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The Colts Report with Will & David Retherford: 2026 Game-by-Game Predictions (285.1) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

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[SPEAKER_02]: You are listening to the cult report with Will and Dave Rutherford every week on the Central India and a sports report.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Situation's changed after we recorded so I didn't get a chance to introduce Will Rutherford from Greg versus Will versus the World, the Major League Baseball Report and other stuff and his dad Dave, hoping to make these two guys a duo on the cult report going forward.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Welcome Colts fans, the Central Indiana Sports Report for our first Colts Report in a while.
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[SPEAKER_02]: In fact, the Colts schedule came out a long time ago.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We still haven't broken it down.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We're going to go week by week and assign a win or loss to each game on the Colts schedule.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And my initial instinct looking at the schedule is man, this is tough.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The strength of the schedule actually says it's the fourth easiest and the league.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Thoughts looking at the schedule week one to eighteen.
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[SPEAKER_02]: your initial thoughts on it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm well Greg, I would say it's not the fourth easiest schedule based on what I'm saying.
1:13
[SPEAKER_00]: I think that the NFCE is probably going to be pretty good.
1:17
[SPEAKER_00]: I think the NFC North is going to be difficult as well.
1:22
[SPEAKER_00]: It feels like they play Pittsburgh every single season.
1:26
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I can easily see them being 0 and 3 going into week four because I think they play three tough teams to start off the year.
1:34
[SPEAKER_01]: And I would just add to that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I could honestly see him being no one five.
1:38
[SPEAKER_01]: I think Washington will be a good team this year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And Pittsburgh on the road is always a difficult match-up.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So when you look at their first five games, there's no easy schedule there.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, through mid-December, this is a killer schedule.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, it gets easy toward the end.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The last four weeks are probably the easiest four weeks they'll have all year in the schedule, but it won't matter if you're
2:04
[SPEAKER_02]: four and nine right man.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's just brutal.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I thought when I saw it come out and it sure doesn't look like the fourth easiest to me.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We're going to go week by a week now and figure out what we think everybody's record is going to be week one.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That is a one-to-clock game in Indianapolis against the Baltimore Ravens who I'm just going to go ahead straight up front and say I'm picking to win the whole thing this year.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's on CBS obviously.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to be taking the
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I think it's difficult.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think if this was in Baltimore, I'd say it's a no-brainer Baltimore prior wins.
2:39
[SPEAKER_00]: I do feel like the week one boost at home is going to help them curious to see if Daniel Jones is ready to go.
2:45
[SPEAKER_00]: I feel like there's going to be a lot of juice in the building.
2:48
[SPEAKER_00]: If he is able to go, just the fact that the fan base does seem to have rallied around him in a way that
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[SPEAKER_00]: makes him feel like a serviceable franchise quarterback for the time being great.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I actually think I'm going to go off of you here.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think I'm going to go cold to win this in a thriller.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think they have a knack for beating teams that they shouldn't be.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And this kind of feels like if there's a week to get Baltimore week one might be time to do.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So the offensive line is going to be as healthy as they are.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I know.
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[SPEAKER_00]: that Crosby was unfortunately sent back to the Raiders, but I still think that this Baltimore team defensively might be able to get picked on a little bit in first four weeks this season.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and I will, I'll just, I'm going to go with Greg on this one actually.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think Daniel Jones will need a little time to Shake off the rest and he's not going to have my equipment to throw too.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So he's going to have a different receiving core that he's got to get a little bit used to defensively I really do like this Colts team.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think they're going to give other teams a lot of fits and that that could include Baltimore.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I think it'll be a close game as well, but I'm going to go with Baltimore as well.
4:01
[SPEAKER_01]: Dave, what about the defense?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Make sure you think it's going to give teams fits?
4:06
[SPEAKER_01]: I think they got locked down corners.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I think throwing the ball is going to be really difficult.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think their defensive line is formidable.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think they've got a couple guys now in the edge.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It can get to the quarterback.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I feel like they've got the right places.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think lineback in chorus still maybe a little questionable.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But this, if we're good game to see whether they have it or not.
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[SPEAKER_02]: week two Sunday said timber 20th that is their first prime time game of the year.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It is in Kansas City against the richest man in the world, Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, the culture of that success against Mahomes and Andy Reed and the Chiefs.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I think they have success again.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think they actually start this season two.
4:54
[SPEAKER_00]: And now I think they go in the arrowhead and pull up a huge upset.
4:57
[SPEAKER_00]: I think Jonathan Taylor runs for 160 yards, a couple touchdowns.
