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Speaker 1: Let's do it. Let's do it. Welcome back. This is

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Speaker 1: the Thursday crew. Welcome into the Official Colts Podcast. Week

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Speaker 1: two is here. We've got football tonight. If you're listening

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Speaker 1: to this, We've got football tonight, Thursday Night Football. In fact,

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Speaker 1: we've got Eagles Vikings. Bill Brooks is here. Casey Valier Long,

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Speaker 1: I'm Matt Taylor. Bill, what was the hottest game, like

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Speaker 1: temperature wise, what was the hottest game you ever played in?

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Speaker 4: Wow?

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Speaker 5: Wow, that is a good question. You know, I'm gonna

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Speaker 5: guess it had to be somewhere like Miami or something.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm gonna guess it had to be Miami.

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Speaker 1: Maybe like early in the season.

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Speaker 5: East East playing Miami earlier in the year, and maybe

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Speaker 5: when I was with Buffalo as well, playing Miami down

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Speaker 5: there was hot a couple of times.

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Speaker 6: It was Uh, those weren't pleasant.

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Speaker 5: But I tell you what, I prefer the hot games

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Speaker 5: over the cold games.

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Speaker 1: And really, oh really, see I was the other way.

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Speaker 1: Oh no, I hated the heat.

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Speaker 7: Oh that in that the defensive mindset though, that was

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Speaker 1: I hated the heat. I just hated the sweat.

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Speaker 5: So I think about this thing about hot weather and

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Speaker 5: the sun is just that I didn't want the sun

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Speaker 1: As those cold temperatures for a receiver, right your hands

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Speaker 5: Don't like the delicate balanced fields frozen?

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Speaker 1: Well, we're coming in hot today here on the Official

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Speaker 1: Colts Podcast again, the Thursday Crew is with you. I'm

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Speaker 1: Matt Taylor with Ring of Honor member Bill Brooks talking

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Speaker 1: about his playing days back in the day. Casey value

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Speaker 1: over there, reason being because the Colts travel to Houston.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be at NRG Stadium, where over the years

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Speaker 1: the Colts have had a tremendous, great deal amount of success.

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Speaker 1: But it's indoors. And Ryan Kelly said, thank god it's indoors,

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Speaker 1: because it's freaking hot in Houston.

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Speaker 6: It is hot in hoton very humid as well.

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Speaker 1: Baseball field's got a dumb over it. So yeah, the

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Speaker 1: Astros and Texans, they are inside with the AC all

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Speaker 1: summer long. All right, we got a lot to get

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Speaker 1: into here today. We're talking about the Jaguars game. We're

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Speaker 1: Houston Texans, another AFC South game right out of the

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Speaker 1: shoot for the Colts. We're also going to discuss where

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Speaker 1: the Colts can improve week one to Week two. We'll

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Speaker 1: talk about how some aspects of last season, unfortunately we

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Speaker 1: some areas that played the Colts last year reared their

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Speaker 1: get his thoughts on the Texans coming up on this

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Speaker 1: particular Sunday. But Bill, as we know, right, you played

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Speaker 1: football all those years. The old football cliche. You always

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Speaker 1: hear it all the time. Teams make their biggest jump

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Speaker 1: You actually That mean you just screwed up that much.

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Speaker 6: Little bit more comfortable, and you go out there, you've

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Speaker 1: You've done it one time. I mean for a lot

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Speaker 1: Casey Valier, what are the areas for you where Richardson

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Speaker 3: Ultimately, you didn't see much of that.

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Speaker 7: So when you look at what his game is and

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Speaker 7: You know, a lot of that exactly, it was him

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Speaker 3: You kind of manufacture.

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Speaker 1: Well, the ability to do that starts to your point

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Speaker 5: Schemes exactly, so they have to come up and they

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Speaker 1: So a lot of cover too.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, they play a lot of cover too. And

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Speaker 6: Well on Sunday.

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Speaker 5: You know, I'm and when I say that, I'm gonna

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Speaker 5: be very picky about a few things. I think that

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Speaker 1: Could wait a minute, is this hot take Bill Brooks?

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Speaker 3: First the Sirens?

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Speaker 5: It's not a hot take or anything like that. I'm

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Speaker 5: be pickying. And so maybe a couple of things that

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Speaker 5: There was one play there where I was third and

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Speaker 4: No doubt about that.

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Speaker 1: They were also trying to take away those big plays,

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Speaker 1: But also two Richardson's bill his twenty four completions thrown,

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Speaker 1: this case of the Jaguars, they did a nice job.

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Speaker 1: You know, Mike Caldwell had a plan they executed did

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Speaker 1: They limited Anthony Richardson's effectiveness on the ground, and we

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Speaker 1: I mean, Alec Pierce only had one catch for five yards.

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Speaker 1: Michael Pittman Junior's longest catch, as we said, was a

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Speaker 1: of zone coming up on Sunday.

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Speaker 3: That was a great play.

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Speaker 5: Now I'm gonna give Jacksonville credit for that one. They

439
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Speaker 5: give them credit for that one. That was a great play,

440
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Speaker 5: great catch, good coverage by the defense.

441
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Speaker 6: So but you have to come up with a play.

442
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Speaker 5: You have to the good teams make a way and

443
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Speaker 5: find a way to come up with the play to

444
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Speaker 5: stop teams if it's hold them to a field goal

445
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Speaker 5: or hopefully turn the ball over and get the ball back.

446
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Speaker 5: So I think we have a good team, especially the

447
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Speaker 5: front seven. I really like our front seven. We have

448
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Speaker 5: to find a way to make plays to turn this

449
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Speaker 5: thing around.

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Speaker 1: I will say it does. I think it's going to

451
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Speaker 1: be different because of the secondary. I think the secondary

452
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Speaker 1: held up. Oh yeah, to your point, I mean that

453
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Speaker 1: that first red zone score, that was kind of backyard

454
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Speaker 1: play Colt's front seven. You know that the defensive pass

455
00:19:38,520 --> 00:19:41,960
Speaker 1: rush the contain broke down there. That's when Lawrence was

456
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Speaker 1: able to get out of the pocket just kind of

457
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Speaker 1: find somebody in the back of the end zone. That

458
00:19:45,760 --> 00:19:48,680
Speaker 1: happened to be Calvin Ridley. Also, this a Jones catch

459
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Speaker 1: was terrific.

460
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Speaker 7: I still know how he got both feet in, so

461
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Speaker 7: it's a great, great catch.

462
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Speaker 1: So my point is, I thought Flowers and Darryl Baker,

463
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Speaker 1: I thought they did a nice job. Yeah, I thought

464
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Speaker 1: they were in the position for most of the game.

465
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Speaker 1: They did a really good job in coverage. Some people

466
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Speaker 1: are listening to this saying, how can you say that

467
00:20:06,200 --> 00:20:09,560
Speaker 1: the Colts gave up seventy five percent completion percentage, but

468
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Speaker 1: in the red zone you just got to do everything

469
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Speaker 1: you can. We've all watched football for a long time.

470
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Speaker 1: You've seen bad defenses have good point totals because they

471
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Speaker 1: just make a play inside the red zone. I mean,

472
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Speaker 1: I hate to say it, but I mean we kind

473
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Speaker 1: of were used to that for a long period of

474
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Speaker 1: time around here, where it was that old cliche, bend

475
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Speaker 1: but don't break right, give up yards, give up explosive plays,

476
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Speaker 1: but don't give up touchdowns inside the red zone. So

477
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Speaker 1: it's like bad defenses with a good point total. The Colts,

478
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Speaker 1: I think are just the opposite. They're a good defense

479
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Speaker 1: with a bad point total because the red zone has

480
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Speaker 1: just been this algebra problem they can't figure out.

481
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Speaker 4: You know.

