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Jags Drive Time: New Year's Eve · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: out all the macdup features on Jaguars dot com. That
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Speaker 1: was last week again to the Chicago Bears. But we
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Speaker 1: are here in the presence on New Year's Eve, getting
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Speaker 1: ready for a game against the Indianapolis Colts coming up
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Speaker 1: on Sunday. Welcome and Jaguars Drive Time on a Thursday morning.
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Speaker 1: Ashland Sullivan here with Brian Sexton and John Oosier. John,
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Speaker 1: do you have any big party plans plan for New
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Speaker 1: Year's Eve? It's a little different year on New Year's
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Speaker 1: Eve this year. Yeah. I can't share them, uh, because
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Speaker 1: the law would get involved. So for the take of
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Speaker 1: this show, I'll say no, fair enough, okay, Brian, so
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Speaker 1: I guess you won't be seeing John at any clubs
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Speaker 1: this year, say the least, you wouldn't see me at
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Speaker 1: any clubs. Anyway. I've got a nice dinner plan with
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Speaker 1: friends though out here at the beach. There you go. Okay,
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Speaker 1: it's actually a party at the restaurant that we're going to,
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Speaker 1: you know, one of those all inclusive things. That's what
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Speaker 1: happens when you turn fifty. Um. But I am going
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Speaker 1: out and it will be legal, and we're going to
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Speaker 1: celebrate the beginning of hopefully a great new year. Legal
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Speaker 1: is key. Legal is a good thing to follow on
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Speaker 1: New Year's Eve. Well done, YouTube. Let's get into a
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Speaker 1: simply preview, um, just taking it easy, you know, following
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Speaker 1: the law like normal. You know the New Year's party
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Speaker 1: last year? Didn't you have a party in your place
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Speaker 1: last year? I did, that, is correct, I clean for
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Speaker 1: a good four days. I'll never do it again. And
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Speaker 1: remember you guys were all upset that I didn't invite
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Speaker 1: you to the party. But it was young kids. It
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Speaker 1: would have been weird, you know if you have the
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Speaker 1: old guys there. Okay, we'll make some changes for next
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Speaker 1: year when there's no COVID and then you guys can come.
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Speaker 1: We have an entire year to plan it out. All right,
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Speaker 1: let's get into a simply Iowa game preview. Point. Number
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Speaker 1: one we want to make as the Jaguars get ready
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Speaker 1: to take on the Colts is create turnovers. The jaguars
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Speaker 1: biggest helper has been the turnover battle. It has kept
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Speaker 1: them in games they are not supposed to be in,
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Speaker 1: and that does not stop this week. The Colts are
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Speaker 1: a better team. They have a better record, a ten
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Speaker 1: win team, They're healthier, they have more experience. So overall,
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Speaker 1: the Jaguars shouldn't win escape, but if they want to
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Speaker 1: stay competitive, they need to create turnovers on Sunday in Indianapolis.
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Speaker 1: Number two, find a way to use the run to
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Speaker 1: set up play action Daria Gunbal. It will start this
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Speaker 1: week again for the injured James Robinson, building off seventy
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Speaker 1: one yards last week, and best case is to use
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Speaker 1: that run to set up the play action with Mike
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Speaker 1: Glennon at starting quarterback once again this week. Number three
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Speaker 1: win at the line of scrimmage offense and defense. When
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Speaker 1: you share that battle at the line of scrimmage, Colts
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Speaker 1: left tackle will have season ending surgery. We found that
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Speaker 1: out yesterday, but they will get their right tackle back
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Speaker 1: and overall, Brian, the Colts offensive line is a very
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Speaker 1: impressive unit. The Jaguars defensive line, as we know, has
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Speaker 1: been through all kinds of changes, whether it be injury
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Speaker 1: or not playing well or opting out for COVID. So up,
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Speaker 1: this is the biggest matchup we're going to have our
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Speaker 1: eyes on. Well, they have the best offensive line and
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Speaker 1: football and Quentin Nelson and they have and Kelly had
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Speaker 1: center another first round pick, and they're down there left
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Speaker 1: tackling and that's never a good thing. But you know,
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Speaker 1: even with a backup on that unit, it still ranks
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Speaker 1: among the top three or four offensive lines in football.
