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Speaker 1: by the voice of the Colts, the best in the business,

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Speaker 1: Matt Taylor. Mattey, how are we? I am fantastic, Jeffrey,

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Speaker 1: happy Friday night, Excited for a good weekend. How are you?

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Speaker 1: I love it man, got great weather going on, and

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Speaker 1: glad that the Colts got done with their mini camp

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Speaker 1: the triple digit mark or what yeah, next week? I

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Speaker 1: talk about the colch Mini caamp that has concluded, getting

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Speaker 1: You know, we learned that Julian Blackman is a freak

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Speaker 1: you think is that accelerating your growth and understanding the

428
00:20:34,160 --> 00:20:37,159
Speaker 1: nuances of the defense here. We've been in this position before,

429
00:20:37,640 --> 00:20:42,440
Speaker 1: even last season when when Darres was out during count

430
00:20:42,480 --> 00:20:44,000
Speaker 1: But I got a lot of reps and everything right

431
00:20:44,040 --> 00:20:47,040
Speaker 1: there and they transferred into the season. So, Um, of

432
00:20:47,080 --> 00:20:49,440
Speaker 1: course we all looking for Darris to come back and

433
00:20:49,800 --> 00:20:52,800
Speaker 1: be Darius Leonard how he has been. But um, having

434
00:20:52,880 --> 00:20:54,399
Speaker 1: much time he needs to get ready, I'm sure I

435
00:20:54,400 --> 00:20:57,040
Speaker 1: can hold it down when he gets when he's here,

436
00:20:57,080 --> 00:20:58,639
Speaker 1: and even when he gets when he's gone, you know

437
00:20:58,680 --> 00:21:00,960
Speaker 1: what I mean. Now quite about that. Have you talked

438
00:21:00,960 --> 00:21:02,960
Speaker 1: to Darius. How's how's he doing? Oh? Yeah, I talked

439
00:21:02,960 --> 00:21:05,040
Speaker 1: to Darius every day. Yeah, he's good. He's good. He's

440
00:21:05,040 --> 00:21:09,359
Speaker 1: going into his rehabilitation out of this surgery. Um, he's

441
00:21:09,480 --> 00:21:11,560
Speaker 1: he's he's good in spirit. I mean, you know him.

442
00:21:11,600 --> 00:21:14,120
Speaker 1: He never makes excuses when he comes to things. So

443
00:21:14,800 --> 00:21:16,159
Speaker 1: when he come back, I'm sure he'll be at a

444
00:21:16,240 --> 00:21:18,000
Speaker 1: high level when we all play and go win a

445
00:21:18,040 --> 00:21:20,399
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. Yeah, let's let's pick up there, because again,

446
00:21:20,480 --> 00:21:23,639
Speaker 1: last year, you stepped in on Christmas at the last minute,

447
00:21:23,720 --> 00:21:26,920
Speaker 1: Darius Leonard lands on the COVID list. You come in

448
00:21:27,200 --> 00:21:30,680
Speaker 1: on short notice, and you you played awesome nine tackles.

449
00:21:30,680 --> 00:21:33,000
Speaker 1: You had a pass defense in that game. You played

450
00:21:33,040 --> 00:21:34,920
Speaker 1: all the snaps, one hundred percent of the snaps on

451
00:21:35,200 --> 00:21:38,840
Speaker 1: that Christmas evening game. How much did that game specifically

452
00:21:39,320 --> 00:21:42,560
Speaker 1: grow your confidence and you know, boost what you feel

453
00:21:42,560 --> 00:21:44,840
Speaker 1: about yourself as a player. I think it was something

454
00:21:44,880 --> 00:21:46,840
Speaker 1: that we all knew I was capable of. It was

455
00:21:46,880 --> 00:21:49,760
Speaker 1: just when opportunity presents itself, can you show it right?

456
00:21:49,800 --> 00:21:52,840
Speaker 1: And I think that's what the organization UM was looking

457
00:21:52,880 --> 00:21:54,640
Speaker 1: at that game as That's why my teammates were looking

458
00:21:54,680 --> 00:21:57,240
Speaker 1: at that game, as my family and even myself. It

459
00:21:57,320 --> 00:21:59,760
Speaker 1: was just me living up to the potential that I am.

460
00:21:59,840 --> 00:22:02,000
Speaker 1: So um. I think that game got a chance to

461
00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:03,879
Speaker 1: prove it, but of course it's just one game. You

462
00:22:03,960 --> 00:22:06,040
Speaker 1: have to do it a full season at this level,

463
00:22:06,119 --> 00:22:08,080
Speaker 1: and at this in the NFL, you got to play

464
00:22:08,119 --> 00:22:11,160
Speaker 1: for a full season to call yourself that guy. So um.