482
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Speaker 7: You bring that up and I look around the league

483
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Speaker 7: right now, and I kind of look at the Kansas

484
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Speaker 7: City Chiefs. I would say that is a defense that

485
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Speaker 7: nobody is saying. They're at top five defense.

486
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Speaker 3: Yeah, but what they do is the bin but.

487
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Speaker 7: Don't break, and they just keep the point totals down

488
00:21:05,200 --> 00:21:07,920
Speaker 7: so their offense can go out and outscore. And it's

489
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Speaker 7: all about making the team's kick field goals and having

490
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Speaker 7: a big fourth down stop if it's close. And that's

491
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Speaker 7: where I really do feel like this team is going

492
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Speaker 7: to be different. You just one more time.

493
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Speaker 3: We just have to see it.

494
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Speaker 5: And also the piggyback off that what the Kennessee Chiefs,

495
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Speaker 5: you know what most teams are looking at. Okay, we're

496
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Speaker 5: playing Patrick Mahomes. We're gonna have to score points, so

497
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Speaker 5: we're gonna have to do something probably a little bit

498
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Speaker 5: different than we normally do, and they got to take chances.

499
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Speaker 5: And that's where the defense. Let's say, hey, on offense,

500
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Speaker 5: we've got to keep up with scoring with the offense.

501
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Speaker 5: Opponents offense, so we're gonna have to score some points.

502
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Speaker 5: So then it gives a defense an opportunity to make

503
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Speaker 5: some plays while the offense is taking chances. Defense makes

504
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Speaker 5: a big play and then they get to turn over

505
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Speaker 5: and stop them.

506
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Speaker 1: All right, quickly, let's talk about crunch time. We've already

507
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Speaker 1: kind of talked about this a little bit. But again,

508
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Speaker 1: the Colts were four to six and one last year

509
00:21:53,920 --> 00:21:57,520
Speaker 1: one score games. Since the start of the twenty twenty

510
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Speaker 1: one season, the Colts are six eleven and one in

511
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Speaker 1: one score games. And I think here the key word

512
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Speaker 1: or the key phrase has to be complimentary football. In

513
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Speaker 1: crunch time, you got to do a better job of

514
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Speaker 1: playing complimentary football. That's exactly what happened on Sunday in

515
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Speaker 1: reverse for the Jacksonville Jaguars. Guess what you had. The

516
00:22:18,960 --> 00:22:23,040
Speaker 1: Jamal Agnew punt return set up a touchdown drive you

517
00:22:23,119 --> 00:22:25,480
Speaker 1: had to pick by the defense, and then a big

518
00:22:25,560 --> 00:22:28,080
Speaker 1: run to cap off the game by Travis etn two

519
00:22:28,080 --> 00:22:31,359
Speaker 1: plays later after they got that turnover. And that's something

520
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Speaker 1: that Anthony Richardson this week talked about. There's one hundred

521
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Speaker 1: and twenty plays, right, there's like one hundred and twenty,

522
00:22:36,640 --> 00:22:39,600
Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty plays in a football game. What's

523
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Speaker 1: the number? Bill five, six, seven usually dictate the winner

524
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Speaker 1: of the game, probably, And the problem is you don't

525
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Speaker 1: know if that's good that one of those is gonna

526
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Speaker 1: come in the first quarter the first play of the game,

527
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Speaker 1: two of them are going to be in the third quarter,

528
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Speaker 1: three of them are going to be in the fourth quarter.

529
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Speaker 1: I think Anthony Richardson talked about that that's one of

530
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Speaker 1: the biggest lessons he learned in game one, that this

531
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Speaker 1: is a sixty minute game. You've got to be one

532
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Speaker 1: thousand percent dialed in, focused in every single play because

533
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Speaker 1: if you relapse in terms of focus, you know, one

534
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Speaker 1: of those plays could happen to you in a negative,

535
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Speaker 1: negative way big time. In a blink of an eye.

536
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Speaker 5: Oh, by far, I mean to me that was the

537
00:23:16,520 --> 00:23:19,199
Speaker 5: part return. I mean that that play happened, and you

538
00:23:19,240 --> 00:23:21,359
Speaker 5: know it got them in great field position. You know

539
00:23:21,400 --> 00:23:23,040
Speaker 5: it in the fourth quarter, you have to be better.

540
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Speaker 5: Now if you look at it in the fourth quarter,

541
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Speaker 5: if you count the end of the third quarter where

542
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Speaker 5: they had the ball and then carried over to the

543
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Speaker 5: fourth quarter, the Coats had the ball and it carried

544
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Speaker 5: over into the fourth quart I said the Coast had

545
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Speaker 5: the ball four times in those possessions.

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Speaker 6: The first two possessions.

547
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Speaker 5: Ended in three plays in a punt, YEP, the next possession,

548
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Speaker 5: and then with an interception. Then the fourth possession was

549
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Speaker 5: the final Coast drive that got to the one yard

550
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Speaker 5: line and they didn't score. So you look at that

551
00:23:45,960 --> 00:23:49,719
Speaker 5: and it had the ball that many times, didn't do anything, punt,

552
00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:51,080
Speaker 5: three plays and out.

553
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Speaker 6: And an interception.

554
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Speaker 5: Cushierr time like that in the game fourth quarter, you

555
00:23:55,119 --> 00:23:57,200
Speaker 5: have to make plays. You have to be able to

556
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Speaker 5: sustain a drive, go down there, not turn the ball

557
00:24:00,440 --> 00:24:02,480
Speaker 5: and get points and that can help the defense out.

558
00:24:02,520 --> 00:24:04,200
Speaker 5: You put a defense back on the field so many

559
00:24:04,200 --> 00:24:05,600
Speaker 5: times they're going to be fatigued.

560
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Speaker 1: Yeah, to Bill's point, I mean, at one point in

561
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Speaker 1: the second half, the Colts had casey four straight drives

562
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Speaker 1: that lasted four plays or less YEP with no first downs.

563
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Speaker 1: So the lack of play making ability and crunch time

564
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Speaker 1: does it to you? Does it feel different than last year?

565
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Speaker 3: It does not. It does not because back to the same.

566
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Speaker 7: You know, we have to see it, but right now

567
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Speaker 7: it does not because this is something we have talked

568
00:24:27,840 --> 00:24:30,879
Speaker 7: about at nauseum about who is going to step up,

569
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Speaker 7: who is going to be the one that does it.

570
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Speaker 7: I always laugh when when you hear this all over

571
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Speaker 7: the time. But like, make a play, and that's what

572
00:24:38,119 --> 00:24:40,359
Speaker 7: ultimately you have to do. You have to get that

573
00:24:40,480 --> 00:24:43,520
Speaker 7: mindset where like, like looking at the defense the play

574
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Speaker 7: where the Forest Buckner scored. I know that if you

575
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Speaker 7: draw it out on what happened, it's like a paragraph

576
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Speaker 7: long because of all the forces. But ultimately there were

577
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Speaker 7: two plays on that play that were made that forced

578
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Speaker 7: the Colts to score a touchdown Buckner fer Franklin Buckner.

579
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Speaker 7: I mean all of that, you make a play offensively.

580
00:25:01,080 --> 00:25:04,399
Speaker 7: I don't know if we saw somebody step up and

581
00:25:04,520 --> 00:25:07,320
Speaker 7: make a play, especially when you're looking at this time

582
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Speaker 7: where I mean, the Colts have a lead in the

583
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Speaker 7: fourth quarter, you get the ball back with a chance

584
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Speaker 7: to go and take the lead again after and you

585
00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:16,959
Speaker 7: just nobody stepped up to make a play. I'm not

586
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Speaker 7: singling out one person or I'm just saying, ultimately, in

587
00:25:21,040 --> 00:25:24,680
Speaker 7: crunch time, the most important time of the game, most

588
00:25:24,720 --> 00:25:27,560
Speaker 7: important time, it's gonna come down to a handful of plays,

589
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Speaker 7: and especially when it's late and you can see those

590
00:25:29,920 --> 00:25:32,040
Speaker 7: handful of plays are there now, like we gotta start

591
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Speaker 7: making you gotta have somebody's step.