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Speaker 1: And you know, I mean we've talked about the quarterback
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Speaker 1: things so much this year. The reality of it is,
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Speaker 1: over the last couple of weeks we haven't focused on
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Speaker 1: a defensive line that has a who's who, not a
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Speaker 1: who's who? Right, Like when you had Mollie Jackson and
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Speaker 1: Marcel Darius and Calais camn Butter, Who's who's who? Right?
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Speaker 1: Daniel Aquale last year, last week Daniel ross Um, I mean,
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Speaker 1: Doug Kaston who and that just this is a game
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Speaker 1: of players and matchups, and they just don't. They don't.
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Speaker 1: They don't favor the Jaguars right now, and certainly not
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Speaker 1: against the line as good as the the Indianapolis Colts.
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Speaker 1: Now that's not to say that guys can't go out
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Speaker 1: there and make plays. They can, but it's gonna take
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Speaker 1: a herculean effort cleaning the Gean stables, so to speak,
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Speaker 1: for this defensive line to find a way to get
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Speaker 1: things done this week. Yes, doesn't sound like a matchup
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Speaker 1: in favor of the Jaguars defensive line. And we talked
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Speaker 1: about setting up the run and the play action and
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Speaker 1: big thing too. And James Robinson unfortunately will not be
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Speaker 1: playing this week. And John it's kind of a bummer
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Speaker 1: after the year he's had. You wanted to see him
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Speaker 1: finish it off strong. You understand why he's not playing.
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Speaker 1: In Daria Gumba Wally did well in his place, but
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Speaker 1: kind of a bummer that he didn't finish off in
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Speaker 1: an incredible year by playing in the last two games. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's a bummer for him, absolutely. Um. I think the
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Speaker 1: thing that takes the edge off the bumber is that
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Speaker 1: he can tell himself and I hope he does in
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Speaker 1: this couple of weeks. I've made it in the NFL,
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Speaker 1: meaning he's got a place. He's gonna play in this
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Speaker 1: league a long time. That was obviously his overarching goal,
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Speaker 1: uh this year was to establish himself as a big
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Speaker 1: time running back, which he's gonna be. Uh. You know,
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Speaker 1: he won't get the rookie undrafted free agent record of
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Speaker 1: eleven d five yards. That'll be forgotten. I think this
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Speaker 1: kid's got yards seasons in his future. When the Jaguars
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Speaker 1: get better, I think he's got Pro Bowls in his future.
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Speaker 1: So that's the long term of this big thing. But
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Speaker 1: I think the short term is I don't know that
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Speaker 1: his absence absolutely hurts the running game that much. It
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Speaker 1: does a little, but they ran well last week. This
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Speaker 1: running game this year, James Robinson has gotten all the credit.
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Speaker 1: The running game has been just as much about the
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Speaker 1: offensive line, which is run blocked extremely well. If they
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Speaker 1: had run blocked this well, I'm gonna go back to
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Speaker 1: two thousand and seventeen when they led the league in
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Speaker 1: rushing at the end of the season, they couldn't run
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Speaker 1: blocked very well. This team is a very good run
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Speaker 1: blocking team that's gotten lost a little bit because it's
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Speaker 1: a one in fourteen team. I think they'll run the
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Speaker 1: ball fine against the Colts. I just don't think the
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Speaker 1: other matchups on defense, meaning the Jaguars defense, favors them
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Speaker 1: at all. That's a really good point, Ashland. I have
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Speaker 1: to jump in here because people who were holding to
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Speaker 1: this idea that the Jaguars offensive line either was a
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Speaker 1: weak spot on the team or or held them back
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Speaker 1: this year, they're holding onto an old narrative this offensive line,
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Speaker 1: especially in the run game. As John pointed out, you
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Speaker 1: wouldn't have had James Robinson had the kind of success
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Speaker 1: that he had this year, especially as one dimensional as
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Speaker 1: this team turned out to be, unless the offensive line
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Speaker 1: was giving him legitimate holes. Um this group, and it's
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Speaker 1: likely to be different next year. Cam Robinson's a free agent,
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Speaker 1: h Andrew Norwell has a big salary, Brandon Lender's going
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Speaker 1: into the final year of his deal. You don't know
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Speaker 1: how it comes back. But this offensive line, as was
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Speaker 1: predicted by Jake Gruden before the season began, was a
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Speaker 1: strong point for this team this year. The sacks were
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Speaker 1: largely on quarterback Gardner Minshew, who held the ball far
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Speaker 1: too long in the pocket. Other than that, they played
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Speaker 1: very well this year and just look at last week
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Speaker 1: and how clean Mike Klennon was with Khalil Mack racing
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Speaker 1: to get in every play. No, it is very true.
