the

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Speaker 3: one two punch when those guys are going. But the

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Speaker 3: only stat that's really keeping us alive if you just

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Speaker 3: look at stats, okay, is that we're sixteenth. It's mediocre,

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Speaker 3: don't get me wrong, but we're sixteenth in red zone

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Speaker 3: and s steinhon red zone defense. So mediocre as it

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Speaker 3: may be, it's keeping us in the game.

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Speaker 1: Yep.

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Speaker 2: Rick Venturi there, Joe Wrights as well. That's the tale

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Speaker 2: well and what New England did not, and how those

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Speaker 2: go to Neil Is up first. He's asking, Hey, coach,

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Speaker 2: what's the biggest thing holding our defense back and preventing

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Speaker 2: it from turning the corner this late in the season.

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Speaker 2: What do you think, Rick?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I think it's a stubbornness in our part

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Speaker 3: to never have evolved. You know, you can look at

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Speaker 3: it tape three years ago and look at a tape

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Speaker 3: today and you can study and it's really the same package.

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Speaker 3: It's no different. You know, we played black board front

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Speaker 3: over almost all the time, very very predictable because we're

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Speaker 3: basically going to play the same defense game in and

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Speaker 3: game out, and we run a soft verge coverage zone

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Speaker 3: that even Joe said it before, that makes quarterbacks comfortable

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Speaker 3: and in the end makes some kings. If you're going

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Speaker 3: to get better, I think three things have to happen.

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Speaker 3: I don't know this late in the season, and with

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Speaker 3: their stubbornness, I doubt it can happen. But number one,

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Speaker 3: you need front changes and movement. You can't line up

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Speaker 3: in that same front. I mean, you know, two hundred

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Speaker 3: yards rushing to the Patriots. That's kind of surprising. Why

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Speaker 3: does that happen? Then we don't choke off routes, whether

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Speaker 3: it's man DEMN or zone or a matchup zone coverage. Basically,

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Speaker 3: there's way too many just gimme completions, no cover zones,

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Speaker 3: areas that are wide open, the high percentage. We're thirty

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Speaker 3: first now in the league and this is where we

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Speaker 3: live in past percentage against and that's just that's a killer.

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Speaker 3: And then when we do blitz, we still do not

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Speaker 3: crowd people, and therefore we missed up. We messed up

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Speaker 3: on some blitz of Sunday that we're going to get there,

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Speaker 3: but because we didn't cover tight. So, I mean, it's

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Speaker 3: those things. I don't know that it will ever change,

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Speaker 3: but if they don't change, there will always be on

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Speaker 3: a ceiling of how good you're going to be on defense.

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Speaker 2: All right, we got time for one more question here.

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Speaker 2: This is coming from Frank. Hey, Joe, what can a

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Speaker 2: win like that do for the team, psyche And what's

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Speaker 2: the difference between a win versus a loss before the

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Speaker 2: bye week for players and coaches?

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Speaker 4: Oh? Well, that means you can enjoy your dinner and

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Speaker 4: it tastes good on your bye week. Right, the years

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Speaker 4: that you have a loss going into the bye week.

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Speaker 2: Especially when when a win is it means you're still

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Speaker 2: in the AFC playoff picture versus a loss is you know,

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Speaker 2: that's that's a major uphill battle, right, Yeah, no question.

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Speaker 4: I mean the reality was, you know, if we had

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Speaker 4: you know, lost that game, I mean, the playoff chances

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Speaker 4: really are zero. But I think way the last three weeks,

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Speaker 4: really the last six weeks have shaped out with ar

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Speaker 4: going to the bench, coming back leading two game winning

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Speaker 4: I think there's a belief with this team that says, Okay,

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Speaker 4: if we get to the fourth quarter, our quarterback's going

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Speaker 4: to go win it. And I tell you what, I

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Speaker 4: played with some of those quarterbacks. There's no better feeling

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Speaker 4: than being that huddle and knowing, you know what, we

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Speaker 4: got the guy that can take us to the Promised

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Speaker 4: Land and deliver victory. And so when you're the Colts

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Speaker 4: this late bye it's so unique. I never had a

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Speaker 4: you really have a four game sprint to the finish

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Speaker 4: line and you have three games, two of them at

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Speaker 4: home against Very. You know, Denver's got seven wins. The

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Speaker 4: bye week right now, I think there's an excitement about

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Speaker 4: I mean, you know they're playing Monday night. Everybody's going

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Speaker 4: to sit home and watch that game tonight. You got

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Speaker 4: the preseason game against Denver that we played, which is rare,

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Speaker 4: and if you remember Stidhams started that game, Nicks played

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Speaker 4: some film and some tape on him against our defense.