592
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Speaker 1: And again I think that's complimentary football. It's all three

593
00:25:36,080 --> 00:25:38,560
Speaker 1: phases happen to step up. And the Jaguars, we just

594
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Speaker 1: chronicled it, their three phases rose to the occasion. So

595
00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:46,960
Speaker 1: crunch time, red zone defense, fourth quarter defense, colts trying

596
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Speaker 1: to get better in all of those areas that plagued

597
00:25:48,960 --> 00:25:52,800
Speaker 1: them so so often in twenty twenty two. But again

598
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Speaker 1: I thought, all in all, the defense played very well.

599
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Speaker 1: I don't think the thirty one points allowed was indicative

600
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Speaker 1: of how good they played for large stretches of that game.

601
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Speaker 1: And in big part of that defensive unit, linebacker E. J.

602
00:26:05,720 --> 00:26:08,639
Speaker 1: Speed Again, he had five tackles, a big tackle for

603
00:26:08,680 --> 00:26:11,159
Speaker 1: loss on a fourth down, He had a force fumble,

604
00:26:11,200 --> 00:26:13,920
Speaker 1: should have had a takeaway that was taken away from

605
00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:17,760
Speaker 1: him by the NFL with the replay system. But he

606
00:26:17,880 --> 00:26:20,640
Speaker 1: joined myself and Bill Brooks earlier today to talk about

607
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Speaker 1: the defense going into Week two against the Houston Texans.

608
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Speaker 1: Our pleasure right now to be joined by Colt's fifth

609
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Speaker 1: year linebacker e J.

610
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Speaker 3: Speed.

611
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Speaker 1: What's going on? Man, That's what I'm saying. I mean,

612
00:26:36,080 --> 00:26:38,360
Speaker 1: it feels like yesterday we were like looking up where

613
00:26:38,359 --> 00:26:39,679
Speaker 1: the heck Tarlatan state was.

614
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Speaker 4: Hey, we got to take to take this week too,

615
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Speaker 4: So shout out today?

616
00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:45,360
Speaker 1: All right?

617
00:26:45,400 --> 00:26:45,719
Speaker 4: All right?

618
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Speaker 1: Upset city baby, Yeah, get him on EPs, upset alert.

619
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Speaker 4: Yeah.

620
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Speaker 6: How does five years sound to you?

621
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Speaker 4: It's been a journey. I'm just glad to be here

622
00:26:53,840 --> 00:26:56,760
Speaker 4: for five years etead of truth. So five years have

623
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Speaker 4: been a blessing. You know, a lot of ups and downs,

624
00:26:59,240 --> 00:27:03,480
Speaker 4: more ups and down, gracefully up, grace of guy. But yeah, man,

625
00:27:03,560 --> 00:27:05,800
Speaker 4: five years is five years, no matter how you put it,

626
00:27:05,840 --> 00:27:08,040
Speaker 4: no matter what career you in five years can do something.

627
00:27:08,080 --> 00:27:08,760
Speaker 6: I understand.

628
00:27:08,880 --> 00:27:13,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've been here twelve what's that said. I've definitely

629
00:27:13,880 --> 00:27:16,359
Speaker 1: done something. I've seen some stuff, my friend. Yeah, No,

630
00:27:16,440 --> 00:27:18,720
Speaker 1: I mean let's go back, let's stay on that. Let's

631
00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:20,400
Speaker 1: go back to your rookie season. Where do you think

632
00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:22,959
Speaker 1: you have grown the most? Not as a player, but

633
00:27:23,240 --> 00:27:26,600
Speaker 1: as a person. Where do you think you are now mentally,

634
00:27:26,840 --> 00:27:29,840
Speaker 1: spiritually compared to twenty nineteen.

635
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Speaker 4: Man, I'm so much better off leaving Texas for the

636
00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:35,120
Speaker 4: first time my rookie year. Yeah, it was a big deal.

637
00:27:35,160 --> 00:27:37,359
Speaker 4: So I left Texas, left my family. Man, the Coats

638
00:27:37,359 --> 00:27:40,720
Speaker 4: embraced me. I became got a lot of family members

639
00:27:40,720 --> 00:27:43,880
Speaker 4: here in Indianapolis with the Coats. You feel what I'm saying.

640
00:27:43,880 --> 00:27:46,160
Speaker 4: I'm just happy to be here. I mean, yeah, it's

641
00:27:46,160 --> 00:27:48,200
Speaker 4: just been a blessing. It's a long ride, but worth it.

642
00:27:48,240 --> 00:27:49,560
Speaker 4: Oh Man, for sure.

643
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I want to pick it back off of that.

644
00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:54,520
Speaker 5: When you left Charleston State was one of the biggest

645
00:27:54,520 --> 00:27:56,960
Speaker 5: adjustments you had to make going from college to the pros,

646
00:27:57,000 --> 00:27:58,040
Speaker 5: coming here to in Minneapolis.

647
00:27:58,520 --> 00:28:01,200
Speaker 4: Just realizing is just more or mental. The mental part

648
00:28:01,240 --> 00:28:03,720
Speaker 4: of the game has definitely went up because now it's

649
00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:05,760
Speaker 4: all ball. Everything you do when you step in this

650
00:28:05,760 --> 00:28:08,760
Speaker 4: business ball trying to win games. So yeah, that mental

651
00:28:08,800 --> 00:28:12,000
Speaker 4: aspect was crazy. You I mean uped a lot physically.

652
00:28:12,200 --> 00:28:15,119
Speaker 4: I mean, you know, physical is physical, but the mental

653
00:28:15,160 --> 00:28:17,760
Speaker 4: aspect is definitely that that that turnover EJ.

654
00:28:17,920 --> 00:28:21,120
Speaker 1: Speed is with us. Speaking of the physicality, I mean,

655
00:28:21,160 --> 00:28:24,640
Speaker 1: you go nine months without playing a regular season football game.

656
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Speaker 1: In terms of intensity. Is it kind of like riding

657
00:28:27,040 --> 00:28:28,760
Speaker 1: a bike out there last week in week one?

658
00:28:29,080 --> 00:28:31,080
Speaker 4: Definitely, Once you run out that tunnel, you getting the mold.

659
00:28:32,040 --> 00:28:32,960
Speaker 1: It's just like coming back.

660
00:28:33,160 --> 00:28:34,960
Speaker 4: Yeah, you're getting the color mode that you you know

661
00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:36,679
Speaker 4: what I mean, it's e the NFA out there. So

662
00:28:36,760 --> 00:28:38,840
Speaker 4: you know you're doing You're doing your thing. You catch

663
00:28:38,880 --> 00:28:40,920
Speaker 4: your groove, you know. Actually, the first hit is what

664
00:28:41,080 --> 00:28:43,640
Speaker 4: gets you get you going. You make it through, you

665
00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:45,400
Speaker 4: get through that first hit and all that type of stuff.

666
00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:48,040
Speaker 4: Then the second hit now is just a whole physical aguable.

667
00:28:48,040 --> 00:28:49,840
Speaker 4: You're worry about how your body feel on Do.

668
00:28:49,760 --> 00:28:50,960
Speaker 1: You even feel the first hit?

669
00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:53,160
Speaker 4: Yeah, because you're so jacked how you feel the first

670
00:28:53,240 --> 00:28:55,960
Speaker 4: hit actually is crazy. Like any football TIMS player tell you,

671
00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:58,120
Speaker 4: that first hit is what you get through. Once you

672
00:28:58,160 --> 00:29:01,480
Speaker 4: get through that first hit, you know exactly game and

673
00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:03,600
Speaker 4: you get straightened to kill them.