5:03
[SPEAKER_00]: They control the line of scrimmage.
5:04
[SPEAKER_00]: I do like the off season edition of Derek Nadi.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think that bolsters the interior defensive.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't necessarily want to say rotation, but I think they are largely in a way with, you know, Grover Stewart and DeForce Buck, they're getting a little older.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I see them probably being on more of a snap limitation, those two maybe play 60 to 70% of the snaps.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I still think my home's is going to be dealing with some issues with, you know, the ACL, MCL, it's typically a tough recovery.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I know that he says he's going to be ready week one, but I think this cold team is good enough.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I think the chief still have some offensive line issues that they need to address.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think this might be one that we say doesn't make a whole lot of sense, but the cold is going to done once again.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Sunday night football in Kansas City.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I struggled to see the cold twin in that game.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The chiefs are clearly not as good as they once were, but the place is going to be on fire there, and I don't see us winning that game.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The chiefs are due for a bounce back year.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm not completely convinced that they'll have one, but I don't think the colds are quite on that level of
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to say the cult star, oh, and two.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Wake three, the cults are at home against the Houston Texans.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They're first division game of the year.
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[SPEAKER_02]: What a clock on CBS.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, this is one of those games.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm, I'm mostly just don't know what to expect from the Texans, because they could be really good.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And they could have some vulnerabilities that are so large.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They could struggle.
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[SPEAKER_00]: we need to just not fool ourselves here.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The Colts will start 211 and it will be this loss against Houston that does it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They they're not win in this game.
7:02
[SPEAKER_00]: This is one of the CJ Strauss.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's going to have thrown eight interception the first two weeks and then he'll go off for three, four, 75% completion percentage and pride for touchdowns.
7:13
[SPEAKER_00]: I think Jayton Higgins is ready to step up and be the number two there.
7:17
[SPEAKER_00]: I really think David Montgomery and addition in the offseason is going to pay dividends for that team, especially if they can get strouled playing with sound, play action, fundamentals.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I really do like the addition to brain smith form.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I know Indivis Colts tenure may have been a slightly questionable, but they did go and
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I think this text is team's going to be a tough one to stop.
7:45
[SPEAKER_00]: And for whatever reason, they just have the Colts number and Lucas oil the last four or five years.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Sadly, I have to agree with Will again on this one.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Houston has been the nemesis.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They are the team to beat in the division.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, again, I just their defense is so elite that I'm this not sure that we're going to score enough points to beat them.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And that's where I lay and that's why I'm going to say oh and three, but this is one I call a complete toss-up, just in specific because I just think the Texans offensive line might be even worse this year than it was last year.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They're secondaries, okay.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They're the front of their defense is pretty darn good.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They have a lot of key pieces doing really good, too.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'll say, oh, and three for the cold.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So far, we'll say, two and one, Dave and I say, oh, and three.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Week four is where the colds go to London and play the Washington, something or others, 930 AM on the NFL network,
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[SPEAKER_02]: and I'll go ahead and start.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think they get their first win here.
9:09
[SPEAKER_02]: I think Washington's gonna be better than they were last year, but this is the kind of team that the culture gonna be.
9:19
[SPEAKER_00]: Greg, I think on paper, this Washington team is not anywhere near as good as what you would think with the way the media has talked about them.
9:28
[SPEAKER_00]: There are two number one and two receiving the Terry McClellan loop a calfery, not a great combo McClellan just to not stay on the field.
9:36
[SPEAKER_00]: Chickacompe was their tie in.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That guy's been nothing ball and Tennessee for, you know, his first rookie contract.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think Jane Daniels does have something with Bill Cross, you mayor.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, that is a physical running back.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He is a slasher.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And if the colds lineback and core, it does not come to play.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He could definitely go for 120 if he wants to.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But I think going overseas, it does tend to build well for teams that can run the ball effectively efficiently.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I think the culture better than this Washington team at doing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I think it's probably
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think they go three and one.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It seems to me, I'm the only one positive here.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, hell, you and that had one damn good thing to say it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I said they're better than Washington.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think the the culture going to be good this year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I really do.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think they just, they got off to, they're going to get off to bad start because there are comments are really good.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think good might be a stretch Dave.
10:40
[SPEAKER_02]: I think they have a chance to be slightly above average is what I'd say.
10:46
[SPEAKER_01]: you know, I'm going to agree with both of you in this game.
10:48
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think that Washington has the weapons offensively that the teams before us have and so I think the cult pick up a win here.
