September 11, 2025 • 49 mins
Today’s Best of Features:
(00:00-14:29) – Brandon Krisztal from Guerilla Sports in Denver joins Jake Query to preview this weekend’s game between the Denver Broncos and Indianapolis Colts. He highlights the strengths, weaknesses, and the week one performance for Denver. Brandon also comments on what type of defense Denver will try to run against the Colts and why the Rockies continue to suck.
(14:29-31:40) – Former Purdue wide receiver Seth Morales joins Jake Query to relive his game winning touchdown catch in 2000 against Ohio State to send the Boilermakers to the Rose Bowl. He takes us through that entire play, what it was like playing for Drew Brees in college, the impact Joe Tiller had on his life, and celebrating the entire team this weekend at Ross-Ade Stadium against USC.
(31:40-49:07) – The voice of the Indianapolis Colts, Matt Taylor, makes his weekly visit on the show to chat with Jake Query about Sunday’s matchup against the Denver Broncos. Jake and Matt also touch on the importance of Ashton Dulin to the Colts, if Michael Pittman Jr.’s week one performance was a sign of things to come, and a couple of concerns that he has about the Colts.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'll tell you what I'm doing a service to folks here.
I'm doing a service to folks because we are letting
you go for free here to Denver, Colorado as part
of our Thursday road trip. And I don't know if
and I only know this because Shannon and I are
going to Denver for a weekend in October to go
see Paul McCartney. Airfare right now to Denver not inexpensive.
(00:20):
I don't know what happened, but airfare to Denver specifically
like through the roof. But Eddie, nonetheless, are you ready
to put your train in the upright position and fasten
your seatbelt. We're on our way to Denver. Brandon Gristal
joins us now on the program of course, a regular
here if you will on Querying Company. Brandon, how are you?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
I'm doing good?
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Jake Miley thought, is that's fall break here starts that weekend,
but that would be flights out of Denver, and maybe
it's fall breaks around the country. Folks want to come
or they want to see Paul McCartney. Maybe I'm going
to be in London because the Broncos played the Jets
the night before that that Sunday to twelfth, and I
think that concert's on the eleven the course field where
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they used to have Major League Baseball, but these days
the Rockies play there.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Yeah, what what is by the way before we get
to the broncos Man, What in the world happened to
the Rockies? They're terrible, right, They're the worst team in baseball.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Right by a long shot.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
When you never get creative with how you handle your management.
And since Dan O'Dowd got here in ninety nine, they've
had twenty six straight years.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Of a vertical line.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
So Dan O'Dowd was seated by one of his under
a ling guy Nam jet Right It.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
She ran it for a while.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
He did, then Ronado deal that also traded Ronado, and
then after him a guy named Bill Schmidt who was
a long time Scott in directory that came with O
doubt he is now the GM. A lot of people
think he won't survive the year. So when you never
get any thoughts from outside the building in your argument
as well other teams, you bringing someone from the outside
of other people that have worked at other teams, they
don't know how to win at altitude. I used to say, well,
(01:53):
you've got forty wins. You also do not know how
to win it out when I have one hundred loss
for three, can't be worse.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
It can be, but it can't be worse.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
And so they're not going to be the worst team
in history of baseball, but they're not much better. Got
a couple of young pieces like all major league teams
seem to have, but no, they they and they played hard.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Since the break, but they're just not very good. And
I don't know what we'll say that.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Even with them drafting that Aliday's younger son Ethan this
past June. But it is a cool place to see
a game, the great place to a game, and depending
on where your seats are for McCartney, it's a cool
place to see a concert. I just hope you're not
behind home plate necessarily, you'll be very far from the stage.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
I think it's at you know what, I guess you're right,
it's at Rocky It's at Coursefield, as opposed to Investo
or the Mile High or whatever they call it these days,
right Branda Christall. By the way, our guest BK. Denver
sports on the ex Post Twitter and he is the
host and reporter assistant regional manager for Guerrilla Sports talking about.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
The Denver to the regional manager.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
What's that?
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Just like d white shirt from now you're.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
The assistant and regional manager. Come on, well just I
mean you're George Stands. Do you smell ex gratifications? That's right,
you're the assistant to the assistant manager. Okay, Brandon, let's
get to this. You know, the Colts looked really good
in Week one, and there is optimism here in Indianapolis,
but they also played Miami and we you know week
(03:16):
one overreaction. We have no idea who teams are through
week one. But now they go and they take on Denver.
I had said I thought this was an important two
game stretch for the Colts because theoretically, these are two
teams that are going to be thought to be around
the same area within the conference where the Colts are
going to be in November or December if they're not
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divisional winners and the wild card is in play. What
is the strength of this Denver Broncos team that can
challenge Indianapolis.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Well, certainly it's their defense.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
And I think when I talk to you, what six
weeks here or so right an start a training camp
or maybe longer than because you had the race coming
the down.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
So whatever.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
It was a couple of months ago, we talked about
the defense and they came to play Sunday. There you know,
they've already racked up six SATs coming off a season
where they had sixty three as a team to lead
the NFL. Six different players got to the quarterback. They
actually lost the turnover battle. Teams that won the turnover battle.
Sean Payton told us on a Wednesday or eight and
a one, the Broncos because of bon Nick's thrown a
(04:17):
couple of ill advised passes, not that sever advised, although
every now and then I guess the good pass.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Can get tipped up or broken up.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
But some ill advised pass, especially the second intercession wasn't
very good.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
And if you go back and watch that game, and
I don't know how many.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Colts Stans saw it, he had about two or three
in the first half that also could have been accepted,
they just weren't.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
And so he and then he gave up a fumble
on a strip.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Sack, something that he didn't do at all as a
rookie and didn't do in college.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
He does protect them all pretty well, but they lost
the turnover bat battle.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Nonetheless, every time that short field they held the Titans
to three or less and so they gave him just
four field goals.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
And so you're good up front.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Although we don't know what the expectations for Drake green Want,
who didn't play this pass week. John Franklin, Meyer's defensive
lineman miss practice yesterday, but I was told by someone
I trust that it's no big deal, and so.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Maybe he will be in there, big one of the
big men up front in that rotation. But then on
the back end, adding kalan of.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Ufongo, who had his my mix point out yesterday, I
think he had every tackle in the first quarter.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
He is as good as advertised.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Went healthy and there's a reason he was All Pro
a couple of years ago with the Niners. So adding
him to a secondary that already has the best offensive
player in football and passer Tan Junior, who gave up
no catches on thirty four pass covered drafts, only threw
his way once. But it's a good day of work
and they're good kind of across the board with the
first round pick and Barren that plays, and then nicol
and can play outside. McMillan, who had the strip sacked
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late of gam Ward and then Riley Moss, who a
lot of folks in the Big Dead, remember, because we
certainly noticed white cornerbacks and I always had a couple
of good ones.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
But Riley's played really well and had.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
A great game in the opener. So it's all about
their defense keeping them in the game. Can their offense
make enough plays?
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Brandon the defense itself. Kristaal is our guest talking about
the Broncos. You know with in Daniel Jones, what Shane
Stikeen did really well I thought in Week one for
Indianapolis was running offense and call plays that catered towards
Daniel Jones, getting him in rhythm a little bit, and
really featuring Tyler Warren their tight end, who's going to
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be a really good player for Indianapolis. But defensively, does
Denver run a defense that is really aggressive? Is Daniel
Jones going to see a lot of different stunt looks
and are they going to see a lot of blitzes
or is it more just simply locked down like cover
type defense.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
No, I think that that's kind of ans. Joseph's calling
card is how many different exotic looks can he give you?
And how many different stunts, twists games. Up front came
the d lineman, and you know they're led by Zach Allen,
who just got a new contract extension coming off a
year where it wasn't Chris.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Jones, it wasn't another interior lineman. He was the defensive
lineman who.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Had the most to be pressures wrapped up eight and
a half sacks. He's really strawlett sturs to drink there.
But I mentioned JFM DJ Jones up front, and their
backups are really aggressive too, so they come after you
a bunch of different ways. Like I mentioned, McMillan had
that script sack. I mean, he's five pen on his
best day, one hundred and eighty five pounds, and they'll
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send the corner from a corner blitz when you don't
expect it to be coming. And so that's kind of
been one of many Joseph's strong suits. I think he
gives that a lot from his time around Wade Phillips
in Houston, and so I think that it will confuse
Daniel Jones if it works the way they want it to.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
And one other thing too, is it relates to Daniel Jones.
He's really close with Davis Webb, and I don't know
how people know this.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
I asked Sean Payton about it yesterday. He tried to
downplay it. But Davis Webb, because.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Seanles want to hold us a story on.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Fridays at least that last season that Webb was with.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Daniel in New York in twenty twenty two and they made.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
The playoffs, Davis would take Daniel to the indoor for
the Giants and go through the game plan and walk
through it with him like he was a coach, and
Davis is the son of a coach. He steps off
the practice field, we're in that same season, they're.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Off the playing field.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
He started that final regular season game because the Giants
were locked into the into their playoff spot, so they
gave Daniel Jones a day off and Davis started that
game and then immediately became the Broncos quarterbacks coach, jumping
a couple levels that most coaches have to go through
from quality control and other areas before you become a
quarterbacks coach.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
But so Davis web has as good a knowledge of
Daniel Jones.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Probably as anyone, and saw Daniel when he was at
his best before we saw what we saw last Sunday.
That doesn't mean that he'll be able to relay everything
to Shane Steikin's offense is obviously different than what Dave
all ran, but you have somebody that at least knows
what Davis's tenant or what Daniel Jones tendencies are, and
so it'd be interesting to see how he does relay that.
The man's Josep. We're going to talk to VJA today
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and we talked to the coordinators. I'm sure he'll down
plan it as well. But that doesn't mean that Davis
is sitting in there in a game plan meeting with
him on Tuesday to go through things that he saw
Daniel do well and say we need to keep him
out of this and try to make him do that.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
So Davis Webb, of course is the passing game coordinator,
offensive coordinator for the Broncos and quarterbacks coach. He's kind
of like the assistant of the regional manager basically. But
having said that, Brandon, you know he's working now with
bow Nicks. So in conclusion, on the offensive side of
the ball for Denver, bow Knicks now has taken what
sort of step here over the course of his time
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since he has, you know, been working with Sean Payton.
And what sort of threat offensively does Denver present to
the Colts.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Well, I think it's yet to be determined.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
If you were asking me what kind of stuff he's
taken so far, I'd say sideways, paralcy backwards. They won,
They scored two touchdowns. Those interceptions weren't good. You saw
a couple of really good throws, especially to Courtland Sutton,
not just on a touchdown, but on our early kind
of bootleg action. A couple of good throws one of
the old collegeamate Troy Franklin and Evan Ingram and so
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and early on. He did what he did last year.
In the first quarter, he targeted eight receivers and other
than the third running back that didn't catch either the
passes throw on the him. One he had to catch
on a screening miss. The other I would have gotten
him killed had both put it on the numbers by
a safety coming across those good at.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Sale out of bounds the end zone.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
But he was seven for you know, hit seven different guys.
And that's what he did great last year was read
the ball around. Even though he looked at Courtland Sutton
the most. He was able to spread it around. Now,
the one thing they did in the second half they
did do in the first half was run the football.
The numbers are a little scuge because rookie yard j
Harvey had a fifty yard run, but Jacot out.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
The scored on a point near a touchdown run.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
But Jacould just stay submitted to running the football in
the first half. That'll help bow nicks because that'll help
keep the defense honest if you will. And one thing
Sean said, Sean loves to make excuses to protect both.
