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Speaker 1: Football is about the Jimmy's and Joe's, and x'es and o's.

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Speaker 2: Check Mill York vote. Thank you, Bruce.

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Speaker 1: It's time to get out the chockboard and diagram some plays.

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Speaker 3: Here's what it all starts right here.

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Speaker 4: That's why day money Christmas.

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Speaker 1: This is Inside Football with former Colts and NFL coach

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Speaker 1: Rick Venturi.

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Speaker 4: Welcome everybody to the in season edition of Inside Football

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Speaker 4: with Rick Ventury, our first episode coming to you live

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Speaker 4: from Grand Park as we tape this after day number

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Speaker 4: five of Colts Camp. The second day of full padded

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Speaker 4: practice for the Indianapolis Colts Camp is brought to you

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Speaker 4: by Course and Fire and Security and we're back for

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Speaker 4: another year. Twenty twenty three is upon us with Rick

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Speaker 4: Ventury in season style r V. This is your sanctuary,

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Speaker 4: This is your safe place right this is your trust tree.

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Speaker 4: That practice field about twenty yards from here, that's when

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Speaker 4: you are in your element.

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Speaker 3: How it's camp going for you so far?

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Speaker 2: Well, you know it is number forty two. I hate

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Speaker 2: to tell people that forty two, but I love it.

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Speaker 2: I love every bit. I've always been a training camp

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Speaker 2: guy and every year to be it's you know, you

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Speaker 2: turn the clock forward and we're on our way. This

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Speaker 2: one's particularly exciting, I think, you know, because of the

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Speaker 2: newness of it and what the potential is, and so

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Speaker 2: I'm really enjoyed. I always love coach training camp. I

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Speaker 2: actually always loved the first two weeks because it is

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Speaker 2: and that was always one of my favorite periods of

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Speaker 3: No doubt about it.

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Speaker 4: We've got a lot to get into on our first

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Speaker 4: installment on this podcast the Colts, as we said, five

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Speaker 4: practices in two of those have been in full pads.

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Speaker 4: You talk about the newness, you have to start at

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Speaker 4: the top with the newness there with the head coach,

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Speaker 4: Shane Steike, and he's operating his first training camp as

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Speaker 4: a head coach. Right been very established as an offensive

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Speaker 4: coordinator at other stops in the NFL. But what do

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Speaker 2: Two things, and there two things I really like. One

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Speaker 2: raw guy, you know, he's not a fluff guy. It's football, football, football.

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Speaker 2: The other thing I really like about the practices themselves

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Speaker 2: I mean to think about it, and what that tells

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Speaker 2: So I think the key to it is will we

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Speaker 2: Can you sustain that high level? You know?

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Speaker 4: If it's funny if you look at the camp schedule

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this is the big what I would call installation week.

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Speaker 4: Today at practice on Tuesday, we saw some third down focus,

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Speaker 2: all about specialized football. I thought Saturday night, I thought

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Speaker 2: It just seems like there's he's comfortable. You know that

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Speaker 2: Well, just the way the game has evolved. Okay, the

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Speaker 2: he's got to be in those third down issues, that

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Speaker 2: red zone issues that really go back to sophisticated defenses,

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Speaker 4: Those those mistakes that you do see out of him

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Speaker 3: As a coach, how do you process those?

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Speaker 4: I mean, how do you compartmentalize being critical but also

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Speaker 4: knowing this is all part of the process, this is

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Speaker 2: Well, I mean, you know, I think you can teach

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Speaker 2: And honestly, Matt, you and I have talked about this

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Speaker 2: since the draft night. You're only gonna learn by doing Okay,

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Speaker 2: You're only you're going to be in that situation Shane

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Speaker 3: Right, no, no, no, but right.

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Speaker 2: In other words, you have to do it over and over.

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Speaker 2: My good friend Nick Saban I always quote him on

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Speaker 2: one thing. He always used to say, you don't practice

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Speaker 2: get something wrong. You get it to where So it's

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Speaker 2: it's not in eight with him yet. You know the

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Speaker 2: talent is there, but that's where he has.

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Speaker 4: To grow, and he is splitting first team reps at

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Speaker 4: Minshew is further ahead in terms of just overall reps

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Speaker 4: and time on task with the first team offense. Rick,

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Speaker 4: and it's not surprising to either of us that he

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Speaker 4: looks as good as he does. What would be your

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Speaker 4: level of confidence in Gardner Minshew if, hypothetically, if the

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Speaker 3: Go that way at the beginning of the season.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Minshew's had twenty four starts in this league. I

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Speaker 2: think his touchdown to intercession ratio is like forty seven

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Speaker 2: to eleven. I mean, no, he's you know, he's just

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Speaker 2: sixty two percent passer. I mean he's done in this camp.