465
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Speaker 1: At this point, I'm just ready to to be in

466
00:22:13,600 --> 00:22:15,560
Speaker 1: that position to where I can play a full season

467
00:22:15,800 --> 00:22:17,800
Speaker 1: as a starter, is show that you know, I got

468
00:22:17,880 --> 00:22:20,320
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl capabilities and I can be a star in

469
00:22:20,680 --> 00:22:22,360
Speaker 1: the league. Now. I was draft here for a reason,

470
00:22:22,400 --> 00:22:24,119
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? E J Speed with US

471
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Speaker 1: Colts linebacker, How do you think you've grown as a

472
00:22:27,280 --> 00:22:29,840
Speaker 1: player from year one to year four. You seem much

473
00:22:29,880 --> 00:22:34,080
Speaker 1: more vocal, much more comfortable now, you know, being more

474
00:22:34,119 --> 00:22:36,680
Speaker 1: of a leader, a guy that is more vocal within

475
00:22:36,760 --> 00:22:39,479
Speaker 1: this defense. I would say it's a big contribution to

476
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Speaker 1: my teammates, my position group, my coaches that I've had,

477
00:22:42,040 --> 00:22:44,840
Speaker 1: and uh, just the organization, my family, and then my

478
00:22:44,880 --> 00:22:47,280
Speaker 1: mental mindset as a as a person and as a man.

479
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Speaker 1: I've grown in different areas in football. I've grown as

480
00:22:50,840 --> 00:22:52,360
Speaker 1: a man in life, you know what I mean. So

481
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Speaker 1: um um, I think just with my mental mindset, it's

482
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Speaker 1: always I always think that it's room for growth. So

483
00:22:57,960 --> 00:23:01,400
Speaker 1: when you when you go into any mental, any any situation,

484
00:23:01,480 --> 00:23:03,720
Speaker 1: knowing that you have to grow within the situation, I

485
00:23:03,760 --> 00:23:05,800
Speaker 1: think you will become better. And I'm a hard worker,

486
00:23:05,840 --> 00:23:08,480
Speaker 1: so um that plays a part two. I'm a hard

487
00:23:08,680 --> 00:23:11,000
Speaker 1: work I got a lot of hearts. So um, I

488
00:23:11,040 --> 00:23:13,480
Speaker 1: think I think over the over these years, that's what

489
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Speaker 1: I kind of stood on. I stood on that foundation

490
00:23:15,400 --> 00:23:17,800
Speaker 1: in that ground. Have you had a chance to realize

491
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Speaker 1: just how far you've come? You know, a guy that

492
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Speaker 1: was drafted on day three, Division two guy at the

493
00:23:23,680 --> 00:23:26,280
Speaker 1: time at Tarleton State and now again You're a mainstay

494
00:23:26,320 --> 00:23:30,480
Speaker 1: on defense, mainstay on special teams. You've more than carved

495
00:23:30,480 --> 00:23:32,320
Speaker 1: out a niche in a role here with the Colts

496
00:23:32,320 --> 00:23:34,800
Speaker 1: in the NFL. Uh, definitely. I mean I've took time

497
00:23:34,840 --> 00:23:37,480
Speaker 1: to reflect and um and every time that I sit

498
00:23:37,520 --> 00:23:40,680
Speaker 1: back and reflect, I come to think of like everything

499
00:23:40,720 --> 00:23:42,520
Speaker 1: that I've deal within my last three years of playing

500
00:23:42,520 --> 00:23:45,280
Speaker 1: for the coaches the past. Um, we gotta we got

501
00:23:45,280 --> 00:23:46,639
Speaker 1: a new agenda coming up. Like I said, we got

502
00:23:46,680 --> 00:23:48,879
Speaker 1: a new team, we got a coordinator. So now I

503
00:23:48,880 --> 00:23:50,920
Speaker 1: gotta focus more around that. I can't focus on anything

504
00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:52,440
Speaker 1: that I've done in the past if I want to

505
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Speaker 1: be the person that I say I want to be

506
00:23:54,440 --> 00:23:57,880
Speaker 1: and that everyone expecting me to be. So um. Yeah,

507
00:23:57,960 --> 00:24:01,160
Speaker 1: the reflection is great. Um, But I think now that

508
00:24:01,200 --> 00:24:03,879
Speaker 1: the season is so close and that we're kind of

509
00:24:03,920 --> 00:24:05,680
Speaker 1: in the midst of it is getting ready to go

510
00:24:05,840 --> 00:24:08,639
Speaker 1: win a Super Bowl, that I really I don't care

511
00:24:08,640 --> 00:24:10,240
Speaker 1: anything about the last three years. I just want to

512
00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:13,440
Speaker 1: focus on this year for so mindset wise. I mean,

513
00:24:13,560 --> 00:24:16,120
Speaker 1: you said something there that that stood out a little bit.

514
00:24:16,240 --> 00:24:18,439
Speaker 1: Some people would say, oh, man, football is still so

515
00:24:18,480 --> 00:24:21,040
Speaker 1: far away. We're still three months away from the start

516
00:24:21,080 --> 00:24:23,320
Speaker 1: of the regular season. We've got, you know, the entire

517
00:24:23,359 --> 00:24:27,320
Speaker 1: summer here before training camp, but mindset wise, you think

518
00:24:27,359 --> 00:24:29,800
Speaker 1: the season starts now. Yeah, we're in the season as

519
00:24:29,800 --> 00:24:31,880
Speaker 1: we speak right now. I'm sure all other thirty two

520
00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:33,720
Speaker 1: teams feel the same way that they're in the season.

