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Colts 19, Texans 17: Reaction with Will & Dave Retherford (The Colts Report, 3.58) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

• 0:07
  [SPEAKER_02]: Welcome Colts fans to the Colts Report and it's a day of celebration the Colts have won.
• 0:13
  [SPEAKER_00]: Daniel Jones played pretty poultry in my opinion.
• 0:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: I thought there were, you know, mistakes.
• 0:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: The stat lines are going to look pretty good when it's all said and done, but there were errors that he made that definitely let the Texans stay in the same one.
• 0:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: The interception that Daniel Jones threw in the third quarter was bad.
• 0:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: They were in field goal range at that point.
• 0:30
  [SPEAKER_00]: I know that Shrader had been questionable with a groin injury early in the game, but he had already hit a 50 plus yarder by that point and it just, it was, he threw the ball
• 0:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: maintain control the football it was a bad read bad decision but they they overcame outside of that he fumbled the ball twice that's never typically recipe for disaster when your quarterback's got three of the turnovers and you lose the turnover battle Oda three
• 0:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's not great.
• 0:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: Negative three turnover differential doesn't result in wins, but the Texans offense played bad enough that it kind of let the cult stay in it.
• 1:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: And they ultimately uh, you know, hit a big field goal there to end that could go down this maybe the biggest play of the entire season if they're able to turn a corner.
• 1:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: And offensively continue to progress defensively.
• 1:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: They looked a lot better, you know, there's a lot to like.
• 1:21
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yes, Spencer Schraders.
• 1:23
  [SPEAKER_02]: Faint.
• 1:23
  [SPEAKER_00]: He's phenomenal.
• 1:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think that kickers are, it's difficult to say, okay, who's a top five kicker?
• 1:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know, but he surely is a top 10 leg in the league.
• 1:32
  [SPEAKER_02]: There are a lot of good ones, and he's one of them.
• 1:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, he's really good.
• 1:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: He hits in the dead middle of the field goal post pretty much every time.
• 1:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: And his legs, he's got a big leg at it, jinx.
• 1:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: Even his...
• 1:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: even his, you know, the 58-yarder.
• 1:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's like he has more.
• 1:50
  [SPEAKER_00]: He's got probably, I think, 65, comfortable.
• 1:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: What the sword going?
• 1:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, with apparently a sword going, I would like to know how that's possible because if his groins really, if he's questionable, as a kicker, typically that means he doesn't play and then they trot him out and he looks awfully good.
• 2:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: I, when he hit the 39-yarder to open up the scoring in the first quarter, I was like, boy, it's going looked awfully good there.
• 2:11
  [SPEAKER_00]: If I think that ball was about 15 feet over the uprights when it went through,
• 2:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: he's a asset to have on this team and I'm glad that he ultimately was able to win that job back after how last season ended for him.
• 2:23
  [SPEAKER_02]: Well, Dave, I don't want to throw this in Wells' face, but you and I both picked this.
• 2:27
  [SPEAKER_02]: So when I had seen the Texans offense the week before and my thought coming into this was the culture going to have very difficult time against great offenses, but this is the kind of offense, maybe they can compete and they did, which is a really
• 2:42
  [SPEAKER_01]: It you had the lower scoring part of it so kudos to you.
• 2:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: I thought it would be a little higher scoring and it could have been a more of a shootout and we would win it in the shootout, but I asked myself is today's win about
• 2:58
  [SPEAKER_01]: the cults really being better and being good or are the Texans just that bad and either way, it's good news for us.
• 3:06
  [SPEAKER_01]: That's hard for me to believe.
• 3:07
  [SPEAKER_01]: Tard for me to believe that the Texans were, you know, played that poorly, but they did.
• 3:12
  [SPEAKER_01]: But damn well, Anderson's good.
• 3:15
  [SPEAKER_01]: Our defense, our defense played pretty well today.
