Friday 8/8: Colts preseason opener, AR banged up again & more!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
They seiesed a fan morning show with KB jab and Jeff.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Anthony Richardson goes out of the gunballman here Hash backs
to throw it and he is decked from the left
and he is sacked and buried. He took a big
time hit, but more importantly, hangs on to the football
and the ravens with a sack off the left edge and.

Speaker 3 (00:21):
He's going off the field, Matt. He got hit unnobated.
There was no one blocking, the protection was totally not there.
You can't have a quarterback take that shot.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
And like you said, Anthony Richardson is out of the game.
That was a wicked hit and.

Speaker 4 (00:36):
It was weird.

Speaker 5 (00:38):
H mean.

Speaker 6 (00:39):
Then I was going to make sure I had the
ball and I just looked down. I see my finger
different direction. I'm like, maybe I'm tripping. And I looked
at it again and it was definitely like that. So
so I gotta get this thing popped back in place.
But I'm good, though.

Speaker 7 (00:51):
Yeah, dislocation. They popped it back in right now. Day
to day, that's where it goes. He's falling, all right,
you know what I mean. It's a dislocation they popped
back in. I mean, we'll see you know where it goes, the.

Speaker 8 (01:00):
Same thing, indense.

Speaker 9 (01:04):
Everywhere.

Speaker 4 (01:05):
Don't know what he could have done about it other
than pick up the blitz, but here we go again.
Good morning everyone, and welcome into the Fan Morning Show.
We have one preseason game in the books. Colts lose
to the Ravens last night. The score, of course, in
a preseason more incidental than anything else. But good morning,
Kevin Bowen, Good morning, James Boyd, Good morning, Mark Dyton,
good to I'll see you in studio again after a

(01:26):
fantastic day out of the Legends golf course yesterday the
fundraiser for Franciscan. And before we get going on the Colts,
I will say this, Yesterday is everything, guys, that I
love about radio local radio. It's community, it's a great cause.
I don't know if you all check it out, but
every single salesperson in the building, every single promotions person

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in the building, every single management person in the building
a side mark cut there after the show was over.
Aside from all the talent and the shows that were
out there every day, the entire Radio One team pitching
in Toy's a bunch of money for Franciscan. Have a
great time with a bunch of our listeners give away
some great prizes. Beautiful day. Kevin Bowen, I think had

(02:08):
one hundred and seventy four tribes yesterday to you guys
saw a workout yesterday.

Speaker 9 (02:14):
Man boy, it's one of the more embarrassing things in
the world. When I woke up this morning and I
thought to myself, how the hell am I in this
much pain right now? I'm like, Kevin, your body is
just such a disgrace.

Speaker 4 (02:25):
Awesome time.

Speaker 9 (02:26):
Thank you to the hundred golfers. That was easily my
favorite part of the day.

Speaker 10 (02:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (02:30):
I've said this before about our opportunity to remote shows.
We don't get to do a lot of them, so,
you know, hence probably the reason why I don't know,
maybe my antics on some of the morning shows are
not the most well behaved, But nonetheless I love being
out there. Great to see everybody. Thank you to certainly,
like you said Jeff, all of our staff, but most
importantly all of our listeners for being out there supporting

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and we had a great time.

Speaker 4 (02:53):
And the sponsors, which we'll go over in a minute here,
unbelievable of course, chief among them Franciscan. They just do
so much great work preventing as many healthcare problems as possible,
and of course, once you have a problem, tremendous care
as well. And Jake has certainly tied closely to them
after his experience, and I again, I'm glad you got

(03:15):
to see it firsthand yesterday, James. But it's really something
special when sponsors and all the folks at Radio one
and listeners all get together. It's exactly why I'm in
this business, is what we saw yesterday.

Speaker 8 (03:27):
Yeah, when I showed up, everyone was like, man, what
a celebrity, What a great guy. He's so handsome, and
you know, there's all these things that they were telling me.
I hadn't hurt persons just yet, but you.

Speaker 4 (03:35):
Were standing behind JMB.

Speaker 8 (03:36):
No, it was great. I enjoyed it. Obviously, got to
work on the golf game. I did not swing any
clubs yesterday. I didn't want to hurt anybody out there.
But I enjoyed really getting to know a lot of
people that listen to us every morning and telling us,
you know, why they listen, where they listen, things like that.
So I'm looking forward to the next event where we
can get out there and interact with the folks. And
I'm glad that you know, Kate, you got a chance

(03:57):
to crack a beer.

Speaker 11 (03:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (04:00):
I think that's half the reason you like to go
to those places, right, is to get going early. Yeah.

Speaker 9 (04:04):
That not to be technically by Protestation. Yeah, not to
be technical James probably plural on the beers front. So yes, great, great,
great day, and thank you everybody who was playing a huge,
huge part in that.

Speaker 4 (04:18):
It was a lot of fun.

Speaker 8 (04:19):
Oh yeah, before we get into some colts, TG, isn't there? Yeah?

Speaker 9 (04:25):
Yeah, you know I thought the leading right there, mark
from Marshall Mathers, same song and dance, James Boyd. I
literally said to Maddie out loud last night of the couch,
I cannot believe here I am at eight o'clock writing
Anthony richardson his hurt story. Once again, it's just I
get the injury, you know, is hopefully something that will

(04:45):
not keep him out too too long. But same song
and dance. I thought that song was excellent right there. Unfortunately,
but it was the exact feeling I had when he
went down last night. The fact that it's his own
fault for that injury probably kind of adds to it.
So yeah, it's just it's utterly amazing in the opposite

(05:06):
way that here we are a night that he was
supposed to play a quarter and a half and he
exits before the end of the second series.

Speaker 4 (05:14):
Yeah, that's where that's where he said it. He went
right to football.

Speaker 8 (05:18):
Yeah, it was a vet move from Kevin.

Speaker 12 (05:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (05:21):
You know, I've noticed a very large audience in our
YouTube chat. I think we should reward them here on
a Friday morning with some actual talk about a Colts
football game.

Speaker 4 (05:29):
We got we got three hours to do that.

Speaker 9 (05:31):
But we know in their car on the morning community.

Speaker 8 (05:35):
This is true. This is true. But I do like beef.
But on top of what you just said, Kevin, besides,
you know, not really honoring marking him, you know, help
you out there with a couple of drinks. It was
very un brand. I probably could have written that story.
We have written that story, I don't know fifty different

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ways since he's been drafted. And like you said, the
most damning part is that it was your fault. He
mentioned after the game that it was a coverage that
he didn't really recognize at first. And for everything I've
read and not saying I've read a ton on this
particular play, but seeing what Kurt Warner and others had
to say, and more of the former football players that
I saw on social media yesterday, they were all saying,

(06:16):
this was a basic protection sort of basic day one
install type of thing, and he just read it wrong,
just missed it completely. And initially I think I tweeted out, oh,
he got hit from his blind side, but I had
to go back and watch the play, like, no, actually,
what is your blind side? The guy came right at
you and you just didn't see it at all, and
so that was unfortunate. But also he's very fortunate in

(06:39):
some degree to not have been injured more on that play,
and yeah, just the awkward situation and watching it live
on the couch yesterday. I'm sure you probably did the
same thing, Kevin. I just slowed it down to see
what happened. And I actually saw it in real time
when he got up and went off the field, because
I'm thinking, I was like, man, his pinky looks a little,
you know, messed up. But fortunately for him, it's not broken.
It was just dislocated.

Speaker 4 (07:00):
But like you said, here we go again.

Speaker 3 (07:04):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (07:04):
I read your stuff this morning, Kevin, and you thought
that Daniel Jones had an okay night. I mean, how
would you classify his performance last night? That's how I
would look at it was okay.

Speaker 9 (07:12):
Yeah, I don't know. There's a little bit of part
of me that we I don't know. We feel like
no one really wants Daniel Jones to start, or at
least very few people do, and so it seems like
everything's kind of viewed in a really negative scope with him.
I thought the final stat line wasn't a true indicator
of how he played. I would say probably three to
four drops if he cooled out a couple. There was

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a couple of fifty to fifty balls that I thought
his pass catchers could help them out on. I thought Jones,
if you compare him maybe to the first two weeks
in Grand Park, I thought he's a little better. I
thought he had several throws where he's hitting guys in stride,
allowing for yards after catch. I think that's a key
element to the Colts passing offense and something that recent
quarterbacks have not done a very good job of.

Speaker 12 (07:51):
I e.

Speaker 9 (07:51):
The one that he's in competition with. But again, more
than anything, it's the fact that this was supposed to
be Anthony Richardson's night, it ends, and now we're back
to this conversation of Okay, now what about Saturday, Sunday, Monday,
three straight practices at Grand Park. Does Shane Stikeen feel
the need to change the quarterback plan coming up six

(08:12):
days from now or I guess eight days from now
when they're playing Green Bay inside of Lucas O' Stadium
in that second preseason game, Now, does it become Anthony
Richardson if he's healthy enough to get the quarter and
a half playing time? And then, as James pointed out,
it's just the fact that here he is having a
misidentification in the preseason. I mean, guys, no one's being

(08:33):
exotic in the preseason. No, it's not like Baltimore, you know,
stayed up until three am on a Tuesday night game
plan and said, hey watch this. We haven't used this
in six years. We're going to bring this out right.
The last two times we've played the Colts, we've you know,
made it look like this. Now we're going to disguise it.
It's going to look like this. No one's doing that.
And it wasn't on his blind side either, right, So
it just you know, when you add all of it up.

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Outside of it being probably a serious, serious injury, it's
about as worse of a night as you could have
for Richardson, because again, this was supposed to be his
chance to really James, I think, have an opportunity to
kind of secure things, And now I would say he's
opened that door. And you know, if you're playing a

(09:15):
game of trust, which quarterback do you trust more? I
get that probably neither answer makes you sleep totally great
at night, But right now it's probably Daniel Jones.

Speaker 8 (09:26):
Yeah, we've talked all off season about this, and we
have gone over the intermediate throws, the short throws, the layups,
you know, reading defenses, feeling more comfortable, he said, more relaxed,
But then the injury factor is always there with him,
and honestly, he just can't be trusted to stay healthy.

(09:48):
And I get that. I guess in theory, in a
regular season game or a bigger game, perhaps he goes
back in there. It's just a dislocated finger. He was
mentioned after the game it was a little bit sore,
popped it back in, But just the the fact that
we're having this conversation is on brand for him, and
like I said, I'm very happy that he didn't break
his finger, because at first he looked horrible watching the

(10:09):
replay back, Obviously, fingers are supposed to point that direction, but.

Speaker 10 (10:14):
I don't know.

Speaker 8 (10:14):
And I hear people saying, well, that's on the coach
for not having the right offensive lineman in there and
all that. But Anthony said it himself. He just didn't
read the play right. And that, to me again is
very very concerning for someone who's going into year three.
You're supposed to have a great grasp of your offense

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because it's the same one you've been working with for
three years. And to your point, Kevin, no one's doing
anything exotic. You aren't either. It's very simple get the
ball out, and he didn't, and it cost him. So
seven snaps last night from Anthony Richardson by my account,
and obviously not nearly enough to solidify himself as Q one.

Speaker 4 (10:55):
Can we talk about something good, though, real quickly before
we get to a break. Tyler Lawren looks terrific. He
catches the ball, he catches it where he's supposed to be.
He seems to find separation. I know some of that scheme,
but he seems to have picked up right where he
left off in college.

Speaker 13 (11:10):
Jab.

Speaker 8 (11:12):
Yeah, I mean that was never going to be a
question for me. He had a couple of big catches.
I believe he had a twenty three yard reception in
the first quarter. I believe from Daniel Jones and hands, availability, physicality,
run after the catch. You saw that yesterday.

Speaker 4 (11:27):
All right, we will take quick time out. We'll give
you up to date on everything else that's going on
in the world of sports. A lot of Colts talk
today preseason game number one in the books, so many
things to get into. We are with the right guys
to do it. Kevin Bowen and James Boyd cover the
team full time, Mark Deckton, Jeff Reckord with you. Will
continue next on ninety three five and one oh seven
five The Fan.

Speaker 1 (11:47):
The Morning Checkdown on nuety thwee five and one oh
seven five The Fan, Good morning.

Speaker 4 (11:53):
You're waking up to a Friday, and uh, this is
where we're at with the Indianapolis Colts. Anthony richards Is,
Richardson is injured again. James Boyd here we are.

Speaker 8 (12:03):
Yeah, And additionally, Justin Wally was announced by saying styching
after the game, we'll missed the entire season with a
torn acl the standout rookie from Minnesota who was on
track to be a starter. So big blow on the
health front for the Colts last night.

Speaker 4 (12:17):
Ravens went at twenty four to sixteen. Of course, preseason
scores a little bit incidental. What did you take from
that and five things learned in your column this morning,
Kevin Bowen.

Speaker 9 (12:26):
Well, I think James did a great job point out
that justin Wally injury, I had this awful news for
a guy that was playing very good football and was
probably going to be a starter for you, And right
now your cornerback depth.

Speaker 4 (12:36):
Is really getting tested. You know things you liked.

Speaker 9 (12:39):
That, you know, Baltimore certainly didn't throw the ball on
you really at all. You know, you mentioned Tyler Warren
a little bit earlier. You know, Anthony Gould did have
a couple of moments in the return game. You know,
things you didn't like, penalty yardage way too high, your
own coverage units got torched on a punt return and
a kick return, and I thought the run defense was
really poor early in that game, particularly those linebackers, which

(13:03):
again it's a very unheralded group.

Speaker 4 (13:05):
Of guys, so you know, those are some of the
things that stood out.

Speaker 9 (13:08):
You know, Dan or Spencer Trader is one you know,
doink away from having a really really good night. You know,
you can't rip him too much for hitting one off
the upright. James doesn't seem like all his misses have
been off the upright.

Speaker 8 (13:19):
It doesn't seem like that. But this offseason I gave
him some. He was one of us I had to do,
like nice with the fifty three yard or to start
the day, I thought that he was he was fine.
Like I mean, I can't expect every guy to make
every fifty yard kick, but from you know, just to
see one go through from fifty plus yards was a
good sign for him because he hadn't done it in
the regular season just yet.

Speaker 4 (13:40):
And I know we've come to expect it from Tyler Warren,
but it's still nice to see your first round pick
tight end just looking exactly like he did at Penn
State just well.

Speaker 9 (13:49):
And I know one of the players was called back,
but you know he had three catches forth if you
want to, you know, bring up the penalty play a
legal man the screen field, yeah, and I mean all
four were different ways to get him the ball. And
even watching the board plays. If you've been at Grand Park,
you see another three or four different ways they've tried
to get him the ball. So it's just another reminder

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that even in the Vanilla preseason, you're going to find
eighty four. You're going to find him in a variety
of ways. And yeah, there were some you know, yards
after catch moments, and I think Joe Wright's pointed out
on the broadcast, you know, I love how he's trying to,
you know, get some yards after the catch and kind
of use that physicality as well. So no worries about
Tyler World. I thought j T tuy Maloau had a
couple of moments. The second round pick out of Ohio

(14:33):
State did have a knee injury. Sounded like Nate Atkins
reported just to bang knees. I'm there, but he did
have to leave early, but doesn't look too too severe
for him.

Speaker 4 (14:42):
My favorite part of the television broadcast is in the
second half they're interviewing some of the players. Camp by
them just seems giddy to be part of the Indianapolis cults.
I liked hearing that.

Speaker 8 (14:51):
James Boyd, Yeah, he's a positive guy.

Speaker 4 (14:54):
That was fun. I like hearing guys want to be
here and are happy to be here.

Speaker 8 (14:58):
I would be happy to be here too. He got
sixty million. He should be smiling for a very long time.
I was muzz if he's unhappy, we got some big issues,
all right.

Speaker 4 (15:08):
The next up for the Indianapois Colts a couple of
days of practice and they will be seen again on
the field against the Green Bay Packers. Not only enjoying
practices next week, Kevin, but also Saturday night over at
Lucas Oil. What does the practice schedule look like moving forward?

Speaker 9 (15:22):
Yeah, afternoons moving forward, Saturday, Sunday and Monday at Grand Park.
I think it's a four o'clock start time all three
of those days. And then yeah, that joint practice with
the Green Bay coming up on Thursday, the second preseason
game a week from Saturday. And if assuming Anthony Richardson
is fine, you know who knows if he throw, I
can't imagine tomorrow's practice will be too too active. I

(15:42):
would think Sunday and Monday would be a little bit more.
As long as he's good to go for next week,
you have to play him the amount of time you
were going to play him last night, like you now
need to flip the quarterback plan. It was supposed to
be Daniel Jones for a quarter and a half against
Green Bay. Jones got that last night. It's time for
Richardson now, you know, assuming he can stay healthy to

(16:04):
get that.

Speaker 8 (16:04):
Would you stick with that plan of Daniel Jones starting
against Green Bay?

