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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.
The seis the Fan Morning Show with KB jab and Jeff.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Yeah, one, two, three, four fine sec seventy.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
There's seventy seven.
Speaker 4 (00:20):
They give us the Taylor cuts up a block, bearing
to us, ready to the ten.
Speaker 5 (00:23):
He's at the five. He's gonna score. You know it, touchdown?
Fuck haty?
Speaker 6 (00:29):
Why shotgun snapped for Jones?
Speaker 4 (00:31):
Looking left, He's gonna take a shot and throws a
laser towards the pylon and that is a cast for
Michael Pittman Junior. There's a penalty on the play, but
pepmint scores a touchdown.
Speaker 6 (00:42):
Has pepmin snared it in with one hand on a
twenty one yard.
Speaker 7 (00:46):
Absolute dark under center Jones. On first down, they give
it to Taylor left side.
Speaker 5 (00:50):
He's at the twenty twenty.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
Five thirty thirty five down the sideline, forty fifty yard
line score going Tyler robins that line.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
He's got a tat tat.
Speaker 8 (00:58):
The touchdown chip.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Then Taylor takes it eighty yards to the house.
Speaker 7 (01:04):
That's third and thirteen. After the penalty, Reis left backs
the throw. He stands talking. It's in the rainbow downfield
for Alec Pearce.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
He got it, he got it, he got it, he
got it.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
You want a truckmendus crowd as he had a defender
trade all over him and he boxed him out like
a basketball player.
Speaker 6 (01:23):
Shotgun step.
Speaker 5 (01:24):
He looks left, stands in the pocket.
Speaker 6 (01:26):
Now he's flushed to the right side.
Speaker 8 (01:28):
Lookie, he's got him.
Speaker 6 (01:28):
You are part of the truck behind and that is
he touched.
Speaker 7 (01:31):
Down for the Colts this time is just down for
a score.
Speaker 6 (01:34):
Fourth rid zone trip today for the Colts.
Speaker 5 (01:37):
Lord jump pass to Jonathan Taylor cuts off a block.
Speaker 8 (01:39):
He's at the ten, he's at the five. He's gonna
scar again.
Speaker 5 (01:42):
Touch down and.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
It's the fourth time this season Jonathan Taylor has three
touchdowns in a game.
Speaker 5 (01:50):
Come here, don't get.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Out seven seven sion s second Siddy.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
I mean, I'll get in the mood for you.
Speaker 7 (02:01):
I'll always get in the mood.
Speaker 9 (02:02):
I'll have what she's having.
Speaker 6 (02:08):
I will have a lot more of what she's having.
At seven and one, most points scored in the league,
best record all by themselves, the Indianapolis Colts are cruising.
We talk every week about how special. It is right
now to be an Indianapolis Colts fan, an Indiana Hoosiers fan,
a Perdue basketball fan, and all those kinds of things.
And I want to do that again this morning. And
good morning Kevin Bowen, Good morning, James Boyd, Good morning,
(02:31):
Mark Diyton. We're all back together again, but we also
exist in a city at a time when we're watching
Jonathan Taylor do amazing things. We're watching Caitlin Clark and
Kelsey Mitchell, and we're watching you know, incredible players at
Purdue basketball and Fernando Mendoz who's been mentioned for the Heisman.
I say it again, it's like I pinched myself, Kevin Bowen.
(02:51):
You've lived here your whole life. There's never been a
time like this. I can't remember. There's never been a
time like this.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
Yeah, agree wholeheartedly with that. I felt like I've done
this show already, like five different times this season. And
you know, usually when I've said that in the past,
like I feel like I've done the show before, it's
not in the light that we talk about these mondays,
Like the Colts have had five walk on moments this season.
Like again, walk on moments put everybody in the game.
(03:19):
Put all your like that does not happen in the NFL.
It's another Sunday, It's another ass kicking by the Addapolis Colts,
and yeah, it's I'm out a loss of words. I
need to find them because that's my job. But it
is absolutely absurd what they continue to do.
Speaker 6 (03:34):
James Boyd, good morning. You were at the game yesterday
Lucas Oil and they just start strong, they finished strong.
JT amazes you time after time after time. The eighty
yard or yesterday where he's bouncing off tacklers and staying
in bounds simultaneously, might be the best run of his career.
And that's saying something right there. What do you think?
Speaker 10 (03:58):
Yes and no, because I feel like every week we
look at a run and we say that's the best one.
So and honestly, I think the one he had against
the Titans in Week three where he broke like four
or five tackles might have been a little bit better.
But I mean I'm nitpicking here, right, So I think
the craziest part about this and then look this up
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after the game, Kevin so JT goes off a buck
what was it?
Speaker 8 (04:24):
Buck fifty three?
Speaker 10 (04:24):
I think on twelve carries, you know, twelve point eight
something like that yards per carry, single game, franchise record,
And then I like, look at Daniel Jones twenty one
to twenty nine, two seventy two in a career high
passer rating of one thirty six. So I mean, pick
your poison with this Coats offense right now. It is
as good as advertised, And the simplest way I can
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put it is that they entered the game averaging a
league high thirty three point one points per game, and
they raised their average, Like, how ridiculous is that they
scored thirty eight points with a fourth time this season,
I believe, which is just a ridiculous feet for a
team that, again, we haven't seen an offense operate like
this ever, I know, we want to say it since
(05:09):
Peyton Manning, since Andrew Luck, no ever.
Speaker 8 (05:11):
So this is pretty special stuff.
Speaker 6 (05:13):
It's amazing to watch a lot of fun. And I
know quickly Pacers last night they're down seven guys and
on the road. I know Anthony Edwards left the game,
but they were right there at to the very end
the last couple of possessions against them. Minnesota Timberwolves. Kevin, Yeah,
when I say, I've never seen anything like it. I
include the Pacers' injuries right now. I mean, yes, I think, Jeff,
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you are referencing Colts and IU football mainly in the
same time, but right now with where the Pacers are
at from a health standpoint, it is stunning, especially three
games into a season obi topping leaves last night.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
I believe Rick carlisles at hamstring injury. I mean, I
don't think you have many owners and professional sports tweeting
in game three of the season, hell of a freaking
effort by our team. But that's what Steven Simon was
tweeting last night in a loss, because that's just how
dire situation is. I was watching the game Saturday night,
and again, this is game two of the season. In
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the first quarter, and they have a backcourt of Taylor
Peter and ray J. Dennis. Like, that's a backcourt for
the Noblesville Boom on opening night. That's not a backcourt
for the NBA team in the first quarter of Game two.
