Friday 12/19 - More Colts QB storylines + Pacers lose to Knicks - The Fan Morning Show

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The Morning Checkdown on ninety sweet five and one oh
seven five the.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Fame over Jonathan Taylor. There he goes again, fifty forty
down the bar sideline.

Speaker 3 (00:14):
You gonna do it again?

Speaker 4 (00:15):
Turn touchdown.

Speaker 5 (00:19):
Wise, stern Conference championship has been to capture five Indiana.

Speaker 6 (00:25):
Pation tablech pool, which the one hundred nine Indianapolis five hundred.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
He's just a fan morning show with KB, JB and Jeff.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
Honestly, the start there kind of looked like me trying
to walk into the studio here on this Friday morning,
I would say, and I don't want to speak for
all three of us, but boys, that was a little
bit more of a dusting and a little bit more
ice than I perhaps thought, especially sidewalk wise. I almost
bit it coming out of the house, and I certainly

(00:58):
almost went butt ground right outside this building a few
minutes ago.

Speaker 7 (01:02):
I was, actually, it's funny you say that, Kevin, because
I was literally thinking, like, should I text the guys
that I almost fell twice on my way in walking
from the parking lot into this building.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
And I was not saying Mark whatever wouldn't have But
that is the voice of Caleb Zuber, and they're clearly
not thinking about its teammates there, Josh morning for me,
So did you almost bet it? You are certainly much
more of an athlete than I am.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
I was just gonna say I'm an athlete. So I
was out there.

Speaker 8 (01:27):
You know, we're walking into work today, but it certainly
had to walk like a penguin to make sure I
didn't fall over, put the hands out both sides, little
baby steps, and then make sure you know I'm not
using my insurance for broken bones.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
It's a bit deceptive, I guess, is what I would
say to people out there dart like seeing me. I
just I didn't expect that. It's probably the best way
to put it. So I think from a two hour
delay standpoint, we don't really have much here on this
Friday morning so far, but definitely keep an eye out
for a little bit of ice action there roadways. Though
I thought we're fine from a morning commute, we have
a lot to get to here on this Friday. Certainly

(02:01):
the Colts News was abundant yesterday. We'll get to Anthony
Richardson and his first practice in over two months. Played
some audio from Anthony Richardson and Shane Steichen As we
are one step closer to Monday Night football, which obviously
has a ton at stake for the Colts, and with
last night one of the games of the year in
the NFL, there is even more at stake now for
the San Francisco forty nine Ers. The Pacers lose a

(02:23):
heartbreaker inside of gamebridge Field House last night. James, of
course it was Jalen Brunson.

Speaker 8 (02:30):
Yeah, my dad, the Knicks fan, certainly reminded me last night.
But I thought Nimhar played out standon Deifis on that
play too. I mean, how Kyle else can you defend
that besides blocking it?

Speaker 2 (02:40):
Yeah, got Brunting otis right too, got him all.

Speaker 8 (02:43):
Right, takes the three you still can test without fouling
and mix hello a shot and he got the last
laugh there because the play before, you know, the take foul.
I'm sure that Brunton probably didn't appreciate the physicality. But
tough loss for the Pacers, and it seems like that's
a lot of what we've been saying.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
Are there such things as entertaining losses when it happens
against the Knicks?

Speaker 8 (03:07):
Probably not, I don't know, but maybe just because I
mean a couple of days ago, you were getting blown
out by the Wizards, and I guess that didn't really
give you any motion at least. There's a little bit
of hate there with the Knicks. But yeah, I feel
like I'm splitting hairs here, trying to find some silver
line that just isn't there for a struggling Pacers team
that months ago was trying to win it all.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
We'll hit on that obviously. It is a busy weekend
from a college landscape Indiana. We'll find out their opponent
late tonight. That is Oklahoma and Alabama playing from Norman.
The other three college football playoff games will be tomorrow
in Round one. Will have two NFL games coming up tomorrow,
one of them involving Mark Dyton's Bears. I maybe heard

(03:50):
that maybe a Mark from Munster might light up the
phone lines a little bit later today, so Caleb keep
an eye out for that. And of course, college basketball wise,
you'll have the Andy Classic four o'clock and six thirty
tomorrow over at Gamebridge Field House. Again, that is Butler
in Northwestern over on Peacock. If you can't make it,
Perdue in Auburn also over there on the Cock, coming

(04:12):
up at six thirty. How much Thursday night viewing. Did
you get James Boyd? I watched a lot of that game.

Speaker 8 (04:21):
I want to say I've watched the whole thing, but
I definitely remember obviously what happened at the end and
the weird two point conversion that was a backwards pass.

Speaker 2 (04:29):
Okay, can you explain this for people that haven't seen it,
because it's going to take a lot of nice painting
of picture from us year on the audio medium.

Speaker 8 (04:36):
I wish I knew who picked up the loose boble.
Long story short, So the Seahawks score and they're down too,
so they go for two to try to tie the game.
At thirty, Sam Darnold throws a pass basically sideways into
what we call the flats, which basically is a short pass.

Speaker 3 (04:55):
So you're running back.

Speaker 8 (04:56):
Whoever is you know, out to the side of you,
throws the pass, it gets batted down, no one really reacts,
and then a Seahawks player kind of mindlessly picks up
the ball by he's in the end zone.

Speaker 2 (05:06):
I mean, no one reacted.

Speaker 8 (05:07):
And while we all think, okay, two point conversion failed,
they're still down two points and the Rams are getting
ready for the kickoff. The refs go, hey, hey, hey,
wait a second, we got to review that, because, as
it turns out, it was a backwards pass and therefore
a live ball when he got batted down, And so
the Seahawks player who mindlessly picked up the ball actually

(05:30):
saved his team two points on that conversion, So it
was a good two point try. They tie the game
at thirty, and they go on to win an overtime.

Speaker 2 (05:38):
A backwards pass that bounded forward is probably, I guess,
the best way to put it. And then again, seemingly
nobody on either team was had much urgency and getting
on it. Finally one of the Seahawks players does get
on it. They erased a thirty to fourteen deficit with
ninety goer Rashi Yahid As if Colts fans needed a

(05:58):
reminder of what he can do, barked it with a
huge punt return for a touchdown there, and then in overtime,
Pooka Nakua, just hope and pray that you are not
facing Poquinakua in your fantasy playoffs. He had two twenty
five last night and two touchdowns. Hell, pray that you're
not playing Matthew Stafford either. Four point fifty seven and

(06:18):
three touchdowns. Pooka scores to go ahead, Seattle gets the
ball they've drived down Jackson Smith and Jig but had
kind of a quiet night for him. He scores, Seattle
goes for two in the win and they get it.
And so that means that at the San Francisco forty
nine Ers win out their final three games, they are

(06:38):
the one seed in the NFC. So Monday Night Lucas
Old Stadium obviously a ton to play for for the Colts,
but also the forty nine ers have got a chance
now if they win their last three, they will be
the one seed out there in the NFCED.

Speaker 8 (06:53):
I will say, maybe I can tease this for the
next segment. I feel like I might have got myself
into some beef nope with the NFL player.

Speaker 2 (07:00):
Oh so oh okay, see carot to share where the
NFL player resides.

Speaker 3 (07:06):
Or the Pacific Northwest?

Speaker 2 (07:08):
Okay, right, wow, you might have You know, are they
dialing us up at four oh seven am to hear
your beef fersus?

Speaker 8 (07:15):
No? No, actually woke up to the beef go I
got a you know, respond to this. So as I
was walking in here at six fifty nine to fifty nine.
The reason why I was, you know, not as early
as usual, which I'm never really that early, is because
I was fired off at Twitter fingers at six thirty
in the morning.

Speaker 2 (07:30):
Gosh, I can't think of anything more unhealthy than firing
off tweets six thirty.

Speaker 3 (07:34):
To my boy Kevin Rant, he'd agree with me.

Speaker 2 (07:36):
That is James Boyd. Caleb Zuber again thrown in for Mark.
I am Kevin Bowen. We'll have Greg Rakestraw at eight.
We'll have Matt Taylor at nine. Did Andrew Luck get
a call from the Colts? We'll play that audio for you.
At some point today, we'll continue our countdown from ten
to one the best Indiana sports stories of the year.
We'll get to number seven on our list, and again

(07:59):
we'll hit a lot on what happened yesterday over there
at West fifty sixth Street from Anthony Richardson Senior getting
back to practice and Shane Steiken vision limitations on number five.
He was out there practicing. Officially he was listed as limited.
If you want to get a little brief rundown on
the practice report to Forrest Buckner was full, So I
think a good sign in him trying to make his

(08:20):
return to the lineup. There still no Sauce Gardner, still
no Bernard Ryman. So those two guys, I think their
status very much up in the air. Alex Pearce was
limited with achilles that can make you sweat. I did
see Stephen Holder reported. I thought just precautionary for Alec Pearce,
but a couple of injuries certainly to notote there. Josh

(08:40):
Downs Jermaine Pratt both did not practice due to personal reasons.
So anytime you see that, best to their families and
hopefully everything is okay for them to get back in
the lineup. But anything briefly on the Richardson Steiken front
from yesterday, James, I.

Speaker 8 (08:55):
Think the biggest thing when it comes to Richardson's vision
limitation is that no one can definitively say that he'll
get his pre injury vision back. And that's a little
scary now. From watching him in practice yesterday, I could
not tell that he had any vision impairment. He looked
like he normally would, and looked like pretty much any

(09:17):
other quarterback would in a practice setting, you know, and
we don't get to see much of it, but hearing
him and Shane talk about that and not getting a
definitive answer as to when it will get better, how
it will get better. That kind of scares me, and
I wonder if it scares him.

Speaker 3 (09:35):
He was, you know, very kind of nonchalant about it.

Speaker 8 (09:38):
But yeah, man, your vision has changed and you don't
know if you're going to get that full vision back.

Speaker 2 (09:44):
Yeah, you know any time you hear well, first off,
it's a vision injury, which is I think different than
just whatever your ankle sprain or something like that. Yeah,
and when changed second utter the phrase of he's going
to have to manage it. That really struck me. Of damn,
you know again, managing blurry vision. And at some point
I think there is a thought it could get better,

(10:04):
but I don't think from everything I've gathered, I don't
think that's happening before the calendar turns.

Speaker 8 (10:09):
Right, And no one could say definitively that it will
get better. That's the one thing where like, yeah, you know,
you hoped in prey that it could get better, and
certainly I hope we'd look up in a few months
and that is the case. But trying to pin him
or Shane down on real answers when it comes to
that they were few and far between. When it comes
to just the timeline of will this happen?

Speaker 2 (10:30):
A few people have reached out. Sounds like we might
have a app issue or two here on this Friday Morning.
Apologies on that front. We'll try to get things ironed out.
Of course, you can find us a little Terrestrial Radio
Action ninety three five one O seven the Fan on
YouTube one O seven five the Fan over there. And yes,
hopefully our app will get back and operating as smooth

(10:51):
as possible. And we greatly appreciate all the patients because
we've definitely had some struggles here early on in our
new studio. Good Friday morning too. You, like we said
to lead off the show, if you have not yet
been outside, I'd say, hmmm, Fernando Mendoza scrambling deceptively? Is
that how you would call the ice? Is that what

(11:12):
they say? Do They still call Alec Pierce deceptively fast?

Speaker 8 (11:15):
So am I looking outside and see like a white athlete?
Because that's all we ever say. He's got moxie, he's
got spunk.

Speaker 2 (11:21):
Garrison Matthews deceptively has smith to t J McConnell, exactly right.
That is very much on brand Charlie Becker is the
next Alec Pierce. Right, the EU white out there. Uh,
but definitely keep an eye out on that. I think
a little bit more ice, maybe more on your walk
to the car and then to work today than I
first thought in ninety three five one seven five. This

(11:41):
is the Fan Morning.

Speaker 1 (11:42):
Show, the Morning Checkdown on Nutty Sweet five and one
oh seven five.

Speaker 2 (11:49):
Fright, we got a ton to get to here on
this Morning Checkdown. Let's begin with the Colts News item
of the day yesterday, the return to practice for the
first time in about nine weeks. Anthony rich Richardson Senior
was a limited participant at practice. It sounds like though
he will have to manage some eye issues here throughout
at least the rest of the twenty twenty five season.

(12:11):
This was Shane Steiken yesterday on that announced.

Speaker 9 (12:13):
As I mentioned, you know, last week, Anthony returned for
physical you know activity, but he still has some vision
limitations in his eye, and so we're going to get
him back on the practice field, get him thrown doing
some scout team rep So it's just something you know
that you know he's gonna have to manage, you know,
through the process.

Speaker 2 (12:28):
James will get much more into this. On the other side,
anything Richardson related, anything injury report related that you find
very pertinent from yesterday.

Speaker 8 (12:38):
Not necessarily, I think personally, I would like to walk
back my idea of, oh, if he practices this weekend
next week and you just play him. The limitations with
the I, I think are a different conversation when we're
talking about a guy potentially coming back and trying to
help you get into the playoffs.

Speaker 2 (12:54):
On the DNP front from practice, Bernard Reiman, I am
curious what exact starting offensive line could look like on Monday.
I don't think it's just a slam dunk. They'll run
the same five that ended the game out there against Seattle.
If assuming Ryman can't go, he's wearing some sort of
apparatus I guess, for lack of a better term, on
that injured right elbow. Sauce Gardner still yet to return

(13:17):
to practice. So remember he injured that calf on November thirtieth.
I kind of look at Sauce and say, it's either
today or he ain't playing until last Jacksonville next week.

Speaker 8 (13:27):
Yeah, which would makes sense because they didn't put him
on IR and so you're thinking Okay, let's not again
rush this and give him the time he needs, especially
done with the CAF.

Speaker 2 (13:35):
Or the Forest. Buckner was a full participant again Monday
Night Football, Joe buck He will join the show coming
up at nine o'clock on Monday. Colts and forty nine
ers here in week sixteen last night inside a Gamebridge
Field House. For those that are already in the entertaining
lost category, Boy, you got the exact poster child of it.
The Pacers built sixteen point leads on two different occasions.

(13:59):
James's Rick Carlisle post game you mentioned, hey, late game
situations is kind of like scoring in the red zone
in the NFL, and the Colts, or I should say,
the Pacers had to settle for field goal after field
goal after field goal last night into game situations. The
Knicks had Jalen Brunson and the Pacers did not.

Speaker 3 (14:18):
No, I thought Andrew.

Speaker 8 (14:18):
Nimahar had a really good game last night, scored I
think thirty one points, and I thought played really good
defense on Brunton on that last possession where he ended
up hitting the dagger three. But Brunson was last year,
as I believe, clutch player of the Year in the League,
so it's a good reason for it.

Speaker 2 (14:35):
A shout out to Quinton Jackson. They put him in
the starting lineup. I've just always liked the energy level
that he brings. He had a huge corner three there
late that pushed the lead to seven. I thought that
might have been enough, had a couple of big hustle
plays as well, so they put him in. You know
that that spot has changed a lot with Nie Smith
out and then Ben Sheppard out and Ethan Thompson's gotten

(14:56):
a little bit of run there. But yeah, I mean
Siakam and them hart outstanding. You know, Matheren scored it
decently well, but Pacers cannot get it done. Last night,
Jalen brunts and it's a game winning three with four
seconds to go. It looked like Sakam tripped over Nemharden.
Is that what you saw on the final play?

Speaker 8 (15:11):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (15:11):
I think so.

Speaker 8 (15:12):
Just unfortunate, But at the same time, it feels like
it's tough sledding trying to get Rick Carlidle win one thousand.

Speaker 2 (15:19):
They've been on ninety nine for a while now nine
ninety nine for a while, and I do think I'm
the last possession again. Siakam trips. But the fact that
Jay Huff is inbounding it, to me is a trickle
down effect of Halliburton's injury. Like, in my opinion, a
healthy Halliburton, you have Nemhard inbounding that ball. Yeah, without him,
you need Nemhart as a potential option to score there.

(15:42):
Obviously Sacam was the first option. But Nemhard is setting
the screen for Siakam there, and you know, here you
have your backup center trying to throw the ball into ball,
you know not that you know, could he have seen
Siakam trip and you know whatever either I don't know
if that had a time out left, but maybe thrown
at somebody else. So again, Pacers lose off. Tack on
the Pelicans coming up on Saturday. All right, college football

(16:05):
playoff slates. Your favorite game of the weekend is what?

