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Steelers 34, Colts 22: Reaction with Will & Dave Retherford (The Colts Report, 3.76) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

• 0:07
  [SPEAKER_02]: You are listening to a special edition of the Colts Report with Will and Dave Rutherford, their reaction to the Colts 34-22 loss in Pittsburgh, and it's only on the Central India and a sports report.
• 0:23
  [SPEAKER_02]: Welcome Colts fans to our special edition of the Colts Report, I'm here with Will, I'm here with Dave, I'm your host Greg Mengeau, and I thought
• 0:33
  [SPEAKER_02]: pretty good performance in Pittsburgh on Sunday, play to play.
• 0:37
  [SPEAKER_02]: I thought they were pretty good, but man, they just gave up too many big plays and could get nothing going on the ground.
• 0:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, Greg, I thought the cold's really struggled getting guys to the ground defensively.
• 0:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: It wasn't their best effort given up 34.
• 0:53
  [SPEAKER_01]: Steelers are eliminated offensive team.
• 0:55
  [SPEAKER_01]: You saw that by, you know, who was targeted?
• 0:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: Jail and Warren saw a lot of action on the back of the net.
• 1:00
  [SPEAKER_01]: That was pretty much one play that, you know, gave up an 80-yard receiving touchdown.
• 1:05
  [SPEAKER_01]: Jeremy Bernard, their slot receiver, had six sketches for 80 yards, and then there are two tight ends.
• 1:09
  [SPEAKER_01]: That's basically it.
• 1:10
  [SPEAKER_01]: DK Metcalf was not existed and either was Roman Wilson.
• 1:14
  [SPEAKER_01]: If you would have gone into the day telling me that that was who they were targeting, I just said the, and who had the most targets, I just said the Colton are really good chance I went into the day, but they struggled getting worn to the ground and the run game.
• 1:28
  [SPEAKER_01]: reminiscing of what we saw the first two weeks against the chiefs in the Ravens.
• 1:32
  [SPEAKER_01]: So I wasn't really worried about this Pittsburgh offense.
• 1:35
  [SPEAKER_01]: I thought defensively they had a lot of skill, but they just kind of torched the cool defense all day.
• 1:41
  [SPEAKER_02]: And Dave, I thought, um, you're going to Pittsburgh.
• 1:45
  [SPEAKER_02]: It's limited chance of winning that game as I said in the pre game.
• 1:49
  [SPEAKER_02]: Just it's just a house of horrors.
• 1:52
  [SPEAKER_02]: And I thought they hung pretty well, but it was mostly because of what
• 1:57
  [SPEAKER_02]: was just an incredible kicking performance by Spencer Schrader today.
• 2:02
  [SPEAKER_02]: Nobody makes field goals like that in Pittsburgh.
• 2:05
  [SPEAKER_02]: You talk about a house or horse for more than anything else.
• 2:09
  [SPEAKER_02]: It's a house or horse for kickers.
• 2:12
  [SPEAKER_02]: And he was just incredible.
• 2:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, he just continues to show why he is the one that they chose this year to be the kicker for the cult.
• 2:23
  [SPEAKER_00]: Uh, he has, um, I mean, nobody kicks 50 yard, go goals much in, and Pittsburgh.
• 2:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's just, just the way the win moves in that stadium.
• 2:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: It just, it's not, um, an easy task.
• 2:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: And, and he was just dead straight.
• 2:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, just dead up the middle every time.
• 2:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: Just incredible, incredible performance by him and for sure he definitely kept us in the game.
• 2:48
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, I struggle to understand why we just could not move the ball at times.
• 2:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: We never established the run in this game and Daniel Jones was
• 3:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: was okay but but there were lots of lots of throws that i'm sure he'd like to have back to we had to settle for three instead of you know going for seven and ultimately that may be the difference in the game because Pittsburgh didn't have to do that and good to see them getting Tyler Warren involved but man if you have look one tread well as one of your receivers you're
• 3:28
  [SPEAKER_02]: Well, those receivers are just not very good.
• 3:32
  [SPEAKER_01]: I really thought Jones was bad.