521
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Speaker 1: So I think we'll be putting ourself at a disadvantage

522
00:24:35,720 --> 00:24:37,359
Speaker 1: and not feel like that we're in the season. I

523
00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:39,000
Speaker 1: think we're in the season as soon as the last

524
00:24:39,320 --> 00:24:42,040
Speaker 1: snap of the last season for that team, whether you

525
00:24:42,119 --> 00:24:44,200
Speaker 1: make the playoffs or not, starts the way you eat,

526
00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:46,800
Speaker 1: the way the way you take care of your body,

527
00:24:46,920 --> 00:24:48,879
Speaker 1: the games that you make mentally and stuff like that.

528
00:24:48,920 --> 00:24:52,280
Speaker 1: In the offseason getting whether you need therapy or kicking

529
00:24:52,280 --> 00:24:53,879
Speaker 1: the stigma and stuff like that, you have to get

530
00:24:53,920 --> 00:24:56,000
Speaker 1: your mind and your body mentally ready for the next season.

531
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Speaker 1: So with us having with us having what five weeks

532
00:25:00,680 --> 00:25:04,040
Speaker 1: into account, it's kind it seems like a long time,

533
00:25:04,040 --> 00:25:06,080
Speaker 1: but it's not. It's on you win games and off season.

534
00:25:06,160 --> 00:25:08,880
Speaker 1: So right now we are. We we were winning our

535
00:25:08,920 --> 00:25:12,920
Speaker 1: first game, right now we're winning all sixteen actually, so yeah, yeah,

536
00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:15,680
Speaker 1: I mean it seems like you guys already have that edge,

537
00:25:15,760 --> 00:25:19,280
Speaker 1: that that sense of urgency going into this upcoming season,

538
00:25:19,440 --> 00:25:22,760
Speaker 1: considering again after what happened last year missing the playoffs,

539
00:25:23,040 --> 00:25:25,040
Speaker 1: and also knowing, I mean, you're not blind to the

540
00:25:25,080 --> 00:25:27,400
Speaker 1: fact that looking at the schedule, you know you're front

541
00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:29,680
Speaker 1: loaded with all those AFC South games. Is that playing

542
00:25:29,720 --> 00:25:33,840
Speaker 1: to it as well? Definitely? Um, we're professionals, and to

543
00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:36,080
Speaker 1: be a professional in this league, you gotta win. Yeah,

544
00:25:36,160 --> 00:25:38,520
Speaker 1: So you can't call yourself a great team or you

545
00:25:38,520 --> 00:25:40,919
Speaker 1: can't call yourself a great player if you're not winning. Winning,

546
00:25:41,160 --> 00:25:45,960
Speaker 1: I think winning, um, Winning winning sets, sets separates. Sure

547
00:25:46,200 --> 00:25:48,360
Speaker 1: people can say who they are or what they plan

548
00:25:48,480 --> 00:25:51,119
Speaker 1: to be. Okay, let's see, do you win? That's what

549
00:25:51,280 --> 00:25:53,280
Speaker 1: that's what, that's what pay the bills. Winning pays bills

550
00:25:53,280 --> 00:25:55,680
Speaker 1: in this league. So um, and I think in this

551
00:25:55,720 --> 00:25:57,439
Speaker 1: locker room, when we look around, we got a lot

552
00:25:57,480 --> 00:25:59,800
Speaker 1: of competitive guys that want to win. I mean, if

553
00:25:59,840 --> 00:26:01,640
Speaker 1: you if you spent the day in our locker room,

554
00:26:01,640 --> 00:26:04,000
Speaker 1: you will see how competitive it is. How the players

555
00:26:04,040 --> 00:26:06,240
Speaker 1: talk to each other like like we want to compete

556
00:26:06,240 --> 00:26:08,160
Speaker 1: in every aspect, like you come to like you want

557
00:26:08,200 --> 00:26:09,480
Speaker 1: to be to alpha, like you know what I mean.

558
00:26:09,560 --> 00:26:12,480
Speaker 1: So I think as a team we can become that

559
00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:15,800
Speaker 1: in this league. Just because of the guys that that

560
00:26:15,880 --> 00:26:17,640
Speaker 1: was drafted in, the guys that's in the locker room,

561
00:26:17,640 --> 00:26:21,600
Speaker 1: and the mentality that are head coach has in the organization.

562
00:26:21,760 --> 00:26:24,560
Speaker 1: And CJ. Speed Colts linebacker. With this final couple of things,

563
00:26:24,560 --> 00:26:27,399
Speaker 1: how about this one for you? Two special teams touchdowns

564
00:26:27,480 --> 00:26:31,879
Speaker 1: last season? You became the first player with multiple punt

565
00:26:31,920 --> 00:26:36,159
Speaker 1: block return touchdowns in a single season since Ed Reid

566
00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:38,760
Speaker 1: in two thousand and three. He did that with the Ravens.

