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Speaker 3: Michael Pitmitt Junior takes it seventy five yards.

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Speaker 1: We're talking Colts and recapping the action.

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Speaker 4: Good course, fucker picks up a live football and races

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Speaker 4: the other way for.

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Speaker 2: A score picked off by the coltsman your sideline, Kenny

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Speaker 5: inZone ten five touchdown.

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Speaker 1: Indeed, why now? Here's the voice of the Colts Matt

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Speaker 1: Taylor from the Indiana Union Construction Industry Radio Studio.

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Speaker 2: Welcome everybody to Colts Roundtable Live, presented tonight by Citizens

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Speaker 2: winning conservation tips at Citizens Energygroup dot com. I'm Matt Taylor.

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Speaker 2: Welcome inside the Indiana Union Construction Industry Radio Studio and

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Speaker 2: tonight we're talking all things Colts football until seven o'clock,

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Speaker 2: a loaded hour coming up. Last night, the Colts fell

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Speaker 2: to the Vikings twenty one to thirteen on Sunday Night Football,

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Speaker 2: A jam pack show per usual. Tonight starting with the

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Speaker 2: chat with Colts head coach Shane steik In coming up

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Speaker 2: in studio in just a moment, he's gonna recap Sunday

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Speaker 2: Night football in full detail. And then starting on segment two,

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Speaker 2: analyst Rick Venturion Joe Writs will join the program to

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Speaker 2: break down the game film and discuss some of the

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Speaker 2: details as to why the Colts fell short in primetime.

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Speaker 2: But we always lead off the show with a full

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Speaker 2: rewind of what happened in Week nine. In the first half,

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Speaker 2: not a single offensive point was scored by either the

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Speaker 2: came on a Grover Stewart stripsack of Vikings quarterback Sam Darnold.

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Speaker 2: The ball came out, hit the turf and Kenny Moore,

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Speaker 2: the second picked it up and race thirty eight yards

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Speaker 2: the other way for the Colts first defensive touchdown of

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Speaker 2: the season. They led seven to nothing and a halftime

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Speaker 2: thanks to a Viking red zone turnover and interception by

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Speaker 2: Zaire Franklin and two miss Minnesota field goals. On the

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Speaker 2: first possession of the second half, Minnesota march down the

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Speaker 2: field and Sam Darnold threw his first of three second

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Speaker 2: half touchdowns to tie the game. The second half is

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Speaker 2: when things on offense for the Colts began to unravel.

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Speaker 2: Indianapolis scored just six points past halftime on two met

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Speaker 2: gay field goals, and for the game, the Colts put

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Speaker 2: and didn't run a single play inside the red zone.

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Speaker 2: Joe Flacco got the start, but he completed sixteen of

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Speaker 2: and through a key interception. Of the second half when

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Speaker 2: the Colts were driving in Viking's territory, the Colts couldn't

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Speaker 2: the time of possession battle by almost thirteen minutes. The

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Speaker 2: Colts defense wrecked up four sacks, including a career high

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Speaker 2: two from Grover Stewart, but they couldn't slow Sam Darnold

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Speaker 2: down from posting a career high eighty two percent completion percentage.

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Speaker 2: He was able to gouge the Colts secondary with big completions,

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Speaker 2: Indianapolis falls to four and five on the season. They've

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Speaker 2: and with the loss, the Colts still remained a half

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Speaker 2: the AFC. All right again, a reminder coming up segment two.

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Speaker 2: I'll be joined by analyst Rick Venturi and Joe Wrights,

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Speaker 2: coach Shane Steichen, who joins us here on this first

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Speaker 2: segment tonight in studio. This conversation is brought to you

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Speaker 2: by Citizens Energy Group. Coach, appreciate the time frustrating game.

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Speaker 2: I know last night in Minnesota. What did the game

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Speaker 2: a day later, I.

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Speaker 6: Thought, our defense, you know, did a hell of a

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Speaker 6: And I think it boils down to that, and we

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Speaker 2: So yeah, no doubt. And you're sticking with Joe Flacco

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Speaker 6: and so obviously to get to see get a guy

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Speaker 6: I thought our defense did a hell of a job,

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Speaker 5: Very tough.

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Speaker 6: to turn it to Grove in a four down rush. Right,

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Speaker 2: All Right, that's head coach Shane Steichen Tonight, this is

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Speaker 2: Colts Roundtable live here on the fan. I'm Att Taylor.

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Speaker 2: Let's take a few questions from fans to close out here.

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Speaker 2: the show with the hashtag Colts round Table. Randy is

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Speaker 2: up first, coach, What do we have to do to

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Speaker 2: get overall consistency on offense? What can we lean on

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Speaker 6: I think just being efficient in the run game, I start.

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Speaker 5: Just being efficient in both those phases.

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Speaker 2: All right, Kyle's up next. How did Matt Gonzalvez grade

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Speaker 6: You know what I thought, Matty G did a hell

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I think our offensive line is going to be great.

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Speaker 6: Our guys have been doing a hell of a job

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Speaker 6: mean that, you know, multiple looks defenses will give us,

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Speaker 6: I think that the biggest thing is the communication up front,

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Speaker 6: and those guys communicate like crazy.

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Speaker 2: That's Shane sticking with us. Colts Roundtable Live. A few

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Speaker 2: more here from the fans. This is coming from Mark,

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Speaker 2: He says, coach, why do we not run the ball

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Speaker 2: on third and two and fourth and two late in

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I wanted to be aggressive.

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Speaker 6: fourth and two. You know, felt good about the pass,

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Speaker 2: Did you know going into that sequence you were in

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Speaker 5: Absolutely, No, we're in four down mode.