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Speaker 1: And go back to the NFL combine last year, we
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Speaker 1: were talking about what are they going to do with
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Speaker 1: the offensive line, and the coaches said, we like our
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Speaker 1: offensive line. We like it the way it is, and
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Speaker 1: it's kind of a surprise to all of us. But
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Speaker 1: now we're seeing that that is definitely true, and that
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Speaker 1: right to layers. So this game, when you're looking at
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Speaker 1: it on paper, the Jaguars are in a fourteen game
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Speaker 1: losing streak. The Colts have to win this game, along
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Speaker 1: to the playoffs, So it doesn't seem like the Jaguars
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Speaker 1: really have a chance in this game, but we talked
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Speaker 1: about it in the podcast. You mentioned earlier this week
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Speaker 1: that you really can't rule anything out with this matchup.
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Speaker 1: We've seen crazier things happen than the Jaguars upsetting the
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Speaker 1: Colts this week. We certainly have, and these battles with
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Speaker 1: Jacksonville have not been favorable of late to the Indianapolis Colts.
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Speaker 1: You look at how the Colts ended the twenty nineteen
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Speaker 1: season and began the season. I mean, the Jags have
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Speaker 1: won the last two games over the Indianapolis Colts, and
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Speaker 1: you do take into consideration as well, the Colts will
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Speaker 1: now be without left tackle Anthony Gastonzo. He's done the
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Speaker 1: season with an ankle injury. They did just sign a tackle,
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Speaker 1: Jared veld Here, who spent time in twenty nineteen with
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Speaker 1: the array of different teams, but most notably with the
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Speaker 1: Green Bay Packers, So they are getting some help, some
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Speaker 1: reinforcement there on their offensive line that they did not
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Speaker 1: have against the Pittsburgh Steelers. They will get Brandon Smith back,
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Speaker 1: your right tackle, so offensively, you do have those two
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Speaker 1: things to take into consideration for Indianapolis a ton to
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Speaker 1: play for it. Not only do the Colts need a
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Speaker 1: win of their own, but they're also gonna need a
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Speaker 1: loss from someone else, whether that's Baltimore, Cleveland, Miami, or
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Speaker 1: to get a win for Houston over Tennessee within the division. So, um,
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Speaker 1: there are some things in terms of those one o'clock
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Speaker 1: slate of games. That one o'clock slate of games, and
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Speaker 1: you'll be watching, of course fans will. And then you
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Speaker 1: have the four o'clock matchup between the Colts and Jags.
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Speaker 1: They're also the four o'clock matchup between the Titans and Texans.
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Speaker 1: So coach Wright has said that of course they'll be
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Speaker 1: aware of what happens in those one o'clock games. They're
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Speaker 1: kind of leaving it up to the guys as to
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Speaker 1: whether they check their phones, whether they're gonna be looking
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Speaker 1: at that. Some guys have said, I don't want to
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Speaker 1: know the results of those games. So Lucas Oil Stadium
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Speaker 1: will not be posting the scores of any of those
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Speaker 1: a f C games within the bowl within the stadium
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Speaker 1: on Sunday afternoon. Coach Reich said, maybe it's not a
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Speaker 1: distraction to all guys, but if it's a distraction to
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Speaker 1: one that's one too many. It's better for us to
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Speaker 1: not have them up there. It's irrelevant. It can do
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Speaker 1: nothing to add to our focus to what we have
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Speaker 1: to focus on. It only has a potential to be
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Speaker 1: a negative effect. Of course, you have veteran guys seventeen,
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Speaker 1: you're veteran guys like Philip Rivers who say, it's already
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Speaker 1: part of my pregame routine when we're playing a four
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Speaker 1: o'clock game, I always check in on Sunday ticket watched
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Speaker 1: on my phone to see what's going on across the
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Speaker 1: rest of the league. That's just part of his routine.