• 3:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: We can't be complaining about him after days game and the offense today just, I don't think they were very good.
• 3:25
  [SPEAKER_02]: But they're pretty good between the 20s.
• 3:27
  [SPEAKER_01]: They just they put up just enough to to get the job done and and get the victory and at the end of the day There's a big difference between being one and two and oh and three and so The culture still in it.
• 3:40
  [SPEAKER_02]: Oh and
• 3:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: The culture in it, the Texans are likely not now.
• 3:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: I know they've done it a couple of times from Owen 3.
• 3:49
  [SPEAKER_01]: They're still in it.
• 3:50
  [SPEAKER_00]: They're still in it.
• 3:52
  [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.
• 3:53
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think they are the legitimate Owen 3 team right now.
• 3:57
  [SPEAKER_02]: Because the offense is so bad.
• 3:58
  [SPEAKER_02]: But man, that defense almost won that game for him.
• 4:02
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think they're a legitimate.
• 4:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: Oh and three.
• 4:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, there's no question.
• 4:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: That's what the record indicates.
• 4:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: They are, but they it was a one score game at home against Buffalo against Josh Allen.
• 4:11
  [SPEAKER_00]: So you kind of take that is okay.
• 4:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes Josh Allen's just going to win one the game at home against Cincinnati.
• 4:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that's that's a legit loss.
• 4:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: This was a two point loss.
• 4:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: And, and I don't really understand at the end of the game why they didn't kick.
• 4:23
  [SPEAKER_00]: I know it's a 69-yarder, but that is now within the range of an NFL kicker.
• 4:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, Cam Little, they sent him out for a 70-yarder and he had the distance, he just missed right.
• 4:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: And Academy Fairbaren Truthfully is a top three kicker in the league.
• 4:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: He is one of the best.
• 4:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: He's been awfully good as an entire career in Houston, so I definitely questioned.
• 4:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: DeMico Reigns not taking him out there because I mean it when I say I think at 69 yarder has a higher success rate than a Hail Mary in that situation where they were on the field.
• 4:50
  [SPEAKER_00]: He's gets paid millions of dollars to be the head coach and I am sitting out here getting neat and light by mosquitoes talking about it.
• 4:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: But it's not what I would have done.
• 4:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm glad they did that because I'm with I'm with you will I think I would have been much more nervous watching watching that field goal attempt than I was a Hail Mary.
• 5:10
  [SPEAKER_00]: I just think this Houston team is still in it because of how good their defense is.
• 5:14
  [SPEAKER_00]: Their defense was still good today.
• 5:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: They still only gave up 20 points last week.
• 5:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's not I mean, and that was against a Joe Burrow offense with Jamar Chase and T Higgins with Chase Brown might just sick you like that's a good offense they held the 20.
• 5:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: And under more times than not, you're going to come over with victories.
• 5:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: I, I, they're offensive.
• 5:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: Nico Collins comes back.
• 5:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: I still like to talented probably for them to not get back in the hunt.
• 5:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: Now, they could be bad.
• 5:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: We said the same thing when Jack's mills.
• 5:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, and three last year, or two years ago, it was like, hey, this.
• 5:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, and three, but boy, they still look fine.
• 5:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: And then they ended up having the second pick on the draft.
• 5:51
  [SPEAKER_00]: I only Houston's that bad, but you never know.
• 5:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: It takes one injury.
• 5:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: Collins historically struggle staying on the field.
• 5:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: He has a lot of soft tissue issues, maybe.
• 6:00
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
• 6:02
  [SPEAKER_02]: We were talking about between the game and now is he that bad, because he looks horrible, CJ Stroud, or is it that his weapons are that bad?
• 6:13
  [SPEAKER_02]: Because they're bad, and when you don't have Nico Collins, they're even worse.
• 6:20
  [SPEAKER_02]: he was a fine quarterback was at least average is rookie year and it's just completely falling off.
