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The Colts Report with Will Retherford (2.53.2) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

• 0:07
  [SPEAKER_01]: Welcome back to the Central Indiana Sports Report Colts fans for this week's Colts Report coming off at 40 to 6 win over the Rader's I'm your host Greg Mangell here at Stage 22 with Will Ruffford Sam Frick about joining us today so it's just the two of us but I think that's probably a good thing because we both have a lot to say.
• 0:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah absolutely I interested to see we talked briefly about it on
• 0:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: strictly biased, but just hearing what your negatives were for the game versus mine because I've got a couple that I would like to mention.
• 0:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: I wouldn't say there were as much negatives in this game as much as concerns going forward.
• 0:45
  [SPEAKER_01]: There was one negative in it's a player and it was bad.
• 0:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: But what we do is we'll and I go back and review the film.
• 0:54
  [SPEAKER_01]: We break it down.
• 0:55
  [SPEAKER_01]: We have some things we want to talk about and here it is and I'm going to start with this.
• 1:01
  [SPEAKER_01]: Once again, game plan A plus or something like a broken record.
• 1:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it was.
• 1:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: I thought that the coaching staff to the phenomenal job getting this team ready to play football this Sunday, it's never hard to get up to play at home.
• 1:13
  [SPEAKER_00]: You have your home crowd there.
• 1:14
  [SPEAKER_00]: You don't have to bring your own energy.
• 1:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's brought for you.
• 1:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: But they took advantage of it.
• 1:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: And this was a game that when we were previewing last week talking about, I said, if the cults want to win this game, they need to go out and kill the Raiders quickly.
• 1:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: need to play fast physical aggressive and they did that.
• 1:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: And I thought that they took it to the Raiders and took them out of the game all the way quick.
• 1:33
  [SPEAKER_01]: And the Raiders defense was guessing the whole game.
• 1:35
  [SPEAKER_01]: They had no idea what was happening.
• 1:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
• 1:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: And that was the exact same thing with the Dolphins where they just have the other team figured out.
• 1:43
  [SPEAKER_01]: And with Kudos to that coaching staff once again who by the way I called coaching Mount Practice last year.
• 1:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: So this is not like
• 1:52
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm buddies with these guys.
• 1:53
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I did not believe I should I thought stuck and shit had been fired But I got to give him credit.
• 1:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: He's been I was on I was on the ship and people can go back I did not think he needed fire.
• 2:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: He's I thought it's play calling was so good And I think that you're seeing the last year why he is What he is as far as enough I had kept he's just a coaching Wizardry is what he's been providing weekend and we got I think the offense looks absolutely phenomenal
• 2:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: There's so much to like, they're like an eight-headed monster.
• 2:25
  [SPEAKER_00]: Like if you, you chop Tyler Warren's head off against what?
• 2:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: Here's Jonathan Taylor, Michael Pittman, Josh Downs, Alec Pierce, when he's healthy, ready to go and be exactly what they need to be.
• 2:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: On that day, you want to take Michael Pittman away.
• 2:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, well, we have Tyler Warren up and down the seam, him playing four different positions, Jonathan Taylor said.
• 2:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's just like no matter what combination, you ever you try to take away, there's an answer.
• 2:52
  [SPEAKER_01]: the guys in front of them are my other A plus for the game offensive mind was phenomenal believable best game I've ever seen from Quentin Nelson he was out in front of every big play yeah Gonzalves once again merely perfect almost perfect in this game and they were bringing in rookie jail in Travis on running plays and he looked like a road greater and
• 3:15
  [SPEAKER_01]: Or an impeachment or both real factors blocking absolutely out on the on the run game to warn is a real blocking He loves it.
• 3:23
  [SPEAKER_00]: I said it for a long time.
• 3:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think I call pitman is a top three blocking wide receiver in the league That what they do to him is his ability to be able to block linebackers and now given he is a big man We're talking six four two twenty.
• 3:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: That's that's not a small guy coming down strong
• 3:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: Good leverage.
• 3:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: It always has a great leverage.
• 3:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: He's always low.
• 3:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think he's just fundamentally an excellent blocker.