674
00:29:03,920 --> 00:29:06,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's EJ speed with us A. Right, let's go back.

675
00:29:06,560 --> 00:29:08,880
Speaker 1: I mean, what what were your overall impressions of the defense.

676
00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:11,960
Speaker 1: Very impactful. That's that's the word that I use. Right,

677
00:29:12,080 --> 00:29:17,200
Speaker 1: Seven tackles for loss, three forced fumbles, takeaways, touchdowns by

678
00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:20,040
Speaker 1: the defense. You had to take away taken away from

679
00:29:20,080 --> 00:29:22,840
Speaker 1: you what, what did you think of just how pesky

680
00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:24,680
Speaker 1: and impactful the Colts defense was.

681
00:29:24,960 --> 00:29:27,480
Speaker 4: We was very much fired up for that game and

682
00:29:27,520 --> 00:29:30,360
Speaker 4: for that situation. We know it's a week one coming in,

683
00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:32,800
Speaker 4: we got a new quarterback. Yeah, we got we got

684
00:29:32,840 --> 00:29:35,640
Speaker 4: a divisional opponent. It was very very much fired up.

685
00:29:35,680 --> 00:29:38,560
Speaker 4: I mean the defense just got like a trust factor.

686
00:29:38,720 --> 00:29:40,680
Speaker 4: We know what they expect from certain players. You feel

687
00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:42,360
Speaker 4: what I'm saying. So we've been playing I think the

688
00:29:42,360 --> 00:29:44,520
Speaker 4: defense on jail together. That we got a lot of

689
00:29:44,600 --> 00:29:47,960
Speaker 4: returning starters like Julian and Kenney z year, we got

690
00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:51,760
Speaker 4: the maniac back, we got Buck he's there on and

691
00:29:51,520 --> 00:29:54,320
Speaker 4: and and Grove and Quitty. So it's a lot of

692
00:29:54,320 --> 00:29:56,880
Speaker 4: familiar names. We've been playing together so long. We just

693
00:29:56,920 --> 00:29:58,680
Speaker 4: all jail and we know what they expect from each

694
00:29:58,680 --> 00:30:01,440
Speaker 4: other and it shows and practicing and so that's not

695
00:30:01,800 --> 00:30:03,880
Speaker 4: a performance that we're you know what I mean, just

696
00:30:03,920 --> 00:30:04,600
Speaker 4: surprised about it.

697
00:30:04,560 --> 00:30:06,360
Speaker 6: And I used to what about your performance? What do

698
00:30:06,400 --> 00:30:08,200
Speaker 6: you think about your performance? How you played out there?

699
00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:11,520
Speaker 5: You know Matt Chronicle didn't said it earlier, and how

700
00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:13,440
Speaker 5: do you feel you played out there and contribute to

701
00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:13,760
Speaker 5: the team.

702
00:30:13,920 --> 00:30:15,240
Speaker 4: I feel like I played good. I put in a

703
00:30:15,280 --> 00:30:17,000
Speaker 4: lot of work in the summer, so I was looking

704
00:30:17,040 --> 00:30:19,120
Speaker 4: forward to testing myself in that opening game. I wish

705
00:30:19,120 --> 00:30:21,840
Speaker 4: I could have got that that uh Ford fumble back,

706
00:30:21,920 --> 00:30:24,480
Speaker 4: but you know, either here nor there afterwards, Actually Tony

707
00:30:24,480 --> 00:30:27,600
Speaker 4: Brown recovering and got interception after that, So you know

708
00:30:27,600 --> 00:30:34,040
Speaker 4: what I mean, Man, I was. I was excited. I

709
00:30:34,080 --> 00:30:36,080
Speaker 4: was happy with my play, but you know it's in

710
00:30:36,080 --> 00:30:37,480
Speaker 4: the past. Now I got to go do it again.

711
00:30:37,560 --> 00:30:40,000
Speaker 1: We do you talk about all those great players, yourself

712
00:30:40,120 --> 00:30:43,400
Speaker 1: and Shaq Leonard and Zire Franklin, Grover Buckner, so on

713
00:30:43,440 --> 00:30:46,600
Speaker 1: and so forth. Elementary question. I understand that, but you've

714
00:30:46,640 --> 00:30:49,520
Speaker 1: been playing together for so long? How close are you guys?

715
00:30:49,680 --> 00:30:51,680
Speaker 4: Man? Bro We know what make each other laugh, We

716
00:30:51,760 --> 00:30:54,040
Speaker 4: know we know how to fizzy each other off. Actually,

717
00:30:54,080 --> 00:30:58,440
Speaker 4: Grove is the number one grow know how to get

718
00:30:58,440 --> 00:31:00,560
Speaker 4: in every get under everybody's skin. Defense.

719
00:31:01,280 --> 00:31:03,560
Speaker 3: Really he's that guy, is he?

720
00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:04,160
Speaker 1: Definitely?

721
00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:09,720
Speaker 4: He? But man every day? So yeah, man, we just brothers.

722
00:31:09,760 --> 00:31:11,400
Speaker 4: We got a strong brotherhood.

723
00:31:11,080 --> 00:31:13,080
Speaker 1: Just like a fraternity for like seven years.

724
00:31:13,560 --> 00:31:14,760
Speaker 4: And that's probat of one of the reasons why I

725
00:31:14,840 --> 00:31:17,400
Speaker 4: signed back, because that's I mean, I was gonna miss that.

726
00:31:17,760 --> 00:31:19,240
Speaker 4: I was gonna miss that. Not saying that you can't

727
00:31:19,280 --> 00:31:21,840
Speaker 4: create another brotherhood somewhere else, because that's very much possible.

728
00:31:21,840 --> 00:31:24,719
Speaker 4: But I mean, I just I love playing with the guys,

729
00:31:24,760 --> 00:31:26,440
Speaker 4: with the guys on the defense side of the ball.

730
00:31:26,600 --> 00:31:28,440
Speaker 5: Now, you talk about how close you guys were, and

731
00:31:28,480 --> 00:31:29,800
Speaker 5: I want to know when you first got here, do

732
00:31:29,840 --> 00:31:32,480
Speaker 5: you have any Do you have any mentors here that

733
00:31:32,600 --> 00:31:34,560
Speaker 5: kind of helped you once you got here to make

734
00:31:34,560 --> 00:31:36,120
Speaker 5: the adjustment to the national footballage.

735
00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:37,800
Speaker 4: Yeah. I think we had a great linebackers coach and

736
00:31:38,080 --> 00:31:42,040
Speaker 4: Matt ebra Flus and also Braganzi, So okay, you know

737
00:31:42,080 --> 00:31:45,240
Speaker 4: what I mean, we got this organization is very much

738
00:31:45,360 --> 00:31:47,600
Speaker 4: direct with what they expect out of you, from the

739
00:31:47,680 --> 00:31:49,840
Speaker 4: front office to the coaches and everything, and they pushed

740
00:31:49,840 --> 00:31:53,200
Speaker 4: that narrative. So I had I have plenty of mentors,

741
00:31:53,280 --> 00:31:57,080
Speaker 4: uh with with Shaq Lenard and just the whole linebacking

742
00:31:57,080 --> 00:31:58,880
Speaker 4: corps in general. You know, I actually came in with

743
00:31:58,920 --> 00:32:01,560
Speaker 4: Bobby Bible was drafted in the same year, so we

744
00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:04,160
Speaker 4: kind of, you know, fought through the same battles together,

745
00:32:04,280 --> 00:32:06,440
Speaker 4: had had some of the same ups and downs and

746
00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:08,240
Speaker 4: stuff like that. So we was able to push through

747
00:32:08,240 --> 00:32:09,960
Speaker 4: that and that helped me a lot of Marker also.