And that's the reality of where they're at right now.
Speaker 6 (06:21):
It's just.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
I sit here and I'm like, we can't even talk
about the Pacers in like a serious manner. We just
have to talk about the injuries. Yeah, it's been tough.
Speaker 9 (06:30):
We joked on Friday's show that James might have to
suit up for him. That might actually happen.
Speaker 6 (06:34):
At that point, you know what, We're getting very close
maybe the boom so they can elevate one of those guys.
Speaker 10 (06:38):
Yeah, I did break in the Halliburns yesterday's how JMV
got a nice little hoop session in with him. By
the way, I'll give credit where credit is due. JAMV
was carrying us the last game and he was shooting
that thing, as my pops would say. But yeah, watching
the Pacers over the weekend. Obviously I didn't catch the
game last night live, but even looking through some of
the headlines and watch some of the highlights back man,
after I got back from obviously covering the Colts game.
Speaker 8 (07:01):
It's rough right now, and it.
Speaker 10 (07:04):
Just shows you how close they were and how far
they are now from getting back to back to you know,
to the finals, to being a contender, to being at
that level. It's unlucky, you know, to have your best
player go down in a game seven. But also now
just have this feels like this like injury bug going
through your team, where every guy's leaving with a soft
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tissue thing. And I guess the silver lining there, hopefully,
is that none of these injuries, even Big Mathern, I
think he's dealing with a toe injury. But right now,
it doesn't sound like these are like, you know, super
severe things. It's just that stuff that you know, if
you compounded on top on top of each other, it's
hard to get through all at one time.
Speaker 6 (07:45):
Well, that's where we're at right now. We're gonna be
talking a lot about all those things, especially the Colts,
who are off to a seven and one start, not
just number one in the AFC, number one in the NFL,
and they've outscored every other team in the league. I
think the second the closest team is Dallas, who scored
twenty four points fewer, and Dallas is three four and one.
So that's where the cults are at right now. It's
(08:07):
a lot of fun. We're gonna ride this wave as
long as we can. But you start to ask the question, now,
eight games into a seventeen game season, do we start
thinking about that last game of the year yet, Kevin?
Do we start do we start saying, hey, this is possible,
this is something that is within the realm of possibility
at this point in time, or do you still want
to see this rugged second half of the schedule play
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itself out?
Speaker 5 (08:30):
Am I allowed to get a little sentimental here in
the opening segment? Yeah, okay, I hate to, you know,
kind of bring it down a little bit of a
Debbie downer here, but certainly thoughts and prayers. Mark care
if you play the audio here.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
It's a great night to be a Tiger.
Speaker 6 (08:48):
I'm here with my family, poor guy.
Speaker 5 (08:52):
We really enunciate maybe that Jeff brought up the last
game call, We really enunciate that last word there, Mark,
if you don't mind on that, you know, it's.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
A great night to be a Tiger. I'm here with
my family.
Speaker 5 (09:06):
How did he spell family? In that instance?
Speaker 11 (09:08):
There?
Speaker 6 (09:08):
There was an h there.
Speaker 5 (09:10):
Uh f a m u h l y though it's
teasing piece. Yeah, it's the Baton rouge.
Speaker 6 (09:16):
Gonna go buy his own island to retire on problem.
Speaker 8 (09:19):
Coach Kelly was a doom from the time he made
that one.
Speaker 5 (09:21):
Of my favorite people, someone I loved cheering for. Yeah,
just really a bummer to see. So I wanted to
make sure I sent out my best to.
Speaker 6 (09:29):
Brian everything is going your way this morning.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
Thank you for letting me sneak that in there.
Speaker 9 (09:34):
We're going to keep banging it.
Speaker 8 (09:37):
Million accent is crazy.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
I saw a picture of David Freeman holding baby Brian
Kelly making the rounds yesterday on Twitter, and you know,
I know everybody's got an opinion on Twitter. There are
some moments where it makes me laugh very hard, and
that was one of those. So thank you to that.
Speaker 6 (09:54):
Twitter is extreme these days. It's really awful or it's
just the best one of the two. There's no in between.
All Right, we got a lot to talk about today,
Colts win, Pacers starting their season, Indiana basketball off to
a nice little start, and we already know Indiana football
is cruising. We'll break it all down for you. Take
your comments as well. Looking for your headlines, Mark, they
can find that where morning at.
Speaker 9 (10:14):
Morning Show one oh seven to five on our Twitter account.
Speaker 6 (10:17):
All right, go check that out and we'll reveal those
a little bit later on today. But lots to do
and we'll get to it. And we got a player
Colts player coming up later today too, Kevin correct Yes.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
Tannel BORDERLINI gonna join us at seven forty five one
for the big dudes up front. I think they deserve
some credit in this. So we've had Jonathan Taylor on
this year before. Figure, let's go with the Wisconsin Center there.
Speaker 6 (10:35):
I like, he can tell us all about j T
at Wisconsin too. It'll be fun. Well, well, they weren't teammate.
I know they weren't teammates, but he knows the legend.
They were both on campus. But they weren't.
Speaker 8 (10:45):
That I can say about jac covered him in college.
They were in I allnnoying crust us.
Speaker 6 (10:48):
There you go, all right, we'll do it all next
as we continue in ninety three five and one oh
seven five.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
It's a great night to be a Tiger. I'm here
with my family.
Speaker 6 (10:59):
Tanner Border, the offensive lineman for the Indianapolis Colts, on
the Payless Liquors Hotline. Good morning on another victory Monday
for the Indianapolis Colts. I would have guessed that you're
okay with this getting old, this this victory Monday thing, right.
Speaker 11 (11:13):
No, it has been a lot of fun to be
a part of. But I got to keep them rolling.
