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The Colts Report with Will Retherford (2.85.2) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

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  [SPEAKER_01]: You are listening to the Colts Report with Will Rutherford, only on the Central Indian Esports Report.
• 0:13
  [SPEAKER_01]: Colts fans welcome back to the Central Indian Esports Report for this week's Colts Report, where we break down the Colts previous week.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: We look ahead to the next week and kind of sum up the
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  [SPEAKER_01]: state of the franchise every week.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Of course we will preview the next game, which the Colts have a week off, and we will always review the previous game, which was a Colts overtime win over the Falcons in Atlanta.
• 0:47
  [SPEAKER_01]: And to do that with me, we have, from the strictly biased podcast, we'll run the
• 0:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you for having me a lot to digest in this cult's gain from week 10, so I'm excited to break it down a little bit.
• 1:04
  [SPEAKER_01]: And yesterday, we released strictly bias with Will, rather than we went over the entire NFL week 10, and you had your reaction, your winners, your losers, five most likely to make the Super Bowl.
• 1:20
  [SPEAKER_01]: and we talked about the calls in that of course, but give us a quick rundown of what to expect from that one.
• 1:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: There was a clearer class division that developed in the NFL this week.
• 1:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think that you started to see the real legit contenders break away from maybe play off teams, who have the chance to get there and play meaningful January games, but teams that you don't see competing for conference championships and the Super Bowl.
• 1:48
  [SPEAKER_00]: I envision the Colts as a team that has a great chance to be playing late this season, if they are able to clean up some of the mistakes that they have in terms of ball security and also their front seven.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: With that being said, this is still a really good football team who it can be really competitive in this AFC down the street.
• 2:11
  [SPEAKER_01]: And of course, on strictly
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  [SPEAKER_00]: you know.
• 2:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's always great to eye it worse.
• 2:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: Let's put it that way.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's always great to be to be right about something that not a lot of people were right about.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I do think you'll be a little surprised to see where they fall and that list, but you'll have to listen to the show to find out what I have to say about them.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Then I get to two of my horn about Washington.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: you are absolutely right about that, just absolutely decimage with injuries.
• 2:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: With that being said, I think they're looking forward to a rebounding year next year with Jane Daniels, probably coming back fully healthy, as well as having a relatively easy schedule, probably going to have a three schedule from the NFC East, I think that you're going to see them be a playoff team in a 12-1 team next year.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: All right.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Well, let's talk about the Indianapolis cult eight and two best record in the NFL with the aforementioned New England Patriots and the Denver Broncos and from a season point of view, what you want, what you really want right now is home field advantage and you have an opportunity ahead of you, because you don't want to go to Denver, you don't want to go to Foxboro, so it's important to get Wednesday on the stretch here.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: they're definitely have a backler at schedule.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They've played a lot of there.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: What you would say easier opponent to still any even Sunday and the NFL, the team always has to show up to play.
• 3:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: These are professionals who we saw that that Saints was a win, they were a one-win team, they go into Carolina who was above 500 and they pull off a huge upset.
• 3:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: So it can happen anybody and I think the culpability to beat teams that they need to beat.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: has been something that you see as a positive, I think cult teams in the past have struggled a lot with being really good in games where potentially the competition was not as good.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So they've set themselves up for success in that way, that they've got a tough stretch coming ahead of them.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Obviously, they have the chiefs, then they have Houston right after, and then Jacksonville.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So you've got three really meaningful games back to back, three games that you'd like to say, hey, this team could go two and three, but to be quite frank with you, Greg, I think for the chances team could go 0 and 3, and still be a really good football team.
• 4:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: So
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  [SPEAKER_00]: you have to take care of the schedule in front of you and hopefully the card shake out where the Colt's have home field events do out the ASC playoffs.
• 4:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: Because as dumb as the Jaguars are, they are a talented team and as bad as the Texans offense has been that is a talented defense and of course you go to Kansas City and then you go to Seattle and then you have the 49ers at home and then the Jaguars and Texans again no get me's in the second
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Absolutely.
• 5:10
  [SPEAKER_00]: The only issue, you're going to play what that's seven straight games against teams with winning records.