10:56
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I do think that Washington's defense especially with drafting sunny styles is going to be much better.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I think Dan Quinn is a really good defensive mind.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So that could throw a few curveballs here at this colds team, especially, I think Steiken sometimes struggles with in-game adjustments.
11:18
[SPEAKER_00]: I think this Washington team's old, and I just don't think that the traveling is going to settle within very well.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I have no problem with teams playing games in Europe, and I have no problem with them coming back and playing a game.
11:34
[SPEAKER_02]: But when they do play a game in Europe and they come back, they should be playing at home the next week.
11:39
[SPEAKER_02]: Let's let them sleep in their home beds.
11:41
[SPEAKER_02]: The cults go from London back home and then fly straight out to Pittsburgh for a game and there is zero percent chance they're winning this game.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I hate the Steelers.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not saying they're worth it, but I'm going this is the surprise game for me and I'm going to I'm going to I'm going to pick the colds on this just because they are I think going to be heavy underdogs given the things you just talked about Greg, but I don't know for some reason my gut just tells me that they're not going to let the jet lag win and they're going to come in and they're going to win that game.
12:17
[SPEAKER_00]: I believe that this dealer's team is as good as it's probably been in the last seven years in terms of actual roster.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I will say that I think their defense while starting to age is probably going to be top eight in the league.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not taking anything away from the dealers.
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[SPEAKER_00]: With that being said, Jonathan Taylor is the ex-bacter here.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If the culture able to effectively run the ball, you limit the impact of Alex Heissmith,
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[SPEAKER_00]: force the Steelers team to get a little uncomfortable to try to play more with Jalen Ramsian the box which he has a nose for the football he's not afraid to do, but
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think in road games, especially after coming back, your run game is going to have to get going early and be good often.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I just, I love the way that this cult's offensive line is going to be able to protect.
13:11
[SPEAKER_00]: I love the way they played the first 10 games the year.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I honestly think some of the issues in the run game, the latter half came down to just fatigue in a way with nobody getting hurt.
13:21
[SPEAKER_00]: And I know that sounds crazy, but I feel like sometimes offensive line injuries
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[SPEAKER_00]: offense alignment off their feet for a week.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Get them some rest, get the soft tissue in your body, feel a little better.
13:34
[SPEAKER_00]: You're getting a couple of massage, you're getting some treatment.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I just think early in the season, I think they're going to be a bus all running the ball and I expect them to do at Pittsburgh.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And through five weeks, will has the Colts at four and one.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Dave two and three.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I have one and four.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And as certain of a loss as weak five is, I think weak six is the most certain, maybe on the schedule.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's gonna be a bounce back week for sure.
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[SPEAKER_02]: There are beaten the titans who are gonna be improved, I think, but they're beaten the titans in this in weak six, no doubt in my mind.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The titans still aren't gonna be very good.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going with the Colts.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'll make this one easy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Greg, I think this tight steam is going to be improved.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think Carnell Tate and Wondell Robinson coming in give camward some more weapons with that being said.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This, I think the cults win this by a couple of scores.
14:30
[SPEAKER_02]: Will do you want to defend that when the cults at five and one with this tough start?
14:34
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, not every team that you think is going to be good is going to be good.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And you think the cults are going to be better than I do.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I think if Daniel Jones comes in week one healthy, there's no reason to think they're not gonna be good.
14:47
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't like what they did with Pitman and Pierce, but I think they got a lot better defensively and their offensive line is good enough to keep them in any game, but the ability to run the ball.
14:57
[SPEAKER_00]: I think Tyler Warren goes for 1200 yards this season.
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[SPEAKER_00]: See, I think they're gonna be just fine.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Tyler Warren for me, fun, music.
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[SPEAKER_02]: All right week seven Sunday October 25th in Minnesota good thing that's indoors one o'clock.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, this is an interesting one.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It is an interesting one.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think it especially comes down to who's going to be starting for the Vikings is it's going to be columnaries.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It going to be JJ and McCarthy because of McCarthy was playing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I would say.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I do like the cults in this one.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This seems to me like one, the Colts go and play a really good team on the road and just get out classed in a game that you, the Vikings were nine and eight last year in McCarthy was the worst quarterback in the league.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They should be plenty good enough.
15:45
[SPEAKER_00]: They're going to have a number three schedule.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think they're going to have some confidence.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They're playing at home.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Their defense is great.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This is one, I'm comfortable saying the Colts are simply not going to be as good that week as the Minnesota Vikings.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, I think they're going to go to Minnesota and win that game too.