Speaker 6 (11:17):
Yeah, absolutely, Tanner.
Speaker 10 (11:19):
When you look at what this team is able to
be able to do offensively, how impressive is it or
how much fun is it rather to be a fan
every now and then, Like, for example, when you're blocking
for a play, I don't know how often you get
a chance to just sit there and watch the rest
of it. But when JT goes for eighty yards, what's
your reaction to what you're seeing on a regular basis?
Speaker 11 (11:44):
I mean, it's pretty awesome.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
I think you see some of the players, our guys
make a weekend week out, it's.
Speaker 11 (11:50):
Always extremely impressive. You know, watching JT break.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
That adr touchdown something that I don't think ever gets old.
You know, they think the k inside he lives a
little bit washing can make like that, and it's uh,
you know, you get the chance to be a fan again.
You see Pitt make a grab like that in the
end zone yesterday, It's like, oh my, did.
Speaker 11 (12:07):
You see that? Uh. I think we're just as excited
as the fans are. And it's been really a lot
of fun to be a part of.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
And uh, I know, I think me, uh, I can
speak for everyone on the offense when I say we're
having a blast out there.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
Tanner, Mike, did you see that moment was when you
out jumped Shane Steichen on the sidelines.
Speaker 6 (12:23):
There you got.
Speaker 5 (12:25):
Shane's got to get his vertical up.
Speaker 11 (12:27):
Oh so Shane tried to get me out on last
week and I missed him. I misread the situation, so
I gotta get him back this week, so I make
sure to get up there. I'm pretty sure this next
game will be dialed on it. He'll be ready to roll,
He'll get some height on that jump. But uh, I
think we both get a little pretty fired up when
when our offense is rolling like that.
Speaker 5 (12:44):
It's a starting center for the cold Tanner BORDERLINI with
us here on the Payless Slickers hot line seven am
on a Monday. What is your Monday routine?
Speaker 11 (12:54):
I had it.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Now I'm about to get some treatment. You know, he'll
up whatever. You know, not feeling great, but I think
everything always feels a little better after a win.
Speaker 11 (13:03):
But I'll get healed up, get a lift in, hit
some meetings, watching it, watch.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
The film, break it down, and see what I can
improve on just personally going through the next week, because
I think you know, it's about getting better week to week.
See when we get improved upon every every game, winner, lose,
and then just enjoy the rest of the day.
Speaker 6 (13:20):
Tanner Why do you think this offense is performing and
executing at such a high level right now? What's been
the key?
Speaker 11 (13:28):
I think it's just everyone doing their job. Right now.
We have eleven guys that know if I can do
my job.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
We have tremendous talent at all those other positions where
those ten other guys are going to do some great
things if I give them the opportunity to and everyone
find in every week, every game plan. I don't think
there's a single week where guys are preparing different. You know,
there's keen. Consistency has been at a premium, and I
think guys just really being focused and wanting our offense
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to keep excelling the way it is.
Speaker 10 (13:57):
So Tanner obviously as a same you touched the ball
more than anybody else. How much more comfortable do you
feel this year being a full time starter versus last
year as a rookie just trying to make sure that you,
I don't know, don't mess up at the NFL level.
Speaker 11 (14:14):
I think you know, you just kind of embraced that
this is like my position, my spot now and.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
I think you just do you do feel a little
more comfortable just you know you're you're playing with those
guys in practice every day you're getting all the reps
with them, You're you're going to be the guy at
that spot. So I think that confidence is there.
Speaker 11 (14:33):
It's you're just more comfortable just having stacked.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
And had all those reps of those guys that are
around you.
Speaker 5 (14:39):
At number sixty for the Colts, Tanner BORDERLINI with us
here on the Payless Slickers hot line seven to one.
Start here in this twenty twenty five season, Tanner, you
shared with us. I think it was on Zoom last
week about kind of what you witness in the Daniel
Jones Chanstiken relationship on a weekly basis for our audience
that maybe didn't hear that. What do you see from
those two Monday through Saturday? And I guess I point
(15:02):
out Saturday because I believe you do sit behind those
two on road trips as well, you know.
Speaker 11 (15:08):
Just getting to see the way they talk to each other, you.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Know, how invested they both aren't winning, how on the
same page about the game plan they are.
Speaker 11 (15:15):
Like on the plane, I'll beat behind those two in
the whole flight.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
You know, we're in a four hour flight to LA
They're both throwing through stuff, talking about Hey, here's what
I think we can get on this situation, this play
if we get discoveraged, you know, here's what I think
would be a good call, you know. And I think
it really shows once we get the game time that
they both know when this play comes in, here's what
we're thinking, Here's what we want to do, Here's what
we want to achieve. And I think that's a really
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important part of why this offense has been the way
it has.
Speaker 5 (15:42):
Who can eat the most in the offensive line room?
Speaker 3 (15:46):
Man, we got a lot of guys that are up there.
Speaker 11 (15:48):
I would say, Braiden. If you get Braiden on the
right day, he can.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Demolished some food. He has probably had the biggest breakfast
I've ever seen in my life.
Speaker 5 (15:58):
What is that?
Speaker 11 (15:59):
What is it?
Speaker 5 (16:00):
Well, I assume it's plates plurally, but what does that
look like?
Speaker 3 (16:05):
So he he'll have seven over easy eggs, seven pancakes,
and then uh, he like the biggest bowl of fruit
you've ever seen. I'm talking like it'd be like another plate,
you know, piled highway fruit. I mean, it's unreal how
much you can put down.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
Is that daily or is this game day?
Speaker 11 (16:28):
I mean, honestly, it's daily for breakfast. That's what he
knocks out. He said he's a seven over easy egg guy,
which I think is an insane amount of over easy eggs.
But I love Brandon, but he could put that down
like no.
Speaker 10 (16:39):
Other tenor aside from the dieting, I think the pancakes.
Speaker 5 (16:47):
Damn.
Speaker 8 (16:47):
I'm just like, how are we the same species?
Speaker 3 (16:49):
Right?
Speaker 11 (16:50):
You know?
Speaker 8 (16:50):
Two eggs over easy?
Speaker 10 (16:51):
Probably as much as I got, you know for my
uh you know buck fifty frame.
