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Speaker 1: I'm Matt Taylor, gonna be with you tonight. Are until

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Speaker 1: seven o'clock talking Colts football on ninety three five and

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Speaker 1: Colts GM Chris Ballard and talk to him about the

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Speaker 1: Colts through nine games and there to win over the

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Speaker 1: Jets Last Thursday forty five to thirty and with that

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Speaker 1: on the season, winners of four of their last six.

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Speaker 1: They still sit in second place in the AFC South

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Speaker 1: and essentially four games back of Tennessee. Still who keeps

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Speaker 1: on winning. Last night they beat the Rams on Sunday

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Speaker 1: Night Football. But there's a lot of football left and

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Speaker 1: the Colts are trying to snack several wins together with

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Speaker 1: Colts offense last time out on Thursday put up a

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Speaker 1: first time they did that since two thousand and seven.

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Speaker 1: The Colts have now scored at least thirty points in

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Speaker 1: and their thirty four point three scoring average the last

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Speaker 1: month is number one in the NFL. The Colts defense

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Speaker 1: forced two more turnovers against the Jets last time out.

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Speaker 1: They have twenty takeaways as a defense on the season.

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Speaker 1: That's number one in the NFL. The Colts have eleven

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Speaker 1: a lot to get into tonight. We'll do that with

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Speaker 1: next segment, and we'll also take your questions later on

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Speaker 1: the show as always if you have a question on

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Speaker 1: the Colts tweeted in using hashtag Colts Roundtable. But joining

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Speaker 1: this point through nine games is general manager Chris Ballard.

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Speaker 1: He's on the line with us now, brought to you

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Speaker 1: Absolutely so. The Cults are playing good football right now,

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Speaker 1: winners of four of their last six. Chris, what's been

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Speaker 1: and that's been fun to watch. You know, we didn't

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Speaker 1: Chris is proving to be one of the best players

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Speaker 1: Staying on offense, Michael Pittman junior having a breakout season, Chris,

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Speaker 1: the league than just another guy that can win. And

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Speaker 1: I say that, and I know it sounds hyperbolic, but

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Speaker 1: he's playing great. I think the biggest thing with Carson

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Speaker 1: after watching him and having him now is you just

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Speaker 1: got to make sure and enjoy I think Joe will

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Speaker 1: agree with me on this as far as that aberration

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Speaker 1: game is, you just have to keep him on the reservation.

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Speaker 1: He wants to make every play no matter what, and

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Speaker 1: you got you. There's a difference in extending plays and

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Speaker 1: getting on the playground, And the only time he gets

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Speaker 1: in trouble is when he gets a tremendous disadvantage and

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Speaker 1: he still makes the play. And I think Frank will

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Speaker 1: continue to work on that and just make sure just

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Speaker 1: no when to hold him and no when to fold him.

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Speaker 1: And the big thing, don't stop him from extending plays

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Speaker 1: because he wins games for us that way. But the

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Speaker 1: biggest thing Carson, just know when you're in a tremendous disadvantage,

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Speaker 1: just eat that play and go to the next one.

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Speaker 1: I love it. We had our first Kenny Rogers reference

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Speaker 1: here on there. I love it. That's Rick Van Terry

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Speaker 1: with Joe writes. I'm Matt Taylor here on ninety three

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Speaker 1: five and one oh seven five defen How surprised are you?

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Speaker 1: Number two? Let's go to Jonathan Taylor because he currently

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Speaker 1: leads the NFL and scrimmage yards. He stopped a hundred

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Speaker 1: yards from scrimmage now in six consecutive games. He's the

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Speaker 1: first Colt to do that since two thousand and five.