567
00:26:39,240 --> 00:26:41,320
Speaker 1: Take me back, do you remember those plays? I mean

568
00:26:41,920 --> 00:26:44,840
Speaker 1: something that I will never know. Ninety nine point nine

569
00:26:44,880 --> 00:26:47,600
Speaker 1: percent of most people in society will never know how

570
00:26:47,680 --> 00:26:51,240
Speaker 1: much adrenaline is pumping through your veins when you score

571
00:26:51,240 --> 00:26:54,359
Speaker 1: a special team's touchdown in the NFL. I think I was.

572
00:26:54,520 --> 00:26:56,840
Speaker 1: I mean, I always dreamed this score my first touchdown

573
00:26:56,840 --> 00:26:59,600
Speaker 1: in the NFL in general. You know, I play offense

574
00:26:59,680 --> 00:27:03,560
Speaker 1: like like my whole life, former quarterback touchdowns team, Like

575
00:27:03,640 --> 00:27:05,320
Speaker 1: you know, this is every game thing. Okay, we want

576
00:27:05,880 --> 00:27:07,399
Speaker 1: a touchdown and it's like having a tackle, you know

577
00:27:07,440 --> 00:27:09,439
Speaker 1: what I mean? So like when you switched to defense,

578
00:27:09,560 --> 00:27:11,320
Speaker 1: you like you look up, how am I gonna get

579
00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:13,200
Speaker 1: the touchdown? Am I gonna get in the blue paint. Yeah,

580
00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:14,800
Speaker 1: so you know you gotta you gotta work for it.

581
00:27:14,840 --> 00:27:16,880
Speaker 1: So I think when I when I first I can

582
00:27:16,960 --> 00:27:19,160
Speaker 1: walk you through when I first picked up the ball,

583
00:27:19,160 --> 00:27:21,920
Speaker 1: and I wasn't going to be denied at that point.

584
00:27:22,240 --> 00:27:24,080
Speaker 1: So I got into the end zone and all I

585
00:27:24,080 --> 00:27:26,520
Speaker 1: can think about was you know, all the things and

586
00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:29,920
Speaker 1: Zaire actually blocked. Yeah, so that's against the Jaguar Frank

587
00:27:30,680 --> 00:27:33,720
Speaker 1: and um and my mental mindset going to the sideline. Um,

588
00:27:33,960 --> 00:27:37,120
Speaker 1: I was like, man, everything that everything that we went

589
00:27:37,160 --> 00:27:40,639
Speaker 1: through as a linebacking corps, like with with coach flews

590
00:27:40,640 --> 00:27:42,800
Speaker 1: and coach guns, all the three dog nights and all

591
00:27:42,840 --> 00:27:46,440
Speaker 1: of all the excruciating um individuals that we did, and

592
00:27:46,520 --> 00:27:50,320
Speaker 1: we overcame to where those individuals became easier, you know

593
00:27:50,320 --> 00:27:52,480
Speaker 1: what I mean. So we had already fought obstacles and

594
00:27:52,480 --> 00:27:54,720
Speaker 1: it was just like I think, it just felt like

595
00:27:54,760 --> 00:27:57,520
Speaker 1: we we cooked up a bit like food like pot

596
00:27:57,600 --> 00:27:58,960
Speaker 1: of fold and we was just and it was a

597
00:27:59,040 --> 00:28:01,239
Speaker 1: hard defeast and it we feasted, you know what I mean.

598
00:28:01,320 --> 00:28:03,040
Speaker 1: So I remember going as that year and I hugged

599
00:28:03,040 --> 00:28:05,040
Speaker 1: them and UM and it was that was that was

600
00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:08,000
Speaker 1: something special to share even with Bubba. With Bubba because

601
00:28:08,359 --> 00:28:10,480
Speaker 1: Bubba always appreciow us. You know that we can change

602
00:28:10,480 --> 00:28:12,320
Speaker 1: the game on special teams, and you know the way

603
00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:14,320
Speaker 1: that Bubba coach. You want to change the game, not

604
00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:16,639
Speaker 1: only for him before the unit because we look at

605
00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:19,000
Speaker 1: that they treat that unit like a like an offensive

606
00:28:19,080 --> 00:28:22,160
Speaker 1: unit or a defensive unit. So it's very important. So, um,

607
00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:23,760
Speaker 1: when we got to make that play in the game.

608
00:28:23,840 --> 00:28:26,040
Speaker 1: Plus that's a divisional game, so we got to make

609
00:28:26,080 --> 00:28:28,320
Speaker 1: that play in the game, it was special. Definitely. It's

610
00:28:28,359 --> 00:28:30,280
Speaker 1: something I never forget. Well, you talk about not being

611
00:28:30,320 --> 00:28:33,719
Speaker 1: denied what you stiff arm like two guys right, uh, one,

612
00:28:33,760 --> 00:28:35,159
Speaker 1: it could it would have been two of somebody. It

613
00:28:35,240 --> 00:28:38,600
Speaker 1: seemed like five. It could have been five, and a

614
00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:42,640
Speaker 1: couple of years it'll be five. As you retell the story,

615
00:28:43,360 --> 00:28:45,320
Speaker 1: well that's I mean, that's when you're your former running

616
00:28:45,320 --> 00:28:48,640
Speaker 1: back and quarterback days in college and high school came back.