Speaker 11 (16:57):
I'm with you on that, two or three?
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Maybe Seven's that man's.
Speaker 10 (17:00):
Not right, Tanner, speaking of beyond just I guess the
diety expertise of your teammate, uh Tony Fronto Jr. Your
offensive line coach, how much is he meant to you
and that room? Because from the sounds of it talking
to you and others, he'll love you up. But he
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also won't sugarcoat anything.
Speaker 11 (17:24):
No, he's been huge, and I think that's a great
way to do it.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
I feel like you always know what he's telling you
is true and it's what he actually means. And I
think it's a great thing for a coach to have.
And again, as a player, you want you it's not
always going to be perfect. You understand that. But if
you take the coaching for what it is, I think.
Speaker 11 (17:40):
You can grow a lot from it as a player.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
And it makes our group a lot better because I
think we all see that the same way, where look,
we know we're not going to be perfect. It might
not always be what you want to hear, but sometimes
it's what you need to hear. And he does a
really great job but you know, telling you what you
need to do better, but loving you up on the
things you do well, and then just having us ready
for games. He does a phenomenal job.
Speaker 8 (18:04):
Does he have an inside voice.
Speaker 11 (18:08):
Sometimes he also has an outside boy.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
You know, he got a little bit of both, but
he finds that happy medium of you know, I don't
know how to coach each guy.
Speaker 5 (18:17):
Tanner, last one for me, and we really appreciate your
time here on this Monday morning. Do you have a
favorite Jonathan Taylor run from this season?
Speaker 11 (18:27):
I mean that eighty yard one was just pretty electric.
There there are.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
So many great ones though that, like, I mean, this
is a really good problem to have. Uh, you know,
I really can't choose one. I think every week there's
one where I'm like, that was unbelievable, But that's.
Speaker 11 (18:42):
Just the kind of runner he is. He gives you
something like that weekend week O.
Speaker 6 (18:47):
It's great to have you on this morning. You're welcome anytime.
Try to keep up with the pancakes and eggs, though,
I mean, you gotta gotta stay big and stay strong. Right,
let's go. All right, buddy, thank.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
You, appreciate Yeah, man, take care guys.
Speaker 6 (19:00):
All right, it's time once again for our goats of
the week. Good bad. Otherwise Mark Dyke didn't kick it off.
Speaker 8 (19:07):
Who is the goat?
Speaker 5 (19:08):
I'd pull with you all that. I was the greatest
of all.
Speaker 7 (19:11):
Time, surety. Here's Michael at the filine.
Speaker 8 (19:13):
I shot on eld the goat.
Speaker 6 (19:22):
Or goat? This guy sucks of the week. All right,
we'll going to James Boyd to kick things off today.
You want to go positive negative? Where do you want
to start today? What's on your mind? What do you
have to get off your chest?
Speaker 8 (19:44):
He's gonna ask three questions in ten seconds. All right,
let's do it.
Speaker 10 (19:47):
I think my good goat of the week will be
Vanderbilt sophomore Tyler Wang Hope Santa Correctly. He was the
kid on college game day who boo did the field
goal to win five hundred thousand dollars, and I thought
his one his kick was amazing. I was going to
get that go on somebody's college team immediately. And then secondly,
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the celebration afterwards, him doing the Pat McAfee celebration, running
around to the crowd, the confidence in which he took
the kick. Oh, it's theater. I love watching that every Saturday.
It is great TV. I think that is the best
thing Pat McAfee does. From a media standpoint. I says
a lot about the guy because he's built kind of
an empire for himself.
Speaker 6 (20:29):
That was fun to watch because you're right, he unloaded
on that kick and he looked like he never had
a He was not nervous or worried or.
Speaker 8 (20:36):
Aund hair foot, he didn't even have a shit to go.
Speaker 6 (20:38):
Yeah, that was that was fun to watch, all right,
Mark dyked in your goat of the week.
Speaker 9 (20:43):
My good goat, which I probably wouldn't have said a
week ago given everything that transpired, was justin Fields got
the Jail their first win of the season.
Speaker 8 (20:51):
He was outstanding.
Speaker 9 (20:53):
Yes, they come from behind victory over the Cincinnati Bengals
twenty one to thirty two for two hundred and forty
four yards and a touchdown through the air. Also added
thirty one on the ground justin fields. Was spectacular yesterday.
Speaker 5 (21:04):
Very nice mark on that one. Sounded like a very
entertaining game as well, in a week where we didn't
have many of those.
Speaker 10 (21:09):
This was after his owner trash down by the way,
right down, and he said the owner is just outside noise.
Speaker 6 (21:15):
Yes, I love that.
Speaker 5 (21:16):
A lot of debate on MVP this that. Uh, maybe
we get into that a little bit later. Like to me,
the best player in the NFL plays for the Cleveland Browns.
Speaker 6 (21:28):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 5 (21:29):
Yeah, Miles Garrett had five sacks yesterday in a twenty
point loss. It is unbelievable that the guy that's probably
been the best player in the NFL for the last whatever,
I don't know, a handful of years continues to have
to live in freaking Cleveland and play for the brown No.
Speaker 8 (21:50):
No, that's not like he's a victim now.
Speaker 10 (21:52):
He's signing those contracts. He signed an extension there. He
wanted out, and so they gave him a big bag
of money and he was back in.
Speaker 5 (21:57):
He leads the league in sacks, five of them yesterday,
and he's pointy point loss. He's the best party I
saw in social media.
Speaker 9 (22:07):
They had the it was like the picture of the
Ferrari under the sun shade and like, oh yeah, Miles
Garrett on the Browns. I'm like, yeah, that's exactly right. Yeah,
but he's chosen his his just to be there, so whatever, Yep,
I like that.