• 6:27
  [SPEAKER_01]: Early on in the game, I thought like the felt like the colds got some pressure to him that what did you know, and when I think we had four sacks today, so our defense definitely are defensive line there early on.
• 6:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: I thought played pretty well and limited his opportunities.
• 6:42
  [SPEAKER_01]: And the second half seemed like it changed and he got a lot more time to throw the ball and he did dices up some.
• 6:48
  [SPEAKER_02]: A quarter back in a, in a worse situation, I can't think of a, when you talk about a bottom 10 offensive line and a bottom 10 group of weapons.
• 7:07
  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know, because I would have said two years ago, we had the same amount of howling he has now, and he... Yeah.
• 7:14
  [SPEAKER_02]: Tankdale and Nico Colt.
• 7:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: Xavier Hutchinson's on a bad player, he has Dalton Schultz, who's an awfully good died-in.
• 7:19
  [SPEAKER_00]: David Montgomery's better than the running back in Damian Pierce.
• 7:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: They had that first year.
• 7:23
  [SPEAKER_00]: I just think the issue with Stroud that I see is that he is struggled to develop.
• 7:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: over the course of his NFL career.
• 7:30
  [SPEAKER_00]: He's still the same quarterback he was three years ago.
• 7:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: And that's not typically a recipe for success at this level.
• 7:36
  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't, I have not seen him take that next step.
• 7:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: He's inefficient.
• 7:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: That's his issue with the pastor.
• 7:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: He's a volume pastor.
• 7:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: He's really good at over the middle, but sometimes over the middle can be,
• 7:48
  [SPEAKER_00]: an area that you can be a little inaccurate, you know, that takes a lot of finesse and touch, especially throw on those two balls over the linebackers in front of the safeties.
• 7:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: So if the timing's not perfect or you're receiving core is...
• 8:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: incapable of being their best.
• 8:03
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think you're probably bound to struggle.
• 8:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: They have, they've not protected him well.
• 8:07
  [SPEAKER_00]: But I think at the same time, he gets a little happy with holding the ball to long as well.
• 8:13
  [SPEAKER_00]: I see the point where it's like, okay, the talent's not there, but then I also see things where it's like he is
• 8:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: playing into them being inefficient with his gameplay, he's still not thrown in an interception yet, which is awesome, but he's not really done anything to help progress them forward either.
• 8:30
  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, he's still only through 460 yards today, and felt like there were times, they had left a lot of receivers open.
• 8:38
  [SPEAKER_02]: So I guess the question for the cold to them is were they, was the defense good today
• 8:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think the cults were better.
• 8:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: Their corner play was much better.
• 8:52
  [SPEAKER_00]: They, they linebackers got depth and zone coverage.
• 8:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think they got pressure better.
• 8:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: The front floor played well.
• 8:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: They did a good job of keeping strong in the pocket.
• 9:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: They didn't let him roll out, but she does like to be mobile and on the move.
• 9:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: They got home.
• 9:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: That's really the most important thing.
• 9:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think you saw the marriage between the secondary and the front four more today with the secondary was good enough to cover people long enough for the front four to get home.
• 9:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: And when you're getting a gap pressure, especially with Buckner.
• 9:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's that's uncomfortable for quarterback squarebacks are fine with pressure from the edge because they could step up in the pocket and typically still deliver a ball, but when when you're flush out and flush backwards from that A gap pressure inside the guards and sinners that that's not fun for quarterbacks they don't like that that's the biggest way to limit a quarterbacks.
• 9:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: abilities.
• 9:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: I would say, you know, some homes, uh, Josh Allen that it doesn't really probably matter what you do.
• 9:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: They're going to be able to withstand pressure and find an escape route, but the Texans don't have that ability.
• 9:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: I liked the way they played, it felt like the game plan was better.
• 9:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: This is also a team that they see two times a year.
• 9:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: So if there's a team to have a game plan for, it's going to be your division opponent, because you know what they're going to do.
