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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to the best of the Fan Morning show
on ninety three five and one oh seven five the fan.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Siakam drives it, pulls up twenty feet away, tie ball game,
five seconds to play. Here comes along three. It's an airball,
rebounded by Siakam, and we go to overtime. We're down
to seventeen seconds left in the overtime as math and
drives slips inside of Gilchis Alexander and scores from the

(00:27):
dotted half circle. Both game tied with nine seconds to go,
shot clock off. Oklahoma said he missed a chance to
tie at the end of regulation. Here comes Gilgas. Alexander
rolls it off the rim, tipped out to the wing.
Homdrin can't get the shot off before time expires. Three
forty two left in the overtime. He got into the lane,
this time his left hand betrayed him. Rebound. Topping gets

(00:49):
three on one to the other end, top of to Siakam,
back to Toppin, who caught it.

Speaker 3 (00:53):
And bucking right in front.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
Here's Topping into the fore court, attacking immediately down the
left side. He lays it in with the left hand.
He has scored twenty. The Pacers within four and now
on the inbound what do we have the thunder called
the timeout. They just about turned.

Speaker 3 (01:11):
It over and back forth.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
But the ruling on the floor is that Oklahoma City
called the time out. That was e turn over. The
only question is one of the time out was called first?

Speaker 1 (01:21):
Well, were you giving an explanation for your no timeout
or the one that went Obe.

Speaker 4 (01:25):
Caught the steel both of those plays at any point
the game.

Speaker 5 (01:27):
I'm not talking about the refs.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
If I talk about the refs, I'll get fined an
exorbitant amount of money.

Speaker 3 (01:38):
Only think missing was no disrespect to rats. Good Friday
morning to you. We are closing out the week right here.
It'll be us three once again, Kevin Bowen, James Boyd
and Mark Dyked And James asked you a few weeks
ago when the last time you hooped was you might
need to board the plane for some point guard minutes
coming up on this road trip.

Speaker 6 (01:59):
Yeah, this is getting real, bleak man. I know I
made the joke about Russell Westbrook weeks ago and I'm
not even bringing that up again. But just the lack
of bodies they have at that position when it comes
to Andrew Nimhar going down last night with a left
shoulder injury. Rick Carlisle didn't have an update after the
game so that he'll get evaluated more today, but said
something along the lines of this could be a big

(02:22):
test for us, a big challenge for us in the
absence of Aaron I'm sorry, not Aarony Smith, but Andrew Nimhart.
So tough go.

Speaker 3 (02:29):
Yeah, that is an understatement. So we'll recap everything, get
you set for of course, Week eight in the NFL.
I don't think a whole lot of Friday injury debates
for the Colts, but we'll chat about that and look
ahead to the four to twenty five matchup between Colts
and Titans coming up on Sunday. But let's go back
to last night, and certainly, you know, there's a lot
that I thought to myself, boy, different years, same old Pacers,

(02:52):
just gutty, gritty as hell, taking every punch, punching back
time and time again. And reminded to myself of as
much as we bitch and moan about the fan dual
Ballely TV subscription, they should give us heart medication to
go with it. When you're having to watch this Pacers team.
Matherin Siakam incredible. I actually think Taylor Peter's got a

(03:13):
little game to him. I don't know if the box
score showed that last night, but damn man, I as
much as like I want to celebrate some of that stuff, James,
I just can't get over where they're at from a
health standpoint and point guard I mean, the biggest news
item of the night is Andrew Nemhard and whatever injury
state he's in. I mean, you are beyond scrambling mode.
I don't even know what the rules allow you to do, Like,

(03:34):
can you bring campaign back today?

Speaker 6 (03:36):
Honestly, I feel like Tony used to be a better
person asked that question because he's all over that, you know,
when it comes to contract situations and different rules and stipulations,
and the NBA I think is more complicated than the
NFL in that regard. But yes, Kevin, I think you
have to kind of revisit all of the options.

Speaker 3 (03:53):
Yeah. So again, Andrew Nemhard left. I guess he really
never left the game per se with an obvious injury.
It looked like he did get hurt at one point
in the first half. Guardian Jay Gills with Alexander and
then he stayed in through the entire first half and
then was ruled out at the start of the third quarter.
And you had Ben Sheppard giving point guard minutes then.

(04:15):
And you know, one thing that was as much as
the grit in the guttiness James was so Pacers like
from previous years. The one thing that was not was
the beautiful offensive flow that we're used to. I mean,
for those who watched the game last night, the Pacers scored,
but they scored because Benedict Matherin and Pascal Siakam are
beyond gifted as one on one players. They only had

(04:37):
nineteen assist in regulation. For those that maybe that number
doesn't resonate, that would have been their second fewest in
any game last season. So they were a one on
one basketball team for the most part. The flow with
the lack of point guards certainly is going to be
a question until they get healthy and TJ mcconnald's not
going to be back for at least a couple of weeks,
and obviously we'll await the status on Andrew Emhard.

Speaker 6 (04:58):
Yeah, and I mean we even talk about it there
in the first few minutes. But also SGA, Shay Gilz
Alexander dropped fifty five with twenty six free throws, a
career high in both categories for him. I know when
he walked off the floor last night, he got booed mercilessly,
because if you're a Thunder fan, you love what he's doing.

(05:18):
If you're a Pacers fan, you're like, really, I got
to deal with this again after just seeing it in
the finals four months ago. And it's a weird brand
of basketball. It is special. I have to admit that
he time he dropped fifty five, Yes, but man, that
was such a weird game. So when Rick Carlisle wentz,

(05:40):
I will not go there because I will lose money,
I was like, I understand because they're not just the
SGA stuff, but just some of the calls. Obviously, the
timeout slash Obi stole it moment was a big one
because when that happened, Oh boy, Kevin, I was thinking, oh,
here come these papers, ag Hey, can I make a
PSA announce I don't want to grandstand too often. Here

(06:03):
on one to save them by the fan. But to
the fans who were leaving early without small children, I'm like,
what are we doing trying to beat the traffic or something.

Speaker 5 (06:12):
I get it.

