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Speaker 1: The NFL never sleeps every play.

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Speaker 2: Then the opportunity to be great.

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Speaker 1: The grind is twenty four seven, three sixty five.

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Speaker 2: Let's go go.

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Speaker 1: No, the roster is ever evolving.

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Speaker 3: Find it, get in there.

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Speaker 4: He's in there.

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Speaker 5: Whoa let go, And it's all about finding the edge.

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Speaker 1: Shake one angling left, Cody, He's at the thirty.

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Speaker 3: Got in here sunlight, twenty fifty ten, fine touchdown.

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Speaker 4: Kenny Moore racing for the into ten.

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Speaker 1: Five touchdown. Hi, Indy, why Richardson? You gotta take off

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Speaker 1: on a quarterback drawl. He's at the ten.

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Speaker 3: He's at the five, untouched into the income.

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Speaker 5: This is the Last Word, the off season home of

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Speaker 5: the Indianapolis Colts. Now here's Jeffrey Gorman and Matt Taylor.

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Speaker 3: Welcome into the Last Word. We're here every Friday, right

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Speaker 3: here on ninety three five and one oh seven by

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Speaker 3: the fan. I'm Jeffrey Gorman, Mac Taylor voice, and the

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Speaker 3: coat's a fun time of year, mate.

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Speaker 4: Yes, sir, Training can twenty twenty four is here? Only

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Speaker 4: one practice in got a little appetizer, one hour practice

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Speaker 4: on Thursday, off day today on a Friday, Right back

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Speaker 4: at it though over the weekend.

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Speaker 3: I like it though the first practice we call it

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Speaker 3: a little soft kiss, just an hour on the field.

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Speaker 4: That's exactly what it was, you know what I mean,

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Speaker 4: a soft first date.

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Speaker 3: Now it becomes then the Friday today is off, and

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Speaker 3: then Saturday and Sunday back to back. But we're coming

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Speaker 3: up when these battles are gonna start happening and stuff,

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Speaker 3: and Anthony Richardson, we start with that. We got a

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Speaker 3: whole lot to talk about tonight. We're also gonna hear

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Speaker 3: from Zaire Franklin. But all eyes, and I mean all eyes,

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Speaker 3: all NFL eyes, let alone Indianapolis and Westfield, ye are

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Speaker 3: on Anthony Richardson. And I'll say this, when the practice

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Speaker 3: started yesterday, all ears were on Anthony Richardson as well,

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Speaker 3: because the Colts opened their their ten o'clock practice with

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Speaker 3: Anthony Richardson's song He has a Red List. Yeah, he's

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Speaker 3: got a rap out there. It was literally him singing,

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Speaker 3: you know, and rapping at the start of his second

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Speaker 3: year in the NFL, which I love, which got me

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Speaker 3: thinking real quick, believe me, We'll get down to Anthony.

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Speaker 4: But waitam, I've got a question for you. Really, I mean,

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Speaker 4: was he actually that's his song. Yeah, that's his song,

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Speaker 4: like he recorded it, like he goes no, no, no, no,

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Speaker 4: that's him singing.

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Speaker 3: That's him rapping. How about that mode?

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Speaker 4: He got me thinking, I did not know that. I

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Speaker 4: just thought it was his tune like heed it, no, no.

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Speaker 3: He's singing it, bro, he's rapping it. So here's my thing.

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Speaker 3: yeah like, that would be him saying, I close this arm,

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Speaker 3: I'll take it one at a time. But no, that

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Speaker 3: was cool. It was really cool, and that's you know,

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Speaker 3: it's a different time. I don't know there's many quarterbacks

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Speaker 3: in the camp that they're starting training camp, but with

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Speaker 3: your own rap song. But that's how it started yesterday.