• 10:05
  [SPEAKER_01]: Now, I agree.
• 10:06
  [SPEAKER_01]: I still don't know that I'm going to say I have a ton of confidence you in our defense.
• 10:11
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think they're going to have to prove it against a little bit better offensive team than what we played today.
• 10:16
  [SPEAKER_01]: But they got the job done today.
• 10:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: They honestly probably are the reason why we want today's game.
• 10:21
  [SPEAKER_01]: And we couldn't have said that the last couple weeks for sure.
• 10:24
  [SPEAKER_01]: They were the letdowns.
• 10:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: So Kudos to the defense and the things that they did today to make things a little bit more difficult for Stroud and They didn't run the ball specifically.
• 10:34
  [SPEAKER_01]: Well, Houston didn't they didn't throw the ball very well out a lot of short drives It's a sign of you know, it's a sign of both that you maybe their offense isn't very good But but our defense to hide to go out there and do that.
• 10:45
  [SPEAKER_02]: They still hide to force those things and and they did a pretty good job of that today Well, let's talk about some of the positives and negatives of today's game in here just a second
• 11:02
  [SPEAKER_02]: Alright guys, um, of course on the Colts Report every week, we look at the film, we go back and we break it down.
• 11:08
  [SPEAKER_02]: But immediate reaction, your favorite thing about today's win.
• 11:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: I like that they made it an effort to get to other one on the ball.
• 11:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: They definitely prioritize getting him the ball early and often, and they needed that because Taylor struggled, the Texans are really forced the Colts to went through the air.
• 11:25
  [SPEAKER_00]: And they got the job done.
• 11:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: Josh Jones was awesome.
• 11:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: As a number one, he looked really good.
• 11:30
  [SPEAKER_00]: He looked good from the outside and the slot.
• 11:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: I thought his route running so Chris Kenan Allen was a great number two.
• 11:38
  [SPEAKER_00]: He played compliment awfully well.
• 11:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: They used him efficiently.
• 11:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: There was a lot to like on the offensive side.
• 11:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think the 19 points is a bit deceiving.
• 11:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: They were tied.
• 11:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think they could have scored more.
• 11:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: And I know that it was in
• 11:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: more successful and efficient than the score shows.
• 11:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: There were times especially late in the first half where it's like, I mean, they got the ball with 45 seconds left, but they were pinned back inside their 10.
• 12:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: Not gonna do anything there.
• 12:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: That point you just trying to not turn the ball over.
• 12:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: They had an opportunity to put more points on the board early coming out of half time.
• 12:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: I really liked how the offense looked and they've continued to look good the first three games of the season.
• 12:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: That's not been the issue.
• 12:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: The issue's been defensively agree with dad.
• 12:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: There's some holes, but they can work with this, and especially at a very getable Washington team who did win today at home against the sea ox, so I mean, they're
• 12:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: That's a good TSC officer of the raining champion.
• 12:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: They looked awfully good.
• 12:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: Smith and Jacob went for 10, 126 and two touchdowns.
• 12:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: So they're going to have their work cut out for them.
• 12:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: But there's a chance of after no and two star.
• 12:48
  [SPEAKER_00]: They can get back to two and two really quickly the way that that marriage of all three phases kind of came together today.
• 12:54
  [SPEAKER_02]: And really good to see Bryce Betcher and Caden Curry and Justin Walloy all making impact as well.
• 13:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: a walley was much improved that he looked awful against the chiefs there's no question that tape was littered with mistakes that he made he gave up over a hundred yards and I get cut Kelsey's a tough cover what I'm gonna say this is a culture court Travis Kelsey looks like he is
• 13:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: Back to form in a way that I think for a couple years.
• 13:19
  [SPEAKER_00]: We didn't necessarily see he looks faster.
• 13:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: He looks a little thinner I think what's just probably helping.
