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Colts 41, Bengals 14: Preseason Finale Reaction with Will Retherford (Podcast 2.6.3) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

• 0:06
  [UNKNOWN]: Thank you
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This is for this whole city and we're listening to Greg and Will read a phrase reaction to the quotes, forty-one to fourteen pre-season win over the Bengals.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And future hosts, Craig Mendeau.
• 0:58
  [SPEAKER_02]: Thank you so much for introducing.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Welcome comes from Central India and a spoke report and I will react to the quotes of the early one fourteen beat down of the Cincinnati Bengals and their pre-season
• 1:12
  [SPEAKER_02]: finale, it was complete domination from the start, twenty four to seven a half time, thirty one to seven right out of half time, Riley Leonard out there killing it.
• 1:23
  [SPEAKER_02]: Well, we're not really here to talk about preseason football, we're more here to talk about preseason being over and heading into the regular season, thoughts on the cult's final preseason game.
• 1:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: I guess good that it's over because I'm getting tired talking about to be honest.
• 1:43
  [SPEAKER_01]: Kissing your first girlfriend only means something until you kiss a second.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So, you know, it's time to get to the regular season.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It's time to enjoy actual football that means something and not a bunch of future accountants and financial consultants out there playing football on a Saturday afternoon at one o'clock.
• 2:04
  [SPEAKER_02]: That being said, Riley Leonard looks like he is definitely not going to be a future accountant.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Looks like he's going to be a third string quarterback for the Colts.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Fifteen for twenty hundred eighty nine yards and a touchdown and probably even better than that.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: He looked good on the ground.
• 2:20
  [SPEAKER_02]: He looked athletic even in an NFL game and you know there's something.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The only tape he needs to be watching this year's Charlie Whitehurst clipboard Jesus.
• 2:31
  [SPEAKER_01]: Um, because that's always going to be doing this day and on the sidelines.
• 2:34
  [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I would rather I would rather lie Riley Leonard than Daniel Jones.
• 2:38
  [SPEAKER_02]: And maybe I need to quit hating on the guy.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: He is Charlie Whitehurst.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I would rather go three important figures here than whatever Daniel Jones can do.
• 2:49
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think that there is some truth to that.
• 2:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: Um, the issue with that is that I believe that this roster is probably
• 2:56
  [SPEAKER_01]: constructed in a way that it's going to be really hard to throw away.
• 3:00
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think that the I think the roster's pretty good.
• 3:04
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think that they see past roster with a horrible quarterback situation.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I think that they're only glaring hole to me right now is is quarterback they're deficient there.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: You.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It's not, maybe, it's really, I don't think the past rush is that bad.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I think that you need to see lots of it.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Twenty-nine last year.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And you had a rookie guy who I don't think fit the scheme very well.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They still get good A-Gat pressure.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I expect back to continue.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm not saying it's going to be some world beater.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: of a defensive secondary or defensive from forward alignment.
• 3:45
  [SPEAKER_01]: It could be really good.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I think it's going to be good enough.
• 3:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: Their secondary will help their defensive line as far as forcing quarterbacks to make mistakes and maybe giving the line a little bit more time to get to the quarterback as far as the initial pass rush.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I expect that this team is constructed in a way that they're probably going to win at least six games just simply on the fact that it is good enough to do so.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And they're good enough to win nine games probably ten games as I think they're ceiling.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, somewhere in that ballpark.
• 4:20
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, you're right.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: There's there is a path to being a playoff team.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I just don't know for a fan base that's come to expect.
• 4:33
  [SPEAKER_02]: championships after Peyton Manning was here that what's the purpose of a ten and seven season right now.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Does that make Daniel Jones your future quarterback and besties the eighteenth best quarterback in the lead?
• 4:47
  [SPEAKER_02]: You know what I mean?
• 4:49
  [SPEAKER_02]: Well, I think you have to be the best team to best quarterback in the league.
• 4:54
  [SPEAKER_01]: You have to consider that.
• 4:56
  [SPEAKER_01]: Certainly.
• 4:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: I believe that.
• 4:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: That's a really up the last eight to ten years.
• 5:03
  [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know why we expect anything because they've been really awful.