He said there were too many RPOs and that's on
him because bow made the check to the pass. He's like,
we need more run to run options and He's like,
so that's on me as a play caller, And there
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may be some truth in that. But at the same time,
bo has to know that running the ball, even if
it's not for a lot of yardage because of the
look you're getting, will still keep the defense thinking, oh,
they're going to keep trying to run it. So can
he improved from what he what we saw as a rookie. Absolutely,
and if he doesn't, then the Broncos won't be talking
about a postseason. But I just can't say that he's
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made huge progress other than having a big understanding, a
much better understanding of the offense. That's something he's talked
about throughout the offseason. He talked about it with I
think Chase, Daniel and Dana were seeing when they were here.
He said that last year he just kind of memorized
everything and now he really understands on it.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
By the way, Brandon Jalen texts in the show that says,
let Brandon know that Indy deserves a major League baseball
team more than Denver. I don't know that I totally
agree with that, but I will say Shannon's nephews, who
are pretty big Rockies fans, they grew up in Denver.
They have told me a numerous occasion their frustration is
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because the stadium is so cool and because the games
are fun. In terms of the non baseball aspect of it.
They're like, yeah, the Rockies don't have to spend money
because everybody goes to the games, regardless fact or fiction.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Yeah, no, total fact.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
The numbers are down a little this year, at least
they were early in the year. Now again they've played better,
they've played better ball of late, and you know, you
get the Dodgers coming in a.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Couple of times and that's going to be cool.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
And the Yankees stame to town as well this year,
so those are gonna always be big member. The same
with the Cubs. They'll sell out to two Saturdays ago.
But yeah, it's the best bar in Talent. We actually
have a T shirt on our Guerrilla Sports website. You
go to Gorilla sports dot net. It's a purple T
shirt with a silhouette of course field because we don't
label at Corsefield, you know, licensing issues, and it says
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best Baring, best bar in Denver, or best bar in Talent,
And it's my favorite shirt of all the shirts we've
made because it's true. On a Saturday night, a Friday night, Thursday,
whatever it is, you can go baseball is only two
and a half hours, an hour or less thanks to
the pitch clock, and then that's how you start your evening.
And it's the great place to see a game. You
can walk around the whole stadium. So that's as you know,
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as misleading as anything else. Like, oh, fans are still coming,
so as long as it's packed, you don't need to
put a.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Winner on the field. Now, they're not. They're not trying
to lose. They're just not doing your deub of figuring
out how to sprive.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
They're just not trying to win, right, They're not trying
to lose. They're just not trying to win. That's the problem.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Yeah, And I don't know how you how you fix
it until you really shake things up. Yeah, they fired
Bud Black. There wasn't a Bud Black's fault that he
had a Triple A team at best, or a bunch
of Double A players that aren't ready to be major
leaders or even four A players, you know, But they're
gonna have to, I think, hire any manager because I
don't think Aaron Shaffer will keep the job. But they
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need a new fren of baseball offs to come in,
someone that's worked other places, that has different ideas and
can just shake things up a bit from the top down,
you know, through every part of the farm system and
try to cultivate the players they have and maybe make
some trades, you know, with some of these young players,
get more young prospects to really grow something.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Brandon, We appreciate the time as always man safe travels
and certainly safe travels over to London That'll be cool
when you get to do that for the Broncos. But
appreciate the time as always.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
Thanks to see at the game.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Someday I will be there. Yep, all right, we'll be
there and we will sit there. We can commiserate in
the press box and solve all the world's problems. How's that?
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Thatunds great? Jake? I appreciate that. I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Brandon Cristall, our friend out in Denver with Guerrilla Sports.
Speaker 5 (14:30):
Second Down and ten.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Offensive Only continues to do.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
A great time.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Down Sa Frise Toledo. That's how it sounded as Purdue
knocked off Ohio State in route to the two thousand
Rose Bowl, where they would face the Washington Huskies. Drew
Brees connecting to the pride of Lauren CenTra high scho
(15:00):
Seth Morales, who joins us now on the program as
a number of Boilers will be on hand this Saturday
to honor that two thousand Rose Bowl winning team. Seth,
how are you?
Speaker 4 (15:12):
I'm great, I'm great. Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
How often do you see and or hear that play?
Speaker 4 (15:17):
Oh man, it's probably weekly. Somebody will send me a
text or it'll pop up in a Hey, I remember
that play when I bumped into somebody you know on
the street. So it's it's it's it's definitely out there. Often.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Here is a really weird question. Okay, you have seen
that play so many times. Yep, I'm curious. Are you
able to remember what it was like in the first person?
In other words, can you still see it as it
happened to your eyes in the moment or has that
been now replaced by the video image of it.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
No, I still remember it clear as day. I mean,
first person, you know, late in again running that route,
I mean, everything kind of got really really quiet, and
it was in the evening time, so it was kind
of dark, and that ball was up there in the
air for quite some time. But I just I remember
thinking to myself, don't drop the ball. Don't drop the ball,
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because I was so wide open. Catch it here that
you know, the crowd war and you know, it was
kind of slow in motion in the last like five
to ten yards. If you see me kind of run
into the end zone. It was kind of like a
release And so I remember it kind of step by step,
you know.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Reggie Wayne once told me that the hardest passes to
catch were the ones where you were wide open. Is
that true?
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (16:39):
Absolutely, I think the ones were it really matters and
you're wide open and if you if you drop it,
you're in infamy. You know, it's just it's infamous if
you do that. Yeah, So I think I think that
that play, given kind of the stakes of you know,
whether we've win the Big Ten championship or not beating
Ohio State, it had that much more kind of impact
(17:03):
on it. So yeah, it definitely matters. But when you're
the only guy out there and you're alone, you better
not drop the ball.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
And I was fortunate, you know, when you were in
a play like that, and Drew Brees obviously is the
guy delivering you the ball, right, and we now know
just and obviously you knew ahead of most people just
the precision of Drew Brees. It goes without saying. But
when you're in the huddle and you're calling up that
play in the games and the balance and you're I
think you're on your own thirty six or something like that.
(17:31):
So it is the play called where it is like, hey,
this is going to you or were you simply one
of these say three or four progression reads that he
had and you didn't know whether you were going to
be the guy or not. Does that make sense what
I'm asking it does?
Speaker 4 (17:47):
Yeah, when I heard that play call, I knew I
wasn't an option. It's usually going to option one or
two and which at the time it was Vinnie Sutherland
or John Stanford, and I was I was the fourth
usual option on that type of play. So if you
watch him, you know, you broke the huddle. You know,
in those situations, a lot of times you're run in
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two minutes and you're gassed, and so a lot of
guys like if they're on the backside of a play,
they're not going to run their ass off. And so
for me, it was like, hey, you know, with every play,
you know to the best of your ability. I think
that's why I was on the field, and you know,
for me, keep sprinting and I had pretty good stamina.
I think I had already had about six catches the game,
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so I knew I just was going to you know,
bust my tail off and try to do what I
needed to do. But fortunately Drew was such a sound
quarterback that he was able to run through his progression.
You know, option one and two weren't there, And if
you watch it, it's just that's the talent in him.
He was disciplined enough to go three and then four
and the safety bed on on on the third receiver
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and I was wide open.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Yeah, I was going to say, you know, it's it's fascinating, Seth,
And I mean not to you know, there's there's no
point in going back now and going roster by roster
on who the other quarterbacks were in the Big Ten.
But we'll just use Big Ten as the example. You know,
how many Big Ten quarterbacks make that play? You know
how many get to the point. And I don't mean
that to knock you, but you were mentioning, you know,
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you're you're read three or four. How many guys even
get that deep in their progression to make that play?
Speaker 4 (19:21):
Yeah, I mean it's maybe one or two if you
think of the time like Tom Brady was before that,
maybe a year before, but maybe you know during the
Big Ten that season, probably no one. He just had,
you know, the discipline. He would outwork a lot of
people in film room and just he kind of he
knew how to kind of go through that progression. And
so I mean, future Hall of Famer quarterback. I was fortunate,
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right time, right place, all Americ quarterback, you know, Hall
of Fame, you know, NFL Super Bowl winning quarterback in
the future. And so I was just fortunate to have
a really accurate STARp dude there on the rock to me.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Those guys you mention and by the way, I mean
Drew Brees, you know obviously John Standerford who was a
great player out of Monrovia, Vinnie Sutherland, Tim Stratton the
tight end, Stu Schweigert who was like a walking interception
ag and Adell Travis Dorsch as well. You guys are
all among those that will be honored this weekend at
Ross Aid for the twenty fifth anniversary. How excited are
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you and how much do you talk to those guys?
Speaker 4 (20:23):
Yeah? I mean I just text John Stanford today. We
were talking often. You know, you kind of stick a
lot of times, you stick with kind of your close
your close knit guys. I was really tight with the
receiver group, and a lot of those guys are still
here in Indianapolis. There's a text thread with Vinnie and
Stanford and at Simpson and Donald Winston. We all kind
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of stick together from a wide out or a wide
receiver standpoint. But that crew was really tight. So we
all try to come back a couple of games the
season to connect and a lot of guys, you know,
a Lafayette's the way to kind of the common ground
to bring everyone back. So, I mean, Purdue doesn't make
it to the Rose bull too often, so you know,
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we're celebrated up there. We're grateful for that, and so
it's fun to see those guys. But a lot of
the guys stay in touch in a meaningful way. And
that team was really special, full of a bunch of
leaders and guys that played in the league and are
doing great things outside of you know, outside of football,
you know later in their career with their families and
the profession. So it's just really fun to kind of
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look back and see just how special of a group
that two thousand team was.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
You know, it's weird, Seth, And I'm gonna when I
say this, you're probably going to exhale and be like, dude, really,
you're having me on to ascess. So, yeah, are you
familiar with Mike Prewitt, the great running back? You know
that were the Prewitt brothers, But Mike Prewitt was a
really good Purdue back in the mid seventies. Are you
familiar with Mike Prewett.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, definitely familiar.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
So Mike Prewitt would be to you what you are
to today's Boilermakers. And when you hear it that way,
that's when you think it doesn't In other words, to me,
it seems like three years ago, right, I mean, it
seems like three to five years ago, and it is
worth celebrating because it has been that long since. And
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yet you have this group of players now that are
that are maybe maybe this is what is good for
Purdue football currently to see that example that is there
for them. I mean, how much do you follow today's
Purdue players.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
Yeah, I mean we we're pretty We're pretty tight. We've
had guys like Rondell Moore that came through the program,
had a lot of talent. He was an intern for
our business at the Morales Group. So I stay pretty
in touch, you know, whether it's coach Walters or Coach
Odom or whoever's the new coach. You know, we try
to stay in touch and go back and speak to
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the team, and I think, you know, you know, for me,
it was like Bob Greasy and Lee Roy Keys. Those
guys are kind of the Pruett kind of the late
seventies or late sixties, early seventies. You know, those guys
were iconic. They were up in the you know raft
you could see they're all American status, so you know,
we want to be like them. So I think it's
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great trying to be intentional about getting back there and saying, hey,
this is possible. This is like the last ranked Big
Ten recruiting class and we ended up winning the Big
Ten championship and going to Rose Bowl, So it can
be done when a lot of people, you know, kind
of have you. You know, they're not favoring you, or
you're kind of that underdog, and so I mean, I
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think that's the story of the two thousand team is
like gritty underdog overachievers that really made headways, you know
in that season.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Now you mentioned the Morales Group, but you're the president
of the Morales Group. Correct, Yes, okay, and that is
I was thinking real estate. But correct me if I'm
wrong here in terms of what it is that your
business does today.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
Yeah, the bulk of what we do is we help
people find jobs. Weren't staffing and recruiting Okay, okay, now
all good. We've been doing that for twenty two years now.