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Speaker 2: do we put it together now against one of the

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I think it comes down to the work. We

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Speaker 3: Huh yeah, well thanks Matt. At the home of Matt Taylor,

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Speaker 3: the game, we only had twenty five offensive snaps, never

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Speaker 3: really gotten a flow offensively, and then that continued on

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Speaker 3: in the fourth quarter, you know, when the game was

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Speaker 3: on the line and you know, going back to defense.

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Speaker 3: You know again when in the fourth quarter when the

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Speaker 3: game was on the line, you know, still we had

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Speaker 3: that inability to stop the run when we knew it

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Speaker 3: was coming.

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Speaker 2: That's Joe Wrights and that's his tale of the tape.

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Speaker 2: Reflection of last night's loss on Sunday Night Football to

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Speaker 2: the Minnesota Vikings, Rick Ventury, what's your tail the tape?

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Speaker 4: Say, well, you know, obviously a lot of the things

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Speaker 4: are similar, and the numbers that you point out are

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Speaker 4: you know, particularly offensively, are futrid, but they're they're really

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Speaker 4: futured on defense as well. You know, after really an

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Speaker 4: encouraging first half, at least on defense, it was a

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Speaker 4: very encouraging first half. The second half, the Vikings coaching

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Speaker 4: staff adjusted, did a terrific job, and the second half

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Speaker 4: was really a dumpster fire. And you know, it's just

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Speaker 4: another week that we will play close games. But you know,

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Speaker 4: as some reason or another, we can't play sixty minutes,

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Speaker 4: and you know, we end up losing the ballgame. You know,

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Speaker 4: the offense was really nonexistent. The quarterback change had no

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Speaker 4: effect whatsoever. You know, you guys talked about it, but

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Speaker 4: at the end of the day, two field goals, only

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Speaker 4: six points three for eleven on third down, and you know,

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Speaker 4: twenty three minutes twenty three oh six time of possession,

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Speaker 4: which tells you, and this is nine weeks now, we're

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Speaker 4: ten minutes deficient in time of possession, which tells you.

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Speaker 4: You know, we can't stay on the field and we

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Speaker 4: can't get off the field. So I mean, that's the

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Speaker 4: kill shot. And you know, just so you know, in

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Speaker 4: three games, in the last three games with two quarterbacks,

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Speaker 4: we are nine of forty seven on third down. That's

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Speaker 4: less than twenty percent. That's nineteen percent. You know the

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Speaker 4: things that to me, I thought, really we came apart.

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Speaker 4: I thought we had a chance, definitely a chance to

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Speaker 4: win it in the fourth quarter. And I thought there

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Speaker 4: were two really bad sequences by Flacco. The inner exception

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Speaker 4: with the drive which started on the thirty five. You

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Speaker 4: know we're in their deep territory. It was just a

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Speaker 4: terrible throw It was covered, the guy was Murphy was

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Speaker 4: underneath downs, there was not he wasn't trailing him. It

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Speaker 4: just was a throwaway. And then on the next sequence

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Speaker 4: after the cross turnover, where we're in the at the

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Speaker 4: twenty five first down, and there you know on the

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Speaker 4: really the Orange twenty five is, you know, we run it,

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Speaker 4: we don't make it. We get the third down and

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Speaker 4: he makes another terrible throw to Pittman coming across. So

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Speaker 4: two situations that we are down in there in their

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Speaker 4: zone in the fourth quarter and we come out with

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Speaker 4: three points. And then I've got to ask, what were

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Speaker 4: we thinking on the fourth quarter on the third and

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Speaker 4: two and fourth and two? What were we thinking, you know,

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Speaker 4: trying to throw the ball to Pittman downfield one on

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Speaker 4: one when he can't separate on the outside and you

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Speaker 4: know that, And I mean you could you know? And

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Speaker 4: I maybe JT was banged up. I guess he had

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Speaker 4: to leave at that point. But I mean, if you

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Speaker 4: got any confidence in your running backs, you got two

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Speaker 4: downs to pound it in there. So that's the second

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Speaker 4: week in a row that we've had some real play

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Speaker 4: calling issues, and I think you got to take the

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Speaker 4: gloves off on that stuff. And so after the quarterback situation, yeah,

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Speaker 4: I guess the question is now what defensively? We played

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Speaker 4: well early? But when we play well, and I think

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Speaker 4: you got to keep this in mind, we played well

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Speaker 4: because certain individuals played great. I thought Buckner and Grover.

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Speaker 4: It's the best I think, single day those two guys

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Speaker 4: have ever had. They dominated the front, they came after it.

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Speaker 4: You know, we had the strip six by Grover, just

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Speaker 4: a tremendous play where he just and I know you

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Speaker 4: can Bowlo Brad Burry every down. They were taking turns

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Speaker 4: on that at center. But that's a great play, as

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Speaker 4: Joe mentioned. And you know, we had the two red

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Speaker 4: zone stops, you know we had to pick I mean,

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Speaker 4: you know, things were really going our way defensively, but

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Speaker 4: at the end of the day, we were giving up

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Speaker 4: volumes of yards. And that's what's catching up with us.

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Speaker 4: It's catching up with us in terms of winning and losing.

