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STEELERS 27, COLTS 20: Reaction with Sam Frick & Michelle Garmon (2.75.2) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

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  [SPEAKER_00]: You are listening to a special edition of the Culture Report with Sam Frick of A&EC Sports and Tipton Tribune in Elwood Colleater Sports Editor Michelle Garmin, their reaction to the Colts 27-20 loss in Pittsburgh.
• 0:16
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• 0:23
  [SPEAKER_00]: Welcome back Colts fans to the Central Indiana Sports Report for a special edition of the Colts Report with Sam Frick.
• 0:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: Sam's here to react to the Colts 27-20 loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers.
• 0:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: A seven-point loss that really wasn't that close, Sam, in the end, but.
• 0:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: The way I would summarize it is for the first time this year, the Colts got punched in the mouth and they did not react very well to it.
• 0:52
  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't think there's any reason to panic, Sam.
• 0:56
  [SPEAKER_01]: I don't think so, because even in a loss where I would say this is easier and worse loss of the year.
• 1:01
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think it's better.
• 1:02
  [SPEAKER_01]: We should have lost by about 20 points in that game.
• 1:04
  [SPEAKER_01]: I will give the Colts some credit.
• 1:06
  [SPEAKER_01]: They started the game pretty darn well in the first quarter, and then the end of game went a lot better than I expected.
• 1:11
  [SPEAKER_01]: They only lost by seven, just the Colts did showed some fight in the game, and especially with a couple that turned over there, towards the end of the game, right?
• 1:19
  [SPEAKER_01]: I thought the steals were going to ice the game at 27, 10 or whatever it was at the time.
• 1:25
  [SPEAKER_01]: whatever was and the calls did get some stops and whatnot and then did that's for a little bit.
• 1:31
  [SPEAKER_01]: I did I thought the polls did show some or get shows some fight, but I think the big thing we look back in this game.
• 1:36
  [SPEAKER_01]: six turnovers in this game.
• 1:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: This is way too many turnovers against the Pittsburgh Steel against anything but in the Pittsburgh Steelers and I think when we summarize this game I think the J.T.
• 1:47
  [SPEAKER_01]: Watts stripped sack and fumble recovery that was to me the play of the game in a pretty much the Colts kind of it kind of snowball from there.
• 1:55
  [SPEAKER_01]: They just never recovered from that play
• 1:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: no question.
• 1:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: It was a couple of Hall of Famers that did in the cults and that's what we said coming into the game that TJ Wat and Cameron Hayward hadn't been playing like Hall of Famers of late and he was right, but they are Hall of Famers for a reason.
• 2:14
  [SPEAKER_00]: They both came to play today and made all the difference in the world and Aaron Rogers looked pretty good and
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  [SPEAKER_00]: kind of whipped.
• 2:31
  [SPEAKER_01]: And I think there's two things that kind of factor in favor of Pittsburgh.
• 2:33
  [SPEAKER_01]: Number one, if you remember, they got embarrassed on Sunday night football against the remade hackers.
• 2:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: Obviously, that's a wake-up call there.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Number two, they knew they were going to be playing Indianapolis Colts to begin live with that record.
• 2:43
  [SPEAKER_01]: They had come in at 71.
• 2:45
  [SPEAKER_01]: They knew there was going to be extra motivation against the, against the Colts.
• 2:47
  [SPEAKER_01]: Knowing they had to play better against the, one of the best teams in a fell.
• 2:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: And I think some of that was
• 2:55
  [SPEAKER_01]: behind and losing games because they know right now the Steelers are kind of in a race for the last Wildcarb spots right now if they don't get the AFC North Division.
• 3:03
  [SPEAKER_01]: So they're right now for Pittsburgh.
• 3:05
  [SPEAKER_01]: They can't lose that AFC North Division.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So if I were Colts fan, this is how I look at it.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Colts fans don't panic, just settle down.
• 3:11
  [SPEAKER_01]: It was once really sloppy game.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: really shit a loss by more than 7 points.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: You didn't play your best in the middle stretch of the game.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: You showed some good in the early, early game.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: You showed some good in the end.