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Speaker 3: All eyes are on Anthony Richardson Matt he got a

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Speaker 3: little bit of action yesterday, and obviously anytime the offense

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Speaker 4: Yeah, he looks sharp. He looked crisp. As Shane Steiken

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Speaker 4: The ball was coming out fast. He's got a really

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Speaker 4: quick release, Jeffrey. I think that's something that kind of

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Speaker 4: And I think it's huge the availability for all of

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Speaker 4: these practices. That health is paramount to his growth because

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Speaker 4: last year, as we've said over and over one hundred

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Speaker 4: Houston Texans in a very meaningful game on September eighth.

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Speaker 4: That's not a lot of time. So all of that

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Speaker 3: And absolutely all eyes are on the way that he

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Speaker 3: any quarterback. But may Tay he's a different cat. His

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Speaker 3: running the football this year. Shane Stiken spoke about it

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Speaker 3: this is a quarterback like nobody's ever seen before. If

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Speaker 3: I just think that Shane Stike in after practice yesterday,

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Speaker 6: People ask this to a lot. It's just like, hey,

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Speaker 2: That's what he does well.

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Speaker 6: And I think obviously it's probably gonna be up every week.

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Speaker 6: But how much we use it each week will determine.

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Speaker 3: Mate, You think they're gonna have like extended two hour

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Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying. I mean, I know it's

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Speaker 4: They've already done that.

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Speaker 3: They have like he has to be smarter on stuff.

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Speaker 3: Especially when he does, he's gonna go down. If there's

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Speaker 3: gotta eat the negative yardage whatever it is. How important

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Speaker 3: is Shane Stikeen in his development that way as playing

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Speaker 3: a much smarter version of quarterbale.

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Speaker 4: Well, it's a two way street. Richardson has to play smarter,

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Speaker 4: this from Shane Steiken. You can't coach scared. I mean,

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Speaker 4: if you want to limit Richardson and Newter his athleticism

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Speaker 4: The Colts have to be calculated on when they dial

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Speaker 4: he's naturally capable of doing. That's be a menace with

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Speaker 4: the running game is gonna be more pronounced some weeks

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Speaker 4: I think he understands, he knows how important he is

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Speaker 4: game's on the line, get a third down, keep a

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Speaker 4: drive going. The Colts' best player is Anthony Richardson, and

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Speaker 4: sometimes you got to put the football in his hands

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Speaker 3: The big fella knows what time it is. Here's Anthony

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Speaker 7: I don't think that's a good thing for this offense,

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Speaker 7: you know, it just more so me, you know, playing

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Speaker 7: knowing when to make the right player and knowing when

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Speaker 7: So don't don't take my lads away, but you know,

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Speaker 4: That Those are some wise words from a twenty two

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Speaker 3: Only us do stay on the field. We got a

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Speaker 3: chance if this cat's ready to go for seventeen weeks

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Speaker 3: and it's now. It's about protect every part of your body,

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Speaker 3: talked about some position battles, mate, and after one practice.

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Speaker 3: It's early, but there is going to be some battles

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Speaker 3: outside cornerback, free safety, backup, swing tackle. How about that

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Speaker 3: one back up middle linebacker who's gonna run number two

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Speaker 4: Yeah, the outside corner spot you had Juju Brins, Jalen Jones,

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Speaker 4: Dallas Flowers. Those guys were all rotating almost on a

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Speaker 4: good to see. They're banking on those guys. Chris Ballard,

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Speaker 4: like you said on Wednesday, really bullish on those players.

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Speaker 4: Think they have major upside, but they got to prove

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Speaker 4: it and that starts here in camp. So that's already

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Speaker 4: on display. Same thing at free safety, you got some

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Speaker 4: at least early is Blake Freeland, who took on that

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Speaker 4: that that athleticism over the course of the offseason. He's

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Speaker 3: He don't come out gets solves the ordinery Lineman he's

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Speaker 3: there too, He's gonna be there. I'm just telling you that,

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Speaker 3: young man. Keep your eye on Matt Gunsalvas this year.

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Speaker 3: I can't wait. Love these position battles. Matt Taylor, Jeffrey Gorman.