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Speaker 4: It's catching up with us a time of possession. And

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Speaker 4: it's the same thing I watched it for forty four games.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely zero game specific plan for Jefferson. I mean, Darnold

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Speaker 4: goes off at eighty two percent ninety and if not,

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Speaker 4: like it was dink and dunk, it was the eight

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Speaker 4: point five. I mean in Jefferson. You know, Jefferson was

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Speaker 4: nineteen two and we made absolutely no no adjustments. And

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Speaker 4: I give the Vikings coaching staff credit because what O'Connell

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Speaker 4: said was basically at the half, I'm pair, I'm I'm

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Speaker 4: sub you know, I'm making this up, But I know

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Speaker 4: what he was thinking. He was thinking, we can't beat

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Speaker 4: Buckner and Grover inside. We can't, you know, we just

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Speaker 4: can't do it. So let's just throw it all over

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Speaker 4: the yard against their soft zone coverages. And they did,

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Speaker 4: and they ended up scoring twenty one points, you know,

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Speaker 4: totally dominating the second half, you know, without question. And

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Speaker 4: so you know, when you look at that nine for

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Speaker 4: forty seven on offense and then we're twenty fourth in

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Speaker 4: the league on third down on defense, that's what's given

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Speaker 4: you that time of possession which is just killing you.

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Speaker 4: After nine games, basically you are ten minutes in terms

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Speaker 4: of deficiency in time of possessions. And I do I

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Speaker 4: really have to give the Vikings credit. I think they

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Speaker 4: have two great players on offense, and then I think

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Speaker 4: they have a bunch of solid guys the rest of

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Speaker 4: the way. But they are really maxing out their team

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Speaker 4: with aggressive get after you. They create problems on defense.

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Speaker 4: They don't sit there in hope. They create problems. They're

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Speaker 4: going to give up some plays sometimes, but they're gonna

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Speaker 4: do that. And I thought that O'Connell did a great

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Speaker 4: job of adjusting into the second half, and we just

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Speaker 4: kind of sit there and let it happen.

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Speaker 2: All right, Hey, Colts fans, remember the weather authorities are

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Speaker 2: Rick Venturi and Joe Wrights are along. I'm Matt Taylor.

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Speaker 2: This is Colts Roundtable Live. We've got plenty more to

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Speaker 2: get into tonight the rest of the way here with

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Speaker 2: you until seven o'clock tonight. When we come back. We're

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Speaker 2: going to react to the poor execution on both sides

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Speaker 2: of the football yesterday last night on Sunday Night Football.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna react and hand out some extra credit. Which

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Speaker 2: parts of the team need extra work. Just examine everything

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Speaker 2: now that we're past the halfway point of the season.

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Speaker 2: That's coming up next, and we come back here on

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Colts Roundtable Live on ninety three, five

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Speaker 1: of the Colts.

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Speaker 2: of the Indianapolis Colts. Rick Venturi and Joe Wrights are

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Speaker 2: back on Matt Taylor and this segment is all about

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Speaker 2: extra credit. Because the Colts have played nine of seventeen games,

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Speaker 2: so they're past the halfway point of the season. We're

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Speaker 2: going to discuss some areas on the team that need

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Speaker 2: extra work and need extra credit to pull their great

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Speaker 2: up going into the last big stretch of the season. Here,

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Speaker 2: let's talk about just the overall offense because it's been

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Speaker 2: kind of shaky these last couple of games with two

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Speaker 2: different quarterbacks. Last night, as we said, The Colts racked

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Speaker 2: up a season low two to twenty seven, failed to

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Speaker 2: score an offive touchdown, they ran zero snaps inside the

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Speaker 2: red zone, and the Colts have passed for fewer than

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Speaker 2: two hundred net yards in seven of nine games, including

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Speaker 2: four straight. So Joe writes, what extra credit does the

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Speaker 2: overall offensive approach need in order to get a respectable

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Speaker 2: letter grade to the second half of the season, Because

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Speaker 2: last year the Colts made the offense work with multiple quarterbacks.

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Speaker 2: That's not happening right now. So what tweaks and changes

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Speaker 2: can they make and what would you like to see

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Speaker 2: done here going into week ten?

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: I think for me two things extra credit we need

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Speaker 3: on offense. The first is identity. The second is situational

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Speaker 3: football and identity. I know, we just had the quarterback change,

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Speaker 3: and it's different. It's a completely different running game with

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Speaker 3: ar in there versus Flacco. And so when you think

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Speaker 3: about that, what is our identity as an offense? Are

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Speaker 3: we going to be a possession passing game. Are we

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Speaker 3: going to be a dominant running game, or we're gonna

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Speaker 3: be some of both? And I think when Taylor's in

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Speaker 3: there with Flacco and you don't have the threat of ar.

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Speaker 3: It's just a different type of running game, and I

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Speaker 3: felt like everything we did was inside the tackles yesterday.

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Speaker 3: From a running perspective, I know Minnesota throws a lot

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Speaker 3: of different fronts out there. They were mugging linebackers up

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Speaker 3: all game.

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Speaker 5: And bringing them.

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Speaker 3: But I think we got to find a way to

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Speaker 3: get tailor in space more out on the edge, whether

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Speaker 3: it's a quick pitch, a swing pass. I know we

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Speaker 3: try to do some screens, but a quick screen some

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Speaker 3: toss cracks. What that means is when you're motioning guys

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Speaker 3: down or you're cracking blocking down with a tight end

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Speaker 3: or a wide receiver. You're pulling some of those big

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Speaker 3: offensive linemen and getting them in space. But never really

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Speaker 3: felt like after that first drive Taylor got his wheels

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Speaker 3: I think there's opportunities to attack more on the edge

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Speaker 3: in the running game and then situational football. You know,

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Speaker 3: this league, at the end of the day, matt comes

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Speaker 3: down to turnovers, red zone and third down, and we

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Speaker 3: didn't have any red zone snaps, which obviously is not

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Speaker 3: good yesterday. Turnovers, you know we're at thirteen in the year,

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Speaker 3: we got fifteen takeaways, So you know we're doing okay

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Speaker 3: there because our defense is number seven in terms of

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Speaker 3: taking the ball out, but we're twenty two in the

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Speaker 3: league and giving the ball away. We're twenty one now.

