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

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Speaker 1: the right place.

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Speaker 2: Caught over the medal Michael Pittman Junior. There we go,

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Speaker 2: he's at the forty. He's at the thirty slipt out

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Speaker 2: of a tackle, twenty ten five touchdown. Michael Pittman Junior

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Speaker 2: takes it seventy five yards two the house, big one

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Speaker 2: angling left, forty, he's at the thirty.

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Speaker 1: Gellan, here's unline.

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Speaker 2: Twenty fifty ten five touchdown.

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Speaker 1: Jonathan Taylor take forty nine yard galloped took petert in

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Speaker 1: the Indiana Union Construction Industry Radio studio.

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Speaker 2: Let's get the podcast started. Welcome into the Official Colts Podcast.

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Speaker 2: My name is Jeffrey Gorman. Going over here by j. J.

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Speaker 2: Stankovitch and over here by miss Leira Overton. And it's

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Speaker 2: that time of year. We know what time of year

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Speaker 2: it is, right right?

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Speaker 1: Are you doing super Bowl? Super Bowl?

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Speaker 3: Okay?

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, no, it's not that time of year.

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Speaker 3: No, No, it's downtime.

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Speaker 2: Snake that's coming. By the way.

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Speaker 3: You about a week away.

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Speaker 2: February Awards awards season, you got Tonys. Then there's Grammys,

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Speaker 2: NFL Honors, there's Oscars, it's NFL Honors. It's on Thursday.

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Speaker 2: I mean, it is award season. So that's what we're

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Speaker 2: gonna do tonight with the help of you guys, uh

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Speaker 2: is give out some awards on this Colts team. I

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Speaker 2: love it, but I have a question for you.

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Speaker 3: Do we have any statuettes?

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Speaker 2: Should have had statuettes when this here's the best I

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Speaker 2: can do to statute you're ready. Sorry about this, Sherry,

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Speaker 2: but we gotta adapt, all right? Look at that you

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Speaker 2: got a qute up. You know what that is, right,

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Speaker 2: it's awards.

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Speaker 3: You had a lengthy career.

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Speaker 1: And how many Grammys have you been to.

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Speaker 2: I've never been to an Oscars or a Grammys or

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Speaker 2: it's a long day unless you're up for something. It's

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Speaker 2: a long, long day. Guy. I just was at the Grammys.

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Speaker 2: The guy that I happen to know who won for

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Speaker 2: the soundtrack of Barbie's his name is George or Coolius.

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Speaker 2: He's a music producer part of that Barbie soundtrack. He

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Speaker 2: goes love getting it, but the lead up for it

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Speaker 2: and then afterwards and getting in and getting out, He's like,

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Speaker 2: it's a ten hour day to go to go to

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Speaker 2: the awards ceremony. But worth it, but worth it out

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Speaker 2: of manager. But I've never been to one of those.

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Speaker 1: How much do seat fillers make?

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Speaker 2: That's great, Grammy, I would take a couple of hundred bucks

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Speaker 2: at least. Yeah, at least because if you get paid hourly.

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Speaker 2: I've seen, Yeah, I've seen. Lara had mentioned NFL Honors.

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Speaker 2: They have seat fillers at the NFL Honors because all

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Speaker 2: those players are coming up and stuff like that, and

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Speaker 2: they got seat fillers. Maybe that's what we should do

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Speaker 2: as a show. Yeah, you know, Lara, JJ and Jeffery

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Speaker 2: and just see where they're sitting at award show.

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Speaker 1: A friend of mine actually was just a seat filler

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Speaker 1: at a w w E event in Saint Louis last night.

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Speaker 4: I'm actually surprised that they don't just sell that thing

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Speaker 2: Was it a wrestling match?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it wasn't like you know, the big one. I

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Speaker 2: Come on in. But my thing was it is award season.

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Speaker 2: Have you ever hosted anything like through your career hosted

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Speaker 4: Okay, so two years ago I did host the Regional

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Speaker 5: Awards that were at the Lucas Estate.

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Speaker 3: So I did host that, which is like the.

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Speaker 4: Regional Emmy Awards, not like the big national Emmy Awards.

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Speaker 4: But it was an absolute blasts, so much fun. But

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Speaker 5: There's so many people, Like people were lovely by the way.

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Speaker 4: Like everyone's in such a good mood and like I

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Speaker 2: Speaking of horses, Toby Keith is dead, I know, very sad.

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Speaker 2: We were talking about that, Toby, Well, horses, you would

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Speaker 2: To the family and a state of Toby Keith, We're

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Speaker 3: We were up there with the Country's series.

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Speaker 1: And have you been to Yes, I this is where

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Speaker 2: Where did you sit out there?

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Speaker 1: Just done of grass?

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Speaker 3: Right, many times?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I know you've been here about four or five

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Speaker 2: where you giving away awards? No sounds fun though it does, right, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: tough as hell. That's why I'm bringing up tough as hell.

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Speaker 2: You did those awards over at the Estate, right.

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Speaker 3: You get over at the look Emmy Awards.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, tough as hell. It is serious. It is because

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Speaker 4: There's a lot of names. You want to be sure

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Speaker 3: So you don't want to show any.

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Speaker 4: Favoritism to anyone either, right, right, right to be mad

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Speaker 4: when you get all dressed up. I had like this

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Speaker 2: Did you do any other Grammys the other night?

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Speaker 1: No, I was too tired from going to the Monster

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Speaker 1: Truck show.

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Speaker 2: Okay, yeah you did say that.

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Speaker 1: You brought your brom my kids.

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Speaker 2: Kids loved it.

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Speaker 1: Oh, that was incredible.

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Speaker 2: Another guy brought his kids to that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it was awesome.

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Speaker 2: Anybody flip everybody?

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Speaker 1: Oh dude, there are flips. There were like crashes. They

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Speaker 1: I drank a beer at Lucas Oil Stadium. Really that

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Speaker 1: who gets to do that every Sunday brought vos. What

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you could actually get away with it if you

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Speaker 1: But I know it's you gotta be on wow. I mean,

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Speaker 2: I had a beer. First of all, let's back up.

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Speaker 1: A little bit, Greg, I wouldn't do that, by the way,

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Speaker 2: Is that what I heard?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? One beerj two bears.

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Speaker 2: And you would never go with Tucker to go watch

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Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, I did that once back in the day.

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Speaker 4: But it seems like anytime often if I like show

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Speaker 4: it's like, oh, hey, we get roped into doing something.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, by the way, like I don't know I would

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Speaker 2: That reminds me of something. Guys, do we have any

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Speaker 2: ends for this NBA all starting? I know you do.

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Speaker 2: Come on, come on, no, you're miss NBA. You worked

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Speaker 4: Come on, but Here's what's different though, is yes, the

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Speaker 4: and and all of your networking all comes through, you know,

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Speaker 4: league contacts. Really and I've kind of been out of

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Speaker 4: that game for so long. Ye, So, but I did

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Speaker 4: see that Lil Wayne is performing, So I am intrigued.

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Speaker 2: Did you, Sindore?

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Speaker 1: I was just about to bring up the court because

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Speaker 1: they're doing that at Lucas Oil.

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Speaker 2: Stadium, which is great. I just found out about it.

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Speaker 1: Here's the future of the NFL, as I envision it is.

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Speaker 1: You have the led field right there's a chip in

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Speaker 1: the ball and the chip will maybe maybe there's some

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Speaker 1: sort of censor that senses when a player is down,

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Speaker 1: and then right there, bam, on the field, you get

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Speaker 1: to see a line where the ball is. Did it

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Speaker 1: the line for a touchdown?

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Speaker 2: We're getting there, aren't we?

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Speaker 1: Technology could be out there. We'll now we are getting there,

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Speaker 1: and we solved spotting issues. By the way.

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Speaker 2: Hey, by the way, NBA all start game coming right

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Speaker 2: here to Indianapolis, Lucas Oil Stadium hosts the Saturday All

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Speaker 2: the Three Point Contest contest Saturday. That's Saturday evening and

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Speaker 2: There are two winners in this really, because I'm going

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Speaker 1: Now, the winner I had a piece of paper. My

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Speaker 1: winner is Samson Ebicom.

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Speaker 1: A newcomer nine and a half sacks, ten TFLs, seventeen

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Speaker 1: Ebcom is my winner.

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Speaker 2: Nice one, great, great award. Great by you to point

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Speaker 2: him out, because he was imperative as far as this season.

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Speaker 2: Obviously the sack record he had a big part of that.

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Speaker 2: Top rookie, top newcomer miss lera Overton.

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Speaker 4: Okay, I went with a player ultimately, but I think

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Speaker 4: I think that that could be yes, But I was like,

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Speaker 3: So Gardner's Gardner's gonna be mine.

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Speaker 2: Great call and the value you talk about most valuable.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, the star, number four overall pick Anthony Richardson.

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Speaker 2: He was valuable there. Then Richardson goes down, he's valuable there.

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Speaker 2: Hey we're going Gardner, come on in, come on, we

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Speaker 2: I went with Styching. I figured, you know, what he's

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Speaker 3: How good of a position to be in that.

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Speaker 4: We all had three different takes, three different arguments, all

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Speaker 3: Of people that you can one of us picked Josh down,

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Speaker 4: That's, you know what a great indication of the trajectory

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Speaker 5: I looked at this yesterday.

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Speaker 3: But I just thought that that was really really important.

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Speaker 4: He gets in the end zone, he points like, yes,

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Speaker 2: I'm finally we can't go wrong with these awards. I

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Speaker 1: Week twelve, Colts offensive line against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

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Speaker 2: to the group.