Speaker 1 (16:10):
No?

Speaker 9 (16:10):
No, no, flip, okay, just making sure yeah, yeah, flip
flip flipper. And yeah, I again, selfishly, I'd like to
see more starters play. I'm not you know in the
camp that necessarily is like, oh, you know, because you
didn't have your tackles out there. Richardson got hurt. No,
I mean clearly that was a misidentification from him, but
still I'd like to see more frontline guys play in
that game.

Speaker 13 (16:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (16:29):
Also in the preseason last night, Philadelphia over Cincinnati thirty
four to twenty seven, but probably the headline there. Two
series and two touchdowns for Joe Burrow and he got
right on track again with Jamar Chase and they've gotten
off the slow starts over the last couple of years
and JB. Maybe this is an idea for Zach Taylor
to say, hey, let's let's hit the first game in
stride as an offense this year.

Speaker 8 (16:50):
Yeah, they're usually a team that starts slow, always in
a hole starts the season. So we'll see if they
can move to a positive note and we'll take it
from there.

Speaker 4 (16:58):
Raiders and Seahawks ended up in eight time twenty three
twenty three tie. I will also tell you it was
a rough night if you stayed up late enough, and
I did. Again. I don't know why, but the Phoenix
Mercury all over the Indiana Fever ninety five to sixty.
They got behind by double digits early in the game.
They never really they got to within five in the
first half at one point, and then it just kind

(17:19):
of started according stretching, stretching, stretching. But the big news here,
Alyssa Thomas of Phoenix becomes the first WNBA player KB
with three straight triple doubles in there went over with
the Fever. Fever have now lost two straight before they
finally come back home to play Chicago on Saturday.

Speaker 9 (17:34):
Yeah, I mean, unfortunately, I would argue the big news
is the injury situation for the Fever. Sidney Colson that
was really ugly slipping in front of the Fever bench
left the injury. She exited with you could hear the
audible scream on the broadcast from her, and then Aray
McDonald also hurt late in that game. I think I
was a right ankle. So you now have your two

(17:55):
point guards without Caitlin Clark. Now both seemingly hurt, not
you know, short term injuries. I mean, both of them
look like they're going to miss time. And there's really
no break from this West coast trip. Yeah, they do
return home. They actually play four or five at home
and Connecticut's one road game and they've been terrible. But
I have no idea who the hell the point guard

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is coming up tomorrow.

Speaker 4 (18:17):
Night saw at Gunningham against Chicago.

Speaker 9 (18:20):
Yeah, I mean we probably have to ask Kelsey Mitchell
to handle the ball a little bit more as a
primary ball handler. So again, no way, shape or form
does this mean you need to be rushing Kaitlin Clark back.
But I have no idea how the medical hardships work.
They have used it on a couple of occasions. It
almost seems like they need to do that again because
their point guard depth chart has no one healthy right now.

Speaker 4 (18:40):
All right, shortened schedule in the major leagues. Yesterday, the
Pittsburgh Pirates over the Cincinnati Reds seven to nothing. Tough
day for the Reds. There also Seattle beat the White
Sox by score four to three, and the Indianapolis Indians
won over at Victory Field against the Omaha Storm chamber
Chasers four to two. They will play again tonight at
seven oh five. Anything else you want to throw in?

Speaker 9 (19:01):
More and more basketball Indy car Portland coming up Sunday
three o'clock. I think Alex Flow can drive like my
mother and still clinch the season series. So that will
be a storyline you have. There three races left here
in the month of August for Indy Carpelow has won
in Portland twice as he tries to get his night
win of the season.

Speaker 4 (19:21):
All right, and Jack will be a part of that broadcast,
and then I'll be coming your way on Sunday ninety
three to five and one. I'll seven to five the fan.
All right. That's gonna wrap it up for the current
edition of Checking It Down. Coming up in a moment,
we will rehash last night's preseason game, game number one
of the Baltimore Ravens and Indianapolis Colts here on ninety three,
five and five. Good Friday morning, to you. It's the

(19:44):
Fan Morning Show along with James Boyd and Kevin Bowen.
Mark Dychton, Mark, you made your way out to the
golf tournament yesterday. That was a lot of fun as well,
DoD you have a good time. Do you have everything
you expected to see?

Speaker 8 (19:55):
Great time?

Speaker 14 (19:56):
Kevin was lighted up on the longest drive. James was
enjoying his self out of the Uh, you know, babies, Yeah,
you know.

Speaker 4 (20:05):
Can I just say though, Kevin Bowen under sells himself
quite a bit. I heard great stories from some of
his former high school teammates when they won the state
tournament out there at that golf tournament. Uh, not only
did they hold you in high esteem and revere you,
but you you stripe some of those drives. You didn't
know I was watching you striped some of those drives. Dude,

(20:25):
you man, there's a reason that he was on a
team that won a state tournament. He can play.

Speaker 8 (20:31):
Oh no, Kevin, I feel like I interacted with a
couple of your teammates and they all were haters. Which
do you know that they are good teammates. You can't
get too much credit here, reed, I'm.

Speaker 9 (20:39):
Like we're giving them all kinds of crin I heard
to them would do a little bit more and Positive
Light was able to get a couple of airborne but
also certainly had a couple of our listeners that out
drove me pretty significantly. So I forget our winner's name,
but he hit it three hundred and twenty six yards
and then I actually rode up in the golf cart
with him. He then and stopped at two about three feet,

(21:01):
and that team made eagle a whole. It was very
impressed out the watch there. So I should probably remember
the dude's name, but he absolutely pounded one, all right,
and I do a beer. I do a thank you
to Mark Dyketon. Maybe a little bit later we can
get to.

Speaker 4 (21:18):
Yeah, we'll talk more about this a little bit later,
but it was a great day yesterday. We'll give a
shout out to all the sponsors and talk about some
of the stories, but right now we need to hear
some stories from on site in Baltimore. Last night, Greg
Rakestraw had the play by play on with Joe Wright's
and great he's speaking to us.

Speaker 9 (21:33):
I swear he was on my TV six hours ago.

Speaker 4 (21:35):
I know. I fall asleep almost at the very end.
I did. I did make it to pass the end
of the fever game after that, though, but Greg Rakestraw
joins us now on the paylist lickers hotline. Good morning,
mister Rakestraw. What are you working on? About three hours
of sleep?

Speaker 10 (21:49):
Now, that is a full four hours of sleep, Thank
you very much. How are you today?

Speaker 4 (21:53):
I'm doing very well. Anthony Richardson, maybe not so great today.
I don't think it's going to be a long term
injury from the it. But what do we know about
a dislocated finger today?

Speaker 10 (22:04):
That's pretty much about what we know, and that seems
to be that's the case and not a break.

Speaker 12 (22:07):
And so, you know, no.

Speaker 10 (22:08):
Official media availability today. Next one is going to be tomorrow.
I think originally Shane wasn't scheduled to speak tomorrow. Maybe
he will now because of the injury. But again I
think it's shorter term rather than longer term. Maybe this
affects the plan as to how much he was going
to play this coming Saturday. I'm not sure I'll be
ready for that, but I also don't think this is

(22:30):
something that should carry into the regular season.

Speaker 8 (22:34):
Greg. One thing that will carry on to the regular season, unfortunately,
is the injury to justin Wally out for the old
torn acl How do you think that will impact this
team currently and also in the l long term considering
the injuries they already have on top of him with
Juju brenton Jalen Jones with their hamstrings.

Speaker 10 (22:54):
The big winner right now is Sam Womack. You know,
obviously it went from you know, being waived by the
Niners at the end of last year's train in camp
to then playing a lot last year for this football
team to a guy that we thought might be fighting
for a roster spot and now he kind of pends
on as a starter. Now again, we don't know what
Juju Brent's status is. We think the hamstring injury to

(23:15):
Jalen Jones is relatively severe, but if he's healthy, he's
probably your best option of the guys you currently have
on the roster. And I don't think the Colts will
go out and get on the corner back because again
they've got experienced in terms of depth if guys are healthy.
So find now the big winner Sam Womack. And you

(23:36):
hate it for Wally because clearly he was a guy
that impressed the Colts before he was drafted and backed
that up with how he had played through Tuesday's practice.

Speaker 9 (23:46):
That is the voice of Greg Greg Stow. You obviously
heard him and Joe Wright's great work last night. Rake,
are you did you and Joe Wright's driving the airport
together this morning?

Speaker 12 (23:54):
We are.

Speaker 10 (23:54):
I'm literally at gateeen nine as we speak, and it
is a virtual cavalcade of media stars. Both Anthony Calhoun,
Andrew Chernoff, and Chris Whidlick are all on this plane
flight back to Indianapolis together. Not to mention so many
of our wonderful Cults television crew that we were given
the option to come out Monday with the team or

(24:16):
come out Wednesday separately, but flew out Wednesday and then
we had to fly back.

Speaker 12 (24:20):
Separately as well.

Speaker 10 (24:21):
So hence the the early morning at bw I instead
of landing at Indianapolis at about two am last night.

Speaker 9 (24:27):
Well, those TV people aren't A one, A two, and
a three boarding, then what are they really doing with
their TV status in this world? Great?

Speaker 10 (24:34):
Great some of us and some of us forgot to
check in last you know, until like late last night,
so some of us are boarding C forty seven. Unfortunately
this morning I'm going to ruin somebody's they need to
get this middle seed. It's going to be upy. I'm like, boy, sorry,
I need to sit there. My apologies.

Speaker 9 (24:48):
Hey, it's like you and I riding together to another
name game. Rake, let's go with the positive category last night.
Give me a couple of things that you thought stood
out in that realm.

Speaker 10 (24:56):
Tyler Warren obviously looked the part last night and the
he was going to be a feature part of the
attack I think for the Colts going forward. But just
simply put, especially in a you know, short scenario's gonna
play a quarter or two last night, and again you
worry about an injury, but JT Twoey Mololau I thought
he was outstanding. Left the game because of a knee issue.

(25:18):
And again we'll see you know, long term, short term,
not exactly short that's going to be yet. And it
shows you kind of the depth of the Colts skill
they have at the defensive end spot that he was
getting significant reps, you know, kind of later into the game.
But I thought last night was a really good night
for the Colts first two draft picks.

Speaker 9 (25:36):
Assuming the Richardson injury does not keep him out here.
And again they practice Saturday through Monday. Thursday, joint practice
green Bay preseason game week from Saturday. Assuming he's not
out this week, Rake, don't you have to flip the
quarterback situation now? Like now Richardson will get the quarter
and a half of time that Daniel Jones was supposed
to get in the Green Bay game but ended up

(25:57):
getting last night.

Speaker 10 (25:58):
Absolutely, Again, all the thing on is he healthy enough
to go this Saturday, But yes, you have to give
him that level of playing time. If not this Saturday,
then the following Saturday against the Bengals.

Speaker 4 (26:10):
Greg greg stars joining us on the Paylost Liickers Hotline
this morning. You had the call with Joe Wrights on
TV last night for the colts twenty four to sixteen
loss to the Ravens and of course the Richardson injury.
What do we think of Spencer Schrader last night? What
was the talk after the game?

Speaker 12 (26:24):
Mostly good?

Speaker 10 (26:25):
I mean, you know, you missed the one long one,
But if you're gonna make three field goals in your
first game as the guy, that's pretty impressive. So you know,
we had this stat last night and it's very unique. Obviously,
you know you can have it kind of at that position.
He played in four NFL games last year for three
different teams. It's going to be the answer to tree

(26:47):
question someplace, right. But again, he looked good in camp
of the Colts last year. Three out of four. You
can settle for that most games. So I thought Trader
looked the part last night, Rake.

Speaker 8 (26:58):
Last one I have for you. But first pass of
that game was intercepted by Alex Johnson. So what'd you
think of the play and also the opportunity that that
young man might have considering the injuries to the cornerback
room and what he's fighting for.

Speaker 10 (27:12):
Well, again, you said it, you know, frankly, a lot
of the Honestly, there were many position battles in terms
of guys making the roster going into camp. You know,
I would have pointed to probably the backup linebackers. I'm like, hey,
there's kind of an open competition there, maybe for like
one extra defensive lineman at most, hey for a last

(27:32):
offensive lineman, but like at running back and at tight
end and even at wide receiver especially, I kind of
have an idea who those guys are gonna be.

Speaker 12 (27:40):
That's gonna be on the roster. Cornerback.

Speaker 10 (27:43):
You didn't think that was going to be the case,
But now because of injuries.

Speaker 12 (27:49):
It just might be.

Speaker 10 (27:50):
So Alex was a guy that was on the practice
squad most of last year, but when he last played
at UCLA, he had five picks his senior season, and
so maybe there's something there. So for those guys that
are third string on a roster at this point, you
are simply trying to showcase your skills, either for this
team to make a practice squad or for somebody else.

(28:12):
Good on that young man partaking advantage of the opportunity
last night.

Speaker 4 (28:16):
Greg, one more question for you. I know he's a
seventh round draft pick. I know it's a preseason game,
but did I see Hunter Waller wearing the green dot
on his helmet in a preseason game as a rookie
seventh round pick.

Speaker 10 (28:28):
They think very highly of him, and Lara had a
great nugget about them on the broadcast last night. Were
ended up playing in three different defense schemes in his
days at Wisconsin, so he just kind of used to
quick change and sudden change. Obviously had the two picks
in the practice on Tuesday, one of those against Lamar Jackson.
Played a lot last night because you weren't going to

(28:49):
play either Nick Cross or Cam Byroen in last night's game.
So good on Hunter, and he just seems like one
of those guys because they have listened him of a
linebacker and safe they will figure out a role from
the get on the field, and he kind of backed
that up with what he's done so far this week.

Speaker 4 (29:06):
Get on that plane and good luck to everybody there.
We appreciate you. Travel safe coming home and we'll talk
to you soon.

Speaker 12 (29:12):
Thanks fellas. There.

Speaker 4 (29:13):
He is Greig Reagstraw TV voice of the Indianapolis Cults,
joining us early on a Friday morning on his way
back to Indianapolis. And a quick question for you, KB.
Hunter Wahler has been a nice story in camp. It's
been fun to watch.

Speaker 10 (29:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (29:26):
I thought, you know, probably a little bit of a
mixed back from last night again. I thought the runfits
are really poor in the first half. You know, he
missed a tackle there early on for a touchdown. He
was a part of some of those big runs with Baltimore,
really a lot of them. It seemed like we're to
the right side as well. Just a note in case
anyone wasn't out there with a pen and paper trying

(29:46):
to jot down everything. James I counted about a half
a dozen Colts Week one starters, and again I say
that a little bit in quotes, but Richardson, Warren Bordelini,
gonzalveez On off and it's Tannerbornelini, Megan's Alvest center and
right guard. Again Richardson up in the air obviously, So
about four on offense and then on defense maybe two

(30:07):
to three. Quity pay and laot To allowed to played
the series, then they exited and then camera grown. Right
now at linebacker, he is listed as a starter. Jaylen
Carli is dealing with an ankle injury, so we'll see
how that plays out the rest of the month. So yeah,
six seven starters, and again I say that, you know,
a little bit up in the air, but that was
how the Colts decided to approach last night.

Speaker 4 (30:28):
Yeah, and of course they'll be off today and they'll
get back to work in some afternoon practices next week,
including a joint practice with the Green Bay Packers, and
we move along, JB. We see if guys continue to grow.
And I don't know what the immediate future for Anthony
Richardson is if it's a dislocation and no Tendons were
really badly injured. Then it's probably really sore for a

(30:51):
few days and they'll probably be back in the saddle soon.
But it's just another It's just always if it's not
one thing, the old Roseanne, Rosanna Dan, if it's not
one thing, it's another. With Anthony richards.

Speaker 8 (31:01):
Yeah, he's injury prone. That's the reality of his two
plus years in the league. Even looking at this offseason.
He was injured in the spring, got injured last night.
And now I'm not saying he perhaps can't flip that
narrative a bit, but objectively speaking, he's been an injury
plunb player and that has been more than anything. The inaccuracy,

(31:22):
the immaturity that has been the biggest knock on him
throughout his first two seasons, that he just cannot be available.
And we've talked about on this show, and I feel
like others have probably talked about it at home. But
when we talk about the quarterback competition, a big reason,
I'm sorry, a big reason Daniel Jones came here was
because he was banking on the fact that Anthony Richardson

(31:44):
can not stay healthy and he's inaccurate. The first one
has already been true to a certain extent, and it's
giving him an opportunity to gain some ground in his
quarterback competition. Now, I will preference all that by saying
I don't think Anthony's had a major injury, and I
actually thought that during the game because and I'm not
an expert here, but had he broken his finger, I
think the reaction would have been a lot more outward.