• 5:06
  [SPEAKER_01]: You're getting to the point where they've been really mediocre for a long time.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, we should talk about it.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Hey, let's be almost twenty years.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It's an identity for the no identity for the last five or six.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, you could really circle around and say that the last time you were really excited about a cold season was two thousand and ten and that's been fifteen years now.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: problem with the luck years was that the roster really for the most part wasn't very good outside of Andrew luck he elevated a bottom ten roster and to what they were what should go to show just how good Andrew luck was the prime of his career but i mean we'd be lying to ourselves if we said that that year that span of of twenty twelve to really twenty
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Seventeen.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It's something like those were great rosters.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Those they were average rosters with a really good quarterback that elevated the team around him.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: He had TY had Dante Monkrie if you had Reggie Wayne for some of those years, but offensively they kind of lack an identity outside of luck and they I mean, we're going to see I still think that defensively they can have an identity because I think that Anna Rumo is
• 6:15
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's good enough a defensive coordinator to do so I think where I see them is that they don't have an offensive identity that I've I've come to find yet.
• 6:25
  [SPEAKER_02]: So they should they should be run the ball down you throw all the freaking time and it's not and that's got to change.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: They need to just run run run run run run run run and then pass everyone's more
• 6:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think that they're going to use warrant times as an extension of their run game in the screen game.
• 6:45
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think that you're going to see Pitman's usage probably ultimately increase with Daniel Jones because I think that Jones for everything that Richardson isn't, Jones is probably a slightly more efficient intermediate short thrower of the football, which is going to benefit your, I mean, you would consider Michael Pitman one of your better playmakers on the team.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It's going to benefit
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  [SPEAKER_01]: more and it's going to benefit downs.
• 7:09
  [SPEAKER_01]: The issue isn't that Daniel Jones takes that much of a step back as far as is Richardson, but you're just you lose the the awesome plays.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: You lose the five star plays that Richardson's able to make that that maybe another only another quarterback on the entire plan is able to make what Daniel Jones gives you.
• 7:28
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's going to be conservative.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It's going to be
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I guess consistent.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Pretty good.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Sometimes really bad.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: He's not ever going to take.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: He's not elevating anything.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: He's going to keep that that offense at the same level that it was before.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And there's no elevation.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: The ceiling is pretty good.
• 7:47
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's okay.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: His ceiling is okay on the on the school of quarterbacks is okay.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Maybe.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: The pretty good is it's a ceiling.
• 7:55
  [SPEAKER_01]: Well, it's just the only.
• 7:58
  [SPEAKER_02]: Well, you and I are going to be talking this week on the.
• 8:04
  [SPEAKER_02]: on strictly bias with Will Rutherford and the culture report more about the quotes.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Right now, the question I want to have, I want to ask you is, what are you looking forward to most about week one and finding out about this team?
• 8:19
  [SPEAKER_01]: I want to see what the NFL record is for most field goals made because I think Spencer Schrader might break the NFL record week one because I see this offense as being good enough to get you in field goal range and not not good enough to finish the job.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Well, that's my next question.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: This Tyler Warren changed that.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I think that collectively as an offense, I think that they have good pieces.
• 8:43
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think that they struggle for everything Michael Pittman is.
• 8:45
  [SPEAKER_01]: He struggles to get them all in the end zone for whatever reason, whether that's his doing, whether the scheme, the quarterback.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Everyone has never had an issue getting in the end zone.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Not that this is a different level, but.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And I think that that's true.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I just fear that there's going to be opportunities to get in the engine that will be missed because of Daniel Jones.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: That's what I hear that there will be an overthrow or an under throw and neither warrants wide open down the seam for a walk and touchdown on third and six and Daniel Jones misses it and we have to settle for a full year of field goal.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I'll never saw him.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: That's what I fear.
• 9:23
  [SPEAKER_01]: This team is going to go as far as the skill players take it.
• 9:27
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's different than a quarterback.
• 9:28
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think you know how far the quarterback's going to take this team.
• 9:30
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's can the collective group around him just be really, really good and play up to their potential and provide him with the run after catch opportunity.
• 9:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: Are they able to effectively establish a run game to make the play action game work a little better?
• 9:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's just going, they have to be perfect on offense to be good.
• 9:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: And I think that's something that I worry about because it's really hard to expect another people to be perfect.
• 10:00
  [SPEAKER_02]: And you and I are gonna be talking about some best case worst case scenarios on this week's culture report.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, we're gonna look game-to-game and talk about what is possible in both directions.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Let's do a little preview right now.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Best case worst case scenario, not record wise, but for the end result of this season for you.
