October 31, 2025 • 47 mins
Rob and Max start today's show off talking about the Halloween holiday, and some of their favorite candy. They are then joined by Colts play-by-play broadcaster Matt Taylor to discuss this weekends matchup at Acrisure Stadium.
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things back to our own broadcast team to get you
ready for the game. And Max, how are you doing,
my friend? Are you getting fired up and excited about
Steels football on Sunday?
Speaker 2 (00:49):
I am getting clos there. But we've got it. We've
got to address the uh elephant in the room. It's
Halloween Day today. I mean you talk about, Hey, it's trick,
it's trick or treat, you know. I mean, we've got
we we've got a lot of things and we we
you know, we're gonna talk about some spooky things here
on the broadcast with the game coming up. But it
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is it is a time of of you know, a
little bit of revelry. Of course, all Hello is eve
depending on where you are. And you know, and I'm
out here in Arizona, so as you're gearing up for
deal deal coming up, you know, there's a lot of
fun stuff. It's a holiday date.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Rob, it is Happy Halloween to you.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
I'm sorry I lost my manners, like you know, you know,
mean I get excited about the football.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
You get locked in, you get very locked in. Yeah. Yeah, yeah,
you're just locked in. Man, You're just yeah. And hey, listen,
nothing wrong with that, obviously, Huh. That's why we got
the profession that we have, right, Uh, but you know
you got Hey, I wanted to make sure that we
stopped and smelled the candy corn, you know what I'm
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saying just for us.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
By the way, I'm all about candy corn, all about it,
I really am. I know it's it's it's it's kind
of nasty, like what is that stuff? It takes a
little tastes a little waxy and sugary. But if I'm
at if I'm at some office and they got a
little bowl of it out there, you know, I'm I'm
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taking that spoon and digging in and throwing a couple
of candy corns into my hand, and I kind of
like when they get the little pumpkins, you know, those
little fat pumpkins that come with the candy corn.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
I kind of like the little fat pumpkins. You know
what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, the little little pumpkin, the pumpkin
candy corn flavored pumpkins. How about that? Cause I feel
like it's a very similar flavor almost, It is a
very similar Yeah. You know, maybe it's a consistency that
gets me. It's a consistency, and I associate that with
the flavor. Maybe that way.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
And then okay, so I suppose I suppose as long
as we've come to this, we ought to go ahead
and do it. So I'm at the I'm at the store,
you know, get in the uh, I'm I'm the big
Halloween guy. Which is kind of amazing that I that
i'd forgotten it. You know, I remember how exciting it was.
We I grew up in a household we never had
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candy in our house, I mean never, so to have Halloween,
you were like, awesome, man, this is this is tremendous.
And you know, you go around and you got your bag,
and you get dressed up and you do all this stuff,
and and so I remember how exciting it was for
me as a kid. Didn't know I was gonna get
my hands on some candy. By the way, I got
my allowance, and I had a choice. You know, you
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could get a candy bar I got. I got baseball
cards or football cards. That's what I got. So I
didn't spend my money.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
I can't.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
I did you get that waxy little piece of gum
that you had in the old tops cards?
Speaker 2 (03:43):
But but I can or that super hard piece of
you know, gum.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
That's that's what I meant, gum. I said, gum. Yeah,
that's it.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Yeah, yeah, you said candy. I was like, yeah, yeah, what.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Is that thing? It's part cardboard and part now that gum.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
That is a stick that is like cardnobyl wax. I
don't even know what it is.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Yeah, So but man, I remember, you know, and over
the years, I've gone through various phases, you know, when
I did get candy bars. You know, to think about
a candy bar for me is I mean, I can
go weeks without eating as sweet, but if I have
one scoop of ice cream, you know, now I'm.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
Going to the I'm going to the machine.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
I gotta wean myself off of it after a little while,
you know, so saying like a soda, I don't drink
a soda, but you give me one soda.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Man, I got trouble.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
So it's a gateway soda.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
It's a exactly or gateway candy. You're just better off.
What do they say about potato chips? One is too
many and one hundreds not enough? Right, you can't exactly
you know, just don't even start. So I've gotten various phases,
I suppose, if pressed. So there I was in an
I'm enjoy phase. I know a lot of people get
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turned off by almondjoys, but I was in an I'm
enjoy phase. But I think by and large, it's Reese's
peanut butter cup or a Snickers and they are just
they are just you know, there's others, right, there are
others that are very good. I'm not trying to denigrate
anybody's chocolate choices. But if you're giving me a go to,
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it's a Snickers bar and it's a Reese's cup, how
about you?
Speaker 4 (05:17):
Do you have a go to?
Speaker 3 (05:18):
And So I'm at the store the other day and
I'm trying to get so I got kit cats.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
By the way, when I was a kid, I was
at Hershey's.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
You know, or the park, Hershey Park on a youth
group trip, and they were taste testing kit cats, and
for some reason, I'm in a group of like twenty kids,
they kept picking me to taste cat. I would go
into this back room and they taste test the kit cats.
They said, don't worry, we'll get you right back in
line wherever you were, come on in here.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
So I was a kid.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
I probably had fourteen kit cats that day. So I
helped taste test, taste the kit cat you enjoy today.
So I get kit cats, but you can't. So even
though I'm a Snickers and Reese, you have to be
have to understand some people are peanut and intolerant right there.
That's a thing, So you have to have. I get
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Hershey's bars, kit kats. I think I have some Twix
bars down there. So in preparation for Halloween, which I
get excited about, I carved the pumpkin.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
Every year.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
I get into it because I remember how much I
enjoyed it, so that that's what I got. I got,
you know, make you a little Hershey bars, right, just
plain chocolate. But that's my go to. That's what I
bought for my trick or treaters. And I carved the
pumpkin on Monday night, So that's my Halloween week.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
There we go, there we go, and you know, I
feel like I feel like we might have to end
the show today. We might have to do a candy
power pole. Okay, yeah, we might, or like a candy
battle royale, you know, like do like a little bracketed
quick little tournament.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Well, who's okay? I have to tell you if I
go to a machine, a candy machine, I really you like? Okay,
so I think you have to have a Hershey's bar
in there. Even though I would never go for Hershey's bar,
I like the Hershey's bar ommends. I mean, if you
have a Hershey's with omens, that's sneaking up there. That's
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that's gaining ground.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
That's prestigious.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
That it is.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
If you gotta if you got a receason a Snickers,
that one's that one's uh, that one's that one's closing
the gap. But if it doesn't have a receis cup
and it doesn't have a Snickers, I'm like, Who's who's
loading this machine up.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Those are half to's. I think those are must haves.
I maybe got.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Along with the butter well, along with a butterfinger, all right,
that that that is, That is a another classic.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
It's a good for sure. Butter fingers are great.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
And then in Pittsburgh, of course, we have the answer
to the butterfinger, which is the Clark Bar. I'm not
really sure which came first. I'm gonna find that out
while you're talking. So give me your give me your loading.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
H all right, So so you know, the first thing
I have to we have to disseminate right when we're
when we're talking about this is candy versus chocolates, right
you know, so you know, in the candy category, I
have a whole different breakdown. But if because what we've
been kind of primarily talking about has been in the
(08:15):
chocolate realm, I'll stick with chocolates for right now, and
then we can talk about candy later. That's a whole
other scientific process for me.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
The way, the Clark Bar came first in nineteen seventeen,
followed by the butterfinger in nineteen twenty three. This according
to AI, which I don't always trust, but.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Yeah, trust, was Clark a Hershey product Clark or is
it a Mars product? Well the zone it was by
one or next zone deal the D L.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
Clark Company.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
So right here in Pittsbagh, Oh Manufacturing, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, they
still have the Clark building here the the there's a
little bar restaurant I got. I don't know if it's
still there. It's funny. It was close to where I worked,
but because of my hours, I never went there and
because I got to get the car and drive home.
But I did go get a hamburger there once. It
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was a phenomenal hamburger and I think it's still open,
the Clark Bar, which which is a great name, right
you can get get a beer and get a get
a hamburger. And it's the Clark Bar, which is a
which is a great name because it's it's in the
building where they made I believe where they made the
Clark Bar on the north side. So that's a very
Pittsburgh thing. And so you say, Butterfinger, but I'm gonna
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have to go Clark Bar there because it's a Pittsburgh thing. Anyway,
proceed please, okay, And I.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Am going to also say that you know butterfinger is
right up there. I mean probably what I mean Clark
bark potato potato Okay, potato patata Clark finger. How about that?
There we go. So so now we have a compromise.
(10:04):
So the Clark finger is probably up there with the
tops of my choices. But you know, then I'm like,
it's twigs and then snickers, right, you know, get any
option of those. But he like, you're a Reese's guy,
like a Reese's Cups guy. Yes, I'm a Reese's Pieces guy.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Okay, those are good.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Those yeah, famous, I believe by the movie e t right, yes, right,
they want to use M and ms and Eminem said no,
and so they said, okay, well we'll.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Use They won't say no, and they were very happy
about it. So so I feel like the am there
and then and that's more of because you know, you
have bars of chocolate and chocolate tight bars, and then
you have like the candy, like the candy chocolates, which
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is like the recent pieces, the M and m's and
and all that kind of stuff. Right, you know, Junior
Mints goes in that category. Sugar daddies, you know, those
are the ones I kind of look, look like in
that con but I would say, yeah, Reese's pieces would
be I like Reese's pieces over Reese's if I had
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a power pole and you know another one that I
just you know, it's one that always get gets me excited.
What's your might call it?
Speaker 3 (11:30):
That's interesting And I think that by the way, Reese's
pieces had been invented. They were around, but they were struggling,
and then et put them over the top. What did
a watch your McCall it come out of Charlie and
the chocolate factory. Uh oh, you mean the original Willy
Wonka Willy Wonka?