(32:06):
He was kind of muted on the sideline, wasn't really
you know, freaking out. I saw some fans tweeting at me,
and those even in attendance. I think Chris Whitlock was
mentioned in like he threw on the sideline A bunch
just didn't go back in the game. So it doesn't
seem like it's a big deal. But I can't blame
anyone if they look at Anthony and say we can't
trust his got to stay healthy, because they haven't been
able to say that at all throughout his career. And really,

(32:27):
if you date back to his high school days, he's
never really been a healthy player. You know, going back
to high school, he had as he joint at I
want to say Florida, he had a you know, knee surgery,
also had hamstring issues and obviously the NFL, He's had
a litany of things. So we'll see if that can change,
but I'm not so sure it will.

Speaker 9 (32:45):
Well, James, it comes back to the question for me,
who do you trust more if you're Shane Stiking.

Speaker 8 (32:50):
Which is such a loaded question, seriously.

Speaker 9 (32:53):
Right, and let's go to the play that Anthony Erson
got hurt on, And yes, if you look that play,
you did have a rookie at right tackle, you did
have a rookie at tight end, you did have a
rookie at running back, and you had Tanner Bordolini, who
now is getting kind of his first real starting experience.
So clearly Richardson was not on the same page with

(33:16):
any of them. If you watch the entire offense operate,
they all are operating in one manner and Richardson's doing
something totally different. And he took blame after the game
for not identifying that pre snap. So even if you
want to just say, well Richardson's you know it's he's
glass and he can't stay healthy, et cetera, et cetera,
change Siken has to look at it from a football

(33:37):
sense too and say, guys, I couldn't trust him on
that play. What if that's a strip sack, it's a
miracle he held onto the football. That is a turnover
in your own territory in the first quarter of a
game against a team that's better than.

Speaker 4 (33:49):
You on the road too. I mean, that's.

Speaker 9 (33:51):
Over at that point. I think, like you know, when
you play percentages of football games and you have that
type of mistake, it's over. And you know, this gets
into I think a debate that you know, Chris Boward
over the last few months, James has talked about, now,
maybe we shouldn't have played Richardson, you know, early on,
and you know, hindsight's twenty twenty with that, et cetera,
et cetera. But it's like some of these game reps.

(34:14):
You know, let's say he starts Week one, that'll be
his sixteenth career start in the NFL. That's not even
a full season, right, So it's like, this is what's
so difficult with Richardson. It's like, does he learn that play,
that protection that hot read? Does he learn that in
a meeting room or does he need to be on
the field for the ugly, harsh reality that he suffered

(34:35):
last night to truly learn it?

Speaker 4 (34:37):
Yeah, because he put his hand on the hot burner
last night and he hopefully learns nothing.

Speaker 9 (34:40):
But again, you learn that Monday through Saturday taking notes
in a dim room with a bunch of quarterbacks, or
do you have to to Jeff's analogy, touch the stove.
I mean, that's where I just think it's so so
difficult with him. But to me, last night, Dan Jones
took a lead, and I don't know if it's all

(35:03):
due to Richardson's injury, but how the play unfolded too
if you're Shane Steike and you can't overlook that.

Speaker 4 (35:10):
To that point. Indiana Injuries tweets at us this morning.
As frustrating as AR has been for fans, imagine how
the coaching staff feels. Maybe he doesn't miss any time
with this one, but how can Shane even trust his
weekly game plan knowing Ar might not be able to
execute it mentally, let alone stay on the field.

Speaker 9 (35:26):
What does that account?

Speaker 4 (35:28):
I was gonna say, what's called Indiana Injuries probably probably
started for.

Speaker 9 (35:33):
This very recent That sounds like a dark life.

Speaker 8 (35:36):
Yeah, so we actually I was gonna say, uh, definitely
like getting our wills mixed up. It's okay with the
Will Smith in there, too, Mark. But in all seriousness,
here's what here's what Anthony Richardson.

Speaker 4 (35:52):
Has to stay outside of the console.

Speaker 8 (35:53):
Okay, here's what Anthony Richson's had to say about the
play and his perspective on it.

Speaker 4 (36:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (36:00):
I definitely looked at it. That's a tricky one because
it's five man Pro and I'm hot from the backside.
I just got to get my eyes and just be
able to react to that. But just five man Pro
is just playing hot, you know, I just got to
be on my p's and Q was when it comes
to that.

Speaker 9 (36:15):
You watch the play too, and DJ Giddens, for example,
his head kind of turns around. He realizes it, and
I think he is expecting he's supposed gets the wall
to come to him pretty quickly. Ashton Dooland for example. Also,
and you know, Richardson looks left at the start of
that play. As soon as he sees that end drop,
that has got to be a huge antenna of like, oh,
who wha, whoa, whoa, something's happening here. I should at

(36:37):
least scan and get to that backside, and he obviously
didn't there. So yeah, just all I mean, part of
me is like should we dissect his two of three nights.
I mean, I guess the one in completion he was
laid on. It was third and seven. I didn't love
that play at all. That to me is kind of Hey,
third and seven and field goal range, you just eat it.
If you're late over the middle of the field on
a third and seven, yeah, it's not gonna end well.

(36:59):
But part of it, he's like Kevin, don't over dissect
three passes in the preseason game. But again, welcome to
life of Anthony Richardson. We have to get into the
weeds in such a small sample size, and it's equally
as exhausting as it is beyond frustrating for that coaching staff.

Speaker 4 (37:17):
I'm just watching this again and again and again, and
he you know, he just never sees the guy coming
and it wasn't from his blind side either, and he
just missed the play completely. James, It's all there is
to it. Just missed it.

Speaker 8 (37:31):
Yeah, you can't miss that. If you want to be
a starter in the NFL, you want to be the guy.
Can't miss that. So again, fortunately he didn't have like
a head injury because he got rock on that play.
And honestly, would you prefer to have a dislocated pinky
versus being concussed or something like that. But glad he
got back up. Glad that it doesn't seem like it's
a big, big deal. And we'll see where we go

(37:52):
when we get back out there at Grand Park tomorrow,
because they do go right back into you know, a
pretty I guess, rigorous schedule. I would have imagined they
scale it back some tomorrow. But three straight practices out
there getting the heat, and I think that will tell
us a lot about one how his hand is doing,
and then two what their plan is when it comes to,
you know, the joint practices. And also the second preseason

(38:15):
game against the Green Bay Packers, who Mark loves anybody else.

Speaker 4 (38:19):
Under the right arn that you liked last night or
that made an impression on you, James, I thought.

Speaker 8 (38:24):
Joe Bochi had a pretty good night from a coverage standpoint.
I don't think any of the linebackers really looked that
good in the run schemes or run fits. I thought
that Cameron mcgron actually took a pretty big step back,
and I was honestly wondering, like, man, is this a
position they're going to look back and say we should
invested more here because I didn't trust any of those
guys when it comes to run stopping yesterday and the
Ravens weren't doing anything really, you know, crazy, they were

(38:46):
just running it down their throat. But on a positive note,
I thought Joe Bachi again when it comes to playing
in space, making plays on the ball, He's been able
to do that throughout training camp and he did it again. Waldy.
I think it was the third stringer for the But nevertheless,
I mean, you play who's in front of you, and
he had nice pick over there in the middle.

Speaker 9 (39:03):
Yeah, if you watch the start of the game, I'll
go to a corner that I know we mentioned late
in yesterday's show. And again the un awful news with
Justin Wally tearing his ACL in that Tuesday joint practice
with the Ravens. Now that precious third cornerback job is back,
I would say open Jalen Jones currently out the hamstring injury.

(39:23):
Juju Brents currently out the hamstring injury. You saw Alex
Johnson number thirty five pickoff Cooper Rush. I think that
was the old supposed to be back shoulder throat to
the front shoulder, and Johnson made a great play in
the air on it. He also had a nice pass
deflection a little bit later in the game on a
third down. And again, it's not a household name right now,
but week one, when Miami will certainly test you from

(39:44):
a cornerback depth standpoint, it's one of the better pass
catching groups you'll probably see this season. Somebody's got to
play big minutes not named Saveria's howarding kennymore So, who
is that? Is it going to be Jalen Jones back healthy?
Is it going to be Juju Brents back healthy? We
are now under a mo the way from the regular
season opener. Alex Johnson undrafted two years ago for the Giants.

(40:07):
I mentioned that because the Colts brought over one of
the Giants secondary coaches in the offseason. Johnson also comes
over here, and again he has kind of been a
fringe first or second unit guy here throughout camp. So
I know, by no means is it household And it's
not discussing Anthony Richardson or Tyler Warren's night, but you

(40:30):
could see him potentially not only making the roster but
playing a role here early in the season.

Speaker 4 (40:35):
All right, last night twenty four to sixteen, the Ravens
get the win in the preseason. Of course, we're talking
about all the individual performances and evaluations, and I'm sure
that there was a lot of film and tape being
watched by the coaching staff after the game last night,
and we'll probably get more information. When do you guys
meet with the coaching staff? When do you hear from
Shane Steiken? Again?

Speaker 8 (40:53):
Do we know? Well, he isn't supposed to speak tomorrow
Sunday is his scheduled day, but he might Yeah, yeah,
could speak after practice tomorrow, So yeah, it's supposed to
be assistant coaches after tomorrow's practice.

Speaker 9 (41:05):
But who knows if Shane will provide an update on
where things are at. With Anthony Richardson, it looked like
he was gripping a football sol Anthony Calohoon had that
video running off the field after afterwards, so we'll see.
He mentioned after the game, Swollen expects to be a
little bit more sore today when he wakes up, but
we'll see how much he can practice Saturday, Sunday and

(41:27):
Monday before Tuesday and Wednesday off days.

Speaker 4 (41:29):
All right. To get your reaction, take the pulse of
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Speaker 9 (41:48):
Please, He's a.

Speaker 1 (41:49):
Fan morning show with JB, JB and Jeff.

Speaker 2 (41:53):
Anthony Richardson goes out of the gun ball Himan here
Hash backs to throw it and he is decked from
the left and he has sacked and buried. He took
a big time hit, but more importantly, hangs on to
the football and the Ravens with a sack off the
left edge and.

Speaker 3 (42:08):
He's going off the field, Matt. He got hit unnobated.
There was no one blocking to the protection was totally
not there. You can't have any quarterback take that shot.

Speaker 2 (42:19):
And like you said, Anthony Richardson is out of the game.
That was a wicked hit and.

Speaker 6 (42:24):
It was weird he hit me. Then I was going
to make sure I had the ball and I just
looked down. I see my finger different direction. I'm like,
maybe I'm tripping. And I looked at it again and
it was definitely like that. So so I gotta get
this thing popped back in place. But I'm good though.

Speaker 7 (42:38):
Yeah, dislocation. They popped it back in right now. Day
to day, it's where it goes. He's falling, all right,
you know what I mean. It's a dislocation they popped
back in. I mean, we'll see, you know where it goes.

Speaker 4 (42:51):
Everywhere. It's one of those things if the finger can
no no tendons or anything like or Ligaman's get get
torn in that finger, you do just kind of pop
it back place. It's sore and swollen for a couple
of days and then you move on. You hope that
that's what it is. But it's also you know, you
think of these guys sometimes they'll like the shoulder will
get dislocated, and you'll watch them put their own shoulder
back in place. Like some of these guys are crazy

(43:13):
with their injuries.

Speaker 10 (43:14):
Man.

Speaker 8 (43:15):
Yeah, he was not doing that yesterday, and he will
be wise not to do so. The only thing I
was thinking of Kevin, on top of just the injury itself,
is just how all the positions that need your fingers
his is, I mean, outside of the center position probably
the most demanding when it comes to using all of
your digits and so exactly, I was thinking if it

(43:38):
was you know, I've seen this happen before. I want
to say, a couple years ago Bobby Ocara, Kay, I
forget where we were at. It was a road game,
and I think he actually broke his pinky finger and
then like came through the scin or something like that,
and they just like stitched it back up, put it
all together, and they taped it up. He's a linebacker.
It's like, you know, is what it is. I'm fine
before quarterback it, Matt, there is so much more so

(44:02):
in theory, you hope that it is a minor injury,
but I would imagine the colts are extra extra costs
because it just means so much to success just having
all those fingers work properly, and you never really know.
I would imagine he goes undergoes an mri X ray
something like that to make sure for sure that nothing is,
you know, unlike what it seems. I remember last year
being in the locker room, it's talking to Julannie Woods

(44:23):
and I'm not saying this will be Anthony Richardson's case,
but for Jelani it was like a toe thing, and
in the moment, Jelannie told me, I don't think it's
a big deal. I'll be fine, and then a couple
days later, I'm out for the season. Now, I'm not
saying that's Anthony at all for those listening, but you
always have to, you know, get the MRI and kind
of take it from there.

Speaker 9 (44:38):
By the way I shout out Jeolani Woods a couple
catches late in the game last night, it was good
to see him just purely healthy. I still think he's
got a pretty steep mountain to climb to make the team,
but he did have a moment or two late in
that game. Yeah, just one more I'll add on Richardson
before we move on. You know, anytime he leaves a
game due to injury, it's obviously the headline, like given, yeah,

(45:00):
who he is, given his injury history, all of that.
The more I looked at last night, you hear Richardson
talk about the play itself after the game. How the
injury occurred is the most damning element of last night.
He dislocated his pinky finger on a hit that he
didn't see coming. A large percentage of NFL players would

(45:24):
probably suffer that same injury. It's more of it was
his own fault in misidentifying something that pre snap is
supposed to be rather elementary for NFL quarterbacks. That's the
damning issue for me. Again, it comes down to a
trust factor in the preseason where things are as vanilla
as a McDonald's ice cream cone. You don't process that,

(45:47):
you don't see that, and there's rookies on that offense.

Speaker 12 (45:50):
I e.

Speaker 9 (45:50):
A rookie running back who's a fifth round pick who
had pass catching issues exiting college. He knew what was
going on. That to me is the bigger issue of
who do you try trust when it gets real? Because
every single NFL team now sees that play last Night
Culture on NFL Network. Everybody's going to watch that. Everyone's
going to see that, and they're going to say, how
do we make that even more exotic when it's real,

(46:13):
when we're actually trying to create havoc for you? I
think that is more of the damning issue from last night.
You want to be super positive about its super optimistic.
You'd say, oh, great, he now sees that he'll learn
from it, et cetera, et cetera. Fine, and well you
can go there if you want, but on August seventh,
in year three of the NFL, you don't want your

(46:33):
franchise quarterback, your starting quarterback, to have that big of
a misidentification that ends up knocking him out of a
game that he desperately needed those reps.

Speaker 4 (46:40):
I wouldn't even call it a misidentification. He just missed
it completely. As you point out, it's a vanilla defense.
It's a guy coming off the edge. There wasn't a
blocker the way the play was called to account for
the guy who hit him number ninety, I forget who
it was that got him. It wasn't on his blind side,
and he just got completely clocked and missed the whole

(47:00):
thing entirely. I don't even think it was a misidentification, James,
you just missed it.

Speaker 8 (47:05):
I mean, I feel like that's just semantics, misidentification, missed it, misnomer,
whether what other words can we use?

Speaker 4 (47:12):
But it's cute Kevin's point. I'm backing up fact. It
was just a damning play absolutely.

Speaker 8 (47:16):
I mean, no one's gonna argue that, but yeah, he
certainly missed something because getting lit up like that it's
not ideal in a preseason setting. But also that's why
you play the games. I know we talked a lot
about the progress Anthony has made with some of the
shorter intermediate throws and first couple of throws he had
last night. We're fine, I thought, But it's the physicality that. Honestly,

(47:38):
it's it's kind of confounding with him because he's such
a uniquely built athlete and he looks like he should
be indestructible, but he isn't. And so anytime there is
live hitting, that will always be an element that is
probably beneficial for the Colts to evaluate him. Now, I
don't say beneficial in the stance of him getting hurt,

(47:58):
but you got to know if the guy can hold up,
and if you can't, then there's your answer. Who's going
to be your starting quarterback? And it won't be him,
It'll be Daniel Jones or somebody else. So we'll see
from there. I am curious, though, Kevin, not to really
push back on your or your idea of flip flopping
the starters and the reps. I'm just curious how it
looks over the next few days and if that changes anything.

(48:20):
You know, if, for example, they go into the joint
practice and they get the looks that they want to.
Do they stick with the plan that they had because
that's what they said from the beginning, or do they
go to both guys say hey, this is what happens
because I don't know, for example, if the second preseason
game there was gonna be a different approach for you know,
starters versus non starters, or what Daniel Jones's role was

(48:42):
gonna be. Was it fair to him? And this could
be competition to be thrown right into the game, you know,
on the second drive. Whatever the case may be. Maybe
I'm getting to me into the weeds with that, But
I do wonder if that is like a quick pivot
for them, or is this something they contemplate and just say, well,
you had your chance and you didn't really capitalize on it,
so now you got to you know, see you on
the joint practice.