Speaker 6 (22:19):
I'm gonna stay local. I was on an airplane for
a lot of yesterday, you know, the beginning of the
Pacers game. I was. I had internet, though, so I
was able to pop around and look at some things
and watch the Colts game. But the broadcast I got
for the Minnesota Timberwolves game Michael Grady. Every time I
turn around now, Michael's on Amazon. Michael's doing the Minnesota
Timberwolves and our homegrown guy from here in Indianapolis and
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the fan. It is so fun for me to just
watch his career blossom and take off and do the
things that he's doing. I was even talking. I had
a chance to catch up with Adam Amen, who did
the Panthers game, because I started the day in the
press box down in Carolina, and Adam is like, hey,
do you know Michael Grady And we started talking. I
just I love seeing mykel and guys from Indianapolis develop
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and he is just having a great career.
Speaker 5 (23:04):
And I thought, which is no surprise knowing Michael Grady
and how much he holds his roots in high regard.
I believe I saw the Timberwolves gave Mark Boyle a
specific shout out during their broadcast, and so I assume
Michael Grady was a big spearheader in that. So I
believe they put boil on camera there and acknowledge what
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is this year thirty eight? Is that right for Mark Boyle?
There so no surprise knowing ho who Michael Grady is
and how much he appreciates, how he's worked his way
up in the business.
Speaker 6 (23:33):
That's just so fun to watch, so proud of just
even having been able to work with him for a
few minutes. Go ahead there.
Speaker 10 (23:39):
So my bag go to the week would have to
be I can't say the Mafia because they're always bad, right,
but the people who got involved with the mafia, one
being Chauncey Billups, the Hall of Fame point guard who
was taking into federal custody because of an illegal gambling
ring or poker gambling nights slash events. So yeah, I
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would say him also in conjunction with Terry Roseier and
Damon Jones are the three big names that came out
of those federal investigations into the NBA and gambling and
things that are just not legal. So bad, bad goats
all of them. Damon Jones, he made twenty two million
dollars in your career. I want to say, Terry rose Heer,
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you've made one hundred and sixty million dollars in your career.
Speaker 6 (24:25):
John C.
Speaker 10 (24:25):
Wilves, you made a one hundredion dollars in year career.
Why are any of you involved in any of this?
If these allegations are true, that would be one obviously
very bad for the league, but secondly very stupid for
everyone involved.
Speaker 6 (24:38):
Couldn't agree more.
Speaker 9 (24:39):
Mark Netflix is like foaming at the mouth, like I
can't wait to make a documentary on this, because that's
exactly what it sounds like a James John movie. It's
on all the details.
Speaker 10 (24:48):
Or they're gonna have to say that with a couple
of you know, cameras that can get in between the
prison bars, because that's where some of this stuff is
going to happen.
Speaker 6 (24:53):
They're gonna use the phrases mister big shot and scary
terry throughout the entire documentary.
Speaker 9 (24:58):
I'll keep my lower case goat pretty easy since I've
mentioned multip times Aaron Rodgers kissed my ass like I
was supposed to.
Speaker 5 (25:04):
I don't like will you at all?
Speaker 9 (25:05):
And then I root for you and you got your
ass kicked by the Packers on national television. Stick it man,
like I'm sick of you already, and the fact that
I even like tied my wagon to you disgusting, horrible performance.
Get out of here, Colts, I help you wax the floor.
Then Deforce Buckner. Hope knock if you buck is playing
a dozen times on Sunday, so they plays after.
Speaker 5 (25:27):
Every Buckner sacked. Did I miss this?
Speaker 9 (25:29):
I don't know they should though, when it's finish, knock
if you buck Buckner, I would.
Speaker 10 (25:34):
So knock if you buck and then go DJ for
Daniel Jones need I need both of those offense defense
get balance.
Speaker 8 (25:40):
I'd call it.
Speaker 9 (25:40):
Again, Colts, give me a call motivational speech for free twoot.
Speaker 6 (25:44):
Out during the game.
Speaker 5 (25:44):
Human's the size of Deforce Buckner should not be able
to move like that. That was incredible the sack you
had there late in that game. Mark Dyton and I.
I've always appreciated a lot of things about Mark, but
one of the things that I truly truly appreciate is
how I feel about Brian Kelly he feels about Aaron Rodgers,
and it probably goes to show you a little bit
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of how we're wired as human beings, which maybe isn't
the biggest compliment Mark, or how we're wired of sports fans.
But I must say watching that on Saturday night, it
is sickening how great of a feeling my body gets
when I'm watching a Brian Kelly hate loss and Mark,
I'm sure it's the same way you feel watching an
Aaron Rodgers hate loss. It is pathetic that I literally
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might have more endorphins in my body happy about that
than I do when Marcus Freeman's doing the other thing.
Speaker 9 (26:36):
Yeah, yeah, it's almost is the same feeling as good
as good as a loss of me.
Speaker 5 (26:42):
It's a shame, But obviously my negative go to the
week is Brian Kelly thoughts teasing peace to his Emily.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
I'm here with my family.
Speaker 9 (26:52):
Your family is going to Costa Rica for a while.
Speaker 6 (26:55):
Not for long.
Speaker 5 (26:56):
Does Brian Kelly coach again?
Speaker 11 (26:58):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (26:58):
I think so.
Speaker 6 (26:59):
Somebody will take.
Speaker 8 (27:00):
I feel like him.
Speaker 5 (27:00):
I am fascinated to see where Brian Kelly goes. The
resume is very very and who else he hires.
Speaker 8 (27:07):
Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 10 (27:08):
But I do think he gets enough opportunity to though,
because all the openings right now.
Speaker 5 (27:12):
LS used the best job, is it not? If he
was available, would you not hire Brian Kelly?
Speaker 6 (27:16):
That's my thought. My first thought was that, I.
Speaker 5 (27:18):
Mean, Brian Kelly's got a great resume.
Speaker 10 (27:20):
He'll he'll land on his feet somewhere to make more money,
man for more potential buyouts.
Speaker 9 (27:25):
Can he do a Pennsylvania accent?
Speaker 6 (27:27):
Can he do that? Is there one shows up?
Speaker 5 (27:30):
I'm gonna go with the guys hell coll My, they
do cole Miney only in West Virginia.
Speaker 8 (27:37):
What's the turn like a little suit on his like
cheeks or something?
Speaker 9 (27:42):
I was down in the mines.
Speaker 5 (27:44):
Probably shouldn't impersonate any other former penn State coaches.
