December 2, 2024 • 51 mins
Colts Roundtable Live returns this week to recap the Colts’ 25-24 victory over the New England Patriots. Head coach Shane Steichen joins Matt Taylor to discuss the offense's clutch performance in the fourth quarter and the defense’s key red zone stops. Rick Venturi and Joe Reitz also join the conversation to highlight areas of improvement as the Colts look ahead to the final four games of the regular season following the team’s bye week.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Welcome to Colts Roundtable Live on ninety three to five
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Speaker 1 (00:31):
Indeed, why now Here's the voice of the Colts Matt
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Speaker 2 (00:40):
Good evening, everybody, and welcome to Colts Around Table Live tonight,
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Studio and Colts Roundtable Live is with you until seven
pm tonight, talking Colts football and a thrilling win. On Sunday,
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as the Colts knocked off the Patriots twenty five to
twenty four, the victory improves the Colts record to six
and seven, and it was the team's first win over
the Patriots at Gillette Stadium since two thousand and six.
We've got a busy show tonight coming up. We're gonna
start it off with our weekly chat in just a
few moments with Colts head coach Shane Steichen, and then
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starting on segment number two, analyst Rick Venturi and Joe
Wrights will join me to break down the game film
from Sunday's win in Foxborough. But it was a game
that saw the defense give up yards but make stops
inside the red zone. The offense suffered two turnovers, but
Anthony Richardson delivered in the clutch. The fourth quarter belonged
to the Indianapolis Colts, so let's recap the action as
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we lead off with the game rewind. The Patriots took
a sixteen to fourteen lead into halftime in New England.
Rookie quarterback Drake May started off hot, completing seventeen of
a first twenty passes in the first half, but the
Colts were in the game at the break thanks to
two red zone touchdowns, won a seven yard pass to
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Jonathan Taylor, the other eight quarterback run by Anthony Richardson,
but the second half was back and forth just like
the first half. The Colts took the lead seventeen to
sixteen on a twenty five yard Matt Gay field goal
that capped off a thirteen play drive, but in the
fourth quarter, the Patriots would go up by the count
of twenty four to seventeen on an Antonio Gibson eleven
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yard run and then a two point conversion. The game
looked bleak when Anthony Richardson was picked off by Patriots
cornerback Christian Gonzalez in the middle of the fourth quarter,
but the defense forced a three and out and the
Colts got the ball back with five thirty four remaining
on their own twenty yard line, and then Anthony Richardson
orchestrated a drive for the Ages nineteen plays eighty yards
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with only twelve seconds to spare. Richardson accounted for fifty
eight of the eighty yards the Colts march to win
the game. The Colts on that drive had to convert
three fourth down conversions, highlighted by a three yard touchdown
pass from Anthony Richardson to Alec Pearce that tied the
game at twenty three. But the Colts kept the foot
on the gas pedal. They would go for two and
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it sounded like this. Anthony Richardson out of the gun,
Jonathan Taylor is his back left Coda Pittman shotgun stat
for Richardson, and he's trying to crash up field. He
got he.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
To two point.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Version is gone. Two points for the.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Colts and eight point possession. Give it to your best
player on offense and he delivers.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Colts back on top. Twenty five, twenty four, twelve tix
to go. The Colts were on top and the Patriots
had one final drive in them. They quickly got the
ball to midfield and called a time out with one
second remaining, but a sixty eight yard field goal attempt
by kicker Joey Slide came up just a few yards short,
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and the Colts were winners. In Week thirteen. The nineteen
plays for the Colts on the game winning drive were
the most by a team since Ty Detmer led the
Eagles on a such nineteen play drive in Week two
at nineteen ninety seven, and the Colts found a way
to win despite only having two hundred and fifty three
yards of offense, the fewests in a win so far
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this season, and the defense made plays inside the red
zone despite allowing four hundred and forty two yards and
two hundred yards on the ground of the Patriots offense
that was one of the most sluggish units in the
NFL coming into the game. In fact, all of New
England's first eight drives entered Colts territory and six of
seven reached the red zone. But New England scored just
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two red zone touchdowns while the Colts were three for
four in the red zone. Finding the end zone all
right in just a moment again, a reminder coming up
on segment two, Rick Venturrey and Joe Wrights are going
to be here and we're gonna take your social media
questions later on in the show. Get those in tonight
using the hashtag Colts Roundtable on X and you can
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use that same hashtag right here and right now now
for your submissions and your thoughts for head coach Shane Steichen,
who joined us here in studio right now in this
conversation here brought to you by Citizens Energy Group. Coach,
what a win, congratulations. How proud were you of the
team's fight and their execution down the stretch On that
epic nineteen play drive.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
Yeah, it was awesome to see those guys fight. The
resilience they had on that last drive was huge. I mean,
the fourth down conversions were big. Over overcame some things
in that drive too. To get all the way down
in there, and to finish it off obviously with a
touchdown to Alec there and then Anthony. Point conversion with
Anthony was tremendous.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Yeah, and you knew right away no hesitation at all
that yet you were going for two in that situation.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Yep.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
Felt good about it right there, with that tiny twelve
seconds on the clock, We're already down in there, already
went nineteen plays, you know, felt like we had the
momentum there and shoot, we were going for it.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Yeah, you had eight league changes in that game. You've
been part of at least two nineteen play drives in
your career. You had a nineteen play drive last year
against Tennessee, but that wasn't a game winner. This drive
yesterday was. How nerve wracking are those long drives for you?
As a play caller.
Speaker 5 (06:07):
You gotta stay calm in the moment, you know what
I mean. You just go operate and go try to
execute the best you can to give your you know,
your players a chance, you know there at the end,
and I think those guys offensively did a hell of
a job, you know, finding a way to get it done.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
How Harry was it on those on those fourth down
conversions late in the game, you know, three fourth down
conversions on that last drive. What's that like for you
watching that play out in real time?
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (06:31):
I think you know obviously that you know, we were
in the ball with Anthony, felt good about it right there,
getting him on the perimeter. And then the next one
we got the scramble to mo is a play that
we've repped, you know, off different formations so many times.
You know that we've gotten reps at that, you know,
Anthony felt comfortable with obviously, had to make a play
scramble play there. Yeah, and then the other fourth down
play was another play that you know, we've repped the
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heck out of down there with Alec. So it was
it was it was huge to get.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Those, you know, after the game, Anthony said he loves
to have the ball in his hands in those moments.
How much trust and how much faith do you have
in him in those moments?
Speaker 5 (07:05):
A ton I mean You've seen what he's done as
a runner. You know, his abilities as a runner to
go get those things. You know, he's been doing it,
you know, all year and it was awesome to see
it yesterday.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
And Shane Steichen with us on Colts Round Table Live.
So you've got game winning drives on the road by
your team here in two of the last three games.
Do you just think teams know how to win? Or
is that something that they develop? How do you look
at that?
Speaker 5 (07:30):
I think it's I think you develop it. I think
you develop it, and I think we're developing that obviously.
To get too out of the last three on the
road with game winning drives are huge, and I think
it's huge for Anthony as well, you know, a young
quarterback to you know, to do that in this league.
You know, it says a lot about his growth, you know,
and what he's doing right now and.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
The game within the game. You had three new offensive
linemen yesterday, Danny Penner at center, Mark Glewinski at right guard,
Matt Gonzalez gets his first start at right tackle. What
what did you think of the job they did.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
I thought they were tremendous, you know, stepping in obviously
getting their opportunity. You know, I've heard about Glow before
I got here, but to get him in the building
now and seeing how he operates was awesome. To have
his opportunity to go out there and play again, the
toughness that he brings, the grittiness. And then same thing
with Danny, a smart, cerebral player that's been battling all
year and then obviously gets his opportunity to go do
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what he did, uh yesterday was awesome. And same thing
you know with Maddy g you know, stepping in at
the right tackle spot. So hats off to those guys,
you know, hats off to Tony and the work that
he's done with those guys.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
And it also speaks to your confidence in them. I
mean you call the running play on that two point
conversion when you have so much newness on the offensive line.
Speaker 5 (08:38):
Yeah, I think part of that is too. You know,
felt good about the call, you know, whether you know
it was the zone read play where you give it
to j T five can keep it and then you
got your best lineman and Quinton pulling around you know, uh,
leading up in there, which was was awesome.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
So the red zone yesterday you were three for four,
Colts three for four, New England two for six, and
the week before the Colts were zero for two against
the Lions. That was a major reason why the Colts
won that game. How do you explain the differences in
the red zones between last week and this week?
Speaker 5 (09:06):
I think, you know, we executed that was the big thing.
We executed this week against New England and found ways
to get in there. Obviously three for four obviously would
have that other one which would have been huge. But
are guys executed down there?
Speaker 2 (09:16):
All right? You're on the bye? What what's your message
to the team here on this week off?
Speaker 5 (09:20):
You know, get ready, get your bodies right, get your
minds right. Obviously, get some rest, but be ready to roll.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Be ready to roll.
Speaker 5 (09:27):
Come back Monday, be ready to go for this Denver game.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
How do you spin the bye? Within you and the
coaching staff? What do you guys want to get accomplished?
Speaker 5 (09:33):
Self scout We kind of go back and look at
what we've done this year self scout wise and making
sure you know the areas that we need to improve on.
You know this, you know this four game stretch, get
those things improved on over the bye week and then
obviously we'll get some you know, the coach. We'll get
some times with their families as well later in the week,
so it'll be good.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
How many guys need this buy? I mean, you've got
Oligneman banged up, You've got a boatload of receivers who
need some rest. The entire defense I'm sure would love
some time off. I know it's been a long road
to get here. It's the latest buy in the NFL,
but it seems like this late bye could help you
springboard things a little bit with four games to play.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
Yeah, absolutely, it is a late bye, but to get
these guys healthy, you know, get some time away. You know,
we've been going since training camp, you know, and then
thirteen weeks straight. So to get this buy right now,
I think it's coming out a good time for our
guys and looking forward to, you know, to the rest
of the season after that.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
All right, let's go to the fan questions a few
to close out here. Submit your thoughts every Monday with
us using hashtag Colts Round Table with head coach Shane Steichen,
Let's go to Clayton. He's up first. He says, Hey, coach,
what can we do schematically to get more intermediate throws
consistently out of Anthony Richardson in the passing game, yeah,
I think, you.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
Know, schematically, we look at those things every week and
see how the defenses are playing it, whether they're playing
the press man to man coverage or the off stuff.