• 3:22
  [SPEAKER_01]: Let's transition to the game in Germany.
• 3:25
  [SPEAKER_01]: Let's play better against Atlanta.
• 3:27
  [SPEAKER_01]: Let's play cleaner football.
• 3:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: Sam here's the way I look at it.
• 3:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: If you believe in multiple universes in every universe, the cults lose in Pittsburgh every time, that's just the way that it works.
• 3:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: So if you go into
• 3:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: Then you have to start having a conversation about how good is this team, and I think as we've been saying for a while, they're good.
• 3:51
  [SPEAKER_00]: They're just not quite good enough to be the kind of team that wins a game in Pittsburgh.
• 3:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: But they're close.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In fact, they out gained Pittsburgh almost twice as many yards.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: If everything goes well, I think they're the better team than Pittsburgh.
• 4:07
  [SPEAKER_00]: And I think that's
• 4:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: I thought that was pretty clear.
• 4:11
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And one last thing before we turn into Michelle here to speak her thoughts here, I think the debate that was Pittsburgh didn't have the ball as much as the polls too, which is part of the reason that we outdam as much as we did.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But, but at the end of the day, it does show that when we do play clean football,
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  [SPEAKER_01]: We are still pretty close with football team, even against Hall of Fame players on the defense on the football, so it's not the end of the world that we lost the Pittsburgh.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: To me, I rather lose the Pittsburgh now than to lose the playoffs or lose when it matters most.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Now we welcome in Michelle Garwin, the tip to tribune and I would call later with her thoughts on the Colts 27 to 20 loss and
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Michelle, I kind of said the way I looked at it is if you go into Pittsburgh and when it's kind of a bonus, I'm not worried at all about what this says about the cult like Sam Mitch and six turnovers, that hasn't really happened.
• 5:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: The one thing that does concern me is that the A plus offensive line that it's been all year was exposed by a couple of
• 5:19
  [SPEAKER_02]: being must win for Pittsburgh.
• 5:21
  [SPEAKER_02]: Their intensity was going to be ramped up after two disappointing losses to the bingles and to the Packers.
• 5:30
  [SPEAKER_02]: They really had to come after the Colts and they did.
• 5:33
  [SPEAKER_02]: And I am concerned a little bit with the line only because the Pittsburgh is struggled so much
• 5:43
  [SPEAKER_02]: Um, but, uh, yeah, uh, uh, but.
• 5:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: But they, they saw the best of T.J. Wat and Cameron Hayward, and they haven't been their best all year.
• 5:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: Today, those two guys were a wrecking crew, and that's the reason that the colds are leaving with a loss.
• 6:01
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think those two, I think here's the thing, the offensive line's been so good.
• 6:07
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think that the cold spots that they could sometimes single block some of those guys.
• 6:13
  [SPEAKER_02]: But they're all, I mean, they're all famous for a reason and you can't only single box them.
• 6:19
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, Braden Smith has been almost perfect in past blocking all year Michelle and they tried to have him one on one with TJ Watten that was not working.
• 6:29
  [SPEAKER_02]: No, you, if you almost really can't, you have to, I was watching bring Bay some last week and they would chip, even if it was Tucker Craft growing on the tight end, he would
• 6:41
  [SPEAKER_02]: enough of a chip to impede, just to hear, but that's all right, because I think the goals needed a game like this, because now they can go back and they can say, okay, they'll grade out and they'll see what adjustments they need to make, everything had been going so well for the goals all season, then even when you look on a film, it was hard to find weaknesses.
• 7:11
  [SPEAKER_02]: schemes or things like that, but now they have good film to go back and clean up some things and maybe add a few you know, a few wrinkles.
• 7:22
  [SPEAKER_02]: I'm still a little bit concerned with the with the cults defense at times.
• 7:28
  [SPEAKER_02]: I know they got to Rogers a couple times early, but I just don't think they're that front seven.