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Speaker 4: Need to diversify a little bit, because I've got a

443
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Speaker 4: lot of these that are all falling under like the

444
00:19:03,200 --> 00:19:03,800
Speaker 4: same game.

445
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Speaker 3: And I don't know why, just kind of started like, yeah,

446
00:19:07,119 --> 00:19:07,920
Speaker 3: I have the same thing.

447
00:19:08,160 --> 00:19:10,199
Speaker 4: So there are certainly more arguments to be made, but

448
00:19:10,240 --> 00:19:12,080
Speaker 4: I think I just like started to fixate on the

449
00:19:12,080 --> 00:19:15,320
Speaker 4: Baltimore game, and one of those to me was the

450
00:19:15,359 --> 00:19:19,320
Speaker 4: defense and the pass rush containing Lamar Jackson in that

451
00:19:19,400 --> 00:19:23,680
Speaker 4: game four sacks for twenty four yards lost to twenty

452
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Speaker 4: four yards on that game. No passing touchdowns were allowed

453
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Speaker 4: in that game. I just thought that that was such

454
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Speaker 4: an effective day by your defensive front up against you know,

455
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Speaker 4: a guy who is you know, one of the front

456
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Speaker 4: runners for NFL MVP.

457
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Speaker 2: See.

458
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Speaker 1: I thought about the linebackers for that game. I thought

459
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Speaker 1: about Z and EJ in that game where Z gets

460
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Speaker 1: a sack, EJ has a number of big TFLs, he

461
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Speaker 1: gets the pass breakup at the end of the game

462
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Speaker 1: that I know people in Baltimore probably as interference wasn't called.

463
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Speaker 1: It's fine, uh, but those those two guys in that game,

464
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Speaker 1: to me.

465
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Speaker 2: Were not mentioned.

466
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Speaker 4: Uji Bruntz having you know, the forced fumble in that

467
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Speaker 4: game as well, Like that was his first scouse his

468
00:20:00,680 --> 00:20:02,639
Speaker 4: debut NFLDBU and were able to do that.

469
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Speaker 3: But yeah, I kind of looked at that.

470
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Speaker 4: I thought there were so many different areas that you

471
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Speaker 4: could look to, but in particular, I just thought that

472
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Speaker 4: your effectiveness on Lamar was such a great indication of

473
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Speaker 4: the potential for your defense and how disruptive that they

474
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Speaker 4: can be.

475
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Speaker 3: And to the.

476
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Speaker 5: Tune of obviously breaking the franchise sac record.

477
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Speaker 2: Before and we ticked off the Ravens because they went

478
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Speaker 2: on a pretty good run after that loss and we

479
00:20:23,359 --> 00:20:26,280
Speaker 2: saw what happened to them. But great awards. I'm gonna say,

480
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Speaker 2: I'm going to that second Tennessee game, we had six sacks.

481
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Speaker 2: I don't know, you know, I can't give him all

482
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Speaker 2: the defensive line, the edge guys, whatever like that. I

483
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Speaker 2: want to give it to the group. But I'm just

484
00:20:34,760 --> 00:20:37,679
Speaker 2: saying we needed that win, that overtime win. Minshew. We

485
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Speaker 2: had Alerc Pierce over the top, we had Pittman obviously,

486
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Speaker 2: but the six sacks came into play obviously, so big

487
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Speaker 2: for that. So that was my sore.

488
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Speaker 1: I was also thinking about the front against the Steelers

489
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Speaker 1: in week fifteen. I think that was what four maybe

490
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Speaker 1: it was six sacks. It was quite a few sacks,

491
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Speaker 1: but a lot of pressures. I also thought about Samson

492
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Speaker 1: ebcom for best solo performance for that game. He had

493
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Speaker 1: seven pressures.

494
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Speaker 2: Okay, we've been there, stay with you, JJ, best play,

495
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Speaker 2: favorite highlight of the year, what is it. I think

496
00:21:04,280 --> 00:21:06,400
Speaker 2: we're gonna have three different ones on this one too.

497
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Speaker 1: So I thought about the Anthony Richardson's throw to Alec

498
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Speaker 1: Pearson against the Rams, because that one's just it's seared

499
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Speaker 1: in like everyone's brain.

500
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Speaker 2: He thought about it, but you didn't.

501
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Speaker 1: I didn't go with it because I want the different

502
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Speaker 1: play in that game. I went with the two point

503
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Speaker 1: conversion to Zach Moss. I think that was the first

504
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Speaker 1: one where Donald has pressure like immediately on Anthony and

505
00:21:29,680 --> 00:21:32,800
Speaker 1: he escapes it, he feels it, he gets outside the pocket,

506
00:21:32,880 --> 00:21:34,760
Speaker 1: he buys time going to his left, and you just

507
00:21:34,760 --> 00:21:36,639
Speaker 1: flips that little past to Zach Moss and the end

508
00:21:36,720 --> 00:21:40,679
Speaker 1: zone for the two point conversion. That type of ability

509
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Speaker 1: to create, like we know, like the the arm talent

510
00:21:44,520 --> 00:21:47,200
Speaker 1: and the ability to feel pressure in the pocket, that's

511
00:21:47,240 --> 00:21:50,240
Speaker 1: all incredible. What he did on that throw to Alec

512
00:21:50,440 --> 00:21:53,560
Speaker 1: with Aaron Donald wrapping him up just a phenomenal play.

513
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Speaker 1: Love it, but that two point conversion is like, that's

514
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Speaker 1: what Anthony can do outside of structure, And there's just

515
00:22:00,240 --> 00:22:03,240
Speaker 1: so much potential both within and with and within and

516
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Speaker 1: outside the structure of this offense.

517
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Speaker 2: I for thought about that play and that game and

518
00:22:06,560 --> 00:22:08,840
Speaker 2: then yeah, for a while, and JJ brings out and

519
00:22:08,880 --> 00:22:10,720
Speaker 2: thank you for that, because we're you know, we always

520
00:22:10,760 --> 00:22:12,800
Speaker 2: talk about the greatness of them, but you're absolutely right

521
00:22:13,200 --> 00:22:15,800
Speaker 2: the way that he responded, especially with the likes of

522
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Speaker 2: Aaron Donald on that day. What we have cooking in

523
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Speaker 2: the next couple of years with this kid is gonna

524
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Speaker 2: be fun. So ELLO sticking with you. Best play, favorite

525
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Speaker 2: highlight of the year.

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Speaker 3: Okay, we've already touched on it so much.

527
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Speaker 4: You talked about Matt Gay Baltimore, the pit catch at

528
00:22:28,560 --> 00:22:32,800
Speaker 4: Baltimore where his helmet pops off, he's in coverage, makes

529
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Speaker 4: the grab overneath over top of two defenders.

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Speaker 5: I love that one. But for me, I'm gonna roll

531
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Speaker 5: it all the way back to Week.

532
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Speaker 4: One, the strip sack, force fumble, fumble recovery touchdown to

533
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Speaker 4: strip sack, Oh my god, and then uh, you know

534
00:22:50,080 --> 00:22:52,720
Speaker 4: DFO with like the full extension the guys after I

535
00:22:52,760 --> 00:22:55,439
Speaker 4: was joking in the locker room with z and I

536
00:22:55,480 --> 00:22:57,760
Speaker 4: asked him, you know, his thoughts when he saw Buck

537
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Speaker 4: dive for the touchdown, and that I always tell Buck

538
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Speaker 4: he's the most athletic, like six foot eight dude that

539
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Speaker 4: I've ever seen to.

540
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Speaker 3: Make that kind of play.

541
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Speaker 4: And the fact that a lot of guys weren't aware

542
00:23:09,119 --> 00:23:12,480
Speaker 4: the play was still live, and in Zayer's words, you know,

543
00:23:12,600 --> 00:23:14,159
Speaker 4: he punched out because he was just trying to be

544
00:23:14,200 --> 00:23:17,119
Speaker 4: a bully, like he didn't even necessarily know that he

545
00:23:17,200 --> 00:23:19,800
Speaker 4: was forcing a funnel in that situation. Just that wild

546
00:23:20,240 --> 00:23:23,639
Speaker 4: turn of events and how you capitalized on that game

547
00:23:23,720 --> 00:23:26,720
Speaker 4: and like the huge swing that it gave you in

548
00:23:26,760 --> 00:23:29,200
Speaker 4: that situation, you know, with you know, Jacksonael was starting

549
00:23:29,240 --> 00:23:31,359
Speaker 4: to try to get a drive going and you're trying

550
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Speaker 4: to disrupt that momentum of Trevor Lawrence. But to see

551
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Speaker 4: Buck come up with that play and then you know

552
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Speaker 4: zayre pop it out and then just the optics of

553
00:23:39,840 --> 00:23:44,080
Speaker 4: that DeForest like stretched for the pylon much more successfully

554
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Speaker 4: than Zay Flowers did, was just absolutely I thought, sop.

555
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Speaker 1: Or Michael Hartman, Hartmon, that's fine, Jeffrey, what do you

556
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Speaker 1: got here?

557
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Speaker 2: I have the fourth down play against Tampa when Zaire

558
00:23:57,560 --> 00:24:00,159
Speaker 2: went in the back and it was sort of it

559
00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:01,920
Speaker 2: wasn't a jump pass, but it reminded me of the

560
00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:04,840
Speaker 2: jump pass quick thing obviously to Moiley Cox first down,

561
00:24:04,920 --> 00:24:07,479
Speaker 2: kept the chains moving on the fourth down, that to

562
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Speaker 2: me was a play of the year that I like,

563
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Speaker 2: the biggest play of the year. We ended up scoring

564
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Speaker 2: on the drive, getting points, but I'm saying like that one.