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Speaker 1: But for those guys who maybe don't have the situation
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Speaker 1: that they've been in before, a situation like this, whereas
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Speaker 1: Philip has been in this situation before a you know,
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Speaker 1: a win and in and need help elsewhere. So it
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Speaker 1: will will help this team to maybe, you know, keep
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Speaker 1: those blinders onto some degree, stay focused and not have
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Speaker 1: the distraction of those being flashed up across the stadium
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Speaker 1: on Sunday afternoon. All right, Laura, so you've told us
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Speaker 1: everything we need to know about the game on Sunday,
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna take you in a different direction. Are you ready.
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Speaker 1: It's um, it's new year's I'm a sentimental guy. Philip
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Speaker 1: Rivers is one of my all time favorite quarterbacks, and
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Speaker 1: I have lots of stories from the times he would
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Speaker 1: come here with the Chargers about his impact in the community,
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Speaker 1: things he would quietly do to help improve the lives
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Speaker 1: of people around him, right and and and I'm saying
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Speaker 1: this because this could be his last game. He acknowledged that, um,
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Speaker 1: give me, give me a Philip Rivers story, give me
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Speaker 1: something about him. Uh that you folks in Indianapolis have
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Speaker 1: enjoyed this year scene this year. He's one of the
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Speaker 1: great all time quarterbacks. He's probably not winning a championship,
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Speaker 1: maybe with you this year, but could go out without
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Speaker 1: a championship. Hall of Fame guy gets lost in that line,
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Speaker 1: Manning Burger grew at two thousand four draft class, give
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Speaker 1: me something about Philip Rivers and what could be his
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Speaker 1: final season? Man, Well, you know, hopefully we we have
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Speaker 1: Philip returning and I can get you on the podcast
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Speaker 1: at some point to get get some of those stories,
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Speaker 1: to hear some of those many stories. But one of
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Speaker 1: the things that I have to say that kind of
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Speaker 1: stood out to me is right when Philip h signed
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Speaker 1: and committed to coming to Indianapolis this spring. We did
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Speaker 1: a FaceTime interview and he talked about that Hoosiers is
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Speaker 1: actually one of his favorite movies and that he had
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Speaker 1: always felt a draw to the movie Hoosiers and how
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Speaker 1: much he appreciated that, and that was uh something that
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Speaker 1: when they played here when he was with the Chargers
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Speaker 1: and they played in Indianapolis, or actually it may have
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Speaker 1: been when he was here for Super Bowl festivities, not
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Speaker 1: when they were participating in the Super Bowl, but here
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Speaker 1: for some other things when Indianapolis hosted it, that he
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Speaker 1: actually made a trip out to the gym where Hoosiers
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Speaker 1: was filmed because he had such a connection to the
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Speaker 1: aura and the tradition and the history and everything. So
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Speaker 1: that was part of one of those trips that he
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Speaker 1: made to Indianapolis was a commitment to getting out there
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Speaker 1: and getting to see that and kind of pay homage
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Speaker 1: to that because something that was really really special to him.
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Speaker 1: And another thing is um I heard this, uh just
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Speaker 1: kind of third hand over the summertime, once Philip and
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Speaker 1: his family and all of his kids were getting settled
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Speaker 1: in Indianapolis. The neighborhood that they live in of course
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Speaker 1: has like a community pool there and so you had
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Speaker 1: the kids were out swimming. Philip had his kids there,
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Speaker 1: and you know, a couple other little clusters of families,
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Speaker 1: all of course socially distanced and whatnot there at this school.
