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November 22, 2024 11 mins
Colts.com writers JJ Stankevitz & Amanda Foster look at the impact of Bernhard Raimann’s absence against the Lions and if Tyquan Lewis could return from injured reserve this week.

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Speaker 1 (00:06):
What's up? Everyone?

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Welcome into the two Minute Drill podcast presented by nerd Wallet,
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
I'm j J.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Snanka, joined again by Colts dot Com writer Amanda Foster,
head of the Colts Week twelve game against the nine
and one Detroit Lions. This is about as good of
a team as come into Luke Soil Stadium in a
long time. Yeah, Amanda, But I asked Shane Steichen this
because it popped into my head while he was talking today.

(00:32):
Like Gus Bradley has actually like once a year, once
or twice a year, he has held a Super Bowl contender,
one of the best offenses in the NFL to like,
not a whole lot. I thought back to twenty twenty two,
Week three, the Colts beat the Chiefs Casey only scored
seventeen points. A year they went on to win the
Super Bowl. Also that year, the Colts held the Philadelphia

(00:56):
Eagles under twenty points. They scored seventeen Egals went on
to lose to the Chiefs in the Super Bowl. And
then last year the Colts kind of put Lamar Jackson
in a blender in Baltimore and wound up winning that game,
holding the Ravens too. I think it was twenty three
points in overtime. So it might not look like Detroit

(01:16):
as any weaknesses, but Gus Bradley, over his time as
the Colts defensive coordinator, has actually found some really interesting
solutions against good offenses. What have you just kind of
heard from like players this week listening to coaches about
the challenge the Detroit Lions offense is going to give
the Colts on Sunday.

Speaker 3 (01:34):
I mean, everybody in that locker room knows how good
the Lions are, and nobody is kind of discrediting that.
Everybody recognizes the challenge, but they're seeing it as such
a positive thing for them, where it's not like Anthony
Richardson said on Wednesday, it's not a concern. They're not
a concern. They're the next team that we have to play. Yeah,

(01:54):
they're nine to one, but there's an air of confidence
around this team and in that locker room, and especially
today on Friday, because Fridays are always everybody's a little
bit more pumped up. But I think there is a
genuine belief in this team and the players and the
coaches that they can really compete with the Lions. And
I think some of that comes from how Anthony and

(02:15):
the whole team played last weekend, because obviously you're going
to think at least some of that will carry over.
But you know that's a good thing that that's going
to carry over because you want that sort of confidence
and you want that sort of belief that you can
go into this game. You need you need that to
go into a game like this. And I mean going
back to the Gus Bradley, like we've seen him adapt
and improve this defense even in the course of this year,

(02:36):
this season, and so there's, like you said, there's no
reason necessarily not to think that he could come out
on Sunday with something that we haven't seen from them before,
because he's done that plenty of times, you know, going
from weeks one to two into weeks five and six,
even this season.

Speaker 2 (02:51):
Yeah, I mean, I think it's dangerous to sometimes going
to a week just being like, well, do you like
you have no chance?

Speaker 3 (02:57):
Right is the NFL You're not gonna write I.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
Can to do that.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
I mean, look, Detroit, Detroit stopped Jacksonville last week fifty
two to six. They put up fifty points against the Titans,
who have a really good defense.

Speaker 3 (03:10):
Both times that the Lions have scored fifty two points
have been against AFC South Rights.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
And they also put up forty seven against the Cowboys,
and that was before Dak Prescott got hurt. Ye, this
is a team that's really, really good. But I think
your point, Amanda, like the vibe I've got too, is
just this is why you're in the NFL. You don't
get into the NFL to play a team that's two
and eight in week eleven or week twelve. You get
into the NFL to play the best team and try

(03:36):
to show yourself out against the best team in the league,
which for my money right now is the Detroit Lions.
What they're doing on offense, what they're doing on defense.
A couple injury updates here that we should get to.
Bernard Ryman's not going to play again at left tackle.
We'll see Mat Gonzaldez slide in there. I thought Gonzalbez
played pretty well against the Jets last weekend. I thought,

(03:57):
you know, he acquitted himself pretty well in that game.
And you know, Detroit doesn't have Aiden Hutchinson, he's on
ir the you know who. I think he's still like
top ten in the league. And like pressures or something.

Speaker 3 (04:07):
He still the team and pressures Yeah, by a long shot.

