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Speaker 1: Hey, everyone, welcome into a special edition of Overtime here

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Speaker 1: on the Colts Audio Network. I'm JJ Stankovitz, joined by

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Speaker 1: Lara Overton, and we have a special guest in studio today,

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Speaker 1: the new defensive coordinator of the Indianapolis Colts, Gus Bradley. Gus,

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Speaker 1: thanks so much for taking the time today, and the

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Speaker 1: first question we have for you is just what sold

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Speaker 1: you on the Colts being a good fit for you

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Speaker 1: right now? Wow? You know, I think when it first

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Speaker 1: opened up and started to get some interests and some

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Speaker 1: phone calls took place, just some players that are currently

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Speaker 1: playing here and some players that have played here, and

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Speaker 1: you know, just talked about the culture, you know, Frank

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Speaker 1: as a head coach, Chris Ballard as a GM and

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Speaker 1: just how they're so tied together and the organization. It's

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Speaker 1: just a real close knit, tight knit organization that really

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Speaker 1: welcomes people. And you know, but I think that what

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Speaker 1: really came over and over again with most of the

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Speaker 1: people was just a culture, the culture of a true brotherhood,

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Speaker 1: you know in that locker room. And you mentioned Trike

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Speaker 1: and I know you guys didn't overlap maybe in your

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Speaker 1: time with the Chargers. He was there just prior to

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Speaker 1: your being there, but of course lots of familiarity in

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Speaker 1: tons of mutual respect within coaching in general. What did

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Speaker 1: you know prior to getting in the building with coach Mike?

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Speaker 1: What did you learn about him through the interview process?

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Speaker 1: And how do you feel like you to balance each

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Speaker 1: other out maybe compliment each other in terms of leading

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Speaker 1: this offense and defense? Sure? Okay, well, first of all,

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Speaker 1: the Charger organization, you know, Tom Telesco, John Spanos, those

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Speaker 1: guys really really spoke highly of him during my time there.

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Speaker 1: And then players like Philip Rivers you know, who was

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Speaker 1: coached by him, you know, spoke highly of him, and

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Speaker 1: there was a lot of parallels. And I think the

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Speaker 1: first time that Frank and I met was actually at

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Speaker 1: the combine. We came out of the train station together

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Speaker 1: and looked at each other and shook each other's hand,

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Speaker 1: and you know that we knew of each other through

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Speaker 1: you know, our conversations with Philip, but you know, just

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Speaker 1: everything that I've heard about him, and you know, his

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Speaker 1: approach is now, just go out there and you know,

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Speaker 1: play football, but it's build the man, build the spirit

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Speaker 1: of the man, and you know, really the whole thing,

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Speaker 1: and they said, yes, his team meetings, to how he

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Speaker 1: draws the players in together and the whole organization to

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Speaker 1: be one is something to be a part of. So

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Speaker 1: I was really excited about that. Almost a little foreshadowing there,

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Speaker 1: the fact that you met coach right here in Indianapolis

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Speaker 1: during the combine and then it comes full circle and

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Speaker 1: you're back here to twenty twenty two. No, no doubt,

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Speaker 1: no doubt about it. But you know, it's really the

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Speaker 1: whole organization though, from the owner, you know, to the

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Speaker 1: people that have been in the PR department. A guy

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Speaker 1: like Ryan Robinson who I worked with in Jacksonville. You know,

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Speaker 1: he reached out to me and his first thing was

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Speaker 1: about the culture and the ciment of this organization. So

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Speaker 1: you know, like I said, I'm going on and on

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Speaker 1: about it because that's what people did with me when

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Speaker 1: I first heard about the job. They continue to go

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Speaker 1: on and on about you know, what a great place

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Speaker 1: to be. How about the players. You know, you look

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Speaker 1: at the guys who were in the Pro Bowl, Darius

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Speaker 1: up and coming edge rushers like Quittype Dio Dangbo. When

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Speaker 1: when you started to wrap your arms around the roster

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Speaker 1: they do get to work with here. What excites you, well,

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Speaker 1: I think when you look at at each position group,

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Speaker 1: there's a Pro Bowl type player, right, and you don't

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Speaker 1: have that very often because you know, you want that

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Speaker 1: leadership by position group, and you want that leadership by unit,

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Speaker 1: and this you know this team has that on the

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Speaker 1: defensive side of the ball. And it was very fortunate

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Speaker 1: to have a chance to reach out to those guys

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Speaker 1: just the energy that they have, the belief and the

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Speaker 1: I was joking with kach Reich earlier this season that

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Speaker 1: it almost had become that Colts Raiders was almost like

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Speaker 1: a divisional game because it had been so many seasons

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Speaker 1: that these two teams had gone head to head, just

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Speaker 1: the way the schedule and the standings had played out,

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Speaker 1: and you last season with the Raiders were game planning

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Speaker 1: to contend with Jonathan Taylor. How do you describe the

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Speaker 1: task that there is for the unique talent of Jonathan

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Speaker 1: I mean I remember game planning that, you know, first

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Speaker 1: the conviction to run the football and the commitment to it.