• 5:17
  [SPEAKER_00]: By the time you get to Houston, they're going to be a 500 team.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They play Tennessee and we have 11.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I think you imagine that's a game.
• 5:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: To me, the cult's biggest issue and where they lost this week was Jacksonville really needed to be Houston for the cult's sake because we know Jacksonville's not good enough to compete with this cult's team.
• 5:38
  [SPEAKER_00]: And if you let that team stay alive and get hot, I, that defense is really good enough to see them sneak into the playoffs and get to 10 wins, even starting the season three and five.
• 5:50
  [SPEAKER_00]: So there's a lot to not like about their presence in the division, but you got to control what you control.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: If he is the cold offensive line, look,
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  [SPEAKER_01]: last week and we will get to all of that here pretty soon before we get to that I want to save that.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I think this by week comes at a perfect time.
• 6:15
  [SPEAKER_01]: You get to integrate sauce gardener.
• 6:18
  [SPEAKER_01]: You get some guys healthy and could have if not the best defensive backfield in the NFL.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: One of without worse.
• 6:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think the only team that really comes to mind is a competitive defensive secondary would be Denver.
• 6:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think wind pass routine is healthy.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That is a comparable defensive secondary.
• 6:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: I do like the cults, two cores a little bit more than I think I like Riley Moss as Denders number two core.
• 6:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: With that being said, there's still a lot of integration.
• 6:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think with Saw Scarner to be completely ingratiated with what this defense and in a rumor are trying to do, and they still need to build off some of the, I think, strengths that they played to in that game against Atlanta, the defense of line in particular, I thought,
• 7:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: Um, fun to mentally kind of change the way they played the use of stunts a lot more run blitzes with sire Franklin did help as well to get some tackles for loss.
• 7:14
  [SPEAKER_00]: And I think those are things you want to build on to go into Kansas City to play Houston to play Jacksonville because those are all teams with.
• 7:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think poor running games, but, you know, without the force bookner, you saw Grover Stewart come back.
• 7:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: Are you sure if he's 100% becoming weeks?
• 7:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: I guess that is to be determined.
• 7:36
  [SPEAKER_00]: But if you have those two players missing any meaningful snaps, it does make that run defense a lot more treacherous in terms of watching as a fan, because they can really struggle to stop the run.
• 7:52
  [SPEAKER_01]: We're going to see some games where teams run the ball 80% of the time against the Colts.
• 7:56
  [SPEAKER_01]: That's for sure.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: What it does, though, with the past rush is a allow.
• 8:03
  [SPEAKER_01]: Got desire for anyone happen to be the guy who got to the quarterback and made the big plays, but those, they were able to bring the house.
• 8:12
  [SPEAKER_01]: because they now can trust that defensive backfield, especially against somebody like Michael Pinnick's to take care of business on the back end.
• 8:20
  [SPEAKER_01]: So you couldn't bring everybody from time to time and they did that a couple times and Franklin was the guy who got home.
• 8:27
  [SPEAKER_01]: And honestly, he's either Franklin's way better in a past rush than he is in past defense, so might as well have him rush the passer.
• 8:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: I agree with that.
• 8:36
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think you strengthening that back in definitely allows you to probably bring five and be able to cover, you know, whatever personnel group, the opposing teams offense has I think you're going to see a lot of probably 11 personnel three receivers against this cold team, tied in and running back incorporated in that.
• 8:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: passing game, but you now have the horses outside to between Kenny Moore, between South Gardner, and between Mooney Ward, to really kind of strengthen and allow Camp Biden and Nick Cross to kind of play that free safety, play that center fielder, the middle of the field of potentially trying to make some plays.
• 9:11
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think one key element that the cults did well in Berlin,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: that you want to see them succeed in doing against my homes against Stroud and against Lawrence, as they were really able to contain Pinnix in the pocket.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They did not allow him space to get to the outside to have an opportunity to make throws.
• 9:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: There were times that he flushed the pocket, but he was throwing the ball out of bounds and against him a homes.
• 9:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, you're going to play three quarterbacks, all of which can be really mobile, and can make plays with their legs, as well as the same leg of life.
• 9:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: Absolutely.