Speaker 1 (04:11):
So that's yeah, And he doesn't played in a couple
of weeks.

Speaker 3 (04:13):
But they're also not necessarily like you watch them and
it doesn't look like they're missing Aiden Hutchinson. Rhch as
a testament to the rest of that team.

Speaker 2 (04:19):
It is, It absolutely is, and that's a testament to
just like the culture. Dan Campbell's bat there too. So
see Macknzalvez at left tackle. And then Taekwon Lewis this
week returning to practice. He was a full participant on
Wednesday and Thursday. We'll see what Fridays as we're recording
it before the final injury report comes out. But aman
to Taekwon any return that he's able to have what

(04:41):
in any sort of capacity. If the Cults activate him
tomorrow off IR and he's able to come back for
five snaps ten snaps against the lines, those would be
critical snaps for the Colts defensive line rotation.

Speaker 3 (04:52):
Oh yeah, And I mean this makes me think of
when we were talking about when DeForest Buckner was when
he came off IR. The same sort of thing, like
even if they bring him in third down situation, some
limited snap count situation. It's just his presence out there
is going to add so much more. And when we
talked to Shane Steiken earlier today, he said, Taekwon looked good. Obviously,

(05:14):
don't know what that's gonna look like on Sunday, but
I think even you know, if he plays this weekend, fantastic.
If he doesn't, you're still on track to have him
back soon and that will do just as much for
this team down the stretch.

Speaker 1 (05:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (05:25):
I think that's a really good point that you know,
whether Lewis is back this week or next week, it
sounds like it's he's close. Yeah, And you know, there
was no real timetable like when Taekwon got that injury.
It was a UCLs strain I believe, yep, which is
like usually what like pitchers get. And then if Tommy
John surgery, fortunately Taekwon Lewis doesn't have to throw a
baseball or football.

Speaker 1 (05:43):
That is good, Yeah, that we know of, you.

Speaker 3 (05:45):
Know, right, who knows what he does in his free time? Right?

Speaker 2 (05:47):
I don't know, And I don't know if the Colts
done he plays in where Taekwon's playing quarterback, probably not,
but even.

Speaker 3 (05:52):
Know if you bring in Buck and Grove on offense.

Speaker 2 (05:54):
Yep, right, any anything's fair game, Uh, Taekwan, though you
had twelve pressures this year, two sacks. You know, I
thought he did some good things out there. And he's
just he's such a key for the Colts run defense.
I think in that he's going to set the edge.
He's going to be a guy who can be inside outside,
he can do a lot of different things. You know,

(06:15):
there's a reason why he started all four games this year,
right so well, and.

Speaker 3 (06:18):
He he had a really good game I think was
against the Bears. I know he said he had the
most tackles against the Texans in Week one, but I
think he had a really strong game against the Bears.

Speaker 2 (06:27):
He was really impactful against the race in terms of
run defense in exactly.

Speaker 1 (06:32):
So again we'll see what taekwon.

Speaker 2 (06:34):
One other guy to talk about here, Mark Lewinsky, Yeah,
signed up the practice squad this week. Glow back with
the Colts after leaving in free agency after the twenty
twenty one season. He was with the New York Giants
the last two years, or he was with Tony Soprano Junior,
now the Colts offensive line coach.

Speaker 1 (06:48):
But interesting thing about Glow.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
Amanda was talking to him, and he still lives here, right,
So he went to the Giants and he kept his
family here. They kept house in Zionsville.

Speaker 3 (07:01):
Here.

Speaker 1 (07:01):
He's been training in Carmel.

Speaker 3 (07:02):
So everybody trains in Carmel.

Speaker 1 (07:04):
Who doesn't me, I trained in Carmel.

Speaker 3 (07:07):
You do.

Speaker 1 (07:07):
That's why said it.

Speaker 2 (07:09):
Everybody does shut shout out to oswall fit go there
not a football player not just not.

Speaker 3 (07:14):
No, close enough?

Speaker 1 (07:16):
Close enough?

Speaker 2 (07:17):
Uh many say that it's close enough in fact, but no,
I mean, he's he's been here, so it is an
easy call for him to come on down, and he
just provides some veteran depth on the interior of an
offensive line that is very young right now, with Tanner
Bordolini and Dalton Tucker starting at center and guard respectively,
both being rookies on the interior there.

