October 27, 2025 • 8 mins
Colts offensive guard Tanor Bortalini joins us to discuss the win over the Titans, how he’s feeling after a seventh win, blocking for Jonathan Taylor and Daniel Jones, who has the biggest appetite on the offensive line & more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Tanner Bordolini, the offensive lineman for the Indianapolis Colts, on
the Payless Liquers 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 now.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
It has been a lot of fun to be a
part of. But I got to keep them rolling.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Yeah, absolutely, Tanner.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
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 2 (00:45):
I mean, it's pretty awesome.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
I think you see some of the players, our guys
make a weekend, week out.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
It's always extremely impressive.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
You know, watching JT break 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 plays 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 2 (01:07):
You see that? Uh? I think we're just as excited
as the fans are.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
And it's been really a lot of fun to be
a part of. 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 (01:19):
Tanner, Mike, did you see that moment? Was when you
out jumped Shane Steichen on the sidelines. There you got
Shane's got to get his vertical up.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
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.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
But uh no, I think we both get a little
pretty fired up when when our offense.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Is rolling like that.
Speaker 5 (01:45):
It's a starting center for the Colt Tanner BORDERLINI with
us here on the Payless Slickers hot line seven am
on a Monday. What is your Monday routine?
Speaker 2 (01:55):
I had now I'm about to get some treatment.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
You know, he'll up whatever. You know, not feeling great,
but I think everything always feels a little better after
a win. But I'll get healed up, get a lift in,
hit some meetings, watching them, watch the film, break it down,
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
(02:19):
the rest of the day.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Tanner, Why do you think this offense is performing and
executing at such a high level right now? What's been
the key?
Speaker 4 (02:29):
I think it's just everyone doing their job. Feel like,
right now we have eleven guys that know if I
can do my job, we have.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Tremendous talent at all those other positions where.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
Those ten other guys are gonna do some great things
if I give them the opportunity to. And everyone buying
in every week, every game plan. I don't think there's
a single leek where guys are preparing different. You know,
there's routine consistencies than at a premium and I think
guys just really being focused and wanting our offense to
keep excelling the way it.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Is so Tanner obvious see as a center, 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, I don't mess up
at the NFL level.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
I think you know, you just kind of embraced that
this is like my position, my spot now, and.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
I think you just do. You do feel a little
more comfortable just you know, you're you're playing.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
With those guys in practice every day, You're getting all
the reps with them. You're you're gonna be the guy
at that spot. So I think that confidence is there.
It's just it's you're just more comfortable just having stacked
and had all those reps of those guys that are
around you.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
A 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 and the Daniel
Jones Chanstiken relationship on a weekly basis. For our audience
that maybe didn't hear that. What do you see for
those two Monday through Saturday? And I guess I point
(04:02):
out Saturday because I believe you do sit behind those
two on road trips as well, you know, just.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Getting to see the way they talk to each other,
you know, how invested they both aren't winning. How on
the same page about the game.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Plan they are, Like on the plane.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
I'll beat behind those two in the whole flight. 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.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
You know.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
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 important part of why this offense has been
the way it has.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
Who can eat the most in the offensive line room?
Speaker 4 (04:46):
Man, we got a lot of guys that are up there.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
I would say Braiden.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
If you get Braiden on the right day, he can
demolished some food. He has probably had the biggest breakfast
I've ever seen in my life.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
What is that? What is it?
Speaker 5 (05:01):
I assume it's plates plurally, but what does that look like?
Speaker 2 (05:05):
So he don't have seven over.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Easy eggs, seven pancakes and then.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
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 (05:24):
Is that daily or is this game day?
Speaker 2 (05:28):
I mean, honestly, it's daily for breakfast. That's what he
knocks out. He says he's a seven over easy.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Egg guy, which I think is an insane.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Amount of over easy eggs.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
But I love Brandon, but he could put that down
like no.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Other tenor aside from the dieting, I think the seven pancakes,
I'm just like, how are we the same species?
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Right? You know?
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Two eggs over easy? Probably as much as I got,
you know, for for my uh you know, buck fifty frame.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
I'm with you on that. Two or three maybe seven.
That's a man's number.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
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 also won't sugarcoat anything.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
No, he's been huge, and I think that's a great
way to do it.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
I feel like you always know what he's telling you
is true and it's what he actually means.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
And I think it's a great thing for a coach
to have.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
And again, as a player, you want you it's not
always gonna be perfect. You understand that, but if you
take the coaching for what it is, I think you
can grow a lot from it as a player. And
it makes our group a lot better because I think
we all see that the same way, where look, we
know we're.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Not gonna be perfect.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
It might not always be what you want to hear,
but sometimes it's what.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
You need to hear.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
And he does a really great job but you know,
telling you what you need to do better, but loving you.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Up in the you do well, and then just having
us ready for games. He does a phenomenal job.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Does he have an inside voice?
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Sometimes he also has an outside voice. You know you
got a bit.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
But he finds that happy medium of you know, I
don't know how to coach each guy.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
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 2 (07:28):
I mean that eighty yard one was just pretty electric.