• 3:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: I did what I left so much about this Run block is I love that they they took to the cross be the whole day and and they did so because Because we're in Nelson is able to be on an island on that left side and block by himself and create seems
• 4:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: for Taylor to run through.
• 4:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think if there's a game that you go and show why is Quentin Nelson such a game changer for this team and the offensive lines specifically today would be or not today.
• 4:10
  [SPEAKER_00]: Sunday would be the film I would go show you because I think that you saw everyone of his skill sets any time they were pulling guard.
• 4:19
  [SPEAKER_00]: Jonathan Taylor's running behind there was the first touch I'd run on the day was behind Quentin Nelson.
• 4:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: and I just thought that the scheme to take cross be a way made him such a non-factor that the rest of that defense just they couldn't keep up because their best player was a non-factor.
• 4:36
  [SPEAKER_01]: And I'm convinced now that it can solve this as the real deal.
• 4:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think he is.
• 4:39
  [SPEAKER_01]: I isolated on him again this week.
• 4:43
  [SPEAKER_01]: he didn't allow any pass rush.
• 4:44
  [SPEAKER_01]: He was phenomenal in the run game.
• 4:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: They all work.
• 4:47
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and a lot of it.
• 4:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: Again, I want to profess this again.
• 4:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: A lot of this is a scheme.
• 4:52
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I did.
• 4:53
  [SPEAKER_01]: They've been teamed up to the point where they
• 4:55
  [SPEAKER_01]: they're putting these guys in a position to be said.
• 4:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, it's just like I said, you saw schematically, they were prefacing the fact that we are going to double Team Max Crossby.
• 5:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: Whatever we do running the ball to the right side, or really running the ball at all, we are going to make sure that we double Team Max Crossby.
• 5:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: That is coaching, that is implementing a game plan early in the week and sticking through the entire game.
• 5:19
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not sure where Bordelini Rink's rakes as far as sinners,
• 5:23
  [SPEAKER_01]: I can't tell you.
• 5:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: And the league, but I think that there are two top five guards on either side of them.
• 5:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think if he can even just be a top 15 center, we're talking about it too.
• 5:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: An interior alignment that is going to really be tough for three in one technique to handle.
• 5:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: They need to find ways to get in.
• 5:44
  [SPEAKER_01]: Can he Richardson on the game?
• 5:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: You think so.
• 5:47
  [SPEAKER_01]: He could be an incredible athlete behind that line, man.
• 5:53
  [SPEAKER_01]: three plays a game kind of package.
• 5:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, he works on be interesting to see if they could do that.
• 5:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, and I that was a take away that I had a little bit too.
• 6:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think we've gotten early in the season.
• 6:03
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think it was important to preface the fact.
• 6:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: that Richardson's not breathing down Daniel Jones neck.
• 6:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think for the team for the fan base, for the organization is important to say, Daniel Jones is our starter regardless of what happens.
• 6:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: We're now going into weeks six.
• 6:17
  [SPEAKER_00]: We know what Daniel Jones can do.
• 6:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think in now it's time to use an incredibly, athletically gifted individual on your team.
• 6:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe the best athlete on your team, get him involved somehow.
• 6:30
  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know, maybe,
• 6:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: It quarterbacks always love to be quarterbacks.
• 6:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: You don't like to use the fact of, oh, well, you know, we want to.
• 6:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: We want it four points again.
• 6:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: We want to transition him to a tight end or receiver, but why not?
• 6:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: Why not use him in whatever capacity you can because he's just far too athletic to not be on the field.
• 6:49
  [SPEAKER_01]: Just bring Jones off the field, three or four plays a game.
• 6:53
  [SPEAKER_01]: I have three or four special plays.
• 6:55
  [SPEAKER_01]: You have set up for him.
• 6:58
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think it's something that Stike and would probably like to do eventually and I think it sounds like to me Richardson's handled this pretty well Yeah, I think so.
• 7:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think he is a really good backup And my cuts will he's only 22 years old.
• 7:11
  [SPEAKER_00]: He did a complete a pass to himself Hard to do that now from very often All right, here's a question for okay
• 7:23
  [SPEAKER_01]: is Pippman and Warren, the second best wide receiver tied in combination in the NFL behind Laporta and St.