Speaker 3 (07:36):
Yeah, just I mean, you got to think he brings
so much knowledge to that that room, and he knows
Ryan Kelly, he knows the organization and everything like that,
and it's just kind of a cool story. You know,
you some things just are meant to be and you
work out and.

Speaker 2 (07:48):
Yeah, he said he turned down some opportunities to go
elsewhere and he was looking for the right opportunity and
when the Colts called, hey, this is the right opportunity,
come on down. So really neat thing there. All right,
let's uh, let's finish this off here. Just kind of
talking a little bit about the Colts offense in this game.
We hit a little bit on the defense, just what
we heard, you know, going up against that death star

(08:08):
of an offense that Detroit has. Defensively, Detroit's good. They're not, like,
you know, the best defense anyone's ever seen. They're really
good and they take the ball away a lot. But
I think for the Colts it's mostly about what they're
going to do on offense, and specifically with Anthony Richardson
this week, like what are the Colts going to get
out of him to follow up what he did against

(08:30):
the Jets and Amanda. Everything that we heard this week
is that the process that he kind of honed over
the last couple of weeks, he's still developing it, he's
still growing it, but it's still it's right where it
needs to be. And the Colts are going to go
into this game believing that Anthony Richardson has done everything
he can to give them the best chance to win
on Sunday.

Speaker 3 (08:49):
Yeah, I think one of the biggest things that Anthony
did and that we heard talked about this week was
his decision making and his ability to kind of stay
calm under pressure and also make the right decisions in
terms of where to throw the ball and whether to
launch a deep past Alec Peerce or keep it short
or hand it off to Jonathan Taylor or whatever it was.
And so I think that once again will be very crucial.

(09:11):
Like you said, if it comes down to what the
Colts do, then it comes down to the decisions that
he makes and whether or not they're good ones or
not necessarily and so that's kind of there's a lot
of belief that he has learned a little bit more
of how to make those decisions, and so I think
we're going to really get to see whether or not
that carries over this weekend.

Speaker 2 (09:29):
Yeah, the Lions defense is really going to challenge him
in terms of what they do with safety with Brian
Branch and Kirby Joseph. Those two guys have seven or
eleven combined interceptions. That's the most or the third most
any safety tandem has had since or in the last
five seasons. I'm trying to pull from what I did
at the game preview here on the fly here. Yeah,
eleven interceptions between that's a lot. Only two teams have

(09:51):
had more interceptions from their safeties in the single season
over the last five years. And there's still seven games
left for the Lions to play. Yeah, so those guys are.

Speaker 3 (09:59):
The numbers that team puts up all across the board.

Speaker 2 (10:02):
I mean, are just having a perfect passer rating, Like
you know, Gus Bradley being like those four incompletions in
the game. It's like kind of a bad day for him. Yeah,
they that look statistically they're like off the charts good.
But but well, we'll see where things go on Sunday.
Never count anyone out in the NFL. H If you
are able to give a good effort on Sunday, that's

(10:22):
are going into this game with a little bit of
momentum after beating the Jets, and we'll see.

Speaker 3 (10:26):
Where in Indiana Knights uniforms at one PM at Lucas Oil,
which I think is also a big part of this game, honestly,
because I think if they were going to Detroit, that's tough,
that's hard, that's really hard. But for them to be
able to to play in front of home fans, I
think is going to give a little bit of an edge.

Speaker 2 (10:45):
I would imagine Lions fans are going to travel pretty well.
Probably if you're listening to this and you're going to
the game, just give it a little extra Yeah.

Speaker 3 (10:51):
Yeah, there's a lot to cheer for.

Speaker 2 (10:53):
Yeah, I mean we've had We've had a lot of
games this year against good traveling fan base.

Speaker 1 (10:57):
He's got Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Burgh.

Speaker 3 (10:59):
Chicago, Owles, Pittsburgh and their tower.

Speaker 1 (11:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (11:01):
Now Detroit, but hey, beat the Steelers, beat the Bears,
so that is very true. Send them back to Detroit,
hopefully with only their second loss of the season. All right, Well,
that's gonna wrap us up here on this episode of
the tumber Dedril Podcast presented by nerd Wallet. For Amanda
Foster im JJ Stankowitz, talk to you next week before
the Colts played the New England Patriots.

Speaker 1 (11:20):
So long,
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