617
00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:50,680
Speaker 1: It's like writing a bike as far as that goes.

618
00:28:50,960 --> 00:28:55,160
Speaker 1: What's better blocking a punt or scoring a touchdown off

619
00:28:55,160 --> 00:28:57,640
Speaker 1: a block punt? I've done. It's more satisfy. And that's

620
00:28:57,640 --> 00:29:00,040
Speaker 1: why I asked so my in Tennessee, I blocked a

621
00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:03,480
Speaker 1: point in tj kjkgets Tennessee. Yeah, so I would definitely

622
00:29:03,480 --> 00:29:06,160
Speaker 1: say the touchdown. I would definite say the touchdown because

623
00:29:06,160 --> 00:29:08,800
Speaker 1: the crowd gets up and goes crazy to unexpected touchdown. Yeah,

624
00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:10,840
Speaker 1: it's like, oh it, now we gotta go. And then yeah,

625
00:29:10,880 --> 00:29:13,480
Speaker 1: then you went awards delay in the in the in

626
00:29:13,520 --> 00:29:15,720
Speaker 1: the in the audience, but you know it was good

627
00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:18,960
Speaker 1: AFC Special Teams Player of the Week the following week.

628
00:29:19,320 --> 00:29:21,040
Speaker 1: All right, I gotta let you go. What does the

629
00:29:21,080 --> 00:29:23,280
Speaker 1: rest of your summer look like? What? How how difficult

630
00:29:23,280 --> 00:29:25,640
Speaker 1: it is to to balance? As you said, the season

631
00:29:25,760 --> 00:29:28,880
Speaker 1: is basically here. How do you balance getting some R

632
00:29:28,920 --> 00:29:32,200
Speaker 1: and R time with friends and family but also staying

633
00:29:32,360 --> 00:29:34,840
Speaker 1: you know, ready mentally and physically. I think I handled

634
00:29:34,840 --> 00:29:36,440
Speaker 1: that already. It's time for me to go get ready

635
00:29:36,440 --> 00:29:38,400
Speaker 1: for the season. I got five weeks to you know,

636
00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:41,400
Speaker 1: make a mark going into my fourth year in the NFL,

637
00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:44,160
Speaker 1: and you know, no opportunity is took them for granted.

638
00:29:44,240 --> 00:29:47,440
Speaker 1: So when I get back this um within these five weeks,

639
00:29:47,440 --> 00:29:49,040
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do everything possible to get ready for the

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Speaker 1: season and be prepared for the guys and um, let's

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Speaker 1: go on a Super Bowl round. Yeah, you can see

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Speaker 1: it in your eyes definitely. I love it. The motivation

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Speaker 1: right there with EJ. Speed, Colts linebacker EJ always enjoyable

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Speaker 1: to talk man. Really appreciate the time and have a

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Speaker 1: great summer. Thank you, great job, Matey love EJ. Speed

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Speaker 1: when a nice young man. He's active in the community

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Speaker 1: as well. Quiet, but I'll tell you what demonic when

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Speaker 1: it comes to his play on defense and special teams,

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Speaker 1: and Pie has a knack for finding the end zone

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Speaker 1: when it comes to special teams in his career. Mate,

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Speaker 1: Am I right? No, He's been a part of three

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Speaker 1: punt block plays and he's scored on two of them

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Speaker 1: since the twenty twenty season. He had two, as we

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Speaker 1: heard in that interview, two punt block return touchdowns in

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Speaker 1: the twenty twenty one season, first player to do that

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Speaker 1: since Ed Reid back in two thousand and three. He's

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Speaker 1: a special guy, and he's one of the more athletically

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Speaker 1: gifted players on this Colts roster. And that's saying something

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Speaker 1: because they've got a lot of studs. But a guy

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Speaker 1: that was, you know, a running back, a quarterback, a

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Speaker 1: wide receiver in high school and college and the Colts

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Speaker 1: found a home for him on defense and he's one

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Speaker 1: of their mainstays on special teams and like you said,

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Speaker 1: big year for him going into a contract year, so

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Speaker 1: he knows it's big for the team and he knows

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Speaker 1: it's big for himself to solidify his future in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: And you, if you can play in this league, Gus

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Speaker 1: Bradley is gonna find reps for you. E J. Speed,

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Speaker 1: keep your eye on him this year, Colts Fan. After

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Speaker 1: a quick time out, we're gonna give you the Form

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Speaker 1: Credit Union question of the week regarding Matt Ryan's career

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Speaker 1: completion percentage. This just in it's pretty high. We're also

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Speaker 1: going to open up the NFL grab bag. We're going

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Speaker 1: to discuss why Lucas Oil Stadium continues the rank among

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Speaker 1: the best NFL venues. And also we're going to talk

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Speaker 1: about Aaron Donald and getting paid the big defensive tackle

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Speaker 1: now getting that quarterback money. I'm Jeffrey Gorman. We're joined

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Speaker 1: by Matt Taylor Voice and the Colts. This is the

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Speaker 1: Last Word ninety three five one oh seven five the Fan.

