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

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Speaker 1: the right place. Feel caught over the medal.

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Speaker 2: Michael Pittman Junior.

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Speaker 2: He's at the forty. He's at the thirty slips of

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Speaker 2: a tackle. Twenty ten five touchdown. Michael Pittman Junior.

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Speaker 5: Top Petert in the Indiana Union Construction Industry Radio studio.

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Speaker 1: Let's get the podcast started.

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Speaker 5: Welcome into the Official Colts Podcast. As usual, Miss Larra

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Speaker 5: Overton is here. We have a jam back show.

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Speaker 1: Even though you it's the off season.

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Speaker 5: It's a good one. JJ stank that season. You're also here.

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Speaker 5: But I gotta start with with Lo because I think

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Speaker 5: there was something special special going on in the Tucker

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Speaker 5: Overton house yesterday. Give me the eclipse for you and

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Speaker 5: your husband. What you guys do was here? I was working,

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Speaker 2: It was local pro day. Baby.

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Speaker 5: I thought I watched it.

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Speaker 2: I watched it from out here on the practice field.

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Speaker 2: Did yeah, and oh it was awesome.

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Speaker 3: It was great because all of I mean everyone from

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Speaker 2: And I will tell I will.

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Speaker 3: Admit, like I didn't get the big hubbub, Like I

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Speaker 3: cool to see to watch it just right out here.

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Speaker 5: Pretty cool.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, because football doesn't stop. Football does not stop for

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Speaker 2: the eclipse.

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Speaker 5: Local dat, Yeah, what's coming? You have kids in this situation?

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Speaker 5: How was it a educational experience for the Snankowitz A

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Speaker 1: Might So. My dad is very into this. He's always

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Speaker 5: with you big news, obviously, and it was released today

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Speaker 3: And you know, Julian did explore some options out there

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, and I think the point that Julian made

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Speaker 1: So you just you never know, and you know, it

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Speaker 1: Sure, So you know, while it took Julian a little

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Speaker 5: Defuse a lot of those Colts fans.

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Speaker 4: I think that it was a lot of just trying

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Speaker 4: Those those are things that I was able to focus on.

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Speaker 3: Have seen a number of guys who have re signed

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Speaker 2: Big life events.

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Speaker 3: For you. Not only did you, you know, re sign

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Speaker 1: Do you reflect though on the journey that kind of

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Speaker 4: Thank you guys for having me excited to be back.

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Speaker 5: Continuity. That's the word online, that's the word. That's Cotton

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Speaker 5: new Hey, continuity. Hey, take take a take a gamble

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Speaker 1: Oh, that's a good one.

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Speaker 5: It could be somebody who's not on this roster yet.

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Speaker 5: It's going to be fun. Hey, don't forget coming up.

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Speaker 5: We're going to go to your mailbag questions. We've been

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Speaker 5: want to know, it's easy, follow us on Twitter. Act

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Speaker 5: you can get your question answer right here. But Anthony Costanzo,

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Speaker 1: So a week from today we're going to have him

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Speaker 5: Yeah, that is on the pod that week. You just

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Speaker 5: live podcasting, Colin. I don't care what it is. Sometimes

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Speaker 5: obviously thanks to you both for the Julian Blackman interview

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Speaker 5: reader's always right, as I like to call mailbag time,

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Speaker 5: mediator on this or moderator. This from Lucas, who's a

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Speaker 1: I thought for a second you're gonna say he was

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Speaker 1: from Dutch. Yeah, No, from from Yeah. I actually met

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Speaker 1: him at the Colts party in Frankfurt. Yeah, he's got

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Speaker 1: a six setup in his give yes, sure, great, follow

441
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Speaker 1: He's got a six setup. It's like what is like

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Speaker 1: Colt's cave? Correct Lucas, correct me if I'm wrong on

443
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Speaker 1: that at Dutch Colts fan by the way, if you

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Speaker 1: want to and he is the number one Colts fan

445
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Speaker 1: in the low countries of Europe, I would have to

446
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Speaker 1: I would have to say I think the marketing rights

447
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Speaker 1: are awesome. That the Colts are not kind of expanding

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Speaker 1: their footprint into Germany, into Austria obviously with the Bernard

449
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Speaker 1: Rhyman tie in. Just seeing that crowd last year, not

450
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Speaker 1: just at the game in Frankfurt, but just the energy

451
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Speaker 1: around football in Germany. Man that that is a country

452
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Speaker 1: that gets it, that is an area of the warl

453
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Speaker 1: Old that gets football. And I'm excited that the Colts

454
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Speaker 1: can do some stuff, you know, more marketing stuff over there.

