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Speaker 1: This is the Colts Daily Update, a look at the

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

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Speaker 1: the Colts, Matt Taylor. Good evening, Welcome in on a Wednesday.

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Speaker 1: It's midweek. You're halfway there to the weekend, and the

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Speaker 1: Colts were back on the practice field today getting ready

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Speaker 1: for Week three. It's the home opener on Sunday for

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Speaker 1: the Colts against the Kansas City Chiefs at Lucas Oil Stadium.

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Speaker 1: It's the oh one and one Colts and the two

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Speaker 1: and o Kansas City Chiefs that have won the AFC

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Speaker 1: West six years in a row. They're coming off a

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Speaker 1: Week two win over the Chargers last Thursday Night on

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Speaker 1: Thursday Night Football, so they will be arrested to a

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Speaker 1: degree before they take on the Colts in Indie for

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Speaker 1: the first time since the two sixteen season. Coming up

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Speaker 1: in just a bit, We're gonna hear from Zaire Franklin tonight,

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Speaker 1: as we had a chance to speak with him, the

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Speaker 1: Colts linebacker in studio earlier today. But today was all

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Speaker 1: about the Colts turning the page from Week two and

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Speaker 1: looking ahead. Time has gone to dwell on the twenty

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Speaker 1: four to nothing lost to the Jaguars on Sunday, because

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Speaker 1: the Colts still have everything in front of them, despite

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Speaker 1: not playing anywhere near to their potential so far through

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Speaker 1: the first two games of the season. There's fifteen games left.

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Speaker 1: The AFC South is still very obtainable, and the Colts

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Speaker 1: have hurt themselves just as much as their opponents through

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Speaker 1: a pair of games, and Frank Wright today reiterated that

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Speaker 1: his experience in football tells him the Colts are much

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Speaker 1: closer to playing well than the scoreboard indicated last Sunday.

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Speaker 1: On the outside, it does feel like an ocean, There's

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Speaker 1: no question about that. But experience tells me what I

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Speaker 1: said is true. Does it always happen right away, right

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Speaker 1: when you want it to. Hey, we're not that far

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Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, boom, Oh, this is

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Speaker 1: the week we're going to catch on fire? And I

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Speaker 1: don't I don't know. We're gonna find out. I mean,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna find out we're playing a good football team.

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Speaker 1: I hope this is a week. But I've just seen

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Speaker 1: it too many times. I've experienced it personally. I've been

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Speaker 1: on teams, I've watch other teams. Know that, watch other sports.

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Speaker 1: It happens all the time. This is just the experience.

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Speaker 1: It's not that big of a gap. Secondly, what makes

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Speaker 1: me feel that is just the belief in our guys.

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Speaker 1: It's just the belief in our guys that when things

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Speaker 1: don't go right, we should be questioned, we should be criticized,

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Speaker 1: and there should be you know, what's happening. But inside,

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Speaker 1: it's different. Inside, it's different, and it should be different inside.

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Speaker 1: So everybody's doing their job. Everybody's doing their job, and

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Speaker 1: it's going the way it normally would go. As far

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Speaker 1: as all the dynamics, we just got to play better football.

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Speaker 1: We gotta coach better, we got to play better, and

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Speaker 1: things will take care of themselves. That's Frank Reich and

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Speaker 1: the entire team has to play much better, there's no

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Speaker 1: doubt about that. Across the board. That includes the offensive line,

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Speaker 1: which allowed five sacks and eleven quarterback hits on Matt

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Speaker 1: his assessment of the old line through two games. I

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Speaker 1: thought in Week one, I thought the offensive line played well.

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Speaker 1: You know, there were a couple issues, but if you

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Speaker 1: I'd say it was a good game by the offensive line.

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Speaker 1: You know, obviously in the last game it wasn't good

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Speaker 1: So I think that's more of a collective thing. I think,

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Speaker 1: you know our mode is, you know, each one of us,

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Speaker 1: you know what the discussion has been, Hey, we got

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Speaker 1: We believe in what we're doing, we believe in who

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Speaker 1: within fine ways to get better. That collective effort to

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Speaker 1: do that you find in this league. This is what

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Speaker 1: we will stay on that we will get better and

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Speaker 1: turn things around. And the Colts are hoping they can

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Speaker 1: get that done on Sunday against the Chiefs that is

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Speaker 1: much more known for their offense than their defense. The

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Speaker 1: Plus they have one of the best offensive minds and

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Speaker 1: the past two weeks. And we're scoring three points in

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Speaker 1: So offensively are we have to go out there and

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Speaker 1: and give our defense something to play with and play for. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he's right. The Colts haven't spent a lot of time

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Speaker 1: They played one hundred and thirty minutes of football so far,

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Speaker 1: Week one, and the Colts have held the lead for

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Speaker 1: it's all about bouncing back now for the Colts. After

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Speaker 1: all and knows the Colts have to answer the challenge

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Speaker 1: of proving they are not the team they put on

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Speaker 1: the field so far this season. All the good teams

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Speaker 1: time for the injury report for the day. Not practicing

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Speaker 1: the defense is prepared to square off against the Chiefs

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Speaker 1: in the high flying attack led by Patrick Mahomes that's

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Speaker 1: coming up next on the Colts Daily Update. Stay with

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Speaker 1: us ninety three five and one oh seven five the Fan.

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Speaker 1: We now return to the Colts Daily Update with Matt Taylor,

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Speaker 1: the voice of the Colts. They welcome back to the

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Speaker 1: Colts Daily Update tonight. It's the Colts in the Chiefs

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Speaker 1: on Sunday. Kickoff is set for one o'clock at Lucas

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Speaker 1: You know, it's been feast or famine so far, it

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Speaker 1: seems with the Colts defense through two games, they actually

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Speaker 1: ranked first in the NFL AN Opponent three and ounce

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Speaker 1: consistency heading into week number three, and a leader of

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Speaker 1: that unit is Zaire Franklin, who has started at linebacker

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Speaker 1: in each of the first two games of the season,

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Speaker 1: and earlier today he joined myself and Jeffrey Gorman in

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Speaker 1: this team. We're gonna get into Patrick Mahomes a little bit.

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Speaker 1: We don't need to go back on Jacksonville right now,

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Speaker 1: but this week an important week obviously started out with

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Speaker 1: veterans keeping everybody at that even Kiel saying, hey, we're

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Speaker 1: you know, I think it's just good for guys. It's

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Speaker 1: some mountains, some valleys, all that are coming in. He's

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Speaker 1: been around, he's been a head coach, he's been his

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Speaker 1: keep pushing and keep pushing. I mean, adversity happens. You know.

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Speaker 1: He always talks about Murphy's law. What can go wrong,

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Speaker 1: since we've been here, just you know, wise man knows

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Speaker 1: avoids all extremes. You know, let's just stay let's just

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Speaker 1: stay consistent, Let's keep pushing, let's just get better, Let's

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Speaker 1: get this win at Lucas oid As weekend. It's Zyre

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Speaker 1: only two games, but you know, just looking ahead a

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Speaker 1: little bit, the schedules heating up a little bit, the Chiefs,

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