Speaker 9 (49:01):
Yeah, let's expand to that again. The original preseason plan
was Richardson a quarter and a half last night, Yep,
Jones get the end of the first half, and then
that would flip a week from Saturday, Week two of
the preseason Green Bay Jones would get the quarter and
a half. Richardson would then get the last bit of
that second quarter, and if you just look at the
pure playing time last night, it was the reverse of that.

(49:22):
Due to the injury, Jones ended up getting about a
quarter and a half of action and Richardson got what
seven plays you said, James, So I would just flip
that here coming up on I don't do you punish
Anthony Richard like if you want a real competition, yeah,
which I guess that now is a topic we probably
should have to bring up again. But just for a

(49:43):
second here, if you want this competition to be real,
then to me, you need to flip it. Richardson needs
to get the quarter and a half against Green Bay. Now,
having said that, let's say Anthony Richardson misses. Let's call
it Saturday, Sunday, Monday, this coming weekend when they have
the three straight days of practice and whatever, Daniel Jones
continues to show consistence, positive moments for you, then does it?

(50:10):
I don't think it will creep into Shane Steakeen's mind,
but does anything get into the Shane styke in mind
of Hey, should we just commit to this dude Jones?

Speaker 4 (50:19):
That is right?

Speaker 9 (50:20):
Should we give him the starting reps in the joint
practice with the Green Bay should we then play him
in the quarter and a half of the preseason game? Like,
is there any part to Shane where now he looks
at it? And this goes back to a conversation we
had in March. What I didn't love about this whole
quarterback competition. I got it, But what I didn't love
about it is you have too bad and or inconsistent

(50:42):
quarterbacks and you're giving them inconsistent reps. How in the
hell do either of them get better?

Speaker 8 (50:47):
So here's my question to kind of piggyback off of that.
Does it matter optically if you start Anthony Richson twice
in the preseason?

Speaker 9 (50:56):
I don't think so. I mean, no, I don't. I
was just curious because I don't think anybody looks at
last night like, wow, that was a positive knight for Richardson.

Speaker 8 (51:05):
I just meant, like, you know, he's the first guy
out there. Does that matter at all? I don't think
it necessarily does.

Speaker 9 (51:12):
I guess it goes down in the stat sheet at
some point, But no, that's I mean, that's really it.
And you know what, I might be in the minority,
but like I thought, Daniel Jones was a little better
than okay, last night, like I thought people were just
like man, the Colts quarterbacks were awful, and I'm like, well,
I mean Jones, you know, he had what probably four
drops against him.

Speaker 8 (51:32):
Yeah, and I also had some throws the he probably
wishes he had backed. Sure, but it was also the
Daniel Jones experience to me, you.

Speaker 9 (51:39):
Know, in a live atmosphere, I thought there were probably
four or five very in stride well thrown balls that
allowed some dudes to create yards after catch. I thought
one of his better plays was a second and seven
where he's getting pressure, he rolls.

Speaker 8 (51:53):
To his left.

Speaker 9 (51:54):
It looks like it's either going to be a throwaway
or maybe a sack. He avoids that and finds Ashton
Dolan for a play. Yeah, and that's kind of what
Jones can do that like Matt Ryan can't do. If
you want to go back to that, if like I
don't want to go back too, not only keep a
play alive, but when you get into the hey we're
now playing a little sandlote football, can you make a play?

(52:14):
So again, the Daniel Jones bar I'm using here to
say he was a little bit I think he was
a little bit better than what I've seen through the
first nine practices at Grand Park. I guess is what
I'm getting at.

Speaker 4 (52:25):
Your chance to sound off on what you saw last
night and your thoughts moving forward with another Anthony Richardson
injuries as slight as it might be, let's go to
the phone lines two, three, nine, ten seventy. Ray joins
us this morning on a Friday, after a Colts game. Ray,
what were your thoughts after last night?

Speaker 15 (52:41):
Hey, fellas, good morning, how's it going good? You know
you can't do anything but help but to laugh, well,
at least for me Anthony Richardson. And I'm and I'm
an Anthony and Richardson believer, but you know, he reminds
me of let me just use this and now, g
You know when you're in high school and you go

(53:03):
to a girl's house and you know you're chessing her
and she tells you no, and she just leaves you
on second base, and it's like, that's what it is
with Anthony Richardson. He keeps leaving us on second base.
He keeps leaving the yeah, but what if?

Speaker 12 (53:20):
What if?

Speaker 15 (53:20):
And the narratives out, the injury narratives out, and and
I'm questioning if he realizes his significance to the town,
the city, and the franchise. Now I get it's the pinky,
but it's just an unfortunate situation. Like me, I equated
to just a football thing, but when you're the quarterback,

(53:44):
it's amplified times a thousand. When those types of things
happen and we have to come out the game. We
can say it's preseason, but the narratives out that you
can't finish games, that you're you're often injured, and then
you know, come out again and you're injured. You know,
so the narratives out. But for me, I believe Anthony

(54:05):
and Richardson has to start regardless of how Daniel Jones
looks in this preseason, because you can't go into this
season and put Daniel Jones out there and then still
have the question about Anthony Richardson. So you, for me,
you have to get an answer to the Anthony Richardson project,
regardless of how it looks. You have to get an answer,

(54:28):
and you can't go in with an unknown and we're
saying putting right back in this position next year, and
you're saying, well, we're gonna give him this year, and
then it's just a ripple effect. So regardless, when this
guy gets healthy and he and you feel like he's
sufficient enough to put back on the field, you have
to put him out there. There's no other way around it.

(54:49):
You have to get an answer to the test, playing
and simple. That's the way I see it.

Speaker 4 (54:54):
So what do you do?

Speaker 12 (54:55):
Get it together?

Speaker 4 (54:56):
What do you do?

Speaker 6 (54:57):
Right?

Speaker 4 (54:57):
If he misses like he has to missed the Green
Bay game, and Daniel Jones looks good, then what do
you do?

Speaker 12 (55:05):
Regardless?

Speaker 15 (55:06):
You still have to get an answer at some point
you have to see the work the guy has put in.
Now I get now, are you really giving Daniel Jones
a fair shot? But if Richardson bottoms out, then Jones?
Can you can slide Jones in?

Speaker 3 (55:21):
That?

Speaker 15 (55:22):
That's just the way I look at it.

Speaker 9 (55:23):
Ray, could you I didn't get to second base clearly
many times?

Speaker 12 (55:27):
Ever?

Speaker 4 (55:27):
Can you go over the bases again? For me?

Speaker 1 (55:29):
There?

Speaker 9 (55:30):
It's first base? Are we are we hugging at that point?
Is it a high five? Is it kind of the
awkward like? Should I hugger? Should I not? Can you?
Can you go over the base and Mark will have
the dumb button ready if we need to.

Speaker 15 (55:42):
Well, from what I know, first base is you know
you're getting a number, you're you're hugging on or you're
giving a good conversation. You know she's feeling you, you're
feeling her.

Speaker 4 (55:52):
Keep this PG right.

Speaker 9 (55:54):
And then you said second base was kissing a little.

Speaker 15 (55:57):
Yes, a second base may be a little kissing.

Speaker 4 (56:00):
That's as far as we should go out there.

Speaker 9 (56:02):
Yeah, okay, we right right. Thanks you for I thought
that was you know, it's like popping in the popping
in that VHS in sixth grade when all of a
sudden we all had to watch.

Speaker 5 (56:13):
When they separated the boys and the girls all came
out to different people.

Speaker 9 (56:16):
Boy, that was that was squeamish, said, that was squeamy. Ray, excellent, Paul,
I might I don't even know if Richardson's got into
second base on the old football analogy, but I did
have to smile at that.

Speaker 4 (56:29):
I'll say this.

Speaker 12 (56:30):
Uh.

Speaker 9 (56:30):
I could not agree more on Ray's overall premise though,
of just get to an answer, get to an answer.
We cannot be sitting here August eighth, twenty twenty six
asking do you think Anthony Richardson's the guy or not? No, no, no,
just get to an answer.

Speaker 8 (56:50):
I agree with this.

Speaker 9 (56:51):
That's the biggest part of the season.

Speaker 8 (56:52):
To a certain extent, though, and I'm not even saying
Ray is wrong. I am probably on that side of things.
But the question always having the back of my mind,
I think we all are kind of like this to
a certain degree. Maybe I'm just shallow. When does your
self preservation kick in? Because if I'm that front office,
if I am the head coach, if I'm Shane Steichen,

(57:13):
and there's an inkling in the back of my mind, like, man,
this dude cannot stay healthy. I need to jump ship
and I gotta get somebody in there that is at
least going to be available for me and be consistent
from that standpoint from just being on the field. So
that is what I always think of with Anthony is
can you stay healthy enough to where people still feel

(57:34):
like they can kind of throw you a little bit
of a rope. And I know Chris Ballot has backed
this man to no end, But when does that self
preservation kick in? Because we all like to stay employed
and to do so, do you just think help you know,
forget it. I'm just gonna put the guy in who
I think is gonna, you know, win the most games
and be the most available to do.

Speaker 12 (57:54):
So.

Speaker 9 (57:54):
Yeah, and that's where the three voices of the organization, James,
you might argue they're on different timelines. Carl Erte Gordon
obviously it's thinking big picture. Yeah, she ain't going nowhere.
You would think with the resume that Chris Ballard has,
he's clinging onto that life raft like no other. And
then the change Sniken's kind of like somewhere in between,
it's like, well, yeah, I mean, I was part of

(58:15):
the team that drafted Richardson, but you know, I've been
five hundred as a coach. It's not horrific. So it's like,
that's where is everyone tied together? Is everyone not tied together?
Who the hell knows?

Speaker 4 (58:28):
Well, it's gonna be really interesting ten days for the
Indianapolis Colts.

Speaker 9 (58:32):
Mark what happens at third base?

Speaker 4 (58:37):
Stop?

Speaker 15 (58:38):
What?

Speaker 4 (58:39):
Stop?

Speaker 8 (58:39):
We're educating?

Speaker 4 (58:40):
God, there was always kids, Come on, you know, we're
educational show here.

Speaker 9 (58:47):
At Ray went love doctor. Honestly, yeah, that was a
good and out. You know, I did the eye doctor
analogy last week. You guys actually said that was one
of my few good ones. And then I heard Ray
right there and I'm.

Speaker 10 (59:00):
Like that.

Speaker 8 (59:02):
We know what home was. But you got Jeff over here,
Maybe we'll start about to sweat.

Speaker 4 (59:07):
Yeah, we'll start a live show online after the show
we can discuss such things.

Speaker 9 (59:11):
I'm afraid about. That I was doing was moving runners
over the back, and I just.

Speaker 4 (59:14):
Got done talking about self preservation. I'm looking at self
preservation right now.

Speaker 8 (59:21):
Man, y'all got Jeff so nervous up here? Boy John, Jeff.

Speaker 9 (59:25):
Sweating more than I was on the the Legends.

Speaker 4 (59:33):
Well, do we have another phone call right you answering.

Speaker 8 (59:36):
Up against it? Or you want to do we? Okay,
Mat or Billy, let's go.

Speaker 4 (59:40):
Talk to Matt real quick on the ninety three five
and good morning Matt. How you doing? Matt?

Speaker 9 (59:47):
You there?

Speaker 4 (59:48):
Yeah, go for it.

Speaker 12 (59:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 16 (59:51):
I just had to comment on the Richardson and Daniel thing.
I think it's as simple as this as Daniel Jones
and Anthrey Richardson competing, and that's all great, But if
you listen to what they're saying, it's a competition. They're
not in a hurry to to let him play out.
They're going to let it play out. Anthony Richardson blows
him away. He's a starter. Everybody looks straight and it works.

(01:00:13):
But if he doesn't and he's mediocre. Daniel Jones the
starter because you can't put Anthony and Richardson in as
the start of the season benching and never really bring
him back. So it's really Anthony Richardson's job lose if
he looks great. If he doesn't, you go with Daniel
Jones because you can always bring ar in later and

(01:00:35):
he can sit and watch Daniel Jones a bit, and
that's how they can couch it to say, hey, you know,
Daniel Jones outplayed him, but Anthony Richardson's going to learn
from the bench. And then when Daniel Jones doesn't get
a job done, Anthony richards comes in. You can't do
it the other way because once you put Anthony Richardson in,
you can't bench him.

Speaker 4 (01:00:52):
Bringing back Matt appreciate the phone call, Thanks for hanging
on there. So Kevin, if that's let's go down that
road for a second. Talking about a guy in his
third season now in the NFL at quarterback, how many
more times do you put him on a bench and
let him try to learn. He's been learning from from
the injury from the training room so far, Adney, I.

Speaker 9 (01:01:12):
Think I said to you guys made a few months ago,
is the true winner of this quarterback competition the guy
who actually loses it in the month of August. I mean,
won't we be clamoring for whoever the backup is?

Speaker 12 (01:01:23):
Like?

Speaker 8 (01:01:23):
Yeah, I want to say Mark was on this train
very early into the horn.

Speaker 4 (01:01:27):
How about this first.

Speaker 8 (01:01:28):
Popular quarterback in town is usually the back.

Speaker 4 (01:01:30):
I don't know if this.

Speaker 9 (01:01:31):
Poll will necessarily resonate, but I'll say to you guys,
hopefully it makes sense. Does the second string quarterback in
Week one end the season as the week as this
starting quarterback? Does the Week one backup end up starting
the final game of the season, Like, does it feel
inevitable to you if Richardson starts the season, it'll eventually

(01:01:54):
go to Jones and stay with Jones and then vice versa.
If it starts with Jones, does it feel inevitable it'll
go to Richardson? Do you really see one quarterback for
seventeen straight.

Speaker 8 (01:02:04):
We No, I was gonna them only pushed back for
the injury. Yes, I was gonna say with Anthony Park
you can't tell me he's gonna start the last game
of the season, because actually, I just think I talk
about this in the moment he hasn't started the last
game of any season so far.

Speaker 4 (01:02:17):
What do you think the over under his own starts
that Anthony Richardson makes this year?

Speaker 9 (01:02:21):
Dave says first base is kissing second bases under the.

Speaker 4 (01:02:26):
Signed To check it down, Mark Dyke didn't start.

Speaker 8 (01:02:34):
We need to all see if we're all on the
same base like this.

Speaker 4 (01:02:37):
Is a that's a that's an in the break discussion, Mark.

Speaker 8 (01:02:41):
Man, okay, and I'm just out of curyo out. What's
the double play?

Speaker 4 (01:02:45):
Uh?

Speaker 8 (01:02:46):
Okay, you bring a friend? I think?

Speaker 9 (01:02:47):
Okay, I'm curious. Honestly, doesn't sound like a win win
eleven starts version last year and then two for benching
right James. So he missed four games to an injury
last year. Yes, so that means you would set last
year he could have started thirteen games right with the
two of the bench. So I don't know over under
eleven and a half? What are you taking.

Speaker 4 (01:03:10):
Based on what I saw and what I've seen and
what I feel it feels like under? Because I think
I do agree with you? And the one thing right now,
does Vegas have this?

Speaker 9 (01:03:19):
Mark? Can you look this up while you're looking to
get a couple of tabs here? Market along with the
Mondo tab.

Speaker 8 (01:03:25):
I'll probably take the over because.

Speaker 9 (01:03:28):
Over eleven and a half. Oh yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:03:30):
And the reason I'll say that is because the majority
of his miss games throughout his career so far, the
seventeen due to injury. I believe it was thirteen, I'm
not mistake, are actually twelve from his rookie season, So
it's actually shoulders I'm looking at. So unless he has
like a major, major injury over under, it's probably going
to be I don't know, hopefully just a couple of
games absence if he misses any time at all.

Speaker 4 (01:03:52):
All Right, we'll talk about that coming up in a minute,
very quickly. We'll check things down. We'll get right back
at a coltstock two three, nine, ten seventy number to
call market.

Speaker 1 (01:03:58):
It the morning Checkdown on ninety sweet five and one
oh seven five the Fan.

Speaker 4 (01:04:05):
Twenty four to sixteen Colts loose to the Ravens on
the road last night, preseason game number one. Anthony Richardson
two of three left the game with a dislocated pinky
on his throwing hand. Says he should be okay, didn't
think it was a big deal. We'll find out more
a little bit later. On today, But you kind of
liked what you saw from Daniel Jones in relief of

(01:04:25):
him last.

Speaker 9 (01:04:26):
Night compared to what we have seen from Daniel Jones
so far. I thought last night was fine. You know, again,
he wasn't aided by any means from a pass catching standpoint.
I counted probably four drops when he played quarterback. I
thought a couple of nice balls in stride to some
guys allowing them to make plays after the catch. Again,
by no means are you overly pleased with it, But

(01:04:47):
all things considered, I thought it was fine. I didn't
really think there are many turnover type balls that he threw,
like got away with a bunch of risky plays. So yeah,
that that was fine.

