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The Colts Report with Will & Dave Retherford (3.68) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

• 0:05
  [SPEAKER_01]: You are listening to the Colts Report with Will and Dave Rutherford, and it's only on the Central Indian Sports Report.
• 0:15
  [SPEAKER_01]: Welcome Colts fans to the Central Indian Sports Report for this week's Colts Report with Will and Dave Rutherford.
• 0:20
  [SPEAKER_01]: We're going to talk about the latest colds news, check out the injury report, and then talk about what we liked and didn't like from last week's win over Washington.
• 0:31
  [SPEAKER_01]: And I guess we should start with this guys.
• 0:33
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's a lot better being two and two than 0 and two.
• 0:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: And the way things are shaken out in the AFC, it's starting to look like this might be a playoff team.
• 0:44
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think that there is a lot to take away, positively from their game in London last week.
• 0:50
  [SPEAKER_02]: I'm kind of with you, it's difficult right now to necessarily see who is, you know, a playoff caliber team, who's maybe a pretender, who is maybe a sleeping giant that's struggled out the game, but we think can really be a problem.
• 1:06
  [SPEAKER_02]: In the next 12 weeks like we're the culture at I think that this Pittsburgh game is really an opportunity to establish themselves as a legitimate playoff contending team if they're able to go into Pittsburgh and pull a win out
• 1:20
  [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know how much I can take away from the Washington game.
• 1:23
  [SPEAKER_02]: It's difficult whenever you got a third string quarterback to necessarily evaluate how well they played or how much was it Washington just being really limited in what they could do schematically in their game plan.
• 1:35
  [SPEAKER_02]: But you were comfortable and happy with a, you know, a 17 point win.
• 1:39
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think there's a lot.
• 1:40
  [SPEAKER_02]: that Shane Sikon can continue to build upon and both in play calling in the game management.
• 1:45
  [SPEAKER_02]: And like where they're at, I'm comfortable.
• 1:47
  [SPEAKER_02]: I'd sell much better than it was two weeks ago when they had almost set the NFL record for totally yards given up in the first two weeks.
• 1:55
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's true Washington, not only their third string quarterback, they also had limited weapons out there.
• 2:03
  [SPEAKER_01]: That's not the Washington team that we saw the week before
• 2:10
  [SPEAKER_01]: you take wins where you can get them.
• 2:12
  [SPEAKER_01]: And at the beginning of the year, we were kind of like if the culture two and two after four games, the rest of the schedule kind of opens up here after the Steelers game.
• 2:21
  [SPEAKER_01]: And they've kind of put themselves in pretty good shape.
• 2:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: for sure you know and i think what's even more positive honestly is that they've not played their best game i mean we still have not played a what i would call a complete game and yet we still beat an NFL team by three scores on sunday so there are still things that they can massively take away from that game to to come up with some improvement and
• 2:50
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, knowing that that we're two and two, we still haven't necessarily put it all together yet, but we're getting closer, like we're trending in that direction.
• 2:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think there's a lot of reason to be hopeful moving forward.
• 3:02
  [SPEAKER_00]: I honestly think that, you know, we can be pretty hopeful on Sunday.
• 3:07
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think there's a chance despite being underdog that they can win that game.
• 3:11
  [SPEAKER_00]: So, man, that's a house of wars.
• 3:14
  [SPEAKER_01]: But I do want to remind everybody that we'll be previewing that game probably tomorrow maybe the next day pretty soon make sure you're subscribed so you don't miss it will be previewing the cults game in Pittsburgh and we'll get to that and we might even talk about that a little later in this podcast, but really will I think Dave kind of hit on it there the cults have not played a really good game and that's I think because we have not seen a very good Daniel Jones so far.
• 3:41
  [SPEAKER_02]: No, we've seen a really bad Daniel Jones honestly.
• 3:44
  [SPEAKER_02]: I has been much different than what we saw in some really bad.
• 3:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: He's been very good.
• 3:50
  [SPEAKER_02]: He's been not worthy of the contracts that he's been awarded.
• 3:56
  [SPEAKER_02]: I can assure you that he's played very subpar.