You know, if you get some off stuff, that's easy
to get those easy complations. But if they're playing press
man and they want to man you up, obviously you
got to run some stuff to run away from those
guys as well. So we'll continue to look at that
all right.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Along with that, Matthew is asking after three games with
Richardson back in the lineup, what's your overall assessment of
what we're getting out of him and where can we
get better in the final four games.
Speaker 5 (11:10):
I think we're getting a lot out of him, especially
in the run game, you know what I mean. And
I think he's taken the next step obviously as a
passer as well, and just his calmness in the pocket.
You can see it with his footwork and how he's
delivering the football right now. So we've got to continue
that growth and continue to take the next steps in
all those areas.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
All right, A few more Harry's asking, what's our biggest
challenge in shoring up the defense in the last month
of the season after the yardage given up to the
Patriots that doesn't feature a lot of game changers.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
Yeah, I think it's I think we've got to be
really efficient defensively on first and second down, you know
what I mean, So we're not in the third and
short area as much, you know, so we can get
him in these third and long situations, you know, to
really rush the passer. So I think that's going to
be a point of emphasis, is looking at you know,
first and second down and getting them behind the chains.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Absolutely. Head coach Shane Steichen with us. Sorry, coach, iom,
Thanksgiving went well. Put on some sweatpants after the big
meal and watch them football.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
Yeah, it was great, you know, watch watch some games,
had some family time, had a few players over, Yeah,
hung out with some of the guys, so it was
it was a great time with the fam.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Absolutely, all right, coach, Well, I know you got a
busy schedule here, even during the bye week, so enjoy
some time off in the later part of the week,
rest up and get ready for these final four games.
Thanks as always for the time awesome, appreciate you. That's
head coach Shane stich In with us tonight Colts Round
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gonna read the Tale of Two Cities, what Indianapolis did
well at quarterback, in the red zone and along that
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offensive line compared to New England and week thirteen. Then
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Speaker 2 (13:50):
Welcome back. This is Colts Round Table Live tonight. I'm
Matt Taylor, now joined by the former Colts Rick vent
Turrey and Joe Wrights are here with you the rest
of the way until seven the clock. Joe, Welcome to
the show. How was that long weekend Thanksgiving capped off
by the thrilling win for the Colts on Sunday?
Speaker 4 (14:06):
We did Thanksgiving with Jill's family on Thursday and then
went over to my parents on Friday. So got some
really good turkey eight way too much. That is the
nice thing now about being being retired. Right, Well, we'll
have that. What was the pie count? A lot of
pumpkin pie, I'll say that, But I always used to laugh,
you know. We used to have our weave It's on
Friday right way in every week and Inevitably, guys would
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complain most after Thanksgiving, They're like, why are we waiting
on Friday? I remember one year in Baltimore they got
the team to move the way in up to Thursday,
and all the big guys were celebrating because they could
weigh in before practice, go home and guilt free out
on some food.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Yeah. See pumpkin pie. I mean, why do you like
pumpkin pie. I've never liked pumpkin anything. What is it
about pumpkin that everybody loves? I don't know.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
I'm just a big pie guy. I love pie. Part
of it's we get the homemade whip cream on top
of it, and I mean you can you can eat
anything underneath there. But no, it was great, great Thanksgiving,
and then Saturday we got our Christmas tree cut down
and decorated the tree, and so the Rice House we're
full steam ahead for the advent season and Christmas and uh,
it's it's an exciting time for sure.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
So you go old school, you have a real tree
in your living room.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
Yeah, we go Clark Griswold and go out in the
middle of the woods and chop it down and.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
On top of a Sure, what are you the back
of a truck.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
Back on top of my suburban, loaded up there and
drive home and hope it doesn't fall out.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
So no, it's fun.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
It's been a Yeah, it's an exciting time of the season,
and well especially that Colts win. I mean, what what
a thrilling win. I know we'll get into it, but
just to think you got the bye week, you get
the chance to take a breath now, and it's a
it's a four game season that really we control our
own destiny. It's an exciting time to be in for
the Colts.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Indeed, hey, Rick, how about you man? You still feeling
feeling good eating some leftover turkey following that Colts win yesterday.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
Actually, I was really looking forward to that hamburger last night.
It wasn't there because I always eat that hamburger on
a plane after winds, and I was just so you
had to looking forward.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
It was he had to settle for some chicken tenders
or something.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
They were not they were not bad, but uh yeah,
I was. I kind of starved myself during the day
and then I'm just so looked forward to it. But
you know, after a beautiful day like that, I'll take
the chicken tenders, that's for sure.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
They tasted pretty good after that. Colts win. Yeah, big
win for the Colts in the fourth quarter, tenders all
around as Anthony Richardson got his way into the end
zone on that two point conversion. All right, we've got
a lot to get into a lot of content here
with you the rest of the way. We're gonna lead
off our roundtable discussion with Rick Venturi and Joe Wrights
with some film breakdown in Foxborough. We do that here.
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It's time now for the tail the tape by Brace
and Hell today. Okay, let it go. Bang bang, player,
bang bang, keep.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
The hammer down, keep talking to one another man to
clean it up. That's all.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Get ready, get ready, all right, Joe. The Colts were
winners in Week thirteen, twenty five, twenty four eight lead
changes that epic nineteen play drive in the fourth quarter,
the Colts go for two. They get it. But despite
the last drive, the Colts still suffer two turnovers, a
couple of interceptions. The defense gave up over four hundred
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yards of offense two hundred yards rushing. But a win
is a win, and for the Colts it was a
big one to stay alive inside the AFC playoff picture
and now they hit the buy. So what notes for you, Joe?
Did you jot down after watching the game film back
again today?
Speaker 4 (17:34):
Yeah? The first thing was really our offensive line play
and something that you know, I always watch and follow
the line and not necessarily follow the ball. And I
knew with some injuries and Smith out and we were
going to reshuffle things. But I really thought the offensive
line played tremendous, you know, especially you think about Glowinski.
You know, I know the announcer said he was off
the street, but I know a little birdie, you know,
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told me he's been training hard at Dugan Sports Performance
in Carmel.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
He was ready to go.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
Man, he was. I mean that very first drive, he
gets the combo block, gets up to the linebacker, pancakes
the linebacker. I mean, second play of the season. And
you know, I thought Pinter, you know, struggled a little
bit in pass pro. I think Gonzolvez, you know, he's
more natural for right tackle. Anyway, it was just great
to see Bernie back there, and Quinton Nelson, I thought,
after you know, one of his worst performances as a
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cult last week, really responded well. So credit to those
five guys, a bunch of different guys playing in a
new unit for carrying the day. And we got Jonathan
Taylor back on track. But you know, just kind of
a weird game. We only had eight drives in the game.
I mean, we only punt twice. Think about this. New
England did not punt until five minutes left in the ballgame.
And we come out victorious. And at the end of
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the day, the staff that mattered and carried the day
was red zone and we go three to four and
New England is only two of six. But talking about
the quarterback, and you know that nineteen play drive when
you really had four gotta have it plays, you know,
three fourth downs that we canted, two through the air
and then one on the ground, and then that two
point conversion. Everybody in the stadium knew that he was
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going to run the ball and guess what, you still
can't stop him. And that's the weapon that the Colts have.
And there were some inconsistencies there from ar but I
think when you think about Matt two wins in the
last three games, two fourth quarter drives when you're behind
and leading in the team, that's what's most important to
me because this team knows, and I think there's a
belief in there that we get this guy the ball.
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He's going to be able to make plays with his
arm and his leg. And I know it's a short
career in a short time frame. He's always been at
his best in the fourth quarter. He's got selective amnesia,
like Coach likes to talk about. He comes in from
the interception, no big deal, leads us on a nineteen
play drive to win the game. And what I'm most
excited about is you get the win. You now get
the bye week to rest, and you're really setting up
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a playoff game in Denver, because if we beat Denver
and get to seven and seven and have the tiebreaker,
they got a really hard schedule down the stretch. They'll
lose at least another game. If you're the Colts right now.
What's exciting. You have that late by, which is really odd.
I've never had to buy that late. But it's a
four game season that you control your own destiny with
and that's an exciting spot to be in after all
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the ups and downs, and no matter what happened the
last twelve games, we control our own destiny. Sitting here
Monday night on December second, and that's an exciting place
to be and if you're in the locker room, and
that's an exciting place to be for Colts fans, you.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
Know, I you know, as a cult fan and broadcaster,
I have to say this was one of the most exciting.
I mean, you kept telling you, kept telling them how
many lead changes there were. It was going back and forth,
and it was a point here or there, and it
was literally hard stopping. I think mine did stop right
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there when we went for two, and I was happy
with it. But you know, with the season on the brink,
like I said, I think it was one of the
most exciting, exciting cult whims that I've ever been around.
Three key things. To me, three key elements is what
I see both at the game and in the tape.
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I think Number one is our offensive grit. Okay, the
nineteen play, eighty yard five minutes, thank god, time consuming
drive was a little bit of everything. I agree with Joe.
Hats off to those kids that stepped up and played
in the offensive line. Of course, the quarterback, you know, Pierce,
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all those things, all the grit that it took, the
you know, the three fourth downs, and essentially it was
four fourth downs because fit two points like a fourth down,
and you know, just the grit to go the length
of the field with it on the line, with literally
the season on the line, great grit. I think number
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two was the cahonis and I think game management of
our head coach. He's come under some fire at times,
but I thought that he did a great job. I thought,
you know, all along, I felt like I felt like
he would go for two. I think I mentioned that
to you during and I know my defensive mind was
if I was a defensive coach, the defense I was
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thinking about was what's going to be the two point defense?
And he was so decisive there was never a doubt
from the time we scored that touchdown. He put those
two fingers up right now. There wasn't no thought about it.
That was what he was going to do. And I
think the reason I'd give him really good game management
since there a he looked across. Remember now New England
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had been in nineteen defensive plays. They were exhausted on defense,
and number two, there's no way he was going to
trust his defense to go back in in and overtime.
No way. And I thought the other thing was at
the end of the game, when it was on the line,
he thought, players not plays. I mean it was going
to be ar five and all those key situations, and
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you know what, it always is players over players. And
you know, I thought the you know, the third thing
was the kid is a finisher and selective ambesia is right.
I mean he you know, he came back from that
pad interception to Gonzalez. He had a couple overthrows in
that next drive, but he just puts it out and
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he is a finisher man. And when it's when it's
all said and done, I mean, if not for him,
if not for him right now, we're four and nine.
