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Ravens 24, Colts 16: Reaction with Will Retherford, Mike Hutsell & Sam Frick (Aug. 7, 2025; Podcast 347.4) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

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[SPEAKER_03]: What you are listening to now is the central Indiana Sports Report podcast number three hundred and forty seven point four
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[SPEAKER_03]: Will rather for my cuttle and Sam Frick's reaction to the Colts.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Twenty four to sixteen lost to the Ravens in Baltimore and the first preseason game on Thursday night.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Most of the focus of course wasn't on the final score.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It was on another Anthony Richards in injury and whether he has what it takes to be a franchise quarterback.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Of course we will be reacting to every cult's game this year once the regular season gets here.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We will also have previews and once a week we have our cult report right now with Will Rutherford until we find the right person to take that on permanently.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Please enjoy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Your facility to the Central Indiana Sport Report, with your host Greg Mendelz.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Welcome Colts fans at the Central Indiana Sports Report and our reaction to the Colts' twenty-fourths in Los and Baltimore in week one of the preseason of course nobody cares about the final result even though I belied the little about the lack of creativity on the final drive that really matter at all but we are here to talk about what we liked what we didn't like a couple of promising pieces to this but some other concerns and
1:37
[SPEAKER_03]: We're gonna start with our local, our fill-in cult guy for now will, Rutherford and will.
1:43
[SPEAKER_03]: What did you like and what did you dislike from tonight?
1:47
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I dislike the fact that we threw a starting quarterback on the field without starting tackles.
1:53
[SPEAKER_01]: And that really should be the moral of tonight.
1:55
[SPEAKER_01]: It's just what the colds once again, just absolute abysmal management.
2:01
[SPEAKER_01]: Whoever made that decision needs fired, that was a terrible decision.
2:05
[SPEAKER_01]: And hopefully it doesn't come back to Biden in the ass because I think you saw tonight what Daniel Jones is capable of.
2:13
[SPEAKER_01]: Warren and AD Mitchell looked good outside of that there wasn't a whole lot of promise.
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[SPEAKER_04]: So there's a lot of youthful optimism there to call Anthony Richardson a starting NFL quarterback.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I didn't know you had that in you.
2:26
[SPEAKER_04]: Will.
2:26
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm still an absolutely believer.
2:28
[SPEAKER_01]: And I think the fact that he was out there without his right or left tackle, starting you never throw a starting quarterback in a preseason game without the starting line.
2:36
[SPEAKER_01]: Just doesn't happen.
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[SPEAKER_01]: There's not a franchise in the league.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Thirty two franchises.
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[SPEAKER_01]: None of them would do that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And the cults chose to do it tonight.
2:43
[SPEAKER_01]: And that broke his pinky.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, it's not just starting quarterback right now.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's, I think he is.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You think he is, but I'm not even entertaining the Daniel Jones conversation.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He salt tonight.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He was a bismal.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's not starting.
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[SPEAKER_01]: If Daniel Jones starts on this team, there's not even a point of turning the game on Sundays.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I think Anthony Richardson is the smartest man any of us know because there's no evidence of him being good.
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[SPEAKER_04]: but there's all the evidence of him having the potential to be good.
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[SPEAKER_04]: So he just doesn't play.
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[SPEAKER_04]: So now we can sit here and say, he's only twenty two years old.
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[SPEAKER_04]: He may be great.
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[SPEAKER_04]: At some point, he wasn't great at Florida.
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[SPEAKER_04]: He wasn't great as a rookie before he got hurt.
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[SPEAKER_04]: He wasn't great last year.
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[SPEAKER_04]: He showed you a few things.
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[SPEAKER_04]: He threw some balls.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, hey, if there's a, if you need somebody to throw the ball, seven yards from his knees and to a bucket at the goal one, he'd probably be my number one draft thing.
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[SPEAKER_04]: There's absolutely no evidence whatsoever that that is a starting NSL quarterback.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And here we are.
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[SPEAKER_03]: All right, guys, let's bring in Sam, the man Frick from the ANEC Network in Fort Wayne, a Colts fan, to give his opinion and Sam, what's your opinion of wills and bike opinions?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, I'm gonna be quite honest with you.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The evidence is right there and I'm someone that's been someone that always looks for evidence when it comes to statistics and when what my eyes pretty much tell me the exact same thing.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Anthony Richardson has not proven to be a starting NFL quarterback.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I have not seen that since he was drafted and up to this point, the questions are still out there.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The narrative still exists.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Daniel Jones was out there.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, he threw it for me for yards.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's preseason game.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He has it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Daniel Jones is not a proven NFL starting quarterback.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He's prone for mistakes and thrown for turnovers.