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Speaker 1: And on top of everything else, he's the first player

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Speaker 1: with one hundred or more yards from scrimmage and a

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Speaker 1: rushing touchdown in six consecutive games since Ladanian Tomlinson in

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Speaker 1: two thousand and six when he won the MVP. So

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Speaker 1: maybe we need to start talking about Jonathan Taylor in

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Speaker 1: that vein as well. But you know, a lot of

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Speaker 1: the fan base points to the fact that he's only

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Speaker 1: touched the ball over twenty times in a game three

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Speaker 1: times this season. Rick Taylor's production and his efficient workload

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Speaker 1: so far this season, How surprised are you he is

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Speaker 1: where he is in year number two? Well, I'm normally

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Speaker 1: a year wing man. You were my wing man on

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Speaker 1: that draft, and you know, damn well, I was doing

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Speaker 1: jumper jacks when I think it's the smartest move that

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Speaker 1: Chris Baller ever made on the night of the draft,

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Speaker 1: moving up to get Jonathan. The only thing that stop

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Speaker 1: Jonathan Taylor from being a top tier first half of

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Speaker 1: the draft. Number one is position value. That's it. You know,

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Speaker 1: Jonathan Taylor had greatness written all over him when we

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Speaker 1: drafted him, and he hasn't lost a beat. Great ones,

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Speaker 1: and Joe will tell you great ones have tremendous tools.

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Speaker 1: Great ones aren't accidental. They have tremendous tools. But they

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Speaker 1: also have great work ethic and great drive that equals

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Speaker 1: their tools. And then they're guys when you draft him,

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Speaker 1: they've had great production. You know, he was a six

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Speaker 1: thousand yard guy, durable, tough, He's a great kid that

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Speaker 1: can do it all. It's a team guy, and he

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Speaker 1: has great, great tools. I mean, this is the four

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Speaker 1: three nine is real. It's real speed. You don't have

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Speaker 1: that in running backs. And you see it out on

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Speaker 1: that field. I mean, all of a sudden, he's even

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Speaker 1: with somebody and he's gone. Plus he can catch the

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Speaker 1: ball out of the backfield. He's great in loose play.

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Speaker 1: And that's why the concern to me, and what I

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Speaker 1: really liked about Sunday's game I didn't get into it

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Speaker 1: was the fact that we were running back centric. You know,

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Speaker 1: we ended up rushing for a tony yards because we

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Speaker 1: got big plays, but we were using the running backs

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Speaker 1: in different ways, And to me, the most important thing

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Speaker 1: with Jonathan is touches, not necessarily rushes, and I think

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Speaker 1: that's what's critical. I think if he touches it between

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Speaker 1: twenty and twenty five twenty six times a game, he's

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Speaker 1: going to make big plays because sometimes a swing pass

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Speaker 1: to Jonathan Taylor when the defense is all spread out

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Speaker 1: is better than a sweep that brings everybody there. So

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Speaker 1: absolutely no surprise to me. Again, I think the best

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Speaker 1: strategy move ever since Ballard's been here was moving up

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Speaker 1: to get Jonathan Taylor. Yeah, and the dovetail off that

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Speaker 1: you know, I think Matt and Rick twenty touches a

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Speaker 1: game should be the minimum, the absolute minimum for Taylor.

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Speaker 1: You know, ideally you're in that twenty five range, but

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Speaker 1: you know, he's on pace for twenty one hundred yards

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Speaker 1: from scrimmage. He's on pace for fifteen hundred fifty yards

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Speaker 1: rushing right now. You know a stat that I found

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Speaker 1: about Taylor that I love. He has forty nine first

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Speaker 1: downs this year rushing the football on one hundred forty

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Speaker 1: carry So thirty five percent of the time he gets

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Speaker 1: the ball on a handoff, it's a first down. The

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Speaker 1: next best rushing first down in the NFL is Lamar

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Speaker 1: Jackson with thirty six. So I mean that just puts

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Speaker 1: into perspective how good he is, how efficient he is.

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Speaker 1: He's averaging five point nine to carry. Again, only Chubb

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Speaker 1: and Lamar jacksonra ahead of him there. I mean, all

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Speaker 1: the stats, you can just talk about him till the

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Speaker 1: cows come home. But what Taylor has the unique ability

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Speaker 1: to do that very few running backs do. He is

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Speaker 1: a tough runner, and he can get yards after contact.