• 13:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe it's the marriage to Taylor.
• 13:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know But maybe you know one to get in good shape for the wedding and and he just transit I don't know but he he looked good in that game on Sunday night So I don't think it's fair to say Chris I just from all eight too much like hey That's an all-time tie-dandy win against has the most yards after catch of any player in NFL history
• 13:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: But the Texans don't have one of those.
• 13:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: Don't show it to Travis Kelsey and I think when they're in that situation, that's going to be fine.
• 13:52
  [SPEAKER_00]: He's going to be an admirable, not an admirable, but he's going to be a capable player.
• 13:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: In that situation, I think it's when you see those real elite tie-dens, the McBrides, Brock Bowers, a Kelsey,
• 14:07
  [SPEAKER_00]: Those are the places he's going to struggle a little bit, but that's when you have to use camp by him to help him out.
• 14:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: This best you can, and that's gameplay.
• 14:14
  [SPEAKER_02]: Don't install it's look like Travis Kelsey last week.
• 14:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, he looked great.
• 14:17
  [SPEAKER_00]: He did.
• 14:17
  [SPEAKER_00]: And that's the thing with tight ends.
• 14:19
  [SPEAKER_00]: They're, they're, the skill is there.
• 14:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: No question, but the Washington doesn't have some elite tight end.
• 14:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: So it's going to get another week to maybe get his feet comfortable.
• 14:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: He's still, he missed all the last year.
• 14:30
  [SPEAKER_00]: He got no development after, you know, the third week of training camp because he blew his, you know, so it, I think we're just,
• 14:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: we have to temper expectations a little bit and let him progress in a second year actually playing his recovery.
• 14:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: There's a lot that's going on behind the scenes that we're not seeing that's going to help translate to him being more successful in the field.
• 14:52
  [SPEAKER_02]: Dave, what was your favorite thing about today?
• 14:54
  [SPEAKER_02]: Besides Spencer Schrader, obviously.
• 14:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: Well, I was going to say Spencer Schrader because for for for 53 yard 58 yard, I mean, clutch at spig time.
• 15:06
  [SPEAKER_01]: But Tyler Warren getting nine receptions today, really trying to target him.
• 15:11
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think it's big.
• 15:13
  [SPEAKER_01]: Downs they they went to him a lot early and it didn't feel like he got as much, you know, later in the game.
• 15:18
  [SPEAKER_01]: Still a lot of the team in yard.
• 15:21
  [SPEAKER_01]: He's still, he still had the most yard.
• 15:22
  [SPEAKER_02]: It was really good the last couple weeks.
• 15:24
  [SPEAKER_01]: But Keenan Allen actually today look like, you know, maybe he can be a, you know, a stopgap number two, if we need him to he had six receptions 63 yards, a couple of big catches there.
• 15:35
  [SPEAKER_01]: So run game was a little tempered today, but, you know, still could still be a good for us that.
• 15:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: I ain't still tailored.
• 15:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: I have seen the trend with Daniel Jones as a colon sol with a giant.
• 15:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: He just does not go with pressure on his face.
• 15:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: He is not the type of quarterback that stands back.
• 15:52
  [SPEAKER_00]: He flowed in a couple balls that should have been picked off today.
• 15:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, he got lucky that they fell where they did.
• 15:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: So I get that you can say Houston's front seven's awesome, but I want my quarterback to not look rattle the every time he has pressure.
• 16:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: And that's kind of
• 16:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: This doesn't seem like there's an escape route.
• 16:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: There's no exit stage left form in the flat that he's hitting.
• 16:13
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's like, well, screw it.
• 16:14
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to, you know, hook the ball.
• 16:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's far down.
• 16:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: It feels like can hope for the best.
• 16:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: And that's not
• 16:19
  [SPEAKER_00]: a sustainable way to play in my opinion.
• 16:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: So I he got lucky a few times going to have to improve that kind of going back to Taylor a little bit.