Speaker 4 (01:04:56):
Anything else that you take away other than the injury
last night to Anthony Richardson.

Speaker 8 (01:05:02):
Justin Wally, he's out for the season. He was gonna
be most likely your third starting cornerback and now he's
out with a torn a cl unfortunately. So that's a
big blow to a cornerback room that is already banged
up with Juju Brent's and Jalen Jones both currently being
sideline with hamstring injury. So we'll see what happens there.

Speaker 9 (01:05:20):
I do have to enter Jack. It does sound like
we've had a few fathers in the car, reached out
with some children in the car and they're confused that
were Anthony Richardson's playing to two different sports baseball and
football here. So I think we have confused baseball. As
a high school kid, he was a baseball I do
not know that.

Speaker 8 (01:05:36):
Doing Dion Sanders stuff.

Speaker 9 (01:05:37):
I was gonna say Dion for sure, right, yeah, you know.

Speaker 8 (01:05:40):
Michael Jordan played baseball and basketball.

Speaker 9 (01:05:42):
There you go to sport athletes, right, indeed, apologies for
the confusion there.

Speaker 4 (01:05:47):
Yeah, there you go. Also, colts now have a day off,
they'll get back to practices, and joint practice is coming
up next week against Mark's favorite team, the Green Bay
Packers come on. So we look forward to seeing how
that thing.

Speaker 14 (01:05:59):
If the Packers coming town, the Cops are playing the Cardinals.
This is not a good week for me.

Speaker 8 (01:06:03):
That's all right. I just turned turn that hate up
a little bit, and you'll be just.

Speaker 14 (01:06:06):
Telling Shane Stike and you need a motivational speech you
put me out there before that practice.

Speaker 8 (01:06:11):
That would be hilarious.

Speaker 4 (01:06:14):
And he had a fever at a rough night last night,
they lose big time by thirty five at Phoenix ninety
five to sixty's the ninth straight game that we have
not seen Caitlin Clark and I was doing some more
research on that last night, and uh, it sounds more
and more like we're talking about a grade two problem
with that groin entry, which is usually four to eight weeks.

(01:06:35):
That's kind of the timeframe we seem to be looking
at James at this point in time.

Speaker 8 (01:06:39):
What research did you do?

Speaker 4 (01:06:41):
Uh, just looking at a lot of stuff online with
medical stuff like that that.

Speaker 8 (01:06:45):
We don't we don't know anything about our status.

Speaker 4 (01:06:47):
Well, yeah, but you start you start asking people that
you know that know these injuries and how long is
the timeline for this kind of injury or that kind
of injury, and it just starts to feel like something
that's four to eight week injury. I mean, we're coming
up on four weeks right now. Yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:07:03):
So she's currently out. And they also had some injuries
last night that are a bit concerning and could keep
some people sideline for a while. Aaron McDonald, I believe,
left the game with an ankle injury, and then Sidney
Coulson also left the game with a knee injury, and
Natasha Howard actually got hit in the face in the
game as well and left. That might did more just
because of the score and things like that, but the
two big injuries Aeron McDonald Sidney Coulson. What does that

(01:07:25):
mean for your point guard group, especially with kitling Hard
being sideline as well.

Speaker 4 (01:07:29):
Yeah, listen. Thomas though, did make some WNBA history for
the Mercury first player to have three consecutive triple doubles
last night. She had eighteen points, eleven rebounds, and ten assists.
The Fever back on the court at home Saturday night,
eight pm tip against the Chicago Sky Major League Baseball.
Tough night first Cincinnati Red So they lost to Pittsburgh

(01:07:51):
seven to nothing. Shortened schedule also saw the White Sox
slews to the Mariners. Everybody else was off. Indianapolis Indians
beat the Omaha Stormchasers last night. Back at Victory Field
tonight at seven oh fiven. Anything else want to throw it?

Speaker 9 (01:08:03):
Yeah? Portland, IndyCar Race coming up, three to go.

Speaker 4 (01:08:06):
Alex Plow again.

Speaker 9 (01:08:07):
He can drive like my grandma and probably win the
points race here. So three o'clock Sunday out there in Oregon, Milwaukee,
and Nashville left. They'll take a week off and then
have those two to round out August to close out
the month. And yesterday, speaking of injuries around the NFL,
or Shawn Slater, one of the better left tackles in
the entire league, the Chargers left tackle the tele injury

(01:08:29):
out for the year again. He signed his extension just
prior to Bernard Rieman signing that new extension. There so
awful news for a team and the Chargers that the
Colts do play the season and I think we'll you know,
was a playoffs team last year and could very well
be won again this season. So big news item from
a one of the better left tackles I think in

(01:08:51):
the league.

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You know, hit you boy, hit the street. We're going
out on the town, Jake, if you want to tag
along too. You know, I'm a person of you know
that inclusion. Everybody there we go. Norah was asking about you.
She saw the picture of the show. Oh yeahah, how's
uncle James. How's Uncle Kevin? How's Uncle James? They're good?

(01:10:08):
We live in life. I showed the picture to my
mom Kevin, and she was very happy that I was
able to behave myself around a small child.

Speaker 4 (01:10:15):
We've been talking about the Colts of the second here
they lose to the Ravens twenty four to sixteen. Lot
to dig into there, including the injury to Anthony Richardson.
But once again want to thank all our sponsors for
a terrific day out on the course yesterday at Legends
Golf Course. Ted Bishop, who's the one and only, I mean,
he's the godfather golf in this area. Man. He took
care of us yesterday. I know everybody loved the tenderloins

(01:10:37):
sandwiches yesterday, the fried tenderloins from the legendary truck over there. Mark,
I know you were bigger. How many of those did
you end up wolfing down?

Speaker 8 (01:10:44):
Only needed one?

Speaker 14 (01:10:44):
They were massive, but they were delicious, Oh my goodness,
and they were good.

Speaker 16 (01:10:48):
Ea.

Speaker 4 (01:10:48):
Kartz was helping us out yesterday, Zinc Distributing taking care
of us on the beverages. Kevin the Legendary kitchen. We
talked about L. D. Smith plumbing. The Indianapolis Colts helped
out a little bit too yesterday. We appreciate that. And
we had Mazuno come by give away a set of
golf clubs for closest to the pen. We had all
kinds of things going on yesterday.

Speaker 9 (01:11:08):
Kevin Bowen, I want to give a shout out to
Mark Dyketon. He delivered to me late in the day
much needed at that point. You know, much has been
made about our bet from earlier in the week, the
Reds winning the series from the Cubs. The agreement on
the bet was a six pack of legendary Barry Mondos.

(01:11:31):
Mark's effort and trying to get a hold of the Mondos.

Speaker 8 (01:11:36):
Excuse the music, Mark, I thought it was.

Speaker 9 (01:11:38):
A little similar to Anthony Richardson's effort last night in
a play that knocked him out of the game.

Speaker 8 (01:11:45):
WHOA, but that just took the worst hurt ever.

Speaker 9 (01:11:47):
I know this is a thank you, But having said that,
the worst thank you ever Mark did deliver with I
would call it twenty potentially maybe more. You better up
that number thirty up more kool Aid, squeeze its in
a cooler with ice. And when I picked up my

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children yesterday afternoon from I've never seen them so happy
to have one.

Speaker 8 (01:12:12):
That was eight six packs, by the way, forty eight
in there.

Speaker 4 (01:12:15):
Yep, what manu.

Speaker 9 (01:12:18):
When Rosie got her hands on a purple one and
Max on a red one, they were absolutely thrilled to
Uncle Mark again, I have good now right in New York. Yeah,
I think so.

Speaker 8 (01:12:27):
Yeah, there was some hesitation there.

Speaker 9 (01:12:31):
Disappointing, a little disappointed in just the Monday, maybe Tuesday
or Wednesday effort.

Speaker 8 (01:12:38):
That he had to back to the future getting.

Speaker 9 (01:12:41):
DeLorean, not overly mad, but just slightly disappointed.

Speaker 8 (01:12:45):
Not disappointed at anything, because if.

Speaker 9 (01:12:46):
Roles were reversed, I think there would have been much
more of a concerted effort. But your cubs cannot back
it up for you. And you gave a similar effort
the coups full.

Speaker 14 (01:12:54):
Of drinks for your you and your children while you
were dying out there and no no tents or canopy yesterday.

Speaker 9 (01:13:00):
And honestly, the best drink I had yesterday was probably
one of those.

Speaker 14 (01:13:03):
And I gave it to him and he looked and
he's like, you were right. The kool Aids is what
they were. You were gonna leave that note out. I
think you weren't gonna mention that you were incorrect on
the Mondo guests to begin with.

Speaker 9 (01:13:15):
Again, I think the pursuit of six pack of Mondo's
could have been there for you.

Speaker 8 (01:13:20):
I can't prove so anything that does.

Speaker 9 (01:13:21):
It's kind of a quick, quick white flag. You know,
you look like Scott McLauchlin overkill forty eight though forty
that was quite impressive, and that was a nice cooler
mark in terms of that those things stayed cool all
day long. I love that cool, tremendous work. So Mark,
thank you, thank you.

Speaker 14 (01:13:38):
Besides that shot to the back of the head you
took at some point. But yeah, somebody said, next time
we make a bet, I should ask for Dorito's three
d's because I think they stopped making those twenty years ago.

Speaker 4 (01:13:46):
To those out, it's a fan morning show two nine,
ten seventy to number to call. You want to talk
about the Colts last night, give us your response to
what you liked, what you didn't like, what you saw.
What we saw was more of the same James with
Anthony Richardson doesn't look like a major injury fortunately, but
once again couldn't finish what he started. And it seems

(01:14:08):
to be getting every year once or twice we run
into that with Anthony Richardson.

Speaker 8 (01:14:12):
Yes, he's injury prone. That is a label that he
has not been able to shake throughout his first two years.
But I do want to pivot to this factor of that,
how do you all feel Kevin has Notre Dame had
on about Riley Leonard being the de facto backup in
that scenario.

Speaker 9 (01:14:29):
By the way, for this hat yesterday at the Fan
of Golf outing, well, I mean, I guess I don't
think Richardson is going to be out for a while.

Speaker 8 (01:14:37):
No, I'm saying, but if this happens in the regular season,
where one.

Speaker 9 (01:14:40):
To go out and get another quarter back.

Speaker 8 (01:14:42):
That's what I was gettinget based off his performance yesterday
and in the preseason game. Well, we see in the
preseason in training camp, you.

Speaker 9 (01:14:48):
Know he can make plays against with his legs, and
to be fair, those were against guys that largely probably
won't be here, I think against NFL starting athletes. I
don't know if Riley Leonard's legs are as effective and
as poe and as they were a Notre Dame. You know,
he had a couple of throws, but you know, largely
about what you would have expected from Leonard. Yeah, he

(01:15:09):
a fine third quarterback to develop, But by no means
do I want him one play away in a game
we brought up earlier than the seat or earlier in
the show. Will the backup week one be the Week
seventeen starter? Greg spun it in a further direction, he
goes the Week seventeen starter isn't on the roster right now.

Speaker 8 (01:15:29):
Oh lord, that's really dark.

Speaker 9 (01:15:33):
No, that's a frightening thought.

Speaker 4 (01:15:35):
I was having such a good friend.

Speaker 8 (01:15:36):
I was going to say. Jeff literally just lost the
ability to speak. He just roughed into the mic like
a dog. Last segment all over again. Oh, like, what
the heck is going on? Oh my goodness, Oh man,
are you are quick witted? I'll say that.

Speaker 4 (01:15:54):
It's like a terrier back there. He's got a man.

Speaker 8 (01:15:56):
A hold of a boat.

Speaker 4 (01:15:57):
He's not letting that go. Let's go to the phone
lines two three nine ten seventy your chance to feedback,
give us some feedback on what happened in the game
last night. Nick joins us here at two three nine
ten seventy. Nick, Good morning, thanks for being here. Let
us have it.

Speaker 16 (01:16:13):
Hey, how's it going, Good morning, guys.

Speaker 4 (01:16:15):
Good morning, go for it.

Speaker 12 (01:16:17):
Yeah, so just two points.

Speaker 5 (01:16:20):
I'm just want to say, I'm a you know, a
long time one of your YouTube listeners tuning in for
Orlando of Florida.

Speaker 8 (01:16:26):
So thanks, good cool respect, Thank you for that.

Speaker 6 (01:16:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:16:30):
KB also a big fan of the podcast.

Speaker 10 (01:16:34):
I've been tuned in for.

Speaker 4 (01:16:35):
A while, so appreciate that.

Speaker 12 (01:16:36):
I thank you the first thing, you.

Speaker 5 (01:16:39):
Know, I feel like there's been different points in the
last few years we're just collectively Colts fans to just
kind of shook in their heads and been kind of upset.
And that happened about fifteen minutes into this season so far.
So that was just kind of as your first listener
Ray said, it's disappointing, but you almost have to laugh,
like here we go again, right, So I think that's,

(01:17:01):
you know, it's a little bit of an overreaction and
that he wasn't really hurt. But I think that even
if he wasn't hurt and just was taken out, you know,
as a precaution, we'd still be having the same conversation.
So I just think that that's you know, upsetting and
you can maybe reflect on that. And then the other
point I'd make is, in a perfect world, right, Richardson

(01:17:22):
is either your guy this year and we get clarification
on that, or he's terrible and we're in a perfect
opportunity to draft somebody for the future. But they've kicked
this can down the road so many times that now
Ballard's psych in, you know, fighting for their jobs. They
have to bring somebody in to be competitive. And you
know players like Buckner, you know, Nelson, Grover Store, they're

(01:17:46):
reaching kind of the end of their prime and we've
just wasted so much of their prime that you kind
of have to build a competitive team to at least
try and go out there and win, where you're just
going to set yourself back again by not being able
to draft one of those top guys. If you know,
we win eight games and Dangle Jones just kind of
writes the ship just enough to stay afloat. So if

(01:18:06):
you guys just kind of reflect on that and see
kind of the hole that we're.

Speaker 9 (01:18:09):
In, Nick appreciate that. Quarterback purgatories, quarterback hell. When you're
stuck in the middle of the NFL, you're in hell.
And in today's day and age of the AFC, band
aids ain't getting you anywhere. You've got to have legit
quarterbacks in this conference. The conference is littered with it.
They all are relatively young. I mean, what Mahomes is
the oldest olds Mahomes.

Speaker 4 (01:18:30):
Twenty nine coming up on thirty.

Speaker 9 (01:18:32):
I like, that's young. I mean that's not old. So yeah,
you're going to have to, yeah, get the answer and
then go find the new one and again high tights
twenty twenty. But you know, the day that Andrew Luck
shocked the world, all eggs had to be in the
next future of the franchise quarterback basket, and instead they
tried to band aid it up for five six years,
and now you're paying the consequences for that.

Speaker 8 (01:18:53):
So what Nick spoke about, I think is all valid
and very good points that he made. But you're looking
at it through the lens of the fan, which is fair.
I don't mean to disrespect him in any way in
regards to that, but from the Chris Ballad perspective, you're thinking, no,
we cannot tank, we don't want a top five pick.
For most of I think the fan base, they will

(01:19:13):
be like, you know what, if we're not gonna be
solo on a quarterback, stink it up, give me the
high draft pick and we'll just draft a quarterback and
move on. But drafting a quarterback in theory next year
means that no one else is here. Your quarterbacks are gone,
your head coach as was likely gone, and your giv
is most likely gone. And none of those guys currently

(01:19:34):
in that position wants that to happen. And the same
thing happens with the players too. I hear players or
fans and it happens a couple of years ago. It
happened when they were relieved that Rodney Thomas missed the
interception against the Houston Texans, so they ended up getting
like a higher draft pick. The coach that is. But
in the moment Roddy Thomas is like distraught because he knows, man,

(01:19:56):
I'm trying to play for my career and I don't
want a new guy coming in because that could mean
something different from my future. So it's all a slippery
slope there. That's why I think that the Colts have
kind of kicked that can down the road is because
they're scared of bottoming out because when they did, obviously
the last time they truly bottomed out was in twenty
twenty two. Sands Or without Ballard involved, everyone else is gone.

Speaker 4 (01:20:18):
We'll talk more about the last night's contest and what
it means and what is going to happen over the
next couple of days in the week for the Indianapolis Cults.
Will take some more of your phone calls hanging on
the line. We'll get right too. It's the Fan Morning
Show at ninety three five and one seven five the fan.

Speaker 1 (01:20:32):
If you were listening to a fan morning show on
sports Radio ninety three to five, and when I was seven.

Speaker 8 (01:20:37):
Five, I did I just need to be stretched me.

Speaker 4 (01:20:42):
I think I'm not here for that. I think I
didn't come.

Speaker 8 (01:20:45):
Over you to do that.

Speaker 12 (01:20:46):
So I will tell you this. I'm very tight, just
so you know. I'm just telling him.