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Speaker 1: He's number two in the NFL. He can put his

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Speaker 1: head down on fourth and one and just run through people.

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Speaker 1: But he's a home run hitter as well. He can

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Speaker 1: take a seventy five eighty and we've seen that on

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Speaker 1: the rushes. We've seen that on the screen pass. And

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Speaker 1: that's why he's so valuable to get the ball in

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Speaker 1: his hands. You know, Coach, I asked you a couple

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Speaker 1: of weeks ago before we play the Titans, if you're am,

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Speaker 1: would you rather have Henry or Taylor? And you said,

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Speaker 1: you know, I tend to take Taylor right now because

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Speaker 1: he's younger. You don't have to build the offense around him.

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Speaker 1: I think with Derrick Henry's injury and the fact that

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Speaker 1: it's a foot injury, and you know, as we all know,

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Speaker 1: when running backs go they can go quick. I think

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Speaker 1: Jonathan Taylor is clearly, in my opinion, the premiere running

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Speaker 1: back in the NFL as we stand here on November eighth,

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty one. And I just add one thing to that.

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Speaker 1: One thing I really like Sunday, and this is the

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Speaker 1: defensive coaching me. I do like the fact that we

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Speaker 1: slipped Hines in and out within the series rather than say,

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Speaker 1: Jonathan has this series and then Hines has this series.

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Speaker 1: I really like the idea of the alternation at times,

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Speaker 1: because all of a sudden your defense is not set

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Speaker 1: and all of a sudden you have a change up

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Speaker 1: in the running back situation. Plus it keeps him fresh

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Speaker 1: for the fourth quarter when there's going to be a

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Speaker 1: day you need him. But I really did kind of

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Speaker 1: like the idea that they were able to uti Lives

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Speaker 1: Hines a little bit, but use them within the series

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Speaker 1: rather than four a series. That's Rick vent Terian Joe

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Speaker 1: right sign Matt Taylor. This is Colts Roundtable Live playing

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Speaker 1: How Surprised Are You? Number three? The Colts defense has

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Speaker 1: forced twenty turnovers this season, that's most in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: They have at least two takeaways in four straight games,

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Speaker 1: eleven total in the last month, and dating back to

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Speaker 1: last season, the Colts have forced to turnover in ten

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Speaker 1: straight games. That's the longest active streak in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: And you know, guys, players and coaches, at the beginning

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Speaker 1: of the season, back in training camp, back in the

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Speaker 1: off season, they were adamant about hitting their goal. We

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Speaker 1: want forty takeaways for the year, which has not been

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Speaker 1: done by an NFL team since twenty twelve. Joe, how

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Speaker 1: surprised are you that the Colts are close to hitting

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Speaker 1: their forty takeaway goal, in that they're on pace as

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Speaker 1: of right now for thirty eight. You know, I'll say again,

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Speaker 1: pleasantly surprised. You average two and a half turnovers down

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Speaker 1: the stretch and you're hitting that forty turnover goal. What

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Speaker 1: we're seeing from Darius Leonard, him turning the ball over

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Speaker 1: and punching the law, I mean, that's it's historical and

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Speaker 1: never really been done before. How good he is. But

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Speaker 1: that's what this defense does best. You know, their middle

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Speaker 1: of the road and points given up sixteenth in the NFL,

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Speaker 1: at twenty three a game, we're twenty third against the past.

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Speaker 1: I think coach and I would agree that, you know,

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Speaker 1: the past defenses our biggest achilles heel. We don't get

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Speaker 1: a ton of pressure on the quarterback. But that's also

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Speaker 1: because we don't really blitz. You know, we're fourth in

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Speaker 1: the NFL, fourth least in terms the number of blitz

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Speaker 1: is called. But what we do great is turn the

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Speaker 1: ball over, and that's what has kept this team in games.