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Speaker 1: They can have more of a legit presence in Germany,

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Speaker 1: in Austria, you know, and hopefully you know, maybe I

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Speaker 1: don't know if it leads to more games on TV,

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Speaker 1: more accessible stuff. But Europeans are also very they're very

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Speaker 1: good at finding ways to watch games. There are packages

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Speaker 1: you can buy and stuff like that, so very resourceful.

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Speaker 5: Hopefully the Colts are all of Germany and Austria. What

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Speaker 5: do you think, what are some of the perks of

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Speaker 5: this agreement?

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Speaker 3: L Well, you're going to see just a larger footprint

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Speaker 3: of the Colts. You know, when you think about how

466
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Speaker 3: Jacksonville has somewhat taken over London, it's pretty much theirs.

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Speaker 3: Now you can start to see a team like the

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Speaker 3: Colts expand their presence and have an ownership of a

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Speaker 3: fan base over there, rather than it's just okay, every

470
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Speaker 3: handful of years you're going to parachute in and play

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Speaker 3: in a different you know, city, in your upper place

472
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Speaker 3: somewhere else. Now you're actually going to have an established

473
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Speaker 3: presence and it's going to be something that is more

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Speaker 3: routine than just oh.

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Speaker 2: Every few years.

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Speaker 3: You know that you can plan for a game that's

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Speaker 3: going to be played at Wembley Stadium, the.

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Speaker 1: Colts have never had a home game played overseas.

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Speaker 5: Overseas, maybe that'll change sooner than later.

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Speaker 1: Who knows, well, the NFL is going to make sure

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Speaker 1: it changed. Yes, absolutely it will. Yeah, all right, we're

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Speaker 1: moving on. Chris Phillips at C Underscore Phillips Underscore thirteen.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if that's a t Y Hilton reference.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, but he asked, is this to end?

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Speaker 1: I think it's coming out of what we talked about

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Speaker 1: with Chris Ballard signing a lot of in house free agents.

487
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Speaker 1: Chris Phillips said, is the team putting too much pressure

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Speaker 1: on Anthony Richardson to succeed in order for the entire

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Speaker 1: team to be successful? Yeah? I thought this was a

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Speaker 1: really good question because it is kind of the You

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Speaker 1: could go a couple of ways with your quarterback where

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Speaker 1: you try to surround him, you know, you spend all

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Speaker 1: his money and he's surround him with guys to see

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Speaker 1: if he's good or not. But I think the Colts

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Speaker 1: have already seen enough from Anthony to believe that he's good.

496
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Speaker 1: Like what I think about is in twenty eighteen, the

497
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Speaker 1: Bears didn't know if Mitch Trubisky was good yet so

498
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Speaker 1: they went out and they spent all this money on

499
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Speaker 1: Alan Robinson, Trey Burton, Taylor Gabriel and within about a

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Speaker 1: year two of those three contracts were like why'd you

501
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Speaker 1: do that? Right, But it's because you felt like you

502
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Speaker 1: had to see if he was good or not, because

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Speaker 1: you didn't have the evaluation of him. I think even

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Speaker 1: though he only played four games, I think the Colts

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Speaker 1: have the evaluation of Anthony to believe like this guy

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Speaker 1: can raise everyone else. So I don't think it's too

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Speaker 1: much on Anthony because this team believes he can be

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Speaker 1: a driving force of a successful season.

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Speaker 5: Lara, the pressure that is on an NFL quarterback period

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Speaker 5: is through the roof. I don't care where you're playing.

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Speaker 5: Pressure of a rookie quarterback as well, which is arguably

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Speaker 5: his second rookie season with the limited sample size we

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Speaker 5: saw last year. Pressure on this kid outside of normal

514
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Speaker 5: pressure is does that exist with him coming off of

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Speaker 5: this injury plague first year.

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Speaker 3: I think there's always too much pressure on quarterbacks, especially

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Speaker 3: young quarterbacks. I mean there's just just a ton, especially

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Speaker 3: now with the way that there is expanded investment from

519
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Speaker 3: fantasy football, and you know, obviously people who are investing in,

520
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Speaker 3: you know, these type of things individually.

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Speaker 2: So I think back to something different sport.

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Speaker 3: But I believe it was Tyrese Haliburton who was talking

523
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Speaker 3: about some of the pressure that is on professional athletes

524
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Speaker 3: that you forget that there are people, you know, people

525
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Speaker 3: will come after you because you you know whatever, you

526
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Speaker 3: didn't cover their bets and whatnot, and so people want

527
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Speaker 3: to attack you on social media and do these different things.