• 7:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, the average
• 7:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: at a train the defense we've been saying all year and we talked about this with Daniel Jones and we talked about this with the defense eventually it's going to turn mid night and they're going to turn into pumpkins and when they play really good teams and we saw a little bit of that today when they played a team with a couple of really
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  [SPEAKER_00]: great players like that.
• 8:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: We saw some weaknesses.
• 8:03
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think for the first time this year Shane Steiken was out coast by Mike Tomlin, but I don't think it's going to happen very often and I don't know if it would happen again if they played each other because Steiken's been really good.
• 8:17
  [SPEAKER_00]: And once again, Sam, the cults came out ready to play.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So they are nine
• 8:29
  [SPEAKER_01]: And I kind of kind of the piggyback what Michelle said, my biggest concern, we were looking ahead to those next few games.
• 8:36
  [SPEAKER_01]: I was worried about the colds having a sense of false hope.
• 8:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: If you work as we did so well to be in season, I was a little bit worried about the colds being maybe over estimating what they've done so far.
• 8:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: So if they have a loss like this, where for the first time they finally look a little sludged, against a team with a couple of Hall of Fame defensive,
• 8:55
  [SPEAKER_01]: like we've seen what we saw today.
• 8:58
  [SPEAKER_01]: So I think from that standpoint, I think it does give us a good sense of valuation of where we need to be as we get into the harder part of the schedule.
• 9:07
  [SPEAKER_01]: We start playing into those those, those tougher teams.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: We start playing those quality teams that are looking at playoffs if you would.
• 9:14
  [SPEAKER_01]: And then also from a managerial standpoint, it's a good opportunity to evaluate what the where they need to add at this point.
• 9:20
  [SPEAKER_01]: Because it does show you that when the cult's offense is sluggish, our defense gets exposed way more.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And when our offense aligns gets exposed, Daniel Jones gets exposed.
• 9:30
  [SPEAKER_01]: And when Daniel Jones gets exposed, everything else gets exposed.
• 9:33
  [SPEAKER_01]: right so really for the first time all year it felt like the offensive line didn't play at the level and normally would play partly because of what the Steelers did so well.
• 9:42
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yes, I can got out coach by my Tommy, but it is my Tommy.
• 9:45
  [SPEAKER_01]: My Tommy regular season is really good to head coach, right?
• 9:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: Even I think there's a little overrated.
• 9:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: He is still a good head coach, but I also think the same time is if we don't take care of the football well, we don't have the horses,
• 9:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: of front to keep up with the other teams.
• 10:00
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's a good learning process for the NAF was close to figure out how to improve, where to make those minor adjustments, and then from a long-term standpoint, how do we take the Colts over the top in terms of playoff intention?
• 10:12
  [SPEAKER_02]: Of course, I mean, either a game like this, now they're going to travel across the pond and play the fountains.
• 10:17
  [SPEAKER_02]: So fountains came close getting a win today, making it close.
• 10:22
  [SPEAKER_02]: They have a quarterback that's a deep ball threat.
• 10:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: you're the most unpredictable team in the NFL.
• 10:29
  [SPEAKER_02]: I'm just saying they do have and they have a good running back at.
• 10:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, they do.
• 10:33
  [SPEAKER_02]: But you're addressing for the Colby, the best in the league.
• 10:36
  [SPEAKER_02]: And then I think right after the buy, they have to go to Kansas City.
• 10:40
  [SPEAKER_02]: And it will be a, it's going to be very, another needing to win team in the chief.
• 10:46
  [SPEAKER_02]: So the clothes really need to bounce back.
• 10:50
  [SPEAKER_02]: Have a good week when they go overseas, get rested up,
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  [SPEAKER_02]: use that by to really prepare for that second half of the season and because it's not, it's going to be tough.
• 11:04
  [SPEAKER_02]: The Titans challenged the Chargers today.
• 11:06
  [SPEAKER_02]: Texans look good, a little bit today.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: See the coast, just have to learn from their mistakes today.
• 11:15
  [SPEAKER_02]: Put it behind him and move forward.