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Speaker 1: That's what allowed us to win some games. And again,

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Speaker 1: if we're able to turn the ball over that high rate,

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Speaker 1: you're never out of it. I think there's one game

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Speaker 1: through nine we have it won the turnover battle. And

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Speaker 1: if you're able to do that and steal possessions, you

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Speaker 1: can compete with the best in the NFL. The challenge

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Speaker 1: now for this defense his team is to prove that

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Speaker 1: we can beat one of those really good teams, because

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00:29:52,760 --> 00:29:55,600
Speaker 1: we've been right there so many times. But again, pleasantly

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Speaker 1: surprised on the turnover. That forty turnover goal, which seemed

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Speaker 1: awful low back in Westfield in July. Now, I mean

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Speaker 1: halfway through the season, has really come to fruition. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I was, I scoffed at it after the first two

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Speaker 1: weeks of the season. I didn't think, you know, it

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Speaker 1: didn't look like we were normal. But turnovers really are

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Speaker 1: our salvation. I mean, really and truly it's the defensive

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Speaker 1: salvation because there's not enough good stuff right now on

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Speaker 1: the critical aspects of the passing game, you know, to

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Speaker 1: be a really good defensive team. But salvation is the turnovers.

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Speaker 1: And the one thing that this scheme is set up

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Speaker 1: for is that if you look at it historically, all

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Speaker 1: the way back to the two thousands when it was hot,

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Speaker 1: you know, and basically because there's vision, guys play with

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Speaker 1: vision on the ball, the emphasis on hustle, tremendous emphasis

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Speaker 1: on hustle, so you know, when the ball's in the

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Speaker 1: air or the ball's run, you're gonna have a lot

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Speaker 1: of guys around it. So normally, if there's a punch out,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna get it because we're going to pursue like hell,

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Speaker 1: and we're gonna get it. And then number three and

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Speaker 1: Joe hid it. I mean, I just I've never seen

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Speaker 1: anybody like Leonard. I've never seen a guy that is

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Speaker 1: a turnover machine like he is. You know, it's just

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Speaker 1: absolutely amazing. You know, he's better than like thirteen teams

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Speaker 1: in the league. I mean, he is amazing. He does it,

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Speaker 1: and he does it at the most opportune times. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's it's never garbage. I mean even Sunday. You know,

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Speaker 1: when he punched that ball out, he has a great

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Speaker 1: punch out. The ball was low, it was the end

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Speaker 1: of the down. I mean that game was fourteen to seven.

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Speaker 1: It wasn't it by any stretch, you know, blown out

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Speaker 1: of there. He's just turned so many games around. So

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Speaker 1: the combination of those things, uh, you know, and of

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Speaker 1: course at this point right now, obviously that that forty

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Speaker 1: doesn't look it doesn't it doesn't look out of the

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Speaker 1: out of the out of the reach. I mean, Darius

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Speaker 1: Leonard gets that elbow cocked back. It's like a shotgun

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Speaker 1: the coil on that thing, and then he just fires it.

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Speaker 1: And it's amazing when they do SloMo, how intent his

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Speaker 1: eyes are. I mean, his eyes are locked and loaded

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Speaker 1: on the point of that football. He really, I mean,

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Speaker 1: he box that elbow back and get so much power

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Speaker 1: in that punch. It is. It's so impressive and unique

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Speaker 1: and I'll be interested to watch. Are other people gonna

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Speaker 1: copy Leonard, you know, other linebackers and guys coming up,

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Speaker 1: because clearly he's doing something that nobody else has done,

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Speaker 1: really historical in the NFL, and it's working well for

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Speaker 1: him and well for this Colts defense. The biggest thing

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Speaker 1: Joe on that is as a coach, and they're smart

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Speaker 1: to do it. I would have had trouble in the beginning,

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Speaker 1: to be honest with you, because he'll pass up a

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Speaker 1: tackle to do it. I guarantee you he'll pass up

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Speaker 1: a tackle to do it. And that's why you got

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Speaker 1: to be careful of having too many guys that do that.