528
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Speaker 3: Like it's a wild landscape right now in terms of

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Speaker 3: pressure in general on most every position and on so

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Speaker 3: many professional athletes. Obviously they're very well paid and all

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Speaker 3: of those things to somewhat compensate that. But I think

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Speaker 3: it's kind of an interesting conversation in that there are

533
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Speaker 3: a lot of factors that amplify now the pressure on

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Speaker 3: these players than even there have been previously. Now with

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Speaker 3: Anthony specifically, I don't think that the team is putting

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Speaker 3: necessarily that pressure added pressure on him. I think it's

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Speaker 3: an adequate amount, you know, given it's the most important

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Speaker 3: position in all of professional sports. I think Anthony is

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Speaker 3: uniquely equipped to handle that pressure, and I think to

540
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Speaker 3: some degree welcomes it and uses it as fuel and

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Speaker 3: as motivation. But I just think that there has to

542
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Speaker 3: be to some degree a bit of grace given to

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Speaker 3: many of these young quarterbacks. So many people want quarterbacks

544
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Speaker 3: to step in and be a franchise savior right away,

545
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Speaker 3: and this is not a game that is played, you know,

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Speaker 3: within a vacuum. It's not one guy. There are eleven

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Speaker 3: on the field at all. So I just think that

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Speaker 3: you want to in turn of watching his progress over

549
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Speaker 3: the next few months, Yes, be excited, have high hopes,

550
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Speaker 3: have high expectations of what this team can achieve. But

551
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Speaker 3: then also you know Taylor that with a bit of hey,

552
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Speaker 3: he's still growing, he's still developing. We're in this for

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Speaker 3: the long haul. He doesn't have to win over the

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Speaker 3: fan base in twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 2: This is a long term commitment to his growth as

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Speaker 2: a quarterback, and you want to see him playing the

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Speaker 2: next ten years at a consistent land on.

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Speaker 5: A marathon, not a sprint. And that's probably fitting when

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Speaker 5: it comes to Anthony Richardson. So a lot more happening,

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Speaker 5: and if you guys are checking social media like we are,

561
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Speaker 5: obviously all signs are good. There saw him slinging the

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Speaker 5: football down in Florida recently, so the arm is coming

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Speaker 5: around and hopefully, as Anthony says, knock on plastic, that

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Speaker 5: you know he's rated roll when when obviously this training

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Speaker 5: camp starts. So let's keep moving on. We've got readers always, right,

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Speaker 5: and we just talked about Anthony Richardson and the pressure.

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Speaker 5: Let's go to Jason Sanders at HTx Hoosier with the

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Speaker 5: new emergency quarterback rule, and JJ helped me out on

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Speaker 5: this one because we've already cant That's what I wanted

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Speaker 5: to question. With the new emergency quarterback rule, do you

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Speaker 5: see the Colts going with only two quarterbacks on the

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Speaker 5: active roster. I don't know how this makes sense, and

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Speaker 5: so I'm not bagging you. I'm just saying, if there's

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Speaker 5: an emergency quarterback that doesn't count against the active roster,

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Speaker 5: they'll always be an emergency quarterback.

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Speaker 1: So the previous emergency quarterback rule that was in place

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Speaker 1: last year was that your third quarterback, your emergency quarterback

578
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Speaker 1: had to be on the fifty three. So that was

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Speaker 1: always sam Ellnger until well it was until Anthony got hurt.

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Speaker 1: Then he was he was the number two, and the

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Speaker 1: Colts didn't have an emergency quarterback this year. If things

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Speaker 1: do shake out the way that the cults are expecting

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Speaker 1: with Anthony Richardson and Joe Flacco. Yeah, that probably could

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Speaker 1: lead to maybe sam Ellnger is on the practice squad

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Speaker 1: as an emergency third quarterback. But like, I'm not doubting

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Speaker 1: whatever sam Ellnger can do in his career. Like this

587
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Speaker 1: guy is. He's so smart. He knows exactly what to

588
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Speaker 1: do with the football on every play, and he's worked

589
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Speaker 1: really diligently to increase his arm strength to you know,

590
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Speaker 1: I had a really interesting conversation with him about neuropathways

591
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Speaker 1: and all the work that he's doing. It's really intricated.

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Speaker 1: It's really you know, intense work that he's putting in.