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Yeah, yeah, you know that's a good question. It might
have been in response to Wanka Wonka. Can I'm finding
that out? Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
So, by the way, you bring up a good point.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
And you know, since you're mentioning these candies, and I think,
I think we have to step outside our own personal
desires and think about what the average person wants. So
I I maintained that if you had, say, you know,
a candy machine, I don't know how many they fit
in that row six eight whatever.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Yeah, yes, that's right, let's go top six, let's go top.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
You have to have I think you have to have reces.
You have to have snacks.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Yes, you have to have Even though I take a
peanut M and M over an eminem, I think that's
my own personal choice, right, that's my But I think
you have to have M and ms, right, I think
you have to have regular m and ms. Well, we
we could maybe maybe peanut eminems circle back in, but
I think you have to have regular eminems in a
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in a candy machine.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Yeah, I would agree with you, regular eminems because when
in doubt, even if people want peanut m and ms,
guess what they'll eat regular eminem's. You know what I'm saying, Like,
it's not one of these oh my gosh, peanut or nothing, right,
It's like, no, I want some M and m's. Oh
I love some peanut eminece they only got the regular, Okay,
I'll get the regular like they will have that butterfinger,
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like I said, has to be in there as well.
That's what I'm going to maintain. A butterfinger is always
a good option to have it. Twis would be another one.
I would say that would be in a candy machine
as well.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
So but okay, I I okay. By the way, the
watch mccallud had nothing to do with Willy Wonkam, So
now I'm kind of yeah, anyway, it doesn't have anything
to do with it. According once again according to AI. Okay,
so we have a twix, we have M and M's
right to we agree that Eminem's. I think a hershey
Bar has to be there, even though I would got
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to go plane.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Yeah, your peanut intolerant environment would appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
So we got five.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
And now you know what I think if you have
those five and maybe we're missing one, I think if
you have five, it's the either choice after that, right,
like if you have a Snickers, a Reese's Hershey Bar,
regular M and M's, and a TwixT bar, right, you're
going twis Yeah, then the sixth is that's Steeler's choice.
(14:15):
I mean, you know you could go Butterfinger. You know,
if some people like the mallow cup. I'm not not
a fan of the mallow cup, but people like the
mallow cup, you know, you could you could slide in
a watch them and call it and then maybe you
know when the machines emptied every two weeks. If you're
a person that that that goes windows shopping, maybe there's
a watch of m call it holy, I'm gonna get
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go ahead and get that as that's sixth item, so.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
I'm gonna go with I would also say dealer's choice here,
and here's one that you know we kind of I
think we kind of overlook it. Yeah, I'm gonna go
a little crazy here, baby.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
Ruth, Oh that's good stuff. That's good.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
And then somebody tried to counter with a hank Aaron
bar As you recall, yes, anyway, yeah, the baby Ruth.
See there you could go, you go, baby Ruth, you
could go butterfinger. There's a lot of different ones you
can go. But there's got to be a list of
half day. There's gotta be a list of musts. I
would think, yeah, there's a must. I mean, well, and
here's the thing. I'm not a fan of it. And
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you could tell me it's.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Usually between these two as well that people will have
an argument Milky way or a Three Musketeers bar.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
See, I'm not I'm not going either.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Yeah, I don't. I don't like the same here. I
don't get it that.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Same way, and I don't I'm not a big fan
of what's that white stuff? It's not nugad, right is it. Yeah,
you know, I think that is nugad Okay. Yeah, but
it's like but it's like it's like but it's like
more airy. It's like a it's like it's like it's
a milky Way is essentially a Snickers bar without the peanuts.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
Right, I'm not down right? Uh, you know they did
the Mounds.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
I'm enjoy commercials when I was a kid, you know, Yeah,
I'm enjoy has nuts mounds, don't that That was the
That was the thing that has a little almond in there.
It has a little coconut in there.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
See.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Then now you're talking the mounds. I never got the
Three Musketeers of the Mounds, not for me. You know,
when you when you get that now having said that, right,
because we started this, you get on the candy train,
and now you know, maybe eight days after Halloween, you're
scrounging around at the bottom of the of the bag. Uh,
you'll eat that Mounds, You'll eat that Three Musketeers. Yeah,
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I mean you're.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
You're, you're going. But it takes fits of desperation to
get to that point.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
Eight day eight, you're the bottom of the right here
it is.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
I mean, I might as I might as well, eat
a tutsi roll at that point, you know what I'm saying, Like,
that's about where we're at.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Tutsi roll is not bade well.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Because I grew up in the era where the tutsi
roll fruits choose were popular.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
Oh my son, I prefer that. Never heard of it.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
But it's it's not chocolate flavor. That's the thing you
get it. So it's wrapped like it, but it's really
a fruit. It's a fruit chew. It's just it's made
by the Tutsi role company. Right, So you have the
association that all tutsi rolls are chocolate, but the fruit
chees don't have that. They have this similar like texture
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of of like a harder gummy, right, it's not really gummy,
but it's more solid. But the fruit chooes were what
I liked over the regular tutsi rolls.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Yeah, I'm not on any of the I was never
on any of the chewy items. I was never on
you know, the little candy things you know that you unwrap,
you know, and you and you suck on them. And
I don't like those because then I would start I'd
get impatient and start chewing it, and then they get
my teeth. Not not a fan of it. I think
it's got to be chocolate on Halloween.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
That's for me. And the candy corn, which is where
we began this thing.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, can I has to be They're gross, man,
But I like them, especially the pumpkin.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Yeah, you like, you're a pumpkin fit. See now. And
here's where I would argue during during Halloween skittles.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Yeah, you know, I was slow to the skittles train.
You know, there was a day where if skittles were out,
I wouldn't be the least bit tempted. But there's another one.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
Man.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
You have a you have two skittles. You're looking for
a large bag of skittles after.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
That, Yeah, exactly, Yeah, yeah, you're you're not eating just
one lemon skittle. You know what I'm saying. You're not
eating just one cherry skittle like you like I need lime,
I need grape, I need to taste a rainbow. You
know what.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
I think that the skit the skittle was The skittle
was a big one for my kids.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
My kids liked. My kids liked.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Oh yeah, I mean if yeah, and if you if
you have a bowl of skittles with that little Scooper
and in it. Come on, you're putting a handful in there.
You're you're not. Oh, let me have a skittle and
skittles plural and that for a reason, like you're going
to eat more than one. So I mean Skittles is
one of those I feel like in the candy category,
you have to have that one during Halloween because that's
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when that that kids are always going to go that
and Starburst.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Oh see, there you go, that's not really my We're
talking about Necho wafers the other day, which I was, OK,
you got the gray one and then the gray one
would kind of ruin it for you. Yeah, I think
we've I think we've I think we've run down the list.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
Max. Thank you for bringing up the fact that it's Halloween.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
It is a holiday, and happy Yeah, it is Happy
Halloween to you as well. This was you know, I
felt like we we got we got some we made
some real headway here for for all those potential trigger
treats and the parents that are the candied distributors of
said holiday.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
So chocolate, that's what you're getting.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
You're getting chocolate at the King household and at Stark's household.
You're you're gonna you're getting a grab bag of stuff.
I mean we we we go with the multi We
like the multi variety packs, you know. So there will
be Starbursts, there will be Skittles, there will be the
little sour Patch kid mini.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
Bags, you know.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
So uh and yeah, you know, I have two daughters
that are ecstatic about Halloween. I mean they just left
for school.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
They have their costumes in tow wavy. You know my oldest,
you know, she just turned thirteen. So now she's trying
to be cool. She's rattitituey. But it's like the teenage ratitituey.
So it's like that. No, yeah, that's her costume, but
it's the great It's the gray skirt, gray top, and
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then she has rat ears, you know what I'm saying,
Like with the little and she said for trick or treating,
Quincy's Ballerina, she went full ballerina. Yeah, so she's.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
The ballerina.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Oh my goodness, I missed the princess dresses from Disney.
I mean that that was the easiest one back in
the day when they were young, they just picked the
princess every year. And now it's definitely more thought out
and I feel like more costly.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
Uh oh yeah, oh yeah yeah, I uh yeah, we
we My family never never spent any money on Halloween outfits.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
So it was a root awakened.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Well. I mean we always had that plastic you know,
that cheap plastic one where you put the he Man
mask on and it's got like the plastic cover it
and you just you just roll with it with your
with your pumpkin, you know, with your pumpkin basket to
go collect, you know, the plastic orange pumpkin basket for
your trick or trees, you know. And then of course
we got older, like man, I need more space. Man,
(21:27):
there's too many houses. Uh. And then you went and
then you went to the pillowcase you know.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
Oh yeah that was the extent.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Yeah. I was always the pillowcase. I'm there for volume,
you know.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
All right, well listen, we have that's our how thank
you for bringing up Halloween, because I do think it's fun.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
You know, the kids go around, they you know, they
do the trick or treating. They got to get dressed up,
they got to ring the doorbell, they got to say
trick or treat. Uh, you carve the pumpkin. You have
the pumpkin seeds already gone, by the way.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
And uh, it just just roast him. Oh I roasted him. Yeah,
I roasted him.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
Ok, you dry him out, then you take him out,
you throw him a little olive oil and salt. You
put him back in for about twenty minutes. And yeah,
they didn't last long. I didn't get a lot of
pumpkins this year. Getting got a lot of pumpkin.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
Seeds this year. It was a it was a low
harvesting pumpkin that I had.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
You bought a not so seedless pumpkin.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
Yeah, I know, not intentionally seedless.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Everything else's seedless watermelon, seedless grapes, and yeah, now it's
seedless water. You know, pumpkins as well. Why not?
