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COLTS 31, FALCONS 25: Reaction with Will Retherford & Mike Rich (2.81.1) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

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  [SPEAKER_02]: You are listening to a special edition of the Colt Report this week with Will Rutherford of the Strictly Bios podcast and our Pacer's Guide, Mike Rich.
• 0:12
  [SPEAKER_02]: Their reactions to the Colt's 31-25 overtime win against the Falcons on Sunday morning.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Only on the Central Indian Sports Report.
• 0:23
  [SPEAKER_02]: Welcome back Colts fans to the Central Indian Sports Report for a special edition of the Colts Report.
• 0:31
  [SPEAKER_02]: Here today with Will Rutherford of Strictly Bias with Will Rutherford and our Pasters Guide Mike Rich, Sam Frick couldn't join us.
• 0:41
  [SPEAKER_02]: Will and Mike are here to react to the Colts.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: 31-25 overtime win over the Falcons in Berlin.
• 0:51
  [SPEAKER_02]: And guys, we're gonna have a cult report later this week.
• 0:53
  [SPEAKER_02]: We're gonna get to talk about all of the stuff that was concerning to us and there's plenty of it, including the coaching decisions and the game plan.
• 1:03
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think for the first time this year, they were out coached a little bit, particularly down the stretch.
• 1:09
  [SPEAKER_02]: All of that will talk about that Wednesday, right now, what I wanna talk about is this.
• 1:12
  [SPEAKER_02]: And that is the cult are eight and two going into a bye, guys.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: never would have expected it excited to be a cold span uh... Daniel Jones literally put blood sweat and tears and this went i think you have to be happy with the result yet just it's great and they're eight and two i think they've exceeded all expectations up to the point this year like you said there are things that are concerning in terms of
• 1:43
  [SPEAKER_01]: schematic game planning, especially against stuff upon us coming up, but you feel great to walk away with a win.
• 1:51
  [SPEAKER_02]: Pass blocking suddenly is a bit of a concern when it hasn't been all year.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: But here's one thing, Will.
• 1:56
  [SPEAKER_02]: I want to talk about, okay.
• 1:58
  [SPEAKER_02]: There are four major categories that you look at when you break down a team.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: That is passing rushing past defense and rush defense.
• 2:06
  [SPEAKER_02]: And now the Colts have the best rush offense in the NFL and perhaps they're going to have the best past defense in the NFL.
• 2:13
  [SPEAKER_02]: Michael Pinnick said zero chance in the second half of completing a pass unless he had
• 2:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: I agree, I think that you saw the secondary, I think, make up for some of the lack of talent that you have on the defensive line.
• 2:34
  [SPEAKER_01]: All the sudden when it's a little harder to get throws off in rhythm, the defensive lines, able to get home a little bit more, get in panic to space, rush them.
• 2:42
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think he got happy feet a few times where he could have potentially stepped up into the pocket.
• 2:47
  [SPEAKER_01]: I was able to get him out.
• 2:49
  [SPEAKER_02]: He got happy.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: He wasn't able to open.
• 2:52
  [SPEAKER_01]: And, you know, I think early in the game, you saw some things in terms of the Falcons getting Drake London, the slots to avoid the coverage by Saul Schardner.
• 3:03
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think in the second half, you then saw the Colts counter and they basically followed Drake London, the entire game, and at the end of the game, with Saul Schardner overall,
• 3:14
  [SPEAKER_01]: they did enough to win.
• 3:15
  [SPEAKER_01]: And I think that's all that you can hang your hat on and you're eight and two going into your bioweek.
• 3:20
  [SPEAKER_01]: You can hopefully get healthy and the past defense is only going to get better when the new ward returns to the lineup.
• 3:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: I was happy to see that Grover Stewart made it back and wasn't in a concussion protocol.
• 3:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think we came away from this game clean.
• 3:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's a game we should have came in to you and should have won.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And we did, and to hopefully walk out with not too many injuries.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe some of the next inverses, but other than that, no serious injuries.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I think that's definitely a positive pass.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: protection for Daniel Jones.
• 3:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: I put some of that on Daniel Jones.
• 3:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: He just stood there and he didn't.
• 4:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: He wasn't moving.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But when he was mobile, as he made the biggest play of, you know, when he ran for 19 yards and they were, I think, 32 or something like that.
• 4:13
  [SPEAKER_00]: And we need to see more of that.
• 4:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: But again, you don't want to see him get injured either and run in a ball too much.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Um, he held the ball a little too long a couple of times and, uh, cause some sacks and cause some fumbles.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Again, three fumbles was just, it's a, that's unacceptable.
• 4:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: Um, you can't have that against a good team, quite Kansas City.
• 4:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's, you give that, you give up three fumbles are going to recover a few of those couple of things.
• 4:44
  [SPEAKER_01]: I, I like what Mike said a lot.
• 4:45
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think there were some times that Daniel Jones was responsible for the pressure that he got.
• 4:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's concerning because there are some goofed Jones moments in that second half that you saw New York giants, Daniel Jones kind of rear his ugly head.
