Kevin Bowen Breaks Down The Colts BLOWOUT Win Versus The Raiders

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's the Hammery Nigel Show. My name is Nigel, the
gun guy.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Guy Ralford filling in for Hammer Colts killed the Raiders
yesterday forty to six killed me on that over too.
I'm gonna talk to you about that. At some point.
We got Kevin Bowen here on the WIBC Hotline. Kevin
Bowen from the Fan Morning Show. I so much to
talk about from yesterday's game, KB, But did you have

(00:25):
Mark Sanchez getting stabbed and then actually being arrested after
the stabbing on your bingo card for this weekend?

Speaker 3 (00:32):
I can't say I did. It's it's I guess not funny.
But someone text me on Saturday They're like, hey, man,
you're about ready to see a headline says Mark Sanchez
got stabbed and he's the suspect. And I'm like, what, Yeah,
I don't. I guess you take the guy out and
take the boy out of USC, but you can't take
the USC out of the boy. Maybe.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
Well.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
I look, here's my question for you in your morning
show this morning, what was the audience You take a
lot more phone calls than we do on our program.
What did the audience want to talk about more the
Indianapolis Colts or the incident with Mark Sanchez.

Speaker 3 (01:12):
Yeah, I mean definitely a little bit of all. I'd say,
you know, give Colts fans credit, give football fans credit.
As salacious of a headline as that is, I think
they wanted to talk about their football team, and honestly,
we're talking about a Colts team that you know, is
doing things we haven't seen quite some time. But still
we had to sprinkle in a little Sanchez definitely throughout

(01:32):
because that story is again it's it's incredible, and honestly,
at this point, I just need video of them, yeah,
printing down the alley. I think that's about the only
thing missing from this story so far.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
So so bizarre.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
We're covering it here on our radio station extensively with
updates from Guy Ralford, who is a criminal defense attorney too.
So forty to six I had the over, It was
like forty seven and a half. Who robbed me of
those two points?

Speaker 1 (01:59):
What play? Rod?

Speaker 2 (02:00):
Was the Was it the holding call with the special teams?
Ran it back with the Colts teams?

Speaker 1 (02:05):
Was that it? Do you think that was it?

Speaker 3 (02:07):
Yeah? That was probably the one, because you know, I
think it was a whole but it wasn't really near
the kicker turn for the touchdown and Ashton Dooland for
those unfamiliar the story, the guy who were trying to
kick for a touchdown undirected free agent works. As you know,
lu Off, he was playing for kind of the knucklehead
play from ad Mitchell the week, like he deserved it
more than anyone. So I felt awful for him in
that moment.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
Oh man, what big picture were we looking at yesterday
as Colts sands?

Speaker 1 (02:33):
Was this just a net?

Speaker 2 (02:35):
Are the Raiders, you know, another bad just average bad
to bad team or have Have the Colts fans and
the people that pay attention to this missed something well?

Speaker 3 (02:47):
I think one thing to keep in mind is certainly
the Colts. I think I played one of the easier
schedules in the NFL. But just because the easy schedules
presented in front of you doesn't mean NFL teams take
advantage of it, nor have Colts. And I guess to
put a little context around at NIJE, the Colts have
won three games by at least twenty points this season.

Speaker 1 (03:07):
Yeah wow.

Speaker 3 (03:08):
They hadn't won one game by twenty points last year
the year before that, or the year before that. They
hadn't won a game by twenty points since twenty and
twenty one, and now they've done it three times in
five weeks. So again, I get that these teams are
likely drafting high, but you know, teams drafting high with

(03:32):
bad quarterbacks have beaten the Colts in recent years. So
for you to not only win these games but beat
the you know what out of these teams, that that
tells me something. The NFL seasons a longer eye in
seventeen weeks is a long long time. But still for
those saying, ah, the Colts have an easy schedule, who
cares you know?

Speaker 2 (03:50):
Well, who are you worried about? Well, who were you
worried as a Colts fan? Who are we worried about
at this point? Looking ahead on the schedule Arizona?

Speaker 3 (03:59):
Yes, Joel Wise, you know a'll be curious to Chargers.
You know, another trip out to the West coast. I
know that their offensive lines a little banged up. You know,
you do go to Pittsburgh, I want to say, in
a few weeks about a month's time. You know that's
always been a difficult place to play. But you know,
even when the schedule came out, in May, it was
definitely more backloaded than front loaded. So once you get

(04:19):
back from your bye week, you know, you go to
Kansas City, you go to Seattle, you faced Jacksonville, who
tonight is playing for a chance to go four to
one to start the year. So again it is a
little bit more backloaded. But still the Colts are doing
things they haven't done in years, and they deserve credit
for that.

Speaker 2 (04:36):
Who is the face of this franchise at this point,
I mean it's it's gotta be Jonathan Taylor, right, but
Daniel Jones is right up there with him.

Speaker 3 (04:47):
You think, yeah, I mean, Jones is flight out standy.
I thought yesterday it was his best individual play when
you rolled out to his right late in the first
half and found Michael Pittman Jr. In the back of
the end zone for a touchdown. And again, so much
credit to you know, Chris Don and Shane Siken for
going out getting Daniel Jones and then really believing that, hey,
the New York Giants was a disastrous organization and we're

(05:09):
gonna support him better. And if we support him better,
we think there's something there in the former top ten pick.
And you know, there are some resurrection projects around the
league that are working. Baker Mayfield in Tampa is one
of those. Now, there are some that kind of fizzle out,
but right now and again yesterday was a perfect example
of it. No negative plays pretty mesonical, and you know,

(05:32):
it's kind of wild to say. I mean, the Colts
are down three to nothing early in the second quarter
and then you'll blink and they score forty points in
the second and the third quarter. I mean, it was
amazing how quickly that game changed.