• 16:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: It was a refer day for him, but the threat of him is always there.
• 16:32
  [SPEAKER_01]: And to be honest, that that opens up opportunities, it opens up the play action.
• 16:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: It opens up things that that if he's not Jonathan Taylor and he's not doing the things that he does that we can't do the other things that we that we were able to do today.
• 16:49
  [SPEAKER_01]: Ken Allen didn't get six receptions because Taylor even with 68 yards today still, you know, like the threat of him and just even a past-blocking, I think he's gotten quite a bit better.
• 17:00
  [SPEAKER_01]: He's a valuable piece to this team, and although, you know, he wasn't solely responsible for why they won today.
• 17:07
  [SPEAKER_01]: He's definitely a big part of the team.
• 17:09
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm moving forward for sure as well.
• 17:11
  [SPEAKER_02]: I'm gonna tell you my favorite thing.
• 17:13
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think I've discovered over the last couple of weeks that we have a really good coach who always has this team prepared.
• 17:20
  [SPEAKER_02]: I love that day through early when Houston was playing the cults to run.
• 17:26
  [SPEAKER_02]: And then he ran late that drive.
• 17:29
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think they ran 12 straight times and it really took a lot out of Houston.
• 17:33
  [SPEAKER_02]: Now, the mistakes almost cost in the game anyway, but that's how you close out an NFL game.
• 17:38
  [SPEAKER_02]: if they wouldn't have made the mistakes.
• 17:41
  [SPEAKER_02]: And I really think Steiken is good at game plan.
• 17:43
  [SPEAKER_02]: Now I'm not sure how good he is as a leader.
• 17:45
  [SPEAKER_02]: I'm not sure how good he is.
• 17:49
  [SPEAKER_02]: and adjustments, but coming into a game with a game plan.
• 17:52
  [SPEAKER_02]: This is about 20 in a row where he has had his team ready to go.
• 17:56
  [SPEAKER_01]: I can't disagree with that, Greg, but I get tired of watching some of the game management, some of the clock management at the end of the game.
• 18:03
  [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I feel like, again, we set straighter up to get a 53-yard fill goal, but that could have been a 25-yard fill goal.
• 18:11
  [SPEAKER_01]: We just don't get so soft and don't let 30 seconds run off the clock when we are down a point.
• 18:19
  [SPEAKER_01]: Um, so I didn't understand some of those those play calls.
• 18:23
  [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, obviously again, I'm just talking about game preparation.
• 18:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, definitely.
• 18:27
  [SPEAKER_01]: And obviously it had a good impact today.
• 18:29
  [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, we won the game and, and so you have to say that what he did worked.
• 18:35
  [SPEAKER_01]: But, but it makes me nervous that we don't sometimes, you know, we lose some aggressiveness when we need to have some aggressiveness.
• 18:41
  [SPEAKER_02]: Well, tell me, Dongy was the worst at that.
• 18:44
  [SPEAKER_02]: So, but we put up with it because he was a great leader, and, you know, so, um, I think anything overturning.
• 18:50
  [SPEAKER_02]: But he is an improvement.
• 18:53
  [SPEAKER_02]: Actually, Jim, he was an improvement over Jim Morris.
• 18:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: I agree.
• 18:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: Stike and he just,
• 19:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: He's a goofball.
• 19:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: He just there's some decisions he makes week-to-week.
• 19:03
  [SPEAKER_00]: That's a shout-out to my girlfriend Addy.
• 19:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: She always calls him goof-stike and she is his number one hater.
• 19:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: Um, so she's gonna hate the segment.
• 19:10
  [SPEAKER_00]: Probably.
• 19:11
  [SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, there's times like where you say my God, Shane.
• 19:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: That is a brilliant play.
• 19:17
  [SPEAKER_00]: That is the shovel past the Tyler Warren on second one.
• 19:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: Had a nowhere.