• 3:35
  [SPEAKER_01]: And I get that Pittsburgh's past rush is difficult, but he was just not efficient or Chris throwing the ball at all.
• 3:42
  [SPEAKER_01]: Leaving guys too high throwing behind him across the middle.
• 3:45
  [SPEAKER_01]: I thought the receivers could have done them.
• 3:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: The benefit of the given him the benefit of the doubt a few times.
• 3:49
  [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe sitting down in some zones that they didn't, especially on that last.
• 3:53
  [SPEAKER_01]: uh... drive trying to you know make something happen Josh now on that seam route sit down there you had an opening in the zone and you're basically just leading jane jones to throw into the free safety that's not good football me and i don't know what the play called was but it feels to me you see his own covered Josh on sit down but
• 4:11
  [SPEAKER_01]: let Daniel Jones deliver a ball team is wide open.
• 4:14
  [SPEAKER_01]: It was just on their go routes on fades.
• 4:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: He just, Daniel Jones wouldn't crisp.
• 4:19
  [SPEAKER_01]: He just was not good.
• 4:20
  [SPEAKER_01]: He didn't deliver a clean ball a lot.
• 4:22
  [SPEAKER_01]: He struggled to get enough on it at times.
• 4:25
  [SPEAKER_01]: And the Steelers,
• 4:27
  [SPEAKER_01]: kind of forced them into this.
• 4:28
  [SPEAKER_01]: The Steelers said we're going to stop Jonathan Taylor and we're going to make Daniel Jones beat us and Daniel Jones can't.
• 4:33
  [SPEAKER_01]: He couldn't.
• 4:34
  [SPEAKER_01]: He was not good, especially they gave up one sack the offensive line.
• 4:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: I get, you know, that Steelers defensive line can give you fits, but I thought the tackles that are really good job of forcing her big and TJ want to get too far up field, letting Daniel Jones step up in the pocket at deliver a good ball.
• 4:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: I didn't think A and B gap pressure was too bad from
• 4:53
  [SPEAKER_01]: came a word in their one tech.
• 4:55
  [SPEAKER_01]: It just it was a disappointing performance.
• 4:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: I continue to see this from Daniel Jones.
• 4:58
  [SPEAKER_01]: They were talking on the TV about how, oh, you know, Daniel Jones much improved.
• 5:03
  [SPEAKER_01]: It was only improved because he didn't turn it all out.
• 5:05
  [SPEAKER_01]: Well, and he's not the best.
• 5:06
  [SPEAKER_02]: Well, I thought, I thought, well, through a quarter and a half, it might have been his best performance of the year.
• 5:12
  [SPEAKER_02]: And then it just got pretty bad the rest of the game.
• 5:15
  [SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to give him a bit of a break, because those receivers just aren't good enough besides the downs and more.
• 5:23
  [SPEAKER_00]: you know Greg I thought that again early on you know you talk about that first quarter and a half and and that's primarily when when Warren got all his catches when he had the eighty three yards pretty much in the first half so I'm sure Pittsburgh put some stunts together to put a stop on that and again we just don't have any other receivers that that are high enough quality to
• 5:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: to maybe be able to get some of those targets, but Jones had 20 incompletions today.
• 5:52
  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, that's just, you're not going to win games in this league when you have 20 incompletions and 45 yards rushing.
• 6:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: And so the fact that we were even in it, again, Shrader did his job and kept us in the game and we just couldn't quite get over the hurdle today.
• 6:12
  [SPEAKER_01]: kind of watching in that fourth quarter, especially when it's picked Pittsburgh kind of delivered a lead there late, it, you know, they had to use Tyler Warren at chip because he Pittsburgh, you know, they're up to scores, defensive lines able to pin their ears back and go get the quarterback.
• 6:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: They're not worried about a run game because the Colts are running a four-minute drill.
• 6:29
  [SPEAKER_01]: And so you had to use Warren at the end of the line helping shipurving, helping chip TJ.
• 6:33
  [SPEAKER_01]: Why?
• 6:34
  [SPEAKER_01]: And then he's not able to be inefficient down the field target.
• 6:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: The way he was the first three quarters when the Colts kind of kept it a one score football game.