Speaker 8 (16:09):
I think?

Speaker 3 (16:09):
It has to be Alabama Oklahoma, right, Like.

Speaker 8 (16:13):
Just Miami A and m doesn't do it for you,
not really, mainly because I'm adjacent to IU. So it's like,
all right, I want to see whoever they have to
play and how that team performs. So that's the one
that'll get most of my attention. But to be honest
with you, Kevin. I'm sure we're probably in the same
boat here. I'm watching all of them, that's for sure. Yeah,
so it's Alabama Oklahoma tonight. Those will be on our airwaves.

(16:33):
You can hear that again.

Speaker 2 (16:34):
As James said, the winner will go to the Rose
Bowl to take on Indiana. Then tomorrow you will get
A and M, Miami Oldness, Tulane, and then JMU and Oregon.
Those are the four first round playoff games. Remember last
year we had all the home teams win rather convincingly
and then they all went on to win in round two. Here,
So that's your college football slate from a college basketball standpoint.

(16:58):
Over at Gamebridge Fieldhouse. Tomorrow it is the Indie Classic.
At four o'clock it will be Butler in Northwestern. Northwestern
off to an Okay Star at seven to four. They
actually have some Indiana flavor, A Tray Singleton and kJ
Windham playing for them off of the bench. Important for
Butler to handle business and get a neutral court win.

(17:18):
And then Purdue. They've got Auburn, certainly a different Auburn
team from last year. Auburn ran them out of the
building down there. I think it was in Birmingham last year.
So Purdue will try to close out their notable non
conference with another ranked win, another win away from home
in Indiana. Back in action, they've got Chicago State. And
if I could shout out to two of my former students,

(17:39):
they'll be on the call of this game tomorrow, Big
ten plus Ben Holler, the Big Old Reds fan Ben
and Zach Brownie New Hails from Carmel, Indiana. They're on
the call tomorrow one o'clock Chicago State down there in Bloomington.
Anything else on your front for you?

Speaker 3 (17:58):
Not really. I feel like, again when.

Speaker 2 (18:00):
We're talking night football, was pretty epic for those that
did not watch it.

Speaker 8 (18:04):
Yeah, I mean it was. That was the game of
the year. Maybe in prison of the moment, I have
to think of others. I don't get a chance to
watch all of the games because of the jobs that
we have, Kevin, but boy, I enjoyed not be having
to write that one. I'll tell you that I call
my dad afterwards because we always pick opposite teams. He
picked the Rams to win that when I picked the
Seahawks just to pick against him, and so I called him.

(18:24):
I said, dude, these are the hardest games to cover
as a reporter especially trying to write like live because
you don't know how it's going to end. And you know,
if the Rams win that game, they get that last stop.

Speaker 3 (18:36):
Hell of a win.

Speaker 2 (18:36):
You lose, oh boy, you know, hell of a loss?

Speaker 3 (18:39):
And what does it mean?

Speaker 8 (18:39):
So it's crazy that they're going to have most likely
an eleven win team in that division, be a wildcard,
have to go on the road to play.

Speaker 2 (18:46):
Yeah, I mean you're looking at like whatever the Rams
at the Panthers in Round one, which I think the
Rams actually lost to the Panthers a few weeks back.
So thirty eight thirty seven in overtime last night, as
James said, the Seahawks go for two, they get it.
The Rams blow US sixteen point lead in the fourth quarter.
Rashicha Heat had a huge part return for a touchdown
and the Seahawks overcame. A four hundred and fifty seven

(19:08):
yard night for Matthew Stafford. Did he just lock up
the MVP?

Speaker 3 (19:12):
I think so.

Speaker 8 (19:14):
Now there's a conversation to be had about Josh Allen,
at least not in my book, but from others who
are saying, if he finishes strong and they win their division,
is he the back to back MVP, but boy, Matthew
Stafford played a pretty much flawless game.

Speaker 3 (19:28):
He'd lose that game. It was their defense.

Speaker 2 (19:30):
Puku Nakua, who has certainly been in the headlines this week.
Two hundred and twenty five yards and we still need
to get to James Boyd's Twitter beef with did have
this correct? A player that played in the game last night?

Speaker 3 (19:42):
No, but played for one of those franchises.

Speaker 2 (19:44):
Oh, interesting, hot and juicy. Here on this, We're gonna
get Richard Sherman on the show. What's going on here? Hey?

Speaker 8 (19:51):
Ding ding ding? Sure, Caleb Sherman went nuts. I promise
you haven't looked at your Twitter, Jane, No, you're fine.
I got some beef with Sheran.

Speaker 2 (19:59):
Ooh okay, that's it's quite the notable name there, the
little beef with. So we'll get to that. Anthony Richardson
details his injury and we'll get much more into that.
A lot of questions in relation to the vision limitations.
We'll explain everything we know. We'll do that coming up
on the other side, Kevin Bowe and James Wood, Caleb Zuber.
On a Friday, you.

Speaker 1 (20:21):
Were listening to a fan morning show on Sports Radio
ninety three to five and one oh seven five the fan.

Speaker 10 (20:27):
I was warming up and my routine ain't go the
right way, uh something in fact in my face. It
broke my well, broke my face and messed up my
eye a little bit. By my good you had.

Speaker 8 (20:36):
The band attached something and where that was attached broke
and came back to hit you. Yeah, when it first
came out, we were like, it was just a band.

Speaker 10 (20:42):
Yeah, And I wasn't just a band. I don't think
a band could fracture somebody face.

Speaker 2 (20:45):
But Anthony Richardson's senior yesterday and the Colts locker room
a lot to get to on the vision limitations. They're
officially listed as limited in his return to practice. We'll
hit on that here a lot. If you haven't been
outside here on this Friday morning, it is a much chillier,

(21:06):
and we're going with deceptively icy like the quarterback that
you don't think in scramble does scramble. That's how I
would describe a little bit of ice here on. I
don't think it impacted any of our morning commutes necessarily,
but just getting out of the car, be careful. The
penguin waddle is how James Boyd described his walk into

(21:26):
the building there.

Speaker 8 (21:27):
Yes, I had to make sure first of all, just
to yank the door when my car was frozen.

Speaker 2 (21:32):
Yeah, block ice out there. I was a team scraper
here on this Friday morning. So it doesn't look like
it's impacting two hour delays or closings too too much.
I know there are a few around the area, so
maybe take a check on that if you haven't yet
here on this Friday morning. But that is what it
looks like from an outdoors standpoint vision limitations. That is

(21:55):
what changed stiching through out there. You hear Anthony Richardson
describe the injury, it's wherever you want to go. James,
what were your thoughts yesterday on how you have heard
the description for Anthony Richardson's return to practice.

Speaker 8 (22:09):
I think that changed the math a little bit for
me because going into it, I'm thinking, Okay, if you
get cleared, that means your eye and everything related to
the fracture, all of it together is fine. Now from
what we understand, the fracture itself is healed and he's
been cleared, and ar told us that he can get

(22:30):
hit in the face and his face will be fine,
that's what he was told by the doctors. Now, I
wouldn't recommend it, but with the eye I think for me,
I'm looking at this like, oh, okay, that's a little
bit more of a conditioning question that I didn't anticipate,
you know, when we were having a debate of Okay,

(22:50):
if Phil Rivers doesn't look that good against the forty
nine ers, if you can't throw the ball on the field,
and Anthony at that point is practice for two weeks
going into the game against the Jaguars, then do you
play him? Do you have that conversation at least to
think about playing him right now for someone who has
limited vision. Now, I don't know to what degree only

(23:11):
Anthony can see through his eyes obviously, but if that
is a conversation, then I think you have to really consider. Okay,
am I putting the best guy out there for my team.
And to be honest, Kevin, it sounded like he and
Shane together in Unison, we're both being very, very cautious
about his progress and what his next couple of days

(23:35):
and weeks might look like.

Speaker 2 (23:36):
Yeah, Shane did say, for what it's worth, he will
definitely not be a part of the game on Monday.
There's no chance for Monday he will not be activated
right option, So that leaves two games left in the
regular season for him to potentially dress, potentially play, potentially
be the backup. Have everyone to define it again, everything
I've gathered is this, James. There is scarring on the

(23:59):
eye that has caused some blurred vision, some impaired vision.
It could heal, but that healing might not take place
until twenty twenty six, and it might not necessarily heal
on its own. That is an unknown in this process.
I think Shane Steichen indirectly said something to that effect

(24:19):
yesterday when he uttered the phrase He's going to have
to manage it. You know, you hear that sometimes with injuries.
Hearing it with an impaired vision injury to me is
a different animal.

Speaker 3 (24:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (24:33):
Now, if you want to get technical with Anthony as
the right handed quarterback, this is the right eye. I've
certainly I've noticed two things just visibly with him. The
scar is quite evident from the orbital fracture.

Speaker 1 (24:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (24:43):
He said he had to get about six to eight
inches of sticks just to close the cut.

Speaker 2 (24:48):
Initially, and then they had to open that back up
for the surgery. And you if you look at both
eyes and you say, do you see a difference, you
definitely do. Like to me, the right eye is a
little bit more shut for lack of a better, yeah,
for sure anatomy term than the left eye.

Speaker 8 (25:05):
Now I'd argue it's probably a little more pink too,
just looking at it.

Speaker 2 (25:08):
Yeah, Now that is technically that would not be the
peripheral vision in his blindside eye, which I think is
maybe worth bringing up just you know, from a quarterbacking standpoint,
you know, how he would approach being a right handed
quarterback in the pocket, the left eye would be a
little bit more of a hey, what's going on from
a behind me standpoint? So is that a little beneficial

(25:29):
to him potentially on that? But again I think there
was just some unknown and clearly Anthony said it yesterday
he thought based off of the doctors told him at
some point he might not be clear to this season, right,
So this was not even a guarantee getting back to
practice here with three weeks to go in the regular season.
So now I think the biggest question becomes this, what

(25:52):
does he look like with the And again you can
insert you know whatever, all your accuracy jokes here but James,
you are not a contact whear correct?

Speaker 3 (26:02):
I am actually, oh I'm in this morning.

Speaker 2 (26:04):
Okay. So when you hoop, are you wearing them?

Speaker 11 (26:06):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (26:07):
I usually wear my glasses into the show just because
I know it'll be like very long days and my
eyes will get dry if I wear them from I
don't know, six am to midnight.

Speaker 2 (26:16):
So when you hoop, you do wear them.

Speaker 11 (26:18):
Yep.

Speaker 8 (26:18):
So so when JMB is getting those buckets, put on
them exactly right. I got the contact with the hand
is in his face. You hold the fall through a
little bit longer when I'm hacking him on defense, you know,
I kind.

Speaker 2 (26:29):
Of look, could you play basketball without contacts?

Speaker 3 (26:31):
I could not?

Speaker 8 (26:32):
Yeah, No, I have pretty near sighted vision, so I
could get out there and move around and play, but
certainly not as effectively.

Speaker 2 (26:39):
And that's I guess my question for Anthony? Could he throw?
I mean, we watched him throw footballs yesterday. You know
he threw it fine, he threw it great. You know,
he threw it the same old Anthony. The velocity was there,
all of that, you know, everything that you see like,
you know, the motion looks fine. But again it's okay,
are you at a whatever a sixty percent level versus
if you were able to throw in the contact, if

(27:01):
you did have a visor that could aid him, which
he said, there's none of that right now with him.
This is the same normal visor. You can't just throw
a contact in the eye. Would that provide clear vision?
And you know when you hear impaired vision. Yeah, you
certainly are gonna have questions, I think for anybody, and
maybe I need to do more research. Find me quarterbacks

(27:23):
that have dealt with this sort of injury, not just
the orbital fracture. Again, I think there are two separate
injuries here. The orbital fracture is a bone that is healed.
It caused so much trauma in the locker room. Pregame
that there were moments in that locker room where they
thought his vision could be gone. So much trauma there
that it impacted his vision right away. After the swellowing

(27:47):
has gone down, the vision has improved, but it still
is not at the level of whatever he was measuring
at pre injury.

Speaker 3 (27:54):
Yeah, and that is the scary part, I know.

Speaker 8 (27:56):
Alex Levern in our YouTube chat brought up the fact
that Reggie millertually back in the day, had an orbital
fracture and missed the end of the regular season. I
want to say, this might have been ninety six that
this happened. I remember very well as a one year old,
but yeah, that with aobts of years ago, and it
took a while for Reggie's vision to fully come back.

(28:18):
So maybe that is the same thing that ar will
go through. But for Anthony's sake, Yeah, there's so many
questions about this because from what I understand, he is
a contact whearer. And I didn't ask him this yesterday.
I didn't think of this in the moment, but part
of me wanted to be, like, so, can you wear contacts?
Because those of us who do, I mean, they have

(28:39):
all these rules when you put anything in your eye,
ask to not irritate your eye or upset your eye
when it comes to you know the cleanliness of the
contact and how long you wear them, don't sleep in them,
stuff like that. But if your eye as scarred or something,
then can you wear a contact? Is that okay? Is
that fine for you? And I know for myself even

(28:59):
if you have like a little bit of an eyelash
or anything in that it bothers your eyes so much.
And I would imagine that gets heightened if you are
dealing with and I that's already not one hundred percent.
So I feel for them in that regard. And like
Shane said, it's something you don't have to manage. And
I just wonder if we look up come what is

(29:19):
it spring training camp or mini camp or whatever, a
veteran mini camp? Are we still asking you can you
see fully? Or by then are you saying something different?

Speaker 6 (29:28):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (29:28):
And again I think that's a little bit of the unknown.
Is there is a hope and a thought of this
will heal further heel in twenty twenty six. I think
there also is a thought of he might need another
surgery to potentially correct this. And again, these are all
questions that I don't think will get clarity on the
next three weeks, you know, just living in the twenty

(29:49):
twenty five bubble. One thought that is there again not
for Monday night. Chain second has ruled him out for
Monday night. But could you involve him at all as
early as the Jacksonville game in some short yardage packages?

Speaker 3 (30:02):
Well, that's a hypothetical, Kevin, I can't answer.

Speaker 2 (30:04):
I did play the hypothetical card yesterday a couple times.
He usually doesn't go there. Yeah, some coaches love to
go there. Oh, that's a hypothetical. I'm not I'm not
answering that Shane went there a couple of times. But
I believe with a question that Greg Doyle had and
I had, do I want to be grouped in with
Greg Doyle?

Speaker 8 (30:19):
Probably not on some days, I would say, I would say.

Speaker 7 (30:24):
In fairness to Greg, the question got beef this morning
with people what's going on out here?

Speaker 8 (30:29):
No, I think it's beef.

Speaker 3 (30:30):
I think the question actually was a legit question.

Speaker 8 (30:32):
He asked Shane if his vision doesn't come back fully,
can he play quarterback in the NFL? I mean, yeah,
it's a hypothetical question, but it is a question that
everyone has well.

Speaker 2 (30:41):
And I don't think anybody behind the scenes can answer
that right. That was not just Shane being coy like no,
you know, but also don't fault the question. I mean,
you know, no one wants to know, dude, can you
play quarterback in the NFL? You can't see fully? And
I think there are two things that can be true,
because you know, if you listened to Shane Steichen's audio
yesterday and you listen to Anthony Richardson's audio, Anthony probably
downplayed it more than Shane. I think, first off, some

(31:05):
of that is just football player downplaying injury. We hear
this almost endless every athlete, right and so you know
people have asked, hey, whatever, Shane is making more of this,
or you know clearly Anthony disagrees with the organization, or
Shane is just done with Anthony Richardson. I have kind

(31:27):
of isolated into two areas. One there are legit questions
about the vision, limitations about Anthony Richardson right now. That's
in one bucket. The other bucket is Shane Steichen and
the Colts skeptical about Anthony Richardson playing quarterback for their franchise.
I think that is also a true statement, Like I
don't think necessarily you know, one is not true and

(31:51):
one is true. I think both can be true. Clearly,
who do they choose coming out of training camp Daniel Jones?
So you know, to me, it's not I don't view
this as Shane is done with Anthony, and that's where
all of his answers lie. I mean, yeah, he might
have a lot of skepticism about putting Anthony out there,

(32:13):
but I also think there are legit questions about the
vision impairment with Anthony Richardson. That's also at play.