• 11:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: Sam Michelle talked a little bit about the upcoming schedule and the standings a little bit.
• 11:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: Let's talk about that and what's going on outside of the colds loss today and big loss for Houston unfortunately the Jaguars escaped the Raiders in over time.
• 11:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: But you start to like the colds position at 6 and 2 and as long as they play well I'm sure they'll beat the Falcons.
• 11:48
  [SPEAKER_00]: And then we'll see going into Kansas City, being seven and two.
• 11:52
  [SPEAKER_00]: I say, I'm sure there'll be the Falcons, like I said, some days, the Falcons are the best team in the NFL and you can't.
• 11:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: The next week they're the worst, so it's hard to say.
• 12:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: Which Falcons seem we're gonna get, of course, reminder that we will be previewing that game on Friday, and we'll have our cold report on Wednesday afternoon, Wednesday evening, Sam, your thoughts on where they stand at the halfway point of the season.
• 12:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: I just said at seven and two with the schedule if they face up to this point, this is a really good situation with the NAF was pulled because when we did our preseason predictions, I was far less optimistic about their second half of the schedule.
• 12:30
  [SPEAKER_01]: So Michelle hit the head in the nail there.
• 12:32
  [SPEAKER_01]: We're going to get some tough games coming up.
• 12:34
  [SPEAKER_01]: So that means we got to take advantage of the of the game in its Atlanta over in Germany coming up on Sunday, which is a 930 AM day by the way for those.
• 12:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know on NFL networks.
• 12:43
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's going to be going to be an early game for us viewers, but the Coles are going to have to to embrace them opportunity against the Atlanta Falcons.
• 12:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: You know, you look at the AFC right now.
• 12:53
  [SPEAKER_01]: The Coles still write them in top of the AFC race with them in New England.
• 12:56
  [SPEAKER_01]: Denver is at 72.
• 12:58
  [SPEAKER_01]: I believe as well.
• 12:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: So they have done a pretty good job of lights.
• 13:01
  [SPEAKER_01]: chiefs not looking so hot, they did struggle a little bit as Buffalo who's not too far behind this as well.
• 13:06
  [SPEAKER_01]: So things are are tying up a little bit, but like I said, in terms of the AFC seeding, but in terms of playoffs, the colds feel have to feel really good right now, but they got to make sure they get that put that loss behind them gets the pitchwork Steelers, focus on the Atlanta Falcon, so that when we get to buy week, they're getting ready for the Kansas City Chiefs.
• 13:25
  [SPEAKER_00]: and as of right this very moment in the middle of Sunday night football in which the c-hawks are destroying Washington the cults are seven and two they are the number one seed in the playoff race because of their best the better conference record at six and one then the patriots in the broncos who they are tied with
• 13:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: at seven and two.
• 13:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: Behind that in the standings, Pittsburgh is the other division leader at five and three, but Buffalo is the one where we're all probably going to be keeping our eye on at six and two.
• 13:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: The chargers are six and three.
• 13:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: The Jaguars are five and three.
• 14:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: The chiefs are five and four on the outside looking in as of right now, but
• 14:07
  [SPEAKER_00]: very much alive.
• 14:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: The Ravens are three and five and maybe still alive, but not sure.
• 14:14
  [SPEAKER_00]: And the Texans are three and five, but their defense is too good to completely count them out.
• 14:20
  [SPEAKER_02]: They look like they're starting to play better than what they were at the beginning of the year.
• 14:24
  [SPEAKER_02]: I'll tell you, you said eyes on Buffalo, you cannot take your eyes off New England.
• 14:29
  [SPEAKER_02]: They have a
• 14:36
  [SPEAKER_02]: how poorly they kind of did last year, so they didn't get a tough schedule.
• 14:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: We'll see next week when they go to Tampa Bay just how good they are.
• 14:46
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, we will, but like I said, that AFC schedule kind of favors them because they do the rematch with a couple of low will be in New England.