• 6:42
  [SPEAKER_02]: just the kind of one receiver and put Moallie Cox and as the tied in and put him out at receiver, let's start doing some of that in different formations and get him to ball.
• 6:53
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think the issue is that he's not that rock-bower's archetype.
• 6:58
  [SPEAKER_01]: I wouldn't say he's incredible in-line speed.
• 7:00
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think he struggles getting separation outside, which is why they like to use him in the middle of the field, and use him on those dumb-down routes.
• 7:06
  [SPEAKER_01]: I don't think that we would see anything change.
• 7:09
  [SPEAKER_02]: Is he designed for his strengths?
• 7:11
  [SPEAKER_02]: You can design things to get him the ball in space.
• 7:14
  [SPEAKER_02]: There's plenty you can do.
• 7:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: Well, it comes down to the bottom.
• 7:18
  [SPEAKER_01]: You can go outside.
• 7:19
  [SPEAKER_01]: He's got his check down too, which he forced the ball down the field three plays in a row over throwing our receiver on go-routs and fadrouts three times.
• 7:27
  [SPEAKER_02]: A lot of that is a lot of that is a lot of that is a lot of that is a lot of that is a Lequan Treadwell.
• 7:34
  [SPEAKER_02]: I'm sorry, it was one of the most brutal performances I've ever seen.
• 7:38
  [SPEAKER_02]: He does not run hard on his routes.
• 7:40
  [SPEAKER_02]: He gives up on balls.
• 7:42
  [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know what the point of playing him is.
• 7:44
  [SPEAKER_02]: Two catches on eight targets for 34 yards and I thought he was really bad.
• 7:50
  [SPEAKER_02]: I would rather see D on Birch and the game than watch that again.
• 7:54
  [SPEAKER_01]: I don't disagree with you one day, and I was, it was unfortunate because they're with about four minutes left.
• 7:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: They had the opportunity.
• 8:01
  [SPEAKER_01]: Look Juan Tredwell did.
• 8:02
  [SPEAKER_01]: He did get kind of through that cover, too, and was open down the seam.
• 8:06
  [SPEAKER_01]: And it's one of those balls that I sure Daniel Jones wants back because he didn't step into it much.
• 8:11
  [SPEAKER_01]: It was too army.
• 8:12
  [SPEAKER_01]: He didn't get enough on it.
• 8:13
  [SPEAKER_01]: But it's one of those balls that look Juan Tredwell walks in if he leads him.
• 8:18
  [SPEAKER_01]: and it's just stuff like that where I don't think Treadwell did anything it didn't many favors to help them but you just you just wish he had the time to go back and that's Monday morning quarterbacking so I you know I'm not gonna judge him too hard on that it's just
• 8:31
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I agree.
• 8:32
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think try to well as a complete liability, but that's where they've put themselves in.
• 8:36
  [SPEAKER_01]: They've put themselves in disposition.
• 8:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: So they have nobody to blame for themselves.
• 8:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: We adret talked about all offseason that they needed to address the receiving room.
• 8:45
  [SPEAKER_01]: They went out, got King and Allen.
• 8:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think he's been fine.
• 8:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: He's been serviceable.
• 8:49
  [SPEAKER_01]: I thought that he kind of got sold out there on that fourth downplay to end the game because that was past interference.
• 8:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: You can't play through the body of the receiver before the ball gets there.
• 8:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: That's true.
• 9:01
  [SPEAKER_01]: And, you know, that's a target that he gets eaten on that, you know, makes him look a little less efficient.
• 9:06
  [SPEAKER_01]: But I think for what Keaton Allen is in terms of being your wide receiver three, he's been fine outside of the first two games where he struggled.
• 9:12
  [SPEAKER_01]: And I think that was kind of getting him aggraciated in this offense.
• 9:16
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think there's
• 9:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: just way too many holes behind that.
• 9:20
  [SPEAKER_01]: And it doesn't look like out here so it can be back anytime soon.
• 9:23
  [SPEAKER_01]: So they're going to have to address this at some point.
• 9:25
  [SPEAKER_01]: We thought maybe Marvin Harris was going to be aware it is, but it's not because they clearly have been out there in that race.