I mean, he bails the defense out against the Jets,
he bails him out yesterday, and not only does he
take it down and score, he basically wipes the timeout
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so the defense doesn't have to go back in. So
I was thrilled to death with that. A couple of
things that I really want to give shout outs to
and shouts down to. Okay, first of all, I want
to give a shout out to to the to the
offensive line. As as Joe said, I'm not going to
repeat it, but I really thought, and I've always liked
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low like glow when he was here. I was really
happy when they made that move. Danny has always basically
played decent at center, not so much at guard, but
at center, and Gonzalez I totally agree, is much better
on the right side when he's not out in space.
You know, I thought that front five really played with grit,
and hats off to those kids for stepping up. Hats
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off to Pierce. I think Piers has had one of
the greatest improvement seasons I've ever seen in a player.
The Piers of twenty three in the Piers of twenty
four is too different.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Yeah, he played with a banged up foot yesterday too,
Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
But I mean he has done so much. He's become
an all purpose receiver, not a one trick pony now
in the end of it. On the other end of it,
for people like myself who really understand the nuances of
defense and NFL football, in my world, the defense is
almost unwatchable, it really is, you know. I, Like I said,
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if Ar five doesn't bail him out, we lose both
to the Jets and to the Patriots, who are bottom
feeders on offense, absolutely bottom feeders. I'm not sure there's
another group in the league, from coaches to players that
could give four hundred and twenty two yards to the
Patriots eighty percent completions in two hundred yards rushing. I
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just really don't. I don't think there's another team in
the league that could accomplish that. You knew going in,
I said it myself, like ten times you had to
stop Stevenson in the running backs, you had to stop
the tight ends, and you had to make sure you
could control the quarterback on rushing. We did nothing. We
did none of those things, absolutely none of them. And
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you know, basically, for three years, we've kind of watched
this Friday night concept shredded time and time again, and
we've seen quarterbacks become kings against us and it doesn't
matter who it is. And the sad thing for me,
no one on West fifty sixth Street seems to give
a damn about it. And you know, well I think
they should.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
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They're big takeaways from watching the game film back again today.
Coming up in segment three, we're gonna roll out the
Tale of the Two Cities. We're gonna compare the differences
in the game on Sunday between quarterback play, red zone
efficiency and the differences between the off of lines on
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Speaker 1 (27:22):
Welcome back to Colts Roundtable Live on ninety three to
five and one oh seven five the Fan for more
Colts breakdown. Here's Matt Taylor, the voice of the Colts
from the Indiana Union Construction Industry Radio Studio.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Hey, welcome back. This is Colts Round Table Live. Thanks
for sticking around this evening. We are brought to you
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proud sports betting partner of the Indianapolis Colts. All right,
we're gonna bust out this segment here. We're calling this
the Tale of the Two Cities. And this is not
the Charles Dickens novel. Rick, all right, this is a
completely different concept here. This is a look at the
differences between New England and Indianapolis from Sunday and some
pivotal areas. We're going to decide which areas the Colts
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were dominant in and some things that still need to
get cleaned up after the bye with only four games
to play. And Rick, I'm gonna start with you. Let's
talk about the overall quarterback play on Sunday because you
had the two youngest quarterbacks in the NFL on display.
Drake May has a good game, completes eighty percent of
his passes career high. Anthony Richardson goes twelve of twenty
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four for one hundred and nine with two touchdowns and
two picks, for a passer rating of fifty five point seven.
The one hundred and nine yards are Richardson's fewest when
he's finished a game, and he's now completed twelve or
fewer passes in nine of his thirty team starts. But
he got it done in crunch time, right, That's all
that matters. So how do you compare Richardson to May
(29:07):
and Rick Ken? The Colts continue to win down the
stretch with the numbers that they're getting from their gunslinger.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
Well, you know, I think if you if you basically
do what he can do and if you somehow could
shore up the defense. The answer to that is yes,
because it's still the consummate team game.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
You know, when I look at these two guys, they're
two of my favorite guys in the league. You know,
when we went into this game and I watched and
I watched May, and I really like to May coming
out of North Carolina, I was always surprised that he
kind of everybody thought he was going to fall. He
didn't fall too far to number three, but he he
and Richardson couldn't be. They're both going to be, I think,
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great quarterbacks, but they're totally different. I mean, they're on different.
When you have Richardson, I'm not even sure that I
look at him as a peer quarterback when I look
at him as an entity and a weapon, somebody that
has something that you can't find. I mean, he is
another running back, not just an elusive quarterback on his
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own read. He is a powerful guy that can run
in any gap, any gap. There. You saw it on
the two point. It was the swing power g to him.
They had a shot at him and he bent the pocket,
he bent the pile back. I mean he is a
terrific weapon. He also throws an exceptionally good deep ball,
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you know. So with that matter of fact, I got
a text from my boy grudin now for the game.
He said, it's like playing against Tayson Hill the whole game.
And he meant that complimentary in that you got this
powerful man just running at you all day. And the
biggest key on this one is can they bring him
along in time on the rest of the game, the
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intermediate game, and you know, we just don't see much
of it. But he has his special qualities, and I
think May is the classic. I think he's the best.
I think he's playing. It's between him and Daniels who's
playing the best.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
This other rookies of the rookies.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
Of the rookies. But I think he is going to
be exceptional because he has no outside receivers to throw to.
I mean, he is making a livering from numbers to
numbers with tight ends and running backs and a slot.
That's it. And what a job. He's got accuracy, really
comfortable in the pocket. But a great athlete. You saw
it on that forty yard takeoff. So you know, I
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think both teams are really blessed. You know with a
star that they can build around that going to build
differently in both cases, but a star you can build around,
all right.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
Joe, for you, I think you'll admit too and concur
that Drake May played really well yesterday and is having
a really good rookie season. And also for context Sunday,
for the Colts, they won just for the fifteenth time
since they moved to Indianapolis when quarterback completed twelve or
fewer passes for one hundred and ten or fewer yards
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in the first time since twenty twenty one. So how
do you break down May versus Richardson and also just
the the baseline performances in terms of what they're getting
out of Richardson in the big picture.
Speaker 4 (32:16):
Yeah, First, for May, what I think and we do
this are too often, is we let quarterbacks get comfortable.
So you're facing a young quarterback and you let him
get comfortable with just easy completions. It was tight end,
tight end running back, running back, and then I mean
May put some throws in there. He stepped back and
went off his back foot and let it rip and
threw the ball in between some tight zone windows and
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he let it fly. And he is accurate, but I
think it's more a product of our defense letting these
quarterbacks get so comfortable early in the game where they
build that confidence. It's like a shooter in basketball. You
let him hit a couple easy shots, you don't guard
him well in the first half, and all of a sudden,
he's got that confidence to hit the harder shot or
make the harder pass later in the game. And so
I think, you know, may played well, but I think
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part of it is we all allowed him to play well,
especially in our secondary. And then I think when you
go to Richardson, you know, when it's fourth and two,
when the game's on the line, everybody knows he's going
to run the ball, and you still can't stop him.
And that's just a tremendous gift. And what I saw
yesterday from the Colts was the formula for winning ball games.
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Taylor twenty five carries on the ground, Richardson had nine carries.
You get thirty to thirty five carries between those two guys,
and then he had only twenty four passing attempts. I
think that's the formula. And I know he was only
fifty percent, only four point five yards per pass, but
we got to help him out as receivers. You know,
Ady Mitchell has a drop Granston has a drop down
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there at the two yard line, those numbers would be
a little bit different. And I think we got to
figure out a way, especially if Downs isn't there, to
get more out of the passing game. And I think
where Richardson's most dangerous as you see it. You know,
he's back in the pocket, all of a sudden, he's
on the move, he steps up. He can throw really
really good on the run, and that's those deep balls
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that defenses can't necessarily defend well, especially when he's moving
and they got a plaster you know, when they got
to kind of cover for longer in the back end.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
But we got to find ways in the passing game.
Speaker 4 (34:10):
Part of its receivers just catching the ball and helping
them out to get some more explosives in the pass game.
And I think we can do that. I think with
the deep ball with Pierce and some of the other
concepts that we have, you know, we can get it done.
And I know our receivers are banged up right now,
and this bye week comes at a really good time.
But what I saw was the formula yesterday, and that's
twenty to twenty five carries from Taylor. Let the offensive
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line dictate the game. Richardson runs ten ish design runs
per game, and then you take the top off on
the defense with some deep balls which we didn't get yesterday,
but we get those. To me, that's kind of that
three headed monster that we need to think about offensively
with this identity as we go into this home stretch
these last four games.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
That's Joe Wright's right there. This is Colt's Round Table Live.
I'm Matt Taylor also tonight and joined by Rick Van Turrey,
and this segment is the tail of the two cities,
comparing the Colt to New England yesterday and a big
reason why the Colts won. As we mentioned in the
previous segment red zone play. The Colts converted three or
four trips inside the twenty posted a season high seventy
(35:11):
five percent mark in the red zone. The Patriots, meanwhile,
were just two for six. They had to settle for
a couple of short fuel goals. They missed the field
goal in the red zone. They threw the pick of
the goal line. It was intercepted by Julian Blackman and
the red zone aspect of the game. Joe, it was
epitomized in the fourth quarter. Anthony Richardson threw a three
yard touchdown pass to Alec Pierce with twelve seconds to go,
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and they won the game by going for two, which
is also obviously inside the red zone. So, Joe, for
you what worked well on both sides of the ball
for the Colts in the red zone on Sunday because
it was a big bounce back week for the Colts
in that department after they were zero for two against
the Lions, and defensively, Detroit took advantage of the Colts
inside the red zone last Sunday.
Speaker 4 (35:53):
Yeah, well, first off, defense, our red zone defense saved us.
And you know they had a touchdown called back from
a penalty. Yeah, you know, which you speak about penalties,
we only had two for fifteen yards the whole game.
We did not beat ourselves, which was great. And then
you know, shout out to Blackman that interception just heads
up football. I mean that that's saved the game right there.
When he picked the ball up, you know, off of
Henry and returned it. I couldn't believe that one didn't
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hit the ground. But you know, just great play by him,
And I think defensively again, you know, we're a team
that's built to bend, not break, and give up yards.
And if you're going to give up that yardage, you
got to be a fishing in the red zone we
were yesterday. And then offensively, just the weapon that Richardson
gives you running the ball, and we can be a
premier red zone team. And I think for this group,
right efficiency in the red zone, you know, seventy five
(36:38):
three or four like where yesterday. I like conceptually on
that two point play. You know, typically a zone read
right is where you the running back runs up the middle.