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Speaker 1: So whether he's a practice squad guy for the Colts

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Speaker 1: or maybe he winds up a backup for the Colts

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Speaker 1: if something were to happen, or he goes somewhere else,

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Speaker 1: whatever it is, Like, whatever his career is, it's going

597
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Speaker 1: to be good. I just know that. But with this

598
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Speaker 1: rule now that you can be on the practice squad

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Speaker 1: and be the emergency third quarterback, that probably does leave

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Speaker 1: more teams to say we're only going to carry two

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Speaker 1: quarterbacks on our fifty three man roster.

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Speaker 3: It's also dangerous though, because then that person on a

603
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Speaker 3: practice squad can be plucked for another team.

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Speaker 1: Right, So it's a little percari which is why I

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Speaker 1: was kind of like it could be that he winds

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Speaker 1: up a backup somewhere else. If some team says, we

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Speaker 1: want that guy here, we'll sign you to our active roster.

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Speaker 1: That is something that you do a risk when you

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Speaker 1: put a guy into practice. Yes or no to both

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Speaker 1: of you.

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Speaker 5: There is competition for Sam Ellinger this year as the

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Speaker 5: third string slash emergency quarterback going in the camp.

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Speaker 1: What do you think.

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Speaker 2: Possible but not likely?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's probably fair. You know, the Colts signed Joe

616
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Speaker 1: Flacco to be their backup quarterback, That's what they did,

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Speaker 1: and Anthony Richardson's here to be the starter. So yeah, okay,

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Speaker 1: fair enough.

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Speaker 5: Let's move on. Unstable Blues on Twitter x Unstable Blues. Hello,

620
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Speaker 5: let's start with you. More likely for the Colts to

621
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Speaker 5: trade up or trade down in this upcoming NFL draft?

622
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Speaker 5: Great question?

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Speaker 3: What do we know about Chris Ballard? I like them picks, Yeah,

624
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Speaker 3: we know that for sure. I think that they will

625
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Speaker 3: entertain options to do both things over these next few

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Speaker 3: weeks leading into the draft. I think all options are

627
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Speaker 3: on the table at this point as we sit here

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Speaker 3: on April ninth, I would say my concern with moving

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Speaker 3: up is what do you have to get? What do

630
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Speaker 3: you have to give up to move like, of what

631
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Speaker 3: you have internally, what you have at your disposal, the

632
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Speaker 3: assets that you have, what would it cost? And that's

633
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Speaker 3: my biggest concern in terms of moving up. That is

634
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Speaker 3: why I tend to think that it would be more

635
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Speaker 3: likely to move back and maybe accrue some more assets.

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Speaker 3: And the Colts have been so successful in doing that

637
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Speaker 3: in the past. Why would you not at least way

638
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Speaker 3: heavily in considering that.

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Speaker 1: This is where I think a lot of folks lose

640
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Speaker 1: sight of what a good draft strategy is. Yeah, like

641
00:29:32,280 --> 00:29:35,880
Speaker 1: it is if you are so convinced that the guy

642
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Speaker 1: you're trading up for is going to be a superstar,

643
00:29:40,240 --> 00:29:44,640
Speaker 1: that's great, But like, what's the fail rate of draft picks?

644
00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:48,080
Speaker 1: You could be totally convinced and then the guy could

645
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Speaker 1: bust for a million different reasons. Right, So, what the

646
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Speaker 1: Colts have traditionally done is they've traded back and they've

647
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Speaker 1: accrued a bunch of picks, and then when they've done that.

648
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Speaker 1: All of a sudden, you wind up with you know,

649
00:30:01,920 --> 00:30:05,040
Speaker 1: Shaq Leonard and Braden Smith back to back in a draft.

650
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Speaker 1: You wind up with Michael Pittman Junior in a draft

651
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Speaker 1: where you traded back what the year before out of

652
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Speaker 1: the first round and got that pick that you used

653
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Speaker 1: on Pittman. If you give yourselves more spins of the wheel,

654
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Speaker 1: the chances are you're going to hit more of those. Sure,

655
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Speaker 1: and again you're you can be so, your evaluations can

656
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Speaker 1: be so on pointing. You can believe in every evaluation

657
00:30:26,840 --> 00:30:30,280
Speaker 1: you have. But for whatever reason, the guy doesn't work out.

658
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Speaker 1: And if you just get more of those, more of

659
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Speaker 1: those spins at the wheel, the chances are you're going

660
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Speaker 1: to be right more times. Stay there.