My dad started it and I jumped into the business
right out of college. So it's been fun growing this
thing and using it for good and yeah, so I've
been doing that for the last twenty two years.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Well, the reason I ask, I'm curious of this, you know,
I think that we think Seth Morales is our guest
from that two thousand per new team that's going to
be honored this weekend at ross Aid, with the Boilers
in USC with college athletics in general, Seth, we think
that every player on the field that we're watching, that
the barometer in the ceiling is the NFL, and that
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college success is defined by whether or not a guy
goes on and plays in the NFL. And yet there
is so much that can be learned from just the
team aspect of it. What things did you learn from
Joe Tiller or from working with other guys on the
roster that you carry with you today?
Speaker 4 (24:51):
Yeah, I mean with Joe Tiller, it was all about
just hard nos in mindset. He was a psychologist and
he push to you to get really uncomfortable. With Drew Brees,
it was put in the extra work when you were
heading home to the dorms, he was putting in a
couple extra hours from like ten pm on to do
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extra film. And so seeing guys like that excellent at
their craft, it was kind of like it was masterclass
if you were taking notes. And so you see guys
like Matt Light who is just kind of the joy
of the locker room and jokester, but like very philanthropic,
and seeing just how he's posts you know, New England
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Patriots super Bowl winning team, you know, seeing how he's
kind of carrying himself. And so it's been fun to
like learn from those guys. Cut it up. But it
was I think for me it was like, you know,
Coach Cheney who was our offensive coordinator, he was a
mastermind from from an offensive standpoint. So these guys, man,
we had so many talented coaches and players and the
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way they brought themselves. If you just if you were
paying attention here antennas were up, you were going to
learn quite a bit.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
At what point did you realize Drew Brees was special?
Is there a particular moment that you can recall where
you just went, yeah, okay, this is something here yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
I mean, I remember we were playing ten State into
the third quarter. We're in kind of the end zone
coming out. We've got a march like ninety yards and
he's in the he's in the buddle, and you can
feel the ground shaking below you because there you got
this upper deck. It's a white out Penn State.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
You know.
Speaker 4 (26:34):
They they get all their fans there and they do
a great job of kind of creating a tense environment.
And Drew was just collective in the huddle. He was
really sound. He was like, Hey, we're going to march down.
It's just kind of this like allm assured presence that
you typically wouldn't see when you're down and you're in
that type of environment. But the guy just knew how
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to like keep it together and keep the team going
and wasn't afraid to call guy out in the huddle either.
And so I think those moments early on, when I
was a sophomore just kind of watching. It was kind
of midway through the season as we were getting to
run through our kind of month of August or October
when we made kind of that run. It was great
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to see him do those things, and it really kind
of stuck out to me that he was going to
be super special.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Does he also stay in touch with guys?
Speaker 4 (27:23):
Yeah, he does, man, he does. He's got a couple
of guys that he's really tight with that you know,
he was in the dorms with when he first started.
But he does a good job of kind of circling
around and you know, a phone call, our attacks, you know,
he gets. I mean a lot of people are you know,
asking him for stuff, and he's got to kind of
guard his time. But for the most part, I mean
he's pretty accessible and I appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Okay. Lastly, Seth Morales our guest purdueing USC coming up Saturday,
will be honoring the two thousand rows bull team, of
which Seth was a part of it. When you look
at this year's version of Purdue, I don't know how
much you still you know, keep in touch you mentioned
it earlier, or all of what they are doing, what
jumps out of you? What are you curious to see here?
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And what truly is probably their first big test with us,
which it sounds so weird to say USC in the
Big ten, but nonetheless.
Speaker 4 (28:11):
Yeah, it is wild. Yeah, I think what I've seen
early on is not a lot of penalties. Discipline the
locker room has been won by coach Odum. I think
these guys are trying. You know, you guys got You've
got guys like Devin Makby that are you know, talented
and leading the charge. But you've got some guys that
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are really trying to make a name for themselves. So
I don't know, we'll see. I think their offenses look
pretty good. You know, they've been able to put some
points on the board. They responded pretty well last week
as they got down in a little bit of a hole.
But you know, I think I think they'll they'll keep
it interesting. USC is a little I don't know, I
would say they're They're not always the most consistent team
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out there. They're kind of an enigma, right yeah, yeah,
very very talented, always have you know, four and five
star players, and you know, have some pretty good coaches.
But I think Purdue will make it interesting. And I love,
you know, these big games. Early on, it was like
when Tiller came in early on to the to the
Big Ten and we took it to Notre Dame. You know,
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it was kind of like that that keystone moment for him,
that signature wind to really say hey, we're here, and
so I think they'll keep it interesting. We'll see how
it turns out, but it's not going to be a blowout,
and I think they'll show up and do their thing.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
You know. It's I will tell you this seth being
somebody who grew up as a diehard Indiana fan. I mean,
I grew up in Indianapolis. I was an IU guy,
went to IU, and then when I got out, it
would have been a little bit after you were playing there.
But when I worked at Channel six before in Indianapolis
and I Purdue was kind of my beat and I
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had to cover Purdue football, if I say, had to
for a couple of years there. And I just loved
Joe Tiller. I mean, you know, I don't know what
he was like in terms of an in data day
coach intensity level, but in terms of just his candor
with the media, his accessibility, and his personality. I just
had such a huge amount of respect for both Gene
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Katie and Joe Tiller. It was a pleasure to cover
those guys.
Speaker 4 (30:15):
Yeah, I mean, I think they embodied Purdue. It's fulest
they're gritty, are working old school guys, you know, do
it the blue collar way, and you know, he was
a guy that he wasn't going to be warm and fuzzy,
but he was also going to be really true to
his word and you were going to respect him when
he came in. And I feel some of that with
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with coach owed him, and so, you know, it's a
good I think it's a good recipe for Purdue football
getting getting that back into the state of affairs.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Somebody just texted me Seth, good lord, I watched that
clip on YouTube just now. Seth was wide open and
he's lucky he didn't fall down. Looked like he stumbled.
Speaker 4 (30:52):
Yeah, yeah, I should have. I should have fell you
know I was. I was just trying to catch the
damn ball.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
I'm sure, right, Yeah, five minutes of your life.
Speaker 4 (31:03):
It was up there for a while, and yeah, thankfully
I had a quarterback put it right in my lap,
and you know, you're kind of gassed. At the end
of two minutes, you're just kind of dead. It's hard to,
you know, make a play like that. So I was
just trying to keep my feet and glad I didn't
stumble and made it work.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
It's pretty cool though, certainly enjoy it. This weekend with
all the guys and just soaking in what will always
be a great celebration in honoring that great team in
the Rose Bowl. Seth, enjoy it, man, I appreciate the
time on short notice.
Speaker 4 (31:32):
Today, absolutely, thank you.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Appreciate it. Seth Morales joining us from Pretty Colts are
hoping it'll be a beautiful day coming up Sunday, late
start Lucas Oil Stadium. When I say late, I mean
not your typical one o'clock start, four o'clock hour. Colts
and Broncos joining us now on the always busy especially
today and shockingly unsponsored guest line. Matt Taylor is the
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voice of the Indianapolis Colts about how are you?
Speaker 6 (32:01):
I'm good, Jake?
Speaker 5 (32:02):
What's going on?
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Just set for this game? Right? I mean, you know,
the weeks start to I don't know how it is
for you, but with each week of the NFL season
and they start to just fly past. But I think
Monday is usually kind of a recap day and figure
out where you are from an injury standpoint day. Tuesday
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you get confirmation on the injury, and then on Wednesday
I kind of start to shift towards Now, let's see
who's up next on the docket, and so that means,
you know, Thursday Friday, you're talking a lot about the opponent.
So let's go to Denver. Actually, before we do that,
let's go back to like say, Monday Tuesday from the
injury standpoint. Is there anybody that has popped up that
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you think might be of question coming up this weekend
that we did not anticipate being the case.
Speaker 5 (32:50):
No, I don't think so.
Speaker 6 (32:51):
I mean, if you want to go back to Monday
and Tuesday, we find out about Tarvarius Ward and the
concussion protocol Jalen Jones. It sounds like it's going to
miss some time, so you would think he's not going
to be able to go on Sunday. So that means
the cornerback depth is being tested. It's been pushed pretty
good right now early on in the season. You know,
a guy like Makai Blackman, who was traded for at
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the end of the preseason's been here roughly two plus weeks.
It's like he's going to probably start, or at least
at the very minimum, see a huge role within this defense.
So you know that's a storyline, you know, going into
this game when you've got guys like.
Speaker 5 (33:27):
Courtland Sutton and Marvin Mentze. You're trying to shut down.
Speaker 6 (33:30):
Liotu Latsu is the name to keep an eye on
on the injury report today. That'll come out probably in
like the next hour and a half, two hours. You know,
he popped up on the injury report yesterday.
Speaker 5 (33:42):
So I mean that's a big one.
Speaker 6 (33:43):
When you got you know, one of your defensive ends
that you're relying on to kind of break out this
year and a sophomore efforts, you know, that's really really important.
So you know, those are the big ones, and you know,
knock on wood.
Speaker 5 (33:55):
The Colts are still experiencing against it right now.
Speaker 6 (33:57):
A pretty clean uh bill health early on the season,
which most teams are to be fair. But you know,
as you know, as you were just alluded to there
in the open, you know, it's a marathon and everything
starts to kind of blend together, and you know the
season is going to start to take its toll and
you're gonna see more and more important bodies on the
injury report show up for the Colts.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
You know, Matt, one thing that I was thinking about
and I'm going to take the quarterback answer out of
this because it's it goes without saying. I mean, we've
talked about that competition, you know, since day one. But
if you look at marquee players for the Colts, or
really any starter for the Colts, which player for the
Colts would you say has the closest in terms of
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the backup the least amount of drop off when you
go from And I mean that as a respect to
the backup, not as a drop off from the starter.
Do you get what I'm saying? So, which position are
they the safest where you say, yeah, I mean, look,
you obviously what your starter, but let's not sleep on
this guy is going to have to step in because
they got a lot of they got a guy right
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there where there's not a huge drop off. That answer
that position would be where.
Speaker 5 (35:08):
Great question?
Speaker 6 (35:09):
I think right now, just hearing you say that, I
would probably say wide receiver, just because you know you've
got five of them up on game day and you
know your your two rotational guys that aren't quote unquote
starters at least not you know, and when you go
three wide receiver set, you know, to begin a game,
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guys like ad Mitchell and Ashton Doulan, like I don't
think there is any drop off very minimal when when
let's say, if Pierce were to get banged up, or
Josh Downs were to get banged up, or Michael Pittman Junior,
I mean ad Mitchell, I think is an emerging player.
I mean Ashton Dulan just fled up delivers every time
he's his numbers called, whether it's on special teams or
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kick return or you know, a slot receiver, you know,
running an indurund like he did last week almost scoring
a touchdown against the Dolphins. So that's my answer is
you've got two really good depth pieces. Don't forget about
Anthony Gould too, So I guess I got to correct myself.
Speaker 5 (36:12):
He had six wide receivers.
Speaker 6 (36:14):
All up the other day against the Dolphins, So I
think that's probably your you know, outside a cornerback on defense,
which I still think is pretty pretty good when everybody's healthy,
but it's not as of right now. But when everybody's healthy,
at the wide receiver spot, the Colts have a lot
of options. A lot of the guys that flat out
aren't gonna play a lot, and they're really good football players,
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kind of in the wings.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
You know, Matt, So you've worked in that, I'm going
to give you an introduction to another queryism. Okay, and
I've had a lot of success with these. So you've
worked in this building, Matt. You know Scott Johnston, right.