Speaker 6 (06:12):
If you have to work the next day, responsibilities whatnot?
Opening night? You got to you gotta stay committed to that.
You gotta stay till the end. You had people. I
saw people who got it by their seats after I
want to say, towards the end of the first in
regulation and we're getting ready to leave, pacers making interesting
at the ends, Pascal Si document's a jumper. All of
a sudden, people start waving back down to their seats.

(06:34):
Stick with this team. Have you learned nothing?

Speaker 3 (06:37):
Yeah? I think Opening Night that's a big no no.
Come on now, buzzer should go off if you're trying
to walk out.

Speaker 6 (06:42):
I was different here. Let's live up to a reputation.

Speaker 3 (06:44):
Of the arena.

Speaker 7 (06:45):
It did look like almost like a preseason game attendance
wise near the end of like what happened.

Speaker 6 (06:50):
I know a lot of people left early, but man,
it was loud. You can tell just how much it
meant to that crowd. And I would say, in particular,
Bendic Matherin, he was going at lou Door. They grew
up together. He was talking to talk walking the walk.
Oh boy, I'll tell you what. He might drive you
crazy in some moments. But that dude is talented.

Speaker 3 (07:10):
Yeah, I mean, I don't know how you can say
enough good things about him and Siakam for what they did.
I hate to even bring this up because I thought
the end of the game sequences. Both Siakam and him
made very tough Shotsam at the end of regulation there
over Chet and then mathering at the end of overtime
to really force it into a second overtime. The one
possession I would like to have back was Pacers down

(07:33):
one about twenty seconds to go in regulation. Siakam gets
Chet holmegrin on him the first time. Oh yes, preach,
and I thought he settled immediately for the three. Yes,
there was still like six seven left. And I don't
say six to seven as that joke that all the
young kids do, but there was a little bit of
time you got.

Speaker 5 (07:50):
All my kids.

Speaker 7 (07:51):
Yeah, I'm gonna stop doing that, please, I can't take
it anymore.

Speaker 3 (07:53):
And you walk past an eleven year old right now
and not see that going on that it means nothing.

Speaker 7 (07:58):
It means nothing, and it's not funny.

Speaker 6 (08:00):
The jokes are getting stupider, and that's why my one
time I'll sound really old on the airwaves but yeah,
I'm getting to that point.

Speaker 3 (08:06):
Yeah, we all probably should get off our lawn here
if we want to get to the next generation. But
that one possession, I thought, oh, you're settling against Chet,
like just see if he can stay on his feet.
And obviously the second possession you got him on skates
and boom, you were able to get him on the
ground and hit the sixteen eighteen foot pull up there.
That's maybe the one. You know, if Siakam's able to
work a little bit more and again test Chet, then

(08:27):
you're up one with whatever twelve seconds to go. And
you know, I thought Jenny Busik did a great job
and throwing those doubles at Shay when the game was
on the line there. So again it's probably a small gripe,
but for the most part, you just it's a hat
tip once again to the incredible effort. It is absurd
how injured they are at point guard. Shout out to
Jack Doyle for giving us Jameson Brewer yesterday. I don't

(08:49):
know if Jamison Brewer still has his shoes that he
gave to Jack Doyle, or maybe Jack Doyle can give
him back to Jameson Brewer because the Pacers need point
guard help, and they need a starting center that doesn't fail.
Because Isaiah Jackson fouls more than I eat doritos in
the weekend four thousand, eight minutes.

Speaker 6 (09:12):
Yeah, that was That was rough man. That's his mom Oh,
I mean, like, okay, but here's a stat for you.
That was crazy because I actually.

Speaker 3 (09:19):
This guy had nine thousand, like thirty five minutes in
the preseason.

Speaker 6 (09:22):
So I went through this because I had to work
this game for the athletic and Isaiah Jackson, Tony Bradley,
and Jay Huff combined for more thousand points last night,
eight fouls, seven points. Well, among your three centers that
you played.

Speaker 3 (09:36):
And James, I think I said to you yesterday, give
me don't hack centers and rebound. Those are my two
before I even got to I think I asked for
Jay Huff to hit an open shot, which I believe
he did hit one three. But those are my first
two asks. Isaiah Jackson in eight minutes in rebound, Tony
Bradley ten minutes, zero rebounds. Yeah, like that's what they're

(09:59):
out there to do.

Speaker 6 (10:01):
And so that no, I'm with you on that. That's
a bad looking but.

Speaker 3 (10:04):
The biggest story line unfortunate from last night is the
Andrew Nemhart injury and how long is he going to
be out and what does that do for a Pacer
team that I think has a brutal start to the schedule.
So again there's I'm not having fun.

Speaker 6 (10:15):
Anymore, but Pacers basketball, this is not it, man. He
hates on the game one. I just hated to be
off the ledge.

Speaker 3 (10:20):
Again. It's so much of the off the court. It's
so much of the injury situation at point guard at
least right now. So we'll continue to recap a whole
lot of that and get you set for a football Friday.
James Boyd through some trade targets at us up up
on the Athletic we will go over a few of those.
Try to get to that eighty Mitchell audio here in
a little bit and get your set for the final
practice of the week Colts in Titans here. As the

(10:42):
Chargers absolutely dominate the Vikings on Thursday night. Football might
be time for Carson Winston get healthy and head back
to Holiday Farms and see if you can get some
fall golf in here for the rest of the year.
We'll get your set with it all. It is a
football Friday, Kevin Bow and James Boyd, Mark Dyton right
here on the fan. Certainly, zero cutting whatsoever, zero snipping

(11:03):
from our next guest. He is the one, the only
he is Greg Rake Straw. He'll have a busy weekend,
of course, as he'll get you set from a Sunday
cult postgame show host as the Pacers.

Speaker 6 (11:13):
Are you gonna ask him the question?

Speaker 3 (11:15):
Up in Minnesota?

Speaker 6 (11:17):
Can you spell exorbitant?

Speaker 5 (11:21):
Exorbitant?

Speaker 6 (11:22):
Yes?

Speaker 5 (11:23):
Is that what you're asking? Yes?

Speaker 6 (11:24):
I said it wrong.

Speaker 5 (11:24):
I'm sorry, Yeah, uh E x.

Speaker 2 (11:31):
O R.

Speaker 5 (11:34):
B I T A, N C exorbited.