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Speaker 1: And in his case, it's worth it because he's going

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Speaker 1: to get it out. Yeah, it's so so effective at

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Speaker 1: that he's been part of nine takeaways on this season

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Speaker 1: when you rack up all of those forced fumbles, fumble

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Speaker 1: recoveries and interceptions. All right, we got time for a

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Speaker 1: our last. How surprised are you a part of Colt's

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Speaker 1: Roundtable Live tonight again. I'm Matt Taylor with Joe Wrights

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Speaker 1: and Rick Venturry. How about kyl and Granson right? Drafted

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Speaker 1: in college. Had great athleticism, versatility, football intelligence, a very

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Speaker 1: very smart football player, but through nine games into his

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Speaker 1: rookie season only five catches for forty nine yards. Twenty

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Speaker 1: seven of those yards came on one catch against the

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Speaker 1: Jets on Thursday Night. Joe only has a catch in

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Speaker 1: three games this season and has only been targeted seven

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Speaker 1: times on the year. So Kyl and Granson's usage this season, Joe,

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Speaker 1: how surprised are you? You know, I think a little surprise,

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Speaker 1: but not really. I don't think it's anything Kylan hasn't done.

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Speaker 1: It's more Jack Doyle and mo Alei Cox. Mo Aley's

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Speaker 1: really emerged as a receiving threat, especially in the red zone,

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Speaker 1: and Jack Doyle does so many of the little things

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Speaker 1: for this football team. And then it's also the position

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Speaker 1: when you're a tight end. Some will say that's the

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Speaker 1: hardest position to learn outside a quarterback because you got

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Speaker 1: to know everything an offensive lineman's doing. But all the

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Speaker 1: Sometimes you're down with the old lineman working on combo blocks.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes you're running seven on seven, So that can just

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Speaker 1: be a lot for any player, especially a rookie. But

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Speaker 1: I really think it's more that Moali and Jack Doyle

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Speaker 1: do so much and our tight end offense is complicated

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Speaker 1: You know, Jack Doyle's blocking at the point of attack,

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Speaker 1: He's cutting back across the formation, cutting off a defensive

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Speaker 1: end the run pass option. I think Grantson will continue

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Speaker 1: gets more comfortable. But all of that inclusive, that's just

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Speaker 1: What do you think, Rick, Yeah, I think he should

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Speaker 1: be more involved. I now, you know the things that

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Speaker 1: you need a veteran guy in there. In Jack is

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Speaker 1: that guy, there's no question. But that's the versatility guy.

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Speaker 1: But here's the problem. We're not problem, but here's what

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Speaker 1: the last in this last half of the season. We

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Speaker 1: got we got a couple of gimmeys. But we've got

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Speaker 1: some top defensive teams coming up, some very smart defensive coaches,

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Speaker 1: and there's gonna be right now. We have the three amigos.

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Speaker 1: We have three creators Whence Taylor and and basically Pitmant

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Speaker 1: those guys create offense. They're not just scheme guys. They

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Speaker 1: win one on ones, they can catch and run, they

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Speaker 1: can do all that stuff. We lack that next guy.

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Speaker 1: We don't have that next guy right now that creates offense.

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Speaker 1: We have guys that are reliable scheme players, they're they're open.

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Speaker 1: I think Ali Cox gives you a fifty fifty guy.

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Speaker 1: Hilton would give you speed if he ever gets healthy.

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Speaker 1: But we don't have that next guy. And the one

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Speaker 1: thing I know that Granton can do, and this is

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Speaker 1: where I think he should be the third down tight

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Speaker 1: end in the eleven personnel, is he can get downfield,

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Speaker 1: which he saw Sunday, and he can catch and run

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Speaker 1: as I've seen him do it. He can catch and

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Speaker 1: run with the ball. So I think somewhere along the line,

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Speaker 1: when we start to meet the Buffalo's Arizona Tampa Bay,

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Speaker 1: New England, Las Vegas. Is We're going to need that

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Speaker 1: somebody to stand up to be that next number two

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Speaker 1: and number three who can actually create, create offense and

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Speaker 1: give us a good matchup down field. All right, that's

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Speaker 1: heading into week number ten against the Jaguars. They are

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Speaker 1: When we come back, we'll get into the mail bag

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Speaker 1: Colts Roundtable. He's asking quitty Pay doesn't have a sack

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Speaker 1: this season? Is he's still being impactful in other ways?