565
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Speaker 2: I remember hitting my roof at Lucas Oil Stadium and like, oh,

566
00:24:18,800 --> 00:24:20,960
Speaker 2: did not see that coming? Zays I ears, I ear

567
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Speaker 2: so that that to me was it.

568
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Speaker 1: Two honorable mentions. One Josh downs against the Patriots the

569
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Speaker 1: diving cap had yes uh. And then Alec pierced the

570
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Speaker 1: second deep ball he caught against the Titans in Nashville

571
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Speaker 1: over the shoulder. Great throw by Gardner, great route by Alec,

572
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Speaker 1: great job to keep that ball secured. And by the

573
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Speaker 1: way we talked about this last week, great job by

574
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Speaker 1: Alec to not try to stretch for the goal line

575
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Speaker 1: on that play.

576
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Alec playing good dB, playing good mental games as

577
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Speaker 2: far as not giving a ball up playing it. We

578
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Speaker 2: saw what he did as a defensive back on a

579
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Speaker 2: potential interception that he you know.

580
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Speaker 1: Yeah, right, yeah, I want to move on.

581
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Speaker 2: Here we go, guys, not one that I'm going to

582
00:24:58,920 --> 00:25:00,720
Speaker 2: be a part of this year because I don't know

583
00:25:00,760 --> 00:25:04,040
Speaker 2: which I I'll comment. You'll hear what I'm talking about.

584
00:25:04,040 --> 00:25:06,879
Speaker 2: Best screenplay, which is overall the best coach game of

585
00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:08,920
Speaker 2: the year. We can hand pick a lot of these.

586
00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:13,680
Speaker 2: I'm even asking is if there's our losses even eligible Yes,

587
00:25:13,880 --> 00:25:16,720
Speaker 2: I mean, would you losses even though you took it

588
00:25:16,760 --> 00:25:17,960
Speaker 2: on the chin at the end of the day, but

589
00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:19,879
Speaker 2: you had a hell of it. That's sort of gonna say.

590
00:25:19,880 --> 00:25:21,600
Speaker 1: The Browns game, Ah, I mean.

591
00:25:21,440 --> 00:25:26,240
Speaker 2: There's you know, I can't. I can't because of Miles Garrett.

592
00:25:26,280 --> 00:25:28,840
Speaker 2: I was like, hey, Shane, you know, bring it, bring

593
00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:31,640
Speaker 2: one of the Ford pickups in here and block that thing,

594
00:25:31,680 --> 00:25:33,359
Speaker 2: put it whatever you have to do. I can't do that.

595
00:25:33,400 --> 00:25:36,040
Speaker 2: But I was just saying, even great coach games and losses,

596
00:25:36,080 --> 00:25:37,000
Speaker 2: those are still on the.

597
00:25:36,920 --> 00:25:39,159
Speaker 1: Time that Brown's defense coming into that game was allowing

598
00:25:39,200 --> 00:25:41,040
Speaker 1: like two hundred yards a game and the Colts got

599
00:25:41,040 --> 00:25:43,760
Speaker 1: over four hundred. That was a really well coached game,

600
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Speaker 1: especially in the offensive and just some bad bounces. The

601
00:25:47,600 --> 00:25:50,040
Speaker 1: turnovers obviously weren't great. The Miles Garrett of it all

602
00:25:50,119 --> 00:25:52,679
Speaker 1: wasn't great, but to do what the Colts did against

603
00:25:52,680 --> 00:25:54,920
Speaker 1: the Browns in that game, they were the first team

604
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Speaker 1: to do anything in a loss defense.

605
00:25:57,040 --> 00:25:58,560
Speaker 2: In a loss like that. Okay, who we got? What

606
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Speaker 2: do you what do you like?

607
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Speaker 1: We talked about the Baltimore game a lot, but for me,

608
00:26:01,440 --> 00:26:04,520
Speaker 1: it's the Baltimore game because that year, not only was

609
00:26:04,560 --> 00:26:09,240
Speaker 1: it Shane Stiken going against Jim Harbor or John Harbaugh.

610
00:26:09,240 --> 00:26:11,600
Speaker 1: Excuse me, guy who's been there for what fifteen years?

611
00:26:11,560 --> 00:26:13,680
Speaker 1: He's won a couple of Super Bowls, won Super Bowl

612
00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:18,760
Speaker 1: I guess, But that game, in those conditions with Gardner

613
00:26:18,800 --> 00:26:22,120
Speaker 1: Minshew's starting, Shane could not have played that better from

614
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Speaker 1: the top down. And that game told me a lot

615
00:26:24,680 --> 00:26:28,840
Speaker 1: about the resiliency this team had, where you're just going

616
00:26:28,960 --> 00:26:32,480
Speaker 1: blow for blow with a Ravens team that at the

617
00:26:32,480 --> 00:26:34,320
Speaker 1: time we knew was good. I don't think we knew

618
00:26:34,520 --> 00:26:36,920
Speaker 1: was great. Like they turned out to be the number

619
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Speaker 1: one overall seed in the AFC, But that's a tough

620
00:26:39,880 --> 00:26:42,719
Speaker 1: environment to go into. This team was not like they

621
00:26:42,720 --> 00:26:45,440
Speaker 1: had no shot to win that game, you know, coming

622
00:26:45,480 --> 00:26:48,080
Speaker 1: into it by the prognosticators and all that, and to

623
00:26:48,119 --> 00:26:50,520
Speaker 1: pull out that win where Okay, you know what, we

624
00:26:50,560 --> 00:26:52,359
Speaker 1: are going to rely on Matt game this game, in

625
00:26:52,440 --> 00:26:55,040
Speaker 1: this narrow game, and we're gonna we're gonna run it.

626
00:26:55,480 --> 00:26:57,919
Speaker 1: And okay, Zach isn't really maybe getting a ton on

627
00:26:57,960 --> 00:26:59,440
Speaker 1: the ground, but we know we got to run it

628
00:26:59,480 --> 00:27:01,359
Speaker 1: and run it and run it until we get the

629
00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:02,840
Speaker 1: right time to call a shot play and then we

630
00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:05,679
Speaker 1: called the shot played a pit. It works out just

631
00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:09,159
Speaker 1: like very well coached and a great plan to go

632
00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:11,159
Speaker 1: into Baltimore. And also the thing that stuck with me,

633
00:27:11,480 --> 00:27:13,960
Speaker 1: remember how Shane forced Harbaugh to call that time out

634
00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:16,840
Speaker 1: where he sent the punt unit on and then pulled

635
00:27:16,880 --> 00:27:19,560
Speaker 1: them off line, changed the full line change and then

636
00:27:19,600 --> 00:27:21,359
Speaker 1: there's just that like shot on the sideline of Shane

637
00:27:21,359 --> 00:27:23,639
Speaker 1: going like that. He's like, I don't remember who he

638
00:27:23,680 --> 00:27:25,560
Speaker 1: was doing that too on the sideline.

639
00:27:25,560 --> 00:27:27,720
Speaker 4: I don't think it was Harbaugh, Well it was he

640
00:27:27,800 --> 00:27:30,080
Speaker 4: did mention this, Yeah, somebody who he knew on the

641
00:27:30,080 --> 00:27:30,960
Speaker 4: opposite sideline.

642
00:27:31,040 --> 00:27:33,040
Speaker 1: Yes, But like that shot was great. That was the

643
00:27:33,560 --> 00:27:36,320
Speaker 1: you know, the security like Jordan's security guard winning that

644
00:27:36,359 --> 00:27:39,560
Speaker 1: game and just going that like that was awesome. That

645
00:27:39,560 --> 00:27:40,560
Speaker 1: that game is it for me?

646
00:27:40,720 --> 00:27:42,600
Speaker 2: And from that game I'll give it over to you

647
00:27:42,600 --> 00:27:44,960
Speaker 2: in a second. From that game, Let's not forget Gus Bradley,

648
00:27:45,119 --> 00:27:48,199
Speaker 2: he blitzed the helldle Lamar Jackson's.

649
00:27:47,840 --> 00:27:49,640
Speaker 3: That's why I picked that group.

650
00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:51,760
Speaker 2: Which we haven't seen him, you know, with that many

651
00:27:51,920 --> 00:27:54,719
Speaker 2: of pressures as far as an actual blitz goal. But

652
00:27:54,760 --> 00:27:56,120
Speaker 2: that game, Gus Bradley tip of the.

653
00:27:56,040 --> 00:27:57,680
Speaker 3: Head on I would totally agree.

654
00:27:58,440 --> 00:28:01,000
Speaker 4: I think the argument could be made for overtime win

655
00:28:01,080 --> 00:28:05,040
Speaker 4: at Tennessee as one of those best screenplay, but I

656
00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:07,800
Speaker 4: decided to go with the winner of the Steelers. This

657
00:28:07,960 --> 00:28:11,280
Speaker 4: offense was so depleted due to injury. You lost pitt

658
00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:14,520
Speaker 4: in that game, Zach Moscot hurt in that game, you

659
00:28:14,560 --> 00:28:17,240
Speaker 4: didn't have Jonathan Taylor, the number of guys who stepped

660
00:28:17,320 --> 00:28:20,119
Speaker 4: up for you and put this team in a position

661
00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:23,960
Speaker 4: to beat Pittsburgh thirty to thirteen. At thirty to thirteen,

662
00:28:24,119 --> 00:28:26,320
Speaker 4: a team you hadn't beaten. You hadn't beaten Steelers in

663
00:28:26,520 --> 00:28:29,439
Speaker 4: like a decade. I mean it had been forever, and

664
00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:31,080
Speaker 4: that was I think at that point you what won

665
00:28:31,160 --> 00:28:34,119
Speaker 4: five out of six to move from bottom of the

666
00:28:34,119 --> 00:28:37,520
Speaker 4: division into playoff contention. So to me, it's not only

667
00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:42,400
Speaker 4: the performance and the coaching. It's the how imperative that

668
00:28:42,520 --> 00:28:46,160
Speaker 4: win was to keep your playoff hopes alive, and you

669
00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:48,680
Speaker 4: know that boost that it gave that team going into

670
00:28:48,680 --> 00:28:49,760
Speaker 4: that stretch of December.

