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Speaker 1: What's up everyone, Welcome into another episode of instant Reaction.

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Speaker 1: Here are the Colts Audio Network and on YouTube. I'm

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Speaker 1: JJ Stankowitz, joined every week by Colt's Ring of Honor

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Speaker 1: wide receiver Bill Brooks to break down the Colts' latest

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Speaker 1: game bill. The Colts lose thirty seven to thirty four

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Speaker 1: on Sunday at Everbanks Stadium in Jacksonville. The Colts have

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Speaker 1: now lost ten games in a row on the road

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Speaker 1: to the Jacksonville Jaguars. A weird game with forty one

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Speaker 1: points in the fourth quarter, but a game bill that

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Speaker 1: to me ultimately is defined by the colts shortcomings on

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Speaker 1: defense allowing those thirty four points in this game.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean the defense not kind of live up

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Speaker 2: to their bargain in regards to trying to stop Jacksonville Jaguars.

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Speaker 2: And when you give up four hundred and ninety seven

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Speaker 2: yards total offense to an opposing team.

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Speaker 3: That's very hard to come back from.

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Speaker 2: And Jackson Zack Jacksonville Jaguars did a nice job of

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Speaker 2: just moving the ball down the.

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Speaker 3: Field and getting some big plays.

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Speaker 2: And when you give up those many big plays in

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Speaker 2: the game, and makes it very difficult to win football games.

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Speaker 3: I don't care who you are and what your offense does.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you give up a big play, give up

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Speaker 2: a eighty five yard touchdown to Brian Thomas, you give

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Speaker 2: up a big sixty one yard pass to Christian Kirk

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Speaker 2: who that sets up a touchdown later on in the game,

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Speaker 2: and then Bigsby has a sixty five yard run from

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Speaker 2: just a defensive standpoint. And also they had the punt

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Speaker 2: return for about sixty plus yards from Dubnet, so a

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Speaker 2: fifty plus yards. I'm sorry for Dubenet, but you give

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Speaker 2: that many big plays, it makes it very difficult for

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Speaker 2: you as an offense to I mean you as a

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Speaker 2: defense to stop a team. They have confidence and they

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Speaker 2: came into game not playing very well as far as

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Speaker 2: against the coach defense.

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Speaker 3: They made some big plays. They go down and score

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Speaker 3: and they.

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Speaker 2: Look like they felt, they looked like they were going

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Speaker 2: to be comfortable playing against the defense. And you know what,

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Speaker 2: the coach defense just not did not make enough play.

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Speaker 2: There were some mistackles also, some like some miscommunication in

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Speaker 2: regards to people in coverage there and that was not good.

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Speaker 2: And going into your fifth game of the season. Even

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Speaker 2: though they had some backups in there, you still shouldn't

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Speaker 2: have that miscommunication out there on the defense. So hopefully

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Speaker 2: they can clean that up and get better as the

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Speaker 2: season goes on.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, a lot to dig into with the Colts defense

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Speaker 1: in this game. I think I want to start Bill

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Speaker 1: with what Zaire Franklin said in the locker room after

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Speaker 1: the game. He said, quote, defense, we got to do

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Speaker 1: our part. We didn't do our part today. That's the

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Speaker 1: moral of the story. He also said the tackling in

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Speaker 1: this game was quote atrocious, and the numbers bear that out.

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Speaker 1: The eye tep bears that all out. That the Colts

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Speaker 1: defense did not hold up their end of the bargain today,

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Speaker 1: where like you mentioned, Bill, the Colts allow those three

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Speaker 1: plays of sixty or more yards. That eighty five yard

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Speaker 1: touchdown Brian Thomas Junior had was the longest completion the

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Speaker 1: Colts have allowed since Tom Brady hit David Patton for

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Speaker 1: a ninety one yard reception in two thousand and one.

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Speaker 1: So it's been quite some time since we've seen a

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Speaker 1: play like that against the Colts defense. But more than anything, Bill,

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Speaker 1: to me, this game felt like Trevor Lawrence was completely

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Speaker 1: in command of the Jaguars offense in a way that

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Speaker 1: he had not been all year going into this game.