• 4:00
  [SPEAKER_02]: I would say bottom 10 in the league is how he's playing in terms of overall.
• 4:07
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think that's generous.
• 4:08
  [SPEAKER_02]: I really do.
• 4:08
  [SPEAKER_02]: I thought that he was inept completely inept in the first quarter of the Washington game.
• 4:13
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think that he played better in the Kansas City game.
• 4:17
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think he played okay in the Houston game, but we have this thing where we we talk about the Houston defense being this incredibly stout group.
• 4:26
  [SPEAKER_02]: They looked really bad against Alice
• 4:29
  [SPEAKER_02]: And it makes you wonder, was the cold offense just not really fired on all cylinders because we're limited at quarterback.
• 4:35
  [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know.
• 4:36
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think we're getting to the point with what Daniel Jones, we have this feeling that Daniel Jones may be limited enough that it keeps this team from being a playoff contender.
• 4:45
  [SPEAKER_01]: But part of it is that the roster has been a little limited to it.
• 4:49
  [SPEAKER_01]: The wider receiver position, he's not getting a lot of help there.
• 4:53
  [SPEAKER_01]: Ashton Doolin didn't practice the day as well.
• 4:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: Keenan Allen unlikely this weekend or out there signing wider severs, ques Watkins, the latest today.
• 5:05
  [SPEAKER_01]: But it's kind of an emergency at wider receiver.
• 5:07
  [SPEAKER_01]: So how much of that is the lack of weapons?
• 5:12
  [SPEAKER_01]: Will Mallory back by this this week, by the way.
• 5:16
  [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know.
• 5:17
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think great quarterback's elevate subpart talent.
• 5:20
  [SPEAKER_02]: I'll say that much and that's why I don't make it a great quarterback because I don't think that he's able to elevate the third and fourth string receivers to make them better.
• 5:28
  [SPEAKER_02]: That's what great quarterbacks in this league do.
• 5:31
  [SPEAKER_02]: Is it sure?
• 5:32
  [SPEAKER_01]: Sure does help when you have good receivers sure.
• 5:35
  [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, oh, yeah, it does help But Daniel Jones the wide receivers aren't who absolutely through a horrendous interception in the Houston game the third quarter They did do that that wasn't because the receiver wasn't where they were supposed to be That's because he didn't get the ball in his own and didn't handle pressure well didn't get to his checkdown That interception you threw in the Washington game that wasn't on the receiver that was a just a bad ball He threw it straight into their secondary in those elements where you can say oh, maybe the receiver wasn't very
• 6:01
  [SPEAKER_02]: to be.
• 6:03
  [SPEAKER_02]: Then come out and say that.
• 6:04
  [SPEAKER_02]: Come out and say, well, you know, there is a miscommunication on the play.
• 6:08
  [SPEAKER_02]: If I'm not hearing that, I'm going to take it that it was a poor read and a poor ball.
• 6:12
  [SPEAKER_02]: And I thought that he markedly improved from that first court.
• 6:15
  [SPEAKER_02]: He couldn't have played any worse.
• 6:18
  [SPEAKER_02]: The rest of the game, then he did in the first quarter.
• 6:20
  [SPEAKER_02]: He was that bad.
• 6:22
  [SPEAKER_02]: Two straight three and outs looked completely overwhelmed by the situation and the pressure packages that Washington threw at him.
• 6:30
  [SPEAKER_02]: He's still in it through for 143 yards.
• 6:32
  [SPEAKER_02]: Not necessarily pushing the ball down to feel that's where I say Greg.
• 6:36
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think that could be,
• 6:38
  [SPEAKER_02]: receiver and you're pletuning guys you don't have alipir's out there who's there to stretch the field you don't have ash and do one you don't have keen and Allen that's why i say the yardage okay i'll give you that but in terms of just pure reads and he he's that's on him come on yeah he's been at least average right
• 6:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I think he's been subpar compared to what we've seen last year, but well, that's typically, I think that we need to also remember that he's for, you know, four games after coming back from, from an Achilles injury that he got no training camp before he got no offseason, you know, practice.
• 7:19
  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, the guys probably still pretty rusty too, you know, we know that he's capable.