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Speaker 2: It's over seven, done a lot of good things. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: you know, the two games against US, it's five hundred

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Speaker 2: He threw from nineteen out of twenty in the one

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Speaker 2: the opposite of Richardson at this point. He's savvy. He's

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Speaker 2: he's outstanding before the snap, he's getting people lined up.

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Speaker 2: He knows where to go. He's gonna go with the

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Speaker 2: ball to what they give you. Okay. And in Gardner's case,

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Speaker 2: because he's he's accurate, he knows where to go. The

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Speaker 2: only thing that separates Gardner is he's not a great athlete.

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Speaker 2: He's a decent athlete. He's got pocket mobility. But you

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Speaker 4: We know about the Jonathan Taylor saga. He's still on pup.

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Speaker 2: Well, you know, I don't. I mean, it's problematic to me,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, no doubt about that.

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Speaker 4: We'll see what all transpires with Jonathan Taylor coming off

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Speaker 4: This is inside football. Let's go defense, year number two

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Speaker 4: under Gus Bradley. Rick, where do you see the defense

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Speaker 2: Count to really define that from what I've seen here, Okay,

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Speaker 2: And so when I'm looking at Kenny Moore, Kenny Moore's back,

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Speaker 2: Kenny Moore is ready to go. Yeah, Okay, he wasn't

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Speaker 2: good reason. You know, we haven't thrown him into full

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Speaker 4: Based on his movements, Shack Leonard. That is I mean,

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Speaker 2: Let me say this, he's a totally different guy than

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Speaker 4: And with with Leonard, I mean we talked with him

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Speaker 4: Stefan Gilmour and Rodney McLeod Yunik and got Away, Bobby

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Speaker 2: You know, there's really I'm going to answer this. It

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Speaker 2: He was no doubt even with the Bears, they didn't.

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Speaker 4: That's Rick Venturi. This is inside football, staying on defense.

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Speaker 4: That cornerback depth wide open, Rick. I mean, rookies, Juju Brint's,

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Speaker 2: all this practice. What that takes away from is your

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Speaker 4: That's Rick Ventury inside Football here our first installment this

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Speaker 4: week as the cults are practicing several times up here

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Speaker 4: at Grand Park, brock By Course and Fire and Security

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Speaker 4: wrapping up here, Rick, I mean some guys that are

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Speaker 4: standing out to you in a variety of ways. Guys

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Speaker 2: Well, you know, and we just we just talked about him.

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Speaker 2: But he's well off on the radar now. Baker, Okay,

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Speaker 2: I mean Baker. Baker was a guy that I wouldn't

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Speaker 2: frank about it. You know, I know he was here

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Speaker 2: and he played some special teams, but I had to,

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Speaker 2: you know, I had to look him up. But he

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Speaker 2: he is. The reason I use him is he has

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Speaker 2: gone from that from under the radar to he's starting

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Speaker 2: tomorrow Nickel.

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Speaker 1: Uh.

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Speaker 2: The other guy that I think is under the radar

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Speaker 2: situation with Moss, is Hall. I think Hall has a

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Speaker 2: chance to be that role player, have a role here

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Speaker 2: on that offensive committee now. And then you know some

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Speaker 2: other guys you know that I've just seen, and these

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Speaker 2: guys flashed. You know, Ada Bore. You know, he had

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Speaker 2: a real flash, good rush. This was the first time

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Speaker 2: we did one on ones today. We didn't do him yesterday,

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Speaker 2: and he flashed a real good inside move. And so

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Speaker 2: with guys like that, I'm looking for flashes. I'm not

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Speaker 2: looking for finished products. Avery has done that a little

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Speaker 2: bit on the ayah on the outside. And I don't

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Speaker 2: know if I'm going to say his name right, but

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Speaker 2: the other kid that has flashed to me on special

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Speaker 2: teams and flashed today is old Loubi. It's not very

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Speaker 2: big number Livy, number fifty, and so you know. And

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Speaker 2: then the guy that I think will end up having

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Speaker 2: a terrific training camp, probably a lot of second half catches,

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Speaker 2: will be Fernia. I think he's really a classy little receiver.

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Speaker 2: I think you know he'll he'll team up with mister

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Speaker 2: August ellingher they'll kill it. Now, the other guy, I've

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Speaker 2: got to mention, and he I've never I can't quite

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Speaker 2: come to grips why he hasn't just caught on and

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Speaker 2: done it. And that's Strawn Strang had it. I said,

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Speaker 2: it's August. He's mister August, and it's August first. And

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Speaker 2: he damned if he did have two really good plays that.