Speaker 5 (36:49):
I love Scotty Okay, he's his producer.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
So yeah, that's right. So yeah, and you work with
him on the Colts Radio side. So Scotty Johnston, for
those that have not heard me say this before, Scotty
Johnston is the guy that every single company needs. And
I call it the copier guy. And the reason I
call it the copier guy is not because they're the
Rob Schneider character from SNL, but because everybody has that
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situation where you walk past the copier and somebody's standing
there dumbfounded, and you're like, what's going on? Like, I
don't know this thing. It's not working. I just need
to print them out. It's not working. And so then
you say to yourself, well, call Scotty. He'll know how
to fix it. Because Scotty can do everything. He has
the answer to everything. He knows where everybody's breing. All
that is Ashton Dulan, the Scotty Johnston copier guy of
the Colts.
Speaker 6 (37:37):
Ashton doing is the guy that like, you're in a
world of hurt if he's not, Like if he shows
up sick one day and it's like, oh cry, Like
we don't even.
Speaker 5 (37:45):
Know all the things Ashton doing.
Speaker 1 (37:47):
That's exactly correct, right, he can do it. Can you
feel like seven roles? Right?
Speaker 6 (37:51):
Yeah, he just does them and nobody even knows that
he's doing him right, And you know, it's essential business.
I mean that's exactly you know who's Scott Johnson and
is And you know, I think we all like to
think we have a little Scott Johnston in us. You know,
we're hard to replace. We got some institution institutional knowledge
about us, right, But I think that's that's absolutely Ashton
Doling man jack of all trades. He's juggling a lot
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of balls. He's essential in a lot of different things.
Speaker 3 (38:17):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (38:17):
He has to go home at night every night and
watch like three different versions of game tape because of
all that he's.
Speaker 5 (38:22):
Asked to do in his versatility. So, I mean he's
one of.
Speaker 6 (38:25):
My favorite Colts. I mean, think about it. He's lasted
with the Colts for seven years. He signed multiple contract
extensions in free agency. Uh, you know, went to Malone
University that that's not even a real place anymore in
terms of football.
Speaker 5 (38:38):
They don't have played football there anymore.
Speaker 6 (38:40):
So you know, the average lifespan of an NFL players
three years. Uh, and it's even less for undrafted guys.
And he's just kept, you know, sticking around, made himself necessary.
And uh, he's just a great story and just.
Speaker 5 (38:53):
An even better guy. He's on his favorite culture of
all time.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
I'm assuming that you would have to know this because
of your job, Matt. So if you know the answer
to this, I want you to confess up front. I
know the answer, because then it's not as fun. Can
you tell me the town or the athletic nickname of
Malone University?
Speaker 5 (39:11):
I can tell you the town, I can't tell you
the nickname.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
Okay, we're gonna guess the nickname. First off, give me
the town.
Speaker 5 (39:17):
Well, I better be right.
Speaker 6 (39:19):
I'm ninety percent sure it's in Canton, Ohio.
Speaker 1 (39:22):
Okay, I think that is right. Actually, Okay, so I'm
gonna say, Eddie, I'll let you guess first. Malone is
what what do you mean? Okay? Thanks Matt? Matt. If Matt,
how about yourself? Malone is? What? What's your guess? On
the athletic nickname.
Speaker 7 (39:40):
I actually know this answer because they're Division two school.
Speaker 1 (39:43):
I'm gonna go with Mustangs. Matt, what's your guess.
Speaker 6 (39:46):
I'll just say I'll just stick with the generic wild Cats.
Speaker 1 (39:49):
Okay, Eddie, you ready for the answer. I am the Pioneers.
Oh really, okay, the Pioneers. Well, I guess he was
a pioneer in terms of Malone players in the NFL
because they shut down the program, right.
Speaker 6 (40:01):
I think the only reason I knew that is because
I think when he was first picked up by the Colts,
I thought through osmosis. I heard that he used to
play his home games at the Hall of Fame Stadium,
So that's how I was able to put.
Speaker 1 (40:13):
Thatch his quarterback, by the way, Charles Ingles Wilder interestingly
not by the way, so Matt Taylor is our guest.
Matt this particular game. I'm curious of this when you
look at what Daniel Jones was able to do in
Week one, and he was obviously impressive, and I think
Tyler Warren is a big part of that. But I
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think Shane Stiken should get more credit for the way
he called that game to facilitate the strengths of Daniel
Jones and not illuminate any weaknesses there. I thought he
called a very Daniel Jones centric game. Did Shane Stiken?
Would they have done things schematically different if Richardson was
the quarterback?
Speaker 5 (40:55):
May like, you know, it's a great question.
Speaker 6 (40:57):
I mean maybe outside of a couple of design runs
by the quarterback, I.
Speaker 5 (41:03):
Don't think so.
Speaker 6 (41:04):
I mean, you had all the different components in the
offense with Jones last week that you saw when Richardson
was kind of humming last year towards the end of
the season or the middle part of the season, when
after he came back from the two game benching. You know,
you had you had the RPO game. You had pushing
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the ball down the field.
Speaker 5 (41:26):
You know, you had the deep shot to Pierce.
Speaker 6 (41:28):
You had kind of the pump faking go and the
great ball on the sideline to Pittman on the touchdown.
You had you know, sort of the audible at the
line of scrimmage and motion out Josh downs on a
fourth and two. I mean, this is you know, I
think we talked about this maybe last week or the
week before. I mean, aesthetically, it's pretty much the same
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offense for either quarterback, and I think that was a
big reason why, or one of the biggest reasons why
they targeted Daniel Jones is so that they can make
it easier on the rest of the offense no matter
who the quarterback is, because esthetically it's pretty much the same.
The quarterbacks have similar skill sets because Daniel Jones, as
we saw in the first game, really mobile, can get
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out of the pocket. So I think the only difference
is is that you just you're not going to see
and maybe heck, well we might even see it this week.
We don't know, but you know, towards the end of
last year, you were seeing you know, four or five
design runs by Richardson. Maybe not so much with Daniel Jones,
but everything else in terms of the playbook, you know,
was designed for a mobile, athletic quarterback, and both those
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guys kind of fit that. Bill and I thought it
was important for the Colts to do that for the
rest of the offense, so they didn't have to, you know,
do a drastic one to eighty like they've done in
years past, going from Richardson to Flacco or to Nick
Foles or you know, Matt Ryan or so Gardner, Minshew
that's a drastically different game plan, different style of offense,
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and that's a tough swing for the rest of the
skill players on offense to deal with. So I think
that's a big reason why Daniel Jones is here, and
you know, through one game they really executed the big
picture game plan pretty falllessly.
Speaker 7 (43:11):
Matt last week I was talking with Kevin Bonen. I
was like, you know what I was thinking about this
going into week one, Like the three things that we
didn't really talk about during training camp. Number one, we
just talked about him and asked doing being back being healthy.
Number two, Josh Downs was healthy going into week number
one last week against Miami. And number three he got
overshadowed by just what Ady Mitchell and Alex Pearce were
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doing in training camp, and that's Michael Pittman Junior. I
feel like nobody was really talking about Michael Pittman Junior
being healthy in the first week. Last Sunday against Miami,
six catches on eight targets, eighty yards and a touchdown.
Is get back to that twenty twenty three version that
we saw from Michael Pittman Junior within this Colts offense.
Speaker 6 (43:49):
Yeah, you know, any to your point, great, great observation.
You know, I don't want to make any excuses for
Michael Pittman Junior.
Speaker 5 (43:56):
I know that he won't make any excuses either.
Speaker 6 (43:59):
But I mean last year he got it through a
ton of pain. And it was early on the season too.
I think it was like week three or four. You know,
that report flared up like he's gonna go on IR,
he's done for the season, He's going to have to
have back surgery. I mean, not only did he not
have back surgery, he never went on IR and I
think the rest of the season from that point on
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he only missed one game, but he had to go
through a lot of different stuff just to get ready
for Sundays.
Speaker 5 (44:27):
I mean, he didn't.
Speaker 6 (44:27):
Practice a whole lot during the season last year. You know,
had to receive a lot of treatment, went through a
lot of rehab, you know, just to get himself in
a position to play. And so you know, I think
all of that kind of reflected in his performance. Again,
not making an excuse for him, but I mean he
had sixty nine catches last.
Speaker 5 (44:45):
Year, just a little bit over eight hundred yards. That's
a you.
Speaker 6 (44:49):
Know, historically a down productive Michael Pittman Junior type of
a season and to see him go out there and
ball and get eighty yards receiving a touchdown. To your point, Eddie,
you know, last week was a great Michael Pittman junior game.
Stat line wise, he only did what he did on
Sunday last season one time, right, I mean only one
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time in twenty twenty four did he have at least
eighty receiving yards in a touchdown. So to see him
do that right out of the gate, and he's back,
he's healthy, he is not dealing with that back thing anymore.
He's got that behind him. I mean he's going to
kind of step in back into that you know, true
highly targeted go to receiver for the Colts, you know,
their number one guy to make a play in crunch time.
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It was really good to see Michael Pittman Junior kind
of emerge back into that role and play healthy and
then have stability at the quarterback position around him.
Speaker 1 (45:43):
You know, Matt, when you look at week one, Matt Taylor,
our guest voice of the Colts, Colts and Broncos coming
up on Sunday, When you look at week one, and
that was such a dominating I mean, it's been a
while since we've seen the Colts have a game where
they just from the very start. I mean, that game
was never in question, and that's a kudos to the Colts.
That also may tell us a little bit about Miami.
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But was there any area at all coming away from
that game? We've talked so much about the positives for Indianapolis,
what about those areas that might have been a forecast
of concern?
Speaker 4 (46:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (46:17):
No, to your point, I mean, you got to you know,
you got to get out the microscope to find the negatives.
But I mean it was it was pretty close to
perfect as you can play in the NFL by modern standards.
You know, you win by twenty five points. That was
the largest margin of victory for the Colts in the
game since twenty twenty one.
Speaker 5 (46:35):
So it's been a long time since they just kicked
the holy you know what out of somebody.
Speaker 6 (46:39):
And it was really refreshing to see. But you know,
there was still some things you got to clean up, right.
There was some leakage on some kickoff returns. You know,
I think of the first kickoff return of the game a.
Speaker 5 (46:49):
Thirty eight yarder.
Speaker 6 (46:50):
So some good field positioned by the Dolphins in that case.
And then the biggest one for me is just and
I don't want to sound like a broken record, because
we've been talking about this for the last three years
and it's really hard to do. It's easier to say
than it is to do, because every team in the
NFL is dealing with it.
Speaker 5 (47:07):
It's like bullpen in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 6 (47:10):
Everybody needs it, but there's not a lot of it,
and it's defensive tackle depth and the culture spoiled because
they have two of the best ones in the NFL
still going and Grover Stewart into Forrest Buckner. But the
problem is, the reality is those guys can't play every down.
They can't go sixty sixty five plays throughout the course
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of a game. They got to get their rest. You know,
they get nicked up here and there. You know, you're
putting in different packages to rush the passer and things
like that, but you know, when those guys are out
of the lineup, there's still a little bit of just
noticeable difference and being able to stop the run. They're
a little bit vulnerable still in the middle of that
defense against the run. And then I just think big
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picture wise too, you look at what Miami did on
offense last week, which wasn't a lot because they got
down early on the scoreboard, they had to throw the ball.
They didn't run the ball all that much. You know,
they ran the ball for only seventy two yards for
the game, but if you look at their number of attempts,
they were still over six yards per attempt, So you
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know that that's a little bit you know, eye eyebrow raising.
It's a little bit alarming, even if it was a
blowout type of the game. They got to get that
fixed because that'll come back to bite you when you
are in a dog fight of a team. When you
do have, you know, an offense it's got a good
offensive line and a good running back, they can kind
of slash and find those vision you know, one cut runs.
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That's something they got to get cleaned up. But again,
it's it's tough to find, you know, top end, backup,
defensive tackle depth because.
Speaker 5 (48:41):
Every team in the NFL searching for those guys.