661
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Speaker 5: This once to you, JJ, Stay there, we're on the

662
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Speaker 5: same path here. It's just from our friend Ralphie Cassal

663
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Speaker 5: on YouTube. He says, do you think the Colts should

664
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Speaker 5: draft brock Bowers the tight end out of Georgia, even

665
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Speaker 5: if they have to trade up and give up a

666
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Speaker 5: second round pick. JJ. I want to stay with you

667
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Speaker 5: on that, and Nello, we're going to go for that

668
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Speaker 5: because I know you love brock Bowers. But I'm going

669
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Speaker 5: to say this, Ralphie. I'm going to say this, Ralphie.

670
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Speaker 5: I love what you're thinking, but you got to come

671
00:31:01,240 --> 00:31:03,000
Speaker 5: to the table with a little more juice. I don't

672
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Speaker 5: think this is going to be a flop of the

673
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Speaker 5: number ones and throw in a second and you can

674
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Speaker 5: move up and grab a guy.

675
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Speaker 1: Well, it depends on where you're going to Are you

676
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Speaker 1: doing it at nine, are you doing it at nine

677
00:31:12,640 --> 00:31:13,080
Speaker 1: or well?

678
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Speaker 5: Third?

679
00:31:13,560 --> 00:31:13,720
Speaker 2: Right.

680
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Speaker 1: Here's the thing though, and this is kind of why

681
00:31:17,720 --> 00:31:20,120
Speaker 1: I wanted to pair these questions together in the rundown.

682
00:31:20,520 --> 00:31:25,920
Speaker 1: It's like, boy, if you if you are convinced that Brock, Brock, Bauers, whoever,

683
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Speaker 1: roma Duneesa, whoever it might be, that man like this

684
00:31:29,840 --> 00:31:31,800
Speaker 1: guy is going to be a superstar in this offense,

685
00:31:32,080 --> 00:31:35,080
Speaker 1: and I guarantee it, and I'm going to burn the

686
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Speaker 1: forty sixth overall pick to go do that? You better

687
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Speaker 1: be right?

688
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Speaker 5: But is that enough JJ the forty six and a

689
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Speaker 5: flop of ones to go up that hide and get it?

690
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Speaker 1: I mean again, it depends on where you're going, where

691
00:31:45,840 --> 00:31:49,800
Speaker 1: you're looking, right, So it was more a like this

692
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Speaker 1: is the philosophy of this of like boy and Brock

693
00:31:52,920 --> 00:31:55,520
Speaker 1: Bauers is a guy too where uh, you know, we

694
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Speaker 1: talked about this Daniel Jeremiah at the combine where you

695
00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:01,200
Speaker 1: have to have a plan for You can't just be like, yes,

696
00:32:01,280 --> 00:32:03,000
Speaker 1: he's a good player, he can come in and do whatever.

697
00:32:03,080 --> 00:32:04,920
Speaker 1: It's like you gotta have a targeted plan for this guy.

698
00:32:04,960 --> 00:32:07,200
Speaker 1: Which if the Colts were to, you know, do something

699
00:32:07,200 --> 00:32:08,800
Speaker 1: like this, they're going to have a targeted plan. But

700
00:32:08,880 --> 00:32:12,120
Speaker 1: like at this point in the calendar right now, what's today,

701
00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:17,560
Speaker 1: April ninth, Like there's no there is no telling what

702
00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:20,200
Speaker 1: the Colts might do. There are no indications of what

703
00:32:20,240 --> 00:32:22,960
Speaker 1: the Colts might do in the NFL draft, like the

704
00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:24,760
Speaker 1: thought that the Colts could trade a second round pick

705
00:32:24,760 --> 00:32:27,959
Speaker 1: for Brock Powers. Sure, maybe maybe not, but we have

706
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Speaker 1: no idea. They don't have any idea right now because

707
00:32:31,520 --> 00:32:35,000
Speaker 1: they're just starting the evaluation, like the the heavy you know,

708
00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:38,080
Speaker 1: figuring out what the draft board is. And there's like

709
00:32:38,440 --> 00:32:41,200
Speaker 1: I can I can almost guarantee. It's like there hasn't

710
00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:43,280
Speaker 1: been a conversation of like, hey, Chris, we should really

711
00:32:43,280 --> 00:32:46,120
Speaker 1: trade a second round park Like that's not happening right now,

712
00:32:46,320 --> 00:32:48,880
Speaker 1: that that is something that will happen closer to the draft.

713
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Speaker 1: If that is a conversation that were to happen just

714
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Speaker 1: over two weeks away.

715
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Speaker 5: Hello, what do you think brock Powers is there? They

716
00:32:55,040 --> 00:32:56,720
Speaker 5: have a chance to go up. What's it gonna take.