• 7:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: Brown Yeah, Hawkinson and Jefferson.
• 7:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: Fair enough.
• 7:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, you're probably right.
• 7:42
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, but Warren is significantly better than Hawkinson, Hawkinson is very good though.
• 7:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: You're a, I forgot about them.
• 7:48
  [SPEAKER_00]: That would be the only one I would say.
• 7:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: We agree that Laporta and
• 7:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, that was out question.
• 7:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: That's the bit that reported.
• 7:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's not the fact that he's not a top three tied in in the league.
• 8:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's the fact that they have so many mouths to feed in that offense.
• 8:03
  [SPEAKER_00]: And he just by happenstance can kind of get lost in the play calling a little bit.
• 8:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: When you have Omnirah who, you know, is always open, he's always open.
• 8:14
  [SPEAKER_00]: You could always make an argument to throw the ball to him because his route running is just so precise and Chris, he's one of those players.
• 8:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think he will age.
• 8:23
  [SPEAKER_00]: like fine wine just because i think the his precision as far as a receiver is an intangible that not a lot of guys have um but to answer your question i i think top two maybe not
• 8:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know, because I think Warren might be that much better.
• 8:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think the difference between Warren and Hawkins might be greater than the difference between Pitman and Jefferson.
• 8:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: Call me crazy, but- Pitman was a couple of weeks as look like a top-end elite recently.
• 8:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: He's taking advantage of his targets.
• 8:51
  [SPEAKER_00]: I wish they would feed him the ball a little bit more in force feed him, but downs has been so good in the short area.
• 8:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: He's open.
• 8:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: He's the third down guy that they are trying to target.
• 9:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: Do you want to do one look so good if you get anything out of Mitchell now it's just a bonus they have five receivers that are all There's no one there's no one there one receiver is Tyler Warren, but they have pitman is it to pitman if pitman's a two he is a top
• 9:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: Three, two, maybe in the league.
• 9:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe four, I think you could maybe make an argument of Higgins and Chase when Burroughs there.
• 9:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: You could probably make an argument.
• 9:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: He's super high up there.
• 9:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I think this team is this offense.
• 9:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: We haven't even talked about Jonathan Taylor yet.
• 9:42
  [SPEAKER_01]: Well, that was my next question.
• 9:43
  [SPEAKER_01]: That means that Bitman, Warren, and Taylor have to be the best one, two, three combination.
• 9:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: In the NFL, unless you think it's the lines.
• 9:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think Taylor's better Gibbs.
• 9:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think that Warren's better than Laporta.
• 10:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think the only one the colds lose out on that.
• 10:04
  [SPEAKER_01]: But he might be.
• 10:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think the only one that there's clear cut, I think all men are all definitely better than Pitman.
• 10:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: But yes, I think that as far as a three-headed monster, tied in receiver and running back, they are top two at the bare minimum in the league and probably won.
• 10:24
  [SPEAKER_01]: We're figuring that exactly why he's being so successful.
• 10:27
  [SPEAKER_01]: He's playing down to line that is a lot almost no pressure.
• 10:30
  [SPEAKER_01]: He's saying in the ball to one of the top running back to the lead.
• 10:34
  [SPEAKER_01]: And I would say that when you include running back tight and and wider receiver, he probably has a top five set of skill players.
• 10:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't think it should be that surprising to people.
• 10:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: Like the all the skill players were there.
• 10:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: Like it was just kind of quarterback.
• 10:51
  [SPEAKER_00]: take them to the next level.
• 10:52
  [SPEAKER_00]: They're offensive lines, you're growing in developed, but you also, you've got, you had some young guys on the, that offensive line last year that made a difference.
• 11:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: Daniel Jones is, when he was protected in New York, wasn't horrible.
• 11:07
  [SPEAKER_01]: Coming into this season, I thought their number one received a permit was a two.
• 11:10
  [SPEAKER_01]: I thought their number two receiver downs was more of a three.
• 11:14
  [SPEAKER_01]: I thought dueling was a dime a dozen.
• 11:15
  [SPEAKER_01]: I wasn't sure about Alec Pierce.
• 11:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: Warren was a rookie.