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Speaker 2: Mayday, this is you.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, this is your poll. It's like Sunday Night, buttermilk Woltz.

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Speaker 8: Well, really, you know, I kind of look at it like,

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Speaker 8: Whatever play you made didn't make last year at this

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Speaker 4: And you're going into your seventh season, which means this

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Speaker 2: Crazy great all here at.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes you end up playing against them.

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Speaker 8: You know that it'd be crazy like that, But you know,

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Speaker 3: What happened?

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Speaker 8: You'll find out, you'll find out. But yeah, no, I mean, look,

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Speaker 3: It's family, you know, it's family. Zia Franklin joining this

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Speaker 3: That's a role that you're You're fine taken and be

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Speaker 4: Year, sire as we tape this right now. You just

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Speaker 8: Man, It's just you know, when you you know, you

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Speaker 8: I ain't gonna lie when I when I meet a

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Speaker 8: young dude, the less I hear him, the more I

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Speaker 8: like him. Like when they first walk in, you don't

436
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Speaker 8: even know. When they're around, you're like, oh, you know what,

437
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Speaker 8: you actually might be one of them?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, man, lots of them. Man. He's humble, Bro, He's appreciative.

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Speaker 5: Bro.

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Speaker 8: The gratitude like it seeps out of his pores, and

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Speaker 8: I think that's only going to serve him.

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Speaker 2: That's only going to serve him.

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Speaker 8: He's a worker, he's a dog, and you know, I know,

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Speaker 8: look when i'm D lining, I'm not gonna lie. I

445
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Speaker 8: love a lot too. The D line. It's a little different.

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Speaker 8: I gotta see what the pads all. Yeah, I got

447
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Speaker 8: to see what it looked like when you run into

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Speaker 8: twin you know what I mean. It's a little different

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Speaker 8: with the shirts and shorts. But at the same time

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Speaker 8: of what I see from him, he's been putting that

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Speaker 8: work in.

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Speaker 4: That's all you have as Yeah, as you said, going

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Speaker 4: into year seven, you know this all eleven starters coming

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Speaker 4: back on defense. That's that's unheard of. How are you

455
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Speaker 4: going to use that much continuity to your advantage to

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Speaker 4: take the next steps on this defense?

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Speaker 2: Man?

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Speaker 8: Well, I think we all understand what it felt like

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Speaker 8: and what it didn't feel like. You know, we went

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Speaker 8: through a rough patch and during during the year where

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Speaker 8: you know, it felt like, you know, we wasn't you know,

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Speaker 8: executing at the level that our standard. We wasn't held

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Speaker 8: in our standard, and we were able to come together

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Speaker 8: as a group and fight through that. And I think

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Speaker 8: that type of experience is something that will we could

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Speaker 8: lean on, especially during training camp and going into the

467
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Speaker 8: new season, just knowing that we got a group of

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Speaker 8: guys that we've been to battle with, that we've won,

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Speaker 8: that we've lost with, and now with a new new year,

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Speaker 8: new perspective, with a couple of new young guys in

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Speaker 8: the in the fold, we got an opportunity to reach

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Speaker 8: new heights. So I think that's what you know, myself, Kenny,

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Speaker 8: and the force to be, you know, pushing the guys

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Speaker 8: to do well.

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Speaker 3: It seems like that you're getting averaging what seems like

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Speaker 3: twenty tackles a game sometimes. I mean it's like the

477
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Speaker 3: record setting years that you've had in the last two years.

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Speaker 3: How are you getting better from this offseason through this

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Speaker 3: training camp?

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Speaker 8: Man, I just you know, I think, uh, you know,

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Speaker 8: even for the records, you know, just for myself, I

482
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Speaker 8: think I could have just you know, just trying to

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Speaker 8: be more efficient, just trying to be a more fundamentally

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Speaker 8: sound player, and just being just continue to want to

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Speaker 8: be somebody that my teammates can depend on, that our

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Speaker 8: coaches can depend on, and make the players that will

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Speaker 8: help us win football games.