16:02
[SPEAKER_01]: I think they're going to actually, they're on a three game winning streak.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They'll be on a four game winning streak going to Minnesota.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They will have build up some confidence.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think they're going to be able to run the ball and I think that neutralizes teams on the road.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm given the edge of the Colts on this one.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I fully expect the Vikings to be in the middle of a crisis at this point.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think the culture going to win this game, even in Minnesota.
16:27
[SPEAKER_02]: I think the Vikings are going to have just an awful season this year, particularly in that division that's going to be so tough.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So I give me the Colson out when that has me having them at three and four day, four and three, will five and two.
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[SPEAKER_02]: week eight showed down with the Jaguars.
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[SPEAKER_02]: A team that will probably be pretty good, but I'm not exactly certain ever what to expect from the Jaguars will.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I expect them to be the Colton Jacksonville.
17:06
[SPEAKER_00]: It's been like 11 years.
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[SPEAKER_00]: When they play in Orlando the next year they the Colton might win in Orlando, but there's just no way in hell they're winning a Jacksonville.
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[SPEAKER_00]: None.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The
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[SPEAKER_01]: I agree how they're going to be foreign for after this one because for whatever reason the curse lives.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't believe in jinxes.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I still don't think the culture went down Jacksonville.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Week nine home against the Cowboys hopefully more colds fans and Cowboys fans in the stadium that day.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, bandwagon fans Sunday November 8th.
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[SPEAKER_02]: One o'clock on Fox.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This is such a good matchup for the cults with the quarterbacks that they have.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They win this game.
17:54
[SPEAKER_00]: I think easily, I am excited to see the matchup between Caleb Downs and Tyler Warren.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I think Tyler Warren's a better football player, I really do.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think that he will feast.
18:04
[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe not fees, but I think seven catches 70 yards of the touchdown.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Good for fantasy numbers, good for the colds.
18:10
[SPEAKER_00]: And I think that this Cowboys team is always vastly overrated.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And even with two incredible wider receivers, they are having some contract issues with George Pickens.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Hopefully that gets resolved for nobody so that the Cowboys can continually suck.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I decide like this.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I like this win for the colds.
18:31
[SPEAKER_01]: I look from the bounce back in this game too, they're going to lose it Jacksonville, they're going to come home and they're going to be to Cowboys.
18:40
[SPEAKER_02]: I think the Cowboys are going to be pretty good.
18:42
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm taking the Colts though home and this one, I think pretty good is the kind of team the culture going to beat this year.
18:47
[SPEAKER_02]: They're going to beat the bad teams.
18:49
[SPEAKER_02]: They're going to beat the pretty good teams.
18:55
[SPEAKER_02]: Week 10, Sunday, November 15th, the Dolphins are in town one o'clock on CBS and the Dolphins might be horrifically bad.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They're not.
19:07
[SPEAKER_00]: It's not might.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They're going to be the worst team in the NFL.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This team is on a short track to go, oh, in 17.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, they're going to go over one on, you know, November 15th because the culture went in that game.
19:21
[SPEAKER_02]: Producer Susie is horrified and they are going to just be absolutely awful.
19:27
[SPEAKER_02]: Hopefully they can get their quarterback next year because they're going to just, it's going to be a long season in this household with Producer Susie because boy are they going to be that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: All right, through 10 weeks, will 73 Dave, 64 Greg, five and five,
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[SPEAKER_02]: And we move to week 11 Thursday, November 19th, the only Thursday night game of the year.
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[SPEAKER_02]: A 15 on prime video in Houston against the Texans will.
20:00
[SPEAKER_00]: I think Houston is going to go to Cleveland the week before and get the absolute dog beat out of them physically.
20:07
[SPEAKER_00]: I think the Texans limp into this game because of how physical Cleveland can be at home.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think the cults run away with this one.
20:16
[SPEAKER_00]: I still think that the two teams are evenly matching that I think if the cults lose week three against this Texas team, I think they can go and win week 11 against them.
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[SPEAKER_00]: split it in a salvage.
20:31
[SPEAKER_00]: Hopefully a playoff birth.
20:34
[SPEAKER_02]: I love the way you're reading the schedule like that.
20:36
[SPEAKER_02]: We're looking ahead and seeing what's ahead of them and all that.
20:39
[SPEAKER_02]: And I like your analysis I was thinking also think you're wrong.
20:43
[SPEAKER_02]: They're losing and using.
20:46
[SPEAKER_01]: I grew as you Greg.
20:48
[SPEAKER_01]: We couldn't beat Houston at home and we're not going to beat him there.