• 11:19
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm quite surprised that it's this good.
• 11:21
  [SPEAKER_01]: I can't believe how good doing is.
• 11:23
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm stunned by how good he is.
• 11:25
  [SPEAKER_01]: Warren, I knew he was gonna be really good.
• 11:27
  [SPEAKER_01]: I didn't know he was gonna immediately be the most important Titan in the NFL.
• 11:33
  [SPEAKER_01]: and Pitman's been way better than I expected him to be.
• 11:36
  [SPEAKER_00]: Pitman, I am certain.
• 11:38
  [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe I'm biased because I love Michael Pitman, but I think that you maybe just had a little hate in your heart towards him as a player.
• 11:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: But he has performed with every quarterback that he's played before.
• 11:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: outside of last year, which I think was injury, riddled in, and Richard said, he's a struggle.
• 11:58
  [SPEAKER_01]: The receiver, I've never said he wasn't a good receiver.
• 12:00
  [SPEAKER_01]: No, but I've only said if he's your best receiver, that's not what they don't kill you with elite talent.
• 12:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: They kill you with depth.
• 12:08
  [SPEAKER_01]: I were seeing that now, but I didn't see that last year.
• 12:11
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that's why I'm surprised.
• 12:13
  [SPEAKER_01]: And maybe Daniel Jones is really good.
• 12:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: I have a feeling it's a lot of the other things around him.
• 12:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: but he's been fed to what quarterback isn't really good when they have it all kind of laid out their form.
• 12:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: Montana played with about 15 Hall of Famers.
• 12:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think it's just natural to say when the talents around quarterback's better.
• 12:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: So that's the positive.
• 12:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: And I think we also need to throw in the defensive backfield.
• 12:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think Nick Cross is a real player.
• 12:43
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think the other defensive backfield has a chance to be probably not a leap, but very, very good.
• 12:52
  [SPEAKER_01]: They play making quite from the defensive backfield that we might see, but I watched the tape.
• 12:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: And I'm going to tell you my negative.
• 13:01
  [SPEAKER_01]: Lot to is not good.
• 13:04
  [SPEAKER_01]: I watched him the entire game that he had a couple of quarterback hurries and an interception.
• 13:12
  [SPEAKER_01]: He had nothing to do with any of those plays he was unblocked both times.
• 13:15
  [SPEAKER_01]: He had a quarterback hurried.
• 13:16
  [SPEAKER_01]: No one touched him.
• 13:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: you've you've definitely beat that drum, I think it's fair to be critical.
• 13:25
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think he he might be a little better than that, but but he's not somebody that's worthy of I think the 14th pick, which I don't think he was worthy of the pick when they picked him there.
• 13:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: Especially the next guy picked.
• 13:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, so I think that there's no position.
• 13:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: I do hold the thought that they were intending on taking rock
• 13:51
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think they won, I think they won that I would call some level and get drafted.
• 13:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, thank you, Cago Bears.
• 13:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, what's funny is I was on the camp of I may be preferred.
• 14:03
  [SPEAKER_00]: Love you in a little bit more than more and because of the past block.
• 14:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'll go ball state and you're saying Jordan might be might be.
• 14:11
  [SPEAKER_00]: I've been surprised with how good of a blocker he's been.
• 14:14
  [SPEAKER_00]: I always thought that he was going to be in more of the Brock Bowers room as far as a playmaker kind of just an extension of a wide receiver, but his blocking looks really effective.
• 14:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: I know he's super tough.
• 14:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: I knew he was tough Penn State.
• 14:29
  [SPEAKER_01]: I thought he was just way more athletic than anybody else.
• 14:31
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I had no idea he was.
• 14:34
  [SPEAKER_01]: don't be that kind of player any given the ball to goal line.
• 14:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: There's not much you can't do.
• 14:39
  [SPEAKER_01]: These days healthy we're talking about it one of the greats of all time by the time he's done and it's five games in.
• 14:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah hard to say that in the NFL, but sometimes you can just see.
• 14:50
  [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, you can see it.
• 14:51
  [SPEAKER_00]: He's got greatness right now over him.
• 14:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: Um, one thing I will say.