There there are so.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
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.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
But that's just the kind of runner he is.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
He gives you something like that weekend week O.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
It's great to have you on this morning. You're welcome anytime. Uh,
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 you appreciate Yeah, man,
thank care.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Have
Tanner Bordolini, the offensive lineman for the Indianapolis Colts, on
the Payless Liquers 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 now.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
It has been a lot of fun to be a
part of. But I got to keep them rolling.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Yeah, absolutely, Tanner.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
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 2 (00:45):
I mean, it's pretty awesome.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
I think you see some of the players, our guys
make a weekend, week out.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
It's always extremely impressive.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
You know, watching JT break 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 plays 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 2 (01:07):
You see that? Uh? I think we're just as excited
as the fans are.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
And it's been really a lot of fun to be
a part of. 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 (01:19):
Tanner, Mike, did you see that moment? Was when you
out jumped Shane Steichen on the sidelines. There you got
Shane's got to get his vertical up.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
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.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
But uh no, I think we both get a little
pretty fired up when when our offense.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Is rolling like that.
Speaker 5 (01:45):
It's a starting center for the Colt Tanner BORDERLINI with
us here on the Payless Slickers hot line seven am
on a Monday. What is your Monday routine?
Speaker 2 (01:55):
I had now I'm about to get some treatment.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
You know, he'll up whatever. You know, not feeling great,
but I think everything always feels a little better after
a win. But I'll get healed up, get a lift in,
hit some meetings, watching them, watch the film, break it down,
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
(02:19):
the rest of the day.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Tanner, Why do you think this offense is performing and
executing at such a high level right now? What's been
the key?
Speaker 4 (02:29):
I think it's just everyone doing their job. Feel like,
right now we have eleven guys that know if I
can do my job, we have.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Tremendous talent at all those other positions where.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
Those ten other guys are gonna do some great things
if I give them the opportunity to. And everyone buying
in every week, every game plan. I don't think there's
a single leek where guys are preparing different. You know,
there's routine consistencies than at a premium and I think
guys just really being focused and wanting our offense to
keep excelling the way it.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Is so Tanner obvious see as a center, 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, I don't mess up
at the NFL level.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
I think you know, you just kind of embraced that
this is like my position, my spot now, and.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
I think you just do. You do feel a little
more comfortable just you know, you're you're playing.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
With those guys in practice every day, You're getting all
the reps with them. You're you're gonna be the guy
at that spot. So I think that confidence is there.
It's just it's you're just more comfortable just having stacked
and had all those reps of those guys that are
around you.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
A 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 and the Daniel
Jones Chanstiken relationship on a weekly basis. For our audience
that maybe didn't hear that. What do you see for
those two Monday through Saturday? And I guess I point
(04:02):
out Saturday because I believe you do sit behind those
two on road trips as well, you know, just.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Getting to see the way they talk to each other,
you know, how invested they both aren't winning. How on
the same page about the game.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Plan they are, Like on the plane.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
I'll beat behind those two in the whole flight. 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.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
You know.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
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 important part of why this offense has been
the way it has.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
Who can eat the most in the offensive line room?
Speaker 4 (04:46):
Man, we got a lot of guys that are up there.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
I would say Braiden.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
If you get Braiden on the right day, he can
demolished some food. He has probably had the biggest breakfast
I've ever seen in my life.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
What is that? What is it?
Speaker 5 (05:01):
I assume it's plates plurally, but what does that look like?
Speaker 2 (05:05):
So he don't have seven over.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Easy eggs, seven pancakes and then.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
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 (05:24):
Is that daily or is this game day?
Speaker 2 (05:28):
I mean, honestly, it's daily for breakfast. That's what he
knocks out. He says he's a seven over easy.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Egg guy, which I think is an insane.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Amount of over easy eggs.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
But I love Brandon, but he could put that down
like no.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Other tenor aside from the dieting, I think the seven pancakes,
I'm just like, how are we the same species?
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Right? You know?
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Two eggs over easy? Probably as much as I got,
you know, for for my uh you know, buck fifty frame.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
I'm with you on that. Two or three maybe seven.
That's a man's number.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
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 also won't sugarcoat anything.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
No, he's been huge, and I think that's a great
way to do it.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
I feel like you always know what he's telling you
is true and it's what he actually means.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
And I think it's a great thing for a coach
to have.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
And again, as a player, you want you it's not
always gonna be perfect. You understand that, but if you
take the coaching for what it is, I think you
can grow a lot from it as a player. And
it makes our group a lot better because I think
we all see that the same way, where look, we
know we're.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Not gonna be perfect.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
It might not always be what you want to hear,
but sometimes it's what.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
You need to hear.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
And he does a really great job but you know,
telling you what you need to do better, but loving you.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Up in the you do well, and then just having
us ready for games. He does a phenomenal job.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Does he have an inside voice?
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Sometimes he also has an outside voice. You know you
got a bit.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
But he finds that happy medium of you know, I
don't know how to coach each guy.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
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 2 (07:28):
I mean that eighty yard one was just pretty electric.
There there are so.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
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.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
But that's just the kind of runner he is.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
He gives you something like that weekend week O.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
It's great to have you on this morning. You're welcome anytime. Uh,
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 you appreciate Yeah, man,
thank care.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
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