Speaker 17 (01:20:50):
When I when I go to my gym, my buddy
Bob stretches me and he's usually very complimentary.

Speaker 4 (01:20:56):
My hamstrings, calls me the trampoline, and.

Speaker 17 (01:20:58):
He says, I've never seen anybody tighter, mostly because of
just the overall muscle mass of it. I could do
this on the camera probably for folks, it's like a
rock Yeah.

Speaker 12 (01:21:07):
Look at that? Or are you're not impressed?

Speaker 8 (01:21:09):
Oh, I'm not touching it.

Speaker 12 (01:21:10):
Look that's fifty two years of muscle right there.

Speaker 14 (01:21:12):
Yes, Eddie, I don't know if you're like me of
the mindset, but I probably you probably got a promote
of everything Jake was just talking about.

Speaker 8 (01:21:18):
There at least one, just some fun of the oality.
I don't even guess today.

Speaker 4 (01:21:27):
Well, Jake, I've never been more uncomfortable in my entire life.

Speaker 8 (01:21:31):
Oh, I mean, I'm gonna say, you look at this thigh,
I'm like going a little too high there.

Speaker 12 (01:21:38):
You know what.

Speaker 8 (01:21:39):
Jake operates by the beat of his own drum. I
will say that, what a guy.

Speaker 4 (01:21:44):
That's a lot of fun to listen to every day
between noon and three, and then of course JMV doing
his thing from three to six. I'll be back again
later on today, Mark Dyton, what goes on in your
head on a day to day basis? I just don't
even know, man.

Speaker 14 (01:21:56):
I feel like I bring that down, even though I
don't intentionally do it, but I just sit down. They
start talking about body parts, and I like you tend
to So what you're saying is your second base. The
previous discussion holds any water.

Speaker 4 (01:22:09):
Now you really don't need to be texting anybody's wife
at this point in time, not anymore.

Speaker 12 (01:22:14):
Man.

Speaker 4 (01:22:14):
I think there's some guilt involved in the forty eight
kool Aid.

Speaker 14 (01:22:19):
None but you under promise and over deliver. That's what
I've been told.

Speaker 9 (01:22:24):
Okay, well I did have I think it was LG
maybe on Twitter reach out Mark texting's Kevin Kevin's wife
has to be the craziest thing I've heard on your airwaves.
Absolute no, no hashtag bro code and yeah, that is
certainly one that is right that has kept me.

Speaker 8 (01:22:43):
I've seen I've seen this text, and I've seen the
response to this text, and I would honestly think that
she's on the side of Mark here. She was not
team Kevin in scenarios that no exactly mark Mary Ashley's number.
I'll air drop it to you right now.

Speaker 4 (01:23:02):
Mostly because the same thing that happened to you would
happened to me. The two of them WU ended up
talking about, you know, me being crazy.

Speaker 8 (01:23:09):
This was her saying, my husband don't have a clue
what he's talking about.

Speaker 4 (01:23:13):
She basically she gets the.

Speaker 9 (01:23:15):
Groceries around the horn. Here. Best thing you saw in
the Colts game last night was what.

Speaker 4 (01:23:22):
I mean, we are growing to expect it already, but
Tyler Warren looks terrific. You look like a guy that
you want to live up to be in a first round.

Speaker 8 (01:23:30):
Draft pick games, boyd, I'll go out Johnson. The play
itself was pretty sick. I mean, first throw of the game,
you jump up one handed pick. That's good energy for
a guy trying to fight for a fifty three man
roster spot. You mark the interception that was a nice
start to it. I was feeling pretty good there. I'm
actually going to go a little side try im missa
say Spencer Strader. I know I missed a fifty three

(01:23:50):
yard later in the game, but I thought, you know,
we haven't seen really Colts kickers kicked from fifty three.
You hit it from fifty three earlier, and I was like, okay,
three out of four, that's a solid that's a solid
start there.

Speaker 12 (01:24:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (01:24:00):
I know he exited late with the injury. It sounded
like a knee and Nate Atkins from the start talked
with J. C. Tuymlau in the locker room post game
pretty much that he bang knees, so it doesn't sound
like too severe. But I thought his versatility is something
that had stood out to me in camp. I was
curious what it would looked like in a game, and
you know, he had some other guys kind of spring
him free for a sack off a stunt, but you

(01:24:22):
know he does The body type isn't apples to apples,
but it does seem like he might be in a
kind of a Dio Dangbo role in Dio departing and
him kind of being a rotational guy that could play
a couple of different spots on that defensive line number
ninety one last night and the guy seemingly has been
on the team forever. But again last night he made

(01:24:42):
a few plays. Shout out to Ashton Dulan, just like
a solid football player. The college that he went to
doesn't even have a football program anymore. Just a really
nice NFL career, undrafted dude learned a couple of contracts.

Speaker 8 (01:24:54):
Was it all pro a couple of years ago?

Speaker 9 (01:24:56):
Yeah, all pro special teamer, but like even as like
your sixth wide out, I'm like, oh yeah. I mean
he's really carved out a nice little role for him
and he's reliable.

Speaker 4 (01:25:04):
Completely dependable, describe it. And and that's a big plot.

Speaker 9 (01:25:08):
Came back from a torn ACL so I'll go there.

Speaker 4 (01:25:11):
Hey, in the NFL, James completely dependable is a big
thing to have, don't you think?

Speaker 8 (01:25:16):
Absolutely? I enjoy my interactions with ash Dooling, a class
act through and through and someone who is a fighter.
And I've talked to him about this and I should
do a story on this, honestly, just how insane special
teams is when you're not a kicker or a long snow. Yeah,
Like I was talking to him about just being a

(01:25:36):
gunner and you know him in theory. He was basically
describing as we're all just gonna sign up for car
accidents on these types of plays and hope that you
can get back up afterwards. And so talking to him,
I believe I say that McKenzie a couple of years
ago was like the coultest punt returner hearing him talk
about punt returning and the trust you have to have

(01:25:58):
that the guy on the other team won't decapitate you
every play, and then occasionally they might they might actually
do it. So it's fascinating that he scrapped his way
through all those things and stay relatively healthy outside of
the a cl And like I said, class act, good
dude and someone who if you get in the pinch,
he can certainly fill in for you at the wide
receiver spots.

Speaker 9 (01:26:16):
Speaking special team's big issue there covered twice last night.

Speaker 8 (01:26:19):
Yeah, I thought return I can only imagine how Bryant
Mason say.

Speaker 9 (01:26:23):
The frustrating elements I think are that one hundred and
eight penalty yards is a massive number, easily side.

Speaker 8 (01:26:30):
Line of scrimmage stuff, false starts, things of that nature.

Speaker 9 (01:26:33):
And then I thought the run defense, we should get
to Ady Mitchell some point. I know we got Matt
Taylor coming up on the other side, but we should
get into the night of Adie Mitchell at some point.
And did Mark also show you the text where if
I read that correctly, I think he was asking Maddie
for pictures at some point.

Speaker 8 (01:26:47):
Oh my god, it starts.

Speaker 14 (01:26:52):
It starts, well, okay, can I the reason that I
originally had to believe we're up against.

Speaker 9 (01:27:00):
Taylor?

Speaker 10 (01:27:00):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (01:27:01):
That Mr Taylor on the way next ninety three and
either you guys ever dislocated a finger's fun No?

Speaker 5 (01:27:10):
Not?

Speaker 9 (01:27:10):
Yeah, I saw James was dealing with a lot of
people trying to compare their injuries Anthony Richson last night
on social media, and I was glad I was in
part of that conversation.

Speaker 8 (01:27:18):
Yeah, let me just go on my rent real quick.
Anybody who mentioned that to me last night, you are delusional.
That is one of my biggest pet peeves in covering
professional sports is when a civilian tells me, well, you
know what, back in my day, I did X Y Z,
and I was fine, you are not playing a professional sport.
You are just really probably doing something ill advise and

(01:27:38):
you probably have to schedule. You know, is the doctor
in network if I blow my knee out like Andy
Ritson ain't dealing with that. So I hate people do that.
That is the dumbest thing. I broke both of my
fingers on my index hand actually on my right hand,
MYX finger my middle finger playing basketball, and I played
through it. But like does it matter, No, it is
not compared Tove Danthony Richson at all ran over.

Speaker 9 (01:27:59):
And we did get a little bit of news here
before we get to a Voice of the Colts, Matt Taylor,
Jordan Schultz, NFL Insider reporting here. Anthony and Richardson declared
out last night, of course with the finger injury, had
all his X rays come back clean, and we'll be
back on the practice field in the coming days. Again
that from Jordan Schultz. Just remind everybody Saturday, Sunday, Monday

(01:28:21):
afternoon practices for the Colts, Tuesday, Wednesday off day, Thursday
joint practice with the Green Bay Packers.

Speaker 4 (01:28:28):
Having said that, let's get to the Payliss Lookers hotline
right now. The Voice of the Indianapolis Colts, Matt Taylor,
joins us this morning. Matt, did you come out relatively unscathed.
No injuries for you or Buck last night, Okay, we are.

Speaker 10 (01:28:42):
We came out of it in good shape. Maybe just
a little bit tiger, but that's not an injury. That's
more of a personal problem. But life was good to
get back to a game last night, but certainly some
up and down, uneven.

Speaker 12 (01:28:53):
Play and a lot of stuff to sort out.

Speaker 4 (01:28:55):
What's the big takeaway you had from last night as
you think about it overnight, Well, I thought.

Speaker 10 (01:29:01):
Daniel Jones when he came in and relief came in, and.

Speaker 12 (01:29:03):
For the most part, I thought he looked pretty crisped.

Speaker 10 (01:29:05):
And I don't think his overall stat line is gonna
tell the whole story on how good I thought that
he looked.

Speaker 12 (01:29:12):
Because he had, you know, some bad plays the Colts
were forced into.

Speaker 10 (01:29:17):
He had some drops that, uh, some some of the
skilled players on offense, you know, didn't do him any
favors there in terms of secure in the past and
getting up the feel and things like that. So I
think his overall completion percentage is going to be a
little bit deceptive. But I just I was really impressed
with how.

Speaker 12 (01:29:34):
He was able to able to because I mean, he
would he fully wasn't expecting to come in.

Speaker 10 (01:29:38):
Until about you know, with three or four minutes I
think left in the in the in the half. Uh
So to come in basically halfway through the first quarter
and be thrust into that position and come out and
perform and play well, I thought it was impressive.

Speaker 12 (01:29:52):
Just kind of speaks to his.

Speaker 10 (01:29:54):
Preparation, his professionalism, and just the way he was able
to come in and not let the moment. And it's
a preseason game, right, I get it, but it's still,
you know, a big time moment for him and his
battle for this.

Speaker 12 (01:30:07):
Starting job going into the regular season.

Speaker 10 (01:30:09):
So I was impressed with him, his athleticism, you know,
he kind of scrambled out of the pocket a couple
of times, used the speed to get a first down.

Speaker 12 (01:30:17):
Overall, I thought it was a good night for him.

Speaker 10 (01:30:19):
And it's just kind of tough to evaluate again with
this Anthony Richardson absence, you know, leaving the game early,
you know, with the hand injury or the finger injury
in this case, just kind of throws a wrinkle in
how you evaluate the quarterbacks because as of right now,
it's it's not going to be in apples to apples comparison.
If the cold stick to their playing coming up on

(01:30:43):
Saturday against the Packers. And I don't know how much
this will kind of change things in terms of the evaluation,
because the plan was for Anthony to play a quarter
and a half and Daniel to play a quarter and a half.
With this hiccup yesterday, I'm not sure if they're going
to change that up. Knowing that Daniel got a lot
of the reps, more rep then he probably anticipated yesterday.
So that that's my big takeaway from last night is that,

(01:31:06):
you know, Daniel Jones came in and was.

Speaker 12 (01:31:08):
A total pro about it and looked pretty sharp.

Speaker 8 (01:31:11):
We have Matt Taylor on the line joining us on
the Pale Sickars hot line, and he is the voice
of the colts. Mate. When you made the call and
you saw in the rich and kind of get lit
up on that play one, what's going through your mind
when he is kind of running off and at first
it looks like he's holding his shoulder kind of down,
but it turns out to his hand, And then did
you just breathe a sigh of relief when you find
out that perhaps it isn't as big of an injury

(01:31:33):
as it You know, look to be.

Speaker 13 (01:31:35):
Initially, yeah, I mean when I when I saw a
ninety a jabo coming off the left edge there, I
actually had a really good shot of it because we
were broadcasting yesterday from the corner, and so he comes
off the left edge sort of like right down my
side line.

Speaker 10 (01:31:50):
The Colts were coming towards me if he will in
that direction, and I saw him get a you know,
a clean, you know, Scott free release to Anthony Richardson,
and I'm thinking, and oh God, get rid of it,
just throw it away, you know, don't take this hit.
And then he takes that wicked sack, goes down and
I'm thinking to myself, Man, he's either you know, he's
got an upper body injury, you know, he took a

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you know, a face mask to the chest, or maybe
he's can cuss.

Speaker 12 (01:32:15):
But as soon as I thought I saw him leave.

Speaker 10 (01:32:17):
The game, I thought, this is the last thing that
he needs, you know, because we all know the injury history.
He's got four different injuries that have kept him out.
He's only played in fifteen games, you.

Speaker 12 (01:32:27):
Know, in two years, he's missed seventeen games.

Speaker 10 (01:32:30):
Dude to an injury. This is the last thing that
he needs. Especially when you know he's been having such
a good offseason. He's been so much more intentional about everything,
and you know, working out with personal throwing coaches and
just buying into the whole concept of what it means
and the extra steps that you have to take to
be a franchise quarterback and you know, the face of

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an NFL team, and I don't want to see that
any of that be derailed as he competes with Daniel
Jones to be the starting quarterback. So all those things
come flooding to your mind, and then you don't know
what's going on, you.

Speaker 12 (01:33:03):
Know, during the game and how they're treating him over on.

Speaker 10 (01:33:05):
The sideline, so you don't find out until after the
game that it's thankfully not as severe, but you knows
still hopefully he doesn't miss any practice time.

Speaker 12 (01:33:14):
The Cult are going to practice, like you guys said.

Speaker 10 (01:33:16):
Tomorrow, Ideally he get back out there and sort of
resumed this this competition.

Speaker 12 (01:33:21):
But I don't know if that's gonna happen. Walk to
wait and see.

Speaker 10 (01:33:24):
But yeah, that's those are all the things that were
racing through my mind because he's a good kid and
he's worked really hard this entire offseason being much more
intentional about everything. You just want to see that come
to fruition and let the best man win the competition
based on Apples to Apple's comparison, and you know, both
guys get a fair shot at it.

Speaker 9 (01:33:44):
We appreciate Matt Taylor's work and obviously waking up after
what was a very long night for him. So mate,
thank you for that here on this Friday morning. One
thing you liked non quarterback division from last night. One
thing you didn't like non quarterback vision from last night, Well, I.

Speaker 12 (01:34:02):
Liked the way that the secondary was battling. You know,
there's a lot of guys that.

Speaker 10 (01:34:06):
Were you know, kind of thrust it into more playing
time because of Justin Wally's injury and that's just you know, sidebar,
another gut punch, another you know, one of those things
where the Colts where you know, they were looking so
good in the secondary in terms of the stockpile, number
of quality depth pieces that they had, and then all

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of a sudden, Wally's out for the year with a
torn a cl and then here comes Jalen Jones with.

Speaker 12 (01:34:34):
His hamstring that continues to linger. Same thing with Juju Brince,
those guys.

Speaker 10 (01:34:37):
Haven't practice for a week plus and then Wally's thing
on Tuesday was just the last thing.

Speaker 12 (01:34:43):
They needed there.

Speaker 10 (01:34:44):
But they have brought in some reinforcements, you know, guys
like Trey Herndon and Duke Shelley and Chrys Lamon's and
I thought all those guys played really well. And then
here comes Alex Johnson as well, you know, kind of
a veteran piece out of UCLA, makes an Inner get
the pass defense right out of the gate. In the
first half, those guys are making plays, they're competing and

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just sort of branding themselves inside the lou An Rumo scheme.
So that was encouraging to see as they try to,
you know, potentially round out the back end of that
secondary on the fifty three man roster. And then what
I did not like was just the penalties and obviously
the special teams coverage.

Speaker 12 (01:35:24):
You the Colts last night.

Speaker 10 (01:35:25):
Allowed over two hundred and thirty kick return yards, kickoff
returns and punt return yardage.

Speaker 12 (01:35:33):
You know, and listen, it's.

Speaker 10 (01:35:34):
The preseason two, so there's a lot of you know,
throwing stuff at the wall and seeing what sticks. And
some of these guys that are trying to cover these
kicks and punts aren't going to be here in the
regular season.

Speaker 12 (01:35:44):
So you have to factor that into it too.