• 4:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: He looks like a deer and headlights a lot.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: His inability, I think, to process the game when pressure was in his face was concerning in that fourth quarter.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I am aware that the pressure was a lot.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They were bringing six guys frequently, but at the same time, I
• 5:15
  [SPEAKER_01]: I just didn't see the commanding of audibles, the commanding of a check there where we could potentially maybe bring Tyler Warren in for Max protection, maybe have a pressure release in terms of Josh Jones or Michael Pittman, that was concerning and I don't like to see that because that is.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: really not on the coaches at all.
• 5:35
  [SPEAKER_01]: That's on Daniel Jones to make that adjustment out of the line of scrimmage to know where and when he has to get rid of the ball.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: He didn't do that.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The fumbles, that's got to that has to stop.
• 5:44
  [SPEAKER_01]: The fumbling cannot happen.
• 5:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: High and tight should be the rule thumb whenever.
• 5:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: In terms of the third and twenty two or that run,
• 5:55
  [SPEAKER_01]: He's got to get the first down there.
• 5:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: You can't go out of bounds there.
• 5:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: You got to brace for impact and get the first down.
• 6:01
  [SPEAKER_01]: I hate that.
• 6:02
  [SPEAKER_01]: You put your luck, you tie the war and made an incredible catch because otherwise we wouldn't be having this conversation.
• 6:08
  [SPEAKER_01]: You've got to put your head down and get to yards and not bail out, take the easy way out, and run, get out of bounds.
• 6:14
  [SPEAKER_01]: I just don't like that.
• 6:16
  [SPEAKER_01]: Go try to win the game.
• 6:22
  [SPEAKER_02]: Of course, it took us a little while, but the story of the game is, well, they say that running backs never win the MVP, but I think we're entering that territory, aren't we?
• 6:32
  [SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely.
• 6:33
  [SPEAKER_01]: You have no quarterback really up to this point that I think is really cemented his stake in that claim.
• 6:39
  [SPEAKER_01]: And right now, you look at Jonathan Taylor's staff, even in the third quarter, you look at their staff to say, man, that's awesome for a 17 game season.
• 6:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: He played nine full games up to that point.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: He's already over a thousand rushing yards.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: He's well over 1100 now.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: He has 16 touchdowns.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: He's averaging almost 60 yards around.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: If that isn't enough to enter yourself into the conversation, I don't know what is.
• 7:05
  [SPEAKER_01]: He's already a clip to take on Barkley's touchdown total for last year.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So...
• 7:10
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think if you can get close, if he's around 2,000 yards and has 25 rushing touchdowns, how can you not get it to him?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But he would be my MVP of the NFL today, just just an outstanding game.
• 7:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: I got a bump in the road last week, but he rebounded really well this weekend.
• 7:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, they ran it 32 times with him and, you know, passed the total of 41s or no actually it was 26 and 41 runs and 32 of those runs were Jonathan Taylor, which points that game like just giving them the ball, just giving them the ball, giving them the ball, quit trying to throw, quit trying to force things, just stay with the game plan.
• 7:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: Um, but now just just phenomenal watching and the conditioning and the energy and to be able to do that in a fourth quarter and over time and still just he is not for the offensive one.
• 8:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: They did I'm talking about Jonathan Taylor, you want to you want to transition to the offensive line.
• 8:14
  [SPEAKER_02]: We don't do the whole thing.
• 8:24
  [SPEAKER_02]: As much as the past protection struggled at times the day, the run blocking deal.
• 8:29
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think you're going to watch the tape and feel differently.
• 8:32
  [SPEAKER_01]: I was not impressed with the run blocking late in the game.
• 8:34
  [SPEAKER_01]: I thought Taylor was making guys miss in the backfield every single run.
• 8:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think I don't know what's going on with the the blocking altogether.
• 8:43
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's if it is mildly regressed.
• 8:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: I, I, I'm telling you, you're going to come back and watch the thing.
• 8:48
  [SPEAKER_02]: I thought the blocking was fine.
• 8:50
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
• 8:51
  [SPEAKER_00]: I, I don't.
• 8:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: I one thing I I just couldn't stand and they I think they ran the same play four times that pitched to the left and and it just didn't go anywhere.
• 9:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's too cute.
• 9:02
  [SPEAKER_00]: That's true.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: There were plays that they had sniffed out for sure.
• 9:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
• 9:07
  [SPEAKER_02]: I know that about that.
• 9:08
  [SPEAKER_02]: But the blocking in general, I felt was pretty good.
• 9:11
  [SPEAKER_02]: But that again, well, you and I will we break down the film on Monday and Tuesday and talk about it on Wednesday.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: So I will make a better assessment of that.
• 9:21
  [SPEAKER_02]: Regardless, Jonathan Taylor seemed like the MVP to me.
• 9:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: And I think that you have to, what I find so funny, especially the fourth down in the first half, where they run that pitch played in the left, if you view the strength of your offense as your offense of line.
• 9:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: Why are you running to the edge on fourth and two right get down hill you're you're basically negating the impact you're putting all of the blocking on Tyler Warren a pulling guard and Michael Pitton Jr It's like those are not the guys that you pay to run block So I just I think it's too long a questionable play calling today for sure.