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Speaker 3: And third down after coach Mint and especially the atrocious

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Speaker 3: kind of last three weeks, and then red zone first,

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Speaker 3: you got to get there and you got to find

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Speaker 3: a way to score touchdowns in there. So at the

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Speaker 3: midway point the season, right now, that's the extra credit

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Speaker 3: we need off the way to get this thing turned

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Speaker 3: around and moving in the right direction.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. I think number one is you've got to settle

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Speaker 4: on the style you're going to be because you have

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Speaker 4: two quarterbacks who are diametrically opposed, and you know, if

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Speaker 4: if you got Flato, then you have to have a

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Speaker 4: much more diverse running game. You've got to get Taylor going.

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Speaker 4: I said going into the game that you would not

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Speaker 4: and inside because they were going to stack it and

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Speaker 4: blitze it inside. I knew that going in and I

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Speaker 4: was prophetic on that. But if you're with AR five

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Speaker 4: now it's different because you can run basically a one

653
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Speaker 4: back zone offense because he gives you what amounts to

654
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Speaker 4: the twelfth man on the edge. So if you're going

655
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Speaker 4: to run the ball and you want to run it effectively,

656
00:30:07,160 --> 00:30:09,080
Speaker 4: you're going to have to go back to AR five.

657
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Speaker 4: I do think that you certainly need that variation. Like

658
00:30:13,920 --> 00:30:16,880
Speaker 4: I talked about, I would have two guys in the

659
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Speaker 4: backfield if it's grantson whoever, if we won't do a fullback,

660
00:30:21,440 --> 00:30:24,080
Speaker 4: and that hurts us because we have no lead offense

661
00:30:24,560 --> 00:30:28,240
Speaker 4: against certain fronts. You know, I think that the critical

662
00:30:28,320 --> 00:30:32,520
Speaker 4: situation obviously, third down is awful right now. And you

663
00:30:32,520 --> 00:30:36,120
Speaker 4: know twenty first is really not telling you what you've

664
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Speaker 4: really been. I said it before, nine for forty seven,

665
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Speaker 4: nineteen percent in the last three weeks, and that's with

666
00:30:41,920 --> 00:30:44,880
Speaker 4: two different quarterbacks. So you know you got issues there.

667
00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:50,360
Speaker 4: You got protection issues on the blitz, you've got separation issues,

668
00:30:50,680 --> 00:30:54,360
Speaker 4: and you got inaccuracy at both quarterbacks. I have never

669
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Speaker 4: I got to tell you, I have never seen so

670
00:30:56,400 --> 00:31:00,920
Speaker 4: many poorly thrown balls by quarterbacks in the last three games.

671
00:31:00,960 --> 00:31:02,960
Speaker 4: I just have it. I mean, when I came in

672
00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:06,160
Speaker 4: the league, I was told by an old veteran coordinator

673
00:31:06,480 --> 00:31:08,760
Speaker 4: there are no bad passes in the NFL, there are

674
00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:12,280
Speaker 4: only passes that are affect that are affected and made

675
00:31:12,360 --> 00:31:14,840
Speaker 4: to be bad. Well, we've made just terrible throws for

676
00:31:14,920 --> 00:31:19,560
Speaker 4: three weeks, so the quarterback issue is critical. You know,

677
00:31:19,640 --> 00:31:21,760
Speaker 4: we might have to rethink that. I don't know, maybe

678
00:31:21,800 --> 00:31:24,560
Speaker 4: we have to have one of those player console meetings

679
00:31:24,560 --> 00:31:27,040
Speaker 4: to decide who it's gonna be. I don't know, but

680
00:31:27,440 --> 00:31:29,920
Speaker 4: I think those those are critical. I'm kind of with Joe,

681
00:31:30,360 --> 00:31:33,240
Speaker 4: but it starts with style because we've had some really

682
00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:37,320
Speaker 4: shaky play calling also in the last two weeks. But

683
00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:40,400
Speaker 4: I think that comes with not knowing who you are

684
00:31:40,920 --> 00:31:42,720
Speaker 4: and being different from week to week.

685
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Speaker 2: That's Rick Venturi. Joe writes is here as well. This

686
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Speaker 2: is Colts Round Table Live tonight on ninety three to

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Speaker 2: five and one oh seven five the Fan. I'm Matt Taylor.

688
00:31:50,960 --> 00:31:53,480
Speaker 2: We're talking about extra credit here. Going into the last

689
00:31:53,480 --> 00:31:56,480
Speaker 2: half of the season, let's talk about easy completions. On defense.

690
00:31:56,520 --> 00:31:59,160
Speaker 2: Sam Darnold completed a career high eighty two percent of

691
00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:03,160
Speaker 2: his passes. The Colts allowed seven completions over twenty including

692
00:32:03,240 --> 00:32:07,440
Speaker 2: five to Justin Jefferson. The Vikings had multiple first downs

693
00:32:07,440 --> 00:32:10,320
Speaker 2: on nine of ten drives as Joe said, all of

694
00:32:10,320 --> 00:32:13,920
Speaker 2: those reached the Colts territory five different receivers. Now, Rick

695
00:32:14,040 --> 00:32:17,280
Speaker 2: vctury have gone over one hundred yards against the Colts

696
00:32:17,280 --> 00:32:21,080
Speaker 2: on defense this season. So what does the Colts secondary

697
00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:23,960
Speaker 2: and the overall scheme need extra credit on in order

698
00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:27,240
Speaker 2: to put up a better grade against good defenses? Or

699
00:32:27,240 --> 00:32:29,280
Speaker 2: I should say good offense is coming down the road

700
00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:32,160
Speaker 2: here in the near future. You got Buffalo, the Jets,

701
00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:34,240
Speaker 2: and the Lions here in the month of November.