Speaker 1 (48:43):
Matt as Vino Scott Johnston wears a different sports jersey
of a different athlete three hundred and sixty five days
a year. He has never won the same one twice,
but if I see him wearing one of Ashton Dulan,
I'm gonna freak out because my worlds have collided, said
Matt Taylor, Voice of the Colts. You can hear them
on Sunday. Matt, we appreciate it as always. Man, have
a good call.
Speaker 5 (49:03):
I appreciate you guys.
Speaker 1 (49:04):
Thank you, Matt Taylor joining us on the program.
I'll tell you what I'm doing a service to folks here.
I'm doing a service to folks because we are letting
you go for free here to Denver, Colorado as part
of our Thursday road trip. And I don't know if
and I only know this because Shannon and I are
going to Denver for a weekend in October to go
see Paul McCartney. Airfare right now to Denver not inexpensive.
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I don't know what happened, but airfare to Denver specifically
like through the roof. But Eddie, nonetheless, are you ready
to put your train in the upright position and fasten
your seatbelt. We're on our way to Denver. Brandon Gristal
joins us now on the program of course, a regular
here if you will on Querying Company. Brandon, how are you?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
I'm doing good?
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Jake Miley thought, is that's fall break here starts that weekend,
but that would be flights out of Denver, and maybe
it's fall breaks around the country. Folks want to come
or they want to see Paul McCartney. Maybe I'm going
to be in London because the Broncos played the Jets
the night before that that Sunday to twelfth, and I
think that concert's on the eleven the course field where
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they used to have Major League Baseball, but these days
the Rockies play there.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Yeah, what what is by the way before we get
to the broncos Man, What in the world happened to
the Rockies? They're terrible, right, They're the worst team in baseball.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Right by a long shot.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
When you never get creative with how you handle your management.
And since Dan O'Dowd got here in ninety nine, they've
had twenty six straight years.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Of a vertical line.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
So Dan O'Dowd was seated by one of his under
a ling guy Nam jet Right It.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
She ran it for a while.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
He did, then Ronado deal that also traded Ronado, and
then after him a guy named Bill Schmidt who was
a long time Scott in directory that came with O
doubt he is now the GM. A lot of people
think he won't survive the year. So when you never
get any thoughts from outside the building in your argument
as well other teams, you bringing someone from the outside
of other people that have worked at other teams, they
don't know how to win at altitude. I used to say, well,
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you've got forty wins. You also do not know how
to win it out when I have one hundred loss
for three, can't be worse.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
It can be, but it can't be worse.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
And so they're not going to be the worst team
in history of baseball, but they're not much better. Got
a couple of young pieces like all major league teams
seem to have, but no, they they and they played hard.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Since the break, but they're just not very good. And
I don't know what we'll say that.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Even with them drafting that Aliday's younger son Ethan this
past June. But it is a cool place to see
a game, the great place to a game, and depending
on where your seats are for McCartney, it's a cool
place to see a concert. I just hope you're not
behind home plate necessarily, you'll be very far from the stage.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
I think it's at you know what, I guess you're right,
it's at Rocky It's at Coursefield, as opposed to Investo
or the Mile High or whatever they call it these days,
right Branda Christall. By the way, our guest BK. Denver
sports on the ex Post Twitter and he is the
host and reporter assistant regional manager for Guerrilla Sports talking about.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
The Denver to the regional manager.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
What's that?
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Just like d white shirt from now you're.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
The assistant and regional manager. Come on, well just I
mean you're George Stands. Do you smell ex gratifications? That's right,
you're the assistant to the assistant manager. Okay, Brandon, let's
get to this. You know, the Colts looked really good
in Week one, and there is optimism here in Indianapolis,
but they also played Miami and we you know week
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one overreaction. We have no idea who teams are through
week one. But now they go and they take on Denver.
I had said I thought this was an important two
game stretch for the Colts because theoretically, these are two
teams that are going to be thought to be around
the same area within the conference where the Colts are
going to be in November or December if they're not
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divisional winners and the wild card is in play. What
is the strength of this Denver Broncos team that can
challenge Indianapolis.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Well, certainly it's their defense.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
And I think when I talk to you, what six
weeks here or so right an start a training camp
or maybe longer than because you had the race coming
the down.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
So whatever.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
It was a couple of months ago, we talked about
the defense and they came to play Sunday. There you know,
they've already racked up six SATs coming off a season
where they had sixty three as a team to lead
the NFL. Six different players got to the quarterback. They
actually lost the turnover battle. Teams that won the turnover battle.
Sean Payton told us on a Wednesday or eight and
a one, the Broncos because of bon Nick's thrown a
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couple of ill advised passes, not that sever advised, although
every now and then I guess the good pass.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Can get tipped up or broken up.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
But some ill advised pass, especially the second intercession wasn't
very good.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
And if you go back and watch that game, and
I don't know how many.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Colts Stans saw it, he had about two or three
in the first half that also could have been accepted,
they just weren't.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
And so he and then he gave up a fumble
on a strip.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Sack, something that he didn't do at all as a
rookie and didn't do in college.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
He does protect them all pretty well, but they lost
the turnover bat battle.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Nonetheless, every time that short field they held the Titans
to three or less and so they gave him just
four field goals.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
And so you're good up front.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Although we don't know what the expectations for Drake green Want,
who didn't play this pass week. John Franklin, Meyer's defensive
lineman miss practice yesterday, but I was told by someone
I trust that it's no big deal, and so.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Maybe he will be in there, big one of the
big men up front in that rotation. But then on
the back end, adding kalan of.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Ufongo, who had his my mix point out yesterday, I
think he had every tackle in the first quarter.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
He is as good as advertised.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Went healthy and there's a reason he was All Pro
a couple of years ago with the Niners. So adding
him to a secondary that already has the best offensive
player in football and passer Tan Junior, who gave up
no catches on thirty four pass covered drafts, only threw
his way once. But it's a good day of work
and they're good kind of across the board with the
first round pick and Barren that plays, and then nicol
and can play outside. McMillan, who had the strip sacked
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late of gam Ward and then Riley Moss, who a
lot of folks in the Big Dead, remember, because we
certainly noticed white cornerbacks and I always had a couple
of good ones.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
But Riley's played really well and had.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
A great game in the opener. So it's all about
their defense keeping them in the game. Can their offense
make enough plays?
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Brandon the defense itself. Kristaal is our guest talking about
the Broncos. You know with in Daniel Jones, what Shane
Stikeen did really well I thought in Week one for
Indianapolis was running offense and call plays that catered towards
Daniel Jones, getting him in rhythm a little bit, and
really featuring Tyler Warren their tight end, who's going to
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be a really good player for Indianapolis. But defensively, does
Denver run a defense that is really aggressive? Is Daniel
Jones going to see a lot of different stunt looks
and are they going to see a lot of blitzes
or is it more just simply locked down like cover
type defense.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
No, I think that that's kind of ans. Joseph's calling
card is how many different exotic looks can he give you?
And how many different stunts, twists games. Up front came
the d lineman, and you know they're led by Zach Allen,
who just got a new contract extension coming off a
year where it wasn't Chris.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Jones, it wasn't another interior lineman. He was the defensive
lineman who.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Had the most to be pressures wrapped up eight and
a half sacks. He's really strawlett sturs to drink there.
But I mentioned JFM DJ Jones up front, and their
backups are really aggressive too, so they come after you
a bunch of different ways. Like I mentioned, McMillan had
that script sack. I mean, he's five pen on his
best day, one hundred and eighty five pounds, and they'll
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send the corner from a corner blitz when you don't
expect it to be coming. And so that's kind of
been one of many Joseph's strong suits. I think he
gives that a lot from his time around Wade Phillips
in Houston, and so I think that it will confuse
Daniel Jones if it works the way they want it to.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
And one other thing too, is it relates to Daniel Jones.
He's really close with Davis Webb, and I don't know
how people know this.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
I asked Sean Payton about it yesterday. He tried to
downplay it. But Davis Webb, because.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Seanles want to hold us a story on.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Fridays at least that last season that Webb was with.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Daniel in New York in twenty twenty two and they made.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
The playoffs, Davis would take Daniel to the indoor for
the Giants and go through the game plan and walk
through it with him like he was a coach, and
Davis is the son of a coach. He steps off
the practice field, we're in that same season, they're.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Off the playing field.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
He started that final regular season game because the Giants
were locked into the into their playoff spot, so they
gave Daniel Jones a day off and Davis started that
game and then immediately became the Broncos quarterbacks coach, jumping
a couple levels that most coaches have to go through
from quality control and other areas before you become a
quarterbacks coach.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
But so Davis web has as good a knowledge of
Daniel Jones.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Probably as anyone, and saw Daniel when he was at
his best before we saw what we saw last Sunday.
That doesn't mean that he'll be able to relay everything
to Shane Steikin's offense is obviously different than what Dave
all ran, but you have somebody that at least knows
what Davis's tenant or what Daniel Jones tendencies are, and
so it'd be interesting to see how he does relay that.
The man's Josep. We're going to talk to VJA today
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and we talked to the coordinators. I'm sure he'll down
plan it as well. But that doesn't mean that Davis
is sitting in there in a game plan meeting with
him on Tuesday to go through things that he saw
Daniel do well and say we need to keep him
out of this and try to make him do that.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
So Davis Webb, of course is the passing game coordinator,
offensive coordinator for the Broncos and quarterbacks coach. He's kind
of like the assistant of the regional manager basically. But
having said that, Brandon, you know he's working now with
bow Nicks. So in conclusion, on the offensive side of
the ball for Denver, bow Knicks now has taken what
sort of step here over the course of his time
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since he has, you know, been working with Sean Payton.
And what sort of threat offensively does Denver present to
the Colts.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Well, I think it's yet to be determined.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
If you were asking me what kind of stuff he's
taken so far, I'd say sideways, paralcy backwards. They won,
They scored two touchdowns. Those interceptions weren't good. You saw
a couple of really good throws, especially to Courtland Sutton,
not just on a touchdown, but on our early kind
of bootleg action. A couple of good throws one of
the old collegeamate Troy Franklin and Evan Ingram and so
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and early on. He did what he did last year.
In the first quarter, he targeted eight receivers and other
than the third running back that didn't catch either the
passes throw on the him. One he had to catch
on a screening miss. The other I would have gotten
him killed had both put it on the numbers by
a safety coming across those good at.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Sale out of bounds the end zone.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
But he was seven for you know, hit seven different guys.
And that's what he did great last year was read
the ball around. Even though he looked at Courtland Sutton
the most. He was able to spread it around. Now,
the one thing they did in the second half they
did do in the first half was run the football.
The numbers are a little scuge because rookie yard j
Harvey had a fifty yard run, but Jacot out.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
The scored on a point near a touchdown run.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
But Jacould just stay submitted to running the football in
the first half. That'll help bow nicks because that'll help
keep the defense honest if you will. And one thing
Sean said, Sean loves to make excuses to protect both.
He said there were too many RPOs and that's on
him because bow made the check to the pass. He's like,
we need more run to run options and He's like,
so that's on me as a play caller, And there
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may be some truth in that. But at the same time,
bo has to know that running the ball, even if
it's not for a lot of yardage because of the
look you're getting, will still keep the defense thinking, oh,
they're going to keep trying to run it. So can
he improved from what he what we saw as a rookie. Absolutely,
and if he doesn't, then the Broncos won't be talking
about a postseason. But I just can't say that he's
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made huge progress other than having a big understanding, a
much better understanding of the offense. That's something he's talked
about throughout the offseason. He talked about it with I
think Chase, Daniel and Dana were seeing when they were here.