Speaker 10 (01:35:46):
But of course, you know, from a scheme standpoint, it's
it's still basically going to carry over under you know,
special teams coordinators and the special teams units.

Speaker 12 (01:35:55):
So they've got to hash that stuff out. And then
the penalties too.

Speaker 10 (01:35:58):
The Colts last year were they were this I think,
the third most disciplined team in the NFL in terms
of third.

Speaker 12 (01:36:05):
Fewest penalties and the fewest penalty.

Speaker 10 (01:36:07):
Yards, and last night they had a whopping nine of
them and just some you know, false starts on offense,
silly mistakes. You know, you had some holding penalties by
some receivers and and things like that, and defensive pass
interference stuff. It's kind of your typical preseason.

Speaker 12 (01:36:23):
Game from last night. It's kind of choppy. There's good,
there's bad.

Speaker 10 (01:36:26):
And there's some gray area in between that you really
don't know, you know, what you're looking at as a
fan because you don't know, you know, personnel, what they're
trying to, you know, just see what works and stuff
like that. But overall, I thought it was a typical
preseason game night.

Speaker 12 (01:36:41):
A lot of good, a lot.

Speaker 10 (01:36:41):
Of bad, and hopefully the Colts can smooth that out
coming up on Thursday in a joint practice against the Packers,
and we'll see what the plan is going forward for
the starters coming up next Saturday.

Speaker 4 (01:36:52):
You heard that voice last night.

Speaker 9 (01:36:53):
That is Matt Taylor, the voice of the Colts, and
we appreciate him with us here on this Friday morning.
May take home to quarterbacks for just a second. You
know you brought up obviously the original plan was to
have Daniel Jones get the bulk this coming week against
Green Bay. I guess a week from Saturday. Technically, I
think you have to flip that if it's going to
be a true competition.

Speaker 4 (01:37:13):
But let's go here.

Speaker 9 (01:37:14):
Do you think in the back of Shane seconds mind,
the thought process was name a starter after that Green
Bay game and then maybe let him dress rehearsal it
up a little bit against Cincinnati Or how do you
how did you kind of view the rest of this
month in regards to the quarterback competition before last night.

Speaker 10 (01:37:31):
Yeah, that's a good question, and I don't I don't know.
I don't know how this was ultimately going to play out.
I mean know, in my mind dating back to the
spring when Anthony got banged up and wasn't able to
or had.

Speaker 12 (01:37:48):
The shoulder aggravation and wasn't able to.

Speaker 10 (01:37:51):
Finish out, you know, the offseason workout program. I thought
to myself, then this is going to go all the
way until heck they could they could you know, use
that final preseason game in Cincinnati. Plus there's you know,
eight or nine more days until you play the Dolphins
in Week one of the regular season. You could use
that time too to continue the evaluation until you have
to make roster cuts.

Speaker 12 (01:38:11):
Obviously, So I don't. I don't know. That's a really
good question. I don't.

Speaker 10 (01:38:16):
I don't know if if they were going to use
the Packers game to announce or you know.

Speaker 12 (01:38:21):
Use that final evaluation.

Speaker 10 (01:38:22):
To announce the starter and then give that guy, you know,
substantial reps, maybe play a full half in Cincinnati.

Speaker 12 (01:38:28):
I don't.

Speaker 10 (01:38:29):
From a game's been ship's standpoint, I'm just you know,
playing Devil's advocate.

Speaker 12 (01:38:33):
I don't.

Speaker 10 (01:38:33):
I don't know why you would do that either, because
you know, wouldn't you hypothetically want to make Miami weight
as long as possible to to you know, game plan
and know who the cults are going to roll out
there starter wise in the regular season. So you know,
I don't know how last night factors into it too.

Speaker 12 (01:38:50):
You know, the monkey ranch is that throws into the equation.
So it's a good question. I don't have the answer
for it.

Speaker 10 (01:38:56):
And based off of you know, Richardson's you know, overall
absence from last night, I don't know if they have
an answer for too. I think they're gonna let it
play out and just see, you know, the work that
both guys get in and then the joint practice in
the preseason and you know, maybe there's more they need
to see against Cincinnati and let that play out too.

Speaker 12 (01:39:14):
So that's a long.

Speaker 10 (01:39:16):
Winded way of saying it's kind of TBD, and you know,
it's it's it's it's ongoing. And that's what I said
going into the training camp period. I said, if you're
looking for an answer, I got bad news for you.
You're not going to get one, and you're probably not
gonna get one soon. And I still don't know if
you're going to get one at the end of the preseason.

Speaker 8 (01:39:33):
May te last one from me. I am curious because
you have to know all the players on the roster,
and we joke about this in the media all the
time that you probably know where every guy on the
roster went to school, whether they're the top player like
Quentin Nelson or DeForest Buckner or their last guy trying
to make the team. What did you think of one
of those guys trying to make the team Alex Johnson

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in his interception last night and what that could do
perhaps in a banged up cornerback room.

Speaker 10 (01:40:00):
Yeah, you know, he's the second year guys with the Giants.
Last year, I was a practice squad player for some
of the season for them, and you know, he's one
of those guys that you know he's playing more because
of those injuries. And I just thought that last night
he competed and he battled and he made the most
of his opportunity. I mean, that can play from scrimmage.

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They're going after him, they're catching them over there on
that fade pattern that go route on the sideline, and
he just battles his tail a tail off and then
he mixed sin should be a one handed interception snag.
And that's what you have to do in the preseason.
You know, we talk about this all the time. You know,
if like you're a back into the roster guy or
an undrafted free agent. You kind of just tell those

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guys if the coach is going into the preseason, just
keep it simple, don't try to do too much, but
just show us why you're here, show us why you
know we claimed you or you know why we brought
can you know the show us your traits, give it
a reason for us to continue to evaluate wait you
and to you know, think long and hard about keeping

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you on the fifty three man roster and give us
some good depth.

Speaker 12 (01:41:06):
And that's exactly what he did last night.

Speaker 10 (01:41:08):
So Herbert did that, you know, to a degree of
a DJ Giddens.

Speaker 12 (01:41:12):
You know, he ran really hard. Tyler Goodson ran really hard.
There's a lot of guys last night.

Speaker 10 (01:41:17):
From you know, just an individual micro crossing standpoint, played
well and helped themselves even though the team aspect of
things was kind of chopping up and down. I thought
there was some really good individual performances and defensively, especially
in the first half. Johnson's name, you know, definitely rises
to the top of really good individual performances and a
guy that stood out last night.

Speaker 4 (01:41:39):
Matt as always, thanks for getting up early after I
assume he came back like last night. But we appreciate
you being on the show today.

Speaker 10 (01:41:44):
Thank you, my pleasure voice anything for you.

Speaker 12 (01:41:47):
I would have got up at seven am to do this.
I would have done the whole show with you. Yes,
come on, Lord, not would be awake, but i'd be.

Speaker 9 (01:41:55):
There beer all of a sudden when I just seen
tomorrow Westfield.

Speaker 4 (01:41:59):
After that, you'll be co hosting after the third preseason game,
just letting you.

Speaker 12 (01:42:03):
Know, Hey, that's all good. Anything I can do or
you can do.

Speaker 4 (01:42:08):
All right? How fun? They man Matt Taylor relatively untouched
by the mind of Mark Dykedon so far, it sounds like,
so that's that would be good about having him come in.

Speaker 9 (01:42:17):
We'll be bringing the energy tomorrow on the mic four o'clock.
They are they gonna go like real tomorrow, James Boyd
or are you expecting Sunday to be more of the real one?

Speaker 8 (01:42:26):
Probably Sunday. I would think you want to kind of
ease back into things, especially for the guys who haven't
practiced or played over the last couple of days. I
don't know how wise it would be to just kind
of hit it full throttle after playing the game less
than forty eight hours before that, So that's something to
keep in mind. One player I do want to give
a shout out to. I feel like I haven't talked
about him very much about the show this morning with

(01:42:48):
J T two Molowow he looked legit yesterday. Now get
that he went up against some of the reserves for
the Ravens, and which I should say there were a
lot of reserves in that game, but some of the divers. Butevertheless,
I mean for the second round pick NFL preseason debut,
he put up a heck of a stat line, two
tackles for loss, a sack, he had two QB hits,

(01:43:11):
pass deflection, force, fumble, you name it.

Speaker 1 (01:43:13):
Now.

Speaker 8 (01:43:13):
He did leave that game with a knee injury, but
I believe Indie stars Zdakin spoke to him. Doesn't sound
like it's gonna be a big deal. Kind Of got
banged up there, but nothing to really worry about. But
as far as his disruptiveness, I like what I saw.

Speaker 9 (01:43:27):
Yeah, And you know what, Yeah, he was a guy
that i'd single that when we went around the horn
for you know, kind of good moments, I'd say are Yeah,
I don't know, quarterbacks so important It's probably unfair to
say this, but probably the biggest news item from last
night was Justin Wallley's torn ACL. I mean again, this
occurred Tuesday in the joint practice. This is your third
round pick out of Minnesota, corner, undersize corner. The Colts

(01:43:50):
were very high on him, Several other NFL teams were
very high on him, and Jameson's Day one he walked
in that door. Not a single member that Colt organization
has been hesitant in offering public praise for him. That
is very rare.

Speaker 8 (01:44:05):
He's the guys who don't do that.

Speaker 9 (01:44:06):
I cannot recall a time I've seen a Cults draft
pick as a rookie receive this much public praise. Now
he plays a position at corner where on paper you
didn't have like an immense amount of urgency to draft
a corner. Now, with how the injury situation has played
out his obviously ACL, the hamstring injury for Jalen Jones,

(01:44:27):
the hamstring injury for Juju Brents Now, the depth is
really being tested there. So you just feel off of
with the kid. Obviously, he was a four year starter
in the Big Ten. The thought was he could come
in and play and start as that third corner in
a very important role. And again Lui Ane Rumo wants
to be in more sub packages. He wants more defensive
backs on the field here. So yeah, just awful, just awful.

(01:44:49):
And you need Jalen Jones and or Juju Brent's back
to health quickly. Guys like Samuel Wollmack number thirty three,
Alex Johnson who had the early interception, number thirty five,
Jonathan Edwards number thirty nine, undrafted free agent out of
two Lane flipped those Zay again.

Speaker 8 (01:45:05):
Flip those numbers, thirty nine for John.

Speaker 9 (01:45:07):
Johnson, thirty five Edwards, all of those guys, thank you
need to be ready. And I mean week one Tyreek, Kale,
John new Smith and Jalen Wattle, that's a deep pass
catching group.

Speaker 8 (01:45:18):
So and they don't have Tim Boyle or no.

Speaker 9 (01:45:21):
No no this time right too likely to be starting.
So yeah, I just really really unfortunate for Wally.

Speaker 4 (01:45:28):
All Right, that's what's happening with the Colts right now
a little bit more right now as we check it
down and getting ready for the weekend.

Speaker 1 (01:45:34):
The morning checkdown on ninety sweet five and one oh
seven five.

Speaker 4 (01:45:38):
The Fat Ravens beat the Colts twenty four to sixteen
last night. Anthony Richardson on the three passes, two of
them completed, but he left the game with a dislocated
pinky on his throwing hand after not recognizing a blitz
and getting clocked on that play. Daniel Jones ended up
playing more than he thought he was, going two ten
to twenty one for one hundred and forty four yards,

(01:45:59):
but did a decent job of moving moving the chains
and getting the team into scoring position a couple of times. Kevin, Yeah,
I thought he's fine.

Speaker 9 (01:46:05):
You five drives, three of them scoring drives. You know,
I thought there was some momentary he gave some guys
opportunities after the catch. By no means it was a
great or you know, the quarterback bar in Indianapolis. Sadly, pathetically,
we have to talk about it in different light than
pretty much every other NFL market, So when you compare.

Speaker 4 (01:46:22):
It, pretty small sample size. But I believe the Colts
have themselves a tight end.

Speaker 8 (01:46:26):
James Boyd Yeah, and speaking of tight ends, just one
real clarification. I know KB mentioned John new Smith. He
got traded to his burst Steelers, So.

Speaker 4 (01:46:33):
Apologies, it's all good.

Speaker 8 (01:46:34):
They will still see him on the schedule at some
point this season and then fra as Colts tight ends
go Yes, Tyler Warren looked the part last night. You know,
he showed off the ability to get catches over the
middle of the field, which is an area that the
Colts have struggled in recent years, trying to make plays
over the middle. And then when he got the ball
in his hands, I like, you know, his physicality and
his yack yards after catch and so you're hoping that

(01:46:56):
that continues into the regular season.

Speaker 4 (01:46:58):
All right. And in the WNB last night late game
in Phoenix, not a good night for the Indiana Fever.
They lose ninety five sixty. I almost wanted to say
Phoenix beat Sophie Cunningham ninety five sixty because she was
really the only offense last night. She had six three pointers,
couldn't miss in the first half. At one point in time,
only two Fever players in double figures. Kelsey Mitchell had twelve,

(01:47:21):
but she was four of seventeen from the field. It
was just a rough night all the way around.

Speaker 10 (01:47:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:47:25):
The big news obviously come out of that game beyond
the loss, is the injuries to Aaron McDonald and Sidney Colson.
Sidney Colson left with I believe a knee injury. That
look Aery McDonald looked tough, yes, and then Aery McDonald
I believe also had a maybe foot or ankle injury.
So those are things to keep an eye on, especially
considering that Kitlyn Clark there's still no timeline for her return.

(01:47:46):
And also, you know, I wouldn't be petty if I
wouldn't be me if I wouldn't petty. Do Wanna Bonner
got her look back? She was talking crazy to them yesterday,
and so as the as a hater, I was like,
you know what, respect because she was dead me waiting
to chirp, and she let loose yesterday.

Speaker 4 (01:48:03):
Six.

Speaker 9 (01:48:03):
He's got to be one of the lower numbers in
quite a while.

Speaker 8 (01:48:06):
Yeah, that was a horrible offensive formance, And honestly, I
think those types of games, I'm like, do you just
flush it? You know, you go back and watch obviously
what you did wrong. But I mean, they're never going
to injuries and shooting like it was just such an
anomaly type of performance.

Speaker 9 (01:48:18):
Final game of the road trip. I think they've earned
the right to a little bit of a benefit of
the doubt.

Speaker 8 (01:48:23):
They've been a scrappy team.

Speaker 9 (01:48:24):
But right now, I mean again point guard health. They're
gonna need bring in January to suit up tomorrow night.

Speaker 4 (01:48:30):
It's uh well, they do have a couple of games
coming up at home Saturday night against Chicago, first one
eight pm. Later on tonight, Do you want to go
watch some baseball? Victory Field will be the place, James,
the Indians hosting the Omaha storm Chasers. We've got Would
you all.

Speaker 8 (01:48:44):
Ever stay chase storms?

Speaker 18 (01:48:47):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:48:47):
When I was.

Speaker 8 (01:48:48):
Younger, I'm not Bill Paxton or hell and Hunt and Twister.

Speaker 12 (01:48:51):
I'm yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:48:52):
I'm always like man, people who do know start bless them.

Speaker 9 (01:48:54):
No, sir, I am not chasing storms waterfalls my own.

Speaker 4 (01:49:00):
I was one of those guys that that self preservation
gene for me didn't fully mature till I was about thirty.

Speaker 8 (01:49:06):
I tend to stick to the lakes and the rivers
that I'm used to.

Speaker 9 (01:49:08):
I mean, you guys heard about me trying to chase
second and third base back in the day. It didn't
go well. Lord knows, I'm not chasing storms.

Speaker 4 (01:49:13):
Forgot what you're talking about there? We got someone said
on Sunday, right.

Speaker 9 (01:49:17):
And Matt was saying that he was stuck in the
bullpen a lot playing with himself. He said in the bullpen,
I believe if he said this correct here, you know,
I throw it to break kaf He goes, the manager
never gave me the call up, man, I were kind
of in the same boat, probably.

Speaker 8 (01:49:31):
Sitting there eating some big league chew.

Speaker 4 (01:49:33):
I guess.

Speaker 9 (01:49:35):
Seating it up in the bullpen. Yeah, Portland alex Plow,
he is on the verge of clinching the season series.
From a point standpoint, can.

Speaker 4 (01:49:42):
Get his night.

Speaker 9 (01:49:43):
One of the year is ten all time? Is that
the record that?

Speaker 4 (01:49:46):
I don't know that that's a good question. That's probably question.

Speaker 9 (01:49:50):
Three races to go and Team Penske, I believe, is
yet to win a race this season. You want to
talk about a horrific year for them, that is definitely
in there. So a couple of things just keep an
eye at. From an Indy Car standpoint, here, they'll raise
three times in August. Next week, nothing up in Milwaukee
on that oval and then Nashville to round it out.