• 9:32
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's just disappointing.
• 9:33
  [SPEAKER_02]: It feels like an afternoon being out hurts as well.
• 9:36
  [SPEAKER_01]: It did, it does because he is your number for receiver and he is that vertical threat who can stretch the field and kind of make the safeties have to play honest.
• 9:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: And if Lawn Treadwell can't be that or consistently going up, trying to play the 50-50 ball and making plays, then the cults have no vertical game and that's going to make it awfully difficult to run because you're able to stack the box and force this
• 10:01
  [SPEAKER_01]: you to really kind of have to get finesse with your football, which Daniel Jones, I don't think it's done a great job of yet this year, still seems he's finding that through.
• 10:10
  [SPEAKER_02]: And of course, we're going to talk later this week on the culture report about all the players and units and how they did because like Will said earlier, when you're watching the game the first time that stuff's hard to see, we'll go back and watch the tape and break it down, but I want to get a quick recap of who you think played well and who you think was bad right after this.
• 10:35
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• 10:42
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• 10:55
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• 11:05
  [SPEAKER_02]: A couple of guys stood out to me, and I want your opinions on that, and I want to talk about guys who were good today, or who weren't.
• 11:11
  [SPEAKER_02]: I thought the offensive line as well mentioned was really good.
• 11:14
  [SPEAKER_02]: Also AJ Hulsie was really good.
• 11:18
  [SPEAKER_02]: I thought it's particularly for a rookie and a keen Davis gator, another pretty good game from him as well.
• 11:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: You know, Greg, I think that might be about it outside of Spencer Shrader.
• 11:29
  [SPEAKER_01]: I thought the Justin Walley played a poor at the slot.
• 11:33
  [SPEAKER_01]: And I wasn't super thrilled with the way that Bryce Betcher played at the Will Line Bakery.
• 11:39
  [SPEAKER_01]: Got kind of lost and covered a few times on Bernard.
• 11:42
  [SPEAKER_01]: I know the screen game kind of forces you to be honest, but they struggled to get downhill.
• 11:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: I didn't think the linebackers flowed particularly well.
• 11:52
  [SPEAKER_01]: seven tackles for your middle linebackers, not awesome.
• 11:54
  [SPEAKER_01]: So I think that Davis gave through the I test pass.
• 11:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: I just, I kind of wish the stats were there to follow.
• 11:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: We did get a tackle for law.
• 12:00
  [SPEAKER_01]: So you hope that we're continuing to build the middle of this defense and kind of strengthen it as it's been a weakness for really the better part of the last four years.
• 12:10
  [SPEAKER_01]: So,
• 12:12
  [SPEAKER_01]: Spencer Schrader gets my shout out.
• 12:13
  [SPEAKER_01]: I thought I'll offensively tie the war and play the hell of a ball game today.
• 12:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: It was admirable effort for what he did.
• 12:20
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think they were very versatile and targeted him in a lot of different ways.
• 12:24
  [SPEAKER_01]: And that's what I've been asking for.
• 12:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: And I'm kind of glad that Shane brought the juice a little bit.
• 12:30
  [SPEAKER_01]: Spencer Schrader, though, shout out.
• 12:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I, it's kind of tough to see, you know, looking at the stats here that anybody had a phenomenal game for sure straighters performance was was impressive.
• 12:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: Tyler Warren was good, especially on the first half beyond that.
• 12:48
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's a little bit of a struggle.
• 12:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: I, I just, I want to, would like to know how many missed tackles we had today that allowed for for just.
• 12:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, actually you are.
• 12:59
  [SPEAKER_02]: And it's a good thing that we know can't buy them's a good football player because today certainly would not have shown that if that was the first time watching him because he was brutal.
• 13:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, we didn't get good pressure really at all on Rogers.
• 13:14
  [SPEAKER_00]: Again, our offensive line held up there into the bargain on passing downs, but we never established a runny game and the cults have to do that.
• 13:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: If the cults cannot run the ball effectively, they're going to struggle to be a lot of teams on Sunday.
• 13:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: So, I think there's just a lot to, you know, like we were there, we stayed in the game, we had opportunities.