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Speaker 1: This is your weekly fix on Colts football. The Last

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Speaker 1: Word with Jeffrey Gorman and Matt Taylor. Back to the

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Speaker 1: Last Word, ninety three five one oh seven five the Fan.

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Speaker 1: I'm Jeffrey Gorman, joined by the voice of the Colts

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Speaker 1: Matt Taylor. Loved that. What love what I'm hearing. I

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Speaker 1: don't know who's sang it though, but he's Fat Boy Slim.

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Speaker 1: Just looked it up. I cheated fat Boy Slim sang

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Speaker 1: that song. Breas me back. Good pull, mate, a good pull,

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Speaker 1: one hit wonder all our rejoinders it out, so we'll

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Speaker 1: be one hit wonders. I do that. Wow, I do

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Speaker 1: like that for sure. Really, I was listening to some

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Speaker 1: Black Crows yesterday about texted you some good stuff for cuts. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: It was soul singing by the Black Crow. Yeah. Got missle,

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Speaker 1: sang ain, Got missle. Now we're talking. Now we're talking,

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Speaker 1: all right now another time for a music show. Mattey.

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Speaker 1: I got single game tickets for Colts fans for the

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Speaker 1: Colts dot com, slash tickets or ticketmaster dot com. Mattey,

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Speaker 1: let's have a little fun with this forum credit Union

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Speaker 1: Question of the Week, because they're gonna heck of a quarterback.

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Speaker 1: Number two Matt Ryan here. Now, his career completion percentage

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Speaker 1: number is sixty five point five percent. It ties him

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Speaker 1: with Kurt Warner, by the way, Hall of Famer for

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Speaker 1: ninth in NFL history. Of the eight players ahead of

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Speaker 1: him on that list, six of them are still active. Wow.

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Speaker 1: The great quarterback play going on currently in NFL history. Okay,

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Speaker 1: So all I'm talking about is there's six guys, six

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Speaker 1: of them ahead on that list, with Matt Ryan sixty

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Speaker 1: five point five career percentage number of completions may take giess,

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Speaker 1: give me some numbers. Who's got a higher percentage than that?

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Speaker 1: By the way, six of the eight playing in the

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Speaker 1: NFL currently. Wow. So we're in like the golden age

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Speaker 1: of benefit quarterbacks right here. We're seeing great play. So

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Speaker 1: there's eight or excuse me, there's six of them still active. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I'll go Tom Brady. Tom Brady not in the list, no, sir,

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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers. Aaron Rodgers, I'm not in the list. Really,

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Speaker 1: are you kidding me? I mean, listen, this is stuff.

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Speaker 1: This is a guy, I mean, elite quarterbacks. We're talking

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Speaker 1: about and they're not on this list. Derek Carr. Okay,

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Speaker 1: here we go, you ready, matey? No, not active players?

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Speaker 1: How about this recently retired maybe playing again, got out

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Speaker 1: of the TV booth really really quick. Drew Brees. Drew

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Speaker 1: Brees is one of them, not active at sixty seven

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Speaker 1: point seven. Chad Pennington not active, obviously done with football. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but Pennington is in the top eight sixty six percent. Coach,

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Speaker 1: I'm telling you, people always knock this guy, but Jet

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Speaker 1: Fins they love their Pennington back. Chad Pennington is in

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Speaker 1: the top eight all time in NFL history and completion percentage.

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Speaker 1: How about that? Watch us gets better than Teddy Bridgewater

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Speaker 1: sixty six point five percent. He gets in obviously hasn't

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Speaker 1: thrown as many passes as the other guys, but it's

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Speaker 1: still there. Patrick Mahomes sixty six point one percent. Kirk

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Speaker 1: Cousins and Kyler Murray they're tied up at sixty six

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Speaker 1: point nine percent. I'll say that again, Cousins and Murray

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Speaker 1: both at sixty six point nine percent completion rate. They're tied.

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Speaker 1: And those guys, like you said, are currently playing quarterback

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Speaker 1: in the NFL. We talked about Drew Brees, Teddy Bridgewater

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Speaker 1: found his way on the list. Dak Prescott at sixty

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Speaker 1: six point six percent completion, Dallas Cowboys, whether you love

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Speaker 1: m or Atum, The guy's a good quarterback. And finally, yeah,

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Speaker 1: very accord. Finally, Deshaun Watson massaged his way onto the

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Speaker 1: list at sixty seven point eight percent completion percentage. That's

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Speaker 1: our Forum Credit Union question of the week. What it

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Speaker 1: means is this, Matt Ryan's going to complete a lot

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Speaker 1: of passes this year. Okay, so get ready, Colts fans.