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Speaker 1: And then Jonathan Taylor. I mean we talk about a

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Speaker 1: tackling plan. I mean you have to go through every

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Speaker 1: But you know, he's that type of player. You got

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Speaker 1: that you know, it's a committed run team that operates

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Speaker 1: off of play action and looks for expolsive plays and

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Speaker 1: it is a very tough team to defend. How good

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Speaker 1: does that make your defense when in situations like OTAs

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Speaker 1: they're going to have to go up against every single

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Speaker 1: see the regular It's very important. You know, you're trying

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Speaker 1: to do everything you can to harden your team. So

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Speaker 1: that is game ready when you get to that first game,

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Speaker 1: that process. Gus did talk to us a little bit

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Speaker 1: with players and your fellow coaches. Well, I think it's

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Speaker 1: just good people, you know. I think it's uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: you try to be a genuine, authentic and it's that

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Speaker 1: build that trust, but then there's a level of accountability

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Speaker 1: and you know, all the players want to be uncomfortable

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Speaker 1: because that's when they know that they have a chance

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Speaker 1: a challenge for us as a coaches. You know, we've

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Speaker 1: got to make it as uncomfortable as we can to

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Speaker 1: get that great possible growth that you know the team

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Speaker 1: is looking for. So but but it starts out with

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Speaker 1: in the team's best interests. You've worked with the number

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Speaker 1: along your thirty two years in coaching, who's influenced you

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Speaker 1: place that you've been at, you've been influence. You take

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Speaker 1: they're such good people. And you know from Monti Kiffin,

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Speaker 1: the gratitude that Pete Carroll was more of a visionary.

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Speaker 1: you know, to you know, Anthony Lynd being resilient, I mean,

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Speaker 1: you take something from everybody. And that's what's been so

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Speaker 1: saying the same thing about this organization and Frank and Chris,

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Speaker 1: you know, when we get into it a year or so,

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Speaker 1: in the years that you've had all of the wealth

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Speaker 1: of experience that you've had both as a coordinator and

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Speaker 1: as a head coach, how does that benefit you in

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Speaker 1: I think you appreciate the message that the head coach

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Speaker 1: Maybe it's done a little bit different way, but you

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Speaker 1: I can say this that the short time I've been

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Speaker 1: right because it's so true and it's so authentic and

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Speaker 1: it really resonates with you. So, you know, bringing that

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Speaker 1: is to share that vision when you Over the course

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Speaker 1: of your time in the league, there have been so

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Speaker 1: many shifts in how offense is game plan and you know,

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Speaker 1: for Mahomes and Herbert. You know, Jonathan Taylor last year,

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Speaker 1: fifteen sixteen years you've been in the NFL. Well, it's true, right,

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Speaker 1: I mean face teams that are committed and are committed

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Speaker 1: it's different. You know, they were a big shot team

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Speaker 1: looking for exposive plays and then they really had to

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Speaker 1: You know, they had to figure it out. So game

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Speaker 1: by game, year by year, like you said, it does evolve,

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Speaker 1: how you're going to attack these these offenses that you're seeing,

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Speaker 1: from the RPOs to the shots team to the run game.

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Speaker 1: You know, everybody's got a different style and you've got

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Speaker 1: to be prepared for all of them. You mentioned your

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Speaker 1: coaching influences going back to high school. Throughout your career,

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Speaker 1: how much of you kind of adapted and manipulated, taking

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Speaker 1: different pieces and different influences along the way to build

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Speaker 1: the defense that you have. And how does that complement

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Speaker 1: a really strong foundation with the guys who you're inheriting. Sure, well,

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Speaker 1: of the film now that you're here, is the defensive

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Speaker 1: staff did a tremendous job. I mean, sometimes you go

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Speaker 1: great effort looks like. Well, when you put on tape,

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Speaker 1: they played with great effort. You know you saw that,

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Speaker 1: Hey we got to really talk about making plays. Well

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Speaker 1: they made some plays, you know. So they did a

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Speaker 1: tremendous job. The foundation of this team and the spear

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Speaker 1: gets stung, right but we lost when I was with

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Speaker 1: the Raiders, and it still stings from that game in

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Speaker 1: the playoffs, and every team if you don't win the

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Speaker 1: super Bowl at the end, it stings. And you hope

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Speaker 1: that sting hurts enough that it will propel you to

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Speaker 1: the Colts Audio Network. Okay, appreciate your time. Thank you.

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