• 9:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: I know that it's not something that we necessarily talk about, but the home is an incredible scrambler.
• 9:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: Stroud has the element as game.
• 9:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think of the three of them he prefers to stay in the pocket the most, but you don't want Trevor Lawrence running all over either because he absolutely has that in his, you know, toolbox in terms of being able to beat teams.
• 10:03
  [SPEAKER_00]: the cult have to do a good job of maintaining rush lane integrity, not getting selfish and trying to bring lay out too lot to and he doesn't inside move and I'll decide my homes is running down the sidelines for 20 yards because you're in man coverage and everybody's got their back to the quarterback.
• 10:19
  [SPEAKER_00]: That can happen.
• 10:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: They did a good job against the falcons.
• 10:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: That is something they need to build on and continue to improve because
• 10:32
  [SPEAKER_01]: Munderrated piece of this is that Nick Cross has been fantastic.
• 10:36
  [SPEAKER_00]: Nick Cross is an incredible strong safety.
• 10:38
  [SPEAKER_00]: He is willingness to come down and play in the box.
• 10:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: Is he Bob Sanders know but boy, he is a hard hitter when he wants to be and I think that he places role to perfection.
• 10:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: Most of the time he's he's really kind of a Swiss army knife.
• 10:52
  [SPEAKER_00]: A smaller version of Kyle Hamilton and Baltimore he doesn't really stand up and rush to pass her a ton but just his willingness to tackle
• 11:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: is something that really helps a weak line backing core because he basically is a third linebacker in that instance.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Biden as well has been good in it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Absolutely.
• 11:15
  [SPEAKER_01]: All right, well, I swear we're going to talk the topic of the day, which of course is Jonathan Taylor, the League MVP, but before we do that, we want to talk about the guys in front of them.
• 11:29
  [SPEAKER_01]: Poor week this week, past blocking, for sure, for the colds offensive one.
• 11:33
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think there's some confusion with part of that, and I think the Falcons did a good job of mixing things up, and run blocking is kind of the story.
• 11:45
  [SPEAKER_01]: I thought the run blocking was pretty good against the, against the Falcons initially, and then Will said he didn't think so, so I went back and looked.
• 11:55
  [SPEAKER_01]: My dad also chimed in after listening to our reaction podcast saying you thought the Jonathan Taylor's vision was the reason for the offensive line looking good in the run blocking and I came away thinking it was a little of both I think they fit well together in the run blocking scheme.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And three of Jonathan Taylor's biggest runs was a key block from the best tied in in the NFL, Tyler Warren.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: aforementioned in Pierce and Warren and also I think Michael Pittman on the edge definitely helps strengthen this blocking.
• 12:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: I still, I took away about a C plus run blocking game, maybe a C minus blocking game all together.
• 12:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: I do think that there is some.
• 12:48
  [SPEAKER_00]: That's a B pressure.
• 12:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'd say some of the pressure that was on Daniel Jones, but that's still a good Falcons front four.
• 12:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think that does kind of get slip through the cracks because they've been pretty bad the past three years.
• 13:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's much improved.
• 13:02
  [SPEAKER_00]: They definitely were able to, I think, mix up some of their pressure packages that they brought.
• 13:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: With that being said, I don't think Daniel jumps to a great job of checking this team into quick hitters to potentially neutralize that past rush.
• 13:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: I thought there were a couple of times that he just kind of got scared.
• 13:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: At the last footage, maybe we didn't have enough time on the play clock to make it quick check.
• 13:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think Tyler Warren makes up for a lot of mistakes that this offensive line can sometimes have in terms of where I'm blocking.
• 13:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: I saw a lot of swinging and missing from Gonzalves this week where Tyler Warren's tent of playing clean up crew coming behind the formation.
• 13:48
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think Taylor's vision is impeccable.
• 13:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think if you give him just a sliver of an inch that he thinks he can go, he's going to be able to get there.
• 13:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: Does an average running back run as well behind this offensive line?
• 13:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: No, is this offensive line?
• 14:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think mowing people down road, gradering, other teams the way they were, the first five, six weeks?