20:54
[SPEAKER_02]: We 12 want to clock on Fox Sunday.
20:59
[SPEAKER_02]: November 29th against the New York Giants who I think might be really good, might not, though, might still be a year or two away from it, but it's to you might be really good will.
21:12
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I think this is one of those games that Colts lose.
21:15
[SPEAKER_00]: Don't really have the reason why I think Jackson Dartofy's healthy is super mobile.
21:20
[SPEAKER_00]: The cult struggle with mobile quarterbacks a lot.
21:22
[SPEAKER_00]: Feel like Malik neighbors is probably going to have a feast.
21:25
[SPEAKER_00]: This seems like a round the time your corner has a game hamstring or a little castrain or something and all of a sudden you got your third corner out there on Malik neighbors that he just torches you.
21:37
[SPEAKER_00]: Also, Scataboo is just an absolute maniac to, um, he's afraid of no contact.
21:43
[SPEAKER_00]: He might actually be on his eighth concussion of the season by this time of the year, but I do really like the Giants defense.
21:51
[SPEAKER_00]: I think John Harball is a really good coach.
21:53
[SPEAKER_00]: And he has the keys in that building.
21:56
[SPEAKER_00]: Feels enough for me to say the cults lose this one at home.
22:01
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I agree with Will going into the by week, um, the cults just seem to find a great way to limp right into it.
22:09
[SPEAKER_01]: A home loss going into the by week seems that very cult like.
22:15
[SPEAKER_02]: There's a possibility that this giant steam figures things out and just kind of runs through their schedule, including the cults.
22:21
[SPEAKER_02]: But I still think they're a year away from doing that.
22:23
[SPEAKER_02]: Give me the cult at home.
22:28
[SPEAKER_02]: week 14 in Philadelphia against the Philadelphia Eagles.
22:32
[SPEAKER_02]: One o'clock on Fox will.
22:34
[SPEAKER_02]: The Eagles might be the favorite in the NFC in my mind.
22:38
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, Sol Skarger also is does not have much experience playing against Nevada Smith who I think is absolutely going to feast without AJ Brown in this offense.
22:48
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't like that match up.
22:50
[SPEAKER_00]: I think Nevada Smith is just an incredible route runner,
22:54
[SPEAKER_00]: So Chris, always open, I think he got a little overshadowed by AJ Brown.
22:58
[SPEAKER_00]: I expect Sake Juan to have a bounce back here.
23:01
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not sure how I feel about Jalen Hurts be completely honest with you, but I think he's good enough in this game to win their defenses.
23:07
[SPEAKER_00]: Just absolutely absurd.
23:09
[SPEAKER_00]: This feels like a cult lost.
23:11
[SPEAKER_00]: I think Philly's a really tough place to play, and I think the cult's struggle, especially if the weather's kind of bad.
23:18
[SPEAKER_00]: So I don't like to say it, but I think they're eight and five right now.
23:24
[SPEAKER_01]: This was the tough one for me because coming out of the by-week and being what you would hope is was rested and maybe some of the injury bugs that have caught up with them, you know, kind of got some of those things recovered.
23:40
[SPEAKER_01]: So I think going into that game, they're going to be a strong.
23:44
[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe they've been in a while and you know what, let's let's go with the cold twin.
23:49
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's go with the cold surprise win and Philadelphia.
23:54
[SPEAKER_02]: culture be strong and refreshed and ready to go against the Eagles just enough to get their asses kicked.
24:02
[SPEAKER_02]: Second most of any game that I'm certain that they're going to lose other than the game in Pittsburgh is the game in Philadelphia.
24:09
[SPEAKER_02]: Big O and two in Pennsylvania this year in my mind.
24:15
[SPEAKER_02]: Sunday December 20th is their week 15 matchup
24:22
[SPEAKER_00]: Huge bounce back, Jonathan Taylor, absolutely feast in this game.
24:28
[SPEAKER_01]: Tennessee is not going to be that good.
24:31
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going with the cult.
24:33
[SPEAKER_02]: Dave, I completely agree, Tennessee is not going to be very good.
24:37
[SPEAKER_02]: So I'm going with the cults.
24:38
[SPEAKER_02]: I think cults are going to beat up on bad teams.
24:41
[SPEAKER_02]: They're going to be do really well against middleing teams.
24:44
[SPEAKER_02]: So give me the cults for sure.
24:47
[SPEAKER_02]: And here's one that's going to be an interesting team where they're going to be.
24:51
[SPEAKER_02]: And that is their week 16 game.