• 13:36
  [SPEAKER_00]: We took had the kicked too many field goals instead of getting touchdowns and at the end of the day it just wasn't enough to beat a team at home that that always has our number there.
• 13:48
  [SPEAKER_02]: And will I know that he made two nice plays in the past game, but a lot to zero tackles today.
• 13:56
  [SPEAKER_01]: I was going to say the exact same thing.
• 14:00
  [SPEAKER_01]: He was really bad in the run game.
• 14:02
  [SPEAKER_01]: I really should have picked.
• 14:04
  [SPEAKER_01]: We're being clearly honest.
• 14:05
  [SPEAKER_01]: That ball got to be caught, especially in the early in the fourth quarter, you're down one score.
• 14:11
  [SPEAKER_01]: You can't
• 14:11
  [SPEAKER_01]: at ball, you're in field goal range already.
• 14:13
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's just one of those plays.
• 14:14
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's like I understand why you're not a wide receiver because you can't catch shit.
• 14:18
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, just when you have zero tackles and you place many snaps and he does, even if you're a past rusher, you've got to have a tack on the run game or an assisted tackles somewhere.
• 14:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's unacceptable.
• 14:27
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's just continues to be ballers, ignorance, and I think his arrogance that gets in the way of making a poor draft
• 14:36
  [SPEAKER_02]: I was going to say can we remind everybody the Jared verse was the next pick in the draft.
• 14:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, can we also remind that Chris Mallard said that we got the best damn defensive end in the draft, he's not shown that.
• 14:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: What the coaching is, I don't know, I'm sure he'll walk in free agency after his contract is rookie contracts up and he'll be a stud somewhere else, but the cults have not found the way to make him successful.
• 14:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: right now we're just we're staring down the hot the seats getting awfully warm I think right now the way the cults have performed through five games up to this point.
• 15:10
  [SPEAKER_02]: If they won today though I was gonna say at one point there were ahead in this game and if they're three and two against the schedule they've played we should be talking about Shane Stike and for Coach of the Year but the second half was so bad and was just like this in Pittsburgh last year as well and I just
• 15:26
  [SPEAKER_02]: It's just something about that stadium that team, hopefully they can shake this off as the schedule gets a little easier.
• 15:33
  [SPEAKER_01]: I hope so.
• 15:34
  [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, they're getting, if next week's not as big of a gaming as they come with the way this Titan's team is playing.
• 15:39
  [SPEAKER_01]: I know in professional football.
• 15:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: There's no such thing, but that team's awful, a trotace.
• 15:44
  [SPEAKER_01]: And somehow, somehow that the Titans will score 28 points next week.
• 15:49
  [SPEAKER_01]: And the culture going to have to win in the shoot as I'm sure, because they're going to figure out often.
• 15:53
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's free.
• 15:54
  [SPEAKER_01]: One Dell Robins and Carl Tate probably both going to have a hundred receiving yards next week.
• 15:58
  [SPEAKER_01]: Not looking forward to watching it.
• 15:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's going to be a ugly watch, kind of piss me off and awful lot.
• 16:02
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm getting it on here.
• 16:03
  [SPEAKER_01]: Not be super happy.
• 16:04
  [SPEAKER_01]: Just hope the culture can pull that one away.
• 16:06
  [SPEAKER_02]: And then the next week they go to Minnesota where they won't score a point.
• 16:10
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I mean, yeah, it's Daniel Jen's worst nightmare is Ryan Flores, defense.
• 16:15
  [SPEAKER_01]: You think that he played bad today, just wait.
• 16:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: He is going to have, he's going to be seeing ghosts.
• 16:19
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm not kidding.
• 16:20
  [SPEAKER_01]: He might have two interceptions of humble.
• 16:23
  [SPEAKER_02]: But the cults are going to sweep the Jaguars this year.
• 16:25
  [SPEAKER_02]: I'm telling you.
• 16:27
  [SPEAKER_01]: We must have watched different games because they should have won that game by three scores if they take care of business the way they can.
• 16:33
  [SPEAKER_01]: But they don't.
• 16:35
  [SPEAKER_01]: They have up to this point.