• 19:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's like it gained three yards, but it was a good play.
• 19:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: And it was at a right time to help get a first down.
• 19:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: And then there's times with the clock that you're just like, Shane, what are you doing?
• 19:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: Like, this doesn't make any sense.
• 19:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know who the statistician, who the game management analytics guy is in his ear, but they need to fire him because he's not doing his job very well.
• 19:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: I completely agree, and he's going to get on the microphone and he's going to make an argument.
• 19:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: that is going to make sense of what the their thought process is understanding what it does makes sense to me and and that's the part that I struggle with what I liked about Michael is that he didn't just keep feeding Taylor you could tell very early in that first half kind of like to what you said the run game was not working they struggled to establish it but on the backside of that it allowed a lot of
• 20:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: past lanes to open up for Daniel Jones and I appreciate there have been times where Steiken kind of likes to go to the well a couple too many times he did in the game against Kansas City on first and second down that's like Shane maybe a play action here because it seems like we're getting a lot of run blitzes and linebackers to film holes really quickly.
• 20:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: I appreciate that.
• 20:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: I can tell you this, if the Coles are going to continue to win games and Taylor only has 40 yards, we're in good shape because Jonathan Taylor's not going to have 40 yards very often.
• 20:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: Just his skill alone.
• 20:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: Whatever you the game plan is, if the game plan is to run the ball 10% of the time, Taylor's going to have more than 40 yards.
• 20:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: If Taylor's only going to have, I've, there's been a clerical error and what I said apparently 68 is his yard is showed all that's more than I would have thought he must have that one drive where he had yeah he ran the ball for a while he was very low average per rush if
• 21:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: you know, he's going to have a hundred yards more times.
• 21:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: He's not.
• 21:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think over his career averages over 90 games.
• 21:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: So to have 68 next week, I fully expect him to go into, I believe the games in the London, and probably have 120 arts.
• 21:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: That's just the type of player he is.
• 21:19
  [SPEAKER_00]: He's not going to just lay two eggs in a row.
• 21:22
  [SPEAKER_02]: Well, you remember what he did last year in Europe.
• 21:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: He looked awesome.
• 21:25
  [SPEAKER_00]: He was the reason they won that game That was a goofball strike in game as well.
• 21:30
  [SPEAKER_00]: That was one of his try to give it away.
• 21:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I mean, he Handrapped it to every he morphs that hey, when this and about the only game I can remember where they didn't seem prepared going in They didn't and and they really struggled how their worn was good that game but outside of that Daniel Jones struggled a lot That was pretty good.
• 21:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, but yeah
• 21:48
  [SPEAKER_02]: Speaking of which, we have a lot to talk about, both positives and negatives, and we will be doing that this week on the Colts Report and the preview of the Colts Against Washington in London.
• 22:00
  [SPEAKER_02]: And final thoughts, Dave.
• 22:02
  [SPEAKER_01]: Well, I think I just want to shout out special teams today as well because they were much improved today on both sides of that Anthony Gold not being in active today and being actually out on the field.
• 22:13
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think was a little bit of a difference to make or two.
• 22:16
  [SPEAKER_01]: So we've complained about special teams.
• 22:18
  [SPEAKER_01]: We've complained about the defense.
• 22:20
  [SPEAKER_01]: Those two sides today really showed up and our offense scored enough to win and that's what you have to do in the NFL.
• 22:33
  [SPEAKER_02]: And we'll have much more to say about all of this on Thursdays.
• 22:38
  [SPEAKER_02]: Culture report assuming all goes according to plan and then on Friday.
• 22:42
  [SPEAKER_02]: We will have our preview against Washington.
• 22:45
  [SPEAKER_02]: Thanks so much guys.
• 22:46
  [SPEAKER_02]: It's much more fun to do a podcast after a win.
• 22:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: 100%.
• 23:02
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• 23:12
  [SPEAKER_02]: And I love Susie.