671
00:28:49,840 --> 00:28:51,000
Speaker 3: So that's the one I'm gonna go to.

672
00:28:51,120 --> 00:28:52,880
Speaker 2: Great call and really quick on that one. What I

673
00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:54,640
Speaker 2: liked about that game as well as Yeah, we were

674
00:28:54,640 --> 00:28:57,480
Speaker 2: getting waxed by that Steeler team for a lot of years,

675
00:28:57,520 --> 00:29:01,080
Speaker 2: a lot of games. And though that's nation would come

676
00:29:01,120 --> 00:29:04,000
Speaker 2: in to our barn and be louder I'm sorry, Lara,

677
00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:06,680
Speaker 2: the last ten years that fan nation of the Steelers

678
00:29:06,720 --> 00:29:08,440
Speaker 2: would come in and be louder in our barn with

679
00:29:08,520 --> 00:29:11,240
Speaker 2: their towels. That didn't happen, though, that kid that didn't happen.

680
00:29:11,360 --> 00:29:13,520
Speaker 2: Colts Fan showed up. So if you're listening or watching

681
00:29:13,600 --> 00:29:15,400
Speaker 2: right now, tip of the cap to you. Here we go.

682
00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:19,400
Speaker 2: Best director. I like this, best director, Top assistant coach. Hello,

683
00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:20,760
Speaker 2: let's go with you first, Tony.

684
00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:25,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean Sperano that you can I can now

685
00:29:25,240 --> 00:29:28,760
Speaker 1: make some cases for other guys, but you go, I mean.

686
00:29:28,680 --> 00:29:30,880
Speaker 4: That's I mean, that's that's really all you have to say.

687
00:29:30,920 --> 00:29:34,160
Speaker 4: I mean the leap that this offensive line took this season,

688
00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:36,920
Speaker 4: the way this team played together. The way this unit

689
00:29:37,040 --> 00:29:40,160
Speaker 4: was galvanized even through the rotation of having you know,

690
00:29:40,240 --> 00:29:43,240
Speaker 4: guys you lost having a rookie and Blake Freeland step

691
00:29:43,280 --> 00:29:45,240
Speaker 4: up to both play both tackle positions.

692
00:29:45,400 --> 00:29:46,120
Speaker 3: You had Ryan.

693
00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:48,720
Speaker 4: Kelly out a pro bowler for a stretch of time,

694
00:29:48,800 --> 00:29:52,640
Speaker 4: and you had will Wesley French stepping in there for him.

695
00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:56,080
Speaker 4: So I look at that group, Braden Smith, the significance

696
00:29:56,120 --> 00:29:59,400
Speaker 4: of his injuries this year and the continuous high level

697
00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:02,080
Speaker 4: that they play throughout the course of this season. Uh,

698
00:30:02,240 --> 00:30:05,560
Speaker 4: you know, I'm thinking about my goodness, like the Raiders game,

699
00:30:06,240 --> 00:30:08,080
Speaker 4: and you know, the effectiveness you were able to have

700
00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:11,080
Speaker 4: up against a pass rush with Max Crosby in there

701
00:30:11,800 --> 00:30:14,080
Speaker 4: so many different situations, that's just one that kind of

702
00:30:14,120 --> 00:30:17,240
Speaker 4: illustrates it to me. I mean, you were talking about Tampa,

703
00:30:17,320 --> 00:30:19,520
Speaker 4: you know, and that game as well. But I'm gonna

704
00:30:19,520 --> 00:30:22,080
Speaker 4: go Sperano on the offensive line. I think he is

705
00:30:22,120 --> 00:30:25,000
Speaker 4: the runaway winner for me. You take that trophy, Tony,

706
00:30:25,040 --> 00:30:26,040
Speaker 4: and you keep on running.

707
00:30:26,080 --> 00:30:26,880
Speaker 3: It is yours and.

708
00:30:27,240 --> 00:30:30,680
Speaker 2: Call and there's not on wood. Those five are back

709
00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:31,800
Speaker 2: next year and rolling.

710
00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:35,800
Speaker 1: So I'll just make a quick case here for an

711
00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:39,240
Speaker 1: honorable mention. How about Reggie Wayne. Yeah, Reggie Wayne went

712
00:30:39,280 --> 00:30:42,920
Speaker 1: into the combine and started working those guys out, and

713
00:30:42,960 --> 00:30:44,680
Speaker 1: he comes back and he goes I think Josh Downs

714
00:30:44,720 --> 00:30:46,920
Speaker 1: is one of the best receivers here, the top guy here,

715
00:30:47,440 --> 00:30:49,400
Speaker 1: and the Colts wind up drafting him. But it's one

716
00:30:49,400 --> 00:30:51,760
Speaker 1: thing to be the top guy at the combine, and

717
00:30:51,800 --> 00:30:54,840
Speaker 1: it's another thing to be a very promising rookie like

718
00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:56,120
Speaker 1: Josh Downs turned out to be.

719
00:30:56,280 --> 00:30:56,720
Speaker 2: That's great.

720
00:30:56,760 --> 00:31:01,240
Speaker 1: And the foundation that Josh Downs laid this year for

721
00:31:01,600 --> 00:31:04,880
Speaker 1: year two, year three, year four is really good. And

722
00:31:04,920 --> 00:31:06,680
Speaker 1: then also, by the way, getting the production out of

723
00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:09,680
Speaker 1: Michael Pittman that you got sure where you know, and

724
00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:12,360
Speaker 1: and the thing that that just I keep going back

725
00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:14,000
Speaker 1: to with Pitt and I'm going to talk about him

726
00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:18,320
Speaker 1: for another category later, but Reg's just allowing Pitt to

727
00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:22,840
Speaker 1: be that kind of physical bully out there. And I

728
00:31:22,880 --> 00:31:25,200
Speaker 1: remember Pitt told me at the start of training camp

729
00:31:25,920 --> 00:31:30,000
Speaker 1: that reg Reg put on that they were going through

730
00:31:30,520 --> 00:31:33,760
Speaker 1: the schedule of training camp, and you know, Reggie's like, Okay,

731
00:31:33,760 --> 00:31:35,160
Speaker 1: you know we got this. We got pads this day,

732
00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:36,880
Speaker 1: we got shells this day. Then the Bears come in,

733
00:31:36,880 --> 00:31:38,240
Speaker 1: so you know, Pitt's going to get in a fight

734
00:31:38,760 --> 00:31:43,160
Speaker 1: and it's just like that competitiveness that you don't you

735
00:31:43,160 --> 00:31:46,800
Speaker 1: don't coach out of him. I think, like you've seen

736
00:31:46,800 --> 00:31:49,640
Speaker 1: Michael Pittman really flourish as a player and a person

737
00:31:49,760 --> 00:31:51,560
Speaker 1: under Reggie Wayne, and that's been really cool.

738
00:31:51,440 --> 00:31:51,720
Speaker 2: To see it.

739
00:31:51,760 --> 00:31:53,880
Speaker 4: I mean, it's like when you know and you think

740
00:31:53,880 --> 00:31:57,120
Speaker 4: about the fact that his dad, Pitts, is a Super

741
00:31:57,120 --> 00:32:01,160
Speaker 4: Bowl winning running back, It's like, oh, that's the mentality, right,

742
00:32:01,240 --> 00:32:04,520
Speaker 4: Like you're a wide receiver body and a wide receiver

743
00:32:04,640 --> 00:32:07,400
Speaker 4: skill set with a running back mentality.

744
00:32:07,760 --> 00:32:09,120
Speaker 3: Like what more could you call it?

745
00:32:09,120 --> 00:32:11,200
Speaker 2: That's the way his dad ran angry. I'm older and

746
00:32:11,280 --> 00:32:13,880
Speaker 2: you two, so I know about Michael Pittman Senior. I'm

747
00:32:13,920 --> 00:32:15,600
Speaker 2: just telling you this is a guy who wasn't as

748
00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:17,960
Speaker 2: tall as his son. His stature was lower. He was

749
00:32:17,960 --> 00:32:20,360
Speaker 2: built like a brick crap house, and he'd run right

750
00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:22,560
Speaker 2: through you and do it violently. So I his son

751
00:32:22,640 --> 00:32:24,440
Speaker 2: is kind of like Zach Master.

752
00:32:24,680 --> 00:32:27,720
Speaker 5: Yeah, right, doesn't have the breakaway like a JT.

753
00:32:27,960 --> 00:32:30,160
Speaker 4: But he's gonna take tacklers with him, drag three and

754
00:32:30,240 --> 00:32:32,800
Speaker 4: four bodies down, heel for you know, and for you

755
00:32:32,800 --> 00:32:33,880
Speaker 4: know yards after contact.