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Speaker 1: Trevor lawrence completion percentages in the first four games of

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Speaker 1: the season with the Jags losing all four were at

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Speaker 1: fifty seven point one percent, forty six point seven percent,

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Speaker 1: fifty five point three percent, and fifty four point five percent. Today,

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Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence goes out there, he completes eighty two point

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Speaker 1: four percent of his passes for three hundred and seventy

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Speaker 1: one yards. Bill For me, the biggest issue here is

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Speaker 1: that Trevor Lawrence was neither sacked nor hit in this game.

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Speaker 1: That's the second time this season the Colts have had

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Speaker 1: a game in which they have had neither a sack

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Speaker 1: nor a quarterback hit. The other one was Week two,

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Speaker 1: the loss to the Green Bay Packers. And I know

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Speaker 1: you're talking about Taekwon Lewis, Quidty pay and Samson ub

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Speaker 1: Become and DeForrest Buckner all being out on that Colts

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Speaker 1: defensive line, but that it's really hard to win a

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Speaker 1: game when the quarterbacks Jersey doesn't get dirty at all,

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Speaker 1: you know, over the course of sixty minutes.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it makes it very difficult, and the quarterback never

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Speaker 2: pressure on him. And you have to get in a

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Speaker 2: quarterback like Trevor Lawrence. You definitely have to keep him

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Speaker 2: in the well also to speak, but you also have

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Speaker 2: give him time, you know what he's going to kill you.

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Speaker 2: And yes, we did get an interception in the game,

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Speaker 2: but at the beginning of the game, he just was

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Speaker 2: taking what the coast was giving him and he was

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Speaker 2: short passes to tight end and they were just moving

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Speaker 2: the long pass to Brian Thomas and that was a

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Speaker 2: big eighty five yard play. There's another play the Christian

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Speaker 2: Kirk that was for sixty plus yards. So you have

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Speaker 2: to get pressure on quarterbacks if you want to make

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Speaker 2: sure that you can get some more turnovers and get

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Speaker 2: him frustrated so he'll throw some incomplete passes or he'll

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Speaker 2: throw some passes in a dirt or just take a sack.

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Speaker 2: So the Colts did not do that from a defensive

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Speaker 2: standpoint as far as getting pressure on Trevor Lawrence, and Trevor,

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Speaker 2: you know, he hasn't played up to his standard this

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Speaker 2: year thus far, but you still know that he is

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Speaker 2: a good quarterback and he can make those plays.

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Speaker 3: And he showed today that he still can't make those plays.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Trevor Lawrence coming into this game, when he was

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Speaker 1: hundred and thirty one yards on the season. So that's

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Speaker 1: where a lot of his incompletions were coming from, Bill,

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Speaker 1: complete passes, whether it was short, intermediate, deep, whatever it

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Speaker 1: may be. And the Colts today, I mean again, I

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Speaker 1: know you're talking about a depleted defensive line not getting

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Speaker 1: that pressure on him. I think it put a lot

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Speaker 1: of pressure then on the secondary. Yes, which, like you said, Bill,

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Speaker 1: they had some errors, some communication errors in the back

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Speaker 1: end that led to some of those big plays. But

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Speaker 1: this team is built on getting pressure up front, and

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Speaker 1: this is not a Colts team that's designed to win

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Speaker 1: on defense. When they're getting just one total pressure. That's

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Speaker 1: what Pro Football Focus had in this game. The PFF,

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Speaker 1: and this is Sunday night, it could be updated into Monday,

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Speaker 1: but they had Layoutu Latu had won pressure and that

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Speaker 1: was it for the Colts defense today. So that's kind

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Speaker 1: of a starting point. The other one is Tank Bigsby,

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Speaker 1: the Jaguars running back. According to Pro Football Focus, he

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Speaker 1: forced ten mistackles in this game. That's another number that

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Speaker 1: for a defense that takes pride in it's tackling that.

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Speaker 1: That's another one that you could tell really kind of

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Speaker 1: stuck with some players after this game.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I know another one of the runs in which

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Speaker 2: of guys. Yeah, he ran up with a couple of guys.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, he made some people miss. And you know

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Speaker 2: what you want to be. If you're going to be

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Speaker 2: hole and you want to stop them, you want to

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Speaker 2: make some big plays, you're going to have to make

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Speaker 3: You're just gonna have to make tackles.