He said that last year he just kind of memorized
everything and now he really understands on it.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
By the way, Brandon Jalen texts in the show that says,
let Brandon know that Indy deserves a major League baseball
team more than Denver. I don't know that I totally
agree with that, but I will say Shannon's nephews, who
are pretty big Rockies fans, they grew up in Denver.
They have told me a numerous occasion their frustration is
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because the stadium is so cool and because the games
are fun. In terms of the non baseball aspect of it.
They're like, yeah, the Rockies don't have to spend money
because everybody goes to the games, regardless fact or fiction.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Yeah, no, total fact.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
The numbers are down a little this year, at least
they were early in the year. Now again they've played better,
they've played better ball of late, and you know, you
get the Dodgers coming in a.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Couple of times and that's going to be cool.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
And the Yankees stame to town as well this year,
so those are gonna always be big member. The same
with the Cubs. They'll sell out to two Saturdays ago.
But yeah, it's the best bar in Talent. We actually
have a T shirt on our Guerrilla Sports website. You
go to Gorilla sports dot net. It's a purple T
shirt with a silhouette of course field because we don't
label at Corsefield, you know, licensing issues, and it says
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best Baring, best bar in Denver, or best bar in Talent,
And it's my favorite shirt of all the shirts we've
made because it's true. On a Saturday night, a Friday night, Thursday,
whatever it is, you can go baseball is only two
and a half hours, an hour or less thanks to
the pitch clock, and then that's how you start your evening.
And it's the great place to see a game. You
can walk around the whole stadium. So that's as you know,
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as misleading as anything else. Like, oh, fans are still coming,
so as long as it's packed, you don't need to
put a.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Winner on the field. Now, they're not. They're not trying
to lose. They're just not doing your deub of figuring
out how to sprive.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
They're just not trying to win, right, They're not trying
to lose. They're just not trying to win. That's the problem.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Yeah, And I don't know how you how you fix
it until you really shake things up. Yeah, they fired
Bud Black. There wasn't a Bud Black's fault that he
had a Triple A team at best, or a bunch
of Double A players that aren't ready to be major
leaders or even four A players, you know, But they're
gonna have to, I think, hire any manager because I
don't think Aaron Shaffer will keep the job. But they
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need a new fren of baseball offs to come in,
someone that's worked other places, that has different ideas and
can just shake things up a bit from the top down,
you know, through every part of the farm system and
try to cultivate the players they have and maybe make
some trades, you know, with some of these young players,
get more young prospects to really grow something.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Brandon, We appreciate the time as always man safe travels
and certainly safe travels over to London That'll be cool
when you get to do that for the Broncos. But
appreciate the time as always.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
Thanks to see at the game.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Someday I will be there. Yep, all right, we'll be
there and we will sit there. We can commiserate in
the press box and solve all the world's problems. How's that?
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Thatunds great? Jake? I appreciate that. I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Brandon Cristall, our friend out in Denver with Guerrilla Sports.
Speaker 5 (14:30):
Second Down and ten.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Offensive Only continues to do.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
A great time.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Down Sa Frise Toledo. That's how it sounded as Purdue
knocked off Ohio State in route to the two thousand
Rose Bowl, where they would face the Washington Huskies. Drew
Brees connecting to the pride of Lauren CenTra high scho
(15:00):
Seth Morales, who joins us now on the program as
a number of Boilers will be on hand this Saturday
to honor that two thousand Rose Bowl winning team. Seth,
how are you?
Speaker 4 (15:12):
I'm great, I'm great. Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
How often do you see and or hear that play?
Speaker 4 (15:17):
Oh man, it's probably weekly. Somebody will send me a
text or it'll pop up in a Hey, I remember
that play when I bumped into somebody you know on
the street. So it's it's it's it's definitely out there. Often.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Here is a really weird question. Okay, you have seen
that play so many times. Yep, I'm curious. Are you
able to remember what it was like in the first person?
In other words, can you still see it as it
happened to your eyes in the moment or has that
been now replaced by the video image of it.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
No, I still remember it clear as day. I mean,
first person, you know, late in again running that route,
I mean, everything kind of got really really quiet, and
it was in the evening time, so it was kind
of dark, and that ball was up there in the
air for quite some time. But I just I remember
thinking to myself, don't drop the ball. Don't drop the ball,
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because I was so wide open. Catch it here that
you know, the crowd war and you know, it was
kind of slow in motion in the last like five
to ten yards. If you see me kind of run
into the end zone. It was kind of like a
release And so I remember it kind of step by step,
you know.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Reggie Wayne once told me that the hardest passes to
catch were the ones where you were wide open. Is
that true?
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (16:39):
Absolutely, I think the ones were it really matters and
you're wide open and if you if you drop it,
you're in infamy. You know, it's just it's infamous if
you do that. Yeah, So I think I think that
that play, given kind of the stakes of you know,
whether we've win the Big Ten championship or not beating
Ohio State, it had that much more kind of impact
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on it. So yeah, it definitely matters. But when you're
the only guy out there and you're alone, you better
not drop the ball.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
And I was fortunate, you know, when you were in
a play like that, and Drew Brees obviously is the
guy delivering you the ball, right, and we now know
just and obviously you knew ahead of most people just
the precision of Drew Brees. It goes without saying. But
when you're in the huddle and you're calling up that
play in the games and the balance and you're I
think you're on your own thirty six or something like that.
(17:31):
So it is the play called where it is like, hey,
this is going to you or were you simply one
of these say three or four progression reads that he
had and you didn't know whether you were going to
be the guy or not. Does that make sense what
I'm asking it does?
Speaker 4 (17:47):
Yeah, when I heard that play call, I knew I
wasn't an option. It's usually going to option one or
two and which at the time it was Vinnie Sutherland
or John Stanford, and I was I was the fourth
usual option on that type of play. So if you
watch him, you know, you broke the huddle. You know,
in those situations, a lot of times you're run in
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two minutes and you're gassed, and so a lot of
guys like if they're on the backside of a play,
they're not going to run their ass off. And so
for me, it was like, hey, you know, with every play,
you know to the best of your ability. I think
that's why I was on the field, and you know,
for me, keep sprinting and I had pretty good stamina.
I think I had already had about six catches the game,
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so I knew I just was going to you know,
bust my tail off and try to do what I
needed to do. But fortunately Drew was such a sound
quarterback that he was able to run through his progression.
You know, option one and two weren't there, And if
you watch it, it's just that's the talent in him.
He was disciplined enough to go three and then four
and the safety bed on on on the third receiver
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and I was wide open.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Yeah, I was going to say, you know, it's it's fascinating, Seth,
And I mean not to you know, there's there's no
point in going back now and going roster by roster
on who the other quarterbacks were in the Big Ten.
But we'll just use Big Ten as the example. You know,
how many Big Ten quarterbacks make that play? You know
how many get to the point. And I don't mean
that to knock you, but you were mentioning, you know,
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you're you're read three or four. How many guys even
get that deep in their progression to make that play?
Speaker 4 (19:21):
Yeah, I mean it's maybe one or two if you
think of the time like Tom Brady was before that,
maybe a year before, but maybe you know during the
Big Ten that season, probably no one. He just had,
you know, the discipline. He would outwork a lot of
people in film room and just he kind of he
knew how to kind of go through that progression. And
so I mean, future Hall of Famer quarterback. I was fortunate,
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right time, right place, all Americ quarterback, you know, Hall
of Fame, you know, NFL Super Bowl winning quarterback in
the future. And so I was just fortunate to have
a really accurate STARp dude there on the rock to me.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Those guys you mention and by the way, I mean
Drew Brees, you know obviously John Standerford who was a
great player out of Monrovia, Vinnie Sutherland, Tim Stratton the
tight end, Stu Schweigert who was like a walking interception
ag and Adell Travis Dorsch as well. You guys are
all among those that will be honored this weekend at
Ross Aid for the twenty fifth anniversary. How excited are
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you and how much do you talk to those guys?
Speaker 4 (20:23):
Yeah? I mean I just text John Stanford today. We
were talking often. You know, you kind of stick a
lot of times, you stick with kind of your close
your close knit guys. I was really tight with the
receiver group, and a lot of those guys are still
here in Indianapolis. There's a text thread with Vinnie and
Stanford and at Simpson and Donald Winston. We all kind
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of stick together from a wide out or a wide
receiver standpoint. But that crew was really tight. So we
all try to come back a couple of games the
season to connect and a lot of guys, you know,
a Lafayette's the way to kind of the common ground
to bring everyone back. So, I mean, Purdue doesn't make
it to the Rose bull too often, so you know,
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we're celebrated up there. We're grateful for that, and so
it's fun to see those guys. But a lot of
the guys stay in touch in a meaningful way. And
that team was really special, full of a bunch of
leaders and guys that played in the league and are
doing great things outside of you know, outside of football,
you know later in their career with their families and
the profession. So it's just really fun to kind of
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look back and see just how special of a group
that two thousand team was.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
You know, it's weird, Seth, And I'm gonna when I
say this, you're probably going to exhale and be like, dude, really,
you're having me on to ascess. So, yeah, are you
familiar with Mike Prewitt, the great running back? You know
that were the Prewitt brothers, But Mike Prewitt was a
really good Purdue back in the mid seventies. Are you
familiar with Mike Prewett.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, definitely familiar.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
So Mike Prewitt would be to you what you are
to today's Boilermakers. And when you hear it that way,
that's when you think it doesn't In other words, to me,
it seems like three years ago, right, I mean, it
seems like three to five years ago, and it is
worth celebrating because it has been that long since. And
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yet you have this group of players now that are
that are maybe maybe this is what is good for
Purdue football currently to see that example that is there
for them. I mean, how much do you follow today's
Purdue players.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
Yeah, I mean we we're pretty We're pretty tight. We've
had guys like Rondell Moore that came through the program,
had a lot of talent. He was an intern for
our business at the Morales Group. So I stay pretty
in touch, you know, whether it's coach Walters or Coach
Odom or whoever's the new coach. You know, we try
to stay in touch and go back and speak to
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the team, and I think, you know, you know, for me,
it was like Bob Greasy and Lee Roy Keys. Those
guys are kind of the Pruett kind of the late
seventies or late sixties, early seventies. You know, those guys
were iconic. They were up in the you know raft
you could see they're all American status, so you know,
we want to be like them. So I think it's
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great trying to be intentional about getting back there and saying, hey,
this is possible. This is like the last ranked Big
Ten recruiting class and we ended up winning the Big
Ten championship and going to Rose Bowl, So it can
be done when a lot of people, you know, kind
of have you. You know, they're not favoring you, or
you're kind of that underdog, and so I mean, I
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think that's the story of the two thousand team is
like gritty underdog overachievers that really made headways, you know
in that season.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Now you mentioned the Morales Group, but you're the president
of the Morales Group. Correct, Yes, okay, and that is
I was thinking real estate. But correct me if I'm
wrong here in terms of what it is that your
business does today.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
Yeah, the bulk of what we do is we help
people find jobs. Weren't staffing and recruiting Okay, okay, now
all good. We've been doing that for twenty two years now.
My dad started it and I jumped into the business
right out of college. So it's been fun growing this
thing and using it for good and yeah, so I've
been doing that for the last twenty two years.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Well, the reason I ask, I'm curious of this, you know,
I think that we think Seth Morales is our guest
from that two thousand per new team that's going to
be honored this weekend at ross Aid, with the Boilers
in USC with college athletics in general, Seth, we think
that every player on the field that we're watching, that
the barometer in the ceiling is the NFL, and that
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college success is defined by whether or not a guy
goes on and plays in the NFL. And yet there
is so much that can be learned from just the
team aspect of it. What things did you learn from
Joe Tiller or from working with other guys on the
roster that you carry with you today?