756
00:32:33,880 --> 00:32:36,080
Speaker 2: All right, we're tying up. Did you you double down

757
00:32:36,120 --> 00:32:38,760
Speaker 2: on Spirano though that Yeah, double Okay, I'm gonna go

758
00:32:38,840 --> 00:32:42,160
Speaker 2: really quick. We're gonna keep moving along. Congratulations, the tricky

759
00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:48,040
Speaker 2: Dick Richard Smith is support excuse me, best director, top

760
00:32:48,080 --> 00:32:50,600
Speaker 2: assistant coach. And the reason I did is last year

761
00:32:50,840 --> 00:32:54,960
Speaker 2: he was here, he set a record with his with

762
00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:59,240
Speaker 2: Zire Franklin. Yeah, and he said to him, I'm gonna

763
00:32:59,240 --> 00:33:01,680
Speaker 2: be back next year. You're gonna be back next year.

764
00:33:01,880 --> 00:33:04,040
Speaker 2: I can make you better and we'll even set the

765
00:33:04,120 --> 00:33:06,239
Speaker 2: record even further, which is tough to do. And then

766
00:33:06,280 --> 00:33:08,200
Speaker 2: I was talking about the reason I'm throwing him in

767
00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:11,480
Speaker 2: there is because the balance of when Shaq was going

768
00:33:12,800 --> 00:33:15,440
Speaker 2: and plays on the field and everybody wanting to get

769
00:33:15,560 --> 00:33:18,000
Speaker 2: obviously EJ on that field as much as possible and

770
00:33:18,040 --> 00:33:20,840
Speaker 2: stuff like that, and gingerly went through and yeah, and

771
00:33:20,840 --> 00:33:23,080
Speaker 2: it worked out for both parties. You'd like to think

772
00:33:23,120 --> 00:33:25,560
Speaker 2: the Colts as well as as Shack because he went

773
00:33:25,600 --> 00:33:27,160
Speaker 2: on to a contender and had the run that he

774
00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:29,600
Speaker 2: did with Philly and stuff like that. So anyway, Tricky

775
00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:33,360
Speaker 2: Smith gets my record. Okay, here we go, best supporting actor.

776
00:33:33,440 --> 00:33:36,400
Speaker 2: This is the non star, so no jt' is gonna

777
00:33:36,440 --> 00:33:39,640
Speaker 2: get this best Supporting actor, No Pittman, there's Q, there's

778
00:33:39,720 --> 00:33:42,680
Speaker 2: Ryan Kelly, Buckner, he's Kenny Moore. You can't give it

779
00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:44,360
Speaker 2: to them, can't give it to them. What do you.

780
00:33:44,360 --> 00:33:49,200
Speaker 6: Got Will fries Oh he took mine. Yeah, first time

781
00:33:49,240 --> 00:33:54,440
Speaker 6: that's happened. For the Colts offensive line to be as

782
00:33:54,440 --> 00:33:55,960
Speaker 6: good as they were this year, they could not have

783
00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:59,360
Speaker 6: a weak link on it. And you know, you got

784
00:33:59,440 --> 00:34:01,880
Speaker 6: improved out of Bernard Raiman, you got Q playing at

785
00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:03,880
Speaker 6: an all pro level. You got Ryan Kelly going back

786
00:34:03,880 --> 00:34:05,960
Speaker 6: to the Pro Bowl. When Braden Smith was in there,

787
00:34:06,280 --> 00:34:08,880
Speaker 6: he was playing at a very high level. Obviously, you have,

788
00:34:09,360 --> 00:34:10,920
Speaker 6: you know, your backups coming in. But out of that

789
00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:14,239
Speaker 6: starting five, the biggest question was about Will Fryes, a

790
00:34:14,280 --> 00:34:17,400
Speaker 6: seventh round pick from twenty twenty one, who's stepping in?

791
00:34:17,440 --> 00:34:20,040
Speaker 6: Who played you know, okay, I think down the stretch

792
00:34:20,040 --> 00:34:22,040
Speaker 6: in twenty twenty two and you ran it back there.

793
00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:26,560
Speaker 6: And Will Fryes was a solid NFL guard this year.

794
00:34:26,880 --> 00:34:28,799
Speaker 6: He was not someone who teams could just be like,

795
00:34:28,840 --> 00:34:31,680
Speaker 6: you know who, we're going after that guy every single play.

796
00:34:31,719 --> 00:34:34,799
Speaker 6: You couldn't do that against this Colts offensive line. And

797
00:34:34,880 --> 00:34:37,719
Speaker 6: that wasn't just because of the rise of those other

798
00:34:37,760 --> 00:34:40,520
Speaker 6: four guys the kind of more you know, the guys

799
00:34:40,520 --> 00:34:43,280
Speaker 6: who are more known. It was because Will Fryes raised

800
00:34:43,320 --> 00:34:46,319
Speaker 6: his level of play too, right, And I really do

801
00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:49,439
Speaker 6: believe like offensive lines are a weak link system that

802
00:34:49,719 --> 00:34:52,160
Speaker 6: when you have someone in there who an opposing offense

803
00:34:52,640 --> 00:34:57,279
Speaker 6: or defense believes is beatable, it sometimes doesn't matter what

804
00:34:57,400 --> 00:35:00,960
Speaker 6: the other four guys are doing because as you can isolate,

805
00:35:01,320 --> 00:35:03,680
Speaker 6: you know, a Miles Garrett and Aaron Donald, a TJ.

806
00:35:03,840 --> 00:35:06,640
Speaker 6: Watt on those guys and just get after him every

807
00:35:06,680 --> 00:35:09,920
Speaker 6: single play. And you weren't able to do that with

808
00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:12,160
Speaker 6: Will Fryes. And then there are games you look at

809
00:35:12,160 --> 00:35:14,359
Speaker 6: and he had some really good tape this year. So

810
00:35:14,560 --> 00:35:17,160
Speaker 6: Will Fry's best supporting actor on this team to bring

811
00:35:17,200 --> 00:35:18,200
Speaker 6: that a line together.

812
00:35:17,920 --> 00:35:20,120
Speaker 2: Doubling down on that one as well, and didn't miss

813
00:35:20,160 --> 00:35:20,799
Speaker 2: the start this year.

814
00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:23,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, he played the second most snaps behind kids right

815
00:35:23,160 --> 00:35:23,560
Speaker 1: on the team.

816
00:35:23,719 --> 00:35:25,720
Speaker 2: Lara, whod you got? You got best supporting actors?

817
00:35:25,760 --> 00:35:28,160
Speaker 4: Okay, my initially, and I feel like I've kind of

818
00:35:28,160 --> 00:35:30,920
Speaker 4: already made the case for him earlier, but I think

819
00:35:31,040 --> 00:35:35,680
Speaker 4: Zach Moss is certainly in that conversation. Five rushing touchdowns

820
00:35:35,760 --> 00:35:38,560
Speaker 4: JT had seven this season, plus Zach Moss had two

821
00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:41,880
Speaker 4: receiving touchdowns as well. I played in fourteen games, just

822
00:35:41,920 --> 00:35:44,719
Speaker 4: shive eight hundred yards average, like four point three yards

823
00:35:44,719 --> 00:35:45,160
Speaker 4: per carry.

824
00:35:45,440 --> 00:35:47,160
Speaker 3: That's certainly where you could go. I feel like I've

825
00:35:47,200 --> 00:35:47,960
Speaker 3: done a lot.

826
00:35:47,760 --> 00:35:51,279
Speaker 4: Of kind of uh trumping for Zach mosslough to this

827
00:35:51,280 --> 00:35:55,600
Speaker 4: point already. So to counter that, I'm gonna say, Elbert

828
00:35:56,360 --> 00:35:58,760
Speaker 4: e J speaking, I'm.

829
00:35:58,600 --> 00:35:59,120
Speaker 2: A good call.

830
00:35:59,600 --> 00:36:03,080
Speaker 5: I mean, this significance of his play, this how many difference.

831
00:36:05,080 --> 00:36:07,080
Speaker 2: And we can't call him a non star anymore.

832
00:36:07,080 --> 00:36:09,760
Speaker 1: I don't forget.

833
00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:13,200
Speaker 4: So yeah, I mean to step in the shoes of

834
00:36:13,360 --> 00:36:15,960
Speaker 4: a guy who was a pillar of the franchise, you know,

835
00:36:16,040 --> 00:36:19,279
Speaker 4: former defensive Rookie of the Year and All Pro linebacker

836
00:36:19,719 --> 00:36:24,000
Speaker 4: in Shack Leonard. With his departure, what EJ has done

837
00:36:24,280 --> 00:36:27,960
Speaker 4: and continued to just prove why he earned that opportunity

838
00:36:28,200 --> 00:36:30,880
Speaker 4: with the consistency of his play and being the perfect

839
00:36:30,960 --> 00:36:33,600
Speaker 4: compliment to Zire Franklin.

840
00:36:34,360 --> 00:36:35,200
Speaker 3: It was huge.

841
00:36:35,280 --> 00:36:37,840
Speaker 4: So yes, I think Zach certainly earns an argument. I

842
00:36:37,920 --> 00:36:39,759
Speaker 4: kind of made it a case where I'm already but

843
00:36:39,960 --> 00:36:43,160
Speaker 4: I'm gonna go EJ. Speed is my best supporting actor

844
00:36:43,600 --> 00:36:46,400
Speaker 4: of twenty twenty three. And then predicting he is no

845
00:36:46,440 --> 00:36:48,040
Speaker 4: longer a supporting actor in twenty two.

846
00:36:49,280 --> 00:36:50,239
Speaker 3: That's the leading man, the.

847
00:36:50,280 --> 00:36:52,600
Speaker 2: Last chance to win that category, and he did it.