Speaker 8 (32:20):
Here, absolutely, and that is what I couldn't factor in
before having this conversation a couple of days ago, because
this is a new element that none of us can
really quantify, and there's no specific timeline. Even asking Anthony
flat out do you think you're gonna play again this
year and he tells us, well, I'm taking a day
by day. I'm just grateful to be back out here.

(32:41):
That's not an answer I think that he would normally
give for someone who has had injury history in the past,
so very unfortunate, but also very fortunate to still have
an eye to be able to go out there and
practice in an incapacity. You could tell he was kind
of giddy a couple moments to practice yesterday. He was
very excited, and it felt like things were really normal
for someone who has had the most unnormal year. It

(33:03):
seems like. And the one question I regret not asking him, Kevin,
and maybe I'll get to that at some point today
or next week or whenever. This part of him feel
like he missed an opportunity because of one of the
more bizarre injuries you'll ever see because by all accounts,
prior to the facial fracture, he was the Colt's backup.

(33:28):
And I can tell you all this isn't speculation at
all talking to people behind the scenes, whether it's team
related or you know, player related, whatever, everyone knew he
was the backup.

Speaker 3 (33:42):
There was no debate about that.

Speaker 8 (33:43):
And if Daniel Jones was going to go down, he
was going to get that opportunity. So for those who
keep saying, oh, I think they would have probably still
called Rivers, know they would not have. Let me just
tell you that one hundred percent this morning and clear
all that up. They would not have called a forty
four year old quarter back out of retirement if Anthony
had all along been the backup quarterback all the way

(34:06):
up until week fourteen when Daniel goes down. Now, that
conversation is different now because you're questioning the vision and
Rivers is already here and you know he looked okay
last again. Oh that is a factor now, But previously, no,
the conversation would have been how do we get Anthony
back up to speed? And what I was told was

(34:26):
it was kind of set up for him to be
the superhero to kind of come come up and come
in and save the day, and this unfortunate injury happened
and messed him up.

Speaker 2 (34:34):
Yeah again, I will reiterate what I've said now for
the last few weeks. I have a large amount of
skepticism about Anthony Richardson plane again here in twenty twenty
five for the Colts. After hearing everything yesterday, I am
curious though of even if you have whatever, hey, you know,
watch him in practice. I don't know some of those
downfield throws. It just looks like some of that vision

(34:55):
is impacting him. Could you still involve him in some
third and one and fourth and one situations? Because which
is Philip Rivers has brought this overall level of juice
to the football team. I do think there is a
real thing when you get into those situations and you
throw a quarterback out there in Richardson and you convert
some of those I think that also in Jex's life
into your football team and can be a nice kind

(35:16):
of like wrinkle change of pace. Again, we can't be
there Monday from you know what changed second said yesterday,
but could that be an option for a week from
Sunday when Jacksonville inside of Lucas Soil Stadium. So much
more on this, Greig greg So I'm going to join
us here coming up at eight, Matt Taylor at nine.
Did the Colts call Andrew Luck? We'll get to that

(35:37):
audio here in a second. What are you doing on Twitter?

Speaker 8 (35:42):
So let me just preference this about saying, in all seriousness,
this is probably a topic that isn't funny or a
joking matter. But at the same time, you know, I'll
stand up for myself and what I think is right.
So watching that game last night, crazy, it ends in
epic fashion. Seahawks those looking sorry Ramseyahawks. And that was

(36:05):
basically for the division title. It felt like out there
in the Pacific Northwest where I was just.

Speaker 3 (36:11):
Where I was just that earlier this week.

Speaker 8 (36:12):
But afterward, Sean McVay was asked a ton of questions
about Pooka Nakua.

Speaker 3 (36:20):
Not the two hundred and.

Speaker 8 (36:22):
Twelve yard performance or two and twenty five yard performance,
twelve catches and two touchdowns, but the Pooka Nakua away
from the field that continues to draw headlines for all
of the dumbest reasons. To put it, frankly, one of
them being calling out the reps, which that happens with
athletes in every league. And then the other one being
that he was he was streaming with a guy named

(36:44):
Aidan Ross, who is an interesting character to say the least,
and he wanted Pooka to do a celebration that has
some anti Semitic tropes in it. So after the game,
that is a massive story. First of all, Pooka put
out a statement, The NFL put out a statement saying, hey,

(37:06):
we denounced all. Hey, this is not where we want
to represent or our brand any of that. So after
the game, Sean gets asked about that. He gets asked
about Pooka going at the refs again and deleting the
tweet right after the game, I mean, within five minutes
after that game ended he tweeted.

Speaker 2 (37:19):
About the refs.

Speaker 8 (37:21):
So he's made all of these things about himself, not
his performance, but perhaps some selfish, egotistical things. So Shawn
gets to ask these questions, and afterwards, Richard Sherman says, why
are we asking this? This shouldn't be happening. This is
not you know, late it to the football. You can
wait till next week you do that. No, I disagreed.
I tweeted out, I said, man, Richard Sherman is out

(37:42):
of his mind thinking that this line of questioning is
out of line.

Speaker 3 (37:47):
No, it is not. This is a professional football league.
When your team or your.

Speaker 8 (37:51):
League puts out a statement saying, hey, we don't hate
this group of people because it's something you did, that
is a topic that you have to address in the media. Now,
I'm not saying every question after the game should be
about that, but if it's asked about repeatedly, that is
pooking the Coula's fault.

Speaker 2 (38:05):
So I tweeted that out and I'm fine with it.

Speaker 8 (38:09):
I didn't tag him, but I guess Richard Sherman must
have searched his name, no boy, because yeah, he tweeted, uh,
you know me afterwards and he said it's it's first
of all, he's my full test said, I think people
for I said, man, Richard Shermer's out of his mind
thinking those questions were out of line, pooking the Koua
jumped on a live stream and was about to do
a TD celebration with anti Semitic tropes.

Speaker 3 (38:32):
So sorry, that is the story.

Speaker 8 (38:33):
First, you can't just ignore that like it's doing behavior
and he responded and said, it's not ignored, but it's
at a football game. Ask football questions. You have all
we to ask about that, And I tweeted at six
twenty four am because I was sleep by the time
he responded. We can disagree. I think when the football
league you work for puts out a statement condemning anti
Semitic and other hate because of you or something you

(38:55):
did as a football player, then it is a football
question to ask about it, and it's to be done
done immediately. That's my stance on it. Now we can,
you know, move on other things. But I do think
that is something where you can't just ignore that or
dismiss that, because if any player on the Cults did that,
we'd be asking the same thing well.

Speaker 2 (39:12):
And also I would have to go back and double check,
you know, timelines and everything. But the Pookah live stream
this occurred, I believe after Sean McVay had spoken for
the final time pre Seattle game. Right, so usually on
a Thursday week how it works is, you know, it's
very condensed. The Cults haven't played on Thursday night football
in a little while here. But I would assume Sean

(39:33):
McVay spoke Monday after their game, and then would have
spoken Tuesday, and then usually there's no media availability on Wednesday,
the day before the game. Of course, once the game's played.
Sean McVay then spoke after the game, so it correct
if I'm wrong. But like when Richard Sherman says, here,
you have all week to ask about that. Didn't the
Pooka livestream occur after Sean McVay last spoke, Like last

(39:55):
night was the first time Sean McVay had been available
since said livestream, right, yeah, So, and in a ten
minute press conference, I think you could probably do both things.
You can probably ask football related questions, and you also
can ask questions that have led to Hookah releasing a
statement to your point and the National Football League.

Speaker 8 (40:16):
Also, if your employer has to play out a statement
because of something you did, we are going to ask
about it.

Speaker 3 (40:21):
Yeah, that's the end of story. So I'm looking forward to.

Speaker 2 (40:24):
Damy's boyd versus Richard Sherman. Baby, are you on the island?

Speaker 3 (40:28):
I'm on the island.

Speaker 2 (40:28):
I might get cooked, but hey, I'm out here, bab
I remember with toe you why I Helpton cooked Richard
Sherman in a twenty thirteen game, all time great player.
I will say that, but inside of Lukasolo Stadium. Yeah,
speaking of Stanford education, we'll get to that. Andrew luck
Audio here coming up a little bit. Do you think
we'll ever get to a point where we fill out
college football playoff brackets?

Speaker 7 (40:47):
I was telling myself I needed to do needed to
do it today, Kevin, I got I gotta fill it.

Speaker 8 (40:53):
Out twelve teams?

Speaker 2 (40:55):
Is it a thing?

Speaker 11 (40:56):
Like?

Speaker 2 (40:56):
Is it going to be a thing? I think it
should be?

Speaker 8 (40:59):
Will join something for a perfect bracket?

Speaker 2 (41:00):
Will we ever get to like the office pool college
football bracket?

Speaker 7 (41:04):
Well, that's the thing is you have a better chance
at a perfect bracket in this thing. I feel like
that would entice people more to do it. No, man,
But then they don't want to give you the money.
That's the whole point.

Speaker 8 (41:15):
The whole point of it is, we're going to get
you to sign up for our thing and s give
you a bunch of ads so you never win this.
We don't want to actually give you the money.

Speaker 2 (41:21):
Should we do an internal college football bracket pool here?
I think we should, Caleb, I'd ask you if the printers
are working, But I'm gonna guess not hold my breath
and say.

Speaker 3 (41:30):
Brother, be glad that the elevators working and the lights.

Speaker 2 (41:33):
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Speaker 11 (42:03):
Next.

Speaker 1 (42:06):
You were listening to the Fan Morning Show on Sports
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Speaker 2 (42:16):
And a good Friday morning to everybody out there. Thank
you for closing out the week with us. This is
the Fan Morning Show. Kevin Bowen, James Boyd, Caleb Zuber,
a dancing James Boyd in studio. If you try and
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a little ice on the sidewalk. That's my goal every time.

Speaker 7 (42:40):
By the way, Kevin, like, what song can I play
to get James up and moving around?

Speaker 2 (42:44):
I say, James average is a get out of seat dance.
I'd say what over under two and a half times
a week?

Speaker 8 (42:49):
Yeah, yeah, you know, can't, can't, can't use this like
It's like Michael Breen. You know, I can't say the
double bang all the time when you make a three pointer,
but every now and then you gotta get moving into.

Speaker 2 (42:59):
An ego double bang for Brunson last night he did, and.

Speaker 3 (43:01):
I think Brunston actually criticized him for it because he
said that didn't have a good enough game for him
to do that.

Speaker 2 (43:05):
Oh my gosh, so Brunson. Let's shout with one of
our favorites head of the Payloss Liquers hotline right now
from ISC. He is Greg Rekestraw Rake. You are at
the Cults complex with us yesterday. From what you heard,
are you more optimistic or less optimistic about Anthony richardson
playing in a game this season?

Speaker 6 (43:26):
I don't get to feeling that the Cults are planning
on playing Anthony Richardson. Now that could change. And if
you get to week eighteen, because Craig ram wrong, Fellows,
there's not a scenario where the Cults get eliminated this week. Correct,
correct possibility would happened, that possibly happened at the end
of next week. If you get to week eighteen, there's
nothing to play for, then, by god, you should play

(43:48):
Anthony Richardson if he's physically able. You should play Riley
Leonard if he's physically able. But I think they're one
to get him some reps in practice. But it certainly
sounded like to me that this is going to be
Philip Rivers' job for the rest of the year, and
again with the asterisk of as long as you have
the potential to make the playoffs.

Speaker 8 (44:09):
Rake, does that conversation change it all? If Philip Rivers,
who's yesterday said that he has no limitations pushing the
ball down the field, but tape don't lie, So if
we watch the Monday night game and he cannot push
the ball on the field, they lose again. Is that
a conversation for gods of Anthony's health? Do you start
to think is Riley a better option personally?

Speaker 11 (44:32):
Well?

Speaker 6 (44:32):
I didn't think Riley was that bad of an option
in the first place, frankly because I didn't think he
played that poorly when inserted into the game against Jacksonville
because of Daniel Jones's injuries. So I'm not sure Shane
would retract that position or walk that back. You know,
he was asked about, you know, conviction and another question,

(44:53):
and I think Shane is pretty convinced that Philip is
their best option going forward. It is all always subject
to change, maybe less so on a short week, so possible, certainly,
but I think Shane's pretty dug in on this one.

Speaker 2 (45:08):
Rag Tomorrow, the Indie Class sick for the second straight year,
Butler and Purdue both in it. It'll be Butler and
Northwestern at four, It'll be Purdue and Auburn at six thirty.
I would love to see Joe hog set Mike Brown
call you up and say, Greg, Greg Shawl, we need
you to make the Indie Classic a bigger deal. We

(45:29):
need the Crossroads Classic to get back. We need the
state of Indiana incorporated. How best would you create this,
recreate it if you will, to get back to you know,
more than just two teams from the state of Indiana
playing inside a gamebridge Field House on a Saturday in December.

Speaker 6 (45:45):
I get the feeling that maybe with Darren Debris, Indiana
might be a bit more likely to return to participate
in this because again, I think you get the idea
that the schedule is it overly tough this year. No,
but you did have the Kentucky game, you do have
the Kansas State game. You do have some examples of
better non conference games that kind of get the feeling.

(46:09):
What's that Louisville right, correct, So you do kind of
have the feeling that a bit more app to potentially
play in this game. I'm not sure Notre Dame has
the same feeling. So if you want to go back
to the Crossroads Classic, you got to have four dance
partners and maybe you get two and a half or three.
At this point, I do think to some degree it

(46:32):
is still a big deal. I think having purduing Butler
and bringing in the calimponents in which they have can
carry this. But I also think, and this is a
compliment to those to those schools, that you do see
more of a willingness for the Power Conference schools to
schedule each other in the limited non conference games in

(46:54):
which they have. I mean, you've got twenty game lead
schedules at this point, so we see you know, conference
games in early to mid December, and so if Indiana
Notre Dame returned to it, great, But if not, I'm
okay with the four teams that we have playing tomorrow.
I'm cool with that.

Speaker 2 (47:12):
He is listen to Matt Pain the other day and
he felt like with Michael Shrewsbury now in Notre Dame,
given the obvious Indianapolis ties there, that Notre Dame would
be more willing to be back into it than they
were under Mike brad Bray always had, you know, connections
that want to play in the DC area and kind
of those older big East you know teams, if you will,
you think it was ever discussed maybe back in the

(47:33):
Crossroads classic day of if you moved the four big
schools Butler, Purdue, Notre Dame, Indiana to the nightcap, was
it ever discussed, Hey, let's get whatever ball state Indiana
State at eleven am, and then let's get whatever IU,
p U I, and Evansville at one point thirty. Well,
do you think any of that was ever discussed?

Speaker 11 (47:52):
No?

Speaker 6 (47:52):
Just because if you're the Big Four. Why do you
want to share the stage? And the Big Four had
no problem selling out game bridge Fieldhouse.

Speaker 12 (48:01):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (48:01):
And so everything in division ie Kybogey Athletics these days
is done to try to separate the power conference schools
from the none power conference schools. So no, it's a
buffet and nobody wanted to share.

Speaker 2 (48:18):
Rake.

Speaker 8 (48:18):
I do want to pivot to the high school scene
because I know you're probably I remember I was when
I went to Old Country broff Fay Kevin. I might
have been five for about three extra years whatever the
price was to get in cheaper. A were like, you're
going to go in there and tell those folks that
you're only five.

Speaker 2 (48:36):
COVID might have started an Old Country.

Speaker 8 (48:38):
It might have, but uh, Rake, as far as the
high school scene goes, where are you tonight? And any
games we should be keeping our eyes on this weekend?

Speaker 6 (48:47):
All right? So Carmel North Central is my game tonight,
and I've been impressed by both teams so far. I
had him had Carmel last week and beating Noblesville had
North Central two weeks ago. In terms of beating addicts
Carbold to something just a little bit more expected, just
because they've they've struggled by their standards the last couple
of years, but the core of kids that are playing

(49:07):
have kind of gone through those struggles h and they've
got numerous players that have really three years of varsity
experience at this point. Having Cash Daniels joined the group
to fill that kind of point guard hole that they
had after Alex Kudo got hurt and then graduated has
made them a good team. And all three of their
wins against good competitions Aionsville ELC in Noblesville so far

(49:30):
north Central, I think is a pleasant surprise. You know,
they graduated some key pieces, and then in this era
of having a little more roster fluidity and player movement,
even in the high school level, they had two or
three kid kids that could have returned that went elsewhere.
So really they were turned three or four guys that
played and all very much were in supporting roles last year.