Speaker 4 (24:51):
Yeah, I mean with Joe Tiller, it was all about
just hard nos in mindset. He was a psychologist and
he push to you to get really uncomfortable. With Drew Brees,
it was put in the extra work when you were
heading home to the dorms, he was putting in a
couple extra hours from like ten pm on to do
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extra film. And so seeing guys like that excellent at
their craft, it was kind of like it was masterclass
if you were taking notes. And so you see guys
like Matt Light who is just kind of the joy
of the locker room and jokester, but like very philanthropic,
and seeing just how he's posts you know, New England
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Patriots super Bowl winning team, you know, seeing how he's
kind of carrying himself. And so it's been fun to
like learn from those guys. Cut it up. But it
was I think for me it was like, you know,
Coach Cheney who was our offensive coordinator, he was a
mastermind from from an offensive standpoint. So these guys, man,
we had so many talented coaches and players and the
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way they brought themselves. If you just if you were
paying attention here antennas were up, you were going to
learn quite a bit.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
At what point did you realize Drew Brees was special?
Is there a particular moment that you can recall where
you just went, yeah, okay, this is something here yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
I mean, I remember we were playing ten State into
the third quarter. We're in kind of the end zone
coming out. We've got a march like ninety yards and
he's in the he's in the buddle, and you can
feel the ground shaking below you because there you got
this upper deck. It's a white out Penn State.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
You know.
Speaker 4 (26:34):
They they get all their fans there and they do
a great job of kind of creating a tense environment.
And Drew was just collective in the huddle. He was
really sound. He was like, Hey, we're going to march down.
It's just kind of this like allm assured presence that
you typically wouldn't see when you're down and you're in
that type of environment. But the guy just knew how
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to like keep it together and keep the team going
and wasn't afraid to call guy out in the huddle either.
And so I think those moments early on, when I
was a sophomore just kind of watching. It was kind
of midway through the season as we were getting to
run through our kind of month of August or October
when we made kind of that run. It was great
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to see him do those things, and it really kind
of stuck out to me that he was going to
be super special.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Does he also stay in touch with guys?
Speaker 4 (27:23):
Yeah, he does, man, he does. He's got a couple
of guys that he's really tight with that you know,
he was in the dorms with when he first started.
But he does a good job of kind of circling
around and you know, a phone call, our attacks, you know,
he gets. I mean a lot of people are you know,
asking him for stuff, and he's got to kind of
guard his time. But for the most part, I mean
he's pretty accessible and I appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Okay. Lastly, Seth Morales our guest purdueing USC coming up Saturday,
will be honoring the two thousand rows bull team, of
which Seth was a part of it. When you look
at this year's version of Purdue, I don't know how
much you still you know, keep in touch you mentioned
it earlier, or all of what they are doing, what
jumps out of you? What are you curious to see here?
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And what truly is probably their first big test with us,
which it sounds so weird to say USC in the
Big ten, but nonetheless.
Speaker 4 (28:11):
Yeah, it is wild. Yeah, I think what I've seen
early on is not a lot of penalties. Discipline the
locker room has been won by coach Odum. I think
these guys are trying. You know, you guys got You've
got guys like Devin Makby that are you know, talented
and leading the charge. But you've got some guys that
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are really trying to make a name for themselves. So
I don't know, we'll see. I think their offenses look
pretty good. You know, they've been able to put some
points on the board. They responded pretty well last week
as they got down in a little bit of a hole.
But you know, I think I think they'll they'll keep
it interesting. USC is a little I don't know, I
would say they're They're not always the most consistent team
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out there. They're kind of an enigma, right yeah, yeah,
very very talented, always have you know, four and five
star players, and you know, have some pretty good coaches.
But I think Purdue will make it interesting. And I love,
you know, these big games. Early on, it was like
when Tiller came in early on to the to the
Big Ten and we took it to Notre Dame. You know,
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it was kind of like that that keystone moment for him,
that signature wind to really say hey, we're here, and
so I think they'll keep it interesting. We'll see how
it turns out, but it's not going to be a blowout,
and I think they'll show up and do their thing.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
You know. It's I will tell you this seth being
somebody who grew up as a diehard Indiana fan. I mean,
I grew up in Indianapolis. I was an IU guy,
went to IU, and then when I got out, it
would have been a little bit after you were playing there.
But when I worked at Channel six before in Indianapolis
and I Purdue was kind of my beat and I
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had to cover Purdue football, if I say, had to
for a couple of years there. And I just loved
Joe Tiller. I mean, you know, I don't know what
he was like in terms of an in data day
coach intensity level, but in terms of just his candor
with the media, his accessibility, and his personality. I just
had such a huge amount of respect for both Gene
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Katie and Joe Tiller. It was a pleasure to cover
those guys.
Speaker 4 (30:15):
Yeah, I mean, I think they embodied Purdue. It's fulest
they're gritty, are working old school guys, you know, do
it the blue collar way, and you know, he was
a guy that he wasn't going to be warm and fuzzy,
but he was also going to be really true to
his word and you were going to respect him when
he came in. And I feel some of that with
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with coach owed him, and so, you know, it's a
good I think it's a good recipe for Purdue football
getting getting that back into the state of affairs.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Somebody just texted me Seth, good lord, I watched that
clip on YouTube just now. Seth was wide open and
he's lucky he didn't fall down. Looked like he stumbled.
Speaker 4 (30:52):
Yeah, yeah, I should have. I should have fell you
know I was. I was just trying to catch the
damn ball.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
I'm sure, right, Yeah, five minutes of your life.
Speaker 4 (31:03):
It was up there for a while, and yeah, thankfully
I had a quarterback put it right in my lap,
and you know, you're kind of gassed. At the end
of two minutes, you're just kind of dead. It's hard to,
you know, make a play like that. So I was
just trying to keep my feet and glad I didn't
stumble and made it work.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
It's pretty cool though, certainly enjoy it. This weekend with
all the guys and just soaking in what will always
be a great celebration in honoring that great team in
the Rose Bowl. Seth, enjoy it, man, I appreciate the
time on short notice.
Speaker 4 (31:32):
Today, absolutely, thank you.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Appreciate it. Seth Morales joining us from Pretty Colts are
hoping it'll be a beautiful day coming up Sunday, late
start Lucas Oil Stadium. When I say late, I mean
not your typical one o'clock start, four o'clock hour. Colts
and Broncos joining us now on the always busy especially
today and shockingly unsponsored guest line. Matt Taylor is the
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voice of the Indianapolis Colts about how are you?
Speaker 6 (32:01):
I'm good, Jake?
Speaker 5 (32:02):
What's going on?
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Just set for this game? Right? I mean, you know,
the weeks start to I don't know how it is
for you, but with each week of the NFL season
and they start to just fly past. But I think
Monday is usually kind of a recap day and figure
out where you are from an injury standpoint day. Tuesday
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you get confirmation on the injury, and then on Wednesday
I kind of start to shift towards Now, let's see
who's up next on the docket, and so that means,
you know, Thursday Friday, you're talking a lot about the opponent.
So let's go to Denver. Actually, before we do that,
let's go back to like say, Monday Tuesday from the
injury standpoint. Is there anybody that has popped up that
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you think might be of question coming up this weekend
that we did not anticipate being the case.
Speaker 5 (32:50):
No, I don't think so.
Speaker 6 (32:51):
I mean, if you want to go back to Monday
and Tuesday, we find out about Tarvarius Ward and the
concussion protocol Jalen Jones. It sounds like it's going to
miss some time, so you would think he's not going
to be able to go on Sunday. So that means
the cornerback depth is being tested. It's been pushed pretty
good right now early on in the season. You know,
a guy like Makai Blackman, who was traded for at
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the end of the preseason's been here roughly two plus weeks.
It's like he's going to probably start, or at least
at the very minimum, see a huge role within this defense.
So you know that's a storyline, you know, going into
this game when you've got guys like.
Speaker 5 (33:27):
Courtland Sutton and Marvin Mentze. You're trying to shut down.
Speaker 6 (33:30):
Liotu Latsu is the name to keep an eye on
on the injury report today. That'll come out probably in
like the next hour and a half, two hours. You know,
he popped up on the injury report yesterday.
Speaker 5 (33:42):
So I mean that's a big one.
Speaker 6 (33:43):
When you got you know, one of your defensive ends
that you're relying on to kind of break out this
year and a sophomore efforts, you know, that's really really important.
So you know, those are the big ones, and you know,
knock on wood.
Speaker 5 (33:55):
The Colts are still experiencing against it right now.
Speaker 6 (33:57):
A pretty clean uh bill health early on the season,
which most teams are to be fair. But you know,
as you know, as you were just alluded to there
in the open, you know, it's a marathon and everything
starts to kind of blend together, and you know the
season is going to start to take its toll and
you're gonna see more and more important bodies on the
injury report show up for the Colts.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
You know, Matt, one thing that I was thinking about
and I'm going to take the quarterback answer out of
this because it's it goes without saying. I mean, we've
talked about that competition, you know, since day one. But
if you look at marquee players for the Colts, or
really any starter for the Colts, which player for the
Colts would you say has the closest in terms of
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the backup the least amount of drop off when you
go from And I mean that as a respect to
the backup, not as a drop off from the starter.
Do you get what I'm saying? So, which position are
they the safest where you say, yeah, I mean, look,
you obviously what your starter, but let's not sleep on
this guy is going to have to step in because
they got a lot of they got a guy right
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there where there's not a huge drop off. That answer
that position would be where.
Speaker 5 (35:08):
Great question?
Speaker 6 (35:09):
I think right now, just hearing you say that, I
would probably say wide receiver, just because you know you've
got five of them up on game day and you
know your your two rotational guys that aren't quote unquote
starters at least not you know, and when you go
three wide receiver set, you know, to begin a game,
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guys like ad Mitchell and Ashton Doulan, like I don't
think there is any drop off very minimal when when
let's say, if Pierce were to get banged up, or
Josh Downs were to get banged up, or Michael Pittman Junior,
I mean ad Mitchell, I think is an emerging player.
I mean Ashton Dulan just fled up delivers every time
he's his numbers called, whether it's on special teams or
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kick return or you know, a slot receiver, you know,
running an indurund like he did last week almost scoring
a touchdown against the Dolphins. So that's my answer is
you've got two really good depth pieces. Don't forget about
Anthony Gould too, So I guess I got to correct myself.
Speaker 5 (36:12):
He had six wide receivers.
Speaker 6 (36:14):
All up the other day against the Dolphins, So I
think that's probably your you know, outside a cornerback on defense,
which I still think is pretty pretty good when everybody's healthy,
but it's not as of right now. But when everybody's healthy,
at the wide receiver spot, the Colts have a lot
of options. A lot of the guys that flat out
aren't gonna play a lot, and they're really good football players,
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kind of in the wings.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
You know, Matt, So you've worked in that, I'm going
to give you an introduction to another queryism. Okay, and
I've had a lot of success with these. So you've
worked in this building, Matt. You know Scott Johnston, right.
Speaker 5 (36:49):
I love Scotty Okay, he's his producer.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
So yeah, that's right. So yeah, and you work with
him on the Colts Radio side. So Scotty Johnston, for
those that have not heard me say this before, Scotty
Johnston is the guy that every single company needs. And
I call it the copier guy. And the reason I
call it the copier guy is not because they're the
Rob Schneider character from SNL, but because everybody has that
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situation where you walk past the copier and somebody's standing
there dumbfounded, and you're like, what's going on? Like, I
don't know this thing. It's not working. I just need
to print them out. It's not working. And so then
you say to yourself, well, call Scotty. He'll know how
to fix it. Because Scotty can do everything. He has
the answer to everything. He knows where everybody's breing. All
that is Ashton Dulan, the Scotty Johnston copier guy of
the Colts.
Speaker 6 (37:37):
Ashton doing is the guy that like, you're in a
world of hurt if he's not, Like if he shows
up sick one day and it's like, oh cry, Like
we don't even.