848
00:36:52,640 --> 00:36:54,480
Speaker 2: So this brings us to our last category. So you

849
00:36:54,520 --> 00:36:59,600
Speaker 2: know what that means. Oh it's too low, Oh it's mute,

850
00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:02,960
Speaker 2: Dad Gommic Gorman. You had it and then you blooh

851
00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:05,000
Speaker 2: that was my Awards music. All right, the big one,

852
00:37:05,040 --> 00:37:07,520
Speaker 2: the best Actor. It goes to the MVP. Can I

853
00:37:07,600 --> 00:37:09,160
Speaker 2: just throw this out there we talked about a little

854
00:37:09,160 --> 00:37:10,759
Speaker 2: bit earlier. I'm gonna be quick and you guys go

855
00:37:10,840 --> 00:37:13,719
Speaker 2: at it my MVP. Nobody come at me, don't write

856
00:37:13,760 --> 00:37:16,160
Speaker 2: at me. You guys, don't scream at me. Shane Steike,

857
00:37:16,200 --> 00:37:18,319
Speaker 2: and I'm just giving it to their head coach man.

858
00:37:18,440 --> 00:37:21,040
Speaker 2: I mean, it's easy, it's low hanging fruit. But my gosh,

859
00:37:21,200 --> 00:37:22,960
Speaker 2: what he did with this offense, what he did with

860
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:25,080
Speaker 2: points on the board, what he did with like the

861
00:37:25,120 --> 00:37:27,720
Speaker 2: mentality of this team. I'll shut up, guy, Shane Stike,

862
00:37:27,760 --> 00:37:29,120
Speaker 2: and you're my MVP, and I know we got to

863
00:37:29,120 --> 00:37:30,840
Speaker 2: give it a way to a player, so I'll let

864
00:37:30,920 --> 00:37:31,880
Speaker 2: kind of you guys do that.

865
00:37:32,600 --> 00:37:35,680
Speaker 1: So I went with Michael Pittman Junior. Of course, good

866
00:37:35,680 --> 00:37:38,360
Speaker 1: call over the course of the entire season. But the

867
00:37:38,440 --> 00:37:40,320
Speaker 1: thing that does it for me, and I know a

868
00:37:40,360 --> 00:37:42,400
Speaker 1: lot of people hold this too, is you look at

869
00:37:42,400 --> 00:37:46,960
Speaker 1: what happened against the Falcons, where the offense had maybe

870
00:37:46,960 --> 00:37:49,000
Speaker 1: it's worst game of the year, arguably it's worst game

871
00:37:49,040 --> 00:37:52,160
Speaker 1: of the year, and then Pittman comes back and all

872
00:37:52,160 --> 00:37:54,799
Speaker 1: of a sudden things snap right back into place. But

873
00:37:55,080 --> 00:37:58,919
Speaker 1: it and it's not just the receiving that Pittman does.

874
00:37:58,960 --> 00:38:01,640
Speaker 1: It's the attitude that he brings. It's that kind of

875
00:38:01,640 --> 00:38:03,319
Speaker 1: what I talked about of like Pitt's gonna get in

876
00:38:03,320 --> 00:38:06,719
Speaker 1: a fight. Yeah, Like he doesn't let anyone push this

877
00:38:06,800 --> 00:38:09,960
Speaker 1: team around. He's an enforcer out there. But he's also

878
00:38:10,440 --> 00:38:14,160
Speaker 1: the best receiver on the team. Like Zire Franklin told me,

879
00:38:14,200 --> 00:38:17,600
Speaker 1: he told pitt like, there you're no one else like

880
00:38:17,600 --> 00:38:19,719
Speaker 1: you in the league who's willing to go out and

881
00:38:19,800 --> 00:38:20,840
Speaker 1: stick his nose in as a.

882
00:38:20,880 --> 00:38:23,640
Speaker 2: Run by teams want Michael Pittman Junior on the roster.

883
00:38:23,760 --> 00:38:24,839
Speaker 1: It should be every single one.

884
00:38:24,920 --> 00:38:27,759
Speaker 2: I agree. I would agree, you know, because for him.

885
00:38:27,520 --> 00:38:29,960
Speaker 1: Everywhere because he can be that guy who can be

886
00:38:30,080 --> 00:38:33,480
Speaker 1: a high volume receiver. Get him the ball. From Week

887
00:38:33,560 --> 00:38:37,399
Speaker 1: eight on Michael Pittman Junior had sixty nine receptions. That's

888
00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:40,080
Speaker 1: the second most among wide receivers in the NFL, and

889
00:38:40,080 --> 00:38:45,160
Speaker 1: that's spanning. He missed two games. We missed against Atlanta time.

890
00:38:45,360 --> 00:38:47,399
Speaker 1: So he can be a high volume guy who gets

891
00:38:47,440 --> 00:38:49,520
Speaker 1: the ball and is a focal point of your offense

892
00:38:49,840 --> 00:38:52,680
Speaker 1: while also being a guy who you can run plays

893
00:38:52,719 --> 00:38:54,239
Speaker 1: to the outside and have him at the point of

894
00:38:54,239 --> 00:38:57,279
Speaker 1: attack and expect him to win and make plays. Like

895
00:38:57,320 --> 00:39:01,279
Speaker 1: you think about what was against uh Vegas. The like

896
00:39:01,320 --> 00:39:05,520
Speaker 1: Trace Sermon had to run to the outside and it

897
00:39:05,520 --> 00:39:07,680
Speaker 1: it would have been a seven eight yard game, but

898
00:39:07,719 --> 00:39:11,319
Speaker 1: instead Michael Pittman Junior is mauling Divine Diablo a linebacker

899
00:39:11,560 --> 00:39:13,560
Speaker 1: and it turns into a twenty plus yard game. Just

900
00:39:13,600 --> 00:39:15,160
Speaker 1: stuff like that that he can do that you trust

901
00:39:15,239 --> 00:39:15,560
Speaker 1: him to do.

902
00:39:16,440 --> 00:39:20,120
Speaker 2: Team No arguments for a Michael Pittman MVP vote, Lara, what.

903
00:39:20,080 --> 00:39:22,799
Speaker 3: Do you got he was snubbed from the Pro Bowl?

904
00:39:22,840 --> 00:39:23,680
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, he.

905
00:39:23,680 --> 00:39:26,879
Speaker 3: Is not getting snubbed here, that's right. Forty four. This

906
00:39:26,960 --> 00:39:29,360
Speaker 3: is all you. This is Zire Franklin's award.

907
00:39:29,440 --> 00:39:32,920
Speaker 4: Sure to me second consecutive year that he breaks the

908
00:39:32,960 --> 00:39:36,520
Speaker 4: franchise tackles record. He's your Walter Payton Man of the

909
00:39:36,600 --> 00:39:41,120
Speaker 4: Year honoree. When you talk about the guy who was

910
00:39:41,200 --> 00:39:45,759
Speaker 4: the unifying force, Zire Franklin's voice is the soundtrack of

911
00:39:45,760 --> 00:39:46,960
Speaker 4: the twenty twenty three season.

912
00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:47,640
Speaker 1: That's a great call.

913
00:39:48,040 --> 00:39:50,880
Speaker 4: He is the one who rallied this team through so

914
00:39:51,320 --> 00:39:56,399
Speaker 4: much adversity weekend a week out, and as much as

915
00:39:56,440 --> 00:40:00,040
Speaker 4: he expects and demands of everyone around him, he's he

916
00:40:00,120 --> 00:40:03,200
Speaker 4: sets that bar even higher. He demands even more of himself.

917
00:40:03,560 --> 00:40:05,759
Speaker 4: And that is the reason that you have seen him

918
00:40:06,040 --> 00:40:09,120
Speaker 4: talk about going from fighting to just make a spot

919
00:40:09,120 --> 00:40:11,960
Speaker 4: on the roster, to fighting to be in on every

920
00:40:11,960 --> 00:40:14,680
Speaker 4: phase of special teams, to then being the best special

921
00:40:14,719 --> 00:40:17,680
Speaker 4: teams player, to then earning a role playing defense, to

922
00:40:17,760 --> 00:40:20,440
Speaker 4: then be the best linebacker in this team.

923
00:40:21,400 --> 00:40:23,640
Speaker 3: It is to me this team.

924
00:40:24,080 --> 00:40:28,040
Speaker 4: Would not be where it finished the season without single

925
00:40:28,120 --> 00:40:31,120
Speaker 4: handedly the impact of Zire Franklin.

926
00:40:31,160 --> 00:40:31,359
Speaker 2: Wow.

927
00:40:31,360 --> 00:40:33,920
Speaker 1: You know what I appreciate about about Zaire ever talk

928
00:40:33,960 --> 00:40:37,600
Speaker 1: about well, yeah, literally everything, But you talk about that ascension.

929
00:40:38,080 --> 00:40:41,440
Speaker 1: Something that Bobby Wagner told him before this season he

930
00:40:41,480 --> 00:40:44,560
Speaker 1: and Bobby Wagner have become close is they didn't see

931
00:40:44,560 --> 00:40:46,520
Speaker 1: you coming last year. They're going to see you coming now.

932
00:40:47,200 --> 00:40:50,560
Speaker 1: So now last year I was this number forty four,

933
00:40:50,640 --> 00:40:52,239
Speaker 1: all right, maybe we can kind of go at him

934
00:40:52,320 --> 00:40:54,000
Speaker 1: a little bit in twenty twenty two. And then he

935
00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:56,360
Speaker 1: starts making some places. He's breaking up passes intended for

936
00:40:56,400 --> 00:40:59,759
Speaker 1: Travis Kelce. Teams around the league, now get film on him.