• 7:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: you know, we saw what he did at the beginning of last year.
• 7:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm taking a team that, well, let's be honest, all of us thought that Anthony Richard should have been the starter on game one last year and he proved all of us wrong and I think he proved a lot of other people wrong.
• 7:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not ready to throw in the towel on him yet.
• 7:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think that he has not played up to his potential yet.
• 7:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: and we're still two and two right now.
• 7:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: And so when he does figure things out, gets a little bit more comfortable with a wide receiver room that is obviously limited.
• 7:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: When those things figure themselves out, I think this team's gonna be okay, and I think Dino Jones is gonna be okay as well.
• 8:05
  [SPEAKER_01]: A couple other notes on the injury report, Tanner Bordelini, Keene Davis, Gayther, Jalen Carley's, Argon Kee, all on the injured list.
• 8:15
  [SPEAKER_01]: Only Kee seems to be significant.
• 8:18
  [SPEAKER_01]: Kee seems to be out three to four weeks.
• 8:22
  [SPEAKER_02]: I'm kind of hope that they're able to get more to leaning back.
• 8:25
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think at any time you have issues that the center position it can definitely cause issues, especially with run responsibility, helping get the coverage that the past protections set, you know, identifying the mic.
• 8:38
  [SPEAKER_02]: And those are all things that the center does.
• 8:40
  [SPEAKER_02]: So I really am hopeful that they can get more to leaning there.
• 8:43
  [SPEAKER_02]: would like to hear a little bit more on whether they think Davis Gator and Carl Isles are going to be able to play because if not then we're really going to see what we have some of the talent that was acquired through the draft.
• 8:58
  [SPEAKER_01]: Is it me or has a keen Davis Gator been an improvement over last year?
• 9:04
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think it's slightly above a lateral move.
• 9:08
  [SPEAKER_02]: And I'll honestly, is he better than Zayir Franklin, maybe a little bit, I don't, he's not great, you know, he's still probably a bottom half linebacker in the league at the Mike position, but that's,
• 9:24
  [SPEAKER_02]: you can make do with it.
• 9:26
  [SPEAKER_02]: You don't always need an awesome line bag.
• 9:27
  [SPEAKER_02]: All right, I would be less concerned with him if we had a really good defensive line.
• 9:32
  [SPEAKER_02]: And just good as the force buckner did play against Washington.
• 9:36
  [SPEAKER_02]: They're still lacking in other places.
• 9:39
  [SPEAKER_02]: But that's a defensive line is very rotationally based.
• 9:44
  [SPEAKER_02]: I don't think it's necessarily always indicative of how good or poorly somebody
• 9:50
  [SPEAKER_02]: You know, someone is playing.
• 9:51
  [SPEAKER_02]: I do really think that a table war is kind of coming into his own.
• 9:57
  [SPEAKER_02]: I eat looks really good.
• 9:58
  [SPEAKER_02]: I like what he's been able to do from the three tech whenever to force Buckner's been out.
• 10:03
  [SPEAKER_02]: I like his versatility.
• 10:04
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think he plays the run really well.
• 10:06
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think he also offers some good pressure moves and pass rush moves.
• 10:12
  [SPEAKER_02]: from the interior defensive line.
• 10:14
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think that's a player that I see slowly working his way into starting.
• 10:20
  [SPEAKER_02]: If we ever do have something that happens to, you know, the Forest Buckner Orver orver store, I think that he's going to be able to fill in a slot and as needed and he's really become a key cog for this cult's defensive line.
• 10:32
  [SPEAKER_02]: I like him a lot.
• 10:32
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think that he has a future here.
• 10:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: a rumor that I found a little interesting and then will great some more of the players, the units, the coaches from Sunday's win.
• 10:53
  [SPEAKER_01]: As the trade deadline near, I saw a rumor today that the cults and Marvin Harrison Jr. might be a thing.
• 11:01
  [SPEAKER_01]: What do you think?
• 11:02
  [SPEAKER_00]: Marvin Harrison Jr. has not really proven himself to be
• 11:07
  [SPEAKER_00]: The wide receiver that everybody thought he was going to be, he's absolutely not been his father.