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Well, we're gonna we're gonna ask a quick candy question
of Matt Taylor, who just does a phenomenal job the
Colts broadcast. He's going to be joining us next as
we turn our attention away from the great uh, the
Great Holiday of Halloween and toured the Sunday matchup Trick
or treat Man. Indianapolis Colts best record in the NFL
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pleased to be joined by the outstanding play by play
man for the Indianapolis Colts.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
They have a great broadcast by the way, on the radio.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
Of course, we want you to listen to us, you know,
but hey, Matt Taylor does a phenomenal job, and Matt
is with us now.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
Matt, first of all, thanks very much for being with us.
Happy Halloween? Do you?
Speaker 5 (24:05):
Happy Halloween?
Speaker 4 (24:06):
Do you?
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Guys?
Speaker 5 (24:06):
It's good to be with you guys.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
So, Matt, before we get started, we have a very
hard hitting question for you that I hate to hit
you with something controversial right out of the shoot, but
what is your go.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
To Halloween candy? Happy Halloween? Do you too?
Speaker 5 (24:24):
I love this stuff. I'd rather talk about this stuff
in the game, to be honest. You know, we lived
the football. It's nice to have a little bit of
a diversion here on a Friday. But my MVP of
candy has always been the recy cup. I think it's undefeated.
I think right now in terms of the colts, I
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think it's the Jonathan Taylor of candy, right. I Mean,
it just hits every time. So no question, I think
it's my go to. I've got two kids that are
eight and five, and so obviously it makes a very
big night for them. They're trying to hit the entire neighborhood,
make it around the entire block a couple of times,
and uh, there's no question that Dad's gonna have a
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little uh you know, some some some finger stealing going
on and coming through those candies. Yeah, how many, No question.
I'm I'm very big on the dad tech. So you know,
growing up for me, about five houses down was a
was a nice little gentleman that lived by himself, and
his big thing was every Halloween he would give out
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the King sized candy. And so you know, as a
as an eight nine year old, you never forget that
and you just try to pay it forward. And so
I'm looking forward to, uh, the kids coming to our
house and my kids going out and just seeing the
loot they bring back.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
Oh that's good stuff, Matt.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
So let's let us talk about Sunday's game, because you know,
the Colts are rolling. It's been an interesting season. You know,
I think it's hard, Uh, it's easy, I think for
people to forget that this was a solid Colt seam
with Look, they beat to Steer this the last two years.
They've been seventeen and seventeen, then Shane Stike in nine
and eight and eight and nine. So you know, solidly
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in that sort of middle class of football teams. Is
Daniel Jones the biggest reason that they have elevated into
bringing the best record in football into Akroscher Stadium on Sunday.
Speaker 5 (26:18):
You know what, I think you set that up just
perfectly because every time I talk about this team in
the context of where they're at right now and seven
and one, I always start with what you just said. Right,
they've missed the playoffs four years in a row, but
three of those four years they've won at least eight games,
So they're right there, right, I mean, whatever you want
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to call it, it's no man's land or NFL purgatory.
That's where the Colts have been primarily because of inconsistency
at the quarterback position, right, And you don't want to
say it's all about one guy in one one position.
But I mean, you guys know the game very very well.
You know how important that that spot is on an
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NFL football team. And this has been a solid roster
built by Chris Ballard the last four or five seasons. Right,
the nucleus of the team has been here for a
very long time. And this is a hill that I'll
die on. But last year, even with kind of a
rocky defense a year ago, that was a playoff team
if they just had just a little bit better and
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more consistent quarterback play. And so now here comes in
Daniel Jones, and not only are you getting, you know,
competent and consistent quarterback play, but you're getting way above
average quarterback play. And so I think that's what you're seeing,
is you're seeing the difference with an above average quarterback
with a very solid roster around him that's been here
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for a very long time. Right, Again, the nucleus of
this team has been in place. You've had the Forest
Buckner and Quinton Nelson and Grover Stewart and Zire Franklin
and Kenny Moore and Jonathan Taylor. Those guys have been
here for a very long time and specifically on offense,
it's the exact same cast of characters. The only difference
is is Tyler Warrens here now. But outside of that,
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it's the exact same offense last year that was kind
of pedestrian, middle of the road, and now you've got
the quarterback that is having a sensational season, that is
gelling and bonding in all different phases with Shane Stikeen
as the play caller, and he is just elevating everybody
else around him. The nickname that I have for Daniel
Jones is mister high Tide. He's a high tide lifting
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all of the boats around him. And that's why I
think this offense is just it's not even hyperbole, but
it's historic right now. I mean they're averaging over three
points per possession, over thirty three points per game, and
on Sunday they're gunning for their fifth straight game with
at least thirty points. I mean, Daniel Jones is the
biggest difference. That's the shortened suite of it, no doubt
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about it.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
Okay, Well, Matt, I'm excited, also Happy Halloween. I'm the
other part part of our our dynamic trio. I guess
we can't say dynamic deal. Missy Matthews also on on
on our on our broadcast, he's our sideline and she'll
be on later. But matt I kind of wanted to
just kind of dig into this with Daniel Jones because,
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like you said, you know for the Indianapolis coast, right,
you know, you I d Anthony Richardson as a guy
you draft very high, a lot of potential. It doesn't
quite come to fruition. We don't have to rehash the
incident from last year that we felt kind of was.
If you're going to point to one moment where it
kind of went awry, it would have been that, you know,
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last year, you go with Joe Flacco as well, you know,
on a team, and like you said, you I d
Daniel Jones as the guy this offseason that you're targeting
to go into this quarterback competition. And I don't know
what it is about quarterbacks once they leave the New
York tri state area. I don't I don't even know.
Trib Burrow, however you describe it. New York quarterbacks don't
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seem to thrive that are drafted in New York. They
seem to thrive elsewhere. As we see with Sam Darnold
out in Seattle as well. Right, you know, for Daniel Jones,
like this has been I would say mete York just
because we've seen him for so long. But like you said,
you're in a team in New York. That market has
depressed a lot of quarterback success in recent I would
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just say, you know, the more recent twenty first century.
And he comes to Indianapolis, Like you said, you put
him around a very competent cast and it is just
completely high tided, so to speak, everybody around them. And
at first it was fluke. Now it's become a habit
for this group. But you know, how important is it
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to be balanced? I think for Daniel Jones, like he
has elevated, But you know what we've been seeing with
Jonathan Taylor as well, having that complimentary backfield. He's on
a he's on a historic pace as well. So do
you think it's Jonathan Taylor has created the opportunity for
Daniel Jones or Daniel Jones created opportunity for Jonathan Taylor?
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Like how does you know which one the chicken or
the egg in this type of situation or is it
or is it a combination? I mean because I look
at it and it just it looks balanced, you know
what I'm saying. Like it there's a huge balance for
your team, and that's always key for an offense.
Speaker 5 (31:31):
Yeah, no, it's It's a good question. I think it's
not necessarily balance in terms of overall snaps, run runs
versus passes, but it is balanced in terms of equally
are the two are equally as dangerous of hurting the
opposing defense? And I would say, to answer your question,
I would say it's Daniel Jones. Is the difference for
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Jonathan Taylor and Daniel Jones. I think his presence here.
You know, we talked about this at the beginning of
the season, and actually right because we've seen this before
out of Jonathan Taylor, right twice in his career he's
had epic seasons. Epic in the sense of he's over
fourteen hundred yards. You know, you go back four years
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ago in twenty twenty one, he led the NFL and
rushing yards in eighteen hundred. You know, he's over twenty
touchdowns that year from scrimmage.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
And.
Speaker 5 (32:25):
Both of those epic seasons by Jonathan Taylor. Guess what
it got the Colts. It got him nothing. They didn't
make the playoffs in either of those seasons, right, so
you have to have That's why I say, like the
core of this team has just been waiting for somebody
like Daniel Jones to come along and provide stability. So
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now you're seeing you're seeing the passing game compliment the
running game and create more efficiency opportunities for Jonathan Taylor
on the ground because the passing game is an equal
threat as the running game. Right you go back to
twenty twenty three, you know, late in that year, the
Cults are making the playoff push with Gardner Minshew. I
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can just remember distinctly. You know, in December of that year,
teams are just selling out to stop the run. They're
putting nine guys in the box, and it's there's not
a whole lot of threat for the Colts in the
passing game outside the numbers and down the field. From
Gardner Minshew, It's like the Colts are playing on a
fifteen to twenty yard field and Jonathan Taylor was the offense. Well,
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that's not the case anymore. Jonathan Taylor is part of
this offense because the passing game is an equal threat
to the running game. Right now, you've got Pittman and
Pierce and Downs and Tyler Warren, and I just think
generally speaking, what you're seeing is if you're a defensive
coordinator playing the Colts, you know your job every week
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is to go in there and try to take away
the other team's best player. Well, who is the best
player for the Colts. Is it Pittman? Is it Taylor?
You know, if you try to blitz Daniel Jones, he's
going to thrash it in the passing game because he's
really good against the blitz. So I mean, again, generally speaking,
what you're seeing is that the defense is widening out
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and they're not selling out to put multiple, you know,
extra players inside the box to stop the run. So
it's opening up more efficiency and bigger run for Jonathan Taylor.
And then the passing game has just been so precise
this year from Daniel Jones. Kind of a weird stat
but the Colts are one of the very few teams
in the NFL left at this stage in the season
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without a one hundred yard receiver. And I think they
like it that way because they've got multiple ways and
multiple guys that can just kill you in the passing game.
And Daniel Jones has been that good and that accurate.
So again a long winded way of saying that we've
seen this act before out of Jonathan Taylor, and it
hasn't gotten the Colts anything in terms of the team's
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success and postseason success. Now that they have the quarterback
and Daniel Jones, that's the most important in peace to
help Jonathan Taylor succeed and reach his full potential.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
Our guest is Matt Taylor, play by play man UH
for the Indianapolis Colts to the Great Broadcast, and Matt, I,
before we let you go, I did want to ask
you about the Colts defense because look, you've had, first
of all, congratulations on maybe having the most difficult roster
pronunciation guide.