• 14:56
  [SPEAKER_02]: So, and I know Buffalo can go anywhere and win, but if that's a big game,
• 15:07
  [SPEAKER_02]: Well, I don't believe in the paper.
• 15:09
  [SPEAKER_02]: I believe in Mike Rapeal.
• 15:10
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think he's a very good kiddo-ch.
• 15:13
  [SPEAKER_00]: He's good there.
• 15:14
  [SPEAKER_00]: You're early.
• 15:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: They're still very young and inexperienced.
• 15:18
  [SPEAKER_01]: Michelle does have a point like New England has what's much better this year and they sort of advantage of a lighter schedule book.
• 15:24
  [SPEAKER_01]: Again,
• 15:25
  [SPEAKER_01]: Nobody spent the coast to be in this mid situation either with Daniel Jones.
• 15:29
  [SPEAKER_01]: So I guess that's what we're at right now in the AFC and the same thing.
• 15:32
  [SPEAKER_01]: We would tip and be a little bit in the AFC.
• 15:34
  [SPEAKER_01]: So we'll see how things stacked up and then we'll talk.
• 15:36
  [SPEAKER_01]: We'll discuss from there about playoffs and aspirations.
• 15:38
  [SPEAKER_00]: One of these teams a little worry some of the day are seven and two and only have a two game lead on eighth place in the standings.
• 15:48
  [SPEAKER_00]: So that is a little concerning.
• 15:50
  [SPEAKER_00]: between the Colts, Patriots, Broncos, Steelers, Bills, Chargers, Jaguars, and Chiefs.
• 15:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: One of those teams is not going to make it.
• 16:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: Final thoughts, and we start with Michelle.
• 16:06
  [SPEAKER_02]: Start again, the Colts need to look at this film, learn from it, coaches, staff, the players, and then put this game behind and just go forward.
• 16:18
  [SPEAKER_02]: everybody has a bad game.
• 16:19
  [SPEAKER_02]: I don't care who you are.
• 16:21
  [SPEAKER_02]: You have a bad game.
• 16:22
  [SPEAKER_02]: Sometimes you're able to pull it out.
• 16:25
  [SPEAKER_02]: Sometimes you're not.
• 16:26
  [SPEAKER_02]: And the Cold War is able to do that because Pittsburgh was really intense on that.
• 16:32
  [SPEAKER_02]: But that's something that Cold War is going to need to also be aware of as they move forward because they are going to have some games where the opponent is in a must-win situation.
• 16:42
  [SPEAKER_02]: So they're going to go out and they're going to
• 16:48
  [SPEAKER_02]: So the coast just have to make sure that their focus for fourfold quarters.
• 16:55
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, to go with Michelle's point, I think it's just, it's reset time for the Colts.
• 17:00
  [SPEAKER_01]: Just calm down, relax.
• 17:02
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's a long season still.
• 17:03
  [SPEAKER_01]: And think of it like Halloween, right?
• 17:05
  [SPEAKER_01]: It Halloween is, it's trick or treat that spooky season, right?
• 17:09
  [SPEAKER_01]: Today was a scare for the Colts.
• 17:11
  [SPEAKER_01]: The Steelers got the Colts fans a little nervous from that loss.
• 17:16
  [SPEAKER_01]: get back to them, some of the things, get back to what we've got you going.
• 17:19
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's at 7-1 starts.
• 17:21
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's a loss, it's a setback of a long journey ahead, but it's not the end of the world.
• 17:27
  [SPEAKER_01]: The culture's still having a great season.
• 17:28
  [SPEAKER_01]: They're still in the thick of things.
• 17:29
  [SPEAKER_01]: They have to see just time to reset, get ready for a journey, get ready for that long ride to Germany, and get that winged to Atlanta, and then they will be good.
• 17:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: They didn't react well to getting punched in the face for the first time this season.
• 17:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: And that's not a concern unless it continues to happen.
• 17:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: Thanks, guys.
• 17:51
  [SPEAKER_00]: Thanks.
• 17:52
  [SPEAKER_00]: Thanks.
• 17:54
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