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Speaker 3: Okay, one of the most important questions of the day,

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Speaker 3: How's the pillow and how's the mattress for the next

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Speaker 3: three weeks for you? How you got a comfort You

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Speaker 3: got comfort level?

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Speaker 8: It's crazy. I'm not boogie, but I'm becoming boozie now.

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Speaker 8: I'm gonna tell you. The boogie person on this team

494
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Speaker 8: is EJ. EJ snuck up here yesterday and changed all

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Speaker 8: his pillows and his covers.

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Speaker 2: And I ain't gonna lie, but he sent me some.

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Speaker 8: He sent me a couple of Amazon links though, So yeah,

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Speaker 8: I might be on time soon.

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Speaker 3: So we'll be looking for the moving truck, taking advantage

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Speaker 3: of PROMI shad the time, one of the best in

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Speaker 3: the business. Obviously, a great couple of past seasons that

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Speaker 3: you've had, and obviously where you are now in the

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Speaker 3: eyes of your your fellow players around the NFL. Much

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Speaker 3: congratulations and gonna be watching you do your work. This

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Speaker 3: year is gonna be something special.

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Speaker 2: Yes, they're looking forward to it.

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Speaker 3: Mate. I love talking football with him, but I I

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Speaker 3: love the off the field stuff as well, And when

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Speaker 3: he tells me stuff like EJ speed and getting ready

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Speaker 3: for three and a half weeks in a hotel room

511
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Speaker 3: and stuff. I'm saying this because that if I was

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Speaker 3: a seven year veteran, Bro, I'm just telling you right now,

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Speaker 3: it would be my house. I would make it my house.

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Speaker 3: I mean I would bring mantles.

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Speaker 4: Amazon every other day. Everything like that drop it off packaging.

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Speaker 3: Dog would be there. If I'm a seventh year veteran,

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna make that thing cozy as I can.

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Speaker 4: But Theydunize John the front page of sky Mall.

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Speaker 3: It's funny, man. The rookie show up this even the

520
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Speaker 3: second year guys show up not even a pillow. It's

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Speaker 3: just their bag and their you know everything else. Then

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Speaker 3: you got the four year, five year, six year guys

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Speaker 3: that are bringing entertainment systems.

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Speaker 4: In a couple years. Up and Anderson and guys just

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Speaker 4: went to renta centers.

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Speaker 7: It.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I just went down the street to renta centering. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Hey, you'll hear from quidny pay. You can find it

529
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Speaker 3: out on colts dot com. We asked him the same thing.

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Speaker 3: He's like, it's all it's balanced beams, it's weights and see.

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Speaker 3: I mean he's football twenty four to seven to get

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Speaker 3: ready on the field. Like, I'm not having any fun

533
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Speaker 3: in my hotel room. I'm just waiting for practice.

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Speaker 4: That's when we set storefront of G and C.

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Speaker 3: You know, all right, a little bit long there, don't forget.

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Speaker 3: When we come back, we're gonna give you the form

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Speaker 3: of Credit Union Question of the Week regarding what to

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Speaker 3: expect this season, from defensive end Leat to Latu, the

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Speaker 3: Colts first round draft pick of this most recent NFL draft.

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Speaker 3: We're also going to close out the show by previewing

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Speaker 3: Saturday and Sunday's practice out at Grand Park this weekend.

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Speaker 3: Don't go anywhere, Matt Taylor. I'm Jeffrey Gorman. This is

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Speaker 3: the Last Word on ninety three five one seven five

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Speaker 3: to fan.

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Speaker 5: We talked Colts football every Friday on the Last Word,

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Speaker 5: the offseason radio home of the Colts with Jeffrey Gorman

547
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Speaker 5: and Matt Taylor from the Indiana Union Construction Industry Radio studio.

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Speaker 3: Well I brought to you our friends at Meyer Meyer,

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Speaker 3: the official supercenter of your Indianapolis Colts and proud sponsor

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Speaker 3: of one hundreds of local sports teams across the Midwest.