Speaker 3 (11:37):
Is that right?

Speaker 1 (11:39):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (11:40):
Oh my gosh, Rake, were you valedictorian at Lanesville?

Speaker 5 (11:43):
I was?

Speaker 6 (11:44):
Yes, Gosh, that's awesome. If I ever read a lifeline,
what's that show?

Speaker 3 (11:50):
Do you get anything a millionaire?

Speaker 6 (11:51):
I'm calling?

Speaker 3 (11:52):
Do you get anything for that? Rake?

Speaker 5 (11:55):
I think that fifty gets you on the bus. I
believe like you do.

Speaker 3 (11:59):
Yeah, I don't know. Is there a special tassel something
that has hung up in your household for that?

Speaker 5 (12:04):
There is not. I think I made three appearances on
stage at my high school graduation that lasted forty minutes
because there was twenty nine of us that graduated. So
as the class president, I welcome everybody the graduation. I
then got up and gave like a six or seven
minute speech and then actually then got my diploma, so

(12:25):
I got my steps in that day.

Speaker 3 (12:27):
He is Greg Gragshaw. I is with to see on
the payoffs s Liquers hotline it tonight for the smaller schools.
That is how the playoff format works when it comes
to football. And Greg Gragstraw, you don't actually do you
have a far drive tonight? I know you're playing a
school that's very close to your home, but I don't
know if the game's at Shatard or more Asville.

Speaker 5 (12:44):
They are the road teams, so I'm off to Moresville,
which isn't exactly a far drive either. So Shatada Morrisville
is our game of the week. And as I talked
about yesterday on which TV, you know, we are so
six A centric in terms of the teams we cover
in football and basketball. We can space it out, you
know a little bit more with having more dates to
work with. So this is kind of the one week

(13:04):
of the year that I get to see teams that
are four A, three A, et cetera. So we last
had Mooresville on TV. There was kind of a quirky
Week two where like all the Mick and Carmel was
on the road, So we did Moorsville and Danville one times.
First time in three years I've been to Mooresville. I
live a mile from Chatard High School, as do you

(13:25):
and we in the seven years we have been doing
television on my NDTV, this is the first time we've
got the Shatar Trojans on in football.

Speaker 3 (13:33):
You might be hearing from some people there. I won't
drop any names on that because I could get in
trouble for that, but Chatard faithful might be reaching out
to you Rike for that. Do you have a mister
football favorite? No, boy, Maybe the Chatard people got to me.

Speaker 5 (13:50):
It got to me immediately. There was like a three
second pause as the entire North Side Catholic community. Pat
Sullivan just snipped the ball line. He heard you say
cut and then no Stard and Bamore knock.

Speaker 3 (14:03):
On your door after that comment right there. If you
miss all the Dary family, if you misheard Rake, do
we have a mister football favorite?

Speaker 6 (14:11):
I got mine.

Speaker 5 (14:12):
Mister has to be Miles McLaughlin has to be you know,
he is not going to be the highest level recruit
of this senior class. But again, given the the stratospheric
numbers he has put up, and given the fact that
likely he is going to pass what was thought to
be an unbreakable record from Charlie Spiegel, pretty sure his

(14:32):
name is already on the trophy.

Speaker 6 (14:36):
That dude runs so much. I would honestly like to
know what his recovery is like as a high school athlete, Like,
is he getting to abstin salt, is he getting the ice,
you know, buckets around the ankles or something like that,
or is he just that tough?

Speaker 5 (14:51):
Well, he runs a lot, I'm not sure why people
hit him, So it's just kind of doing like distant work, seemingly.

Speaker 3 (14:59):
And they played all right, right Rake.

Speaker 5 (15:01):
Correct, So as a three to a team they play
tonight and again give it the way the draw worked out.
You know, they have made at least the reason round
each of the last two years, and so I think
he is now in the vicinity of seven hundred yards
away from breaking that record. So in theory, he could
break it next week given the clip he has been on.

(15:22):
But you would assume that that if it doesn't happen
next week, likely of being Sexual Championship Week on November
the seventh.

Speaker 3 (15:28):
He's on the call tonight Shatarda Moorsville. Again. For the
most part, it's just one A, two A, three A
and four A here as we get the sectional slate started.
He is the one, the only great rag star with
us here on the Payless Lickers hotline. Rake, when I
say to you, in a five months stretch, Lucas Oil
Stadium will play host to the Indiana Hoosiers and the

(15:49):
Big Ten Championship, the Indianapolis Colts and the AFC Championship,
and the Purdue boiler Makers in the National Championship for basketball.

Speaker 5 (15:57):
You say what I say, it's possible. I say it's
absolutely possible. And amazingly, the thing that appears to be
the biggest lock of those three would be the Indiana
Hoosiers being in the Big Ten Championship game, which is
just stupefying. So I hope you guys. And when one

(16:20):
word gets used in a press conference, it tends to
be repeated like two or three times. So and Kevin,
you may have been the person that introduced cheater to
Shane Steiken's press conference on Wednesday, because that's what Indiana
sports are on right now. That may not feel that
way after last night and basically James was the backup

(16:40):
point guard for overtime number three for the Pacers last night,
but the fact that they made to the final game
of the NBA Finals Game seven. Indiana is number two
in the country, the Indianapolis Colts have the best record
in the National Football League, and Purdue is the consensus
number one team in the country for college hoops. That

(17:02):
that that's insane to be on that level of a
role and that's where we're at right now.

Speaker 3 (17:07):
Like Chauncey Billups and the Hamptons sports.

Speaker 5 (17:10):
Right ooh too soon. I don't know about that. That
too certain a little too Sion.

Speaker 3 (17:16):
Yeah, you guys haven't liked any of my Billups jokes
in the last twenty four hours.

Speaker 6 (17:21):
I mean that is that's the scariest wuss to be in.

Speaker 5 (17:24):
Go ahead, go ahead and make the cutdown, Kevin, go
ahead and cut that out here by the way to
go rake.

Speaker 6 (17:30):
When you look at I'll pivot a little bit to
the Colts here. When you look at what the Colts
have been doing from a point differential standpoint, and then
you look at the Titans, who are on the opposite
end of the spectrum. What are you expecting Sundays? Is
this going to be another Colts dominant game or will

(17:50):
be see something weird because the NFL is weird.