• 11:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm not sure that he's an upgrade right now if you want the truth.
• 11:17
  [SPEAKER_00]: So he's an upgrade over what they did.
• 11:21
  [SPEAKER_02]: I'm with you Greg.
• 11:22
  [SPEAKER_02]: Dad, I, he isn't.
• 11:24
  [SPEAKER_02]: Mark, Lee, that's why you've ever there turning it right now.
• 11:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: His numbers have not proven that he's going to be a remarkably great upgrade to what we already have.
• 11:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: And he's been a bit of a headache as well at times.
• 11:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: And not a lot of effort and some things you really don't like to see.
• 11:45
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think he is a perfect example of somebody that was drafted with a top five pick in an organization had absolutely no plan on what to do with them.
• 11:54
  [SPEAKER_02]: They, there's that, too.
• 11:55
  [SPEAKER_02]: Rookie season, incredibly difficult form.
• 11:59
  [SPEAKER_02]: He did not see one pass thrown behind the minus
• 12:05
  [SPEAKER_02]: Really you draft a guy for overall.
• 12:07
  [SPEAKER_02]: You don't get him a screen.
• 12:08
  [SPEAKER_02]: You know, the potentially just get him a couple catches get his confidence up.
• 12:11
  [SPEAKER_02]: I don't think he was ever with a quarterback and Kyler Murray that benefited his play style.
• 12:16
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think he needs a Jared golf level quarterback.
• 12:19
  [SPEAKER_02]: I really think he needs a Daniel Jones.
• 12:21
  [SPEAKER_02]: type of quarterback.
• 12:22
  [SPEAKER_02]: Somebody that can be a rhythm pass or somebody that can throw on time and on target.
• 12:26
  [SPEAKER_02]: That's what he's really good at.
• 12:28
  [SPEAKER_02]: You saw this touchdown pass.
• 12:29
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think his footwork in the end zone is really good.
• 12:32
  [SPEAKER_02]: I like his size.
• 12:33
  [SPEAKER_02]: I want the cults to go get him.
• 12:35
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think a day three pick is easily worth the investment.
• 12:39
  [SPEAKER_02]: If he walks at free agency after
• 12:41
  [SPEAKER_02]: This season, and you don't want to extend them, then you get a compensatory pickback.
• 12:45
  [SPEAKER_02]: That's probably going to be in the day three range two.
• 12:47
  [SPEAKER_02]: What's the harm here?
• 12:48
  [SPEAKER_02]: He's only going to benefit your roster if he's bad.
• 12:53
  [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, well, he was bad.
• 12:54
  [SPEAKER_02]: But right now, Jacobi Perset doesn't push the ball down the field to him.
• 12:59
  [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, you've got an extra seaver, and he's running go routes all the time.
• 13:03
  [SPEAKER_02]: They're constantly using him as a decoy.
• 13:04
  [SPEAKER_02]: They're not showing him the ball.
• 13:07
  [SPEAKER_02]: and all, they're not getting it to him or really they are.
• 13:10
  [SPEAKER_02]: He's the third option.
• 13:11
  [SPEAKER_02]: He's the fourth option then they're offense with Tray McBride, Michael Wilson, and Jeremiah Love.
• 13:17
  [SPEAKER_02]: And I'm sorry.
• 13:19
  [SPEAKER_02]: He's a better receiver than Michael Wilson is right wrong or different.
• 13:23
  [SPEAKER_02]: I would be very excited if the culture able to bring him to Indianapolis.
• 13:27
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think if there's a guy that can teach him, it's Reggie Wayne, regardless of what you want to say about him as the wide receiver coach.
• 13:34
  [SPEAKER_02]: He played with his dad.
• 13:35
  [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, he is a good leader.
• 13:37
  [SPEAKER_02]: I like what Reggie Wayne's about.
• 13:38
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think that's a coach that could get him on track.
• 13:41
  [SPEAKER_02]: To me, it's only a positive move.
• 13:44
  [SPEAKER_02]: I don't see it having a ton of negative drawbacks if you decide to do it.