748
00:32:09,760 --> 00:32:12,400
Speaker 1: That's EJ. Speed linebacker for the Colts with us Bill

749
00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:14,800
Speaker 1: Brooks and long Eye Matt Taylor. You just talked about

750
00:32:14,880 --> 00:32:18,160
Speaker 1: Shaq Leonard. His journey has been well chronicled, but you've

751
00:32:18,160 --> 00:32:20,200
Speaker 1: gotten the front row seat to it. You're very close

752
00:32:20,240 --> 00:32:22,360
Speaker 1: with him. You see what he goes through on and

753
00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:24,960
Speaker 1: off the field. To the extent that you can tell

754
00:32:25,040 --> 00:32:28,479
Speaker 1: us what do we not know about his journey that

755
00:32:28,560 --> 00:32:31,440
Speaker 1: we should know, just in terms of how hard he's

756
00:32:31,520 --> 00:32:34,040
Speaker 1: worked to get back to where he is after four

757
00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:35,440
Speaker 1: surgeries in the last two years.

758
00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:37,680
Speaker 4: He got no quit in him. And that's that's one

759
00:32:37,720 --> 00:32:40,560
Speaker 4: thing that we all got to respect with with with Shaq,

760
00:32:40,680 --> 00:32:42,480
Speaker 4: is that he has no quit in him. And that's

761
00:32:42,520 --> 00:32:44,880
Speaker 4: one thing that he's taught me throughout his journey is

762
00:32:44,920 --> 00:32:46,960
Speaker 4: to keep fighting them out of the circumstances, keep fighting,

763
00:32:47,040 --> 00:32:49,320
Speaker 4: keeputting your best foot for it, keep trucking it. In

764
00:32:49,360 --> 00:32:51,400
Speaker 4: the end, it all come together. You've seen him make

765
00:32:51,440 --> 00:32:53,200
Speaker 4: that TfL and he got up start doing his dance,

766
00:32:54,240 --> 00:32:56,760
Speaker 4: So you know that's that's that's just like him reaping

767
00:32:56,760 --> 00:32:58,840
Speaker 4: what he sold, you know what I mean, And and

768
00:32:58,680 --> 00:33:01,160
Speaker 4: and and throughout that he he's teaching the young guys.

769
00:33:01,360 --> 00:33:04,120
Speaker 4: He's teaching even the older guys that like when things

770
00:33:04,160 --> 00:33:06,320
Speaker 4: are when things are approached to you gotta be a

771
00:33:06,360 --> 00:33:07,600
Speaker 4: man that stand up and do what you gotta do.

772
00:33:08,280 --> 00:33:11,000
Speaker 1: There's I'm sure there's a lot more moments like that coming.

773
00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:13,520
Speaker 1: But for you, when you saw that tackle for loss

774
00:33:13,520 --> 00:33:16,000
Speaker 1: coming from Shack, I mean, what did that moment mean

775
00:33:16,080 --> 00:33:16,400
Speaker 1: to you?

776
00:33:16,560 --> 00:33:19,000
Speaker 4: It meant everything, dog Like, it mean everything to me

777
00:33:19,120 --> 00:33:21,400
Speaker 4: just because that's my brother. Yeah, since day one, you

778
00:33:21,400 --> 00:33:23,080
Speaker 4: know what I mean, That's been a guy that I

779
00:33:23,160 --> 00:33:25,120
Speaker 4: that I looked up to in the way that he

780
00:33:25,160 --> 00:33:26,800
Speaker 4: plays and the way that he carries hisself on and

781
00:33:26,840 --> 00:33:28,240
Speaker 4: off the field. And I spent a lot of time

782
00:33:28,240 --> 00:33:29,920
Speaker 4: with him and his family, the way he is with

783
00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:32,360
Speaker 4: his family. He's just a great dude overall. Man. I

784
00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:33,520
Speaker 4: respect everything about him.

785
00:33:33,560 --> 00:33:35,720
Speaker 5: Now, last year, you had a career here and snaps

786
00:33:35,760 --> 00:33:37,760
Speaker 5: and tackles on defense, and you were making some key

787
00:33:37,760 --> 00:33:41,320
Speaker 5: players on defense as well. What is it about Gus

788
00:33:41,360 --> 00:33:44,160
Speaker 5: Bradley's defense that fits your playing style?

789
00:33:44,760 --> 00:33:47,680
Speaker 4: He respects me as a player, he respects me as

790
00:33:47,720 --> 00:33:49,720
Speaker 4: a person, and he respects me as a playmaker. So

791
00:33:50,680 --> 00:33:52,720
Speaker 4: we always talk about ways that he can implement me

792
00:33:52,760 --> 00:33:54,720
Speaker 4: and put me in positions to make plays. And when

793
00:33:54,760 --> 00:33:56,760
Speaker 4: he does do that, I owe it to him to

794
00:33:56,920 --> 00:33:59,600
Speaker 4: make him look good within that situation because it's a

795
00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:02,640
Speaker 4: lot of things that goes into his game plan that

796
00:34:02,640 --> 00:34:05,080
Speaker 4: that that has to put me in those positions to

797
00:34:05,120 --> 00:34:06,600
Speaker 4: make those plays. So when I get a chance, I

798
00:34:06,640 --> 00:34:08,120
Speaker 4: always want to excel at it for sure.

799
00:34:08,680 --> 00:34:11,800
Speaker 1: Speed whether us let's talk about Sunday c J. Stroud

800
00:34:12,200 --> 00:34:14,719
Speaker 1: rookie quarterback, You've got you have one that you see

801
00:34:14,760 --> 00:34:17,319
Speaker 1: every day. The growth and maturity there, I'm sure the

802
00:34:17,360 --> 00:34:19,480
Speaker 1: same thing applies to c J. Stroud. What do you

803
00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:21,320
Speaker 1: see when you watch him on film?

804
00:34:21,400 --> 00:34:24,520
Speaker 4: Man, I know CJ personally and what he has. What

805
00:34:24,640 --> 00:34:26,440
Speaker 4: he has off the field is what he has on

806
00:34:26,440 --> 00:34:29,319
Speaker 4: the field. He hates losing and that's one thing I

807
00:34:29,360 --> 00:34:30,920
Speaker 4: respect about him. But he's gonna have to put that

808
00:34:30,960 --> 00:34:31,600
Speaker 4: to the side.

809
00:34:31,400 --> 00:34:34,839
Speaker 1: On where does where does your relationship with him come from?

810
00:34:35,280 --> 00:34:38,759
Speaker 4: Just just off season, of season, training agency and all

811
00:34:38,760 --> 00:34:40,759
Speaker 4: that type stuff. So I have plenty of chances to,

812
00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:42,239
Speaker 4: you know, sit down and talk to him before he

813
00:34:42,280 --> 00:34:45,319
Speaker 4: was drafted to the Texans. So it was he's a

814
00:34:45,360 --> 00:34:48,600
Speaker 4: he's a stand up dude. I respect him and all

815
00:34:48,600 --> 00:34:51,080
Speaker 4: that type stuff. So I think he would do great

816
00:34:51,120 --> 00:34:54,160
Speaker 4: in this league. But he's gonna have to take two

817
00:34:54,239 --> 00:34:56,360
Speaker 4: l's a year like the rest of his career because

818
00:34:56,920 --> 00:35:00,240
Speaker 4: you got to see the coach. But yeah, but yeah,

819
00:35:00,360 --> 00:35:02,360
Speaker 4: I actually respect CJ as a person and a player.

820
00:35:02,400 --> 00:35:04,400
Speaker 4: So it'll be fun competing against one Sunday.

