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Speaker 1: Welcome in to another episode of the Two Minute Drill

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Speaker 1: podcast presented by nerd Wallet, Play Smart Finance Harder.

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Speaker 2: Typically JJ Stankovitz.

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Speaker 1: Is in this big chair, but I kind of kicked

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Speaker 1: him away and I am filling in Casey Value.

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Speaker 2: Joined by Amanda Foster at Polts dot com.

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Speaker 1: So, first of all, Amanda, thanks for having that for Shure.

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Speaker 3: Oh, of course, welcome to the podcast.

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Speaker 2: I know it was all your faults, so.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's one of those things we got to

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Speaker 1: kind of push him away from time to time. But no,

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Speaker 1: but JJ, we do appreciate you allowing me to fill

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Speaker 1: in the big chair and give this a shot. So

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Speaker 1: once again, as I said, Amanda Foster joined with me

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Speaker 1: of Colts dot com.

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Speaker 2: And typically when we.

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Speaker 1: Dive into these two minute Drill podcasts, it's a laundry

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Speaker 1: list of we don't know about this guy, this guy's

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Speaker 1: hurting this. I look at that injury report we saw

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Speaker 1: on Thursday and I was like, hold on, what am.

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Speaker 2: I looking at?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean full participants from arguably your entire roster. Well,

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Speaker 1: that just doesn't happen.

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Speaker 3: It's a long injury report. It's not which is funny

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Speaker 3: because it's not that you have like two guys on

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Speaker 3: that that are like limited. Right, it's a pretty lengthy one,

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Speaker 3: but it was with the exception of two guys full

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Speaker 3: participation on Thursday, which is we were talking about this earlier.

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Speaker 3: Haven't really seen that all the season, No.

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Speaker 1: I mean not just from a Colt's perspective. I'm sure

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Speaker 1: if you look around the league at what their typical

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Speaker 1: week eight injury report looks like, you have a laundry list,

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Speaker 1: but it's not full participation out of a lot of those.

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Speaker 1: And you know, as we dive into this, it's only

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Speaker 1: fitting to start with probably the two biggest names on that.

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Speaker 1: You've got DeForest Buckner, who returned to practice. He's still

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Speaker 1: in that twenty one day window from injury reserve, not

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Speaker 1: entirely sure when they're gonna fully activate him, but he

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Speaker 1: has had three practices this week. And then also Jonathan Taylor,

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Speaker 1: who we've seen he's missed the last three weeks, but

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Speaker 1: he has been on the practice field. So first start

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Speaker 1: with the Forest Buckner. It's hard to say, oh, wow,

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Speaker 1: how big is he going to be when he comes back,

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Speaker 1: because you already know, but really, I mean, how big

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Speaker 1: is his presence to that defensive line.

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Speaker 3: I mean, you could just look at him. Yeah, that's

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Speaker 3: you know, there, there's your answer right there, because it

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Speaker 3: is it's hard to put into words for both him

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Speaker 3: and Jonathan Taylor what it means for them to be back,

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Speaker 3: even just on the practice field, because they're both veterans,

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Speaker 3: they're experienced, they kind of know how everything works.

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Speaker 2: They have on the side of Lucas Oil State.

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Speaker 1: If you want to talk about the important, you know

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Speaker 3: About big, right, you know, there's larger than life to

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Speaker 3: Forrest Buckner, absolutely, so to even have him potentially, you know,

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Speaker 3: he's got to he's got to be activated in everything.

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Speaker 3: But to have the potential for him to return, especially

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Speaker 3: in a game that is as big as at Houston,

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Speaker 3: Zayia Franklin said that he jumped out of bed at

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Speaker 3: the prospect of buck even being on the practice field

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Speaker 3: in any capacity because it's been so long that that

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Speaker 3: has happened. This season is I mean, I think there's

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Speaker 3: those two guys, especially have the possibility of coming back,

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Speaker 3: even if it might be in like a limited scenario

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Speaker 3: adds so much more to their Okay.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and sticking right there, you talk about DeForest Buckner,

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Speaker 1: but looking at Jonathan Taylor, the rushing numbers have been

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Speaker 1: whenever Jonathan Taylor and Anthony Richardson are on the field,

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Speaker 1: you're averaging over one hundred and fifty rushing yards. And

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Speaker 1: the addition of Jonathan Taylor to an offense, it helps