Speaker 1 (05:46):
What happened?

Speaker 2 (05:46):
We're speaking with Kevin Bowen from one of seven five
the fan. What happened with Spencer Schrader man that that
was a bummer the kicker? What's the status?

Speaker 3 (05:57):
Yeah, so it sounds like a really serious knee injury
for him on unfortunately, Yeah, that was awful. You know,
I clearly looked bad, and so you know, it looks
like that's gonna impact him and a significant manner. So
the Colts are gonna have to do the old kicker
tryouts this week and we will see exactly who their
new place kicker will be. I I thought it was

(06:18):
a hair dirty. I don't know if there's like, you know,
rule book evidence that could lead to that. I get
guys that, you know, laying out for these block kicks,
and sometimes that's part of it. But you know, it
just felt like with the Raiders getting one blocked against him,
the leak prior the Colts had blocked the punt for them,
you know, earlier in that second quarter, I just thought
it was a little bit you know, crossing the line.

(06:40):
But yeah, hopefully a full recovery for him, because he's,
you know, having a really nice start. He's a local guy,
you know, lived in Westfields are a large portion of
his childhood and spent his final collegiate year up at
Notre Dame.

Speaker 2 (06:54):
And and then could you have explained to me they
they couldn't find a backup kicker Sanchez or whoever, Like
they kept on throwing the extra points every time there
was nobody that could that could kick an extra point.

Speaker 3 (07:11):
Yeah, I thought that was a little odd, to be
honest with you. Really. Yeah, so I get there, like
teams don't carry a backup kicker, Like you're only allowed
to dress forty six guys on game day. Like I
totally understand that, But the odd part was, like I
thought it was potentially a good opportunity to let rigaverto
Sanchez you know kick an extra point? Yeah he did

(07:34):
kick in college. And like, just in case one of
those situations arises during the game, boom, you've at least
worked on the operation. Because weirdly, the Colts long snapper
would have become their holder in that situation. That's that's
kind of the oddity and how they changed it up.
But so Luke Roodes would have become their holder through

(07:57):
ogle tree at backup tight end would have become they're
long snapper. So Shane's baking just kept on over two
b version. After two point of version, I'm like, well,
you're up by a million, why not just kick the
extra points? So these guys at least get a game rap,
but you know, Shane elected otherwise.

Speaker 2 (08:11):
Hey, and then finally, because it's funny, we're just talking
about kickers and Mark Sanchez are really talking about the
game just because it was a blowout. But hey, I
saw because I had a bunch of friends over yesterday
drinking some beers and as you know, as the game progressed,
we just kind of lost interest. Did I see Anthony
Richardson in the game at one point? And how'd he do?

Speaker 3 (08:33):
Indeed, Anthony Richardson, he threw a pass that he caught himself.
The ball was batted up in the air. He showed
his tremendous athleticism and hauled in the catch and really
did a nice job of gaining some yards after the catch.
It was really a very impressive feat. And then later
which doesn't shock anyone, Ady Mitchell was also in the game,
and Anthony Richardson threw a ball twenty yards over the

(08:54):
head of Ady Mitchell. So miscommunication with those two we
were used to last season. Really miss communication between Joe
Flacco and Adie Mitchell we were used to last season.
So yeah, he played the final eleven minutes, which again,
like NFL games, NIGE, you just don't see blowouts like
that where your backup quarterback, you know, is treated like
a walk on, you know. And that's like pretty much

(09:15):
how the Colt streetd Anthony and Richardson and really a
lot of their frontline starters.

Speaker 2 (09:19):
Yesterday and a brother couldn't get an extra two points somewhere,
not a field goal, not a touchdown with like you said,
eleven minutes left, couldn't oh the man that killed my parlay?

Speaker 1 (09:32):
So what real quick?

Speaker 2 (09:34):
I know, the Pacers had their fan jam thing over
the weekend. What's the schedule in terms of preseason and
just just your quick overall thoughts of what we can
expect from the Pacers this season.

Speaker 3 (09:48):
Yeah. So actually over our Pacers practice earlier today. They
are off to Minnesota for their preseason opener, so that
is tomorrow night.

Speaker 1 (09:56):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (09:56):
They'll play four preseason games here and then their regular
season opener will be against the Thunder ironically, and that
will be two weeks from Thursday. So I want to
say that's the twenty third of October. That will be
when things officially get underway. So yeah, there you go.
It's kind of crazy that it's fact to being here.

(10:17):
You know, saw some Pacer staffers getting right ahead of
the airport and they're like, here we go again. You know,
it just seems like last season. Just do.

Speaker 1 (10:26):
So what's going on on the show tomorrow?

Speaker 3 (10:29):
So we will have Ashton Dollon I mentioned to him earlier.
We played that like in the nine o'clock hour today.
I know our morning commute audience can vary, so for
those on the seven o'clock commute time, I will play
that around seven thirty. Really great story about again an
undrafted free agent from Malone. They don't even play football
at Malone anymore at the school in Ohio, and he's

(10:50):
carved out just to great role with the Colts. So
we'll play that coming up at seven thirty. And I'm
starting to look ahead to a huge one for Kurt
Signetty I you at ore Agon College game Day, will
be there. Talk back up Saturday afternoons.

Speaker 1 (11:03):
Wow, there you go.

Speaker 2 (11:04):
Kevin Bowen from one O seven five the Fan. Thank
you so much, sir, having a great week.

Speaker 3 (11:10):
You bet non I, thanks for having me.

Speaker 1 (11:12):
It's a Hammer and Nigel show.