The quarterback reads the end and he pulls it, decides
whether he wants to run around the end or give
the ball to the running back. But with Richardson's ability
as a quarterback to be that power runner, I like
the diversity. I thought our run game was more diverse yesterday.
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Again credit to the offensive line continuing to expand on
what we do well in the red zone and not
being afraid to run Richardson right, Richardson left. Richardson up
the middle when you get down there, because even though
everybody knows he's going to run the ball. It's still
incredibly tough to stop because you're defending twelve guys in
not eleven, right, And just the unique physical traits that
Richardson has which are unique to any other quarterback in
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the NFL.
Speaker 2 (37:20):
And that's just it, Rick. I mean, you apologize for
nothing when you get a win. But the Colts do
have to feel fortunate to get that victory considering you know,
New England miss is a chip shot field goal. They
had some other penalties inside the red zone, and they
had that interception of the goal line that was you know,
more of a byproduct of Julian Blackman being the right
place at the right time than it was a bad
throw by Drake May.
Speaker 3 (37:42):
Yeah. Absolutely, And if you look at the play, Zier
really makes it. I mean he gets his hand in
there as what's his face as May as the tight
end eighty five was. Henry was bobbling the ball, you
know when he was bobbling it, but Zaire got in
there and affected his hands and then it carrimed up
to black Men. And I don't think Yers get enough
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credit on this. As I looked at the tape, I
didn't even notice it at the game. To tell you,
the truth. But you speak to you speak to me
when you speak red zone. For some reason, over the years,
I kind of on every staff became known as the
red zone guy, kind of became my kind of my
specialty as an assistant coach, and I would every Thursday,
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I would give the presentation of the red zone, both
emotionally and strategically what we were going to do, and
to emphasize the importance of it. Every Thursday, I would say,
you know, there's three things important in your life. That
is God, that is family, and that is red zone.
And for three hours on Sunday, I want you to
reverse that. Okay, I would say that every Thursday. But
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in the end, in the end, the one significant statistic
that mattered was the red zone Sunday. And we got
some breaks the callback of the touchdown, the chip field goal.
You know, the penalty, there's no question about it. But
the interception was critical and when it happened. But the
idea that we scored three out of four times and
really you got to add the two point that's four
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to five, really was the difference maker. And I think
the biggest thing now is that once you get in
the low red zone, Richardson's almost unstoppable. I mean he is.
He does literally add the twelfth man. I mean, there's
a play in there where we go spread and of
course the defense has to spread out, and over the years,
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you don't account for the quarterback in that situation, and
now you're running with a Jim Brown type tailback. They
run a crack and he's around there. It's not even questioning.
And then they actually run a power play. You know,
it's a swing power with the quarterback on the two
point play. And so you know, I think that is
really you know, there's no question about it that that
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won the game both ways because really they dominated most statistics.
You know, I think we had less penalties. I think
that saved a little bit, but they still hit thirty
four minutes time and possession. But you know, at the
end of the day, I've always said this that twenty yards,
and I actually call it thirty yards because I start
the orange zone from the thirty to the twenty. Because
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studying it over the years, offense is changed in those
areas from the twenty to the thirty, to the twenty
to the ten, and from the ten in offense is
drastically changing. There if you study it over time and
you know so the ability to stop them in there
and the ability to score. Actually, at the end of
the day, if you're looking for a stat, and I
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would say this that at the end of the season,
that where we stand right now, the only area other
than we're running the ball really good, like Joe says,
we're still we're thirteenth now in yards per with the
one two punch when those guys are going. But the
only stat that's really keeping us alive if you just
look at stats, okay, is that we're sixteenth. It's mediocre,
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don't get me wrong, but we're sixteenth in red zone
and s steinhon red zone defense. So mediocre as it
may be, it's keeping us in the game.
Speaker 1 (41:04):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (41:05):
Rick Venturi there, Joe Wrights as well. That's the tale
of the two cities. And look at what Indianapolis did
well and what New England did not, and how those
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Speaker 2 (42:05):
Colts Roundtable Live continues tonight. I'm Matt Taylor here on
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go to Neil Is up first. He's asking, Hey, coach,
what's the biggest thing holding our defense back and preventing
it from turning the corner this late in the season.
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What do you think, Rick?
Speaker 3 (42:47):
Yeah, well, I think it's a stubbornness in our part
to never have evolved. You know, you can look at
it tape three years ago and look at a tape
today and you can study and it's really the same package.
It's no different. You know, we played black board front
over almost all the time, very very predictable because we're
basically going to play the same defense game in and
game out, and we run a soft verge coverage zone
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that even Joe said it before, that makes quarterbacks comfortable
and in the end makes some kings. If you're going
to get better, I think three things have to happen.
I don't know this late in the season, and with
their stubbornness, I doubt it can happen. But number one,
you need front changes and movement. You can't line up
in that same front. I mean, you know, two hundred
yards rushing to the Patriots. That's kind of surprising. Why
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does that happen? Then we don't choke off routes, whether
it's man DEMN or zone or a matchup zone coverage. Basically,
there's way too many just gimme completions, no cover zones,
areas that are wide open, the high percentage. We're thirty
first now in the league and this is where we
live in past percentage against and that's just that's a killer.
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And then when we do blitz, we still do not
crowd people, and therefore we missed up. We messed up
on some blitz of Sunday that we're going to get there,
but because we didn't cover tight. So, I mean, it's
those things. I don't know that it will ever change,
but if they don't change, there will always be on
a ceiling of how good you're going to be on defense.
Speaker 2 (44:18):
All right, we got time for one more question here.
This is coming from Frank. Hey, Joe, what can a
win like that do for the team, psyche And what's
the difference between a win versus a loss before the
bye week for players and coaches?
Speaker 4 (44:32):
Oh? Well, that means you can enjoy your dinner and
it tastes good on your bye week. Right, the years
that you have a loss going into the bye week.
Speaker 2 (44:39):
Especially when when a win is it means you're still
in the AFC playoff picture versus a loss is you know,
that's that's a major uphill battle, right, Yeah, no question.
Speaker 4 (44:48):
I mean the reality was, you know, if we had
you know, lost that game, I mean, the playoff chances
really are zero. But I think way the last three weeks,
really the last six weeks have shaped out with ar
going to the bench, coming back leading two game winning
drives and two of the last three games both wins.
I think there's a belief with this team that says, Okay,
if we get to the fourth quarter, our quarterback's going
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to go win it. And I tell you what, I
played with some of those quarterbacks. There's no better feeling
than being that huddle and knowing, you know what, we
got the guy that can take us to the Promised
Land and deliver victory. And so when you're the Colts
this late bye it's so unique. I never had a
bye week in December or even close to it. But
you really have a four game sprint to the finish
line and you have three games, two of them at
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home against Very. You know, Denver's got seven wins. The
other three teams got seven wins combined. And so this
bye week right now, I think there's an excitement about
it that, hey, you know, we were down with the
Colts and now you get the chance to basically control
your own destiny. And everything's about Denver, Denver, Denver, Denver.
I mean, you know they're playing Monday night. Everybody's going
(45:53):
to sit home and watch that game tonight. You got
the preseason game against Denver that we played, which is rare,
and if you remember Stidhams started that game, Nicks played
a whole lot in that game, so you actually have
some film and some tape on him against our defense.
And it's just an exciting place to be and knowing
you get a chance to recharge, first off physically, secondly mentally,
and when you walk back in that building on Monday,
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it's a four week sprint to the finish line. And
it's all systems go against Denver. Because you go out
there to Denver and you win that game. I mean,
you think that it's the Colts, You know, Colts to
lose in terms of getting in the playoffs. So just
an exciting time I think after the last month or
so of this season and some of the ups and
downs that you've put yourself in this position to really
play for the playoffs coming up next Sunday against Denver.
Speaker 2 (46:37):
Yeah, Joe Wright's right there, Rick Finn Turrey two. That's
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Speaker 1 (47:42):
Welcome back to Colts Roundtable Live on ninety three five
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Speaker 2 (47:54):
We are back closing things out here on Colts Roundtable
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with Rick Van Turi and Joe Wrights. It's timed out
(48:14):
to close out the show with the closing arguments from
the fellas and Joe with your final thoughts. Big win
for the Colts. They stay alive inside the AFC Playoff
picture and now you get a week off. It's the
latest buy in the NFL. What would you want to
do and what would you want to get accomplished with
this late of a bye if you were still playing
on this Colts team here late in the season.
Speaker 4 (48:35):
Yeah, I think with the late bye it's huge. You
just make sure you recover physically, get your treatment, get
a couple of workouts in, but you want to kind
of completely disconnect from football for a couple of days
and recharge mentally, emotionally, spiritually. And then as you get
later in the week, you know, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, you
start to look at tape for Denver, you start to
do things that you want to do because again, this
game has so much importance leading up there. But I
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think it's advantageous for the Colts to have the late bye,
And then from a coaching stare perspective, you really get
the chance to self scout twelve weeks in and figure
out what can we do differently, what can we maximize
on our strengths going into the last four weeks. Coach,
what are your plans here for this bye week? Late
late week for you and Matt, but probably some time
to rest up your guys' voices here for the stretch run.
Speaker 3 (49:18):
Yeah, a little bit maybe, but no, I'm looking forward
to it. That just get a little breath of their
But you know what, I think a couple of things.
You know, if I was coaching this week. Number one,
I do believe I agree with you. But something you
said earlier, I think the Colts are finding that formula
on offense to win the game. It's not perfect, but
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I think they're really finding it. That one hundred and
forty four yards of rushing between the big two that
was a key. I think they've got to find a
formula to just slow somebody down. And in the end,
it's got to be singular focused. Now, I said it
last week, there's five steps. You got to starewell with
five steps, you only can get them one at a time. Yeah,
we got one, We got an important one, and maybe
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the biggest step is coming over because my prediction is
we go in five and six, they go in seven
and six, and man, that thing is for all the
marvels back there in Denver. So singular focus. One more
big step. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (50:16):
The Colts and the Broncos both on the bye. The
Broncos do play tonight against the Cleveland Browns on Monday
Night Football, So everybody, we'll be watching that game very
very intently. Joe and Rick. Great job tonight here on
Colts Round Table Live again. I'm Matt Taylor. Thanks to
head coach Shane Stikeen who joined in on that first
segment tonight for its thoughts following the big win against
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Good evening, everybody, and welcome to Colts Around Table Live tonight,
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Studio and Colts Roundtable Live is with you until seven
pm tonight, talking Colts football and a thrilling win. On Sunday,
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as the Colts knocked off the Patriots twenty five to
twenty four, the victory improves the Colts record to six
and seven, and it was the team's first win over
the Patriots at Gillette Stadium since two thousand and six.