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Speaker 1: And Philip is over in the deep end, and you
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Speaker 1: have kids that are lining up on the diving board
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Speaker 1: to go off the dining board, and Philip is has
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Speaker 1: like a NERF football and he's tossed and passes, and
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Speaker 1: the kids are all diving off the diving board saying
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Speaker 1: if they can snag him out of the air. And
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Speaker 1: I'm like, what a scene. These kids have no idea.
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Speaker 1: Probably not, I mean his kids know, but most of
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Speaker 1: the other kids here, they've only been in Indianapolis for
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Speaker 1: a short period of time, but they really immersed themselves
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Speaker 1: in the communities. And he's having the time of his life.
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Speaker 1: I mean, future Hall of Fame quarterback is, you know,
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Speaker 1: spending his his afternoon tossing NERF footballs to ten eleven
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Speaker 1: twelve year old kids going off the diving board in
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Speaker 1: their neighborhood. And I just thought it was such a
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Speaker 1: genuine moment where this is a guy who came in
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Speaker 1: with the zero arrogance. You know, none of that there was,
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Speaker 1: There was none of that to deal with. He was
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Speaker 1: somebody who just genuinely was so excited for the opportunity
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Speaker 1: to play football, to have kind of a fresh start
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Speaker 1: in Indy, to be reunited with Frank Reich and Nick Sirianni,
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Speaker 1: and you know, the two things he loves, He loves
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Speaker 1: me and her dadd He loves playing football, and he
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Speaker 1: was just having the time of his life, just making
18:48
Speaker 1: sure that he could have some fun and and be
18:50
Speaker 1: a kid along with all those other kids who were
18:52
Speaker 1: swimming around in the pool on like a you know,
18:54
Speaker 1: hot Midwest July afternoon, certainly nothing like Jacksonville. But that
18:59
Speaker 1: was one of the things things that kind of stood
19:01
Speaker 1: out to me that I thought, Okay, this guy knows what,
19:04
Speaker 1: knows what Indiana is about, knows what being part of
19:07
Speaker 1: this community is about. And you know, unfortunately, because of
19:11
Speaker 1: the circumstances, we don't have as many of those like
19:15
Speaker 1: in person interactions that I'm sure that you probably know
19:18
Speaker 1: of from your many experiences with him, where you know
19:21
Speaker 1: they're going out and doing the community things or visiting
19:23
Speaker 1: the children's hospitals or whatever those might be. So you know,
19:26
Speaker 1: hopeful that we do have more time with Philip to
19:29
Speaker 1: get to know him even better and to create even
19:31
Speaker 1: more of those opportunities. But those are two right off
19:34
Speaker 1: the bat. I mean, if you were going to UM,
19:37
Speaker 1: if you're talking about introducing yourself to a fan base
19:41
Speaker 1: and you start off with talking about how much you
19:43
Speaker 1: love Jimmy Chitwood and Hoosiers and the mystique of all
19:46
Speaker 1: of that, UM, and then you follow it up by
19:48
Speaker 1: you know, being being that dad who's throwing the football
19:51
Speaker 1: too kids. I mean, and I think it was a
19:53
Speaker 1: long period of time. It's like all afternoon he was
19:55
Speaker 1: out there. Those are two really cool things, completely off
19:58
Speaker 1: the field things to me the I'm very fond of
20:01
Speaker 1: and I really appreciate about Philip rovers Yeah, well, I look,
20:05
Speaker 1: before I handed over to John, the story in Jacksonville
20:07
Speaker 1: is is that he touched a charity that I am
20:11
Speaker 1: very familiar with, to the tune of about seven thousand
20:14
Speaker 1: dollars worth of groceries one day when they were in
20:16
Speaker 1: here on a Saturday. So uh, you know, paid for
20:20
Speaker 1: that entire charity to feed the homeless in the hungry
20:22
Speaker 1: for an entire month. So I just have always admired
20:26
Speaker 1: the kind of person he was and didn't want if
20:29
Speaker 1: this is the end of his indie career or his
20:31
Speaker 1: career at all, and he said it was earlier the
20:32
Speaker 1: checker it was potentially the end. People to miss out
20:36
Speaker 1: on one of the great quarterbacks. So John, I'll shut
20:38
Speaker 1: up and now give it to you. Talk ball. No,
20:42
Speaker 1: it's a it's an amazing thing, uh to me. Back
20:47
Speaker 1: to the field, I can't get over, Lara, the fact
20:51
Speaker 1: that they're ten and five and could win and go
20:53
Speaker 1: eleven and five, which would win divisions most years, and
20:58
Speaker 1: still not get in the playoffs. If that happens, what's
21:02
Speaker 1: the mood. Has there been any talk about just how
21:05
Speaker 1: unusual that is? There certainly has been talk of that,
21:09
Speaker 1: and when coach Mick was asked about it this week,
21:11
Speaker 1: he said, I have to just believe that we're going
21:14
Speaker 1: to take care of our own business. We're gonna do
21:16
Speaker 1: what we can do, and that's win eleven games, and
21:18
Speaker 1: we have to just believe that that's enough and believe
21:20
Speaker 1: that we hope we've done enough to be able to
21:22
Speaker 1: get in. And you certainly look at the record and
21:25
Speaker 1: you think, man, that's got to be a successful season.