Speaker 4 (35:22):
In the league. I know there.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
Are a lot of them, you know, and we get
used to is play by play guys. You know, you
do your studio work maybe and you know you can
take a pretty good stab at a at a Russian
tennis player's.
Speaker 4 (35:35):
Name or or so.
Speaker 3 (35:37):
You know you look at these names and it's a
bookam oh, no, it's it's it's epicicom and no it's
a geek. No, no, no, it's I think it's O
GK right for Austin anyway, what's that.
Speaker 5 (35:50):
Austin AB?
Speaker 2 (35:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (35:52):
Okay, so at.
Speaker 5 (35:54):
A and we have J T TA mololow. Yeah we can.
We can go over all of these before the.
Speaker 4 (36:01):
Game, man. Yeah yeah.
Speaker 3 (36:02):
How about you know what appears to be Chris Lammon's
is actually Chris lahmanson.
Speaker 4 (36:10):
The race car.
Speaker 3 (36:11):
Yeah, there's And by the way, you watch the games
and you get about fourteen different broadcast pronunciations of the broadcasters. Anyway,
That's not why I am congratulating you on that. But
some of these guys are playing more prominent roles because
the Colts have been nicked up, particularly in the secondary
and at the linebacker position. I don't know if Jalen
Jones anybody is coming back this week for the Colts,
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but you know, it's a good job of pasting things together,
and there's a lot of versatility on the defense. Obviously
to Forest, Buckner's a star, Franklin's a tackling machine at
inside linebacker, led the NFL tackles last year. But as
I look at this team, it strikes me as the
defense is more solid than spectacular. I don't mean to
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be damning them with faint praise, but I think the
offense has helped them out. How would you categorize this
defense that's been able to put up statistically excellent numbers
through injuries, particularly get it secondary at the linebacker position.
Speaker 5 (37:10):
Yeah, no, you're right to point out the secondary because
going into training camp, right, if you follow the Colts
at the beginning of the season when they reported in
late July, you look at the secondary, You're like, oh, man,
on paper, this is going to be our best secondary
since you know, in the last decade or so, You've
got Tarvarius Ward and Kenny Moore and Jalen Jones coming back.
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And then the guy that were really high on was
this kid named Justin Wally who they drafted from the
third round out of Minnesota. Had a lot of versatility
about him. Could play inside, he could play nickel.
Speaker 4 (37:42):
Well.
Speaker 5 (37:42):
He tears his ACL in a joint practice against the
Baltimore Ravens like the second or third week of training camp,
and then after that it was like a domino effect,
like everybody started getting hurt. Jones has been out, you know,
since late late portions of training camp with his hamstring.
Hasn't played since Week one, you know, Kenny Moore has
an achilles injury. He misses three games. Tarvarius Ward is
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still on IR. He got a concussion a couple of
weeks back in a fluke thing during pregame warm ups.
I mean, how bizarre was that. But you know he's
he's gonna be out, and I think the secondary really
changes when when Ward is not out there. I mean,
in a game like this with DK Metcalf on the
other side, I mean, this would be a prime opportunity
for Tarvarius Ward to kind of shadow the other team's
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best player. But I don't think the Colts are in
a position to do that right now because at this moment,
they're playing with guys that they didn't plan on, you know,
making the team, and that's where they're at in terms
of injuries. I mean, Jonathan Edwards as an undrafted free agent,
he wasn't on their radar at the beginning of training camp.
Makai Blackman is starting now and he literally wasn't even
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here during training camp. They had to trade for him.
At the end of the preseason to add depth. They
signed Xavian Howard and he retired, and so it's just
been kind of a evolving door. But they're making it
work to your point. I mean, at the end of
the day, they're giving up volume, and they're giving up
you know, a lot of yards, but they're given up
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less than twenty points per game, and that's all that
matters in the National Football League. So lou Ane Rumo's
doing a good job of making it work with with
who he has, especially in the secondary, and then up front,
they don't have They don't have their version of PJ.
Speaker 4 (39:22):
Watt.
Speaker 5 (39:22):
They don't have Cameron Hayward, they don't have Nick Herbert.
They have guys like Quitty pay and Laatsu Latsu and
Sampson Ebcom. These are all solid players, but they're not
to this point in their career. They're not you know,
twelve to fifteen sacks per year guy. So the pass
rush is kind of a little bit deceiving. They've got
respectable numbers, but they don't have like those a lot
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of those first wave sacks where they just get right
after the quarterback at at the top of this drop
in the pocket and bring them down. A lot of
their saving graces on defense are just fourth quarter clutch
crunch time plays where they get a four down stop
where they get a couple of key sacks because the
team is down big on the scoreboard and they're having
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to throw their way back in or they get a
red zone takeaway. Those are the things that are keeping
the point total down. But the reality is the Colts
have allowed over eleven hundred passing yards in the last
five games, so they're kind of flirting with a little bit,
and we'll see what happens on Sunday against Obviously, as
you guys know, a future Hall of Famer quarterback and
Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 3 (40:25):
Matt Taylor is the outstanding play by play man of
the Colts. I hope you and your two children have
a wonderful Halloween tonight, Matt around the neighborhood. Don't forget
the dad tax, and we will see you on Sunday,
my friend.
Speaker 5 (40:42):
All right, guys, my pleasure to be with you. I
have a great Halloween yourself.
Speaker 3 (40:45):
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Speaker 3 (42:02):
Max Stark's a Formidable Challenge. I think its to Matt
Taylor to play by play man for the Colts for
joining us formidable challenge coming up against his first place
Colts team. We know that going in, but you know,
the more I watch them play, you know, and I'm
through just finished the Arizona game. Arizona had every chance
to win that game, but the Colts stiffened at the end,
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held them out of the end zone on a late
drive and we're able to win the game. And you know,
they've won some games going away. They've also found ways
to win games, and I think that you know, as
a fan, you want every game to be a blowout,
but there's something to be said about a character of
a football team that can find a way to win
a game, and the Colts have done both blown teams
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out and found ways to win tight games.
Speaker 2 (42:49):
Yeah, it's one of those that you know, the Colts,
they're for real. I think a lot of people didn't
want to buy into it right because of the dysfunction
over the last couple of years. Shane Stikeen, when he
takes a job, they draft Anthony Richardson and it doesn't
quite work out right, and you're trying to figure out, well,
how do we get out of this, how do we
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find something, how do we salvage you know, what we
have so we don't waste Jonathan Taylor's good years. We don't,
you know, waste the end of DeForest Buckter and a
lot of guys, Michael Pittman and Quentin Nelson, and he
was very adamant that, you know, it is definitely not
Jonathan Taylor is a good compliment. But the stir that
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straw's the straw that stirs the drink is Daniel Jones
and his decision. And I don't know if you remember
this last year, King Heer, Well, we're there primetime and
it is Giants Steelers in Acroshure primetime football night game
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and Wolf and I were saying, like, man, if he
just had anything else on offense, this, this would be
a way tighter game for the Steelers, right, And because
we were talking about how Dexter Lawrence was playing and
Daniel Jones is like it, you know, it came to conclusion.
I was hard on him because I'd never seen them
live only on television and you know, highlights, and it was, man,
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if only he had this, he would be different, he'd
have a different outcome. Well look low and behold a
year later, new team, new venue. And that's why I
kind of asked the question the way that I did,
because it's funny, these good quarterbacks are starting to show
that they're actually really good and that it wasn't a farce,
It wasn't an accident that this squad. You know that
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that these squads that picked these quarterbacks are doing well.
And it also said a lot about the New York
football team market because you had now Daniel Jones, but
then before that you had Sam darm who went to
Minnesota and you know, after going down to Carolina for
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that weird experiment, and then now you know he is
he is flourishing out in Seattle. And you know, even
for Geno Smith, right after he left the Giants, he
he had a research It's funny that it's like these
New York quarterbacks have to go rehab elsewhere and like
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a said second city of the United States where these
teams are and they're flourishing in these moments and it's
pretty crazy to see that. But Daniel Jones the biggest
benefactor and he's the one who is the catalyst for
this success. He put that success squarely on him and
gave his corroborating story. You know, as far as about
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Jonathan Taylor, like this is nothing new for Jonathan Taylor,
but this is new for us having competent quarterback play,
and I didn't I didn't get to ask him, but
I would have loved to have asked if I would say, well,
you say this is the best since Andrew Luck, I mean,
do you feel just as good as Andrew Luck was
under center with Daniel Jones right now? Is it still
too soon? I wanted to ask him that question, but
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I mean, proof is in the pudding right when you
look at it now. And that's what I feel like,
is the situation is that you know, they finally got
the quarterback play they were they were looking after, you know,
when they originally the abrupt retirement of Andrew Luck. Then
you bring in Philip Rivers, and then of course you
draft a Anthony Richardson and then it ends up being
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your free agent signing on essentially like a prove it
type deal for a quarterback with Daniel Jones who was
coming to compete for a job and ran away with it.
Speaker 3 (46:40):
Yeah. So there's you know, this Colts team. The more
you look at him, the fewer weaknesses you see. We're
going to break down what you can expect to see
when Missy Matthews joined us. Coming up next in the
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Speaker 3 (00:30):
The outstanding played by playman at the Indianapolis Colts. He's
going to be joining us in a little while, Missy
Matthews at the top of the hour as we swing
things back to our own broadcast team to get you
ready for the game. And Max, how are you doing,
my friend? Are you getting fired up and excited about
Steels football on Sunday?
