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Colts-Ravens Preview (The Colts Report with Will & Dave Retherford, 3.34) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

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[SPEAKER_01]: You are listening to the culture report with Will and Dave Rutherford, and it's only on the Central Indiana Sports Report.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Today just Will here to join me Greg Mengal to preview the opening game of the year against the Baltimore Ravens.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Welcome Colts fans at the Central Indiana Sports Report for our Colts Ravens preview will.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The season is here.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We've already had a couple of games and now it's time for the Colts.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Absolutely, Greg.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I couldn't be more excited.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think it's always nice to get the week one and a fell slave.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We've had two pretty non-competitive games so far and see opposite patriots and the Rams and the 49ers, which took place in Australia, which was just felt weird.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't understand why they do it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But I don't understand why week one is the only option for this to happen.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It just feels like it's a very important
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[SPEAKER_00]: to me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's just my take on it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I kind of have thought that when it comes to the most of these international games, London's a little different because the flight for Miami to Seattle's no different than the East Coast to London.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So for the most part, I think it's a wash when in terms of going there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, the Australia just fell off.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The ram is fell off the whole game.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm glad the cults did not do that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Let's put it that way.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, you're upset enough.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I can't believe they made him do that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Why not?
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[SPEAKER_01]: We've been given London the Jag Wars for the last 15 years.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Why do we give Australia a game like that?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Just give him a degree.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm gonna be boring.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If you're that worried about fainting engagement, then maybe you shouldn't send the game you had to send over there to get them to feel excited for it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, the fact that they're getting a regular season NFL game, I feel like it should be enough.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Why does it matter if it is against two teams that are...
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[SPEAKER_00]: to be completely honest withy Greg continuing for a super bowl and it just feels like the NFL kind of gave them a role into the deal.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I know that both organizations had issues with that they didn't love it, but at the end of the day of their professionals they signed up to do this job.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They had to go there to perform.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not going to put a ton of stock into it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It just feels like too big of a game for me to send it over there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Jets Titans would have been a good game for Australia, you know what I'm saying?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Awesome game.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Awesome game.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And everybody would have watched because it's the only NFL game going on.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It doesn't.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Anyway, let's talk about the cults and a big test in the opening weekend.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I like it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I like it being at home and I like that we kind of get to figure out right away against the team.
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[SPEAKER_01]: A lot of people think are going to be a suit, a Vulcan tender.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I think that this getting this game week one at home gives the colds the best opportunity to win it to be honest.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think week one sometimes you can kind of catch teams maybe with a slightly lack of preparation going into week one.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe a bunch of injuries and training camp weren't able to get the guys that they wanted to get a ton of work in.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So they come in a little rusty.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I love this for the colds.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think they have the opportunity to win it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: a huge game at home that honestly we're probably going to have some implications for playoff seating, for playoff wildcard seating, whether you make the wildcard or not.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I kind of see the ravens in this situation with the cults where I think that the roster is better than the cults, but they're still, I don't think the elite team in all honesty.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I know some people will disagree with me because the ravens have been so brutal favorites for a long while, but last
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't really know that the Jesse mentor move makes me feel like they have done enough.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Justify being super well-contenders.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I know obviously Mike McDonald will up to Seattle how to meet his success, but he was from that Raven system as well.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think deck on Doyle awfully young for an offensive coordinator.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I believe he's 33 coming over from
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[SPEAKER_00]: Non-play calling duties in Chicago feels like a big jump for him.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think any time you get a first-time play caller There is an opportunity for it to go south week one because he's learning how he needs to call a game with Lamar Jackson playing quarterback and not Tyler Huntley or Joe Fagnano You know now you've got there can replaying you're not calling for machine all year or justice hill just changes the calculus a little bit when you get these
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[SPEAKER_00]: all world NFL players under the same starting 11 as well as a first-time play caller leading them there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Hold on.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, on the other side of that, of course, is the fact that the Colts coaching staff has a mountain of past plays and schemes that they've run in.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And the