717
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Speaker 2: I think if he's if he's there at fifteen, I'm enticed.

718
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Speaker 3: Oh god, yeah that I'm a little wary of jumping

719
00:33:04,560 --> 00:33:06,920
Speaker 3: up too much and giving up too much because I

720
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Speaker 3: also have other areas where we'd like the Colts to

721
00:33:10,080 --> 00:33:13,320
Speaker 3: use some draft capital, and you could potentially because of

722
00:33:13,360 --> 00:33:18,000
Speaker 3: how stocked this or stacked rather this wide receiver class is.

723
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Speaker 2: I think you can still get really good receivers in

724
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Speaker 2: the second round kind of.

725
00:33:21,320 --> 00:33:22,960
Speaker 3: I mean, look at what the Colts did with Michael

726
00:33:22,960 --> 00:33:26,640
Speaker 3: Pittman junior, right and where they were able to acquire.

727
00:33:26,280 --> 00:33:28,160
Speaker 2: Him, where they were able to select him.

728
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Speaker 3: I also think about think about the equity from the

729
00:33:33,440 --> 00:33:37,440
Speaker 3: draft that's already invested in the tight end room. Kylon Granson,

730
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Speaker 3: you have Drew Ogletree, Jilannie Woods, you know.

731
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Speaker 2: All of these.

732
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Speaker 3: Will Mallory another draft pick Mo not, but you know

733
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Speaker 3: the longest tendreed guy of that room. So you already

734
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Speaker 3: have a pretty stacked room.

735
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Speaker 1: Now.

736
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Speaker 3: Brock Bauers is a different entity among that position already.

737
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Speaker 3: But when you're just kind of looking at where the

738
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Speaker 3: Colts have maybe already invested some in previous draft classes,

739
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Speaker 3: is this likely the way that they will choose to

740
00:34:03,760 --> 00:34:04,600
Speaker 3: expend those resources?

741
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Speaker 5: This tim it to be fun. Hey, a little over

742
00:34:06,280 --> 00:34:09,120
Speaker 5: two weeks away. Last question, it's from our friend Nick

743
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Speaker 5: Revel Nick Revel maybe three one seven on Twitter, and

744
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Speaker 5: I think I'm going to veer this towards lera Olverton JJ.

745
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Speaker 1: And why because I have I have a Wikipedia page

746
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Speaker 1: and away from you, away from you, l O, what

747
00:34:21,719 --> 00:34:26,240
Speaker 1: are the most efficient vehicles currently in the Austrian military.

748
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Speaker 3: That's great, Okay, So for those of you who are

749
00:34:28,880 --> 00:34:30,920
Speaker 3: not on the podcast last week we talked about that.

750
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Speaker 2: My husband purchased what.

751
00:34:34,600 --> 00:34:41,239
Speaker 1: Has and V something like that tins Paraguay.

752
00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:42,920
Speaker 2: So it's a classic car.

753
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Speaker 3: It's a it was built in the nineteen seventies. Now

754
00:34:46,280 --> 00:34:47,960
Speaker 3: it is built. What I have to say this is

755
00:34:47,960 --> 00:34:51,640
Speaker 3: the caveat to it. It was built by the Austrian military.

756
00:34:51,680 --> 00:34:54,719
Speaker 3: It was built in Austria, but it was used by

757
00:34:54,760 --> 00:34:58,200
Speaker 3: like the Swiss military. So actually I think it was

758
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Speaker 3: heavier utilized by the Swiss military.

759
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Speaker 2: And I don't necessarily know that.

760
00:35:03,160 --> 00:35:07,040
Speaker 3: It's like the efficiency, it's the reliability of it that

761
00:35:07,200 --> 00:35:08,360
Speaker 3: makes it such.

762
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Speaker 1: A all help. The gallon is that thing? Yeah, oh,

763
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Speaker 1: I'm sure you're a point five.

764
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Speaker 2: I'm sure not great armageddon.

765
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Speaker 5: Armageddon happens the end of the world. You're safe in

766
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Speaker 5: that Austrian mill of tur I had.

767
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Speaker 3: Hope, but it would be really it's just it's more

768
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Speaker 3: so just kind of a fun thing.

769
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Speaker 2: But yeah, I I don't know.

770
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Speaker 3: The thing is when they are military vehicles, they are

771
00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:30,799
Speaker 3: they have all their maintenance and all the upkeep is done,

772
00:35:30,840 --> 00:35:33,600
Speaker 3: and obviously there's a high priority on that. So when

773
00:35:33,680 --> 00:35:37,480
Speaker 3: you have these, they're very well kept by the military

774
00:35:37,560 --> 00:35:39,840
Speaker 3: in that time. So I know that the Swiss military

775
00:35:40,320 --> 00:35:43,600
Speaker 3: used them. I don't maybe Austrian military as well. Where

776
00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:45,080
Speaker 3: are the von Trapps when we need.