Speaker 5 (17:54):
That's what's been crazy about this cult schedule is that
you know they've been you don't even blow up the
teams that are the bad teams, and the Colts have
been so consistent. The Dolphins are garbage. Colts throttle them.
The Titans are garbage. The Colts spanked them. The Raiders stink,
the Colts embarrass them. And so the fact that we

(18:17):
have now seen this three times tells you that it's
not an anomaly that the Colts are going to be
ready to play. I think part of it, too, is
the Colts' style translates so well. You know, Daniel Jones
is not doing the flashy he's just doing everything so efficiently.
Jonathan Taylor just grinds out yards. That offensive line wears

(18:39):
you down. That skill set translates. And if you've also
got a pass rush that's been getting close to getting
home but not getting home, what normally helps that Playing
a rookie quarterback and playing a Tennessee team that is
not good in the first place, but now is a
beaten up football team. I think all those it's combined

(19:00):
for this to be I hope a bit of a
snoozer on Sunday afternoon.

Speaker 3 (19:04):
Rak anything else on the slate besides tar Mooresville tonight
and of course Colts postgame show duties on Sunday.

Speaker 5 (19:11):
A couple of college soccers tomorrow. But frankly, as I've
told people a lot this week, this is kind of
the last slow week for me because it gets crazy
next week and then once I get to November, you know,
I'll see my kids in December. I think at some
point in time, November and may have turned into my
two busiest months of the year. And my Google calendar

(19:33):
reflects that as of next weekend.

Speaker 3 (19:35):
What is it just college bastball picking up in November
for you.

Speaker 5 (19:39):
So it's a mixture of college basketball, high school basketball,
and then I slash we as an Is produced a
lot of conference championship stuff for Marrying, We produced a
lot of conference championship stuff for Horizon League. I tend
to be on the call of those things. And so
there's that monon Bell game that pops up on November
the fifteenth, there's a couple of high school state championships.

(20:01):
Can I break some news on the show this morning?

Speaker 3 (20:04):
Sure?

Speaker 5 (20:05):
Can we have a breaking new sounders that Kevin want
to make the cut sound again?

Speaker 1 (20:09):
Breaking news from ninety three five and one oh seven
to five to the fan.

Speaker 5 (20:15):
So I actually get to be on the television now
it's streaming, but I will be on the television call
of the Butler Wright State game on Friday afternoon, November
the twenty eighth for ESPN plus.

Speaker 3 (20:25):
Hey, congrats brother some cool Friday. I called that a
sunny announcement.

Speaker 5 (20:30):
Let's go, so to give you an idea of what
my month is going to be like. On both the
twenty eighth and twenty ninth, I will call a college
basketball game at two o'clock and I'll go to a
state championship football game at seven o'clock. That's what line
November is like, and I absolutely love it.

Speaker 3 (20:45):
Let's go. Nothing defines Greg Greakshaw more than that I'm
seeing here. One loss for the Paul, one loss for
Wabash per usual should be a great one here coming up,
and the one hundred and thirty first Monan Bell. He
is great.

Speaker 6 (20:56):
Greg Shaw.

Speaker 3 (20:57):
He was the valedictorian at Lanesville and he joins us
much every Friday at eight o'clock. Rake, I will see
you up in the press box. Get you set here
for our easiest, hardest, most entertaining games of week eight.
James wilst encouraging sign last night from what you saw
out of the Pacers.

Speaker 5 (21:17):
Was what.

Speaker 6 (21:21):
Man probably just what I saw from Jars Walker and
Benedict Mathern. Those are two guys you're looking at to
take the next leap or step in a year where
they're gonna get more opportunities with Al Halliburton in the lineup,
and I like what I saw from both of them.

Speaker 3 (21:34):
Honestly, Yeah, they both shot making wise, both were huge late.
I know the stats won't indicate it, but I would
like to see more Taylor Peter. I just I have
a little intrigued there.

Speaker 6 (21:47):
I think he's got to be more decisive, which I
say that about severalokis, But I thought early on he
was a little hesitant, a little timid, and I thought
as the game went on, in credit to him, because
first game, right light whatever, it seemed like he got
more comfortable as the minutes went by. Because I thought

(22:07):
One of the best sequences of the game, besides when
we got to the overtimes, of course, was that Steely
got he pokes the ball away third quarter, I believe,
pokes the ball away, Obie Topping runs it down, Taylor
Peter relocate to the corner catching shoot three ball. Crowd
goes crazy. That to me felt like a Pacers play
by a guy who was, you know, trying to get

(22:29):
to a level where he can play their brand of basketball.

Speaker 3 (22:32):
And that man started two games last year at Liberty,
like he was a bench player for Liberty, I know,
and now you're asking him to play an opening night
of an NBA game against the defending champs, Like I I, yes,
you know, more decisive. Certainly, I understand a little bit
of the hesitancy that he had, but he's much more
than just some stand still three point shooter, which I

(22:53):
kind of pegged him, you crazy.

Speaker 6 (22:55):
I thought he was a little indecisive about shooting the ball, right,
And I'm like, yeah, I get it, but I would
imagine and I get yeah, it's tough, but I would
imagine Rick Carlile and Jenny Boutsk and you know, Lloyd
Pierce will like, hey, brother, we get all the other
stuff you can do. Shoot that dying.

Speaker 3 (23:11):
Sure easier said than done, I think when Yeah, I
don't think he's got the reputation of not necessarily a
Ben Mathering type somebody along those lines. All right, let's
get you set here for Week eight in the NF
Mark Dakin wish weave again.

Speaker 7 (23:26):
Let's the most exciting wherever we want to start their
most exciting of the eight.

Speaker 6 (23:31):
Week eight slate not a very good slate, by the way.

Speaker 3 (23:33):
I don't think it's a good slate at all. Mark.
I'll show some favoritism towards you. If Lamar Jackson's playing,
I'll go to your game. I'll go Ravens Bears. Are
the Bears somewhat interesting with four in a row? Are
the Ravens dead? Officially? Is Lamar Jackson going to play?

(23:55):
I'm struggling for entertainment value in the Week eight I'm
not gonna lie, but I'll go here.