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Speaker 4: And it's just an exciting place to be and knowing

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Speaker 4: you get a chance to recharge, first off physically, secondly mentally,

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Speaker 4: and when you walk back in that building on Monday,

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Speaker 4: it's a four week sprint to the finish line. And

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Speaker 4: it's all systems go against Denver. Because you go out

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Speaker 4: there to Denver and you win that game. I mean,

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Speaker 4: you think that it's the Colts, You know, Colts to

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Speaker 4: lose in terms of getting in the playoffs. So just

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Speaker 4: an exciting time I think after the last month or

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Speaker 4: so of this season and some of the ups and

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Speaker 4: downs that you've put yourself in this position to really

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Speaker 4: play for the playoffs coming up next Sunday against Denver.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Joe Wright's right there, Rick Finn Turrey two. That's

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Speaker 2: this late of a bye if you were still playing

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think with the late bye it's huge. You

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Speaker 4: just make sure you recover physically, get your treatment, get

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Speaker 4: a couple of workouts in, but you want to kind

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Speaker 4: of completely disconnect from football for a couple of days

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Speaker 4: and recharge mentally, emotionally, spiritually. And then as you get

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Speaker 4: later in the week, you know, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, you

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Speaker 4: start to look at tape for Denver, you start to

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Speaker 4: do things that you want to do because again, this

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Speaker 4: game has so much importance leading up there. But I

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Speaker 4: think it's advantageous for the Colts to have the late bye,

1039
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Speaker 4: And then from a coaching stare perspective, you really get

1040
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Speaker 4: out what can we do differently, what can we maximize

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Speaker 4: on our strengths going into the last four weeks. Coach,

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Speaker 4: what are your plans here for this bye week? Late

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Speaker 4: late week for you and Matt, but probably some time

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Speaker 4: to rest up your guys' voices here for the stretch run.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, a little bit maybe, but no, I'm looking forward

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Speaker 3: to it. That just get a little breath of their

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Speaker 3: But you know what, I think a couple of things.

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Speaker 3: You know, if I was coaching this week. Number one,

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Speaker 3: I do believe I agree with you. But something you

1051
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Speaker 3: said earlier, I think the Colts are finding that formula

1052
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Speaker 3: on offense to win the game. It's not perfect, but

1053
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Speaker 3: I think they're really finding it. That one hundred and

1054
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Speaker 3: forty four yards of rushing between the big two that

1055
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Speaker 3: was a key. I think they've got to find a

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Speaker 3: formula to just slow somebody down. And in the end,

1057
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Speaker 3: it's got to be singular focused. Now, I said it

1058
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Speaker 3: last week, there's five steps. You got to starewell with

1059
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Speaker 3: five steps, you only can get them one at a time. Yeah,

1060
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Speaker 3: we got one, We got an important one, and maybe

1061
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Speaker 3: the biggest step is coming over because my prediction is

1062
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Speaker 3: we go in five and six, they go in seven

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Speaker 3: and six, and man, that thing is for all the

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Speaker 3: marvels back there in Denver. So singular focus. One more

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Speaker 3: big step. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: The Colts and the Broncos both on the bye. The

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Speaker 2: Broncos do play tonight against the Cleveland Browns on Monday

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Speaker 2: Night Football, So everybody, we'll be watching that game very

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Speaker 2: very intently. Joe and Rick. Great job tonight here on

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Speaker 2: head coach Shane Stikeen who joined in on that first

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Speaker 2: be no show, no show next Monday, following the bye week,

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Speaker 2: So this show is going to come back following that

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Speaker 2: big Denver game on December the sixteenth. That's next time

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Speaker 2: we're going to have this show Colts Round Table Live

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Speaker 2: here on the Fan, but the Colts are on the

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Speaker 2: bye Thanks for listening everybody, tonight again for Joe and Rick.

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Speaker 2: I'm Matt Taylor. This has been Colts Round Table Live

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Speaker 2: tonight on ninety three five and one oh seven five

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Speaker 2: the Fan. Good night,