937
00:41:00,040 --> 00:41:01,800
Speaker 1: We're gonna attack him, and he goes out and he

938
00:41:01,880 --> 00:41:02,520
Speaker 1: is a better year.

939
00:41:02,640 --> 00:41:02,839
Speaker 2: Yeah.

940
00:41:02,920 --> 00:41:06,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, that is so impressive to just know know that

941
00:41:06,800 --> 00:41:10,040
Speaker 1: teams are going to attack you differently because they know

942
00:41:10,120 --> 00:41:12,440
Speaker 1: who you are now and they know you're a good player.

943
00:41:12,960 --> 00:41:15,400
Speaker 1: And for him to go out and still perform the

944
00:41:15,400 --> 00:41:18,080
Speaker 1: way he did, to be that that rock in the

945
00:41:18,080 --> 00:41:20,759
Speaker 1: middle of this defense, just so much respect for that

946
00:41:20,800 --> 00:41:22,520
Speaker 1: because how many how many times do we see a

947
00:41:22,560 --> 00:41:25,040
Speaker 1: guy have one spike and then they fall off like, no,

948
00:41:25,120 --> 00:41:26,680
Speaker 1: that's not what we saw at Sire Franklin.

949
00:41:26,800 --> 00:41:28,680
Speaker 4: No. And and part of it is, I can't tell

950
00:41:28,680 --> 00:41:31,319
Speaker 4: you guys how many times, like you know, Monday is

951
00:41:31,320 --> 00:41:34,200
Speaker 4: a huge day here because you kind of we obviously

952
00:41:34,200 --> 00:41:36,359
Speaker 4: are kind of debriefing the game before and then you're

953
00:41:36,360 --> 00:41:37,839
Speaker 4: starting to turn the page. We're doing all of our

954
00:41:37,880 --> 00:41:40,719
Speaker 4: planning and you know, we tape interviews with Shane, we

955
00:41:40,800 --> 00:41:42,200
Speaker 4: tape the show for the week do all of that.

956
00:41:42,320 --> 00:41:45,359
Speaker 4: So Monday Tuesdays are usually pretty stacked days for us

957
00:41:45,360 --> 00:41:45,719
Speaker 4: around here.

958
00:41:45,800 --> 00:41:47,560
Speaker 3: Right, Tuesday's also the player day off.

959
00:41:47,600 --> 00:41:50,680
Speaker 4: I can't tell you how many tuesdays I'd be back

960
00:41:50,719 --> 00:41:52,879
Speaker 4: here and I don't know, going on seven o'clock or so,

961
00:41:53,120 --> 00:41:55,640
Speaker 4: player's day off. Zayre had been out at the community

962
00:41:55,680 --> 00:41:59,160
Speaker 4: Tuesday event early he'd be in meeting with Gus Bradley

963
00:41:59,160 --> 00:42:02,279
Speaker 4: and Richard Smith on Tuesday nights. Still here, still in

964
00:42:02,320 --> 00:42:04,480
Speaker 4: the building. I'm like, go home, see your kid, you know.

965
00:42:04,680 --> 00:42:07,080
Speaker 1: Like, by the way, he didn't do that just this

966
00:42:07,200 --> 00:42:08,919
Speaker 1: year when the team was good. He did that last

967
00:42:08,960 --> 00:42:10,239
Speaker 1: year in twenty twenty two.

968
00:42:10,360 --> 00:42:13,279
Speaker 4: And that's so much of what people don't see that

969
00:42:13,480 --> 00:42:17,040
Speaker 4: makes Ziere who he is, makes him who how valuable

970
00:42:17,080 --> 00:42:19,640
Speaker 4: he is not just because of his play on the field,

971
00:42:19,640 --> 00:42:21,799
Speaker 4: but because of his leadership.

972
00:42:21,360 --> 00:42:22,560
Speaker 3: On and off it.

973
00:42:22,800 --> 00:42:26,719
Speaker 4: And he has now created the template for when other

974
00:42:26,840 --> 00:42:30,479
Speaker 4: young players come in this building, whether you're an undrafted guy,

975
00:42:30,840 --> 00:42:33,520
Speaker 4: whether you're a late round pick, if you want to

976
00:42:33,600 --> 00:42:36,440
Speaker 4: learn how to find your way onto a roster and

977
00:42:36,480 --> 00:42:39,239
Speaker 4: get an opportunity, copy and paste, look at what.

978
00:42:39,280 --> 00:42:40,000
Speaker 3: Z did you know?

979
00:42:40,080 --> 00:42:43,040
Speaker 4: Connect yourself to Z's shoulder, Make tell me what I

980
00:42:43,080 --> 00:42:46,240
Speaker 4: need to do, and you're going to be successful.

981
00:42:46,280 --> 00:42:49,160
Speaker 2: And y'all screwed up. Okay, whoever's voting for the Pro Bowl,

982
00:42:49,360 --> 00:42:51,719
Speaker 2: you ticked off forty four. We saw the post that

983
00:42:51,760 --> 00:42:54,319
Speaker 2: he did with social media when he says, okay.

984
00:42:54,200 --> 00:42:57,000
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, thy four should be a nightmare for

985
00:42:57,040 --> 00:42:57,319
Speaker 5: the rest.

986
00:42:57,400 --> 00:42:59,480
Speaker 2: Good luck the rest of you, because in angry forty four,

987
00:42:59,520 --> 00:43:02,160
Speaker 2: you want to Coastal Carolina coach. A few years ago

988
00:43:02,160 --> 00:43:04,320
Speaker 2: in his press conference when he was talking about Zaire

989
00:43:04,400 --> 00:43:07,279
Speaker 2: frank I want to know, yeah, I want to like

990
00:43:07,280 --> 00:43:09,440
Speaker 2: guys talk about dogs in that locker room. That is

991
00:43:09,520 --> 00:43:12,160
Speaker 2: AYR Franklin, Michael Pittman, He's a dog. Those are the

992
00:43:12,160 --> 00:43:14,560
Speaker 2: guys that Reggie Wayne talks about having in more and

993
00:43:14,600 --> 00:43:17,040
Speaker 2: more so in this Shane Steiken air of having so

994
00:43:17,080 --> 00:43:19,520
Speaker 2: many dogs in the locker room, so so much to

995
00:43:19,560 --> 00:43:21,640
Speaker 2: look forward to, and obviously this is fun to hand

996
00:43:21,640 --> 00:43:23,879
Speaker 2: and out awards. I'm gonna bounce along really quick. Let's

997
00:43:23,960 --> 00:43:26,239
Speaker 2: keep it rolling the awards ceremony. We'll be back next

998
00:43:26,280 --> 00:43:28,160
Speaker 2: year with that. We'll probably be doubled up. I'll get

999
00:43:28,200 --> 00:43:31,839
Speaker 2: us into some Tuxedoshlara's talking about that gown. Yeah, throw

1000
00:43:31,840 --> 00:43:33,880
Speaker 2: a gown on there maybe for next year's award season.

1001
00:43:33,920 --> 00:43:35,799
Speaker 2: But we got a big game coming up, the Super Bowl.

1002
00:43:35,840 --> 00:43:38,200
Speaker 2: Obviously in Vegas people are starting to go out this way,

1003
00:43:38,239 --> 00:43:39,960
Speaker 2: go out this way. You both are not going to

1004
00:43:40,040 --> 00:43:41,680
Speaker 2: the game. I just want to know what are you

1005
00:43:41,760 --> 00:43:44,000
Speaker 2: following on that game? And more importantly, what are you

1006
00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:45,160
Speaker 2: guys eating on that game?

1007
00:43:46,480 --> 00:43:47,799
Speaker 1: Are you gonna make pizza stew again?

1008
00:43:48,000 --> 00:43:50,920
Speaker 4: I'm no, no pizza stew. No, I'm actually traveling. I'm

1009
00:43:50,920 --> 00:43:52,480
Speaker 4: gonna flying back from New York, so I'm gonna make

1010
00:43:52,480 --> 00:43:53,040
Speaker 4: it nice.

1011
00:43:53,120 --> 00:43:53,359
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1012
00:43:53,400 --> 00:43:55,319
Speaker 4: So I'll probably be watching the first half on the

1013
00:43:55,320 --> 00:43:57,560
Speaker 4: plane and then home for the second half for poorly

1014
00:43:57,600 --> 00:44:00,000
Speaker 4: planned flight on my part, I didn't really think about it,

1015
00:44:00,200 --> 00:44:01,839
Speaker 4: like I should have booked the earlier flight.

1016
00:44:01,880 --> 00:44:02,640
Speaker 3: But you know, we'll make it.

1017
00:44:05,719 --> 00:44:07,560
Speaker 5: I hate to say this because I hate being wrong.

1018
00:44:08,000 --> 00:44:09,719
Speaker 4: Uh So I hate to make it call. But in

1019
00:44:09,840 --> 00:44:13,200
Speaker 4: terms of rooting interest, I want San Francisco.

1020
00:44:12,840 --> 00:44:14,359
Speaker 2: San Francisco right there, you're calling?

1021
00:44:14,440 --> 00:44:17,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I want to see Kyle Shanahan get

1022
00:44:17,600 --> 00:44:21,239
Speaker 1: get one, Get one. How could you say no to

1023
00:44:21,280 --> 00:44:22,319
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes right now?

1024
00:44:22,320 --> 00:44:22,560
Speaker 6: Though?