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Speaker 1: I botched that question. I had no. I mean, there's

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of marquee quarterbacks still playing that aren't

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Speaker 1: on that list, which goes to show you that the

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Speaker 1: quarterbacks that are on that list are Like I said,

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Speaker 1: it's the golden age of quarterbacks. I would have lost

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Speaker 1: a ton of money had you told me, Chad Pack,

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't have top eight all time again. Coach wing

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Speaker 1: to put teddy Bridgewater on there. Not Oh, like I said,

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Speaker 1: not as many passes as these other cats, but Teddy

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Speaker 1: Bridgewater at sixty six point five percent. It's tough tough

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Speaker 1: to play that position in I mean, you know there's

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Speaker 1: thirty two starting quarterbacks in the world man toughest, one

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Speaker 1: of the toughest gigs around. So hey, hat's off to you,

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Speaker 1: the Teddy Bridgewaters and Chad Pennington's of the world. Colts

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Speaker 1: their financial dreams. Mattey, it's the weekend. It's a scorcher

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Speaker 1: next week, so let's roll. Let's open up this NFL

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Speaker 1: grab bag. The NFL never sleeps. This is the NFL

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Speaker 1: local sports teams across the Midwest. Okay, here we go again.

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Speaker 1: Let's give a standing ovation for Luke Soil Stadium. Mate

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Speaker 1: all right. According to bet Spurts, a crowdsource sports betting

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Speaker 1: social media platform, Lucas Oil Stadium has ranked nineteenth of

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Speaker 1: the best pro sports venue in America that puts a

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Speaker 1: mate watch this in the top two percent of all

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Speaker 1: American pro sports stadiums venues arenas. The rankings were determined

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Speaker 1: by averaging reviews from Google, Facebook, trip Advisor, and yelp.

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Speaker 1: Lamba Field finished at the top of the list. Shock

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Speaker 1: or just two other NFL stadiums ranked above Lucas Oil.

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Speaker 1: And I'll tell you what, that's an honor in itself.

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Speaker 1: Only two other NFL stadiums above Lucas Oil. We're in

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Speaker 1: front of it on this one. Lewin Field home of

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Speaker 1: the Seattle Seahawks, obviously with the twelfth Man up there,

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Speaker 1: and Hines Field where the Pittsburgh Steelers play, which is

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Speaker 1: a nasty place to go into and try to win

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Speaker 1: a football game. Mate, Hats off Lucas Oil Stadium. Well done. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and it's only going to get better. New video boards

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Speaker 1: are going in this off season, so they're gonna be

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Speaker 1: bigger and brighter and clear. You know. The sweet level

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Speaker 1: is they're gonna be a little bit They're gonna get

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Speaker 1: a little bit of a makeover. The sight lines in

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Speaker 1: the stadium, Jeffrey, are awesome. You just you try not

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Speaker 1: to take them for granted. When you go to a

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Speaker 1: Colts game. There's not a bad Seaton and joint it

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Speaker 1: can host football, it does final fours, it does major

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Speaker 1: concerts and conventions. And the best part about it is

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Speaker 1: it's squarely downtown. You can walk to bars, restaurants, hotels

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Speaker 1: right out the front door. You don't have to get

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Speaker 1: into cab, you don't have to drive out to a

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Speaker 1: suburb like all these other NFL venues. Everything you need

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Speaker 1: for your stadium experience is right downtown and that's what

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Speaker 1: makes it great for the fans. Hey, given a lot

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Speaker 1: of love to Lucas Oil. We got a good thing

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Speaker 1: down there, and we got a good football team that's

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Speaker 1: gonna be playing some games in it. So hats off

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Speaker 1: to Lucas Oil Stadium, one of best in the business.

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Speaker 1: Aaron Donald one at all one has the rain talked

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Speaker 1: about retiring for a little bit, didn't you know what

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Speaker 1: I'm saying that that kind of got staying cronky and

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Speaker 1: the and the La Rams. I would say, you know,

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Speaker 1: their eyebrows went up a little bit. No, no, no no, no,

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Speaker 1: don't retire. Don't retire. Well, anyway, he just got paid maintain,

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Speaker 1: I mean quarterback money paid. He is returning to those

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Speaker 1: La Rams and he's the highest paid non quarterback in

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Speaker 1: the NFL. They reworked the deal to give him a

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Speaker 1: forty million dollar raise over the last three years of

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Speaker 1: his existing contract, making him the first non quarterback to

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Speaker 1: eclipse thirty million dollars per season. Aaron Donald is one

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Speaker 1: of the three defensive players since the nineteen seventy merger

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Speaker 1: to earn a Pro Bowl selection in each of their

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Speaker 1: first eight NFL seasons. That's incredible. Alongside these guys Lawrence

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Speaker 1: Taylor and Derek Thomas Maytay, is any non quarterback worked

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Speaker 1: that kind of money. And it's interesting because it boils

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Speaker 1: down to can you throw the ball effectively and can

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Speaker 1: you get after the quarterback? Can you disrupt the game?