24:53
[SPEAKER_02]: We don't know time and date yet, but it's at home against the Cincinnati Bingo's who are expect to be in the thick of the playoff race at this point will.
25:02
[SPEAKER_00]: I think this game is honestly going to be for playoff position at some point.
25:06
[SPEAKER_00]: And I think that the cults, once again, are a good matchup for sensey.
25:09
[SPEAKER_00]: I like the fact if the cults, two corners are healthy against tea higgins, in Jamar Chase, I don't love the bingles offensive lines situation for Joe Burrow.
25:19
[SPEAKER_00]: And I think Chase Brown is one of those running backs.
25:21
[SPEAKER_00]: That's real splash in the pan has a good couple years.
25:24
[SPEAKER_00]: Good other passing game because of the bingles always being
25:31
[SPEAKER_00]: Also, Lou and Arumo gets his get back for getting fired at a sensey for no reason whatsoever, because he's not, you know, the one who puts the players on the field.
25:40
[SPEAKER_00]: I like the cult of this one, and I think this might just maybe pledge a playoff spot for him.
25:46
[SPEAKER_01]: I like the cult in this game as well.
25:49
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not quite yet saying that it's going to clench a playoff spot, because I see them losing potentially those last two games of the years, but I think they went against Cincinnati.
25:59
[SPEAKER_02]: I agree, give me the Colts over since I need a home.
26:05
[SPEAKER_02]: All three of us have the Colts over 500 heading into week 17, a January 13th, 1 o'clock game in Cleveland, in January that game is on Fox.
26:18
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know how good Cleveland's going to be.
26:19
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know if they're going to be playing for anything, but I do know that's going to be a tough game in Cleveland, in January.
26:26
[SPEAKER_00]: I want to thank Ball State for pushing the start week of the second semester back another week, because I think if the tickets are 31 bucks, Dave and I might go bundled up in snow gear to leave one to watch a clinch apply off spot.
26:39
[SPEAKER_00]: They're going to win the most disgusting 10 to 7 football game in the history of the world, but they're going to win it.
26:45
[SPEAKER_00]: And we're going to rejoice and have a fun drive back home.
26:49
[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to have to wait on no $31 tickets to make sure the weather is going to be suitable for the old man to show up and snow gear, but I am not as optimistic going into Cleveland at the beginning of January.
27:05
[SPEAKER_01]: I see this as a big time loss.
27:10
[SPEAKER_02]: It's possible the Browns are gonna be absolutely horrible and the Colts are gonna go in there and just pound them.
27:15
[SPEAKER_02]: But there's also a chance the Browns might be better than we think.
27:18
[SPEAKER_02]: We know the last three or four years they've been tough.
27:21
[SPEAKER_02]: And tough teams in January and the cold are very tough to beat.
27:25
[SPEAKER_02]: Give me the Browns.
27:26
[SPEAKER_02]: Ugh.
27:30
[SPEAKER_02]: And it ends.
27:31
[SPEAKER_02]: We gate team.
27:33
[SPEAKER_02]: at home against the Jacksonville Jaguars, a team that Colt had had so much trouble beating after beating them what?
27:39
[SPEAKER_02]: Dave, the first 30 times they played him in franchise history or slip the way that.
27:44
[SPEAKER_00]: Just could not beat him any more will.
27:47
[SPEAKER_00]: We need to hope that Jacksonville is either set Trevor Lawrence because they've clinched your playoff spot and he has nothing to play for or the Jags set Trevor Lawrence because they're bad because if he plays, there is a 0% chance the Colt's won this game.
28:04
[SPEAKER_01]: I absolutely do not like the match up either and ultimately this is what's going to cost them a playoff spot losing both games to Houston and both games to Jacksonville.
28:13
[SPEAKER_01]: The culture going to lose this game and week 18 and and they're going to get booed at Lucas oil and Shane's second probably gets fired and Chris Ballard.
28:25
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, I think you probably gets fired the week before they lose in Cleveland.
28:29
[SPEAKER_02]: And like I said, I don't believe in jinxies.
28:31
[SPEAKER_02]: I think the colds are gonna win this game.
28:32
[SPEAKER_02]: I think a playoff game, playoff spot could be on the line.
28:36
[SPEAKER_02]: I still think the colds win this game one way or the other.
28:38
[SPEAKER_02]: You can put me on record the colds beat the Jaguars at least once this year.
28:43
[SPEAKER_02]: But I don't think it's gonna be enough to make the playoffs of Will says 11 and six, Greg and Dave both end at nine and eight.