• 10:24
  [SPEAKER_01]: The best case scenario for me is getting to a wild card game.
• 10:30
  [SPEAKER_01]: If we're viewing the positive as you don't think they can win the division.
• 10:36
  [SPEAKER_02]: If everyone went right, they could win that division.
• 10:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: But they're going to be in the wildcard round, because they're not going to be a top two.
• 10:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So to me, them getting to the wildcard round is a win in the positive scale.
• 10:47
  [SPEAKER_01]: Now, if you're somebody that views having the number one pick in the draft is as the positive, then I guess maybe that I see, I don't see that as likely.
• 10:55
  [SPEAKER_01]: I don't think that they're, I think there is going to be six to seven are significantly worse than the cults.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I've been being top ten is good enough this year.
• 11:06
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think so I will backtrack just a little bit.
• 11:09
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think that wild card rounds just getting there, winning the division and playing the first week of the playoffs is a probably the ceiling.
• 11:18
  [SPEAKER_01]: The floor for this team is fourth place in the south and they're picking in the sixth and nine range.
• 11:32
  [SPEAKER_02]: I agree.
• 11:33
  [SPEAKER_02]: We'll talk more about that on.
• 11:35
  [SPEAKER_02]: The country port with Will and Sam and we're going to talk more NFL on Tuesday on strictly bias with Will.
• 11:44
  [SPEAKER_02]: What else do you think we're going to be talking about on Tuesday?
• 11:46
  [SPEAKER_02]: Will.
• 11:49
  [SPEAKER_01]: The MLB race is heating up as far as the NOS and the Padres and Dodgers that's definitely something to keep your eyes open for.
• 11:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: I work we're very NFL based right now.
• 12:00
  [SPEAKER_02]: Honestly, you and I are going to be talking about football football.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: You're going to get sick of the football that we're going to be talking.
• 12:06
  [SPEAKER_01]: I do.
• 12:07
  [SPEAKER_01]: I want to talk about how the CBA affects the WNBA season next year.
• 12:12
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think that's a really important talking piece to give people some information as far as
• 12:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: kind of what can happen if this doesn't work out in the way that the fans want it, which is something I fear.
• 12:23
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think they're in a really dangerous position.
• 12:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: They need to get this figured out smoothly and be able to start next season on time.
• 12:32
  [SPEAKER_02]: everybody tuned into the fever report on Sunday to hear what John Robertson has to say about the CBA and he has teased a conspiracy theory with this.
• 12:42
  [SPEAKER_02]: So everybody make sure that you check that out on Sunday.
• 12:46
  [SPEAKER_02]: Well, thank you so much for your time.
• 12:48
  [SPEAKER_02]: We just spent thirteen minutes talking about a preseason game so I'm proud of this.
• 12:52
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I, I, I, I, I know how you feel, but I feel like my passion for this team until week one has just been completely zapped with the, with the, having never earned it back, don't they?
• 13:03
  [SPEAKER_01]: Um, I, I feel very, little, little excitement.
• 13:06
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm excited to watch games.
• 13:07
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm excited to put one of me back on.
• 13:09
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I'm really in different on the course right now.
• 13:12
  [SPEAKER_01]: I, I, I've met in different, I'm, um, I just have very little hope.
• 13:18
  [SPEAKER_01]: I do too.
• 13:18
  [SPEAKER_01]: I have, I have, I have no hope as far as what this season can be.
• 13:22
  [SPEAKER_02]: My best, I think the best over is that they, like, they go to in fifteen and Riley Leonard is quarterbacking them from week five to week seventeen and they are in a top five pick position.
• 13:35
  [SPEAKER_02]: That to me is the best-case scenario.
• 13:37
  [SPEAKER_02]: There's no beating fall the more.
• 13:39
  [SPEAKER_02]: It's Buffalo, Kansas City, San Diego, Denver.
• 13:44
  [SPEAKER_02]: They're not beating those teams.
• 13:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yep, I agree.
• 13:46
  [SPEAKER_02]: They're going to be going through four to everyone.
• 13:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yep.
• 13:51
  [SPEAKER_02]: Thanks so much, Will.
• 13:52
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yep.
• 13:53
  [SPEAKER_01]: Thank you.
• 13:55
  [SPEAKER_02]: Thanks once again.
• 13:56
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• 14:01
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• 14:03
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• 14:08
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• 14:53
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