• 14:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: The cold should never have another red zone possession the rest of the year that Tyler Warren does not get the ball in some capacity.
• 15:02
  [SPEAKER_00]: Anything, it malpractice, screen them up, hand them the ball off.
• 15:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: Hell, let them throw the ball.
• 15:07
  [SPEAKER_00]: Whatever you do, just let Tyler Warren touch the ball on the red zone every time and you will see that touch any efficiency increase because they've kicked a lot of field goals.
• 15:17
  [SPEAKER_00]: That's been maybe the only knock of the offense as they have struggled with that turning those possessions into touchdowns.
• 15:23
  [SPEAKER_00]: They score a lot of points, but touchdowns are always better.
• 15:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: And I just, I think Tyler Warren fixes all those problems for you.
• 15:30
  [SPEAKER_00]: Let's give him ball.
• 15:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: He should, he should score touchdown every week because you just aren't going to feed him the ball.
• 15:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: He is that good, man.
• 15:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: is that I would I'm going to be really interested next season to see when they do the NFL top 100 where his peers think he is because I think he's a top 20 player in the league.
• 15:54
  [SPEAKER_01]: A couple of weeks ago somebody told me that Penn State should be better this year because they only lost a couple of players and I said they lost to generational
• 16:06
  [SPEAKER_01]: players.
• 16:07
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, not just some players.
• 16:09
  [SPEAKER_01]: They lost Tyler Warren who couldn't end up being the greatest tied in of all time.
• 16:13
  [SPEAKER_01]: He's got the combination of skills to be that guy.
• 16:16
  [SPEAKER_01]: And Abdul Carter, I don't know if he's going to be generational talent, but he certainly has the ability to be he's the real deal.
• 16:23
  [SPEAKER_00]: So I kind of saw this coming of things now.
• 16:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: Aller looks lost without war and it's a safety valve, which you can see just the pivotal role that he played.
• 16:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: James Franklin didn't interview.
• 16:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: They asked him the question if you could take one player back from Penn State history and add him to this year's team.
• 16:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: He went back one year and grabbed, would grab Tyler Warren.
• 16:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: If that does it tell you everything you need to know about him as a football player, as a man, and as a leader.
• 16:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: He is.
• 16:50
  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, we're talking to say quambarclay.
• 16:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: and he still wants Tyler Warren there at, wow.
• 16:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: Stike is finding ways to get Tyler Warren the ball every week, whether it be out of the backfield, whether it be as a receiver or a slot, or a tie-dant, he's finding ways.
• 17:07
  [SPEAKER_00]: I get mad when they just don't give him the ball every play.
• 17:11
  [SPEAKER_00]: Like if I can just give Tyler Warren the ball every single play, I would do it.
• 17:15
  [SPEAKER_01]: Ever Taylor, it's got to be one of them.
• 17:17
  [SPEAKER_00]: John Taylor.
• 17:17
  [SPEAKER_00]: And Jonathan Taylor, you want to talk about like,
• 17:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: But my girlfriend has, it was probably the first person shout out, Addy, love you.
• 17:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: So about it.
• 17:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: Marlon Mac and Jonathan Taylor would have been a running back tandem that would have fed families for generations, probably I loved Marlon Mac.
• 17:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: She also loved Marlon Mac and think about what he did for the Colts team when he was here before that Achilles injury and look at what Taylor's done.
• 17:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: while he is top five in the league now and league history, not just the league with over 90 rushing yards per game.
• 18:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: And I believe Eric Dickerson, Leading Tom once in
• 18:11
  [SPEAKER_00]: Jim Brown are the three that I know off the tip of my tongue that are above him.
• 18:17
  [SPEAKER_00]: If that's the three that you're keeping company with, boy, you are some special.
• 18:27
  [SPEAKER_01]: And it's funny we talked about the defense front seven isn't good enough.
• 18:34
  [SPEAKER_01]: But the defense is really performed really well.
• 18:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: You know, give up six points last week.
• 18:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: performed really well against Miami.
• 18:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: They played really well at times against the Rams.
• 18:45
  [SPEAKER_01]: They've done a lot of good things.
• 18:47
  [SPEAKER_01]: How are they getting it done?