28:52
[SPEAKER_02]: And I think we all three find that a little optimistic in our own ways.
28:58
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't love my record.
29:00
[SPEAKER_00]: I think 10 and 7 is a lot closer to reality.
29:03
[SPEAKER_00]: There is one of those games that they are the first four weeks and the culture in a winning game they're probably not.
29:09
[SPEAKER_00]: But I do like 10 and 7.
29:11
[SPEAKER_00]: I think that's probably about how good they are.
29:13
[SPEAKER_00]: I think that's 9 and 8's probably about how bad they are.
29:16
[SPEAKER_00]: So I think somewhere, well, there's nowhere to get in between those two records.
29:20
[SPEAKER_00]: So I think it's either one of those two.
29:21
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't see see them winning more than nine games, but I could see them losing more than eight.
29:27
[SPEAKER_01]: I think nine and eight is being is being optimistic.
29:30
[SPEAKER_01]: I think we're going to all know what we know about Daniel Jones and that he's the best guy for the job, but he's not the guy that's going to take us to the ultimate prize.
29:41
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think.
29:42
[SPEAKER_01]: And we've wasted away the years of Jonathan Taylor.
29:53
[SPEAKER_02]: E equal chances they make the playoffs and finish with the worst record in the NFL.
29:59
[SPEAKER_02]: I think there's a chance that that happens.
30:01
[SPEAKER_02]: I think one major injury this whole thing falls apart.
30:06
[SPEAKER_02]: It's a solid roster.
30:08
[SPEAKER_02]: It still has too many holes.
30:11
[SPEAKER_02]: Still not going to score a ton of points.
30:12
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't think I think the defense has holes.
30:16
[SPEAKER_02]: I think it might be better, but I don't know.
30:22
[SPEAKER_02]: But, well, thanks for giving us all hope.
30:28
[SPEAKER_00]: I feel like you and I were so pessimistic going into last year that I just don't know if I can do do too much more of these cold seasons.
30:37
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm really,
30:39
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm struggling.
30:40
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't want to be a free agent.
30:42
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm never going to be, but it feels like my walk at some point because they've just put me through the ringer.
30:50
[SPEAKER_00]: My lifetime.
30:50
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, you guys got Peyton.
30:52
[SPEAKER_00]: You guys got all that fun.
30:53
[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't.
30:53
[SPEAKER_00]: I remember any of that.
30:55
[SPEAKER_02]: Dave, but he doesn't remember what we started with.
30:59
[SPEAKER_02]: He doesn't remember what the culture when they moved to town.
31:01
[SPEAKER_02]: And if I hadn't been for a three year Eric Dickerson run, it would have been a horrible for 15 years that this franchise.
31:10
[SPEAKER_01]: They were not very good in leading up to the Peyton era.
31:14
[SPEAKER_01]: They were a laughing stock of the league.
31:17
[SPEAKER_01]: And then year two of Peyton Manning and it started to, you know, you could start to get a little optimistic.
31:27
[SPEAKER_01]: But Daniel Jones is not Peyton Manning.
31:29
[SPEAKER_01]: I just don't see the same level of optimism right now.
31:33
[SPEAKER_02]: We expected success 25 straight years and sometimes you just gotta pay for that.
31:40
[SPEAKER_00]: You guys can all say how bad it was.
31:42
[SPEAKER_00]: This is how my colds fandom has gone.
31:46
[SPEAKER_00]: Born the peak of getting up to their power, I don't really remember Marvin Harris and my first memory of the colds is then losing the Super Bowl to the Saints.
31:56
[SPEAKER_00]: I remember them not making the playoffs in the next year.
31:59
[SPEAKER_00]: I then remember Peyton getting hurt and then being legitimately the worst team in the league.
32:04
[SPEAKER_00]: The hope that Andrew Luck brought
32:07
[SPEAKER_00]: I remember the hope getting stash out of our bare hands.
32:12
[SPEAKER_00]: And then I basically been forced to stab my eyeballs every week, watching the whole group of victims.
32:18
[SPEAKER_02]: That's good.
32:19
[SPEAKER_00]: So like, it's really cute for everybody.
32:21
[SPEAKER_00]: You guys got 12 incredible years.
32:23
[SPEAKER_00]: And I don't remember most of them.
32:26
[SPEAKER_02]: We got 20, man.
32:27
[SPEAKER_02]: We got Peyton Manning for 15 and Andrew Luck for five for basically 20 straight years.
32:35
[SPEAKER_02]: got to pay for that.