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But they've got a good deal of athleticism and they're
not the biggest team, but man they're quick, and man
they're really good in terms of getting offensive rebounds. So
looking forward to that one, and then tomorrow we've got
a new event on our ISC calendar, and that is
the Breakaway Classic that takes place at the Courtebe Coliseum.
It is a girls afternoon event Stard and Bloomington, South,

(50:16):
Floyd Central and McCutcheon. Then it is a boys doubleheader
as far as the evening is concerned. Of those games
are on Mini TV twenty three Bishop Blewers and BBOF,
followed by Avon and Harrison. So, uh, you know, you mentioned,
you know, having a you know, an expanded Crossroads Classic.
I've always thought the way that this would actually work
that if the three Valley schools and the two Horizon

(50:39):
League schools and Ball State and USI wanted to get
together to have an Indianapolis event, either doing it at
the Courtepec Coliseum or now doing at the Fisher's Event
Center was probably truly the way to go. And I
hope there's an appetite for something like that going forward.
So it's good to see that courtub a coliseum venue

(51:01):
being used a bit more than it has been over
the last year or two.

Speaker 2 (51:05):
Yeah, would agree, it's a great venue. I know you
obviously have been a staple there for the Horizon League
and I've been the last couple of years, and it's, uh,
it's fun not only us doing the show from there,
but coming back and seeing games in there when the
Horizon League rules around in early March. Greg great star
with us here from an is SC Sports Network. As
he said, Carmel and North Central coming up tonight for him. Rake,

(51:27):
your favorite Chicago Bears Northwest Indiana idea is.

Speaker 6 (51:31):
What, oh man?

Speaker 3 (51:35):
I mean?

Speaker 2 (51:36):
You gotta be in the Bricky Bowl, right, you know, the.

Speaker 6 (51:39):
Brick The old Bricky Bowl is actually unfortunately condemned. The
new stadium the Brickyard is nice, but doesn't have that
same history. I've seen the East Chicago Bears meme that
has gone on. All of my region friends have that.
You know. I was on which TV yesterday morning and
in case you'd know, Tara Hastings is a Whiting girl.

(52:01):
She actually went to either Gavit or Clark, one of
the two. But she and I were talking about this, like,
you're going to put it in Northwest Indiana, wouldn't you
put it like as close to the state line as
you possibly could? So and if you've never been to Whiting,
like literally it is football field train tracks late, so

(52:23):
maybe somewhere in that vicinity is where you could put it.
So the region Bears. I don't think it'll actually ever happen,
but it's fun to talk.

Speaker 2 (52:32):
About monsters of Munster. Are you good of that?

Speaker 6 (52:38):
I hadn't even thought of that.

Speaker 2 (52:39):
That's really well done, listener, Andrew, I can't take credit
for that. We might have Mark good though. We might
have Mark from Munster calling in here.

Speaker 8 (52:47):
And I will say rap Rag knows his high school
settings because I would argue that on a fall night
before it gets too cold, covering a game over in
Whiting with the train tracks rolling by lake and back
sunsetting is one of the best scenes probably of high
school sports in this state.

Speaker 3 (53:05):
I've done it, and.

Speaker 6 (53:05):
It's fun, it's super unique, it's super cool. And when
they made the two A state finals and ten years
ago when they play their semi state game, Lord was
its snowing because so just somebody to keep in mind
for a future Bear stadium as well.

Speaker 8 (53:23):
Yeah, Rake, I learned to keep an extra hoodie in
the car when I had to drive up to Whiting
because if it get ten degrees cooler closer to the
lake and I'll be out there freezing.

Speaker 6 (53:30):
Sometimes there is a permanent polar vortex that takes place
that time of the year. Around the lake.

Speaker 2 (53:36):
Put the stadium in Lost Marsh Golf Course, one of
the wilder golf courses ever up there in northwest Indiana
as well. Rake, I don't know if we'll chat before
the Christmas holiday. Merry Christmas, brother, and Happy New Year.

Speaker 6 (53:49):
Mary Christmas. Do you fellows, you guys enjoy the rest
of the show.

Speaker 2 (53:52):
That is one of the best out there. Greg Rakestraw
on the pay Less Liquors Hotline, did you guys have
a favorite bear stadium joke? You know you heard gayor
bears a lot yesterday, at least I did, And every
time I heard that, I thought of back in my
days in Bloomington, where if you drank two hairy bears
you might as well. Yeah, you might as well go
to sleep before you find yourself next to Mark Sanchez.

Speaker 8 (54:15):
I'm trying to think. I think the Monsters of Monster
is pretty funny. Shout out to that's that was really
good that I had for the Times North of Indiana.
The office was in Munster, so if you're talking about
trying to keep it, you know, close to the state line,
that's the closest it gets. I remember working there, and
Munster High School is maybe like a five mile drive
if that, and their school will shut down during COVID

(54:39):
and you could drive like five miles across the state
line like TF South and they will be open playing
football and stuff, which was crazy. And they're literally the
same distance from where my office was.

Speaker 2 (54:52):
Even thinking about those COVID times and who was playing
and who was not. Let's not go back, makes you
want to pull my eyes out. Shout out to the
mud Sox game tonight. Bobby Allen's going to pull off
the upset up there in Hampton County. Mark from Munster,
you may have heard his voice in the show before.
He'll join us here. Coming up in about a half hour,
we'll talk with Voice of the Colts Matt Taylor at

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nine o'clock. Andrew Luck, who made an appearance on the
Jim Rome Show earlier this week and while talking about
the Stanford football program and moving forward with Tavita Pritchard
as their head coach, Luck was asked did he get
a call from his former team about playing quarterback? And

(55:35):
here was Andrew lux response.

Speaker 13 (55:36):
Zero, So I had zero chances to say no.

Speaker 8 (55:41):
What would you have said?

Speaker 10 (55:43):
No?

Speaker 13 (55:44):
Thank you? Right where I'm supposed to be. All Right,
I've said this before and saying, one, it's amazing watching
Philip and I got to go to the Niners game
Titans game, and I spent as much time walking watching
the Niners play as I did you know Tavita's phone
that was in front of us with the Seahawks Colts game,
because it's it's incredible. I do stand in awe, Philip
uh and you know it was a great game as well.

(56:07):
I'm unbelievable finish. But now I'd say, no, thank you.
I'm right where I'm supposed to be. Philip Rivers was,
I mean a hero of mine growing up, right, and
then for him to still go out there and be
able to sling it like he does, and not just
sling it but with the with the authenticity and leadership
and positive affect that he does bring, because you know

(56:27):
that's that certainly jumps through the TV screen or a
tiny little phone or whatever, you know, whatever you're watching
on you can guy has fun. And I wonder how
many dead gunnets he let out during the game?

Speaker 2 (56:37):
How about that? And Andrew Luck? Dad Gummant right there?
Would you rather see thirty six year old, one hundred
and ninety pound Andrew Luck or forty four year old
two hundred and I'm gonna say sixty pounds Philip, Come on,
you think he's less than that.

Speaker 3 (56:55):
Hal's two six, I was in two fifty.

Speaker 14 (56:57):
Maybe, Kevin, I gotta say this too, be because you
tweeted Philip Rivers walking up to the press conference stand
when last week on his first day, and you were
like one of the first ones to.

Speaker 2 (57:08):
Tweet it out.

Speaker 7 (57:09):
And I swear I saw accounts I've never seen on
my Twitter timeline, just a screenshot of Philip walking up
and like, oh boy, he's a little hefty there, like
you were the source of all of that in a way.

Speaker 2 (57:21):
Yeah, and I'll hear body sham twenty five not my intention.
But you know, on the scale of whatever Blake the scale, huh,
on the scale of Blake groupie to Jared lorenz In,
it's a little more Jared Lorenzen than it is Blake Groupie.

Speaker 8 (57:36):
Give me.

Speaker 2 (57:37):
Should they have called Andrew Luck?

Speaker 8 (57:38):
No, they should not have called him. He is very
clear on his new endeavors. But if you're asking me
if he would do it, who would.

Speaker 3 (57:46):
Rather see Andrew Luck? Absolutely, there's a.

Speaker 8 (57:49):
Different timeline where he is the guy still somewhere out
there in the universe.

Speaker 3 (57:55):
I'll ask God about it when I get.

Speaker 2 (57:56):
There, hopefully anything rivers related yesterday James about what more
could be there in the offense on Monday night.

Speaker 8 (58:04):
I'm not buying the I can still push you down
the field until I see it. Bottom line, because even
if your game plan was that rigid, we know Shane
is a gunslinger. He likes to take those opportunities. So
within the confines of that game plan, if Daniel Jones

(58:26):
is out there, if Andy Richardson is out there, even
if Riley Leonard is out there, I think to a degree,
you're probably seeing a few more downfield throws I think
against the Seahawks, even for as great as they are.
And so does that translate it all to the forty
nine ers because one point four yards per completion, nine

(58:46):
of your completions being behind line of scrimmage.

Speaker 2 (58:49):
Yeah, I mean we.

Speaker 3 (58:51):
Got to see something different.

Speaker 8 (58:52):
It's the forty nine ers, man, I we can be
to believe that you really can turn back the clock
a little bit.

Speaker 2 (58:56):
Yeah you know again, I know it through these numbers
that you guys yesterday, But just a few more plays
of north of fifteen yards, you know, it's virtually impossible
if you look at the Colts this season, to create
touchdown drives, you have to have those plays. You have
to have plays of north of fifteen yards. Even if you
look at Sunday the one touchdown drive you had to

(59:17):
Tyler Warren, you had that seventeen yard game, and honestly,
you look at a lot of the touchdown drives this
year for the Colts, you had multiple plays of over
fifteen yards. So how do you go about drawing that up?

Speaker 12 (59:28):
Now?

Speaker 2 (59:29):
Again, the San Francisco defense, We'll probably get more into
this on Monday, because Monday's kind of the odd you know,
day of game preview show that we usually don't get
in the NFL calendar. But we will get that on Monday.
The San Francisco defense, first off, Nick Bosa, Fred Warner
done for the season. They are super nondescript. They are
the worst sack team in the NFL. Guys, they have

(59:49):
sixteen sacks on the season. Do you know how many
sacks Miles Garrett has. I know it's more than that.

Speaker 3 (59:57):
Is it twenty?

Speaker 2 (59:57):
For twenty one? Every team in the league has at
least twenty two sacks and the forty nine ers have
sixteen so they do not get out after the quarterback
at all. And last week Tennessee just gashed him on
the ground. The Tennessee Titans averaged more than six yards
per carry. So on paper, there is a opportunity here

(01:00:20):
that you should be able to do a little bit
more offensively. The question for me can you do it?

Speaker 1 (01:00:27):
Like?

Speaker 2 (01:00:28):
Literally, can your quarterback do enough for you offensively to
get there? And I am curious about the offensive line again,
Bernard Ryman did not practice yesterday. He was going apparatus
RoboCop looking thing on the right elbow.

Speaker 3 (01:00:45):
It did not look good.

Speaker 2 (01:00:46):
It did not look like a guy that was going
to play on Monday. Now, you could just run the
same starting five out there that ended the game on
Sunday with Luke Tanuda at left tackle. But I am
curious do they musical chair it up.

Speaker 3 (01:00:57):
A little bit?

Speaker 7 (01:00:59):
Is it hard to kind of assess how good the
Colts offensive line is playing considering that this quick passing
game where it's half a second gets here.

Speaker 2 (01:01:09):
Of all like, and I was trying to think of that.

Speaker 7 (01:01:11):
With Jalen Travis in a right tackle last week, it
was kind of hard to assess whether he was playing
well or not, you know, especially in the run game too,
they're stacking the box.

Speaker 2 (01:01:20):
You know, it's hard. I think that's hard to parse through, right,
And that's where part of me, I think Caleb looks
at last week. I'm like, wait, when you just start
this game with the same storty five that ended last week?
Like then they play fine, but is there a thought
with Tony Soprano Junior of if we're really gonna go
best five? I think they look at a guy like
Dalton Tucker, who started seven games at right guard last year,

(01:01:42):
and I think there's a thought there of do you
put Tucker in there? Then therefore that would kick Matganzalvas
out to right tackle, where he started eight games last year,
and then Travis would swing over to left tackle. Now
I can hear a lot of people right now saying
what that is musical chairs like none other. Why would
you change three positions when you only need to change

(01:02:04):
one With Luke Tannuda going in there for Ryman, I'm
probably more in that camp Jalen Travis saying there at
right tackle, but I think it's a real possibility. So
just some things to keep an eye on before Monday.
We'll continue to get back into the Anthony Richardson conversation.
What exactly does impaired vision mean for the Colts quarterback
as he got back to practice yesterday. Let's go ahead
and hit a morning checkdown.

Speaker 1 (01:02:26):
The morning checkdown on ninety sweet five and one oh
seven five, James.

Speaker 2 (01:02:32):
Let's start over at Gamebridge field House. It looked to
be one of the marquee wins of the season for
the Pacers. They built a pair of sixteen point leads,
but in the final five minutes of the game, it
was ice cold for Rick Carlile's bunch. I believe it
was just one field goal in their final ten and
it was Jalen Brunson hitting a three with four seconds

(01:02:53):
to go with the Knicks down by two. The Pacers
got one final possession and Pascal Siakam tripped over andrew
Nemhar Jay Huff then threw it away and og An
Andobi ran out the rest of full. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:03:05):
Tough ending to that one, and it was one of
those games.

Speaker 8 (01:03:09):
Where you just wish, Okay, they had their closer, We
wish we had ours because we know what's Tyre's Halliburton
usually does in those moments.

Speaker 2 (01:03:16):
Am I allowed to say entertaining loss.

Speaker 3 (01:03:19):
At this point.

Speaker 8 (01:03:19):
Yes, and there's probably a decent portion of Pacers fans
that are like, all right, making cosmetic but let's keep
losing something.

Speaker 3 (01:03:26):
Get a top five pick.

Speaker 2 (01:03:27):
Yeah, quite humbling to say that when it's game twenty
seven or whatever it is. Yeah, they season twenty one,
but that might be the rowdy. Granted when the Knicks
pop up, I don't know, maybe that changes a little bit.

Speaker 8 (01:03:37):
Yeah, we have Hooser nineteen ninety seven in the chat.
Thank you Nicks, protect the pick. Put that on the shirt.

Speaker 2 (01:03:43):
Probably, Yeah, I do think a lot of people out
there that would agree with that. Nemhart at thirty one,
I mean you asked him to do so much on
belt into the floor. Siakam twenty six Mather and sixteen.
Good to see Quintin Jackson back in the starting lineup.
I think he gives this team, you know, a nice
additional ball handler next to them hard and made a
huge corner three there to stretch lead to seven of

(01:04:03):
about five minutes to go, but the Pacers could not
hold on from there. They've got the Pelicans coming up
on Saturday. Our coverage will begin at six thirty and
then They'll go back to back Monday at Boston Tuesday
here with Milwaukee. That will be Miles Turner's second game
back here in Indy. Last night, Thursday Night Football definitely
one of the games of the year in the NFL.

(01:04:25):
It was the Seahawks going for two in overtime, getting
the two point conversion thirty eight thirty seven winners. They
erased a sixteen point deficit in the fourth quarter and
they overcame. Matthew Stafford four hundred and fifty seven yards
and three touchdowns, Puka Nakua twelve catches for two hundred

(01:04:46):
and twenty five yards and two touchdowns. If you're playing
them in your fantasy playoffs, congrats on a good season.

Speaker 3 (01:04:54):
Pretty much all you can say, right, A little.

Speaker 2 (01:04:58):
Bit of indirect help for the forty nine ers for
those that care about Monday Night. Now with that result,
if the forty nine ers win out, they will be
the one seed. Would that be something in the NFC
giving all their injuries, Boy, Kyle Shanahan Coach of the Year,
I think you'd be hard pressed to pick anybody else.