Speaker 7 (23:59):
Lamar Jackson's been limited all week. In practice, the Bears
have are the only team in the NFL They've scored
at least twenty one points in every game this season,
and the Ravens are one in five with their backs
against the Wall. So if Lamar doesn't play, oh boy,
oh boy, would it be Snoopotley over Cooper.

Speaker 6 (24:16):
I believe, So I'm gonna go Giants Eagles because I
believe in the Giants beat the Eagles can this year.

Speaker 3 (24:25):
They're already playing again.

Speaker 6 (24:28):
Yes, so I need that Cam Skataboo, Jackson Dart. They're
both ridiculous individuals, but they're playing pretty good football. And
they spoiled the party last time against Saikwon, so can
you do it again?

Speaker 7 (24:42):
Not only are they are they playing again, they're playing
for the second time in three weeks.

Speaker 6 (24:46):
That is kind of crazy.

Speaker 3 (24:47):
Yeah, that was one of our Thursday night upsets. Chargers
all over the Vikings if you missed it last night.

Speaker 7 (24:53):
The most exciting again, only two games this Sunday feature
both teams with winning records, so it is a rough slate.
But looking forward to the most is Cowboys Broncos. You
want to talk about two teams that swing wildly in
different directions game to games, sometimes quarter to quarter. It's
these two teams. Bo Nicks and the Broncos looked dead
last week against the Giants until that insane fourth quarter,

(25:14):
and the Cowboys are doing Cowboys things where they're just inconsistent.
But I'm intrigued by Cowboys Broncos in Denver, and that's
one of the other four o'clock games.

Speaker 3 (25:22):
Huh, outside of Colts and Titans. Okay, hardest game to pick,
I'm gonna go with Houston hosting San Francisco the Texans
on a short week, traveling back from Seattle. They are
a two and a half point favorite. At some point.
All these forty nine er injuries have to catch up

(25:44):
to them, you would think. But then again, I'm like,
do I trust the Texans on a short week getting
points or having to cover two and a half. I
can go back and forth on that all day long.
So that, for me is one of the harder games
to pick. Forty nine Ers five and two, Texans two
and four, Houston favored by two and a half.

Speaker 6 (26:05):
I think Packers Steelers. I'm surprised we didn't choose one
of these as far as our most intriguing game. I
think that one is a hard one. Two and a
half point favorites for the Packers. Anytime the line is
that close, I'm just like, ugh, I don't know. They're
on the road as well, so that's something to consider.
So I think that's the one that gives me the most, like.

Speaker 3 (26:27):
March went a meteor to hit the stadium.

Speaker 7 (26:29):
To my heart, it's the hardest game for me because
I have to root for I think Aaron Rodgers to
beat the Packers, which is gross to think about.

Speaker 6 (26:37):
That's why it's hard for me.

Speaker 7 (26:39):
My hardest actually though, is Bears Ravens because the Bears
are six and a half point underdogs on the road
to the one in five Ravens Baltimore seasons on its
last legs. Lamar has been limited all week, like we
just said, so that spread is kind of insane when
you're looking at it.

Speaker 6 (26:54):
That line has to be with Lamar in the line.

Speaker 7 (26:56):
Yes, So that's why, honestly, if you are thinking Lamar Jackson,
who's been limited all week, is not going to play,
I would jump all over that six and a half
because if they get word that he's not playing, that
line is going to shrink drastically. So if you can
hop on Bears six and a half, I would take that.
But if he does play, I just don't know what
we're gonna get because Lamar is still is the one
hundred percent probably not, and the Ravens need to get

(27:16):
a win because otherwise they fall the one in six
and you really can only play with like one more
loss the rest of the season to have any shot
of making the playoffs and turning their season around. So
that's why it's hard for me. I would like to
trust the Bears, but I also know that the Ravens
have their backs against the wall, So I honestly don't
know which way to go with that game. But if
you can get Bears at six and a half to
go ahead and get it.

Speaker 3 (27:34):
All these lines scare me. And like the one big
block window is full of touchdown favorites, full of them.
So if you feel any good feeling about the underdog,
you know, definitely ride that. I I gosh, I don't
even know if I feel confident in saying it. I
think the easiest game I'm gonna take the Steelers at
home getting points. I think that's a bounce back for

(27:57):
them after the Thursday night game on the road. The
Packers have kind of flirted with that four to one
on one start, So I'm again I'm struggling with confidence
about really anything maybe in my life, but definitely here
with these Week eight picks, So I will go Steelers
getting points at home two and a half.

Speaker 7 (28:18):
I will co sign on that because that was mine
as well, Because you don't think Aaron Rodgers wants to
stick it to the Packers on national television.

Speaker 3 (28:24):
Yeah, that's a good point. That makes me feel a
little better. Yeah, and he actually kind of looks decent again. Yeah,
DK Metcalf.

Speaker 7 (28:30):
Has helped, But yeah, I would I would think that
that Steelers defense also has been given an agenda by
Aaron Rodgers, like get Jordan Love, get him a lot.
This is my easiest game, right, Yes, Bengals, Jets, you
trust the Bengals?

Speaker 6 (28:46):
Are you trusting the Jets? I very much trust the
Jets to do what the Jets do, stay and get up.

Speaker 3 (28:53):
And also that's one of those touchdown ones, right is
right around seven, So you are trusting the Bengals to
cover I guess six and a half?

Speaker 6 (29:00):
Official, Yes I am, because I know Joe Flacco is
going to throw that dying to a lot of different
a lot of different receivers. And I think you.

Speaker 3 (29:09):
Think Woody Johnson's comments inspired Justin Field.

Speaker 6 (29:12):
Oh my goodness, could you imagine being Justin Fields. I
would have told him, Woody Johnson, you're paying me thirty
million dollars guaranteed. Brother, I'm gonna go out there and
throw the ball in the dirt next time you see me,
and the check better be there on Tuesday.

Speaker 7 (29:23):
But you talk, all the junkie wine on my bank
account is looking healthy.

Speaker 6 (29:26):
Yeah, you know, And shout out to Justin Fields. I
get it. You're a Christian. You believe in God. He's like, oh,
you know, my faith come from the Lord.

Speaker 7 (29:33):
Boy.