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Speaker 2: And it was kind of uncharacteristic to see as many

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Speaker 2: Speed missed the tackle. I saw Nick Cross miss to tackle.

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Speaker 2: Two guys a leading the league and tackling miss some tackle,

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Speaker 2: So you know what. Unfortunately it happens sometimes, but when

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Speaker 2: you're in a crucial game like that, you don't want

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Speaker 2: to have those mistackles. So I'm sure those guys will

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Speaker 3: That's just part. That's the bottom line. That's just football.

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Speaker 2: I mean football comes to pretty much blocking, running, tackling,

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Speaker 2: passing the ball, catching the ball. Very few simple things

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Speaker 2: do well so you can be successful.

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Speaker 1: The Jaguars had four hundred ninety seven yards of total

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Speaker 1: offense today, Bill. Two hundred and seventy nine of those

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Speaker 1: came on six explosive plays in this game. Those are

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Speaker 1: of more yards. The Jaguars had six. They averaged forty

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Speaker 1: nine and a half yards on those plays, and that again,

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Speaker 1: liked you mentioned, Bill, you're talking about the eighty five

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Speaker 1: then the sixty five yard touchdown run that Tank Bigsby had,

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Speaker 1: and those plays are killers. You know, the Colts for

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Speaker 1: the first time all year, Bill, they won the time

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Speaker 1: of possession battle. They helped Jaguars to four of twelve

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Speaker 1: of that was just erased by the explosive plays that

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Speaker 1: right now, Like it was the pass rush not getting home,

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Speaker 1: communication errors, and it was the guys who you trust

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Speaker 1: tackles this season, missing you know, et on out in

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Speaker 1: the open field or missing Tank bigs beyond one of

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Speaker 1: the you know, the the eighteen yard touchdown run. Just

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Speaker 1: give up thirty seven points, you're gonna have a lot

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Speaker 1: of these issues. The one other thing, Bill, the Colts

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Speaker 1: won the turnover battle in this game. I think if

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Speaker 1: win the turnover battle and the time of possession battle,

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Speaker 1: you'd say I think the losing streak's going to come

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Speaker 1: to an end. But that's not how it played out today.

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Speaker 3: No.

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Speaker 2: I mean, especially a turnof for a value. You definitely

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Speaker 2: think if you win a turnoff for about you have

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Speaker 2: a real good shot at winning the football game.

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Speaker 3: But that didn't happen for the Coats.

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Speaker 2: But it just shows you how important it is for

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Speaker 2: each level on the defense, as far as the defensive

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Speaker 3: They go hand in hand.

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Speaker 2: You know, the front, the guys in the front have

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Speaker 2: to get pressure on the quarterback to force the quarterback

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Speaker 2: to make Aaron throws. The guys that in the middle

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Speaker 2: level they have to make the tackles. The guys in

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Speaker 2: break up some passes and hopefully get some interceptions. So

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Speaker 2: it's very important that the guys play together. And that's

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Speaker 2: the important thing about football. You know, the defense, those

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Speaker 2: then the offense plays well and then the special teams

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Speaker 1: All right, So let's talk about the Colts offense now

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Speaker 2: He's going to be efficient, he's going to take what

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Speaker 3: We need to get back into this game. And they did.

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Speaker 2: They able to tie it up and you know, have

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Speaker 1: You don't make that list by accident. You do make

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Speaker 3: He's done. Look, he's done a nice job.

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Speaker 1: So Joe Flacco finishes the day thirty three of forty

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Speaker 1: see Quinn quint Nelson. So there was that highlight from

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Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago where q kind of very

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Speaker 1: gently just blocks the defend the defender who's kind of

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Speaker 1: on the blind side of a play, like I'm not

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Speaker 1: getting flagged for this, And it was like if we

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Speaker 1: went around like football. I think it was against the Packers,

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Speaker 1: it went around the NFL. Social media is like bend

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Speaker 1: and nicest block in the NFL. There was nothing nice

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Speaker 1: about the block Quentin Nelson put on Andre Cisco on

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Speaker 1: that play. It was get out of this play and

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Speaker 1: then he finishes it by my pancaking or safety on

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Speaker 1: the play. But that sprung it to be a you know,

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Speaker 1: a successful twenty four yard completion. That play though, was