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Speaker 3: Tim now Mayte Forum Credit Union Question of the Week.

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Speaker 3: We're talking about Liasu Latu and what to expect out

553
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Speaker 3: of the young man this season. Expectations are high. Listen

554
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Speaker 3: to this over the last ten seasons. Only the last

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Speaker 3: ten seasons. I'm saying only five rookies have recorded double

556
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Speaker 3: digit sacks. Just go back ten years, may Take, We're

557
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Speaker 3: five rookies that have registered double digit sacks in their

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Speaker 3: rookie campaign.

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Speaker 4: Miles Garrett, No, sir, can you believe it? Really?

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Speaker 3: I was my first one. I was going, Okay, Garrett's

561
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Speaker 3: a lock. No, sir, I'll stay here with the Colts

562
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Speaker 3: to Forrest Buckner. Not happening, no sir. No cults are

563
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Speaker 3: on this list. May Te think Micah Parsons recently with

564
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Speaker 3: Dallas twenty twenty one, he had thirteen sacks as a

565
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Speaker 3: rookie member, that big one.

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Speaker 4: It seems like he's been in the NFL way longer

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Speaker 4: than just twenty twenty one.

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Speaker 3: You know, I should have got the Bradley Chubb with

569
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Speaker 3: Denver in twenty eighteen.

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Speaker 4: To slip them get twelve of them Bosa.

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Speaker 3: Okay, he did in San Diego in twenty sixteen he

572
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Speaker 3: had ten and a half sacks. We should probably have

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Speaker 3: this from the young man from Eastern Michigan University who's

574
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Speaker 3: been a menace since he walked into Crosby. That's right,

575
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Speaker 3: Max Crosbay with Oakland. He had ten his rookie year,

576
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Speaker 3: and I wouldn't have got this one. Josh Heines Allen,

577
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Speaker 3: formerly known as Josh Allen Allen forgot about him. He

578
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Speaker 3: had ten and a half in twenty nineteen, which was

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Speaker 3: his rookie year.

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Speaker 4: At seventeen and a half last year, he's.

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Speaker 3: Dangerous and he's got a new name. By the way,

582
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Speaker 3: Josh Allen is now Josh Heines Allen and Jacksonville. Colts

583
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Speaker 3: fans visit the forum credit Union fan forum section of

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Speaker 3: Colts dot com. You can interact with other fans online,

585
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Speaker 3: post a topic, participate in various discussions regarding your Colts

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Speaker 3: forum credit Union helping members live their financial dreams. May tay,

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Speaker 3: what do we got this weekend?

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Speaker 4: No good question though, Sorry to interrupt you, but Lot

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Speaker 4: two's getting ten this year.

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Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, book that. And I'll just say this, people go, ah,

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Speaker 3: you're a homer or this. This is a double digit

592
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Speaker 3: win team. This is a double digit sack total for

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Speaker 3: the young man Leazzi a lot to given the Colts

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Speaker 3: defense something that they just have fell short on the

595
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Speaker 3: last couple of years. They've got the menace they were look.

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Speaker 4: If he gets at least ten, then I'm saying a

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Speaker 4: majority of those are coming on third down. That's where

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Speaker 4: I think Lea Tuolt is gonna play the most. I mean,

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Speaker 4: if he's I don't think Leatwo is a starter. And

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Speaker 4: that's not not a bad thing. Think about that thing

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Speaker 4: at all, because you have so much talent on the edge, rotation, rotation, rotation,

602
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Speaker 4: Taekwon Lewis, So that NASCAR package is probably gonna see

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Speaker 4: Lats on one of the edges and maybe Samson Ebcom

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Speaker 4: on the other one.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, Quitty Pey gonna have a monster year, folks, a

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Speaker 3: monster year. Finished with eight and a half sacks last

607
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Speaker 3: year and completely changed his body. So look for big

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Speaker 3: things out of Quitty pay this weekend. Here we go

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Speaker 3: ten o'clock to eleven fifteen on Saturday up at Grand Park.