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Speaker 1: everybody else. And you have seen some good things from Tray,

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Speaker 3: Right And he mentioned this, Jonathan did about now you

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Speaker 3: Tyler Goodson got his first career touchdown last weekend, which

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Speaker 3: and you have to game plan for those two. You

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Speaker 3: also now have to plan for Alec Pierce, who you

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Speaker 3: like before the season, right, Michael Pittman junior like eighty,

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Speaker 3: Ashton dooland like all of these guys. There's so much

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Speaker 3: it is it's going to be really interesting. But I

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Speaker 1: And you mentioned there Jonathan Taylor if he's going to

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Speaker 1: Now, he didn't definitely say that Buckner and Taylor are

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Speaker 2: So you can go ahead and assume what you will.

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Speaker 1: We know that on Friday that both guys are tracking

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Speaker 1: You got Michael Pittman with the back, Josh Downs with

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Speaker 3: Couple of weeks ago, this week it's just been Casna.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, So those four guys, I think what we saw

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and that I mean it comes with the territory.

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Speaker 3: We kind of expected it with guys like Pitt and Downs.

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Speaker 3: That's the way the way it's been since they've come

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Speaker 3: back to play. Shane Sichen said, like Pitt today on

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Speaker 3: Friday was just taking a rest day. Yeah, you anticipate

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Speaker 3: still gonna be able to play on Sunday, you know,

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Speaker 1: Now, one guy that we will see return to the

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Speaker 2: Speed.

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Speaker 1: He practiced all week, missed last week with the with

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Speaker 3: Right, And that's the thing that so many people throughout

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Speaker 3: for better or for worse, because of these injuries, you

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Speaker 3: important going forward because you don't know who's gonna get

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Speaker 3: You hope that none of these guys, none of these

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Speaker 3: I think there is another level of kind of new

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Speaker 1: No, I mean, it's so cliche to say it's a

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Speaker 1: long season, injuries happen, next man up, all those cliches

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Speaker 1: saw success in those depth spots where in a pinch,

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Speaker 1: So it's it's a very good thing heading into Sunday

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Speaker 1: and real quick, I don't want to dive too much

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Speaker 1: into Houston, but it's kind of polar opposites. They've got

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Speaker 3: Time, right, and it is with the uncertainty kind of comes,

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Speaker 3: it's a it's a double edged sword because you maybe

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Speaker 3: you don't know who you're gonna be going up against Sunday.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, I mean it's I think the vibes in

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Speaker 1: And you are.

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Speaker 3: Going to Houston, that's it's gonna be.

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Speaker 1: A tough place to play, absolutely.

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Speaker 3: Especially I think with the history between these two teams.

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Speaker 3: But I think, you know, knock on wood, the Colts

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Speaker 3: time to see Houston.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, it's a big one on Sunday, that's for sure.

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Speaker 2: I mean, talk about not getting swept.

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Speaker 1: Shane Siken mentioned it today that if you want to

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Speaker 1: win division championships, you've got to beat your division rivals,

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Speaker 1: and that starts this weekend against Houston. They've already got

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Speaker 1: one leg up on you winning that week one matchup,

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Speaker 1: and if you can get back to two and two

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Speaker 1: inside the AFC, South also get another game over five hundred.

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Speaker 1: You get level with Houston, you head into a really

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Speaker 1: tough stretch, but you feel really good about this.

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Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, and this is you know, you're kind of

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Speaker 3: in the middle of the tough stretch right now. We

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Speaker 3: we kind of looked at the schedule as after Miami,

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Speaker 3: here you go, and so you want to start out

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Speaker 3: this game as strong as you possibly can.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, big stretch coming up. They go on the road again.

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Speaker 1: After this game in Houston, they take on Minnesota. Game

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Speaker 1: that's been flexed to Sunday Night Football in Minnesota next week,

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Speaker 1: but it all starts this Sunday. Amanda, thank you so

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Speaker 1: much for letting me fill in the big chair on

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Speaker 1: the Two Minute Drill Podcast.

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Speaker 2: I know JJ will be back better than ever next week.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, but loved having you.

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Speaker 2: It was great. Oh yeah yeah, I can't wait for that.

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Speaker 3: Checking my watch, isn't.

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Speaker 1: It over yet? Geez Well, once again, thank you so

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Speaker 1: much for Amanda. I am Casey Value. This has been

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