777
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Speaker 1: Oh great call call?

778
00:35:47,239 --> 00:35:48,800
Speaker 2: So yeah, I should be more educated.

779
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Speaker 5: I apologize, we're gonna have a picture coming, but.

780
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Speaker 3: I do very much appreciate the question, and my husband

781
00:35:54,120 --> 00:35:56,400
Speaker 3: was very entertained by the fact that the Pinscouer has

782
00:35:56,400 --> 00:35:57,040
Speaker 3: made an appearance.

783
00:35:57,040 --> 00:35:58,799
Speaker 5: Now I'd like to put that on social media so

784
00:35:58,840 --> 00:36:01,640
Speaker 5: we can get the people in a and find out

785
00:36:01,640 --> 00:36:03,640
Speaker 5: what exactly it is that is, so let's slow that

786
00:36:03,719 --> 00:36:04,480
Speaker 5: up sometime soon.

787
00:36:04,480 --> 00:36:05,000
Speaker 1: What do you say?

788
00:36:05,080 --> 00:36:07,439
Speaker 5: Yeah, all right, guys, give me this before we wrap

789
00:36:07,560 --> 00:36:09,879
Speaker 5: up and wrap out. There are football players in this

790
00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:13,480
Speaker 5: building this week, meaning what JJ start us off with?

791
00:36:13,520 --> 00:36:16,240
Speaker 5: What the off season schedule is as far as these players,

792
00:36:16,280 --> 00:36:18,439
Speaker 5: and obviously we're going to be able to sit down

793
00:36:18,440 --> 00:36:19,719
Speaker 5: with a lot of them and talk to them about

794
00:36:19,719 --> 00:36:22,040
Speaker 5: their off off season, how it's going, and what to

795
00:36:22,080 --> 00:36:23,280
Speaker 5: expect in twenty four.

796
00:36:23,160 --> 00:36:27,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, OTA, well not OTA's The off season program begins

797
00:36:27,080 --> 00:36:29,920
Speaker 1: on Monday, April fifteenth. That is when players can be

798
00:36:29,960 --> 00:36:32,439
Speaker 1: back in the building an official capacity for the first time.

799
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Speaker 2: And that's all voluntary.

800
00:36:33,920 --> 00:36:38,120
Speaker 1: It's all voluntary, and it's it starts with conditioning and

801
00:36:38,280 --> 00:36:43,799
Speaker 1: classroom work. Then it progresses to some other on field work,

802
00:36:44,160 --> 00:36:46,880
Speaker 1: some more positional, yeah, positional type stuff, and then you

803
00:36:46,960 --> 00:36:51,680
Speaker 1: get to your actual OTAs and mini camp and that

804
00:36:51,760 --> 00:36:55,360
Speaker 1: will run from about mid May through June sixth, and

805
00:36:55,400 --> 00:36:57,160
Speaker 1: then the Colts break for the summer and then come

806
00:36:57,200 --> 00:37:00,040
Speaker 1: back for training camp and in the season.

807
00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:02,480
Speaker 5: Rookie Minicamp that's coming up not too long after the draft.

808
00:37:02,480 --> 00:37:03,959
Speaker 1: Back rooky Minicamp will be there.

809
00:37:03,880 --> 00:37:06,759
Speaker 5: A veteran minicamp coming up, What are you looking forward to?

810
00:37:06,760 --> 00:37:09,320
Speaker 5: A lo Obviously kick off to start this season is great,

811
00:37:09,520 --> 00:37:12,120
Speaker 5: last preseason game in Cincinnati, that's great something to look

812
00:37:12,160 --> 00:37:14,440
Speaker 5: forward to, obviously that, but just this time of year,

813
00:37:14,480 --> 00:37:15,279
Speaker 5: what are you looking forward to?

814
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Speaker 3: Well, what I'm looking forward to is the fact that

815
00:37:19,080 --> 00:37:20,799
Speaker 3: so much of this team can come back in and

816
00:37:20,840 --> 00:37:23,799
Speaker 3: know exactly the expectation under shaneesteike In because at this

817
00:37:23,960 --> 00:37:27,279
Speaker 3: time one year ago, it was learning Shane learning what

818
00:37:27,320 --> 00:37:28,960
Speaker 3: the expectation, what's the standard?

