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Speaker 1: What's up everyone? Welcome into another episode of instant Reaction

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Speaker 1: here in the Colts Audio Network and the Colts YouTube page.

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Speaker 1: We are brought to you by our friends at Sony.

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Speaker 1: I'm JJ Stankowitz, joined again by Bill Brooks to break

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Speaker 1: down the Colts' latest game. Bill, the Colts forty five

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Speaker 1: to thirty three losers to the New York Giants the

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Speaker 1: three and thirteen New York Giants at MetLife Stadium on Sunday.

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Speaker 1: The Colts are eliminated from the playoffs. Their season is

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Speaker 1: effectively over with one week left to go. A stunning loss, Bill,

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Speaker 1: I think one that is up there for me in

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Speaker 1: terms of gut punches that you didn't see coming for me.

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Speaker 1: It's right up there with twenty twenty one, the loss

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Speaker 1: to the Jaguars. I think these are in the same stratosphere.

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Speaker 1: And that is the last thing I was expecting to

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Speaker 1: be talking about coming into a game against the Giants

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Speaker 1: team that I had friends who were Giants fans, family

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Speaker 1: members who are Giants fans who are texting me being like,

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Speaker 1: I hope the Giants lose so they get the number

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Speaker 1: one overall pick, and instead the New York Giants put

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Speaker 1: up forty five points. They beat the Colts and just

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Speaker 1: you know, Bill, after the game, some of the adjectives

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Speaker 1: that were used in the Colts locker room by players

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Speaker 1: were embarrassing, unacceptable that you know, that is where the Colts'

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Speaker 1: minds went after this game. And I don't think there's

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Speaker 1: any other way to describe it, Bill, when you lose

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Speaker 1: a game like this with these steaks, that a game

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Speaker 1: you should have won, a game you should have taken

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Speaker 1: care of the giants, and you didn't, and here we are,

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Speaker 1: you're eliminated from the playoffs.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was very frustrating.

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Speaker 3: We have a game like this, knowing the stakes in

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Speaker 3: regards to the outcome of the game is gonna determine

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Speaker 3: a lot of how your goals go or how goals

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Speaker 3: the goals you set for yourself as far as reaching

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Speaker 3: the playoffs and knowing that you know what you need

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Speaker 3: to go out there and play a game. Yes, you

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Speaker 3: needed some help from some other teams, but you need

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Speaker 3: to take care of your own business. And unfortunately the

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Speaker 3: coach could not take care of their business. And for me,

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Speaker 3: and as I'm sure a lot of fans, is frustrating,

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Speaker 3: very frustrating to see what happened today against the Giants,

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Speaker 3: and the way the coach played, they just could not

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Speaker 3: could not get anything going into me after the Coat

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Speaker 3: got the three nothing lead, and then the Giants came back.

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Speaker 3: And then from that point on, once the Giants got

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Speaker 3: the lead, they just never relinquished the lead and they

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Speaker 3: kept on playing. And the thing I thought the coach

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Speaker 3: might do is try to jump on them early, you know,

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Speaker 3: on this team early, so maybe they have some quit

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Speaker 3: know what I mean, they don't want to give that

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Speaker 3: extra effort that they need to to to play hard

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Speaker 3: and to win the football game. And then by the

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Speaker 3: time you get into the third quarter, late and third quarter,

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Speaker 3: begin the fourth quarter, you know the game would be over.

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Speaker 3: But unfortunately that didn't happen. The Coast didn't play well.

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Speaker 3: They made some mistakes out there, and the Giants took

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Speaker 3: advantage of it. They just kept on playing and playing

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Speaker 3: and playing, and they had the confidence to go out

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Speaker 3: there to think that they could beat the Coats, and

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Speaker 3: they did. They were out there and played well, and

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Speaker 3: as you said, jj for the players, it was embarrassing

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Speaker 1: I think we don't want to lose sight that the

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Speaker 1: Giants do have some good players. Milik Neighbors is a

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Speaker 1: football player. Wandale Robinson's a good player. But for Drew

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Speaker 1: Locke to do what he did to the Colts today

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Speaker 1: that and it's not a lot of it was after

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Speaker 1: But Bill, I want to read you the five highest

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Speaker 1: talking about Lamar Jackson, an MVP candidate, Jared Goff and

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Speaker 1: Bill, you know what their perspective was on it. But

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Speaker 1: all of that combined, Bill just led to a really again,

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Speaker 1: I just I come back to stunning. It's stunning that

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Drew Locke seventy of twenty three completion percentage through.

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Speaker 2: Fourth down four touchdowns, ran for one.

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Speaker 3: The man played well, give him credit, but a lot

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Speaker 3: broke the tackles, miss tackles, whatever you want to call it,

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Speaker 3: he just took it into the house. I mean, those

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Speaker 3: But you gotta make those tackles. You got to tackle

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Speaker 3: and the coach just could not do it. And give

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Speaker 1: The Colts in this game. Bill, you know, let me

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Speaker 1: you'll have guys rallying to the ball and bringing down

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Speaker 1: It might be an additional three or four yards instead.

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Speaker 1: And he said, we didn't have that. We need to

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Speaker 1: I don't think we play with that type of mentality.