Speaker 6 (27:47):
Probably not. I'm gonna go with the guy that hired
and fired him, Scott Woodward, who also is the guy
responsible for giving Jumbo Fisher a seventy six point eight
million dollar buyout. At some point, when do people say, hey, hey,
every time you hire a guy it doesn't work out
and we end up being tens of millions of dollars
behind by the very end.
Speaker 5 (28:08):
How does that work out? I want els you to
bring coach O back, call me too.
Speaker 6 (28:13):
That would be out. That would be beautiful.
Speaker 5 (28:15):
Ordern back to Baton Rouge.
Speaker 6 (28:16):
You wouldn't know what he said at his press conference though.
That's the best part of it all. Right, coming up
in a little while, we will have your headlines after
the Colts come up with another impressive victory over the weekend.
We'll do that. Take some of your phone calls and
text at two three, nine, ten seventy it's another victory
Monday on the Fan Morning Show, ninety three five and
one O seven five the Fan.
Speaker 9 (28:36):
Let's coach, Oh god.
Speaker 6 (28:40):
Off Ah, you gotta love it. Another win, another day,
another thirty eight points to just keep rolling and rolling
and rolling. The Indianapolis Colts on fire. They are seven
and one. I am here for all of that. I'm
here for all of Indiana rolling over UCLA fifty six
to six. Another victory Monday. That's how we roll here
at ninety three five and seven to five of the Fan,
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and you know you're gonna have to start finding new
ways to write this up every every Sunday night for
the Monday morning, folks. You have to find new ways
to talk about just what this offense is doing all
the time.
Speaker 5 (29:12):
Yeah, I find myself struggling in that area. Frankly, the
cursers looking back at me, I'm like, wait, is this
what I said last Sunday? Is this is what I
said the Sunday before? So the other week, another ass
kicking by the Colts and pretty much the same song
and dance offensively. You know, even when Tennessee kind of
drove it early, You're like, the Colts are gonna win
this game because they just answer every time, even if
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their defense is a little leaky. It's like, oh yeah,
they're gonna be fine. Yeah, Jonathan Taylor's gonna do that,
do this, They're gonna spread it around offensively. Michael Pittman
Junr was a hell of a cash one of the
best I've seen from a Colts player and quite some time.
So It's rare for NFL teams to create walk on moments,
and the Colts have been able to do that four
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times already in eight weeks. And it means you empty
your bench, That means you play. Everybody that doesn't happen shangsake,
and James said a few weeks back, it's awkward when
he has to do that in a game. You know,
NFL coaches aren't wired that way. You don't. You don't
go into a game with the opponent and the opposing
sideline thinking, hey, you know, if we get to the
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fourth quarter and it's a blowout, this is how I
want to handle that. You don't think about that, and
yet the Colts have had four of those games this season.
Speaker 8 (30:25):
I would agree, certainly.
Speaker 10 (30:26):
And I think one of the funnier takeaways I had
in the locker room was talking to Pittman because obviously
that crazy touchdown Cassidy had was a play that everyone
was talking about. And I told him, Hey, by the way,
you probably already know this, and I'm sure he does.
Speaker 8 (30:43):
Every player who says they don't is a liar.
Speaker 10 (30:45):
But six touchdowns this year tiger season high and you're
only in week eight. And he's like, uh, yeah, I
got to make the plays because man, I don't know
I'm gonna get the ball again because of how theres
So he's like, man, if you missed your opportunity, good
luck getting the next one, not in a way of
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like your offense is so incompetent that you don't have
a quarterback who can get it to you. But no,
if I don't catch that, that means on the next player,
it'll be Tyler Warren in the end zone or Josh down.
So he's like, I got to make these plays count.
So in a way, I think the volume that Pittman
is used to as the the facto number one receiver
for the Colts might not be what he wants. But
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at the same time, it's hard to argue with the
production when you do get the ball and he's made
the players count. And so I didn't get a chance
to ask him. By the slide there, it was kind
of like he was giving mercy to the Titans.
Speaker 8 (31:42):
I got enough yards. I'll just give one up here.
Speaker 10 (31:44):
And also keep in mind though one headed catch he
had in the end zone came after he kind of
made a crazy catch before that that was self inflicted.
Speaker 8 (31:52):
He dropped the.
Speaker 10 (31:52):
Ball over the middle, or it was gonna be a
drop pops in the air, balls just luckily in his
area and he goes and grabs it. Yeah, And so
like to his point, if you don't make the play.
Speaker 8 (32:05):
You're not getting the ball again, you know, as quickly
as perhaps you want, because there's so many more options.
Speaker 6 (32:10):
Yeah, it's it's a lot of fun to watch, and
the rest of the country is starting to take notice.
We've had a few people on the text line this morning,
Kevin that want to know when do they start flexing
colts games? When do they start flexing to have Colts
games on prime time?
Speaker 5 (32:23):
Okay, so we know the next two will not be obviously,
Sunday will be one o'clock, it's already been decided. Next week,
it's a week from Sunday, they'll be in Berlin, So
you're in the nine thirty slot there. Then you go
on the bye week. My question with Kansas City, you're
at Kansas City out of the bye Have the Chiefs
already been slotted into their primetime games? Aren't you only
allowed to have five? Is not an NFL rule, believe,
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so I would assume Kansas City was preseason, was already
slotted into the five. That is a one o'clocker. So
I'd have to look a little bit closer at the schedule.
You know, at Jacksonville, if they can get their act
together after the buye. I mean that might be one
Seattle a little bit later in the season. Granted that's
already in the four o'clock window, so yeah, I mean
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you could certainly be having some primetime games. Where do
you guys stand on the MVP Award? Do you believe
it is the acronym most valuable player or do you
believe it is the best player? Because I think those
are two different things.
Speaker 6 (33:25):
I think in this case for the Colts, it's both.
Speaker 5 (33:30):
No, no, no, no no. The NFL award you are handing
out the NFL award, is it the acronym.
Speaker 8 (33:34):
Big a side?
Speaker 5 (33:35):
Is it the most valuable player?
Speaker 6 (33:37):
It is most valuable?