21:28
Speaker 1: But undoubtedly, if this team misses the playoffs. They're going
21:32
Speaker 1: to be disappointed. I'm gonna say that you can you
21:34
Speaker 1: can look at it two ways. This season can be
21:37
Speaker 1: at eleven and five a success, um, and you missed
21:40
Speaker 1: the playoffs, but it's still a disappointment. I don't think
21:43
Speaker 1: you see it as a failure, but it certainly is
21:45
Speaker 1: a disappointing end to that season because you look at
21:49
Speaker 1: pivotal games where the Indianapolis Colts did not get the
21:52
Speaker 1: job done. I mean, in particular, let's just look at
21:55
Speaker 1: last week, blowing that lead, a double digit lead that
21:58
Speaker 1: you had to the Pittsburgh Steelers, all telling them to
22:00
Speaker 1: come back, and you think, ma'am, you let that one
22:02
Speaker 1: slip away. There were other opportunities that they had. Certainly
22:05
Speaker 1: you think about the loss to Baltimore, the loss to Cleveland,
22:09
Speaker 1: all of those things, um come to mind. You had
22:11
Speaker 1: an opportunity at home against the Tennessee Titans where you
22:15
Speaker 1: couldn't capitalize, and going all the way back to Week one,
22:18
Speaker 1: you let the game in Jacksonville get away from you
22:21
Speaker 1: right out of the gates. And so this Colts team,
22:24
Speaker 1: you think about the many wins that they can boast.
22:27
Speaker 1: In particular, you know, I think about the win over
22:29
Speaker 1: the Packers, both those wins against Houston that came down
22:34
Speaker 1: to stands by your defense, red zone, stands by your defense.
22:37
Speaker 1: There's a lot to be proud of so far this season.
22:40
Speaker 1: I don't want to get nostalgic yet because I'm so
22:43
Speaker 1: hopeful and I feel promising that we will be playing
22:46
Speaker 1: at least another week and extend this run in at
22:51
Speaker 1: least another week or so. But they've they've all touched
22:54
Speaker 1: on it briefly that they were very locked in, locked
22:57
Speaker 1: in against you know, beating Jacksonville, and then whatever I'll
23:00
Speaker 1: happens across the rest of believe will take care of itself.