702
00:32:34,840 --> 00:32:39,520
Speaker 4: Yeah, this defense ranks twenty ninth in its twenty ninth

703
00:32:40,080 --> 00:32:42,600
Speaker 4: and this is where we live. This is twenty ninth

704
00:32:42,680 --> 00:32:47,480
Speaker 4: in percentage of completions against. And that's a formula for disaster.

705
00:32:48,040 --> 00:32:52,520
Speaker 4: I've watched this defense for forty four games. It's both

706
00:32:52,640 --> 00:32:55,960
Speaker 4: vanilla in the front. I talked about that last week.

707
00:32:56,040 --> 00:33:01,400
Speaker 4: It's static, it's a single defense front. But more importantly,

708
00:33:01,440 --> 00:33:06,040
Speaker 4: it is vanilla in the secondary. It's a soft zone concept.

709
00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:10,960
Speaker 4: Whether it's covered three, whether it's cover two, it is

710
00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:14,080
Speaker 4: what I call an area zone. It's a Friday night

711
00:33:14,240 --> 00:33:18,880
Speaker 4: zone defense. When you play zone defense in the NFL,

712
00:33:18,960 --> 00:33:22,800
Speaker 4: if you're gonna shut down people, you have to match patterns.

713
00:33:22,840 --> 00:33:25,840
Speaker 4: You got to get up disrupt receivers, which we do

714
00:33:26,080 --> 00:33:28,840
Speaker 4: none of. And then you have to match patterns. If

715
00:33:28,840 --> 00:33:31,720
Speaker 4: a receiver comes in your area, you got to take

716
00:33:31,800 --> 00:33:35,840
Speaker 4: him on one of the digs to Jefferson. He crosses

717
00:33:35,880 --> 00:33:37,880
Speaker 4: back in there at fifteen yards and he just waves

718
00:33:37,920 --> 00:33:41,040
Speaker 4: at him going by because he's playing a spot He's

719
00:33:41,040 --> 00:33:44,160
Speaker 4: in a spot zone. He's not matching. So if you

720
00:33:44,240 --> 00:33:46,880
Speaker 4: want to choke people off, you have to play at

721
00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:50,040
Speaker 4: much higher percentage of Manda man and you got to

722
00:33:50,080 --> 00:33:51,960
Speaker 4: conceal it. You can't do like we do as soon

723
00:33:51,960 --> 00:33:53,880
Speaker 4: as we get up and press with it and line

724
00:33:53,960 --> 00:33:56,240
Speaker 4: up with a single high They knew that Womack was

725
00:33:56,280 --> 00:33:58,960
Speaker 4: by himself the whole time. They just go with an

726
00:33:58,960 --> 00:34:02,320
Speaker 4: easy fade to Jeffefferson. So you have to mix your

727
00:34:02,360 --> 00:34:05,560
Speaker 4: man demn's with concealment. You have to have much tighter

728
00:34:05,600 --> 00:34:08,560
Speaker 4: man de man coverage. Your zones have to be choke

729
00:34:08,600 --> 00:34:11,799
Speaker 4: off zones. They're not area zones. You know, that's why

730
00:34:11,840 --> 00:34:16,400
Speaker 4: we make kings out of quarterbacks. You know, eighty two percent. Jefferson,

731
00:34:16,760 --> 00:34:19,280
Speaker 4: the best receiver in the league, comes and just runs

732
00:34:19,320 --> 00:34:23,000
Speaker 4: through the area zones. And then I think number three

733
00:34:23,440 --> 00:34:25,799
Speaker 4: and I think this is critical and I've never seen it.

734
00:34:26,239 --> 00:34:30,560
Speaker 4: We have never We never have a specific plan for

735
00:34:30,760 --> 00:34:33,600
Speaker 4: a top receiver. We didn't for Jefferson, and they don't

736
00:34:33,640 --> 00:34:35,840
Speaker 4: get any better than that. And the rest of the

737
00:34:35,880 --> 00:34:39,120
Speaker 4: team is okay. They had decent day yesterday, but you

738
00:34:39,239 --> 00:34:42,840
Speaker 4: take away Jefferson and Jones, you'll win the game in

739
00:34:42,880 --> 00:34:45,640
Speaker 4: the long run. But we never do that. We didn't

740
00:34:45,640 --> 00:34:48,840
Speaker 4: make any adjustment to him whatsoever. And so in the

741
00:34:48,880 --> 00:34:51,560
Speaker 4: second game they just threaded us. So you know, if

742
00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:56,480
Speaker 4: we continue to play this vanilla scheme and it doesn't

743
00:34:56,520 --> 00:34:59,879
Speaker 4: evolve and those three things aren't done, then there's an

744
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:01,879
Speaker 4: he's going to be a ceiling on how good you'll

745
00:35:01,920 --> 00:35:04,759
Speaker 4: ever be, you know, particularly against I mean, you're not

746
00:35:04,840 --> 00:35:07,920
Speaker 4: playing against Tom I saw somebody said, but we stopped

747
00:35:08,160 --> 00:35:11,719
Speaker 4: Terreek Hill. No, Huntley and Boyle stopped trek Hill. We

748
00:35:11,760 --> 00:35:14,719
Speaker 4: didn't stop to rekill. For God's sake, if two was

749
00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:16,719
Speaker 4: in there, that would have been a wholly different game.

750
00:35:16,840 --> 00:35:20,520
Speaker 4: So you know, I'm not I'm taking the gloves off

751
00:35:20,560 --> 00:35:24,080
Speaker 4: on that. Like I said, I've seen forty four, you know,

752
00:35:24,080 --> 00:35:26,239
Speaker 4: and then I look at the other side, and they're

753
00:35:26,280 --> 00:35:30,520
Speaker 4: creating problems and issues every single down, And that's the difference.