Speaker 3 (01:05:14):
Philip Rivers, you got a chance to do the funniest
thing Monday Night.

Speaker 2 (01:05:17):
How about Cooper Cupp turning back the clock there in
overtime with that catch on the sideline revenge game so good.

Speaker 8 (01:05:23):
Yeah, he had a fumble there earlier in the game
that was costly, so probably felt a.

Speaker 3 (01:05:27):
Little good to stick it to his old team.

Speaker 2 (01:05:29):
All Right, College basketball this weekend again, we talked about
it with Rake the Indie Classic four o'clock. It'll be
Butler or Northwestern. Important for the Bulldogs to continue to
take care of business here in the non conference. Not
that Northwestern is some definite Quad one win, but it
would still help you in a neutral court victory. And
Purdue in Auburn. We remember Auburn running Purdue out of
the building last year down in Birmingham. I'm not the

(01:05:51):
same Auburn team by any means, but still one final
notable test here for purduing the non conference before they
get back into Big Ten. Play Indiana Chicago State tomorrow
in Assembly Hall. Indiana State lost last night, you see
triple overtime for the Sycamores.

Speaker 8 (01:06:09):
Yeah, and I was thinking about my guy, Owen Pulley.
His dad actually worked security for Cold's game.

Speaker 2 (01:06:15):
Great humans over on the West Side.

Speaker 8 (01:06:17):
Yeah, and I wonder if he had to call that
game because that kid works a lot and I'm sure
he probably had a great experience as one of those
ones you probably never forget.

Speaker 2 (01:06:26):
A couple other items. Indiana, we've talked about their ability
to retain from a football program standpoint, the financial commitment
that has been there. Another sign of it yesterday offensive
coordinator Mike Shanahan re signing three year deal with the Hoosiers.
They did lose their co oc last year, Tino Cinceria
went out to UCLA that did not end well for him.

(01:06:46):
So it looks like Kurtzignett would be retaining both of
his coordinators here as they are the number one team
in the playoffs. Talk about things you don't typically see
at all. Ohio State wins at all last year and
they lose their offensive coordinator. This year, they were losing
their offensive coat. Organs lost both coordinators and yet Indiana
going to retain them. So great work there from that
athletic department in that financial commitment towards their assistance and

(01:07:10):
certainly one of the tragic stories from yesterday rest in
peace to NASCAR driver Greg Biffle and his family. Just
awful news yesterday of a plane crash in North Carolina
that took the lives of Greg and his wife and
his two kids. I know Jake had Adam Alexander on
the North Central grad who does a great job broadcasting NASCAR,

(01:07:32):
and they shared some thoughts and memories. Beflo had raced
and break out four hundred several times and several nice
finishes over there, and Bill Accounts had done a lot
outside of racing from a philanthropic standpoint, So just awful
news there. So rest in peace to Greg Biffel and
his family. It is a Friday, It is the Fan
Morning Show. Thank you for closing out the week with

(01:07:53):
US ninety three to five on a seven five the
Fan s. Richardson did mention that he had been thrown
for about two weeks prior to yesterday's practice, but again
that was the first time he had officially participated in practice.
Shane Steichen mentioned some individual drills for him, you know,
perhaps a few scout team reps. Typically how that goes is,

(01:08:13):
obviously Philip Rivers takes all the starting reps, and then
Riley Leonard as the backup, would get the vast vast
majority of the Scout team reps facing the Colts starting
defense but it sounds like they'll incorporate Anthony a little
bit into that. Again, he will not play on Monday night,
so that leaves two games left for him to play. James,

(01:08:35):
I'll ask you the same question I asked Greg Gragstraw
half hour ago. Based on everything you heard yesterday, has
your opinion on Anthony Richardson playing this season increased or decreased?

Speaker 3 (01:08:48):
Decreased?

Speaker 8 (01:08:49):
I was leaning towards the increased category before I knew
about the impaired vision. That to me is a factor
that's a little bit different than conditioning. And can't he
go out there and get through a football game physically
the eye and shout out to my pops. He always says,
there's no you know, weightlifting regimen for your eye. There

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is no way to really strengthen that. You kind of
have to give it time, I think to a degree.
So is it in the best interests of him or
the team to put him out there if he can't
see to the level that he would hope to see
in the future. So that to me is a factor
that certainly muddies this a little bit more. And Anthony himself,

(01:09:37):
who is usually gung hole about playing football, was very
reserved about the possibility of playing again this year, and
by playing, I mean just being activated, being available on
a Sunday or a Monday or whatever day a game is.
And he just said I'm taking things one day at
a time, which is never which has never been in
the case with Anthony. I mean, this guy's been through
a lot of injuries. Every time he's come back, he's

(01:09:57):
been like, I'm ready to go right now. This time
a little bit different.

Speaker 2 (01:10:00):
Yeah, everything I've gathered on this front is Anthony has
suffered some retina damage. There is some scarring on the eye.
I think there is a hope that that could improve,
but there is an unknown hope of if it will
actually improve, and it might not improve until the twenty
twenty six calendar. So Shane Seiken used the phrase yesterday

(01:10:21):
he will have to manage it. That to me is
something that is very difficult to manage. You know, if
you have an ankle issue, perhaps maybe you don't move
as much in the pocket or outside of the pocket.
That's how you'd manage it. Managing an impaired vision, I
guess I could squint for sixty minutes of football, But

(01:10:43):
you know that is obviously very difficult, and so we'll
see if you want to get technical. You know, it
isn't the right eye, that's not necessarily the peripheral vision
out of his blind side, you know, from a right
handed quarterback. But still I think that is part of
this practice is can he play with this at all?
And clearly you would have some concerns on that now.

(01:11:04):
If there are concerns that are more down the field
related right now, you know, could you involve him in
some short yardage packages? Again, not Monday night, but as
early as next week. That is a thought that I
would have because I do think that is one thing
we didn't see the Colts encounter too much in Seattle
that I have a definite question about here moving forward.

(01:11:25):
Is when you get in these third and ones and
fourth and ones, are you simply at the mercy of
the offensive line may moving the way for Jonathan Taylor?
Are you going back to Tyler warren sneaks? Are you
sneaking in it with Philip Rivers? You know, what do
you do in those third and one, fourth and one situations?
The Colts only encountered one on Sunday. They got stuff,
but it was a false start penalty. End, So it

(01:11:47):
actually helped them out in that situation for sure.

Speaker 8 (01:11:51):
And I think even like I said earlier this week, Kevin,
this conversation we're having about Philip probably sounds so much
different had they won the game, even with the same
stat line. But the loss I think makes it a
bigger conversation going forward about pushing the ball down the field,
how effective you can be, Can you still be the

(01:12:13):
are you more than the whily o vet? And can
you kind of wind up and be a little bit
better come Monday night against the forty nine ers.

Speaker 2 (01:12:20):
Now, I believe Mark from Munster is going to call
in here in a few You maybe have heard Mark
on these airways before, potentially behind the glass, potentially playing
some animal sounds. We'll get to that in a little bit. Uh, Caleb,
you said, John want to talk Anthony Richardson. That's right,
Let's get to John here. John, Good Friday morning to you.

Speaker 11 (01:12:39):
Hey, good morning guys.

Speaker 2 (01:12:40):
Love listening to you while I'm driving into work real quick.

Speaker 6 (01:12:44):
Would you say that Anthony Richardson is this decade JaMarcus Russell.

Speaker 3 (01:12:51):
I would not.

Speaker 8 (01:12:51):
I think JaMarcus Russell didn't take football as serious as
Anthony has. I get that Anthony has had some issue
use to that effect and getting bench for perhaps not
being asshole because he should have been last year.

Speaker 3 (01:13:05):
But no, I don't view it as that.

Speaker 8 (01:13:07):
And honestly, it's kind of weird because JaMarcus was the great,
great college player and then offer nothing in the NFL,
whereas its kind of the inverse with Anthony, where he
wasn't a great college player and he was taken because
of the upside for the NFL.

Speaker 2 (01:13:23):
Yeah, I mean you could certainly label both as whatever
right now you would the bust label would certainly apply.
But if you're going that route then probably, Yeah. But
I think as you point out, I mean, JaMarcus Russell
won didn't he win a Heisman?

Speaker 3 (01:13:36):
If he didn't, he was certainly close to you.

Speaker 2 (01:13:38):
Anthony Richardson. The thought has always been this hope this
you know, hey, if we can tap into this, we
can get you know, he's got this just incredible athletic
talent that we can get to. And you know, Russell,
I don't think it as much as just injury related
in the NFL, as we just you know, kind of
bad play and Anthony could get end of the bait.

(01:14:00):
I mean, he definitely has had bad play. He's also
had play that's been pretty good. It's probably been a
little bit more injury centric, availability centric with him. So
I mean, again, the end result largely the same. I
don't know if their career pass up until this point, though,
I would say is the exact same, if that makes sense.

Speaker 8 (01:14:22):
No, but I do get why that conversation has been
brought up because they both were so physically gifted, and
for Anthony he still is, so I understand that.

Speaker 2 (01:14:31):
But again, the back of Anthony's baseball card is not
a lot of football success. It's not fourth overall pick success. No, Russell,
I know, as you had that collegiate Yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:14:41):
No, I'm just saying I think people look at it
kind of in that vacuum though, of here's two freakishly
athletic guys who couldn't figure it out.

Speaker 2 (01:14:47):
In the NFL again, Colton report from yesterday and the
good news front to Forest, Buckner did progress to a
full participant, so it looks like Buckner will be back
for the first time in over a month. And then
on the did not practice list included Bernard Ryman. It
included a Sauce Gardner, so obviously vital days today for

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either of them, particularly Gardener if he is going to
have a chance to play on Monday, and also Josh
Down's your main Pratt. Both were absent due to personal reasons.
So hopefully everything okay on those respective fronts and they
can play in the game coming up here on Monday.
Anything San Francisco wise, James, I will probably get more
into it on Monday. But as you have looked into

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them at all, you know, again, I think there are
some chinks in the armor at ten and four. They've
been a great special teams unit this season, which sounds
maybe a hair fluky to me, like they haven't missed
at a field goal and their opponents have missed nine.
Like to me, there's a little bit of luck involved,
and your opponent's missing nine field goals. Obviously they've done
their part and making all of them. But anything stand

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out to you with brock Perty, George Kittle, Christian McCaffrey
and company.

Speaker 8 (01:15:58):
Well, I think Christian McCaffrey is obviously the centerpiece of
that offense, and I just wonder how the Colts will
try to contain him in space because the thought of
Zaire Franklin or Jermaine Pratt being lined up with that
dude is not a good one that goes through my mind.
I feel like you could see Christian mccafrey go off

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for you know, eighty receiving yards or something like that.
So how do you try to contain him and force
the other guys to sort of beat you?

Speaker 3 (01:16:25):
And also you struggle to get to the quarterback?

Speaker 8 (01:16:29):
What does that look like when you're facing a guy
who is mobile like a brock Purty, and I think
that he has some wheels that perhaps even Sam Darnold
didn't offer last week when it comes to extending plays,
creating plays and picking up first downs even with his legs.

Speaker 2 (01:16:42):
What do you make of again, Gus Bradley's on this staff.
Robert Salah is their first year defensive coordinator. He comes
from the gust Tree Shane Stiking. Of course, that's defensive
coordinator for the last couple of years. For you, I'm
a little like, Okay, how do you view it? Because
Gus has such a simple scheme in NFL terms, it's

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almost like, well, you already kind of know what he's
gonna do, whereas Shane is a little bit more innovative. Granted,
the Philip Rivers dynamic throws an interesting wrinkle into it.
But you know, is there a little bit more of
the Hey, Gus has seen all of Shane in practice
over the last couple of years. He might have a
little bit more insight than a normal coach would weekend

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and week out. Do you look at that at all
with this matchup?

Speaker 8 (01:17:34):
Maybe? And I think certainly has a lot to offer.
But as Shane said yesterday, you pretty much know what
each team is going to do at this point in
the year because there's so much tape out there. So
I don't want to like overstate how much of an
advantage that could be. I think it's probably just a
bigger talking point for us.

Speaker 2 (01:17:50):
Honestly, Mark from Munster, we'll chat with him. Max. Could
the Chicago Bears be calling Northwest Indiana home?

Speaker 1 (01:18:00):
As you were listening to a fan morning show on
sports Radio ninety three to five and one oh seven
five the fan?

Speaker 2 (01:18:12):
Well the morning commute for me yesterday, it took me
past the old Governor's mansion. I look out to my
rights and all of a sudden, I see him man
with classes. I see him like dick a mustache on.
I see him channing fair Oaks Farm. Channing put the

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stadium at the Windmills off of sixty five. Can you
imagine how the Kickers would be impacted by that? I
think he had a blueprint drawing up for how the
Maryville Pirates Stadium could be remodeled to host his bears.
He is the one, He's the only He's Mark from
Munster and he believes on the airways right now, Caleb,
is this Mark from Munster? I believe so it is Mark.

Speaker 11 (01:18:58):
Good morning boys, how we doing Mark from Munster?

Speaker 2 (01:19:01):
Good morning to you. How about your NFL team calling
the state of Indiana home?

Speaker 11 (01:19:06):
H Yes, if I could, If I could have a request,
I would like if they are going to go to
Northwest Indiana and the Bear set up shop right next
to the Hell is Real billboard right on the side
of sixty five.

Speaker 2 (01:19:15):
There is that next to the adult superstore, next exit.

Speaker 11 (01:19:19):
Sign or lions Den. Yeah, get it done.

Speaker 2 (01:19:22):
Yeah, Mark Dyson of course with us here. We really
appreciate Mark, you spending part of your PTO with this.
We had to get you on air. What did you
think about Kevin Warren's letter flirting Northwest Indiana out there
as a potential option for the next stadium.

Speaker 11 (01:19:38):
Well, I feel like Kevin Warren has like he must
have open letters just like saved in this word documents,
because I feel like this is the ninth one he's
had in his tenure with the Bears. So we're going
to Arlington Heights. Now, we're going back to Chicago. Now
we're going to Northwest Indiana. It seems like it's kind
of like a just replaced some words and put it
in there. I think I don't believe they are going
to Northwest Indiana. I wouldn't mind it, quite honestly. I'm

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going to say that this is a posturing effort by
Kevin Warren to kind of get some tax breaks and
maybe some leniency in the state of Illinois or Arlington
Heights and everything. You got to remember, they've already purchased
the land in Arlington Heights. They put their own money
down in Arlington Heights. So my betting favorite still for
their new stadium would be Arlington Heights, because what do
you do with that property that you spent over three

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hundred million dollars on if you're not going to use
it for anything? So Northwest Indiana is a nice idea.
I also remember them doing that in the nineties when
they wanted to renovate Soldier Field back in the day,
They're like, well, we could always go to like Gary,
Indiana or something somewhere in northwest Indiana. So the NWY
has been used for Bear's leverage in the past, and

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it seems like they're going to that playbook again. So
while I would love to see it, I would I
would not put I would not put my money or
your money on that happening.

Speaker 3 (01:20:51):
Why did just ruin the moment?

Speaker 6 (01:20:53):
Mark?

Speaker 2 (01:20:54):
Sorry, I'm sorry. I have to be realistic.

Speaker 11 (01:20:57):
I have to be somewhat realistic.

Speaker 8 (01:20:58):
Realistic embarrassing don't exist. I grew up in a family
of them.

Speaker 11 (01:21:02):
I mean that's very true. I mean you told me
some stories of your family. Watch some Bears games.

Speaker 2 (01:21:07):
I think my uncle still wants just a Fields on
the roster, you know.

Speaker 11 (01:21:10):
I mean it could happen. There's always a possibility. But
I mean, boy, that would be that'd be wild. And again,
where are you putting that scene next to Maryville, next
to the.

Speaker 2 (01:21:18):
Starplaza golf course. You can put it right there in
the middle of the golf course. Got a million lakes
in the middle of one of the wilder golf courses
that I've seen.

Speaker 11 (01:21:27):
You are like, Bears, here we go, baby, let's go.

Speaker 2 (01:21:30):
I just thought the news mark like seventy two hours
before one of the biggest regular season games the Bears
have had in years, was just so fitting and maybe
that was done strategically honestly.