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Speaker 1: really one of the only explosive plays the Colts had

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Speaker 1: in it was. I looked at it from the second

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Speaker 1: through the seventh possession of this game. The Colts did

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Speaker 1: hit a bit of a lull after they started with

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Speaker 1: a great first drive. Joe Flacco was perfect to open

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Speaker 1: the game, finishes it with a one yard touchdown to

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Speaker 1: Michael Pittman Junior. He's you know, peppering Josh downs on

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Speaker 1: that first drive that the Colts get to go up

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Speaker 1: seven to nothing. But after that, the Jaguars did a

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Speaker 1: really nice job playing a lot of shell coverage, so

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Speaker 1: they you know, you're taking away the deep stuff to pierce,

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Speaker 1: and then they were playing really well up front taking

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Speaker 1: away running lanes for Trey Sermon and Tyler Goodson, who

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Speaker 1: in this game they combined for fifteen carries for sixty

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Speaker 1: four yards. So it's a little over what is that

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Speaker 1: about four ish yards per carry.

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Speaker 3: Little thing with four point one something like that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, more than half of those yards though, did come

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Speaker 1: on two seventeen yard carries each of those guys had,

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Speaker 1: so not not maybe the most efficient day for the

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Speaker 1: Colts out of the backfield, but I like that, you know,

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Speaker 1: they're trying some stuff, they're trying to find a way

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Speaker 1: through it, and eventually Flacco just kind of took over

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Speaker 1: in terms of, you know, knowing where to go with

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Speaker 1: the football, hitting those explosives. But that lull in the

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Speaker 1: middle of the game, you know, Flacco and Shane Stike

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Speaker 1: and talked about it Bill that, you know, they they

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Speaker 1: felt like they left some stuff out there that could

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Speaker 1: have in a three point game, that could have maybe

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Speaker 1: swung it and taken some of the heat off of

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Speaker 1: the Colts defense in this game.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot of times we look at look back

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Speaker 2: at games and you kind of think about the plays

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Speaker 2: that you've had and the plays that you've missed or

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Speaker 2: wasn't as successful as you thought you should have been.

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Speaker 2: You're always going to say that, you know, there's a

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Speaker 2: couple of players out there that we've left a couple

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Speaker 2: of yards that we left out there in the football field,

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Speaker 2: and that's what happened. In the National Football League. This

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Speaker 2: is very tough lead to win and be successful at

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Speaker 2: every single play out there that you have.

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Speaker 3: So you know they'll they'll they'll get it back.

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Speaker 2: They'll have an opportunity hopefully moving forward to you know,

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Speaker 2: correct the mistakes and hopefully have an opportunity to get it.

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Speaker 2: But with that low you know that that hurt them

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Speaker 2: as far as you know, maybe if they just have

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Speaker 2: maybe one of those drives that they can get some

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Speaker 2: points out of it and just move the ball down

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Speaker 2: the field, makes a little you know, make me feel

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Speaker 2: a little bit better, or maybe they move the ball

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Speaker 2: down the field, eat up some clock, take the ball,

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Speaker 2: kind of take the ball away from the Jacksonville Jaguars.

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Speaker 2: You can go down there and kick a field goal

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Speaker 2: or kick two field goals. It does something for yourself

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Speaker 2: and it kind of demoralizes the other team. So hopefully

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Speaker 2: that you know, they won't have as many of those

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Speaker 2: lows in the season or in the next couple of

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Speaker 2: games and say in the season, but in the game

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Speaker 2: that they can hopefully capitalize on those drives and makes

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Speaker 2: and make something happen and get some points.

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Speaker 1: The Colts did have two drives that reached the red

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Speaker 1: zone that they had to settle for field goals on.

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Speaker 1: You know, there was one in the second quarter that

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Speaker 1: was the one where they had the Mitchell pass on

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Speaker 1: it that got down to the Jacksonville twelve before the

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Speaker 1: Colts had to settle for a field goal. And then

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Speaker 1: one in the fourth quarter that got down just inside

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Speaker 1: the red zone that was another Matt gave field goal

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Speaker 1: right there. Those are the kind of things that you know, again,

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Speaker 1: in a close game, you swing one of those, maybe

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Speaker 1: you don't have the the Flacco stripsack toward the end

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Speaker 1: of the first half that you know that that was

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Speaker 1: another turning point in this game. You know, when you

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Speaker 1: you kind of look back on it, you get the

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Speaker 1: Jalen Jones punch out, which is an awesome play Jones.