We've got a busy show tonight coming up. We're gonna
start it off with our weekly chat in just a
few moments with Colts head coach Shane Steichen, and then
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starting on segment number two, analyst Rick Venturi and Joe
Wrights will join me to break down the game film
from Sunday's win in Foxborough. But it was a game
that saw the defense give up yards but make stops
inside the red zone. The offense suffered two turnovers, but
Anthony Richardson delivered in the clutch. The fourth quarter belonged
to the Indianapolis Colts, so let's recap the action as
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we lead off with the game rewind. The Patriots took
a sixteen to fourteen lead into halftime in New England.
Rookie quarterback Drake May started off hot, completing seventeen of
a first twenty passes in the first half, but the
Colts were in the game at the break thanks to
two red zone touchdowns, won a seven yard pass to
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Jonathan Taylor, the other eight quarterback run by Anthony Richardson,
but the second half was back and forth just like
the first half. The Colts took the lead seventeen to
sixteen on a twenty five yard Matt Gay field goal
that capped off a thirteen play drive, but in the
fourth quarter, the Patriots would go up by the count
of twenty four to seventeen on an Antonio Gibson eleven
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yard run and then a two point conversion. The game
looked bleak when Anthony Richardson was picked off by Patriots
cornerback Christian Gonzalez in the middle of the fourth quarter,
but the defense forced a three and out and the
Colts got the ball back with five thirty four remaining
on their own twenty yard line, and then Anthony Richardson
orchestrated a drive for the Ages nineteen plays eighty yards
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with only twelve seconds to spare. Richardson accounted for fifty
eight of the eighty yards the Colts march to win
the game. The Colts on that drive had to convert
three fourth down conversions, highlighted by a three yard touchdown
pass from Anthony Richardson to Alec Pearce that tied the
game at twenty three. But the Colts kept the foot
on the gas pedal. They would go for two and
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it sounded like this. Anthony Richardson out of the gun,
Jonathan Taylor is his back left Coda Pittman shotgun stat
for Richardson, and he's trying to crash up field. He
got he.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
To two point.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Version is gone. Two points for the.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Colts and eight point possession. Give it to your best
player on offense and he delivers.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Colts back on top. Twenty five, twenty four, twelve tix
to go. The Colts were on top and the Patriots
had one final drive in them. They quickly got the
ball to midfield and called a time out with one
second remaining, but a sixty eight yard field goal attempt
by kicker Joey Slide came up just a few yards short,
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and the Colts were winners. In Week thirteen. The nineteen
plays for the Colts on the game winning drive were
the most by a team since Ty Detmer led the
Eagles on a such nineteen play drive in Week two
at nineteen ninety seven, and the Colts found a way
to win despite only having two hundred and fifty three
yards of offense, the fewests in a win so far
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this season, and the defense made plays inside the red
zone despite allowing four hundred and forty two yards and
two hundred yards on the ground of the Patriots offense
that was one of the most sluggish units in the
NFL coming into the game. In fact, all of New
England's first eight drives entered Colts territory and six of
seven reached the red zone. But New England scored just
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two red zone touchdowns while the Colts were three for
four in the red zone. Finding the end zone all
right in just a moment again, a reminder coming up
on segment two, Rick Venturrey and Joe Wrights are going
to be here and we're gonna take your social media
questions later on in the show. Get those in tonight
using the hashtag Colts Roundtable on X and you can
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use that same hashtag right here and right now now
for your submissions and your thoughts for head coach Shane Steichen,
who joined us here in studio right now in this
conversation here brought to you by Citizens Energy Group. Coach,
what a win, congratulations. How proud were you of the
team's fight and their execution down the stretch On that
epic nineteen play drive.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
Yeah, it was awesome to see those guys fight. The
resilience they had on that last drive was huge. I mean,
the fourth down conversions were big. Over overcame some things
in that drive too. To get all the way down
in there, and to finish it off obviously with a
touchdown to Alec there and then Anthony. Point conversion with
Anthony was tremendous.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Yeah, and you knew right away no hesitation at all
that yet you were going for two in that situation.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Yep.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
Felt good about it right there, with that tiny twelve
seconds on the clock, We're already down in there, already
went nineteen plays, you know, felt like we had the
momentum there and shoot, we were going for it.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Yeah, you had eight league changes in that game. You've
been part of at least two nineteen play drives in
your career. You had a nineteen play drive last year
against Tennessee, but that wasn't a game winner. This drive
yesterday was. How nerve wracking are those long drives for you?
As a play caller.
Speaker 5 (06:07):
You gotta stay calm in the moment, you know what
I mean. You just go operate and go try to
execute the best you can to give your you know,
your players a chance, you know there at the end,
and I think those guys offensively did a hell of
a job, you know, finding a way to get it done.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
How Harry was it on those on those fourth down
conversions late in the game, you know, three fourth down
conversions on that last drive. What's that like for you
watching that play out in real time?
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (06:31):
I think you know obviously that you know, we were
in the ball with Anthony, felt good about it right there,
getting him on the perimeter. And then the next one
we got the scramble to mo is a play that
we've repped, you know, off different formations so many times.
You know that we've gotten reps at that, you know,
Anthony felt comfortable with obviously, had to make a play
scramble play there. Yeah, and then the other fourth down
play was another play that you know, we've repped the
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heck out of down there with Alec. So it was
it was it was huge to get.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Those, you know, after the game, Anthony said he loves
to have the ball in his hands in those moments.
How much trust and how much faith do you have
in him in those moments?
Speaker 5 (07:05):
A ton I mean You've seen what he's done as
a runner. You know, his abilities as a runner to
go get those things. You know, he's been doing it,
you know, all year and it was awesome to see
it yesterday.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
And Shane Steichen with us on Colts Round Table Live.
So you've got game winning drives on the road by
your team here in two of the last three games.
Do you just think teams know how to win? Or
is that something that they develop? How do you look
at that?
Speaker 5 (07:30):
I think it's I think you develop it. I think
you develop it, and I think we're developing that obviously.
To get too out of the last three on the
road with game winning drives are huge, and I think
it's huge for Anthony as well, you know, a young
quarterback to you know, to do that in this league.
You know, it says a lot about his growth, you know,
and what he's doing right now and.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
The game within the game. You had three new offensive
linemen yesterday, Danny Penner at center, Mark Glewinski at right guard,
Matt Gonzalez gets his first start at right tackle. What
what did you think of the job they did.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
I thought they were tremendous, you know, stepping in obviously
getting their opportunity. You know, I've heard about Glow before
I got here, but to get him in the building
now and seeing how he operates was awesome. To have
his opportunity to go out there and play again, the
toughness that he brings, the grittiness. And then same thing
with Danny, a smart, cerebral player that's been battling all
year and then obviously gets his opportunity to go do
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what he did, uh yesterday was awesome. And same thing
you know with Maddy g you know, stepping in at
the right tackle spot. So hats off to those guys,
you know, hats off to Tony and the work that
he's done with those guys.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
And it also speaks to your confidence in them. I
mean you call the running play on that two point
conversion when you have so much newness on the offensive line.
Speaker 5 (08:38):
Yeah, I think part of that is too. You know,
felt good about the call, you know, whether you know
it was the zone read play where you give it
to j T five can keep it and then you
got your best lineman and Quinton pulling around you know, uh,
leading up in there, which was was awesome.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
So the red zone yesterday you were three for four,
Colts three for four, New England two for six, and
the week before the Colts were zero for two against
the Lions. That was a major reason why the Colts
won that game. How do you explain the differences in
the red zones between last week and this week?
Speaker 5 (09:06):
I think, you know, we executed that was the big thing.
We executed this week against New England and found ways
to get in there. Obviously three for four obviously would
have that other one which would have been huge. But
are guys executed down there?
Speaker 2 (09:16):
All right? You're on the bye? What what's your message
to the team here on this week off?
Speaker 5 (09:20):
You know, get ready, get your bodies right, get your
minds right. Obviously, get some rest, but be ready to roll.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Be ready to roll.
Speaker 5 (09:27):
Come back Monday, be ready to go for this Denver game.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
How do you spin the bye? Within you and the
coaching staff? What do you guys want to get accomplished?
Speaker 5 (09:33):
Self scout We kind of go back and look at
what we've done this year self scout wise and making
sure you know the areas that we need to improve on.
You know this, you know this four game stretch, get
those things improved on over the bye week and then
obviously we'll get some you know, the coach. We'll get
some times with their families as well later in the week,
so it'll be good.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
How many guys need this buy? I mean, you've got
Oligneman banged up, You've got a boatload of receivers who
need some rest. The entire defense I'm sure would love
some time off. I know it's been a long road
to get here. It's the latest buy in the NFL,
but it seems like this late bye could help you
springboard things a little bit with four games to play.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
Yeah, absolutely, it is a late bye, but to get
these guys healthy, you know, get some time away. You know,
we've been going since training camp, you know, and then
thirteen weeks straight. So to get this buy right now,
I think it's coming out a good time for our
guys and looking forward to, you know, to the rest
of the season after that.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
All right, let's go to the fan questions a few
to close out here. Submit your thoughts every Monday with
us using hashtag Colts Round Table with head coach Shane Steichen,
Let's go to Clayton. He's up first. He says, Hey, coach,
what can we do schematically to get more intermediate throws
consistently out of Anthony Richardson in the passing game, yeah,
I think, you.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
Know, schematically, we look at those things every week and
see how the defenses are playing it, whether they're playing
the press man to man coverage or the off stuff.
You know, if you get some off stuff, that's easy
to get those easy complations. But if they're playing press
man and they want to man you up, obviously you
got to run some stuff to run away from those
guys as well. So we'll continue to look at that
all right.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Along with that, Matthew is asking after three games with
Richardson back in the lineup, what's your overall assessment of
what we're getting out of him and where can we
get better in the final four games.
Speaker 5 (11:10):
I think we're getting a lot out of him, especially
in the run game, you know what I mean. And
I think he's taken the next step obviously as a
passer as well, and just his calmness in the pocket.