Speaker 6 (29:33):
My faith would be reinvigorated in Jesus Christ as soon
as I saw my contract and my money. Nothing makes
me feel more inclined to, you know, believe in God.
And when I get paid, smite all these haters.

Speaker 3 (29:45):
Just to remind everybody after that sermon. It is the
largest bye week in the NFL, So fantasy football lineup
probably would have been set last night. And I hope
you didn't play Justin Herbert or you know that vital
guy either, but six teams on a bye so you
could be scrambled a little bit with your fantasy lineups
coming up this weekend. We close out the week every

(30:07):
week during football season with the Voice of the Colts,
Matt Taylor. It's nine o'clock on a Friday, he joins
us final hour of the week. Thank you for spending
it with us, Kevin Bow and James Boyd to Mark Dyton, Jeff,
we'll be back on Monday. Just a reminder Sunday on
our airwaves and it certainly impacts our next guest, the

(30:27):
Voice of the Colts, Matt Taylor. You will hear him
on ninety seven point one Hank FM, So the Colts
will be on that for the four to twenty five
kickoff ride. A kickoff will be right here on the
fan JMB and Company getting things started about twelve thirty,
and then with the Pacers in Minnesota, the Pacer game

(30:47):
will stay on the fan, but you will have the
Colts game over on ninety seven point one Hank FM
to talk more about it all. It is Friday's with
the Voice of the Colts, Matt Taylor. May take a
good Friday morning to you, sir.

Speaker 5 (31:01):
Good morning, gentlemen. How are we doing today?

Speaker 3 (31:03):
We are swell. It's probably more of an MLB play
by play question than most, but hell, you've had to
work your way through a couple fourth quarters like this
this season. Do you have blowout content?

Speaker 5 (31:17):
Yeah? You do?

Speaker 8 (31:18):
I mean you you approach it differently. You turn it
more into a big picture talk show, you know, like
what does this win mean or what is you know,
you frame it into the context of how well are
we playing? Is this transferable?

Speaker 5 (31:29):
What does the.

Speaker 8 (31:30):
Immediate future of the season look like? You know, you
preview next week's games, so you know, you're you're not
as intensely breaking down every single movement of a play.
You're not, you know, breaking down the upcoming down and distance.
You know, you're talking to your analysts more like a
talk show, kind of like what you guys do, while

(31:52):
also staying within the framework of the game. Absolutely, but
it's kind of like, you know, it's kind of like
the fourth quarter of that last preseason game, you know
what I mean. You turn it into a talk show,
You make a conversation, you talk about, you know, how
how well guys are playing, and how transferable things are
for the regular season. So yeah, absolutely, there's there's a

(32:13):
difference between you know, how you handle play by play
in the fourth quarter in the final four minutes when
it's a one score game versus if it's a fourth
quarter blowout. There's no question about it. The dynamic certainly changes.

Speaker 3 (32:26):
If I've ever asked you this, But do you have
any and I guess take the NFL, take the Super
Bowl out of it. I don't know, maybe even take
the NDY five hundred out of it. Do you have
a bucket at sporting event that you would love to call?

Speaker 8 (32:40):
You know, I don't per se. I mean, I'm very
very happy, and I enjoy what I do.

Speaker 5 (32:47):
I really do.

Speaker 8 (32:47):
I mean, I think the NFL is just you know,
obviously it's it's it's the eight hundred pound gorilla, and
it's it's the biggest thing going. So I'm incredibly blessed
to be, you know, where I'm at and doing what
I'm doing. But but I would love to, uh, you know,
do some more, I guess, you know, if I, if
I do have to select one, you know, would love to,

(33:08):
you know, do some more March Madness stuff. I just
think the pageantry of March Madness and the one and done,
you know concept and Cinderella, just to be part of
storylines like that would be.

Speaker 5 (33:18):
You did some.

Speaker 3 (33:19):
Conference tournament, right you and Tom Green?

Speaker 5 (33:20):
Did?

Speaker 3 (33:21):
Was Ohio Valley?

Speaker 5 (33:21):
Maybe?

Speaker 1 (33:22):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (33:22):
I did it.

Speaker 8 (33:22):
Yeah, I did a couple of games. Yeah, I did
a couple of games in March Madness last year. So,
I mean that was just incredibly cool and just just
just to see the guys, you know, from the smaller
schools when they you know, punched their their ticket to
the you know, the big dance, you know, the n
CLA Tournament. I mean it really is uh it's it's
it's dream come true. You know, not only for the players,

(33:43):
but for the coaches too. They understand, you know, the
magnitude of winning those tournaments and elevating the profile of
their head coaching you know, personalities, and the profiles of
their schools and the program. I mean, we had SIU
Edwardsville last year and their coach was uh the I

(34:04):
think he was like the video assister or quality control
guy under Tom Crean, uh you know in his first
years that I used. So they were very very close,
and so they had a huge embrace at the end
of that game.

Speaker 5 (34:16):
And you can just see it on their face.

Speaker 8 (34:18):
You can just see it in their body language, like
how life changing making the NCAA Tournament is for those
guys at that level.

Speaker 6 (34:25):
That is the voice of Matt Taylor, who was also
the voice of the Colts and Mate, I thought you
were going to say for your you know event, me
and JV hooping at you know, Center Grove or something.
I would love to hear comment here on my bricks
and smoked the layups at a thirty in the morning
on a Sunday.

Speaker 5 (34:41):
By the way, you're James, step back, it's off again.

Speaker 3 (34:45):
You're your JMV impression that we heard early I think
it was earlier this week. Excellent? Just so good? Does
he like it?

Speaker 5 (34:56):
I think so.

Speaker 8 (34:56):
I mean he's always been a good sport about it,
and you know, for producing that show for a couple
of years, like I did, you know you got a
front row seats all the u of.

Speaker 5 (35:05):
The JMB isms, if you will.

Speaker 8 (35:07):
It's like his own little language, you know, with uh,
you know, the southern Indiana drawl and you know, the
the Green County stuff.

Speaker 5 (35:15):
And he was, uh, he's an easy.

Speaker 8 (35:17):
Guy to imitate, which means he's doing his job really,
really well.

Speaker 5 (35:20):
And I think that's that's.