Speaker 11 (01:21:40):
Yeah, I mean, what timing the Bears having a really
feel good season. Kevin WARN's like, let me send this
one out and really kind of damper in the mood here,
Like okay, so very ideal. But yeah, I just came
back from dropping the girls off at school. My face
is still frozen. So are we doing it? Are we
doing an open air stadium like Soldierfield? Are we gonna
dome it up and everything? I don't do what they.

Speaker 2 (01:22:00):
Well, it was the Arlington Heights idea that was thought
to be a dome, right I assume.

Speaker 11 (01:22:05):
Right, Yes, dome non retractable, so it was going to
be indoors. I think they were trying to do something
kind of similar where it was going to be like
a dome, but you know, kind of like the Charger
Stadium where there's like open air on the sides and stuff.
But I don't know how true that is. I can't
remember what all the revisions were to it and everything,
but yeah, I think the plane was domed. So Mark

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getting rid of beer weather Mark.

Speaker 2 (01:22:29):
From Munster calling in here on the Payloffs Slickers hotline.
I laughed very hard yesterday when Caleb shared and again
we've gone over our top ten Indiana sports stories of
the past calendar year. We've counted them down from ten
to one. I complimented you Mark earlier in the week
on your sauce Gardner one. I thought that was very
smart to include that on the list. But when you

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gave us Mark Sanchez stabbing yesterday, that is so true.
That is easily on the list. I can't believe I
totally overlooked that.

Speaker 11 (01:22:59):
Yeah, I mean I just remember getting national headlines and
everything's like, wait, that can't be Mark Fanchez, Like what
are we talking about here? What do you mean he
got stabbed and this, and then there's so much weird
stuff going to and also that he wasn't the victim,
right and yeah, he was the aggressor. So there's a
lot going on there and obviously it's still unresolved. We
know he's not no longer with Fox, but I just
thought like, you know, does that to all of these

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feel good stories, gotta be some weird ones in there,
and that was certainly a weird one that garnered national
attention and everything, and we still don't know the full
truth of it, so I think there's some still some
court dates lined up for mister Sanchez and and all
that stuff. But I thought that was a worthy place
to put that because definitely got our attention and it
was an odd story that we won't forget. And uh, yeah,

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that was my number eight of the year.

Speaker 2 (01:23:44):
When is an ex court day, James for Sanchez.

Speaker 3 (01:23:46):
I think push back to March.

Speaker 8 (01:23:48):
So I'd have to go on to course indeed dot
gov and look into court cases and tell me we
do that on Friday.

Speaker 11 (01:23:57):
You're telling me I should pencil that in maybe for
twenty twenty six stories already for top ten maybe.

Speaker 8 (01:24:02):
Honestly, it's one of those things where that it gets
drawn out. And part of the reason why he's still
drawn out is because he's still recovering from surgery. He
thanked the surgeon for saving his life. So a lot
more to come out of that one, for sure. Yeah,
a truly.

Speaker 11 (01:24:16):
Weird situation that we had going on there, so that's
why I found it in my top ten and that's
where it is on the eighth spot. So there we go.

Speaker 2 (01:24:24):
You want to if you have the list readily available,
you want to give us your seventh on the list
as we continue to counter her.

Speaker 11 (01:24:30):
So my seven for my top stories of Indiana sports
in twenty twenty five is the Colt's hot start and
their precipitous fall. So they started off seven and one.
Everybody's feeling themselves like, finally this regime is getting their
act together. Everything firing on all cylinders. When everybody thought
the temperature was the hottest seven and one start best
in the AFB. And then reality struck us like the

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cold this morning. And unfortunately they have not won many
games since they are barely in the playoff race at
now outside looking in. So the Colts hot start because
no one could have projected seven to one, but now
the precipitous fall with Daniel Jones and now Philip Rivers
coming out of retirement and to try to salvage this season.
So the Colts again, I think we're all bracing for

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the worst. But when they got that hot start, we
were feeling pretty good. But now reality setting in unfortunately
for the second.

Speaker 2 (01:25:20):
Time in four spots. Now Mark and I agree on
the exact position. Need I also had Colts hot start
at seven. James Boyd, so far you've gone a little
high school. I believe you went Indiana fever at number eight.
What do you got for number seven? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:25:33):
So number seven? And I should have thought this out
a little bit more.

Speaker 8 (01:25:36):
But I think instead of going with the hot star,
I'll just go with the Atlanta game overseas Berlin. JT
goes off two hundred and forty four yards. You win
that game, and you head back across the water first
place in the AFC. The vibes are good back then, brother, gosh,
but when you say back then and it was the
last win, boy, was it a last win? Colts have

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not won a game in the United States since before Halloween.

Speaker 3 (01:26:04):
Well, isn't that a fun fact for you?

Speaker 2 (01:26:05):
They haven't won a game in regulation.

Speaker 11 (01:26:07):
Since a good time James and wearing a suit and
everything back then.

Speaker 8 (01:26:11):
Yeah, haircut, I got hats on because my hair is
all jacked up right now, I'm trying to get to
the barber shop.

Speaker 3 (01:26:16):
Shout out to my barber who never has time for me.

Speaker 8 (01:26:18):
But yeah, I think that this is certainly a conversation
that we can have down the stretch before for the
sake of positivity. I'm rolling with the Atlantic and the
vibes are great. It was so loud in that stadium
when JT went off.

Speaker 2 (01:26:31):
Caleb, what he got for number seven on your list? Here? Well,
first of all, number seven, come on now, shout out
to a Mitchell.

Speaker 7 (01:26:40):
I had the w NBA All Star Game being in Indianapolis.
I thought that was a cool moment, just for the
whole Caitlyn Clark effect and her bringing that event here.
I thought it was a cool thing to at that
time for me watch from afar, but I loved that,
and I thought it was a good weekend for the city.

Speaker 8 (01:26:57):
What do you mean they didn't bring that here because
Clark plays here? Don't want her decision at all. She
wasn't even a factor.

Speaker 2 (01:27:03):
Mark, I know you would have laughed pretty good at
this as well. Caleb's number ten on the list to
get things started, it was John Halliburt and v Jannis.

Speaker 11 (01:27:14):
That's a good one. That did not make my top ten,
but that is a great Another memory where even Tyreese
is like, wait, what the hell is going on here?
With my father, so that is a solid one. So
that's why I like these lists, because there are things
that go unto the radar and may just things you
forgot over the last three hundred and sixty five days.
It's kind of cool to reflect me like, oh yeah,
that did happen. That was a weird thing that happened.
So I'm curious to see what everyone else's lists are

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as we go forward.

Speaker 2 (01:27:36):
Here this from Charlie. Did Mark say he's calling in
from the lions Den? I don't believe you are. Are
you in asle three of the lions Den right now?

Speaker 6 (01:27:44):
Mark?

Speaker 2 (01:27:44):
Is that where you're at? Well?

Speaker 11 (01:27:46):
I do have to go do some Christmas shopping after
we get off here, but I'm currently at the house
right now. Dropped the girls up at school last day
before winter break. Boyfell like I went to war this morning,
trying to get them out the door and everything. But
did that. But yes, Christmas shopping the lines then maybe
maybe like Ashley, there's a little something for you here
or something like that.

Speaker 2 (01:28:04):
We'll see. I don't know, but Brownsburg's going to rise
in the Best Places to Live list. You might as
well get a lions Dan in the in the in
the town square. Can Mike Wells make that happened to?

Speaker 11 (01:28:13):
We got wa wah?

Speaker 2 (01:28:14):
Now put it right there, Mark from Munster. The biggest
Bears game in quite a while coming up tomorrow night
against Mark's favorite Caleb Packers. Sucks that, Probably off, Caleb,
probably what Mark wants to hear right now. In all seriousness,
appreciate you calling and enjoy the quiet time that you
have today. Merry Christmas you two.

Speaker 11 (01:28:36):
You boys have a great one. Caleb, You're doing awesome.
You guys have a great one.

Speaker 3 (01:28:39):
I will you look for it. I gift Mark, you
get on it.

Speaker 11 (01:28:43):
It's coming. It's coming in the mail.

Speaker 2 (01:28:45):
Jeff came yesterday. You guys.

Speaker 11 (01:28:46):
I will be in that. I promise you. I will
be in hopefully before Holladays.

Speaker 2 (01:28:50):
You're mailing anything from the lions Den, I do not
want to be opening up.

Speaker 11 (01:28:54):
Package is now ready.

Speaker 2 (01:28:55):
Here we go, man, you need to sign off for
that before the male personally. Mark from Munster. Right there
on the Payless Liquors Hotline Voice of the Colts, Matt
Taylor is going to join us coming up in the
nine o'clock hour. Thanks for closing out the week with us.
It's Fan Borne and show.

Speaker 1 (01:29:12):
If you were listening to the Fan Morning Show on
Sports Radio ninety three to five and one oh seven
five the Fan.

Speaker 2 (01:29:21):
Final hour of the week here on the Fan Morne Show. Reminder,
this time Monday, we'll have Joe buck joining. A shout
out to Mark from Munster for getting on that booking.
The man that you will hear on the TV call,
the man you'll hear on the radio call will join us.
Coming up in a few Matt Taylor, I do want
to play that Blake Groopy field goal call once we

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get mad on Caleb. I thought, I think meeting the
moment is one of the difficult things to do when
you're a play by play person, and I thought Matt
met the moment beautifully there with a groupie call. So
we'll play that here coming up in a few minutes
for that just reminder. Colts will have their second practice
of the week today and everything is pushed back one

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day here, so they're on more of the Thursday, Friday,
Saturday Cadence. One note Pacers from last night, James, anything
you would have liked to have seen differently? Those final
couple possessions again, the Pacers leading by sixteen, multiple occasions,
it just slowly gets away from them. They build it

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back up to seven with five minutes to go, and
then they went stone. They went as cold as the
weather outside right now, anything differently defensively or offensively there
the final couple of minutes.

Speaker 8 (01:30:37):
Good question. I tryed to nippick too much. Maybe that
last possession defensively, he just blitzront Brunson. You gets the
ball out of his hands. You don't let him go
pretty much on them. Yeah, maybe that's the one change
that I will make because he's done it to you
so many times, and really not just you, but the

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entire league. You know what, this point in his career,
games on the line, if he's one on one, that's
advantage Brunson. So do you just blitz him and force
one of the others to beat you, especially on a
night where there's no they don't have Karl Anthony Towns.

Speaker 2 (01:31:11):
No, I think that's a good point. I mean, I
think Nemar had had great defense on in one.

Speaker 3 (01:31:15):
Noo, I felt like cringy kind of thing.

Speaker 2 (01:31:16):
No, I mean, it's kind of an unfair question, to
be totally honest with you, And yeah, I know Rick
Carlo mentioned last night that, you know, when you get
in these late game settings. The pacers haven't been in
too too many of them lately, but it is kind
of like the red zone in the NFL, if you
will of you know, you just need dudes to be dudes.
And I almost felt like the couple Nemhard possessions, even

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the one Siakam one, and I know he got og
and Andoby to foul him there late, but maybe more
in kind of that three too one minute range, it
just felt like a couple of guys that had been
on empty, you know, I mean they had emptied the ta.
I mean, Nemmard and Siaka more outstanding on both ends,
especially for Andrew last night. But you're just asking so

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much on their plate there, you know, could you have
isolated Matherin maybe once just because but again, I mean
you ask a lot of him right now. So I
was a hell of a shot by Brunson there on
the three, and then on the final possession, Siakam just
tripped him, and Andrew Demhard locked legs there and Jay
Hoff you know, Jay Huff inbounding it. You know, maybe

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that's where one you point to. But again, Nemhard, you
need him as a potential score, So that wasn't something
I don't.

Speaker 3 (01:32:28):
Know time to like, you know, throw it and get
it back and all that.

Speaker 8 (01:32:32):
So that to me is again we're nitpicking or splitting
hairs here, but that's what you do when a team
is that close to winning and they haven't really, you know,
won very many games this year.

Speaker 2 (01:32:42):
I get voice to Colts Matt Taylor going to join
us here in a few we will give out our
most entertaining, our hardest and easiest games here in Week sixteen.
For those that missed the Last Night James, that was
one of the games of the year so far in
the NFL. Is the Seahawks coming back to beat the
Rams thirty eight thirty seven in overtime. Stafford throws for

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four fifty Pukah's got two twenty five, and yet the
Seahawks get it done. If you had to pick one
of those NFC West teams Seattle, La, San Fran, who
would you bet on the most in January.

Speaker 8 (01:33:18):
La, because Matthew Staffords wonted it before, and he's playing
at an all time great level and you know, maybe
a weird two point conversion away from winning that game
and not.

Speaker 2 (01:33:31):
Having to go to overtime, so and not DeVonta Adams
last night.

Speaker 8 (01:33:34):
Yeah, I still would pick them, and that's a good
team and they got to playmakers on defense as well.
I know they didn't looked like it last night as
of late, but I thought the game really flipped on
that special teams kickoff or part return for Seattle or
Rashiat schaheat.

Speaker 3 (01:33:48):
So yeah, I still roll with LA. The thing I
would agree with you.

Speaker 2 (01:33:52):
The one thing that gives me pause though, is with
that loss last night, they could be on the road
to the super Bowl, which is wild, I know, I know,
but we have them. I'm like every year where you
get the loaded division and that second place team will
go on the road, or even the third place team
will go on the road and they'll be the road

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favorite in the first round. And you know, again it's
a regular season game. But we saw the Rams go
to Carolina a few weeks ago and lose, So you know,
Rams at Bucks for example in round one. You know,
obviously that's quite the travel there, and then they would
have to do it again in round two wherever that
would be in all likelihoods, So.

Speaker 8 (01:34:32):
Yeah, I think that question also to me, I interpreted
it as which quarterback do I trust the most homeworll way,
And I think that Matthew Stafford gives you a shot
anywhere on Earth with the way he's playing right now, I.

Speaker 2 (01:34:46):
Would agree on that, Caleb, if you don't mind, will
you queue up the sixty yard field goal from Sunday
voice to Colts, Matt Taylor going to join us right here.
And this was Matt Taylor's call of the kick of
Blake Groupie's life. His career long prior.

Speaker 5 (01:35:02):
To this kick is fifty seven, this one from sixty.
As Rigaberto Sanchez is prepared to put this ball down
at the fifty yard line, coming up from the right
hash the crowd is making tons of noise. Let's see
if young mister Groupie in his third year can knock
down a huge field goal stat placement kick on the

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way headed downfield for the.

Speaker 4 (01:35:26):
Upright spits whoa, whoa, it's good from sixty, Blake.

Speaker 2 (01:35:38):
Loophie, How good was that? James Boyd, you're talking about
me in the moment, oh man. As beautiful as that
kick right that? In themental voice of the Colts, Matt
Taylor joins us. Now, I may tell you might think
it's awkward that we're playing your own audio and now
talking about it. But I just want to give you props.

Speaker 6 (01:35:55):
Man.

Speaker 2 (01:35:55):
I thought that was a beautiful, beautiful call, and I
don't care what happened in the final forty seconds changing.

Speaker 12 (01:36:01):
Well, I appreciate you. Yeah. The only thing that that
call didn't have was just the win to accompany it,
you know, towards the end. So yeah, I appreciate it.
And I was actually scrambling. I think we talked about
this yesterday in the press room. I was actually scrambling
in my head because I was ninety eight percent sure
as I'm setting up the kick and kind of like

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you know, doing the preface of the magnitude, I'm ninety
eight percent sure in my head that if he makes this,
this is going to be a franchise record, right, longest
field goal in Cult's history. But I didn't. I wasn't
one hundred percent sure, so I didn't go with it
in the moment. But as soon as that ball went through,
you know, you're explaining what's going on, You're explaining the

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culture on top, and you know, giving the time and
the score, and you know sort of the context of
the rest of the game, but also at the same
time frantically trying to double and triple check that's a
franchise record, which it was, and we confirmed maybe ten
or fifteen seconds later, But that was kind of what
was going on through my head also at that time
of that kick.

Speaker 8 (01:37:02):
Hey, you're a true pro man. You can't go with
assumptions in this business.

Speaker 3 (01:37:05):
That has got me in trouble a couple of times.

Speaker 8 (01:37:07):
So I love the call, and honestly, I would have
liked to hear it in the press box where I
was saying, because everyone else was kind of shell shocked
on our neck of the woods. So a great call,
my friend, and hopefully you get another one here coming
up on Monday night.