• 14:07
  [SPEAKER_00]: No, I think that they have struggled a little bit more, but they've played some good teams too.
• 14:19
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think forgotten when this conversation about this quote's offensive line is had altogether it's a they're a really good blocking team when you add in the receivers and I think that boads well to Taylor's vision I think it allows him to be able to get to the edge and have good run lanes where other teams you may not see it on the 83 are touched down run longest of the NFL season up to this point you add an entourage of Tyler Warren
• 14:48
  [SPEAKER_00]: guiding him to the inzone, exactly what you want to see from your two huge impact players offensively behind Jonathan Taylor.
• 14:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: A lot to like, I think a lot to improve on as well.
• 15:03
  [SPEAKER_01]: All right, well, let's talk about it.
• 15:05
  [SPEAKER_01]: You said on our reaction to the Coltswinner, the Falcons that Jonathan Taylor is the MVP.
• 15:12
  [SPEAKER_01]: Of course, we have not had an MVP since 2012
• 15:20
  [SPEAKER_01]: But Jonathan Taylor definitely deserves to be in the conversation and right now he is.
• 15:24
  [SPEAKER_01]: He has five to one trailing only Matthew Stafford in the Drake May witch.
• 15:29
  [SPEAKER_01]: I don't think either one has had mere the season that Jonathan Taylor has had will your thoughts.
• 15:38
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's always the argument of the quarterback as the ball the most often in their hands and the most impact on the game.
• 15:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm, you know, naughty, naughty, naughty.
• 15:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think that's important.
• 15:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think if there's an argument Drake may probably has one, a little bit of a staffer.
• 15:50
  [SPEAKER_00]: Drake may is playing with nobody's name.
• 15:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: Me one, grid receiver on that team outside of Stafondig's ed.
• 15:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: The O lines much improved that it's a running back carousel, driven on Henderson's just kind of cementing himself, Drake, may plate phenomenal.
• 16:03
  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't think that should be taken away, but I think Jonathan Taylor's impact and what he's doing is just something that
• 16:13
  [SPEAKER_00]: we didn't even see in the sake on your last year.
• 16:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: He's out competing and playing better than sake wanted to have that neglected from the voters.
• 16:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: It probably will be as a bit disappointing because I don't really think that there's a strong chance he wins the race, but and none of the quarterbacks have had the same kind of season that Josh Allen had last year.
• 16:38
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think that both Lamar and Josh Allen, you know, their impact on their team was above that of Sequon last year.
• 16:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: If we wanted to be honest, it's a good leisure to be Sequon when Jalen Hurts and Devontase Smith and AJ Brown are on your team and, you know, we can't stack the box with nine because we have two all-pro receivers on the outside.
• 16:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: you know, there's a ton of of help that other teams have gotten.
• 17:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think this cult offence of line in Taylor's marriage, as I said, and the previous segment has been perfect.
• 17:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think they work really well together.
• 17:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: The offence of line gives them enough creases to be really dangerous.
• 17:11
  [SPEAKER_00]: They're really good in the run game.
• 17:13
  [SPEAKER_00]: In Taylor's vision is impeccable.
• 17:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's some of the best vision I've seen.
• 17:19
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think what's so cool as a colts fan is you kind of got to see this transition from Marlon Mac, who was tremendously underrated as a running back on that team and his patients and vision and holes with, I think often the blinds may be a little inferior to what the colts have right now, although really good in the 2018, 2019 year.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But Jonathan Taylor is just like the three point out of that in terms of his patients and vision and willingness to,
• 17:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: hit holes and explode through the formation that it's, you know, there's a reason to be talking about.
• 17:54
  [SPEAKER_01]: You saw it out of college, it was constant.
• 17:56
  [SPEAKER_01]: He has the ability to make people missed down field, the very few running backs do.
• 18:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, incredible contact balance, too.
• 18:02
  [SPEAKER_00]: He's like everything that like Alvin, Kamera, and Sake Juan, and Christian McAfrey, all just kind of bundled into one running back, really for the most part.
• 18:11
  [SPEAKER_00]: And that was a game that featured Beijon Robinson, and Jonathan Taylor completely outplayed him.
• 18:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think Jonathan Taylor is the better running back.