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Speaker 2: I mean, he has a big time at point jump ball.

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Speaker 2: He has one coming over the middle, and so you know,

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Speaker 2: he's keeping himself in the mix, you know, and that's

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Speaker 2: going to be very competitive. And you said it to

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Speaker 2: me the other day. The amount this is what preseason

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Speaker 2: is going to be fun. The amount of competition for

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Speaker 2: roster spots and not necessarily starting spots, but roster spots

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Speaker 2: is pretty large.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Normally it's somewhere around seven or eight if you

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Speaker 4: just do basic roster mechanics in that what I mean.

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Speaker 4: You know, you normally keep three running backs, six wide receivers,

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Speaker 4: three tight ends, so on and so forth. So if

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Speaker 4: you just do that math, I counted up twelve roster

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Speaker 4: spots team.

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Speaker 2: And when you said that to me, I went back

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Speaker 2: and thought about it. He guys, absolutely right.

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Speaker 4: That just means that guys that on paper right now,

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Speaker 4: you wouldn't. Clay is just locks to make this team. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: So something to keep an eye on as we progress

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Speaker 4: here during training camp. Lastly, for you, Rick put that

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Speaker 4: coaching hat back on what kinds of improvement do you

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Speaker 4: need to see out of this Colts team the rest

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Speaker 4: of this week, the weekend, and then going into next

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Speaker 4: week before you play that first Well, the.

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Speaker 2: Thing that I've always looked for, and we'll we'll look ahead.

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Speaker 2: We'll talk about this in detail next week. But the

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Speaker 2: thing that I always looked for in the opener, opening

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Speaker 2: preseason game, and that's that's your first hurdle, okay, is

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Speaker 2: I've always wanted my number ones Okay to look good.

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Speaker 2: Okay and Andy. By looking good, I mean execution. I

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Speaker 2: don't want to see the ball on the ground. You

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Speaker 2: know they've gotten the majority of reps from the beginning.

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Speaker 2: I've always been it's always been very important. I always work.

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Speaker 2: I always drilled it with those guys that when the

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Speaker 2: ones are playing their ones, you're carrying the banner. Yeah okay, ye,

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Speaker 2: you're you're getting ready to play, uh you know the Jaguars,

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Speaker 2: and so I want you to play really well. Now

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Speaker 2: we if we go with the rookie quarterback right off

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Speaker 2: the bat, we're gonna live with some mistakes. I want

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Speaker 2: the one offense and one defense to look really, really good.

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Speaker 2: And then what I'm looking for with the rest of

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Speaker 2: the guys is just consistent development, and I want you

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Speaker 2: to flash for me. Okay, I don't expect you to

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Speaker 2: come in and be a you know, an NFL refined player.

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Speaker 2: But if I brought you in here to pass rush,

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Speaker 2: show me a pass rush. You know, if I brought

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Speaker 2: you in here to cover kid like Jalen Jones, you know,

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Speaker 2: he's getting an opportunity absolutely as a corner yep, that

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Speaker 2: he would have never gotten probably, you know, had this

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Speaker 2: not happen. And he's done some pretty good things. So

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Speaker 2: let's let's see him under fire against different competition.

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Speaker 4: That's Rick Venturrey. This is Inside Football, and we are back.

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Speaker 4: We're doing it every week, posting this on Wednesdays and

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Speaker 4: talking about training camp in the month of August, and

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Speaker 4: then obviously once we get into the regular season, the

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Speaker 4: blueprints are back, the opponent breakdowns are back. But Rick,

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Speaker 4: welcome back season number forty two.

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Speaker 2: It's great to be back with you, Matt. I really

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Speaker 2: enjoy our relationship and what we do here.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, no doubt about it.

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Speaker 4: So we have that to look forward to every single

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Speaker 4: week here in the Colts Audio Network with Rick Ventury

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Speaker 4: and is nearly three decades of NFL and major college

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Speaker 4: football experience, opening up that noggin talking x's and o's

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Speaker 4: talking about this Colts team for Rick Ventury.

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Speaker 3: I'm Matt Taylor.

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Speaker 4: We're live here at Colts Camp Graham Park, brought to

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Speaker 4: you by Courson fire in Security. We'd love to see

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Speaker 4: you up here in the month of August. Colts dot

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Speaker 4: com slash camp for all the practice times and the dates,

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Speaker 4: and to download your free tickets as well. We'll do

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Speaker 4: it again next Wednesday with RV. I'm Matt Taylor. Thanks

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Speaker 4: for listening on the Colts Audio Network. So long everybody,