Speaker 5 (37:45):
Know all the things Ashton doing.
Speaker 1 (37:47):
That's exactly correct, right, he can do it. Can you
feel like seven roles? Right?
Speaker 6 (37:51):
Yeah, he just does them and nobody even knows that
he's doing him right, And you know, it's essential business.
I mean that's exactly you know who's Scott Johnson and
is And you know, I think we all like to
think we have a little Scott Johnston in us. You know,
we're hard to replace. We got some institution institutional knowledge
about us, right, But I think that's that's absolutely Ashton
Doling man jack of all trades. He's juggling a lot
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of balls. He's essential in a lot of different things.
Speaker 3 (38:17):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (38:17):
He has to go home at night every night and
watch like three different versions of game tape because of
all that he's.
Speaker 5 (38:22):
Asked to do in his versatility. So, I mean he's
one of.
Speaker 6 (38:25):
My favorite Colts. I mean, think about it. He's lasted
with the Colts for seven years. He signed multiple contract
extensions in free agency. Uh, you know, went to Malone
University that that's not even a real place anymore in
terms of football.
Speaker 5 (38:38):
They don't have played football there anymore.
Speaker 6 (38:40):
So you know, the average lifespan of an NFL players
three years. Uh, and it's even less for undrafted guys.
And he's just kept, you know, sticking around, made himself necessary.
And uh, he's just a great story and just.
Speaker 5 (38:53):
An even better guy. He's on his favorite culture of
all time.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
I'm assuming that you would have to know this because
of your job, Matt. So if you know the answer
to this, I want you to confess up front. I
know the answer, because then it's not as fun. Can
you tell me the town or the athletic nickname of
Malone University?
Speaker 5 (39:11):
I can tell you the town, I can't tell you
the nickname.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
Okay, we're gonna guess the nickname. First off, give me
the town.
Speaker 5 (39:17):
Well, I better be right.
Speaker 6 (39:19):
I'm ninety percent sure it's in Canton, Ohio.
Speaker 1 (39:22):
Okay, I think that is right. Actually, Okay, so I'm
gonna say, Eddie, I'll let you guess first. Malone is
what what do you mean? Okay? Thanks Matt? Matt. If Matt,
how about yourself? Malone is? What? What's your guess? On
the athletic nickname.
Speaker 7 (39:40):
I actually know this answer because they're Division two school.
Speaker 1 (39:43):
I'm gonna go with Mustangs. Matt, what's your guess.
Speaker 6 (39:46):
I'll just say I'll just stick with the generic wild Cats.
Speaker 1 (39:49):
Okay, Eddie, you ready for the answer. I am the Pioneers.
Oh really, okay, the Pioneers. Well, I guess he was
a pioneer in terms of Malone players in the NFL
because they shut down the program, right.
Speaker 6 (40:01):
I think the only reason I knew that is because
I think when he was first picked up by the Colts,
I thought through osmosis. I heard that he used to
play his home games at the Hall of Fame Stadium,
So that's how I was able to put.
Speaker 1 (40:13):
Thatch his quarterback, by the way, Charles Ingles Wilder interestingly
not by the way, so Matt Taylor is our guest.
Matt this particular game. I'm curious of this when you
look at what Daniel Jones was able to do in
Week one, and he was obviously impressive, and I think
Tyler Warren is a big part of that. But I
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think Shane Stiken should get more credit for the way
he called that game to facilitate the strengths of Daniel
Jones and not illuminate any weaknesses there. I thought he
called a very Daniel Jones centric game. Did Shane Stiken?
Would they have done things schematically different if Richardson was
the quarterback?
Speaker 5 (40:55):
May like, you know, it's a great question.
Speaker 6 (40:57):
I mean maybe outside of a couple of design runs
by the quarterback, I.
Speaker 5 (41:03):
Don't think so.
Speaker 6 (41:04):
I mean, you had all the different components in the
offense with Jones last week that you saw when Richardson
was kind of humming last year towards the end of
the season or the middle part of the season, when
after he came back from the two game benching. You know,
you had you had the RPO game. You had pushing
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the ball down the field.
Speaker 5 (41:26):
You know, you had the deep shot to Pierce.
Speaker 6 (41:28):
You had kind of the pump faking go and the
great ball on the sideline to Pittman on the touchdown.
You had you know, sort of the audible at the
line of scrimmage and motion out Josh downs on a
fourth and two. I mean, this is you know, I
think we talked about this maybe last week or the
week before. I mean, aesthetically, it's pretty much the same
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offense for either quarterback, and I think that was a
big reason why, or one of the biggest reasons why
they targeted Daniel Jones is so that they can make
it easier on the rest of the offense no matter
who the quarterback is, because esthetically it's pretty much the same.
The quarterbacks have similar skill sets because Daniel Jones, as
we saw in the first game, really mobile, can get
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out of the pocket. So I think the only difference
is is that you just you're not going to see
and maybe heck, well we might even see it this week.
We don't know, but you know, towards the end of
last year, you were seeing you know, four or five
design runs by Richardson. Maybe not so much with Daniel Jones,
but everything else in terms of the playbook, you know,
was designed for a mobile, athletic quarterback, and both those
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guys kind of fit that. Bill and I thought it
was important for the Colts to do that for the
rest of the offense, so they didn't have to, you know,
do a drastic one to eighty like they've done in
years past, going from Richardson to Flacco or to Nick
Foles or you know, Matt Ryan or so Gardner, Minshew
that's a drastically different game plan, different style of offense,
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and that's a tough swing for the rest of the
skill players on offense to deal with. So I think
that's a big reason why Daniel Jones is here, and
you know, through one game they really executed the big
picture game plan pretty falllessly.
Speaker 7 (43:11):
Matt last week I was talking with Kevin Bonen. I
was like, you know what I was thinking about this
going into week one, Like the three things that we
didn't really talk about during training camp. Number one, we
just talked about him and asked doing being back being healthy.
Number two, Josh Downs was healthy going into week number
one last week against Miami. And number three he got
overshadowed by just what Ady Mitchell and Alex Pearce were
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doing in training camp, and that's Michael Pittman Junior. I
feel like nobody was really talking about Michael Pittman Junior
being healthy in the first week. Last Sunday against Miami,
six catches on eight targets, eighty yards and a touchdown.
Is get back to that twenty twenty three version that
we saw from Michael Pittman Junior within this Colts offense.
Speaker 6 (43:49):
Yeah, you know, any to your point, great, great observation.
You know, I don't want to make any excuses for
Michael Pittman Junior.
Speaker 5 (43:56):
I know that he won't make any excuses either.
Speaker 6 (43:59):
But I mean last year he got it through a
ton of pain. And it was early on the season too.
I think it was like week three or four. You know,
that report flared up like he's gonna go on IR,
he's done for the season, He's going to have to
have back surgery. I mean, not only did he not
have back surgery, he never went on IR and I
think the rest of the season from that point on
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he only missed one game, but he had to go
through a lot of different stuff just to get ready
for Sundays.
Speaker 5 (44:27):
I mean, he didn't.
Speaker 6 (44:27):
Practice a whole lot during the season last year. You know,
had to receive a lot of treatment, went through a
lot of rehab, you know, just to get himself in
a position to play. And so you know, I think
all of that kind of reflected in his performance. Again,
not making an excuse for him, but I mean he
had sixty nine catches last.
Speaker 5 (44:45):
Year, just a little bit over eight hundred yards. That's
a you.
Speaker 6 (44:49):
Know, historically a down productive Michael Pittman Junior type of
a season and to see him go out there and
ball and get eighty yards receiving a touchdown. To your point, Eddie,
you know, last week was a great Michael Pittman junior game.
Stat line wise, he only did what he did on
Sunday last season one time, right, I mean only one
(45:13):
time in twenty twenty four did he have at least
eighty receiving yards in a touchdown. So to see him
do that right out of the gate, and he's back,
he's healthy, he is not dealing with that back thing anymore.
He's got that behind him. I mean he's going to
kind of step in back into that you know, true
highly targeted go to receiver for the Colts, you know,
their number one guy to make a play in crunch time.
(45:35):
It was really good to see Michael Pittman Junior kind
of emerge back into that role and play healthy and
then have stability at the quarterback position around him.
Speaker 1 (45:43):
You know, Matt, when you look at week one, Matt Taylor,
our guest voice of the Colts, Colts and Broncos coming
up on Sunday, When you look at week one, and
that was such a dominating I mean, it's been a
while since we've seen the Colts have a game where
they just from the very start. I mean, that game
was never in question, and that's a kudos to the Colts.
That also may tell us a little bit about Miami.
(46:04):
But was there any area at all coming away from
that game? We've talked so much about the positives for Indianapolis,
what about those areas that might have been a forecast
of concern?
Speaker 4 (46:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (46:17):
No, to your point, I mean, you got to you know,
you got to get out the microscope to find the negatives.
But I mean it was it was pretty close to
perfect as you can play in the NFL by modern standards.
You know, you win by twenty five points. That was
the largest margin of victory for the Colts in the
game since twenty twenty one.
Speaker 5 (46:35):
So it's been a long time since they just kicked
the holy you know what out of somebody.
Speaker 6 (46:39):
And it was really refreshing to see. But you know,
there was still some things you got to clean up, right.
There was some leakage on some kickoff returns. You know,
I think of the first kickoff return of the game a.
Speaker 5 (46:49):
Thirty eight yarder.
Speaker 6 (46:50):
So some good field positioned by the Dolphins in that case.
And then the biggest one for me is just and
I don't want to sound like a broken record, because
we've been talking about this for the last three years
and it's really hard to do. It's easier to say
than it is to do, because every team in the
NFL is dealing with it.
Speaker 5 (47:07):
It's like bullpen in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 6 (47:10):
Everybody needs it, but there's not a lot of it,
and it's defensive tackle depth and the culture spoiled because
they have two of the best ones in the NFL
still going and Grover Stewart into Forrest Buckner. But the
problem is, the reality is those guys can't play every down.
They can't go sixty sixty five plays throughout the course
(47:30):
of a game. They got to get their rest. You know,
they get nicked up here and there. You know, you're
putting in different packages to rush the passer and things
like that, but you know, when those guys are out
of the lineup, there's still a little bit of just
noticeable difference and being able to stop the run. They're
a little bit vulnerable still in the middle of that
defense against the run. And then I just think big
(47:52):
picture wise too, you look at what Miami did on
offense last week, which wasn't a lot because they got
down early on the scoreboard, they had to throw the ball.
They didn't run the ball all that much. You know,
they ran the ball for only seventy two yards for
the game, but if you look at their number of attempts,
they were still over six yards per attempt, So you
(48:13):
know that that's a little bit you know, eye eyebrow raising.
It's a little bit alarming, even if it was a
blowout type of the game. They got to get that
fixed because that'll come back to bite you when you
are in a dog fight of a team. When you
do have, you know, an offense it's got a good
offensive line and a good running back, they can kind
of slash and find those vision you know, one cut runs.
(48:33):
That's something they got to get cleaned up. But again,
it's it's tough to find, you know, top end, backup,
defensive tackle depth because.
Speaker 5 (48:41):
Every team in the NFL searching for those guys.
Speaker 1 (48:43):
Matt as Vino Scott Johnston wears a different sports jersey
of a different athlete three hundred and sixty five days
a year. He has never won the same one twice,
but if I see him wearing one of Ashton Dulan,
I'm gonna freak out because my worlds have collided, said
Matt Taylor, Voice of the Colts. You can hear them
on Sunday. Matt, we appreciate it as always. Man, have
a good call.
Speaker 5 (49:03):
I appreciate you guys.
Speaker 1 (49:04):
Thank you, Matt Taylor joining us on the program.
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