Speaker 12 (01:37:20):
No question about it. I mean I'm gonna I'm gonna
steal one of my my tailor's tidbits right now, just
kind of throw it in since we're talking about it.
But I mean Blake Groupie, I mean he is five
foot seven, one hundred and forty eight pounds. The only
player smaller than him in Colts franchise history is a

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guy by the name of Titus Dixon, who was also
a kicker. He was five foot six of buck fifty
two back in nineteen eighty nine, and I mean just crazy.
I mean, Blake Groupy looks more. I mean, all due
respect to him, and I've known him for like what
eight or nine days since he's been with the Colts,
but I feel like I can say this because he's

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got a nice, you know, good heart, and he seems
pretty self deprecating. But he he more looks like a
guy that's gonna be like your valet driver at the
Conrad more so than an NFL kicker.

Speaker 6 (01:38:12):
Uh.

Speaker 12 (01:38:12):
And he got a lot of juice into that right leg,
There's no question about it. So I mean that thing
would have been good from sixty four to sixty oh
for sure. For sure, that kind of played into Shane
Stiken's you know methodology towards the end of that game.
You know, an incomplete pass on third and seven probably
is at the very very very fringe of Blake Groupie
field goal range. If we get four or five yards

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there by running the ball by Jonathan Taylor, that gives
us a better chance of uh you know, our from
our from our confidence standpoint with Blake.

Speaker 6 (01:38:42):
Groupie from sixty So pretty pretty cool moment. Again.

Speaker 12 (01:38:45):
The only thing that it didn't have was a win
to cap off that that great milestone accomplishment there by
Blake Groupie.

Speaker 6 (01:38:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:38:53):
When Cole Swuss teams coordinator Brian Mason said his weight
the other day, I felt like I was watching Fortune
in the movie Rudy confronting mister Rudiker saying, you're five
foot nothing, one hundred and nothing. You got hardly respec
of athletic ability. I could go on and on, but
trust me, no one wants to hear that.

Speaker 8 (01:39:08):
They kept calling him Blake groupe when we were in
the press over in Seattle.

Speaker 3 (01:39:16):
French interpretation of that groupe.

Speaker 2 (01:39:18):
Look at that. Let's cue it up, Caleb.

Speaker 8 (01:39:22):
Let's dive into the nitty gritty.

Speaker 2 (01:39:25):
I never knew that.

Speaker 15 (01:39:26):
Grab a seat and take notes their storylines all over
the upcoming game. Say what it's time for Taylor's tidbids?

Speaker 11 (01:39:38):
All right?

Speaker 12 (01:39:39):
The Colts Monday Nights Football looking to make a statement.
Which team are the Colts going to be? Are they
going to be the team that's dealing with poor playoff
odds with three games to go that have dropped, you know,
four in a row, or are they going to get
themselves off the mat fight to the death in front
of a national audience, and the Colts could really use

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a win, but they could also at the same time
secondary to that, they could use a marquee win against
a good football team, because the Colts are just two
and five this season against teams who are five hundred
or better this year, and dating back to last season,
that record for the Colts is.

Speaker 2 (01:40:20):
Three and twelve.

Speaker 6 (01:40:22):
So thirteen of.

Speaker 12 (01:40:23):
The colts sixteen wins in the last two years have
come against squads with losing records. So the forty nine
ers come into this game, they're ten and four. They're
one of the elite teams in the NFC, they've won four.

Speaker 6 (01:40:36):
In a row.

Speaker 12 (01:40:36):
They're destined for a playoff spot in the NFC. Also,
the later months of the season, as we've come to know,
they've just not been kind to the Colts right since
they last made the playoffs in twenty twenty. They're just
nine and fourteen in games played in the months of
December or January. So the fan base is dying to

(01:40:57):
root for a playoff team and they're eyeing to cheer
the Colts onto victory in a very important game coming
up on Monday night. All right, let's talk about the
Colts defense. The defense last week in Seattle, for all
intents and purposes, played really good. Seattle came into the
game number two and scoring the Colts tell them out
of the end zone. No offensive touchdowns allowed. Seattle mustered

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just fifty yards on the ground two point three yards
per carry all of those season lows. They were just
two for fifteen on third down conversions. But in key
situations you had Jackson Smith and Jigba who was big
last night as well, you had Rashid Shahed. Those two
guys still impacted the game. Those two guys combined for

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almost two hundred yards receiving and they had three receptions
north of twenty seven yards. So during this four game
losing skid, the Colts defense has allowed twenty nine completions
over fifteen yards and they've allowed the second most passing
yards in the NFL in that span. And if you

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zoom out and look at where the Colts are aut
for the season now, there's been a lot of injuries
in that secondary, a lot of guys coming and going,
no excuses, but the reality is the Colts defense now
ranks thirty first in passing yards per game on the
season at two hundred and forty seven yards allowed per contest.
All right, I got two more. Let's let's go to

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the forty nine ers on defense. All right? I labeled
this one as the forty nine ers are digging for
gold in the pass rush because now their paying is
coming up empty. Last week they recorded no sacks, zero
sacks for the fourth time this season, and they played Tennessee.
Tennessee is allowed the second most sacks in the NFL

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entering that game, but San Francisco has the fewest sacks
in the NFL on the year. They only have sixteen
as a team. That is the fewest by a forty
nine Ers team for the first fourteen games of the
season or of a season in the Super Bowl era.
But like I said, on defense, they're still getting it done.
They're kind of middle of the pack. They're ten and

(01:43:06):
four as a team. But this is what really kind
of separates them from being a legit contender in the
NFC in my opinion, because only three teams in the
Super Bowl era have made the playoffs in a season
where they had fewer than twenty sacks, And again right
now they only have sixteen with three games to go.

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Those other teams would be the twenty twenty Tennessee Titans,
the nineteen seventy nine Broncos, and the nineteen seventy Dolphins.
And what do all those three teams have in common?
They all three lost in their first playoff game once
they got to the postseason, and then my last one
here I title this the rare Circle City Showcase, all right,

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because Lucas Oil Stadium opened in two thousand and eight,
So twenty twenty five this season marks the eighteenth season
of Colts football inside that beautiful building and down town. Ending.
Monday Night's game against the forty nine Ers will be
just a twenty second home primetime game for the Colts
in the history of Lucas Oil Stadium. That's it, twenty

(01:44:13):
two home primetime games in eighteen years now. For comparison's sake,
the Kansas City Chiefs a perennial power in the AFC.
You know, they go to the playoffs every year minus
this year, but they have played forty two home primetime
games in that span. So this is going to be
just the sixth home primetime game the Colts have hosted

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this decade, and they're first since that. Winning your end
game against the Texans in Week eighteen of the twenty
twenty three season, and Lucas Oil Stadium is going to
be hosting Monday Night Football for just the sixth time ever,
and the Colts have lost four straight home Monday nighters.
In fact, the Colts haven't won a home Monday Night

(01:44:55):
game since twenty ten. That was back when Peyton Manning
was still here. So you know, in totality, the Coults
are twenty five and twenty one all time on Monday
Night Football. They've lost five straight and ten of their
last twelve on the big stage. And it's been since
twenty sixteen since the Colts last odd game period on

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Monday Night Football, which is a shame because the Colts
used to dominate on Monday Night Football from two thousand
and three to twenty ten with Peyton Manning and the Boys.
Indianapolis was nine to one on Monday Night Football and
that standalone stage and Kevin, you remember this, you grew
up here, remember that old rumor TV executives they didn't
want to put the Colts on primetime back then because

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they just killed teams right and made for bad games,
and that's bad ratings. The Colts were bad for primetime
because they just beat the blank out of everybody. So
the Coults are trying to get back to problems like
that as a franchise and earn the right to play
more games in primetime.

Speaker 2 (01:45:54):
Boy, that is wild that home Monday Night stad You
said nothing since two and ten.

Speaker 3 (01:46:01):
I was a freshman in high school.

Speaker 12 (01:46:03):
Yeah, the Colts have not won a Monday night home
primetime game, or it should say, let me double back.
I know there's a lot of information there. They have
not won a home Monday night football game since twenty ten.

Speaker 2 (01:46:16):
Wow, that is wild, wild, wild wild. Matt Taylor, Voice
of the Colts. Matt, I don't think we'll get a
chance to talk to you before. Have a merry Christmas,
best to the kids, and we will certainly chat with
you here though upcoming before the end of the season.

Speaker 12 (01:46:31):
Fantastic guys. Always good to be with you. Merry Christmas
to you as well. Have a good weekend coming up.

Speaker 2 (01:46:36):
That is the Voice of the Colts, Matt Taylor. Our
pregame coverage five point thirty coming up on Monday, we'll
switch over to Hank Only coming up at seven. You
do have a pacer game opposite Pacers are in Boston
on Monday night and then kick off is eight fifteen.
And reminder, we'll have Joe buck join us coming up
on Monday at nine o'clock. All right, A lot to

(01:46:58):
get to you in the morning. Checkdown. Let's do it,
all right, James Boyd injury report for the Colts. Let's
start there. Things of note that caught your eye from
yesterday was what.

Speaker 8 (01:47:14):
The Forrest Buckner being a full participant. I believe Kevin
due to his neck injury that has kept him on IR.
That's a good sign for perhaps he'll make his return
against the forty nine Ers. And then no Bernard Ryman,
no Sauce Gardner, and no Josh Downs or Jermaine Pratt.
I believe both dealing with personal issues.

Speaker 2 (01:47:33):
Alex Pierce so limited with Achilles. The A word makes
me worried. But I shouldn't be worried.

Speaker 8 (01:47:39):
No, I think you should be worried anytime I hear
the Achilles word. No one can, in their white man
can tell me that I should not have raised eyebrows.

Speaker 2 (01:47:45):
Okay, so me limited on that again. Injury report. I
thinks he's been super precautionary around the league this year.
But I do have PTSD from a Julian Blackman torn
Achilles in practice a few years ago, so that'll be
something to keep an eye on.

Speaker 12 (01:47:59):
Again.

Speaker 2 (01:47:59):
Everything plus back one day this week for the Colts
as they will have their second practice of the week
today their final practice coming up tomorrow. About a touchdown
underdog with the forty nine ers on on Monday. Pacers.
Last night they lose to the New York Knicks. Jalen
Brunson hits a three with Andrew Demmart in his face
with four seconds to go. That was the game winner.

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As at the other end of the floor, Pascal Siakam
trips trying to come off of a screen from Andrew Nemhar,
Jay Huff throwing the ball in bounds, doesn't see it
goes right to og Ananobi and the Knicks run out
of the clock. So the Pacers woes continue off the
New Orleans to take on the Pelicans Saturday, and then
again that back to back Monday. Tuesday, it's at Boston,
home to the Bucks. The Miles Turner Boo Birds will

(01:48:45):
be what on Tuesday. Have they grown since last game
or have they shrunk or about the same.

Speaker 8 (01:48:50):
I think it'll shrink a little bit, just because the
immediacy has worn off. But he's definitely gonna get booed,
probably forever, as long as he keeps coming back here.

Speaker 2 (01:48:59):
And uniform college football this weekend again tonight it is
Alabama and Oklahoma, one of the tighter spreads of any
of these four games. Here it's Alabama at Oklahoma. The
winner will take on Indiana in the Rose Bowl. Tomorrow
you'll get Oregon and James Madison. That's one of the games.
By the way, shout out Jason Hammer hitting the over
last night. As he told us in the ram Seahawks game,

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he likes Oregon in the points there twenty one point
spread old miss about a seventeen point favorite over two lane.
And the last game, which I think would be a great,
great game, Miami at Texas A and m For that one,
the winner will get Ohio State Georgia.

Speaker 7 (01:49:38):
Georgia's two right now, Miami, Texas A and m winner
gets Ohio State.

Speaker 2 (01:49:41):
I believe. Okay, this is why we do need to
fill out the CFP bracket.

Speaker 3 (01:49:47):
But let's say, brother, you okay, over so its.

Speaker 2 (01:49:48):
Ohio State, the two of the three high states, the
two they fell from one to two. Yes, Georgia stayed there. Yes,
Georgia gets ole miss or two lane.

Speaker 3 (01:49:56):
That is right, Please help him?

Speaker 2 (01:49:58):
Yeah, thank you, We guys where it'd be with that, Caleb.
This morning college basketball, we'll see if I get this right.
Indie Classic. It'll be Northwestern and Butler at four o'clock tomorrow,
and then the six to thirty game is per Due
and Auburn. That is the top twenty five matchup here.
Auburn not the same Auburn team as last year, but
they did run Purdue out of the building down there

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in Birmingham. So again four o'clock, six point thirty over
there at game Bridge Field House. If you're not there,
peacock action for this. I didn't realize. Indiana State lost
in triple overtime last night, James. Someone on the text
line said that it was a seventy footer from Indiana
State just to get into overtime. They hit a seventy two.

Speaker 11 (01:50:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:50:36):
I watched it, and that was one of the craziest
shots you'll see. And I also watched like a compilation
of a few of those types of shots that have
been made throughout the years.

Speaker 3 (01:50:45):
Pure luck, but hey, that's why you throw it up there.

Speaker 2 (01:50:48):
So Indiana State losing to Bradley last night, Indiana back
in action, Aaron de rezon company. They've got Chicago State
down there at Assembly Hall. I think it's a one
o'clock tip tomorrow. And again last night out in the
Pacific North, certainly one of the games of the year.
Really a huge comeback from the Seahawks down thirty to fourteen.
It was Rashid Shahi doing connaway did to the Colts

(01:51:09):
a huge punt return that spearheaded the comeback. They go
for two in overtime. Are you surprised how open that
tight end was in the two book version, I mean,
for like a two point version that that's open open.

Speaker 8 (01:51:22):
I wasn't like that surprised because you would think they're
gonna call like their best play. But also if you
watch the replay, the defensive lineman is like an inch
away from batting that ball down, so they say it's
a game inches and that was certainly an example there.

Speaker 2 (01:51:36):
So again the Seahawks went for two and the win
and they get it done there. What that means is
the forty nine ers who the Colts play on Monday night,
if they went out, they will be the one seed
in the NFC, so the Colts obviously have a ton
to play for. San Francisco has a lot to play for.
I believe they can clinch a playoff berth with a
win on Monday as well. What is the latest on

(01:51:56):
the impaired vision for Anthony Richardson? Will hit on that
it is the Fan Morning show. Wow, Wow Wow. Caleb Zuber,
sophomore in college. I actually didn't actually hated this song,
to be totally frank. It was a popular song that
was played I feel like at parties and then the bars,
but I was never a G six fan. That is

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the number one charted song.

Speaker 7 (01:52:23):
As Matt Taylor said in our last segment that the
last time the Colts won a Monday night home game,
it was like a G six.

Speaker 2 (01:52:32):
That was a number one song. They are two and
ten I'm adding this up right now too, and ten
in their last twelve Monday nighters, and as you point out,
haven't won a home Monday nighter since twenty ten those losses, James,
I've always found this so weird about the twenty twenty
two season is when Jeff Saturday took over, the Colts
had two Monday Night football games left on their schedule

(01:52:54):
home Monday night. I remember they lost to the Steelers,
if I remember correctly, that was a big Jalawanni Wood game.

Speaker 3 (01:53:02):
Colts Steeler taking me back, and then.

Speaker 2 (01:53:05):
Justin Herbert and the Chargers just smoked the Colts. Then
Colts barely even scored in that game. Yeah, the Monday
Night has not been too kind. I can tell you
what your fans like it. I feel like I would
think so I'm selling my tickets such an early wake
up call to the next day, like the.

Speaker 3 (01:53:26):
Ones who are going because I'm like the ones who.

Speaker 2 (01:53:28):
Like season ticket holders. I think you got to be
mixed on it, right.

Speaker 3 (01:53:34):
I can't speak for them, but boy, you know me,
I think one pm is God's time.

Speaker 2 (01:53:38):
You know.

Speaker 7 (01:53:38):
When I think of the whole Monday night games, Kevin,
I think of those two during the Lucky years, I
think of I think it was I don't want Jets Eagles.