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[SPEAKER_01]: have no past.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So nothing to really prepare for as far as Jesse mentor and his guys goes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You mentioned first of your play caller as well.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So that's a little concerning.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I mean, you obviously have enough to know how Jesse Minner's probably going to scheme as defense, but you've not seen this starting base 314 with the Jesse Minner defense.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So it does, I think, present some level of strategic difficulty in scouting for a game like that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I find that, you know, the cults probably have a lot of tape out there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We know how Daniel Jones in this cult often is going to operate under Shane Steiken.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We know how he gained plans.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The thing I do like is I think Shane Steiken is one of the best
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[SPEAKER_00]: early game schemers in the entire league.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think that this colds team always comes out with a great first 15.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That gives them the opportunity to get ahead, but if they can sustain two big drives and potentially be up 14, nothing before the Ravens have even blinked.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's a recipe for a good week one win.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Coming up in the second part here, we'll talk about some of the cult's depth chart and what we expect of that team of the team this year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We'll talk about Baltimore real fast before we move on to that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think it's a team that, last year you and I both thought there would be a Super Bowl team or right there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They were disappointing that some injuries, new coach,
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[SPEAKER_01]: This is probably the team in the entirely, the has the biggest margin of how many wins they're gonna have.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They could end up with six of everything goes wrong and they could end up going 15 and two of everything goes right.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I think that there, I don't think it's as wide as that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Probably, I would say there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I would hover them around 500 to 15, 16 lens.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If everything goes well, I think, offensively, they lack a lot of depth.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They've obviously got Z-flowers, but then you've got Rashad Bateman Devontez Walker.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Those are two names that you don't love as your Y-Receiver 2 and 3.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I do think Jacobi Lane at a USC is probably going to be able to establish himself as the Y-Receiver 2 and Baltimore.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's looked really good so far and can't.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You also have Elijah Sarat, who's in the back end of that depth chart.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He was a fourth round draft pick this year out of IU, that's a name and a lot of Hoosiers are familiar with.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't expect him to get a ton of playing time, but there's really an element where they have two starting rookie receivers right away.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I think receiver supposition where a lot of times if you're good, you come in and you're good early.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's not a position, sometimes like running back, like offensive line where there's some real growing pains early.
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[SPEAKER_00]: wider seabers on a position like the offensive line defensive line where you kind of come in, you have to take your lumps a little bit, have some growing pains, more or less.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If you're good for your career, you're good at the start.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's very rare that you see a wider seaber that just all of a sudden, and you're three figures it out a ton, we've not really seen that from Rashad Bateman.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We've not seen that from Devontez Walker, so I think the doors open.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I expect to see a healthy dose of Jacobi Lane come sat Sunday and we'll see if he's going to be good enough
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[SPEAKER_01]: And this is exactly why they have such a large range.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I do think if everything went poorly and I'm not even talking about injuries here, the coaching doesn't quite work, maybe the staff isn't quite ready.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Lamar Jackson loses more off his running game, rookies at wide receiver, and probably most importantly,
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[SPEAKER_01]: young guys and rookies in the middle of the offensive line guys who have never started in FL games guys who have never started for the ravens so I do see it going horribly wrong and Baltimore if things don't click but I do expect them to click and if everything goes well of course they're going to be right there for the championship Lamar Jackson deserves one but let's talk about that middle of the offensive line because
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[SPEAKER_01]: Some people believe that the cult strength of their defenses up the middle of the defensive line.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So it's a game where if those guys are good in particular Buckner and Stewart, they could take advantage of that and that could be a key to win on this game.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I agree.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Baltimore did come into this season completely revamping that middle of their offensive linemen that John Simpson signed out of from the Jets, Javon Gwynn signed from Atlanta.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They drafted Vega Ioni out of Penn State in the first round this year to be their right guards.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So they have completely revamped what they expect to do.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think that's because they saw their interior run game as good as their canary was last year.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think they got the
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's really a reason to believe that if this offensive line clip, so the Ravens, the Colts could be in for it a lot, day bringing down Derek Henry.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Fortunately, the Colts do have a lot of experience playing against him, asked us Lou and Aruma who was in Cincinnati while Derek Henry was in Tennessee.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I do expect there to be a
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[SPEAKER_00]: solid game playing especially with the lack of receiver talent.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They have, I think the Colts are going to be able to stack the box a little bit with their corner, especially because you can kind of put mooney award as well as South Skardner out there on an island, all the lead and play man.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I think the Colts are going to be able to have seven and eight devoted to the run game.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We'll see if it's going to be good enough to tackle a gargantuan man as Derek Henry.
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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, well, let's take a quick break and talk about our expectations for the colds and their depth chart going in the week one.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Of course, here on the Culture Report with David Rutherford, who is not with us today, we made all our predictions game by game coming into the season.