819
00:37:29,200 --> 00:37:31,160
Speaker 2: You know, how are we operating as a team. All

820
00:37:31,200 --> 00:37:33,760
Speaker 2: of those things, those have all been answered.

821
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Speaker 3: So now every guy that's walking in this time of

822
00:37:36,440 --> 00:37:39,200
Speaker 3: year has no question about, you know, what the operation

823
00:37:39,320 --> 00:37:40,960
Speaker 3: is going to be, what this next program is going

824
00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:44,839
Speaker 3: to look like, all of those things that we really

825
00:37:44,840 --> 00:37:47,600
Speaker 3: didn't know a year ago. Right he was Shane was

826
00:37:47,640 --> 00:37:49,640
Speaker 3: still learning the roster and learning the guys at this

827
00:37:49,680 --> 00:37:51,400
Speaker 3: point in time. So that's to me one of the

828
00:37:51,400 --> 00:37:54,480
Speaker 3: most exciting aspects of this time of year is just

829
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Speaker 3: the you know, complete absence of any sort of uh,

830
00:37:58,680 --> 00:38:01,920
Speaker 3: you know, ignorance on you know, what this team is

831
00:38:01,960 --> 00:38:04,319
Speaker 3: going to look like and what they are expected to

832
00:38:04,600 --> 00:38:06,680
Speaker 3: be under the direction of Shane.

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Speaker 5: Steike absolutely, well, a lot more coming up. I want

834
00:38:08,760 --> 00:38:11,680
Speaker 5: to thank everybody that wrote in today. Obviously, if you

835
00:38:11,719 --> 00:38:14,319
Speaker 5: have questions, keep them coming, doesn't matter what episode this one.

836
00:38:14,360 --> 00:38:16,160
Speaker 5: We devoted a lot to them, but we'll get to

837
00:38:16,200 --> 00:38:18,399
Speaker 5: them every episode if you guys want to leading up

838
00:38:18,560 --> 00:38:21,000
Speaker 5: to the preseason and through the through the regular season

839
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Speaker 5: as well. Guys, I wanted to talk about cicadas, cicadas, cicadas.

840
00:38:25,600 --> 00:38:28,600
Speaker 2: We don't have time, but John Sicata.

841
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Speaker 5: John Sicata, I want to talk about his solo career,

842
00:38:30,680 --> 00:38:32,600
Speaker 5: and then I want to talk about those cicadas that

843
00:38:32,640 --> 00:38:35,120
Speaker 5: are happening in like northern Indiana and oh, I didn't

844
00:38:35,160 --> 00:38:36,279
Speaker 5: know Illinoy and stuff.

845
00:38:36,280 --> 00:38:38,160
Speaker 1: I feel like there are eighteen years cicadas every year

846
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Speaker 1: whatever it's bad. It's like like Larra's attitude toward the

847
00:38:41,440 --> 00:38:43,560
Speaker 1: eclipse at first, like yeah, whatever, I feel like there's

848
00:38:43,560 --> 00:38:44,920
Speaker 1: cicada's every year, until.

849
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Speaker 2: It really was.

850
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Speaker 5: I was.

851
00:38:46,080 --> 00:38:47,000
Speaker 2: I was cynical about it.

852
00:38:47,040 --> 00:38:50,560
Speaker 3: I was like whatever, you know, Like where's Niel grass

853
00:38:50,600 --> 00:38:52,359
Speaker 3: Ice And I don't know, somebody tell me why?

854
00:38:52,520 --> 00:38:55,000
Speaker 5: All right, a lot of eclipse talk today. Maybe maybe

855
00:38:55,040 --> 00:38:56,879
Speaker 5: down the road we'll talk about the cicadas and what's

856
00:38:56,920 --> 00:38:59,239
Speaker 5: happening there. But any information you want to find is

857
00:38:59,239 --> 00:39:02,360
Speaker 5: available at Coach and of course the Colts Audio Network.

858
00:39:02,360 --> 00:39:04,360
Speaker 5: Getting you ready for this draft that's coming up a

859
00:39:04,360 --> 00:39:06,120
Speaker 5: little over two weeks from now. It's gonna be a

860
00:39:06,120 --> 00:39:09,160
Speaker 5: big one for Lera Overton, JJ Stankowitz. Guys, I'm saying

861
00:39:09,200 --> 00:39:11,040
Speaker 5: goodbye on your behalfs We're out of here. Sound good,

862
00:39:11,200 --> 00:39:16,840
Speaker 5: sounds great. To talk to you next week.