You can see it with his footwork and how he's
delivering the football right now. So we've got to continue
that growth and continue to take the next steps in
all those areas.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
All right, A few more Harry's asking, what's our biggest
challenge in shoring up the defense in the last month
of the season after the yardage given up to the
Patriots that doesn't feature a lot of game changers.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
Yeah, I think it's I think we've got to be
really efficient defensively on first and second down, you know
what I mean, So we're not in the third and
short area as much, you know, so we can get
him in these third and long situations, you know, to
really rush the passer. So I think that's going to
be a point of emphasis, is looking at you know,
first and second down and getting them behind the chains.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Absolutely. Head coach Shane Steichen with us. Sorry, coach, iom,
Thanksgiving went well. Put on some sweatpants after the big
meal and watch them football.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
Yeah, it was great, you know, watch watch some games,
had some family time, had a few players over, Yeah,
hung out with some of the guys, so it was
it was a great time with the fam.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Absolutely, all right, coach, Well, I know you got a
busy schedule here, even during the bye week, so enjoy
some time off in the later part of the week,
rest up and get ready for these final four games.
Thanks as always for the time awesome, appreciate you. That's
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well at quarterback, in the red zone and along that
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offensive line compared to New England and week thirteen. Then
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Speaker 2 (13:50):
Welcome back. This is Colts Round Table Live tonight. I'm
Matt Taylor, now joined by the former Colts Rick vent
Turrey and Joe Wrights are here with you the rest
of the way until seven the clock. Joe, Welcome to
the show. How was that long weekend Thanksgiving capped off
by the thrilling win for the Colts on Sunday?
Speaker 4 (14:06):
We did Thanksgiving with Jill's family on Thursday and then
went over to my parents on Friday. So got some
really good turkey eight way too much. That is the
nice thing now about being being retired. Right, Well, we'll
have that. What was the pie count? A lot of
pumpkin pie, I'll say that, But I always used to laugh,
you know. We used to have our weave It's on
Friday right way in every week and Inevitably, guys would
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complain most after Thanksgiving, They're like, why are we waiting
on Friday? I remember one year in Baltimore they got
the team to move the way in up to Thursday,
and all the big guys were celebrating because they could
weigh in before practice, go home and guilt free out
on some food.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Yeah. See pumpkin pie. I mean, why do you like
pumpkin pie. I've never liked pumpkin anything. What is it
about pumpkin that everybody loves? I don't know.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
I'm just a big pie guy. I love pie. Part
of it's we get the homemade whip cream on top
of it, and I mean you can you can eat
anything underneath there. But no, it was great, great Thanksgiving,
and then Saturday we got our Christmas tree cut down
and decorated the tree, and so the Rice House we're
full steam ahead for the advent season and Christmas and uh,
it's it's an exciting time for sure.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
So you go old school, you have a real tree
in your living room.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
Yeah, we go Clark Griswold and go out in the
middle of the woods and chop it down and.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
On top of a Sure, what are you the back
of a truck.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
Back on top of my suburban, loaded up there and
drive home and hope it doesn't fall out.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
So no, it's fun.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
It's been a Yeah, it's an exciting time of the season,
and well especially that Colts win. I mean, what what
a thrilling win. I know we'll get into it, but
just to think you got the bye week, you get
the chance to take a breath now, and it's a
it's a four game season that really we control our
own destiny. It's an exciting time to be in for
the Colts.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Indeed, hey, Rick, how about you man? You still feeling
feeling good eating some leftover turkey following that Colts win yesterday.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
Actually, I was really looking forward to that hamburger last night.
It wasn't there because I always eat that hamburger on
a plane after winds, and I was just so you
had to looking forward.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
It was he had to settle for some chicken tenders
or something.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
They were not they were not bad, but uh yeah,
I was. I kind of starved myself during the day
and then I'm just so looked forward to it. But
you know, after a beautiful day like that, I'll take
the chicken tenders, that's for sure.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
They tasted pretty good after that. Colts win. Yeah, big
win for the Colts in the fourth quarter, tenders all
around as Anthony Richardson got his way into the end
zone on that two point conversion. All right, we've got
a lot to get into a lot of content here
with you the rest of the way. We're gonna lead
off our roundtable discussion with Rick Venturi and Joe Wrights
with some film breakdown in Foxborough. We do that here.
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It's time now for the tail the tape by Brace
and Hell today. Okay, let it go. Bang bang, player,
bang bang, keep.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
The hammer down, keep talking to one another man to
clean it up. That's all.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Get ready, get ready, all right, Joe. The Colts were
winners in Week thirteen, twenty five, twenty four eight lead
changes that epic nineteen play drive in the fourth quarter,
the Colts go for two. They get it. But despite
the last drive, the Colts still suffer two turnovers, a
couple of interceptions. The defense gave up over four hundred
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yards of offense two hundred yards rushing. But a win
is a win, and for the Colts it was a
big one to stay alive inside the AFC playoff picture
and now they hit the buy. So what notes for you, Joe?
Did you jot down after watching the game film back
again today?
Speaker 4 (17:34):
Yeah? The first thing was really our offensive line play
and something that you know, I always watch and follow
the line and not necessarily follow the ball. And I
knew with some injuries and Smith out and we were
going to reshuffle things. But I really thought the offensive
line played tremendous, you know, especially you think about Glowinski.
You know, I know the announcer said he was off
the street, but I know a little birdie, you know,
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told me he's been training hard at Dugan Sports Performance
in Carmel.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
He was ready to go.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
Man, he was. I mean that very first drive, he
gets the combo block, gets up to the linebacker, pancakes
the linebacker. I mean, second play of the season. And
you know, I thought Pinter, you know, struggled a little
bit in pass pro. I think Gonzolvez, you know, he's
more natural for right tackle. Anyway, it was just great
to see Bernie back there, and Quinton Nelson, I thought,
after you know, one of his worst performances as a
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cult last week, really responded well. So credit to those
five guys, a bunch of different guys playing in a
new unit for carrying the day. And we got Jonathan
Taylor back on track. But you know, just kind of
a weird game. We only had eight drives in the game.
I mean, we only punt twice. Think about this. New
England did not punt until five minutes left in the ballgame.
And we come out victorious. And at the end of
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the day, the staff that mattered and carried the day
was red zone and we go three to four and
New England is only two of six. But talking about
the quarterback, and you know that nineteen play drive when
you really had four gotta have it plays, you know,
three fourth downs that we canted, two through the air
and then one on the ground, and then that two
point conversion. Everybody in the stadium knew that he was
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going to run the ball and guess what, you still
can't stop him. And that's the weapon that the Colts have.
And there were some inconsistencies there from ar but I
think when you think about Matt two wins in the
last three games, two fourth quarter drives when you're behind
and leading in the team, that's what's most important to
me because this team knows, and I think there's a
belief in there that we get this guy the ball.
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He's going to be able to make plays with his
arm and his leg. And I know it's a short
career in a short time frame. He's always been at
his best in the fourth quarter. He's got selective amnesia,
like Coach likes to talk about. He comes in from
the interception, no big deal, leads us on a nineteen
play drive to win the game. And what I'm most
excited about is you get the win. You now get
the bye week to rest, and you're really setting up
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a playoff game in Denver, because if we beat Denver
and get to seven and seven and have the tiebreaker,
they got a really hard schedule down the stretch. They'll
lose at least another game. If you're the Colts right now.
What's exciting. You have that late by, which is really odd.
I've never had to buy that late. But it's a
four game season that you control your own destiny with
and that's an exciting spot to be in after all
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the ups and downs, and no matter what happened the
last twelve games, we control our own destiny. Sitting here
Monday night on December second, and that's an exciting place
to be and if you're in the locker room, and
that's an exciting place to be for Colts fans, you.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
Know, I you know, as a cult fan and broadcaster,
I have to say this was one of the most exciting.
I mean, you kept telling you, kept telling them how
many lead changes there were. It was going back and forth,
and it was a point here or there, and it
was literally hard stopping. I think mine did stop right
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there when we went for two, and I was happy
with it. But you know, with the season on the brink,
like I said, I think it was one of the
most exciting, exciting cult whims that I've ever been around.
Three key things. To me, three key elements is what
I see both at the game and in the tape.
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I think Number one is our offensive grit. Okay, the
nineteen play, eighty yard five minutes, thank god, time consuming
drive was a little bit of everything. I agree with Joe.
Hats off to those kids that stepped up and played
in the offensive line. Of course, the quarterback, you know, Pierce,
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all those things, all the grit that it took, the
you know, the three fourth downs, and essentially it was
four fourth downs because fit two points like a fourth down,
and you know, just the grit to go the length
of the field with it on the line, with literally
the season on the line, great grit. I think number
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two was the cahonis and I think game management of
our head coach. He's come under some fire at times,
but I thought that he did a great job. I thought,
you know, all along, I felt like I felt like
he would go for two. I think I mentioned that
to you during and I know my defensive mind was
if I was a defensive coach, the defense I was
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thinking about was what's going to be the two point defense?
And he was so decisive there was never a doubt
from the time we scored that touchdown. He put those
two fingers up right now. There wasn't no thought about it.
That was what he was going to do. And I
think the reason I'd give him really good game management
since there a he looked across. Remember now New England
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had been in nineteen defensive plays. They were exhausted on defense,
and number two, there's no way he was going to
trust his defense to go back in in and overtime.
No way. And I thought the other thing was at
the end of the game, when it was on the line,
he thought, players not plays. I mean it was going
to be ar five and all those key situations, and
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you know what, it always is players over players. And
you know, I thought the you know, the third thing
was the kid is a finisher and selective ambesia is right.
I mean he you know, he came back from that
pad interception to Gonzalez. He had a couple overthrows in
that next drive, but he just puts it out and
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he is a finisher man. And when it's when it's
all said and done, I mean, if not for him,
if not for him right now, we're four and nine.
I mean, he bails the defense out against the Jets,
he bails him out yesterday, and not only does he
take it down and score, he basically wipes the timeout
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so the defense doesn't have to go back in. So
I was thrilled to death with that. A couple of
things that I really want to give shout outs to
and shouts down to. Okay, first of all, I want
to give a shout out to to the to the
offensive line. As as Joe said, I'm not going to
repeat it, but I really thought, and I've always liked
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low like glow when he was here. I was really
happy when they made that move. Danny has always basically
played decent at center, not so much at guard, but
at center, and Gonzalez I totally agree, is much better
on the right side when he's not out in space.