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[SPEAKER_01]: If you have a listen to that, please go listen to that, and of course, they will be back with us when we react to the game on Sunday.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We had a pretty wide range, you and I, I think I had the Colts winning six games, you had a winning nine.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We've had about three weeks since then, how are you feeling about where the Colts stand at this point?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I actually had 11 wins a Greg, I had 11, 11, 6 and I don't know if I feel awesome about that to be completely transparent.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I have this feeling that this coldsteam is probably going to hover around the range where they have.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think they're probably about 500, I think that they're 9 and 8, 8 and 9.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I hope that's not the case, I think they do play a pretty difficult schedule this year.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There, we, I mean, they're not a favorite in a game until weeks six.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, I mean, they're going to go through the gauntlet.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I just, I have an issue with seeing the match up against teams like Jacksonville, teams like Houston.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I have this inkling with those two teams that if you can't be 4 and 2, 5 and 1 in your division, you're probably not winning it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I see them more or less probably a 2 and 4, 3 and 3 at this.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I just don't think that's going to be enough to get the job done.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I make wild cards, probably a realistic expectation.
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[SPEAKER_00]: if they can be the seventh, six or seven's best team, I see them having a successful season, if that's where they're at.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Obviously, everybody wants to talk about this team's, you know, it would be a role-bound eye-struggle season.
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[SPEAKER_01]: What's a successful season?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Will is going 9 and 8 and missing the playoffs, a successful season, is going 10 and 7, losing the first run to the playoffs, a successful season.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Considering the first
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't really know.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I know that they don't have their first run pick next year, so there's no reason for them to suck.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So they need to be as close as they can be.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But how is that success?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I mean, I guess it's fun having a playoff game.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's fun getting an extra couple weeks in the season.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If you can win a playoff game, I mean, at the end of the day, there's only one team that's happy at the end of the season.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And you've got 31 others that are trying to get to that point.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I think the Colts are the other 31.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I think that there are a lot closer towards the middle of that 31 than anybody in the spanbase tends to let on.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think they can come out and be awfully competitive.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I said, I feel bad about the 11 and 6 prediction, you know, in all transparency, but I think it could absolutely be reality.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't see him probably winning more than that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think 11 wins is probably their peak, but 11 wins gets you comfortably in the wild card.
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[SPEAKER_00]: At this point, I don't expect everybody in the AFC to be awesome, especially with teams like Kansas City, probably expecting a rebamp.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think since an ad is expecting to be much better than they were last year, I think Tennessee is expecting to be much better than they were last year.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So it's going to get more difficult for teams to win these games.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think we're going to see a...
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[SPEAKER_00]: back to the mean a little bit, less teams that are 14, 3, 15 and 2 and more teams that are probably in the 11 to 6, 12, 5, 10 and 7 level where I think nine wins may get you that seven seed in the playoffs and 10 wins comfortably gets you in.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think in order for them to have possibly been
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[SPEAKER_01]: the team that you expect and the be they really we're going to need their rookie line backers to be really good and either one of them is starting going into week one.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm sure we'll see a lot of both of them.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But there's no sign that either one is going to be a star out of the gate.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I just don't see it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't see it on the defensive front.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't see it in the wide receiver room.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't see it on the running back depth if anything happens, and I just don't see it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I see six wins here.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I see hopefully a restart of this franchise that needs one, but I hope you're right, obviously.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Greg, I have a feeling that defensively they're going to struggle.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think offensively they're going to score a lot of points.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I really expect them to score a lot of points.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think that they're going to have to win shootouts to be honest with you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think we need to average about 28 again, probably to feel good about getting to that 10-11 win mark because I, with you, I think that Jalen Carlisle is a fine-depth will linebacker, but I don't want to burn my star.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I mean, a keen
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[SPEAKER_00]: He had been in Cincinnati with Lou, so he does know the defense well outside there really good, but you have to have Moony Ward and South Gardner be healthy, otherwise they're really liable to be getting thrown for 400 yards against their depth quarters, they're not good in terms of their ability to
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[SPEAKER_00]: just keep the line moving, be good for a week when they need to, especially with Warden, Southgarden have this innate ability to have injuries that kind of linger a little bit for five week injuries and they do not have the depth of the car position to withstand that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's going to be where they lose games.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's going to be their inability to stop the run and their inability to stay healthy that prevents them from putting their best line about there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, still like their chances in week one against a new program that's just coming together, like you mentioned at the beginning.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I wish I was more positive.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Will, but my our philosophy on this podcast is we say what we feel.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We don't, we're not fanboys.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yep.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And how I feel is that you got a quarterback coming off a an Achilles tear.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You got a spot that's really important on
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think they're good enough it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Why'd receiver one, why'd receiver two?