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Speaker 1: And I think Aaron Donald is one of the best

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Speaker 1: disruptors in the game, and you can win a game

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Speaker 1: like we saw in the Per Bowl. Jamar Chase was

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Speaker 1: open on that last play of the game from the

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Speaker 1: Sincnty Bengals, but it was Donald who got after Joe

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Speaker 1: Burrow who didn't have time to make the play from

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Speaker 1: the quarterback position. I mean, Donald's got ninety eight sacks

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Speaker 1: and eight seasons, Jeffrey, and he's a defensive tackle. Let

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Speaker 1: me repeat that, ninety eight sacks and eight seasons as

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Speaker 1: a defensive tackle. I'd rather pay a guy like Aaron

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Speaker 1: Donald for what he does at his vie show over

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Speaker 1: some of these wide receivers who are making close to

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Speaker 1: thirty million dollars a year now. So you know, if

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Speaker 1: you're gonna pay a non quarterback that kind of money,

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Speaker 1: give me a guy that gets after the quarterback. If

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Speaker 1: you're asking me to pick, I'm gonna pick Aaron Donald

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Speaker 1: on defense over some of these wide receivers on offense.

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Speaker 1: Easy like that. Listen, I'm gonna tell you this. I

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Speaker 1: got a late afternoon phone call today he signed his

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Speaker 1: deal and some Coats owner Jim ursay to say, hey,

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Speaker 1: do you want to join me in a foursome? Some

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Speaker 1: guy dropped out. So I go out to play golf

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Speaker 1: with the big man and my first question is what

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00:40:58,640 --> 00:41:00,879
Speaker 1: do you think of the Aaron Donald? And as an

851
00:41:00,880 --> 00:41:04,200
Speaker 1: owner in the NFL, he said, Wow, what a bargain.

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00:41:04,239 --> 00:41:07,200
Speaker 1: I'm not kidding you. I'm not kidding you. He said, Wow,

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00:41:07,400 --> 00:41:09,520
Speaker 1: they got a bargain. I mean, that's you know, that's

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Speaker 1: from an NFL owner out there talking about the defensive tackle.

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Speaker 1: That's what he brings to a defense. Well done, Aaron

856
00:41:15,320 --> 00:41:18,399
Speaker 1: donald one last off football note, Matt, I will put

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Speaker 1: it up on social media at some point, but I

858
00:41:21,480 --> 00:41:24,680
Speaker 1: just wanted the Colt Saw fans to know that, Well,

859
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Speaker 1: I landed about a thirty pound striper. Ye big old fish.

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Speaker 1: It looked like I'm stark Man. Finally, like I said,

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Speaker 1: I'm a post it to social media soon. But I

862
00:41:34,920 --> 00:41:37,960
Speaker 1: landed a big thirty pound stripe fast, and it was

863
00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:40,440
Speaker 1: an amazing fight. It was fun. I mean, it was

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Speaker 1: just the whole thing was incredible. And I do have

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Speaker 1: pictures to prove it, matey, because I like to talk

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Speaker 1: to you about my fishing and golf adventures in the

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Speaker 1: off season. Well, there's no bigger than catching a thirty

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Speaker 1: pound almost forty hinch stripe fast. Mate. How long do

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Speaker 1: you think you would take you to teach me how

870
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Speaker 1: to fish? Oh gosh, man, it's not you know, it's not.

871
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Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not a sign. It's not that hard.

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Speaker 1: Bro's I kind of two things. If you're at that,

873
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Speaker 1: if you're at a creek, or if you're at a pond,

874
00:42:09,160 --> 00:42:10,960
Speaker 1: you gotta bait your own hook. If you go out

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Speaker 1: on one of these charters to catch a big fish

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00:42:12,880 --> 00:42:14,759
Speaker 1: and stuff, these guys will bait the hook for you.

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Speaker 1: So that's what I think you're gonna go for, matey,

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00:42:16,680 --> 00:42:18,480
Speaker 1: next time you're on a fish, rent a boat with

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Speaker 1: a crew on it. All right, well, I'm just gonna

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Speaker 1: go with you. I'm just gonna ride your coat or

881
00:42:21,960 --> 00:42:25,359
Speaker 1: just that'll make it even easier on man. I think

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Speaker 1: I love it, all right, thanks for letting me gloat

883
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Speaker 1: a little bit about the big lunker. Well done, well done.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm telling you it was fun. So all right,

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00:42:33,880 --> 00:42:35,840
Speaker 1: great stuff happening. We got a lot of off season

886
00:42:35,920 --> 00:42:38,080
Speaker 1: in front of us, though, matey. The ots are open.

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Speaker 1: We're not gonna hear from the Colts until they break

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00:42:40,280 --> 00:42:43,399
Speaker 1: training camp or open up training camp rather in late July.

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Speaker 1: So a lot of stuff to talk about, a lot

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Speaker 1: of stuff to think about, a lot of stuff to

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Speaker 1: guess about that's coming up in the next couple of

892
00:42:49,480 --> 00:42:52,200
Speaker 1: months here because we are without some football. But it

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Speaker 1: never ends here in the NFL three sixty five twenty

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Speaker 1: four to seven. May tell you're around to swap some

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Speaker 1: football stories this offseason with me or what. I'll be

896
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Speaker 1: there every step of the way, my friend, you got it,

897
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Speaker 1: great man, best in the business. Matt Taylor voice of

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Speaker 1: the coach. My name is Gore Man. Coming up next

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Speaker 1: here on ninety three five and one oh seven five

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Speaker 1: to fan ESPN Radio with Spain and Fits. We'll talk

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Speaker 1: to you next week. Starmar starmer stand me tell me

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Speaker 1: that June up the