• 13:50
  [SPEAKER_02]: uh... you make a lot of good points uh... the culture right the cults need somebody like Marvin Harrison they have alic pierce that somebody that's going to stretch the defense vertically i think that they have josh down to is a awfully fine slot receiver i don't necessarily love his statuary size is more than x receiver on the ball
• 14:13
  [SPEAKER_02]: Thank Marvin Harrison be really good here.
• 14:15
  [SPEAKER_02]: I like him in the intermediate game.
• 14:17
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think his route running is really underrated.
• 14:19
  [SPEAKER_02]: I like his footwork.
• 14:20
  [SPEAKER_02]: He may be a little slow, but that's the type of game that they just well.
• 14:24
  [SPEAKER_02]: If you're not completely reliant on speed to be a winner, if you're able to get open, I think the effort issues are because he knows he's not getting the ball.
• 14:32
  [SPEAKER_02]: Greg, I mean, is it fun to go out there and just, you know, run eight miles and make it attract me, the whole game, 40 drawbacks, and Jacobi persets, new alarm hit, throw it past 45 yards.
• 14:43
  [SPEAKER_02]: That's not fun.
• 14:44
  [SPEAKER_02]: That's not fun for anybody.
• 14:45
  [SPEAKER_02]: So I'm not shocked that he's not given this best effort.
• 14:48
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think that what the Arizona Cardinals did do him is organizational mouth practice.
• 14:53
  [SPEAKER_02]: You can't turn on the tape.
• 14:54
  [SPEAKER_02]: He showed to know Ohio State and tell me, hey, this guy's
• 14:59
  [SPEAKER_02]: no way.
• 15:00
  [SPEAKER_02]: He exudes talent.
• 15:01
  [SPEAKER_02]: He needs to get confidence and if the culture able to do that form, a move like this given a, you know, a fifth round draft pick and you're able to extend him for 25 million because he's had a couple down years.
• 15:13
  [SPEAKER_02]: Next year, all the sudden you look and say, man, quotes receiving room looks awfully good now, past catching room and skill position looks like it's set for a few years.
• 15:21
  [SPEAKER_02]: I really like it.
• 15:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't necessarily disagree with anything that you guys have said about him.
• 15:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, he's absolutely, there was a reason why he was drafted where he was.
• 15:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: And he was a, you know, a first round talent without question.
• 15:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: It just hasn't translated his game as not translated right now into the NFL game.
• 15:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: And that could be because Arizona has committed now practice with him.
• 15:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: Or it could be that there's something more that we just don't know.
• 15:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: Is it potentially something that could be a high reward low risk potentially and based upon that, you know, why not, but not sure that there's not more to the story that we just don't know.
• 16:09
  [SPEAKER_01]: Well, they definitely need to upgrade it wide receiver and as will said article, leave there, why not I was with you, Dave, you know, but after we'll made some.
• 16:22
  [SPEAKER_01]: some good points there and the main one being the Cardinals are awful.
• 16:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: And that's been an organization that's ruined a lot of good players.
• 16:30
  [SPEAKER_02]: It's a crappy organization.
• 16:31
  [SPEAKER_02]: This is a guy that had almost 900 receiving yards he missed two games is rookie season.
• 16:36
  [SPEAKER_02]: You know, had eight touchdowns.
• 16:38
  [SPEAKER_02]: It's not like this guy is just complete the hog water.
• 16:42
  [SPEAKER_02]: He can play at the NFL.
• 16:43
  [SPEAKER_02]: Well, he's just got to get him on the right track.
• 16:45
  [SPEAKER_02]: The Cardinals just suck.
• 16:47
  [SPEAKER_02]: It's an awful, it's a shitty organization.
• 16:51
  [SPEAKER_02]: What Jacobi percent arguing and fighting, you know, I want starting quarterback money and then kind of saying, hey, we'll meet you in the middle 18, 20 million.
• 16:59
  [SPEAKER_02]: That's fine, Danny.
• 17:00
  [SPEAKER_02]: Jacobi percent's not a starting quarterback and being a fellow of least great backup, but I'm not shocked that check down Merchant, you know, Trauma Pride's eating and feasting this year.
• 17:09
  [SPEAKER_02]: I'm not shocked that check down Merchant Michael Wilson's feasting.