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[SPEAKER_01]: They're definitely good enough at why'd receiver three if that's what you think Josh Towns is or Keen Malen.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But,
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[SPEAKER_01]: the backup, not great.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't like the defensive front.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I even think that Stewart and Buckner are past their prime and you're counting on guys like Jerry Tilary to fill in there and I just don't think it's very good roster and don't understand why the general manager was given another chance to build another one.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think this is perhaps the worst roster that has Ballard has had, and he's any year nine at this point.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And that's what I think frustrates me the most is how do we have all this money tied up and players that, well, but the, you know, the Alec Pier signing I know that everybody's gonna hate on us for saying that completely the strength you can not give him the money that you gave him.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's not a number one receiver endlessly.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And if you can't see that you haven't watched the tape for the last two years, because he's at great too,
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's awesome to have as your two.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's, you know, to have a guy that can force the defense to stretch vertically.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's what you're looking for, but he's not your everyday possession number one that you need who can get open all the time against zone and man.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I think, you know, it's, it's signings like that that just shoot ballered right in the head.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They really do.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They, they just,
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[SPEAKER_00]: But, you know, somehow he survived that bullet wound for four years when he probably should have been canned, following 20, 22's awful season.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And he was given a chance to hire a new coach, and that, you know, the whole narrative there was, well, this is it if we can't figure it out here with Stike and a baller to Morgan after reset.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I just, at what point is enough enough?
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[SPEAKER_00]: At what point is just being close enough, not good enough, when is getting there the idea.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And until they're at that point is an organization, this is gonna be the same issue we have.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I hope the Ursa girls can keep their backbone and hold firm that they're not going to extend Chris Ballard that they're not going to be complacent being mediocre.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, if that happens,
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think Peyton Manning's probably ready to take over next year, so.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Do you?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I do.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's common.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Will.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's just a matter of time, matter of when, just a matter of when.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Your hope for that is, um, admirable.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know about it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm just saying it's happening.
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[SPEAKER_01]: One day, Peyton Manning will be the president of this franchise, it's all I'm saying.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Dave and Will and I will be back this weekend with our reaction to the game.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Please join us.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, let's start with you first before you just give your prediction where where's this game going to be one and lost.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think this game is one in the front seven, like most games.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think the cult's ability to be rolling blocks and get downhill on the offensive line is going to pay dividends.
19:58
[SPEAKER_00]: I think that there is some issue and question with Matt Obukay if he's going to be good to go coming back from that neck and drake.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He is less disquestionable.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think Tre Hendrix and is a poor past Russia against the run.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I honestly think Collears Campbell honestly has waved past his prime as well.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't love Triton Simpson as there will lineback or I do think Rokon's Rokon Smith is a hellvable player so I'm going to give him all of his flowers there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: curious to see where they align Kyle Hamilton because he is such a good nickel and honestly he's going to play some strong safety as well.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So there's going to be elements defensively where the bolts are going to have to win with their front seven.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think their front seven is up for the task.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think Jonathan Taylor rushes comfortably for 100 yards.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I do think that if there's a time to get the Raven to tweak one, Greg, so my prediction honestly after some heavy consideration considering where I was at the beginning of the year where I've been this week, what I've seen come out is I think the cold swim this game 27 to 24 on a last second field goal by Spencer Schrader, I think
21:08
[SPEAKER_00]: Daniel Jones gets him down the field when he needs to to allow them to get a win before over time hits.
21:14
[SPEAKER_00]: I think this coldsteam is going to surprise people in terms of their offensive efficiency, even without a number one receiver because I think Tyler warns a big, you know, second season is incoming.
21:27
[SPEAKER_00]: And I think Jonathan Taylor is still a better running back than Derek Henry.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I thought that their entire careers, I wouldn't much rather have Taylor than Henry.
21:34
[SPEAKER_00]: He's way more versatile.
21:35
[SPEAKER_00]: I think his ability to be an explosive back at all times makes him a huge threat.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And that's even saying against Derek Henry who really is quite an explosive back.
21:45
[SPEAKER_00]: And the third and fourth quarter, but less so than the first and second quarter, when he's just wearing on your defense, I like that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: that at any time, Jonathan Taylor can make a play with the football in the past game as well.