Speaker 2 (00:49):
I am getting clos there. But we've got it. We've
got to address the uh elephant in the room. It's
Halloween Day today. I mean you talk about, Hey, it's trick,
it's trick or treat, you know. I mean, we've got
we we've got a lot of things and we we
you know, we're gonna talk about some spooky things here
on the broadcast with the game coming up. But it
(01:12):
is it is a time of of you know, a
little bit of revelry. Of course, all Hello is eve
depending on where you are. And you know, and I'm
out here in Arizona, so as you're gearing up for
deal deal coming up, you know, there's a lot of
fun stuff. It's a holiday date.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Rob, it is Happy Halloween to you.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
I'm sorry I lost my manners, like you know, you know,
mean I get excited about the football.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
You get locked in, you get very locked in. Yeah. Yeah, yeah,
you're just locked in. Man, You're just yeah. And hey, listen,
nothing wrong with that, obviously, Huh. That's why we got
the profession that we have, right, Uh, but you know
you got Hey, I wanted to make sure that we
stopped and smelled the candy corn, you know what I'm
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saying just for us.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
By the way, I'm all about candy corn, all about it,
I really am. I know it's it's it's it's kind
of nasty, like what is that stuff? It takes a
little tastes a little waxy and sugary. But if I'm
at if I'm at some office and they got a
little bowl of it out there, you know, I'm I'm
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taking that spoon and digging in and throwing a couple
of candy corns into my hand, and I kind of
like when they get the little pumpkins, you know, those
little fat pumpkins that come with the candy corn.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
I kind of like the little fat pumpkins. You know
what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, the little little pumpkin, the pumpkin
candy corn flavored pumpkins. How about that? Cause I feel
like it's a very similar flavor almost, It is a
very similar Yeah. You know, maybe it's a consistency that
gets me. It's a consistency, and I associate that with
the flavor. Maybe that way.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
And then okay, so I suppose I suppose as long
as we've come to this, we ought to go ahead
and do it. So I'm at the I'm at the store,
you know, get in the uh, I'm I'm the big
Halloween guy. Which is kind of amazing that I that
i'd forgotten it. You know, I remember how exciting it was.
We I grew up in a household we never had
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candy in our house, I mean never, so to have Halloween,
you were like, awesome, man, this is this is tremendous.
And you know, you go around and you got your bag,
and you get dressed up and you do all this stuff,
and and so I remember how exciting it was for
me as a kid. Didn't know I was gonna get
my hands on some candy. By the way, I got
my allowance, and I had a choice. You know, you
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could get a candy bar I got. I got baseball
cards or football cards. That's what I got. So I
didn't spend my money.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
I can't.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
I did you get that waxy little piece of gum
that you had in the old tops cards?
Speaker 2 (03:43):
But but I can or that super hard piece of
you know, gum.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
That's that's what I meant, gum. I said, gum. Yeah,
that's it.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Yeah, yeah, you said candy. I was like, yeah, yeah, what.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Is that thing? It's part cardboard and part now that gum.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
That is a stick that is like cardnobyl wax. I
don't even know what it is.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Yeah, So but man, I remember, you know, and over
the years, I've gone through various phases, you know, when
I did get candy bars. You know, to think about
a candy bar for me is I mean, I can
go weeks without eating as sweet, but if I have
one scoop of ice cream, you know, now I'm.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
Going to the I'm going to the machine.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
I gotta wean myself off of it after a little while,
you know, so saying like a soda, I don't drink
a soda, but you give me one soda.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Man, I got trouble.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
So it's a gateway soda.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
It's a exactly or gateway candy. You're just better off.
What do they say about potato chips? One is too
many and one hundreds not enough? Right, you can't exactly
you know, just don't even start. So I've gotten various phases,
I suppose, if pressed. So there I was in an
I'm enjoy phase. I know a lot of people get
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turned off by almondjoys, but I was in an I'm
enjoy phase. But I think by and large, it's Reese's
peanut butter cup or a Snickers and they are just
they are just you know, there's others, right, there are
others that are very good. I'm not trying to denigrate
anybody's chocolate choices. But if you're giving me a go to,
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it's a Snickers bar and it's a Reese's cup, how
about you?
Speaker 4 (05:17):
Do you have a go to?
Speaker 3 (05:18):
And So I'm at the store the other day and
I'm trying to get so I got kit cats.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
By the way, when I was a kid, I was
at Hershey's.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
You know, or the park, Hershey Park on a youth
group trip, and they were taste testing kit cats, and
for some reason, I'm in a group of like twenty kids,
they kept picking me to taste cat. I would go
into this back room and they taste test the kit cats.
They said, don't worry, we'll get you right back in
line wherever you were, come on in here.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
So I was a kid.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
I probably had fourteen kit cats that day. So I
helped taste test, taste the kit cat you enjoy today.
So I get kit cats, but you can't. So even
though I'm a Snickers and Reese, you have to be
have to understand some people are peanut and intolerant right there.
That's a thing, So you have to have. I get
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Hershey's bars, kit kats. I think I have some Twix
bars down there. So in preparation for Halloween, which I
get excited about, I carved the pumpkin.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
Every year.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
I get into it because I remember how much I
enjoyed it, so that that's what I got. I got,
you know, make you a little Hershey bars, right, just
plain chocolate. But that's my go to. That's what I
bought for my trick or treaters. And I carved the
pumpkin on Monday night, So that's my Halloween week.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
There we go, there we go, and you know, I
feel like I feel like we might have to end
the show today. We might have to do a candy
power pole. Okay, yeah, we might, or like a candy
battle royale, you know, like do like a little bracketed
quick little tournament.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Well, who's okay? I have to tell you if I
go to a machine, a candy machine, I really you like? Okay,
so I think you have to have a Hershey's bar
in there. Even though I would never go for Hershey's bar,
I like the Hershey's bar ommends. I mean, if you
have a Hershey's with omens, that's sneaking up there. That's
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that's gaining ground.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
That's prestigious.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
That it is.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
If you gotta if you got a receason a Snickers,
that one's that one's uh, that one's that one's closing
the gap. But if it doesn't have a receis cup
and it doesn't have a Snickers, I'm like, Who's who's
loading this machine up.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Those are half to's. I think those are must haves.
I maybe got.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Along with the butter well, along with a butterfinger, all right,
that that that is, That is a another classic.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
It's a good for sure. Butter fingers are great.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
And then in Pittsburgh, of course, we have the answer
to the butterfinger, which is the Clark Bar. I'm not
really sure which came first. I'm gonna find that out
while you're talking. So give me your give me your loading.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
H all right, So so you know, the first thing
I have to we have to disseminate right when we're
when we're talking about this is candy versus chocolates, right
you know, so you know, in the candy category, I
have a whole different breakdown. But if because what we've
been kind of primarily talking about has been in the
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chocolate realm, I'll stick with chocolates for right now, and
then we can talk about candy later. That's a whole
other scientific process for me.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
The way, the Clark Bar came first in nineteen seventeen,
followed by the butterfinger in nineteen twenty three. This according
to AI, which I don't always trust, but.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Yeah, trust, was Clark a Hershey product Clark or is
it a Mars product? Well the zone it was by
one or next zone deal the D L.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
Clark Company.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
So right here in Pittsbagh, Oh Manufacturing, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, they
still have the Clark building here the the there's a
little bar restaurant I got. I don't know if it's
still there. It's funny. It was close to where I worked,
but because of my hours, I never went there and
because I got to get the car and drive home.
But I did go get a hamburger there once. It
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was a phenomenal hamburger and I think it's still open,
the Clark Bar, which which is a great name, right
you can get get a beer and get a get
a hamburger. And it's the Clark Bar, which is a
which is a great name because it's it's in the
building where they made I believe where they made the
Clark Bar on the north side. So that's a very
Pittsburgh thing. And so you say, Butterfinger, but I'm gonna
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have to go Clark Bar there because it's a Pittsburgh thing. Anyway,
proceed please, okay, And I.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Am going to also say that you know butterfinger is
right up there. I mean probably what I mean Clark
bark potato potato Okay, potato patata Clark finger. How about that?
There we go. So so now we have a compromise.
(10:04):
So the Clark finger is probably up there with the
tops of my choices. But you know, then I'm like,
it's twigs and then snickers, right, you know, get any
option of those. But he like, you're a Reese's guy,
like a Reese's Cups guy. Yes, I'm a Reese's Pieces guy.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Okay, those are good.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Those yeah, famous, I believe by the movie e t right, yes, right,
they want to use M and ms and Eminem said no,
and so they said, okay, well we'll.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Use They won't say no, and they were very happy
about it. So so I feel like the am there
and then and that's more of because you know, you
have bars of chocolate and chocolate tight bars, and then
you have like the candy, like the candy chocolates, which
(10:59):
is like the recent pieces, the M and m's and
and all that kind of stuff. Right, you know, Junior
Mints goes in that category. Sugar daddies, you know, those
are the ones I kind of look, look like in
that con but I would say, yeah, Reese's pieces would
be I like Reese's pieces over Reese's if I had
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a power pole and you know another one that I
just you know, it's one that always get gets me excited.
What's your might call it?
Speaker 3 (11:30):
That's interesting And I think that by the way, Reese's
pieces had been invented. They were around, but they were struggling,
and then et put them over the top. What did
a watch your McCall it come out of Charlie and
the chocolate factory. Uh oh, you mean the original Willy
Wonka Willy Wonka?
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Yeah, yeah, you know that's a good question. It might
have been in response to Wanka Wonka. Can I'm finding
that out? Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
So, by the way, you bring up a good point.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
And you know, since you're mentioning these candies, and I think,
I think we have to step outside our own personal
desires and think about what the average person wants. So
I I maintained that if you had, say, you know,
a candy machine, I don't know how many they fit
in that row six eight whatever.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Yeah, yes, that's right, let's go top six, let's go top.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
You have to have I think you have to have reces.
