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Speaker 1: latest with the Indianapolis Colts. Now here's the voice of

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Speaker 1: the Colts, Matt Taylor from the Power Home Solar Radio Studio. Hey,

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Speaker 1: welcome into the Wednesday Colts Daily Update. Tonight with you

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Speaker 1: for the next fifteen minutes, leading you into Pacer hoops.

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Speaker 1: The Blue and Gold are at the field House tonight

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Speaker 1: taking on the Hornets. I'm Matt Taylor, joined by j. J.

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Speaker 1: Stangovitz tonight from Colts dot Com, and the Colts are

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Speaker 1: getting ready for weeks seventeen and the regular season home

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Speaker 1: finale on Sunday against the Raiders. The Colts are nine

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Speaker 1: and six, winners of three in a row. The Raiders

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Speaker 1: are eight and seven. They're on a two game winning streak.

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Speaker 1: Las Vegas is out of the playoff field as of now.

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Speaker 1: They're looking to change that with the win and some

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Speaker 1: help around the AFC on Sunday. Meanwhile, the Colts are

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Speaker 1: looking to clinch a playoff berth with the win this weekend. JJ.

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Speaker 1: Good to be with you, sir. How are you. I'm

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Speaker 1: doing great, Matt, And Hey, before we begin, I just

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Speaker 1: want to say something here. I'm sure Colts fans who

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Speaker 1: have been on Twitter might have seen, you know, Adam

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Speaker 1: Schefter or Ian Rappaport tweeting about a guy named Jeff

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Speaker 1: Dickerson who covered the Chicago Bears for a long time

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Speaker 1: for ESPN. He was a friend of mine. He unfortunately

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Speaker 1: So if anyone is you know, thinking about, you know,

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Speaker 1: this situation, wondering who Jeff Dickerson was, there is a

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Speaker 1: go fund me set up for Parker Dickerson. I would

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Speaker 1: encourage anyone to check it out. And if you know

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Speaker 1: there's you know, some generosity in your heart to you know,

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Speaker 1: give what you can to him, because that that kid

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Speaker 1: has gone through more than anyone ever should. And I

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Speaker 1: and you know, just saying that Jeff Dickerson was a

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Speaker 1: good man, a good father, a good husband, and a

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Speaker 1: two pro as a reporter. Yeah, there's no doubt about that,

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Speaker 1: well said UM. I listened to him all the time

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Speaker 1: really good at what he did, and unfortunately, at age

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Speaker 1: forty four, just way too soon, we lose a guy

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Speaker 1: like that, all right, Both teams, the Colts and the

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Speaker 1: Raiders JJ dealing with COVID problems. I count thirteen players

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Speaker 1: the Colts situation, although things are looking up a bit

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Speaker 1: leading into Sunday. Yeah, I mean, you know, the rapidly

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Speaker 1: isolate for five days after their positive tests. So that

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Speaker 1: when previously, before this change in the protocols, before the

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Speaker 1: is the Colts Daily Update tonight, ninety three five and

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Speaker 1: Hoops tonight at the bottom of the hour. So, as

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Speaker 1: All right, well done, JJ, thanks for the time tonight,

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Speaker 1: my man. Be sure to check out JJ's work all

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Speaker 1: and we'll talk to you on Sunday, sir, all right,

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Speaker 1: oh seven five. The Fan