• 17:13
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, this is an organization that drafted Jeremiah love.
• 17:17
  [SPEAKER_02]: Top five draft pickies, they're on their depth chart.
• 17:20
  [SPEAKER_02]: in September really.
• 17:21
  [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, they're going to ruin him.
• 17:24
  [SPEAKER_02]: That's where we're talking to be John Robinson level talent.
• 17:27
  [SPEAKER_02]: Jeremiah love.
• 17:27
  [SPEAKER_02]: I know we're getting a little off track, but seriously, if this this this this coldslisters need to understand whatever whatever opinion they need about Marvin Harris Center or whatever they feel about it, there's you the facts.
• 17:39
  [SPEAKER_02]: Jeremiah love is that level of prospect that you drafted that high and then you just you sign James Connor, you sign Tyler, I'll geer at a Atlanta why
• 17:54
  [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, well, we've already talked about Daniel Jones, the run game.
• 17:58
  [SPEAKER_01]: I thought was really good.
• 17:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: I thought the run blocking was really good.
• 18:02
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think the one issue we need to talk about that we haven't really is, and we did a little last week, but the tackles and past blocking haven't been great.
• 18:11
  [SPEAKER_01]: Other than that, feels like across the board Sunday was either a win or an incomplete because we were playing a bad team.
• 18:21
  [SPEAKER_01]: That's one thing that concerned me.
• 18:24
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think that the cults, if there's one weakness that I saw, it's they just didn't get the ball to Taylor early enough.
• 18:32
  [SPEAKER_02]: Really, he didn't suit the ball much, the first quarter.
• 18:34
  [SPEAKER_02]: And he had those 20 carries for 95 yards.
• 18:37
  [SPEAKER_02]: It'd be probably could have gone for 130 if they just feed him a little bit more.
• 18:40
  [SPEAKER_02]: And I get this is volume as a rush.
• 18:42
  [SPEAKER_02]: There's been higher this year than it has in years past, but it's why he's a bell cow.
• 18:47
  [SPEAKER_02]: Get him the ball, don't get too cute.
• 18:50
  [SPEAKER_02]: You know, we still have to establish the run in any game and then worry about in the past second.
• 18:55
  [SPEAKER_02]: And especially with Daniel Jones, if you think he's limited with his Achilles, then you're going to have to kind of get the linebackers from pinning their ears back and going after him.
• 19:06
  [SPEAKER_02]: kind of seen that he's turning into, you know, New York giant Dan Jones when pressure is in his face, which is a pumpkin.
• 19:13
  [SPEAKER_02]: And so you're going to have to let Taylor kind of be that safety valve and establish a run game with a bus sol of an interior three offense alignment that you have.
• 19:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: I feel like as much as Taylor, I mean as many carries as Taylor gets, we could probably give him a few more and to be honest, I've been pretty impressed with McGowan too much more than I much more than I was early on in the season or coming into the season.
• 19:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: I was one of those people saying that we don't really have a backup running back.
• 19:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: McGowan's come in and
• 19:51
  [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe compliments tailored pretty well.
• 19:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: There are times when I'm thinking, why is John doesn't tailor not on the field right now?
• 19:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: But McGowan has been very suitable in that role.
• 20:02
  [SPEAKER_00]: And so we've got to continue to use our offensive line.
• 20:07
  [SPEAKER_00]: at its strength and its strength is in run blocking and we have arguably, you know, the best running back in the league.
• 20:14
  [SPEAKER_00]: So we've got to continue to go to that and try to let that then be what opens up the past scheme and improves upon that.
• 20:24
  [SPEAKER_01]: And guys, if there's a better right guard in the NFL, then Matt can solve this, I'd be surprised.
• 20:29
  [SPEAKER_01]: He's improved that much and he is that good.
• 20:32
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, he is.
• 20:33
  [SPEAKER_02]: He looks great.
• 20:34
  [SPEAKER_02]: I've been very impressed with his really smooth transition, especially starting his career kind of as a swing man there for the the first few years.
• 20:44
  [SPEAKER_02]: I really like the way that they use the guards in the trap game and both of them are really good polling guards.