• 18:50
  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, I think they're getting it done by good play, not in the front seven, but the back four.
• 18:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think the back four is a top.
• 18:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: Because I bet five men, a top eight unit in the league without
• 19:07
  [SPEAKER_00]: two pre-glutants here are defensive line between Buckner and and steward.
• 19:12
  [SPEAKER_01]: I know that when they're going up against offensive lines that aren't quite as good, they're very disruptive.
• 19:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, the problem is when they go up against really good offensive lines, you give it nothing.
• 19:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: They've also played some bad quarterbacks too.
• 19:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, so let's go down the list.
• 19:25
  [SPEAKER_00]: So two of they completely just had him in a mind whatever that was.
• 19:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: Same with you, no.
• 19:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: Gino in that same category, they played Kim Ward.
• 19:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: They had him searching for answers.
• 19:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: They'll only quarterback that they've played, but I would say, well, next and scuffer.
• 19:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: Nixon, but both of those guys had their way, kind of did whatever they wanted.
• 19:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: Denver kind of abandoned a band in the past a little bit.
• 19:50
  [SPEAKER_00]: there in that second half and mate they kind of played a game they played not to lose and the cults came back in one that game proof is in the pudding you gotta you gotta try to put teams away but both nicks and staff are kind of picked the cults defense apart because there was no pressure from the front four so if there's one area of this team that I see getting exposed in the future it is going to be that their past rush is not good enough against elite quarterbacks and a run stopping in good enough here
• 20:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: Well now, it's pretty rough, it's casual.
• 20:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: Cardinals the home this week should be five and one, which is, you know, pretty incredible.
• 20:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: They should be, but they've also played five.
• 20:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: That will be six, they've played one, two good teams.
• 20:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: Two very good teams.
• 20:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, very good teams.
• 20:42
  [SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
• 20:43
  [SPEAKER_01]: And the other teams.
• 20:45
  [SPEAKER_01]: are not good.
• 20:45
  [SPEAKER_01]: Miami is bad.
• 20:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: The dolphins, titans and raiders, but it's not like they're the Duke land.
• 20:52
  [SPEAKER_00]: They're all all three of those teams are going to be competing for a top 5 pick.
• 20:56
  [SPEAKER_01]: You're right.
• 20:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: Then you go to LA to face the chargers.
• 21:02
  [SPEAKER_00]: I like that match up with this chargers team, but Herbert Herbert is one of those quarterbacks that can pick the apart if he's given time.
• 21:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: Like he is an elite ball thrower.
• 21:11
  [SPEAKER_00]: So I think that it's definitely something that you have to look at and kind of say, can we stop lad McConnell?
• 21:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: He you hope that can more is backed by then because I think that he will play a pivotal role as far as playing in the slot there.
• 21:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: And then the Titans at home.
• 21:31
  [SPEAKER_01]: That's a win.
• 21:32
  [SPEAKER_01]: So should be a win.
• 21:33
  [SPEAKER_01]: 6 and 2, you would hope would be the worst case in arrow heading into bits.
• 21:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yep.
• 21:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: And then you go to London and face the Falcons.
• 21:43
  [SPEAKER_01]: Should be a win.
• 21:44
  [SPEAKER_01]: So I can't believe we're here.
• 21:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: We're worth speculating the win we have to weaken.
• 21:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: Kind of strings when I had them at one and far at this point.
• 21:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't.
• 21:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: think that you can look at how they've played and not expect them to win.
• 21:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: Like they're playing that well, I mean, in a long time, I've never viewed a Colts team where I said, this team should win.
• 22:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: When Philip Rivers was here for that year, the team was kind of like that where you expected them to perform.
• 22:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: We can, and we got, they didn't want to love in games that year.
• 22:14
  [SPEAKER_00]: It hasn't been that way since Peyton Manning.
• 22:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: But that's really about the only year that it's really been like that, even those Andrew luck years.
• 22:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm a team that you're expected to win, we got to.
• 22:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: I feel like a letdown game's coming at some point.
• 22:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: I like that Falcons game overseas kind of scares me a little bit.
• 22:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think that's a game that like could definitely be dropped.
• 22:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: That Raiders game concern me.