821
00:35:04,239 --> 00:35:06,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, no doubt about that. And last one for me,

822
00:35:06,960 --> 00:35:09,520
Speaker 1: I know it's early, but it's another AFC South game,

823
00:35:09,640 --> 00:35:12,560
Speaker 1: just like last Sunday was an AFC South game. Important

824
00:35:12,600 --> 00:35:15,239
Speaker 1: because they count for two right they mean double uh,

825
00:35:15,360 --> 00:35:17,399
Speaker 1: and it can put you behind the eight ball how much?

826
00:35:17,560 --> 00:35:19,759
Speaker 1: With that being said, the urgency level, where is it

827
00:35:19,840 --> 00:35:20,239
Speaker 1: right now?

828
00:35:20,360 --> 00:35:24,920
Speaker 4: Yeah, everybody understands the assignment and Sunday, we got some

829
00:35:24,960 --> 00:35:26,839
Speaker 4: things that we're gonna do as a defense, and I'm

830
00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:28,799
Speaker 4: sure the offense has their game plans and I've been

831
00:35:28,800 --> 00:35:31,680
Speaker 4: watching practice. They've been looking good. So I think it'll

832
00:35:31,719 --> 00:35:33,640
Speaker 4: be a great showing on Sunday and we'll come out

833
00:35:33,680 --> 00:35:34,239
Speaker 4: with a do it all.

834
00:35:34,320 --> 00:35:37,680
Speaker 1: Right. Lastly, you look comfortable now. You've got the headphones on,

835
00:35:37,840 --> 00:35:40,319
Speaker 1: you got the cans, you got the mic, you're moving

836
00:35:40,360 --> 00:35:42,640
Speaker 1: the mic around. I know we're on audio on audio

837
00:35:42,680 --> 00:35:44,800
Speaker 1: and radio right now, but you're moving the mic around,

838
00:35:44,800 --> 00:35:47,799
Speaker 1: you're grabbing it. You're comfortable. That comes from the podcast, right,

839
00:35:47,880 --> 00:35:50,040
Speaker 1: you Insire Franklin have your own podcast, right.

840
00:35:50,040 --> 00:35:52,279
Speaker 4: We got the church podcast. So you know, tune in.

841
00:35:52,440 --> 00:35:56,960
Speaker 4: Make sure y'all leave a comment anything you need to do. Man,

842
00:35:56,960 --> 00:35:59,120
Speaker 4: we're talking. Realize you got it down. Yeah, we talk

843
00:35:59,200 --> 00:36:02,520
Speaker 4: were talking. We talked in real life NFL to real

844
00:36:02,560 --> 00:36:05,440
Speaker 4: life just every day stuff in that pot that I

845
00:36:05,440 --> 00:36:07,960
Speaker 4: think people need to hear. So yeah, tune in and

846
00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:08,640
Speaker 4: it'd be great for you.

847
00:36:08,840 --> 00:36:10,759
Speaker 1: Who decided to do that? Whose idea was that?

848
00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:13,480
Speaker 4: Actually it was out here. He did some some stuff

849
00:36:13,719 --> 00:36:17,040
Speaker 4: in the in the off season with the Joe Buden podcast,

850
00:36:17,120 --> 00:36:18,560
Speaker 4: and he came to me and was like, Bro, you

851
00:36:18,600 --> 00:36:19,359
Speaker 4: know you'll be good.

852
00:36:19,480 --> 00:36:19,960
Speaker 1: We can do this.

853
00:36:21,200 --> 00:36:23,320
Speaker 4: I'm like, hell, yeah, what what you mean? You know

854
00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:25,480
Speaker 4: what I mean? So he popped it off and got

855
00:36:25,480 --> 00:36:26,880
Speaker 4: it going, and I follow the lead, and you know

856
00:36:26,960 --> 00:36:28,279
Speaker 4: we're doing we're doing our things with that.

857
00:36:28,320 --> 00:36:30,040
Speaker 1: I like it in the Trenches podcast.

858
00:36:30,239 --> 00:36:30,680
Speaker 4: Ye yep.

859
00:36:30,760 --> 00:36:32,800
Speaker 6: What's the best thing you like about that? Doing the podcast?

860
00:36:32,880 --> 00:36:34,520
Speaker 4: The pot I get the I get to be, the

861
00:36:34,520 --> 00:36:37,400
Speaker 4: fans get to see the other side, they get to see.

862
00:36:37,320 --> 00:36:38,279
Speaker 1: What the hell we're doing right here.

863
00:36:40,560 --> 00:36:42,160
Speaker 4: But they get to see they get to see an

864
00:36:42,160 --> 00:36:45,040
Speaker 4: interaction between two brothers who met within the game of football.

865
00:36:45,120 --> 00:36:47,120
Speaker 4: So and you know, when you you you've been in

866
00:36:47,160 --> 00:36:50,160
Speaker 4: plenty of battles. It's just like it's a camaraderie that

867
00:36:50,160 --> 00:36:53,439
Speaker 4: that that that can't be talked about. They just got

868
00:36:53,440 --> 00:36:55,640
Speaker 4: to see it, so, you know. And and our other

869
00:36:55,680 --> 00:36:59,080
Speaker 4: co host Tim and uh and and Jada behind the scenes,

870
00:36:59,160 --> 00:37:04,200
Speaker 4: Jada Wade Man. So yeah, so yeah, we got it's

871
00:37:04,239 --> 00:37:05,879
Speaker 4: just a it's just a family thing that we got

872
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Speaker 4: going on over there, and it's fun. I actually look

873
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Speaker 4: forward to those pods. Man. I come and I put

874
00:37:10,320 --> 00:37:12,480
Speaker 4: on a little not too much, but you know, I

875
00:37:13,680 --> 00:37:15,200
Speaker 4: love those pods that I get to talk to my

876
00:37:15,280 --> 00:37:16,640
Speaker 4: brothers and stuff in the world, get to see how

877
00:37:16,680 --> 00:37:17,520
Speaker 4: we interact. Well.

878
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Speaker 1: We look forward to avenue on on this podcast and

879
00:37:20,320 --> 00:37:22,719
Speaker 1: on Colts Radio. So can't thank you enough.

880
00:37:22,719 --> 00:37:22,959
Speaker 3: EJ.

881
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Speaker 1: Speed, linebacker for the Colts year number five, don't forget

882
00:37:26,480 --> 00:37:29,640
Speaker 1: going into game number two on Sunday with the Texans. EJ.

883
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Speaker 1: Congratulations on your success.

884
00:37:31,400 --> 00:37:34,399
Speaker 4: Keep it up right, thank you, thank you, thank you all.

885
00:37:34,360 --> 00:37:37,759
Speaker 1: Right again, that's EJ. Speed from earlier today. Love that guy.

886
00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:40,720
Speaker 1: Love that guy year number five, coming from a Division

887
00:37:40,760 --> 00:37:45,080
Speaker 1: two school, Tarleton State. Always a good conversation with him,

888
00:37:45,080 --> 00:37:47,319
Speaker 1: and he and the Colts defense on Sunday looking to

889
00:37:47,480 --> 00:37:52,760
Speaker 1: disrupt rookie quarterback see Jay Stroud, the number two overall

890
00:37:52,800 --> 00:37:55,440
Speaker 1: pick out of Ohio State. That takes us to the

891
00:37:55,480 --> 00:37:58,239
Speaker 1: battle of the rookies as we close out C J.