You have to have snacks.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Yes, you have to have Even though I take a
peanut M and M over an eminem, I think that's
my own personal choice, right, that's my But I think
you have to have M and ms, right, I think
you have to have regular m and ms. Well, we
we could maybe maybe peanut eminems circle back in, but
I think you have to have regular eminems in a
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in a candy machine.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Yeah, I would agree with you, regular eminems because when
in doubt, even if people want peanut m and ms,
guess what they'll eat regular eminem's. You know what I'm saying, Like,
it's not one of these oh my gosh, peanut or nothing, right,
It's like, no, I want some M and m's. Oh
I love some peanut eminece they only got the regular, Okay,
I'll get the regular like they will have that butterfinger,
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like I said, has to be in there as well.
That's what I'm going to maintain. A butterfinger is always
a good option to have it. Twis would be another one.
I would say that would be in a candy machine
as well.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
So but okay, I I okay. By the way, the
watch mccallud had nothing to do with Willy Wonkam, So
now I'm kind of yeah, anyway, it doesn't have anything
to do with it. According once again according to AI. Okay,
so we have a twix, we have M and M's
right to we agree that Eminem's. I think a hershey
Bar has to be there, even though I would got
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to go plane.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Yeah, your peanut intolerant environment would appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
So we got five.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
And now you know what I think if you have
those five and maybe we're missing one, I think if
you have five, it's the either choice after that, right,
like if you have a Snickers, a Reese's Hershey Bar,
regular M and M's, and a TwixT bar, right, you're
going twis Yeah, then the sixth is that's Steeler's choice.
(14:15):
I mean, you know you could go Butterfinger. You know,
if some people like the mallow cup. I'm not not
a fan of the mallow cup, but people like the
mallow cup, you know, you could you could slide in
a watch them and call it and then maybe you
know when the machines emptied every two weeks. If you're
a person that that that goes windows shopping, maybe there's
a watch of m call it holy, I'm gonna get
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go ahead and get that as that's sixth item, so.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
I'm gonna go with I would also say dealer's choice here,
and here's one that you know we kind of I
think we kind of overlook it. Yeah, I'm gonna go
a little crazy here, baby.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
Ruth, Oh that's good stuff. That's good.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
And then somebody tried to counter with a hank Aaron
bar As you recall, yes, anyway, yeah, the baby Ruth.
See there you could go, you go, baby Ruth, you
could go butterfinger. There's a lot of different ones you
can go. But there's got to be a list of
half day. There's gotta be a list of musts. I
would think, yeah, there's a must. I mean, well, and
here's the thing. I'm not a fan of it. And
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you could tell me it's.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Usually between these two as well that people will have
an argument Milky way or a Three Musketeers bar.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
See, I'm not I'm not going either.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Yeah, I don't. I don't like the same here. I
don't get it that.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Same way, and I don't I'm not a big fan
of what's that white stuff? It's not nugad, right is it. Yeah,
you know, I think that is nugad Okay. Yeah, but
it's like but it's like it's like but it's like
more airy. It's like a it's like it's like it's
a milky Way is essentially a Snickers bar without the peanuts.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
Right, I'm not down right? Uh, you know they did
the Mounds.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
I'm enjoy commercials when I was a kid, you know, Yeah,
I'm enjoy has nuts mounds, don't that That was the
That was the thing that has a little almond in there.
It has a little coconut in there.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
See.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Then now you're talking the mounds. I never got the
Three Musketeers of the Mounds, not for me. You know,
when you when you get that now having said that, right,
because we started this, you get on the candy train,
and now you know, maybe eight days after Halloween, you're
scrounging around at the bottom of the of the bag. Uh,
you'll eat that Mounds, You'll eat that Three Musketeers. Yeah,
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I mean you're.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
You're, you're going. But it takes fits of desperation to
get to that point.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
Eight day eight, you're the bottom of the right here
it is.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
I mean, I might as I might as well, eat
a tutsi roll at that point, you know what I'm saying, Like,
that's about where we're at.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Tutsi roll is not bade well.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Because I grew up in the era where the tutsi
roll fruits choose were popular.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
Oh my son, I prefer that. Never heard of it.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
But it's it's not chocolate flavor. That's the thing you
get it. So it's wrapped like it, but it's really
a fruit. It's a fruit chew. It's just it's made
by the Tutsi role company. Right, So you have the
association that all tutsi rolls are chocolate, but the fruit
chees don't have that. They have this similar like texture
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of of like a harder gummy, right, it's not really gummy,
but it's more solid. But the fruit chooes were what
I liked over the regular tutsi rolls.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Yeah, I'm not on any of the I was never
on any of the chewy items. I was never on
you know, the little candy things you know that you unwrap,
you know, and you and you suck on them. And
I don't like those because then I would start I'd
get impatient and start chewing it, and then they get
my teeth. Not not a fan of it. I think
it's got to be chocolate on Halloween.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
That's for me. And the candy corn, which is where
we began this thing.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, can I has to be They're gross, man,
But I like them, especially the pumpkin.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Yeah, you like, you're a pumpkin fit. See now. And
here's where I would argue during during Halloween skittles.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Yeah, you know, I was slow to the skittles train.
You know, there was a day where if skittles were out,
I wouldn't be the least bit tempted. But there's another one.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
Man.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
You have a you have two skittles. You're looking for
a large bag of skittles after.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
That, Yeah, exactly, Yeah, yeah, you're you're not eating just
one lemon skittle. You know what I'm saying. You're not
eating just one cherry skittle like you like I need lime,
I need grape, I need to taste a rainbow. You
know what.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
I think that the skit the skittle was The skittle
was a big one for my kids.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
My kids liked. My kids liked.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Oh yeah, I mean if yeah, and if you if
you have a bowl of skittles with that little Scooper
and in it. Come on, you're putting a handful in there.
You're you're not. Oh, let me have a skittle and
skittles plural and that for a reason, like you're going
to eat more than one. So I mean Skittles is
one of those I feel like in the candy category,
you have to have that one during Halloween because that's
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when that that kids are always going to go that
and Starburst.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Oh see, there you go, that's not really my We're
talking about Necho wafers the other day, which I was, OK,
you got the gray one and then the gray one
would kind of ruin it for you. Yeah, I think
we've I think we've I think we've run down the list.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
Max. Thank you for bringing up the fact that it's Halloween.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
It is a holiday, and happy Yeah, it is Happy
Halloween to you as well. This was you know, I
felt like we we got we got some we made
some real headway here for for all those potential trigger
treats and the parents that are the candied distributors of
said holiday.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
So chocolate, that's what you're getting.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
You're getting chocolate at the King household and at Stark's household.
You're you're gonna you're getting a grab bag of stuff.
I mean we we we go with the multi We
like the multi variety packs, you know. So there will
be Starbursts, there will be Skittles, there will be the
little sour Patch kid mini.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
Bags, you know.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
So uh and yeah, you know, I have two daughters
that are ecstatic about Halloween. I mean they just left
for school.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
They have their costumes in tow wavy. You know my oldest,
you know, she just turned thirteen. So now she's trying
to be cool. She's rattitituey. But it's like the teenage ratitituey.
So it's like that. No, yeah, that's her costume, but
it's the great It's the gray skirt, gray top, and
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then she has rat ears, you know what I'm saying,
Like with the little and she said for trick or treating,
Quincy's Ballerina, she went full ballerina. Yeah, so she's.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
The ballerina.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Oh my goodness, I missed the princess dresses from Disney.
I mean that that was the easiest one back in
the day when they were young, they just picked the
princess every year. And now it's definitely more thought out
and I feel like more costly.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
Uh oh yeah, oh yeah yeah, I uh yeah, we
we My family never never spent any money on Halloween outfits.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
So it was a root awakened.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Well. I mean we always had that plastic you know,
that cheap plastic one where you put the he Man
mask on and it's got like the plastic cover it
and you just you just roll with it with your
with your pumpkin, you know, with your pumpkin basket to
go collect, you know, the plastic orange pumpkin basket for
your trick or trees, you know. And then of course
we got older, like man, I need more space. Man,
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there's too many houses. Uh. And then you went and
then you went to the pillowcase you know.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
Oh yeah that was the extent.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Yeah. I was always the pillowcase. I'm there for volume,
you know.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
All right, well listen, we have that's our how thank
you for bringing up Halloween, because I do think it's fun.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
You know, the kids go around, they you know, they
do the trick or treating. They got to get dressed up,
they got to ring the doorbell, they got to say
trick or treat. Uh, you carve the pumpkin. You have
the pumpkin seeds already gone, by the way.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
And uh, it just just roast him. Oh I roasted him. Yeah,
I roasted him.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
Ok, you dry him out, then you take him out,
you throw him a little olive oil and salt. You
put him back in for about twenty minutes. And yeah,
they didn't last long. I didn't get a lot of
pumpkins this year. Getting got a lot of pumpkin.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
Seeds this year. It was a it was a low
harvesting pumpkin that I had.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
You bought a not so seedless pumpkin.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
Yeah, I know, not intentionally seedless.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Everything else's seedless watermelon, seedless grapes, and yeah, now it's
seedless water. You know, pumpkins as well. Why not?
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Well, we're gonna we're gonna ask a quick candy question
of Matt Taylor, who just does a phenomenal job the
Colts broadcast. He's going to be joining us next as
we turn our attention away from the great uh, the
Great Holiday of Halloween and toured the Sunday matchup Trick
or treat Man. Indianapolis Colts best record in the NFL
coming to town. We will be back with Matt Taylor
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when we continue in the Locker Room, presented by O Neighborhood,
Ford Stort and the Steeper's Pro Shop on Sear's Nation Radio,
part of the Steelers Audio Network, and we thank you
(23:42):
very much for being with us, and we are very
pleased to be joined by the outstanding play by play
man for the Indianapolis Colts.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
They have a great broadcast by the way, on the radio.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
Of course, we want you to listen to us, you know,
but hey, Matt Taylor does a phenomenal job, and Matt
is with us now.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
Matt, first of all, thanks very much for being with us.