754
00:35:30,920 --> 00:35:33,160
Speaker 2: All right, Well, let's go one final one. Let's talk

755
00:35:33,160 --> 00:35:37,799
Speaker 2: about a sixty minute complete game in terms of extra credit. Here,

756
00:35:37,840 --> 00:35:40,040
Speaker 2: the Colts are four and five. All of their games,

757
00:35:40,080 --> 00:35:43,120
Speaker 2: as we know, have been decided by one score. Playing

758
00:35:43,160 --> 00:35:45,760
Speaker 2: a complete game's been tough for this team. At times.

759
00:35:45,880 --> 00:35:49,560
Speaker 2: The Colts offense couldn't sustain the drives. The defense is

760
00:35:49,560 --> 00:35:52,400
Speaker 2: giving up first downs, they're doing that in bunches. The

761
00:35:52,440 --> 00:35:56,080
Speaker 2: Colts lost time in possession last night thirty six twenty

762
00:35:56,120 --> 00:35:58,920
Speaker 2: six to twenty three thirty four. The Colts have had

763
00:35:58,960 --> 00:36:01,680
Speaker 2: the ball more more than thirty minutes in a game

764
00:36:02,200 --> 00:36:05,560
Speaker 2: just one time on the season. Again, just one time.

765
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Speaker 2: Out of nine games, the Colts have had the ball

766
00:36:08,080 --> 00:36:10,200
Speaker 2: for more than thirty minutes a time of possession. And

767
00:36:10,280 --> 00:36:13,959
Speaker 2: Joe on the road, it's it's especially poor the Colts

768
00:36:13,960 --> 00:36:17,040
Speaker 2: on the road, averaging just twenty five minutes and forty

769
00:36:17,040 --> 00:36:20,279
Speaker 2: three seconds of time of possession. That's the worst of

770
00:36:20,320 --> 00:36:23,880
Speaker 2: any team in road games this season. So what extra

771
00:36:23,920 --> 00:36:26,080
Speaker 2: credit do the Colts need to put in when it

772
00:36:26,080 --> 00:36:30,400
Speaker 2: comes to playing a complete game and full sixty minutes

773
00:36:30,400 --> 00:36:30,960
Speaker 2: of football.

774
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Speaker 3: You know, for me, Matt, it's something that we can't

775
00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:36,080
Speaker 3: make mistakes And when you talk about a football game

776
00:36:36,080 --> 00:36:39,480
Speaker 3: and winning a game, there's three parts offense, defense, and specials.

777
00:36:39,480 --> 00:36:42,000
Speaker 3: And I think our special teams has been, you know,

778
00:36:42,480 --> 00:36:44,959
Speaker 3: decent overall. But I think, you know, the kicking game

779
00:36:45,080 --> 00:36:47,520
Speaker 3: and Matt Gay's twelve to twelve under fifty, but he's

780
00:36:47,520 --> 00:36:50,520
Speaker 3: two to five from fifty plus, you know, And and those kicks,

781
00:36:50,520 --> 00:36:52,560
Speaker 3: you know, you miss a fifty two yarder, the other

782
00:36:52,600 --> 00:36:54,680
Speaker 3: team gets the ball in the fifty yard line, you know,

783
00:36:54,719 --> 00:36:57,279
Speaker 3: those are hard to overcome. I thought Rigo, who's been

784
00:36:57,280 --> 00:36:59,600
Speaker 3: phenomenal all year but didn't have his best game. So one,

785
00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:04,160
Speaker 3: we're not good enough offensively right now to overcome you know,

786
00:37:04,239 --> 00:37:07,520
Speaker 3: mistakes in the kicking game, those hidden yards, we need

787
00:37:07,560 --> 00:37:11,319
Speaker 3: more of those. And then I think too offensively, you know,

788
00:37:11,400 --> 00:37:14,279
Speaker 3: to play this game, it's penalties. And you know, Minnesota

789
00:37:14,320 --> 00:37:16,960
Speaker 3: had two penalties and then they had the pass interference late.

790
00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:19,840
Speaker 3: We had seven. But again, we're not a good enough offense.

791
00:37:19,880 --> 00:37:22,359
Speaker 3: We're twenty second in points, twenty second in yards right

792
00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:25,120
Speaker 3: now to overcome some of these key penalties. And you

793
00:37:25,160 --> 00:37:28,520
Speaker 3: get penalties on first down, especially pre snat penalties, and

794
00:37:28,520 --> 00:37:30,800
Speaker 3: we had a few. Those are drive killers. And again

795
00:37:30,920 --> 00:37:33,719
Speaker 3: that fourth drive of the game. That was everything to me.

796
00:37:33,840 --> 00:37:36,600
Speaker 3: When that went away and we get the penalty instead

797
00:37:36,640 --> 00:37:38,360
Speaker 3: of being in the red zone, all of a sudden,

798
00:37:38,480 --> 00:37:40,560
Speaker 3: it's seven to nothing. And even though we were ahead

799
00:37:40,560 --> 00:37:43,400
Speaker 3: at halftime, I felt like Minnesota had all the momentum

800
00:37:43,440 --> 00:37:46,200
Speaker 3: even with the miskick, you know, because we failed in

801
00:37:46,200 --> 00:37:48,000
Speaker 3: those opportunities. So I just think we got to be

802
00:37:48,040 --> 00:37:52,799
Speaker 3: tighter overall. And again because we're not an offensively explosive

803
00:37:52,840 --> 00:37:55,719
Speaker 3: team right now, we got to live in our mistakes

804
00:37:55,880 --> 00:37:57,800
Speaker 3: and we got to grind out these games more because

805
00:37:57,800 --> 00:38:00,960
Speaker 3: again nine games in matt every game has been one

806
00:38:00,960 --> 00:38:03,400
Speaker 3: possession game, and I would expect that trend to continue

807
00:38:03,440 --> 00:38:05,640
Speaker 3: through these last eight. And so we just got to

808
00:38:05,640 --> 00:38:08,680
Speaker 3: be tighter in all areas and not beat ourselves and

809
00:38:08,760 --> 00:38:11,399
Speaker 3: let the other team make those key mistakes and then

810
00:38:11,440 --> 00:38:11,879
Speaker 3: beat them.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and Rick, I know we've got to go quick here.