21:57
[SPEAKER_00]: I think that's an area where Derek Henry struggles a little more than Jonathan Taylor who is not an awesome receiving back, but he is capable and he's so good in the open field.
22:07
[SPEAKER_00]: I just, I have a feeling that for this Colts team to win and for this to be a successful season, they're going to have to play through Taylor an awful lot and I think
22:15
[SPEAKER_00]: Shane Steiken knows that as well.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I have a lot of confidence going into this week one beyond this week.
22:20
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know, we'll have to see it so week by week league and we'll see where the cards fall but I like the culture.
22:29
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't as you probably imagine there are some things though I do like about the Coltson this game.
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[SPEAKER_01]: One of them is the coaching Shane Steiken has had
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[SPEAKER_01]: pretty much every game last year, not every single one, but pretty close.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think there is a potential coaching advantage here.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I also think that they match up well with the Ravens
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[SPEAKER_01]: is a good game.
23:06
[SPEAKER_01]: I disagree with you on the way the score is going to go.
23:09
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think there are going to be very many points.
23:11
[SPEAKER_01]: I think there's going to be a game where points are a premium.
23:15
[SPEAKER_01]: And I think it's going to be a 1613, a 2016, a something in the 30s there.
23:22
[SPEAKER_01]: And I think it go either way, even though I think the Ravens are quite a bit better than the
23:35
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think the Ravens often is going to be very good, particularly early in the year.
23:40
[SPEAKER_00]: I think that Lamar is such a...
23:45
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, I don't know how to describe it.
23:47
[SPEAKER_00]: He's kind of can get in these laws where he really struggles doing the football.
23:52
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, yeah.
23:53
[SPEAKER_00]: I know I think that, I think the colds give him fits.
23:56
[SPEAKER_00]: I really do.
23:56
[SPEAKER_00]: I think defensively I think the colds give them fits.
23:58
[SPEAKER_00]: I think if anything, Paul tomorrow struggles to score more than the colds do.
24:01
[SPEAKER_00]: Even though I do, I like Baltimore's defense and awful lot.
24:04
[SPEAKER_00]: I think they have a lot of premier all-pro level talent pieces everywhere.
24:09
[SPEAKER_00]: But you know, it's the equalizer that they've not.
24:14
[SPEAKER_00]: They've not played together in an element where they have three three agents that are in addition to this team 30% of their.
24:24
[SPEAKER_00]: And I think when this much is practice reps, as much as you get these reps in these joint practices helps, it's not a game.
24:34
[SPEAKER_00]: It's on a game atmosphere.
24:35
[SPEAKER_00]: I think there's oil going to be rocking.
24:37
[SPEAKER_00]: I like that this game's at home.
24:39
[SPEAKER_00]: I think it was in Baltimore to feel different.
24:40
[SPEAKER_00]: But I always love a home advantage for that week one game.
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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, well, well, let's talk about it after the game and let's talk about it next week as well on the Colts Report and we look forward to having Dave back and talking some Colts.
25:00
[SPEAKER_01]: Hopefully this thing goes a lot better than I expect.
25:04
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm just seeing six and eleven.
25:07
[SPEAKER_00]: Hey, you're entitled to your opinion.
25:09
[SPEAKER_00]: I just think it's wrong.
25:12
[SPEAKER_01]: I hope I'm wrong.
25:13
[SPEAKER_01]: I was wrong last year.
25:14
[SPEAKER_01]: They were, I think I predicted more when four games last year.
25:17
[SPEAKER_01]: And they beat that in the first six weeks.
25:19
[SPEAKER_01]: So I could definitely be wrong.
25:23
[SPEAKER_01]: I just don't think I am.
25:25
[SPEAKER_01]: The offensive line's gonna be really good.
25:27
[SPEAKER_01]: Might even be better than last year.
25:29
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
25:32
[SPEAKER_01]: So could be a really big year for John Taylor.
25:34
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm just, I'm sorry.
25:36
[SPEAKER_01]: I want to see it.
25:37
[SPEAKER_01]: I want to, I love the cult.
25:39
[SPEAKER_01]: I love when Indianapolis is successful.
25:42
[SPEAKER_01]: I just don't see it.
25:44
[SPEAKER_01]: Go Colts.
25:48
[SPEAKER_01]: I love that there may well make sure that we end on a positive note.
25:52
[SPEAKER_01]: I really try not to be a downer on this, but I have to be honest.
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