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[SPEAKER_02]: What do you do?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Now I will say this.
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[SPEAKER_02]: There are some positive we can take away from tonight.
4:38
[SPEAKER_02]: I've thought Tyler warned, especially early on in the game.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I liked what he brought in.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, young player coming in.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But on this in the app, it's called scene.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, a little bit of a done a name, Mitchell, Ashden, Doolin had some nice catches for the Colts in that, especially in the first half.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, there were opportunities, even in a, in a preseason game, which, whatever, but the Colts did had opportunities in this game despite the, the lack of production, if you would from the quarterback and the play calling.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Special teams need some work, obviously.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's a problem.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Technically, looks like technically from a high school team.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's not good at all, especially in the first half.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Thankfully, the defense did step up a little bit.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I like the way our secondary is looks so far, but again, it is against Baltimore's backup quarterbacks.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So I'm not going to sit here and celebrate that so far, but there is some things we can take away as good moments for the Colts, particularly in the past defense and with our wide receivers.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But I do have a lot of concerns with quarterback.
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[SPEAKER_02]: and that and until that gets resolved, I think we're in for a long season ahead.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm just gonna figure at this point, and I'm with Will.
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[SPEAKER_03]: He's twenty-two years old.
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[SPEAKER_03]: There are the things that you look at with the promise, but as I said to Mike Hutsl earlier tonight, that it reminded me of Jeff George, and not that they're the sake type of player, but you always just saw Jeff George and Eth.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It was at nine franchises.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Took a chance on him because you always saw it was there.
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[SPEAKER_03]: it was possible and it just never quite happened and that might be where we are and Mike Hudson had a different analogy.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I've lived here, almost my whole life.
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[SPEAKER_04]: One of the biggest events that's ever happened in Southern Indian was the town of New Albany, was getting a duck in no house.
6:27
[SPEAKER_04]: For four years, all we heard about was this damn dunk in donuts.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And it was always opening in six months.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Six months for now, we're gonna have a dunk in donuts.
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[SPEAKER_04]: By the time that stupid dunk in donuts open, it could not possibly have lived up to the height.
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[SPEAKER_04]: You couldn't get a parking spot for that stupid thing when it finally opened.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And when it opened, guess what?
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[SPEAKER_04]: It's a Dunkin' Donuts.
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[SPEAKER_04]: It's sucked.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I don't even think the stupid thing's still there.
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[SPEAKER_04]: This is Anthony Richardson.
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[SPEAKER_04]: We've heard since he was at Florida, but he's the greatest thing that's ever, you know, his tools you don't understand.
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[SPEAKER_04]: This guy is amazing.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Well, we keep waiting.
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[SPEAKER_04]: We're six months away.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Now he's hurt.
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[SPEAKER_04]: What's the broken pinky?
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[SPEAKER_04]: Six weeks, maybe?
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[SPEAKER_04]: If that's what it ends up being.
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[SPEAKER_04]: So you're into the regular season at that point.
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[SPEAKER_04]: It's got to happen at some time.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I know he's only twenty-two.
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[SPEAKER_04]: We're going to keep saying that.
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[SPEAKER_04]: He can be only twenty-nine playing for the Raiders as a third string quarterback in seven years and we're still going to hear about this guy's intangible.
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[SPEAKER_04]: At some point, the smartest thing, like I said, he's the smartest person in the world because he never plays to show that he isn't good.
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[SPEAKER_04]: We know Daniel Jones sucks.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Why?
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[SPEAKER_04]: Because the guy that poor guys been out there playing for five, six years.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And we've seen it live.
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[SPEAKER_04]: The guy is a seventy-five yard touchdown that didn't happen because he tripped on the forty-one yard line.
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[SPEAKER_04]: The difference between these two quarterbacks is we've seen one suck.
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[SPEAKER_04]: We just haven't seen the other one suck enough.
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[SPEAKER_04]: So we get penalized by a training camp video that the team puts out of him throwing a dot to a donny Mitchell.