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Speaker 1: I think too many times it's too many one on

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Speaker 1: we could play better together as a defense. And you

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Speaker 3: if they continue running from a defensive standpoint, you run

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Speaker 3: You want to get four to five guys out there

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Speaker 2: And if you know, things work out.

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Speaker 3: Maybe you get one guy try to strict the ball

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Speaker 3: they're making tackles, and that's what you need. You need

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Speaker 3: as you heard, as Ziaz said, you know what, the

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, the one that really was the backbreaker

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Speaker 1: Bill was in the fourth quarter of eight minutes and

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Speaker 1: fifty seconds to go. It's that that pass to Neighbors

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Speaker 1: Julian Blackman gets blocked, Jalen Jones runs into him, Zia

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Speaker 1: it's twenty eight to twenty six Giants. The Colts, the

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Speaker 1: there just kind of felt like, Okay, the Giants have

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Speaker 1: don't think anyone expected them to be on the ropes

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Speaker 1: to comprehend that it got to this point exactly.

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Speaker 3: I mean I mentioned it earlier about giving this team life,

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Speaker 3: and that's what the Coast did by letting them get

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Speaker 1: Just there's so much we can we can talk about

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Speaker 1: All right, Bill, something that like early in the game

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Speaker 2: So they felt good about themselves when they wanted to stop.

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Speaker 2: But the players don't feel that. They're not thinking about that.

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Speaker 1: So the other flip side of this in the first half,

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Speaker 3: Oh definitely, And you know, as far as the coaches,

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Speaker 2: And that's what happened today to the coast.

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Speaker 3: There are a couple of plays that the Coats just missed,

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Speaker 2: Allowed them to run one hundred yard.

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Speaker 3: Kickoff return back for a touchdown, and that just changes

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Speaker 3: things in regards to how the Coats approached their next

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Speaker 1: So the other part of this bill is that the

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Speaker 1: But I was watching that game on Saturday night in

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Speaker 1: Like the Colts got the help they needed today, another

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Speaker 1: under the radar thing that the Dolphins won that would

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Speaker 1: DeForest Buckner had a really good line on Thursday of

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Speaker 1: If we win our last two games and we don't

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Speaker 1: And the Colts didn't even do enough in week seventeen

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Speaker 1: And then you look at the Houston Texans collapsing, losing

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Speaker 1: you flip like one of those games against Houston and

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Speaker 1: a playoff game. There's so many missed opportunities for this

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Speaker 1: out there too. Zire Franklin was very candid after the

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Speaker 1: here at you can hemmon Hall like I just did

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Speaker 1: all you want and say, oh, if you had this

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Speaker 1: the Cults are not a playoff team this year, and

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Speaker 3: And you don't have anyone to blame except yourself for

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Speaker 3: the way the things have ended up here this season.

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Speaker 3: With the Indianapolis Coats not making the playoffs, you have

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Speaker 3: ample opportunities to win some big games you could have won.

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Speaker 2: I mean the game against the Denver Broncos. Didn't win

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Speaker 3: You you know what, you needed some help after the

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Speaker 3: Broncos game in regards to other teams losing, and you

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Speaker 3: take care of your business. It set it up last

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Speaker 3: it's set up last week or this past Saturday, I

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Speaker 2: Where the Bengals won.

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Speaker 3: So that's what something something, what you needed in regards

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Speaker 3: to helping you get to the playoffs, and then Lisha

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Speaker 3: the last week of the season still having a shot

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Speaker 3: to win. I should still have a shot to get

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Speaker 3: into the playoffs if you won your game, the game

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Speaker 3: against the Jaguars in Week eighteen, but not now, not

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Speaker 3: even going to week eighteen, you have an opportunity to

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Speaker 3: even try to get into the playoffs. So you can't

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Speaker 3: blame anyone except yourself. You didn't play well enough to

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Speaker 3: beat the Giants to have that opportunity for Week eighteen,

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Speaker 3: So it's unfortunate. But as Zaira said, you know what,

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Speaker 3: they didn't do enough to get in the playoffs. So

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Speaker 3: you know what you as Bill Parcel says, you are

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Speaker 3: what your record says you are. And the record for

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Speaker 3: the Colts right now is the not getting into the

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Speaker 3: playoffs in the twenty twenty four season.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the Colts who will finish under five hundred this season.

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Speaker 1: No matter what happens next week against the Jacksonville Jaguars, Bill,

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Speaker 1: you and I will be back after that game for

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Speaker 1: our season finale of Instant Reaction presented by Sony. Before

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Speaker 1: we go, though, Bill, you know I travel a lot

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Speaker 1: headphones of the Indianapolis Colts. All right, Bill, this has

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Speaker 1: been therapeutic. Yes it's not again, not the podcast I

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Speaker 1: was hoping to record with you tonight, But we'll have

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Speaker 1: won more of these again next week after the Colts

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Speaker 1: play the Jaguars, and then stick with us in the

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Speaker 1: off season. We'll have plenty of good stuff coming to

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Speaker 1: you on the Colts Audio Network. Moving forward. For Bill Brooks,

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Speaker 1: I'm JJ Stankowitz. Thank you for listening to this episode

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Speaker 1: of Instant Reaction presented by Sony. Talk to you next

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