• 9:58
  [SPEAKER_02]: I I agree with that Well, let's talk about the other positive The best time in the NFL guys
• 10:07
  [SPEAKER_00]: No doubt, I'm putting up the numbers, but nominal.
• 10:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think the timing of the plays, the Tyler Warren had coming up big, and I think when you had that one pass knocked out of his hands, it was almost called a completion and would have been a fumble.
• 10:23
  [SPEAKER_00]: And then to come back and make the big play and make that catch.
• 10:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: I just think, yeah, just just phenomenal, just so much fun to watch, and again, you could put him anywhere backfield, I played quarter-fact for a play block or a great, great receiving tie-dance.
• 10:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think he leads the lead again.
• 10:45
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think as he lead our team in receiving, it's Pitman, he's still got a new receiver.
• 10:52
  [SPEAKER_01]: Warrens on his tail, though, Warrens that over 500 now.
• 10:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: Warren, yeah, I agree.
• 11:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't think they probably will use one more.
• 11:02
  [SPEAKER_02]: And Targets is probably the 14th of the minimum per game.
• 11:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
• 11:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: And I, I'm glad we have a, I'm glad we have a buy week coming up and to prepare for the choose.
• 11:15
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I think Tyler Warren hit that game, go look at how Falcons of Handle Tydens do.
• 11:20
  [SPEAKER_01]: They've been the best team in the entire league against Tydens, the entire year, and he goes for 99 yards.
• 11:25
  [SPEAKER_01]: So I think that if that doesn't speak to what his level of play is, I don't know what is.
• 11:31
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think that he, he's just so great at the point of attack, the point of catch.
• 11:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: I cannot believe the bears let him go.
• 11:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: I just, I can't believe it.
• 11:43
  [SPEAKER_02]: Thank you, Chicago Bears.
• 11:45
  [SPEAKER_02]: We say it every week.
• 11:46
  [SPEAKER_02]: We thank you.
• 11:47
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yep.
• 11:47
  [SPEAKER_02]: And look, the guy that got's pretty good aren't good, too.
• 11:51
  [SPEAKER_02]: But he's not Tyler Warren.
• 11:56
  [SPEAKER_02]: All right, guys, two weeks before the Colts play again.
• 11:59
  [SPEAKER_02]: Of course, that's a huge one on Thanksgiving week against the Kansas City Chiefs.
• 12:04
  [SPEAKER_02]: But they're right into right now, and the schedule is pretty tough, but nothing that's gonna keep them from one in this division, right?
• 12:15
  [SPEAKER_01]: Um, I might feel different depending on the outcome of Jacksonville and Houston, but right now I'm gonna say no.
• 12:22
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think that they win this division by two games pretty comfortably.
• 12:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think that they're the best team Now, I do find it concerning they have not played Houston or Jacksonville either I think it seems yet.
• 12:33
  [SPEAKER_01]: I don't think either one of them is any good Four divisional games that Packed it within six weeks as tough.
• 12:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: That's just tough on the team.
• 12:43
  [SPEAKER_01]: I don't like that schedule making but
• 12:46
  [SPEAKER_02]: That's not your nor there, but they can have the division wrapped up by early December is a positive about that absolutely I think they beat the chief I think the division is just about you're nine and two the divisions just about own wraps and they're not losing the home next week and then at Jacksonville and it's over when you win in Jackson
• 13:05
  [SPEAKER_02]: And that could be the plan.
• 13:07
  [SPEAKER_02]: If that's the plan, I like the way the schedule lines up.
• 13:11
  [SPEAKER_01]: Even if you go, I think you can afford to lose one of the Houston or Kansas City games.
• 13:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think as long as you get two of three, and that little three game period, and the one in Jacksonville being probably the most pivotal, yeah, I think the division's just about over.
• 13:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: I do think the Jacksonville is probably the most important way
• 13:35
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think if Houston wins today, you can make an argument that Houston is the top threat just because that defense is so good and they'll get their quarterback back who I don't think anyone now believes is great, but it's at least a competent NFL quarterback.
• 13:49
  [SPEAKER_02]: So they're, I think Houston could be more dangerous if particularly if they win that game today.
• 13:55
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
• 13:55
  [SPEAKER_01]: And especially in a division.
• 13:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: Jacksonville, you're coming.
• 13:58
  [SPEAKER_01]: Justin, you're in the NFL.
• 14:01
  [SPEAKER_02]: they're gonna don't give you a hundred yards of penalty yardage every single game like they'll drop the past that'll beat you and they will make the wrong calls when the clocks run and down there's the dumbest organization in the NFL and that's saying something yeah it is because the jet's browns and giants all still exist it's right they're bullied by so a lot of talent right now otherwise they'd be as worthless as they always are
• 14:31
  [SPEAKER_01]: Lions don't meddle with the opinions of sheep and this cult seems a lion.
• 14:35
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's right.
• 14:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: That's right.
• 14:39
  [SPEAKER_02]: Thanks so much guys, that was a lot of fun.
• 14:41
  [SPEAKER_02]: Go cults.
• 14:52
  [SPEAKER_02]: Central Indian esports report is a product of ITG media and I love Susie.