Happy Halloween? Do you?
Speaker 5 (24:05):
Happy Halloween?
Speaker 4 (24:06):
Do you?
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Guys?
Speaker 5 (24:06):
It's good to be with you guys.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
So, Matt, before we get started, we have a very
hard hitting question for you that I hate to hit
you with something controversial right out of the shoot, but
what is your go.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
To Halloween candy? Happy Halloween? Do you too?
Speaker 5 (24:24):
I love this stuff. I'd rather talk about this stuff
in the game, to be honest. You know, we lived
the football. It's nice to have a little bit of
a diversion here on a Friday. But my MVP of
candy has always been the recy cup. I think it's undefeated.
I think right now in terms of the colts, I
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think it's the Jonathan Taylor of candy, right. I Mean,
it just hits every time. So no question, I think
it's my go to. I've got two kids that are
eight and five, and so obviously it makes a very
big night for them. They're trying to hit the entire neighborhood,
make it around the entire block a couple of times,
and uh, there's no question that Dad's gonna have a
(25:05):
little uh you know, some some some finger stealing going
on and coming through those candies. Yeah, how many, No question.
I'm I'm very big on the dad tech. So you know,
growing up for me, about five houses down was a
was a nice little gentleman that lived by himself, and
his big thing was every Halloween he would give out
(25:25):
the King sized candy. And so you know, as a
as an eight nine year old, you never forget that
and you just try to pay it forward. And so
I'm looking forward to, uh, the kids coming to our
house and my kids going out and just seeing the
loot they bring back.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
Oh that's good stuff, Matt.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
So let's let us talk about Sunday's game, because you know,
the Colts are rolling. It's been an interesting season. You know,
I think it's hard, Uh, it's easy, I think for
people to forget that this was a solid Colt seam
with Look, they beat to Steer this the last two years.
They've been seventeen and seventeen, then Shane Stike in nine
and eight and eight and nine. So you know, solidly
(26:03):
in that sort of middle class of football teams. Is
Daniel Jones the biggest reason that they have elevated into
bringing the best record in football into Akroscher Stadium on Sunday.
Speaker 5 (26:18):
You know what, I think you set that up just
perfectly because every time I talk about this team in
the context of where they're at right now and seven
and one, I always start with what you just said. Right,
they've missed the playoffs four years in a row, but
three of those four years they've won at least eight games,
So they're right there, right, I mean, whatever you want
(26:39):
to call it, it's no man's land or NFL purgatory.
That's where the Colts have been primarily because of inconsistency
at the quarterback position, right, And you don't want to
say it's all about one guy in one one position.
But I mean, you guys know the game very very well.
You know how important that that spot is on an
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NFL football team. And this has been a solid roster
built by Chris Ballard the last four or five seasons. Right,
the nucleus of the team has been here for a
very long time. And this is a hill that I'll
die on. But last year, even with kind of a
rocky defense a year ago, that was a playoff team
if they just had just a little bit better and
(27:23):
more consistent quarterback play. And so now here comes in
Daniel Jones, and not only are you getting, you know,
competent and consistent quarterback play, but you're getting way above
average quarterback play. And so I think that's what you're seeing,
is you're seeing the difference with an above average quarterback
with a very solid roster around him that's been here
(27:46):
for a very long time. Right, Again, the nucleus of
this team has been in place. You've had the Forest
Buckner and Quinton Nelson and Grover Stewart and Zire Franklin
and Kenny Moore and Jonathan Taylor. Those guys have been
here for a very long time and specifically on offense,
it's the exact same cast of characters. The only difference
is is Tyler Warrens here now. But outside of that,
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it's the exact same offense last year that was kind
of pedestrian, middle of the road, and now you've got
the quarterback that is having a sensational season, that is
gelling and bonding in all different phases with Shane Stikeen
as the play caller, and he is just elevating everybody
else around him. The nickname that I have for Daniel
Jones is mister high Tide. He's a high tide lifting
(28:30):
all of the boats around him. And that's why I
think this offense is just it's not even hyperbole, but
it's historic right now. I mean they're averaging over three
points per possession, over thirty three points per game, and
on Sunday they're gunning for their fifth straight game with
at least thirty points. I mean, Daniel Jones is the
biggest difference. That's the shortened suite of it, no doubt
(28:52):
about it.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
Okay, Well, Matt, I'm excited, also Happy Halloween. I'm the
other part part of our our dynamic trio. I guess
we can't say dynamic deal. Missy Matthews also on on
on our on our broadcast, he's our sideline and she'll
be on later. But matt I kind of wanted to
just kind of dig into this with Daniel Jones because,
(29:18):
like you said, you know for the Indianapolis coast, right,
you know, you I d Anthony Richardson as a guy
you draft very high, a lot of potential. It doesn't
quite come to fruition. We don't have to rehash the
incident from last year that we felt kind of was.
If you're going to point to one moment where it
kind of went awry, it would have been that, you know,
(29:41):
last year, you go with Joe Flacco as well, you know,
on a team, and like you said, you I d
Daniel Jones as the guy this offseason that you're targeting
to go into this quarterback competition. And I don't know
what it is about quarterbacks once they leave the New
York tri state area. I don't I don't even know.
Trib Burrow, however you describe it. New York quarterbacks don't
(30:04):
seem to thrive that are drafted in New York. They
seem to thrive elsewhere. As we see with Sam Darnold
out in Seattle as well. Right, you know, for Daniel Jones,
like this has been I would say mete York just
because we've seen him for so long. But like you said,
you're in a team in New York. That market has
depressed a lot of quarterback success in recent I would
(30:28):
just say, you know, the more recent twenty first century.
And he comes to Indianapolis, Like you said, you put
him around a very competent cast and it is just
completely high tided, so to speak, everybody around them. And
at first it was fluke. Now it's become a habit
for this group. But you know, how important is it
(30:51):
to be balanced? I think for Daniel Jones, like he
has elevated, But you know what we've been seeing with
Jonathan Taylor as well, having that complimentary backfield. He's on
a he's on a historic pace as well. So do
you think it's Jonathan Taylor has created the opportunity for
Daniel Jones or Daniel Jones created opportunity for Jonathan Taylor?
(31:13):
Like how does you know which one the chicken or
the egg in this type of situation or is it
or is it a combination? I mean because I look
at it and it just it looks balanced, you know
what I'm saying. Like it there's a huge balance for
your team, and that's always key for an offense.
Speaker 5 (31:31):
Yeah, no, it's It's a good question. I think it's
not necessarily balance in terms of overall snaps, run runs
versus passes, but it is balanced in terms of equally
are the two are equally as dangerous of hurting the
opposing defense? And I would say, to answer your question,
I would say it's Daniel Jones. Is the difference for
(31:53):
Jonathan Taylor and Daniel Jones. I think his presence here.
You know, we talked about this at the beginning of
the season, and actually right because we've seen this before
out of Jonathan Taylor, right twice in his career he's
had epic seasons. Epic in the sense of he's over
fourteen hundred yards. You know, you go back four years
(32:14):
ago in twenty twenty one, he led the NFL and
rushing yards in eighteen hundred. You know, he's over twenty
touchdowns that year from scrimmage.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
And.
Speaker 5 (32:25):
Both of those epic seasons by Jonathan Taylor. Guess what
it got the Colts. It got him nothing. They didn't
make the playoffs in either of those seasons, right, so
you have to have That's why I say, like the
core of this team has just been waiting for somebody
like Daniel Jones to come along and provide stability. So
(32:45):
now you're seeing you're seeing the passing game compliment the
running game and create more efficiency opportunities for Jonathan Taylor
on the ground because the passing game is an equal
threat as the running game. Right you go back to
twenty twenty three, you know, late in that year, the
Cults are making the playoff push with Gardner Minshew. I
(33:06):
can just remember distinctly. You know, in December of that year,
teams are just selling out to stop the run. They're
putting nine guys in the box, and it's there's not
a whole lot of threat for the Colts in the
passing game outside the numbers and down the field. From
Gardner Minshew, It's like the Colts are playing on a
fifteen to twenty yard field and Jonathan Taylor was the offense. Well,
(33:29):
that's not the case anymore. Jonathan Taylor is part of
this offense because the passing game is an equal threat
to the running game. Right now, you've got Pittman and
Pierce and Downs and Tyler Warren, and I just think
generally speaking, what you're seeing is if you're a defensive
coordinator playing the Colts, you know your job every week
(33:49):
is to go in there and try to take away
the other team's best player. Well, who is the best
player for the Colts. Is it Pittman? Is it Taylor?
You know, if you try to blitz Daniel Jones, he's
going to thrash it in the passing game because he's
really good against the blitz. So I mean, again, generally speaking,
what you're seeing is that the defense is widening out
(34:12):
and they're not selling out to put multiple, you know,
extra players inside the box to stop the run. So
it's opening up more efficiency and bigger run for Jonathan Taylor.
And then the passing game has just been so precise
this year from Daniel Jones. Kind of a weird stat
but the Colts are one of the very few teams
in the NFL left at this stage in the season
(34:34):
without a one hundred yard receiver. And I think they
like it that way because they've got multiple ways and
multiple guys that can just kill you in the passing game.
And Daniel Jones has been that good and that accurate.
So again a long winded way of saying that we've
seen this act before out of Jonathan Taylor, and it
hasn't gotten the Colts anything in terms of the team's
(34:54):
success and postseason success. Now that they have the quarterback
and Daniel Jones, that's the most important in peace to
help Jonathan Taylor succeed and reach his full potential.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
Our guest is Matt Taylor, play by play man UH
for the Indianapolis Colts to the Great Broadcast, and Matt, I,
before we let you go, I did want to ask
you about the Colts defense because look, you've had, first
of all, congratulations on maybe having the most difficult roster
pronunciation guide.