23:02
Speaker 1: I mean, I think a lot of us in general,
23:05
Speaker 1: whether we we work for teams or whether we're fans,
23:07
Speaker 1: you feel grateful that we're talking about we've gotten through
23:10
Speaker 1: this season too, to completion, that we've been able to
23:14
Speaker 1: get to seventeen weeks of this season and now we're
23:17
Speaker 1: looking to the playoffs. So you think about all of
23:19
Speaker 1: the different curve balls that have been dealt um to
23:22
Speaker 1: every NFL team. In particular, you look at the Colts
23:25
Speaker 1: and the different things, the adversities that they've based losing
23:28
Speaker 1: Marlon Max losing Paris Campbell, you lost Michael Pittman for
23:31
Speaker 1: a period of time, you had divorced Buckner, who missed
23:35
Speaker 1: time due to you know, COVID related reasons, a couple
23:38
Speaker 1: of other situations like that. I mean pivotal pieces of
23:41
Speaker 1: this team that you were missing in crucial games and
23:44
Speaker 1: crucial opportunities. To me, I think that you look at
23:46
Speaker 1: eleven and five and you've got to feel really strong
23:48
Speaker 1: about what you did this season. But by no means
23:51
Speaker 1: are you satisfied sitting in eleven and five if you're
23:53
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23:56
Speaker 1: you're looking at teams you should have beaten who are
23:59
Speaker 1: getting in there and playing meaningful games or continuing to
24:02
Speaker 1: play games into January. Teams like Pittsburgh. You know, of course,
24:06
Speaker 1: you're looking to Baltimore and Cleveland in all of that
24:10
Speaker 1: as well. Very unique situation for the Colts to say
24:15
Speaker 1: the least, and the Jaguar is looking to play spoiler,
24:17
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24:23
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Speaker 1: one season at a time approach for all coaches. We
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Speaker 1: understand if you don't win, especially if you a one
26:44
Speaker 1: in fourteen or two and fourteen or one in fifteen, Uh,
26:47
Speaker 1: odds aren't your favor that you're gonna stick around very long.
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Speaker 1: But staff have worked extremely hard. Coach Maron has done
26:52
Speaker 1: a great job with you know what you've had to
26:54
Speaker 1: work with um and everything UM. But the future is
26:58
Speaker 1: up in the air, without a doubt for gonna work hard.
27:00
Speaker 1: The last game and whatever happens happened. But I do
27:03
Speaker 1: love the areas for sure, and I would love to
27:04
Speaker 1: coach these young guys again. The final week of the season,
27:10
Speaker 1: getting ready for this season finale on Sunday, that was
27:13
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator Jay Gruden about his future coaching possibly here
27:17
Speaker 1: in Jackson. Lots of questions around that, and will recap
27:20
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27:23
Speaker 1: But for now, there's a game on Sunday against the Colts,
27:25
Speaker 1: which means it's time for he will he won't? He
27:28
Speaker 1: might Brian This guy a popular guy lately. You know
27:36
Speaker 1: we jack has had a tremendous year. The numbers from
27:40
Speaker 1: a football perspective tell the story from an all pro
27:44
Speaker 1: probably not because in all pro, you know voting. You're
27:46
Speaker 1: looking for the big flash plays, the scoop and co scores,
27:50
Speaker 1: this acts the interceptions. But I say he will this
27:53
Speaker 1: week make a flash play. The Colts throw the ball,
27:56
Speaker 1: they run the ball. Uh you know. I mean they
27:59
Speaker 1: do everything well. But Philip Rivers, though I love him so,
28:03
Speaker 1: takes a lot of chances and it has become interception prone,
28:07
Speaker 1: probably an interception producer. Okay, So I think there's gonna
28:12
Speaker 1: be a chance for for Jack to finish the season
28:14
Speaker 1: with a flourish So I say we will see a
28:16
Speaker 1: big play from him this week. Um. He won't get
28:21
Speaker 1: the All Pro votes, the Pro Bowl stuff that he
28:24
Speaker 1: deserves this year, but he might next year. Um. You
28:27
Speaker 1: know what, And that's been the refrain with this guy
28:30
Speaker 1: is next year, next year, next year. Um. But when
28:34
Speaker 1: you have a fully functioning offense and a healthy football
28:38
Speaker 1: team around you, a guy like Miles Jack is able
28:41
Speaker 1: to do more of what he does. Um. This year,
28:45
Speaker 1: I think he was doing a lot of everything and
28:47
Speaker 1: making tackles that other guys missed. Um. But next year
28:51
Speaker 1: might be the year that the rest of the league
28:52
Speaker 1: finally sees the complete Miles Jack. Because I think this
28:55
Speaker 1: year we saw the best version of him we've seen
28:58
Speaker 1: since the team he had all that talent around him. Yep,
29:03
Speaker 1: that's the guy that you think will only go up
29:05
Speaker 1: next season with a few more pieces around him. Alright, John,
29:08
Speaker 1: we're switching the offense with you. Yeah. I first of
29:12
Speaker 1: all agree with Brian about Miles. I think he was
29:14
Speaker 1: even better this year than he was in seventeen. He
29:18
Speaker 1: just didn't have a couple of splash plays. So good
29:20
Speaker 1: call by Brian there. Uh. I went with this with
29:24
Speaker 1: the viscous chinult. Uh. He will enter the final game
29:28
Speaker 1: of the season healthy. I think really the thing that
29:31
Speaker 1: sort of held him back from having the rookie year
29:34
Speaker 1: that people hope was he had. It just seemed like
29:39
Speaker 1: for weeks and weeks and weeks he was out, sort
29:42
Speaker 1: of nicked up, not quite where he could have been.