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[SPEAKER_04]: from forty four yards out, but we probably didn't see fourteen other passes that hit Shane Steiken and knocked his vice stupid visor off on the side line.
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[SPEAKER_04]: We don't see that evidence.
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[SPEAKER_04]: You guys is optimism.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I understand your fans.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I'm not.
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[SPEAKER_04]: So I don't have the same outlook as as a lot of people.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I'm not a cult fan.
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[SPEAKER_04]: So I just look at it from an NFL.
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[SPEAKER_03]: What?
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[SPEAKER_04]: Observer perspective and I don't see it.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I hope it works out for you.
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[SPEAKER_04]: But the team right now to me looks like last year's Purdue team graduated and drove down sixty-five and they're playing more for arch-maning than they are for AFC's out title.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Sorry don't mean to laugh.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Thanks for reminding me.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Can we blowin' out the positives, Mike, is that all right?
8:56
[SPEAKER_04]: You guys can talk about positives all you want.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, my positive tonight is the
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[SPEAKER_04]: a white running back for the Eagles beat the Bengal starters.
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[SPEAKER_04]: So, way to go, let's repeat.
9:09
[SPEAKER_03]: Mike, of course, is an Eagles fan and he is on cloud nine, but if the cults have been in his life since the very day that they moved in inapolis, so he is maybe not a cult's fan, but very invested in the cults, and of course, have covered them.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Some positives.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Mitchell looks great, Warren looks great.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The defensive backfield Sam brought that up.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I thought not only did it look great, but it has depth to it too, which last year was a weakness.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I thought there was some great energy in that defense.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Especially in the second half, you definitely saw momentum shifting in that third quarter.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And they had opportunities because of the defense stepping up and really just shorting the field if you would.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So I think, I could say, I know there's a lot of concerns with the colds on the offensive side per se.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But I thought the defense at least looked, at least from the back, at least from the secondary side, looked a tad better.
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[SPEAKER_02]: How it translates to the regular season remains to be seen.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And then I'll just go ahead and point out a negative.
10:09
[SPEAKER_03]: You brought up the defense the first.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Whatever it was, it was like ten yards of carry.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The linebackers aren't good enough.
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[SPEAKER_03]: This was not even the first team ravens.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And four guys we never heard of were getting five, six, seven yards of carry.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I have a feeling this might be the worst rush defense in the NFL.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They didn't play tonight.
10:42
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, it respectfully, Keaton Mitchell was a dog before his ACL injury two years ago.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So, I mean, we're not talking, we're talking about a guy that performed it.
10:51
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not putting that much stock into it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You watched a bunch of guys play this evening that will be professional trainers working at football camps come, you know, a month from now.
11:00
[SPEAKER_01]: It's just Richardson was that was unfortunate.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like it was just
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, of course.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I said it on the podcast at the golf course.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, you cannot send your starting quarterback out there without your starting offensive line.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then you have a right tackle just completely not block the edge.
11:17
[SPEAKER_03]: Mike, anything you saw that was impressive.
11:20
[SPEAKER_03]: Impressive.
11:21
[SPEAKER_03]: That matters.
11:23
[SPEAKER_04]: that matter.
11:24
[SPEAKER_04]: And I do agree with it is August seven.
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[SPEAKER_04]: So I don't overreact to anything that I see.
11:30
[SPEAKER_04]: I question teams more that play their starters at this point than I do teams that don't.
11:36
[SPEAKER_04]: I think you could use these games to build your depth and learn a lot more about the guys you might need on your practice squad.
11:42
[SPEAKER_04]: So I don't want to overreact, but I am overreacting to Anthony Richardson because I
11:50
[SPEAKER_04]: I just keep seeing more evidence that this isn't a guy and I keep being told he's only twenty something years old.
11:57
[SPEAKER_04]: So I just keep going back to that.
11:59
[SPEAKER_04]: I think it's a problem.
12:02
[SPEAKER_04]: I think it's going to remain a problem.
12:04
[SPEAKER_04]: You're going to have to make a decision on his fifth year option.
12:07
[SPEAKER_04]: I think this year, you're going to actually start to think about extending him if you think he's the future.
12:11
[SPEAKER_04]: I don't think that we're there.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And I'll ask you, everybody on this panel, do you see this team as it's currently constructed as more of a ASC South contender or a team that's going to be in the market for a quarterback with a top ten armed with a top ten pick in a new GM next year?