• 20:53
  [SPEAKER_02]: very versatile in what you're able to do with them.
• 20:56
  [SPEAKER_02]: I enjoy watching that front five play.
• 20:59
  [SPEAKER_02]: I any that burn hard Ryanman is see what he was two years ago.
• 21:03
  [SPEAKER_02]: I'm not sure but he's been okay.
• 21:06
  [SPEAKER_02]: Edge pressure is not necessarily always a huge concern as long as you're able to force defensive ends and pass pressures up field and you're allowed to go to run blocking.
• 21:15
  [SPEAKER_01]: He's been good, downfield blocking.
• 21:17
  [SPEAKER_02]: The front three is so good that you just kind of have to let Daniel join step up in the pocket.
• 21:22
  [SPEAKER_02]: That's kind of where we're at is for a cultural organization.
• 21:26
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think that there are some help that he can, and I say, he shamed, so I can give with the tight ends in the chip game, especially to help minimize a very good stealers defensive line with TJ, what and Nick Herbig.
• 21:41
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think Alex Heissmith isn't awfully good past pressure in his own right.
• 21:46
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think Jack Sawyer out of Ohio State is a fine.
• 21:51
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, they have a very good defense in terms of what they're able to do with it.
• 21:54
  [SPEAKER_02]: Jalen Ramsey's transition very well into a nickel back and then a safety.
• 21:58
  [SPEAKER_02]: So this cult offense is going to have to be able to handle the pressure that Pittsburgh gives them.
• 22:04
  [SPEAKER_02]: And if that's.
• 22:05
  [SPEAKER_02]: A strength of this cold scene, which I think it can be, the cults can win pretty comfortably.
• 22:11
  [SPEAKER_02]: I really think even though Pittsburgh has been a kind of house a horse form.
• 22:16
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, more on that coming up in the next day or so.
• 22:20
  [SPEAKER_01]: Before we go, I just want to run the top five graded players by you from last week.
• 22:25
  [SPEAKER_01]: And I don't think any of this will surprise you.
• 22:28
  [SPEAKER_01]: Number one, Jonathan Taylor, number two, Matt Gonzalez, number three, Tanner Bordelini, number four, Quentin Nelson, number five, Tyler Ward.
• 22:37
  [SPEAKER_02]: I'm not shocked that those are their five best players on a grading system, you know, and the game against Washington, they scored 30 points and I'm not shocked at all.
• 22:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think those might be their best five players and they're all on offense.
• 22:51
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I comfortably.
• 22:52
  [SPEAKER_02]: The Forest Bookters probably has an argument on us, the God Greg, I think Spencer Schrager might have an argument too.
• 22:59
  [SPEAKER_02]: But he's been a regular mayor of Sanchez.
• 23:01
  [SPEAKER_02]: There are fourth down armies, awfully good.
• 23:03
  [SPEAKER_02]: Really, they are a very, very good, special teams, punt and kicker.
• 23:10
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think that they really kind of struggle and kick off coverage and kick return.
• 23:14
  [SPEAKER_02]: But we can get into that in the preview.
• 23:17
  [SPEAKER_02]: We'll just put it pause on.
• 23:19
  [SPEAKER_01]: by like going way way way back to the very beginning of the Colton Indianapolis.
• 23:24
  [SPEAKER_01]: That's the one thing the Colts have always been good at.
• 23:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: Kickers and punters.
• 23:28
  [SPEAKER_01]: I don't think there's ever been a time where it's been more than two or three years where they've struggled at kicking and punting until recently.
• 23:35
  [SPEAKER_01]: You go back to their first year, they're kicker and punter where they're only two players in the proble.
• 23:43
  [SPEAKER_01]: So it always been strong, and of course, had a couple of all-time grates as well.
• 23:47
  [SPEAKER_01]: So guys, thanks so much, and we will be back tomorrow with our Colt Steelers Preview.
• 23:53
  [SPEAKER_01]: We're gonna wanna join us for that.
• 23:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: Thanks to Will and Dave, that we back on Friday with a preview of the Colt's game in Pittsburgh against the Steelers on Sunday.
• 24:09
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• 24:20
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• 24:26
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• 24:32
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