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Speaker 3: That's practice one. Sunday's practice is gonna run from four

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Speaker 3: pm till five thirty. All the details, anything that unique,

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Speaker 3: just go to colts dot com slash camp. What are

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Speaker 3: we keeping an eye on this weekend? May take.

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Speaker 4: I want to see more from the tight ends, Jeffrey.

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Speaker 4: You had multiple guys rotating in with the first team

616
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Speaker 4: offense on Thursday I think you had at least four

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Speaker 4: tight ends take a snap with the first team offense,

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Speaker 4: so it's kind of tough to decipher. You know, who's

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Speaker 4: who and who has the leg up there. But that's

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Speaker 4: kind of the nature of that position going into camp,

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Speaker 4: considering how much talent and how many bodies the Colts

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Speaker 4: have with that position. And then I want to see

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Speaker 4: the other day on Thursday was primarily a workday inside

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Speaker 4: the red zone and teamwork. I want to see the

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Speaker 4: offense get uncorked a little bit. I want to see

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Speaker 4: if Mitchell and Pierce can be involved in the deep

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Speaker 4: ball game from Anthony Richardson. Because the Colts, We've talked

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Speaker 4: about it all offseason, they need to stress defenses more

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Speaker 4: vertically this season to open up that running game. I

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Speaker 4: want to see that show up. I want to see

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Speaker 4: if that shows up this weekend.

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Speaker 3: Don't forget ten o'cock. That's ten am rather till eleven

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Speaker 3: to fifteen on Saturday. Sunday's practice gonna run four to

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Speaker 3: five thirty. Go to Colts dot com slash camp get

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Speaker 3: all your details. May tay, I'm a little salty right now.

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Speaker 3: This is the last word of this season. No and

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna tell you why I'm ticked off. Yeah, because

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Speaker 3: i have to hand the show over to JMV. And

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Speaker 3: I'm not happy with that. All right, I'm gonna be

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Speaker 3: honest with you. I'd like to keep doing this now.

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Speaker 4: You're good, you're in good hand.

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Speaker 3: Well, we hear from you on the you know, jmb's

643
00:27:06,080 --> 00:27:08,280
Speaker 3: gonna have, of course, the Colts Happy Hour. Last word,

644
00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:10,520
Speaker 3: we're done until next offseason. May Te, you're gonna be

645
00:27:10,560 --> 00:27:11,200
Speaker 3: on the Happy Hour.

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Speaker 4: We'll be there. You'll be the rugby there. You'll be there.

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Speaker 4: Uh yeah, we'll have players with interviews, coaches with interviews.

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Speaker 4: Rick Venturrey, all that is on Happy Hour starting next Friday,

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Speaker 4: Like you said, six to seven, you'll be on there.

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Speaker 3: I will well, we'll be joined by the Hemroy JMV.

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Speaker 3: He'll be there as well. I love them, but you know,

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Speaker 3: I mean, I don't like the crap taking away from

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Speaker 3: me and I feel like he took the show away

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Speaker 3: from me for a few months. May Te, we'll continue

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Speaker 3: to do it. Hey, say hi to us out at

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Speaker 3: camp this weekend. Colts dot com has all your latest information.

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Speaker 3: This is a great football team led by Shane Steichen

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Speaker 3: and Anthony Richardson. Great things are happening. Can't wait to

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Speaker 3: see y'all at Lucas Oil Stadium and out at Graham

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Speaker 3: Park up in Westfield for Matt Taylor. I'm Jeffrey Gorman

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Speaker 3: saying goodbye for the final time, for the last word,

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Speaker 3: right here on ninety three five and one oh seven five.

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Speaker 2: The fans a mado.

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Speaker 1: What's are we.

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Speaker 7: Do to that? We sad when the names are here?

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Speaker 3: Happen summer night for my time