12:30
[SPEAKER_04]: If you had to make a prediction right now and put money on it on a wager,
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[SPEAKER_04]: one of those two outcomes which do you lean towards five and twelve six wins.
12:41
[SPEAKER_01]: They're too good to be a top ten pick.
12:44
[SPEAKER_01]: They're going to be they'll be they'll win eight games because of just the roster like it you say quarterback really outside of quarterback there they're not bad.
12:52
[SPEAKER_03]: All right well am I overreacting to Zaire Franklin and whoever else.
12:58
[SPEAKER_01]: they've won, they were fighting for playoff spot with him as your linebacker two years ago and they almost were a bad loss in New York.
13:05
[SPEAKER_03]: We've been for else, wasn't.
13:06
[SPEAKER_01]: E.J.
13:08
[SPEAKER_01]: Speed is was awful too.
13:09
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I, I'm just saying, like, and you didn't have, you didn't have buck, you didn't have Stuart playing, like you who are run stuffing defensive linemen.
13:20
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, you're talking about your, you're run stuffing.
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[SPEAKER_03]: He's decent at run stopping.
13:26
[SPEAKER_01]: You're talking to one tech in two tech or your nose guy whoever lines up wherever.
13:31
[SPEAKER_03]: This is not a lead run stuff or either.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm just saying it just makes a whole world of difference when you have two of those players.
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[SPEAKER_04]: The Vegas over under seven and a half.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I hear one over and two under is in my understanding that.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It'll be over.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I will win more.
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[SPEAKER_03]: For them winning eight games, nine games, ten games, but it would take a lot of things for one finding a linebacker, another finding a quarterback, whether it's Anthony Richardson or not, but that's not all.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, that's not the only issues.
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[SPEAKER_03]: No past rush that we've seen all look tonight against Baltimore's second, third teams.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The past rush looked pretty good.
14:13
[SPEAKER_03]: Too many holes.
14:14
[SPEAKER_03]: Too many holes.
14:15
[SPEAKER_04]: Oddly enough, it's almost like the cults have become what we used to hate about the Pacers.
14:20
[SPEAKER_04]: They were just bad enough to not really be a contender, but they're just good enough to not really get an impact player out of the draft.
14:29
[SPEAKER_04]: And now, if they win eight games again this year, how many years in a row has it been?
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[SPEAKER_04]: We're right there on the verge of the playoffs.
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[SPEAKER_04]: We can do that.
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[SPEAKER_04]: We win this game.
14:40
[SPEAKER_04]: We go into
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[SPEAKER_04]: eighteen against the Texans and throw it up with gardener mention quarterback and try to hit our third three running back in the flat that causes a playoff birth.
14:53
[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, are they now the Pacers from that aspect?
14:56
[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, are they just not ever going to be bad enough to get the player that they need.
15:01
[SPEAKER_04]: So now you're going to go in the next year with Kirk dozens as your quarterbacks.
15:07
[SPEAKER_03]: yeah it's probably not as big a deal in the NFL as it is the NBA but you're right it is bad and it's funny that the cults have never really been in that position the entire franchise existence because they were so bad for so long Mike as you remember I don't think Sam and Will are old enough to remember no
15:25
[SPEAKER_03]: pre peat painting manning days.
15:27
[SPEAKER_04]: And then since they were dating fans to come to a Monday night game so that you could actually show the game locally.
15:34
[SPEAKER_04]: That's right.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's how bad it was there for for a while.
15:37
[SPEAKER_02]: I do want to point one thing here with the cults.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's twenty nineteen.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They have one at least seven games.
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[SPEAKER_02]: in all the two seasons.
15:45
[SPEAKER_02]: So they had been the autonomy of murky mediocre at this point.
15:49
[SPEAKER_02]: Did that murky area where you're all where you're good enough to be, to not be a lottery, to not have a high high take, which are never ever going up to really be a contender.
15:57
[SPEAKER_02]: You're just stuck in the middle.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's never going to put to be on.