Speaker 2 (01:53:46):
Or Eagles Jets, but both of those are Week two games.
Both of them. I think the Jets they barely scored
more horrible. They just went off. You sound more right there, dude.
I mean we were we were upset, you know, and
it was not pretty out Papa Zover have not been
on Monday night very often. We'll be here coming up
and again we'll Joe Buck join us at nine o'clock

(01:54:07):
on Monday. Let's get back into Anthony Richardson and the
update from yesterday. Caleb go ahead and played the Shane
Stike in audio again, the vision impairment. That was the
popular phrase used yesterday. Here was Shane Stike and yesterday
on the latest update in regards Anthony Richardson.

Speaker 9 (01:54:24):
Yeah, I think, like you get the clearance from the
bone structure that was cleared obviously, but there was limitations
with that, you know, with the vision that's healing. So
he's working through that. Like I said, he's gonna have
to manage it. I get him out on the practice
field and go from there.

Speaker 2 (01:54:38):
James covered the culture for fifteen years obviously watched a
whole lot of sports in my life. Managing impaired vision
is a phrase I haven't heard too many of too often,
let alone for a quarterback.

Speaker 3 (01:54:52):
Yeah, sounds a little scary for sure.

Speaker 8 (01:54:54):
And again, pressing for more information from Shane and from
Anthony himself, we never got a definitive answer as to
will that vision come back? Will it get back to
the level that he had pre injury. I know you
pointed out if you look at Anthony straight in his face,
you can tell the right side of his face where
he got hit. His right eye it is not as

(01:55:16):
open as the other one, and you can tell there's
still some recovery happening perhaps, But yeah, that is concerning,
and it's instantly became those news worthy item.

Speaker 11 (01:55:30):
Of the day.

Speaker 8 (01:55:31):
When he mentioned the vision part, I think all of
us kind of sat up in our seats, like, wait
a second, we gotta ask for more on this, because
my thing was, how did you get clear for practice
if you can't see fully? But my understanding, according to Stichen,
is that the bone itself is healed and now they're
just waiting for the eye to heel.

Speaker 3 (01:55:50):
But as that is happening, he can still practice with
the team.

Speaker 2 (01:55:53):
Yeah, I mean, I think the easiest common human comparison
would be James Boyd. You're going out to play basketball
and you forget to put in your contacts. You're gonna
attempt to play, but you'd rather have your contacts in now. Unfortunately,
with the situation with Anthony, you can't just pop in
a contact in that right eye. And there are legit
questions about if the vision will continue to heal anymore

(01:56:16):
or if this is it. So I think that's where
you get into kind of the managing phrase of it.
But I mean, again, we're talking about a very gruesome injury.
The trauma from the orbital fracture led to serious questions
about if his vision would be there, and initially it
was a lot worse. It has gotten better over time,
but I mean, we're talking about damage to the retina,

(01:56:38):
and you know, those sorts of things are just awful.
And you know, I guess if you want to look
for a little bit of optimism, it is the right eye,
which plain quarterback is a right hander.

Speaker 3 (01:56:50):
You know, it's not the.

Speaker 2 (01:56:51):
Blind side necessarily, but still, you know, I think the
only way to truly find out is to literally get
him back into practice and to see, all right, can
he whatever scan a defense and properly see you know,
where you know guys are and how his guys are
getting open and all of that. And you can insert
your Anthony Richardson accuracy jokes in here, but you know

(01:57:13):
that element is just a little different. And again, chainsa
Can officially ruled him out for Monday, night, So that
would leave just two games left. And you know, to me,
if you have questions about him doing the whole operation,
could you at least get him involved in short yardage.
I think that's probably the next question for me. I
don't know if I've ruled out him being the starting
quarterback this season, but you know, for the last few weeks,

(01:57:35):
I've been skeptical about it, and then I continue to
be well.

Speaker 3 (01:57:38):
It's hypothetical, Kevin.

Speaker 2 (01:57:40):
You guy hit with the hypothetical response a couple of
times yesterday.

Speaker 3 (01:57:44):
Yeah, you're not living in reality.

Speaker 2 (01:57:46):
There are a few coaches that go there a lot. Oh,
that's a hypothetical. I'm not I'm not getting into that.
But again, I Chanine usually doesn't go there, but he did.

Speaker 13 (01:57:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:57:53):
But also, he's never going to give us any gang
plan stuff. But I do think that'll become a louder conversation, Kevin,
if he is fine throughout his first week of practice,
as a fine second week of practice, and you feel
comfortable putting him out there in a live football game,
because yeah, at that point, you should not be bashful

(01:58:15):
in trying to find any way to maximize whatever talent
you have on your.

Speaker 2 (01:58:18):
Team to get into the playoffs if they're eliminated, do
you think that will weigh on chainstiking?

Speaker 3 (01:58:25):
Who starts?

Speaker 2 (01:58:26):
Yes, Now again, they can't be eliminated to Week eighteen,
even with a loss on Monday Night. Like I think
it'll definitely be Philip Rivers each of the next two weeks.
But the Week eighteen game, if you're eliminated, with that
influence you anyway and say we don't need to see
the forty four year old. I'd rather see either Richardson
or Riley Leonard. Well, what if the forty four year

(01:58:46):
olds is to come back? Got to see how he's
looking for next year? But are you serious with that statement?

Speaker 3 (01:58:52):
I'm definitely not serious with that statement.

Speaker 8 (01:58:53):
But who knows Philip Rivers told us?

Speaker 2 (01:58:56):
Because I don't think it's a dumb question, knowing how
Philip Rivers operates.

Speaker 3 (01:59:00):
Oh, I think it is.

Speaker 2 (01:59:01):
There is if you think Daniel Jones is not going
to be ready until mid October, you don't think that
thought will cross the Colts Mines at all this offseason
And say, you know what, Philip Rivers, you give us
five games and then you go coach your son in
a senior year high school football.

Speaker 3 (01:59:19):
Man bump that.

Speaker 8 (01:59:20):
If that is even a conversation, he need to call
me immediately so I can yell at him and get
him out of that conversation. No, you need to be
rolling with Anthony Richardson, Riley Leonard mac Jones.

Speaker 2 (01:59:31):
For all I care.

Speaker 8 (01:59:32):
You cannot run it back.

Speaker 2 (01:59:33):
If Richardson's got impaired vision moving forward.

Speaker 8 (01:59:36):
Then you rolled Riley Leonard. He's not got any, doesn't
have any vision issues.

Speaker 2 (01:59:41):
You play the young guy. They're going with Rivers right
now over Leonard.

Speaker 8 (01:59:44):
That is true, But at that point, I feel like
if this experiment fails, which right now it is failing,
then why would you run it back with If Philip
Rivers starts four straight games for you and he loses
all of them, and you tell me you want to
run it back with him next year, I'm going to
tell you you're out of your mind.

Speaker 3 (02:00:06):
I'm mad as you even brought this up.

Speaker 1 (02:00:07):
Now.

Speaker 3 (02:00:07):
I feel like my blood pressure is rising. Don't do
that to me, Kevin. I don't like yelling at you.

Speaker 2 (02:00:12):
Imagine what James is going to think when it actually happens.
I mean, that's gonna be Caleb here. I mean, it's
quarterback situation.

Speaker 8 (02:00:19):
Should let's not act like.

Speaker 2 (02:00:21):
Anything is off the table here.

Speaker 8 (02:00:23):
It should be off the table. You know what, I
should take the table and flip it.

Speaker 2 (02:00:26):
No, no, don't do that. Come from someone that told
me to shut up last week.

Speaker 3 (02:00:30):
I feel I was close.

Speaker 2 (02:00:31):
I feel like James is approaching that I was close.
And we do have twenty minutes left in the show,
but we'll do it one final time here. This is
a fan morning show on a Friday. Great work from
Caleb Zuber filling in for Mark Dyton, Mark from Munster's
how we've talked about him on this Friday morning. He
did a call in earlier. You can check that out,

(02:00:51):
Fucking Little Bears Stadium on the segment and the lions
Den Fair Oaks Farm or you can put the stadium
next year. Put him back, you know by all the
windmills up there. You imagine, I know he said the
hell is real sign, The Hell's Real sign is exactly Yeah.
Some great lines there from Mark Dighton. He joined us
a little bit earlier in the show. Again, it's kind

(02:01:11):
of odd, you know, usually on the Friday show we
were in full like Colts game prep. But we will
have another show before the balls kicked off and that's
with the Monday Night are coming up here in week sixteen.
Reminder from our airwaves standpoint, we'll have a lot from
a college football standpoint and NFL this weekend, Indiana fans,

(02:01:32):
you will find out the winner tonight Alabama and Oklahoma.
A really small spread. I think Alabama's slight favorite maybe
in that one. That game is tonight and the winner
will take on Indiana in the Rose Bowl. You have
the three college football playoff games. Then tomorrow you will
have the Indie Classic over there at Gamebridge field House,
Butler Northwestern at four, and purdueing all Burn at six

(02:01:54):
thirty pacers in New Orleans tomorrow night. So busy, busy weekend,
Boislets hit our hardest, easiest entertaining games here of week seventeen,
James Wood, where do you want to go first?

Speaker 8 (02:02:11):
Ooh, I'll go most entertaining, and I'm gonna go with
Mark's Munster Bears against.

Speaker 3 (02:02:21):
The Green Bay Packers.

Speaker 8 (02:02:23):
The Bears are point and a half favorites. That game
I believe will decide or have a huge implication on
who wins that division. So I'm very excited to watch
that one.

Speaker 2 (02:02:34):
Caleb, what you got for most entertaining.

Speaker 7 (02:02:36):
That's where I'm going as well. And I honestly think
when these two teams played two weeks ago, I think
it was up in Lambeau I thought it was just
a real like you know, it's the four to twenty
five slot, it's the primetime Fox game, and you know
the night falls on Lambeau Field, and he had two
historic franchises going at it falls.

Speaker 2 (02:02:56):
I tried to be NFL film frozen Ton, and so I.

Speaker 7 (02:03:02):
Think that happening at Soldier Field, which we don't know
how many more games are left as Soldier Field, I guess.

Speaker 2 (02:03:08):
So I think that's where I'm going as well. Yeah,
in three years, they're playing that game in Maryville. I'm
probably stretching a little bit here, But is the Philip
Rivers thing not still entertaining to people?

Speaker 11 (02:03:19):
No?

Speaker 13 (02:03:19):
It is?

Speaker 2 (02:03:20):
It is Could you go Colts forty nine?

Speaker 11 (02:03:22):
Ers can?

Speaker 2 (02:03:23):
Okay? Maybe Chargers? Cowboys is a little intriguing to me.
I guess just remind everybody from a cult standpoint, you
need to be Cowboys and Raiders fans in particular this weekend.
I gotta throw a couple other teams in there, but
let's just start there. You really want to be Raiders
over Texans, which good luck, that's a big spread, and

(02:03:45):
Cowboys over Chargers, which a little bit more on the
realistic factor. All the Cowboys don't have a ton left
to play for here are they even alive? The Cowboys,
I think they still have a thinky win three and
Philly's got to lose three, yes for them to get in. Okay, James,
where are you going for the hardest game to pick?

Speaker 8 (02:04:01):
So the hardest game to pick, And this might be
a little crazy, but I might go Chiefs Titans. Yeah,
because I'm just not sure what the Chiefs will look
like with Gardner Minshew from a morale standpoint. You just
lost Patrick Mahomes, you out of the playoffs for the
first time in forever. The Titans cam Ward, I never

(02:04:23):
know what to expect with those dudes, So yeah, that's
a weird one.

Speaker 3 (02:04:26):
I would just stay away from Caleb.

Speaker 7 (02:04:28):
I think that's a great call, James, I was debating now,
and I also think Patriots Ravens. I mean they have
the Ravens as a three point favorite in that game
home favorite, correct, Yes, And you know it'd be interesting
to see how the Patriots respond after last week. Kind
of getting punched in the mouth by Josh Allen and
the Bills, And I think this is a really big

(02:04:49):
test for them, but I would have to believe like
that they're going to play well in that game. We'll
see how Lamar's been under the weather, so that's a
whole storyline this week. He missed practice, so I think
that's where I'm going.

Speaker 2 (02:05:00):
We get into these late season games and I often
pick the hardest games of who the bleep cares? Can
you guys name the starting quarterbacks? And Saints Jets?

Speaker 11 (02:05:11):
Is it?

Speaker 2 (02:05:11):
Tyler Shuck?

Speaker 10 (02:05:12):
Still right?

Speaker 2 (02:05:13):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (02:05:14):
And Brady Cook?

Speaker 2 (02:05:15):
I believe Wow, I didn't have the Jets. You guys
are sick. Could you have named the Saints starter James?
There's no way. Could you have named both? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (02:05:22):
Mainly because I'm going to degenerate.

Speaker 2 (02:05:23):
Hey, Shuck's playing well, don't look now, Kevin. The Saints
are favored by four and a half at home. I mean, A,
who cares? And B who the hell knows? So that's amazing.

Speaker 8 (02:05:32):
You don't think I know who caught Brady Cook's first
touchdown pass?

Speaker 2 (02:05:36):
Shout out out of Mitchell? Come on now, that was
a hell of a catch by Adi Mitchell, Okay, where
are you going for the easiest game?

Speaker 8 (02:05:43):
Easiest game on the schedule?

Speaker 12 (02:05:47):
Boy?

Speaker 8 (02:05:47):
I want to say the Colts, but that certainly is
not the case, you know, I can't say that with
any type of confidence. I think I might roll with
the Bills over the Browns on the ten and a
half point favorites, which is.

Speaker 3 (02:05:58):
A lot of points.

Speaker 13 (02:05:59):
What is it?

Speaker 2 (02:05:59):
Ten and a half?

Speaker 8 (02:06:00):
Ten and a half? But I just feel like, after
what we saw with the Browns last week, the Bills
are probably gonna do the same thing.

Speaker 2 (02:06:07):
What do you got, Caleb?

Speaker 7 (02:06:08):
I don't really feel good about any of these, but
I think the Lions will step up at home over
the Steelers.

Speaker 2 (02:06:15):
I think it'll be a good game.

Speaker 7 (02:06:16):
Now Lions are seven point favorites, but I just believe
in their offensive talent and I think they'll get it
done there, which, you know.

Speaker 2 (02:06:25):
Weirdly, there is some Colts impact there. If the Steelers
all of a sudden become a wildcard team, they do
have the head to head over Indy. Now, again, they
would have to lose, I think, a game to get
in the wildcard picture, so their record might not be
as good as the Colts, but just something to keep
an eye on there. I'm gonna take the former Colts quarterback.
I like Jacoby rssetting the Cardinals favored by three over
the Falcons. I think the Falcons have thrown in the towel.

(02:06:49):
I get the Kirk Cousins whatever is maybe some level
of competent, but I'm gonna go there for my easiest game. Again,
not a slate that a ton stood out to me
from an obvious standpoint there, So again reminder, we will
have two NFL games tomorrow. Both of those NFC games,
it's Eagles Commanders in the four o'clock window for thirty

(02:07:14):
window and then Mark's Bears No five o'clock excuse me
on Fox tomorrow Eagles at Commander's and then Packers Bears.
That is eight twenty coming up tomorrow, James. The news
item to watch today for the Colts would be what.

Speaker 8 (02:07:31):
How does Bernard Ryman look, perhaps on the practice field
or not, Sauce Gardner, things of that nature.

Speaker 2 (02:07:38):
I would say, I feel like Sauces a little. Well,
if you're gonna say one of the other practices, I'd
probably say Sauce before Ryman. But I don't get the vibe.
I don't necessarily have a great feel on the sauce situation,
but that would be definitely be one to keep any
for what to tours San Francisco. Ricky Piersoll their top
white out right now did miss yesterday's practice knee and

(02:07:59):
ink issues, so I think that is the one big
one to watch for San Francisco as the week continues
to move on. Thank you everybody out there. I know
a ton of people are going to be traveling here
coming up this weekend, maybe not be with us on
the airwaves coming up next week, So safe travels everybody
this time of year. Certainly, I'm Merry Christmas and happy
New Year out there to everybody. We will be back

(02:08:21):
Monday Tuesday next week with shows previewing and recapping Colts
and forty nine ers for Caleb Zuver, for James Boyd,
for Kevin Bowen, and best wishes to Jeff Rickard and
his family. Everybody have a great, great weekend. We'll talk
to you Monday,

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