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Speaker 1: Should we be worried he's not developing rapidly based on

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Speaker 1: how much defense needs him to be a playmaker? Joe,

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Speaker 1: what do you think about Quitty Pay, the Colt's first

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Speaker 1: round draft pick. Should we be worried? No? Would you

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Speaker 1: like him to have at least a sack? Yes? And

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Speaker 1: I think Quitty's in that unique spot where I think

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Speaker 1: he's been disruptive in games, but he's not finishing the plays.

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Speaker 1: And Robert Mathis, you know, told me a long time

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Speaker 1: difference between being a disruptive pass rusher and being he

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Speaker 1: called it a pass rush artist, where you're taking guys

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Speaker 1: to the down and the sacks and the forced fumbles.

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Speaker 1: And I think that's true. There's a lot of guys

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Speaker 1: in the NFL that are disruptors, but it's how can

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Speaker 1: you finish the play? And I think I always enjoyed

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Speaker 1: going against rookies when you're an offensive lineman one, there's

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Speaker 1: just so much stuff swimming in their heads. Genuine with

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Speaker 1: a rookie, you're gonna get their their number one, their

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Speaker 1: fastball almost every play. Right. Are they a speed rusher,

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Speaker 1: speed to power, But they haven't developed really the tricks,

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Speaker 1: the nuances, the hand combat, knowing how to set up

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Speaker 1: an offensive lineman where maybe your first two or three

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Speaker 1: rushes of the game, you're grown upfield up field to

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Speaker 1: try to set him up for that inside move. And

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Speaker 1: I think Quity has had some really good rushes, you know,

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Speaker 1: He had a really good one on Morgus Moses early

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Speaker 1: in the game, up and under, you know, and he's

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Speaker 1: disrupting plays, but he's not finished him with those sacks.

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Speaker 1: I expect that continue the second half of the season

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Speaker 1: because I think he's healthy too. He battled that hamstring

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Speaker 1: early on camp, and when you're a rookie and when

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Speaker 1: make sure you're fully healthy. And I think him getting

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Speaker 1: reps continuing to play. Hopefully that bears the fuition that

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Speaker 1: some of these disruptions turn into actually sacks and getting

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Speaker 1: the qbs on the ground the second half of this

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Speaker 1: football season. Yeah, you know, I'm with Joe. I think

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Speaker 1: that I think that he has the talent certainly to

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Speaker 1: rookie it is difficult because you don't always have that plan.

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Speaker 1: I thought Joe did a good good job there. You

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Speaker 1: tend to bring that fastball all the time. He has

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Speaker 1: had some quarterback hits. I mean, if there's a worry,

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Speaker 1: it's that he played well in college, but he didn't

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Speaker 1: have an overwhelming amount of sacks when you get to

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Speaker 1: to be a big time sacker. He's a very good

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Speaker 1: run player right now. He's a physical run player. The

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Speaker 1: thing I want to kill him on, and I want

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Speaker 1: to kill all our defensive ends, Honest to god, if

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Speaker 1: I had him in a room, I would kill him,

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Speaker 1: is they still haven't figured out how to play a bootleg.

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Speaker 1: I mean there's still they still chase the run, fake

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Speaker 1: to the quarterback, come outside. Now. I don't know how.

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Speaker 1: I don't know how. This kid Lawrence is going to

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Speaker 1: so you better get that fixed. I think the other thing,

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Speaker 1: coverage better. But here's one of the problems we have

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Speaker 1: We allow guys to get into the open holes, and

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Speaker 1: even on man coverage, we don't hit him, so we

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Speaker 1: allow him to run away. And they're open quick, Matt.