29:45
Speaker 1: As Jay Gruden said yesterday, that's a thing that he's
29:48
Speaker 1: got to work on. He came into the NFL with
29:51
Speaker 1: that as as sort of something hanging around his neck.
29:54
Speaker 1: He's got to get healthy and be there for sixteen games.
29:59
Speaker 1: He don't quite get the numbers that he wanted out
30:03
Speaker 1: of this season probably, uh, but going into this particular
30:07
Speaker 1: game because he's not going into it banged up. I
30:11
Speaker 1: think he has a chance to have a big game.
30:14
Speaker 1: He might, you know, he might have a huge game,
30:18
Speaker 1: and I think he will. He started to do it
30:21
Speaker 1: last week with the thirty four yard h reception. Sometimes
30:26
Speaker 1: with young guys at the end of seasons, you see
30:28
Speaker 1: them put together a couple of huge plays at the
30:30
Speaker 1: end and you get an idea they're figuring out. He
30:34
Speaker 1: might be figuring it out at the right time to
30:38
Speaker 1: have something to go into the off season to work with.
30:40
Speaker 1: I think he's a guy that you're gonna look back
30:43
Speaker 1: on this season and say he was he was almost
30:45
Speaker 1: I think he's going to be a star in the
30:47
Speaker 1: future though. Absolutely. I go back to the draft and
30:51
Speaker 1: we all kind of chuckle when he compared himself to
30:53
Speaker 1: Julio Jones and we said, this guy is going to
30:56
Speaker 1: be fun to cover. So that's a potential for Labisco chionals.
31:00
Speaker 1: I have what do I have, calebon Chase on how
31:03
Speaker 1: could I forget? He will continue the trend of being
31:07
Speaker 1: being the best month of football he has played. Gave
31:11
Speaker 1: Bears left tackle fits all last week and the troubisky interception,
31:15
Speaker 1: the one that Joe Schobert caught in the end zone.
31:17
Speaker 1: Credit to calebon Chase on that was all on him
31:20
Speaker 1: getting that pressure and causing Troubisky to make that mistake.
31:24
Speaker 1: We talked about is he progressing the way that we
31:27
Speaker 1: wanted the start of the season. No, he needed some time,
31:30
Speaker 1: but you're seeing him come into the best month of
31:32
Speaker 1: football he's playing and he will continue that trend on Sunday.
31:37
Speaker 1: He won't go down as most impactful year that we
31:39
Speaker 1: thought he was going to have at the draft. Like
31:40
Speaker 1: I just said, there was a lot of things that
31:42
Speaker 1: we thought he was going to accomplish, and that's a
31:44
Speaker 1: lot to put on a rookie defensive end. And I
31:46
Speaker 1: think we're finally seeing him come into his groove and
31:49
Speaker 1: we almost forget that. There was no preseason this year
31:52
Speaker 1: for him, So he's got finally getting the snaps that
31:54
Speaker 1: he wants this year. So won't go down as the
31:56
Speaker 1: most impactful year for him, but definitely progressing. He might
32:01
Speaker 1: he might beat that this week. He might beat that progression.
32:04
Speaker 1: He had tied a career high in pressures last week
32:06
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32:09
Speaker 1: past four games, in terms of pressures he's produced, they've
32:12
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Speaker 1: Well as a coach, sometimes you know, you know they're
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