Speaker 8 (35:21):
The point, is uh, you know, imitation is the most
sincere form of flattery, and so he always took it
with uh, you know, good spirits, and he knows how
I feel about him. So yeah, that's that's that's always
in the that's always in the arsenal, It's always part
of the repertoire.

Speaker 3 (35:36):
Before we transition to Taylor's tidbits, could we get twenty
seconds of JMV on of Friday at I don't know
where he's at the Almporium something like that.

Speaker 8 (35:43):
Listen here. I don't know how you guys do it
in the morning. I mean, you get up at six
am and you talk about this absolute clown show here.
The food bar that is that was in this case
not anymore any longer. Here with the Colts, roll in,
the Pacers, NBA Finals representatives, Indiana University football absolutely taking

(36:04):
names down in Bloomington under Kurt Signetti. But it used
to be absolute foo bar around here, kind of a
clown show, a lot of losing mentality. No longer the case.
Now you can follow my voice to the Savings at Meyer,
the official supercenter of the ride with JMB. They've got
you covered with Pacers, Colts, Cardinals who I don't represent,

(36:26):
but the Reds, the Cubs. Whenever you're into white vox evid,
I will I will give you the savings at Meyer
the official super Center of the Ride with AMD.

Speaker 5 (36:35):
We're back in a minute.

Speaker 3 (36:37):
That is excellent beautiful, beautiful as always. All right, mister d.

Speaker 8 (36:43):
Dallas, here's the deal, absolute, here's the deal. Now you
got me Roland, all right, you wound me up and
now I just can't stop this bad boy.

Speaker 5 (36:51):
Where do you want to start here?

Speaker 8 (36:52):
Three to six, Hagen's gonna stop by. He doesn't work
on Fridays. I got the girls from which TV from WDHR.

Speaker 5 (36:59):
It is going to be fair and steak in taft.

Speaker 6 (37:01):
This sounds just like him.

Speaker 3 (37:03):
Oh my gosh, that literally you just said three oh
seven to three oh nine today for John Michael Vincent.
That's a voice of the Colts. Matt Taylor. It's a Friday,
he's with us. You know what that means, Taylor, Tim.

Speaker 4 (37:15):
Let's dive into the nitty gritty.

Speaker 3 (37:17):
I never knew that.

Speaker 4 (37:18):
Grab a seed and take notes their storylines all over
the upcoming game. Sure, Clark say it's time for Taylor's tidbits.

Speaker 8 (37:31):
All right, I got I got four. I'll go quick,
all right, the first one's rapid fire. Let's talk about
the postseason chances here for the Colts, right, it's never
too early to talk about, you know, getting a home
playoff game and what this season could be. I think
it's time to kind of recalibrate after a six to
one start. Just how special of a season this could
be here for the Colts.

Speaker 5 (37:49):
All right?

Speaker 8 (37:50):
Since nineteen ninety six and one teams make the playoffs
eighty eight percent of the time, seven and one teams
make the postseason ninety six point five percent of the time.
All right, so let's keep this train rolling on Sunday
because the analytics say, hey, you're seven to one, it's
pretty close to a darn shirt thing. You're gonna make

(38:11):
the postseason. We'll see if the Colts can.

Speaker 5 (38:13):
Get it done. All right, let's talk red zone.

Speaker 8 (38:15):
For the Colts, they've jumped all the way up to
eighth in the NFL so far in the red zone,
thanks in part the scoring touchdowns on fourteen of their
last fifteen red zone trips. Remember when people were griping
about the red zone like that was the that was
the one thing in the first three game.

Speaker 6 (38:32):
That was Kevin Bowen.

Speaker 3 (38:33):
Yeah, hand raise over here.

Speaker 8 (38:34):
Yeah, like that was the one thing. People are like, Okay,
this is a good offense or scoring a lot of points,
but man, they'd be so much better inside the red zone.
And case in point, right in the first three games
of the season, they were seven for sixteen in weeks
one through three. That was forty three percent, which ranked
twenty six in the NFL. In just a month's time,
they went from twenty six to eight. And they're even

(38:58):
better in goal to go situations.

Speaker 5 (39:00):
All right.

Speaker 8 (39:01):
Dating back to last year, the Colts have scored a
touchdown on each of their last twenty six.

Speaker 5 (39:07):
Goal to go drives.

Speaker 8 (39:09):
Again, they are twenty six for their last twenty six
goal to go drive scoring touchdowns. That's the second longest
streak this century. The record is twenty nine straight by
the twenty twenty two Arizona Cardinals. All Right, and I
love this guy because he's coming off the bench, being
brought up off the practice squad and he's delivering.

Speaker 5 (39:32):
All right.

Speaker 8 (39:32):
He's been off the practice squad three straight weeks. Now
he's on the active roster. He's the primary running back
behind Jonathan Taylor. I'm talking about at Mir Abdullah in
year number eleven. Last week, an eighty one yard kickoff
return has set up the Colts first touchdown in the
second half. He's the NFL's active leader in kickoff returns
and kickoff return yardage.

Speaker 5 (39:54):
But he's a lot more than just a football player.
I don't know if you guys saw.

Speaker 8 (39:58):
This, but he's a football he's a movie buff. He
loves the art form of cinema. In fact, he's appeared
in a lot of movies. He's appeared in a movie
called Hell on the Border in twenty nineteen.

Speaker 5 (40:11):
He's appeared in a movie.

Speaker 8 (40:12):
Called Monstrous in twenty twenty two, another flick called Hide
and Bleed in twenty twenty one. He's also appeared in
the film called Break the Cycle, and that's got some
high profile stuff in it. Man, some actors in that movie.
You've got guys like Juba Gooding Junior and Vivica A.

Speaker 5 (40:30):
Fox.

Speaker 8 (40:30):
He's also produced a short film called Joshua Tree. So
he's a really good conversation inside that cult locker room.
And he's a well rounded guy. He's got a lot
of culture, got a lot of cinema, and he loves
the arts as well. So a Mira boo, a sip
of the cat man, You're an interesting cat, all right.
Last one is the Tennessee Titans have fallen on tough times.
They started one in six in back to back seasons,

(40:53):
first time they've started one and six or worse in
consecutive years for the first time since nineteen two to
nineteen eighty four. And obviously they weren't the Tennessee Titans
back then. That's the Houston Oilers.