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Speaker 1: They're open quick and quick rhythm, and if we do

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Speaker 1: very little to disrupt those guys. If you disrupt those

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Speaker 1: guys in match patterns and you make that quarterback hold

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Speaker 1: that one extra second, one extra count and shuffle, that'll

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Speaker 1: make your rush a lot better. We really suffer from

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Speaker 1: the other way as well, and I totally know it.

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's all I did for a long time,

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Speaker 1: and I've played with marginal people. But you have to

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Speaker 1: every Monday night using hashtag Colts Round Table. Let's go

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Speaker 1: to let's see, let's pick out a juicy one here

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Speaker 1: before we close out here, let's go to Craig. He's asking,

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Speaker 1: are there any defense as we play the rest of

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Speaker 1: the season that can slow us down? Rick we are

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Speaker 1: playing lights out on offense right now. Yeah, it's just

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Speaker 1: been fantastic. It's been fun to watch. I mean, the

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Speaker 1: fourth straight thirty pluses. I mean Sunday was manning like,

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Speaker 1: I mean, that was just a circus. With the forty

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Speaker 1: five points, the big plays, the bombs, the long runs

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Speaker 1: that we're putting up, we are really a force to

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Speaker 1: be reckoned with. I mean, we're eighth in the league

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Speaker 1: and scoring, so you know, all arrows are pointing up,

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Speaker 1: you know, to keep it real like I do. The

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Speaker 1: one thing we gotta understand, Craig, is that in the

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Speaker 1: up until this point, believe it or not, we've only

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Speaker 1: played one defense that is in the top ten in

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Speaker 1: the National Football League, and that's the Niners at eight

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Speaker 1: and the Rams at thirteen. That may be surprised to you,

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Speaker 1: but that's what it is. Now. In the last how

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Speaker 1: for the season, you're gonna have four teams, You're gonna

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Speaker 1: have four teams out of the seven, okay, or four

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Speaker 1: teams out of the eight that are ranked in the

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Speaker 1: top ten. Okay, that is the Bucks, the Bills, the Raiders,

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Speaker 1: and the Patriots. So you know there's going to be

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Speaker 1: some real challenges there you know, I think we're peeking

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Speaker 1: at the right time. I said that before the season.

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Speaker 1: I said, one break we had is that with all

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Speaker 1: the injuries and the lack of continuity, we weren't playing

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Speaker 1: against great defensive teams early and that we would be together,

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Speaker 1: you know, buy this last half, and that's exactly what's

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Speaker 1: come to fruition. So they'll be challenges and hopefully we'll

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Speaker 1: be ready to beat them exactly, and I think to

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Speaker 1: Coach's point, we're going to have to do that against

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Speaker 1: some of these upper echelon defenses. If the Colts want

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Speaker 1: to get in the dance and make the playoffs, I mean,

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Speaker 1: with Tennessee continuing to surprise and ascend, you know, they'd

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Speaker 1: be the number one seed right now if the playoffs

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Speaker 1: started in the AFC. You know, if the Colts are

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Speaker 1: looking at a wild card, you're going to have to

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Speaker 1: win some of these games down the stretch, and a

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Speaker 1: couple of those, you know, you look at the Patriots

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Speaker 1: coming in here before Christmas and the Raiders right after

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Speaker 1: New Year's those could be de facto playoff games because

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Speaker 1: right now the AFC has so jumbled. I mean, the

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Speaker 1: Colts are twelfth right now in the AFC think about

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Speaker 1: that at four and five, But there's five teams ahead

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Speaker 1: of them that are five and four. You know, these

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Speaker 1: teams are all going to start playing each other. You know,

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Speaker 1: the Browns and the Pats both five and four, play

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Speaker 1: this week. The Chiefs and the Raiders play this week,

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Speaker 1: and so some of these teams are gonna be jumbled up.

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Speaker 1: The Colts, what I like is down the stretch their schedule.

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Speaker 1: A lot of those tough games are at home, and

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Speaker 1: those could be de facto playoff tiebreakers. Obviously something to watch,

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Speaker 1: you know, as we play hopefully meaningful football in November

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Speaker 1: and set us up for the chance to play even

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Speaker 1: more meaningful football in December. All right, we got about

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Speaker 1: two minutes left, so we got to go quickly, fellas.