892
00:37:58,400 --> 00:38:02,160
Speaker 1: Stroud Anthony Richardson. Those two guys, Casey, you've heard me

893
00:38:02,280 --> 00:38:04,239
Speaker 1: say this. Bill. I'm sure you've heard this this week

894
00:38:04,280 --> 00:38:07,439
Speaker 1: as well. Sunday's game will mark just the seventh game

895
00:38:07,480 --> 00:38:12,360
Speaker 1: since nineteen fifty with top five drafted rookie quarterbacks playing

896
00:38:12,480 --> 00:38:13,759
Speaker 1: head to head. There is a little bit of a

897
00:38:13,760 --> 00:38:15,680
Speaker 1: Colts flavor here too. You have to go back to

898
00:38:16,120 --> 00:38:19,200
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety eight. It happened with the Colts Peyton Manning

899
00:38:19,600 --> 00:38:22,439
Speaker 1: versus Ryan Leaf. We all know how that story ends.

900
00:38:23,440 --> 00:38:26,360
Speaker 1: But again, I think these guys are forever going to

901
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Speaker 1: be linked. And this is the first meeting head to

902
00:38:28,440 --> 00:38:31,319
Speaker 1: head between these two guys Stroud and Richardson, where we're

903
00:38:31,320 --> 00:38:34,360
Speaker 1: gonna start overreacting and we're gonna start, you know, comparing

904
00:38:34,440 --> 00:38:37,240
Speaker 1: these guys. Should I drafted that guy, Ny, It should

905
00:38:37,239 --> 00:38:40,560
Speaker 1: have Anyways, what are Strouds bill for you? You've seen

906
00:38:40,640 --> 00:38:42,960
Speaker 1: him play in college, You've watched the game tape from

907
00:38:43,280 --> 00:38:46,080
Speaker 1: week one when they played the Baltimore Ravens. What are

908
00:38:46,120 --> 00:38:50,759
Speaker 1: Stroud's biggest strengths and his weaknesses going into his first

909
00:38:50,840 --> 00:38:53,400
Speaker 1: head to head match up here with Anthony Richardson.

910
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Speaker 5: Well, I would say, especially coming from college and watching

911
00:38:56,200 --> 00:38:58,440
Speaker 5: him play at Ohio State, and I always say his

912
00:38:58,520 --> 00:39:00,879
Speaker 5: accuracy is one of his biggest that he has. He's

913
00:39:00,920 --> 00:39:04,520
Speaker 5: accurate quarterback, getting the ball, delivering the ball, a nice.

914
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Speaker 6: Ball to people. He's mobile in the.

915
00:39:08,120 --> 00:39:11,000
Speaker 5: Pocket, doesn't run a lot in the pocket, and that's

916
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Speaker 5: probably one of the knocks people have on him. Maybe

917
00:39:13,280 --> 00:39:16,759
Speaker 5: sometimes when pressure came, you know, he didn't perform as

918
00:39:16,800 --> 00:39:19,080
Speaker 5: well as he should have in the pocket. So I

919
00:39:19,120 --> 00:39:22,360
Speaker 5: would say his strengths is his accuracy, and he looks

920
00:39:22,400 --> 00:39:25,200
Speaker 5: like he's another poised individual in the pocket back there

921
00:39:25,239 --> 00:39:27,319
Speaker 5: that he doesn't get rattled too much. So I'm gonna

922
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Speaker 5: go with his accuracies and his poise in the pocket.

923
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Speaker 5: Has his strength and his weaknesses. Maybe when you get

924
00:39:33,960 --> 00:39:36,239
Speaker 5: pressure on him, which you can get pressure on him.

925
00:39:36,280 --> 00:39:38,080
Speaker 5: Baltimore got pressure on m maybe he gets a little

926
00:39:38,160 --> 00:39:39,439
Speaker 5: rattle and doesn't play as well.

927
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Speaker 7: That's where I'm going the weakness, and it's no fault

928
00:39:42,480 --> 00:39:45,480
Speaker 7: of his I hate this analogy is a guy's coming out.

929
00:39:45,520 --> 00:39:47,839
Speaker 7: It's like, well, he played at Ohio State, so they

930
00:39:47,880 --> 00:39:50,520
Speaker 7: were a better offensive line than every defense they faced,

931
00:39:50,520 --> 00:39:51,919
Speaker 7: and the weapons were so much better.

932
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Speaker 3: As it's not his fault. But I will say that

933
00:39:54,840 --> 00:39:55,520
Speaker 3: that does.

934
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Speaker 7: Kind of, you know, play into it a little bit

935
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Speaker 7: because now the defenses he's going up against, it's not

936
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Speaker 7: your offensive line isn't towering. Oh, like, oh, they're so

937
00:40:04,239 --> 00:40:07,000
Speaker 7: much better by x amount. The playing field levels out

938
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Speaker 7: a little bit. Yeah, I think that is an area

939
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Speaker 7: that he does have a little bit of a you know,

940
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Speaker 7: a step to kind of take in that realm. But

941
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Speaker 7: the accuracy, his poise, it doesn't seem like I mean,

942
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Speaker 7: I'm watching the way he played last week. I know

943
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Speaker 7: they didn't get a win, but he seemed to be

944
00:40:21,200 --> 00:40:22,960
Speaker 7: in pretty good command of the offense.

945
00:40:23,040 --> 00:40:23,919
Speaker 1: Oh he's gonna be fine.

946
00:40:23,960 --> 00:40:25,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think far as that just fine.

947
00:40:25,480 --> 00:40:27,520
Speaker 7: But I think that's the biggest thing is just you know,

948
00:40:27,560 --> 00:40:30,680
Speaker 7: getting back to the fact where you're playing against defenses

949
00:40:30,719 --> 00:40:32,879
Speaker 7: that are so much better than any defense you played

950
00:40:32,880 --> 00:40:33,320
Speaker 7: in college.

951
00:40:33,440 --> 00:40:34,439
Speaker 3: That's the biggest thing.

952
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Speaker 1: I think there is. I agree with you, although I

953
00:40:36,719 --> 00:40:40,080
Speaker 1: think there is something too. I didn't watch every Ohio

954
00:40:40,120 --> 00:40:43,080
Speaker 1: State game, but the times where I am watching Ohio State,

955
00:40:43,120 --> 00:40:47,759
Speaker 1: it's like, Okay, maybe I could have been because I mean,

956
00:40:47,800 --> 00:40:50,840
Speaker 1: he's got six and seven seconds back there, you know,

957
00:40:50,920 --> 00:40:54,520
Speaker 1: when they're playing Youngstown State and when they're playing Rutgers.

958
00:40:54,560 --> 00:40:57,799
Speaker 1: I mean, no offense to our our Big ten brethren there.

959
00:40:59,040 --> 00:41:01,759
Speaker 1: You know, I think there is something too. Having such

960
00:41:01,800 --> 00:41:04,520
Speaker 1: great talent around him, I'm not going to knock him

961
00:41:04,560 --> 00:41:07,040
Speaker 1: for that, but you know, the numbers kind of bear

962
00:41:07,120 --> 00:41:10,120
Speaker 1: it out. I mean last year, when he was in

963
00:41:10,160 --> 00:41:13,200
Speaker 1: a clean pocket, which happened most of the time because

964
00:41:13,200 --> 00:41:15,480
Speaker 1: of the great weapons and the great offensive line in

965
00:41:15,480 --> 00:41:18,160
Speaker 1: front of him. In twenty twenty two, when he was

966
00:41:18,200 --> 00:41:22,839
Speaker 1: in a clean pocket, seventy one percent completion percentage. That's elite, Yes, right,

967
00:41:22,880 --> 00:41:26,520
Speaker 1: that is that's otherworldly, and you have to certainly give

968
00:41:26,600 --> 00:41:29,239
Speaker 1: him a ton of respect for that. Yes, under pressure though,

969
00:41:29,280 --> 00:41:31,759
Speaker 1: which didn't happen a lot, but when he was under

970
00:41:31,800 --> 00:41:35,520
Speaker 1: pressure last year, that completion percentage bill dropped almost thirty

971
00:41:35,520 --> 00:41:39,080
Speaker 1: points forty one point three percent. I think there's something

972
00:41:39,120 --> 00:41:41,239
Speaker 1: to that, get after him a little bit because he's

973
00:41:41,239 --> 00:41:43,359
Speaker 1: not one of those guys that wants to run around.