Speaker 4 (35:22):
In the league. I know there.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
Are a lot of them, you know, and we get
used to is play by play guys. You know, you
do your studio work maybe and you know you can
take a pretty good stab at a at a Russian
tennis player's.
Speaker 4 (35:35):
Name or or so.
Speaker 3 (35:37):
You know you look at these names and it's a
bookam oh, no, it's it's it's epicicom and no it's
a geek. No, no, no, it's I think it's O
GK right for Austin anyway, what's that.
Speaker 5 (35:50):
Austin AB?
Speaker 2 (35:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (35:52):
Okay, so at.
Speaker 5 (35:54):
A and we have J T TA mololow. Yeah we can.
We can go over all of these before the.
Speaker 4 (36:01):
Game, man. Yeah yeah.
Speaker 3 (36:02):
How about you know what appears to be Chris Lammon's
is actually Chris lahmanson.
Speaker 4 (36:10):
The race car.
Speaker 3 (36:11):
Yeah, there's And by the way, you watch the games
and you get about fourteen different broadcast pronunciations of the broadcasters. Anyway,
That's not why I am congratulating you on that. But
some of these guys are playing more prominent roles because
the Colts have been nicked up, particularly in the secondary
and at the linebacker position. I don't know if Jalen
Jones anybody is coming back this week for the Colts,
(36:34):
but you know, it's a good job of pasting things together,
and there's a lot of versatility on the defense. Obviously
to Forest, Buckner's a star, Franklin's a tackling machine at
inside linebacker, led the NFL tackles last year. But as
I look at this team, it strikes me as the
defense is more solid than spectacular. I don't mean to
(36:54):
be damning them with faint praise, but I think the
offense has helped them out. How would you categorize this
defense that's been able to put up statistically excellent numbers
through injuries, particularly get it secondary at the linebacker position.
Speaker 5 (37:10):
Yeah, no, you're right to point out the secondary because
going into training camp, right, if you follow the Colts
at the beginning of the season when they reported in
late July, you look at the secondary, You're like, oh, man,
on paper, this is going to be our best secondary
since you know, in the last decade or so, You've
got Tarvarius Ward and Kenny Moore and Jalen Jones coming back.
(37:32):
And then the guy that were really high on was
this kid named Justin Wally who they drafted from the
third round out of Minnesota. Had a lot of versatility
about him. Could play inside, he could play nickel.
Speaker 4 (37:42):
Well.
Speaker 5 (37:42):
He tears his ACL in a joint practice against the
Baltimore Ravens like the second or third week of training camp,
and then after that it was like a domino effect,
like everybody started getting hurt. Jones has been out, you know,
since late late portions of training camp with his hamstring.
Hasn't played since Week one, you know, Kenny Moore has
an achilles injury. He misses three games. Tarvarius Ward is
(38:05):
still on IR. He got a concussion a couple of
weeks back in a fluke thing during pregame warm ups.
I mean, how bizarre was that. But you know he's
he's gonna be out, and I think the secondary really
changes when when Ward is not out there. I mean,
in a game like this with DK Metcalf on the
other side, I mean, this would be a prime opportunity
for Tarvarius Ward to kind of shadow the other team's
(38:27):
best player. But I don't think the Colts are in
a position to do that right now because at this moment,
they're playing with guys that they didn't plan on, you know,
making the team, and that's where they're at in terms
of injuries. I mean, Jonathan Edwards as an undrafted free agent,
he wasn't on their radar at the beginning of training camp.
Makai Blackman is starting now and he literally wasn't even
(38:48):
here during training camp. They had to trade for him.
At the end of the preseason to add depth. They
signed Xavian Howard and he retired, and so it's just
been kind of a evolving door. But they're making it
work to your point. I mean, at the end of
the day, they're giving up volume, and they're giving up
you know, a lot of yards, but they're given up
(39:08):
less than twenty points per game, and that's all that
matters in the National Football League. So lou Ane Rumo's
doing a good job of making it work with with
who he has, especially in the secondary, and then up front,
they don't have They don't have their version of PJ.
Speaker 4 (39:22):
Watt.
Speaker 5 (39:22):
They don't have Cameron Hayward, they don't have Nick Herbert.
They have guys like Quitty pay and Laatsu Latsu and
Sampson Ebcom. These are all solid players, but they're not
to this point in their career. They're not you know,
twelve to fifteen sacks per year guy. So the pass
rush is kind of a little bit deceiving. They've got
respectable numbers, but they don't have like those a lot
(39:44):
of those first wave sacks where they just get right
after the quarterback at at the top of this drop
in the pocket and bring them down. A lot of
their saving graces on defense are just fourth quarter clutch
crunch time plays where they get a four down stop
where they get a couple of key sacks because the
team is down big on the scoreboard and they're having
(40:05):
to throw their way back in or they get a
red zone takeaway. Those are the things that are keeping
the point total down. But the reality is the Colts
have allowed over eleven hundred passing yards in the last
five games, so they're kind of flirting with a little bit,
and we'll see what happens on Sunday against Obviously, as
you guys know, a future Hall of Famer quarterback and
Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 3 (40:25):
Matt Taylor is the outstanding play by play man of
the Colts. I hope you and your two children have
a wonderful Halloween tonight, Matt around the neighborhood. Don't forget
the dad tax, and we will see you on Sunday,
my friend.
Speaker 5 (40:42):
All right, guys, my pleasure to be with you. I
have a great Halloween yourself.
Speaker 3 (40:45):
Thank you, appreciate it. Back again, Matt Taylor just does
a phenomenal job. That Colts broadcast is outstanding, and they've
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Speaker 3 (42:02):
Max Stark's a Formidable Challenge. I think its to Matt
Taylor to play by play man for the Colts for
joining us formidable challenge coming up against his first place
Colts team. We know that going in, but you know,
the more I watch them play, you know, and I'm
through just finished the Arizona game. Arizona had every chance
to win that game, but the Colts stiffened at the end,
(42:24):
held them out of the end zone on a late
drive and we're able to win the game. And you know,
they've won some games going away. They've also found ways
to win games, and I think that you know, as
a fan, you want every game to be a blowout,
but there's something to be said about a character of
a football team that can find a way to win
a game, and the Colts have done both blown teams
(42:44):
out and found ways to win tight games.
Speaker 2 (42:49):
Yeah, it's one of those that you know, the Colts,
they're for real. I think a lot of people didn't
want to buy into it right because of the dysfunction
over the last couple of years. Shane Stikeen, when he
takes a job, they draft Anthony Richardson and it doesn't
quite work out right, and you're trying to figure out, well,
how do we get out of this, how do we
(43:11):
find something, how do we salvage you know, what we
have so we don't waste Jonathan Taylor's good years. We don't,
you know, waste the end of DeForest Buckter and a
lot of guys, Michael Pittman and Quentin Nelson, and he
was very adamant that, you know, it is definitely not
Jonathan Taylor is a good compliment. But the stir that
(43:33):
straw's the straw that stirs the drink is Daniel Jones
and his decision. And I don't know if you remember
this last year, King Heer, Well, we're there primetime and
it is Giants Steelers in Acroshure primetime football night game
(43:55):
and Wolf and I were saying, like, man, if he
just had anything else on offense, this, this would be
a way tighter game for the Steelers, right, And because
we were talking about how Dexter Lawrence was playing and
Daniel Jones is like it, you know, it came to conclusion.
I was hard on him because I'd never seen them
live only on television and you know, highlights, and it was, man,
(44:20):
if only he had this, he would be different, he'd
have a different outcome. Well look low and behold a
year later, new team, new venue. And that's why I
kind of asked the question the way that I did,
because it's funny, these good quarterbacks are starting to show
that they're actually really good and that it wasn't a farce,
It wasn't an accident that this squad. You know that
(44:43):
that these squads that picked these quarterbacks are doing well.
And it also said a lot about the New York
football team market because you had now Daniel Jones, but
then before that you had Sam darm who went to
Minnesota and you know, after going down to Carolina for
(45:04):
that weird experiment, and then now you know he is
he is flourishing out in Seattle. And you know, even
for Geno Smith, right after he left the Giants, he
he had a research It's funny that it's like these
New York quarterbacks have to go rehab elsewhere and like
(45:27):
a said second city of the United States where these
teams are and they're flourishing in these moments and it's
pretty crazy to see that. But Daniel Jones the biggest
benefactor and he's the one who is the catalyst for
this success. He put that success squarely on him and
gave his corroborating story. You know, as far as about
(45:47):
Jonathan Taylor, like this is nothing new for Jonathan Taylor,
but this is new for us having competent quarterback play,
and I didn't I didn't get to ask him, but
I would have loved to have asked if I would say, well,
you say this is the best since Andrew Luck, I mean,
do you feel just as good as Andrew Luck was
under center with Daniel Jones right now? Is it still
too soon? I wanted to ask him that question, but
(46:07):
I mean, proof is in the pudding right when you
look at it now. And that's what I feel like,
is the situation is that you know, they finally got
the quarterback play they were they were looking after, you know,
when they originally the abrupt retirement of Andrew Luck. Then
you bring in Philip Rivers, and then of course you
draft a Anthony Richardson and then it ends up being
(46:31):
your free agent signing on essentially like a prove it
type deal for a quarterback with Daniel Jones who was
coming to compete for a job and ran away with it.
Speaker 3 (46:40):
Yeah. So there's you know, this Colts team. The more
you look at him, the fewer weaknesses you see. We're
going to break down what you can expect to see
when Missy Matthews joined us. Coming up next in the
Locker Room, presented by our neighborhood Ford Store and the
Steedish pro Shop on Steedish Nation Radio, a part of
the Steelers Audio Network.
Speaker 4 (47:00):
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