• 16:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: I, I, that's a,
• 16:40
  [SPEAKER_02]: I'll, that's a, that's eventually they'll be the same old Jaguar's Dave.
• 16:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: There's only a few things that are guaranteed in one of them is we're going to lose some jacks and go.
• 16:50
  [SPEAKER_00]: Obviously we're not, you know, we're not calling a lot of praises today, but this is a game that for the most part, we, we played in we were in it.
• 16:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: from the majority of the game and we did, again, did not play our best game.
• 17:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: Honestly, we played worse than then we did last week and we were still in it and had our chances and we just didn't capitalize what we needed to.
• 17:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: So again, I'm not quite ready to give up on them.
• 17:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: I, you know, next week we should come back to 500 again, then go to Minnesota and hopefully we can get over that 500 mark so that we can be trending the other direction and not just hovering around it.
• 17:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: But today is not, it just wasn't our day in Pittsburgh.
• 17:34
  [SPEAKER_01]: At some point, this team's going to have to go and get one.
• 17:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: And that game like Minnesota, that's one you got to go get at some point.
• 17:45
  [SPEAKER_01]: You play your tough schedule.
• 17:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: You can't lose those coin flip games.
• 17:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: And it's probably not even a coin flip game.
• 17:52
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm sure Minnesota's probably going to come in around the,
• 17:56
  [SPEAKER_01]: five and a half, six and a half point favorite, depending on how the call to perform next week, but those are games you have to win, because you don't love having to go to Jacksonville the next week.
• 18:07
  [SPEAKER_01]: You know, this Cowboys team's very up and down.
• 18:10
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think the dolphins are better than their record suggests, and then you've got the Texans.
• 18:14
  [SPEAKER_01]: You really need to be comfortably above 500 by the time you get to this Texans game on Thursday night.
• 18:20
  [SPEAKER_01]: That's November 19th.
• 18:21
  [SPEAKER_01]: If you're right around 500 or worse,
• 18:25
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think you're going to be awfully disappointed with where this cult team ends up in the postseason standing.
• 18:32
  [SPEAKER_02]: Well, thanks so much, guys.
• 18:33
  [SPEAKER_02]: I appreciate it as always.
• 18:34
  [SPEAKER_02]: Again, more cults this week.
• 18:35
  [SPEAKER_02]: And of course, we'll have a preview of the Titans game later this week as well.
• 18:40
  [SPEAKER_02]: But I will say this coming out of this game.
• 18:42
  [SPEAKER_02]: It's awfully nice that once you cross the 40 yard line, you know you got at least three points.
• 18:47
  [SPEAKER_01]: as good of a kicker as there is in the league.
• 18:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: I don't think that right now I would there's a kicker I would take over him.
• 18:54
  [SPEAKER_02]: I mean that if I if I was been the best performing kicker for sure.
• 18:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: If I was drafting kickers right now he'd absolutely be number one.
• 19:01
  [SPEAKER_01]: Now what they say guys he was like 33 or 34 in his career.
• 19:04
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that's unheard of.
• 19:06
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think he's missed two extra points his career.
• 19:09
  [SPEAKER_01]: up to this point.
• 19:09
  [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, so we're talking about, um, you know, obviously it's a small sample size, but we're talking about an incredibly accurate kicker.
• 19:16
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's not even that he hits the long field goal.
• 19:18
  [SPEAKER_01]: So he hits him right down the middle.
• 19:20
  [SPEAKER_01]: He does that.
• 19:21
  [SPEAKER_01]: He doesn't sway off the midline.
• 19:23
  [SPEAKER_01]: He doesn't sway off his target.
• 19:24
  [SPEAKER_01]: He is right down the middle every single kick.
• 19:27
  [SPEAKER_01]: The ability to do that, I haven't felt this confident in the kicker since three years before Adam and Interior retired when he was absolutely nails and automatic from wherever you put him on the field and that was a different version of the NFL where that 57 yarder that their trot and Spencer Shader out for every single time that Adam and Interior wasn't going out for those.
• 19:47
  [SPEAKER_01]: He was not.
• 19:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, that was that was 15 underneath.
• 19:49
  [SPEAKER_01]: That was automatic.