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Speaker 1: Then then you're thinking, all right, well maybe we can

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Speaker 1: try to pop three points out of this. After jackson

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Speaker 1: looked like they were going to get it, Flacco gets

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Speaker 1: the ball knocked out by Trayvon Walker. I think it

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Speaker 1: was Treyvon. It was either Trayvon or Josh heines Al

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Speaker 1: and Treyvon Walker. A really good game.

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Speaker 3: Hey, ye had a good game.

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Speaker 1: It was really impressive.

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Speaker 3: Dame. Yeah, ball gets popped out.

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Speaker 1: Heinz Allen is the one who recovered it, so it

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Speaker 1: was Trayvon Walker who forced it, and then Jacksonville gets

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Speaker 1: the field goal late. You know, again in a game

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Speaker 1: that's a close loss. Bill, Like, you probably have experienced

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Speaker 1: this as a player, Like you're on that plane going

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Speaker 1: back home, or you're you're driving back after a home game,

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Speaker 1: and you're just thinking about the plays that you missed

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Speaker 1: instead of the plays that you hit in that game.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, it's always the what if.

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Speaker 2: You know, you play that what if game on the

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Speaker 2: flight back home on away games, and it's like I said,

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Speaker 2: if you're driving in your car back home or whatever

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Speaker 2: it is, you play that what if game. What if

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Speaker 2: we had to X instead of why what if we

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Speaker 2: did this? What if we if I had caught this pass?

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Speaker 2: What if I had made this block? And you know,

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Speaker 2: that's what you don't want to do after a game

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Speaker 2: because that means usually you've lost the game. But uh,

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Speaker 2: you know what they should they should play that what

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Speaker 2: if game because maybe you know, as they look at

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Speaker 2: it and say, okay, what if I did this? So

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Speaker 2: how can I do this better? So I don't have

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Speaker 2: to ask us what if if I do this better

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Speaker 2: or I make this play, then you know I won't.

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Speaker 3: Have to ask this what if we have done this?

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Speaker 3: So what if I have done this?

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Speaker 2: So each player has to kind of look at themselves

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Speaker 2: and see, you see where they can get better, and

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Speaker 2: then hopefully eventually as the season goes on, they don't

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Speaker 2: have to ask themselves what if. But now in the

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Speaker 2: game like this, they have to ask what if because

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Speaker 2: it makes a big difference. And you know, this is

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Speaker 2: the second loss in the AFC South. Next week is

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Speaker 2: going to be a big game. I think you know

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Speaker 2: you're playing the Tennessee Titans on the road, and you

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Speaker 2: know you don't you definitely don't want to go oh

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Speaker 2: to three in AFC South for your first three AFC

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Speaker 2: South games during the season. So it's going to be

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Speaker 2: a big game next week for the coach as they

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Speaker 2: travel down to Tennessee.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the Colts are owned to in the AFC South.

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Speaker 1: They have not been over five hundred in the AFC

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Speaker 1: South since twoy and twenty. That was the last time

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Speaker 1: they made the playoffs, probably not coincidentally, So yeah, I

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Speaker 1: mean it's next week. Is a really really important game

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Speaker 1: for this team to get back to five hundred, to

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Speaker 1: start climbing your way out of the AFC South out

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Speaker 1: of a little hole that you've got there. We'll see

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Speaker 1: about Anthony Richardson and Jonathan Taylor for next week. I thought,

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Speaker 1: just baseline though, Bill, that the Colts put up thirty

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Speaker 1: four points without Richardson, without Taylor, without Ryan Kelly, and

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Speaker 1: then I would be remiss if I didn't mention Will Fryes,

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Speaker 1: who sustained I mean just just awful, like awful injury

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Speaker 1: Shane Stike and said it was a tibia. So Will

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Speaker 1: Fryes is still in Jacksonville. He's having to have a

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Speaker 1: procedure tonight Sunday two correct to you know, he needs

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Speaker 1: the procedure basically and is gonna have to stay at

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Speaker 1: least overnight in Jacksonville. Will Fryes is playing such good football,

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Speaker 1: like high level Pro Bowl caliber foot ball at right guard.