16:00
[SPEAKER_03]: And Mike at least in nineteen eighty three eighty four eighty five eighty six when they were horrible there was always well there's divini test of her to out there and so there were some hope you know and with this it's uh... I wouldn't say hopeless and then the NFL things can turn so fast especially when you got a guy like Anthony Richardson who could I know Mike doesn't like to hear that but he could Mike said he's never seen it well we've seen it
16:26
[SPEAKER_01]: his rookie year there were definitely longer flashes than just a quarter or two he played four games that year didn't you know he looked awfully damn good in those four games i mean i know you're you know you probably may have been watching the game with one eye on the tv but like in that ram's game they were down twenty three to nothing in the third quarter and he basically will be back to the other itself and now everybody runs against her
16:54
[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, that same season, or the next season, Garder meant you look good for four games.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I'm not ready to give him a bus in Canton.
17:02
[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, a guy can look good over four games.
17:04
[SPEAKER_04]: It's, it's, it's good.
17:05
[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, it's good.
17:05
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, it's good.
17:06
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, it's good.
17:06
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, it's good.
17:06
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, it's good.
17:07
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, it's good.
17:08
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, it's good.
17:08
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, it's good.
17:08
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, it's good.
17:09
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, it's good.
17:10
[SPEAKER_04]: to put it out on tape and show it for, you know, two years in a row are over, of course, of an entire season.
17:17
[SPEAKER_04]: Richard's done, he's show, he looked, okay, great.
17:21
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm so happy for you guys that he played up balled out against the Rams in week three, two years ago.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Play out tape on the way.
17:29
[SPEAKER_04]: He'd ran us by the way.
17:32
[SPEAKER_04]: Fantastic, you know what?
17:35
[SPEAKER_04]: Congratulations.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Put that right up next to the AFC finalist banner, the Andrew Lucker, and when he was in the quarterback.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Beat the Rams the year after the Super Bowl.
17:48
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, they didn't actually win that game, because that's the defense.
17:53
[SPEAKER_01]: The ball back and over time.
17:55
[SPEAKER_04]: I love it even more now.
17:57
[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, Anthony Richardson's Canton game is a game they didn't win against a team that was good the year before.
18:07
[SPEAKER_03]: Now, Niku, I believe that was his, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh
18:34
[SPEAKER_03]: What's that?
18:34
[SPEAKER_03]: You'd like to continue to be spoiled.
18:37
[SPEAKER_03]: I'd like to be spoiled like the Packers.
18:41
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, I mean, you guys could get really, really excited next year about the a no-conal era because it's coming.
18:48
[SPEAKER_04]: Yay!
18:50
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's okay to acknowledge that yes up to this point.
18:54
[SPEAKER_01]: He's still the third youngest quarterback in the league Still developing like if if he can figure it out, and it may not even be a reason for some hope it may not even be with the cults like he could
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[SPEAKER_01]: he could suck a team takes a chance on him and he goes and builds a good career somewhere else that we've seen other top pick quarterback stew and the last five years I mean I can think of three or four examples off the top of my head that I look at I mean Gino was a little longer than that but you saw his emergence you saw Baker may field you saw Jared golf research his career you saw Sam Donald change his career I mean there there's obvious examples
19:32
[SPEAKER_03]: Anthony Richardson will be great when he's no longer a cold.
19:34
[SPEAKER_01]: I think that's just precisely because I think that tonight exemplifies why this is a really a poverty franchise for the most part poor decision making and continuously accepting mediocrity as hope for the future.
19:51
[SPEAKER_04]: I hope for Anthony Richardson's sake the Chris baller gets another GM job because there's nothing that guy likes.
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[SPEAKER_04]: taking quarterback who aren't that good.
20:02
[SPEAKER_04]: and giving them one year to learn a starting spot.
20:06
[SPEAKER_04]: He can go be the Matt Ryan of who, who could he possibly get, he'll, I don't believe you know, I'm getting a couple of fans who will defend Ballard right now.
20:16
[SPEAKER_04]: He'll replace Justin Fields with the Jets next year.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Maybe I don't know.
20:20
[SPEAKER_04]: I don't know what his next career arc is going to be, but it's going to be probably as whatever fillings stop gap Chris Ballard needs at his next DM dub.
20:31
[SPEAKER_03]: So Sam, this is the making boards that can college football.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Did you better believe it?
20:35
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I think it's one of those where and Sam and Mike can probably agree with me if they've looked at the schedule.
20:40
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, they've got a tough schedule.
20:42
[SPEAKER_01]: Like there is a scenario where just their schedule is tough enough that they don't.
20:47
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, we can we know they're losing one game when they go to Jacksonville.