812
00:38:13,840 --> 00:38:17,080
Speaker 2: But I know at times you think complimentary football is

813
00:38:17,120 --> 00:38:20,359
Speaker 2: like a cliche, but you know, good football when you

814
00:38:20,400 --> 00:38:23,200
Speaker 2: see it, and the offense helping the defense and vice versa,

815
00:38:23,239 --> 00:38:25,840
Speaker 2: it's it's just not happening to a high degree right well, and.

816
00:38:25,840 --> 00:38:28,239
Speaker 4: It's not happening for sixty minutes. I mean, you see

817
00:38:28,400 --> 00:38:31,640
Speaker 4: flashes of really good football, like you saw that first

818
00:38:31,640 --> 00:38:34,880
Speaker 4: half on defense. You know, I've seen flashes. I've seen

819
00:38:35,480 --> 00:38:38,920
Speaker 4: Ar five in there with big plays downfield, great running

820
00:38:38,960 --> 00:38:42,640
Speaker 4: ability by him. But they're flashes. They're not. Nothing that

821
00:38:42,719 --> 00:38:47,080
Speaker 4: we are doing is sixty minutes sustainable. And Joe tell

822
00:38:47,120 --> 00:38:50,120
Speaker 4: you this game is a marathon. Joe also brings up

823
00:38:50,120 --> 00:38:52,799
Speaker 4: a good point. Even though we're still ranked pretty well

824
00:38:52,800 --> 00:38:56,040
Speaker 4: in penalties, our penalties seem to be critical. They seem

825
00:38:56,080 --> 00:38:58,640
Speaker 4: to be a penalty when you're going in, you know,

826
00:38:58,719 --> 00:39:00,719
Speaker 4: and all of a sudden, a first and fifteen on

827
00:39:00,800 --> 00:39:03,520
Speaker 4: the twenty on their twenty is a lot worse than

828
00:39:03,520 --> 00:39:05,640
Speaker 4: a first and fifteen on your twenty. I mean, it's

829
00:39:06,320 --> 00:39:09,000
Speaker 4: totally different. And I think it comes down to, as

830
00:39:09,080 --> 00:39:12,480
Speaker 4: Joe said, tighten it up offensively. You know, we're going backwards.

831
00:39:12,520 --> 00:39:16,200
Speaker 4: We're twenty two, but we're retreating defensively. We're twenty ninth,

832
00:39:16,239 --> 00:39:19,760
Speaker 4: so we're not really stopping anybody. We're making some plays

833
00:39:19,960 --> 00:39:24,120
Speaker 4: and the thirty two number, thirty two and arguably deeply

834
00:39:24,160 --> 00:39:27,120
Speaker 4: thirty two in time of possession is killing us. And

835
00:39:27,239 --> 00:39:30,120
Speaker 4: I also think we're having some issues lately with game

836
00:39:30,200 --> 00:39:33,120
Speaker 4: management and play calling, and you've put all those things

837
00:39:33,120 --> 00:39:35,840
Speaker 4: together over a sixty minute thing. You got to tighten

838
00:39:35,880 --> 00:39:37,200
Speaker 4: everything up, all right.

839
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Speaker 2: for the mailbag. Submit your questions on x always with

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Speaker 2: us here on Monday nights with the hashtag Colts round Table.

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Speaker 2: Wish we had more time, but we're gonna get into

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Speaker 2: a couple of the good and juicy ones. Let's go

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Speaker 2: to Myron. Myron speaks for a lot of people now

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Speaker 2: within the fan base. Joe, what are we doing at quarterback?

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Speaker 2: I get going to Flacco in the short term gives

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Speaker 2: us a good chance to win, but are we sacrificing

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Speaker 2: two months for the greater good? With Anthony Richardson watching

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Speaker 2: from the sidelines.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, obviously you make the switch to Joe and it's

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Speaker 3: good now. Yeah, that's the million dollar question Myron, and

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Speaker 3: on every Colts fans mind. I just think you have

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Speaker 3: to let things play out. We want answers right now.

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Speaker 3: But to me, it's really a week to week decision.

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Speaker 3: You go with Joe kind of a win now mentality,

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Speaker 3: hoping to galvanize the offense and the team. Unfortunately that

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Speaker 3: didn't take place last night. But I do think we're

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Speaker 3: gonna see ar again at some point this year. Maybe

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Speaker 3: he's on the field in some different packages as this

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00:41:45,440 --> 00:41:48,600
Speaker 3: thing evolves. But the reality is, Matt, it's a different

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Speaker 3: story if we win our next three games or if

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Speaker 3: we lose our next three games in turn of how

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Speaker 3: the season's gonna shake out right in the playoffs, etc.

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Speaker 3: So I know fans don't want to be patient, don't

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Speaker 3: want patients, but you know this thing's gonna play out

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Speaker 3: and it's gonna as it should be. And that's that's

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Speaker 3: the honest answer. You know, it just really is.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely all right, we got time for one more quickly,

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Speaker 2: if we can sneak it in. Rick. This is coming

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Speaker 2: from Charles. We talked about a little bit earlier on

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Speaker 2: the last segment with the extra credit components. Charles is

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Speaker 2: asking what are the pros and cons of not blitzing.