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Speaker 1: And Quinton Nelson after the game, Lara Overton or Kin

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Speaker 1: of get a chance to catch up with him and

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Speaker 1: she asked him about Will fries and and Q was

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Speaker 1: really emotional about it. You you know, go watch the

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Speaker 1: video on Colts dot com, but it was it was tough.

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Speaker 1: You can tell how tough that one was for this team.

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Speaker 1: I mean, the entire team went over to Will Fries and,

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Speaker 1: you know, gave him a fist bump, said some words

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Speaker 1: of encouragement. There's not like a better dude on this

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Speaker 1: team than Will Fries by the way, the guy works

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Speaker 1: his butt off. He is physical, he's mean on the

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Speaker 1: football field, he finishes plays. That dude was playing like

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Speaker 1: one of the best, if not the best right guard

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Speaker 1: in the NFL when he got hurt. And that is

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Speaker 1: that that sucks. That sucks for him, that sucks for

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Speaker 1: the Colts. That's gonna be That's gonna be one to

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Speaker 1: you know that the Colts have depth there. Dalton Tucker

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Speaker 1: stepped in and and filled in admirably.

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Speaker 2: Today.

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Speaker 1: But I would be remiss Bill if I didn't kind

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Speaker 1: of just say, like Will Fries is such a good

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Speaker 1: football player, and that one that one hurts, that that

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Speaker 1: one hurts the team, and obviously it really really sucks

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Speaker 1: for Will.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely, Will is a good football player.

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Speaker 2: But the reaction you saw from the guys by being

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Speaker 2: on the field and what they've said about Will Thrive

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Speaker 2: show what type of person he is and how the

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Speaker 2: guys feel about him as a person and as their teammate.

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Speaker 2: You saw it on their faces, you know they were

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Speaker 2: they were sad sitting out there watching Will get in

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Speaker 2: the cart. So I feel for the young man. My

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Speaker 2: prayers go out to him, hoping that, you know, speedy recovery,

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Speaker 2: not for not just to get back on the football field,

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Speaker 2: but to be keeled and to be back to being

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Speaker 2: able to do with things that he wants to do

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Speaker 2: in life. So I'll hope, you know what, everything goes

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Speaker 2: well with the procedure and he's back.

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Speaker 3: But it was tough.

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Speaker 2: It was tough to see him get caught off the

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Speaker 2: field like that and see the guy's faces as he

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Speaker 2: was cart off the field. So I know the guys

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Speaker 2: are pulling form and supporting him and just shows you

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Speaker 2: how close, especially that offensive line is and how close

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Speaker 2: this team is by what you saw there on the

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Speaker 2: football field, the guy standing around him and give him

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Speaker 2: him support as he went off the field.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, we'll have plenty to dig into here in

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Speaker 1: the Colts Audio Network this week as we digest this

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Speaker 1: loss to the Jaguars and start looking ahead to the

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Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans. We'll have plenty of updates on Anthony Richardson

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Speaker 1: and on Jonathan Taylor what their status could be for

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Speaker 1: week six in Tennessee. Bill and I will be back

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Speaker 1: Sunday night next week after the Colts played the Titans

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Speaker 1: down in Nashville. Hopefully they don't take the goalposts and

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Speaker 1: throw them in the river like Vanderbilt did a bit

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Speaker 1: of a shorter commute for those.

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Speaker 3: Yes, they were to do that, though.

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Speaker 1: Shout out to the Vanderbilt students for bringing those goalposts

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Speaker 1: all the way down if they after the peace Mamma. Anyways,

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Speaker 1: Bill and I will be back next Sunday night after

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Speaker 1: the Colts played the Tennessee Titans. Stick with us again

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Speaker 1: here on the Colts Audio Network and on YouTube and

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Speaker 1: on Colts dot Com for all your news, analysis and

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Speaker 1: breakdowns before, during, and after Sunday's game against the Titans.

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Speaker 1: For Bill Brooks, I'm JJ Stankowitz again. We'll talk to

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Speaker 1: you next week after the Colts faced the Tennessee Titans.

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Speaker 3: So Long,