974
00:41:43,560 --> 00:41:45,880
Speaker 1: He did that in the college football Playoff semi final,

975
00:41:46,239 --> 00:41:48,880
Speaker 1: he showed that. But he's a guy that wants to

976
00:41:48,920 --> 00:41:51,200
Speaker 1: stick in the pocket and show off that arm and

977
00:41:51,239 --> 00:41:51,920
Speaker 1: that accuracy.

978
00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:53,400
Speaker 5: Yeah, he wants to stay in the pocket. He's not

979
00:41:53,480 --> 00:41:55,440
Speaker 5: a big run guy, and he wants to stay in

980
00:41:55,480 --> 00:41:57,640
Speaker 5: a pocket. And you know, let the offensive line do

981
00:41:57,719 --> 00:42:00,640
Speaker 5: the job block hopefully give him some time. But when pressure,

982
00:42:00,920 --> 00:42:02,719
Speaker 5: you know what, maybe the pressure gets to him a

983
00:42:02,719 --> 00:42:04,520
Speaker 5: little bit and his accuracy is off a little bit

984
00:42:04,560 --> 00:42:07,600
Speaker 5: and maybe he rushes his throw sometimes and disguise coverages, yeah,

985
00:42:07,680 --> 00:42:09,760
Speaker 5: you know, so maybe get him to think a little

986
00:42:09,760 --> 00:42:12,080
Speaker 5: bit and not react, and that might have something to

987
00:42:12,120 --> 00:42:14,439
Speaker 5: do with his inaccuracies down the field.

988
00:42:14,520 --> 00:42:16,319
Speaker 1: I just want to know who's tracking this stuff. So

989
00:42:16,640 --> 00:42:19,480
Speaker 1: ESPN put out in Week one, Stroud had a quarterback

990
00:42:19,560 --> 00:42:23,040
Speaker 1: rating of eighty one point six, which is not very good.

991
00:42:23,360 --> 00:42:26,520
Speaker 1: He was five for ten for thirty six yards. When

992
00:42:26,600 --> 00:42:31,399
Speaker 1: someone from ESPN deemed he was facing disguise covers. All right,

993
00:42:31,600 --> 00:42:34,000
Speaker 1: can we get any more minutia than that? But you

994
00:42:34,040 --> 00:42:37,320
Speaker 1: know what, we're using it we're using it to our advantage.

995
00:42:37,360 --> 00:42:39,560
Speaker 1: You just helped that guy to talk about to talk

996
00:42:39,560 --> 00:42:44,480
Speaker 1: about c. J. Stroud muddying up that guys coverages. He

997
00:42:44,600 --> 00:42:47,840
Speaker 1: was also sacked five times last week against the Ravens.

998
00:42:47,920 --> 00:42:50,320
Speaker 1: That was more than any other game at Ohio State.

999
00:42:50,400 --> 00:42:53,600
Speaker 1: So he was playing with some elite players. All Right, Bill,

1000
00:42:53,719 --> 00:42:55,680
Speaker 1: what do you got man? You excited for this weekend?

1001
00:42:55,760 --> 00:42:57,760
Speaker 1: Feels like you're in the routine now of football.

1002
00:42:57,840 --> 00:42:57,920
Speaker 4: Right.

1003
00:42:58,000 --> 00:43:01,040
Speaker 1: We've had Sunday Monday, now now it's Thursday, then a

1004
00:43:01,080 --> 00:43:02,360
Speaker 1: full slate again on Sunday.

1005
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Speaker 5: Yeah, getting into routine, looking forward to it. Looking forward

1006
00:43:05,400 --> 00:43:07,640
Speaker 5: to Sunday. You know, wan't be on the road, so

1007
00:43:07,719 --> 00:43:09,719
Speaker 5: it's gonna be first time the team's on the road

1008
00:43:09,760 --> 00:43:11,799
Speaker 5: this season. Yeah, looking forward to that and see what

1009
00:43:11,840 --> 00:43:14,360
Speaker 5: it's like. Uh, going down to Houston. It's gonna be,

1010
00:43:14,520 --> 00:43:18,920
Speaker 5: you know, be indoors, so that'll be okay, I'll be

1011
00:43:18,960 --> 00:43:20,760
Speaker 5: too hot. Good, But I'm looking forward for the guys

1012
00:43:20,760 --> 00:43:23,200
Speaker 5: going out there playing well and doing good job against

1013
00:43:23,320 --> 00:43:24,680
Speaker 5: another AFC South opponent.

1014
00:43:24,800 --> 00:43:24,960
Speaker 1: Yep.

1015
00:43:25,080 --> 00:43:27,600
Speaker 7: Now, I'm not gonna get all complain about the job

1016
00:43:27,680 --> 00:43:30,120
Speaker 7: that we have because it's awesome. But isn't it great

1017
00:43:30,120 --> 00:43:33,360
Speaker 7: to have like concrete evidence of an actual game to

1018
00:43:33,440 --> 00:43:33,920
Speaker 7: talk about.

1019
00:43:34,040 --> 00:43:34,560
Speaker 1: Absolutely.

1020
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Speaker 3: I love all of everything that beats right.

1021
00:43:38,680 --> 00:43:40,560
Speaker 7: I mean, I'm sorry you get to that point where

1022
00:43:40,560 --> 00:43:43,160
Speaker 7: you've talked it nausey about the same thing over and

1023
00:43:43,200 --> 00:43:45,360
Speaker 7: over again. So now that we have at least some

1024
00:43:45,440 --> 00:43:48,000
Speaker 7: evidence of what this team has done at least one game,

1025
00:43:48,400 --> 00:43:50,960
Speaker 7: it's great. I love that football is back, and I

1026
00:43:50,960 --> 00:43:54,440
Speaker 7: mean I have taken in Thursday, Monday, Sunday, I took in.

1027
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Speaker 3: I'm gonna watch Thursday tonight. I mean, I'm all in.

1028
00:43:57,440 --> 00:43:57,959
Speaker 4: For no doubt.

1029
00:43:58,200 --> 00:44:00,880
Speaker 1: We're definitely conditioned right now. We're in the swing of things.

1030
00:44:01,160 --> 00:44:04,200
Speaker 1: Week two is here, and so were we on the

1031
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Speaker 1: Official Colts Podcast on a Thursday, The Thursday Crew with

1032
00:44:07,600 --> 00:44:11,040
Speaker 1: you every single week breaking down the latest game and

1033
00:44:11,080 --> 00:44:14,600
Speaker 1: the upcoming matchup. Casey Valier, Bill Brooks, I'm Matt Taylor,

1034
00:44:14,920 --> 00:44:17,359
Speaker 1: and we will do it again next Thursday talking about

1035
00:44:17,440 --> 00:44:20,239
Speaker 1: the Baltimore Ravens. But in the meantime, Colts look for

1036
00:44:20,280 --> 00:44:22,400
Speaker 1: their first win of the season, their first win of

1037
00:44:22,440 --> 00:44:25,480
Speaker 1: the inside the AFC South, I should say, coming up

1038
00:44:25,480 --> 00:44:30,200
Speaker 1: on Sunday against the Houston Texans. For Casey Valier, Bill Brooks,

1039
00:44:30,400 --> 00:44:33,760
Speaker 1: I'm Matt Taylor. We're inside the Indiana Union Construction Industry

1040
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Speaker 1: radio studio. Thanks for joining us, and we will talk

1041
00:44:36,600 --> 00:44:39,560
Speaker 1: to you next week on the official Colts podcast here

1042
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Speaker 1: on the Colts Audio Network. So on,