32:37
[SPEAKER_01]: It was a good run and even at nine and eight are not a horrible team, but they're just I don't see them competing for a championship.
32:47
[SPEAKER_01]: It's much like, you know, what Will and I have talked about with Baseball and the Cardinals.
32:52
[SPEAKER_01]: They're not at that level.
32:53
[SPEAKER_01]: They might be able to sneak into the playoffs, maybe, but that's their ceiling.
32:59
[SPEAKER_01]: And I think that's where the Colts are, you know, they're sneak into the playoffs, kind of ceiling team, and maybe more likely to be closer to the floor.
33:11
[SPEAKER_02]: Hey, thanks everybody for listening.
33:12
[SPEAKER_02]: Real quick bonus at this point.
33:15
[SPEAKER_02]: I have a...
33:16
[SPEAKER_02]: The Ravens over the Chargers in the AFC, I have the Eagles over the Rams in the NFC, the Ravens winning it all will.
33:27
[SPEAKER_02]: Let me thought into it.
33:29
[SPEAKER_00]: I have, the Chargers aren't gonna be there because just Herbert is allergic to winning when it matters.
33:35
[SPEAKER_00]: So that's not gonna happen.
33:38
[SPEAKER_00]: We've been saying that for how many damn years.
33:42
[SPEAKER_00]: How many years we've been saying all of just hervaries?
33:45
[SPEAKER_00]: Six.
33:47
[SPEAKER_02]: You've been doubting Jim Harball these years, too, and all he does is make playoffs.
33:51
[SPEAKER_02]: And this is the year.
33:52
[SPEAKER_02]: Watch.
33:54
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, until he goes up to New England, just absolutely pisses a game away.
33:58
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean...
34:00
[SPEAKER_00]: They're not going to win their division, so they're going to have to go on the red one.
34:03
[SPEAKER_00]: It's cold and then Herbert has never played well.
34:06
[SPEAKER_02]: They're going to have homefield throughout the whole playoffs.
34:09
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I, good.
34:10
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll tell you what you might need to book a room with Jim Harball.
34:14
[SPEAKER_00]: So what you need to do?
34:15
[SPEAKER_02]: They're going to win.
34:17
[SPEAKER_02]: They're going to win that division by two games over the Browns.
34:19
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
34:23
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, I'm going to stop.
34:27
[SPEAKER_00]: I, I, I,
34:29
[SPEAKER_00]: who's going to win that.
34:30
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean.
34:34
[SPEAKER_00]: That's a tough question.
34:36
[SPEAKER_00]: I think like I don't think you're wrong with the Ravens in the AFC championship game, but like they just, they can't win the game either.
34:42
[SPEAKER_00]: They'll find the way to lose it.
34:44
[SPEAKER_00]: So I don't really be.
34:47
[SPEAKER_00]: I really feel like it's Buffalo's year to make the Super Bowl.
34:51
[SPEAKER_00]: I know that that's a dead horse who've been beating for a long time too.
34:54
[SPEAKER_00]: But God, I mean, how close can you get without finally at least breaking the rule?
35:01
[SPEAKER_02]: I hope so.
35:02
[SPEAKER_02]: Then so I lost still though.
35:05
[SPEAKER_00]: I want to say bills.
35:08
[SPEAKER_00]: I want to say bills, Rams.
35:09
[SPEAKER_00]: I see why I want to say the Super Bowl probably is.
35:11
[SPEAKER_00]: And I think the Rams probably win it.
35:17
[SPEAKER_00]: Thoughts today.
35:20
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I can't say that I've given it a ton of thought.
35:25
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, I also, I mean, I think like, is this the year that Jacksonville, we're Houston could sneak through in the AFC, you know?
35:36
[SPEAKER_01]: Our division has been, you know, kind of laughed at for a while, but I think both those teams are pretty good.
35:46
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, yeah, if Houston reaches the counter if you, if Josh Allen do so you got to think at some point he's going to get what's coming doing and in the end of C I think in the Rams are probably the best team, but I don't know that there are that heads and tails above everybody else either so I think that I think the AFC champion
36:11
[SPEAKER_02]: is wide open.
36:12
[SPEAKER_02]: I think the Rams and Bears, Packers, Eagles.
36:16
[SPEAKER_02]: I think possibly the Lions too if everything goes right.
36:21
[SPEAKER_02]: Lions are going to play it for schedule.
36:25
[SPEAKER_02]: So I think everyone thinking the Rams are going to run through this thing I think is not saying.
36:43
[SPEAKER_02]: and I love Susie.