• 22:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: Especially after they were down for anything other than the first quarter.
• 22:43
  [SPEAKER_01]: And I picked him to win by six points.
• 22:45
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's a pretty talented Raiders team.
• 22:47
  [SPEAKER_01]: They just embarrassed.
• 22:48
  [SPEAKER_00]: I said over to scores.
• 22:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: I ended up being right on that.
• 22:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, this team is definitely a team that you look at and say you're not other teams are looking at their schedule and saying that the culture win anymore, like none of these films are are looking.
• 23:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: I do wish that they, I'd like to see like a Houston game or a Jacksonville game a little earlier than it's going to show up because those Jacksonville games I think are going to be really important.
• 23:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: But it just only adds to the gauntlet of what is already a difficult back into the schedule.
• 23:27
  [SPEAKER_01]: No more, they don't play the Jaguar's or Texans until the last
• 23:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: Six games are against divisional punts for their last six games Texans Jaguar C-Hawks 49ers Jaguar's
• 23:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: This is a good team.
• 23:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think you're right.
• 23:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: So, but they're going to win some of those.
• 24:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's an NFL team.
• 24:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: Honestly, at this point, you hope that you split the division games between Houston and Jacksonville.
• 24:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: You've end up foreign to in the division.
• 24:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: You lose on the road.
• 24:11
  [SPEAKER_00]: You went at home.
• 24:11
  [SPEAKER_00]: And if that happens, you hopefully you get one of Seattle or San Francisco.
• 24:17
  [SPEAKER_00]: As long as they go 500 down that stretch, I think that you'll be happy, and I think that it will probably be in a playoff spot, just by happenstance of where the AFC looks like this year.
• 24:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think 10 wins gets he in right now, because I think there's going to be a lot of teams bunched up at that eight nine nine and eight.
• 24:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: Record.
• 24:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: Inside the division, maybe I think at the beginning of the year we predicted that the AFC South is probably only going to get one team in it.
• 24:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: It seems pretty realistic at this point that you're going to probably get two teams in, just based on how it all shakes out.
• 25:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know, I don't think the AFC North is getting two teams in.
• 25:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think there's only one team coming out of that division.
• 25:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think the bingles are going to be a hunt down a top five pick, but they did just trade
• 25:17
  [SPEAKER_00]: the west, there's three teams that can make the playoffs, but I don't know.
• 25:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: We'll see.
• 25:24
  [SPEAKER_01]: Well, I told you my negative.
• 25:25
  [SPEAKER_01]: You said you were also going to come in with a negative.
• 25:28
  [SPEAKER_01]: What was yours?
• 25:30
  [SPEAKER_00]: Kicking now.
• 25:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm worried about it.
• 25:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: I thought they had a good kicker and I'm a little worried that you're not going to bring in a guy that's as good as Schreier, because I thought he was pretty automatic.
• 25:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: He had missed one kick up to that point in the year.
• 25:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: It was just disappointing
• 25:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: disappointing, and you see a lot of these close games, it comes down to hitting field goals.
• 25:51
  [SPEAKER_00]: So hopefully you bring in a guy that can be good in those situations.
• 25:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think that they signed Michael Badgerley, he's been with the team previously, was good with them.
• 26:02
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's been a few years now, but the kicking game got worse this week, just due to the injury of Spencer Schreiner.
• 26:12
  [SPEAKER_01]: The thing kickers are a dime a dozen.
• 26:16
  [SPEAKER_01]: As I've been saying all year, I hope you're right.
• 26:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: There's also a chance that you bring in a guy you've had and you have to cut them and you have to get a new one and you hopefully Oh, that he's good.
• 26:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: I've been high that's penetrater is a really good kicker in the cults of Thank you.
• 26:30
  [SPEAKER_01]: It was top 10 top 15.
• 26:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: He's got a nice future.
• 26:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's easy to find good kickers.
• 26:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's hard to find great kickers.
• 26:36
  [SPEAKER_01]: I don't feel like Michael Badgeley is the answer Good enough.
• 26:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: We'll see.
• 26:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: There are guys out there.
• 26:44
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• 26:53
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• 26:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: We go Colts, go Colts.
• 27:01
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