Speaker 5 (41:06):
But it wasn't that long.

Speaker 8 (41:07):
Ago where the Titans were like the team to beat.

Speaker 5 (41:10):
They used to get the Colts.

Speaker 8 (41:11):
They kind of fit.

Speaker 5 (41:12):
They were the top.

Speaker 8 (41:13):
Seed in the AFC in twenty and twenty one, but
since then fellas there combined seventeen and forty one. They've
got the fewest wins in the NFL in that fan
and Tennessee is one of two teams this year, along
with the surprisingly inefficient Philadelphia Eagles, who are still five
and two, but the Titans at Eagles won of two

(41:35):
teams this year to be out gained in every single
game this year, and dating back to last year, the
Titans have allowed more touchdowns than they have scored in
thirteen straight games. So they got a rookie quarterback, they
fired their head coach, and obviously a lot of people
are picking the Colts to win this game on Sunday,
but you still got to go out and play and

(41:56):
we'll see how it goes.

Speaker 5 (41:57):
This weekend. The four twenty five.

Speaker 6 (41:58):
Were that a mara of doll stuff.

Speaker 3 (42:00):
I had no idea that was fascinating. I'm looking up here.
He's the youngest of nine kids, and he was signed
with the fifty three man roster over the weekend, so
when they when they put Tavarious Ward on injured reserve,
they brought him up. So he'll be up there, I
guess for the foreseeable future. That red zone stat in
the goal to Go Matt, I mean, that thing is

(42:21):
just insane. How efficient they've been, and the fact that
they stop their own red zone streak themselves by kicking
the field goal at the end of the first half
is just kind of funny. If the saying was so
mad about that, Yeah, oh yeah, yeah I could, Yes, Shane,
I could definitely tell not too pleased, because you know,
when you think about it, And I asked Shane this
earlier in the week, like, what's the most impressive thing

(42:43):
about your offense right now? Because there's so many numbers. Yeah,
you know, he just wanted the generic points, which you know,
I was kind of like, really, but you know, he
is right on that. To me, it's probably the red
zone of the goal to Go Matt, because you just
see it every week where teams move it. I mean,
the Colts have been out gained. I mean you might
have the number. They've probably been out gained in each
of the last two games, or at least if you

(43:03):
can buy the last two, they probably have been. And
yet here they are, you know, fourteen points better than
the Chargers because they finish off drives and the Chargers didn't.

Speaker 5 (43:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (43:12):
No, I mean to your point, I mean, it would
be fifteen out of fifteen, but they just they just
ran out of time. And there's no reason to think
that at the end of that second quarter that if
they had more time that they you know, they absolutely
would have scored based on you know, just how well
this offense is rolling and how much they're executing inside
the twenty yard line. And again it sounds cliche, but
you think players and not plays inside the twenty yard line,

(43:35):
and you scheme up your best guys Michael Pittman Junior
and you know, Tyler Warren and then Josh Doallens in
the slot when he's healthy because he can just find
those those small little windows and zone defense inside the
red zone. But I think the biggest thing, too, is
that they're running the ball well inside the red zone.
And you have to run the ball well inside the
red zone to set you up in favorable down in distance,

(43:58):
you know, near the goal line, or if it's like
you know, third and three at the at the ten
or something, you need a first down at the seven,
you still.

Speaker 5 (44:06):
Have to be able to run the ball in tight quarters.

Speaker 8 (44:08):
And I think the Colts are doing that. Give Jonathan
Taylor a lot of credit, get this offensive line a
lot of credit. But it's been it's it's been so
fascinating because I said it at the end of that
second quarter, you know when the Colts executed that two
minute drive to perfection, and again the only reason why
they didn't get a touchdown is because they just ran
out of time. But how about when Michael Pittman Junior

(44:31):
gets a first down and gets tackled, and he immediately
instead of just giving the ball to the ref he
runs over to the center and he hands the ball
to Tanner Bordolini to get it spotted as quick as
possible to save the Colts some time to get on
the ball to spike it with three seconds. Bring on
the field goal team, get a walk off field goal
there before halftime. I mean I just said it on air.

(44:54):
I mean, the Colts are just so well coached, They
are so well drilled and schooled in this stuff, and
it started back in training camp and you know, I
told you guys then I love the fact that the
Colts spent a ton of time doing more team periods
and more simulated periods like you know, two minute drills
or you know, red zone or third down instead of

(45:15):
you know, I think there's a lot of merit to
seven on seven and individual periods. But you get better
at playing football by playing football and putting yourself into
football situations. And that's what training camp was all about.
And I think Shane Steiken deserves a ton of credit
for how this team prepares, how they practice, the level
of professionalism they have throughout the course of the week,

(45:36):
and you just see it show up in little bitty
windows that are just you know, for someone like me
like that's a football purist, when they execute a dot
high on the level, it gives you so much joy
because you know, quite frankly, we've been we've been subjected
to a lot of up and down football the last
couple of years.

Speaker 3 (45:53):
Yeah, I said it quite often. I think the Colts
are almost weekly the smarter football team, and that can
go along long way. And that start. I mean Shane
Stiken sneak in a time out against Jim Harball. You
know those little things they add up over time. Just
reminder again that is ninety seven point one Hank FM.
That's where you'll find Matt Taylor, Rick Vonturi and Lara
over ten for twenty five the kickoff coming up on Sunday.

(46:17):
Mayte this from Q. I literally thought that was JMV
earlier on the impersonation.

Speaker 5 (46:24):
So well, here's the deal. You you will just follow
my voice.

Speaker 8 (46:28):
I will have a great, great ass time coming up
three to six. We will talk about the greatness that
is hurt signetty big game against the Bruins down south. Q.
You got me dialed in on the stream, the app,
the lounge, wherever you find us. That's where you need
to be locked in, locked and loaded every day three
to six.

Speaker 5 (46:46):
For this bad boy.

Speaker 3 (46:47):
Oh beautiful, absolutely beautiful, the one, the only Matt Taylor.
May tey we'll see in a couple hours, sir.

Speaker 5 (46:54):
All right, boys, have a good one