20:50
[SPEAKER_01]: Jacksonville could go one and sixteen and they're going to beat the cults by forty in Duval County would be my
20:58
[SPEAKER_04]: And they do start every year, oh and one, because they have the Jacksonville game on the schedule.
21:04
[SPEAKER_03]: This year's Miami.
21:06
[SPEAKER_01]: So if they lose to the dolphins at home, it's going to get real loud real quick.
21:13
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, we're still like four weeks away from that.
21:15
[SPEAKER_04]: So Halloween weekend, baby.
21:17
[SPEAKER_04]: I am in the Steel City.
21:19
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm going to see the hopefully Mason Rudolph Daniel Jones.
21:26
[SPEAKER_04]: Even though the game's not played in England, they should probably play it at eight thirty in the morning anyway, so nobody can actually say it happens.
21:35
[SPEAKER_02]: Man, I just need some hope at this point.
21:37
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
21:38
[SPEAKER_03]: It's pretty rough for Gold's fans right now, especially with the Pacers being so good and the fever being so good.
21:45
[SPEAKER_03]: And the boiler makers going to win the National Championship this year, and men's basketball.
21:50
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, no, Jason cred.
21:53
[SPEAKER_04]: I just think it's hilarious that you guys even entertained that as a positive.
21:57
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I mean, there's a better chance that the cult won the Super World in particular in the national championship next year.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Thanks for.
22:04
[SPEAKER_04]: Thanks, you know, I mean, if you like historical evidence, I have plenty that show that's probably not going to happen, but hey,
22:17
[SPEAKER_01]: uh... the uh... four and thirteen jacks and build jaguires last year um... they beat the uh... a fc reference of chiefs twenty six to thirteen week one of the post preseason so this shit no matter the score didn't matter it's not the score is the fact that they can't stop or run and again i understand it's but there is a that was a problem last year as well there they don't have a quarterback day there's a lot of issues
22:48
[SPEAKER_04]: And it's the thing that did matter was the ongoing trend of the guy that you want more than anything in the world to be the guy had something else happened that showed that he's probably not the guy.
23:04
[SPEAKER_04]: I just don't like how is that his fault like how it I just I'm like saying it's his fault if you how police for all is for all of his fault chip Kelly said the best ability in the world is availability well guess what he's not he's hard again.
23:18
[SPEAKER_04]: He's not available
23:20
[SPEAKER_01]: If it was just a dislocation, not broken.
23:23
[SPEAKER_01]: One, he wasn't coming back into that game anyway, even if it dislocated.
23:28
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, so it's week one of the preseason.
23:30
[SPEAKER_01]: If they pop that thing back in week four or five of the NFL season, he says I'm good to go.
23:35
[SPEAKER_01]: He's probably going back in the game.
23:37
[SPEAKER_01]: Just, you know, it's week one preseason.
23:39
[SPEAKER_01]: He's not going back in.
23:40
[SPEAKER_04]: He's an evidence and other aspects of his career to show you'd be like, you know what, I'd probably good.
23:46
[SPEAKER_04]: I need a breather anyway, so maybe you can just leave the thing popped out till next week.
23:52
[SPEAKER_03]: And Sam, we did see some good things from him right before he got hurt, right?
23:57
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I mean, he did show some good things just the problem was, play mocks.
24:03
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
24:04
[SPEAKER_02]: So it's with the narrative still out there.
24:06
[SPEAKER_01]: Spencer Schrader is going to be a good kicker.
24:09
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh yeah, he was great.
24:12
[SPEAKER_04]: I just keep looking for the guy that almost beat the RAM, the defending champion RAMs, and week four, two years ago.
24:20
[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, if we could just get that guy back, we'd be talking thirteen and four instead of four and thirty.
24:25
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, that if he Richardson would probably bring you a thirteen and four season, he was awfully damn good at that game.
24:31
[SPEAKER_04]: Did I ever tell you about the time I went to the casino and had a really, really awesome blind jacking that almost beat the dealer, but didn't.
24:40
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh man, that was so much fun.
24:42
[SPEAKER_03]: I got to work with my console every day for a couple of years.
24:46
[SPEAKER_03]: The newspaper and it was a lot of fun.
24:50
[SPEAKER_03]: If you don't mind, your team is being made fun of, or you being made fun of, it was so much fun to be around all the time.
24:57
[SPEAKER_03]: Always appreciate him coming on Sam.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's his second time joining the podcast and enjoyed that.
25:03
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25:06
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