• 19:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: There's 50 yards.
• 19:52
  [SPEAKER_01]: The game's changing off a lot.
• 19:53
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm glad the Colts got straighter when they did.
• 19:55
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think if you would have kept groupied, you'd have been losing out on a potential all-pro kicker.
• 20:03
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, uh, Venetary pretty safe from 53-54.
• 20:09
  [SPEAKER_02]: Any side thing outside that you're not getting a feel going from out of Venetary.
• 20:14
  [SPEAKER_01]: And now you have to be, you got to be good from 63, 64.
• 20:18
  [SPEAKER_01]: You watch that Eagles Jaguars game at the end.
• 20:22
  [SPEAKER_01]: 255 plus yard field goals in the matter of eight seconds.
• 20:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: That just didn't happen.
• 20:28
  [SPEAKER_01]: 10 years ago.
• 20:28
  [SPEAKER_01]: Exactly.
• 20:29
  [SPEAKER_01]: Just didn't happen.
• 20:30
  [SPEAKER_02]: I said to Susie this morning that the NFL teams are gonna have to rethink that at the end of these games now because it can be done in eight seconds now.
• 20:39
  [SPEAKER_01]: it goes to show it.
• 20:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: I thought, I mean, Jake Elliott is as good as they come in Philadelphia.
• 20:44
  [SPEAKER_01]: You know, it's one of those situations to me where you're damned if you do, damned if you don't, at the end of that game in particular because we saw, you know, Dallas a few weeks ago, they kicked the vault, they didn't kick the vault more, put it through the end zone and vault more still kicked the game winner in Rio.
• 20:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: So, I mean,
• 21:00
  [SPEAKER_01]: We just literally two straight weeks.
• 21:02
  [SPEAKER_01]: We see the two different situations.
• 21:03
  [SPEAKER_01]: So is there a right answer?
• 21:05
  [SPEAKER_01]: No, I think the answer should be you expect your kickoff coverage team to not give up a 70-yard return with eight seconds left.
• 21:12
  [SPEAKER_01]: That's what your goal is.
• 21:13
  [SPEAKER_01]: That's why special teams are so important.
• 21:15
  [SPEAKER_01]: That's why we we talk about.
• 21:16
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think I don't know if anybody talks about the cold special teams the way the central Indian sports report does in terms of how good and how important it is for the third phase to be successful.
• 21:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: That is where you just you have to make sure
• 21:29
  [SPEAKER_01]: You stay disciplined in your rush lanes and you're keeping guys in front of you.
• 21:33
  [SPEAKER_01]: That's an area that I did think the Colts had improved in today versus the last week and really the last four weeks.
• 21:39
  [SPEAKER_01]: I thought they struggled in punt and kick off coverage.
• 21:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: They were really good today.
• 21:43
  [SPEAKER_01]: They did not give the Steelers extra yardage and that a little field position game is super important.
• 21:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: When it comes down to the file score, I wish this game could have been a little closer because the Colts had their ability to win that field position battle early.
• 21:55
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think what it may be paid to dividends for.
• 22:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: We should have taken more advantage of it when we had the opportunity.
• 22:03
  [SPEAKER_00]: And we didn't, we had to settle for fill goals.
• 22:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: And again, I feel like that's the big difference in the game.
• 22:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: What Pittsburgh got four touchdowns and we, and we had won.
• 22:16
  [SPEAKER_02]: That's right.
• 22:17
  [SPEAKER_02]: Well, it wasn't a lot of fun watching it.
• 22:19
  [SPEAKER_02]: Particularly the second half.
• 22:20
  [SPEAKER_02]: It was a lot more fun reacting to it.
• 22:22
  [SPEAKER_02]: Well Dave, thank you so much as always.
• 22:24
  [SPEAKER_02]: Everybody, thank you so much for listening.
• 22:27
  [SPEAKER_02]: We will be back later this week.
• 22:30
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• 22:33
  [SPEAKER_01]: Go Colts, go get one next week.
• 22:37
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• 22:42
  [SPEAKER_02]: Thanks again, guys.
• 22:43
  [SPEAKER_02]: Go Colts.