You know, I thought that front five really played with grit,
and hats off to those kids for stepping up. Hats
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off to Pierce. I think Piers has had one of
the greatest improvement seasons I've ever seen in a player.
The Piers of twenty three in the Piers of twenty
four is too different.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Yeah, he played with a banged up foot yesterday too,
Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
But I mean he has done so much. He's become
an all purpose receiver, not a one trick pony now
in the end of it. On the other end of it,
for people like myself who really understand the nuances of
defense and NFL football, in my world, the defense is
almost unwatchable, it really is, you know. I, Like I said,
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if Ar five doesn't bail him out, we lose both
to the Jets and to the Patriots, who are bottom
feeders on offense, absolutely bottom feeders. I'm not sure there's
another group in the league, from coaches to players that
could give four hundred and twenty two yards to the
Patriots eighty percent completions in two hundred yards rushing. I
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just really don't. I don't think there's another team in
the league that could accomplish that. You knew going in,
I said it myself, like ten times you had to
stop Stevenson in the running backs, you had to stop
the tight ends, and you had to make sure you
could control the quarterback on rushing. We did nothing. We
did none of those things, absolutely none of them. And
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you know, basically, for three years, we've kind of watched
this Friday night concept shredded time and time again, and
we've seen quarterbacks become kings against us and it doesn't
matter who it is. And the sad thing for me,
no one on West fifty sixth Street seems to give
a damn about it. And you know, well I think
they should.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
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They're big takeaways from watching the game film back again today.
Coming up in segment three, we're gonna roll out the
Tale of the Two Cities. We're gonna compare the differences
in the game on Sunday between quarterback play, red zone
efficiency and the differences between the off of lines on
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Speaker 1 (27:22):
Welcome back to Colts Roundtable Live on ninety three to
five and one oh seven five the Fan for more
Colts breakdown. Here's Matt Taylor, the voice of the Colts
from the Indiana Union Construction Industry Radio Studio.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Hey, welcome back. This is Colts Round Table Live. Thanks
for sticking around this evening. We are brought to you
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proud sports betting partner of the Indianapolis Colts. All right,
we're gonna bust out this segment here. We're calling this
the Tale of the Two Cities. And this is not
the Charles Dickens novel. Rick, all right, this is a
completely different concept here. This is a look at the
differences between New England and Indianapolis from Sunday and some
pivotal areas. We're going to decide which areas the Colts
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were dominant in and some things that still need to
get cleaned up after the bye with only four games
to play. And Rick, I'm gonna start with you. Let's
talk about the overall quarterback play on Sunday because you
had the two youngest quarterbacks in the NFL on display.
Drake May has a good game, completes eighty percent of
his passes career high. Anthony Richardson goes twelve of twenty
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four for one hundred and nine with two touchdowns and
two picks, for a passer rating of fifty five point seven.
The one hundred and nine yards are Richardson's fewest when
he's finished a game, and he's now completed twelve or
fewer passes in nine of his thirty team starts. But
he got it done in crunch time, right, That's all
that matters. So how do you compare Richardson to May
(29:07):
and Rick Ken? The Colts continue to win down the
stretch with the numbers that they're getting from their gunslinger.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
Well, you know, I think if you if you basically
do what he can do and if you somehow could
shore up the defense. The answer to that is yes,
because it's still the consummate team game.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
You know, when I look at these two guys, they're
two of my favorite guys in the league. You know,
when we went into this game and I watched and
I watched May, and I really like to May coming
out of North Carolina, I was always surprised that he
kind of everybody thought he was going to fall. He
didn't fall too far to number three, but he he
and Richardson couldn't be. They're both going to be, I think,
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great quarterbacks, but they're totally different. I mean, they're on different.
When you have Richardson, I'm not even sure that I
look at him as a peer quarterback when I look
at him as an entity and a weapon, somebody that
has something that you can't find. I mean, he is
another running back, not just an elusive quarterback on his
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own read. He is a powerful guy that can run
in any gap, any gap. There. You saw it on
the two point. It was the swing power g to him.
They had a shot at him and he bent the pocket,
he bent the pile back. I mean he is a
terrific weapon. He also throws an exceptionally good deep ball,
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you know. So with that matter of fact, I got
a text from my boy grudin now for the game.
He said, it's like playing against Tayson Hill the whole game.
And he meant that complimentary in that you got this
powerful man just running at you all day. And the
biggest key on this one is can they bring him
along in time on the rest of the game, the
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intermediate game, and you know, we just don't see much
of it. But he has his special qualities, and I
think May is the classic. I think he's the best.
I think he's playing. It's between him and Daniels who's
playing the best.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
This other rookies of the rookies.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
Of the rookies. But I think he is going to
be exceptional because he has no outside receivers to throw to.
I mean, he is making a livering from numbers to
numbers with tight ends and running backs and a slot.
That's it. And what a job. He's got accuracy, really
comfortable in the pocket. But a great athlete. You saw
it on that forty yard takeoff. So you know, I
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think both teams are really blessed. You know with a
star that they can build around that going to build
differently in both cases, but a star you can build around,
all right.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
Joe, for you, I think you'll admit too and concur
that Drake May played really well yesterday and is having
a really good rookie season. And also for context Sunday,
for the Colts, they won just for the fifteenth time
since they moved to Indianapolis when quarterback completed twelve or
fewer passes for one hundred and ten or fewer yards
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in the first time since twenty twenty one. So how
do you break down May versus Richardson and also just
the the baseline performances in terms of what they're getting
out of Richardson in the big picture.
Speaker 4 (32:16):
Yeah, First, for May, what I think and we do
this are too often, is we let quarterbacks get comfortable.
So you're facing a young quarterback and you let him
get comfortable with just easy completions. It was tight end,
tight end running back, running back, and then I mean
May put some throws in there. He stepped back and
went off his back foot and let it rip and
threw the ball in between some tight zone windows and
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he let it fly. And he is accurate, but I
think it's more a product of our defense letting these
quarterbacks get so comfortable early in the game where they
build that confidence. It's like a shooter in basketball. You
let him hit a couple easy shots, you don't guard
him well in the first half, and all of a sudden,
he's got that confidence to hit the harder shot or
make the harder pass later in the game. And so
I think, you know, may played well, but I think
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part of it is we all allowed him to play well,
especially in our secondary. And then I think when you
go to Richardson, you know, when it's fourth and two,
when the game's on the line, everybody knows he's going
to run the ball, and you still can't stop him.
And that's just a tremendous gift. And what I saw
yesterday from the Colts was the formula for winning ball games.
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Taylor twenty five carries on the ground, Richardson had nine carries.
You get thirty to thirty five carries between those two guys,
and then he had only twenty four passing attempts. I
think that's the formula. And I know he was only
fifty percent, only four point five yards per pass, but
we got to help him out as receivers. You know,
Ady Mitchell has a drop Granston has a drop down
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there at the two yard line, those numbers would be
a little bit different. And I think we got to
figure out a way, especially if Downs isn't there, to
get more out of the passing game. And I think
where Richardson's most dangerous as you see it. You know,
he's back in the pocket, all of a sudden, he's
on the move, he steps up. He can throw really
really good on the run, and that's those deep balls
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that defenses can't necessarily defend well, especially when he's moving
and they got a plaster you know, when they got
to kind of cover for longer in the back end.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
But we got to find ways in the passing game.
Speaker 4 (34:10):
Part of its receivers just catching the ball and helping
them out to get some more explosives in the pass game.
And I think we can do that. I think with
the deep ball with Pierce and some of the other
concepts that we have, you know, we can get it done.
And I know our receivers are banged up right now,
and this bye week comes at a really good time.
But what I saw was the formula yesterday, and that's
twenty to twenty five carries from Taylor. Let the offensive
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line dictate the game. Richardson runs ten ish design runs
per game, and then you take the top off on
the defense with some deep balls which we didn't get yesterday,
but we get those. To me, that's kind of that
three headed monster that we need to think about offensively
with this identity as we go into this home stretch
these last four games.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
That's Joe Wright's right there. This is Colt's Round Table Live.
I'm Matt Taylor also tonight and joined by Rick Van Turrey,
and this segment is the tail of the two cities,
comparing the Colt to New England yesterday and a big
reason why the Colts won. As we mentioned in the
previous segment red zone play. The Colts converted three or
four trips inside the twenty posted a season high seventy
(35:11):
five percent mark in the red zone. The Patriots, meanwhile,
were just two for six. They had to settle for
a couple of short fuel goals. They missed the field
goal in the red zone. They threw the pick of
the goal line. It was intercepted by Julian Blackman and
the red zone aspect of the game. Joe, it was
epitomized in the fourth quarter. Anthony Richardson threw a three
yard touchdown pass to Alec Pierce with twelve seconds to go,
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and they won the game by going for two, which
is also obviously inside the red zone. So, Joe, for
you what worked well on both sides of the ball
for the Colts in the red zone on Sunday because
it was a big bounce back week for the Colts
in that department after they were zero for two against
the Lions, and defensively, Detroit took advantage of the Colts
inside the red zone last Sunday.
Speaker 4 (35:53):
Yeah, well, first off, defense, our red zone defense saved us.
And you know they had a touchdown called back from
a penalty. Yeah, you know, which you speak about penalties,
we only had two for fifteen yards the whole game.
We did not beat ourselves, which was great. And then
you know, shout out to Blackman that interception just heads
up football. I mean that that's saved the game right there.
When he picked the ball up, you know, off of
Henry and returned it. I couldn't believe that one didn't
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hit the ground. But you know, just great play by him,
And I think defensively again, you know, we're a team
that's built to bend, not break, and give up yards.
And if you're going to give up that yardage, you
got to be a fishing in the red zone we
were yesterday. And then offensively, just the weapon that Richardson
gives you running the ball, and we can be a
premier red zone team. And I think for this group,
right efficiency in the red zone, you know, seventy five
(36:38):
three or four like where yesterday. I like conceptually on
that two point play. You know, typically a zone read
right is where you the running back runs up the middle.
The quarterback reads the end and he pulls it, decides
whether he wants to run around the end or give
the ball to the running back. But with Richardson's ability
as a quarterback to be that power runner, I like
the diversity. I thought our run game was more diverse yesterday.
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Again credit to the offensive line continuing to expand on
what we do well in the red zone and not
being afraid to run Richardson right, Richardson left. Richardson up
the middle when you get down there, because even though
everybody knows he's going to run the ball. It's still
incredibly tough to stop because you're defending twelve guys in
not eleven, right, And just the unique physical traits that
Richardson has which are unique to any other quarterback in
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the NFL.