Speaker 5 (33:38):
Because if it's most valuable, then I understand why quarterbacks
win it seemingly every year. If the Colts are playing
next week, would they have a better chance to win
a game with Amir Abula starting a running back or
Riley Leonard is starting a quarterback?
Speaker 8 (33:54):
Amir?
Speaker 5 (33:56):
Right, No, I understand that's where the acronym comes into play.
But I don't like that because then it's a quarterback award.
Speaker 6 (34:04):
Yeah, they should change it to most outstanding.
Speaker 5 (34:06):
Right, Like to me, I am best player, and I
think if you make it the best player, then Jonathan
Taylor deserves to be right up there with anybody else
in the league as the best player in the NFL
this season. The problem is that's just not how these vote,
these awards vote. James you mentioned in your story yesterday,
Adrian Peterson the last one, I mean, like twelve, Are
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you telling me Derek Henry didn't deserve to win it
between now and then? Or Sakwon Barkley. I mean, some
of these guys have had incredible years, so that to me,
I think it's difficult the MVP debate.
Speaker 8 (34:38):
Here's my other question.
Speaker 10 (34:40):
Then, would it then be just the default to an
offensive player award anyway, because you can't win it if
you're a defensive guy, you're the best player in the league.
Speaker 8 (34:47):
You just called Miles Garat best player in the league.
Speaker 10 (34:48):
Now, granted his team is terrible, but if you're a
great defensive player on a great team, you're not winning MVP.
But I still would in the realistic terms, I would
still leaning towards best probably best offensive players is the MVP.
To me, that that's how I would lean. And I
also think that the sport will be better off if
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you do have a bit more variety when it comes
to the MVP.
Speaker 5 (35:13):
I would agree, and that's why I was so happy
last year the Heisman went to Travis Hunter. I was like,
thank you, he is the best player in college football.
Too often, and look at the Heisman odds right now.
Too often it's just are you a quarterback that can
walk and chew gum on a top ten team? Yeah,
that's pretty much what the odds. I'm like, has anyone
watched Jeremiah Love play football for Notre Dame? Has anyone
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watched Elijah Surat for Indiana?
Speaker 3 (35:37):
Like?
Speaker 5 (35:37):
These are studs And so that I think is a
debate that I would have when it comes to the MVP,
best player, et cetera, et cetera. Yeah, if you want
to go strictly off the acronym, it's hard not to
go quarterback. And probably right now, I don't know where
the I don't know what the odds have, but I
would say Drake May would probably be very high on
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that list, if not all the way up there. But
if you want to go best overall player number twenty
eight for.
Speaker 9 (36:04):
The Colts, Drake May has the third best MVP odds
at the moment.
Speaker 5 (36:08):
Who's one and two.
Speaker 9 (36:09):
I'll give you a guess, Joan, have they really had
that that?
Speaker 5 (36:14):
I haven't been paying that much Atten, I mean, have
they had like great years? Or is this just they
were on the magazine at the start of the season,
so they're still in the magazine. I think it's a
bit of you know, been there, done that, because Drake May,
by all accounts, has had an unbelievable season, right, yeah, I.
Speaker 6 (36:27):
Got New England going from.
Speaker 10 (36:28):
A ball and they're three, but he's got fourteen touchdowns,
two interceptions, Like yeah, MVP.
Speaker 9 (36:39):
Right now are Mahomes, Allen, Drake May, Matt Stafford and
Daniel Jones.
Speaker 5 (36:43):
See My thing is just like again, how do you
not get another non quarterback up there?
Speaker 3 (36:50):
Like?
Speaker 5 (36:50):
How is Taylor not up there? But this comes back
to the criteria. It goes back to what do we
have in the NFL comeback player the.
Speaker 9 (36:59):
Here Jonathan Taylor is the first non quarterback on there
and he's the ninth best odds.
Speaker 5 (37:04):
Yeah, which is stupid, idiotic. And this goes back to
our debate we had, Jeff, I think you might have
been out. Maybe James is out, But I wanted to
make the amendment to the NFL for a season inding awards.
We should have to talk about this comeback player of
the year all injury based.
Speaker 6 (37:22):
Yes, not because you were gone somewhere.
Speaker 5 (37:24):
You should have the most improved player, like the NBA does. Yes,
the NBA does the most and most improved can be whatever.
Daniel Jones.
Speaker 8 (37:32):
Well, here's my thing with that.
Speaker 10 (37:34):
Most improved typically means you're like a player who was
kind of a nobody before and you became something. Daniel
Jones should not win Most Improved when he was a
starting quarterback and led a teams in the playoffs before.
Speaker 8 (37:49):
He can't win Most improved Player.
Speaker 5 (37:50):
It's a roller coaster ride NFL life. When you're a giant,
you can always.
Speaker 10 (37:55):
Win Most improved. Could still win it fair enough. But
that's my only puts back to that is like, ah,
did we just give it? You had three bad years?
Oh he was good again for a year, Like I don't.
Speaker 6 (38:04):
Know, yeah again.
Speaker 5 (38:06):
If we're going to go off of strictly the acronym
of most valuable Player, then the hypothetical I threw out
there of you're playing the Steelers on Sunday with a
Mirabdullah or Riley Leonard, you're picking a Mirabdullah ten times
out of ten.
Speaker 8 (38:21):
That's just the reality of how a quarterback worth a
thousand percent.
Speaker 6 (38:24):
And also go back to a conversation I heard Peyton
Manning having one time too when they were talking about
those great Colts teams in the offense, and he goes, Honestly,
the thing that made our offense work was the running
game and edge. Everything else came off of that. And
I just always thought that that was an interesting perspective
when you had the great receivers that they had and
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you had the multiple time MVP. That quarterback is.
Speaker 5 (38:49):
Good, but I think I'd be taking Dominique Roads starting
for me over Mark Rippin or whoever the back.
Speaker 6 (38:55):
But his point was having that explosive running back and
the ability to make the running game go is what
said in his mindset everything else up in retan.
Speaker 10 (39:04):
Yeah, Peyton Manning was a five time league MVP, RIGHTO.
Speaker 8 (39:09):
He said, yeah, he's.