• 18:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think Beijon may be the better athlete in terms of what he's able to do is, you know, we're pretty sure that we're talking about.
• 18:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: He's in year three, a Johnson Taylor run the one the triple crown to second year in the league.
• 18:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: I get it, you know, that argument can be made.
• 18:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: I be John, I just don't think he's the caliber of traditional running back the way the Johnson Taylor's not with that being said.
• 18:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: Johnson Taylor's a little bit more of a liability in the past game.
• 18:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think he can be utilized, but he's not, but I would consider receiving back in the way that a Devon HN, a Christian
• 18:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: But he's just so much better at being an actual running back than I think he's just a, I think it's here by everybody right now.
• 19:09
  [SPEAKER_01]: Everybody go listen to strictly bias with Will, Brotherford, which was released yesterday.
• 19:15
  [SPEAKER_01]: And to get his take on the entire week, Tim schedule, which was a very telling one will.
• 19:23
  [SPEAKER_00]: Absolutely.
• 19:24
  [SPEAKER_01]: Will there was an elephant in the room, and it wasn't just the past blocking.
• 19:30
  [SPEAKER_01]: It was the passer, and he's not been very good the last couple of weeks, and that's kind of what some of us expected might happen against the better teams, the better defenses.
• 19:43
  [SPEAKER_01]: There are still every week that he's played have been signs that he's a quality NFL quarterback don't get me wrong.
• 19:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: We're not seeing the same kind of Daniel Jones we were early in the year, and it's a bit concerning if you're thinking Super Bowl.
• 19:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, the tape was always going to probably make it easier for teams and we 10 and 11 to get a read on what the cults did really well with Daniel Jones.
• 20:07
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think both that kind of expected a bit of a regression where he was at was unsustainable, really, even for every moment, Josh Allen Lamar like it, it's unsustainable to play that well for the entire season.
• 20:23
  [SPEAKER_00]: where you're seeing the, I think the old day of Jones creep up, stopping us with the ball three fumbles this past week and interception.
• 20:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: accounted for five turnovers last week, when you're putting the ball on the ground ten times and two weeks, that's an area of concern, and in particular, there was a pressure play that the Falcons had dialed up in the third quarter where D.L.
• 20:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: Jones has Michael Pitman open with a receiver playing off coverage, and he bailed to the right side.
• 20:52
  [SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't have a receiver open, and he's just carrying the ball with one arm and gets sacked.
• 20:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: He saw green pastures in front of him.
• 21:02
  [SPEAKER_01]: That's what I believe, and he just missed judged it.
• 21:05
  [SPEAKER_01]: You're right, Pitman was open and he shouldn't throw in the ball.
• 21:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's just one of those plays where it's like in January.
• 21:11
  [SPEAKER_00]: That play happens.
• 21:13
  [SPEAKER_00]: That's a different sort of winning game, a losing game, is by giving the team another possession like that can't happen.
• 21:19
  [SPEAKER_00]: for many quarterback.
• 21:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's unacceptable because it just demonstrated kind of everything that's bad about the quarterback taken off the ball.
• 21:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: There's always the opportunity for a fun ball, especially if you're not high in tight two ends on the football running it.
• 21:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: He's not.
• 21:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: He's carrying with one arm.
• 21:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: It was just lack today's a whole lazy and it's I think something in the film, but the self-scouting the culture going to be doing this week that you're going to see I think kind of change in
• 21:49
  [SPEAKER_01]: I believe so, and the offense has an increative enough, the last few weeks.
• 22:00
  [SPEAKER_01]: Will if people didn't like that, then they don't like good podcasting, and it was fantastic as was, strictly by us with Will Rutherford, which we released yesterday, and everybody go listen to that, thanks for your time, Will.
• 22:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yep, thank you.
• 22:20
  [SPEAKER_01]: And thank you for listening.
• 22:22
  [SPEAKER_01]: Always appreciate it.
• 22:23
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• 22:39
  [SPEAKER_01]: Thanks again, Will.
• 22:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, thank you.
• 22:53
  [SPEAKER_01]: Central Indiana Sports Report is a product of ITG media, and I love Susie.