1025
00:44:22,760 --> 00:44:24,400
Speaker 1: I mean the guy. They come into the playoffs, their

1026
00:44:24,400 --> 00:44:27,520
Speaker 1: receivers can't catch anything. All of a sudden, Marquez Veldaz

1027
00:44:27,520 --> 00:44:30,920
Speaker 1: Scantling's making diving catches to seal the AFC Championship, and it's.

1028
00:44:30,760 --> 00:44:32,200
Speaker 3: Like, all right, you can never write him off.

1029
00:44:32,280 --> 00:44:37,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess, I guess he's just inevitable. I'm fascinated

1030
00:44:37,520 --> 00:44:42,600
Speaker 1: by how the Chiefs defense, though, attacks that that forty

1031
00:44:42,680 --> 00:44:45,680
Speaker 1: nine ers offense because the Chiefs have a big weakness

1032
00:44:45,760 --> 00:44:47,520
Speaker 1: and it's their run defense.

1033
00:44:48,400 --> 00:44:50,040
Speaker 3: How you stop a McCaffrey, right.

1034
00:44:49,880 --> 00:44:52,520
Speaker 1: How do you stop Christian McCaffrey. And you know what, if,

1035
00:44:52,719 --> 00:44:54,799
Speaker 1: by the way, if this game gets in the hands

1036
00:44:54,800 --> 00:44:58,040
Speaker 1: of brock Party and Brock Purty lights him up, the

1037
00:44:58,120 --> 00:45:02,560
Speaker 1: discourse about brock Party is going to be mister irrelevant,

1038
00:45:03,000 --> 00:45:05,200
Speaker 1: right a mister is he a game manager? Is he good?

1039
00:45:05,280 --> 00:45:06,960
Speaker 1: Is he not good? Is he overrated? Is he a

1040
00:45:07,040 --> 00:45:09,440
Speaker 1: system quarterback? We are gonna have a lot of oxygen

1041
00:45:09,480 --> 00:45:09,880
Speaker 1: for that to be.

1042
00:45:10,239 --> 00:45:13,520
Speaker 5: Who cares? Here's the thing, too, is I love? Here's

1043
00:45:13,520 --> 00:45:14,720
Speaker 5: what I love is look.

1044
00:45:14,600 --> 00:45:17,840
Speaker 4: At these two teams. They couldn't be built more differently, right,

1045
00:45:17,840 --> 00:45:21,840
Speaker 4: like exactly, and yet they're both reaching the pinnacle of

1046
00:45:21,920 --> 00:45:22,360
Speaker 4: the sport.

1047
00:45:22,520 --> 00:45:23,959
Speaker 3: Like I love that, you know.

1048
00:45:23,960 --> 00:45:26,319
Speaker 1: Just San Francisco has pushed a lot of chips in

1049
00:45:26,480 --> 00:45:29,480
Speaker 1: terms of like cash spending, Kansas City not as much.

1050
00:45:29,520 --> 00:45:31,920
Speaker 1: They're not a very high cash spending team. They have

1051
00:45:32,040 --> 00:45:34,360
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes who they got in the first round. The

1052
00:45:34,440 --> 00:45:37,719
Speaker 1: Niners have brock Perty who they got is mister irrelevant.

1053
00:45:38,520 --> 00:45:40,759
Speaker 1: But by the way, for my money, the two best

1054
00:45:40,840 --> 00:45:44,160
Speaker 1: offensive coaches this is the peak of offensive coaching, is

1055
00:45:44,239 --> 00:45:47,360
Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan versus Andy Reid. I think there are some

1056
00:45:47,400 --> 00:45:49,799
Speaker 1: other guys who can get in that discussion, but right

1057
00:45:49,800 --> 00:45:51,759
Speaker 1: now these are You have Andy Reid, who from my

1058
00:45:52,200 --> 00:45:55,359
Speaker 1: top five coaching NFL history, Andy Reid. The way Kyle

1059
00:45:55,400 --> 00:45:58,879
Speaker 1: Shanahan is going. Once he gets that first, he's gonna

1060
00:45:58,880 --> 00:46:00,880
Speaker 1: get a second, He's gonna get a third, and he

1061
00:46:00,880 --> 00:46:02,680
Speaker 1: could be regarded when it's all said and done, as

1062
00:46:02,719 --> 00:46:04,240
Speaker 1: one of the five best coaches.

1063
00:46:04,280 --> 00:46:06,960
Speaker 4: Also, in terms of storylines, obviously you're talking quarterbacks, right

1064
00:46:07,000 --> 00:46:12,560
Speaker 4: the Mahomes pretty conversation. Could we have envisioned a better

1065
00:46:12,680 --> 00:46:18,400
Speaker 4: tight end battle between Kelsey and Kittle, Oh exactly. And

1066
00:46:18,440 --> 00:46:20,640
Speaker 4: those guys were in Vegas kind of they had them

1067
00:46:20,719 --> 00:46:23,080
Speaker 4: up on stage doing something together and they were just

1068
00:46:23,160 --> 00:46:25,520
Speaker 4: kind of gushing over one another. And Kelsey's like, no,

1069
00:46:25,640 --> 00:46:27,840
Speaker 4: Kittle is hands down the best.

1070
00:46:28,000 --> 00:46:30,200
Speaker 3: Just the mutual respect that these.

1071
00:46:30,000 --> 00:46:31,960
Speaker 4: Guys have, and they're such competitors and you know they

1072
00:46:31,960 --> 00:46:33,640
Speaker 4: do the whole tight end you thing and the off

1073
00:46:33,719 --> 00:46:34,719
Speaker 4: season they do all of that.

1074
00:46:35,040 --> 00:46:35,479
Speaker 2: I love.

1075
00:46:35,760 --> 00:46:38,040
Speaker 4: I just kind of I'm loving that storyline, you know,

1076
00:46:38,080 --> 00:46:39,600
Speaker 4: going into it between those two guys.

1077
00:46:39,760 --> 00:46:40,879
Speaker 2: So it's gonna be great.

1078
00:46:40,880 --> 00:46:41,040
Speaker 1: Hey.

1079
00:46:41,080 --> 00:46:43,839
Speaker 2: The storyline I'm following is when Brady was winning Super Bowl.

1080
00:46:43,840 --> 00:46:46,160
Speaker 2: After Super Bowl with New England, We're like, no way

1081
00:46:46,239 --> 00:46:48,040
Speaker 2: is this anybody gonna catch his cat? And all of

1082
00:46:48,080 --> 00:46:50,319
Speaker 2: a sudden he goes through Tampa and it's like another one,

1083
00:46:50,360 --> 00:46:53,600
Speaker 2: no One's gonna catch his ga And then oh, Mahomes.

1084
00:46:53,680 --> 00:46:56,680
Speaker 2: Mahomes in six years doing stuff quite eight. I know,

1085
00:46:56,800 --> 00:46:59,040
Speaker 2: it's like wait a second. So with a win this

1086
00:46:59,080 --> 00:47:01,520
Speaker 2: week with Mahomes, I mean he's like right neck and

1087
00:47:01,640 --> 00:47:08,320
Speaker 2: neck almost with got three I know would be equal, right,

1088
00:47:08,640 --> 00:47:10,840
Speaker 2: But I thought, we never see anything like Tom Brady,

1089
00:47:10,840 --> 00:47:11,880
Speaker 2: and we certainly have.

1090
00:47:12,000 --> 00:47:15,439
Speaker 1: Well, and also we might I mean not the same level,

1091
00:47:15,520 --> 00:47:18,200
Speaker 1: but like, oh theough'll never be another quarterback drafted in

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Speaker 1: the sixth round or or whatever.

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Speaker 2: To ever be Please okay, rock, perty, rock perty, Hello,

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Speaker 2: here we go. Enjoy the game. You guys, eat your

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Speaker 2: faces off. It's that time of year to do it.

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Speaker 2: Have some pizza stew for JJ Stankowitz and Larra Overton.

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Speaker 2: This is the official Colts podcast. You can find out

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Speaker 2: all the latest information you want on Colts dot Com.

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Speaker 2: You guys got some great podcasts coming up regarding the

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Speaker 2: free agents and offseason things that are happening. So anything

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Speaker 2: you want to find out about go to Colts dot

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Speaker 2: com and the Colts Audio Network. Guys, anything before we leave.

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Speaker 2: I got to get out of here a little bit

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Speaker 2: early today. What do you got for me there?

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Speaker 3: We're We're all good. Everybody have a safe and fun

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Speaker 3: New York.

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Speaker 2: I'm not asking what you're doing, but you have fun there.

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Speaker 4: Quick little trip to visit a good friend of mine

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Speaker 2: So oh nice.

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Speaker 3: It's still a Friday to Sunday.

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Speaker 2: Little vent you in Manhattan?

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Speaker 1: I like that. I like that.

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Speaker 2: How about you in Manhattan this weekend?

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Speaker 1: No having at having about fifty kids over oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: or fifty people to Saturday on Sunday?

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Speaker 2: Oh we do.

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Speaker 1: We do a big Super Bowl party.

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Speaker 2: How's dad gonna really watch that game? Statistically? Like you

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Speaker 2: want to.

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Speaker 1: Uh, usually I catch the second half.

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Speaker 2: Is everyone yes, okay, great, We'll have fun out there,

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Speaker 2: be safe out there. More importantly, and all the information

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Speaker 2: that you want is on Colts dot com. For Sherry

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Speaker 2: behind the camera, we thank you for your help. For

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Speaker 2: overton of JJ sank. If it's I'm Gorman, we'll talk

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Speaker 2: to you next week. Hey, whoever you want to win,

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Speaker 2: I hope they do. But the Chiefs are the call

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Speaker 2: as far as I think this year, have fun, enjoy

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Speaker 2: the game. You see you next week.