Speaker 9 (39:10):
That's called being a great leader. I can say you're
a liar quick sidebar. By the way, So we were
talking about Colts Chiefs potentially getting flex. I mean, it's
not impossible they would have to flex another Chiefs game
out of primetime though, but you're supposed to supposed to
have six maximum primetime games six, the Chiefs have seven,
and they have actually eight standalone games because they play
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the Cowboys on Thanksgiving, so make that makes sense. But yeah,
they play Maybe Thanksgiving doesn't count. I don't think it
does as far as primetime, but it's as far as
stand alone, but it is. That's eight then, so they
still seven to go. They seven total primetime games. So
they play the Commanders tonight, then they don't play on
primetime again until Week fourteen against the Texans. Could that
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one get flexed out and replace Colts Chiefs with Chiefs Texans?
I can see that I'm not ready for all is that,
you know what the coast their respect next year? I
like my one pm kickoffs as God attended, and then
week seventeen they play the Broncos on Christmas Day.
Speaker 8 (40:08):
Yeah, I get just thinking about it.
Speaker 5 (40:09):
I like, you'd rather play Kansas City in a little
sleepy twelve o'clock Central time kickoff, right the Arrowhead might
not be as lively.
Speaker 8 (40:17):
Oh they'll be lively for that one.
Speaker 5 (40:19):
Well yeah, but that could sandwich into what you said,
Thanksgivings around their mark and don't have Denver right around
the Colts too.
Speaker 10 (40:25):
Those people have Patrick Mahomes, they will be that for
that game. Kaylor Swift will be in the sweet are
you kids? They got to sit on their hands for
one of these games. By the way, that Week two
went over Denver.
Speaker 8 (40:36):
Oh, it's looking really good right now.
Speaker 5 (40:38):
Can you imagine if that game had flipped the other way?
I know, but if we're a fifth, we'd all be
a little That is a huge one when you're talking
about the standings right now, because remember, and I know
this sounds stunning and I can't believe I'm saying it,
but it's a raality of where the Colts are in
twenty twenty five. For those that haven't been keeping up
to the old playoff format. In today's NFL, there's only
one by no or two buys, just one bye, so
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the one seed gets the buy and the two's playing
on wildcard weekend, and that two seven matchup right now
would probably be what like Herbert or Allen or Mahomes,
I mean, somebody pretty good on the road the wildcard
round there. So that went over Denver extra extra.
Speaker 9 (41:16):
Big at the very least. I think Colts Chiefs is
getting flexed. The four to twenty five slide, don't you
think at this point? Yeah, I just don't know how
that works. There's no way that's gonna be a one
o'clock start.
Speaker 8 (41:27):
Oh yes it is, yeah, but I know you love
the clocks.
Speaker 6 (41:31):
We're gonna make you in charge of scheduling.
Speaker 8 (41:32):
James, Jim and Tony.
Speaker 5 (41:36):
I want to sleep. Can't that works? Like protect some games?
It's all weird to me how it all unfolds.
Speaker 6 (41:41):
It's like trying to follow the NBA's salary cap rules.
There's this, that the other thing, and then you have
an exception and then you can move this to that.
Speaker 5 (41:49):
Like the Pacers getting a medical hardship. Right now, you
can keep it on CBS. You just flex it to
four to twenty five, which again, we will get no
answer on this for at least multiple weeks.
Speaker 8 (41:57):
So I feel like Mark, you want me to square
up with him at the point now he neglex nothing
but these knuckles. You keep talking about one PM.
Speaker 9 (42:04):
You know what, I've already got Washington machine issues. I'll
take your clothes in my dryer too, if you're not careful.
Just so you know, the top three teams the AFC
right now, the Cults are seventy and one. The Broncos
and Patriots are six and two.
Speaker 5 (42:18):
James, in your days of the NBA beat, did you
ever have a medical hardship situation. I'm trying to think
because I want to make sure these rules.
Speaker 10 (42:28):
I don't think so, because you know what, I covered
the NBA when they were coming around of COVID, so
all the rules were weird. Had a bunch of yeah, hardship,
you know, acquaintances. I'm sorry, accommodations with the word I
want to use. So if I'm reading this right, it
requires four players to miss at least three games. Well,
last night would have been their third game, and those
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players have to be out at least two weeks, So
that would be Halliburton, of course, Cam Jones and TJ McCom.
I'll fall into that boat. And now I guess the
question would be, is Matherin or Nemhard gonna miss two weeks?
Which the third game? I guess for them, though technically
for Nemhard specifically, is it got to be a full game?
Speaker 5 (43:15):
Because now you might wait because I was thinking, like,
are they going to get a point guard? I saw
a report yesterday where Campaign who was in training camp
with the Pacers but they cut him. He was gonna
go overseas, but then I think the report said, now
now the NBA offers are looking better for him, so
he might stay over here. Well, I would assume that
means rejoin the Pacers, but I don't know if you've
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got to get through Wednesday for that to be like
the third full game that Andrew Nemhard misses, and again
Nemhard would then have to miss two weeks. So yeah,
that starting lineup last night for the Pacers was one
that shout out to John Deadman, the Great butler sid
I saw him sweet out that it looked like it
was one of those season ticket members somehow had donated
the most money and got to pick the starting lineup
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for one night.
Speaker 6 (43:57):
Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 10 (43:58):
Yeah, I thought we need Tony East on these air
waves to explain that if it just come to that
for the Pacers, because he's great with that sort of.
Speaker 5 (44:04):
Four players, four players at least three games, but then
those players also have to be out at least two weeks.
So that's the question right now. I think, is Nemhard
or Matherin gonna miss two weeks?
Speaker 10 (44:17):
And we haven't had timeline deliver from Rick Carlisle. He's
just said, hey, they're getting imaging done and as sorry
as Nimhar goes, he just said, he, you know, will
remain out for.
Speaker 8 (44:27):
The foreseeable future.
Speaker 6 (44:28):
I can't I still can't quite figure out what happened
on that play? Was it on that play? Was it earlier?
Speaker 8 (44:34):
What the Nimhar play?
Speaker 10 (44:36):
Yeah, when he got his arm pin by SGA, I
mean I think that's when it happened. But yeah, I
have no idea what the extended the injury.
Speaker 3 (44:41):
I