Speaker 2 (37:20):
And that's just it, Rick. I mean, you apologize for
nothing when you get a win. But the Colts do
have to feel fortunate to get that victory considering you know,
New England miss is a chip shot field goal. They
had some other penalties inside the red zone, and they
had that interception of the goal line that was you know,
more of a byproduct of Julian Blackman being the right
place at the right time than it was a bad
throw by Drake May.
Speaker 3 (37:42):
Yeah. Absolutely, And if you look at the play, Zier
really makes it. I mean he gets his hand in
there as what's his face as May as the tight
end eighty five was. Henry was bobbling the ball, you
know when he was bobbling it, but Zaire got in
there and affected his hands and then it carrimed up
to black Men. And I don't think Yers get enough
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credit on this. As I looked at the tape, I
didn't even notice it at the game. To tell you,
the truth. But you speak to you speak to me
when you speak red zone. For some reason, over the years,
I kind of on every staff became known as the
red zone guy, kind of became my kind of my
specialty as an assistant coach, and I would every Thursday,
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I would give the presentation of the red zone, both
emotionally and strategically what we were going to do, and
to emphasize the importance of it. Every Thursday, I would say,
you know, there's three things important in your life. That
is God, that is family, and that is red zone.
And for three hours on Sunday, I want you to
reverse that. Okay, I would say that every Thursday. But
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in the end, in the end, the one significant statistic
that mattered was the red zone Sunday. And we got
some breaks the callback of the touchdown, the chip field goal.
You know, the penalty, there's no question about it. But
the interception was critical and when it happened. But the
idea that we scored three out of four times and
really you got to add the two point that's four
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to five, really was the difference maker. And I think
the biggest thing now is that once you get in
the low red zone, Richardson's almost unstoppable. I mean he is.
He does literally add the twelfth man. I mean, there's
a play in there where we go spread and of
course the defense has to spread out, and over the years,
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you don't account for the quarterback in that situation, and
now you're running with a Jim Brown type tailback. They
run a crack and he's around there. It's not even questioning.
And then they actually run a power play. You know,
it's a swing power with the quarterback on the two
point play. And so you know, I think that is
really you know, there's no question about it that that
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won the game both ways because really they dominated most statistics.
You know, I think we had less penalties. I think
that saved a little bit, but they still hit thirty
four minutes time and possession. But you know, at the
end of the day, I've always said this that twenty yards,
and I actually call it thirty yards because I start
the orange zone from the thirty to the twenty. Because
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studying it over the years, offense is changed in those
areas from the twenty to the thirty, to the twenty
to the ten, and from the ten in offense is
drastically changing. There if you study it over time and
you know so the ability to stop them in there
and the ability to score. Actually, at the end of
the day, if you're looking for a stat, and I
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would say this that at the end of the season,
that where we stand right now, the only area other
than we're running the ball really good, like Joe says,
we're still we're thirteenth now in yards per with the
one two punch when those guys are going. But the
only stat that's really keeping us alive if you just
look at stats, okay, is that we're sixteenth. It's mediocre,
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don't get me wrong, but we're sixteenth in red zone
and s steinhon red zone defense. So mediocre as it
may be, it's keeping us in the game.
Speaker 1 (41:04):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (41:05):
Rick Venturi there, Joe Wrights as well. That's the tale
of the two cities. And look at what Indianapolis did
well and what New England did not, and how those
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Speaker 2 (42:05):
Colts Roundtable Live continues tonight. I'm Matt Taylor here on
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go to Neil Is up first. He's asking, Hey, coach,
what's the biggest thing holding our defense back and preventing
it from turning the corner this late in the season.
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What do you think, Rick?
Speaker 3 (42:47):
Yeah, well, I think it's a stubbornness in our part
to never have evolved. You know, you can look at
it tape three years ago and look at a tape
today and you can study and it's really the same package.
It's no different. You know, we played black board front
over almost all the time, very very predictable because we're
basically going to play the same defense game in and
game out, and we run a soft verge coverage zone
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that even Joe said it before, that makes quarterbacks comfortable
and in the end makes some kings. If you're going
to get better, I think three things have to happen.
I don't know this late in the season, and with
their stubbornness, I doubt it can happen. But number one,
you need front changes and movement. You can't line up
in that same front. I mean, you know, two hundred
yards rushing to the Patriots. That's kind of surprising. Why
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does that happen? Then we don't choke off routes, whether
it's man DEMN or zone or a matchup zone coverage. Basically,
there's way too many just gimme completions, no cover zones,
areas that are wide open, the high percentage. We're thirty
first now in the league and this is where we
live in past percentage against and that's just that's a killer.
(43:57):
And then when we do blitz, we still do not
crowd people, and therefore we missed up. We messed up
on some blitz of Sunday that we're going to get there,
but because we didn't cover tight. So, I mean, it's
those things. I don't know that it will ever change,
but if they don't change, there will always be on
a ceiling of how good you're going to be on defense.
Speaker 2 (44:18):
All right, we got time for one more question here.
This is coming from Frank. Hey, Joe, what can a
win like that do for the team, psyche And what's
the difference between a win versus a loss before the
bye week for players and coaches?
Speaker 4 (44:32):
Oh? Well, that means you can enjoy your dinner and
it tastes good on your bye week. Right, the years
that you have a loss going into the bye week.
Speaker 2 (44:39):
Especially when when a win is it means you're still
in the AFC playoff picture versus a loss is you know,
that's that's a major uphill battle, right, Yeah, no question.
Speaker 4 (44:48):
I mean the reality was, you know, if we had
you know, lost that game, I mean, the playoff chances
really are zero. But I think way the last three weeks,
really the last six weeks have shaped out with ar
going to the bench, coming back leading two game winning
drives and two of the last three games both wins.
I think there's a belief with this team that says, Okay,
if we get to the fourth quarter, our quarterback's going
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to go win it. And I tell you what, I
played with some of those quarterbacks. There's no better feeling
than being that huddle and knowing, you know what, we
got the guy that can take us to the Promised
Land and deliver victory. And so when you're the Colts
this late bye it's so unique. I never had a
bye week in December or even close to it. But
you really have a four game sprint to the finish
line and you have three games, two of them at
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home against Very. You know, Denver's got seven wins. The
other three teams got seven wins combined. And so this
bye week right now, I think there's an excitement about
it that, hey, you know, we were down with the
Colts and now you get the chance to basically control
your own destiny. And everything's about Denver, Denver, Denver, Denver.
I mean, you know they're playing Monday night. Everybody's going
(45:53):
to sit home and watch that game tonight. You got
the preseason game against Denver that we played, which is rare,
and if you remember Stidhams started that game, Nicks played
a whole lot in that game, so you actually have
some film and some tape on him against our defense.
And it's just an exciting place to be and knowing
you get a chance to recharge, first off physically, secondly mentally,
and when you walk back in that building on Monday,
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it's a four week sprint to the finish line. And
it's all systems go against Denver. Because you go out
there to Denver and you win that game. I mean,
you think that it's the Colts, You know, Colts to
lose in terms of getting in the playoffs. So just
an exciting time I think after the last month or
so of this season and some of the ups and
downs that you've put yourself in this position to really
play for the playoffs coming up next Sunday against Denver.
Speaker 2 (46:37):
Yeah, Joe Wright's right there, Rick Finn Turrey two. That's
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Speaker 1 (47:42):
Welcome back to Colts Roundtable Live on ninety three five
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Speaker 2 (47:54):
We are back closing things out here on Colts Roundtable
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(48:14):
to close out the show with the closing arguments from
the fellas and Joe with your final thoughts. Big win
for the Colts. They stay alive inside the AFC Playoff
picture and now you get a week off. It's the
latest buy in the NFL. What would you want to
do and what would you want to get accomplished with
this late of a bye if you were still playing
on this Colts team here late in the season.
Speaker 4 (48:35):
Yeah, I think with the late bye it's huge. You
just make sure you recover physically, get your treatment, get
a couple of workouts in, but you want to kind
of completely disconnect from football for a couple of days
and recharge mentally, emotionally, spiritually. And then as you get
later in the week, you know, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, you
start to look at tape for Denver, you start to
do things that you want to do because again, this
game has so much importance leading up there. But I
(48:56):
think it's advantageous for the Colts to have the late bye,
And then from a coaching stare perspective, you really get
the chance to self scout twelve weeks in and figure
out what can we do differently, what can we maximize
on our strengths going into the last four weeks. Coach,
what are your plans here for this bye week? Late
late week for you and Matt, but probably some time
to rest up your guys' voices here for the stretch run.
Speaker 3 (49:18):
Yeah, a little bit maybe, but no, I'm looking forward
to it. That just get a little breath of their
But you know what, I think a couple of things.
You know, if I was coaching this week. Number one,
I do believe I agree with you. But something you
said earlier, I think the Colts are finding that formula
on offense to win the game. It's not perfect, but
(49:39):
I think they're really finding it. That one hundred and
forty four yards of rushing between the big two that
was a key. I think they've got to find a
formula to just slow somebody down. And in the end,
it's got to be singular focused. Now, I said it
last week, there's five steps. You got to starewell with
five steps, you only can get them one at a time. Yeah,
we got one, We got an important one, and maybe
(50:02):
the biggest step is coming over because my prediction is
we go in five and six, they go in seven
and six, and man, that thing is for all the
marvels back there in Denver. So singular focus. One more
big step. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (50:16):
The Colts and the Broncos both on the bye. The
Broncos do play tonight against the Cleveland Browns on Monday
Night Football, So everybody, we'll be watching that game very
very intently. Joe and Rick. Great job tonight here on
Colts Round Table Live again. I'm Matt Taylor. Thanks to
head coach Shane Stikeen who joined in on that first
segment tonight for its thoughts following the big win against
(50:37):
the Patriots. If you missed any of the show tonight,
we're gonna post it here shortly on Colts dot com
and the mobile app and also the Colts Audio Network
anywhere you get your podcasts. And remember now there will
be no show, no show next Monday, following the bye week,
So this show is going to come back following that
big Denver game on December the sixteenth. That's next time
(50:57):
we're going to have this show Colts Round Table Live
here on the Fan, but the Colts are on the
bye Thanks for listening everybody, tonight again for Joe and Rick.
I'm Matt Taylor. This has been Colts Round Table Live
tonight on ninety three five and one oh seven five
the Fan. Good night,
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