Speaker 4 (01:50:10):
All right, coming up at a moment, we'll talk a
little bit more about the Colts and the preseason ahead
and uh, what is to look forward to this weekend,
coming up to worry about watching the Colts football game.
Unless you want to go back and watch the tape again.
You're gonna go back and watch it again today. See
what you miss, James, You're good.

Speaker 8 (01:50:27):
No, I would never.

Speaker 4 (01:50:29):
Yeah, Kevin, you've run the course on this one. You're
letting it go.

Speaker 9 (01:50:34):
I don't know. I might go back and watch the
first half, but yeah, I can't say I'm gonna dialogue
say yeah second half again.

Speaker 8 (01:50:42):
I'm not gonna lie once a preseason leonard a Notre Dame. No,
he's gonna watch it. I don't think. Speaking of Riley,
I thought he was okay last night, but again, nothing
that I saw last night will convince me that he
could be.

Speaker 14 (01:50:52):
QB two has a way. Kevin's got a cooler full
of kool Aids. He's gonna crack him open. He watch
Let's break Down the film.

Speaker 9 (01:50:59):
What a great John Mark in yesterday and delivering that breaking.

Speaker 8 (01:51:04):
Down I'm waiting for at the French line because that
was way too nice, Kevin.

Speaker 9 (01:51:07):
It was a very nice gesture. I was thrilled Mark,
Thank you.

Speaker 14 (01:51:10):
I stopped at the Walmart out in town to make
sure they're ice Colts for it and you're gonna be sweating.

Speaker 8 (01:51:15):
You know what, who wants warm dricks. I'm not gonna.

Speaker 4 (01:51:18):
Until you got to like near Franklin and the Legends
golf course for you go Franklin.

Speaker 8 (01:51:24):
Yeah, I'm not gonna lie. Next year is the golf
out and we gonna get you a tent.

Speaker 3 (01:51:28):
Brother.

Speaker 8 (01:51:29):
You were out there baking for a second. I'm not
gonna lock Kevin. I was thinking, Man, this is due
my comeback looking like me, you know.

Speaker 9 (01:51:36):
Twenty five minute group between the twenty five minute break
between two groups, and I kid you not. I almost
fell asleep underneath the tree. Thank you to Kevin and
Chris from put that they were out there with me there.

Speaker 4 (01:51:48):
I could see Kevin putting that group off. They come up.

Speaker 9 (01:51:50):
They had made Birdie in the previous hole. They offered
me fireball and that explained everything.

Speaker 14 (01:51:53):
It was still like a troll at the bridge, ask
me these questions. You want to leave the shadow.

Speaker 9 (01:51:58):
Fireball was such a quick to it.

Speaker 4 (01:52:00):
By the way, I was a little worried about you
though out in the sun, knowing that we had started
the day off with some somemiller light. Knowing that there
was fireball out there, I.

Speaker 8 (01:52:10):
Was did you drink yours?

Speaker 4 (01:52:12):
Jeff, No, Well, I had a couple of see see
that this is had a couple of triss I don't drink.

Speaker 8 (01:52:18):
We should get into this fall. I don't drink e though,
but I also don't crack beers and just leave them
sitting there.

Speaker 3 (01:52:23):
You know.

Speaker 8 (01:52:23):
I find that was a waste of a good beer.
I was. I remember when you did crack it.

Speaker 9 (01:52:29):
I was sinking.

Speaker 8 (01:52:29):
Oh, so what you're saying is Grat's got to hang
out with me so it doesn't get pre pressure because
a beer and just let us sit there. But it
was a good time yesterday though.

Speaker 4 (01:52:39):
I know, but I was worried. I actually at one
point drove a cart out to just check on Kevin,
make sure you were good and everything was okay and
you were doing fine.

Speaker 9 (01:52:45):
Yeah, yeah, I hit a wall or two. But now
it was awesome out there. So thanks everybody coming out there.
We had think a little over one hundred golfers out
there and really fun time.

Speaker 8 (01:52:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:52:56):
I had a really, really great day And appreciate again
everybody for friends this can, for helping us put that
thing on, and all the other sponsors that that stepped
up and we listed them all and talked about him
a couple of times already. But everybody did a fantastic
job and we had a great time. Listener, great jobs,
looking forward to doing that again next year. You were
out there too, you were shooting baskets with JMV. You
guys were draining threes out there.

Speaker 8 (01:53:19):
We can pivot after this. But JMV being in his
actual hoop gear was hilarious to me. I was like,
I mean, I fort.

Speaker 4 (01:53:27):
How about the Gulf War drove the J ANDV. Yeah,
And then he took it off.

Speaker 8 (01:53:32):
I have a photo off and I was like because
I looked at him and I was like, you are
not wearing a belt today.

Speaker 9 (01:53:37):
It was Tommy Fleetwood say this.

Speaker 4 (01:53:41):
I've noticed a few times since he's lost all this weight.
I don't know what's going on, but I've seen him
in some look to be new polo shirts and some nice,
you know, shorts, stuff like that.

Speaker 9 (01:53:53):
I think those twin Peaks girls are taking a look
or two over there at John Michael Vincent and that jumper.

Speaker 8 (01:53:59):
One thing John Stockton or is that James.

Speaker 9 (01:54:03):
John?

Speaker 4 (01:54:04):
Yes, they all know who John Stockton is.

Speaker 9 (01:54:05):
Travolta, I think is what he was being called there.
I know we brought this up a little bit earlier,
and for our crowd out there, do you guys notice,
by the way, on a Friday commute in, I feel
like it's not as busy as it is Monday through Thursday.
Do you guys notice that when you drive in on Friday.

Speaker 8 (01:54:20):
I probably can't relate because my commute is the same
every day because I'm so close.

Speaker 9 (01:54:24):
I know, but I feel like there's less people driving
that time. Nonetheless, I bring that up to say some
people are probably just joining us here around nine thirty.
And if you stayed up for the Gold game, you
stayed up watch the fever, et cetera, et cetera, or
it's just a Friday and you don't care. Maybe you
already checking us out for the first time. And you know,
we've talked at different iterations about the show of last night.
Anthony Richardson leaving due to the right pinky injury doesn't

(01:54:44):
sound like very severe by any means, dislocation some national
reports out there Indicator could be back.

Speaker 4 (01:54:49):
To practice this week.

Speaker 9 (01:54:52):
As the play happened and we got to realize the
fault of the play. Honestly, my mind was in't as
much as like he's he's injury prone, Like, well, I
know that sounds bad and I feel off for the kid,
but duh, like I mean like yeah, I mean he's
been hurt in his career. Last night, to me, did

(01:55:13):
not alter my injury prone opinion on Anthony Richardson by
any means.

Speaker 4 (01:55:17):
Like the play itself was pot like that.

Speaker 9 (01:55:20):
Hit that probably injures a good amount of quarterbacks in
the league, like a dislocated finger. You know that probably
happens to you know, more than whatever half of these qbs.
The issue is how the play happened, and it was
an admitted misidentification of a rather elementary NFL element for
an NFL quarterback. That to me is I think what

(01:55:42):
is truly damning about what happened with Richardson last night
is in the preseason, when you are vanilla as hell,
you got absolutely fooled on a play where the Colts
had a rookie right tackle, they had a rookie tight end,
they had a rookie running back, they had a center
and a second year and all of them were on
the same page, and yet you were the one that

(01:56:06):
had the screw up there. And the screw up not
only sent you out of the game, but it he
very easily could have been a turnover in your own
territory if you want to play like the team impact.
So to me, the conversation on this Friday morning isn't
as much about Anthony richardson his injury prone. It's more
about damn progression and growth. Yeah, pre snap identification. That

(01:56:31):
is alive and well here on August seventh, and that
ain't good.

Speaker 4 (01:56:37):
I don't know what else to add to that. We
talked about that a little while ago. But to your point,
it wasn't just the injury, as you said, that's gonna
happen on a hit like that. That's gonna happen to
a lot of guys. It's the fact that that hit
happened and he didn't recognize it at all, and he
didn't see the guy coming, and it wasn't on his

(01:56:57):
blind side. There were a lot of things going on
in that place, James.

Speaker 8 (01:57:02):
Yeah, and that to me is probably one of the
most frustrating things, Like I can only imagine how Shane
Styken felt like that.

Speaker 4 (01:57:08):
Has to pitch Shane off.

Speaker 8 (01:57:10):
Yeah, if they want to just call it that, yes, absolutely,
because you're thinking, dude, this is the most vanilla offense
and defense we will have all year, and you blew it.
And he mentioned that he thought, I believe reading some
of the quotes back and credit Stephen Holder from ESPN
is where I read it. But he was talking about
how he thought, you know, the pressure might have been

(01:57:31):
coming from the other side, but just to miss it
from what Kurt Warner was saying. And he's a Hall
of Fame quarterback. On social media and a few other
people who played the game at a high low for
a long time, they were all saying, dude, this is
like you know, quarterback one on one stuff, and you
blew it. And he mentioned I got to be sharper,
I got to be my p's and q's and you know,
kind of shrugged it off. But honestly, it's hard for

(01:57:54):
Anthony to shrug anything off at this point, whether it's injuries,
it's play. You have no more good will or no
more reason than people have, like necessarily a lot of
faith in you. So I'm not saying he should be
freaking out or panicking, but also wonder to a certain extent,
how long like the everything's fine, I'm good like it.

(01:58:20):
You know, I'm better than I was how long that
will last or really leave? Yeah, I mean he's saying
that stuff, and I can honestly relate to or feel
for Colts fans who might feel like, dude, I don't
care about any of that play better, but he is.
I think that he's playing it cool. That's his personality.
I'm not saying should freak out, but at some point

(01:58:40):
I'm like, man, it does kind of give you a
little annoyance.

Speaker 9 (01:58:44):
One thing I'll add to is, again, I'm a loser,
so I'll probably go back and watch just the first half.
But it didn't seem like and that plan. In particularly,
I believe his eye direction was towards Adie Mitchell. I
want to say Doolan was the receiver on the box.
I'm part of the field that was also hot along
with DJ Giddons, But it looked like he was really

(01:59:06):
trying to get the ball to Mitchell. You know, if
you go back and you watch the thircused in on him. Yeah,
if you watch the third and seven where he almost
gets picked, it's locked in on Mitchell. Mitchell, Mitchell Mitchell.
He realizes that's not open, and then he throws late
over the middle to Dulan. So again, is that a
concerted effort between those two, Is that, Hey, this guy's
going to be out here with me more in the
regular season. You know, still obviously you can't make that mistake.

(01:59:27):
But as soon as that DM starts to drop, boom,
you got to see that, all right.

Speaker 4 (01:59:31):
A little bit late into a break. I will get
to the break now, hang in there, Jeff. We'll get
to your final phone call two three nine ten seventy
in a moment look ahead to the weekend as well.
It's next ninety three five and one O seven five
R getting ready to head out to the weekend here,
Kevin Bowen, James Boyd, Jeff Rickard, Mark Diydon. Before we
go though, a couple of more phone calls, people reacting
to the last night's game as they're coming around now

(01:59:53):
to the Colts twenty four to sixteen loss to the Ravens.
But what did we learn? What we were impressions, Jeff,
Thanks for hanging in there. We appreciate you staying through break.
Your next up two three nine ten seventy. Good morning,
welcome to the show. What'd you think, hey, Jeff, great man.

Speaker 18 (02:00:06):
By the way, I just want to thank you all
for having me on one thing I learned, I think
from yesterday, And this goes back to Ar's rookie years,
like he seems to have no awareness of what's happening,
like in his immediate vicinity around him. And I say
that because I feel like yesterday, like any quarterback would
have felt that coming and at least have just, you know,

(02:00:29):
taken the stack falling down like a Manning or someone
or someone would have stepped up made a play out
of it. But he had no idea that was coming.
And then you go back to his rookie year when
he scored a touchdown and gets knocked out of the
game running the ball in at the goal line, and
he told people after the game like he didn't even
see that guy coming to hit him and he was

(02:00:50):
right in front of him. So I guess what I'm
getting at is I feel like he just does not
possess the physical awareness needed to play in the NFL.
So like for his own safety, maybe that's just the
best thing for him is for someone to step in
and be like, yo, dude, this isn't working out. Maybe
we need to move on to something else. But I

(02:01:10):
appreciate you taking my call having a good Friday, and yeah,
have a good day.

Speaker 9 (02:01:14):
Yeah, Jeff appreciate that. You know, I think a couple
things with Richardson in terms of awareness. I think within
the pocket, he actually has decent poise and decent pocket awareness.
Where he clearly struggles and last night was the perfect
example of it is the pre snap identification, like that
awareness that is a huge issue. But you know, he

(02:01:34):
actually has done a nice job when things kind of
get muddy in the pocket, he keeps his eyes down
the field. He doesn't duck. You know, he really is
not one that takes off and runs too too much either.
It's just the pre snap, pre snap stuff. I mean,
so much of anticipation is knowing before it really happens
what's going to happen. And you know, Jeff brought up

(02:01:55):
Manning would have done this. You know other quarterbacks would
have done that. I mean anticipate that is getting DJ
Giddens the ball for three yards and surviving like he
had a play earlier in the Remember they got that
illegal whatever it was legal man downfield and yeah I
think it was second and thirteen and he just found
Warren for six yards to make a third and seven,
Like that is a step in the right direction of

(02:02:17):
just simple methodical, find the correct read, get it to
third and manageable, and yeah, third and seven. He almost
gets picked, but it does end in a field goal,
whereas if you try to make the hero play on
second thirteen, you might not have the field goal there.

Speaker 4 (02:02:32):
Real quickly, Dan, before we head to the weekend. Your
next up here in ninety through five and one to seven,
five of the fan. What'd you see?

Speaker 11 (02:02:37):
Hey, good morning, Happy Friday, gentlemen. I think I've got
a great way to kind of sum up Anthony Richardson's
career to date. There's an old Yiddish saying that talks
about the Schlamil and the schla Maazel. The Schlamil is
the guy at a fancy.

Speaker 8 (02:02:54):
Party who spills his soup.

Speaker 11 (02:02:56):
The Schlamazel is the guy he spills his soup on
some of this stuff with ar he just can't get
out of his own way. He's the guy spelling his
soup some of the other stuff, like some of the
freak injury stuff, like reflecting on last night, like gosh again,
he's getting hurt again. He's the schlaazl. This the soup

(02:03:17):
keeps getting spilled on him.

Speaker 4 (02:03:20):
James will have any idea what I'm talking about? Was
that a Lavernon Shirley reference right there?

Speaker 11 (02:03:24):
It's from Lavernon Shirley. It's in referenced on Parks and rec.

Speaker 4 (02:03:28):
But yeah, it's ye.

Speaker 11 (02:03:31):
He just came to mind this morning reflecting on Ar's
luck again with with his injury prone history.

Speaker 4 (02:03:37):
Did you spell those for us?

Speaker 11 (02:03:40):
Schlamiel is s c h M E I L E.
Schlamazzle is s c h M O z z A.

Speaker 4 (02:03:51):
L got it. Nobody here is going to correct you.

Speaker 9 (02:03:54):
I know that is Chris Dan Boy Dan ex boy Mark.
We come a long way. Ninety minutes ago we are
discussing what base we're getting to, and here we are
going Lavernon Shirley, Spraad all Fields. Well I'll let that be.

Speaker 4 (02:04:12):
Thanks Dan, appreciate that.

Speaker 8 (02:04:14):
Thanks for bringing us right good now. Jim, honestly I
agree with that. He's the guy can't get out of
his own way, spelling soup on himself.

Speaker 9 (02:04:21):
Jeff, should we hit the fever before we call it today?

Speaker 4 (02:04:23):
Go for it real quick? Oh? I want to say yes,
thank you very much. Appreciate that. No, we were talking
about the drive Hublert Keys to the game last night,
and one of the things you had talked about, James,
A key for them was, especially on the road, the defense,
the defense, the defense, and they've had a couple of

(02:04:44):
tough defensive matchups now the last couple of games. They
gave up one hundred to Los Angeles, they gave up
ninety five last night to Phoenix, and the defense has
not been there. Watching the last two games, they just
have not been able to defend.

Speaker 8 (02:04:59):
Yeah, I brought up injury. That's my biggest key to
the game, key to the next game. Get healthy, hopefully
for Aarry McDonald and Sydney Colson who both left with
significant inducts.

Speaker 9 (02:05:08):
To make a roster move today. Again, I don't know
how the medical hardships work, but they need somebody to
play point guard tomorrow.

Speaker 4 (02:05:15):
And that will be at eight pm. We'll have the
fan pregame show beginning at seven forty five at there
are your drive, Hubert, Keys to the game tomorrow night,
defense and trying to find people to play point guard.
It'll be Jake coming your way from noon to three
today three to six will be JMV. Thanks for putting
up with us this morning and Mark you and go
online and talk all about bases next on ninety through
five and want to seven five the fan.

Speaker 3 (02:05:37):
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