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Speaker 2: We never blitz but it seemed like the Vikings blitz

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Speaker 2: is like crazy and the Colts lost.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and you always have to have balance in your blitzing.

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Speaker 4: Our problem is we have the highest percentage of Friday

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Speaker 4: Night zone that area zone in the league, and we

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Speaker 4: have the lowest percentage of blitz. And that's where you

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Speaker 4: don't want to be. Those are the two extremes you

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Speaker 4: absolutely don't want. That is that spells out if you

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Speaker 4: google that up, that comes out vanilla. It's vanilla defense.

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Speaker 4: The other thing that my pet teve is and I

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Speaker 4: said it during the broadcast and it was a critical

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Speaker 4: completion in the four minute drive, is if I'm gonna blitz,

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Speaker 4: I'm coming after you. I'm gonna play tight man. And

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Speaker 4: even if I play a fire zone, I'm gonna trap you,

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna I'm gonna be all over you. We played

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Speaker 4: We brought six guys and played two short and three deep,

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Speaker 4: which means there's holes everywhere, and a good quarterback he

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Speaker 4: has no problem beating that. And so you kind of

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Speaker 4: wasted your blitz, and that the pass that they hit

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Speaker 4: on the corner route in the four minute drive really

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Speaker 4: in a way ended the game.

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Speaker 2: All Right, that's Rick Venturi, that's Joe Wrights as well.

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Speaker 2: I'm Matt Taylor. That's the mailbag. Segment tonight again. Wish

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Speaker 2: we had more time, but we're kind of up against it,

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Speaker 2: so appreciate everybody with their submissions on X with the

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Speaker 2: hashtag Colts round Table. We're gonna close out the show

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Speaker 2: when we come back. The Bills are up next. They're

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Speaker 2: seven and two. They've won four in a row. Now,

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Speaker 2: they own a four game lead inside their own division.

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Speaker 2: They are hot. They're one of the best teams in

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Speaker 2: the NFL. So we'll talk about that matchup and also

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Speaker 2: put a bow on Sunday's game in Minnesota. You're listening

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Speaker 2: a moment for the final time. Here on ninety three

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Speaker 2: five and one oh seven five the Fan.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Colts Round Table Live on ninety three

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Speaker 1: more Colts breakdown. Here's Matt Taylor, the voice of the

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Speaker 2: We're back for the final time. This is Colts Roundtable Live,

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Speaker 2: at citizens energygroup dot com. I'm Matt Taylor, Rick Venturi

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Speaker 2: and Joe Wrights. It's time now for the closing argument, says,

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Speaker 2: we wrap up the show. Joe, the floor is yours.

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Speaker 2: Your final thoughts on Sunday night, the Colts coming up

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Speaker 2: short to the Vikings and now a really stiff test

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Speaker 2: on Sunday as the Bills invade Lucas Oil Stadium.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, no question, and you know the Bills are coming

947
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Speaker 3: in here. Matt Josh Allen arguably would be the MVP

948
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Speaker 3: at the mid season point. He's thrown for twoth yards already,

949
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Speaker 3: seventeen touchdowns, only two interceptions. You know, dynamic offense. This

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Speaker 3: is a team that's kind of been close, close, close,

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Speaker 3: and I think they think in Buffalo this may be

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Speaker 3: their year. But I tell you what, coach, the thing

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Speaker 3: I like is we're getting them at a good time.

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Speaker 3: In my opinion, They've won four in a row. They

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Speaker 3: squeak one out against the Dolphins, and I just think

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Speaker 3: the ebbs and flows of the NFL, as you know,

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Speaker 3: every game that you win in a streak gets harder

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Speaker 3: and harder to win that next one. But what do

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Speaker 3: you see when you watch Buffalo on tape?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, there are some similarities, not personnel wise, but similarities

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Speaker 4: in how I view this, and I kind of agree

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Speaker 4: with you. Minnesota was good in scoring and scoring defense,

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Speaker 4: but very mediocre total, and that's kind of true with

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Speaker 4: Buffalo as well. I think there's two things that you're

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Speaker 4: really going to have to do against Buffalo. One we

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Speaker 4: did way back in twenty two is you have to

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Speaker 4: have a ball control game. This is something we haven't

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Speaker 4: done all season long. But you have to have a

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Speaker 4: big time of possession game and cut the possessions that

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Speaker 4: the Bills have. And then from a defensive standpoint, you

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Speaker 4: have to have a creative rush plan against Allen where

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Speaker 4: you keep him enclosed and squeezed. I think that's really important.

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Speaker 4: And you have to plaster receivers. His greatness does not

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Speaker 4: come in the pocket, even though he has good passing numbers.

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Speaker 4: His greatness comes on the playground when he gets on

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Speaker 4: your edge, he gets outside, he makes great plays downfield.

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Speaker 4: So again, ball control on offense and close and squeeze

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Speaker 4: him on defense.

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Speaker 2: Should be a great test for the Colts. That's coming

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Speaker 2: up next on Sunday Week number ten. But that's all

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Speaker 2: the time we've got tonight, Joe and Rick. Fantastic job

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Speaker 2: per usual. Always enjoy being with you fellas on Monday nights,

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Speaker 2: even despite the loss for the Colts against the Vikings.

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Speaker 2: My thanks as well to head coach Shane Steikin, who

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Speaker 2: joined in on the first segment tonight for his thoughts

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Speaker 2: following the setback in Minnesota. Have you missed tonight's show,

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Speaker 2: you download your podcast. Thanks for tuning in tonight. Colts

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Speaker 2: and Buffalo Talk all week long and this has been

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Speaker 2: Colts Roundtable Live tonight here in the Home of the

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