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Speaker 1: But as we closed out, Joe as a former player

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Speaker 1: coming off Thursday night football, where again you had that

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Speaker 1: little miniature bye week, if you will. How rested are

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Speaker 1: you typically after a Thursday night game, and just your

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Speaker 1: thoughts going into this game Colts and Jaguars on Sunday

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Speaker 1: in week Oh, I'm bouncing around the facility. Man. You

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Speaker 1: got three days off, then you come in today, and

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Speaker 1: then you got Tuesday off again. So come Wednesday morning,

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Speaker 1: you're like a spring chicken. And think about this. The

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Speaker 1: Colts haven't had their by yet, and so the Colts

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Speaker 1: have this four games sprint right now. You know, we

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Speaker 1: got the Jags and you go to Buffalo, the Bucks

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Speaker 1: and the Texans and then you get that late by.

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Speaker 1: So if I'm the Cults right now, if I'm a player,

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Speaker 1: I'm thinking mentally, hey, we got a grind for four

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Speaker 1: games and push, we got the late by which will

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Speaker 1: be helpful, and then we got a remaining four games.

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Speaker 1: So really, that's nice that the Colts have that. Some

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Speaker 1: other teams on the schedule they've already had their buying,

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Speaker 1: got ten eleven in a row. That's a mental advantage

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Speaker 1: the Colts have coming down the stretch. All right, Rick,

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Speaker 1: give us the elevator. Pitch the elevator Skinny. On the Jaguars, well,

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Speaker 1: the biggest thing I think you've got to sell your

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Speaker 1: team is they've won their last two out of three.

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Speaker 1: Don't think of them as two and six, think them

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Speaker 1: as two as two win one right now. They're not

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Speaker 1: uber talented, but they're sound discipline, they're playing with great effort,

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Speaker 1: and most importantly, they're improving every week. You know, basically,

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Speaker 1: they've got a generational talented quarterback. He's erratic at times,

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Speaker 1: but he can beat you. I love the running back Robinson.

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Speaker 1: He didn't play Sunday. First undrafted free agent in the

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Speaker 1: history of the NFL to get a thousand yards as

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Speaker 1: a rookie. You know, the other Josh Allen lit up

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Speaker 1: the other the Josh Allen and had a great game

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Speaker 1: in their defense, played the game of their life Sundays,

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Speaker 1: so you know they're gonna come in with a little

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Speaker 1: bit of confidence. I like the Joe Wright theory. If

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Speaker 1: we play our best game and they played their best game,

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Speaker 1: we should win the game. So that the emphasis should

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Speaker 1: be on you play your best game. That's Rick Venturi

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Speaker 1: will have more from him later on this week Inside

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Speaker 1: Football the Complete scouting Report. The emphasis on the offense

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Speaker 1: and defensive must do is for the Colts knockoff the

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Speaker 1: Jaguars in Week ten. We'll have that later this week.

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Speaker 1: Joe Wrights, as always on the program, we gotta run tonight,

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Speaker 1: we're up against it. My thanks to everybody who chipped

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Speaker 1: in tonight, everybody that tweeted in their questions and of

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Speaker 1: course we heard from Chris Ballard earlier on the show

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Speaker 1: as well. If you miss any of that conversation, This

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Speaker 1: entire program is going to be posted here shortly on

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Speaker 1: Colts dot com, the mobile app, and the Colts Audio Network,

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Speaker 1: anywhere else you download your podcasts. Inside AU Basketball is next.

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Speaker 1: The Hoosiers tip off this season tomorrow night. By the way,

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Speaker 1: college basketball season is here, and Colts Roundtable Live returns

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Speaker 1: next Monday with the recap of the Colts and Jaguars

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Speaker 1: in week number ten. Until then, have a great week, everybody.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk to you throughout the week. You're on the

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Speaker 1: Home of the Colts ninety three five and one oh

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Speaker 1: seven five the Fan. Goodnight,